| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly f... |
168.36 |
1.1605 |
0.4411 |
145 |
1 |
168.36 |
2024-08-13 |
| 2. |
You're curious and smart, and bored, and all you see is the ... |
160.89 |
1.0970 |
0.4340 |
299 |
1 |
160.89 |
2024-08-13 |
| 3. |
This is the song I will sing to you when you're old and tire... |
151.46 |
1.0874 |
0.3531 |
268 |
1 |
151.46 |
2024-08-13 |
| 4. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
147.99 |
0.9781 |
0.4300 |
193 |
1 |
147.99 |
2013-07-25 |
| 5. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
147.97 |
1.0644 |
0.3578 |
257 |
2 |
127.78 |
2012-05-28 |
| 6. |
We never get to change the past. We never get to know the fu... |
147.94 |
1.0840 |
0.3245 |
326 |
1 |
147.94 |
2024-08-13 |
| 7. |
All around town, people are falling ill with a disease that ... |
143.58 |
1.0528 |
0.3160 |
372 |
1 |
143.58 |
2024-08-13 |
| 8. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
136.99 |
1.0389 |
0.2636 |
340 |
1 |
136.99 |
2013-07-25 |
| 9. |
Wish I could say the same, but I must say, with all due resp... |
136.03 |
1.0313 |
0.2635 |
389 |
1 |
136.03 |
2024-08-13 |
| 10. |
When you go on the run, the first thing you do is lay down t... |
135.98 |
1.0836 |
0.2107 |
370 |
1 |
135.98 |
2024-08-13 |
| 11. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
135.76 |
0.9665 |
0.3432 |
326 |
2 |
109.74 |
2024-08-13 |
| 12. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
133.66 |
0.9938 |
0.2772 |
339 |
1 |
133.66 |
2013-07-25 |
| 13. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
133.54 |
1.0787 |
0.1907 |
237 |
2 |
113.19 |
2013-07-25 |
| 14. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
131.40 |
1.0060 |
0.2432 |
171 |
2 |
103.08 |
2012-02-27 |
| 15. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
130.79 |
1.1215 |
0.1327 |
200 |
1 |
130.79 |
2012-02-27 |
| 16. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
129.24 |
0.9505 |
0.2785 |
204 |
1 |
129.24 |
2013-07-25 |
| 17. |
Baby, ever wondered why I could make you laugh and cry? Ecli... |
128.40 |
1.1151 |
0.1211 |
224 |
1 |
128.40 |
2024-08-13 |
| 18. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
128.29 |
0.9852 |
0.2346 |
264 |
1 |
128.29 |
2011-09-09 |
| 19. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
127.79 |
0.8996 |
0.3154 |
192 |
3 |
103.51 |
2013-07-25 |
| 20. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
127.68 |
1.0905 |
0.1381 |
210 |
1 |
127.68 |
2012-02-27 |
| 21. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
126.65 |
1.0567 |
0.1472 |
303 |
2 |
124.25 |
2012-02-29 |
| 22. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
126.22 |
0.9706 |
0.2297 |
216 |
1 |
126.22 |
2013-07-25 |
| 23. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
125.82 |
1.0596 |
0.1363 |
239 |
2 |
100.38 |
2012-03-23 |
| 24. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
122.37 |
1.0545 |
0.1203 |
416 |
1 |
122.37 |
2011-10-27 |
| 25. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
122.36 |
0.9740 |
0.1893 |
209 |
2 |
105.03 |
2012-03-19 |
| 26. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
122.33 |
0.9994 |
0.1751 |
269 |
1 |
122.33 |
2012-03-26 |
| 27. |
Court reporters are required to complete a specialized train... |
121.30 |
1.0034 |
0.1508 |
242 |
1 |
121.30 |
2024-08-13 |
| 28. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
120.17 |
0.9372 |
0.2059 |
320 |
2 |
110.75 |
2012-08-21 |
| 29. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
120.07 |
0.9769 |
0.1644 |
263 |
2 |
119.89 |
2012-03-27 |
| 30. |
Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back t... |
120.06 |
1.0597 |
0.0823 |
186 |
1 |
120.06 |
2024-08-13 |
| 31. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
119.69 |
1.0462 |
0.0913 |
184 |
1 |
119.69 |
2012-05-28 |
| 32. |
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, ... |
119.10 |
1.0185 |
0.1152 |
252 |
1 |
119.10 |
2024-08-13 |
| 33. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
118.75 |
1.0719 |
0.0667 |
360 |
1 |
118.75 |
2012-06-07 |
| 34. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
118.57 |
1.0389 |
0.0879 |
318 |
1 |
118.57 |
2012-06-07 |
