| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
62.11 |
1.1081 |
0.2707 |
206 |
1 |
62.11 |
2011-04-24 |
| 2. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
61.65 |
1.0555 |
0.2804 |
363 |
2 |
54.24 |
2011-04-24 |
| 3. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
61.17 |
1.1014 |
0.2602 |
273 |
1 |
61.17 |
2011-04-24 |
| 4. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
58.75 |
1.0289 |
0.2466 |
276 |
1 |
58.75 |
2011-04-24 |
| 5. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
57.56 |
1.0349 |
0.2091 |
234 |
1 |
57.56 |
2011-04-24 |
| 6. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
56.86 |
1.0120 |
0.2168 |
290 |
1 |
56.86 |
2009-04-05 |
| 7. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
56.09 |
1.0441 |
0.1700 |
252 |
1 |
56.09 |
2011-04-24 |
| 8. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
55.86 |
1.0498 |
0.1531 |
180 |
2 |
51.25 |
2009-11-09 |
| 9. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
54.46 |
1.1018 |
0.0687 |
220 |
1 |
54.46 |
2011-04-24 |
| 10. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
53.68 |
1.0714 |
0.0796 |
129 |
1 |
53.68 |
2009-04-05 |
| 11. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
52.88 |
0.9795 |
0.1636 |
308 |
1 |
52.88 |
2009-11-09 |
| 12. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
52.79 |
0.9729 |
0.1680 |
255 |
1 |
52.79 |
2010-02-06 |
| 13. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
52.66 |
1.0125 |
0.1228 |
224 |
1 |
52.66 |
2009-11-09 |
| 14. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
52.32 |
1.0167 |
0.1208 |
378 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-11-09 |
| 15. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
52.17 |
1.0767 |
0.0482 |
212 |
2 |
51.85 |
2010-02-06 |
| 16. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
51.64 |
1.0788 |
0.0310 |
171 |
1 |
51.64 |
2009-07-31 |
| 17. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
51.40 |
1.0063 |
0.1042 |
371 |
2 |
48.91 |
2009-04-08 |
| 18. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
51.06 |
1.0487 |
0.0492 |
231 |
1 |
51.06 |
2009-11-09 |
| 19. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
50.87 |
1.0389 |
0.0623 |
340 |
1 |
50.87 |
2009-11-03 |
| 20. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
50.32 |
1.0252 |
0.0550 |
176 |
2 |
43.15 |
2009-04-05 |
| 21. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
50.30 |
1.1016 |
-0.0155 |
233 |
1 |
50.30 |
2009-11-09 |
| 22. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
50.24 |
1.0477 |
0.0396 |
360 |
1 |
50.24 |
2009-04-08 |
| 23. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
50.12 |
1.0197 |
0.0598 |
226 |
1 |
50.12 |
2009-04-05 |
| 24. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
49.53 |
0.9684 |
0.1035 |
388 |
2 |
45.85 |
2009-11-09 |
| 25. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
49.23 |
0.9576 |
0.1094 |
212 |
1 |
49.23 |
2009-11-04 |
| 26. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
49.18 |
0.9532 |
0.1073 |
258 |
1 |
49.18 |
2009-11-03 |
| 27. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
49.00 |
1.0941 |
-0.0051 |
256 |
1 |
49.00 |
2009-11-03 |
| 28. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
48.98 |
0.9724 |
0.0882 |
237 |
2 |
48.13 |
2009-11-09 |
| 29. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
48.95 |
0.9572 |
0.0981 |
201 |
3 |
47.55 |
2009-08-31 |
| 30. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
48.87 |
1.0214 |
0.0322 |
269 |
1 |
48.87 |
2009-04-07 |
| 31. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
48.73 |
0.9786 |
0.0728 |
235 |
1 |
48.73 |
2009-11-03 |
| 32. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
48.31 |
0.9893 |
0.0535 |
323 |
1 |
48.31 |
2009-08-31 |
| 33. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
48.20 |
0.9936 |
0.0467 |
311 |
1 |
48.20 |
2009-04-27 |
| 34. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
48.05 |
1.0799 |
-0.0467 |
243 |
1 |
48.05 |
2009-04-08 |
| 35. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
47.61 |
1.0885 |
-0.0577 |
315 |
1 |
47.61 |
2009-05-04 |
| 36. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
47.61 |
0.9691 |
0.0579 |
223 |
1 |
47.61 |
2009-04-12 |
| 37. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
