| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
113.18 |
1.0555 |
0.1293 |
363 |
1 |
113.18 |
2010-05-20 |
| 2. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
112.05 |
1.1323 |
0.0729 |
341 |
1 |
112.05 |
2010-11-29 |
| 3. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
110.80 |
1.0740 |
0.1225 |
264 |
2 |
104.10 |
2011-09-06 |
| 4. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
110.75 |
1.0441 |
0.1151 |
252 |
1 |
110.75 |
2010-05-20 |
| 5. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
110.29 |
1.0124 |
0.1381 |
204 |
1 |
110.29 |
2010-12-16 |
| 6. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
109.96 |
1.1114 |
0.0353 |
247 |
1 |
109.96 |
2011-09-10 |
| 7. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
109.89 |
1.0535 |
0.1299 |
326 |
1 |
109.89 |
2011-09-01 |
| 8. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
109.60 |
1.0696 |
0.0725 |
226 |
1 |
109.60 |
2010-11-29 |
| 9. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
109.21 |
1.0485 |
0.1276 |
153 |
2 |
106.74 |
2011-10-10 |
| 10. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
109.07 |
1.0666 |
0.0735 |
297 |
2 |
102.51 |
2008-10-20 |
| 11. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
109.03 |
1.0567 |
0.0834 |
303 |
1 |
109.03 |
2010-05-06 |
| 12. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
108.12 |
1.0613 |
0.0695 |
266 |
2 |
102.39 |
2011-09-05 |
| 13. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
107.64 |
0.9646 |
0.1593 |
264 |
2 |
104.64 |
2011-09-05 |
| 14. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
107.57 |
1.0090 |
0.1589 |
282 |
1 |
107.57 |
2011-09-01 |
| 15. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
107.12 |
1.0943 |
0.0576 |
206 |
1 |
107.12 |
2010-11-29 |
| 16. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
107.00 |
0.9687 |
0.1541 |
371 |
4 |
95.11 |
2011-09-15 |
| 17. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
106.50 |
1.0523 |
0.0562 |
256 |
2 |
106.48 |
2010-12-05 |
| 18. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
106.00 |
1.0214 |
0.0844 |
269 |
3 |
90.92 |
2010-05-20 |
| 19. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
105.53 |
0.9557 |
0.1531 |
331 |
2 |
101.84 |
2011-09-05 |
| 20. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
104.88 |
1.0347 |
0.0864 |
550 |
1 |
104.88 |
2011-09-05 |
| 21. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
104.82 |
1.0284 |
0.1099 |
282 |
2 |
77.03 |
2011-06-19 |
| 22. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
104.50 |
1.0917 |
0.0235 |
243 |
2 |
73.75 |
2010-12-16 |
| 23. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
104.36 |
1.0296 |
0.0670 |
437 |
1 |
104.36 |
2011-09-05 |
| 24. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
104.23 |
0.9084 |
0.1845 |
404 |
3 |
96.51 |
2011-09-11 |
| 25. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
104.19 |
1.0168 |
0.0730 |
271 |
1 |
104.19 |
2011-09-06 |
| 26. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
104.08 |
0.9780 |
0.1102 |
337 |
4 |
96.84 |
2010-05-20 |
| 27. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
103.64 |
0.9785 |
0.1073 |
335 |
2 |
94.76 |
2011-09-06 |
| 28. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
103.62 |
0.9976 |
0.1050 |
174 |
2 |
97.54 |
2010-12-05 |
| 29. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
103.39 |
1.0396 |
0.0331 |
149 |
1 |
103.39 |
2011-09-01 |
| 30. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
103.37 |
0.9798 |
0.0942 |
199 |
1 |
103.37 |
2009-08-30 |
| 31. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
103.33 |
0.9710 |
0.1018 |
173 |
1 |
103.33 |
2011-09-01 |
| 32. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
103.25 |
0.9786 |
0.0946 |
193 |
2 |
100.01 |
2011-10-20 |
| 33. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
103.07 |
1.0213 |
0.0520 |
240 |
1 |
103.07 |
2011-09-06 |
| 34. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
103.05 |
1.0388 |
0.0691 |
243 |
2 |
92.67 |
2011-09-05 |
| 35. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
102.84 |
1.0521 |
0.0172 |
171 |
1 |
102.84 |
2012-01-26 |
