| 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... |
73.64 |
1.1018 |
0.2385 |
220 |
2 |
69.86 |
2008-10-13 |
| 2. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
70.87 |
0.9965 |
0.2942 |
168 |
2 |
61.17 |
2008-10-12 |
| 3. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
69.90 |
1.0444 |
0.2266 |
197 |
1 |
69.90 |
2008-10-08 |
| 4. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
69.38 |
1.0289 |
0.2435 |
276 |
2 |
59.17 |
2008-10-13 |
| 5. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
68.75 |
1.0417 |
0.2122 |
253 |
1 |
68.75 |
2008-10-07 |
| 6. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
68.51 |
1.0120 |
0.2391 |
290 |
2 |
63.31 |
2008-10-13 |
| 7. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
67.67 |
1.0696 |
0.1633 |
226 |
2 |
64.50 |
2008-10-10 |
| 8. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
66.77 |
1.0619 |
0.1615 |
354 |
2 |
62.36 |
2008-10-13 |
| 9. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
66.16 |
1.0099 |
0.1958 |
207 |
1 |
66.16 |
2008-10-12 |
| 10. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
65.94 |
1.0477 |
0.1592 |
360 |
2 |
60.52 |
2008-10-13 |
| 11. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
65.44 |
1.0714 |
0.1150 |
129 |
1 |
65.44 |
2008-10-13 |
| 12. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
65.13 |
1.0257 |
0.1702 |
401 |
1 |
65.13 |
2008-10-12 |
| 13. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
65.11 |
0.8975 |
0.2922 |
268 |
1 |
65.11 |
2008-10-13 |
| 14. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
65.05 |
1.0483 |
0.1368 |
227 |
2 |
58.69 |
2008-10-12 |
| 15. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
64.75 |
0.9964 |
0.1862 |
203 |
3 |
59.20 |
2008-10-13 |
| 16. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
64.30 |
1.0124 |
0.1594 |
204 |
2 |
58.03 |
2008-10-12 |
| 17. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
64.07 |
1.0201 |
0.1431 |
172 |
3 |
57.52 |
2008-10-13 |
| 18. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
63.63 |
0.9411 |
0.2216 |
318 |
1 |
63.63 |
2008-10-07 |
| 19. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
63.50 |
0.9942 |
0.1741 |
483 |
2 |
57.57 |
2008-10-12 |
| 20. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
63.22 |
1.0496 |
0.1040 |
314 |
2 |
51.39 |
2008-10-13 |
| 21. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
63.09 |
0.9844 |
0.1723 |
293 |
2 |
56.79 |
2008-10-13 |
| 22. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
62.87 |
0.9798 |
0.1623 |
199 |
1 |
62.87 |
2008-10-12 |
| 23. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
62.78 |
0.9376 |
0.2140 |
367 |
1 |
62.78 |
2008-10-19 |
| 24. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
62.45 |
0.9997 |
0.1440 |
382 |
2 |
57.45 |
2008-10-12 |
| 25. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
62.41 |
1.0385 |
0.0990 |
230 |
2 |
60.87 |
2008-10-13 |
| 26. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
62.21 |
1.0165 |
0.1230 |
392 |
3 |
54.26 |
2008-10-13 |
| 27. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
61.84 |
0.8722 |
0.2595 |
285 |
1 |
61.84 |
2008-10-12 |
| 28. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
61.53 |
1.0029 |
0.1138 |
209 |
1 |
61.53 |
2008-10-07 |
| 29. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
61.30 |
0.9612 |
0.1576 |
256 |
1 |
61.30 |
2008-10-12 |
| 30. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
60.31 |
0.9894 |
0.1156 |
323 |
2 |
52.68 |
2008-10-09 |
| 31. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
60.25 |
0.9756 |
0.1226 |
229 |
1 |
60.25 |
2008-10-12 |
| 32. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
60.12 |
1.1114 |
-0.0170 |
247 |
1 |
60.12 |
2008-10-08 |
| 33. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
60.11 |
1.0796 |
0.0125 |
129 |
1 |
60.11 |
2008-10-12 |
| 34. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
60.08 |
0.9275 |
0.1655 |
211 |
1 |
60.08 |
2008-10-12 |
| 35. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
59.95 |
0.9672 |
0.1332 |
396 |
2 |
58.35 |
2008-10-10 |
