| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
98.29 |
0.8660 |
0.4628 |
193 |
1 |
98.29 |
2009-12-31 |
| 2. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
92.96 |
0.8910 |
0.3663 |
150 |
1 |
92.96 |
2009-12-31 |
| 3. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
91.50 |
1.0515 |
0.1823 |
250 |
4 |
80.03 |
2009-12-31 |
| 4. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
90.46 |
0.8661 |
0.3465 |
94 |
1 |
90.46 |
2009-12-31 |
| 5. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
89.87 |
1.0352 |
0.1809 |
341 |
2 |
82.38 |
2009-12-23 |
| 6. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
89.15 |
0.9843 |
0.2143 |
234 |
1 |
89.15 |
2009-12-23 |
| 7. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
88.58 |
1.0120 |
0.1830 |
290 |
1 |
88.58 |
2009-12-23 |
| 8. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
87.64 |
1.0334 |
0.1431 |
131 |
1 |
87.64 |
2009-12-23 |
| 9. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
87.62 |
0.8956 |
0.2897 |
217 |
1 |
87.62 |
2009-12-31 |
| 10. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
87.33 |
1.0829 |
0.0974 |
288 |
1 |
87.33 |
2009-12-22 |
| 11. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
86.59 |
1.0486 |
0.1209 |
289 |
2 |
82.06 |
2009-12-23 |
| 12. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
85.91 |
0.9966 |
0.1622 |
259 |
1 |
85.91 |
2009-12-31 |
| 13. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
85.68 |
0.9769 |
0.1773 |
263 |
1 |
85.68 |
2009-12-22 |
| 14. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
84.75 |
0.9866 |
0.1533 |
218 |
1 |
84.75 |
2009-12-31 |
| 15. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
84.72 |
0.9726 |
0.1642 |
154 |
1 |
84.72 |
2009-12-23 |
| 16. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
84.70 |
0.9786 |
0.1591 |
193 |
1 |
84.70 |
2009-12-29 |
| 17. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
84.70 |
1.0445 |
0.0993 |
373 |
2 |
76.77 |
2009-12-22 |
| 18. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
83.90 |
1.0419 |
0.0901 |
261 |
2 |
82.80 |
2009-12-31 |
| 19. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
83.62 |
0.9943 |
0.1371 |
373 |
2 |
80.12 |
2009-12-29 |
| 20. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
83.25 |
1.1018 |
0.0149 |
220 |
1 |
83.25 |
2009-12-28 |
| 21. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
82.55 |
1.0389 |
0.0764 |
318 |
1 |
82.55 |
2009-12-30 |
| 22. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
82.51 |
1.0714 |
0.0327 |
129 |
3 |
75.78 |
2009-12-31 |
| 23. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
82.06 |
0.8747 |
0.2277 |
201 |
1 |
82.06 |
2009-12-31 |
| 24. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
81.65 |
1.0214 |
0.0745 |
166 |
2 |
77.63 |
2009-12-31 |
| 25. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
81.05 |
1.0944 |
0.0435 |
308 |
1 |
81.05 |
2009-12-30 |
| 26. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
80.83 |
0.9863 |
0.1082 |
339 |
1 |
80.83 |
2009-12-29 |
| 27. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
80.81 |
1.0463 |
0.0389 |
182 |
1 |
80.81 |
2009-12-31 |
| 28. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
80.41 |
0.9772 |
0.1037 |
217 |
1 |
80.41 |
2009-12-31 |
| 29. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
80.38 |
1.0767 |
0.0051 |
212 |
1 |
80.38 |
2009-12-23 |
| 30. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
79.55 |
1.0252 |
0.0409 |
176 |
1 |
79.55 |
2009-12-29 |
| 31. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
79.21 |
1.0567 |
0.0119 |
303 |
1 |
79.21 |
2009-12-31 |
| 32. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
79.09 |
1.0214 |
0.0433 |
269 |
1 |
79.09 |
2009-12-22 |
| 33. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
78.61 |
1.0696 |
-0.0133 |
226 |
1 |
78.61 |
2009-12-23 |
