| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.29 |
1.0799 |
0.2805 |
243 |
1 |
45.29 |
2009-04-29 |
| 2. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
43.97 |
0.8914 |
0.4330 |
366 |
1 |
43.97 |
2010-06-14 |
| 3. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
42.60 |
0.9576 |
0.3287 |
212 |
1 |
42.60 |
2009-10-27 |
| 4. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
42.20 |
0.8899 |
0.3910 |
293 |
1 |
42.20 |
2009-04-29 |
| 5. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
41.18 |
1.0426 |
0.1959 |
323 |
2 |
39.66 |
2009-05-04 |
| 6. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
40.97 |
1.0213 |
0.2084 |
240 |
2 |
38.79 |
2009-06-15 |
| 7. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
40.74 |
0.9851 |
0.2432 |
317 |
1 |
40.74 |
2011-02-02 |
| 8. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
40.29 |
1.0796 |
0.1270 |
129 |
1 |
40.29 |
2011-02-02 |
| 9. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
40.24 |
1.0485 |
0.1964 |
153 |
1 |
40.24 |
2011-02-02 |
| 10. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
40.02 |
1.0767 |
0.1249 |
212 |
1 |
40.02 |
2009-10-27 |
| 11. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
39.54 |
1.0711 |
0.1129 |
213 |
1 |
39.54 |
2009-04-29 |
| 12. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
39.33 |
1.0389 |
0.1458 |
318 |
1 |
39.33 |
2009-06-15 |
| 13. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
38.75 |
0.9758 |
0.1902 |
314 |
1 |
38.75 |
2009-04-29 |
| 14. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
38.46 |
1.0063 |
0.1503 |
371 |
3 |
36.87 |
2009-05-04 |
| 15. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
38.41 |
1.0331 |
0.1195 |
234 |
1 |
38.41 |
2009-04-29 |
| 16. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
38.13 |
0.8559 |
0.2916 |
191 |
1 |
38.13 |
2009-10-27 |
| 17. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
38.12 |
0.9798 |
0.1607 |
199 |
1 |
38.12 |
2009-04-29 |
| 18. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
38.03 |
0.7826 |
0.3653 |
97 |
1 |
38.03 |
2009-10-27 |
| 19. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
38.01 |
0.9342 |
0.2123 |
434 |
2 |
34.79 |
2009-04-29 |
| 20. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
37.75 |
1.0487 |
0.0811 |
231 |
1 |
37.75 |
2009-04-29 |
| 21. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
37.70 |
0.8975 |
0.2364 |
268 |
3 |
33.84 |
2009-10-27 |
| 22. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
37.61 |
1.0183 |
0.1068 |
191 |
2 |
34.77 |
2010-06-14 |
| 23. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
37.32 |
0.8821 |
0.2394 |
176 |
2 |
33.69 |
2011-02-02 |
| 24. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
36.28 |
1.0292 |
0.0595 |
262 |
1 |
36.28 |
2009-04-27 |
| 25. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
36.17 |
1.0483 |
0.0352 |
227 |
1 |
36.17 |
2009-03-13 |
| 26. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
36.09 |
1.0797 |
-0.0008 |
210 |
1 |
36.09 |
2010-06-13 |
| 27. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
35.85 |
0.9084 |
0.1704 |
300 |
2 |
32.59 |
2009-10-27 |
| 28. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
35.73 |
0.9991 |
0.0749 |
225 |
1 |
35.73 |
2009-05-15 |
| 29. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
35.62 |
1.1114 |
-0.0442 |
247 |
1 |
35.62 |
2009-04-27 |
| 30. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
35.36 |
1.0417 |
0.0177 |
253 |
2 |
34.45 |
2009-04-15 |
| 31. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
35.31 |
1.0095 |
0.0497 |
316 |
1 |
35.31 |
2011-02-02 |
| 32. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
