| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
83.98 |
1.0178 |
0.2330 |
207 |
1 |
83.98 |
2012-12-15 |
| 2. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
83.57 |
1.0520 |
0.2067 |
392 |
1 |
83.57 |
2012-12-08 |
| 3. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
83.17 |
1.0059 |
0.2356 |
283 |
2 |
76.14 |
2012-12-15 |
| 4. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
81.04 |
1.0595 |
0.1423 |
166 |
1 |
81.04 |
2012-03-29 |
| 5. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
77.70 |
1.0338 |
0.1298 |
277 |
1 |
77.70 |
2012-12-08 |
| 6. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
77.49 |
1.0144 |
0.1418 |
162 |
1 |
77.49 |
2012-12-15 |
| 7. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
76.50 |
0.9820 |
0.1670 |
297 |
1 |
76.50 |
2012-12-08 |
| 8. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
76.46 |
0.9564 |
0.1772 |
263 |
2 |
74.16 |
2014-08-24 |
| 9. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
76.40 |
1.1070 |
0.0308 |
265 |
1 |
76.40 |
2012-03-30 |
| 10. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
76.08 |
0.8887 |
0.2593 |
464 |
2 |
67.14 |
2014-08-24 |
| 11. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
76.04 |
1.0639 |
0.0708 |
303 |
2 |
71.81 |
2012-12-08 |
| 12. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
75.94 |
1.0060 |
0.1268 |
225 |
1 |
75.94 |
2012-03-31 |
| 13. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
74.83 |
0.9980 |
0.1196 |
295 |
1 |
74.83 |
2010-11-29 |
| 14. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
74.24 |
1.0881 |
0.0145 |
210 |
2 |
66.71 |
2011-10-09 |
| 15. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
74.03 |
0.9857 |
0.1235 |
268 |
1 |
74.03 |
2012-12-15 |
| 16. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
74.02 |
1.0792 |
0.0290 |
251 |
1 |
74.02 |
2011-10-09 |
| 17. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
73.89 |
0.9736 |
0.1347 |
378 |
2 |
71.90 |
2012-12-15 |
| 18. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
73.85 |
0.9157 |
0.1975 |
353 |
2 |
71.62 |
2014-08-24 |
| 19. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
73.80 |
0.9893 |
0.1074 |
222 |
1 |
73.80 |
2012-12-15 |
| 20. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
73.55 |
0.9817 |
0.1198 |
304 |
2 |
67.96 |
2012-12-08 |
| 21. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
73.48 |
0.9011 |
0.1972 |
322 |
2 |
67.90 |
2012-12-15 |
| 22. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
73.19 |
1.0873 |
0.0006 |
243 |
2 |
62.46 |
2010-03-27 |
| 23. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
72.98 |
1.0464 |
0.0469 |
213 |
1 |
72.98 |
2012-03-30 |
| 24. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
72.96 |
0.9598 |
0.1297 |
209 |
1 |
72.96 |
2012-03-30 |
| 25. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
72.90 |
1.0557 |
0.0320 |
289 |
2 |
71.00 |
2012-03-29 |
| 26. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
72.82 |
0.9574 |
0.1311 |
354 |
2 |
69.54 |
2014-08-21 |
| 27. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
72.68 |
1.0511 |
0.0338 |
252 |
1 |
72.68 |
2010-12-03 |
| 28. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
72.65 |
1.0060 |
0.0834 |
244 |
1 |
72.65 |
2011-10-09 |
| 29. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
72.50 |
1.0743 |
0.0072 |
297 |
1 |
72.50 |
2010-12-06 |
| 30. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
72.47 |
0.9244 |
0.1608 |
225 |
1 |
72.47 |
2012-12-15 |
| 31. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
72.42 |
0.9763 |
0.1025 |
143 |
3 |
68.94 |
2012-03-29 |
| 32. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
72.21 |
1.0561 |
0.0180 |
227 |
3 |
70.16 |
2011-10-09 |
| 33. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
72.04 |
1.0315 |
0.0414 |
193 |
1 |
72.04 |
2011-10-09 |
