| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
71.61 |
1.0060 |
0.2533 |
225 |
1 |
71.61 |
2008-11-02 |
| 2. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
71.45 |
1.0404 |
0.2203 |
406 |
2 |
61.78 |
2008-11-02 |
| 3. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
70.79 |
1.0498 |
0.1955 |
261 |
2 |
65.73 |
2008-11-02 |
| 4. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
70.49 |
1.0016 |
0.2356 |
217 |
1 |
70.49 |
2008-11-14 |
| 5. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
69.28 |
1.0094 |
0.2081 |
256 |
1 |
69.28 |
2008-11-14 |
| 6. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
68.13 |
0.9801 |
0.2167 |
289 |
1 |
68.13 |
2008-10-30 |
| 7. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
66.37 |
1.0332 |
0.1322 |
267 |
1 |
66.37 |
2008-11-03 |
| 8. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
65.75 |
1.0197 |
0.1336 |
204 |
1 |
65.75 |
2008-10-30 |
| 9. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
65.15 |
1.0590 |
0.0844 |
250 |
1 |
65.15 |
2008-11-01 |
| 10. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
64.03 |
1.0901 |
0.0366 |
288 |
1 |
64.03 |
2008-10-30 |
| 11. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
63.20 |
0.9909 |
0.1238 |
293 |
2 |
56.60 |
2008-11-03 |
| 12. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
63.09 |
1.0128 |
0.1021 |
369 |
1 |
63.09 |
2008-11-01 |
| 13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
62.97 |
1.0800 |
0.0190 |
129 |
2 |
61.00 |
2008-10-30 |
| 14. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
62.74 |
1.0628 |
0.0411 |
363 |
2 |
60.57 |
2008-10-30 |
| 15. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
62.70 |
0.9713 |
0.1285 |
193 |
1 |
62.70 |
2008-10-30 |
| 16. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
62.64 |
0.9162 |
0.1852 |
401 |
1 |
62.64 |
2008-10-30 |
| 17. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
62.06 |
0.9779 |
0.1105 |
255 |
1 |
62.06 |
2008-10-30 |
| 18. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
61.63 |
1.0867 |
-0.0088 |
171 |
1 |
61.63 |
2008-10-30 |
| 19. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
61.57 |
0.9957 |
0.0896 |
323 |
1 |
61.57 |
2008-11-02 |
| 20. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
61.36 |
0.9402 |
0.1355 |
310 |
1 |
61.36 |
2008-11-02 |
| 21. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
61.35 |
1.0250 |
0.0553 |
271 |
1 |
61.35 |
2008-11-01 |
| 22. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
61.29 |
1.0600 |
0.0166 |
351 |
1 |
61.29 |
2008-10-31 |
| 23. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
60.82 |
0.9963 |
0.0693 |
274 |
2 |
59.99 |
2008-11-03 |
| 24. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
60.73 |
0.9468 |
0.1194 |
318 |
2 |
58.71 |
2008-10-30 |
| 25. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
60.49 |
1.0638 |
-0.0036 |
247 |
1 |
60.49 |
2008-10-31 |
| 26. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
60.35 |
0.8778 |
0.1837 |
285 |
1 |
60.35 |
2008-11-02 |
| 27. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
60.30 |
1.0086 |
0.0459 |
218 |
2 |
59.19 |
2008-11-02 |
| 28. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
60.22 |
1.0334 |
0.0234 |
261 |
1 |
60.22 |
2008-10-30 |
| 29. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
60.18 |
1.0639 |
-0.0061 |
303 |
1 |
60.18 |
2008-11-02 |
| 30. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
59.64 |
1.0472 |
-0.0063 |
149 |
1 |
59.64 |
2008-10-30 |
| 31. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
59.63 |
0.9574 |
0.0928 |
354 |
2 |
57.49 |
2008-11-02 |
| 32. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
59.37 |
1.0414 |
0.0001 |
234 |
2 |
