| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
82.76 |
1.0099 |
0.5009 |
207 |
1 |
82.76 |
2009-06-08 |
| 2. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
64.94 |
0.9325 |
0.2458 |
156 |
1 |
64.94 |
2009-07-11 |
| 3. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
63.96 |
1.0125 |
0.1521 |
224 |
2 |
59.52 |
2009-07-11 |
| 4. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
63.91 |
1.0396 |
0.1192 |
149 |
1 |
63.91 |
2009-05-16 |
| 5. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
62.63 |
1.0567 |
0.0863 |
303 |
2 |
59.85 |
2009-07-05 |
| 6. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
61.93 |
1.0398 |
0.0792 |
110 |
1 |
61.93 |
2009-07-10 |
| 7. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
61.57 |
1.0053 |
0.1155 |
232 |
1 |
61.57 |
2009-07-10 |
| 8. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
61.48 |
0.9769 |
0.1422 |
263 |
2 |
60.12 |
2009-06-11 |
| 9. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
60.94 |
0.9946 |
0.1164 |
246 |
2 |
56.74 |
2009-05-16 |
| 10. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
60.72 |
1.0993 |
0.0057 |
265 |
1 |
60.72 |
2009-07-11 |
| 11. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
60.59 |
1.0060 |
0.0940 |
171 |
1 |
60.59 |
2009-05-17 |
| 12. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
59.54 |
1.0515 |
0.0320 |
250 |
3 |
58.34 |
2009-06-11 |
| 13. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
59.51 |
1.0131 |
0.0678 |
225 |
3 |
54.26 |
2009-05-21 |
| 14. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
59.30 |
1.0619 |
0.0226 |
354 |
4 |
55.69 |
2009-07-10 |
| 15. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
59.22 |
1.0337 |
0.0452 |
214 |
5 |
55.94 |
2009-09-14 |
| 16. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
59.18 |
0.8933 |
0.1918 |
363 |
1 |
59.18 |
2009-07-03 |
| 17. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
59.13 |
0.9941 |
0.0813 |
217 |
1 |
59.13 |
2009-06-11 |
| 18. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
58.61 |
1.0613 |
0.0119 |
456 |
1 |
58.61 |
2009-07-04 |
| 19. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
58.51 |
1.0201 |
0.0503 |
375 |
1 |
58.51 |
2009-07-11 |
| 20. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
58.34 |
1.0498 |
0.0086 |
180 |
1 |
58.34 |
2009-05-16 |
| 21. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
57.98 |
1.0352 |
0.0240 |
341 |
1 |
57.98 |
2009-07-10 |
| 22. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
57.94 |
1.0788 |
-0.0285 |
171 |
2 |
55.47 |
2009-07-04 |
| 23. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
57.89 |
1.0218 |
0.0302 |
268 |
2 |
56.49 |
2009-07-10 |
| 24. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
57.88 |
1.0316 |
0.0270 |
333 |
1 |
57.88 |
2009-05-16 |
| 25. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
57.82 |
1.0197 |
0.0310 |
226 |
2 |
57.11 |
2009-09-21 |
| 26. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
57.79 |
1.0426 |
0.0098 |
323 |
1 |
57.79 |
2009-05-15 |
| 27. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
57.71 |
1.0565 |
-0.0075 |
247 |
2 |
56.82 |
2009-06-11 |
| 28. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
57.68 |
1.0214 |
0.0280 |
269 |
1 |
57.68 |
2009-05-17 |
| 29. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
57.56 |
0.9844 |
0.0692 |
293 |
2 |
54.13 |
2009-06-11 |
| 30. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
57.55 |
1.0016 |
0.0425 |
218 |
2 |
56.78 |
2009-06-11 |
| 31. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
57.55 |
1.0797 |
-0.0366 |
210 |
2 |
54.98 |
2009-07-10 |
| 32. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
57.44 |
1.0165 |
0.0340 |
392 |
2 |
51.99 |
2009-07-17 |
| 33. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
