| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
123.43 |
1.0029 |
0.2000 |
209 |
1 |
123.43 |
2009-11-03 |
| 2. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
120.81 |
1.0528 |
0.1256 |
201 |
2 |
103.30 |
2009-11-02 |
| 3. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
120.38 |
1.0797 |
0.0938 |
210 |
1 |
120.38 |
2009-11-02 |
| 4. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
119.49 |
1.1018 |
0.0621 |
220 |
4 |
114.10 |
2009-12-02 |
| 5. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
119.00 |
1.0396 |
0.1186 |
149 |
1 |
119.00 |
2009-12-02 |
| 6. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
118.90 |
1.0567 |
0.1083 |
303 |
1 |
118.90 |
2009-11-03 |
| 7. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
118.73 |
1.0829 |
0.0814 |
288 |
1 |
118.73 |
2009-11-01 |
| 8. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
118.12 |
1.0099 |
0.1439 |
207 |
1 |
118.12 |
2009-11-06 |
| 9. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
117.85 |
1.1068 |
0.0875 |
393 |
2 |
114.71 |
2009-11-16 |
| 10. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
116.76 |
1.0714 |
0.0629 |
129 |
3 |
105.20 |
2009-11-16 |
| 11. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
113.39 |
1.0412 |
0.0681 |
225 |
1 |
113.39 |
2009-11-02 |
| 12. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
112.86 |
1.0183 |
0.0807 |
191 |
1 |
112.86 |
2009-11-16 |
| 13. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
112.66 |
1.0523 |
0.0461 |
256 |
2 |
107.77 |
2009-11-16 |
| 14. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
112.41 |
1.0669 |
0.0656 |
286 |
2 |
105.02 |
2009-11-03 |
| 15. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
111.86 |
1.0799 |
0.0111 |
243 |
2 |
110.05 |
2009-11-16 |
| 16. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
111.26 |
0.9763 |
0.1120 |
289 |
2 |
103.69 |
2009-12-02 |
| 17. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
111.24 |
0.9843 |
0.0993 |
234 |
3 |
104.38 |
2009-11-16 |
| 18. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
110.95 |
0.9731 |
0.1001 |
129 |
1 |
110.95 |
2009-11-16 |
| 19. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
110.83 |
0.9991 |
0.0859 |
225 |
2 |
103.31 |
2009-11-16 |
| 20. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
110.44 |
1.0565 |
0.0216 |
247 |
2 |
104.14 |
2009-11-01 |
| 21. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
109.88 |
1.0168 |
0.0597 |
271 |
1 |
109.88 |
2009-11-02 |
| 22. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
109.66 |
0.9740 |
0.0948 |
209 |
1 |
109.66 |
2009-11-09 |
| 23. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
109.09 |
1.0201 |
0.0512 |
375 |
1 |
109.09 |
2009-11-01 |
| 24. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
108.81 |
0.9965 |
0.0632 |
168 |
1 |
108.81 |
2009-11-06 |
| 25. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
108.79 |
0.9899 |
0.0697 |
163 |
1 |
108.79 |
2009-11-02 |
| 26. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
108.15 |
0.9233 |
0.1264 |
168 |
3 |
100.26 |
2009-11-06 |
| 27. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
107.42 |
0.9851 |
0.0679 |
317 |
1 |
107.42 |
2009-11-06 |
| 28. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
107.29 |
1.0696 |
-0.0236 |
226 |
1 |
107.29 |
2009-11-01 |
| 29. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
107.27 |
1.0462 |
-0.0030 |
184 |
1 |
107.27 |
2009-11-01 |
| 30. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
107.24 |
1.0352 |
0.0169 |
341 |
1 |
107.24 |
2009-11-05 |
| 31. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
107.13 |
1.0441 |
0.0053 |
252 |
1 |
107.13 |
2009-11-02 |
| 32. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
106.97 |
0.9884 |
0.0571 |
233 |
2 |
101.37 |
2009-11-16 |
| 33. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
106.80 |
1.0487 |
-0.0091 |
231 |
2 |
104.09 |
2009-11-16 |
| 34. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
106.57 |
1.0201 |
0.0226 |
303 |
2 |
104.69 |
2009-11-16 |
| 35. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
106.53 |
0.9907 |
0.0497 |
211 |
1 |
106.53 |
2009-12-02 |
| 36. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
106.53 |
1.0375 |
0.0505 |
200 |
1 |
106.53 |
2009-11-03 |
| 37. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
105.79 |
0.9943 |
0.0435 |
373 |
2 |
104.45 |
2009-11-16 |
| 38. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
105.66 |
1.0124 |
0.0185 |
204 |
1 |
105.66 |
2009-11-06 |
| 39. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
105.17 |
0.9514 |
0.0774 |
237 |
1 |
105.17 |
2009-11-06 |
| 40. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
105.00 |
0.9894 |
0.0418 |
323 |
2 |
101.14 |
2009-11-09 |
