| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
102.68 |
1.1016 |
0.1705 |
233 |
1 |
102.68 |
2009-07-16 |
| 2. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
100.64 |
1.0528 |
0.1887 |
201 |
1 |
100.64 |
2009-07-15 |
| 3. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
100.44 |
1.0445 |
0.2004 |
373 |
2 |
89.99 |
2009-07-16 |
| 4. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
99.38 |
1.0444 |
0.1797 |
197 |
5 |
85.75 |
2010-03-17 |
| 5. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
98.62 |
1.0483 |
0.1699 |
227 |
5 |
80.93 |
2010-03-24 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
97.80 |
1.1018 |
0.1028 |
220 |
1 |
97.80 |
2009-07-15 |
| 7. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
97.64 |
0.9740 |
0.2309 |
209 |
3 |
92.93 |
2009-07-21 |
| 8. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
96.48 |
1.0668 |
0.1301 |
350 |
2 |
91.16 |
2010-03-24 |
| 9. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
94.94 |
1.0907 |
0.0872 |
303 |
1 |
94.94 |
2010-03-17 |
| 10. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
93.83 |
0.8961 |
0.2618 |
189 |
1 |
93.83 |
2009-07-15 |
| 11. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
92.56 |
0.9612 |
0.1842 |
256 |
3 |
80.03 |
2010-03-17 |
| 12. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
92.12 |
1.1114 |
0.0258 |
247 |
1 |
92.12 |
2009-07-16 |
| 13. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
91.90 |
1.0399 |
0.1024 |
294 |
1 |
91.90 |
2009-07-16 |
| 14. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
91.79 |
1.0515 |
0.0824 |
250 |
2 |
86.70 |
2010-03-17 |
| 15. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
90.81 |
0.9884 |
0.1343 |
233 |
2 |
88.83 |
2010-03-17 |
| 16. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
90.34 |
0.9557 |
0.1682 |
331 |
1 |
90.34 |
2010-03-17 |
| 17. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
90.22 |
0.9289 |
0.1849 |
204 |
2 |
79.03 |
2009-07-21 |
| 18. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
89.81 |
1.0165 |
0.0984 |
392 |
1 |
89.81 |
2010-03-24 |
| 19. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
89.78 |
0.9769 |
0.1316 |
263 |
3 |
78.34 |
2009-07-16 |
| 20. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
89.73 |
0.9897 |
0.1180 |
274 |
1 |
89.73 |
2010-03-24 |
| 21. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
89.54 |
0.9851 |
0.1247 |
317 |
1 |
89.54 |
2010-03-17 |
| 22. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
89.27 |
1.0426 |
0.0609 |
323 |
1 |
89.27 |
2009-07-20 |
| 23. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
88.86 |
1.0711 |
0.0229 |
213 |
2 |
88.73 |
2010-03-17 |
| 24. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
88.73 |
1.0352 |
0.0649 |
341 |
1 |
88.73 |
2009-07-15 |
| 25. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
88.70 |
0.9986 |
0.0991 |
283 |
1 |
88.70 |
2009-07-21 |
| 26. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
88.56 |
0.9941 |
0.0988 |
217 |
1 |
88.56 |
2009-07-16 |
| 27. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
88.26 |
1.0482 |
0.0671 |
487 |
1 |
88.26 |
2010-03-17 |
| 28. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
88.22 |
1.0486 |
0.0433 |
289 |
1 |
88.22 |
2009-07-15 |
| 29. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
88.09 |
1.0496 |
0.0392 |
314 |
2 |
84.78 |
2009-07-20 |
| 30. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
87.38 |
0.9871 |
0.1297 |
209 |
1 |
87.38 |
2010-03-17 |
| 31. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
87.05 |
0.9593 |
0.1218 |
398 |
1 |
87.05 |
2009-07-16 |
| 32. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
