| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
172.79 |
1.0696 |
0.1888 |
226 |
1 |
172.79 |
2010-10-29 |
| 2. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
171.55 |
1.0445 |
0.2091 |
373 |
1 |
171.55 |
2010-11-01 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
169.64 |
1.0714 |
0.1584 |
129 |
1 |
169.64 |
2010-10-29 |
| 4. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
168.14 |
1.0788 |
0.1432 |
171 |
2 |
155.57 |
2010-11-13 |
| 5. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
164.21 |
1.0668 |
0.1343 |
350 |
1 |
164.21 |
2010-11-13 |
| 6. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
161.82 |
1.1081 |
0.1075 |
206 |
1 |
161.82 |
2010-10-31 |
| 7. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
161.76 |
1.0029 |
0.1712 |
209 |
1 |
161.76 |
2010-11-07 |
| 8. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
161.38 |
1.0613 |
0.1173 |
266 |
2 |
160.56 |
2010-11-03 |
| 9. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
160.85 |
1.0419 |
0.1319 |
261 |
1 |
160.85 |
2010-11-17 |
| 10. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
159.82 |
1.0993 |
0.0648 |
265 |
1 |
159.82 |
2011-02-24 |
| 11. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
158.01 |
1.0390 |
0.1100 |
205 |
1 |
158.01 |
2010-11-02 |
| 12. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
157.91 |
1.0441 |
0.1095 |
252 |
2 |
149.08 |
2010-11-05 |
| 13. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
157.15 |
1.0555 |
0.0924 |
363 |
3 |
142.07 |
2010-11-10 |
| 14. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
155.93 |
1.0403 |
0.1122 |
193 |
1 |
155.93 |
2010-10-31 |
| 15. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
155.86 |
1.0483 |
0.0857 |
227 |
4 |
143.64 |
2010-11-13 |
| 16. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
155.03 |
0.9811 |
0.1525 |
272 |
2 |
149.54 |
2010-11-10 |
| 17. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
154.63 |
1.0013 |
0.1257 |
273 |
1 |
154.63 |
2010-10-31 |
| 18. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
154.30 |
1.0486 |
0.0777 |
289 |
1 |
154.30 |
2010-11-07 |
| 19. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
152.39 |
1.1215 |
0.0139 |
200 |
2 |
151.36 |
2010-11-13 |
| 20. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
151.27 |
0.9841 |
0.1228 |
334 |
2 |
140.31 |
2010-11-13 |
| 21. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
150.23 |
1.0608 |
0.0680 |
258 |
1 |
150.23 |
2010-10-31 |
| 22. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
150.20 |
1.0261 |
0.1085 |
410 |
1 |
150.20 |
2010-11-07 |
| 23. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
150.11 |
1.0613 |
0.0383 |
456 |
1 |
150.11 |
2010-10-29 |
| 24. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
149.90 |
1.0529 |
0.0400 |
351 |
3 |
142.04 |
2010-11-10 |
| 25. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
149.88 |
1.0088 |
0.1228 |
396 |
1 |
149.88 |
2010-11-07 |
| 26. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
149.72 |
1.0863 |
0.0402 |
210 |
2 |
146.75 |
2010-11-03 |
| 27. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
149.69 |
0.9612 |
0.1303 |
256 |
1 |
149.69 |
2010-11-02 |
| 28. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
148.97 |
0.9553 |
0.1381 |
430 |
2 |
144.41 |
2010-11-06 |
| 29. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
148.66 |
1.0201 |
0.0642 |
303 |
1 |
148.66 |
2010-10-29 |
| 30. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
148.32 |
1.0462 |
0.0291 |
184 |
1 |
148.32 |
2010-11-03 |
| 31. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
147.47 |
0.9468 |
0.1278 |
276 |
2 |
138.04 |
2010-11-07 |
| 32. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
147.21 |
1.0496 |
0.0229 |
314 |
1 |
147.21 |
2010-11-17 |
| 33. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
146.88 |
1.0454 |
0.0216 |
255 |
1 |
146.88 |
2010-11-03 |
| 34. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
146.66 |