58.14 |
2008-10-31 |
| 33. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
59.09 |
0.9927 |
0.0454 |
276 |
3 |
56.80 |
2008-11-02 |
| 34. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
58.94 |
0.9673 |
0.0697 |
292 |
2 |
53.99 |
2009-05-07 |
| 35. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
58.62 |
1.0227 |
0.0126 |
378 |
1 |
58.62 |
2008-10-31 |
| 36. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
58.56 |
0.9726 |
0.0607 |
396 |
1 |
58.56 |
2008-11-03 |
| 37. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
58.51 |
0.9636 |
0.0622 |
281 |
1 |
58.51 |
2008-10-30 |
| 38. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
58.32 |
1.0672 |
-0.0445 |
239 |
1 |
58.32 |
2008-10-31 |
| 39. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
58.14 |
0.9631 |
0.0571 |
273 |
1 |
58.14 |
2008-11-03 |
| 40. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
57.67 |
1.0877 |
-0.0787 |
129 |
1 |
57.67 |
2008-10-30 |
| 41. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
57.50 |
1.0506 |
-0.0416 |
259 |
1 |
57.50 |
2009-05-07 |
| 42. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
57.42 |
0.9260 |
0.0850 |
348 |
1 |
57.42 |
2008-10-30 |
| 43. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
57.17 |
0.9829 |
0.0199 |
229 |
1 |
57.17 |
2008-11-03 |
| 44. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
56.99 |
1.0372 |
-0.0372 |
249 |
2 |
53.35 |
2008-11-01 |
| 45. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
56.93 |
0.9451 |
0.0621 |
419 |
1 |
56.93 |
2008-10-30 |
| 46. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
56.87 |
1.0529 |
-0.0521 |
373 |
2 |
55.89 |
2008-11-14 |
| 47. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
56.59 |
1.0135 |
-0.0169 |
358 |
2 |
55.06 |
2009-05-07 |
| 48. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
56.47 |
1.0479 |
-0.0583 |
205 |
1 |
56.47 |
2008-10-30 |
| 49. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
56.16 |
0.9927 |
-0.0103 |
234 |
1 |
56.16 |
2008-11-01 |
| 50. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
56.06 |
0.9621 |
0.0189 |
201 |
1 |
56.06 |
2008-10-31 |
| 51. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
56.05 |
1.0208 |
-0.0371 |
231 |
1 |
56.05 |
2008-11-02 |
| 52. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
55.90 |
0.9866 |
-0.0051 |
308 |
1 |
55.90 |
2008-11-01 |
| 53. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
55.86 |
0.9136 |
0.0701 |
348 |
1 |
55.86 |
2008-11-14 |
| 54. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
55.64 |
1.0264 |
-0.0541 |
191 |
1 |
55.64 |
2008-10-30 |
| 55. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
55.63 |
0.9915 |
-0.0161 |
281 |
1 |
55.63 |
2008-11-03 |
| 56. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
55.19 |
1.0079 |
-0.0403 |
273 |
1 |
55.19 |
2008-10-30 |
| 57. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
55.17 |
0.9119 |
0.0606 |
396 |
1 |
55.17 |
2008-11-02 |
| 58. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
54.78 |
0.9380 |
0.0218 |
284 |
1 |
54.78 |
2008-10-30 |
| 59. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
54.72 |
1.0654 |
-0.1076 |
247 |
1 |
54.72 |
2008-11-01 |
| 60. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
54.66 |
0.9339 |
0.0311 |
317 |
2 |
51.25 |
2009-05-07 |
| 61. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
54.64 |
0.8993 |
0.0624 |
366 |
2 |
51.52 |
2008-10-30 |
| 62. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
54.42 |
0.9609 |
-0.0011 |
331 |
1 |
54.42 |
2008-11-02 |
| 63. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
54.22 |
0.9271 |
0.0239 |
295 |
1 |
54.22 |
2008-10-30 |
| 64. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
