| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
161.46 |
1.0419 |
0.1725 |
261 |
1 |
161.46 |
2009-09-29 |
| 2. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
153.52 |
0.9691 |
0.1844 |
223 |
1 |
153.52 |
2009-09-23 |
| 3. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
151.83 |
1.0787 |
0.0612 |
237 |
2 |
150.25 |
2009-03-12 |
| 4. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
151.31 |
1.0577 |
0.0760 |
247 |
1 |
151.31 |
2009-03-14 |
| 5. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
150.32 |
1.0334 |
0.0898 |
131 |
1 |
150.32 |
2009-06-22 |
| 6. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
149.34 |
0.9936 |
0.1284 |
311 |
1 |
149.34 |
2009-03-11 |
| 7. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
147.67 |
1.0711 |
0.0334 |
213 |
1 |
147.67 |
2009-09-03 |
| 8. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
144.93 |
1.0565 |
0.0296 |
247 |
1 |
144.93 |
2009-03-12 |
| 9. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
144.80 |
1.0214 |
0.0647 |
269 |
2 |
140.37 |
2010-03-16 |
| 10. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
143.77 |
0.8793 |
0.2022 |
157 |
1 |
143.77 |
2009-09-03 |
| 11. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
142.89 |
1.0352 |
0.0411 |
341 |
3 |
137.34 |
2009-03-11 |
| 12. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
142.17 |
1.0796 |
-0.0166 |
129 |
1 |
142.17 |
2009-09-06 |
| 13. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
141.60 |
1.0203 |
0.0465 |
261 |
1 |
141.60 |
2009-03-11 |
| 14. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
141.51 |
1.0004 |
0.0562 |
212 |
1 |
141.51 |
2009-04-04 |
| 15. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
140.91 |
1.0462 |
0.0059 |
184 |
1 |
140.91 |
2009-03-12 |
| 16. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
140.66 |
1.1018 |
-0.0519 |
220 |
1 |
140.66 |
2009-03-11 |
| 17. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
140.10 |
1.0534 |
0.0008 |
357 |
1 |
140.10 |
2009-04-26 |
| 18. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
139.88 |
1.0251 |
0.0231 |
261 |
1 |
139.88 |
2009-03-11 |
| 19. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
138.98 |
1.0487 |
-0.0102 |
231 |
1 |
138.98 |
2009-03-10 |
| 20. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
138.89 |
0.9553 |
0.0947 |
430 |
1 |
138.89 |
2009-09-23 |
| 21. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
138.32 |
1.0696 |
-0.0346 |
226 |
1 |
138.32 |
2009-03-10 |
| 22. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
138.01 |
0.9557 |
0.0867 |
331 |
2 |
129.48 |
2009-03-11 |
| 23. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
137.49 |
0.9289 |
0.1010 |
204 |
3 |
124.59 |
2014-06-29 |
| 24. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
136.88 |
0.9168 |
0.1121 |
240 |
2 |
126.36 |
2009-05-01 |
| 25. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
136.61 |
1.0523 |
-0.0311 |
256 |
2 |
134.69 |
2009-03-11 |
| 26. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
136.28 |
1.0714 |
-0.0573 |
129 |
1 |
136.28 |
2009-03-10 |
| 27. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
135.80 |
0.9676 |
0.0600 |
442 |
1 |
135.80 |
2009-03-10 |
| 28. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
135.50 |
0.9127 |
0.1021 |
252 |
1 |
135.50 |
2009-09-06 |
| 29. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
135.39 |
1.0529 |
-0.0368 |
351 |
1 |
135.39 |
2009-03-11 |
| 30. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
134.95 |
1.0417 |
-0.0313 |
253 |
1 |
134.95 |
2009-03-10 |
| 31. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
134.90 |
0.9684 |
0.0468 |
388 |
2 |
131.33 |
2009-03-10 |
| 32. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
134.82 |
1.0561 |
-0.0182 |
430 |
1 |
134.82 |
2009-09-06 |
| 33. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
134.28 |
1.0214 |
-0.0190 |
166 |
1 |
134.28 |
2009-03-14 |
| 34. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
133.71 |
1.0168 |
-0.0119 |
271 |
1 |
133.71 |
2009-03-14 |
| 35. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
133.01 |
1.0477 |
-0.0472 |
360 |
1 |
133.01 |
2009-03-11 |
| 36. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
132.99 |
1.0545 |
-0.0158 |
416 |
1 |
132.99 |
2009-09-06 |
| 37. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
132.96 |
1.0124 |
-0.0170 |
204 |
1 |
132.96 |
2009-03-10 |
| 38. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
132.90 |
1.0034 |
-0.0076 |
302 |
1 |
132.90 |
2009-03-11 |
| 39. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
132.82 |
1.0595 |
-0.0603 |
379 |
2 |
125.76 |
2009-09-29 |
| 40. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
132.63 |
0.9941 |
-0.0013 |
217 |
2 |
122.42 |
2009-09-06 |
| 41. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
132.11 |
1.0668 |
-0.0730 |
350 |
1 |
132.11 |
2009-03-12 |
| 42. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
131.88 |
0.9916 |
