| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
141.20 |
1.0029 |
0.2816 |
209 |
2 |
113.06 |
2009-10-01 |
| 2. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
136.66 |
1.0441 |
0.2461 |
316 |
2 |
114.49 |
2010-04-26 |
| 3. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
133.16 |
0.9731 |
0.2309 |
129 |
2 |
132.54 |
2010-07-12 |
| 4. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
131.24 |
1.1114 |
0.0847 |
247 |
5 |
119.68 |
2010-07-12 |
| 5. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
130.43 |
1.0053 |
0.1841 |
232 |
1 |
130.43 |
2009-11-29 |
| 6. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
129.42 |
1.0289 |
0.1576 |
276 |
3 |
112.09 |
2010-07-12 |
| 7. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
129.01 |
1.0498 |
0.1235 |
180 |
5 |
109.55 |
2010-07-15 |
| 8. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
128.97 |
0.9910 |
0.1889 |
295 |
1 |
128.97 |
2009-07-16 |
| 9. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
128.89 |
1.0426 |
0.1339 |
323 |
1 |
128.89 |
2009-07-16 |
| 10. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
126.13 |
1.0483 |
0.1002 |
227 |
1 |
126.13 |
2009-07-16 |
| 11. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
125.95 |
0.9833 |
0.1683 |
355 |
2 |
118.77 |
2010-05-26 |
| 12. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
125.52 |
0.9723 |
0.1774 |
364 |
1 |
125.52 |
2009-07-16 |
| 13. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
125.04 |
0.9965 |
0.1456 |
277 |
1 |
125.04 |
2009-07-16 |
| 14. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
124.24 |
1.0767 |
0.0552 |
212 |
2 |
119.11 |
2010-07-12 |
| 15. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
123.63 |
1.0201 |
0.1017 |
172 |
1 |
123.63 |
2009-11-29 |
| 16. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
123.08 |
1.0124 |
0.1087 |
204 |
1 |
123.08 |
2010-05-26 |
| 17. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
122.46 |
1.0534 |
0.0667 |
357 |
2 |
119.05 |
2010-07-20 |
| 18. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
121.99 |
1.0060 |
0.1027 |
171 |
2 |
120.82 |
2010-07-12 |
| 19. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
121.51 |
1.0714 |
0.0286 |
129 |
2 |
116.83 |
2010-07-12 |
| 20. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
120.75 |
1.0595 |
0.0452 |
379 |
1 |
120.75 |
2010-05-26 |
| 21. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
120.29 |
0.9991 |
0.0991 |
225 |
2 |
111.05 |
2010-07-12 |
| 22. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
119.96 |
1.0565 |
0.0355 |
247 |
3 |
109.14 |
2010-05-26 |
| 23. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
119.24 |
0.9514 |
0.1368 |
237 |
2 |
113.87 |
2010-05-26 |
| 24. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
119.15 |
1.0796 |
0.0026 |
129 |
4 |
106.34 |
2010-05-26 |
| 25. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
119.10 |
1.0787 |
0.0067 |
237 |
4 |
114.98 |
2010-07-12 |
| 26. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
119.08 |
0.9769 |
0.1076 |
263 |
3 |
113.99 |
2009-10-16 |
| 27. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
117.20 |
1.0390 |
0.0265 |
205 |
2 |
113.97 |
2010-05-26 |
| 28. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
117.04 |
1.0529 |
0.0148 |
351 |
1 |
117.04 |
2010-04-25 |
| 29. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
116.82 |
0.9429 |
0.1242 |
287 |
1 |
116.82 |
2010-05-26 |
| 30. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
116.38 |
1.0885 |
-0.0237 |
315 |
1 |
116.38 |
2010-07-12 |
| 31. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
116.37 |
1.0168 |
0.0461 |
271 |
5 |
109.18 |
2010-07-12 |
| 32. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
115.26 |
1.0389 |
0.0140 |
318 |
2 |
102.14 |
2010-06-12 |
| 33. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
115.22 |
0.9699 |
0.0803 |
269 |
2 |
103.66 |
2010-05-26 |
| 34. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
114.89 |
1.0398 |
-0.0026 |
110 |
3 |
105.01 |
2010-02-05 |
| 35. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
114.82 |
1.0183 |
0.0231 |
191 |
4 |
109.03 |
2010-05-26 |
| 36. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
114.73 |
1.0399 |
0.0117 |
294 |
1 |
114.73 |
2010-06-12 |
| 37. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
113.81 |
1.0941 |
-0.0249 |
256 |
