| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
148.13 |
1.0486 |
0.1218 |
289 |
1 |
148.13 |
2009-10-08 |
| 2. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
147.21 |
1.0516 |
0.1102 |
281 |
1 |
147.21 |
2008-10-16 |
| 3. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
147.21 |
1.0496 |
0.1119 |
314 |
3 |
131.79 |
2009-10-08 |
| 4. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
146.49 |
0.9846 |
0.1708 |
281 |
2 |
130.93 |
2008-09-25 |
| 5. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
145.44 |
0.9699 |
0.1776 |
269 |
1 |
145.44 |
2009-10-06 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
144.80 |
1.0613 |
0.0867 |
456 |
2 |
142.19 |
2008-09-11 |
| 7. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
142.14 |
0.9843 |
0.1325 |
234 |
1 |
142.14 |
2008-08-26 |
| 8. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
140.50 |
1.0595 |
0.0517 |
379 |
1 |
140.50 |
2008-10-14 |
| 9. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
140.02 |
1.0696 |
0.0317 |
226 |
1 |
140.02 |
2008-09-03 |
| 10. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
139.38 |
1.0993 |
-0.0017 |
265 |
2 |
127.29 |
2008-09-25 |
| 11. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
139.15 |
1.0711 |
0.0217 |
213 |
1 |
139.15 |
2008-09-25 |
| 12. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
138.36 |
1.0068 |
0.0881 |
358 |
1 |
138.36 |
2008-10-16 |
| 13. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
138.28 |
1.0349 |
0.0554 |
234 |
1 |
138.28 |
2009-01-05 |
| 14. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
138.22 |
0.9776 |
0.1131 |
308 |
1 |
138.22 |
2008-08-26 |
| 15. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
136.41 |
1.0296 |
0.0528 |
437 |
2 |
131.50 |
2012-06-26 |
| 16. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
136.30 |
1.0167 |
0.0652 |
378 |
1 |
136.30 |
2008-08-26 |
| 17. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
136.10 |
1.0944 |
0.0240 |
308 |
2 |
128.67 |
2009-11-05 |
| 18. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
134.04 |
1.0529 |
0.0041 |
351 |
1 |
134.04 |
2008-08-26 |
| 19. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
133.96 |
1.0292 |
0.0260 |
262 |
1 |
133.96 |
2009-10-08 |
| 20. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
133.34 |
0.9894 |
0.0665 |
323 |
1 |
133.34 |
2008-10-16 |
| 21. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
133.31 |
1.0252 |
0.0196 |
176 |
1 |
133.31 |
2008-10-16 |
| 22. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
133.04 |
0.9649 |
0.0831 |
193 |
2 |
120.05 |
2008-10-16 |
| 23. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
132.79 |
0.9763 |
0.0703 |
289 |
2 |
128.01 |
2009-10-23 |
| 24. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
132.76 |
1.0095 |
0.0363 |
316 |
1 |
132.76 |
2009-10-08 |
| 25. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
131.87 |
1.0565 |
-0.0193 |
247 |
1 |
131.87 |
2009-10-08 |
| 26. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
131.62 |
1.0029 |
0.0285 |
209 |
1 |
131.62 |
2009-10-08 |
| 27. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
131.55 |
1.0445 |
-0.0064 |
373 |
2 |
128.84 |
2009-02-11 |
| 28. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
131.53 |
0.9965 |
0.0358 |
168 |
1 |
131.53 |
2008-10-14 |
| 29. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
131.30 |
1.0666 |
-0.0313 |
297 |
1 |
131.30 |
2008-08-27 |
| 30. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
131.11 |
1.0343 |
0.0368 |
242 |
1 |
131.11 |
2009-11-05 |
| 31. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
131.08 |
0.9805 |
0.0576 |
292 |
1 |
131.08 |
2008-10-16 |
| 32. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
130.89 |
0.9612 |
0.0708 |
256 |
1 |
130.89 |
2008-10-16 |
| 33. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
130.38 |
1.0201 |
0.0082 |
303 |
1 |
130.38 |
2008-10-14 |
| 34. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
130.10 |
0.9866 |
0.0354 |
218 |
2 |
126.59 |
2008-10-16 |
| 35. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
129.94 |
1.0251 |
-0.0029 |
261 |
1 |
129.94 |
2008-08-28 |
