| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
69.25 |
1.0483 |
0.4946 |
227 |
1 |
69.25 |
2012-03-05 |
| 2. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
67.76 |
0.9711 |
0.5400 |
176 |
1 |
67.76 |
2012-03-05 |
| 3. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
63.57 |
1.0668 |
0.3537 |
350 |
1 |
63.57 |
2012-03-05 |
| 4. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
62.67 |
1.1323 |
0.2992 |
341 |
1 |
62.67 |
2012-03-05 |
| 5. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
60.78 |
0.9857 |
0.3685 |
293 |
2 |
52.29 |
2012-03-05 |
| 6. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
60.67 |
1.0214 |
0.3738 |
281 |
1 |
60.67 |
2012-03-05 |
| 7. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
60.40 |
1.0619 |
0.2884 |
354 |
1 |
60.40 |
2012-03-06 |
| 8. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
59.53 |
1.0714 |
0.2468 |
129 |
2 |
47.96 |
2012-03-05 |
| 9. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
59.27 |
0.8910 |
0.4319 |
150 |
2 |
49.23 |
2012-03-05 |
| 10. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
59.14 |
1.0669 |
0.2837 |
286 |
1 |
59.14 |
2012-03-06 |
| 11. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
57.67 |
1.0444 |
0.2342 |
197 |
2 |
45.76 |
2012-03-05 |
| 12. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
53.01 |
1.0799 |
0.0967 |
243 |
1 |
53.01 |
2012-03-05 |
| 13. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
51.62 |
1.0829 |
0.0676 |
288 |
2 |
46.53 |
2012-03-05 |
| 14. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
51.42 |
1.0205 |
0.1175 |
179 |
1 |
51.42 |
2012-03-05 |
| 15. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
50.91 |
0.9722 |
0.1630 |
283 |
1 |
50.91 |
2012-03-05 |
| 16. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
50.63 |
1.0132 |
0.1048 |
143 |
1 |
50.63 |
2012-03-06 |
| 17. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
50.58 |
0.9943 |
0.1345 |
373 |
1 |
50.58 |
2012-03-05 |
| 18. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
50.13 |
0.9632 |
0.1508 |
240 |
1 |
50.13 |
2012-03-05 |
| 19. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
49.98 |
1.0173 |
0.1390 |
268 |
2 |
44.50 |
2012-03-06 |
| 20. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
49.74 |
1.0352 |
0.0741 |
341 |
1 |
49.74 |
2012-03-05 |
| 21. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
49.60 |
0.9844 |
0.1240 |
293 |
1 |
49.60 |
2012-03-05 |
| 22. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
49.28 |
0.9325 |
0.1572 |
156 |
1 |
49.28 |
2012-03-05 |
| 23. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
49.13 |
0.9226 |
0.1767 |
348 |
1 |
49.13 |
2012-03-06 |
| 24. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
49.04 |
1.1081 |
0.0175 |
206 |
1 |
49.04 |
2012-03-05 |
| 25. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
48.76 |
1.0109 |
0.0746 |
276 |
2 |
45.38 |
2012-03-05 |
| 26. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
48.70 |
1.0487 |
0.0296 |
231 |
1 |
48.70 |
2012-03-05 |
| 27. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
48.67 |
1.0907 |
-0.0054 |
303 |
1 |
48.67 |
2012-03-06 |
| 28. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
48.34 |
1.0151 |
0.0516 |
152 |
2 |
46.22 |
2012-03-06 |
| 29. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
48.13 |
0.9965 |
0.0692 |
168 |
1 |
48.13 |
2012-03-05 |
| 30. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
47.94 |
1.0506 |
0.0444 |
277 |
2 |
46.83 |
2012-03-05 |
| 31. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
47.93 |
0.9287 |
0.1313 |
108 |
1 |
47.93 |
2012-03-05 |
| 32. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
47.85 |
1.0463 |
0.0133 |
182 |
1 |
47.85 |
2012-03-05 |
| 33. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
47.84 |
1.0516 |
0.0119 |
281 |
2 |
