| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
96.59 |
0.9897 |
0.2125 |
274 |
2 |
93.18 |
2009-01-23 |
| 2. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
96.37 |
1.0477 |
0.1565 |
360 |
1 |
96.37 |
2008-12-28 |
| 3. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
94.33 |
1.0483 |
0.1249 |
227 |
2 |
90.81 |
2008-12-28 |
| 4. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
92.94 |
1.0523 |
0.1021 |
256 |
1 |
92.94 |
2008-12-28 |
| 5. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
92.89 |
0.9697 |
0.1883 |
249 |
1 |
92.89 |
2008-12-28 |
| 6. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
92.49 |
0.9966 |
0.1558 |
259 |
1 |
92.49 |
2008-12-28 |
| 7. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
90.43 |
0.9946 |
0.1320 |
246 |
1 |
90.43 |
2008-12-28 |
| 8. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
90.40 |
1.0183 |
0.1027 |
191 |
1 |
90.40 |
2008-12-28 |
| 9. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
90.35 |
1.0331 |
0.0906 |
234 |
1 |
90.35 |
2008-12-28 |
| 10. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
90.04 |
1.0441 |
0.0794 |
252 |
2 |
89.79 |
2008-12-28 |
| 11. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
90.00 |
0.9756 |
0.1444 |
229 |
1 |
90.00 |
2008-12-28 |
| 12. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
89.21 |
0.9884 |
0.1275 |
262 |
1 |
89.21 |
2008-12-28 |
| 13. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
88.96 |
0.9964 |
0.1118 |
203 |
1 |
88.96 |
2008-12-28 |
| 14. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
88.12 |
0.9910 |
0.1086 |
295 |
1 |
88.12 |
2008-12-28 |
| 15. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
86.95 |
1.0131 |
0.0661 |
225 |
1 |
86.95 |
2008-12-28 |
| 16. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
86.68 |
1.0528 |
0.0219 |
201 |
2 |
80.48 |
2008-12-28 |
| 17. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
86.66 |
0.9653 |
0.1221 |
394 |
1 |
86.66 |
2008-12-28 |
| 18. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
86.36 |
0.9852 |
0.0905 |
264 |
1 |
86.36 |
2008-12-28 |
| 19. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
85.71 |
0.8811 |
0.1912 |
239 |
1 |
85.71 |
2008-12-28 |
| 20. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
85.57 |
1.1016 |
-0.0359 |
233 |
1 |
85.57 |
2008-12-28 |
| 21. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
85.52 |
1.0565 |
0.0057 |
247 |
1 |
85.52 |
2008-12-23 |
| 22. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
84.90 |
1.0099 |
0.0445 |
207 |
2 |
84.69 |
2008-12-28 |
| 23. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
84.74 |
0.9894 |
0.0701 |
323 |
1 |
84.74 |
2008-12-28 |
| 24. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
83.99 |
0.9866 |
0.0556 |
218 |
1 |
83.99 |
2008-12-28 |
| 25. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
83.94 |
0.9776 |
0.0676 |
308 |
1 |
83.94 |
2008-12-28 |
| 26. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
83.04 |
0.9330 |
0.1072 |
360 |
1 |
83.04 |
2008-12-28 |
| 27. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
82.07 |
1.0799 |
-0.0619 |
243 |
1 |
82.07 |
2008-12-28 |
| 28. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
82.04 |
0.8852 |
0.1381 |
201 |
2 |
65.88 |
2009-01-23 |
| 29. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
81.88 |
0.9691 |
0.0495 |
223 |
1 |
81.88 |
2008-12-28 |
| 30. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
81.87 |
0.9005 |
0.1169 |
212 |
1 |
81.87 |
2008-12-28 |
| 31. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
81.38 |
0.9278 |
0.0877 |
295 |
1 |
81.38 |
2008-12-28 |
| 32. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
79.95 |
1.0496 |
-0.0557 |
314 |
2 |
53.20 |
2008-12-28 |
| 33. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
79.95 |
0.9266 |
