| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
70.42 |
1.1198 |
-1.1255 |
247 |
2 |
62.92 |
2008-12-25 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
70.22 |
1.1086 |
-1.1140 |
233 |
4 |
66.97 |
2008-11-30 |
| 3. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
67.73 |
1.0464 |
-1.0490 |
294 |
2 |
67.69 |
2008-11-27 |
| 4. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
66.48 |
1.0272 |
-1.0340 |
226 |
1 |
66.48 |
2008-11-27 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
66.01 |
1.1093 |
-1.1188 |
220 |
2 |
63.48 |
2008-11-28 |
| 6. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
65.89 |
1.0288 |
-1.0372 |
166 |
1 |
65.89 |
2008-11-27 |
| 7. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
65.87 |
1.0540 |
-1.0624 |
184 |
1 |
65.87 |
2008-11-27 |
| 8. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
65.09 |
1.0877 |
-1.0950 |
129 |
1 |
65.09 |
2008-11-24 |
| 9. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
64.92 |
1.0521 |
-1.0616 |
197 |
1 |
64.92 |
2008-11-27 |
| 10. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
64.84 |
1.0432 |
-1.0496 |
276 |
4 |
57.54 |
2008-12-29 |
| 11. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
64.67 |
1.0426 |
-1.0496 |
131 |
2 |
61.19 |
2008-11-29 |
| 12. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
63.58 |
1.0511 |
-1.0553 |
252 |
2 |
61.96 |
2008-11-30 |
| 13. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
63.56 |
1.0743 |
-1.0793 |
297 |
1 |
63.56 |
2008-11-27 |
| 14. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
62.39 |
1.0372 |
-1.0438 |
249 |
1 |
62.39 |
2008-11-30 |
| 15. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
62.34 |
1.0628 |
-1.0666 |
363 |
1 |
62.34 |
2008-11-28 |
| 16. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
62.15 |
1.0576 |
-1.0639 |
231 |
1 |
62.15 |
2008-11-28 |
| 17. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
62.11 |
1.0881 |
-1.0954 |
210 |
1 |
62.11 |
2008-11-29 |
| 18. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
62.11 |
0.9909 |
-0.9947 |
293 |
2 |
60.94 |
2008-11-27 |
| 19. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
61.94 |
0.9084 |
-0.9150 |
271 |
2 |
55.11 |
2008-11-26 |
| 20. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
61.58 |
1.0414 |
-1.0482 |
234 |
1 |
61.58 |
2008-11-28 |
| 21. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
61.42 |
1.0128 |
-1.0141 |
369 |
1 |
61.42 |
2008-11-27 |
| 22. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
60.98 |
0.9402 |
-0.9473 |
310 |
1 |
60.98 |
2008-11-27 |
| 23. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
60.46 |
1.0865 |
-1.0913 |
237 |
1 |
60.46 |
2008-11-25 |
| 24. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
60.38 |
0.9425 |
-0.9486 |
248 |
1 |
60.38 |
2008-12-25 |
| 25. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
60.29 |
0.9841 |
-0.9911 |
217 |
1 |
60.29 |
2008-11-29 |
| 26. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
60.24 |
0.9981 |
-1.0041 |
211 |
1 |
60.24 |
2008-11-26 |
| 27. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
60.17 |
1.0672 |
-1.0735 |
239 |
2 |
58.28 |
2008-11-27 |
| 28. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
60.10 |
1.0736 |
-1.0772 |
350 |
3 |
59.18 |
2008-11-28 |
| 29. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
59.93 |
1.0669 |
-1.0701 |
379 |
1 |
59.93 |
2008-11-28 |
| 30. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
59.88 |
0.9841 |
-0.9906 |
263 |
2 |
57.36 |
2008-11-27 |
| 31. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
59.48 |
0.9809 |
-0.9885 |
209 |
2 |
59.03 |
2008-11-27 |
| 32. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
59.47 |
1.0601 |
-1.0672 |
256 |
1 |
59.47 |
2008-11-27 |
| 33. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
59.39 |
1.0267 |
-1.0293 |
261 |
1 |
59.39 |
2008-11-25 |
| 34. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
59.10 |
0.9332 |
-0.9392 |
267 |
1 |
59.10 |
2008-11-26 |
| 35. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
59.09 |
1.0351 |
-1.0386 |
276 |
1 |
59.09 |
2008-11-27 |
| 36. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
58.79 |
1.0411 |
-1.0458 |
341 |
3 |
57.03 |
2008-11-27 |
| 37. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
58.37 |
1.0676 |
-1.0705 |
456 |
1 |
58.37 |
2008-12-17 |
| 38. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
58.30 |
0.9765 |
-0.9823 |
269 |
1 |
58.30 |
2008-12-30 |
| 39. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
