| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
112.01 |
1.0333 |
0.2714 |
176 |
2 |
100.92 |
2013-04-23 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
106.24 |
1.0800 |
0.1591 |
213 |
1 |
106.24 |
2013-05-02 |
| 3. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
103.37 |
1.0243 |
0.1875 |
153 |
1 |
103.37 |
2013-05-01 |
| 4. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
101.64 |
1.0432 |
0.1452 |
276 |
3 |
94.29 |
2013-04-24 |
| 5. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
100.49 |
1.0418 |
0.1334 |
214 |
1 |
100.49 |
2013-04-24 |
| 6. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
99.97 |
1.0479 |
0.1190 |
205 |
1 |
99.97 |
2013-03-28 |
| 7. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
99.28 |
1.0341 |
0.1253 |
273 |
3 |
89.61 |
2013-04-30 |
| 8. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
97.62 |
1.0131 |
0.1308 |
245 |
2 |
95.70 |
2013-04-23 |
| 9. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
97.56 |
1.0576 |
0.0796 |
231 |
2 |
92.58 |
2013-04-30 |
| 10. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
97.19 |
1.0543 |
0.0821 |
233 |
1 |
97.19 |
2013-05-14 |
| 11. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
96.79 |
1.0042 |
0.1231 |
168 |
3 |
86.42 |
2013-05-07 |
| 12. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
96.70 |
1.0873 |
0.0396 |
243 |
2 |
96.01 |
2013-03-28 |
| 13. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
96.47 |
1.0777 |
0.0476 |
226 |
1 |
96.47 |
2013-03-28 |
| 14. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
96.10 |
1.1138 |
0.0178 |
341 |
1 |
96.10 |
2013-05-01 |
| 15. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
94.94 |
1.0561 |
0.0510 |
227 |
2 |
82.47 |
2013-04-30 |
| 16. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
94.93 |
1.0857 |
0.0361 |
393 |
1 |
94.93 |
2013-04-17 |
| 17. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
94.70 |
1.0791 |
0.0405 |
365 |
1 |
94.70 |
2013-04-30 |
| 18. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
94.38 |
1.0408 |
0.0696 |
257 |
1 |
94.38 |
2013-05-02 |
| 19. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
93.91 |
1.0444 |
0.0665 |
487 |
1 |
93.91 |
2013-06-27 |
| 20. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
93.82 |
1.0495 |
0.0460 |
323 |
2 |
87.58 |
2013-05-14 |
| 21. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
93.56 |
1.0283 |
0.0715 |
272 |
1 |
93.56 |
2013-03-28 |
| 22. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
93.44 |
0.9352 |
0.1552 |
194 |
2 |
87.77 |
2013-04-30 |
| 23. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
93.00 |
1.0697 |
0.0263 |
341 |
1 |
93.00 |
2013-03-28 |
| 24. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
92.41 |
0.9012 |
0.1819 |
322 |
2 |
79.75 |
2013-05-04 |
| 25. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
92.26 |
1.0103 |
0.0616 |
209 |
1 |
92.26 |
2013-03-28 |
| 26. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
92.07 |
1.0672 |
0.0067 |
239 |
2 |
87.87 |
2013-05-07 |
| 27. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
92.04 |
1.0557 |
0.0206 |
289 |
2 |
88.44 |
2013-04-23 |
| 28. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
91.95 |
0.8830 |
0.1937 |
300 |
3 |
83.01 |
2013-04-30 |
| 29. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
91.63 |
0.8981 |
0.1813 |
255 |
2 |
81.73 |
2013-04-24 |
| 30. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
91.30 |
0.9763 |
0.0900 |
143 |
1 |
91.30 |
2013-03-28 |
| 31. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
91.16 |
1.0364 |
0.0326 |
230 |
2 |
84.53 |
2013-04-20 |
| 32. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
91.07 |
0.9517 |
0.1105 |
276 |
1 |
91.07 |
2013-04-30 |
| 33. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
90.68 |
1.0234 |
0.0401 |
392 |
1 |
90.68 |
2013-03-28 |
| 34. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
