| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
97.00 |
1.0334 |
1.0503 |
131 |
1 |
97.00 |
2010-02-12 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
92.63 |
1.0565 |
0.9364 |
247 |
2 |
57.47 |
2010-03-05 |
| 3. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
86.05 |
0.9233 |
0.9212 |
168 |
1 |
86.05 |
2010-02-12 |
| 4. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
84.02 |
1.0205 |
0.7818 |
179 |
4 |
57.24 |
2010-03-02 |
| 5. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
65.83 |
1.0016 |
0.4082 |
218 |
3 |
49.64 |
2010-03-05 |
| 6. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
61.44 |
1.0528 |
0.2614 |
201 |
2 |
54.11 |
2010-03-03 |
| 7. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
60.52 |
0.9936 |
0.3054 |
311 |
1 |
60.52 |
2010-02-12 |
| 8. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
59.64 |
1.0740 |
0.2445 |
264 |
4 |
51.74 |
2010-03-02 |
| 9. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
59.15 |
1.0788 |
0.1852 |
171 |
2 |
55.66 |
2010-02-18 |
| 10. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
58.71 |
1.0214 |
0.2332 |
166 |
2 |
49.85 |
2010-03-03 |
| 11. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
57.33 |
0.9946 |
0.2353 |
246 |
3 |
53.54 |
2010-03-02 |
| 12. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
56.31 |
0.9726 |
0.2290 |
154 |
1 |
56.31 |
2010-03-02 |
| 13. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
55.86 |
0.9965 |
0.1970 |
168 |
1 |
55.86 |
2010-03-03 |
| 14. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
55.12 |
1.0331 |
0.1469 |
234 |
2 |
50.94 |
2010-02-28 |
| 15. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
54.09 |
0.9682 |
0.1898 |
143 |
1 |
54.09 |
2010-03-03 |
| 16. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
53.96 |
0.9649 |
0.1911 |
193 |
1 |
53.96 |
2010-03-03 |
| 17. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
53.89 |
1.0714 |
0.0752 |
129 |
2 |
52.52 |
2010-03-03 |
| 18. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
53.59 |
1.0173 |
0.1759 |
268 |
2 |
50.37 |
2010-02-19 |
| 19. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
53.35 |
1.0596 |
0.0821 |
239 |
2 |
52.03 |
2010-03-03 |
| 20. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
53.31 |
0.9776 |
0.1656 |
308 |
1 |
53.31 |
2010-02-19 |
| 21. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
52.06 |
0.9546 |
0.1926 |
198 |
1 |
52.06 |
2010-03-04 |
| 22. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
51.99 |
1.1162 |
0.0391 |
189 |
1 |
51.99 |
2010-03-03 |
| 23. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
51.40 |
0.9724 |
0.1327 |
237 |
2 |
46.56 |
2010-02-18 |
| 24. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
51.15 |
1.0796 |
0.0117 |
129 |
2 |
50.98 |
2010-02-28 |
| 25. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
50.49 |
0.9706 |
0.1155 |
216 |
1 |
50.49 |
2010-02-20 |
| 26. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
50.33 |
0.9897 |
0.0864 |
274 |
1 |
50.33 |
2010-02-12 |
| 27. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
50.31 |
1.0711 |
0.0017 |
213 |
1 |
50.31 |
2010-03-04 |
| 28. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
50.23 |
0.9820 |
0.0970 |
267 |
1 |
50.23 |
2010-02-18 |
| 29. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
50.09 |
1.0074 |
0.0676 |
242 |
1 |
50.09 |
2010-02-28 |
| 30. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
49.92 |
0.9871 |
0.1186 |
209 |
1 |
49.92 |
2010-03-04 |
| 31. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
49.77 |
0.9846 |
0.0805 |
281 |
1 |
49.77 |
2010-02-18 |
| 32. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
49.58 |
1.0029 |
0.0528 |
209 |
1 |
49.58 |
2010-03-03 |
| 33. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
49.30 |
0.9576 |
0.1030 |
212 |
1 |
49.30 |
2010-02-20 |
| 34. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
49.16 |
1.0767 |
-0.0259 |
212 |
1 |
49.16 |
2010-02-18 |
| 35. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
49.06 |
1.0023 |
0.0466 |
211 |
2 |
46.22 |
2010-03-03 |
| 36. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
49.03 |
0.9710 |
0.0727 |
173 |
1 |
49.03 |
2010-02-11 |
| 37. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
49.01 |
1.0797 |
-0.0356 |
210 |
3 |
47.66 |
2010-02-19 |
| 38. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
48.66 |
0.9711 |
0.0698 |
176 |
1 |
48.66 |
2010-02-28 |
