Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
87.61 |
1.0279 |
0.1867 |
172 |
1 |
87.61 |
2011-01-14 |
2. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
86.68 |
1.0755 |
0.1324 |
243 |
3 |
85.16 |
2011-01-14 |
3. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
86.63 |
1.0506 |
0.1556 |
259 |
1 |
86.63 |
2011-01-14 |
4. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
85.99 |
1.0590 |
0.1375 |
250 |
1 |
85.99 |
2011-01-14 |
5. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
85.04 |
1.0332 |
0.1505 |
267 |
1 |
85.04 |
2011-01-14 |
6. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
82.79 |
1.0585 |
0.0971 |
226 |
1 |
82.79 |
2011-01-14 |
7. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
82.59 |
1.0638 |
0.0842 |
247 |
1 |
82.59 |
2011-01-14 |
8. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
82.39 |
1.0090 |
0.1438 |
300 |
1 |
82.39 |
2011-01-14 |
9. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
81.01 |
1.0654 |
0.0600 |
247 |
1 |
81.01 |
2011-01-14 |
10. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
80.67 |
1.0509 |
0.0797 |
295 |
2 |
77.04 |
2011-01-14 |
11. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
80.46 |
1.0521 |
0.0625 |
197 |
1 |
80.46 |
2011-01-14 |
12. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
80.12 |
1.0588 |
0.0567 |
281 |
1 |
80.12 |
2011-01-14 |
13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
79.74 |
1.0800 |
0.0231 |
129 |
1 |
79.74 |
2011-01-14 |
14. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
79.62 |
0.9561 |
0.1539 |
362 |
1 |
79.62 |
2011-01-14 |
15. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
79.59 |
0.9604 |
0.1455 |
285 |
1 |
79.59 |
2011-01-14 |
16. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
79.44 |
1.0481 |
0.0501 |
255 |
1 |
79.44 |
2011-01-14 |
17. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
79.11 |
0.9833 |
0.1204 |
387 |
1 |
79.11 |
2011-01-14 |
18. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
78.90 |
1.0204 |
0.0698 |
143 |
1 |
78.90 |
2011-01-14 |
19. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
78.81 |
1.0370 |
0.0599 |
262 |
2 |
78.20 |
2011-01-14 |
20. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
78.65 |
0.9957 |
0.0990 |
323 |
1 |
78.65 |
2011-01-14 |
21. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
78.50 |
1.0103 |
0.0768 |
209 |
1 |
78.50 |
2011-01-14 |
22. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
78.38 |
1.0197 |
0.0696 |
204 |
1 |
78.38 |
2011-01-14 |
23. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
78.35 |
1.0432 |
0.0481 |
276 |
1 |
78.35 |
2011-01-14 |
24. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
78.13 |
1.0462 |
0.0444 |
340 |
1 |
78.13 |
2011-01-14 |
25. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
78.01 |
1.0301 |
0.0545 |
268 |
1 |
78.01 |
2011-01-14 |
26. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
77.61 |
1.0857 |
0.0071 |
393 |
1 |
77.61 |
2011-01-14 |
27. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
77.37 |
1.0287 |
0.0472 |
269 |
1 |
77.37 |
2011-01-14 |
28. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
77.27 |
1.0511 |
0.0263 |
252 |
2 |
75.67 |
2011-01-14 |
29. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
77.12 |
1.0543 |
0.0215 |
360 |
1 |
77.12 |
2011-01-14 |
30. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
76.64 |
1.0595 |
0.0007 |
166 |
1 |
76.64 |
2011-01-14 |
31. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
76.37 |
1.0543 |
0.0054 |
182 |
1 |
76.37 |
2011-01-14 |
32. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
76.24 |
1.0867 |
-0.0300 |
171 |
1 |
76.24 |
2011-01-14 |
33. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
75.95 |
1.1070 |
-0.0510 |
265 |
1 |
75.95 |
2011-01-14 |
34. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
75.82 |
1.1095 |
-0.0519 |
252 |
1 |
75.82 |
2011-01-14 |
35. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
75.51 |
1.0086 |
0.0380 |
218 |
1 |
75.51 |
2011-01-14 |
36. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
75.44 |
1.0063 |
0.0485 |
293 |
1 |
75.44 |
2011-01-14 |
37. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
75.37 |
1.0607 |
-0.0089 |
357 |
1 |
75.37 |
