| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
49.55 |
1.0016 |
0.4337 |
217 |
1 |
49.55 |
2011-06-09 |
| 2. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
45.32 |
1.0543 |
0.2561 |
182 |
1 |
45.32 |
2009-06-23 |
| 3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
44.91 |
1.0901 |
0.2137 |
288 |
1 |
44.91 |
2010-07-13 |
| 4. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
44.47 |
0.8606 |
0.4283 |
170 |
1 |
44.47 |
2010-07-13 |
| 5. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
44.13 |
1.0867 |
0.1880 |
171 |
1 |
44.13 |
2010-08-10 |
| 6. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
42.71 |
1.0270 |
0.2113 |
303 |
1 |
42.71 |
2009-06-23 |
| 7. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
42.39 |
0.9621 |
0.2634 |
201 |
1 |
42.39 |
2010-07-11 |
| 8. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
41.98 |
1.0836 |
0.1363 |
206 |
1 |
41.98 |
2010-07-13 |
| 9. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
41.87 |
0.9738 |
0.2415 |
266 |
1 |
41.87 |
2011-06-09 |
| 10. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
41.17 |
1.0178 |
0.1734 |
207 |
1 |
41.17 |
2010-08-16 |
| 11. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
40.78 |
0.9286 |
0.2547 |
177 |
3 |
38.16 |
2009-06-23 |
| 12. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
40.45 |
0.9283 |
0.2450 |
317 |
1 |
40.45 |
2009-06-12 |
| 13. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
39.89 |
0.9332 |
0.2224 |
267 |
2 |
35.36 |
2011-06-09 |
| 14. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
39.49 |
1.0800 |
0.0610 |
213 |
1 |
39.49 |
2009-06-10 |
| 15. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
39.44 |
0.8215 |
0.3138 |
124 |
1 |
39.44 |
2010-07-13 |
| 16. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
39.21 |
1.0521 |
0.0781 |
197 |
1 |
39.21 |
2009-06-21 |
| 17. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
38.82 |
1.0250 |
0.1023 |
271 |
1 |
38.82 |
2010-08-16 |
| 18. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
38.73 |
1.1198 |
0.0010 |
247 |
1 |
38.73 |
2009-06-30 |
| 19. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
38.63 |
1.0101 |
0.1106 |
336 |
2 |
35.35 |
2009-06-16 |
| 20. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
38.52 |
0.7724 |
0.3416 |
142 |
1 |
38.52 |
2009-06-10 |
| 21. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
38.46 |
1.0370 |
0.0767 |
262 |
3 |
34.47 |
2009-06-17 |
| 22. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
38.37 |
0.9780 |
0.1271 |
173 |
2 |
37.64 |
2011-06-09 |
| 23. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
37.91 |
1.0461 |
0.0540 |
318 |
1 |
37.91 |
2009-05-10 |
| 24. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
37.75 |
0.8814 |
0.2099 |
169 |
1 |
37.75 |
2009-06-16 |
| 25. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
37.65 |
0.8827 |
0.2037 |
190 |
1 |
37.65 |
2011-06-09 |
| 26. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
37.60 |
1.0341 |
0.0542 |
273 |
1 |
37.60 |
2010-07-13 |
| 27. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
37.51 |
1.0492 |
0.0423 |
284 |
1 |
37.51 |
2010-07-11 |
| 28. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
37.51 |
1.0800 |
-0.0007 |
129 |
1 |
37.51 |
2009-06-15 |
| 29. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
37.32 |
1.0079 |
0.0718 |
273 |
2 |
33.51 |
2009-06-22 |
| 30. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
37.13 |
0.9149 |
0.1591 |
153 |
1 |
37.13 |
2010-07-13 |
| 31. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
37.09 |
1.0334 |
0.0400 |
261 |
3 |
33.81 |
2009-09-24 |
| 32. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
36.97 |
0.9836 |
0.0870 |
289 |
1 |
36.97 |
2009-06-17 |
| 33. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
36.92 |
1.0498 |
0.0205 |
261 |
1 |
36.92 |
2009-06-23 |
| 34. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.91 |
0.7904 |
0.2828 |
149 |
1 |
36.91 |
2009-06-30 |
