| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
93.39 |
1.0213 |
0.2179 |
240 |
3 |
82.65 |
2010-01-11 |
| 2. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
89.51 |
1.0398 |
0.1428 |
110 |
2 |
86.92 |
2010-02-09 |
| 3. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
88.51 |
0.8661 |
0.3044 |
94 |
1 |
88.51 |
2009-10-05 |
| 4. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
87.98 |
1.0189 |
0.1511 |
337 |
2 |
83.80 |
2009-12-08 |
| 5. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
87.83 |
0.9897 |
0.1755 |
274 |
2 |
79.20 |
2009-11-16 |
| 6. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
87.61 |
1.0714 |
0.0879 |
129 |
1 |
87.61 |
2009-12-07 |
| 7. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
87.10 |
1.0368 |
0.1190 |
276 |
1 |
87.10 |
2009-11-09 |
| 8. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
86.81 |
1.0565 |
0.0940 |
247 |
3 |
78.37 |
2009-11-09 |
| 9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
86.25 |
1.0613 |
0.0857 |
456 |
1 |
86.25 |
2010-01-11 |
| 10. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
86.22 |
1.0201 |
0.1213 |
172 |
2 |
82.77 |
2010-01-11 |
| 11. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
85.53 |
1.0944 |
0.0837 |
308 |
2 |
79.47 |
2010-01-04 |
| 12. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
85.41 |
1.0506 |
0.1128 |
277 |
1 |
85.41 |
2010-01-05 |
| 13. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
84.19 |
1.0596 |
0.0567 |
239 |
2 |
79.89 |
2009-12-07 |
| 14. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
84.12 |
1.0534 |
0.0636 |
357 |
2 |
81.22 |
2009-11-12 |
| 15. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
83.20 |
1.0485 |
0.0930 |
153 |
1 |
83.20 |
2009-12-14 |
| 16. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
82.96 |
0.9576 |
0.1437 |
212 |
1 |
82.96 |
2009-10-22 |
| 17. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
82.94 |
1.0390 |
0.0590 |
205 |
4 |
78.57 |
2010-01-11 |
| 18. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
82.79 |
0.9865 |
0.1126 |
276 |
1 |
82.79 |
2010-01-11 |
| 19. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
82.61 |
0.9485 |
0.1500 |
291 |
1 |
82.61 |
2009-12-07 |
| 20. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
82.27 |
1.0109 |
0.0809 |
276 |
3 |
74.95 |
2010-01-04 |
| 21. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
82.12 |
0.9910 |
0.0996 |
295 |
1 |
82.12 |
2009-11-12 |
| 22. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
81.74 |
1.0138 |
0.0700 |
231 |
1 |
81.74 |
2009-10-26 |
| 23. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
81.55 |
1.0211 |
0.0931 |
213 |
2 |
75.50 |
2010-01-11 |
| 24. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
81.18 |
1.0396 |
0.0333 |
149 |
2 |
76.59 |
2009-11-02 |
| 25. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
80.93 |
1.0177 |
0.0898 |
392 |
3 |
76.65 |
2009-12-14 |
| 26. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
80.91 |
0.9899 |
0.0808 |
163 |
1 |
80.91 |
2009-11-02 |
| 27. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
80.66 |
1.0346 |
0.0780 |
244 |
3 |
74.68 |
2009-12-07 |
| 28. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
80.54 |
1.0296 |
0.0416 |
437 |
1 |
80.54 |
2009-12-07 |
| 29. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
80.48 |
1.0477 |
0.0211 |
360 |
2 |
75.72 |
2009-10-27 |
| 30. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
79.90 |
1.0297 |
0.0293 |
249 |
1 |
79.90 |
2009-12-08 |
| 31. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
79.85 |
0.9893 |
0.0704 |
323 |
1 |
79.85 |
2009-12-07 |
| 32. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
79.84 |
1.0168 |
0.0423 |
271 |
1 |
79.84 |
2009-10-23 |
| 33. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
79.82 |
1.0829 |
-0.0236 |
288 |