2011-01-14 |
38. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
74.88 |
0.9917 |
0.0525 |
317 |
1 |
74.88 |
2011-01-14 |
39. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
74.76 |
0.9780 |
0.0562 |
173 |
1 |
74.76 |
2011-01-14 |
40. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
74.74 |
1.0901 |
-0.0480 |
288 |
1 |
74.74 |
2011-01-14 |
41. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
74.68 |
0.9500 |
0.0910 |
287 |
1 |
74.68 |
2011-01-14 |
42. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
74.28 |
0.9817 |
0.0574 |
304 |
1 |
74.28 |
2011-01-14 |
43. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
74.15 |
1.0243 |
0.0114 |
153 |
1 |
74.15 |
2011-01-14 |
44. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
73.98 |
1.0283 |
0.0078 |
272 |
1 |
73.98 |
2011-01-14 |
45. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
73.72 |
0.9927 |
0.0338 |
276 |
1 |
73.72 |
2011-01-14 |
46. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
73.63 |
1.0350 |
0.0041 |
416 |
2 |
71.55 |
2011-01-14 |
47. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
72.52 |
1.0128 |
0.0031 |
369 |
1 |
72.52 |
2011-01-14 |
48. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
72.45 |
1.0006 |
0.0075 |
311 |
1 |
72.45 |
2011-01-14 |
49. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
72.39 |
0.9783 |
0.0363 |
273 |
1 |
72.39 |
2011-01-14 |
50. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
72.28 |
1.0035 |
0.0028 |
310 |
1 |
72.28 |
2011-01-14 |
51. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
72.07 |
1.0561 |
-0.0552 |
227 |
1 |
72.07 |
2011-01-14 |
52. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
71.85 |
0.9927 |
0.0037 |
234 |
1 |
71.85 |
2011-01-14 |
53. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
71.68 |
1.0074 |
0.0039 |
410 |
1 |
71.68 |
2011-01-14 |
54. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
71.17 |
1.0639 |
-0.0726 |
303 |
2 |
70.12 |
2011-01-14 |
55. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
70.84 |
1.0115 |
-0.0312 |
189 |
1 |
70.84 |
2011-01-14 |
56. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
70.70 |
0.9719 |
0.0189 |
383 |
1 |
70.70 |
2011-01-14 |
57. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
70.68 |
0.9844 |
0.0110 |
351 |
1 |
70.68 |
2011-01-14 |
58. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
70.60 |
0.9966 |
-0.0072 |
377 |
1 |
70.60 |
2011-01-14 |
59. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
70.53 |
0.9948 |
-0.0147 |
233 |
1 |
70.53 |
2011-01-14 |
60. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
70.25 |
1.0333 |
-0.0611 |
176 |
1 |
70.25 |
2011-01-14 |
61. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
69.75 |
1.0461 |
-0.0736 |
318 |
1 |
69.75 |
2011-01-14 |
62. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
69.71 |
0.9070 |
0.0579 |
192 |
1 |
69.71 |
2011-01-14 |
63. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
69.46 |
0.8974 |
0.0807 |
365 |
1 |
69.46 |
2011-01-14 |
64. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
69.40 |
1.0042 |
-0.0426 |
168 |
2 |
64.99 |
2011-01-14 |
65. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
69.33 |
0.9258 |
0.0432 |
184 |
1 |
69.33 |
2011-01-14 |
66. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
69.18 |
0.9451 |
0.0251 |
419 |
1 |
69.18 |
2011-01-14 |
67. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
69.14 |
0.8993 |
0.0652 |
366 |
1 |
69.14 |
2011-01-14 |
68. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
68.95 |
0.9136 |
0.0488 |
348 |
1 |
68.95 |
2011-01-14 |
69. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
68.93 |
1.0464 |
-0.0826 |
294 |
1 |
68.93 |
2011-01-14 |
70. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
68.71 |
0.9884 |
-0.0302 |
267 |
1 |
68.71 |
2011-01-14 |
71. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
68.51 |
0.9820 |
-0.0207 |
297 |
1 |
68.51 |
2011-01-14 |
72. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
68.38 |
0.9606 |
-0.0054 |
203 |
1 |
68.38 |
2011-01-14 |
73. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
68.24 |
0.9676 |
-0.0134 |
247 |
1 |
68.24 |
2011-01-14 |
74. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
68.24 |