| 36. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
102.65 |
0.9991 |
0.0735 |
225 |
1 |
102.65 |
2011-09-06 |
| 37. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
102.60 |
1.0608 |
0.0441 |
258 |
2 |
102.10 |
2011-09-05 |
| 38. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
102.42 |
1.0531 |
0.0547 |
272 |
1 |
102.42 |
2011-09-06 |
| 39. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
102.35 |
0.9731 |
0.0833 |
129 |
2 |
94.49 |
2010-08-04 |
| 40. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
102.22 |
1.0711 |
-0.0086 |
213 |
1 |
102.22 |
2009-08-30 |
| 41. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
101.80 |
0.9566 |
0.1291 |
576 |
1 |
101.80 |
2010-05-31 |
| 42. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
101.56 |
0.9351 |
0.1200 |
190 |
1 |
101.56 |
2010-12-16 |
| 43. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
101.33 |
1.0595 |
0.0011 |
379 |
2 |
99.62 |
2010-05-31 |
| 44. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
101.10 |
0.9863 |
0.0738 |
339 |
1 |
101.10 |
2011-09-05 |
| 45. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
100.53 |
1.0454 |
0.0006 |
255 |
4 |
94.95 |
2011-09-10 |
| 46. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
100.44 |
0.9649 |
0.0827 |
193 |
3 |
93.14 |
2009-01-06 |
| 47. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
100.41 |
1.0197 |
0.0258 |
226 |
1 |
100.41 |
2010-05-20 |
| 48. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
100.35 |
0.9582 |
0.0911 |
259 |
1 |
100.35 |
2012-01-26 |
| 49. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
100.31 |
1.0167 |
0.0375 |
378 |
1 |
100.31 |
2008-08-13 |
| 50. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
99.93 |
1.0203 |
0.0562 |
400 |
1 |
99.93 |
2011-09-01 |
| 51. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
99.89 |
1.0053 |
0.0356 |
232 |
1 |
99.89 |
2011-09-06 |
| 52. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
99.48 |
0.9965 |
0.0424 |
310 |
1 |
99.48 |
2011-09-06 |
| 53. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
99.31 |
1.0289 |
0.0123 |
276 |
1 |
99.31 |
2008-10-20 |
| 54. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
99.16 |
1.0829 |
-0.0462 |
288 |
2 |
91.53 |
2009-01-06 |
| 55. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
99.14 |
0.9997 |
0.0389 |
382 |
1 |
99.14 |
2011-09-06 |
| 56. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
98.97 |
1.0482 |
0.0087 |
487 |
1 |
98.97 |
2010-12-16 |
| 57. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
98.75 |
0.9601 |
0.0755 |
308 |
1 |
98.75 |
2011-09-05 |
| 58. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
98.58 |
0.9936 |
0.0556 |
227 |
1 |
98.58 |
2010-05-20 |
| 59. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
98.08 |
1.0577 |
-0.0374 |
247 |
1 |
98.08 |
2008-12-31 |
| 60. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
97.96 |
0.9790 |
0.0841 |
311 |
1 |
97.96 |
2011-09-05 |
| 61. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
97.81 |
0.8981 |
0.1274 |
393 |
1 |
97.81 |
2010-12-16 |
| 62. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
97.29 |
1.0487 |
-0.0383 |
231 |
1 |
97.29 |
2011-09-14 |
| 63. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
97.14 |
0.8890 |
0.1213 |
199 |
2 |
76.90 |
2008-10-03 |
| 64. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
96.85 |
0.9904 |
0.0610 |
203 |
1 |
96.85 |
2011-09-06 |
| 65. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
96.79 |
1.0328 |
0.0155 |
356 |
1 |
96.79 |
2011-09-05 |
| 66. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
96.05 |
0.9527 |
0.0495 |
251 |
1 |
96.05 |
2011-09-10 |
| 67. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
95.92 |
0.9164 |
0.0894 |
305 |
1 |
95.92 |
2011-09-06 |
| 68. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
95.75 |
0.9088 |
0.0956 |
348 |
1 |
95.75 |
2011-09-06 |
| 69. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
95.56 |
1.0787 |
-0.0828 |
237 |
1 |
95.56 |
2008-08-13 |
| 70. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
95.44 |
1.0016 |
-0.0103 |
218 |
1 |
95.44 |
2008-12-31 |
