| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
157.02 |
1.0577 |
0.1605 |
247 |
1 |
157.02 |
2010-05-30 |
| 2. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
155.38 |
0.8900 |
0.3206 |
164 |
1 |
155.38 |
2010-04-20 |
| 3. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
153.01 |
0.9281 |
0.2671 |
273 |
1 |
153.01 |
2010-04-20 |
| 4. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
150.29 |
0.8951 |
0.2766 |
193 |
2 |
138.99 |
2010-05-30 |
| 5. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
149.26 |
1.0482 |
0.1369 |
487 |
1 |
149.26 |
2012-09-10 |
| 6. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
147.16 |
0.9633 |
0.1835 |
304 |
1 |
147.16 |
2010-04-20 |
| 7. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
146.54 |
1.0516 |
0.0874 |
281 |
2 |
141.74 |
2010-05-30 |
| 8. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
145.23 |
0.9614 |
0.1711 |
292 |
1 |
145.23 |
2012-09-10 |
| 9. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
144.90 |
0.9164 |
0.2155 |
305 |
1 |
144.90 |
2012-09-10 |
| 10. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
144.68 |
1.0417 |
0.0806 |
253 |
2 |
140.41 |
2010-05-30 |
| 11. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
143.53 |
0.9257 |
0.1957 |
317 |
1 |
143.53 |
2010-04-20 |
| 12. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
142.67 |
1.0608 |
0.0816 |
258 |
1 |
142.67 |
2010-05-30 |
| 13. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
142.63 |
1.0993 |
0.0074 |
265 |
1 |
142.63 |
2010-04-20 |
| 14. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
142.57 |
0.9063 |
0.2103 |
239 |
1 |
142.57 |
2010-05-30 |
| 15. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
142.42 |
1.0214 |
0.0805 |
166 |
2 |
141.59 |
2010-05-30 |
| 16. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
141.53 |
0.9221 |
0.1769 |
244 |
1 |
141.53 |
2010-05-30 |
| 17. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
140.87 |
0.8791 |
0.2151 |
190 |
1 |
140.87 |
2010-05-30 |
| 18. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
140.86 |
1.0788 |
0.0104 |
171 |
1 |
140.86 |
2010-04-20 |
| 19. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
140.18 |
1.0883 |
0.0335 |
303 |
1 |
140.18 |
2012-09-10 |
| 20. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
139.85 |
1.0567 |
0.0312 |
303 |
1 |
139.85 |
2010-04-20 |
| 21. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
139.42 |
0.9468 |
0.1368 |
276 |
1 |
139.42 |
2010-05-30 |
| 22. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
139.29 |
0.9843 |
0.0933 |
234 |
2 |
130.89 |
2010-04-20 |
| 23. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
138.50 |
1.0016 |
0.0701 |
218 |
1 |
138.50 |
2012-09-10 |
| 24. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
137.13 |
1.0444 |
0.0147 |
197 |
1 |
137.13 |
2010-04-20 |
| 25. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
136.81 |
1.0390 |
0.0202 |
205 |
1 |
136.81 |
2010-05-30 |
| 26. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
136.10 |
0.9572 |
0.0990 |
201 |
1 |
136.10 |
2010-04-20 |
| 27. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
135.68 |
1.0120 |
0.0414 |
290 |
1 |
135.68 |
2010-05-30 |
| 28. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
135.59 |
1.0343 |
0.0564 |
242 |
1 |
135.59 |
2010-05-30 |
| 29. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
135.53 |
0.9068 |
0.1491 |
269 |
1 |
135.53 |
2010-05-30 |
| 30. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
134.14 |
1.0496 |
-0.0082 |
314 |
1 |
134.14 |
2012-09-10 |
| 31. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
133.85 |
0.9687 |
0.0760 |
371 |
1 |
133.85 |
2012-09-10 |
| 32. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
133.60 |
1.0154 |
0.0722 |
351 |
2 |
124.20 |
2012-09-10 |
| 33. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
133.52 |
0.9514 |
0.0861 |
237 |
1 |
133.52 |
2010-04-20 |
| 34. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
132.55 |
0.9161 |
0.1111 |
200 |
1 |
132.55 |
2010-04-20 |
| 35. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
132.40 |
1.0419 |
-0.0137 |
261 |
2 |
131.56 |
2010-05-30 |
| 36. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
132.22 |
0.9729 |
0.0543 |
255 |
1 |
132.22 |
2010-05-30 |
| 37. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
131.62 |
1.0529 |
-0.0308 |
351 |
1 |
131.62 |
2010-04-20 |
| 38. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
131.41 |
0.9758 |
0.0455 |
314 |
1 |
131.41 |
2010-05-30 |
| 39. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
129.46 |
0.9893 |
0.0159 |
323 |
1 |
129.46 |
2010-04-20 |
| 40. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
129.36 |
1.0033 |
-0.0056 |
189 |
1 |
129.36 |
2010-04-20 |
| 41. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
126.83 |
0.9350 |
0.0502 |
195 |
1 |
126.83 |
2010-05-30 |
