| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
93.30 |
0.9281 |
1.5581 |
273 |
1 |
93.30 |
2008-11-01 |
| 2. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
80.48 |
1.0444 |
1.0874 |
197 |
3 |
55.06 |
2009-02-06 |
| 3. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
53.18 |
0.8295 |
0.5810 |
209 |
2 |
44.36 |
2009-01-30 |
| 4. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
49.51 |
1.0483 |
0.2593 |
227 |
2 |
44.67 |
2009-02-06 |
| 5. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
47.65 |
0.9226 |
0.3420 |
177 |
2 |
44.12 |
2009-02-05 |
| 6. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
47.60 |
0.9307 |
0.3368 |
246 |
3 |
41.27 |
2009-02-05 |
| 7. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
46.35 |
0.9068 |
0.3223 |
269 |
1 |
46.35 |
2009-02-06 |
| 8. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
45.43 |
1.0251 |
0.1742 |
261 |
1 |
45.43 |
2009-02-06 |
| 9. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
45.08 |
0.9729 |
0.2194 |
255 |
2 |
36.97 |
2009-01-25 |
| 10. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
44.86 |
1.0528 |
0.1285 |
201 |
1 |
44.86 |
2009-01-25 |
| 11. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
44.77 |
0.9772 |
0.2032 |
217 |
3 |
35.91 |
2009-02-06 |
| 12. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
44.75 |
1.0023 |
0.1791 |
211 |
5 |
39.74 |
2009-02-06 |
| 13. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
44.70 |
0.9196 |
0.2641 |
148 |
2 |
34.96 |
2008-11-21 |
| 14. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
44.32 |
1.1114 |
0.0577 |
247 |
2 |
39.90 |
2009-02-06 |
| 15. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
44.28 |
0.9897 |
0.1788 |
274 |
1 |
44.28 |
2009-01-25 |
| 16. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
44.21 |
1.0297 |
0.1380 |
249 |
1 |
44.21 |
2009-01-23 |
| 17. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
44.05 |
0.9820 |
0.1854 |
267 |
2 |
41.10 |
2009-02-06 |
| 18. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
43.62 |
1.0429 |
0.1088 |
259 |
2 |
40.39 |
2009-02-05 |
| 19. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
43.45 |
0.9724 |
0.1798 |
237 |
1 |
43.45 |
2008-11-01 |
| 20. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
42.99 |
1.0668 |
0.0720 |
350 |
1 |
42.99 |
2009-02-18 |
| 21. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
42.84 |
0.9048 |
0.2321 |
271 |
1 |
42.84 |
2009-01-25 |
| 22. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
42.23 |
1.0596 |
0.0543 |
239 |
4 |
37.67 |
2009-01-25 |
| 23. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
41.65 |
0.8852 |
0.2174 |
201 |
3 |
33.76 |
2009-02-06 |
| 24. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
41.20 |
1.0396 |
0.0416 |
149 |
4 |
37.26 |
2009-02-05 |
| 25. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
40.99 |
1.0124 |
0.0680 |
204 |
1 |
40.99 |
2009-01-30 |
| 26. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.89 |
1.0138 |
0.0659 |
231 |
1 |
40.89 |
2008-11-21 |
| 27. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
40.56 |
0.9513 |
0.1238 |
354 |
2 |
38.35 |
2009-01-30 |
| 28. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
40.54 |
1.0029 |
0.0615 |
209 |
1 |
40.54 |
2009-01-30 |
| 29. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
40.42 |
1.0577 |
0.0064 |
247 |
1 |
40.42 |
2009-01-25 |
| 30. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
40.28 |
0.9991 |
0.0652 |
225 |
1 |
40.28 |
2009-01-30 |
| 31. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
40.26 |
0.9365 |
0.1282 |
248 |
2 |
34.29 |
2009-01-30 |
| 32. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
40.25 |
0.9429 |
0.1214 |
287 |
1 |
40.25 |
2009-02-06 |
| 33. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
40.19 |
0.9936 |
0.0675 |
311 |
2 |
36.85 |
2009-02-06 |
| 34. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
40.19 |
1.0498 |
0.0068 |
180 |
1 |
40.19 |
2009-02-05 |
| 35. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
