| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
93.71 |
1.0596 |
0.3357 |
239 |
2 |
82.89 |
2010-04-17 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
90.86 |
1.1016 |
0.2530 |
233 |
1 |
90.86 |
2010-04-17 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
90.37 |
1.0799 |
0.2636 |
243 |
1 |
90.37 |
2008-11-04 |
| 4. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
87.95 |
1.0463 |
0.2598 |
182 |
2 |
82.89 |
2010-04-17 |
| 5. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
86.17 |
1.0487 |
0.2302 |
231 |
2 |
79.19 |
2009-02-19 |
| 6. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
84.31 |
0.9593 |
0.3014 |
398 |
4 |
74.14 |
2009-02-13 |
| 7. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
84.15 |
1.0034 |
0.2486 |
302 |
1 |
84.15 |
2009-02-13 |
| 8. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
84.14 |
0.9841 |
0.2731 |
334 |
2 |
79.78 |
2010-04-17 |
| 9. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
82.99 |
0.9567 |
0.2792 |
273 |
4 |
64.07 |
2009-02-12 |
| 10. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
82.72 |
0.9893 |
0.2428 |
323 |
1 |
82.72 |
2009-02-19 |
| 11. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
80.37 |
1.0025 |
0.1941 |
256 |
2 |
68.25 |
2009-02-05 |
| 12. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
80.15 |
1.0257 |
0.1740 |
401 |
1 |
80.15 |
2009-02-19 |
| 13. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
78.01 |
0.9500 |
0.2133 |
362 |
2 |
68.51 |
2010-04-17 |
| 14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
77.72 |
1.0252 |
0.1251 |
176 |
2 |
69.82 |
2009-02-13 |
| 15. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
77.59 |
1.0619 |
0.0965 |
354 |
1 |
77.59 |
2009-02-05 |
| 16. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
77.45 |
0.9731 |
0.1671 |
129 |
1 |
77.45 |
2009-01-16 |
| 17. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
77.41 |
0.9649 |
0.1861 |
193 |
1 |
77.41 |
2009-02-13 |
| 18. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
77.01 |
1.0352 |
0.1140 |
341 |
1 |
77.01 |
2009-02-05 |
| 19. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
76.41 |
1.0477 |
0.0918 |
360 |
1 |
76.41 |
2008-12-14 |
| 20. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
75.88 |
1.0095 |
0.1185 |
316 |
1 |
75.88 |
2010-04-17 |
| 21. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
75.75 |
0.9897 |
0.1351 |
274 |
2 |
75.66 |
2009-02-13 |
| 22. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
75.59 |
1.0577 |
0.0635 |
247 |
2 |
68.60 |
2010-02-03 |
| 23. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
75.43 |
0.9772 |
0.1416 |
217 |
2 |
72.44 |
2009-02-13 |
| 24. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
74.48 |
0.9786 |
0.1289 |
235 |
1 |
74.48 |
2009-02-19 |
| 25. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
74.42 |
1.0201 |
0.0874 |
303 |
1 |
74.42 |
2008-12-14 |
| 26. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
73.83 |
1.0528 |
0.0404 |
201 |
2 |
70.99 |
2009-02-13 |
| 27. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
73.63 |
1.0529 |
0.0422 |
351 |
1 |
73.63 |
2008-12-14 |
| 28. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
73.62 |
1.0462 |
0.0428 |
184 |
1 |
73.62 |
2009-04-29 |
| 29. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
73.56 |
0.9672 |
0.1335 |
396 |
4 |
63.53 |
2010-04-17 |
| 30. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
72.72 |
1.0183 |
0.0576 |
191 |
2 |
72.56 |
2009-02-12 |
| 31. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
72.31 |
0.9125 |
0.1647 |
308 |
1 |
72.31 |
2009-02-13 |
| 32. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
72.30 |
1.0296 |
0.0520 |
437 |
1 |
72.30 |
2009-01-16 |
| 33. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
72.12 |
0.9339 |
0.1371 |
310 |
1 |
72.12 |
2009-02-19 |
| 34. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
71.94 |
0.9833 |
0.0881 |
355 |
2 |
67.79 |
2008-12-14 |
| 35. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
71.49 |
1.0214 |
0.0399 |
269 |
2 |
69.56 |
2010-04-17 |
| 36. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
71.39 |
1.0029 |
0.0522 |
209 |
2 |
69.58 |
2008-12-14 |
| 37. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
71.34 |
0.9879 |
0.0816 |
450 |
1 |
71.34 |
2009-05-21 |
| 38. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
71.12 |
0.9601 |
0.1020 |
308 |
2 |
69.64 |
2010-04-17 |
