| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
156.38 |
0.9567 |
0.2884 |
273 |
2 |
136.75 |
2008-09-30 |
| 2. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
150.53 |
1.0340 |
0.1694 |
406 |
1 |
150.53 |
2008-09-28 |
| 3. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
149.57 |
1.0068 |
0.1870 |
358 |
1 |
149.57 |
2008-10-11 |
| 4. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
148.77 |
0.9368 |
0.2625 |
174 |
1 |
148.77 |
2008-09-30 |
| 5. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
147.47 |
0.9729 |
0.2009 |
255 |
2 |
133.32 |
2008-10-05 |
| 6. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
146.84 |
1.0124 |
0.1537 |
204 |
3 |
142.97 |
2008-09-27 |
| 7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
145.55 |
1.0331 |
0.1229 |
234 |
1 |
145.55 |
2008-09-27 |
| 8. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
145.37 |
0.9893 |
0.1675 |
323 |
3 |
116.95 |
2008-10-08 |
| 9. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
143.59 |
1.0445 |
0.0988 |
373 |
3 |
129.57 |
2008-10-11 |
| 10. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
143.11 |
1.0613 |
0.0781 |
266 |
1 |
143.11 |
2008-09-27 |
| 11. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
142.59 |
1.0515 |
0.0809 |
250 |
3 |
125.70 |
2008-10-11 |
| 12. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
142.57 |
1.0666 |
0.0677 |
297 |
2 |
130.62 |
2008-09-30 |
| 13. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
142.07 |
1.0029 |
0.1209 |
209 |
1 |
142.07 |
2008-10-05 |
| 14. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
142.07 |
1.0528 |
0.0724 |
201 |
2 |
130.88 |
2008-10-05 |
| 15. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
141.80 |
1.0565 |
0.0689 |
247 |
1 |
141.80 |
2008-10-07 |
| 16. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
139.84 |
1.0004 |
0.1057 |
212 |
1 |
139.84 |
2008-10-11 |
| 17. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
139.74 |
1.0696 |
0.0383 |
226 |
2 |
130.81 |
2008-10-07 |
| 18. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
139.13 |
1.0296 |
0.0833 |
437 |
1 |
139.13 |
2008-09-29 |
| 19. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
138.88 |
0.9769 |
0.1255 |
263 |
1 |
138.88 |
2008-09-29 |
| 20. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
137.45 |
0.9411 |
0.1527 |
318 |
1 |
137.45 |
2008-09-28 |
| 21. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
136.72 |
0.9527 |
0.1343 |
251 |
2 |
126.13 |
2008-09-27 |
| 22. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
136.23 |
1.0529 |
0.0302 |
351 |
3 |
132.46 |
2008-10-11 |
| 23. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
135.70 |
1.0993 |
-0.0225 |
265 |
1 |
135.70 |
2008-09-27 |
| 24. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
135.52 |
1.0095 |
0.0669 |
316 |
2 |
134.70 |
2010-03-13 |
| 25. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
134.61 |
0.9820 |
0.0909 |
267 |
1 |
134.61 |
2008-09-28 |
| 26. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
133.90 |
0.9740 |
0.0863 |
209 |
3 |
130.40 |
2008-10-11 |
| 27. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
133.52 |
0.9941 |
0.0649 |
217 |
1 |
133.52 |
2008-09-27 |
| 28. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
133.14 |
0.9684 |
0.0926 |
388 |
3 |
128.44 |
2008-10-08 |
| 29. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
132.61 |
0.9148 |
0.1406 |
317 |
4 |
129.87 |
2008-09-30 |
| 30. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
132.58 |
0.9635 |
0.0957 |
389 |
2 |
130.61 |
2008-09-28 |
| 31. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
131.89 |
1.0352 |
0.0161 |
341 |
1 |
131.89 |
2008-10-10 |
| 32. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
131.73 |
0.9622 |
0.0912 |
392 |
2 |
125.38 |
2008-10-11 |
| 33. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
131.60 |
1.0013 |
0.0437 |
273 |
1 |
131.60 |
2008-09-27 |
| 34. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
131.28 |
0.9897 |
0.0513 |
274 |
2 |
125.97 |
2008-10-11 |
| 35. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
130.92 |
0.8770 |
0.1666 |
300 |
2 |
123.99 |
2008-09-30 |
| 36. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
130.63 |
0.9500 |
0.0903 |
362 |
2 |
127.22 |
2008-10-11 |
| 37. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
130.58 |
0.9907 |
0.0454 |
211 |
2 |
125.03 |
2008-10-05 |
| 38. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
130.27 |
0.9687 |
0.0712 |
371 |
1 |
130.27 |
2008-10-05 |
| 39. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
130.06 |
1.0711 |
-0.0427 |
213 |
2 |
124.56 |
2008-10-05 |
| 40. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
129.15 |
0.8958 |
0.1350 |
322 |
1 |
129.15 |
2008-10-05 |