0.9148 |
0.1557 |
317 |
1 |
146.66 |
2010-10-31 |
| 35. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
146.54 |
1.0167 |
0.0583 |
378 |
1 |
146.54 |
2010-11-02 |
| 36. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
146.53 |
1.0016 |
0.0620 |
218 |
1 |
146.53 |
2010-11-01 |
| 37. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
146.35 |
1.0099 |
0.0540 |
207 |
1 |
146.35 |
2010-11-02 |
| 38. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
146.11 |
1.1018 |
-0.0431 |
220 |
1 |
146.11 |
2010-10-31 |
| 39. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
145.76 |
1.0595 |
0.0055 |
379 |
1 |
145.76 |
2010-11-17 |
| 40. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
145.04 |
1.0109 |
0.0792 |
400 |
1 |
145.04 |
2010-10-29 |
| 41. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
143.46 |
0.9342 |
0.1148 |
434 |
1 |
143.46 |
2010-10-31 |
| 42. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
143.17 |
0.9898 |
0.0912 |
353 |
1 |
143.17 |
2010-11-13 |
| 43. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
141.84 |
1.0740 |
-0.0021 |
264 |
2 |
138.49 |
2010-11-02 |
| 44. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
141.04 |
0.9196 |
0.1098 |
148 |
1 |
141.04 |
2010-10-30 |
| 45. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
141.00 |
0.9731 |
0.0418 |
129 |
1 |
141.00 |
2010-11-02 |
| 46. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
140.86 |
0.9966 |
0.0291 |
259 |
1 |
140.86 |
2010-11-05 |
| 47. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
140.76 |
1.0025 |
0.0240 |
336 |
1 |
140.76 |
2010-10-29 |
| 48. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
140.64 |
1.0396 |
-0.0221 |
149 |
1 |
140.64 |
2010-10-29 |
| 49. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
140.52 |
0.9884 |
0.0346 |
233 |
1 |
140.52 |
2010-09-12 |
| 50. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
140.48 |
0.9597 |
0.0679 |
347 |
1 |
140.48 |
2010-10-31 |
| 51. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
140.01 |
1.1016 |
-0.0814 |
233 |
2 |
137.58 |
2010-11-05 |
| 52. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
139.95 |
1.0060 |
0.0089 |
171 |
1 |
139.95 |
2010-11-06 |
| 53. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
139.70 |
1.0214 |
-0.0053 |
269 |
1 |
139.70 |
2010-11-13 |
| 54. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
139.45 |
1.0677 |
-0.0214 |
284 |
1 |
139.45 |
2010-11-02 |
| 55. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
139.09 |
1.0669 |
-0.0213 |
286 |
1 |
139.09 |
2010-11-02 |
| 56. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
138.97 |
1.0463 |
-0.0385 |
182 |
1 |
138.97 |
2010-11-13 |
| 57. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
138.96 |
0.9763 |
0.0355 |
289 |
2 |
138.67 |
2010-11-07 |
| 58. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
138.73 |
1.0774 |
-0.0374 |
304 |
2 |
137.55 |
2010-11-17 |
| 59. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
138.30 |
0.9768 |
0.0332 |
387 |
1 |
138.30 |
2010-11-03 |
| 60. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
138.14 |
0.9865 |
0.0209 |
276 |
1 |
138.14 |
2010-10-29 |
| 61. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
138.08 |
1.0389 |
-0.0314 |
318 |
2 |
135.73 |
2010-11-12 |
| 62. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
137.26 |
1.0389 |
-0.0367 |
340 |
2 |
131.37 |
2010-10-29 |
| 63. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
137.02 |
0.9532 |
0.0435 |
258 |
1 |
137.02 |
2010-11-05 |
| 64. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
136.88 |
0.9925 |
0.0412 |
247 |
1 |
136.88 |
2010-10-31 |
| 65. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
136.40 |
1.0515 |
-0.0600 |
250 |
1 |
136.40 |
2010-11-14 |
| 66. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
136.02 |
0.8947 |
0.1008 |
366 |
1 |
136.02 |
2010-11-13 |
| 67. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
135.14 |
1.0412 |
-0.0577 |
225 |
1 |
