| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
66.44 |
1.0714 |
0.1713 |
129 |
1 |
66.44 |
2009-02-09 |
| 2. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
65.24 |
1.0340 |
0.1883 |
406 |
1 |
65.24 |
2009-02-09 |
| 3. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
65.00 |
0.9724 |
0.2474 |
237 |
1 |
65.00 |
2008-12-03 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
64.81 |
1.0565 |
0.1568 |
247 |
1 |
64.81 |
2008-12-10 |
| 5. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
63.35 |
1.0595 |
0.1262 |
379 |
3 |
53.80 |
2009-02-09 |
| 6. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
63.30 |
0.9734 |
0.2121 |
289 |
2 |
57.36 |
2009-02-09 |
| 7. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
62.46 |
0.9593 |
0.2119 |
398 |
2 |
55.24 |
2011-04-07 |
| 8. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
62.26 |
0.9780 |
0.1877 |
337 |
2 |
60.89 |
2009-02-01 |
| 9. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.92 |
0.9886 |
0.1710 |
220 |
2 |
59.55 |
2009-02-01 |
| 10. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
61.89 |
1.0796 |
0.0779 |
129 |
1 |
61.89 |
2008-12-03 |
| 11. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
61.83 |
0.9729 |
0.1866 |
255 |
1 |
61.83 |
2009-01-31 |
| 12. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
61.54 |
0.9866 |
0.1659 |
218 |
1 |
61.54 |
2008-12-08 |
| 13. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
61.52 |
0.9997 |
0.1529 |
382 |
2 |
58.88 |
2009-02-18 |
| 14. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
61.34 |
1.0203 |
0.1285 |
261 |
1 |
61.34 |
2009-02-09 |
| 15. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
61.28 |
1.1018 |
0.0448 |
220 |
1 |
61.28 |
2008-12-09 |
| 16. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
60.76 |
1.0068 |
0.1308 |
358 |
1 |
60.76 |
2009-02-18 |
| 17. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
60.74 |
1.0396 |
0.0967 |
149 |
2 |
59.65 |
2009-02-03 |
| 18. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
60.70 |
1.0885 |
0.0472 |
315 |
1 |
60.70 |
2008-12-09 |
| 19. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
60.30 |
1.0251 |
0.1023 |
261 |
1 |
60.30 |
2009-02-09 |
| 20. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
60.28 |
1.0390 |
0.0874 |
205 |
1 |
60.28 |
2009-02-09 |
| 21. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
60.12 |
1.0463 |
0.0780 |
182 |
2 |
56.91 |
2010-04-28 |
| 22. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
59.97 |
1.0993 |
0.0224 |
265 |
1 |
59.97 |
2010-04-28 |
| 23. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
59.80 |
1.0498 |
0.0680 |
180 |
1 |
59.80 |
2009-02-03 |
| 24. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
59.57 |
0.9769 |
0.1378 |
263 |
3 |
57.50 |
2011-04-07 |
| 25. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
59.39 |
0.9426 |
0.1706 |
317 |
2 |
55.11 |
2008-12-10 |
| 26. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
59.39 |
1.0257 |
0.0865 |
401 |
1 |
59.39 |
2008-12-10 |
| 27. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
59.22 |
0.9411 |
0.1685 |
318 |
2 |
55.26 |
2008-12-08 |
| 28. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
58.73 |
1.0062 |
0.0931 |
288 |
1 |
58.73 |
2009-02-01 |
| 29. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
58.57 |
0.9072 |
0.1903 |
237 |
1 |
58.57 |
2008-12-09 |
| 30. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
58.24 |
1.0399 |
0.0505 |
294 |
1 |
58.24 |
2009-01-31 |
| 31. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
58.08 |
0.9965 |
0.0902 |
277 |
2 |
50.07 |
2010-04-28 |
| 32. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
58.02 |
1.0487 |
0.0351 |
231 |
2 |
56.57 |
2008-12-09 |
| 33. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
57.94 |
1.0334 |
0.0486 |
131 |
1 |
57.94 |
2008-12-10 |
| 34. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
57.87 |
1.0829 |
-0.0002 |
288 |
1 |
57.87 |
2010-04-28 |
| 35. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
57.76 |
