| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
44.85 |
1.0787 |
0.2154 |
237 |
2 |
38.22 |
2011-12-19 |
| 2. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
43.26 |
0.9612 |
0.2885 |
256 |
1 |
43.26 |
2011-12-19 |
| 3. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
42.65 |
0.9911 |
0.2366 |
212 |
1 |
42.65 |
2011-12-19 |
| 4. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
42.64 |
1.0023 |
0.2268 |
211 |
1 |
42.64 |
2011-12-17 |
| 5. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
42.30 |
1.0795 |
0.1722 |
226 |
1 |
42.30 |
2011-12-17 |
| 6. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
42.17 |
1.0696 |
0.1446 |
226 |
2 |
35.34 |
2011-12-17 |
| 7. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
41.35 |
1.0711 |
0.1172 |
213 |
1 |
41.35 |
2011-12-19 |
| 8. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
41.33 |
1.0214 |
0.1701 |
269 |
2 |
36.14 |
2011-12-17 |
| 9. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
41.08 |
0.9893 |
0.1964 |
323 |
1 |
41.08 |
2011-12-19 |
| 10. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
40.81 |
0.9307 |
0.2546 |
246 |
2 |
36.63 |
2011-12-17 |
| 11. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
40.78 |
0.9263 |
0.2538 |
188 |
1 |
40.78 |
2011-12-17 |
| 12. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
40.58 |
1.0334 |
0.1310 |
131 |
1 |
40.58 |
2011-12-17 |
| 13. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
40.13 |
0.9865 |
0.1728 |
276 |
1 |
40.13 |
2011-12-19 |
| 14. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
39.72 |
0.9028 |
0.2401 |
111 |
2 |
36.90 |
2011-12-17 |
| 15. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
39.61 |
0.8821 |
0.2604 |
176 |
1 |
39.61 |
2011-12-17 |
| 16. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
39.59 |
1.0684 |
0.1038 |
253 |
1 |
39.59 |
2011-12-19 |
| 17. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
38.94 |
1.0829 |
0.0416 |
288 |
1 |
38.94 |
2011-12-17 |
| 18. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
38.83 |
0.9226 |
0.2010 |
177 |
1 |
38.83 |
2011-12-17 |
| 19. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
38.83 |
0.9649 |
0.1542 |
193 |
1 |
38.83 |
2011-12-19 |
| 20. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
38.44 |
1.0993 |
0.0074 |
265 |
1 |
38.44 |
2011-12-17 |
| 21. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
38.34 |
1.0320 |
0.1108 |
293 |
1 |
38.34 |
2011-12-17 |
| 22. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
37.87 |
1.0297 |
0.0611 |
249 |
1 |
37.87 |
2011-12-17 |
| 23. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
37.85 |
0.8541 |
0.2452 |
260 |
1 |
37.85 |
2011-12-17 |
| 24. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
37.65 |
1.0365 |
0.0786 |
162 |
1 |
37.65 |
2011-12-19 |
| 25. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
37.58 |
0.9504 |
0.1272 |
263 |
1 |
37.58 |
2011-12-17 |
| 26. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
37.24 |
0.9691 |
0.1038 |
223 |
2 |
35.74 |
2011-12-17 |
| 27. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
37.18 |
0.9912 |
0.1074 |
237 |
1 |
37.18 |
2011-12-17 |
| 28. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
37.13 |
0.8791 |
0.1901 |
190 |
1 |
37.13 |
2011-12-17 |
| 29. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
36.98 |
1.0768 |
0.0289 |
295 |
1 |
36.98 |
2011-06-26 |
| 30. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
36.83 |
1.0240 |
0.0345 |
256 |
1 |
36.83 |
2011-12-19 |
| 31. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
36.73 |
0.8951 |
0.1660 |
193 |
1 |
36.73 |
2011-12-19 |
| 32. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
36.67 |
0.8154 |
0.2431 |
193 |
2 |
33.33 |
2011-12-17 |
| 33. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
36.62 |
0.9247 |
0.1352 |
253 |
1 |
36.62 |
2011-12-19 |
| 34. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
