| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
89.15 |
1.0885 |
0.1195 |
315 |
2 |
85.04 |
2011-03-04 |
| 2. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
86.84 |
1.0004 |
0.1666 |
212 |
1 |
86.84 |
2011-02-28 |
| 3. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
86.53 |
1.0863 |
0.1174 |
210 |
4 |
77.34 |
2011-03-06 |
| 4. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
85.51 |
1.0331 |
0.1197 |
234 |
1 |
85.51 |
2011-03-05 |
| 5. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
85.44 |
1.0398 |
0.1037 |
110 |
1 |
85.44 |
2011-03-06 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
85.41 |
1.1018 |
0.0454 |
220 |
2 |
81.58 |
2011-03-05 |
| 7. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
83.52 |
1.0577 |
0.0666 |
247 |
2 |
83.17 |
2011-03-05 |
| 8. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
83.16 |
1.0521 |
0.0660 |
171 |
2 |
78.00 |
2011-03-01 |
| 9. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
82.32 |
1.0795 |
0.0624 |
226 |
2 |
77.06 |
2011-03-05 |
| 10. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
81.05 |
1.0714 |
0.0137 |
129 |
1 |
81.05 |
2011-03-05 |
| 11. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
80.82 |
1.0131 |
0.0739 |
225 |
1 |
80.82 |
2011-03-05 |
| 12. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
80.48 |
1.0125 |
0.0715 |
224 |
3 |
77.69 |
2011-03-01 |
| 13. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
80.43 |
1.0390 |
0.0428 |
205 |
2 |
79.60 |
2011-02-27 |
| 14. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
80.35 |
1.0613 |
0.0282 |
456 |
2 |
79.10 |
2011-03-01 |
| 15. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
80.26 |
1.0095 |
0.0726 |
316 |
1 |
80.26 |
2011-03-05 |
| 16. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
80.19 |
1.0555 |
0.0282 |
363 |
1 |
80.19 |
2011-03-05 |
| 17. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
79.89 |
1.0012 |
0.0803 |
260 |
2 |
78.81 |
2011-03-06 |
| 18. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
79.48 |
1.0379 |
0.0696 |
245 |
1 |
79.48 |
2011-03-05 |
| 19. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
78.96 |
1.0462 |
0.0132 |
184 |
2 |
75.19 |
2011-03-06 |
| 20. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
78.95 |
1.0445 |
0.0218 |
373 |
2 |
76.91 |
2011-03-06 |
| 21. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
78.93 |
1.0679 |
0.0175 |
177 |
1 |
78.93 |
2011-02-10 |
| 22. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
78.92 |
1.0328 |
0.0702 |
356 |
1 |
78.92 |
2011-02-28 |
| 23. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
78.90 |
1.0314 |
0.0725 |
452 |
3 |
73.88 |
2011-03-06 |
| 24. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
78.69 |
1.0288 |
0.0651 |
300 |
1 |
78.69 |
2011-03-01 |
| 25. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
78.53 |
1.0516 |
0.0076 |
281 |
1 |
78.53 |
2011-02-27 |
| 26. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
78.00 |
1.0788 |
-0.0320 |
171 |
1 |
78.00 |
2011-02-27 |
| 27. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
77.98 |
1.0214 |
0.0290 |
269 |
1 |
77.98 |
2011-03-01 |
| 28. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
77.53 |
1.0523 |
-0.0106 |
256 |
2 |
72.48 |
2011-03-01 |
| 29. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
77.40 |
0.9266 |
0.1177 |
267 |
1 |
77.40 |
2011-02-28 |
| 30. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
77.33 |
1.0349 |
0.0076 |
234 |
1 |
77.33 |
2011-03-04 |
| 31. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
77.32 |
1.0141 |
0.0653 |
304 |
1 |
77.32 |
2011-03-01 |
| 32. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
77.20 |
0.9756 |
0.0646 |
229 |
2 |
76.98 |
2011-02-28 |
| 33. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
