| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
49.10 |
1.0261 |
0.2824 |
273 |
1 |
49.10 |
2009-03-20 |
| 2. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
48.35 |
0.9614 |
0.3318 |
292 |
4 |
40.41 |
2009-03-19 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
47.47 |
1.0714 |
0.1861 |
129 |
1 |
47.47 |
2009-03-20 |
| 4. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
47.21 |
1.0613 |
0.1990 |
266 |
1 |
47.21 |
2009-03-19 |
| 5. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
46.34 |
1.0124 |
0.2212 |
204 |
1 |
46.34 |
2009-03-20 |
| 6. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
46.09 |
1.0349 |
0.1937 |
234 |
1 |
46.09 |
2009-03-19 |
| 7. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
45.24 |
0.9857 |
0.2196 |
293 |
2 |
41.55 |
2009-03-19 |
| 8. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
44.91 |
1.0296 |
0.1743 |
437 |
1 |
44.91 |
2009-03-20 |
| 9. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
44.62 |
0.9897 |
0.1976 |
274 |
1 |
44.62 |
2009-03-19 |
| 10. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
44.47 |
0.9851 |
0.2027 |
317 |
1 |
44.47 |
2009-06-18 |
| 11. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
44.37 |
1.0441 |
0.1403 |
252 |
4 |
41.22 |
2009-04-18 |
| 12. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
43.86 |
0.9886 |
0.1831 |
220 |
2 |
42.25 |
2009-06-18 |
| 13. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
43.05 |
0.9221 |
0.2237 |
244 |
1 |
43.05 |
2009-03-19 |
| 14. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
43.04 |
1.0029 |
0.1378 |
209 |
1 |
43.04 |
2009-03-19 |
| 15. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
42.98 |
1.0565 |
0.0863 |
247 |
1 |
42.98 |
2008-11-30 |
| 16. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
42.33 |
1.0797 |
0.0426 |
210 |
2 |
39.62 |
2009-03-19 |
| 17. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
42.24 |
1.0025 |
0.1239 |
336 |
1 |
42.24 |
2009-03-19 |
| 18. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
42.15 |
0.9846 |
0.1374 |
281 |
1 |
42.15 |
2009-03-20 |
| 19. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
41.99 |
1.1016 |
0.0173 |
233 |
3 |
39.97 |
2008-12-28 |
| 20. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
41.93 |
0.9884 |
0.1330 |
262 |
1 |
41.93 |
2009-06-18 |
| 21. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
41.74 |
0.8615 |
0.2506 |
110 |
1 |
41.74 |
2009-04-18 |
| 22. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
41.35 |
1.0252 |
0.0698 |
176 |
1 |
41.35 |
2009-03-19 |
| 23. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
41.33 |
0.8910 |
0.2117 |
150 |
2 |
34.55 |
2009-04-18 |
| 24. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
41.23 |
1.0668 |
0.0340 |
350 |
1 |
41.23 |
2009-03-19 |
| 25. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
41.00 |
1.0529 |
0.0391 |
351 |
1 |
41.00 |
2009-04-02 |
| 26. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
40.74 |
0.9128 |
0.1778 |
133 |
2 |
37.01 |
2008-11-17 |
| 27. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
40.65 |
1.1114 |
-0.0315 |
247 |
1 |
40.65 |
2009-03-19 |
| 28. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
40.63 |
0.9275 |
0.1513 |
211 |
1 |
40.63 |
2008-11-17 |
| 29. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
40.53 |
1.0523 |
0.0228 |
256 |
2 |
37.57 |
2009-04-02 |
| 30. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
40.50 |
0.9965 |
0.0773 |
168 |
1 |
40.50 |
2008-10-26 |
| 31. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
40.47 |
0.9485 |
0.1310 |
236 |
1 |
40.47 |
2009-04-02 |
| 32. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
40.38 |
1.0696 |
0.0023 |
226 |
2 |
37.61 |
2009-04-18 |
| 33. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
40.26 |
1.0016 |
0.0659 |
218 |
1 |
40.26 |
2009-04-05 |
| 34. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
40.15 |
1.0214 |
0.0461 |
269 |
1 |
40.15 |
2009-03-20 |
| 35. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
39.98 |
1.0799 |
-0.0190 |
243 |
2 |
36.58 |
2008-10-25 |
| 36. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
39.94 |
0.9468 |
0.1162 |
276 |
2 |
36.16 |
2008-10-21 |
| 37. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
39.48 |
0.9567 |
0.0942 |
273 |
1 |
39.48 |
2009-03-19 |
| 38. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
39.32 |
1.0516 |
-0.0052 |
281 |
1 |
39.32 |
2009-03-19 |
| 39. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
39.30 |
0.9805 |
0.0704 |
292 |
1 |
39.30 |
2009-04-05 |
| 40. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
39.21 |
0.9048 |
0.1436 |
271 |
2 |
33.89 |
2008-11-17 |
| 41. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
39.09 |
1.0528 |
-0.0172 |
201 |
1 |
39.09 |
2009-04-18 |
| 42. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
