| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
73.16 |
0.9910 |
0.2397 |
295 |
1 |
73.16 |
2009-09-21 |
| 2. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
70.44 |
0.9897 |
0.1907 |
274 |
2 |
66.45 |
2008-12-17 |
| 3. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
70.22 |
1.0252 |
0.1472 |
176 |
2 |
51.73 |
2009-01-04 |
| 4. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
70.12 |
0.9941 |
0.1807 |
217 |
1 |
70.12 |
2008-08-16 |
| 5. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
69.80 |
0.9884 |
0.1826 |
233 |
1 |
69.80 |
2008-12-16 |
| 6. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
69.51 |
1.0529 |
0.1139 |
351 |
1 |
69.51 |
2008-12-19 |
| 7. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
69.49 |
1.0334 |
0.1266 |
131 |
2 |
66.14 |
2008-12-14 |
| 8. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
68.74 |
0.9697 |
0.1843 |
249 |
2 |
66.16 |
2009-05-07 |
| 9. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
68.46 |
1.0426 |
0.1058 |
323 |
1 |
68.46 |
2009-06-01 |
| 10. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
68.46 |
0.9852 |
0.1642 |
264 |
2 |
62.72 |
2009-09-21 |
| 11. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
68.43 |
1.0214 |
0.1218 |
166 |
5 |
60.46 |
2009-05-07 |
| 12. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
67.01 |
1.0534 |
0.0733 |
357 |
1 |
67.01 |
2008-12-16 |
| 13. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
66.60 |
1.0385 |
0.0772 |
230 |
1 |
66.60 |
2008-12-12 |
| 14. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
66.59 |
1.0389 |
0.0801 |
318 |
1 |
66.59 |
2008-12-12 |
| 15. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
66.45 |
0.9893 |
0.1257 |
323 |
1 |
66.45 |
2008-08-17 |
| 16. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
66.37 |
0.9965 |
0.1174 |
310 |
2 |
65.81 |
2008-12-16 |
| 17. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
65.82 |
0.9572 |
0.1460 |
201 |
1 |
65.82 |
2008-08-15 |
| 18. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
65.60 |
1.0062 |
0.0943 |
288 |
1 |
65.60 |
2008-12-12 |
| 19. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
65.18 |
1.0120 |
0.0806 |
290 |
2 |
60.38 |
2008-12-12 |
| 20. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
64.79 |
1.0613 |
0.0264 |
266 |
2 |
63.06 |
2008-08-17 |
| 21. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
64.63 |
1.0197 |
0.0615 |
226 |
1 |
64.63 |
2008-08-18 |
| 22. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
64.49 |
0.9593 |
0.1271 |
398 |
2 |
55.69 |
2008-12-16 |
| 23. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
64.40 |
1.0296 |
0.0570 |
437 |
1 |
64.40 |
2008-08-17 |
| 24. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
63.84 |
0.9234 |
0.1526 |
346 |
1 |
63.84 |
2008-12-17 |
| 25. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
63.83 |
1.0419 |
0.0286 |
261 |
1 |
63.83 |
2008-12-14 |
| 26. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
63.30 |
0.9758 |
0.0864 |
314 |
1 |
63.30 |
2008-12-17 |
| 27. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
63.07 |
0.9997 |
0.0615 |
382 |
1 |
63.07 |
2008-10-05 |
| 28. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
63.03 |
0.9682 |
0.0868 |
143 |
1 |
63.03 |
2008-12-17 |
| 29. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
62.99 |
0.9936 |
0.0623 |
311 |
1 |
62.99 |
2008-12-12 |
| 30. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
62.94 |
1.0251 |
0.0281 |
261 |
1 |
62.94 |
2008-08-31 |
| 31. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
62.90 |
0.9772 |
0.0740 |
217 |
2 |
54.65 |
2008-12-14 |
| 32. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
62.44 |
0.9691 |
0.0773 |
223 |
4 |
56.73 |
2008-12-16 |
| 33. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
62.35 |
1.0596 |
-0.0163 |
239 |
1 |
62.35 |
2008-12-12 |
| 34. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
62.17 |
0.9769 |
0.0633 |
263 |
1 |
62.17 |
2008-08-17 |
| 35. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
61.94 |
1.0391 |
0.0054 |
358 |
1 |
61.94 |
2008-10-05 |
| 36. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
61.75 |
0.9540 |
0.0794 |
285 |
1 |
61.75 |
2008-12-17 |
| 37. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
60.78 |
0.9710 |
0.0412 |
173 |
1 |
60.78 |
2008-08-15 |
| 38. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
60.54 |
0.9279 |
0.0932 |
317 |
1 |
60.54 |
2009-01-04 |
| 39. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
60.52 |
