| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
53.00 |
0.8935 |
0.3397 |
328 |
1 |
53.00 |
2009-04-06 |
| 2. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
52.76 |
0.9572 |
0.2596 |
201 |
1 |
52.76 |
2009-04-06 |
| 3. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
52.02 |
1.0349 |
0.1651 |
234 |
3 |
48.84 |
2009-04-06 |
| 4. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
51.39 |
0.9576 |
0.2330 |
212 |
2 |
46.92 |
2009-04-06 |
| 5. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
51.07 |
1.0797 |
0.0932 |
210 |
1 |
51.07 |
2009-04-04 |
| 6. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
50.18 |
1.0023 |
0.1535 |
211 |
3 |
47.64 |
2009-04-04 |
| 7. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
49.97 |
1.0060 |
0.1421 |
171 |
2 |
47.74 |
2009-04-10 |
| 8. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
49.83 |
1.0668 |
0.0853 |
350 |
2 |
46.71 |
2009-04-10 |
| 9. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
49.59 |
1.1114 |
0.0299 |
247 |
2 |
46.19 |
2009-04-10 |
| 10. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
48.49 |
1.0567 |
0.0622 |
303 |
2 |
45.64 |
2009-04-02 |
| 11. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
48.45 |
1.0297 |
0.0865 |
249 |
2 |
47.04 |
2009-04-04 |
| 12. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
48.37 |
0.9278 |
0.1904 |
295 |
3 |
44.56 |
2009-04-10 |
| 13. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
48.34 |
0.9886 |
0.1287 |
220 |
2 |
47.52 |
2009-04-06 |
| 14. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
48.13 |
1.0419 |
0.0680 |
261 |
1 |
48.13 |
2009-04-02 |
| 15. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
48.04 |
0.9171 |
0.1910 |
165 |
1 |
48.04 |
2009-04-03 |
| 16. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
48.00 |
0.9866 |
0.1166 |
218 |
1 |
48.00 |
2009-04-02 |
| 17. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
47.94 |
1.0385 |
0.0652 |
230 |
1 |
47.94 |
2009-04-06 |
| 18. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
47.90 |
1.0799 |
0.0209 |
243 |
1 |
47.90 |
2009-04-03 |
| 19. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
47.71 |
1.0183 |
0.0762 |
191 |
1 |
47.71 |
2009-04-10 |
| 20. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
47.65 |
0.9636 |
0.1350 |
254 |
1 |
47.65 |
2009-04-05 |
| 21. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
47.29 |
0.9411 |
0.1500 |
318 |
2 |
43.55 |
2009-04-10 |
| 22. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
47.07 |
0.9226 |
0.1664 |
177 |
1 |
47.07 |
2009-04-04 |
| 23. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
46.64 |
1.1018 |
-0.0330 |
220 |
1 |
46.64 |
2009-04-03 |
| 24. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
46.54 |
1.0596 |
0.0111 |
239 |
1 |
46.54 |
2009-04-04 |
| 25. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
46.26 |
0.9786 |
0.0825 |
193 |
1 |
46.26 |
2009-04-04 |
| 26. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
46.14 |
0.9234 |
0.1455 |
346 |
1 |
46.14 |
2009-04-04 |
| 27. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
46.02 |
0.9125 |
0.1500 |
308 |
2 |
42.87 |
2009-04-06 |
| 28. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
46.02 |
0.9910 |
0.0716 |
295 |
1 |
46.02 |
2009-04-05 |
| 29. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
46.01 |
1.0767 |
-0.0184 |
212 |
2 |
44.96 |
2009-04-04 |
| 30. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
45.98 |
0.9786 |
0.0807 |
235 |
2 |
44.79 |
2009-04-06 |
| 31. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
45.79 |
1.0252 |
0.0236 |
176 |
2 |
43.77 |
2009-04-04 |
| 32. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
45.73 |
0.9653 |
0.0969 |
394 |
1 |
45.73 |
2009-04-06 |
| 33. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
45.71 |
0.8971 |
0.1617 |
266 |
1 |
45.71 |
2009-04-02 |
| 34. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
45.70 |
0.9500 |
0.1054 |
362 |
1 |
45.70 |
2009-04-05 |
| 35. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
