| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
155.37 |
1.0797 |
0.3375 |
210 |
2 |
127.05 |
2008-12-28 |
| 2. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
148.49 |
1.0331 |
0.3239 |
234 |
1 |
148.49 |
2010-08-18 |
| 3. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
141.76 |
1.0917 |
0.2288 |
243 |
1 |
141.76 |
2011-08-26 |
| 4. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
137.29 |
1.0154 |
0.2901 |
351 |
1 |
137.29 |
2011-10-27 |
| 5. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
136.47 |
1.0486 |
0.2003 |
289 |
2 |
120.47 |
2009-01-09 |
| 6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
136.46 |
1.0516 |
0.1961 |
281 |
1 |
136.46 |
2008-12-27 |
| 7. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
132.12 |
1.0426 |
0.1646 |
323 |
1 |
132.12 |
2008-12-27 |
| 8. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
131.87 |
0.9907 |
0.2133 |
211 |
1 |
131.87 |
2008-11-27 |
| 9. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
131.60 |
1.0352 |
0.1710 |
341 |
2 |
123.75 |
2008-12-29 |
| 10. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
131.24 |
0.9986 |
0.2018 |
283 |
3 |
122.86 |
2008-12-29 |
| 11. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
131.00 |
0.9340 |
0.2634 |
296 |
1 |
131.00 |
2010-08-18 |
| 12. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
129.89 |
0.9372 |
0.2541 |
320 |
2 |
82.24 |
2010-08-18 |
| 13. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
129.58 |
0.9213 |
0.2637 |
295 |
1 |
129.58 |
2008-12-27 |
| 14. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
128.84 |
1.0257 |
0.1583 |
401 |
2 |
94.49 |
2008-12-28 |
| 15. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
128.43 |
1.0972 |
0.1063 |
251 |
1 |
128.43 |
2011-10-27 |
| 16. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
127.86 |
1.0515 |
0.1152 |
250 |
1 |
127.86 |
2009-01-07 |
| 17. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
127.53 |
1.0829 |
0.0841 |
288 |
1 |
127.53 |
2008-12-28 |
| 18. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
127.24 |
0.9908 |
0.2180 |
342 |
1 |
127.24 |
2011-10-27 |
| 19. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
126.71 |
0.9936 |
0.1641 |
311 |
1 |
126.71 |
2009-01-19 |
| 20. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
126.70 |
0.9910 |
0.1688 |
295 |
2 |
114.14 |
2008-12-28 |
| 21. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
123.45 |
1.0613 |
0.0674 |
266 |
1 |
123.45 |
2008-12-29 |
| 22. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
122.45 |
1.0349 |
0.0830 |
234 |
1 |
122.45 |
2009-01-19 |
| 23. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
120.73 |
1.0714 |
0.0224 |
129 |
1 |
120.73 |
2008-12-27 |
| 24. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
119.85 |
0.9468 |
0.1473 |
276 |
1 |
119.85 |
2008-12-27 |
| 25. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
119.80 |
0.9187 |
0.1655 |
118 |
1 |
119.80 |
2010-08-19 |
| 26. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
119.77 |
1.0796 |
0.0094 |
129 |
1 |
119.77 |
2008-12-28 |
| 27. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
119.14 |
0.9614 |
0.1296 |
292 |
3 |
111.57 |
2009-01-19 |
| 28. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
118.55 |
1.0534 |
0.0314 |
357 |
2 |
117.32 |
2009-01-09 |
| 29. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
118.28 |
1.0666 |
0.0136 |
297 |
2 |
111.54 |
2009-01-19 |
| 30. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
117.70 |
0.9763 |
0.0979 |
289 |
1 |
117.70 |
2008-12-27 |
| 31. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
116.95 |
1.0197 |
0.0452 |
226 |
1 |
116.95 |
2011-10-27 |
| 32. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
116.69 |
0.9289 |
0.1342 |
204 |
2 |
104.27 |
2008-12-29 |
| 33. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
116.47 |
1.0352 |
0.0307 |
341 |
1 |
116.47 |
2008-12-28 |
| 34. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
116.20 |
0.9681 |
0.1010 |
378 |
1 |
116.20 |
2008-12-29 |
| 35. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
114.70 |
0.9997 |
0.0509 |
382 |
1 |
114.70 |
2009-01-09 |
| 36. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
114.65 |
0.9635 |
0.0884 |
389 |
1 |
114.65 |
2008-12-28 |
| 37. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
114.64 |
1.0340 |
0.0176 |
406 |
1 |
114.64 |
2009-01-19 |
| 38. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
114.56 |
1.0297 |
0.0148 |
249 |
2 |
112.81 |
2008-12-29 |