0.9846 |
0.0963 |
281 |
1 |
57.76 |
2009-02-09 |
| 36. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
57.59 |
0.8442 |
0.2372 |
265 |
1 |
57.59 |
2008-12-03 |
| 37. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
57.55 |
0.9710 |
0.1059 |
173 |
2 |
57.35 |
2011-04-07 |
| 38. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
57.45 |
1.0074 |
0.0708 |
242 |
1 |
57.45 |
2010-01-18 |
| 39. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
57.42 |
0.9049 |
0.1713 |
351 |
2 |
54.92 |
2008-12-11 |
| 40. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
57.40 |
0.9559 |
0.1196 |
195 |
1 |
57.40 |
2010-04-28 |
| 41. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
57.32 |
1.0077 |
0.0986 |
250 |
1 |
57.32 |
2011-04-01 |
| 42. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
57.23 |
1.0763 |
0.0240 |
367 |
1 |
57.23 |
2024-04-03 |
| 43. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
57.11 |
1.0577 |
0.0102 |
247 |
2 |
56.96 |
2008-12-09 |
| 44. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
57.11 |
1.0240 |
0.0452 |
256 |
1 |
57.11 |
2012-11-29 |
| 45. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
57.08 |
0.9754 |
0.0940 |
362 |
3 |
56.04 |
2009-01-31 |
| 46. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
56.92 |
1.0125 |
0.0526 |
224 |
2 |
56.48 |
2010-04-28 |
| 47. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
56.82 |
0.9884 |
0.0753 |
233 |
1 |
56.82 |
2009-02-09 |
| 48. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
56.49 |
0.9125 |
0.1456 |
308 |
2 |
53.40 |
2009-02-01 |
| 49. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
56.22 |
1.0214 |
0.0301 |
269 |
1 |
56.22 |
2010-05-05 |
| 50. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
56.09 |
0.9213 |
0.1293 |
295 |
1 |
56.09 |
2009-02-01 |
| 51. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
55.99 |
0.9234 |
0.1261 |
346 |
2 |
54.69 |
2010-04-28 |
| 52. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
55.89 |
0.9852 |
0.0604 |
264 |
1 |
55.89 |
2009-01-31 |
| 53. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.69 |
0.9785 |
0.0646 |
335 |
1 |
55.69 |
2010-05-25 |
| 54. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
55.53 |
1.0004 |
0.0376 |
212 |
1 |
55.53 |
2009-01-10 |
| 55. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
55.50 |
0.9045 |
0.1345 |
235 |
1 |
55.50 |
2009-02-09 |
| 56. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
54.99 |
0.9965 |
0.0315 |
168 |
4 |
50.80 |
2012-11-29 |
| 57. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
54.80 |
0.9612 |
0.0641 |
256 |
1 |
54.80 |
2009-02-03 |
| 58. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
54.74 |
1.0168 |
0.0059 |
271 |
1 |
54.74 |
2008-12-09 |
| 59. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
54.71 |
0.9684 |
0.0559 |
388 |
1 |
54.71 |
2009-02-03 |
| 60. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
54.64 |
0.9635 |
0.0593 |
389 |
2 |
50.15 |
2008-12-03 |
| 61. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
54.61 |
0.8951 |
0.1297 |
193 |
1 |
54.61 |
2009-01-31 |
| 62. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
54.42 |
1.0008 |
0.0474 |
473 |
1 |
54.42 |
2024-04-03 |
| 63. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
54.41 |
1.0252 |
-0.0086 |
176 |
1 |
54.41 |
2008-12-09 |
| 64. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
54.35 |
0.8878 |
0.1300 |
346 |
2 |
51.38 |
2011-04-07 |
| 65. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
54.26 |
1.0797 |
-0.0662 |
210 |
1 |
54.26 |
2010-04-28 |
| 66. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
54.14 |
0.9786 |
0.0327 |
193 |
3 |
43.45 |
2009-01-27 |
| 67. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
54.04 |
0.9278 |
0.0846 |
295 |
1 |
54.04 |
2009-02-09 |
| 68. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
54.02 |
1.0201 |
-0.0096 |
303 |
1 |
54.02 |
2008-12-09 |
| 69. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
53.97 |
1.0124 |
-0.0033 |
204 |
1 |
53.97 |
