| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
53.35 |
1.0252 |
0.3312 |
176 |
1 |
53.35 |
2008-12-09 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
50.87 |
1.0565 |
0.2399 |
247 |
1 |
50.87 |
2008-12-09 |
| 3. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
49.56 |
1.0349 |
0.2296 |
234 |
1 |
49.56 |
2008-12-19 |
| 4. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
48.45 |
1.0214 |
0.2135 |
269 |
2 |
43.23 |
2008-12-09 |
| 5. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
47.33 |
1.0429 |
0.1634 |
259 |
1 |
47.33 |
2009-03-04 |
| 6. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
47.03 |
1.0396 |
0.1531 |
149 |
1 |
47.03 |
2008-12-19 |
| 7. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
45.52 |
0.8887 |
0.2863 |
128 |
1 |
45.52 |
2008-12-09 |
| 8. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
44.66 |
0.9048 |
0.2386 |
271 |
2 |
39.81 |
2008-12-19 |
| 9. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
44.61 |
0.9572 |
0.1792 |
201 |
1 |
44.61 |
2008-12-09 |
| 10. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
44.59 |
1.0004 |
0.1305 |
212 |
2 |
42.89 |
2009-03-04 |
| 11. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
44.55 |
1.0025 |
0.1344 |
336 |
1 |
44.55 |
2008-12-09 |
| 12. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
44.45 |
0.9865 |
0.1480 |
276 |
1 |
44.45 |
2008-12-09 |
| 13. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
43.90 |
0.8811 |
0.2427 |
239 |
1 |
43.90 |
2008-12-19 |
| 14. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
43.16 |
0.8653 |
0.2461 |
255 |
2 |
39.31 |
2008-12-09 |
| 15. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
43.07 |
1.0399 |
0.0631 |
294 |
1 |
43.07 |
2008-12-19 |
| 16. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
43.03 |
1.0613 |
0.0364 |
266 |
1 |
43.03 |
2009-03-04 |
| 17. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
42.98 |
0.9772 |
0.1148 |
217 |
1 |
42.98 |
2008-12-09 |
| 18. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
42.80 |
1.0577 |
0.0297 |
247 |
1 |
42.80 |
2008-12-09 |
| 19. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
42.79 |
0.9266 |
0.1658 |
278 |
2 |
42.20 |
2008-12-09 |
| 20. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
42.74 |
1.0829 |
0.0079 |
288 |
1 |
42.74 |
2008-12-09 |
| 21. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
42.51 |
0.9811 |
0.1050 |
272 |
1 |
42.51 |
2008-12-09 |
| 22. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
42.50 |
0.8615 |
0.2217 |
110 |
2 |
40.51 |
2008-12-19 |
| 23. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
42.46 |
1.0797 |
-0.0032 |
210 |
1 |
42.46 |
2008-12-09 |
| 24. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
42.11 |
1.0016 |
0.0669 |
218 |
1 |
42.11 |
2008-12-09 |
| 25. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
41.90 |
1.0213 |
0.0431 |
240 |
1 |
41.90 |
2008-12-09 |
| 26. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
41.85 |
0.9734 |
0.0927 |
289 |
1 |
41.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 27. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
41.71 |
0.9886 |
0.0766 |
220 |
1 |
41.71 |
2008-12-09 |
| 28. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
41.71 |
0.9257 |
0.1425 |
317 |
1 |
41.71 |
2008-12-09 |
| 29. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
41.54 |
1.0023 |
0.0542 |
211 |
1 |
41.54 |
2008-12-09 |
| 30. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
41.46 |
0.9316 |
0.1307 |
287 |
1 |
41.46 |
2008-12-09 |
| 31. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
41.16 |
0.9866 |
0.0583 |
218 |
1 |
41.16 |
2008-12-09 |
| 32. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
41.12 |
0.9682 |
0.0774 |
143 |
1 |
41.12 |
2008-12-19 |
| 33. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
40.85 |
1.0013 |
0.0384 |
273 |
1 |
40.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 34. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
40.26 |
0.9411 |
0.0851 |
318 |
1 |
40.26 |
2008-12-09 |
| 35. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
40.22 |
0.8154 |
0.2107 |
193 |
1 |
40.22 |
2008-12-09 |
| 36. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
39.91 |
0.9279 |
0.0949 |
317 |
1 |
39.91 |
2008-12-09 |
| 37. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
39.78 |
0.9684 |
0.0473 |
388 |
1 |
39.78 |
2008-12-09 |
| 38. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
39.69 |
0.9275 |
0.0799 |
211 |
1 |
39.69 |
2008-12-09 |
| 39. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
39.61 |
0.9844 |
0.0290 |
293 |
1 |
39.61 |
2008-12-09 |
