| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
78.47 |
1.0787 |
0.2019 |
237 |
2 |
73.63 |
2013-06-17 |
| 2. |
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. And so I come to y... |
73.87 |
1.0452 |
0.1558 |
173 |
1 |
73.87 |
2019-01-28 |
| 3. |
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beaut... |
73.60 |
0.9654 |
0.2364 |
145 |
1 |
73.60 |
2019-01-28 |
| 4. |
Frodo and Sam stood as if enchanted. The wind puffed out. Th... |
73.59 |
1.0211 |
0.1670 |
307 |
1 |
73.59 |
2021-03-19 |
| 5. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
72.36 |
1.0968 |
0.1187 |
365 |
1 |
72.36 |
2013-06-17 |
| 6. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
71.45 |
1.0608 |
0.1391 |
258 |
1 |
71.45 |
2013-06-17 |
| 7. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
71.42 |
1.0125 |
0.1504 |
224 |
1 |
71.42 |
2011-09-29 |
| 8. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
71.30 |
0.9754 |
0.1916 |
362 |
1 |
71.30 |
2013-06-17 |
| 9. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
70.99 |
1.0567 |
0.1015 |
303 |
1 |
70.99 |
2009-02-22 |
| 10. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
70.56 |
0.9792 |
0.2092 |
265 |
1 |
70.56 |
2011-01-04 |
| 11. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
68.89 |
0.9532 |
0.1686 |
258 |
1 |
68.89 |
2011-01-04 |
| 12. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
68.14 |
1.0090 |
0.1449 |
282 |
1 |
68.14 |
2011-09-29 |
| 13. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
68.06 |
1.0012 |
0.1086 |
260 |
1 |
68.06 |
2013-06-17 |
| 14. |
I'm taking over my body. Back in control, no more shotty. I ... |
67.71 |
0.9540 |
0.1354 |
404 |
1 |
67.71 |
2019-01-28 |
| 15. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
67.40 |
0.9886 |
0.1111 |
220 |
1 |
67.40 |
2013-06-17 |
| 16. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
67.38 |
1.0799 |
0.0159 |
243 |
1 |
67.38 |
2010-04-21 |
| 17. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
67.35 |
1.0346 |
0.1058 |
244 |
1 |
67.35 |
2013-06-17 |
| 18. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
66.81 |
1.0515 |
0.0307 |
166 |
1 |
66.81 |
2011-01-04 |
| 19. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
66.51 |
0.9339 |
0.1488 |
310 |
1 |
66.51 |
2011-09-29 |
| 20. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
66.08 |
1.0445 |
0.0338 |
373 |
2 |
61.41 |
2010-07-25 |
| 21. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
65.87 |
0.9841 |
0.0920 |
334 |
1 |
65.87 |
2013-06-17 |
| 22. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
65.79 |
0.9938 |
0.0779 |
339 |
1 |
65.79 |
2013-06-17 |
| 23. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
65.66 |
1.0232 |
0.0829 |
236 |
1 |
65.66 |
2013-06-17 |
| 24. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
65.53 |
1.0385 |
0.0286 |
230 |
1 |
65.53 |
2010-04-26 |
| 25. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
65.28 |
0.9768 |
0.0884 |
387 |
1 |
65.28 |
2013-06-17 |
| 26. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
65.15 |
1.0412 |
0.0202 |
225 |
1 |
65.15 |
2013-06-17 |
| 27. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
65.02 |
1.1016 |
-0.0425 |
233 |
1 |
65.02 |
2013-06-17 |
| 28. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
64.81 |
1.0203 |
0.0388 |
261 |
1 |
64.81 |
2013-06-17 |
| 29. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
64.33 |
0.9635 |
0.0870 |
389 |
1 |
64.33 |
2013-06-17 |
| 30. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
64.02 |
1.0109 |
0.0326 |
276 |
2 |
63.40 |
2008-12-30 |
| 31. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
63.88 |
0.9342 |
0.1089 |
434 |
1 |
63.88 |
2008-12-29 |
| 32. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
63.85 |
1.0109 |
0.0610 |
400 |
1 |
63.85 |
2009-09-08 |
| 33. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
63.79 |
0.9986 |
0.0411 |
283 |
1 |
63.79 |
2009-07-10 |
| 34. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
63.39 |
0.9852 |
0.0476 |
264 |
1 |
63.39 |
2008-12-30 |
| 35. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
63.20 |
0.9540 |
0.0751 |
285 |
1 |
63.20 |
2011-09-29 |
| 36. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
63.19 |
1.0352 |
-0.0044 |
341 |
1 |
63.19 |
2011-01-04 |
| 37. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
63.11 |
0.9084 |
0.1208 |
300 |
1 |
63.11 |
2013-06-17 |
| 38. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
63.11 |
1.0165 |
0.0132 |
392 |
1 |
63.11 |
2011-09-29 |
| 39. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
62.30 |
0.9881 |
0.0642 |
424 |
1 |
62.30 |
2011-01-04 |
| 40. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
62.21 |
1.0515 |
-0.0398 |
250 |
1 |
62.21 |
2009-09-08 |
| 41. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
61.73 |
1.1114 |
-0.1082 |
247 |
1 |
61.73 |
2009-07-18 |
| 42. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
61.34 |
0.9798 |
0.0145 |
199 |
1 |
61.34 |
2009-07-03 |
| 43. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
61.27 |
0.9691 |
0.0284 |
223 |
1 |
61.27 |
2013-06-17 |
| 44. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
61.16 |
1.0666 |
-0.0714 |
297 |
1 |
61.16 |
2008-12-30 |
| 45. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
61.10 |
0.9398 |
0.0607 |
419 |
1 |
61.10 |
