| 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... |
71.32 |
1.1018 |
0.1585 |
220 |
1 |
71.32 |
2009-03-17 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
70.91 |
1.0711 |
0.1831 |
213 |
2 |
59.21 |
2009-03-17 |
| 3. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
70.06 |
1.0004 |
0.2376 |
212 |
4 |
55.98 |
2009-04-15 |
| 4. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
67.87 |
0.9997 |
0.2087 |
382 |
1 |
67.87 |
2009-05-05 |
| 5. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
67.18 |
1.0799 |
0.1088 |
243 |
1 |
67.18 |
2009-03-19 |
| 6. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
67.06 |
1.0029 |
0.1809 |
209 |
1 |
67.06 |
2009-03-19 |
| 7. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
66.23 |
1.0257 |
0.1560 |
401 |
1 |
66.23 |
2009-05-05 |
| 8. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
65.00 |
1.0613 |
0.0929 |
266 |
3 |
63.42 |
2009-03-11 |
| 9. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
64.70 |
0.9884 |
0.1638 |
262 |
2 |
63.27 |
2009-03-13 |
| 10. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
64.07 |
1.0316 |
0.1088 |
333 |
1 |
64.07 |
2009-04-15 |
| 11. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
63.48 |
0.9893 |
0.1368 |
323 |
1 |
63.48 |
2009-03-04 |
| 12. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
63.34 |
1.0218 |
0.0988 |
268 |
2 |
56.96 |
2009-03-23 |
| 13. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
63.27 |
1.0993 |
0.0208 |
265 |
1 |
63.27 |
2009-03-02 |
| 14. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
63.16 |
1.0567 |
0.0642 |
303 |
1 |
63.16 |
2009-03-13 |
| 15. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
62.63 |
1.0787 |
0.0308 |
237 |
2 |
61.68 |
2009-04-15 |
| 16. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
62.51 |
1.0183 |
0.0847 |
191 |
3 |
58.48 |
2009-04-15 |
| 17. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
62.49 |
0.9572 |
0.1499 |
201 |
1 |
62.49 |
2009-03-02 |
| 18. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
62.18 |
1.0297 |
0.0718 |
249 |
1 |
62.18 |
2009-03-13 |
| 19. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
62.06 |
1.0523 |
0.0439 |
256 |
1 |
62.06 |
2009-04-15 |
| 20. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
62.05 |
0.9843 |
0.1111 |
234 |
2 |
56.44 |
2009-03-17 |
| 21. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
61.98 |
1.0197 |
0.0765 |
226 |
1 |
61.98 |
2009-03-23 |
| 22. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
61.69 |
0.9279 |
0.1725 |
317 |
1 |
61.69 |
2009-03-19 |
| 23. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
61.67 |
0.9805 |
0.1176 |
292 |
1 |
61.67 |
2009-03-02 |
| 24. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
61.44 |
1.0498 |
0.0348 |
180 |
2 |
57.85 |
2009-03-04 |
| 25. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
61.26 |
1.0788 |
0.0018 |
171 |
2 |
57.60 |
2009-03-17 |
| 26. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
61.19 |
0.9612 |
0.1237 |
256 |
1 |
61.19 |
2009-04-15 |
| 27. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
61.04 |
0.9820 |
0.1030 |
267 |
2 |
57.01 |
2009-04-15 |
| 28. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
60.89 |
1.0829 |
-0.0019 |
288 |
1 |
60.89 |
2009-03-25 |
| 29. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
60.66 |
0.9676 |
0.1161 |
442 |
1 |
60.66 |
2009-04-15 |
| 30. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
60.44 |
1.0201 |
0.0554 |
375 |
1 |
60.44 |
2009-03-23 |
| 31. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
60.28 |
0.8919 |
0.1750 |
205 |
1 |
60.28 |
2009-03-23 |
| 32. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
60.20 |
0.9430 |
0.1169 |
211 |
1 |
60.20 |
2009-04-15 |
| 33. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
60.19 |
1.0613 |
0.0107 |
456 |
1 |
60.19 |
2009-03-17 |
| 34. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
60.10 |
0.9811 |
0.0870 |
272 |
1 |
60.10 |
2009-03-19 |
| 35. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
60.09 |
0.9941 |
0.0687 |
217 |
1 |
60.09 |
2009-03-13 |
| 36. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
60.08 |
1.0463 |
0.0141 |
182 |
1 |
60.08 |
2009-04-15 |
| 37. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
60.07 |
1.0109 |
0.0547 |
276 |
1 |
60.07 |
2009-03-19 |
| 38. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
59.94 |
0.9646 |
0.0970 |
264 |
1 |
59.94 |
2009-03-17 |
| 39. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
59.90 |
1.0391 |
0.0288 |
358 |
1 |
59.90 |
2009-03-25 |
| 40. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
59.41 |
0.9636 |
0.0893 |
254 |
1 |
59.41 |
2009-02-18 |
| 41. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
