| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
159.88 |
1.0099 |
0.1985 |
207 |
1 |
159.88 |
2009-04-14 |
| 2. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
155.16 |
0.8852 |
0.2920 |
201 |
1 |
155.16 |
2009-04-05 |
| 3. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
153.64 |
0.9074 |
0.2626 |
396 |
1 |
153.64 |
2009-04-19 |
| 4. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
152.89 |
0.9805 |
0.1819 |
292 |
1 |
152.89 |
2009-04-14 |
| 5. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
151.78 |
1.0025 |
0.1467 |
256 |
1 |
151.78 |
2009-04-14 |
| 6. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
149.73 |
0.9168 |
0.2181 |
240 |
2 |
147.67 |
2009-05-31 |
| 7. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
149.44 |
0.9514 |
0.1803 |
237 |
1 |
149.44 |
2009-04-14 |
| 8. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
148.38 |
0.8722 |
0.2539 |
285 |
1 |
148.38 |
2009-04-18 |
| 9. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
148.21 |
0.9798 |
0.1364 |
199 |
1 |
148.21 |
2009-06-27 |
| 10. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
146.18 |
0.9646 |
0.1409 |
264 |
1 |
146.18 |
2009-04-06 |
| 11. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
145.55 |
0.9910 |
0.1125 |
295 |
1 |
145.55 |
2009-04-18 |
| 12. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
145.48 |
0.9786 |
0.1219 |
235 |
2 |
141.16 |
2009-04-07 |
| 13. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
144.84 |
0.9212 |
0.1782 |
323 |
2 |
143.96 |
2009-04-06 |
| 14. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
144.51 |
0.9672 |
0.1329 |
396 |
2 |
144.41 |
2009-04-14 |
| 15. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
144.36 |
0.9087 |
0.1945 |
393 |
1 |
144.36 |
2009-04-29 |
| 16. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
144.33 |
0.9884 |
0.1081 |
262 |
1 |
144.33 |
2009-04-07 |
| 17. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
143.37 |
1.0419 |
0.0430 |
261 |
2 |
141.84 |
2009-04-06 |
| 18. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
142.36 |
0.9687 |
0.1131 |
371 |
1 |
142.36 |
2009-04-18 |
| 19. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
141.95 |
0.9048 |
0.1738 |
271 |
1 |
141.95 |
2009-04-06 |
| 20. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
141.71 |
1.0004 |
0.0657 |
212 |
1 |
141.71 |
2009-04-18 |
| 21. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
141.35 |
1.0201 |
0.0497 |
303 |
2 |
139.15 |
2009-06-21 |
| 22. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
141.03 |
0.8533 |
0.2148 |
232 |
1 |
141.03 |
2009-04-06 |
| 23. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
140.76 |
1.0331 |
0.0296 |
234 |
2 |
139.04 |
2009-06-21 |
| 24. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
140.75 |
0.9942 |
0.0794 |
483 |
1 |
140.75 |
2009-05-30 |
| 25. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
139.99 |
0.8382 |
0.2213 |
268 |
1 |
139.99 |
2009-04-07 |
| 26. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
139.85 |
0.9846 |
0.0722 |
281 |
1 |
139.85 |
2009-04-06 |
| 27. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
139.02 |
0.9572 |
0.0933 |
201 |
1 |
139.02 |
2009-04-07 |
| 28. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
138.92 |
0.8105 |
0.2360 |
204 |
2 |
136.05 |
2009-05-25 |
| 29. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
138.91 |
0.9785 |
0.0754 |
335 |
1 |
138.91 |
2009-04-06 |
| 30. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
138.71 |
0.9710 |
0.0717 |
173 |
2 |
130.93 |
2009-04-21 |
| 31. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
138.67 |
0.8916 |
0.1576 |
216 |
1 |
138.67 |
2009-04-07 |
| 32. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
138.38 |
0.8947 |
0.1569 |
366 |
2 |
137.99 |
2009-04-21 |
| 33. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
137.94 |
1.0203 |
0.0264 |
261 |
1 |
137.94 |
2009-04-07 |
| 34. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
137.81 |
1.0666 |
-0.0242 |
297 |
1 |
137.81 |
2009-06-21 |
| 35. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
137.69 |
0.8770 |
0.1676 |
300 |
1 |
137.69 |
2009-05-01 |
| 36. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
137.22 |
0.9941 |
0.0413 |
217 |
3 |
134.23 |
2009-04-17 |
