| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
37.16 |
0.8666 |
0.4109 |
150 |
2 |
36.91 |
2009-10-26 |
| 2. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
37.07 |
0.9221 |
0.3473 |
244 |
1 |
37.07 |
2009-10-27 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
36.62 |
1.1018 |
0.1467 |
220 |
2 |
34.09 |
2009-10-26 |
| 4. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
36.24 |
1.0379 |
0.2389 |
245 |
1 |
36.24 |
2009-10-27 |
| 5. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
35.93 |
1.0498 |
0.1766 |
180 |
2 |
33.49 |
2009-10-27 |
| 6. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
35.14 |
0.9418 |
0.2679 |
188 |
1 |
35.14 |
2009-12-05 |
| 7. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
34.45 |
0.8715 |
0.3055 |
130 |
2 |
33.25 |
2009-12-05 |
| 8. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
34.03 |
1.0596 |
0.1035 |
239 |
1 |
34.03 |
2010-03-26 |
| 9. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
33.88 |
0.9798 |
0.1749 |
199 |
1 |
33.88 |
2009-10-26 |
| 10. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
33.79 |
0.9048 |
0.2569 |
271 |
2 |
28.91 |
2010-03-26 |
| 11. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
33.75 |
0.8910 |
0.2664 |
150 |
1 |
33.75 |
2009-10-26 |
| 12. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
33.13 |
0.9941 |
0.1378 |
217 |
1 |
33.13 |
2009-10-27 |
| 13. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
33.04 |
0.9260 |
0.2159 |
243 |
1 |
33.04 |
2009-12-05 |
| 14. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
32.92 |
1.0034 |
0.1224 |
302 |
1 |
32.92 |
2009-10-26 |
| 15. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
32.82 |
0.9873 |
0.1330 |
155 |
2 |
31.49 |
2009-10-26 |
| 16. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
32.72 |
0.8747 |
0.2412 |
201 |
2 |
32.29 |
2009-10-15 |
| 17. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
32.55 |
0.9196 |
0.1960 |
148 |
2 |
29.32 |
2009-10-25 |
| 18. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
32.44 |
0.8506 |
0.2563 |
132 |
1 |
32.44 |
2009-09-03 |
| 19. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
32.38 |
1.0214 |
0.0817 |
166 |
1 |
32.38 |
2009-10-15 |
| 20. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
32.16 |
0.9281 |
0.1773 |
273 |
2 |
28.77 |
2010-07-14 |
| 21. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
32.09 |
1.0829 |
0.0167 |
288 |
1 |
32.09 |
2009-10-20 |
| 22. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
31.94 |
1.0033 |
0.0829 |
189 |
1 |
31.94 |
2009-06-03 |
| 23. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
31.92 |
0.9576 |
0.1387 |
212 |
1 |
31.92 |
2009-10-26 |
| 24. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
31.87 |
0.7981 |
0.2911 |
126 |
2 |
29.36 |
2009-10-25 |
| 25. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
31.82 |
0.8951 |
0.1962 |
193 |
2 |
29.94 |
2009-10-26 |
| 26. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
31.72 |
0.8348 |
0.2568 |
219 |
2 |
30.88 |
2009-10-25 |
| 27. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
31.41 |
0.9350 |
0.1401 |
195 |
1 |
31.41 |
2009-12-05 |
| 28. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
31.36 |
0.7852 |
0.2940 |
149 |
1 |
31.36 |
2009-12-05 |
| 29. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
31.19 |
1.0201 |
0.0405 |
172 |
1 |
31.19 |
2009-10-15 |
| 30. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
31.08 |
1.0183 |
0.0395 |
191 |
1 |
31.08 |
2009-06-03 |
| 31. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
31.06 |
0.8275 |
0.2366 |
142 |
2 |
30.09 |
2009-10-15 |
| 32. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
31.06 |
1.0521 |
0.0053 |
171 |
1 |
31.06 |
2009-10-27 |
| 33. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
30.93 |
0.9340 |
0.1233 |
296 |
1 |
30.93 |
2009-10-25 |
| 34. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
30.62 |
1.0023 |
0.0431 |
211 |
1 |
30.62 |
2009-06-02 |
