| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
60.21 |
1.1018 |
0.2544 |
220 |
1 |
60.21 |
2010-04-19 |
| 2. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
56.09 |
1.0666 |
0.2020 |
297 |
3 |
48.89 |
2010-04-19 |
| 3. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
56.01 |
1.0523 |
0.2101 |
256 |
2 |
51.71 |
2010-04-19 |
| 4. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
55.71 |
1.0577 |
0.1986 |
247 |
1 |
55.71 |
2010-04-19 |
| 5. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
55.32 |
1.0608 |
0.2234 |
258 |
1 |
55.32 |
2010-07-21 |
| 6. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
54.63 |
1.0034 |
0.2303 |
302 |
2 |
49.01 |
2010-07-16 |
| 7. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
53.82 |
1.0343 |
0.2198 |
242 |
1 |
53.82 |
2010-04-19 |
| 8. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
53.65 |
1.0993 |
0.1114 |
265 |
3 |
48.21 |
2010-07-18 |
| 9. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
53.43 |
1.0498 |
0.1531 |
180 |
2 |
49.91 |
2010-04-19 |
| 10. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
53.31 |
1.0787 |
0.1250 |
237 |
2 |
49.53 |
2009-04-11 |
| 11. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
53.23 |
1.0095 |
0.1926 |
316 |
1 |
53.23 |
2010-04-19 |
| 12. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
52.86 |
1.1114 |
0.0806 |
247 |
2 |
48.15 |
2008-10-04 |
| 13. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
52.60 |
1.0331 |
0.1535 |
234 |
5 |
45.66 |
2010-07-22 |
| 14. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
52.59 |
0.9485 |
0.2425 |
291 |
1 |
52.59 |
2010-04-19 |
| 15. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
52.21 |
1.0201 |
0.1602 |
303 |
1 |
52.21 |
2010-07-22 |
| 16. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
51.98 |
1.0125 |
0.1598 |
224 |
1 |
51.98 |
2010-04-19 |
| 17. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
51.83 |
1.0289 |
0.1467 |
276 |
1 |
51.83 |
2009-04-18 |
| 18. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
51.57 |
1.0487 |
0.1115 |
231 |
2 |
42.97 |
2010-04-19 |
| 19. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
51.36 |
1.0023 |
0.1563 |
211 |
3 |
46.82 |
2008-10-05 |
| 20. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
51.03 |
1.0516 |
0.1009 |
281 |
1 |
51.03 |
2008-10-05 |
| 21. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
50.95 |
0.9899 |
0.1565 |
163 |
1 |
50.95 |
2010-04-19 |
| 22. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
50.04 |
1.0025 |
0.1277 |
256 |
3 |
43.21 |
2008-10-05 |
| 23. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
49.86 |
0.9633 |
0.1651 |
304 |
3 |
45.23 |
2008-10-05 |
| 24. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
49.69 |
1.0528 |
0.0645 |
201 |
2 |
47.28 |
2008-10-05 |
| 25. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
49.59 |
1.0567 |
0.0639 |
303 |
4 |
47.68 |
2010-07-16 |
| 26. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
49.55 |
0.9635 |
0.1610 |
389 |
1 |
49.55 |
2009-04-13 |
| 27. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
49.50 |
0.8809 |
0.2349 |
127 |
1 |
49.50 |
2008-10-04 |
| 28. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
49.36 |
1.0352 |
0.0827 |
341 |
1 |
49.36 |
2010-04-19 |
| 29. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
49.13 |
1.0352 |
0.0769 |
341 |
1 |
49.13 |
2008-10-04 |
| 30. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
48.83 |
0.9430 |
0.1524 |
211 |
1 |
48.83 |
2010-04-19 |
| 31. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
48.82 |
0.9485 |
0.1556 |
236 |
1 |
48.82 |
2008-10-05 |
| 32. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
48.71 |
0.9965 |
0.1040 |
277 |
1 |
48.71 |
2010-04-19 |
| 33. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
48.61 |
1.0211 |
0.1072 |
213 |
1 |
48.61 |
2010-04-19 |
| 34. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
48.53 |
1.0214 |
0.0690 |
166 |
