| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
49.28 |
0.9572 |
-0.9715 |
201 |
1 |
49.28 |
2009-03-31 |
| 2. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
43.70 |
0.9202 |
-0.9325 |
254 |
1 |
43.70 |
2009-03-31 |
| 3. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
42.51 |
0.9325 |
-0.9488 |
156 |
1 |
42.51 |
2009-04-24 |
| 4. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
42.25 |
1.0796 |
-1.0953 |
129 |
1 |
42.25 |
2009-05-15 |
| 5. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
41.91 |
1.0486 |
-1.0601 |
289 |
2 |
38.98 |
2009-04-24 |
| 6. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
40.67 |
1.0034 |
-1.0167 |
302 |
1 |
40.67 |
2009-04-16 |
| 7. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
40.66 |
1.0595 |
-1.0702 |
379 |
1 |
40.66 |
2009-04-15 |
| 8. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
40.40 |
1.0523 |
-1.0669 |
256 |
2 |
34.36 |
2009-04-24 |
| 9. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
40.01 |
1.0829 |
-1.0941 |
288 |
2 |
37.34 |
2009-04-23 |
| 10. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
40.01 |
0.8975 |
-0.9102 |
268 |
1 |
40.01 |
2009-05-20 |
| 11. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
39.76 |
1.0714 |
-1.0883 |
129 |
2 |
36.64 |
2009-05-21 |
| 12. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
39.55 |
0.9576 |
-0.9696 |
212 |
2 |
37.96 |
2009-05-15 |
| 13. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
39.17 |
1.0483 |
-1.0620 |
227 |
2 |
38.72 |
2009-05-21 |
| 14. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
38.75 |
0.9263 |
-0.9391 |
188 |
1 |
38.75 |
2009-05-12 |
| 15. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
38.51 |
1.0515 |
-1.0648 |
250 |
2 |
38.21 |
2009-04-23 |
| 16. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
38.37 |
1.0201 |
-1.0315 |
303 |
1 |
38.37 |
2009-04-22 |
| 17. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
38.20 |
0.9649 |
-0.9776 |
193 |
1 |
38.20 |
2009-04-14 |
| 18. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
38.08 |
0.8810 |
-0.8932 |
282 |
3 |
36.01 |
2009-04-14 |
| 19. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
37.51 |
0.9866 |
-1.0019 |
218 |
1 |
37.51 |
2009-04-21 |
| 20. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
37.40 |
0.9964 |
-1.0088 |
203 |
1 |
37.40 |
2009-05-12 |
| 21. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
37.30 |
1.0203 |
-1.0293 |
261 |
2 |
35.79 |
2009-05-18 |
| 22. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
37.22 |
1.0799 |
-1.0947 |
243 |
1 |
37.22 |
2009-04-08 |
| 23. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
37.20 |
1.0385 |
-1.0511 |
230 |
2 |
32.08 |
2009-05-12 |
| 24. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
37.16 |
0.9851 |
-0.9963 |
317 |
2 |
34.38 |
2009-05-19 |
| 25. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
37.07 |
1.0696 |
-1.0839 |
226 |
1 |
37.07 |
2009-04-14 |
| 26. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
36.84 |
1.0498 |
-1.0651 |
180 |
1 |
36.84 |
2009-04-06 |
| 27. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
36.83 |
1.0441 |
-1.0551 |
252 |
1 |
36.83 |
2009-04-14 |
| 28. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
36.66 |
0.9578 |
-0.9707 |
281 |
2 |
35.75 |
2009-05-14 |
| 29. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
36.54 |
0.9339 |
-0.9473 |
310 |
1 |
36.54 |
2009-04-23 |
| 30. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
36.51 |
1.0296 |
-1.0379 |
437 |
2 |
36.44 |
2009-05-19 |
| 31. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
36.47 |
1.0063 |
-1.0181 |
371 |
1 |
36.47 |
2009-05-15 |
| 32. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
36.44 |
1.0068 |
-1.0164 |
358 |
1 |
36.44 |
2009-04-21 |
| 33. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