| 34. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
78.34 |
0.9986 |
0.0581 |
283 |
3 |
71.69 |
2009-12-31 |
| 35. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
78.23 |
0.9758 |
0.0795 |
314 |
1 |
78.23 |
2009-12-22 |
| 36. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
78.14 |
0.9540 |
0.0976 |
285 |
1 |
78.14 |
2009-12-23 |
| 37. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
77.90 |
0.9266 |
0.1236 |
267 |
1 |
77.90 |
2009-12-29 |
| 38. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
77.60 |
1.0521 |
-0.0109 |
171 |
2 |
76.80 |
2009-12-31 |
| 39. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
77.54 |
0.9820 |
0.0634 |
274 |
1 |
77.54 |
2009-12-31 |
| 40. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
77.53 |
1.0506 |
0.0233 |
277 |
1 |
77.53 |
2009-12-22 |
| 41. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
77.49 |
1.0063 |
0.0386 |
371 |
1 |
77.49 |
2009-12-29 |
| 42. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
77.34 |
0.9532 |
0.0880 |
258 |
2 |
71.06 |
2009-12-22 |
| 43. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
76.77 |
1.0167 |
0.0248 |
378 |
1 |
76.77 |
2009-12-23 |
| 44. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
76.69 |
1.0201 |
0.0175 |
375 |
1 |
76.69 |
2009-12-23 |
| 45. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
76.53 |
0.8541 |
0.1855 |
260 |
1 |
76.53 |
2009-12-31 |
| 46. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
76.52 |
0.9942 |
0.0459 |
483 |
1 |
76.52 |
2009-12-22 |
| 47. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
76.41 |
1.1014 |
-0.0338 |
273 |
1 |
76.41 |
2009-12-29 |
| 48. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
76.23 |
0.9946 |
0.0325 |
246 |
1 |
76.23 |
2009-12-23 |
| 49. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
76.17 |
0.9820 |
0.0473 |
267 |
3 |
72.85 |
2009-12-29 |
| 50. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
76.09 |
0.8162 |
0.2143 |
149 |
1 |
76.09 |
2009-12-31 |
| 51. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
76.04 |
1.0095 |
0.0141 |
316 |
1 |
76.04 |
2009-12-22 |
| 52. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
75.90 |
0.9682 |
0.0527 |
143 |
2 |
70.97 |
2009-12-31 |
| 53. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
75.80 |
0.9251 |
0.1014 |
177 |
1 |
75.80 |
2009-12-22 |
| 54. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
75.35 |
0.9941 |
0.0188 |
217 |
1 |
75.35 |
2009-12-22 |
| 55. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
75.22 |
0.8941 |
0.1214 |
216 |
1 |
75.22 |
2009-12-23 |
| 56. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
75.12 |
0.8562 |
0.1561 |
170 |
1 |
75.12 |
2009-12-29 |
| 57. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
74.95 |
1.0034 |
0.0050 |
302 |
1 |
74.95 |
2009-12-31 |
| 58. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
74.77 |
0.8533 |
0.1552 |
232 |
1 |
74.77 |
2009-12-29 |
| 59. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
73.97 |
0.9699 |
0.0260 |
269 |
1 |
73.97 |
2009-12-22 |
| 60. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
73.78 |
0.9724 |
0.0251 |
237 |
1 |
73.78 |
2009-12-23 |
| 61. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
73.44 |
0.8914 |
0.0987 |
366 |
1 |
73.44 |
2009-12-30 |
| 62. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
73.24 |
0.9281 |
0.0635 |
273 |
1 |
73.24 |
2009-12-23 |
| 63. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
73.14 |
0.9426 |
0.0457 |
317 |
1 |
73.14 |
2009-12-23 |
| 64. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
72.95 |
0.9527 |
0.0298 |
251 |
2 |
68.68 |
2009-12-22 |
| 65. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
72.89 |
0.9649 |
0.0157 |
193 |
1 |
72.89 |
2009-12-22 |
| 66. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
72.81 |
0.9485 |
0.0346 |
291 |
1 |
