| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
37.86 |
1.0016 |
0.2783 |
218 |
2 |
35.22 |
2009-03-12 |
| 2. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
37.53 |
0.8810 |
0.3930 |
282 |
2 |
32.72 |
2009-03-23 |
| 3. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
37.18 |
0.9646 |
0.2957 |
264 |
1 |
37.18 |
2009-03-23 |
| 4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
36.44 |
1.0496 |
0.1855 |
314 |
1 |
36.44 |
2008-12-08 |
| 5. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
36.23 |
0.9897 |
0.2366 |
274 |
1 |
36.23 |
2009-02-23 |
| 6. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
35.88 |
1.0389 |
0.1801 |
340 |
1 |
35.88 |
2009-03-12 |
| 7. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
35.18 |
1.0390 |
0.1498 |
205 |
3 |
30.08 |
2009-02-23 |
| 8. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
35.12 |
0.9756 |
0.2137 |
229 |
1 |
35.12 |
2008-11-26 |
| 9. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
35.05 |
1.0197 |
0.1656 |
226 |
1 |
35.05 |
2008-11-26 |
| 10. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
34.92 |
1.0004 |
0.1772 |
212 |
2 |
31.16 |
2009-03-12 |
| 11. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
34.63 |
1.0095 |
0.1632 |
316 |
1 |
34.63 |
2008-11-26 |
| 12. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
34.57 |
1.0714 |
0.0914 |
129 |
4 |
29.35 |
2008-11-11 |
| 13. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
34.19 |
1.0515 |
0.1053 |
250 |
1 |
34.19 |
2008-11-18 |
| 14. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
34.08 |
1.0023 |
0.1507 |
211 |
2 |
29.29 |
2008-11-11 |
| 15. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
33.89 |
0.8096 |
0.3467 |
209 |
1 |
33.89 |
2009-03-12 |
| 16. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
33.86 |
0.9286 |
0.2178 |
194 |
2 |
30.77 |
2008-11-18 |
| 17. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
33.57 |
0.9289 |
0.2063 |
204 |
1 |
33.57 |
2009-03-12 |
| 18. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
33.57 |
0.9997 |
0.1414 |
382 |
1 |
33.57 |
2008-11-26 |
| 19. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
33.29 |
0.9196 |
0.2100 |
148 |
1 |
33.29 |
2008-10-28 |
| 20. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
33.20 |
0.9309 |
0.1920 |
284 |
2 |
31.99 |
2009-03-16 |
| 21. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
33.14 |
1.0218 |
0.0980 |
268 |
1 |
33.14 |
2009-01-08 |
| 22. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
33.06 |
0.8323 |
0.2881 |
203 |
3 |
28.57 |
2008-11-04 |
| 23. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
32.99 |
0.9084 |
0.2110 |
300 |
2 |
29.49 |
2009-03-24 |
| 24. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
32.85 |
0.9365 |
0.1777 |
248 |
1 |
32.85 |
2009-01-08 |
| 25. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
32.85 |
0.9567 |
0.1559 |
273 |
1 |
32.85 |
2009-02-23 |
| 26. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
32.79 |
0.9697 |
0.1412 |
249 |
2 |
31.19 |
2009-03-12 |
| 27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
32.74 |
0.9251 |
0.1889 |
177 |
1 |
32.74 |
2008-11-26 |
| 28. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
32.65 |
1.0444 |
0.0549 |
197 |
3 |
29.49 |
2008-11-27 |
| 29. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
32.61 |
1.0787 |
0.0246 |
237 |
2 |
29.76 |
2008-11-18 |
| 30. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
32.61 |
1.0025 |
0.1020 |
256 |
2 |
29.35 |
2008-11-18 |
| 31. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
32.37 |
0.8852 |
0.2132 |
201 |
1 |
32.37 |
2008-11-18 |
| 32. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
32.36 |
0.7375 |
0.3617 |
148 |
2 |
28.11 |
2008-11-11 |
| 33. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
32.31 |
0.9846 |
0.1086 |
