| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
83.50 |
1.0596 |
-1.0726 |
239 |
1 |
83.50 |
2008-11-11 |
| 2. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
82.37 |
1.0796 |
-1.0947 |
129 |
1 |
82.37 |
2008-11-12 |
| 3. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
82.09 |
1.0462 |
-1.0618 |
184 |
3 |
71.04 |
2008-11-12 |
| 4. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
77.23 |
1.0251 |
-1.0371 |
261 |
1 |
77.23 |
2008-11-12 |
| 5. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
77.03 |
1.0183 |
-1.0327 |
191 |
1 |
77.03 |
2008-11-12 |
| 6. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
76.45 |
1.0483 |
-1.0610 |
227 |
1 |
76.45 |
2008-11-11 |
| 7. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
76.44 |
1.0029 |
-1.0182 |
209 |
2 |
75.32 |
2008-11-12 |
| 8. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
76.02 |
1.0885 |
-1.0975 |
315 |
3 |
69.96 |
2008-11-12 |
| 9. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
75.52 |
1.0389 |
-1.0489 |
318 |
5 |
72.21 |
2008-11-12 |
| 10. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
75.06 |
1.1016 |
-1.1129 |
233 |
2 |
71.62 |
2008-11-12 |
| 11. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
74.91 |
1.0565 |
-1.0699 |
247 |
2 |
70.91 |
2008-11-12 |
| 12. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
74.74 |
1.0340 |
-1.0418 |
406 |
3 |
68.70 |
2008-11-12 |
| 13. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
74.05 |
1.0023 |
-1.0154 |
211 |
1 |
74.05 |
2008-11-11 |
| 14. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
73.47 |
1.0666 |
-1.0781 |
297 |
1 |
73.47 |
2008-11-11 |
| 15. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
73.44 |
1.0109 |
-1.0215 |
276 |
1 |
73.44 |
2008-11-12 |
| 16. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
73.33 |
0.9731 |
-0.9935 |
129 |
1 |
73.33 |
2008-11-12 |
| 17. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
73.19 |
0.9936 |
-1.0052 |
311 |
1 |
73.19 |
2008-11-12 |
| 18. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
73.11 |
1.0368 |
-1.0484 |
276 |
2 |
70.99 |
2008-11-12 |
| 19. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
72.99 |
1.0454 |
-1.0616 |
255 |
3 |
71.12 |
2008-11-12 |
| 20. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
72.84 |
1.0487 |
-1.0628 |
231 |
2 |
69.08 |
2008-11-12 |
| 21. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
72.33 |
1.0252 |
-1.0408 |
176 |
1 |
72.33 |
2008-11-11 |
| 22. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
72.33 |
1.0529 |
-1.0638 |
351 |
1 |
72.33 |
2008-11-11 |
| 23. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
72.21 |
1.0337 |
-1.0449 |
214 |
1 |
72.21 |
2008-11-12 |
| 24. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
72.20 |
1.0390 |
-1.0523 |
205 |
1 |
72.20 |
2008-11-12 |
| 25. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
71.34 |
0.9857 |
-0.9974 |
293 |
2 |
66.87 |
2008-11-12 |
| 26. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
71.16 |
1.0555 |
-1.0652 |
363 |
1 |
71.16 |
2008-11-11 |
| 27. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
71.07 |
1.0429 |
-1.0545 |
259 |
1 |
71.07 |
2008-11-11 |
| 28. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
70.89 |
1.0263 |
-1.0376 |
267 |
1 |
70.89 |
2008-11-12 |
| 29. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
70.83 |
0.9886 |
-0.9985 |
220 |
1 |
70.83 |
2008-11-12 |
| 30. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
70.77 |
1.0352 |
-1.0431 |
341 |
2 |
70.57 |
2008-11-12 |
| 31. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
70.67 |
0.9795 |
-0.9906 |
308 |
1 |
70.67 |
2008-11-12 |
| 32. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
70.60 |
0.9941 |
-1.0072 |
217 |
2 |
65.80 |
2008-11-12 |
| 33. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
70.38 |
1.0165 |
