| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
154.42 |
0.9899 |
0.2568 |
163 |
1 |
154.42 |
2009-04-25 |
| 2. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
148.79 |
1.0666 |
0.1388 |
297 |
1 |
148.79 |
2009-04-23 |
| 3. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
143.13 |
0.9697 |
0.1894 |
249 |
2 |
134.06 |
2009-01-27 |
| 4. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
141.70 |
1.0719 |
0.1030 |
360 |
1 |
141.70 |
2012-03-07 |
| 5. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
141.40 |
1.0714 |
0.0645 |
129 |
1 |
141.40 |
2009-04-22 |
| 6. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
141.18 |
0.9731 |
0.1574 |
129 |
1 |
141.18 |
2009-05-01 |
| 7. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
139.68 |
1.0486 |
0.0830 |
289 |
1 |
139.68 |
2009-04-22 |
| 8. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
138.25 |
1.0595 |
0.0622 |
379 |
1 |
138.25 |
2009-11-03 |
| 9. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
137.08 |
1.0567 |
0.0533 |
303 |
1 |
137.08 |
2010-06-07 |
| 10. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
136.33 |
1.0763 |
0.0686 |
367 |
1 |
136.33 |
2013-01-07 |
| 11. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
135.03 |
1.0668 |
0.0284 |
350 |
1 |
135.03 |
2009-04-22 |
| 12. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
134.94 |
0.9279 |
0.1706 |
317 |
1 |
134.94 |
2009-04-25 |
| 13. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
134.69 |
0.9754 |
0.1206 |
362 |
1 |
134.69 |
2009-03-02 |
| 14. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
134.62 |
1.0577 |
0.0280 |
247 |
1 |
134.62 |
2009-04-22 |
| 15. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
132.48 |
0.9281 |
0.1488 |
273 |
1 |
132.48 |
2009-04-17 |
| 16. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
131.47 |
1.0004 |
0.0569 |
212 |
2 |
125.11 |
2009-04-22 |
| 17. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
131.44 |
1.0487 |
0.0096 |
231 |
1 |
131.44 |
2009-04-22 |
| 18. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
131.17 |
0.9429 |
0.1194 |
287 |
1 |
131.17 |
2009-04-22 |
| 19. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
130.02 |
0.8353 |
0.2238 |
283 |
2 |
128.58 |
2009-05-01 |
| 20. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
129.97 |
0.9907 |
0.0590 |
211 |
1 |
129.97 |
2009-04-22 |
| 21. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
129.91 |
0.9633 |
0.0896 |
304 |
1 |
129.91 |
2009-04-25 |
| 22. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
129.78 |
0.9527 |
0.0969 |
251 |
1 |
129.78 |
2009-04-25 |
| 23. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
129.62 |
1.0444 |
-0.0027 |
197 |
1 |
129.62 |
2009-04-25 |
| 24. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
129.34 |
1.0197 |
0.0234 |
226 |
1 |
129.34 |
2010-06-15 |
| 25. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
129.28 |
0.9763 |
0.0688 |
289 |
1 |
129.28 |
2009-04-25 |
| 26. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
129.17 |
0.9376 |
0.1125 |
367 |
1 |
129.17 |
2009-05-01 |
| 27. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
129.05 |
1.0124 |
0.0289 |
204 |
2 |
127.65 |
2012-03-07 |
| 28. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
129.00 |
1.0419 |
0.0014 |
261 |
1 |
129.00 |
2009-04-23 |
| 29. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
128.99 |
1.0292 |
0.0126 |
262 |
1 |
128.99 |
2009-05-01 |
| 30. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
128.98 |
0.9653 |
0.0861 |
394 |
1 |
128.98 |
2009-04-23 |
| 31. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
128.96 |
0.9820 |
0.0611 |
274 |
1 |
128.96 |
2009-11-03 |
| 32. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
128.87 |
1.0138 |
0.0281 |
231 |
1 |
128.87 |
2013-01-07 |
| 33. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
128.87 |
0.9841 |
0.0620 |
334 |
1 |
128.87 |
2009-04-22 |
| 34. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
128.26 |
1.0613 |
-0.0190 |
456 |
2 |
119.67 |
2009-11-03 |
| 35. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
128.16 |
1.0088 |
0.0664 |
396 |
1 |
128.16 |
2011-12-01 |
| 36. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
127.91 |
