| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
58.08 |
1.0714 |
0.6391 |
129 |
1 |
58.08 |
2012-02-04 |
| 2. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
56.14 |
1.0074 |
0.6561 |
242 |
1 |
56.14 |
2012-02-05 |
| 3. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
53.50 |
1.0240 |
0.5562 |
256 |
1 |
53.50 |
2012-02-05 |
| 4. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
52.44 |
0.9805 |
0.5753 |
292 |
1 |
52.44 |
2012-02-04 |
| 5. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
52.28 |
0.9504 |
0.5907 |
263 |
1 |
52.28 |
2012-02-04 |
| 6. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
51.11 |
1.0621 |
0.4689 |
263 |
1 |
51.11 |
2012-02-05 |
| 7. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
51.00 |
0.8792 |
0.6384 |
296 |
2 |
50.60 |
2012-02-06 |
| 8. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
50.17 |
0.8653 |
0.6295 |
255 |
1 |
50.17 |
2012-02-04 |
| 9. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
50.03 |
1.0254 |
0.4947 |
217 |
1 |
50.03 |
2012-02-04 |
| 10. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
49.91 |
0.9646 |
0.5103 |
264 |
1 |
49.91 |
2012-02-05 |
| 11. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
49.83 |
0.9786 |
0.4896 |
193 |
1 |
49.83 |
2012-02-05 |
| 12. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
49.15 |
1.0016 |
0.4469 |
218 |
1 |
49.15 |
2012-02-04 |
| 13. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
49.07 |
0.9636 |
0.4870 |
254 |
1 |
49.07 |
2012-02-06 |
| 14. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
48.78 |
1.0214 |
0.4632 |
281 |
1 |
48.78 |
2012-02-04 |
| 15. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
48.60 |
1.0462 |
0.3844 |
184 |
1 |
48.60 |
2012-02-04 |
| 16. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
48.45 |
0.9729 |
0.4595 |
255 |
1 |
48.45 |
2012-02-04 |
| 17. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
48.42 |
0.9527 |
0.4785 |
251 |
1 |
48.42 |
2012-02-05 |
| 18. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
48.06 |
0.7708 |
0.6552 |
207 |
1 |
48.06 |
2012-02-06 |
| 19. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
47.99 |
0.9785 |
0.4432 |
335 |
1 |
47.99 |
2012-02-05 |
| 20. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
46.93 |
0.9912 |
0.4226 |
237 |
1 |
46.93 |
2012-02-06 |
| 21. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
46.79 |
1.0596 |
0.3210 |
239 |
1 |
46.79 |
2012-02-02 |
| 22. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
46.40 |
1.0523 |
0.3145 |
256 |
1 |
46.40 |
2012-02-04 |
| 23. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
46.32 |
0.9212 |
0.4508 |
323 |
1 |
46.32 |
2012-02-05 |
| 24. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
46.22 |
0.9411 |
0.4254 |
318 |
1 |
46.22 |
2012-02-04 |
| 25. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
45.96 |
0.8852 |
0.4748 |
201 |
1 |
45.96 |
2012-02-04 |
| 26. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
45.85 |
1.0117 |
0.3878 |
297 |
1 |
45.85 |
2012-02-05 |
| 27. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
45.81 |
0.9500 |
0.4057 |
362 |
1 |
45.81 |
2012-02-05 |
| 28. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
45.46 |
0.8914 |
0.4524 |
366 |
1 |
45.46 |
2012-02-12 |
| 29. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
43.84 |
1.1215 |
0.1972 |
200 |
1 |
43.84 |
2012-02-04 |
| 30. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
43.48 |
0.8070 |
0.4795 |
137 |
1 |
43.48 |
2012-02-04 |
| 31. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
43.43 |
0.8975 |
0.3855 |
268 |
1 |
43.43 |
2012-02-04 |
| 32. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
42.96 |
0.9164 |
0.3569 |
305 |
1 |
42.96 |
2012-02-04 |
| 33. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
42.31 |
1.0214 |
0.2260 |
269 |
1 |
42.31 |
2012-02-04 |
| 34. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
41.83 |
0.9098 |
0.3213 |
167 |
2 |
31.62 |
