| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
94.05 |
1.0463 |
0.2017 |
182 |
1 |
94.05 |
2009-02-19 |
| 2. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
90.72 |
1.0337 |
0.1735 |
214 |
2 |
84.34 |
2009-02-22 |
| 3. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
90.17 |
1.0029 |
0.1911 |
209 |
1 |
90.17 |
2009-09-04 |
| 4. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
88.70 |
1.0263 |
0.1536 |
267 |
2 |
85.25 |
2009-02-19 |
| 5. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
88.59 |
1.0004 |
0.1727 |
212 |
1 |
88.59 |
2009-02-19 |
| 6. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
88.01 |
1.0613 |
0.1110 |
266 |
2 |
86.29 |
2009-02-18 |
| 7. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
87.39 |
1.0391 |
0.1300 |
358 |
1 |
87.39 |
2009-02-19 |
| 8. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
87.37 |
1.0203 |
0.1459 |
261 |
1 |
87.37 |
2009-02-13 |
| 9. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
86.70 |
1.0787 |
0.0737 |
237 |
1 |
86.70 |
2009-02-17 |
| 10. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
86.64 |
1.0487 |
0.0992 |
231 |
2 |
81.07 |
2009-02-22 |
| 11. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
86.61 |
1.0668 |
0.0882 |
350 |
1 |
86.61 |
2009-02-18 |
| 12. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
86.01 |
1.0352 |
0.1119 |
341 |
1 |
86.01 |
2009-02-13 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
85.71 |
1.0577 |
0.0792 |
247 |
1 |
85.71 |
2009-02-22 |
| 14. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
85.39 |
1.0316 |
0.1083 |
333 |
1 |
85.39 |
2009-02-18 |
| 15. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
85.01 |
1.0477 |
0.0857 |
360 |
1 |
85.01 |
2009-02-13 |
| 16. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
84.58 |
1.0368 |
0.0893 |
276 |
1 |
84.58 |
2009-02-13 |
| 17. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
84.06 |
0.9758 |
0.1431 |
314 |
1 |
84.06 |
2009-09-04 |
| 18. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
82.86 |
1.0073 |
0.1028 |
369 |
1 |
82.86 |
2009-02-13 |
| 19. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
82.81 |
0.9286 |
0.1718 |
194 |
3 |
78.24 |
2009-02-19 |
| 20. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
82.13 |
1.0109 |
0.0821 |
276 |
1 |
82.13 |
2009-02-13 |
| 21. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
81.96 |
1.0521 |
0.0331 |
171 |
1 |
81.96 |
2009-02-13 |
| 22. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
81.73 |
0.9844 |
0.1073 |
293 |
2 |
71.73 |
2009-02-18 |
| 23. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
80.75 |
1.0398 |
0.0234 |
110 |
1 |
80.75 |
2009-02-17 |
| 24. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
80.53 |
1.0013 |
0.0685 |
273 |
1 |
80.53 |
2009-02-13 |
| 25. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
80.38 |
1.0099 |
0.0559 |
207 |
1 |
80.38 |
2009-02-19 |
| 26. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
79.64 |
0.9820 |
0.0795 |
267 |
1 |
79.64 |
2009-02-22 |
| 27. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
79.29 |
0.9936 |
0.0601 |
311 |
3 |
75.19 |
2009-02-18 |
| 28. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
79.22 |
0.9831 |
0.0780 |
469 |
1 |
79.22 |
2009-02-17 |
| 29. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
79.05 |
1.0340 |
0.0220 |
406 |
1 |
79.05 |
2009-02-17 |
| 30. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
78.63 |
1.0062 |
0.0390 |
288 |
2 |
77.27 |
2009-02-19 |
| 31. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
78.57 |
1.0289 |
0.0198 |
276 |
1 |
78.57 |
2009-02-22 |
| 32. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
78.50 |
0.9614 |
0.0850 |
292 |
1 |
78.50 |
2009-02-18 |
| 33. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
78.34 |
1.0296 |
0.0181 |
437 |
1 |
78.34 |
2009-02-18 |
| 34. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
78.26 |
0.9682 |
0.0701 |
143 |
2 |
73.67 |
2009-09-04 |
| 35. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
77.97 |
1.0567 |
-0.0198 |
303 |
1 |
77.97 |
2009-02-13 |
| 36. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
77.89 |
1.0168 |
0.0198 |
271 |
1 |
77.89 |
2009-02-19 |
| 37. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
77.80 |
1.0799 |
-0.0496 |
243 |
1 |
77.80 |
2009-02-18 |
| 38. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
77.77 |
0.9756 |
0.0567 |
229 |
2 |
75.63 |
2009-02-22 |
| 39. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
77.72 |
0.9780 |
0.0559 |
337 |
1 |
77.72 |
2009-02-18 |
| 40. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
77.16 |
1.0177 |
0.0459 |
392 |
1 |
77.16 |
2009-09-04 |
