| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
64.79 |
1.1018 |
0.1343 |
220 |
1 |
64.79 |
2009-04-24 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
64.34 |
1.0565 |
0.1747 |
247 |
1 |
64.34 |
2009-04-24 |
| 3. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
61.91 |
1.0331 |
0.1514 |
234 |
1 |
61.91 |
2009-04-24 |
| 4. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
61.71 |
1.0296 |
0.1596 |
437 |
2 |
61.18 |
2009-04-24 |
| 5. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
61.44 |
0.9691 |
0.2080 |
223 |
3 |
53.69 |
2009-04-24 |
| 6. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
60.63 |
1.0063 |
0.1560 |
371 |
1 |
60.63 |
2009-04-24 |
| 7. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
60.17 |
0.9886 |
0.1669 |
220 |
3 |
49.57 |
2009-04-24 |
| 8. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
59.61 |
1.0417 |
0.0979 |
253 |
2 |
56.65 |
2009-04-24 |
| 9. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
59.49 |
0.9893 |
0.1506 |
323 |
2 |
58.55 |
2009-04-24 |
| 10. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
59.36 |
0.9724 |
0.1685 |
237 |
3 |
59.04 |
2009-04-24 |
| 11. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
59.26 |
1.0515 |
0.0819 |
250 |
1 |
59.26 |
2009-04-24 |
| 12. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
59.19 |
1.0496 |
0.0837 |
314 |
3 |
52.46 |
2009-04-24 |
| 13. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
59.04 |
1.0829 |
0.0497 |
288 |
1 |
59.04 |
2009-04-24 |
| 14. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
57.91 |
1.0797 |
0.0239 |
210 |
1 |
57.91 |
2009-04-24 |
| 15. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
57.45 |
0.9088 |
0.1967 |
348 |
1 |
57.45 |
2009-04-24 |
| 16. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
57.08 |
0.9756 |
0.1162 |
229 |
1 |
57.08 |
2009-04-24 |
| 17. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
57.04 |
0.9540 |
0.1365 |
285 |
1 |
57.04 |
2009-04-24 |
| 18. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
56.93 |
0.9910 |
0.1011 |
295 |
1 |
56.93 |
2009-04-24 |
| 19. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
56.92 |
1.0668 |
0.0257 |
350 |
1 |
56.92 |
2009-04-24 |
| 20. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
56.74 |
1.0120 |
0.0737 |
290 |
1 |
56.74 |
2009-04-28 |
| 21. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
56.72 |
1.0289 |
0.0616 |
276 |
1 |
56.72 |
2009-04-24 |
| 22. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
56.70 |
1.0214 |
0.0626 |
269 |
1 |
56.70 |
2009-04-24 |
| 23. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
56.46 |
0.9729 |
0.1084 |
255 |
1 |
56.46 |
2009-04-24 |
| 24. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
56.30 |
1.1114 |
-0.0361 |
247 |
1 |
56.30 |
2009-04-24 |
| 25. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
56.20 |
1.0399 |
0.0413 |
294 |
1 |
56.20 |
2009-04-24 |
| 26. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
56.19 |
0.9964 |
0.0795 |
203 |
2 |
53.48 |
2009-04-24 |
| 27. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
55.89 |
0.8573 |
0.2163 |
270 |
3 |
47.80 |
2009-04-24 |
| 28. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
55.83 |
1.1016 |
-0.0326 |
233 |
1 |
55.83 |
2009-04-24 |
| 29. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
55.55 |
1.0349 |
0.0278 |
234 |
1 |
55.55 |
2009-04-24 |
| 30. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
55.32 |
0.9213 |
0.1382 |
295 |
1 |
55.32 |
2009-04-24 |
| 31. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
54.92 |
0.9997 |
0.0551 |
382 |
2 |
48.40 |
2009-04-24 |
| 32. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
54.83 |
0.9633 |
0.0884 |
304 |
2 |
52.01 |
2009-04-24 |
| 33. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
54.65 |
1.0799 |
-0.0376 |
243 |
1 |
54.65 |
2009-04-24 |
| 34. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
54.65 |
0.9776 |
0.0686 |
308 |
3 |
51.79 |
2009-04-24 |
| 35. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
54.37 |
0.9772 |
0.0599 |
217 |
2 |
48.21 |
2009-04-24 |
| 36. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
54.36 |