| 41. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
104.71 |
1.0596 |
-0.0378 |
239 |
1 |
104.71 |
2009-11-03 |
| 42. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
104.53 |
1.1014 |
-0.0415 |
273 |
1 |
104.53 |
2009-11-16 |
| 43. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
103.92 |
1.0012 |
0.0182 |
260 |
1 |
103.92 |
2009-12-02 |
| 44. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
103.69 |
1.0034 |
0.0089 |
302 |
1 |
103.69 |
2009-11-09 |
| 45. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
103.66 |
1.0154 |
0.0479 |
351 |
1 |
103.66 |
2009-11-02 |
| 46. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
103.27 |
0.9691 |
0.0401 |
223 |
1 |
103.27 |
2009-11-02 |
| 47. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
102.61 |
1.0138 |
-0.0111 |
231 |
1 |
102.61 |
2009-11-02 |
| 48. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
102.39 |
1.0496 |
-0.0493 |
314 |
1 |
102.39 |
2009-11-01 |
| 49. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
101.84 |
1.0486 |
-0.0523 |
289 |
1 |
101.84 |
2009-11-16 |
| 50. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
101.67 |
1.0251 |
-0.0335 |
261 |
1 |
101.67 |
2009-11-16 |
| 51. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
101.65 |
0.9997 |
-0.0025 |
382 |
1 |
101.65 |
2009-11-01 |
| 52. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
101.50 |
0.9865 |
0.0067 |
276 |
1 |
101.50 |
2009-11-02 |
| 53. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
101.47 |
1.0349 |
-0.0438 |
234 |
3 |
97.17 |
2009-11-02 |
| 54. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
101.43 |
0.9646 |
0.0260 |
264 |
1 |
101.43 |
2009-11-06 |
| 55. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
101.38 |
1.0316 |
-0.0368 |
333 |
1 |
101.38 |
2009-11-01 |
| 56. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
100.87 |
0.9833 |
0.0042 |
355 |
1 |
100.87 |
2009-11-16 |
| 57. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
100.77 |
1.0389 |
-0.0523 |
318 |
2 |
98.49 |
2009-11-06 |
| 58. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
100.70 |
1.0399 |
-0.0505 |
294 |
1 |
100.70 |
2009-11-16 |
| 59. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
100.59 |
1.0254 |
-0.0015 |
217 |
1 |
100.59 |
2009-11-02 |
| 60. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
100.50 |
0.9754 |
0.0129 |
362 |
1 |
100.50 |
2009-11-16 |
| 61. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
100.33 |
1.0314 |
-0.0116 |
452 |
1 |
100.33 |
2009-11-06 |
| 62. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
100.04 |
0.9785 |
0.0024 |
335 |
1 |
100.04 |
2009-11-02 |
| 63. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
100.04 |
0.9857 |
-0.0090 |
293 |
1 |
100.04 |
2009-11-02 |
| 64. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
100.03 |
0.9500 |
0.0298 |
362 |
1 |
100.03 |
2009-11-02 |
| 65. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
100.01 |
0.8996 |
0.0723 |
192 |
2 |
98.15 |
2009-11-06 |
| 66. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
99.87 |
0.9786 |
-0.0078 |
193 |
1 |
99.87 |
2009-11-02 |
| 67. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
99.39 |
1.0787 |
-0.1087 |
237 |
1 |
99.39 |
2009-11-03 |
| 68. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
99.28 |
1.0060 |
-0.0405 |
171 |
1 |
99.28 |
2009-11-01 |
| 69. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
98.96 |
1.0352 |
-0.0656 |
341 |
1 |
98.96 |
2009-11-02 |
| 70. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
98.82 |
1.0340 |
-0.0632 |
406 |
1 |
98.82 |
2009-11-01 |
| 71. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
98.81 |
1.0013 |
-0.0367 |
273 |
1 |
98.81 |
2009-11-16 |
| 72. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
98.66 |
0.9275 |
0.0332 |
211 |
4 |
96.93 |
2009-11-16 |
| 73. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
98.60 |
0.9866 |
-0.0269 |
218 |
1 |
98.60 |
2009-11-02 |
| 74. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
98.47 |
0.9097 |
0.0940 |
464 |
1 |
98.47 |
2009-11-06 |
| 75. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
98.25 |
1.0141 |
-0.0178 |
304 |
1 |
98.25 |
2009-11-02 |
| 76. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
98.24 |
0.9798 |
-0.0256 |
199 |
1 |
98.24 |
2009-11-02 |
| 77. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
98.21 |
1.0788 |
-0.1248 |
171 |
1 |
98.21 |
2009-11-09 |
| 78. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
98.10 |
0.9786 |
-0.0206 |
235 |
1 |
98.10 |
2009-11-01 |
| 79. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
97.72 |
1.0941 |
-0.1082 |
256 |
1 |
97.72 |
2009-11-01 |
| 80. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
97.38 |
0.9863 |
-0.0306 |
339 |
1 |
97.38 |