| 35. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
118.18 |
1.0201 |
0.1031 |
172 |
1 |
118.18 |
2012-03-27 |
| 36. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
117.02 |
1.0257 |
0.0867 |
401 |
1 |
117.02 |
2011-10-26 |
| 37. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
116.66 |
1.0630 |
0.0552 |
397 |
1 |
116.66 |
2011-10-27 |
| 38. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
116.66 |
0.8723 |
0.2367 |
185 |
1 |
116.66 |
2013-07-25 |
| 39. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
115.72 |
1.0565 |
0.0433 |
247 |
1 |
115.72 |
2013-07-25 |
| 40. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
115.43 |
1.0211 |
0.0889 |
213 |
1 |
115.43 |
2012-03-07 |
| 41. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
114.73 |
0.9233 |
0.1673 |
168 |
2 |
99.29 |
2012-02-27 |
| 42. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
114.17 |
0.9251 |
0.1603 |
177 |
1 |
114.17 |
2011-09-09 |
| 43. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
114.01 |
1.0013 |
0.0824 |
273 |
2 |
111.38 |
2012-04-07 |
| 44. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
113.96 |
1.0534 |
0.0296 |
357 |
1 |
113.96 |
2012-05-28 |
| 45. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
113.43 |
1.0131 |
0.0650 |
225 |
1 |
113.43 |
2012-03-07 |
| 46. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
113.22 |
0.9578 |
0.1186 |
281 |
1 |
113.22 |
2012-03-07 |
| 47. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
113.00 |
1.0679 |
0.0173 |
177 |
1 |
113.00 |
2011-09-30 |
| 48. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
112.99 |
1.0668 |
0.0069 |
350 |
1 |
112.99 |
2012-03-26 |
| 49. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
112.90 |
1.0829 |
-0.0100 |
288 |
1 |
112.90 |
2012-03-06 |
| 50. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
112.77 |
1.0331 |
0.0385 |
234 |
1 |
112.77 |
2011-09-30 |
| 51. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
111.92 |
0.9790 |
0.0994 |
311 |
2 |
110.00 |
2012-03-27 |
| 52. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
111.47 |
0.9557 |
0.1042 |
331 |
1 |
111.47 |
2012-02-28 |
| 53. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
111.28 |
0.8595 |
0.1984 |
242 |
1 |
111.28 |
2011-10-26 |
| 54. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
110.96 |
1.0214 |
0.0504 |
281 |
1 |
110.96 |
2011-09-30 |
| 55. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
110.81 |
1.0709 |
-0.0063 |
392 |
1 |
110.81 |
2012-03-06 |
| 56. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
110.71 |
0.9925 |
0.0738 |
247 |
1 |
110.71 |
2012-02-27 |
| 57. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
109.53 |
1.0788 |
-0.0384 |
171 |
1 |
109.53 |
2011-09-09 |
| 58. |
Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "ident... |
109.34 |
1.0663 |
-0.0261 |
222 |
1 |
109.34 |
2024-08-13 |
| 59. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
109.21 |
1.0150 |
0.0407 |
325 |
1 |
109.21 |
2013-07-25 |
| 60. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
109.01 |
0.8951 |
0.1415 |
193 |
1 |
109.01 |
2013-07-25 |
| 61. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
108.91 |
0.9881 |
0.0599 |
424 |
2 |
101.06 |
2012-03-21 |
| 62. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
108.53 |
1.0251 |
0.0058 |
261 |
1 |
108.53 |
2012-02-27 |
| 63. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
108.14 |
0.9023 |
0.1433 |
231 |
1 |
108.14 |
2013-07-25 |
| 64. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
108.08 |
0.9691 |
0.0583 |
223 |
1 |
108.08 |
2011-09-30 |
| 65. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
107.99 |
1.0073 |
0.0192 |
369 |
1 |
107.99 |
2011-10-26 |
| 66. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
107.85 |
1.0169 |
0.0209 |
346 |
1 |
107.85 |
2012-03-07 |
| 67. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
107.40 |
1.0314 |
0.0015 |
452 |
3 |
105.66 |
2012-05-28 |
| 68. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
106.72 |
1.0284 |
0.0029 |
282 |
1 |
106.72 |
2012-03-19 |
| 69. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
106.72 |
0.9572 |
0.0717 |
376 |
2 |
98.42 |
2012-02-29 |
| 70. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
