| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
109.14 |
1.0496 |
0.4127 |
314 |
1 |
109.14 |
2010-04-02 |
| 2. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
90.92 |
0.9632 |
0.2955 |
345 |
1 |
90.92 |
2010-04-02 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
88.44 |
1.0993 |
0.0817 |
265 |
1 |
88.44 |
2010-04-02 |
| 4. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
88.20 |
1.0337 |
0.1453 |
214 |
1 |
88.20 |
2010-04-02 |
| 5. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
87.47 |
1.0441 |
0.1270 |
252 |
1 |
87.47 |
2010-04-02 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
86.24 |
1.1018 |
0.0447 |
220 |
1 |
86.24 |
2010-03-29 |
| 7. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
86.13 |
1.0214 |
0.1250 |
166 |
1 |
86.13 |
2010-04-02 |
| 8. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
85.91 |
1.0619 |
0.0907 |
354 |
1 |
85.91 |
2010-03-26 |
| 9. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
85.17 |
0.9907 |
0.1466 |
211 |
1 |
85.17 |
2010-04-03 |
| 10. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
85.00 |
1.0352 |
0.1038 |
341 |
1 |
85.00 |
2010-03-25 |
| 11. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
84.71 |
0.8971 |
0.2406 |
266 |
1 |
84.71 |
2010-03-25 |
| 12. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
83.44 |
0.9965 |
0.1192 |
310 |
1 |
83.44 |
2010-03-26 |
| 13. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
83.07 |
1.0613 |
0.0499 |
266 |
1 |
83.07 |
2010-04-03 |
| 14. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
82.46 |
1.0334 |
0.0622 |
131 |
1 |
82.46 |
2010-04-03 |
| 15. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
82.38 |
1.0214 |
0.0782 |
269 |
1 |
82.38 |
2010-03-25 |
| 16. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
82.21 |
1.1114 |
-0.0155 |
247 |
1 |
82.21 |
2010-04-03 |
| 17. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
81.76 |
1.0506 |
0.0707 |
277 |
1 |
81.76 |
2010-04-06 |
| 18. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
81.61 |
0.8996 |
0.1855 |
192 |
1 |
81.61 |
2010-03-25 |
| 19. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
81.53 |
1.0941 |
0.0266 |
256 |
1 |
81.53 |
2010-03-25 |
| 20. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
80.54 |
1.0567 |
0.0203 |
303 |
2 |
79.86 |
2010-04-03 |
| 21. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
80.02 |
1.0545 |
0.0555 |
416 |
1 |
80.02 |
2010-04-03 |
| 22. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
79.99 |
1.0696 |
-0.0043 |
226 |
2 |
79.47 |
2010-04-02 |
| 23. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
79.98 |
1.0883 |
0.0125 |
303 |
1 |
79.98 |
2012-07-12 |
| 24. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
79.55 |
0.9964 |
0.0663 |
203 |
1 |
79.55 |
2010-03-25 |
| 25. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
78.96 |
1.0528 |
-0.0028 |
201 |
2 |
75.43 |
2010-06-22 |
| 26. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
78.85 |
1.0025 |
0.0519 |
336 |
2 |
78.10 |
2010-04-06 |
| 27. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
78.62 |
0.9682 |
0.0805 |
143 |
1 |
78.62 |
2010-03-29 |
| 28. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
78.29 |
1.0426 |
0.0025 |
323 |
1 |
78.29 |
2010-04-02 |
| 29. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
76.94 |
0.9461 |
0.0808 |
276 |
1 |
76.94 |
2010-04-02 |
| 30. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
76.44 |
1.0131 |
0.0038 |
225 |
1 |
76.44 |
2010-03-29 |
| 31. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
76.05 |
1.0314 |
0.0232 |
452 |
2 |
75.67 |
2010-03-29 |
| 32. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
75.81 |
0.9884 |
0.0233 |
233 |
1 |
75.81 |
2010-03-30 |
| 33. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
75.63 |
