Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
87.49 |
1.0883 |
0.1881 |
189 |
2 |
83.93 |
2010-12-10 |
2. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
86.57 |
1.0576 |
0.1962 |
231 |
2 |
80.53 |
2010-12-15 |
3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
86.01 |
1.0800 |
0.1614 |
129 |
1 |
86.01 |
2010-12-10 |
4. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
83.07 |
1.0509 |
0.1622 |
295 |
1 |
83.07 |
2011-03-17 |
5. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
82.55 |
1.0414 |
0.1557 |
234 |
1 |
82.55 |
2011-06-07 |
6. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
81.76 |
1.0686 |
0.1215 |
354 |
1 |
81.76 |
2011-06-07 |
7. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
81.75 |
0.9829 |
0.2027 |
229 |
1 |
81.75 |
2011-03-02 |
8. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
80.53 |
1.0969 |
0.0738 |
303 |
2 |
77.33 |
2011-02-09 |
9. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
80.43 |
1.0304 |
0.1338 |
256 |
2 |
73.06 |
2010-12-07 |
10. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
80.28 |
1.0301 |
0.1335 |
268 |
1 |
80.28 |
2010-12-15 |
11. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
80.23 |
1.0877 |
0.0730 |
129 |
1 |
80.23 |
2010-12-02 |
12. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
79.69 |
1.0543 |
0.0987 |
182 |
1 |
79.69 |
2010-12-02 |
13. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
79.68 |
1.1138 |
0.0508 |
341 |
2 |
71.24 |
2011-06-07 |
14. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
79.45 |
1.0595 |
0.0868 |
166 |
4 |
73.18 |
2011-01-21 |
15. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
78.50 |
1.1095 |
0.0317 |
252 |
1 |
78.50 |
2010-12-15 |
16. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
78.15 |
1.0617 |
0.0702 |
171 |
1 |
78.15 |
2010-12-11 |
17. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
78.03 |
1.0028 |
0.1281 |
259 |
1 |
78.03 |
2010-12-07 |
18. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
77.87 |
1.0461 |
0.0858 |
318 |
1 |
77.87 |
2010-12-15 |
19. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
76.91 |
1.0873 |
0.0254 |
243 |
2 |
73.91 |
2011-01-21 |
20. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
76.43 |
0.9745 |
0.1330 |
217 |
1 |
76.43 |
2010-12-07 |
21. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
76.26 |
1.1093 |
-0.0087 |
220 |
1 |
76.26 |
2010-12-02 |
22. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
76.12 |
1.0464 |
0.0628 |
294 |
1 |
76.12 |
2010-12-14 |
23. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
75.95 |
1.0351 |
0.0705 |
276 |
1 |
75.95 |
2010-12-14 |
24. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
75.85 |
1.0557 |
0.0457 |
289 |
2 |
73.60 |
2010-12-07 |
25. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
75.67 |
1.0333 |
0.0592 |
176 |
2 |
74.53 |
2010-12-03 |
26. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
75.61 |
0.9884 |
0.1108 |
267 |
2 |
69.65 |
2010-12-03 |
27. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
75.12 |
0.9949 |
0.1051 |
304 |
1 |
75.12 |
2010-12-11 |
28. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
74.41 |
1.1062 |
-0.0250 |
200 |
1 |
74.41 |
2011-06-07 |
29. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
74.33 |
1.0350 |
0.0576 |
416 |
1 |
74.33 |
2011-01-18 |
30. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
74.06 |
1.0600 |
0.0144 |
351 |
1 |
74.06 |
2010-12-10 |
31. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
73.85 |
1.0392 |
0.0369 |
258 |
1 |
73.85 |
2010-12-02 |
32. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
73.66 |
0.9935 |
0.0770 |
217 |
2 |
72.55 |
2010-12-18 |
33. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
73.52 |
0.9299 |
0.1280 |
168 |
2 |
72.37 |
2011-01-21 |
34. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
73.42 |
0.9917 |
0.0752 |
317 |
1 |
73.42 |
2010-12-07 |
35. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
73.22 |
1.0493 |
0.0195 |
264 |
1 |
73.22 |
2010-12-18 |
36. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