1 |
113.81 |
2009-10-16 |
| 38. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
113.70 |
1.0797 |
-0.0486 |
210 |
2 |
107.97 |
2010-02-05 |
| 39. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
113.44 |
1.1162 |
-0.0409 |
189 |
2 |
112.55 |
2010-07-12 |
| 40. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
113.11 |
1.0109 |
0.0214 |
276 |
4 |
104.24 |
2010-07-12 |
| 41. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
113.11 |
1.0379 |
0.0284 |
245 |
1 |
113.11 |
2010-05-26 |
| 42. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
111.55 |
1.0396 |
-0.0298 |
149 |
1 |
111.55 |
2009-11-29 |
| 43. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
111.46 |
1.0555 |
-0.0379 |
363 |
1 |
111.46 |
2010-05-26 |
| 44. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
111.31 |
1.0768 |
-0.0220 |
295 |
1 |
111.31 |
2010-04-25 |
| 45. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
111.14 |
1.0292 |
-0.0172 |
262 |
2 |
110.77 |
2010-05-26 |
| 46. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
111.11 |
1.0740 |
-0.0229 |
264 |
2 |
109.90 |
2010-06-12 |
| 47. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
111.10 |
1.0214 |
-0.0103 |
269 |
2 |
109.42 |
2010-07-12 |
| 48. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
110.87 |
1.0567 |
-0.0454 |
303 |
1 |
110.87 |
2010-05-26 |
| 49. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
110.70 |
1.0391 |
-0.0238 |
358 |
2 |
110.27 |
2010-05-26 |
| 50. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
109.76 |
0.9852 |
0.0156 |
264 |
1 |
109.76 |
2010-06-12 |
| 51. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
109.65 |
1.0577 |
-0.0619 |
247 |
1 |
109.65 |
2009-07-16 |
| 52. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
109.57 |
1.0516 |
-0.0533 |
281 |
1 |
109.57 |
2010-07-15 |
| 53. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
109.18 |
1.0829 |
-0.0863 |
288 |
1 |
109.18 |
2010-07-12 |
| 54. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
108.75 |
1.0417 |
-0.0531 |
253 |
1 |
108.75 |
2010-05-26 |
| 55. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
108.55 |
1.0334 |
-0.0506 |
131 |
1 |
108.55 |
2010-05-30 |
| 56. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
108.33 |
1.0788 |
-0.0971 |
171 |
1 |
108.33 |
2010-05-26 |
| 57. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
108.21 |
0.9786 |
0.0023 |
193 |
1 |
108.21 |
2009-07-16 |
| 58. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
107.94 |
1.0349 |
-0.0518 |
234 |
1 |
107.94 |
2009-07-16 |
| 59. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
107.42 |
1.0252 |
-0.0526 |
176 |
1 |
107.42 |
2010-07-12 |
| 60. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
107.31 |
1.0943 |
-0.0840 |
206 |
1 |
107.31 |
2010-06-12 |
| 61. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
107.23 |
1.0385 |
-0.0631 |
230 |
2 |
105.83 |
2010-05-26 |
| 62. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
107.13 |
1.1016 |
-0.1253 |
233 |
1 |
107.13 |
2010-02-05 |
| 63. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
107.11 |
1.0669 |
-0.0586 |
286 |
1 |
107.11 |
2010-05-26 |
| 64. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
106.63 |
0.9351 |
0.0310 |
190 |
2 |
70.18 |
2010-04-26 |
| 65. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
105.79 |
0.9964 |
-0.0325 |
203 |
2 |
100.14 |
2010-05-26 |
| 66. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
105.45 |
0.9289 |
0.0295 |
204 |
1 |
105.45 |
2009-10-01 |
| 67. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
105.39 |
0.9941 |
-0.0364 |
217 |
2 |
102.50 |
2010-05-26 |
| 68. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
105.25 |
1.0613 |
-0.1016 |
266 |
3 |
103.57 |
2010-05-26 |
| 69. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
104.55 |
1.0863 |
-0.0991 |
210 |
1 |
104.55 |
2010-05-26 |
| 70. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
104.47 |
0.9649 |
-0.0144 |
193 |
2 |
101.87 |
2010-05-26 |
| 71. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
104.23 |
1.0477 |
-0.0959 |
360 |
1 |
104.23 |
2010-04-26 |
| 72. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
103.71 |
0.9485 |
-0.0022 |
236 |
2 |
102.89 |
2010-05-26 |
| 73. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
103.42 |
1.0034 |
-0.0631 |
302 |
1 |
103.42 |
2010-05-26 |
