| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
42.64 |
1.0331 |
0.2934 |
234 |
3 |
37.52 |
2008-10-01 |
| 2. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
39.77 |
1.0444 |
0.1876 |
197 |
4 |
36.47 |
2008-11-26 |
| 3. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
39.00 |
1.0528 |
0.1568 |
201 |
5 |
34.67 |
2008-10-08 |
| 4. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
38.85 |
1.0483 |
0.1580 |
227 |
2 |
34.93 |
2008-10-03 |
| 5. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
38.39 |
1.0487 |
0.1413 |
231 |
4 |
33.65 |
2008-11-07 |
| 6. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
37.90 |
1.0297 |
0.1487 |
249 |
1 |
37.90 |
2008-11-14 |
| 7. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
37.01 |
1.0714 |
0.0711 |
129 |
2 |
35.23 |
2008-11-26 |
| 8. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
36.94 |
1.1016 |
0.0476 |
233 |
1 |
36.94 |
2008-11-07 |
| 9. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
36.69 |
1.0498 |
0.0869 |
180 |
1 |
36.69 |
2008-09-10 |
| 10. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
36.40 |
0.9572 |
0.1738 |
201 |
3 |
34.66 |
2008-11-13 |
| 11. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
36.39 |
0.9221 |
0.2087 |
244 |
2 |
31.46 |
2008-11-14 |
| 12. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
36.21 |
0.9886 |
0.1403 |
220 |
2 |
35.24 |
2008-10-10 |
| 13. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
36.17 |
1.0787 |
0.0450 |
237 |
2 |
36.07 |
2008-09-29 |
| 14. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
35.79 |
1.0993 |
0.0119 |
265 |
1 |
35.79 |
2008-11-26 |
| 15. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
35.61 |
1.1018 |
-0.0009 |
220 |
2 |
31.63 |
2008-10-08 |
| 16. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
35.49 |
0.9649 |
0.1381 |
193 |
5 |
31.11 |
2008-11-14 |
| 17. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
35.37 |
0.9212 |
0.1821 |
323 |
1 |
35.37 |
2008-10-01 |
| 18. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
35.16 |
0.8791 |
0.2136 |
190 |
2 |
34.56 |
2008-11-26 |
| 19. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
35.15 |
1.0053 |
0.0860 |
232 |
1 |
35.15 |
2008-11-26 |
| 20. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
34.92 |
1.0385 |
0.0456 |
230 |
1 |
34.92 |
2008-10-16 |
| 21. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
34.78 |
0.9048 |
0.1812 |
271 |
1 |
34.78 |
2008-10-03 |
| 22. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
34.38 |
1.0063 |
0.0628 |
371 |
1 |
34.38 |
2008-09-29 |
| 23. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
34.24 |
1.0799 |
-0.0193 |
243 |
1 |
34.24 |
2008-09-19 |
| 24. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
34.22 |
1.0441 |
0.0210 |
252 |
1 |
34.22 |
2008-10-03 |
| 25. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
33.85 |
0.8951 |
0.1595 |
193 |
3 |
29.62 |
2008-11-26 |
| 26. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
33.79 |
0.9729 |
0.0775 |
255 |
2 |
32.74 |
2008-09-26 |
| 27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
33.74 |
0.9251 |
0.1288 |
177 |
3 |
33.00 |
2008-11-13 |
| 28. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
33.60 |
0.8739 |
0.1690 |
136 |
2 |
30.40 |
2008-09-22 |
| 29. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
33.60 |
0.9532 |
0.0898 |
258 |
1 |
33.60 |
2008-11-14 |
| 30. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
33.48 |
1.0462 |
-0.0116 |
184 |
1 |
33.48 |
2008-09-22 |
| 31. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
33.47 |
0.9965 |
0.0391 |
168 |
3 |
32.14 |
2008-11-26 |
| 32. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
33.33 |
0.8809 |
0.1527 |
127 |
1 |
33.33 |
2008-11-14 |
| 33. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
33.25 |
0.9865 |
0.0480 |
276 |
1 |
33.25 |
2008-10-08 |
| 34. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
33.02 |
1.0797 |
-0.0591 |
210 |
3 |
31.36 |
2008-09-26 |
| 35. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
33.00 |
1.0389 |
-0.0110 |
340 |
1 |
33.00 |
2008-10-01 |
| 36. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
