| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
146.18 |
1.0829 |
0.1326 |
288 |
2 |
134.57 |
2009-06-16 |
| 2. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
143.05 |
1.0534 |
0.1365 |
357 |
2 |
128.81 |
2009-06-16 |
| 3. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
142.85 |
1.0521 |
0.1292 |
171 |
1 |
142.85 |
2009-06-18 |
| 4. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
142.03 |
1.0445 |
0.1356 |
373 |
1 |
142.03 |
2009-06-16 |
| 5. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
141.18 |
0.8996 |
0.2670 |
192 |
2 |
132.20 |
2009-06-16 |
| 6. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
140.73 |
1.0555 |
0.1142 |
363 |
1 |
140.73 |
2009-06-16 |
| 7. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
140.49 |
1.0528 |
0.1085 |
201 |
1 |
140.49 |
2009-06-16 |
| 8. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
140.46 |
1.0334 |
0.1261 |
131 |
1 |
140.46 |
2009-06-16 |
| 9. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
139.89 |
1.0496 |
0.1109 |
314 |
1 |
139.89 |
2009-06-16 |
| 10. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
139.74 |
1.0261 |
0.1320 |
273 |
1 |
139.74 |
2009-06-16 |
| 11. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
139.44 |
0.9852 |
0.1725 |
264 |
1 |
139.44 |
2009-06-16 |
| 12. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
138.76 |
0.9045 |
0.2475 |
235 |
1 |
138.76 |
2009-06-15 |
| 13. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
138.29 |
1.0613 |
0.0874 |
266 |
1 |
138.29 |
2009-06-15 |
| 14. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
137.90 |
0.9213 |
0.2237 |
295 |
2 |
121.62 |
2009-06-16 |
| 15. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
137.51 |
1.0429 |
0.0970 |
259 |
2 |
122.93 |
2009-06-16 |
| 16. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
137.41 |
1.0109 |
0.1303 |
276 |
1 |
137.41 |
2009-06-16 |
| 17. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
136.08 |
0.9527 |
0.1764 |
251 |
1 |
136.08 |
2009-06-16 |
| 18. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
135.53 |
1.0666 |
0.0581 |
297 |
2 |
133.77 |
2009-06-16 |
| 19. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
134.10 |
1.0201 |
0.0929 |
303 |
2 |
130.68 |
2009-06-18 |
| 20. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
134.01 |
1.0993 |
0.0105 |
265 |
1 |
134.01 |
2009-06-16 |
| 21. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
133.98 |
0.9965 |
0.1103 |
168 |
2 |
126.67 |
2009-06-16 |
| 22. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
133.93 |
0.9768 |
0.1370 |
387 |
2 |
132.48 |
2009-06-15 |
| 23. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
133.71 |
0.9776 |
0.1320 |
308 |
3 |
124.42 |
2009-06-18 |
| 24. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
133.17 |
1.0013 |
0.1026 |
273 |
1 |
133.17 |
2009-06-16 |
| 25. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
133.12 |
1.0025 |
0.1028 |
336 |
2 |
124.69 |
2009-06-18 |
| 26. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
132.77 |
0.8826 |
0.2203 |
296 |
2 |
120.87 |
2009-06-18 |
| 27. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
131.05 |
0.9636 |
0.1233 |
254 |
1 |
131.05 |
2009-06-16 |
| 28. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
130.50 |
1.0417 |
0.0382 |
253 |
1 |
130.50 |
2009-06-18 |
| 29. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
130.25 |
0.9965 |
0.0841 |
310 |
3 |
123.11 |
2009-06-18 |
| 30. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
129.40 |
1.0595 |
0.0162 |
379 |
1 |
129.40 |
2009-06-16 |
| 31. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
129.23 |
0.9831 |
0.0967 |
469 |
1 |
129.23 |
2009-06-18 |
| 32. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
128.95 |
1.0063 |
0.0635 |
