| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
105.93 |
1.1114 |
0.1965 |
247 |
2 |
96.51 |
2009-02-01 |
| 2. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
103.56 |
1.0787 |
0.2010 |
237 |
2 |
99.06 |
2008-10-12 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
103.07 |
1.1018 |
0.1667 |
220 |
2 |
94.46 |
2009-02-01 |
| 4. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
101.76 |
1.0668 |
0.1942 |
350 |
5 |
90.27 |
2009-01-13 |
| 5. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
101.72 |
1.0296 |
0.2348 |
437 |
3 |
89.44 |
2008-12-10 |
| 6. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
99.46 |
1.0124 |
0.2150 |
204 |
1 |
99.46 |
2008-10-12 |
| 7. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
98.75 |
0.9857 |
0.2342 |
293 |
3 |
87.15 |
2008-10-11 |
| 8. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
98.03 |
1.0214 |
0.1851 |
166 |
2 |
94.02 |
2009-02-01 |
| 9. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
96.07 |
0.9513 |
0.2399 |
354 |
1 |
96.07 |
2008-10-11 |
| 10. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
96.00 |
1.0201 |
0.1705 |
375 |
2 |
86.36 |
2009-01-13 |
| 11. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
95.54 |
0.9281 |
0.2578 |
273 |
1 |
95.54 |
2008-10-14 |
| 12. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
95.50 |
1.0029 |
0.1710 |
209 |
4 |
83.81 |
2008-12-11 |
| 13. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
94.64 |
1.0521 |
0.1127 |
171 |
1 |
94.64 |
2009-01-13 |
| 14. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
93.87 |
1.0396 |
0.1132 |
149 |
1 |
93.87 |
2008-10-14 |
| 15. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
93.61 |
1.0062 |
0.1505 |
288 |
2 |
89.88 |
2008-10-12 |
| 16. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
93.52 |
1.0696 |
0.0825 |
226 |
1 |
93.52 |
2008-10-14 |
| 17. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
93.44 |
1.0555 |
0.1005 |
363 |
1 |
93.44 |
2008-10-12 |
| 18. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
92.95 |
0.9557 |
0.1991 |
331 |
2 |
80.90 |
2008-10-12 |
| 19. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
92.29 |
0.9758 |
0.1651 |
314 |
2 |
91.74 |
2008-10-14 |
| 20. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
92.04 |
1.0352 |
0.1050 |
341 |
1 |
92.04 |
2009-01-13 |
| 21. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
91.33 |
1.0063 |
0.1223 |
371 |
2 |
88.36 |
2009-01-13 |
| 22. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
91.32 |
1.0463 |
0.0772 |
182 |
1 |
91.32 |
2009-02-01 |
| 23. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
91.24 |
1.0596 |
0.0654 |
239 |
1 |
91.24 |
2008-10-11 |
| 24. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
90.78 |
1.0399 |
0.0866 |
294 |
2 |
89.31 |
2008-10-12 |
| 25. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
90.77 |
1.0390 |
0.0784 |
205 |
2 |
87.53 |
2008-12-15 |
| 26. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
90.63 |
1.0016 |
0.1133 |
218 |
1 |
90.63 |
2008-10-11 |
| 27. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
90.53 |
1.0567 |
0.0621 |
303 |
1 |
90.53 |
2008-10-12 |
| 28. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
90.52 |
1.0496 |
0.0678 |
314 |
1 |
90.52 |
2008-10-11 |
| 29. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
90.25 |
1.0213 |
0.0902 |
240 |
1 |
90.25 |
2008-10-11 |
| 30. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
88.63 |
1.0419 |
0.0526 |
261 |
1 |
88.63 |
2008-10-12 |
| 31. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
88.34 |
0.8811 |
0.2144 |
239 |
2 |
74.92 |
2009-02-01 |
| 32. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
87.89 |
1.0214 |
0.0621 |
269 |
1 |
87.89 |
2008-10-11 |
| 33. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
87.36 |
1.0337 |
0.0443 |
214 |
1 |
87.36 |
2008-10-11 |
| 34. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
86.98 |