2008-12-03 |
| 70. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
53.95 |
1.0352 |
-0.0250 |
341 |
1 |
53.95 |
2009-02-03 |
| 71. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
53.92 |
1.0441 |
-0.0033 |
316 |
1 |
53.92 |
2010-04-28 |
| 72. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
53.92 |
0.9266 |
0.0823 |
267 |
1 |
53.92 |
2010-04-28 |
| 73. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
53.78 |
0.9005 |
0.1061 |
212 |
1 |
53.78 |
2009-01-31 |
| 74. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
53.67 |
0.9164 |
0.0880 |
305 |
2 |
51.70 |
2009-02-03 |
| 75. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
53.47 |
1.0483 |
-0.0491 |
227 |
2 |
52.89 |
2009-02-03 |
| 76. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
53.41 |
0.8573 |
0.1456 |
270 |
1 |
53.41 |
2009-01-31 |
| 77. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
53.40 |
0.9907 |
0.0076 |
211 |
1 |
53.40 |
2009-02-01 |
| 78. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
53.34 |
1.0173 |
0.0189 |
268 |
1 |
53.34 |
2024-04-03 |
| 79. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
53.28 |
0.9430 |
0.0531 |
211 |
1 |
53.28 |
2009-01-10 |
| 80. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
53.18 |
0.9221 |
0.0731 |
244 |
1 |
53.18 |
2008-12-03 |
| 81. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
52.87 |
0.9795 |
0.0091 |
308 |
1 |
52.87 |
2009-02-03 |
| 82. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
52.87 |
0.9865 |
0.0030 |
276 |
3 |
51.17 |
2010-05-25 |
| 83. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
52.48 |
1.0292 |
-0.0486 |
262 |
1 |
52.48 |
2009-01-27 |
| 84. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
52.30 |
0.9805 |
-0.0014 |
292 |
1 |
52.30 |
2010-05-19 |
| 85. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
52.28 |
1.0331 |
-0.0557 |
234 |
1 |
52.28 |
2009-02-01 |
| 86. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
52.24 |
0.9675 |
0.0120 |
383 |
1 |
52.24 |
2009-02-01 |
| 87. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
52.11 |
0.9670 |
0.0411 |
307 |
1 |
52.11 |
2011-04-01 |
| 88. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
52.08 |
0.9088 |
0.0672 |
348 |
1 |
52.08 |
2009-02-01 |
| 89. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
51.95 |
0.9622 |
0.0103 |
392 |
1 |
51.95 |
2008-12-10 |
| 90. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
51.75 |
1.0167 |
-0.0481 |
378 |
1 |
51.75 |
2009-01-10 |
| 91. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
51.73 |
0.9148 |
0.0537 |
317 |
2 |
51.33 |
2010-04-28 |
| 92. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
51.67 |
0.8981 |
0.0702 |
393 |
1 |
51.67 |
2008-12-10 |
| 93. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
51.63 |
0.8919 |
0.0738 |
205 |
1 |
51.63 |
2008-12-09 |
| 94. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
51.54 |
0.9398 |
0.0256 |
419 |
1 |
51.54 |
2010-04-28 |
| 95. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
51.47 |
0.9339 |
0.0292 |
310 |
1 |
51.47 |
2010-04-28 |
| 96. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
51.12 |
1.0053 |
-0.0497 |
232 |
1 |
51.12 |
2008-12-09 |
| 97. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
50.43 |
0.9109 |
0.0336 |
401 |
1 |
50.43 |
2009-01-31 |
| 98. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
50.34 |
1.0368 |
-0.0951 |
276 |
1 |
50.34 |
2009-02-03 |
| 99. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
50.23 |
1.0352 |
-0.0959 |
341 |
1 |
50.23 |
2009-01-10 |
| 100. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
50.15 |
0.8382 |
0.1008 |
268 |
1 |
50.15 |
2010-04-28 |
| 101. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
49.80 |
1.0608 |
-0.1013 |
258 |
1 |
49.80 |
2010-05-25 |
| 102. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
49.78 |
0.9633 |
-0.0310 |
304 |
1 |
49.78 |
2009-01-10 |
| 103. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
49.38 |
1.0567 |
-0.1339 |
303 |
1 |
49.38 |
2008-12-03 |