72.81 |
2009-12-22 |
| 67. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
72.79 |
0.9754 |
0.0111 |
362 |
1 |
72.79 |
2009-12-31 |
| 68. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
72.71 |
0.9632 |
0.0584 |
345 |
1 |
72.71 |
2009-12-22 |
| 69. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
72.65 |
0.7890 |
0.1904 |
230 |
1 |
72.65 |
2009-12-29 |
| 70. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
72.46 |
0.9278 |
0.0508 |
295 |
1 |
72.46 |
2009-12-31 |
| 71. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
72.41 |
0.9691 |
0.0056 |
223 |
1 |
72.41 |
2009-12-29 |
| 72. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
72.25 |
1.0013 |
-0.0292 |
273 |
2 |
72.05 |
2009-12-22 |
| 73. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
71.76 |
0.9798 |
-0.0192 |
199 |
1 |
71.76 |
2009-12-29 |
| 74. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
71.41 |
0.9286 |
0.0319 |
194 |
1 |
71.41 |
2009-12-29 |
| 75. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
71.41 |
1.0254 |
-0.0231 |
217 |
1 |
71.41 |
2009-12-22 |
| 76. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
71.40 |
0.9614 |
0.0030 |
292 |
1 |
71.40 |
2009-12-23 |
| 77. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
71.32 |
0.9084 |
0.0537 |
300 |
1 |
71.32 |
2009-12-22 |
| 78. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
71.20 |
0.8916 |
0.0674 |
216 |
1 |
71.20 |
2009-12-31 |
| 79. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
70.93 |
0.8792 |
0.0851 |
296 |
1 |
70.93 |
2009-12-29 |
| 80. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
70.62 |
0.9964 |
-0.0455 |
203 |
1 |
70.62 |
2009-12-22 |
| 81. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
70.59 |
1.0292 |
-0.0801 |
262 |
1 |
70.59 |
2009-12-22 |
| 82. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
70.59 |
1.0025 |
-0.0512 |
336 |
1 |
70.59 |
2009-12-22 |
| 83. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
70.44 |
1.0141 |
-0.0295 |
304 |
1 |
70.44 |
2009-12-22 |
| 84. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
70.37 |
0.8996 |
0.0423 |
192 |
1 |
70.37 |
2009-12-29 |
| 85. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
70.34 |
1.0768 |
-0.0898 |
295 |
1 |
70.34 |
2009-12-22 |
| 86. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
70.13 |
0.9852 |
-0.0408 |
264 |
2 |
69.98 |
2009-12-29 |
| 87. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
70.11 |
0.9893 |
-0.0454 |
323 |
1 |
70.11 |
2009-12-29 |
| 88. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
70.08 |
0.9513 |
-0.0041 |
354 |
1 |
70.08 |
2009-12-31 |
| 89. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
69.88 |
0.8595 |
0.0830 |
242 |
1 |
69.88 |
2009-12-23 |
| 90. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
69.84 |
1.0417 |
-0.1041 |
253 |
1 |
69.84 |
2009-12-29 |
| 91. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
69.82 |
0.9776 |
-0.0375 |
308 |
2 |
66.92 |
2009-12-22 |
| 92. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
69.61 |
0.9665 |
0.0198 |
326 |
2 |
67.23 |
2009-12-29 |
| 93. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
69.14 |
1.0088 |
-0.0395 |
396 |
1 |
69.14 |
2009-12-29 |
| 94. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
69.06 |
0.9279 |
0.0081 |
317 |
1 |
69.06 |
2009-12-23 |
| 95. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
69.02 |
0.8791 |
0.0489 |
190 |
1 |
69.02 |
2009-12-30 |
| 96. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
68.82 |
0.9922 |
-0.0249 |
341 |
1 |
68.82 |
2009-12-22 |
| 97. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
68.66 |
0.8811 |
0.0475 |
239 |
1 |
68.66 |
2009-12-29 |
| 98. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
68.54 |
0.8559 |
0.0673 |
191 |
1 |
68.54 |
2009-12-31 |
| 99. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
68.45 |