1.0454 |
0.0248 |
255 |
1 |
86.98 |
2008-10-12 |
| 35. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
86.87 |
0.9786 |
0.0887 |
193 |
1 |
86.87 |
2008-12-01 |
| 36. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
86.46 |
0.9841 |
0.0871 |
334 |
1 |
86.46 |
2008-10-11 |
| 37. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
86.41 |
0.9687 |
0.1027 |
371 |
1 |
86.41 |
2008-10-11 |
| 38. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
86.09 |
1.0183 |
0.0388 |
191 |
2 |
76.41 |
2009-02-01 |
| 39. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
85.78 |
0.9148 |
0.1455 |
317 |
3 |
69.19 |
2009-02-01 |
| 40. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
85.06 |
1.0829 |
-0.0315 |
288 |
1 |
85.06 |
2008-10-14 |
| 41. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
85.04 |
1.0462 |
-0.0027 |
184 |
2 |
80.12 |
2008-10-14 |
| 42. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
84.77 |
1.0441 |
0.0037 |
252 |
1 |
84.77 |
2009-02-01 |
| 43. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
84.46 |
1.0429 |
-0.0019 |
259 |
1 |
84.46 |
2008-10-14 |
| 44. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
84.25 |
0.9675 |
0.0818 |
383 |
1 |
84.25 |
2008-10-12 |
| 45. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
84.08 |
1.0013 |
0.0354 |
273 |
2 |
82.47 |
2009-01-13 |
| 46. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
84.02 |
0.9740 |
0.0588 |
209 |
2 |
82.61 |
2008-10-11 |
| 47. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
83.98 |
0.9233 |
0.1048 |
168 |
2 |
80.09 |
2008-10-14 |
| 48. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
83.84 |
1.0534 |
-0.0166 |
357 |
2 |
78.48 |
2008-10-11 |
| 49. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
83.61 |
0.9886 |
0.0457 |
220 |
3 |
81.38 |
2009-01-13 |
| 50. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
83.02 |
0.9731 |
0.0388 |
129 |
2 |
79.28 |
2008-10-11 |
| 51. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
82.92 |
1.0595 |
-0.0339 |
379 |
1 |
82.92 |
2008-10-12 |
| 52. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
82.78 |
1.0486 |
-0.0264 |
289 |
1 |
82.78 |
2008-10-12 |
| 53. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
82.67 |
1.0444 |
-0.0310 |
197 |
1 |
82.67 |
2008-10-11 |
| 54. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
82.58 |
1.0389 |
-0.0176 |
340 |
1 |
82.58 |
2009-01-13 |
| 55. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
82.48 |
0.9772 |
0.0369 |
217 |
1 |
82.48 |
2008-10-11 |
| 56. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
82.42 |
1.0426 |
-0.0264 |
323 |
2 |
78.17 |
2009-02-01 |
| 57. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
82.38 |
0.9710 |
0.0389 |
173 |
1 |
82.38 |
2009-01-13 |
| 58. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
82.34 |
0.9514 |
0.0648 |
237 |
1 |
82.34 |
2008-10-12 |
| 59. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
82.03 |
1.0398 |
-0.0383 |
110 |
2 |
77.38 |
2008-10-11 |
| 60. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
81.87 |
1.0165 |
-0.0026 |
392 |
2 |
80.34 |
2008-10-14 |
| 61. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
81.49 |
0.9833 |
0.0236 |
355 |
3 |
77.43 |
2008-11-30 |
| 62. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
81.22 |
1.0025 |
0.0003 |
336 |
1 |
81.22 |
2009-02-01 |
| 63. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
80.72 |
0.9593 |
0.0410 |
398 |
2 |
70.96 |
2009-02-01 |
| 64. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
80.61 |
1.0099 |
-0.0185 |
207 |
1 |
80.61 |
2008-10-11 |
| 65. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
80.57 |
0.9601 |
0.0384 |
308 |
1 |
80.57 |
2008-10-11 |
| 66. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
80.45 |
0.9843 |
0.0030 |
234 |
1 |
80.45 |
2008-10-11 |
| 67. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
80.18 |
1.0487 |
-0.0648 |
231 |
1 |
80.18 |
