| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
79.85 |
1.0666 |
0.2066 |
297 |
2 |
76.68 |
2009-02-04 |
| 2. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
78.11 |
1.0796 |
0.1606 |
129 |
1 |
78.11 |
2009-01-26 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
76.69 |
1.0714 |
0.1419 |
129 |
2 |
68.77 |
2009-01-26 |
| 4. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
76.48 |
1.0261 |
0.1908 |
273 |
1 |
76.48 |
2009-01-26 |
| 5. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
76.40 |
0.9758 |
0.2424 |
314 |
2 |
68.12 |
2009-02-11 |
| 6. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
75.95 |
1.0567 |
0.1541 |
303 |
1 |
75.95 |
2009-01-26 |
| 7. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
75.05 |
1.0444 |
0.1447 |
197 |
2 |
63.92 |
2009-01-26 |
| 8. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
73.41 |
1.0349 |
0.1337 |
234 |
3 |
70.47 |
2009-01-27 |
| 9. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
72.19 |
1.1018 |
0.0415 |
220 |
2 |
70.19 |
2009-01-26 |
| 10. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
71.89 |
1.0289 |
0.1204 |
276 |
1 |
71.89 |
2009-02-11 |
| 11. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
71.63 |
1.0696 |
0.0676 |
226 |
1 |
71.63 |
2009-01-27 |
| 12. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
71.33 |
1.0993 |
0.0344 |
265 |
2 |
71.32 |
2009-02-21 |
| 13. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
71.24 |
0.9527 |
0.1816 |
251 |
1 |
71.24 |
2009-01-26 |
| 14. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
71.24 |
0.9866 |
0.1441 |
218 |
1 |
71.24 |
2009-01-26 |
| 15. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
71.01 |
1.0201 |
0.1038 |
172 |
2 |
53.90 |
2009-01-27 |
| 16. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
70.99 |
1.0125 |
0.1156 |
224 |
2 |
70.10 |
2009-01-27 |
| 17. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
70.93 |
0.9899 |
0.1348 |
163 |
3 |
61.38 |
2009-02-12 |
| 18. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
70.79 |
0.9597 |
0.1715 |
347 |
1 |
70.79 |
2009-02-12 |
| 19. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
70.04 |
1.0528 |
0.0573 |
201 |
2 |
67.69 |
2009-01-28 |
| 20. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
68.40 |
1.0441 |
0.0461 |
252 |
2 |
66.75 |
2009-01-26 |
| 21. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
68.40 |
0.9653 |
0.1317 |
394 |
2 |
62.25 |
2009-01-26 |
| 22. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
68.25 |
1.0073 |
0.0869 |
369 |
2 |
62.90 |
2009-01-26 |
| 23. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
67.84 |
0.9991 |
0.0810 |
225 |
1 |
67.84 |
2009-01-26 |
| 24. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
67.26 |
0.9942 |
0.0849 |
483 |
1 |
67.26 |
2009-02-11 |
| 25. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
67.09 |
1.0068 |
0.0641 |
358 |
1 |
67.09 |
2009-02-08 |
| 26. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
67.07 |
0.9841 |
0.0869 |
334 |
1 |
67.07 |
2009-02-04 |
| 27. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
66.60 |
1.0124 |
0.0449 |
204 |
3 |
64.08 |
2009-01-27 |
| 28. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
66.23 |
1.0167 |
0.0438 |
378 |
1 |
66.23 |
2009-02-03 |
| 29. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
66.17 |
0.9045 |
0.1485 |
235 |
2 |
60.99 |
2009-01-27 |
| 30. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
65.91 |
0.9776 |
0.0712 |
308 |
1 |
65.91 |
2009-02-11 |
| 31. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
65.84 |
0.9905 |
0.0647 |
377 |
1 |
65.84 |
2009-02-12 |
| 32. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
65.83 |
1.0214 |
0.0205 |
166 |
1 |
65.83 |
2009-01-29 |
| 33. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
65.70 |
1.0486 |
-0.0026 |
289 |
1 |
65.70 |
2009-01-26 |
| 34. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
65.65 |
0.9213 |
0.1236 |
295 |
3 |
58.76 |
2009-02-11 |
| 35. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
65.61 |
1.0214 |
0.0206 |
269 |
2 |
60.98 |
2009-01-27 |
| 36. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
65.58 |
0.9936 |
0.0493 |
311 |
1 |
65.58 |
2009-02-03 |
| 37. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
65.12 |
0.9884 |
0.0466 |
233 |
1 |
65.12 |
2009-02-04 |
| 38. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
65.11 |
1.0340 |
0.0069 |
406 |
1 |
65.11 |
2009-01-27 |
| 39. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