| 71. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
95.37 |
1.0669 |
-0.0394 |
286 |
1 |
95.37 |
2009-08-30 |
| 72. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
95.35 |
1.0297 |
-0.0360 |
249 |
1 |
95.35 |
2011-09-06 |
| 73. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
94.94 |
1.0214 |
-0.0362 |
166 |
1 |
94.94 |
2009-08-30 |
| 74. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
94.47 |
0.9746 |
0.0394 |
405 |
1 |
94.47 |
2011-09-01 |
| 75. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
94.33 |
0.9339 |
0.0488 |
310 |
1 |
94.33 |
2011-09-05 |
| 76. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
94.11 |
0.9411 |
0.0415 |
318 |
1 |
94.11 |
2008-08-13 |
| 77. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
94.01 |
1.0025 |
-0.0208 |
336 |
1 |
94.01 |
2009-01-06 |
| 78. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
94.00 |
1.0261 |
-0.0473 |
273 |
1 |
94.00 |
2010-02-08 |
| 79. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
93.87 |
1.0486 |
-0.0685 |
289 |
1 |
93.87 |
2009-08-30 |
| 80. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
93.86 |
1.0516 |
-0.0728 |
281 |
1 |
93.86 |
2010-11-29 |
| 81. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
93.68 |
1.0545 |
-0.0365 |
416 |
1 |
93.68 |
2011-09-05 |
| 82. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
93.65 |
0.9879 |
-0.0022 |
450 |
1 |
93.65 |
2008-10-01 |
| 83. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
93.53 |
0.9109 |
0.0674 |
401 |
1 |
93.53 |
2008-08-13 |
| 84. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
93.51 |
1.0042 |
0.0128 |
352 |
1 |
93.51 |
2010-12-05 |
| 85. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
93.39 |
0.9871 |
0.0233 |
209 |
1 |
93.39 |
2011-09-06 |
| 86. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
93.23 |
0.9668 |
0.0483 |
383 |
1 |
93.23 |
2010-12-16 |
| 87. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
92.57 |
0.9376 |
0.0334 |
367 |
3 |
89.90 |
2011-09-05 |
| 88. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
92.22 |
0.9865 |
-0.0235 |
276 |
1 |
92.22 |
2010-12-05 |
| 89. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
92.17 |
0.9942 |
-0.0241 |
483 |
2 |
88.27 |
2009-01-06 |
| 90. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
92.13 |
0.9899 |
-0.0337 |
163 |
1 |
92.13 |
2010-02-08 |
| 91. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
92.00 |
0.9578 |
0.0012 |
281 |
3 |
85.42 |
2008-12-11 |
| 92. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
91.98 |
0.9724 |
-0.0095 |
237 |
1 |
91.98 |
2008-10-03 |
| 93. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
91.90 |
0.9632 |
0.0017 |
392 |
2 |
88.33 |
2010-12-16 |
| 94. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
91.78 |
1.0596 |
-0.1045 |
239 |
1 |
91.78 |
2008-10-20 |
| 95. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
91.73 |
0.9936 |
-0.0372 |
311 |
1 |
91.73 |
2010-02-08 |
| 96. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
91.48 |
0.9805 |
-0.0219 |
292 |
1 |
91.48 |
2009-01-06 |
| 97. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
91.37 |
0.9965 |
-0.0430 |
277 |
2 |
89.05 |
2009-08-30 |
| 98. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
90.99 |
0.9540 |
-0.0069 |
285 |
1 |
90.99 |
2011-09-10 |
| 99. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
90.97 |
1.0496 |
-0.1017 |
314 |
1 |
90.97 |
2008-10-01 |
| 100. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
90.85 |
0.9768 |
-0.0268 |
387 |
1 |
90.85 |
2008-10-28 |
| 101. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
90.81 |
0.9811 |
-0.0314 |
272 |
1 |
90.81 |
2011-09-01 |
| 102. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
90.39 |
0.9513 |
-0.0050 |
354 |
1 |
90.39 |
2010-11-29 |
| 103. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
90.27 |
0.9922 |
-0.0099 |
341 |
1 |
90.27 |
2011-06-19 |
| 104. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
89.56 |
0.9372 |
0.0005 |
320 |
3 |
86.75 |
2009-08-30 |
| 105. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
89.52 |
0.9005 |
0.0313 |
212 |
2 |
84.89 |
2008-12-31 |
