| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
156.21 |
1.0993 |
0.0539 |
265 |
3 |
147.31 |
2009-05-21 |
| 2. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
154.70 |
1.0251 |
0.1167 |
261 |
1 |
154.70 |
2009-05-20 |
| 3. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
153.13 |
1.0429 |
0.0880 |
259 |
2 |
152.92 |
2009-05-21 |
| 4. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
153.04 |
1.0619 |
0.0733 |
354 |
2 |
139.66 |
2009-05-21 |
| 5. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
152.36 |
1.0477 |
0.0812 |
360 |
1 |
152.36 |
2009-05-22 |
| 6. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
151.95 |
1.0316 |
0.0956 |
333 |
1 |
151.95 |
2009-05-21 |
| 7. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
151.70 |
1.0486 |
0.0738 |
289 |
1 |
151.70 |
2009-05-20 |
| 8. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
150.80 |
1.0523 |
0.0582 |
256 |
1 |
150.80 |
2009-05-20 |
| 9. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
150.75 |
0.9005 |
0.2125 |
212 |
1 |
150.75 |
2009-05-20 |
| 10. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
150.42 |
1.0444 |
0.0610 |
197 |
3 |
126.63 |
2009-05-22 |
| 11. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
150.02 |
1.0120 |
0.0962 |
290 |
1 |
150.02 |
2009-05-21 |
| 12. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
149.91 |
1.0463 |
0.0573 |
182 |
2 |
146.20 |
2009-06-01 |
| 13. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
149.67 |
1.0595 |
0.0494 |
379 |
2 |
144.36 |
2009-05-22 |
| 14. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
149.66 |
1.0487 |
0.0526 |
231 |
2 |
146.58 |
2009-05-21 |
| 15. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
148.55 |
1.0214 |
0.0712 |
166 |
1 |
148.55 |
2009-05-21 |
| 16. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
148.18 |
1.0099 |
0.0824 |
207 |
1 |
148.18 |
2009-05-21 |
| 17. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
147.82 |
1.0787 |
0.0125 |
237 |
2 |
137.15 |
2009-05-21 |
| 18. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
147.73 |
1.0799 |
0.0083 |
243 |
1 |
147.73 |
2009-05-21 |
| 19. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
147.36 |
0.9843 |
0.0998 |
234 |
3 |
136.88 |
2009-05-20 |
| 20. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
146.86 |
1.0292 |
0.0549 |
262 |
1 |
146.86 |
2009-05-21 |
| 21. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
146.82 |
1.0885 |
-0.0001 |
315 |
2 |
137.45 |
2009-05-21 |
| 22. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
146.60 |
1.0016 |
0.0772 |
218 |
2 |
143.41 |
2009-05-20 |
| 23. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
146.11 |
1.0711 |
0.0036 |
213 |
2 |
144.62 |
2009-05-21 |
| 24. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
145.34 |
1.0666 |
0.0075 |
297 |
2 |
142.09 |
2009-05-20 |
| 25. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
145.09 |
1.0797 |
-0.0132 |
210 |
3 |
140.84 |
2009-05-21 |
| 26. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
144.91 |
1.0555 |
0.0167 |
363 |
1 |
144.91 |
2009-05-21 |
| 27. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
143.96 |
0.9897 |
0.0717 |
274 |
1 |
143.96 |
2009-05-21 |
| 28. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
143.46 |
1.0214 |
0.0368 |
269 |
2 |
139.19 |
2009-06-01 |
| 29. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
143.42 |
0.9857 |
0.0729 |
293 |
1 |
143.42 |
2009-05-21 |
| 30. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
143.27 |
1.0296 |
0.0353 |
437 |
1 |
143.27 |
2009-05-21 |
| 31. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
143.20 |
1.0454 |
0.0089 |
255 |
2 |
139.02 |
2009-05-20 |
| 32. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
142.93 |
1.0462 |
0.0037 |
184 |
1 |
142.93 |
2009-05-21 |
| 33. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
142.32 |
0.9351 |
0.1108 |
190 |
1 |
142.32 |
2009-05-20 |
| 34. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