90.61 |
1.0686 |
-0.0063 |
354 |
1 |
90.61 |
2013-05-02 |
| 35. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
90.60 |
0.9931 |
0.0696 |
339 |
1 |
90.60 |
2013-04-30 |
| 36. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
90.47 |
1.0654 |
-0.0114 |
247 |
1 |
90.47 |
2013-04-30 |
| 37. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
90.17 |
1.0881 |
-0.0387 |
210 |
1 |
90.17 |
2013-04-19 |
| 38. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
89.97 |
0.9737 |
0.0799 |
237 |
1 |
89.97 |
2013-04-24 |
| 39. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
89.86 |
0.9804 |
0.0694 |
227 |
2 |
82.48 |
2013-05-01 |
| 40. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
89.26 |
1.0698 |
-0.0203 |
303 |
1 |
89.26 |
2013-04-30 |
| 41. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
89.22 |
1.0028 |
0.0383 |
259 |
1 |
89.22 |
2013-05-01 |
| 42. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
89.21 |
0.9543 |
0.0945 |
265 |
3 |
86.30 |
2013-04-17 |
| 43. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
89.17 |
1.0181 |
0.0245 |
276 |
1 |
89.17 |
2013-05-04 |
| 44. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
89.01 |
1.0640 |
-0.0186 |
210 |
1 |
89.01 |
2013-03-28 |
| 45. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
89.01 |
1.0188 |
0.0303 |
316 |
3 |
80.30 |
2013-05-02 |
| 46. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
88.91 |
0.9927 |
0.0423 |
234 |
2 |
87.31 |
2013-05-02 |
| 47. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
88.30 |
1.0607 |
-0.0263 |
357 |
2 |
87.59 |
2013-04-24 |
| 48. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
88.09 |
1.0836 |
-0.0518 |
206 |
1 |
88.09 |
2013-05-01 |
| 49. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
88.05 |
1.0792 |
-0.0462 |
251 |
1 |
88.05 |
2013-04-30 |
| 50. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
88.03 |
1.0304 |
0.0015 |
257 |
1 |
88.03 |
2013-04-23 |
| 51. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
87.84 |
0.9909 |
0.0391 |
334 |
1 |
87.84 |
2013-03-28 |
| 52. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
87.33 |
0.9708 |
0.0467 |
349 |
2 |
84.74 |
2013-11-13 |
| 53. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
87.26 |
0.9644 |
0.0578 |
398 |
1 |
87.26 |
2013-04-30 |
| 54. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
86.87 |
1.0288 |
-0.0189 |
166 |
1 |
86.87 |
2013-04-24 |
| 55. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
86.69 |
1.0060 |
0.0128 |
244 |
1 |
86.69 |
2013-03-28 |
| 56. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
86.60 |
1.0320 |
-0.0147 |
401 |
1 |
86.60 |
2013-03-28 |
| 57. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
86.43 |
0.9981 |
0.0106 |
211 |
1 |
86.43 |
2013-11-13 |
| 58. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
86.34 |
0.9545 |
0.0635 |
412 |
1 |
86.34 |
2013-03-28 |
| 59. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
86.30 |
1.0419 |
-0.0308 |
341 |
1 |
86.30 |
2013-03-28 |
| 60. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
85.95 |
0.9852 |
0.0178 |
235 |
1 |
85.95 |
2013-03-28 |
| 61. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
85.71 |
0.9893 |
0.0076 |
222 |
1 |
85.71 |
2013-03-28 |
| 62. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
85.58 |
1.0111 |
0.0004 |
452 |
1 |
85.58 |
2014-03-07 |
| 63. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
85.44 |
0.9783 |
0.0270 |
273 |
2 |
83.08 |
2013-05-01 |
| 64. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
85.39 |
0.9989 |
0.0052 |
282 |
1 |
85.39 |
2013-03-28 |
| 65. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
84.90 |
0.9606 |
0.0345 |
203 |
1 |
84.90 |
2013-05-02 |
| 66. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
84.88 |
0.9909 |
0.0051 |
293 |
1 |
84.88 |
2013-04-23 |
| 67. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