-1.0255 |
392 |
3 |
68.89 |
2008-11-12 |
| 34. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
70.30 |
1.0068 |
-1.0154 |
358 |
1 |
70.30 |
2008-11-11 |
| 35. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
70.29 |
0.9734 |
-0.9849 |
289 |
1 |
70.29 |
2008-11-12 |
| 36. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
70.27 |
0.9597 |
-0.9686 |
347 |
1 |
70.27 |
2008-11-11 |
| 37. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
69.81 |
1.0352 |
-1.0451 |
341 |
1 |
69.81 |
2008-11-11 |
| 38. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
69.40 |
1.0441 |
-1.0544 |
252 |
2 |
68.40 |
2008-11-12 |
| 39. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
69.30 |
0.9636 |
-0.9750 |
254 |
1 |
69.30 |
2008-11-12 |
| 40. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
68.99 |
0.8956 |
-0.9032 |
322 |
3 |
65.61 |
2008-11-12 |
| 41. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
68.97 |
0.9884 |
-1.0008 |
233 |
1 |
68.97 |
2008-11-11 |
| 42. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
68.95 |
0.9893 |
-1.0001 |
323 |
2 |
67.40 |
2008-11-12 |
| 43. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
68.84 |
0.8852 |
-0.8955 |
201 |
1 |
68.84 |
2008-11-12 |
| 44. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
68.81 |
1.1114 |
-1.1245 |
247 |
1 |
68.81 |
2008-11-12 |
| 45. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
68.65 |
1.0567 |
-1.0673 |
303 |
1 |
68.65 |
2008-11-12 |
| 46. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
68.65 |
0.9851 |
-0.9953 |
317 |
1 |
68.65 |
2008-11-12 |
| 47. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
68.64 |
0.9780 |
-0.9892 |
337 |
3 |
66.73 |
2008-11-12 |
| 48. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
68.48 |
1.0201 |
-1.0304 |
303 |
1 |
68.48 |
2008-11-12 |
| 49. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
68.43 |
1.0711 |
-1.0868 |
213 |
1 |
68.43 |
2008-11-12 |
| 50. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
68.33 |
0.9966 |
-1.0084 |
259 |
2 |
65.80 |
2008-11-12 |
| 51. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
68.29 |
0.9540 |
-0.9660 |
285 |
1 |
68.29 |
2008-11-12 |
| 52. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
68.24 |
1.0613 |
-1.0723 |
266 |
1 |
68.24 |
2008-11-11 |
| 53. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
68.17 |
1.0389 |
-1.0482 |
340 |
1 |
68.17 |
2008-11-12 |
| 54. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
67.94 |
0.9844 |
-0.9935 |
293 |
2 |
67.32 |
2008-11-12 |
| 55. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
67.88 |
1.0444 |
-1.0613 |
197 |
1 |
67.88 |
2008-11-11 |
| 56. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
67.82 |
0.9758 |
-0.9868 |
314 |
3 |
65.21 |
2008-11-12 |
| 57. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
67.71 |
1.0523 |
-1.0665 |
256 |
1 |
67.71 |
2008-11-12 |
| 58. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
67.63 |
0.9278 |
-0.9373 |
295 |
2 |
66.93 |
2008-11-12 |
| 59. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
67.40 |
1.0025 |
-1.0130 |
336 |
1 |
67.40 |
2008-11-11 |
| 60. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
67.36 |
1.0595 |
-1.0690 |
379 |
1 |
67.36 |
2008-11-12 |
| 61. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
67.21 |
0.9831 |
-0.9885 |
469 |
1 |
67.21 |
2008-11-11 |
| 62. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
67.14 |
0.9899 |
-1.0045 |
163 |
1 |
67.14 |
2008-11-11 |
| 63. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
67.04 |
0.9212 |
-0.9305 |
323 |
1 |
67.04 |
2008-11-12 |
| 64. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
67.03 |
1.0619 |
-1.0709 |
354 |
1 |
67.03 |
2008-11-11 |
| 65. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
66.94 |
0.9429 |
-0.9535 |
287 |
2 |
64.31 |
2008-11-12 |
