Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remai... |
94.29 |
1.0393 |
0.3294 |
166 |
2 |
93.93 |
2016-11-12 |
2. |
If only all the contradictory voices shouting inside my head... |
91.17 |
1.0577 |
0.2774 |
176 |
1 |
91.17 |
2016-11-12 |
3. |
We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no... |
89.81 |
1.0897 |
0.2185 |
148 |
1 |
89.81 |
2016-10-31 |
4. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
89.58 |
1.0665 |
0.2379 |
210 |
2 |
78.58 |
2016-11-12 |
5. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
83.03 |
1.0461 |
0.1639 |
318 |
1 |
83.03 |
2016-10-30 |
6. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
81.41 |
0.9957 |
0.1923 |
323 |
1 |
81.41 |
2016-11-01 |
7. |
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses a... |
81.13 |
1.0606 |
0.1334 |
460 |
1 |
81.13 |
2016-10-28 |
8. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
80.46 |
0.9162 |
0.2557 |
401 |
1 |
80.46 |
2016-11-06 |
9. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
80.23 |
1.1095 |
0.0595 |
252 |
1 |
80.23 |
2016-10-30 |
10. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
79.82 |
0.9408 |
0.2140 |
177 |
1 |
79.82 |
2016-10-30 |
11. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
77.76 |
0.9657 |
0.1767 |
424 |
2 |
76.76 |
2016-11-12 |
12. |
In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea.... |
77.56 |
1.0654 |
0.0707 |
229 |
1 |
77.56 |
2016-10-28 |
13. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
77.54 |
0.9704 |
0.1566 |
254 |
1 |
77.54 |
2016-11-01 |
14. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
77.17 |
1.0520 |
0.0829 |
392 |
1 |
77.17 |
2016-11-12 |
15. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
76.69 |
1.0364 |
0.0828 |
230 |
1 |
76.69 |
2016-10-30 |
16. |
Our prematurity brought a second big advantage: it forced us... |
76.65 |
0.9992 |
0.1269 |
455 |
2 |
72.80 |
2016-10-31 |
17. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
75.54 |
1.0665 |
0.0257 |
196 |
1 |
75.54 |
2016-10-28 |
18. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
74.72 |
1.0392 |
0.0519 |
258 |
2 |
68.46 |
2016-11-01 |
19. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
74.71 |
1.0686 |
0.0215 |
354 |
1 |
74.71 |
2016-11-12 |
20. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
74.52 |
1.0588 |
0.0243 |
281 |
1 |
74.52 |
2016-11-12 |
21. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
74.43 |
1.0543 |
0.0283 |
233 |
1 |
74.43 |
2016-10-27 |
22. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
73.73 |
1.0483 |
0.0291 |
305 |
1 |
73.73 |
2016-10-30 |
23. |
I was standing all alone in the world outside. You were sear... |
73.72 |
1.0462 |
0.0264 |
188 |
1 |
73.72 |
2016-10-30 |
24. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
73.66 |
1.0287 |
0.0412 |
269 |
1 |
73.66 |
2016-10-28 |
25. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
73.29 |
1.0165 |
0.0476 |
316 |
2 |
72.33 |
2016-11-01 |
26. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
72.41 |
0.9643 |
0.0970 |
282 |
1 |
72.41 |
2016-11-01 |
27. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
72.28 |
1.0639 |
-0.0119 |
303 |
1 |
72.28 |
2016-11-12 |
28. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
72.08 |
1.0590 |
-0.0127 |
250 |
1 |
72.08 |
2016-11-01 |
29. |
What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all do... |
71.91 |
1.0734 |
-0.0267 |
239 |
1 |
71.91 |
2016-10-31 |
30. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
71.59 |
1.0128 |
0.0346 |
369 |
2 |
67.91 |
2016-10-28 |
31. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
71.31 |
0.9157 |
0.1336 |
353 |
1 |
71.31 |
2016-10-30 |
32. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
71.04 |
1.0132 |
0.0195 |
371 |
1 |
71.04 |
2016-10-28 |
33. |
When we got to the Mint I parked on the street in front of t... |
70.96 |
1.0511 |
-0.0178 |
158 |
1 |
70.96 |
2016-10-28 |
34. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
70.91 |
1.0996 |
-0.0670 |
153 |
1 |
70.91 |
2016-10-28 |
35. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
