| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
68.09 |
1.0711 |
0.1726 |
213 |
1 |
68.09 |
2009-11-08 |
| 2. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
63.71 |
1.0120 |
0.1548 |
290 |
1 |
63.71 |
2009-11-18 |
| 3. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
62.80 |
1.0419 |
0.1089 |
261 |
1 |
62.80 |
2009-11-19 |
| 4. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
62.16 |
1.0263 |
0.1118 |
267 |
1 |
62.16 |
2009-11-17 |
| 5. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
61.41 |
0.9351 |
0.1844 |
190 |
1 |
61.41 |
2009-11-08 |
| 6. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
60.04 |
1.0062 |
0.0934 |
288 |
1 |
60.04 |
2009-11-18 |
| 7. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
59.50 |
1.0352 |
0.0570 |
341 |
1 |
59.50 |
2009-11-08 |
| 8. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
59.48 |
1.0099 |
0.0765 |
207 |
3 |
55.52 |
2009-11-19 |
| 9. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
59.39 |
0.9899 |
0.0930 |
163 |
1 |
59.39 |
2009-11-17 |
| 10. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
59.31 |
0.9464 |
0.1448 |
323 |
2 |
55.94 |
2009-11-18 |
| 11. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
59.19 |
0.9340 |
0.1497 |
296 |
1 |
59.19 |
2009-11-08 |
| 12. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
59.15 |
1.0516 |
0.0311 |
281 |
2 |
56.81 |
2009-11-08 |
| 13. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
58.77 |
1.0799 |
-0.0075 |
243 |
1 |
58.77 |
2009-11-18 |
| 14. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
58.74 |
0.9852 |
0.0906 |
264 |
2 |
52.84 |
2009-11-08 |
| 15. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
58.62 |
0.9857 |
0.0866 |
293 |
2 |
55.25 |
2009-11-18 |
| 16. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
58.60 |
0.9646 |
0.1075 |
264 |
1 |
58.60 |
2009-11-08 |
| 17. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
58.54 |
0.9907 |
0.0795 |
211 |
1 |
58.54 |
2009-11-18 |
| 18. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
58.44 |
1.0907 |
-0.0180 |
303 |
3 |
56.95 |
2009-11-19 |
| 19. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
58.24 |
0.8811 |
0.1898 |
239 |
1 |
58.24 |
2009-11-19 |
| 20. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
57.24 |
1.0131 |
0.0308 |
225 |
2 |
54.48 |
2009-11-16 |
| 21. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
57.05 |
1.0668 |
-0.0201 |
350 |
1 |
57.05 |
2009-11-08 |
| 22. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
56.97 |
1.0261 |
0.0147 |
273 |
2 |
55.68 |
2009-11-08 |
| 23. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
56.96 |
1.0023 |
0.0384 |
211 |
1 |
56.96 |
2009-11-08 |
| 24. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
56.91 |
1.0515 |
-0.0118 |
250 |
1 |
56.91 |
2009-11-05 |
| 25. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
56.71 |
0.9724 |
0.0691 |
237 |
1 |
56.71 |
2009-11-08 |
| 26. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
56.64 |
0.9768 |
0.0624 |
387 |
1 |
56.64 |
2009-11-18 |
| 27. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
56.63 |
1.0214 |
0.0096 |
166 |
1 |
56.63 |
2009-11-18 |
| 28. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
56.56 |
0.9532 |
0.0807 |
258 |
1 |
56.56 |
2009-11-18 |
| 29. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
56.37 |
0.9786 |
0.0478 |
193 |
1 |
56.37 |
2009-11-08 |
| 30. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
56.28 |
1.0379 |
0.0270 |
245 |
1 |
56.28 |
2009-11-18 |
| 31. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
55.92 |
0.9893 |
0.0341 |
323 |
1 |
55.92 |
2009-11-05 |
| 32. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
55.84 |
0.9964 |
0.0255 |
203 |
1 |
55.84 |
2009-11-17 |
| 33. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
55.81 |
0.9633 |
0.0602 |
304 |
1 |
55.81 |
2009-11-08 |
| 34. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.69 |
0.9635 |
0.0609 |
389 |
1 |
55.69 |
2009-11-18 |
| 35. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
55.64 |
1.0463 |
-0.0328 |
182 |
1 |
55.64 |
2009-11-05 |
