| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
48.42 |
1.0788 |
0.2269 |
171 |
1 |
48.42 |
2010-01-16 |
| 2. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
46.83 |
0.9418 |
0.3316 |
188 |
4 |
41.64 |
2010-02-12 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.18 |
1.0799 |
0.1391 |
243 |
1 |
45.18 |
2010-01-15 |
| 4. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
44.64 |
0.8745 |
0.3312 |
169 |
1 |
44.64 |
2010-01-16 |
| 5. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
44.33 |
1.0796 |
0.1151 |
129 |
1 |
44.33 |
2010-01-16 |
| 6. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
44.15 |
1.0485 |
0.1807 |
153 |
1 |
44.15 |
2010-01-31 |
| 7. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
42.89 |
1.0907 |
0.0721 |
303 |
1 |
42.89 |
2010-01-16 |
| 8. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
42.85 |
1.0254 |
0.1744 |
217 |
2 |
41.56 |
2010-01-17 |
| 9. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
42.71 |
1.0201 |
0.1355 |
303 |
2 |
39.40 |
2010-02-03 |
| 10. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
42.02 |
0.9722 |
0.1662 |
283 |
2 |
37.69 |
2010-01-16 |
| 11. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
41.97 |
0.9068 |
0.2311 |
269 |
1 |
41.97 |
2010-02-03 |
| 12. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
41.50 |
0.8573 |
0.2684 |
270 |
2 |
39.83 |
2010-01-16 |
| 13. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
41.04 |
1.0595 |
0.0525 |
379 |
1 |
41.04 |
2010-01-17 |
| 14. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
40.80 |
1.0168 |
0.0875 |
271 |
1 |
40.80 |
2010-01-16 |
| 15. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
40.44 |
1.0426 |
0.0498 |
323 |
1 |
40.44 |
2010-01-16 |
| 16. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
40.39 |
1.0714 |
0.0114 |
129 |
2 |
36.89 |
2010-01-30 |
| 17. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
40.38 |
0.8263 |
0.2630 |
162 |
1 |
40.38 |
2010-01-17 |
| 18. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
40.37 |
0.9857 |
0.1045 |
293 |
1 |
40.37 |
2010-01-16 |
| 19. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
40.25 |
0.9251 |
0.1678 |
177 |
1 |
40.25 |
2010-01-16 |
| 20. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
40.15 |
0.9239 |
0.1678 |
193 |
1 |
40.15 |
2010-01-16 |
| 21. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
40.11 |
1.0429 |
0.0398 |
259 |
2 |
39.79 |
2010-02-03 |
| 22. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
39.99 |
0.8915 |
0.1882 |
188 |
1 |
39.99 |
2010-01-17 |
| 23. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
39.94 |
1.0596 |
0.0177 |
239 |
1 |
39.94 |
2010-01-22 |
| 24. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
39.93 |
0.8709 |
0.2161 |
202 |
1 |
39.93 |
2010-01-16 |
| 25. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
39.84 |
1.0441 |
0.0341 |
252 |
1 |
39.84 |
2010-01-30 |
| 26. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
39.82 |
0.9798 |
0.0906 |
199 |
1 |
39.82 |
2010-01-16 |
| 27. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
39.75 |
1.0515 |
0.0208 |
250 |
2 |
36.44 |
2010-01-17 |
| 28. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
39.70 |
0.9726 |
0.0938 |
154 |
1 |
39.70 |
2010-01-16 |
| 29. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
39.69 |
1.0270 |
0.0816 |
255 |
1 |
39.69 |
2010-01-15 |
| 30. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
39.62 |
0.9697 |
0.1012 |
249 |
2 |
36.89 |
2010-01-17 |
| 31. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
39.56 |
1.0797 |
-0.0163 |
210 |
1 |
39.56 |
2010-01-16 |
| 32. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
39.56 |
1.0385 |
0.0287 |
230 |
1 |
39.56 |
2010-01-16 |
| 33. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
39.41 |
1.0669 |
0.0303 |
286 |
2 |
39.06 |
2010-01-30 |