1 |
79.82 |
2009-11-02 |
| 34. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
79.76 |
1.0023 |
0.0536 |
211 |
2 |
79.07 |
2010-01-05 |
| 35. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
79.09 |
1.0496 |
-0.0013 |
314 |
3 |
78.70 |
2009-10-22 |
| 36. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
79.09 |
1.0068 |
0.0442 |
358 |
1 |
79.09 |
2009-10-21 |
| 37. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
79.03 |
1.0515 |
-0.0045 |
250 |
2 |
79.02 |
2010-01-11 |
| 38. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
78.90 |
1.0613 |
-0.0143 |
266 |
1 |
78.90 |
2009-12-08 |
| 39. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
78.84 |
1.0668 |
-0.0206 |
350 |
1 |
78.84 |
2009-11-02 |
| 40. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
78.66 |
1.0419 |
-0.0004 |
261 |
1 |
78.66 |
2010-01-06 |
| 41. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
78.30 |
1.0523 |
-0.0156 |
256 |
1 |
78.30 |
2009-10-22 |
| 42. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
78.30 |
1.0334 |
0.0013 |
131 |
1 |
78.30 |
2009-11-12 |
| 43. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
78.25 |
1.0799 |
-0.0449 |
243 |
4 |
76.05 |
2010-01-06 |
| 44. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
77.97 |
0.9943 |
0.0402 |
373 |
5 |
73.34 |
2009-12-16 |
| 45. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
77.65 |
0.9965 |
0.0335 |
277 |
1 |
77.65 |
2009-11-16 |
| 46. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
77.46 |
1.0487 |
-0.0241 |
231 |
1 |
77.46 |
2009-11-12 |
| 47. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
77.42 |
0.9672 |
0.0625 |
396 |
2 |
75.59 |
2009-12-08 |
| 48. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
77.38 |
0.9805 |
0.0477 |
292 |
1 |
77.38 |
2009-10-26 |
| 49. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
77.31 |
0.9941 |
0.0295 |
217 |
1 |
77.31 |
2009-10-20 |
| 50. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
77.24 |
1.0365 |
0.0218 |
162 |
1 |
77.24 |
2009-12-08 |
| 51. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
77.09 |
1.0528 |
-0.0328 |
201 |
2 |
77.06 |
2010-03-12 |
| 52. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
76.84 |
0.9612 |
0.0584 |
256 |
1 |
76.84 |
2009-11-12 |
| 53. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
76.76 |
0.9851 |
0.0335 |
317 |
1 |
76.76 |
2009-10-14 |
| 54. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
76.68 |
0.9763 |
0.0406 |
289 |
1 |
76.68 |
2009-10-23 |
| 55. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
76.35 |
0.9330 |
0.0829 |
360 |
1 |
76.35 |
2009-12-07 |
| 56. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
76.15 |
1.0125 |
-0.0049 |
224 |
1 |
76.15 |
2009-11-12 |
| 57. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
75.88 |
1.0795 |
-0.0406 |
226 |
1 |
75.88 |
2009-10-27 |
| 58. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
75.74 |
1.0358 |
0.0051 |
349 |
1 |
75.74 |
2009-10-14 |
| 59. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
75.59 |
1.0595 |
-0.0566 |
379 |
1 |
75.59 |
2009-12-08 |
| 60. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
75.52 |
1.0314 |
0.0044 |
452 |
1 |
75.52 |
2009-11-16 |
| 61. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
75.35 |
0.9907 |
0.0071 |
211 |
1 |
75.35 |
2009-12-02 |
| 62. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
75.24 |
0.9631 |
0.0811 |
345 |
3 |
70.55 |
2010-03-12 |
| 63. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
74.82 |
1.0797 |
-0.0912 |
210 |
1 |
74.82 |
2009-10-14 |
| 64. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
74.74 |
0.8961 |
0.0946 |
189 |
1 |
74.74 |
2009-12-14 |
| 65. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
74.70 |
0.9758 |
0.0147 |
314 |
1 |
74.70 |
2009-11-10 |
| 66. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
