| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
108.67 |
1.0352 |
0.1960 |
341 |
2 |
99.84 |
2008-12-18 |
| 2. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
106.33 |
1.0799 |
0.1183 |
243 |
1 |
106.33 |
2008-12-18 |
| 3. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
105.72 |
1.0711 |
0.1187 |
213 |
4 |
93.68 |
2008-12-25 |
| 4. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
105.47 |
1.0696 |
0.1190 |
226 |
2 |
93.00 |
2008-12-01 |
| 5. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
102.51 |
1.0390 |
0.1155 |
205 |
1 |
102.51 |
2008-12-01 |
| 6. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
102.11 |
0.9430 |
0.2034 |
211 |
1 |
102.11 |
2008-11-30 |
| 7. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
101.86 |
1.0787 |
0.0708 |
237 |
3 |
95.60 |
2008-12-16 |
| 8. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
101.42 |
1.0349 |
0.1102 |
234 |
1 |
101.42 |
2008-12-18 |
| 9. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
100.67 |
1.0596 |
0.0755 |
239 |
2 |
97.40 |
2008-12-18 |
| 10. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
99.90 |
1.0201 |
0.1015 |
172 |
1 |
99.90 |
2008-12-01 |
| 11. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
99.66 |
1.0666 |
0.0592 |
297 |
1 |
99.66 |
2008-12-19 |
| 12. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
98.42 |
1.1018 |
0.0033 |
220 |
2 |
92.79 |
2008-12-16 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
98.32 |
1.0577 |
0.0492 |
247 |
2 |
93.15 |
2008-12-25 |
| 14. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
97.98 |
1.0368 |
0.0706 |
276 |
1 |
97.98 |
2008-12-18 |
| 15. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
97.68 |
1.0555 |
0.0490 |
363 |
1 |
97.68 |
2008-12-01 |
| 16. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
97.58 |
0.9682 |
0.1318 |
143 |
2 |
88.44 |
2008-12-18 |
| 17. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
97.55 |
1.0498 |
0.0470 |
180 |
2 |
93.39 |
2008-12-15 |
| 18. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
97.49 |
1.0797 |
0.0156 |
210 |
1 |
97.49 |
2008-12-18 |
| 19. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
97.42 |
0.9074 |
0.1992 |
396 |
2 |
91.94 |
2008-12-18 |
| 20. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
97.24 |
0.9724 |
0.1293 |
237 |
1 |
97.24 |
2008-11-27 |
| 21. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
97.04 |
1.0993 |
-0.0056 |
265 |
2 |
93.18 |
2008-11-30 |
| 22. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
96.95 |
0.9941 |
0.0982 |
217 |
2 |
89.19 |
2008-11-30 |
| 23. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
96.91 |
1.0016 |
0.0881 |
218 |
2 |
92.43 |
2009-02-02 |
| 24. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
96.56 |
1.0419 |
0.0484 |
261 |
1 |
96.56 |
2008-11-30 |
| 25. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
96.50 |
1.0477 |
0.0443 |
360 |
1 |
96.50 |
2008-12-01 |
| 26. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
96.24 |
1.0399 |
0.0519 |
294 |
2 |
92.88 |
2008-12-18 |
| 27. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
95.71 |
1.0565 |
0.0215 |
247 |
1 |
95.71 |
2008-12-18 |
| 28. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
95.71 |
1.0613 |
0.0243 |
456 |
2 |
91.63 |
2008-12-25 |
| 29. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
95.63 |
1.0444 |
0.0287 |
197 |
2 |
89.38 |
2008-11-29 |
| 30. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
95.51 |
0.9578 |
0.1200 |
281 |
2 |
92.29 |
2008-12-01 |
| 31. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
95.48 |
0.9576 |
0.1250 |
212 |
1 |
95.48 |
2008-12-01 |
| 32. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
95.48 |
1.0252 |
0.0463 |
176 |
2 |
94.90 |
2008-11-30 |
| 33. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
95.36 |
0.9966 |
0.0794 |
259 |
2 |
76.52 |
2008-12-18 |
| 34. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
94.89 |
1.0496 |
0.0209 |
314 |
2 |
89.91 |
2008-12-27 |
