| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
169.60 |
1.0787 |
0.4129 |
237 |
2 |
126.28 |
2009-07-12 |
| 2. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
156.95 |
1.0389 |
0.3441 |
340 |
1 |
156.95 |
2011-10-08 |
| 3. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
156.12 |
1.0120 |
0.3605 |
290 |
2 |
138.49 |
2009-01-17 |
| 4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
153.28 |
1.0496 |
0.2977 |
314 |
2 |
141.57 |
2010-07-11 |
| 5. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
151.09 |
1.0389 |
0.2914 |
318 |
1 |
151.09 |
2009-01-06 |
| 6. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
150.73 |
1.0095 |
0.3148 |
316 |
2 |
140.67 |
2009-07-11 |
| 7. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
147.74 |
0.9614 |
0.3405 |
292 |
1 |
147.74 |
2009-01-17 |
| 8. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
146.45 |
1.0528 |
0.2296 |
201 |
1 |
146.45 |
2009-07-25 |
| 9. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
145.35 |
1.0740 |
0.2419 |
264 |
1 |
145.35 |
2010-11-24 |
| 10. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
144.57 |
1.0251 |
0.2434 |
261 |
1 |
144.57 |
2010-11-24 |
| 11. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
143.10 |
1.0463 |
0.2068 |
182 |
1 |
143.10 |
2009-01-17 |
| 12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
139.94 |
1.0595 |
0.1726 |
379 |
1 |
139.94 |
2009-07-11 |
| 13. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
138.86 |
1.0029 |
0.2107 |
209 |
2 |
122.78 |
2009-01-07 |
| 14. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
138.83 |
1.0797 |
0.1344 |
210 |
4 |
112.96 |
2010-07-11 |
| 15. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
138.29 |
1.0444 |
0.1640 |
197 |
1 |
138.29 |
2009-01-05 |
| 16. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
138.28 |
1.0289 |
0.1904 |
276 |
1 |
138.28 |
2009-01-06 |
| 17. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
137.86 |
1.1114 |
0.0970 |
247 |
2 |
135.36 |
2010-11-24 |
| 18. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
137.60 |
1.0004 |
0.2023 |
212 |
1 |
137.60 |
2009-01-08 |
| 19. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
137.23 |
1.0788 |
0.1211 |
171 |
2 |
127.51 |
2009-01-17 |
| 20. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
134.60 |
1.0498 |
0.1276 |
180 |
2 |
122.29 |
2009-07-25 |
| 21. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
134.54 |
1.0201 |
0.1620 |
303 |
2 |
121.81 |
2009-07-25 |
| 22. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
134.07 |
1.0385 |
0.1372 |
230 |
1 |
134.07 |
2010-07-11 |
| 23. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
134.07 |
1.0073 |
0.1782 |
369 |
2 |
112.77 |
2009-01-28 |
| 24. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
133.79 |
1.0445 |
0.1314 |
373 |
2 |
115.22 |
2009-01-08 |
| 25. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
133.48 |
0.9570 |
0.2169 |
287 |
1 |
133.48 |
2009-07-25 |
| 26. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
127.78 |
1.0613 |
0.0653 |
456 |
2 |
103.76 |
2009-01-08 |
| 27. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
125.56 |
0.9578 |
0.1436 |
281 |
1 |
125.56 |
2009-01-17 |
| 28. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
125.50 |
0.9430 |
0.1511 |
211 |
2 |
124.89 |
2009-01-28 |
| 29. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
125.49 |
1.0169 |
0.1230 |
346 |
1 |
125.49 |
2011-11-23 |
| 30. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
125.25 |
1.0523 |
0.0426 |
256 |
1 |
125.25 |
2009-01-17 |
| 31. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
124.11 |
0.9468 |
0.1418 |
276 |
1 |
124.11 |
2010-07-11 |
| 32. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
123.96 |
1.0316 |
0.0599 |
333 |
1 |
123.96 |
2010-07-11 |
| 33. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
123.37 |
0.8919 |
0.1889 |
205 |
2 |
94.94 |
2009-01-28 |
| 34. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