2009-11-16 |
| 81. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
97.29 |
1.0368 |
-0.0854 |
276 |
1 |
97.29 |
2009-11-02 |
| 82. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
97.11 |
0.9879 |
-0.0305 |
450 |
1 |
97.11 |
2009-11-16 |
| 83. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
96.82 |
0.9964 |
-0.0505 |
203 |
2 |
92.60 |
2009-11-06 |
| 84. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
96.51 |
0.9723 |
-0.0259 |
364 |
1 |
96.51 |
2009-11-01 |
| 85. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
95.83 |
1.0320 |
-0.0587 |
293 |
1 |
95.83 |
2009-11-16 |
| 86. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
95.65 |
0.9583 |
0.0196 |
341 |
2 |
94.76 |
2009-11-06 |
| 87. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
95.19 |
1.0445 |
-0.1139 |
373 |
1 |
95.19 |
2009-11-01 |
| 88. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
94.68 |
1.0177 |
-0.0549 |
392 |
1 |
94.68 |
2009-11-02 |
| 89. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
94.39 |
0.9597 |
-0.0339 |
347 |
1 |
94.39 |
2009-11-02 |
| 90. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
94.23 |
0.9811 |
-0.0582 |
272 |
2 |
90.72 |
2009-11-16 |
| 91. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
93.39 |
1.0515 |
-0.1416 |
250 |
1 |
93.39 |
2009-11-01 |
| 92. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
93.37 |
0.9697 |
-0.0579 |
249 |
1 |
93.37 |
2009-11-03 |
| 93. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
93.33 |
0.9756 |
-0.0657 |
229 |
1 |
93.33 |
2009-11-01 |
| 94. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
93.20 |
1.0361 |
-0.1251 |
269 |
1 |
93.20 |
2009-11-03 |
| 95. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
93.14 |
1.0668 |
-0.1549 |
350 |
1 |
93.14 |
2009-11-01 |
| 96. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
92.72 |
0.8770 |
0.0314 |
300 |
1 |
92.72 |
2009-11-16 |
| 97. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
92.48 |
0.9578 |
-0.0555 |
281 |
2 |
89.97 |
2009-11-06 |
| 98. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
91.81 |
0.9922 |
-0.0549 |
341 |
1 |
91.81 |
2009-11-16 |
| 99. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
91.74 |
0.9675 |
-0.0625 |
383 |
1 |
91.74 |
2009-11-01 |
| 100. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
91.39 |
0.9769 |
-0.0870 |
263 |
1 |
91.39 |
2009-11-02 |
| 101. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
91.22 |
0.9636 |
-0.0733 |
254 |
1 |
91.22 |
2009-11-16 |
| 102. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
91.08 |
0.9758 |
-0.0861 |
314 |
1 |
91.08 |
2009-11-01 |
| 103. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
90.93 |
0.8961 |
-0.0120 |
189 |
1 |
90.93 |
2009-11-16 |
| 104. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
90.80 |
0.9570 |
-0.0691 |
287 |
1 |
90.80 |
2009-11-02 |
| 105. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
90.74 |
0.9426 |
-0.0539 |
317 |
1 |
90.74 |
2009-11-01 |
| 106. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
90.28 |
1.0073 |
-0.1183 |
369 |
1 |
90.28 |
2009-11-01 |
| 107. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
90.14 |
0.9212 |
-0.0382 |
323 |
1 |
90.14 |
2009-11-02 |
| 108. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
89.26 |
0.9382 |
-0.0422 |
440 |
1 |
89.26 |
2009-11-01 |
| 109. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
89.12 |
0.8981 |
-0.0239 |
393 |
1 |
89.12 |
2009-11-16 |
| 110. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
88.20 |
0.9772 |
-0.1203 |
217 |
1 |
88.20 |
2009-11-01 |
| 111. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
87.66 |
1.0252 |
-0.1766 |
176 |
1 |
87.66 |
2009-11-06 |
| 112. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
87.39 |
0.9286 |
-0.0772 |
194 |
1 |
87.39 |
2009-11-16 |
| 113. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
86.94 |
0.9289 |
-0.0832 |
204 |
1 |
86.94 |
2009-11-01 |
| 114. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
86.74 |
0.8845 |
-0.0381 |
273 |
1 |
86.74 |
2009-11-01 |
| 115. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
85.73 |
1.0429 |
-0.2083 |
259 |
1 |
85.73 |
2009-11-02 |
| 116. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
85.38 |
0.8105 |
0.0177 |
204 |
2 |
80.91 |
2009-11-09 |
| 117. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
84.45 |
0.9632 |
-0.1335 |
392 |
1 |
84.45 |
2009-11-02 |
| 118. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
84.42 |
0.8595 |
-0.0347 |
242 |
1 |
84.42 |
2009-11-01 |
| 119. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
82.64 |
0.9430 |
-0.1449 |
211 |
1 |
82.64 |
2009-11-01 |
| 120. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
81.99 |
0.8878 |
-0.0890 |
346 |
1 |
81.99 |
2009-11-01 |