| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
64.89 |
1.0033 |
-1.0196 |
189 |
2 |
53.12 |
2009-03-21 |
| 2. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
59.37 |
0.9710 |
-0.9879 |
173 |
1 |
59.37 |
2009-04-24 |
| 3. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
59.22 |
1.0025 |
-1.0140 |
336 |
2 |
56.44 |
2009-05-20 |
| 4. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
58.58 |
0.9772 |
-0.9910 |
217 |
1 |
58.58 |
2009-03-27 |
| 5. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
58.58 |
1.0788 |
-1.0949 |
171 |
2 |
56.31 |
2009-03-20 |
| 6. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
57.83 |
0.9633 |
-0.9756 |
304 |
2 |
56.16 |
2009-04-24 |
| 7. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
57.66 |
1.0368 |
-1.0497 |
276 |
1 |
57.66 |
2009-03-24 |
| 8. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
57.12 |
1.0696 |
-1.0839 |
226 |
2 |
54.17 |
2009-05-20 |
| 9. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
56.76 |
1.0613 |
-1.0732 |
266 |
1 |
56.76 |
2009-03-27 |
| 10. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
56.42 |
0.9724 |
-0.9850 |
237 |
2 |
54.89 |
2009-05-01 |
| 11. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
56.16 |
0.9865 |
-0.9981 |
276 |
2 |
53.78 |
2009-05-20 |
| 12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
55.98 |
1.0595 |
-1.0702 |
379 |
1 |
55.98 |
2009-04-28 |
| 13. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
55.91 |
1.0419 |
-1.0549 |
261 |
2 |
54.73 |
2009-05-22 |
| 14. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
55.85 |
1.0352 |
-1.0457 |
341 |
2 |
53.09 |
2009-05-01 |
| 15. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
55.54 |
0.9907 |
-1.0041 |
211 |
2 |
51.96 |
2009-04-07 |
| 16. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
55.51 |
1.0124 |
-1.0259 |
204 |
2 |
54.63 |
2009-05-20 |
| 17. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
55.49 |
1.0138 |
-1.0263 |
231 |
1 |
55.49 |
2009-05-20 |
| 18. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
55.47 |
1.0444 |
-1.0613 |
197 |
1 |
55.47 |
2009-04-24 |
| 19. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
55.23 |
0.8810 |
-0.8932 |
282 |
2 |
47.65 |
2009-04-24 |
| 20. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
54.45 |
1.0666 |
-1.0792 |
297 |
2 |
52.17 |
2009-03-21 |
| 21. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
54.34 |
1.0352 |
-1.0446 |
341 |
1 |
54.34 |
2009-03-27 |
| 22. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
54.24 |
0.8615 |
-0.8746 |
110 |
1 |
54.24 |
2009-03-17 |
| 23. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
54.22 |
1.0168 |
-1.0281 |
271 |
1 |
54.22 |
2009-05-20 |
| 24. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
53.98 |
1.0496 |
-1.0625 |
314 |
1 |
53.98 |
2009-04-24 |
| 25. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
53.44 |
1.0218 |
-1.0356 |
268 |
1 |
53.44 |
2009-04-24 |
| 26. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
53.31 |
0.8975 |
-0.9102 |
268 |
1 |
53.31 |
2009-04-07 |
| 27. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
53.18 |
0.9148 |
-0.9256 |
317 |
3 |
49.53 |
2009-05-01 |
| 28. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
53.18 |
0.9798 |
-0.9962 |
199 |
1 |
53.18 |
2009-04-24 |
| 29. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
52.99 |
1.0165 |
-1.0270 |
392 |
1 |
52.99 |
2009-05-20 |
| 30. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
52.67 |
0.9936 |
-1.0061 |
311 |
2 |
51.39 |
2009-04-24 |
| 31. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
52.63 |
1.0711 |
-1.0880 |
213 |
1 |
52.63 |
2009-04-24 |
| 32. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
52.52 |
1.0483 |
-1.0620 |
227 |
1 |
52.52 |
2009-04-24 |
| 33. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
52.36 |
0.9758 |
-0.9878 |
314 |
1 |
52.36 |
