| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
112.74 |
1.0797 |
0.3170 |
210 |
1 |
112.74 |
2012-03-23 |
| 2. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
107.98 |
1.1081 |
0.2686 |
206 |
2 |
96.26 |
2012-05-23 |
| 3. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
107.79 |
0.9325 |
0.4006 |
156 |
1 |
107.79 |
2012-03-02 |
| 4. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
101.61 |
0.9911 |
0.2677 |
212 |
2 |
96.15 |
2012-03-06 |
| 5. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
100.21 |
1.0740 |
0.2091 |
264 |
2 |
92.47 |
2012-03-03 |
| 6. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
99.88 |
1.0679 |
0.1927 |
177 |
1 |
99.88 |
2012-05-23 |
| 7. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
99.70 |
1.0025 |
0.2356 |
256 |
1 |
99.70 |
2012-04-20 |
| 8. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
99.30 |
1.0352 |
0.2017 |
341 |
1 |
99.30 |
2012-03-06 |
| 9. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
97.61 |
1.0696 |
0.1391 |
226 |
2 |
85.99 |
2012-05-23 |
| 10. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
97.55 |
0.9943 |
0.2202 |
373 |
1 |
97.55 |
2012-02-28 |
| 11. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
97.02 |
1.0389 |
0.1683 |
340 |
1 |
97.02 |
2012-02-28 |
| 12. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
96.82 |
1.0829 |
0.1207 |
288 |
2 |
88.84 |
2012-05-23 |
| 13. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
95.30 |
1.0711 |
0.1068 |
213 |
2 |
83.79 |
2012-03-04 |
| 14. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
95.00 |
0.9871 |
0.2150 |
227 |
1 |
95.00 |
2012-03-02 |
| 15. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
94.67 |
0.9649 |
0.2095 |
193 |
1 |
94.67 |
2012-03-06 |
| 16. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
94.65 |
1.0993 |
0.0737 |
265 |
1 |
94.65 |
2012-03-03 |
| 17. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
94.51 |
0.9247 |
0.2533 |
253 |
1 |
94.51 |
2012-03-02 |
| 18. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
93.78 |
0.9281 |
0.2409 |
273 |
1 |
93.78 |
2012-03-02 |
| 19. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
93.51 |
0.9567 |
0.2042 |
273 |
1 |
93.51 |
2012-05-23 |
| 20. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
93.08 |
1.0151 |
0.1310 |
152 |
2 |
74.34 |
2012-03-04 |
| 21. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
92.72 |
1.0031 |
0.1811 |
304 |
1 |
92.72 |
2012-04-20 |
| 22. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
91.99 |
1.0498 |
0.0870 |
180 |
1 |
91.99 |
2012-03-03 |
| 23. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
91.32 |
1.1215 |
0.0356 |
200 |
2 |
90.01 |
2012-03-05 |
| 24. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
91.17 |
0.9786 |
0.1476 |
193 |
1 |
91.17 |
2012-04-20 |
| 25. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
91.05 |
1.0795 |
0.0806 |
226 |
1 |
91.05 |
2012-03-05 |
| 26. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
90.60 |
1.0515 |
0.0706 |
250 |
2 |
80.73 |
2012-03-02 |
| 27. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
89.94 |
1.0347 |
0.1073 |
550 |
2 |
83.62 |
2012-03-06 |
| 28. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
89.53 |
1.0240 |
0.0838 |
256 |
1 |
89.53 |
2012-03-23 |
| 29. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
89.50 |
1.0013 |
0.1081 |
273 |
1 |
89.50 |
2012-03-06 |
| 30. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
89.43 |
1.0296 |
0.0865 |
437 |
1 |
89.43 |
2012-03-16 |
| 31. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
89.07 |
0.9161 |
0.1864 |
200 |
1 |
89.07 |
2012-03-02 |
| 32. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
88.42 |
1.0462 |
0.0447 |
184 |
1 |
88.42 |
2012-03-03 |
| 33. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
88.32 |
1.0714 |
0.0150 |
129 |
1 |
88.32 |
2012-03-04 |
| 34. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
87.79 |
1.0390 |
0.0461 |
205 |
1 |
87.79 |
2012-05-23 |
| 35. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
87.71 |
1.0331 |
0.0525 |
234 |
2 |
83.07 |
2012-03-23 |
| 36. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
86.33 |
1.0666 |
0.0043 |
297 |
1 |
86.33 |
2012-05-23 |
| 37. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
86.17 |
1.0463 |
0.0176 |
182 |
3 |
75.06 |
2012-03-23 |
| 38. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
86.13 |
1.1114 |
-0.0462 |
247 |
1 |
86.13 |
2012-04-20 |
| 39. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
85.41 |
1.0529 |
0.0062 |
351 |
1 |
85.41 |
2012-03-03 |
| 40. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
85.29 |
1.0029 |
0.0481 |
209 |
1 |
85.29 |
2012-03-02 |
