| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
109.04 |
1.0714 |
0.1988 |
129 |
2 |
89.76 |
2010-08-12 |
| 2. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
105.34 |
1.0240 |
0.2088 |
256 |
1 |
105.34 |
2010-03-08 |
| 3. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
105.10 |
1.0941 |
0.1697 |
256 |
1 |
105.10 |
2010-07-25 |
| 4. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
104.90 |
1.0711 |
0.1540 |
213 |
1 |
104.90 |
2008-12-13 |
| 5. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
104.35 |
0.9682 |
0.2536 |
143 |
2 |
88.01 |
2010-01-15 |
| 6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
103.57 |
1.1016 |
0.1129 |
233 |
2 |
97.52 |
2009-05-15 |
| 7. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
101.15 |
1.0498 |
0.1310 |
180 |
2 |
91.82 |
2010-08-12 |
| 8. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
100.88 |
1.0444 |
0.1314 |
197 |
2 |
95.90 |
2010-08-12 |
| 9. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
100.81 |
1.0668 |
0.1175 |
350 |
1 |
100.81 |
2011-10-17 |
| 10. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
100.43 |
0.9910 |
0.1883 |
295 |
3 |
89.25 |
2011-10-17 |
| 11. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
99.26 |
1.0496 |
0.1130 |
314 |
1 |
99.26 |
2010-08-12 |
| 12. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
98.59 |
1.0023 |
0.1510 |
211 |
1 |
98.59 |
2010-01-15 |
| 13. |
How I love to watch the morn, with golden sun that shines. U... |
97.82 |
0.9210 |
0.1928 |
247 |
1 |
97.82 |
2020-05-31 |
| 14. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
96.71 |
1.0399 |
0.0985 |
294 |
1 |
96.71 |
2009-02-02 |
| 15. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
95.83 |
1.0095 |
0.1120 |
316 |
1 |
95.83 |
2009-01-22 |
| 16. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
95.77 |
0.9863 |
0.1400 |
339 |
2 |
91.51 |
2009-05-15 |
| 17. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
95.55 |
1.0038 |
0.1458 |
237 |
1 |
95.55 |
2010-08-12 |
| 18. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
95.34 |
1.0477 |
0.0716 |
360 |
1 |
95.34 |
2009-01-22 |
| 19. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
95.20 |
1.0515 |
0.0618 |
250 |
1 |
95.20 |
2011-12-15 |
| 20. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
95.02 |
1.0565 |
0.0540 |
247 |
2 |
84.31 |
2009-02-02 |
| 21. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
94.46 |
1.0426 |
0.0632 |
323 |
1 |
94.46 |
2009-01-22 |
| 22. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
94.45 |
1.0368 |
0.0705 |
276 |
2 |
92.81 |
2009-05-15 |
| 23. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
94.22 |
0.9986 |
0.1055 |
283 |
1 |
94.22 |
2010-03-08 |
| 24. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
94.11 |
0.9846 |
0.1166 |
281 |
1 |
94.11 |
2010-08-12 |
| 25. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
93.74 |
1.0125 |
0.0831 |
224 |
1 |
93.74 |
2009-08-03 |
| 26. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
93.53 |
1.0068 |
0.0919 |
358 |
2 |
92.50 |
2010-03-08 |
| 27. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
92.64 |
1.0251 |
0.0576 |
261 |
2 |
90.55 |
2009-07-28 |
| 28. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
92.53 |
0.9646 |
0.1181 |
264 |
1 |
92.53 |
2011-12-15 |
| 29. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
92.27 |
1.0534 |
0.0295 |
357 |
1 |
92.27 |
2009-01-22 |
| 30. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
91.88 |
0.9676 |
0.1167 |
442 |
2 |
79.93 |
2009-08-03 |
| 31. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
91.86 |
0.9005 |
0.1737 |
212 |
1 |
91.86 |
2011-10-17 |
| 32. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
91.05 |
1.0788 |
-0.0184 |
171 |
1 |
91.05 |
2008-12-13 |
| 33. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
90.03 |
1.1114 |
-0.0602 |
247 |
1 |
90.03 |
2009-01-22 |
| 34. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
89.41 |
0.9653 |
0.0897 |
394 |
2 |
83.90 |
2009-05-15 |
| 35. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
88.90 |
1.0352 |
0.0080 |
341 |
1 |
88.90 |
2009-02-02 |
| 36. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
88.87 |
1.0454 |
-0.0088 |
255 |
1 |
88.87 |
2009-01-22 |
| 37. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
88.48 |
1.0796 |
-0.0490 |
129 |
1 |
88.48 |
2009-01-22 |
| 38. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
88.37 |
0.9429 |
0.0929 |
287 |
1 |
88.37 |
2009-10-14 |
| 39. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
88.35 |
1.0063 |
0.0281 |
371 |
1 |
88.35 |
2008-12-13 |
| 40. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
88.09 |
1.0944 |
-0.0186 |
308 |
1 |
88.09 |
2010-10-11 |