2009-05-20 |
| 34. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
52.04 |
1.0029 |
-1.0185 |
209 |
2 |
50.02 |
2009-03-24 |
| 35. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
51.59 |
1.0004 |
-1.0152 |
212 |
2 |
48.02 |
2009-04-28 |
| 36. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
51.45 |
0.9202 |
-0.9325 |
254 |
2 |
43.75 |
2009-03-21 |
| 37. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
51.38 |
0.9339 |
-0.9473 |
310 |
1 |
51.38 |
2009-03-27 |
| 38. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
51.21 |
1.0577 |
-1.0727 |
247 |
1 |
51.21 |
2009-03-27 |
| 39. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
51.12 |
1.0515 |
-1.0648 |
250 |
3 |
47.48 |
2009-05-22 |
| 40. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
51.09 |
1.1016 |
-1.1140 |
233 |
1 |
51.09 |
2009-03-17 |
| 41. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
50.90 |
0.9731 |
-0.9934 |
129 |
1 |
50.90 |
2009-04-24 |
| 42. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
50.80 |
0.8951 |
-0.9074 |
193 |
1 |
50.80 |
2009-03-24 |
| 43. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
50.76 |
0.9226 |
-0.9325 |
348 |
1 |
50.76 |
2009-03-20 |
| 44. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
50.58 |
0.9820 |
-0.9924 |
267 |
1 |
50.58 |
2009-04-24 |
| 45. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
50.46 |
0.8353 |
-0.8431 |
283 |
1 |
50.46 |
2009-05-20 |
| 46. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
50.36 |
1.0487 |
-1.0640 |
231 |
1 |
50.36 |
2009-05-01 |
| 47. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
50.27 |
0.9234 |
-0.9322 |
346 |
1 |
50.27 |
2009-05-01 |
| 48. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
50.27 |
0.9734 |
-0.9859 |
289 |
1 |
50.27 |
2009-04-24 |
| 49. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
50.26 |
1.0619 |
-1.0726 |
354 |
1 |
50.26 |
2009-04-07 |
| 50. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
50.11 |
1.0063 |
-1.0181 |
371 |
1 |
50.11 |
2009-04-28 |
| 51. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
49.92 |
1.0429 |
-1.0562 |
259 |
2 |
47.82 |
2009-03-20 |
| 52. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
49.90 |
0.9768 |
-0.9873 |
387 |
1 |
49.90 |
2009-05-05 |
| 53. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
49.84 |
1.0797 |
-1.0955 |
210 |
1 |
49.84 |
2009-03-20 |
| 54. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
49.70 |
1.0349 |
-1.0481 |
234 |
1 |
49.70 |
2009-05-20 |
| 55. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
49.58 |
0.9785 |
-0.9883 |
335 |
2 |
47.06 |
2009-05-22 |
| 56. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
49.47 |
1.0498 |
-1.0651 |
180 |
1 |
49.47 |
2009-03-20 |
| 57. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
49.46 |
0.9899 |
-1.0052 |
163 |
2 |
48.91 |
2009-03-20 |
| 58. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
49.43 |
0.9351 |
-0.9511 |
190 |
3 |
44.91 |
2009-03-17 |
| 59. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
49.34 |
1.0131 |
-1.0286 |
225 |
2 |
45.86 |
2009-04-07 |
| 60. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
49.28 |
1.0297 |
-1.0438 |
249 |
1 |
49.28 |
2009-03-17 |
| 61. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
49.24 |
1.0013 |
-1.0139 |
273 |
2 |
47.18 |
2009-04-24 |
| 62. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
49.19 |
1.0555 |
-1.0665 |
363 |
2 |
46.10 |
2009-03-24 |
| 63. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
49.15 |
1.0567 |
-1.0681 |
303 |
1 |
49.15 |
2009-05-01 |
| 64. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
49.13 |
0.8553 |
-0.8705 |
174 |
1 |
49.13 |
2009-03-24 |
| 65. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
49.12 |
1.0361 |
-1.0477 |
269 |
1 |
49.12 |
2009-03-21 |
| 66. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
48.98 |
0.9991 |