86.50 |
1.0740 |
0.0339 |
264 |
1 |
86.50 |
2010-03-24 |
| 33. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
86.26 |
1.0565 |
0.0075 |
247 |
1 |
86.26 |
2009-07-16 |
| 34. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
86.09 |
0.9233 |
0.1328 |
168 |
1 |
86.09 |
2009-07-15 |
| 35. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
85.48 |
0.9426 |
0.1173 |
317 |
1 |
85.48 |
2009-07-16 |
| 36. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
85.42 |
0.9307 |
0.1333 |
246 |
1 |
85.42 |
2010-03-17 |
| 37. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
85.30 |
0.9805 |
0.0786 |
292 |
1 |
85.30 |
2009-07-16 |
| 38. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
85.26 |
0.9879 |
0.0748 |
450 |
2 |
75.52 |
2010-03-17 |
| 39. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
85.26 |
1.0379 |
0.0510 |
245 |
1 |
85.26 |
2010-03-17 |
| 40. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
85.22 |
0.9622 |
0.0977 |
392 |
1 |
85.22 |
2010-03-17 |
| 41. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
85.11 |
1.0993 |
-0.0492 |
265 |
2 |
83.80 |
2010-03-17 |
| 42. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
84.98 |
1.0060 |
0.0398 |
171 |
1 |
84.98 |
2010-03-17 |
| 43. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
84.97 |
1.0214 |
0.0273 |
269 |
1 |
84.97 |
2010-03-17 |
| 44. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
84.86 |
0.9786 |
0.0699 |
235 |
2 |
76.99 |
2009-07-16 |
| 45. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
84.49 |
0.9820 |
0.0652 |
267 |
1 |
84.49 |
2009-07-16 |
| 46. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
84.47 |
0.8753 |
0.1781 |
427 |
4 |
72.77 |
2010-03-17 |
| 47. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
84.35 |
1.0218 |
0.0180 |
268 |
1 |
84.35 |
2010-03-17 |
| 48. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
84.29 |
0.9780 |
0.0649 |
337 |
3 |
69.75 |
2010-03-17 |
| 49. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
84.13 |
1.0125 |
0.0251 |
224 |
1 |
84.13 |
2009-07-15 |
| 50. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
84.11 |
1.0120 |
0.0269 |
290 |
2 |
81.93 |
2009-07-21 |
| 51. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
84.02 |
0.9768 |
0.0643 |
387 |
2 |
83.27 |
2010-03-17 |
| 52. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
83.89 |
0.9342 |
0.1062 |
434 |
2 |
82.16 |
2009-07-15 |
| 53. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
83.38 |
0.9570 |
0.0752 |
287 |
1 |
83.38 |
2009-07-20 |
| 54. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
83.14 |
1.0799 |
-0.0561 |
243 |
2 |
81.72 |
2010-03-17 |
| 55. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
83.04 |
1.0109 |
0.0162 |
276 |
1 |
83.04 |
2009-07-21 |
| 56. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
83.00 |
1.0787 |
-0.0542 |
237 |
1 |
83.00 |
2009-07-21 |
| 57. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
82.57 |
0.8956 |
0.1274 |
217 |
1 |
82.57 |
2010-03-17 |
| 58. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
82.32 |
1.0257 |
-0.0020 |
401 |
2 |
82.04 |
2009-07-16 |
| 59. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
82.27 |
0.9723 |
0.0480 |
364 |
1 |
82.27 |
2010-03-24 |
| 60. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
82.27 |
0.9965 |
0.0153 |
168 |
2 |
81.65 |
2010-03-17 |
| 61. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
82.06 |
1.0004 |
0.0075 |
212 |
1 |
82.06 |
2009-07-16 |
| 62. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
82.04 |
0.9429 |
0.0721 |
287 |
1 |
82.04 |
2009-07-16 |
| 63. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
81.39 |
0.9893 |
0.0164 |
323 |
1 |