| 35. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
94.87 |
1.0261 |
0.0430 |
273 |
1 |
94.87 |
2008-12-25 |
| 36. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
94.79 |
1.0201 |
0.0540 |
375 |
2 |
90.87 |
2008-12-27 |
| 37. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
94.44 |
1.0796 |
-0.0183 |
129 |
1 |
94.44 |
2009-02-02 |
| 38. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
93.97 |
0.9633 |
0.0996 |
304 |
1 |
93.97 |
2008-11-29 |
| 39. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
93.76 |
1.0068 |
0.0548 |
358 |
2 |
90.56 |
2008-12-18 |
| 40. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
93.59 |
1.0487 |
0.0027 |
231 |
1 |
93.59 |
2008-12-18 |
| 41. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
93.43 |
1.0523 |
-0.0021 |
256 |
1 |
93.43 |
2008-12-27 |
| 42. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
93.42 |
1.0885 |
-0.0308 |
315 |
1 |
93.42 |
2008-12-18 |
| 43. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
92.85 |
0.9672 |
0.0872 |
396 |
1 |
92.85 |
2008-12-01 |
| 44. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
92.75 |
0.9612 |
0.0856 |
256 |
4 |
87.50 |
2008-12-18 |
| 45. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
92.75 |
0.9279 |
0.1254 |
317 |
1 |
92.75 |
2008-11-29 |
| 46. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
92.42 |
0.9965 |
0.0471 |
277 |
1 |
92.42 |
2009-02-02 |
| 47. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
92.11 |
0.9233 |
0.1078 |
168 |
1 |
92.11 |
2008-12-18 |
| 48. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
91.97 |
1.0515 |
-0.0156 |
250 |
2 |
89.41 |
2008-12-01 |
| 49. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
91.87 |
1.0391 |
0.0037 |
358 |
2 |
91.16 |
2008-12-01 |
| 50. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
91.70 |
0.9485 |
0.0880 |
236 |
2 |
83.79 |
2008-12-16 |
| 51. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
91.56 |
0.9884 |
0.0491 |
262 |
1 |
91.56 |
2008-12-01 |
| 52. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
91.33 |
1.0483 |
-0.0208 |
227 |
1 |
91.33 |
2008-11-27 |
| 53. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
91.27 |
1.0714 |
-0.0504 |
129 |
2 |
89.63 |
2008-12-18 |
| 54. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
91.24 |
1.0201 |
0.0098 |
303 |
2 |
72.48 |
2008-12-01 |
| 55. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
91.05 |
1.0429 |
-0.0170 |
259 |
1 |
91.05 |
2008-11-29 |
| 56. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
90.45 |
1.0029 |
0.0112 |
209 |
1 |
90.45 |
2008-12-25 |
| 57. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
90.31 |
1.0214 |
-0.0079 |
166 |
1 |
90.31 |
2008-12-01 |
| 58. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
90.25 |
0.9109 |
0.1099 |
401 |
2 |
85.94 |
2008-12-18 |
| 59. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
90.19 |
0.9798 |
0.0320 |
199 |
2 |
87.04 |
2008-12-18 |
| 60. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
89.89 |
0.9710 |
0.0366 |
173 |
1 |
89.89 |
2008-12-18 |
| 61. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
89.88 |
0.9772 |
0.0333 |
217 |
3 |
87.86 |
2008-12-18 |
| 62. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
89.63 |
0.9857 |
0.0244 |
293 |
1 |
89.63 |
2008-11-30 |
| 63. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
89.55 |
1.0619 |
-0.0481 |
354 |
1 |
89.55 |
2008-11-27 |
| 64. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
89.11 |
1.0257 |
-0.0141 |
401 |
2 |
88.27 |
2008-12-18 |
| 65. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
88.82 |
1.0168 |
-0.0135 |
271 |
1 |
88.82 |
2008-11-29 |
| 66. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
88.33 |
1.0389 |
-0.0402 |
340 |
1 |
88.33 |
2008-12-01 |
| 67. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
88.30 |
0.8919 |
0.1023 |
205 |
3 |
86.06 |
2008-12-18 |
| 68. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
87.91 |
0.9148 |
0.0781 |
317 |
1 |
87.91 |
2008-12-01 |
| 69. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