281 |
2 |
28.95 |
2008-11-18 |
| 34. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
32.24 |
0.8867 |
0.2111 |
163 |
2 |
29.63 |
2008-10-21 |
| 35. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
32.21 |
1.0797 |
0.0056 |
210 |
3 |
29.08 |
2008-11-11 |
| 36. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
32.20 |
0.7259 |
0.3705 |
186 |
3 |
27.10 |
2009-01-09 |
| 37. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
32.19 |
0.9072 |
0.1813 |
237 |
2 |
28.88 |
2008-11-11 |
| 38. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
32.17 |
0.9578 |
0.1312 |
281 |
1 |
32.17 |
2008-12-17 |
| 39. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
31.94 |
0.8573 |
0.2279 |
270 |
1 |
31.94 |
2008-11-18 |
| 40. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
31.93 |
0.9612 |
0.1201 |
256 |
2 |
27.45 |
2009-01-09 |
| 41. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
31.64 |
1.0483 |
0.0200 |
227 |
1 |
31.64 |
2008-11-11 |
| 42. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
31.45 |
1.0252 |
0.0331 |
176 |
3 |
29.11 |
2008-11-18 |
| 43. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
31.41 |
0.9866 |
0.0732 |
218 |
1 |
31.41 |
2008-11-11 |
| 44. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
31.20 |
0.9226 |
0.1375 |
177 |
1 |
31.20 |
2008-10-14 |
| 45. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
31.16 |
0.8821 |
0.1723 |
176 |
1 |
31.16 |
2008-11-11 |
| 46. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
31.03 |
1.0201 |
0.0307 |
303 |
1 |
31.03 |
2008-11-26 |
| 47. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
30.96 |
0.8745 |
0.1713 |
169 |
1 |
30.96 |
2008-11-04 |
| 48. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
30.81 |
0.9946 |
0.0481 |
246 |
1 |
30.81 |
2009-01-08 |
| 49. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
30.69 |
0.9786 |
0.0550 |
193 |
3 |
26.41 |
2008-11-11 |
| 50. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
30.67 |
0.9910 |
0.0490 |
295 |
1 |
30.67 |
2009-01-08 |
| 51. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
30.62 |
1.0183 |
0.0125 |
191 |
1 |
30.62 |
2008-11-26 |
| 52. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
30.56 |
0.7389 |
0.2968 |
145 |
3 |
27.08 |
2008-11-11 |
| 53. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
30.37 |
0.8125 |
0.2178 |
197 |
1 |
30.37 |
2008-10-28 |
| 54. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
30.22 |
0.9852 |
0.0378 |
264 |
1 |
30.22 |
2008-11-18 |
| 55. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
30.19 |
0.9164 |
0.1087 |
121 |
4 |
25.76 |
2008-11-04 |
| 56. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
30.14 |
0.8422 |
0.1794 |
164 |
1 |
30.14 |
2008-11-04 |
| 57. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
30.11 |
1.0029 |
0.0096 |
209 |
2 |
28.19 |
2008-10-07 |
| 58. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
30.02 |
0.8747 |
0.1366 |
201 |
2 |
29.21 |
2008-11-04 |
| 59. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
29.87 |
0.9266 |
0.0842 |
267 |
1 |
29.87 |
2008-11-04 |
| 60. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
29.78 |
0.9266 |
0.0828 |
278 |
1 |
29.78 |
2008-11-04 |
| 61. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
29.76 |
1.0201 |
-0.0200 |
172 |
1 |
29.76 |
2008-11-04 |
| 62. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
29.72 |
1.0331 |
-0.0298 |
234 |
1 |
29.72 |
2008-10-21 |
| 63. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
29.46 |
0.8533 |
0.1444 |
232 |
1 |
29.46 |
2008-11-11 |
| 64. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
29.38 |
1.0711 |
-0.0823 |
213 |
1 |
29.38 |
2008-10-28 |
| 65. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
29.38 |
1.0523 |
-0.0627 |
256 |
1 |
29.38 |
2008-10-14 |
| 66. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
