| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
91.32 |
1.0711 |
0.2483 |
213 |
1 |
91.32 |
2009-01-14 |
| 2. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
86.93 |
1.0829 |
0.1788 |
288 |
1 |
86.93 |
2009-02-09 |
| 3. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
84.86 |
1.0396 |
0.1831 |
149 |
2 |
77.25 |
2009-02-11 |
| 4. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
84.36 |
1.0462 |
0.1703 |
184 |
1 |
84.36 |
2009-01-14 |
| 5. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
82.88 |
1.0613 |
0.1405 |
266 |
3 |
76.24 |
2009-01-14 |
| 6. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
82.82 |
1.0389 |
0.1635 |
340 |
1 |
82.82 |
2009-02-03 |
| 7. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
82.67 |
1.1016 |
0.0964 |
233 |
2 |
81.90 |
2009-02-02 |
| 8. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
82.33 |
1.1114 |
0.0788 |
247 |
1 |
82.33 |
2009-01-14 |
| 9. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
81.89 |
1.0567 |
0.1303 |
303 |
1 |
81.89 |
2009-02-09 |
| 10. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
80.57 |
1.0189 |
0.1515 |
337 |
2 |
79.26 |
2009-02-10 |
| 11. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
80.47 |
1.0523 |
0.1090 |
256 |
2 |
80.33 |
2009-02-10 |
| 12. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
80.02 |
1.0029 |
0.1497 |
209 |
2 |
75.99 |
2009-02-09 |
| 13. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
79.29 |
1.0487 |
0.0946 |
231 |
2 |
78.27 |
2009-02-06 |
| 14. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
79.11 |
1.0714 |
0.0654 |
129 |
1 |
79.11 |
2009-01-12 |
| 15. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
78.46 |
0.9233 |
0.2046 |
168 |
2 |
73.88 |
2009-02-05 |
| 16. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
78.32 |
1.0257 |
0.1148 |
401 |
2 |
74.36 |
2009-02-06 |
| 17. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
77.74 |
1.0696 |
0.0525 |
226 |
1 |
77.74 |
2009-01-15 |
| 18. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
77.54 |
1.1018 |
0.0145 |
220 |
1 |
77.54 |
2009-01-15 |
| 19. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
77.35 |
1.0486 |
0.0721 |
289 |
1 |
77.35 |
2009-02-10 |
| 20. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.45 |
1.0613 |
0.0505 |
456 |
1 |
76.45 |
2009-01-15 |
| 21. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
76.41 |
0.9965 |
0.1100 |
310 |
1 |
76.41 |
2009-02-11 |
| 22. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
76.16 |
0.9780 |
0.1255 |
337 |
1 |
76.16 |
2009-01-15 |
| 23. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
76.15 |
0.9964 |
0.1061 |
203 |
3 |
69.26 |
2009-02-11 |
| 24. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
76.04 |
1.0251 |
0.0735 |
261 |
1 |
76.04 |
2009-01-12 |
| 25. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
75.75 |
1.0368 |
0.0606 |
276 |
1 |
75.75 |
2009-02-03 |
| 26. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
75.30 |
1.0445 |
0.0463 |
373 |
1 |
75.30 |
2009-02-04 |
| 27. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
74.95 |
0.9820 |
0.1056 |
267 |
2 |
70.65 |
2009-02-09 |
| 28. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
74.94 |
1.0296 |
0.0614 |
437 |
2 |
71.68 |
2009-02-10 |
| 29. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
74.75 |
0.9805 |
0.1060 |
292 |
2 |
73.06 |
2009-02-11 |
| 30. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
74.69 |
0.9710 |
0.1035 |
173 |
2 |
69.25 |
2009-02-11 |
| 31. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
74.43 |
1.0441 |
0.0346 |
252 |
1 |
74.43 |
2009-02-06 |
| 32. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
73.93 |
1.0124 |
0.0550 |
204 |
1 |
73.93 |
2009-02-11 |
| 33. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
73.85 |
1.0788 |
-0.0157 |
171 |
2 |
70.30 |
2009-02-04 |
| 34. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
73.84 |
1.0261 |
0.0405 |
273 |