38.98 |
0.8956 |
0.1446 |
217 |
1 |
38.98 |
2008-11-30 |
| 43. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
38.95 |
1.0197 |
0.0142 |
226 |
2 |
38.17 |
2009-03-19 |
| 44. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
38.85 |
1.0004 |
0.0276 |
212 |
2 |
38.42 |
2009-04-18 |
| 45. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
38.76 |
0.8809 |
0.1486 |
127 |
1 |
38.76 |
2008-10-28 |
| 46. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
38.54 |
0.8653 |
0.1718 |
255 |
1 |
38.54 |
2008-11-30 |
| 47. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
38.41 |
1.0095 |
0.0117 |
316 |
3 |
36.69 |
2008-12-25 |
| 48. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
38.37 |
1.0462 |
-0.0311 |
184 |
2 |
35.77 |
2008-12-07 |
| 49. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
38.26 |
1.0567 |
-0.0379 |
303 |
2 |
36.99 |
2008-10-28 |
| 50. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
38.03 |
0.9986 |
0.0140 |
283 |
1 |
38.03 |
2008-10-10 |
| 51. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
37.94 |
0.8353 |
0.1818 |
283 |
1 |
37.94 |
2009-06-18 |
| 52. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
37.86 |
0.9212 |
0.0896 |
323 |
1 |
37.86 |
2009-04-05 |
| 53. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
37.86 |
0.9710 |
0.0300 |
173 |
1 |
37.86 |
2009-04-18 |
| 54. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
37.47 |
0.9309 |
0.0641 |
284 |
2 |
33.05 |
2008-10-25 |
| 55. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
37.39 |
0.9514 |
0.0437 |
237 |
2 |
36.11 |
2009-04-02 |
| 56. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
37.35 |
0.9226 |
0.0774 |
348 |
1 |
37.35 |
2008-11-01 |
| 57. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
37.28 |
0.9084 |
0.0875 |
404 |
1 |
37.28 |
2008-11-17 |
| 58. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
37.15 |
0.9633 |
0.0272 |
304 |
1 |
37.15 |
2008-11-17 |
| 59. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
37.05 |
0.9164 |
0.0740 |
305 |
4 |
33.69 |
2008-12-07 |
| 60. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
36.99 |
0.9907 |
-0.0083 |
211 |
2 |
35.54 |
2008-10-26 |
| 61. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
36.79 |
0.9351 |
0.0380 |
190 |
2 |
35.48 |
2008-12-28 |
| 62. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
36.73 |
1.0417 |
-0.0672 |
253 |
2 |
36.52 |
2008-10-28 |
| 63. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.71 |
0.9365 |
0.0414 |
248 |
1 |
36.71 |
2008-10-26 |
| 64. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
36.59 |
0.9226 |
0.0544 |
177 |
1 |
36.59 |
2008-10-26 |
| 65. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
36.45 |
1.0297 |
-0.0614 |
249 |
1 |
36.45 |
2008-12-28 |
| 66. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
36.34 |
0.9893 |
-0.0227 |
323 |
3 |
33.81 |
2009-04-02 |
| 67. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
36.31 |
0.9068 |
0.0619 |
269 |
1 |
36.31 |
2008-12-28 |
| 68. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
36.15 |
1.0515 |
-0.0920 |
250 |
2 |
34.89 |
2008-11-01 |
| 69. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
36.12 |
0.9946 |
-0.0342 |
246 |
2 |
33.16 |
2008-10-26 |
| 70. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
36.00 |
1.0487 |
-0.0964 |
231 |
1 |
36.00 |
2008-11-01 |
| 71. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
36.00 |
0.9307 |
0.0346 |
246 |
1 |
36.00 |
2008-10-26 |
| 72. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
35.95 |
0.9772 |
-0.0247 |
217 |
1 |
35.95 |
2008-10-10 |
| 73. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
35.91 |
0.8096 |
0.1532 |
209 |
2 |
33.55 |
2009-04-05 |
| 74. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
35.85 |
0.9636 |
-0.0104 |
254 |
2 |
35.13 |
2008-10-31 |
| 75. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
35.83 |
0.8899 |
0.0739 |
293 |
1 |
35.83 |
2008-10-21 |
| 76. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
35.78 |
0.9852 |
-0.0335 |
264 |
1 |
35.78 |
2008-10-10 |
| 77. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
35.59 |
1.0063 |
-0.0596 |
371 |
1 |
35.59 |
2008-10-04 |
| 78. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
35.48 |
0.8573 |
0.0896 |
270 |
1 |
35.48 |
2009-04-05 |
| 79. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
35.30 |
0.9168 |
0.0230 |
240 |
2 |
31.74 |
2008-10-31 |
| 80. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
35.13 |
1.0711 |
-0.1423 |
213 |
1 |
35.13 |
2008-10-10 |
| 81. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
35.02 |
0.8295 |
0.1032 |
209 |
1 |
35.02 |
2008-10-25 |
| 82. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
34.94 |
0.9776 |
-0.0486 |
308 |
1 |
34.94 |
2008-12-28 |
| 83. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