| 106. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
89.36 |
0.9684 |
-0.0341 |
388 |
1 |
89.36 |
2008-10-28 |
| 107. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
89.26 |
1.0619 |
-0.1277 |
354 |
1 |
89.26 |
2008-08-13 |
| 108. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
89.17 |
0.9769 |
-0.0494 |
263 |
1 |
89.17 |
2010-05-06 |
| 109. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
88.90 |
0.8691 |
0.0441 |
119 |
1 |
88.90 |
2010-08-04 |
| 110. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
88.63 |
0.9786 |
-0.0552 |
235 |
1 |
88.63 |
2011-09-06 |
| 111. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
88.00 |
0.8826 |
0.0361 |
296 |
2 |
86.60 |
2011-09-05 |
| 112. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
87.78 |
0.8595 |
0.0572 |
242 |
1 |
87.78 |
2008-08-13 |
| 113. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
87.76 |
0.9168 |
-0.0008 |
240 |
1 |
87.76 |
2009-01-06 |
| 114. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
87.60 |
0.9553 |
-0.0351 |
430 |
1 |
87.60 |
2009-08-30 |
| 115. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
87.01 |
0.9532 |
-0.0477 |
258 |
1 |
87.01 |
2010-02-08 |
| 116. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
86.96 |
0.9213 |
-0.0145 |
295 |
1 |
86.96 |
2008-08-13 |
| 117. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
86.04 |
0.8753 |
0.0304 |
427 |
1 |
86.04 |
2011-09-06 |
| 118. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
86.04 |
0.9398 |
-0.0340 |
419 |
2 |
80.90 |
2009-08-30 |
| 119. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
86.00 |
0.9758 |
-0.0790 |
314 |
1 |
86.00 |
2008-10-01 |
| 120. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
85.97 |
0.8933 |
0.0089 |
363 |
1 |
85.97 |
2009-08-30 |
| 121. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
85.50 |
1.0201 |
-0.1361 |
172 |
1 |
85.50 |
2010-02-08 |
| 122. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
84.76 |
0.9074 |
-0.0179 |
396 |
1 |
84.76 |
2008-12-31 |
| 123. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
84.48 |
1.0419 |
-0.1619 |
261 |
1 |
84.48 |
2008-12-31 |
| 124. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
83.22 |
0.9619 |
-0.0900 |
393 |
2 |
82.30 |
2008-08-13 |
| 125. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
83.11 |
0.8916 |
-0.0257 |
216 |
1 |
83.11 |
2011-09-05 |
| 126. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
83.04 |
0.9910 |
-0.1243 |
295 |
1 |
83.04 |
2008-12-31 |
| 127. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
82.73 |
0.9635 |
-0.0966 |
389 |
1 |
82.73 |
2009-08-30 |
| 128. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
82.21 |
0.8602 |
-0.0063 |
206 |
2 |
72.27 |
2008-10-03 |
| 129. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
80.84 |
0.9176 |
-0.0372 |
365 |
1 |
80.84 |
2010-02-08 |
| 130. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
79.75 |
0.9740 |
-0.1481 |
209 |
1 |
79.75 |
2008-12-31 |
| 131. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
78.93 |
0.9820 |
-0.1578 |
267 |
1 |
78.93 |
2010-02-08 |
| 132. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
78.23 |
0.9279 |
-0.1074 |
317 |
1 |
78.23 |
2010-02-08 |
| 133. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
78.07 |
0.9907 |
-0.1800 |
211 |
1 |
78.07 |
2008-10-03 |
| 134. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
77.04 |
0.9866 |
-0.1889 |
218 |
1 |
77.04 |
2010-02-08 |
| 135. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
76.87 |
0.9665 |
-0.1176 |
326 |
1 |
76.87 |
2012-01-26 |
| 136. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
74.50 |
1.0316 |
-0.2532 |
333 |
1 |
74.50 |
2011-11-08 |
| 137. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
59.59 |
1.0561 |
-0.4131 |
430 |
1 |
59.59 |
2011-03-11 |
| 138. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
48.21 |
1.0099 |
-0.5161 |
207 |
1 |
48.21 |
2010-05-31 |
| 139. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
45.63 |
0.9671 |
-0.4735 |
379 |
1 |
45.63 |
2010-05-31 |
| 140. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
40.14 |
0.9049 |
-0.4881 |
351 |
1 |
40.14 |
2010-05-31 |