1 |
73.84 |
2009-01-14 |
| 35. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
73.71 |
0.9567 |
0.1097 |
273 |
1 |
73.71 |
2009-01-14 |
| 36. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
73.68 |
1.0337 |
0.0319 |
214 |
1 |
73.68 |
2009-01-15 |
| 37. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
73.60 |
1.0201 |
0.0489 |
375 |
2 |
71.83 |
2009-02-09 |
| 38. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
73.38 |
1.0292 |
0.0313 |
262 |
3 |
71.16 |
2009-02-03 |
| 39. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
73.35 |
1.0218 |
0.0367 |
268 |
1 |
73.35 |
2009-02-05 |
| 40. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
72.91 |
0.9865 |
0.0695 |
276 |
2 |
70.76 |
2009-02-02 |
| 41. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
72.67 |
1.0331 |
0.0161 |
234 |
2 |
70.15 |
2009-02-11 |
| 42. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
72.32 |
0.9087 |
0.1483 |
393 |
1 |
72.32 |
2009-02-06 |
| 43. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
72.30 |
1.0016 |
0.0398 |
218 |
1 |
72.30 |
2009-02-03 |
| 44. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
71.96 |
1.0131 |
0.0240 |
225 |
2 |
70.51 |
2009-01-14 |
| 45. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
71.78 |
1.0352 |
0.0063 |
341 |
1 |
71.78 |
2009-01-12 |
| 46. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
71.77 |
0.9619 |
0.0815 |
393 |
1 |
71.77 |
2009-01-14 |
| 47. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
71.55 |
0.9729 |
0.0623 |
255 |
1 |
71.55 |
2009-01-08 |
| 48. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
71.48 |
1.0197 |
0.0114 |
226 |
2 |
67.42 |
2009-02-03 |
| 49. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
71.02 |
1.0483 |
-0.0241 |
227 |
1 |
71.02 |
2009-01-15 |
| 50. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
70.94 |
1.0297 |
-0.0048 |
249 |
1 |
70.94 |
2009-02-04 |
| 51. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
70.88 |
0.9831 |
0.0501 |
469 |
1 |
70.88 |
2009-02-06 |
| 52. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
70.65 |
0.9365 |
0.0867 |
248 |
3 |
66.03 |
2009-02-11 |
| 53. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
70.63 |
0.8947 |
0.1317 |
366 |
1 |
70.63 |
2009-02-03 |
| 54. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
70.39 |
0.9942 |
0.0326 |
483 |
1 |
70.39 |
2009-02-04 |
| 55. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
70.33 |
1.0767 |
-0.0618 |
212 |
1 |
70.33 |
2009-02-10 |
| 56. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
70.13 |
0.9941 |
0.0177 |
217 |
1 |
70.13 |
2009-02-03 |
| 57. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
70.03 |
1.0391 |
-0.0203 |
358 |
3 |
65.85 |
2009-02-11 |
| 58. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
69.91 |
1.0073 |
0.0117 |
369 |
2 |
68.08 |
2009-02-04 |
| 59. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
69.88 |
0.9795 |
0.0310 |
308 |
1 |
69.88 |
2009-02-09 |
| 60. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
69.83 |
0.9843 |
0.0205 |
234 |
1 |
69.83 |
2009-02-09 |
| 61. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
69.75 |
1.0787 |
-0.0714 |
237 |
1 |
69.75 |
2009-01-12 |
| 62. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
69.20 |
1.0168 |
-0.0148 |
271 |
1 |
69.20 |
2009-02-04 |
| 63. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
68.76 |
0.9852 |
0.0092 |
264 |
1 |
68.76 |
2009-02-06 |
| 64. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
68.74 |
1.0426 |
-0.0495 |
323 |
1 |
68.74 |
2009-02-04 |
| 65. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
68.63 |
0.9763 |
0.0154 |
289 |
1 |
68.63 |
2009-01-15 |
| 66. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
68.62 |
0.9897 |
0.0001 |
274 |
1 |
68.62 |
2009-01-12 |
| 67. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
68.58 |
0.9681 |
0.0317 |
378 |
2 |
68.22 |
2009-02-04 |
| 68. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
