| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
85.53 |
0.9893 |
0.3159 |
323 |
2 |
73.74 |
2010-12-27 |
| 2. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
85.46 |
1.1114 |
0.1899 |
247 |
1 |
85.46 |
2011-01-08 |
| 3. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
84.00 |
1.0426 |
0.2382 |
323 |
2 |
75.48 |
2011-01-06 |
| 4. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
82.66 |
0.9943 |
0.2698 |
373 |
1 |
82.66 |
2010-12-26 |
| 5. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
81.87 |
0.9991 |
0.2501 |
225 |
1 |
81.87 |
2010-12-26 |
| 6. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
80.49 |
1.0337 |
0.1931 |
214 |
2 |
79.46 |
2011-01-08 |
| 7. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
80.36 |
1.0412 |
0.1836 |
225 |
1 |
80.36 |
2010-12-26 |
| 8. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
79.22 |
1.0167 |
0.1980 |
378 |
1 |
79.22 |
2010-12-26 |
| 9. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
79.18 |
1.0483 |
0.1559 |
227 |
1 |
79.18 |
2010-12-26 |
| 10. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
79.13 |
0.9763 |
0.2297 |
289 |
1 |
79.13 |
2010-12-27 |
| 11. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
78.70 |
1.0528 |
0.1420 |
201 |
1 |
78.70 |
2011-01-03 |
| 12. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
78.22 |
1.0907 |
0.1045 |
303 |
1 |
78.22 |
2011-01-06 |
| 13. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
77.62 |
0.9879 |
0.2040 |
450 |
3 |
70.60 |
2011-01-06 |
| 14. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
77.54 |
1.1068 |
0.1155 |
393 |
1 |
77.54 |
2010-12-26 |
| 15. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
76.36 |
1.0033 |
0.1538 |
189 |
2 |
70.55 |
2011-01-08 |
| 16. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
75.72 |
1.0529 |
0.1009 |
351 |
3 |
71.80 |
2010-12-26 |
| 17. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
74.92 |
0.9833 |
0.1599 |
355 |
1 |
74.92 |
2011-01-08 |
| 18. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
74.75 |
0.9157 |
0.2282 |
350 |
1 |
74.75 |
2010-12-26 |
| 19. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
74.71 |
1.0334 |
0.0985 |
131 |
1 |
74.71 |
2010-12-22 |
| 20. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
74.60 |
1.0141 |
0.1589 |
304 |
1 |
74.60 |
2010-12-27 |
| 21. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
74.41 |
1.0399 |
0.0990 |
294 |
2 |
67.55 |
2011-01-06 |
| 22. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
73.20 |
1.0151 |
0.0915 |
152 |
1 |
73.20 |
2010-12-22 |
| 23. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
73.12 |
1.0109 |
0.1359 |
400 |
1 |
73.12 |
2010-12-26 |
| 24. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
72.83 |
1.0677 |
0.0721 |
284 |
1 |
72.83 |
2010-12-26 |
| 25. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
72.80 |
1.0788 |
0.0245 |
171 |
2 |
66.30 |
2010-12-23 |
| 26. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
72.73 |
1.0257 |
0.0886 |
401 |
1 |
72.73 |
2011-01-08 |
| 27. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
72.44 |
0.9938 |
0.1104 |
339 |
1 |
72.44 |
2011-01-06 |
| 28. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
72.08 |
0.9831 |
0.1227 |
469 |
1 |
72.08 |
2011-01-06 |
| 29. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
71.86 |
0.9687 |
0.1304 |
371 |
1 |
71.86 |
2011-01-06 |
| 30. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
71.66 |
1.0109 |
0.0813 |
276 |
1 |
71.66 |
2010-12-26 |
| 31. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
71.64 |
1.0486 |
0.0433 |
289 |
1 |
71.64 |
2011-01-06 |
| 32. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
71.47 |
0.9798 |
0.1029 |
199 |
1 |
71.47 |
2010-12-26 |
| 33. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
71.06 |
0.9820 |
0.1029 |
267 |
2 |
70.21 |
2011-01-14 |
| 34. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
70.89 |
1.0261 |
0.0515 |
273 |
1 |
70.89 |
2010-12-20 |
| 35. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
70.86 |
1.0025 |
0.0774 |
336 |
1 |
70.86 |
2010-12-22 |
| 36. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
70.74 |
0.9965 |
0.0759 |
168 |
3 |
64.00 |
2010-12-26 |
| 37. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
70.15 |
0.9852 |
0.0832 |
264 |
1 |
70.15 |
2011-01-08 |
| 38. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
70.06 |
1.0038 |
0.0932 |
237 |
1 |
70.06 |
2011-01-03 |
| 39. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
69.94 |
0.9965 |
0.0687 |
310 |
