| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
146.76 |
1.0528 |
0.1305 |
201 |
1 |
146.76 |
2008-10-03 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
146.40 |
1.0696 |
0.1123 |
226 |
2 |
134.10 |
2009-06-07 |
| 3. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
146.20 |
1.0477 |
0.1384 |
360 |
4 |
137.95 |
2009-05-22 |
| 4. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
144.84 |
1.0666 |
0.1061 |
297 |
1 |
144.84 |
2009-03-04 |
| 5. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
143.47 |
1.0483 |
0.1101 |
227 |
2 |
135.05 |
2008-10-09 |
| 6. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
142.45 |
1.0487 |
0.0994 |
231 |
2 |
136.29 |
2008-10-23 |
| 7. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
142.12 |
1.0486 |
0.1026 |
289 |
1 |
142.12 |
2008-10-02 |
| 8. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
140.56 |
1.0714 |
0.0573 |
129 |
1 |
140.56 |
2008-12-20 |
| 9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
139.68 |
1.0613 |
0.0741 |
456 |
2 |
135.71 |
2008-11-12 |
| 10. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
137.37 |
1.0263 |
0.0844 |
267 |
2 |
125.99 |
2008-10-09 |
| 11. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
137.02 |
1.0619 |
0.0503 |
354 |
1 |
137.02 |
2008-10-03 |
| 12. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
136.66 |
1.0596 |
0.0440 |
239 |
1 |
136.66 |
2008-11-13 |
| 13. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
136.33 |
1.0993 |
0.0016 |
265 |
1 |
136.33 |
2009-06-07 |
| 14. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
135.78 |
0.9769 |
0.1195 |
263 |
1 |
135.78 |
2009-06-12 |
| 15. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
135.45 |
1.0124 |
0.0810 |
204 |
4 |
121.92 |
2009-02-03 |
| 16. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
135.37 |
1.0462 |
0.0428 |
184 |
2 |
121.89 |
2008-10-03 |
| 17. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
134.94 |
1.0203 |
0.0747 |
261 |
2 |
127.14 |
2009-05-11 |
| 18. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
134.04 |
1.0577 |
0.0230 |
247 |
1 |
134.04 |
2009-05-08 |
| 19. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
134.03 |
1.0797 |
-0.0012 |
210 |
2 |
133.52 |
2009-05-22 |
| 20. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
133.77 |
1.0296 |
0.0588 |
437 |
1 |
133.77 |
2009-02-15 |
| 21. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
133.64 |
1.0391 |
0.0479 |
358 |
3 |
129.86 |
2009-03-04 |
| 22. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
133.02 |
0.9907 |
0.0836 |
211 |
3 |
123.94 |
2009-02-15 |
| 23. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
132.93 |
1.0109 |
0.0650 |
276 |
2 |
130.27 |
2008-10-09 |
| 24. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
132.77 |
1.0398 |
0.0235 |
110 |
2 |
129.73 |
2009-06-08 |
| 25. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
132.26 |
0.9681 |
0.1098 |
378 |
2 |
128.30 |
2009-09-01 |
| 26. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
131.78 |
1.0297 |
0.0348 |
249 |
1 |
131.78 |
2008-10-09 |
| 27. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
131.54 |
1.0201 |
0.0369 |
172 |
1 |
131.54 |
2008-11-07 |
| 28. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
130.60 |
0.9893 |
0.0669 |
323 |
1 |
130.60 |
2008-11-12 |
| 29. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
130.46 |
1.0138 |
0.0407 |
231 |
1 |
130.46 |
2008-10-09 |
| 30. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
130.33 |
1.0567 |
-0.0023 |
303 |
1 |
130.33 |
2008-10-03 |
| 31. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
129.78 |
0.9614 |
0.0909 |
292 |
1 |
129.78 |
2008-11-15 |
| 32. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
129.76 |
0.9899 |
0.0546 |
163 |