106.65 |
0.9936 |
0.0198 |
311 |
1 |
106.65 |
2011-09-30 |
| 71. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
106.60 |
0.9676 |
0.0458 |
442 |
1 |
106.60 |
2012-02-28 |
| 72. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
106.43 |
0.9566 |
0.0596 |
576 |
1 |
106.43 |
2012-02-27 |
| 73. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
106.38 |
1.0561 |
-0.0398 |
430 |
1 |
106.38 |
2014-02-03 |
| 74. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
106.09 |
1.0272 |
-0.0142 |
405 |
1 |
106.09 |
2012-02-27 |
| 75. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
105.42 |
1.0673 |
-0.0473 |
230 |
1 |
105.42 |
2012-03-06 |
| 76. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
105.29 |
1.0944 |
-0.0770 |
308 |
1 |
105.29 |
2012-05-28 |
| 77. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
104.98 |
1.0316 |
-0.0342 |
333 |
1 |
104.98 |
2011-10-26 |
| 78. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
104.80 |
1.0515 |
-0.0560 |
250 |
1 |
104.80 |
2012-05-28 |
| 79. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
103.95 |
1.0337 |
-0.0464 |
214 |
1 |
103.95 |
2011-09-30 |
| 80. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
102.98 |
1.0008 |
-0.0086 |
473 |
1 |
102.98 |
2011-09-30 |
| 81. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
102.52 |
0.9684 |
0.0059 |
388 |
1 |
102.52 |
2012-02-27 |
| 82. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
101.94 |
0.9831 |
-0.0141 |
469 |
1 |
101.94 |
2012-02-29 |
| 83. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
101.58 |
1.0795 |
-0.1011 |
226 |
1 |
101.58 |
2011-09-30 |
| 84. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
101.55 |
0.9176 |
0.0591 |
267 |
2 |
98.33 |
2012-03-26 |
| 85. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
101.12 |
0.9164 |
0.0447 |
305 |
1 |
101.12 |
2011-10-26 |
| 86. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
100.95 |
0.9693 |
-0.0056 |
360 |
1 |
100.95 |
2012-02-28 |
| 87. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
100.79 |
1.0053 |
-0.0478 |
232 |
1 |
100.79 |
2012-02-29 |
| 88. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
100.12 |
1.0168 |
-0.0660 |
271 |
1 |
100.12 |
2011-11-07 |
| 89. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
99.69 |
0.9567 |
-0.0093 |
273 |
3 |
88.47 |
2012-05-28 |
| 90. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
99.58 |
0.9631 |
0.0001 |
345 |
1 |
99.58 |
2012-03-26 |
| 91. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
99.02 |
0.8770 |
0.0643 |
300 |
1 |
99.02 |
2012-02-28 |
| 92. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
98.90 |
1.0254 |
-0.0670 |
217 |
1 |
98.90 |
2011-11-07 |
| 93. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
98.67 |
1.0031 |
-0.0529 |
304 |
1 |
98.67 |
2011-10-26 |
| 94. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
98.30 |
0.9763 |
-0.0425 |
289 |
1 |
98.30 |
2012-03-26 |
| 95. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
97.69 |
0.9798 |
-0.0522 |
199 |
1 |
97.69 |
2012-02-27 |
| 96. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
97.58 |
0.9965 |
-0.0696 |
168 |
1 |
97.58 |
2011-09-30 |
| 97. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
97.45 |
0.9946 |
-0.0690 |
246 |
2 |
94.16 |
2012-02-27 |
| 98. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
96.83 |
0.8670 |
0.0534 |
318 |
2 |
85.07 |
2013-07-25 |
| 99. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
96.75 |
0.8602 |
0.0592 |
206 |
1 |
96.75 |
2012-02-27 |
| 100. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
96.63 |
1.0621 |
-0.1354 |
263 |
1 |
96.63 |
2012-03-27 |
| 101. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
96.62 |
0.8890 |
0.0289 |
199 |
1 |
96.62 |
2011-09-09 |
| 102. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
96.39 |
0.8467 |
0.0777 |
343 |
1 |
96.39 |
2012-03-07 |
| 103. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
96.05 |
1.0917 |
-0.1683 |
243 |
1 |
96.05 |
2011-09-30 |
| 104. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
95.24 |
0.8629 |
0.0431 |
299 |
1 |
95.24 |
2011-09-09 |
| 105. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
94.84 |
0.9965 |
