| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
121.02 |
1.0053 |
0.2483 |
232 |
2 |
119.20 |
2008-12-13 |
| 2. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
118.61 |
1.0829 |
0.1490 |
288 |
1 |
118.61 |
2008-12-13 |
| 3. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
118.39 |
0.9986 |
0.2301 |
283 |
1 |
118.39 |
2008-12-09 |
| 4. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
118.38 |
1.0528 |
0.1702 |
201 |
1 |
118.38 |
2008-12-15 |
| 5. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
115.02 |
0.9514 |
0.2416 |
237 |
1 |
115.02 |
2008-12-16 |
| 6. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
114.82 |
0.9786 |
0.2068 |
193 |
1 |
114.82 |
2008-12-08 |
| 7. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
114.51 |
0.9164 |
0.2758 |
305 |
2 |
101.51 |
2008-12-19 |
| 8. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
112.33 |
1.0252 |
0.1328 |
176 |
2 |
107.32 |
2008-12-19 |
| 9. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
111.73 |
1.0261 |
0.1302 |
273 |
1 |
111.73 |
2008-12-16 |
| 10. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
111.65 |
1.0454 |
0.1083 |
255 |
1 |
111.65 |
2008-12-13 |
| 11. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
111.55 |
0.9756 |
0.1795 |
229 |
1 |
111.55 |
2008-12-19 |
| 12. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
111.41 |
1.0515 |
0.1015 |
250 |
4 |
94.34 |
2008-12-13 |
| 13. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
111.15 |
0.9811 |
0.1738 |
272 |
3 |
91.67 |
2008-12-19 |
| 14. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
109.00 |
1.0201 |
0.1027 |
172 |
4 |
94.96 |
2008-12-08 |
| 15. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
106.59 |
1.0788 |
0.0200 |
171 |
2 |
100.45 |
2008-12-09 |
| 16. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
106.42 |
0.9411 |
0.1623 |
318 |
1 |
106.42 |
2008-12-08 |
| 17. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
106.15 |
1.0523 |
0.0432 |
256 |
1 |
106.15 |
2008-12-16 |
| 18. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
106.14 |
0.9769 |
0.1207 |
263 |
1 |
106.14 |
2008-12-19 |
| 19. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
105.43 |
1.0060 |
0.0815 |
171 |
2 |
99.02 |
2008-12-09 |
| 20. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
104.54 |
1.0787 |
0.0029 |
237 |
2 |
99.11 |
2008-12-16 |
| 21. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
104.28 |
0.9614 |
0.1218 |
292 |
2 |
98.86 |
2008-12-13 |
| 22. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
103.76 |
1.0257 |
0.0554 |
401 |
1 |
103.76 |
2008-12-06 |
| 23. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
103.70 |
1.0417 |
0.0299 |
253 |
1 |
103.70 |
2008-12-09 |
| 24. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
103.66 |
1.1016 |
-0.0278 |
233 |
1 |
103.66 |
2008-12-09 |
| 25. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
103.64 |
1.0352 |
0.0409 |
341 |
1 |
103.64 |
2008-12-06 |
| 26. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
103.52 |
0.9857 |
0.0855 |
293 |
1 |
103.52 |
2008-12-08 |
| 27. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
103.37 |
0.9734 |
0.0969 |
289 |
2 |
96.57 |
2008-12-16 |
| 28. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
103.30 |
1.0399 |
0.0352 |
294 |
1 |
103.30 |
2008-12-15 |
| 29. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
103.19 |
0.9676 |
0.1094 |
442 |
2 |
94.44 |
2008-12-12 |
| 30. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
103.06 |
0.9772 |
0.0867 |
217 |
3 |
80.18 |
2008-12-13 |
| 31. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
102.85 |
1.0023 |
0.0610 |
211 |
2 |
91.39 |
2008-12-08 |
| 32. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
102.03 |
1.0426 |
0.0133 |
323 |
1 |
102.03 |
2008-12-06 |
| 33. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
101.98 |
1.0296 |
0.0329 |
437 |
1 |
101.98 |
2008-12-16 |
| 34. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
101.57 |
1.0073 |
0.0525 |
369 |
1 |
101.57 |
2008-12-15 |
| 35. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
101.45 |
0.9831 |
0.0754 |
469 |
1 |
101.45 |
2008-12-16 |
| 36. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
101.30 |
1.0183 |
0.0250 |
191 |
1 |
101.30 |
2008-12-13 |
| 37. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
100.78 |
0.9863 |
0.0616 |
339 |
1 |
100.78 |
2008-12-06 |