| 35. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
30.53 |
1.0463 |
-0.0067 |
182 |
1 |
30.53 |
2009-08-14 |
| 36. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
30.53 |
1.0788 |
-0.0402 |
171 |
1 |
30.53 |
2009-10-27 |
| 37. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
30.52 |
0.9763 |
0.0670 |
289 |
2 |
28.73 |
2009-10-20 |
| 38. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
30.30 |
0.8263 |
0.2078 |
162 |
1 |
30.30 |
2009-06-03 |
| 39. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
30.28 |
1.0213 |
0.0112 |
240 |
1 |
30.28 |
2009-10-15 |
| 40. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
30.17 |
0.8145 |
0.2197 |
115 |
3 |
26.54 |
2009-06-03 |
| 41. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
29.99 |
0.8661 |
0.1511 |
94 |
1 |
29.99 |
2009-08-25 |
| 42. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
29.86 |
1.0252 |
-0.0107 |
176 |
1 |
29.86 |
2009-08-14 |
| 43. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
29.84 |
0.8793 |
0.1420 |
157 |
2 |
28.25 |
2009-10-27 |
| 44. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
29.50 |
0.8070 |
0.2046 |
137 |
1 |
29.50 |
2009-11-24 |
| 45. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
29.36 |
1.0679 |
-0.0442 |
177 |
1 |
29.36 |
2009-12-05 |
| 46. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
29.34 |
0.9307 |
0.0801 |
246 |
1 |
29.34 |
2009-12-05 |
| 47. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
29.32 |
1.0263 |
-0.0251 |
267 |
1 |
29.32 |
2009-12-05 |
| 48. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
29.28 |
0.8653 |
0.1469 |
255 |
1 |
29.28 |
2009-06-07 |
| 49. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
29.20 |
0.9691 |
0.0285 |
223 |
1 |
29.20 |
2009-06-03 |
| 50. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
28.84 |
1.0487 |
-0.0680 |
231 |
1 |
28.84 |
2009-09-03 |
| 51. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
28.66 |
1.0214 |
-0.0434 |
269 |
1 |
28.66 |
2009-11-24 |
| 52. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
28.65 |
0.8295 |
0.1515 |
209 |
1 |
28.65 |
2009-06-02 |
| 53. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
28.55 |
0.9612 |
0.0146 |
256 |
1 |
28.55 |
2009-09-03 |
| 54. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
28.52 |
1.0767 |
-0.1043 |
212 |
1 |
28.52 |
2009-12-05 |
| 55. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
28.52 |
1.0523 |
-0.0819 |
256 |
1 |
28.52 |
2009-11-24 |
| 56. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
28.43 |
1.0254 |
-0.0134 |
217 |
1 |
28.43 |
2009-11-24 |
| 57. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
28.40 |
1.0211 |
-0.0201 |
213 |
1 |
28.40 |
2009-10-15 |
| 58. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
28.37 |
0.8142 |
0.1498 |
187 |
1 |
28.37 |
2009-10-15 |
| 59. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
28.30 |
0.8915 |
0.0740 |
188 |
1 |
28.30 |
2009-10-15 |
| 60. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
28.17 |
0.8941 |
0.0699 |
216 |
1 |
28.17 |
2009-11-24 |
| 61. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
27.85 |
0.8118 |
0.1450 |
109 |
1 |
27.85 |
2009-09-03 |
| 62. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
27.81 |
0.8809 |
0.0668 |
127 |
1 |
27.81 |
2009-09-03 |
| 63. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
27.71 |
0.7352 |
0.2118 |
106 |
1 |
27.71 |
2010-03-26 |
| 64. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
27.70 |
0.9068 |
0.0421 |
269 |
1 |
27.70 |
2009-10-26 |
| 65. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
27.56 |
0.9729 |
-0.0315 |
255 |
1 |
27.56 |
2009-06-02 |
| 66. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
27.51 |
0.9682 |
-0.0301 |
143 |
1 |
27.51 |
2009-08-25 |
| 67. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
27.30 |
1.0029 |
-0.0771 |
209 |
1 |
27.30 |
2009-08-28 |
| 68. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
27.17 |
0.8323 |
0.0965 |
203 |
1 |
27.17 |
2009-09-03 |
