| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
72.31 |
1.1018 |
0.1997 |
220 |
2 |
63.70 |
2009-08-05 |
| 2. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
71.93 |
1.0787 |
0.2186 |
237 |
2 |
64.92 |
2009-08-05 |
| 3. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
71.11 |
1.0252 |
0.2551 |
176 |
1 |
71.11 |
2009-08-08 |
| 4. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
71.03 |
1.1323 |
0.1810 |
341 |
1 |
71.03 |
2010-09-19 |
| 5. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
70.46 |
1.0774 |
0.2226 |
304 |
1 |
70.46 |
2010-09-19 |
| 6. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
69.96 |
0.9161 |
0.3447 |
200 |
1 |
69.96 |
2010-09-19 |
| 7. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
69.36 |
0.9991 |
0.2520 |
225 |
2 |
63.99 |
2009-08-05 |
| 8. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
67.64 |
1.0004 |
0.2172 |
212 |
3 |
55.38 |
2009-08-05 |
| 9. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
66.36 |
1.0073 |
0.1931 |
369 |
2 |
65.40 |
2009-08-08 |
| 10. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
65.44 |
1.0138 |
0.1655 |
231 |
1 |
65.44 |
2009-08-05 |
| 11. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
64.88 |
1.0677 |
0.1331 |
284 |
1 |
64.88 |
2010-09-19 |
| 12. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
64.66 |
0.9646 |
0.2008 |
264 |
1 |
64.66 |
2009-08-06 |
| 13. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
64.28 |
0.9997 |
0.1614 |
382 |
2 |
57.27 |
2009-08-08 |
| 14. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
63.49 |
1.0516 |
0.0928 |
281 |
3 |
57.62 |
2009-08-27 |
| 15. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
63.22 |
0.9855 |
0.1876 |
258 |
1 |
63.22 |
2010-09-19 |
| 16. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
63.15 |
1.0567 |
0.0826 |
303 |
3 |
54.73 |
2009-08-08 |
| 17. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
63.07 |
0.9966 |
0.1403 |
259 |
1 |
63.07 |
2009-08-05 |
| 18. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
62.91 |
0.9045 |
0.2296 |
235 |
1 |
62.91 |
2009-08-06 |
| 19. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
62.78 |
0.9729 |
0.1579 |
255 |
1 |
62.78 |
2008-11-26 |
| 20. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
62.47 |
1.0165 |
0.1107 |
392 |
1 |
62.47 |
2009-08-06 |
| 21. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
62.26 |
0.9540 |
0.1680 |
285 |
2 |
57.15 |
2010-09-20 |
| 22. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
61.11 |
0.9841 |
0.1186 |
334 |
1 |
61.11 |
2009-08-05 |
| 23. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
60.80 |
0.9710 |
0.1215 |
173 |
1 |
60.80 |
2009-08-08 |
| 24. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
60.61 |
1.0025 |
0.0903 |
336 |
2 |
54.31 |
2009-09-01 |
| 25. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
60.57 |
0.9514 |
0.1402 |
237 |
1 |
60.57 |
2009-08-08 |
| 26. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
60.34 |
1.0666 |
0.0196 |
297 |
2 |
53.98 |
2008-12-01 |
| 27. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
59.79 |
1.0463 |
0.0277 |
182 |
1 |
59.79 |
2009-08-27 |
| 28. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
59.48 |
1.0060 |
0.0631 |
171 |
1 |
59.48 |
2009-08-08 |
| 29. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
59.44 |
1.0189 |
0.0539 |
337 |
1 |
59.44 |
2009-08-05 |
| 30. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
59.08 |
0.9942 |
0.0732 |
483 |
1 |
59.08 |
2009-08-05 |
| 31. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
58.96 |
1.0297 |
0.0316 |
249 |
2 |
58.63 |
2008-11-26 |
| 32. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
58.96 |
0.8442 |
0.2203 |
265 |
2 |
56.50 |
2008-11-26 |
| 33. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
58.76 |
0.9553 |
0.1072 |
430 |
1 |
58.76 |
2009-08-08 |
| 34. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
58.65 |
1.0214 |
0.0327 |
166 |
2 |
58.62 |
2008-11-26 |
| 35. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
58.25 |
1.0296 |
0.0223 |
437 |
1 |
58.25 |
2010-09-19 |
| 36. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
57.94 |
0.8981 |
0.1480 |
393 |
1 |
57.94 |
2009-08-07 |
| 37. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
57.84 |
1.0331 |
0.0064 |
234 |
1 |
57.84 |
2008-11-26 |
| 38. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
57.71 |
1.0711 |
-0.0356 |
213 |
1 |
57.71 |
2009-08-05 |
| 39. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
57.46 |
1.0124 |
0.0211 |
204 |
1 |
57.46 |
2009-08-08 |
| 40. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
