| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
53.71 |
1.1589 |
0.1909 |
252 |
1 |
53.71 |
2011-04-20 |
| 2. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
50.53 |
1.0273 |
0.2426 |
128 |
1 |
50.53 |
2011-04-19 |
| 3. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
49.42 |
1.0750 |
0.1670 |
182 |
3 |
44.54 |
2011-05-18 |
| 4. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
47.37 |
0.9580 |
0.2325 |
209 |
2 |
43.97 |
2011-05-12 |
| 5. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
47.35 |
0.9664 |
0.2236 |
153 |
1 |
47.35 |
2011-05-09 |
| 6. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
46.81 |
1.1121 |
0.0643 |
226 |
1 |
46.81 |
2011-05-09 |
| 7. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
46.67 |
1.1646 |
0.0083 |
220 |
1 |
46.67 |
2011-03-17 |
| 8. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
46.51 |
0.9565 |
0.2124 |
225 |
2 |
44.50 |
2011-05-18 |
| 9. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
46.21 |
1.0996 |
0.0617 |
398 |
1 |
46.21 |
2011-04-20 |
| 10. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.02 |
1.0966 |
0.0600 |
197 |
1 |
46.02 |
2011-04-26 |
| 11. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
45.82 |
0.9681 |
0.1834 |
241 |
1 |
45.82 |
2011-05-12 |
| 12. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
45.76 |
0.9817 |
0.1683 |
318 |
1 |
45.76 |
2011-05-12 |
| 13. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
45.69 |
0.9501 |
0.1982 |
273 |
1 |
45.69 |
2011-05-12 |
| 14. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
45.30 |
1.1107 |
0.0278 |
180 |
2 |
41.18 |
2011-03-17 |
| 15. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
44.46 |
1.0583 |
0.0591 |
230 |
1 |
44.46 |
2011-04-11 |
| 16. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
44.45 |
0.9820 |
0.1351 |
276 |
2 |
40.04 |
2011-05-09 |
| 17. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
44.36 |
1.0910 |
0.0238 |
217 |
1 |
44.36 |
2011-04-12 |
| 18. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
44.10 |
1.0718 |
0.0365 |
184 |
1 |
44.10 |
2011-02-25 |
| 19. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
43.99 |
0.9704 |
0.1351 |
249 |
2 |
41.61 |
2011-04-20 |
| 20. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
43.98 |
1.0361 |
0.0692 |
243 |
2 |
43.81 |
2011-05-17 |
| 21. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
43.95 |
0.9884 |
0.1161 |
317 |
1 |
43.95 |
2011-04-19 |
| 22. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
43.90 |
1.1075 |
-0.0042 |
265 |
1 |
43.90 |
2011-04-26 |
| 23. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
43.64 |
1.0860 |
0.0107 |
348 |
2 |
40.63 |
2011-04-19 |
| 24. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
43.57 |
1.1318 |
-0.0368 |
229 |
1 |
43.57 |
2011-03-03 |
| 25. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
43.56 |
1.1142 |
-0.0195 |
256 |
1 |
43.56 |
2011-04-06 |
| 26. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
43.55 |
1.0701 |
0.0244 |
100 |
1 |
43.55 |
2011-05-03 |
| 27. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
43.54 |
1.0853 |
0.0089 |
247 |
1 |
43.54 |
2011-04-14 |
| 28. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
43.49 |
1.0276 |
0.0654 |
216 |
1 |
43.49 |
2011-05-18 |
| 29. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
43.36 |
0.8669 |
0.2228 |
239 |
2 |
38.85 |
2011-05-12 |
| 30. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
43.29 |
0.9623 |
0.1257 |
255 |
2 |
40.74 |
2011-04-07 |
| 31. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
43.23 |
0.9832 |
0.1032 |
217 |
1 |
43.23 |
2011-04-06 |
| 32. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
43.10 |
