| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
37.85 |
0.8506 |
0.4063 |
132 |
2 |
34.13 |
2009-07-14 |
| 2. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
36.99 |
1.1018 |
0.1240 |
220 |
2 |
32.91 |
2009-07-24 |
| 3. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
35.12 |
1.0711 |
0.0930 |
213 |
1 |
35.12 |
2009-07-24 |
| 4. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
34.92 |
1.0463 |
0.1116 |
182 |
2 |
33.81 |
2009-08-24 |
| 5. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
34.35 |
0.8544 |
0.2893 |
170 |
2 |
32.78 |
2009-07-24 |
| 6. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.03 |
1.0138 |
0.1184 |
231 |
2 |
32.93 |
2009-07-24 |
| 7. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
34.01 |
1.0263 |
0.1048 |
267 |
2 |
32.26 |
2009-07-14 |
| 8. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
33.84 |
1.1016 |
0.0247 |
233 |
1 |
33.84 |
2009-07-17 |
| 9. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
33.72 |
0.8811 |
0.2456 |
239 |
1 |
33.72 |
2009-07-08 |
| 10. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
33.71 |
1.0799 |
0.0382 |
243 |
1 |
33.71 |
2009-07-08 |
| 11. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
33.51 |
0.9263 |
0.1923 |
188 |
2 |
31.35 |
2009-07-14 |
| 12. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
33.39 |
1.0334 |
0.0711 |
131 |
1 |
33.39 |
2009-07-24 |
| 13. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
33.12 |
1.0331 |
0.0666 |
234 |
1 |
33.12 |
2009-07-06 |
| 14. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
33.01 |
0.9226 |
0.1794 |
177 |
1 |
33.01 |
2009-07-14 |
| 15. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
32.85 |
0.8037 |
0.2918 |
148 |
2 |
32.19 |
2009-07-14 |
| 16. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
32.80 |
0.8715 |
0.2158 |
130 |
1 |
32.80 |
2009-07-13 |
| 17. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
32.29 |
1.0788 |
-0.0104 |
171 |
2 |
31.62 |
2009-07-09 |
| 18. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
31.87 |
0.8519 |
0.2117 |
150 |
1 |
31.87 |
2009-08-24 |
| 19. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
31.78 |
0.8809 |
0.1737 |
127 |
2 |
30.27 |
2009-07-14 |
| 20. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
31.66 |
0.9513 |
0.1053 |
354 |
1 |
31.66 |
2009-07-24 |
| 21. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
31.49 |
0.9196 |
0.1292 |
148 |
2 |
31.11 |
2009-07-24 |
| 22. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
31.47 |
0.9851 |
0.0635 |
317 |
1 |
31.47 |
2009-07-14 |
| 23. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
31.46 |
0.8615 |
0.1847 |
110 |
2 |
28.60 |
2009-08-24 |
| 24. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
31.45 |
0.9307 |
0.1230 |
246 |
2 |
31.06 |
2009-07-17 |
| 25. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
31.38 |
0.8145 |
0.2312 |
115 |
3 |
29.16 |
2009-07-13 |
| 26. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
31.19 |
1.0099 |
0.0242 |
207 |
1 |
31.19 |
2009-08-24 |
| 27. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
31.03 |
0.8852 |
0.1468 |
158 |
1 |
31.03 |
2009-07-07 |
| 28. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
30.97 |
1.0462 |
-0.0227 |
184 |
1 |
30.97 |
2009-07-14 |
| 29. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
30.95 |
1.0349 |
-0.0067 |
234 |
1 |
30.95 |
2009-07-13 |
| 30. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
30.91 |
0.8910 |
0.1382 |
150 |
2 |
29.26 |
2009-07-28 |
| 31. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
30.73 |
1.0004 |
0.0150 |
212 |
1 |
30.73 |
2009-07-08 |
| 32. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
30.65 |
0.8821 |
0.1362 |
176 |
1 |
30.65 |
2009-07-10 |
| 33. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
30.62 |
0.9233 |
0.0862 |
168 |
1 |
30.62 |
2009-07-17 |
| 34. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
30.40 |
0.9682 |
0.0403 |
143 |
1 |
30.40 |
2009-07-08 |
| 35. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
30.38 |
0.8628 |
0.1435 |
196 |
4 |
29.70 |
2009-07-30 |
| 36. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
30.11 |
0.8323 |
0.1669 |
145 |
1 |
30.11 |
2009-07-09 |
| 37. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
30.10 |
0.9514 |
0.0492 |
237 |
1 |
30.10 |
2009-07-10 |
| 38. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
30.07 |
0.9275 |
0.0685 |
211 |
1 |
30.07 |
2009-07-14 |
| 39. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
30.04 |
1.0124 |
-0.0165 |
204 |
1 |
30.04 |
2009-07-13 |
| 40. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
29.92 |
0.9316 |
0.0686 |
287 |
1 |
29.92 |
2009-07-13 |
| 41. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
29.89 |
0.8852 |
0.1101 |
201 |
2 |
28.74 |
2009-07-14 |
| 42. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
29.70 |
0.8188 |
0.1691 |
183 |
1 |
29.70 |
2009-07-14 |
| 43. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
29.61 |
0.7690 |
0.2164 |
142 |
2 |
27.54 |
2009-07-14 |
