| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
46.09 |
0.8898 |
0.3471 |
158 |
1 |
46.09 |
2012-12-07 |
| 2. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.03 |
1.0334 |
0.2001 |
131 |
1 |
46.03 |
2013-01-30 |
| 3. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
45.68 |
0.9572 |
0.2718 |
201 |
1 |
45.68 |
2012-12-11 |
| 4. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
45.60 |
0.9633 |
0.2670 |
304 |
3 |
42.87 |
2013-01-07 |
| 5. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
44.89 |
1.0131 |
0.1920 |
225 |
2 |
43.88 |
2013-01-09 |
| 6. |
Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot... |
44.34 |
0.8342 |
0.3653 |
97 |
1 |
44.34 |
2013-01-02 |
| 7. |
Never give up. Most races are decided in the last 10 percent... |
44.18 |
0.8713 |
0.3145 |
73 |
1 |
44.18 |
2012-12-05 |
| 8. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
43.90 |
1.0337 |
0.1477 |
214 |
1 |
43.90 |
2013-01-09 |
| 9. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
43.51 |
0.9986 |
0.1735 |
283 |
2 |
37.30 |
2013-01-11 |
| 10. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
43.48 |
1.0768 |
0.1337 |
295 |
1 |
43.48 |
2012-12-11 |
| 11. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
43.38 |
1.0528 |
0.1104 |
201 |
2 |
39.47 |
2012-12-04 |
| 12. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
43.37 |
1.0029 |
0.1582 |
209 |
1 |
43.37 |
2013-01-11 |
| 13. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
42.77 |
0.8956 |
0.2583 |
217 |
3 |
38.83 |
2012-12-11 |
| 14. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
42.70 |
1.0788 |
0.0649 |
171 |
1 |
42.70 |
2012-12-07 |
| 15. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
42.69 |
1.0483 |
0.0975 |
227 |
2 |
41.84 |
2013-01-11 |
| 16. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
42.41 |
0.8077 |
0.3312 |
167 |
1 |
42.41 |
2013-01-30 |
| 17. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
42.31 |
0.9226 |
0.2200 |
177 |
2 |
40.47 |
2013-01-16 |
| 18. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
42.28 |
0.9688 |
0.1682 |
217 |
1 |
42.28 |
2013-01-30 |
| 19. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
42.04 |
0.9936 |
0.1378 |
311 |
1 |
42.04 |
2012-12-10 |
| 20. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
41.90 |
1.0883 |
0.0715 |
303 |
1 |
41.90 |
2013-01-28 |
| 21. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
41.87 |
1.0205 |
0.0991 |
179 |
2 |
38.86 |
2013-01-28 |
| 22. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
41.73 |
0.7934 |
0.3299 |
134 |
1 |
41.73 |
2013-01-11 |
| 23. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
41.46 |
0.9368 |
0.1787 |
173 |
2 |
39.88 |
2013-01-18 |
| 24. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
41.37 |
0.9418 |
0.1772 |
188 |
1 |
41.37 |
2012-11-30 |
| 25. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
41.30 |
1.0515 |
0.0516 |
166 |
2 |
38.11 |
2013-01-30 |
| 26. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
41.22 |
0.9260 |
0.1938 |
243 |
1 |
41.22 |
2013-01-02 |
| 27. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
40.73 |
0.9098 |
0.1818 |
167 |
2 |
38.17 |
2012-12-05 |
| 28. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
40.65 |
0.9729 |
0.1206 |
255 |
1 |
40.65 |
2012-12-06 |
| 29. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
40.58 |
0.9303 |
0.1542 |
176 |
2 |
37.79 |
2013-01-14 |
| 30. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
40.44 |
0.8619 |
0.2248 |
119 |
1 |
40.44 |
2012-11-30 |
| 31. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
40.44 |
1.0486 |
0.0400 |
289 |
1 |
40.44 |
2012-12-10 |
| 32. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
