| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
71.18 |
1.1114 |
0.1723 |
247 |
1 |
71.18 |
2008-12-03 |
| 2. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
70.26 |
1.0419 |
0.2277 |
261 |
3 |
63.76 |
2008-12-02 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
67.63 |
1.1018 |
0.1134 |
220 |
1 |
67.63 |
2008-11-11 |
| 4. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
67.32 |
1.0297 |
0.1850 |
249 |
1 |
67.32 |
2008-11-19 |
| 5. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
65.81 |
1.0799 |
0.1048 |
243 |
2 |
60.73 |
2008-11-24 |
| 6. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
65.51 |
0.9724 |
0.2141 |
237 |
1 |
65.51 |
2008-11-10 |
| 7. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
64.96 |
1.0390 |
0.1300 |
205 |
1 |
64.96 |
2008-11-12 |
| 8. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
63.85 |
1.0797 |
0.0673 |
210 |
3 |
61.58 |
2008-11-12 |
| 9. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
63.48 |
1.1016 |
0.0443 |
233 |
1 |
63.48 |
2010-08-16 |
| 10. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
63.19 |
1.0214 |
0.1137 |
166 |
3 |
59.04 |
2008-11-19 |
| 11. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
63.15 |
0.9691 |
0.1702 |
223 |
2 |
60.02 |
2008-12-01 |
| 12. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
63.09 |
1.0711 |
0.0625 |
213 |
2 |
58.53 |
2008-11-18 |
| 13. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
63.05 |
1.0613 |
0.0817 |
456 |
1 |
63.05 |
2008-11-11 |
| 14. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
62.81 |
1.0477 |
0.0883 |
360 |
2 |
60.67 |
2008-11-17 |
| 15. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
62.77 |
1.0131 |
0.1159 |
225 |
1 |
62.77 |
2008-11-19 |
| 16. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
62.74 |
0.9785 |
0.1570 |
335 |
1 |
62.74 |
2008-11-10 |
| 17. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
62.73 |
1.0696 |
0.0590 |
226 |
1 |
62.73 |
2008-11-18 |
| 18. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
62.18 |
1.0331 |
0.0868 |
234 |
1 |
62.18 |
2008-12-02 |
| 19. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
62.17 |
1.0666 |
0.0554 |
297 |
1 |
62.17 |
2008-11-19 |
| 20. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
62.10 |
1.0498 |
0.0660 |
180 |
1 |
62.10 |
2008-11-11 |
| 21. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
61.89 |
0.9597 |
0.1612 |
347 |
1 |
61.89 |
2008-11-19 |
| 22. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
61.65 |
1.0668 |
0.0481 |
350 |
1 |
61.65 |
2008-11-19 |
| 23. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
61.39 |
0.9943 |
0.1166 |
373 |
1 |
61.39 |
2010-08-16 |
| 24. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
61.04 |
1.0095 |
0.0907 |
316 |
1 |
61.04 |
2008-11-19 |
| 25. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
60.65 |
1.0767 |
0.0153 |
212 |
1 |
60.65 |
2011-05-23 |
| 26. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
60.58 |
0.9734 |
0.1192 |
289 |
1 |
60.58 |
2008-11-17 |
| 27. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
60.54 |
1.0389 |
0.0550 |
318 |
1 |
60.54 |
2008-11-12 |
| 28. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
60.44 |
1.0013 |
0.0881 |
273 |
1 |
60.44 |
2008-11-18 |
| 29. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
60.06 |
1.0214 |
0.0603 |
269 |
1 |
60.06 |
2008-11-11 |
| 30. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
60.00 |
0.9646 |
0.1168 |
264 |
2 |
59.36 |
2008-11-21 |
| 31. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
59.85 |
0.9986 |
0.0816 |
283 |
1 |
59.85 |
2008-11-18 |
| 32. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
59.76 |
1.0251 |
0.0506 |
261 |
1 |
59.76 |
2008-11-18 |
| 33. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
59.30 |
1.0496 |
0.0192 |
314 |
1 |
59.30 |
2008-11-10 |
| 34. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
59.18 |
0.9936 |
0.0734 |
311 |
2 |