| 66. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
66.89 |
0.9342 |
-0.9428 |
434 |
2 |
66.05 |
2008-11-12 |
| 67. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
66.70 |
0.9527 |
-0.9642 |
251 |
2 |
64.30 |
2008-11-12 |
| 68. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
66.63 |
1.1018 |
-1.1182 |
220 |
1 |
66.63 |
2008-11-11 |
| 69. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
66.56 |
1.0034 |
-1.0162 |
302 |
1 |
66.56 |
2008-11-12 |
| 70. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
66.22 |
1.0120 |
-1.0232 |
290 |
1 |
66.22 |
2008-11-12 |
| 71. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
66.13 |
0.9676 |
-0.9728 |
442 |
1 |
66.13 |
2008-11-12 |
| 72. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
66.12 |
0.9820 |
-0.9916 |
267 |
1 |
66.12 |
2008-11-11 |
| 73. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
65.96 |
0.9965 |
-1.0081 |
310 |
1 |
65.96 |
2008-11-12 |
| 74. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
65.87 |
0.9168 |
-0.9269 |
240 |
1 |
65.87 |
2008-11-12 |
| 75. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
65.71 |
1.0016 |
-1.0158 |
218 |
1 |
65.71 |
2008-11-12 |
| 76. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
65.61 |
1.0577 |
-1.0718 |
247 |
1 |
65.61 |
2008-11-11 |
| 77. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
65.36 |
1.0787 |
-1.0905 |
237 |
1 |
65.36 |
2008-11-11 |
| 78. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
65.24 |
0.9485 |
-0.9587 |
236 |
1 |
65.24 |
2008-11-12 |
| 79. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
65.05 |
0.9164 |
-0.9241 |
305 |
2 |
64.83 |
2008-11-12 |
| 80. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
64.95 |
0.9805 |
-0.9889 |
292 |
1 |
64.95 |
2008-11-12 |
| 81. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
64.94 |
1.0197 |
-1.0334 |
226 |
2 |
64.63 |
2008-11-12 |
| 82. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
64.53 |
1.0477 |
-1.0575 |
360 |
1 |
64.53 |
2008-11-12 |
| 83. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
64.53 |
0.9084 |
-0.9187 |
300 |
2 |
63.78 |
2008-11-12 |
| 84. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
64.37 |
0.9946 |
-1.0065 |
246 |
1 |
64.37 |
2008-11-12 |
| 85. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
64.34 |
1.0296 |
-1.0359 |
437 |
1 |
64.34 |
2008-11-11 |
| 86. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
64.29 |
0.8996 |
-0.9148 |
192 |
1 |
64.29 |
2008-11-12 |
| 87. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
64.28 |
1.0417 |
-1.0548 |
253 |
1 |
64.28 |
2008-11-11 |
| 88. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
64.27 |
0.9833 |
-0.9939 |
355 |
1 |
64.27 |
2008-11-12 |
| 89. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
63.93 |
1.0025 |
-1.0140 |
256 |
1 |
63.93 |
2008-11-12 |
| 90. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
63.88 |
0.9553 |
-0.9612 |
430 |
1 |
63.88 |
2008-11-11 |
| 91. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
63.85 |
0.9786 |
-0.9931 |
193 |
1 |
63.85 |
2008-11-12 |
| 92. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
63.62 |
0.9646 |
-0.9762 |
264 |
1 |
63.62 |
2008-11-12 |
| 93. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
63.61 |
0.8961 |
-0.9087 |
189 |
2 |
62.35 |
2008-11-12 |
| 94. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
63.55 |
0.9087 |
-0.9124 |
393 |
1 |
63.55 |
2008-11-12 |
| 95. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
63.54 |
0.9852 |
-0.9962 |
264 |
1 |
63.54 |
2008-11-12 |
| 96. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
63.51 |
0.9045 |
-0.9156 |
235 |
1 |
63.51 |
2008-11-12 |
| 97. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
63.38 |
0.9289 |
-0.9416 |
204 |
1 |
63.38 |
2008-11-12 |
| 98. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
63.16 |
0.8878 |
-0.8993 |
