| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
78.08 |
1.0462 |
0.1596 |
184 |
1 |
78.08 |
2009-01-13 |
| 2. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
77.90 |
1.0257 |
0.1898 |
401 |
1 |
77.90 |
2010-01-19 |
| 3. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
77.42 |
1.0595 |
0.1445 |
379 |
2 |
72.30 |
2010-01-16 |
| 4. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
76.75 |
1.0555 |
0.1369 |
363 |
1 |
76.75 |
2010-01-24 |
| 5. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
76.38 |
1.0463 |
0.1343 |
182 |
2 |
71.46 |
2010-01-16 |
| 6. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
75.68 |
1.0205 |
0.1472 |
179 |
1 |
75.68 |
2010-01-19 |
| 7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
74.54 |
1.0331 |
0.1211 |
234 |
1 |
74.54 |
2009-01-13 |
| 8. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
74.03 |
1.0316 |
0.1206 |
333 |
1 |
74.03 |
2010-01-21 |
| 9. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
72.82 |
1.0534 |
0.0782 |
357 |
2 |
69.80 |
2010-01-17 |
| 10. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
72.03 |
1.0696 |
0.0439 |
226 |
1 |
72.03 |
2010-01-16 |
| 11. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
70.95 |
1.0668 |
0.0357 |
350 |
1 |
70.95 |
2009-01-12 |
| 12. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
70.81 |
1.0390 |
0.0551 |
205 |
1 |
70.81 |
2009-01-13 |
| 13. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
70.77 |
1.0252 |
0.0655 |
176 |
1 |
70.77 |
2009-01-13 |
| 14. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
70.05 |
1.0004 |
0.0794 |
212 |
1 |
70.05 |
2010-01-17 |
| 15. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
69.98 |
1.0016 |
0.0786 |
218 |
1 |
69.98 |
2010-01-21 |
| 16. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
69.90 |
1.0391 |
0.0506 |
358 |
2 |
69.26 |
2009-01-13 |
| 17. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
69.82 |
1.0429 |
0.0380 |
259 |
1 |
69.82 |
2009-01-13 |
| 18. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
69.61 |
0.9814 |
0.1370 |
364 |
1 |
69.61 |
2010-01-24 |
| 19. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
69.25 |
0.8961 |
0.1739 |
189 |
1 |
69.25 |
2010-01-19 |
| 20. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
68.19 |
1.0528 |
-0.0010 |
201 |
1 |
68.19 |
2010-01-24 |
| 21. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
68.17 |
1.0263 |
0.0293 |
267 |
1 |
68.17 |
2010-01-16 |
| 22. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
68.04 |
1.0031 |
0.0848 |
304 |
2 |
67.66 |
2010-01-24 |
| 23. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
67.67 |
0.9109 |
0.1403 |
401 |
1 |
67.67 |
2009-01-12 |
| 24. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
67.46 |
0.9125 |
0.1346 |
308 |
1 |
67.46 |
2010-01-21 |
| 25. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
67.02 |
1.0138 |
0.0242 |
231 |
1 |
67.02 |
2009-01-13 |
| 26. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
67.01 |
0.9846 |
0.0525 |
281 |
1 |
67.01 |
2010-01-24 |
| 27. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
66.93 |
0.9844 |
0.0574 |
293 |
1 |
66.93 |
2009-01-12 |
| 28. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
66.55 |
0.9672 |
0.0703 |
396 |
1 |
66.55 |
2010-01-25 |
| 29. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
66.55 |
0.9468 |
0.0837 |
276 |
1 |
66.55 |
2010-01-20 |
| 30. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
66.54 |
1.0261 |
0.0029 |
273 |
1 |
66.54 |
2010-01-25 |
| 31. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
66.51 |
1.0173 |
0.0573 |
268 |
1 |
66.51 |
2010-01-17 |
| 32. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
66.48 |
1.0361 |
-0.0052 |
269 |
1 |
66.48 |
2010-01-17 |
| 33. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
66.34 |
1.0389 |
-0.0088 |
340 |
1 |
66.34 |
2009-01-16 |
| 34. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
66.34 |
0.9943 |
0.0366 |
373 |
1 |
66.34 |
2010-01-16 |
| 35. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
66.20 |
0.8722 |
0.1562 |
285 |
2 |
56.29 |
2010-01-19 |
| 36. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
66.05 |
0.9500 |
0.0754 |
362 |
1 |
66.05 |
2009-01-12 |
| 37. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
65.99 |
1.0679 |
-0.0254 |
177 |
1 |
65.99 |
2010-01-24 |
| 38. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
65.91 |
1.0419 |
-0.0209 |
261 |
1 |
65.91 |
2009-01-13 |
| 39. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
65.83 |
1.0292 |
-0.0108 |
262 |
1 |
65.83 |
2009-01-13 |
| 40. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
65.67 |
0.9293 |
0.0887 |
355 |
1 |
65.67 |
2010-01-24 |
| 41. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
65.51 |
0.9164 |
0.1031 |
305 |
1 |
65.51 |
2010-01-24 |
| 42. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
65.01 |
0.9527 |
0.0541 |
251 |
2 |
59.70 |
2010-01-24 |
| 43. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
64.98 |
0.9798 |
0.0209 |
199 |
2 |
59.42 |
2010-01-25 |
| 44. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
64.91 |
0.9758 |
0.0302 |
314 |
1 |
64.91 |
2009-01-12 |
| 45. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
64.81 |
1.0068 |
0.0002 |
358 |
1 |
64.81 |
2010-01-17 |
| 46. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
64.71 |
1.0314 |
0.0100 |
452 |
1 |
64.71 |
2010-01-17 |