123.36 |
0.9342 |
0.1517 |
434 |
1 |
123.36 |
2009-07-11 |
| 35. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
123.27 |
1.0331 |
0.0463 |
234 |
1 |
123.27 |
2010-11-24 |
| 36. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
123.22 |
1.0214 |
0.0580 |
269 |
1 |
123.22 |
2009-07-11 |
| 37. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
123.13 |
1.0296 |
0.0571 |
437 |
1 |
123.13 |
2010-07-11 |
| 38. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
122.72 |
0.9866 |
0.0864 |
218 |
3 |
107.52 |
2009-07-11 |
| 39. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
121.89 |
0.9991 |
0.0707 |
225 |
1 |
121.89 |
2009-01-28 |
| 40. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
121.55 |
1.0993 |
-0.0351 |
265 |
3 |
109.23 |
2009-01-17 |
| 41. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
121.01 |
1.0398 |
0.0112 |
110 |
2 |
118.22 |
2009-01-28 |
| 42. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
120.87 |
1.0555 |
0.0062 |
363 |
1 |
120.87 |
2009-01-08 |
| 43. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
120.20 |
0.9429 |
0.1127 |
287 |
1 |
120.20 |
2009-01-07 |
| 44. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
119.97 |
0.9907 |
0.0600 |
211 |
1 |
119.97 |
2009-01-05 |
| 45. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
119.36 |
0.8602 |
0.1845 |
206 |
1 |
119.36 |
2009-04-02 |
| 46. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
119.30 |
0.9844 |
0.0667 |
293 |
1 |
119.30 |
2009-01-17 |
| 47. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
119.16 |
1.0829 |
-0.0363 |
288 |
1 |
119.16 |
2009-03-17 |
| 48. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
118.25 |
1.0201 |
0.0101 |
172 |
1 |
118.25 |
2009-01-17 |
| 49. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
117.62 |
0.9540 |
0.0756 |
285 |
1 |
117.62 |
2009-01-17 |
| 50. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
117.08 |
1.0349 |
-0.0090 |
234 |
1 |
117.08 |
2009-01-17 |
| 51. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
117.04 |
1.0767 |
-0.0526 |
212 |
1 |
117.04 |
2009-01-28 |
| 52. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
116.56 |
0.9567 |
0.0651 |
273 |
1 |
116.56 |
2009-01-17 |
| 53. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
116.42 |
1.0666 |
-0.0457 |
297 |
2 |
104.44 |
2009-01-11 |
| 54. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
114.75 |
1.0053 |
-0.0014 |
232 |
1 |
114.75 |
2009-01-17 |
| 55. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
114.26 |
0.9636 |
0.0379 |
254 |
1 |
114.26 |
2009-01-08 |
| 56. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
114.21 |
0.9398 |
0.0707 |
419 |
1 |
114.21 |
2009-01-17 |
| 57. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
114.19 |
1.0516 |
-0.0510 |
281 |
1 |
114.19 |
2009-01-07 |
| 58. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
113.70 |
1.0668 |
-0.0677 |
350 |
1 |
113.70 |
2010-07-11 |
| 59. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
113.21 |
0.9997 |
-0.0038 |
382 |
2 |
108.18 |
2009-03-17 |
| 60. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
112.93 |
1.0337 |
-0.0445 |
214 |
2 |
110.31 |
2009-01-08 |
| 61. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
112.75 |
0.8958 |
0.0970 |
322 |
1 |
112.75 |
2009-01-05 |
| 62. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
112.47 |
1.1016 |
-0.1158 |
233 |
1 |
112.47 |
2009-01-17 |
| 63. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
112.43 |
1.0565 |
-0.0738 |
247 |
2 |
108.64 |
2009-01-18 |
| 64. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
112.24 |
0.9879 |
0.0045 |
450 |
1 |
112.24 |
2009-01-07 |
| 65. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
112.02 |
1.0261 |
-0.0463 |
273 |
1 |
112.02 |
2009-03-17 |
| 66. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
111.98 |
1.1018 |
-0.1268 |
220 |
1 |
111.98 |
2009-01-05 |
| 67. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
111.94 |
