| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
95.63 |
1.1018 |
0.2112 |
220 |
2 |
90.53 |
2010-10-20 |
| 2. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
93.65 |
1.0252 |
0.2601 |
176 |
1 |
93.65 |
2010-10-20 |
| 3. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
92.49 |
1.0368 |
0.2397 |
276 |
1 |
92.49 |
2010-10-19 |
| 4. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
92.25 |
1.0398 |
0.2220 |
110 |
2 |
81.63 |
2010-10-20 |
| 5. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
91.44 |
1.0334 |
0.2211 |
131 |
4 |
76.54 |
2010-10-19 |
| 6. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
91.01 |
1.1215 |
0.1575 |
200 |
1 |
91.01 |
2010-10-17 |
| 7. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
90.32 |
1.0429 |
0.2011 |
259 |
3 |
82.30 |
2010-10-25 |
| 8. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
86.91 |
1.0189 |
0.1823 |
337 |
1 |
86.91 |
2010-10-19 |
| 9. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
86.55 |
0.9965 |
0.1967 |
310 |
1 |
86.55 |
2010-10-07 |
| 10. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
86.53 |
1.0214 |
0.1695 |
269 |
1 |
86.53 |
2010-10-17 |
| 11. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
86.16 |
1.0214 |
0.1606 |
166 |
1 |
86.16 |
2010-10-07 |
| 12. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
85.94 |
0.9632 |
0.2635 |
345 |
1 |
85.94 |
2010-10-20 |
| 13. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
85.61 |
1.1296 |
0.0793 |
252 |
1 |
85.61 |
2010-10-15 |
| 14. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
85.12 |
1.0034 |
0.1680 |
302 |
1 |
85.12 |
2010-10-07 |
| 15. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
84.74 |
0.9710 |
0.1901 |
173 |
1 |
84.74 |
2010-10-07 |
| 16. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
84.59 |
0.9820 |
0.1838 |
274 |
1 |
84.59 |
2010-10-17 |
| 17. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
83.98 |
1.0445 |
0.1135 |
373 |
1 |
83.98 |
2010-10-20 |
| 18. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
83.61 |
1.0621 |
0.1092 |
263 |
1 |
83.61 |
2010-10-07 |
| 19. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
83.42 |
1.0151 |
0.1257 |
152 |
1 |
83.42 |
2010-10-20 |
| 20. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
82.85 |
1.0337 |
0.1070 |
214 |
1 |
82.85 |
2010-10-07 |
| 21. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
82.54 |
1.0498 |
0.0824 |
180 |
2 |
81.07 |
2010-10-23 |
| 22. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
82.41 |
1.0677 |
0.0979 |
284 |
2 |
81.23 |
2010-10-15 |
| 23. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
82.24 |
1.0131 |
0.1158 |
225 |
1 |
82.24 |
2010-10-07 |
| 24. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
82.10 |
0.9504 |
0.1751 |
263 |
1 |
82.10 |
2010-10-16 |
| 25. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
82.00 |
0.9941 |
0.1330 |
217 |
1 |
82.00 |
2010-10-15 |
| 26. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
81.74 |
1.0944 |
0.0762 |
308 |
2 |
77.60 |
2010-10-15 |
| 27. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
81.73 |
0.9461 |
0.1758 |
193 |
1 |
81.73 |
2010-10-25 |
| 28. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
81.71 |
1.0025 |
0.1238 |
336 |
2 |
79.47 |
2010-10-23 |
| 29. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
80.79 |
0.9601 |
0.1572 |
308 |
1 |
80.79 |
2010-10-19 |
| 30. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
80.77 |
0.9309 |
0.1795 |
284 |
2 |
72.50 |
2010-10-14 |
| 31. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
80.38 |
1.0033 |
0.0969 |
189 |
1 |
80.38 |
2010-10-20 |
| 32. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
80.37 |
0.9279 |
0.1854 |
317 |
1 |
80.37 |
2010-10-15 |
| 33. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
79.98 |
0.9045 |
0.1971 |
235 |
1 |
79.98 |
2010-10-17 |
| 34. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
79.97 |
0.9965 |
0.0999 |
168 |
1 |
79.97 |
2010-10-15 |
| 35. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