2012-02-04 |
| 35. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
41.55 |
0.9916 |
0.2774 |
282 |
1 |
41.55 |
2012-02-04 |
| 36. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
41.29 |
1.0131 |
0.2017 |
225 |
2 |
34.28 |
2012-02-07 |
| 37. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
36.75 |
0.7818 |
0.3007 |
195 |
1 |
36.75 |
2012-02-02 |
| 38. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
33.80 |
1.0444 |
-0.0557 |
197 |
1 |
33.80 |
2012-02-10 |
| 39. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
32.77 |
0.9131 |
0.0468 |
144 |
1 |
32.77 |
2012-02-15 |
| 40. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
32.53 |
0.8715 |
0.0820 |
130 |
1 |
32.53 |
2012-02-10 |
| 41. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
32.27 |
0.9688 |
-0.0194 |
217 |
1 |
32.27 |
2012-02-09 |
| 42. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
31.67 |
1.0799 |
-0.1519 |
243 |
1 |
31.67 |
2012-02-09 |
| 43. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
31.51 |
0.9781 |
-0.0484 |
193 |
1 |
31.51 |
2012-02-08 |
| 44. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
31.41 |
0.9965 |
-0.0773 |
168 |
3 |
26.30 |
2012-02-07 |
| 45. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
31.28 |
0.8745 |
0.0434 |
169 |
1 |
31.28 |
2012-02-12 |
| 46. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
31.26 |
1.0696 |
-0.1536 |
226 |
1 |
31.26 |
2012-02-09 |
| 47. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
31.25 |
0.8892 |
0.0360 |
207 |
2 |
30.33 |
2012-02-15 |
| 48. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
31.25 |
0.9820 |
-0.0626 |
274 |
1 |
31.25 |
2012-02-09 |
| 49. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
31.10 |
1.0711 |
-0.1615 |
213 |
1 |
31.10 |
2012-02-07 |
| 50. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
30.92 |
1.0768 |
-0.1274 |
295 |
2 |
28.92 |
2012-02-10 |
| 51. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
30.82 |
0.7890 |
0.1183 |
230 |
1 |
30.82 |
2012-02-15 |
| 52. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
30.69 |
0.8906 |
0.0162 |
238 |
1 |
30.69 |
2012-02-10 |
| 53. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
30.61 |
0.9706 |
-0.0662 |
216 |
1 |
30.61 |
2012-02-12 |
| 54. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
30.58 |
1.0498 |
-0.1554 |
180 |
1 |
30.58 |
2012-02-08 |
| 55. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
30.38 |
1.0314 |
-0.1412 |
172 |
1 |
30.38 |
2012-02-09 |
| 56. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
30.30 |
0.8661 |
0.0159 |
94 |
1 |
30.30 |
2012-02-08 |
| 57. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
30.23 |
0.9068 |
-0.0197 |
225 |
1 |
30.23 |
2012-02-09 |
| 58. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
30.21 |
0.8551 |
0.0320 |
171 |
1 |
30.21 |
2012-02-09 |
| 59. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
30.17 |
0.9843 |
-0.1023 |
234 |
1 |
30.17 |
2012-02-12 |
| 60. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
30.03 |
0.9171 |
-0.0340 |
165 |
1 |
30.03 |
2012-02-09 |
| 61. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
30.01 |
0.9795 |
-0.0973 |
308 |
1 |
30.01 |
2012-02-12 |
| 62. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
29.97 |
0.9260 |
-0.0346 |
243 |
1 |
29.97 |
2012-02-09 |
| 63. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
29.82 |
1.0292 |
-0.1540 |
262 |
1 |
29.82 |
2012-02-05 |
| 64. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
29.72 |
0.9769 |
-0.1054 |
263 |
1 |
29.72 |
2012-02-15 |
| 65. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
29.66 |
1.0033 |
-0.1382 |
189 |
1 |
29.66 |
2012-02-10 |
| 66. |
It's usually best to run as quick as you can for the first f... |
29.64 |
0.8508 |
0.0153 |
117 |
1 |
29.64 |
2012-02-09 |
| 67. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
29.64 |
0.8810 |
-0.0090 |
282 |
1 |
29.64 |
2012-02-15 |
| 68. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
