| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
147.86 |
0.9811 |
0.2935 |
272 |
2 |
125.34 |
2009-11-14 |
| 2. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
147.27 |
1.0613 |
0.2064 |
266 |
1 |
147.27 |
2009-05-13 |
| 3. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
146.17 |
1.0214 |
0.2305 |
166 |
3 |
125.96 |
2009-12-01 |
| 4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
139.93 |
1.0496 |
0.1527 |
314 |
1 |
139.93 |
2009-04-11 |
| 5. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
139.84 |
1.0596 |
0.1406 |
239 |
1 |
139.84 |
2009-05-23 |
| 6. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
139.52 |
0.9786 |
0.2157 |
193 |
3 |
126.06 |
2009-12-08 |
| 7. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
139.21 |
1.0619 |
0.1385 |
354 |
1 |
139.21 |
2009-04-11 |
| 8. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
138.79 |
0.9946 |
0.1983 |
246 |
1 |
138.79 |
2009-05-15 |
| 9. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
138.51 |
1.0390 |
0.1479 |
205 |
2 |
126.47 |
2009-06-24 |
| 10. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
137.26 |
1.0034 |
0.1749 |
302 |
1 |
137.26 |
2009-05-15 |
| 11. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
136.75 |
1.0714 |
0.0951 |
129 |
1 |
136.75 |
2009-05-15 |
| 12. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
136.75 |
1.0454 |
0.1263 |
255 |
1 |
136.75 |
2009-05-13 |
| 13. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
136.37 |
1.0201 |
0.1560 |
375 |
2 |
129.64 |
2009-12-08 |
| 14. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
131.68 |
1.0577 |
0.0701 |
247 |
1 |
131.68 |
2009-04-10 |
| 15. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
131.68 |
1.0183 |
0.1074 |
191 |
2 |
117.13 |
2009-04-11 |
| 16. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
131.56 |
0.9682 |
0.1602 |
143 |
1 |
131.56 |
2009-11-14 |
| 17. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
131.31 |
0.9851 |
0.1452 |
317 |
1 |
131.31 |
2009-05-15 |
| 18. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
131.22 |
0.9088 |
0.2238 |
348 |
1 |
131.22 |
2009-05-15 |
| 19. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
131.00 |
1.0016 |
0.1192 |
218 |
2 |
121.86 |
2009-06-24 |
| 20. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
130.97 |
0.9681 |
0.1654 |
378 |
3 |
115.70 |
2009-05-13 |
| 21. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
130.36 |
1.0167 |
0.1100 |
378 |
1 |
130.36 |
2009-05-15 |
| 22. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
129.64 |
1.0389 |
0.0771 |
340 |
3 |
123.90 |
2009-11-14 |
| 23. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
128.74 |
1.0796 |
0.0214 |
129 |
1 |
128.74 |
2009-04-10 |
| 24. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
128.52 |
0.9966 |
0.1067 |
259 |
1 |
128.52 |
2009-04-11 |
| 25. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
127.36 |
1.0263 |
0.0667 |
267 |
2 |
113.88 |
2009-05-13 |
| 26. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
127.15 |
0.9697 |
0.1225 |
249 |
1 |
127.15 |
2009-05-15 |
| 27. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
126.59 |
1.0426 |
0.0438 |
323 |
1 |
126.59 |
2009-05-15 |
| 28. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
126.16 |
0.9731 |
0.0978 |
129 |
1 |
126.16 |
2009-05-13 |
| 29. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
126.14 |
1.0025 |
0.0816 |
336 |
2 |
117.56 |
2009-12-01 |
| 30. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
126.11 |
1.0993 |
-0.0185 |
265 |
1 |
126.11 |
2009-06-06 |
| 31. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
125.79 |
0.8878 |
0.1922 |
346 |
1 |
125.79 |
2009-05-17 |
| 32. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
125.30 |
1.0197 |
0.0533 |
226 |
1 |
125.30 |
2009-04-09 |
| 33. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
124.28 |
1.0515 |
0.0136 |
250 |
1 |
124.28 |
2009-04-09 |
| 34. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
123.80 |
1.0462 |
0.0106 |
184 |
2 |
111.45 |
2009-05-15 |
| 35. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
123.68 |
1.0529 |
0.0088 |
351 |
2 |
113.18 |
2009-05-15 |
| 36. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
122.40 |
1.0218 |
0.0260 |
268 |
1 |
122.40 |
2009-04-10 |
| 37. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
121.88 |
1.0261 |
0.0182 |
273 |
1 |
121.88 |
2009-11-14 |
| 38. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
121.48 |
0.9251 |
0.1226 |
177 |
1 |
121.48 |
2009-11-14 |
| 39. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
121.31 |
1.1016 |
-0.0603 |
233 |
2 |
92.20 |
2009-05-15 |