1.1018 |
-0.0939 |
220 |
1 |
60.52 |
2008-12-14 |
| 40. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
60.42 |
0.8890 |
0.1200 |
199 |
1 |
60.42 |
2008-08-16 |
| 41. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
60.38 |
0.9676 |
0.0526 |
442 |
1 |
60.38 |
2008-12-16 |
| 42. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
60.27 |
0.9125 |
0.0994 |
308 |
2 |
59.07 |
2009-05-07 |
| 43. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
60.17 |
0.9795 |
0.0289 |
308 |
3 |
56.54 |
2008-08-18 |
| 44. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
60.01 |
1.0053 |
-0.0017 |
232 |
2 |
58.32 |
2008-08-17 |
| 45. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
59.97 |
0.9622 |
0.0492 |
392 |
2 |
54.79 |
2008-08-18 |
| 46. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
59.92 |
0.9045 |
0.0999 |
235 |
2 |
55.78 |
2008-12-12 |
| 47. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
59.78 |
1.0099 |
-0.0111 |
207 |
1 |
59.78 |
2008-12-12 |
| 48. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
59.69 |
1.0034 |
-0.0047 |
302 |
2 |
56.18 |
2008-12-14 |
| 49. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
59.57 |
1.0203 |
-0.0187 |
261 |
2 |
54.12 |
2009-01-04 |
| 50. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
59.52 |
1.0189 |
-0.0183 |
337 |
1 |
59.52 |
2009-03-25 |
| 51. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
59.44 |
1.0289 |
-0.0285 |
276 |
1 |
59.44 |
2008-12-12 |
| 52. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
59.36 |
0.9411 |
0.0543 |
318 |
1 |
59.36 |
2008-08-17 |
| 53. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
59.19 |
0.9619 |
0.0350 |
393 |
1 |
59.19 |
2008-08-17 |
| 54. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
59.09 |
1.0063 |
-0.0159 |
371 |
3 |
55.59 |
2008-08-17 |
| 55. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
59.01 |
0.9857 |
0.0020 |
293 |
1 |
59.01 |
2008-08-16 |
| 56. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
58.88 |
0.9309 |
0.0537 |
284 |
1 |
58.88 |
2008-12-12 |
| 57. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
58.80 |
0.9723 |
0.0165 |
364 |
1 |
58.80 |
2008-08-18 |
| 58. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
58.76 |
1.0567 |
-0.0717 |
303 |
2 |
56.47 |
2008-08-16 |
| 59. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
58.71 |
0.9768 |
0.0094 |
387 |
3 |
55.05 |
2008-08-17 |
| 60. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
58.66 |
0.9684 |
0.0170 |
388 |
1 |
58.66 |
2009-01-04 |
| 61. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
58.43 |
1.0109 |
-0.0313 |
276 |
1 |
58.43 |
2008-12-14 |
| 62. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
58.37 |
0.9168 |
0.0623 |
240 |
1 |
58.37 |
2008-08-16 |
| 63. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
58.35 |
0.9635 |
0.0194 |
389 |
1 |
58.35 |
2009-01-04 |
| 64. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
58.26 |
0.9740 |
-0.0022 |
209 |
1 |
58.26 |
2008-12-12 |
| 65. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
58.12 |
0.9430 |
0.0233 |
211 |
2 |
56.50 |
2008-08-17 |
| 66. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
58.08 |
1.0297 |
-0.0580 |
249 |
1 |
58.08 |
2008-12-14 |
| 67. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
58.02 |
0.8810 |
0.0917 |
282 |
1 |
58.02 |
2008-08-15 |
| 68. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
57.90 |
0.9500 |
0.0220 |
362 |
1 |
57.90 |
2009-09-21 |
| 69. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
57.83 |
0.9844 |
-0.0110 |
293 |
2 |
54.84 |
2009-05-07 |
| 70. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
57.51 |
1.0124 |
-0.0516 |
204 |
1 |
57.51 |
2008-08-15 |
| 71. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
57.47 |
0.9426 |
0.0230 |
317 |
2 |
51.70 |
2008-12-19 |
| 72. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
57.44 |
0.9886 |
-0.0241 |
220 |
1 |
57.44 |
2008-12-14 |
| 73. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
57.19 |
0.8852 |
0.0747 |
201 |
1 |
57.19 |
2009-01-04 |
| 74. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
57.16 |
0.9649 |
-0.0087 |
193 |
1 |
57.16 |
2008-08-15 |
| 75. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
57.16 |
0.9376 |
0.0251 |
367 |
3 |
54.11 |
2008-12-14 |
| 76. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
57.06 |
0.9532 |
0.0011 |
258 |
3 |
54.94 |
2008-12-14 |
| 77. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
56.82 |
0.9612 |
-0.0097 |
256 |
3 |
54.48 |
