| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
147.58 |
1.1114 |
0.1436 |
247 |
3 |
131.76 |
2010-09-21 |
| 2. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
144.06 |
1.0183 |
0.2035 |
191 |
5 |
128.19 |
2010-12-02 |
| 3. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
140.24 |
1.0454 |
0.1455 |
255 |
4 |
125.25 |
2010-09-21 |
| 4. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
139.31 |
1.0796 |
0.1021 |
129 |
2 |
136.29 |
2010-11-12 |
| 5. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
138.98 |
1.1016 |
0.0822 |
233 |
2 |
136.29 |
2010-07-08 |
| 6. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
135.42 |
1.0292 |
0.1226 |
262 |
2 |
123.90 |
2010-06-10 |
| 7. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
134.97 |
1.1162 |
0.0740 |
189 |
1 |
134.97 |
2010-06-06 |
| 8. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
134.58 |
1.0109 |
0.1357 |
276 |
4 |
115.94 |
2010-09-21 |
| 9. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
133.59 |
1.0403 |
0.1369 |
275 |
1 |
133.59 |
2010-06-09 |
| 10. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
133.53 |
1.0385 |
0.0965 |
230 |
4 |
119.05 |
2010-11-12 |
| 11. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
132.71 |
1.0203 |
0.1128 |
261 |
2 |
117.45 |
2010-06-10 |
| 12. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
131.04 |
0.9697 |
0.1458 |
249 |
3 |
125.76 |
2010-09-21 |
| 13. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
130.92 |
0.9843 |
0.1250 |
234 |
1 |
130.92 |
2010-07-11 |
| 14. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
130.84 |
0.9925 |
0.1578 |
247 |
1 |
130.84 |
2010-07-08 |
| 15. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
130.72 |
1.0829 |
0.0312 |
288 |
1 |
130.72 |
2010-07-08 |
| 16. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
130.52 |
0.9846 |
0.1252 |
281 |
1 |
130.52 |
2010-05-07 |
| 17. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
129.49 |
1.0668 |
0.0377 |
350 |
2 |
128.45 |
2010-12-03 |
| 18. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
128.95 |
1.0596 |
0.0356 |
239 |
2 |
122.80 |
2010-09-15 |
| 19. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
128.61 |
1.0396 |
0.0476 |
149 |
1 |
128.61 |
2009-03-18 |
| 20. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
127.77 |
1.0608 |
0.0597 |
258 |
1 |
127.77 |
2010-09-15 |
| 21. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
127.35 |
1.0213 |
0.0591 |
240 |
1 |
127.35 |
2010-05-08 |
| 22. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
127.21 |
0.9997 |
0.0863 |
382 |
2 |
118.82 |
2010-06-10 |
| 23. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
127.19 |
1.0346 |
0.0896 |
244 |
1 |
127.19 |
2010-06-06 |
| 24. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
127.00 |
1.0565 |
0.0215 |
247 |
1 |
127.00 |
2010-09-21 |
| 25. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
126.66 |
0.9965 |
0.0763 |
168 |
1 |
126.66 |
2010-06-09 |
| 26. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
126.54 |
1.1018 |
-0.0316 |
220 |
2 |
118.38 |
2010-06-09 |
| 27. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
126.47 |
1.0399 |
0.0413 |
294 |
1 |
126.47 |
2010-07-08 |
| 28. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
126.33 |
1.0077 |
0.1084 |
250 |
1 |
126.33 |
2010-06-06 |
| 29. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
125.86 |
1.0352 |
0.0386 |
341 |
1 |
125.86 |
2010-07-08 |
| 30. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
125.68 |
1.0099 |
0.0564 |
207 |
1 |
125.68 |
2009-02-22 |
| 31. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
125.52 |
1.0131 |
0.0508 |
225 |
1 |
125.52 |
2010-07-11 |
| 32. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
125.22 |
1.0389 |
0.0280 |
318 |
1 |
125.22 |
2010-07-22 |