1.0399 |
-0.0003 |
294 |
1 |
127.91 |
2009-04-22 |
| 37. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
127.63 |
0.9513 |
0.0847 |
354 |
1 |
127.63 |
2009-04-23 |
| 38. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
127.44 |
1.0417 |
-0.0137 |
253 |
1 |
127.44 |
2009-01-27 |
| 39. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
126.06 |
0.9866 |
0.0289 |
218 |
1 |
126.06 |
2010-06-15 |
| 40. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
126.01 |
0.9723 |
0.0502 |
364 |
1 |
126.01 |
2009-04-22 |
| 41. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
125.87 |
0.9064 |
0.1207 |
399 |
1 |
125.87 |
2009-04-23 |
| 42. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
125.63 |
0.9164 |
0.1041 |
305 |
1 |
125.63 |
2009-04-25 |
| 43. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
125.19 |
0.9768 |
0.0379 |
387 |
2 |
114.45 |
2009-04-23 |
| 44. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
125.15 |
1.0787 |
-0.0682 |
237 |
1 |
125.15 |
2010-06-15 |
| 45. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
124.46 |
0.9844 |
0.0265 |
293 |
1 |
124.46 |
2013-01-08 |
| 46. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
123.88 |
1.0885 |
-0.0522 |
341 |
1 |
123.88 |
2012-03-07 |
| 47. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
123.82 |
1.0099 |
-0.0119 |
207 |
2 |
121.32 |
2012-03-07 |
| 48. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
123.70 |
1.0516 |
-0.0521 |
281 |
1 |
123.70 |
2009-04-25 |
| 49. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
123.12 |
0.9786 |
0.0159 |
235 |
1 |
123.12 |
2009-03-02 |
| 50. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
123.01 |
0.9946 |
-0.0005 |
246 |
1 |
123.01 |
2009-04-22 |
| 51. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
122.68 |
0.9785 |
0.0162 |
335 |
1 |
122.68 |
2009-04-22 |
| 52. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
122.53 |
1.0004 |
0.0134 |
469 |
1 |
122.53 |
2013-01-07 |
| 53. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
122.53 |
0.9699 |
0.0198 |
269 |
1 |
122.53 |
2009-03-02 |
| 54. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
122.48 |
0.9805 |
0.0141 |
292 |
1 |
122.48 |
2009-03-02 |
| 55. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
122.46 |
1.0289 |
-0.0347 |
276 |
1 |
122.46 |
2009-11-03 |
| 56. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
122.40 |
1.0644 |
-0.0390 |
257 |
2 |
119.95 |
2013-01-07 |
| 57. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
122.08 |
0.9941 |
-0.0099 |
217 |
1 |
122.08 |
2009-01-27 |
| 58. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
121.98 |
0.9884 |
-0.0033 |
233 |
2 |
115.31 |
2009-04-22 |
| 59. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
121.94 |
1.0905 |
-0.0733 |
210 |
1 |
121.94 |
2013-01-07 |
| 60. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
121.70 |
1.1014 |
-0.0801 |
273 |
1 |
121.70 |
2012-03-07 |
| 61. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
121.44 |
1.0117 |
0.0146 |
297 |
1 |
121.44 |
2013-01-07 |
| 62. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
121.44 |
0.9309 |
0.0487 |
284 |
3 |
120.80 |
2012-03-07 |
| 63. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
120.28 |
1.0596 |
-0.0898 |
239 |
1 |
120.28 |
2009-03-02 |
| 64. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
120.24 |
1.0214 |
-0.0515 |
269 |
2 |
119.95 |
2011-12-01 |
| 65. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
120.24 |
1.0211 |
-0.0187 |
213 |
1 |
120.24 |
2012-03-07 |
| 66. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
120.21 |
1.0441 |
-0.0713 |
252 |
2 |
119.66 |
2009-04-22 |
| 67. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
120.13 |
0.9991 |
-0.0278 |
225 |
2 |
117.81 |
2009-11-03 |
| 68. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
119.76 |
1.0183 |
-0.0564 |
191 |
1 |
119.76 |
2009-04-23 |
| 69. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
119.53 |
1.0218 |
-0.0591 |
268 |
2 |
119.08 |
2009-02-09 |
| 70. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
118.86 |
1.0477 |
-0.0850 |
360 |
1 |
118.86 |
2009-04-23 |
| 71. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
118.74 |
0.8958 |
0.0681 |
322 |
1 |
118.74 |
