| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
119.71 |
1.0516 |
0.3613 |
281 |
1 |
119.71 |
2008-12-14 |
| 2. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
108.61 |
1.0417 |
0.2368 |
253 |
1 |
108.61 |
2008-12-14 |
| 3. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
106.27 |
1.0483 |
0.2018 |
227 |
2 |
99.96 |
2009-06-15 |
| 4. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
104.35 |
1.0555 |
0.1762 |
363 |
1 |
104.35 |
2009-05-21 |
| 5. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
103.88 |
1.0498 |
0.1701 |
180 |
2 |
74.88 |
2009-05-15 |
| 6. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
103.05 |
1.0189 |
0.1992 |
337 |
1 |
103.05 |
2010-10-26 |
| 7. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
102.18 |
1.0025 |
0.2018 |
256 |
1 |
102.18 |
2009-05-15 |
| 8. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
100.56 |
1.0515 |
0.1317 |
250 |
2 |
90.78 |
2009-09-04 |
| 9. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
100.07 |
1.0263 |
0.1522 |
267 |
1 |
100.07 |
2010-10-25 |
| 10. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
99.63 |
1.0545 |
0.1602 |
416 |
2 |
88.51 |
2010-10-26 |
| 11. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
98.67 |
0.9907 |
0.1703 |
211 |
2 |
86.13 |
2010-10-25 |
| 12. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
98.43 |
1.0567 |
0.1036 |
303 |
1 |
98.43 |
2008-12-08 |
| 13. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
98.42 |
1.0183 |
0.1357 |
191 |
1 |
98.42 |
2010-10-23 |
| 14. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
97.43 |
1.0885 |
0.0626 |
315 |
2 |
96.70 |
2009-05-15 |
| 15. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
96.46 |
1.0795 |
0.0873 |
226 |
1 |
96.46 |
2010-10-19 |
| 16. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
95.84 |
0.9964 |
0.1326 |
203 |
1 |
95.84 |
2010-10-28 |
| 17. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
95.83 |
1.0943 |
0.0671 |
206 |
1 |
95.83 |
2010-10-25 |
| 18. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
95.66 |
1.0168 |
0.1113 |
271 |
1 |
95.66 |
2008-12-14 |
| 19. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
95.59 |
0.9372 |
0.1927 |
320 |
1 |
95.59 |
2010-10-25 |
| 20. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
95.41 |
0.9780 |
0.1468 |
337 |
3 |
84.92 |
2008-12-14 |
| 21. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
94.03 |
1.0131 |
0.0903 |
225 |
1 |
94.03 |
2010-10-23 |
| 22. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
93.75 |
1.0496 |
0.0537 |
314 |
1 |
93.75 |
2008-12-08 |
| 23. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
93.74 |
1.0062 |
0.0977 |
288 |
1 |
93.74 |
2009-06-27 |
| 24. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
93.40 |
0.9289 |
0.1686 |
204 |
1 |
93.40 |
2010-10-25 |
| 25. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
93.32 |
1.0218 |
0.0742 |
268 |
1 |
93.32 |
2010-10-26 |
| 26. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
92.98 |
1.1018 |
-0.0134 |
220 |
1 |
92.98 |
2009-05-15 |
| 27. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
92.83 |
1.0120 |
0.0802 |
290 |
1 |
92.83 |
2009-05-15 |
| 28. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
92.79 |
1.0016 |
0.0863 |
218 |
1 |
92.79 |
2008-12-14 |
| 29. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
92.60 |
1.0073 |
0.0910 |
369 |
3 |
81.80 |
2010-10-26 |
| 30. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
92.56 |
1.0368 |
0.0539 |
276 |
3 |
85.96 |
2010-10-26 |
| 31. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
92.53 |
0.9601 |
0.1341 |
308 |
1 |
92.53 |
2010-10-26 |
| 32. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
92.42 |
1.0251 |
0.0608 |
261 |
3 |
86.96 |
2010-10-23 |
| 33. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
91.38 |
1.0213 |
0.0513 |
240 |
