| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
140.68 |
1.0444 |
0.1023 |
197 |
3 |
133.57 |
2009-04-13 |
| 2. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
140.16 |
1.0197 |
0.1264 |
226 |
3 |
127.61 |
2009-01-28 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
139.37 |
1.1016 |
0.0409 |
233 |
1 |
139.37 |
2009-01-09 |
| 4. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
138.47 |
1.0555 |
0.0808 |
363 |
4 |
126.03 |
2009-02-15 |
| 5. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
137.20 |
1.0487 |
0.0707 |
231 |
1 |
137.20 |
2009-01-28 |
| 6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
136.02 |
1.0516 |
0.0626 |
281 |
3 |
131.61 |
2008-12-28 |
| 7. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
135.60 |
1.0214 |
0.0881 |
269 |
1 |
135.60 |
2009-04-13 |
| 8. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
134.34 |
1.0993 |
-0.0007 |
265 |
2 |
130.78 |
2009-01-28 |
| 9. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
134.17 |
1.1114 |
-0.0148 |
247 |
1 |
134.17 |
2009-01-26 |
| 10. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
133.82 |
1.0668 |
0.0321 |
350 |
5 |
124.22 |
2009-04-16 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
133.49 |
1.0138 |
0.0795 |
231 |
1 |
133.49 |
2009-01-28 |
| 12. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
131.68 |
1.0796 |
-0.0057 |
129 |
1 |
131.68 |
2009-01-28 |
| 13. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
131.57 |
0.9769 |
0.0987 |
263 |
2 |
121.35 |
2009-01-28 |
| 14. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
131.04 |
1.0787 |
-0.0066 |
237 |
2 |
127.26 |
2008-12-31 |
| 15. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
130.66 |
1.0297 |
0.0393 |
249 |
2 |
119.12 |
2008-12-25 |
| 16. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
130.43 |
1.0349 |
0.0327 |
234 |
1 |
130.43 |
2009-01-28 |
| 17. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
130.18 |
1.0714 |
-0.0141 |
129 |
2 |
114.84 |
2008-12-28 |
| 18. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
130.13 |
0.9986 |
0.0678 |
283 |
1 |
130.13 |
2009-01-28 |
| 19. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
130.02 |
1.0565 |
0.0058 |
247 |
1 |
130.02 |
2009-01-28 |
| 20. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
129.73 |
1.0263 |
0.0354 |
267 |
2 |
123.95 |
2009-01-09 |
| 21. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
129.60 |
0.9886 |
0.0753 |
220 |
1 |
129.60 |
2009-01-28 |
| 22. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
129.48 |
1.0034 |
0.0555 |
302 |
1 |
129.48 |
2009-02-15 |
| 23. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
129.28 |
1.0053 |
0.0515 |
232 |
2 |
127.57 |
2009-02-15 |
| 24. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
129.02 |
1.1018 |
-0.0516 |
220 |
3 |
122.98 |
2009-02-15 |
| 25. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
128.99 |
0.9997 |
0.0603 |
382 |
2 |
123.89 |
2009-01-11 |
| 26. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
128.25 |
1.0462 |
-0.0021 |
184 |
2 |
119.16 |
2009-01-28 |
| 27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
127.23 |
1.0613 |
-0.0186 |
266 |
2 |
122.45 |
2008-12-28 |
| 28. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
126.85 |
0.9567 |
0.0817 |
273 |
3 |
122.84 |
2009-01-11 |
| 29. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
126.62 |
1.0523 |
-0.0199 |
256 |
1 |
126.62 |
2008-12-31 |
| 30. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
126.49 |
1.0201 |
0.0159 |
303 |
2 |
122.84 |
2008-12-28 |
| 31. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
126.21 |
1.0788 |
-0.0511 |
171 |
1 |
126.21 |
2008-12-28 |
| 32. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
126.08 |
0.9691 |
0.0626 |
223 |
2 |
125.50 |
2008-12-25 |
| 33. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
125.95 |
1.0528 |
-0.0266 |
201 |
2 |
121.88 |
2008-12-25 |
| 34. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
125.94 |
0.9426 |
0.0916 |
317 |
2 |
120.40 |
2009-01-28 |
| 35. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
125.94 |
1.0023 |
0.0269 |
211 |
1 |
125.94 |
2008-12-31 |
| 36. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
125.56 |
0.9863 |
0.0460 |
339 |
2 |
120.31 |
2009-02-15 |
| 37. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
125.47 |
1.0483 |
-0.0241 |
227 |
2 |
121.18 |
2009-01-28 |
| 38. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
125.46 |
1.0296 |
0.0039 |
437 |
2 |
122.76 |
2009-04-13 |
| 39. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
125.20 |
1.0885 |
-0.0603 |
315 |
1 |
125.20 |
2009-01-13 |
| 40. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
125.11 |
0.9740 |
0.0461 |
209 |
1 |
125.11 |
2008-12-31 |
| 41. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
125.08 |
1.0109 |
