| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
42.49 |
0.9897 |
0.2372 |
274 |
1 |
42.49 |
2009-11-29 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
42.25 |
1.0696 |
0.1491 |
226 |
1 |
42.25 |
2009-11-29 |
| 3. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
41.89 |
1.0138 |
0.1975 |
231 |
1 |
41.89 |
2009-11-29 |
| 4. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
40.62 |
1.1114 |
0.0605 |
247 |
2 |
38.80 |
2009-11-29 |
| 5. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
40.13 |
1.0993 |
0.0588 |
265 |
1 |
40.13 |
2009-11-26 |
| 6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
39.92 |
1.1016 |
0.0526 |
233 |
1 |
39.92 |
2009-11-29 |
| 7. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
39.67 |
0.9893 |
0.1576 |
323 |
1 |
39.67 |
2009-11-28 |
| 8. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
39.63 |
1.0254 |
0.1610 |
217 |
1 |
39.63 |
2010-01-24 |
| 9. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
39.51 |
1.0205 |
0.1151 |
179 |
1 |
39.51 |
2009-11-14 |
| 10. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
39.17 |
0.9857 |
0.1455 |
293 |
1 |
39.17 |
2010-01-24 |
| 11. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
39.06 |
1.0349 |
0.0934 |
234 |
2 |
38.40 |
2009-11-29 |
| 12. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
38.67 |
1.0799 |
0.0340 |
243 |
1 |
38.67 |
2009-11-26 |
| 13. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
38.59 |
0.8747 |
0.2360 |
201 |
1 |
38.59 |
2009-11-21 |
| 14. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
38.38 |
0.9646 |
0.1436 |
264 |
1 |
38.38 |
2009-11-29 |
| 15. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
38.36 |
0.9724 |
0.1397 |
237 |
1 |
38.36 |
2009-11-29 |
| 16. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
38.26 |
0.9697 |
0.1361 |
249 |
1 |
38.26 |
2010-01-24 |
| 17. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
38.15 |
0.9125 |
0.1917 |
308 |
1 |
38.15 |
2009-11-29 |
| 18. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
37.80 |
1.0577 |
0.0309 |
247 |
1 |
37.80 |
2009-11-24 |
| 19. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
37.22 |
1.0154 |
0.1096 |
351 |
1 |
37.22 |
2009-11-23 |
| 20. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
37.07 |
1.0013 |
0.0686 |
273 |
2 |
34.18 |
2009-11-26 |
| 21. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
37.04 |
1.0343 |
0.0730 |
242 |
2 |
35.35 |
2009-11-26 |
| 22. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
36.91 |
0.9281 |
0.1431 |
273 |
1 |
36.91 |
2009-11-26 |
| 23. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
36.86 |
1.0567 |
0.0085 |
303 |
1 |
36.86 |
2009-11-21 |
| 24. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
36.73 |
1.0346 |
0.0682 |
244 |
1 |
36.73 |
2009-11-29 |
| 25. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
36.59 |
1.0261 |
0.0288 |
273 |
1 |
36.59 |
2009-11-26 |
| 26. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
36.50 |
0.9846 |
0.0684 |
281 |
1 |
36.50 |
2009-11-28 |
| 27. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
36.45 |
0.9633 |
0.0916 |
304 |
1 |
36.45 |
2009-11-29 |
| 28. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
36.20 |
0.8852 |
0.1623 |
201 |
1 |
36.20 |
2009-11-26 |
| 29. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
35.86 |
1.0417 |
-0.0088 |
253 |
1 |
35.86 |
2009-11-26 |
| 30. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
35.85 |
0.8956 |
0.1421 |
217 |
1 |
35.85 |
2009-11-26 |
| 31. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
35.81 |
0.7852 |
0.2547 |
149 |
1 |
35.81 |
2010-01-24 |
| 32. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
35.70 |
0.8809 |
0.1476 |
127 |
1 |
35.70 |
2009-11-23 |
| 33. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
35.47 |
0.9710 |
0.0465 |
173 |
1 |
35.47 |
2009-11-24 |
| 34. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
35.45 |
1.0596 |
-0.0383 |
239 |
1 |
35.45 |
2009-11-14 |
| 35. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
35.39 |
0.9776 |
0.0443 |
308 |
2 |
32.99 |
2009-11-29 |
| 36. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
35.39 |
1.0486 |
-0.0261 |
289 |
2 |
34.76 |
2009-11-17 |
| 37. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
35.35 |
0.9820 |
0.0387 |
274 |
2 |
32.84 |
2009-11-26 |
| 38. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
35.29 |
1.0214 |
-0.0080 |
166 |
1 |
35.29 |
2009-11-26 |
| 39. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
35.03 |
0.8890 |
0.1186 |
199 |
1 |
35.03 |
2009-11-26 |
| 40. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
35.02 |
0.9260 |
0.0953 |
243 |
1 |
35.02 |
2009-11-24 |
| 41. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
34.93 |
1.0669 |
-0.0264 |
286 |
1 |
34.93 |
2009-11-29 |
| 42. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
34.89 |
0.9019 |
0.1104 |
204 |
2 |
33.67 |
2009-11-28 |
| 43. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
34.86 |
0.9851 |
0.0233 |
317 |
1 |
34.86 |
2009-11-26 |
| 44. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
34.74 |
0.8810 |
0.1225 |
282 |
2 |
33.81 |
2009-11-26 |
| 45. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
34.54 |
1.0714 |
-0.0835 |
129 |
2 |
32.13 |
2009-11-24 |
| 46. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
34.47 |
0.8821 |
0.1122 |
176 |
1 |
34.47 |
2009-11-23 |
| 47. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
34.45 |
0.8811 |