74.62 |
1.0165 |
-0.0261 |
392 |
1 |
74.62 |
2009-11-10 |
| 67. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
74.49 |
1.0016 |
-0.0161 |
218 |
1 |
74.49 |
2009-10-19 |
| 68. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
74.23 |
0.9942 |
-0.0072 |
483 |
3 |
70.95 |
2009-11-02 |
| 69. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
74.20 |
0.9843 |
-0.0031 |
234 |
1 |
74.20 |
2009-11-02 |
| 70. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
74.06 |
0.9846 |
-0.0035 |
281 |
2 |
72.87 |
2009-10-23 |
| 71. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
73.70 |
1.0379 |
-0.0240 |
245 |
1 |
73.70 |
2009-12-08 |
| 72. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
73.57 |
0.9570 |
0.0188 |
287 |
1 |
73.57 |
2009-12-07 |
| 73. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
73.35 |
1.0385 |
-0.0673 |
230 |
1 |
73.35 |
2009-10-23 |
| 74. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
73.23 |
0.9557 |
0.0185 |
331 |
1 |
73.23 |
2009-11-10 |
| 75. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
72.66 |
1.0263 |
-0.0637 |
267 |
2 |
70.89 |
2009-11-12 |
| 76. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
72.59 |
0.9905 |
-0.0246 |
377 |
1 |
72.59 |
2009-10-21 |
| 77. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
72.58 |
1.0389 |
-0.0761 |
340 |
1 |
72.58 |
2009-10-27 |
| 78. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
72.33 |
0.9430 |
0.0132 |
211 |
2 |
70.73 |
2009-11-16 |
| 79. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
72.33 |
0.9619 |
-0.0004 |
393 |
1 |
72.33 |
2009-10-23 |
| 80. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
72.15 |
1.0361 |
-0.0797 |
269 |
1 |
72.15 |
2009-11-12 |
| 81. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
72.09 |
0.9965 |
-0.0431 |
168 |
1 |
72.09 |
2009-11-09 |
| 82. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
72.07 |
1.0352 |
-0.0788 |
341 |
1 |
72.07 |
2009-10-06 |
| 83. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
72.05 |
0.9286 |
0.0250 |
194 |
1 |
72.05 |
2009-11-09 |
| 84. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
71.62 |
0.9795 |
-0.0303 |
308 |
2 |
68.77 |
2009-10-23 |
| 85. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
71.53 |
1.0173 |
-0.0245 |
268 |
2 |
69.78 |
2009-11-12 |
| 86. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
71.46 |
0.9894 |
-0.0403 |
323 |
1 |
71.46 |
2009-10-14 |
| 87. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
70.96 |
1.0498 |
-0.1127 |
180 |
1 |
70.96 |
2009-12-08 |
| 88. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
70.72 |
0.8753 |
0.0666 |
427 |
1 |
70.72 |
2009-10-27 |
| 89. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
70.63 |
0.9768 |
-0.0394 |
387 |
1 |
70.63 |
2009-10-19 |
| 90. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
70.50 |
0.9084 |
0.0281 |
404 |
1 |
70.50 |
2009-10-19 |
| 91. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
70.25 |
0.9879 |
-0.0531 |
450 |
1 |
70.25 |
2009-10-21 |
| 92. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
70.25 |
1.0254 |
-0.0506 |
217 |
1 |
70.25 |
2009-11-12 |
| 93. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
70.20 |
1.0483 |
-0.1202 |
227 |
1 |
70.20 |
2009-10-22 |
| 94. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
70.12 |
0.9279 |
0.0040 |
317 |
1 |
70.12 |
2009-11-02 |
| 95. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
70.11 |
0.9005 |
0.0287 |
212 |
1 |
70.11 |
2009-11-16 |
| 96. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
70.09 |
0.9614 |
-0.0321 |
292 |
1 |
70.09 |
2009-10-19 |
| 97. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
69.65 |
1.0099 |
-0.0880 |
207 |
1 |
69.65 |
2009-11-10 |
| 98. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
69.54 |
0.8826 |
0.0405 |
296 |
2 |
