| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
92.37 |
0.9931 |
0.1066 |
218 |
5 |
87.48 |
2009-03-21 |
| 2. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
95.08 |
0.9841 |
0.1505 |
263 |
4 |
87.33 |
2009-03-21 |
| 3. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
85.02 |
0.9636 |
0.0503 |
281 |
4 |
79.25 |
2008-09-13 |
| 4. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
90.11 |
0.9981 |
0.0775 |
211 |
4 |
84.24 |
2008-09-13 |
| 5. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
92.84 |
1.0189 |
0.0898 |
290 |
4 |
86.54 |
2010-08-07 |
| 6. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
82.77 |
0.9206 |
0.0682 |
317 |
3 |
80.22 |
2009-03-21 |
| 7. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
83.35 |
0.9842 |
0.0132 |
335 |
3 |
79.14 |
2009-03-21 |
| 8. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
81.27 |
0.9726 |
0.0028 |
396 |
3 |
78.84 |
2008-09-13 |
| 9. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
90.74 |
1.0334 |
0.0500 |
261 |
3 |
86.22 |
2008-09-13 |
| 10. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
87.28 |
0.9402 |
0.1004 |
310 |
3 |
82.21 |
2008-09-13 |
| 11. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
88.75 |
1.0079 |
0.0512 |
273 |
3 |
84.56 |
2008-09-13 |
| 12. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
84.32 |
0.9650 |
0.0446 |
347 |
3 |
81.31 |
2010-08-08 |
| 13. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
90.57 |
0.9948 |
0.0861 |
233 |
3 |
84.72 |
2008-09-13 |
| 14. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
92.18 |
1.0576 |
0.0409 |
231 |
3 |
88.74 |
2008-09-13 |
| 15. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
79.23 |
1.0234 |
-0.0736 |
392 |
2 |
76.86 |
2010-08-08 |
| 16. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
86.24 |
0.8993 |
0.1335 |
366 |
2 |
86.22 |
2008-09-13 |
| 17. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
84.81 |
0.9836 |
0.0293 |
289 |
2 |
83.54 |
2010-08-08 |
| 18. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
79.34 |
0.9183 |
0.0297 |
308 |
2 |
75.90 |
2008-09-13 |
| 19. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
95.49 |
1.0432 |
0.0985 |
276 |
2 |
94.26 |
2008-09-13 |
| 20. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
82.61 |
0.9503 |
0.0293 |
211 |
2 |
66.06 |
2008-09-13 |
| 21. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
84.60 |
0.9909 |
0.0233 |
334 |
2 |
80.50 |
2008-09-13 |
| 22. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
104.61 |
1.0736 |
0.1797 |
350 |
2 |
101.60 |
2008-09-13 |
| 23. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
87.33 |
1.0403 |
0.0011 |
234 |
2 |
85.08 |
2008-09-13 |
| 24. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
78.99 |
0.9931 |
-0.0457 |
339 |
2 |
78.23 |
2008-09-13 |
| 25. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
82.66 |
1.0227 |
-0.0297 |
378 |
2 |
81.56 |
2008-09-13 |
| 26. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
72.29 |
0.9128 |
-0.0532 |
237 |
2 |
70.19 |
2010-08-07 |
| 27. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
91.95 |
0.9922 |
0.1070 |
264 |
2 |
88.24 |
2008-09-13 |
| 28. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
98.67 |
1.0267 |
0.1557 |
261 |
2 |
87.67 |
2010-08-07 |
| 29. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
97.85 |
1.0411 |
0.1302 |
341 |
2 |
89.38 |
2008-09-13 |
| 30. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
83.83 |
0.9451 |
0.0638 |
419 |
2 |
83.79 |
2008-09-13 |
| 31. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
94.42 |
0.9915 |
0.1358 |
281 |
2 |
92.00 |
2009-03-21 |
| 32. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
86.57 |
1.0557 |
-0.0206 |
289 |
2 |
86.07 |
2008-09-13 |
| 33. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
89.13 |
1.0181 |
0.0479 |
276 |
2 |
85.33 |
2008-09-13 |
| 34. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
77.17 |
0.9631 |
-0.0426 |
273 |
2 |
74.71 |
2008-09-13 |