79.67 |
0.9908 |
0.1521 |
342 |
1 |
79.67 |
2010-10-20 |
| 36. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
79.37 |
1.0619 |
0.0345 |
354 |
1 |
79.37 |
2010-10-08 |
| 37. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
79.30 |
1.0124 |
0.0771 |
204 |
1 |
79.30 |
2010-10-07 |
| 38. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
79.08 |
1.0390 |
0.0460 |
205 |
1 |
79.08 |
2010-10-20 |
| 39. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
78.65 |
1.0391 |
0.0498 |
358 |
2 |
78.18 |
2010-10-20 |
| 40. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
77.87 |
0.9907 |
0.0796 |
211 |
1 |
77.87 |
2010-10-15 |
| 41. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
77.86 |
1.0125 |
0.0971 |
413 |
1 |
77.86 |
2010-10-26 |
| 42. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
77.67 |
1.0261 |
0.0824 |
410 |
1 |
77.67 |
2010-10-20 |
| 43. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
77.65 |
1.0379 |
0.0659 |
245 |
1 |
77.65 |
2010-10-15 |
| 44. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
77.51 |
0.9127 |
0.1519 |
252 |
1 |
77.51 |
2010-10-19 |
| 45. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
77.09 |
1.0534 |
0.0099 |
357 |
1 |
77.09 |
2010-10-07 |
| 46. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
76.96 |
1.0608 |
0.0318 |
258 |
1 |
76.96 |
2010-10-17 |
| 47. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
76.68 |
1.0863 |
0.0039 |
210 |
1 |
76.68 |
2010-10-26 |
| 48. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
76.67 |
0.8947 |
0.1654 |
366 |
2 |
70.16 |
2010-10-17 |
| 49. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
76.25 |
1.0486 |
0.0016 |
289 |
1 |
76.25 |
2010-10-07 |
| 50. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
76.09 |
1.1081 |
-0.0264 |
206 |
1 |
76.09 |
2010-10-17 |
| 51. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
75.74 |
0.9863 |
0.0604 |
339 |
1 |
75.74 |
2010-10-17 |
| 52. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
75.39 |
0.9871 |
0.0725 |
227 |
1 |
75.39 |
2010-10-19 |
| 53. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
75.29 |
1.0125 |
0.0212 |
224 |
1 |
75.29 |
2010-10-15 |
| 54. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
74.86 |
0.9614 |
0.0716 |
292 |
1 |
74.86 |
2010-10-20 |
| 55. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
74.29 |
1.0396 |
-0.0247 |
149 |
1 |
74.29 |
2010-10-19 |
| 56. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
73.94 |
1.0264 |
0.0309 |
422 |
1 |
73.94 |
2010-10-25 |
| 57. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
73.38 |
0.9912 |
0.0451 |
237 |
1 |
73.38 |
2010-10-07 |
| 58. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
73.22 |
0.9811 |
0.0288 |
272 |
2 |
70.86 |
2010-10-25 |
| 59. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
72.75 |
1.0347 |
-0.0087 |
550 |
1 |
72.75 |
2010-10-20 |
| 60. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
72.66 |
0.8981 |
0.1059 |
393 |
2 |
62.41 |
2010-10-19 |
| 61. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
72.52 |
1.0796 |
-0.0870 |
129 |
1 |
72.52 |
2010-10-07 |
| 62. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
72.45 |
1.0487 |
-0.0573 |
231 |
1 |
72.45 |
2010-10-20 |
| 63. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
72.37 |
0.9376 |
0.0631 |
367 |
1 |
72.37 |
2010-10-17 |
| 64. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
71.84 |
0.9681 |
0.0281 |
378 |
1 |
71.84 |
2010-10-20 |
| 65. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
71.82 |
1.0083 |
0.0234 |
273 |
1 |
71.82 |
2010-10-15 |
| 66. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
71.39 |
0.9756 |
0.0048 |
229 |
1 |
71.39 |
2010-10-17 |
| 67. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
71.31 |
1.0095 |
-0.0301 |
316 |
1 |
71.31 |
2010-10-20 |
| 68. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
71.23 |
0.9364 |
0.0831 |
351 |
1 |
71.23 |
2010-10-19 |
| 69. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
71.13 |
0.9865 |
-0.0074 |
276 |
1 |
71.13 |