29.62 |
0.9289 |
-0.0606 |
204 |
2 |
29.02 |
2012-02-10 |
| 69. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
29.61 |
0.8615 |
0.0089 |
110 |
2 |
26.48 |
2012-02-15 |
| 70. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
29.59 |
0.9582 |
-0.0870 |
259 |
1 |
29.59 |
2012-02-09 |
| 71. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
29.59 |
0.8442 |
0.0295 |
265 |
2 |
28.43 |
2012-02-12 |
| 72. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
29.55 |
1.0337 |
-0.1658 |
214 |
1 |
29.55 |
2012-02-07 |
| 73. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
29.54 |
1.0263 |
-0.1589 |
267 |
1 |
29.54 |
2012-02-10 |
| 74. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
29.48 |
0.8070 |
0.0563 |
167 |
1 |
29.48 |
2012-02-10 |
| 75. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
29.44 |
1.0205 |
-0.1618 |
179 |
1 |
29.44 |
2012-02-06 |
| 76. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
29.40 |
0.9266 |
-0.0608 |
278 |
1 |
29.40 |
2012-02-09 |
| 77. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.37 |
0.9731 |
-0.1225 |
129 |
2 |
27.00 |
2012-02-07 |
| 78. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
29.18 |
0.8773 |
-0.0163 |
205 |
2 |
27.47 |
2012-02-09 |
| 79. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
29.03 |
1.0077 |
-0.1134 |
250 |
2 |
27.20 |
2012-02-10 |
| 80. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
29.02 |
0.9368 |
-0.0836 |
173 |
1 |
29.02 |
2012-02-09 |
| 81. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
28.95 |
1.0384 |
-0.1974 |
183 |
1 |
28.95 |
2012-02-07 |
| 82. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
28.93 |
0.8900 |
-0.0388 |
164 |
1 |
28.93 |
2012-02-09 |
| 83. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
28.92 |
0.9212 |
-0.0677 |
231 |
1 |
28.92 |
2012-02-08 |
| 84. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
28.74 |
1.0521 |
-0.2126 |
171 |
1 |
28.74 |
2012-02-08 |
| 85. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
28.63 |
1.0197 |
-0.1816 |
226 |
1 |
28.63 |
2012-02-09 |
| 86. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
28.61 |
1.1162 |
-0.2348 |
189 |
1 |
28.61 |
2012-02-09 |
| 87. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
28.58 |
0.8890 |
-0.0530 |
199 |
1 |
28.58 |
2012-02-09 |
| 88. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
28.58 |
0.9396 |
-0.1027 |
119 |
1 |
28.58 |
2012-02-09 |
| 89. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
28.48 |
0.9084 |
-0.0700 |
300 |
1 |
28.48 |
2012-02-09 |
| 90. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
28.43 |
1.0038 |
-0.1384 |
237 |
1 |
28.43 |
2012-02-15 |
| 91. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
28.40 |
0.9907 |
-0.1581 |
211 |
1 |
28.40 |
2012-02-10 |
| 92. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
28.36 |
0.8910 |
-0.0563 |
150 |
2 |
26.75 |
2013-01-21 |
| 93. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
28.26 |
0.8994 |
-0.0673 |
188 |
1 |
28.26 |
2012-02-08 |
| 94. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
28.13 |
1.0099 |
-0.1867 |
207 |
1 |
28.13 |
2013-01-21 |
| 95. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
28.03 |
1.0487 |
-0.2306 |
231 |
1 |
28.03 |
2012-02-09 |
| 96. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
27.94 |
0.9866 |
-0.1698 |
218 |
1 |
27.94 |
2012-02-15 |
| 97. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
27.94 |
1.0403 |
-0.2048 |
193 |
1 |
27.94 |
2012-02-08 |
| 98. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
27.89 |
0.9941 |
-0.1775 |
217 |
1 |
27.89 |
2012-02-09 |
| 99. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
27.82 |
0.9946 |
-0.1779 |
246 |
1 |
27.82 |
2012-02-09 |
| 100. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
27.78 |
0.9871 |
-0.1492 |
227 |
1 |
27.78 |
2012-02-10 |
| 101. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
27.77 |
0.9418 |
-0.1208 |
188 |
1 |
27.77 |
