| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
58.58 |
0.9907 |
0.7737 |
211 |
1 |
58.58 |
2011-01-18 |
| 2. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
47.02 |
1.0515 |
0.3612 |
250 |
1 |
47.02 |
2011-01-14 |
| 3. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
45.48 |
1.1114 |
0.2537 |
247 |
1 |
45.48 |
2011-01-18 |
| 4. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
44.57 |
0.8956 |
0.4475 |
217 |
1 |
44.57 |
2011-01-18 |
| 5. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
43.04 |
1.0379 |
0.2907 |
245 |
1 |
43.04 |
2011-01-18 |
| 6. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
41.05 |
0.9212 |
0.3156 |
231 |
1 |
41.05 |
2011-01-18 |
| 7. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
40.94 |
0.9991 |
0.2316 |
225 |
1 |
40.94 |
2010-06-08 |
| 8. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
39.99 |
0.8731 |
0.3350 |
199 |
2 |
36.42 |
2011-01-18 |
| 9. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
39.77 |
1.0389 |
0.1581 |
340 |
1 |
39.77 |
2011-01-18 |
| 10. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
39.66 |
0.9886 |
0.2051 |
220 |
1 |
39.66 |
2011-01-14 |
| 11. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
39.61 |
0.9325 |
0.2503 |
156 |
1 |
39.61 |
2010-06-08 |
| 12. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
39.54 |
0.9164 |
0.2754 |
121 |
2 |
38.30 |
2010-06-07 |
| 13. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
39.54 |
0.9307 |
0.2646 |
246 |
1 |
39.54 |
2011-01-07 |
| 14. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
39.46 |
1.0375 |
0.1935 |
200 |
1 |
39.46 |
2010-04-28 |
| 15. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
39.34 |
1.0498 |
0.1268 |
180 |
2 |
34.43 |
2011-01-18 |
| 16. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
39.25 |
0.8785 |
0.2961 |
172 |
1 |
39.25 |
2011-01-10 |
| 17. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
39.22 |
0.8653 |
0.3239 |
255 |
2 |
34.39 |
2011-01-18 |
| 18. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
38.97 |
0.9275 |
0.2396 |
211 |
1 |
38.97 |
2011-01-18 |
| 19. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
38.78 |
0.9559 |
0.2108 |
195 |
3 |
33.81 |
2010-06-08 |
| 20. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
38.62 |
0.9866 |
0.1696 |
218 |
2 |
35.23 |
2010-06-08 |
| 21. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
38.60 |
0.8709 |
0.2960 |
202 |
3 |
34.44 |
2011-01-18 |
| 22. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
38.60 |
0.9820 |
0.1801 |
267 |
2 |
34.06 |
2011-01-18 |
| 23. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
38.44 |
0.8900 |
0.2654 |
164 |
1 |
38.44 |
2011-01-18 |
| 24. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
38.10 |
0.9226 |
0.2252 |
177 |
1 |
38.10 |
2011-01-14 |
| 25. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
38.01 |
1.0365 |
0.1341 |
162 |
2 |
31.96 |
2011-01-13 |
| 26. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
37.93 |
1.0863 |
0.0870 |
210 |
1 |
37.93 |
2011-01-18 |
| 27. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
37.80 |
0.8918 |
0.2416 |
100 |
1 |
37.80 |
2010-06-08 |
| 28. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
37.46 |
0.9731 |
0.1386 |
129 |
1 |
37.46 |
2010-06-08 |
| 29. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
37.31 |
1.0483 |
0.0683 |
227 |
2 |
30.85 |
2011-01-18 |
| 30. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
37.04 |
0.8915 |
0.2187 |
188 |
5 |
33.24 |
2011-01-14 |
| 31. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
37.01 |
1.0349 |
0.0748 |
234 |
1 |
37.01 |
2010-05-26 |
| 32. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
36.88 |
0.9965 |
0.1109 |
277 |
1 |
36.88 |
2011-01-10 |
| 33. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
36.72 |
1.0077 |
0.1352 |
250 |
1 |
36.72 |
2011-01-10 |
| 34. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
36.59 |
0.9514 |
0.1468 |
237 |
1 |
36.59 |
2010-06-10 |
| 35. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
36.56 |
1.0131 |
0.0801 |
225 |
1 |
36.56 |
2011-01-18 |
| 36. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
