Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
56.15 |
1.0975 |
0.2696 |
179 |
2 |
49.99 |
2011-05-13 |
2. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
53.47 |
1.0532 |
0.2486 |
177 |
1 |
53.47 |
2011-05-13 |
3. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
52.28 |
1.0966 |
0.1763 |
197 |
1 |
52.28 |
2011-03-07 |
4. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
51.80 |
1.1646 |
0.0966 |
220 |
2 |
51.80 |
2011-05-06 |
5. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.40 |
1.0647 |
0.1867 |
129 |
4 |
46.25 |
2011-04-04 |
6. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
50.54 |
1.1002 |
0.1303 |
213 |
2 |
45.53 |
2011-04-13 |
7. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
49.91 |
1.0747 |
0.1405 |
189 |
1 |
49.91 |
2011-05-02 |
8. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
49.55 |
1.1360 |
0.0704 |
220 |
1 |
49.55 |
2011-02-23 |
9. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
49.44 |
1.0750 |
0.1287 |
182 |
1 |
49.44 |
2011-03-30 |
10. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
49.02 |
0.9664 |
0.2271 |
153 |
2 |
46.00 |
2011-04-18 |
11. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
48.76 |
1.1406 |
0.0466 |
269 |
1 |
48.76 |
2011-05-02 |
12. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
48.47 |
1.0273 |
0.1528 |
128 |
1 |
48.47 |
2011-02-14 |
13. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
48.32 |
0.9420 |
0.2344 |
134 |
1 |
48.32 |
2011-05-02 |
14. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
47.65 |
1.0970 |
0.0631 |
351 |
1 |
47.65 |
2011-03-16 |
15. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
47.65 |
1.0513 |
0.1088 |
237 |
2 |
44.37 |
2011-04-18 |
16. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
47.58 |
1.0253 |
0.1331 |
213 |
1 |
47.58 |
2011-05-13 |
17. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
47.38 |
0.9895 |
0.1641 |
174 |
1 |
47.38 |
2011-03-21 |
18. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
47.22 |
1.0073 |
0.1424 |
318 |
2 |
44.25 |
2011-03-25 |
19. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
47.01 |
1.0961 |
0.0484 |
210 |
1 |
47.01 |
2011-02-25 |
20. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
46.98 |
1.0598 |
0.0840 |
271 |
1 |
46.98 |
2011-02-28 |
21. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
46.42 |
1.0225 |
0.1077 |
336 |
2 |
44.80 |
2011-04-15 |
22. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
45.84 |
1.0599 |
0.0562 |
212 |
2 |
45.17 |
2011-05-02 |
23. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
45.69 |
1.0575 |
0.0549 |
237 |
1 |
45.69 |
2011-02-07 |
24. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
45.38 |
1.1185 |
-0.0136 |
118 |
1 |
45.38 |
2011-04-11 |
25. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
45.12 |
0.9874 |
0.1111 |
174 |
3 |
43.61 |
2011-04-29 |
26. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
45.11 |
1.0428 |
0.0555 |
286 |
1 |
45.11 |
2011-04-29 |
27. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
44.96 |
0.9816 |
0.1130 |
246 |
1 |
44.96 |
2011-05-06 |
28. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
44.86 |
1.0815 |
0.0107 |
172 |
1 |
44.86 |
2011-01-28 |
29. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
44.84 |
1.0398 |
0.0519 |
236 |
1 |
44.84 |
2011-05-13 |
30. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
44.81 |
1.1481 |
-0.0571 |
233 |
1 |
44.81 |
2011-04-13 |
31. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
44.79 |
1.0164 |
0.0741 |
188 |
1 |
44.79 |
2011-04-15 |
32. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
44.40 |
1.0787 |
0.0023 |
247 |
1 |
44.40 |
2011-04-04 |
33. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
44.27 |
1.0016 |
0.0762 |
176 |
1 |
44.27 |
2011-03-21 |
34. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
44.02 |
1.1223 |
-0.0506 |
162 |
1 |
44.02 |
2011-03-25 |
35. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
43.99 |
1.0436 |
0.0274 |
195 |
1 |
43.99 |
2011-02-07 |
36. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
43.94 |
1.0886 |
-0.0188 |
171 |
2 |
42.50 |
2011-03-07 |
37. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
43.93 |
1.0231 |
0.0465 |
339 |
2 |
41.51 |
2011-04-18 |
38. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
43.91 |
1.0225 |
0.0466 |
205 |
1 |
43.91 |
2011-03-25 |
39. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
43.73 |
1.0754 |
-0.0107 |
314 |
1 |
43.73 |
2011-02-09 |
40. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
43.66 |
0.9073 |
0.1557 |
205 |
1 |
43.66 |
2011-05-06 |
41. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
43.61 |
1.0921 |
-0.0303 |
255 |
1 |
43.61 |
2011-02-04 |
42. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
43.46 |
1.0555 |
0.0026 |
257 |
1 |
43.46 |
2011-02-16 |
43. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
43.35 |
1.0534 |
0.0020 |
252 |
1 |
43.35 |
2011-04-27 |
44. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
43.32 |
1.0276 |
0.0271 |
216 |
1 |
43.32 |
2011-02-16 |
45. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
43.29 |
0.9800 |
0.0740 |
304 |
1 |
43.29 |
2011-03-18 |
46. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
43.21 |
1.0249 |
0.0271 |
293 |
1 |
43.21 |
2011-02-23 |
47. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
43.10 |
0.9920 |
0.0574 |
323 |
2 |
42.81 |
2011-02-16 |
48. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
42.97 |
1.0071 |
0.0391 |
323 |
1 |
42.97 |
2011-04-15 |
49. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
42.46 |
1.0782 |
-0.0444 |
243 |
1 |
42.46 |
2011-02-28 |
50. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
42.39 |
1.0313 |
0.0008 |
189 |
1 |
42.39 |
2011-02-14 |
51. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
42.08 |
1.0958 |
-0.0713 |
152 |
2 |
42.06 |
2011-02-09 |
52. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
42.06 |
0.9625 |
0.0615 |
211 |
2 |
38.68 |
2011-02-07 |
53. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
42.05 |
1.0005 |
0.0233 |
193 |
1 |
42.05 |
2011-04-27 |
54. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
41.91 |
1.0024 |
0.0180 |
264 |
1 |
41.91 |
2011-02-28 |
55. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
41.89 |
1.1740 |
-0.1541 |
156 |
1 |
41.89 |
2011-02-14 |
56. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
41.84 |
0.9704 |
0.0483 |
249 |
1 |
41.84 |
2011-03-18 |
57. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
41.81 |
0.9681 |
0.0498 |
231 |
3 |
40.32 |
2011-04-06 |
58. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
41.79 |
1.0216 |
-0.0041 |
164 |
1 |
41.79 |
2011-01-28 |
59. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
41.76 |
1.0139 |
0.0028 |
242 |
2 |
38.86 |
2011-04-29 |
60. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
41.71 |
1.0848 |
-0.0693 |
225 |
1 |
41.71 |
2011-02-09 |
61. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
41.50 |
0.9107 |
0.0997 |
350 |
2 |
38.27 |
2011-04-06 |
62. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
41.21 |
1.0604 |
-0.0571 |
201 |
1 |
41.21 |
2011-02-04 |
63. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
41.17 |
1.0727 |
-0.0703 |
129 |
1 |
41.17 |
2011-02-25 |
64. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
41.16 |
1.0649 |
-0.0628 |
283 |
1 |
41.16 |
2011-02-07 |
65. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
41.11 |
1.0187 |
-0.0178 |
193 |
1 |
41.11 |
2011-04-29 |
66. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
41.06 |
0.9861 |
0.0136 |
281 |
2 |
39.65 |
2011-04-27 |
67. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.01 |
1.0381 |
-0.0396 |
165 |
1 |
41.01 |
2011-04-13 |
68. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
40.96 |
0.9526 |
0.0446 |
205 |
1 |
40.96 |
