| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
139.88 |
1.0684 |
0.1309 |
253 |
1 |
139.88 |
2010-11-21 |
| 2. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
137.09 |
0.9266 |
0.2194 |
267 |
1 |
137.09 |
2010-11-21 |
| 3. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
134.65 |
1.0120 |
0.1125 |
290 |
1 |
134.65 |
2010-11-23 |
| 4. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
132.77 |
1.0343 |
0.1125 |
242 |
2 |
128.43 |
2010-11-21 |
| 5. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
132.66 |
1.0296 |
0.0853 |
437 |
1 |
132.66 |
2010-11-23 |
| 6. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
132.65 |
1.0214 |
0.0853 |
269 |
1 |
132.65 |
2010-11-22 |
| 7. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
130.86 |
1.0885 |
0.0397 |
341 |
1 |
130.86 |
2010-11-19 |
| 8. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
130.30 |
1.0099 |
0.0757 |
207 |
1 |
130.30 |
2010-11-23 |
| 9. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
130.28 |
1.0445 |
0.0448 |
373 |
2 |
124.75 |
2010-11-25 |
| 10. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
129.96 |
1.0863 |
0.0342 |
210 |
1 |
129.96 |
2010-11-23 |
| 11. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
128.92 |
1.0619 |
0.0186 |
354 |
1 |
128.92 |
2010-11-19 |
| 12. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
128.70 |
1.0034 |
0.0701 |
302 |
1 |
128.70 |
2010-11-21 |
| 13. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
128.41 |
1.0596 |
0.0109 |
239 |
1 |
128.41 |
2010-11-24 |
| 14. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
128.40 |
1.1081 |
-0.0010 |
206 |
1 |
128.40 |
2010-11-21 |
| 15. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
128.23 |
1.0390 |
0.0282 |
205 |
1 |
128.23 |
2010-11-23 |
| 16. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
128.22 |
1.0412 |
0.0291 |
225 |
1 |
128.22 |
2010-11-21 |
| 17. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
128.05 |
1.0788 |
-0.0149 |
171 |
1 |
128.05 |
2010-11-21 |
| 18. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
127.95 |
1.0711 |
-0.0075 |
213 |
2 |
124.45 |
2010-11-23 |
| 19. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
127.31 |
1.0774 |
0.0153 |
304 |
1 |
127.31 |
2010-11-21 |
| 20. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
127.25 |
1.0167 |
0.0528 |
378 |
1 |
127.25 |
2010-11-21 |
| 21. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
127.19 |
1.0528 |
0.0044 |
201 |
1 |
127.19 |
2010-11-23 |
| 22. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
127.11 |
1.1215 |
-0.0359 |
200 |
1 |
127.11 |
2010-11-23 |
| 23. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
126.89 |
1.0197 |
0.0371 |
226 |
1 |
126.89 |
2010-11-23 |
| 24. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
126.85 |
1.0396 |
0.0126 |
149 |
1 |
126.85 |
2010-11-23 |
| 25. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
126.52 |
1.0337 |
0.0223 |
214 |
2 |
123.62 |
2010-11-22 |
| 26. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
126.28 |
1.0257 |
0.0352 |
401 |
2 |
124.93 |
2010-11-26 |
| 27. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
126.21 |
1.0213 |
0.0295 |
240 |
1 |
126.21 |
2010-11-20 |
| 28. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
125.76 |
1.0608 |
0.0227 |
258 |
2 |
120.71 |
2010-11-23 |
| 29. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
125.34 |
1.0388 |
0.0394 |
243 |
2 |
115.95 |
2010-11-22 |
| 30. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
125.15 |
1.0787 |
-0.0350 |
237 |
1 |
125.15 |
2010-11-21 |
| 31. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
124.98 |
1.0763 |
0.0088 |
367 |
1 |
124.98 |
2010-11-20 |
| 32. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
124.93 |
1.0252 |
0.0114 |
176 |
1 |
124.93 |
2010-11-21 |
| 33. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
124.93 |
1.0389 |
0.0059 |
318 |
1 |
124.93 |
2010-11-22 |
| 34. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
124.73 |
1.0398 |
-0.0089 |
110 |
1 |
124.73 |
2010-11-21 |
| 35. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
124.67 |
1.0545 |
0.0271 |
416 |
1 |
124.67 |
2010-11-23 |
| 36. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
124.50 |
1.0365 |
0.0329 |
162 |
1 |
124.50 |
2010-11-22 |
| 37. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
124.39 |
1.0261 |
0.0106 |
273 |
1 |
124.39 |
2010-11-22 |
| 38. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
124.27 |
1.0621 |
-0.0051 |
263 |
2 |
116.96 |
2010-11-19 |
| 39. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
124.16 |