53.86 |
0.8986 |
0.0515 |
363 |
1 |
53.86 |
2008-11-03 |
| 65. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
53.70 |
0.8964 |
0.0430 |
199 |
2 |
52.70 |
2008-11-14 |
| 66. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
53.04 |
0.9101 |
0.0244 |
351 |
1 |
53.04 |
2008-10-30 |
| 67. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
52.98 |
1.0272 |
-0.0998 |
226 |
1 |
52.98 |
2008-10-30 |
| 68. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
52.96 |
0.9756 |
-0.0471 |
223 |
1 |
52.96 |
2008-10-31 |
| 69. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
52.96 |
0.9680 |
-0.0387 |
256 |
1 |
52.96 |
2008-10-30 |
| 70. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
52.87 |
0.9332 |
-0.0056 |
267 |
1 |
52.87 |
2009-05-07 |
| 71. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
52.81 |
0.9836 |
-0.0570 |
289 |
1 |
52.81 |
2008-10-30 |
| 72. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
52.64 |
0.9621 |
-0.0362 |
212 |
1 |
52.64 |
2008-10-31 |
| 73. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
52.56 |
1.0006 |
-0.0785 |
311 |
1 |
52.56 |
2008-10-30 |
| 74. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
52.29 |
0.9424 |
-0.0225 |
320 |
1 |
52.29 |
2008-10-30 |
| 75. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
51.95 |
0.9740 |
-0.0593 |
371 |
1 |
51.95 |
2008-11-01 |
| 76. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
51.95 |
1.0181 |
-0.1054 |
276 |
1 |
51.95 |
2008-10-31 |
| 77. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
49.93 |
0.9538 |
-0.0783 |
276 |
1 |
49.93 |
2008-11-14 |
| 78. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
49.77 |
1.0042 |
-0.1352 |
168 |
1 |
49.77 |
2008-10-30 |
| 79. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
49.75 |
0.9479 |
-0.0737 |
317 |
1 |
49.75 |
2009-05-07 |
| 80. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
49.61 |
0.9500 |
-0.0783 |
287 |
1 |
49.61 |
2008-10-31 |
| 81. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
49.13 |
0.9425 |
-0.0803 |
248 |
2 |
46.59 |
2008-11-02 |
| 82. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
49.10 |
0.9084 |
-0.0459 |
271 |
1 |
49.10 |
2008-10-31 |
| 83. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
49.00 |
0.9422 |
-0.0881 |
190 |
1 |
49.00 |
2008-10-30 |
| 84. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
48.82 |
1.0426 |
-0.1905 |
131 |
1 |
48.82 |
2008-11-01 |
| 85. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
48.78 |
1.0320 |
-0.1706 |
401 |
1 |
48.78 |
2008-10-31 |
| 86. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
48.71 |
0.9931 |
-0.1345 |
339 |
1 |
48.71 |
2009-05-07 |
| 87. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
48.69 |
0.9284 |
-0.0709 |
346 |
1 |
48.69 |
2008-10-30 |
| 88. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
48.64 |
0.9010 |
-0.0456 |
266 |
1 |
48.64 |
2008-10-30 |
| 89. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
48.60 |
1.0682 |
-0.2149 |
266 |
1 |
48.60 |
2008-11-03 |
| 90. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
48.08 |
1.0106 |
-0.1686 |
302 |
1 |
48.08 |
2009-05-07 |
| 91. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
46.27 |
0.9807 |
-0.1813 |
129 |
1 |
46.27 |
2008-11-14 |
| 92. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
44.77 |
0.9762 |
-0.1917 |
249 |
1 |
44.77 |
2008-10-30 |
| 93. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
44.24 |
0.9070 |
-0.1366 |
192 |
1 |
44.24 |
2008-11-14 |
| 94. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
43.29 |
0.8986 |
-0.1419 |
205 |
1 |
43.29 |
2008-10-31 |
| 95. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
42.70 |
1.0125 |
-0.2694 |
171 |
1 |
42.70 |
2008-10-30 |