| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
103.76 |
1.0334 |
-1.0496 |
131 |
1 |
103.76 |
2009-07-06 |
| 2. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
103.03 |
1.0799 |
-1.0945 |
243 |
1 |
103.03 |
2009-06-03 |
| 3. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
102.63 |
1.0257 |
-1.0337 |
401 |
1 |
102.63 |
2011-08-20 |
| 4. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
101.48 |
1.0767 |
-1.0901 |
212 |
4 |
94.23 |
2009-07-06 |
| 5. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
101.36 |
1.0516 |
-1.0635 |
281 |
1 |
101.36 |
2009-06-03 |
| 6. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
101.34 |
1.0666 |
-1.0793 |
297 |
2 |
100.29 |
2011-08-20 |
| 7. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
99.67 |
1.1016 |
-1.1140 |
233 |
1 |
99.67 |
2009-06-03 |
| 8. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
99.67 |
1.0417 |
-1.0557 |
253 |
1 |
99.67 |
2011-08-20 |
| 9. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
99.51 |
0.9820 |
-0.9926 |
267 |
2 |
93.55 |
2009-07-06 |
| 10. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
98.32 |
0.9846 |
-0.9972 |
281 |
2 |
92.72 |
2009-06-03 |
| 11. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
97.76 |
0.8961 |
-0.9091 |
189 |
1 |
97.76 |
2009-05-26 |
| 12. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
97.62 |
1.0796 |
-1.0950 |
129 |
1 |
97.62 |
2009-08-02 |
| 13. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
97.07 |
0.9786 |
-0.9913 |
235 |
1 |
97.07 |
2009-06-03 |
| 14. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
96.17 |
0.9074 |
-0.9154 |
396 |
1 |
96.17 |
2009-06-03 |
| 15. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
96.06 |
1.0316 |
-1.0408 |
333 |
1 |
96.06 |
2009-06-03 |
| 16. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
95.61 |
0.9234 |
-0.9323 |
346 |
1 |
95.61 |
2009-06-01 |
| 17. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
95.26 |
1.0529 |
-1.0648 |
351 |
1 |
95.26 |
2009-06-03 |
| 18. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
95.16 |
1.0368 |
-1.0496 |
276 |
2 |
91.83 |
2009-08-02 |
| 19. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
94.81 |
1.0201 |
-1.0367 |
172 |
3 |
90.47 |
2009-07-04 |
| 20. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
94.24 |
1.0619 |
-1.0724 |
354 |
1 |
94.24 |
2009-10-07 |
| 21. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
94.22 |
0.9619 |
-0.9711 |
393 |
2 |
80.75 |
2010-03-24 |
| 22. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
94.10 |
0.9965 |
-1.0106 |
168 |
1 |
94.10 |
2016-04-12 |
| 23. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
93.87 |
0.9811 |
-0.9909 |
272 |
1 |
93.87 |
2009-06-03 |
| 24. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
93.57 |
1.0534 |
-1.0644 |
357 |
1 |
93.57 |
2009-07-04 |
| 25. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
93.10 |
1.0331 |
-1.0477 |
234 |
1 |
93.10 |
2009-06-03 |
| 26. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
92.90 |
0.9754 |
-0.9834 |
362 |
1 |
92.90 |
2009-06-01 |
| 27. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
92.89 |
1.0462 |
-1.0624 |
184 |
1 |
92.89 |
2009-06-03 |
| 28. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
92.43 |
0.9697 |
-0.9809 |
249 |
1 |
92.43 |
2009-06-03 |
| 29. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
92.09 |
1.0885 |
-1.0988 |
315 |
1 |
92.09 |
2009-06-17 |
| 30. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
91.68 |
0.9852 |
-0.9971 |
264 |
2 |
90.39 |
2009-06-20 |
| 31. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
91.64 |
0.9293 |
-0.9404 |
355 |
1 |
91.64 |
2011-08-20 |
| 32. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
91.01 |
1.0498 |
-1.0653 |
180 |
1 |
91.01 |
2009-06-03 |
| 33. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
90.89 |
1.0053 |
-1.0186 |
232 |
1 |
90.89 |
2009-06-03 |
| 34. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
90.83 |
1.0201 |
-1.0290 |
375 |
2 |
88.40 |
2009-07-06 |
| 35. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
90.81 |
1.0483 |
-1.0620 |
227 |
1 |
90.81 |
2016-04-12 |
| 36. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
90.45 |
0.9893 |
-1.0008 |
323 |
1 |
90.45 |
2009-07-04 |
| 37. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
90.03 |
0.8722 |
-0.8822 |
285 |
2 |
85.03 |
2009-07-03 |
| 38. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
89.88 |
1.0214 |
-1.0372 |