40.14 |
0.9863 |
0.0782 |
339 |
1 |
40.14 |
2009-02-05 |
| 36. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
39.98 |
0.9212 |
0.1379 |
323 |
2 |
37.46 |
2009-02-05 |
| 37. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
39.95 |
1.0201 |
0.0353 |
303 |
2 |
37.89 |
2009-01-27 |
| 38. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
39.88 |
1.0829 |
-0.0283 |
288 |
2 |
36.19 |
2008-11-21 |
| 39. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
39.70 |
0.9851 |
0.0654 |
317 |
1 |
39.70 |
2008-11-03 |
| 40. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
39.70 |
1.0337 |
0.0140 |
214 |
3 |
39.51 |
2009-01-30 |
| 41. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
39.50 |
1.0390 |
0.0002 |
205 |
2 |
36.46 |
2009-01-25 |
| 42. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
39.44 |
1.0168 |
0.0260 |
271 |
1 |
39.44 |
2008-11-21 |
| 43. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
39.38 |
1.0131 |
0.0228 |
225 |
2 |
37.95 |
2009-01-27 |
| 44. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
39.34 |
0.9886 |
0.0526 |
220 |
3 |
34.29 |
2009-01-25 |
| 45. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
39.32 |
1.0462 |
-0.0141 |
184 |
1 |
39.32 |
2008-11-20 |
| 46. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
39.25 |
0.9171 |
0.1195 |
165 |
1 |
39.25 |
2009-01-30 |
| 47. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
38.91 |
0.9226 |
0.1109 |
348 |
2 |
38.14 |
2009-01-30 |
| 48. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
38.73 |
0.8900 |
0.1336 |
164 |
1 |
38.73 |
2009-01-27 |
| 49. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
38.72 |
1.0496 |
-0.0282 |
314 |
1 |
38.72 |
2009-01-25 |
| 50. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
38.62 |
1.0099 |
0.0067 |
207 |
3 |
33.72 |
2009-02-05 |
| 51. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
38.61 |
1.0796 |
-0.0652 |
129 |
2 |
38.11 |
2008-11-01 |
| 52. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
38.48 |
0.9731 |
0.0301 |
129 |
3 |
35.72 |
2008-11-21 |
| 53. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
38.48 |
0.8899 |
0.1369 |
293 |
1 |
38.48 |
2008-11-21 |
| 54. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
38.23 |
1.0565 |
-0.0501 |
247 |
2 |
35.24 |
2009-01-27 |
| 55. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
38.22 |
0.8709 |
0.1458 |
202 |
1 |
38.22 |
2009-02-05 |
| 56. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
38.19 |
1.0183 |
-0.0159 |
191 |
1 |
38.19 |
2009-01-30 |
| 57. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
37.95 |
0.9844 |
0.0220 |
293 |
1 |
37.95 |
2009-01-30 |
| 58. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
37.88 |
1.0203 |
-0.0172 |
261 |
1 |
37.88 |
2008-11-21 |
| 59. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
37.85 |
0.9769 |
0.0199 |
263 |
2 |
34.73 |
2009-02-05 |
| 60. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
37.81 |
1.0619 |
-0.0605 |
354 |
1 |
37.81 |
2008-11-01 |
| 61. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
37.72 |
0.8975 |
0.0984 |
268 |
1 |
37.72 |
2008-11-21 |
| 62. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
37.56 |
1.0788 |
-0.0933 |
171 |
1 |
37.56 |
2009-01-30 |
| 63. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
37.54 |
0.9325 |
0.0514 |
156 |
1 |
37.54 |
2009-02-05 |
| 64. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
37.45 |
0.9202 |
0.0673 |
254 |
2 |
36.17 |
2008-11-21 |
| 65. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
36.81 |
0.9843 |
-0.0182 |
234 |
3 |
33.24 |
2009-01-27 |
| 66. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
36.80 |
0.8821 |
0.0882 |
176 |
3 |
33.28 |
2009-01-30 |
| 67. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
36.78 |
0.9786 |
-0.0088 |
235 |
1 |
36.78 |
2009-01-23 |
| 68. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
36.59 |
1.0060 |
-0.0455 |
171 |
1 |
36.59 |
2008-10-28 |
| 69. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