| 38. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
100.63 |
1.0099 |
0.0291 |
207 |
1 |
100.63 |
2008-12-16 |
| 39. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
100.40 |
0.9636 |
0.0758 |
254 |
1 |
100.40 |
2008-12-09 |
| 40. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
100.35 |
0.9997 |
0.0429 |
382 |
2 |
100.32 |
2008-12-15 |
| 41. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
100.30 |
1.0025 |
0.0358 |
256 |
1 |
100.30 |
2008-12-06 |
| 42. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
100.30 |
0.9398 |
0.1079 |
419 |
2 |
93.44 |
2008-12-09 |
| 43. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
100.28 |
0.9758 |
0.0631 |
314 |
1 |
100.28 |
2008-12-16 |
| 44. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
100.28 |
1.0391 |
0.0052 |
358 |
2 |
96.07 |
2008-12-13 |
| 45. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
100.07 |
1.0013 |
0.0338 |
273 |
1 |
100.07 |
2008-12-06 |
| 46. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
99.90 |
0.9691 |
0.0646 |
223 |
1 |
99.90 |
2008-12-15 |
| 47. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
99.54 |
1.0666 |
-0.0360 |
297 |
2 |
89.31 |
2008-12-09 |
| 48. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
99.14 |
1.0444 |
-0.0247 |
197 |
2 |
92.23 |
2008-12-13 |
| 49. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
98.40 |
0.9578 |
0.0602 |
281 |
3 |
96.84 |
2008-12-19 |
| 50. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
98.02 |
0.9768 |
0.0403 |
387 |
1 |
98.02 |
2008-12-13 |
| 51. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
98.02 |
0.9649 |
0.0485 |
193 |
1 |
98.02 |
2008-12-06 |
| 52. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
97.83 |
1.0441 |
-0.0300 |
252 |
2 |
97.08 |
2008-12-16 |
| 53. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
97.22 |
1.0696 |
-0.0669 |
226 |
1 |
97.22 |
2008-12-06 |
| 54. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
96.70 |
1.0993 |
-0.1007 |
265 |
2 |
95.47 |
2008-12-09 |
| 55. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
96.52 |
1.0165 |
-0.0138 |
392 |
1 |
96.52 |
2008-12-13 |
| 56. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
96.03 |
0.9841 |
0.0134 |
334 |
2 |
92.45 |
2008-12-08 |
| 57. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
95.92 |
0.9780 |
0.0155 |
337 |
1 |
95.92 |
2008-12-06 |
| 58. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
94.54 |
1.0263 |
-0.0490 |
267 |
1 |
94.54 |
2008-12-06 |
| 59. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
94.47 |
0.9785 |
0.0020 |
335 |
1 |
94.47 |
2008-12-15 |
| 60. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
94.26 |
0.9795 |
-0.0044 |
308 |
3 |
90.35 |
2008-12-12 |
| 61. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
94.17 |
1.0595 |
-0.0828 |
379 |
2 |
90.89 |
2008-12-09 |
| 62. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
93.93 |
1.0349 |
-0.0639 |
234 |
2 |
93.40 |
2008-12-15 |
| 63. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
93.75 |
1.0567 |
-0.0863 |
303 |
1 |
93.75 |
2008-12-06 |
| 64. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
93.55 |
1.0120 |
-0.0451 |
290 |
1 |
93.55 |
2008-12-06 |
| 65. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
93.22 |
0.9376 |
0.0320 |
367 |
2 |
86.04 |
2008-12-08 |
| 66. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
93.17 |
0.9372 |
0.0305 |
320 |
1 |
93.17 |
2008-12-13 |
| 67. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
93.14 |
0.9723 |
-0.0052 |
364 |
1 |
93.14 |
2008-12-08 |
| 68. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
92.88 |
0.9852 |
-0.0242 |
264 |
2 |
80.81 |
2008-12-16 |
| 69. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
92.76 |
0.8916 |
0.0681 |
216 |
2 |
90.14 |
2008-12-13 |
| 70. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
91.57 |
0.9894 |
-0.0381 |
323 |
1 |
91.57 |
2008-12-15 |
| 71. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
91.52 |
0.9966 |
-0.0508 |
259 |
1 |
91.52 |
2008-12-09 |
| 72. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
91.06 |
1.0289 |
-0.0829 |
276 |
1 |
91.06 |
2008-12-08 |
| 73. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
91.05 |
0.8947 |
0.0517 |
366 |
2 |
89.92 |
2008-12-09 |
| 74. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
90.38 |
0.9866 |
-0.0558 |
218 |
1 |
90.38 |
2008-12-06 |
| 75. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
90.23 |
0.9632 |