2 |
126.13 |
2008-10-03 |
| 33. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
129.26 |
0.9697 |
0.0756 |
249 |
3 |
116.48 |
2008-11-07 |
| 34. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
129.16 |
1.0023 |
0.0401 |
211 |
1 |
129.16 |
2009-09-01 |
| 35. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
128.84 |
0.9798 |
0.0562 |
199 |
1 |
128.84 |
2008-10-03 |
| 36. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
128.27 |
0.9897 |
0.0450 |
274 |
2 |
123.55 |
2009-05-31 |
| 37. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
127.99 |
1.1018 |
-0.0735 |
220 |
1 |
127.99 |
2009-02-15 |
| 38. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
127.84 |
1.0515 |
-0.0199 |
250 |
2 |
124.44 |
2009-09-01 |
| 39. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
127.82 |
1.0445 |
-0.0103 |
373 |
1 |
127.82 |
2008-11-13 |
| 40. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
127.77 |
1.0419 |
-0.0090 |
261 |
2 |
122.53 |
2009-06-08 |
| 41. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
127.54 |
1.0429 |
-0.0133 |
259 |
1 |
127.54 |
2008-10-09 |
| 42. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
127.26 |
1.0444 |
-0.0223 |
197 |
2 |
124.25 |
2009-02-15 |
| 43. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
127.05 |
1.0595 |
-0.0300 |
379 |
2 |
119.65 |
2009-02-02 |
| 44. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
126.90 |
0.9672 |
0.0651 |
396 |
3 |
123.44 |
2009-02-15 |
| 45. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
126.43 |
1.0214 |
-0.0012 |
269 |
2 |
123.31 |
2009-05-08 |
| 46. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
126.03 |
1.0213 |
-0.0058 |
240 |
1 |
126.03 |
2008-11-07 |
| 47. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
125.74 |
0.9866 |
0.0260 |
218 |
2 |
121.96 |
2008-10-09 |
| 48. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
125.71 |
0.9339 |
0.0806 |
310 |
2 |
93.61 |
2008-11-18 |
| 49. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
125.48 |
1.0068 |
0.0107 |
358 |
1 |
125.48 |
2008-11-07 |
| 50. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
125.36 |
1.0907 |
-0.0748 |
303 |
1 |
125.36 |
2009-09-01 |
| 51. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
124.98 |
1.0389 |
-0.0264 |
340 |
1 |
124.98 |
2008-10-03 |
| 52. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
124.89 |
1.0529 |
-0.0437 |
351 |
1 |
124.89 |
2008-10-03 |
| 53. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
124.89 |
0.9676 |
0.0500 |
442 |
1 |
124.89 |
2009-06-07 |
| 54. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
124.59 |
0.9776 |
0.0295 |
308 |
1 |
124.59 |
2008-11-15 |
| 55. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
124.52 |
0.9513 |
0.0588 |
354 |
1 |
124.52 |
2008-10-09 |
| 56. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
124.44 |
0.9965 |
0.0094 |
310 |
1 |
124.44 |
2009-05-22 |
| 57. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
123.91 |
0.9164 |
0.0897 |
305 |
1 |
123.91 |
2008-10-03 |
| 58. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
123.89 |
0.9884 |
0.0119 |
233 |
1 |
123.89 |
2009-05-08 |
| 59. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
123.70 |
0.9612 |
0.0384 |
256 |
1 |
123.70 |
2008-10-03 |
| 60. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
123.65 |
1.0063 |
-0.0067 |
371 |
1 |
123.65 |
2008-10-09 |
| 61. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
123.52 |
0.9593 |
0.0435 |
398 |
2 |
118.09 |
2009-06-04 |
| 62. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
123.41 |
0.9865 |
0.0118 |
276 |
1 |
123.41 |
2008-10-02 |
| 63. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
123.40 |
0.9125 |
0.0864 |
308 |
1 |
123.40 |
2009-06-07 |
| 64. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