| 39. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
48.65 |
1.0534 |
-0.0093 |
357 |
1 |
48.65 |
2010-02-19 |
| 40. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
47.95 |
1.0297 |
-0.0042 |
249 |
1 |
47.95 |
2010-02-22 |
| 41. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
47.88 |
0.9879 |
0.0460 |
450 |
1 |
47.88 |
2010-02-26 |
| 42. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
47.76 |
0.9943 |
0.0315 |
373 |
1 |
47.76 |
2010-02-18 |
| 43. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
47.72 |
0.9729 |
0.0491 |
255 |
1 |
47.72 |
2010-02-11 |
| 44. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
47.59 |
1.0829 |
-0.0625 |
288 |
1 |
47.59 |
2010-02-18 |
| 45. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
47.57 |
1.0232 |
0.0412 |
350 |
1 |
47.57 |
2010-02-18 |
| 46. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
47.52 |
1.0343 |
0.0205 |
242 |
1 |
47.52 |
2010-02-12 |
| 47. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
47.40 |
0.9633 |
0.0537 |
304 |
2 |
43.37 |
2010-02-18 |
| 48. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
47.28 |
0.9820 |
0.0304 |
274 |
1 |
47.28 |
2010-02-18 |
| 49. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
46.92 |
1.0183 |
-0.0195 |
191 |
1 |
46.92 |
2010-03-03 |
| 50. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
46.73 |
0.9795 |
0.0208 |
308 |
1 |
46.73 |
2010-02-18 |
| 51. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
46.70 |
1.0263 |
-0.0275 |
267 |
1 |
46.70 |
2010-02-26 |
| 52. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
46.65 |
0.8792 |
0.1287 |
296 |
1 |
46.65 |
2010-02-18 |
| 53. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
46.51 |
1.0993 |
-0.1059 |
265 |
1 |
46.51 |
2010-02-28 |
| 54. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
46.47 |
0.8890 |
0.1021 |
199 |
1 |
46.47 |
2010-02-28 |
| 55. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
46.46 |
0.9851 |
0.0115 |
317 |
1 |
46.46 |
2010-02-26 |
| 56. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
46.43 |
0.8915 |
0.1012 |
188 |
1 |
46.43 |
2010-02-28 |
| 57. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
46.30 |
0.9072 |
0.0821 |
237 |
1 |
46.30 |
2010-02-11 |
| 58. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
46.25 |
1.0124 |
-0.0249 |
204 |
1 |
46.25 |
2010-02-19 |
| 59. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
46.00 |
1.0668 |
-0.0798 |
350 |
1 |
46.00 |
2010-02-12 |
| 60. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
45.68 |
0.9884 |
-0.0117 |
233 |
2 |
45.31 |
2010-02-22 |
| 61. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
45.44 |
0.9731 |
-0.0133 |
129 |
1 |
45.44 |
2010-02-12 |
| 62. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
45.43 |
1.0214 |
-0.0510 |
269 |
1 |
45.43 |
2010-02-18 |
| 63. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
45.26 |
1.0240 |
-0.0582 |
256 |
1 |
45.26 |
2010-02-26 |
| 64. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
45.06 |
0.9005 |
0.0621 |
212 |
1 |
45.06 |
2010-02-18 |
| 65. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
44.90 |
0.9792 |
0.0198 |
265 |
1 |
44.90 |
2010-02-12 |
| 66. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
44.68 |
1.0189 |
-0.0598 |
337 |
1 |
44.68 |
2010-02-18 |
| 67. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
44.66 |
1.0666 |
-0.1111 |
297 |
1 |
44.66 |
2010-02-11 |
| 68. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
44.52 |
1.0496 |
-0.0979 |
314 |
1 |
44.52 |
2010-02-17 |
| 69. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
44.36 |
1.0696 |
-0.1242 |
226 |
1 |
44.36 |
2010-02-18 |
| 70. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
44.32 |
1.0063 |
-0.0579 |
371 |
1 |
44.32 |
2010-02-12 |
| 71. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
44.17 |
1.0417 |
-0.0994 |
253 |
1 |
44.17 |
2010-02-18 |
| 72. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
44.11 |
1.0168 |
-0.0719 |
271 |
1 |
44.11 |
2010-02-11 |
| 73. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
44.00 |
1.0619 |
-0.1172 |
354 |
1 |
44.00 |
2010-02-12 |
| 74. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
43.75 |
0.9612 |
-0.0255 |
256 |
2 |
41.34 |
2010-02-18 |
| 75. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
43.72 |
1.0669 |
-0.0996 |
286 |
1 |
43.72 |
2010-02-11 |
| 76. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
43.71 |