2009-03-02 |
| 72. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
118.37 |
0.9084 |
0.0518 |
404 |
1 |
118.37 |
2013-01-08 |
| 73. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
118.34 |
0.9376 |
0.0538 |
360 |
1 |
118.34 |
2013-01-07 |
| 74. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
118.03 |
0.9293 |
0.0250 |
355 |
1 |
118.03 |
2013-01-08 |
| 75. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
118.01 |
1.0331 |
-0.0820 |
234 |
1 |
118.01 |
2010-06-15 |
| 76. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
117.93 |
1.0767 |
-0.1264 |
212 |
1 |
117.93 |
2009-04-22 |
| 77. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
117.87 |
0.9074 |
0.0513 |
396 |
1 |
117.87 |
2009-11-03 |
| 78. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
117.18 |
1.0788 |
-0.1379 |
171 |
1 |
117.18 |
2009-04-23 |
| 79. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
117.17 |
1.0368 |
-0.0894 |
276 |
1 |
117.17 |
2009-05-01 |
| 80. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
117.10 |
0.9464 |
0.0046 |
323 |
2 |
110.24 |
2009-04-22 |
| 81. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
116.78 |
0.8533 |
0.0911 |
232 |
1 |
116.78 |
2009-04-17 |
| 82. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
116.29 |
0.9846 |
-0.0465 |
281 |
1 |
116.29 |
2009-04-22 |
| 83. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
116.19 |
0.8956 |
0.0474 |
322 |
1 |
116.19 |
2012-03-07 |
| 84. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
116.18 |
1.0528 |
-0.1196 |
201 |
1 |
116.18 |
2009-11-03 |
| 85. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
115.63 |
0.9795 |
-0.0457 |
308 |
1 |
115.63 |
2009-01-27 |
| 86. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
114.58 |
0.8442 |
0.0852 |
265 |
1 |
114.58 |
2009-04-22 |
| 87. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
113.39 |
1.0396 |
-0.1313 |
149 |
1 |
113.39 |
2009-04-23 |
| 88. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
113.03 |
0.8722 |
0.0432 |
285 |
1 |
113.03 |
2009-05-01 |
| 89. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
112.49 |
0.9709 |
-0.0218 |
397 |
1 |
112.49 |
2010-06-15 |
| 90. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
111.88 |
0.9072 |
-0.0058 |
237 |
1 |
111.88 |
2009-04-23 |
| 91. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
111.75 |
0.9213 |
-0.0188 |
295 |
1 |
111.75 |
2009-04-22 |
| 92. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
111.15 |
1.0060 |
-0.1135 |
171 |
1 |
111.15 |
2009-04-22 |
| 93. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
110.40 |
0.9351 |
-0.0497 |
190 |
1 |
110.40 |
2009-04-22 |
| 94. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
110.38 |
1.0314 |
-0.1014 |
452 |
1 |
110.38 |
2012-03-07 |
| 95. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
108.40 |
0.9811 |
-0.1038 |
272 |
2 |
106.65 |
2009-04-25 |
| 96. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
108.03 |
0.8935 |
-0.0121 |
328 |
1 |
108.03 |
2009-04-22 |
| 97. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
106.36 |
0.9619 |
-0.0987 |
393 |
1 |
106.36 |
2009-04-23 |
| 98. |
But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that e... |
104.82 |
1.0676 |
-0.2211 |
213 |
1 |
104.82 |
2018-04-03 |
| 99. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
104.16 |
0.8770 |
-0.0340 |
300 |
1 |
104.16 |
2009-04-23 |
| 100. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
102.24 |
0.8947 |
-0.0655 |
366 |
1 |
102.24 |
2009-04-23 |
| 101. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
101.28 |
0.9532 |
-0.1382 |
258 |
1 |
101.28 |
2009-04-17 |
| 102. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
99.66 |
0.8595 |
-0.0546 |
242 |
2 |
97.86 |
2009-11-03 |
| 103. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
94.73 |
0.9916 |
-0.1862 |
282 |
1 |
94.73 |
2012-03-07 |
| 104. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
92.46 |
0.8981 |
-0.1493 |
393 |
1 |
92.46 |
2009-02-09 |
| 105. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
89.37 |
0.9087 |
-0.1791 |
393 |
1 |
89.37 |
2009-01-27 |
| 106. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
78.44 |
1.0168 |
-0.3861 |
271 |
1 |
78.44 |
2009-03-02 |