| 41. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
85.01 |
1.0183 |
0.0304 |
191 |
1 |
85.01 |
2012-03-06 |
| 42. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
84.75 |
1.0917 |
-0.0175 |
243 |
1 |
84.75 |
2012-03-03 |
| 43. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
84.55 |
1.0168 |
0.0332 |
271 |
1 |
84.55 |
2012-03-03 |
| 44. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
84.35 |
0.9976 |
0.0685 |
174 |
1 |
84.35 |
2012-02-28 |
| 45. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
83.83 |
0.8918 |
0.1461 |
100 |
1 |
83.83 |
2012-03-02 |
| 46. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
83.67 |
1.0177 |
0.0577 |
392 |
2 |
72.82 |
2012-05-23 |
| 47. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
83.47 |
0.9965 |
0.0388 |
277 |
1 |
83.47 |
2012-05-23 |
| 48. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
83.26 |
0.9233 |
0.1005 |
168 |
3 |
68.76 |
2012-03-03 |
| 49. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
83.10 |
1.0972 |
-0.0376 |
251 |
1 |
83.10 |
2012-03-23 |
| 50. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
82.91 |
0.9922 |
0.0765 |
341 |
1 |
82.91 |
2012-05-23 |
| 51. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
82.40 |
1.0141 |
0.0435 |
304 |
2 |
80.90 |
2012-03-06 |
| 52. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
82.30 |
1.0459 |
0.0050 |
200 |
1 |
82.30 |
2012-03-03 |
| 53. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
82.13 |
0.9045 |
0.1140 |
235 |
2 |
78.05 |
2012-03-02 |
| 54. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
81.87 |
1.1068 |
-0.0517 |
393 |
1 |
81.87 |
2012-05-23 |
| 55. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
81.86 |
1.0486 |
-0.0334 |
289 |
1 |
81.86 |
2012-03-02 |
| 56. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
81.84 |
1.0042 |
0.0518 |
352 |
1 |
81.84 |
2012-05-23 |
| 57. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
81.55 |
0.9844 |
0.0313 |
293 |
1 |
81.55 |
2012-03-02 |
| 58. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
81.31 |
0.8933 |
0.1207 |
363 |
2 |
75.71 |
2012-04-20 |
| 59. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
81.07 |
1.0863 |
-0.0471 |
210 |
1 |
81.07 |
2012-03-06 |
| 60. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
80.96 |
0.9316 |
0.0778 |
287 |
1 |
80.96 |
2012-03-02 |
| 61. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
80.87 |
0.9731 |
0.0163 |
129 |
1 |
80.87 |
2012-03-03 |
| 62. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
80.83 |
0.9546 |
0.0781 |
198 |
1 |
80.83 |
2012-04-20 |
| 63. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
79.88 |
1.0063 |
-0.0164 |
371 |
1 |
79.88 |
2012-03-06 |
| 64. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
79.77 |
0.9852 |
0.0033 |
264 |
1 |
79.77 |
2012-03-23 |
| 65. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
79.35 |
0.9468 |
0.0362 |
276 |
1 |
79.35 |
2012-03-06 |
| 66. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
79.06 |
0.9289 |
0.0481 |
204 |
1 |
79.06 |
2012-03-23 |
| 67. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
78.42 |
1.0033 |
-0.0389 |
189 |
1 |
78.42 |
2010-10-18 |
| 68. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
78.18 |
0.9946 |
-0.0263 |
246 |
1 |
78.18 |
2012-03-05 |
| 69. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
77.92 |
0.9485 |
0.0191 |
291 |
1 |
77.92 |
2012-03-02 |
| 70. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
77.91 |
0.8777 |
0.0891 |
177 |
1 |
77.91 |
2012-03-02 |
| 71. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
77.51 |
0.8791 |
0.0800 |
190 |
1 |
77.51 |
2012-03-02 |
| 72. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
77.39 |
0.9500 |
0.0104 |
362 |
1 |
77.39 |
2012-03-05 |
| 73. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
77.22 |
1.0214 |
-0.0704 |
166 |
1 |
77.22 |
2011-02-24 |
| 74. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
77.17 |
0.9805 |
-0.0201 |
292 |
1 |
77.17 |
2012-03-02 |
| 75. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
77.16 |
0.9509 |
0.0428 |
225 |
2 |
75.39 |
2012-03-06 |
| 76. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
76.94 |
1.0528 |
-0.1047 |
201 |
1 |
76.94 |
2012-03-04 |
| 77. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
76.91 |
0.9557 |
0.0031 |
331 |
1 |
76.91 |
2012-03-06 |
| 78. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
76.84 |
1.0053 |
-0.0557 |
232 |
1 |
76.84 |
2013-02-15 |
| 79. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
76.46 |
0.9670 |
0.0218 |
307 |
1 |
76.46 |
2012-03-16 |
| 80. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
76.10 |
0.9128 |
0.0709 |
369 |
1 |
76.10 |
2012-03-06 |
| 81. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
