| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
116.64 |
1.1198 |
0.3190 |
247 |
1 |
116.64 |
2009-09-06 |
| 2. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
110.19 |
1.0042 |
0.3519 |
168 |
2 |
107.35 |
2009-09-06 |
| 3. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
110.08 |
1.0743 |
0.2853 |
297 |
4 |
99.11 |
2009-09-06 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
109.79 |
1.0881 |
0.2629 |
210 |
2 |
104.15 |
2009-09-07 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
104.34 |
1.1093 |
0.1724 |
220 |
1 |
104.34 |
2009-09-06 |
| 6. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
103.51 |
0.9841 |
0.3044 |
325 |
1 |
103.51 |
2009-09-07 |
| 7. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
99.54 |
1.0567 |
0.1708 |
314 |
2 |
94.67 |
2009-09-06 |
| 8. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
99.35 |
1.0125 |
0.2115 |
232 |
1 |
99.35 |
2009-09-06 |
| 9. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
99.06 |
0.9680 |
0.2540 |
256 |
1 |
99.06 |
2009-09-06 |
| 10. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
98.83 |
1.0736 |
0.1480 |
350 |
1 |
98.83 |
2009-09-06 |
| 11. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
98.70 |
1.0576 |
0.1570 |
231 |
2 |
94.98 |
2009-09-06 |
| 12. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
97.91 |
1.0287 |
0.1778 |
269 |
2 |
96.04 |
2009-09-06 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
97.67 |
1.0654 |
0.1368 |
247 |
1 |
97.67 |
2009-09-06 |
| 14. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
96.32 |
0.9137 |
0.2762 |
342 |
1 |
96.32 |
2009-09-06 |
| 15. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
96.03 |
1.0672 |
0.1159 |
239 |
1 |
96.03 |
2009-09-06 |
| 16. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
95.86 |
1.0333 |
0.1438 |
176 |
1 |
95.86 |
2009-09-06 |
| 17. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
95.84 |
1.0590 |
0.1219 |
250 |
1 |
95.84 |
2009-09-06 |
| 18. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
95.63 |
1.0253 |
0.1571 |
337 |
1 |
95.63 |
2009-09-05 |
| 19. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
95.59 |
1.0521 |
0.1212 |
197 |
1 |
95.59 |
2009-09-06 |
| 20. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
95.26 |
0.9841 |
0.1874 |
217 |
1 |
95.26 |
2009-09-07 |
| 21. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
94.76 |
1.0873 |
0.0783 |
243 |
1 |
94.76 |
2009-09-06 |
| 22. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
94.00 |
1.0667 |
0.1029 |
308 |
1 |
94.00 |
2009-09-06 |
| 23. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
93.52 |
1.0130 |
0.1403 |
288 |
2 |
90.87 |
2009-09-06 |
| 24. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
91.81 |
1.0557 |
0.0775 |
289 |
1 |
91.81 |
2009-09-06 |
| 25. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
91.79 |
0.9425 |
0.1900 |
248 |
1 |
91.79 |
2009-09-06 |
| 26. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
91.11 |
0.9918 |
0.1386 |
400 |
2 |
89.68 |
2009-09-06 |
| 27. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
90.72 |
1.0362 |
0.0886 |
437 |
1 |
90.72 |
2009-09-06 |
| 28. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
90.64 |
1.0615 |
0.0530 |
201 |
1 |
90.64 |
2009-09-07 |
| 29. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
90.00 |
1.0865 |
0.0229 |
237 |
1 |
90.00 |
2009-09-05 |
| 30. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
88.94 |
1.0188 |
0.0869 |
316 |
1 |
88.94 |
2009-09-07 |
| 31. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
88.80 |
1.0016 |
0.0915 |
217 |
2 |
77.87 |
2009-09-06 |
| 32. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
88.75 |
