| 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... |
61.80 |
1.1018 |
0.2213 |
220 |
3 |
57.74 |
2010-01-11 |
| 2. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
58.55 |
0.9773 |
0.2737 |
123 |
1 |
58.55 |
2010-11-04 |
| 3. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
58.27 |
1.0205 |
0.2258 |
179 |
2 |
57.43 |
2009-10-01 |
| 4. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
54.77 |
1.0483 |
0.1255 |
227 |
1 |
54.77 |
2009-09-20 |
| 5. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
54.55 |
0.9263 |
0.2492 |
188 |
1 |
54.55 |
2010-05-26 |
| 6. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
53.23 |
1.0074 |
0.1378 |
242 |
2 |
53.22 |
2010-11-02 |
| 7. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
52.93 |
0.9572 |
0.1785 |
201 |
1 |
52.93 |
2009-08-27 |
| 8. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
52.91 |
0.8956 |
0.2434 |
217 |
1 |
52.91 |
2009-09-08 |
| 9. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
52.80 |
1.0062 |
0.1278 |
288 |
2 |
48.11 |
2009-09-01 |
| 10. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
52.38 |
1.1014 |
0.0613 |
273 |
2 |
49.85 |
2010-11-02 |
| 11. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
52.15 |
1.0696 |
0.0468 |
226 |
2 |
47.51 |
2010-05-28 |
| 12. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
52.11 |
1.0528 |
0.0612 |
201 |
1 |
52.11 |
2009-09-18 |
| 13. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
52.10 |
1.0214 |
0.0920 |
166 |
2 |
51.03 |
2009-08-27 |
| 14. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
52.09 |
0.9161 |
0.2005 |
200 |
2 |
48.53 |
2010-11-04 |
| 15. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
51.87 |
1.0740 |
0.0781 |
264 |
1 |
51.87 |
2010-01-11 |
| 16. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
51.49 |
0.9266 |
0.1791 |
267 |
1 |
51.49 |
2009-09-05 |
| 17. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
51.44 |
1.0787 |
0.0245 |
237 |
1 |
51.44 |
2009-09-01 |
| 18. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
51.39 |
1.0767 |
0.0245 |
212 |
1 |
51.39 |
2009-08-27 |
| 19. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
50.95 |
1.0567 |
0.0377 |
303 |
1 |
50.95 |
2010-05-28 |
| 20. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
50.94 |
1.0993 |
-0.0078 |
265 |
1 |
50.94 |
2010-01-11 |
| 21. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
50.93 |
0.9148 |
0.1800 |
317 |
1 |
50.93 |
2009-09-07 |
| 22. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
50.89 |
1.0797 |
0.0072 |
210 |
1 |
50.89 |
2010-11-04 |
| 23. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
50.81 |
1.0441 |
0.0482 |
252 |
1 |
50.81 |
2011-04-08 |
| 24. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
50.60 |
0.8615 |
0.2248 |
110 |
1 |
50.60 |
2009-08-23 |
| 25. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
50.57 |
0.9852 |
0.1007 |
264 |
2 |
47.04 |
2010-11-04 |
| 26. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.50 |
0.9843 |
0.0947 |
234 |
1 |
50.50 |
2010-11-04 |
| 27. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
50.46 |
0.9884 |
0.0940 |
233 |
1 |
50.46 |
2009-09-08 |
| 28. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
50.04 |
1.0316 |
0.0463 |
333 |
1 |
50.04 |
2009-09-20 |
| 29. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
50.01 |
1.0033 |
0.0634 |
189 |
1 |
50.01 |
2009-08-27 |
| 30. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
49.91 |
1.0419 |
0.0293 |
261 |
1 |
49.91 |
2010-11-02 |
| 31. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
49.91 |
1.0154 |
0.1056 |
351 |
1 |
49.91 |
2010-01-11 |
| 32. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
49.87 |
0.9729 |
0.0977 |
255 |
1 |
49.87 |
2009-09-08 |
| 33. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
49.36 |
1.0666 |
-0.0072 |
297 |
1 |
49.36 |
2009-10-01 |
| 34. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
49.20 |
0.9786 |
0.0767 |
235 |
1 |
49.20 |
2009-09-05 |
| 35. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
49.16 |
1.0679 |
0.0073 |
177 |
1 |
49.16 |
2010-11-04 |
| 36. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
49.11 |
1.0390 |
0.0111 |
205 |
2 |
38.91 |
2009-08-23 |
| 37. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
49.09 |
0.9711 |
0.0811 |
176 |
1 |
49.09 |
2010-11-04 |
| 38. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
48.93 |
1.0684 |
0.0113 |
253 |
1 |
48.93 |
2011-04-08 |
| 39. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
48.81 |
1.0487 |
-0.0064 |
231 |
1 |
48.81 |
2011-04-08 |
| 40. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
48.60 |
1.0254 |
0.0582 |
217 |
1 |
48.60 |
2009-09-18 |
| 41. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
48.03 |
0.9912 |
0.0661 |
237 |
1 |
48.03 |
2010-11-02 |
| 42. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
48.00 |
