| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
105.37 |
1.1016 |
0.1929 |
233 |
1 |
105.37 |
2009-10-11 |
| 2. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
104.11 |
0.9965 |
0.2775 |
168 |
1 |
104.11 |
2009-10-11 |
| 3. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
100.85 |
1.0396 |
0.1916 |
149 |
1 |
100.85 |
2009-10-11 |
| 4. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
97.60 |
1.0684 |
0.1594 |
253 |
1 |
97.60 |
2010-10-29 |
| 5. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
97.17 |
1.0201 |
0.1730 |
303 |
5 |
82.07 |
2012-04-26 |
| 6. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
95.66 |
1.0528 |
0.1162 |
201 |
1 |
95.66 |
2009-10-11 |
| 7. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
94.54 |
1.0252 |
0.1284 |
176 |
1 |
94.54 |
2009-10-14 |
| 8. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
94.13 |
0.9820 |
0.1732 |
274 |
1 |
94.13 |
2009-10-15 |
| 9. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
94.09 |
1.0399 |
0.1198 |
294 |
1 |
94.09 |
2009-10-11 |
| 10. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
93.95 |
1.0368 |
0.1168 |
276 |
3 |
79.75 |
2012-04-29 |
| 11. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
93.94 |
1.0714 |
0.0723 |
129 |
2 |
86.39 |
2012-04-21 |
| 12. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
93.81 |
1.1068 |
0.0845 |
393 |
1 |
93.81 |
2012-04-21 |
| 13. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
93.70 |
1.0183 |
0.1257 |
191 |
2 |
93.04 |
2009-10-14 |
| 14. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
93.28 |
1.0613 |
0.0881 |
456 |
1 |
93.28 |
2009-10-14 |
| 15. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
92.09 |
0.9866 |
0.1394 |
218 |
1 |
92.09 |
2011-07-15 |
| 16. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
91.44 |
1.1018 |
0.0134 |
220 |
1 |
91.44 |
2009-10-11 |
| 17. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
91.30 |
0.9976 |
0.1425 |
174 |
1 |
91.30 |
2012-04-21 |
| 18. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
89.44 |
1.0125 |
0.0820 |
224 |
1 |
89.44 |
2009-10-11 |
| 19. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
89.34 |
0.9601 |
0.1401 |
308 |
1 |
89.34 |
2009-10-11 |
| 20. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
89.17 |
0.9740 |
0.1153 |
209 |
1 |
89.17 |
2008-11-01 |
| 21. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
89.14 |
0.9941 |
0.0966 |
217 |
1 |
89.14 |
2012-04-29 |
| 22. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
89.12 |
0.9879 |
0.1136 |
450 |
1 |
89.12 |
2009-10-15 |
| 23. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
88.82 |
1.0053 |
0.0818 |
232 |
2 |
77.52 |
2009-10-11 |
| 24. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
88.67 |
1.0613 |
0.0268 |
266 |
1 |
88.67 |
2009-10-11 |
| 25. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
88.60 |
1.0477 |
0.0411 |
360 |
1 |
88.60 |
2011-07-15 |
| 26. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
88.51 |
1.0595 |
0.0282 |
379 |
1 |
88.51 |
2009-10-14 |
| 27. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
88.13 |
1.0189 |
0.0649 |
337 |
1 |
88.13 |
2009-10-11 |
| 28. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
88.09 |
1.0063 |
0.0741 |
371 |
1 |
88.09 |
2009-10-11 |
| 29. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
87.11 |
1.0095 |
0.0573 |
316 |
1 |
87.11 |
2009-10-11 |
| 30. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
86.89 |
0.9820 |
0.0859 |
267 |
1 |
86.89 |
2009-10-14 |
| 31. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
86.75 |
1.0016 |
0.0572 |
218 |
3 |
84.41 |
2010-01-01 |
| 32. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
86.56 |
1.0829 |
-0.0203 |
288 |
1 |
86.56 |
2009-10-11 |
| 33. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
86.22 |
0.9646 |
0.0913 |
264 |
1 |
86.22 |
2010-10-29 |
| 34. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
85.82 |
0.9693 |
0.1040 |
360 |
1 |
85.82 |
2009-10-11 |
| 35. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
85.29 |
0.9372 |
0.1121 |
320 |
1 |
85.29 |
2012-04-26 |