75.81 |
0.9668 |
0.0143 |
383 |
1 |
75.81 |
2012-04-20 |
| 82. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
75.48 |
1.0343 |
-0.0628 |
242 |
1 |
75.48 |
2012-03-06 |
| 83. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
74.92 |
0.9540 |
-0.0287 |
285 |
1 |
74.92 |
2012-03-03 |
| 84. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
74.43 |
1.0613 |
-0.1391 |
266 |
1 |
74.43 |
2012-03-06 |
| 85. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
73.45 |
0.9567 |
-0.0054 |
184 |
1 |
73.45 |
2012-03-06 |
| 86. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
73.26 |
0.9120 |
0.0281 |
436 |
1 |
73.26 |
2012-03-02 |
| 87. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
72.41 |
0.9886 |
-0.0903 |
220 |
1 |
72.41 |
2012-03-04 |
| 88. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
72.16 |
1.0201 |
-0.1267 |
303 |
1 |
72.16 |
2012-03-03 |
| 89. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
71.89 |
0.9965 |
-0.1118 |
168 |
2 |
65.12 |
2012-03-06 |
| 90. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
71.74 |
0.8826 |
0.0065 |
296 |
2 |
66.48 |
2012-05-23 |
| 91. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
71.61 |
0.9068 |
-0.0228 |
225 |
1 |
71.61 |
2012-03-02 |
| 92. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
69.50 |
1.0515 |
-0.2002 |
166 |
1 |
69.50 |
2010-10-18 |
| 93. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
68.69 |
0.8878 |
-0.0389 |
346 |
1 |
68.69 |
2012-02-28 |
| 94. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
67.99 |
0.9430 |
-0.1003 |
297 |
1 |
67.99 |
2012-03-03 |
| 95. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
67.32 |
0.9372 |
-0.1006 |
320 |
1 |
67.32 |
2012-03-06 |
| 96. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
67.11 |
1.0099 |
-0.1838 |
207 |
1 |
67.11 |
2010-10-18 |
| 97. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
66.46 |
1.0387 |
-0.1855 |
239 |
1 |
66.46 |
2012-05-23 |
| 98. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
65.85 |
0.9364 |
-0.0829 |
351 |
1 |
65.85 |
2012-03-03 |
| 99. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
65.72 |
1.0595 |
-0.2451 |
379 |
1 |
65.72 |
2012-03-02 |
| 100. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
65.19 |
0.9651 |
-0.1239 |
389 |
1 |
65.19 |
2011-02-24 |
| 101. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
64.96 |
1.0349 |
-0.2336 |
234 |
1 |
64.96 |
2010-10-18 |
| 102. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
64.76 |
0.9871 |
-0.1510 |
209 |
1 |
64.76 |
2012-03-06 |
| 103. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
64.57 |
0.9559 |
-0.1562 |
195 |
1 |
64.57 |
2010-10-18 |
| 104. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
64.10 |
1.1296 |
-0.3090 |
252 |
1 |
64.10 |
2010-10-18 |
| 105. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
62.91 |
0.9527 |
-0.1759 |
251 |
1 |
62.91 |
2010-10-18 |
| 106. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
62.27 |
0.8956 |
-0.1224 |
322 |
1 |
62.27 |
2012-03-06 |
| 107. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
62.12 |
0.8914 |
-0.1243 |
366 |
1 |
62.12 |
2012-03-03 |
| 108. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
60.76 |
1.0630 |
-0.2798 |
397 |
1 |
60.76 |
2010-10-18 |
| 109. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
60.18 |
0.8602 |
-0.1199 |
206 |
1 |
60.18 |
2012-05-23 |
| 110. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
59.74 |
0.9894 |
-0.2482 |
323 |
1 |
59.74 |
2010-11-08 |
| 111. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
59.55 |
1.0138 |
-0.2798 |
231 |
1 |
59.55 |
2012-03-02 |
| 112. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
59.24 |
0.9202 |
-0.1899 |
254 |
1 |
59.24 |
2011-02-24 |
| 113. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
58.97 |
0.9792 |
-0.2135 |
265 |
1 |
58.97 |
2010-10-18 |
| 114. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
58.71 |
1.0004 |
-0.2827 |
212 |
1 |
58.71 |
2012-05-23 |
| 115. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
58.50 |
0.8353 |
-0.1068 |
283 |
1 |
58.50 |
2010-11-08 |
| 116. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
57.47 |
0.9772 |
-0.2723 |
217 |
1 |
57.47 |
2010-10-18 |
| 117. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
52.62 |
0.9127 |
-0.2681 |
252 |
1 |
52.62 |
2010-11-08 |
| 118. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
50.49 |
0.9899 |
-0.3741 |
163 |
1 |
50.49 |
2010-10-18 |
| 119. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
48.77 |
0.9866 |
-0.3910 |
218 |
1 |
48.77 |
2010-10-18 |
| 120. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
48.75 |
1.0292 |
-0.4318 |
262 |
1 |
48.75 |
2012-03-06 |