0.0405 |
282 |
1 |
131.88 |
2010-03-16 |
| 43. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
131.86 |
0.9756 |
0.0125 |
229 |
1 |
131.86 |
2009-03-10 |
| 44. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
131.53 |
1.0109 |
-0.0232 |
276 |
1 |
131.53 |
2009-03-10 |
| 45. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
131.29 |
0.9899 |
-0.0095 |
163 |
2 |
130.90 |
2009-09-23 |
| 46. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
130.72 |
1.0528 |
-0.0771 |
201 |
1 |
130.72 |
2009-03-11 |
| 47. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
129.78 |
0.9365 |
0.0385 |
248 |
2 |
126.61 |
2009-03-11 |
| 48. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
129.73 |
0.9786 |
-0.0059 |
235 |
2 |
127.93 |
2009-03-10 |
| 49. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
129.44 |
1.0062 |
-0.0352 |
288 |
1 |
129.44 |
2009-03-10 |
| 50. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
128.91 |
1.0368 |
-0.0689 |
276 |
1 |
128.91 |
2009-03-11 |
| 51. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
128.56 |
1.0029 |
-0.0450 |
209 |
1 |
128.56 |
2009-03-10 |
| 52. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
128.21 |
0.8826 |
0.0804 |
296 |
1 |
128.21 |
2009-03-11 |
| 53. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
127.91 |
1.0829 |
-0.1220 |
288 |
1 |
127.91 |
2009-03-10 |
| 54. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
127.89 |
0.9699 |
-0.0113 |
269 |
1 |
127.89 |
2009-06-15 |
| 55. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
127.85 |
0.9907 |
-0.0334 |
211 |
1 |
127.85 |
2009-03-10 |
| 56. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
126.65 |
0.9857 |
-0.0369 |
293 |
1 |
126.65 |
2009-03-11 |
| 57. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
126.24 |
0.9619 |
-0.0100 |
393 |
2 |
120.26 |
2009-06-22 |
| 58. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
126.16 |
0.9202 |
0.0252 |
254 |
3 |
123.88 |
2009-03-14 |
| 59. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
125.99 |
1.0213 |
-0.0797 |
240 |
1 |
125.99 |
2009-03-11 |
| 60. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
125.39 |
0.9776 |
-0.0372 |
308 |
1 |
125.39 |
2009-03-10 |
| 61. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
125.24 |
1.0521 |
-0.1178 |
171 |
1 |
125.24 |
2009-03-11 |
| 62. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
125.14 |
0.9946 |
-0.0565 |
246 |
1 |
125.14 |
2009-03-10 |
| 63. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
124.97 |
1.0025 |
-0.0646 |
336 |
1 |
124.97 |
2009-03-12 |
| 64. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
124.82 |
0.9910 |
-0.0532 |
295 |
1 |
124.82 |
2009-03-10 |
| 65. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
124.73 |
1.0352 |
-0.0974 |
341 |
1 |
124.73 |
2009-03-12 |
| 66. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
123.85 |
0.9649 |
-0.0375 |
193 |
1 |
123.85 |
2009-03-10 |
| 67. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
123.05 |
1.0390 |
-0.1204 |
205 |
1 |
123.05 |
2009-03-10 |
| 68. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
122.88 |
0.8753 |
0.0550 |
427 |
1 |
122.88 |
2009-04-26 |
| 69. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
121.65 |
0.8961 |
0.0123 |
189 |
2 |
112.11 |
2009-09-06 |
| 70. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
121.47 |
0.9464 |
-0.0309 |
323 |
1 |
121.47 |
2009-09-06 |
| 71. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
120.94 |
0.9233 |
-0.0252 |
168 |
1 |
120.94 |
2009-04-26 |
| 72. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
120.27 |
0.9567 |
-0.0556 |
273 |
1 |
120.27 |
2009-03-11 |
| 73. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
119.64 |
0.9966 |
-0.1007 |
259 |
1 |
119.64 |
2009-03-10 |
| 74. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
119.11 |
0.9991 |
-0.1061 |
225 |
1 |
119.11 |
2009-03-11 |
| 75. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
118.45 |
0.9593 |
-0.0671 |
398 |
1 |
118.45 |
2009-03-10 |
| 76. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
118.00 |
0.8890 |
-0.0086 |
199 |
1 |
118.00 |
2009-03-10 |
| 77. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
117.98 |
1.0165 |
-0.1287 |
392 |
1 |
117.98 |
2009-03-10 |
| 78. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
113.66 |
0.9376 |
-0.0811 |
367 |
1 |
113.66 |
2009-03-10 |
| 79. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
112.90 |
0.9088 |
-0.0583 |
348 |
1 |
112.90 |
2009-03-10 |
| 80. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
112.32 |
0.8981 |
-0.0526 |
393 |
1 |
112.32 |
2009-03-10 |
| 81. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
110.35 |
0.9844 |
-0.1537 |
293 |
1 |
110.35 |
2009-03-11 |
| 82. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
109.01 |
0.9894 |
-0.1693 |
323 |
1 |
109.01 |
2009-03-10 |
| 83. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
104.03 |
0.7876 |
-0.0071 |
316 |
1 |
104.03 |
2009-03-11 |