44.61 |
2012-03-05 |
| 34. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
47.33 |
0.9986 |
0.0490 |
162 |
1 |
47.33 |
2012-03-05 |
| 35. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
47.30 |
0.9726 |
0.0728 |
154 |
1 |
47.30 |
2012-03-05 |
| 36. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
47.25 |
0.9897 |
0.0587 |
274 |
1 |
47.25 |
2012-03-05 |
| 37. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
47.22 |
1.0391 |
0.0170 |
358 |
1 |
47.22 |
2012-03-05 |
| 38. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
46.96 |
0.9028 |
0.1395 |
111 |
1 |
46.96 |
2012-03-05 |
| 39. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
46.87 |
1.0095 |
0.0315 |
316 |
1 |
46.87 |
2012-03-05 |
| 40. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
46.83 |
0.8595 |
0.1835 |
242 |
2 |
40.04 |
2012-03-06 |
| 41. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
46.68 |
0.9171 |
0.1210 |
165 |
2 |
45.84 |
2012-03-05 |
| 42. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
46.35 |
0.9068 |
0.1219 |
225 |
2 |
44.20 |
2012-03-05 |
| 43. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
46.34 |
1.0331 |
-0.0051 |
234 |
1 |
46.34 |
2012-03-05 |
| 44. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
46.06 |
0.9781 |
0.0486 |
193 |
1 |
46.06 |
2012-03-05 |
| 45. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
45.90 |
1.0083 |
0.0561 |
273 |
1 |
45.90 |
2012-03-05 |
| 46. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
45.67 |
0.9893 |
0.0259 |
323 |
1 |
45.67 |
2012-03-05 |
| 47. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
45.58 |
0.9504 |
0.0573 |
263 |
1 |
45.58 |
2012-03-05 |
| 48. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
45.57 |
1.1296 |
-0.0876 |
252 |
1 |
45.57 |
2012-03-05 |
| 49. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
45.47 |
0.9866 |
0.0203 |
218 |
2 |
40.65 |
2012-03-05 |
| 50. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
45.44 |
0.9907 |
0.0176 |
211 |
1 |
45.44 |
2012-03-05 |
| 51. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
45.40 |
1.0445 |
-0.0346 |
373 |
1 |
45.40 |
2012-03-05 |
| 52. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
45.13 |
1.1022 |
-0.0642 |
259 |
1 |
45.13 |
2012-03-05 |
| 53. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
45.06 |
1.0644 |
-0.0269 |
257 |
1 |
45.06 |
2012-03-05 |
| 54. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
45.00 |
1.0201 |
-0.0197 |
303 |
1 |
45.00 |
2012-03-05 |
| 55. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
44.91 |
0.9540 |
0.0422 |
285 |
1 |
44.91 |
2012-03-05 |
| 56. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
44.87 |
0.9769 |
0.0181 |
263 |
1 |
44.87 |
2012-03-05 |
| 57. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
44.73 |
0.9098 |
0.0804 |
167 |
1 |
44.73 |
2012-03-05 |
| 58. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
44.63 |
0.8890 |
0.0991 |
199 |
1 |
44.63 |
2012-03-05 |
| 59. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
44.52 |
0.9697 |
0.0197 |
249 |
2 |
42.87 |
2012-03-05 |
| 60. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
44.51 |
0.9754 |
0.0197 |
362 |
1 |
44.51 |
2012-03-05 |
| 61. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
44.24 |
0.9239 |
0.0656 |
193 |
1 |
44.24 |
2012-03-05 |
| 62. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
44.11 |
1.0074 |
-0.0255 |
242 |
1 |
44.11 |
2012-03-05 |
| 63. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
44.05 |
1.0314 |
-0.0558 |
172 |
1 |
44.05 |
2012-03-05 |
| 64. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
43.99 |
1.0528 |
-0.0805 |
201 |
1 |
43.99 |
2012-03-05 |
| 65. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
43.93 |
0.9330 |
0.0495 |
360 |
1 |
43.93 |
2012-03-05 |
| 66. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