0.9157 |
0.0987 |
350 |
1 |
75.63 |
2010-04-02 |
| 34. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
75.58 |
1.0358 |
0.0152 |
349 |
1 |
75.58 |
2010-03-26 |
| 35. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
75.47 |
1.0201 |
-0.0190 |
172 |
1 |
75.47 |
2010-04-02 |
| 36. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
75.44 |
1.0201 |
-0.0090 |
375 |
1 |
75.44 |
2011-07-08 |
| 37. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
75.41 |
1.0944 |
-0.0431 |
308 |
1 |
75.41 |
2010-03-26 |
| 38. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
74.93 |
0.9675 |
0.0421 |
383 |
1 |
74.93 |
2010-04-06 |
| 39. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
74.71 |
0.9785 |
0.0218 |
335 |
1 |
74.71 |
2010-03-25 |
| 40. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
74.44 |
0.9843 |
0.0043 |
234 |
1 |
74.44 |
2010-04-02 |
| 41. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
74.42 |
0.9529 |
0.0809 |
269 |
1 |
74.42 |
2010-03-30 |
| 42. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
74.34 |
0.9622 |
0.0367 |
392 |
2 |
74.15 |
2010-04-03 |
| 43. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
74.01 |
0.8919 |
0.0946 |
205 |
2 |
69.54 |
2010-04-06 |
| 44. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
73.99 |
0.9651 |
0.0585 |
389 |
1 |
73.99 |
2012-07-08 |
| 45. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
73.93 |
0.9754 |
0.0173 |
362 |
1 |
73.93 |
2010-04-03 |
| 46. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
73.83 |
0.9798 |
0.0001 |
199 |
1 |
73.83 |
2010-04-03 |
| 47. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
73.66 |
0.9844 |
0.0039 |
293 |
1 |
73.66 |
2010-04-03 |
| 48. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
73.52 |
0.9557 |
0.0319 |
331 |
1 |
73.52 |
2010-04-06 |
| 49. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
73.42 |
0.9632 |
0.0231 |
392 |
1 |
73.42 |
2010-03-29 |
| 50. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
73.33 |
1.0109 |
-0.0317 |
276 |
1 |
73.33 |
2010-03-29 |
| 51. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
73.22 |
1.0485 |
-0.0370 |
153 |
1 |
73.22 |
2010-04-02 |
| 52. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
73.14 |
0.9899 |
-0.0188 |
163 |
1 |
73.14 |
2010-04-02 |
| 53. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
72.48 |
1.0232 |
-0.0102 |
350 |
1 |
72.48 |
2010-04-06 |
| 54. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
72.39 |
1.0053 |
-0.0413 |
232 |
1 |
72.39 |
2010-06-22 |
| 55. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
72.37 |
1.0138 |
-0.0486 |
231 |
1 |
72.37 |
2010-03-26 |
| 56. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
72.08 |
1.0799 |
-0.1221 |
243 |
1 |
72.08 |
2010-04-06 |
| 57. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
72.04 |
1.0077 |
-0.0056 |
250 |
1 |
72.04 |
2010-03-29 |
| 58. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
71.81 |
1.0795 |
-0.0911 |
226 |
1 |
71.81 |
2010-04-02 |
| 59. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
71.48 |
1.0445 |
-0.0897 |
373 |
2 |
58.58 |
2010-04-02 |
| 60. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
71.00 |
0.9553 |
-0.0010 |
430 |
1 |
71.00 |
2010-04-06 |
| 61. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
70.82 |
0.9243 |
0.0600 |
448 |
1 |
70.82 |
2012-07-12 |
| 62. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
70.73 |
1.0669 |
-0.0912 |
286 |
1 |
70.73 |
2010-03-29 |
| 63. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
70.62 |
1.0768 |
-0.0952 |
295 |
1 |
70.62 |
2010-04-03 |
| 64. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
70.56 |
0.9916 |
-0.0078 |
282 |
1 |
70.56 |
2010-03-25 |
| 65. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
70.54 |
1.0417 |
-0.1035 |
253 |
1 |