| 34. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
72.03 |
1.0628 |
0.0126 |
363 |
2 |
70.88 |
2010-11-30 |
| 35. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
72.00 |
0.9265 |
0.1454 |
254 |
1 |
72.00 |
2010-11-21 |
| 36. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
71.95 |
1.0124 |
0.0651 |
275 |
1 |
71.95 |
2012-03-29 |
| 37. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
71.85 |
1.0004 |
0.0729 |
373 |
1 |
71.85 |
2012-03-31 |
| 38. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
71.66 |
1.0529 |
0.0176 |
373 |
1 |
71.66 |
2012-03-29 |
| 39. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
71.60 |
0.9709 |
0.0947 |
264 |
1 |
71.60 |
2010-11-30 |
| 40. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
71.58 |
0.9660 |
0.1076 |
258 |
2 |
68.38 |
2012-12-08 |
| 41. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
71.57 |
0.9762 |
0.0902 |
249 |
1 |
71.57 |
2014-08-21 |
| 42. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
71.41 |
0.9783 |
0.0932 |
273 |
1 |
71.41 |
2011-10-09 |
| 43. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
71.06 |
0.9841 |
0.0716 |
217 |
1 |
71.06 |
2012-12-15 |
| 44. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
71.06 |
1.0969 |
-0.0358 |
303 |
1 |
71.06 |
2010-03-27 |
| 45. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
71.04 |
1.0408 |
0.0251 |
257 |
1 |
71.04 |
2011-10-09 |
| 46. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
71.02 |
0.9480 |
0.1113 |
297 |
1 |
71.02 |
2012-12-15 |
| 47. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
71.01 |
1.0362 |
0.0283 |
437 |
1 |
71.01 |
2010-11-30 |
| 48. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
70.88 |
0.9330 |
0.1348 |
341 |
2 |
66.53 |
2010-11-21 |
| 49. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
70.67 |
0.8966 |
0.1557 |
366 |
2 |
70.59 |
2012-12-15 |
| 50. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
70.32 |
0.9650 |
0.0855 |
347 |
1 |
70.32 |
2011-10-09 |
| 51. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
69.99 |
0.9839 |
0.0587 |
308 |
1 |
69.99 |
2010-11-30 |
| 52. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
69.98 |
0.9791 |
0.0568 |
154 |
2 |
67.74 |
2010-11-21 |
| 53. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
69.95 |
0.8718 |
0.1739 |
318 |
1 |
69.95 |
2012-12-08 |
| 54. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
69.89 |
1.0800 |
-0.0457 |
129 |
1 |
69.89 |
2010-03-27 |
| 55. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
69.73 |
0.9404 |
0.1080 |
383 |
1 |
69.73 |
2010-11-29 |
| 56. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
69.50 |
0.9275 |
0.1133 |
243 |
1 |
69.50 |
2010-03-21 |
| 57. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
69.32 |
1.0501 |
-0.0167 |
263 |
1 |
69.32 |
2012-03-29 |
| 58. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
69.31 |
0.9864 |
0.0501 |
292 |
2 |
68.68 |
2010-12-06 |
| 59. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
69.30 |
0.9332 |
0.0991 |
267 |
1 |
69.30 |
2010-11-30 |
| 60. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
68.95 |
0.9716 |
0.0596 |
330 |
1 |
68.95 |
2012-03-29 |
| 61. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
68.78 |
0.9206 |
0.1046 |
317 |
1 |
68.78 |
2011-10-09 |
| 62. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
68.69 |
1.0304 |
-0.0034 |
257 |
1 |
68.69 |
2011-10-09 |
| 63. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
68.57 |
1.0686 |
-0.0435 |
354 |
1 |
68.57 |
2010-12-02 |
| 64. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
68.30 |
0.9657 |
0.0632 |
424 |
1 |
68.30 |
2010-11-29 |
| 65. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
68.15 |
1.0419 |
-0.0171 |
323 |
1 |
68.15 |
2012-12-08 |
| 66. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
67.72 |
1.0250 |
-0.0133 |
271 |
1 |
67.72 |
