| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
91.56 |
1.1018 |
0.1950 |
220 |
4 |
85.02 |
2008-12-26 |
| 2. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
89.21 |
1.0462 |
0.2171 |
184 |
1 |
89.21 |
2008-12-20 |
| 3. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
89.19 |
1.0567 |
0.2131 |
303 |
1 |
89.19 |
2008-12-19 |
| 4. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
88.80 |
1.0666 |
0.1970 |
297 |
1 |
88.80 |
2008-12-28 |
| 5. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
88.32 |
0.9768 |
0.2824 |
387 |
2 |
78.21 |
2008-12-26 |
| 6. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
87.42 |
1.0029 |
0.2344 |
209 |
1 |
87.42 |
2008-12-19 |
| 7. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
85.85 |
1.0396 |
0.1743 |
149 |
1 |
85.85 |
2008-12-31 |
| 8. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
84.95 |
1.0389 |
0.1710 |
318 |
1 |
84.95 |
2008-12-18 |
| 9. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
84.29 |
1.0417 |
0.1545 |
253 |
2 |
78.53 |
2008-12-26 |
| 10. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
84.27 |
1.0063 |
0.1925 |
371 |
1 |
84.27 |
2008-12-27 |
| 11. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
83.91 |
1.0426 |
0.1500 |
323 |
1 |
83.91 |
2008-12-22 |
| 12. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
83.68 |
1.0399 |
0.1553 |
294 |
3 |
72.56 |
2008-12-28 |
| 13. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
81.55 |
0.9884 |
0.1701 |
233 |
1 |
81.55 |
2008-12-31 |
| 14. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
81.19 |
1.0445 |
0.1106 |
373 |
1 |
81.19 |
2008-12-28 |
| 15. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
80.77 |
1.0368 |
0.1122 |
276 |
1 |
80.77 |
2008-12-26 |
| 16. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
80.77 |
0.9936 |
0.1542 |
311 |
1 |
80.77 |
2008-12-31 |
| 17. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
78.70 |
1.0296 |
0.0952 |
437 |
1 |
78.70 |
2008-12-20 |
| 18. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
78.57 |
1.0619 |
0.0582 |
354 |
1 |
78.57 |
2008-12-18 |
| 19. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
78.50 |
1.0577 |
0.0543 |
247 |
2 |
71.20 |
2008-12-20 |
| 20. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
78.05 |
1.0016 |
0.1028 |
218 |
1 |
78.05 |
2008-12-20 |
| 21. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
78.05 |
0.9532 |
0.1545 |
258 |
1 |
78.05 |
2008-12-26 |
| 22. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
77.97 |
1.0034 |
0.1030 |
302 |
1 |
77.97 |
2008-12-26 |
| 23. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
77.03 |
0.9148 |
0.1810 |
317 |
3 |
68.67 |
2008-12-21 |
| 24. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
77.03 |
0.9278 |
0.1693 |
295 |
1 |
77.03 |
2008-12-20 |
| 25. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
76.11 |
0.8933 |
0.1942 |
363 |
1 |
76.11 |
2008-12-26 |
| 26. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
75.26 |
1.0060 |
0.0582 |
171 |
2 |
73.84 |
2008-12-27 |
| 27. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
74.88 |
0.9351 |
0.1229 |
190 |
1 |
74.88 |
2008-12-28 |
| 28. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
74.50 |
0.9820 |
0.0788 |
267 |
2 |
71.75 |
2008-12-18 |
| 29. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
74.36 |
0.9275 |
0.1252 |
211 |
1 |
74.36 |
2008-12-22 |
| 30. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
74.09 |
0.9785 |
0.0768 |
335 |
1 |
74.09 |
2008-12-20 |
| 31. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
73.62 |
0.9672 |
0.0846 |
396 |
1 |
73.62 |
2008-12-21 |
| 32. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
73.60 |
0.9619 |
0.0884 |
393 |
1 |
73.60 |
2008-12-27 |
| 33. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
73.37 |
0.9795 |
0.0623 |
308 |
1 |
73.37 |
2008-12-26 |
| 34. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
73.27 |
1.0487 |
-0.0134 |
231 |
1 |
73.27 |
2008-12-26 |
| 35. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
73.26 |
1.0885 |
-0.0450 |
315 |
1 |
73.26 |
2008-12-17 |
| 36. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
73.26 |
0.9088 |
0.1366 |
348 |
2 |
68.01 |
2008-12-27 |
| 37. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
73.14 |
1.0515 |
-0.0150 |
250 |
1 |
73.14 |
2008-12-18 |
| 38. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
72.93 |
1.0444 |
-0.0156 |
197 |
1 |
72.93 |
2008-12-20 |
| 39. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
72.88 |
1.0068 |
0.0312 |
358 |
1 |
72.88 |
2008-12-20 |
| 40. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
72.80 |