135.14 |
2010-10-31 |
| 68. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
134.41 |
0.9772 |
-0.0020 |
217 |
1 |
134.41 |
2010-11-17 |
| 69. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
134.41 |
0.9734 |
0.0050 |
289 |
1 |
134.41 |
2010-10-31 |
| 70. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
134.00 |
0.8961 |
0.0762 |
189 |
2 |
124.81 |
2010-11-07 |
| 71. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
132.78 |
1.0441 |
-0.0361 |
316 |
1 |
132.78 |
2010-11-06 |
| 72. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
132.74 |
1.0331 |
-0.0689 |
234 |
1 |
132.74 |
2010-11-01 |
| 73. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
132.63 |
0.9485 |
0.0195 |
291 |
1 |
132.63 |
2010-11-17 |
| 74. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
132.45 |
0.9910 |
-0.0248 |
295 |
1 |
132.45 |
2010-10-31 |
| 75. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
132.18 |
0.9871 |
0.0114 |
209 |
1 |
132.18 |
2010-10-31 |
| 76. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
132.15 |
1.0619 |
-0.0962 |
354 |
2 |
126.33 |
2010-11-07 |
| 77. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
132.13 |
0.9216 |
0.0792 |
255 |
1 |
132.13 |
2010-10-31 |
| 78. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
131.93 |
0.9084 |
0.0561 |
404 |
1 |
131.93 |
2010-11-05 |
| 79. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
131.69 |
1.0523 |
-0.0979 |
256 |
1 |
131.69 |
2010-11-02 |
| 80. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
131.41 |
1.0053 |
-0.0507 |
232 |
1 |
131.41 |
2010-10-29 |
| 81. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
130.69 |
0.9293 |
0.0228 |
355 |
1 |
130.69 |
2010-11-17 |
| 82. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
130.64 |
0.9164 |
0.0393 |
305 |
1 |
130.64 |
2010-11-02 |
| 83. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
130.50 |
0.9371 |
0.0517 |
318 |
1 |
130.50 |
2010-11-17 |
| 84. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
130.35 |
0.9372 |
0.0156 |
320 |
1 |
130.35 |
2010-11-13 |
| 85. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
130.15 |
0.9330 |
0.0209 |
360 |
1 |
130.15 |
2010-11-17 |
| 86. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
129.76 |
1.0213 |
-0.0801 |
240 |
1 |
129.76 |
2010-11-01 |
| 87. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
129.69 |
0.9965 |
-0.0523 |
310 |
1 |
129.69 |
2010-11-13 |
| 88. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
129.02 |
1.0358 |
-0.0552 |
349 |
1 |
129.02 |
2010-11-01 |
| 89. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
128.63 |
0.9769 |
-0.0429 |
263 |
1 |
128.63 |
2010-11-05 |
| 90. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
128.55 |
1.0154 |
-0.0301 |
351 |
1 |
128.55 |
2010-10-31 |
| 91. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
128.51 |
0.8722 |
0.0659 |
285 |
1 |
128.51 |
2010-11-13 |
| 92. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
128.21 |
0.9212 |
0.0151 |
323 |
1 |
128.21 |
2010-11-05 |
| 93. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
128.17 |
0.9739 |
-0.0054 |
412 |
1 |
128.17 |
2010-10-29 |
| 94. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
127.68 |
0.9514 |
-0.0220 |
237 |
1 |
127.68 |
2010-10-31 |
| 95. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
127.40 |
1.0095 |
-0.0836 |
316 |
1 |
127.40 |
2010-09-12 |
| 96. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
126.84 |
1.0183 |
-0.1010 |
191 |
1 |
126.84 |
2010-11-10 |
| 97. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
125.74 |
1.1296 |
-0.1857 |
252 |
1 |
125.74 |
2010-11-13 |
| 98. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
125.40 |
0.9678 |
-0.0208 |
445 |
1 |
125.40 |
2010-11-10 |
| 99. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
125.33 |
1.0352 |
-0.1209 |
341 |
1 |
125.33 |
2010-11-10 |
| 100. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
125.16 |
0.9578 |
-0.0478 |
281 |
1 |
125.16 |
2010-10-31 |