2012-02-10 |
| 102. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
27.69 |
1.0365 |
-0.1936 |
162 |
1 |
27.69 |
2012-02-09 |
| 103. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
27.61 |
0.8919 |
-0.0830 |
205 |
1 |
27.61 |
2012-02-12 |
| 104. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
27.50 |
0.9275 |
-0.1235 |
211 |
1 |
27.50 |
2012-02-07 |
| 105. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
27.48 |
1.0211 |
-0.1837 |
213 |
2 |
25.50 |
2012-02-10 |
| 106. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
27.45 |
0.9207 |
-0.1122 |
174 |
1 |
27.45 |
2012-02-08 |
| 107. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
26.89 |
1.0767 |
-0.2898 |
212 |
1 |
26.89 |
2012-02-10 |
| 108. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
26.77 |
0.7938 |
-0.0072 |
176 |
2 |
26.54 |
2012-02-09 |
| 109. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
26.73 |
0.8628 |
-0.0818 |
196 |
1 |
26.73 |
2013-01-21 |
| 110. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
26.68 |
0.8968 |
-0.1164 |
186 |
1 |
26.68 |
2012-02-07 |
| 111. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
26.63 |
0.9128 |
-0.0899 |
369 |
1 |
26.63 |
2012-02-07 |
| 112. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
26.51 |
0.8852 |
-0.1070 |
158 |
1 |
26.51 |
2012-02-09 |
| 113. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
26.40 |
1.0725 |
-0.2722 |
233 |
1 |
26.40 |
2012-02-05 |
| 114. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
26.19 |
1.0565 |
-0.2908 |
247 |
1 |
26.19 |
2012-02-08 |
| 115. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
26.13 |
0.8961 |
-0.1330 |
189 |
1 |
26.13 |
2012-02-10 |
| 116. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
26.07 |
1.0529 |
-0.2883 |
351 |
1 |
26.07 |
2012-02-03 |
| 117. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
25.88 |
1.0252 |
-0.2727 |
176 |
1 |
25.88 |
2012-02-07 |
| 118. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
25.67 |
0.7877 |
-0.0303 |
142 |
1 |
25.67 |
2012-02-09 |
| 119. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
25.55 |
0.9763 |
-0.2276 |
289 |
1 |
25.55 |
2012-02-06 |
| 120. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
25.50 |
1.0183 |
-0.2762 |
191 |
1 |
25.50 |
2012-02-07 |
| 121. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
24.90 |
0.9740 |
-0.2483 |
209 |
1 |
24.90 |
2012-02-09 |
| 122. |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immo... |
24.89 |
0.8244 |
-0.0933 |
73 |
1 |
24.89 |
2012-02-07 |
| 123. |
Pulp: a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. |
24.84 |
0.7559 |
-0.0280 |
46 |
1 |
24.84 |
2012-02-07 |
| 124. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
24.11 |
0.9682 |
-0.2639 |
143 |
1 |
24.11 |
2013-01-21 |
| 125. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
23.90 |
0.8162 |
-0.1111 |
149 |
1 |
23.90 |
2012-02-06 |
| 126. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
23.87 |
1.0515 |
-0.3543 |
250 |
1 |
23.87 |
2012-02-05 |
| 127. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
23.63 |
0.8077 |
-0.1177 |
167 |
1 |
23.63 |
2012-02-02 |
| 128. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
23.60 |
0.8791 |
-0.1890 |
190 |
1 |
23.60 |
2012-02-03 |
| 129. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
23.53 |
0.8809 |
-0.1942 |
127 |
1 |
23.53 |
2012-02-07 |
| 130. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
23.40 |
0.9233 |
-0.2465 |
168 |
1 |
23.40 |
2012-02-09 |
| 131. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
22.34 |
0.8154 |
-0.1602 |
193 |
1 |
22.34 |
2012-02-03 |
| 132. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
22.27 |
0.8602 |
-0.2111 |
206 |
1 |
22.27 |
2012-02-03 |
| 133. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
21.92 |
0.7826 |
-0.1379 |
97 |
1 |
21.92 |
2012-02-02 |
| 134. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
20.77 |
0.8153 |
-0.2039 |
200 |
1 |
20.77 |
2012-02-07 |