65.67 |
2010-02-09 |
| 99. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
69.43 |
1.0289 |
-0.1078 |
276 |
1 |
69.43 |
2009-10-14 |
| 100. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
69.40 |
0.9786 |
-0.0594 |
235 |
1 |
69.40 |
2009-10-21 |
| 101. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
69.18 |
1.1068 |
-0.1551 |
393 |
1 |
69.18 |
2009-10-06 |
| 102. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
69.14 |
0.9527 |
-0.0369 |
251 |
1 |
69.14 |
2009-11-02 |
| 103. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
69.06 |
0.9064 |
0.0137 |
399 |
1 |
69.06 |
2009-10-26 |
| 104. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
68.96 |
0.9266 |
-0.0131 |
267 |
2 |
68.90 |
2009-11-16 |
| 105. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
68.70 |
1.0154 |
-0.0584 |
351 |
1 |
68.70 |
2009-10-14 |
| 106. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
68.48 |
0.8919 |
0.0148 |
205 |
1 |
68.48 |
2009-10-19 |
| 107. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
68.29 |
1.0391 |
-0.1316 |
358 |
1 |
68.29 |
2009-10-07 |
| 108. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
68.21 |
0.8553 |
0.0461 |
174 |
1 |
68.21 |
2009-10-27 |
| 109. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
67.97 |
0.9769 |
-0.0780 |
263 |
1 |
67.97 |
2009-10-19 |
| 110. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
67.75 |
0.9351 |
-0.0409 |
190 |
1 |
67.75 |
2009-10-23 |
| 111. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
66.68 |
0.9125 |
-0.0288 |
308 |
1 |
66.68 |
2009-10-14 |
| 112. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
66.61 |
0.8670 |
0.0165 |
318 |
1 |
66.61 |
2009-10-23 |
| 113. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
66.59 |
0.9991 |
-0.1177 |
225 |
1 |
66.59 |
2009-11-10 |
| 114. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
66.49 |
0.8722 |
0.0102 |
285 |
1 |
66.49 |
2009-10-27 |
| 115. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
66.25 |
0.9601 |
-0.0809 |
308 |
1 |
66.25 |
2009-10-19 |
| 116. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
66.23 |
0.9049 |
-0.0254 |
351 |
1 |
66.23 |
2009-11-16 |
| 117. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
65.65 |
0.9740 |
-0.1067 |
209 |
1 |
65.65 |
2009-11-02 |
| 118. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
65.47 |
0.8933 |
-0.0225 |
363 |
1 |
65.47 |
2009-10-29 |
| 119. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
65.42 |
1.0337 |
-0.1691 |
214 |
1 |
65.42 |
2009-10-07 |
| 120. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
64.96 |
1.0328 |
-0.1394 |
356 |
1 |
64.96 |
2009-11-02 |
| 121. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
64.38 |
0.9681 |
-0.1124 |
378 |
1 |
64.38 |
2009-10-23 |
| 122. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
63.97 |
0.8996 |
-0.0558 |
192 |
1 |
63.97 |
2009-10-21 |
| 123. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
63.01 |
0.9148 |
-0.0794 |
317 |
1 |
63.01 |
2009-10-27 |
| 124. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
62.08 |
0.8947 |
-0.0695 |
366 |
1 |
62.08 |
2009-10-22 |
| 125. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
62.03 |
0.8602 |
-0.0402 |
206 |
1 |
62.03 |
2009-10-07 |
| 126. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
61.30 |
0.8981 |
-0.0849 |
393 |
1 |
61.30 |
2009-11-09 |
| 127. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
61.07 |
0.9293 |
-0.1207 |
355 |
1 |
61.07 |
2009-10-23 |
| 128. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
59.99 |
0.8956 |
-0.1001 |
322 |
1 |
59.99 |
2009-12-14 |
| 129. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
58.21 |
0.9072 |
-0.1387 |
237 |
1 |
58.21 |
2009-11-02 |
| 130. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
55.18 |
0.8105 |
-0.0833 |
204 |
1 |
55.18 |
2009-11-12 |