| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
59.81 |
1.0867 |
0.3626 |
171 |
1 |
59.81 |
2011-12-20 |
| 2. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
59.62 |
1.0665 |
0.3767 |
196 |
1 |
59.62 |
2011-12-20 |
| 3. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
55.97 |
1.0414 |
0.3176 |
234 |
2 |
49.50 |
2011-12-04 |
| 4. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
54.77 |
0.9468 |
0.3836 |
318 |
1 |
54.77 |
2011-12-20 |
| 5. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
54.16 |
0.9614 |
0.3559 |
195 |
1 |
54.16 |
2011-12-04 |
| 6. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
53.95 |
0.9371 |
0.3647 |
156 |
2 |
42.53 |
2012-02-03 |
| 7. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
53.01 |
1.0639 |
0.2249 |
303 |
1 |
53.01 |
2011-12-16 |
| 8. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
52.67 |
0.9680 |
0.3115 |
256 |
1 |
52.67 |
2011-12-04 |
| 9. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
51.61 |
1.0562 |
0.2025 |
360 |
1 |
51.61 |
2011-12-04 |
| 10. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
51.47 |
0.9809 |
0.2770 |
250 |
1 |
51.47 |
2012-08-24 |
| 11. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
51.26 |
1.0370 |
0.2078 |
262 |
1 |
51.26 |
2012-08-24 |
| 12. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
50.69 |
1.0509 |
0.1877 |
295 |
1 |
50.69 |
2011-12-09 |
| 13. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
50.62 |
1.1093 |
0.1145 |
220 |
1 |
50.62 |
2012-02-03 |
| 14. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
50.15 |
1.0588 |
0.1592 |
281 |
3 |
38.97 |
2011-12-20 |
| 15. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
50.06 |
0.9001 |
0.3160 |
217 |
2 |
43.88 |
2011-12-02 |
| 16. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
49.97 |
0.9673 |
0.2501 |
393 |
1 |
49.97 |
2011-12-20 |
| 17. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
49.88 |
0.9987 |
0.2170 |
236 |
1 |
49.88 |
2012-08-30 |
| 18. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
49.84 |
1.0051 |
0.2001 |
162 |
1 |
49.84 |
2011-12-04 |
| 19. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
49.78 |
1.0333 |
0.1705 |
176 |
2 |
46.24 |
2011-12-09 |
| 20. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
49.61 |
0.9644 |
0.2434 |
398 |
1 |
49.61 |
2011-12-16 |
| 21. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
49.39 |
1.0800 |
0.1123 |
129 |
1 |
49.39 |
2011-11-23 |
| 22. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
49.26 |
1.1086 |
0.0880 |
233 |
1 |
49.26 |
2009-09-14 |
| 23. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
48.75 |
0.8901 |
0.2929 |
273 |
1 |
48.75 |
2011-12-04 |
| 24. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
48.70 |
0.9538 |
0.2285 |
276 |
1 |
48.70 |
2011-12-16 |
| 25. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
48.42 |
1.0304 |
0.1424 |
256 |
1 |
48.42 |
2011-12-16 |
| 26. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
48.33 |
0.9949 |
0.1890 |
304 |
1 |
48.33 |
2011-12-20 |
| 27. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
47.98 |
1.0543 |
0.1073 |
182 |
1 |
47.98 |
2009-09-14 |
| 28. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
47.56 |
0.9839 |
0.1697 |
196 |
1 |
47.56 |
2011-12-20 |
| 29. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
47.11 |
0.9927 |
0.1477 |
234 |
2 |
36.86 |
2011-12-04 |
| 30. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
47.10 |
0.9404 |
0.2125 |
383 |
1 |
47.10 |
2011-12-09 |
| 31. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
46.95 |
1.0403 |
0.0978 |
234 |
1 |
46.95 |
2009-09-14 |
| 32. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
46.80 |
1.0845 |
0.0505 |
212 |
1 |
46.80 |
2011-11-23 |
