| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
47.49 |
1.0797 |
0.2317 |
210 |
2 |
44.08 |
2009-06-07 |
| 2. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
47.09 |
1.0463 |
0.2549 |
182 |
3 |
38.61 |
2009-06-11 |
| 3. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
44.58 |
1.0201 |
0.2158 |
303 |
1 |
44.58 |
2009-06-20 |
| 4. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
43.50 |
1.0788 |
0.1209 |
171 |
1 |
43.50 |
2009-06-03 |
| 5. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
43.36 |
0.8887 |
0.3267 |
128 |
2 |
37.54 |
2009-06-03 |
| 6. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
43.19 |
1.0016 |
0.1904 |
218 |
2 |
37.00 |
2009-06-13 |
| 7. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
43.17 |
1.0297 |
0.1651 |
249 |
1 |
43.17 |
2009-06-12 |
| 8. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
43.16 |
1.1018 |
0.0876 |
220 |
1 |
43.16 |
2009-06-07 |
| 9. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
43.16 |
0.9866 |
0.2055 |
218 |
2 |
39.50 |
2009-06-20 |
| 10. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
43.10 |
1.0334 |
0.1542 |
131 |
2 |
40.47 |
2009-06-24 |
| 11. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
42.57 |
0.9226 |
0.2604 |
177 |
1 |
42.57 |
2009-06-14 |
| 12. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
42.03 |
0.9281 |
0.2411 |
273 |
1 |
42.03 |
2009-06-14 |
| 13. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
42.02 |
0.9260 |
0.2482 |
243 |
1 |
42.02 |
2009-06-11 |
| 14. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
41.90 |
1.0426 |
0.1172 |
323 |
2 |
38.23 |
2009-06-20 |
| 15. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
41.89 |
1.0799 |
0.0766 |
243 |
1 |
41.89 |
2009-06-07 |
| 16. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
41.62 |
1.0183 |
0.1287 |
191 |
3 |
33.09 |
2009-06-07 |
| 17. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
41.52 |
0.9724 |
0.1810 |
237 |
1 |
41.52 |
2009-06-03 |
| 18. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
40.68 |
1.1114 |
0.0122 |
247 |
1 |
40.68 |
2009-06-06 |
| 19. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
40.40 |
0.9941 |
0.1220 |
217 |
2 |
38.40 |
2009-06-24 |
| 20. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
40.34 |
1.0619 |
0.0585 |
354 |
1 |
40.34 |
2009-06-24 |
| 21. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
40.31 |
0.9221 |
0.1923 |
244 |
3 |
36.43 |
2009-06-20 |
| 22. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
40.21 |
0.8745 |
0.2364 |
169 |
2 |
37.45 |
2009-06-11 |
| 23. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
40.20 |
1.0515 |
0.0595 |
250 |
1 |
40.20 |
2009-06-25 |
| 24. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
40.10 |
0.9257 |
0.1899 |
317 |
1 |
40.10 |
2009-06-20 |
| 25. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
39.96 |
1.0417 |
0.0619 |
253 |
3 |
34.91 |
2009-06-11 |
| 26. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
39.92 |
0.9758 |
0.1299 |
314 |
1 |
39.92 |
2009-06-25 |
| 27. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
39.71 |
0.9365 |
0.1640 |
248 |
1 |
39.71 |
2009-06-11 |
| 28. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
39.16 |
1.0029 |
0.0744 |
209 |
1 |
39.16 |
2009-06-20 |
| 29. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
38.93 |
0.8810 |
0.1971 |
282 |
2 |
34.97 |
2009-06-11 |
| 30. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
38.85 |
0.8791 |
0.1951 |
190 |
1 |
38.85 |
2009-06-07 |
| 31. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
38.82 |
1.0496 |
0.0239 |
314 |
1 |
38.82 |
2009-06-07 |
| 32. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
38.78 |
0.8971 |
0.1813 |
266 |
1 |
38.78 |
2009-06-24 |
| 33. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
38.62 |
0.9863 |
0.0867 |
339 |
1 |
38.62 |
2009-06-13 |
| 34. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
38.57 |
0.8958 |
0.1760 |
322 |
1 |
38.57 |
2009-06-11 |
| 35. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
38.42 |
1.0441 |
0.0204 |
252 |
1 |
38.42 |
2009-06-25 |
| 36. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