1 |
91.38 |
2010-10-26 |
| 34. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
91.05 |
0.9723 |
0.1032 |
364 |
2 |
83.55 |
2009-09-04 |
| 35. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
90.66 |
0.9846 |
0.0815 |
281 |
2 |
87.32 |
2010-10-25 |
| 36. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
89.97 |
1.0863 |
0.0075 |
210 |
1 |
89.97 |
2010-10-23 |
| 37. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
89.96 |
0.9785 |
0.0835 |
335 |
1 |
89.96 |
2008-12-14 |
| 38. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
89.36 |
1.0390 |
0.0089 |
205 |
1 |
89.36 |
2008-12-07 |
| 39. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
89.15 |
0.9991 |
0.0506 |
225 |
1 |
89.15 |
2008-12-10 |
| 40. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
88.37 |
0.9769 |
0.0609 |
263 |
1 |
88.37 |
2009-01-31 |
| 41. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
88.29 |
1.0487 |
-0.0148 |
231 |
2 |
82.91 |
2010-10-23 |
| 42. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
88.25 |
0.9045 |
0.1343 |
235 |
3 |
74.42 |
2009-06-15 |
| 43. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
88.10 |
1.0429 |
-0.0076 |
259 |
1 |
88.10 |
2008-12-14 |
| 44. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
87.83 |
1.0444 |
-0.0175 |
197 |
1 |
87.83 |
2008-12-09 |
| 45. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
87.66 |
1.1114 |
-0.0827 |
247 |
2 |
86.03 |
2010-10-23 |
| 46. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
87.50 |
1.0696 |
-0.0436 |
226 |
1 |
87.50 |
2010-10-26 |
| 47. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
87.41 |
0.9965 |
0.0272 |
168 |
1 |
87.41 |
2010-10-26 |
| 48. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
87.20 |
1.0528 |
-0.0318 |
201 |
2 |
82.29 |
2009-05-15 |
| 49. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
86.97 |
1.0666 |
-0.0433 |
297 |
1 |
86.97 |
2008-12-23 |
| 50. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
86.87 |
0.9682 |
0.0519 |
143 |
2 |
77.02 |
2010-10-23 |
| 51. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
86.82 |
1.0534 |
-0.0298 |
357 |
1 |
86.82 |
2008-12-24 |
| 52. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
86.57 |
1.0203 |
0.0015 |
261 |
1 |
86.57 |
2008-12-19 |
| 53. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
85.30 |
1.1014 |
-0.0603 |
273 |
1 |
85.30 |
2010-10-25 |
| 54. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
85.13 |
0.9597 |
0.0457 |
347 |
2 |
84.57 |
2009-05-15 |
| 55. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
85.10 |
1.0109 |
-0.0092 |
276 |
1 |
85.10 |
2008-12-09 |
| 56. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
85.03 |
0.9342 |
0.0694 |
434 |
2 |
79.35 |
2010-10-25 |
| 57. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
85.01 |
1.0201 |
-0.0198 |
303 |
1 |
85.01 |
2010-10-23 |
| 58. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
84.97 |
0.9567 |
0.0425 |
273 |
1 |
84.97 |
2010-10-26 |
| 59. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
84.63 |
0.9351 |
0.0547 |
190 |
1 |
84.63 |
2010-10-23 |
| 60. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
84.46 |
1.0284 |
0.0082 |
282 |
1 |
84.46 |
2010-10-23 |
| 61. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
84.37 |
1.0389 |
-0.0450 |
318 |
2 |
82.12 |
2009-05-15 |
| 62. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
84.23 |
1.0063 |
-0.0153 |
371 |
3 |
81.51 |
2010-10-28 |
| 63. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
84.13 |
0.9698 |
0.0525 |
397 |
1 |
84.13 |
2010-10-23 |
| 64. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
83.88 |
1.0095 |
-0.0242 |
316 |
1 |
83.88 |
2008-12-14 |
| 65. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
83.88 |
0.9865 |
0.0010 |
276 |
1 |
83.88 |
2010-10-26 |
| 66. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
