| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
165.85 |
0.9671 |
0.2359 |
379 |
3 |
154.29 |
2010-10-26 |
| 2. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
165.19 |
0.9176 |
0.2903 |
267 |
2 |
158.22 |
2010-10-25 |
| 3. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
164.95 |
0.9234 |
0.2543 |
346 |
1 |
164.95 |
2010-10-25 |
| 4. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
164.71 |
1.0090 |
0.2054 |
282 |
1 |
164.71 |
2010-11-10 |
| 5. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
163.23 |
1.0284 |
0.1749 |
282 |
1 |
163.23 |
2010-11-01 |
| 6. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
162.28 |
1.0608 |
0.1256 |
258 |
1 |
162.28 |
2011-03-15 |
| 7. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
161.16 |
0.9844 |
0.1655 |
293 |
2 |
158.44 |
2010-10-26 |
| 8. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
160.11 |
0.8961 |
0.2380 |
189 |
2 |
159.98 |
2010-10-25 |
| 9. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
160.01 |
0.9866 |
0.1465 |
218 |
2 |
150.51 |
2010-10-25 |
| 10. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
159.81 |
0.9886 |
0.1493 |
220 |
1 |
159.81 |
2010-10-25 |
| 11. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
156.89 |
0.9286 |
0.1848 |
194 |
1 |
156.89 |
2010-10-25 |
| 12. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
155.92 |
1.0485 |
0.0936 |
153 |
2 |
151.44 |
2010-10-25 |
| 13. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
155.66 |
0.9509 |
0.1931 |
225 |
2 |
147.80 |
2010-10-27 |
| 14. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
155.32 |
0.9636 |
0.1394 |
254 |
2 |
139.04 |
2010-10-26 |
| 15. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
154.82 |
0.8981 |
0.2060 |
393 |
1 |
154.82 |
2010-10-25 |
| 16. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
154.29 |
0.9109 |
0.1874 |
401 |
1 |
154.29 |
2010-10-25 |
| 17. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
153.44 |
1.0574 |
0.0601 |
205 |
2 |
152.60 |
2010-10-25 |
| 18. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
152.77 |
0.8595 |
0.2271 |
242 |
1 |
152.77 |
2010-10-25 |
| 19. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
152.48 |
0.9567 |
0.1682 |
184 |
1 |
152.48 |
2010-10-26 |
| 20. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
151.23 |
0.9074 |
0.1728 |
396 |
1 |
151.23 |
2010-10-25 |
| 21. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
151.23 |
0.9899 |
0.0791 |
163 |
1 |
151.23 |
2010-10-25 |
| 22. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
149.86 |
1.0213 |
0.0394 |
240 |
1 |
149.86 |
2010-10-24 |
| 23. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
149.70 |
0.9540 |
0.1069 |
285 |
1 |
149.70 |
2010-10-24 |
| 24. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
149.50 |
1.0388 |
0.0541 |
243 |
1 |
149.50 |
2011-01-21 |
| 25. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
149.34 |
1.0099 |
0.0474 |
207 |
1 |
149.34 |
2010-10-25 |
| 26. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
148.85 |
0.9754 |
0.0873 |
362 |
1 |
148.85 |
2011-03-16 |
| 27. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
148.63 |
0.9569 |
0.1251 |
410 |
1 |
148.63 |
2010-10-25 |
| 28. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
147.93 |
1.0863 |
-0.0015 |
210 |
1 |
147.93 |
2010-10-24 |
| 29. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
147.58 |
1.1162 |
-0.0277 |
189 |
2 |
144.26 |
2010-10-25 |
| 30. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
147.35 |
0.9710 |
0.0684 |
173 |
1 |
147.35 |
2010-10-26 |
| 31. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
147.19 |
0.9976 |
0.0673 |
174 |
1 |
147.19 |
2010-10-25 |
| 32. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
146.81 |
1.0073 |
0.0427 |
369 |
1 |
146.81 |
2010-10-25 |
| 33. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
