| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
86.81 |
1.0033 |
0.3023 |
189 |
3 |
80.29 |
2009-11-27 |
| 2. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
85.53 |
1.1018 |
0.1846 |
220 |
1 |
85.53 |
2011-08-01 |
| 3. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
83.17 |
1.0740 |
0.2211 |
264 |
1 |
83.17 |
2011-08-01 |
| 4. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
82.17 |
1.0619 |
0.1832 |
354 |
1 |
82.17 |
2011-08-01 |
| 5. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
81.42 |
1.0004 |
0.2235 |
212 |
2 |
74.32 |
2009-11-27 |
| 6. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
81.21 |
1.0396 |
0.1800 |
149 |
1 |
81.21 |
2010-11-10 |
| 7. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
80.50 |
0.9942 |
0.2306 |
483 |
2 |
67.43 |
2010-11-10 |
| 8. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
79.08 |
1.0529 |
0.1413 |
351 |
1 |
79.08 |
2009-11-27 |
| 9. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
79.02 |
1.0555 |
0.1393 |
363 |
1 |
79.02 |
2008-11-18 |
| 10. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
78.95 |
1.0885 |
0.1071 |
315 |
1 |
78.95 |
2008-11-23 |
| 11. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
77.84 |
1.0608 |
0.1479 |
258 |
1 |
77.84 |
2011-08-01 |
| 12. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
77.08 |
0.9553 |
0.2157 |
430 |
2 |
72.75 |
2011-08-01 |
| 13. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
76.95 |
0.9871 |
0.2109 |
209 |
1 |
76.95 |
2010-11-10 |
| 14. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
76.47 |
1.0261 |
0.1265 |
273 |
4 |
71.25 |
2012-03-05 |
| 15. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
76.45 |
1.0316 |
0.1264 |
333 |
1 |
76.45 |
2009-11-27 |
| 16. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
76.42 |
1.0214 |
0.1269 |
166 |
1 |
76.42 |
2008-11-18 |
| 17. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
76.04 |
1.0352 |
0.1158 |
341 |
2 |
74.29 |
2008-11-23 |
| 18. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
75.82 |
1.0389 |
0.1081 |
340 |
1 |
75.82 |
2008-11-23 |
| 19. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
75.19 |
1.0596 |
0.0732 |
239 |
1 |
75.19 |
2009-11-27 |
| 20. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
75.15 |
1.0352 |
0.1017 |
341 |
1 |
75.15 |
2010-11-10 |
| 21. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
74.77 |
1.0398 |
0.0782 |
110 |
1 |
74.77 |
2008-11-19 |
| 22. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
74.54 |
0.9371 |
0.2268 |
318 |
1 |
74.54 |
2010-11-08 |
| 23. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
74.37 |
1.0477 |
0.0771 |
360 |
1 |
74.37 |
2008-11-27 |
| 24. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
74.17 |
0.9540 |
0.1636 |
285 |
3 |
69.98 |
2009-11-27 |
| 25. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
74.02 |
1.0441 |
0.0745 |
252 |
1 |
74.02 |
2008-11-27 |
| 26. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
73.15 |
0.9514 |
0.1527 |
237 |
2 |
64.79 |
2010-11-10 |
| 27. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
73.14 |
1.0412 |
0.0618 |
225 |
1 |
73.14 |
2009-11-27 |
| 28. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
72.82 |
1.0426 |
0.0555 |
323 |
1 |
72.82 |
2011-08-01 |
| 29. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
71.91 |
1.0368 |
0.0490 |
276 |
1 |
71.91 |
2008-11-18 |
| 30. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
71.24 |
1.0788 |
-0.0098 |
171 |
1 |
71.24 |
2011-08-01 |
| 31. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
71.19 |
1.0496 |
0.0236 |
314 |
1 |
71.19 |
2008-11-18 |
| 32. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
71.08 |
1.0613 |
0.0118 |
266 |
1 |
71.08 |
2009-07-05 |
| 33. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
70.47 |
0.9899 |
0.0683 |
163 |
1 |
70.47 |
2009-11-27 |
| 34. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
70.46 |
1.0172 |
0.0806 |
341 |
1 |
70.46 |
2011-08-01 |
| 35. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
70.34 |
0.9798 |
0.0754 |
199 |
1 |
70.34 |
2012-03-05 |
| 36. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
70.13 |
1.0201 |
0.0308 |
172 |
1 |
70.13 |
2008-11-17 |
| 37. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
70.07 |
0.9646 |
0.0913 |
264 |
2 |
69.70 |
2011-08-01 |
| 38. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
69.84 |
0.9907 |
0.0610 |
211 |
2 |
65.60 |
2009-08-28 |
| 39. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
69.69 |
0.9912 |
0.0867 |
237 |
1 |
69.69 |
2012-03-05 |
| 40. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
69.46 |
1.0109 |
0.0695 |
400 |
1 |
69.46 |
2009-11-27 |
| 41. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
69.22 |
1.0167 |
0.0339 |
378 |
1 |
69.22 |
2008-11-18 |
| 42. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
69.01 |
0.9376 |