84.73 |
0.9745 |
0.0167 |
388 |
2 |
83.36 |
2013-05-02 |
| 68. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
84.66 |
1.0125 |
-0.0254 |
232 |
1 |
84.66 |
2013-03-28 |
| 69. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
84.47 |
1.0132 |
-0.0266 |
371 |
1 |
84.47 |
2013-03-28 |
| 70. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
84.46 |
0.9332 |
0.0542 |
295 |
1 |
84.46 |
2013-05-02 |
| 71. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
84.15 |
0.9403 |
0.0510 |
307 |
1 |
84.15 |
2013-04-23 |
| 72. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
84.06 |
1.0338 |
-0.0472 |
277 |
1 |
84.06 |
2013-03-28 |
| 73. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
84.01 |
0.9145 |
0.0695 |
404 |
3 |
77.95 |
2013-05-04 |
| 74. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
83.94 |
1.0178 |
-0.0398 |
207 |
1 |
83.94 |
2013-04-17 |
| 75. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
83.87 |
1.0414 |
-0.0635 |
234 |
1 |
83.87 |
2013-03-28 |
| 76. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
83.77 |
0.9928 |
-0.0155 |
293 |
2 |
81.02 |
2013-04-24 |
| 77. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
83.54 |
0.9787 |
0.0005 |
364 |
1 |
83.54 |
2013-03-28 |
| 78. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
83.39 |
0.9123 |
0.0706 |
351 |
4 |
77.03 |
2013-05-02 |
| 79. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
83.30 |
0.9339 |
0.0447 |
317 |
1 |
83.30 |
2013-04-30 |
| 80. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
83.16 |
0.9271 |
0.0461 |
323 |
1 |
83.16 |
2013-06-27 |
| 81. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
83.11 |
0.9561 |
0.0177 |
291 |
1 |
83.11 |
2013-05-14 |
| 82. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
82.43 |
1.0106 |
-0.0490 |
302 |
1 |
82.43 |
2013-05-14 |
| 83. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
82.25 |
1.0228 |
-0.0493 |
405 |
1 |
82.25 |
2013-05-04 |
| 84. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
82.14 |
1.0230 |
-0.0628 |
200 |
1 |
82.14 |
2013-03-28 |
| 85. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
81.52 |
1.0370 |
-0.0858 |
262 |
1 |
81.52 |
2013-03-28 |
| 86. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
81.13 |
0.9515 |
0.0061 |
334 |
1 |
81.13 |
2013-05-02 |
| 87. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
81.05 |
0.9709 |
-0.0261 |
264 |
1 |
81.05 |
2013-03-28 |
| 88. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
80.84 |
1.0524 |
-0.1111 |
177 |
1 |
80.84 |
2013-04-24 |
| 89. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
80.82 |
0.9011 |
0.0458 |
322 |
1 |
80.82 |
2013-04-23 |
| 90. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
80.35 |
1.0601 |
-0.1254 |
256 |
1 |
80.35 |
2013-04-30 |
| 91. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
79.86 |
1.1198 |
-0.1887 |
247 |
1 |
79.86 |
2013-03-28 |
| 92. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
79.78 |
0.8778 |
0.0553 |
285 |
2 |
79.61 |
2013-04-17 |
| 93. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
79.73 |
0.9719 |
-0.0342 |
383 |
1 |
79.73 |
2013-04-30 |
| 94. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
79.61 |
0.9604 |
-0.0337 |
285 |
1 |
79.61 |
2013-04-17 |
| 95. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
79.29 |
0.8955 |
0.0403 |
436 |
1 |
79.29 |
2013-04-24 |
| 96. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
79.26 |
0.9682 |
-0.0329 |
341 |
1 |
79.26 |
2013-05-07 |
| 97. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
78.93 |
0.9704 |
-0.0495 |
254 |
1 |
78.93 |
2013-05-07 |
| 98. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
78.27 |
1.0059 |
-0.0913 |
283 |
3 |
71.70 |
2013-04-24 |
| 99. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
78.22 |
0.9761 |
-0.0583 |
227 |
1 |
78.22 |
2013-05-07 |
| 100. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
