| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
96.13 |
1.0016 |
0.2931 |
218 |
1 |
96.13 |
2010-09-23 |
| 2. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
90.42 |
1.0602 |
0.1652 |
389 |
1 |
90.42 |
2010-09-22 |
| 3. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
90.28 |
1.1114 |
0.1054 |
247 |
1 |
90.28 |
2010-09-23 |
| 4. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
89.24 |
1.0131 |
0.1882 |
225 |
1 |
89.24 |
2010-09-23 |
| 5. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
88.94 |
1.0621 |
0.1584 |
263 |
1 |
88.94 |
2010-09-21 |
| 6. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
87.57 |
1.0368 |
0.1465 |
276 |
1 |
87.57 |
2010-09-23 |
| 7. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
87.49 |
0.9898 |
0.2297 |
353 |
1 |
87.49 |
2010-09-21 |
| 8. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
87.13 |
0.9907 |
0.1845 |
211 |
1 |
87.13 |
2010-09-22 |
| 9. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
87.10 |
1.0795 |
0.1270 |
226 |
1 |
87.10 |
2010-09-21 |
| 10. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
86.71 |
1.0565 |
0.1114 |
247 |
1 |
86.71 |
2010-09-23 |
| 11. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
85.72 |
1.1068 |
0.0909 |
393 |
1 |
85.72 |
2010-09-21 |
| 12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
85.47 |
1.0787 |
0.0737 |
237 |
1 |
85.47 |
2010-09-22 |
| 13. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
85.17 |
0.9820 |
0.1674 |
274 |
2 |
78.83 |
2010-09-23 |
| 14. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
84.63 |
0.9884 |
0.1579 |
262 |
1 |
84.63 |
2009-07-13 |
| 15. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
83.97 |
0.9881 |
0.1862 |
424 |
1 |
83.97 |
2010-09-21 |
| 16. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
83.82 |
0.9936 |
0.1377 |
311 |
1 |
83.82 |
2010-09-22 |
| 17. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
82.76 |
1.0060 |
0.1060 |
171 |
1 |
82.76 |
2009-07-13 |
| 18. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
81.49 |
1.0567 |
0.0439 |
303 |
1 |
81.49 |
2010-09-23 |
| 19. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
80.84 |
0.9710 |
0.1132 |
173 |
1 |
80.84 |
2009-07-13 |
| 20. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
80.82 |
0.9212 |
0.1723 |
323 |
1 |
80.82 |
2010-09-21 |
| 21. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
80.56 |
1.0109 |
0.0766 |
276 |
1 |
80.56 |
2010-09-21 |
| 22. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
80.41 |
1.0668 |
0.0205 |
350 |
1 |
80.41 |
2010-09-22 |
| 23. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
80.29 |
0.9965 |
0.0820 |
168 |
1 |
80.29 |
2010-09-23 |
| 24. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
80.24 |
1.0088 |
0.1124 |
396 |
1 |
80.24 |
2010-09-21 |
| 25. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
79.44 |
1.0292 |
0.0409 |
262 |
1 |
79.44 |
2010-09-21 |
| 26. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
79.42 |
0.9986 |
0.0734 |
283 |
1 |
79.42 |
2009-07-13 |
| 27. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
79.41 |
1.0349 |
0.0352 |
234 |
1 |
79.41 |
2010-09-23 |
| 28. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
79.17 |
1.0288 |
0.0716 |
300 |
1 |
79.17 |
2010-09-21 |
| 29. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
79.13 |
0.9243 |
0.1830 |
448 |
2 |
79.05 |
2010-09-23 |
| 30. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
79.10 |
0.9500 |
0.1191 |
362 |
1 |
79.10 |
2010-09-22 |
| 31. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
78.74 |
0.9884 |
0.0733 |
233 |
1 |
78.74 |
2010-09-21 |
| 32. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
78.72 |
0.9087 |
0.1642 |
393 |
2 |
76.07 |
2010-09-21 |
| 33. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
78.37 |
0.9991 |
0.0585 |
225 |
1 |
78.37 |
2010-09-22 |
| 34. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
77.41 |
0.8867 |
0.1622 |
241 |
1 |
77.41 |
2010-09-21 |
| 35. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
77.39 |
0.9612 |
0.0828 |
256 |
1 |
77.39 |
2009-07-13 |
| 36. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
76.97 |
0.9005 |
0.1360 |
212 |
1 |
76.97 |
2010-09-21 |
| 37. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
76.47 |
0.9212 |
0.1129 |
231 |
1 |
76.47 |
2010-09-23 |
| 38. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
76.23 |
1.0788 |
-0.0568 |
171 |
1 |
76.23 |
2009-07-13 |
