| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
54.61 |
0.9706 |
0.2943 |
173 |
1 |
54.61 |
2011-05-13 |
| 2. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
54.13 |
1.0747 |
0.1791 |
189 |
2 |
46.58 |
2011-04-13 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
53.17 |
1.0647 |
0.1668 |
129 |
4 |
48.34 |
2011-04-18 |
| 4. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
52.41 |
1.0727 |
0.1412 |
129 |
4 |
48.35 |
2011-04-13 |
| 5. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
52.11 |
1.0253 |
0.1817 |
213 |
2 |
50.27 |
2011-05-13 |
| 6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
52.11 |
1.1481 |
0.0589 |
233 |
2 |
51.35 |
2011-04-13 |
| 7. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
51.95 |
1.1185 |
0.0848 |
242 |
2 |
48.08 |
2011-04-06 |
| 8. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
51.41 |
0.9491 |
0.2417 |
177 |
3 |
47.54 |
2011-05-02 |
| 9. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
51.23 |
1.0146 |
0.1720 |
200 |
2 |
45.77 |
2011-04-29 |
| 10. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
51.02 |
1.0452 |
0.1365 |
201 |
2 |
48.98 |
2011-05-02 |
| 11. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
50.91 |
1.0581 |
0.1211 |
129 |
1 |
50.91 |
2011-01-28 |
| 12. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
50.68 |
1.0016 |
0.1722 |
176 |
4 |
46.91 |
2011-05-02 |
| 13. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
50.65 |
1.1589 |
0.0142 |
252 |
1 |
50.65 |
2011-02-23 |
| 14. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
50.59 |
1.0975 |
0.0743 |
179 |
3 |
47.51 |
2011-05-13 |
| 15. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
50.10 |
0.9760 |
0.1844 |
154 |
2 |
48.67 |
2011-05-06 |
| 16. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
50.00 |
1.1002 |
0.0579 |
213 |
2 |
48.07 |
2011-03-18 |
| 17. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
49.86 |
0.9619 |
0.1929 |
274 |
1 |
49.86 |
2011-02-25 |
| 18. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
49.49 |
1.0974 |
0.0489 |
256 |
1 |
49.49 |
2011-04-27 |
| 19. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
49.34 |
1.1010 |
0.0418 |
287 |
1 |
49.34 |
2011-05-13 |
| 20. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
49.13 |
1.0756 |
0.0623 |
262 |
2 |
47.47 |
2011-04-11 |
| 21. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
48.93 |
1.0186 |
0.1147 |
171 |
1 |
48.93 |
2011-04-27 |
| 22. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
48.91 |
1.0398 |
0.0930 |
236 |
1 |
48.91 |
2011-05-06 |
| 23. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
48.69 |
0.9832 |
0.1446 |
217 |
4 |
43.40 |
2011-04-13 |
| 24. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
48.43 |
1.1121 |
0.0096 |
226 |
1 |
48.43 |
2011-05-06 |
| 25. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
48.35 |
1.0381 |
0.0818 |
165 |
1 |
48.35 |
2011-04-06 |
| 26. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
48.16 |
1.1406 |
-0.0251 |
269 |
1 |
48.16 |
2011-04-29 |
| 27. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
47.89 |
1.0848 |
0.0244 |
225 |
2 |
46.28 |
2011-04-27 |
| 28. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
47.45 |
1.1223 |
-0.0233 |
162 |
1 |
47.45 |
2011-03-25 |
| 29. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
47.44 |
1.1003 |
-0.0015 |
234 |
2 |
47.43 |
2011-02-23 |
| 30. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
47.05 |
1.0214 |
0.0684 |
204 |
1 |
47.05 |
2011-02-14 |
| 31. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
46.98 |
1.0532 |
0.0349 |
177 |
2 |
44.73 |
2011-05-13 |
| 32. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
46.98 |
0.9580 |
0.1301 |
209 |
1 |
46.98 |
2011-03-07 |
| 33. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
