| 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... |
55.67 |
1.1018 |
0.1006 |
220 |
1 |
55.67 |
2009-03-30 |
| 2. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
55.49 |
1.0521 |
0.1475 |
171 |
1 |
55.49 |
2009-04-04 |
| 3. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
55.44 |
0.9633 |
0.2374 |
304 |
2 |
51.02 |
2009-04-07 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
54.85 |
1.0799 |
0.1053 |
243 |
2 |
54.10 |
2009-04-07 |
| 5. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
52.75 |
0.9866 |
0.1535 |
218 |
1 |
52.75 |
2009-03-28 |
| 6. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
52.73 |
1.0668 |
0.0753 |
350 |
2 |
48.17 |
2009-04-04 |
| 7. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
52.58 |
1.0201 |
0.1152 |
172 |
1 |
52.58 |
2009-03-24 |
| 8. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
52.34 |
1.0013 |
0.1316 |
273 |
2 |
50.41 |
2009-03-29 |
| 9. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
52.26 |
1.0496 |
0.0811 |
314 |
1 |
52.26 |
2009-03-29 |
| 10. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
52.13 |
1.0368 |
0.0912 |
276 |
1 |
52.13 |
2009-03-25 |
| 11. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
51.20 |
1.0534 |
0.0554 |
357 |
1 |
51.20 |
2009-04-04 |
| 12. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
51.05 |
1.0463 |
0.0554 |
182 |
2 |
41.86 |
2009-03-29 |
| 13. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
50.92 |
0.9226 |
0.1819 |
348 |
2 |
48.66 |
2009-04-04 |
| 14. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
50.84 |
0.9846 |
0.1152 |
281 |
1 |
50.84 |
2009-03-28 |
| 15. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
50.56 |
0.9266 |
0.1672 |
278 |
1 |
50.56 |
2009-04-04 |
| 16. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
50.49 |
0.9281 |
0.1673 |
273 |
2 |
50.31 |
2009-03-28 |
| 17. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
50.32 |
1.0203 |
0.0711 |
261 |
1 |
50.32 |
2009-03-29 |
| 18. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
50.21 |
1.0131 |
0.0712 |
225 |
2 |
45.12 |
2009-04-04 |
| 19. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
50.20 |
0.9309 |
0.1543 |
284 |
1 |
50.20 |
2009-03-29 |
| 20. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
50.18 |
1.0167 |
0.0723 |
378 |
1 |
50.18 |
2009-04-07 |
| 21. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
49.80 |
1.0352 |
0.0433 |
341 |
1 |
49.80 |
2009-03-26 |
| 22. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
49.79 |
1.0025 |
0.0747 |
256 |
2 |
48.25 |
2009-03-30 |
| 23. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
49.62 |
0.9986 |
0.0754 |
283 |
1 |
49.62 |
2009-04-04 |
| 24. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
49.58 |
1.0417 |
0.0300 |
253 |
1 |
49.58 |
2009-04-07 |
| 25. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
49.12 |
0.8935 |
0.1736 |
328 |
1 |
49.12 |
2009-04-04 |
| 26. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
49.08 |
1.0331 |
0.0265 |
234 |
2 |
46.73 |
2009-03-30 |
| 27. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
49.00 |
1.0214 |
0.0364 |
166 |
2 |
46.90 |
2009-04-02 |
| 28. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
48.98 |
0.9997 |
0.0622 |
382 |
2 |
47.40 |
2009-03-26 |
| 29. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
48.96 |
0.9048 |
0.1569 |
271 |
1 |
48.96 |
2009-03-24 |
| 30. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
48.72 |
0.9429 |
0.1115 |
287 |
1 |
48.72 |
2009-03-26 |
| 31. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
48.28 |
0.9798 |
0.0612 |
199 |
2 |
45.78 |
2009-04-02 |
| 32. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
48.28 |
1.0619 |
-0.0168 |
354 |
1 |
48.28 |
2009-04-04 |
| 33. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
48.26 |
0.9946 |
0.0487 |
246 |
1 |
48.26 |
2009-03-30 |
