| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
87.36 |
0.9907 |
0.2554 |
211 |
2 |
79.49 |
2008-10-03 |
| 2. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
85.46 |
1.0352 |
0.1882 |
341 |
2 |
81.53 |
2008-10-05 |
| 3. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
83.91 |
0.9636 |
0.2342 |
254 |
2 |
66.77 |
2008-10-10 |
| 4. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
83.29 |
0.9905 |
0.2063 |
377 |
1 |
83.29 |
2008-10-07 |
| 5. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
82.25 |
1.0515 |
0.1205 |
250 |
1 |
82.25 |
2008-10-02 |
| 6. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
82.25 |
0.9691 |
0.2043 |
223 |
1 |
82.25 |
2008-10-04 |
| 7. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
82.10 |
1.0523 |
0.1152 |
256 |
1 |
82.10 |
2008-10-04 |
| 8. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
82.06 |
1.0203 |
0.1543 |
261 |
1 |
82.06 |
2008-10-03 |
| 9. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
81.69 |
1.0214 |
0.1428 |
269 |
2 |
74.09 |
2008-10-09 |
| 10. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
81.27 |
0.9763 |
0.1830 |
289 |
3 |
73.60 |
2008-10-08 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
80.77 |
1.0613 |
0.0963 |
456 |
1 |
80.77 |
2008-10-03 |
| 12. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
80.62 |
0.9833 |
0.1687 |
355 |
2 |
73.89 |
2008-10-07 |
| 13. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
79.89 |
1.0197 |
0.1173 |
226 |
2 |
74.06 |
2008-10-09 |
| 14. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
79.01 |
1.0787 |
0.0472 |
237 |
1 |
79.01 |
2008-10-02 |
| 15. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
78.43 |
1.0062 |
0.1126 |
288 |
1 |
78.43 |
2008-10-07 |
| 16. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
78.36 |
1.0099 |
0.1050 |
207 |
1 |
78.36 |
2008-10-08 |
| 17. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
78.22 |
1.0796 |
0.0314 |
129 |
2 |
73.84 |
2008-10-09 |
| 18. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
78.08 |
1.0261 |
0.0858 |
273 |
1 |
78.08 |
2008-10-03 |
| 19. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
77.92 |
1.0799 |
0.0279 |
243 |
1 |
77.92 |
2008-10-07 |
| 20. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
77.76 |
0.9772 |
0.1285 |
217 |
2 |
74.58 |
2008-10-04 |
| 21. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
77.28 |
0.9893 |
0.1130 |
323 |
2 |
67.79 |
2008-10-05 |
| 22. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
77.07 |
0.9675 |
0.1412 |
383 |
2 |
73.77 |
2008-10-09 |
| 23. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
76.34 |
1.0289 |
0.0642 |
276 |
2 |
64.65 |
2008-10-03 |
| 24. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
76.24 |
1.0390 |
0.0444 |
205 |
1 |
76.24 |
2008-10-05 |
| 25. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
75.81 |
0.9910 |
0.0919 |
295 |
3 |
72.97 |
2008-10-07 |
| 26. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
75.06 |
1.0263 |
0.0431 |
267 |
1 |
75.06 |
2008-10-10 |
| 27. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
74.96 |
0.9365 |
0.1337 |
248 |
1 |
74.96 |
2008-10-09 |
| 28. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
74.79 |
0.9376 |
0.1341 |
367 |
1 |
74.79 |
2008-10-03 |
| 29. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
74.69 |
0.9886 |
0.0788 |
220 |
1 |
74.69 |
2008-10-03 |
| 30. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
74.54 |
1.0124 |
0.0479 |
204 |
1 |
74.54 |
2008-10-02 |
| 31. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
74.08 |
1.0213 |
0.0316 |
240 |
1 |
74.08 |
2008-10-04 |
| 32. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
73.85 |
0.9756 |
0.0758 |
229 |
1 |
73.85 |
2008-10-03 |
| 33. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
73.41 |
1.0567 |
-0.0097 |
303 |
1 |
73.41 |
2008-10-08 |
| 34. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
73.08 |
0.9293 |
0.1131 |
355 |
1 |
73.08 |
2008-10-07 |
| 35. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
72.78 |
1.0399 |
0.0026 |
294 |
1 |
72.78 |
2008-10-10 |
| 36. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
72.74 |