141.32 |
0.9772 |
0.0632 |
217 |
1 |
141.32 |
2009-05-20 |
| 35. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
141.08 |
1.0201 |
0.0260 |
375 |
1 |
141.08 |
2009-05-21 |
| 36. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
140.98 |
0.9622 |
0.0856 |
392 |
1 |
140.98 |
2009-05-21 |
| 37. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
140.85 |
0.9723 |
0.0718 |
364 |
2 |
136.99 |
2009-06-01 |
| 38. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
140.83 |
1.0696 |
-0.0328 |
226 |
1 |
140.83 |
2009-05-20 |
| 39. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
140.79 |
1.0426 |
-0.0033 |
323 |
1 |
140.79 |
2009-06-01 |
| 40. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
140.54 |
0.9557 |
0.0887 |
331 |
2 |
133.52 |
2009-06-01 |
| 41. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
140.51 |
1.0053 |
0.0306 |
232 |
3 |
128.16 |
2009-05-21 |
| 42. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
140.38 |
0.9691 |
0.0673 |
223 |
2 |
134.82 |
2009-06-01 |
| 43. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
139.96 |
1.0483 |
-0.0175 |
227 |
3 |
133.44 |
2009-06-01 |
| 44. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
139.82 |
0.9811 |
0.0543 |
272 |
2 |
137.88 |
2009-05-20 |
| 45. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
139.27 |
0.9553 |
0.0805 |
430 |
1 |
139.27 |
2009-05-20 |
| 46. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
139.17 |
1.0528 |
-0.0299 |
201 |
1 |
139.17 |
2009-05-20 |
| 47. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
138.71 |
1.0829 |
-0.0570 |
288 |
1 |
138.71 |
2009-05-21 |
| 48. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
138.61 |
1.0213 |
-0.0008 |
240 |
1 |
138.61 |
2009-05-21 |
| 49. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
138.57 |
0.9697 |
0.0539 |
249 |
3 |
126.46 |
2009-05-20 |
| 50. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
138.01 |
1.0352 |
-0.0129 |
341 |
1 |
138.01 |
2009-05-20 |
| 51. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
137.52 |
0.9946 |
0.0207 |
246 |
1 |
137.52 |
2009-06-01 |
| 52. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
137.36 |
1.1018 |
-0.0939 |
220 |
1 |
137.36 |
2009-05-20 |
| 53. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
137.20 |
1.0445 |
-0.0305 |
373 |
1 |
137.20 |
2009-06-01 |
| 54. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
137.02 |
1.0714 |
-0.0685 |
129 |
1 |
137.02 |
2009-05-21 |
| 55. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
136.88 |
0.9527 |
0.0579 |
251 |
2 |
136.08 |
2009-06-01 |
| 56. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
136.84 |
1.0441 |
-0.0322 |
252 |
2 |
134.06 |
2009-05-20 |
| 57. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
136.64 |
1.0796 |
-0.0755 |
129 |
1 |
136.64 |
2009-05-20 |
| 58. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
135.78 |
0.9865 |
0.0171 |
276 |
1 |
135.78 |
2009-05-21 |
| 59. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
135.42 |
0.9074 |
0.0989 |
396 |
2 |
131.52 |
2009-05-20 |
| 60. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
135.26 |
0.9756 |
0.0217 |
229 |
1 |
135.26 |
2009-06-01 |
| 61. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
135.10 |
0.9942 |
0.0120 |
483 |
1 |
135.10 |
2009-05-20 |
| 62. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
135.08 |
1.0124 |
-0.0175 |
204 |
1 |
135.08 |
2009-05-20 |
| 63. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
134.85 |
0.9851 |
0.0127 |
317 |
1 |
134.85 |
2009-05-20 |
| 64. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
134.81 |
1.0352 |
-0.0373 |
341 |
2 |
132.95 |
2009-05-20 |
| 65. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
134.73 |
1.0189 |
-0.0209 |
337 |
1 |
134.73 |
2009-06-01 |
| 66. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
134.72 |
0.9776 |
0.0172 |
308 |
1 |
134.72 |
2009-05-21 |
| 67. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