| 69. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
27.09 |
0.9161 |
0.0066 |
200 |
1 |
27.09 |
2009-09-03 |
| 70. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
27.06 |
1.0714 |
-0.1565 |
129 |
1 |
27.06 |
2009-06-02 |
| 71. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
26.80 |
1.0365 |
-0.0919 |
162 |
1 |
26.80 |
2009-11-24 |
| 72. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
26.76 |
0.8500 |
0.0699 |
145 |
1 |
26.76 |
2009-10-25 |
| 73. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
26.75 |
0.8956 |
0.0204 |
217 |
1 |
26.75 |
2009-10-15 |
| 74. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
26.73 |
1.0528 |
-0.1448 |
201 |
1 |
26.73 |
2009-06-03 |
| 75. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
26.68 |
0.8125 |
0.1019 |
197 |
1 |
26.68 |
2009-06-03 |
| 76. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
26.55 |
0.8323 |
0.0736 |
145 |
1 |
26.55 |
2009-10-15 |
| 77. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
26.38 |
0.8660 |
0.0346 |
193 |
1 |
26.38 |
2009-06-07 |
| 78. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
26.31 |
1.0337 |
-0.1364 |
214 |
1 |
26.31 |
2009-09-03 |
| 79. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
26.30 |
0.9019 |
0.0012 |
204 |
1 |
26.30 |
2009-09-03 |
| 80. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
26.22 |
0.8573 |
0.0409 |
270 |
1 |
26.22 |
2009-06-03 |
| 81. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
26.12 |
0.9731 |
-0.0942 |
129 |
1 |
26.12 |
2009-08-25 |
| 82. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
25.77 |
1.0516 |
-0.1729 |
281 |
1 |
25.77 |
2009-06-07 |
| 83. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
25.71 |
0.9213 |
-0.0432 |
295 |
1 |
25.71 |
2009-06-02 |
| 84. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
25.45 |
0.9275 |
-0.0623 |
211 |
2 |
23.66 |
2009-10-15 |
| 85. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
25.31 |
0.9710 |
-0.1139 |
173 |
1 |
25.31 |
2009-08-25 |
| 86. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
25.21 |
0.8919 |
-0.0332 |
205 |
1 |
25.21 |
2009-06-03 |
| 87. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
24.80 |
0.9171 |
-0.0708 |
165 |
1 |
24.80 |
2010-07-14 |
| 88. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
24.75 |
0.9128 |
-0.0635 |
133 |
1 |
24.75 |
2009-06-07 |
| 89. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
24.61 |
1.0016 |
-0.1671 |
218 |
1 |
24.61 |
2009-08-07 |
| 90. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
23.94 |
0.9884 |
-0.1728 |
233 |
1 |
23.94 |
2009-06-03 |
| 91. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
23.74 |
0.9740 |
-0.1692 |
209 |
1 |
23.74 |
2009-06-02 |
| 92. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
23.65 |
0.9786 |
-0.1778 |
193 |
1 |
23.65 |
2009-06-02 |
| 93. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
23.11 |
0.9772 |
-0.1933 |
217 |
1 |
23.11 |
2009-08-11 |
| 94. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
22.90 |
1.0696 |
-0.2931 |
226 |
1 |
22.90 |
2009-06-07 |
| 95. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
22.82 |
1.0390 |
-0.2655 |
205 |
1 |
22.82 |
2009-09-16 |
| 96. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
22.77 |
0.9430 |
-0.1747 |
211 |
1 |
22.77 |
2009-08-28 |
| 97. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
22.26 |
0.9843 |
-0.2315 |
234 |
1 |
22.26 |
2009-06-07 |
| 98. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
22.14 |
0.7826 |
-0.0244 |
97 |
1 |
22.14 |
2009-08-11 |
| 99. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
22.00 |
1.0334 |
-0.2911 |
131 |
1 |
22.00 |
2009-06-02 |
| 100. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
21.69 |
0.8791 |
-0.1419 |
190 |
1 |
21.69 |
2009-10-25 |
| 101. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
21.20 |
0.8157 |
-0.0946 |
121 |
1 |
21.20 |
2009-10-15 |
| 102. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
21.12 |
0.8961 |
-0.1811 |
189 |
1 |
21.12 |
2009-06-02 |