| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
75.33 |
1.0799 |
0.2190 |
243 |
1 |
75.33 |
2009-03-19 |
| 2. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
73.93 |
1.0596 |
0.2151 |
239 |
2 |
65.11 |
2011-12-05 |
| 3. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
72.66 |
1.0033 |
0.2495 |
189 |
1 |
72.66 |
2009-04-02 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
71.51 |
1.0797 |
0.1533 |
210 |
1 |
71.51 |
2009-03-18 |
| 5. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
70.95 |
1.0577 |
0.1657 |
247 |
1 |
70.95 |
2009-03-18 |
| 6. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
69.37 |
1.0441 |
0.1520 |
316 |
1 |
69.37 |
2009-09-10 |
| 7. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
69.23 |
1.0352 |
0.1585 |
341 |
1 |
69.23 |
2009-03-18 |
| 8. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
69.07 |
1.0787 |
0.1122 |
237 |
1 |
69.07 |
2009-03-20 |
| 9. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
68.60 |
0.8935 |
0.2893 |
328 |
1 |
68.60 |
2009-03-20 |
| 10. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
68.09 |
1.0297 |
0.1443 |
249 |
1 |
68.09 |
2009-03-20 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
67.98 |
1.0138 |
0.1584 |
231 |
3 |
65.99 |
2009-03-20 |
| 12. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
67.57 |
0.9893 |
0.1758 |
323 |
2 |
63.61 |
2009-03-18 |
| 13. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
67.31 |
1.0523 |
0.1083 |
256 |
2 |
64.79 |
2009-03-18 |
| 14. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
66.67 |
0.9886 |
0.1610 |
220 |
2 |
64.46 |
2009-03-18 |
| 15. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
66.64 |
0.9576 |
0.1914 |
212 |
2 |
66.15 |
2009-03-19 |
| 16. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
66.63 |
0.9910 |
0.1579 |
295 |
1 |
66.63 |
2009-04-02 |
| 17. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
66.50 |
1.0740 |
0.0726 |
264 |
2 |
63.64 |
2024-02-02 |
| 18. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
65.80 |
1.0477 |
0.0869 |
360 |
1 |
65.80 |
2009-09-10 |
| 19. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
65.48 |
0.9464 |
0.1826 |
323 |
2 |
62.59 |
2009-03-18 |
| 20. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
65.25 |
1.0529 |
0.0722 |
351 |
1 |
65.25 |
2009-03-21 |
| 21. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
65.24 |
0.9500 |
0.1749 |
362 |
1 |
65.24 |
2009-03-20 |
| 22. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
65.09 |
0.9754 |
0.1469 |
362 |
1 |
65.09 |
2009-03-18 |
| 23. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
65.06 |
1.0767 |
0.0451 |
212 |
1 |
65.06 |
2009-03-18 |
| 24. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
64.62 |
0.9074 |
0.2068 |
396 |
1 |
64.62 |
2009-09-10 |
| 25. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
64.55 |
1.0254 |
0.0876 |
217 |
1 |
64.55 |
2009-09-10 |
| 26. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
64.40 |
0.9946 |
0.1158 |
246 |
1 |
64.40 |
2009-03-17 |
| 27. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
63.94 |
0.9894 |
0.1131 |
323 |
2 |
61.94 |
2009-03-21 |
| 28. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
63.89 |
0.9005 |
0.2011 |
212 |
1 |
63.89 |
2009-03-17 |
| 29. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
63.82 |
0.9619 |
0.1385 |
393 |
1 |
63.82 |
2009-03-18 |
| 30. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
63.67 |
1.0296 |
0.0682 |
437 |
3 |
58.87 |
2009-03-20 |
| 31. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
63.61 |
0.9798 |
0.1170 |
199 |
1 |
63.61 |
2009-03-20 |
| 32. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
63.29 |
1.0189 |
0.0724 |
337 |
1 |
63.29 |
2009-03-20 |
| 33. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
63.26 |
1.0419 |
0.0489 |
261 |
1 |
63.26 |
2009-03-20 |
| 34. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
63.25 |
1.0053 |
0.0853 |
232 |
1 |
63.25 |
2009-03-18 |
| 35. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
63.25 |
1.0417 |
0.0489 |
253 |
1 |
63.25 |
2009-03-20 |
| 36. |
If you could read my mind love, what a tale my thoughts woul... |
62.75 |
1.0724 |
0.0096 |
287 |
1 |
62.75 |
2024-02-02 |
| 37. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
62.36 |
1.0426 |
0.0326 |
323 |
1 |
62.36 |
2009-03-19 |
| 38. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
62.01 |
0.9904 |
0.0788 |
203 |
1 |
62.01 |
2011-12-05 |
| 39. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
61.86 |
0.8947 |
0.1719 |
366 |
1 |
61.86 |
2011-12-05 |
| 40. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
61.42 |
