| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
160.00 |
1.0684 |
0.3478 |
253 |
1 |
160.00 |
2015-01-14 |
| 2. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
143.04 |
0.9893 |
0.2488 |
323 |
1 |
143.04 |
2015-01-14 |
| 3. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
142.68 |
1.0251 |
0.2076 |
261 |
1 |
142.68 |
2009-01-03 |
| 4. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
136.27 |
1.0337 |
0.1445 |
214 |
2 |
125.41 |
2013-08-26 |
| 5. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
135.14 |
1.0523 |
0.1124 |
256 |
1 |
135.14 |
2009-01-03 |
| 6. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
133.01 |
0.9820 |
0.1711 |
267 |
2 |
131.17 |
2013-10-06 |
| 7. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
132.83 |
1.0630 |
0.1190 |
397 |
1 |
132.83 |
2013-10-06 |
| 8. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
131.56 |
1.1114 |
0.0235 |
247 |
1 |
131.56 |
2009-01-03 |
| 9. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
130.62 |
1.0029 |
0.1201 |
209 |
2 |
124.44 |
2009-01-03 |
| 10. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
129.16 |
1.0340 |
0.0879 |
406 |
2 |
125.68 |
2013-10-06 |
| 11. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
129.11 |
1.0445 |
0.0726 |
373 |
2 |
126.18 |
2009-01-07 |
| 12. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
128.28 |
1.0201 |
0.0929 |
375 |
1 |
128.28 |
2009-01-03 |
| 13. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
128.14 |
0.8935 |
0.2239 |
328 |
2 |
117.66 |
2009-01-03 |
| 14. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
127.37 |
1.0396 |
0.0542 |
149 |
1 |
127.37 |
2009-01-07 |
| 15. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
127.24 |
0.9234 |
0.1819 |
346 |
1 |
127.24 |
2015-01-14 |
| 16. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
126.74 |
1.0417 |
0.0513 |
253 |
1 |
126.74 |
2009-01-03 |
| 17. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
126.66 |
1.0662 |
0.0663 |
407 |
1 |
126.66 |
2013-08-26 |
| 18. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
125.11 |
0.9724 |
0.1124 |
237 |
1 |
125.11 |
2009-01-03 |
| 19. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
125.05 |
1.0829 |
-0.0007 |
288 |
1 |
125.05 |
2009-01-03 |
| 20. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
124.72 |
1.0993 |
-0.0236 |
265 |
1 |
124.72 |
2009-01-03 |
| 21. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
124.02 |
1.0441 |
0.0291 |
252 |
1 |
124.02 |
2009-01-03 |
| 22. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
123.97 |
1.0025 |
0.0697 |
336 |
1 |
123.97 |
2009-01-03 |
| 23. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
123.59 |
1.0375 |
0.0764 |
200 |
1 |
123.59 |
2013-08-26 |
| 24. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
123.59 |
0.8968 |
0.1686 |
186 |
1 |
123.59 |
2013-08-26 |
| 25. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
123.59 |
1.0167 |
0.0580 |
378 |
1 |
123.59 |
2009-01-03 |
| 26. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
123.13 |
1.0263 |
0.0368 |
267 |
1 |
123.13 |
2009-01-03 |
| 27. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
123.02 |
0.9226 |
0.1467 |
348 |
1 |
123.02 |
2009-01-07 |
| 28. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
123.01 |
1.1016 |
-0.0386 |
233 |
1 |
123.01 |
2013-08-26 |
| 29. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
122.70 |
1.0125 |
0.0454 |
224 |
1 |
122.70 |
2009-01-03 |
| 30. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
122.69 |
0.9350 |
0.1259 |
195 |
1 |
122.69 |
2013-08-26 |
| 31. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
122.05 |
1.0331 |
0.0192 |
234 |
1 |
122.05 |
2009-01-03 |
| 32. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
122.00 |
1.0666 |
-0.0125 |
297 |
1 |
122.00 |
2009-01-03 |
| 33. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
