| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
33.70 |
0.8700 |
0.3924 |
127 |
5 |
30.99 |
2009-10-10 |
| 2. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
33.34 |
1.0788 |
0.1651 |
171 |
9 |
28.21 |
2009-10-10 |
| 3. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
33.10 |
0.8506 |
0.3856 |
132 |
4 |
28.44 |
2010-02-05 |
| 4. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
32.78 |
0.8910 |
0.3390 |
150 |
5 |
30.81 |
2009-10-24 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
32.35 |
1.1018 |
0.1038 |
220 |
3 |
30.26 |
2009-10-10 |
| 6. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
32.14 |
1.0528 |
0.1463 |
201 |
2 |
25.79 |
2009-10-05 |
| 7. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
31.67 |
1.0462 |
0.1340 |
184 |
2 |
30.71 |
2009-09-07 |
| 8. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
31.63 |
1.0696 |
0.1117 |
226 |
2 |
31.57 |
2010-02-07 |
| 9. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
31.16 |
0.8628 |
0.3008 |
196 |
3 |
29.22 |
2009-10-09 |
| 10. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
31.15 |
1.0205 |
0.1396 |
179 |
2 |
25.84 |
2010-02-07 |
| 11. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
31.00 |
0.8852 |
0.2761 |
158 |
1 |
31.00 |
2009-09-06 |
| 12. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
30.92 |
1.0711 |
0.0817 |
213 |
2 |
24.10 |
2009-09-20 |
| 13. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
30.90 |
0.9063 |
0.2588 |
239 |
1 |
30.90 |
2009-10-10 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
30.63 |
1.0444 |
0.0959 |
197 |
2 |
28.81 |
2009-10-10 |
| 15. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
30.54 |
0.9711 |
0.1712 |
176 |
3 |
26.92 |
2010-02-04 |
| 16. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
30.50 |
0.8323 |
0.3083 |
145 |
2 |
28.46 |
2010-02-03 |
| 17. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
30.45 |
0.8739 |
0.2622 |
136 |
3 |
26.67 |
2009-09-07 |
| 18. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.42 |
1.0334 |
0.0990 |
131 |
2 |
29.56 |
2009-09-26 |
| 19. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
30.37 |
1.0131 |
0.1201 |
225 |
1 |
30.37 |
2009-09-24 |
| 20. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
30.15 |
0.8809 |
0.2456 |
127 |
2 |
25.80 |
2010-02-04 |
| 21. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
30.05 |
0.8788 |
0.2426 |
134 |
1 |
30.05 |
2010-02-07 |
| 22. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
30.05 |
1.0767 |
0.0460 |
212 |
2 |
28.22 |
2009-09-28 |
| 23. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
30.02 |
1.0714 |
0.0435 |
129 |
1 |
30.02 |
2009-10-10 |
| 24. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
30.00 |
0.8919 |
0.2333 |
152 |
2 |
26.39 |
2009-09-07 |
| 25. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
29.97 |
1.0168 |
0.1065 |
271 |
1 |
29.97 |
2009-10-20 |
| 26. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
29.92 |
0.9164 |
0.2071 |
121 |
2 |
29.88 |
2009-09-28 |
| 27. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
29.83 |
0.8422 |
0.2761 |
164 |
1 |
29.83 |
2009-09-28 |
| 28. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.68 |
0.9731 |
0.1253 |
129 |
4 |
26.46 |
2009-09-07 |
| 29. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
29.58 |
1.0795 |
0.0581 |
226 |
2 |
29.50 |
2009-10-10 |
| 30. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
29.57 |
0.8660 |
0.2412 |
193 |
3 |
26.93 |
2010-02-03 |
| 31. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
29.51 |
0.9795 |
0.1250 |
308 |
1 |
29.51 |
2009-09-30 |
| 32. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
29.44 |
0.7690 |
0.3344 |
142 |
4 |
26.76 |
2010-02-05 |
| 33. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
29.30 |
0.9226 |
0.1777 |
177 |
6 |
24.89 |
2010-02-03 |
| 34. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
29.22 |
1.0796 |
0.0091 |
129 |
3 |
26.38 |
2009-10-09 |
| 35. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
29.12 |
0.9846 |
0.1040 |
281 |
1 |
29.12 |
2009-09-20 |
| 36. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
29.11 |
1.0214 |
0.0662 |
269 |
1 |
29.11 |
2009-09-24 |
| 37. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
29.08 |
1.0213 |
0.0637 |
240 |
1 |
29.08 |
2009-09-27 |
| 38. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
28.89 |
0.9740 |
0.1029 |
209 |
1 |
28.89 |
2009-08-27 |
| 39. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
28.72 |
0.9884 |
0.0854 |
233 |
1 |
28.72 |
2009-08-31 |
| 40. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
28.62 |
0.9128 |
0.1635 |
133 |
2 |
26.18 |
2010-02-03 |
| 41. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