45.55 |
1.0251 |
0.0224 |
261 |
2 |
45.39 |
2009-04-06 |
| 36. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
45.51 |
1.0787 |
-0.0312 |
237 |
1 |
45.51 |
2009-04-02 |
| 37. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
45.43 |
1.0214 |
0.0201 |
166 |
1 |
45.43 |
2009-04-06 |
| 38. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
45.35 |
0.9965 |
0.0492 |
277 |
1 |
45.35 |
2009-04-10 |
| 39. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
45.24 |
1.0788 |
-0.0419 |
171 |
1 |
45.24 |
2009-04-03 |
| 40. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
45.18 |
0.8353 |
0.2133 |
283 |
1 |
45.18 |
2009-04-06 |
| 41. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
45.18 |
0.9233 |
0.1095 |
168 |
1 |
45.18 |
2009-04-10 |
| 42. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
45.16 |
0.8811 |
0.1641 |
239 |
2 |
42.44 |
2009-04-05 |
| 43. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
44.57 |
0.9697 |
0.0574 |
249 |
3 |
43.12 |
2009-04-02 |
| 44. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
44.43 |
0.9798 |
0.0381 |
199 |
2 |
41.36 |
2009-04-10 |
| 45. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
44.18 |
0.8722 |
0.1485 |
285 |
1 |
44.18 |
2009-04-06 |
| 46. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
44.13 |
1.0426 |
-0.0267 |
323 |
2 |
44.05 |
2009-04-03 |
| 47. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
44.03 |
1.0829 |
-0.0671 |
288 |
2 |
43.53 |
2009-04-04 |
| 48. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
43.97 |
1.0399 |
-0.0218 |
294 |
1 |
43.97 |
2009-04-04 |
| 49. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
43.83 |
0.8975 |
0.1126 |
268 |
1 |
43.83 |
2009-04-03 |
| 50. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
43.74 |
0.9710 |
0.0300 |
173 |
1 |
43.74 |
2009-04-04 |
| 51. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
43.71 |
1.0025 |
0.0042 |
256 |
1 |
43.71 |
2009-04-04 |
| 52. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
43.62 |
0.8595 |
0.1470 |
242 |
2 |
41.93 |
2009-04-05 |
| 53. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
43.55 |
0.9731 |
0.0175 |
129 |
1 |
43.55 |
2009-04-04 |
| 54. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
43.53 |
0.9843 |
0.0133 |
234 |
1 |
43.53 |
2009-04-03 |
| 55. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
43.46 |
1.0463 |
-0.0499 |
182 |
1 |
43.46 |
2009-04-01 |
| 56. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
43.34 |
0.8382 |
0.1605 |
268 |
2 |
43.26 |
2009-04-05 |
| 57. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
43.33 |
0.9965 |
0.0017 |
310 |
1 |
43.33 |
2009-04-02 |
| 58. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
43.21 |
0.8792 |
0.1252 |
296 |
1 |
43.21 |
2009-04-03 |
| 59. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
43.16 |
1.0099 |
-0.0188 |
207 |
1 |
43.16 |
2009-04-04 |
| 60. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
43.10 |
1.0696 |
-0.0805 |
226 |
1 |
43.10 |
2009-04-02 |
| 61. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
43.08 |
1.0201 |
-0.0348 |
172 |
1 |
43.08 |
2009-04-03 |
| 62. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
42.96 |
0.9426 |
0.0498 |
317 |
1 |
42.96 |
2009-04-04 |
| 63. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
42.91 |
0.9841 |
0.0078 |
334 |
1 |
42.91 |
2009-04-04 |
| 64. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
42.89 |
0.9275 |
0.0569 |
211 |
1 |
42.89 |
2009-04-02 |
| 65. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
42.84 |
0.8878 |
0.0985 |
346 |
1 |
42.84 |
2009-04-03 |
| 66. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
42.76 |
1.0523 |
-0.0720 |
256 |
1 |
42.76 |
2009-04-03 |
| 67. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
42.69 |
1.0496 |
-0.0673 |
314 |
1 |
42.69 |
2009-04-04 |
| 68. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
42.68 |
1.0261 |
-0.0452 |
273 |
2 |
42.23 |
2009-04-03 |
| 69. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
