| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
70.73 |
1.1016 |
0.2685 |
233 |
1 |
70.73 |
2008-12-06 |
| 2. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
69.40 |
1.0331 |
0.3087 |
234 |
3 |
62.05 |
2008-12-04 |
| 3. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
64.05 |
1.0263 |
0.2123 |
267 |
2 |
63.80 |
2008-12-04 |
| 4. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
63.77 |
1.0214 |
0.2071 |
166 |
1 |
63.77 |
2008-12-04 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
63.46 |
1.1018 |
0.1197 |
220 |
1 |
63.46 |
2008-12-02 |
| 6. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
62.67 |
1.0993 |
0.1110 |
265 |
2 |
60.79 |
2008-12-04 |
| 7. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
61.66 |
1.0297 |
0.1618 |
249 |
1 |
61.66 |
2008-12-04 |
| 8. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
61.31 |
1.0885 |
0.1006 |
315 |
3 |
56.55 |
2008-12-04 |
| 9. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
59.74 |
0.9986 |
0.1571 |
283 |
2 |
56.37 |
2008-12-03 |
| 10. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
59.62 |
0.9844 |
0.1732 |
293 |
2 |
53.17 |
2008-12-04 |
| 11. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
59.48 |
1.0483 |
0.0988 |
227 |
2 |
59.27 |
2008-12-04 |
| 12. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
59.19 |
1.0462 |
0.0921 |
184 |
1 |
59.19 |
2008-12-03 |
| 13. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
58.87 |
1.0131 |
0.1211 |
225 |
1 |
58.87 |
2008-12-04 |
| 14. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
58.67 |
0.9710 |
0.1567 |
173 |
2 |
57.45 |
2008-12-04 |
| 15. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
58.61 |
1.0515 |
0.0796 |
250 |
1 |
58.61 |
2008-12-04 |
| 16. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
58.35 |
1.0352 |
0.0954 |
341 |
1 |
58.35 |
2008-12-02 |
| 17. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
58.19 |
1.0099 |
0.1120 |
207 |
3 |
53.87 |
2008-12-04 |
| 18. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
57.90 |
1.0487 |
0.0655 |
231 |
2 |
51.06 |
2008-12-06 |
| 19. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
57.90 |
0.9514 |
0.1681 |
237 |
1 |
57.90 |
2008-12-06 |
| 20. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
57.76 |
0.9776 |
0.1390 |
308 |
2 |
56.64 |
2008-12-06 |
| 21. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
57.66 |
0.9946 |
0.1197 |
246 |
1 |
57.66 |
2008-12-03 |
| 22. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
57.64 |
0.9865 |
0.1287 |
276 |
2 |
54.76 |
2008-12-04 |
| 23. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
57.43 |
0.9429 |
0.1684 |
287 |
2 |
56.68 |
2008-12-04 |
| 24. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
57.37 |
1.0596 |
0.0471 |
239 |
1 |
57.37 |
2008-11-29 |
| 25. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
57.24 |
0.9289 |
0.1751 |
204 |
1 |
57.24 |
2008-12-04 |
| 26. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
56.59 |
1.0138 |
0.0794 |
231 |
1 |
56.59 |
2008-12-04 |
| 27. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
56.46 |
1.0168 |
0.0756 |
271 |
3 |
50.38 |
2008-12-06 |
| 28. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
56.39 |
1.0498 |
0.0350 |
180 |
1 |
56.39 |
2008-12-02 |
| 29. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
56.09 |
1.0023 |
0.0796 |
211 |
2 |
55.52 |
2008-12-04 |
| 30. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
56.05 |
0.9991 |
0.0844 |
225 |
2 |
53.72 |
2008-12-06 |
| 31. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
55.96 |
1.0390 |
0.0384 |
205 |
1 |
55.96 |
2008-12-03 |
| 32. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
55.67 |
1.0068 |
0.0721 |
358 |
1 |
55.67 |
2008-12-03 |
| 33. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
55.45 |
1.0496 |
0.0210 |
314 |
1 |
55.45 |
2008-12-06 |
| 34. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
55.37 |
0.9527 |
0.1169 |
251 |
3 |
48.63 |
2008-12-04 |
| 35. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
55.12 |
0.9866 |
0.0745 |
218 |
1 |
55.12 |
2008-12-06 |
| 36. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
55.02 |
1.0013 |
0.0607 |
273 |
1 |
55.02 |
2008-12-06 |
| 37. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
54.94 |
1.0426 |
0.0180 |
323 |
2 |
53.77 |
2008-12-04 |
| 38. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
54.92 |
1.0613 |
0.0005 |
266 |
1 |
54.92 |
2008-12-02 |
| 39. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
54.75 |
1.0799 |
-0.0260 |
243 |
3 |
52.58 |
2008-12-04 |
| 40. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
54.69 |
0.8996 |
0.1513 |
192 |
1 |
54.69 |
2008-12-02 |
| 41. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
54.68 |
1.0120 |
