| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
65.49 |
1.0016 |
0.1819 |
218 |
1 |
65.49 |
2008-11-27 |
| 2. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
64.94 |
0.9368 |
0.2565 |
174 |
1 |
64.94 |
2008-08-13 |
| 3. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.78 |
0.9740 |
0.1787 |
209 |
1 |
63.78 |
2008-11-27 |
| 4. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
63.64 |
1.0120 |
0.1414 |
290 |
2 |
58.82 |
2008-08-13 |
| 5. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
63.56 |
0.9857 |
0.1661 |
293 |
1 |
63.56 |
2008-08-13 |
| 6. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
62.73 |
1.0477 |
0.0922 |
360 |
1 |
62.73 |
2010-07-31 |
| 7. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
62.40 |
0.9234 |
0.2135 |
346 |
1 |
62.40 |
2008-11-27 |
| 8. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
62.03 |
1.0596 |
0.0630 |
239 |
1 |
62.03 |
2008-12-15 |
| 9. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
62.03 |
0.9866 |
0.1344 |
218 |
1 |
62.03 |
2008-08-13 |
| 10. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
60.87 |
1.0296 |
0.0802 |
437 |
1 |
60.87 |
2008-11-27 |
| 11. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
60.68 |
1.0389 |
0.0634 |
340 |
1 |
60.68 |
2008-12-15 |
| 12. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
60.41 |
0.9672 |
0.1343 |
396 |
1 |
60.41 |
2008-11-27 |
| 13. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
59.62 |
0.8956 |
0.1895 |
322 |
2 |
58.10 |
2008-11-28 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
59.55 |
1.0444 |
0.0282 |
197 |
1 |
59.55 |
2008-08-13 |
| 15. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
59.43 |
1.0668 |
0.0127 |
350 |
3 |
55.55 |
2008-11-27 |
| 16. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
59.36 |
1.0523 |
0.0191 |
256 |
2 |
57.24 |
2008-08-13 |
| 17. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
59.24 |
1.0352 |
0.0409 |
341 |
1 |
59.24 |
2009-01-23 |
| 18. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
59.21 |
1.0462 |
0.0207 |
184 |
1 |
59.21 |
2008-08-13 |
| 19. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
58.86 |
0.9513 |
0.1191 |
354 |
1 |
58.86 |
2008-08-13 |
| 20. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
58.82 |
0.9430 |
0.1155 |
211 |
1 |
58.82 |
2010-07-31 |
| 21. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
58.55 |
0.9649 |
0.0949 |
193 |
1 |
58.55 |
2008-08-13 |
| 22. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
58.49 |
0.9532 |
0.1053 |
258 |
2 |
57.50 |
2008-11-27 |
| 23. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
58.41 |
0.8890 |
0.1657 |
199 |
1 |
58.41 |
2008-08-13 |
| 24. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
58.26 |
0.9125 |
0.1449 |
308 |
1 |
58.26 |
2008-08-13 |
| 25. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
58.20 |
1.0257 |
0.0352 |
401 |
1 |
58.20 |
2008-12-15 |
| 26. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
58.20 |
0.9729 |
0.0818 |
255 |
1 |
58.20 |
2008-08-13 |
| 27. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
57.82 |
1.0331 |
0.0122 |
234 |
1 |
57.82 |
2008-08-13 |
| 28. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
57.29 |
0.9084 |
0.1312 |
300 |
1 |
57.29 |
2008-11-27 |
| 29. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
56.95 |
0.9991 |
0.0329 |
225 |
1 |
56.95 |
2008-08-13 |
| 30. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
56.76 |
0.9464 |
0.0867 |
323 |
1 |
56.76 |
2008-11-27 |
| 31. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
56.49 |
0.9485 |
0.0763 |
236 |
1 |
56.49 |
2008-11-27 |
| 32. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
56.43 |
0.9691 |
0.0524 |
223 |
1 |
56.43 |
2008-08-13 |
| 33. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
56.39 |
0.9266 |
0.0948 |
267 |
1 |
56.39 |
2008-08-13 |
| 34. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
56.31 |
1.0885 |
-0.0654 |
315 |
1 |
56.31 |
2008-11-28 |
| 35. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
56.30 |
1.0013 |
0.0174 |
273 |
1 |
56.30 |
2008-11-28 |
| 36. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
56.05 |
0.9597 |
0.0594 |
347 |
2 |
54.28 |
2008-08-13 |
| 37. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
55.80 |
0.9893 |
0.0212 |
323 |
2 |
54.55 |
2008-08-13 |
