| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
34.18 |
1.1215 |
0.2687 |
200 |
1 |
34.18 |
2012-02-16 |
| 2. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
30.61 |
0.8968 |
0.3221 |
186 |
1 |
30.61 |
2012-02-16 |
| 3. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
30.14 |
0.7981 |
0.4038 |
126 |
2 |
28.44 |
2012-01-18 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
30.12 |
1.0797 |
0.1173 |
210 |
1 |
30.12 |
2011-08-31 |
| 5. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
29.86 |
0.8910 |
0.3028 |
150 |
1 |
29.86 |
2012-01-10 |
| 6. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
29.85 |
0.9772 |
0.2110 |
217 |
3 |
29.36 |
2012-01-10 |
| 7. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
29.79 |
1.0151 |
0.1649 |
152 |
2 |
28.11 |
2012-02-16 |
| 8. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
29.66 |
0.8996 |
0.2787 |
192 |
2 |
27.29 |
2012-02-16 |
| 9. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
29.60 |
1.0211 |
0.1909 |
213 |
1 |
29.60 |
2012-02-16 |
| 10. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
29.38 |
0.9711 |
0.2000 |
176 |
1 |
29.38 |
2012-01-10 |
| 11. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
29.36 |
0.8628 |
0.3059 |
196 |
1 |
29.36 |
2012-01-10 |
| 12. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
29.29 |
1.0214 |
0.1461 |
269 |
1 |
29.29 |
2012-02-16 |
| 13. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
29.14 |
1.0419 |
0.1208 |
261 |
1 |
29.14 |
2012-02-16 |
| 14. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
29.10 |
1.0117 |
0.1943 |
297 |
1 |
29.10 |
2012-02-16 |
| 15. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
29.06 |
0.9559 |
0.2061 |
195 |
1 |
29.06 |
2012-02-16 |
| 16. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
29.06 |
0.9164 |
0.2476 |
121 |
1 |
29.06 |
2012-01-18 |
| 17. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
28.82 |
0.8715 |
0.2757 |
130 |
2 |
27.21 |
2011-04-17 |
| 18. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
28.55 |
0.9251 |
0.2192 |
177 |
1 |
28.55 |
2012-02-16 |
| 19. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
28.44 |
0.9636 |
0.1707 |
254 |
1 |
28.44 |
2012-01-18 |
| 20. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
28.43 |
0.9820 |
0.1521 |
274 |
1 |
28.43 |
2012-01-18 |
| 21. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
28.39 |
0.8745 |
0.2570 |
169 |
1 |
28.39 |
2011-07-14 |
| 22. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
28.04 |
1.1162 |
0.0436 |
189 |
1 |
28.04 |
2012-02-16 |
| 23. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
27.97 |
0.8971 |
0.2237 |
266 |
1 |
27.97 |
2012-01-18 |
| 24. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
27.84 |
1.0388 |
0.1034 |
243 |
1 |
27.84 |
2012-10-17 |
| 25. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
27.65 |
0.8348 |
0.2743 |
219 |
1 |
27.65 |
2012-02-16 |
| 26. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
27.63 |
0.9162 |
0.1859 |
165 |
1 |
27.63 |
2012-01-18 |
| 27. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
27.43 |
0.9233 |
0.1624 |
168 |
1 |
27.43 |
2011-04-20 |
| 28. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
27.24 |
0.9907 |
0.0941 |
211 |
1 |
27.24 |
2012-01-10 |
| 29. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
26.90 |
0.9740 |
0.0943 |
209 |
1 |
26.90 |
2012-01-18 |
| 30. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
26.80 |
0.9798 |
0.0831 |
199 |
1 |
26.80 |
2011-07-14 |
| 31. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
26.74 |
1.0029 |
0.0566 |
209 |
2 |
23.80 |
2012-01-10 |
| 32. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
26.70 |
0.9844 |
0.0907 |
229 |
1 |
26.70 |
2011-02-11 |
| 33. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
26.70 |
1.0462 |
0.0123 |
184 |
1 |
26.70 |
2012-01-10 |
| 34. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
26.64 |
0.9320 |
0.1244 |
84 |
1 |
26.64 |
2011-02-17 |
| 35. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
26.63 |
1.0711 |
-0.0147 |
213 |
2 |
25.66 |
2011-02-12 |
| 36. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
26.58 |
1.0396 |
0.0128 |
149 |
1 |
26.58 |
2011-07-14 |