0.0434 |
290 |
2 |
50.25 |
2008-12-03 |
| 42. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
54.26 |
0.9754 |
0.0787 |
362 |
4 |
52.77 |
2008-12-06 |
| 43. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
54.13 |
0.9430 |
0.0952 |
211 |
2 |
51.15 |
2008-12-04 |
| 44. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
54.13 |
1.0368 |
0.0096 |
276 |
2 |
53.79 |
2008-12-06 |
| 45. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
53.81 |
1.0787 |
-0.0408 |
237 |
2 |
53.80 |
2008-12-06 |
| 46. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
53.08 |
1.0788 |
-0.0595 |
171 |
1 |
53.08 |
2008-12-04 |
| 47. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
53.02 |
0.9734 |
0.0500 |
289 |
1 |
53.02 |
2008-12-04 |
| 48. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
52.78 |
0.9109 |
0.1108 |
401 |
1 |
52.78 |
2008-12-03 |
| 49. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
52.55 |
0.8810 |
0.1344 |
282 |
1 |
52.55 |
2008-12-04 |
| 50. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
52.37 |
0.9863 |
0.0291 |
339 |
1 |
52.37 |
2008-12-03 |
| 51. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
52.36 |
0.9342 |
0.0801 |
434 |
1 |
52.36 |
2008-12-01 |
| 52. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
52.36 |
0.8533 |
0.1586 |
232 |
1 |
52.36 |
2008-12-03 |
| 53. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
52.29 |
1.0666 |
-0.0570 |
297 |
1 |
52.29 |
2008-12-03 |
| 54. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
52.25 |
1.0419 |
-0.0332 |
261 |
1 |
52.25 |
2008-12-04 |
| 55. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
52.02 |
1.0829 |
-0.0772 |
288 |
1 |
52.02 |
2008-12-01 |
| 56. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
52.02 |
0.8975 |
0.1072 |
268 |
1 |
52.02 |
2008-12-02 |
| 57. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
51.83 |
1.0398 |
-0.0498 |
110 |
3 |
49.42 |
2008-12-04 |
| 58. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
51.49 |
0.9005 |
0.0918 |
212 |
2 |
46.90 |
2008-12-04 |
| 59. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
51.43 |
0.9886 |
0.0066 |
220 |
1 |
51.43 |
2008-11-29 |
| 60. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
51.36 |
0.9724 |
0.0225 |
237 |
2 |
50.01 |
2008-12-06 |
| 61. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
51.29 |
1.0555 |
-0.0642 |
363 |
2 |
49.95 |
2008-12-06 |
| 62. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
51.14 |
0.9365 |
0.0519 |
248 |
1 |
51.14 |
2008-12-02 |
| 63. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
51.02 |
0.9785 |
0.0093 |
335 |
1 |
51.02 |
2008-12-03 |
| 64. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
50.91 |
0.9048 |
0.0823 |
271 |
1 |
50.91 |
2008-12-01 |
| 65. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
50.78 |
0.9411 |
0.0397 |
318 |
1 |
50.78 |
2008-12-03 |
| 66. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
50.74 |
0.9278 |
0.0541 |
295 |
1 |
50.74 |
2008-12-06 |
| 67. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
50.71 |
1.0334 |
-0.0613 |
131 |
1 |
50.71 |
2008-12-03 |
| 68. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
50.44 |
0.9567 |
0.0164 |
273 |
2 |
50.15 |
2008-12-03 |
| 69. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
50.20 |
1.0577 |
-0.0926 |
247 |
1 |
50.20 |
2008-12-01 |
| 70. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
50.01 |
0.9468 |
0.0176 |
276 |
4 |
47.57 |
2008-12-04 |
| 71. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
49.73 |
0.9485 |
0.0126 |
236 |
1 |
49.73 |
2008-12-01 |
| 72. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
49.61 |
0.8951 |
0.0642 |
193 |
2 |
48.24 |
2008-12-02 |
| 73. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
49.54 |
0.9330 |
0.0293 |
360 |
1 |
49.54 |
2008-12-03 |
| 74. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
49.41 |
0.8811 |
0.0767 |
239 |
1 |
49.41 |
2008-12-06 |
| 75. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
49.00 |
0.9636 |
-0.0185 |
254 |
1 |
49.00 |
2008-12-04 |
| 76. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
48.65 |
0.8916 |
0.0470 |
216 |
2 |
45.32 |
2008-12-04 |
| 77. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
48.61 |
0.9213 |
0.0167 |
295 |
1 |
48.61 |
2008-12-01 |
| 78. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
48.55 |
1.0429 |
-0.1079 |
259 |
1 |
48.55 |
2008-12-01 |
| 79. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
48.43 |
0.9125 |
0.0233 |
308 |
1 |
48.43 |
2008-12-03 |
| 80. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
47.94 |
0.9578 |
-0.0339 |
281 |
1 |
47.94 |
2008-12-02 |
| 81. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
47.54 |
1.0025 |
-0.0850 |
336 |
3 |
45.49 |
2008-12-04 |
