| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
128.42 |
1.0429 |
0.2745 |
259 |
1 |
128.42 |
2009-02-13 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
127.26 |
1.0696 |
0.2337 |
226 |
1 |
127.26 |
2009-02-27 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
126.85 |
1.0796 |
0.2182 |
129 |
1 |
126.85 |
2009-02-27 |
| 4. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
126.47 |
0.9572 |
0.3403 |
201 |
1 |
126.47 |
2009-02-13 |
| 5. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
125.37 |
1.0799 |
0.2036 |
243 |
3 |
119.06 |
2011-10-18 |
| 6. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
123.02 |
1.1323 |
0.1642 |
341 |
1 |
123.02 |
2011-06-11 |
| 7. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
121.60 |
0.9943 |
0.2570 |
373 |
2 |
110.99 |
2009-12-07 |
| 8. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
120.57 |
1.0668 |
0.1731 |
350 |
1 |
120.57 |
2010-01-07 |
| 9. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
119.65 |
1.0389 |
0.1914 |
340 |
1 |
119.65 |
2009-02-27 |
| 10. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
118.02 |
1.1114 |
0.0969 |
247 |
1 |
118.02 |
2009-12-07 |
| 11. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
113.87 |
1.1068 |
0.1015 |
393 |
1 |
113.87 |
2011-12-29 |
| 12. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
113.60 |
1.0412 |
0.1234 |
225 |
1 |
113.60 |
2011-10-18 |
| 13. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
112.71 |
1.0034 |
0.1510 |
302 |
1 |
112.71 |
2009-12-07 |
| 14. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
112.40 |
1.0396 |
0.1059 |
149 |
1 |
112.40 |
2009-02-12 |
| 15. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
112.32 |
0.9907 |
0.1596 |
211 |
1 |
112.32 |
2009-12-07 |
| 16. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
112.31 |
1.0347 |
0.1425 |
550 |
1 |
112.31 |
2011-10-18 |
| 17. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
111.34 |
1.0529 |
0.0887 |
351 |
1 |
111.34 |
2009-02-13 |
| 18. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
110.17 |
0.9578 |
0.1713 |
281 |
1 |
110.17 |
2009-02-13 |
| 19. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
109.76 |
1.0613 |
0.0690 |
456 |
1 |
109.76 |
2009-02-12 |
| 20. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
109.09 |
1.0502 |
0.0947 |
535 |
1 |
109.09 |
2011-06-11 |
| 21. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
108.45 |
1.0197 |
0.0892 |
226 |
1 |
108.45 |
2011-10-18 |
| 22. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
107.69 |
0.9398 |
0.1734 |
419 |
1 |
107.69 |
2009-12-07 |
| 23. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
107.30 |
0.9682 |
0.1297 |
143 |
1 |
107.30 |
2009-02-13 |
| 24. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
107.07 |
1.0346 |
0.1048 |
244 |
1 |
107.07 |
2010-01-07 |
| 25. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
105.76 |
1.0941 |
0.0210 |
256 |
1 |
105.76 |
2010-01-07 |
| 26. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
104.99 |
1.0534 |
0.0247 |
357 |
2 |
96.22 |
2011-10-18 |
| 27. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
104.90 |
1.0577 |
0.0137 |
247 |
1 |
104.90 |
2010-01-07 |
| 28. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
104.55 |
1.0968 |
0.0119 |
365 |
1 |
104.55 |
2011-10-18 |
| 29. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
104.26 |
1.0521 |
0.0114 |
171 |
1 |
104.26 |
2009-02-27 |
| 30. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
104.22 |
1.0025 |
0.0663 |
336 |
1 |
104.22 |
2009-02-12 |
| 31. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
104.11 |
0.9786 |
0.0829 |
193 |
2 |
95.58 |
2009-12-07 |
| 32. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
103.79 |
1.0516 |
0.0114 |
281 |
1 |
103.79 |
2011-12-29 |
| 33. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
103.46 |
1.1016 |
-0.0415 |
233 |
1 |
103.46 |
2009-02-13 |
| 34. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
103.25 |
0.9540 |
0.1020 |
285 |
1 |
103.25 |
2011-10-18 |
| 35. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
102.08 |
1.0531 |
0.0307 |
272 |
1 |
102.08 |
2011-10-18 |
| 36. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
101.82 |
1.0417 |
-0.0012 |
253 |
1 |
101.82 |
2010-01-07 |
| 37. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
101.45 |
1.0763 |
0.0044 |
367 |
1 |
101.45 |
2011-10-18 |
| 38. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
100.98 |
0.9593 |
0.0797 |
398 |
1 |
100.98 |
2009-02-12 |
| 39. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
100.69 |
1.0767 |
-0.0476 |
212 |
1 |
100.69 |
2011-10-18 |
| 40. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
100.65 |
0.9852 |
0.0460 |
264 |
1 |
100.65 |
2009-02-27 |
