| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
56.72 |
1.0059 |
0.5698 |
283 |
1 |
56.72 |
2009-02-08 |
| 2. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
55.04 |
1.0800 |
0.4406 |
129 |
3 |
43.96 |
2009-02-07 |
| 3. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
53.52 |
1.0669 |
0.4216 |
379 |
1 |
53.52 |
2009-02-08 |
| 4. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
53.32 |
1.0165 |
0.4624 |
316 |
1 |
53.32 |
2009-02-08 |
| 5. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
53.30 |
0.9400 |
0.5417 |
434 |
1 |
53.30 |
2009-02-08 |
| 6. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
50.93 |
0.9756 |
0.4368 |
223 |
1 |
50.93 |
2008-11-25 |
| 7. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
50.55 |
0.9704 |
0.4321 |
254 |
1 |
50.55 |
2009-02-08 |
| 8. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
50.47 |
1.1070 |
0.2922 |
265 |
1 |
50.47 |
2009-02-10 |
| 9. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
49.30 |
0.9143 |
0.4544 |
300 |
1 |
49.30 |
2009-02-08 |
| 10. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
47.55 |
0.9928 |
0.3255 |
293 |
2 |
38.97 |
2008-11-25 |
| 11. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
46.55 |
0.9869 |
0.3005 |
193 |
4 |
33.13 |
2008-12-20 |
| 12. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
46.38 |
0.9070 |
0.3745 |
192 |
2 |
38.41 |
2009-02-10 |
| 13. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
46.32 |
1.0279 |
0.2510 |
172 |
1 |
46.32 |
2008-11-25 |
| 14. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
45.86 |
0.9346 |
0.3343 |
211 |
3 |
38.86 |
2009-02-21 |
| 15. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
45.84 |
1.0845 |
0.1857 |
212 |
1 |
45.84 |
2009-03-15 |
| 16. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
45.50 |
1.0272 |
0.2325 |
226 |
3 |
38.53 |
2009-02-10 |
| 17. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
43.66 |
1.0865 |
0.1238 |
237 |
1 |
43.66 |
2008-11-04 |
| 18. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
43.27 |
1.0086 |
0.1867 |
218 |
2 |
36.98 |
2009-02-19 |
| 19. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
43.17 |
0.9054 |
0.2934 |
204 |
1 |
43.17 |
2009-02-08 |
| 20. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
43.12 |
0.8925 |
0.3100 |
293 |
1 |
43.12 |
2008-11-04 |
| 21. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
43.11 |
1.0250 |
0.1731 |
271 |
2 |
37.06 |
2009-02-19 |
| 22. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
43.10 |
1.0287 |
0.1651 |
269 |
1 |
43.10 |
2009-02-19 |
| 23. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
42.71 |
1.0132 |
0.1714 |
371 |
1 |
42.71 |
2009-02-10 |
| 24. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
42.48 |
1.0101 |
0.1693 |
336 |
1 |
42.48 |
2009-02-10 |
| 25. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
42.40 |
0.9917 |
0.1858 |
317 |
1 |
42.40 |
2008-11-04 |
| 26. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
42.39 |
0.9931 |
0.1781 |
218 |
1 |
42.39 |
2009-02-08 |
| 27. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
42.11 |
1.0777 |
0.0875 |
226 |
3 |
41.81 |
2009-08-17 |
| 28. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
42.09 |
0.9981 |
0.1677 |
211 |
2 |
38.06 |
2009-02-10 |
| 29. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
41.96 |
0.9839 |
0.1790 |
308 |
2 |
40.56 |
2009-02-10 |
| 30. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
41.48 |
1.0877 |
0.0586 |
129 |
2 |
37.54 |
2009-08-17 |
| 31. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
41.34 |
1.0672 |
0.0774 |
239 |
1 |
41.34 |
2009-02-08 |
| 32. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