| 34. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
39.18 |
1.0375 |
0.0671 |
200 |
2 |
38.76 |
2010-01-16 |
| 35. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
39.08 |
0.8791 |
0.1759 |
190 |
2 |
34.05 |
2010-01-29 |
| 36. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
39.06 |
0.8070 |
0.2452 |
167 |
1 |
39.06 |
2010-02-04 |
| 37. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
38.98 |
1.0787 |
-0.0269 |
237 |
2 |
38.91 |
2010-01-30 |
| 38. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
38.80 |
0.8809 |
0.1651 |
127 |
1 |
38.80 |
2010-02-03 |
| 39. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
38.77 |
0.9572 |
0.0891 |
201 |
1 |
38.77 |
2010-01-29 |
| 40. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
38.73 |
0.9527 |
0.0935 |
251 |
1 |
38.73 |
2010-01-17 |
| 41. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.69 |
0.9614 |
0.0868 |
292 |
2 |
38.15 |
2010-02-03 |
| 42. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
38.50 |
1.0567 |
-0.0161 |
303 |
1 |
38.50 |
2010-01-16 |
| 43. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
38.50 |
1.0365 |
0.0334 |
162 |
1 |
38.50 |
2010-02-03 |
| 44. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
38.41 |
0.9307 |
0.1149 |
246 |
1 |
38.41 |
2010-02-13 |
| 45. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
38.29 |
1.0496 |
-0.0160 |
314 |
1 |
38.29 |
2010-02-03 |
| 46. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
38.19 |
0.8787 |
0.1575 |
202 |
1 |
38.19 |
2010-01-16 |
| 47. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
38.13 |
0.8811 |
0.1534 |
239 |
2 |
35.92 |
2010-01-22 |
| 48. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
37.88 |
0.9907 |
0.0308 |
211 |
1 |
37.88 |
2010-01-31 |
| 49. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
37.62 |
1.0768 |
-0.0207 |
295 |
2 |
37.05 |
2010-01-16 |
| 50. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
37.54 |
1.0412 |
-0.0280 |
225 |
1 |
37.54 |
2010-01-17 |
| 51. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
37.49 |
0.9212 |
0.0950 |
231 |
2 |
37.21 |
2010-01-17 |
| 52. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
37.42 |
0.9941 |
0.0140 |
217 |
2 |
35.00 |
2010-01-16 |
| 53. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
37.40 |
0.9873 |
0.0199 |
155 |
2 |
36.43 |
2010-01-14 |
| 54. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
37.37 |
0.9786 |
0.0253 |
193 |
1 |
37.37 |
2010-01-17 |
| 55. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
37.18 |
0.9724 |
0.0351 |
237 |
1 |
37.18 |
2010-01-22 |
| 56. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
37.11 |
1.0389 |
-0.0345 |
340 |
2 |
35.72 |
2010-01-17 |
| 57. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
37.06 |
0.9266 |
0.0741 |
267 |
1 |
37.06 |
2010-02-03 |
| 58. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
37.01 |
0.8935 |
0.1155 |
328 |
1 |
37.01 |
2010-01-16 |
| 59. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
36.92 |
1.0523 |
-0.0598 |
256 |
1 |
36.92 |
2010-01-31 |
| 60. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
36.90 |
0.9275 |
0.0655 |
211 |
1 |
36.90 |
2010-01-16 |
| 61. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
36.86 |
0.8956 |
0.1022 |
217 |
1 |
36.86 |
2010-01-17 |
| 62. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
36.83 |
1.0696 |
-0.0788 |
226 |
1 |
36.83 |
2010-02-12 |
| 63. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
36.78 |
0.9233 |
0.0614 |
168 |
1 |
36.78 |
2010-01-16 |
| 64. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
36.75 |
1.0029 |
-0.0171 |
209 |
1 |
36.75 |
2010-01-16 |
| 65. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
36.62 |
1.0203 |
-0.0283 |
261 |
1 |
36.62 |
2010-01-15 |
| 66. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
36.59 |
1.0516 |
-0.0642 |
281 |
1 |
36.59 |