166 |
1 |
89.88 |
2009-07-06 |
| 39. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
89.86 |
0.9857 |
-0.9983 |
293 |
1 |
89.86 |
2009-06-01 |
| 40. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
89.63 |
0.9612 |
-0.9728 |
256 |
1 |
89.63 |
2009-06-03 |
| 41. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
89.63 |
1.0138 |
-1.0263 |
231 |
2 |
84.49 |
2009-06-03 |
| 42. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
89.45 |
1.0389 |
-1.0497 |
340 |
1 |
89.45 |
2009-06-03 |
| 43. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
89.30 |
1.0073 |
-1.0141 |
369 |
1 |
89.30 |
2009-06-03 |
| 44. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
89.14 |
0.9429 |
-0.9543 |
287 |
1 |
89.14 |
2009-08-02 |
| 45. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
88.98 |
0.9756 |
-0.9888 |
229 |
1 |
88.98 |
2009-05-26 |
| 46. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
88.95 |
0.9614 |
-0.9716 |
292 |
2 |
84.42 |
2010-03-24 |
| 47. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
88.85 |
0.9430 |
-0.9589 |
211 |
2 |
87.47 |
2009-06-03 |
| 48. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
88.70 |
1.0025 |
-1.0142 |
336 |
3 |
87.35 |
2009-07-06 |
| 49. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
88.58 |
0.9795 |
-0.9917 |
308 |
2 |
88.58 |
2009-07-06 |
| 50. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
87.75 |
0.9578 |
-0.9708 |
281 |
1 |
87.75 |
2009-06-03 |
| 51. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
87.59 |
0.9997 |
-1.0094 |
382 |
1 |
87.59 |
2009-05-23 |
| 52. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
87.44 |
1.0214 |
-1.0347 |
269 |
1 |
87.44 |
2009-07-06 |
| 53. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
87.13 |
1.0183 |
-1.0336 |
191 |
1 |
87.13 |
2009-06-03 |
| 54. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
87.01 |
1.0297 |
-1.0438 |
249 |
1 |
87.01 |
2016-04-12 |
| 55. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
86.86 |
1.0340 |
-1.0431 |
406 |
1 |
86.86 |
2009-06-01 |
| 56. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
86.61 |
0.9005 |
-0.9125 |
212 |
1 |
86.61 |
2011-08-20 |
| 57. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
86.35 |
0.9567 |
-0.9689 |
273 |
1 |
86.35 |
2010-03-26 |
| 58. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
86.31 |
0.9763 |
-0.9885 |
289 |
1 |
86.31 |
2009-06-01 |
| 59. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
86.06 |
0.9833 |
-0.9946 |
355 |
1 |
86.06 |
2009-06-03 |
| 60. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
85.99 |
1.0214 |
-0.9921 |
281 |
1 |
85.99 |
2011-08-20 |
| 61. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
85.99 |
0.9649 |
-0.9776 |
193 |
2 |
82.91 |
2011-08-20 |
| 62. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
85.93 |
1.0252 |
-1.0413 |
176 |
2 |
79.57 |
2009-06-03 |
| 63. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
85.92 |
0.9532 |
-0.9667 |
258 |
2 |
84.04 |
2009-06-03 |
| 64. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
85.75 |
1.0486 |
-1.0600 |
289 |
1 |
85.75 |
2009-07-03 |
| 65. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
85.68 |
0.9089 |
-0.9200 |
342 |
1 |
85.68 |
2009-10-07 |
| 66. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
84.82 |
0.9682 |
-0.9826 |
143 |
1 |
84.82 |
2009-06-03 |
| 67. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
84.77 |
0.9376 |
-0.9462 |
367 |
1 |
84.77 |
2009-07-03 |
| 68. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
84.36 |
1.0390 |
-1.0533 |
205 |
1 |
84.36 |
2009-05-23 |
| 69. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
84.34 |
0.9597 |
-0.9692 |
347 |
1 |
84.34 |
2009-05-23 |
| 70. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
84.07 |
1.0577 |
-1.0727 |
247 |
1 |
84.07 |
2009-05-25 |
| 71. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
83.95 |
0.9879 |
-0.9945 |
450 |
1 |
83.95 |
2009-07-06 |
| 72. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
83.77 |
1.0062 |
-1.0178 |
288 |
1 |
83.77 |
2009-05-23 |
| 73. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
83.65 |
0.9109 |
-0.9213 |
401 |
1 |
83.65 |
2009-06-03 |
| 74. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
83.27 |
0.9148 |
-0.9255 |
317 |
1 |
83.27 |
2009-06-01 |
| 75. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
83.16 |
0.9202 |
-0.9325 |
254 |
3 |
78.17 |
2009-08-02 |
| 76. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