41.19 |
1.0060 |
0.1364 |
225 |
2 |
33.78 |
2009-02-10 |
| 33. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
41.10 |
1.0033 |
0.1362 |
203 |
2 |
35.47 |
2009-02-10 |
| 34. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
41.08 |
0.8948 |
0.2431 |
164 |
1 |
41.08 |
2009-08-17 |
| 35. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
40.98 |
1.0638 |
0.0700 |
247 |
1 |
40.98 |
2009-02-08 |
| 36. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
40.98 |
0.8742 |
0.2661 |
202 |
2 |
39.00 |
2009-02-10 |
| 37. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
40.75 |
0.9422 |
0.1821 |
190 |
4 |
34.56 |
2009-02-19 |
| 38. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
40.50 |
1.0291 |
0.0912 |
240 |
2 |
39.70 |
2009-03-15 |
| 39. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
40.17 |
0.9636 |
0.1482 |
281 |
1 |
40.17 |
2009-02-10 |
| 40. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
40.07 |
1.0267 |
0.0869 |
261 |
1 |
40.07 |
2009-02-10 |
| 41. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
39.93 |
0.9801 |
0.1262 |
289 |
1 |
39.93 |
2009-08-17 |
| 42. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
39.03 |
1.0427 |
0.0397 |
269 |
2 |
35.77 |
2009-02-08 |
| 43. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
38.99 |
0.9310 |
0.1489 |
278 |
2 |
33.82 |
2009-08-17 |
| 44. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.54 |
0.9673 |
0.1027 |
292 |
1 |
38.54 |
2009-03-15 |
| 45. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
38.36 |
0.9779 |
0.0834 |
255 |
2 |
33.78 |
2008-11-25 |
| 46. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
38.26 |
0.9768 |
0.0845 |
237 |
1 |
38.26 |
2009-03-15 |
| 47. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
38.20 |
0.9594 |
0.0971 |
258 |
1 |
38.20 |
2009-02-07 |
| 48. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
38.00 |
0.9680 |
0.0849 |
256 |
1 |
38.00 |
2009-02-19 |
| 49. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
37.90 |
0.9597 |
0.0905 |
251 |
1 |
37.90 |
2009-02-08 |
| 50. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
37.89 |
0.9948 |
0.0538 |
233 |
1 |
37.89 |
2009-03-15 |
| 51. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
37.63 |
1.0464 |
0.0011 |
294 |
2 |
33.31 |
2009-02-08 |
| 52. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
37.44 |
0.9922 |
0.0456 |
264 |
1 |
37.44 |
2009-02-19 |
| 53. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
37.24 |
1.0411 |
-0.0077 |
341 |
1 |
37.24 |
2009-02-08 |
| 54. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
37.04 |
0.9780 |
0.0418 |
173 |
1 |
37.04 |
2008-11-13 |
| 55. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
37.02 |
1.0462 |
-0.0177 |
340 |
1 |
37.02 |
2009-02-08 |
| 56. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
36.88 |
0.9745 |
0.0492 |
388 |
1 |
36.88 |
2009-02-08 |
| 57. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
36.38 |
1.0270 |
-0.0188 |
303 |
2 |
34.26 |
2009-02-07 |
| 58. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
36.04 |
1.0414 |
-0.0442 |
234 |
3 |
34.07 |
2009-08-17 |
| 59. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
35.86 |
0.9402 |
0.0510 |
310 |
2 |
35.76 |
2009-08-17 |
| 60. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
35.69 |
1.0370 |
-0.0488 |
262 |
1 |
35.69 |
2009-02-07 |
| 61. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
35.54 |
0.9713 |
0.0115 |
193 |
2 |
30.69 |
2009-03-15 |
| 62. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
35.49 |
0.8646 |
0.1147 |
110 |
1 |
35.49 |
2009-02-10 |
| 63. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
35.31 |
0.9380 |
0.0383 |
284 |
1 |