2010-02-03 |
| 67. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
36.52 |
0.9350 |
0.0517 |
195 |
1 |
36.52 |
2010-01-22 |
| 68. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
36.36 |
0.9710 |
0.0040 |
173 |
1 |
36.36 |
2010-01-17 |
| 69. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
36.12 |
1.0487 |
-0.0788 |
231 |
1 |
36.12 |
2010-01-17 |
| 70. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
35.92 |
0.9852 |
-0.0154 |
264 |
2 |
35.39 |
2010-01-16 |
| 71. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
35.92 |
1.0389 |
-0.0677 |
318 |
1 |
35.92 |
2010-01-16 |
| 72. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
35.85 |
0.9863 |
-0.0144 |
339 |
1 |
35.85 |
2010-01-15 |
| 73. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
35.84 |
0.9897 |
-0.0247 |
274 |
1 |
35.84 |
2010-01-15 |
| 74. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
35.82 |
0.9631 |
0.0549 |
345 |
1 |
35.82 |
2010-01-16 |
| 75. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
35.77 |
1.0679 |
-0.0822 |
177 |
2 |
33.99 |
2010-01-17 |
| 76. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
35.73 |
0.9763 |
-0.0125 |
289 |
1 |
35.73 |
2010-01-17 |
| 77. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
35.73 |
0.9213 |
0.0435 |
295 |
1 |
35.73 |
2010-01-16 |
| 78. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
35.70 |
0.9430 |
0.0233 |
297 |
1 |
35.70 |
2010-01-17 |
| 79. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
35.69 |
0.9212 |
0.0453 |
323 |
1 |
35.69 |
2010-01-17 |
| 80. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
35.59 |
0.9938 |
-0.0326 |
339 |
1 |
35.59 |
2010-01-17 |
| 81. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
35.59 |
1.0213 |
-0.0641 |
240 |
1 |
35.59 |
2010-01-13 |
| 82. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
35.55 |
0.9072 |
0.0504 |
237 |
1 |
35.55 |
2010-01-27 |
| 83. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
35.55 |
1.0138 |
-0.0549 |
231 |
1 |
35.55 |
2010-01-17 |
| 84. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
35.37 |
0.8442 |
0.1142 |
265 |
1 |
35.37 |
2010-01-17 |
| 85. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
35.22 |
0.8190 |
0.1383 |
135 |
1 |
35.22 |
2010-01-13 |
| 86. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
35.22 |
1.0023 |
-0.0539 |
211 |
2 |
34.53 |
2010-01-16 |
| 87. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
35.21 |
1.0183 |
-0.0739 |
191 |
1 |
35.21 |
2010-01-16 |
| 88. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
35.19 |
0.8958 |
0.0583 |
322 |
2 |
33.94 |
2010-01-16 |
| 89. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
34.96 |
1.0218 |
-0.0815 |
268 |
1 |
34.96 |
2010-01-30 |
| 90. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
34.95 |
0.7850 |
0.1543 |
154 |
1 |
34.95 |
2010-01-14 |
| 91. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
34.94 |
0.9865 |
-0.0427 |
276 |
1 |
34.94 |
2010-01-17 |
| 92. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
34.81 |
0.9966 |
-0.0581 |
259 |
1 |
34.81 |
2010-01-14 |
| 93. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
34.75 |
0.9731 |
-0.0481 |
129 |
1 |
34.75 |
2010-02-04 |
| 94. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
34.75 |
0.9567 |
0.0230 |
184 |
1 |
34.75 |
2010-01-17 |
| 95. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
34.66 |
0.9884 |
-0.0542 |
233 |
2 |
33.66 |
2010-02-02 |
| 96. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
34.52 |
0.9684 |
-0.0345 |
388 |
1 |
34.52 |
2010-01-16 |
| 97. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
34.46 |
0.8996 |
0.0244 |
192 |
1 |
34.46 |
2010-01-16 |
| 98. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
34.39 |
0.9758 |
-0.0475 |
314 |
1 |
34.39 |
2010-01-17 |
| 99. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
34.36 |