| 41. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
87.99 |
0.9309 |
0.0970 |
284 |
1 |
87.99 |
2010-07-25 |
| 42. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
87.90 |
0.9997 |
0.0325 |
382 |
1 |
87.90 |
2009-01-22 |
| 43. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
87.50 |
0.9699 |
0.0533 |
269 |
1 |
87.50 |
2009-07-28 |
| 44. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
87.30 |
0.9884 |
0.0375 |
262 |
1 |
87.30 |
2009-02-02 |
| 45. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
87.18 |
0.9430 |
0.0699 |
211 |
1 |
87.18 |
2009-01-16 |
| 46. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
87.14 |
0.9485 |
0.0729 |
236 |
2 |
82.94 |
2011-10-04 |
| 47. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
86.35 |
1.0768 |
-0.0265 |
295 |
1 |
86.35 |
2010-08-18 |
| 48. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
86.00 |
0.9257 |
0.0861 |
317 |
1 |
86.00 |
2008-12-13 |
| 49. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
85.91 |
1.0189 |
-0.0105 |
337 |
1 |
85.91 |
2009-08-03 |
| 50. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
85.40 |
1.0203 |
-0.0178 |
261 |
1 |
85.40 |
2009-07-28 |
| 51. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
85.39 |
0.9844 |
0.0194 |
293 |
1 |
85.39 |
2011-10-17 |
| 52. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
85.22 |
1.0696 |
-0.0762 |
226 |
1 |
85.22 |
2009-07-28 |
| 53. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
85.12 |
1.0608 |
-0.0318 |
258 |
1 |
85.12 |
2010-08-18 |
| 54. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
84.97 |
1.0396 |
-0.0528 |
149 |
1 |
84.97 |
2009-02-02 |
| 55. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
84.33 |
1.0885 |
-0.0989 |
315 |
1 |
84.33 |
2010-07-25 |
| 56. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
84.12 |
0.9786 |
0.0048 |
235 |
1 |
84.12 |
2011-10-04 |
| 57. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
83.96 |
0.9593 |
0.0274 |
398 |
2 |
82.97 |
2010-03-08 |
| 58. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
83.87 |
0.9780 |
0.0040 |
337 |
1 |
83.87 |
2010-08-12 |
| 59. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
83.51 |
1.0787 |
-0.1033 |
237 |
1 |
83.51 |
2009-02-02 |
| 60. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
83.34 |
0.9553 |
0.0266 |
430 |
1 |
83.34 |
2009-05-15 |
| 61. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
83.26 |
0.9795 |
-0.0057 |
308 |
1 |
83.26 |
2009-07-28 |
| 62. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
83.23 |
1.0799 |
-0.1102 |
243 |
1 |
83.23 |
2010-01-20 |
| 63. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
82.94 |
0.9649 |
0.0039 |
193 |
1 |
82.94 |
2010-08-12 |
| 64. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
82.93 |
0.9597 |
0.0143 |
347 |
2 |
75.58 |
2009-10-14 |
| 65. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
82.80 |
0.9372 |
0.0351 |
320 |
1 |
82.80 |
2009-05-15 |
| 66. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
82.53 |
1.0829 |
-0.1164 |
288 |
1 |
82.53 |
2008-12-13 |
| 67. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
81.96 |
0.9687 |
-0.0057 |
371 |
2 |
80.82 |
2010-01-20 |
| 68. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
81.73 |
1.0296 |
-0.0675 |
437 |
2 |
80.33 |
2009-08-03 |
| 69. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
81.67 |
0.9532 |
0.0005 |
258 |
1 |
81.67 |
2009-01-22 |
| 70. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
81.60 |
1.0029 |
-0.0552 |
209 |
1 |
81.60 |
2009-01-22 |
| 71. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
81.45 |
0.9994 |
-0.0167 |
269 |
2 |
75.17 |
2011-12-15 |
| 72. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
80.78 |
1.0033 |
-0.0657 |
189 |
1 |
80.78 |
2011-12-15 |
| 73. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
80.73 |
0.9578 |
-0.0144 |
281 |
1 |
80.73 |
2009-01-22 |
| 74. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
80.71 |
0.9376 |
0.0413 |
360 |
1 |
80.71 |
2010-08-18 |
| 75. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
80.26 |
0.9612 |
-0.0230 |
256 |
2 |
80.15 |
2009-01-22 |
| 76. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
80.25 |
0.9619 |
-0.0184 |
393 |
1 |
80.25 |
2009-05-15 |
| 77. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
80.17 |
1.0613 |
-0.1233 |
266 |
1 |
80.17 |
2008-12-13 |
| 78. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
80.15 |
1.0441 |
-0.0659 |
316 |
1 |
80.15 |
2011-10-17 |
| 79. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
80.12 |
0.9513 |
-0.0108 |
354 |
1 |
80.12 |
2008-12-13 |
| 80. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
80.04 |
1.0349 |
-0.1000 |
234 |
1 |
80.04 |
2009-08-03 |