59.16 |
1.0390 |
0.0057 |
205 |
1 |
59.16 |
2009-03-19 |
| 42. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
58.95 |
1.0063 |
0.0388 |
371 |
1 |
58.95 |
2009-03-04 |
| 43. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
58.84 |
1.0296 |
0.0196 |
437 |
1 |
58.84 |
2009-03-19 |
| 44. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
58.76 |
1.0062 |
0.0351 |
288 |
2 |
54.11 |
2009-03-19 |
| 45. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
58.37 |
1.0441 |
-0.0083 |
252 |
1 |
58.37 |
2009-03-02 |
| 46. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
58.30 |
1.0016 |
0.0269 |
218 |
1 |
58.30 |
2009-04-15 |
| 47. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
58.00 |
0.9865 |
0.0423 |
276 |
1 |
58.00 |
2009-03-23 |
| 48. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
57.95 |
1.0131 |
0.0098 |
225 |
1 |
57.95 |
2009-03-17 |
| 49. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
57.88 |
0.9846 |
0.0398 |
281 |
1 |
57.88 |
2009-03-19 |
| 50. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
57.56 |
0.9234 |
0.1018 |
346 |
2 |
57.25 |
2009-03-19 |
| 51. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
57.42 |
1.0331 |
-0.0180 |
234 |
1 |
57.42 |
2009-03-19 |
| 52. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
57.31 |
0.9684 |
0.0496 |
388 |
1 |
57.31 |
2009-03-19 |
| 53. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
57.21 |
1.0361 |
-0.0216 |
269 |
3 |
55.24 |
2009-04-15 |
| 54. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
57.19 |
1.0389 |
-0.0233 |
340 |
2 |
55.15 |
2009-03-19 |
| 55. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
56.88 |
0.9965 |
0.0117 |
277 |
1 |
56.88 |
2009-04-15 |
| 56. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
56.78 |
1.0417 |
-0.0384 |
253 |
1 |
56.78 |
2009-03-13 |
| 57. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
56.75 |
0.9049 |
0.1058 |
351 |
2 |
53.34 |
2009-03-04 |
| 58. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
56.71 |
0.9286 |
0.0749 |
194 |
1 |
56.71 |
2009-03-02 |
| 59. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
56.54 |
1.0426 |
-0.0418 |
323 |
1 |
56.54 |
2009-03-19 |
| 60. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
56.49 |
0.9088 |
0.0970 |
348 |
1 |
56.49 |
2009-03-23 |
| 61. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
56.49 |
0.9682 |
0.0305 |
143 |
1 |
56.49 |
2009-03-13 |
| 62. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
56.40 |
1.0138 |
-0.0152 |
231 |
1 |
56.40 |
2009-04-15 |
| 63. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
56.04 |
0.9758 |
0.0174 |
314 |
3 |
50.20 |
2009-03-17 |
| 64. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
55.71 |
0.9633 |
0.0255 |
304 |
2 |
54.07 |
2009-03-04 |
| 65. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
55.62 |
0.9786 |
0.0059 |
235 |
1 |
55.62 |
2009-03-04 |
| 66. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
55.60 |
1.0619 |
-0.0737 |
354 |
3 |
54.04 |
2009-03-11 |
| 67. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
55.48 |
1.0251 |
-0.0448 |
261 |
1 |
55.48 |
2009-03-02 |
| 68. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
55.43 |
0.8996 |
0.0765 |
192 |
1 |
55.43 |
2009-03-11 |
| 69. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
55.42 |
0.9464 |
0.0401 |
323 |
1 |
55.42 |
2009-03-02 |
| 70. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
55.37 |
0.8770 |
0.1067 |
300 |
2 |
47.81 |
2009-03-17 |
| 71. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
55.29 |
0.9614 |
0.0207 |
292 |
2 |
53.92 |
2009-04-15 |
| 72. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
54.92 |
0.9763 |
-0.0044 |
289 |
2 |
52.70 |
2009-03-23 |
| 73. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
54.71 |
0.9072 |
0.0598 |
237 |
1 |
54.71 |
2009-03-04 |
| 74. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
54.24 |
1.0214 |
-0.0666 |
166 |
1 |
54.24 |
2009-03-19 |
| 75. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
54.14 |
0.8722 |
0.0891 |
285 |
1 |
54.14 |
2009-03-19 |
| 76. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
54.01 |
1.0399 |
-0.0786 |
294 |
1 |
54.01 |
2009-03-04 |
| 77. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
53.53 |
0.9886 |
-0.0386 |
220 |
1 |
53.53 |
2009-03-11 |
| 78. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
53.32 |
0.9907 |
-0.0486 |
211 |
2 |
52.99 |
2009-03-17 |
| 79. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
53.25 |
0.9942 |
-0.0429 |
483 |
1 |
53.25 |
2009-03-19 |
| 80. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
53.23 |
1.0168 |
-0.0733 |
271 |
1 |
53.23 |
2009-03-02 |
| 81. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