43.92 |
1.0033 |
-0.0343 |
189 |
1 |
43.92 |
2012-03-05 |
| 67. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
43.84 |
0.9908 |
0.0290 |
342 |
2 |
41.99 |
2012-03-05 |
| 68. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
43.48 |
1.0124 |
-0.0490 |
204 |
1 |
43.48 |
2012-03-05 |
| 69. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
43.44 |
1.0214 |
-0.0582 |
269 |
1 |
43.44 |
2012-03-05 |
| 70. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
43.43 |
1.0711 |
-0.1115 |
213 |
1 |
43.43 |
2012-03-05 |
| 71. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
43.42 |
1.0138 |
-0.0497 |
231 |
1 |
43.42 |
2012-03-05 |
| 72. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
43.38 |
0.8900 |
0.0748 |
164 |
1 |
43.38 |
2012-03-05 |
| 73. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
42.93 |
0.9342 |
0.0227 |
434 |
2 |
41.44 |
2012-03-05 |
| 74. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
42.92 |
1.0972 |
-0.1144 |
251 |
1 |
42.92 |
2012-03-05 |
| 75. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
42.88 |
0.8533 |
0.1001 |
232 |
1 |
42.88 |
2012-03-05 |
| 76. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
42.68 |
0.8914 |
0.0572 |
366 |
1 |
42.68 |
2012-03-05 |
| 77. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
42.62 |
1.0709 |
-0.0865 |
392 |
1 |
42.62 |
2012-03-05 |
| 78. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
42.33 |
0.9965 |
-0.0560 |
277 |
1 |
42.33 |
2012-03-05 |
| 79. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.26 |
0.9843 |
-0.0510 |
234 |
1 |
42.26 |
2012-03-05 |
| 80. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
42.13 |
1.0388 |
-0.0718 |
243 |
1 |
42.13 |
2012-03-05 |
| 81. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
42.10 |
0.9176 |
0.0509 |
267 |
1 |
42.10 |
2012-03-05 |
| 82. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
41.96 |
0.9289 |
0.0004 |
204 |
1 |
41.96 |
2012-03-05 |
| 83. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
41.76 |
1.0263 |
-0.1000 |
267 |
1 |
41.76 |
2012-03-05 |
| 84. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
41.58 |
0.9776 |
-0.0544 |
308 |
2 |
41.12 |
2012-03-05 |
| 85. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
41.48 |
1.0547 |
-0.0992 |
257 |
1 |
41.48 |
2012-03-05 |
| 86. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
41.45 |
0.9871 |
-0.0448 |
227 |
1 |
41.45 |
2012-03-05 |
| 87. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
41.36 |
0.8792 |
0.0482 |
296 |
1 |
41.36 |
2012-03-05 |
| 88. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
41.31 |
0.9353 |
-0.0224 |
177 |
1 |
41.31 |
2012-03-05 |
| 89. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
41.28 |
1.0795 |
-0.1327 |
226 |
1 |
41.28 |
2012-03-05 |
| 90. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
41.15 |
0.9127 |
-0.0016 |
252 |
1 |
41.15 |
2012-03-05 |
| 91. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
40.68 |
0.8295 |
0.0751 |
209 |
1 |
40.68 |
2012-03-05 |
| 92. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
40.66 |
1.0297 |
-0.1286 |
249 |
1 |
40.66 |
2012-03-05 |
| 93. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
40.59 |
0.9048 |
0.0006 |
271 |
1 |
40.59 |
2012-03-05 |
| 94. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
40.50 |
0.8916 |
0.0074 |
216 |
1 |
40.50 |
2012-03-05 |
| 95. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
40.21 |
0.8975 |
-0.0048 |
268 |
1 |
40.21 |
2012-03-05 |
| 96. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
40.12 |
0.8629 |
0.0321 |
299 |
1 |
40.12 |
2012-03-05 |
| 97. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
39.90 |
0.9965 |
-0.1110 |
310 |
1 |
39.90 |
2012-03-05 |
| 98. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
39.85 |
0.9635 |
-0.0740 |
389 |
1 |
39.85 |
2012-03-05 |
