| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
76.36 |
1.0528 |
0.2858 |
201 |
2 |
63.88 |
2010-02-16 |
| 2. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
74.54 |
0.9731 |
0.3257 |
129 |
3 |
59.63 |
2009-11-22 |
| 3. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
70.38 |
1.0426 |
0.1941 |
323 |
1 |
70.38 |
2010-02-15 |
| 4. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
70.29 |
1.0788 |
0.1514 |
171 |
1 |
70.29 |
2009-05-28 |
| 5. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
69.86 |
1.0429 |
0.1839 |
259 |
1 |
69.86 |
2009-11-22 |
| 6. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
69.43 |
1.0053 |
0.2132 |
232 |
1 |
69.43 |
2010-03-24 |
| 7. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
67.01 |
1.0125 |
0.1627 |
224 |
1 |
67.01 |
2010-02-16 |
| 8. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
66.05 |
0.9811 |
0.1821 |
272 |
1 |
66.05 |
2009-11-22 |
| 9. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
65.70 |
1.0885 |
0.0691 |
315 |
1 |
65.70 |
2009-11-22 |
| 10. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
64.78 |
0.9729 |
0.1652 |
255 |
1 |
64.78 |
2009-06-07 |
| 11. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
64.35 |
1.0141 |
0.1525 |
304 |
1 |
64.35 |
2010-02-16 |
| 12. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
64.29 |
1.0829 |
0.0478 |
288 |
2 |
58.08 |
2009-05-31 |
| 13. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
62.87 |
0.9164 |
0.1924 |
305 |
2 |
58.28 |
2010-02-16 |
| 14. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
62.52 |
0.9866 |
0.1075 |
218 |
1 |
62.52 |
2009-11-22 |
| 15. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
62.17 |
1.0340 |
0.0628 |
406 |
3 |
60.88 |
2009-11-22 |
| 16. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
62.08 |
1.0213 |
0.0655 |
240 |
1 |
62.08 |
2009-05-31 |
| 17. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
62.03 |
0.9376 |
0.1569 |
367 |
1 |
62.03 |
2010-02-16 |
| 18. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
61.82 |
0.9941 |
0.0888 |
217 |
2 |
61.35 |
2009-06-10 |
| 19. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
61.76 |
1.0797 |
-0.0010 |
210 |
2 |
59.02 |
2009-06-15 |
| 20. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
61.71 |
1.0346 |
0.0908 |
244 |
1 |
61.71 |
2010-02-15 |
| 21. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
61.64 |
1.0696 |
0.0090 |
226 |
1 |
61.64 |
2009-06-10 |
| 22. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
61.41 |
1.0063 |
0.0722 |
371 |
1 |
61.41 |
2010-02-15 |
| 23. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
60.80 |
1.0352 |
0.0351 |
341 |
1 |
60.80 |
2009-11-22 |
| 24. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
60.79 |
0.9943 |
0.0759 |
373 |
1 |
60.79 |
2010-02-15 |
| 25. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
60.65 |
1.0120 |
0.0518 |
290 |
1 |
60.65 |
2009-06-03 |
| 26. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
60.60 |
0.9754 |
0.0944 |
362 |
3 |
59.93 |
2010-02-15 |
| 27. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
60.42 |
1.0252 |
0.0288 |
176 |
1 |
60.42 |
2009-06-03 |
| 28. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
60.16 |
1.0167 |
0.0459 |
378 |
1 |
60.16 |
2009-06-02 |
| 29. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
59.26 |
0.9500 |
0.0921 |
362 |
3 |
52.61 |
2009-11-22 |
| 30. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
58.91 |
1.0596 |
-0.0281 |
239 |
1 |
58.91 |
2009-11-22 |
| 31. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
58.70 |
0.9572 |
0.0716 |
201 |
2 |
57.07 |
2009-06-07 |
| 32. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
58.55 |
0.9964 |
0.0309 |
203 |
1 |
58.55 |
2010-02-16 |
| 33. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
58.28 |
0.9049 |
0.1229 |
351 |
1 |
58.28 |
2009-11-22 |
| 34. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
57.48 |
1.0189 |
-0.0074 |
337 |
1 |
57.48 |
2009-06-10 |
| 35. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
57.39 |
0.9612 |
0.0454 |
256 |
1 |
57.39 |
2009-11-22 |
| 36. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
57.38 |
0.9084 |
0.0999 |
300 |
1 |
57.38 |
2009-06-15 |
| 37. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
57.03 |
0.9593 |
0.0456 |
398 |
1 |
57.03 |
2009-06-15 |
| 38. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
56.98 |
1.1018 |
-0.1088 |
220 |
2 |
56.90 |
2009-06-02 |
| 39. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
56.95 |
1.0090 |
0.0336 |
282 |
2 |
56.40 |
2010-02-16 |
| 40. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
56.72 |
0.9936 |
0.0008 |
311 |
1 |
56.72 |
2009-11-22 |
| 41. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
56.71 |
0.9699 |
0.0241 |
269 |
1 |
56.71 |
2009-11-22 |
| 42. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
56.26 |
1.0711 |
-0.0896 |
213 |
1 |
56.26 |
2010-02-16 |
| 43. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
56.20 |
1.0417 |
-0.0587 |
253 |
1 |
56.20 |
2009-06-03 |
| 44. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
56.13 |
1.0062 |
-0.0219 |
288 |
1 |
56.13 |
2009-06-15 |
| 45. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
56.03 |
0.9619 |
0.0258 |
393 |
1 |
56.03 |
2009-06-13 |
| 46. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
55.99 |
0.9527 |
0.0290 |
251 |
1 |