36.34 |
1.0797 |
-1.0955 |
210 |
1 |
36.34 |
2009-04-08 |
| 34. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
36.30 |
0.8628 |
-0.8774 |
196 |
2 |
35.51 |
2009-04-22 |
| 35. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.25 |
1.0213 |
-1.0351 |
240 |
2 |
33.98 |
2009-05-18 |
| 36. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
36.12 |
1.0292 |
-1.0420 |
262 |
1 |
36.12 |
2009-04-23 |
| 37. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
36.09 |
1.0214 |
-1.0345 |
269 |
1 |
36.09 |
2009-04-22 |
| 38. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
36.06 |
1.0297 |
-1.0438 |
249 |
2 |
35.63 |
2009-04-07 |
| 39. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
36.00 |
1.0521 |
-1.0667 |
171 |
2 |
33.26 |
2009-04-20 |
| 40. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
35.95 |
1.0389 |
-1.0501 |
318 |
1 |
35.95 |
2009-04-17 |
| 41. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
35.84 |
0.9697 |
-0.9810 |
249 |
1 |
35.84 |
2009-04-15 |
| 42. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
35.82 |
0.8890 |
-0.9029 |
199 |
2 |
33.32 |
2009-04-24 |
| 43. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
35.66 |
0.8852 |
-0.8964 |
201 |
3 |
32.04 |
2009-05-13 |
| 44. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
35.54 |
0.8153 |
-0.8247 |
200 |
1 |
35.54 |
2009-05-14 |
| 45. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
35.53 |
0.9886 |
-0.9994 |
220 |
1 |
35.53 |
2009-04-13 |
| 46. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
35.49 |
1.1018 |
-1.1185 |
220 |
1 |
35.49 |
2009-04-07 |
| 47. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
35.47 |
1.0352 |
-1.0446 |
341 |
1 |
35.47 |
2009-05-18 |
| 48. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
35.40 |
1.0183 |
-1.0336 |
191 |
4 |
34.29 |
2009-05-20 |
| 49. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
35.39 |
0.9500 |
-0.9603 |
362 |
1 |
35.39 |
2009-05-18 |
| 50. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
35.36 |
1.0120 |
-1.0241 |
290 |
1 |
35.36 |
2009-05-12 |
| 51. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
35.34 |
1.0025 |
-1.0151 |
256 |
1 |
35.34 |
2009-04-14 |
| 52. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
35.27 |
0.9731 |
-0.9934 |
129 |
1 |
35.27 |
2009-04-23 |
| 53. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
35.23 |
0.9171 |
-0.9314 |
165 |
2 |
34.98 |
2009-05-13 |
| 54. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
34.91 |
1.0025 |
-1.0140 |
336 |
2 |
34.33 |
2009-04-16 |
| 55. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.89 |
0.9798 |
-0.9962 |
199 |
1 |
34.89 |
2009-04-14 |
| 56. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
34.82 |
0.8899 |
-0.8978 |
293 |
2 |
32.71 |
2009-04-23 |
| 57. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
34.65 |
1.0462 |
-1.0623 |
184 |
1 |
34.65 |
2009-05-18 |
| 58. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
34.51 |
0.8826 |
-0.8936 |
296 |
3 |
31.77 |
2009-05-20 |
| 59. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
34.46 |
1.0004 |
-1.0152 |
212 |
2 |
32.65 |
2009-04-27 |
| 60. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
34.38 |
0.9068 |
-0.9178 |
269 |
2 |
30.87 |
2009-04-15 |
| 61. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
34.36 |
0.9266 |
-0.9391 |
267 |
2 |
32.25 |
2009-05-14 |
| 62. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
34.33 |
0.9125 |
-0.9239 |
308 |
1 |
34.33 |
2009-04-21 |
| 63. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
34.26 |
1.0053 |
-1.0185 |
232 |
1 |
34.26 |
2009-04-27 |
| 64. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
34.06 |
0.9763 |
-0.9884 |
289 |
1 |
34.06 |
2009-05-12 |
| 65. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
34.03 |
0.9048 |