57.24 |
1.0487 |
-0.0108 |
231 |
2 |
53.41 |
2009-07-05 |
| 34. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
57.24 |
0.9922 |
0.0918 |
341 |
1 |
57.24 |
2009-08-21 |
| 35. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
57.20 |
1.0029 |
0.0329 |
209 |
3 |
55.06 |
2009-05-21 |
| 36. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
57.07 |
1.1018 |
-0.0684 |
220 |
1 |
57.07 |
2009-06-11 |
| 37. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
56.93 |
0.9899 |
0.0426 |
163 |
1 |
56.93 |
2009-07-10 |
| 38. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
56.75 |
1.0829 |
-0.0475 |
288 |
2 |
55.11 |
2009-07-10 |
| 39. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
56.72 |
1.0201 |
0.0065 |
172 |
1 |
56.72 |
2009-06-11 |
| 40. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
56.65 |
0.9798 |
0.0466 |
199 |
1 |
56.65 |
2009-05-15 |
| 41. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
56.55 |
1.0343 |
0.0333 |
242 |
1 |
56.55 |
2009-09-21 |
| 42. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
56.38 |
1.0477 |
-0.0182 |
360 |
1 |
56.38 |
2009-09-21 |
| 43. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
56.32 |
1.0025 |
0.0244 |
336 |
1 |
56.32 |
2009-07-03 |
| 44. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
56.26 |
0.9567 |
0.0680 |
273 |
1 |
56.26 |
2009-07-04 |
| 45. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
56.10 |
0.9866 |
0.0316 |
218 |
1 |
56.10 |
2009-05-21 |
| 46. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
56.03 |
1.0529 |
-0.0324 |
351 |
1 |
56.03 |
2009-06-11 |
| 47. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
56.01 |
1.0352 |
-0.0118 |
341 |
1 |
56.01 |
2009-07-10 |
| 48. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
55.93 |
1.0711 |
-0.0574 |
213 |
1 |
55.93 |
2009-05-17 |
| 49. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
55.87 |
0.9289 |
0.0865 |
204 |
1 |
55.87 |
2009-06-11 |
| 50. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
55.79 |
0.9965 |
0.0203 |
277 |
2 |
51.48 |
2009-05-17 |
| 51. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
55.77 |
1.0183 |
-0.0081 |
191 |
1 |
55.77 |
2009-07-06 |
| 52. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
55.65 |
1.0389 |
-0.0236 |
318 |
1 |
55.65 |
2009-07-04 |
| 53. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
55.56 |
1.0334 |
-0.0279 |
131 |
1 |
55.56 |
2009-07-10 |
| 54. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
55.46 |
1.0213 |
-0.0144 |
240 |
1 |
55.46 |
2009-06-11 |
| 55. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
55.38 |
1.0109 |
-0.0015 |
276 |
1 |
55.38 |
2009-05-21 |
| 56. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
55.37 |
0.9833 |
0.0268 |
355 |
1 |
55.37 |
2009-07-04 |
| 57. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.33 |
0.9785 |
0.0324 |
335 |
1 |
55.33 |
2009-07-11 |
| 58. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
55.23 |
1.0349 |
-0.0297 |
234 |
2 |
53.56 |
2009-05-15 |
| 59. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
55.23 |
1.0796 |
-0.0785 |
129 |
1 |
55.23 |
2009-05-16 |
| 60. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
55.22 |
0.9500 |
0.0579 |
362 |
2 |
52.86 |
2009-06-11 |
| 61. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
55.13 |
0.9852 |
0.0191 |
264 |
2 |
49.15 |
2009-07-04 |
| 62. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
55.02 |
1.0361 |
-0.0331 |
269 |
1 |
55.02 |
2009-05-16 |
| 63. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
54.95 |
0.9820 |
0.0215 |
267 |
1 |
54.95 |
2009-07-04 |
| 64. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
54.94 |
1.0486 |
-0.0473 |
289 |
2 |
54.65 |
2009-06-11 |
| 65. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
54.44 |
0.9635 |
0.0332 |
389 |