2010-10-15 |
| 70. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
70.98 |
1.0025 |
-0.0267 |
256 |
1 |
70.98 |
2010-10-15 |
| 71. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
70.71 |
0.9120 |
0.0934 |
436 |
1 |
70.71 |
2010-10-14 |
| 72. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
70.70 |
0.9769 |
-0.0070 |
263 |
1 |
70.70 |
2010-10-15 |
| 73. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
70.51 |
0.9087 |
0.0714 |
393 |
1 |
70.51 |
2010-10-20 |
| 74. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
70.15 |
0.9540 |
0.0086 |
285 |
1 |
70.15 |
2010-10-15 |
| 75. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
70.11 |
0.9776 |
-0.0136 |
308 |
2 |
67.12 |
2010-10-26 |
| 76. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
70.02 |
0.9239 |
0.0453 |
193 |
1 |
70.02 |
2010-10-07 |
| 77. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
69.89 |
1.0063 |
-0.0451 |
371 |
1 |
69.89 |
2011-10-14 |
| 78. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
69.89 |
1.0352 |
-0.0713 |
341 |
1 |
69.89 |
2010-10-16 |
| 79. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
69.57 |
0.9631 |
0.0445 |
345 |
1 |
69.57 |
2010-10-07 |
| 80. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
69.43 |
0.9673 |
0.0264 |
232 |
1 |
69.43 |
2010-10-15 |
| 81. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
69.07 |
0.9754 |
-0.0200 |
362 |
1 |
69.07 |
2010-10-16 |
| 82. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
68.82 |
1.0483 |
-0.1054 |
227 |
1 |
68.82 |
2010-10-23 |
| 83. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
68.53 |
0.9509 |
0.0293 |
225 |
1 |
68.53 |
2010-10-20 |
| 84. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
68.47 |
0.9894 |
-0.0440 |
323 |
2 |
66.77 |
2010-10-20 |
| 85. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
68.43 |
1.0389 |
-0.0961 |
340 |
1 |
68.43 |
2011-10-14 |
| 86. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
68.27 |
0.9365 |
0.0031 |
248 |
1 |
68.27 |
2010-10-15 |
| 87. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
68.21 |
0.9569 |
0.0074 |
410 |
1 |
68.21 |
2010-10-25 |
| 88. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
68.18 |
1.0799 |
-0.1467 |
243 |
1 |
68.18 |
2010-10-19 |
| 89. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
67.55 |
1.0328 |
-0.0665 |
356 |
1 |
67.55 |
2010-10-25 |
| 90. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
67.48 |
1.0515 |
-0.1262 |
250 |
1 |
67.48 |
2010-10-19 |
| 91. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
67.41 |
0.9844 |
-0.0534 |
293 |
1 |
67.41 |
2010-10-15 |
| 92. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
67.40 |
0.9513 |
-0.0214 |
354 |
2 |
63.94 |
2010-10-08 |
| 93. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
67.35 |
0.9709 |
-0.0045 |
397 |
1 |
67.35 |
2010-10-07 |
| 94. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
66.61 |
0.9852 |
-0.0698 |
264 |
1 |
66.61 |
2010-10-08 |
| 95. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
66.48 |
0.9632 |
-0.0435 |
392 |
1 |
66.48 |
2011-10-14 |
| 96. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
66.38 |
0.9855 |
-0.0403 |
258 |
1 |
66.38 |
2010-10-14 |
| 97. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
66.15 |
0.9646 |
-0.0568 |
264 |
1 |
66.15 |
2010-10-07 |
| 98. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
65.82 |
0.8914 |
0.0135 |
366 |
1 |
65.82 |
2010-10-19 |
| 99. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
65.78 |
0.9164 |
-0.0081 |
305 |
1 |
65.78 |
2010-10-16 |
| 100. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
65.68 |
0.9508 |
-0.0155 |
384 |
1 |
65.68 |
2010-10-08 |
| 101. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
65.65 |
0.9005 |
-0.0003 |
212 |
1 |
65.65 |
2010-10-17 |
| 102. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
65.65 |
0.9910 |
-0.0874 |
295 |
1 |
65.65 |
2010-10-15 |
| 103. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
65.51 |
0.9176 |
0.0159 |
267 |
2 |
61.54 |
2010-10-16 |