| 37. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
137.04 |
0.8753 |
0.1703 |
427 |
1 |
137.04 |
2009-04-21 |
| 38. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
136.73 |
1.0013 |
0.0318 |
273 |
1 |
136.73 |
2009-04-14 |
| 39. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
136.43 |
0.9697 |
0.0622 |
249 |
1 |
136.43 |
2009-04-07 |
| 40. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
136.33 |
0.9532 |
0.0765 |
258 |
1 |
136.33 |
2009-04-06 |
| 41. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
136.21 |
0.9865 |
0.0447 |
276 |
1 |
136.21 |
2009-04-14 |
| 42. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
136.15 |
0.9234 |
0.1116 |
346 |
1 |
136.15 |
2009-04-07 |
| 43. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
136.14 |
1.0109 |
0.0194 |
276 |
1 |
136.14 |
2009-04-14 |
| 44. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
135.60 |
1.0029 |
0.0161 |
209 |
1 |
135.60 |
2009-04-14 |
| 45. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
135.55 |
1.0296 |
0.0018 |
437 |
1 |
135.55 |
2009-04-06 |
| 46. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
135.18 |
0.9426 |
0.0827 |
317 |
1 |
135.18 |
2009-04-18 |
| 47. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
134.83 |
1.0596 |
-0.0422 |
239 |
1 |
134.83 |
2009-05-15 |
| 48. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
133.92 |
0.9843 |
0.0232 |
234 |
1 |
133.92 |
2009-04-14 |
| 49. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
133.88 |
1.0528 |
-0.0456 |
201 |
1 |
133.88 |
2009-05-30 |
| 50. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
133.73 |
1.0389 |
-0.0261 |
318 |
1 |
133.73 |
2009-05-01 |
| 51. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
132.69 |
0.9681 |
0.0433 |
378 |
1 |
132.69 |
2009-04-07 |
| 52. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
132.59 |
1.0063 |
-0.0036 |
371 |
2 |
132.29 |
2009-06-01 |
| 53. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
132.44 |
0.9756 |
0.0243 |
229 |
1 |
132.44 |
2009-04-06 |
| 54. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
132.37 |
0.9986 |
0.0026 |
283 |
1 |
132.37 |
2009-04-07 |
| 55. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
132.09 |
1.0167 |
-0.0114 |
378 |
1 |
132.09 |
2009-04-14 |
| 56. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
132.01 |
1.0120 |
-0.0149 |
290 |
1 |
132.01 |
2009-04-06 |
| 57. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
131.90 |
1.0515 |
-0.0564 |
250 |
1 |
131.90 |
2009-09-26 |
| 58. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
131.31 |
0.9905 |
0.0098 |
377 |
1 |
131.31 |
2009-04-08 |
| 59. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
130.28 |
1.0441 |
-0.0580 |
252 |
1 |
130.28 |
2009-04-14 |
| 60. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
130.27 |
1.0016 |
-0.0216 |
218 |
1 |
130.27 |
2009-05-01 |
| 61. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
130.05 |
1.0486 |
-0.0649 |
289 |
2 |
129.68 |
2009-04-18 |
| 62. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
130.05 |
1.0352 |
-0.0497 |
341 |
2 |
129.21 |
2009-04-14 |
| 63. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
129.82 |
0.9936 |
-0.0128 |
311 |
1 |
129.82 |
2009-04-06 |
| 64. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
129.77 |
1.0197 |
-0.0419 |
226 |
1 |
129.77 |
2009-04-06 |
| 65. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
129.77 |
1.0201 |
-0.0354 |
375 |
2 |
128.31 |
2009-06-01 |
| 66. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
129.41 |
0.9430 |
0.0277 |
211 |
1 |
129.41 |
2009-04-19 |
| 67. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
129.25 |
1.0567 |
-0.0793 |
303 |
2 |
128.22 |
2009-05-30 |
| 68. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
129.09 |
1.0529 |
-0.0775 |
351 |
1 |
129.09 |
2009-04-07 |
| 69. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
129.05 |
0.9763 |
-0.0016 |
289 |
1 |
129.05 |
2009-04-06 |
| 70. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
128.72 |
1.0714 |
-0.1076 |
129 |
2 |
125.41 |
2009-04-19 |
| 71. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
128.56 |
0.9293 |
0.0430 |
355 |
2 |
126.18 |
2009-04-06 |
| 72. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
127.87 |
1.0390 |
-0.0766 |
205 |
1 |
127.87 |
2009-05-31 |
