Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
86.12 |
1.0567 |
0.1998 |
314 |
1 |
86.12 |
2012-11-26 |
2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
83.40 |
1.0777 |
0.1371 |
226 |
1 |
83.40 |
2012-10-28 |
3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
83.14 |
1.1070 |
0.1050 |
265 |
1 |
83.14 |
2012-11-26 |
4. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
81.29 |
1.0791 |
0.1120 |
259 |
2 |
75.51 |
2012-10-28 |
5. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
80.44 |
1.0595 |
0.1072 |
166 |
1 |
80.44 |
2012-12-01 |
6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
80.27 |
1.1086 |
0.0624 |
233 |
1 |
80.27 |
2013-01-03 |
7. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
79.79 |
1.0753 |
0.0955 |
206 |
1 |
79.79 |
2012-10-27 |
8. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
78.93 |
1.0792 |
0.0769 |
251 |
2 |
75.09 |
2012-11-26 |
9. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
78.74 |
1.0495 |
0.0985 |
323 |
1 |
78.74 |
2012-10-27 |
10. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
78.27 |
1.0800 |
0.0543 |
129 |
1 |
78.27 |
2012-11-26 |
11. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
78.27 |
0.9713 |
0.1691 |
193 |
1 |
78.27 |
2012-11-26 |
12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
78.01 |
1.0669 |
0.0741 |
379 |
1 |
78.01 |
2012-11-24 |
13. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
77.51 |
1.0332 |
0.0963 |
267 |
1 |
77.51 |
2012-11-26 |
14. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
77.40 |
1.0698 |
0.0661 |
303 |
2 |
77.09 |
2012-11-26 |
15. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
77.19 |
1.0521 |
0.0681 |
197 |
1 |
77.19 |
2012-10-29 |
16. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
77.08 |
1.0511 |
0.0746 |
252 |
3 |
74.57 |
2012-11-26 |
17. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
76.81 |
1.0665 |
0.0544 |
210 |
1 |
76.81 |
2012-11-24 |
18. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
76.78 |
1.1093 |
0.0045 |
220 |
1 |
76.78 |
2012-10-28 |
19. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
76.78 |
1.1095 |
0.0125 |
252 |
2 |
75.32 |
2012-10-25 |
20. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
76.40 |
1.0403 |
0.0721 |
234 |
2 |
66.41 |
2012-11-26 |
21. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
76.35 |
1.0845 |
0.0278 |
212 |
1 |
76.35 |
2012-10-27 |
22. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
76.23 |
1.0588 |
0.0526 |
281 |
1 |
76.23 |
2013-01-03 |
23. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
75.38 |
1.0638 |
0.0330 |
247 |
1 |
75.38 |
2012-10-27 |
24. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
75.21 |
1.0411 |
0.0574 |
341 |
2 |
70.70 |
2012-11-24 |
25. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
75.05 |
1.0901 |
0.0062 |
288 |
1 |
75.05 |
2012-12-12 |
26. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
74.29 |
0.9709 |
0.1111 |
264 |
2 |
66.25 |
2012-11-26 |
27. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
74.18 |
1.0250 |
0.0598 |
271 |
1 |
74.18 |
2012-11-26 |
28. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
74.13 |
1.0466 |
0.0339 |
230 |
1 |
74.13 |
2012-10-13 |
29. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
74.07 |
1.0387 |
0.0457 |
333 |
1 |
74.07 |
2012-10-29 |
30. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
73.36 |
1.0418 |
0.0284 |
214 |
1 |
73.36 |
2012-10-13 |
31. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
73.25 |
1.0426 |
0.0213 |
131 |
4 |
65.69 |
2012-12-11 |
32. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
72.81 |
1.0036 |
0.0589 |
277 |
1 |
72.81 |
2012-10-13 |
33. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
72.75 |
0.9885 |
0.0723 |
355 |
1 |
72.75 |
2012-10-17 |
34. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
72.51 |
1.0585 |
0.0013 |
226 |
1 |
72.51 |
2012-10-20 |
35. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
72.43 |
0.9680 |
0.0883 |
256 |
1 |
72.43 |
2012-11-17 |
36. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
72.14 |
1.0144 |
0.0379 |
162 |
1 |
72.14 |
2012-11-26 |
37. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
71.92 |
1.0283 |
0.0268 |
272 |
1 |
71.92 |
2012-10-27 |
38. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
71.70 |
1.0419 |
0.0067 |
341 |
1 |
71.70 |
2012-10-13 |
39. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
71.63 |
1.0969 |
-0.0510 |
303 |
1 |
71.63 |
2012-11-26 |
40. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
71.51 |
1.0616 |
-0.0123 |
304 |
1 |
71.51 |
2012-10-13 |
41. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
71.41 |
1.0094 |
0.0313 |
256 |
1 |
71.41 |
2012-12-01 |
42. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