78.01 |
0.8880 |
0.0226 |
296 |
2 |
75.55 |
2013-11-13 |
| 101. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
77.94 |
0.9780 |
-0.0746 |
173 |
1 |
77.94 |
2013-03-28 |
| 102. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
77.49 |
0.9963 |
-0.0946 |
274 |
1 |
77.49 |
2013-05-02 |
| 103. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
77.48 |
0.9029 |
0.0039 |
393 |
1 |
77.48 |
2013-04-23 |
| 104. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
77.45 |
0.9228 |
-0.0141 |
305 |
1 |
77.45 |
2013-05-14 |
| 105. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
77.36 |
0.9927 |
-0.0894 |
276 |
1 |
77.36 |
2013-03-28 |
| 106. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
77.25 |
0.9284 |
-0.0236 |
346 |
1 |
77.25 |
2013-05-02 |
| 107. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
77.25 |
1.0004 |
-0.0966 |
373 |
1 |
77.25 |
2013-05-07 |
| 108. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
77.09 |
0.9594 |
-0.0617 |
258 |
1 |
77.09 |
2013-11-17 |
| 109. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
76.89 |
0.9849 |
-0.0865 |
337 |
1 |
76.89 |
2013-04-24 |
| 110. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
76.49 |
0.9922 |
-0.0991 |
264 |
2 |
70.58 |
2013-04-30 |
| 111. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
76.37 |
0.9374 |
-0.0437 |
232 |
1 |
76.37 |
2014-03-07 |
| 112. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
76.27 |
0.9931 |
-0.0904 |
381 |
1 |
76.27 |
2013-03-28 |
| 113. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
76.16 |
0.9108 |
-0.0220 |
235 |
1 |
76.16 |
2013-11-13 |
| 114. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
75.91 |
0.9703 |
-0.0778 |
394 |
1 |
75.91 |
2013-04-17 |
| 115. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
75.76 |
1.0063 |
-0.1177 |
293 |
1 |
75.76 |
2013-11-13 |
| 116. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
75.48 |
1.0052 |
-0.1129 |
400 |
1 |
75.48 |
2013-03-28 |
| 117. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
75.11 |
0.9494 |
-0.0599 |
397 |
1 |
75.11 |
2013-04-30 |
| 118. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
75.04 |
0.9743 |
-0.0874 |
397 |
1 |
75.04 |
2013-04-30 |
| 119. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
74.92 |
0.9657 |
-0.0800 |
424 |
1 |
74.92 |
2013-05-04 |
| 120. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
74.92 |
0.9740 |
-0.0965 |
371 |
1 |
74.92 |
2013-04-24 |
| 121. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
74.83 |
0.8787 |
-0.0085 |
443 |
1 |
74.83 |
2013-04-17 |
| 122. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
74.74 |
0.8437 |
0.0280 |
268 |
1 |
74.74 |
2013-04-24 |
| 123. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
73.95 |
0.9841 |
-0.1100 |
325 |
1 |
73.95 |
2013-03-28 |
| 124. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
72.59 |
1.0543 |
-0.2111 |
182 |
1 |
72.59 |
2013-04-30 |
| 125. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
72.49 |
0.9842 |
-0.1367 |
335 |
1 |
72.49 |
2013-04-24 |
| 126. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
72.19 |
0.9377 |
-0.0883 |
198 |
2 |
69.70 |
2013-05-07 |
| 127. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
71.91 |
0.9324 |
-0.0805 |
440 |
1 |
71.91 |
2013-05-01 |
| 128. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
71.42 |
1.0665 |
-0.2327 |
210 |
1 |
71.42 |
2013-03-28 |
| 129. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
69.38 |
0.8328 |
-0.0199 |
343 |
1 |
69.38 |
2013-05-07 |
| 130. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
69.23 |
0.8656 |
-0.0568 |
242 |
1 |
69.23 |
2013-05-07 |
| 131. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
68.52 |
0.9392 |
-0.1342 |
360 |
1 |
68.52 |
2013-04-23 |
| 132. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
68.38 |
0.8984 |
-0.0933 |
267 |
1 |
68.38 |
2013-04-30 |