0.8614 |
0.0631 |
172 |
1 |
34.36 |
2010-01-17 |
| 100. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
33.96 |
1.0316 |
-0.1119 |
333 |
1 |
33.96 |
2010-01-16 |
| 101. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
33.86 |
0.8773 |
0.0393 |
205 |
1 |
33.86 |
2010-01-16 |
| 102. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
33.78 |
0.8899 |
0.0321 |
293 |
1 |
33.78 |
2010-01-13 |
| 103. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
33.60 |
0.9965 |
-0.0899 |
277 |
1 |
33.60 |
2010-01-15 |
| 104. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
33.54 |
1.0004 |
-0.1021 |
212 |
3 |
31.56 |
2010-01-15 |
| 105. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
33.47 |
0.8892 |
0.0193 |
207 |
1 |
33.47 |
2010-01-16 |
| 106. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
33.44 |
0.9886 |
-0.0845 |
220 |
1 |
33.44 |
2010-01-15 |
| 107. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
33.42 |
1.0120 |
-0.1117 |
290 |
1 |
33.42 |
2010-01-30 |
| 108. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
33.23 |
1.0666 |
-0.1706 |
297 |
1 |
33.23 |
2010-01-16 |
| 109. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
33.14 |
0.9633 |
-0.0677 |
304 |
1 |
33.14 |
2010-01-16 |
| 110. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
33.03 |
0.9351 |
-0.0502 |
190 |
2 |
32.67 |
2010-01-16 |
| 111. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
33.01 |
0.9597 |
-0.0657 |
347 |
1 |
33.01 |
2010-01-16 |
| 112. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
32.98 |
0.9281 |
-0.0339 |
273 |
1 |
32.98 |
2010-01-15 |
| 113. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
32.86 |
0.9965 |
-0.1155 |
168 |
1 |
32.86 |
2010-01-14 |
| 114. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
32.61 |
0.9089 |
-0.0261 |
342 |
1 |
32.61 |
2010-01-16 |
| 115. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
32.49 |
0.8602 |
0.0133 |
206 |
1 |
32.49 |
2010-01-16 |
| 116. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
32.31 |
0.8975 |
-0.0263 |
268 |
1 |
32.31 |
2010-01-15 |
| 117. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
32.12 |
1.0117 |
-0.1014 |
297 |
1 |
32.12 |
2010-01-13 |
| 118. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
31.97 |
0.8353 |
0.0336 |
283 |
1 |
31.97 |
2010-02-03 |
| 119. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
31.78 |
1.0214 |
-0.1706 |
166 |
1 |
31.78 |
2010-01-15 |
| 120. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
30.89 |
0.9943 |
-0.1592 |
373 |
1 |
30.89 |
2010-01-15 |
| 121. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
30.41 |
0.8289 |
-0.0027 |
304 |
1 |
30.41 |
2010-01-16 |
| 122. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
30.21 |
0.9706 |
-0.1530 |
216 |
1 |
30.21 |
2010-01-13 |
| 123. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
30.07 |
0.7839 |
0.0312 |
257 |
1 |
30.07 |
2010-02-03 |
| 124. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
30.05 |
0.9740 |
-0.1692 |
209 |
1 |
30.05 |
2010-01-14 |
| 125. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
29.99 |
0.9636 |
-0.1564 |
254 |
1 |
29.99 |
2010-01-15 |
| 126. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
29.80 |
0.9226 |
-0.1142 |
348 |
1 |
29.80 |
2010-01-14 |
| 127. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
29.53 |
0.9846 |
-0.1910 |
281 |
1 |
29.53 |
2010-01-14 |
| 128. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
29.49 |
1.0320 |
-0.2011 |
293 |
1 |
29.49 |
2010-01-14 |
| 129. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
27.17 |
1.0396 |
-0.3166 |
149 |
1 |
27.17 |
2010-01-13 |
| 130. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
26.52 |
0.7876 |
-0.0726 |
316 |
1 |
26.52 |
2010-01-14 |
| 131. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
23.40 |
0.8553 |
-0.2333 |
174 |
1 |
23.40 |
2010-01-14 |