| 36. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
84.98 |
0.8878 |
0.1535 |
346 |
2 |
78.23 |
2010-10-29 |
| 37. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
84.58 |
1.0515 |
-0.0169 |
250 |
1 |
84.58 |
2008-11-02 |
| 38. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
84.45 |
1.0167 |
0.0250 |
378 |
1 |
84.45 |
2009-10-11 |
| 39. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
84.25 |
1.0343 |
0.0355 |
242 |
1 |
84.25 |
2009-10-11 |
| 40. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
83.42 |
1.1215 |
-0.0754 |
200 |
1 |
83.42 |
2012-04-29 |
| 41. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
83.26 |
1.0346 |
0.0275 |
244 |
1 |
83.26 |
2009-10-11 |
| 42. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
83.20 |
0.9893 |
0.0302 |
323 |
1 |
83.20 |
2009-10-14 |
| 43. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
83.18 |
1.0150 |
0.0531 |
325 |
1 |
83.18 |
2009-10-14 |
| 44. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
83.02 |
0.9087 |
0.1191 |
393 |
1 |
83.02 |
2009-10-11 |
| 45. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
82.90 |
0.9286 |
0.0860 |
194 |
1 |
82.90 |
2009-10-11 |
| 46. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
82.86 |
0.9785 |
0.0398 |
335 |
1 |
82.86 |
2009-10-11 |
| 47. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
82.77 |
1.0375 |
0.0225 |
200 |
2 |
74.99 |
2009-10-11 |
| 48. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
82.41 |
0.9330 |
0.0832 |
360 |
1 |
82.41 |
2010-10-29 |
| 49. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
82.24 |
0.9005 |
0.1055 |
212 |
1 |
82.24 |
2009-10-11 |
| 50. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
81.91 |
0.9907 |
0.0111 |
211 |
2 |
72.58 |
2008-11-10 |
| 51. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
81.36 |
0.9597 |
0.0409 |
347 |
1 |
81.36 |
2008-12-08 |
| 52. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
80.98 |
0.9734 |
0.0181 |
289 |
1 |
80.98 |
2008-11-01 |
| 53. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
80.75 |
0.9309 |
0.0562 |
284 |
1 |
80.75 |
2008-11-01 |
| 54. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
80.74 |
0.9786 |
0.0097 |
235 |
1 |
80.74 |
2010-10-29 |
| 55. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
80.23 |
1.0029 |
-0.0268 |
209 |
1 |
80.23 |
2008-11-01 |
| 56. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
80.01 |
0.9798 |
-0.0057 |
199 |
2 |
76.95 |
2012-04-26 |
| 57. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
79.80 |
0.9691 |
0.0076 |
223 |
2 |
74.37 |
2012-04-26 |
| 58. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
79.58 |
0.9109 |
0.0662 |
401 |
1 |
79.58 |
2009-10-11 |
| 59. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
79.24 |
1.0263 |
-0.0569 |
267 |
2 |
77.90 |
2008-11-02 |
| 60. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
79.06 |
0.9619 |
0.0113 |
393 |
1 |
79.06 |
2008-12-08 |
| 61. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
78.71 |
0.9795 |
-0.0158 |
308 |
1 |
78.71 |
2008-11-01 |
| 62. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
78.47 |
1.0088 |
-0.0094 |
396 |
1 |
78.47 |
2011-07-15 |
| 63. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
78.22 |
1.0261 |
-0.0704 |
273 |
1 |
78.22 |
2009-10-14 |
| 64. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
78.22 |
0.9614 |
-0.0008 |
292 |
1 |
78.22 |
2009-10-11 |
| 65. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
78.00 |
1.0391 |
-0.0781 |
358 |
1 |
78.00 |
2008-11-01 |
| 66. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
77.67 |
0.9754 |
-0.0185 |
362 |
2 |
74.57 |
2008-11-01 |
| 67. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
76.82 |
1.0203 |
-0.0767 |
261 |
1 |
76.82 |
2008-11-01 |
| 68. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
76.64 |
0.9672 |
-0.0227 |
396 |
1 |
76.64 |
2008-11-01 |
| 69. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
76.57 |
1.0352 |
-0.0955 |
341 |
1 |
76.57 |
2008-11-01 |
| 70. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
76.40 |
1.0165 |
-0.0776 |