34.94 |
0.8739 |
0.0509 |
136 |
1 |
34.94 |
2008-10-01 |
| 84. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
34.88 |
1.0120 |
-0.0857 |
290 |
4 |
33.99 |
2008-12-07 |
| 85. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
34.74 |
0.9691 |
-0.0462 |
223 |
2 |
33.06 |
2008-11-30 |
| 86. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
34.62 |
0.8595 |
0.0624 |
242 |
1 |
34.62 |
2008-10-21 |
| 87. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
34.53 |
0.9266 |
-0.0071 |
278 |
2 |
32.12 |
2008-10-10 |
| 88. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
34.52 |
0.8941 |
0.0253 |
216 |
1 |
34.52 |
2009-04-18 |
| 89. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
34.29 |
0.8961 |
0.0117 |
189 |
1 |
34.29 |
2009-04-02 |
| 90. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
34.07 |
0.8791 |
0.0253 |
190 |
1 |
34.07 |
2008-11-30 |
| 91. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
33.99 |
0.9597 |
-0.0524 |
347 |
1 |
33.99 |
2008-10-28 |
| 92. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
33.97 |
0.9884 |
-0.0866 |
233 |
1 |
33.97 |
2008-11-01 |
| 93. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
33.96 |
0.9072 |
-0.0066 |
237 |
1 |
33.96 |
2008-11-01 |
| 94. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
33.91 |
0.9758 |
-0.0741 |
314 |
1 |
33.91 |
2008-10-10 |
| 95. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
33.89 |
0.9411 |
-0.0398 |
318 |
2 |
33.65 |
2008-12-25 |
| 96. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
33.80 |
0.9500 |
-0.0498 |
362 |
1 |
33.80 |
2009-04-05 |
| 97. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
33.70 |
1.0483 |
-0.1560 |
227 |
1 |
33.70 |
2008-10-28 |
| 98. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
33.66 |
0.9266 |
-0.0322 |
267 |
1 |
33.66 |
2009-03-20 |
| 99. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
33.19 |
0.8382 |
0.0439 |
268 |
1 |
33.19 |
2009-03-19 |
| 100. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
33.13 |
1.0389 |
-0.1565 |
340 |
1 |
33.13 |
2008-12-28 |
| 101. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
32.97 |
0.9964 |
-0.1206 |
203 |
1 |
32.97 |
2008-11-01 |
| 102. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
32.91 |
1.0201 |
-0.1457 |
303 |
1 |
32.91 |
2008-11-01 |
| 103. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
32.74 |
0.8105 |
0.0547 |
204 |
1 |
32.74 |
2008-10-28 |
| 104. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
32.55 |
1.0168 |
-0.1511 |
271 |
1 |
32.55 |
2008-12-07 |
| 105. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
32.43 |
0.8892 |
-0.0221 |
207 |
1 |
32.43 |
2008-11-01 |
| 106. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
32.43 |
0.9649 |
-0.1049 |
193 |
1 |
32.43 |
2008-12-28 |
| 107. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
32.32 |
0.8628 |
-0.0081 |
196 |
1 |
32.32 |
2008-10-10 |
| 108. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
32.25 |
0.9820 |
-0.1229 |
267 |
1 |
32.25 |
2008-10-21 |
| 109. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
32.10 |
1.0053 |
-0.1551 |
232 |
1 |
32.10 |
2008-12-28 |
| 110. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
32.00 |
0.9941 |
-0.1470 |
217 |
1 |
32.00 |
2008-10-01 |
| 111. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
31.18 |
0.9936 |
-0.1665 |
311 |
1 |
31.18 |
2008-10-25 |
| 112. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
30.21 |
0.9429 |
-0.1403 |
287 |
1 |
30.21 |
2008-12-28 |
| 113. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
29.80 |
0.9786 |
-0.1936 |
193 |
2 |
29.20 |
2008-10-10 |
| 114. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
29.78 |
0.9843 |
-0.1996 |
234 |
1 |
29.78 |
2009-04-18 |
| 115. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
29.73 |
1.0429 |
-0.2560 |
259 |
1 |
29.73 |
2009-03-20 |
| 116. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
29.38 |
1.0334 |
-0.2610 |
131 |
1 |
29.38 |
2008-10-26 |
| 117. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
29.34 |
0.8852 |
-0.1053 |
201 |
1 |
29.34 |
2008-10-31 |
| 118. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
28.68 |
1.0213 |
-0.2645 |
240 |
1 |
28.68 |
2008-10-04 |
| 119. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
28.41 |
0.9233 |
-0.1788 |
168 |
2 |
27.47 |
2008-11-01 |
| 120. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
27.73 |
1.0385 |
-0.3059 |
230 |
1 |
27.73 |
2008-10-10 |
| 121. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
26.99 |
0.9281 |
-0.2085 |
273 |
1 |
26.99 |
2008-10-04 |
| 122. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
26.69 |
1.0496 |
-0.3439 |
314 |
1 |
26.69 |
2008-10-01 |
| 123. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
26.01 |
1.0214 |
-0.3387 |
166 |
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