| 81. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
80.02 |
1.0521 |
-0.1216 |
171 |
1 |
80.02 |
2010-08-18 |
| 82. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
79.88 |
0.9514 |
-0.0176 |
237 |
2 |
79.78 |
2010-10-11 |
| 83. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
79.80 |
0.9279 |
0.0114 |
317 |
1 |
79.80 |
2011-10-04 |
| 84. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
79.48 |
0.9527 |
-0.0238 |
251 |
1 |
79.48 |
2009-03-13 |
| 85. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
79.03 |
0.9684 |
-0.0422 |
388 |
1 |
79.03 |
2011-10-17 |
| 86. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
78.79 |
1.0099 |
-0.0921 |
207 |
1 |
78.79 |
2009-05-15 |
| 87. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
78.78 |
0.9351 |
-0.0200 |
190 |
1 |
78.78 |
2010-08-12 |
| 88. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
78.78 |
1.0417 |
-0.1236 |
253 |
2 |
78.03 |
2009-01-16 |
| 89. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
78.41 |
0.9833 |
-0.0654 |
355 |
1 |
78.41 |
2011-10-17 |
| 90. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
78.21 |
0.9831 |
-0.0611 |
469 |
1 |
78.21 |
2011-10-17 |
| 91. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
78.02 |
0.9916 |
-0.0373 |
282 |
1 |
78.02 |
2010-03-08 |
| 92. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
78.01 |
1.0257 |
-0.1077 |
401 |
1 |
78.01 |
2009-05-15 |
| 93. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
77.94 |
0.9275 |
-0.0200 |
211 |
1 |
77.94 |
2009-08-03 |
| 94. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
77.69 |
0.9814 |
-0.0341 |
364 |
1 |
77.69 |
2010-08-18 |
| 95. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
77.53 |
0.9233 |
-0.0257 |
168 |
1 |
77.53 |
2011-10-17 |
| 96. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
77.43 |
0.9342 |
-0.0261 |
434 |
2 |
68.09 |
2011-10-17 |
| 97. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
77.21 |
0.9411 |
-0.0382 |
318 |
1 |
77.21 |
2009-05-15 |
| 98. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
76.78 |
0.9243 |
0.0121 |
448 |
1 |
76.78 |
2010-08-12 |
| 99. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
76.50 |
0.9776 |
-0.0838 |
308 |
1 |
76.50 |
2009-07-28 |
| 100. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
76.38 |
0.9811 |
-0.0861 |
272 |
1 |
76.38 |
2009-01-22 |
| 101. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
76.30 |
0.9212 |
-0.0267 |
323 |
1 |
76.30 |
2009-02-02 |
| 102. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
75.65 |
0.9841 |
-0.0967 |
334 |
1 |
75.65 |
2009-07-28 |
| 103. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
75.57 |
0.9886 |
-0.1035 |
220 |
2 |
71.74 |
2011-10-17 |
| 104. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
75.57 |
0.9426 |
-0.0569 |
317 |
1 |
75.57 |
2010-08-12 |
| 105. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
74.77 |
0.9125 |
-0.0376 |
308 |
1 |
74.77 |
2009-03-18 |
| 106. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
74.35 |
0.8553 |
0.0077 |
174 |
1 |
74.35 |
2009-05-15 |
| 107. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
73.87 |
0.8595 |
0.0046 |
242 |
1 |
73.87 |
2008-12-13 |
| 108. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
73.44 |
0.9045 |
-0.0468 |
235 |
1 |
73.44 |
2009-02-02 |
| 109. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
72.34 |
0.9087 |
-0.0537 |
393 |
1 |
72.34 |
2009-03-13 |
| 110. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
72.27 |
1.0124 |
-0.1712 |
204 |
1 |
72.27 |
2009-03-18 |
| 111. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
72.14 |
1.0340 |
-0.1866 |
406 |
1 |
72.14 |
2010-08-18 |
| 112. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
70.75 |
0.8981 |
-0.0680 |
393 |
1 |
70.75 |
2009-07-28 |
| 113. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
70.49 |
0.8916 |
-0.0687 |
216 |
2 |
59.41 |
2009-02-02 |
| 114. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
69.90 |
0.9786 |
-0.1684 |
193 |
1 |
69.90 |
2009-02-02 |
| 115. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
69.78 |
0.8996 |
-0.0913 |
192 |
1 |
69.78 |
2009-01-22 |
| 116. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
69.08 |
0.9905 |
-0.1770 |
377 |
1 |
69.08 |
2008-12-13 |
| 117. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
66.11 |
0.9769 |
-0.2084 |
263 |
1 |
66.11 |
2012-02-04 |
| 118. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
59.41 |
0.9632 |
-0.2657 |
392 |
1 |
59.41 |
2010-08-18 |
| 119. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
54.14 |
0.9740 |
-0.3494 |
209 |
1 |
54.14 |
2009-02-02 |
| 120. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
45.60 |
1.0595 |
-0.5293 |
379 |
1 |
45.60 |
2009-10-12 |