-1.0117 |
225 |
1 |
48.98 |
2009-04-28 |
| 67. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
48.78 |
0.9886 |
-0.9994 |
220 |
1 |
48.78 |
2009-03-27 |
| 68. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
48.63 |
0.9894 |
-0.9986 |
323 |
1 |
48.63 |
2009-04-24 |
| 69. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
48.61 |
1.0521 |
-1.0667 |
171 |
1 |
48.61 |
2009-03-24 |
| 70. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
48.59 |
0.9763 |
-0.9884 |
289 |
1 |
48.59 |
2009-03-27 |
| 71. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
48.57 |
1.0596 |
-1.0734 |
239 |
1 |
48.57 |
2009-03-20 |
| 72. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
48.51 |
0.9756 |
-0.9888 |
229 |
1 |
48.51 |
2009-03-27 |
| 73. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
48.46 |
0.9084 |
-0.9192 |
300 |
2 |
48.30 |
2009-04-24 |
| 74. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
48.34 |
1.0062 |
-1.0180 |
288 |
1 |
48.34 |
2009-04-07 |
| 75. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
48.30 |
0.9893 |
-1.0009 |
323 |
1 |
48.30 |
2009-04-28 |
| 76. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
48.27 |
1.0167 |
-1.0254 |
378 |
1 |
48.27 |
2009-03-31 |
| 77. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
48.24 |
0.9897 |
-1.0028 |
274 |
1 |
48.24 |
2009-04-24 |
| 78. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
48.13 |
1.0263 |
-1.0386 |
267 |
1 |
48.13 |
2009-03-20 |
| 79. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
48.07 |
1.0463 |
-1.0616 |
182 |
1 |
48.07 |
2009-04-24 |
| 80. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
48.05 |
0.9576 |
-0.9696 |
212 |
3 |
45.16 |
2009-04-07 |
| 81. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
47.87 |
0.9786 |
-0.9934 |
193 |
1 |
47.87 |
2009-03-20 |
| 82. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
47.80 |
0.9776 |
-0.9898 |
308 |
1 |
47.80 |
2009-03-27 |
| 83. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
47.76 |
1.0120 |
-1.0241 |
290 |
1 |
47.76 |
2009-03-27 |
| 84. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
47.73 |
1.0201 |
-1.0291 |
375 |
1 |
47.73 |
2009-03-20 |
| 85. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
47.72 |
1.0885 |
-1.0990 |
315 |
1 |
47.72 |
2009-03-17 |
| 86. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
47.71 |
0.8595 |
-0.8707 |
242 |
1 |
47.71 |
2009-04-24 |
| 87. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
47.54 |
0.9527 |
-0.9649 |
251 |
1 |
47.54 |
2009-03-24 |
| 88. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
47.47 |
1.0799 |
-1.0947 |
243 |
1 |
47.47 |
2009-03-21 |
| 89. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
47.08 |
1.0109 |
-1.0225 |
276 |
1 |
47.08 |
2009-03-20 |
| 90. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
46.99 |
1.0534 |
-1.0645 |
357 |
1 |
46.99 |
2009-03-24 |
| 91. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
46.96 |
0.9286 |
-0.9418 |
194 |
1 |
46.96 |
2009-03-27 |
| 92. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
46.89 |
1.0183 |
-1.0336 |
191 |
1 |
46.89 |
2009-03-21 |
| 93. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
46.88 |
0.9910 |
-1.0028 |
295 |
1 |
46.88 |
2009-03-27 |
| 94. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
46.63 |
0.8573 |
-0.8673 |
270 |
1 |
46.63 |
2009-03-24 |
| 95. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
46.63 |
0.9578 |
-0.9707 |
281 |
1 |
46.63 |
2009-03-20 |
| 96. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
46.59 |
0.9857 |
-0.9981 |
293 |
1 |
46.59 |
2009-04-07 |
| 97. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
46.37 |
0.8382 |
-0.8493 |
268 |
1 |
46.37 |
2009-04-24 |
| 98. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
46.34 |
0.9884 |
-1.0018 |
233 |
1 |
46.34 |
2009-03-24 |
| 99. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