| 36. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
129.76 |
1.0346 |
0.0303 |
244 |
1 |
129.76 |
2009-10-08 |
| 37. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
129.33 |
0.9851 |
0.0366 |
317 |
2 |
120.93 |
2009-10-08 |
| 38. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
128.85 |
0.9798 |
0.0302 |
199 |
1 |
128.85 |
2009-10-08 |
| 39. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
128.45 |
0.9910 |
0.0234 |
295 |
1 |
128.45 |
2008-08-26 |
| 40. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
128.41 |
1.0668 |
-0.0521 |
350 |
1 |
128.41 |
2008-08-26 |
| 41. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
128.23 |
0.9863 |
0.0288 |
339 |
2 |
126.64 |
2009-01-05 |
| 42. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
127.62 |
0.9986 |
0.0079 |
283 |
1 |
127.62 |
2008-10-16 |
| 43. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
127.59 |
1.0796 |
-0.0788 |
129 |
1 |
127.59 |
2009-02-11 |
| 44. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
127.51 |
0.9532 |
0.0505 |
258 |
1 |
127.51 |
2008-10-16 |
| 45. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
127.20 |
1.0109 |
-0.0076 |
276 |
1 |
127.20 |
2008-08-30 |
| 46. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
127.07 |
1.0099 |
-0.0113 |
207 |
1 |
127.07 |
2008-10-16 |
| 47. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
126.65 |
0.9064 |
0.1009 |
399 |
1 |
126.65 |
2008-10-16 |
| 48. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
126.50 |
0.9557 |
0.0475 |
331 |
1 |
126.50 |
2009-10-08 |
| 49. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
126.35 |
0.9148 |
0.0823 |
317 |
1 |
126.35 |
2008-10-16 |
| 50. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
126.11 |
0.9684 |
0.0281 |
388 |
2 |
121.67 |
2008-09-25 |
| 51. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
126.05 |
0.8595 |
0.1356 |
242 |
1 |
126.05 |
2008-08-26 |
| 52. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
125.86 |
1.0063 |
-0.0141 |
371 |
1 |
125.86 |
2008-09-04 |
| 53. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
125.80 |
0.9619 |
0.0346 |
393 |
1 |
125.80 |
2008-08-26 |
| 54. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
125.75 |
0.9879 |
0.0117 |
450 |
1 |
125.75 |
2008-10-16 |
| 55. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
125.73 |
0.9852 |
0.0059 |
264 |
1 |
125.73 |
2008-10-16 |
| 56. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
125.64 |
1.0555 |
-0.0640 |
363 |
1 |
125.64 |
2009-02-11 |
| 57. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
125.50 |
1.0261 |
-0.0391 |
273 |
1 |
125.50 |
2009-10-08 |
| 58. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
125.21 |
0.9411 |
0.0463 |
318 |
1 |
125.21 |
2008-10-16 |
| 59. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
124.94 |
1.0314 |
-0.0077 |
452 |
1 |
124.94 |
2009-10-07 |
| 60. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
124.78 |
0.9772 |
0.0025 |
217 |
2 |
123.45 |
2009-01-05 |
| 61. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
124.42 |
0.9045 |
0.0761 |
235 |
2 |
119.67 |
2008-08-30 |
| 62. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
124.25 |
0.9279 |
0.0576 |
317 |
3 |
115.64 |
2008-10-16 |
| 63. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
123.54 |
0.9723 |
0.0047 |
364 |
1 |
123.54 |
2008-08-27 |
| 64. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
123.31 |
0.8826 |
0.0903 |
296 |
1 |
123.31 |
2009-01-05 |
| 65. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
123.30 |
1.0352 |
-0.0612 |
341 |
1 |
123.30 |
2008-10-16 |
| 66. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
122.94 |
0.9754 |
-0.0008 |
362 |
2 |
120.28 |
2009-10-06 |
| 67. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
122.78 |
0.9756 |
-0.0097 |
229 |
1 |
122.78 |
2008-10-21 |
| 68. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
122.72 |
0.9500 |
0.0189 |
362 |
2 |
120.84 |
2008-10-16 |
| 69. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
122.40 |
0.9841 |
-0.0161 |
334 |
1 |
122.40 |
2008-08-30 |
| 70. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
122.35 |
1.0168 |
-0.0516 |
271 |
1 |
122.35 |
2008-08-28 |