2011-01-04 |
| 46. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
60.78 |
1.0025 |
-0.0134 |
256 |
1 |
60.78 |
2009-01-02 |
| 47. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
60.58 |
0.9570 |
0.0300 |
287 |
1 |
60.58 |
2008-12-29 |
| 48. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
60.55 |
0.9922 |
0.0322 |
341 |
1 |
60.55 |
2009-10-10 |
| 49. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
60.24 |
0.9546 |
0.0557 |
198 |
1 |
60.24 |
2009-09-09 |
| 50. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
59.63 |
0.9213 |
0.0502 |
295 |
1 |
59.63 |
2009-07-09 |
| 51. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
59.57 |
1.0289 |
-0.0569 |
276 |
1 |
59.57 |
2009-02-22 |
| 52. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
59.52 |
0.9879 |
-0.0136 |
450 |
1 |
59.52 |
2009-01-02 |
| 53. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
59.21 |
0.9672 |
0.0004 |
396 |
1 |
59.21 |
2010-04-26 |
| 54. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
59.10 |
1.0073 |
-0.0401 |
369 |
1 |
59.10 |
2009-01-02 |
| 55. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
59.07 |
0.9857 |
-0.0248 |
293 |
1 |
59.07 |
2008-12-30 |
| 56. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
58.88 |
0.9125 |
0.0465 |
308 |
3 |
58.10 |
2011-09-29 |
| 57. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
58.58 |
1.0595 |
-0.1047 |
379 |
2 |
58.16 |
2008-12-29 |
| 58. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
58.36 |
1.0944 |
-0.1007 |
308 |
1 |
58.36 |
2010-04-21 |
| 59. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
58.05 |
0.9785 |
-0.0318 |
335 |
1 |
58.05 |
2009-07-12 |
| 60. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
57.88 |
1.0063 |
-0.0641 |
371 |
1 |
57.88 |
2009-01-02 |
| 61. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
57.78 |
0.9632 |
0.0163 |
345 |
1 |
57.78 |
2013-06-17 |
| 62. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
57.66 |
1.0167 |
-0.0752 |
378 |
1 |
57.66 |
2008-12-29 |
| 63. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
57.55 |
0.9275 |
0.0066 |
211 |
1 |
57.55 |
2009-01-01 |
| 64. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
57.01 |
0.8852 |
0.0432 |
201 |
1 |
57.01 |
2008-12-30 |
| 65. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
56.88 |
0.8975 |
0.0269 |
268 |
1 |
56.88 |
2010-04-26 |
| 66. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
56.86 |
0.9430 |
-0.0218 |
211 |
1 |
56.86 |
2009-07-12 |
| 67. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
56.40 |
1.0368 |
-0.1201 |
276 |
1 |
56.40 |
2009-09-08 |
| 68. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
56.07 |
0.9500 |
-0.0363 |
362 |
1 |
56.07 |
2008-12-29 |
| 69. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
55.89 |
0.9863 |
-0.0740 |
339 |
1 |
55.89 |
2008-12-30 |
| 70. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
55.28 |
1.0214 |
-0.1237 |
269 |
1 |
55.28 |
2010-04-21 |
| 71. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
55.19 |
0.9485 |
-0.0501 |
236 |
1 |
55.19 |
2008-12-30 |
| 72. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
55.08 |
1.0331 |
-0.1400 |
234 |
1 |
55.08 |
2008-12-29 |
| 73. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
54.80 |
0.9601 |
-0.0659 |
308 |
1 |
54.80 |
2008-12-29 |
| 74. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
54.77 |
0.9936 |
-0.1037 |
311 |
1 |
54.77 |
2008-12-29 |
| 75. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
54.55 |
1.0218 |
-0.1367 |
268 |
1 |
54.55 |
2009-01-02 |
| 76. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
54.43 |
0.8553 |
0.0264 |
174 |
1 |
54.43 |
2009-07-12 |
| 77. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
53.74 |
0.9289 |
-0.0567 |
204 |
1 |
53.74 |
2008-12-29 |
| 78. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
53.09 |
0.9632 |
-0.0961 |
392 |
1 |
53.09 |
2009-01-02 |
| 79. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
52.77 |
0.9614 |
-0.1019 |
292 |
1 |
52.77 |
2009-07-04 |
| 80. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
52.54 |
0.9464 |
-0.0901 |
323 |
1 |
52.54 |
2009-07-12 |
| 81. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
52.27 |
0.9351 |
-0.0896 |
190 |
1 |
52.27 |
2008-12-29 |
| 82. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
51.39 |
0.9309 |
-0.0980 |
284 |
1 |
51.39 |
2009-01-01 |
| 83. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
50.84 |
0.9064 |
-0.0735 |
399 |
1 |
50.84 |
2008-12-29 |
| 84. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
50.26 |
1.0714 |
-0.2600 |
129 |
1 |
50.26 |
2008-12-29 |
| 85. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
49.79 |
0.9682 |
-0.1621 |
143 |
1 |
49.79 |
2009-01-02 |
| 86. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
48.70 |
0.9681 |
-0.1728 |
378 |
1 |
48.70 |
2009-01-01 |
| 87. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
48.35 |
0.9758 |
-0.1912 |
314 |
1 |
48.35 |
2008-12-30 |
| 88. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
48.31 |
0.8845 |
-0.1010 |
273 |
1 |
48.31 |
2009-09-20 |
| 89. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
45.67 |
0.7876 |
-0.0441 |
316 |
1 |
45.67 |
2008-12-29 |
| 90. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
38.12 |
0.9212 |
-0.3035 |
323 |
1 |
38.12 |
2009-07-09 |