146.61 |
0.8809 |
0.1574 |
127 |
1 |
146.61 |
2010-10-23 |
| 34. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
146.45 |
0.9072 |
0.1305 |
237 |
2 |
143.78 |
2010-10-24 |
| 35. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
146.42 |
0.9411 |
0.0989 |
318 |
1 |
146.42 |
2010-10-25 |
| 36. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
145.16 |
1.0796 |
-0.0543 |
129 |
1 |
145.16 |
2010-10-25 |
| 37. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
144.86 |
0.8890 |
0.1354 |
199 |
1 |
144.86 |
2010-10-24 |
| 38. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
144.44 |
0.9612 |
0.0638 |
256 |
1 |
144.44 |
2010-10-27 |
| 39. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
144.12 |
0.8722 |
0.1534 |
285 |
1 |
144.12 |
2010-10-24 |
| 40. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
144.04 |
1.0358 |
0.0279 |
349 |
1 |
144.04 |
2011-03-16 |
| 41. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
143.97 |
0.9922 |
0.0705 |
341 |
1 |
143.97 |
2010-10-25 |
| 42. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
143.30 |
0.9768 |
0.0426 |
387 |
1 |
143.30 |
2010-10-24 |
| 43. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
143.05 |
1.0561 |
-0.0151 |
430 |
1 |
143.05 |
2010-10-25 |
| 44. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
142.86 |
0.9907 |
0.0213 |
211 |
2 |
101.76 |
2010-10-26 |
| 45. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
142.84 |
0.9275 |
0.0827 |
211 |
3 |
135.65 |
2010-10-26 |
| 46. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
142.75 |
0.9464 |
0.0715 |
323 |
1 |
142.75 |
2010-10-25 |
| 47. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
142.73 |
0.9233 |
0.0811 |
168 |
2 |
142.03 |
2011-03-16 |
| 48. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
142.68 |
0.9553 |
0.0642 |
430 |
1 |
142.68 |
2010-10-25 |
| 49. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
142.66 |
1.0038 |
0.0387 |
237 |
1 |
142.66 |
2010-10-25 |
| 50. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
142.48 |
1.0029 |
0.0016 |
209 |
1 |
142.48 |
2010-10-24 |
| 51. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
142.21 |
1.0375 |
0.0174 |
200 |
1 |
142.21 |
2010-10-25 |
| 52. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
141.59 |
1.0644 |
-0.0238 |
257 |
1 |
141.59 |
2011-03-16 |
| 53. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
141.50 |
0.9120 |
0.1250 |
436 |
1 |
141.50 |
2010-10-24 |
| 54. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
141.30 |
1.0365 |
-0.0042 |
162 |
1 |
141.30 |
2010-10-26 |
| 55. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
141.22 |
1.0441 |
-0.0408 |
252 |
1 |
141.22 |
2010-10-24 |
| 56. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
140.51 |
1.0232 |
0.0194 |
350 |
1 |
140.51 |
2010-10-25 |
| 57. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
140.19 |
0.9851 |
0.0115 |
317 |
1 |
140.19 |
2010-10-25 |
| 58. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
140.13 |
0.9991 |
-0.0046 |
225 |
1 |
140.13 |
2011-03-16 |
| 59. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
140.04 |
1.0684 |
-0.0453 |
253 |
1 |
140.04 |
2010-10-23 |
| 60. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
139.75 |
0.9566 |
0.0573 |
576 |
1 |
139.75 |
2010-10-25 |
| 61. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
139.66 |
0.9756 |
0.0137 |
229 |
1 |
139.66 |
2010-10-24 |
| 62. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
139.57 |
1.0666 |
-0.0765 |
297 |
1 |
139.57 |
2010-10-25 |
| 63. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
139.37 |
0.9631 |
0.0767 |
345 |
1 |
139.37 |
2010-10-25 |
| 64. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
139.22 |
1.0714 |
-0.0929 |
129 |
1 |
139.22 |
2010-10-25 |
| 65. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
139.02 |
1.0763 |
-0.0488 |
