Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
46.06 |
1.0873 |
-0.0524 |
243 |
1 |
46.06 |
2013-10-01 |
2. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
39.11 |
1.0836 |
-0.2001 |
206 |
1 |
39.11 |
2013-10-01 |
3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
47.39 |
1.0800 |
-0.0192 |
129 |
1 |
47.39 |
2013-10-02 |
4. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
52.68 |
1.0698 |
0.1256 |
303 |
1 |
52.68 |
2016-05-11 |
5. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
53.81 |
1.0686 |
0.1491 |
354 |
1 |
53.81 |
2015-12-07 |
6. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
47.36 |
1.0672 |
-0.0010 |
239 |
1 |
47.36 |
2013-10-02 |
7. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
40.29 |
1.0654 |
-0.1610 |
247 |
1 |
40.29 |
2013-10-02 |
8. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
46.87 |
1.0638 |
-0.0098 |
247 |
1 |
46.87 |
2013-10-02 |
9. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
48.19 |
1.0617 |
0.0221 |
171 |
2 |
46.36 |
2014-05-03 |
10. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
34.16 |
1.0582 |
-0.2934 |
180 |
1 |
34.16 |
2013-10-01 |
11. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
42.16 |
1.0543 |
-0.1042 |
233 |
1 |
42.16 |
2013-10-01 |
12. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
45.55 |
1.0540 |
-0.0324 |
184 |
1 |
45.55 |
2013-10-02 |
13. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
42.23 |
1.0521 |
-0.1067 |
197 |
1 |
42.23 |
2013-10-01 |
14. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
54.15 |
1.0509 |
0.1776 |
295 |
1 |
54.15 |
2015-12-07 |
15. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
49.26 |
1.0479 |
0.0615 |
205 |
1 |
49.26 |
2016-05-11 |
16. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
47.08 |
1.0464 |
0.0199 |
294 |
1 |
47.08 |
2013-10-02 |
17. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
43.07 |
1.0462 |
-0.0730 |
340 |
1 |
43.07 |
2013-10-02 |
18. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
47.00 |
1.0461 |
0.0180 |
286 |
1 |
47.00 |
2013-10-02 |
19. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
45.08 |
1.0370 |
-0.0217 |
262 |
1 |
45.08 |
2013-10-02 |
20. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
52.02 |
1.0287 |
0.1437 |
269 |
1 |
52.02 |
2013-10-02 |
21. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
42.47 |
1.0272 |
-0.0727 |
226 |
1 |
42.47 |
2014-11-14 |
22. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
39.88 |
1.0270 |
-0.1286 |
303 |
1 |
39.88 |
2013-10-01 |
23. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
48.02 |
1.0267 |
0.0589 |
261 |
1 |
48.02 |
2013-10-02 |
24. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
43.97 |
1.0230 |
-0.0309 |
200 |
2 |
39.97 |
2014-02-17 |
25. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
47.07 |
1.0225 |
0.0294 |
152 |
1 |
47.07 |
2016-05-11 |
26. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
44.84 |
1.0194 |
-0.0116 |
224 |
1 |
44.84 |
2013-10-02 |
27. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
42.45 |
1.0165 |
-0.0615 |
316 |
1 |
42.45 |
2013-10-03 |
28. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
43.68 |
1.0101 |
-0.0240 |
336 |
1 |
43.68 |
2015-12-07 |
29. |
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it ... |
46.25 |
1.0090 |
0.0399 |
170 |
1 |
46.25 |
2016-09-28 |
30. |
Hope you're feeling better now, hope you got my letter, how ... |
46.58 |
1.0065 |
0.0552 |
251 |
1 |
46.58 |
2016-05-15 |
31. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
51.93 |
1.0018 |
0.1696 |
246 |
1 |
51.93 |
2014-05-03 |
32. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
46.41 |
0.9980 |
0.0502 |
295 |
2 |
43.69 |
2013-10-03 |
33. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
41.20 |
0.9963 |
-0.0710 |
274 |
2 |
40.32 |
2013-10-01 |
34. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
49.85 |
0.9952 |
0.1311 |
220 |
2 |
46.42 |
2014-02-17 |
35. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
50.35 |
0.9932 |
0.1494 |
281 |
1 |
50.35 |
2016-05-15 |
36. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
37.08 |
0.9931 |
-0.1542 |
339 |
1 |
37.08 |
2013-10-01 |
37. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
40.26 |
0.9915 |
-0.0863 |
281 |
1 |
40.26 |
2014-05-13 |
38. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
42.71 |
0.9841 |
-0.0105 |
325 |
1 |
42.71 |
2013-10-01 |
39. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
35.09 |
0.9839 |
-0.1965 |
196 |
1 |
35.09 |
2013-10-01 |
40. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
39.01 |
0.9836 |
-0.1053 |
289 |
1 |
39.01 |
2013-10-03 |
41. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