| 34. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
48.16 |
1.0120 |
0.0301 |
290 |
1 |
48.16 |
2009-04-06 |
| 35. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
48.09 |
1.0337 |
0.0053 |
214 |
1 |
48.09 |
2009-03-26 |
| 36. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
47.94 |
1.0477 |
-0.0096 |
360 |
2 |
46.60 |
2009-03-26 |
| 37. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
47.90 |
0.9653 |
0.0747 |
394 |
2 |
47.78 |
2009-04-04 |
| 38. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
47.85 |
1.0218 |
0.0115 |
268 |
1 |
47.85 |
2009-04-04 |
| 39. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
47.83 |
1.0168 |
0.0178 |
271 |
1 |
47.83 |
2009-03-28 |
| 40. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
47.52 |
0.9785 |
0.0512 |
335 |
2 |
43.73 |
2009-03-28 |
| 41. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
47.51 |
1.1016 |
-0.0749 |
233 |
1 |
47.51 |
2009-04-07 |
| 42. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
47.48 |
1.0289 |
-0.0005 |
276 |
1 |
47.48 |
2009-04-02 |
| 43. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
47.37 |
0.9910 |
0.0345 |
295 |
1 |
47.37 |
2009-03-26 |
| 44. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
47.32 |
0.9884 |
0.0341 |
233 |
1 |
47.32 |
2009-03-28 |
| 45. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
47.27 |
0.9863 |
0.0382 |
339 |
1 |
47.27 |
2009-03-26 |
| 46. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
47.25 |
0.9776 |
0.0448 |
308 |
3 |
45.44 |
2009-04-06 |
| 47. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
47.23 |
1.0389 |
-0.0171 |
318 |
1 |
47.23 |
2009-03-25 |
| 48. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
47.21 |
0.9865 |
0.0350 |
276 |
4 |
46.69 |
2009-04-02 |
| 49. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
46.99 |
1.0385 |
-0.0232 |
230 |
2 |
46.55 |
2009-03-29 |
| 50. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
46.96 |
0.9636 |
0.0526 |
254 |
2 |
45.85 |
2009-04-07 |
| 51. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
46.95 |
1.0829 |
-0.0670 |
288 |
1 |
46.95 |
2009-03-29 |
| 52. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
46.89 |
1.0252 |
-0.0140 |
176 |
1 |
46.89 |
2009-03-29 |
| 53. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
46.81 |
1.0426 |
-0.0298 |
323 |
1 |
46.81 |
2009-03-26 |
| 54. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
46.76 |
0.9649 |
0.0459 |
193 |
1 |
46.76 |
2009-03-30 |
| 55. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
46.74 |
0.9820 |
0.0306 |
267 |
1 |
46.74 |
2009-04-06 |
| 56. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.62 |
1.0444 |
-0.0399 |
197 |
1 |
46.62 |
2009-03-25 |
| 57. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
46.56 |
1.0389 |
-0.0311 |
340 |
1 |
46.56 |
2009-04-02 |
| 58. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
46.46 |
1.0034 |
0.0006 |
302 |
1 |
46.46 |
2009-03-29 |
| 59. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
46.34 |
0.8573 |
0.1469 |
270 |
5 |
43.31 |
2009-04-04 |
| 60. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
46.26 |
1.0263 |
-0.0263 |
267 |
3 |
45.73 |
2009-04-06 |
| 61. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
46.26 |
0.9843 |
0.0137 |
234 |
1 |
46.26 |
2009-03-29 |
| 62. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
46.04 |
1.0523 |
-0.0585 |
256 |
1 |
46.04 |
2009-03-25 |
| 63. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
46.01 |
1.0349 |
-0.0408 |
234 |
1 |
46.01 |
2009-04-02 |
| 64. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
45.99 |
1.1114 |
-0.1187 |
247 |
1 |
45.99 |
2009-03-29 |
| 65. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
45.88 |
0.9697 |
0.0233 |
249 |
1 |
45.88 |
2009-03-28 |
| 66. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
45.86 |
0.9597 |
0.0344 |
347 |
1 |
45.86 |
2009-04-04 |
| 67. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