-0.0239 |
392 |
1 |
90.23 |
2008-12-06 |
| 76. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
90.11 |
0.9049 |
0.0321 |
351 |
1 |
90.11 |
2008-12-18 |
| 77. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
90.06 |
0.9965 |
-0.0651 |
310 |
1 |
90.06 |
2008-12-06 |
| 78. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
89.64 |
0.9088 |
0.0231 |
348 |
1 |
89.64 |
2008-12-13 |
| 79. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
89.11 |
0.9646 |
-0.0444 |
264 |
1 |
89.11 |
2008-12-06 |
| 80. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
88.63 |
0.9464 |
-0.0252 |
323 |
2 |
85.21 |
2008-12-13 |
| 81. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
88.28 |
0.9851 |
-0.0705 |
317 |
1 |
88.28 |
2008-12-06 |
| 82. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
87.74 |
0.9687 |
-0.0572 |
371 |
1 |
87.74 |
2008-12-06 |
| 83. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
87.10 |
0.9513 |
-0.0474 |
354 |
1 |
87.10 |
2008-12-06 |
| 84. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
87.09 |
0.8852 |
0.0169 |
201 |
1 |
87.09 |
2008-12-06 |
| 85. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
87.04 |
1.0131 |
-0.1175 |
225 |
3 |
85.17 |
2008-12-16 |
| 86. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
86.40 |
0.9045 |
-0.0115 |
235 |
2 |
77.65 |
2008-12-08 |
| 87. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
86.26 |
0.9233 |
-0.0403 |
168 |
2 |
85.68 |
2008-12-16 |
| 88. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
86.23 |
1.0203 |
-0.1259 |
261 |
2 |
83.94 |
2008-12-08 |
| 89. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
85.98 |
1.0029 |
-0.1210 |
209 |
1 |
85.98 |
2008-12-06 |
| 90. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
85.72 |
0.9567 |
-0.0713 |
273 |
1 |
85.72 |
2008-12-12 |
| 91. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
85.50 |
0.8753 |
0.0172 |
427 |
1 |
85.50 |
2008-12-13 |
| 92. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
85.37 |
0.9991 |
-0.1167 |
225 |
2 |
67.79 |
2008-12-06 |
| 93. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
84.78 |
0.9612 |
-0.0854 |
256 |
1 |
84.78 |
2008-12-06 |
| 94. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
84.64 |
0.9087 |
-0.0237 |
393 |
1 |
84.64 |
2008-12-09 |
| 95. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
84.63 |
0.9682 |
-0.0959 |
143 |
1 |
84.63 |
2008-12-12 |
| 96. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
84.30 |
0.9910 |
-0.1184 |
295 |
2 |
76.80 |
2008-12-15 |
| 97. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
83.71 |
0.8996 |
-0.0406 |
192 |
1 |
83.71 |
2008-12-13 |
| 98. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
83.64 |
1.0138 |
-0.1504 |
231 |
1 |
83.64 |
2008-12-13 |
| 99. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
83.47 |
0.9072 |
-0.0469 |
237 |
1 |
83.47 |
2008-12-09 |
| 100. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
82.38 |
0.9330 |
-0.0758 |
360 |
1 |
82.38 |
2008-12-16 |
| 101. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
80.69 |
0.9635 |
-0.1252 |
389 |
1 |
80.69 |
2008-12-06 |
| 102. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
80.61 |
0.9675 |
-0.1259 |
383 |
1 |
80.61 |
2008-12-13 |
| 103. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
79.89 |
0.9754 |
-0.1448 |
362 |
1 |
79.89 |
2008-12-08 |
| 104. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
79.81 |
1.0214 |
-0.1994 |
269 |
1 |
79.81 |
2008-12-06 |
| 105. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
78.18 |
0.9279 |
-0.1148 |
317 |
2 |
68.27 |
2008-12-08 |
| 106. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
77.25 |
0.8105 |
-0.0180 |
204 |
1 |
77.25 |
2008-12-06 |
| 107. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
77.15 |
0.8981 |
-0.0977 |
393 |
1 |
77.15 |
2008-12-08 |
| 108. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
76.84 |
0.9293 |
-0.1360 |
355 |
1 |
76.84 |
2008-12-06 |
| 109. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
72.37 |
0.8826 |
-0.1355 |
296 |
1 |
72.37 |
2008-12-06 |
| 110. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
70.68 |
0.8956 |
-0.1630 |
322 |
1 |
70.68 |
2008-12-06 |
| 111. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
67.17 |
0.9342 |
-0.2395 |
434 |
1 |
67.17 |
2008-12-06 |
| 112. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
58.79 |
1.0516 |
-0.4487 |
281 |
1 |
58.79 |
2008-12-06 |