0.9125 |
0.0703 |
308 |
1 |
111.94 |
2009-01-07 |
| 68. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
111.83 |
1.0390 |
-0.0628 |
205 |
1 |
111.83 |
2009-01-05 |
| 69. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
111.58 |
1.0419 |
-0.0641 |
261 |
1 |
111.58 |
2009-01-08 |
| 70. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
111.38 |
1.0799 |
-0.1076 |
243 |
1 |
111.38 |
2009-01-28 |
| 71. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
111.16 |
0.9672 |
0.0134 |
396 |
1 |
111.16 |
2009-07-11 |
| 72. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
110.88 |
0.9365 |
0.0365 |
248 |
1 |
110.88 |
2009-01-28 |
| 73. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
110.61 |
0.9965 |
-0.0270 |
310 |
1 |
110.61 |
2009-01-17 |
| 74. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
110.58 |
1.0340 |
-0.0599 |
406 |
2 |
109.27 |
2009-01-18 |
| 75. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
110.18 |
0.9756 |
-0.0115 |
229 |
1 |
110.18 |
2009-01-17 |
| 76. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
110.17 |
1.0213 |
-0.0592 |
240 |
1 |
110.17 |
2009-01-08 |
| 77. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
109.91 |
0.9786 |
-0.0161 |
235 |
1 |
109.91 |
2009-01-08 |
| 78. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
109.86 |
0.9684 |
-0.0032 |
388 |
1 |
109.86 |
2009-01-28 |
| 79. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
109.70 |
0.9986 |
-0.0369 |
283 |
1 |
109.70 |
2009-01-28 |
| 80. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
109.04 |
0.8382 |
0.1175 |
268 |
1 |
109.04 |
2009-01-28 |
| 81. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
107.93 |
0.9894 |
-0.0396 |
323 |
1 |
107.93 |
2009-01-11 |
| 82. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
107.15 |
0.9899 |
-0.0561 |
163 |
1 |
107.15 |
2009-01-11 |
| 83. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
106.39 |
0.9351 |
-0.0089 |
190 |
1 |
106.39 |
2009-01-28 |
| 84. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
105.65 |
0.9411 |
-0.0152 |
318 |
2 |
96.12 |
2009-01-28 |
| 85. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
105.59 |
1.0596 |
-0.1371 |
239 |
1 |
105.59 |
2009-01-08 |
| 86. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
105.19 |
0.9768 |
-0.0531 |
387 |
1 |
105.19 |
2009-01-17 |
| 87. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
105.05 |
0.9597 |
-0.0358 |
347 |
1 |
105.05 |
2009-01-17 |
| 88. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
104.68 |
0.9074 |
0.0156 |
396 |
2 |
100.69 |
2009-01-17 |
| 89. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
104.24 |
1.0441 |
-0.1300 |
252 |
1 |
104.24 |
2009-01-08 |
| 90. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
103.88 |
0.9776 |
-0.0680 |
308 |
2 |
101.36 |
2009-01-08 |
| 91. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
103.21 |
0.8573 |
0.0498 |
270 |
1 |
103.21 |
2009-04-02 |
| 92. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
102.87 |
1.0577 |
-0.1607 |
247 |
1 |
102.87 |
2009-01-17 |
| 93. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
102.73 |
0.9772 |
-0.0815 |
217 |
1 |
102.73 |
2009-01-17 |
| 94. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
102.62 |
1.0131 |
-0.1188 |
225 |
1 |
102.62 |
2009-01-07 |
| 95. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
102.37 |
1.0183 |
-0.1279 |
191 |
1 |
102.37 |
2009-01-07 |
| 96. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
101.98 |
0.9286 |
-0.0370 |
194 |
1 |
101.98 |
2009-01-05 |
| 97. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
101.73 |
0.9857 |
-0.0964 |
293 |
1 |
101.73 |
2009-01-08 |
| 98. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
101.48 |
0.9964 |
-0.1082 |
203 |
1 |
101.48 |
2009-01-17 |
| 99. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
100.67 |
0.9164 |
-0.0307 |
305 |
1 |
100.67 |
2009-01-07 |
| 100. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
99.89 |
0.9758 |
