| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
95.21 |
1.0567 |
0.1157 |
303 |
2 |
88.72 |
2009-08-26 |
| 2. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
94.90 |
1.0613 |
0.1075 |
266 |
2 |
88.98 |
2010-10-29 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
94.41 |
1.0993 |
0.0604 |
265 |
2 |
90.34 |
2009-08-14 |
| 4. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
92.80 |
1.0349 |
0.1062 |
234 |
1 |
92.80 |
2011-12-01 |
| 5. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
91.95 |
0.9886 |
0.1451 |
220 |
1 |
91.95 |
2009-08-22 |
| 6. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
91.48 |
1.0167 |
0.1155 |
378 |
2 |
87.63 |
2009-09-02 |
| 7. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
90.80 |
0.9731 |
0.1313 |
129 |
1 |
90.80 |
2009-08-13 |
| 8. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
90.37 |
1.0117 |
0.1446 |
297 |
2 |
84.25 |
2011-12-01 |
| 9. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
90.17 |
1.0412 |
0.0673 |
225 |
1 |
90.17 |
2009-08-22 |
| 10. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
90.05 |
1.0487 |
0.0539 |
231 |
1 |
90.05 |
2008-12-26 |
| 11. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
89.85 |
1.0361 |
0.0700 |
269 |
3 |
84.59 |
2009-08-13 |
| 12. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
89.50 |
1.0023 |
0.0965 |
211 |
1 |
89.50 |
2008-12-26 |
| 13. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
89.50 |
1.1068 |
0.0342 |
393 |
1 |
89.50 |
2009-09-02 |
| 14. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
89.21 |
1.0203 |
0.0802 |
261 |
3 |
82.07 |
2009-08-13 |
| 15. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
88.92 |
1.1016 |
-0.0080 |
233 |
1 |
88.92 |
2009-08-13 |
| 16. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
88.61 |
1.0534 |
0.0384 |
357 |
3 |
83.88 |
2009-10-28 |
| 17. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
88.32 |
1.0368 |
0.0501 |
276 |
4 |
83.77 |
2010-10-29 |
| 18. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
88.23 |
1.0124 |
0.0701 |
204 |
2 |
85.68 |
2011-12-01 |
| 19. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
87.87 |
1.0375 |
0.0889 |
200 |
1 |
87.87 |
2010-10-29 |
| 20. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
87.73 |
1.0214 |
0.0556 |
269 |
3 |
83.51 |
2010-10-29 |
| 21. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
87.36 |
1.0595 |
0.0171 |
379 |
2 |
85.40 |
2009-08-13 |
| 22. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
86.98 |
1.0201 |
0.0497 |
303 |
2 |
81.64 |
2009-06-25 |
| 23. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
86.80 |
1.0787 |
-0.0129 |
237 |
2 |
84.37 |
2009-08-13 |
| 24. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
86.79 |
1.0390 |
0.0242 |
205 |
1 |
86.79 |
2008-12-26 |
| 25. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
86.65 |
1.0029 |
0.0560 |
209 |
1 |
86.65 |
2009-08-14 |
| 26. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
86.56 |
1.0183 |
0.0402 |
191 |
1 |
86.56 |
2009-06-29 |
| 27. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
86.12 |
1.0073 |
0.0594 |
369 |
1 |
86.12 |
2009-08-13 |
| 28. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
85.80 |
1.0201 |
0.0386 |
375 |
2 |
79.26 |
2008-12-26 |
| 29. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
85.78 |
1.0529 |
0.0014 |
351 |
2 |
85.32 |
2009-10-28 |
| 30. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
85.23 |
1.0885 |
-0.0376 |
315 |
1 |
85.23 |
2009-08-13 |
| 31. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
85.19 |
1.0261 |
0.0191 |
273 |
1 |
85.19 |
2009-08-22 |
| 32. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
84.98 |
1.0555 |
-0.0096 |
363 |
1 |
84.98 |
2009-04-16 |
| 33. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
84.96 |
1.0441 |
0.0016 |
252 |
2 |
84.27 |
2009-03-28 |
| 34. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
84.91 |
1.0289 |
0.0191 |
276 |
2 |
74.12 |
2009-10-17 |
| 35. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