0.9800 |
0.1032 |
304 |
1 |
43.10 |
2011-05-17 |
| 33. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
43.04 |
0.9526 |
0.1291 |
268 |
1 |
43.04 |
2011-05-09 |
| 34. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
42.87 |
0.9092 |
0.1682 |
184 |
1 |
42.87 |
2011-04-19 |
| 35. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
42.86 |
1.0496 |
0.0275 |
214 |
1 |
42.86 |
2011-02-25 |
| 36. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
42.86 |
1.1185 |
-0.0414 |
242 |
1 |
42.86 |
2011-04-19 |
| 37. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
42.80 |
1.0024 |
0.0732 |
264 |
1 |
42.80 |
2011-04-06 |
| 38. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
42.63 |
1.0258 |
0.0456 |
273 |
1 |
42.63 |
2011-05-18 |
| 39. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
42.58 |
0.9291 |
0.1410 |
200 |
2 |
41.88 |
2011-05-17 |
| 40. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
42.32 |
1.1038 |
-0.0402 |
250 |
1 |
42.32 |
2011-05-17 |
| 41. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
42.24 |
1.0575 |
0.0041 |
237 |
2 |
39.97 |
2011-02-25 |
| 42. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
42.22 |
0.8971 |
0.1640 |
369 |
1 |
42.22 |
2011-05-18 |
| 43. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
42.07 |
0.9840 |
0.0733 |
135 |
1 |
42.07 |
2011-05-09 |
| 44. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
41.69 |
0.8832 |
0.1645 |
291 |
1 |
41.69 |
2011-04-19 |
| 45. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
41.52 |
1.0392 |
0.0043 |
373 |
1 |
41.52 |
2011-04-14 |
| 46. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
41.42 |
1.0072 |
0.0338 |
232 |
1 |
41.42 |
2011-03-31 |
| 47. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
41.36 |
1.0634 |
-0.0240 |
269 |
1 |
41.36 |
2011-03-03 |
| 48. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
41.33 |
0.9773 |
0.0614 |
272 |
1 |
41.33 |
2011-05-17 |
| 49. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
41.29 |
1.0067 |
0.0310 |
217 |
1 |
41.29 |
2011-04-26 |
| 50. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
41.26 |
1.0291 |
0.0078 |
168 |
1 |
41.26 |
2011-03-03 |
| 51. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
41.02 |
1.0398 |
-0.0089 |
236 |
1 |
41.02 |
2011-05-09 |
| 52. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
40.90 |
1.0150 |
0.0129 |
304 |
2 |
38.11 |
2011-04-12 |
| 53. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
40.85 |
0.9760 |
0.0506 |
203 |
2 |
36.82 |
2011-05-09 |
| 54. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
40.84 |
0.9224 |
0.1040 |
282 |
1 |
40.84 |
2011-04-19 |
| 55. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
40.70 |
0.9151 |
0.1078 |
256 |
2 |
40.07 |
2011-04-20 |
| 56. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
40.69 |
1.0468 |
-0.0242 |
290 |
1 |
40.69 |
2011-04-20 |
| 57. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
40.58 |
0.9212 |
0.0986 |
254 |
1 |
40.58 |
2011-03-17 |
| 58. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
40.55 |
1.0406 |
-0.0215 |
206 |
1 |
40.55 |
2011-03-17 |
| 59. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
40.49 |
0.9145 |
0.1031 |
360 |
1 |
40.49 |
2011-05-12 |
| 60. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
40.47 |
1.0042 |
0.0129 |
188 |
1 |
40.47 |
2011-04-14 |
| 61. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
40.30 |
1.0225 |
-0.0097 |
205 |
1 |
40.30 |
2011-03-31 |
| 62. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
40.23 |
1.0231 |
-0.0121 |
339 |
1 |
40.23 |
2011-03-31 |
| 63. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
40.16 |
0.9792 |
0.0301 |
323 |
1 |
40.16 |
2011-04-06 |