0.1084 |
367 |
2 |
65.83 |
2011-08-01 |
| 43. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
68.98 |
0.9785 |
0.0648 |
335 |
1 |
68.98 |
2008-11-19 |
| 44. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
68.80 |
0.9567 |
0.1229 |
184 |
2 |
58.06 |
2010-11-10 |
| 45. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
68.60 |
0.9756 |
0.0574 |
229 |
1 |
68.60 |
2008-11-17 |
| 46. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
68.45 |
0.8914 |
0.1414 |
366 |
1 |
68.45 |
2010-11-08 |
| 47. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
68.44 |
1.0029 |
0.0226 |
209 |
1 |
68.44 |
2009-11-27 |
| 48. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
68.18 |
1.0257 |
0.0086 |
401 |
1 |
68.18 |
2008-11-18 |
| 49. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
67.35 |
1.0289 |
-0.0092 |
276 |
1 |
67.35 |
2008-11-27 |
| 50. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
66.98 |
0.9226 |
0.0933 |
348 |
1 |
66.98 |
2008-11-23 |
| 51. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
66.77 |
0.9886 |
0.0203 |
220 |
1 |
66.77 |
2008-11-18 |
| 52. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
66.75 |
1.0138 |
-0.0081 |
231 |
1 |
66.75 |
2008-11-19 |
| 53. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
66.58 |
0.9614 |
0.0451 |
292 |
2 |
61.36 |
2008-11-18 |
| 54. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
66.57 |
0.9567 |
0.0464 |
273 |
1 |
66.57 |
2009-11-27 |
| 55. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
66.50 |
1.0214 |
-0.0208 |
269 |
1 |
66.50 |
2009-03-07 |
| 56. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
66.30 |
0.9513 |
0.0517 |
354 |
1 |
66.30 |
2011-08-01 |
| 57. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
66.16 |
0.9485 |
0.0503 |
236 |
2 |
61.31 |
2011-08-01 |
| 58. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
66.08 |
0.9697 |
0.0264 |
249 |
1 |
66.08 |
2008-11-17 |
| 59. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
65.90 |
0.8958 |
0.1019 |
322 |
1 |
65.90 |
2009-11-27 |
| 60. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
65.78 |
0.9910 |
0.0022 |
295 |
2 |
63.33 |
2008-11-18 |
| 61. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
65.72 |
1.0251 |
-0.0369 |
261 |
1 |
65.72 |
2008-11-17 |
| 62. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
65.28 |
0.9578 |
0.0254 |
281 |
3 |
61.09 |
2009-11-27 |
| 63. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
65.22 |
0.9710 |
0.0052 |
173 |
1 |
65.22 |
2008-11-19 |
| 64. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
65.10 |
1.0023 |
-0.0233 |
211 |
1 |
65.10 |
2009-03-07 |
| 65. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
64.94 |
1.0095 |
-0.0321 |
316 |
1 |
64.94 |
2010-11-08 |
| 66. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
64.86 |
0.8467 |
0.1547 |
343 |
2 |
59.78 |
2011-08-01 |
| 67. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
64.80 |
1.0211 |
-0.0141 |
213 |
1 |
64.80 |
2009-08-28 |
| 68. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
64.55 |
0.7876 |
0.1875 |
316 |
1 |
64.55 |
2010-11-10 |
| 69. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
64.48 |
0.8753 |
0.1053 |
427 |
1 |
64.48 |
2011-08-01 |
| 70. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
64.27 |
0.9687 |
0.0042 |
371 |
1 |
64.27 |
2010-11-10 |
| 71. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
64.02 |
0.9597 |
0.0088 |
347 |
1 |
64.02 |
2010-11-10 |
| 72. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
63.94 |
1.0340 |
-0.0656 |
406 |
1 |
63.94 |
2008-11-19 |
| 73. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
63.93 |
0.8775 |
0.0891 |
443 |
1 |
63.93 |
2011-08-01 |
| 74. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
63.54 |
0.9946 |
-0.0377 |
246 |
2 |
62.49 |
2009-11-30 |
| 75. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
63.53 |
1.0150 |
-0.0091 |
325 |
1 |
63.53 |
2009-11-27 |
| 76. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
63.46 |
0.9965 |
-0.0454 |
168 |
1 |
63.46 |
2010-11-10 |
| 77. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
63.18 |
0.9635 |
-0.0065 |
389 |
1 |
63.18 |
2008-11-19 |
| 78. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
63.16 |
1.0131 |
-0.0657 |
225 |
1 |
63.16 |
2008-11-18 |
| 79. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
63.06 |
1.0213 |
-0.0747 |
240 |
2 |
57.76 |
2009-02-03 |
| 80. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
62.99 |
0.9772 |
-0.0320 |
217 |
1 |
62.99 |
2008-11-18 |
| 81. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
62.65 |
0.9846 |
-0.0422 |
281 |
1 |
62.65 |
2008-11-17 |
| 82. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
62.50 |
0.9863 |
-0.0407 |
339 |
1 |
62.50 |
2009-08-28 |
| 83. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
62.35 |
0.9500 |
-0.0089 |
362 |
1 |
62.35 |
2008-11-27 |
