| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
125.41 |
1.0941 |
0.1154 |
256 |
2 |
119.62 |
2010-04-19 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
121.59 |
1.1016 |
0.0405 |
233 |
1 |
121.59 |
2010-03-31 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
121.39 |
1.0714 |
0.0598 |
129 |
1 |
121.39 |
2010-04-12 |
| 4. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
118.33 |
0.9540 |
0.1552 |
285 |
2 |
112.81 |
2010-04-14 |
| 5. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
117.68 |
1.0595 |
0.0478 |
379 |
2 |
113.96 |
2010-04-12 |
| 6. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
117.06 |
1.0025 |
0.0963 |
256 |
2 |
114.14 |
2010-04-14 |
| 7. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
116.93 |
1.0506 |
0.0759 |
277 |
1 |
116.93 |
2010-04-14 |
| 8. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
116.81 |
1.0099 |
0.0838 |
207 |
1 |
116.81 |
2010-04-14 |
| 9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
116.40 |
1.0797 |
0.0074 |
210 |
2 |
114.00 |
2010-04-19 |
| 10. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
116.09 |
0.8961 |
0.1902 |
189 |
1 |
116.09 |
2010-04-07 |
| 11. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
115.80 |
1.0529 |
0.0340 |
351 |
2 |
112.16 |
2010-04-19 |
| 12. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
115.72 |
1.1114 |
-0.0279 |
247 |
1 |
115.72 |
2010-04-12 |
| 13. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
115.56 |
1.0390 |
0.0419 |
205 |
1 |
115.56 |
2010-04-14 |
| 14. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
114.85 |
1.0125 |
0.0632 |
224 |
2 |
114.45 |
2010-04-03 |
| 15. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
114.31 |
1.1162 |
-0.0024 |
189 |
1 |
114.31 |
2010-04-19 |
| 16. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
114.09 |
1.0120 |
0.0579 |
290 |
1 |
114.09 |
2010-04-12 |
| 17. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
113.86 |
0.9865 |
0.0832 |
276 |
3 |
102.95 |
2010-04-12 |
| 18. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
113.66 |
1.0485 |
0.0529 |
153 |
1 |
113.66 |
2010-04-19 |
| 19. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
113.44 |
1.0141 |
0.0868 |
304 |
1 |
113.44 |
2010-04-01 |
| 20. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
113.33 |
1.0214 |
0.0404 |
269 |
2 |
111.48 |
2010-04-12 |
| 21. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
113.25 |
0.9871 |
0.1119 |
209 |
2 |
99.55 |
2010-04-19 |
| 22. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
112.44 |
1.0767 |
-0.0238 |
212 |
1 |
112.44 |
2010-04-19 |
| 23. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
112.43 |
1.0498 |
0.0004 |
180 |
1 |
112.43 |
2010-04-06 |
| 24. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
112.37 |
0.9557 |
0.1050 |
331 |
2 |
112.05 |
2010-04-03 |
| 25. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
112.12 |
1.0004 |
0.0455 |
212 |
1 |
112.12 |
2010-04-19 |
| 26. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
111.76 |
0.9894 |
0.0636 |
323 |
2 |
109.37 |
2010-04-14 |
| 27. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
111.49 |
1.0788 |
-0.0384 |
171 |
1 |
111.49 |
2010-04-01 |
| 28. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
111.10 |
1.0666 |
-0.0242 |
297 |
1 |
111.10 |
2010-04-12 |
| 29. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
110.84 |
1.0077 |
0.0735 |
250 |
3 |
101.63 |
2010-04-13 |
| 30. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
110.82 |
1.0768 |
0.0030 |
295 |
2 |
109.30 |
2010-04-16 |
| 31. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
110.82 |
1.0796 |
-0.0447 |
129 |
1 |
110.82 |
2010-04-02 |
| 32. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
110.68 |
1.0711 |
-0.0379 |
213 |
1 |
110.68 |
2010-04-12 |
| 33. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
110.53 |
0.9675 |
0.0789 |
383 |
1 |
110.53 |
2010-04-19 |
| 34. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
110.44 |
1.0189 |
0.0205 |
337 |
1 |
110.44 |
2010-03-31 |
| 35. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
110.37 |
1.0944 |
-0.0142 |
308 |
1 |
110.37 |
2010-04-12 |
| 36. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
110.27 |
1.0444 |
-0.0165 |
197 |
1 |
110.27 |
2010-04-09 |
| 37. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
110.04 |
0.9941 |
0.0358 |
217 |
1 |
110.04 |
2010-04-13 |
| 38. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
109.73 |
1.0388 |
0.0221 |
243 |
1 |
109.73 |
2010-04-14 |
| 39. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
109.69 |
0.9851 |
0.0460 |
317 |
1 |
109.69 |
2010-04-06 |