77.15 |
1.0829 |
-0.0406 |
288 |
1 |
77.15 |
2011-03-06 |
| 34. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
77.09 |
1.0486 |
-0.0078 |
289 |
1 |
77.09 |
2011-03-05 |
| 35. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
77.09 |
0.9964 |
0.0437 |
203 |
1 |
77.09 |
2011-02-28 |
| 36. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
76.62 |
1.0725 |
-0.0132 |
233 |
1 |
76.62 |
2011-03-04 |
| 37. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
76.60 |
1.1081 |
-0.0402 |
206 |
1 |
76.60 |
2011-03-04 |
| 38. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
76.25 |
1.0375 |
0.0370 |
200 |
1 |
76.25 |
2011-03-05 |
| 39. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
76.15 |
1.0567 |
-0.0290 |
303 |
1 |
76.15 |
2011-03-06 |
| 40. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
75.90 |
0.9946 |
0.0289 |
246 |
1 |
75.90 |
2011-03-05 |
| 41. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
75.85 |
0.9636 |
0.0593 |
254 |
1 |
75.85 |
2011-03-05 |
| 42. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
75.78 |
0.9164 |
0.1105 |
305 |
3 |
73.35 |
2011-03-06 |
| 43. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
75.73 |
0.9936 |
0.0479 |
227 |
2 |
72.00 |
2011-03-05 |
| 44. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
75.70 |
0.9922 |
0.0699 |
341 |
1 |
75.70 |
2011-03-05 |
| 45. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
75.69 |
1.0264 |
0.0345 |
422 |
1 |
75.69 |
2011-03-05 |
| 46. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
75.61 |
1.0168 |
0.0043 |
271 |
1 |
75.61 |
2011-03-01 |
| 47. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
75.55 |
0.9780 |
0.0419 |
337 |
1 |
75.55 |
2011-02-27 |
| 48. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
75.54 |
0.9485 |
0.0720 |
236 |
1 |
75.54 |
2011-03-01 |
| 49. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
75.30 |
1.0340 |
-0.0133 |
406 |
1 |
75.30 |
2011-03-06 |
| 50. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
75.09 |
0.9682 |
0.0425 |
143 |
1 |
75.09 |
2011-02-27 |
| 51. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
75.06 |
0.9871 |
0.0473 |
227 |
2 |
75.04 |
2011-03-06 |
| 52. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
75.02 |
1.0031 |
0.0421 |
304 |
1 |
75.02 |
2011-02-27 |
| 53. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
75.00 |
0.9893 |
0.0222 |
323 |
2 |
69.55 |
2011-03-05 |
| 54. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
74.77 |
1.0774 |
-0.0397 |
304 |
1 |
74.77 |
2011-02-27 |
| 55. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
74.35 |
0.9866 |
0.0122 |
218 |
1 |
74.35 |
2011-03-05 |
| 56. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
74.31 |
0.9468 |
0.0547 |
276 |
1 |
74.31 |
2011-02-27 |
| 57. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
74.16 |
0.9965 |
0.0037 |
310 |
2 |
70.93 |
2011-03-06 |
| 58. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
74.15 |
0.9786 |
0.0207 |
235 |
2 |
73.36 |
2011-03-05 |
| 59. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
74.14 |
1.1162 |
-0.0755 |
189 |
2 |
72.77 |
2011-02-28 |
| 60. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
74.09 |
1.0596 |
-0.0627 |
239 |
1 |
74.09 |
2011-02-28 |
| 61. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
73.94 |
1.0343 |
0.0000 |
242 |
1 |
73.94 |
2011-03-06 |
| 62. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
73.88 |
0.9672 |
0.0354 |
396 |
1 |
73.88 |
2011-02-10 |
| 63. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
73.81 |
1.0132 |
-0.0267 |
143 |
1 |
73.81 |
2011-02-10 |
| 64. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
73.74 |
1.0943 |
-0.0675 |
206 |
1 |
73.74 |
2011-03-06 |
| 65. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
73.71 |
0.9894 |
0.0088 |
323 |
1 |