| 40. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
39.60 |
0.9168 |
0.0928 |
240 |
1 |
39.60 |
2008-12-19 |
| 41. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
39.26 |
0.9527 |
0.0468 |
251 |
1 |
39.26 |
2008-12-09 |
| 42. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
39.16 |
0.9286 |
0.0674 |
194 |
1 |
39.16 |
2008-12-19 |
| 43. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
38.89 |
0.9464 |
0.0487 |
323 |
1 |
38.89 |
2008-12-19 |
| 44. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
38.85 |
0.9805 |
0.0131 |
292 |
1 |
38.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 45. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
38.64 |
0.9576 |
0.0306 |
212 |
1 |
38.64 |
2008-12-09 |
| 46. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
38.47 |
0.9342 |
0.0485 |
434 |
1 |
38.47 |
2008-12-09 |
| 47. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
38.28 |
0.8971 |
0.0825 |
266 |
1 |
38.28 |
2008-12-09 |
| 48. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
38.20 |
0.8722 |
0.1029 |
285 |
1 |
38.20 |
2008-12-09 |
| 49. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
37.85 |
0.9125 |
0.0525 |
308 |
1 |
37.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 50. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
37.80 |
0.9309 |
0.0291 |
284 |
1 |
37.80 |
2008-12-09 |
| 51. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
37.80 |
0.9907 |
-0.0304 |
211 |
1 |
37.80 |
2008-12-19 |
| 52. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
37.72 |
1.0483 |
-0.0915 |
227 |
1 |
37.72 |
2008-12-09 |
| 53. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
37.60 |
0.9964 |
-0.0395 |
203 |
2 |
32.59 |
2008-12-09 |
| 54. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
36.93 |
0.9532 |
-0.0150 |
258 |
1 |
36.93 |
2008-12-09 |
| 55. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
36.87 |
0.8892 |
0.0547 |
207 |
1 |
36.87 |
2008-12-09 |
| 56. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
36.62 |
0.8295 |
0.1038 |
209 |
1 |
36.62 |
2008-12-09 |
| 57. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
34.94 |
1.0426 |
-0.1551 |
323 |
1 |
34.94 |
2009-03-04 |
| 58. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
34.87 |
0.9213 |
-0.0344 |
295 |
1 |
34.87 |
2008-12-09 |
| 59. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
34.69 |
0.9202 |
-0.0392 |
254 |
1 |
34.69 |
2008-12-09 |
| 60. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
34.59 |
0.9763 |
-0.0977 |
289 |
1 |
34.59 |
2008-12-09 |
| 61. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
34.53 |
0.9897 |
-0.1144 |
274 |
1 |
34.53 |
2008-12-09 |
| 62. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
33.92 |
0.9365 |
-0.0732 |
248 |
1 |
33.92 |
2008-12-09 |
| 63. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
33.17 |
0.9351 |
-0.0981 |
190 |
1 |
33.17 |
2008-12-09 |
| 64. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
33.09 |
0.8936 |
-0.0548 |
127 |
1 |
33.09 |
2008-12-09 |
| 65. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
32.99 |
0.9164 |
-0.0737 |
305 |
1 |
32.99 |
2008-12-09 |
| 66. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
32.87 |
1.0183 |
-0.1891 |
191 |
1 |
32.87 |
2009-03-04 |
| 67. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
32.54 |
0.9731 |
-0.1593 |
129 |
1 |
32.54 |
2008-12-09 |
| 68. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
32.41 |
1.0109 |
-0.1872 |
276 |
1 |
32.41 |
2008-12-09 |
| 69. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
32.29 |
0.8941 |
-0.0723 |
216 |
1 |
32.29 |
2008-12-09 |
| 70. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
31.60 |
0.9084 |
-0.1023 |
404 |
1 |
31.60 |
2008-12-09 |
| 71. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
30.28 |
0.9769 |
-0.2110 |
263 |
1 |
30.28 |
2008-12-09 |
| 72. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
28.85 |
1.0261 |
-0.2969 |
273 |
1 |
28.85 |
2008-12-09 |
| 73. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
28.80 |
0.8070 |
-0.0747 |
137 |
1 |
28.80 |
2008-12-09 |
| 74. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
28.71 |
1.0498 |
-0.3271 |
180 |
1 |
28.71 |
2008-12-09 |
| 75. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
27.02 |
0.8919 |
-0.2097 |
205 |
1 |
27.02 |
2008-12-09 |
| 76. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
25.86 |
0.9612 |
-0.3072 |
256 |
1 |
25.86 |
2008-12-09 |
| 77. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
23.32 |
0.8810 |
-0.2917 |
282 |
1 |
23.32 |
2008-12-09 |
| 78. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
22.91 |
0.8821 |
-0.3047 |
176 |
1 |
22.91 |
2008-12-09 |