| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
108.69 |
1.0099 |
0.1807 |
207 |
1 |
108.69 |
2009-03-06 |
| 2. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
107.76 |
1.0523 |
0.1265 |
256 |
1 |
107.76 |
2008-12-15 |
| 3. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
107.42 |
0.9897 |
0.1874 |
274 |
1 |
107.42 |
2008-12-10 |
| 4. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
106.26 |
1.0445 |
0.1229 |
373 |
2 |
94.13 |
2009-03-06 |
| 5. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
105.94 |
1.0711 |
0.0867 |
213 |
1 |
105.94 |
2008-12-10 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
105.90 |
1.0613 |
0.1062 |
456 |
1 |
105.90 |
2008-12-17 |
| 7. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
103.81 |
1.0796 |
0.0549 |
129 |
3 |
101.11 |
2009-05-06 |
| 8. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
103.47 |
1.0261 |
0.1075 |
273 |
1 |
103.47 |
2009-03-06 |
| 9. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
102.87 |
0.9884 |
0.1397 |
233 |
2 |
94.41 |
2008-12-18 |
| 10. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
102.55 |
1.0368 |
0.0894 |
276 |
2 |
94.26 |
2009-05-06 |
| 11. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
102.27 |
1.0292 |
0.0917 |
262 |
2 |
97.37 |
2009-06-05 |
| 12. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
102.01 |
1.0214 |
0.0962 |
269 |
1 |
102.01 |
2008-12-10 |
| 13. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
101.86 |
0.9289 |
0.1864 |
204 |
1 |
101.86 |
2009-03-06 |
| 14. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
101.73 |
1.0016 |
0.1100 |
218 |
2 |
101.51 |
2009-05-06 |
| 15. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
101.42 |
1.0263 |
0.0857 |
267 |
1 |
101.42 |
2009-06-05 |
| 16. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
101.29 |
0.9899 |
0.1167 |
163 |
1 |
101.29 |
2008-12-15 |
| 17. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
100.21 |
1.0577 |
0.0381 |
247 |
1 |
100.21 |
2008-12-19 |
| 18. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
98.76 |
1.0365 |
0.0766 |
162 |
1 |
98.76 |
2010-02-24 |
| 19. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
98.57 |
0.9886 |
0.0950 |
220 |
1 |
98.57 |
2009-06-08 |
| 20. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
98.51 |
1.0486 |
0.0327 |
289 |
1 |
98.51 |
2008-12-15 |
| 21. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
97.49 |
0.8981 |
0.1756 |
393 |
1 |
97.49 |
2010-02-24 |
| 22. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
97.40 |
1.0297 |
0.0372 |
249 |
1 |
97.40 |
2009-04-28 |
| 23. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
97.13 |
0.9088 |
0.1615 |
348 |
1 |
97.13 |
2008-12-11 |
| 24. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
96.99 |
1.0399 |
0.0289 |
294 |
2 |
95.06 |
2008-12-15 |
| 25. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
96.56 |
0.9997 |
0.0627 |
382 |
1 |
96.56 |
2009-04-28 |
| 26. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
95.98 |
0.9557 |
0.1030 |
331 |
1 |
95.98 |
2008-12-15 |
| 27. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
95.91 |
1.0013 |
0.0494 |
273 |
1 |
95.91 |
2008-12-28 |
| 28. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
95.86 |
1.0528 |
-0.0067 |
201 |
1 |
95.86 |
2009-04-28 |
| 29. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
95.71 |
1.0073 |
0.0501 |
369 |
1 |
95.71 |
2008-12-11 |
| 30. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
95.66 |
0.9844 |
0.0692 |
293 |
1 |
95.66 |
2008-12-15 |
| 31. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
95.13 |
0.9275 |
0.1122 |
211 |
1 |
95.13 |
2008-12-15 |
| 32. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
94.99 |
0.9966 |
0.0442 |
259 |
2 |
91.33 |
2009-04-28 |
| 33. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
94.68 |
0.9863 |
0.0561 |
339 |
1 |
94.68 |
2008-12-11 |
| 34. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
94.30 |
1.0454 |
-0.0154 |
255 |
1 |
94.30 |
2009-05-06 |
| 35. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
94.17 |
0.9780 |
0.0553 |
337 |
2 |
82.56 |
2009-06-05 |
| 36. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
94.07 |
0.9687 |
0.0672 |
371 |
1 |
94.07 |
2009-02-25 |
| 37. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
93.87 |
0.9286 |
0.0994 |
194 |
2 |
86.13 |
2009-01-27 |
| 38. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
93.63 |
0.9740 |
0.0482 |
209 |
1 |
93.63 |
2008-12-11 |
| 39. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
92.94 |
1.0398 |
-0.0317 |
110 |
1 |
92.94 |
2008-12-10 |
| 40. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
92.77 |
1.0529 |
-0.0362 |
351 |
1 |
92.77 |
2009-01-27 |
| 41. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
92.67 |
0.9636 |
0.0519 |
254 |
2 |
91.91 |
2009-04-28 |
| 42. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
92.44 |
0.9365 |
0.0780 |
248 |
1 |
92.44 |
2008-12-26 |
| 43. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
91.56 |
0.9697 |
0.0338 |
249 |
2 |
68.81 |
2008-12-28 |
| 44. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
91.45 |
0.9879 |
0.0229 |
450 |
1 |
91.45 |
2008-12-17 |
| 45. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
91.34 |