38.20 |
1.0349 |
0.0213 |
234 |
1 |
38.20 |
2009-06-07 |
| 37. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
38.14 |
1.0025 |
0.0526 |
256 |
1 |
38.14 |
2009-06-10 |
| 38. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
38.09 |
1.0201 |
0.0269 |
172 |
2 |
36.19 |
2009-06-10 |
| 39. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
37.77 |
1.0521 |
-0.0121 |
171 |
1 |
37.77 |
2009-06-07 |
| 40. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
37.65 |
1.0529 |
-0.0115 |
351 |
2 |
36.83 |
2009-06-11 |
| 41. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
37.51 |
0.9128 |
0.1302 |
133 |
1 |
37.51 |
2009-06-24 |
| 42. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
37.35 |
0.9411 |
0.0928 |
318 |
1 |
37.35 |
2009-06-11 |
| 43. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
37.17 |
0.9532 |
0.0735 |
258 |
1 |
37.17 |
2009-06-07 |
| 44. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
37.05 |
0.9614 |
0.0663 |
292 |
2 |
36.95 |
2009-06-12 |
| 45. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
37.00 |
0.8153 |
0.2128 |
200 |
2 |
36.89 |
2009-06-25 |
| 46. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
36.97 |
0.9851 |
0.0395 |
317 |
1 |
36.97 |
2009-06-07 |
| 47. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
36.84 |
0.7908 |
0.2327 |
127 |
1 |
36.84 |
2009-06-07 |
| 48. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
36.65 |
0.8788 |
0.1312 |
134 |
2 |
35.25 |
2009-06-25 |
| 49. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
36.50 |
0.9351 |
0.0687 |
190 |
1 |
36.50 |
2009-06-13 |
| 50. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
36.47 |
0.9325 |
0.0692 |
156 |
2 |
35.89 |
2009-06-20 |
| 51. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
36.46 |
0.8809 |
0.1250 |
127 |
3 |
33.66 |
2009-06-06 |
| 52. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
36.45 |
0.9907 |
0.0156 |
211 |
1 |
36.45 |
2009-06-07 |
| 53. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
36.30 |
0.9500 |
0.0559 |
362 |
1 |
36.30 |
2009-06-24 |
| 54. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
36.19 |
0.7389 |
0.2631 |
145 |
1 |
36.19 |
2009-05-31 |
| 55. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
36.15 |
0.9857 |
0.0128 |
293 |
1 |
36.15 |
2009-06-06 |
| 56. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
36.01 |
1.0131 |
-0.0215 |
225 |
2 |
34.33 |
2009-06-05 |
| 57. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
35.61 |
0.8263 |
0.1559 |
162 |
1 |
35.61 |
2009-06-11 |
| 58. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
35.23 |
1.1016 |
-0.1278 |
233 |
1 |
35.23 |
2009-06-07 |
| 59. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
34.99 |
1.0197 |
-0.0556 |
226 |
1 |
34.99 |
2009-06-10 |
| 60. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
34.91 |
0.8899 |
0.0859 |
293 |
1 |
34.91 |
2009-06-07 |
| 61. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
34.90 |
0.8118 |
0.1575 |
109 |
1 |
34.90 |
2009-01-17 |
| 62. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
34.70 |
0.9710 |
-0.0187 |
173 |
1 |
34.70 |
2009-06-11 |
| 63. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
34.33 |
1.0596 |
-0.1132 |
239 |
1 |
34.33 |
2009-06-01 |
| 64. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
34.20 |
1.0390 |
-0.0980 |
205 |
1 |
34.20 |
2009-06-25 |
| 65. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
33.99 |
0.9084 |
0.0324 |
300 |
1 |
33.99 |
2009-06-25 |
| 66. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
33.95 |
0.8105 |
0.1230 |
204 |
3 |
29.76 |
2009-06-20 |
| 67. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
33.90 |
0.8811 |
0.0599 |
239 |
1 |
33.90 |
2009-06-07 |
| 68. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
33.74 |
0.9213 |
0.0112 |
295 |
1 |
33.74 |
2009-06-14 |
| 69. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
33.35 |
0.8747 |
0.0418 |
201 |
1 |
33.35 |
2009-01-17 |
| 70. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
33.35 |
0.9886 |
-0.0651 |
220 |
1 |
33.35 |
2009-06-01 |
| 71. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
33.35 |
0.9731 |
-0.0646 |
129 |
1 |
33.35 |