| 33. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
124.80 |
0.9965 |
0.0657 |
277 |
1 |
124.80 |
2009-02-24 |
| 34. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
124.31 |
1.0917 |
-0.0108 |
243 |
1 |
124.31 |
2010-07-08 |
| 35. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
124.11 |
1.0714 |
-0.0246 |
129 |
1 |
124.11 |
2009-02-22 |
| 36. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
122.94 |
1.0426 |
0.0023 |
323 |
1 |
122.94 |
2009-03-21 |
| 37. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
122.56 |
0.9429 |
0.1007 |
287 |
1 |
122.56 |
2010-06-09 |
| 38. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
122.25 |
0.9064 |
0.1425 |
399 |
2 |
111.90 |
2010-06-09 |
| 39. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
121.63 |
0.9986 |
0.0363 |
283 |
2 |
115.97 |
2010-06-06 |
| 40. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
121.50 |
1.0515 |
-0.0202 |
250 |
1 |
121.50 |
2010-06-09 |
| 41. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
121.49 |
1.0555 |
-0.0210 |
363 |
1 |
121.49 |
2010-07-23 |
| 42. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
121.24 |
1.0029 |
0.0217 |
209 |
1 |
121.24 |
2009-02-22 |
| 43. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
121.18 |
1.0529 |
-0.0226 |
351 |
3 |
114.86 |
2010-12-02 |
| 44. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
120.50 |
1.0358 |
0.0304 |
349 |
1 |
120.50 |
2010-07-11 |
| 45. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
120.03 |
1.0034 |
0.0156 |
302 |
2 |
118.76 |
2010-06-01 |
| 46. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
119.93 |
1.0498 |
-0.0349 |
180 |
2 |
111.76 |
2010-06-09 |
| 47. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
119.69 |
1.0068 |
0.0141 |
358 |
1 |
119.69 |
2009-03-09 |
| 48. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
119.57 |
0.9786 |
0.0328 |
193 |
1 |
119.57 |
2010-06-06 |
| 49. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
119.57 |
1.0013 |
0.0144 |
273 |
1 |
119.57 |
2010-07-08 |
| 50. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
119.42 |
1.1081 |
-0.0582 |
206 |
1 |
119.42 |
2010-06-10 |
| 51. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
119.31 |
1.1215 |
-0.0832 |
200 |
1 |
119.31 |
2010-06-06 |
| 52. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
119.28 |
1.0365 |
0.0075 |
162 |
1 |
119.28 |
2010-06-06 |
| 53. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
119.16 |
1.0441 |
0.0103 |
316 |
1 |
119.16 |
2010-07-11 |
| 54. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
118.71 |
0.9910 |
0.0201 |
295 |
1 |
118.71 |
2010-07-08 |
| 55. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
118.56 |
0.9372 |
0.0747 |
320 |
1 |
118.56 |
2010-06-06 |
| 56. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
118.20 |
0.9908 |
0.0599 |
342 |
1 |
118.20 |
2010-09-15 |
| 57. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
118.16 |
1.0941 |
-0.0585 |
256 |
1 |
118.16 |
2010-06-06 |
| 58. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
117.28 |
0.9795 |
0.0174 |
308 |
1 |
117.28 |
2009-02-22 |
| 59. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
116.95 |
1.0613 |
-0.0664 |
266 |
1 |
116.95 |
2010-07-08 |
| 60. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
116.60 |
0.9668 |
0.0668 |
383 |
1 |
116.60 |
2010-05-08 |
| 61. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
116.59 |
0.9365 |
0.0558 |
248 |
1 |
116.59 |
2010-06-06 |
| 62. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
116.59 |
0.9772 |
0.0102 |
217 |
1 |
116.59 |
2010-06-06 |
| 63. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
116.50 |
0.9687 |
0.0262 |
371 |
1 |
116.50 |
2010-06-09 |
| 64. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
116.18 |
1.0696 |
-0.0857 |