346 |
1 |
63.16 |
2008-11-12 |
| 99. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
63.16 |
0.9351 |
-0.9504 |
190 |
1 |
63.16 |
2008-11-12 |
| 100. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
63.08 |
1.0297 |
-1.0425 |
249 |
1 |
63.08 |
2008-11-12 |
| 101. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
63.07 |
0.9125 |
-0.9232 |
308 |
2 |
63.04 |
2008-11-12 |
| 102. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
62.95 |
1.0496 |
-1.0615 |
314 |
1 |
62.95 |
2008-11-11 |
| 103. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
62.91 |
1.0095 |
-1.0207 |
316 |
1 |
62.91 |
2008-11-12 |
| 104. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
62.61 |
0.9675 |
-0.9722 |
383 |
1 |
62.61 |
2008-11-12 |
| 105. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
62.50 |
1.0528 |
-1.0674 |
201 |
1 |
62.50 |
2008-11-12 |
| 106. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
62.39 |
0.9740 |
-0.9878 |
209 |
2 |
61.43 |
2008-11-11 |
| 107. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
62.35 |
0.9578 |
-0.9700 |
281 |
2 |
61.39 |
2008-11-12 |
| 108. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
62.13 |
0.9213 |
-0.9317 |
295 |
1 |
62.13 |
2008-11-12 |
| 109. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
61.88 |
0.9148 |
-0.9247 |
317 |
1 |
61.88 |
2008-11-12 |
| 110. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
61.20 |
0.9279 |
-0.9346 |
317 |
1 |
61.20 |
2008-11-12 |
| 111. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
61.14 |
0.9570 |
-0.9675 |
287 |
1 |
61.14 |
2008-11-12 |
| 112. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
60.96 |
0.8947 |
-0.9024 |
366 |
2 |
60.43 |
2008-11-12 |
| 113. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
60.92 |
0.9330 |
-0.9393 |
360 |
1 |
60.92 |
2008-11-11 |
| 114. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
60.89 |
0.9426 |
-0.9526 |
317 |
1 |
60.89 |
2008-11-12 |
| 115. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
60.87 |
0.8595 |
-0.8700 |
242 |
1 |
60.87 |
2008-11-11 |
| 116. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
60.85 |
0.9072 |
-0.9205 |
237 |
3 |
59.96 |
2008-11-12 |
| 117. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
60.84 |
0.8722 |
-0.8815 |
285 |
3 |
60.03 |
2008-11-12 |
| 118. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
60.80 |
0.9964 |
-1.0079 |
203 |
1 |
60.80 |
2008-11-12 |
| 119. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
60.76 |
0.9769 |
-0.9898 |
263 |
1 |
60.76 |
2008-11-11 |
| 120. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
60.15 |
0.9865 |
-0.9969 |
276 |
1 |
60.15 |
2008-11-12 |
| 121. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
60.04 |
1.0486 |
-1.0591 |
289 |
1 |
60.04 |
2008-11-11 |
| 122. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
59.77 |
0.9614 |
-0.9709 |
292 |
1 |
59.77 |
2008-11-12 |
| 123. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
58.31 |
0.9697 |
-0.9800 |
249 |
1 |
58.31 |
2008-11-12 |
| 124. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
58.05 |
0.7876 |
-0.7963 |
316 |
2 |
57.42 |
2008-11-12 |
| 125. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
57.87 |
0.9084 |
-0.9163 |
404 |
1 |
57.87 |
2008-11-11 |
| 126. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
57.16 |
0.9897 |
-1.0026 |
274 |
1 |
57.16 |
2008-11-12 |
| 127. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
56.57 |
0.8382 |
-0.8487 |
268 |
1 |
56.57 |
2008-11-11 |
| 128. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
55.88 |
0.8919 |
-0.9035 |
205 |
1 |
55.88 |
2008-11-12 |
| 129. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
54.88 |
0.8553 |
-0.8700 |
174 |
1 |
54.88 |
2008-11-11 |
| 130. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
54.54 |
0.8753 |
-0.8797 |
427 |
1 |
54.54 |
2008-11-12 |