| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
87.39 |
1.0523 |
0.2551 |
256 |
1 |
87.39 |
2010-05-03 |
| 2. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
80.04 |
1.0375 |
0.2086 |
200 |
1 |
80.04 |
2010-12-31 |
| 3. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
79.31 |
0.8975 |
0.2922 |
268 |
1 |
79.31 |
2009-05-29 |
| 4. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
78.66 |
0.9682 |
0.2097 |
143 |
1 |
78.66 |
2009-04-28 |
| 5. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
78.46 |
1.0534 |
0.1254 |
357 |
1 |
78.46 |
2010-12-19 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
77.80 |
1.1018 |
0.0577 |
220 |
1 |
77.80 |
2010-12-19 |
| 7. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
77.23 |
1.0391 |
0.1246 |
358 |
1 |
77.23 |
2010-12-19 |
| 8. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
76.81 |
1.0528 |
0.0937 |
201 |
1 |
76.81 |
2009-04-25 |
| 9. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
76.26 |
1.0477 |
0.0976 |
360 |
2 |
72.78 |
2009-04-26 |
| 10. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
75.05 |
0.9216 |
0.2423 |
255 |
1 |
75.05 |
2010-12-19 |
| 11. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
74.80 |
1.0201 |
0.1012 |
303 |
1 |
74.80 |
2009-04-26 |
| 12. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
74.52 |
0.9844 |
0.1373 |
293 |
2 |
64.68 |
2010-05-01 |
| 13. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
74.41 |
0.9763 |
0.1379 |
289 |
1 |
74.41 |
2009-08-15 |
| 14. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
74.08 |
1.0454 |
0.0613 |
255 |
2 |
72.94 |
2010-05-01 |
| 15. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
74.07 |
0.9286 |
0.1801 |
194 |
1 |
74.07 |
2009-08-15 |
| 16. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
73.80 |
1.0169 |
0.1274 |
346 |
1 |
73.80 |
2010-12-19 |
| 17. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
72.72 |
1.1068 |
0.0229 |
393 |
1 |
72.72 |
2010-12-19 |
| 18. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
72.53 |
1.0361 |
0.0511 |
269 |
1 |
72.53 |
2009-11-07 |
| 19. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
72.14 |
0.9633 |
0.1193 |
304 |
1 |
72.14 |
2009-05-29 |
| 20. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
71.59 |
0.9899 |
0.0773 |
163 |
1 |
71.59 |
2009-04-28 |
| 21. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
71.25 |
1.0787 |
-0.0133 |
237 |
1 |
71.25 |
2009-04-28 |
| 22. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
71.11 |
0.8595 |
0.2076 |
242 |
2 |
66.62 |
2010-05-01 |
| 23. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
71.11 |
0.9430 |
0.1241 |
297 |
1 |
71.11 |
2010-03-15 |
| 24. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
70.97 |
1.0498 |
0.0080 |
180 |
2 |
63.46 |
2009-09-04 |
| 25. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
70.89 |
0.9226 |
0.1452 |
348 |
1 |
70.89 |
2009-08-18 |
| 26. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
70.89 |
1.0016 |
0.0552 |
218 |
1 |
70.89 |
2009-04-28 |
| 27. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
70.74 |
0.8919 |
0.1660 |
205 |
1 |
70.74 |
2010-05-01 |
| 28. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
70.42 |
0.9910 |
0.0655 |
295 |
2 |
67.76 |
2009-08-05 |
| 29. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
70.10 |
0.9672 |
0.0889 |
396 |
1 |
70.10 |
2009-08-18 |
| 30. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
69.54 |
1.0297 |
0.0100 |
249 |
2 |
63.50 |
2010-05-01 |
| 31. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
69.28 |
1.0799 |
-0.0467 |
243 |
1 |
69.28 |
2009-04-26 |
| 32. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