371 |
1 |
128.95 |
2009-06-16 |
| 33. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
128.81 |
1.0201 |
0.0413 |
172 |
1 |
128.81 |
2009-06-16 |
| 34. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
127.79 |
1.0352 |
0.0276 |
341 |
1 |
127.79 |
2009-06-16 |
| 35. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
127.60 |
0.9540 |
0.1023 |
285 |
1 |
127.60 |
2009-06-16 |
| 36. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
127.04 |
1.0095 |
0.0428 |
316 |
1 |
127.04 |
2009-06-16 |
| 37. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
126.27 |
0.9795 |
0.0674 |
308 |
1 |
126.27 |
2009-06-16 |
| 38. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
125.61 |
0.9342 |
0.1107 |
434 |
1 |
125.61 |
2009-06-16 |
| 39. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
125.50 |
0.9811 |
0.0620 |
272 |
1 |
125.50 |
2009-06-16 |
| 40. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
125.34 |
1.0498 |
-0.0155 |
180 |
1 |
125.34 |
2009-06-16 |
| 41. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
125.26 |
0.9500 |
0.0906 |
362 |
1 |
125.26 |
2009-06-16 |
| 42. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
125.21 |
0.9614 |
0.0796 |
292 |
1 |
125.21 |
2009-06-16 |
| 43. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
125.07 |
0.9087 |
0.1388 |
393 |
1 |
125.07 |
2009-06-16 |
| 44. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
124.86 |
1.0183 |
0.0112 |
191 |
1 |
124.86 |
2009-06-16 |
| 45. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
124.39 |
0.8933 |
0.1442 |
363 |
1 |
124.39 |
2009-06-16 |
| 46. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
124.27 |
1.0331 |
-0.0052 |
234 |
2 |
115.12 |
2009-06-18 |
| 47. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
124.19 |
0.9601 |
0.0741 |
308 |
2 |
120.90 |
2009-06-18 |
| 48. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
123.80 |
1.0368 |
-0.0097 |
276 |
1 |
123.80 |
2009-06-16 |
| 49. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
123.42 |
1.0138 |
0.0088 |
231 |
2 |
119.68 |
2009-06-15 |
| 50. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
123.05 |
1.1018 |
-0.0883 |
220 |
3 |
117.99 |
2009-06-18 |
| 51. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
122.53 |
1.0389 |
-0.0217 |
318 |
2 |
114.83 |
2009-06-16 |
| 52. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
122.43 |
1.0788 |
-0.0697 |
171 |
1 |
122.43 |
2009-06-16 |
| 53. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
122.00 |
1.0441 |
-0.0315 |
252 |
1 |
122.00 |
2009-06-16 |
| 54. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
121.60 |
0.9612 |
0.0465 |
256 |
1 |
121.60 |
2009-06-16 |
| 55. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
121.49 |
1.0053 |
-0.0005 |
232 |
2 |
116.77 |
2009-06-16 |
| 56. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
121.47 |
1.0398 |
-0.0437 |
110 |
1 |
121.47 |
2009-06-16 |
| 57. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
121.32 |
0.9513 |
0.0579 |
354 |
1 |
121.32 |
2009-06-16 |
| 58. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
121.00 |
1.0292 |
-0.0278 |
262 |
4 |
115.54 |
2009-06-16 |
| 59. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
120.82 |
1.0213 |
-0.0233 |
240 |
1 |
120.82 |
2009-06-16 |
| 60. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
120.67 |
0.9997 |
0.0038 |
382 |
2 |
120.00 |
2009-06-16 |
| 61. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
120.58 |
0.9844 |
0.0196 |
293 |
1 |
120.58 |
2009-06-16 |
| 62. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
120.30 |
0.9164 |
0.0852 |
305 |
1 |
120.30 |
2009-06-16 |
| 63. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
120.01 |
1.0033 |
-0.0156 |
189 |
1 |
120.01 |
2009-06-16 |
| 64. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