0.1177 |
239 |
2 |
32.97 |
2009-11-29 |
| 48. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
34.41 |
1.0463 |
-0.0579 |
182 |
1 |
34.41 |
2009-11-23 |
| 49. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
34.37 |
0.9226 |
0.0756 |
348 |
2 |
33.44 |
2010-01-24 |
| 50. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
34.28 |
0.9540 |
0.0334 |
285 |
1 |
34.28 |
2009-11-14 |
| 51. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
34.24 |
0.9468 |
0.0408 |
276 |
1 |
34.24 |
2009-11-26 |
| 52. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
34.23 |
0.9342 |
0.0571 |
434 |
1 |
34.23 |
2010-01-24 |
| 53. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
34.20 |
0.8670 |
0.1253 |
318 |
1 |
34.20 |
2009-11-26 |
| 54. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
34.17 |
0.8177 |
0.1640 |
124 |
1 |
34.17 |
2009-11-14 |
| 55. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
33.76 |
0.9212 |
0.0561 |
323 |
1 |
33.76 |
2009-11-26 |
| 56. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
33.75 |
0.9871 |
0.0228 |
209 |
1 |
33.75 |
2009-11-29 |
| 57. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
33.38 |
1.0197 |
-0.0597 |
226 |
1 |
33.38 |
2009-11-26 |
| 58. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
33.27 |
0.8951 |
0.0668 |
193 |
2 |
31.97 |
2009-11-17 |
| 59. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
33.00 |
0.9028 |
0.0487 |
155 |
1 |
33.00 |
2009-11-26 |
| 60. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
32.90 |
0.9614 |
-0.0095 |
292 |
1 |
32.90 |
2009-11-26 |
| 61. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
32.74 |
1.0099 |
-0.0686 |
207 |
1 |
32.74 |
2009-11-24 |
| 62. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
32.68 |
0.9884 |
-0.0467 |
233 |
1 |
32.68 |
2010-01-24 |
| 63. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.45 |
0.9286 |
0.0061 |
194 |
1 |
32.45 |
2009-11-24 |
| 64. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
32.43 |
0.9202 |
0.0142 |
254 |
2 |
32.07 |
2009-11-26 |
| 65. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
32.15 |
1.0016 |
-0.0792 |
218 |
1 |
32.15 |
2009-11-24 |
| 66. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.85 |
0.8709 |
0.0552 |
202 |
1 |
31.85 |
2009-11-19 |
| 67. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
31.67 |
0.8070 |
0.1028 |
167 |
1 |
31.67 |
2009-11-23 |
| 68. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
31.58 |
0.8162 |
0.0992 |
149 |
1 |
31.58 |
2009-11-26 |
| 69. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
31.43 |
0.9351 |
-0.0347 |
190 |
1 |
31.43 |
2009-11-26 |
| 70. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
31.04 |
0.9559 |
-0.0587 |
195 |
1 |
31.04 |
2010-01-24 |
| 71. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
31.03 |
1.0213 |
-0.1303 |
240 |
1 |
31.03 |
2009-11-24 |
| 72. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
30.82 |
1.0388 |
-0.1191 |
243 |
1 |
30.82 |
2009-11-24 |
| 73. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
30.79 |
0.9275 |
-0.0436 |
211 |
1 |
30.79 |
2009-11-26 |
| 74. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
30.54 |
0.9339 |
-0.0555 |
310 |
1 |
30.54 |
2009-11-12 |
| 75. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
30.35 |
0.8295 |
0.0466 |
209 |
1 |
30.35 |
2009-11-26 |
| 76. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
30.35 |
1.0251 |
-0.1530 |
261 |
1 |
30.35 |
2009-11-26 |
| 77. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
30.29 |
0.9786 |
-0.1065 |
235 |
1 |
30.29 |
2009-11-14 |
| 78. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
30.17 |
0.7890 |
0.0810 |
230 |
2 |
29.93 |
2010-01-24 |
| 79. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
29.97 |
0.8845 |
-0.0209 |
273 |
1 |
29.97 |
2009-11-24 |
| 80. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
29.73 |
0.8916 |
-0.0351 |
216 |
1 |
29.73 |
2009-11-24 |
| 81. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
29.69 |
0.8878 |
-0.0330 |
346 |
1 |
29.69 |
2009-11-24 |
| 82. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
29.42 |
0.7876 |
0.0622 |
316 |
2 |
27.42 |
2009-11-26 |
| 83. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
29.36 |
0.8961 |
-0.0541 |
189 |
1 |
29.36 |
2009-11-29 |
| 84. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
29.25 |
1.0666 |
-0.2243 |
297 |
1 |
29.25 |
2009-11-24 |
| 85. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
29.14 |
0.7104 |
0.1314 |
131 |
1 |
29.14 |
2009-11-29 |
| 86. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
29.09 |
0.8289 |
0.0160 |
304 |
1 |
29.09 |
2009-11-24 |
| 87. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
28.81 |
0.7259 |
0.1093 |
186 |
1 |
28.81 |
2009-11-14 |
| 88. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
28.69 |
0.9843 |
-0.1635 |
234 |
1 |
28.69 |
2009-11-17 |
| 89. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
28.23 |
0.8506 |
-0.0424 |
132 |
1 |
28.23 |
2009-11-12 |
| 90. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
27.80 |
0.9852 |
-0.1851 |
264 |
1 |
27.80 |
2009-11-14 |
| 91. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
27.69 |
0.9213 |
-0.1242 |
295 |
1 |
27.69 |
2009-11-14 |
| 92. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
27.53 |
0.9048 |
-0.1083 |
271 |
1 |
27.53 |
2009-11-17 |
| 93. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
23.95 |
0.8975 |
-0.2098 |
268 |
1 |
23.95 |
2009-11-24 |