| 41. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
76.87 |
0.8595 |
0.1638 |
242 |
1 |
76.87 |
2009-02-18 |
| 42. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
76.76 |
1.0595 |
-0.0370 |
379 |
1 |
76.76 |
2009-02-13 |
| 43. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
76.68 |
0.9851 |
0.0360 |
317 |
1 |
76.68 |
2009-02-13 |
| 44. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
76.53 |
1.0426 |
-0.0264 |
323 |
1 |
76.53 |
2009-02-19 |
| 45. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
76.51 |
1.0292 |
-0.0139 |
262 |
1 |
76.51 |
2009-02-17 |
| 46. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
76.47 |
0.9074 |
0.1152 |
396 |
2 |
75.44 |
2009-09-04 |
| 47. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
76.16 |
0.9567 |
0.0550 |
273 |
2 |
72.42 |
2009-02-22 |
| 48. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
75.86 |
0.9309 |
0.0751 |
284 |
1 |
75.86 |
2009-02-13 |
| 49. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
75.40 |
0.9965 |
0.0004 |
168 |
1 |
75.40 |
2009-02-18 |
| 50. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
75.37 |
0.9426 |
0.0618 |
317 |
2 |
73.13 |
2009-09-04 |
| 51. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
75.30 |
1.0214 |
-0.0228 |
269 |
1 |
75.30 |
2009-02-13 |
| 52. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
75.06 |
0.8916 |
0.1058 |
216 |
2 |
67.83 |
2009-02-18 |
| 53. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
74.86 |
0.9376 |
0.0622 |
367 |
1 |
74.86 |
2009-02-13 |
| 54. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
74.82 |
0.9514 |
0.0428 |
237 |
1 |
74.82 |
2009-02-22 |
| 55. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
74.77 |
0.9941 |
-0.0033 |
217 |
1 |
74.77 |
2009-02-22 |
| 56. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
74.49 |
0.9754 |
0.0201 |
362 |
1 |
74.49 |
2009-02-19 |
| 57. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
74.49 |
1.0396 |
-0.0574 |
149 |
2 |
69.67 |
2009-09-04 |
| 58. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
74.47 |
0.9710 |
0.0117 |
173 |
1 |
74.47 |
2009-02-13 |
| 59. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
74.45 |
1.0297 |
-0.0420 |
249 |
1 |
74.45 |
2009-02-19 |
| 60. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
74.35 |
0.8852 |
0.1045 |
201 |
1 |
74.35 |
2009-02-13 |
| 61. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
74.18 |
0.9084 |
0.0787 |
300 |
1 |
74.18 |
2009-02-18 |
| 62. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
74.10 |
0.9965 |
-0.0117 |
277 |
1 |
74.10 |
2009-02-17 |
| 63. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
73.97 |
0.9731 |
-0.0032 |
129 |
2 |
65.86 |
2009-02-19 |
| 64. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
73.83 |
0.9879 |
0.0014 |
450 |
1 |
73.83 |
2009-02-13 |
| 65. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
73.72 |
1.0444 |
-0.0719 |
197 |
2 |
72.77 |
2009-02-22 |
| 66. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
73.72 |
0.9649 |
0.0131 |
193 |
2 |
67.37 |
2009-02-18 |
| 67. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
73.46 |
0.9601 |
0.0202 |
308 |
1 |
73.46 |
2009-02-17 |
| 68. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
73.41 |
0.9148 |
0.0615 |
317 |
1 |
73.41 |
2009-02-17 |
| 69. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
73.27 |
1.0124 |
-0.0418 |
204 |
1 |
73.27 |
2009-02-22 |
| 70. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
73.15 |
0.9005 |
0.0694 |
212 |
1 |
73.15 |
2009-02-19 |
| 71. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
72.81 |
0.8919 |
0.0732 |
205 |
1 |
72.81 |
2009-02-17 |
| 72. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
72.21 |
0.9763 |
-0.0180 |
289 |
2 |
70.34 |
2009-02-18 |
| 73. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
72.09 |
0.9991 |
-0.0414 |
225 |
1 |
72.09 |
2009-02-13 |
| 74. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
72.06 |
0.9330 |
0.0303 |
360 |
1 |
72.06 |
2009-02-19 |
| 75. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
71.88 |
1.0441 |
-0.0883 |
252 |
1 |
71.88 |
2009-02-13 |
| 76. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
71.79 |
0.9699 |
-0.0174 |
269 |
1 |
71.79 |
2009-02-18 |
| 77. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
71.33 |
0.9570 |
-0.0084 |
287 |
2 |
67.49 |
2009-02-18 |
| 78. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
71.18 |
0.9776 |
-0.0325 |
308 |
1 |
71.18 |
2009-02-22 |
| 79. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
71.00 |
1.0016 |
-0.0637 |
218 |
2 |
69.78 |
2009-02-17 |
| 80. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
70.93 |
0.9886 |