1.0454 |
-0.0124 |
255 |
1 |
72.74 |
2008-10-03 |
| 37. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
72.68 |
0.9430 |
0.0856 |
211 |
1 |
72.68 |
2008-10-03 |
| 38. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
72.66 |
0.9485 |
0.0888 |
236 |
1 |
72.66 |
2008-10-05 |
| 39. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
71.75 |
0.9398 |
0.0919 |
419 |
1 |
71.75 |
2008-10-02 |
| 40. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
71.54 |
0.9426 |
0.0799 |
317 |
3 |
66.88 |
2008-10-09 |
| 41. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
71.27 |
1.0034 |
0.0106 |
302 |
1 |
71.27 |
2008-10-02 |
| 42. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
71.23 |
0.9780 |
0.0379 |
337 |
1 |
71.23 |
2008-10-07 |
| 43. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
71.17 |
1.0138 |
-0.0001 |
231 |
1 |
71.17 |
2008-10-02 |
| 44. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
70.96 |
0.9339 |
0.0756 |
310 |
1 |
70.96 |
2008-10-02 |
| 45. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
70.86 |
0.9213 |
0.0888 |
295 |
1 |
70.86 |
2008-10-04 |
| 46. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
70.63 |
0.9570 |
0.0510 |
287 |
2 |
68.96 |
2008-10-09 |
| 47. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
70.59 |
0.8105 |
0.1909 |
204 |
1 |
70.59 |
2008-10-04 |
| 48. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
70.57 |
1.0595 |
-0.0516 |
379 |
2 |
67.40 |
2008-10-03 |
| 49. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
70.51 |
1.0251 |
-0.0228 |
261 |
2 |
66.98 |
2008-10-07 |
| 50. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
70.20 |
1.0252 |
-0.0316 |
176 |
1 |
70.20 |
2008-10-05 |
| 51. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
69.74 |
1.0167 |
-0.0165 |
378 |
1 |
69.74 |
2008-10-03 |
| 52. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
69.47 |
0.9064 |
0.0923 |
399 |
2 |
62.54 |
2008-10-08 |
| 53. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
69.19 |
0.9072 |
0.0766 |
237 |
1 |
69.19 |
2008-10-03 |
| 54. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
68.93 |
1.0487 |
-0.0720 |
231 |
1 |
68.93 |
2008-10-03 |
| 55. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
68.66 |
0.9846 |
-0.0079 |
281 |
1 |
68.66 |
2008-10-03 |
| 56. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
68.64 |
0.9125 |
0.0669 |
308 |
1 |
68.64 |
2008-10-02 |
| 57. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
68.23 |
0.9513 |
0.0241 |
354 |
2 |
67.01 |
2008-10-09 |
| 58. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
68.21 |
0.8996 |
0.0663 |
192 |
1 |
68.21 |
2008-10-08 |
| 59. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
67.69 |
1.0534 |
-0.0873 |
357 |
2 |
67.57 |
2008-10-03 |
| 60. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
67.63 |
1.0120 |
-0.0498 |
290 |
1 |
67.63 |
2008-10-03 |
| 61. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
67.55 |
0.9532 |
0.0073 |
258 |
1 |
67.55 |
2008-10-09 |
| 62. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
67.48 |
1.0368 |
-0.0751 |
276 |
1 |
67.48 |
2008-10-05 |
| 63. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
67.43 |
0.9697 |
-0.0094 |
249 |
1 |
67.43 |
2008-10-03 |
| 64. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
67.05 |
0.9614 |
-0.0038 |
292 |
1 |
67.05 |
2008-10-04 |
| 65. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
67.04 |
0.9879 |
-0.0247 |
450 |
1 |
67.04 |
2008-10-09 |
| 66. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
66.94 |
0.9734 |
-0.0207 |
289 |
1 |
66.94 |
2008-10-05 |
| 67. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
66.88 |
0.9844 |
-0.0274 |
293 |
1 |
66.88 |
2008-10-02 |
| 68. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
66.31 |
0.9897 |
-0.0481 |
274 |
1 |
66.31 |
2008-10-09 |
| 69. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
66.16 |
0.8958 |
0.0506 |
322 |
1 |
66.16 |
2008-10-03 |
| 70. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
65.96 |
0.9084 |
0.0323 |
300 |
1 |
65.96 |
2008-10-02 |
| 71. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
65.72 |
0.9863 |
-0.0465 |
339 |
1 |
65.72 |