2010-12-03 |
| 67. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
67.69 |
1.0033 |
0.0053 |
203 |
2 |
67.44 |
2010-03-27 |
| 68. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
67.47 |
1.0144 |
0.0038 |
356 |
1 |
67.47 |
2010-11-30 |
| 69. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
67.39 |
0.9210 |
0.0789 |
200 |
1 |
67.39 |
2010-03-21 |
| 70. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
67.16 |
1.0267 |
-0.0231 |
261 |
1 |
67.16 |
2010-11-29 |
| 71. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
66.96 |
1.0010 |
0.0004 |
213 |
1 |
66.96 |
2010-12-02 |
| 72. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
66.71 |
1.0288 |
-0.0399 |
166 |
1 |
66.71 |
2010-03-28 |
| 73. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
66.66 |
1.0291 |
-0.0382 |
240 |
1 |
66.66 |
2012-03-29 |
| 74. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
66.36 |
0.9403 |
0.0609 |
345 |
1 |
66.36 |
2011-10-09 |
| 75. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
66.20 |
1.0590 |
-0.0740 |
250 |
1 |
66.20 |
2010-03-27 |
| 76. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
66.09 |
0.9339 |
0.0563 |
317 |
1 |
66.09 |
2010-11-21 |
| 77. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
66.06 |
1.0135 |
-0.0264 |
358 |
1 |
66.06 |
2010-11-21 |
| 78. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
65.39 |
0.9852 |
-0.0121 |
235 |
1 |
65.39 |
2010-12-02 |
| 79. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
65.29 |
1.0197 |
-0.0491 |
204 |
2 |
58.79 |
2010-03-28 |
| 80. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
65.09 |
0.9981 |
-0.0296 |
211 |
1 |
65.09 |
2010-11-29 |
| 81. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
65.05 |
1.0461 |
-0.0726 |
286 |
1 |
65.05 |
2010-03-26 |
| 82. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
64.86 |
0.8721 |
0.0997 |
231 |
1 |
64.86 |
2012-03-30 |
| 83. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
64.85 |
1.0412 |
-0.0705 |
205 |
1 |
64.85 |
2012-03-29 |
| 84. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
64.70 |
1.0057 |
-0.0393 |
382 |
1 |
64.70 |
2011-10-09 |
| 85. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
64.65 |
0.9434 |
0.0239 |
367 |
1 |
64.65 |
2010-11-30 |
| 86. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
64.18 |
1.0667 |
-0.1005 |
308 |
1 |
64.18 |
2010-12-02 |
| 87. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
64.16 |
0.9765 |
-0.0218 |
269 |
1 |
64.16 |
2010-03-21 |
| 88. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
64.10 |
0.9928 |
-0.0389 |
293 |
1 |
64.10 |
2010-03-26 |
| 89. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
63.78 |
0.9538 |
-0.0043 |
276 |
1 |
63.78 |
2010-06-04 |
| 90. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
63.68 |
1.0617 |
-0.1154 |
171 |
1 |
63.68 |
2010-11-29 |
| 91. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
63.47 |
1.0387 |
-0.0893 |
333 |
1 |
63.47 |
2010-03-28 |
| 92. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
63.45 |
0.9932 |
-0.0408 |
281 |
1 |
63.45 |
2010-11-30 |
| 93. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
63.33 |
1.0800 |
-0.1399 |
213 |
1 |
63.33 |
2010-03-27 |
| 94. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
63.24 |
0.9632 |
-0.0204 |
287 |
1 |
63.24 |
2010-11-21 |
| 95. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
63.22 |
1.0669 |
-0.1222 |
379 |
1 |
63.22 |
2010-03-27 |
| 96. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
62.83 |
0.9780 |
-0.0487 |
173 |
1 |
62.83 |
2010-03-29 |
| 97. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
62.80 |
0.8981 |
0.0456 |
255 |
1 |
62.80 |
2011-10-09 |
| 98. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
62.64 |
1.0414 |
-0.1097 |
234 |
1 |
62.64 |
2010-03-27 |
| 99. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
62.49 |