| 35. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
77.39 |
0.9917 |
-0.0660 |
317 |
2 |
76.80 |
2008-09-13 |
| 36. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
77.26 |
0.9400 |
-0.0153 |
434 |
2 |
73.64 |
2008-09-13 |
| 37. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
72.00 |
0.9434 |
-0.0800 |
367 |
2 |
66.60 |
2008-09-13 |
| 38. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
82.58 |
0.9392 |
0.0529 |
360 |
2 |
81.38 |
2009-03-21 |
| 39. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
93.05 |
0.9884 |
0.1259 |
267 |
2 |
89.99 |
2008-09-13 |
| 40. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
76.88 |
0.9135 |
0.0128 |
393 |
2 |
76.44 |
2008-09-13 |
| 41. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
80.14 |
0.9841 |
-0.0307 |
217 |
2 |
77.89 |
2009-03-21 |
| 42. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
78.05 |
0.9864 |
-0.0510 |
292 |
2 |
76.51 |
2010-08-07 |
| 43. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
88.20 |
1.0462 |
0.0103 |
340 |
1 |
88.20 |
2008-09-13 |
| 44. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
68.91 |
0.8964 |
-0.0776 |
199 |
1 |
68.91 |
2008-09-13 |
| 45. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
78.46 |
0.9833 |
-0.0444 |
387 |
1 |
78.46 |
2008-09-13 |
| 46. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
90.48 |
1.0567 |
0.0239 |
314 |
1 |
90.48 |
2008-09-13 |
| 47. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
91.84 |
0.9765 |
0.1200 |
269 |
1 |
91.84 |
2009-03-21 |
| 48. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
91.11 |
1.0272 |
0.0592 |
226 |
1 |
91.11 |
2008-09-13 |
| 49. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
89.36 |
1.0101 |
0.0591 |
336 |
1 |
89.36 |
2009-03-21 |
| 50. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
92.79 |
1.0543 |
0.0511 |
182 |
1 |
92.79 |
2009-03-21 |
| 51. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
68.36 |
0.7923 |
0.0234 |
316 |
1 |
68.36 |
2009-03-21 |
| 52. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
83.50 |
1.0414 |
-0.0453 |
234 |
1 |
83.50 |
2009-03-21 |
| 53. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
97.39 |
1.0672 |
0.0955 |
239 |
1 |
97.39 |
2010-08-08 |
| 54. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
82.11 |
0.9228 |
0.0620 |
305 |
1 |
82.11 |
2009-03-21 |
| 55. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
81.78 |
0.9574 |
0.0222 |
354 |
1 |
81.78 |
2008-09-13 |
| 56. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
85.76 |
1.0638 |
-0.0416 |
247 |
1 |
85.76 |
2008-09-13 |
| 57. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
84.14 |
1.0130 |
-0.0082 |
288 |
1 |
84.14 |
2010-08-08 |
| 58. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
83.16 |
0.9852 |
0.0072 |
235 |
1 |
83.16 |
2009-03-21 |
| 59. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
77.62 |
0.9727 |
-0.0396 |
442 |
1 |
77.62 |
2009-03-21 |
| 60. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
92.82 |
0.9353 |
0.1807 |
174 |
1 |
92.82 |
2008-09-13 |
| 61. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
89.34 |
0.9963 |
0.0685 |
274 |
1 |
89.34 |
2009-03-21 |
| 62. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
78.57 |
0.9680 |
-0.0301 |
256 |
1 |
78.57 |
2009-03-21 |
| 63. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
96.25 |
0.9909 |
0.1639 |
293 |
1 |
96.25 |
2009-03-21 |
| 64. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
93.43 |
1.0543 |
0.0629 |
233 |
1 |
93.43 |
2010-08-07 |
| 65. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
83.52 |
1.0370 |
-0.0399 |
262 |
1 |
83.52 |
2009-03-21 |
| 66. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
84.64 |
1.0472 |
-0.0258 |
397 |
1 |
84.64 |
2010-08-07 |
| 67. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
76.60 |
0.9736 |
-0.0524 |
378 |
1 |
76.60 |
2009-03-21 |
| 68. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
77.27 |
1.0035 |
-0.0807 |
310 |
1 |
77.27 |
2008-09-13 |
| 69. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