1.0417 |
-0.0076 |
253 |
1 |
124.16 |
2010-11-21 |
| 40. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
124.12 |
0.9557 |
0.0869 |
331 |
1 |
124.12 |
2010-11-19 |
| 41. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
123.99 |
0.9731 |
0.0496 |
129 |
2 |
117.21 |
2010-11-23 |
| 42. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
123.24 |
0.9946 |
0.0341 |
246 |
1 |
123.24 |
2010-11-23 |
| 43. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
123.14 |
1.0403 |
0.0027 |
193 |
3 |
116.34 |
2010-11-25 |
| 44. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
123.12 |
1.0168 |
0.0124 |
271 |
1 |
123.12 |
2010-11-20 |
| 45. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
122.87 |
0.9991 |
0.0271 |
225 |
1 |
122.87 |
2010-11-22 |
| 46. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
122.66 |
1.0454 |
-0.0252 |
255 |
1 |
122.66 |
2010-11-23 |
| 47. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
122.47 |
0.9844 |
0.0427 |
293 |
2 |
119.21 |
2010-11-22 |
| 48. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
121.58 |
0.9894 |
0.0298 |
323 |
3 |
115.18 |
2010-11-22 |
| 49. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
121.32 |
0.9907 |
0.0203 |
211 |
1 |
121.32 |
2010-11-22 |
| 50. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
121.24 |
1.0740 |
-0.0238 |
264 |
1 |
121.24 |
2010-11-21 |
| 51. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
121.14 |
1.0883 |
-0.0451 |
303 |
1 |
121.14 |
2010-11-23 |
| 52. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
120.67 |
0.9687 |
0.0431 |
371 |
1 |
120.67 |
2010-11-21 |
| 53. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
120.39 |
0.9851 |
0.0219 |
317 |
2 |
119.23 |
2010-11-22 |
| 54. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
119.87 |
0.9698 |
0.0635 |
397 |
1 |
119.87 |
2010-11-19 |
| 55. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
119.82 |
1.0349 |
-0.0357 |
234 |
1 |
119.82 |
2010-11-21 |
| 56. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
119.75 |
1.0334 |
-0.0406 |
131 |
1 |
119.75 |
2010-11-19 |
| 57. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
119.61 |
1.0630 |
-0.0316 |
397 |
1 |
119.61 |
2010-11-21 |
| 58. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
119.54 |
0.9754 |
0.0283 |
362 |
1 |
119.54 |
2010-11-19 |
| 59. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
119.17 |
1.0429 |
-0.0499 |
259 |
1 |
119.17 |
2010-11-22 |
| 60. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
118.66 |
1.0485 |
-0.0237 |
153 |
2 |
117.69 |
2010-11-24 |
| 61. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
118.36 |
0.9699 |
0.0171 |
269 |
1 |
118.36 |
2010-11-22 |
| 62. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
118.33 |
1.0033 |
-0.0227 |
189 |
1 |
118.33 |
2010-11-19 |
| 63. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
117.87 |
1.1162 |
-0.0917 |
189 |
2 |
117.73 |
2010-11-22 |
| 64. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
117.39 |
1.0352 |
-0.0527 |
341 |
1 |
117.39 |
2010-11-19 |
| 65. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
117.24 |
1.0515 |
-0.0753 |
250 |
1 |
117.24 |
2010-11-22 |
| 66. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
116.53 |
0.9739 |
0.0340 |
412 |
1 |
116.53 |
2010-11-19 |
| 67. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
116.05 |
0.9513 |
0.0206 |
354 |
1 |
116.05 |
2010-11-23 |
| 68. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
115.53 |
1.0498 |
-0.0909 |
180 |
1 |
115.53 |
2010-11-19 |
| 69. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
115.43 |
1.0264 |
-0.0235 |
422 |
1 |
115.43 |
2010-11-26 |
| 70. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
115.27 |
1.0270 |
-0.0295 |
255 |
1 |
115.27 |
2010-11-19 |
| 71. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
114.83 |
1.0534 |
-0.0934 |
357 |
1 |
114.83 |
2010-11-21 |
| 72. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
114.63 |
1.0201 |
-0.0636 |
303 |
1 |
114.63 |
2010-11-26 |
| 73. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
114.48 |
0.9964 |
-0.0415 |
203 |
1 |
114.48 |
2010-11-21 |
| 74. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
114.18 |
0.9309 |
0.0195 |
284 |
1 |
114.18 |
2010-11-21 |
| 75. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
114.15 |
1.0214 |
-0.0269 |
281 |
2 |
113.47 |
2010-11-26 |
| 76. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
113.91 |
0.9795 |
-0.0295 |
308 |
1 |
113.91 |
2010-11-20 |
| 77. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
113.71 |
1.0482 |
-0.0762 |
487 |
1 |