28.57 |
0.8821 |
0.1863 |
176 |
4 |
25.88 |
2010-02-03 |
| 42. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
28.55 |
0.8953 |
0.1733 |
193 |
2 |
27.16 |
2009-09-15 |
| 43. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
28.17 |
0.8715 |
0.1783 |
130 |
2 |
27.07 |
2010-02-07 |
| 44. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
28.12 |
0.9028 |
0.1488 |
155 |
2 |
26.42 |
2009-09-07 |
| 45. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
28.04 |
0.8900 |
0.1600 |
164 |
2 |
27.45 |
2009-09-02 |
| 46. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
28.03 |
0.7352 |
0.3131 |
106 |
5 |
25.99 |
2010-02-07 |
| 47. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
27.95 |
0.8263 |
0.2170 |
162 |
1 |
27.95 |
2009-08-31 |
| 48. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
27.88 |
0.8360 |
0.2060 |
170 |
2 |
27.76 |
2009-08-27 |
| 49. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
27.85 |
0.9212 |
0.1242 |
231 |
1 |
27.85 |
2009-09-07 |
| 50. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
27.81 |
1.0029 |
0.0308 |
209 |
2 |
24.47 |
2009-08-27 |
| 51. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
27.79 |
1.0799 |
-0.0442 |
243 |
2 |
23.02 |
2009-11-25 |
| 52. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
27.76 |
0.8666 |
0.1746 |
150 |
2 |
26.62 |
2009-09-01 |
| 53. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
27.74 |
0.8615 |
0.1761 |
110 |
1 |
27.74 |
2009-08-26 |
| 54. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
27.72 |
0.8177 |
0.2147 |
124 |
2 |
25.89 |
2009-08-27 |
| 55. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
27.65 |
0.8936 |
0.1389 |
127 |
3 |
24.65 |
2010-02-04 |
| 56. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
27.54 |
1.0498 |
-0.0247 |
180 |
3 |
26.22 |
2010-02-03 |
| 57. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
27.52 |
1.0214 |
0.0023 |
166 |
1 |
27.52 |
2009-09-27 |
| 58. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
27.47 |
0.9196 |
0.1093 |
148 |
4 |
23.53 |
2010-02-07 |
| 59. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
27.40 |
1.0331 |
-0.0107 |
234 |
1 |
27.40 |
2009-09-24 |
| 60. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
27.29 |
0.8745 |
0.1437 |
169 |
2 |
27.14 |
2010-02-03 |
| 61. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
27.04 |
0.8275 |
0.1837 |
142 |
2 |
25.62 |
2010-02-03 |
| 62. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
26.99 |
0.8544 |
0.1551 |
170 |
1 |
26.99 |
2009-09-27 |
| 63. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
26.90 |
0.9772 |
0.0250 |
217 |
2 |
24.29 |
2009-08-25 |
| 64. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
26.82 |
1.0004 |
-0.0039 |
212 |
1 |
26.82 |
2009-09-26 |
| 65. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
26.78 |
0.8791 |
0.1211 |
190 |
4 |
24.71 |
2010-02-04 |
| 66. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
26.67 |
0.9873 |
0.0070 |
155 |
1 |
26.67 |
2009-08-23 |
| 67. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
26.29 |
0.8070 |
0.1725 |
167 |
2 |
21.89 |
2009-11-25 |
| 68. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
25.88 |
1.0263 |
-0.0601 |
267 |
1 |
25.88 |
2009-09-19 |
| 69. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
25.81 |
0.8070 |
0.1599 |
137 |
2 |
22.73 |
2009-08-27 |
| 70. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
25.77 |
1.0337 |
-0.0714 |
214 |
1 |
25.77 |
2009-08-24 |
| 71. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
25.76 |
1.0787 |
-0.1175 |
237 |
1 |
25.76 |
2009-09-06 |
| 72. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
25.68 |
0.7850 |
0.1709 |
154 |
4 |
24.21 |
2010-02-03 |
| 73. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
25.56 |
0.7981 |
0.1544 |
126 |
1 |
25.56 |
2009-08-23 |
| 74. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
25.42 |
0.9286 |
0.0200 |
194 |
1 |
25.42 |
2009-09-06 |
| 75. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
25.38 |
0.9350 |
0.0139 |
195 |
2 |
23.32 |
2010-02-04 |
| 76. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
25.25 |
0.7826 |
0.1644 |
97 |
1 |
25.25 |
2009-08-31 |
| 77. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
24.80 |
1.0183 |
-0.0978 |
191 |
1 |
24.80 |
2009-08-27 |
| 78. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
24.69 |
0.7916 |
0.1381 |
184 |
3 |
23.66 |
2010-02-03 |
| 79. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
24.56 |
1.0261 |
-0.1109 |
273 |
1 |
24.56 |
2009-08-26 |
| 80. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
24.56 |
0.8023 |
0.1202 |
182 |
2 |
22.54 |
2010-02-07 |
| 81. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