| 41. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
128.96 |
0.9936 |
0.0308 |
311 |
3 |
120.47 |
2008-10-08 |
| 42. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
128.62 |
0.9168 |
0.1064 |
240 |
1 |
128.62 |
2008-10-11 |
| 43. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
128.43 |
1.0788 |
-0.0640 |
171 |
2 |
126.38 |
2010-03-13 |
| 44. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
128.28 |
0.9614 |
0.0608 |
292 |
1 |
128.28 |
2008-09-27 |
| 45. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
128.27 |
0.8919 |
0.1255 |
205 |
1 |
128.27 |
2008-09-28 |
| 46. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
128.20 |
0.9846 |
0.0329 |
281 |
1 |
128.20 |
2008-09-30 |
| 47. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
128.03 |
0.9430 |
0.0669 |
211 |
1 |
128.03 |
2008-09-27 |
| 48. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
127.53 |
0.9514 |
0.0621 |
237 |
1 |
127.53 |
2008-10-08 |
| 49. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
127.48 |
1.0385 |
-0.0275 |
230 |
1 |
127.48 |
2010-03-13 |
| 50. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
127.43 |
0.9234 |
0.0944 |
346 |
1 |
127.43 |
2008-10-05 |
| 51. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
127.40 |
0.8826 |
0.1309 |
296 |
1 |
127.40 |
2008-10-07 |
| 52. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
127.30 |
0.9866 |
0.0210 |
218 |
1 |
127.30 |
2008-09-28 |
| 53. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
126.96 |
1.0201 |
-0.0111 |
303 |
1 |
126.96 |
2008-09-27 |
| 54. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
126.88 |
0.9997 |
0.0118 |
382 |
1 |
126.88 |
2008-10-05 |
| 55. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
126.73 |
1.0167 |
-0.0032 |
378 |
1 |
126.73 |
2008-09-28 |
| 56. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
126.54 |
0.9768 |
0.0310 |
387 |
1 |
126.54 |
2008-09-30 |
| 57. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
126.31 |
1.0389 |
-0.0331 |
340 |
3 |
120.15 |
2008-09-27 |
| 58. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
125.78 |
0.8961 |
0.0996 |
189 |
1 |
125.78 |
2008-10-11 |
| 59. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
125.51 |
0.9991 |
-0.0017 |
225 |
2 |
104.94 |
2010-03-13 |
| 60. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
125.38 |
1.0337 |
-0.0384 |
214 |
1 |
125.38 |
2008-10-05 |
| 61. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
124.47 |
0.9649 |
0.0226 |
193 |
1 |
124.47 |
2008-09-27 |
| 62. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
124.44 |
0.9776 |
0.0109 |
308 |
1 |
124.44 |
2008-10-11 |
| 63. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
124.13 |
0.9653 |
0.0288 |
394 |
1 |
124.13 |
2008-09-30 |
| 64. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
124.10 |
0.9894 |
0.0006 |
323 |
1 |
124.10 |
2008-10-10 |
| 65. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
124.08 |
0.9597 |
0.0298 |
347 |
2 |
116.67 |
2008-09-28 |
| 66. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
123.90 |
0.8933 |
0.0971 |
363 |
1 |
123.90 |
2008-09-27 |
| 67. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
123.39 |
1.0352 |
-0.0527 |
341 |
1 |
123.39 |
2008-09-28 |
| 68. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
122.88 |
0.8890 |
0.0832 |
199 |
3 |
115.63 |
2008-10-07 |
| 69. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
122.40 |
1.0596 |
-0.0898 |
239 |
1 |
122.40 |
2008-10-11 |
| 70. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
122.26 |
0.9376 |
0.0386 |
367 |
1 |
122.26 |
2008-09-28 |
| 71. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
122.16 |
0.9202 |
0.0491 |
254 |
2 |
120.59 |
2008-09-28 |
| 72. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
121.94 |
0.9593 |
0.0136 |
398 |
1 |
121.94 |
2008-10-05 |
| 73. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
121.76 |
0.9468 |
0.0194 |
276 |
1 |
121.76 |
2008-09-27 |
| 74. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
121.49 |
0.9266 |
0.0381 |
267 |
1 |
121.49 |
2008-10-11 |
| 75. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
121.21 |
0.9843 |
-0.0270 |
234 |
3 |
106.20 |
2010-03-13 |
| 76. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
121.10 |
0.8553 |
0.1010 |
174 |
2 |
117.18 |
2010-03-13 |
| 77. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
120.72 |
1.0487 |
-0.0953 |
231 |
1 |
120.72 |
2008-09-30 |
| 78. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
120.45 |
0.9884 |
-0.0330 |
233 |
1 |
120.45 |
2008-09-27 |
| 79. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
120.41 |
0.9045 |
0.0517 |
235 |
2 |
117.85 |
2008-09-30 |
| 80. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
120.26 |
1.0213 |
-0.0698 |
240 |
1 |
120.26 |
2008-10-05 |