121.19 |
0.9894 |
0.0620 |
323 |
1 |
121.19 |
2009-01-03 |
| 34. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
121.15 |
1.0183 |
0.0227 |
191 |
2 |
116.04 |
2009-01-03 |
| 35. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
120.13 |
1.0788 |
-0.0467 |
171 |
1 |
120.13 |
2009-01-03 |
| 36. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
119.79 |
1.0389 |
-0.0018 |
340 |
2 |
115.38 |
2009-01-03 |
| 37. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
119.10 |
0.9289 |
0.0975 |
204 |
2 |
115.30 |
2013-08-26 |
| 38. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
118.51 |
0.8971 |
0.1317 |
266 |
1 |
118.51 |
2013-08-26 |
| 39. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
118.28 |
0.9852 |
0.0366 |
264 |
1 |
118.28 |
2013-08-26 |
| 40. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
117.84 |
1.0565 |
-0.0414 |
247 |
1 |
117.84 |
2009-01-03 |
| 41. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
117.64 |
0.9795 |
0.0364 |
308 |
1 |
117.64 |
2009-01-03 |
| 42. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
117.50 |
0.9266 |
0.0899 |
278 |
1 |
117.50 |
2009-01-03 |
| 43. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
117.48 |
1.0131 |
-0.0025 |
225 |
1 |
117.48 |
2013-10-06 |
| 44. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
117.28 |
0.9309 |
0.0800 |
284 |
2 |
104.47 |
2015-01-14 |
| 45. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
117.18 |
0.9798 |
0.0264 |
199 |
1 |
117.18 |
2009-01-03 |
| 46. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
117.04 |
0.9699 |
0.0402 |
269 |
2 |
104.56 |
2009-01-07 |
| 47. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
116.59 |
0.9504 |
0.0509 |
263 |
1 |
116.59 |
2013-08-26 |
| 48. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
114.99 |
0.9697 |
0.0232 |
249 |
2 |
113.37 |
2009-01-03 |
| 49. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
114.58 |
0.9780 |
0.0121 |
337 |
2 |
111.48 |
2009-01-03 |
| 50. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
114.17 |
0.9790 |
0.0472 |
311 |
1 |
114.17 |
2013-08-26 |
| 51. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
113.76 |
0.9572 |
0.0237 |
201 |
1 |
113.76 |
2009-01-03 |
| 52. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
113.75 |
1.0083 |
0.0177 |
273 |
1 |
113.75 |
2013-10-06 |
| 53. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
113.65 |
0.9884 |
-0.0082 |
233 |
1 |
113.65 |
2009-01-03 |
| 54. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
113.38 |
1.0201 |
-0.0482 |
172 |
1 |
113.38 |
2013-08-26 |
| 55. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
113.20 |
1.0398 |
-0.0732 |
110 |
1 |
113.20 |
2015-01-14 |
| 56. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
113.15 |
0.9500 |
0.0288 |
362 |
1 |
113.15 |
2009-01-03 |
| 57. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
113.14 |
1.0077 |
0.0102 |
250 |
1 |
113.14 |
2013-10-06 |
| 58. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
112.21 |
0.8916 |
0.0771 |
216 |
1 |
112.21 |
2013-08-26 |
| 59. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
111.82 |
0.9768 |
-0.0092 |
387 |
2 |
83.68 |
2009-01-03 |
| 60. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
111.60 |
0.9281 |
0.0401 |
273 |
1 |
111.60 |
2009-01-03 |
| 61. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
111.13 |
1.0168 |
-0.0564 |
271 |
1 |
111.13 |
2009-01-03 |
| 62. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
111.01 |
0.9763 |
-0.0189 |
289 |
1 |
111.01 |
2009-01-03 |
| 63. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
110.19 |
0.9681 |
-0.0090 |
378 |
1 |
110.19 |
2013-10-06 |
| 64. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
109.44 |
1.0053 |
-0.0631 |
232 |
1 |
109.44 |
2013-10-06 |
| 65. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
109.16 |
0.8353 |