2 |
65.51 |
2011-01-06 |
| 40. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
69.68 |
0.9942 |
0.0755 |
483 |
1 |
69.68 |
2011-01-03 |
| 41. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
69.66 |
1.0211 |
0.0701 |
213 |
1 |
69.66 |
2010-12-26 |
| 42. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
69.37 |
0.9567 |
0.0992 |
273 |
1 |
69.37 |
2011-01-08 |
| 43. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
68.83 |
1.0621 |
0.0051 |
263 |
1 |
68.83 |
2010-12-22 |
| 44. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
68.82 |
1.0068 |
0.0441 |
358 |
2 |
66.64 |
2010-12-20 |
| 45. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
68.60 |
1.1296 |
-0.0563 |
252 |
1 |
68.60 |
2010-12-20 |
| 46. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
68.52 |
1.0644 |
0.0147 |
257 |
1 |
68.52 |
2010-12-19 |
| 47. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
68.44 |
1.0577 |
-0.0195 |
247 |
2 |
63.08 |
2010-12-26 |
| 48. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
68.26 |
1.0696 |
-0.0341 |
226 |
1 |
68.26 |
2010-12-23 |
| 49. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
68.13 |
1.0183 |
0.0131 |
191 |
2 |
65.00 |
2010-12-22 |
| 50. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
68.09 |
0.9871 |
0.0855 |
209 |
1 |
68.09 |
2011-01-08 |
| 51. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
67.87 |
1.1018 |
-0.0752 |
220 |
1 |
67.87 |
2010-12-20 |
| 52. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
67.75 |
0.9202 |
0.1102 |
254 |
1 |
67.75 |
2011-01-06 |
| 53. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
67.72 |
0.9351 |
0.0900 |
190 |
1 |
67.72 |
2011-01-08 |
| 54. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
67.61 |
0.9665 |
0.1118 |
326 |
1 |
67.61 |
2011-01-06 |
| 55. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
67.34 |
1.1162 |
-0.0504 |
189 |
1 |
67.34 |
2010-12-26 |
| 56. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
67.15 |
1.0090 |
0.0567 |
282 |
2 |
65.42 |
2011-01-06 |
| 57. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
67.08 |
0.9884 |
0.0367 |
262 |
1 |
67.08 |
2010-12-19 |
| 58. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
67.05 |
1.0555 |
-0.0338 |
363 |
1 |
67.05 |
2010-12-21 |
| 59. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
66.98 |
1.0487 |
-0.0345 |
231 |
1 |
66.98 |
2011-01-08 |
| 60. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
66.80 |
1.0252 |
-0.0152 |
176 |
1 |
66.80 |
2011-01-08 |
| 61. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
66.58 |
1.0619 |
-0.0452 |
354 |
1 |
66.58 |
2011-01-03 |
| 62. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
66.10 |
0.9805 |
0.0298 |
292 |
1 |
66.10 |
2010-12-27 |
| 63. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
65.92 |
1.0150 |
0.0369 |
325 |
2 |
64.64 |
2010-12-27 |
| 64. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
65.91 |
0.9127 |
0.0878 |
252 |
1 |
65.91 |
2011-01-03 |
| 65. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
65.63 |
1.0993 |
-0.1030 |
265 |
1 |
65.63 |
2010-12-19 |
| 66. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
65.55 |
0.9729 |
0.0245 |
255 |
1 |
65.55 |
2011-01-06 |
| 67. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
65.50 |
0.9212 |
0.0785 |
323 |
1 |
65.50 |
2011-01-03 |
| 68. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
65.42 |
0.9786 |
0.0161 |
235 |
1 |
65.42 |
2010-12-26 |
| 69. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
65.34 |
0.9710 |
0.0165 |
173 |
1 |
65.34 |
2010-12-22 |
| 70. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
65.27 |
0.9899 |
-0.0017 |
163 |
1 |
65.27 |
2011-01-06 |
| 71. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
65.23 |
1.0417 |
-0.0519 |
253 |
1 |
65.23 |
2010-12-22 |
| 72. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
65.22 |
0.9553 |
0.0440 |
430 |
1 |
65.22 |
2011-01-06 |
| 73. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
65.21 |
1.0445 |
-0.0516 |
373 |
1 |
65.21 |
2011-01-06 |
| 74. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
64.91 |
1.0120 |
-0.0255 |
290 |
1 |
64.91 |
2010-12-22 |
| 75. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
64.69 |
0.9672 |
0.0233 |
396 |
2 |
61.01 |
2010-12-26 |
| 76. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
64.53 |
0.9994 |
0.0127 |
269 |
1 |
64.53 |
2011-01-08 |
| 77. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
64.39 |
1.0613 |
-0.0770 |
456 |
1 |
64.39 |
2011-01-08 |
| 78. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