1.0462 |
0.0509 |
340 |
2 |
83.62 |
2009-09-06 |
| 33. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
88.60 |
0.9603 |
0.1374 |
430 |
1 |
88.60 |
2009-09-06 |
| 34. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
88.22 |
0.9873 |
0.1107 |
396 |
1 |
88.22 |
2009-09-06 |
| 35. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
87.58 |
0.9451 |
0.1424 |
419 |
2 |
84.34 |
2009-09-06 |
| 36. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
87.57 |
0.9852 |
0.0936 |
235 |
1 |
87.57 |
2009-09-06 |
| 37. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
87.39 |
0.9829 |
0.0936 |
229 |
1 |
87.39 |
2009-09-07 |
| 38. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
86.70 |
1.0059 |
0.0640 |
283 |
2 |
69.72 |
2009-09-06 |
| 39. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
86.65 |
0.9889 |
0.0923 |
429 |
1 |
86.65 |
2009-09-06 |
| 40. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
86.49 |
1.0101 |
0.0577 |
336 |
1 |
86.49 |
2009-09-06 |
| 41. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
86.42 |
1.0969 |
-0.0295 |
303 |
1 |
86.42 |
2009-09-06 |
| 42. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
86.07 |
0.9810 |
0.0848 |
362 |
1 |
86.07 |
2009-09-19 |
| 43. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
86.03 |
1.0464 |
0.0189 |
294 |
2 |
78.73 |
2009-09-06 |
| 44. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
86.01 |
0.9574 |
0.1059 |
354 |
1 |
86.01 |
2009-09-05 |
| 45. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
85.94 |
1.0960 |
-0.0327 |
315 |
1 |
85.94 |
2009-09-06 |
| 46. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
85.93 |
0.9434 |
0.1202 |
367 |
1 |
85.93 |
2009-09-06 |
| 47. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
85.87 |
1.0341 |
0.0237 |
273 |
1 |
85.87 |
2009-09-06 |
| 48. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
85.58 |
1.0234 |
0.0355 |
392 |
1 |
85.58 |
2009-09-06 |
| 49. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
85.48 |
0.9726 |
0.0861 |
396 |
1 |
85.48 |
2009-09-06 |
| 50. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
85.09 |
0.9841 |
0.0630 |
263 |
1 |
85.09 |
2009-09-06 |
| 51. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
85.02 |
0.9780 |
0.0636 |
173 |
1 |
85.02 |
2009-04-16 |
| 52. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
85.01 |
1.0509 |
0.0043 |
295 |
1 |
85.01 |
2009-09-06 |
| 53. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
84.58 |
0.9736 |
0.0759 |
378 |
1 |
84.58 |
2009-09-06 |
| 54. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
84.08 |
1.0264 |
0.0056 |
191 |
1 |
84.08 |
2009-04-18 |
| 55. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
83.84 |
0.9884 |
0.0473 |
267 |
1 |
83.84 |
2009-09-06 |
| 56. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
83.76 |
0.9909 |
0.0452 |
334 |
1 |
83.76 |
2009-09-06 |
| 57. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
83.71 |
1.0495 |
-0.0184 |
323 |
1 |
83.71 |
2009-09-06 |
| 58. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
83.68 |
0.9422 |
0.0839 |
190 |
1 |
83.68 |
2009-09-06 |
| 59. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
83.53 |
0.9762 |
0.0532 |
249 |
1 |
83.53 |
2009-09-06 |
| 60. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
83.03 |
0.9974 |
0.0219 |
163 |
1 |
83.03 |
2009-09-06 |
| 61. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
82.94 |
0.9538 |
0.0680 |
276 |
1 |
82.94 |
2009-09-06 |
| 62. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
82.46 |
1.0404 |
-0.0194 |
406 |
1 |
82.46 |
2009-04-18 |
| 63. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
81.91 |
0.9917 |
0.0197 |
317 |
1 |
81.91 |