| 35. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
36.88 |
1.0095 |
0.0570 |
211 |
1 |
36.88 |
2009-06-11 |
| 36. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
36.78 |
0.9213 |
0.1415 |
165 |
1 |
36.78 |
2009-04-26 |
| 37. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
36.76 |
0.9054 |
0.1610 |
204 |
1 |
36.76 |
2009-06-11 |
| 38. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
36.75 |
1.0881 |
-0.0279 |
210 |
1 |
36.75 |
2009-06-15 |
| 39. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
36.74 |
1.0414 |
0.0215 |
234 |
1 |
36.74 |
2009-06-23 |
| 40. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
36.66 |
1.0600 |
0.0018 |
351 |
2 |
35.10 |
2009-06-12 |
| 41. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
36.43 |
0.9027 |
0.1486 |
189 |
2 |
34.96 |
2010-07-13 |
| 42. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
36.39 |
0.9530 |
0.0971 |
193 |
1 |
36.39 |
2011-06-09 |
| 43. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
36.31 |
1.0418 |
0.0103 |
214 |
1 |
36.31 |
2010-08-06 |
| 44. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
36.27 |
0.9872 |
0.0701 |
229 |
1 |
36.27 |
2010-08-16 |
| 45. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
36.01 |
0.9768 |
0.0671 |
237 |
1 |
36.01 |
2009-06-16 |
| 46. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
35.81 |
0.9243 |
0.1127 |
231 |
1 |
35.81 |
2010-08-06 |
| 47. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
35.81 |
1.0197 |
0.0153 |
204 |
2 |
34.22 |
2011-06-09 |
| 48. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
35.71 |
0.9952 |
0.0410 |
220 |
1 |
35.71 |
2010-08-16 |
| 49. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
35.71 |
1.0472 |
-0.0197 |
149 |
1 |
35.71 |
2010-07-17 |
| 50. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
35.67 |
1.0165 |
0.0154 |
316 |
1 |
35.67 |
2009-06-23 |
| 51. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
35.48 |
1.0291 |
-0.0040 |
240 |
2 |
35.14 |
2009-06-22 |
| 52. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
35.36 |
0.8571 |
0.1659 |
202 |
1 |
35.36 |
2010-07-17 |
| 53. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
35.31 |
1.0060 |
0.0169 |
225 |
1 |
35.31 |
2009-06-16 |
| 54. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
35.24 |
0.8815 |
0.1436 |
296 |
2 |
34.28 |
2009-06-16 |
| 55. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
35.13 |
1.0590 |
-0.0431 |
250 |
1 |
35.13 |
2009-06-17 |
| 56. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
35.13 |
0.9349 |
0.0847 |
287 |
1 |
35.13 |
2009-06-23 |
| 57. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
35.09 |
0.8127 |
0.1995 |
167 |
2 |
33.81 |
2009-09-24 |
| 58. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
35.09 |
0.9594 |
0.0546 |
258 |
1 |
35.09 |
2009-06-23 |
| 59. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
35.05 |
0.9807 |
0.0223 |
129 |
2 |
32.97 |
2009-06-12 |
| 60. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
35.00 |
1.1086 |
-0.0950 |
233 |
1 |
35.00 |
2009-06-30 |
| 61. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
34.99 |
0.9866 |
0.0267 |
308 |
1 |
34.99 |
2009-06-16 |
| 62. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.97 |
0.8124 |
0.1955 |
167 |
1 |
34.97 |
2009-07-09 |
| 63. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
34.96 |
1.0511 |
-0.0373 |
252 |
1 |
34.96 |
2009-06-30 |
| 64. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
34.95 |
0.9763 |
0.0349 |
143 |
1 |
34.95 |
2009-06-23 |
| 65. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
34.89 |
0.8988 |
0.1112 |
216 |
4 |
33.55 |
2009-06-23 |
| 66. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
34.86 |
1.0403 |
-0.0329 |
234 |
1 |
34.86 |
2009-04-17 |
| 67. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
34.86 |
0.9299 |
0.0708 |
168 |
3 |
32.64 |
2009-06-30 |
| 68. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
34.81 |
1.0301 |
-0.0238 |
268 |
1 |
34.81 |