36.61 |
1.0063 |
0.0489 |
371 |
1 |
36.61 |
2011-12-19 |
| 35. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
36.60 |
1.0463 |
0.0040 |
182 |
1 |
36.60 |
2011-06-26 |
| 36. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
36.48 |
1.0340 |
0.0229 |
406 |
1 |
36.48 |
2011-12-17 |
| 37. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
35.86 |
1.0214 |
0.0542 |
281 |
1 |
35.86 |
2011-06-27 |
| 38. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
35.65 |
0.8971 |
0.1349 |
266 |
1 |
35.65 |
2011-12-17 |
| 39. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
35.63 |
0.9665 |
0.1095 |
326 |
1 |
35.63 |
2011-12-19 |
| 40. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
35.37 |
1.0515 |
-0.0406 |
166 |
1 |
35.37 |
2011-12-17 |
| 41. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
35.23 |
0.9798 |
0.0294 |
199 |
1 |
35.23 |
2011-06-27 |
| 42. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
35.19 |
1.0483 |
-0.0379 |
227 |
3 |
32.22 |
2011-06-25 |
| 43. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
35.06 |
1.0138 |
-0.0044 |
231 |
2 |
35.04 |
2011-06-26 |
| 44. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
34.99 |
0.9597 |
0.0524 |
347 |
1 |
34.99 |
2011-12-17 |
| 45. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
34.75 |
0.9670 |
0.0762 |
307 |
1 |
34.75 |
2011-12-17 |
| 46. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
34.71 |
0.8867 |
0.1180 |
241 |
1 |
34.71 |
2011-12-17 |
| 47. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
33.93 |
0.9239 |
0.0590 |
193 |
1 |
33.93 |
2011-12-17 |
| 48. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
33.73 |
0.9722 |
0.0003 |
283 |
1 |
33.73 |
2011-06-27 |
| 49. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
33.68 |
1.0943 |
-0.0923 |
206 |
1 |
33.68 |
2011-06-26 |
| 50. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
33.54 |
0.9726 |
-0.0141 |
154 |
1 |
33.54 |
2011-06-25 |
| 51. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
33.50 |
1.0077 |
-0.0023 |
250 |
1 |
33.50 |
2011-06-25 |
| 52. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
33.49 |
0.8544 |
0.1115 |
170 |
1 |
33.49 |
2011-06-25 |
| 53. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
33.33 |
1.0068 |
-0.0438 |
358 |
1 |
33.33 |
2011-06-25 |
| 54. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
33.25 |
1.0565 |
-0.1023 |
247 |
2 |
31.24 |
2011-06-25 |
| 55. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
33.22 |
0.8323 |
0.1225 |
145 |
1 |
33.22 |
2011-06-25 |
| 56. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
33.22 |
1.0506 |
-0.0656 |
277 |
1 |
33.22 |
2011-06-25 |
| 57. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
33.19 |
0.9907 |
-0.0367 |
211 |
2 |
31.32 |
2011-12-17 |
| 58. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
33.17 |
0.9936 |
-0.0185 |
227 |
1 |
33.17 |
2011-06-26 |
| 59. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
33.02 |
0.9281 |
0.0271 |
273 |
2 |
32.12 |
2011-12-17 |
| 60. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
32.99 |
0.8125 |
0.1402 |
197 |
1 |
32.99 |
2011-06-25 |
| 61. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
32.88 |
0.8996 |
0.0412 |
192 |
1 |
32.88 |
2011-12-17 |
| 62. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
32.71 |
0.9514 |
-0.0096 |
237 |
1 |
32.71 |
2011-06-26 |
| 63. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
32.67 |
1.0444 |
-0.1108 |
197 |
1 |
32.67 |
2011-06-26 |
| 64. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
32.65 |
0.9763 |
-0.0371 |
289 |
1 |
32.65 |
2011-06-26 |
| 65. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
32.54 |
1.0033 |
-0.0737 |
189 |
1 |
32.54 |
2011-06-27 |
| 66. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
32.42 |
0.9773 |
-0.0531 |
123 |
1 |
32.42 |
2011-12-17 |
| 67. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
32.34 |
0.7981 |
0.1306 |
126 |
1 |