123.17 |
0.9946 |
0.0004 |
246 |
2 |
112.24 |
2008-10-09 |
| 65. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
123.14 |
1.0261 |
-0.0330 |
273 |
2 |
118.65 |
2008-10-03 |
| 66. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
122.80 |
0.9852 |
0.0073 |
264 |
2 |
118.80 |
2009-06-07 |
| 67. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
122.43 |
0.9964 |
-0.0071 |
203 |
3 |
115.26 |
2009-06-08 |
| 68. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
122.11 |
0.9532 |
0.0321 |
258 |
2 |
119.52 |
2008-11-13 |
| 69. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
122.02 |
0.9763 |
0.0090 |
289 |
1 |
122.02 |
2008-11-07 |
| 70. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
121.44 |
0.9514 |
0.0300 |
237 |
1 |
121.44 |
2008-11-15 |
| 71. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
121.31 |
0.9857 |
-0.0067 |
293 |
1 |
121.31 |
2009-06-25 |
| 72. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
121.10 |
1.0029 |
-0.0310 |
209 |
2 |
110.50 |
2009-06-08 |
| 73. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
121.02 |
0.9879 |
-0.0016 |
450 |
1 |
121.02 |
2009-05-08 |
| 74. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
120.84 |
0.9266 |
0.0497 |
267 |
1 |
120.84 |
2008-10-02 |
| 75. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
120.76 |
0.9691 |
0.0059 |
223 |
1 |
120.76 |
2009-06-08 |
| 76. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
120.64 |
0.9675 |
0.0165 |
383 |
1 |
120.64 |
2008-10-09 |
| 77. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
120.07 |
0.9795 |
-0.0096 |
308 |
1 |
120.07 |
2008-10-23 |
| 78. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
120.01 |
1.0396 |
-0.0774 |
149 |
1 |
120.01 |
2009-03-04 |
| 79. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
119.47 |
1.0368 |
-0.0709 |
276 |
1 |
119.47 |
2008-10-03 |
| 80. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
119.43 |
1.0062 |
-0.0416 |
288 |
1 |
119.43 |
2008-10-09 |
| 81. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
119.14 |
1.0095 |
-0.0483 |
316 |
2 |
118.94 |
2009-06-08 |
| 82. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
118.65 |
0.9966 |
-0.0390 |
259 |
1 |
118.65 |
2009-01-13 |
| 83. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
118.49 |
0.9740 |
-0.0212 |
209 |
1 |
118.49 |
2008-10-03 |
| 84. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
118.29 |
0.9289 |
0.0241 |
204 |
1 |
118.29 |
2009-05-11 |
| 85. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
118.11 |
0.9464 |
0.0125 |
323 |
1 |
118.11 |
2008-10-03 |
| 86. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
117.90 |
0.8961 |
0.0526 |
189 |
2 |
116.25 |
2009-06-08 |
| 87. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
117.66 |
1.0390 |
-0.0927 |
205 |
2 |
114.74 |
2009-06-07 |
| 88. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
117.13 |
0.9072 |
0.0369 |
237 |
1 |
117.13 |
2008-11-07 |
| 89. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
116.95 |
0.9846 |
-0.0414 |
281 |
2 |
100.38 |
2009-06-07 |
| 90. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
116.70 |
1.0788 |
-0.1421 |
171 |
1 |
116.70 |
2008-11-13 |
| 91. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
116.34 |
0.9831 |
-0.0358 |
469 |
1 |
116.34 |
2008-10-03 |
| 92. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
116.11 |
0.9780 |
-0.0395 |
337 |
1 |
116.11 |
2009-03-21 |
| 93. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
115.48 |
1.0796 |
-0.1521 |
129 |
1 |
115.48 |
2008-11-15 |
| 94. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
115.39 |
0.9411 |
-0.0087 |
318 |
1 |
115.39 |
2009-05-01 |
| 95. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
115.06 |
1.0167 |
-0.0810 |