0.9986 |
0.0424 |
283 |
2 |
46.98 |
2009-04-24 |
| 37. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
54.33 |
1.0523 |
-0.0168 |
256 |
1 |
54.33 |
2009-04-24 |
| 38. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
54.28 |
1.0352 |
0.0067 |
341 |
1 |
54.28 |
2009-04-24 |
| 39. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
53.99 |
1.0165 |
0.0206 |
392 |
1 |
53.99 |
2009-04-24 |
| 40. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
53.94 |
0.9965 |
0.0309 |
168 |
1 |
53.94 |
2009-04-24 |
| 41. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
53.88 |
0.8533 |
0.1789 |
232 |
2 |
53.62 |
2009-04-28 |
| 42. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
53.85 |
1.0334 |
-0.0094 |
131 |
1 |
53.85 |
2009-04-24 |
| 43. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
53.51 |
0.9636 |
0.0602 |
254 |
1 |
53.51 |
2009-04-24 |
| 44. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
53.46 |
1.0263 |
-0.0042 |
267 |
3 |
51.99 |
2009-04-24 |
| 45. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
53.41 |
0.9464 |
0.0807 |
323 |
1 |
53.41 |
2009-04-24 |
| 46. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
53.40 |
0.9233 |
0.0902 |
168 |
1 |
53.40 |
2009-04-24 |
| 47. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
53.28 |
0.9965 |
0.0233 |
310 |
2 |
51.49 |
2009-04-24 |
| 48. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
53.07 |
1.0390 |
-0.0274 |
205 |
1 |
53.07 |
2009-04-24 |
| 49. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
52.72 |
0.9653 |
0.0516 |
394 |
1 |
52.72 |
2009-04-24 |
| 50. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
52.40 |
1.0251 |
-0.0249 |
261 |
1 |
52.40 |
2009-04-24 |
| 51. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
52.40 |
1.0477 |
-0.0429 |
360 |
2 |
52.22 |
2009-04-24 |
| 52. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
52.34 |
1.0297 |
-0.0297 |
249 |
1 |
52.34 |
2009-04-24 |
| 53. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
52.06 |
1.0385 |
-0.0445 |
230 |
2 |
50.34 |
2009-04-24 |
| 54. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
51.81 |
1.0029 |
-0.0183 |
209 |
1 |
51.81 |
2009-04-24 |
| 55. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
51.74 |
1.0483 |
-0.0617 |
227 |
2 |
51.26 |
2009-04-24 |
| 56. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
51.33 |
0.9965 |
-0.0142 |
277 |
1 |
51.33 |
2009-04-24 |
| 57. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
51.23 |
0.9202 |
0.0588 |
254 |
1 |
51.23 |
2009-04-24 |
| 58. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
51.22 |
1.0124 |
-0.0353 |
204 |
2 |
50.70 |
2009-04-24 |
| 59. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
50.97 |
0.9084 |
0.0681 |
300 |
1 |
50.97 |
2009-04-24 |
| 60. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
50.96 |
0.8811 |
0.0980 |
239 |
2 |
50.39 |
2009-04-24 |
| 61. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
50.83 |
0.9430 |
0.0217 |
211 |
2 |
45.84 |
2009-04-24 |
| 62. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
50.65 |
1.0013 |
-0.0337 |
273 |
2 |
50.42 |
2009-04-24 |
| 63. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
50.58 |
0.9672 |
0.0064 |
396 |
1 |
50.58 |
2009-04-24 |
| 64. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
50.51 |
0.8956 |
0.0748 |
322 |
2 |
48.23 |
2009-04-24 |
| 65. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
50.48 |
1.0441 |
-0.0774 |
252 |
1 |
50.48 |
2009-04-24 |
| 66. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
50.46 |
0.9278 |
0.0397 |
295 |
1 |
50.46 |
2009-04-24 |
| 67. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
50.22 |
1.0053 |
-0.0471 |
232 |
1 |
50.22 |
2009-04-24 |
| 68. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
50.01 |
0.8941 |
0.0640 |
216 |
1 |
50.01 |
2009-04-24 |
| 69. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
49.79 |
1.0201 |
-0.0751 |
172 |
1 |
49.79 |
2009-04-24 |
| 70. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
49.66 |
1.0125 |
-0.0655 |
224 |
1 |
49.66 |
2009-04-24 |
| 71. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
49.31 |
0.9339 |
0.0071 |
310 |
1 |
