| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
174.97 |
1.0426 |
0.1671 |
323 |
2 |
174.67 |
2008-11-20 |
| 2. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
174.77 |
1.0666 |
0.1418 |
297 |
1 |
174.77 |
2008-11-24 |
| 3. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
174.23 |
1.0004 |
0.2042 |
212 |
3 |
163.72 |
2008-11-24 |
| 4. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
169.79 |
1.0197 |
0.1542 |
226 |
1 |
169.79 |
2008-11-24 |
| 5. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
168.59 |
1.0337 |
0.1319 |
214 |
3 |
137.72 |
2008-11-24 |
| 6. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
168.10 |
1.0297 |
0.1325 |
249 |
1 |
168.10 |
2008-11-21 |
| 7. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
167.49 |
1.0613 |
0.0967 |
456 |
1 |
167.49 |
2008-11-21 |
| 8. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
167.24 |
1.0120 |
0.1443 |
290 |
1 |
167.24 |
2008-11-24 |
| 9. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
166.99 |
0.9614 |
0.1932 |
292 |
1 |
166.99 |
2008-11-21 |
| 10. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
166.48 |
0.9636 |
0.1874 |
254 |
1 |
166.48 |
2008-11-24 |
| 11. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
166.20 |
0.9723 |
0.1768 |
364 |
2 |
153.91 |
2008-11-20 |
| 12. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
166.05 |
1.0334 |
0.1147 |
131 |
1 |
166.05 |
2008-11-24 |
| 13. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
165.58 |
1.0487 |
0.0961 |
231 |
4 |
152.52 |
2008-11-20 |
| 14. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
165.36 |
0.9213 |
0.2220 |
295 |
1 |
165.36 |
2008-11-24 |
| 15. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
165.27 |
0.9986 |
0.1441 |
283 |
1 |
165.27 |
2008-11-24 |
| 16. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
164.50 |
1.0993 |
0.0381 |
265 |
1 |
164.50 |
2008-11-25 |
| 17. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
164.43 |
1.0062 |
0.1307 |
288 |
1 |
164.43 |
2008-11-21 |
| 18. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
163.57 |
0.9754 |
0.1555 |
362 |
1 |
163.57 |
2008-11-20 |
| 19. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
163.49 |
1.0203 |
0.1101 |
261 |
2 |
160.54 |
2008-11-20 |
| 20. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
162.35 |
1.0201 |
0.1024 |
303 |
1 |
162.35 |
2008-11-20 |
| 21. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
162.33 |
1.0595 |
0.0629 |
379 |
1 |
162.33 |
2008-11-20 |
| 22. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
161.80 |
0.9275 |
0.1912 |
211 |
1 |
161.80 |
2008-11-23 |
| 23. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
159.92 |
0.9411 |
0.1646 |
318 |
2 |
146.75 |
2008-11-24 |
| 24. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
159.74 |
0.9899 |
0.1145 |
163 |
2 |
138.39 |
2008-11-25 |
| 25. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
159.32 |
1.0486 |
0.0529 |
289 |
1 |
159.32 |
2008-11-24 |
| 26. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
159.01 |
1.0034 |
0.0960 |
302 |
1 |
159.01 |
2008-11-20 |
| 27. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
158.55 |
1.0257 |
0.0705 |
401 |
1 |
158.55 |
2008-11-20 |
| 28. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
158.20 |
1.0391 |
0.0547 |
358 |
1 |
158.20 |
2008-11-20 |
| 29. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
158.00 |
1.0167 |
0.0757 |
378 |
1 |
158.00 |
2008-11-24 |
| 30. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
157.68 |
0.8933 |
0.1969 |
363 |
2 |
149.36 |
2008-11-21 |
| 31. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
156.88 |
0.9831 |
0.1016 |
469 |
1 |
156.88 |
2008-11-20 |
| 32. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
156.55 |
0.9844 |
0.0980 |
293 |
2 |
146.64 |
2008-11-24 |
| 33. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
156.08 |
0.9234 |
0.1557 |
346 |
1 |
156.08 |
2008-11-20 |
| 34. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
155.52 |
1.0429 |
0.0324 |
259 |
1 |
155.52 |
2008-11-21 |
| 35. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
155.05 |
0.9540 |
0.1180 |
285 |
2 |
153.34 |
2008-11-20 |
| 36. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
155.03 |
1.0389 |
0.0330 |
318 |
1 |
155.03 |
2008-11-20 |
| 37. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
154.49 |
1.0060 |
0.0621 |
171 |
1 |
154.49 |
2008-11-24 |
| 38. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
153.55 |
0.9833 |
0.0783 |
355 |
1 |
153.55 |
2008-11-20 |
| 39. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
153.45 |
1.0788 |
-0.0178 |
171 |
2 |
143.89 |
2008-11-21 |
| 40. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
152.81 |
1.0063 |
0.0502 |
371 |
1 |
152.81 |
2008-11-24 |
| 41. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
151.85 |
0.9734 |
0.0765 |
289 |
2 |
147.20 |