73.71 |
2011-03-06 |
| 66. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
73.65 |
0.9157 |
0.0822 |
350 |
1 |
73.65 |
2011-03-05 |
| 67. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
73.56 |
0.9846 |
0.0060 |
281 |
1 |
73.56 |
2011-03-05 |
| 68. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
73.36 |
0.9898 |
0.0368 |
353 |
1 |
73.36 |
2011-03-05 |
| 69. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
72.83 |
0.9632 |
0.0609 |
345 |
1 |
72.83 |
2011-03-04 |
| 70. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
72.78 |
0.8956 |
0.0901 |
322 |
1 |
72.78 |
2011-03-05 |
| 71. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
72.60 |
1.0201 |
-0.0375 |
375 |
2 |
71.35 |
2011-03-01 |
| 72. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
72.29 |
1.0515 |
-0.0849 |
166 |
1 |
72.29 |
2011-02-10 |
| 73. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
72.26 |
1.0167 |
-0.0359 |
378 |
1 |
72.26 |
2011-02-10 |
| 74. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
72.23 |
0.9330 |
0.0472 |
360 |
1 |
72.23 |
2011-03-05 |
| 75. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
72.19 |
1.0595 |
-0.0840 |
379 |
1 |
72.19 |
2011-03-05 |
| 76. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
72.09 |
1.0403 |
-0.0536 |
193 |
1 |
72.09 |
2011-03-01 |
| 77. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
71.76 |
1.0117 |
0.0003 |
297 |
1 |
71.76 |
2011-03-06 |
| 78. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
71.68 |
0.9670 |
0.0412 |
307 |
2 |
67.08 |
2011-03-06 |
| 79. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
71.67 |
1.0296 |
-0.0573 |
437 |
1 |
71.67 |
2011-02-10 |
| 80. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
71.53 |
1.0441 |
-0.0786 |
252 |
1 |
71.53 |
2011-03-06 |
| 81. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
71.39 |
1.0796 |
-0.1223 |
129 |
1 |
71.39 |
2011-02-27 |
| 82. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
71.34 |
0.9213 |
0.0406 |
295 |
1 |
71.34 |
2011-03-06 |
| 83. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
71.33 |
0.9546 |
0.0380 |
198 |
1 |
71.33 |
2011-03-05 |
| 84. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
71.27 |
0.8602 |
0.0981 |
206 |
1 |
71.27 |
2011-03-06 |
| 85. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
71.03 |
0.9430 |
0.0069 |
211 |
1 |
71.03 |
2011-02-27 |
| 86. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
70.84 |
1.0172 |
-0.0275 |
341 |
1 |
70.84 |
2011-03-05 |
| 87. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
70.53 |
1.0197 |
-0.0722 |
226 |
1 |
70.53 |
2011-02-27 |
| 88. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
70.23 |
0.9965 |
-0.0496 |
277 |
2 |
67.50 |
2011-03-06 |
| 89. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
70.22 |
0.9697 |
-0.0190 |
266 |
1 |
70.22 |
2011-02-09 |
| 90. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
70.04 |
0.9851 |
-0.0392 |
317 |
1 |
70.04 |
2011-03-06 |
| 91. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
70.03 |
0.9897 |
-0.0485 |
274 |
1 |
70.03 |
2011-03-06 |
| 92. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
69.99 |
1.0668 |
-0.1213 |
350 |
1 |
69.99 |
2011-02-10 |
| 93. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
69.93 |
0.9461 |
-0.0041 |
276 |
1 |
69.93 |
2011-03-05 |
| 94. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
69.87 |
0.9687 |
-0.0227 |
371 |
1 |
69.87 |
2011-02-10 |
| 95. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
69.81 |
0.9128 |
0.0692 |
369 |
1 |
69.81 |
2011-03-05 |
| 96. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
69.68 |
0.9635 |
-0.0193 |
389 |
1 |
69.68 |
2011-03-05 |
| 97. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
69.62 |
0.9653 |
-0.0191 |
394 |
1 |
69.62 |
2011-02-27 |
