| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
160.80 |
1.0714 |
0.1865 |
129 |
2 |
146.23 |
2008-12-06 |
| 2. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
148.90 |
1.0417 |
0.1248 |
253 |
3 |
138.97 |
2008-12-10 |
| 3. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
147.86 |
1.0596 |
0.0988 |
239 |
3 |
133.59 |
2008-11-30 |
| 4. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
145.75 |
0.9798 |
0.1595 |
199 |
1 |
145.75 |
2008-12-05 |
| 5. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
145.66 |
1.0060 |
0.1335 |
171 |
1 |
145.66 |
2008-10-19 |
| 6. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
144.11 |
1.0337 |
0.0947 |
214 |
2 |
137.43 |
2008-12-06 |
| 7. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
143.44 |
0.9997 |
0.1269 |
382 |
2 |
134.66 |
2008-10-07 |
| 8. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
143.44 |
0.9936 |
0.1309 |
311 |
1 |
143.44 |
2008-10-06 |
| 9. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
143.35 |
1.0396 |
0.0800 |
149 |
4 |
128.02 |
2008-11-30 |
| 10. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
142.65 |
1.0496 |
0.0679 |
314 |
1 |
142.65 |
2008-10-07 |
| 11. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
142.32 |
1.0796 |
0.0324 |
129 |
2 |
138.23 |
2008-12-03 |
| 12. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
140.78 |
1.0099 |
0.0928 |
207 |
2 |
131.31 |
2008-11-30 |
| 13. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
140.21 |
1.1114 |
-0.0142 |
247 |
1 |
140.21 |
2008-12-03 |
| 14. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
140.18 |
1.0419 |
0.0549 |
261 |
1 |
140.18 |
2008-12-05 |
| 15. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
139.30 |
1.0261 |
0.0646 |
273 |
1 |
139.30 |
2008-10-06 |
| 16. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
139.07 |
1.0668 |
0.0235 |
350 |
4 |
132.19 |
2008-12-06 |
| 17. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
138.79 |
0.9740 |
0.1119 |
209 |
3 |
133.90 |
2008-11-30 |
| 18. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
138.02 |
1.0454 |
0.0348 |
255 |
4 |
129.15 |
2009-01-28 |
| 19. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
137.39 |
1.0797 |
-0.0064 |
210 |
1 |
137.39 |
2008-12-01 |
| 20. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
137.35 |
1.0445 |
0.0323 |
373 |
3 |
127.01 |
2008-12-06 |
| 21. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
136.35 |
0.9513 |
0.1190 |
354 |
1 |
136.35 |
2008-11-30 |
| 22. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
136.05 |
1.0331 |
0.0305 |
234 |
1 |
136.05 |
2008-10-07 |
| 23. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
135.96 |
1.0292 |
0.0352 |
262 |
1 |
135.96 |
2009-01-18 |
| 24. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
135.81 |
1.0053 |
0.0581 |
232 |
3 |
126.10 |
2009-01-18 |
| 25. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
135.25 |
1.0165 |
0.0443 |
392 |
1 |
135.25 |
2008-12-04 |
| 26. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
135.09 |
0.9570 |
0.1021 |
287 |
2 |
128.58 |
2008-10-18 |
| 27. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
134.82 |
1.0613 |
-0.0030 |
456 |
1 |
134.82 |
2008-12-03 |
| 28. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
134.78 |
1.0534 |
0.0031 |
357 |
2 |
127.04 |
2008-12-03 |
| 29. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
134.78 |
1.0296 |
0.0290 |
437 |
1 |
134.78 |
2008-10-08 |
| 30. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
134.55 |
1.0426 |
0.0120 |
323 |
1 |
134.55 |
2008-10-06 |
| 31. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
134.04 |
0.9894 |
0.0629 |
323 |
1 |
134.04 |
2008-10-08 |
| 32. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
133.55 |
0.9756 |
0.0700 |
229 |
2 |
128.73 |
2008-12-05 |