226 |
1 |
116.18 |
2010-06-01 |
| 65. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
116.06 |
0.9965 |
-0.0098 |
310 |
1 |
116.06 |
2010-07-08 |
| 66. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
115.65 |
1.0251 |
-0.0445 |
261 |
1 |
115.65 |
2009-02-22 |
| 67. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
115.03 |
0.9879 |
-0.0017 |
450 |
1 |
115.03 |
2009-02-22 |
| 68. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
114.63 |
1.0528 |
-0.0837 |
201 |
1 |
114.63 |
2010-05-08 |
| 69. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
114.46 |
0.9786 |
-0.0065 |
235 |
1 |
114.46 |
2010-05-01 |
| 70. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
114.26 |
0.9072 |
0.0620 |
237 |
1 |
114.26 |
2009-03-09 |
| 71. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
114.26 |
1.0391 |
-0.0621 |
358 |
1 |
114.26 |
2009-02-22 |
| 72. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
114.16 |
0.9942 |
-0.0154 |
483 |
1 |
114.16 |
2009-02-22 |
| 73. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
114.13 |
0.9780 |
-0.0073 |
337 |
1 |
114.13 |
2009-03-10 |
| 74. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
113.68 |
1.0595 |
-0.0911 |
379 |
1 |
113.68 |
2009-02-23 |
| 75. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
113.59 |
1.0297 |
-0.0658 |
249 |
1 |
113.59 |
2009-02-23 |
| 76. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
113.41 |
0.9567 |
0.0066 |
273 |
1 |
113.41 |
2010-06-06 |
| 77. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
113.24 |
0.9619 |
0.0054 |
393 |
1 |
113.24 |
2009-02-22 |
| 78. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
112.91 |
1.0487 |
-0.0945 |
231 |
1 |
112.91 |
2010-05-08 |
| 79. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
112.78 |
1.0214 |
-0.0687 |
166 |
1 |
112.78 |
2009-03-09 |
| 80. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
112.42 |
1.0787 |
-0.1250 |
237 |
1 |
112.42 |
2010-06-09 |
| 81. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
112.37 |
1.0349 |
-0.0810 |
234 |
2 |
111.23 |
2009-03-17 |
| 82. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
111.90 |
1.0417 |
-0.0937 |
253 |
1 |
111.90 |
2009-03-09 |
| 83. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
111.71 |
0.9964 |
-0.0474 |
203 |
1 |
111.71 |
2009-10-15 |
| 84. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
111.65 |
0.8961 |
0.0489 |
189 |
2 |
107.33 |
2009-03-10 |
| 85. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
111.63 |
0.9601 |
-0.0072 |
308 |
2 |
109.95 |
2009-03-13 |
| 86. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
111.25 |
1.0444 |
-0.1061 |
197 |
1 |
111.25 |
2010-06-01 |
| 87. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
111.07 |
0.9785 |
-0.0319 |
335 |
1 |
111.07 |
2009-03-19 |
| 88. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
111.05 |
0.9266 |
0.0167 |
267 |
1 |
111.05 |
2009-02-22 |
| 89. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
109.87 |
0.9614 |
-0.0253 |
292 |
1 |
109.87 |
2009-02-22 |
| 90. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
109.57 |
1.0885 |
-0.1547 |
315 |
1 |
109.57 |
2009-02-23 |
| 91. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
109.06 |
1.0666 |
-0.1404 |
297 |
1 |
109.06 |
2009-02-22 |
| 92. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
108.75 |
0.9557 |
-0.0260 |
331 |
2 |
103.79 |
2009-03-17 |
| 93. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
108.37 |
1.0486 |
-0.1276 |
289 |
2 |
104.96 |
2009-02-22 |
| 94. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
108.17 |
1.0398 |
-0.1319 |
110 |
1 |
108.17 |
2009-02-22 |
| 95. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
107.43 |
1.0073 |
-0.0872 |
369 |
1 |
107.43 |
2009-03-10 |
| 96. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