| 64. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
40.13 |
0.9579 |
0.0506 |
317 |
1 |
40.13 |
2011-03-02 |
| 65. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
39.93 |
1.0599 |
-0.0564 |
212 |
1 |
39.93 |
2011-02-17 |
| 66. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
39.91 |
1.0921 |
-0.0891 |
224 |
1 |
39.91 |
2011-05-09 |
| 67. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
39.88 |
1.0747 |
-0.0724 |
189 |
1 |
39.88 |
2011-05-03 |
| 68. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
39.72 |
0.9480 |
0.0502 |
270 |
1 |
39.72 |
2011-04-06 |
| 69. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
39.41 |
1.0303 |
-0.0399 |
358 |
1 |
39.41 |
2011-04-20 |
| 70. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
39.38 |
0.9458 |
0.0439 |
142 |
1 |
39.38 |
2011-04-14 |
| 71. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
39.30 |
0.9338 |
0.0539 |
153 |
1 |
39.30 |
2011-03-17 |
| 72. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
39.28 |
1.0504 |
-0.0632 |
204 |
1 |
39.28 |
2011-05-17 |
| 73. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
39.17 |
0.9561 |
0.0283 |
199 |
1 |
39.17 |
2011-04-11 |
| 74. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
39.16 |
1.0140 |
-0.0298 |
251 |
2 |
37.30 |
2011-05-03 |
| 75. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
39.02 |
0.9328 |
0.0478 |
252 |
1 |
39.02 |
2011-03-02 |
| 76. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
38.94 |
0.9973 |
-0.0187 |
371 |
1 |
38.94 |
2011-03-17 |
| 77. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
38.85 |
0.9518 |
0.0246 |
174 |
2 |
35.54 |
2011-05-03 |
| 78. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
38.82 |
1.0428 |
-0.0672 |
286 |
1 |
38.82 |
2011-03-03 |
| 79. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
38.72 |
0.9824 |
-0.0093 |
212 |
1 |
38.72 |
2011-04-26 |
| 80. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
38.37 |
1.0412 |
-0.0769 |
288 |
1 |
38.37 |
2011-02-08 |
| 81. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
38.29 |
0.9406 |
0.0217 |
305 |
1 |
38.29 |
2011-04-26 |
| 82. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
38.28 |
1.1002 |
-0.1382 |
213 |
1 |
38.28 |
2011-02-03 |
| 83. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
38.01 |
0.9886 |
-0.0333 |
143 |
1 |
38.01 |
2011-04-19 |
| 84. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
37.72 |
1.0754 |
-0.1274 |
314 |
1 |
37.72 |
2011-03-08 |
| 85. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
37.68 |
1.0649 |
-0.1179 |
283 |
1 |
37.68 |
2011-02-03 |
| 86. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
37.64 |
0.8770 |
0.0690 |
325 |
1 |
37.64 |
2011-02-17 |
| 87. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
37.32 |
0.9815 |
-0.0436 |
218 |
1 |
37.32 |
2011-03-02 |
| 88. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
37.22 |
0.9902 |
-0.0548 |
308 |
1 |
37.22 |
2011-03-02 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
37.12 |
0.9067 |
0.0262 |
204 |
1 |
37.12 |
2011-04-14 |
| 90. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
36.82 |
0.9395 |
-0.0142 |
217 |
1 |
36.82 |
2011-03-03 |
| 91. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
36.81 |
0.8630 |
0.0621 |
189 |
2 |
35.11 |
2011-04-26 |
| 92. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
36.79 |
0.9173 |
0.0073 |
299 |
1 |
36.79 |
2011-04-07 |
| 93. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
36.75 |
0.9953 |
-0.0717 |
273 |
1 |
36.75 |
2011-02-03 |
| 94. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
36.73 |
0.9913 |
-0.0682 |
263 |
1 |
36.73 |
2011-04-11 |
| 95. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