0.9684 |
-0.0309 |
388 |
1 |
43.71 |
2010-02-12 |
| 77. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
42.95 |
1.0487 |
-0.1354 |
231 |
1 |
42.95 |
2010-02-12 |
| 78. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
42.79 |
1.0567 |
-0.1412 |
303 |
1 |
42.79 |
2010-02-19 |
| 79. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
42.56 |
0.8533 |
0.0577 |
232 |
1 |
42.56 |
2010-02-11 |
| 80. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
42.41 |
0.8562 |
0.0505 |
170 |
1 |
42.41 |
2010-02-11 |
| 81. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
42.19 |
1.0412 |
-0.1399 |
225 |
1 |
42.19 |
2010-02-18 |
| 82. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
42.19 |
0.9578 |
-0.0564 |
281 |
1 |
42.19 |
2010-02-11 |
| 83. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
42.16 |
1.0419 |
-0.1407 |
261 |
1 |
42.16 |
2010-02-14 |
| 84. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
41.95 |
0.8793 |
0.0190 |
157 |
1 |
41.95 |
2010-02-12 |
| 85. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
41.64 |
0.9763 |
-0.0869 |
289 |
1 |
41.64 |
2010-02-11 |
| 86. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
41.58 |
0.8787 |
0.0146 |
202 |
1 |
41.58 |
2010-02-11 |
| 87. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
41.17 |
0.8653 |
0.0257 |
255 |
1 |
41.17 |
2010-02-11 |
| 88. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
40.13 |
0.8941 |
-0.0349 |
216 |
1 |
40.13 |
2010-02-17 |
| 89. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
40.02 |
1.0516 |
-0.1972 |
281 |
1 |
40.02 |
2010-02-11 |
| 90. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
39.75 |
0.9461 |
-0.0973 |
276 |
1 |
39.75 |
2010-02-18 |
| 91. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
38.54 |
0.9786 |
-0.1564 |
235 |
1 |
38.54 |
2010-02-11 |
| 92. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
38.30 |
0.9251 |
-0.1026 |
177 |
1 |
38.30 |
2010-02-17 |
| 93. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
38.22 |
1.0389 |
-0.2207 |
340 |
1 |
38.22 |
2010-02-11 |
| 94. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
38.20 |
0.9084 |
-0.0890 |
404 |
1 |
38.20 |
2010-02-11 |
| 95. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
37.14 |
0.8914 |
-0.0982 |
366 |
1 |
37.14 |
2010-02-17 |
| 96. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
37.00 |
0.8971 |
-0.1025 |
266 |
1 |
37.00 |
2010-02-11 |
| 97. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
36.35 |
0.9202 |
-0.1457 |
254 |
1 |
36.35 |
2010-02-12 |
| 98. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
35.58 |
0.8559 |
-0.0966 |
191 |
1 |
35.58 |
2010-02-12 |
| 99. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
34.52 |
0.9857 |
-0.2511 |
293 |
1 |
34.52 |
2010-02-11 |
| 100. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
34.07 |
0.9351 |
-0.2148 |
190 |
1 |
34.07 |
2010-02-11 |
| 101. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
31.45 |
1.0138 |
-0.3452 |
231 |
1 |
31.45 |
2010-02-11 |
| 102. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
30.33 |
0.9089 |
-0.2603 |
342 |
1 |
30.33 |
2010-02-12 |
| 103. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
29.96 |
1.0095 |
-0.3739 |
316 |
1 |
29.96 |
2010-02-12 |
| 104. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
29.95 |
0.8442 |
-0.2037 |
265 |
1 |
29.95 |
2010-02-12 |
| 105. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
29.16 |
1.0012 |
-0.3786 |
260 |
1 |
29.16 |
2010-02-12 |
| 106. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
28.22 |
0.9907 |
-0.3933 |
211 |
1 |
28.22 |
2010-02-12 |
| 107. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
27.74 |
0.8996 |
-0.3165 |
192 |
1 |
27.74 |
2010-02-12 |
| 108. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
26.95 |
1.0365 |
-0.4352 |
162 |
1 |
26.95 |
2010-02-12 |
| 109. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
22.66 |
1.0320 |
-0.5163 |
293 |
1 |
22.66 |
2010-02-14 |
| 110. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
22.56 |
0.9567 |
-0.4807 |
273 |
1 |
22.56 |
2010-02-14 |
| 111. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
22.43 |
0.9048 |
-0.4268 |
271 |
1 |
22.43 |
2010-02-14 |
| 112. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
20.97 |
1.0485 |
-0.5720 |
153 |
1 |
20.97 |
2010-02-14 |
| 113. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
18.08 |
0.9772 |
-0.6016 |
217 |
1 |
18.08 |
2010-02-14 |