0.9125 |
0.0105 |
308 |
3 |
63.54 |
2009-12-31 |
| 100. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
68.23 |
1.0201 |
-0.1015 |
303 |
1 |
68.23 |
2009-12-22 |
| 101. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
67.69 |
0.9899 |
-0.0838 |
163 |
1 |
67.69 |
2009-12-31 |
| 102. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
67.45 |
0.9841 |
-0.0728 |
334 |
1 |
67.45 |
2009-12-22 |
| 103. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
67.02 |
0.9631 |
-0.0102 |
345 |
2 |
66.41 |
2009-12-31 |
| 104. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
66.98 |
0.9938 |
-0.0919 |
339 |
1 |
66.98 |
2009-12-23 |
| 105. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
66.96 |
0.9048 |
0.0006 |
271 |
1 |
66.96 |
2009-12-31 |
| 106. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.45 |
0.9202 |
-0.0270 |
254 |
1 |
66.45 |
2009-12-29 |
| 107. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
65.91 |
0.9089 |
-0.0185 |
342 |
1 |
65.91 |
2009-12-31 |
| 108. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
65.61 |
0.9567 |
-0.0745 |
273 |
1 |
65.61 |
2009-12-29 |
| 109. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
65.03 |
0.9740 |
-0.1036 |
209 |
2 |
64.99 |
2009-12-22 |
| 110. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
64.92 |
0.9339 |
-0.0624 |
310 |
1 |
64.92 |
2009-12-22 |
| 111. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
64.49 |
0.9653 |
-0.0899 |
394 |
1 |
64.49 |
2009-12-22 |
| 112. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
64.47 |
0.8348 |
0.0383 |
219 |
1 |
64.47 |
2009-12-29 |
| 113. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
64.28 |
0.9814 |
-0.0777 |
364 |
1 |
64.28 |
2009-12-22 |
| 114. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
63.88 |
0.8947 |
-0.0310 |
366 |
2 |
59.15 |
2009-12-22 |
| 115. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
63.77 |
0.9429 |
-0.0843 |
287 |
1 |
63.77 |
2009-12-22 |
| 116. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
63.74 |
0.9991 |
-0.1417 |
225 |
1 |
63.74 |
2009-12-23 |
| 117. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
63.65 |
0.8188 |
0.0380 |
183 |
1 |
63.65 |
2009-12-31 |
| 118. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
63.31 |
1.0358 |
-0.1432 |
349 |
1 |
63.31 |
2009-12-22 |
| 119. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
62.94 |
0.9670 |
-0.0789 |
307 |
1 |
62.94 |
2009-12-29 |
| 120. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
62.65 |
0.8919 |
-0.0516 |
205 |
1 |
62.65 |
2009-12-29 |
| 121. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
61.72 |
0.8553 |
-0.0311 |
174 |
1 |
61.72 |
2009-12-22 |
| 122. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
61.54 |
0.7916 |
0.0430 |
184 |
1 |
61.54 |
2009-12-31 |
| 123. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
61.24 |
0.9045 |
-0.0814 |
235 |
1 |
61.24 |
2009-12-23 |
| 124. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
60.96 |
0.8845 |
-0.0651 |
273 |
1 |
60.96 |
2009-12-29 |
| 125. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
59.72 |
0.9127 |
-0.1130 |
252 |
1 |
59.72 |
2009-12-22 |
| 126. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
57.10 |
0.9567 |
-0.1482 |
184 |
1 |
57.10 |
2009-12-30 |
| 127. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
55.78 |
0.9646 |
-0.2172 |
264 |
1 |
55.78 |
2009-12-22 |
| 128. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
53.03 |
0.8353 |
-0.1171 |
283 |
1 |
53.03 |
2009-12-23 |
| 129. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
47.93 |
0.9289 |
-0.2901 |
204 |
1 |
47.93 |
2009-12-22 |
| 130. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
46.89 |
1.0679 |
-0.4206 |
177 |
1 |
46.89 |
2009-12-29 |
| 131. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
35.02 |
1.0390 |
-0.5778 |
205 |
1 |
35.02 |
2009-12-22 |