70.54 |
2010-03-30 |
| 66. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
70.54 |
1.0943 |
-0.1207 |
206 |
1 |
70.54 |
2012-07-12 |
| 67. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
70.45 |
1.0379 |
-0.0635 |
245 |
1 |
70.45 |
2010-04-02 |
| 68. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
70.43 |
1.0099 |
-0.0737 |
207 |
1 |
70.43 |
2010-04-06 |
| 69. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
70.36 |
0.9212 |
0.0205 |
323 |
1 |
70.36 |
2010-04-02 |
| 70. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
70.35 |
1.0375 |
-0.0533 |
200 |
1 |
70.35 |
2010-03-26 |
| 71. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
70.20 |
0.9893 |
-0.0530 |
323 |
1 |
70.20 |
2010-04-02 |
| 72. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
70.11 |
0.9342 |
0.0046 |
434 |
1 |
70.11 |
2010-03-30 |
| 73. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
70.04 |
1.0090 |
-0.0312 |
282 |
1 |
70.04 |
2010-03-26 |
| 74. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
69.77 |
0.9631 |
0.0186 |
345 |
1 |
69.77 |
2010-06-03 |
| 75. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
69.74 |
0.9429 |
-0.0113 |
287 |
1 |
69.74 |
2010-04-02 |
| 76. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
69.71 |
0.9786 |
-0.0541 |
193 |
1 |
69.71 |
2012-07-12 |
| 77. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
69.67 |
1.0060 |
-0.0816 |
171 |
1 |
69.67 |
2010-04-03 |
| 78. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
68.68 |
0.9164 |
0.0045 |
305 |
2 |
68.20 |
2010-04-02 |
| 79. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
68.49 |
0.9780 |
-0.0639 |
337 |
1 |
68.49 |
2010-04-02 |
| 80. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
68.40 |
0.9636 |
-0.0520 |
254 |
1 |
68.40 |
2010-04-02 |
| 81. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
68.26 |
0.9831 |
-0.0652 |
469 |
1 |
68.26 |
2010-03-26 |
| 82. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
68.08 |
1.0270 |
-0.0834 |
255 |
1 |
68.08 |
2010-04-03 |
| 83. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
67.39 |
0.9841 |
-0.0817 |
334 |
1 |
67.39 |
2010-04-03 |
| 84. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
67.19 |
0.8916 |
0.0045 |
216 |
1 |
67.19 |
2010-04-02 |
| 85. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
67.07 |
0.9233 |
-0.0375 |
168 |
1 |
67.07 |
2010-04-02 |
| 86. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
66.95 |
0.9640 |
-0.0418 |
334 |
1 |
66.95 |
2010-03-26 |
| 87. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
66.78 |
0.9776 |
-0.0872 |
308 |
2 |
66.49 |
2012-07-08 |
| 88. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
64.53 |
1.0154 |
-0.1060 |
351 |
1 |
64.53 |
2010-04-02 |
| 89. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
63.98 |
0.8595 |
-0.0051 |
242 |
1 |
63.98 |
2010-04-02 |
| 90. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
63.62 |
0.9275 |
-0.0832 |
211 |
1 |
63.62 |
2010-04-02 |
| 91. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
62.19 |
0.9597 |
-0.1277 |
347 |
1 |
62.19 |
2010-04-02 |
| 92. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
61.18 |
0.9820 |
-0.1646 |
267 |
1 |
61.18 |
2010-03-26 |
| 93. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
59.28 |
0.8961 |
-0.1108 |
189 |
1 |
59.28 |
2010-03-29 |
| 94. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
57.52 |
0.8852 |
-0.1179 |
201 |
1 |
57.52 |
2010-03-26 |
| 95. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
54.77 |
0.7876 |
-0.0573 |
316 |
1 |
54.77 |
2010-03-26 |
| 96. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
51.82 |
1.0487 |
-0.3660 |
231 |
1 |
51.82 |
2010-04-02 |
| 97. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
43.15 |
1.0012 |
-0.4281 |
260 |
1 |
43.15 |
2010-04-02 |