| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
75.91 |
0.9986 |
0.3080 |
162 |
1 |
75.91 |
2010-08-23 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
70.74 |
1.0696 |
0.1482 |
226 |
2 |
69.74 |
2010-08-23 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
69.20 |
1.0796 |
0.1100 |
129 |
2 |
68.72 |
2010-08-23 |
| 4. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
68.50 |
0.9239 |
0.2649 |
193 |
1 |
68.50 |
2010-08-20 |
| 5. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
68.21 |
1.0596 |
0.1154 |
239 |
1 |
68.21 |
2010-11-25 |
| 6. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
68.06 |
1.1323 |
0.0759 |
341 |
1 |
68.06 |
2010-08-23 |
| 7. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
68.01 |
1.0396 |
0.1268 |
149 |
2 |
59.16 |
2010-08-23 |
| 8. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
67.95 |
1.0384 |
0.1246 |
183 |
1 |
67.95 |
2010-11-25 |
| 9. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
67.90 |
1.0012 |
0.1738 |
260 |
1 |
67.90 |
2010-08-23 |
| 10. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
66.88 |
1.0316 |
0.1261 |
333 |
1 |
66.88 |
2010-08-23 |
| 11. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
66.75 |
1.0417 |
0.1074 |
253 |
1 |
66.75 |
2010-08-23 |
| 12. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
66.75 |
0.9886 |
0.1655 |
220 |
3 |
60.73 |
2010-11-25 |
| 13. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
66.70 |
1.0521 |
0.0939 |
171 |
2 |
66.48 |
2010-08-23 |
| 14. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
66.54 |
1.0261 |
0.1200 |
273 |
2 |
58.78 |
2010-08-23 |
| 15. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
65.46 |
0.9109 |
0.2208 |
401 |
2 |
59.12 |
2010-08-23 |
| 16. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
65.45 |
1.0074 |
0.1235 |
242 |
1 |
65.45 |
2010-08-23 |
| 17. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
65.32 |
1.0201 |
0.1106 |
375 |
1 |
65.32 |
2010-08-21 |
| 18. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
65.07 |
1.0774 |
0.0743 |
304 |
1 |
65.07 |
2010-08-23 |
| 19. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
64.86 |
1.0621 |
0.0760 |
263 |
1 |
64.86 |
2010-08-23 |
| 20. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
64.30 |
1.0429 |
0.0646 |
259 |
1 |
64.30 |
2010-08-20 |
| 21. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
63.89 |
0.9790 |
0.1634 |
311 |
1 |
63.89 |
2010-08-23 |
| 22. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
63.74 |
0.9786 |
0.1200 |
235 |
1 |
63.74 |
2010-08-23 |
| 23. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
63.68 |
0.9699 |
0.1276 |
269 |
1 |
63.68 |
2010-08-23 |
| 24. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
63.66 |
0.9688 |
0.1287 |
217 |
1 |
63.66 |
2010-08-23 |
| 25. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
63.22 |
0.9593 |
0.1355 |
398 |
1 |
63.22 |
2010-08-30 |
| 26. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
63.00 |
0.9805 |
0.1103 |
292 |
1 |
63.00 |
2010-11-25 |
| 27. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
62.75 |
1.0296 |
0.0587 |
437 |
1 |
62.75 |
2010-08-23 |
| 28. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
62.67 |
1.0619 |
0.0222 |
354 |
1 |
62.67 |
2010-08-23 |
| 29. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
62.50 |
0.9772 |
0.0968 |
217 |
1 |
62.50 |
2010-08-21 |
| 30. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
62.42 |
0.9936 |
0.0822 |
311 |
1 |
62.42 |
2010-08-23 |
| 31. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
62.36 |
0.9820 |
0.0933 |
274 |
1 |
62.36 |
2010-08-30 |
| 32. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
62.20 |
1.0289 |
0.0478 |
276 |
1 |
62.20 |
2010-08-23 |
| 33. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
61.72 |
1.0232 |
0.0763 |
236 |
1 |
61.72 |
2010-08-21 |
| 34. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
61.49 |
1.0379 |
0.0569 |
245 |
1 |
61.49 |
2010-08-23 |
| 35. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
61.30 |
1.0993 |
-0.0448 |
265 |
1 |
61.30 |