0.9851 |
0.0180 |
317 |
2 |
88.38 |
2009-04-28 |
| 46. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
91.13 |
0.9684 |
0.0329 |
388 |
1 |
91.13 |
2008-12-11 |
| 47. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
91.06 |
0.9635 |
0.0397 |
389 |
1 |
91.06 |
2008-12-11 |
| 48. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
90.50 |
1.0613 |
-0.0688 |
266 |
1 |
90.50 |
2008-12-11 |
| 49. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
90.15 |
1.0565 |
-0.0714 |
247 |
1 |
90.15 |
2009-02-25 |
| 50. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
89.07 |
0.9372 |
0.0425 |
320 |
1 |
89.07 |
2009-04-28 |
| 51. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
88.94 |
0.9646 |
0.0087 |
264 |
1 |
88.94 |
2008-12-11 |
| 52. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
88.74 |
0.8916 |
0.0807 |
216 |
1 |
88.74 |
2009-04-28 |
| 53. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
88.52 |
1.0487 |
-0.0841 |
231 |
1 |
88.52 |
2008-12-11 |
| 54. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
87.92 |
0.9786 |
-0.0209 |
193 |
1 |
87.92 |
2008-12-11 |
| 55. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
87.91 |
1.0388 |
-0.0444 |
243 |
1 |
87.91 |
2010-02-24 |
| 56. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
87.19 |
1.0331 |
-0.0805 |
234 |
1 |
87.19 |
2008-12-26 |
| 57. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
87.00 |
0.9233 |
0.0211 |
168 |
1 |
87.00 |
2008-12-26 |
| 58. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
86.36 |
0.9865 |
-0.0398 |
276 |
1 |
86.36 |
2008-12-11 |
| 59. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
86.05 |
0.8722 |
0.0729 |
285 |
1 |
86.05 |
2008-12-11 |
| 60. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
85.89 |
0.9578 |
-0.0179 |
281 |
1 |
85.89 |
2008-12-11 |
| 61. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
85.48 |
0.9786 |
-0.0433 |
235 |
1 |
85.48 |
2009-04-28 |
| 62. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
85.32 |
0.9723 |
-0.0345 |
364 |
2 |
79.95 |
2009-04-28 |
| 63. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
85.04 |
0.8947 |
0.0412 |
366 |
1 |
85.04 |
2008-12-11 |
| 64. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
84.74 |
0.9426 |
-0.0119 |
317 |
1 |
84.74 |
2009-03-06 |
| 65. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
84.65 |
0.9279 |
0.0052 |
317 |
1 |
84.65 |
2009-01-27 |
| 66. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
83.27 |
0.9731 |
-0.0743 |
129 |
1 |
83.27 |
2009-04-28 |
| 67. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
82.77 |
1.0596 |
-0.1559 |
239 |
1 |
82.77 |
2009-06-05 |
| 68. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
82.39 |
1.0417 |
-0.1427 |
253 |
1 |
82.39 |
2008-12-28 |
| 69. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
82.35 |
0.9072 |
-0.0078 |
237 |
1 |
82.35 |
2008-12-11 |
| 70. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
81.94 |
0.9064 |
-0.0006 |
399 |
1 |
81.94 |
2009-01-14 |
| 71. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
81.78 |
1.0214 |
-0.1320 |
166 |
1 |
81.78 |
2008-12-17 |
| 72. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
81.42 |
0.9168 |
-0.0247 |
240 |
1 |
81.42 |
2008-12-11 |
| 73. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
81.38 |
1.0131 |
-0.1267 |
225 |
1 |
81.38 |
2008-12-11 |
| 74. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
79.94 |
1.0441 |
-0.1682 |
252 |
1 |
79.94 |
2008-12-28 |
| 75. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
79.56 |
1.0062 |
-0.1361 |
288 |
1 |
79.56 |
2008-12-11 |
| 76. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
79.11 |
0.9768 |
-0.1091 |
387 |
1 |
79.11 |
2008-12-11 |
| 77. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
79.01 |
0.8996 |
-0.0411 |
192 |
1 |
79.01 |
2008-12-11 |
| 78. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
78.31 |
0.8770 |
-0.0175 |
300 |
1 |
78.31 |
2008-12-11 |
| 79. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
77.40 |
1.0389 |
-0.1903 |
340 |
1 |
77.40 |
2008-12-11 |
| 80. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
77.19 |
0.8890 |
-0.0488 |
199 |
2 |
74.44 |
2009-04-28 |
| 81. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
76.85 |
0.9226 |
-0.0762 |
348 |
1 |
76.85 |
2009-06-05 |
| 82. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
76.28 |
0.9710 |
-0.1438 |
173 |
1 |
76.28 |
2008-12-11 |
| 83. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
75.92 |
0.8105 |
0.0149 |
204 |
1 |
75.92 |
2009-05-06 |
| 84. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
73.69 |
1.0213 |
-0.2195 |
240 |
1 |
73.69 |
2008-12-11 |
| 85. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
72.60 |
0.9330 |
-0.1335 |
360 |
1 |
72.60 |
2008-12-11 |
| 86. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
68.75 |
0.9125 |
-0.1605 |
308 |
1 |
68.75 |
2008-12-11 |
| 87. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
67.26 |
0.9429 |
-0.2080 |
287 |
1 |
67.26 |
2010-02-24 |
| 88. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
61.21 |
0.9852 |
-0.3184 |
264 |
1 |
61.21 |
2008-12-15 |
| 89. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
60.68 |
0.9084 |
-0.2460 |
300 |
1 |
60.68 |
2008-12-10 |