72.99 |
0.9609 |
0.1024 |
331 |
2 |
64.05 |
2010-12-11 |
37. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
72.96 |
1.0208 |
0.0372 |
231 |
2 |
72.88 |
2011-01-21 |
38. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
72.83 |
0.9957 |
0.0603 |
323 |
1 |
72.83 |
2010-12-07 |
39. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
72.79 |
0.9598 |
0.0980 |
209 |
4 |
66.75 |
2010-12-07 |
40. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
72.66 |
1.0018 |
0.0522 |
246 |
1 |
72.66 |
2010-12-15 |
41. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
72.66 |
1.0640 |
-0.0045 |
210 |
1 |
72.66 |
2010-12-02 |
42. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
72.60 |
0.9927 |
0.0607 |
276 |
1 |
72.60 |
2010-12-18 |
43. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
72.39 |
0.9933 |
0.0639 |
450 |
1 |
72.39 |
2011-09-14 |
44. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
71.83 |
0.9824 |
0.0722 |
352 |
2 |
65.59 |
2010-12-03 |
45. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
71.17 |
0.9909 |
0.0450 |
334 |
1 |
71.17 |
2010-12-16 |
46. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
71.11 |
0.9780 |
0.0469 |
173 |
1 |
71.11 |
2010-12-03 |
47. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
71.01 |
0.9762 |
0.0534 |
249 |
2 |
63.43 |
2010-12-07 |
48. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
71.00 |
1.0362 |
-0.0004 |
437 |
2 |
68.46 |
2011-03-17 |
49. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
71.00 |
0.9561 |
0.0767 |
291 |
1 |
71.00 |
2010-12-03 |
50. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
70.87 |
1.0387 |
-0.0069 |
333 |
1 |
70.87 |
2010-12-02 |
51. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
70.81 |
1.0697 |
-0.0336 |
341 |
1 |
70.81 |
2011-06-07 |
52. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
70.73 |
0.9119 |
0.1180 |
396 |
1 |
70.73 |
2011-06-07 |
53. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
70.49 |
0.9996 |
0.0300 |
483 |
1 |
70.49 |
2010-12-07 |
54. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
70.49 |
0.8993 |
0.1256 |
366 |
2 |
66.16 |
2010-12-07 |
55. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
70.33 |
1.0567 |
-0.0373 |
314 |
1 |
70.33 |
2010-12-07 |
56. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
70.30 |
0.9425 |
0.0775 |
248 |
1 |
70.30 |
2010-12-07 |
57. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
70.20 |
0.9991 |
0.0181 |
339 |
2 |
66.23 |
2010-12-18 |
58. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
70.20 |
0.9541 |
0.0643 |
236 |
1 |
70.20 |
2010-12-11 |
59. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
70.14 |
0.9574 |
0.0627 |
354 |
1 |
70.14 |
2010-12-02 |
60. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
69.83 |
1.0095 |
0.0015 |
211 |
1 |
69.83 |
2011-06-07 |
61. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
69.73 |
1.0857 |
-0.0622 |
393 |
1 |
69.73 |
2010-12-07 |
62. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
69.66 |
0.9329 |
0.0914 |
345 |
2 |
64.77 |
2010-12-18 |
63. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
69.64 |
1.0482 |
-0.0255 |
407 |
1 |
69.64 |
2010-12-15 |
64. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
69.54 |
0.9434 |
0.0693 |
367 |
1 |
69.54 |
2010-12-03 |
65. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
69.48 |
1.0026 |
0.0091 |
200 |
1 |
69.48 |
2010-12-03 |
66. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
69.41 |
0.9844 |
0.0340 |
351 |
1 |
69.41 |
2010-12-02 |
67. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
69.09 |
0.9952 |
0.0088 |
220 |
1 |
69.09 |
2010-12-07 |
68. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
69.01 |
0.9530 |
0.0439 |
193 |
2 |
62.63 |
2010-12-11 |
69. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
68.83 |
0.9704 |
0.0274 |
254 |
1 |
68.83 |
2010-12-10 |
70. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
68.76 |
1.0628 |
-0.0640 |
363 |
1 |
68.76 |
2010-12-10 |
71. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