0.8811 |
0.1532 |
239 |
1 |
48.00 |
2009-09-18 |
| 43. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
47.92 |
0.9925 |
0.0722 |
247 |
1 |
47.92 |
2010-11-02 |
| 44. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
47.92 |
1.0132 |
0.0061 |
143 |
1 |
47.92 |
2010-06-01 |
| 45. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
47.92 |
0.9844 |
0.0484 |
293 |
1 |
47.92 |
2009-09-01 |
| 46. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
47.85 |
1.0417 |
-0.0177 |
253 |
1 |
47.85 |
2010-02-12 |
| 47. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
47.80 |
1.0375 |
0.0339 |
200 |
1 |
47.80 |
2009-08-26 |
| 48. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
47.44 |
0.9697 |
0.0481 |
249 |
1 |
47.44 |
2009-09-15 |
| 49. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
47.22 |
0.9965 |
0.0169 |
277 |
1 |
47.22 |
2010-11-04 |
| 50. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
47.11 |
0.9567 |
0.0535 |
273 |
1 |
47.11 |
2010-11-03 |
| 51. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
46.95 |
1.0125 |
-0.0079 |
224 |
1 |
46.95 |
2010-11-04 |
| 52. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
46.95 |
0.9048 |
0.1067 |
271 |
1 |
46.95 |
2009-09-08 |
| 53. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
46.87 |
0.9633 |
0.0441 |
304 |
1 |
46.87 |
2009-08-23 |
| 54. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
46.77 |
0.9756 |
0.0261 |
229 |
1 |
46.77 |
2009-09-05 |
| 55. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
46.70 |
1.0565 |
-0.0576 |
247 |
1 |
46.70 |
2010-11-02 |
| 56. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
46.68 |
1.0619 |
-0.0572 |
354 |
2 |
43.59 |
2010-11-02 |
| 57. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
46.66 |
1.0516 |
-0.0514 |
281 |
1 |
46.66 |
2010-05-28 |
| 58. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
46.60 |
1.0352 |
-0.0328 |
341 |
1 |
46.60 |
2009-08-27 |
| 59. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
46.29 |
0.9072 |
0.0837 |
237 |
2 |
46.04 |
2010-06-01 |
| 60. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
46.15 |
0.9632 |
0.0687 |
345 |
1 |
46.15 |
2010-01-11 |
| 61. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
46.09 |
0.8961 |
0.0888 |
189 |
1 |
46.09 |
2009-09-01 |
| 62. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
46.06 |
0.9814 |
0.0456 |
364 |
1 |
46.06 |
2009-09-18 |
| 63. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
45.94 |
0.9213 |
0.0642 |
295 |
1 |
45.94 |
2009-09-18 |
| 64. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
45.85 |
0.9376 |
0.0508 |
367 |
1 |
45.85 |
2009-08-27 |
| 65. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
45.83 |
1.0496 |
-0.0677 |
314 |
1 |
45.83 |
2009-12-17 |
| 66. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
45.64 |
1.0669 |
-0.0561 |
286 |
1 |
45.64 |
2009-08-24 |
| 67. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
45.57 |
1.0885 |
-0.1082 |
315 |
1 |
45.57 |
2009-08-27 |
| 68. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
45.41 |
0.9697 |
0.0084 |
266 |
1 |
45.41 |
2010-11-04 |
| 69. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
45.36 |
0.9691 |
0.0028 |
223 |
1 |
45.36 |
2010-01-11 |
| 70. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
45.28 |
0.9938 |
-0.0223 |
339 |
1 |
45.28 |
2010-03-21 |
| 71. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
45.16 |
0.8559 |
0.1130 |
191 |
1 |
45.16 |
2009-08-24 |
| 72. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
45.15 |
0.9350 |
0.0336 |
195 |
1 |
45.15 |
2010-11-04 |
| 73. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
45.14 |
0.9986 |
-0.0304 |
283 |
1 |
45.14 |
2009-08-24 |
| 74. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
45.09 |
0.9097 |
0.0571 |
153 |
1 |
45.09 |
2010-05-28 |
| 75. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
44.95 |
1.0711 |
-0.1127 |
213 |
1 |
44.95 |
2009-08-22 |
| 76. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
44.81 |
0.9673 |
0.0325 |
232 |
1 |
44.81 |
2010-11-04 |
| 77. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
44.68 |
0.9866 |
-0.0327 |
218 |
1 |
44.68 |
2009-08-24 |
| 78. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
44.64 |
1.0257 |
-0.0625 |
401 |
1 |
44.64 |
2009-09-01 |
| 79. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
44.39 |
0.9894 |
-0.0337 |
323 |
3 |
41.80 |
2011-04-08 |
| 80. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
44.20 |
1.0521 |
-0.1097 |
171 |
1 |
44.20 |
2009-08-27 |
| 81. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
44.17 |
1.0173 |
-0.0266 |
268 |
1 |
44.17 |
2010-05-26 |
| 82. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
44.16 |
0.9897 |
-0.0457 |
274 |
1 |
44.16 |
2009-10-01 |
| 83. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
44.15 |
1.0292 |
-0.0844 |
262 |
1 |
44.15 |
2010-02-12 |