2011-04-27 |
69. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
40.86 |
1.1185 |
-0.1237 |
242 |
1 |
40.86 |
2011-03-16 |
70. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
40.82 |
0.9501 |
0.0437 |
273 |
1 |
40.82 |
2011-02-25 |
71. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
40.80 |
0.9803 |
0.0131 |
271 |
2 |
39.56 |
2011-02-07 |
72. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
40.72 |
1.0488 |
-0.0574 |
177 |
1 |
40.72 |
2011-01-24 |
73. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
40.39 |
0.9915 |
-0.0081 |
351 |
1 |
40.39 |
2011-02-28 |
74. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
40.33 |
0.9706 |
0.0113 |
173 |
1 |
40.33 |
2011-04-06 |
75. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
40.20 |
0.9746 |
0.0041 |
352 |
1 |
40.20 |
2011-02-16 |
76. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
40.20 |
1.0737 |
-0.0950 |
303 |
1 |
40.20 |
2011-02-23 |
77. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
40.06 |
1.0718 |
-0.0965 |
184 |
1 |
40.06 |
2011-04-04 |
78. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
40.03 |
1.0297 |
-0.0551 |
243 |
1 |
40.03 |
2011-02-09 |
79. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
40.01 |
0.9717 |
0.0024 |
264 |
2 |
39.14 |
2011-04-15 |
80. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
39.99 |
0.9909 |
-0.0173 |
303 |
1 |
39.99 |
2011-03-21 |
81. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
39.99 |
0.9673 |
0.0063 |
235 |
1 |
39.99 |
2011-04-18 |
82. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
39.97 |
1.0567 |
-0.0836 |
337 |
1 |
39.97 |
2011-02-23 |
83. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
39.84 |
1.0249 |
-0.0549 |
209 |
1 |
39.84 |
2011-05-06 |
84. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
39.79 |
1.0634 |
-0.0946 |
269 |
2 |
39.78 |
2011-03-07 |
85. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
39.77 |
1.0048 |
-0.0365 |
302 |
1 |
39.77 |
2011-04-04 |
86. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
39.71 |
0.9936 |
-0.0268 |
167 |
2 |
37.62 |
2011-04-08 |
87. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
39.56 |
1.0515 |
-0.0883 |
176 |
1 |
39.56 |
2011-01-28 |
88. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
39.28 |
1.0562 |
-0.0999 |
145 |
1 |
39.28 |
2011-02-04 |
89. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
39.18 |
0.9624 |
-0.0085 |
281 |
1 |
39.18 |
2011-02-25 |
90. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
39.09 |
0.8987 |
0.0530 |
200 |
1 |
39.09 |
2011-04-08 |
91. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
38.94 |
0.9138 |
0.0343 |
232 |
2 |
37.26 |
2011-04-13 |
92. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
38.91 |
1.0641 |
-0.1168 |
124 |
1 |
38.91 |
2011-05-13 |
93. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
38.76 |
1.0251 |
-0.0814 |
165 |
1 |
38.76 |
2011-01-26 |
94. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
38.41 |
1.0022 |
-0.0670 |
289 |
1 |
38.41 |
2011-02-14 |
95. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
38.28 |
0.8921 |
0.0399 |
182 |
1 |
38.28 |
2011-02-04 |
96. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
38.20 |
0.9612 |
-0.0311 |
162 |
1 |
38.20 |
2011-02-28 |
97. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
38.12 |
0.8658 |
0.0623 |
215 |
1 |
38.12 |
2011-03-18 |
98. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
37.94 |
1.0974 |
-0.1737 |
256 |
1 |
37.94 |
2011-01-24 |
99. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
37.94 |
0.9560 |
-0.0323 |
263 |
1 |
37.94 |
2011-03-18 |
100. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
37.79 |
0.9343 |
-0.0142 |
342 |
3 |
35.77 |
2011-04-11 |
101. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
37.79 |
0.9109 |
0.0092 |
232 |
1 |
37.79 |
2011-04-11 |
102. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
37.70 |
1.0330 |
