Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
134.37 |
1.1016 |
0.1324 |
233 |
1 |
134.37 |
2010-11-02 |
2. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
134.10 |
1.0555 |
0.1773 |
363 |
1 |
134.10 |
2010-11-02 |
3. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
131.38 |
1.0016 |
0.2000 |
218 |
1 |
131.38 |
2010-11-02 |
4. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
131.23 |
1.0941 |
0.1419 |
256 |
2 |
118.26 |
2010-11-02 |
5. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
129.41 |
1.0463 |
0.1370 |
182 |
2 |
126.33 |
2010-10-31 |
6. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
126.52 |
1.0565 |
0.1020 |
247 |
3 |
111.49 |
2010-11-01 |
7. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
124.64 |
1.0719 |
0.0993 |
360 |
1 |
124.64 |
2010-11-01 |
8. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
124.31 |
1.0419 |
0.0987 |
261 |
2 |
120.19 |
2010-11-02 |
9. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
123.76 |
1.1162 |
0.0603 |
189 |
1 |
123.76 |
2010-10-30 |
10. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
123.38 |
1.0289 |
0.1074 |
276 |
1 |
123.38 |
2010-11-02 |
11. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
122.25 |
1.0365 |
0.1148 |
162 |
1 |
122.25 |
2010-10-25 |
12. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
121.96 |
1.0257 |
0.0995 |
401 |
1 |
121.96 |
2010-10-25 |
13. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
120.38 |
1.0346 |
0.1115 |
244 |
1 |
120.38 |
2010-11-02 |
14. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
120.13 |
1.0498 |
0.0472 |
180 |
1 |
120.13 |
2010-10-26 |
15. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
119.68 |
1.0251 |
0.0703 |
261 |
1 |
119.68 |
2010-11-02 |
16. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
119.58 |
1.0885 |
0.0115 |
315 |
1 |
119.58 |
2010-11-01 |
17. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
119.44 |
0.9852 |
0.1105 |
264 |
1 |
119.44 |
2010-10-31 |
18. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
119.38 |
1.0352 |
0.0627 |
341 |
1 |
119.38 |
2010-10-26 |
19. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
119.34 |
1.0296 |
0.0712 |
437 |
2 |
118.08 |
2010-11-02 |
20. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
119.16 |
1.0099 |
0.0800 |
207 |
2 |
110.37 |
2010-10-26 |
21. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
119.08 |
1.0787 |
0.0120 |
237 |
1 |
119.08 |
2010-10-25 |
22. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
118.96 |
0.9922 |
0.1398 |
341 |
1 |
118.96 |
2010-11-02 |
23. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
117.63 |
0.9382 |
0.1655 |
440 |
2 |
107.19 |
2010-11-02 |
24. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
116.87 |
1.0725 |
0.0248 |
233 |
1 |
116.87 |
2010-10-26 |
25. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
113.92 |
1.0621 |
0.0014 |
263 |
1 |
113.92 |
2010-10-26 |
26. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
113.84 |
0.9723 |
0.0748 |
364 |
2 |
109.48 |
2010-11-01 |
27. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
113.82 |
1.0567 |
-0.0129 |
303 |
1 |
113.82 |
2010-10-26 |
28. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
113.72 |
1.0173 |
0.0692 |
268 |
1 |
113.72 |
2010-10-26 |
29. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
113.45 |
1.0561 |
0.0097 |
430 |
2 |
108.42 |
2010-10-26 |
30. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
112.79 |
1.0485 |
0.0199 |
153 |
2 |
103.24 |
2010-11-02 |
31. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
112.65 |
1.0885 |
-0.0212 |
341 |
1 |
112.65 |
2010-10-31 |
32. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
112.55 |
1.0482 |
0.0069 |
487 |
1 |
112.55 |
2010-10-30 |
33. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
112.37 |
1.0496 |
-0.0205 |
314 |
1 |
112.37 |
2010-11-01 |
34. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
112.37 |
1.0288 |
0.0331 |
300 |
1 |
112.37 |
2010-10-25 |
35. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
112.29 |
1.0630 |
-0.0008 |
397 |
1 |
112.29 |
2010-10-31 |
36. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
112.15 |
0.9814 |
0.0857 |
364 |
1 |
112.15 |
2010-11-01 |
37. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
111.95 |
1.0528 |
-0.0319 |
201 |
1 |
111.95 |
2010-10-25 |
38. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
111.91 |
1.0120 |
0.0127 |
290 |
1 |
111.91 |
2010-11-02 |
39. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
111.64 |
1.0368 |
-0.0129 |
276 |
1 |
111.64 |
2010-11-01 |
40. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
111.59 |
1.0774 |
-0.0255 |
304 |
1 |
111.59 |
2010-10-31 |
41. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