| 33. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
133.43 |
0.9684 |
0.0781 |
388 |
1 |
133.43 |
2008-10-22 |
| 34. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
133.35 |
0.9278 |
0.1188 |
295 |
1 |
133.35 |
2008-12-06 |
| 35. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
133.31 |
1.0068 |
0.0395 |
358 |
1 |
133.31 |
2008-10-19 |
| 36. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
133.27 |
0.9897 |
0.0534 |
274 |
2 |
132.08 |
2008-12-05 |
| 37. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
133.26 |
1.0829 |
-0.0385 |
288 |
1 |
133.26 |
2008-12-04 |
| 38. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
133.23 |
1.0567 |
-0.0122 |
303 |
1 |
133.23 |
2009-01-18 |
| 39. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
133.04 |
1.0349 |
0.0065 |
234 |
1 |
133.04 |
2008-12-03 |
| 40. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
131.86 |
0.9723 |
0.0624 |
364 |
3 |
129.30 |
2009-01-18 |
| 41. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
131.74 |
0.9622 |
0.0724 |
392 |
3 |
127.51 |
2008-12-04 |
| 42. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
131.60 |
0.9964 |
0.0341 |
203 |
2 |
122.14 |
2008-10-08 |
| 43. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
131.28 |
0.9729 |
0.0545 |
255 |
1 |
131.28 |
2008-10-07 |
| 44. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
130.47 |
1.0711 |
-0.0532 |
213 |
1 |
130.47 |
2008-12-05 |
| 45. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
130.47 |
0.9844 |
0.0387 |
293 |
1 |
130.47 |
2008-10-07 |
| 46. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
130.20 |
1.0515 |
-0.0330 |
250 |
1 |
130.20 |
2008-10-07 |
| 47. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
130.18 |
0.9601 |
0.0616 |
308 |
1 |
130.18 |
2008-10-06 |
| 48. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
130.10 |
0.9863 |
0.0347 |
339 |
1 |
130.10 |
2008-12-06 |
| 49. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
129.67 |
0.9681 |
0.0511 |
378 |
1 |
129.67 |
2008-12-06 |
| 50. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
129.43 |
0.9710 |
0.0395 |
173 |
1 |
129.43 |
2008-12-01 |
| 51. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
129.37 |
0.9907 |
0.0213 |
211 |
1 |
129.37 |
2008-10-07 |
| 52. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
129.35 |
1.0016 |
0.0094 |
218 |
1 |
129.35 |
2008-10-15 |
| 53. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
129.23 |
1.0486 |
-0.0364 |
289 |
1 |
129.23 |
2008-10-19 |
| 54. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
128.47 |
0.9986 |
0.0077 |
283 |
1 |
128.47 |
2008-12-10 |
| 55. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
128.45 |
1.0167 |
-0.0078 |
378 |
2 |
121.09 |
2008-10-07 |
| 56. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
128.08 |
1.0131 |
-0.0125 |
225 |
1 |
128.08 |
2008-12-10 |
| 57. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
127.97 |
0.9776 |
0.0249 |
308 |
1 |
127.97 |
2008-10-19 |
| 58. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
127.79 |
1.0391 |
-0.0354 |
358 |
1 |
127.79 |
2008-10-08 |
| 59. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
127.60 |
0.9831 |
0.0202 |
469 |
1 |
127.60 |
2008-10-07 |
| 60. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
127.09 |
0.9653 |
0.0337 |
394 |
3 |
117.83 |
2008-10-08 |
| 61. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
126.97 |
1.0619 |
-0.0671 |
354 |
1 |
126.97 |
2008-10-19 |
| 62. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
126.83 |
1.1016 |
-0.1095 |
233 |
2 |
117.99 |
2008-12-06 |
| 63. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
126.38 |
0.9886 |
0.0015 |
220 |
1 |
126.38 |
2008-12-06 |
| 64. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
126.12 |
0.9857 |
0.0018 |
293 |
2 |
123.64 |
2008-11-30 |
| 65. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