113.71 |
2010-11-19 |
| 78. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
113.43 |
0.9485 |
-0.0009 |
236 |
1 |
113.43 |
2010-11-19 |
| 79. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
113.43 |
1.0141 |
-0.0319 |
304 |
1 |
113.43 |
2010-11-19 |
| 80. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
113.29 |
1.0288 |
-0.0520 |
300 |
1 |
113.29 |
2010-11-19 |
| 81. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
112.85 |
1.0131 |
-0.0760 |
225 |
1 |
112.85 |
2010-11-19 |
| 82. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
112.82 |
0.9852 |
-0.0441 |
264 |
1 |
112.82 |
2010-11-19 |
| 83. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
112.66 |
0.9359 |
0.0430 |
353 |
2 |
107.19 |
2010-11-21 |
| 84. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
112.46 |
1.0358 |
-0.0565 |
349 |
1 |
112.46 |
2010-11-22 |
| 85. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
111.99 |
0.9514 |
-0.0173 |
237 |
1 |
111.99 |
2010-11-19 |
| 86. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
111.99 |
1.0677 |
-0.1035 |
284 |
1 |
111.99 |
2010-11-19 |
| 87. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
111.49 |
1.0441 |
-0.0733 |
316 |
1 |
111.49 |
2010-11-21 |
| 88. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
111.32 |
0.9570 |
-0.0272 |
287 |
2 |
104.63 |
2010-11-27 |
| 89. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
110.63 |
0.9176 |
0.0435 |
365 |
2 |
107.90 |
2010-11-21 |
| 90. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
110.60 |
1.0038 |
-0.0515 |
237 |
1 |
110.60 |
2010-11-21 |
| 91. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
110.21 |
0.9897 |
-0.0733 |
274 |
1 |
110.21 |
2010-11-22 |
| 92. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
109.90 |
0.9243 |
0.0311 |
448 |
1 |
109.90 |
2010-11-21 |
| 93. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
109.80 |
1.0029 |
-0.0941 |
209 |
1 |
109.80 |
2010-11-19 |
| 94. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
109.30 |
0.9937 |
-0.0580 |
429 |
1 |
109.30 |
2010-11-22 |
| 95. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
109.23 |
0.9411 |
-0.0299 |
318 |
1 |
109.23 |
2010-11-20 |
| 96. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
109.17 |
0.9278 |
-0.0152 |
295 |
1 |
109.17 |
2010-11-21 |
| 97. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
109.10 |
0.9202 |
-0.0116 |
254 |
1 |
109.10 |
2010-11-23 |
| 98. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
108.46 |
0.9614 |
-0.0545 |
292 |
1 |
108.46 |
2010-11-19 |
| 99. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
108.05 |
0.9908 |
-0.0445 |
342 |
1 |
108.05 |
2010-11-21 |
| 100. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
108.01 |
1.0060 |
-0.1106 |
171 |
1 |
108.01 |
2010-11-24 |
| 101. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
107.99 |
0.8890 |
0.0073 |
199 |
1 |
107.99 |
2010-11-19 |
| 102. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
106.91 |
0.9769 |
-0.0882 |
263 |
1 |
106.91 |
2010-11-19 |
| 103. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
106.43 |
0.9965 |
-0.1094 |
310 |
1 |
106.43 |
2010-11-23 |
| 104. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
106.20 |
0.9976 |
-0.0926 |
174 |
1 |
106.20 |
2010-11-22 |
| 105. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
106.04 |
1.0403 |
-0.1169 |
275 |
1 |
106.04 |
2010-11-26 |
| 106. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
104.59 |
0.9567 |
-0.0433 |
184 |
1 |
104.59 |
2010-11-24 |
| 107. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
103.55 |
0.9814 |
-0.0796 |
364 |
1 |
103.55 |
2010-11-21 |
| 108. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
103.34 |
0.9910 |
-0.1285 |
295 |
1 |
103.34 |
2010-11-20 |
| 109. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
103.26 |
0.8770 |
-0.0138 |
300 |
1 |
103.26 |
2010-11-19 |
| 110. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
102.45 |
0.8933 |
-0.0338 |
363 |
1 |
102.45 |
2010-11-21 |
| 111. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
100.54 |
1.0441 |
-0.2056 |
252 |
1 |
100.54 |
2010-11-23 |
| 112. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
99.47 |
0.9109 |
-0.0804 |
401 |
1 |
99.47 |
2010-11-19 |
| 113. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
98.66 |
0.8996 |
-0.0840 |
192 |
1 |
98.66 |
2010-11-21 |
| 114. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
96.86 |
0.9365 |
-0.1292 |
248 |
1 |
96.86 |
2010-11-22 |
| 115. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
94.46 |
0.8852 |
-0.0975 |
201 |
1 |
94.46 |
2010-11-19 |