| 99. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
39.49 |
0.9089 |
-0.0229 |
187 |
1 |
39.49 |
2012-03-05 |
| 100. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
39.47 |
0.9155 |
0.0093 |
168 |
1 |
39.47 |
2012-03-05 |
| 101. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
39.46 |
0.8899 |
-0.0035 |
293 |
1 |
39.46 |
2012-03-05 |
| 102. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
39.39 |
0.9168 |
-0.0418 |
240 |
2 |
37.04 |
2012-03-05 |
| 103. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
39.25 |
0.9871 |
-0.0803 |
209 |
2 |
38.51 |
2012-03-06 |
| 104. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
39.11 |
0.9019 |
-0.0293 |
204 |
1 |
39.11 |
2012-03-06 |
| 105. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
39.06 |
0.9084 |
-0.0380 |
404 |
2 |
36.34 |
2012-03-05 |
| 106. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
39.01 |
0.8826 |
-0.0160 |
296 |
1 |
39.01 |
2012-03-05 |
| 107. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
38.73 |
1.0099 |
-0.1539 |
207 |
2 |
36.83 |
2012-03-05 |
| 108. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
38.42 |
0.9339 |
-0.0835 |
310 |
1 |
38.42 |
2012-03-05 |
| 109. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
38.42 |
1.0288 |
-0.1448 |
300 |
1 |
38.42 |
2012-03-05 |
| 110. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
38.39 |
0.9279 |
-0.0702 |
317 |
1 |
38.39 |
2012-03-05 |
| 111. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
38.05 |
1.0261 |
-0.1844 |
273 |
1 |
38.05 |
2012-03-05 |
| 112. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
37.92 |
0.8777 |
-0.0345 |
177 |
1 |
37.92 |
2012-03-05 |
| 113. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
37.74 |
0.9072 |
-0.0723 |
237 |
1 |
37.74 |
2012-03-05 |
| 114. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
37.37 |
0.8723 |
-0.0479 |
185 |
1 |
37.37 |
2012-03-05 |
| 115. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
37.01 |
0.8573 |
-0.0335 |
270 |
1 |
37.01 |
2012-03-05 |
| 116. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
36.96 |
0.9089 |
-0.0860 |
342 |
1 |
36.96 |
2012-03-05 |
| 117. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.93 |
1.0213 |
-0.2061 |
240 |
1 |
36.93 |
2012-03-06 |
| 118. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
36.78 |
1.0365 |
-0.1916 |
162 |
1 |
36.78 |
2012-03-05 |
| 119. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
36.63 |
0.8956 |
-0.0794 |
322 |
1 |
36.63 |
2012-03-05 |
| 120. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
36.33 |
0.9509 |
-0.1076 |
225 |
1 |
36.33 |
2012-03-05 |
| 121. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
36.16 |
0.9368 |
-0.1353 |
173 |
1 |
36.16 |
2012-03-05 |
| 122. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
35.52 |
0.8941 |
-0.1055 |
216 |
1 |
35.52 |
2012-03-05 |
| 123. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
34.79 |
0.9278 |
-0.1549 |
295 |
1 |
34.79 |
2012-03-05 |
| 124. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
34.02 |
0.9233 |
-0.1787 |
168 |
1 |
34.02 |
2012-03-05 |
| 125. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
33.58 |
0.7731 |
-0.0281 |
145 |
1 |
33.58 |
2012-03-05 |
| 126. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
32.59 |
0.9986 |
-0.2773 |
283 |
1 |
32.59 |
2012-03-07 |
| 127. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
32.31 |
0.9202 |
-0.2065 |
254 |
1 |
32.31 |
2012-03-05 |
| 128. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
32.12 |
0.7877 |
-0.0730 |
142 |
1 |
32.12 |
2012-03-05 |
| 129. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
30.09 |
0.8841 |
-0.2131 |
194 |
1 |
30.09 |
2012-03-05 |
| 130. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
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0.9213 |
-0.4198 |
295 |
1 |
22.83 |
2012-03-05 |