42.43 |
0.8852 |
0.0938 |
201 |
1 |
42.43 |
2009-04-10 |
| 70. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
42.43 |
1.0337 |
-0.0574 |
214 |
1 |
42.43 |
2009-04-04 |
| 71. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
42.37 |
0.8096 |
0.1738 |
209 |
2 |
41.43 |
2009-04-04 |
| 72. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
42.22 |
1.0515 |
-0.0814 |
250 |
1 |
42.22 |
2009-04-03 |
| 73. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
42.22 |
1.0565 |
-0.0871 |
247 |
1 |
42.22 |
2009-04-03 |
| 74. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
42.21 |
0.9734 |
-0.0019 |
289 |
2 |
42.04 |
2009-04-04 |
| 75. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
42.11 |
0.9514 |
0.0184 |
237 |
1 |
42.11 |
2009-04-06 |
| 76. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
42.10 |
1.0352 |
-0.0629 |
341 |
1 |
42.10 |
2009-04-03 |
| 77. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
41.98 |
0.9893 |
-0.0228 |
323 |
1 |
41.98 |
2009-04-04 |
| 78. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
41.96 |
0.9612 |
0.0048 |
256 |
3 |
40.13 |
2009-04-06 |
| 79. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
41.96 |
0.9289 |
0.0348 |
204 |
2 |
39.36 |
2009-04-04 |
| 80. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
41.95 |
1.0165 |
-0.0469 |
392 |
1 |
41.95 |
2009-04-04 |
| 81. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
41.88 |
0.9088 |
0.0605 |
348 |
1 |
41.88 |
2009-04-04 |
| 82. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
41.75 |
0.9907 |
-0.0312 |
211 |
1 |
41.75 |
2009-04-02 |
| 83. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
41.60 |
0.9485 |
0.0108 |
236 |
1 |
41.60 |
2009-04-04 |
| 84. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
41.51 |
0.9109 |
0.0472 |
401 |
1 |
41.51 |
2009-04-03 |
| 85. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
41.48 |
0.8961 |
0.0553 |
189 |
1 |
41.48 |
2009-04-05 |
| 86. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
41.46 |
0.9820 |
-0.0249 |
267 |
2 |
41.42 |
2009-04-04 |
| 87. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
41.45 |
0.9897 |
-0.0379 |
274 |
1 |
41.45 |
2009-04-04 |
| 88. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
41.43 |
1.0062 |
-0.0526 |
288 |
1 |
41.43 |
2009-04-04 |
| 89. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
41.38 |
0.9964 |
-0.0439 |
203 |
1 |
41.38 |
2009-04-04 |
| 90. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
41.37 |
1.0016 |
-0.0540 |
218 |
1 |
41.37 |
2009-04-03 |
| 91. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
41.36 |
0.9084 |
0.0454 |
300 |
1 |
41.36 |
2009-04-04 |
| 92. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
41.35 |
0.9084 |
0.0474 |
404 |
2 |
40.90 |
2009-04-04 |
| 93. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
41.23 |
1.0214 |
-0.0742 |
269 |
1 |
41.23 |
2009-04-03 |
| 94. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
41.10 |
0.9532 |
-0.0086 |
258 |
1 |
41.10 |
2009-04-01 |
| 95. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
41.05 |
0.9212 |
0.0268 |
323 |
1 |
41.05 |
2009-04-02 |
| 96. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
40.92 |
1.0885 |
-0.1435 |
315 |
1 |
40.92 |
2009-04-06 |
| 97. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
40.79 |
0.9682 |
-0.0314 |
143 |
1 |
40.79 |
2009-04-02 |
| 98. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
40.78 |
1.0429 |
-0.1059 |
259 |
1 |
40.78 |
2009-04-03 |
| 99. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
40.75 |
0.9633 |
-0.0234 |
304 |
1 |
40.75 |
2009-04-03 |
| 100. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
40.72 |
0.9597 |
-0.0186 |
347 |
1 |
40.72 |
2009-04-03 |
| 101. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
40.58 |
0.9049 |
0.0343 |
351 |
1 |
40.58 |
2009-04-04 |
| 102. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
40.46 |
0.9567 |
-0.0259 |
273 |
2 |
38.26 |
2009-04-03 |
| 103. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