69.27 |
1.0529 |
-0.0160 |
351 |
1 |
69.27 |
2009-04-26 |
| 33. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
69.22 |
1.0613 |
-0.0242 |
266 |
1 |
69.22 |
2009-04-25 |
| 34. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
68.63 |
0.9986 |
0.0292 |
283 |
1 |
68.63 |
2009-04-26 |
| 35. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
68.45 |
0.9278 |
0.0994 |
295 |
2 |
65.93 |
2009-04-28 |
| 36. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
68.37 |
0.9084 |
0.1187 |
404 |
2 |
65.69 |
2009-04-28 |
| 37. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
68.34 |
1.0125 |
0.0078 |
224 |
1 |
68.34 |
2009-04-25 |
| 38. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
68.28 |
0.9619 |
0.0656 |
393 |
1 |
68.28 |
2009-05-29 |
| 39. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
68.19 |
1.0487 |
-0.0332 |
231 |
1 |
68.19 |
2009-08-15 |
| 40. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
67.99 |
0.9966 |
0.0205 |
259 |
1 |
67.99 |
2009-05-29 |
| 41. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
67.70 |
0.9769 |
0.0344 |
263 |
1 |
67.70 |
2009-04-26 |
| 42. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
67.47 |
1.0124 |
-0.0053 |
204 |
1 |
67.47 |
2009-04-25 |
| 43. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
67.15 |
1.0214 |
-0.0180 |
269 |
1 |
67.15 |
2009-09-04 |
| 44. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
67.11 |
0.9084 |
0.0976 |
300 |
1 |
67.11 |
2009-08-15 |
| 45. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
67.00 |
0.9942 |
0.0171 |
483 |
1 |
67.00 |
2009-04-25 |
| 46. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
66.97 |
0.9540 |
0.0460 |
285 |
2 |
62.87 |
2009-09-04 |
| 47. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
66.30 |
0.9089 |
0.0866 |
342 |
1 |
66.30 |
2010-05-01 |
| 48. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
66.00 |
1.0328 |
-0.0068 |
356 |
1 |
66.00 |
2010-12-19 |
| 49. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
65.92 |
0.8826 |
0.1052 |
296 |
1 |
65.92 |
2009-05-29 |
| 50. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
65.85 |
0.9376 |
0.0530 |
367 |
1 |
65.85 |
2009-04-26 |
| 51. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
65.65 |
0.9279 |
0.0609 |
317 |
1 |
65.65 |
2010-05-01 |
| 52. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
65.61 |
0.9792 |
0.0407 |
265 |
1 |
65.61 |
2010-05-01 |
| 53. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
65.55 |
0.9426 |
0.0410 |
317 |
1 |
65.55 |
2009-08-05 |
| 54. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
65.30 |
1.0666 |
-0.0896 |
297 |
1 |
65.30 |
2009-04-26 |
| 55. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
65.14 |
1.0263 |
-0.0531 |
267 |
1 |
65.14 |
2009-04-26 |
| 56. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
64.88 |
0.9675 |
0.0123 |
383 |
1 |
64.88 |
2009-04-25 |
| 57. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
64.42 |
0.8553 |
0.1032 |
174 |
2 |
60.17 |
2009-08-18 |
| 58. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
64.23 |
1.0120 |
-0.0523 |
290 |
1 |
64.23 |
2009-04-26 |
| 59. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
64.22 |
0.9831 |
-0.0148 |
469 |
2 |
60.74 |
2009-09-04 |
| 60. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
64.15 |
0.9897 |
-0.0328 |
274 |
1 |
64.15 |
2009-04-26 |
| 61. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
63.93 |
1.0574 |
-0.0734 |
205 |
1 |
63.93 |
2010-12-19 |
| 62. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
63.58 |
0.8941 |
0.0583 |
216 |
1 |
63.58 |
2010-06-10 |
| 63. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
63.47 |
0.9991 |
-0.0494 |
225 |
1 |