367 |
1 |
139.02 |
2011-03-16 |
| 66. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
138.56 |
0.8467 |
0.1602 |
343 |
3 |
130.02 |
2010-10-25 |
| 67. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
138.45 |
1.0385 |
-0.0584 |
230 |
1 |
138.45 |
2010-10-23 |
| 68. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
138.22 |
0.9351 |
0.0397 |
190 |
1 |
138.22 |
2010-10-25 |
| 69. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
138.13 |
0.9339 |
0.0442 |
310 |
2 |
134.77 |
2010-10-25 |
| 70. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
137.86 |
0.9005 |
0.0757 |
212 |
1 |
137.86 |
2010-10-25 |
| 71. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
137.26 |
1.0033 |
-0.0366 |
189 |
1 |
137.26 |
2011-03-16 |
| 72. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
137.14 |
1.0528 |
-0.0853 |
201 |
1 |
137.14 |
2010-10-24 |
| 73. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
136.36 |
1.1014 |
-0.0967 |
273 |
1 |
136.36 |
2010-10-24 |
| 74. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
135.48 |
1.0292 |
-0.0699 |
262 |
1 |
135.48 |
2010-10-23 |
| 75. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
133.30 |
0.9212 |
0.0270 |
323 |
1 |
133.30 |
2010-10-25 |
| 76. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
133.00 |
1.0426 |
-0.1005 |
323 |
1 |
133.00 |
2010-10-24 |
| 77. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
132.55 |
0.9649 |
-0.0265 |
193 |
1 |
132.55 |
2010-10-24 |
| 78. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
131.40 |
1.0462 |
-0.1210 |
184 |
1 |
131.40 |
2011-03-15 |
| 79. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
131.21 |
1.0337 |
-0.1044 |
214 |
1 |
131.21 |
2010-10-23 |
| 80. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
131.02 |
1.0334 |
-0.1114 |
131 |
1 |
131.02 |
2010-10-25 |
| 81. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
130.83 |
1.0943 |
-0.1345 |
206 |
1 |
130.83 |
2010-10-23 |
| 82. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
130.79 |
1.0131 |
-0.0901 |
225 |
2 |
129.51 |
2011-03-15 |
| 83. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
130.64 |
0.8553 |
0.0654 |
174 |
2 |
128.71 |
2011-03-15 |
| 84. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
129.82 |
1.0498 |
-0.1347 |
180 |
1 |
129.82 |
2010-10-27 |
| 85. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
129.43 |
0.8996 |
0.0120 |
192 |
1 |
129.43 |
2010-10-23 |
| 86. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
128.96 |
1.0496 |
-0.1366 |
314 |
1 |
128.96 |
2011-01-21 |
| 87. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
127.10 |
1.0515 |
-0.1530 |
250 |
1 |
127.10 |
2010-10-23 |
| 88. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
123.83 |
1.0214 |
-0.1499 |
166 |
1 |
123.83 |
2011-03-16 |
| 89. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
122.67 |
1.0502 |
-0.1552 |
535 |
1 |
122.67 |
2010-10-25 |
| 90. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
114.52 |
1.0711 |
-0.2662 |
213 |
1 |
114.52 |
2010-10-25 |
| 91. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
110.89 |
1.0883 |
-0.2723 |
303 |
1 |
110.89 |
2010-10-26 |
| 92. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
110.00 |
0.9546 |
-0.1458 |
198 |
1 |
110.00 |
2010-10-26 |
| 93. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
68.55 |
1.0083 |
-0.4845 |
273 |
1 |
68.55 |
2010-10-26 |
| 94. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
68.11 |
0.8382 |
-0.3612 |
268 |
1 |
68.11 |
2010-10-26 |
| 95. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
65.83 |
0.8602 |
-0.4023 |
206 |
1 |
65.83 |
2010-10-26 |
| 96. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
65.55 |
0.9798 |
-0.5274 |
199 |
1 |
65.55 |
2010-10-26 |
| 97. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
61.41 |
1.0799 |
-0.6552 |
243 |
1 |
61.41 |
2010-10-26 |