| 33. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
46.58 |
0.9727 |
0.1647 |
442 |
1 |
46.58 |
2011-12-16 |
| 34. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
46.11 |
1.0279 |
0.0857 |
172 |
1 |
46.11 |
2011-12-02 |
| 35. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
46.07 |
0.8988 |
0.2195 |
216 |
1 |
46.07 |
2009-09-14 |
| 36. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
45.76 |
1.0267 |
0.0871 |
261 |
2 |
40.23 |
2011-12-09 |
| 37. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
45.70 |
1.0227 |
0.0927 |
378 |
1 |
45.70 |
2012-08-24 |
| 38. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
45.62 |
0.9408 |
0.1612 |
177 |
1 |
45.62 |
2012-08-24 |
| 39. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
45.59 |
0.9354 |
0.1823 |
384 |
1 |
45.59 |
2012-08-17 |
| 40. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
45.56 |
0.9757 |
0.1268 |
176 |
1 |
45.56 |
2009-09-14 |
| 41. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
45.32 |
1.0288 |
0.0665 |
166 |
4 |
31.73 |
2011-11-23 |
| 42. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
45.31 |
1.0004 |
0.1019 |
373 |
1 |
45.31 |
2011-12-16 |
| 43. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
45.17 |
0.9324 |
0.1669 |
246 |
1 |
45.17 |
2009-09-01 |
| 44. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
44.95 |
0.9810 |
0.1150 |
362 |
1 |
44.95 |
2011-12-20 |
| 45. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
44.77 |
0.9315 |
0.1569 |
273 |
1 |
44.77 |
2012-08-24 |
| 46. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
44.75 |
0.9817 |
0.1098 |
304 |
1 |
44.75 |
2011-12-04 |
| 47. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
44.62 |
0.9400 |
0.1455 |
434 |
2 |
43.45 |
2011-12-02 |
| 48. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
44.36 |
0.9143 |
0.1633 |
300 |
1 |
44.36 |
2009-09-14 |
| 49. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
44.27 |
1.0419 |
0.0356 |
341 |
1 |
44.27 |
2011-12-04 |
| 50. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
44.27 |
1.0412 |
0.0382 |
205 |
1 |
44.27 |
2011-11-23 |
| 51. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
44.24 |
1.0301 |
0.0422 |
268 |
1 |
44.24 |
2011-12-04 |
| 52. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
44.20 |
1.0524 |
0.0184 |
177 |
1 |
44.20 |
2011-12-09 |
| 53. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
44.10 |
0.9128 |
0.1546 |
237 |
1 |
44.10 |
2011-12-09 |
| 54. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
43.95 |
0.9561 |
0.1138 |
291 |
1 |
43.95 |
2009-09-14 |
| 55. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
43.90 |
1.0181 |
0.0485 |
276 |
1 |
43.90 |
2009-09-14 |
| 56. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
43.76 |
1.0341 |
0.0272 |
273 |
1 |
43.76 |
2011-11-23 |
| 57. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
43.49 |
0.8742 |
0.1856 |
202 |
1 |
43.49 |
2009-08-28 |
| 58. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
43.11 |
1.0667 |
-0.0103 |
308 |
1 |
43.11 |
2009-09-14 |
| 59. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
43.06 |
1.0504 |
-0.0037 |
225 |
2 |
40.88 |
2011-12-09 |
| 60. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
43.05 |
0.9027 |
0.1384 |
189 |
1 |
43.05 |
2011-12-04 |
| 61. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
42.79 |
0.9873 |
0.0497 |
274 |
1 |
42.79 |
2012-02-03 |
| 62. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
42.63 |
0.8847 |
0.1474 |
282 |
2 |
34.07 |
2009-09-10 |
| 63. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
42.45 |
0.8880 |
0.1420 |
296 |
1 |
42.45 |
2011-11-23 |
| 64. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
42.23 |
0.9852 |
0.0388 |
235 |
1 |
42.23 |
2009-09-14 |
| 65. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