| 71. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
121.92 |
0.9734 |
-0.0133 |
289 |
1 |
121.92 |
2012-07-10 |
| 72. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
120.90 |
0.9710 |
-0.0253 |
173 |
1 |
120.90 |
2008-10-16 |
| 73. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
120.89 |
0.8956 |
0.0611 |
322 |
1 |
120.89 |
2009-10-23 |
| 74. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
120.88 |
0.9084 |
0.0478 |
404 |
3 |
118.29 |
2009-01-05 |
| 75. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
120.34 |
0.9527 |
-0.0051 |
251 |
1 |
120.34 |
2008-08-26 |
| 76. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
119.99 |
0.9372 |
0.0117 |
320 |
1 |
119.99 |
2008-10-02 |
| 77. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
119.37 |
0.9907 |
-0.0523 |
211 |
1 |
119.37 |
2008-08-30 |
| 78. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
119.08 |
0.9795 |
-0.0418 |
308 |
1 |
119.08 |
2008-08-26 |
| 79. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
118.82 |
1.0454 |
-0.1135 |
255 |
1 |
118.82 |
2008-09-25 |
| 80. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
118.44 |
0.9202 |
0.0117 |
254 |
1 |
118.44 |
2008-08-30 |
| 81. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
117.88 |
0.9164 |
0.0165 |
305 |
1 |
117.88 |
2008-08-26 |
| 82. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
117.02 |
0.9769 |
-0.0578 |
263 |
1 |
117.02 |
2008-08-27 |
| 83. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
116.64 |
0.9682 |
-0.0519 |
143 |
1 |
116.64 |
2009-12-30 |
| 84. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
116.44 |
1.0799 |
-0.1670 |
243 |
1 |
116.44 |
2008-10-20 |
| 85. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
116.35 |
1.0131 |
-0.1011 |
225 |
1 |
116.35 |
2009-10-08 |
| 86. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
116.31 |
1.0390 |
-0.1272 |
205 |
1 |
116.31 |
2009-01-05 |
| 87. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
116.25 |
0.9593 |
-0.0395 |
398 |
1 |
116.25 |
2008-08-28 |
| 88. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
115.86 |
0.9865 |
-0.0734 |
276 |
2 |
114.09 |
2009-10-05 |
| 89. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
115.39 |
0.8947 |
0.0184 |
366 |
1 |
115.39 |
2008-08-27 |
| 90. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
115.11 |
1.0444 |
-0.1450 |
197 |
1 |
115.11 |
2009-10-08 |
| 91. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
114.84 |
0.9430 |
-0.0465 |
211 |
1 |
114.84 |
2008-08-26 |
| 92. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
114.80 |
0.9884 |
-0.0857 |
233 |
1 |
114.80 |
2008-08-28 |
| 93. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
114.64 |
0.9125 |
-0.0085 |
308 |
2 |
111.16 |
2008-08-31 |
| 94. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
114.59 |
0.9614 |
-0.0566 |
292 |
1 |
114.59 |
2009-01-05 |
| 95. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
113.91 |
0.8996 |
-0.0087 |
192 |
1 |
113.91 |
2008-10-14 |
| 96. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
112.99 |
0.9468 |
-0.0582 |
276 |
1 |
112.99 |
2008-08-29 |
| 97. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
111.30 |
0.9087 |
-0.0224 |
393 |
1 |
111.30 |
2008-10-16 |
| 98. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
110.03 |
0.9212 |
-0.0525 |
323 |
1 |
110.03 |
2008-08-26 |
| 99. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
108.88 |
0.9213 |
-0.0645 |
295 |
2 |
102.44 |
2009-01-05 |
| 100. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
106.89 |
1.0034 |
-0.1645 |
302 |
1 |
106.89 |
2008-09-03 |
| 101. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
105.56 |
0.9844 |
-0.1498 |
293 |
1 |
105.56 |
2009-10-05 |
| 102. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
100.32 |
0.9072 |
-0.1210 |
237 |
1 |
100.32 |
2008-08-26 |
| 103. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
99.69 |
0.8722 |
-0.0864 |
285 |
1 |
99.69 |
2008-08-26 |
| 104. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
95.45 |
0.8919 |
-0.1445 |
205 |
1 |
95.45 |
2008-08-28 |
| 105. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
83.95 |
0.8553 |
-0.2031 |
174 |
1 |
83.95 |
2008-10-16 |