36.54 |
1.0441 |
-0.0787 |
252 |
1 |
36.54 |
2008-11-21 |
| 70. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
36.47 |
0.9710 |
-0.0155 |
173 |
2 |
35.62 |
2009-01-30 |
| 71. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
36.28 |
1.0445 |
-0.0867 |
373 |
1 |
36.28 |
2009-01-30 |
| 72. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
36.26 |
1.0033 |
-0.0536 |
189 |
1 |
36.26 |
2009-02-05 |
| 73. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
36.18 |
0.9649 |
-0.0118 |
193 |
1 |
36.18 |
2009-01-27 |
| 74. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
36.09 |
0.9532 |
-0.0027 |
258 |
1 |
36.09 |
2008-11-03 |
| 75. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
36.08 |
0.9865 |
-0.0338 |
276 |
1 |
36.08 |
2008-11-21 |
| 76. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
35.84 |
0.8442 |
0.1049 |
265 |
2 |
35.53 |
2009-01-27 |
| 77. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
35.59 |
0.9786 |
-0.0453 |
193 |
1 |
35.59 |
2009-02-06 |
| 78. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
35.38 |
0.9965 |
-0.0633 |
310 |
2 |
34.72 |
2008-11-01 |
| 79. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
35.35 |
1.0529 |
-0.1210 |
351 |
1 |
35.35 |
2008-11-21 |
| 80. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
35.32 |
0.8553 |
0.0708 |
174 |
1 |
35.32 |
2009-01-30 |
| 81. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
35.20 |
0.9572 |
-0.0303 |
201 |
1 |
35.20 |
2009-01-30 |
| 82. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
35.15 |
0.8105 |
0.1119 |
204 |
2 |
33.40 |
2009-02-05 |
| 83. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
35.11 |
0.9682 |
-0.0445 |
143 |
1 |
35.11 |
2008-11-03 |
| 84. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
35.08 |
0.8700 |
0.0541 |
127 |
1 |
35.08 |
2008-10-30 |
| 85. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
35.07 |
0.9084 |
0.0203 |
404 |
1 |
35.07 |
2008-11-21 |
| 86. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
35.07 |
0.9798 |
-0.0609 |
199 |
2 |
33.65 |
2009-01-30 |
| 87. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
35.03 |
1.0486 |
-0.1243 |
289 |
1 |
35.03 |
2008-11-20 |
| 88. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
34.92 |
0.8809 |
0.0375 |
127 |
1 |
34.92 |
2008-10-30 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
34.90 |
0.9289 |
-0.0112 |
204 |
2 |
33.50 |
2008-11-20 |
| 90. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
34.44 |
0.8792 |
0.0378 |
296 |
2 |
33.18 |
2008-11-01 |
| 91. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
34.33 |
1.0352 |
-0.1273 |
341 |
1 |
34.33 |
2008-11-01 |
| 92. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
34.24 |
0.9266 |
-0.0224 |
278 |
2 |
29.08 |
2008-11-01 |
| 93. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
33.97 |
0.9612 |
-0.0660 |
256 |
2 |
30.74 |
2008-11-21 |
| 94. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
33.84 |
0.9351 |
-0.0489 |
190 |
2 |
32.58 |
2008-11-01 |
| 95. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
33.78 |
0.8788 |
0.0078 |
134 |
1 |
33.78 |
2009-01-30 |
| 96. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
33.69 |
0.9072 |
-0.0212 |
237 |
1 |
33.69 |
2009-01-27 |
| 97. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
33.65 |
1.0567 |
-0.1695 |
303 |
1 |
33.65 |
2008-11-20 |
| 98. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
33.55 |
1.0714 |
-0.1964 |
129 |
2 |
32.77 |
2009-01-23 |
| 99. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
33.51 |
0.9965 |
-0.1184 |
168 |
2 |
33.28 |
2009-01-30 |
| 100. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
33.32 |
1.0797 |
-0.2075 |
210 |
1 |
33.32 |
2008-10-30 |
| 101. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
33.01 |
1.0025 |
-0.1321 |
336 |
1 |
33.01 |
2008-11-21 |
| 102. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
32.94 |
0.8910 |
-0.0217 |
150 |
1 |
32.94 |
2009-01-30 |
| 103. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.77 |
