| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
115.05 |
1.1086 |
0.1728 |
233 |
1 |
115.05 |
2009-04-24 |
| 2. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
111.98 |
1.0628 |
0.1858 |
363 |
3 |
102.58 |
2009-04-24 |
| 3. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
110.98 |
1.0506 |
0.1844 |
259 |
1 |
110.98 |
2009-04-25 |
| 4. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
109.95 |
1.0333 |
0.1855 |
176 |
2 |
104.10 |
2009-04-24 |
| 5. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
109.73 |
1.0362 |
0.1915 |
437 |
1 |
109.73 |
2009-04-21 |
| 6. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
109.72 |
1.0877 |
0.1302 |
129 |
2 |
107.11 |
2009-04-24 |
| 7. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
106.66 |
1.0557 |
0.1326 |
289 |
2 |
98.94 |
2009-04-25 |
| 8. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
103.95 |
0.9680 |
0.1889 |
256 |
1 |
103.95 |
2009-04-25 |
| 9. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
103.68 |
1.1093 |
0.0389 |
220 |
2 |
96.27 |
2009-04-24 |
| 10. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
103.60 |
0.9704 |
0.1825 |
254 |
3 |
94.60 |
2009-04-25 |
| 11. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
101.50 |
1.0404 |
0.0939 |
406 |
1 |
101.50 |
2009-04-24 |
| 12. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
101.43 |
1.0332 |
0.0948 |
267 |
1 |
101.43 |
2009-04-24 |
| 13. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
101.29 |
1.0601 |
0.0637 |
256 |
1 |
101.29 |
2009-04-24 |
| 14. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
101.28 |
1.0777 |
0.0471 |
226 |
1 |
101.28 |
2009-04-21 |
| 15. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
100.83 |
1.0466 |
0.0749 |
230 |
2 |
87.37 |
2009-04-24 |
| 16. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
100.53 |
1.0511 |
0.0692 |
252 |
1 |
100.53 |
2009-04-25 |
| 17. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
100.14 |
0.9974 |
0.1129 |
163 |
2 |
82.96 |
2009-04-24 |
| 18. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
100.11 |
1.0057 |
0.1110 |
382 |
2 |
91.78 |
2009-04-24 |
| 19. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
100.02 |
1.0270 |
0.0864 |
303 |
1 |
100.02 |
2009-04-21 |
| 20. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
99.55 |
1.0495 |
0.0576 |
323 |
1 |
99.55 |
2009-04-24 |
| 21. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
99.31 |
1.0543 |
0.0529 |
360 |
1 |
99.31 |
2009-04-25 |
| 22. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
98.96 |
1.0800 |
0.0140 |
129 |
2 |
81.36 |
2009-04-24 |
| 23. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
98.92 |
1.0006 |
0.0999 |
311 |
2 |
94.65 |
2009-04-21 |
| 24. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
98.70 |
0.9084 |
0.1911 |
271 |
1 |
98.70 |
2009-04-27 |
| 25. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
98.26 |
0.9108 |
0.1822 |
235 |
3 |
86.57 |
2009-04-24 |
| 26. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
98.17 |
1.0736 |
0.0211 |
350 |
1 |
98.17 |
2009-04-24 |
| 27. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
98.13 |
0.9644 |
0.1304 |
398 |
1 |
98.13 |
2009-04-24 |
| 28. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
97.73 |
1.0419 |
0.0484 |
341 |
3 |
84.56 |
2009-04-25 |
| 29. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
97.20 |
1.0165 |
0.0640 |
316 |
2 |
94.30 |
2009-04-21 |
| 30. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
97.08 |
0.9952 |
0.0871 |
220 |
2 |
95.02 |
2009-04-25 |
| 31. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
96.50 |
1.0351 |
0.0422 |
276 |
1 |
96.50 |
2009-04-24 |
| 32. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
96.42 |
0.8624 |
0.2054 |
174 |
2 |
74.04 |
2009-04-21 |
| 33. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
96.19 |
1.0370 |
0.0328 |
262 |
1 |
96.19 |
2009-04-24 |
| 34. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
95.80 |
1.0743 |
-0.0076 |
297 |
2 |
95.48 |
2009-04-21 |
| 35. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
95.59 |
1.0320 |
0.0372 |
401 |
2 |
94.56 |
2009-04-24 |
| 36. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
95.15 |
1.0287 |
0.0285 |
269 |
1 |
95.15 |
2009-04-27 |
| 37. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
95.11 |
0.8913 |
0.1681 |
201 |
1 |
95.11 |
2009-04-24 |
| 38. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
94.98 |
0.9869 |
0.0659 |
193 |
2 |
91.98 |
2009-04-21 |
| 39. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
94.77 |
1.0279 |
0.0205 |
172 |
1 |
94.77 |
2009-04-24 |
| 40. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
94.32 |
0.9070 |
0.1372 |
192 |
1 |
94.32 |
2009-04-21 |
| 41. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