42.14 |
1.0543 |
-0.0310 |
233 |
2 |
34.81 |
2011-12-04 |
| 66. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
42.12 |
0.9010 |
0.1234 |
266 |
1 |
42.12 |
2012-08-24 |
| 67. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
42.11 |
1.0529 |
-0.0287 |
373 |
1 |
42.11 |
2009-09-08 |
| 68. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
41.58 |
0.9530 |
0.0521 |
193 |
1 |
41.58 |
2011-12-20 |
| 69. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
41.36 |
1.0165 |
-0.0140 |
316 |
2 |
40.93 |
2009-08-28 |
| 70. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
40.80 |
1.0881 |
-0.1023 |
210 |
1 |
40.80 |
2008-10-07 |
| 71. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
40.76 |
0.8936 |
0.0940 |
346 |
2 |
40.49 |
2011-12-20 |
| 72. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
40.62 |
0.9561 |
0.0308 |
362 |
1 |
40.62 |
2009-09-08 |
| 73. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
40.42 |
0.9503 |
0.0234 |
211 |
1 |
40.42 |
2009-09-01 |
| 74. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
40.33 |
1.0364 |
-0.0541 |
230 |
1 |
40.33 |
2011-11-23 |
| 75. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.06 |
0.9974 |
-0.0297 |
163 |
1 |
40.06 |
2011-12-09 |
| 76. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
39.83 |
0.8873 |
0.0790 |
241 |
1 |
39.83 |
2012-08-24 |
| 77. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
39.09 |
0.9485 |
-0.0047 |
227 |
1 |
39.09 |
2011-12-09 |
| 78. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
38.73 |
0.9801 |
-0.0328 |
282 |
1 |
38.73 |
2009-08-28 |
| 79. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
38.59 |
0.7852 |
0.1444 |
154 |
1 |
38.59 |
2011-11-23 |
| 80. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
38.55 |
0.9829 |
-0.0489 |
229 |
2 |
38.47 |
2011-11-23 |
| 81. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
38.24 |
1.0472 |
-0.1263 |
149 |
1 |
38.24 |
2009-08-28 |
| 82. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
38.21 |
0.8381 |
0.0919 |
283 |
1 |
38.21 |
2011-11-23 |
| 83. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
37.83 |
0.8869 |
0.0279 |
176 |
1 |
37.83 |
2008-10-30 |
| 84. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
37.77 |
1.0079 |
-0.0932 |
273 |
1 |
37.77 |
2008-10-24 |
| 85. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
37.75 |
0.9597 |
-0.0443 |
251 |
1 |
37.75 |
2009-09-08 |
| 86. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
37.05 |
0.9183 |
-0.0236 |
252 |
1 |
37.05 |
2009-09-14 |
| 87. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
36.86 |
0.8971 |
-0.0066 |
100 |
1 |
36.86 |
2011-12-04 |
| 88. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
36.50 |
0.9713 |
-0.0880 |
193 |
1 |
36.50 |
2011-11-23 |
| 89. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
36.04 |
0.8837 |
-0.0109 |
157 |
1 |
36.04 |
2011-12-02 |
| 90. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
35.49 |
1.0479 |
-0.1894 |
205 |
1 |
35.49 |
2008-10-20 |
| 91. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
35.38 |
0.9145 |
-0.0536 |
404 |
1 |
35.38 |
2009-09-14 |
| 92. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
34.91 |
1.0287 |
-0.1839 |
269 |
1 |
34.91 |
2008-10-28 |
| 93. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
34.84 |
1.0103 |
-0.1718 |
209 |
1 |
34.84 |
2008-10-20 |
| 94. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
34.77 |
0.9425 |
-0.0993 |
248 |
1 |
34.77 |
2009-09-08 |
| 95. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
34.63 |
0.9353 |
-0.0892 |
174 |
1 |
34.63 |
2008-09-29 |
| 96. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
34.53 |
0.9948 |
-0.1593 |
233 |
2 |
29.85 |
2008-10-28 |
| 97. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