46.88 |
1.0440 |
0.0418 |
244 |
1 |
46.88 |
2011-04-11 |
| 34. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
46.85 |
1.0718 |
0.0133 |
184 |
2 |
43.05 |
2011-04-11 |
| 35. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
46.44 |
1.0187 |
0.0569 |
176 |
2 |
42.98 |
2011-04-15 |
| 36. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
46.40 |
0.9936 |
0.0811 |
167 |
1 |
46.40 |
2011-04-08 |
| 37. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
46.36 |
1.0089 |
0.0649 |
176 |
1 |
46.36 |
2011-02-07 |
| 38. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
46.20 |
0.8891 |
0.1810 |
170 |
1 |
46.20 |
2011-04-11 |
| 39. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
46.10 |
0.9778 |
0.0900 |
195 |
1 |
46.10 |
2011-02-07 |
| 40. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
46.10 |
1.0120 |
0.0558 |
227 |
1 |
46.10 |
2011-02-04 |
| 41. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
46.10 |
1.1646 |
-0.0968 |
220 |
1 |
46.10 |
2011-05-02 |
| 42. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
45.98 |
1.0468 |
0.0182 |
290 |
2 |
43.72 |
2011-02-16 |
| 43. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
45.86 |
1.0409 |
0.0213 |
234 |
2 |
43.72 |
2011-02-04 |
| 44. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
45.78 |
1.0048 |
0.0555 |
281 |
2 |
43.77 |
2011-05-02 |
| 45. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
45.77 |
1.0675 |
-0.0074 |
172 |
1 |
45.77 |
2011-04-29 |
| 46. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
45.53 |
1.0225 |
0.0321 |
336 |
1 |
45.53 |
2011-02-09 |
| 47. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.38 |
0.9681 |
0.0830 |
231 |
2 |
43.41 |
2011-04-04 |
| 48. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
45.36 |
1.0598 |
-0.0092 |
271 |
1 |
45.36 |
2011-05-13 |
| 49. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
45.05 |
1.0235 |
0.0199 |
277 |
1 |
45.05 |
2011-02-04 |
| 50. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
44.95 |
0.9693 |
0.0718 |
218 |
1 |
44.95 |
2011-02-23 |
| 51. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
44.92 |
0.9673 |
0.0731 |
235 |
2 |
44.13 |
2011-05-06 |
| 52. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
44.92 |
0.9909 |
0.0495 |
303 |
1 |
44.92 |
2011-02-28 |
| 53. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
44.84 |
0.9911 |
0.0475 |
250 |
1 |
44.84 |
2011-03-18 |
| 54. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
44.52 |
0.9560 |
0.0752 |
263 |
1 |
44.52 |
2011-02-25 |
| 55. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
44.45 |
1.0599 |
-0.0304 |
212 |
1 |
44.45 |
2011-04-27 |
| 56. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
44.45 |
1.0361 |
-0.0066 |
243 |
1 |
44.45 |
2011-02-25 |
| 57. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
44.42 |
0.9831 |
0.0457 |
193 |
2 |
43.23 |
2011-04-29 |
| 58. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
44.28 |
0.9565 |
0.0691 |
225 |
1 |
44.28 |
2011-01-28 |
| 59. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
44.21 |
0.9915 |
0.0325 |
351 |
1 |
44.21 |
2011-02-28 |
| 60. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
44.06 |
1.1159 |
-0.0954 |
171 |
1 |
44.06 |
2011-04-04 |
| 61. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
43.99 |
1.0313 |
-0.0124 |
189 |
2 |
43.92 |
2011-04-18 |
| 62. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
43.64 |
0.9922 |
0.0186 |
258 |
1 |
43.64 |
2011-03-21 |
| 63. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
43.55 |
1.0038 |
0.0049 |
217 |
2 |
38.17 |
2011-04-15 |
| 64. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
43.51 |
0.9501 |
0.0577 |
273 |
1 |
43.51 |
2011-02-25 |
| 65. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