378 |
1 |
115.06 |
2008-12-20 |
| 96. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
114.82 |
0.9772 |
-0.0538 |
217 |
2 |
109.73 |
2008-11-13 |
| 97. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
114.77 |
0.9646 |
-0.0390 |
264 |
2 |
111.01 |
2008-11-07 |
| 98. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
114.47 |
0.8958 |
0.0328 |
322 |
3 |
110.01 |
2008-11-07 |
| 99. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
114.21 |
0.9064 |
0.0247 |
399 |
1 |
114.21 |
2008-10-23 |
| 100. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
113.67 |
1.0534 |
-0.1337 |
357 |
1 |
113.67 |
2008-11-13 |
| 101. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
112.45 |
0.9601 |
-0.0479 |
308 |
3 |
109.76 |
2008-12-20 |
| 102. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
112.34 |
1.0168 |
-0.1088 |
271 |
1 |
112.34 |
2009-02-15 |
| 103. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
112.29 |
0.9286 |
-0.0234 |
194 |
2 |
108.98 |
2008-10-09 |
| 104. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
112.14 |
0.9754 |
-0.0643 |
362 |
1 |
112.14 |
2009-02-15 |
| 105. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
111.60 |
1.0799 |
-0.1831 |
243 |
1 |
111.60 |
2009-01-13 |
| 106. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
111.60 |
1.0565 |
-0.1586 |
247 |
1 |
111.60 |
2008-11-07 |
| 107. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
111.40 |
0.9653 |
-0.0581 |
394 |
1 |
111.40 |
2008-10-03 |
| 108. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
111.38 |
0.9233 |
-0.0329 |
168 |
1 |
111.38 |
2008-11-07 |
| 109. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
110.98 |
0.9109 |
-0.0128 |
401 |
1 |
110.98 |
2009-02-02 |
| 110. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
110.58 |
1.0417 |
-0.1520 |
253 |
2 |
105.06 |
2008-11-13 |
| 111. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
110.29 |
1.0331 |
-0.1455 |
234 |
1 |
110.29 |
2008-11-13 |
| 112. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
108.75 |
0.8722 |
0.0079 |
285 |
2 |
108.23 |
2008-11-18 |
| 113. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
108.53 |
0.8890 |
-0.0172 |
199 |
1 |
108.53 |
2008-10-03 |
| 114. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
107.76 |
0.9622 |
-0.0867 |
392 |
2 |
104.48 |
2009-02-15 |
| 115. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
105.83 |
0.9351 |
-0.0873 |
190 |
1 |
105.83 |
2008-10-03 |
| 116. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
105.74 |
0.9398 |
-0.0779 |
419 |
1 |
105.74 |
2008-11-13 |
| 117. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
105.53 |
0.8852 |
-0.0322 |
201 |
2 |
105.02 |
2008-10-03 |
| 118. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
104.51 |
1.0004 |
-0.1640 |
212 |
2 |
100.01 |
2008-10-03 |
| 119. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
102.90 |
0.9553 |
-0.1188 |
430 |
1 |
102.90 |
2008-10-03 |
| 120. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
102.88 |
0.8947 |
-0.0606 |
366 |
1 |
102.88 |
2008-10-03 |
| 121. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
101.34 |
0.8382 |
-0.0211 |
268 |
2 |
89.77 |
2008-12-20 |
| 122. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
99.13 |
0.8602 |
-0.0639 |
206 |
1 |
99.13 |
2008-10-10 |
| 123. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
96.11 |
0.9468 |
-0.1735 |
276 |
1 |
96.11 |
2008-10-03 |
| 124. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
92.46 |
0.9048 |
-0.1563 |
271 |
1 |
92.46 |
2009-03-18 |
| 125. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
90.79 |
0.9084 |
-0.1741 |
404 |
1 |
90.79 |
2008-10-03 |
| 126. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
77.28 |
1.0218 |
-0.4051 |
268 |
1 |
77.28 |
2009-03-18 |