94.26 |
0.9604 |
0.0859 |
285 |
1 |
94.26 |
2009-04-24 |
| 42. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
94.19 |
1.0462 |
0.0044 |
340 |
1 |
94.19 |
2009-04-24 |
| 43. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
94.07 |
0.9673 |
0.0828 |
393 |
1 |
94.07 |
2009-04-25 |
| 44. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
94.04 |
0.9299 |
0.1076 |
168 |
1 |
94.04 |
2009-04-21 |
| 45. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
94.02 |
1.0082 |
0.0325 |
212 |
1 |
94.02 |
2009-04-21 |
| 46. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
93.89 |
0.9933 |
0.0583 |
450 |
1 |
93.89 |
2009-04-24 |
| 47. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
93.46 |
0.9271 |
0.1119 |
295 |
1 |
93.46 |
2009-04-21 |
| 48. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
92.69 |
0.9839 |
0.0467 |
308 |
2 |
88.38 |
2009-04-25 |
| 49. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
92.48 |
0.8986 |
0.1349 |
363 |
2 |
81.79 |
2009-04-24 |
| 50. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
92.47 |
1.0181 |
0.0115 |
276 |
1 |
92.47 |
2009-04-23 |
| 51. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
92.35 |
1.0617 |
-0.0366 |
171 |
1 |
92.35 |
2009-04-24 |
| 52. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
92.31 |
0.9917 |
0.0370 |
317 |
1 |
92.31 |
2009-04-24 |
| 53. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
92.18 |
1.0272 |
-0.0042 |
226 |
1 |
92.18 |
2009-04-24 |
| 54. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
92.11 |
1.0199 |
0.0006 |
225 |
1 |
92.11 |
2009-04-25 |
| 55. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
92.02 |
0.9842 |
0.0413 |
335 |
1 |
92.02 |
2009-04-21 |
| 56. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
91.67 |
0.9909 |
0.0331 |
293 |
1 |
91.67 |
2009-04-21 |
| 57. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
91.52 |
1.0540 |
-0.0413 |
184 |
1 |
91.52 |
2009-04-24 |
| 58. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
91.45 |
1.0960 |
-0.0750 |
315 |
1 |
91.45 |
2009-04-22 |
| 59. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
90.81 |
0.9479 |
0.0636 |
317 |
1 |
90.81 |
2009-04-24 |
| 60. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
90.80 |
1.0132 |
-0.0029 |
371 |
1 |
90.80 |
2009-04-21 |
| 61. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
90.76 |
1.0403 |
-0.0328 |
234 |
1 |
90.76 |
2009-04-24 |
| 62. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
90.42 |
0.9541 |
0.0519 |
236 |
1 |
90.42 |
2009-04-22 |
| 63. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
89.91 |
0.9927 |
0.0076 |
276 |
1 |
89.91 |
2009-04-24 |
| 64. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
89.59 |
1.0265 |
-0.0267 |
375 |
1 |
89.59 |
2009-04-25 |
| 65. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
89.51 |
1.0115 |
-0.0215 |
189 |
1 |
89.51 |
2009-04-21 |
| 66. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
89.44 |
1.0267 |
-0.0292 |
261 |
2 |
84.44 |
2009-04-27 |
| 67. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
89.19 |
1.0682 |
-0.0755 |
266 |
1 |
89.19 |
2009-04-24 |
| 68. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
88.65 |
0.9922 |
-0.0060 |
264 |
1 |
88.65 |
2009-04-21 |
| 69. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
88.34 |
1.0676 |
-0.0809 |
456 |
1 |
88.34 |
2009-04-21 |
| 70. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
88.20 |
0.9703 |
0.0169 |
394 |
1 |
88.20 |
2009-04-24 |
| 71. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
87.94 |
1.0060 |
-0.0276 |
225 |
2 |
86.37 |
2009-04-21 |
| 72. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
87.87 |
0.9594 |
0.0157 |
258 |
1 |
87.87 |
2009-04-24 |
| 73. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
87.72 |
1.0135 |
-0.0350 |
358 |
1 |
87.72 |
2009-04-22 |
| 74. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
87.55 |
1.0253 |
-0.0490 |
337 |
1 |
87.55 |
2009-04-24 |
| 75. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
87.33 |
0.9996 |
-0.0213 |
483 |
1 |
87.33 |
2009-04-22 |
| 76. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
87.23 |
0.9636 |
0.0047 |
281 |
1 |
87.23 |
2009-04-24 |
| 77. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
87.07 |
0.9948 |
-0.0280 |
233 |
1 |
87.07 |
2009-04-21 |
| 78. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
86.87 |
1.0341 |
-0.0690 |
273 |
2 |
84.76 |
2009-04-21 |
| 79. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
86.51 |
1.0582 |
-0.0996 |
180 |
1 |
86.51 |
2009-04-21 |
| 80. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
86.30 |
0.9801 |
-0.0211 |
289 |
1 |
86.30 |
2009-04-24 |
| 81. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
85.79 |
0.9380 |
0.0141 |
284 |
2 |
78.68 |