32.95 |
1.0201 |
-0.0027 |
172 |
5 |
28.97 |
2008-12-05 |
| 37. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
32.91 |
1.0109 |
0.0123 |
276 |
1 |
32.91 |
2008-11-14 |
| 38. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
32.88 |
0.9691 |
0.0520 |
223 |
2 |
31.26 |
2008-11-14 |
| 39. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
32.80 |
1.0197 |
-0.0034 |
226 |
2 |
31.21 |
2008-09-29 |
| 40. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
32.73 |
1.0337 |
-0.0175 |
214 |
1 |
32.73 |
2008-10-03 |
| 41. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
32.68 |
1.0711 |
-0.0610 |
213 |
5 |
27.76 |
2008-11-26 |
| 42. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
32.66 |
0.9325 |
0.0754 |
156 |
3 |
32.04 |
2008-09-24 |
| 43. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
32.65 |
1.0252 |
-0.0173 |
176 |
3 |
32.15 |
2008-09-26 |
| 44. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
32.65 |
1.0829 |
-0.0671 |
288 |
1 |
32.65 |
2008-10-01 |
| 45. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
32.60 |
0.9281 |
0.0896 |
273 |
1 |
32.60 |
2008-10-03 |
| 46. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
32.58 |
0.9907 |
0.0202 |
211 |
1 |
32.58 |
2008-10-01 |
| 47. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
32.47 |
0.9740 |
0.0305 |
209 |
1 |
32.47 |
2008-10-01 |
| 48. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
32.44 |
0.9202 |
0.0874 |
254 |
2 |
30.08 |
2008-11-26 |
| 49. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
32.38 |
1.0201 |
-0.0135 |
303 |
2 |
31.47 |
2008-11-21 |
| 50. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
32.17 |
0.9266 |
0.0744 |
278 |
1 |
32.17 |
2008-11-07 |
| 51. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
32.13 |
0.8190 |
0.1867 |
135 |
2 |
31.09 |
2008-09-26 |
| 52. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
32.05 |
0.8745 |
0.1199 |
169 |
1 |
32.05 |
2008-09-05 |
| 53. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
32.00 |
1.0016 |
-0.0124 |
218 |
1 |
32.00 |
2008-10-08 |
| 54. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
31.91 |
0.8910 |
0.1019 |
150 |
4 |
28.39 |
2008-10-01 |
| 55. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
31.90 |
0.9196 |
0.0727 |
148 |
3 |
30.12 |
2008-11-14 |
| 56. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
31.89 |
0.9758 |
0.0155 |
314 |
1 |
31.89 |
2008-10-01 |
| 57. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
31.64 |
0.9257 |
0.0623 |
317 |
1 |
31.64 |
2008-10-10 |
| 58. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
31.63 |
1.0025 |
-0.0190 |
336 |
1 |
31.63 |
2008-11-14 |
| 59. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
31.57 |
0.9597 |
0.0248 |
347 |
1 |
31.57 |
2008-11-14 |
| 60. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
31.57 |
0.9500 |
0.0325 |
362 |
1 |
31.57 |
2008-10-01 |
| 61. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
31.48 |
1.0565 |
-0.0817 |
247 |
2 |
29.68 |
2008-09-29 |
| 62. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
31.36 |
0.8821 |
0.0916 |
176 |
2 |
30.88 |
2008-09-19 |
| 63. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
31.32 |
1.0523 |
-0.0840 |
256 |
1 |
31.32 |
2008-09-22 |
| 64. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
31.25 |
0.7375 |
0.2373 |
148 |
1 |
31.25 |
2008-11-13 |
| 65. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
31.22 |
0.9316 |
0.0441 |
287 |
2 |
30.12 |
2008-09-29 |
| 66. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
31.06 |
0.9226 |
0.0457 |
177 |
1 |
31.06 |
2008-11-07 |
| 67. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.94 |
1.0334 |
-0.0793 |
131 |
1 |
30.94 |
2008-11-14 |
| 68. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
30.84 |
0.9798 |
-0.0279 |
199 |
1 |
30.84 |
2008-11-07 |
| 69. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
30.75 |
1.0214 |
-0.0720 |
166 |
1 |
30.75 |
2008-10-10 |
| 70. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
30.70 |
1.0214 |
-0.0698 |
269 |
1 |
30.70 |
2008-09-24 |
| 71. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
30.25 |
1.0124 |
-0.0761 |
204 |
2 |