64.84 |
1.0389 |
-0.0059 |
318 |
2 |
61.63 |
2009-01-26 |
| 40. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
64.83 |
0.9897 |
0.0392 |
274 |
2 |
60.75 |
2009-01-28 |
| 41. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
64.65 |
1.0496 |
-0.0220 |
314 |
1 |
64.65 |
2009-01-26 |
| 42. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
64.59 |
1.0060 |
0.0166 |
171 |
2 |
62.60 |
2009-01-26 |
| 43. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
64.44 |
0.9772 |
0.0442 |
217 |
1 |
64.44 |
2009-02-12 |
| 44. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
63.93 |
0.9514 |
0.0656 |
237 |
2 |
58.20 |
2009-02-12 |
| 45. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
63.88 |
1.0029 |
0.0066 |
209 |
1 |
63.88 |
2009-01-26 |
| 46. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
63.72 |
0.9997 |
0.0172 |
382 |
1 |
63.72 |
2009-01-27 |
| 47. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
63.71 |
0.9342 |
0.0824 |
434 |
1 |
63.71 |
2009-01-26 |
| 48. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
63.69 |
0.9941 |
0.0163 |
217 |
2 |
61.69 |
2009-01-26 |
| 49. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
63.55 |
0.9691 |
0.0409 |
223 |
2 |
60.34 |
2009-02-03 |
| 50. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
63.46 |
0.9233 |
0.0775 |
168 |
2 |
62.11 |
2009-01-26 |
| 51. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
63.41 |
1.0523 |
-0.0483 |
256 |
2 |
61.82 |
2009-01-26 |
| 52. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
63.23 |
0.9986 |
0.0074 |
283 |
2 |
60.89 |
2009-01-26 |
| 53. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
63.15 |
0.9844 |
0.0245 |
293 |
3 |
60.57 |
2009-02-03 |
| 54. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
62.93 |
1.0095 |
-0.0100 |
316 |
1 |
62.93 |
2009-01-27 |
| 55. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
62.90 |
1.0063 |
-0.0058 |
371 |
2 |
62.15 |
2009-02-12 |
| 56. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
62.85 |
1.0619 |
-0.0590 |
354 |
1 |
62.85 |
2009-02-03 |
| 57. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
62.78 |
1.0668 |
-0.0662 |
350 |
1 |
62.78 |
2009-01-26 |
| 58. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
62.74 |
0.9286 |
0.0679 |
194 |
3 |
60.86 |
2009-01-26 |
| 59. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
62.52 |
1.0025 |
-0.0086 |
256 |
3 |
60.28 |
2009-01-27 |
| 60. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
62.40 |
0.9798 |
0.0065 |
199 |
1 |
62.40 |
2009-01-27 |
| 61. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
62.22 |
0.9786 |
0.0100 |
235 |
1 |
62.22 |
2009-02-11 |
| 62. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
61.99 |
1.0454 |
-0.0637 |
255 |
1 |
61.99 |
2009-02-03 |
| 63. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
61.42 |
0.9687 |
0.0122 |
371 |
2 |
58.21 |
2009-01-28 |
| 64. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
61.12 |
0.9852 |
-0.0135 |
264 |
1 |
61.12 |
2009-01-27 |
| 65. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
60.81 |
0.9279 |
0.0450 |
317 |
1 |
60.81 |
2009-02-11 |
| 66. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
60.77 |
0.9339 |
0.0304 |
310 |
1 |
60.77 |
2009-01-26 |
| 67. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
60.49 |
0.9168 |
0.0458 |
240 |
1 |
60.49 |
2009-01-27 |
| 68. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
60.40 |
0.9910 |
-0.0293 |
295 |
2 |
60.32 |
2009-01-26 |
| 69. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
60.39 |
0.9275 |
0.0289 |
211 |
1 |
60.39 |
2009-01-26 |
| 70. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
60.31 |
0.9164 |
0.0468 |
305 |
2 |
52.57 |
2009-02-04 |
| 71. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
59.99 |
0.9965 |
-0.0430 |
310 |
1 |
59.99 |
2009-02-09 |
| 72. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
59.96 |
1.0487 |
-0.1010 |
231 |
1 |
59.96 |
2009-01-28 |
| 73. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
59.96 |
1.0013 |
-0.0495 |
273 |
2 |
58.94 |
2009-01-26 |
| 74. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
59.60 |
0.9851 |
-0.0360 |
317 |
1 |
59.60 |
2009-01-26 |
| 75. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
59.55 |
0.9879 |
-0.0331 |
450 |
2 |
53.82 |
2009-01-26 |
| 76. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
59.54 |
0.9863 |
-0.0359 |
339 |
1 |
59.54 |
2009-02-11 |
| 77. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