1.0197 |
0.0393 |
226 |
2 |
59.87 |
2011-12-05 |
| 41. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
61.42 |
0.8941 |
0.1649 |
216 |
2 |
59.90 |
2009-03-20 |
| 42. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
61.40 |
0.9776 |
0.0811 |
308 |
1 |
61.40 |
2009-03-20 |
| 43. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
61.36 |
1.0444 |
0.0136 |
197 |
1 |
61.36 |
2009-03-18 |
| 44. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
61.33 |
1.0257 |
0.0318 |
401 |
2 |
57.68 |
2009-03-18 |
| 45. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
61.29 |
0.9279 |
0.1289 |
317 |
3 |
58.49 |
2009-09-10 |
| 46. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
61.13 |
0.9540 |
0.1000 |
285 |
1 |
61.13 |
2009-03-18 |
| 47. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
60.77 |
0.9991 |
0.0487 |
225 |
1 |
60.77 |
2009-03-19 |
| 48. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
60.70 |
1.0389 |
0.0077 |
340 |
1 |
60.70 |
2009-03-18 |
| 49. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
60.55 |
1.0528 |
-0.0088 |
201 |
2 |
57.14 |
2009-03-18 |
| 50. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
60.47 |
0.9289 |
0.1138 |
204 |
1 |
60.47 |
2009-03-18 |
| 51. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
60.29 |
0.9049 |
0.1347 |
351 |
2 |
57.24 |
2009-03-19 |
| 52. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
59.87 |
1.0331 |
-0.0008 |
234 |
1 |
59.87 |
2009-03-17 |
| 53. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
59.25 |
1.0396 |
-0.0180 |
149 |
1 |
59.25 |
2009-03-18 |
| 54. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
59.25 |
1.0462 |
-0.0246 |
184 |
1 |
59.25 |
2009-03-20 |
| 55. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
59.19 |
0.9513 |
0.0693 |
354 |
2 |
58.36 |
2009-03-17 |
| 56. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
59.19 |
1.0666 |
-0.0460 |
297 |
2 |
55.54 |
2009-03-17 |
| 57. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
59.14 |
1.0025 |
0.0172 |
256 |
1 |
59.14 |
2009-03-17 |
| 58. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
59.12 |
0.9411 |
0.0783 |
318 |
1 |
59.12 |
2011-12-05 |
| 59. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
58.94 |
0.9884 |
0.0279 |
233 |
2 |
54.88 |
2009-03-17 |
| 60. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
58.90 |
0.9772 |
0.0384 |
217 |
1 |
58.90 |
2009-03-20 |
| 61. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
58.76 |
0.9994 |
0.0138 |
269 |
1 |
58.76 |
2011-12-05 |
| 62. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
58.66 |
1.0885 |
-0.0771 |
315 |
1 |
58.66 |
2009-03-17 |
| 63. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
58.60 |
0.9785 |
0.0319 |
335 |
2 |
54.85 |
2009-03-19 |
| 64. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
58.32 |
1.0521 |
-0.0465 |
171 |
1 |
58.32 |
2009-03-19 |
| 65. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
58.27 |
0.9986 |
0.0061 |
283 |
1 |
58.27 |
2009-03-19 |
| 66. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
58.13 |
0.9795 |
0.0228 |
308 |
1 |
58.13 |
2009-03-18 |
| 67. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
57.88 |
0.9045 |
0.0935 |
235 |
3 |
56.56 |
2009-03-20 |
| 68. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
57.88 |
1.0165 |
-0.0185 |
392 |
1 |
57.88 |
2009-03-20 |
| 69. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
57.82 |
0.8811 |
0.1159 |
239 |
1 |
57.82 |
2009-03-18 |
| 70. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
57.69 |
0.9857 |
0.0090 |
293 |
1 |
57.69 |
2009-03-19 |
| 71. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
57.54 |
1.0515 |
-0.0594 |
250 |
2 |
55.79 |
2011-12-05 |
| 72. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
57.22 |
1.0349 |
-0.0483 |
234 |
1 |
57.22 |
2009-03-17 |
| 73. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
57.10 |
0.9635 |
0.0211 |
389 |
1 |
57.10 |
2009-03-20 |
| 74. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
56.98 |
1.0214 |
-0.0389 |
166 |
1 |
56.98 |
2009-03-18 |
| 75. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
56.88 |
0.9148 |
0.0660 |
317 |
1 |
56.88 |
2009-03-20 |
| 76. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
56.85 |
0.9965 |
-0.0163 |
168 |
1 |
56.85 |
2009-03-21 |
| 77. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
56.60 |
0.9734 |
0.0025 |
289 |
2 |
53.14 |
2009-03-17 |
| 78. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
56.51 |
1.0361 |
-0.0617 |
269 |
1 |
56.51 |
2009-03-18 |
| 79. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
56.45 |
1.0711 |
-0.0978 |
213 |
2 |
52.72 |
2009-03-18 |