| 40. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
109.45 |
1.0289 |
0.0022 |
276 |
1 |
109.45 |
2010-04-12 |
| 41. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
109.05 |
0.9922 |
0.0718 |
341 |
2 |
108.37 |
2010-04-10 |
| 42. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
108.61 |
0.9687 |
0.0547 |
371 |
1 |
108.61 |
2010-03-31 |
| 43. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
108.58 |
0.9636 |
0.0547 |
254 |
1 |
108.58 |
2010-04-02 |
| 44. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
108.50 |
1.0346 |
0.0250 |
244 |
1 |
108.50 |
2010-04-12 |
| 45. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
108.30 |
0.9569 |
0.0857 |
410 |
2 |
107.28 |
2010-04-06 |
| 46. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
107.90 |
1.0352 |
-0.0207 |
341 |
1 |
107.90 |
2010-04-01 |
| 47. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
107.69 |
1.0060 |
-0.0007 |
171 |
1 |
107.69 |
2010-04-10 |
| 48. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
107.30 |
1.0173 |
0.0331 |
268 |
1 |
107.30 |
2010-04-01 |
| 49. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
107.30 |
0.9682 |
0.0361 |
143 |
2 |
107.22 |
2010-04-14 |
| 50. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
107.30 |
0.9772 |
0.0255 |
217 |
1 |
107.30 |
2010-04-14 |
| 51. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
107.25 |
1.0829 |
-0.0756 |
288 |
1 |
107.25 |
2010-04-12 |
| 52. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
107.15 |
0.9846 |
0.0191 |
281 |
1 |
107.15 |
2010-04-01 |
| 53. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
106.90 |
0.9359 |
0.1060 |
353 |
1 |
106.90 |
2010-04-14 |
| 54. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
106.86 |
1.0138 |
-0.0121 |
231 |
1 |
106.86 |
2010-04-06 |
| 55. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
106.72 |
1.0023 |
-0.0035 |
211 |
1 |
106.72 |
2010-04-12 |
| 56. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
106.62 |
0.9383 |
0.0827 |
471 |
2 |
104.38 |
2010-04-01 |
| 57. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
106.54 |
0.9578 |
0.0407 |
281 |
1 |
106.54 |
2010-04-01 |
| 58. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
106.46 |
0.9426 |
0.0588 |
317 |
1 |
106.46 |
2010-04-07 |
| 59. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
106.43 |
1.0068 |
-0.0055 |
358 |
2 |
98.92 |
2010-04-19 |
| 60. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
106.09 |
0.9597 |
0.0392 |
347 |
1 |
106.09 |
2010-04-07 |
| 61. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
105.93 |
0.9546 |
0.0699 |
198 |
1 |
105.93 |
2010-04-19 |
| 62. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
105.69 |
0.9884 |
0.0018 |
233 |
1 |
105.69 |
2010-04-12 |
| 63. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
105.09 |
1.0257 |
-0.0340 |
401 |
1 |
105.09 |
2010-04-23 |
| 64. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
105.06 |
0.9612 |
0.0238 |
256 |
1 |
105.06 |
2010-04-19 |
| 65. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
104.79 |
1.0034 |
-0.0225 |
302 |
1 |
104.79 |
2010-04-02 |
| 66. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
104.47 |
0.9365 |
0.0443 |
248 |
1 |
104.47 |
2010-04-14 |
| 67. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
104.46 |
0.9202 |
0.0584 |
254 |
2 |
101.46 |
2010-04-19 |
| 68. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
104.31 |
1.0150 |
0.0118 |
325 |
1 |
104.31 |
2010-03-31 |
| 69. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
104.29 |
0.9769 |
-0.0013 |
263 |
2 |
101.32 |
2010-04-12 |
| 70. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
104.18 |
1.0343 |
-0.0203 |
242 |
1 |
104.18 |
2010-04-02 |
| 71. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
104.13 |
1.0398 |
-0.0742 |
110 |
1 |
104.13 |
2010-04-12 |
| 72. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
104.07 |
1.0352 |
-0.0565 |
341 |
1 |
104.07 |
2010-04-13 |
| 73. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
103.76 |
0.9125 |
0.0619 |
308 |
2 |
97.03 |
2010-04-19 |
| 74. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
103.67 |
0.9691 |
0.0022 |
223 |
1 |
103.67 |
2010-04-12 |
| 75. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
103.00 |
0.9234 |
0.0474 |
346 |
1 |
103.00 |
2010-04-19 |
| 76. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
102.91 |
0.9500 |
0.0167 |
362 |
1 |
102.91 |
2010-04-02 |
| 77. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
102.80 |
1.0619 |
-0.0948 |
354 |
1 |
102.80 |
2010-04-19 |
| 78. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
102.74 |
1.0555 |
-0.0912 |
363 |
1 |
102.74 |