49.31 |
2009-04-24 |
| 72. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
49.02 |
0.9907 |
-0.0554 |
211 |
1 |
49.02 |
2009-04-24 |
| 73. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
48.97 |
1.0426 |
-0.1074 |
323 |
1 |
48.97 |
2009-04-24 |
| 74. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
48.87 |
0.9946 |
-0.0608 |
246 |
1 |
48.87 |
2009-04-24 |
| 75. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
48.65 |
0.9597 |
-0.0259 |
347 |
1 |
48.65 |
2009-04-24 |
| 76. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
48.57 |
0.9936 |
-0.0657 |
311 |
1 |
48.57 |
2009-04-24 |
| 77. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
48.14 |
0.9411 |
-0.0204 |
318 |
1 |
48.14 |
2009-04-24 |
| 78. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
48.08 |
1.0419 |
-0.1232 |
261 |
1 |
48.08 |
2009-04-24 |
| 79. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
47.87 |
0.9072 |
0.0057 |
237 |
1 |
47.87 |
2009-04-24 |
| 80. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
47.83 |
0.8382 |
0.0762 |
268 |
1 |
47.83 |
2009-04-24 |
| 81. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
47.73 |
1.0203 |
-0.1050 |
261 |
1 |
47.73 |
2009-04-24 |
| 82. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
47.63 |
0.8933 |
0.0231 |
363 |
1 |
47.63 |
2009-04-24 |
| 83. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
47.49 |
0.8947 |
0.0175 |
366 |
1 |
47.49 |
2009-04-24 |
| 84. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
47.48 |
0.9697 |
-0.0624 |
249 |
1 |
47.48 |
2009-04-24 |
| 85. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
47.44 |
0.9593 |
-0.0483 |
398 |
1 |
47.44 |
2009-04-24 |
| 86. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
47.39 |
0.8996 |
0.0002 |
192 |
2 |
41.41 |
2009-04-28 |
| 87. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
47.22 |
1.0577 |
-0.1592 |
247 |
1 |
47.22 |
2009-04-24 |
| 88. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
47.19 |
0.9365 |
-0.0336 |
248 |
2 |
47.15 |
2009-04-24 |
| 89. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
47.10 |
1.0025 |
-0.1029 |
256 |
1 |
47.10 |
2009-04-24 |
| 90. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
46.42 |
0.9429 |
-0.0551 |
287 |
1 |
46.42 |
2009-04-24 |
| 91. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
46.33 |
0.8890 |
-0.0078 |
199 |
1 |
46.33 |
2009-04-24 |
| 92. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
46.17 |
0.9266 |
-0.0448 |
267 |
1 |
46.17 |
2009-04-24 |
| 93. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
46.05 |
1.0099 |
-0.1334 |
207 |
1 |
46.05 |
2009-04-24 |
| 94. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
45.23 |
1.0062 |
-0.1427 |
288 |
1 |
45.23 |
2009-04-24 |
| 95. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
44.19 |
0.8442 |
0.0031 |
265 |
2 |
42.78 |
2009-04-24 |
| 96. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
43.65 |
0.8961 |
-0.0666 |
189 |
2 |
38.44 |
2009-04-24 |
| 97. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
43.56 |
0.9699 |
-0.1394 |
269 |
1 |
43.56 |
2009-04-24 |
| 98. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
42.99 |
1.0444 |
-0.2309 |
197 |
1 |
42.99 |
2009-04-24 |
| 99. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
42.77 |
0.8722 |
-0.0535 |
285 |
1 |
42.77 |
2009-04-24 |
| 100. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
42.47 |
0.9897 |
-0.1820 |
274 |
1 |
42.47 |
2009-04-24 |
| 101. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
41.69 |
1.0337 |
-0.2394 |
214 |
1 |
41.69 |
2009-04-24 |
| 102. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.46 |
1.0138 |
-0.2625 |
231 |
1 |
39.46 |
2009-04-24 |
| 103. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
38.22 |
0.9843 |
-0.2616 |
234 |
1 |
38.22 |
2009-04-24 |
| 104. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
37.67 |
0.9426 |
-0.2225 |
317 |
1 |
37.67 |
2009-04-24 |
| 105. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
35.15 |
0.9786 |
-0.3156 |
193 |
1 |
35.15 |
2009-04-24 |
| 106. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
27.96 |
1.0183 |
-0.4950 |
191 |
1 |
27.96 |
2009-04-24 |