| 36. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
59.81 |
1.0352 |
0.0587 |
341 |
2 |
53.91 |
2008-10-13 |
| 37. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
59.58 |
0.9991 |
0.0885 |
225 |
1 |
59.58 |
2008-10-13 |
| 38. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
59.52 |
1.0349 |
0.0504 |
234 |
1 |
59.52 |
2008-10-10 |
| 39. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
59.49 |
0.9649 |
0.1194 |
193 |
1 |
59.49 |
2008-10-12 |
| 40. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
59.36 |
0.9226 |
0.1667 |
348 |
1 |
59.36 |
2008-10-13 |
| 41. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
59.33 |
1.0498 |
0.0279 |
180 |
1 |
59.33 |
2008-10-07 |
| 42. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
59.33 |
0.9532 |
0.1280 |
258 |
1 |
59.33 |
2008-10-07 |
| 43. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
59.28 |
1.0331 |
0.0462 |
234 |
2 |
56.65 |
2008-10-12 |
| 44. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
58.41 |
0.9780 |
0.0885 |
337 |
2 |
54.61 |
2008-10-13 |
| 45. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
58.18 |
0.9691 |
0.0916 |
223 |
1 |
58.18 |
2008-10-13 |
| 46. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
58.03 |
1.0016 |
0.0523 |
218 |
2 |
55.53 |
2008-10-19 |
| 47. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
58.03 |
1.0214 |
0.0354 |
269 |
1 |
58.03 |
2008-10-07 |
| 48. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
57.54 |
0.9865 |
0.0640 |
276 |
2 |
54.85 |
2008-10-13 |
| 49. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
57.44 |
0.9527 |
0.0948 |
251 |
2 |
55.65 |
2008-10-09 |
| 50. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
57.31 |
1.0252 |
0.0135 |
176 |
1 |
57.31 |
2008-10-20 |
| 51. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
57.00 |
0.9687 |
0.0754 |
371 |
2 |
56.18 |
2008-10-13 |
| 52. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
56.99 |
1.0168 |
0.0239 |
271 |
2 |
56.04 |
2008-10-13 |
| 53. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
56.90 |
0.9365 |
0.1025 |
248 |
2 |
56.86 |
2008-10-13 |
| 54. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
56.89 |
1.0595 |
-0.0196 |
379 |
1 |
56.89 |
2008-10-13 |
| 55. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
56.73 |
1.0214 |
0.0077 |
166 |
1 |
56.73 |
2008-10-13 |
| 56. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
56.59 |
1.0419 |
-0.0100 |
261 |
1 |
56.59 |
2008-10-07 |
| 57. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
56.28 |
0.9710 |
0.0487 |
173 |
1 |
56.28 |
2008-10-09 |
| 58. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
56.28 |
0.9289 |
0.0950 |
204 |
1 |
56.28 |
2008-10-13 |
| 59. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
56.19 |
1.0668 |
-0.0398 |
350 |
2 |
52.01 |
2008-10-13 |
| 60. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
56.16 |
0.8826 |
0.1427 |
296 |
1 |
56.16 |
2008-10-07 |
| 61. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
56.06 |
1.0183 |
-0.0018 |
191 |
2 |
49.66 |
2008-10-13 |
| 62. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
56.01 |
0.9293 |
0.0927 |
355 |
1 |
56.01 |
2008-10-10 |
| 63. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
55.84 |
0.9910 |
0.0289 |
295 |
2 |
53.34 |
2008-10-12 |
| 64. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
55.46 |
1.0297 |
-0.0199 |
249 |
1 |
55.46 |
2008-10-07 |
| 65. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
55.43 |
0.9500 |
0.0627 |
362 |
2 |
55.04 |
2008-10-07 |
| 66. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
55.37 |
1.0555 |
-0.0447 |
363 |
1 |
55.37 |
2008-10-14 |
| 67. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
54.92 |
0.9281 |
0.0780 |
273 |
1 |
54.92 |
2008-10-13 |
| 68. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
54.84 |
0.9279 |
0.0782 |
317 |
2 |
54.57 |
2008-10-20 |
| 69. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
54.68 |
1.0787 |
-0.0834 |
237 |
1 |
54.68 |
2008-10-07 |
| 70. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
54.61 |
0.9646 |
0.0298 |
264 |
2 |
48.97 |