36.54 |
0.9161 |
0.1779 |
200 |
1 |
36.54 |
2010-06-08 |
| 37. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
36.37 |
0.9646 |
0.1258 |
264 |
1 |
36.37 |
2010-06-10 |
| 38. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
36.31 |
0.9697 |
0.1197 |
249 |
2 |
33.01 |
2011-01-14 |
| 39. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
36.31 |
1.0033 |
0.0793 |
189 |
1 |
36.31 |
2011-01-14 |
| 40. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
36.04 |
0.8661 |
0.2070 |
94 |
1 |
36.04 |
2011-01-07 |
| 41. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
35.97 |
0.8118 |
0.2729 |
109 |
1 |
35.97 |
2011-01-10 |
| 42. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
35.83 |
0.8994 |
0.1773 |
188 |
1 |
35.83 |
2011-01-18 |
| 43. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
35.78 |
0.8884 |
0.1850 |
135 |
1 |
35.78 |
2010-06-08 |
| 44. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
35.76 |
0.9884 |
0.0884 |
262 |
1 |
35.76 |
2011-01-07 |
| 45. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
35.76 |
0.9098 |
0.1590 |
167 |
3 |
32.23 |
2011-01-10 |
| 46. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
35.76 |
1.0574 |
0.0434 |
205 |
1 |
35.76 |
2010-06-08 |
| 47. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
35.37 |
0.8867 |
0.1793 |
241 |
1 |
35.37 |
2011-01-13 |
| 48. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
35.30 |
0.9310 |
0.1232 |
188 |
1 |
35.30 |
2011-01-18 |
| 49. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
35.23 |
0.9500 |
0.1087 |
362 |
1 |
35.23 |
2011-01-14 |
| 50. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
34.65 |
1.0679 |
-0.0089 |
177 |
2 |
31.73 |
2011-01-14 |
| 51. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
34.63 |
1.0788 |
-0.0460 |
171 |
1 |
34.63 |
2010-06-08 |
| 52. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
34.40 |
0.9805 |
0.0557 |
292 |
1 |
34.40 |
2011-01-10 |
| 53. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
34.37 |
1.0201 |
0.0040 |
172 |
4 |
32.18 |
2010-06-08 |
| 54. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
34.33 |
1.0038 |
0.0558 |
237 |
1 |
34.33 |
2011-01-10 |
| 55. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
34.32 |
0.9633 |
0.0679 |
304 |
1 |
34.32 |
2010-06-08 |
| 56. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
34.17 |
0.9922 |
0.0733 |
341 |
1 |
34.17 |
2011-01-07 |
| 57. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
34.13 |
1.1162 |
-0.0517 |
189 |
1 |
34.13 |
2010-06-07 |
| 58. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
34.02 |
0.8941 |
0.1274 |
216 |
2 |
32.69 |
2011-01-10 |
| 59. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
33.97 |
0.9946 |
0.0239 |
246 |
1 |
33.97 |
2010-04-26 |
| 60. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
33.89 |
1.0444 |
-0.0350 |
197 |
2 |
32.36 |
2010-06-07 |
| 61. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
33.81 |
1.0740 |
-0.0222 |
264 |
1 |
33.81 |
2011-01-14 |
| 62. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
33.81 |
0.8157 |
0.1979 |
121 |
1 |
33.81 |
2010-06-07 |
| 63. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
33.79 |
0.9863 |
0.0310 |
339 |
1 |
33.79 |
2011-01-18 |
| 64. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
33.79 |
0.9068 |
0.1089 |
269 |
1 |
33.79 |
2011-01-14 |
| 65. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
33.62 |
0.9509 |
0.0951 |
225 |
2 |
30.29 |
2010-06-10 |
| 66. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
33.51 |
1.0403 |
-0.0212 |
193 |
1 |
33.51 |
2011-01-14 |
| 67. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
33.28 |
0.8162 |
0.1866 |
149 |
1 |
33.28 |
2010-06-07 |
| 68. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
32.87 |
0.9350 |
0.0505 |
195 |
1 |
32.87 |
2010-06-07 |
| 69. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
32.75 |
0.9614 |
0.0232 |
292 |
1 |
32.75 |
2010-04-28 |
| 70. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
32.71 |
1.0567 |
-0.0756 |
303 |
1 |
32.71 |
2011-01-10 |
| 71. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
