| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
88.68 |
1.0679 |
0.0942 |
177 |
2 |
87.91 |
2010-01-13 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
87.80 |
1.0696 |
0.0572 |
226 |
1 |
87.80 |
2010-01-15 |
| 3. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
87.30 |
1.0029 |
0.1145 |
209 |
1 |
87.30 |
2010-01-04 |
| 4. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
86.66 |
1.0391 |
0.0825 |
358 |
2 |
85.18 |
2009-12-30 |
| 5. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
86.12 |
1.0596 |
0.0468 |
239 |
3 |
79.65 |
2010-01-30 |
| 6. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
86.10 |
1.0669 |
0.0736 |
286 |
2 |
77.50 |
2010-02-19 |
| 7. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
84.84 |
1.1162 |
0.0166 |
189 |
1 |
84.84 |
2010-01-02 |
| 8. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
84.52 |
1.0787 |
0.0076 |
237 |
2 |
84.33 |
2010-01-04 |
| 9. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
83.55 |
1.0941 |
0.0121 |
256 |
1 |
83.55 |
2010-01-04 |
| 10. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
83.42 |
1.1081 |
-0.0002 |
206 |
1 |
83.42 |
2010-05-22 |
| 11. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
82.65 |
1.0487 |
0.0096 |
231 |
2 |
81.88 |
2010-01-30 |
| 12. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
82.60 |
1.0232 |
0.0853 |
350 |
1 |
82.60 |
2009-12-19 |
| 13. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
82.27 |
1.0799 |
-0.0253 |
243 |
2 |
82.00 |
2010-01-18 |
| 14. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
82.21 |
0.9964 |
0.0612 |
203 |
2 |
71.66 |
2009-12-31 |
| 15. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
82.14 |
1.0346 |
0.0640 |
244 |
2 |
81.18 |
2010-02-11 |
| 16. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
82.08 |
1.0375 |
0.0644 |
200 |
3 |
76.75 |
2010-05-20 |
| 17. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
82.05 |
1.0944 |
0.0059 |
308 |
1 |
82.05 |
2010-01-02 |
| 18. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
81.81 |
1.0885 |
-0.0329 |
315 |
1 |
81.81 |
2009-12-22 |
| 19. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
81.45 |
0.9899 |
0.0531 |
163 |
3 |
77.30 |
2010-01-18 |
| 20. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
81.39 |
1.0565 |
-0.0122 |
247 |
4 |
77.11 |
2012-04-03 |
| 21. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
81.32 |
0.9430 |
0.1059 |
297 |
2 |
76.27 |
2010-02-11 |
| 22. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
81.06 |
1.1114 |
-0.0715 |
247 |
2 |
78.28 |
2010-01-04 |
| 23. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
80.81 |
1.0829 |
-0.0421 |
288 |
1 |
80.81 |
2010-01-04 |
| 24. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
80.79 |
0.9866 |
0.0488 |
218 |
2 |
76.88 |
2009-12-31 |
| 25. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
80.67 |
0.9965 |
0.0413 |
310 |
1 |
80.67 |
2009-12-24 |
| 26. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
80.50 |
0.9726 |
0.0563 |
154 |
1 |
80.50 |
2010-01-16 |
| 27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
80.39 |
1.0613 |
-0.0266 |
266 |
1 |
80.39 |
2010-07-05 |
| 28. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
80.05 |
1.0218 |
0.0047 |
268 |
1 |
80.05 |
2010-07-05 |
| 29. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
79.82 |
1.0201 |
0.0067 |
303 |
1 |
79.82 |
2010-05-22 |
| 30. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
79.74 |
1.0668 |
-0.0389 |
350 |
1 |
79.74 |
2010-02-11 |
| 31. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
79.65 |
1.0388 |
0.0170 |
243 |
1 |
79.65 |
2010-01-27 |
| 32. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
79.62 |
1.0396 |
-0.0230 |
149 |
2 |
71.49 |
2009-12-24 |
| 33. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
79.56 |
0.9879 |
0.0438 |
450 |
1 |
79.56 |
2010-01-02 |
| 34. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
79.53 |
1.0419 |
-0.0192 |
261 |
1 |
79.53 |
2010-01-05 |
| 35. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
79.49 |
1.1014 |
-0.0415 |
273 |
1 |
79.49 |
2010-01-25 |
| 36. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
79.39 |
0.9426 |
0.0813 |
317 |
2 |
77.25 |
2010-01-09 |