| 82. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
47.18 |
0.8961 |
0.0101 |
189 |
1 |
47.18 |
2008-12-06 |
| 83. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
47.15 |
1.0029 |
-0.1003 |
209 |
1 |
47.15 |
2008-12-01 |
| 84. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
46.91 |
0.8933 |
0.0174 |
363 |
3 |
43.20 |
2008-12-03 |
| 85. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
46.77 |
1.0528 |
-0.1563 |
201 |
1 |
46.77 |
2008-12-03 |
| 86. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
46.53 |
1.0004 |
-0.1096 |
212 |
1 |
46.53 |
2008-12-04 |
| 87. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
46.50 |
0.9769 |
-0.0827 |
263 |
1 |
46.50 |
2008-11-29 |
| 88. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
46.29 |
0.9893 |
-0.0970 |
323 |
1 |
46.29 |
2008-12-03 |
| 89. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
46.16 |
0.9852 |
-0.0953 |
264 |
1 |
46.16 |
2008-12-03 |
| 90. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
46.04 |
0.9894 |
-0.0977 |
323 |
1 |
46.04 |
2008-11-29 |
| 91. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
46.01 |
0.9795 |
-0.0928 |
308 |
1 |
46.01 |
2008-12-01 |
| 92. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
45.82 |
0.8105 |
0.0682 |
204 |
1 |
45.82 |
2008-12-03 |
| 93. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
45.55 |
0.9570 |
-0.0776 |
287 |
1 |
45.55 |
2008-12-02 |
| 94. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
45.55 |
0.9339 |
-0.0577 |
310 |
1 |
45.55 |
2008-12-01 |
| 95. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
45.53 |
0.9084 |
-0.0270 |
404 |
1 |
45.53 |
2008-12-06 |
| 96. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
45.49 |
1.0053 |
-0.1308 |
232 |
1 |
45.49 |
2008-12-01 |
| 97. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
45.00 |
0.9841 |
-0.1134 |
334 |
1 |
45.00 |
2008-12-02 |
| 98. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
44.91 |
0.9682 |
-0.1049 |
143 |
1 |
44.91 |
2008-12-04 |
| 99. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
44.62 |
1.0095 |
-0.1511 |
316 |
1 |
44.62 |
2008-12-01 |
| 100. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
44.57 |
1.0714 |
-0.2218 |
129 |
1 |
44.57 |
2008-12-03 |
| 101. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
44.19 |
0.8602 |
-0.0113 |
206 |
2 |
42.16 |
2008-12-04 |
| 102. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
43.87 |
0.8852 |
-0.0383 |
201 |
3 |
39.78 |
2008-12-03 |
| 103. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
43.50 |
0.8826 |
-0.0436 |
296 |
1 |
43.50 |
2008-12-02 |
| 104. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
43.48 |
1.0352 |
-0.1949 |
341 |
1 |
43.48 |
2008-12-03 |
| 105. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
43.17 |
1.0062 |
-0.1750 |
288 |
1 |
43.17 |
2008-12-04 |
| 106. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
42.89 |
0.9846 |
-0.1600 |
281 |
1 |
42.89 |
2008-12-03 |
| 107. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
42.88 |
0.9772 |
-0.1552 |
217 |
1 |
42.88 |
2008-12-04 |
| 108. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
42.43 |
0.8770 |
-0.0571 |
300 |
2 |
40.96 |
2008-12-03 |
| 109. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
42.28 |
0.9233 |
-0.1178 |
168 |
1 |
42.28 |
2008-12-03 |
| 110. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
42.27 |
0.9279 |
-0.1078 |
317 |
1 |
42.27 |
2008-12-06 |
| 111. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
42.25 |
0.8941 |
-0.0789 |
216 |
1 |
42.25 |
2008-12-02 |
| 112. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
42.07 |
0.9351 |
-0.1309 |
190 |
1 |
42.07 |
2008-12-01 |
| 113. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
41.88 |
0.9088 |
-0.0977 |
348 |
1 |
41.88 |
2008-12-01 |
| 114. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
41.67 |
0.8595 |
-0.0559 |
242 |
1 |
41.67 |
2008-12-03 |
| 115. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
41.55 |
0.8956 |
-0.0915 |
322 |
1 |
41.55 |
2008-12-02 |
| 116. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
40.44 |
0.9464 |
-0.1635 |
323 |
1 |
40.44 |
2008-12-03 |
| 117. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
40.40 |
0.9309 |
-0.1558 |
284 |
2 |
36.59 |
2008-12-02 |
| 118. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
39.58 |
0.9843 |
-0.2283 |
234 |
1 |
39.58 |
2008-12-02 |
| 119. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
39.46 |
0.9768 |
-0.2156 |
387 |
1 |
39.46 |
2008-12-03 |
| 120. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
38.85 |
0.9965 |
-0.2495 |
310 |
1 |
38.85 |
2008-12-01 |
| 121. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
36.31 |
0.9646 |
-0.2685 |
264 |
1 |
36.31 |
2008-12-02 |