34.02 |
0.9108 |
-0.0867 |
235 |
2 |
31.77 |
2009-09-01 |
| 98. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
33.94 |
0.9952 |
-0.1706 |
220 |
1 |
33.94 |
2009-09-14 |
| 99. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
33.79 |
0.9827 |
-0.1632 |
314 |
1 |
33.79 |
2008-10-07 |
| 100. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
33.19 |
1.0672 |
-0.2645 |
239 |
1 |
33.19 |
2011-12-02 |
| 101. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
32.63 |
0.8815 |
-0.0864 |
296 |
2 |
31.74 |
2008-10-14 |
| 102. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
32.63 |
0.8117 |
-0.0182 |
209 |
2 |
30.40 |
2008-10-28 |
| 103. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
32.55 |
0.8814 |
-0.0951 |
169 |
1 |
32.55 |
2008-09-29 |
| 104. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
32.44 |
1.0086 |
-0.2273 |
218 |
1 |
32.44 |
2008-10-07 |
| 105. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
32.43 |
0.8328 |
-0.0438 |
343 |
1 |
32.43 |
2011-11-23 |
| 106. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
32.29 |
0.9574 |
-0.1723 |
354 |
1 |
32.29 |
2008-10-20 |
| 107. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
32.17 |
0.9745 |
-0.1934 |
388 |
2 |
31.54 |
2008-10-20 |
| 108. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
31.52 |
0.8925 |
-0.1223 |
293 |
1 |
31.52 |
2008-10-14 |
| 109. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
31.44 |
0.9884 |
-0.2247 |
267 |
1 |
31.44 |
2008-10-28 |
| 110. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
31.31 |
1.0125 |
-0.2560 |
232 |
1 |
31.31 |
2008-10-14 |
| 111. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
31.17 |
1.0498 |
-0.2940 |
261 |
1 |
31.17 |
2008-10-28 |
| 112. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
31.17 |
1.0264 |
-0.2760 |
191 |
2 |
30.65 |
2011-12-04 |
| 113. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
31.13 |
1.0540 |
-0.3054 |
184 |
1 |
31.13 |
2008-10-28 |
| 114. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
30.81 |
1.0582 |
-0.3155 |
180 |
1 |
30.81 |
2008-09-29 |
| 115. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
30.51 |
0.9541 |
-0.2150 |
236 |
1 |
30.51 |
2008-10-28 |
| 116. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
30.50 |
0.9183 |
-0.1791 |
308 |
1 |
30.50 |
2008-10-28 |
| 117. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
30.02 |
0.9779 |
-0.2529 |
255 |
1 |
30.02 |
2008-09-29 |
| 118. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
29.89 |
0.7425 |
-0.0176 |
148 |
1 |
29.89 |
2008-10-07 |
| 119. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
29.49 |
0.9346 |
-0.2239 |
211 |
1 |
29.49 |
2008-10-20 |
| 120. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
29.24 |
0.9763 |
-0.2693 |
143 |
1 |
29.24 |
2008-10-01 |
| 121. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
28.15 |
0.8339 |
-0.1535 |
209 |
1 |
28.15 |
2008-09-29 |
| 122. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
27.08 |
0.9841 |
-0.3326 |
217 |
1 |
27.08 |
2008-09-29 |
| 123. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
26.80 |
0.9841 |
-0.3378 |
263 |
1 |
26.80 |
2008-10-01 |
| 124. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
26.33 |
1.0250 |
-0.3856 |
271 |
1 |
26.33 |
2008-09-29 |
| 125. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
25.90 |
0.8365 |
-0.2144 |
145 |
1 |
25.90 |
2008-09-29 |
| 126. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
25.76 |
0.9866 |
-0.3636 |
308 |
1 |
25.76 |
2008-10-14 |
| 127. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
24.53 |
0.8680 |
-0.2804 |
196 |
1 |
24.53 |
2008-10-01 |
| 128. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
24.38 |
0.9756 |
-0.3874 |
223 |
1 |
24.38 |
2008-09-29 |