-0.1151 |
406 |
1 |
37.70 |
2011-03-18 |
103. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
37.57 |
1.0937 |
-0.1790 |
297 |
1 |
37.57 |
2011-02-04 |
104. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
37.49 |
0.9927 |
-0.0799 |
316 |
1 |
37.49 |
2011-02-07 |
105. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
37.25 |
1.0982 |
-0.1913 |
200 |
1 |
37.25 |
2011-02-04 |
106. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
37.17 |
0.9902 |
-0.0852 |
308 |
1 |
37.17 |
2011-03-16 |
107. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
37.03 |
0.9778 |
-0.0762 |
195 |
1 |
37.03 |
2011-02-07 |
108. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
36.95 |
0.9582 |
-0.0586 |
295 |
1 |
36.95 |
2011-03-21 |
109. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
36.84 |
0.9503 |
-0.0534 |
341 |
1 |
36.84 |
2011-02-23 |
110. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
36.70 |
0.9820 |
-0.0885 |
276 |
1 |
36.70 |
2011-04-11 |
111. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
36.34 |
0.9973 |
-0.1125 |
371 |
1 |
36.34 |
2011-02-25 |
112. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
36.12 |
1.0784 |
-0.1990 |
143 |
1 |
36.12 |
2011-03-07 |
113. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
35.74 |
0.9661 |
-0.0959 |
227 |
2 |
34.53 |
2011-02-07 |
114. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
35.62 |
0.9518 |
-0.0846 |
174 |
1 |
35.62 |
2011-02-04 |
115. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
35.44 |
0.9395 |
-0.0766 |
217 |
1 |
35.44 |
2011-02-07 |
116. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
35.03 |
0.9520 |
-0.0991 |
238 |
1 |
35.03 |
2011-01-28 |
117. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
34.77 |
0.8547 |
-0.0082 |
212 |
1 |
34.77 |
2011-01-28 |
118. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
34.73 |
0.9551 |
-0.1095 |
211 |
1 |
34.73 |
2011-01-28 |
119. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
34.61 |
0.8543 |
-0.0117 |
174 |
1 |
34.61 |
2011-02-28 |
120. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
34.54 |
0.8217 |
0.0192 |
204 |
1 |
34.54 |
2011-01-26 |
121. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
34.48 |
0.8657 |
-0.0262 |
346 |
1 |
34.48 |
2011-02-14 |
122. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
34.28 |
0.8891 |
-0.0545 |
170 |
1 |
34.28 |
2011-04-11 |
123. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
34.16 |
0.9180 |
-0.0863 |
163 |
1 |
34.16 |
2011-02-07 |
124. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
34.13 |
0.9260 |
-0.0950 |
318 |
1 |
34.13 |
2011-01-28 |
125. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
33.88 |
0.9692 |
-0.1443 |
350 |
1 |
33.88 |
2011-02-04 |
126. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
33.49 |
0.8695 |
-0.0541 |
366 |
1 |
33.49 |
2011-02-04 |
127. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
33.18 |
0.8513 |
-0.0435 |
242 |
2 |
32.72 |
2011-02-25 |
128. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
33.11 |
0.9248 |
-0.1187 |
209 |
1 |
33.11 |
2011-01-24 |
129. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
32.78 |
0.7869 |
0.0112 |
154 |
1 |
32.78 |
2011-05-13 |
130. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
32.38 |
0.9026 |
-0.1142 |
308 |
1 |
32.38 |
2011-04-08 |
131. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
31.84 |
0.9509 |
-0.1757 |
193 |
1 |
31.84 |
2011-03-16 |
132. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
31.64 |
0.8545 |
-0.0842 |
276 |
1 |
31.64 |
2011-02-07 |
133. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
31.64 |
0.8630 |
-0.0927 |
189 |
1 |
31.64 |
2011-01-28 |
134. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
31.43 |
0.8877 |
-0.1225 |
237 |
1 |
31.43 |
2011-01-24 |
135. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
29.64 |
0.9092 |
-0.1876 |
184 |
1 |
29.64 |
2011-01-24 |