43.32 |
1.0873 |
-0.0839 |
226 |
1 |
43.32 |
2011-02-07 |
| 66. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
43.27 |
0.9338 |
0.0684 |
153 |
1 |
43.27 |
2011-04-27 |
| 67. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
43.26 |
0.9343 |
0.0677 |
342 |
2 |
39.78 |
2011-02-14 |
| 68. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
43.19 |
1.0164 |
-0.0160 |
188 |
1 |
43.19 |
2011-04-15 |
| 69. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
43.15 |
0.9724 |
0.0270 |
237 |
2 |
41.03 |
2011-05-02 |
| 70. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
42.87 |
0.9529 |
0.0400 |
168 |
1 |
42.87 |
2011-04-27 |
| 71. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
42.58 |
0.9518 |
0.0344 |
174 |
2 |
42.02 |
2011-04-18 |
| 72. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
42.42 |
1.0042 |
-0.0217 |
188 |
1 |
42.42 |
2011-01-26 |
| 73. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
42.36 |
1.0406 |
-0.0595 |
206 |
1 |
42.36 |
2011-04-04 |
| 74. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
42.35 |
1.0787 |
-0.0978 |
247 |
1 |
42.35 |
2011-04-06 |
| 75. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
42.31 |
0.9731 |
0.0069 |
410 |
1 |
42.31 |
2011-02-14 |
| 76. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
42.31 |
0.9225 |
0.0575 |
276 |
1 |
42.31 |
2011-02-28 |
| 77. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
41.90 |
0.9918 |
-0.0213 |
255 |
3 |
39.32 |
2011-05-13 |
| 78. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
41.82 |
0.9942 |
-0.0256 |
245 |
1 |
41.82 |
2011-02-09 |
| 79. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
41.75 |
0.9328 |
0.0342 |
252 |
1 |
41.75 |
2011-01-24 |
| 80. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
41.61 |
0.9732 |
-0.0094 |
284 |
1 |
41.61 |
2011-01-28 |
| 81. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
41.45 |
0.9261 |
0.0340 |
265 |
1 |
41.45 |
2011-02-04 |
| 82. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
41.24 |
0.9583 |
-0.0031 |
163 |
1 |
41.24 |
2011-02-25 |
| 83. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
40.93 |
0.9840 |
-0.0360 |
135 |
2 |
38.43 |
2011-05-06 |
| 84. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
40.90 |
0.9800 |
-0.0327 |
304 |
1 |
40.90 |
2011-02-04 |
| 85. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
40.89 |
1.0812 |
-0.1341 |
131 |
1 |
40.89 |
2011-05-02 |
| 86. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
40.78 |
1.0436 |
-0.0991 |
195 |
1 |
40.78 |
2011-01-26 |
| 87. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
40.71 |
1.0688 |
-0.1259 |
231 |
1 |
40.71 |
2011-04-11 |
| 88. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
40.55 |
1.0341 |
-0.0949 |
243 |
1 |
40.55 |
2011-02-07 |
| 89. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
40.53 |
0.9752 |
-0.0365 |
258 |
1 |
40.53 |
2011-04-13 |
| 90. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
40.51 |
0.9773 |
-0.0390 |
272 |
1 |
40.51 |
2011-01-28 |
| 91. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
40.48 |
0.9895 |
-0.0519 |
174 |
1 |
40.48 |
2011-03-21 |
| 92. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
40.35 |
0.9815 |
-0.0469 |
218 |
1 |
40.35 |
2011-02-16 |
| 93. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
40.06 |
1.0187 |
-0.0908 |
193 |
1 |
40.06 |
2011-04-29 |
| 94. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
39.97 |
0.9865 |
-0.0607 |
276 |
1 |
39.97 |
2011-02-07 |
| 95. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
39.54 |
1.0782 |
-0.1624 |
243 |
1 |
39.54 |
2011-04-11 |
| 96. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
39.37 |
0.8886 |
0.0233 |
267 |
1 |
39.37 |
2011-01-26 |
| 97. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