68.48 |
0.9339 |
0.0546 |
310 |
3 |
58.53 |
2009-02-03 |
| 69. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
68.43 |
1.0796 |
-0.0951 |
129 |
1 |
68.43 |
2009-01-12 |
| 70. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
68.39 |
0.9905 |
0.0060 |
377 |
1 |
68.39 |
2009-01-15 |
| 71. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
68.31 |
1.0555 |
-0.0666 |
363 |
1 |
68.31 |
2009-01-12 |
| 72. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
68.24 |
1.0528 |
-0.0713 |
201 |
1 |
68.24 |
2009-01-12 |
| 73. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
67.66 |
0.9776 |
0.0006 |
308 |
1 |
67.66 |
2009-02-04 |
| 74. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
66.88 |
0.9293 |
0.0381 |
355 |
1 |
66.88 |
2009-01-12 |
| 75. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
66.84 |
0.9884 |
-0.0232 |
233 |
1 |
66.84 |
2009-02-03 |
| 76. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
66.68 |
0.9514 |
0.0126 |
237 |
2 |
65.20 |
2009-01-12 |
| 77. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
66.56 |
1.0053 |
-0.0454 |
232 |
1 |
66.56 |
2009-02-02 |
| 78. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
66.35 |
0.9527 |
0.0060 |
251 |
2 |
66.31 |
2009-02-04 |
| 79. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
66.33 |
0.9072 |
0.0496 |
237 |
2 |
64.80 |
2009-01-15 |
| 80. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
66.24 |
0.9005 |
0.0552 |
212 |
1 |
66.24 |
2009-02-11 |
| 81. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
66.15 |
0.9675 |
-0.0021 |
383 |
1 |
66.15 |
2009-01-12 |
| 82. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
66.02 |
0.9309 |
0.0212 |
284 |
1 |
66.02 |
2009-02-02 |
| 83. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
65.85 |
1.0062 |
-0.0547 |
288 |
1 |
65.85 |
2009-01-15 |
| 84. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
65.56 |
0.9429 |
0.0057 |
287 |
1 |
65.56 |
2009-01-12 |
| 85. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
65.35 |
1.0013 |
-0.0580 |
273 |
1 |
65.35 |
2009-02-09 |
| 86. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
65.32 |
1.0120 |
-0.0690 |
290 |
1 |
65.32 |
2009-01-12 |
| 87. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
65.24 |
0.9597 |
-0.0130 |
347 |
1 |
65.24 |
2009-02-04 |
| 88. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
65.14 |
0.9646 |
-0.0244 |
264 |
1 |
65.14 |
2009-01-14 |
| 89. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
65.03 |
0.9286 |
0.0099 |
194 |
1 |
65.03 |
2009-01-12 |
| 90. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
64.92 |
0.9768 |
-0.0363 |
387 |
1 |
64.92 |
2009-02-02 |
| 91. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
64.87 |
0.9513 |
-0.0103 |
354 |
2 |
63.77 |
2009-02-02 |
| 92. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
64.68 |
0.9632 |
-0.0224 |
392 |
1 |
64.68 |
2009-01-15 |
| 93. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
64.49 |
0.9212 |
0.0137 |
323 |
1 |
64.49 |
2009-01-14 |
| 94. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
64.40 |
0.8933 |
0.0434 |
363 |
3 |
60.85 |
2009-02-10 |
| 95. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
64.14 |
0.9275 |
-0.0043 |
211 |
1 |
64.14 |
2009-02-09 |
| 96. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.98 |
0.9740 |
-0.0540 |
209 |
1 |
63.98 |
2009-01-08 |
| 97. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
63.94 |
0.9857 |
-0.0632 |
293 |
1 |
63.94 |
2009-01-15 |
| 98. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
63.81 |
0.9164 |
0.0100 |
305 |
1 |
63.81 |
2009-01-12 |
| 99. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
63.77 |
0.9649 |
-0.0450 |
193 |
1 |
63.77 |
2009-01-12 |
| 100. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
63.74 |
0.9946 |
-0.0742 |
246 |
1 |
63.74 |
2009-01-14 |
| 101. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
63.54 |
1.0004 |
-0.0888 |
212 |
1 |
63.54 |