| 36. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
55.48 |
0.9612 |
0.0539 |
256 |
1 |
55.48 |
2009-11-18 |
| 37. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
55.48 |
1.0426 |
-0.0282 |
323 |
1 |
55.48 |
2009-11-17 |
| 38. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
55.41 |
1.0523 |
-0.0428 |
256 |
1 |
55.41 |
2009-11-08 |
| 39. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
55.30 |
1.0389 |
-0.0247 |
340 |
2 |
53.69 |
2009-11-18 |
| 40. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
55.20 |
0.9583 |
0.0954 |
341 |
2 |
50.35 |
2009-11-17 |
| 41. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
55.13 |
1.0025 |
0.0061 |
256 |
1 |
55.13 |
2009-11-18 |
| 42. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
55.10 |
1.0029 |
-0.0012 |
209 |
1 |
55.10 |
2009-11-17 |
| 43. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
55.09 |
1.0214 |
-0.0152 |
269 |
1 |
55.09 |
2009-11-08 |
| 44. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
54.90 |
0.9785 |
0.0291 |
335 |
1 |
54.90 |
2009-11-05 |
| 45. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
54.82 |
1.1114 |
-0.1112 |
247 |
2 |
52.99 |
2009-11-18 |
| 46. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
54.77 |
1.0203 |
-0.0149 |
261 |
1 |
54.77 |
2009-11-08 |
| 47. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
54.72 |
0.9798 |
0.0156 |
199 |
1 |
54.72 |
2009-11-08 |
| 48. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
54.63 |
0.9514 |
0.0483 |
237 |
1 |
54.63 |
2009-11-08 |
| 49. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
54.61 |
0.9653 |
0.0420 |
394 |
1 |
54.61 |
2009-11-05 |
| 50. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
54.60 |
1.0320 |
0.0041 |
293 |
1 |
54.60 |
2009-11-08 |
| 51. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
54.48 |
0.9263 |
0.0738 |
188 |
1 |
54.48 |
2009-11-08 |
| 52. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
54.26 |
0.9513 |
0.0450 |
354 |
2 |
51.79 |
2009-11-16 |
| 53. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
54.14 |
0.9910 |
0.0012 |
295 |
1 |
54.14 |
2009-11-08 |
| 54. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
54.06 |
0.9125 |
0.0781 |
308 |
2 |
49.66 |
2009-11-18 |
| 55. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
54.05 |
1.0477 |
-0.0567 |
360 |
1 |
54.05 |
2009-11-18 |
| 56. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
53.88 |
0.9811 |
0.0071 |
272 |
1 |
53.88 |
2009-11-08 |
| 57. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
53.88 |
0.9729 |
0.0128 |
255 |
1 |
53.88 |
2009-11-08 |
| 58. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
53.82 |
0.9795 |
0.0049 |
308 |
1 |
53.82 |
2009-11-17 |
| 59. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
53.58 |
0.9553 |
0.0318 |
430 |
1 |
53.58 |
2009-11-08 |
| 60. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
53.51 |
0.9871 |
0.0277 |
209 |
1 |
53.51 |
2009-11-05 |
| 61. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
53.43 |
0.9619 |
0.0205 |
393 |
1 |
53.43 |
2009-11-08 |
| 62. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
53.39 |
1.0619 |
-0.0819 |
354 |
1 |
53.39 |
2009-11-18 |
| 63. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
53.39 |
0.9894 |
-0.0086 |
323 |
1 |
53.39 |
2009-11-18 |
| 64. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
52.97 |
0.9430 |
0.0183 |
211 |
1 |
52.97 |
2009-11-05 |
| 65. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
52.96 |
0.9281 |
0.0454 |
273 |
1 |
52.96 |
2009-11-18 |
| 66. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
52.89 |
0.9672 |
0.0064 |
396 |
1 |
52.89 |
2009-11-08 |
| 67. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
52.50 |
1.0314 |
-0.0323 |
452 |
1 |
52.50 |
2009-11-08 |
| 68. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
52.33 |
0.9684 |
-0.0089 |
388 |
1 |
52.33 |
2009-11-16 |
| 69. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
52.22 |
0.9776 |
-0.0227 |
308 |
2 |
51.54 |
2009-11-19 |
| 70. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
52.19 |
1.0201 |
-0.0655 |
303 |
1 |
52.19 |
2009-11-08 |