55.85 |
2008-12-03 |
| 35. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
59.15 |
0.9846 |
0.0811 |
281 |
1 |
59.15 |
2008-11-19 |
| 36. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
59.12 |
1.0417 |
0.0220 |
253 |
2 |
54.41 |
2008-12-01 |
| 37. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
58.86 |
1.0062 |
0.0553 |
288 |
1 |
58.86 |
2008-11-18 |
| 38. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
58.57 |
0.9897 |
0.0642 |
274 |
1 |
58.57 |
2008-11-19 |
| 39. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
58.47 |
1.0368 |
0.0185 |
276 |
1 |
58.47 |
2008-11-17 |
| 40. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
58.43 |
1.0462 |
0.0013 |
184 |
1 |
58.43 |
2008-11-11 |
| 41. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
58.28 |
1.0385 |
0.0106 |
230 |
2 |
52.51 |
2008-12-01 |
| 42. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
58.12 |
0.9894 |
0.0630 |
323 |
1 |
58.12 |
2008-11-18 |
| 43. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
58.03 |
1.0389 |
0.0098 |
340 |
2 |
55.93 |
2008-11-18 |
| 44. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
57.93 |
0.9729 |
0.0718 |
255 |
1 |
57.93 |
2008-11-12 |
| 45. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
57.87 |
0.9636 |
0.0797 |
254 |
1 |
57.87 |
2008-11-12 |
| 46. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
57.56 |
0.9576 |
0.0848 |
212 |
1 |
57.56 |
2008-11-10 |
| 47. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
57.53 |
1.0029 |
0.0279 |
209 |
1 |
57.53 |
2008-11-11 |
| 48. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
57.50 |
0.9426 |
0.0972 |
317 |
3 |
54.41 |
2008-11-18 |
| 49. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
57.09 |
1.0796 |
-0.0552 |
129 |
1 |
57.09 |
2010-08-16 |
| 50. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
57.08 |
1.0211 |
0.0386 |
213 |
1 |
57.08 |
2011-05-23 |
| 51. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
56.94 |
0.9697 |
0.0569 |
249 |
1 |
56.94 |
2008-11-12 |
| 52. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
56.84 |
1.0740 |
-0.0111 |
264 |
1 |
56.84 |
2010-08-16 |
| 53. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
56.74 |
1.0619 |
-0.0355 |
354 |
1 |
56.74 |
2008-11-06 |
| 54. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
56.70 |
1.0004 |
0.0156 |
212 |
2 |
53.02 |
2008-11-18 |
| 55. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
56.59 |
1.0885 |
-0.0651 |
315 |
1 |
56.59 |
2008-11-11 |
| 56. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
56.32 |
1.0068 |
0.0116 |
358 |
2 |
55.32 |
2008-11-21 |
| 57. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
55.77 |
0.9886 |
0.0190 |
220 |
1 |
55.77 |
2008-11-10 |
| 58. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
55.74 |
0.9266 |
0.0780 |
267 |
2 |
50.55 |
2008-11-10 |
| 59. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
55.65 |
0.9879 |
0.0237 |
450 |
1 |
55.65 |
2008-11-17 |
| 60. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
55.61 |
0.9342 |
0.0715 |
434 |
1 |
55.61 |
2008-11-12 |
| 61. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
55.49 |
1.0795 |
-0.0490 |
226 |
1 |
55.49 |
2010-08-16 |
| 62. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
55.46 |
0.9831 |
0.0243 |
469 |
1 |
55.46 |
2008-11-21 |
| 63. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
55.45 |
1.0183 |
-0.0247 |
191 |
1 |
55.45 |
2008-11-17 |
| 64. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
55.43 |
0.9339 |
0.0635 |
310 |
1 |
55.43 |
2008-11-18 |
| 65. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
55.38 |
1.0529 |
-0.0550 |
351 |
2 |
54.38 |
2008-11-19 |
| 66. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
55.33 |
1.0349 |
-0.0385 |
234 |
3 |
53.50 |
2008-11-12 |
| 67. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
55.15 |
1.0340 |
-0.0350 |
406 |
1 |
55.15 |
2008-11-10 |
| 68. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