0.1139 |
283 |
1 |
109.16 |
2009-01-03 |
| 66. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
108.93 |
1.0768 |
-0.0970 |
295 |
1 |
108.93 |
2013-10-06 |
| 67. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
108.70 |
1.0454 |
-0.1114 |
255 |
1 |
108.70 |
2009-01-03 |
| 68. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
108.39 |
0.9866 |
-0.0553 |
218 |
1 |
108.39 |
2013-10-06 |
| 69. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
108.09 |
0.9964 |
-0.0639 |
203 |
1 |
108.09 |
2013-10-06 |
| 70. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
107.95 |
0.9275 |
0.0004 |
211 |
1 |
107.95 |
2013-10-06 |
| 71. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
107.14 |
1.0361 |
-0.1110 |
269 |
1 |
107.14 |
2009-01-03 |
| 72. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
107.10 |
0.8533 |
0.0715 |
232 |
1 |
107.10 |
2009-01-03 |
| 73. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
106.99 |
0.9485 |
-0.0240 |
236 |
1 |
106.99 |
2009-01-03 |
| 74. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
106.51 |
1.0483 |
-0.1327 |
227 |
1 |
106.51 |
2009-01-03 |
| 75. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
105.89 |
1.0334 |
-0.1267 |
131 |
1 |
105.89 |
2009-01-03 |
| 76. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
104.79 |
0.9468 |
-0.0438 |
276 |
1 |
104.79 |
2009-01-03 |
| 77. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
104.72 |
0.8602 |
0.0405 |
206 |
1 |
104.72 |
2009-01-03 |
| 78. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
104.34 |
0.9897 |
-0.0924 |
274 |
1 |
104.34 |
2009-01-03 |
| 79. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
103.07 |
0.9278 |
-0.0366 |
295 |
1 |
103.07 |
2009-01-06 |
| 80. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
103.04 |
0.9213 |
-0.0326 |
295 |
1 |
103.04 |
2013-10-06 |
| 81. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
102.33 |
0.9372 |
-0.0512 |
320 |
1 |
102.33 |
2009-01-03 |
| 82. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
101.36 |
1.0905 |
-0.1851 |
210 |
1 |
101.36 |
2013-08-26 |
| 83. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
101.19 |
0.9005 |
-0.0300 |
212 |
1 |
101.19 |
2009-01-03 |
| 84. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
101.08 |
0.9087 |
-0.0269 |
393 |
1 |
101.08 |
2013-08-26 |
| 85. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
100.62 |
1.0023 |
-0.1371 |
211 |
1 |
100.62 |
2009-01-03 |
| 86. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
98.63 |
0.9383 |
-0.0674 |
471 |
1 |
98.63 |
2015-01-14 |
| 87. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
98.58 |
0.8770 |
-0.0246 |
300 |
1 |
98.58 |
2009-01-03 |
| 88. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
97.68 |
0.8753 |
-0.0247 |
427 |
1 |
97.68 |
2009-01-03 |
| 89. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
97.17 |
0.8890 |
-0.0557 |
199 |
1 |
97.17 |
2013-10-06 |
| 90. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
96.79 |
0.9997 |
-0.1625 |
382 |
1 |
96.79 |
2009-01-03 |
| 91. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
94.57 |
0.8981 |
-0.0793 |
393 |
1 |
94.57 |
2009-01-03 |
| 92. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
86.88 |
0.8933 |
-0.1400 |
363 |
1 |
86.88 |
2009-01-03 |
| 93. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
85.07 |
0.9125 |
-0.1796 |
308 |
1 |
85.07 |
2009-01-03 |
| 94. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
82.51 |
0.7876 |
-0.0763 |
316 |
1 |
82.51 |
2009-01-03 |
| 95. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
81.05 |
0.8919 |
-0.1977 |
205 |
1 |
81.05 |
2009-01-03 |
| 96. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
76.47 |
0.9286 |
-0.2737 |
194 |
1 |
76.47 |
2009-01-03 |
| 97. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
72.79 |
0.8595 |
-0.2340 |
242 |
1 |
72.79 |
2013-08-26 |