2010-08-27 |
| 36. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
61.10 |
0.9964 |
0.0568 |
203 |
1 |
61.10 |
2010-08-23 |
| 37. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
61.08 |
1.0799 |
-0.0309 |
243 |
1 |
61.08 |
2010-08-20 |
| 38. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
60.96 |
1.0719 |
0.0063 |
360 |
1 |
60.96 |
2010-11-25 |
| 39. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
60.76 |
1.0214 |
0.0240 |
269 |
2 |
54.33 |
2010-08-23 |
| 40. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
60.50 |
0.9756 |
0.0657 |
229 |
1 |
60.50 |
2010-08-20 |
| 41. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
60.43 |
1.0284 |
0.0563 |
282 |
1 |
60.43 |
2010-08-23 |
| 42. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
60.39 |
1.0172 |
0.0586 |
341 |
1 |
60.39 |
2010-08-30 |
| 43. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
60.39 |
1.0095 |
0.0301 |
316 |
1 |
60.39 |
2010-08-23 |
| 44. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
60.25 |
1.0117 |
0.0713 |
297 |
1 |
60.25 |
2010-08-23 |
| 45. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
59.99 |
1.0211 |
0.0433 |
213 |
1 |
59.99 |
2010-08-23 |
| 46. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
59.78 |
0.9532 |
0.0755 |
258 |
1 |
59.78 |
2010-10-10 |
| 47. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
59.75 |
0.8884 |
0.1417 |
135 |
1 |
59.75 |
2010-08-23 |
| 48. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
59.15 |
1.0083 |
0.0549 |
273 |
1 |
59.15 |
2010-08-23 |
| 49. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
58.95 |
0.9508 |
0.0980 |
384 |
1 |
58.95 |
2010-08-23 |
| 50. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
58.86 |
1.0297 |
-0.0169 |
249 |
1 |
58.86 |
2010-08-20 |
| 51. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
58.81 |
0.8826 |
0.1319 |
296 |
1 |
58.81 |
2010-08-20 |
| 52. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
58.72 |
0.9266 |
0.0868 |
278 |
1 |
58.72 |
2010-08-30 |
| 53. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
58.66 |
0.9527 |
0.0577 |
251 |
1 |
58.66 |
2010-08-23 |
| 54. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
58.66 |
0.8573 |
0.1568 |
270 |
1 |
58.66 |
2010-08-21 |
| 55. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
58.64 |
1.0034 |
0.0053 |
302 |
2 |
57.59 |
2010-08-23 |
| 56. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
58.61 |
1.0077 |
0.0432 |
250 |
1 |
58.61 |
2010-08-30 |
| 57. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
58.40 |
0.9514 |
0.0549 |
237 |
1 |
58.40 |
2010-11-25 |
| 58. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
58.23 |
1.0907 |
-0.0850 |
303 |
1 |
58.23 |
2010-08-20 |
| 59. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
58.09 |
1.1162 |
-0.0746 |
189 |
1 |
58.09 |
2010-08-23 |
| 60. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
58.05 |
1.0151 |
-0.0237 |
152 |
2 |
51.97 |
2010-08-23 |
| 61. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
57.99 |
1.0399 |
-0.0359 |
294 |
1 |
57.99 |
2010-08-27 |
| 62. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
57.97 |
0.9665 |
0.0813 |
326 |
1 |
57.97 |
2010-10-10 |
| 63. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
57.67 |
0.9429 |
0.0516 |
287 |
1 |
57.67 |
2010-08-23 |
| 64. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
57.67 |
0.9687 |
0.0292 |
371 |
1 |
57.67 |
2010-08-23 |
| 65. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
57.48 |
1.0677 |
-0.0474 |
284 |
1 |
57.48 |
2010-08-23 |
| 66. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
57.40 |
1.0389 |
-0.0487 |
318 |
1 |
57.40 |
2010-08-23 |
| 67. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
57.40 |
0.9127 |
0.0735 |
252 |
1 |
57.40 |
2010-08-23 |
| 68. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
57.12 |
1.0368 |
-0.0523 |
276 |
1 |
57.12 |
2010-08-20 |
| 69. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
57.11 |
1.0829 |
-0.0979 |
288 |
1 |
57.11 |
2009-07-09 |
| 70. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