24.50 |
0.9710 |
-0.0627 |
173 |
3 |
22.56 |
2010-02-04 |
| 82. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
24.35 |
1.0365 |
-0.0975 |
162 |
1 |
24.35 |
2010-02-03 |
| 83. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
24.33 |
0.9266 |
-0.0165 |
278 |
1 |
24.33 |
2009-08-23 |
| 84. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
24.22 |
0.9682 |
-0.0659 |
143 |
2 |
23.69 |
2010-02-03 |
| 85. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
23.79 |
1.0252 |
-0.1438 |
176 |
4 |
21.66 |
2010-02-03 |
| 86. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
23.68 |
0.8956 |
-0.0093 |
217 |
1 |
23.68 |
2009-08-23 |
| 87. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
23.58 |
0.8122 |
0.0701 |
181 |
1 |
23.58 |
2009-08-23 |
| 88. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
23.55 |
0.9938 |
-0.1142 |
339 |
1 |
23.55 |
2010-02-03 |
| 89. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
23.49 |
0.7934 |
0.0823 |
134 |
1 |
23.49 |
2009-08-26 |
| 90. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
23.47 |
0.9636 |
-0.0879 |
254 |
1 |
23.47 |
2009-08-25 |
| 91. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
23.21 |
0.9941 |
-0.1306 |
217 |
1 |
23.21 |
2010-02-05 |
| 92. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
23.14 |
0.9871 |
-0.0876 |
209 |
1 |
23.14 |
2010-02-03 |
| 93. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
23.12 |
0.8916 |
-0.0288 |
216 |
1 |
23.12 |
2009-08-26 |
| 94. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
22.97 |
0.8773 |
-0.0169 |
205 |
1 |
22.97 |
2010-02-03 |
| 95. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
22.82 |
0.8190 |
0.0392 |
135 |
1 |
22.82 |
2009-08-20 |
| 96. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
22.61 |
0.9221 |
-0.0804 |
244 |
1 |
22.61 |
2010-02-03 |
| 97. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
22.51 |
0.8323 |
0.0075 |
203 |
1 |
22.51 |
2010-02-04 |
| 98. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
22.26 |
0.8793 |
-0.0477 |
157 |
1 |
22.26 |
2010-02-04 |
| 99. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
22.25 |
0.9325 |
-0.1096 |
156 |
1 |
22.25 |
2009-08-19 |
| 100. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
22.15 |
1.0396 |
-0.2210 |
149 |
1 |
22.15 |
2010-02-04 |
| 101. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
21.89 |
0.7375 |
0.0817 |
148 |
1 |
21.89 |
2009-08-21 |
| 102. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
21.88 |
1.0201 |
-0.2113 |
172 |
1 |
21.88 |
2009-08-20 |
| 103. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
21.61 |
0.8157 |
-0.0106 |
121 |
1 |
21.61 |
2010-02-04 |
| 104. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
21.59 |
0.9233 |
-0.1270 |
168 |
1 |
21.59 |
2009-08-20 |
| 105. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
21.43 |
1.0254 |
-0.1861 |
217 |
1 |
21.43 |
2009-08-21 |
| 106. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
21.03 |
0.7259 |
0.0634 |
186 |
1 |
21.03 |
2009-08-21 |
| 107. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
21.02 |
0.9965 |
-0.2183 |
168 |
2 |
20.57 |
2010-02-03 |
| 108. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
20.92 |
0.7389 |
0.0417 |
145 |
1 |
20.92 |
2010-02-04 |
| 109. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
20.81 |
0.7852 |
-0.0042 |
149 |
1 |
20.81 |
2009-08-20 |
| 110. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
20.65 |
1.0033 |
-0.2410 |
189 |
1 |
20.65 |
2010-02-05 |
| 111. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
20.55 |
0.9418 |
-0.1710 |
188 |
1 |
20.55 |
2010-02-04 |
| 112. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
20.46 |
0.8867 |
-0.1190 |
163 |
1 |
20.46 |
2010-02-04 |
| 113. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
20.43 |
0.9251 |
-0.1594 |
177 |
1 |
20.43 |
2010-02-07 |
| 114. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
20.40 |
1.0565 |
-0.2996 |
247 |
1 |
20.40 |
2009-08-19 |
| 115. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
20.28 |
0.9351 |
-0.1856 |
190 |
1 |
20.28 |
2010-02-05 |
| 116. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
19.72 |
1.0523 |
-0.3228 |
256 |
1 |
19.72 |
2009-08-19 |
| 117. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
19.49 |
0.7104 |
0.0175 |
131 |
1 |
19.49 |
2010-02-07 |
| 118. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
19.48 |
0.9907 |
-0.2676 |
211 |
1 |
19.48 |
2010-02-04 |
| 119. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
19.26 |
0.9786 |
-0.2674 |
193 |
1 |
19.26 |
2010-02-04 |
| 120. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
18.24 |
0.7938 |
-0.1150 |
176 |
1 |
18.24 |
2010-02-04 |