| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
31.33 |
1.0205 |
0.3053 |
179 |
1 |
31.33 |
2010-01-07 |
| 2. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
29.81 |
0.9164 |
0.3542 |
121 |
2 |
26.07 |
2010-01-04 |
| 3. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
29.72 |
1.0679 |
0.2156 |
177 |
2 |
27.70 |
2010-01-06 |
| 4. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
29.55 |
0.8788 |
0.3736 |
134 |
1 |
29.55 |
2010-01-06 |
| 5. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
29.22 |
0.8910 |
0.3524 |
150 |
1 |
29.22 |
2010-01-07 |
| 6. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
27.64 |
0.9028 |
0.2708 |
155 |
2 |
27.29 |
2010-01-07 |
| 7. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
27.63 |
0.8519 |
0.3253 |
150 |
3 |
25.67 |
2010-01-12 |
| 8. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
27.55 |
0.9221 |
0.2464 |
244 |
3 |
24.84 |
2010-01-04 |
| 9. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
27.43 |
0.8037 |
0.3639 |
148 |
2 |
22.61 |
2010-01-07 |
| 10. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
27.42 |
1.0528 |
0.1066 |
201 |
2 |
24.87 |
2010-01-07 |
| 11. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
27.25 |
1.0795 |
0.1082 |
226 |
1 |
27.25 |
2010-01-04 |
| 12. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
27.24 |
0.9697 |
0.1872 |
249 |
1 |
27.24 |
2010-01-07 |
| 13. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
27.20 |
0.8153 |
0.3445 |
200 |
2 |
24.15 |
2010-01-06 |
| 14. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
27.14 |
0.8142 |
0.3326 |
187 |
1 |
27.14 |
2010-01-06 |
| 15. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
26.98 |
0.8360 |
0.3088 |
170 |
1 |
26.98 |
2009-12-27 |
| 16. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
26.62 |
0.9691 |
0.1605 |
223 |
1 |
26.62 |
2010-01-07 |
| 17. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
26.54 |
0.8177 |
0.3047 |
124 |
1 |
26.54 |
2010-01-06 |
| 18. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
26.33 |
0.8145 |
0.3054 |
115 |
1 |
26.33 |
2010-01-07 |
| 19. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
26.26 |
0.8919 |
0.2249 |
152 |
1 |
26.26 |
2010-01-06 |
| 20. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
26.04 |
0.8852 |
0.2204 |
158 |
1 |
26.04 |
2009-12-19 |
| 21. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
25.83 |
1.0426 |
0.0529 |
323 |
1 |
25.83 |
2010-01-07 |
| 22. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
25.81 |
0.8188 |
0.2776 |
183 |
3 |
22.56 |
2010-01-07 |
| 23. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
25.76 |
0.8190 |
0.2812 |
135 |
1 |
25.76 |
2010-01-04 |
| 24. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
25.49 |
0.8660 |
0.2160 |
193 |
1 |
25.49 |
2010-01-06 |
| 25. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
25.41 |
0.9161 |
0.1600 |
200 |
1 |
25.41 |
2010-01-06 |
| 26. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
25.40 |
1.0788 |
-0.0067 |
171 |
1 |
25.40 |
2010-01-04 |
| 27. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
25.29 |
0.7934 |
0.2788 |
134 |
2 |
22.75 |
2010-02-26 |
| 28. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
24.88 |
0.7826 |
0.2766 |
97 |
2 |
24.58 |
2010-01-04 |
| 29. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
24.72 |
0.9772 |
0.0678 |
217 |
3 |
23.74 |
2010-01-04 |
| 30. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
24.69 |
0.9710 |
0.0697 |
173 |
2 |
21.24 |
2010-02-26 |
| 31. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
24.63 |
0.9171 |
0.1279 |
165 |
2 |
23.31 |
2010-01-12 |
| 32. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
24.61 |
1.0033 |
0.0338 |
189 |
2 |
22.49 |
2010-01-04 |
| 33. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
24.53 |
1.0214 |
0.0136 |
166 |
1 |