392 |
1 |
76.40 |
2012-04-29 |
| 71. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
76.37 |
0.9790 |
-0.0038 |
311 |
1 |
76.37 |
2012-04-29 |
| 72. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
75.16 |
0.9865 |
-0.0658 |
276 |
1 |
75.16 |
2008-11-01 |
| 73. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
74.74 |
0.8852 |
0.0313 |
201 |
1 |
74.74 |
2010-01-01 |
| 74. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
74.10 |
0.9464 |
-0.0348 |
323 |
1 |
74.10 |
2008-11-01 |
| 75. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
73.92 |
1.0004 |
-0.1023 |
212 |
1 |
73.92 |
2012-04-21 |
| 76. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
73.48 |
0.9532 |
-0.0557 |
258 |
1 |
73.48 |
2012-04-26 |
| 77. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
72.69 |
1.0060 |
-0.1217 |
171 |
2 |
72.61 |
2012-04-21 |
| 78. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
72.41 |
0.9966 |
-0.1117 |
259 |
1 |
72.41 |
2008-11-01 |
| 79. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
72.31 |
1.0124 |
-0.1305 |
204 |
1 |
72.31 |
2008-11-01 |
| 80. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
72.03 |
0.9074 |
-0.0201 |
396 |
1 |
72.03 |
2008-11-01 |
| 81. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
72.03 |
0.9212 |
-0.0371 |
323 |
1 |
72.03 |
2008-11-01 |
| 82. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
71.89 |
0.9351 |
-0.0616 |
190 |
1 |
71.89 |
2008-11-01 |
| 83. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
71.84 |
1.0389 |
-0.1581 |
340 |
1 |
71.84 |
2008-11-01 |
| 84. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
71.25 |
0.9709 |
-0.0588 |
397 |
1 |
71.25 |
2009-10-11 |
| 85. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
71.08 |
0.9398 |
-0.0615 |
419 |
1 |
71.08 |
2008-11-01 |
| 86. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
70.51 |
0.9936 |
-0.1320 |
311 |
1 |
70.51 |
2008-11-01 |
| 87. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
70.35 |
1.0534 |
-0.1913 |
357 |
1 |
70.35 |
2008-11-01 |
| 88. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
70.16 |
0.9088 |
-0.0460 |
348 |
1 |
70.16 |
2009-10-11 |
| 89. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
69.55 |
0.9886 |
-0.1361 |
220 |
1 |
69.55 |
2008-11-01 |
| 90. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
69.46 |
1.0197 |
-0.1737 |
226 |
1 |
69.46 |
2008-12-08 |
| 91. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
68.88 |
0.9612 |
-0.1195 |
256 |
1 |
68.88 |
2008-11-01 |
| 92. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
68.70 |
1.0441 |
-0.1633 |
316 |
1 |
68.70 |
2012-01-20 |
| 93. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
68.67 |
0.9557 |
-0.1103 |
331 |
1 |
68.67 |
2008-11-01 |
| 94. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
68.31 |
0.9997 |
-0.1615 |
382 |
1 |
68.31 |
2008-11-01 |
| 95. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
68.30 |
0.9649 |
-0.1315 |
193 |
1 |
68.30 |
2008-12-08 |
| 96. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
67.99 |
0.9278 |
-0.0944 |
295 |
1 |
67.99 |
2008-11-01 |
| 97. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
67.16 |
0.9485 |
-0.1264 |
236 |
1 |
67.16 |
2008-11-01 |
| 98. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
65.87 |
0.9049 |
-0.0951 |
351 |
1 |
65.87 |
2008-11-01 |
| 99. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
65.61 |
0.9376 |
-0.1011 |
360 |
1 |
65.61 |
2012-04-26 |
| 100. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
65.10 |
0.8956 |
-0.0962 |
322 |
1 |
65.10 |
2008-11-01 |
| 101. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
65.09 |
0.8670 |
-0.0669 |
318 |
1 |
65.09 |
2009-10-11 |
| 102. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
64.09 |
0.9811 |
-0.1961 |
272 |
1 |
64.09 |
2008-11-01 |
| 103. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
52.45 |
0.8916 |
-0.2535 |
216 |
1 |
52.45 |
2008-11-01 |
| 104. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
45.18 |
0.9635 |
-0.4104 |
389 |
1 |
45.18 |
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