| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
53.15 |
1.0334 |
0.1926 |
131 |
4 |
48.22 |
2009-06-27 |
| 2. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
53.05 |
0.9724 |
0.2614 |
237 |
3 |
48.45 |
2009-05-23 |
| 3. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
52.04 |
0.9221 |
0.2829 |
244 |
2 |
46.01 |
2009-05-29 |
| 4. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
52.04 |
0.9884 |
0.2224 |
262 |
3 |
49.21 |
2009-06-04 |
| 5. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
50.82 |
1.0595 |
0.1209 |
379 |
1 |
50.82 |
2009-05-23 |
| 6. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
50.55 |
1.0197 |
0.1490 |
226 |
1 |
50.55 |
2009-05-22 |
| 7. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
50.15 |
1.0445 |
0.1186 |
373 |
2 |
47.38 |
2009-06-30 |
| 8. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
49.90 |
1.1018 |
0.0482 |
220 |
1 |
49.90 |
2009-05-19 |
| 9. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
49.23 |
1.0515 |
0.0873 |
250 |
2 |
47.96 |
2009-05-27 |
| 10. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
49.19 |
0.9633 |
0.1787 |
304 |
1 |
49.19 |
2009-05-23 |
| 11. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
49.18 |
0.9729 |
0.1668 |
255 |
1 |
49.18 |
2009-05-22 |
| 12. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
49.08 |
0.9251 |
0.2171 |
177 |
1 |
49.08 |
2009-05-19 |
| 13. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
48.90 |
0.9986 |
0.1350 |
283 |
2 |
43.17 |
2009-05-23 |
| 14. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
48.89 |
1.0297 |
0.1018 |
249 |
1 |
48.89 |
2009-06-07 |
| 15. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
48.87 |
0.8887 |
0.2576 |
128 |
2 |
47.88 |
2009-05-14 |
| 16. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
48.37 |
0.9576 |
0.1675 |
212 |
2 |
39.53 |
2009-05-23 |
| 17. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
48.16 |
0.8919 |
0.2220 |
205 |
2 |
45.39 |
2010-04-06 |
| 18. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
48.15 |
0.9805 |
0.1395 |
292 |
1 |
48.15 |
2009-05-29 |
| 19. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
48.02 |
1.0138 |
0.0981 |
231 |
1 |
48.02 |
2009-05-29 |
| 20. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
47.98 |
1.0252 |
0.0797 |
176 |
1 |
47.98 |
2009-12-18 |
| 21. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
47.90 |
0.9697 |
0.1400 |
249 |
1 |
47.90 |
2009-06-04 |
| 22. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
47.84 |
1.1016 |
0.0066 |
233 |
1 |
47.84 |
2009-05-19 |
| 23. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
47.74 |
1.0263 |
0.0787 |
267 |
1 |
47.74 |
2009-06-04 |
| 24. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
47.55 |
1.0004 |
0.0948 |
212 |
1 |
47.55 |
2009-05-22 |
| 25. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
47.35 |
0.9893 |
0.1074 |
323 |
3 |
45.40 |
2009-05-19 |
| 26. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
47.00 |
0.8890 |
0.1958 |
199 |
2 |
43.37 |
2009-06-04 |
| 27. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
46.80 |
1.0099 |
0.0709 |
207 |
2 |
45.17 |
2009-05-22 |
| 28. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
46.73 |
0.9734 |
0.1084 |
289 |
1 |
46.73 |
2009-05-22 |
| 29. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
46.64 |
1.0124 |
0.0652 |
204 |
3 |
44.68 |
2009-05-22 |
| 30. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
46.42 |
1.0109 |
0.0647 |
276 |
2 |
44.17 |
2009-06-16 |
| 31. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
46.23 |
1.0829 |
-0.0110 |
288 |
1 |
46.23 |
2009-05-29 |
| 32. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
46.12 |
1.0523 |
0.0112 |
256 |
1 |
46.12 |
2009-05-14 |
| 33. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
45.84 |
1.0619 |
0.0030 |
354 |
1 |
45.84 |
2009-05-29 |
| 34. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
45.84 |
1.0125 |
0.0465 |
224 |
2 |
44.19 |
2009-05-29 |
| 35. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
45.72 |
1.0696 |
-0.0147 |
226 |
1 |
45.72 |
2009-05-19 |
