| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
61.56 |
0.9576 |
1.0427 |
212 |
1 |
61.56 |
2011-05-08 |
| 2. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
49.63 |
1.0151 |
0.5826 |
152 |
1 |
49.63 |
2012-04-10 |
| 3. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
41.73 |
0.8157 |
0.5335 |
121 |
2 |
34.63 |
2014-04-15 |
| 4. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
40.03 |
0.8581 |
0.4320 |
136 |
2 |
36.51 |
2012-04-10 |
| 5. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
37.74 |
0.9597 |
0.2631 |
347 |
1 |
37.74 |
2014-04-13 |
| 6. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
36.97 |
0.8918 |
0.3004 |
100 |
1 |
36.97 |
2011-05-23 |
| 7. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
36.31 |
1.0074 |
0.1662 |
242 |
1 |
36.31 |
2014-04-20 |
| 8. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
36.21 |
1.0740 |
0.1331 |
264 |
1 |
36.21 |
2014-04-20 |
| 9. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
36.09 |
1.0426 |
0.1216 |
323 |
1 |
36.09 |
2014-04-20 |
| 10. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
35.78 |
0.8841 |
0.2776 |
194 |
2 |
32.07 |
2014-04-20 |
| 11. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
35.65 |
0.8793 |
0.2722 |
157 |
2 |
31.21 |
2014-04-15 |
| 12. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
35.61 |
0.9912 |
0.1849 |
237 |
1 |
35.61 |
2011-05-08 |
| 13. |
Be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competiti... |
35.50 |
0.8447 |
0.2939 |
134 |
1 |
35.50 |
2011-12-31 |
| 14. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
35.49 |
0.9325 |
0.2059 |
156 |
1 |
35.49 |
2011-12-31 |
| 15. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
35.32 |
0.9773 |
0.1542 |
123 |
1 |
35.32 |
2011-12-31 |
| 16. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
34.64 |
0.9196 |
0.1995 |
148 |
1 |
34.64 |
2011-12-31 |
| 17. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
34.63 |
1.0795 |
0.0681 |
226 |
1 |
34.63 |
2011-12-31 |
| 18. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
34.42 |
0.9281 |
0.1870 |
273 |
1 |
34.42 |
2014-04-20 |
| 19. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
34.19 |
1.0441 |
0.0600 |
252 |
1 |
34.19 |
2011-12-31 |
| 20. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
33.42 |
0.8854 |
0.1919 |
116 |
1 |
33.42 |
2011-05-03 |
| 21. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
33.23 |
1.0270 |
0.0805 |
255 |
1 |
33.23 |
2012-04-10 |
| 22. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
33.13 |
0.7996 |
0.2708 |
177 |
2 |
31.58 |
2011-12-31 |
| 23. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
32.61 |
0.9691 |
0.0817 |
223 |
2 |
29.75 |
2013-10-13 |
| 24. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
32.60 |
0.8725 |
0.1808 |
163 |
1 |
32.60 |
2014-04-13 |
| 25. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
32.56 |
0.9873 |
0.0592 |
155 |
1 |
32.56 |
2011-05-08 |
| 26. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
32.49 |
1.0201 |
0.0278 |
303 |
1 |
32.49 |
2011-12-31 |
| 27. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
32.04 |
1.0799 |
-0.0512 |
243 |
1 |
32.04 |
2011-05-16 |
| 28. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
31.85 |
1.1114 |
-0.0878 |
247 |
1 |
31.85 |
2011-05-09 |
| 29. |
When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped... |
31.72 |
0.8297 |
0.1836 |
103 |
1 |
31.72 |
2011-05-03 |
| 30. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
31.65 |
0.9598 |
0.0672 |
220 |
1 |
31.65 |
2011-05-28 |
| 31. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
31.64 |
0.8811 |
0.1429 |
239 |
1 |
31.64 |
2011-12-31 |
| 32. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
31.49 |
0.9670 |
0.0899 |
307 |
1 |
31.49 |
2013-10-13 |
| 33. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
31.25 |
1.0131 |
-0.0100 |
225 |
1 |
31.25 |
2011-05-11 |
| 34. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
31.19 |
1.0529 |
-0.0480 |
351 |
1 |
31.19 |
2011-12-31 |