| 39. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
71.10 |
0.9776 |
0.0797 |
308 |
2 |
66.13 |
2008-11-04 |
| 40. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
70.94 |
1.0429 |
0.0104 |
259 |
1 |
70.94 |
2008-11-03 |
| 41. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
69.59 |
1.0389 |
-0.0028 |
318 |
1 |
69.59 |
2009-02-05 |
| 42. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
68.04 |
0.9485 |
0.0643 |
236 |
1 |
68.04 |
2008-12-14 |
| 43. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
67.87 |
0.9986 |
0.0105 |
283 |
1 |
67.87 |
2009-02-12 |
| 44. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
67.80 |
0.9697 |
0.0380 |
249 |
2 |
63.26 |
2009-02-05 |
| 45. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
67.11 |
0.9846 |
0.0114 |
281 |
1 |
67.11 |
2009-02-19 |
| 46. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
67.06 |
0.9234 |
0.0783 |
346 |
1 |
67.06 |
2009-02-19 |
| 47. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
66.65 |
0.9365 |
0.0551 |
248 |
1 |
66.65 |
2008-12-14 |
| 48. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
66.63 |
0.9430 |
0.0396 |
211 |
2 |
64.79 |
2010-04-17 |
| 49. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
66.51 |
1.0444 |
-0.0629 |
197 |
1 |
66.51 |
2008-11-04 |
| 50. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
66.37 |
0.9966 |
-0.0112 |
259 |
2 |
65.09 |
2008-12-14 |
| 51. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
66.18 |
0.9795 |
0.0036 |
308 |
1 |
66.18 |
2009-07-13 |
| 52. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
66.15 |
0.9342 |
0.0519 |
434 |
2 |
60.00 |
2009-07-13 |
| 53. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
65.83 |
0.8996 |
0.0727 |
192 |
3 |
57.29 |
2009-02-05 |
| 54. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
65.58 |
1.0515 |
-0.0793 |
250 |
2 |
63.41 |
2009-02-19 |
| 55. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
65.49 |
0.9723 |
0.0041 |
364 |
2 |
62.06 |
2010-04-17 |
| 56. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
65.27 |
0.9148 |
0.0560 |
317 |
1 |
65.27 |
2008-11-04 |
| 57. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
64.89 |
0.9756 |
-0.0132 |
229 |
1 |
64.89 |
2008-11-04 |
| 58. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
64.62 |
0.9964 |
-0.0367 |
203 |
1 |
64.62 |
2009-02-27 |
| 59. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
64.41 |
0.9513 |
0.0090 |
354 |
1 |
64.41 |
2009-02-05 |
| 60. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
64.41 |
0.9946 |
-0.0383 |
246 |
1 |
64.41 |
2009-01-26 |
| 61. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
64.39 |
0.9632 |
-0.0006 |
392 |
1 |
64.39 |
2009-02-18 |
| 62. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
64.22 |
0.9557 |
0.0042 |
331 |
1 |
64.22 |
2008-11-04 |
| 63. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
64.15 |
1.0389 |
-0.0840 |
340 |
1 |
64.15 |
2008-12-14 |
| 64. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
63.93 |
0.9843 |
-0.0401 |
234 |
1 |
63.93 |
2009-02-19 |
| 65. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
63.88 |
1.0496 |
-0.1018 |
314 |
1 |
63.88 |
2008-12-14 |
| 66. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
63.82 |
1.0004 |
-0.0589 |
212 |
1 |
63.82 |
2009-02-12 |
| 67. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
63.54 |
0.9309 |
0.0106 |
284 |
2 |
59.08 |
2009-01-26 |
| 68. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
63.22 |
0.9088 |
0.0350 |
348 |
2 |
57.72 |
2009-02-05 |
| 69. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
63.11 |
0.9376 |
0.0047 |
367 |
1 |
63.11 |
2009-01-26 |
| 70. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
63.01 |
1.1323 |
-0.1632 |
341 |
1 |
63.01 |
2010-12-20 |
| 71. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
62.32 |
0.9681 |
-0.0348 |
378 |
1 |
62.32 |
2009-02-13 |
| 72. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
62.29 |
0.9936 |
-0.0693 |
311 |
1 |
62.29 |
2009-02-02 |
| 73. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
62.17 |
1.0025 |
-0.0789 |
336 |
1 |
62.17 |
2009-02-05 |
| 74. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
62.16 |
0.9682 |
-0.0475 |
143 |
2 |
58.19 |
2008-12-14 |
| 75. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
62.12 |
0.9429 |
-0.0196 |
287 |
1 |
62.12 |
2008-11-03 |
| 76. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
62.08 |