82.09 |
0.9658 |
0.0180 |
308 |
1 |
82.09 |
2009-03-21 |
| 70. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
78.09 |
0.9673 |
-0.0314 |
393 |
1 |
78.09 |
2008-09-13 |
| 71. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
77.55 |
0.9330 |
0.0042 |
341 |
1 |
77.55 |
2010-08-08 |
| 72. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
87.25 |
1.0682 |
-0.0250 |
266 |
1 |
87.25 |
2008-09-13 |
| 73. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
84.64 |
0.9844 |
0.0384 |
351 |
1 |
84.64 |
2010-08-08 |
| 74. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
88.56 |
1.0067 |
0.0648 |
422 |
1 |
88.56 |
2010-08-07 |
| 75. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
94.59 |
1.0332 |
0.0965 |
267 |
1 |
94.59 |
2010-08-08 |
| 76. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
90.75 |
0.9709 |
0.1119 |
264 |
1 |
90.75 |
2009-03-21 |
| 77. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
73.73 |
0.8666 |
0.0106 |
206 |
1 |
73.73 |
2009-03-21 |
| 78. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
91.95 |
1.0529 |
0.0483 |
373 |
1 |
91.95 |
2008-09-13 |
| 79. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
81.23 |
1.0115 |
-0.0469 |
189 |
1 |
81.23 |
2009-03-21 |
| 80. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
82.06 |
1.0582 |
-0.0816 |
180 |
1 |
82.06 |
2010-08-08 |
| 81. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
74.67 |
0.9029 |
-0.0093 |
393 |
1 |
74.67 |
2009-03-21 |
| 82. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
74.90 |
0.9143 |
-0.0196 |
300 |
1 |
74.90 |
2008-09-13 |
| 83. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
79.21 |
1.0165 |
-0.0718 |
316 |
1 |
79.21 |
2009-03-21 |
| 84. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
86.47 |
1.0059 |
0.0280 |
283 |
1 |
86.47 |
2008-09-13 |
| 85. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
73.62 |
1.0387 |
-0.1562 |
333 |
1 |
73.62 |
2010-08-08 |
| 86. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
74.61 |
0.9424 |
-0.0497 |
320 |
1 |
74.61 |
2008-09-13 |
| 87. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
78.86 |
0.9519 |
-0.0067 |
323 |
1 |
78.86 |
2009-03-21 |
| 88. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
61.47 |
1.0018 |
-0.2691 |
246 |
1 |
61.47 |
2010-08-07 |
| 89. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
71.23 |
1.0867 |
-0.2415 |
171 |
1 |
71.23 |
2010-08-07 |
| 90. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
77.70 |
0.8984 |
0.0369 |
267 |
1 |
77.70 |
2010-08-08 |
| 91. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
78.17 |
0.9299 |
-0.0053 |
168 |
1 |
78.17 |
2009-03-21 |
| 92. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
87.73 |
0.9703 |
0.0842 |
394 |
1 |
87.73 |
2008-09-13 |
| 93. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
77.52 |
1.0881 |
-0.1668 |
210 |
1 |
77.52 |
2010-08-07 |
| 94. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
91.28 |
1.0028 |
0.0866 |
259 |
1 |
91.28 |
2008-09-13 |
| 95. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
78.42 |
1.0540 |
-0.1230 |
184 |
1 |
78.42 |
2008-09-13 |
| 96. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
78.94 |
1.0204 |
-0.0863 |
143 |
1 |
78.94 |
2010-08-08 |
| 97. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
78.08 |
1.0208 |
-0.0890 |
231 |
1 |
78.08 |
2010-08-07 |
| 98. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
83.31 |
1.0125 |
-0.0192 |
232 |
1 |
83.31 |
2008-09-13 |
| 99. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
89.64 |
1.0509 |
0.0274 |
295 |
1 |
89.64 |
2010-08-08 |
| 100. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
63.48 |
0.8913 |
-0.1333 |
201 |
1 |
63.48 |
2008-09-13 |
| 101. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
88.60 |
0.9928 |
0.0649 |
293 |
1 |
88.60 |
2008-09-13 |
| 102. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
75.11 |
0.9866 |
-0.0900 |
308 |
1 |
75.11 |
2008-09-13 |
| 103. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