46.08 |
0.9769 |
-0.9905 |
263 |
1 |
46.08 |
2009-04-07 |
| 100. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
45.99 |
0.9289 |
-0.9424 |
204 |
1 |
45.99 |
2009-03-24 |
| 101. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
45.99 |
0.9164 |
-0.9255 |
305 |
1 |
45.99 |
2009-03-24 |
| 102. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
45.92 |
0.9572 |
-0.9715 |
201 |
1 |
45.92 |
2009-03-21 |
| 103. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
45.87 |
1.0445 |
-1.0551 |
373 |
1 |
45.87 |
2009-03-24 |
| 104. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
45.53 |
0.9597 |
-0.9694 |
347 |
1 |
45.53 |
2009-03-20 |
| 105. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
45.49 |
1.0462 |
-1.0623 |
184 |
1 |
45.49 |
2009-02-12 |
| 106. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
45.27 |
0.8442 |
-0.8538 |
265 |
1 |
45.27 |
2009-03-24 |
| 107. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
45.27 |
0.9965 |
-1.0095 |
310 |
1 |
45.27 |
2009-03-21 |
| 108. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
45.25 |
0.9636 |
-0.9756 |
254 |
1 |
45.25 |
2009-03-17 |
| 109. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
45.23 |
0.9795 |
-0.9914 |
308 |
1 |
45.23 |
2009-03-24 |
| 110. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
45.14 |
1.0714 |
-1.0883 |
129 |
1 |
45.14 |
2009-04-01 |
| 111. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
45.12 |
0.8533 |
-0.8662 |
232 |
1 |
45.12 |
2009-05-01 |
| 112. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
44.96 |
0.8971 |
-0.9071 |
266 |
1 |
44.96 |
2009-03-20 |
| 113. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
44.95 |
0.8919 |
-0.9042 |
205 |
1 |
44.95 |
2009-04-24 |
| 114. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
44.61 |
0.9682 |
-0.9826 |
143 |
1 |
44.61 |
2009-03-20 |
| 115. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
44.45 |
0.9045 |
-0.9164 |
235 |
1 |
44.45 |
2009-03-20 |
| 116. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
44.23 |
0.9570 |
-0.9684 |
287 |
1 |
44.23 |
2009-04-07 |
| 117. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
44.16 |
0.9946 |
-1.0075 |
246 |
1 |
44.16 |
2009-04-07 |
| 118. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
44.14 |
0.9429 |
-0.9542 |
287 |
2 |
42.18 |
2009-03-17 |
| 119. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
44.13 |
0.9532 |
-0.9665 |
258 |
1 |
44.13 |
2009-04-24 |
| 120. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
43.65 |
1.0016 |
-1.0164 |
218 |
1 |
43.65 |
2009-04-07 |
| 121. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
43.60 |
0.9049 |
-0.9138 |
351 |
1 |
43.60 |
2009-04-07 |
| 122. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
43.07 |
0.8958 |
-0.9047 |
322 |
1 |
43.07 |
2009-03-24 |
| 123. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
42.61 |
0.9697 |
-0.9810 |
249 |
1 |
42.61 |
2009-03-27 |
| 124. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
41.79 |
1.0203 |
-1.0293 |
261 |
1 |
41.79 |
2009-04-07 |
| 125. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
38.93 |
0.9019 |
-0.9106 |
204 |
1 |
38.93 |
2009-02-12 |
| 126. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
37.81 |
0.9514 |
-0.9633 |
237 |
1 |
37.81 |
2009-02-12 |
| 127. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
36.85 |
0.8153 |
-0.8247 |
200 |
1 |
36.85 |
2009-02-12 |
| 128. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
36.66 |
0.8961 |
-0.9091 |
189 |
1 |
36.66 |
2009-02-12 |
| 129. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
36.60 |
1.0385 |
-1.0511 |
230 |
1 |
36.60 |
2009-02-12 |
| 130. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
35.80 |
0.9941 |
-1.0080 |
217 |
1 |
35.80 |
2009-02-12 |
| 131. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
33.86 |
0.8602 |
-0.8732 |
206 |
1 |
33.86 |
2009-02-12 |