| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
152.82 |
1.0565 |
0.2089 |
247 |
1 |
152.82 |
2009-08-11 |
| 2. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
149.50 |
1.0389 |
0.2036 |
340 |
3 |
131.64 |
2010-08-02 |
| 3. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
148.48 |
0.9946 |
0.2368 |
246 |
1 |
148.48 |
2009-08-04 |
| 4. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
148.41 |
1.0183 |
0.2071 |
191 |
3 |
127.06 |
2009-10-23 |
| 5. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
148.31 |
0.9233 |
0.2986 |
168 |
1 |
148.31 |
2009-08-10 |
| 6. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
148.27 |
1.0462 |
0.1775 |
184 |
4 |
128.47 |
2009-10-23 |
| 7. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
147.70 |
1.0797 |
0.1398 |
210 |
2 |
140.06 |
2012-10-05 |
| 8. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
147.21 |
0.9646 |
0.2555 |
264 |
1 |
147.21 |
2009-08-05 |
| 9. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
146.56 |
1.0429 |
0.1712 |
259 |
1 |
146.56 |
2008-10-07 |
| 10. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
146.38 |
1.0349 |
0.1784 |
234 |
2 |
138.96 |
2009-09-02 |
| 11. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
146.05 |
1.0060 |
0.2005 |
171 |
1 |
146.05 |
2009-08-10 |
| 12. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
146.01 |
1.0396 |
0.1641 |
149 |
1 |
146.01 |
2009-10-23 |
| 13. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
145.57 |
1.0613 |
0.1509 |
456 |
1 |
145.57 |
2008-08-12 |
| 14. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
144.08 |
1.0346 |
0.2021 |
244 |
1 |
144.08 |
2010-01-22 |
| 15. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
143.70 |
1.0498 |
0.1369 |
180 |
2 |
134.42 |
2009-09-02 |
| 16. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
143.29 |
1.0034 |
0.1832 |
302 |
1 |
143.29 |
2008-12-16 |
| 17. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
143.25 |
1.0203 |
0.1709 |
261 |
3 |
125.57 |
2010-08-02 |
| 18. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
142.66 |
1.0796 |
0.0984 |
129 |
1 |
142.66 |
2011-04-16 |
| 19. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
141.18 |
1.0263 |
0.1433 |
267 |
1 |
141.18 |
2009-10-23 |
| 20. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
140.85 |
1.0596 |
0.1059 |
239 |
1 |
140.85 |
2010-01-22 |
| 21. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
138.67 |
1.0232 |
0.1721 |
350 |
1 |
138.67 |
2011-04-16 |
| 22. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
138.09 |
1.0218 |
0.1198 |
268 |
1 |
138.09 |
2009-08-03 |
| 23. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
138.00 |
1.0289 |
0.1193 |
276 |
2 |
127.74 |
2009-08-05 |
| 24. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
136.93 |
1.0883 |
0.0786 |
303 |
1 |
136.93 |
2012-10-05 |
| 25. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
135.95 |
1.0669 |
0.0920 |
286 |
1 |
135.95 |
2009-09-02 |
| 26. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
134.33 |
0.9697 |
0.1435 |
249 |
2 |
133.30 |
2010-01-22 |
| 27. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
134.04 |
0.9557 |
0.1612 |
331 |
1 |
134.04 |
2008-12-16 |
| 28. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
133.90 |
0.9941 |
0.1129 |
217 |
1 |
133.90 |
2009-09-17 |
| 29. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
133.39 |
1.0296 |
0.0819 |
437 |
1 |
133.39 |
2008-12-16 |
| 30. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
132.91 |
1.0063 |
0.0952 |
371 |
2 |
124.46 |
2009-08-11 |
| 31. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
132.72 |
1.0595 |
0.0425 |
379 |
1 |
132.72 |
2009-08-05 |
| 32. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
132.44 |
1.0201 |
0.0811 |
375 |
5 |
123.17 |
2010-01-22 |
| 33. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
132.01 |
0.9570 |
0.1383 |
287 |
4 |
118.96 |
2009-08-05 |
| 34. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
131.76 |
1.0529 |
0.0385 |
351 |
2 |
119.06 |
2010-08-02 |
| 35. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
131.64 |
0.9871 |
0.1256 |