70.88 |
1.0676 |
-0.0293 |
456 |
1 |
70.88 |
2012-12-11 |
43. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
70.79 |
0.9561 |
0.0792 |
291 |
1 |
70.79 |
2012-10-29 |
44. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
70.74 |
1.0204 |
0.0024 |
143 |
1 |
70.74 |
2012-11-24 |
45. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
70.64 |
1.0686 |
-0.0351 |
354 |
1 |
70.64 |
2012-10-13 |
46. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
70.61 |
0.9604 |
0.0665 |
285 |
2 |
66.82 |
2012-10-25 |
47. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
70.58 |
1.0562 |
-0.0221 |
360 |
1 |
70.58 |
2012-10-13 |
48. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
69.99 |
1.0016 |
0.0170 |
217 |
1 |
69.99 |
2012-10-28 |
49. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
69.91 |
0.9480 |
0.0715 |
297 |
1 |
69.91 |
2012-11-26 |
50. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
69.86 |
1.0462 |
-0.0249 |
340 |
2 |
68.63 |
2012-10-27 |
51. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
69.86 |
0.9980 |
0.0294 |
341 |
1 |
69.86 |
2012-10-29 |
52. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
69.85 |
0.9947 |
0.0331 |
346 |
1 |
69.85 |
2012-11-26 |
53. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
69.80 |
1.0464 |
-0.0232 |
213 |
1 |
69.80 |
2012-10-12 |
54. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
69.78 |
1.0736 |
-0.0526 |
256 |
1 |
69.78 |
2012-10-13 |
55. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
69.72 |
1.0450 |
-0.0236 |
358 |
1 |
69.72 |
2012-10-28 |
56. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
69.60 |
0.9681 |
0.0521 |
392 |
1 |
69.60 |
2013-01-03 |
57. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
69.41 |
0.9880 |
0.0196 |
199 |
1 |
69.41 |
2012-10-27 |
58. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
69.37 |
0.9676 |
0.0487 |
247 |
1 |
69.37 |
2012-10-13 |
59. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
69.27 |
0.9591 |
0.0656 |
428 |
2 |
62.12 |
2012-10-27 |
60. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
69.26 |
0.9873 |
0.0206 |
274 |
1 |
69.26 |
2012-11-24 |
61. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
68.92 |
0.9928 |
0.0110 |
293 |
2 |
68.45 |
2013-01-03 |
62. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
68.61 |
0.9849 |
0.0161 |
337 |
1 |
68.61 |
2012-10-27 |
63. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
68.51 |
0.9931 |
0.0180 |
381 |
1 |
68.51 |
2012-10-28 |
64. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
68.42 |
1.0267 |
-0.0265 |
261 |
1 |
68.42 |
2012-10-27 |
65. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
68.34 |
1.0095 |
-0.0151 |
211 |
2 |
64.91 |
2012-12-01 |
66. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
68.09 |
0.9451 |
0.0553 |
419 |
1 |
68.09 |
2012-10-27 |
67. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
68.02 |
0.9809 |
0.0178 |
250 |
1 |
68.02 |
2012-12-08 |
68. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
67.98 |
0.9084 |
0.0836 |
271 |
1 |
67.98 |
2012-10-12 |
69. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
67.44 |
0.9801 |
0.0107 |
282 |
2 |
65.89 |
2012-11-24 |
70. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
67.32 |
1.0640 |
-0.0775 |
210 |
1 |
67.32 |
2012-10-12 |
71. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
67.15 |
1.0471 |
-0.0560 |
406 |
1 |
67.15 |
2012-10-13 |
72. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
67.09 |
1.0165 |
-0.0400 |
316 |
1 |
67.09 |
2012-10-27 |
73. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
66.86 |
0.9519 |
0.0265 |
323 |
2 |
66.00 |
2012-10-25 |
74. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
66.83 |
0.9996 |
-0.0184 |
483 |
1 |
66.83 |
2012-10-27 |
75. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
66.07 |
0.9377 |
0.0325 |
198 |
1 |
66.07 |
2012-12-11 |
76. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
66.06 |
0.9574 |
0.0082 |
354 |
1 |
66.06 |
2012-10-27 |
77. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
66.01 |
0.9561 |
0.0132 |
364 |
1 |
66.01 |
2012-10-13 |
78. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
65.86 |
1.0082 |
-0.0537 |
212 |
1 |
65.86 |
2012-10-13 |
79. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
65.74 |
1.0524 |
-0.0968 |
177 |
1 |
65.74 |
2012-10-26 |
80. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
65.71 |
0.9763 |
-0.0190 |
143 |
1 |
65.71 |
2012-11-26 |
81. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
65.71 |
0.9545 |
0.0127 |
412 |
1 |
65.71 |
2012-10-27 |
82. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
65.69 |
0.9329 |
0.0385 |
345 |
1 |
65.69 |
2012-10-27 |
83. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