| 80. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
56.35 |
0.9936 |
-0.0220 |
311 |
2 |
55.71 |
2011-12-05 |
| 81. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
56.13 |
1.0340 |
-0.0662 |
406 |
1 |
56.13 |
2009-03-18 |
| 82. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
56.12 |
0.9636 |
0.0041 |
254 |
1 |
56.12 |
2009-03-17 |
| 83. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
55.81 |
1.0619 |
-0.0996 |
354 |
1 |
55.81 |
2009-03-19 |
| 84. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
55.74 |
0.8595 |
0.1016 |
242 |
3 |
48.17 |
2009-03-20 |
| 85. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
55.73 |
1.0218 |
-0.0609 |
268 |
1 |
55.73 |
2009-03-18 |
| 86. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
54.64 |
0.9763 |
-0.0342 |
289 |
2 |
53.47 |
2011-12-05 |
| 87. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
54.51 |
1.0352 |
-0.0953 |
341 |
1 |
54.51 |
2009-03-18 |
| 88. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
54.44 |
0.8956 |
0.0431 |
322 |
1 |
54.44 |
2009-03-18 |
| 89. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
53.83 |
0.9233 |
0.0049 |
168 |
2 |
53.26 |
2009-03-18 |
| 90. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
53.67 |
0.9429 |
-0.0175 |
287 |
1 |
53.67 |
2009-03-19 |
| 91. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
53.56 |
0.9786 |
-0.0551 |
193 |
1 |
53.56 |
2009-03-17 |
| 92. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
53.52 |
1.0004 |
-0.0776 |
212 |
1 |
53.52 |
2009-03-18 |
| 93. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
53.36 |
0.9213 |
-0.0012 |
295 |
1 |
53.36 |
2009-03-18 |
| 94. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
53.27 |
0.9309 |
-0.0124 |
284 |
2 |
52.28 |
2009-03-20 |
| 95. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
52.54 |
0.9567 |
-0.0508 |
273 |
1 |
52.54 |
2009-03-19 |
| 96. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
52.49 |
0.8826 |
0.0225 |
296 |
2 |
47.38 |
2011-12-05 |
| 97. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
52.30 |
0.9072 |
-0.0054 |
237 |
1 |
52.30 |
2009-03-17 |
| 98. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
52.11 |
0.9663 |
-0.0678 |
330 |
1 |
52.11 |
2011-12-05 |
| 99. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
51.86 |
0.9376 |
-0.0434 |
367 |
2 |
50.48 |
2009-03-17 |
| 100. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
51.76 |
0.9907 |
-0.0982 |
211 |
1 |
51.76 |
2009-03-18 |
| 101. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
51.73 |
0.9202 |
-0.0282 |
254 |
2 |
51.45 |
2009-03-18 |
| 102. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
51.61 |
0.9852 |
-0.0953 |
264 |
1 |
51.61 |
2009-03-19 |
| 103. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
51.58 |
0.9612 |
-0.0718 |
256 |
1 |
51.58 |
2009-03-18 |
| 104. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
51.27 |
0.9293 |
-0.0453 |
355 |
1 |
51.27 |
2009-03-19 |
| 105. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
51.24 |
0.8961 |
-0.0126 |
189 |
1 |
51.24 |
2009-03-20 |
| 106. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
50.93 |
0.9724 |
-0.0942 |
237 |
1 |
50.93 |
2009-03-17 |
| 107. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
50.79 |
0.9281 |
-0.0523 |
273 |
1 |
50.79 |
2009-03-17 |
| 108. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
50.34 |
0.8878 |
-0.0198 |
346 |
1 |
50.34 |
2009-03-18 |
| 109. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
50.25 |
0.9339 |
-0.0675 |
310 |
1 |
50.25 |
2009-03-17 |
| 110. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
50.21 |
1.0337 |
-0.1679 |
214 |
1 |
50.21 |
2009-03-17 |
| 111. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
48.53 |
0.8602 |
-0.0234 |
206 |
2 |
48.45 |
2009-03-19 |
| 112. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
48.52 |
1.0201 |
-0.1835 |
172 |
1 |
48.52 |
2009-03-19 |
| 113. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
48.50 |
0.9330 |
-0.0967 |
360 |
1 |
48.50 |
2009-03-18 |
| 114. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
48.13 |
0.8382 |
-0.0083 |
268 |
1 |
48.13 |
2009-03-19 |
| 115. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
46.38 |
0.9365 |
-0.1368 |
248 |
1 |
46.38 |
2009-03-17 |
| 116. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
45.63 |
0.9681 |
-0.1813 |
378 |
1 |
45.63 |
2009-03-17 |
| 117. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
43.72 |
0.9899 |
-0.2361 |
163 |
1 |
43.72 |
2009-03-18 |
| 118. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
41.67 |
0.8996 |
-0.1811 |
192 |
1 |
41.67 |
2009-03-17 |