40.17 |
0.9063 |
0.1819 |
239 |
1 |
40.17 |
2012-12-11 |
| 33. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
40.16 |
0.9286 |
0.1505 |
194 |
1 |
40.16 |
2013-01-04 |
| 34. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
40.13 |
1.0444 |
0.0285 |
197 |
2 |
35.93 |
2013-01-28 |
| 35. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
40.02 |
0.9187 |
0.1472 |
118 |
1 |
40.02 |
2012-12-04 |
| 36. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
39.74 |
1.0331 |
0.0334 |
234 |
3 |
36.52 |
2012-12-10 |
| 37. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
39.53 |
1.0125 |
0.0480 |
224 |
1 |
39.53 |
2013-01-09 |
| 38. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
39.50 |
1.0799 |
-0.0214 |
243 |
1 |
39.50 |
2012-12-11 |
| 39. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
39.43 |
0.9843 |
0.0710 |
234 |
1 |
39.43 |
2012-12-04 |
| 40. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
39.31 |
1.0598 |
-0.0087 |
196 |
1 |
39.31 |
2013-01-07 |
| 41. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
39.24 |
1.0099 |
0.0421 |
207 |
1 |
39.24 |
2013-01-02 |
| 42. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
38.98 |
1.0240 |
0.0210 |
256 |
1 |
38.98 |
2012-12-06 |
| 43. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
38.94 |
0.9711 |
0.0744 |
176 |
2 |
38.22 |
2013-01-16 |
| 44. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
38.80 |
0.9740 |
0.0649 |
209 |
1 |
38.80 |
2013-01-04 |
| 45. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
38.61 |
0.9430 |
0.0913 |
227 |
3 |
37.74 |
2013-01-28 |
| 46. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
38.58 |
1.0767 |
-0.0416 |
212 |
1 |
38.58 |
2013-01-09 |
| 47. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
38.51 |
1.0740 |
-0.0004 |
264 |
2 |
37.63 |
2013-01-07 |
| 48. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
38.35 |
1.0068 |
0.0276 |
358 |
1 |
38.35 |
2013-01-11 |
| 49. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
38.31 |
1.0574 |
0.0006 |
205 |
1 |
38.31 |
2012-12-07 |
| 50. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
38.04 |
1.0993 |
-0.0788 |
265 |
1 |
38.04 |
2013-01-02 |
| 51. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
37.93 |
1.0232 |
0.0320 |
236 |
2 |
34.90 |
2013-02-04 |
| 52. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
37.88 |
0.9682 |
0.0484 |
143 |
1 |
37.88 |
2012-12-04 |
| 53. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
37.85 |
0.8533 |
0.1649 |
232 |
1 |
37.85 |
2012-12-07 |
| 54. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
37.74 |
0.9865 |
0.0290 |
276 |
1 |
37.74 |
2013-01-28 |
| 55. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
37.53 |
0.8660 |
0.1426 |
193 |
1 |
37.53 |
2012-11-30 |
| 56. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
37.52 |
1.0211 |
0.0178 |
213 |
2 |
35.65 |
2013-01-28 |
| 57. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
37.43 |
0.9257 |
0.0854 |
317 |
1 |
37.43 |
2012-12-07 |
| 58. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
37.30 |
1.0218 |
-0.0223 |
268 |
1 |
37.30 |
2013-02-04 |
| 59. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
37.27 |
0.9263 |
0.0785 |
188 |
1 |
37.27 |
2013-01-02 |
| 60. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
37.09 |
0.9786 |
0.0130 |
193 |
1 |
37.09 |
2012-11-30 |
| 61. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
37.07 |
1.0523 |
-0.0604 |
256 |
1 |
37.07 |
2013-01-14 |
| 62. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
36.95 |
0.9731 |
0.0071 |
129 |
1 |
36.95 |
2013-01-07 |
| 63. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
36.91 |
1.0314 |
-0.0433 |