65.45 |
1.0042 |
-0.0543 |
168 |
1 |
65.45 |
2012-11-17 |
84. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
64.79 |
0.9704 |
-0.0268 |
254 |
1 |
64.79 |
2012-11-24 |
85. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
64.59 |
1.0010 |
-0.0563 |
213 |
1 |
64.59 |
2012-10-13 |
86. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
64.25 |
0.9434 |
-0.0029 |
367 |
1 |
64.25 |
2012-10-27 |
87. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
64.04 |
0.9425 |
-0.0088 |
248 |
1 |
64.04 |
2012-10-28 |
88. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
63.79 |
0.9650 |
-0.0331 |
347 |
1 |
63.79 |
2012-12-11 |
89. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
63.76 |
1.0408 |
-0.1045 |
257 |
1 |
63.76 |
2012-10-12 |
90. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
63.31 |
0.8936 |
0.0275 |
346 |
2 |
59.79 |
2012-10-28 |
91. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
63.28 |
0.9673 |
-0.0413 |
393 |
2 |
61.29 |
2012-10-28 |
92. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
62.91 |
1.0020 |
-0.0731 |
411 |
1 |
62.91 |
2012-10-27 |
93. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
62.85 |
1.0615 |
-0.1488 |
201 |
1 |
62.85 |
2012-10-12 |
94. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
62.84 |
0.9162 |
0.0007 |
401 |
1 |
62.84 |
2012-10-27 |
95. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
62.58 |
0.9422 |
-0.0359 |
190 |
1 |
62.58 |
2012-10-27 |
96. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
62.40 |
1.0192 |
-0.1049 |
243 |
1 |
62.40 |
2012-10-12 |
97. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
62.27 |
1.0582 |
-0.1545 |
180 |
1 |
62.27 |
2012-10-28 |
98. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
62.27 |
0.9917 |
-0.0823 |
317 |
1 |
62.27 |
2012-10-12 |
99. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
62.19 |
0.9636 |
-0.0588 |
281 |
1 |
62.19 |
2012-10-13 |
100. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
61.96 |
0.9502 |
-0.0412 |
312 |
1 |
61.96 |
2012-10-13 |
101. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
61.95 |
1.0334 |
-0.1316 |
261 |
1 |
61.95 |
2012-10-12 |
102. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
61.56 |
0.9143 |
-0.0169 |
300 |
2 |
60.03 |
2012-10-25 |
103. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
61.54 |
0.9745 |
-0.0765 |
388 |
1 |
61.54 |
2012-10-13 |
104. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
60.94 |
1.0364 |
-0.1449 |
230 |
1 |
60.94 |
2012-10-12 |
105. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
60.07 |
0.9797 |
-0.1007 |
269 |
1 |
60.07 |
2012-10-13 |
106. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
60.06 |
1.0287 |
-0.1551 |
269 |
1 |
60.06 |
2012-10-13 |
107. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
60.02 |
0.9538 |
-0.0795 |
276 |
1 |
60.02 |
2012-10-12 |
108. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
59.85 |
0.9857 |
-0.1085 |
268 |
1 |
59.85 |
2012-11-12 |
109. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
59.66 |
0.9357 |
-0.0693 |
204 |
1 |
59.66 |
2012-12-11 |
110. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
59.66 |
0.9706 |
-0.0898 |
353 |
1 |
59.66 |
2012-10-12 |
111. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
59.14 |
0.9029 |
-0.0392 |
393 |
1 |
59.14 |
2012-10-25 |
112. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
57.88 |
1.0086 |
-0.1705 |
218 |
1 |
57.88 |
2012-10-12 |
113. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
57.86 |
0.8964 |
-0.0571 |
199 |
1 |
57.86 |
2012-11-24 |
114. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
57.80 |
1.0132 |
-0.1715 |
371 |
1 |
57.80 |
2012-10-12 |
115. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
56.31 |
1.0128 |
-0.1864 |
369 |
1 |
56.31 |
2012-10-12 |
116. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
56.11 |
0.9833 |
-0.1640 |
387 |
1 |
56.11 |
2012-10-12 |
117. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
55.71 |
0.9909 |
-0.1761 |
334 |
1 |
55.71 |
2012-10-12 |
118. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
55.17 |
0.9632 |
-0.1592 |
287 |
1 |
55.17 |
2012-10-13 |
119. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
53.73 |
0.8986 |
-0.1161 |
216 |
1 |
53.73 |
2012-10-27 |
120. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
51.92 |
0.9137 |
-0.1570 |
342 |
1 |
51.92 |
2012-10-12 |
121. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
51.61 |
0.9269 |
-0.1686 |
269 |
1 |
51.61 |
2012-10-12 |
122. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
49.12 |
0.9403 |
-0.2175 |
307 |
1 |
49.12 |
2012-10-12 |
123. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
47.31 |
0.9027 |
-0.2187 |
189 |
1 |
47.31 |
2012-10-12 |