2 |
42.17 |
2008-10-04 |
| 35. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
48.47 |
0.9857 |
0.1077 |
293 |
2 |
40.30 |
2008-10-05 |
| 36. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
48.24 |
1.0797 |
0.0039 |
210 |
3 |
45.35 |
2008-10-04 |
| 37. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
48.06 |
0.9540 |
0.1293 |
285 |
1 |
48.06 |
2009-04-11 |
| 38. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
47.82 |
0.9936 |
0.0857 |
311 |
2 |
45.54 |
2008-10-04 |
| 39. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
47.16 |
1.0426 |
0.0212 |
323 |
1 |
47.16 |
2008-10-01 |
| 40. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
46.77 |
1.0263 |
0.0285 |
267 |
1 |
46.77 |
2008-10-05 |
| 41. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
46.77 |
1.0201 |
0.0287 |
172 |
2 |
44.44 |
2008-10-04 |
| 42. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
46.72 |
0.9684 |
0.0887 |
388 |
1 |
46.72 |
2010-04-19 |
| 43. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
46.70 |
0.9572 |
0.0957 |
201 |
2 |
42.99 |
2008-10-01 |
| 44. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
46.64 |
0.9307 |
0.1299 |
246 |
1 |
46.64 |
2008-10-01 |
| 45. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
46.63 |
0.9342 |
0.1217 |
434 |
1 |
46.63 |
2008-10-05 |
| 46. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
46.43 |
0.9772 |
0.0671 |
217 |
1 |
46.43 |
2008-10-05 |
| 47. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
46.40 |
0.9266 |
0.1223 |
278 |
1 |
46.40 |
2010-07-16 |
| 48. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.16 |
0.9798 |
0.0562 |
199 |
3 |
43.17 |
2010-04-19 |
| 49. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
45.90 |
0.9795 |
0.0562 |
308 |
1 |
45.90 |
2008-10-05 |
| 50. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
45.59 |
1.0444 |
-0.0224 |
197 |
2 |
41.84 |
2008-10-04 |
| 51. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
45.45 |
1.0668 |
-0.0389 |
350 |
1 |
45.45 |
2008-10-04 |
| 52. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
45.45 |
1.0183 |
0.0015 |
191 |
2 |
42.47 |
2009-04-15 |
| 53. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
45.40 |
0.8811 |
0.1478 |
239 |
1 |
45.40 |
2008-10-04 |
| 54. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
45.28 |
1.0619 |
-0.0368 |
354 |
1 |
45.28 |
2008-10-05 |
| 55. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
45.14 |
0.9731 |
0.0328 |
129 |
1 |
45.14 |
2008-10-05 |
| 56. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
44.97 |
0.9646 |
0.0490 |
264 |
1 |
44.97 |
2008-10-05 |
| 57. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
44.50 |
0.9260 |
0.0881 |
243 |
1 |
44.50 |
2010-04-19 |
| 58. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
44.33 |
1.0349 |
-0.0358 |
234 |
1 |
44.33 |
2008-10-01 |
| 59. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
44.21 |
1.0214 |
-0.0260 |
269 |
1 |
44.21 |
2009-04-26 |
| 60. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
44.21 |
1.0203 |
-0.0198 |
261 |
1 |
44.21 |
2008-09-30 |
| 61. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
44.11 |
1.0496 |
-0.0555 |
314 |
2 |
38.76 |
2008-10-14 |
| 62. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
44.06 |
0.9128 |
0.0864 |
133 |
1 |
44.06 |
2008-09-30 |
| 63. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
44.00 |
0.8826 |
0.1111 |
296 |
1 |
44.00 |
2009-04-15 |
| 64. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
43.87 |
1.0340 |
-0.0395 |
406 |
1 |
43.87 |
2008-10-01 |
| 65. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
43.78 |
1.0483 |
-0.0640 |
227 |
1 |
43.78 |
2008-10-01 |
| 66. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
43.69 |
1.0711 |
-0.0910 |
213 |
2 |
43.49 |
2008-10-01 |
| 67. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
43.63 |
0.9776 |
0.0065 |
308 |
1 |
43.63 |
2008-10-01 |
| 68. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