2008-10-05 |
| 72. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
65.07 |
1.0711 |
-0.1502 |
213 |
1 |
65.07 |
2008-10-05 |
| 73. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
65.05 |
0.8981 |
0.0323 |
393 |
1 |
65.05 |
2008-10-03 |
| 74. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
65.03 |
1.0068 |
-0.0780 |
358 |
2 |
61.40 |
2008-10-04 |
| 75. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
65.00 |
0.9785 |
-0.0503 |
335 |
1 |
65.00 |
2008-10-02 |
| 76. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
64.87 |
0.9865 |
-0.0622 |
276 |
1 |
64.87 |
2008-10-07 |
| 77. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
64.72 |
1.0885 |
-0.1642 |
315 |
1 |
64.72 |
2008-10-05 |
| 78. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
64.58 |
0.9233 |
-0.0126 |
168 |
1 |
64.58 |
2008-10-03 |
| 79. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
64.38 |
1.0013 |
-0.0861 |
273 |
1 |
64.38 |
2008-10-05 |
| 80. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
64.33 |
0.9275 |
-0.0154 |
211 |
1 |
64.33 |
2008-10-03 |
| 81. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
63.67 |
0.9088 |
0.0022 |
348 |
2 |
62.68 |
2008-10-03 |
| 82. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
63.37 |
0.8961 |
0.0020 |
189 |
1 |
63.37 |
2008-10-09 |
| 83. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
63.37 |
0.9986 |
-0.0965 |
283 |
1 |
63.37 |
2008-10-03 |
| 84. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
63.03 |
0.8852 |
0.0135 |
201 |
2 |
60.57 |
2008-10-10 |
| 85. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
62.82 |
0.9619 |
-0.0631 |
393 |
1 |
62.82 |
2008-10-05 |
| 86. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
62.44 |
1.0528 |
-0.1697 |
201 |
1 |
62.44 |
2008-10-02 |
| 87. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
62.39 |
0.9148 |
-0.0260 |
317 |
1 |
62.39 |
2008-10-02 |
| 88. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
62.05 |
0.9045 |
-0.0217 |
235 |
1 |
62.05 |
2008-10-02 |
| 89. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
62.01 |
0.8595 |
0.0242 |
242 |
1 |
62.01 |
2008-10-02 |
| 90. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
61.98 |
0.9991 |
-0.1171 |
225 |
1 |
61.98 |
2008-10-07 |
| 91. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
60.92 |
0.9500 |
-0.0816 |
362 |
1 |
60.92 |
2008-10-05 |
| 92. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
60.46 |
0.9212 |
-0.0584 |
323 |
1 |
60.46 |
2008-10-02 |
| 93. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
60.22 |
0.9372 |
-0.0771 |
320 |
1 |
60.22 |
2008-10-03 |
| 94. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
60.09 |
0.9622 |
-0.1016 |
392 |
1 |
60.09 |
2008-10-03 |
| 95. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
59.92 |
0.9578 |
-0.1066 |
281 |
1 |
59.92 |
2008-10-02 |
| 96. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
59.66 |
1.0257 |
-0.1713 |
401 |
1 |
59.66 |
2008-10-04 |
| 97. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
58.75 |
0.8956 |
-0.0562 |
322 |
1 |
58.75 |
2008-10-02 |
| 98. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
58.67 |
0.9805 |
-0.1422 |
292 |
1 |
58.67 |
2008-10-08 |
| 99. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
57.19 |
0.9710 |
-0.1652 |
173 |
2 |
55.27 |
2008-10-09 |
| 100. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
56.66 |
1.0025 |
-0.1979 |
256 |
1 |
56.66 |
2008-10-05 |
| 101. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
55.67 |
0.9723 |
-0.1782 |
364 |
2 |
55.27 |
2008-10-03 |
| 102. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
55.48 |
0.9899 |
-0.2069 |
163 |
1 |
55.48 |
2008-10-08 |
| 103. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
54.21 |
1.0445 |
-0.2743 |
373 |
1 |
54.21 |
2008-10-03 |
| 104. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
49.50 |
0.9820 |
-0.2778 |
267 |
1 |
49.50 |
2008-10-31 |
| 105. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
46.93 |
1.0714 |
-0.4160 |
129 |
1 |
46.93 |
2008-10-02 |
| 106. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
46.49 |
1.0168 |
-0.3575 |
271 |
1 |
46.49 |
2008-10-03 |