0.0683 |
267 |
1 |
79.95 |
2008-12-28 |
| 34. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
79.56 |
0.8553 |
0.1295 |
174 |
1 |
79.56 |
2008-12-28 |
| 35. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
79.41 |
0.9309 |
0.0552 |
284 |
1 |
79.41 |
2008-12-28 |
| 36. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
79.04 |
0.8919 |
0.0898 |
205 |
1 |
79.04 |
2008-12-28 |
| 37. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
78.03 |
0.9429 |
0.0288 |
287 |
1 |
78.03 |
2009-01-23 |
| 38. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
77.62 |
0.9672 |
0.0046 |
396 |
1 |
77.62 |
2008-12-28 |
| 39. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
77.54 |
0.8933 |
0.0774 |
363 |
1 |
77.54 |
2008-12-28 |
| 40. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
77.28 |
1.0004 |
-0.0452 |
212 |
1 |
77.28 |
2008-12-28 |
| 41. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
77.17 |
1.0214 |
-0.0671 |
166 |
1 |
77.17 |
2008-12-28 |
| 42. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
77.12 |
0.9795 |
-0.0205 |
308 |
1 |
77.12 |
2008-12-28 |
| 43. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
76.38 |
0.8382 |
0.1122 |
268 |
1 |
76.38 |
2008-12-23 |
| 44. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
75.88 |
0.9986 |
-0.0548 |
283 |
1 |
75.88 |
2008-12-23 |
| 45. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
75.74 |
0.8935 |
0.0581 |
328 |
1 |
75.74 |
2008-12-28 |
| 46. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
75.60 |
0.9649 |
-0.0260 |
193 |
1 |
75.60 |
2008-12-28 |
| 47. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
74.68 |
0.9811 |
-0.0500 |
272 |
1 |
74.68 |
2008-12-28 |
| 48. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
73.69 |
0.9365 |
-0.0192 |
248 |
1 |
73.69 |
2008-12-28 |
| 49. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
72.71 |
0.9068 |
0.0001 |
269 |
1 |
72.71 |
2008-12-28 |
| 50. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
72.45 |
1.0577 |
-0.1610 |
247 |
1 |
72.45 |
2008-12-28 |
| 51. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
71.53 |
0.8947 |
-0.0014 |
366 |
1 |
71.53 |
2009-01-23 |
| 52. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
70.37 |
0.9769 |
-0.1049 |
263 |
1 |
70.37 |
2008-12-28 |
| 53. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
70.21 |
0.8996 |
-0.0331 |
192 |
2 |
64.59 |
2008-12-28 |
| 54. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
69.95 |
1.0516 |
-0.1832 |
281 |
1 |
69.95 |
2008-12-28 |
| 55. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
69.79 |
0.9682 |
-0.1033 |
143 |
1 |
69.79 |
2008-12-28 |
| 56. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
69.18 |
0.9567 |
-0.0978 |
273 |
1 |
69.18 |
2008-12-28 |
| 57. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
68.75 |
0.8890 |
-0.0389 |
199 |
1 |
68.75 |
2008-12-28 |
| 58. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
68.16 |
0.9411 |
-0.0939 |
318 |
1 |
68.16 |
2008-12-28 |
| 59. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
67.61 |
0.9687 |
-0.1247 |
371 |
1 |
67.61 |
2009-01-23 |
| 60. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
67.24 |
1.0068 |
-0.1690 |
358 |
1 |
67.24 |
2009-01-23 |
| 61. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
66.38 |
1.0016 |
-0.1825 |
218 |
1 |
66.38 |
2008-12-28 |
| 62. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
65.00 |
1.0337 |
-0.2281 |
214 |
1 |
65.00 |
2008-12-28 |
| 63. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
60.70 |
0.9851 |
-0.2309 |
317 |
1 |
60.70 |
2008-12-28 |
| 64. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
53.15 |
0.9202 |
-0.2637 |
254 |
1 |
53.15 |
2008-12-28 |
| 65. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
43.62 |
0.8595 |
-0.3208 |
242 |
1 |
43.62 |
2008-12-29 |