| 71. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
52.16 |
0.8770 |
0.0798 |
300 |
2 |
48.50 |
2009-11-08 |
| 72. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
52.09 |
0.9148 |
0.0389 |
317 |
1 |
52.09 |
2009-11-08 |
| 73. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
52.05 |
0.9946 |
-0.0432 |
246 |
1 |
52.05 |
2009-11-18 |
| 74. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
51.97 |
1.0154 |
-0.0155 |
351 |
1 |
51.97 |
2009-11-19 |
| 75. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
51.96 |
0.9697 |
-0.0196 |
249 |
1 |
51.96 |
2009-11-08 |
| 76. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
51.36 |
1.0297 |
-0.0921 |
249 |
2 |
49.88 |
2009-11-18 |
| 77. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
51.19 |
1.0528 |
-0.1222 |
201 |
1 |
51.19 |
2009-11-16 |
| 78. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
50.78 |
0.9780 |
-0.0490 |
337 |
1 |
50.78 |
2009-11-18 |
| 79. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
50.77 |
1.0429 |
-0.1164 |
259 |
1 |
50.77 |
2009-11-16 |
| 80. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
50.48 |
1.0034 |
-0.0824 |
302 |
1 |
50.48 |
2009-11-08 |
| 81. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
50.46 |
1.0696 |
-0.1510 |
226 |
1 |
50.46 |
2009-11-18 |
| 82. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
50.45 |
0.8890 |
0.0293 |
199 |
1 |
50.45 |
2009-11-05 |
| 83. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
50.44 |
1.0441 |
-0.1209 |
252 |
1 |
50.44 |
2009-11-16 |
| 84. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
50.12 |
1.0125 |
-0.0990 |
224 |
1 |
50.12 |
2009-11-18 |
| 85. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
49.89 |
0.9709 |
-0.0183 |
397 |
1 |
49.89 |
2009-11-08 |
| 86. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
49.67 |
0.9567 |
-0.0494 |
273 |
2 |
47.98 |
2009-11-18 |
| 87. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
49.63 |
0.9593 |
-0.0479 |
398 |
1 |
49.63 |
2009-11-08 |
| 88. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
49.39 |
1.0254 |
-0.0823 |
217 |
1 |
49.39 |
2009-11-17 |
| 89. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
49.24 |
0.9234 |
-0.0185 |
346 |
2 |
48.42 |
2009-11-08 |
| 90. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
49.20 |
0.8919 |
0.0052 |
205 |
1 |
49.20 |
2009-11-18 |
| 91. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
49.14 |
0.9048 |
-0.0025 |
271 |
1 |
49.14 |
2009-11-17 |
| 92. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
49.06 |
0.9570 |
-0.0591 |
287 |
1 |
49.06 |
2009-11-08 |
| 93. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
49.05 |
0.9212 |
-0.0219 |
323 |
1 |
49.05 |
2009-11-18 |
| 94. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
49.05 |
0.9966 |
-0.1012 |
259 |
1 |
49.05 |
2009-11-05 |
| 95. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
49.01 |
0.8553 |
0.0349 |
174 |
1 |
49.01 |
2009-11-08 |
| 96. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
48.90 |
0.9710 |
-0.0843 |
173 |
1 |
48.90 |
2009-11-08 |
| 97. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
48.07 |
0.9675 |
-0.0802 |
383 |
1 |
48.07 |
2009-11-08 |
| 98. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
48.01 |
0.9691 |
-0.0929 |
223 |
1 |
48.01 |
2009-11-08 |
| 99. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
48.00 |
0.9266 |
-0.0483 |
278 |
1 |
48.00 |
2009-11-08 |
| 100. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
46.92 |
1.0391 |
-0.1765 |
358 |
1 |
46.92 |
2009-11-16 |
| 101. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
46.88 |
0.8961 |
-0.0437 |
189 |
1 |
46.88 |
2009-11-08 |
| 102. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
46.68 |
0.8916 |
-0.0392 |
216 |
1 |
46.68 |
2009-11-08 |
| 103. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
46.58 |
0.9731 |
-0.1354 |
129 |
1 |
46.58 |
2009-11-08 |
| 104. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
45.81 |
0.9239 |
-0.0813 |
193 |
1 |
45.81 |
2009-11-08 |
| 105. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
41.48 |
0.8722 |
-0.1136 |
285 |
1 |
41.48 |
2009-11-08 |