32.34 |
2011-06-25 |
| 68. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
32.25 |
1.0799 |
-0.1557 |
243 |
2 |
29.22 |
2011-06-26 |
| 69. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
32.18 |
0.9023 |
0.0667 |
231 |
1 |
32.18 |
2011-06-26 |
| 70. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
32.10 |
0.9682 |
-0.0461 |
143 |
1 |
32.10 |
2011-06-25 |
| 71. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
32.01 |
1.0577 |
-0.1405 |
247 |
1 |
32.01 |
2011-06-27 |
| 72. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
31.31 |
0.8153 |
0.0896 |
200 |
2 |
30.80 |
2011-06-25 |
| 73. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
31.29 |
0.8910 |
0.0100 |
150 |
1 |
31.29 |
2011-06-25 |
| 74. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
31.26 |
0.9128 |
-0.0086 |
133 |
1 |
31.26 |
2011-06-27 |
| 75. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
31.01 |
1.0863 |
-0.1600 |
210 |
1 |
31.01 |
2011-12-17 |
| 76. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
30.95 |
0.8353 |
0.0619 |
283 |
1 |
30.95 |
2011-06-25 |
| 77. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
30.56 |
1.0679 |
-0.1690 |
177 |
1 |
30.56 |
2011-06-26 |
| 78. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
30.45 |
0.9310 |
-0.0604 |
188 |
1 |
30.45 |
2011-06-25 |
| 79. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
30.35 |
0.9697 |
-0.0972 |
249 |
1 |
30.35 |
2011-06-25 |
| 80. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
30.24 |
1.0251 |
-0.1577 |
261 |
1 |
30.24 |
2011-06-25 |
| 81. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
29.73 |
1.0714 |
-0.2262 |
129 |
1 |
29.73 |
2011-06-25 |
| 82. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
29.67 |
0.7890 |
0.0643 |
230 |
1 |
29.67 |
2011-06-25 |
| 83. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
29.63 |
1.0213 |
-0.1729 |
240 |
1 |
29.63 |
2011-06-26 |
| 84. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
29.56 |
1.0254 |
-0.1358 |
217 |
1 |
29.56 |
2011-06-25 |
| 85. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
29.50 |
0.9710 |
-0.1300 |
173 |
1 |
29.50 |
2011-06-26 |
| 86. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
29.39 |
1.0053 |
-0.1626 |
232 |
1 |
29.39 |
2011-06-25 |
| 87. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
29.27 |
0.9986 |
-0.1569 |
283 |
1 |
29.27 |
2011-06-25 |
| 88. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
29.16 |
0.9161 |
-0.0812 |
200 |
1 |
29.16 |
2011-06-25 |
| 89. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
28.75 |
0.9168 |
-0.0891 |
240 |
1 |
28.75 |
2011-12-17 |
| 90. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
28.63 |
0.9904 |
-0.1278 |
203 |
1 |
28.63 |
2011-06-26 |
| 91. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
28.43 |
1.0261 |
-0.2118 |
273 |
1 |
28.43 |
2011-06-26 |
| 92. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
28.36 |
0.8077 |
0.0037 |
167 |
1 |
28.36 |
2011-06-27 |
| 93. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
27.50 |
0.8915 |
-0.1045 |
188 |
1 |
27.50 |
2011-06-25 |
| 94. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
27.34 |
1.0263 |
-0.2426 |
267 |
1 |
27.34 |
2011-06-25 |
| 95. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
26.93 |
1.0016 |
-0.2337 |
218 |
2 |
24.38 |
2011-06-25 |
| 96. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
26.82 |
0.9164 |
-0.1431 |
121 |
1 |
26.82 |
2011-06-25 |
| 97. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
26.57 |
0.9207 |
-0.1569 |
174 |
1 |
26.57 |
2011-06-26 |
| 98. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
25.69 |
1.0441 |
-0.3063 |
252 |
1 |
25.69 |
2011-06-25 |
| 99. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
25.07 |
0.8852 |
-0.1641 |
201 |
1 |
25.07 |
2011-06-25 |
| 100. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
24.34 |
1.0403 |
-0.3286 |
193 |
1 |
24.34 |
2011-06-25 |