24.53 |
2009-12-31 |
| 34. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
24.49 |
0.8125 |
0.2286 |
197 |
1 |
24.49 |
2010-01-06 |
| 35. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
24.45 |
0.9897 |
0.0449 |
274 |
1 |
24.45 |
2010-01-12 |
| 36. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
24.43 |
0.9798 |
0.0506 |
199 |
3 |
24.00 |
2010-01-04 |
| 37. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
24.42 |
0.9572 |
0.0773 |
201 |
2 |
22.18 |
2010-01-06 |
| 38. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
24.41 |
1.0523 |
-0.0214 |
256 |
1 |
24.41 |
2009-12-27 |
| 39. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
24.35 |
0.9711 |
0.0603 |
176 |
1 |
24.35 |
2009-12-31 |
| 40. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
24.30 |
0.8422 |
0.1900 |
164 |
3 |
22.93 |
2010-01-07 |
| 41. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
24.29 |
0.8562 |
0.1740 |
170 |
3 |
22.56 |
2010-01-04 |
| 42. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
24.26 |
0.8553 |
0.1684 |
174 |
1 |
24.26 |
2010-01-06 |
| 43. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
23.97 |
0.9275 |
0.0855 |
211 |
1 |
23.97 |
2010-01-07 |
| 44. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
23.96 |
0.9941 |
0.0194 |
217 |
1 |
23.96 |
2010-01-06 |
| 45. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
23.92 |
0.8295 |
0.1865 |
209 |
2 |
22.33 |
2010-01-06 |
| 46. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
23.86 |
0.7690 |
0.2442 |
142 |
1 |
23.86 |
2009-12-31 |
| 47. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
23.86 |
0.8971 |
0.1198 |
266 |
1 |
23.86 |
2010-01-06 |
| 48. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
23.81 |
1.0337 |
-0.0249 |
214 |
1 |
23.81 |
2009-12-27 |
| 49. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
23.74 |
0.7916 |
0.2225 |
184 |
2 |
21.51 |
2010-02-26 |
| 50. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
23.72 |
0.8661 |
0.1306 |
94 |
1 |
23.72 |
2009-12-27 |
| 51. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
23.66 |
0.8793 |
0.1253 |
157 |
2 |
22.16 |
2010-01-07 |
| 52. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
23.62 |
0.8162 |
0.1902 |
149 |
4 |
20.15 |
2010-01-06 |
| 53. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
23.54 |
0.8975 |
0.1009 |
268 |
2 |
22.73 |
2010-01-06 |
| 54. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
23.38 |
1.0796 |
-0.0934 |
129 |
1 |
23.38 |
2009-12-31 |
| 55. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
23.30 |
0.8154 |
0.1739 |
193 |
1 |
23.30 |
2009-11-30 |
| 56. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
23.09 |
0.8073 |
0.1727 |
173 |
1 |
23.09 |
2009-12-27 |
| 57. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
23.01 |
1.0396 |
-0.0717 |
149 |
2 |
22.49 |
2010-01-06 |
| 58. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
22.88 |
1.0485 |
-0.0443 |
153 |
2 |
20.20 |
2010-01-04 |
| 59. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
22.82 |
0.8996 |
0.0618 |
192 |
1 |
22.82 |
2010-01-07 |
| 60. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
22.74 |
0.8773 |
0.0897 |
205 |
1 |
22.74 |
2010-01-04 |
| 61. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
22.61 |
0.8559 |
0.1028 |
191 |
2 |
22.31 |
2010-01-12 |
| 62. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
22.52 |
0.8122 |
0.1443 |
181 |
1 |
22.52 |
2010-01-04 |
| 63. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
22.50 |
0.9786 |
-0.0306 |
193 |
2 |
22.50 |
2009-12-27 |
| 64. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
22.31 |
1.0487 |
-0.1087 |
231 |
2 |
21.34 |
2009-12-31 |
| 65. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
22.30 |
0.8442 |
0.1044 |
265 |
1 |
22.30 |
2010-01-06 |
| 66. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