| 74. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
103.15 |
1.1215 |
-0.1583 |
200 |
1 |
103.15 |
2010-05-26 |
| 75. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
102.93 |
1.0644 |
-0.0909 |
257 |
1 |
102.93 |
2010-07-12 |
| 76. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
102.33 |
0.9726 |
-0.0471 |
154 |
1 |
102.33 |
2010-02-05 |
| 77. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
102.07 |
0.8852 |
0.0466 |
201 |
1 |
102.07 |
2010-05-26 |
| 78. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
101.76 |
0.9886 |
-0.0595 |
220 |
2 |
98.90 |
2010-02-05 |
| 79. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
101.36 |
0.9798 |
-0.0625 |
199 |
2 |
99.16 |
2009-07-16 |
| 80. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
100.92 |
1.0297 |
-0.1120 |
249 |
2 |
98.05 |
2009-07-16 |
| 81. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
100.50 |
0.9937 |
-0.0537 |
429 |
1 |
100.50 |
2010-04-25 |
| 82. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
100.00 |
1.0340 |
-0.1182 |
406 |
1 |
100.00 |
2010-05-18 |
| 83. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
99.86 |
0.9746 |
-0.0371 |
405 |
1 |
99.86 |
2010-05-26 |
| 84. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
98.55 |
0.9176 |
0.0183 |
365 |
1 |
98.55 |
2010-05-26 |
| 85. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
98.50 |
0.9697 |
-0.0731 |
249 |
1 |
98.50 |
2009-07-26 |
| 86. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
97.94 |
1.0375 |
-0.1004 |
200 |
1 |
97.94 |
2009-10-01 |
| 87. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
97.34 |
1.0613 |
-0.1705 |
456 |
1 |
97.34 |
2010-04-25 |
| 88. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
96.96 |
0.9871 |
-0.0826 |
227 |
1 |
96.96 |
2010-05-18 |
| 89. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
96.87 |
0.9263 |
-0.0411 |
188 |
1 |
96.87 |
2009-07-16 |
| 90. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
96.53 |
0.9841 |
-0.1019 |
334 |
1 |
96.53 |
2010-05-26 |
| 91. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
96.52 |
0.8105 |
0.0635 |
204 |
1 |
96.52 |
2009-10-16 |
| 92. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
96.15 |
1.0270 |
-0.1161 |
255 |
1 |
96.15 |
2010-05-18 |
| 93. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
95.33 |
1.0441 |
-0.1754 |
252 |
1 |
95.33 |
2009-07-16 |
| 94. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
94.34 |
0.9646 |
-0.1074 |
264 |
1 |
94.34 |
2010-05-26 |
| 95. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
94.28 |
0.9831 |
-0.1175 |
469 |
1 |
94.28 |
2010-05-18 |
| 96. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
92.38 |
1.0666 |
-0.2264 |
297 |
1 |
92.38 |
2009-07-16 |
| 97. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
92.03 |
0.9636 |
-0.1269 |
254 |
1 |
92.03 |
2009-10-01 |
| 98. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
91.53 |
0.9567 |
-0.1248 |
273 |
2 |
91.20 |
2009-10-01 |
| 99. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
91.39 |
1.0025 |
-0.1709 |
336 |
1 |
91.39 |
2010-04-25 |
| 100. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
91.05 |
1.0088 |
-0.1423 |
396 |
1 |
91.05 |
2010-04-26 |
| 101. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
90.12 |
0.9851 |
-0.1636 |
317 |
1 |
90.12 |
2009-07-16 |
| 102. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
89.67 |
0.9566 |
-0.1190 |
576 |
1 |
89.67 |
2010-05-26 |
| 103. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
89.22 |
1.0463 |
-0.2400 |
182 |
1 |
89.22 |
2009-07-16 |
| 104. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
87.66 |
0.9365 |
-0.1386 |
248 |
1 |
87.66 |
2009-10-16 |
| 105. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
85.08 |
0.9088 |
-0.1310 |
348 |
1 |
85.08 |
2010-04-26 |
| 106. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
84.92 |
0.9614 |
-0.1872 |
292 |
1 |
84.92 |
2009-10-01 |
| 107. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
82.25 |
1.0251 |
-0.2809 |
261 |
1 |
82.25 |
2010-04-26 |
| 108. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
80.56 |
1.0077 |
-0.2357 |
250 |
1 |
80.56 |
2010-05-18 |
| 109. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
75.83 |
1.0150 |
-0.2787 |
325 |
1 |
75.83 |
2010-04-26 |
| 110. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
69.12 |
1.0284 |
-0.3599 |
282 |
1 |
69.12 |
2010-04-25 |