126.00 |
1.0462 |
-0.0629 |
184 |
1 |
126.00 |
2008-11-30 |
| 66. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
125.84 |
0.9289 |
0.0554 |
204 |
1 |
125.84 |
2008-12-01 |
| 67. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
125.50 |
0.9567 |
0.0260 |
273 |
1 |
125.50 |
2008-10-07 |
| 68. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
124.96 |
1.0029 |
-0.0272 |
209 |
1 |
124.96 |
2008-10-06 |
| 69. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
124.52 |
0.9820 |
-0.0055 |
267 |
1 |
124.52 |
2008-12-03 |
| 70. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
124.06 |
1.0595 |
-0.0876 |
379 |
1 |
124.06 |
2008-10-06 |
| 71. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
123.76 |
1.0389 |
-0.0692 |
340 |
2 |
122.95 |
2008-10-17 |
| 72. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
123.18 |
1.0214 |
-0.0597 |
166 |
1 |
123.18 |
2008-10-08 |
| 73. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
123.14 |
0.8933 |
0.0747 |
363 |
1 |
123.14 |
2008-11-02 |
| 74. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
122.77 |
0.9966 |
-0.0357 |
259 |
1 |
122.77 |
2008-10-07 |
| 75. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
122.52 |
1.0368 |
-0.0784 |
276 |
1 |
122.52 |
2008-12-03 |
| 76. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
122.41 |
1.0483 |
-0.0921 |
227 |
2 |
117.47 |
2008-10-22 |
| 77. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
122.27 |
1.0613 |
-0.1039 |
266 |
1 |
122.27 |
2008-10-06 |
| 78. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
122.24 |
1.0788 |
-0.1254 |
171 |
1 |
122.24 |
2008-12-06 |
| 79. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
121.99 |
0.9879 |
-0.0290 |
450 |
1 |
121.99 |
2008-10-19 |
| 80. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
121.52 |
0.9841 |
-0.0317 |
334 |
2 |
120.12 |
2008-10-25 |
| 81. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
121.38 |
0.9941 |
-0.0458 |
217 |
1 |
121.38 |
2008-10-07 |
| 82. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
121.34 |
0.9330 |
0.0202 |
360 |
1 |
121.34 |
2008-10-07 |
| 83. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
121.30 |
0.9734 |
-0.0245 |
289 |
1 |
121.30 |
2008-10-07 |
| 84. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
120.89 |
0.9072 |
0.0380 |
237 |
2 |
114.26 |
2008-12-01 |
| 85. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
120.88 |
1.0168 |
-0.0709 |
271 |
1 |
120.88 |
2008-10-17 |
| 86. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
120.59 |
0.9965 |
-0.0548 |
168 |
1 |
120.59 |
2008-12-05 |
| 87. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
120.15 |
0.9672 |
-0.0240 |
396 |
1 |
120.15 |
2008-10-25 |
| 88. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
120.12 |
1.0799 |
-0.1428 |
243 |
1 |
120.12 |
2008-10-07 |
| 89. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
120.10 |
0.9168 |
0.0233 |
240 |
2 |
105.43 |
2008-10-25 |
| 90. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
119.98 |
0.9468 |
-0.0085 |
276 |
2 |
111.56 |
2008-10-18 |
| 91. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
119.85 |
0.9991 |
-0.0615 |
225 |
2 |
119.65 |
2008-12-03 |
| 92. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
119.55 |
0.8878 |
0.0479 |
346 |
1 |
119.55 |
2008-10-07 |
| 93. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
119.48 |
0.9805 |
-0.0435 |
292 |
1 |
119.48 |
2008-12-06 |
| 94. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
119.20 |
0.9527 |
-0.0200 |
251 |
1 |
119.20 |
2008-12-10 |
| 95. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
119.08 |
1.0095 |
-0.0778 |
316 |
1 |
119.08 |
2008-10-07 |
| 96. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
118.88 |
0.8826 |
0.0495 |
296 |
1 |
118.88 |
2008-11-30 |
| 97. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