70.83 |
1.0471 |
-0.0266 |
170 |
1 |
70.83 |
2016-10-30 |
36. |
A new disease has fallen on the life of man. Our torment is ... |
70.75 |
0.9675 |
0.0246 |
213 |
1 |
70.75 |
2018-01-17 |
37. |
And, anyway, it's not about making money, it's about taking ... |
70.59 |
1.0155 |
0.0061 |
172 |
1 |
70.59 |
2016-10-28 |
38. |
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death,... |
70.39 |
0.9567 |
0.0443 |
208 |
1 |
70.39 |
2016-11-12 |
39. |
If you think that you are going to love something, give it a... |
70.28 |
1.1301 |
-0.1100 |
147 |
1 |
70.28 |
2016-10-31 |
40. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
70.13 |
1.0250 |
-0.0025 |
271 |
1 |
70.13 |
2016-10-31 |
41. |
My severe injuries had healed and the sweet taste of blood c... |
70.09 |
0.9813 |
0.0508 |
433 |
1 |
70.09 |
2016-10-30 |
42. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
70.08 |
1.0960 |
-0.0737 |
315 |
1 |
70.08 |
2016-10-27 |
43. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
69.49 |
1.0538 |
-0.0315 |
367 |
1 |
69.49 |
2016-10-28 |
44. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
69.34 |
0.9801 |
0.0354 |
282 |
1 |
69.34 |
2016-10-27 |
45. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
69.18 |
0.9046 |
0.1141 |
448 |
1 |
69.18 |
2016-10-31 |
46. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
69.10 |
1.0504 |
-0.0445 |
225 |
1 |
69.10 |
2016-10-28 |
47. |
Stir-frying is a cooking technique in which small, uniform-s... |
69.07 |
0.9173 |
0.0684 |
443 |
1 |
69.07 |
2018-01-17 |
48. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
68.93 |
1.0466 |
-0.0455 |
230 |
1 |
68.93 |
2016-11-06 |
49. |
Vowels were something else. He didn't like them and they did... |
68.89 |
0.9920 |
0.0135 |
396 |
1 |
68.89 |
2016-11-12 |
50. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
68.75 |
1.0086 |
-0.0142 |
218 |
1 |
68.75 |
2016-10-28 |
51. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
68.70 |
1.0654 |
-0.0699 |
247 |
1 |
68.70 |
2016-10-28 |
52. |
I never wanted to become someone like him. So secure, conten... |
68.68 |
1.0591 |
-0.0576 |
245 |
1 |
68.68 |
2016-10-27 |
53. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
68.47 |
0.8172 |
0.1730 |
204 |
1 |
68.47 |
2016-10-30 |
54. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
67.98 |
1.0501 |
-0.0620 |
263 |
1 |
67.98 |
2016-10-30 |
55. |
Remember before when I was talking about smelly garbage stan... |
67.94 |
0.9247 |
0.0464 |
141 |
1 |
67.94 |
2016-10-27 |
56. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
67.77 |
0.9762 |
0.0082 |
249 |
2 |
64.51 |
2016-10-30 |
57. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
67.71 |
1.0189 |
-0.0358 |
290 |
2 |
67.69 |
2016-10-30 |
58. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
67.59 |
1.0195 |
-0.0314 |
239 |
1 |
67.59 |
2016-10-31 |
59. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
67.46 |
0.9833 |
-0.0005 |
387 |
1 |
67.46 |
2016-10-31 |
60. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
66.60 |
0.9974 |
-0.0340 |
163 |
1 |
66.60 |
2016-10-28 |
61. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
66.27 |
0.9583 |
0.0048 |
237 |
1 |
66.27 |
2016-10-30 |
62. |
The boy had been working for the crystal merchant for almost... |
66.19 |
1.0837 |
-0.1169 |
288 |
1 |
66.19 |
2016-10-30 |
63. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
66.17 |
0.9708 |
-0.0121 |
349 |
1 |
66.17 |
2016-10-28 |
64. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
66.10 |
0.8981 |
0.0710 |
255 |
1 |
66.10 |
2016-10-30 |
65. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
65.94 |
1.0476 |
-0.0998 |
110 |
1 |
65.94 |
2016-11-12 |
66. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
65.82 |
0.9271 |
0.0288 |
295 |
1 |
65.82 |
2016-10-27 |
67. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
65.80 |
0.9070 |
0.0440 |
192 |
3 |
59.27 |
2016-11-06 |
68. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
65.78 |
1.0509 |
-0.0884 |
295 |
1 |
65.78 |
2016-10-27 |
69. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
65.72 |
0.9632 |
-0.0072 |
287 |
3 |
59.93 |
2016-11-06 |
70. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
65.55 |
0.9480 |
0.0046 |
297 |
1 |
65.55 |
2016-10-28 |
71. |
What alternative is there to the media's "Us" versus "Them"?... |
65.08 |
0.8608 |
0.0687 |
407 |
1 |
65.08 |
2016-10-28 |
72. |
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me so... |
64.87 |
0.9521 |
-0.0259 |
418 |
1 |
64.87 |
2016-10-30 |
73. |
As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision woul... |
64.50 |
0.9667 |
-0.0217 |
223 |
1 |
64.50 |
2016-10-27 |
74. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
64.48 |
0.9451 |
-0.0003 |
419 |
1 |
64.48 |
2016-10-30 |
75. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
64.22 |
0.9636 |
-0.0319 |
281 |
1 |
64.22 |
2016-10-28 |
76. |
Let me tell you what's gonna happen, Officer Grimly. I'm goi... |
64.02 |
1.0599 |
-0.1219 |
371 |
1 |
64.02 |
2016-10-28 |
77. |
Now as to you poor devils? So as I see it, when it comes to ... |
63.93 |
0.9324 |
-0.0199 |
484 |
1 |
63.93 |
2016-10-28 |
78. |
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I ... |
63.91 |
0.9834 |
-0.0614 |
137 |
1 |
63.91 |
2016-10-28 |
79. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
63.90 |
0.8880 |
0.0404 |
296 |
1 |
63.90 |
2016-10-31 |
80. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
62.75 |
0.8992 |
0.0239 |
320 |
1 |
62.75 |
2016-10-28 |
81. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
62.11 |
0.9737 |
-0.0693 |
237 |
1 |
62.11 |
2016-10-30 |
82. |
All we need for morality is contained in these words: make o... |
62.03 |
1.0747 |
-0.1661 |
191 |
1 |
62.03 |
2016-10-31 |
83. |
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or wh... |
61.48 |
1.0268 |
-0.1308 |
164 |
1 |
61.48 |
2016-11-12 |
84. |
Suppose you suggest to your husband that subsidized llama fa... |
61.42 |
0.9374 |
-0.0411 |
255 |
2 |
60.45 |
2016-10-28 |
85. |
Just because there are things I don't remember doesn't make ... |
61.15 |
1.0650 |
-0.1732 |
151 |
1 |
61.15 |
2016-10-30 |
86. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
60.77 |
0.9404 |
-0.0488 |
383 |
1 |
60.77 |
2016-10-28 |
87. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
60.75 |
1.0800 |
-0.2012 |
213 |
1 |
60.75 |
2016-10-28 |
88. |
I can and do say that nothing human beings have ever before ... |
60.70 |
1.0343 |
-0.1470 |
306 |
1 |
60.70 |
2016-10-30 |
89. |
I watched a bear once. His leg was in a steel trap. It chewe... |
60.18 |
0.9877 |
-0.1071 |
359 |
1 |
60.18 |
2016-10-28 |
90. |
My wife deserves vengeance. Doesn't make a difference whethe... |
58.61 |
1.0015 |
-0.1461 |
230 |
1 |
58.61 |
2016-10-28 |
91. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
58.43 |
0.8437 |
0.0041 |
268 |
1 |
58.43 |
2016-10-27 |
92. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
55.76 |
0.9604 |
-0.1539 |
285 |
1 |
55.76 |
2016-10-27 |
93. |
God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his ... |
55.00 |
1.0067 |
-0.2061 |
188 |
1 |
55.00 |
2016-10-28 |
94. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
54.94 |
1.0225 |
-0.2345 |
152 |
1 |
54.94 |
2016-10-31 |
95. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
54.23 |
1.0125 |
-0.2273 |
232 |
1 |
54.23 |
2016-10-28 |
96. |
There's an old voice in my head that's holding me back. Well... |
53.10 |
1.0974 |
-0.3185 |
225 |
1 |
53.10 |
2016-10-27 |
97. |
It's a funny thing, but people mostly have it backward. They... |
52.47 |
1.0677 |
-0.3084 |
173 |
1 |
52.47 |
2016-10-28 |
98. |
I like them, I like them! I liked them first! Before I even ... |
49.53 |
0.9729 |
-0.2477 |
177 |
1 |
49.53 |
2016-10-27 |
99. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
49.22 |
0.9673 |
-0.2513 |
292 |
1 |
49.22 |
2016-10-28 |
100. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
47.61 |
1.0412 |
-0.3463 |
205 |
1 |
47.61 |
2016-10-27 |
101. |
Bullet Tooth Tony: "A bookie's got blagged last night." Avi:... |
44.08 |
0.6993 |
-0.0744 |
215 |
1 |
44.08 |
2016-10-27 |