| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
54.14 |
0.9019 |
0.9976 |
204 |
1 |
54.14 |
2009-07-16 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
41.82 |
1.0711 |
0.3837 |
213 |
1 |
41.82 |
2009-10-07 |
| 3. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
41.55 |
1.1114 |
0.3363 |
247 |
1 |
41.55 |
2009-10-07 |
| 4. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.61 |
0.9072 |
0.5082 |
237 |
1 |
40.61 |
2009-07-16 |
| 5. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
35.84 |
1.1016 |
0.1475 |
233 |
1 |
35.84 |
2010-01-02 |
| 6. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
35.79 |
0.9649 |
0.2819 |
193 |
1 |
35.79 |
2009-10-07 |
| 7. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
35.33 |
0.9164 |
0.3194 |
121 |
3 |
33.47 |
2010-01-03 |
| 8. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
34.85 |
0.9711 |
0.2420 |
176 |
2 |
33.26 |
2010-01-09 |
| 9. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
33.93 |
1.0596 |
0.1202 |
239 |
2 |
27.30 |
2010-01-01 |
| 10. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
33.40 |
0.9907 |
0.1713 |
211 |
1 |
33.40 |
2009-12-29 |
| 11. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
33.01 |
1.0498 |
0.0950 |
180 |
2 |
29.68 |
2010-01-09 |
| 12. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
32.99 |
1.0023 |
0.1446 |
211 |
1 |
32.99 |
2010-01-03 |
| 13. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
32.54 |
0.8971 |
0.2412 |
266 |
1 |
32.54 |
2010-01-23 |
| 14. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
32.48 |
1.0417 |
0.0866 |
253 |
1 |
32.48 |
2010-01-02 |
| 15. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
32.40 |
0.9884 |
0.1394 |
233 |
2 |
29.03 |
2009-12-29 |
| 16. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
32.29 |
1.0214 |
0.1015 |
269 |
2 |
29.53 |
2010-01-01 |
| 17. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
32.17 |
0.9289 |
0.1889 |
204 |
2 |
29.78 |
2010-01-09 |
| 18. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
31.95 |
0.8890 |
0.2197 |
199 |
1 |
31.95 |
2009-07-16 |
| 19. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
31.95 |
1.0201 |
0.0928 |
303 |
2 |
29.81 |
2009-12-20 |
| 20. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
31.91 |
0.9171 |
0.1944 |
165 |
3 |
28.79 |
2009-12-29 |
| 21. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
31.91 |
1.0799 |
0.0271 |
243 |
1 |
31.91 |
2009-12-29 |
| 22. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
31.83 |
0.8125 |
0.2992 |
197 |
1 |
31.83 |
2009-12-07 |
| 23. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
31.61 |
1.0426 |
0.0571 |
323 |
1 |
31.61 |
2009-12-20 |
| 24. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
31.60 |
0.9266 |
0.1751 |
278 |
1 |
31.60 |
2009-12-29 |
| 25. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
31.53 |
0.9786 |
0.1138 |
193 |
1 |
31.53 |
2010-01-03 |
| 26. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
31.26 |
1.0120 |
0.0752 |
290 |
2 |
30.58 |
2010-01-03 |
| 27. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
31.12 |
1.0214 |
0.0564 |
166 |
1 |
31.12 |
2009-12-29 |
| 28. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
31.09 |
1.0515 |
0.0285 |
250 |
1 |
31.09 |
2010-01-09 |
| 29. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
30.77 |
1.0124 |
0.0558 |
204 |
1 |
30.77 |
2009-12-20 |
| 30. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
30.53 |
1.1018 |
-0.0462 |
220 |
2 |
29.18 |
2009-11-12 |
| 31. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
30.30 |
0.8551 |
0.2002 |
171 |
3 |
29.56 |
2009-12-29 |
| 32. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
30.23 |
0.8562 |
0.1958 |
170 |
1 |
30.23 |
2009-12-29 |
| 33. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
30.21 |
0.8142 |
0.2316 |
187 |
3 |
27.75 |
2010-01-01 |
| 34. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
30.07 |
0.8614 |
0.1822 |
172 |
1 |
30.07 |
2009-12-20 |
| 35. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
30.05 |
0.8073 |
0.2401 |
173 |
1 |
30.05 |
2010-01-09 |