29.36 |
0.9260 |
0.0776 |
243 |
1 |
29.36 |
2008-10-28 |
| 67. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
29.33 |
1.0337 |
-0.0421 |
214 |
1 |
29.33 |
2008-11-18 |
| 68. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
29.33 |
1.0124 |
-0.0226 |
204 |
1 |
29.33 |
2008-10-14 |
| 69. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.24 |
0.9731 |
0.0035 |
129 |
2 |
26.89 |
2009-01-08 |
| 70. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
29.04 |
0.8739 |
0.1043 |
136 |
2 |
28.32 |
2008-10-14 |
| 71. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
28.85 |
0.8154 |
0.1621 |
193 |
2 |
27.13 |
2008-11-11 |
| 72. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
28.61 |
0.9221 |
0.0439 |
244 |
1 |
28.61 |
2008-11-04 |
| 73. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
28.61 |
0.8660 |
0.1019 |
193 |
2 |
27.48 |
2008-11-04 |
| 74. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
28.59 |
0.9884 |
-0.0224 |
233 |
1 |
28.59 |
2009-01-08 |
| 75. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
28.59 |
0.8916 |
0.0755 |
216 |
2 |
27.06 |
2008-11-27 |
| 76. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
28.45 |
0.7690 |
0.1946 |
142 |
2 |
28.11 |
2008-11-04 |
| 77. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
28.38 |
0.9805 |
-0.0163 |
292 |
1 |
28.38 |
2008-11-18 |
| 78. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
28.25 |
0.9965 |
-0.0461 |
168 |
3 |
25.57 |
2008-10-07 |
| 79. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
28.20 |
0.8715 |
0.0781 |
130 |
1 |
28.20 |
2008-10-14 |
| 80. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
28.18 |
1.0213 |
-0.0717 |
240 |
1 |
28.18 |
2008-10-28 |
| 81. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
28.09 |
0.9307 |
0.0270 |
246 |
1 |
28.09 |
2008-11-04 |
| 82. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
27.90 |
0.9941 |
-0.0533 |
217 |
1 |
27.90 |
2008-11-11 |
| 83. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
27.81 |
0.9045 |
0.0359 |
235 |
1 |
27.81 |
2008-11-11 |
| 84. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
27.64 |
0.8811 |
0.0578 |
239 |
1 |
27.64 |
2008-11-11 |
| 85. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
27.58 |
0.9633 |
-0.0289 |
304 |
1 |
27.58 |
2008-10-07 |
| 86. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
27.10 |
0.9798 |
-0.0697 |
199 |
1 |
27.10 |
2008-10-28 |
| 87. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
27.09 |
1.0487 |
-0.1383 |
231 |
2 |
25.85 |
2008-10-28 |
| 88. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
27.07 |
0.8595 |
0.0570 |
242 |
1 |
27.07 |
2008-11-04 |
| 89. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
26.64 |
1.0396 |
-0.1468 |
149 |
1 |
26.64 |
2008-10-07 |
| 90. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
26.50 |
0.9572 |
-0.0631 |
201 |
1 |
26.50 |
2008-10-14 |
| 91. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
26.38 |
1.0498 |
-0.1635 |
180 |
2 |
24.65 |
2008-09-30 |
| 92. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
26.33 |
0.8553 |
0.0290 |
174 |
1 |
26.33 |
2008-11-11 |
| 93. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
26.31 |
0.8442 |
0.0485 |
265 |
1 |
26.31 |
2008-11-04 |
| 94. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
26.25 |
0.8152 |
0.0716 |
163 |
1 |
26.25 |
2008-10-07 |
| 95. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
26.24 |
0.9729 |
-0.0864 |
255 |
1 |
26.24 |
2008-09-30 |
| 96. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
26.22 |
0.8975 |
-0.0114 |
268 |
1 |
26.22 |
2008-10-21 |
| 97. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
26.12 |
0.9851 |
-0.1007 |
317 |
1 |
26.12 |
2008-10-21 |
| 98. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
25.95 |
1.0251 |
-0.1510 |
261 |
1 |