57.46 |
0.9633 |
0.0714 |
304 |
2 |
52.66 |
2008-11-26 |
| 41. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
57.41 |
1.0596 |
-0.0266 |
239 |
2 |
55.64 |
2008-11-26 |
| 42. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
57.35 |
0.9635 |
0.0713 |
389 |
2 |
56.22 |
2008-11-26 |
| 43. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
57.10 |
0.9910 |
0.0383 |
295 |
1 |
57.10 |
2008-11-26 |
| 44. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
56.82 |
1.0555 |
-0.0311 |
363 |
2 |
53.74 |
2009-08-08 |
| 45. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
56.78 |
1.0340 |
-0.0091 |
406 |
1 |
56.78 |
2008-11-26 |
| 46. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
56.62 |
0.9286 |
0.0899 |
194 |
1 |
56.62 |
2008-11-26 |
| 47. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
55.92 |
0.9411 |
0.0670 |
318 |
2 |
54.18 |
2009-08-05 |
| 48. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
55.87 |
1.1016 |
-0.0966 |
233 |
1 |
55.87 |
2008-11-07 |
| 49. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
55.82 |
0.9234 |
0.0842 |
346 |
1 |
55.82 |
2008-11-11 |
| 50. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
55.76 |
0.9831 |
0.0250 |
469 |
1 |
55.76 |
2009-09-01 |
| 51. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
55.58 |
1.0034 |
-0.0034 |
302 |
1 |
55.58 |
2008-11-08 |
| 52. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
55.50 |
0.9485 |
0.0512 |
236 |
2 |
48.70 |
2008-11-07 |
| 53. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
55.31 |
1.0349 |
-0.0398 |
234 |
1 |
55.31 |
2008-11-26 |
| 54. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
54.35 |
0.9279 |
0.0534 |
317 |
1 |
54.35 |
2009-08-05 |
| 55. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
54.34 |
0.9351 |
0.0401 |
190 |
1 |
54.34 |
2008-11-26 |
| 56. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
54.34 |
1.0885 |
-0.1100 |
315 |
2 |
53.64 |
2008-11-26 |
| 57. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
54.33 |
0.8553 |
0.1207 |
174 |
1 |
54.33 |
2009-08-05 |
| 58. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
54.25 |
0.9851 |
-0.0078 |
317 |
1 |
54.25 |
2008-11-26 |
| 59. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
53.97 |
1.1114 |
-0.1417 |
247 |
1 |
53.97 |
2008-11-07 |
| 60. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
53.72 |
0.9863 |
-0.0174 |
339 |
1 |
53.72 |
2008-12-01 |
| 61. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
53.70 |
0.8573 |
0.1114 |
270 |
1 |
53.70 |
2008-11-07 |
| 62. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
53.64 |
0.9168 |
0.0489 |
240 |
1 |
53.64 |
2008-11-26 |
| 63. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
53.53 |
1.0013 |
-0.0381 |
273 |
1 |
53.53 |
2008-11-07 |
| 64. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
53.50 |
0.9724 |
-0.0094 |
237 |
1 |
53.50 |
2008-11-08 |
| 65. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
53.29 |
0.8916 |
0.0678 |
216 |
1 |
53.29 |
2009-08-05 |
| 66. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
53.22 |
0.9614 |
-0.0029 |
292 |
1 |
53.22 |
2008-11-11 |
| 67. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
53.10 |
1.0053 |
-0.0505 |
232 |
1 |
53.10 |
2008-11-26 |
| 68. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
53.06 |
0.9619 |
-0.0041 |
393 |
1 |
53.06 |
2008-11-07 |
| 69. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
53.02 |
0.9597 |
-0.0031 |
347 |
1 |
53.02 |
2008-11-26 |
| 70. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
52.99 |
0.9846 |
-0.0317 |
281 |
1 |
52.99 |
2008-11-07 |
| 71. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
52.74 |
1.0486 |
-0.0994 |
289 |
3 |
49.99 |
2008-11-26 |
| 72. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
52.71 |
0.8770 |
0.0734 |
300 |
1 |
52.71 |
2009-08-05 |
| 73. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
52.64 |
1.0289 |
-0.0802 |
276 |
2 |
52.06 |
2008-11-08 |
| 74. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
52.49 |
1.0337 |
-0.0905 |
214 |
1 |
52.49 |
2008-12-01 |
| 75. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
52.14 |
1.0368 |
-0.0992 |
276 |
1 |
52.14 |
2008-11-26 |
| 76. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
51.96 |
1.0595 |
-0.1239 |
379 |
1 |
51.96 |
2008-11-26 |
| 77. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
51.77 |
0.9897 |
-0.0592 |
274 |
1 |
51.77 |
2008-11-07 |
| 78. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
51.55 |
0.9798 |
-0.0558 |
199 |
1 |
51.55 |
2008-11-26 |