81.39 |
2009-07-15 |
| 64. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
81.28 |
1.0352 |
-0.0279 |
341 |
1 |
81.28 |
2009-07-21 |
| 65. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
80.89 |
0.9309 |
0.0666 |
284 |
1 |
80.89 |
2009-07-15 |
| 66. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
80.74 |
0.9997 |
0.0014 |
382 |
2 |
76.53 |
2009-07-20 |
| 67. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
80.53 |
1.0389 |
-0.0423 |
318 |
1 |
80.53 |
2009-07-15 |
| 68. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
80.15 |
0.9553 |
0.0420 |
430 |
1 |
80.15 |
2009-07-15 |
| 69. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
79.94 |
0.9894 |
0.0025 |
323 |
1 |
79.94 |
2009-07-15 |
| 70. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
79.48 |
0.8947 |
0.0919 |
366 |
1 |
79.48 |
2010-03-17 |
| 71. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
79.07 |
0.9772 |
-0.0041 |
217 |
2 |
77.56 |
2009-07-16 |
| 72. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
79.02 |
1.0613 |
-0.0844 |
266 |
1 |
79.02 |
2009-07-20 |
| 73. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
78.07 |
0.9942 |
-0.0213 |
483 |
1 |
78.07 |
2009-07-16 |
| 74. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
77.13 |
1.0117 |
-0.0146 |
297 |
1 |
77.13 |
2010-03-24 |
| 75. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
76.91 |
1.0349 |
-0.0860 |
234 |
2 |
76.04 |
2009-07-21 |
| 76. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
76.73 |
1.0203 |
-0.0696 |
261 |
1 |
76.73 |
2009-07-15 |
| 77. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.57 |
1.0797 |
-0.1400 |
210 |
1 |
76.57 |
2009-07-15 |
| 78. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
76.55 |
0.9965 |
-0.0512 |
310 |
1 |
76.55 |
2009-07-15 |
| 79. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
76.52 |
0.8793 |
0.0670 |
157 |
1 |
76.52 |
2010-03-17 |
| 80. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
76.32 |
0.9578 |
-0.0161 |
281 |
1 |
76.32 |
2009-07-16 |
| 81. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
75.80 |
0.8899 |
0.0569 |
293 |
1 |
75.80 |
2010-03-17 |
| 82. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
75.63 |
0.8996 |
0.0284 |
192 |
1 |
75.63 |
2009-07-16 |
| 83. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
75.52 |
0.9084 |
0.0279 |
404 |
1 |
75.52 |
2009-07-15 |
| 84. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
75.44 |
0.9831 |
-0.0439 |
469 |
1 |
75.44 |
2009-07-15 |
| 85. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
75.28 |
0.8916 |
0.0379 |
216 |
2 |
73.23 |
2010-03-17 |
| 86. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
74.82 |
0.9936 |
-0.0705 |
311 |
1 |
74.82 |
2009-07-16 |
| 87. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
74.68 |
0.9710 |
-0.0559 |
173 |
3 |
69.48 |
2010-03-24 |
| 88. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
74.39 |
0.9527 |
-0.0348 |
251 |
1 |
74.39 |
2009-07-21 |
| 89. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
73.64 |
0.9795 |
-0.0709 |
308 |
1 |
73.64 |
2010-03-17 |
| 90. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
73.35 |
0.9278 |
-0.0201 |
295 |
2 |
51.28 |
2010-03-17 |
| 91. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
73.28 |
1.1068 |
-0.1624 |
393 |
1 |
73.28 |
2010-03-17 |
| 92. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
73.24 |
0.8845 |
0.0195 |
273 |
1 |
73.24 |
2010-03-24 |
| 93. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
73.03 |
1.0068 |
-0.1025 |
358 |
1 |
73.03 |
2010-03-17 |
| 94. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
72.88 |
0.9672 |
-0.0616 |
396 |
1 |
72.88 |
2009-07-21 |