2008-11-20 |
| 42. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
151.46 |
1.0523 |
-0.0051 |
256 |
1 |
151.46 |
2008-11-27 |
| 43. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
150.99 |
1.0025 |
0.0414 |
336 |
1 |
150.99 |
2008-11-24 |
| 44. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
150.83 |
1.0444 |
-0.0016 |
197 |
1 |
150.83 |
2008-11-27 |
| 45. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
150.57 |
0.9045 |
0.1365 |
235 |
1 |
150.57 |
2008-11-20 |
| 46. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
150.27 |
1.0419 |
-0.0029 |
261 |
1 |
150.27 |
2008-11-20 |
| 47. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
150.07 |
0.9578 |
0.0798 |
281 |
1 |
150.07 |
2008-11-27 |
| 48. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
149.75 |
0.9841 |
0.0513 |
334 |
1 |
149.75 |
2008-11-20 |
| 49. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
148.86 |
1.0068 |
0.0224 |
358 |
1 |
148.86 |
2008-11-20 |
| 50. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
148.73 |
1.0289 |
-0.0006 |
276 |
1 |
148.73 |
2008-11-20 |
| 51. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
148.44 |
1.0352 |
-0.0089 |
341 |
1 |
148.44 |
2008-11-24 |
| 52. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
148.27 |
0.8947 |
0.1304 |
366 |
1 |
148.27 |
2008-11-24 |
| 53. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
148.03 |
1.0213 |
0.0022 |
240 |
2 |
145.32 |
2008-11-24 |
| 54. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
147.84 |
0.9125 |
0.1097 |
308 |
2 |
140.50 |
2008-11-20 |
| 55. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
147.81 |
0.9886 |
0.0334 |
220 |
1 |
147.81 |
2008-11-19 |
| 56. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
147.72 |
0.8961 |
0.1252 |
189 |
1 |
147.72 |
2008-11-20 |
| 57. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
147.20 |
0.8553 |
0.1624 |
174 |
1 |
147.20 |
2008-11-24 |
| 58. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
146.81 |
0.9049 |
0.1101 |
351 |
1 |
146.81 |
2008-11-19 |
| 59. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
146.71 |
0.9430 |
0.0714 |
211 |
2 |
130.35 |
2008-11-24 |
| 60. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
146.56 |
1.0417 |
-0.0284 |
253 |
1 |
146.56 |
2008-11-20 |
| 61. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
146.28 |
0.9785 |
0.0329 |
335 |
1 |
146.28 |
2008-11-20 |
| 62. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
145.22 |
0.9997 |
0.0044 |
382 |
1 |
145.22 |
2008-11-21 |
| 63. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
144.96 |
0.9863 |
0.0160 |
339 |
1 |
144.96 |
2008-11-20 |
| 64. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
144.74 |
0.9088 |
0.0919 |
348 |
1 |
144.74 |
2008-11-20 |
| 65. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
144.38 |
0.9697 |
0.0285 |
249 |
1 |
144.38 |
2008-11-24 |
| 66. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
144.37 |
0.9710 |
0.0272 |
173 |
2 |
131.95 |
2008-11-24 |
| 67. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
143.65 |
1.0613 |
-0.0681 |
266 |
1 |
143.65 |
2008-11-24 |
| 68. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
143.62 |
1.0389 |
-0.0459 |
340 |
2 |
143.00 |
2008-11-24 |
| 69. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
143.49 |
0.9780 |
0.0141 |
337 |
1 |
143.49 |
2008-11-20 |
| 70. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
142.69 |
0.9966 |
-0.0100 |
259 |
1 |
142.69 |
2008-11-20 |
| 71. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
142.43 |
0.9684 |
0.0164 |
388 |
1 |
142.43 |
2008-11-24 |
| 72. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
142.24 |
0.9769 |
0.0065 |
263 |
1 |
142.24 |
2008-11-23 |
| 73. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
142.13 |
0.9570 |
0.0257 |
287 |
2 |
135.92 |
2008-11-20 |
| 74. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
141.50 |
0.9342 |
0.0441 |
434 |
1 |
141.50 |
2008-11-20 |
| 75. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
141.18 |
1.0349 |
-0.0588 |
234 |
1 |
141.18 |
2008-11-20 |
| 76. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
141.13 |
1.0138 |
-0.0380 |
231 |
1 |
141.13 |
2008-11-20 |
| 77. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
141.03 |
1.0168 |
-0.0417 |
271 |
1 |
141.03 |
2008-11-20 |
| 78. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
140.57 |
1.0565 |
-0.0846 |
247 |
1 |
140.57 |
2008-11-20 |
| 79. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
140.50 |
0.9820 |
-0.0106 |
267 |
1 |
140.50 |
2008-11-19 |
| 80. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
140.17 |
0.8958 |
0.0733 |
322 |
1 |
140.17 |
2008-11-25 |
| 81. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
139.73 |
0.9646 |
0.0015 |
264 |
1 |
139.73 |
2008-11-20 |
| 82. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
139.73 |
1.0496 |
