| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
95.68 |
1.0381 |
0.5646 |
170 |
2 |
86.86 |
2012-04-04 |
| 2. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
80.67 |
1.0993 |
0.2575 |
265 |
2 |
80.38 |
2012-04-05 |
| 3. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
79.06 |
1.0863 |
0.2796 |
210 |
1 |
79.06 |
2012-03-22 |
| 4. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
76.05 |
1.0596 |
0.2184 |
239 |
2 |
70.24 |
2012-04-05 |
| 5. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
74.60 |
1.0099 |
0.2424 |
207 |
1 |
74.60 |
2012-04-04 |
| 6. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
74.32 |
0.9429 |
0.3095 |
287 |
1 |
74.32 |
2012-03-21 |
| 7. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
73.15 |
1.1014 |
0.1671 |
273 |
2 |
62.76 |
2012-04-05 |
| 8. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
72.03 |
0.9943 |
0.2205 |
373 |
1 |
72.03 |
2012-04-04 |
| 9. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
71.50 |
1.0412 |
0.1610 |
225 |
1 |
71.50 |
2012-03-26 |
| 10. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
71.45 |
1.0403 |
0.1762 |
193 |
1 |
71.45 |
2012-03-22 |
| 11. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
71.16 |
1.0677 |
0.1597 |
284 |
1 |
71.16 |
2012-03-23 |
| 12. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
70.96 |
1.0419 |
0.1515 |
261 |
1 |
70.96 |
2012-03-29 |
| 13. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
69.46 |
1.0023 |
0.1637 |
211 |
1 |
69.46 |
2012-03-21 |
| 14. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
69.45 |
1.0719 |
0.1243 |
360 |
1 |
69.45 |
2012-04-04 |
| 15. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
68.94 |
1.0053 |
0.1522 |
232 |
3 |
63.62 |
2012-04-04 |
| 16. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
68.53 |
1.0358 |
0.1584 |
349 |
1 |
68.53 |
2012-03-22 |
| 17. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
68.15 |
0.9540 |
0.1897 |
285 |
1 |
68.15 |
2012-04-04 |
| 18. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
68.12 |
0.9758 |
0.1702 |
314 |
2 |
60.46 |
2012-04-03 |
| 19. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
67.91 |
0.9798 |
0.1562 |
199 |
2 |
58.44 |
2012-03-26 |
| 20. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
67.81 |
0.9155 |
0.2734 |
168 |
1 |
67.81 |
2012-03-21 |
| 21. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
67.62 |
0.9697 |
0.1670 |
249 |
1 |
67.62 |
2012-03-21 |
| 22. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
67.49 |
0.9905 |
0.1759 |
337 |
1 |
67.49 |
2012-03-29 |
| 23. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
66.40 |
0.9485 |
0.1694 |
236 |
2 |
62.63 |
2012-03-29 |
| 24. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
66.26 |
1.0150 |
0.1479 |
325 |
2 |
58.02 |
2012-03-29 |
| 25. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
66.26 |
0.9578 |
0.1557 |
281 |
1 |
66.26 |
2012-04-04 |
| 26. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
65.53 |
1.0528 |
0.0437 |
201 |
1 |
65.53 |
2012-03-21 |
| 27. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
65.31 |
0.9884 |
0.1088 |
233 |
1 |
65.31 |
2012-03-22 |
| 28. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
64.80 |
0.9351 |
0.1483 |
190 |
2 |
58.30 |
2012-03-22 |
| 29. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
64.15 |
0.9681 |
0.1180 |
378 |
1 |
64.15 |
2012-04-03 |
| 30. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
64.03 |
1.0774 |
0.0279 |
304 |
1 |
64.03 |
2012-03-22 |
| 31. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
64.02 |
1.0252 |
0.0438 |
176 |
1 |
64.02 |
2012-03-29 |
| 32. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
63.23 |
0.9851 |
0.0798 |
317 |
1 |
63.23 |
2012-04-05 |
| 33. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
63.22 |
0.9504 |
0.1056 |
263 |
2 |
55.95 |
2012-03-29 |
| 34. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
63.06 |
1.0429 |
0.0148 |
259 |
2 |
62.90 |
2012-03-23 |
| 35. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
62.57 |
0.9698 |
0.1141 |
397 |
1 |
62.57 |
2012-03-29 |
| 36. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
62.47 |
0.9965 |
0.0533 |
277 |
1 |
62.47 |
2011-12-08 |
| 37. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
62.41 |
1.0496 |
-0.0023 |
314 |
1 |
62.41 |
2012-03-22 |
| 38. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
61.80 |