| 37. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
79.38 |
1.1016 |
-0.0808 |
233 |
2 |
73.88 |
2010-01-18 |
| 38. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
79.35 |
1.0993 |
-0.0811 |
265 |
1 |
79.35 |
2010-01-05 |
| 39. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
79.08 |
0.9852 |
0.0319 |
264 |
1 |
79.08 |
2010-01-04 |
| 40. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
79.07 |
1.0462 |
-0.0356 |
184 |
1 |
79.07 |
2009-12-24 |
| 41. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
78.88 |
1.0331 |
-0.0211 |
234 |
1 |
78.88 |
2010-07-05 |
| 42. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
78.87 |
1.0214 |
-0.0090 |
269 |
1 |
78.87 |
2010-02-19 |
| 43. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
78.84 |
1.0463 |
-0.0372 |
182 |
1 |
78.84 |
2010-05-22 |
| 44. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
78.67 |
1.0795 |
-0.0375 |
226 |
1 |
78.67 |
2009-12-31 |
| 45. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
78.62 |
1.0201 |
-0.0161 |
172 |
3 |
72.99 |
2010-01-12 |
| 46. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
78.46 |
0.9758 |
0.0336 |
314 |
1 |
78.46 |
2010-01-04 |
| 47. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
78.36 |
0.9873 |
0.0174 |
155 |
1 |
78.36 |
2009-12-19 |
| 48. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
78.35 |
1.0417 |
-0.0369 |
253 |
1 |
78.35 |
2010-01-25 |
| 49. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
78.32 |
1.0567 |
-0.0492 |
303 |
1 |
78.32 |
2009-12-19 |
| 50. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
78.21 |
1.0141 |
0.0277 |
304 |
1 |
78.21 |
2010-01-12 |
| 51. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
78.18 |
1.0740 |
-0.0306 |
264 |
2 |
74.61 |
2010-01-02 |
| 52. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
78.06 |
1.0521 |
-0.0534 |
171 |
1 |
78.06 |
2010-05-20 |
| 53. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
77.90 |
1.0523 |
-0.0552 |
256 |
1 |
77.90 |
2010-02-19 |
| 54. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
77.77 |
0.9966 |
0.0025 |
259 |
1 |
77.77 |
2010-01-23 |
| 55. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
77.36 |
0.9266 |
0.0679 |
267 |
1 |
77.36 |
2010-01-02 |
| 56. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
77.32 |
1.0483 |
-0.0574 |
227 |
2 |
76.27 |
2010-01-23 |
| 57. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
77.31 |
1.0516 |
-0.0583 |
281 |
1 |
77.31 |
2010-01-05 |
| 58. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
77.29 |
1.0173 |
0.0204 |
268 |
1 |
77.29 |
2009-12-19 |
| 59. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
76.98 |
1.0252 |
-0.0423 |
176 |
1 |
76.98 |
2010-07-05 |
| 60. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
76.61 |
1.0131 |
-0.0324 |
225 |
1 |
76.61 |
2010-01-30 |
| 61. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
76.52 |
1.0441 |
-0.0193 |
316 |
1 |
76.52 |
2009-12-28 |
| 62. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
76.35 |
0.9212 |
0.0633 |
323 |
1 |
76.35 |
2009-12-24 |
| 63. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
76.22 |
0.9798 |
-0.0059 |
199 |
2 |
72.94 |
2010-01-12 |
| 64. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
76.17 |
0.9675 |
0.0209 |
383 |
1 |
76.17 |
2010-05-20 |
| 65. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
76.14 |
0.9109 |
0.0702 |
401 |
1 |
76.14 |
2009-12-24 |
| 66. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.13 |
1.0613 |
-0.0779 |
456 |
1 |
76.13 |
2010-01-26 |
| 67. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
76.10 |
0.9593 |
0.0234 |
398 |
1 |
76.10 |
2010-01-27 |
| 68. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
75.90 |
1.0534 |
-0.0758 |
357 |
1 |
75.90 |
2009-12-19 |
| 69. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
75.85 |
0.9646 |
0.0092 |
264 |
1 |
75.85 |
2009-12-19 |
| 70. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
75.76 |
0.9843 |
-0.0157 |
234 |
3 |
71.63 |
2010-05-01 |
| 71. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
75.67 |
0.9857 |
-0.0143 |
293 |
1 |
75.67 |
2010-01-16 |
| 72. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
75.47 |
0.9351 |
0.0292 |
190 |
1 |
75.47 |
2010-01-18 |