2009-06-20 |
| 69. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
34.80 |
1.0028 |
0.0034 |
259 |
2 |
30.24 |
2009-06-11 |
| 70. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
34.76 |
0.9809 |
0.0331 |
250 |
1 |
34.76 |
2010-07-13 |
| 71. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
34.35 |
1.0199 |
-0.0295 |
225 |
1 |
34.35 |
2009-06-15 |
| 72. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
34.26 |
1.0759 |
-0.0787 |
273 |
1 |
34.26 |
2010-07-11 |
| 73. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
34.09 |
0.9352 |
0.0504 |
194 |
1 |
34.09 |
2009-06-11 |
| 74. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
34.08 |
0.9713 |
0.0137 |
193 |
1 |
34.08 |
2009-06-03 |
| 75. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
33.94 |
1.0617 |
-0.0813 |
171 |
1 |
33.94 |
2009-06-16 |
| 76. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
33.89 |
1.0208 |
-0.0401 |
231 |
1 |
33.89 |
2009-06-22 |
| 77. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
33.84 |
1.0082 |
-0.0338 |
212 |
1 |
33.84 |
2009-06-11 |
| 78. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
33.52 |
1.0638 |
-0.0957 |
247 |
2 |
32.72 |
2009-06-15 |
| 79. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
33.42 |
0.8669 |
0.1065 |
255 |
2 |
32.99 |
2009-06-16 |
| 80. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
33.34 |
1.0576 |
-0.0956 |
231 |
1 |
33.34 |
2009-08-03 |
| 81. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
33.27 |
0.9927 |
-0.0280 |
262 |
1 |
33.27 |
2009-06-16 |
| 82. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
33.14 |
0.9346 |
0.0215 |
211 |
2 |
31.22 |
2009-06-15 |
| 83. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
33.04 |
0.8965 |
0.0601 |
150 |
2 |
31.59 |
2010-08-16 |
| 84. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
33.00 |
1.0509 |
-0.0885 |
295 |
1 |
33.00 |
2010-07-21 |
| 85. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
32.96 |
0.9621 |
-0.0059 |
212 |
1 |
32.96 |
2009-05-10 |
| 86. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
32.77 |
1.0086 |
-0.0647 |
218 |
1 |
32.77 |
2009-06-21 |
| 87. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
32.68 |
0.9927 |
-0.0504 |
234 |
2 |
31.36 |
2009-06-30 |
| 88. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
32.64 |
0.8925 |
0.0589 |
293 |
2 |
31.24 |
2009-05-10 |
| 89. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
32.53 |
0.8847 |
0.0543 |
282 |
1 |
32.53 |
2009-06-17 |
| 90. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
32.25 |
0.7868 |
0.1427 |
116 |
1 |
32.25 |
2010-08-06 |
| 91. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
32.20 |
0.9500 |
-0.0167 |
287 |
2 |
30.91 |
2009-06-30 |
| 92. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
32.14 |
0.9583 |
-0.0279 |
237 |
1 |
32.14 |
2009-04-13 |
| 93. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
32.08 |
1.0106 |
-0.0835 |
302 |
1 |
32.08 |
2009-06-28 |
| 94. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
31.96 |
0.8192 |
0.1074 |
200 |
1 |
31.96 |
2009-08-03 |
| 95. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
31.94 |
1.0567 |
-0.1330 |
314 |
1 |
31.94 |
2009-06-17 |
| 96. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
31.86 |
0.9271 |
-0.0058 |
295 |
1 |
31.86 |
2009-06-30 |
| 97. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
31.77 |
0.9380 |
-0.0204 |
284 |
1 |
31.77 |
2009-06-16 |
| 98. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
31.64 |
0.9779 |
-0.0641 |
255 |
1 |
31.64 |
2009-04-14 |
| 99. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
31.46 |
1.0267 |
-0.1135 |
261 |
1 |
31.46 |
2009-06-15 |
| 100. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
31.41 |
0.9271 |
-0.0160 |
323 |
1 |
31.41 |
2009-06-23 |
| 101. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
31.20 |
0.9917 |
-0.0871 |
317 |
1 |
31.20 |
2009-04-26 |
| 102. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