| 40. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
121.22 |
0.9884 |
0.0513 |
233 |
2 |
113.29 |
2009-05-14 |
| 41. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
121.13 |
1.0463 |
-0.0112 |
182 |
1 |
121.13 |
2009-05-15 |
| 42. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
120.57 |
0.9769 |
0.0558 |
263 |
1 |
120.57 |
2009-11-14 |
| 43. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
120.37 |
1.0711 |
-0.0431 |
213 |
1 |
120.37 |
2009-04-09 |
| 44. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
120.35 |
0.8971 |
0.1411 |
266 |
2 |
119.96 |
2009-11-14 |
| 45. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
119.57 |
1.0023 |
0.0219 |
211 |
1 |
119.57 |
2009-12-01 |
| 46. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
119.46 |
0.9795 |
0.0457 |
308 |
3 |
109.70 |
2009-05-15 |
| 47. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
119.20 |
1.0328 |
0.0282 |
356 |
1 |
119.20 |
2009-12-01 |
| 48. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
119.12 |
1.0523 |
-0.0344 |
256 |
1 |
119.12 |
2009-05-17 |
| 49. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
118.92 |
0.9570 |
0.0652 |
287 |
1 |
118.92 |
2009-05-15 |
| 50. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
118.33 |
1.0201 |
-0.0044 |
303 |
2 |
112.87 |
2009-05-15 |
| 51. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
117.95 |
0.9676 |
0.0527 |
442 |
1 |
117.95 |
2009-05-14 |
| 52. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
117.91 |
1.0214 |
-0.0114 |
269 |
1 |
117.91 |
2009-05-15 |
| 53. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
117.88 |
0.9089 |
0.1064 |
342 |
1 |
117.88 |
2009-12-01 |
| 54. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
117.81 |
1.0131 |
-0.0062 |
225 |
1 |
117.81 |
2009-05-13 |
| 55. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
117.77 |
0.9776 |
0.0331 |
308 |
1 |
117.77 |
2009-04-11 |
| 56. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
117.57 |
0.9636 |
0.0450 |
254 |
2 |
114.03 |
2009-04-11 |
| 57. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
116.21 |
0.8770 |
0.1231 |
300 |
1 |
116.21 |
2009-05-14 |
| 58. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
115.20 |
0.8722 |
0.1188 |
285 |
1 |
115.20 |
2009-06-24 |
| 59. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
115.10 |
0.9758 |
0.0122 |
314 |
2 |
89.62 |
2009-05-26 |
| 60. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
114.96 |
1.0252 |
-0.0456 |
176 |
2 |
113.50 |
2009-05-15 |
| 61. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
114.44 |
1.0528 |
-0.0763 |
201 |
1 |
114.44 |
2009-05-15 |
| 62. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
114.11 |
0.9687 |
0.0147 |
371 |
1 |
114.11 |
2009-05-14 |
| 63. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
113.98 |
1.1114 |
-0.1366 |
247 |
1 |
113.98 |
2009-04-10 |
| 64. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
113.78 |
0.8553 |
0.1154 |
174 |
2 |
106.87 |
2009-05-15 |
| 65. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
113.65 |
0.8826 |
0.0935 |
296 |
1 |
113.65 |
2009-04-10 |
| 66. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
113.54 |
0.9597 |
0.0181 |
347 |
1 |
113.54 |
2009-06-24 |
| 67. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
112.06 |
0.9365 |
0.0258 |
248 |
1 |
112.06 |
2009-06-24 |
| 68. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
111.76 |
0.9965 |
-0.0379 |
310 |
1 |
111.76 |
2009-05-13 |
| 69. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
111.69 |
0.9675 |
-0.0004 |
383 |
1 |
111.69 |
2009-05-14 |
| 70. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
110.94 |
0.9785 |
-0.0242 |
335 |
1 |
110.94 |
2009-04-11 |
| 71. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
110.84 |
0.9513 |
0.0028 |
354 |
1 |
110.84 |
2009-05-15 |
| 72. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
110.78 |
0.9897 |
-0.0423 |
274 |
1 |
110.78 |
2009-04-12 |
| 73. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
110.40 |
1.0445 |
-0.0972 |
373 |
1 |
110.40 |
2009-05-15 |
| 74. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
110.29 |
0.9351 |
0.0049 |
190 |
1 |
110.29 |
2009-05-15 |
| 75. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
109.85 |
0.9723 |
-0.0269 |
364 |
1 |
109.85 |
2009-05-17 |
| 76. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
109.75 |
0.9734 |
-0.0329 |
289 |
1 |
109.75 |
2009-12-01 |
| 77. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
109.64 |
0.9772 |
-0.0409 |
217 |
2 |
108.58 |
2009-05-15 |
| 78. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
109.19 |
0.9289 |
0.0047 |
204 |
1 |
109.19 |
2009-05-15 |