68.46 |
0.9424 |
0.0525 |
320 |
1 |
68.46 |
2010-12-11 |
72. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
68.43 |
0.9644 |
0.0307 |
398 |
1 |
68.43 |
2010-12-07 |
73. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
68.36 |
1.0272 |
-0.0383 |
226 |
1 |
68.36 |
2011-01-21 |
74. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
68.26 |
0.9713 |
0.0168 |
193 |
1 |
68.26 |
2010-12-18 |
75. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
68.06 |
1.0461 |
-0.0547 |
286 |
1 |
68.06 |
2010-12-10 |
76. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
67.92 |
0.9833 |
0.0037 |
387 |
2 |
67.79 |
2010-12-07 |
77. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
67.91 |
1.0372 |
-0.0532 |
249 |
1 |
67.91 |
2011-06-07 |
78. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
67.83 |
1.0476 |
-0.0737 |
110 |
1 |
67.83 |
2010-12-18 |
79. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
67.60 |
0.9650 |
0.0176 |
347 |
2 |
66.70 |
2011-06-07 |
80. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
67.53 |
0.9930 |
-0.0051 |
350 |
1 |
67.53 |
2010-12-02 |
81. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
67.46 |
0.9422 |
0.0306 |
190 |
2 |
67.44 |
2010-12-07 |
82. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
67.43 |
1.0130 |
-0.0355 |
288 |
1 |
67.43 |
2010-12-10 |
83. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
67.36 |
1.0243 |
-0.0441 |
153 |
2 |
67.02 |
2010-12-07 |
84. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
67.22 |
1.0590 |
-0.0857 |
250 |
1 |
67.22 |
2010-12-18 |
85. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
67.07 |
1.0131 |
-0.0375 |
245 |
1 |
67.07 |
2010-12-10 |
86. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
67.06 |
0.9517 |
0.0284 |
397 |
1 |
67.06 |
2010-12-10 |
87. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
66.76 |
1.0074 |
-0.0258 |
410 |
1 |
66.76 |
2010-12-02 |
88. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
66.47 |
0.9561 |
0.0089 |
362 |
1 |
66.47 |
2011-06-07 |
89. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
66.35 |
1.0615 |
-0.1028 |
201 |
1 |
66.35 |
2010-12-15 |
90. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
66.24 |
1.0234 |
-0.0592 |
392 |
1 |
66.24 |
2010-12-07 |
91. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
66.16 |
0.9745 |
-0.0135 |
388 |
1 |
66.16 |
2010-12-02 |
92. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
65.89 |
0.8974 |
0.0695 |
365 |
1 |
65.89 |
2010-12-02 |
93. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
65.89 |
1.0270 |
-0.0714 |
303 |
2 |
65.81 |
2010-12-07 |
94. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
65.72 |
1.0125 |
-0.0649 |
171 |
1 |
65.72 |
2010-12-07 |
95. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
65.27 |
1.0450 |
-0.0938 |
358 |
1 |
65.27 |
2011-06-07 |
96. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
65.23 |
0.9114 |
0.0414 |
399 |
2 |
63.58 |
2010-12-07 |
97. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
65.16 |
0.9258 |
0.0231 |
184 |
1 |
65.16 |
2010-12-14 |
98. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
65.12 |
1.0197 |
-0.0778 |
204 |
2 |
60.60 |
2010-12-10 |
99. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
65.06 |
0.9809 |
-0.0303 |
250 |
1 |
65.06 |
2010-12-02 |
100. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
65.01 |
0.9836 |
-0.0414 |
289 |
1 |
65.01 |
2010-12-02 |
101. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
64.58 |
0.9880 |
-0.0564 |
199 |
1 |
64.58 |
2010-12-07 |
102. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
64.51 |
1.0507 |
-0.1105 |
253 |
2 |
61.06 |
2010-12-10 |
103. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
64.49 |
0.8911 |
0.0463 |
241 |
1 |
64.49 |
2010-12-03 |
104. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
64.19 |
1.0188 |
-0.0793 |
316 |
1 |
64.19 |
2011-01-21 |
105. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
64.11 |
1.0178 |
-0.0905 |
207 |
1 |
64.11 |
2010-12-02 |
106. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