31.10 |
0.7852 |
0.1083 |
154 |
1 |
31.10 |
2011-06-09 |
| 103. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.02 |
0.8742 |
0.0276 |
202 |
2 |
29.54 |
2009-06-23 |
| 104. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
30.99 |
0.8656 |
0.0320 |
242 |
1 |
30.99 |
2009-06-30 |
| 105. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
30.92 |
0.8437 |
0.0499 |
268 |
1 |
30.92 |
2009-06-17 |
| 106. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
30.89 |
0.8474 |
0.0466 |
265 |
1 |
30.89 |
2009-06-11 |
| 107. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
30.83 |
0.9070 |
-0.0201 |
192 |
1 |
30.83 |
2009-05-10 |
| 108. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
30.81 |
0.8246 |
0.0667 |
183 |
2 |
30.03 |
2009-06-20 |
| 109. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
30.74 |
0.8375 |
0.0505 |
203 |
1 |
30.74 |
2009-04-14 |
| 110. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
30.68 |
0.8592 |
0.0256 |
191 |
1 |
30.68 |
2010-07-13 |
| 111. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
30.52 |
1.0042 |
-0.1253 |
168 |
1 |
30.52 |
2009-06-20 |
| 112. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
30.46 |
0.8986 |
-0.0194 |
205 |
1 |
30.46 |
2009-06-15 |
| 113. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
30.45 |
0.9252 |
-0.0439 |
148 |
2 |
29.54 |
2009-07-09 |
| 114. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
30.42 |
0.8562 |
0.0183 |
132 |
2 |
28.46 |
2009-06-21 |
| 115. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
30.11 |
0.8646 |
0.0027 |
110 |
2 |
28.07 |
2009-07-28 |
| 116. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
30.09 |
0.9145 |
-0.0408 |
404 |
1 |
30.09 |
2009-06-17 |
| 117. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
29.98 |
1.0372 |
-0.1706 |
249 |
1 |
29.98 |
2009-06-17 |
| 118. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
29.88 |
0.8863 |
-0.0257 |
127 |
1 |
29.88 |
2009-06-11 |
| 119. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
29.63 |
0.9275 |
-0.0655 |
243 |
1 |
29.63 |
2009-06-11 |
| 120. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
29.37 |
0.7423 |
0.1050 |
145 |
1 |
29.37 |
2009-04-14 |
| 121. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
28.98 |
0.8172 |
0.0163 |
204 |
1 |
28.98 |
2009-04-26 |
| 122. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
28.44 |
0.8603 |
-0.0383 |
270 |
1 |
28.44 |
2009-06-21 |
| 123. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
27.99 |
0.8572 |
-0.0499 |
232 |
1 |
27.99 |
2009-04-26 |
| 124. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
27.66 |
0.8666 |
-0.0697 |
206 |
1 |
27.66 |
2009-06-16 |
| 125. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
27.29 |
0.9068 |
-0.1201 |
212 |
1 |
27.29 |
2009-06-16 |
| 126. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
27.29 |
0.8986 |
-0.1094 |
216 |
1 |
27.29 |
2009-06-23 |
| 127. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
27.01 |
1.0615 |
-0.2840 |
201 |
1 |
27.01 |
2009-09-24 |
| 128. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
26.96 |
0.9948 |
-0.2169 |
233 |
1 |
26.96 |
2009-06-15 |
| 129. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
26.69 |
0.9606 |
-0.1854 |
203 |
1 |
26.69 |
2011-06-09 |
| 130. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
26.47 |
0.7271 |
0.0380 |
186 |
1 |
26.47 |
2009-04-15 |
| 131. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
26.27 |
0.9829 |
-0.2247 |
229 |
1 |
26.27 |
2009-05-10 |
| 132. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
25.97 |
0.8830 |
-0.1388 |
134 |
1 |
25.97 |
2009-06-17 |
| 133. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
25.61 |
0.9265 |
-0.1879 |
254 |
1 |
25.61 |
2009-04-13 |
| 134. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
24.92 |
0.8789 |
-0.1650 |
136 |
1 |
24.92 |
2009-04-13 |
| 135. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
23.12 |
0.8624 |
-0.1999 |
174 |
1 |
23.12 |
2009-04-14 |