| 36. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
29.95 |
1.0714 |
-0.0386 |
129 |
1 |
29.95 |
2009-12-07 |
| 37. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
29.88 |
0.9196 |
0.1214 |
148 |
1 |
29.88 |
2009-12-19 |
| 38. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
29.81 |
1.0252 |
0.0052 |
176 |
1 |
29.81 |
2010-01-09 |
| 39. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
29.64 |
0.8788 |
0.1494 |
134 |
3 |
25.86 |
2009-12-07 |
| 40. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
29.54 |
0.8666 |
0.1646 |
150 |
2 |
28.79 |
2009-12-20 |
| 41. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
29.50 |
1.0099 |
0.0129 |
207 |
1 |
29.50 |
2009-12-29 |
| 42. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
29.42 |
0.9897 |
0.0311 |
274 |
1 |
29.42 |
2010-01-09 |
| 43. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
29.42 |
0.9697 |
0.0536 |
249 |
2 |
29.40 |
2009-12-20 |
| 44. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
29.42 |
1.0077 |
0.0565 |
250 |
1 |
29.42 |
2010-01-03 |
| 45. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
29.34 |
0.9866 |
0.0304 |
218 |
1 |
29.34 |
2009-12-19 |
| 46. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
29.23 |
1.0284 |
0.0314 |
282 |
1 |
29.23 |
2010-01-03 |
| 47. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
29.22 |
1.0795 |
-0.0330 |
226 |
1 |
29.22 |
2009-12-29 |
| 48. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
29.14 |
1.0183 |
-0.0104 |
191 |
1 |
29.14 |
2009-12-29 |
| 49. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
29.13 |
0.8323 |
0.1817 |
203 |
2 |
26.72 |
2009-12-29 |
| 50. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
28.91 |
1.0788 |
-0.0793 |
171 |
2 |
28.03 |
2009-12-19 |
| 51. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
28.90 |
0.8323 |
0.1724 |
145 |
1 |
28.90 |
2009-05-27 |
| 52. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
28.79 |
0.9572 |
0.0424 |
201 |
2 |
27.64 |
2009-11-24 |
| 53. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
28.77 |
1.0251 |
-0.0268 |
261 |
1 |
28.77 |
2010-01-07 |
| 54. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
28.73 |
0.8615 |
0.1375 |
110 |
2 |
25.44 |
2009-12-19 |
| 55. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
28.69 |
1.0445 |
-0.0458 |
373 |
1 |
28.69 |
2010-01-02 |
| 56. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
28.66 |
0.9991 |
-0.0020 |
225 |
1 |
28.66 |
2009-11-24 |
| 57. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
28.59 |
0.9514 |
0.0428 |
237 |
1 |
28.59 |
2009-11-24 |
| 58. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
28.58 |
0.8936 |
0.0991 |
127 |
1 |
28.58 |
2009-12-19 |
| 59. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
28.56 |
0.8915 |
0.1001 |
188 |
1 |
28.56 |
2009-11-24 |
| 60. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
28.53 |
1.0796 |
-0.0932 |
129 |
3 |
25.07 |
2009-07-20 |
| 61. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
28.46 |
0.8852 |
0.1055 |
158 |
2 |
25.35 |
2009-07-01 |
| 62. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
28.39 |
0.8900 |
0.0983 |
164 |
1 |
28.39 |
2009-11-24 |
| 63. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
28.39 |
0.8070 |
0.1832 |
137 |
1 |
28.39 |
2009-11-12 |
| 64. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
28.34 |
0.9540 |
0.0291 |
285 |
1 |
28.34 |
2010-01-02 |
| 65. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
28.33 |
0.8023 |
0.1884 |
182 |
2 |
28.14 |
2009-12-22 |
| 66. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
28.32 |
0.9758 |
0.0094 |
314 |
1 |
28.32 |
2010-01-02 |
| 67. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
28.27 |
1.0095 |
-0.0282 |
316 |
1 |
28.27 |
2009-11-24 |
| 68. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
28.26 |
0.9509 |
0.0697 |
225 |
1 |
28.26 |
2010-01-02 |
| 69. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
28.19 |
0.8791 |
0.1000 |
190 |
1 |
28.19 |
2009-05-27 |
| 70. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
28.15 |
1.0390 |
-0.0644 |
205 |
2 |
26.95 |