55.13 |
1.0613 |
-0.0670 |
266 |
1 |
55.13 |
2008-11-17 |
| 69. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
55.02 |
0.9532 |
0.0369 |
258 |
2 |
53.02 |
2008-11-19 |
| 70. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
54.94 |
1.0053 |
-0.0174 |
232 |
1 |
54.94 |
2008-11-21 |
| 71. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
54.20 |
0.9865 |
-0.0090 |
276 |
1 |
54.20 |
2008-11-06 |
| 72. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
53.92 |
0.9758 |
-0.0038 |
314 |
1 |
53.92 |
2008-11-17 |
| 73. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
53.72 |
0.9226 |
0.0514 |
348 |
1 |
53.72 |
2008-11-10 |
| 74. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
53.60 |
0.9365 |
0.0304 |
248 |
1 |
53.60 |
2008-11-17 |
| 75. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
53.59 |
1.0296 |
-0.0579 |
437 |
1 |
53.59 |
2011-05-23 |
| 76. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
53.57 |
0.9281 |
0.0419 |
273 |
1 |
53.57 |
2008-11-06 |
| 77. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
53.40 |
1.0352 |
-0.0708 |
341 |
1 |
53.40 |
2008-11-17 |
| 78. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
53.33 |
1.0714 |
-0.1197 |
129 |
1 |
53.33 |
2008-11-07 |
| 79. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
53.28 |
0.9557 |
0.0102 |
331 |
1 |
53.28 |
2008-12-02 |
| 80. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
53.24 |
0.9863 |
-0.0230 |
339 |
1 |
53.24 |
2008-11-18 |
| 81. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
53.20 |
0.9429 |
0.0166 |
287 |
1 |
53.20 |
2008-11-18 |
| 82. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
53.02 |
0.9500 |
0.0071 |
362 |
1 |
53.02 |
2008-11-18 |
| 83. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
52.96 |
0.9675 |
-0.0042 |
383 |
1 |
52.96 |
2008-12-02 |
| 84. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
52.81 |
1.0669 |
-0.0829 |
213 |
1 |
52.81 |
2010-08-16 |
| 85. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
52.80 |
0.8919 |
0.0573 |
205 |
1 |
52.80 |
2008-11-11 |
| 86. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
52.55 |
1.0201 |
-0.0806 |
172 |
1 |
52.55 |
2008-11-18 |
| 87. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
52.55 |
0.9946 |
-0.0485 |
246 |
1 |
52.55 |
2010-08-16 |
| 88. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
52.07 |
0.9635 |
-0.0205 |
389 |
1 |
52.07 |
2008-12-01 |
| 89. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
52.04 |
0.9513 |
-0.0105 |
354 |
2 |
49.90 |
2008-12-01 |
| 90. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
51.88 |
0.8890 |
0.0415 |
199 |
1 |
51.88 |
2008-11-20 |
| 91. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
51.83 |
0.9464 |
-0.0081 |
323 |
1 |
51.83 |
2008-11-07 |
| 92. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
51.73 |
0.8996 |
0.0262 |
192 |
1 |
51.73 |
2008-11-19 |
| 93. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
51.33 |
0.9964 |
-0.0723 |
203 |
1 |
51.33 |
2008-11-06 |
| 94. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
51.26 |
0.9776 |
-0.0546 |
308 |
1 |
51.26 |
2008-11-10 |
| 95. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
51.09 |
0.9899 |
-0.0749 |
163 |
1 |
51.09 |
2008-11-12 |
| 96. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
51.07 |
0.9672 |
-0.0414 |
396 |
1 |
51.07 |
2008-11-17 |
| 97. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
50.98 |
0.9045 |
0.0135 |
235 |
2 |
48.56 |
2008-11-11 |
| 98. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
50.89 |
0.9682 |
-0.0541 |
143 |
1 |
50.89 |
2008-11-17 |
| 99. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
50.73 |
0.9756 |
-0.0638 |
229 |
1 |
50.73 |
2008-11-18 |
| 100. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
50.42 |
0.9309 |
-0.0254 |
284 |
1 |
50.42 |
2008-11-11 |
| 101. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
50.38 |
0.9795 |
-0.0728 |
308 |
1 |
50.38 |