| 35. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
31.12 |
0.8188 |
0.1856 |
183 |
1 |
31.12 |
2011-12-31 |
| 36. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
30.85 |
0.8785 |
0.1113 |
172 |
1 |
30.85 |
2011-12-31 |
| 37. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
30.71 |
0.9164 |
0.0772 |
121 |
2 |
29.78 |
2011-05-17 |
| 38. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
30.65 |
1.0240 |
-0.0397 |
256 |
1 |
30.65 |
2011-05-09 |
| 39. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
30.56 |
1.0379 |
-0.0188 |
245 |
1 |
30.56 |
2011-05-08 |
| 40. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
30.46 |
0.8715 |
0.1069 |
130 |
1 |
30.46 |
2011-05-16 |
| 41. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
30.44 |
0.8773 |
0.1068 |
205 |
1 |
30.44 |
2011-12-31 |
| 42. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
30.38 |
0.9936 |
0.0051 |
227 |
1 |
30.38 |
2011-12-31 |
| 43. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
30.36 |
0.9916 |
0.0289 |
282 |
1 |
30.36 |
2011-05-08 |
| 44. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
30.28 |
0.8971 |
0.0833 |
266 |
1 |
30.28 |
2011-05-04 |
| 45. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
30.21 |
0.7934 |
0.1800 |
134 |
2 |
27.93 |
2011-05-03 |
| 46. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
30.21 |
1.0462 |
-0.0792 |
184 |
1 |
30.21 |
2011-05-23 |
| 47. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
30.09 |
0.9461 |
0.0188 |
193 |
1 |
30.09 |
2011-12-31 |
| 48. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
30.08 |
0.8096 |
0.1672 |
209 |
1 |
30.08 |
2011-05-04 |
| 49. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
30.03 |
0.7690 |
0.2005 |
142 |
1 |
30.03 |
2012-04-10 |
| 50. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
30.00 |
0.9161 |
0.0477 |
200 |
2 |
28.42 |
2011-05-23 |
| 51. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
29.72 |
1.0109 |
-0.0534 |
276 |
1 |
29.72 |
2011-05-17 |
| 52. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
29.63 |
1.0023 |
-0.0503 |
211 |
1 |
29.63 |
2011-05-03 |
| 53. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
29.49 |
1.0523 |
-0.1071 |
256 |
3 |
27.58 |
2012-04-10 |
| 54. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
29.40 |
0.9128 |
0.0392 |
133 |
1 |
29.40 |
2011-12-31 |
| 55. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
29.39 |
0.8022 |
0.1467 |
215 |
2 |
29.15 |
2011-12-31 |
| 56. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
29.29 |
0.8884 |
0.0546 |
135 |
1 |
29.29 |
2011-05-09 |
| 57. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
29.29 |
0.8311 |
0.1056 |
124 |
1 |
29.29 |
2011-05-03 |
| 58. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
29.20 |
0.9084 |
0.0353 |
404 |
1 |
29.20 |
2011-12-31 |
| 59. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
29.17 |
0.8910 |
0.0499 |
150 |
1 |
29.17 |
2011-05-03 |
| 60. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
29.11 |
0.9863 |
-0.0449 |
339 |
1 |
29.11 |
2011-12-31 |
| 61. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
29.08 |
1.0124 |
-0.0789 |
204 |
1 |
29.08 |
2011-05-16 |
| 62. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
29.06 |
1.0343 |
-0.0617 |
242 |
1 |
29.06 |
2011-05-11 |
| 63. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
29.03 |
1.0138 |
-0.0798 |
231 |
1 |
29.03 |
2011-05-23 |
| 64. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
28.96 |
1.0214 |
-0.0907 |
269 |
1 |
28.96 |
2011-05-23 |
| 65. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
28.79 |
1.0796 |
-0.1584 |
129 |
1 |
28.79 |
2011-05-23 |
| 66. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
28.73 |
0.8723 |
0.0480 |
185 |
1 |
28.73 |
2011-05-08 |
| 67. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
28.68 |
0.8037 |
0.1226 |
148 |
1 |
28.68 |
2011-12-31 |
| 68. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
28.65 |
1.0679 |
-0.1259 |
177 |
1 |
28.65 |
2011-05-09 |