111.43 |
0.9798 |
0.0355 |
199 |
1 |
111.43 |
2010-10-30 |
42. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
111.40 |
1.0062 |
0.0146 |
288 |
2 |
108.40 |
2010-10-26 |
43. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
111.14 |
0.9619 |
0.0617 |
393 |
1 |
111.14 |
2010-10-26 |
44. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
111.07 |
0.9202 |
0.0968 |
254 |
1 |
111.07 |
2010-11-01 |
45. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
110.96 |
1.0214 |
-0.0101 |
166 |
1 |
110.96 |
2010-10-26 |
46. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
110.58 |
1.0577 |
-0.0480 |
247 |
2 |
107.53 |
2010-10-26 |
47. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
110.44 |
1.0666 |
-0.0546 |
297 |
1 |
110.44 |
2010-11-02 |
48. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
110.18 |
1.1068 |
-0.0571 |
393 |
1 |
110.18 |
2010-10-25 |
49. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
109.99 |
1.0385 |
-0.0326 |
230 |
1 |
109.99 |
2010-10-26 |
50. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
109.93 |
1.0531 |
-0.0079 |
272 |
1 |
109.93 |
2010-10-25 |
51. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
109.74 |
1.0314 |
0.0132 |
452 |
1 |
109.74 |
2010-10-26 |
52. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
109.70 |
1.0023 |
0.0008 |
211 |
1 |
109.70 |
2010-10-26 |
53. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
109.55 |
0.9697 |
0.0341 |
249 |
1 |
109.55 |
2010-10-26 |
54. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
109.29 |
1.0297 |
-0.0297 |
249 |
1 |
109.29 |
2010-10-26 |
55. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
108.99 |
1.0201 |
-0.0177 |
375 |
1 |
108.99 |
2010-10-25 |
56. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
108.71 |
0.9894 |
0.0108 |
323 |
1 |
108.71 |
2010-10-26 |
57. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
108.44 |
0.9844 |
0.0137 |
293 |
1 |
108.44 |
2010-10-26 |
58. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
108.43 |
0.9266 |
0.0667 |
267 |
1 |
108.43 |
2010-10-31 |
59. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
108.34 |
1.0711 |
-0.0838 |
213 |
1 |
108.34 |
2010-10-26 |
60. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
108.04 |
1.0154 |
0.0240 |
351 |
1 |
108.04 |
2010-11-02 |
61. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
107.63 |
1.0829 |
-0.0956 |
288 |
1 |
107.63 |
2010-10-25 |
62. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
107.45 |
0.9593 |
0.0295 |
398 |
1 |
107.45 |
2010-10-25 |
63. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
107.32 |
0.9612 |
0.0217 |
256 |
1 |
107.32 |
2010-11-01 |
64. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
107.21 |
0.9857 |
-0.0048 |
293 |
1 |
107.21 |
2010-10-26 |
65. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
106.98 |
0.9846 |
-0.0059 |
281 |
1 |
106.98 |
2010-10-26 |
66. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
106.83 |
1.0662 |
-0.0501 |
407 |
1 |
106.83 |
2010-10-27 |
67. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
106.69 |
0.9884 |
-0.0121 |
233 |
1 |
106.69 |
2010-10-31 |
68. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
106.52 |
1.0073 |
-0.0238 |
369 |
1 |
106.52 |
2010-11-02 |
69. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
106.36 |
0.9635 |
0.0159 |
389 |
1 |
106.36 |
2010-11-02 |
70. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
105.83 |
1.0417 |
-0.0751 |
253 |
1 |
105.83 |
2010-10-26 |
71. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
105.72 |
0.9879 |
-0.0111 |
450 |
1 |
105.72 |
2010-10-26 |
72. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
105.24 |
1.0483 |
-0.0877 |
227 |
1 |
105.24 |
2010-10-26 |
73. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
105.23 |
0.9866 |
-0.0268 |
218 |
1 |
105.23 |
2010-10-26 |
74. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
104.50 |
1.0574 |
-0.0728 |
205 |
1 |
104.50 |
2010-10-26 |
75. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
104.50 |
1.0429 |
-0.0876 |
259 |
2 |
100.33 |
2010-10-26 |
76. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
104.11 |
1.0284 |
-0.0320 |
282 |
1 |
104.11 |
2010-10-31 |
77. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
104.09 |
0.9411 |
0.0126 |
318 |
2 |
99.48 |
2010-10-26 |
78. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
103.81 |
1.0619 |
-0.1080 |
354 |
1 |
103.81 |
2010-10-26 |
79. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
103.72 |
1.0214 |
-0.0294 |
281 |
1 |
103.72 |
2010-11-01 |
80. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
103.60 |
1.0252 |
-0.0833 |
176 |
1 |
103.60 |
2010-10-26 |
81. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
103.26 |
1.0768 |