58.25 |
0.9727 |
-0.9740 |
442 |
1 |
58.25 |
2008-11-26 |
| 40. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
58.14 |
1.0060 |
-1.0117 |
225 |
2 |
54.77 |
2008-12-02 |
| 41. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
58.07 |
1.0479 |
-1.0533 |
205 |
2 |
54.58 |
2008-11-27 |
| 42. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
57.89 |
0.9779 |
-0.9881 |
255 |
1 |
57.89 |
2008-11-25 |
| 43. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
57.84 |
0.9927 |
-0.9980 |
276 |
3 |
54.32 |
2008-12-25 |
| 44. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
57.82 |
0.9933 |
-0.9945 |
450 |
1 |
57.82 |
2008-12-25 |
| 45. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
57.57 |
0.9980 |
-1.0028 |
295 |
2 |
55.84 |
2009-01-03 |
| 46. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
57.56 |
0.9917 |
-0.9963 |
317 |
2 |
54.17 |
2008-11-29 |
| 47. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
57.43 |
1.0227 |
-1.0254 |
378 |
1 |
57.43 |
2008-11-28 |
| 48. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
57.33 |
1.0334 |
-1.0383 |
261 |
2 |
55.29 |
2008-11-28 |
| 49. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
57.17 |
0.8988 |
-0.9065 |
216 |
1 |
57.17 |
2008-11-24 |
| 50. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
57.13 |
1.0265 |
-1.0290 |
375 |
2 |
54.75 |
2008-11-27 |
| 51. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
56.71 |
0.9736 |
-0.9754 |
378 |
2 |
56.21 |
2008-12-25 |
| 52. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
56.52 |
0.9931 |
-1.0021 |
218 |
1 |
56.52 |
2008-11-27 |
| 53. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
56.51 |
0.9996 |
-1.0011 |
483 |
1 |
56.51 |
2008-11-29 |
| 54. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
56.50 |
1.0557 |
-1.0600 |
289 |
1 |
56.50 |
2008-11-26 |
| 55. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
56.47 |
1.0462 |
-1.0497 |
340 |
1 |
56.47 |
2008-11-25 |
| 56. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
56.43 |
1.0197 |
-1.0260 |
204 |
2 |
54.39 |
2008-12-25 |
| 57. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
56.24 |
1.0333 |
-1.0413 |
176 |
2 |
53.12 |
2008-11-30 |
| 58. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
56.02 |
0.9703 |
-0.9723 |
394 |
1 |
56.02 |
2008-11-27 |
| 59. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
55.84 |
0.9284 |
-0.9323 |
346 |
2 |
54.18 |
2008-11-27 |
| 60. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
55.69 |
0.9604 |
-0.9664 |
285 |
1 |
55.69 |
2008-11-25 |
| 61. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
55.68 |
0.9885 |
-0.9898 |
469 |
1 |
55.68 |
2008-11-27 |
| 62. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
55.61 |
0.9839 |
-0.9899 |
308 |
1 |
55.61 |
2008-11-26 |
| 63. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
55.52 |
0.9807 |
-0.9937 |
129 |
1 |
55.52 |
2008-11-27 |
| 64. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
55.27 |
1.0287 |
-1.0347 |
269 |
1 |
55.27 |
2008-11-27 |
| 65. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
55.19 |
0.9673 |
-0.9716 |
292 |
1 |
55.19 |
2008-11-27 |
| 66. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
54.91 |
0.9836 |
-0.9885 |
289 |
2 |
52.42 |
2008-12-25 |
| 67. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
54.77 |
1.0543 |
-1.0585 |
360 |
1 |
54.77 |
2008-11-27 |
| 68. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
54.58 |
0.9952 |
-0.9997 |
220 |
1 |
54.58 |
2008-12-29 |
| 69. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
54.52 |
0.8624 |
-0.8706 |
174 |
1 |
54.52 |
2008-11-26 |
| 70. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
54.47 |
0.9339 |
-0.9357 |
317 |
1 |
54.47 |
2008-11-27 |
| 71. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
54.26 |
0.9012 |
-0.9041 |
322 |
1 |
54.26 |
2008-11-30 |
| 72. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
54.16 |
0.9644 |
-0.9683 |
398 |
1 |
54.16 |
2008-11-27 |
| 73. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
53.91 |
0.9928 |
-0.9983 |
293 |
1 |
53.91 |
2008-11-19 |
| 74. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
53.89 |
0.9880 |
-0.9964 |
199 |
2 |
47.48 |
2008-11-26 |
| 75. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
53.75 |
0.9685 |
-0.9757 |
304 |
1 |
53.75 |
2008-11-28 |
| 76. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
53.67 |
0.8936 |
-0.9000 |
346 |
2 |
50.14 |
2008-11-24 |
| 77. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
53.65 |
1.0588 |
-1.0635 |
281 |