0.9622 |
0.0778 |
392 |
1 |
72.80 |
2008-12-18 |
| 41. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
72.55 |
1.0441 |
-0.0126 |
252 |
2 |
63.28 |
2008-12-21 |
| 42. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
72.08 |
0.8722 |
0.1539 |
285 |
1 |
72.08 |
2008-12-20 |
| 43. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
72.04 |
0.9468 |
0.0753 |
276 |
1 |
72.04 |
2008-12-17 |
| 44. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
71.98 |
1.0391 |
-0.0112 |
358 |
1 |
71.98 |
2008-12-18 |
| 45. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
71.87 |
1.0555 |
-0.0339 |
363 |
1 |
71.87 |
2008-12-17 |
| 46. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
71.77 |
1.0454 |
-0.0303 |
255 |
1 |
71.77 |
2008-12-18 |
| 47. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
71.33 |
0.9942 |
0.0270 |
483 |
2 |
70.56 |
2008-12-27 |
| 48. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
71.32 |
0.9740 |
0.0342 |
209 |
1 |
71.32 |
2008-12-21 |
| 49. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
71.22 |
0.9570 |
0.0555 |
287 |
2 |
68.07 |
2008-12-21 |
| 50. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
70.94 |
1.0109 |
-0.0033 |
276 |
1 |
70.94 |
2008-12-20 |
| 51. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
70.90 |
1.0799 |
-0.0774 |
243 |
1 |
70.90 |
2008-12-17 |
| 52. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
70.16 |
1.0788 |
-0.0888 |
171 |
1 |
70.16 |
2008-12-18 |
| 53. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
70.14 |
0.8956 |
0.1043 |
322 |
1 |
70.14 |
2008-12-20 |
| 54. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
69.89 |
1.0389 |
-0.0448 |
340 |
1 |
69.89 |
2008-12-18 |
| 55. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
69.88 |
0.9734 |
0.0179 |
289 |
1 |
69.88 |
2008-12-18 |
| 56. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
69.57 |
0.9697 |
0.0176 |
249 |
1 |
69.57 |
2008-12-21 |
| 57. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
69.47 |
0.9049 |
0.0862 |
351 |
2 |
66.18 |
2008-12-27 |
| 58. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
69.43 |
1.0352 |
-0.0470 |
341 |
1 |
69.43 |
2008-12-17 |
| 59. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
69.06 |
0.9965 |
-0.0215 |
168 |
1 |
69.06 |
2008-12-26 |
| 60. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
68.99 |
1.0289 |
-0.0457 |
276 |
1 |
68.99 |
2008-12-17 |
| 61. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
68.76 |
1.0331 |
-0.0598 |
234 |
1 |
68.76 |
2008-12-20 |
| 62. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
68.44 |
0.9202 |
0.0500 |
254 |
1 |
68.44 |
2008-12-26 |
| 63. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
68.42 |
1.0025 |
-0.0310 |
336 |
2 |
67.38 |
2009-01-18 |
| 64. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
68.36 |
0.9731 |
-0.0159 |
129 |
1 |
68.36 |
2008-12-20 |
| 65. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
68.31 |
0.9763 |
-0.0078 |
289 |
1 |
68.31 |
2008-12-20 |
| 66. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
68.11 |
0.9636 |
0.0024 |
254 |
1 |
68.11 |
2008-12-18 |
| 67. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
67.65 |
0.9513 |
0.0120 |
354 |
2 |
64.47 |
2008-12-20 |
| 68. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
67.53 |
0.9593 |
0.0032 |
398 |
2 |
66.17 |
2008-12-27 |
| 69. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
67.45 |
0.8919 |
0.0631 |
205 |
1 |
67.45 |
2008-12-20 |
| 70. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
67.21 |
0.9805 |
-0.0227 |
292 |
1 |
67.21 |
2008-12-31 |
| 71. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
67.02 |
0.9986 |
-0.0475 |
283 |
1 |
67.02 |
2008-12-18 |
| 72. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
66.97 |
0.9964 |
-0.0465 |
203 |
2 |
65.48 |
2008-12-17 |
| 73. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
66.73 |
0.9514 |
-0.0048 |
237 |
2 |
65.72 |
2008-12-21 |
| 74. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
66.65 |
0.9756 |
-0.0317 |
229 |
1 |
66.65 |
2008-12-28 |
| 75. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
66.40 |
0.9649 |
-0.0244 |
193 |
1 |
66.40 |
2008-12-17 |
| 76. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
66.36 |
0.9212 |
0.0231 |
323 |
1 |
66.36 |
2008-12-18 |
| 77. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
66.34 |
0.9005 |
0.0387 |
212 |
1 |
66.34 |
2008-12-18 |
| 78. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
66.29 |
0.9843 |
-0.0493 |
234 |
1 |
66.29 |
2008-12-27 |
| 79. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
66.04 |
0.9339 |
0.0010 |
310 |
1 |
66.04 |