| 101. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
124.54 |
0.9087 |
0.0079 |
393 |
1 |
124.54 |
2010-11-12 |
| 102. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
124.34 |
0.9936 |
-0.0895 |
311 |
1 |
124.34 |
2010-10-29 |
| 103. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
123.96 |
1.0197 |
-0.1210 |
226 |
1 |
123.96 |
2010-11-10 |
| 104. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
123.66 |
0.9758 |
-0.0757 |
314 |
1 |
123.66 |
2010-11-06 |
| 105. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
123.47 |
1.0346 |
-0.0946 |
244 |
1 |
123.47 |
2010-10-31 |
| 106. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
123.40 |
0.9893 |
-0.0917 |
323 |
1 |
123.40 |
2010-11-05 |
| 107. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
123.04 |
1.0577 |
-0.1663 |
247 |
1 |
123.04 |
2010-10-30 |
| 108. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
122.57 |
0.9583 |
-0.0232 |
341 |
1 |
122.57 |
2010-09-12 |
| 109. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
121.41 |
1.0150 |
-0.0832 |
325 |
1 |
121.41 |
2010-11-15 |
| 110. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
121.34 |
0.9049 |
-0.0172 |
351 |
1 |
121.34 |
2010-10-31 |
| 111. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
120.75 |
0.9088 |
-0.0256 |
348 |
1 |
120.75 |
2010-11-10 |
| 112. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
120.67 |
0.9125 |
-0.0333 |
308 |
2 |
120.11 |
2010-11-13 |
| 113. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
120.62 |
0.9023 |
0.0175 |
231 |
1 |
120.62 |
2010-11-07 |
| 114. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
119.00 |
0.9991 |
-0.1336 |
225 |
1 |
119.00 |
2010-10-31 |
| 115. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
117.77 |
1.1014 |
-0.2076 |
273 |
1 |
117.77 |
2010-11-01 |
| 116. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
117.71 |
0.9359 |
-0.0409 |
353 |
2 |
114.48 |
2010-11-01 |
| 117. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
117.61 |
0.9780 |
-0.1222 |
337 |
1 |
117.61 |
2010-11-05 |
| 118. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
116.51 |
0.9635 |
-0.1114 |
389 |
1 |
116.51 |
2010-11-05 |
| 119. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
116.04 |
0.9097 |
-0.0249 |
464 |
1 |
116.04 |
2010-11-05 |
| 120. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
115.32 |
0.9631 |
-0.0739 |
345 |
1 |
115.32 |
2010-11-13 |
| 121. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
115.29 |
0.9785 |
-0.1376 |
335 |
1 |
115.29 |
2010-10-31 |
| 122. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
114.76 |
1.0264 |
-0.1525 |
422 |
1 |
114.76 |
2010-10-29 |
| 123. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
111.69 |
0.8753 |
-0.0550 |
427 |
1 |
111.69 |
2010-11-13 |
| 124. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
111.54 |
0.9176 |
-0.0738 |
267 |
1 |
111.54 |
2010-11-13 |
| 125. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
110.42 |
0.9045 |
-0.1025 |
235 |
1 |
110.42 |
2010-11-02 |
| 126. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
110.38 |
0.9790 |
-0.1369 |
311 |
1 |
110.38 |
2010-11-03 |
| 127. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
110.00 |
1.1162 |
-0.2766 |
189 |
1 |
110.00 |
2010-11-03 |
| 128. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
107.81 |
0.9120 |
-0.0963 |
436 |
1 |
107.81 |
2010-11-05 |
| 129. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
107.74 |
0.9398 |
-0.1485 |
419 |
1 |
107.74 |
2010-10-31 |
| 130. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
102.41 |
0.9941 |
-0.2539 |
217 |
1 |
102.41 |
2011-03-06 |
| 131. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
99.29 |
0.9786 |
-0.2642 |
193 |
1 |
99.29 |
2010-11-07 |
| 132. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
98.61 |
0.9619 |
-0.2421 |
393 |
1 |
98.61 |
2010-09-12 |
| 133. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
95.77 |
0.8595 |
-0.1640 |
242 |
1 |
95.77 |
2010-09-12 |