| 104. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
49.31 |
0.9350 |
-0.0107 |
195 |
1 |
49.31 |
2010-05-19 |
| 105. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
49.27 |
0.9532 |
-0.0315 |
258 |
2 |
45.47 |
2010-04-28 |
| 106. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
49.27 |
0.9986 |
-0.0780 |
283 |
3 |
46.89 |
2010-05-19 |
| 107. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
49.26 |
1.0417 |
-0.1210 |
253 |
1 |
49.26 |
2009-01-10 |
| 108. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
49.12 |
0.9649 |
-0.0462 |
193 |
3 |
47.89 |
2010-01-18 |
| 109. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
48.94 |
0.9202 |
-0.0048 |
254 |
1 |
48.94 |
2009-01-10 |
| 110. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
48.93 |
0.8811 |
0.0370 |
239 |
1 |
48.93 |
2008-12-03 |
| 111. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
48.80 |
0.9965 |
-0.0844 |
310 |
1 |
48.80 |
2009-01-10 |
| 112. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
48.57 |
1.0346 |
-0.0913 |
244 |
1 |
48.57 |
2010-04-28 |
| 113. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
48.36 |
0.9578 |
-0.0528 |
281 |
1 |
48.36 |
2010-05-25 |
| 114. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
48.25 |
0.9863 |
-0.0844 |
339 |
1 |
48.25 |
2009-01-10 |
| 115. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
48.07 |
0.9279 |
-0.0286 |
317 |
1 |
48.07 |
2008-12-09 |
| 116. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
47.79 |
0.9429 |
-0.0499 |
287 |
1 |
47.79 |
2009-01-10 |
| 117. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
47.60 |
0.9289 |
-0.0392 |
204 |
1 |
47.60 |
2008-12-03 |
| 118. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
47.49 |
0.9941 |
-0.1072 |
217 |
1 |
47.49 |
2009-01-10 |
| 119. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
47.24 |
1.0117 |
-0.0923 |
297 |
1 |
47.24 |
2010-05-19 |
| 120. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
47.14 |
1.0389 |
-0.1584 |
340 |
1 |
47.14 |
2009-01-10 |
| 121. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
46.88 |
0.9376 |
-0.0605 |
367 |
1 |
46.88 |
2008-12-08 |
| 122. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
46.77 |
1.0528 |
-0.1807 |
201 |
1 |
46.77 |
2010-05-19 |
| 123. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
46.40 |
0.9619 |
-0.0934 |
393 |
1 |
46.40 |
2011-04-07 |
| 124. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
46.35 |
1.0034 |
-0.1377 |
302 |
1 |
46.35 |
2009-01-10 |
| 125. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
46.01 |
0.9912 |
-0.1072 |
237 |
1 |
46.01 |
2010-05-25 |
| 126. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
45.55 |
0.9673 |
-0.0795 |
232 |
1 |
45.55 |
2010-05-19 |
| 127. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
45.48 |
0.9646 |
-0.1144 |
264 |
1 |
45.48 |
2010-04-28 |
| 128. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
45.39 |
0.9731 |
-0.1259 |
129 |
1 |
45.39 |
2008-12-03 |
| 129. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
45.23 |
0.9786 |
-0.1334 |
235 |
1 |
45.23 |
2010-05-25 |
| 130. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
44.11 |
0.9899 |
-0.1667 |
163 |
1 |
44.11 |
2010-04-28 |
| 131. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
43.74 |
1.1162 |
-0.2645 |
189 |
1 |
43.74 |
2010-05-25 |
| 132. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
43.60 |
0.9514 |
-0.1372 |
237 |
1 |
43.60 |
2009-01-10 |
| 133. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
42.14 |
0.8520 |
-0.0635 |
202 |
1 |
42.14 |
2010-05-25 |
| 134. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
41.81 |
0.8890 |
-0.1090 |
199 |
1 |
41.81 |
2008-12-03 |
| 135. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
41.10 |
0.8595 |
-0.0915 |
242 |
1 |
41.10 |
2009-01-10 |
| 136. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
39.28 |
0.8533 |
-0.1174 |
232 |
1 |
39.28 |
2010-01-18 |
| 137. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
35.60 |
1.0099 |
-0.3473 |
207 |
1 |
35.60 |
2009-01-10 |