1 |
53.65 |
2008-11-25 |
| 78. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
53.61 |
0.9658 |
-0.9690 |
308 |
1 |
53.61 |
2008-11-26 |
| 79. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
53.58 |
1.0341 |
-1.0397 |
273 |
1 |
53.58 |
2008-11-24 |
| 80. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
53.49 |
0.9957 |
-1.0008 |
323 |
1 |
53.49 |
2008-11-19 |
| 81. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
53.24 |
0.9143 |
-0.9193 |
300 |
2 |
53.10 |
2008-11-30 |
| 82. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
53.16 |
0.9931 |
-0.9951 |
339 |
1 |
53.16 |
2008-11-24 |
| 83. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
53.15 |
0.9119 |
-0.9154 |
396 |
1 |
53.15 |
2008-11-28 |
| 84. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
53.11 |
0.9541 |
-0.9596 |
236 |
1 |
53.11 |
2008-11-21 |
| 85. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
53.10 |
0.9271 |
-0.9325 |
295 |
1 |
53.10 |
2008-11-26 |
| 86. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
52.99 |
0.9698 |
-0.9732 |
389 |
1 |
52.99 |
2008-11-28 |
| 87. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
52.64 |
1.0106 |
-1.0169 |
302 |
1 |
52.64 |
2008-11-25 |
| 88. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
52.62 |
1.0777 |
-1.0841 |
226 |
1 |
52.62 |
2008-11-25 |
| 89. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
52.33 |
0.9842 |
-0.9885 |
335 |
1 |
52.33 |
2008-11-27 |
| 90. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
52.10 |
0.9357 |
-0.9423 |
204 |
1 |
52.10 |
2008-11-27 |
| 91. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
51.77 |
0.9162 |
-0.9213 |
401 |
1 |
51.77 |
2008-11-28 |
| 92. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
51.65 |
0.9810 |
-0.9834 |
362 |
2 |
51.29 |
2008-11-24 |
| 93. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
51.36 |
0.8572 |
-0.8661 |
232 |
1 |
51.36 |
2008-11-21 |
| 94. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
50.68 |
1.0264 |
-1.0336 |
191 |
1 |
50.68 |
2008-11-19 |
| 95. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
50.47 |
0.8778 |
-0.8822 |
285 |
1 |
50.47 |
2008-11-28 |
| 96. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
50.32 |
0.9884 |
-0.9926 |
267 |
1 |
50.32 |
2008-11-21 |
| 97. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.31 |
0.9359 |
-0.9404 |
355 |
1 |
50.31 |
2008-11-26 |
| 98. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
50.02 |
0.9434 |
-0.9462 |
367 |
1 |
50.02 |
2008-11-25 |
| 99. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
49.37 |
0.9145 |
-0.9167 |
404 |
1 |
49.37 |
2008-11-20 |
| 100. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
49.36 |
1.0086 |
-1.0164 |
218 |
1 |
49.36 |
2008-11-24 |
| 101. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
49.30 |
0.9271 |
-0.9317 |
323 |
1 |
49.30 |
2008-11-24 |
| 102. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
48.66 |
0.9136 |
-0.9174 |
348 |
1 |
48.66 |
2008-11-25 |
| 103. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
48.64 |
0.8986 |
-0.9043 |
205 |
1 |
48.64 |
2008-11-27 |
| 104. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
48.61 |
0.9243 |
-0.9278 |
240 |
2 |
45.29 |
2008-11-29 |
| 105. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
48.56 |
0.9183 |
-0.9238 |
308 |
1 |
48.56 |
2008-11-27 |
| 106. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
48.13 |
0.9108 |
-0.9165 |
235 |
1 |
48.13 |
2008-11-28 |
| 107. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
47.78 |
0.9726 |
-0.9754 |
396 |
1 |
47.78 |
2008-11-28 |
| 108. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
47.17 |
0.9827 |
-0.9880 |
314 |
1 |
47.17 |
2008-11-19 |
| 109. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
46.29 |
0.8437 |
-0.8491 |
268 |
1 |
46.29 |
2008-11-27 |
| 110. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
46.17 |
0.8656 |
-0.8707 |
242 |
1 |
46.17 |
2008-11-28 |
| 111. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
45.56 |
0.8986 |
-0.9036 |
216 |
1 |
45.56 |
2008-11-27 |
| 112. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
45.42 |
0.9597 |
-0.9650 |
251 |
1 |
45.42 |
2008-11-20 |
| 113. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
41.91 |
0.9392 |
-0.9404 |
360 |
1 |
41.91 |
2008-11-21 |
| 114. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
39.54 |
0.9762 |
-0.9809 |
249 |
1 |
39.54 |
2008-11-20 |
| 115. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
37.69 |
0.8964 |
-0.9031 |
199 |
1 |
37.69 |
2008-11-19 |