83.80 |
1.0068 |
-0.0181 |
358 |
1 |
83.80 |
2008-12-23 |
| 67. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
83.61 |
0.8919 |
0.0896 |
205 |
2 |
81.18 |
2009-06-15 |
| 68. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
83.43 |
0.9646 |
0.0155 |
264 |
2 |
77.69 |
2008-12-14 |
| 69. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
83.22 |
1.1323 |
-0.1201 |
341 |
1 |
83.22 |
2010-10-18 |
| 70. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
83.20 |
1.0389 |
-0.0582 |
340 |
1 |
83.20 |
2008-12-08 |
| 71. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
83.15 |
1.0125 |
0.0030 |
413 |
1 |
83.15 |
2010-10-23 |
| 72. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
83.13 |
1.0004 |
-0.0290 |
212 |
1 |
83.13 |
2008-12-23 |
| 73. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
83.12 |
0.9841 |
-0.0030 |
334 |
1 |
83.12 |
2010-10-23 |
| 74. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
82.59 |
1.0331 |
-0.0643 |
234 |
1 |
82.59 |
2008-12-10 |
| 75. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
82.13 |
1.0349 |
-0.0700 |
234 |
1 |
82.13 |
2008-12-06 |
| 76. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
81.63 |
1.0391 |
-0.0734 |
358 |
1 |
81.63 |
2008-12-07 |
| 77. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
81.41 |
1.0577 |
-0.1042 |
247 |
2 |
78.76 |
2010-10-23 |
| 78. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
81.33 |
1.0165 |
-0.0566 |
392 |
1 |
81.33 |
2008-12-14 |
| 79. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
81.30 |
1.0254 |
-0.0289 |
217 |
1 |
81.30 |
2010-10-23 |
| 80. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
81.25 |
0.9843 |
-0.0342 |
234 |
1 |
81.25 |
2008-12-09 |
| 81. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
81.24 |
1.0398 |
-0.0954 |
110 |
1 |
81.24 |
2010-10-26 |
| 82. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
80.92 |
0.9668 |
0.0269 |
383 |
1 |
80.92 |
2010-10-23 |
| 83. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
80.73 |
1.0714 |
-0.1314 |
129 |
1 |
80.73 |
2010-10-28 |
| 84. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
80.70 |
0.9109 |
0.0402 |
401 |
1 |
80.70 |
2010-10-18 |
| 85. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
80.59 |
1.0297 |
-0.0837 |
249 |
1 |
80.59 |
2008-12-09 |
| 86. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
80.58 |
1.0214 |
-0.0760 |
269 |
1 |
80.58 |
2008-12-14 |
| 87. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
80.47 |
0.8722 |
0.0765 |
285 |
1 |
80.47 |
2009-06-15 |
| 88. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
79.77 |
0.9897 |
-0.0546 |
274 |
1 |
79.77 |
2009-06-15 |
| 89. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
79.65 |
0.9768 |
-0.0382 |
387 |
1 |
79.65 |
2008-12-09 |
| 90. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
78.75 |
0.9649 |
-0.0407 |
193 |
1 |
78.75 |
2008-12-14 |
| 91. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
77.91 |
0.9910 |
-0.0738 |
295 |
1 |
77.91 |
2008-12-14 |
| 92. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
77.81 |
0.9398 |
-0.0164 |
419 |
1 |
77.81 |
2009-05-15 |
| 93. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
77.79 |
0.9213 |
-0.0070 |
295 |
1 |
77.79 |
2010-10-23 |
| 94. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
77.74 |
0.9612 |
-0.0479 |
256 |
1 |
77.74 |
2008-12-14 |
| 95. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
77.53 |
1.0334 |
-0.1292 |
131 |
1 |
77.53 |
2008-12-06 |
| 96. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
77.11 |
1.0124 |
-0.1091 |
204 |
1 |
77.11 |
2009-05-15 |
| 97. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
76.04 |
0.8775 |
0.0191 |
443 |
1 |
76.04 |
2010-10-26 |
| 98. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
75.93 |
0.9886 |
-0.0944 |
220 |
1 |
75.93 |
2010-10-23 |