227 |
1 |
131.64 |
2012-10-05 |
| 36. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
131.38 |
1.0613 |
0.0279 |
266 |
1 |
131.38 |
2009-08-03 |
| 37. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
131.19 |
1.0463 |
0.0358 |
182 |
1 |
131.19 |
2009-08-05 |
| 38. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
131.06 |
1.0523 |
0.0290 |
256 |
2 |
127.18 |
2009-08-04 |
| 39. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
130.90 |
0.9619 |
0.1275 |
393 |
1 |
130.90 |
2010-01-22 |
| 40. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
130.78 |
1.0399 |
0.0485 |
294 |
1 |
130.78 |
2009-08-19 |
| 41. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
130.05 |
1.0487 |
0.0234 |
231 |
2 |
121.59 |
2008-09-02 |
| 42. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
129.77 |
1.0555 |
0.0207 |
363 |
1 |
129.77 |
2010-01-22 |
| 43. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
129.16 |
0.8845 |
0.1856 |
273 |
2 |
119.80 |
2010-01-22 |
| 44. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
127.82 |
1.0885 |
-0.0268 |
315 |
1 |
127.82 |
2012-10-05 |
| 45. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
127.57 |
0.8961 |
0.1568 |
189 |
2 |
120.62 |
2009-09-17 |
| 46. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
126.98 |
1.0201 |
0.0317 |
303 |
1 |
126.98 |
2008-09-02 |
| 47. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
126.94 |
1.0214 |
0.0243 |
166 |
2 |
107.73 |
2009-08-04 |
| 48. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
126.74 |
0.9769 |
0.0704 |
263 |
2 |
125.94 |
2012-10-05 |
| 49. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
125.87 |
1.0787 |
-0.0379 |
237 |
1 |
125.87 |
2009-08-03 |
| 50. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
125.69 |
1.0441 |
-0.0020 |
252 |
2 |
123.88 |
2009-08-11 |
| 51. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
125.53 |
0.9429 |
0.0976 |
287 |
2 |
120.18 |
2009-08-10 |
| 52. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
124.33 |
1.0391 |
-0.0038 |
358 |
1 |
124.33 |
2011-04-16 |
| 53. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
124.13 |
0.9514 |
0.0764 |
237 |
1 |
124.13 |
2009-08-19 |
| 54. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
123.33 |
0.8722 |
0.1515 |
285 |
2 |
111.57 |
2009-09-02 |
| 55. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
123.19 |
1.1014 |
-0.0440 |
273 |
1 |
123.19 |
2009-09-17 |
| 56. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
122.77 |
1.0169 |
0.0378 |
346 |
1 |
122.77 |
2011-04-16 |
| 57. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
122.50 |
0.9852 |
0.0289 |
264 |
2 |
115.91 |
2009-08-19 |
| 58. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
121.72 |
1.0696 |
-0.0658 |
226 |
1 |
121.72 |
2008-12-16 |
| 59. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
121.65 |
0.9168 |
0.0912 |
240 |
1 |
121.65 |
2009-09-02 |
| 60. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
121.61 |
1.0125 |
-0.0084 |
224 |
1 |
121.61 |
2011-04-16 |
| 61. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
121.53 |
0.9593 |
0.0511 |
398 |
2 |
113.06 |
2011-04-16 |
| 62. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
121.49 |
1.0477 |
-0.0399 |
360 |
1 |
121.49 |
2009-08-05 |
| 63. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
120.92 |
0.9754 |
0.0313 |
362 |
1 |
120.92 |
2009-08-03 |
| 64. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
120.85 |
0.9786 |
0.0209 |
235 |
1 |
120.85 |
2011-04-16 |
| 65. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
120.55 |
1.0337 |
-0.0368 |
214 |
2 |
107.70 |
2008-12-16 |
| 66. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
120.30 |
0.9088 |
0.0918 |
348 |
2 |
114.39 |
2009-08-03 |
| 67. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
119.70 |
1.0993 |
-0.1110 |
265 |
1 |
119.70 |
2009-08-03 |
| 68. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
119.36 |
1.0016 |
-0.0187 |
218 |
1 |
119.36 |
2011-04-16 |
| 69. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
119.22 |
0.8595 |
0.1287 |
242 |
1 |
119.22 |
2009-08-04 |