0.0138 |
276 |
1 |
125.08 |
2008-12-31 |
| 42. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
124.58 |
1.0167 |
0.0099 |
378 |
2 |
120.74 |
2009-01-09 |
| 43. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
124.33 |
0.9653 |
0.0607 |
394 |
1 |
124.33 |
2008-12-28 |
| 44. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
124.31 |
0.9682 |
0.0475 |
143 |
1 |
124.31 |
2009-01-11 |
| 45. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
124.15 |
0.8919 |
0.1226 |
205 |
2 |
120.06 |
2009-01-11 |
| 46. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
124.02 |
1.0203 |
-0.0017 |
261 |
1 |
124.02 |
2008-12-28 |
| 47. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
123.79 |
1.0214 |
-0.0135 |
166 |
1 |
123.79 |
2009-01-28 |
| 48. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
123.75 |
1.0567 |
-0.0432 |
303 |
1 |
123.75 |
2008-12-25 |
| 49. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
123.74 |
1.0496 |
-0.0375 |
314 |
1 |
123.74 |
2009-02-15 |
| 50. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
123.73 |
0.9500 |
0.0650 |
362 |
1 |
123.73 |
2009-01-11 |
| 51. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
123.51 |
0.9941 |
0.0144 |
217 |
1 |
123.51 |
2008-12-28 |
| 52. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
123.27 |
1.0711 |
-0.0673 |
213 |
2 |
121.99 |
2009-04-16 |
| 53. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
123.15 |
1.0577 |
-0.0532 |
247 |
2 |
121.67 |
2008-12-28 |
| 54. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
123.11 |
1.0213 |
-0.0169 |
240 |
2 |
121.54 |
2009-04-13 |
| 55. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
122.86 |
0.9636 |
0.0418 |
254 |
1 |
122.86 |
2009-02-15 |
| 56. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
122.17 |
1.0441 |
-0.0428 |
252 |
1 |
122.17 |
2009-04-16 |
| 57. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
122.05 |
1.0389 |
-0.0384 |
318 |
1 |
122.05 |
2008-12-25 |
| 58. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
121.96 |
1.0201 |
-0.0288 |
172 |
2 |
114.88 |
2009-03-09 |
| 59. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
121.83 |
0.9965 |
-0.0043 |
168 |
1 |
121.83 |
2008-12-28 |
| 60. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
121.80 |
1.0445 |
-0.0468 |
373 |
1 |
121.80 |
2009-02-15 |
| 61. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
121.70 |
0.9527 |
0.0431 |
251 |
1 |
121.70 |
2008-12-31 |
| 62. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
121.55 |
0.8890 |
0.1021 |
199 |
2 |
115.69 |
2009-02-15 |
| 63. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
121.13 |
0.9851 |
0.0083 |
317 |
1 |
121.13 |
2008-12-28 |
| 64. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
121.08 |
1.0316 |
-0.0370 |
333 |
1 |
121.08 |
2009-01-09 |
| 65. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
120.71 |
1.0068 |
-0.0158 |
358 |
1 |
120.71 |
2009-02-15 |
| 66. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
120.56 |
0.9540 |
0.0307 |
285 |
2 |
116.10 |
2009-01-28 |
| 67. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
119.40 |
1.0799 |
-0.1067 |
243 |
1 |
119.40 |
2008-12-28 |
| 68. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
119.27 |
1.0515 |
-0.0776 |
250 |
1 |
119.27 |
2008-12-25 |
| 69. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
119.14 |
1.0029 |
-0.0346 |
209 |
1 |
119.14 |
2008-12-28 |
| 70. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
118.86 |
0.9965 |
-0.0235 |
277 |
1 |
118.86 |
2008-12-31 |
| 71. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
118.83 |
0.9072 |
0.0632 |
237 |
1 |
118.83 |
2009-01-09 |
| 72. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
118.72 |
0.9846 |
-0.0145 |
281 |
2 |
112.01 |
2008-12-25 |
| 73. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
118.61 |
1.0016 |
-0.0359 |
218 |
1 |
118.61 |
2008-12-31 |
| 74. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
118.17 |
0.9632 |
0.0099 |
392 |
1 |
118.17 |
2008-12-28 |
| 75. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
117.98 |
0.9758 |
-0.0100 |
314 |
2 |
116.38 |
2009-02-15 |
| 76. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
117.33 |
0.9772 |
-0.0210 |
217 |
1 |
117.33 |
2009-02-15 |
| 77. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
116.90 |
0.9697 |
-0.0134 |
249 |
1 |
116.90 |
2008-12-28 |
| 78. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
116.71 |
0.9857 |
-0.0321 |
293 |
1 |
116.71 |
2008-12-25 |
| 79. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
116.52 |
0.9780 |
-0.0240 |
337 |
1 |
116.52 |
2008-12-25 |
| 80. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
116.44 |
0.9233 |
0.0207 |
168 |
1 |
116.44 |
2009-01-11 |
| 81. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
116.35 |
0.9578 |
-0.0067 |
281 |
1 |
116.35 |
2008-12-31 |