53.23 |
0.9097 |
0.0740 |
464 |
1 |
53.23 |
2009-03-13 |
| 82. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
53.02 |
0.9365 |
0.0032 |
248 |
1 |
53.02 |
2009-02-20 |
| 83. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
52.84 |
0.9202 |
0.0142 |
254 |
2 |
52.77 |
2009-03-17 |
| 84. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
52.41 |
1.0496 |
-0.1229 |
314 |
1 |
52.41 |
2009-03-04 |
| 85. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
52.32 |
0.9342 |
-0.0049 |
434 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-03-11 |
| 86. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
51.93 |
0.8956 |
0.0278 |
322 |
2 |
49.88 |
2009-04-15 |
| 87. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
51.85 |
0.8947 |
0.0276 |
366 |
1 |
51.85 |
2009-03-04 |
| 88. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
51.60 |
0.9841 |
-0.0674 |
334 |
1 |
51.60 |
2009-03-17 |
| 89. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
51.20 |
0.9330 |
-0.0207 |
360 |
2 |
50.88 |
2009-03-04 |
| 90. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
51.06 |
0.9045 |
-0.0010 |
235 |
1 |
51.06 |
2009-03-17 |
| 91. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
50.87 |
0.9168 |
-0.0157 |
240 |
1 |
50.87 |
2009-03-11 |
| 92. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
50.37 |
0.7876 |
0.1058 |
316 |
1 |
50.37 |
2009-04-15 |
| 93. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
50.20 |
1.0201 |
-0.1392 |
172 |
1 |
50.20 |
2009-04-15 |
| 94. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
49.96 |
0.8975 |
-0.0136 |
268 |
1 |
49.96 |
2009-03-11 |
| 95. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
49.89 |
1.0352 |
-0.1504 |
341 |
1 |
49.89 |
2009-02-18 |
| 96. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
49.87 |
1.0515 |
-0.1716 |
250 |
2 |
48.46 |
2009-03-17 |
| 97. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
49.80 |
1.0263 |
-0.1465 |
267 |
1 |
49.80 |
2009-03-04 |
| 98. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
48.48 |
0.8933 |
-0.0300 |
363 |
2 |
47.51 |
2009-03-11 |
| 99. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
48.38 |
0.9084 |
-0.0492 |
404 |
1 |
48.38 |
2009-03-17 |
| 100. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
48.29 |
0.9768 |
-0.1207 |
387 |
1 |
48.29 |
2009-03-11 |
| 101. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
48.11 |
0.8595 |
-0.0074 |
242 |
2 |
47.97 |
2009-03-23 |
| 102. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
47.88 |
0.8753 |
-0.0200 |
427 |
1 |
47.88 |
2009-03-13 |
| 103. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
47.84 |
0.9351 |
-0.0952 |
190 |
1 |
47.84 |
2009-03-04 |
| 104. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
47.73 |
0.9148 |
-0.0700 |
317 |
1 |
47.73 |
2009-03-04 |
| 105. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
47.60 |
0.9266 |
-0.0854 |
267 |
1 |
47.60 |
2009-03-23 |
| 106. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
47.59 |
0.9884 |
-0.1483 |
233 |
1 |
47.59 |
2009-02-18 |
| 107. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
47.38 |
0.9527 |
-0.1156 |
251 |
1 |
47.38 |
2009-03-04 |
| 108. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
47.24 |
1.0398 |
-0.2157 |
110 |
1 |
47.24 |
2009-03-04 |
| 109. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
46.56 |
0.9084 |
-0.0842 |
300 |
1 |
46.56 |
2009-04-15 |
| 110. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
45.84 |
0.9376 |
-0.1227 |
367 |
1 |
45.84 |
2009-02-18 |
| 111. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
45.52 |
0.9309 |
-0.1290 |
284 |
1 |
45.52 |
2009-03-02 |
| 112. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
45.44 |
0.8852 |
-0.0808 |
201 |
1 |
45.44 |
2009-03-11 |
| 113. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
45.13 |
0.8353 |
-0.0310 |
283 |
1 |
45.13 |
2009-03-02 |
| 114. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
45.04 |
0.8826 |
-0.0860 |
296 |
1 |
45.04 |
2009-03-02 |
| 115. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
44.65 |
0.9772 |
-0.1925 |
217 |
1 |
44.65 |
2009-02-18 |
| 116. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
42.97 |
0.9697 |
-0.2115 |
249 |
1 |
42.97 |
2009-03-02 |
| 117. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
42.52 |
0.9339 |
-0.1854 |
310 |
1 |
42.52 |
2009-02-18 |
| 118. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
41.04 |
0.9411 |
-0.2169 |
318 |
1 |
41.04 |
2009-03-02 |
| 119. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
40.89 |
1.0385 |
-0.3196 |
230 |
1 |
40.89 |
2009-02-18 |
| 120. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
38.63 |
1.0023 |
-0.3240 |
211 |
1 |
38.63 |
2009-03-04 |