28.41 |
2008-10-17 |
| 72. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
30.19 |
1.0023 |
-0.0672 |
211 |
3 |
28.06 |
2008-11-22 |
| 73. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
30.13 |
0.9351 |
-0.0055 |
190 |
1 |
30.13 |
2008-11-14 |
| 74. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
29.97 |
1.0261 |
-0.0982 |
273 |
1 |
29.97 |
2008-09-26 |
| 75. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
29.83 |
0.8533 |
0.0733 |
232 |
1 |
29.83 |
2008-11-14 |
| 76. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
29.77 |
1.0486 |
-0.1241 |
289 |
1 |
29.77 |
2008-09-29 |
| 77. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
29.75 |
0.9763 |
-0.0537 |
289 |
2 |
27.49 |
2008-09-10 |
| 78. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
29.64 |
0.8037 |
0.1191 |
148 |
1 |
29.64 |
2008-09-26 |
| 79. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
29.48 |
1.0696 |
-0.1584 |
226 |
1 |
29.48 |
2008-11-25 |
| 80. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
29.33 |
1.0168 |
-0.1051 |
271 |
3 |
26.16 |
2008-09-22 |
| 81. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
29.18 |
0.9289 |
-0.0260 |
204 |
1 |
29.18 |
2008-11-14 |
| 82. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
29.13 |
1.0183 |
-0.1200 |
191 |
3 |
26.69 |
2008-09-29 |
| 83. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
29.08 |
0.9866 |
-0.0880 |
218 |
1 |
29.08 |
2008-09-11 |
| 84. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
29.04 |
0.9843 |
-0.0885 |
234 |
1 |
29.04 |
2008-09-24 |
| 85. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
29.03 |
0.8105 |
0.0854 |
204 |
2 |
25.94 |
2008-09-29 |
| 86. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
28.95 |
0.7259 |
0.1786 |
186 |
1 |
28.95 |
2008-09-26 |
| 87. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
28.31 |
1.0796 |
-0.2072 |
129 |
1 |
28.31 |
2008-10-20 |
| 88. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
28.22 |
0.8154 |
0.0615 |
193 |
2 |
27.71 |
2008-09-26 |
| 89. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
28.20 |
0.8295 |
0.0467 |
209 |
2 |
27.42 |
2008-11-07 |
| 90. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
28.11 |
0.7352 |
0.1369 |
106 |
2 |
26.24 |
2008-09-11 |
| 91. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
27.90 |
0.9576 |
-0.0886 |
212 |
1 |
27.90 |
2008-11-19 |
| 92. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
27.75 |
0.9899 |
-0.1345 |
163 |
1 |
27.75 |
2008-10-08 |
| 93. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
27.62 |
0.8996 |
-0.0490 |
192 |
3 |
25.96 |
2008-10-02 |
| 94. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
27.44 |
0.9941 |
-0.1460 |
217 |
2 |
26.87 |
2008-09-23 |
| 95. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
26.95 |
0.9682 |
-0.1346 |
143 |
1 |
26.95 |
2008-09-24 |
| 96. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
26.75 |
0.8360 |
-0.0075 |
170 |
1 |
26.75 |
2008-09-05 |
| 97. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
26.60 |
0.9769 |
-0.1547 |
263 |
1 |
26.60 |
2008-09-22 |
| 98. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
26.51 |
1.0131 |
-0.1958 |
225 |
2 |
26.03 |
2008-09-23 |
| 99. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
26.40 |
0.9846 |
-0.1685 |
281 |
1 |
26.40 |
2008-09-08 |
| 100. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
25.92 |
1.0396 |
-0.2442 |
149 |
1 |
25.92 |
2008-09-22 |
| 101. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
25.60 |
0.8956 |
-0.1003 |
217 |
2 |
23.68 |
2008-09-19 |
| 102. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
25.36 |
0.8919 |
-0.1083 |
205 |
2 |
23.60 |
2008-09-22 |
| 103. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
25.03 |
0.9884 |
-0.2142 |
233 |
1 |
25.03 |
2008-09-08 |
| 104. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
24.63 |
0.8553 |
-0.0982 |
174 |
1 |
24.63 |
2008-09-19 |
| 105. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
24.35 |
0.8810 |
-0.1272 |
282 |
1 |
24.35 |
2008-09-16 |
| 106. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
23.27 |
0.8887 |
-0.1552 |
128 |
1 |
23.27 |
2008-09-05 |