| 98. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
69.61 |
0.9731 |
-0.0478 |
129 |
2 |
69.19 |
2011-02-27 |
| 99. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
69.42 |
1.0477 |
-0.1101 |
360 |
1 |
69.42 |
2011-02-10 |
| 100. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
69.21 |
1.0346 |
-0.0603 |
244 |
1 |
69.21 |
2011-02-27 |
| 101. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
68.75 |
1.0189 |
-0.0895 |
337 |
1 |
68.75 |
2011-02-27 |
| 102. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
68.45 |
0.9772 |
-0.0587 |
217 |
2 |
67.39 |
2011-03-06 |
| 103. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
68.43 |
0.9089 |
0.0167 |
342 |
1 |
68.43 |
2011-02-28 |
| 104. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
68.15 |
1.0083 |
-0.0463 |
273 |
1 |
68.15 |
2011-03-06 |
| 105. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
68.11 |
0.9640 |
-0.0174 |
334 |
1 |
68.11 |
2011-02-27 |
| 106. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
68.00 |
0.9763 |
-0.0610 |
289 |
1 |
68.00 |
2011-02-27 |
| 107. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
67.69 |
1.0029 |
-0.0977 |
209 |
1 |
67.69 |
2011-03-06 |
| 108. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
67.63 |
0.8933 |
0.0239 |
363 |
2 |
67.31 |
2011-02-28 |
| 109. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
67.62 |
1.0016 |
-0.0956 |
218 |
1 |
67.62 |
2011-03-04 |
| 110. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
67.33 |
1.0138 |
-0.1075 |
231 |
1 |
67.33 |
2011-02-27 |
| 111. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
67.03 |
0.9754 |
-0.0667 |
362 |
1 |
67.03 |
2011-02-28 |
| 112. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
66.94 |
0.9339 |
-0.0341 |
310 |
1 |
66.94 |
2011-03-05 |
| 113. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
66.65 |
0.8878 |
0.0094 |
346 |
1 |
66.65 |
2011-03-01 |
| 114. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
65.52 |
0.8467 |
0.0594 |
343 |
1 |
65.52 |
2011-03-04 |
| 115. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
65.12 |
0.9097 |
0.0084 |
464 |
1 |
65.12 |
2011-03-06 |
| 116. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
64.79 |
1.0630 |
-0.1578 |
397 |
1 |
64.79 |
2011-02-10 |
| 117. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
64.35 |
0.8826 |
-0.0152 |
296 |
1 |
64.35 |
2011-03-05 |
| 118. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
64.18 |
0.9176 |
-0.0202 |
267 |
1 |
64.18 |
2011-03-01 |
| 119. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
64.13 |
0.9936 |
-0.1309 |
311 |
1 |
64.13 |
2011-02-10 |
| 120. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
63.97 |
0.9567 |
-0.0537 |
184 |
1 |
63.97 |
2011-03-05 |
| 121. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
63.76 |
0.9084 |
-0.0464 |
404 |
1 |
63.76 |
2011-02-10 |
| 122. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
63.59 |
0.9698 |
-0.0813 |
397 |
1 |
63.59 |
2011-03-05 |
| 123. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
63.16 |
1.0033 |
-0.1603 |
189 |
1 |
63.16 |
2011-03-03 |
| 124. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
62.68 |
0.9567 |
-0.1137 |
273 |
1 |
62.68 |
2011-02-10 |
| 125. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
61.98 |
1.0150 |
-0.1324 |
325 |
1 |
61.98 |
2011-03-03 |
| 126. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
61.14 |
0.9372 |
-0.1111 |
320 |
1 |
61.14 |
2011-02-27 |
| 127. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
60.29 |
0.8890 |
-0.0821 |
199 |
1 |
60.29 |
2011-03-05 |
| 128. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
58.68 |
0.9342 |
-0.1422 |
434 |
1 |
58.68 |
2011-03-05 |
| 129. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
57.09 |
0.9359 |
-0.1296 |
353 |
1 |
57.09 |
2011-03-03 |