2010-04-12 |
| 79. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
102.68 |
0.9676 |
0.0031 |
442 |
1 |
102.68 |
2010-04-14 |
| 80. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
102.58 |
0.9768 |
-0.0128 |
387 |
1 |
102.58 |
2010-04-07 |
| 81. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
102.11 |
0.9286 |
0.0274 |
194 |
1 |
102.11 |
2010-04-01 |
| 82. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
101.39 |
0.9097 |
0.0820 |
464 |
1 |
101.39 |
2010-04-07 |
| 83. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
100.72 |
0.9429 |
0.0021 |
287 |
1 |
100.72 |
2010-04-02 |
| 84. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
100.45 |
1.0358 |
-0.0530 |
349 |
1 |
100.45 |
2010-04-12 |
| 85. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
100.33 |
1.0201 |
-0.0797 |
303 |
1 |
100.33 |
2010-04-10 |
| 86. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
100.29 |
0.8852 |
0.0566 |
201 |
2 |
97.33 |
2010-04-19 |
| 87. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
100.10 |
0.8916 |
0.0466 |
216 |
1 |
100.10 |
2010-04-02 |
| 88. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
99.69 |
0.9756 |
-0.0429 |
229 |
1 |
99.69 |
2010-04-19 |
| 89. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
99.67 |
1.0385 |
-0.1065 |
230 |
1 |
99.67 |
2010-03-31 |
| 90. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
99.46 |
1.0297 |
-0.0991 |
249 |
1 |
99.46 |
2010-03-31 |
| 91. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
99.42 |
0.8996 |
0.0263 |
192 |
1 |
99.42 |
2010-03-31 |
| 92. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
99.31 |
0.9266 |
0.0039 |
267 |
1 |
99.31 |
2010-04-14 |
| 93. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
99.19 |
0.9619 |
-0.0275 |
393 |
1 |
99.19 |
2010-04-02 |
| 94. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
98.95 |
0.9635 |
-0.0312 |
389 |
1 |
98.95 |
2010-04-02 |
| 95. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
98.51 |
0.9786 |
-0.0610 |
193 |
1 |
98.51 |
2010-04-07 |
| 96. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
98.32 |
0.8602 |
0.0586 |
206 |
2 |
94.13 |
2010-04-10 |
| 97. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
98.23 |
1.0441 |
-0.0827 |
316 |
1 |
98.23 |
2010-04-06 |
| 98. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
97.89 |
0.9532 |
-0.0376 |
258 |
1 |
97.89 |
2010-04-12 |
| 99. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
97.78 |
0.9805 |
-0.0601 |
292 |
1 |
97.78 |
2010-04-12 |
| 100. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
97.56 |
1.0029 |
-0.0956 |
209 |
1 |
97.56 |
2010-04-07 |
| 101. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
96.99 |
0.9275 |
-0.0225 |
211 |
1 |
96.99 |
2010-03-31 |
| 102. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
96.48 |
0.9670 |
-0.0214 |
307 |
1 |
96.48 |
2010-03-31 |
| 103. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
96.35 |
0.9723 |
-0.0664 |
364 |
1 |
96.35 |
2010-04-02 |
| 104. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
96.29 |
0.9632 |
-0.0551 |
392 |
1 |
96.29 |
2010-04-03 |
| 105. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
96.17 |
0.9709 |
-0.0294 |
397 |
1 |
96.17 |
2010-04-12 |
| 106. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
95.94 |
0.9844 |
-0.0813 |
293 |
1 |
95.94 |
2010-04-04 |
| 107. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
95.68 |
0.9937 |
-0.0731 |
429 |
1 |
95.68 |
2010-04-02 |
| 108. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
94.80 |
0.9351 |
-0.0531 |
190 |
1 |
94.80 |
2010-04-02 |
| 109. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
94.62 |
0.9049 |
-0.0137 |
351 |
1 |
94.62 |
2010-04-04 |
| 110. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
93.36 |
1.0264 |
-0.1125 |
422 |
1 |
93.36 |
2010-04-02 |
| 111. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
92.57 |
1.0063 |
-0.1396 |
371 |
1 |
92.57 |
2010-04-02 |
| 112. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
91.02 |
1.0013 |
-0.1506 |
273 |
1 |
91.02 |
2010-04-12 |
| 113. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
89.59 |
0.9710 |
-0.1395 |
173 |
1 |
89.59 |
2010-04-02 |
| 114. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
86.92 |
0.9128 |
-0.0586 |
369 |
1 |
86.92 |
2010-03-31 |
| 115. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
86.81 |
1.0396 |
-0.2352 |
149 |
1 |
86.81 |
2010-04-02 |
| 116. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
84.39 |
0.8981 |
-0.1049 |
393 |
1 |
84.39 |
2010-04-19 |
| 117. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
59.79 |
0.9148 |
-0.3584 |
317 |
1 |
59.79 |
2010-04-19 |