| 38. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
55.07 |
0.9946 |
0.0023 |
246 |
1 |
55.07 |
2008-12-15 |
| 39. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
55.06 |
0.9612 |
0.0357 |
256 |
1 |
55.06 |
2008-08-13 |
| 40. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
54.70 |
0.9426 |
0.0508 |
317 |
1 |
54.70 |
2008-12-15 |
| 41. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
54.49 |
1.0567 |
-0.0697 |
303 |
1 |
54.49 |
2008-08-13 |
| 42. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
54.47 |
1.0389 |
-0.0512 |
318 |
1 |
54.47 |
2008-11-27 |
| 43. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
54.24 |
1.0131 |
-0.0352 |
225 |
1 |
54.24 |
2008-08-13 |
| 44. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
54.10 |
0.9339 |
0.0439 |
310 |
1 |
54.10 |
2008-11-27 |
| 45. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
53.88 |
1.0201 |
-0.0409 |
375 |
1 |
53.88 |
2008-12-15 |
| 46. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
53.58 |
0.9734 |
-0.0040 |
289 |
1 |
53.58 |
2008-08-13 |
| 47. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
52.92 |
0.9109 |
0.0493 |
401 |
1 |
52.92 |
2008-08-13 |
| 48. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
52.81 |
0.8996 |
0.0505 |
192 |
2 |
51.64 |
2008-08-13 |
| 49. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
52.75 |
1.0534 |
-0.0967 |
357 |
1 |
52.75 |
2008-11-27 |
| 50. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
51.27 |
1.0349 |
-0.1082 |
234 |
1 |
51.27 |
2008-11-28 |
| 51. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
51.19 |
0.8826 |
0.0447 |
296 |
1 |
51.19 |
2008-11-27 |
| 52. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
50.93 |
0.9769 |
-0.0579 |
263 |
1 |
50.93 |
2008-08-13 |
| 53. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
50.63 |
0.8933 |
0.0287 |
363 |
1 |
50.63 |
2008-08-13 |
| 54. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
50.51 |
0.8958 |
0.0222 |
322 |
1 |
50.51 |
2008-08-13 |
| 55. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
50.45 |
1.0419 |
-0.1296 |
261 |
1 |
50.45 |
2008-12-15 |
| 56. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
50.44 |
0.9072 |
0.0032 |
237 |
1 |
50.44 |
2008-08-13 |
| 57. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
50.40 |
1.0337 |
-0.1229 |
214 |
1 |
50.40 |
2008-12-15 |
| 58. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
50.21 |
0.9907 |
-0.0844 |
211 |
1 |
50.21 |
2008-08-14 |
| 59. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
50.09 |
1.0168 |
-0.1097 |
271 |
1 |
50.09 |
2008-08-13 |
| 60. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
49.46 |
0.9633 |
-0.0669 |
304 |
1 |
49.46 |
2008-08-13 |
| 61. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
48.72 |
0.9682 |
-0.0895 |
143 |
1 |
48.72 |
2008-11-27 |
| 62. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
48.54 |
0.9527 |
-0.0755 |
251 |
1 |
48.54 |
2008-08-13 |
| 63. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
48.50 |
0.9168 |
-0.0389 |
240 |
1 |
48.50 |
2008-08-13 |
| 64. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
48.39 |
0.8573 |
0.0208 |
270 |
1 |
48.39 |
2008-11-27 |
| 65. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
48.15 |
0.9865 |
-0.1153 |
276 |
1 |
48.15 |
2008-08-13 |
| 66. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
47.76 |
0.8919 |
-0.0306 |
205 |
2 |
44.46 |
2008-11-27 |
| 67. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
47.75 |
0.8852 |
-0.0203 |
201 |
1 |
47.75 |
2008-08-13 |
| 68. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
47.02 |
0.9233 |
-0.0822 |
168 |
1 |
47.02 |
2008-08-13 |
| 69. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
46.10 |
0.9768 |
-0.1417 |
387 |
1 |
46.10 |
2008-08-13 |
| 70. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
44.94 |
0.8105 |
-0.0035 |
204 |
1 |
44.94 |
2008-08-13 |
| 71. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
44.44 |
0.8961 |
-0.0974 |
189 |
1 |
44.44 |
2008-08-13 |
| 72. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
41.54 |
0.8467 |
-0.0736 |
343 |
1 |
41.54 |
2010-07-31 |
| 73. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
36.45 |
0.8602 |
-0.2068 |
206 |
1 |
36.45 |
2008-08-13 |
| 74. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
33.73 |
1.0124 |
-0.4091 |
204 |
1 |
33.73 |
2008-08-13 |