| 84. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
44.01 |
0.9965 |
-0.0582 |
168 |
1 |
44.01 |
2009-08-24 |
| 85. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
43.78 |
0.8722 |
0.0688 |
285 |
1 |
43.78 |
2009-09-05 |
| 86. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
43.77 |
1.0034 |
-0.0670 |
302 |
1 |
43.77 |
2009-08-27 |
| 87. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
43.60 |
1.0379 |
-0.0688 |
245 |
1 |
43.60 |
2010-11-04 |
| 88. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
43.47 |
0.8951 |
0.0384 |
193 |
1 |
43.47 |
2009-08-27 |
| 89. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
43.37 |
1.0042 |
-0.0335 |
352 |
1 |
43.37 |
2010-06-01 |
| 90. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
43.32 |
0.9266 |
0.0033 |
278 |
1 |
43.32 |
2009-08-23 |
| 91. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
43.20 |
0.8153 |
0.1150 |
200 |
2 |
38.08 |
2009-08-22 |
| 92. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
43.16 |
1.0201 |
-0.0951 |
303 |
1 |
43.16 |
2009-09-08 |
| 93. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
43.13 |
0.9233 |
-0.0076 |
168 |
1 |
43.13 |
2009-08-26 |
| 94. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
43.12 |
0.9734 |
-0.0500 |
289 |
1 |
43.12 |
2009-08-27 |
| 95. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
43.05 |
1.0941 |
-0.1407 |
256 |
1 |
43.05 |
2010-05-26 |
| 96. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
42.90 |
0.9731 |
-0.0666 |
129 |
1 |
42.90 |
2011-04-08 |
| 97. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
42.86 |
1.0016 |
-0.0881 |
218 |
1 |
42.86 |
2009-08-22 |
| 98. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
42.79 |
1.0788 |
-0.1678 |
171 |
1 |
42.79 |
2009-08-22 |
| 99. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
42.52 |
0.9768 |
-0.0635 |
387 |
1 |
42.52 |
2009-09-01 |
| 100. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
42.29 |
0.9529 |
-0.0066 |
269 |
1 |
42.29 |
2010-01-11 |
| 101. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
41.85 |
0.9128 |
0.0249 |
369 |
1 |
41.85 |
2010-05-26 |
| 102. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
41.81 |
0.8809 |
0.0122 |
127 |
1 |
41.81 |
2009-08-22 |
| 103. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
41.69 |
0.9068 |
-0.0111 |
269 |
2 |
40.13 |
2009-09-08 |
| 104. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
41.66 |
0.9583 |
-0.0226 |
341 |
1 |
41.66 |
2010-11-04 |
| 105. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
41.64 |
0.8323 |
0.0597 |
203 |
1 |
41.64 |
2009-08-22 |
| 106. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
41.56 |
0.9351 |
-0.0507 |
190 |
1 |
41.56 |
2009-08-22 |
| 107. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
41.55 |
0.9286 |
-0.0400 |
194 |
1 |
41.55 |
2009-09-08 |
| 108. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
40.72 |
0.8845 |
-0.0125 |
273 |
1 |
40.72 |
2010-01-11 |
| 109. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
40.35 |
1.0444 |
-0.1874 |
197 |
1 |
40.35 |
2009-09-18 |
| 110. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
40.21 |
0.9966 |
-0.1367 |
259 |
1 |
40.21 |
2009-08-22 |
| 111. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
40.21 |
0.8793 |
-0.0172 |
157 |
3 |
37.24 |
2010-05-28 |
| 112. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
39.28 |
0.8263 |
0.0119 |
162 |
2 |
38.72 |
2009-08-22 |
| 113. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
39.27 |
1.0445 |
-0.2035 |
373 |
1 |
39.27 |
2009-09-05 |
| 114. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
39.15 |
0.8382 |
-0.0002 |
268 |
1 |
39.15 |
2009-09-08 |
| 115. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
38.55 |
1.0462 |
-0.2278 |
184 |
1 |
38.55 |
2009-08-22 |
| 116. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
38.38 |
0.8739 |
-0.0571 |
136 |
1 |
38.38 |
2009-08-22 |
| 117. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
37.68 |
0.9820 |
-0.1762 |
274 |
1 |
37.68 |
2009-08-22 |
| 118. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
36.46 |
0.9168 |
-0.1364 |
240 |
1 |
36.46 |
2009-08-22 |
| 119. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
36.03 |
0.9795 |
-0.2098 |
308 |
1 |
36.03 |
2009-08-22 |
| 120. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
35.75 |
0.8105 |
-0.0511 |
204 |
1 |
35.75 |
2009-08-22 |
| 121. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
35.74 |
0.9527 |
-0.1894 |
251 |
1 |
35.74 |
2009-08-22 |
| 122. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
34.66 |
0.9500 |
-0.2078 |
362 |
1 |
34.66 |
2009-08-22 |
| 123. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
34.19 |
0.9776 |
-0.2476 |
308 |
1 |
34.19 |
2009-08-22 |
| 124. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
28.81 |
1.0796 |
-0.4715 |
129 |
1 |
28.81 |
2009-09-08 |