| 73. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
75.14 |
1.0666 |
-0.1010 |
297 |
1 |
75.14 |
2010-01-02 |
| 74. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
74.55 |
1.0031 |
-0.0118 |
304 |
1 |
74.55 |
2010-01-23 |
| 75. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
73.96 |
1.0060 |
-0.0606 |
171 |
1 |
73.96 |
2009-12-28 |
| 76. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
73.91 |
1.0004 |
-0.0570 |
212 |
1 |
73.91 |
2009-12-24 |
| 77. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
73.88 |
0.9731 |
-0.0365 |
129 |
1 |
73.88 |
2009-12-31 |
| 78. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
73.62 |
1.0254 |
-0.0389 |
217 |
2 |
72.85 |
2010-05-20 |
| 79. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
73.08 |
1.0352 |
-0.0934 |
341 |
1 |
73.08 |
2010-01-02 |
| 80. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
72.96 |
1.0025 |
-0.0655 |
256 |
1 |
72.96 |
2009-12-24 |
| 81. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
72.86 |
0.9833 |
-0.0459 |
355 |
1 |
72.86 |
2009-12-28 |
| 82. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
72.82 |
0.9910 |
-0.0538 |
295 |
1 |
72.82 |
2010-07-05 |
| 83. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
72.60 |
0.9844 |
-0.0472 |
293 |
1 |
72.60 |
2010-03-06 |
| 84. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
72.44 |
1.0240 |
-0.0963 |
256 |
1 |
72.44 |
2010-01-30 |
| 85. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
72.38 |
1.0574 |
-0.0999 |
205 |
1 |
72.38 |
2010-05-22 |
| 86. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
72.30 |
0.9916 |
-0.0205 |
282 |
1 |
72.30 |
2010-01-02 |
| 87. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
72.19 |
0.9871 |
-0.0238 |
209 |
1 |
72.19 |
2009-12-31 |
| 88. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
71.99 |
0.9275 |
-0.0063 |
211 |
2 |
68.21 |
2009-12-31 |
| 89. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
71.82 |
0.9776 |
-0.0551 |
308 |
1 |
71.82 |
2010-05-01 |
| 90. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
71.77 |
0.9514 |
-0.0295 |
237 |
1 |
71.77 |
2010-01-16 |
| 91. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
71.70 |
0.9072 |
0.0118 |
237 |
1 |
71.70 |
2010-01-16 |
| 92. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
71.58 |
1.0429 |
-0.1252 |
259 |
1 |
71.58 |
2010-03-02 |
| 93. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
71.42 |
0.9786 |
-0.0667 |
193 |
1 |
71.42 |
2010-01-18 |
| 94. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
71.41 |
1.0025 |
-0.0847 |
336 |
2 |
67.90 |
2012-04-03 |
| 95. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
71.38 |
0.9907 |
-0.0758 |
211 |
1 |
71.38 |
2010-05-22 |
| 96. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
70.94 |
0.9691 |
-0.0588 |
223 |
1 |
70.94 |
2010-04-15 |
| 97. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
70.87 |
0.9653 |
-0.0471 |
394 |
1 |
70.87 |
2010-01-30 |
| 98. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
70.65 |
0.9359 |
0.0106 |
353 |
2 |
70.15 |
2010-01-09 |
| 99. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
69.74 |
0.9649 |
-0.0708 |
193 |
2 |
69.70 |
2010-03-06 |
| 100. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
68.89 |
0.9597 |
-0.0715 |
347 |
1 |
68.89 |
2009-12-19 |
| 101. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
68.82 |
1.0013 |
-0.1190 |
273 |
1 |
68.82 |
2010-01-04 |
| 102. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
67.20 |
0.9697 |
-0.1074 |
249 |
1 |
67.20 |
2010-04-15 |
| 103. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
66.63 |
0.9786 |
-0.1244 |
235 |
1 |
66.63 |
2009-12-24 |
| 104. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
65.92 |
1.0349 |
-0.1902 |
234 |
1 |
65.92 |
2010-01-05 |
| 105. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
65.59 |
0.9089 |
-0.0639 |
342 |
1 |
65.59 |
2009-12-22 |
| 106. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
64.09 |
0.9461 |
-0.1247 |
276 |
1 |
64.09 |
2010-04-15 |
| 107. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
63.70 |
1.0095 |
-0.1941 |
316 |
1 |
63.70 |
2009-12-31 |
| 108. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
58.01 |
1.0109 |
-0.2677 |
276 |
1 |
58.01 |
2009-12-22 |