2009-04-27 |
| 82. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
85.56 |
1.0372 |
-0.0866 |
249 |
1 |
85.56 |
2009-04-24 |
| 83. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
84.69 |
0.9765 |
-0.0359 |
269 |
2 |
76.64 |
2009-04-24 |
| 84. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
84.51 |
0.9632 |
-0.0227 |
287 |
1 |
84.51 |
2009-04-24 |
| 85. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
84.26 |
0.9745 |
-0.0359 |
388 |
1 |
84.26 |
2009-04-24 |
| 86. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
83.98 |
0.9762 |
-0.0428 |
249 |
1 |
83.98 |
2009-04-24 |
| 87. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
83.25 |
1.0672 |
-0.1432 |
239 |
2 |
81.94 |
2009-04-25 |
| 88. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
83.18 |
1.0125 |
-0.0930 |
171 |
2 |
76.53 |
2009-04-21 |
| 89. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
83.08 |
0.8666 |
0.0542 |
206 |
1 |
83.08 |
2009-04-21 |
| 90. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
82.78 |
0.9756 |
-0.0564 |
223 |
1 |
82.78 |
2009-04-24 |
| 91. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
82.60 |
0.9603 |
-0.0369 |
430 |
1 |
82.60 |
2009-04-24 |
| 92. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
82.49 |
0.9284 |
-0.0080 |
346 |
1 |
82.49 |
2009-04-24 |
| 93. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
82.30 |
0.9727 |
-0.0514 |
442 |
1 |
82.30 |
2009-04-24 |
| 94. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
82.27 |
1.0543 |
-0.1434 |
182 |
1 |
82.27 |
2009-04-21 |
| 95. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
82.02 |
0.9143 |
-0.0019 |
300 |
1 |
82.02 |
2009-04-25 |
| 96. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
81.62 |
0.9713 |
-0.0657 |
193 |
2 |
80.57 |
2009-04-21 |
| 97. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
81.39 |
0.9357 |
-0.0335 |
204 |
3 |
77.17 |
2009-04-24 |
| 98. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
81.30 |
0.9425 |
-0.0384 |
248 |
2 |
80.16 |
2009-04-24 |
| 99. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
81.24 |
0.9434 |
-0.0362 |
367 |
1 |
81.24 |
2009-04-21 |
| 100. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
80.45 |
0.9966 |
-0.0955 |
377 |
1 |
80.45 |
2009-04-21 |
| 101. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
79.75 |
0.9561 |
-0.0685 |
362 |
1 |
79.75 |
2009-04-21 |
| 102. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
78.12 |
1.0250 |
-0.1543 |
271 |
1 |
78.12 |
2009-04-21 |
| 103. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
77.71 |
1.0387 |
-0.1713 |
333 |
1 |
77.71 |
2009-04-24 |
| 104. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
76.34 |
0.9538 |
-0.1061 |
276 |
1 |
76.34 |
2009-04-24 |
| 105. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
76.31 |
0.9068 |
-0.0612 |
212 |
1 |
76.31 |
2009-04-21 |
| 106. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
76.24 |
0.9183 |
-0.0706 |
308 |
1 |
76.24 |
2009-04-24 |
| 107. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
75.43 |
0.9698 |
-0.1271 |
389 |
1 |
75.43 |
2009-04-22 |
| 108. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
75.37 |
0.7923 |
0.0453 |
316 |
1 |
75.37 |
2009-04-24 |
| 109. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
74.91 |
0.9763 |
-0.1449 |
143 |
2 |
61.32 |
2009-04-24 |
| 110. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
74.64 |
0.9673 |
-0.1362 |
292 |
1 |
74.64 |
2009-04-21 |
| 111. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
74.46 |
0.9740 |
-0.1439 |
371 |
1 |
74.46 |
2009-04-21 |
| 112. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
73.61 |
0.9346 |
-0.1202 |
211 |
1 |
73.61 |
2009-04-24 |
| 113. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
72.87 |
0.9787 |
-0.1662 |
364 |
1 |
72.87 |
2009-04-21 |
| 114. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
72.41 |
1.0638 |
-0.2619 |
247 |
1 |
72.41 |
2009-04-24 |
| 115. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
72.10 |
0.9392 |
-0.1327 |
360 |
1 |
72.10 |
2009-04-21 |
| 116. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
71.73 |
0.9849 |
-0.1874 |
337 |
1 |
71.73 |
2009-04-21 |
| 117. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
70.37 |
0.8437 |
-0.0633 |
268 |
1 |
70.37 |
2009-04-21 |
| 118. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
67.95 |
0.9128 |
-0.1616 |
237 |
1 |
67.95 |
2009-04-21 |
| 119. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
66.33 |
0.9352 |
-0.2004 |
194 |
1 |
66.33 |
2009-04-21 |
| 120. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
61.51 |
0.8474 |
-0.1649 |
265 |
1 |
61.51 |
2009-04-24 |
| 121. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
39.90 |
0.9709 |
-0.5320 |
264 |
1 |
39.90 |
2009-04-21 |