172 |
1 |
36.91 |
2012-12-05 |
| 64. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
36.82 |
1.0621 |
-0.0536 |
263 |
1 |
36.82 |
2012-11-30 |
| 65. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
36.43 |
1.0403 |
-0.0469 |
193 |
1 |
36.43 |
2012-12-05 |
| 66. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
36.38 |
1.0379 |
-0.0259 |
245 |
1 |
36.38 |
2013-01-16 |
| 67. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
36.34 |
0.9353 |
0.0364 |
177 |
1 |
36.34 |
2012-12-10 |
| 68. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
36.28 |
0.9351 |
0.0340 |
190 |
1 |
36.28 |
2013-01-18 |
| 69. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.19 |
0.9899 |
-0.0226 |
163 |
2 |
35.46 |
2012-12-04 |
| 70. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
36.01 |
0.8745 |
0.0915 |
169 |
1 |
36.01 |
2013-01-28 |
| 71. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
35.95 |
0.7916 |
0.1820 |
184 |
1 |
35.95 |
2013-01-18 |
| 72. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
35.79 |
0.8809 |
0.0779 |
127 |
2 |
32.36 |
2013-01-09 |
| 73. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
35.77 |
1.0577 |
-0.1008 |
247 |
1 |
35.77 |
2013-01-16 |
| 74. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
35.71 |
0.7908 |
0.1740 |
127 |
1 |
35.71 |
2012-11-30 |
| 75. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
35.69 |
0.9756 |
-0.0184 |
229 |
1 |
35.69 |
2012-12-05 |
| 76. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
35.63 |
0.9168 |
0.0417 |
240 |
1 |
35.63 |
2013-01-11 |
| 77. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
35.40 |
0.9871 |
-0.0137 |
227 |
1 |
35.40 |
2013-01-18 |
| 78. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
35.31 |
0.9866 |
-0.0419 |
218 |
1 |
35.31 |
2012-12-04 |
| 79. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
35.18 |
0.8899 |
0.0654 |
293 |
1 |
35.18 |
2013-01-09 |
| 80. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
35.15 |
1.0679 |
-0.1041 |
177 |
1 |
35.15 |
2012-11-30 |
| 81. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
34.92 |
0.9411 |
-0.0026 |
318 |
1 |
34.92 |
2013-01-30 |
| 82. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
34.75 |
0.9884 |
-0.0558 |
233 |
2 |
34.43 |
2013-01-14 |
| 83. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
34.52 |
0.8867 |
0.0448 |
241 |
1 |
34.52 |
2012-12-07 |
| 84. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
34.35 |
1.0396 |
-0.1247 |
149 |
1 |
34.35 |
2013-01-16 |
| 85. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
34.31 |
0.8826 |
0.0400 |
241 |
1 |
34.31 |
2013-01-30 |
| 86. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
34.12 |
0.9884 |
-0.0688 |
262 |
1 |
34.12 |
2013-01-16 |
| 87. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
34.07 |
1.0375 |
-0.0772 |
200 |
1 |
34.07 |
2012-12-10 |
| 88. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
33.89 |
1.0151 |
-0.1149 |
152 |
1 |
33.89 |
2012-12-10 |
| 89. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
33.71 |
0.8725 |
0.0343 |
163 |
2 |
33.64 |
2013-01-22 |
| 90. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
33.68 |
1.0711 |
-0.1725 |
213 |
1 |
33.68 |
2012-12-19 |
| 91. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
33.56 |
1.0183 |
-0.1231 |
191 |
1 |
33.56 |
2012-12-19 |
| 92. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
33.53 |
1.0124 |
-0.1151 |
204 |
1 |
33.53 |
2012-11-29 |
| 93. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
33.51 |
1.0025 |
-0.1038 |
256 |
1 |
33.51 |
2013-01-28 |
| 94. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
33.38 |
0.9911 |
-0.0990 |
212 |
1 |
33.38 |
2013-02-04 |
