| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
109.70 |
1.1114 |
0.0607 |
247 |
1 |
109.70 |
2011-12-24 |
| 2. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
107.12 |
1.0454 |
0.0985 |
255 |
1 |
107.12 |
2012-01-05 |
| 3. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
106.97 |
1.0595 |
0.0884 |
379 |
1 |
106.97 |
2011-12-21 |
| 4. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
104.36 |
1.0361 |
0.0819 |
269 |
1 |
104.36 |
2011-12-23 |
| 5. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
102.51 |
1.0389 |
0.0605 |
340 |
3 |
98.21 |
2013-08-31 |
| 6. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
101.75 |
1.0883 |
0.0330 |
303 |
1 |
101.75 |
2013-08-31 |
| 7. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
101.39 |
1.0604 |
0.0576 |
260 |
2 |
94.85 |
2011-12-13 |
| 8. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
101.21 |
1.0477 |
0.0372 |
360 |
2 |
99.74 |
2012-01-05 |
| 9. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
100.91 |
1.0419 |
0.0376 |
261 |
3 |
97.65 |
2011-12-13 |
| 10. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
100.57 |
1.0797 |
-0.0092 |
210 |
1 |
100.57 |
2011-12-24 |
| 11. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
100.19 |
0.9672 |
0.1113 |
396 |
1 |
100.19 |
2013-08-31 |
| 12. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
100.09 |
1.0034 |
0.0664 |
302 |
2 |
95.80 |
2011-12-24 |
| 13. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
99.84 |
1.1014 |
0.0044 |
273 |
1 |
99.84 |
2011-12-10 |
| 14. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
99.54 |
1.0725 |
0.0177 |
233 |
1 |
99.54 |
2011-12-23 |
| 15. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
99.46 |
1.0358 |
0.0701 |
349 |
2 |
93.77 |
2013-08-31 |
| 16. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
99.26 |
1.0004 |
0.0858 |
469 |
2 |
95.67 |
2011-12-23 |
| 17. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
98.56 |
1.1081 |
-0.0196 |
206 |
1 |
98.56 |
2011-12-10 |
| 18. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
98.53 |
0.9851 |
0.0715 |
317 |
1 |
98.53 |
2011-12-21 |
| 19. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
98.22 |
1.0025 |
0.0476 |
256 |
1 |
98.22 |
2011-12-23 |
| 20. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
98.09 |
1.0596 |
-0.0127 |
239 |
1 |
98.09 |
2011-12-10 |
| 21. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
97.94 |
1.0352 |
0.0156 |
341 |
1 |
97.94 |
2011-12-23 |
| 22. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
97.82 |
1.0131 |
0.0290 |
225 |
2 |
93.91 |
2012-01-05 |
| 23. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
97.70 |
0.9936 |
0.0715 |
227 |
1 |
97.70 |
2011-12-24 |
| 24. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
97.66 |
1.0154 |
0.0790 |
351 |
1 |
97.66 |
2011-12-10 |
| 25. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
97.51 |
0.9833 |
0.0611 |
355 |
1 |
97.51 |
2013-08-31 |
| 26. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
97.39 |
0.9671 |
0.0992 |
379 |
2 |
93.00 |
2011-12-23 |
| 27. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
97.39 |
1.0709 |
0.0092 |
392 |
1 |
97.39 |
2013-08-31 |
| 28. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
97.37 |
1.0095 |
0.0303 |
316 |
2 |
96.15 |
2013-08-31 |
| 29. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
96.98 |
0.9893 |
0.0478 |
323 |
1 |
96.98 |
2012-01-05 |
| 30. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
96.96 |
0.9653 |
0.0803 |
394 |
1 |
96.96 |
2011-12-24 |
| 31. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
96.87 |
1.0561 |
0.0060 |
430 |
1 |
96.87 |
2013-08-31 |
| 32. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
96.85 |
1.0203 |
0.0188 |
261 |
1 |
96.85 |
2011-12-22 |
| 33. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
96.57 |
1.0257 |
0.0136 |
401 |
1 |
96.57 |
2011-12-13 |