36.61 |
0.8891 |
0.0310 |
170 |
1 |
36.61 |
2011-02-17 |
| 96. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
36.31 |
1.0727 |
-0.1602 |
129 |
1 |
36.31 |
2011-05-03 |
| 97. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
36.16 |
0.9778 |
-0.0690 |
195 |
1 |
36.16 |
2011-02-03 |
| 98. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
35.96 |
0.9874 |
-0.0837 |
174 |
1 |
35.96 |
2011-03-08 |
| 99. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
35.93 |
1.0057 |
-0.1027 |
282 |
1 |
35.93 |
2011-02-08 |
| 100. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
35.87 |
0.9684 |
-0.0669 |
196 |
1 |
35.87 |
2011-03-08 |
| 101. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
35.76 |
0.9706 |
-0.0719 |
173 |
1 |
35.76 |
2011-03-17 |
| 102. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
35.70 |
0.9918 |
-0.0946 |
255 |
1 |
35.70 |
2011-02-03 |
| 103. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
35.63 |
0.8726 |
0.0228 |
265 |
1 |
35.63 |
2011-03-17 |
| 104. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
35.63 |
1.0146 |
-0.1192 |
200 |
2 |
34.23 |
2011-04-26 |
| 105. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
35.42 |
0.8323 |
0.0579 |
230 |
1 |
35.42 |
2011-02-08 |
| 106. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
35.18 |
1.0105 |
-0.1264 |
296 |
1 |
35.18 |
2011-02-03 |
| 107. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
35.12 |
1.0625 |
-0.1799 |
123 |
1 |
35.12 |
2011-02-17 |
| 108. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
34.57 |
0.9911 |
-0.1223 |
250 |
1 |
34.57 |
2011-04-11 |
| 109. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
34.52 |
0.8886 |
-0.0211 |
267 |
1 |
34.52 |
2011-02-08 |
| 110. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
34.32 |
0.8822 |
-0.0197 |
284 |
1 |
34.32 |
2011-02-03 |
| 111. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
34.30 |
1.0164 |
-0.1544 |
188 |
1 |
34.30 |
2011-02-17 |
| 112. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
34.02 |
1.0886 |
-0.2336 |
171 |
1 |
34.02 |
2011-02-25 |
| 113. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
33.72 |
0.9457 |
-0.0983 |
145 |
1 |
33.72 |
2011-02-08 |
| 114. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
32.81 |
0.9560 |
-0.1314 |
263 |
1 |
32.81 |
2011-02-08 |
| 115. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
32.78 |
0.9936 |
-0.1698 |
167 |
1 |
32.78 |
2011-05-03 |
| 116. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
32.55 |
0.8200 |
-0.0020 |
318 |
1 |
32.55 |
2011-02-03 |
| 117. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
31.87 |
0.9195 |
-0.1186 |
185 |
1 |
31.87 |
2011-02-08 |
| 118. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
31.66 |
0.9637 |
-0.1680 |
293 |
1 |
31.66 |
2011-03-02 |
| 119. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
31.48 |
0.8701 |
-0.0790 |
194 |
1 |
31.48 |
2011-03-17 |
| 120. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.04 |
1.0249 |
-0.2448 |
209 |
1 |
31.04 |
2011-03-17 |
| 121. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
31.02 |
0.9452 |
-0.1656 |
308 |
1 |
31.02 |
2011-02-08 |
| 122. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
30.94 |
0.8571 |
-0.0795 |
199 |
1 |
30.94 |
2011-03-31 |
| 123. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
30.70 |
1.0005 |
-0.2290 |
193 |
1 |
30.70 |
2011-02-03 |
| 124. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
29.63 |
1.0494 |
-0.3047 |
304 |
1 |
29.63 |
2011-03-31 |
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With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
28.59 |
0.7869 |
-0.0684 |
154 |
1 |
28.59 |
2011-02-17 |