120.01 |
0.9710 |
0.0169 |
173 |
1 |
120.01 |
2009-06-16 |
| 65. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
120.00 |
0.9851 |
0.0114 |
317 |
1 |
120.00 |
2009-06-16 |
| 66. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
119.96 |
1.0124 |
-0.0209 |
204 |
1 |
119.96 |
2009-06-16 |
| 67. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
119.52 |
0.9619 |
0.0336 |
393 |
1 |
119.52 |
2009-06-16 |
| 68. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
119.08 |
1.0529 |
-0.0664 |
351 |
2 |
115.28 |
2009-06-16 |
| 69. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
118.81 |
1.0214 |
-0.0425 |
166 |
1 |
118.81 |
2009-06-16 |
| 70. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
118.55 |
1.0361 |
-0.0530 |
269 |
1 |
118.55 |
2009-06-16 |
| 71. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
118.01 |
1.0016 |
-0.0286 |
218 |
2 |
116.66 |
2009-06-16 |
| 72. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
117.52 |
0.9833 |
-0.0082 |
355 |
1 |
117.52 |
2009-06-16 |
| 73. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
117.03 |
0.8770 |
0.0956 |
300 |
1 |
117.03 |
2009-06-15 |
| 74. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
116.99 |
1.0391 |
-0.0640 |
358 |
1 |
116.99 |
2009-06-15 |
| 75. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
116.10 |
1.0203 |
-0.0553 |
261 |
1 |
116.10 |
2009-06-16 |
| 76. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
115.88 |
0.9212 |
0.0418 |
323 |
2 |
108.29 |
2009-06-16 |
| 77. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
115.73 |
1.0201 |
-0.0577 |
375 |
1 |
115.73 |
2009-06-16 |
| 78. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
115.59 |
0.9464 |
0.0160 |
323 |
2 |
111.14 |
2009-06-18 |
| 79. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
115.59 |
0.9398 |
0.0268 |
419 |
1 |
115.59 |
2009-06-16 |
| 80. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
115.04 |
0.9942 |
-0.0327 |
483 |
2 |
110.86 |
2009-06-16 |
| 81. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
114.96 |
0.9649 |
-0.0140 |
193 |
1 |
114.96 |
2009-06-18 |
| 82. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
114.57 |
0.9064 |
0.0515 |
399 |
1 |
114.57 |
2009-06-16 |
| 83. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
114.30 |
0.9941 |
-0.0501 |
217 |
1 |
114.30 |
2009-06-15 |
| 84. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
114.02 |
0.9567 |
-0.0128 |
273 |
1 |
114.02 |
2009-06-15 |
| 85. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
112.86 |
1.0165 |
-0.0782 |
392 |
1 |
112.86 |
2009-06-16 |
| 86. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
112.85 |
1.0426 |
-0.1090 |
323 |
1 |
112.85 |
2009-06-16 |
| 87. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
111.36 |
0.9293 |
-0.0067 |
355 |
1 |
111.36 |
2009-06-16 |
| 88. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
110.08 |
1.0034 |
-0.0939 |
302 |
2 |
106.25 |
2009-06-16 |
| 89. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
109.75 |
1.0385 |
-0.1320 |
230 |
1 |
109.75 |
2009-06-16 |
| 90. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
109.61 |
0.8852 |
0.0240 |
201 |
2 |
104.32 |
2009-06-16 |
| 91. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
109.51 |
0.8595 |
0.0485 |
242 |
1 |
109.51 |
2009-06-16 |
| 92. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
109.27 |
0.9372 |
-0.0290 |
320 |
2 |
107.61 |
2009-06-16 |
| 93. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
109.25 |
0.9857 |
-0.0826 |
293 |
1 |
109.25 |
2009-06-16 |
| 94. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
107.28 |
0.9910 |
-0.1016 |
295 |
1 |
107.28 |
2009-06-16 |
| 95. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
107.20 |
0.9986 |
-0.1111 |