| 36. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
45.66 |
1.0183 |
0.0331 |
191 |
2 |
33.77 |
2009-05-20 |
| 37. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
45.46 |
0.8971 |
0.1605 |
266 |
2 |
43.37 |
2009-05-29 |
| 38. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
45.21 |
0.9339 |
0.1111 |
310 |
2 |
44.72 |
2009-05-22 |
| 39. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
45.12 |
0.9866 |
0.0541 |
218 |
2 |
42.79 |
2009-06-16 |
| 40. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
45.01 |
0.9772 |
0.0611 |
217 |
1 |
45.01 |
2009-05-12 |
| 41. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
44.89 |
0.9886 |
0.0529 |
220 |
2 |
38.65 |
2009-06-04 |
| 42. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
44.86 |
1.0993 |
-0.0631 |
265 |
1 |
44.86 |
2009-05-14 |
| 43. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
44.79 |
0.9266 |
0.1101 |
267 |
3 |
41.48 |
2009-06-30 |
| 44. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
44.76 |
1.1114 |
-0.0782 |
247 |
1 |
44.76 |
2009-05-23 |
| 45. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
44.65 |
0.9257 |
0.1132 |
317 |
1 |
44.65 |
2009-05-14 |
| 46. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
44.49 |
0.9527 |
0.0768 |
251 |
1 |
44.49 |
2009-05-27 |
| 47. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
44.45 |
0.9068 |
0.1249 |
269 |
2 |
41.90 |
2009-05-29 |
| 48. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
44.38 |
0.9965 |
0.0257 |
168 |
1 |
44.38 |
2009-05-14 |
| 49. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
44.26 |
0.9786 |
0.0451 |
235 |
1 |
44.26 |
2009-05-24 |
| 50. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
44.23 |
0.8653 |
0.1695 |
255 |
2 |
43.34 |
2009-05-19 |
| 51. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
44.22 |
0.9941 |
0.0268 |
217 |
2 |
43.11 |
2009-05-19 |
| 52. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
44.17 |
0.9316 |
0.0965 |
287 |
3 |
43.01 |
2009-05-19 |
| 53. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
44.01 |
0.8602 |
0.1560 |
206 |
2 |
39.74 |
2009-05-29 |
| 54. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
43.98 |
0.9846 |
0.0320 |
281 |
2 |
41.03 |
2009-05-27 |
| 55. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
43.89 |
0.9798 |
0.0301 |
199 |
1 |
43.89 |
2009-05-22 |
| 56. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
43.89 |
0.9281 |
0.0926 |
273 |
1 |
43.89 |
2009-05-19 |
| 57. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
43.83 |
0.9691 |
0.0446 |
223 |
1 |
43.83 |
2009-06-07 |
| 58. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
43.67 |
0.9411 |
0.0701 |
318 |
1 |
43.67 |
2009-05-19 |
| 59. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
43.60 |
0.9514 |
0.0577 |
237 |
2 |
40.58 |
2009-06-04 |
| 60. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
43.57 |
1.0218 |
-0.0166 |
268 |
1 |
43.57 |
2009-05-22 |
| 61. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
43.54 |
0.9884 |
0.0182 |
233 |
1 |
43.54 |
2009-05-15 |
| 62. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
43.45 |
1.0201 |
-0.0145 |
303 |
1 |
43.45 |
2009-06-04 |
| 63. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
43.36 |
1.0203 |
-0.0138 |
261 |
5 |
42.07 |
2009-06-04 |
| 64. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
43.23 |
0.9635 |
0.0420 |
389 |
1 |
43.23 |
2009-05-22 |
| 65. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
43.14 |
1.0389 |
-0.0392 |
318 |
1 |
43.14 |
2009-06-18 |
| 66. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
43.05 |
0.9897 |
0.0039 |
274 |
1 |
43.05 |
2009-05-29 |
| 67. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
42.94 |
0.9168 |
0.0778 |
240 |
1 |
42.94 |
2009-05-22 |
| 68. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
42.92 |
0.9202 |
0.0719 |
254 |
2 |
41.69 |
2009-05-20 |
| 69. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
42.84 |
0.9128 |
0.0837 |
133 |
2 |
41.66 |
2009-05-19 |
| 70. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
42.81 |
0.9844 |
0.0107 |
293 |
2 |
40.66 |