93.38 |
1.0465 |
0.0610 |
183 |
1 |
93.38 |
2010-08-08 |
| 104. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
81.56 |
0.9885 |
-0.0147 |
355 |
1 |
81.56 |
2010-08-08 |
| 105. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
78.93 |
0.9719 |
-0.0226 |
383 |
1 |
78.93 |
2010-08-07 |
| 106. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
94.24 |
1.0901 |
0.0380 |
288 |
1 |
94.24 |
2008-09-13 |
| 107. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
84.29 |
1.0270 |
-0.0199 |
303 |
1 |
84.29 |
2008-09-13 |
| 108. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
97.80 |
1.0743 |
0.0956 |
297 |
1 |
97.80 |
2008-09-13 |
| 109. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
90.68 |
1.0639 |
0.0205 |
303 |
1 |
90.68 |
2008-09-13 |
| 110. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
87.55 |
1.0697 |
-0.0146 |
341 |
1 |
87.55 |
2010-08-08 |
| 111. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
73.35 |
0.9541 |
-0.0784 |
236 |
1 |
73.35 |
2010-08-07 |
| 112. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
84.09 |
1.0590 |
-0.0560 |
250 |
1 |
84.09 |
2008-09-13 |
| 113. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
76.03 |
0.9108 |
-0.0036 |
235 |
1 |
76.03 |
2008-09-12 |
| 114. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
80.89 |
0.9678 |
0.0022 |
392 |
1 |
80.89 |
2008-09-13 |
| 115. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
76.47 |
0.9583 |
-0.0452 |
237 |
1 |
76.47 |
2008-09-12 |
| 116. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
81.19 |
0.9745 |
-0.0031 |
388 |
1 |
81.19 |
2008-09-13 |
| 117. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
98.68 |
1.0800 |
0.0965 |
213 |
1 |
98.68 |
2008-09-13 |
| 118. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
81.66 |
1.0106 |
-0.0367 |
302 |
1 |
81.66 |
2008-09-13 |
| 119. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
89.60 |
1.0600 |
0.0106 |
351 |
1 |
89.60 |
2008-09-13 |
| 120. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
71.87 |
0.8936 |
-0.0374 |
346 |
1 |
71.87 |
2008-09-13 |
| 121. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
75.25 |
0.9011 |
0.0000 |
322 |
1 |
75.25 |
2008-09-13 |
| 122. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
69.91 |
0.8887 |
-0.0410 |
464 |
1 |
69.91 |
2008-09-13 |
| 123. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
86.06 |
0.9698 |
0.0630 |
389 |
1 |
86.06 |
2008-09-13 |
| 124. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
69.13 |
0.9594 |
-0.1368 |
258 |
1 |
69.13 |
2008-09-13 |
| 125. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
61.47 |
0.9927 |
-0.2597 |
276 |
1 |
61.47 |
2008-09-13 |
| 126. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
83.23 |
0.9332 |
0.0606 |
267 |
1 |
83.23 |
2008-09-13 |
| 127. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
65.76 |
0.9243 |
-0.1383 |
240 |
1 |
65.76 |
2008-09-13 |
| 128. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
78.64 |
1.0628 |
-0.1222 |
363 |
1 |
78.64 |
2008-09-13 |
| 129. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
73.97 |
1.0132 |
-0.1301 |
371 |
1 |
73.97 |
2010-08-07 |
| 130. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
76.61 |
1.0601 |
-0.1490 |
256 |
1 |
76.61 |
2008-09-13 |
| 131. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
83.16 |
0.9070 |
0.0812 |
192 |
1 |
83.16 |
2008-09-13 |
| 132. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
86.63 |
1.0094 |
0.0253 |
256 |
1 |
86.63 |
2008-09-13 |
| 133. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
81.80 |
0.9966 |
-0.0128 |
377 |
1 |
81.80 |
2010-08-08 |
| 134. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
89.22 |
1.0676 |
0.0028 |
456 |
1 |
89.22 |
2008-09-12 |
| 135. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
78.49 |
0.8986 |
0.0432 |
363 |
1 |
78.49 |
2008-09-13 |
| 136. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
83.05 |
0.9817 |
0.0153 |
304 |
1 |
83.05 |
2010-08-08 |