0.9851 |
-0.0615 |
317 |
1 |
62.08 |
2008-11-03 |
| 77. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
61.99 |
0.9398 |
-0.0105 |
419 |
1 |
61.99 |
2008-11-04 |
| 78. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
61.75 |
0.8956 |
0.0254 |
322 |
1 |
61.75 |
2008-11-04 |
| 79. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
61.39 |
0.8947 |
0.0212 |
366 |
1 |
61.39 |
2009-02-05 |
| 80. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
61.29 |
0.9740 |
-0.0686 |
209 |
1 |
61.29 |
2008-11-03 |
| 81. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
61.03 |
1.0023 |
-0.0986 |
211 |
1 |
61.03 |
2008-12-14 |
| 82. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
60.90 |
1.0445 |
-0.1400 |
373 |
1 |
60.90 |
2008-11-03 |
| 83. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
60.56 |
0.9176 |
0.0197 |
365 |
1 |
60.56 |
2010-04-17 |
| 84. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
60.16 |
1.0109 |
-0.1176 |
276 |
1 |
60.16 |
2008-12-14 |
| 85. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
60.15 |
1.0297 |
-0.1386 |
249 |
1 |
60.15 |
2009-02-12 |
| 86. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
60.05 |
0.9785 |
-0.0845 |
335 |
1 |
60.05 |
2008-12-14 |
| 87. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
59.89 |
0.9622 |
-0.0674 |
392 |
1 |
59.89 |
2009-02-12 |
| 88. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
58.71 |
0.9687 |
-0.0933 |
371 |
1 |
58.71 |
2008-12-14 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
58.33 |
0.9064 |
-0.0322 |
399 |
1 |
58.33 |
2008-11-04 |
| 90. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
58.22 |
0.9865 |
-0.1221 |
276 |
1 |
58.22 |
2008-11-03 |
| 91. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
58.08 |
0.9514 |
-0.0899 |
237 |
1 |
58.08 |
2009-02-19 |
| 92. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
57.33 |
1.0131 |
-0.1671 |
225 |
1 |
57.33 |
2008-11-03 |
| 93. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
56.94 |
1.0565 |
-0.2151 |
247 |
1 |
56.94 |
2010-01-29 |
| 94. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
56.78 |
0.9905 |
-0.1411 |
377 |
1 |
56.78 |
2008-11-03 |
| 95. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
56.52 |
0.9279 |
-0.0837 |
317 |
1 |
56.52 |
2008-11-04 |
| 96. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
56.34 |
0.9866 |
-0.1553 |
218 |
1 |
56.34 |
2008-11-03 |
| 97. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
56.21 |
1.0390 |
-0.2097 |
205 |
1 |
56.21 |
2008-11-03 |
| 98. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
56.01 |
0.8890 |
-0.0626 |
199 |
1 |
56.01 |
2009-01-26 |
| 99. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
55.52 |
0.9266 |
-0.1038 |
267 |
1 |
55.52 |
2008-12-14 |
| 100. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
55.49 |
0.9084 |
-0.0821 |
404 |
1 |
55.49 |
2009-02-19 |
| 101. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
55.42 |
0.8958 |
-0.0700 |
322 |
2 |
53.57 |
2009-02-13 |
| 102. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
55.19 |
0.9213 |
-0.1031 |
295 |
1 |
55.19 |
2008-11-03 |
| 103. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
54.94 |
1.0168 |
-0.2015 |
271 |
1 |
54.94 |
2010-12-20 |
| 104. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
54.88 |
1.0567 |
-0.2431 |
303 |
1 |
54.88 |
2008-11-03 |
| 105. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
53.40 |
0.9049 |
-0.1087 |
351 |
1 |
53.40 |
2008-11-03 |
| 106. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
52.93 |
0.9286 |
-0.1459 |
194 |
1 |
52.93 |
2008-11-03 |
| 107. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
52.02 |
0.9899 |
-0.2246 |
163 |
1 |
52.02 |
2010-04-17 |
| 108. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
51.49 |
1.0068 |
-0.2415 |
358 |
1 |
51.49 |
2008-11-03 |
| 109. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
50.89 |
0.8105 |
-0.0618 |
204 |
2 |
50.87 |
2008-12-14 |
| 110. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.46 |
0.9164 |
-0.1651 |
305 |
1 |
50.46 |
2008-11-03 |
| 111. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
49.81 |
1.0613 |
-0.3196 |
456 |
1 |
49.81 |
2009-07-13 |
| 112. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
49.58 |
0.8961 |
-0.1662 |
189 |
1 |
49.58 |
2008-11-03 |
| 113. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
26.41 |
0.9068 |
-0.5192 |
269 |
1 |
26.41 |
2008-11-03 |