| 44. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.57 |
0.8190 |
0.1704 |
135 |
1 |
29.57 |
2009-07-24 |
| 45. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
29.42 |
1.0183 |
-0.0465 |
191 |
1 |
29.42 |
2009-07-24 |
| 46. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
29.36 |
0.8153 |
0.1649 |
200 |
1 |
29.36 |
2009-07-14 |
| 47. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
29.20 |
1.0016 |
-0.0362 |
218 |
1 |
29.20 |
2009-07-24 |
| 48. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
29.13 |
0.8666 |
0.1040 |
150 |
1 |
29.13 |
2009-07-14 |
| 49. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.08 |
0.9731 |
-0.0197 |
129 |
1 |
29.08 |
2009-07-24 |
| 50. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
28.96 |
0.9567 |
0.0050 |
273 |
1 |
28.96 |
2009-07-06 |
| 51. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
28.77 |
0.7389 |
0.2180 |
145 |
1 |
28.77 |
2009-08-24 |
| 52. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
28.73 |
1.0498 |
-0.1004 |
180 |
1 |
28.73 |
2009-07-08 |
| 53. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
28.62 |
0.8422 |
0.1100 |
164 |
1 |
28.62 |
2009-07-14 |
| 54. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
28.62 |
0.8971 |
0.0587 |
266 |
1 |
28.62 |
2009-07-13 |
| 55. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
28.51 |
0.8996 |
0.0417 |
192 |
1 |
28.51 |
2009-07-07 |
| 56. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
28.43 |
0.9072 |
0.0352 |
237 |
1 |
28.43 |
2009-07-17 |
| 57. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
28.42 |
0.8323 |
0.1118 |
203 |
1 |
28.42 |
2009-07-07 |
| 58. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
28.40 |
0.9251 |
0.0230 |
177 |
1 |
28.40 |
2009-07-14 |
| 59. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
28.35 |
0.9597 |
-0.0142 |
347 |
1 |
28.35 |
2009-07-24 |
| 60. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
27.99 |
0.8788 |
0.0470 |
134 |
1 |
27.99 |
2009-07-14 |
| 61. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
27.87 |
1.0213 |
-0.0993 |
240 |
1 |
27.87 |
2009-07-09 |
| 62. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
27.72 |
1.0523 |
-0.1364 |
256 |
2 |
27.00 |
2009-07-14 |
| 63. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
27.58 |
0.8956 |
0.0225 |
217 |
1 |
27.58 |
2009-07-06 |
| 64. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
27.45 |
1.0714 |
-0.1692 |
129 |
1 |
27.45 |
2009-07-07 |
| 65. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
27.16 |
0.8826 |
0.0201 |
296 |
1 |
27.16 |
2009-07-14 |
| 66. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
27.16 |
0.9289 |
-0.0299 |
204 |
1 |
27.16 |
2009-07-09 |
| 67. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
27.08 |
1.0292 |
-0.1319 |
262 |
1 |
27.08 |
2009-07-14 |
| 68. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
27.03 |
1.0131 |
-0.1201 |
225 |
1 |
27.03 |
2009-07-08 |
| 69. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
26.88 |
0.8941 |
-0.0002 |
216 |
1 |
26.88 |
2009-07-24 |
| 70. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
26.67 |
0.8096 |
0.0831 |
209 |
1 |
26.67 |
2009-07-13 |
| 71. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
26.64 |
1.0797 |
-0.2015 |
210 |
1 |
26.64 |
2009-07-09 |
| 72. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
26.54 |
0.8533 |
0.0282 |
232 |
1 |
26.54 |
2009-07-17 |
| 73. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
26.53 |
0.9846 |
-0.1056 |
281 |
1 |
26.53 |
2009-07-09 |
| 74. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
26.34 |
0.8890 |
-0.0189 |
199 |
1 |
26.34 |
2009-07-09 |
| 75. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
26.28 |
0.8709 |
0.0087 |
202 |
1 |
26.28 |
2009-07-06 |
| 76. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
26.26 |
0.9941 |
-0.1255 |
217 |
1 |
26.26 |
2009-07-09 |
| 77. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
26.17 |
1.0261 |
-0.1600 |
273 |
1 |
26.17 |
2009-07-13 |
| 78. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
26.15 |
0.9266 |
-0.0592 |
267 |
2 |
24.42 |
2009-07-10 |
| 79. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
26.10 |
0.9843 |
-0.1237 |
234 |
1 |
26.10 |
2009-07-10 |
| 80. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
26.08 |
0.8951 |
-0.0279 |
193 |
1 |
26.08 |
2009-07-13 |
| 81. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
25.96 |
0.9351 |
-0.0797 |
190 |
1 |
25.96 |
2009-07-13 |
| 82. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
25.76 |
0.7850 |
0.0656 |
154 |
1 |
25.76 |
2009-07-14 |
| 83. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
25.49 |
0.9633 |
-0.1160 |
304 |
1 |
25.49 |
2009-07-13 |
| 84. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
25.30 |
0.8070 |
0.0342 |
137 |
1 |
25.30 |
2009-07-09 |
| 85. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
24.85 |
1.0390 |
-0.2192 |
205 |
1 |
24.85 |
2009-07-09 |
| 86. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
22.99 |
0.8105 |
-0.0539 |
204 |
1 |
22.99 |
2009-07-13 |