63.47 |
2009-04-26 |
| 64. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
63.25 |
0.9527 |
-0.0068 |
251 |
1 |
63.25 |
2009-04-28 |
| 65. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
63.14 |
0.9597 |
-0.0116 |
347 |
1 |
63.14 |
2009-04-25 |
| 66. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
62.95 |
0.9593 |
-0.0134 |
398 |
1 |
62.95 |
2009-04-26 |
| 67. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
62.79 |
1.0257 |
-0.0805 |
401 |
1 |
62.79 |
2009-04-26 |
| 68. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
62.29 |
0.9557 |
-0.0182 |
331 |
2 |
57.90 |
2009-04-28 |
| 69. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
60.88 |
0.8105 |
0.0947 |
204 |
1 |
60.88 |
2010-12-19 |
| 70. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
60.84 |
0.9429 |
-0.0322 |
287 |
1 |
60.84 |
2009-04-26 |
| 71. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
59.72 |
1.0201 |
-0.1240 |
375 |
1 |
59.72 |
2009-08-18 |
| 72. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
59.70 |
0.9710 |
-0.0855 |
173 |
1 |
59.70 |
2009-04-25 |
| 73. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
59.62 |
0.8753 |
0.0248 |
427 |
1 |
59.62 |
2010-05-01 |
| 74. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
59.57 |
0.9843 |
-0.0994 |
234 |
1 |
59.57 |
2009-08-15 |
| 75. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
59.29 |
1.0189 |
-0.1302 |
337 |
1 |
59.29 |
2009-04-24 |
| 76. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
59.06 |
1.0013 |
-0.1201 |
273 |
1 |
59.06 |
2010-05-01 |
| 77. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
58.92 |
1.0788 |
-0.2045 |
171 |
1 |
58.92 |
2009-04-25 |
| 78. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
58.23 |
0.9045 |
-0.0343 |
235 |
1 |
58.23 |
2009-04-25 |
| 79. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
58.10 |
0.9780 |
-0.1094 |
337 |
1 |
58.10 |
2009-09-04 |
| 80. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
58.10 |
1.0398 |
-0.1830 |
110 |
1 |
58.10 |
2009-04-26 |
| 81. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
57.74 |
0.9148 |
-0.0511 |
317 |
1 |
57.74 |
2009-04-26 |
| 82. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
57.32 |
0.9532 |
-0.0987 |
258 |
1 |
57.32 |
2009-04-24 |
| 83. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
56.77 |
0.9293 |
-0.0806 |
355 |
1 |
56.77 |
2009-04-25 |
| 84. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
56.66 |
0.9636 |
-0.1182 |
254 |
1 |
56.66 |
2009-04-25 |
| 85. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
56.50 |
0.9513 |
-0.1042 |
354 |
1 |
56.50 |
2009-04-26 |
| 86. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
55.35 |
1.0521 |
-0.2313 |
171 |
1 |
55.35 |
2009-04-25 |
| 87. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
54.77 |
0.9500 |
-0.1308 |
362 |
1 |
54.77 |
2009-04-25 |
| 88. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
54.43 |
0.9731 |
-0.1738 |
129 |
1 |
54.43 |
2009-04-25 |
| 89. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
53.16 |
1.0270 |
-0.1983 |
255 |
1 |
53.16 |
2010-05-01 |
| 90. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
52.55 |
0.9768 |
-0.1904 |
387 |
1 |
52.55 |
2009-04-25 |
| 91. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
52.36 |
0.9464 |
-0.1604 |
323 |
1 |
52.36 |
2009-04-25 |
| 92. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
51.31 |
0.8722 |
-0.1044 |
285 |
1 |
51.31 |
2009-04-30 |
| 93. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
46.59 |
1.0714 |
-0.3874 |
129 |
1 |
46.59 |
2010-05-03 |
| 94. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
46.39 |
0.9886 |
-0.2960 |
220 |
1 |
46.39 |
2009-04-25 |