2009-09-06 |
| 64. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
81.55 |
1.0588 |
-0.0539 |
281 |
1 |
81.55 |
2009-09-06 |
| 65. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
81.46 |
1.0543 |
-0.0539 |
182 |
1 |
81.46 |
2009-04-16 |
| 66. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
81.32 |
1.0777 |
-0.0778 |
226 |
1 |
81.32 |
2009-09-05 |
| 67. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
81.04 |
0.9352 |
0.0622 |
194 |
1 |
81.04 |
2009-09-06 |
| 68. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
79.65 |
1.0419 |
-0.0575 |
341 |
2 |
79.47 |
2009-09-07 |
| 69. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
79.35 |
0.9583 |
0.0197 |
237 |
1 |
79.35 |
2009-09-06 |
| 70. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
78.83 |
0.9243 |
0.0489 |
240 |
2 |
74.05 |
2009-09-06 |
| 71. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
78.60 |
1.0411 |
-0.0711 |
341 |
1 |
78.60 |
2009-09-06 |
| 72. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
77.81 |
1.0487 |
-0.0925 |
253 |
2 |
77.45 |
2009-09-06 |
| 73. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
77.76 |
1.0265 |
-0.0650 |
375 |
2 |
77.23 |
2009-09-06 |
| 74. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
77.67 |
1.0279 |
-0.0769 |
172 |
2 |
73.77 |
2009-09-06 |
| 75. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
77.58 |
0.9632 |
-0.0064 |
287 |
2 |
69.24 |
2009-09-06 |
| 76. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
76.23 |
0.9791 |
-0.0468 |
154 |
1 |
76.23 |
2009-09-06 |
| 77. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
76.15 |
0.9494 |
0.0013 |
397 |
1 |
76.15 |
2009-09-06 |
| 78. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
75.64 |
0.9346 |
-0.0060 |
211 |
2 |
74.76 |
2009-09-06 |
| 79. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
75.47 |
0.9922 |
-0.0622 |
264 |
1 |
75.47 |
2009-09-07 |
| 80. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
74.72 |
0.9145 |
0.0091 |
404 |
1 |
74.72 |
2009-09-06 |
| 81. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
74.53 |
0.9745 |
-0.0546 |
388 |
1 |
74.53 |
2009-09-06 |
| 82. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
73.98 |
1.0387 |
-0.1235 |
333 |
1 |
73.98 |
2009-09-06 |
| 83. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
73.63 |
1.0529 |
-0.1437 |
373 |
1 |
73.63 |
2009-09-05 |
| 84. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
73.53 |
1.0063 |
-0.0960 |
293 |
1 |
73.53 |
2009-09-06 |
| 85. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
72.99 |
0.8624 |
0.0316 |
174 |
1 |
72.99 |
2009-09-06 |
| 86. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
72.92 |
0.9265 |
-0.0298 |
254 |
1 |
72.92 |
2009-09-06 |
| 87. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
72.75 |
0.9332 |
-0.0375 |
267 |
1 |
72.75 |
2009-09-06 |
| 88. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
72.73 |
0.9402 |
-0.0466 |
310 |
1 |
72.73 |
2009-09-06 |
| 89. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
72.57 |
1.0418 |
-0.1475 |
214 |
1 |
72.57 |
2009-04-16 |
| 90. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
72.54 |
1.0800 |
-0.1898 |
213 |
2 |
66.21 |
2009-09-06 |
| 91. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
72.22 |
0.9119 |
-0.0185 |
396 |
1 |
72.22 |
2009-09-05 |
| 92. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
72.02 |
1.0069 |
-0.1169 |
242 |
1 |
72.02 |
2009-09-06 |
| 93. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
71.76 |
1.0582 |
-0.1779 |
180 |
1 |
71.76 |
2009-09-06 |
| 94. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
71.67 |
0.9678 |
-0.0812 |
392 |
1 |
71.67 |
2009-04-18 |