56.89 |
0.9734 |
0.0059 |
289 |
1 |
56.89 |
2010-08-23 |
| 71. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
56.86 |
1.0555 |
-0.0750 |
363 |
1 |
56.86 |
2010-08-27 |
| 72. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
56.78 |
0.9216 |
0.0950 |
255 |
2 |
54.11 |
2010-08-23 |
| 73. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
56.58 |
1.1114 |
-0.1399 |
247 |
1 |
56.58 |
2010-08-20 |
| 74. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
56.37 |
0.8958 |
0.0794 |
322 |
2 |
50.96 |
2010-08-30 |
| 75. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
56.13 |
0.9710 |
-0.0111 |
173 |
1 |
56.13 |
2010-08-23 |
| 76. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
56.06 |
0.9289 |
0.0339 |
204 |
2 |
49.14 |
2010-08-20 |
| 77. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
55.83 |
0.9871 |
-0.0038 |
227 |
1 |
55.83 |
2010-08-20 |
| 78. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
55.80 |
0.9546 |
0.0373 |
198 |
1 |
55.80 |
2010-08-23 |
| 79. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
55.80 |
1.0167 |
-0.0493 |
378 |
1 |
55.80 |
2010-08-20 |
| 80. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
55.68 |
0.9682 |
-0.0116 |
143 |
1 |
55.68 |
2010-10-10 |
| 81. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
55.57 |
0.9651 |
0.0273 |
389 |
1 |
55.57 |
2010-08-23 |
| 82. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
55.45 |
0.9653 |
-0.0025 |
394 |
1 |
55.45 |
2010-08-23 |
| 83. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
55.28 |
1.0444 |
-0.0995 |
197 |
1 |
55.28 |
2009-07-09 |
| 84. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
55.28 |
0.9087 |
0.0535 |
393 |
2 |
49.73 |
2010-08-23 |
| 85. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
55.22 |
0.9372 |
0.0173 |
320 |
1 |
55.22 |
2010-08-23 |
| 86. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
55.17 |
0.9430 |
0.0095 |
297 |
1 |
55.17 |
2010-08-23 |
| 87. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
54.94 |
0.9464 |
0.0043 |
323 |
1 |
54.94 |
2010-08-23 |
| 88. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
54.90 |
1.0124 |
-0.0699 |
204 |
1 |
54.90 |
2009-07-20 |
| 89. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
54.82 |
0.9965 |
-0.0527 |
310 |
1 |
54.82 |
2010-08-20 |
| 90. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
54.75 |
0.9411 |
0.0020 |
318 |
1 |
54.75 |
2010-08-23 |
| 91. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
54.66 |
0.9697 |
-0.0288 |
249 |
1 |
54.66 |
2010-11-25 |
| 92. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
54.64 |
0.9925 |
-0.0154 |
247 |
1 |
54.64 |
2010-08-20 |
| 93. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
54.61 |
0.9286 |
0.0102 |
194 |
2 |
51.56 |
2010-08-20 |
| 94. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
54.46 |
1.0270 |
-0.0538 |
255 |
1 |
54.46 |
2010-08-20 |
| 95. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
54.30 |
0.9500 |
-0.0134 |
362 |
1 |
54.30 |
2010-08-23 |
| 96. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
54.29 |
0.9164 |
0.0227 |
305 |
1 |
54.29 |
2010-08-23 |
| 97. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
54.27 |
1.0240 |
-0.0927 |
256 |
1 |
54.27 |
2010-11-25 |
| 98. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
54.18 |
0.8810 |
0.0521 |
282 |
1 |
54.18 |
2010-11-25 |
| 99. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
54.12 |
1.0426 |
-0.1120 |
323 |
1 |
54.12 |
2010-11-25 |
| 100. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
54.11 |
1.1014 |
-0.1325 |
273 |
1 |
54.11 |
2010-08-27 |
| 101. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
53.98 |
1.0343 |
-0.0680 |
242 |
1 |
53.98 |
2010-08-20 |
| 102. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
53.91 |
0.9278 |
0.0025 |
295 |
1 |
53.91 |
2010-08-23 |
| 103. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
53.71 |
0.9792 |
-0.0167 |
265 |
1 |
53.71 |
2010-08-23 |
| 104. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
53.69 |
0.9905 |
-0.0353 |
337 |
2 |
53.14 |