45.86 |
1.0165 |
-0.0237 |
392 |
1 |
45.86 |
2009-03-28 |
| 68. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
45.84 |
0.9339 |
0.0566 |
310 |
1 |
45.84 |
2009-03-30 |
| 69. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
45.84 |
0.9084 |
0.0852 |
404 |
2 |
44.75 |
2009-04-07 |
| 70. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
45.79 |
1.0396 |
-0.0537 |
149 |
1 |
45.79 |
2009-03-30 |
| 71. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
45.63 |
0.9724 |
0.0143 |
237 |
1 |
45.63 |
2009-03-25 |
| 72. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
45.52 |
0.9532 |
0.0304 |
258 |
1 |
45.52 |
2009-03-28 |
| 73. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
45.51 |
0.8811 |
0.1047 |
239 |
1 |
45.51 |
2009-03-29 |
| 74. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
45.47 |
0.8971 |
0.0878 |
266 |
1 |
45.47 |
2009-04-04 |
| 75. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
45.35 |
0.9682 |
0.0111 |
143 |
1 |
45.35 |
2009-03-28 |
| 76. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
45.31 |
1.0483 |
-0.0706 |
227 |
1 |
45.31 |
2009-03-25 |
| 77. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
45.25 |
0.9468 |
0.0309 |
276 |
2 |
44.25 |
2009-03-29 |
| 78. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
45.11 |
1.0214 |
-0.0463 |
269 |
2 |
44.70 |
2009-03-30 |
| 79. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
45.07 |
0.9072 |
0.0663 |
237 |
1 |
45.07 |
2009-04-07 |
| 80. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
45.02 |
0.9570 |
0.0169 |
287 |
1 |
45.02 |
2009-03-28 |
| 81. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
45.00 |
0.9068 |
0.0677 |
269 |
1 |
45.00 |
2009-03-26 |
| 82. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
44.97 |
0.9513 |
0.0228 |
354 |
2 |
44.38 |
2009-04-04 |
| 83. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
44.96 |
1.0183 |
-0.0491 |
191 |
1 |
44.96 |
2009-03-25 |
| 84. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
44.94 |
1.0213 |
-0.0512 |
240 |
1 |
44.94 |
2009-03-29 |
| 85. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
44.81 |
1.0361 |
-0.0672 |
269 |
1 |
44.81 |
2009-03-28 |
| 86. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
44.73 |
0.8595 |
0.1084 |
242 |
2 |
43.48 |
2009-03-29 |
| 87. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
44.33 |
0.9527 |
0.0055 |
251 |
1 |
44.33 |
2009-03-26 |
| 88. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
44.20 |
0.9884 |
-0.0315 |
262 |
1 |
44.20 |
2009-03-29 |
| 89. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
44.17 |
1.0613 |
-0.1062 |
266 |
1 |
44.17 |
2009-04-07 |
| 90. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
44.13 |
1.0124 |
-0.0600 |
204 |
1 |
44.13 |
2009-03-28 |
| 91. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
44.00 |
0.9786 |
-0.0277 |
235 |
1 |
44.00 |
2009-03-30 |
| 92. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
43.88 |
0.9351 |
0.0103 |
190 |
1 |
43.88 |
2009-03-29 |
| 93. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
43.87 |
0.9330 |
0.0187 |
360 |
2 |
43.59 |
2009-04-02 |
| 94. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
43.81 |
0.8826 |
0.0662 |
296 |
3 |
42.14 |
2009-03-30 |
| 95. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
43.79 |
0.9614 |
-0.0143 |
292 |
1 |
43.79 |
2009-03-29 |
| 96. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
43.69 |
0.9084 |
0.0369 |
300 |
1 |
43.69 |
2009-03-26 |
| 97. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
43.64 |
1.0445 |
-0.1009 |
373 |
1 |
43.64 |
2009-03-24 |
| 98. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
43.62 |
0.9279 |
0.0177 |
317 |
1 |
43.62 |
2009-03-30 |
| 99. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
43.51 |
0.9234 |
0.0194 |
346 |
1 |
43.51 |
2009-03-24 |
| 100. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