35.29 |
1.0714 |
-0.0205 |
129 |
1 |
35.29 |
2009-03-13 |
| 33. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
35.28 |
1.0516 |
0.0075 |
281 |
1 |
35.28 |
2009-04-27 |
| 34. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
35.14 |
1.0788 |
-0.0290 |
171 |
1 |
35.14 |
2009-04-15 |
| 35. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
35.13 |
0.9886 |
0.0690 |
220 |
1 |
35.13 |
2009-04-27 |
| 36. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
35.04 |
0.9843 |
0.0631 |
234 |
1 |
35.04 |
2009-04-27 |
| 37. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
34.73 |
0.9430 |
0.0928 |
211 |
1 |
34.73 |
2009-04-27 |
| 38. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
34.50 |
0.8118 |
0.2295 |
109 |
2 |
28.81 |
2009-03-13 |
| 39. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
34.34 |
1.0429 |
-0.0133 |
259 |
1 |
34.34 |
2009-03-13 |
| 40. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
34.24 |
0.9213 |
0.1075 |
295 |
2 |
29.26 |
2009-04-29 |
| 41. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
33.98 |
0.9946 |
0.0256 |
246 |
1 |
33.98 |
2009-04-29 |
| 42. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
33.70 |
0.9164 |
0.0995 |
121 |
1 |
33.70 |
2009-03-12 |
| 43. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
33.54 |
1.0496 |
-0.0436 |
314 |
2 |
33.27 |
2009-10-27 |
| 44. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
33.18 |
1.0441 |
-0.0470 |
252 |
1 |
33.18 |
2010-06-13 |
| 45. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
33.09 |
0.8961 |
0.0937 |
189 |
2 |
32.87 |
2009-10-27 |
| 46. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
32.86 |
1.0168 |
-0.0289 |
271 |
2 |
27.85 |
2009-05-15 |
| 47. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
32.54 |
1.0297 |
-0.0546 |
249 |
1 |
32.54 |
2010-11-29 |
| 48. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
32.48 |
0.8715 |
0.1000 |
130 |
1 |
32.48 |
2009-03-13 |
| 49. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
32.39 |
1.0131 |
-0.0451 |
225 |
1 |
32.39 |
2009-04-29 |
| 50. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
32.20 |
0.8745 |
0.0902 |
169 |
1 |
32.20 |
2009-04-03 |
| 51. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
32.18 |
0.8602 |
0.1032 |
206 |
1 |
32.18 |
2009-04-29 |
| 52. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
32.13 |
1.0120 |
-0.0488 |
290 |
1 |
32.13 |
2009-03-13 |
| 53. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
32.04 |
0.9852 |
-0.0237 |
264 |
1 |
32.04 |
2009-03-13 |
| 54. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
31.93 |
0.9731 |
-0.0279 |
129 |
1 |
31.93 |
2009-04-27 |
| 55. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
31.86 |
0.8595 |
0.0985 |
242 |
2 |
31.21 |
2009-04-29 |
| 56. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
31.81 |
0.9266 |
0.0274 |
267 |
1 |
31.81 |
2009-04-29 |
| 57. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
31.73 |
0.8323 |
0.1204 |
203 |
1 |
31.73 |
2009-03-13 |
| 58. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
30.87 |
1.0419 |
-0.1166 |
261 |
2 |
28.12 |
2009-04-15 |
| 59. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
30.86 |
1.0016 |
-0.0811 |
218 |
2 |
30.70 |
2009-03-12 |
| 60. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
30.78 |
1.0389 |
-0.1136 |
340 |
1 |
30.78 |
2009-03-12 |
| 61. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
30.43 |
0.8791 |
0.0323 |
190 |
1 |
30.43 |
2009-03-12 |
| 62. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
30.42 |
1.0993 |
-0.1893 |
265 |
1 |
30.42 |
2009-03-13 |
| 63. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
30.22 |
0.8788 |
0.0241 |
134 |
2 |