84.76 |
1.0063 |
0.0358 |
371 |
1 |
84.76 |
2009-08-13 |
| 36. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
84.74 |
1.0132 |
0.0196 |
143 |
2 |
76.88 |
2012-03-04 |
| 37. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
84.49 |
0.9964 |
0.0421 |
203 |
4 |
75.20 |
2010-10-29 |
| 38. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
84.22 |
0.9426 |
0.0955 |
317 |
3 |
79.68 |
2009-08-13 |
| 39. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
83.96 |
1.0496 |
-0.0185 |
314 |
2 |
82.12 |
2010-10-29 |
| 40. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
83.83 |
1.0197 |
0.0076 |
226 |
4 |
81.49 |
2009-11-13 |
| 41. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
83.81 |
1.0389 |
-0.0066 |
340 |
3 |
81.66 |
2009-08-13 |
| 42. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
83.77 |
0.9884 |
0.0402 |
233 |
1 |
83.77 |
2009-08-22 |
| 43. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
83.45 |
1.0257 |
0.0061 |
401 |
2 |
83.36 |
2009-11-13 |
| 44. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
83.44 |
1.0328 |
0.0306 |
356 |
1 |
83.44 |
2009-10-28 |
| 45. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
83.31 |
0.9865 |
0.0383 |
276 |
1 |
83.31 |
2009-08-13 |
| 46. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
83.12 |
1.0068 |
0.0178 |
358 |
2 |
81.25 |
2009-08-13 |
| 47. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
83.01 |
1.0316 |
-0.0078 |
333 |
4 |
79.65 |
2009-09-02 |
| 48. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
82.90 |
1.0515 |
-0.0348 |
250 |
1 |
82.90 |
2009-11-13 |
| 49. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
82.86 |
0.9941 |
0.0216 |
217 |
1 |
82.86 |
2009-08-13 |
| 50. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
82.83 |
1.0523 |
-0.0389 |
256 |
1 |
82.83 |
2010-10-29 |
| 51. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
82.69 |
1.0516 |
-0.0360 |
281 |
2 |
81.96 |
2009-08-22 |
| 52. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
82.65 |
1.1114 |
-0.0986 |
247 |
1 |
82.65 |
2009-06-29 |
| 53. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
82.61 |
1.0426 |
-0.0283 |
323 |
2 |
79.38 |
2009-07-02 |
| 54. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
82.60 |
1.0477 |
-0.0304 |
360 |
1 |
82.60 |
2009-08-13 |
| 55. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
82.53 |
0.9894 |
0.0290 |
323 |
1 |
82.53 |
2009-08-13 |
| 56. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
82.41 |
1.0483 |
-0.0388 |
227 |
1 |
82.41 |
2009-04-11 |
| 57. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
82.36 |
0.9578 |
0.0536 |
281 |
2 |
76.11 |
2010-10-29 |
| 58. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
82.29 |
1.0444 |
-0.0400 |
197 |
1 |
82.29 |
2009-06-25 |
| 59. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
82.27 |
0.9593 |
0.0562 |
398 |
1 |
82.27 |
2009-05-06 |
| 60. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
82.16 |
0.9942 |
0.0240 |
483 |
1 |
82.16 |
2009-08-13 |
| 61. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
82.12 |
1.0417 |
-0.0353 |
253 |
1 |
82.12 |
2009-04-16 |
| 62. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
82.12 |
1.0013 |
0.0067 |
273 |
2 |
81.70 |
2009-10-28 |
| 63. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
82.00 |
0.9946 |
0.0126 |
246 |
1 |
82.00 |
2009-08-14 |
| 64. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
81.80 |
0.9485 |
0.0588 |
291 |
1 |
81.80 |
2009-09-02 |
| 65. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
81.65 |
0.9907 |
0.0107 |
211 |
1 |
81.65 |
2009-08-14 |
| 66. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
81.65 |
0.9653 |
0.0460 |
394 |
1 |
81.65 |
2009-04-16 |
| 67. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
81.36 |
1.0441 |
-0.0034 |
316 |
1 |
81.36 |
2009-08-21 |
| 68. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
81.18 |
1.0528 |
-0.0606 |
201 |
1 |
81.18 |
2008-12-25 |
| 69. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