1 |
54.44 |
2009-05-16 |
| 66. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
54.38 |
0.9857 |
0.0035 |
293 |
1 |
54.38 |
2009-09-14 |
| 67. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
54.28 |
0.9485 |
0.0415 |
236 |
2 |
52.48 |
2009-07-11 |
| 68. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
54.14 |
0.9468 |
0.0385 |
276 |
2 |
49.24 |
2009-05-15 |
| 69. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
53.94 |
0.9048 |
0.0819 |
271 |
2 |
51.31 |
2009-05-16 |
| 70. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
53.88 |
0.9068 |
0.0772 |
269 |
1 |
53.88 |
2009-07-10 |
| 71. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
53.86 |
0.9233 |
0.0490 |
168 |
2 |
53.82 |
2009-09-21 |
| 72. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
53.83 |
1.0429 |
-0.0643 |
259 |
2 |
53.43 |
2009-07-10 |
| 73. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
53.82 |
0.8105 |
0.1651 |
204 |
1 |
53.82 |
2009-07-05 |
| 74. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
53.77 |
0.9684 |
0.0132 |
388 |
2 |
53.24 |
2009-06-11 |
| 75. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
53.76 |
0.9278 |
0.0537 |
295 |
1 |
53.76 |
2009-06-11 |
| 76. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
53.75 |
1.0595 |
-0.0784 |
379 |
2 |
52.92 |
2009-07-06 |
| 77. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
53.67 |
1.0252 |
-0.0546 |
176 |
1 |
53.67 |
2009-06-11 |
| 78. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
53.64 |
0.9226 |
0.0602 |
348 |
1 |
53.64 |
2009-07-04 |
| 79. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
53.48 |
1.0445 |
-0.0700 |
373 |
2 |
53.24 |
2009-06-11 |
| 80. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
53.39 |
1.0062 |
-0.0343 |
288 |
1 |
53.39 |
2009-07-04 |
| 81. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
53.26 |
1.0013 |
-0.0327 |
273 |
1 |
53.26 |
2009-07-18 |
| 82. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
53.18 |
0.9202 |
0.0472 |
254 |
1 |
53.18 |
2009-07-10 |
| 83. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
53.16 |
0.9570 |
0.0124 |
287 |
1 |
53.16 |
2009-05-15 |
| 84. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
53.05 |
0.9084 |
0.0614 |
404 |
2 |
52.16 |
2009-05-16 |
| 85. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
52.96 |
1.0696 |
-0.1091 |
226 |
2 |
52.64 |
2009-07-10 |
| 86. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
52.91 |
0.9351 |
0.0225 |
190 |
2 |
52.75 |
2009-07-10 |
| 87. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
52.86 |
0.9734 |
-0.0115 |
289 |
3 |
52.08 |
2009-09-14 |
| 88. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
52.58 |
0.9910 |
-0.0321 |
295 |
1 |
52.58 |
2009-05-15 |
| 89. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
52.53 |
0.8947 |
0.0663 |
366 |
2 |
51.39 |
2009-07-10 |
| 90. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
52.53 |
1.0767 |
-0.1228 |
212 |
1 |
52.53 |
2009-06-11 |
| 91. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
52.40 |
0.9376 |
0.0215 |
367 |
1 |
52.40 |
2009-05-16 |
| 92. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
52.16 |
0.8722 |
0.0799 |
285 |
1 |
52.16 |
2009-07-03 |
| 93. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
52.08 |
0.9879 |
-0.0314 |
450 |
1 |
52.08 |
2009-05-17 |
| 94. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
51.75 |
1.0666 |
-0.1248 |
297 |
1 |
51.75 |
2009-05-15 |
| 95. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
51.68 |
0.9234 |
0.0224 |
346 |
4 |
50.16 |
2009-06-11 |
| 96. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
51.56 |
0.8573 |
0.0845 |
270 |
3 |
49.82 |
2009-07-05 |
| 97. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
51.39 |
1.0203 |
-0.0819 |
261 |
2 |
50.08 |
2009-05-24 |