43.27 |
1.0013 |
-0.0266 |
273 |
2 |
42.67 |
2008-10-04 |
| 69. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
43.26 |
1.0124 |
-0.0394 |
204 |
2 |
41.79 |
2010-04-19 |
| 70. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
43.21 |
1.0257 |
-0.0450 |
401 |
2 |
41.84 |
2009-04-10 |
| 71. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
43.12 |
1.0515 |
-0.0812 |
250 |
1 |
43.12 |
2009-04-15 |
| 72. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
43.10 |
0.9964 |
-0.0246 |
203 |
1 |
43.10 |
2009-04-26 |
| 73. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
42.84 |
0.8792 |
0.0959 |
296 |
1 |
42.84 |
2008-10-01 |
| 74. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
42.52 |
0.9884 |
-0.0307 |
233 |
1 |
42.52 |
2008-10-04 |
| 75. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
42.38 |
1.0462 |
-0.0970 |
184 |
1 |
42.38 |
2008-10-03 |
| 76. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
42.38 |
0.8821 |
0.0727 |
176 |
1 |
42.38 |
2008-09-30 |
| 77. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
42.34 |
0.8105 |
0.1396 |
204 |
1 |
42.34 |
2010-04-19 |
| 78. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.23 |
0.9293 |
0.0234 |
355 |
1 |
42.23 |
2008-10-04 |
| 79. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
41.96 |
1.0261 |
-0.0823 |
273 |
1 |
41.96 |
2008-10-01 |
| 80. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
41.86 |
0.9843 |
-0.0459 |
234 |
3 |
40.69 |
2008-10-04 |
| 81. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
41.44 |
0.9109 |
0.0255 |
401 |
1 |
41.44 |
2008-10-05 |
| 82. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
41.42 |
0.8941 |
0.0413 |
216 |
1 |
41.42 |
2008-10-04 |
| 83. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
41.41 |
0.9612 |
-0.0281 |
256 |
1 |
41.41 |
2008-10-04 |
| 84. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
41.31 |
1.0197 |
-0.0917 |
226 |
2 |
40.25 |
2008-09-30 |
| 85. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
41.19 |
0.9330 |
0.0017 |
360 |
1 |
41.19 |
2008-10-05 |
| 86. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
40.92 |
0.9275 |
-0.0089 |
211 |
1 |
40.92 |
2008-10-01 |
| 87. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
40.82 |
0.9965 |
-0.0765 |
310 |
1 |
40.82 |
2008-10-03 |
| 88. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
40.82 |
0.8382 |
0.0820 |
268 |
2 |
37.71 |
2008-10-04 |
| 89. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
40.70 |
0.9991 |
-0.0817 |
225 |
3 |
37.76 |
2008-09-30 |
| 90. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
40.63 |
1.0390 |
-0.1275 |
205 |
1 |
40.63 |
2008-10-04 |
| 91. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
40.62 |
0.9005 |
0.0131 |
212 |
2 |
38.19 |
2008-10-03 |
| 92. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
40.61 |
0.9863 |
-0.0670 |
339 |
1 |
40.61 |
2009-03-11 |
| 93. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
40.60 |
1.0337 |
-0.1197 |
214 |
1 |
40.60 |
2008-09-30 |
| 94. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
40.51 |
0.9851 |
-0.0703 |
317 |
2 |
38.49 |
2008-09-30 |
| 95. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
40.49 |
1.0296 |
-0.1111 |
437 |
2 |
40.44 |
2008-10-04 |
| 96. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
40.46 |
1.0419 |
-0.1305 |
261 |
1 |
40.46 |
2008-10-04 |
| 97. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.10 |
0.9619 |
-0.0535 |
393 |
1 |
40.10 |
2008-10-04 |
| 98. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
40.08 |
0.8442 |
0.0626 |
265 |
1 |
40.08 |
2008-10-03 |
| 99. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
39.56 |
0.9785 |
-0.0844 |
335 |
1 |
39.56 |
2008-10-04 |
| 100. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
39.41 |
0.9866 |
-0.1029 |
218 |
1 |
39.41 |
2008-09-30 |
| 101. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
39.00 |
0.8295 |
0.0504 |
209 |
1 |