2009-02-01 |
| 68. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
80.12 |
0.8933 |
0.1013 |
363 |
1 |
80.12 |
2008-10-11 |
| 69. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
79.72 |
0.9426 |
0.0437 |
317 |
1 |
79.72 |
2008-10-11 |
| 70. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
79.00 |
0.9879 |
-0.0050 |
450 |
1 |
79.00 |
2008-10-11 |
| 71. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
78.81 |
1.0528 |
-0.0860 |
201 |
1 |
78.81 |
2008-10-12 |
| 72. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
78.53 |
0.9084 |
0.0640 |
404 |
1 |
78.53 |
2008-10-11 |
| 73. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
78.45 |
1.0261 |
-0.0607 |
273 |
1 |
78.45 |
2008-10-11 |
| 74. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
78.27 |
0.9279 |
0.0436 |
317 |
2 |
74.57 |
2008-10-14 |
| 75. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
78.12 |
0.9844 |
-0.0164 |
293 |
2 |
75.38 |
2008-10-12 |
| 76. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
78.05 |
1.0577 |
-0.0989 |
247 |
1 |
78.05 |
2008-10-09 |
| 77. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
77.66 |
0.9734 |
-0.0163 |
289 |
1 |
77.66 |
2008-10-11 |
| 78. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
77.53 |
1.0993 |
-0.1456 |
265 |
1 |
77.53 |
2008-10-14 |
| 79. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
77.33 |
0.9776 |
-0.0241 |
308 |
1 |
77.33 |
2008-10-11 |
| 80. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
77.00 |
0.9936 |
-0.0447 |
311 |
1 |
77.00 |
2008-10-11 |
| 81. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
76.65 |
0.9088 |
0.0412 |
348 |
1 |
76.65 |
2009-02-01 |
| 82. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
76.22 |
1.0201 |
-0.0875 |
172 |
1 |
76.22 |
2008-10-12 |
| 83. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
76.13 |
1.0131 |
-0.0787 |
225 |
2 |
73.08 |
2008-12-10 |
| 84. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
75.78 |
0.9342 |
0.0032 |
434 |
1 |
75.78 |
2008-10-14 |
| 85. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
75.74 |
0.9884 |
-0.0558 |
233 |
1 |
75.74 |
2008-11-30 |
| 86. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
75.27 |
0.9682 |
-0.0425 |
143 |
1 |
75.27 |
2009-02-04 |
| 87. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
75.10 |
1.0613 |
-0.1309 |
456 |
1 |
75.10 |
2008-10-09 |
| 88. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
75.07 |
0.9852 |
-0.0598 |
264 |
1 |
75.07 |
2009-01-13 |
| 89. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
75.07 |
0.9907 |
-0.0672 |
211 |
2 |
72.34 |
2008-10-12 |
| 90. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
75.05 |
0.9351 |
-0.0158 |
190 |
3 |
68.06 |
2008-12-15 |
| 91. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
75.03 |
0.9266 |
-0.0019 |
267 |
1 |
75.03 |
2008-10-12 |
| 92. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
74.96 |
0.9430 |
-0.0266 |
211 |
1 |
74.96 |
2008-10-11 |
| 93. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
74.68 |
0.9212 |
0.0023 |
323 |
1 |
74.68 |
2008-12-11 |
| 94. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
74.34 |
0.8826 |
0.0347 |
296 |
1 |
74.34 |
2008-10-12 |
| 95. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
74.21 |
1.0767 |
-0.1646 |
212 |
1 |
74.21 |
2009-02-01 |
| 96. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
74.19 |
1.0203 |
-0.1028 |
261 |
1 |
74.19 |
2008-10-12 |
| 97. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
74.07 |
0.9763 |
-0.0642 |
289 |
1 |
74.07 |
2008-10-11 |
| 98. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
73.63 |
0.9570 |
-0.0482 |
287 |
1 |
73.63 |
2008-10-11 |
| 99. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
73.51 |
1.0004 |
-0.1009 |
212 |
2 |
68.21 |
2009-02-01 |
| 100. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
72.87 |
0.9865 |
-0.0878 |
276 |
2 |
72.70 |
2008-12-01 |