0.9530 |
0.0093 |
445 |
1 |
68.24 |
2011-01-14 |
75. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
68.22 |
0.8571 |
0.0911 |
202 |
1 |
68.22 |
2011-01-14 |
76. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
68.01 |
1.0493 |
-0.0965 |
264 |
1 |
68.01 |
2011-01-14 |
77. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
67.84 |
0.9404 |
0.0126 |
383 |
1 |
67.84 |
2011-01-14 |
78. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
67.21 |
0.9765 |
-0.0425 |
269 |
1 |
67.21 |
2011-01-14 |
79. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
67.14 |
1.0016 |
-0.0695 |
217 |
1 |
67.14 |
2011-01-14 |
80. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
67.11 |
1.0095 |
-0.0776 |
211 |
1 |
67.11 |
2011-01-14 |
81. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
66.96 |
0.9678 |
-0.0323 |
392 |
1 |
66.96 |
2011-01-14 |
82. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
66.83 |
0.9377 |
-0.0006 |
198 |
1 |
66.83 |
2011-01-14 |
83. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
66.81 |
0.9598 |
-0.0285 |
209 |
1 |
66.81 |
2011-01-14 |
84. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
66.71 |
0.9736 |
-0.0388 |
378 |
1 |
66.71 |
2011-01-14 |
85. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
66.67 |
0.9482 |
-0.0154 |
476 |
1 |
66.67 |
2011-01-14 |
86. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
66.57 |
0.9357 |
-0.0121 |
204 |
1 |
66.57 |
2011-01-14 |
87. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.27 |
0.9265 |
-0.0060 |
254 |
2 |
66.00 |
2011-01-14 |
88. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
65.97 |
1.0304 |
-0.1159 |
256 |
1 |
65.97 |
2011-01-14 |
89. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
65.90 |
0.9804 |
-0.0638 |
227 |
1 |
65.90 |
2011-01-14 |
90. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
65.31 |
0.9740 |
-0.0626 |
371 |
1 |
65.31 |
2011-01-14 |
91. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
65.12 |
1.0028 |
-0.0984 |
259 |
1 |
65.12 |
2011-01-14 |
92. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
64.99 |
0.9145 |
-0.0074 |
404 |
1 |
64.99 |
2011-01-14 |
93. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
64.36 |
0.9681 |
-0.0677 |
392 |
1 |
64.36 |
2011-01-14 |
94. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
63.87 |
0.8656 |
0.0236 |
242 |
1 |
63.87 |
2011-01-14 |
95. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
63.53 |
1.0543 |
-0.1702 |
233 |
1 |
63.53 |
2011-01-14 |
96. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
63.40 |
0.8718 |
0.0131 |
318 |
1 |
63.40 |
2011-01-14 |
97. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
63.23 |
0.9517 |
-0.0646 |
397 |
1 |
63.23 |
2011-01-14 |
98. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
62.91 |
0.9987 |
-0.1198 |
236 |
1 |
62.91 |
2011-01-14 |
99. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
62.38 |
0.8787 |
-0.0135 |
443 |
2 |
59.21 |
2011-01-14 |
100. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
61.87 |
0.9632 |
-0.1020 |
287 |
1 |
61.87 |
2011-01-14 |
101. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
61.18 |
0.9698 |
-0.1145 |
389 |
1 |
61.18 |
2011-01-14 |
102. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
60.50 |
0.8624 |
-0.0263 |
174 |
1 |
60.50 |
2011-01-14 |
103. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
59.65 |
1.0018 |
-0.1726 |
246 |
1 |
59.65 |
2011-01-14 |
104. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
57.85 |
1.0125 |
-0.2137 |
171 |
1 |
57.85 |
2011-01-14 |
105. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
57.59 |
0.9930 |
-0.1840 |
350 |
1 |
57.59 |
2011-01-14 |
106. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
57.27 |
0.9614 |
-0.1643 |
195 |
1 |
57.27 |
2011-01-14 |
107. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
57.26 |
0.8328 |
-0.0338 |
343 |
1 |
57.26 |
2011-01-14 |
108. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
56.27 |
0.9543 |
-0.1659 |
265 |
1 |
56.27 |
2011-01-14 |
109. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
55.60 |
0.9338 |
-0.1517 |
326 |
1 |
55.60 |
2011-01-14 |
110. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
50.32 |
0.8830 |
-0.1822 |
300 |
1 |
50.32 |
2011-01-14 |