25.95 |
2008-10-07 |
| 99. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
25.91 |
0.8826 |
-0.0062 |
296 |
1 |
25.91 |
2008-10-28 |
| 100. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
25.77 |
0.8899 |
-0.0086 |
293 |
1 |
25.77 |
2008-10-07 |
| 101. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
25.72 |
0.7916 |
0.0846 |
184 |
1 |
25.72 |
2008-10-07 |
| 102. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
25.63 |
0.9351 |
-0.0752 |
190 |
1 |
25.63 |
2008-10-14 |
| 103. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
25.58 |
1.0214 |
-0.1594 |
269 |
1 |
25.58 |
2008-10-07 |
| 104. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
25.57 |
0.8544 |
0.0093 |
170 |
1 |
25.57 |
2008-10-01 |
| 105. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
25.48 |
0.9710 |
-0.1173 |
173 |
1 |
25.48 |
2008-10-01 |
| 106. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
25.39 |
0.7934 |
0.0630 |
134 |
1 |
25.39 |
2008-10-07 |
| 107. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
25.33 |
0.8809 |
-0.0280 |
127 |
1 |
25.33 |
2008-10-28 |
| 108. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
25.29 |
0.9682 |
-0.1164 |
143 |
1 |
25.29 |
2008-10-07 |
| 109. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
25.07 |
0.8105 |
0.0314 |
204 |
2 |
23.31 |
2008-10-07 |
| 110. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
25.05 |
0.8190 |
0.0335 |
135 |
1 |
25.05 |
2008-10-01 |
| 111. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
25.04 |
0.8887 |
-0.0295 |
128 |
1 |
25.04 |
2008-10-28 |
| 112. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
24.93 |
1.0796 |
-0.2430 |
129 |
1 |
24.93 |
2008-10-01 |
| 113. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
24.66 |
0.9907 |
-0.1602 |
211 |
1 |
24.66 |
2008-10-14 |
| 114. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
24.52 |
0.8956 |
-0.0657 |
217 |
2 |
23.88 |
2008-10-07 |
| 115. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
24.39 |
1.0099 |
-0.1899 |
207 |
2 |
24.16 |
2008-10-01 |
| 116. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
24.11 |
0.8153 |
0.0028 |
200 |
1 |
24.11 |
2008-10-28 |
| 117. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
23.97 |
0.8700 |
-0.0622 |
127 |
1 |
23.97 |
2008-10-07 |
| 118. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
23.71 |
0.8360 |
-0.0372 |
170 |
2 |
23.36 |
2008-10-14 |
| 119. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
23.63 |
0.8118 |
-0.0101 |
109 |
2 |
23.63 |
2008-10-21 |
| 120. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
23.26 |
0.8602 |
-0.0782 |
206 |
1 |
23.26 |
2008-10-14 |
| 121. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
23.13 |
0.8910 |
-0.1096 |
150 |
1 |
23.13 |
2008-10-01 |
| 122. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
23.05 |
0.9514 |
-0.1741 |
237 |
1 |
23.05 |
2008-10-14 |
| 123. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
22.92 |
1.0696 |
-0.3006 |
226 |
1 |
22.92 |
2008-09-30 |
| 124. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
22.76 |
0.8263 |
-0.0614 |
162 |
1 |
22.76 |
2008-10-01 |
| 125. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
22.27 |
0.8145 |
-0.0620 |
115 |
1 |
22.27 |
2008-10-21 |
| 126. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
21.96 |
0.8996 |
-0.1655 |
192 |
1 |
21.96 |
2008-09-30 |
| 127. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
21.59 |
0.8615 |
-0.1345 |
110 |
1 |
21.59 |
2008-10-07 |
| 128. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
21.56 |
0.9430 |
-0.2244 |
211 |
1 |
21.56 |
2008-09-30 |
| 129. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
21.49 |
0.8323 |
-0.1102 |
145 |
1 |
21.49 |
2008-09-30 |
| 130. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
19.63 |
0.9325 |
-0.2794 |
156 |
1 |
19.63 |
2008-09-30 |