283 |
1 |
107.20 |
2009-06-16 |
| 96. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
107.12 |
1.0389 |
-0.1503 |
340 |
1 |
107.12 |
2009-06-16 |
| 97. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
107.06 |
0.9632 |
-0.0711 |
392 |
1 |
107.06 |
2009-06-15 |
| 98. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
106.86 |
0.9946 |
-0.1108 |
246 |
1 |
106.86 |
2009-06-15 |
| 99. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
106.51 |
0.9072 |
-0.0278 |
237 |
1 |
106.51 |
2009-06-16 |
| 100. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
106.46 |
0.8961 |
-0.0189 |
189 |
1 |
106.46 |
2009-06-16 |
| 101. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
105.98 |
0.9553 |
-0.0715 |
430 |
1 |
105.98 |
2009-06-16 |
| 102. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
105.87 |
0.9756 |
-0.1012 |
229 |
1 |
105.87 |
2009-06-16 |
| 103. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
105.73 |
0.8916 |
-0.0168 |
216 |
2 |
100.28 |
2009-06-16 |
| 104. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
105.73 |
0.9893 |
-0.1147 |
323 |
1 |
105.73 |
2009-06-16 |
| 105. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
105.02 |
1.0444 |
-0.1824 |
197 |
1 |
105.02 |
2009-06-16 |
| 106. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
104.53 |
0.9148 |
-0.0490 |
317 |
1 |
104.53 |
2009-06-18 |
| 107. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
104.45 |
0.9088 |
-0.0398 |
348 |
1 |
104.45 |
2009-06-16 |
| 108. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
104.42 |
0.9635 |
-0.0946 |
389 |
1 |
104.42 |
2009-06-16 |
| 109. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
104.23 |
0.7876 |
0.0769 |
316 |
1 |
104.23 |
2009-06-16 |
| 110. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
103.77 |
0.9084 |
-0.0462 |
404 |
1 |
103.77 |
2009-06-15 |
| 111. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
103.60 |
1.0125 |
-0.1582 |
224 |
1 |
103.60 |
2009-06-16 |
| 112. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
103.32 |
1.0214 |
-0.1688 |
269 |
1 |
103.32 |
2009-06-15 |
| 113. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
103.17 |
0.9557 |
-0.0964 |
331 |
1 |
103.17 |
2009-06-16 |
| 114. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
102.67 |
0.9672 |
-0.1119 |
396 |
1 |
102.67 |
2009-06-16 |
| 115. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
101.70 |
0.9785 |
-0.1346 |
335 |
1 |
101.70 |
2009-06-16 |
| 116. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
101.44 |
0.9697 |
-0.1310 |
249 |
1 |
101.44 |
2009-06-15 |
| 117. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
101.07 |
0.8958 |
-0.0558 |
322 |
1 |
101.07 |
2009-06-16 |
| 118. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
100.01 |
0.8553 |
-0.0339 |
174 |
1 |
100.01 |
2009-06-16 |
| 119. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
98.75 |
0.9846 |
-0.1698 |
281 |
1 |
98.75 |
2009-06-16 |
| 120. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
98.63 |
1.0714 |
-0.2654 |
129 |
1 |
98.63 |
2009-06-15 |
| 121. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
98.15 |
0.8981 |
-0.0826 |
393 |
2 |
98.09 |
2009-06-16 |
| 122. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
93.35 |
0.9286 |
-0.1590 |
194 |
1 |
93.35 |
2009-06-16 |
| 123. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
92.59 |
0.9514 |
-0.1869 |
237 |
1 |
92.59 |
2009-06-16 |
| 124. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
90.24 |
0.8602 |
-0.1179 |
206 |
1 |
90.24 |
2009-06-16 |
| 125. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
87.22 |
0.9843 |
-0.2701 |
234 |
1 |
87.22 |
2009-06-16 |
| 126. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
86.81 |
0.9532 |
-0.2388 |
258 |
1 |
86.81 |
2009-06-18 |