-0.0958 |
277 |
1 |
94.84 |
2012-03-07 |
| 106. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
94.82 |
1.0343 |
-0.1167 |
242 |
2 |
91.89 |
2012-02-29 |
| 107. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
94.52 |
0.9365 |
-0.0384 |
248 |
1 |
94.52 |
2011-09-09 |
| 108. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
94.46 |
0.9212 |
-0.0236 |
323 |
1 |
94.46 |
2012-05-28 |
| 109. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
94.41 |
1.0375 |
-0.1203 |
200 |
1 |
94.41 |
2011-09-30 |
| 110. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
94.18 |
0.9048 |
-0.0094 |
271 |
1 |
94.18 |
2011-09-09 |
| 111. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
93.52 |
0.9364 |
-0.0341 |
351 |
1 |
93.52 |
2011-10-26 |
| 112. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
93.02 |
0.9612 |
-0.0775 |
256 |
1 |
93.02 |
2011-10-26 |
| 113. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
92.23 |
0.9723 |
-0.0960 |
364 |
1 |
92.23 |
2012-05-28 |
| 114. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
91.99 |
0.9780 |
-0.1042 |
337 |
1 |
91.99 |
2012-05-28 |
| 115. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
91.87 |
0.9087 |
-0.0356 |
393 |
1 |
91.87 |
2012-02-29 |
| 116. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
90.01 |
1.0177 |
-0.1510 |
392 |
1 |
90.01 |
2011-10-26 |
| 117. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
89.64 |
0.9513 |
-0.0997 |
354 |
1 |
89.64 |
2011-09-09 |
| 118. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
89.38 |
0.8947 |
-0.0451 |
366 |
1 |
89.38 |
2012-02-27 |
| 119. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
89.17 |
1.0361 |
-0.1893 |
269 |
1 |
89.17 |
2011-09-30 |
| 120. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
88.04 |
1.1014 |
-0.2498 |
273 |
1 |
88.04 |
2011-09-09 |
| 121. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
87.92 |
0.9275 |
-0.0927 |
211 |
1 |
87.92 |
2011-09-09 |
| 122. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
87.17 |
0.9651 |
-0.1254 |
389 |
1 |
87.17 |
2012-03-23 |
| 123. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
86.69 |
0.9937 |
-0.1655 |
429 |
1 |
86.69 |
2012-04-07 |
| 124. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
86.57 |
0.9532 |
-0.1310 |
258 |
1 |
86.57 |
2011-10-26 |
| 125. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
86.49 |
0.9216 |
-0.0860 |
255 |
1 |
86.49 |
2012-03-26 |
| 126. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
84.65 |
0.8958 |
-0.0915 |
322 |
2 |
80.90 |
2012-05-31 |
| 127. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
84.59 |
0.8628 |
-0.0587 |
196 |
1 |
84.59 |
2011-09-09 |
| 128. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
83.76 |
0.9309 |
-0.1357 |
284 |
1 |
83.76 |
2012-03-06 |
| 129. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
83.13 |
1.0328 |
-0.2329 |
356 |
1 |
83.13 |
2011-10-26 |
| 130. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
81.18 |
0.7876 |
-0.0161 |
316 |
1 |
81.18 |
2012-03-07 |
| 131. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
81.17 |
1.0173 |
-0.2282 |
268 |
1 |
81.17 |
2012-03-23 |
| 132. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
81.08 |
0.8826 |
-0.1122 |
296 |
1 |
81.08 |
2011-10-26 |
| 133. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
79.77 |
1.0033 |
-0.2465 |
189 |
1 |
79.77 |
2012-02-27 |
| 134. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
79.14 |
0.9279 |
-0.1765 |
317 |
2 |
76.61 |
2012-03-07 |
| 135. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
78.87 |
0.9266 |
-0.1777 |
267 |
1 |
78.87 |
2012-03-23 |
| 136. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
75.96 |
0.9916 |
-0.2546 |
282 |
1 |
75.96 |
2012-03-27 |
| 137. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
74.61 |
0.9068 |
-0.1977 |
269 |
1 |
74.61 |
2011-09-09 |
| 138. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
73.41 |
0.8852 |
-0.1883 |
201 |
1 |
73.41 |
2011-09-30 |
| 139. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
73.00 |
0.9636 |
-0.2710 |
254 |
1 |
73.00 |
2012-02-29 |
| 140. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
61.76 |
0.9601 |
-0.3741 |
308 |
1 |
61.76 |
2012-03-19 |