80.66 |
1.0025 |
-0.0119 |
256 |
1 |
80.66 |
2008-12-25 |
| 70. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
80.61 |
0.9857 |
0.0034 |
293 |
2 |
78.75 |
2009-08-13 |
| 71. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
80.60 |
0.9785 |
0.0147 |
335 |
1 |
80.60 |
2008-12-25 |
| 72. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
80.41 |
1.0829 |
-0.0938 |
288 |
1 |
80.41 |
2009-08-13 |
| 73. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
80.40 |
0.9636 |
0.0238 |
254 |
1 |
80.40 |
2009-11-13 |
| 74. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
80.07 |
0.9513 |
0.0359 |
354 |
3 |
74.81 |
2010-10-29 |
| 75. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
80.04 |
1.0596 |
-0.0787 |
239 |
1 |
80.04 |
2008-12-25 |
| 76. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
79.89 |
1.0668 |
-0.0832 |
350 |
3 |
78.17 |
2009-08-13 |
| 77. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
79.70 |
0.9485 |
0.0320 |
236 |
3 |
77.73 |
2010-10-29 |
| 78. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
79.67 |
0.9567 |
0.0215 |
273 |
2 |
78.45 |
2009-07-02 |
| 79. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
79.56 |
1.0788 |
-0.1074 |
171 |
1 |
79.56 |
2008-12-26 |
| 80. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
79.48 |
1.0263 |
-0.0511 |
267 |
2 |
79.03 |
2009-08-14 |
| 81. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
79.44 |
1.0120 |
-0.0373 |
290 |
1 |
79.44 |
2009-04-11 |
| 82. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
79.20 |
1.0399 |
-0.0621 |
294 |
1 |
79.20 |
2008-12-26 |
| 83. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
79.07 |
0.9601 |
0.0155 |
308 |
2 |
76.74 |
2011-12-01 |
| 84. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
79.01 |
0.9278 |
0.0451 |
295 |
3 |
73.10 |
2009-08-13 |
| 85. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
78.90 |
1.0213 |
-0.0557 |
240 |
1 |
78.90 |
2009-08-14 |
| 86. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
78.85 |
1.0131 |
-0.0488 |
225 |
1 |
78.85 |
2009-08-13 |
| 87. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
78.84 |
1.0419 |
-0.0738 |
261 |
1 |
78.84 |
2009-06-29 |
| 88. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
78.80 |
1.0445 |
-0.0760 |
373 |
1 |
78.80 |
2010-10-29 |
| 89. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
78.42 |
0.9994 |
-0.0059 |
269 |
1 |
78.42 |
2010-10-29 |
| 90. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
78.38 |
1.0555 |
-0.0634 |
323 |
1 |
78.38 |
2011-12-01 |
| 91. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
78.24 |
0.9754 |
-0.0087 |
362 |
2 |
77.90 |
2009-08-13 |
| 92. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
78.12 |
0.9508 |
0.0415 |
384 |
1 |
78.12 |
2010-10-29 |
| 93. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
78.08 |
1.0053 |
-0.0487 |
232 |
2 |
75.20 |
2009-07-02 |
| 94. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
78.06 |
1.0462 |
-0.0939 |
184 |
1 |
78.06 |
2009-11-13 |
| 95. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
77.79 |
0.9893 |
-0.0342 |
323 |
1 |
77.79 |
2010-10-29 |
| 96. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
77.72 |
0.9805 |
-0.0218 |
292 |
2 |
77.13 |
2009-08-13 |
| 97. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
77.71 |
0.9899 |
-0.0406 |
163 |
1 |
77.71 |
2009-08-13 |
| 98. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
77.70 |
1.0331 |
-0.0814 |
234 |
2 |
74.33 |
2009-08-13 |
| 99. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
77.58 |
1.0150 |
-0.0136 |
325 |
1 |
77.58 |
2009-09-02 |
| 100. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
77.45 |
0.9798 |
-0.0347 |
199 |
1 |
77.45 |
2009-07-02 |
| 101. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
76.74 |
0.9619 |
-0.0148 |
393 |
1 |
76.74 |
2008-12-26 |
| 102. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
76.33 |
0.9532 |
-0.0177 |
258 |
3 |
73.94 |
2009-08-13 |
| 103. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