118.60 |
0.8961 |
0.0317 |
189 |
1 |
118.60 |
2008-10-07 |
| 98. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
118.43 |
1.0565 |
-0.1319 |
247 |
1 |
118.43 |
2008-10-06 |
| 99. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
118.24 |
0.9429 |
-0.0175 |
287 |
2 |
116.75 |
2008-12-04 |
| 100. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
117.83 |
0.9635 |
-0.0398 |
389 |
1 |
117.83 |
2008-10-07 |
| 101. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
117.68 |
0.9109 |
0.0115 |
401 |
1 |
117.68 |
2008-10-07 |
| 102. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
117.64 |
0.9632 |
-0.0397 |
392 |
1 |
117.64 |
2008-10-22 |
| 103. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
117.38 |
0.9553 |
-0.0331 |
430 |
1 |
117.38 |
2008-10-07 |
| 104. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
117.12 |
0.9049 |
0.0140 |
351 |
1 |
117.12 |
2008-10-07 |
| 105. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
116.89 |
0.9074 |
0.0107 |
396 |
1 |
116.89 |
2008-10-06 |
| 106. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
116.73 |
0.8722 |
0.0430 |
285 |
2 |
111.95 |
2008-10-08 |
| 107. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
116.33 |
1.0352 |
-0.1239 |
341 |
1 |
116.33 |
2008-10-07 |
| 108. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
116.26 |
0.9636 |
-0.0536 |
254 |
1 |
116.26 |
2008-10-18 |
| 109. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
116.00 |
0.9045 |
0.0029 |
235 |
1 |
116.00 |
2008-10-08 |
| 110. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
115.48 |
0.8947 |
0.0125 |
366 |
1 |
115.48 |
2008-10-07 |
| 111. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
115.45 |
0.9697 |
-0.0657 |
249 |
1 |
115.45 |
2008-10-07 |
| 112. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
115.42 |
0.9234 |
-0.0181 |
346 |
1 |
115.42 |
2008-10-15 |
| 113. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
115.31 |
1.0444 |
-0.1462 |
197 |
1 |
115.31 |
2008-12-04 |
| 114. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
114.54 |
1.0528 |
-0.1592 |
201 |
1 |
114.54 |
2008-10-08 |
| 115. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
113.56 |
0.8753 |
0.0177 |
427 |
3 |
106.98 |
2008-10-22 |
| 116. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
112.71 |
0.9675 |
-0.0817 |
383 |
2 |
102.36 |
2008-10-15 |
| 117. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
112.16 |
0.9148 |
-0.0361 |
317 |
1 |
112.16 |
2008-11-30 |
| 118. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
112.15 |
0.9005 |
-0.0231 |
212 |
1 |
112.15 |
2008-10-06 |
| 119. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
111.92 |
0.8996 |
-0.0273 |
192 |
1 |
111.92 |
2008-10-07 |
| 120. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
111.29 |
0.9833 |
-0.1120 |
355 |
1 |
111.29 |
2008-10-07 |
| 121. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
111.29 |
0.8770 |
-0.0050 |
300 |
1 |
111.29 |
2008-10-07 |
| 122. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
111.18 |
0.9365 |
-0.0666 |
248 |
1 |
111.18 |
2008-10-23 |
| 123. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
110.83 |
1.0251 |
-0.1600 |
261 |
1 |
110.83 |
2008-10-06 |
| 124. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
108.54 |
0.9763 |
-0.1278 |
289 |
1 |
108.54 |
2008-10-19 |
| 125. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
107.91 |
1.0025 |
-0.1586 |
336 |
1 |
107.91 |
2008-10-07 |
| 126. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
105.86 |
0.8553 |
-0.0301 |
174 |
1 |
105.86 |
2008-10-07 |
| 127. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
105.67 |
0.9164 |
-0.0887 |
305 |
1 |
105.67 |
2008-10-08 |
| 128. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
103.30 |
1.0390 |
-0.2348 |
205 |
1 |
103.30 |
2008-10-07 |