| 99. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
75.47 |
0.9128 |
0.0149 |
369 |
1 |
75.47 |
2010-10-25 |
| 100. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
75.26 |
0.9411 |
-0.0566 |
318 |
2 |
71.77 |
2010-10-23 |
| 101. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
74.87 |
0.9986 |
-0.1189 |
283 |
2 |
72.90 |
2010-10-23 |
| 102. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
74.63 |
0.9570 |
-0.0791 |
287 |
1 |
74.63 |
2010-10-23 |
| 103. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
74.62 |
1.0296 |
-0.1471 |
437 |
1 |
74.62 |
2009-06-15 |
| 104. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
74.38 |
0.9164 |
-0.0384 |
305 |
1 |
74.38 |
2009-05-15 |
| 105. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
74.34 |
0.9376 |
-0.0595 |
367 |
1 |
74.34 |
2009-05-15 |
| 106. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
73.77 |
0.9863 |
-0.1159 |
339 |
1 |
73.77 |
2009-06-15 |
| 107. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
73.33 |
1.0033 |
-0.1493 |
189 |
1 |
73.33 |
2010-10-18 |
| 108. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
73.12 |
0.8382 |
0.0205 |
268 |
3 |
65.12 |
2008-12-14 |
| 109. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
73.00 |
1.0523 |
-0.1998 |
256 |
1 |
73.00 |
2009-09-04 |
| 110. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
72.80 |
0.9997 |
-0.1417 |
382 |
1 |
72.80 |
2008-12-19 |
| 111. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
72.56 |
1.0419 |
-0.1904 |
261 |
1 |
72.56 |
2010-10-22 |
| 112. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
71.90 |
0.9125 |
-0.0670 |
308 |
2 |
69.20 |
2010-10-23 |
| 113. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
71.85 |
0.9339 |
-0.0923 |
310 |
1 |
71.85 |
2008-12-06 |
| 114. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
71.42 |
0.9074 |
-0.0629 |
396 |
1 |
71.42 |
2008-12-08 |
| 115. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
71.26 |
0.9088 |
-0.0675 |
348 |
1 |
71.26 |
2008-12-09 |
| 116. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
71.10 |
0.9279 |
-0.0873 |
317 |
1 |
71.10 |
2008-12-08 |
| 117. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
70.69 |
0.9681 |
-0.1305 |
378 |
1 |
70.69 |
2008-12-06 |
| 118. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
70.56 |
0.9857 |
-0.1590 |
293 |
1 |
70.56 |
2008-12-06 |
| 119. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
69.85 |
0.9965 |
-0.1769 |
310 |
1 |
69.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 120. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
69.57 |
0.9429 |
-0.1257 |
287 |
1 |
69.57 |
2008-12-06 |
| 121. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
68.95 |
0.9557 |
-0.1409 |
331 |
1 |
68.95 |
2008-12-09 |
| 122. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
68.62 |
0.9776 |
-0.1728 |
308 |
1 |
68.62 |
2008-12-09 |
| 123. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
67.91 |
0.9212 |
-0.1218 |
323 |
2 |
66.91 |
2009-05-21 |
| 124. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
67.24 |
0.9866 |
-0.2021 |
218 |
1 |
67.24 |
2008-12-07 |
| 125. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
66.48 |
0.9795 |
-0.2004 |
308 |
1 |
66.48 |
2010-10-23 |
| 126. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
66.09 |
0.8947 |
-0.1153 |
366 |
2 |
61.34 |
2008-12-07 |
| 127. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
62.96 |
0.9364 |
-0.1591 |
351 |
1 |
62.96 |
2010-10-23 |
| 128. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
62.45 |
0.9710 |
-0.2464 |
173 |
1 |
62.45 |
2008-12-14 |
| 129. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
61.40 |
0.8878 |
-0.1694 |
346 |
1 |
61.40 |
2008-12-06 |
| 130. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
57.54 |
0.8961 |
-0.2269 |
189 |
1 |
57.54 |
2010-10-26 |