| 95. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
33.24 |
1.0384 |
-0.1566 |
183 |
1 |
33.24 |
2013-01-16 |
| 96. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
33.21 |
0.9461 |
-0.0592 |
193 |
1 |
33.21 |
2012-11-29 |
| 97. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
33.18 |
0.8295 |
0.0624 |
209 |
2 |
30.88 |
2012-12-06 |
| 98. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
32.98 |
0.9846 |
-0.1015 |
281 |
1 |
32.98 |
2013-01-07 |
| 99. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
32.88 |
1.0034 |
-0.1225 |
302 |
1 |
32.88 |
2013-01-04 |
| 100. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
32.84 |
1.0173 |
-0.0923 |
268 |
1 |
32.84 |
2012-12-05 |
| 101. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
32.53 |
0.9212 |
-0.0456 |
323 |
1 |
32.53 |
2012-12-07 |
| 102. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
32.50 |
0.8842 |
-0.0166 |
135 |
1 |
32.50 |
2013-01-14 |
| 103. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
32.40 |
0.9084 |
-0.0377 |
300 |
1 |
32.40 |
2013-01-30 |
| 104. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
31.97 |
0.9910 |
-0.1316 |
295 |
1 |
31.97 |
2012-12-14 |
| 105. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
31.76 |
0.8553 |
-0.0086 |
174 |
1 |
31.76 |
2012-12-11 |
| 106. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
31.76 |
0.9045 |
-0.0523 |
235 |
1 |
31.76 |
2013-01-02 |
| 107. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
31.35 |
0.9649 |
-0.1253 |
193 |
1 |
31.35 |
2012-12-14 |
| 108. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
31.27 |
0.9239 |
-0.0795 |
193 |
1 |
31.27 |
2013-01-30 |
| 109. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
31.27 |
0.8919 |
-0.0551 |
205 |
1 |
31.27 |
2013-01-07 |
| 110. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
30.96 |
0.8852 |
-0.0530 |
201 |
1 |
30.96 |
2013-01-02 |
| 111. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
30.89 |
0.9164 |
-0.0833 |
305 |
1 |
30.89 |
2012-11-30 |
| 112. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
30.48 |
0.8541 |
-0.0292 |
260 |
1 |
30.48 |
2012-12-05 |
| 113. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
30.29 |
0.8096 |
0.0099 |
209 |
1 |
30.29 |
2013-01-16 |
| 114. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
30.18 |
0.8890 |
-0.0842 |
199 |
1 |
30.18 |
2012-12-10 |
| 115. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
29.87 |
0.9831 |
-0.1864 |
222 |
1 |
29.87 |
2013-01-14 |
| 116. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
29.61 |
0.8442 |
-0.0473 |
265 |
1 |
29.61 |
2012-12-06 |
| 117. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
29.39 |
1.0252 |
-0.2447 |
176 |
1 |
29.39 |
2012-11-29 |
| 118. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
29.35 |
0.9941 |
-0.2105 |
217 |
1 |
29.35 |
2012-11-29 |
| 119. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
29.33 |
0.8562 |
-0.0708 |
170 |
2 |
27.75 |
2013-01-14 |
| 120. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
29.19 |
1.0349 |
-0.2544 |
234 |
1 |
29.19 |
2013-02-04 |
| 121. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
28.95 |
0.9529 |
-0.1373 |
269 |
1 |
28.95 |
2012-11-30 |
| 122. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
27.89 |
1.0063 |
-0.2600 |
371 |
1 |
27.89 |
2012-12-14 |
| 123. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
27.66 |
0.8153 |
-0.0708 |
200 |
2 |
27.20 |
2012-12-20 |
| 124. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
26.82 |
0.8595 |
-0.1402 |
242 |
1 |
26.82 |
2012-11-29 |
| 125. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
22.83 |
0.9758 |
-0.3666 |
314 |
1 |
22.83 |
2012-11-30 |