| 104. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
65.37 |
0.9841 |
-0.0825 |
334 |
1 |
65.37 |
2010-10-26 |
| 105. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
64.93 |
1.0031 |
-0.0779 |
304 |
1 |
64.93 |
2010-10-07 |
| 106. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
64.87 |
0.8105 |
0.0760 |
204 |
1 |
64.87 |
2010-10-16 |
| 107. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
64.30 |
1.0441 |
-0.1199 |
316 |
1 |
64.30 |
2010-10-07 |
| 108. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
63.68 |
0.8775 |
0.0003 |
443 |
1 |
63.68 |
2010-10-19 |
| 109. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
63.18 |
0.9148 |
-0.0461 |
317 |
1 |
63.18 |
2010-10-07 |
| 110. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
63.10 |
0.8753 |
0.0001 |
427 |
1 |
63.10 |
2010-10-25 |
| 111. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
62.72 |
0.9798 |
-0.1246 |
199 |
1 |
62.72 |
2011-10-14 |
| 112. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
62.45 |
0.9266 |
-0.0694 |
267 |
1 |
62.45 |
2010-10-07 |
| 113. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
62.19 |
0.8890 |
-0.0391 |
199 |
1 |
62.19 |
2010-10-16 |
| 114. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
61.99 |
1.0120 |
-0.1621 |
290 |
1 |
61.99 |
2010-10-15 |
| 115. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
61.63 |
1.0177 |
-0.1338 |
392 |
1 |
61.63 |
2010-10-25 |
| 116. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
61.47 |
0.9372 |
-0.0897 |
320 |
1 |
61.47 |
2010-10-20 |
| 117. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
61.24 |
0.8933 |
-0.0466 |
363 |
2 |
58.70 |
2010-10-23 |
| 118. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
61.07 |
0.9485 |
-0.1082 |
291 |
2 |
56.65 |
2010-10-20 |
| 119. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
61.06 |
0.9064 |
-0.0595 |
399 |
1 |
61.06 |
2010-10-08 |
| 120. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
60.79 |
0.7876 |
0.0490 |
316 |
1 |
60.79 |
2010-10-14 |
| 121. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
60.31 |
1.0211 |
-0.1631 |
213 |
1 |
60.31 |
2010-10-23 |
| 122. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
59.87 |
1.0346 |
-0.1714 |
244 |
1 |
59.87 |
2010-10-07 |
| 123. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
59.86 |
0.9342 |
-0.1097 |
434 |
1 |
59.86 |
2010-10-26 |
| 124. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
58.74 |
0.8722 |
-0.0639 |
285 |
1 |
58.74 |
2010-10-17 |
| 125. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
58.40 |
0.9731 |
-0.1849 |
129 |
1 |
58.40 |
2010-10-14 |
| 126. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
58.18 |
0.9675 |
-0.1604 |
383 |
1 |
58.18 |
2010-10-15 |
| 127. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
57.46 |
0.9293 |
-0.1409 |
355 |
1 |
57.46 |
2010-10-26 |
| 128. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
56.89 |
0.8595 |
-0.0780 |
242 |
1 |
56.89 |
2010-10-15 |
| 129. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
55.51 |
0.8958 |
-0.1308 |
322 |
2 |
53.62 |
2010-10-26 |
| 130. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
54.35 |
0.9578 |
-0.2140 |
281 |
1 |
54.35 |
2010-10-19 |
| 131. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
53.82 |
0.9216 |
-0.1458 |
255 |
1 |
53.82 |
2010-10-07 |
| 132. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
53.43 |
0.9049 |
-0.1680 |
351 |
2 |
53.41 |
2010-10-08 |
| 133. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
52.89 |
0.8353 |
-0.1039 |
283 |
1 |
52.89 |
2010-10-07 |
| 134. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
47.92 |
0.9668 |
-0.2695 |
383 |
1 |
47.92 |
2010-10-07 |
| 135. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
47.74 |
0.9233 |
-0.2794 |
168 |
1 |
47.74 |
2010-10-23 |
| 136. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
47.43 |
0.9371 |
-0.2503 |
318 |
1 |
47.43 |
2010-10-07 |
| 137. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
44.78 |
0.9461 |
-0.3354 |
276 |
1 |
44.78 |
2010-10-14 |