-0.9150 |
271 |
4 |
30.76 |
2009-04-20 |
| 66. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
34.02 |
0.9307 |
-0.9367 |
246 |
1 |
34.02 |
2009-05-13 |
| 67. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
34.00 |
0.9233 |
-0.9406 |
168 |
2 |
31.26 |
2009-04-15 |
| 68. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
33.71 |
1.0396 |
-1.0566 |
149 |
2 |
31.68 |
2009-04-07 |
| 69. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
33.66 |
0.9279 |
-0.9360 |
317 |
1 |
33.66 |
2009-04-21 |
| 70. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
33.50 |
0.9212 |
-0.9317 |
323 |
1 |
33.50 |
2009-04-20 |
| 71. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
33.45 |
1.0529 |
-1.0648 |
351 |
1 |
33.45 |
2009-05-13 |
| 72. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
33.42 |
0.9684 |
-0.9790 |
388 |
1 |
33.42 |
2009-04-14 |
| 73. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
33.17 |
1.0596 |
-1.0734 |
239 |
1 |
33.17 |
2009-04-21 |
| 74. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
33.14 |
0.9965 |
-1.0083 |
277 |
1 |
33.14 |
2009-05-19 |
| 75. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
33.09 |
0.9893 |
-1.0009 |
323 |
1 |
33.09 |
2009-04-14 |
| 76. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
33.07 |
0.8553 |
-0.8705 |
174 |
1 |
33.07 |
2009-05-12 |
| 77. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
33.01 |
1.0767 |
-1.0899 |
212 |
1 |
33.01 |
2009-04-03 |
| 78. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
32.73 |
0.8096 |
-0.8160 |
209 |
1 |
32.73 |
2009-05-15 |
| 79. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
32.68 |
0.9724 |
-0.9850 |
237 |
1 |
32.68 |
2009-04-09 |
| 80. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
32.62 |
0.9805 |
-0.9899 |
292 |
2 |
32.33 |
2009-04-24 |
| 81. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
32.43 |
0.9986 |
-1.0101 |
283 |
1 |
32.43 |
2009-04-21 |
| 82. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
32.41 |
0.9795 |
-0.9914 |
308 |
1 |
32.41 |
2009-04-07 |
| 83. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
32.41 |
0.8971 |
-0.9071 |
266 |
2 |
31.75 |
2009-04-27 |
| 84. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
32.23 |
0.9570 |
-0.9684 |
287 |
1 |
32.23 |
2009-04-09 |
| 85. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
32.08 |
1.0337 |
-1.0460 |
214 |
1 |
32.08 |
2009-05-15 |
| 86. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.07 |
0.8595 |
-0.8707 |
242 |
1 |
32.07 |
2009-05-12 |
| 87. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
32.02 |
0.8506 |
-0.8656 |
132 |
1 |
32.02 |
2009-04-06 |
| 88. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
31.98 |
0.8788 |
-0.8946 |
134 |
1 |
31.98 |
2009-05-12 |
| 89. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
31.93 |
1.0263 |
-1.0386 |
267 |
1 |
31.93 |
2009-04-06 |
| 90. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
31.88 |
0.9758 |
-0.9878 |
314 |
1 |
31.88 |
2009-04-17 |
| 91. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
31.86 |
0.8919 |
-0.9042 |
205 |
1 |
31.86 |
2009-04-14 |
| 92. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
31.79 |
0.9852 |
-0.9971 |
264 |
1 |
31.79 |
2009-04-03 |
| 93. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.49 |
1.0029 |
-1.0185 |
209 |
1 |
31.49 |
2009-04-01 |
| 94. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
31.35 |
0.9772 |
-0.9910 |
217 |
1 |
31.35 |
2009-05-18 |
| 95. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
31.22 |
1.0257 |
-1.0337 |
401 |
1 |
31.22 |
2009-04-08 |
| 96. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
31.21 |
0.9293 |
-0.9403 |
355 |
1 |
31.21 |
2009-04-15 |
| 97. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
31.16 |
0.9865 |
-0.9981 |
276 |
1 |
31.16 |
2009-04-17 |