| 95. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
72.79 |
1.0340 |
-0.1308 |
406 |
1 |
72.79 |
2009-07-21 |
| 96. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
72.40 |
0.9786 |
-0.0907 |
193 |
1 |
72.40 |
2010-03-17 |
| 97. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
72.31 |
0.9886 |
-0.0941 |
220 |
2 |
64.71 |
2010-03-17 |
| 98. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
72.19 |
0.9907 |
-0.1018 |
211 |
1 |
72.19 |
2009-07-20 |
| 99. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
71.29 |
0.9724 |
-0.0896 |
237 |
1 |
71.29 |
2010-03-17 |
| 100. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
70.76 |
0.9045 |
-0.0316 |
235 |
1 |
70.76 |
2009-07-15 |
| 101. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
70.58 |
0.9731 |
-0.1153 |
129 |
1 |
70.58 |
2009-07-16 |
| 102. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
70.18 |
0.8811 |
-0.0112 |
239 |
1 |
70.18 |
2010-03-17 |
| 103. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
69.64 |
0.9365 |
-0.0765 |
248 |
1 |
69.64 |
2009-07-16 |
| 104. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
69.41 |
1.0031 |
-0.1139 |
304 |
1 |
69.41 |
2010-03-24 |
| 105. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
69.22 |
1.0261 |
-0.1747 |
273 |
1 |
69.22 |
2010-03-17 |
| 106. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
69.19 |
0.9266 |
-0.0736 |
267 |
1 |
69.19 |
2010-03-24 |
| 107. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
68.56 |
0.8602 |
-0.0173 |
206 |
1 |
68.56 |
2009-07-16 |
| 108. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
67.88 |
0.9756 |
-0.1404 |
229 |
1 |
67.88 |
2010-03-17 |
| 109. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
67.74 |
1.0034 |
-0.1701 |
302 |
1 |
67.74 |
2009-07-15 |
| 110. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
67.73 |
1.0033 |
-0.1753 |
189 |
1 |
67.73 |
2009-07-15 |
| 111. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
67.58 |
0.8096 |
0.0311 |
209 |
1 |
67.58 |
2010-03-17 |
| 112. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
67.07 |
1.0767 |
-0.2525 |
212 |
1 |
67.07 |
2009-07-15 |
| 113. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
66.88 |
0.9833 |
-0.1577 |
355 |
1 |
66.88 |
2010-03-17 |
| 114. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
65.78 |
0.8852 |
-0.0728 |
201 |
1 |
65.78 |
2009-07-16 |
| 115. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
65.22 |
0.8382 |
-0.0344 |
268 |
2 |
62.64 |
2009-07-20 |
| 116. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
63.42 |
0.9852 |
-0.2042 |
264 |
1 |
63.42 |
2010-03-17 |
| 117. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
63.36 |
0.8553 |
-0.0804 |
174 |
3 |
58.45 |
2010-03-24 |
| 118. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
63.02 |
0.9646 |
-0.1898 |
264 |
1 |
63.02 |
2009-07-21 |
| 119. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
62.23 |
0.9776 |
-0.2116 |
308 |
1 |
62.23 |
2010-03-17 |
| 120. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
62.19 |
1.0696 |
-0.3078 |
226 |
1 |
62.19 |
2009-07-20 |
| 121. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
61.83 |
0.9468 |
-0.1865 |
276 |
1 |
61.83 |
2009-07-16 |
| 122. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
60.98 |
0.9529 |
-0.1621 |
269 |
1 |
60.98 |
2010-03-17 |
| 123. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
60.68 |
1.0385 |
-0.2939 |
230 |
1 |
60.68 |
2009-07-21 |
| 124. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
58.88 |
0.8890 |
-0.1687 |
199 |
1 |
58.88 |
2009-07-15 |
| 125. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
44.84 |
0.7876 |
-0.2368 |
316 |
1 |
44.84 |
2010-03-17 |