59.35 |
0.9049 |
0.0434 |
351 |
2 |
56.80 |
2009-01-27 |
| 78. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
59.26 |
0.9567 |
-0.0154 |
273 |
1 |
59.26 |
2009-01-27 |
| 79. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
58.60 |
0.8919 |
0.0372 |
205 |
2 |
52.59 |
2009-01-26 |
| 80. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
58.59 |
0.9468 |
-0.0166 |
276 |
1 |
58.59 |
2009-01-27 |
| 81. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
58.21 |
0.9532 |
-0.0300 |
258 |
1 |
58.21 |
2009-01-26 |
| 82. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
58.10 |
1.0565 |
-0.1363 |
247 |
1 |
58.10 |
2009-01-26 |
| 83. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
58.10 |
0.9578 |
-0.0355 |
281 |
1 |
58.10 |
2009-01-26 |
| 84. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
57.95 |
1.0613 |
-0.1359 |
456 |
1 |
57.95 |
2009-01-26 |
| 85. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
57.91 |
0.9464 |
-0.0216 |
323 |
1 |
57.91 |
2009-01-26 |
| 86. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
57.85 |
0.9676 |
-0.0405 |
442 |
1 |
57.85 |
2009-01-26 |
| 87. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
57.79 |
0.9212 |
-0.0001 |
323 |
1 |
57.79 |
2009-01-26 |
| 88. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
57.67 |
0.9965 |
-0.0800 |
277 |
1 |
57.67 |
2009-01-26 |
| 89. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
57.18 |
0.8382 |
0.0703 |
268 |
1 |
57.18 |
2009-01-29 |
| 90. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
56.98 |
1.0885 |
-0.1805 |
315 |
1 |
56.98 |
2009-01-26 |
| 91. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
56.12 |
0.9769 |
-0.0881 |
263 |
1 |
56.12 |
2009-01-26 |
| 92. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
56.05 |
1.0398 |
-0.1605 |
110 |
1 |
56.05 |
2009-02-03 |
| 93. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
56.01 |
1.0004 |
-0.1174 |
212 |
1 |
56.01 |
2009-01-26 |
| 94. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
55.53 |
0.9234 |
-0.0366 |
346 |
1 |
55.53 |
2009-01-26 |
| 95. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
54.90 |
0.9649 |
-0.0948 |
193 |
1 |
54.90 |
2009-01-26 |
| 96. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
54.87 |
0.8941 |
-0.0213 |
216 |
1 |
54.87 |
2009-01-26 |
| 97. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
54.70 |
1.0251 |
-0.1593 |
261 |
1 |
54.70 |
2009-01-26 |
| 98. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
54.34 |
0.9763 |
-0.1146 |
289 |
2 |
53.17 |
2009-01-29 |
| 99. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
54.09 |
1.0138 |
-0.1560 |
231 |
1 |
54.09 |
2009-01-26 |
| 100. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
53.83 |
1.0385 |
-0.1863 |
230 |
1 |
53.83 |
2009-01-26 |
| 101. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
53.13 |
1.0203 |
-0.1742 |
261 |
1 |
53.13 |
2009-01-26 |
| 102. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
52.98 |
1.0252 |
-0.1914 |
176 |
1 |
52.98 |
2009-01-26 |
| 103. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
52.98 |
0.9965 |
-0.1610 |
168 |
1 |
52.98 |
2009-01-26 |
| 104. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
51.38 |
0.9786 |
-0.1692 |
193 |
1 |
51.38 |
2009-01-26 |
| 105. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
50.75 |
1.0263 |
-0.2227 |
267 |
1 |
50.75 |
2009-01-26 |
| 106. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
50.46 |
1.0331 |
-0.2356 |
234 |
1 |
50.46 |
2009-01-26 |
| 107. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
50.35 |
0.9756 |
-0.1789 |
229 |
1 |
50.35 |
2009-01-26 |
| 108. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
48.81 |
0.9622 |
-0.1826 |
392 |
1 |
48.81 |
2009-01-26 |
| 109. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
48.36 |
0.9780 |
-0.2111 |
337 |
1 |
48.36 |
2009-01-26 |
| 110. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
47.46 |
0.9699 |
-0.2191 |
269 |
1 |
47.46 |
2009-01-26 |
| 111. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
47.01 |
1.0016 |
-0.2620 |
218 |
1 |
47.01 |
2009-01-26 |
| 112. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
46.37 |
1.0297 |
-0.2970 |
249 |
1 |
46.37 |
2009-01-26 |
| 113. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
46.25 |
0.8947 |
-0.1579 |
366 |
1 |
46.25 |
2009-01-26 |
| 114. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
42.86 |
0.8595 |
-0.1804 |
242 |
1 |
42.86 |
2009-01-26 |