| 42. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
126.55 |
0.9631 |
0.0705 |
345 |
1 |
126.55 |
2010-05-30 |
| 43. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
126.40 |
1.0944 |
-0.0686 |
308 |
1 |
126.40 |
2010-04-20 |
| 44. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
125.24 |
1.0053 |
-0.0353 |
232 |
1 |
125.24 |
2010-04-20 |
| 45. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
125.22 |
0.9769 |
-0.0069 |
263 |
1 |
125.22 |
2010-04-20 |
| 46. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
125.01 |
1.0117 |
0.0032 |
297 |
2 |
121.18 |
2012-09-10 |
| 47. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
124.36 |
0.8971 |
0.0732 |
266 |
1 |
124.36 |
2010-04-20 |
| 48. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
123.62 |
1.0141 |
-0.0144 |
381 |
1 |
123.62 |
2012-09-10 |
| 49. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
123.24 |
0.9991 |
-0.0422 |
225 |
1 |
123.24 |
2010-05-30 |
| 50. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
123.03 |
0.9260 |
0.0398 |
243 |
1 |
123.03 |
2010-04-20 |
| 51. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
122.77 |
0.9798 |
-0.0328 |
199 |
1 |
122.77 |
2010-05-30 |
| 52. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
121.95 |
0.8559 |
0.0914 |
191 |
2 |
117.40 |
2010-05-30 |
| 53. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
121.06 |
0.8810 |
0.0588 |
282 |
2 |
120.79 |
2010-04-20 |
| 54. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
120.99 |
1.0201 |
-0.0809 |
303 |
1 |
120.99 |
2010-05-30 |
| 55. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
120.17 |
0.9941 |
-0.0641 |
217 |
1 |
120.17 |
2010-04-20 |
| 56. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
120.06 |
1.0211 |
-0.0593 |
213 |
1 |
120.06 |
2010-04-20 |
| 57. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
119.73 |
0.8553 |
0.0685 |
174 |
3 |
114.87 |
2010-05-30 |
| 58. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
119.61 |
0.9711 |
-0.0448 |
176 |
1 |
119.61 |
2010-04-20 |
| 59. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
119.22 |
1.0213 |
-0.0997 |
240 |
1 |
119.22 |
2010-04-20 |
| 60. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
118.97 |
0.8722 |
0.0537 |
285 |
1 |
118.97 |
2012-09-10 |
| 61. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
118.90 |
0.8933 |
0.0354 |
363 |
1 |
118.90 |
2012-09-10 |
| 62. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
118.12 |
1.0797 |
-0.1692 |
210 |
1 |
118.12 |
2010-04-20 |
| 63. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
117.74 |
1.0365 |
-0.0938 |
162 |
1 |
117.74 |
2010-05-30 |
| 64. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
117.52 |
1.0346 |
-0.0814 |
244 |
1 |
117.52 |
2010-04-20 |
| 65. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
117.22 |
1.0109 |
-0.1014 |
276 |
1 |
117.22 |
2010-04-20 |
| 66. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
116.94 |
1.0375 |
-0.0849 |
200 |
1 |
116.94 |
2010-04-20 |
| 67. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
114.87 |
0.9233 |
-0.0410 |
168 |
1 |
114.87 |
2010-04-20 |
| 68. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
114.31 |
0.9508 |
-0.0310 |
384 |
1 |
114.31 |
2012-09-10 |
| 69. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
113.68 |
0.9670 |
-0.0438 |
307 |
2 |
104.13 |
2010-04-20 |
| 70. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
113.17 |
0.9207 |
-0.0411 |
174 |
1 |
113.17 |
2010-05-30 |
| 71. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
112.48 |
0.9698 |
-0.0652 |
397 |
1 |
112.48 |
2012-09-10 |
| 72. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
111.25 |
0.9430 |
-0.0787 |
297 |
1 |
111.25 |
2010-04-20 |
| 73. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
109.78 |
0.9461 |
-0.0961 |
276 |
1 |
109.78 |
2010-04-20 |
| 74. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
106.90 |
0.9365 |
-0.1071 |
248 |
1 |
106.90 |
2010-05-30 |
| 75. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
106.89 |
0.9726 |
-0.1518 |
154 |
1 |
106.89 |
2010-04-20 |
| 76. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
104.93 |
0.8961 |
-0.0872 |
189 |
1 |
104.93 |
2010-04-20 |
| 77. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
102.36 |
0.8793 |
-0.0861 |
157 |
1 |
102.36 |
2010-04-20 |
| 78. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
101.33 |
0.9857 |
-0.2029 |
293 |
1 |
101.33 |
2010-04-20 |
| 79. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
99.06 |
0.7876 |
-0.0188 |
316 |
1 |
99.06 |
2010-04-20 |
| 80. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
94.99 |
1.0077 |
-0.2326 |
250 |
1 |
94.99 |
2010-04-20 |
| 81. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
80.15 |
0.8105 |
-0.1977 |
204 |
1 |
80.15 |
2010-04-20 |
| 82. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
78.16 |
0.9072 |
-0.3074 |
237 |
1 |
78.16 |
2012-09-10 |