| 70. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
118.85 |
0.9865 |
-0.0022 |
276 |
2 |
103.57 |
2009-08-04 |
| 71. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
118.61 |
0.9938 |
-0.0118 |
339 |
1 |
118.61 |
2009-09-02 |
| 72. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
118.40 |
1.0486 |
-0.0683 |
289 |
1 |
118.40 |
2008-09-02 |
| 73. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
117.83 |
0.9649 |
0.0087 |
193 |
1 |
117.83 |
2011-04-16 |
| 74. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
117.78 |
0.9811 |
-0.0041 |
272 |
2 |
117.71 |
2009-08-05 |
| 75. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
117.74 |
0.8890 |
0.0813 |
199 |
1 |
117.74 |
2009-08-03 |
| 76. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
117.61 |
0.9756 |
-0.0040 |
229 |
1 |
117.61 |
2009-08-05 |
| 77. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
117.55 |
0.9084 |
0.0658 |
300 |
2 |
107.86 |
2009-08-04 |
| 78. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
117.54 |
0.9464 |
0.0310 |
323 |
1 |
117.54 |
2009-08-05 |
| 79. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
117.41 |
0.9612 |
0.0100 |
256 |
1 |
117.41 |
2009-02-27 |
| 80. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
117.32 |
0.9278 |
0.0453 |
295 |
1 |
117.32 |
2009-09-02 |
| 81. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
117.24 |
0.9841 |
-0.0105 |
334 |
1 |
117.24 |
2008-09-02 |
| 82. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
117.14 |
0.9863 |
-0.0130 |
339 |
1 |
117.14 |
2008-09-02 |
| 83. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
116.69 |
0.9089 |
0.0601 |
342 |
1 |
116.69 |
2009-09-02 |
| 84. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
116.12 |
0.9710 |
-0.0171 |
173 |
1 |
116.12 |
2009-08-03 |
| 85. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
115.96 |
1.0516 |
-0.0930 |
281 |
1 |
115.96 |
2009-08-05 |
| 86. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
115.95 |
0.9942 |
-0.0265 |
483 |
2 |
111.23 |
2010-01-22 |
| 87. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
115.70 |
0.9843 |
-0.0325 |
234 |
1 |
115.70 |
2009-08-04 |
| 88. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
115.25 |
0.9790 |
0.0147 |
311 |
1 |
115.25 |
2010-08-02 |
| 89. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
114.56 |
0.9342 |
0.0166 |
434 |
1 |
114.56 |
2009-08-03 |
| 90. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
113.36 |
1.0403 |
-0.0881 |
193 |
1 |
113.36 |
2012-10-05 |
| 91. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
113.14 |
0.9857 |
-0.0513 |
293 |
1 |
113.14 |
2008-09-02 |
| 92. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
112.49 |
1.0534 |
-0.1213 |
357 |
2 |
111.91 |
2011-04-16 |
| 93. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
112.45 |
1.0042 |
-0.0331 |
352 |
1 |
112.45 |
2011-04-16 |
| 94. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
112.17 |
0.9064 |
0.0301 |
399 |
1 |
112.17 |
2011-04-16 |
| 95. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
112.00 |
1.0120 |
-0.0870 |
290 |
2 |
104.71 |
2009-09-17 |
| 96. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
111.27 |
0.8941 |
0.0276 |
216 |
1 |
111.27 |
2009-08-03 |
| 97. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
111.17 |
0.8878 |
0.0309 |
346 |
1 |
111.17 |
2009-08-03 |
| 98. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
111.12 |
0.9965 |
-0.0828 |
168 |
1 |
111.12 |
2009-08-05 |
| 99. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
110.99 |
0.9897 |
-0.0746 |
274 |
1 |
110.99 |
2009-08-03 |
| 100. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
110.99 |
1.0292 |
-0.1131 |
262 |
1 |
110.99 |
2009-08-10 |
| 101. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
110.91 |
0.9164 |
0.0051 |
305 |
1 |
110.91 |
2008-08-12 |
| 102. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
109.95 |
0.9293 |
-0.0198 |
355 |
1 |
109.95 |
2009-08-19 |
| 103. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
109.52 |
0.9768 |
-0.0692 |
387 |
1 |
109.52 |
2008-08-25 |
| 104. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
109.14 |
0.8533 |