| 34. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
96.44 |
0.9769 |
0.0526 |
263 |
2 |
92.51 |
2013-08-31 |
| 35. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
96.02 |
1.0053 |
0.0196 |
232 |
1 |
96.02 |
2013-08-31 |
| 36. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
95.84 |
1.0292 |
-0.0060 |
262 |
2 |
95.38 |
2011-12-13 |
| 37. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
95.67 |
1.0429 |
-0.0215 |
259 |
1 |
95.67 |
2013-08-31 |
| 38. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
95.57 |
1.0352 |
-0.0110 |
341 |
2 |
94.90 |
2013-08-31 |
| 39. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
95.52 |
0.9786 |
0.0375 |
193 |
1 |
95.52 |
2012-01-05 |
| 40. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
95.37 |
0.9665 |
0.1025 |
326 |
1 |
95.37 |
2012-01-05 |
| 41. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
95.20 |
0.9994 |
0.0492 |
269 |
2 |
93.42 |
2013-08-31 |
| 42. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
95.18 |
1.0502 |
-0.0055 |
535 |
1 |
95.18 |
2011-12-22 |
| 43. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
94.75 |
0.9074 |
0.1121 |
396 |
1 |
94.75 |
2011-12-23 |
| 44. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
94.70 |
0.9863 |
0.0305 |
339 |
1 |
94.70 |
2011-12-21 |
| 45. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
94.29 |
0.9879 |
0.0290 |
450 |
1 |
94.29 |
2011-12-21 |
| 46. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
94.16 |
0.9897 |
0.0145 |
274 |
2 |
92.98 |
2011-12-23 |
| 47. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
94.06 |
0.8947 |
0.1162 |
366 |
1 |
94.06 |
2012-01-05 |
| 48. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
93.77 |
1.0042 |
0.0399 |
352 |
1 |
93.77 |
2013-08-31 |
| 49. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
93.70 |
0.9841 |
0.0215 |
334 |
1 |
93.70 |
2011-12-13 |
| 50. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
93.68 |
0.9673 |
0.0735 |
232 |
1 |
93.68 |
2011-12-10 |
| 51. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
93.61 |
0.9148 |
0.0874 |
317 |
2 |
90.86 |
2011-12-24 |
| 52. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
93.58 |
1.0662 |
-0.0278 |
407 |
1 |
93.58 |
2011-12-10 |
| 53. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
93.56 |
1.0375 |
0.0083 |
200 |
1 |
93.56 |
2011-12-10 |
| 54. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
93.53 |
0.9780 |
0.0226 |
337 |
1 |
93.53 |
2011-12-23 |
| 55. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
93.51 |
0.9383 |
0.0835 |
471 |
1 |
93.51 |
2012-01-05 |
| 56. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
93.33 |
1.0993 |
-0.1037 |
265 |
1 |
93.33 |
2013-08-31 |
| 57. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
93.26 |
1.0177 |
0.0177 |
392 |
2 |
91.43 |
2011-12-21 |
| 58. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
93.24 |
0.9411 |
0.0564 |
318 |
1 |
93.24 |
2011-12-23 |
| 59. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
93.13 |
0.9811 |
0.0171 |
272 |
1 |
93.13 |
2011-12-21 |
| 60. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
92.90 |
1.0261 |
0.0065 |
410 |
1 |
92.90 |
2011-12-10 |
| 61. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
92.90 |
0.9202 |
0.0725 |
254 |
2 |
89.34 |
2011-12-21 |
| 62. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
92.87 |
1.0487 |
-0.0612 |
231 |
1 |
92.87 |
2011-12-21 |
| 63. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
92.66 |
1.0197 |
-0.0323 |
226 |
1 |
92.66 |
2011-12-22 |
| 64. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
92.63 |
1.0740 |
-0.0458 |
264 |
2 |
91.99 |
2011-12-13 |
| 65. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
92.40 |
0.9601 |
0.0324 |
308 |
1 |
92.40 |
2012-01-05 |
| 66. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
92.37 |
0.9925 |
0.0315 |
247 |
1 |
92.37 |
2011-12-21 |