39.00 |
2008-09-30 |
| 102. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
38.98 |
1.0829 |
-0.2038 |
288 |
1 |
38.98 |
2008-10-04 |
| 103. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
38.90 |
0.8956 |
-0.0172 |
217 |
1 |
38.90 |
2008-09-30 |
| 104. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
38.89 |
0.9316 |
-0.0500 |
287 |
2 |
36.35 |
2008-09-30 |
| 105. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
38.65 |
0.9049 |
-0.0294 |
351 |
1 |
38.65 |
2008-10-05 |
| 106. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
38.45 |
0.9309 |
-0.0673 |
284 |
1 |
38.45 |
2009-04-10 |
| 107. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
38.43 |
1.0251 |
-0.1622 |
261 |
2 |
36.77 |
2008-09-30 |
| 108. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
38.31 |
0.9649 |
-0.1037 |
193 |
1 |
38.31 |
2008-09-30 |
| 109. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
38.30 |
0.7876 |
0.0771 |
316 |
1 |
38.30 |
2008-10-03 |
| 110. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
38.27 |
0.9786 |
-0.1224 |
193 |
1 |
38.27 |
2009-04-26 |
| 111. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
38.26 |
0.8878 |
-0.0268 |
346 |
2 |
36.89 |
2008-09-30 |
| 112. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
38.22 |
0.8602 |
-0.0021 |
206 |
1 |
38.22 |
2008-10-05 |
| 113. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
38.14 |
1.0385 |
-0.1819 |
230 |
1 |
38.14 |
2009-04-10 |
| 114. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
37.91 |
0.9852 |
-0.1317 |
264 |
3 |
34.96 |
2009-04-11 |
| 115. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
37.71 |
0.8353 |
0.0208 |
283 |
1 |
37.71 |
2008-09-30 |
| 116. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
37.47 |
0.9820 |
-0.1361 |
267 |
2 |
37.22 |
2008-10-03 |
| 117. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
37.28 |
0.8958 |
-0.0524 |
322 |
1 |
37.28 |
2008-10-04 |
| 118. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
37.23 |
0.9376 |
-0.0946 |
367 |
1 |
37.23 |
2008-10-01 |
| 119. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
37.10 |
0.8770 |
-0.0391 |
300 |
1 |
37.10 |
2008-10-01 |
| 120. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
36.89 |
0.8919 |
-0.0637 |
205 |
1 |
36.89 |
2008-10-04 |
| 121. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
36.87 |
0.9527 |
-0.1234 |
251 |
1 |
36.87 |
2008-09-30 |
| 122. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
36.76 |
0.9068 |
-0.0769 |
269 |
1 |
36.76 |
2008-09-30 |
| 123. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
36.44 |
0.8951 |
-0.0733 |
193 |
1 |
36.44 |
2008-09-30 |
| 124. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
36.44 |
0.9411 |
-0.1207 |
318 |
2 |
33.30 |
2008-10-01 |
| 125. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
35.80 |
0.9148 |
-0.1084 |
317 |
1 |
35.80 |
2008-10-03 |
| 126. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
35.73 |
0.9164 |
-0.1082 |
305 |
2 |
32.57 |
2008-09-30 |
| 127. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
34.54 |
0.9226 |
-0.1401 |
348 |
1 |
34.54 |
2008-09-30 |
| 128. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
34.22 |
0.9710 |
-0.2086 |
173 |
1 |
34.22 |
2008-09-30 |
| 129. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
33.76 |
0.7352 |
0.0231 |
106 |
1 |
33.76 |
2008-09-30 |
| 130. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
32.98 |
0.9072 |
-0.1684 |
237 |
1 |
32.98 |
2008-09-30 |
| 131. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
29.73 |
0.9763 |
-0.3105 |
289 |
1 |
29.73 |
2008-09-30 |
| 132. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.57 |
0.8190 |
-0.1494 |
135 |
1 |
29.57 |
2008-09-30 |
| 133. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
28.79 |
0.9468 |
-0.3025 |
276 |
1 |
28.79 |
2008-09-30 |
| 134. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
22.72 |
0.9202 |
-0.4147 |
254 |
1 |
22.72 |
2008-09-30 |