32.67 |
0.8188 |
0.1618 |
183 |
2 |
31.21 |
2011-01-10 |
| 72. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
32.58 |
0.9281 |
0.0530 |
273 |
1 |
32.58 |
2011-01-10 |
| 73. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
32.55 |
0.9710 |
-0.0021 |
173 |
1 |
32.55 |
2011-01-07 |
| 74. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
32.52 |
1.0944 |
-0.0755 |
308 |
1 |
32.52 |
2010-04-26 |
| 75. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
32.52 |
0.8628 |
0.1086 |
196 |
1 |
32.52 |
2011-01-07 |
| 76. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
32.50 |
1.0013 |
-0.0285 |
273 |
1 |
32.50 |
2011-01-10 |
| 77. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
32.44 |
0.8773 |
0.0982 |
205 |
2 |
31.75 |
2011-01-14 |
| 78. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
32.42 |
0.8936 |
0.0767 |
127 |
1 |
32.42 |
2010-06-07 |
| 79. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
32.40 |
0.9461 |
0.0205 |
193 |
3 |
29.01 |
2011-01-18 |
| 80. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
32.38 |
0.8811 |
0.0934 |
239 |
1 |
32.38 |
2010-06-08 |
| 81. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
32.32 |
0.8660 |
0.1025 |
193 |
1 |
32.32 |
2010-02-15 |
| 82. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
32.10 |
0.9631 |
0.0498 |
345 |
1 |
32.10 |
2010-04-28 |
| 83. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
32.08 |
1.0232 |
-0.0265 |
236 |
1 |
32.08 |
2010-06-07 |
| 84. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
32.07 |
0.9127 |
0.0452 |
252 |
2 |
28.68 |
2010-06-07 |
| 85. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
32.03 |
0.8826 |
0.0786 |
296 |
1 |
32.03 |
2011-01-14 |
| 86. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
32.00 |
0.9811 |
-0.0198 |
272 |
1 |
32.00 |
2010-04-28 |
| 87. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
31.90 |
1.0095 |
-0.0554 |
316 |
1 |
31.90 |
2010-06-07 |
| 88. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
31.79 |
0.9936 |
-0.0415 |
311 |
1 |
31.79 |
2011-01-14 |
| 89. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
31.78 |
0.8629 |
0.0934 |
299 |
1 |
31.78 |
2011-01-10 |
| 90. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
31.74 |
0.9649 |
-0.0151 |
193 |
1 |
31.74 |
2010-04-28 |
| 91. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
31.65 |
0.9330 |
0.0217 |
360 |
1 |
31.65 |
2011-01-18 |
| 92. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
31.31 |
0.7708 |
0.1723 |
207 |
1 |
31.31 |
2010-06-08 |
| 93. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
31.05 |
1.0417 |
-0.1147 |
253 |
1 |
31.05 |
2011-01-18 |
| 94. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
30.87 |
1.0485 |
-0.0898 |
153 |
1 |
30.87 |
2011-01-14 |
| 95. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
30.73 |
0.9578 |
-0.0378 |
281 |
1 |
30.73 |
2010-04-26 |
| 96. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
30.55 |
1.1014 |
-0.1492 |
273 |
1 |
30.55 |
2010-06-07 |
| 97. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
30.48 |
0.8353 |
0.0844 |
283 |
1 |
30.48 |
2010-05-26 |
| 98. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
30.36 |
0.8906 |
0.0221 |
238 |
1 |
30.36 |
2010-02-22 |
| 99. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
30.22 |
1.1296 |
-0.1960 |
252 |
1 |
30.22 |
2010-06-07 |
| 100. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
30.20 |
1.0711 |
-0.1724 |
213 |
1 |
30.20 |
2010-04-26 |
| 101. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
29.82 |
0.8442 |
0.0521 |
265 |
2 |
28.88 |
2010-06-07 |
| 102. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
29.76 |
0.8348 |
0.0620 |
219 |
1 |
29.76 |
2010-06-07 |
| 103. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
29.65 |
0.9740 |
-0.0910 |
209 |
2 |
27.76 |
2010-02-15 |
| 104. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
29.53 |
1.0390 |
-0.1593 |
205 |
1 |
29.53 |
2011-01-07 |
| 105. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
29.39 |
0.9263 |
-0.0436 |
188 |
1 |
29.39 |
2010-04-26 |
| 106. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