| 79. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
51.28 |
0.9567 |
-0.0341 |
273 |
1 |
51.28 |
2008-11-26 |
| 80. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.23 |
0.9212 |
0.0015 |
323 |
2 |
49.96 |
2008-11-26 |
| 81. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
51.00 |
0.8951 |
0.0223 |
193 |
1 |
51.00 |
2008-11-26 |
| 82. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
50.89 |
1.0797 |
-0.1677 |
210 |
1 |
50.89 |
2008-11-08 |
| 83. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
50.63 |
0.9266 |
-0.0164 |
278 |
1 |
50.63 |
2008-11-07 |
| 84. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
50.61 |
1.0016 |
-0.0932 |
218 |
1 |
50.61 |
2008-11-26 |
| 85. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
50.50 |
1.0462 |
-0.1410 |
184 |
1 |
50.50 |
2008-11-08 |
| 86. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
50.50 |
0.9805 |
-0.0701 |
292 |
1 |
50.50 |
2008-11-07 |
| 87. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.46 |
0.9843 |
-0.0791 |
234 |
1 |
50.46 |
2008-11-26 |
| 88. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
50.23 |
0.9636 |
-0.0597 |
254 |
1 |
50.23 |
2008-11-07 |
| 89. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
50.21 |
0.9769 |
-0.0751 |
263 |
1 |
50.21 |
2008-11-07 |
| 90. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
50.04 |
0.9266 |
-0.0265 |
267 |
1 |
50.04 |
2009-08-05 |
| 91. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
50.00 |
1.0496 |
-0.1511 |
314 |
2 |
48.40 |
2008-11-26 |
| 92. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
49.91 |
1.0201 |
-0.1257 |
172 |
1 |
49.91 |
2008-11-07 |
| 93. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
49.86 |
0.9570 |
-0.0597 |
287 |
1 |
49.86 |
2008-11-08 |
| 94. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
49.22 |
0.9109 |
-0.0241 |
401 |
1 |
49.22 |
2008-11-08 |
| 95. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
49.21 |
1.0398 |
-0.1610 |
110 |
1 |
49.21 |
2008-11-25 |
| 96. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
49.13 |
0.7876 |
0.0987 |
316 |
1 |
49.13 |
2009-08-05 |
| 97. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
48.79 |
0.8935 |
-0.0121 |
328 |
1 |
48.79 |
2008-11-26 |
| 98. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
48.69 |
0.9865 |
-0.1107 |
276 |
1 |
48.69 |
2008-11-25 |
| 99. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
48.51 |
0.8961 |
-0.0241 |
189 |
1 |
48.51 |
2008-11-07 |
| 100. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
48.15 |
0.9731 |
-0.1134 |
129 |
1 |
48.15 |
2008-11-26 |
| 101. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
47.73 |
0.9941 |
-0.1378 |
217 |
1 |
47.73 |
2008-11-07 |
| 102. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
47.62 |
0.9844 |
-0.1272 |
293 |
1 |
47.62 |
2008-11-07 |
| 103. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
47.18 |
1.0068 |
-0.1569 |
358 |
1 |
47.18 |
2008-11-11 |
| 104. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
47.07 |
0.9330 |
-0.0835 |
360 |
1 |
47.07 |
2008-11-26 |
| 105. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
46.66 |
0.8947 |
-0.0523 |
366 |
1 |
46.66 |
2008-11-26 |
| 106. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
46.61 |
0.8975 |
-0.0600 |
268 |
1 |
46.61 |
2008-11-26 |
| 107. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
45.86 |
0.9084 |
-0.0821 |
404 |
1 |
45.86 |
2008-11-26 |
| 108. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
45.18 |
1.0668 |
-0.2548 |
350 |
1 |
45.18 |
2008-11-07 |
| 109. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
45.10 |
0.9527 |
-0.1426 |
251 |
1 |
45.10 |
2008-11-07 |
| 110. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
43.61 |
0.9468 |
-0.1644 |
276 |
1 |
43.61 |
2008-11-26 |
| 111. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
43.54 |
0.9084 |
-0.1256 |
300 |
1 |
43.54 |
2008-11-07 |
| 112. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
43.38 |
0.9164 |
-0.1356 |
305 |
1 |
43.38 |
2008-11-07 |
| 113. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
42.92 |
0.8353 |
-0.0610 |
283 |
1 |
42.92 |
2008-11-07 |
| 114. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
42.63 |
1.0390 |
-0.2765 |
205 |
1 |
42.63 |
2008-11-07 |
| 115. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
42.07 |
1.0714 |
-0.3204 |
129 |
1 |
42.07 |
2008-11-07 |
| 116. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
40.96 |
0.9649 |
-0.2306 |
193 |
1 |
40.96 |
2008-11-07 |
| 117. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
36.36 |
0.9088 |
-0.2545 |
348 |
1 |
36.36 |
2008-11-07 |