| 47. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
64.52 |
1.0375 |
0.0077 |
200 |
1 |
64.52 |
2010-01-24 |
| 48. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
64.23 |
0.9676 |
0.0353 |
442 |
1 |
64.23 |
2010-01-24 |
| 49. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
63.96 |
1.0201 |
-0.0257 |
375 |
1 |
63.96 |
2010-01-24 |
| 50. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
63.77 |
0.9084 |
0.0808 |
300 |
2 |
63.66 |
2010-01-20 |
| 51. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
63.68 |
0.9910 |
-0.0031 |
295 |
1 |
63.68 |
2010-01-24 |
| 52. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
63.53 |
0.8981 |
0.0902 |
393 |
1 |
63.53 |
2010-01-21 |
| 53. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
63.16 |
0.9619 |
0.0212 |
393 |
1 |
63.16 |
2009-01-13 |
| 54. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
63.04 |
0.9597 |
0.0204 |
347 |
1 |
63.04 |
2009-01-13 |
| 55. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
62.95 |
0.9233 |
0.0430 |
168 |
1 |
62.95 |
2010-01-24 |
| 56. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
62.80 |
0.9485 |
0.0254 |
236 |
1 |
62.80 |
2010-01-19 |
| 57. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
62.63 |
1.0213 |
-0.0550 |
240 |
1 |
62.63 |
2010-01-19 |
| 58. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
62.44 |
0.9986 |
-0.0314 |
283 |
1 |
62.44 |
2009-01-13 |
| 59. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
61.73 |
0.9074 |
0.0545 |
396 |
1 |
61.73 |
2010-01-20 |
| 60. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
61.61 |
0.9649 |
-0.0125 |
193 |
1 |
61.61 |
2010-01-16 |
| 61. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
61.55 |
1.0034 |
-0.0523 |
302 |
1 |
61.55 |
2010-01-24 |
| 62. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
61.39 |
0.8553 |
0.0897 |
174 |
1 |
61.39 |
2009-01-12 |
| 63. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
61.36 |
0.8810 |
0.0694 |
282 |
1 |
61.36 |
2010-01-24 |
| 64. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
60.89 |
0.9811 |
-0.0362 |
272 |
1 |
60.89 |
2009-01-13 |
| 65. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
60.57 |
1.0487 |
-0.1165 |
231 |
1 |
60.57 |
2009-01-13 |
| 66. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
60.43 |
0.9905 |
-0.0477 |
377 |
2 |
58.28 |
2010-01-25 |
| 67. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
59.29 |
0.9780 |
-0.0599 |
337 |
1 |
59.29 |
2009-01-13 |
| 68. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
58.73 |
0.8382 |
0.0707 |
268 |
3 |
54.30 |
2010-01-24 |
| 69. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
58.58 |
0.8878 |
0.0180 |
346 |
2 |
58.57 |
2010-01-16 |
| 70. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
58.35 |
1.0090 |
-0.0628 |
282 |
1 |
58.35 |
2010-01-25 |
| 71. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
58.22 |
0.9886 |
-0.0857 |
220 |
1 |
58.22 |
2010-01-17 |
| 72. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
57.87 |
0.8951 |
0.0020 |
193 |
1 |
57.87 |
2010-01-16 |
| 73. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
57.70 |
1.0218 |
-0.1325 |
268 |
1 |
57.70 |
2010-01-16 |
| 74. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
57.20 |
0.9938 |
-0.1086 |
339 |
1 |
57.20 |
2010-01-24 |
| 75. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
56.86 |
0.8956 |
-0.0120 |
322 |
1 |
56.86 |
2009-01-12 |
| 76. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
56.38 |
1.0337 |
-0.1628 |
214 |
1 |
56.38 |
2010-01-16 |
| 77. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
56.38 |
0.9772 |
-0.1092 |
217 |
1 |
56.38 |
2010-01-19 |
| 78. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
56.35 |
0.9049 |
-0.0285 |
351 |
1 |
56.35 |
2010-01-24 |
| 79. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
55.33 |
0.9176 |
-0.0238 |
365 |
1 |
55.33 |
2010-01-17 |
| 80. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
55.28 |
0.9583 |
-0.0604 |
341 |
1 |
55.28 |
2010-01-22 |
| 81. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
55.21 |
1.0013 |
-0.1491 |
273 |
1 |
55.21 |
2010-01-17 |
| 82. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
55.07 |
0.9691 |
-0.1187 |
223 |
1 |
55.07 |
2010-01-25 |
| 83. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
54.96 |
0.9831 |
-0.1259 |
469 |
1 |
54.96 |
2010-01-17 |
| 84. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
54.83 |
1.0398 |
-0.2031 |
110 |
1 |
54.83 |
2010-01-17 |
| 85. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
53.94 |
0.9540 |
-0.1226 |
285 |
1 |
53.94 |
2010-01-21 |
| 86. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
53.60 |
0.9964 |
-0.1684 |
203 |
1 |
53.60 |
2010-01-24 |
| 87. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
53.32 |
0.8826 |
-0.0577 |
296 |
1 |
53.32 |
2010-01-22 |
| 88. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
51.77 |
0.9635 |
-0.1589 |
389 |
1 |
51.77 |
2010-01-17 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
51.14 |
0.9064 |
-0.1079 |
399 |
1 |
51.14 |
2010-01-17 |
| 90. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
51.06 |
0.9072 |
-0.1209 |
237 |
1 |
51.06 |
2010-01-17 |
| 91. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
50.47 |
1.0441 |
-0.2240 |
316 |
1 |
50.47 |
2010-01-17 |
| 92. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
48.68 |
0.9756 |
-0.2262 |
229 |
1 |
48.68 |
2009-01-14 |