42.07 |
0.9829 |
-0.0360 |
229 |
1 |
42.07 |
2013-10-02 |
42. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
42.88 |
0.9827 |
-0.0160 |
314 |
2 |
41.08 |
2013-10-02 |
43. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
43.93 |
0.9809 |
0.0161 |
250 |
2 |
43.23 |
2013-10-02 |
44. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
40.54 |
0.9801 |
-0.0594 |
282 |
1 |
40.54 |
2013-10-01 |
45. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
53.72 |
0.9791 |
0.2250 |
154 |
2 |
48.44 |
2013-10-03 |
46. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
47.56 |
0.9779 |
0.0920 |
255 |
1 |
47.56 |
2013-10-12 |
47. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
32.49 |
0.9763 |
-0.2461 |
143 |
1 |
32.49 |
2014-05-13 |
48. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
37.53 |
0.9761 |
-0.1264 |
227 |
1 |
37.53 |
2013-10-01 |
49. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
43.32 |
0.9745 |
-0.0009 |
217 |
2 |
40.04 |
2013-10-02 |
50. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
40.90 |
0.9660 |
-0.0376 |
258 |
1 |
40.90 |
2013-10-03 |
51. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
41.96 |
0.9574 |
-0.0090 |
354 |
1 |
41.96 |
2013-10-02 |
52. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
40.39 |
0.9549 |
-0.0487 |
204 |
1 |
40.39 |
2013-10-02 |
53. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
41.56 |
0.9425 |
-0.0054 |
248 |
1 |
41.56 |
2013-10-02 |
54. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
45.74 |
0.9403 |
0.0995 |
307 |
1 |
45.74 |
2013-10-02 |
55. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
40.66 |
0.9394 |
-0.0259 |
195 |
1 |
40.66 |
2013-10-02 |
56. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
41.15 |
0.9358 |
-0.0160 |
188 |
1 |
41.15 |
2014-05-03 |
57. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
44.83 |
0.9338 |
0.0862 |
326 |
1 |
44.83 |
2013-10-02 |
58. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
48.47 |
0.9310 |
0.1606 |
278 |
1 |
48.47 |
2013-10-02 |
59. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
36.32 |
0.9243 |
-0.1044 |
240 |
1 |
36.32 |
2013-10-01 |
60. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
44.63 |
0.9206 |
0.0857 |
317 |
1 |
44.63 |
2013-10-09 |
61. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
36.92 |
0.9162 |
-0.0836 |
401 |
1 |
36.92 |
2014-05-13 |
62. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
51.22 |
0.9131 |
0.2490 |
187 |
1 |
51.22 |
2013-10-09 |
63. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
42.58 |
0.9054 |
0.0556 |
204 |
1 |
42.58 |
2013-10-02 |
64. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
43.16 |
0.9027 |
0.0662 |
189 |
1 |
43.16 |
2014-02-17 |
65. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
39.66 |
0.9010 |
-0.0062 |
266 |
2 |
39.30 |
2013-10-02 |
66. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
41.28 |
0.9001 |
0.0295 |
217 |
1 |
41.28 |
2013-10-02 |
67. |
My wife has been the most adorable person, a friend closest ... |
58.44 |
0.9000 |
0.3805 |
140 |
1 |
58.44 |
2016-10-01 |
68. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
46.58 |
0.8986 |
0.1500 |
205 |
1 |
46.58 |
2014-04-06 |
69. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
42.53 |
0.8911 |
0.0693 |
241 |
1 |
42.53 |
2013-10-02 |
70. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
47.08 |
0.8880 |
0.1735 |
296 |
1 |
47.08 |
2013-10-02 |
71. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
49.19 |
0.8873 |
0.2209 |
241 |
1 |
49.19 |
2016-10-01 |
72. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
35.26 |
0.8768 |
-0.0802 |
199 |
1 |
35.26 |
2013-10-01 |
73. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
39.60 |
0.8742 |
0.0215 |
202 |
1 |
39.60 |
2013-10-01 |
74. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
50.67 |
0.8721 |
0.2765 |
231 |
1 |
50.67 |
2016-05-11 |
75. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
42.97 |
0.8669 |
0.1067 |
255 |
1 |
42.97 |
2013-10-03 |
76. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
55.04 |
0.8594 |
0.3783 |
170 |
1 |
55.04 |
2015-12-07 |
77. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
35.67 |
0.8571 |
-0.0562 |
202 |
1 |
35.67 |
2013-10-01 |
78. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
40.50 |
0.8381 |
0.0770 |
283 |
1 |
40.50 |
2013-10-09 |
79. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
46.52 |
0.8339 |
0.2137 |
209 |
1 |
46.52 |
2016-10-01 |
80. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
40.28 |
0.8172 |
0.0851 |
204 |
2 |
38.28 |
2016-10-01 |
81. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
33.78 |
0.7923 |
-0.0322 |
316 |
1 |
33.78 |
2014-05-13 |