2009-05-29 |
| 71. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
42.66 |
1.0666 |
-0.0798 |
297 |
1 |
42.66 |
2009-05-22 |
| 72. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
42.57 |
0.9226 |
0.0683 |
348 |
1 |
42.57 |
2009-06-04 |
| 73. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
42.48 |
0.8810 |
0.1023 |
282 |
1 |
42.48 |
2009-05-23 |
| 74. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
42.47 |
0.9857 |
-0.0044 |
293 |
1 |
42.47 |
2009-05-12 |
| 75. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
42.42 |
1.0797 |
-0.1042 |
210 |
2 |
40.27 |
2009-06-27 |
| 76. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
42.42 |
0.9048 |
0.0809 |
271 |
3 |
39.71 |
2009-06-18 |
| 77. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
42.33 |
0.9429 |
0.0374 |
287 |
1 |
42.33 |
2009-05-19 |
| 78. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
42.33 |
0.9964 |
-0.0173 |
203 |
3 |
37.31 |
2009-05-15 |
| 79. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
42.31 |
1.0385 |
-0.0618 |
230 |
1 |
42.31 |
2009-05-14 |
| 80. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
42.17 |
0.8722 |
0.1060 |
285 |
3 |
41.00 |
2009-06-04 |
| 81. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
42.15 |
1.0095 |
-0.0358 |
316 |
2 |
41.76 |
2009-05-22 |
| 82. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
42.15 |
1.0063 |
-0.0311 |
371 |
1 |
42.15 |
2009-05-15 |
| 83. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
42.14 |
1.0799 |
-0.1090 |
243 |
1 |
42.14 |
2009-05-13 |
| 84. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
42.04 |
1.0555 |
-0.0819 |
363 |
1 |
42.04 |
2009-05-15 |
| 85. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
42.03 |
0.9820 |
-0.0072 |
267 |
1 |
42.03 |
2009-05-25 |
| 86. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
42.01 |
0.9710 |
-0.0060 |
173 |
1 |
42.01 |
2009-05-22 |
| 87. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
41.99 |
0.9572 |
0.0127 |
201 |
1 |
41.99 |
2009-05-23 |
| 88. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
41.97 |
1.0429 |
-0.0737 |
259 |
1 |
41.97 |
2009-05-14 |
| 89. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
41.91 |
0.9109 |
0.0609 |
401 |
2 |
40.00 |
2009-05-29 |
| 90. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
41.91 |
1.0795 |
-0.0798 |
226 |
1 |
41.91 |
2009-12-18 |
| 91. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
41.34 |
1.0214 |
-0.0673 |
269 |
2 |
40.47 |
2009-05-19 |
| 92. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
41.18 |
0.9365 |
0.0170 |
248 |
1 |
41.18 |
2009-05-29 |
| 93. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
41.09 |
1.0261 |
-0.0781 |
273 |
1 |
41.09 |
2009-05-19 |
| 94. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
41.07 |
1.0292 |
-0.0810 |
262 |
1 |
41.07 |
2009-05-19 |
| 95. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
40.80 |
0.9540 |
-0.0126 |
285 |
1 |
40.80 |
2009-06-16 |
| 96. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
40.39 |
0.9293 |
0.0050 |
355 |
1 |
40.39 |
2009-05-22 |
| 97. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
40.37 |
0.9286 |
0.0035 |
194 |
1 |
40.37 |
2009-05-15 |
| 98. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
40.34 |
0.8941 |
0.0403 |
216 |
1 |
40.34 |
2009-05-19 |
| 99. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
40.32 |
0.8811 |
0.0554 |
239 |
2 |
40.12 |
2009-05-24 |
| 100. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
40.23 |
0.8615 |
0.0684 |
110 |
1 |
40.23 |
2009-05-19 |
| 101. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
40.19 |
0.9946 |
-0.0659 |
246 |
1 |
40.19 |
2009-05-15 |
| 102. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
39.99 |
1.0714 |
-0.1561 |
129 |
1 |
39.99 |
2009-05-14 |
| 103. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
39.90 |
0.8956 |
0.0291 |
217 |
1 |
39.90 |
2009-05-15 |
| 104. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
39.90 |
1.0120 |
-0.0907 |
290 |
1 |
39.90 |
2009-05-12 |
| 105. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
39.65 |