| 39. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
114.54 |
1.0124 |
0.0307 |
204 |
2 |
110.42 |
2008-12-28 |
| 40. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
114.51 |
1.0528 |
-0.0126 |
201 |
1 |
114.51 |
2009-01-30 |
| 41. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
114.49 |
1.0483 |
-0.0063 |
227 |
1 |
114.49 |
2008-12-29 |
| 42. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
114.08 |
1.0619 |
-0.0170 |
354 |
1 |
114.08 |
2008-12-29 |
| 43. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
113.48 |
0.8722 |
0.1664 |
285 |
2 |
107.64 |
2009-01-09 |
| 44. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
113.44 |
0.9966 |
0.0381 |
259 |
2 |
104.53 |
2008-12-28 |
| 45. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
113.12 |
0.9286 |
0.1028 |
194 |
1 |
113.12 |
2009-01-09 |
| 46. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
112.95 |
0.8916 |
0.1395 |
216 |
3 |
105.64 |
2008-12-28 |
| 47. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
112.93 |
0.9005 |
0.1286 |
212 |
1 |
112.93 |
2008-12-27 |
| 48. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
112.77 |
1.0201 |
0.0022 |
172 |
2 |
111.45 |
2009-01-19 |
| 49. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
112.73 |
1.0109 |
0.0187 |
276 |
1 |
112.73 |
2009-02-17 |
| 50. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
112.71 |
1.0390 |
-0.0142 |
205 |
2 |
101.69 |
2008-12-28 |
| 51. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
112.70 |
1.0441 |
-0.0141 |
252 |
1 |
112.70 |
2009-01-19 |
| 52. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
112.24 |
0.9233 |
0.0926 |
168 |
1 |
112.24 |
2009-01-07 |
| 53. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
111.44 |
0.8971 |
0.1251 |
266 |
1 |
111.44 |
2008-12-27 |
| 54. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
111.41 |
0.9976 |
0.0392 |
174 |
1 |
111.41 |
2011-10-27 |
| 55. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
111.37 |
0.9740 |
0.0381 |
209 |
1 |
111.37 |
2008-12-28 |
| 56. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
111.09 |
1.0004 |
0.0071 |
212 |
1 |
111.09 |
2008-12-29 |
| 57. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
111.01 |
0.8914 |
0.1223 |
366 |
1 |
111.01 |
2010-08-19 |
| 58. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
110.36 |
0.8467 |
0.1844 |
343 |
1 |
110.36 |
2011-10-27 |
| 59. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
109.62 |
0.8442 |
0.1598 |
265 |
2 |
101.14 |
2008-12-27 |
| 60. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
109.54 |
0.9852 |
0.0144 |
264 |
1 |
109.54 |
2008-12-28 |
| 61. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
108.83 |
0.9798 |
0.0072 |
199 |
2 |
98.85 |
2008-12-28 |
| 62. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
108.65 |
0.8933 |
0.1042 |
363 |
1 |
108.65 |
2009-01-19 |
| 63. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
107.64 |
0.9893 |
-0.0075 |
323 |
1 |
107.64 |
2008-12-28 |
| 64. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
107.61 |
0.9567 |
0.0246 |
273 |
1 |
107.61 |
2008-11-27 |
| 65. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
105.95 |
0.9148 |
0.0527 |
317 |
1 |
105.95 |
2008-12-27 |
| 66. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
105.51 |
0.9168 |
0.0466 |
240 |
1 |
105.51 |
2009-01-19 |
| 67. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
105.51 |
1.0060 |
-0.0486 |
171 |
1 |
105.51 |
2010-11-10 |
| 68. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
105.18 |
0.9212 |
0.0411 |
323 |
1 |
105.18 |
2008-12-28 |
| 69. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
104.91 |
0.9339 |
0.0211 |
310 |
1 |
104.91 |
2008-12-27 |
| 70. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
104.66 |
0.9884 |
-0.0350 |
233 |
1 |
104.66 |
2008-12-28 |
| 71. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
104.49 |
1.0555 |
-0.1015 |
363 |
1 |
104.49 |
2008-12-28 |
| 72. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
104.48 |
0.9485 |
0.0057 |
236 |
1 |
104.48 |
2009-01-09 |
| 73. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
104.33 |
0.9570 |
-0.0041 |
287 |
2 |
103.68 |
2008-12-29 |
| 74. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
104.25 |
0.9786 |
-0.0334 |
193 |
1 |
104.25 |
2008-12-28 |
| 75. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
103.94 |
0.9125 |
0.0369 |
308 |
2 |
95.25 |
2009-01-09 |
| 76. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
103.94 |
0.8852 |
0.0645 |
201 |
1 |
103.94 |
2010-11-10 |