2008-11-12 |
| 102. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
50.34 |
0.8951 |
0.0131 |
193 |
1 |
50.34 |
2008-11-18 |
| 103. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
50.21 |
0.9485 |
-0.0432 |
236 |
1 |
50.21 |
2008-11-11 |
| 104. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
49.98 |
0.9941 |
-0.0971 |
217 |
1 |
49.98 |
2008-11-17 |
| 105. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
49.83 |
1.0787 |
-0.1833 |
237 |
1 |
49.83 |
2008-11-12 |
| 106. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
49.78 |
0.9233 |
-0.0358 |
168 |
1 |
49.78 |
2008-12-01 |
| 107. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
49.47 |
0.9330 |
-0.0363 |
360 |
1 |
49.47 |
2008-11-17 |
| 108. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
49.36 |
1.0445 |
-0.1555 |
373 |
2 |
47.50 |
2008-11-07 |
| 109. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
49.23 |
0.9857 |
-0.1010 |
293 |
1 |
49.23 |
2008-11-07 |
| 110. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
49.12 |
1.0483 |
-0.1676 |
227 |
1 |
49.12 |
2008-11-11 |
| 111. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
49.09 |
0.8602 |
0.0208 |
206 |
1 |
49.09 |
2011-05-23 |
| 112. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
48.94 |
0.9005 |
-0.0216 |
212 |
1 |
48.94 |
2008-11-12 |
| 113. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
48.60 |
0.8553 |
0.0138 |
174 |
2 |
48.56 |
2008-11-12 |
| 114. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
48.06 |
0.9866 |
-0.1259 |
218 |
1 |
48.06 |
2008-11-05 |
| 115. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
48.02 |
1.0261 |
-0.1644 |
273 |
1 |
48.02 |
2008-11-05 |
| 116. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
47.71 |
0.9234 |
-0.0600 |
346 |
1 |
47.71 |
2008-11-06 |
| 117. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
47.41 |
0.8382 |
0.0148 |
268 |
1 |
47.41 |
2008-11-11 |
| 118. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
47.27 |
0.9622 |
-0.1059 |
392 |
1 |
47.27 |
2008-11-11 |
| 119. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
46.96 |
0.8947 |
-0.0455 |
366 |
1 |
46.96 |
2008-11-10 |
| 120. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
46.31 |
1.0099 |
-0.1804 |
207 |
1 |
46.31 |
2008-11-10 |
| 121. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
46.14 |
1.0567 |
-0.2268 |
303 |
1 |
46.14 |
2010-08-16 |
| 122. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
45.90 |
0.9514 |
-0.1262 |
237 |
1 |
45.90 |
2008-11-07 |
| 123. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
45.82 |
0.9772 |
-0.1572 |
217 |
1 |
45.82 |
2008-11-19 |
| 124. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
45.29 |
0.9578 |
-0.1445 |
281 |
1 |
45.29 |
2008-11-07 |
| 125. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
44.72 |
0.9286 |
-0.1262 |
194 |
1 |
44.72 |
2008-11-06 |
| 126. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
44.66 |
0.9289 |
-0.1289 |
204 |
1 |
44.66 |
2008-11-17 |
| 127. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
44.24 |
0.9731 |
-0.1910 |
129 |
1 |
44.24 |
2008-11-06 |
| 128. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
43.90 |
0.8933 |
-0.0985 |
363 |
1 |
43.90 |
2008-11-06 |
| 129. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
43.61 |
0.9084 |
-0.1235 |
300 |
1 |
43.61 |
2008-11-10 |
| 130. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
41.93 |
0.8826 |
-0.1287 |
296 |
1 |
41.93 |
2008-11-11 |
| 131. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
41.84 |
0.9763 |
-0.2260 |
289 |
1 |
41.84 |
2008-11-05 |
| 132. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
41.44 |
0.8941 |
-0.1486 |
216 |
1 |
41.44 |
2008-11-06 |
| 133. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
40.72 |
0.9884 |
-0.2588 |
233 |
1 |
40.72 |
2008-11-07 |
| 134. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
40.20 |
0.9351 |
-0.2197 |
190 |
1 |
40.20 |
2008-11-07 |