| 98. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.17 |
0.9212 |
0.0131 |
323 |
1 |
51.17 |
2009-06-11 |
| 99. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
51.13 |
1.0389 |
-0.1063 |
340 |
2 |
50.94 |
2009-06-11 |
| 100. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
50.98 |
1.0331 |
-0.1078 |
234 |
1 |
50.98 |
2009-06-11 |
| 101. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
50.78 |
1.0189 |
-0.0918 |
337 |
1 |
50.78 |
2009-05-24 |
| 102. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
50.66 |
0.8595 |
0.0639 |
242 |
2 |
49.22 |
2009-07-18 |
| 103. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
50.65 |
0.9772 |
-0.0593 |
217 |
2 |
50.25 |
2009-07-10 |
| 104. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
50.34 |
1.0528 |
-0.1421 |
201 |
1 |
50.34 |
2009-05-15 |
| 105. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
50.23 |
0.9281 |
-0.0094 |
273 |
1 |
50.23 |
2009-05-16 |
| 106. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
50.10 |
0.9633 |
-0.0499 |
304 |
1 |
50.10 |
2009-05-15 |
| 107. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
49.95 |
0.9464 |
-0.0328 |
323 |
2 |
48.23 |
2009-05-15 |
| 108. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
49.88 |
0.9293 |
-0.0213 |
355 |
1 |
49.88 |
2009-05-16 |
| 109. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
49.70 |
0.9339 |
-0.0315 |
310 |
1 |
49.70 |
2009-05-16 |
| 110. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
49.69 |
0.9309 |
-0.0291 |
284 |
1 |
49.69 |
2009-05-15 |
| 111. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
49.55 |
1.0296 |
-0.1221 |
437 |
2 |
49.50 |
2009-07-03 |
| 112. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
49.54 |
0.9672 |
-0.0598 |
396 |
1 |
49.54 |
2009-06-11 |
| 113. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
49.09 |
0.9614 |
-0.0658 |
292 |
1 |
49.09 |
2009-06-07 |
| 114. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
48.89 |
0.9168 |
-0.0266 |
240 |
1 |
48.89 |
2009-05-16 |
| 115. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
48.50 |
1.0714 |
-0.1986 |
129 |
1 |
48.50 |
2009-06-11 |
| 116. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
48.03 |
0.9429 |
-0.0685 |
287 |
1 |
48.03 |
2009-05-15 |
| 117. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
48.02 |
0.9731 |
-0.1127 |
129 |
1 |
48.02 |
2009-05-15 |
| 118. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
47.52 |
1.0124 |
-0.1511 |
204 |
2 |
46.90 |
2009-06-02 |
| 119. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
47.06 |
0.9863 |
-0.1267 |
339 |
1 |
47.06 |
2009-05-16 |
| 120. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
47.04 |
0.8382 |
0.0171 |
268 |
1 |
47.04 |
2009-06-11 |
| 121. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
46.02 |
0.9275 |
-0.0948 |
211 |
1 |
46.02 |
2010-06-05 |
| 122. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
43.92 |
0.9532 |
-0.1573 |
258 |
1 |
43.92 |
2009-06-07 |
| 123. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
43.35 |
0.8553 |
-0.0737 |
174 |
1 |
43.35 |
2009-06-11 |
| 124. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
42.83 |
0.8996 |
-0.1280 |
192 |
1 |
42.83 |
2009-07-05 |
| 125. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
42.55 |
0.9740 |
-0.2061 |
209 |
1 |
42.55 |
2009-05-15 |
| 126. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
42.39 |
0.8878 |
-0.1190 |
346 |
1 |
42.39 |
2009-05-15 |
| 127. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
41.98 |
0.8961 |
-0.1380 |
189 |
1 |
41.98 |
2009-06-11 |
| 128. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
39.22 |
0.8890 |
-0.1821 |
199 |
1 |
39.22 |
2009-05-15 |
| 129. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
37.74 |
1.0168 |
-0.3322 |
271 |
1 |
37.74 |
2009-05-15 |