| 101. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
72.26 |
0.8919 |
-0.0037 |
205 |
2 |
63.89 |
2008-12-10 |
| 102. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
72.14 |
0.9365 |
-0.0467 |
248 |
1 |
72.14 |
2008-10-12 |
| 103. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
72.09 |
0.9429 |
-0.0538 |
287 |
1 |
72.09 |
2008-10-11 |
| 104. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
71.99 |
0.9614 |
-0.0718 |
292 |
2 |
69.84 |
2008-11-29 |
| 105. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
71.83 |
1.0023 |
-0.1196 |
211 |
1 |
71.83 |
2008-12-11 |
| 106. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
71.62 |
0.8958 |
-0.0092 |
322 |
1 |
71.62 |
2009-02-01 |
| 107. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
71.27 |
0.8981 |
-0.0159 |
393 |
1 |
71.27 |
2008-10-11 |
| 108. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
70.99 |
0.9109 |
-0.0342 |
401 |
1 |
70.99 |
2008-10-11 |
| 109. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
70.96 |
1.0197 |
-0.1489 |
226 |
1 |
70.96 |
2008-10-11 |
| 110. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
70.82 |
0.9795 |
-0.1075 |
308 |
1 |
70.82 |
2008-10-09 |
| 111. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
69.73 |
1.0445 |
-0.1853 |
373 |
2 |
68.14 |
2009-02-01 |
| 112. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
68.96 |
0.9097 |
-0.0194 |
464 |
1 |
68.96 |
2009-01-13 |
| 113. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
68.33 |
0.9578 |
-0.1175 |
281 |
1 |
68.33 |
2008-10-09 |
| 114. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
68.07 |
0.9164 |
-0.0740 |
305 |
1 |
68.07 |
2008-10-11 |
| 115. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
68.04 |
0.9275 |
-0.0936 |
211 |
1 |
68.04 |
2008-10-11 |
| 116. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
67.26 |
0.9567 |
-0.1294 |
273 |
1 |
67.26 |
2008-10-12 |
| 117. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
66.92 |
0.9991 |
-0.1754 |
225 |
1 |
66.92 |
2008-10-11 |
| 118. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
66.54 |
0.8971 |
-0.0733 |
266 |
1 |
66.54 |
2008-10-11 |
| 119. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
66.24 |
0.9074 |
-0.0862 |
396 |
1 |
66.24 |
2008-10-11 |
| 120. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
65.54 |
1.0714 |
-0.2743 |
129 |
1 |
65.54 |
2008-10-11 |
| 121. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
64.65 |
0.9632 |
-0.1619 |
392 |
1 |
64.65 |
2008-11-23 |
| 122. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
64.34 |
0.9866 |
-0.1993 |
218 |
1 |
64.34 |
2008-10-11 |
| 123. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
63.80 |
0.8595 |
-0.0735 |
242 |
1 |
63.80 |
2009-01-13 |
| 124. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
63.55 |
0.9072 |
-0.1278 |
237 |
1 |
63.55 |
2008-10-14 |
| 125. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
63.02 |
0.8916 |
-0.1168 |
216 |
1 |
63.02 |
2008-10-11 |
| 126. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
62.92 |
0.9684 |
-0.1925 |
388 |
1 |
62.92 |
2008-11-23 |
| 127. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
62.37 |
0.8852 |
-0.1167 |
201 |
2 |
60.66 |
2009-02-01 |
| 128. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
61.93 |
0.8947 |
-0.1289 |
366 |
1 |
61.93 |
2008-11-23 |
| 129. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
61.15 |
0.9653 |
-0.2059 |
394 |
1 |
61.15 |
2008-10-11 |
| 130. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
60.05 |
0.9899 |
-0.2572 |
163 |
1 |
60.05 |
2008-11-23 |
| 131. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
58.19 |
0.8382 |
-0.1235 |
268 |
1 |
58.19 |
2009-02-01 |
| 132. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
54.51 |
1.0331 |
-0.3671 |
234 |
1 |
54.51 |
2008-10-12 |
| 133. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
50.74 |
0.9049 |
-0.2784 |
351 |
1 |
50.74 |
2009-02-01 |