75.94 |
1.0768 |
-0.1047 |
295 |
1 |
75.94 |
2009-09-02 |
| 104. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
75.85 |
1.0619 |
-0.1274 |
354 |
1 |
75.85 |
2010-10-29 |
| 105. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
75.68 |
1.0545 |
-0.0850 |
416 |
1 |
75.68 |
2009-10-28 |
| 106. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
75.40 |
1.0165 |
-0.0873 |
392 |
1 |
75.40 |
2008-12-26 |
| 107. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
75.32 |
0.9910 |
-0.0648 |
295 |
1 |
75.32 |
2008-12-25 |
| 108. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
75.08 |
0.9672 |
-0.0394 |
396 |
1 |
75.08 |
2008-12-26 |
| 109. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
74.95 |
0.9514 |
-0.0314 |
237 |
1 |
74.95 |
2009-06-25 |
| 110. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
74.55 |
1.0004 |
-0.0918 |
212 |
1 |
74.55 |
2008-12-25 |
| 111. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
74.51 |
0.9673 |
-0.0138 |
232 |
1 |
74.51 |
2010-10-29 |
| 112. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
74.29 |
0.9234 |
-0.0065 |
346 |
1 |
74.29 |
2009-08-21 |
| 113. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
74.19 |
0.9831 |
-0.0649 |
469 |
1 |
74.19 |
2008-12-26 |
| 114. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
73.59 |
1.0343 |
-0.0941 |
242 |
1 |
73.59 |
2010-10-29 |
| 115. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
73.47 |
0.9212 |
-0.0166 |
323 |
1 |
73.47 |
2008-12-26 |
| 116. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
73.13 |
1.0189 |
-0.1186 |
337 |
1 |
73.13 |
2009-10-28 |
| 117. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
72.58 |
0.9109 |
-0.0181 |
401 |
1 |
72.58 |
2010-10-29 |
| 118. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
72.40 |
0.9855 |
-0.0643 |
258 |
1 |
72.40 |
2010-10-29 |
| 119. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
72.15 |
0.9622 |
-0.0710 |
392 |
1 |
72.15 |
2009-08-13 |
| 120. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
71.96 |
0.9342 |
-0.0482 |
434 |
1 |
71.96 |
2010-10-29 |
| 121. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
71.90 |
0.9330 |
-0.0447 |
360 |
1 |
71.90 |
2008-12-25 |
| 122. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
71.78 |
1.0251 |
-0.1471 |
261 |
1 |
71.78 |
2009-07-02 |
| 123. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
71.28 |
0.9365 |
-0.0611 |
248 |
1 |
71.28 |
2008-12-25 |
| 124. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
71.28 |
0.9557 |
-0.0754 |
331 |
2 |
70.97 |
2008-12-25 |
| 125. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
70.90 |
0.9671 |
-0.0736 |
379 |
1 |
70.90 |
2010-10-29 |
| 126. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
70.86 |
1.0099 |
-0.1440 |
207 |
1 |
70.86 |
2008-12-25 |
| 127. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
69.33 |
0.9351 |
-0.0909 |
190 |
1 |
69.33 |
2008-12-26 |
| 128. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
69.21 |
0.9464 |
-0.0930 |
323 |
1 |
69.21 |
2008-12-26 |
| 129. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
68.90 |
0.9540 |
-0.1114 |
285 |
1 |
68.90 |
2009-07-02 |
| 130. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
68.14 |
0.9275 |
-0.0959 |
211 |
1 |
68.14 |
2008-12-25 |
| 131. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
66.70 |
0.9164 |
-0.0946 |
305 |
1 |
66.70 |
2008-12-26 |
| 132. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
66.54 |
0.9371 |
-0.0832 |
318 |
1 |
66.54 |
2011-12-01 |
| 133. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
64.68 |
0.8595 |
-0.0658 |
242 |
2 |
62.25 |
2009-06-25 |
| 134. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
64.37 |
0.9740 |
-0.1901 |
209 |
1 |
64.37 |
2008-12-25 |
| 135. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
62.96 |
0.9202 |
-0.1504 |
254 |
1 |
62.96 |
2009-04-06 |
| 136. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
53.82 |
0.7876 |
-0.1282 |
316 |
1 |
53.82 |
2008-12-25 |