| 67. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
92.23 |
1.0714 |
-0.0950 |
129 |
1 |
92.23 |
2011-12-13 |
| 68. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
91.90 |
0.9964 |
-0.0145 |
203 |
1 |
91.90 |
2011-12-21 |
| 69. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
91.89 |
0.9855 |
0.0301 |
258 |
1 |
91.89 |
2011-12-10 |
| 70. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
91.81 |
1.0613 |
-0.0793 |
266 |
1 |
91.81 |
2011-12-10 |
| 71. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
91.68 |
1.0201 |
-0.0401 |
303 |
1 |
91.68 |
2011-12-23 |
| 72. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
91.53 |
1.0396 |
-0.0689 |
149 |
2 |
91.16 |
2011-12-21 |
| 73. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
91.41 |
1.0167 |
-0.0327 |
378 |
1 |
91.41 |
2011-12-10 |
| 74. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
91.35 |
1.0060 |
-0.0349 |
171 |
2 |
90.82 |
2013-08-31 |
| 75. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
91.30 |
0.9675 |
0.0176 |
383 |
1 |
91.30 |
2011-12-13 |
| 76. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
91.11 |
1.0565 |
-0.0860 |
247 |
1 |
91.11 |
2012-01-05 |
| 77. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
91.11 |
0.9691 |
0.0039 |
223 |
3 |
85.58 |
2011-12-21 |
| 78. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
90.99 |
0.9754 |
0.0028 |
362 |
1 |
90.99 |
2011-12-21 |
| 79. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
90.81 |
0.9907 |
-0.0217 |
211 |
1 |
90.81 |
2013-08-31 |
| 80. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
90.70 |
1.0109 |
-0.0090 |
400 |
1 |
90.70 |
2011-12-23 |
| 81. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
90.68 |
0.8845 |
0.0841 |
273 |
1 |
90.68 |
2013-08-31 |
| 82. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
90.60 |
0.9991 |
-0.0306 |
225 |
1 |
90.60 |
2011-12-23 |
| 83. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
90.37 |
0.9941 |
-0.0311 |
217 |
1 |
90.37 |
2011-12-23 |
| 84. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
90.33 |
0.8933 |
0.0784 |
363 |
2 |
89.39 |
2011-12-21 |
| 85. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
90.25 |
1.0320 |
-0.0308 |
293 |
1 |
90.25 |
2011-12-21 |
| 86. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
90.14 |
0.9279 |
0.0419 |
317 |
1 |
90.14 |
2011-12-24 |
| 87. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
90.06 |
1.0529 |
-0.0908 |
351 |
1 |
90.06 |
2013-08-31 |
| 88. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
90.00 |
0.9792 |
0.0211 |
265 |
1 |
90.00 |
2011-12-13 |
| 89. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
89.86 |
1.0120 |
-0.0528 |
290 |
2 |
89.78 |
2013-08-31 |
| 90. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
89.85 |
0.9670 |
0.0353 |
307 |
1 |
89.85 |
2011-12-23 |
| 91. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
89.85 |
0.9899 |
-0.0349 |
163 |
1 |
89.85 |
2011-12-13 |
| 92. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
89.72 |
1.0337 |
-0.0761 |
214 |
1 |
89.72 |
2011-12-10 |
| 93. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
89.69 |
1.0669 |
-0.0752 |
213 |
1 |
89.69 |
2011-12-21 |
| 94. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
89.54 |
1.0124 |
-0.0584 |
204 |
1 |
89.54 |
2013-08-31 |
| 95. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
89.51 |
0.9682 |
-0.0135 |
143 |
1 |
89.51 |
2013-08-31 |
| 96. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
89.49 |
1.0334 |
-0.0841 |
131 |
1 |
89.49 |
2011-12-13 |
| 97. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
89.43 |
0.9693 |
0.0076 |
360 |
1 |
89.43 |
2011-12-22 |
| 98. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
88.97 |
1.0254 |
-0.0350 |
217 |
1 |
88.97 |
2011-12-21 |
| 99. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
88.92 |
0.9881 |
0.0025 |
424 |
1 |
88.92 |
2011-12-24 |