| 77. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
103.43 |
0.9049 |
0.0433 |
351 |
1 |
103.43 |
2008-12-27 |
| 78. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
103.37 |
0.8958 |
0.0511 |
322 |
1 |
103.37 |
2008-12-27 |
| 79. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
103.01 |
1.0025 |
-0.0626 |
336 |
2 |
101.49 |
2008-12-29 |
| 80. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
102.45 |
0.9846 |
-0.0519 |
281 |
2 |
101.92 |
2008-12-28 |
| 81. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
100.75 |
1.0462 |
-0.1342 |
184 |
1 |
100.75 |
2008-12-27 |
| 82. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
100.46 |
0.9072 |
0.0065 |
237 |
1 |
100.46 |
2008-12-27 |
| 83. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
100.26 |
1.0391 |
-0.1195 |
358 |
1 |
100.26 |
2008-12-29 |
| 84. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
100.08 |
1.0296 |
-0.1113 |
437 |
2 |
71.55 |
2008-12-28 |
| 85. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
100.02 |
0.9593 |
-0.0433 |
398 |
1 |
100.02 |
2008-12-28 |
| 86. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
98.79 |
0.9646 |
-0.0655 |
264 |
1 |
98.79 |
2008-12-27 |
| 87. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
98.14 |
0.9612 |
-0.0672 |
256 |
2 |
94.71 |
2008-12-29 |
| 88. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
97.88 |
0.8770 |
0.0178 |
300 |
1 |
97.88 |
2009-10-21 |
| 89. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
97.60 |
1.0168 |
-0.1264 |
271 |
1 |
97.60 |
2009-01-07 |
| 90. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
95.53 |
0.9234 |
-0.0482 |
346 |
1 |
95.53 |
2008-12-29 |
| 91. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
94.91 |
0.9266 |
-0.0624 |
267 |
1 |
94.91 |
2008-12-29 |
| 92. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
94.54 |
0.9672 |
-0.1000 |
396 |
1 |
94.54 |
2008-12-28 |
| 93. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
93.62 |
0.9330 |
-0.0742 |
360 |
1 |
93.62 |
2008-12-27 |
| 94. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
92.14 |
0.9675 |
-0.1195 |
383 |
1 |
92.14 |
2009-01-07 |
| 95. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
91.93 |
0.8947 |
-0.0532 |
366 |
2 |
91.91 |
2008-12-29 |
| 96. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
91.54 |
0.9597 |
-0.1226 |
347 |
1 |
91.54 |
2008-11-27 |
| 97. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
90.71 |
0.9411 |
-0.1150 |
318 |
1 |
90.71 |
2008-12-28 |
| 98. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
90.42 |
0.9811 |
-0.1558 |
272 |
3 |
79.73 |
2008-12-28 |
| 99. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
89.38 |
0.9731 |
-0.1726 |
129 |
1 |
89.38 |
2009-01-07 |
| 100. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
88.67 |
1.0399 |
-0.2282 |
294 |
1 |
88.67 |
2008-12-29 |
| 101. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
88.59 |
0.9429 |
-0.1359 |
287 |
1 |
88.59 |
2009-01-09 |
| 102. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
88.07 |
0.8935 |
-0.0829 |
328 |
1 |
88.07 |
2008-12-28 |
| 103. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
87.53 |
1.0445 |
-0.2477 |
373 |
1 |
87.53 |
2008-12-29 |
| 104. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
86.92 |
0.9769 |
-0.1887 |
263 |
1 |
86.92 |
2008-12-27 |
| 105. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
86.31 |
0.9342 |
-0.1461 |
434 |
1 |
86.31 |
2008-12-27 |
| 106. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
83.42 |
0.9426 |
-0.1816 |
317 |
1 |
83.42 |
2009-01-09 |
| 107. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
83.18 |
1.0487 |
-0.2980 |
231 |
1 |
83.18 |
2008-12-28 |
| 108. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
82.70 |
0.8975 |
-0.1457 |
268 |
1 |
82.70 |
2008-12-28 |
| 109. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
77.85 |
1.0398 |
-0.3438 |
110 |
1 |
77.85 |
2008-12-28 |
| 110. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
77.35 |
0.8105 |
-0.1130 |
204 |
1 |
77.35 |
2009-01-19 |
| 111. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
74.25 |
1.0025 |
-0.3294 |
256 |
1 |
74.25 |
2008-12-28 |
| 112. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
68.30 |
1.0261 |
-0.4098 |
273 |
1 |
68.30 |
2008-12-27 |
| 113. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
50.02 |
0.8353 |
-0.3785 |
283 |
1 |
50.02 |
2008-12-28 |
| 114. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
29.49 |
0.9109 |
-0.6487 |
401 |
1 |
29.49 |
2008-12-27 |