87.90 |
0.9833 |
0.0096 |
355 |
1 |
87.90 |
2008-12-18 |
| 70. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
87.82 |
1.0297 |
-0.0405 |
249 |
1 |
87.82 |
2008-11-30 |
| 71. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
87.35 |
0.8878 |
0.0971 |
346 |
2 |
86.70 |
2008-12-18 |
| 72. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
87.23 |
1.0426 |
-0.0596 |
323 |
2 |
86.53 |
2008-12-25 |
| 73. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
86.93 |
0.9986 |
-0.0177 |
283 |
1 |
86.93 |
2008-11-29 |
| 74. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
86.88 |
1.0060 |
-0.0310 |
171 |
1 |
86.88 |
2008-12-01 |
| 75. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
86.83 |
0.9946 |
-0.0157 |
246 |
1 |
86.83 |
2008-12-18 |
| 76. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
86.64 |
0.9468 |
0.0297 |
276 |
2 |
84.77 |
2008-11-29 |
| 77. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
86.57 |
0.9769 |
-0.0028 |
263 |
1 |
86.57 |
2008-11-30 |
| 78. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
86.40 |
0.9619 |
0.0175 |
393 |
3 |
80.05 |
2008-12-19 |
| 79. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
86.08 |
0.9780 |
-0.0064 |
337 |
1 |
86.08 |
2008-12-25 |
| 80. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
85.97 |
0.9841 |
-0.0110 |
334 |
1 |
85.97 |
2008-12-18 |
| 81. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
85.84 |
0.9293 |
0.0393 |
355 |
2 |
82.01 |
2008-11-29 |
| 82. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
85.80 |
0.9464 |
0.0261 |
323 |
1 |
85.80 |
2008-12-18 |
| 83. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
85.71 |
1.0352 |
-0.0658 |
341 |
2 |
84.95 |
2008-12-01 |
| 84. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
85.63 |
1.0183 |
-0.0585 |
191 |
1 |
85.63 |
2008-11-29 |
| 85. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
85.43 |
0.9866 |
-0.0272 |
218 |
1 |
85.43 |
2008-12-18 |
| 86. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
84.85 |
0.9567 |
-0.0004 |
273 |
2 |
82.36 |
2008-12-01 |
| 87. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
84.77 |
1.0167 |
-0.0543 |
378 |
1 |
84.77 |
2008-12-16 |
| 88. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
84.61 |
0.9557 |
0.0044 |
331 |
1 |
84.61 |
2008-12-01 |
| 89. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
84.52 |
0.8958 |
0.0615 |
322 |
4 |
79.23 |
2009-02-02 |
| 90. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
84.43 |
0.9289 |
0.0205 |
204 |
1 |
84.43 |
2008-12-18 |
| 91. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
84.35 |
0.9894 |
-0.0342 |
323 |
3 |
81.33 |
2008-12-15 |
| 92. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
84.27 |
0.8981 |
0.0564 |
393 |
2 |
72.64 |
2008-11-29 |
| 93. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
84.15 |
0.9365 |
0.0134 |
248 |
2 |
82.68 |
2008-12-18 |
| 94. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
84.07 |
0.9897 |
-0.0444 |
274 |
1 |
84.07 |
2008-11-30 |
| 95. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
83.85 |
1.0289 |
-0.0794 |
276 |
1 |
83.85 |
2008-11-30 |
| 96. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
83.81 |
0.9622 |
-0.0112 |
392 |
2 |
75.95 |
2008-12-01 |
| 97. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
83.78 |
1.0138 |
-0.0699 |
231 |
1 |
83.78 |
2008-11-29 |
| 98. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
83.77 |
0.9342 |
0.0135 |
434 |
1 |
83.77 |
2008-11-29 |
| 99. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
83.31 |
1.0595 |
-0.1181 |
379 |
1 |
83.31 |
2008-11-27 |
| 100. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
82.52 |
0.9636 |
-0.0338 |
254 |
1 |
82.52 |
2008-12-25 |
| 101. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
82.38 |
0.8971 |
0.0365 |
266 |
1 |
82.38 |
2008-12-01 |
| 102. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
82.00 |
0.9899 |
-0.0707 |
163 |
1 |
82.00 |
2008-12-16 |
| 103. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