2008-12-18 |
| 80. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
65.77 |
1.0120 |
-0.0803 |
290 |
1 |
65.77 |
2008-12-18 |
| 81. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
65.02 |
0.9527 |
-0.0311 |
251 |
1 |
65.02 |
2008-12-18 |
| 82. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
64.92 |
0.9675 |
-0.0377 |
383 |
1 |
64.92 |
2008-12-21 |
| 83. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
64.07 |
0.9597 |
-0.0475 |
347 |
1 |
64.07 |
2008-12-20 |
| 84. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
64.05 |
0.9074 |
0.0069 |
396 |
1 |
64.05 |
2008-12-19 |
| 85. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
64.05 |
1.1114 |
-0.2063 |
247 |
1 |
64.05 |
2008-12-17 |
| 86. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
63.53 |
0.8961 |
0.0008 |
189 |
1 |
63.53 |
2008-12-27 |
| 87. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
63.52 |
0.9342 |
-0.0305 |
434 |
1 |
63.52 |
2008-12-18 |
| 88. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
63.35 |
1.0483 |
-0.1536 |
227 |
1 |
63.35 |
2008-12-17 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
63.25 |
0.9289 |
-0.0349 |
204 |
1 |
63.25 |
2008-12-19 |
| 90. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
63.15 |
1.0013 |
-0.1074 |
273 |
1 |
63.15 |
2008-12-26 |
| 91. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
63.05 |
0.9991 |
-0.1052 |
225 |
1 |
63.05 |
2008-12-20 |
| 92. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
63.04 |
0.9500 |
-0.0545 |
362 |
1 |
63.04 |
2008-12-20 |
| 93. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
62.98 |
0.9897 |
-0.0996 |
274 |
1 |
62.98 |
2008-12-26 |
| 94. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.65 |
1.1016 |
-0.2138 |
233 |
1 |
62.65 |
2008-12-22 |
| 95. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
62.09 |
0.9682 |
-0.0905 |
143 |
1 |
62.09 |
2008-12-28 |
| 96. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
61.92 |
0.9376 |
-0.0550 |
367 |
2 |
58.03 |
2008-12-31 |
| 97. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
61.78 |
0.9769 |
-0.1038 |
263 |
1 |
61.78 |
2008-12-26 |
| 98. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
61.58 |
0.9946 |
-0.1225 |
246 |
1 |
61.58 |
2008-12-18 |
| 99. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
61.39 |
0.9687 |
-0.0945 |
371 |
1 |
61.39 |
2008-12-26 |
| 100. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
61.38 |
0.9965 |
-0.1268 |
310 |
1 |
61.38 |
2008-12-17 |
| 101. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
61.37 |
0.9567 |
-0.0876 |
273 |
1 |
61.37 |
2008-12-26 |
| 102. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
61.04 |
1.0257 |
-0.1548 |
401 |
1 |
61.04 |
2008-12-17 |
| 103. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
60.69 |
1.0390 |
-0.1833 |
205 |
1 |
60.69 |
2008-12-17 |
| 104. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
58.30 |
0.9286 |
-0.1045 |
194 |
1 |
58.30 |
2008-12-22 |
| 105. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
58.21 |
0.8602 |
-0.0386 |
206 |
1 |
58.21 |
2008-12-18 |
| 106. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
58.14 |
1.0613 |
-0.2376 |
266 |
1 |
58.14 |
2008-12-19 |
| 107. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
58.05 |
0.9681 |
-0.1383 |
378 |
1 |
58.05 |
2008-12-18 |
| 108. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
57.99 |
0.9087 |
-0.0773 |
393 |
1 |
57.99 |
2009-01-18 |
| 109. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
57.38 |
0.9578 |
-0.1464 |
281 |
1 |
57.38 |
2008-12-31 |
| 110. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
57.35 |
1.0398 |
-0.2388 |
110 |
1 |
57.35 |
2008-12-20 |
| 111. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
56.85 |
0.9557 |
-0.1451 |
331 |
1 |
56.85 |
2008-12-20 |
| 112. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
56.50 |
0.9233 |
-0.1323 |
168 |
2 |
55.15 |
2009-01-18 |
| 113. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
55.78 |
0.8826 |
-0.0923 |
296 |
1 |
55.78 |
2008-12-17 |
| 114. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
54.33 |
0.9372 |
-0.1651 |
320 |
1 |
54.33 |
2008-12-18 |
| 115. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
53.73 |
0.8595 |
-0.0983 |
242 |
1 |
53.73 |
2008-12-17 |
| 116. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
52.41 |
1.0131 |
-0.2765 |
225 |
1 |
52.41 |
2009-01-18 |
| 117. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
50.50 |
0.9266 |
-0.2135 |
267 |
1 |
50.50 |
2008-12-20 |
| 118. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
49.28 |
1.0334 |
-0.3444 |
131 |
1 |
49.28 |
2008-12-17 |