1.0523 |
-0.0187 |
256 |
1 |
61.80 |
2012-03-23 |
| 39. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
61.77 |
1.0261 |
0.0090 |
273 |
1 |
61.77 |
2012-03-23 |
| 40. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
61.47 |
1.0331 |
-0.0032 |
234 |
1 |
61.47 |
2012-03-22 |
| 41. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
61.29 |
1.0025 |
0.0263 |
256 |
1 |
61.29 |
2012-04-03 |
| 42. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
61.28 |
1.0169 |
0.0509 |
346 |
1 |
61.28 |
2012-04-05 |
| 43. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
61.11 |
0.9557 |
0.0770 |
331 |
1 |
61.11 |
2012-03-23 |
| 44. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
60.93 |
1.0917 |
-0.0451 |
243 |
1 |
60.93 |
2011-11-15 |
| 45. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
60.68 |
1.0441 |
0.0161 |
316 |
2 |
59.90 |
2012-03-23 |
| 46. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
60.47 |
1.0604 |
-0.0120 |
260 |
1 |
60.47 |
2012-03-22 |
| 47. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
60.32 |
0.9673 |
0.0847 |
232 |
1 |
60.32 |
2012-04-04 |
| 48. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
60.20 |
0.9916 |
0.0619 |
282 |
2 |
57.30 |
2012-03-21 |
| 49. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
60.06 |
1.0399 |
-0.0262 |
294 |
1 |
60.06 |
2012-03-26 |
| 50. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
59.34 |
1.1018 |
-0.1127 |
220 |
1 |
59.34 |
2011-11-10 |
| 51. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
59.21 |
0.9572 |
0.0349 |
201 |
1 |
59.21 |
2011-11-23 |
| 52. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
59.17 |
0.9841 |
0.0130 |
334 |
1 |
59.17 |
2012-03-29 |
| 53. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
59.09 |
0.9790 |
0.0535 |
311 |
1 |
59.09 |
2012-03-23 |
| 54. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
58.92 |
1.0232 |
0.0013 |
236 |
1 |
58.92 |
2012-03-22 |
| 55. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
58.86 |
1.0521 |
-0.0696 |
171 |
1 |
58.86 |
2011-12-08 |
| 56. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
58.70 |
1.0389 |
-0.0514 |
340 |
1 |
58.70 |
2012-04-04 |
| 57. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
58.54 |
0.9468 |
0.0357 |
276 |
2 |
54.14 |
2012-04-05 |
| 58. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
58.39 |
0.9461 |
0.0294 |
193 |
1 |
58.39 |
2011-12-08 |
| 59. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
58.01 |
1.0004 |
-0.0333 |
212 |
2 |
57.87 |
2011-11-15 |
| 60. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
57.66 |
0.9049 |
0.0682 |
351 |
1 |
57.66 |
2012-03-26 |
| 61. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
57.37 |
1.0487 |
-0.0912 |
231 |
1 |
57.37 |
2011-12-08 |
| 62. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
57.21 |
1.0013 |
-0.0425 |
273 |
1 |
57.21 |
2012-04-04 |
| 63. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
57.15 |
0.9776 |
-0.0186 |
308 |
1 |
57.15 |
2011-12-08 |
| 64. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
57.02 |
1.0485 |
-0.0578 |
153 |
1 |
57.02 |
2012-04-05 |
| 65. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
56.85 |
0.9769 |
-0.0250 |
263 |
1 |
56.85 |
2011-12-08 |
| 66. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
56.47 |
1.0711 |
-0.1292 |
213 |
1 |
56.47 |
2011-11-10 |
| 67. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
56.45 |
0.9754 |
-0.0224 |
362 |
1 |
56.45 |
2012-03-23 |
| 68. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
56.32 |
0.9946 |
-0.0500 |
246 |
2 |
51.56 |
2012-04-03 |
| 69. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
56.26 |
1.0203 |
-0.0733 |
261 |
1 |
56.26 |
2012-04-03 |
| 70. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
56.24 |
0.9699 |
-0.0273 |
269 |
1 |
56.24 |
2012-04-04 |
| 71. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
56.19 |
0.9964 |
-0.0542 |
203 |
1 |
56.19 |
2011-12-08 |
| 72. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
56.03 |
0.8975 |
0.0423 |
268 |
1 |
56.03 |
2011-11-23 |
| 73. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
55.16 |
1.0201 |
-0.0911 |
375 |
1 |
55.16 |
2011-11-15 |
| 74. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
55.12 |
0.9266 |
-0.0026 |
267 |
1 |
55.12 |
2012-03-22 |
| 75. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
54.79 |
1.0368 |
-0.1175 |
276 |
1 |
54.79 |