2009-01-14 |
| 102. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
63.51 |
0.9676 |
-0.0421 |
442 |
1 |
63.51 |
2009-02-02 |
| 103. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
63.22 |
1.0201 |
-0.1139 |
172 |
1 |
63.22 |
2009-01-12 |
| 104. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
63.07 |
0.9500 |
-0.0370 |
362 |
2 |
62.84 |
2009-01-15 |
| 105. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
62.69 |
0.9653 |
-0.0518 |
394 |
1 |
62.69 |
2009-01-15 |
| 106. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
62.62 |
0.9084 |
-0.0024 |
300 |
2 |
62.23 |
2009-02-02 |
| 107. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
61.83 |
0.9570 |
-0.0627 |
287 |
1 |
61.83 |
2009-01-15 |
| 108. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
61.71 |
0.9786 |
-0.0882 |
235 |
1 |
61.71 |
2009-02-04 |
| 109. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
61.50 |
0.9734 |
-0.0859 |
289 |
1 |
61.50 |
2009-02-09 |
| 110. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
61.29 |
0.9289 |
-0.0465 |
204 |
1 |
61.29 |
2009-01-15 |
| 111. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
61.15 |
0.9682 |
-0.0874 |
143 |
1 |
61.15 |
2009-01-15 |
| 112. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
61.11 |
0.9593 |
-0.0725 |
398 |
1 |
61.11 |
2009-02-10 |
| 113. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
60.88 |
0.9202 |
-0.0422 |
254 |
1 |
60.88 |
2009-02-02 |
| 114. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
60.83 |
0.8722 |
0.0087 |
285 |
1 |
60.83 |
2009-02-10 |
| 115. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
60.31 |
0.9553 |
-0.0777 |
430 |
1 |
60.31 |
2009-01-15 |
| 116. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
60.30 |
0.9064 |
-0.0270 |
399 |
1 |
60.30 |
2009-02-06 |
| 117. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
59.51 |
0.8878 |
-0.0293 |
346 |
1 |
59.51 |
2009-01-15 |
| 118. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
59.43 |
0.8890 |
-0.0351 |
199 |
1 |
59.43 |
2009-01-12 |
| 119. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
59.01 |
0.9084 |
-0.0530 |
404 |
1 |
59.01 |
2009-01-12 |
| 120. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
58.72 |
0.9097 |
-0.0210 |
464 |
1 |
58.72 |
2009-02-04 |
| 121. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
58.70 |
0.9372 |
-0.0864 |
320 |
1 |
58.70 |
2009-02-11 |
| 122. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
56.91 |
0.8753 |
-0.0455 |
427 |
1 |
56.91 |
2009-01-15 |
| 123. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
56.50 |
0.9754 |
-0.1547 |
362 |
1 |
56.50 |
2009-01-15 |
| 124. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
56.48 |
0.8382 |
-0.0234 |
268 |
1 |
56.48 |
2009-02-09 |
| 125. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
56.47 |
1.0213 |
-0.2104 |
240 |
1 |
56.47 |
2009-01-15 |
| 126. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
56.39 |
0.9772 |
-0.1677 |
217 |
1 |
56.39 |
2009-02-03 |
| 127. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
55.90 |
0.9910 |
-0.1833 |
295 |
1 |
55.90 |
2009-01-14 |
| 128. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
53.77 |
0.9148 |
-0.1388 |
317 |
2 |
53.07 |
2009-01-15 |
| 129. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
50.05 |
1.0201 |
-0.2996 |
303 |
1 |
50.05 |
2009-02-04 |
| 130. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
47.75 |
0.7876 |
-0.0986 |
316 |
1 |
47.75 |
2009-02-10 |
| 131. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
47.74 |
0.8958 |
-0.2049 |
322 |
1 |
47.74 |
2009-02-04 |
| 132. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
47.46 |
0.9907 |
-0.3101 |
211 |
1 |
47.46 |
2009-01-08 |
| 133. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
46.87 |
0.8602 |
-0.1889 |
206 |
1 |
46.87 |
2009-02-03 |
| 134. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
40.57 |
1.0799 |
-0.5023 |
243 |
1 |
40.57 |
2009-01-08 |