2008-10-12 |
| 71. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
54.60 |
0.9597 |
0.0395 |
347 |
1 |
54.60 |
2008-10-13 |
| 72. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
54.39 |
1.0487 |
-0.0624 |
231 |
1 |
54.39 |
2008-10-13 |
| 73. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
54.19 |
0.9164 |
0.0760 |
305 |
2 |
49.71 |
2008-10-13 |
| 74. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
54.12 |
1.0023 |
-0.0179 |
211 |
1 |
54.12 |
2008-10-13 |
| 75. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
53.98 |
0.9785 |
0.0084 |
335 |
2 |
53.82 |
2008-10-10 |
| 76. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
53.96 |
0.9088 |
0.0797 |
348 |
1 |
53.96 |
2008-10-13 |
| 77. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
53.81 |
1.0885 |
-0.1046 |
315 |
1 |
53.81 |
2008-10-08 |
| 78. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
53.68 |
0.9572 |
0.0199 |
201 |
1 |
53.68 |
2008-10-13 |
| 79. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
53.44 |
1.0390 |
-0.0691 |
205 |
1 |
53.44 |
2008-10-08 |
| 80. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
53.44 |
0.9540 |
0.0179 |
285 |
1 |
53.44 |
2008-10-13 |
| 81. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
53.27 |
0.9879 |
-0.0086 |
450 |
1 |
53.27 |
2008-10-08 |
| 82. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
53.22 |
1.0454 |
-0.0794 |
255 |
1 |
53.22 |
2008-10-13 |
| 83. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
53.07 |
1.0389 |
-0.0696 |
340 |
1 |
53.07 |
2008-10-08 |
| 84. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
53.01 |
1.0201 |
-0.0503 |
375 |
1 |
53.01 |
2008-10-13 |
| 85. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
52.76 |
0.9772 |
-0.0195 |
217 |
1 |
52.76 |
2008-10-08 |
| 86. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
52.73 |
1.0516 |
-0.0914 |
281 |
2 |
50.33 |
2008-10-13 |
| 87. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
52.49 |
0.9005 |
0.0542 |
212 |
2 |
47.92 |
2008-10-12 |
| 88. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
51.66 |
0.8947 |
0.0511 |
366 |
1 |
51.66 |
2008-10-12 |
| 89. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
51.66 |
0.9682 |
-0.0292 |
143 |
1 |
51.66 |
2008-10-07 |
| 90. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
51.57 |
0.8958 |
0.0480 |
322 |
2 |
49.54 |
2008-10-09 |
| 91. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
51.27 |
0.9084 |
0.0271 |
300 |
2 |
46.25 |
2008-10-09 |
| 92. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
51.14 |
0.9097 |
0.0632 |
464 |
1 |
51.14 |
2008-10-13 |
| 93. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
50.81 |
1.0337 |
-0.1091 |
214 |
1 |
50.81 |
2008-10-13 |
| 94. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
50.37 |
0.9342 |
-0.0137 |
434 |
1 |
50.37 |
2008-10-10 |
| 95. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
50.32 |
1.0515 |
-0.1373 |
250 |
1 |
50.32 |
2008-10-13 |
| 96. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
50.12 |
1.0462 |
-0.1399 |
184 |
1 |
50.12 |
2008-10-12 |
| 97. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
49.52 |
0.9213 |
-0.0194 |
295 |
1 |
49.52 |
2008-10-07 |
| 98. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
49.31 |
0.9570 |
-0.0578 |
287 |
1 |
49.31 |
2008-10-08 |
| 99. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
49.21 |
1.0529 |
-0.1574 |
351 |
2 |
47.40 |
2008-10-09 |
| 100. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
48.98 |
0.9936 |
-0.1025 |
311 |
1 |
48.98 |
2008-10-07 |
| 101. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
48.82 |
0.9734 |
-0.0853 |
289 |
1 |
48.82 |
2008-10-13 |
| 102. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
48.64 |
0.9168 |
-0.0304 |
240 |
3 |
42.25 |
2008-10-13 |
| 103. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
48.21 |
0.9758 |
-0.0979 |
314 |
1 |
48.21 |
2008-10-10 |
| 104. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
48.09 |
0.9763 |
-0.1018 |
289 |
1 |
48.09 |
2008-10-12 |
| 105. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
47.96 |