64.01 |
1.0588 |
-0.1312 |
281 |
1 |
64.01 |
2010-12-02 |
107. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
63.95 |
1.0487 |
-0.1242 |
253 |
1 |
63.95 |
2010-12-07 |
108. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
63.93 |
0.9359 |
-0.0088 |
355 |
2 |
63.21 |
2010-12-03 |
109. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
63.36 |
0.9787 |
-0.0573 |
364 |
2 |
63.01 |
2010-12-07 |
110. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
63.26 |
1.0736 |
-0.1530 |
256 |
1 |
63.26 |
2010-12-07 |
111. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
63.19 |
0.9637 |
-0.0360 |
342 |
1 |
63.19 |
2010-12-07 |
112. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
63.08 |
1.0128 |
-0.0920 |
369 |
1 |
63.08 |
2010-12-02 |
113. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
62.93 |
0.9966 |
-0.0776 |
377 |
1 |
62.93 |
2010-12-07 |
114. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
62.64 |
1.0106 |
-0.1041 |
302 |
1 |
62.64 |
2011-06-07 |
115. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
62.21 |
0.9890 |
-0.0838 |
272 |
1 |
62.21 |
2010-12-11 |
116. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
61.76 |
1.0481 |
-0.1611 |
255 |
1 |
61.76 |
2010-12-14 |
117. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
61.65 |
1.0115 |
-0.1236 |
189 |
1 |
61.65 |
2010-12-10 |
118. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
60.94 |
0.9203 |
-0.0348 |
350 |
1 |
60.94 |
2010-12-02 |
119. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
60.89 |
0.8936 |
-0.0127 |
346 |
1 |
60.89 |
2011-06-07 |
120. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
60.46 |
1.0506 |
-0.1753 |
259 |
1 |
60.46 |
2010-12-02 |
121. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
60.20 |
0.9243 |
-0.0502 |
240 |
2 |
55.72 |
2010-12-15 |
122. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
59.98 |
0.9594 |
-0.0925 |
258 |
1 |
59.98 |
2011-06-07 |
123. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
59.84 |
0.9123 |
-0.0363 |
351 |
1 |
59.84 |
2010-12-07 |
124. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
59.80 |
0.9228 |
-0.0522 |
305 |
1 |
59.80 |
2010-12-02 |
125. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
59.78 |
0.9027 |
-0.0404 |
189 |
1 |
59.78 |
2010-12-18 |
126. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
59.60 |
1.0192 |
-0.1507 |
243 |
2 |
57.86 |
2010-12-02 |
127. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
59.14 |
0.9137 |
-0.0552 |
342 |
1 |
59.14 |
2010-12-02 |
128. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
59.07 |
0.9841 |
-0.1302 |
263 |
1 |
59.07 |
2010-12-07 |
129. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
58.98 |
0.8955 |
-0.0313 |
436 |
1 |
58.98 |
2010-12-14 |
130. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
58.36 |
0.9377 |
-0.0849 |
198 |
2 |
57.88 |
2010-12-02 |
131. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
56.28 |
0.9801 |
-0.1656 |
289 |
1 |
56.28 |
2010-12-07 |
132. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
54.98 |
0.9145 |
-0.1152 |
404 |
1 |
54.98 |
2010-12-07 |
133. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
54.43 |
0.9332 |
-0.1454 |
267 |
1 |
54.43 |
2010-12-03 |
134. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
54.00 |
0.8437 |
-0.0629 |
268 |
1 |
54.00 |
2010-12-02 |
135. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
53.49 |
0.7852 |
-0.0172 |
154 |
1 |
53.49 |
2010-12-03 |
136. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
52.42 |
0.9643 |
-0.1972 |
282 |
1 |
52.42 |
2010-12-02 |
137. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
51.80 |
0.8624 |
-0.1177 |
174 |
1 |
51.80 |
2010-12-07 |
138. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
51.45 |
0.9244 |
-0.1749 |
225 |
1 |
51.45 |
2010-12-03 |
139. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
50.09 |
0.9632 |
-0.2375 |
287 |
1 |
50.09 |
2010-12-02 |
140. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
46.34 |
0.9135 |
-0.2349 |
393 |
1 |
46.34 |
2010-12-02 |