39.33 |
1.0105 |
-0.0995 |
296 |
1 |
39.33 |
2011-01-26 |
| 98. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
39.21 |
0.9579 |
-0.0497 |
317 |
1 |
39.21 |
2011-02-04 |
| 99. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
39.21 |
1.0188 |
-0.1106 |
256 |
1 |
39.21 |
2011-05-02 |
| 100. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
38.86 |
0.9457 |
-0.0456 |
145 |
1 |
38.86 |
2011-02-28 |
| 101. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
38.58 |
1.0276 |
-0.1340 |
216 |
1 |
38.58 |
2011-02-14 |
| 102. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
38.47 |
0.7869 |
0.1041 |
154 |
1 |
38.47 |
2011-05-13 |
| 103. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
38.36 |
0.9067 |
-0.0182 |
204 |
1 |
38.36 |
2011-05-06 |
| 104. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
38.23 |
0.9509 |
-0.0654 |
193 |
2 |
37.36 |
2011-04-11 |
| 105. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
38.16 |
1.0482 |
-0.1643 |
363 |
1 |
38.16 |
2011-02-23 |
| 106. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
38.12 |
1.0737 |
-0.1908 |
303 |
1 |
38.12 |
2011-02-23 |
| 107. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
37.50 |
1.0428 |
-0.1742 |
273 |
1 |
37.50 |
2011-05-06 |
| 108. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
36.96 |
0.8960 |
-0.0399 |
207 |
2 |
36.94 |
2011-02-09 |
| 109. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
36.77 |
0.8921 |
-0.0404 |
273 |
1 |
36.77 |
2011-02-07 |
| 110. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
36.63 |
0.9161 |
-0.0677 |
335 |
1 |
36.63 |
2011-02-04 |
| 111. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
36.52 |
0.8513 |
-0.0054 |
242 |
1 |
36.52 |
2011-02-25 |
| 112. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
36.37 |
0.8965 |
-0.0541 |
191 |
1 |
36.37 |
2011-01-24 |
| 113. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
35.74 |
0.8217 |
0.0061 |
204 |
1 |
35.74 |
2011-02-07 |
| 114. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
35.68 |
0.9209 |
-0.0945 |
292 |
1 |
35.68 |
2011-01-24 |
| 115. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
35.68 |
0.8334 |
-0.0070 |
355 |
1 |
35.68 |
2011-02-04 |
| 116. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
35.58 |
0.9664 |
-0.1423 |
153 |
1 |
35.58 |
2011-02-09 |
| 117. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
35.53 |
0.8701 |
-0.0472 |
194 |
1 |
35.53 |
2011-04-08 |
| 118. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
35.44 |
0.8214 |
-0.0005 |
157 |
1 |
35.44 |
2011-01-26 |
| 119. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
34.78 |
0.8877 |
-0.0821 |
237 |
1 |
34.78 |
2011-01-24 |
| 120. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
34.64 |
0.8630 |
-0.0607 |
189 |
1 |
34.64 |
2011-01-26 |
| 121. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
34.15 |
0.8832 |
-0.0922 |
291 |
1 |
34.15 |
2011-01-28 |
| 122. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
33.78 |
0.8695 |
-0.0871 |
366 |
1 |
33.78 |
2011-04-04 |
| 123. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
33.74 |
0.8191 |
-0.0376 |
186 |
1 |
33.74 |
2011-01-24 |
| 124. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
33.68 |
1.0138 |
-0.2337 |
167 |
1 |
33.68 |
2011-01-28 |
| 125. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
32.76 |
0.8571 |
-0.0983 |
199 |
1 |
32.76 |
2011-02-23 |
| 126. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
31.91 |
0.8987 |
-0.1596 |
200 |
1 |
31.91 |
2011-03-25 |
| 127. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
30.12 |
0.9661 |
-0.2685 |
227 |
1 |
30.12 |
2011-02-07 |
| 128. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
30.10 |
0.9874 |
-0.2902 |
174 |
1 |
30.10 |
2011-02-04 |