2009-05-27 |
| 71. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
28.02 |
1.0320 |
-0.0208 |
293 |
1 |
28.02 |
2009-11-24 |
| 72. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
27.80 |
0.8263 |
0.1378 |
162 |
2 |
26.87 |
2009-11-23 |
| 73. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
27.71 |
1.0463 |
-0.0880 |
182 |
2 |
27.66 |
2010-01-03 |
| 74. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
27.46 |
0.8700 |
0.0845 |
127 |
1 |
27.46 |
2009-05-27 |
| 75. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
27.44 |
1.0261 |
-0.0747 |
273 |
1 |
27.44 |
2009-07-01 |
| 76. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
27.34 |
0.9316 |
0.0246 |
287 |
1 |
27.34 |
2009-07-02 |
| 77. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
27.33 |
0.9226 |
0.0311 |
177 |
1 |
27.33 |
2009-05-27 |
| 78. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
27.29 |
0.9740 |
-0.0300 |
209 |
1 |
27.29 |
2010-01-01 |
| 79. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
27.28 |
0.9045 |
0.0440 |
235 |
2 |
26.60 |
2010-01-02 |
| 80. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
27.21 |
0.8787 |
0.0713 |
202 |
1 |
27.21 |
2009-12-19 |
| 81. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
27.20 |
0.9691 |
-0.0246 |
223 |
3 |
25.24 |
2009-07-16 |
| 82. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
27.19 |
0.8422 |
0.1055 |
164 |
1 |
27.19 |
2009-07-01 |
| 83. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
27.06 |
0.8956 |
0.0473 |
217 |
1 |
27.06 |
2009-05-27 |
| 84. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
26.99 |
0.8188 |
0.1206 |
183 |
1 |
26.99 |
2009-07-01 |
| 85. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
26.98 |
0.9682 |
-0.0324 |
143 |
2 |
25.72 |
2009-11-12 |
| 86. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
26.87 |
0.8852 |
0.0507 |
201 |
2 |
26.72 |
2009-07-02 |
| 87. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
26.86 |
0.9633 |
-0.0281 |
304 |
1 |
26.86 |
2009-11-24 |
| 88. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
26.80 |
0.8892 |
0.0484 |
207 |
2 |
25.98 |
2009-11-23 |
| 89. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
26.64 |
0.8996 |
0.0202 |
192 |
1 |
26.64 |
2009-11-24 |
| 90. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
26.49 |
0.7934 |
0.1271 |
134 |
1 |
26.49 |
2009-07-03 |
| 91. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
26.47 |
1.0396 |
-0.1274 |
149 |
2 |
26.07 |
2009-11-24 |
| 92. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
26.46 |
0.9843 |
-0.0704 |
234 |
1 |
26.46 |
2009-12-19 |
| 93. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
26.42 |
0.8152 |
0.1040 |
163 |
1 |
26.42 |
2009-12-29 |
| 94. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
26.32 |
0.9257 |
-0.0063 |
317 |
1 |
26.32 |
2009-11-23 |
| 95. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
26.29 |
0.8275 |
0.0871 |
142 |
1 |
26.29 |
2009-11-24 |
| 96. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
26.29 |
0.8715 |
0.0387 |
130 |
1 |
26.29 |
2009-05-27 |
| 97. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
26.27 |
0.9325 |
-0.0272 |
156 |
1 |
26.27 |
2009-05-27 |
| 98. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
26.18 |
1.0331 |
-0.1263 |
234 |
2 |
25.33 |
2009-11-06 |
| 99. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
26.13 |
0.9769 |
-0.0714 |
263 |
2 |
24.51 |
2009-07-01 |
| 100. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
26.04 |
1.0131 |
-0.1128 |
225 |
1 |
26.04 |
2009-07-01 |
| 101. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
25.99 |
0.7826 |
0.1245 |
97 |
1 |
25.99 |
2009-05-27 |
| 102. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
25.94 |
0.9263 |
-0.0223 |
188 |
1 |
25.94 |
2009-07-20 |
| 103. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
25.93 |
0.9309 |
-0.0326 |
284 |
1 |
25.93 |
2009-12-20 |
| 104. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
25.88 |
1.0565 |
-0.1609 |
247 |
1 |
25.88 |
2009-11-24 |
| 105. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
25.87 |