| 100. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
88.69 |
0.9905 |
-0.0350 |
377 |
1 |
88.69 |
2011-12-10 |
| 101. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
88.62 |
1.0099 |
-0.0664 |
207 |
2 |
86.65 |
2011-12-21 |
| 102. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
88.62 |
0.9125 |
0.0357 |
308 |
1 |
88.62 |
2011-12-13 |
| 103. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
88.37 |
0.9651 |
0.0146 |
389 |
1 |
88.37 |
2011-12-22 |
| 104. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
88.35 |
0.9843 |
-0.0455 |
234 |
1 |
88.35 |
2011-12-21 |
| 105. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
88.29 |
0.9376 |
0.0411 |
360 |
1 |
88.29 |
2013-08-31 |
| 106. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
88.23 |
0.9631 |
0.0306 |
345 |
1 |
88.23 |
2011-12-10 |
| 107. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
87.62 |
0.9509 |
0.0231 |
225 |
2 |
87.23 |
2011-12-22 |
| 108. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
87.10 |
0.9709 |
0.0006 |
397 |
1 |
87.10 |
2011-12-10 |
| 109. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
87.05 |
1.0033 |
-0.0806 |
189 |
1 |
87.05 |
2011-12-21 |
| 110. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
86.97 |
0.9567 |
-0.0276 |
273 |
1 |
86.97 |
2011-12-21 |
| 111. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
86.81 |
1.0426 |
-0.1164 |
323 |
1 |
86.81 |
2011-12-21 |
| 112. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
86.59 |
0.9243 |
0.0402 |
448 |
1 |
86.59 |
2013-08-31 |
| 113. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
86.52 |
0.9064 |
0.0267 |
399 |
1 |
86.52 |
2011-12-10 |
| 114. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
86.42 |
0.9049 |
0.0236 |
351 |
1 |
86.42 |
2011-12-13 |
| 115. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
86.35 |
0.9072 |
0.0126 |
237 |
1 |
86.35 |
2011-12-24 |
| 116. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
86.05 |
0.8919 |
0.0256 |
205 |
1 |
86.05 |
2011-12-21 |
| 117. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
85.28 |
1.0232 |
-0.0669 |
350 |
1 |
85.28 |
2011-12-10 |
| 118. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
85.09 |
1.0459 |
-0.1065 |
200 |
1 |
85.09 |
2013-08-31 |
| 119. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
85.02 |
0.9023 |
0.0483 |
231 |
1 |
85.02 |
2013-08-31 |
| 120. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
84.58 |
0.8670 |
0.0408 |
318 |
1 |
84.58 |
2013-08-31 |
| 121. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
83.84 |
1.0272 |
-0.1079 |
405 |
1 |
83.84 |
2013-08-31 |
| 122. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
83.76 |
0.8916 |
0.0027 |
216 |
1 |
83.76 |
2011-12-13 |
| 123. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
83.64 |
0.9678 |
-0.0397 |
445 |
1 |
83.64 |
2011-12-22 |
| 124. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
83.19 |
1.0031 |
-0.0823 |
304 |
1 |
83.19 |
2011-12-10 |
| 125. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
82.39 |
0.9429 |
-0.0622 |
287 |
1 |
82.39 |
2013-08-31 |
| 126. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
81.71 |
0.8467 |
0.0497 |
343 |
1 |
81.71 |
2013-08-31 |
| 127. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
81.45 |
0.9278 |
-0.0564 |
295 |
1 |
81.45 |
2013-08-31 |
| 128. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
81.03 |
0.9176 |
-0.0194 |
267 |
1 |
81.03 |
2011-12-10 |
| 129. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
80.85 |
1.1022 |
-0.2052 |
259 |
1 |
80.85 |
2013-08-31 |
| 130. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
79.63 |
1.0379 |
-0.1543 |
245 |
1 |
79.63 |
2011-12-21 |
| 131. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
79.07 |
0.8770 |
-0.0304 |
300 |
1 |
79.07 |
2011-12-23 |
| 132. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
78.44 |
1.0214 |
-0.1429 |
281 |
1 |
78.44 |
2011-12-21 |