| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
98.22 |
1.0619 |
0.3358 |
354 |
1 |
98.22 |
2012-09-10 |
| 2. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
87.83 |
0.9865 |
0.2598 |
276 |
1 |
87.83 |
2010-03-13 |
| 3. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
87.79 |
1.0211 |
0.2539 |
213 |
1 |
87.79 |
2012-09-10 |
| 4. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
87.06 |
0.9964 |
0.2376 |
203 |
2 |
77.19 |
2010-03-13 |
| 5. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
85.20 |
1.0201 |
0.1879 |
303 |
1 |
85.20 |
2009-04-19 |
| 6. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
85.17 |
0.9846 |
0.2209 |
281 |
2 |
77.65 |
2010-03-13 |
| 7. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
83.69 |
1.0426 |
0.1425 |
323 |
2 |
81.24 |
2009-09-27 |
| 8. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
83.24 |
1.0399 |
0.1447 |
294 |
1 |
83.24 |
2009-04-07 |
| 9. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
82.44 |
1.0711 |
0.0915 |
213 |
1 |
82.44 |
2008-10-05 |
| 10. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
79.96 |
0.9844 |
0.1530 |
293 |
2 |
70.64 |
2010-03-13 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
78.71 |
0.9899 |
0.1197 |
163 |
1 |
78.71 |
2008-11-29 |
| 12. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
77.59 |
1.0441 |
0.0556 |
252 |
1 |
77.59 |
2009-03-16 |
| 13. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
77.26 |
0.9897 |
0.1015 |
274 |
1 |
77.26 |
2010-03-13 |
| 14. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
76.54 |
1.0337 |
0.0488 |
214 |
1 |
76.54 |
2008-11-03 |
| 15. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
76.00 |
1.0596 |
0.0138 |
239 |
1 |
76.00 |
2010-03-13 |
| 16. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
75.98 |
0.9879 |
0.0964 |
450 |
1 |
75.98 |
2009-04-07 |
| 17. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
75.06 |
0.9851 |
0.0796 |
317 |
1 |
75.06 |
2009-04-19 |
| 18. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
74.10 |
1.0038 |
0.0749 |
237 |
1 |
74.10 |
2012-09-10 |
| 19. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
74.00 |
0.8890 |
0.1544 |
199 |
2 |
71.41 |
2010-07-12 |
| 20. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
73.99 |
0.9622 |
0.0912 |
392 |
1 |
73.99 |
2008-11-23 |
| 21. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
73.72 |
0.9213 |
0.1224 |
295 |
2 |
70.83 |
2009-04-07 |
| 22. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
73.29 |
0.9681 |
0.0770 |
378 |
1 |
73.29 |
2009-04-07 |
| 23. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
73.14 |
1.0109 |
0.0243 |
276 |
1 |
73.14 |
2008-11-03 |
| 24. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
72.90 |
1.0029 |
0.0218 |
209 |
1 |
72.90 |
2009-03-16 |
| 25. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
72.68 |
1.0483 |
-0.0235 |
227 |
1 |
72.68 |
2009-03-16 |
| 26. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
72.49 |
0.9758 |
0.0502 |
314 |
1 |
72.49 |
2009-03-16 |
| 27. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
72.32 |
0.9811 |
0.0446 |
272 |
1 |
72.32 |
2009-03-16 |
| 28. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
72.30 |
0.9946 |
0.0280 |
246 |
1 |
72.30 |
2009-03-16 |
| 29. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
71.91 |
0.9991 |
0.0185 |
225 |
1 |
71.91 |
2008-09-07 |
| 30. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
71.41 |
1.0095 |
-0.0011 |
316 |
3 |
64.03 |
2009-03-16 |
| 31. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
70.88 |
1.0523 |
-0.0543 |
256 |
1 |
70.88 |
2009-03-16 |
| 32. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
70.53 |
1.0297 |
-0.0337 |
249 |
1 |
70.53 |
2008-11-03 |
| 33. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
69.29 |
1.0714 |
-0.1010 |
129 |
1 |
69.29 |
2008-11-23 |
| 34. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
68.59 |
1.0138 |
-0.0449 |
231 |
1 |
68.59 |
2009-04-19 |
| 35. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
68.55 |
0.8770 |
0.0951 |
300 |
2 |
57.51 |
2012-09-10 |
| 36. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
68.16 |
0.9746 |
0.0173 |
405 |
1 |
68.16 |
2010-07-12 |
| 37. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
67.48 |
1.0389 |
-0.0831 |
340 |
1 |
67.48 |
2008-08-10 |
| 38. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
67.39 |
1.0396 |
-0.0945 |
149 |
2 |
52.43 |
2009-04-07 |
| 39. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
66.86 |
0.9653 |
-0.0121 |
394 |
2 |
62.68 |
2008-11-03 |
| 40. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
66.45 |
1.0390 |
-0.1041 |
205 |
1 |
66.45 |
2009-09-27 |
| 41. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
65.68 |
1.0261 |
-0.1004 |
273 |
1 |
65.68 |
2008-09-07 |
| 42. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
65.41 |
1.0063 |
-0.0821 |
371 |
1 |
65.41 |
2008-10-05 |
| 43. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
64.95 |
1.0398 |
-0.1333 |
110 |
1 |
64.95 |
2008-11-29 |
| 44. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
62.57 |
0.8595 |
0.0259 |
242 |
1 |
62.57 |
2008-09-07 |
| 45. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
62.53 |
1.0516 |
-0.1696 |
281 |
1 |
62.53 |
2009-09-27 |
| 46. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
62.41 |
0.9597 |
-0.0748 |
347 |
2 |
54.21 |
2012-09-10 |
| 47. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
61.88 |
1.0331 |
-0.1621 |
234 |
1 |
61.88 |
2008-11-29 |
| 48. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
61.70 |
1.0033 |
-0.1394 |
189 |
1 |
61.70 |
2009-04-07 |
| 49. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
61.26 |
0.9084 |
-0.0422 |
300 |
1 |
61.26 |
2009-03-16 |
| 50. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
60.82 |
0.9125 |
-0.0524 |
308 |
1 |
60.82 |
2008-11-29 |
| 51. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
59.95 |
0.9632 |
-0.1110 |
392 |
1 |
59.95 |
2008-11-29 |
| 52. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
59.36 |
0.9365 |
-0.0977 |
248 |
1 |
59.36 |
2009-04-07 |
| 53. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
58.79 |
0.9649 |
-0.1367 |
193 |
1 |
58.79 |
2008-11-23 |
| 54. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
57.28 |
0.9768 |
-0.1665 |
387 |
1 |
57.28 |
2009-03-16 |
| 55. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
57.28 |
0.9894 |
-0.1775 |
323 |
1 |
57.28 |
2008-11-29 |
| 56. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
57.12 |
0.9786 |
-0.1786 |
193 |
1 |
57.12 |
2008-11-03 |
| 57. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
56.69 |
0.8852 |
-0.0837 |
201 |
1 |
56.69 |
2009-03-16 |
| 58. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
56.58 |
0.9513 |
-0.1501 |
354 |
1 |
56.58 |
2009-04-07 |
| 59. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
56.20 |
0.9109 |
-0.1160 |
401 |
1 |
56.20 |
2008-11-03 |
| 60. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
53.69 |
0.8947 |
-0.1334 |
366 |
1 |
53.69 |
2008-11-29 |
| 61. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
51.25 |
0.9293 |
-0.2070 |
355 |
1 |
51.25 |
2008-11-23 |
| 62. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
44.16 |
0.9275 |
-0.3111 |
211 |
1 |
44.16 |
2009-03-16 |