| 41. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
99.89 |
1.0240 |
-0.0036 |
256 |
1 |
99.89 |
2010-01-07 |
| 42. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
99.59 |
1.0567 |
-0.0362 |
303 |
1 |
99.59 |
2009-12-07 |
| 43. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
99.40 |
1.0058 |
0.0347 |
411 |
1 |
99.40 |
2011-10-18 |
| 44. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
99.30 |
1.0141 |
0.0391 |
304 |
1 |
99.30 |
2010-01-07 |
| 45. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
98.13 |
0.9570 |
0.0494 |
287 |
2 |
97.50 |
2011-10-18 |
| 46. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
98.05 |
1.0565 |
-0.0552 |
247 |
1 |
98.05 |
2011-10-18 |
| 47. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
97.93 |
1.0398 |
-0.0476 |
110 |
2 |
85.65 |
2011-10-18 |
| 48. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
97.71 |
0.9780 |
0.0234 |
337 |
1 |
97.71 |
2011-10-18 |
| 49. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
97.66 |
1.0109 |
-0.0102 |
276 |
1 |
97.66 |
2009-02-13 |
| 50. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
97.14 |
0.9844 |
0.0149 |
293 |
2 |
96.94 |
2009-02-27 |
| 51. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
97.13 |
0.9084 |
0.0901 |
404 |
1 |
97.13 |
2009-12-07 |
| 52. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
97.13 |
0.9792 |
0.0536 |
265 |
2 |
95.85 |
2010-01-07 |
| 53. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
96.98 |
1.0109 |
0.0148 |
400 |
1 |
96.98 |
2010-01-07 |
| 54. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
96.58 |
0.9910 |
-0.0004 |
295 |
1 |
96.58 |
2011-06-11 |
| 55. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
96.10 |
1.0486 |
-0.0641 |
289 |
1 |
96.10 |
2009-02-12 |
| 56. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
95.76 |
0.9687 |
0.0162 |
371 |
1 |
95.76 |
2011-10-18 |
| 57. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
95.58 |
1.0214 |
-0.0006 |
281 |
1 |
95.58 |
2011-12-29 |
| 58. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
95.39 |
0.9514 |
0.0252 |
237 |
1 |
95.39 |
2010-01-07 |
| 59. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
95.30 |
0.9964 |
-0.0209 |
203 |
1 |
95.30 |
2009-02-12 |
| 60. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
94.94 |
0.9754 |
0.0023 |
362 |
1 |
94.94 |
2009-02-12 |
| 61. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
94.90 |
1.0389 |
-0.0660 |
318 |
1 |
94.90 |
2010-01-07 |
| 62. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
94.64 |
1.0328 |
-0.0262 |
356 |
1 |
94.64 |
2009-12-07 |
| 63. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
94.44 |
1.0257 |
-0.0528 |
401 |
1 |
94.44 |
2009-02-12 |
| 64. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
94.26 |
1.0388 |
-0.0426 |
243 |
1 |
94.26 |
2011-10-18 |
| 65. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
94.01 |
0.9339 |
0.0266 |
310 |
1 |
94.01 |
2010-01-07 |
| 66. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
93.95 |
1.0595 |
-0.0956 |
379 |
1 |
93.95 |
2011-10-18 |
| 67. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
93.81 |
1.0099 |
-0.0529 |
207 |
1 |
93.81 |
2011-10-18 |
| 68. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
93.76 |
0.9879 |
-0.0198 |
450 |
1 |
93.76 |
2011-12-29 |
| 69. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
93.73 |
1.0316 |
-0.0687 |
333 |
1 |
93.73 |
2009-02-12 |
| 70. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
93.24 |
1.0289 |
-0.0705 |
276 |
1 |
93.24 |
2009-12-07 |
| 71. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
93.06 |
1.0031 |
-0.0174 |
304 |
1 |
93.06 |
2011-10-18 |
| 72. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
93.01 |
1.0201 |
-0.0681 |
303 |
1 |
93.01 |
2009-02-12 |
| 73. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
92.92 |
1.0284 |
-0.0344 |
282 |
1 |
92.92 |
2011-10-18 |
| 74. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
92.61 |
0.9572 |
0.0334 |
376 |
1 |
92.61 |
2010-01-07 |
| 75. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
92.57 |
0.9359 |
0.0507 |
353 |
1 |
92.57 |
2010-01-07 |
| 76. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
92.49 |
1.0391 |
-0.0868 |
358 |
1 |
92.49 |
2009-02-12 |
| 77. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
92.04 |
0.9942 |
-0.0438 |
483 |
1 |
92.04 |
2009-12-07 |
| 78. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
91.98 |
0.9376 |
0.0088 |
367 |
1 |
91.98 |
2009-02-12 |
| 79. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
91.69 |
0.9500 |
-0.0099 |
362 |
1 |
91.69 |
2009-02-12 |
| 80. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
91.06 |
0.9865 |
-0.0540 |
276 |
1 |
91.06 |
2009-02-12 |
| 81. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
90.90 |
1.0768 |
-0.1069 |