83.03 |
0.9632 |
-0.9710 |
392 |
1 |
83.03 |
2009-07-03 |
| 77. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
82.67 |
0.9426 |
-0.9535 |
317 |
1 |
82.67 |
2009-07-04 |
| 78. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
82.64 |
1.0197 |
-1.0340 |
226 |
2 |
79.28 |
2016-04-12 |
| 79. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
82.31 |
0.9790 |
-0.9521 |
311 |
1 |
82.31 |
2011-08-20 |
| 80. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
82.28 |
0.9097 |
-0.8827 |
464 |
1 |
82.28 |
2009-05-23 |
| 81. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
82.15 |
1.0165 |
-1.0269 |
392 |
1 |
82.15 |
2009-07-03 |
| 82. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
81.72 |
1.0375 |
-1.0027 |
200 |
1 |
81.72 |
2011-08-20 |
| 83. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
81.70 |
1.0218 |
-1.0357 |
268 |
1 |
81.70 |
2009-07-06 |
| 84. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
81.45 |
0.9622 |
-0.9707 |
392 |
1 |
81.45 |
2009-06-01 |
| 85. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
80.63 |
0.9504 |
-0.9671 |
263 |
1 |
80.63 |
2016-04-12 |
| 86. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
80.40 |
0.9653 |
-0.9723 |
394 |
2 |
78.01 |
2016-04-12 |
| 87. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
80.39 |
0.9668 |
-0.9380 |
383 |
1 |
80.39 |
2011-08-20 |
| 88. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
80.37 |
0.9342 |
-0.9438 |
434 |
1 |
80.37 |
2009-07-04 |
| 89. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
80.37 |
0.9863 |
-0.9951 |
339 |
1 |
80.37 |
2009-07-06 |
| 90. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
80.01 |
0.9986 |
-1.0102 |
283 |
1 |
80.01 |
2010-03-21 |
| 91. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
79.86 |
1.0033 |
-1.0197 |
189 |
1 |
79.86 |
2009-05-25 |
| 92. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
79.60 |
1.0029 |
-1.0185 |
209 |
1 |
79.60 |
2010-03-24 |
| 93. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
79.19 |
0.9965 |
-1.0094 |
310 |
1 |
79.19 |
2009-06-03 |
| 94. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
78.99 |
0.9631 |
-0.9269 |
345 |
1 |
78.99 |
2010-03-26 |
| 95. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
78.37 |
0.9125 |
-0.9238 |
308 |
2 |
75.44 |
2009-07-04 |
| 96. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
78.26 |
0.9601 |
-0.9690 |
308 |
1 |
78.26 |
2009-06-01 |
| 97. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
77.66 |
0.9339 |
-0.9473 |
310 |
1 |
77.66 |
2009-07-06 |
| 98. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
76.89 |
0.8753 |
-0.8807 |
427 |
1 |
76.89 |
2009-05-23 |
| 99. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
76.54 |
0.9905 |
-0.9974 |
377 |
1 |
76.54 |
2009-08-02 |
| 100. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
75.35 |
0.8382 |
-0.8491 |
268 |
2 |
71.83 |
2010-03-22 |
| 101. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
75.27 |
1.0419 |
-1.0549 |
261 |
1 |
75.27 |
2009-08-02 |
| 102. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
75.25 |
0.9831 |
-0.9898 |
469 |
1 |
75.25 |
2010-03-24 |
| 103. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
74.84 |
0.9805 |
-0.9898 |
292 |
1 |
74.84 |
2010-03-24 |
| 104. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
74.07 |
0.7876 |
-0.7967 |
316 |
1 |
74.07 |
2009-06-01 |
| 105. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
73.67 |
0.8916 |
-0.9036 |
216 |
1 |
73.67 |
2009-06-01 |
| 106. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
73.37 |
0.8595 |
-0.8707 |
242 |
2 |
71.66 |
2009-07-04 |
| 107. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
73.04 |
0.9865 |
-0.9980 |
276 |
2 |
64.25 |
2009-08-02 |
| 108. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
71.38 |
1.0485 |
-1.0237 |
153 |
1 |
71.38 |
2016-04-12 |
| 109. |
What else do I get with it? - You get a gold-plated Rolls Ro... |
67.68 |
0.9206 |
-0.8957 |
446 |
1 |
67.68 |
2016-04-12 |
| 110. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
66.52 |
1.0063 |
-1.0180 |
371 |
1 |
66.52 |
2009-05-23 |
| 111. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
66.13 |
0.9941 |
-1.0082 |
217 |
1 |
66.13 |
2016-04-12 |
| 112. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
64.81 |
0.9233 |
-0.9408 |
168 |
1 |
64.81 |
2009-06-01 |
| 113. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
62.48 |
1.0211 |
-1.0015 |
213 |
1 |
62.48 |
2016-04-12 |