0.8595 |
0.0054 |
242 |
2 |
31.37 |
2009-01-23 |
| 104. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
32.45 |
1.0109 |
-0.1556 |
276 |
1 |
32.45 |
2008-11-20 |
| 105. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
32.40 |
1.0063 |
-0.1527 |
371 |
1 |
32.40 |
2008-10-30 |
| 106. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
32.26 |
0.8602 |
-0.0130 |
206 |
1 |
32.26 |
2009-01-30 |
| 107. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
32.00 |
1.0799 |
-0.2411 |
243 |
1 |
32.00 |
2008-10-30 |
| 108. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
32.00 |
0.9852 |
-0.1424 |
264 |
1 |
32.00 |
2008-10-31 |
| 109. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
31.94 |
0.9527 |
-0.1119 |
251 |
1 |
31.94 |
2009-01-23 |
| 110. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
31.90 |
0.8951 |
-0.0531 |
193 |
1 |
31.90 |
2008-10-30 |
| 111. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
31.88 |
0.9485 |
-0.1075 |
236 |
1 |
31.88 |
2008-11-21 |
| 112. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
31.72 |
0.9168 |
-0.0805 |
240 |
2 |
30.53 |
2009-01-30 |
| 113. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
31.56 |
0.7876 |
0.0457 |
316 |
3 |
29.86 |
2009-02-06 |
| 114. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
31.25 |
0.8971 |
-0.0693 |
266 |
1 |
31.25 |
2009-01-30 |
| 115. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
31.21 |
1.0419 |
-0.2205 |
261 |
1 |
31.21 |
2008-10-30 |
| 116. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
31.18 |
0.9614 |
-0.1378 |
292 |
1 |
31.18 |
2008-11-01 |
| 117. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
30.97 |
0.9997 |
-0.1811 |
382 |
1 |
30.97 |
2008-10-31 |
| 118. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
30.73 |
0.8996 |
-0.0965 |
192 |
1 |
30.73 |
2008-10-31 |
| 119. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
30.36 |
0.9309 |
-0.1341 |
284 |
1 |
30.36 |
2008-10-30 |
| 120. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
30.35 |
0.9636 |
-0.1653 |
254 |
1 |
30.35 |
2008-10-30 |
| 121. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
30.24 |
0.9430 |
-0.1548 |
211 |
1 |
30.24 |
2008-10-28 |
| 122. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
30.17 |
0.8919 |
-0.1000 |
205 |
1 |
30.17 |
2009-01-30 |
| 123. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
30.04 |
0.9899 |
-0.2045 |
163 |
1 |
30.04 |
2009-01-30 |
| 124. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
30.03 |
1.0696 |
-0.2833 |
226 |
1 |
30.03 |
2008-11-01 |
| 125. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
29.81 |
1.0666 |
-0.2825 |
297 |
1 |
29.81 |
2008-10-28 |
| 126. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
29.81 |
0.8353 |
-0.0438 |
283 |
1 |
29.81 |
2008-10-31 |
| 127. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
29.80 |
0.8722 |
-0.0856 |
285 |
1 |
29.80 |
2008-10-31 |
| 128. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
29.72 |
0.9576 |
-0.1714 |
212 |
1 |
29.72 |
2008-10-31 |
| 129. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
29.50 |
0.9763 |
-0.2011 |
289 |
1 |
29.50 |
2008-10-28 |
| 130. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
29.38 |
0.9941 |
-0.2240 |
217 |
1 |
29.38 |
2008-10-28 |
| 131. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
28.74 |
1.0214 |
-0.2714 |
166 |
1 |
28.74 |
2008-10-28 |
| 132. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
28.52 |
0.8077 |
-0.0601 |
167 |
1 |
28.52 |
2008-10-31 |
| 133. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
26.47 |
1.0016 |
-0.3115 |
218 |
1 |
26.47 |
2008-10-28 |
| 134. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
26.19 |
0.9213 |
-0.2336 |
295 |
1 |
26.19 |
2008-10-28 |
| 135. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
24.50 |
0.8615 |
-0.2194 |
110 |
1 |
24.50 |
2009-01-30 |
| 136. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
24.07 |
1.0334 |
-0.4094 |
131 |
1 |
24.07 |
2009-01-30 |