| 84. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
62.33 |
0.9570 |
-0.0167 |
287 |
1 |
62.33 |
2010-11-10 |
| 85. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
62.26 |
0.9776 |
-0.0398 |
308 |
1 |
62.26 |
2008-11-18 |
| 86. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
62.06 |
0.9681 |
-0.0253 |
378 |
1 |
62.06 |
2008-11-19 |
| 87. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
61.95 |
0.9593 |
-0.0218 |
398 |
1 |
61.95 |
2008-11-18 |
| 88. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
61.84 |
0.8442 |
0.0909 |
265 |
1 |
61.84 |
2008-11-27 |
| 89. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
61.84 |
0.9632 |
-0.0257 |
392 |
1 |
61.84 |
2008-11-18 |
| 90. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
61.03 |
1.0031 |
-0.0508 |
304 |
1 |
61.03 |
2009-11-27 |
| 91. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
61.02 |
1.0016 |
-0.0876 |
218 |
1 |
61.02 |
2008-11-17 |
| 92. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
60.71 |
0.8996 |
0.0088 |
192 |
1 |
60.71 |
2008-11-18 |
| 93. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
60.45 |
1.0088 |
-0.0602 |
396 |
1 |
60.45 |
2011-08-01 |
| 94. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
60.37 |
0.8890 |
0.0161 |
199 |
1 |
60.37 |
2010-11-08 |
| 95. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
60.21 |
0.9649 |
-0.0597 |
193 |
1 |
60.21 |
2010-11-10 |
| 96. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
60.15 |
0.9398 |
-0.0252 |
419 |
2 |
52.19 |
2010-11-10 |
| 97. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
59.88 |
0.9879 |
-0.0780 |
450 |
1 |
59.88 |
2008-11-19 |
| 98. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
59.83 |
0.9372 |
-0.0327 |
320 |
1 |
59.83 |
2008-11-18 |
| 99. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
59.64 |
0.9754 |
-0.0717 |
362 |
1 |
59.64 |
2008-11-17 |
| 100. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
59.45 |
0.8810 |
0.0145 |
282 |
1 |
59.45 |
2008-11-23 |
| 101. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
59.24 |
0.9633 |
-0.0697 |
304 |
1 |
59.24 |
2008-11-17 |
| 102. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
59.15 |
0.9049 |
-0.0094 |
351 |
2 |
50.95 |
2009-08-28 |
| 103. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
58.21 |
1.0203 |
-0.1412 |
261 |
1 |
58.21 |
2008-11-17 |
| 104. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
58.20 |
0.9072 |
-0.0333 |
237 |
2 |
54.15 |
2009-08-28 |
| 105. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
57.99 |
0.9202 |
-0.0485 |
254 |
1 |
57.99 |
2008-11-27 |
| 106. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
57.57 |
0.9792 |
-0.0748 |
265 |
1 |
57.57 |
2010-11-10 |
| 107. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
57.54 |
0.9213 |
-0.0553 |
295 |
1 |
57.54 |
2008-11-18 |
| 108. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
56.45 |
1.0099 |
-0.1639 |
207 |
1 |
56.45 |
2011-08-01 |
| 109. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
54.60 |
0.9740 |
-0.1575 |
209 |
1 |
54.60 |
2008-11-18 |
| 110. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
54.48 |
0.9884 |
-0.1704 |
233 |
1 |
54.48 |
2008-11-17 |
| 111. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
53.69 |
0.9898 |
-0.1455 |
353 |
1 |
53.69 |
2012-03-05 |
| 112. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
53.42 |
0.9064 |
-0.0946 |
399 |
2 |
53.36 |
2011-08-01 |
| 113. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
52.94 |
0.9084 |
-0.1113 |
300 |
1 |
52.94 |
2008-11-19 |
| 114. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
52.89 |
0.8602 |
-0.0679 |
206 |
1 |
52.89 |
2009-03-07 |
| 115. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
49.72 |
0.9936 |
-0.2478 |
311 |
1 |
49.72 |
2008-11-19 |
| 116. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
49.32 |
0.8533 |
-0.1122 |
232 |
1 |
49.32 |
2009-03-07 |
| 117. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
48.19 |
1.0419 |
-0.3191 |
261 |
1 |
48.19 |
2008-11-17 |
| 118. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
47.03 |
0.8105 |
-0.1097 |
204 |
1 |
47.03 |
2010-11-10 |
| 119. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
45.95 |
0.8919 |
-0.2050 |
205 |
1 |
45.95 |
2009-07-05 |
| 120. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
45.38 |
0.9365 |
-0.2552 |
248 |
1 |
45.38 |
2010-11-08 |
| 121. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
45.26 |
0.9866 |
-0.3123 |
218 |
1 |
45.26 |
2008-11-17 |
| 122. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
44.93 |
0.9851 |
-0.3099 |
317 |
1 |
44.93 |
2008-11-17 |
| 123. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
44.65 |
0.9908 |
-0.2762 |
342 |
1 |
44.65 |
2009-11-27 |
| 124. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
43.83 |
0.9278 |
-0.2689 |
295 |
2 |
41.58 |
2010-11-08 |