2011-11-15 |
| 76. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
54.61 |
0.9688 |
-0.0543 |
217 |
1 |
54.61 |
2011-12-07 |
| 77. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
54.45 |
0.9513 |
-0.0345 |
354 |
1 |
54.45 |
2011-12-09 |
| 78. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
54.09 |
0.9886 |
-0.0795 |
220 |
1 |
54.09 |
2012-04-03 |
| 79. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
53.47 |
1.0533 |
-0.1300 |
257 |
1 |
53.47 |
2011-11-23 |
| 80. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
53.39 |
0.9780 |
-0.0823 |
337 |
1 |
53.39 |
2011-12-08 |
| 81. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
53.06 |
1.0426 |
-0.1542 |
323 |
1 |
53.06 |
2011-11-23 |
| 82. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
53.05 |
0.9176 |
0.0053 |
267 |
1 |
53.05 |
2011-11-23 |
| 83. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
52.65 |
1.0068 |
-0.1211 |
358 |
1 |
52.65 |
2011-11-15 |
| 84. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
52.37 |
0.8826 |
-0.0034 |
296 |
1 |
52.37 |
2012-04-03 |
| 85. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
52.24 |
1.0189 |
-0.1406 |
337 |
1 |
52.24 |
2011-11-10 |
| 86. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
51.92 |
0.9855 |
-0.0821 |
258 |
1 |
51.92 |
2011-12-08 |
| 87. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.92 |
1.0714 |
-0.2109 |
129 |
1 |
51.92 |
2012-04-03 |
| 88. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
51.84 |
0.9207 |
-0.0506 |
174 |
1 |
51.84 |
2011-11-10 |
| 89. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
51.72 |
0.9570 |
-0.0887 |
287 |
1 |
51.72 |
2011-12-08 |
| 90. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
51.58 |
0.9247 |
-0.0563 |
253 |
1 |
51.58 |
2011-11-23 |
| 91. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
51.37 |
1.0154 |
-0.1050 |
351 |
1 |
51.37 |
2012-04-05 |
| 92. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
50.83 |
0.9846 |
-0.1348 |
281 |
1 |
50.83 |
2011-11-15 |
| 93. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
50.52 |
0.9852 |
-0.1389 |
264 |
1 |
50.52 |
2011-11-15 |
| 94. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
49.95 |
0.8956 |
-0.0546 |
322 |
1 |
49.95 |
2012-04-03 |
| 95. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
49.54 |
1.0577 |
-0.2322 |
247 |
1 |
49.54 |
2011-11-10 |
| 96. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
48.94 |
0.9649 |
-0.1467 |
193 |
1 |
48.94 |
2011-12-07 |
| 97. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
48.30 |
0.9672 |
-0.1523 |
396 |
1 |
48.30 |
2011-12-08 |
| 98. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
47.96 |
0.9089 |
-0.1031 |
342 |
1 |
47.96 |
2011-11-23 |
| 99. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
47.56 |
0.8958 |
-0.0951 |
322 |
1 |
47.56 |
2011-11-30 |
| 100. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
47.51 |
0.9997 |
-0.2008 |
382 |
1 |
47.51 |
2011-11-10 |
| 101. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
47.34 |
0.7876 |
0.0069 |
316 |
1 |
47.34 |
2012-03-21 |
| 102. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
47.07 |
0.9084 |
-0.1191 |
300 |
1 |
47.07 |
2011-11-23 |
| 103. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
46.68 |
0.9843 |
-0.2085 |
234 |
1 |
46.68 |
2011-11-10 |
| 104. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
45.78 |
0.9509 |
-0.1471 |
225 |
1 |
45.78 |
2011-11-10 |
| 105. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
45.44 |
0.9786 |
-0.2195 |
235 |
1 |
45.44 |
2011-11-23 |
| 106. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
45.35 |
1.0316 |
-0.2694 |
333 |
1 |
45.35 |
2011-11-23 |
| 107. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
44.75 |
0.9619 |
-0.2083 |
393 |
1 |
44.75 |
2011-11-23 |
| 108. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
44.52 |
0.9529 |
-0.1684 |
269 |
1 |
44.52 |
2012-03-22 |
| 109. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
43.05 |
0.9976 |
-0.2581 |
174 |
1 |
43.05 |
2011-11-23 |
| 110. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
41.36 |
0.8884 |
-0.1988 |
135 |
1 |
41.36 |
2011-11-15 |
| 111. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
34.79 |
0.9866 |
-0.4116 |
218 |
1 |
34.79 |
2012-03-21 |
| 112. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
34.70 |
0.9089 |
-0.3223 |
187 |
1 |
34.70 |
2011-11-10 |