1.0243 |
-0.0901 |
153 |
1 |
62.49 |
2010-03-29 |
| 100. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
62.20 |
1.0139 |
-0.0746 |
349 |
1 |
62.20 |
2010-03-29 |
| 101. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
61.90 |
0.9332 |
-0.0103 |
295 |
1 |
61.90 |
2010-03-26 |
| 102. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
61.89 |
0.9101 |
0.0153 |
351 |
1 |
61.89 |
2010-03-27 |
| 103. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
61.86 |
0.9606 |
-0.0357 |
203 |
1 |
61.86 |
2012-03-29 |
| 104. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
61.74 |
1.0189 |
-0.1004 |
290 |
1 |
61.74 |
2010-12-03 |
| 105. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
61.58 |
1.0101 |
-0.0917 |
336 |
1 |
61.58 |
2010-03-27 |
| 106. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
61.55 |
1.0736 |
-0.1532 |
256 |
1 |
61.55 |
2010-03-27 |
| 107. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.20 |
0.9952 |
-0.0818 |
220 |
1 |
61.20 |
2012-03-30 |
| 108. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
60.97 |
0.9644 |
-0.0537 |
398 |
1 |
60.97 |
2010-03-26 |
| 109. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
60.92 |
1.0507 |
-0.1384 |
253 |
1 |
60.92 |
2011-10-09 |
| 110. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
60.91 |
0.9543 |
-0.0406 |
265 |
1 |
60.91 |
2010-11-21 |
| 111. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
60.04 |
0.9603 |
-0.0610 |
430 |
1 |
60.04 |
2010-03-27 |
| 112. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
59.85 |
0.8437 |
0.0464 |
268 |
1 |
59.85 |
2012-03-29 |
| 113. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
59.51 |
0.9545 |
-0.0591 |
412 |
1 |
59.51 |
2010-11-30 |
| 114. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
58.95 |
0.8936 |
-0.0174 |
346 |
1 |
58.95 |
2010-03-27 |
| 115. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
58.75 |
0.9451 |
-0.0628 |
419 |
1 |
58.75 |
2010-12-06 |
| 116. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
58.02 |
1.0506 |
-0.1877 |
259 |
1 |
58.02 |
2011-10-09 |
| 117. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
57.21 |
0.9123 |
-0.0518 |
351 |
1 |
57.21 |
2010-03-27 |
| 118. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
55.84 |
0.8794 |
-0.0420 |
427 |
1 |
55.84 |
2010-03-29 |
| 119. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
54.93 |
0.9719 |
-0.1475 |
383 |
1 |
54.93 |
2010-03-27 |
| 120. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
54.10 |
0.9809 |
-0.1686 |
250 |
1 |
54.10 |
2010-12-06 |
| 121. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
53.94 |
0.9621 |
-0.1575 |
212 |
1 |
53.94 |
2010-03-28 |
| 122. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
53.94 |
0.9402 |
-0.1399 |
310 |
1 |
53.94 |
2010-03-28 |
| 123. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
53.67 |
1.0498 |
-0.2504 |
261 |
1 |
53.67 |
2010-03-27 |
| 124. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
52.88 |
0.8913 |
-0.1034 |
201 |
1 |
52.88 |
2010-03-28 |
| 125. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
52.16 |
0.9108 |
-0.1353 |
235 |
2 |
46.57 |
2010-03-28 |
| 126. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
50.84 |
1.0495 |
-0.2942 |
323 |
1 |
50.84 |
2009-02-13 |
| 127. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
46.33 |
1.0194 |
-0.3332 |
224 |
1 |
46.33 |
2009-02-13 |
| 128. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
46.27 |
0.9561 |
-0.2672 |
362 |
1 |
46.27 |
2009-02-13 |
| 129. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
45.70 |
1.0427 |
-0.3631 |
269 |
1 |
45.70 |
2009-02-13 |
| 130. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
45.55 |
1.0576 |
-0.3840 |
231 |
1 |
45.55 |
2009-02-13 |
| 131. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
42.61 |
1.0301 |
-0.3991 |
268 |
1 |
42.61 |
2009-02-13 |