-0.1011 |
314 |
2 |
99.40 |
2009-01-11 |
| 101. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
99.84 |
0.9202 |
-0.0473 |
254 |
1 |
99.84 |
2009-01-11 |
| 102. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
99.67 |
0.9941 |
-0.1244 |
217 |
1 |
99.67 |
2009-01-07 |
| 103. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
99.13 |
1.0257 |
-0.1520 |
401 |
1 |
99.13 |
2009-01-11 |
| 104. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
98.91 |
0.9884 |
-0.1239 |
233 |
2 |
96.04 |
2009-01-18 |
| 105. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
98.27 |
0.9168 |
-0.0559 |
240 |
1 |
98.27 |
2009-01-17 |
| 106. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
96.18 |
1.0197 |
-0.1815 |
226 |
1 |
96.18 |
2009-01-28 |
| 107. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
95.21 |
0.9893 |
-0.1567 |
323 |
1 |
95.21 |
2009-01-17 |
| 108. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
94.29 |
0.9946 |
-0.1705 |
246 |
1 |
94.29 |
2009-01-11 |
| 109. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
93.73 |
1.0796 |
-0.2651 |
129 |
2 |
83.19 |
2009-01-17 |
| 110. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
93.19 |
0.9811 |
-0.1639 |
272 |
1 |
93.19 |
2009-01-08 |
| 111. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
92.56 |
0.8996 |
-0.0962 |
192 |
1 |
92.56 |
2009-01-11 |
| 112. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
92.45 |
0.9754 |
-0.1614 |
362 |
1 |
92.45 |
2009-01-08 |
| 113. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
91.91 |
0.9532 |
-0.1513 |
258 |
1 |
91.91 |
2009-01-08 |
| 114. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
91.26 |
0.9780 |
-0.1796 |
337 |
1 |
91.26 |
2009-01-08 |
| 115. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
91.14 |
0.9681 |
-0.1635 |
378 |
1 |
91.14 |
2009-01-17 |
| 116. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
91.03 |
1.0426 |
-0.2480 |
323 |
1 |
91.03 |
2009-01-08 |
| 117. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
89.75 |
0.9309 |
-0.1488 |
284 |
1 |
89.75 |
2009-01-17 |
| 118. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
88.99 |
0.8826 |
-0.1040 |
296 |
1 |
88.99 |
2009-01-08 |
| 119. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
88.89 |
0.9234 |
-0.1417 |
346 |
1 |
88.89 |
2009-01-08 |
| 120. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
88.59 |
0.9786 |
-0.2101 |
193 |
1 |
88.59 |
2009-01-08 |
| 121. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
86.07 |
1.0391 |
-0.2817 |
358 |
1 |
86.07 |
2009-01-05 |
| 122. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
85.84 |
0.9513 |
-0.1982 |
354 |
1 |
85.84 |
2009-01-08 |
| 123. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
85.72 |
1.0252 |
-0.2835 |
176 |
1 |
85.72 |
2009-01-08 |
| 124. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
82.33 |
1.0521 |
-0.3388 |
171 |
1 |
82.33 |
2009-01-11 |
| 125. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
81.28 |
0.8933 |
-0.1781 |
363 |
1 |
81.28 |
2009-01-28 |
| 126. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
79.75 |
0.9851 |
-0.2877 |
317 |
1 |
79.75 |
2009-01-17 |
| 127. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
79.03 |
0.9965 |
-0.3071 |
277 |
1 |
79.03 |
2009-01-08 |
| 128. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
77.42 |
0.9275 |
-0.2563 |
211 |
1 |
77.42 |
2009-01-17 |
| 129. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
76.44 |
0.9289 |
-0.2654 |
204 |
1 |
76.44 |
2009-01-11 |
| 130. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
76.43 |
0.8105 |
-0.1491 |
204 |
1 |
76.43 |
2009-01-08 |
| 131. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
75.65 |
0.8753 |
-0.2073 |
427 |
1 |
75.65 |
2009-01-17 |
| 132. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
74.87 |
0.9072 |
-0.2570 |
237 |
1 |
74.87 |
2009-01-17 |
| 133. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.96 |
0.9601 |
-0.3560 |
308 |
1 |
68.96 |
2009-01-18 |