27.18 |
2009-03-13 |
| 64. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
30.14 |
0.9233 |
-0.0281 |
168 |
2 |
27.91 |
2009-04-03 |
| 65. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
30.00 |
0.9125 |
-0.0115 |
308 |
1 |
30.00 |
2009-03-13 |
| 66. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
29.93 |
1.0023 |
-0.1072 |
211 |
1 |
29.93 |
2009-03-12 |
| 67. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
29.90 |
1.0033 |
-0.1140 |
189 |
1 |
29.90 |
2009-03-12 |
| 68. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
29.75 |
0.8956 |
-0.0014 |
217 |
1 |
29.75 |
2009-03-13 |
| 69. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
29.71 |
0.9307 |
-0.0326 |
246 |
1 |
29.71 |
2009-03-12 |
| 70. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
29.67 |
0.9907 |
-0.1028 |
211 |
1 |
29.67 |
2009-04-27 |
| 71. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
29.67 |
1.0523 |
-0.1674 |
256 |
1 |
29.67 |
2009-03-12 |
| 72. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
29.55 |
0.9316 |
-0.0400 |
287 |
1 |
29.55 |
2009-03-12 |
| 73. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
29.21 |
1.0349 |
-0.1608 |
234 |
1 |
29.21 |
2009-03-12 |
| 74. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
28.94 |
0.8190 |
0.0554 |
135 |
1 |
28.94 |
2009-10-27 |
| 75. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
28.21 |
0.8070 |
0.0408 |
137 |
2 |
26.18 |
2009-03-12 |
| 76. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
27.69 |
0.9045 |
-0.0750 |
235 |
1 |
27.69 |
2009-03-12 |
| 77. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
27.56 |
0.9729 |
-0.1479 |
255 |
1 |
27.56 |
2009-03-12 |
| 78. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
27.18 |
0.8154 |
-0.0003 |
193 |
1 |
27.18 |
2009-03-12 |
| 79. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
27.10 |
1.0214 |
-0.2157 |
166 |
1 |
27.10 |
2009-03-13 |
| 80. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
26.72 |
0.8263 |
-0.0290 |
162 |
2 |
24.49 |
2009-03-12 |
| 81. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
26.55 |
0.8070 |
-0.0150 |
167 |
1 |
26.55 |
2009-03-12 |
| 82. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
26.49 |
0.8919 |
-0.1007 |
205 |
1 |
26.49 |
2009-03-13 |
| 83. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
26.38 |
0.9866 |
-0.2010 |
218 |
1 |
26.38 |
2009-03-12 |
| 84. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
26.31 |
1.1016 |
-0.3150 |
233 |
1 |
26.31 |
2009-03-13 |
| 85. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
25.96 |
0.8660 |
-0.0897 |
193 |
1 |
25.96 |
2009-03-12 |
| 86. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
25.85 |
0.9865 |
-0.2124 |
276 |
1 |
25.85 |
2009-03-12 |
| 87. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
25.50 |
0.9351 |
-0.1782 |
190 |
1 |
25.50 |
2009-10-27 |
| 88. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
25.33 |
0.9846 |
-0.2291 |
281 |
1 |
25.33 |
2009-03-12 |
| 89. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
25.14 |
0.8900 |
-0.1375 |
164 |
1 |
25.14 |
2009-03-12 |
| 90. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
25.10 |
0.8916 |
-0.1410 |
216 |
1 |
25.10 |
2009-03-12 |
| 91. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
24.25 |
0.9275 |
-0.2064 |
211 |
1 |
24.25 |
2009-03-12 |
| 92. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
23.49 |
0.9763 |
-0.2757 |
289 |
1 |
23.49 |
2009-03-12 |
| 93. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
21.21 |
0.8422 |
-0.2075 |
164 |
1 |
21.21 |
2009-03-12 |
| 94. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
20.63 |
0.9325 |
-0.3252 |
156 |
1 |
20.63 |
2009-03-12 |