| 73. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
126.83 |
0.9330 |
0.0318 |
360 |
2 |
126.73 |
2009-05-15 |
| 74. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
126.05 |
0.9084 |
0.0457 |
300 |
1 |
126.05 |
2009-05-01 |
| 75. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
125.89 |
1.0496 |
-0.0993 |
314 |
1 |
125.89 |
2009-04-07 |
| 76. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
125.54 |
1.0555 |
-0.1057 |
363 |
1 |
125.54 |
2009-04-18 |
| 77. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
124.91 |
1.0613 |
-0.1169 |
266 |
1 |
124.91 |
2009-04-19 |
| 78. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
124.46 |
0.8919 |
0.0465 |
205 |
2 |
119.44 |
2009-04-07 |
| 79. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
124.39 |
0.9966 |
-0.0577 |
259 |
1 |
124.39 |
2009-04-06 |
| 80. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
124.34 |
1.0292 |
-0.0913 |
262 |
2 |
113.42 |
2009-04-06 |
| 81. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
123.92 |
1.0829 |
-0.1455 |
288 |
1 |
123.92 |
2009-04-06 |
| 82. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
123.83 |
1.0565 |
-0.1238 |
247 |
1 |
123.83 |
2009-04-07 |
| 83. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
123.57 |
1.0462 |
-0.1190 |
184 |
1 |
123.57 |
2009-04-14 |
| 84. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
123.54 |
1.0368 |
-0.1029 |
276 |
2 |
122.79 |
2009-04-17 |
| 85. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
123.46 |
1.1114 |
-0.1817 |
247 |
2 |
123.06 |
2009-04-05 |
| 86. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
123.26 |
0.9965 |
-0.0653 |
310 |
1 |
123.26 |
2009-09-26 |
| 87. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
121.23 |
1.0214 |
-0.1078 |
269 |
1 |
121.23 |
2009-04-07 |
| 88. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
120.20 |
0.9795 |
-0.0720 |
308 |
1 |
120.20 |
2009-04-17 |
| 89. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
119.35 |
0.9635 |
-0.0571 |
389 |
1 |
119.35 |
2009-04-04 |
| 90. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
119.15 |
1.0696 |
-0.1737 |
226 |
1 |
119.15 |
2009-04-14 |
| 91. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
118.90 |
1.0885 |
-0.1877 |
315 |
2 |
118.07 |
2009-04-06 |
| 92. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
117.96 |
1.0767 |
-0.1886 |
212 |
1 |
117.96 |
2009-04-06 |
| 93. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
117.64 |
1.0131 |
-0.1291 |
225 |
1 |
117.64 |
2009-04-06 |
| 94. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
116.71 |
0.9527 |
-0.0721 |
251 |
1 |
116.71 |
2009-04-04 |
| 95. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
116.56 |
1.0613 |
-0.1767 |
456 |
1 |
116.56 |
2009-04-04 |
| 96. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
116.43 |
1.0125 |
-0.1362 |
224 |
1 |
116.43 |
2009-04-18 |
| 97. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
115.66 |
0.9309 |
-0.0601 |
284 |
1 |
115.66 |
2009-04-04 |
| 98. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
113.48 |
1.0799 |
-0.2276 |
243 |
1 |
113.48 |
2009-04-06 |
| 99. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
112.51 |
0.9820 |
-0.1306 |
267 |
1 |
112.51 |
2009-12-17 |
| 100. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
112.06 |
1.0334 |
-0.1948 |
131 |
1 |
112.06 |
2009-04-04 |
| 101. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
109.84 |
1.0183 |
-0.1958 |
191 |
1 |
109.84 |
2009-04-07 |
| 102. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
108.86 |
1.0577 |
-0.2406 |
247 |
1 |
108.86 |
2009-04-07 |
| 103. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
108.74 |
0.9769 |
-0.1593 |
263 |
1 |
108.74 |
2009-04-06 |
| 104. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
105.72 |
1.0668 |
-0.2677 |
350 |
1 |
105.72 |
2009-04-04 |
| 105. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
96.76 |
0.9045 |
-0.1762 |
235 |
1 |
96.76 |
2009-04-02 |
| 106. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
92.26 |
0.8573 |
-0.1602 |
270 |
1 |
92.26 |
2009-04-02 |
| 107. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
87.41 |
1.0545 |
-0.3574 |
416 |
1 |
87.41 |
2009-12-17 |
| 108. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
65.62 |
0.9886 |
-0.4966 |
220 |
1 |
65.62 |
2009-12-17 |