22.15 |
0.7852 |
0.1589 |
149 |
1 |
22.15 |
2010-01-06 |
| 67. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
22.08 |
1.0498 |
-0.1194 |
180 |
1 |
22.08 |
2009-11-30 |
| 68. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
22.06 |
0.8544 |
0.0803 |
170 |
2 |
20.37 |
2009-12-17 |
| 69. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
21.93 |
0.8715 |
0.0533 |
130 |
2 |
21.86 |
2009-12-31 |
| 70. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
21.85 |
0.7938 |
0.1325 |
176 |
1 |
21.85 |
2010-02-26 |
| 71. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
21.52 |
0.8118 |
0.1042 |
109 |
1 |
21.52 |
2009-12-27 |
| 72. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
21.09 |
0.9740 |
-0.0854 |
209 |
1 |
21.09 |
2010-01-07 |
| 73. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
21.01 |
1.0521 |
-0.1677 |
171 |
1 |
21.01 |
2010-02-26 |
| 74. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
20.98 |
0.9871 |
-0.0630 |
209 |
1 |
20.98 |
2010-01-04 |
| 75. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
20.96 |
0.9873 |
-0.1029 |
155 |
1 |
20.96 |
2010-02-26 |
| 76. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
20.92 |
0.9726 |
-0.0936 |
154 |
1 |
20.92 |
2009-12-19 |
| 77. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
20.90 |
0.9509 |
-0.0280 |
225 |
1 |
20.90 |
2010-01-07 |
| 78. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
20.71 |
0.8666 |
0.0127 |
150 |
2 |
20.06 |
2009-12-06 |
| 79. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
20.69 |
0.9350 |
-0.0587 |
195 |
1 |
20.69 |
2010-02-26 |
| 80. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
20.68 |
0.8821 |
-0.0075 |
176 |
1 |
20.68 |
2009-12-27 |
| 81. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
20.63 |
0.7839 |
0.0946 |
257 |
2 |
18.89 |
2010-02-26 |
| 82. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
20.59 |
0.7890 |
0.0831 |
230 |
1 |
20.59 |
2009-12-31 |
| 83. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
20.57 |
0.8533 |
0.0181 |
232 |
1 |
20.57 |
2009-12-19 |
| 84. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
20.56 |
1.0462 |
-0.1824 |
184 |
1 |
20.56 |
2010-02-26 |
| 85. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
20.49 |
0.8852 |
-0.0162 |
201 |
1 |
20.49 |
2010-01-06 |
| 86. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
20.04 |
0.7389 |
0.1101 |
145 |
1 |
20.04 |
2010-01-04 |
| 87. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
20.03 |
0.7981 |
0.0466 |
126 |
1 |
20.03 |
2009-12-06 |
| 88. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
19.95 |
0.9682 |
-0.1264 |
143 |
1 |
19.95 |
2009-12-31 |
| 89. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
18.74 |
0.8614 |
-0.0719 |
172 |
1 |
18.74 |
2009-12-17 |
| 90. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
18.55 |
1.0099 |
-0.2292 |
207 |
1 |
18.55 |
2009-12-06 |
| 91. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
18.53 |
0.7259 |
0.0627 |
186 |
1 |
18.53 |
2009-12-19 |
| 92. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
18.49 |
0.8023 |
-0.0159 |
182 |
2 |
18.15 |
2009-12-06 |
| 93. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
18.44 |
0.8323 |
-0.0530 |
203 |
1 |
18.44 |
2009-12-31 |
| 94. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
17.73 |
0.8263 |
-0.0800 |
162 |
1 |
17.73 |
2009-11-30 |
| 95. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
17.30 |
0.8070 |
-0.0746 |
137 |
1 |
17.30 |
2009-11-30 |
| 96. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
17.10 |
1.0375 |
-0.2702 |
200 |
1 |
17.10 |
2009-12-06 |
| 97. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
13.94 |
0.8157 |
-0.2303 |
121 |
1 |
13.94 |
2009-12-06 |
| 98. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
4.70 |
0.8628 |
-0.6773 |
196 |
1 |
4.70 |
2009-12-31 |