-0.0835 |
314 |
1 |
139.73 |
2008-11-25 |
| 83. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
139.33 |
0.9148 |
0.0485 |
317 |
1 |
139.33 |
2008-11-24 |
| 84. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
138.85 |
0.8382 |
0.1218 |
268 |
1 |
138.85 |
2008-11-20 |
| 85. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
138.84 |
1.0109 |
-0.0510 |
276 |
1 |
138.84 |
2008-11-20 |
| 86. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
138.82 |
1.0619 |
-0.1021 |
354 |
1 |
138.82 |
2008-11-21 |
| 87. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
138.78 |
1.0340 |
-0.0745 |
406 |
1 |
138.78 |
2008-11-19 |
| 88. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
138.77 |
0.9064 |
0.0531 |
399 |
1 |
138.77 |
2008-11-21 |
| 89. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
138.24 |
1.0029 |
-0.0471 |
209 |
2 |
137.39 |
2008-11-24 |
| 90. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
137.27 |
0.8595 |
0.0896 |
242 |
1 |
137.27 |
2008-11-24 |
| 91. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
136.78 |
0.9632 |
-0.0175 |
392 |
2 |
115.44 |
2008-11-24 |
| 92. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
133.68 |
1.0183 |
-0.0940 |
191 |
1 |
133.68 |
2008-11-24 |
| 93. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
133.26 |
0.9672 |
-0.0458 |
396 |
1 |
133.26 |
2008-11-19 |
| 94. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
132.92 |
0.9084 |
0.0106 |
404 |
1 |
132.92 |
2008-11-21 |
| 95. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
132.34 |
0.9309 |
-0.0159 |
284 |
2 |
127.29 |
2008-11-24 |
| 96. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
132.23 |
1.0696 |
-0.1554 |
226 |
1 |
132.23 |
2008-11-27 |
| 97. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
132.15 |
0.9330 |
-0.0193 |
360 |
1 |
132.15 |
2008-11-24 |
| 98. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
131.92 |
0.9884 |
-0.0763 |
233 |
1 |
131.92 |
2008-11-24 |
| 99. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
131.55 |
0.9851 |
-0.0756 |
317 |
1 |
131.55 |
2008-11-20 |
| 100. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
130.08 |
0.9164 |
-0.0170 |
305 |
1 |
130.08 |
2008-11-20 |
| 101. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
129.00 |
0.8105 |
0.0814 |
204 |
1 |
129.00 |
2008-11-19 |
| 102. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
128.83 |
0.9756 |
-0.0849 |
229 |
1 |
128.83 |
2008-11-24 |
| 103. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
128.76 |
0.8981 |
-0.0079 |
393 |
1 |
128.76 |
2008-11-21 |
| 104. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
128.67 |
0.8826 |
0.0070 |
296 |
1 |
128.67 |
2008-11-21 |
| 105. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
126.55 |
0.8956 |
-0.0206 |
322 |
1 |
126.55 |
2008-11-20 |
| 106. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
126.47 |
0.9905 |
-0.1161 |
377 |
1 |
126.47 |
2008-11-20 |
| 107. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
123.12 |
1.0131 |
-0.1618 |
225 |
1 |
123.12 |
2008-11-20 |
| 108. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
123.08 |
0.9897 |
-0.1387 |
274 |
1 |
123.08 |
2008-11-19 |
| 109. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
122.90 |
0.9278 |
-0.0781 |
295 |
1 |
122.90 |
2008-11-20 |
| 110. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
121.32 |
0.9426 |
-0.1038 |
317 |
1 |
121.32 |
2008-11-19 |
| 111. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
121.19 |
0.9468 |
-0.1089 |
276 |
1 |
121.19 |
2008-11-20 |
| 112. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
119.87 |
0.9553 |
-0.1265 |
430 |
1 |
119.87 |
2008-11-20 |
| 113. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
119.14 |
0.8890 |
-0.0653 |
199 |
1 |
119.14 |
2008-11-20 |
| 114. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
118.76 |
1.0201 |
-0.1990 |
172 |
1 |
118.76 |
2008-11-20 |
| 115. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
117.51 |
0.7876 |
0.0249 |
316 |
1 |
117.51 |
2008-11-20 |
| 116. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
117.24 |
0.9557 |
-0.1451 |
331 |
1 |
117.24 |
2008-11-20 |
| 117. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
114.36 |
0.9846 |
-0.1939 |
281 |
1 |
114.36 |
2008-11-20 |
| 118. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
112.05 |
0.9202 |
-0.1455 |
254 |
1 |
112.05 |
2008-11-20 |
| 119. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
103.31 |
0.8919 |
-0.1776 |
205 |
1 |
103.31 |
2008-11-24 |
| 120. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
103.10 |
0.9811 |
-0.2683 |
272 |
1 |
103.10 |
2008-11-20 |
| 121. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
100.43 |
1.0398 |
-0.3454 |
110 |
1 |
100.43 |
2008-11-24 |
| 122. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
99.92 |
0.9072 |
-0.2164 |
237 |
1 |
99.92 |
2008-11-24 |