| 37. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
26.57 |
1.0515 |
-0.0004 |
166 |
1 |
26.57 |
2011-01-28 |
| 38. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
26.55 |
0.9028 |
0.1566 |
155 |
1 |
26.55 |
2011-04-15 |
| 39. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
26.54 |
1.0483 |
0.0064 |
227 |
1 |
26.54 |
2011-05-24 |
| 40. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
26.44 |
0.8077 |
0.2439 |
167 |
1 |
26.44 |
2011-03-11 |
| 41. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
26.37 |
1.0375 |
0.0595 |
200 |
2 |
24.44 |
2012-01-10 |
| 42. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
26.34 |
0.8900 |
0.1613 |
164 |
1 |
26.34 |
2011-04-17 |
| 43. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
26.24 |
0.9912 |
0.0815 |
237 |
1 |
26.24 |
2011-04-15 |
| 44. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
25.94 |
0.8700 |
0.1641 |
127 |
1 |
25.94 |
2011-02-12 |
| 45. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
25.93 |
0.8918 |
0.1401 |
100 |
2 |
20.76 |
2011-07-14 |
| 46. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
25.85 |
0.8562 |
0.1742 |
170 |
2 |
24.45 |
2011-07-14 |
| 47. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
25.83 |
0.9430 |
0.0886 |
297 |
1 |
25.83 |
2012-01-10 |
| 48. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
25.68 |
0.8919 |
0.1341 |
152 |
1 |
25.68 |
2011-01-29 |
| 49. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
25.66 |
0.8975 |
0.1255 |
268 |
3 |
24.07 |
2012-02-16 |
| 50. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
25.62 |
0.8581 |
0.1593 |
136 |
1 |
25.62 |
2011-04-14 |
| 51. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
25.40 |
0.9576 |
0.0584 |
212 |
1 |
25.40 |
2012-02-16 |
| 52. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
25.17 |
1.0004 |
-0.0039 |
212 |
1 |
25.17 |
2011-04-15 |
| 53. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
25.12 |
1.0033 |
-0.0094 |
189 |
1 |
25.12 |
2011-01-26 |
| 54. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
25.06 |
0.8941 |
0.1058 |
216 |
1 |
25.06 |
2012-02-16 |
| 55. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
25.04 |
0.8544 |
0.1452 |
170 |
1 |
25.04 |
2011-03-11 |
| 56. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
24.89 |
0.9310 |
0.0557 |
188 |
1 |
24.89 |
2011-01-26 |
| 57. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
24.80 |
1.0528 |
-0.0698 |
201 |
1 |
24.80 |
2011-02-17 |
| 58. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
24.56 |
0.8323 |
0.1455 |
145 |
1 |
24.56 |
2011-03-11 |
| 59. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
24.43 |
0.9303 |
0.0356 |
176 |
1 |
24.43 |
2011-02-17 |
| 60. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
24.39 |
0.8842 |
0.0832 |
135 |
1 |
24.39 |
2012-01-18 |
| 61. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
24.21 |
0.7850 |
0.1757 |
154 |
2 |
23.28 |
2011-01-26 |
| 62. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
24.13 |
1.0565 |
-0.0987 |
247 |
1 |
24.13 |
2011-01-29 |
| 63. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
24.00 |
1.0205 |
-0.0719 |
179 |
1 |
24.00 |
2011-02-11 |
| 64. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
24.00 |
0.9773 |
-0.0301 |
123 |
1 |
24.00 |
2011-05-25 |
| 65. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
23.97 |
1.0574 |
-0.0752 |
205 |
1 |
23.97 |
2011-02-11 |
| 66. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
23.92 |
0.8311 |
0.1149 |
124 |
1 |
23.92 |
2011-01-28 |
| 67. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
23.86 |
0.7805 |
0.1648 |
154 |
1 |
23.86 |
2012-01-10 |
| 68. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
23.67 |
0.8872 |
0.0498 |
168 |
1 |
23.67 |
2011-01-28 |
| 69. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
23.62 |
0.9871 |
-0.0108 |
209 |
2 |
22.45 |
2011-02-12 |
| 70. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
23.56 |
1.0183 |
-0.0860 |
191 |
1 |
23.56 |
2011-02-11 |
| 71. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
23.56 |
1.0023 |
-0.0666 |
211 |
2 |
22.71 |
2011-04-20 |
| 72. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
23.52 |
0.8089 |
0.1255 |
158 |
3 |
22.49 |
2011-04-21 |