-0.0915 |
295 |
1 |
103.26 |
2010-10-26 |
82. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
103.19 |
0.9785 |
-0.0307 |
335 |
1 |
103.19 |
2010-11-01 |
83. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
103.11 |
0.9566 |
0.0098 |
576 |
1 |
103.11 |
2010-10-31 |
84. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
102.99 |
1.0033 |
-0.0673 |
189 |
1 |
102.99 |
2010-10-30 |
85. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
102.85 |
0.9088 |
0.0378 |
348 |
1 |
102.85 |
2010-11-01 |
86. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
102.32 |
0.9769 |
-0.0425 |
263 |
1 |
102.32 |
2010-10-26 |
87. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
101.69 |
0.9881 |
-0.0169 |
424 |
1 |
101.69 |
2010-10-25 |
88. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
101.25 |
0.9691 |
-0.0430 |
223 |
1 |
101.25 |
2010-10-25 |
89. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
100.79 |
0.9899 |
-0.0723 |
163 |
2 |
94.39 |
2010-10-25 |
90. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
100.60 |
0.9746 |
-0.0256 |
405 |
1 |
100.60 |
2010-10-26 |
91. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
100.15 |
0.9699 |
-0.0541 |
269 |
1 |
100.15 |
2010-10-26 |
92. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
100.14 |
0.9622 |
-0.0395 |
392 |
1 |
100.14 |
2010-10-26 |
93. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
100.10 |
0.9936 |
-0.0780 |
311 |
1 |
100.10 |
2010-10-25 |
94. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
100.04 |
0.9383 |
-0.0017 |
471 |
1 |
100.04 |
2010-10-26 |
95. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
99.72 |
0.9527 |
-0.0404 |
251 |
1 |
99.72 |
2010-10-26 |
96. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
99.46 |
0.9780 |
-0.0670 |
337 |
1 |
99.46 |
2010-10-25 |
97. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
99.19 |
1.0211 |
-0.0829 |
213 |
2 |
97.61 |
2010-10-26 |
98. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
99.00 |
0.9768 |
-0.0685 |
387 |
1 |
99.00 |
2010-10-25 |
99. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
98.38 |
1.0767 |
-0.1789 |
212 |
1 |
98.38 |
2010-10-25 |
100. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
98.28 |
1.1014 |
-0.1646 |
273 |
1 |
98.28 |
2010-10-25 |
101. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
97.76 |
0.9365 |
-0.0409 |
248 |
1 |
97.76 |
2010-10-26 |
102. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
97.74 |
0.9632 |
-0.0628 |
392 |
1 |
97.74 |
2010-10-26 |
103. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
97.36 |
1.0083 |
-0.0737 |
273 |
1 |
97.36 |
2010-10-26 |
104. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
96.93 |
1.0124 |
-0.1283 |
204 |
1 |
96.93 |
2010-10-26 |
105. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
96.71 |
1.0391 |
-0.1485 |
358 |
1 |
96.71 |
2010-10-26 |
106. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
96.24 |
1.0004 |
-0.1264 |
212 |
1 |
96.24 |
2010-10-26 |
107. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
96.02 |
0.9364 |
-0.0182 |
351 |
2 |
91.17 |
2010-10-25 |
108. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
95.57 |
0.9841 |
-0.1064 |
334 |
1 |
95.57 |
2010-10-26 |
109. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
95.00 |
0.9084 |
-0.0380 |
300 |
2 |
91.74 |
2010-10-25 |
110. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
94.84 |
0.9342 |
-0.0636 |
434 |
1 |
94.84 |
2010-10-26 |
111. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
94.66 |
0.9485 |
-0.0807 |
291 |
1 |
94.66 |
2010-10-26 |
112. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
94.49 |
1.0444 |
-0.1871 |
197 |
1 |
94.49 |
2010-10-26 |
113. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
93.61 |
0.9546 |
-0.0676 |
198 |
2 |
92.39 |
2010-10-28 |
114. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
93.06 |
0.9212 |
-0.0673 |
323 |
1 |
93.06 |
2010-10-24 |
115. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
92.55 |
1.0213 |
-0.1786 |
240 |
1 |
92.55 |
2010-10-25 |
116. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
92.27 |
1.0172 |
-0.1388 |
341 |
1 |
92.27 |
2010-10-26 |
117. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
90.71 |
0.9509 |
-0.0837 |
225 |
1 |
90.71 |
2010-10-26 |
118. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
90.32 |
0.8996 |
-0.0799 |
192 |
1 |
90.32 |
2010-10-25 |
119. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
87.67 |
0.8852 |
-0.0825 |
201 |
1 |
87.67 |
2010-10-26 |
120. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
83.97 |
0.9278 |
-0.1589 |
295 |
1 |
83.97 |
2010-10-26 |
121. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
76.75 |
0.8467 |
-0.1232 |
343 |
1 |
76.75 |
2010-10-25 |