47.49 |
0.8956 |
0.1321 |
217 |
1 |
47.49 |
2009-08-25 |
| 38. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
47.31 |
0.9941 |
0.0245 |
217 |
1 |
47.31 |
2009-07-31 |
| 39. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
47.25 |
0.9863 |
0.0377 |
339 |
1 |
47.25 |
2009-11-09 |
| 40. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
47.03 |
1.0201 |
-0.0047 |
303 |
2 |
46.47 |
2009-06-27 |
| 41. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
46.71 |
0.9894 |
0.0229 |
323 |
1 |
46.71 |
2009-05-04 |
| 42. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
46.70 |
0.9884 |
0.0234 |
262 |
1 |
46.70 |
2009-08-25 |
| 43. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
46.54 |
0.9852 |
0.0192 |
264 |
1 |
46.54 |
2009-11-09 |
| 44. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
46.38 |
1.0696 |
-0.0724 |
226 |
1 |
46.38 |
2009-07-31 |
| 45. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
46.28 |
1.0567 |
-0.0574 |
303 |
1 |
46.28 |
2010-02-06 |
| 46. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
46.22 |
1.0388 |
-0.0099 |
243 |
1 |
46.22 |
2010-02-05 |
| 47. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
46.10 |
1.0577 |
-0.0670 |
247 |
1 |
46.10 |
2009-04-06 |
| 48. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
46.04 |
0.9997 |
-0.0027 |
382 |
1 |
46.04 |
2009-11-03 |
| 49. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
45.97 |
0.9653 |
0.0348 |
394 |
1 |
45.97 |
2009-04-05 |
| 50. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
45.96 |
1.0669 |
-0.0424 |
213 |
1 |
45.96 |
2011-04-24 |
| 51. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
45.83 |
0.8788 |
0.1071 |
134 |
1 |
45.83 |
2009-11-09 |
| 52. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
45.80 |
0.8442 |
0.1478 |
265 |
1 |
45.80 |
2009-08-31 |
| 53. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
45.78 |
0.7352 |
0.2530 |
106 |
1 |
45.78 |
2009-11-04 |
| 54. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
45.68 |
0.9756 |
0.0084 |
229 |
1 |
45.68 |
2009-04-05 |
| 55. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
45.63 |
0.9697 |
0.0146 |
249 |
1 |
45.63 |
2009-04-05 |
| 56. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
45.58 |
0.9578 |
0.0253 |
281 |
2 |
43.21 |
2009-08-31 |
| 57. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
45.07 |
1.0029 |
-0.0375 |
209 |
1 |
45.07 |
2009-04-05 |
| 58. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
45.04 |
0.9636 |
0.0074 |
254 |
1 |
45.04 |
2009-11-09 |
| 59. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
45.03 |
1.0528 |
-0.0864 |
201 |
1 |
45.03 |
2009-04-05 |
| 60. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
44.86 |
0.9612 |
0.0065 |
256 |
1 |
44.86 |
2010-02-06 |
| 61. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
44.77 |
0.8105 |
0.1504 |
204 |
1 |
44.77 |
2009-04-05 |
| 62. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.73 |
0.9843 |
-0.0248 |
234 |
1 |
44.73 |
2009-11-03 |
| 63. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
44.60 |
1.0331 |
-0.0736 |
234 |
1 |
44.60 |
2009-11-09 |
| 64. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
44.51 |
0.9289 |
0.0285 |
204 |
1 |
44.51 |
2009-07-31 |
| 65. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
44.08 |
0.9871 |
-0.0006 |
209 |
1 |
44.08 |
2009-11-03 |
| 66. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
44.00 |
0.8811 |
0.0719 |
239 |
1 |
44.00 |
2009-07-31 |
| 67. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
43.78 |
0.9278 |
0.0186 |
295 |
1 |
43.78 |
2009-11-09 |
| 68. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
43.64 |
0.9045 |
0.0369 |
235 |
1 |
43.64 |
2009-04-05 |
| 69. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
43.60 |
0.8951 |
0.0472 |
193 |
1 |
43.60 |
2009-11-09 |
| 70. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
43.54 |
0.8653 |
0.0846 |
255 |
1 |
43.54 |
2009-06-27 |
| 71. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
43.09 |
1.0025 |
-0.0742 |
256 |
1 |
43.09 |
2009-07-31 |
| 72. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
42.80 |
0.9072 |
0.0131 |
237 |
2 |
42.42 |
2009-11-04 |
| 73. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
42.78 |
0.8573 |
0.0680 |
270 |