55.99 |
2009-05-29 |
| 47. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
55.72 |
1.0523 |
-0.0796 |
256 |
1 |
55.72 |
2009-05-29 |
| 48. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
55.53 |
0.9578 |
0.0153 |
281 |
2 |
49.36 |
2009-11-22 |
| 49. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
55.53 |
0.9426 |
0.0341 |
317 |
2 |
54.96 |
2010-02-16 |
| 50. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
55.53 |
1.1016 |
-0.1279 |
233 |
1 |
55.53 |
2009-06-15 |
| 51. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
55.45 |
1.0496 |
-0.0781 |
314 |
1 |
55.45 |
2009-11-22 |
| 52. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
55.38 |
1.0138 |
-0.0433 |
231 |
2 |
55.29 |
2009-11-22 |
| 53. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
55.16 |
0.9865 |
-0.0184 |
276 |
1 |
55.16 |
2009-05-31 |
| 54. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
55.03 |
0.8958 |
0.0735 |
322 |
1 |
55.03 |
2009-11-22 |
| 55. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
54.91 |
1.0352 |
-0.0700 |
341 |
1 |
54.91 |
2009-05-31 |
| 56. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
54.89 |
0.9726 |
-0.0168 |
154 |
1 |
54.89 |
2010-03-24 |
| 57. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
54.57 |
0.9148 |
0.0431 |
317 |
2 |
43.29 |
2009-06-10 |
| 58. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
54.33 |
0.8811 |
0.0758 |
239 |
1 |
54.33 |
2010-02-15 |
| 59. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
54.23 |
0.9281 |
0.0275 |
273 |
1 |
54.23 |
2009-06-03 |
| 60. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
54.12 |
1.0396 |
-0.0983 |
149 |
1 |
54.12 |
2009-05-29 |
| 61. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
53.70 |
1.0767 |
-0.1378 |
212 |
1 |
53.70 |
2009-06-07 |
| 62. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
53.51 |
0.9672 |
-0.0230 |
396 |
1 |
53.51 |
2009-11-22 |
| 63. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
53.35 |
1.0619 |
-0.1234 |
354 |
1 |
53.35 |
2009-06-07 |
| 64. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
53.29 |
1.0016 |
-0.0724 |
218 |
1 |
53.29 |
2009-05-31 |
| 65. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
53.09 |
0.7876 |
0.1452 |
316 |
1 |
53.09 |
2009-06-13 |
| 66. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
53.07 |
0.9805 |
-0.0460 |
292 |
2 |
50.36 |
2009-06-10 |
| 67. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
52.87 |
1.0099 |
-0.0865 |
207 |
1 |
52.87 |
2009-06-07 |
| 68. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
52.81 |
1.0168 |
-0.0901 |
271 |
1 |
52.81 |
2009-06-10 |
| 69. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
52.69 |
0.9684 |
-0.0426 |
388 |
2 |
50.52 |
2009-11-22 |
| 70. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
52.32 |
0.9309 |
-0.0162 |
284 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-05-29 |
| 71. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
51.92 |
0.9785 |
-0.0658 |
335 |
2 |
39.07 |
2009-12-26 |
| 72. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
51.90 |
0.8956 |
0.0181 |
322 |
2 |
44.38 |
2009-06-07 |
| 73. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
50.94 |
1.0201 |
-0.1240 |
375 |
1 |
50.94 |
2009-06-15 |
| 74. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
50.41 |
1.0296 |
-0.1406 |
437 |
1 |
50.41 |
2009-06-19 |
| 75. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
50.38 |
1.0025 |
-0.1195 |
336 |
1 |
50.38 |
2009-05-29 |
| 76. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
50.14 |
1.0292 |
-0.1527 |
262 |
1 |
50.14 |
2009-05-31 |
| 77. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
50.01 |
0.9646 |
-0.0900 |
264 |
1 |
50.01 |
2009-06-03 |
| 78. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
49.35 |
0.8382 |
0.0261 |
268 |
1 |
49.35 |
2009-05-31 |
| 79. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
48.62 |
0.9758 |
-0.1243 |
314 |
1 |
48.62 |
2009-06-03 |
| 80. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
48.14 |
0.9202 |
-0.0786 |
254 |
1 |
48.14 |
2009-05-28 |
| 81. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
48.12 |
1.0390 |
-0.2008 |
205 |
1 |
48.12 |
2009-05-28 |
| 82. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.99 |
1.0334 |
-0.2180 |
131 |
1 |
46.99 |
2010-02-16 |
| 83. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
46.91 |
1.0389 |
-0.2160 |
340 |
1 |
46.91 |
2009-05-31 |
| 84. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
45.66 |
0.9286 |
-0.1313 |
194 |
1 |
45.66 |
2009-06-07 |
| 85. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
45.57 |
0.9597 |
-0.1589 |
347 |
1 |
45.57 |
2009-06-02 |
| 86. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
44.75 |
0.8595 |
-0.0756 |
242 |
1 |
44.75 |
2009-06-19 |
| 87. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
44.50 |
1.0214 |
-0.2492 |
166 |
1 |
44.50 |
2009-06-10 |
| 88. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
44.32 |
0.8996 |
-0.1307 |
192 |
1 |
44.32 |
2009-06-03 |
| 89. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
42.98 |
0.8105 |
-0.0642 |
204 |
1 |
42.98 |
2010-02-15 |
| 90. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
41.34 |
0.9513 |
-0.2260 |
354 |
1 |
41.34 |
2009-05-28 |
| 91. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
30.96 |
0.9084 |
-0.3672 |
404 |
1 |
30.96 |
2010-01-03 |