0.0497 |
232 |
1 |
109.14 |
2009-08-04 |
| 105. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
109.06 |
0.8956 |
0.0102 |
322 |
2 |
96.90 |
2009-10-23 |
| 106. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
108.93 |
0.9805 |
-0.0758 |
292 |
1 |
108.93 |
2008-10-07 |
| 107. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
108.82 |
1.0398 |
-0.1511 |
110 |
1 |
108.82 |
2009-08-04 |
| 108. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
107.42 |
0.9359 |
-0.0090 |
353 |
1 |
107.42 |
2010-08-02 |
| 109. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
107.31 |
0.9636 |
-0.0772 |
254 |
2 |
103.52 |
2010-08-02 |
| 110. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
107.29 |
0.9684 |
-0.0793 |
388 |
1 |
107.29 |
2009-02-27 |
| 111. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
106.78 |
0.9691 |
-0.0875 |
223 |
1 |
106.78 |
2008-09-02 |
| 112. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
106.24 |
1.0073 |
-0.1217 |
369 |
1 |
106.24 |
2009-09-02 |
| 113. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
106.05 |
0.7876 |
0.0910 |
316 |
1 |
106.05 |
2009-08-10 |
| 114. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
105.99 |
0.9866 |
-0.1148 |
218 |
2 |
80.94 |
2010-01-22 |
| 115. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
105.28 |
0.9731 |
-0.1161 |
129 |
2 |
98.24 |
2009-08-05 |
| 116. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
105.18 |
0.9045 |
-0.0355 |
235 |
1 |
105.18 |
2008-10-07 |
| 117. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
104.70 |
1.0316 |
-0.1631 |
333 |
1 |
104.70 |
2011-04-16 |
| 118. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
104.55 |
0.9846 |
-0.1223 |
281 |
1 |
104.55 |
2008-09-02 |
| 119. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
104.12 |
0.9734 |
-0.1139 |
289 |
1 |
104.12 |
2009-08-03 |
| 120. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
102.70 |
0.9213 |
-0.0729 |
295 |
1 |
102.70 |
2008-12-16 |
| 121. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
101.01 |
0.9376 |
-0.0985 |
367 |
1 |
101.01 |
2009-08-19 |
| 122. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
99.25 |
0.9426 |
-0.1205 |
317 |
3 |
93.89 |
2009-08-03 |
| 123. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
98.59 |
0.9910 |
-0.1757 |
295 |
1 |
98.59 |
2009-08-05 |
| 124. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
96.95 |
0.9763 |
-0.1771 |
289 |
1 |
96.95 |
2009-08-03 |
| 125. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
96.55 |
0.8919 |
-0.0973 |
205 |
1 |
96.55 |
2011-04-16 |
| 126. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
96.21 |
1.0004 |
-0.2130 |
212 |
1 |
96.21 |
2009-08-05 |
| 127. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
95.73 |
0.8996 |
-0.1156 |
192 |
1 |
95.73 |
2009-09-02 |
| 128. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
93.51 |
0.8553 |
-0.0895 |
174 |
1 |
93.51 |
2009-08-05 |
| 129. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
92.75 |
1.0252 |
-0.2672 |
176 |
1 |
92.75 |
2009-08-03 |
| 130. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
92.26 |
0.9772 |
-0.2203 |
217 |
1 |
92.26 |
2009-08-03 |
| 131. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
89.74 |
0.8382 |
-0.0984 |
268 |
1 |
89.74 |
2008-08-25 |
| 132. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
87.21 |
0.9485 |
-0.2280 |
291 |
1 |
87.21 |
2009-09-17 |
| 133. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
83.31 |
0.9339 |
-0.2500 |
310 |
1 |
83.31 |
2008-09-02 |
| 134. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
82.80 |
0.9289 |
-0.2501 |
204 |
1 |
82.80 |
2009-09-02 |
| 135. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
78.44 |
1.0168 |
-0.3708 |
271 |
1 |
78.44 |
2009-09-17 |
| 136. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
77.49 |
0.8916 |
-0.2547 |
216 |
1 |
77.49 |
2009-08-05 |
| 137. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
76.34 |
1.0297 |
-0.4040 |
249 |
1 |
76.34 |
2009-08-04 |
| 138. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
30.57 |
1.0352 |
-0.7888 |
341 |
1 |
30.57 |
2009-08-03 |