35.31 |
2009-03-15 |
| 64. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
34.75 |
1.0561 |
-0.0958 |
227 |
2 |
33.61 |
2008-11-25 |
| 65. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
34.71 |
1.0472 |
-0.0924 |
149 |
1 |
34.71 |
2008-11-13 |
| 66. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.59 |
1.0208 |
-0.0632 |
231 |
1 |
34.59 |
2009-08-17 |
| 67. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
34.54 |
1.0881 |
-0.1357 |
210 |
2 |
33.41 |
2008-11-13 |
| 68. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.12 |
0.9974 |
-0.0567 |
163 |
1 |
34.12 |
2009-02-08 |
| 69. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
33.78 |
0.9468 |
-0.0118 |
318 |
1 |
33.78 |
2009-02-08 |
| 70. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
33.68 |
0.9299 |
-0.0059 |
168 |
2 |
29.99 |
2009-02-10 |
| 71. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
33.68 |
0.9604 |
-0.0301 |
285 |
1 |
33.68 |
2009-02-07 |
| 72. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
33.54 |
0.9631 |
-0.0351 |
273 |
1 |
33.54 |
2009-02-08 |
| 73. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
33.21 |
0.9880 |
-0.0729 |
199 |
1 |
33.21 |
2009-01-21 |
| 74. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
33.09 |
1.0639 |
-0.1469 |
303 |
1 |
33.09 |
2009-02-07 |
| 75. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.98 |
0.9352 |
-0.0234 |
194 |
2 |
31.31 |
2009-02-08 |
| 76. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
32.73 |
0.9271 |
-0.0216 |
295 |
1 |
32.73 |
2009-02-07 |
| 77. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
32.49 |
0.8339 |
0.0648 |
209 |
1 |
32.49 |
2009-02-07 |
| 78. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
32.41 |
1.1093 |
-0.2179 |
220 |
1 |
32.41 |
2008-11-06 |
| 79. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
32.40 |
1.0189 |
-0.1228 |
290 |
1 |
32.40 |
2009-02-07 |
| 80. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
32.18 |
0.9023 |
-0.0131 |
268 |
2 |
31.57 |
2008-11-13 |
| 81. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
31.84 |
0.8726 |
0.0108 |
150 |
1 |
31.84 |
2008-11-11 |
| 82. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
31.75 |
1.0333 |
-0.1598 |
176 |
2 |
31.41 |
2008-11-13 |
| 83. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.51 |
1.0103 |
-0.1441 |
209 |
1 |
31.51 |
2008-11-11 |
| 84. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
31.31 |
1.0576 |
-0.1941 |
231 |
1 |
31.31 |
2008-11-13 |
| 85. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
31.19 |
0.9952 |
-0.1298 |
220 |
1 |
31.19 |
2009-01-21 |
| 86. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
30.28 |
0.7987 |
0.0381 |
176 |
1 |
30.28 |
2008-11-16 |
| 87. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
30.27 |
0.8077 |
0.0297 |
148 |
1 |
30.27 |
2008-11-06 |
| 88. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
30.11 |
0.9927 |
-0.1592 |
276 |
1 |
30.11 |
2008-11-25 |
| 89. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
30.11 |
0.7724 |
0.0588 |
142 |
1 |
30.11 |
2008-11-06 |
| 90. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
30.02 |
1.0288 |
-0.2031 |
166 |
2 |
26.91 |
2008-11-11 |
| 91. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
29.99 |
0.8375 |
-0.0090 |
203 |
2 |
26.05 |
2008-11-13 |
| 92. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
29.95 |
0.9128 |
-0.0872 |
237 |
2 |
28.77 |
2008-11-25 |
| 93. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
29.87 |
0.8847 |
-0.0607 |
282 |
1 |
29.87 |
2009-02-10 |
| 94. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
29.73 |
0.9010 |
-0.0762 |
266 |
1 |
29.73 |
2008-11-07 |