0.8753 |
0.0065 |
427 |
1 |
47.96 |
2008-10-12 |
| 106. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
47.95 |
0.9426 |
-0.0671 |
317 |
1 |
47.95 |
2008-10-14 |
| 107. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
47.82 |
0.8810 |
-0.0102 |
282 |
1 |
47.82 |
2008-10-13 |
| 108. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
47.38 |
0.8916 |
-0.0295 |
216 |
1 |
47.38 |
2008-10-13 |
| 109. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
47.05 |
0.9986 |
-0.1423 |
283 |
1 |
47.05 |
2008-10-13 |
| 110. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
46.91 |
0.9045 |
-0.0510 |
235 |
1 |
46.91 |
2008-10-13 |
| 111. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
46.60 |
0.9233 |
-0.0842 |
168 |
1 |
46.60 |
2008-10-07 |
| 112. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
46.29 |
0.8961 |
-0.0578 |
189 |
1 |
46.29 |
2008-10-13 |
| 113. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
46.20 |
0.9464 |
-0.1012 |
323 |
1 |
46.20 |
2008-10-10 |
| 114. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
46.15 |
0.9907 |
-0.1532 |
211 |
1 |
46.15 |
2008-10-13 |
| 115. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
45.87 |
1.0034 |
-0.1709 |
302 |
1 |
45.87 |
2008-10-07 |
| 116. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
45.87 |
0.9768 |
-0.1402 |
387 |
1 |
45.87 |
2008-10-09 |
| 117. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
45.63 |
0.9653 |
-0.1275 |
394 |
1 |
45.63 |
2008-10-13 |
| 118. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
45.50 |
0.9430 |
-0.1232 |
211 |
1 |
45.50 |
2008-10-12 |
| 119. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
45.20 |
0.9684 |
-0.1441 |
388 |
1 |
45.20 |
2008-10-13 |
| 120. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
45.11 |
0.9286 |
-0.1097 |
194 |
1 |
45.11 |
2008-10-12 |
| 121. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
45.06 |
0.9148 |
-0.0944 |
317 |
1 |
45.06 |
2008-10-19 |
| 122. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
44.75 |
0.8382 |
-0.0244 |
268 |
1 |
44.75 |
2008-10-12 |
| 123. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
44.28 |
0.8933 |
-0.0823 |
363 |
1 |
44.28 |
2008-10-12 |
| 124. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
43.75 |
1.0013 |
-0.2074 |
273 |
1 |
43.75 |
2008-10-09 |
| 125. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
43.51 |
1.0399 |
-0.2443 |
294 |
1 |
43.51 |
2008-10-13 |
| 126. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
43.23 |
1.0025 |
-0.2174 |
256 |
1 |
43.23 |
2008-10-13 |
| 127. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
43.12 |
0.9514 |
-0.1679 |
237 |
1 |
43.12 |
2008-10-07 |
| 128. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
42.97 |
1.0296 |
-0.2428 |
437 |
1 |
42.97 |
2008-10-08 |
| 129. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
42.45 |
0.8602 |
-0.0916 |
206 |
1 |
42.45 |
2008-10-10 |
| 130. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.25 |
0.9843 |
-0.2222 |
234 |
1 |
42.25 |
2008-10-19 |
| 131. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
42.19 |
0.8105 |
-0.0488 |
204 |
1 |
42.19 |
2008-10-13 |
| 132. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
41.22 |
0.9593 |
-0.2065 |
398 |
1 |
41.22 |
2008-10-09 |
| 133. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
40.28 |
0.9820 |
-0.2484 |
267 |
1 |
40.28 |
2008-10-13 |
| 134. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
38.98 |
1.0197 |
-0.3158 |
226 |
1 |
38.98 |
2008-10-13 |
| 135. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
38.86 |
1.0053 |
-0.3028 |
232 |
1 |
38.86 |
2008-10-12 |
| 136. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
36.49 |
0.8533 |
-0.1914 |
232 |
1 |
36.49 |
2008-10-13 |
| 137. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
35.52 |
0.9309 |
-0.2899 |
284 |
1 |
35.52 |
2008-10-09 |
| 138. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
34.44 |
0.9966 |
-0.3743 |
259 |
1 |
34.44 |
2008-10-13 |
| 139. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
29.21 |
0.9941 |
-0.4701 |
217 |
1 |
29.21 |
2008-10-13 |