2 |
42.65 |
2009-11-03 |
| 74. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
42.64 |
0.9281 |
-0.0045 |
273 |
1 |
42.64 |
2009-07-31 |
| 75. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
42.60 |
1.0711 |
-0.1583 |
213 |
1 |
42.60 |
2009-08-31 |
| 76. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
42.53 |
0.9986 |
-0.0816 |
283 |
1 |
42.53 |
2009-04-05 |
| 77. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
42.14 |
1.0251 |
-0.1192 |
261 |
1 |
42.14 |
2009-11-04 |
| 78. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
41.95 |
0.8810 |
0.0233 |
282 |
1 |
41.95 |
2009-07-08 |
| 79. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
41.93 |
0.9857 |
-0.0834 |
293 |
1 |
41.93 |
2009-11-09 |
| 80. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
41.64 |
1.0016 |
-0.1093 |
218 |
1 |
41.64 |
2009-11-09 |
| 81. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
41.46 |
0.9514 |
-0.0581 |
237 |
1 |
41.46 |
2009-04-07 |
| 82. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
41.40 |
0.9226 |
-0.0246 |
348 |
1 |
41.40 |
2009-07-08 |
| 83. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
41.16 |
0.8745 |
0.0109 |
169 |
1 |
41.16 |
2009-11-09 |
| 84. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
41.15 |
1.0346 |
-0.1064 |
244 |
1 |
41.15 |
2009-08-31 |
| 85. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
41.10 |
0.9965 |
-0.1109 |
310 |
1 |
41.10 |
2009-05-04 |
| 86. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
41.10 |
1.0263 |
-0.1422 |
267 |
1 |
41.10 |
2009-04-05 |
| 87. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
40.80 |
0.7876 |
0.0937 |
316 |
1 |
40.80 |
2009-04-12 |
| 88. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
40.78 |
1.0099 |
-0.1349 |
207 |
2 |
40.67 |
2009-08-31 |
| 89. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
40.66 |
0.8961 |
-0.0239 |
189 |
1 |
40.66 |
2010-02-06 |
| 90. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
40.03 |
0.9164 |
-0.0494 |
305 |
1 |
40.03 |
2009-11-09 |
| 91. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
40.02 |
1.0668 |
-0.2028 |
350 |
1 |
40.02 |
2009-11-09 |
| 92. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
39.69 |
0.8731 |
-0.0118 |
199 |
1 |
39.69 |
2009-08-31 |
| 93. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
39.68 |
1.0486 |
-0.1936 |
289 |
1 |
39.68 |
2009-08-31 |
| 94. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
39.57 |
0.9811 |
-0.1266 |
272 |
2 |
38.76 |
2009-11-09 |
| 95. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
39.45 |
0.8615 |
-0.0123 |
110 |
1 |
39.45 |
2009-11-03 |
| 96. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
39.36 |
0.9212 |
-0.0706 |
231 |
1 |
39.36 |
2009-08-31 |
| 97. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
39.30 |
0.8595 |
-0.0114 |
242 |
1 |
39.30 |
2009-04-07 |
| 98. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
38.72 |
0.8852 |
-0.0496 |
201 |
1 |
38.72 |
2009-08-31 |
| 99. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
38.48 |
0.9772 |
-0.1526 |
217 |
1 |
38.48 |
2009-07-31 |
| 100. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
38.42 |
0.8602 |
-0.0355 |
206 |
1 |
38.42 |
2009-04-05 |
| 101. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
38.19 |
0.8770 |
-0.0521 |
300 |
1 |
38.19 |
2009-11-09 |
| 102. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
38.07 |
0.9279 |
-0.1022 |
317 |
2 |
37.99 |
2009-11-09 |
| 103. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
38.02 |
0.9202 |
-0.1025 |
254 |
1 |
38.02 |
2009-05-04 |
| 104. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
37.55 |
0.9540 |
-0.1484 |
285 |
1 |
37.55 |
2009-05-04 |
| 105. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
37.07 |
0.9965 |
-0.1988 |
277 |
1 |
37.07 |
2009-06-27 |
| 106. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
36.96 |
0.9938 |
-0.1987 |
339 |
1 |
36.96 |
2009-11-09 |
| 107. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
36.59 |
0.9886 |
-0.1995 |
220 |
1 |
36.59 |
2009-08-31 |
| 108. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
36.46 |
0.9485 |
-0.1622 |
291 |
1 |
36.46 |
2009-08-31 |
| 109. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
34.65 |
0.8890 |
-0.1484 |
199 |
1 |
34.65 |
2009-08-31 |