| 39. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
75.97 |
1.0521 |
-0.0333 |
171 |
1 |
75.97 |
2010-09-21 |
| 40. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
75.90 |
1.0403 |
-0.0024 |
193 |
1 |
75.90 |
2010-09-21 |
| 41. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
75.57 |
0.9072 |
0.1094 |
237 |
1 |
75.57 |
2009-07-13 |
| 42. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
74.63 |
0.9675 |
0.0479 |
383 |
1 |
74.63 |
2009-07-13 |
| 43. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
74.37 |
0.9698 |
0.0656 |
397 |
1 |
74.37 |
2010-09-21 |
| 44. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
74.26 |
0.9665 |
0.0839 |
326 |
1 |
74.26 |
2010-09-22 |
| 45. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
73.75 |
0.9089 |
0.0883 |
342 |
1 |
73.75 |
2010-09-21 |
| 46. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
73.66 |
0.9904 |
0.0424 |
203 |
1 |
73.66 |
2010-09-21 |
| 47. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
73.44 |
0.9805 |
0.0139 |
292 |
1 |
73.44 |
2010-09-21 |
| 48. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
72.66 |
0.9843 |
-0.0102 |
234 |
1 |
72.66 |
2009-07-13 |
| 49. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
72.66 |
0.9846 |
-0.0073 |
281 |
1 |
72.66 |
2010-09-22 |
| 50. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
72.32 |
0.9966 |
-0.0227 |
259 |
1 |
72.32 |
2010-09-21 |
| 51. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
72.06 |
1.0885 |
-0.1145 |
315 |
1 |
72.06 |
2010-09-21 |
| 52. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
71.27 |
0.9546 |
0.0366 |
198 |
1 |
71.27 |
2010-09-23 |
| 53. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
70.11 |
0.8770 |
0.0705 |
300 |
2 |
56.16 |
2010-09-23 |
| 54. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
69.98 |
0.9128 |
0.0712 |
369 |
1 |
69.98 |
2010-09-23 |
| 55. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
69.56 |
0.9905 |
-0.0456 |
377 |
1 |
69.56 |
2010-09-22 |
| 56. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
69.37 |
1.0389 |
-0.1024 |
340 |
1 |
69.37 |
2010-09-21 |
| 57. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
68.08 |
0.9697 |
-0.0532 |
249 |
1 |
68.08 |
2010-09-21 |
| 58. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
67.60 |
0.9430 |
-0.0403 |
211 |
1 |
67.60 |
2009-07-13 |
| 59. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
67.51 |
0.9632 |
-0.0121 |
345 |
1 |
67.51 |
2010-09-21 |
| 60. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
65.57 |
0.9893 |
-0.1071 |
323 |
1 |
65.57 |
2010-09-23 |
| 61. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
64.95 |
0.9371 |
-0.0244 |
318 |
1 |
64.95 |
2010-09-21 |
| 62. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
64.64 |
1.0213 |
-0.1549 |
240 |
1 |
64.64 |
2009-07-13 |
| 63. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
64.54 |
0.7876 |
0.0830 |
316 |
1 |
64.54 |
2010-09-21 |
| 64. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
63.07 |
0.9709 |
-0.0814 |
397 |
1 |
63.07 |
2010-09-21 |
| 65. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
61.57 |
0.9097 |
-0.0403 |
464 |
1 |
61.57 |
2010-09-21 |
| 66. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
60.62 |
1.0445 |
-0.2287 |
373 |
1 |
60.62 |
2009-07-13 |
| 67. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
60.18 |
0.8884 |
-0.0802 |
135 |
1 |
60.18 |
2010-09-23 |
| 68. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
55.51 |
1.0619 |
-0.3131 |
354 |
1 |
55.51 |
2009-07-13 |
| 69. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
54.75 |
0.8788 |
-0.1475 |
134 |
1 |
54.75 |
2010-09-23 |
| 70. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
52.95 |
1.0320 |
-0.2850 |
293 |
1 |
52.95 |
2010-09-23 |
| 71. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
49.94 |
0.9289 |
-0.2625 |
204 |
1 |
49.94 |
2009-07-13 |
| 72. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
42.64 |
0.9351 |
-0.3714 |
190 |
1 |
42.64 |
2009-07-13 |
| 73. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
42.40 |
1.0083 |
-0.3982 |
273 |
1 |
42.40 |
2010-09-23 |
| 74. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
38.78 |
1.0169 |
-0.4617 |
346 |
1 |
38.78 |
2010-09-23 |
| 75. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
33.76 |
0.8811 |
-0.4292 |
239 |
1 |
33.76 |
2009-07-13 |
| 76. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
31.68 |
1.0168 |
-0.5955 |
271 |
1 |
31.68 |
2009-07-13 |