295 |
1 |
90.90 |
2011-10-18 |
| 82. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
90.48 |
0.9893 |
-0.0638 |
323 |
1 |
90.48 |
2009-02-12 |
| 83. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
90.47 |
0.9805 |
-0.0506 |
292 |
1 |
90.47 |
2009-02-12 |
| 84. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
90.43 |
0.9851 |
-0.0580 |
317 |
1 |
90.43 |
2010-01-07 |
| 85. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
90.21 |
1.0124 |
-0.0922 |
204 |
1 |
90.21 |
2009-02-12 |
| 86. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
90.20 |
1.0060 |
-0.0882 |
171 |
1 |
90.20 |
2009-02-12 |
| 87. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
90.08 |
0.9614 |
-0.0372 |
292 |
1 |
90.08 |
2009-12-07 |
| 88. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
89.83 |
0.8958 |
0.0275 |
322 |
1 |
89.83 |
2009-02-13 |
| 89. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
89.51 |
0.8890 |
0.0227 |
199 |
1 |
89.51 |
2011-10-18 |
| 90. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
89.10 |
0.9464 |
-0.0302 |
323 |
1 |
89.10 |
2009-02-13 |
| 91. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
88.92 |
0.9833 |
-0.0725 |
355 |
1 |
88.92 |
2011-10-18 |
| 92. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
88.50 |
0.9155 |
0.0387 |
168 |
2 |
79.79 |
2011-10-18 |
| 93. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
88.28 |
1.0608 |
-0.1249 |
258 |
1 |
88.28 |
2011-06-11 |
| 94. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
87.40 |
0.9234 |
-0.0245 |
346 |
1 |
87.40 |
2009-02-12 |
| 95. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
87.35 |
1.0232 |
-0.0844 |
350 |
1 |
87.35 |
2011-10-18 |
| 96. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
87.23 |
0.9330 |
-0.0347 |
360 |
1 |
87.23 |
2009-02-12 |
| 97. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
86.28 |
0.9049 |
-0.0177 |
351 |
1 |
86.28 |
2009-12-07 |
| 98. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
85.53 |
0.8602 |
0.0117 |
206 |
1 |
85.53 |
2009-02-12 |
| 99. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
85.53 |
0.9266 |
-0.0524 |
267 |
1 |
85.53 |
2009-02-27 |
| 100. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
85.26 |
0.9468 |
-0.0760 |
276 |
1 |
85.26 |
2009-02-12 |
| 101. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
84.55 |
1.0168 |
-0.1515 |
271 |
1 |
84.55 |
2009-12-07 |
| 102. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
84.54 |
0.9429 |
-0.0778 |
287 |
1 |
84.54 |
2009-02-12 |
| 103. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
84.12 |
1.0487 |
-0.1943 |
231 |
1 |
84.12 |
2009-02-12 |
| 104. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
83.71 |
0.9148 |
-0.0582 |
317 |
1 |
83.71 |
2011-10-18 |
| 105. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
83.31 |
0.9866 |
-0.1393 |
218 |
2 |
82.43 |
2011-10-18 |
| 106. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
82.62 |
1.0385 |
-0.1964 |
230 |
1 |
82.62 |
2011-06-11 |
| 107. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
81.93 |
1.0454 |
-0.2124 |
255 |
1 |
81.93 |
2011-10-18 |
| 108. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
81.49 |
0.8916 |
-0.0591 |
216 |
1 |
81.49 |
2009-02-12 |
| 109. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
81.33 |
0.9430 |
-0.1096 |
297 |
1 |
81.33 |
2010-01-07 |
| 110. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
81.04 |
0.9904 |
-0.1223 |
203 |
1 |
81.04 |
2011-10-18 |
| 111. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
80.69 |
0.8852 |
-0.0592 |
201 |
1 |
80.69 |
2011-10-18 |
| 112. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
79.77 |
0.8105 |
-0.0005 |
204 |
1 |
79.77 |
2009-02-13 |
| 113. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
79.53 |
0.9681 |
-0.1480 |
378 |
1 |
79.53 |
2009-02-12 |
| 114. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
77.80 |
0.9710 |
-0.1836 |
173 |
1 |
77.80 |
2011-10-18 |
| 115. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
77.12 |
0.8553 |
-0.0735 |
174 |
1 |
77.12 |
2011-10-18 |
| 116. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
76.09 |
1.0644 |
-0.2521 |
257 |
1 |
76.09 |
2011-10-18 |
| 117. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
74.09 |
0.8826 |
-0.1258 |
296 |
1 |
74.09 |
2011-06-11 |
| 118. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
73.91 |
0.9309 |
-0.1792 |
284 |
1 |
73.91 |
2009-02-12 |
| 119. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
68.99 |
1.0533 |
-0.3242 |
257 |
1 |
68.99 |
2011-12-29 |
| 120. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
68.27 |
1.0787 |
-0.3849 |
237 |
1 |
68.27 |
2011-10-18 |
| 121. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
65.50 |
0.7876 |
-0.1187 |
316 |
1 |
65.50 |
2009-02-27 |