2009-05-31 |
| 72. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
33.34 |
0.9684 |
-0.0449 |
388 |
1 |
33.34 |
2009-06-01 |
| 73. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
33.32 |
0.9527 |
-0.0326 |
251 |
1 |
33.32 |
2009-06-12 |
| 74. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
33.25 |
0.8852 |
0.0351 |
201 |
1 |
33.25 |
2009-06-01 |
| 75. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
33.14 |
0.9964 |
-0.0811 |
203 |
1 |
33.14 |
2009-06-14 |
| 76. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
32.97 |
0.9567 |
-0.0465 |
273 |
1 |
32.97 |
2009-05-31 |
| 77. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
32.51 |
1.0487 |
-0.1562 |
231 |
1 |
32.51 |
2009-05-31 |
| 78. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
32.48 |
1.0214 |
-0.1264 |
269 |
2 |
29.25 |
2009-05-31 |
| 79. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
32.42 |
0.9965 |
-0.1063 |
168 |
1 |
32.42 |
2009-06-13 |
| 80. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
32.29 |
1.0523 |
-0.1652 |
256 |
1 |
32.29 |
2009-06-11 |
| 81. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
31.99 |
0.8941 |
-0.0091 |
216 |
1 |
31.99 |
2009-06-07 |
| 82. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
31.97 |
0.9946 |
-0.1124 |
246 |
1 |
31.97 |
2009-06-02 |
| 83. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
31.82 |
0.9540 |
-0.0776 |
285 |
1 |
31.82 |
2009-06-03 |
| 84. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
31.66 |
0.8996 |
-0.0314 |
192 |
1 |
31.66 |
2009-06-20 |
| 85. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
31.54 |
1.0109 |
-0.1397 |
276 |
1 |
31.54 |
2009-06-01 |
| 86. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
31.49 |
0.8037 |
0.0680 |
148 |
1 |
31.49 |
2009-01-17 |
| 87. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
31.01 |
1.0004 |
-0.1510 |
212 |
1 |
31.01 |
2009-06-07 |
| 88. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
30.74 |
0.9844 |
-0.1317 |
293 |
1 |
30.74 |
2009-05-31 |
| 89. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
30.61 |
0.9786 |
-0.1395 |
193 |
1 |
30.61 |
2009-06-03 |
| 90. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
30.57 |
1.0714 |
-0.2371 |
129 |
1 |
30.57 |
2009-05-31 |
| 91. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
30.48 |
0.9820 |
-0.1385 |
267 |
1 |
30.48 |
2009-06-03 |
| 92. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
30.16 |
0.8096 |
0.0300 |
209 |
2 |
28.11 |
2009-06-01 |
| 93. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
29.15 |
0.8910 |
-0.0859 |
150 |
1 |
29.15 |
2009-05-31 |
| 94. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
29.05 |
0.8792 |
-0.0693 |
296 |
1 |
29.05 |
2009-01-17 |
| 95. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
29.02 |
0.8826 |
-0.0814 |
296 |
1 |
29.02 |
2009-05-31 |
| 96. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
28.74 |
0.8628 |
-0.0743 |
196 |
1 |
28.74 |
2009-01-17 |
| 97. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
28.51 |
0.8709 |
-0.0775 |
202 |
1 |
28.51 |
2009-05-30 |
| 98. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
28.50 |
1.0213 |
-0.2393 |
240 |
1 |
28.50 |
2009-05-31 |
| 99. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
28.28 |
0.9910 |
-0.2100 |
295 |
1 |
28.28 |
2009-06-03 |
| 100. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
27.25 |
0.9772 |
-0.2305 |
217 |
1 |
27.25 |
2009-01-17 |
| 101. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
27.16 |
0.7916 |
-0.0362 |
184 |
1 |
27.16 |
2009-01-17 |
| 102. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
26.40 |
0.9202 |
-0.1945 |
254 |
1 |
26.40 |
2009-05-31 |
| 103. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
25.39 |
0.9965 |
-0.2978 |
277 |
1 |
25.39 |
2009-06-06 |
| 104. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
24.63 |
0.8595 |
-0.1809 |
242 |
1 |
24.63 |
2009-06-06 |
| 105. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
23.28 |
1.0337 |
-0.3953 |
214 |
1 |
23.28 |
2009-01-17 |
| 106. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
21.28 |
0.8602 |
-0.2794 |
206 |
1 |
21.28 |
2009-05-30 |