29.35 |
0.8975 |
-0.0188 |
268 |
1 |
29.35 |
2011-01-10 |
| 107. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
29.19 |
0.9884 |
-0.1156 |
233 |
1 |
29.19 |
2010-02-22 |
| 108. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
29.18 |
1.0419 |
-0.1692 |
261 |
1 |
29.18 |
2010-01-19 |
| 109. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
28.47 |
0.8360 |
0.0151 |
170 |
1 |
28.47 |
2010-02-22 |
| 110. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
28.29 |
0.9572 |
-0.1127 |
201 |
1 |
28.29 |
2010-02-22 |
| 111. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
28.28 |
1.0004 |
-0.1609 |
212 |
2 |
27.41 |
2010-04-26 |
| 112. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
28.11 |
0.9612 |
-0.1205 |
256 |
1 |
28.11 |
2010-05-26 |
| 113. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
28.09 |
1.0197 |
-0.1827 |
226 |
1 |
28.09 |
2010-04-26 |
| 114. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
27.99 |
0.9309 |
-0.0960 |
284 |
1 |
27.99 |
2010-05-26 |
| 115. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
27.97 |
0.9221 |
-0.0872 |
244 |
1 |
27.97 |
2010-06-10 |
| 116. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
27.74 |
0.9233 |
-0.1023 |
168 |
1 |
27.74 |
2011-01-10 |
| 117. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
27.56 |
0.9758 |
-0.1513 |
314 |
1 |
27.56 |
2010-01-20 |
| 118. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
27.54 |
0.8890 |
-0.0695 |
199 |
1 |
27.54 |
2010-06-08 |
| 119. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
26.85 |
0.9820 |
-0.1799 |
274 |
1 |
26.85 |
2010-02-22 |
| 120. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
26.21 |
0.8553 |
-0.0775 |
174 |
1 |
26.21 |
2010-02-22 |
| 121. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
26.02 |
1.0462 |
-0.2752 |
184 |
1 |
26.02 |
2010-01-20 |
| 122. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
25.96 |
1.0677 |
-0.2623 |
284 |
1 |
25.96 |
2011-01-10 |
| 123. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
25.85 |
0.8791 |
-0.1080 |
190 |
1 |
25.85 |
2010-04-26 |
| 124. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
25.77 |
0.7988 |
-0.0211 |
219 |
1 |
25.77 |
2010-05-07 |
| 125. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
25.65 |
0.7690 |
-0.0008 |
142 |
1 |
25.65 |
2010-01-20 |
| 126. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
25.16 |
0.9213 |
-0.1697 |
295 |
1 |
25.16 |
2010-02-22 |
| 127. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
24.60 |
0.8295 |
-0.0938 |
209 |
1 |
24.60 |
2011-01-18 |
| 128. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
24.40 |
0.7839 |
-0.0509 |
257 |
1 |
24.40 |
2010-01-20 |
| 129. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
24.37 |
0.8152 |
-0.0867 |
163 |
1 |
24.37 |
2010-01-20 |
| 130. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
24.30 |
0.8910 |
-0.1645 |
150 |
1 |
24.30 |
2011-01-18 |
| 131. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
24.22 |
0.9682 |
-0.2473 |
143 |
1 |
24.22 |
2010-01-19 |
| 132. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
23.51 |
0.9072 |
-0.2085 |
237 |
1 |
23.51 |
2010-02-15 |
| 133. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
23.17 |
0.8263 |
-0.1379 |
162 |
1 |
23.17 |
2010-01-20 |
| 134. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
23.04 |
0.8876 |
-0.2023 |
118 |
1 |
23.04 |
2010-06-07 |
| 135. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
22.87 |
1.0261 |
-0.3469 |
273 |
1 |
22.87 |
2010-01-19 |
| 136. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
22.64 |
0.9665 |
-0.2428 |
326 |
2 |
21.29 |
2010-02-22 |
| 137. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
22.60 |
0.8996 |
-0.2320 |
192 |
1 |
22.60 |
2010-04-26 |
| 138. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
22.56 |
0.8810 |
-0.2085 |
282 |
1 |
22.56 |
2010-01-19 |
| 139. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
22.04 |
0.9706 |
-0.3105 |
216 |
1 |
22.04 |
2011-01-18 |
| 140. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
21.74 |
0.8919 |
-0.2462 |
205 |
1 |
21.74 |
2011-01-07 |