| 79. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
108.87 |
0.9567 |
-0.0238 |
273 |
2 |
101.61 |
2009-05-15 |
| 80. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
108.65 |
1.0521 |
-0.1257 |
171 |
1 |
108.65 |
2009-05-15 |
| 81. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
108.25 |
1.0349 |
-0.1078 |
234 |
2 |
106.52 |
2009-04-09 |
| 82. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
107.67 |
0.9148 |
0.0093 |
317 |
1 |
107.67 |
2009-04-10 |
| 83. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
107.31 |
0.9865 |
-0.0658 |
276 |
1 |
107.31 |
2009-05-15 |
| 84. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
107.29 |
0.9886 |
-0.0667 |
220 |
2 |
105.85 |
2009-05-13 |
| 85. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
107.05 |
1.0004 |
-0.0892 |
212 |
1 |
107.05 |
2009-05-15 |
| 86. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
106.52 |
0.9084 |
0.0084 |
404 |
1 |
106.52 |
2009-05-15 |
| 87. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
106.14 |
0.8105 |
0.0946 |
204 |
1 |
106.14 |
2009-05-15 |
| 88. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
105.70 |
0.9820 |
-0.0736 |
267 |
1 |
105.70 |
2009-04-11 |
| 89. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
105.66 |
0.9279 |
-0.0162 |
317 |
1 |
105.66 |
2009-04-11 |
| 90. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
104.29 |
0.9278 |
-0.0318 |
295 |
1 |
104.29 |
2009-05-15 |
| 91. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
104.05 |
1.0534 |
-0.1599 |
357 |
2 |
95.04 |
2009-04-11 |
| 92. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
104.04 |
0.9005 |
-0.0108 |
212 |
1 |
104.04 |
2009-05-13 |
| 93. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
103.91 |
1.0203 |
-0.1269 |
261 |
1 |
103.91 |
2009-04-11 |
| 94. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
102.85 |
0.9309 |
-0.0520 |
284 |
1 |
102.85 |
2009-04-11 |
| 95. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
101.69 |
1.0063 |
-0.1352 |
371 |
1 |
101.69 |
2009-04-11 |
| 96. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
100.96 |
0.9527 |
-0.0884 |
251 |
1 |
100.96 |
2009-04-09 |
| 97. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
100.48 |
1.0477 |
-0.1851 |
360 |
1 |
100.48 |
2009-04-11 |
| 98. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
100.46 |
1.0799 |
-0.2235 |
243 |
2 |
100.12 |
2009-05-17 |
| 99. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
100.29 |
0.9072 |
-0.0503 |
237 |
1 |
100.29 |
2009-04-10 |
| 100. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
99.74 |
0.9756 |
-0.1231 |
229 |
1 |
99.74 |
2009-05-15 |
| 101. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
99.68 |
0.9964 |
-0.1430 |
203 |
1 |
99.68 |
2009-05-13 |
| 102. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
99.64 |
0.9965 |
-0.1430 |
277 |
1 |
99.64 |
2009-05-13 |
| 103. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
99.23 |
0.9540 |
-0.1064 |
285 |
1 |
99.23 |
2009-05-15 |
| 104. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
99.03 |
1.0444 |
-0.2034 |
197 |
1 |
99.03 |
2009-05-13 |
| 105. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
96.85 |
0.9168 |
-0.0868 |
240 |
1 |
96.85 |
2009-04-11 |
| 106. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
96.45 |
1.0498 |
-0.2294 |
180 |
1 |
96.45 |
2009-04-10 |
| 107. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
95.96 |
0.8941 |
-0.0711 |
216 |
1 |
95.96 |
2009-11-14 |
| 108. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
92.09 |
1.0788 |
-0.2971 |
171 |
1 |
92.09 |
2009-04-11 |
| 109. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
91.43 |
0.9097 |
-0.0865 |
464 |
1 |
91.43 |
2009-05-15 |
| 110. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
89.92 |
1.0189 |
-0.2471 |
337 |
1 |
89.92 |
2009-05-15 |
| 111. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
87.73 |
0.9468 |
-0.1979 |
276 |
1 |
87.73 |
2009-05-15 |
| 112. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
86.98 |
0.7876 |
-0.0421 |
316 |
2 |
83.85 |
2009-05-14 |
| 113. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
82.59 |
1.0398 |
-0.3455 |
110 |
2 |
70.05 |
2009-04-11 |
| 114. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
82.57 |
0.9212 |
-0.2133 |
323 |
1 |
82.57 |
2009-04-11 |
| 115. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
80.95 |
0.8382 |
-0.1472 |
268 |
1 |
80.95 |
2009-04-11 |
| 116. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
80.10 |
0.9125 |
-0.2276 |
308 |
1 |
80.10 |
2009-04-11 |
| 117. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
73.64 |
0.8753 |
-0.2391 |
427 |
1 |
73.64 |
2009-04-09 |