0.9226 |
-0.0026 |
177 |
1 |
39.65 |
2009-05-12 |
| 106. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
39.23 |
0.9786 |
-0.0774 |
193 |
2 |
38.41 |
2009-05-19 |
| 107. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
39.08 |
0.8961 |
0.0033 |
189 |
1 |
39.08 |
2009-05-24 |
| 108. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
38.85 |
0.9196 |
-0.0204 |
148 |
1 |
38.85 |
2009-05-19 |
| 109. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
38.49 |
0.8442 |
0.0488 |
265 |
1 |
38.49 |
2009-05-22 |
| 110. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
38.34 |
0.9646 |
-0.0800 |
264 |
1 |
38.34 |
2009-05-14 |
| 111. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
38.26 |
0.8809 |
0.0005 |
127 |
2 |
34.13 |
2009-05-14 |
| 112. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
38.22 |
0.9758 |
-0.0924 |
314 |
1 |
38.22 |
2009-05-12 |
| 113. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
38.15 |
1.0396 |
-0.1657 |
149 |
1 |
38.15 |
2009-05-15 |
| 114. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
38.10 |
0.8975 |
-0.0171 |
268 |
1 |
38.10 |
2009-05-12 |
| 115. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
37.99 |
0.9213 |
-0.0435 |
295 |
2 |
37.89 |
2009-05-20 |
| 116. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
37.97 |
1.0331 |
-0.1585 |
234 |
1 |
37.97 |
2009-05-12 |
| 117. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
37.76 |
0.9275 |
-0.0589 |
211 |
1 |
37.76 |
2009-05-12 |
| 118. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
37.70 |
0.9049 |
-0.0290 |
351 |
1 |
37.70 |
2009-05-29 |
| 119. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
37.66 |
0.8382 |
0.0319 |
268 |
2 |
37.17 |
2009-05-29 |
| 120. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
37.54 |
0.9148 |
-0.0466 |
317 |
1 |
37.54 |
2009-12-28 |
| 121. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
37.44 |
0.9485 |
-0.0824 |
236 |
1 |
37.44 |
2009-05-19 |
| 122. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
37.40 |
0.8353 |
0.0357 |
283 |
1 |
37.40 |
2009-05-22 |
| 123. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
37.30 |
0.9532 |
-0.0934 |
258 |
1 |
37.30 |
2009-05-19 |
| 124. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
37.19 |
0.8770 |
-0.0152 |
300 |
1 |
37.19 |
2009-05-15 |
| 125. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
36.70 |
0.9612 |
-0.1141 |
256 |
1 |
36.70 |
2009-05-12 |
| 126. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
36.28 |
0.9578 |
-0.1211 |
281 |
1 |
36.28 |
2009-05-15 |
| 127. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
35.93 |
0.8826 |
-0.0522 |
296 |
1 |
35.93 |
2009-05-21 |
| 128. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
35.89 |
1.0361 |
-0.2070 |
269 |
1 |
35.89 |
2009-05-14 |
| 129. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
35.33 |
0.8154 |
0.0014 |
193 |
1 |
35.33 |
2009-05-19 |
| 130. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
35.28 |
1.0025 |
-0.1888 |
256 |
1 |
35.28 |
2009-05-19 |
| 131. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
34.92 |
0.9084 |
-0.0989 |
404 |
1 |
34.92 |
2009-05-14 |
| 132. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
34.90 |
0.9776 |
-0.1725 |
308 |
1 |
34.90 |
2009-05-19 |
| 133. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
34.61 |
0.9260 |
-0.1175 |
243 |
1 |
34.61 |
2009-05-19 |
| 134. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
34.49 |
1.0596 |
-0.2664 |
239 |
1 |
34.49 |
2009-05-29 |
| 135. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
33.87 |
0.9740 |
-0.1973 |
209 |
1 |
33.87 |
2009-05-13 |
| 136. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
33.34 |
0.9084 |
-0.1383 |
300 |
1 |
33.34 |
2009-05-12 |
| 137. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
33.01 |
1.0213 |
-0.2639 |
240 |
1 |
33.01 |
2009-05-19 |
| 138. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
32.16 |
0.8709 |
-0.1223 |
202 |
1 |
32.16 |
2009-05-14 |
| 139. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
31.53 |
0.8105 |
-0.0889 |
204 |
1 |
31.53 |
2009-05-22 |