40.35 |
0.9805 |
-0.0475 |
292 |
1 |
40.35 |
2009-04-02 |
| 104. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
40.33 |
0.9758 |
-0.0472 |
314 |
1 |
40.33 |
2009-04-02 |
| 105. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
40.20 |
0.8573 |
0.0712 |
270 |
1 |
40.20 |
2009-04-01 |
| 106. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
40.17 |
1.0167 |
-0.0857 |
378 |
1 |
40.17 |
2009-04-04 |
| 107. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
39.91 |
0.8809 |
0.0350 |
127 |
1 |
39.91 |
2009-04-03 |
| 108. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
39.75 |
1.0445 |
-0.1292 |
373 |
1 |
39.75 |
2009-04-02 |
| 109. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
39.66 |
0.9619 |
-0.0444 |
393 |
1 |
39.66 |
2009-04-04 |
| 110. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
39.56 |
0.8958 |
0.0188 |
322 |
1 |
39.56 |
2009-04-04 |
| 111. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
39.52 |
0.9811 |
-0.0693 |
272 |
1 |
39.52 |
2009-04-02 |
| 112. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
39.51 |
0.8602 |
0.0464 |
206 |
3 |
37.80 |
2009-04-06 |
| 113. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
39.46 |
0.9863 |
-0.0742 |
339 |
1 |
39.46 |
2009-04-04 |
| 114. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
39.43 |
0.9756 |
-0.0699 |
229 |
2 |
38.01 |
2009-04-03 |
| 115. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
39.35 |
0.9168 |
-0.0104 |
240 |
1 |
39.35 |
2009-04-10 |
| 116. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
39.34 |
0.9795 |
-0.0746 |
308 |
1 |
39.34 |
2009-04-04 |
| 117. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
39.28 |
0.9776 |
-0.0739 |
308 |
1 |
39.28 |
2009-04-03 |
| 118. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
39.03 |
0.9852 |
-0.0873 |
264 |
1 |
39.03 |
2009-04-01 |
| 119. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
38.78 |
1.0025 |
-0.1098 |
336 |
1 |
38.78 |
2009-04-04 |
| 120. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
38.67 |
0.9164 |
-0.0224 |
305 |
1 |
38.67 |
2009-04-01 |
| 121. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
38.49 |
0.9376 |
-0.0472 |
367 |
1 |
38.49 |
2009-04-02 |
| 122. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
38.36 |
1.0498 |
-0.1726 |
180 |
1 |
38.36 |
2009-04-01 |
| 123. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
38.33 |
0.9325 |
-0.0579 |
156 |
1 |
38.33 |
2009-04-04 |
| 124. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
38.23 |
0.8951 |
-0.0139 |
193 |
1 |
38.23 |
2009-04-03 |
| 125. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
37.94 |
0.8826 |
-0.0090 |
296 |
1 |
37.94 |
2009-04-04 |
| 126. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
37.61 |
0.7876 |
0.0795 |
316 |
1 |
37.61 |
2009-04-04 |
| 127. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
37.12 |
0.9429 |
-0.0885 |
287 |
2 |
36.41 |
2009-04-03 |
| 128. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
35.84 |
0.9468 |
-0.1241 |
276 |
1 |
35.84 |
2009-04-03 |
| 129. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
35.74 |
0.9365 |
-0.1142 |
248 |
1 |
35.74 |
2009-04-01 |
| 130. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
35.45 |
0.8788 |
-0.0682 |
134 |
1 |
35.45 |
2009-04-03 |
| 131. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
35.41 |
0.9884 |
-0.1709 |
262 |
1 |
35.41 |
2009-04-03 |
| 132. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
35.18 |
1.0053 |
-0.1995 |
232 |
1 |
35.18 |
2009-04-01 |
| 133. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
34.37 |
0.8919 |
-0.1047 |
205 |
1 |
34.37 |
2009-04-03 |
| 134. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
34.19 |
1.0714 |
-0.2956 |
129 |
1 |
34.19 |
2009-04-01 |
| 135. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
34.05 |
0.9196 |
-0.1365 |
148 |
1 |
34.05 |
2009-04-02 |
| 136. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
30.75 |
0.8996 |
-0.2006 |
192 |
1 |
30.75 |
2009-04-01 |