107.19 |
1.0725 |
-0.1367 |
233 |
1 |
107.19 |
2010-07-08 |
| 97. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
107.10 |
0.9570 |
-0.0461 |
287 |
1 |
107.10 |
2009-02-22 |
| 98. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
106.60 |
0.9636 |
-0.0588 |
254 |
1 |
106.60 |
2010-06-01 |
| 99. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
106.40 |
0.9769 |
-0.0758 |
263 |
1 |
106.40 |
2009-02-23 |
| 100. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
106.35 |
0.8958 |
0.0116 |
322 |
1 |
106.35 |
2010-06-06 |
| 101. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
106.21 |
0.9342 |
-0.0291 |
434 |
1 |
106.21 |
2009-03-10 |
| 102. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
105.74 |
0.9045 |
-0.0067 |
235 |
1 |
105.74 |
2009-03-18 |
| 103. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
105.27 |
1.0053 |
-0.1138 |
232 |
1 |
105.27 |
2009-02-22 |
| 104. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
105.23 |
1.0201 |
-0.1266 |
303 |
1 |
105.23 |
2009-02-22 |
| 105. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
105.08 |
0.9946 |
-0.1030 |
246 |
2 |
104.36 |
2010-07-08 |
| 106. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
104.39 |
1.0004 |
-0.1206 |
212 |
1 |
104.39 |
2010-06-01 |
| 107. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
103.95 |
0.9553 |
-0.0660 |
430 |
1 |
103.95 |
2009-03-09 |
| 108. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
103.94 |
0.9966 |
-0.1152 |
259 |
1 |
103.94 |
2009-02-22 |
| 109. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
103.07 |
0.8722 |
0.0052 |
285 |
1 |
103.07 |
2009-02-22 |
| 110. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
102.99 |
0.9681 |
-0.0860 |
378 |
1 |
102.99 |
2010-06-01 |
| 111. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
102.87 |
0.8770 |
-0.0010 |
300 |
2 |
101.06 |
2010-06-06 |
| 112. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
101.92 |
0.9049 |
-0.0349 |
351 |
2 |
77.11 |
2009-02-24 |
| 113. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
101.54 |
0.9148 |
-0.0521 |
317 |
1 |
101.54 |
2009-03-21 |
| 114. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
101.50 |
0.7876 |
0.0760 |
316 |
1 |
101.50 |
2009-03-09 |
| 115. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
100.99 |
1.0483 |
-0.1947 |
227 |
1 |
100.99 |
2009-10-15 |
| 116. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
100.56 |
1.0109 |
-0.1251 |
400 |
1 |
100.56 |
2009-10-15 |
| 117. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
99.43 |
0.9097 |
-0.0249 |
464 |
1 |
99.43 |
2009-02-22 |
| 118. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
99.32 |
1.0060 |
-0.1685 |
171 |
1 |
99.32 |
2009-10-16 |
| 119. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
98.72 |
0.9820 |
-0.1421 |
267 |
1 |
98.72 |
2010-06-01 |
| 120. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
98.51 |
0.8919 |
-0.0583 |
205 |
1 |
98.51 |
2009-02-23 |
| 121. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
97.31 |
0.9088 |
-0.0787 |
348 |
1 |
97.31 |
2010-06-09 |
| 122. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
96.90 |
1.0270 |
-0.1696 |
255 |
1 |
96.90 |
2010-05-08 |
| 123. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
94.47 |
1.0677 |
-0.2368 |
284 |
1 |
94.47 |
2010-07-08 |
| 124. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
93.94 |
0.9672 |
-0.1648 |
396 |
1 |
93.94 |
2009-02-22 |
| 125. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
93.07 |
0.8996 |
-0.1167 |
192 |
1 |
93.07 |
2009-02-24 |
| 126. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
91.88 |
0.9670 |
-0.1467 |
307 |
1 |
91.88 |
2010-05-08 |
| 127. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
83.88 |
1.0232 |
-0.2680 |
350 |
1 |
83.88 |
2010-05-08 |