2009-01-04 |
| 78. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
56.82 |
1.0487 |
-0.1022 |
231 |
1 |
56.82 |
2008-08-15 |
| 79. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
56.68 |
1.0213 |
-0.0754 |
240 |
2 |
55.36 |
2008-12-17 |
| 80. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
56.45 |
0.8533 |
0.0930 |
232 |
1 |
56.45 |
2008-12-14 |
| 81. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
56.32 |
0.9202 |
0.0221 |
254 |
2 |
50.09 |
2008-08-15 |
| 82. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
56.27 |
1.0201 |
-0.0847 |
172 |
1 |
56.27 |
2008-08-10 |
| 83. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
55.39 |
0.8958 |
0.0360 |
322 |
1 |
55.39 |
2008-12-14 |
| 84. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
55.36 |
0.9097 |
0.0586 |
464 |
1 |
55.36 |
2008-08-18 |
| 85. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
55.21 |
1.0183 |
-0.0997 |
191 |
1 |
55.21 |
2008-12-14 |
| 86. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
54.73 |
0.9846 |
-0.0697 |
281 |
1 |
54.73 |
2008-08-15 |
| 87. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
54.73 |
0.9084 |
0.0117 |
404 |
1 |
54.73 |
2008-08-15 |
| 88. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
54.61 |
0.9865 |
-0.0714 |
276 |
2 |
51.91 |
2008-12-14 |
| 89. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
54.32 |
0.9863 |
-0.0728 |
339 |
1 |
54.32 |
2008-08-10 |
| 90. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
54.32 |
0.9293 |
-0.0194 |
355 |
2 |
54.16 |
2008-10-05 |
| 91. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
54.04 |
0.9485 |
-0.0425 |
236 |
1 |
54.04 |
2008-12-14 |
| 92. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
53.91 |
0.8826 |
0.0209 |
296 |
1 |
53.91 |
2008-08-31 |
| 93. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
53.83 |
0.9851 |
-0.0822 |
317 |
1 |
53.83 |
2008-08-15 |
| 94. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
53.71 |
0.9729 |
-0.0740 |
255 |
1 |
53.71 |
2008-08-15 |
| 95. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
53.67 |
0.9330 |
-0.0284 |
360 |
1 |
53.67 |
2008-12-19 |
| 96. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
53.54 |
0.9464 |
-0.0455 |
323 |
2 |
51.81 |
2008-12-14 |
| 97. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
53.35 |
1.0340 |
-0.1362 |
406 |
1 |
53.35 |
2008-08-15 |
| 98. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
52.52 |
0.8916 |
-0.0128 |
216 |
1 |
52.52 |
2009-01-04 |
| 99. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
52.39 |
1.0060 |
-0.1344 |
171 |
1 |
52.39 |
2008-12-12 |
| 100. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
52.19 |
0.8811 |
-0.0036 |
239 |
1 |
52.19 |
2008-12-14 |
| 101. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
51.55 |
0.9527 |
-0.0907 |
251 |
1 |
51.55 |
2008-08-15 |
| 102. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
51.53 |
0.9513 |
-0.0858 |
354 |
1 |
51.53 |
2008-08-15 |
| 103. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
51.37 |
0.9148 |
-0.0544 |
317 |
1 |
51.37 |
2009-01-04 |
| 104. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
50.97 |
0.8553 |
-0.0082 |
174 |
1 |
50.97 |
2008-12-19 |
| 105. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
50.82 |
0.9109 |
-0.0586 |
401 |
1 |
50.82 |
2008-08-15 |
| 106. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
50.36 |
0.9841 |
-0.1384 |
334 |
1 |
50.36 |
2009-01-04 |
| 107. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
50.28 |
0.8105 |
0.0257 |
204 |
3 |
48.15 |
2008-08-31 |
| 108. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
49.17 |
0.9776 |
-0.1557 |
308 |
1 |
49.17 |
2008-08-15 |
| 109. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
49.01 |
1.0714 |
-0.2614 |
129 |
1 |
49.01 |
2008-10-05 |
| 110. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
48.42 |
0.8919 |
-0.0847 |
205 |
1 |
48.42 |
2008-12-17 |
| 111. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
47.72 |
0.9763 |
-0.1798 |
289 |
1 |
47.72 |
2008-08-18 |
| 112. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
46.75 |
1.0073 |
-0.2187 |
369 |
1 |
46.75 |
2008-12-14 |
| 113. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
46.65 |
1.0131 |
-0.2381 |
225 |
1 |
46.65 |
2008-08-15 |
| 114. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
46.34 |
1.0389 |
-0.2629 |
340 |
1 |
46.34 |
2008-12-14 |
| 115. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
46.30 |
0.9213 |
-0.1479 |
295 |
1 |
46.30 |
2008-08-17 |