-0.0446 |
220 |
1 |
70.93 |
2009-02-13 |
| 81. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
70.87 |
0.9293 |
0.0122 |
355 |
1 |
70.87 |
2009-02-13 |
| 82. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
70.78 |
0.9723 |
-0.0291 |
364 |
1 |
70.78 |
2009-02-18 |
| 83. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
70.70 |
0.9365 |
0.0033 |
248 |
1 |
70.70 |
2009-02-19 |
| 84. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
70.57 |
0.8753 |
0.0706 |
427 |
1 |
70.57 |
2009-02-17 |
| 85. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
69.63 |
0.9646 |
-0.0415 |
264 |
1 |
69.63 |
2009-02-18 |
| 86. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
69.18 |
0.9964 |
-0.0783 |
203 |
1 |
69.18 |
2009-02-13 |
| 87. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
69.06 |
1.0429 |
-0.1279 |
259 |
1 |
69.06 |
2009-09-04 |
| 88. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
68.96 |
0.9485 |
-0.0318 |
236 |
2 |
67.95 |
2009-02-18 |
| 89. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
68.92 |
1.0252 |
-0.1172 |
176 |
1 |
68.92 |
2009-02-13 |
| 90. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
68.89 |
0.9097 |
0.0460 |
464 |
1 |
68.89 |
2009-02-19 |
| 91. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
68.84 |
0.8958 |
0.0222 |
322 |
3 |
66.03 |
2009-02-22 |
| 92. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
68.83 |
1.0331 |
-0.1220 |
234 |
1 |
68.83 |
2009-02-18 |
| 93. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
68.38 |
0.9527 |
-0.0456 |
251 |
1 |
68.38 |
2009-02-18 |
| 94. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
68.22 |
1.0797 |
-0.1802 |
210 |
1 |
68.22 |
2009-02-17 |
| 95. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
68.07 |
0.9676 |
-0.0562 |
442 |
1 |
68.07 |
2009-02-13 |
| 96. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
68.03 |
0.9532 |
-0.0520 |
258 |
1 |
68.03 |
2009-02-18 |
| 97. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
67.48 |
1.0023 |
-0.1091 |
211 |
1 |
67.48 |
2009-02-17 |
| 98. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
67.27 |
0.8947 |
0.0025 |
366 |
1 |
67.27 |
2009-02-17 |
| 99. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
66.84 |
0.9557 |
-0.0629 |
331 |
1 |
66.84 |
2009-02-13 |
| 100. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
66.58 |
0.9275 |
-0.0478 |
211 |
1 |
66.58 |
2009-02-17 |
| 101. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
66.54 |
1.0498 |
-0.1721 |
180 |
1 |
66.54 |
2009-02-19 |
| 102. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
66.51 |
0.8826 |
0.0009 |
296 |
1 |
66.51 |
2009-02-18 |
| 103. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
66.50 |
0.9653 |
-0.0751 |
394 |
1 |
66.50 |
2009-02-18 |
| 104. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
66.43 |
1.0696 |
-0.1921 |
226 |
1 |
66.43 |
2009-02-22 |
| 105. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
66.37 |
0.9109 |
-0.0281 |
401 |
1 |
66.37 |
2009-02-22 |
| 106. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
66.31 |
0.9278 |
-0.0457 |
295 |
1 |
66.31 |
2009-02-13 |
| 107. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
66.24 |
0.9429 |
-0.0632 |
287 |
1 |
66.24 |
2009-02-19 |
| 108. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
65.95 |
0.9064 |
-0.0227 |
399 |
2 |
65.73 |
2009-02-22 |
| 109. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
65.31 |
0.8981 |
-0.0276 |
393 |
1 |
65.31 |
2009-02-13 |
| 110. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
64.67 |
0.9212 |
-0.0606 |
323 |
1 |
64.67 |
2009-02-17 |
| 111. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
63.01 |
0.9635 |
-0.1231 |
389 |
1 |
63.01 |
2009-02-18 |
| 112. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
62.83 |
0.7876 |
0.0475 |
316 |
2 |
61.79 |
2009-02-22 |
| 113. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
61.29 |
0.9088 |
-0.0918 |
348 |
2 |
60.91 |
2009-02-18 |
| 114. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
60.87 |
1.0068 |
-0.1973 |
358 |
1 |
60.87 |
2009-02-17 |
| 115. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
60.87 |
0.9946 |
-0.1886 |
246 |
1 |
60.87 |
2009-02-13 |
| 116. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
60.87 |
0.9339 |
-0.1292 |
310 |
1 |
60.87 |
2009-02-13 |
| 117. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
55.32 |
0.9084 |
-0.1728 |
404 |
1 |
55.32 |
2009-02-13 |
| 118. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
53.79 |
0.9430 |
-0.2394 |
211 |
1 |
53.79 |
2009-02-18 |
| 119. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
49.36 |
1.0389 |
-0.3852 |
340 |
1 |
49.36 |
2009-02-22 |