2010-08-23 |
| 105. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
53.57 |
1.0254 |
-0.0629 |
217 |
1 |
53.57 |
2010-08-23 |
| 106. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
53.35 |
1.0391 |
-0.1151 |
358 |
1 |
53.35 |
2009-07-09 |
| 107. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
53.31 |
0.9303 |
-0.0194 |
176 |
1 |
53.31 |
2010-10-10 |
| 108. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
53.01 |
0.9074 |
0.0110 |
396 |
1 |
53.01 |
2010-08-23 |
| 109. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
52.43 |
0.9670 |
-0.0231 |
307 |
2 |
51.27 |
2010-08-30 |
| 110. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
52.41 |
1.0062 |
-0.1047 |
288 |
1 |
52.41 |
2010-08-20 |
| 111. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
52.36 |
0.9045 |
-0.0036 |
235 |
2 |
49.38 |
2010-08-23 |
| 112. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
51.66 |
1.0506 |
-0.1334 |
277 |
1 |
51.66 |
2010-08-20 |
| 113. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
51.06 |
0.9631 |
-0.0339 |
345 |
1 |
51.06 |
2010-08-23 |
| 114. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
50.98 |
1.0669 |
-0.1575 |
213 |
1 |
50.98 |
2010-08-23 |
| 115. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
50.88 |
1.0263 |
-0.1523 |
267 |
1 |
50.88 |
2009-07-09 |
| 116. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
50.84 |
0.8670 |
0.0125 |
318 |
1 |
50.84 |
2010-08-23 |
| 117. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
50.81 |
1.0679 |
-0.1740 |
177 |
1 |
50.81 |
2010-08-23 |
| 118. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
50.50 |
1.0763 |
-0.1667 |
367 |
1 |
50.50 |
2010-08-20 |
| 119. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
49.91 |
0.9635 |
-0.1002 |
389 |
1 |
49.91 |
2010-08-20 |
| 120. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
49.77 |
1.0528 |
-0.2024 |
201 |
1 |
49.77 |
2010-08-23 |
| 121. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
49.76 |
0.9636 |
-0.1085 |
254 |
1 |
49.76 |
2010-08-20 |
| 122. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
49.67 |
1.0173 |
-0.1194 |
268 |
1 |
49.67 |
2010-08-23 |
| 123. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
49.42 |
0.8971 |
-0.0425 |
266 |
1 |
49.42 |
2009-07-09 |
| 124. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
49.40 |
1.0385 |
-0.1913 |
230 |
1 |
49.40 |
2010-08-20 |
| 125. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
49.15 |
0.9814 |
-0.0974 |
364 |
1 |
49.15 |
2010-08-20 |
| 126. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
48.98 |
0.8775 |
-0.0323 |
443 |
1 |
48.98 |
2010-08-20 |
| 127. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
48.76 |
0.9965 |
-0.1581 |
277 |
1 |
48.76 |
2009-07-09 |
| 128. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
48.74 |
0.8722 |
-0.0319 |
285 |
1 |
48.74 |
2010-08-23 |
| 129. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
48.73 |
0.9570 |
-0.1180 |
287 |
1 |
48.73 |
2009-07-09 |
| 130. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
48.26 |
0.9780 |
-0.1479 |
337 |
1 |
48.26 |
2009-07-09 |
| 131. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
48.17 |
1.0797 |
-0.2578 |
210 |
1 |
48.17 |
2009-07-09 |
| 132. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
47.56 |
0.9841 |
-0.1634 |
334 |
1 |
47.56 |
2009-07-09 |
| 133. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
46.75 |
0.8382 |
-0.0350 |
268 |
1 |
46.75 |
2010-08-20 |
| 134. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
46.12 |
0.9293 |
-0.1368 |
355 |
1 |
46.12 |
2010-08-20 |
| 135. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.10 |
0.9798 |
-0.1941 |
199 |
1 |
46.10 |
2009-07-09 |
| 136. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
45.24 |
0.9148 |
-0.1370 |
317 |
1 |
45.24 |
2010-08-20 |
| 137. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
44.77 |
0.9583 |
-0.1464 |
341 |
1 |
44.77 |
2010-08-23 |
| 138. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
44.23 |
0.8996 |
-0.1463 |
192 |
1 |
44.23 |
2010-12-18 |