| 73. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
23.42 |
0.8323 |
0.1007 |
203 |
1 |
23.42 |
2011-01-28 |
| 74. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
23.30 |
0.8177 |
0.1059 |
124 |
1 |
23.30 |
2011-02-19 |
| 75. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
23.28 |
0.8773 |
0.0528 |
205 |
1 |
23.28 |
2011-01-28 |
| 76. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
23.13 |
0.8791 |
0.0404 |
190 |
1 |
23.13 |
2011-01-26 |
| 77. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
23.05 |
0.9350 |
-0.0173 |
195 |
1 |
23.05 |
2011-02-17 |
| 78. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
22.97 |
0.8899 |
0.0346 |
293 |
1 |
22.97 |
2011-02-11 |
| 79. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
22.93 |
0.9286 |
-0.0174 |
194 |
1 |
22.93 |
2011-02-13 |
| 80. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
22.87 |
0.7389 |
0.1727 |
145 |
2 |
21.43 |
2012-01-10 |
| 81. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
22.82 |
0.9171 |
-0.0087 |
165 |
1 |
22.82 |
2011-02-11 |
| 82. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
22.82 |
0.8661 |
0.0337 |
94 |
1 |
22.82 |
2011-02-14 |
| 83. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
22.76 |
0.8188 |
0.0884 |
183 |
1 |
22.76 |
2011-01-26 |
| 84. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
22.76 |
0.9340 |
-0.0292 |
296 |
1 |
22.76 |
2011-07-14 |
| 85. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
22.73 |
0.9786 |
-0.0795 |
193 |
1 |
22.73 |
2011-01-27 |
| 86. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
22.45 |
0.8559 |
0.0383 |
191 |
2 |
22.31 |
2011-05-25 |
| 87. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
22.42 |
0.8070 |
0.0826 |
167 |
1 |
22.42 |
2011-01-29 |
| 88. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
22.37 |
0.9418 |
-0.0462 |
188 |
1 |
22.37 |
2011-02-14 |
| 89. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
22.30 |
1.0334 |
-0.1531 |
131 |
1 |
22.30 |
2011-01-26 |
| 90. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
22.30 |
0.7375 |
0.1539 |
148 |
2 |
20.82 |
2011-01-27 |
| 91. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
22.09 |
0.7818 |
0.0968 |
195 |
1 |
22.09 |
2011-01-26 |
| 92. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
21.98 |
0.8022 |
0.0745 |
215 |
1 |
21.98 |
2012-02-16 |
| 93. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
21.61 |
0.8826 |
-0.0219 |
296 |
1 |
21.61 |
2011-02-17 |
| 94. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
21.43 |
0.9710 |
-0.1256 |
173 |
1 |
21.43 |
2011-02-13 |
| 95. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
21.27 |
0.7890 |
0.0575 |
230 |
1 |
21.27 |
2011-04-20 |
| 96. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
20.82 |
0.8190 |
0.0158 |
135 |
1 |
20.82 |
2011-02-12 |
| 97. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
20.75 |
0.8275 |
-0.0015 |
142 |
1 |
20.75 |
2011-01-26 |
| 98. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
20.45 |
0.7916 |
0.0288 |
184 |
1 |
20.45 |
2011-01-26 |
| 99. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
19.96 |
0.8037 |
-0.0080 |
148 |
1 |
19.96 |
2011-01-26 |
| 100. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
19.74 |
0.8890 |
-0.1091 |
199 |
1 |
19.74 |
2011-01-27 |
| 101. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
19.43 |
0.9351 |
-0.1696 |
190 |
1 |
19.43 |
2011-01-26 |
| 102. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
19.33 |
0.8809 |
-0.1161 |
127 |
1 |
19.33 |
2011-01-27 |
| 103. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
18.11 |
0.8821 |
-0.1644 |
176 |
1 |
18.11 |
2011-01-27 |
| 104. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
17.86 |
0.8961 |
-0.1918 |
189 |
1 |
17.86 |
2011-08-31 |
| 105. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
17.83 |
0.8105 |
-0.1086 |
204 |
1 |
17.83 |
2011-01-26 |
| 106. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
16.92 |
0.8666 |
-0.1931 |
150 |
1 |
16.92 |
2011-04-15 |
| 107. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
11.26 |
0.7801 |
-0.3425 |
116 |
1 |
11.26 |
2011-02-19 |
| 108. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
5.70 |
0.8243 |
-0.6036 |
134 |
1 |
5.70 |
2011-01-26 |