| 95. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
29.70 |
1.0125 |
-0.1925 |
232 |
2 |
27.49 |
2008-11-11 |
| 96. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
29.12 |
0.9890 |
-0.1798 |
272 |
1 |
29.12 |
2008-11-06 |
| 97. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
29.06 |
0.7904 |
0.0176 |
149 |
1 |
29.06 |
2008-11-13 |
| 98. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
29.01 |
1.0095 |
-0.2087 |
211 |
1 |
29.01 |
2008-11-11 |
| 99. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
28.93 |
0.9332 |
-0.1332 |
267 |
1 |
28.93 |
2009-02-08 |
| 100. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
28.05 |
0.9068 |
-0.1332 |
212 |
1 |
28.05 |
2009-02-10 |
| 101. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
28.00 |
1.0873 |
-0.3162 |
243 |
1 |
28.00 |
2008-11-04 |
| 102. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
27.97 |
0.8656 |
-0.0911 |
242 |
2 |
27.87 |
2008-11-15 |
| 103. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
27.66 |
1.0264 |
-0.2660 |
191 |
1 |
27.66 |
2008-11-06 |
| 104. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
27.54 |
0.9809 |
-0.2235 |
209 |
1 |
27.54 |
2008-11-13 |
| 105. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
27.32 |
1.0686 |
-0.3099 |
354 |
1 |
27.32 |
2008-11-04 |
| 106. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
27.07 |
1.0181 |
-0.2686 |
276 |
1 |
27.07 |
2008-11-04 |
| 107. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
27.06 |
1.0320 |
-0.2781 |
401 |
1 |
27.06 |
2008-11-06 |
| 108. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
27.02 |
0.8194 |
-0.0735 |
193 |
1 |
27.02 |
2008-11-13 |
| 109. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
26.91 |
0.8986 |
-0.1543 |
216 |
1 |
26.91 |
2008-11-15 |
| 110. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
26.84 |
0.8305 |
-0.0933 |
162 |
1 |
26.84 |
2008-11-11 |
| 111. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
26.71 |
0.9866 |
-0.2481 |
308 |
2 |
25.45 |
2009-02-07 |
| 112. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
26.69 |
1.0466 |
-0.3094 |
230 |
1 |
26.69 |
2008-11-14 |
| 113. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
26.62 |
1.0106 |
-0.2760 |
302 |
1 |
26.62 |
2008-11-04 |
| 114. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
26.59 |
1.0341 |
-0.2999 |
273 |
1 |
26.59 |
2008-11-06 |
| 115. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
26.48 |
0.8959 |
-0.1588 |
328 |
1 |
26.48 |
2008-11-04 |
| 116. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
26.24 |
0.8572 |
-0.1339 |
232 |
1 |
26.24 |
2008-11-07 |
| 117. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
26.20 |
0.9503 |
-0.2331 |
211 |
1 |
26.20 |
2008-11-15 |
| 118. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
26.07 |
0.9519 |
-0.2277 |
323 |
1 |
26.07 |
2008-11-04 |
| 119. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
25.87 |
1.0600 |
-0.3450 |
351 |
1 |
25.87 |
2008-11-04 |
| 120. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
24.68 |
0.8680 |
-0.1913 |
196 |
1 |
24.68 |
2008-11-07 |
| 121. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
24.60 |
1.0403 |
-0.3627 |
234 |
1 |
24.60 |
2008-11-04 |
| 122. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
24.54 |
0.9763 |
-0.2991 |
143 |
1 |
24.54 |
2008-11-06 |
| 123. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
24.33 |
0.9841 |
-0.3156 |
217 |
1 |
24.33 |
2008-11-04 |
| 124. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
23.37 |
0.8666 |
-0.2240 |
206 |
1 |
23.37 |
2008-11-11 |
| 125. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
21.41 |
1.0426 |
-0.4562 |
131 |
1 |
21.41 |
2008-11-06 |