0.8919 |
0.0090 |
152 |
1 |
25.87 |
2009-11-23 |
| 106. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
25.75 |
0.8628 |
0.0281 |
196 |
1 |
25.75 |
2009-07-03 |
| 107. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
25.61 |
0.9286 |
-0.0406 |
194 |
1 |
25.61 |
2009-07-02 |
| 108. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
25.59 |
0.9941 |
-0.1081 |
217 |
1 |
25.59 |
2009-05-27 |
| 109. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
25.54 |
1.0197 |
-0.1360 |
226 |
1 |
25.54 |
2009-07-01 |
| 110. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
25.34 |
0.9430 |
-0.0707 |
211 |
2 |
24.98 |
2009-12-29 |
| 111. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
25.32 |
1.0487 |
-0.1749 |
231 |
2 |
24.70 |
2009-05-27 |
| 112. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
25.27 |
0.9805 |
-0.0988 |
292 |
1 |
25.27 |
2009-11-24 |
| 113. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
25.25 |
1.0337 |
-0.1581 |
214 |
1 |
25.25 |
2009-07-01 |
| 114. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
25.07 |
0.9851 |
-0.1126 |
317 |
2 |
23.53 |
2009-07-10 |
| 115. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
25.01 |
0.8975 |
-0.0291 |
268 |
3 |
23.60 |
2009-12-29 |
| 116. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
24.98 |
0.8951 |
-0.0258 |
193 |
1 |
24.98 |
2009-05-27 |
| 117. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
24.97 |
1.0349 |
-0.1694 |
234 |
1 |
24.97 |
2009-05-27 |
| 118. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
24.95 |
0.7890 |
0.0780 |
230 |
1 |
24.95 |
2010-01-09 |
| 119. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
24.83 |
0.8153 |
0.0509 |
200 |
1 |
24.83 |
2009-05-27 |
| 120. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
24.81 |
1.0483 |
-0.1907 |
227 |
1 |
24.81 |
2009-07-02 |
| 121. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
24.73 |
0.9048 |
-0.0423 |
271 |
2 |
23.48 |
2009-11-24 |
| 122. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
24.68 |
1.0462 |
-0.1959 |
184 |
1 |
24.68 |
2009-11-23 |
| 123. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
24.58 |
1.0334 |
-0.1872 |
131 |
1 |
24.58 |
2009-12-07 |
| 124. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
24.56 |
0.9251 |
-0.0679 |
177 |
1 |
24.56 |
2009-05-27 |
| 125. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
24.28 |
0.7389 |
0.1050 |
145 |
1 |
24.28 |
2009-05-27 |
| 126. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
24.27 |
0.8442 |
0.0017 |
265 |
1 |
24.27 |
2009-12-19 |
| 127. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
24.08 |
0.9168 |
-0.0801 |
240 |
1 |
24.08 |
2009-05-27 |
| 128. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
24.02 |
0.7938 |
0.0403 |
176 |
1 |
24.02 |
2009-05-27 |
| 129. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
23.80 |
0.7259 |
0.1060 |
186 |
2 |
22.90 |
2009-07-01 |
| 130. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
23.67 |
1.0168 |
-0.1944 |
271 |
1 |
23.67 |
2009-05-27 |
| 131. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
23.55 |
0.8826 |
-0.0645 |
296 |
1 |
23.55 |
2009-05-27 |
| 132. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
23.46 |
0.9221 |
-0.1102 |
244 |
1 |
23.46 |
2009-07-03 |
| 133. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
23.08 |
0.9468 |
-0.1469 |
276 |
1 |
23.08 |
2009-07-03 |
| 134. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
22.51 |
0.8810 |
-0.1006 |
282 |
1 |
22.51 |
2009-10-14 |
| 135. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
22.41 |
0.7443 |
0.0313 |
169 |
1 |
22.41 |
2009-05-27 |
| 136. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
22.26 |
0.8077 |
-0.0390 |
167 |
1 |
22.26 |
2009-05-27 |
| 137. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
21.96 |
0.7852 |
-0.0184 |
149 |
1 |
21.96 |
2009-05-27 |
| 138. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
21.82 |
0.8660 |
-0.1102 |
193 |
1 |
21.82 |
2009-07-02 |
| 139. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
20.85 |
0.7352 |
-0.0132 |
106 |
1 |
20.85 |
2009-11-29 |