134.54 |
1.0203 |
-0.0237 |
261 |
2 |
132.32 |
2009-06-01 |
| 68. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
134.36 |
0.9805 |
0.0160 |
292 |
2 |
129.81 |
2009-05-21 |
| 69. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
134.33 |
1.0025 |
-0.0099 |
336 |
1 |
134.33 |
2009-05-20 |
| 70. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
133.61 |
1.0183 |
-0.0376 |
191 |
1 |
133.61 |
2009-05-21 |
| 71. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
133.44 |
0.9676 |
0.0257 |
442 |
1 |
133.44 |
2009-05-20 |
| 72. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
133.41 |
0.8722 |
0.1155 |
285 |
3 |
119.84 |
2009-05-20 |
| 73. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
133.39 |
0.9532 |
0.0301 |
258 |
2 |
129.81 |
2009-05-21 |
| 74. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
132.45 |
1.0095 |
-0.0330 |
316 |
1 |
132.45 |
2009-05-20 |
| 75. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
132.41 |
1.0361 |
-0.0578 |
269 |
1 |
132.41 |
2009-05-20 |
| 76. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
132.39 |
1.0521 |
-0.0797 |
171 |
1 |
132.39 |
2009-06-01 |
| 77. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
132.23 |
0.9905 |
-0.0067 |
377 |
2 |
131.77 |
2009-05-21 |
| 78. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
131.85 |
1.0013 |
-0.0291 |
273 |
1 |
131.85 |
2009-05-20 |
| 79. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
131.77 |
1.0131 |
-0.0445 |
225 |
1 |
131.77 |
2009-06-01 |
| 80. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
131.35 |
0.9049 |
0.0699 |
351 |
1 |
131.35 |
2009-05-20 |
| 81. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
131.29 |
1.0125 |
-0.0459 |
224 |
2 |
128.51 |
2009-05-20 |
| 82. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
131.07 |
1.0534 |
-0.0839 |
357 |
1 |
131.07 |
2009-05-20 |
| 83. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
131.05 |
0.9734 |
-0.0066 |
289 |
2 |
128.47 |
2009-05-22 |
| 84. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
130.86 |
0.9866 |
-0.0246 |
218 |
1 |
130.86 |
2009-05-20 |
| 85. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
130.07 |
1.0168 |
-0.0556 |
271 |
1 |
130.07 |
2009-05-20 |
| 86. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
129.75 |
0.9894 |
-0.0276 |
323 |
1 |
129.75 |
2009-05-20 |
| 87. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
129.75 |
0.9965 |
-0.0439 |
168 |
1 |
129.75 |
2009-06-01 |
| 88. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
129.52 |
0.9682 |
-0.0144 |
143 |
1 |
129.52 |
2009-05-20 |
| 89. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
129.47 |
1.0389 |
-0.0812 |
340 |
2 |
126.01 |
2009-05-20 |
| 90. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
129.27 |
1.0396 |
-0.0930 |
149 |
1 |
129.27 |
2009-05-20 |
| 91. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
129.20 |
0.9997 |
-0.0428 |
382 |
1 |
129.20 |
2009-05-20 |
| 92. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
128.73 |
1.0297 |
-0.0811 |
249 |
2 |
124.97 |
2009-05-20 |
| 93. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
128.62 |
1.0197 |
-0.0736 |
226 |
2 |
126.05 |
2009-06-01 |
| 94. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
128.43 |
1.0257 |
-0.0718 |
401 |
1 |
128.43 |
2009-06-01 |
| 95. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
127.85 |
0.9844 |
-0.0364 |
293 |
1 |
127.85 |
2009-05-20 |
| 96. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
127.67 |
0.9941 |
-0.0546 |
217 |
2 |
127.37 |
2009-05-20 |
| 97. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
127.39 |
0.9820 |
-0.0394 |
267 |
1 |
127.39 |
2009-05-20 |
| 98. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
127.31 |
1.0515 |
-0.1142 |
250 |
1 |
127.31 |
2009-05-21 |
| 99. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
127.27 |
0.9965 |
-0.0573 |
310 |
1 |
127.27 |
2009-05-21 |
| 100. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