| 81. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
120.25 |
0.9734 |
-0.0191 |
289 |
1 |
120.25 |
2008-10-11 |
| 82. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
119.92 |
0.9754 |
-0.0174 |
362 |
1 |
119.92 |
2008-09-28 |
| 83. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
119.88 |
0.9986 |
-0.0464 |
283 |
1 |
119.88 |
2008-09-28 |
| 84. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
119.75 |
1.0252 |
-0.0811 |
176 |
1 |
119.75 |
2008-10-07 |
| 85. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
119.74 |
1.0053 |
-0.0568 |
232 |
1 |
119.74 |
2008-09-30 |
| 86. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
119.35 |
0.9342 |
0.0167 |
434 |
1 |
119.35 |
2008-09-30 |
| 87. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
119.33 |
0.9125 |
0.0365 |
308 |
2 |
115.91 |
2008-10-11 |
| 88. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
118.93 |
0.9691 |
-0.0256 |
223 |
2 |
110.51 |
2008-09-29 |
| 89. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
117.97 |
1.0523 |
-0.1203 |
256 |
1 |
117.97 |
2008-10-11 |
| 90. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
117.86 |
0.9966 |
-0.0618 |
259 |
3 |
114.29 |
2008-09-30 |
| 91. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
117.79 |
1.0099 |
-0.0780 |
207 |
1 |
117.79 |
2008-10-05 |
| 92. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
117.28 |
0.9278 |
0.0056 |
295 |
1 |
117.28 |
2008-10-08 |
| 93. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
116.33 |
0.9795 |
-0.0564 |
308 |
2 |
115.43 |
2008-09-28 |
| 94. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
116.30 |
1.0201 |
-0.1041 |
172 |
1 |
116.30 |
2008-10-05 |
| 95. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
116.09 |
0.9857 |
-0.0656 |
293 |
1 |
116.09 |
2008-10-05 |
| 96. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
114.86 |
0.9833 |
-0.0705 |
355 |
1 |
114.86 |
2008-10-08 |
| 97. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
114.15 |
1.0251 |
-0.1218 |
261 |
1 |
114.15 |
2008-09-28 |
| 98. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
114.00 |
0.9632 |
-0.0525 |
392 |
1 |
114.00 |
2008-09-30 |
| 99. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
113.74 |
0.9289 |
-0.0290 |
204 |
1 |
113.74 |
2008-10-05 |
| 100. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
113.57 |
1.0679 |
-0.1467 |
177 |
1 |
113.57 |
2010-03-13 |
| 101. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
110.92 |
0.9398 |
-0.0510 |
419 |
1 |
110.92 |
2008-09-28 |
| 102. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
110.47 |
0.9109 |
-0.0324 |
401 |
1 |
110.47 |
2008-09-28 |
| 103. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
108.74 |
0.8878 |
-0.0260 |
346 |
2 |
105.12 |
2008-10-10 |
| 104. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
107.73 |
1.0016 |
-0.1523 |
218 |
1 |
107.73 |
2008-10-05 |
| 105. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
107.18 |
0.9865 |
-0.1360 |
276 |
1 |
107.18 |
2008-09-27 |
| 106. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
106.47 |
0.9372 |
-0.0895 |
320 |
1 |
106.47 |
2008-09-27 |
| 107. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
106.43 |
0.8105 |
0.0286 |
204 |
2 |
85.15 |
2008-10-05 |
| 108. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
105.90 |
0.9570 |
-0.1162 |
287 |
1 |
105.90 |
2008-10-11 |
| 109. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
105.47 |
0.9682 |
-0.1344 |
143 |
1 |
105.47 |
2008-10-11 |
| 110. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
104.26 |
0.9339 |
-0.1095 |
310 |
1 |
104.26 |
2008-10-05 |
| 111. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
103.19 |
0.9841 |
-0.1630 |
334 |
1 |
103.19 |
2008-09-27 |
| 112. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
101.05 |
0.9612 |
-0.1611 |
256 |
1 |
101.05 |
2008-09-27 |
| 113. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
100.92 |
0.7876 |
0.0141 |
316 |
1 |
100.92 |
2008-10-02 |
| 114. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
99.94 |
1.0177 |
-0.1883 |
392 |
1 |
99.94 |
2010-03-13 |
| 115. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
99.26 |
0.9005 |
-0.1163 |
212 |
1 |
99.26 |
2008-10-11 |
| 116. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
98.53 |
1.0034 |
-0.2251 |
302 |
1 |
98.53 |
2008-10-05 |
| 117. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
96.43 |
0.9049 |
-0.1366 |
351 |
1 |
96.43 |
2008-09-30 |
| 118. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
95.76 |
0.8753 |
-0.1085 |
427 |
1 |
95.76 |
2010-03-13 |
| 119. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
89.74 |
0.9164 |
-0.2025 |
305 |
1 |
89.74 |
2008-09-28 |
| 120. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
79.76 |
0.9786 |
-0.3550 |
193 |
1 |
79.76 |
2010-03-13 |