| 98. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.14 |
0.8709 |
-0.8785 |
202 |
2 |
30.35 |
2009-05-13 |
| 99. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
30.93 |
0.9612 |
-0.9728 |
256 |
1 |
30.93 |
2009-05-12 |
| 100. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
30.90 |
0.8602 |
-0.8732 |
206 |
1 |
30.90 |
2009-05-18 |
| 101. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.87 |
1.0334 |
-1.0496 |
131 |
1 |
30.87 |
2009-04-17 |
| 102. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
30.79 |
0.8996 |
-0.9155 |
192 |
2 |
30.23 |
2009-05-21 |
| 103. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
30.42 |
0.9365 |
-0.9486 |
248 |
1 |
30.42 |
2009-05-08 |
| 104. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
30.38 |
1.0787 |
-1.0913 |
237 |
1 |
30.38 |
2009-04-15 |
| 105. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
30.35 |
0.7876 |
-0.7966 |
316 |
1 |
30.35 |
2009-04-27 |
| 106. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
30.31 |
0.8958 |
-0.9047 |
322 |
1 |
30.31 |
2009-04-08 |
| 107. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
30.00 |
0.9786 |
-0.9934 |
193 |
2 |
29.26 |
2009-04-17 |
| 108. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
29.96 |
1.0349 |
-1.0481 |
234 |
1 |
29.96 |
2009-04-06 |
| 109. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
29.95 |
0.8821 |
-0.8971 |
176 |
1 |
29.95 |
2009-04-07 |
| 110. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
29.90 |
0.9597 |
-0.9694 |
347 |
2 |
29.83 |
2009-04-20 |
| 111. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
29.69 |
0.8941 |
-0.9064 |
216 |
1 |
29.69 |
2009-04-20 |
| 112. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
29.68 |
0.8615 |
-0.8746 |
110 |
2 |
26.38 |
2009-05-12 |
| 113. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
29.58 |
0.9168 |
-0.9279 |
240 |
1 |
29.58 |
2009-04-08 |
| 114. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
29.25 |
1.0125 |
-1.0267 |
224 |
1 |
29.25 |
2009-04-06 |
| 115. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
29.04 |
0.9084 |
-0.9192 |
300 |
3 |
26.36 |
2009-08-18 |
| 116. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
28.77 |
0.9128 |
-0.9227 |
133 |
1 |
28.77 |
2009-04-07 |
| 117. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
28.48 |
0.9429 |
-0.9542 |
287 |
1 |
28.48 |
2009-04-17 |
| 118. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
28.18 |
1.0516 |
-1.0636 |
281 |
1 |
28.18 |
2009-04-09 |
| 119. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
27.88 |
0.9936 |
-1.0061 |
311 |
1 |
27.88 |
2009-04-06 |
| 120. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
27.77 |
1.0124 |
-1.0259 |
204 |
1 |
27.77 |
2009-04-01 |
| 121. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
27.71 |
0.9991 |
-1.0117 |
225 |
1 |
27.71 |
2009-04-03 |
| 122. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
27.69 |
0.9266 |
-0.9398 |
278 |
1 |
27.69 |
2009-05-08 |
| 123. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
27.55 |
0.9005 |
-0.9124 |
212 |
1 |
27.55 |
2009-04-08 |
| 124. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
27.32 |
0.9843 |
-0.9995 |
234 |
1 |
27.32 |
2009-04-08 |
| 125. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
27.27 |
0.8105 |
-0.8252 |
204 |
1 |
27.27 |
2009-05-12 |
| 126. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
26.82 |
0.9769 |
-0.9905 |
263 |
1 |
26.82 |
2009-04-06 |
| 127. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
26.29 |
1.0016 |
-1.0164 |
218 |
1 |
26.29 |
2009-04-14 |
| 128. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
25.73 |
1.0033 |
-1.0196 |
189 |
1 |
25.73 |
2009-08-18 |
| 129. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
23.42 |
1.0463 |
-1.0616 |
182 |
1 |
23.42 |
2009-04-16 |