127.26 |
0.8958 |
0.0476 |
322 |
2 |
121.76 |
2009-05-20 |
| 101. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
127.23 |
1.0349 |
-0.0970 |
234 |
1 |
127.23 |
2009-06-01 |
| 102. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
126.78 |
1.0788 |
-0.1492 |
171 |
2 |
122.37 |
2009-06-01 |
| 103. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
126.45 |
1.0261 |
-0.0953 |
273 |
1 |
126.45 |
2009-06-01 |
| 104. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
125.81 |
0.8951 |
0.0350 |
193 |
1 |
125.81 |
2009-05-20 |
| 105. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
125.17 |
0.9846 |
-0.0625 |
281 |
2 |
120.78 |
2009-05-20 |
| 106. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
125.00 |
0.8770 |
0.0481 |
300 |
1 |
125.00 |
2009-05-20 |
| 107. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
124.88 |
0.9758 |
-0.0541 |
314 |
1 |
124.88 |
2009-06-01 |
| 108. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
124.83 |
0.9635 |
-0.0375 |
389 |
2 |
123.26 |
2009-05-21 |
| 109. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
123.87 |
1.0498 |
-0.1412 |
180 |
1 |
123.87 |
2009-05-20 |
| 110. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
122.83 |
0.9398 |
-0.0248 |
419 |
1 |
122.83 |
2009-05-20 |
| 111. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
121.79 |
1.0529 |
-0.1551 |
351 |
1 |
121.79 |
2009-05-20 |
| 112. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
121.45 |
0.9570 |
-0.0600 |
287 |
1 |
121.45 |
2009-05-20 |
| 113. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
121.33 |
1.0034 |
-0.1105 |
302 |
2 |
120.98 |
2009-06-01 |
| 114. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
120.94 |
0.9780 |
-0.0855 |
337 |
1 |
120.94 |
2009-05-20 |
| 115. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
120.60 |
0.9754 |
-0.0803 |
362 |
1 |
120.60 |
2009-05-20 |
| 116. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
120.30 |
0.9234 |
-0.0313 |
346 |
2 |
116.02 |
2009-06-01 |
| 117. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
120.13 |
0.9684 |
-0.0802 |
388 |
1 |
120.13 |
2009-05-20 |
| 118. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
119.99 |
1.0337 |
-0.1499 |
214 |
2 |
116.22 |
2009-05-22 |
| 119. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
119.84 |
0.8919 |
-0.0103 |
205 |
2 |
118.67 |
2009-06-01 |
| 120. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
119.78 |
0.9786 |
-0.1009 |
193 |
1 |
119.78 |
2009-05-20 |
| 121. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
119.49 |
0.9614 |
-0.0777 |
292 |
1 |
119.49 |
2009-05-20 |
| 122. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
118.51 |
1.0201 |
-0.1535 |
172 |
1 |
118.51 |
2009-05-20 |
| 123. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
117.97 |
0.9097 |
0.0012 |
464 |
1 |
117.97 |
2009-05-20 |
| 124. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
117.31 |
0.9699 |
-0.1061 |
269 |
1 |
117.31 |
2009-05-20 |
| 125. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
115.38 |
0.9279 |
-0.0715 |
317 |
1 |
115.38 |
2009-05-20 |
| 126. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
114.21 |
0.9087 |
-0.0568 |
393 |
1 |
114.21 |
2009-05-20 |
| 127. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
112.11 |
0.9468 |
-0.1218 |
276 |
1 |
112.11 |
2009-05-20 |
| 128. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
110.13 |
0.8981 |
-0.0828 |
393 |
1 |
110.13 |
2009-05-20 |
| 129. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
109.09 |
0.9899 |
-0.1917 |
163 |
1 |
109.09 |
2009-05-20 |
| 130. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
104.10 |
0.9275 |
-0.1652 |
211 |
1 |
104.10 |
2009-05-20 |
| 131. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
100.47 |
0.9731 |
-0.2472 |
129 |
1 |
100.47 |
2009-05-20 |
| 132. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
67.04 |
0.9202 |
-0.4325 |
254 |
1 |
67.04 |
2009-05-22 |