| 69. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
28.63 |
0.8295 |
0.0937 |
209 |
1 |
28.63 |
2011-05-03 |
| 70. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
28.59 |
0.9251 |
0.0001 |
177 |
2 |
26.94 |
2011-05-23 |
| 71. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
28.57 |
0.7708 |
0.1542 |
207 |
1 |
28.57 |
2011-05-17 |
| 72. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
28.56 |
0.9187 |
-0.0098 |
118 |
1 |
28.56 |
2011-05-23 |
| 73. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
28.49 |
0.7877 |
0.1338 |
142 |
1 |
28.49 |
2011-12-31 |
| 74. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
28.47 |
0.9976 |
-0.0611 |
174 |
1 |
28.47 |
2011-12-31 |
| 75. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
28.44 |
1.0403 |
-0.1105 |
193 |
2 |
28.39 |
2011-12-31 |
| 76. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
28.37 |
0.9726 |
-0.0664 |
154 |
2 |
27.81 |
2011-05-23 |
| 77. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
28.23 |
0.8968 |
0.0082 |
186 |
1 |
28.23 |
2011-12-31 |
| 78. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
28.20 |
0.8996 |
0.0022 |
192 |
2 |
26.98 |
2011-05-23 |
| 79. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
28.17 |
0.8961 |
0.0069 |
189 |
2 |
27.62 |
2011-05-17 |
| 80. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
28.06 |
0.9851 |
-0.0798 |
317 |
1 |
28.06 |
2011-05-16 |
| 81. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
27.97 |
0.9098 |
-0.0139 |
167 |
1 |
27.97 |
2011-05-23 |
| 82. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
27.82 |
1.0214 |
-0.1318 |
166 |
1 |
27.82 |
2011-12-31 |
| 83. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
27.73 |
0.8263 |
0.0637 |
162 |
1 |
27.73 |
2011-05-23 |
| 84. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
27.73 |
0.8878 |
0.0041 |
346 |
1 |
27.73 |
2011-05-09 |
| 85. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
27.59 |
0.8791 |
0.0075 |
190 |
1 |
27.59 |
2011-05-03 |
| 86. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
27.20 |
0.9128 |
0.0035 |
369 |
1 |
27.20 |
2011-05-03 |
| 87. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
27.10 |
0.9540 |
-0.0846 |
285 |
1 |
27.10 |
2011-12-31 |
| 88. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
26.58 |
0.9665 |
-0.0627 |
326 |
1 |
26.58 |
2011-12-31 |
| 89. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
26.45 |
0.9673 |
-0.0779 |
232 |
1 |
26.45 |
2011-05-09 |
| 90. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
26.35 |
0.8382 |
0.0097 |
268 |
1 |
26.35 |
2011-05-08 |
| 91. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
26.00 |
0.7484 |
0.0839 |
185 |
1 |
26.00 |
2011-05-23 |
| 92. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
25.84 |
0.9028 |
-0.0714 |
155 |
1 |
25.84 |
2011-05-03 |
| 93. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
25.50 |
0.8162 |
0.0084 |
149 |
1 |
25.50 |
2011-05-11 |
| 94. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
25.35 |
0.8559 |
-0.0403 |
191 |
1 |
25.35 |
2012-04-10 |
| 95. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
25.02 |
0.8082 |
0.0040 |
186 |
1 |
25.02 |
2011-05-23 |
| 96. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
24.92 |
0.9461 |
-0.1464 |
276 |
1 |
24.92 |
2011-05-17 |
| 97. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
24.31 |
0.9275 |
-0.1502 |
211 |
1 |
24.31 |
2011-05-03 |
| 98. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
24.26 |
0.8154 |
-0.0349 |
193 |
1 |
24.26 |
2011-12-31 |
| 99. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
24.10 |
0.8145 |
-0.0383 |
115 |
1 |
24.10 |
2011-05-03 |
| 100. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
23.46 |
0.8553 |
-0.1076 |
174 |
1 |
23.46 |
2011-05-03 |
| 101. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
22.47 |
0.9509 |
-0.1923 |
225 |
1 |
22.47 |
2011-05-23 |
| 102. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
18.81 |
1.0419 |
-0.4413 |
261 |
1 |
18.81 |
2012-04-10 |