| 82. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
116.32 |
1.0529 |
-0.1017 |
351 |
2 |
114.76 |
2008-12-31 |
| 83. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
116.32 |
1.0417 |
-0.0929 |
253 |
1 |
116.32 |
2009-03-09 |
| 84. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
116.08 |
0.9699 |
-0.0212 |
269 |
1 |
116.08 |
2009-01-09 |
| 85. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
115.75 |
1.0396 |
-0.1002 |
149 |
1 |
115.75 |
2008-12-25 |
| 86. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
115.11 |
1.0252 |
-0.0904 |
176 |
1 |
115.11 |
2008-12-28 |
| 87. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
114.86 |
0.8933 |
0.0523 |
363 |
1 |
114.86 |
2008-12-28 |
| 88. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
114.77 |
1.0331 |
-0.0968 |
234 |
2 |
112.23 |
2009-01-09 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
114.59 |
0.9289 |
0.0058 |
204 |
1 |
114.59 |
2008-12-25 |
| 90. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
114.49 |
1.0454 |
-0.1129 |
255 |
1 |
114.49 |
2009-02-17 |
| 91. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
114.47 |
1.0004 |
-0.0705 |
212 |
1 |
114.47 |
2008-12-31 |
| 92. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
114.16 |
1.0060 |
-0.0773 |
171 |
1 |
114.16 |
2008-12-25 |
| 93. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
113.89 |
0.9649 |
-0.0348 |
193 |
1 |
113.89 |
2008-12-31 |
| 94. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
113.64 |
0.9672 |
-0.0316 |
396 |
1 |
113.64 |
2008-12-28 |
| 95. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
113.54 |
0.8826 |
0.0471 |
296 |
2 |
113.26 |
2009-01-11 |
| 96. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
113.51 |
0.9365 |
-0.0071 |
248 |
1 |
113.51 |
2009-01-09 |
| 97. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
113.02 |
0.9966 |
-0.0732 |
259 |
1 |
113.02 |
2009-01-13 |
| 98. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
112.73 |
0.9635 |
-0.0365 |
389 |
2 |
108.54 |
2008-12-28 |
| 99. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
112.29 |
0.8996 |
0.0128 |
192 |
1 |
112.29 |
2009-01-09 |
| 100. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
112.29 |
1.0168 |
-0.0975 |
271 |
1 |
112.29 |
2009-01-13 |
| 101. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
112.11 |
0.9833 |
-0.0653 |
355 |
1 |
112.11 |
2008-12-25 |
| 102. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
112.00 |
0.9293 |
-0.0130 |
355 |
2 |
110.11 |
2008-12-31 |
| 103. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
111.65 |
0.9675 |
-0.0454 |
383 |
1 |
111.65 |
2008-12-25 |
| 104. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
111.45 |
0.9212 |
-0.0069 |
323 |
1 |
111.45 |
2008-12-28 |
| 105. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
110.95 |
0.9820 |
-0.0724 |
267 |
1 |
110.95 |
2008-12-25 |
| 106. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
110.88 |
0.9109 |
-0.0021 |
401 |
1 |
110.88 |
2008-12-25 |
| 107. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
110.64 |
0.9841 |
-0.0761 |
334 |
1 |
110.64 |
2008-12-31 |
| 108. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
110.54 |
0.8958 |
0.0122 |
322 |
1 |
110.54 |
2008-12-28 |
| 109. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
110.39 |
1.0534 |
-0.1490 |
357 |
1 |
110.39 |
2008-12-28 |
| 110. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
110.36 |
0.9687 |
-0.0621 |
371 |
1 |
110.36 |
2008-12-25 |
| 111. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
110.06 |
0.8951 |
0.0065 |
193 |
1 |
110.06 |
2008-12-25 |
| 112. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
109.46 |
1.0521 |
-0.1624 |
171 |
1 |
109.46 |
2009-03-09 |
| 113. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
107.62 |
0.9376 |
-0.0530 |
367 |
1 |
107.62 |
2008-12-25 |
| 114. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
107.35 |
0.9899 |
-0.1176 |
163 |
1 |
107.35 |
2008-12-28 |
| 115. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
106.87 |
0.9278 |
-0.0521 |
295 |
1 |
106.87 |
2008-12-28 |
| 116. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
106.17 |
0.9681 |
-0.0926 |
378 |
1 |
106.17 |
2008-12-28 |
| 117. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
103.89 |
0.8916 |
-0.0430 |
216 |
1 |
103.89 |
2008-12-28 |
| 118. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
102.09 |
0.7876 |
0.0484 |
316 |
1 |
102.09 |
2008-12-25 |
| 119. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
101.79 |
1.0131 |
-0.1861 |
225 |
1 |
101.79 |
2008-12-28 |
| 120. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
98.80 |
0.8961 |
-0.0934 |
189 |
1 |
98.80 |
2008-12-28 |
| 121. |
import os import sys def run(program, *args): pid = os.fork(... |
79.25 |
0.6923 |
-0.0354 |
154 |
1 |
79.25 |
2008-12-28 |