| 95. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
71.20 |
0.9029 |
-0.0237 |
393 |
1 |
71.20 |
2009-09-05 |
| 96. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
71.11 |
1.0617 |
-0.1882 |
171 |
1 |
71.11 |
2009-09-06 |
| 97. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
69.79 |
0.8936 |
-0.0357 |
346 |
1 |
69.79 |
2009-09-06 |
| 98. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
69.73 |
0.9101 |
-0.0479 |
351 |
1 |
69.73 |
2009-09-06 |
| 99. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
69.36 |
1.0267 |
-0.1699 |
261 |
1 |
69.36 |
2009-09-06 |
| 100. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
68.64 |
0.9948 |
-0.1511 |
233 |
1 |
68.64 |
2009-09-06 |
| 101. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
67.04 |
1.0178 |
-0.1946 |
207 |
1 |
67.04 |
2009-09-06 |
| 102. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
66.90 |
1.0026 |
-0.1750 |
200 |
1 |
66.90 |
2009-09-06 |
| 103. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
66.57 |
1.0095 |
-0.1918 |
211 |
1 |
66.57 |
2009-09-06 |
| 104. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
65.95 |
1.0094 |
-0.1979 |
256 |
1 |
65.95 |
2009-09-06 |
| 105. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
65.91 |
1.0867 |
-0.2802 |
171 |
1 |
65.91 |
2009-09-06 |
| 106. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
65.84 |
0.8986 |
-0.0880 |
216 |
1 |
65.84 |
2009-09-06 |
| 107. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
65.07 |
0.9380 |
-0.1390 |
284 |
1 |
65.07 |
2009-04-18 |
| 108. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
64.98 |
0.8887 |
-0.0754 |
464 |
1 |
64.98 |
2009-09-06 |
| 109. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
64.89 |
1.0006 |
-0.2023 |
311 |
1 |
64.89 |
2009-09-06 |
| 110. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
64.73 |
1.0332 |
-0.2375 |
267 |
1 |
64.73 |
2009-09-06 |
| 111. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
64.69 |
1.0506 |
-0.2552 |
259 |
1 |
64.69 |
2009-04-18 |
| 112. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
64.52 |
0.8172 |
-0.0278 |
204 |
1 |
64.52 |
2009-09-06 |
| 113. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
64.11 |
0.9027 |
-0.1176 |
189 |
1 |
64.11 |
2009-09-06 |
| 114. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
63.68 |
0.9339 |
-0.1448 |
317 |
2 |
62.81 |
2009-09-06 |
| 115. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
63.35 |
1.0189 |
-0.2403 |
290 |
1 |
63.35 |
2009-04-16 |
| 116. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
63.32 |
0.9698 |
-0.1860 |
389 |
1 |
63.32 |
2009-09-06 |
| 117. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
62.96 |
0.9833 |
-0.2066 |
387 |
1 |
62.96 |
2009-09-06 |
| 118. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
62.49 |
0.9981 |
-0.2305 |
211 |
1 |
62.49 |
2009-09-06 |
| 119. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
60.99 |
1.0370 |
-0.2873 |
262 |
1 |
60.99 |
2009-09-06 |
| 120. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
60.95 |
1.0845 |
-0.3362 |
212 |
1 |
60.95 |
2009-09-06 |
| 121. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
60.17 |
1.0686 |
-0.3252 |
354 |
1 |
60.17 |
2009-09-06 |
| 122. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
59.35 |
0.8830 |
-0.1509 |
300 |
1 |
59.35 |
2009-09-06 |
| 123. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
50.77 |
0.9765 |
-0.3540 |
269 |
1 |
50.77 |
2009-09-05 |
| 124. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
50.13 |
0.9709 |
-0.3569 |
264 |
1 |
50.13 |
2009-09-06 |
| 125. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
46.76 |
0.9162 |
-0.3415 |
401 |
1 |
46.76 |
2009-07-03 |