43.50 |
1.0138 |
-0.0745 |
231 |
1 |
43.50 |
2009-03-30 |
| 101. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
43.50 |
1.0029 |
-0.0654 |
209 |
1 |
43.50 |
2009-04-07 |
| 102. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
43.50 |
1.0197 |
-0.0814 |
226 |
1 |
43.50 |
2009-03-25 |
| 103. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
43.33 |
1.0577 |
-0.1238 |
247 |
1 |
43.33 |
2009-03-28 |
| 104. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
43.26 |
0.9005 |
0.0347 |
212 |
2 |
41.28 |
2009-04-02 |
| 105. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
43.03 |
0.8770 |
0.0546 |
300 |
1 |
43.03 |
2009-04-04 |
| 106. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
42.86 |
1.0099 |
-0.0846 |
207 |
1 |
42.86 |
2009-03-29 |
| 107. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
42.78 |
0.9941 |
-0.0714 |
217 |
1 |
42.78 |
2009-03-28 |
| 108. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
42.69 |
0.8961 |
0.0261 |
189 |
1 |
42.69 |
2009-03-24 |
| 109. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
42.29 |
1.0063 |
-0.0926 |
371 |
1 |
42.29 |
2009-03-24 |
| 110. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
42.15 |
0.9266 |
-0.0159 |
267 |
1 |
42.15 |
2009-03-25 |
| 111. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
41.91 |
0.8105 |
0.0932 |
204 |
2 |
40.41 |
2009-04-07 |
| 112. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
41.65 |
1.0068 |
-0.1052 |
358 |
1 |
41.65 |
2009-03-25 |
| 113. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
41.44 |
0.9852 |
-0.0902 |
264 |
1 |
41.44 |
2009-03-25 |
| 114. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
41.41 |
0.9811 |
-0.0858 |
272 |
1 |
41.41 |
2009-03-24 |
| 115. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
41.35 |
1.0316 |
-0.1372 |
333 |
1 |
41.35 |
2009-03-25 |
| 116. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
41.30 |
0.8996 |
-0.0104 |
192 |
1 |
41.30 |
2009-03-30 |
| 117. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
41.05 |
0.9780 |
-0.0915 |
337 |
1 |
41.05 |
2009-03-25 |
| 118. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
40.30 |
0.9763 |
-0.1060 |
289 |
1 |
40.30 |
2009-03-24 |
| 119. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
40.13 |
0.9202 |
-0.0532 |
254 |
1 |
40.13 |
2009-04-07 |
| 120. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
39.84 |
0.9734 |
-0.1138 |
289 |
1 |
39.84 |
2009-03-29 |
| 121. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
39.60 |
0.9619 |
-0.1041 |
393 |
2 |
38.63 |
2009-03-26 |
| 122. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
39.45 |
0.9857 |
-0.1341 |
293 |
1 |
39.45 |
2009-03-24 |
| 123. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
39.40 |
0.9795 |
-0.1289 |
308 |
1 |
39.40 |
2009-03-24 |
| 124. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
39.39 |
0.8956 |
-0.0431 |
322 |
1 |
39.39 |
2009-03-29 |
| 125. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.17 |
0.9899 |
-0.1472 |
163 |
1 |
39.17 |
2009-03-25 |
| 126. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
38.37 |
0.9805 |
-0.1505 |
292 |
1 |
38.37 |
2009-04-04 |
| 127. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
37.51 |
0.9411 |
-0.1307 |
318 |
1 |
37.51 |
2009-03-29 |
| 128. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
36.75 |
0.9109 |
-0.1166 |
401 |
1 |
36.75 |
2009-03-24 |
| 129. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
35.78 |
0.7876 |
-0.0133 |
316 |
1 |
35.78 |
2009-04-06 |
| 130. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
35.70 |
0.9286 |
-0.1601 |
194 |
1 |
35.70 |
2009-03-28 |
| 131. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
35.40 |
0.9045 |
-0.1414 |
235 |
1 |
35.40 |
2009-03-30 |
| 132. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
35.33 |
0.8553 |
-0.0957 |
174 |
1 |
35.33 |
2009-03-24 |