81.28 |
0.9064 |
0.0185 |
399 |
1 |
81.28 |
2008-12-18 |
| 104. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
80.95 |
0.8753 |
0.0458 |
427 |
1 |
80.95 |
2008-12-16 |
| 105. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
80.70 |
1.0034 |
-0.0958 |
302 |
1 |
80.70 |
2008-12-18 |
| 106. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
80.67 |
1.0025 |
-0.0939 |
256 |
1 |
80.67 |
2008-11-30 |
| 107. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
80.65 |
0.9785 |
-0.0668 |
335 |
1 |
80.65 |
2008-12-18 |
| 108. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
80.03 |
0.9540 |
-0.0544 |
285 |
1 |
80.03 |
2008-11-29 |
| 109. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
79.90 |
0.9991 |
-0.0986 |
225 |
2 |
77.62 |
2008-12-01 |
| 110. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
79.73 |
0.9005 |
-0.0040 |
212 |
1 |
79.73 |
2008-11-30 |
| 111. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
79.35 |
0.9697 |
-0.0758 |
249 |
1 |
79.35 |
2008-11-30 |
| 112. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
79.29 |
1.0528 |
-0.1648 |
201 |
1 |
79.29 |
2008-11-27 |
| 113. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
78.97 |
1.0124 |
-0.1255 |
204 |
1 |
78.97 |
2008-11-27 |
| 114. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
78.77 |
0.9649 |
-0.0790 |
193 |
2 |
77.78 |
2008-12-01 |
| 115. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
78.76 |
0.9632 |
-0.0699 |
392 |
1 |
78.76 |
2008-11-29 |
| 116. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
78.31 |
0.9234 |
-0.0362 |
346 |
1 |
78.31 |
2008-11-30 |
| 117. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
77.71 |
0.8595 |
0.0172 |
242 |
2 |
77.38 |
2008-11-30 |
| 118. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
77.11 |
0.9681 |
-0.0917 |
378 |
2 |
77.00 |
2008-12-01 |
| 119. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
76.74 |
0.9768 |
-0.1104 |
387 |
1 |
76.74 |
2008-11-29 |
| 120. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
76.39 |
0.9601 |
-0.0956 |
308 |
1 |
76.39 |
2008-11-29 |
| 121. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
75.57 |
0.9339 |
-0.0849 |
310 |
1 |
75.57 |
2008-11-27 |
| 122. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
74.30 |
0.9045 |
-0.0682 |
235 |
1 |
74.30 |
2008-11-27 |
| 123. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
73.52 |
0.8722 |
-0.0422 |
285 |
1 |
73.52 |
2008-11-27 |
| 124. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
72.85 |
0.8933 |
-0.0675 |
363 |
1 |
72.85 |
2008-11-29 |
| 125. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
72.27 |
0.9202 |
-0.1081 |
254 |
1 |
72.27 |
2008-12-01 |
| 126. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
71.77 |
1.0334 |
-0.2328 |
131 |
1 |
71.77 |
2008-11-29 |
| 127. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
71.14 |
0.9740 |
-0.1782 |
209 |
1 |
71.14 |
2008-11-30 |
| 128. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
70.97 |
0.9532 |
-0.1566 |
258 |
1 |
70.97 |
2008-11-27 |
| 129. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
70.97 |
0.9500 |
-0.1499 |
362 |
1 |
70.97 |
2008-12-01 |
| 130. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
70.67 |
0.9831 |
-0.1806 |
469 |
1 |
70.67 |
2008-11-29 |
| 131. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
70.33 |
0.8553 |
-0.0698 |
174 |
1 |
70.33 |
2008-11-27 |
| 132. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
68.24 |
0.8852 |
-0.1164 |
201 |
1 |
68.24 |
2008-11-29 |
| 133. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
64.72 |
0.9527 |
-0.2263 |
251 |
1 |
64.72 |
2008-11-29 |
| 134. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
64.20 |
0.8941 |
-0.1715 |
216 |
1 |
64.20 |
2008-11-29 |
| 135. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
63.58 |
0.9266 |
-0.2130 |
267 |
1 |
63.58 |
2008-11-29 |
| 136. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
59.22 |
0.9084 |
-0.2429 |
300 |
1 |
59.22 |
2008-11-29 |