64.20 |
1.0403 |
-0.0240 |
275 |
1 |
64.20 |
2010-12-26 |
| 79. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
64.17 |
0.8353 |
0.1481 |
283 |
1 |
64.17 |
2010-12-22 |
| 80. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
64.06 |
0.9072 |
0.0653 |
237 |
1 |
64.06 |
2010-12-23 |
| 81. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
63.99 |
1.0384 |
-0.0748 |
183 |
1 |
63.99 |
2010-12-22 |
| 82. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
63.65 |
1.0232 |
-0.0094 |
350 |
1 |
63.65 |
2010-12-26 |
| 83. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
63.63 |
0.9578 |
0.0093 |
281 |
1 |
63.63 |
2010-12-27 |
| 84. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
63.62 |
0.8852 |
0.0844 |
201 |
1 |
63.62 |
2010-12-22 |
| 85. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
63.49 |
0.8975 |
0.0685 |
268 |
1 |
63.49 |
2010-12-22 |
| 86. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
63.37 |
1.0389 |
-0.0729 |
340 |
1 |
63.37 |
2010-12-22 |
| 87. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
63.10 |
0.9461 |
0.0132 |
276 |
1 |
63.10 |
2010-12-22 |
| 88. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
62.99 |
1.0883 |
-0.0984 |
303 |
1 |
62.99 |
2010-12-22 |
| 89. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
62.74 |
0.9904 |
0.0041 |
203 |
1 |
62.74 |
2010-12-27 |
| 90. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
62.55 |
0.9631 |
0.0392 |
345 |
1 |
62.55 |
2010-12-22 |
| 91. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
62.20 |
1.0251 |
-0.0817 |
261 |
1 |
62.20 |
2010-12-21 |
| 92. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
61.63 |
0.8629 |
0.0787 |
299 |
1 |
61.63 |
2010-12-23 |
| 93. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
61.63 |
0.9532 |
-0.0177 |
258 |
1 |
61.63 |
2010-12-26 |
| 94. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
61.39 |
1.0917 |
-0.1351 |
243 |
1 |
61.39 |
2010-12-22 |
| 95. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
61.16 |
0.9986 |
-0.0684 |
283 |
1 |
61.16 |
2010-12-19 |
| 96. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
61.03 |
1.0062 |
-0.0786 |
288 |
1 |
61.03 |
2010-12-19 |
| 97. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
60.70 |
0.7805 |
0.1379 |
154 |
1 |
60.70 |
2010-12-26 |
| 98. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
60.66 |
0.9758 |
-0.0532 |
314 |
1 |
60.66 |
2010-12-20 |
| 99. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
60.50 |
0.9309 |
-0.0134 |
284 |
1 |
60.50 |
2010-12-20 |
| 100. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
60.40 |
0.9612 |
-0.0433 |
256 |
1 |
60.40 |
2010-12-23 |
| 101. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
60.23 |
0.9673 |
-0.0128 |
232 |
2 |
58.90 |
2010-12-26 |
| 102. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
60.13 |
1.0763 |
-0.1211 |
367 |
1 |
60.13 |
2010-12-19 |
| 103. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
59.83 |
1.0053 |
-0.0982 |
232 |
1 |
59.83 |
2010-12-22 |
| 104. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
59.46 |
0.9508 |
-0.0142 |
384 |
1 |
59.46 |
2011-01-08 |
| 105. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
59.26 |
1.0368 |
-0.1356 |
276 |
1 |
59.26 |
2010-12-19 |
| 106. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
59.18 |
0.9411 |
-0.0412 |
318 |
1 |
59.18 |
2010-12-22 |
| 107. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
58.94 |
0.8981 |
0.0019 |
393 |
1 |
58.94 |
2010-12-22 |
| 108. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
58.93 |
0.9941 |
-0.1013 |
217 |
1 |
58.93 |
2010-12-22 |
| 109. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
58.90 |
1.0565 |
-0.1644 |
247 |
1 |
58.90 |
2010-12-19 |
| 110. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
58.54 |
0.9636 |
-0.0745 |
254 |
1 |
58.54 |
2010-12-26 |
| 111. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
58.40 |
0.9426 |
-0.0525 |
317 |
1 |
58.40 |
2011-01-08 |
| 112. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
58.33 |
1.0240 |
-0.1406 |
256 |
1 |
58.33 |
2010-12-19 |
| 113. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
58.13 |
0.8878 |
-0.0051 |
346 |
1 |
58.13 |
2010-12-26 |
| 114. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
57.99 |
1.0666 |
-0.1858 |
297 |
1 |
57.99 |
2010-12-26 |
| 115. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
57.94 |
0.8961 |
-0.0196 |
189 |
2 |
52.69 |
2010-12-22 |
| 116. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
57.49 |
0.8951 |
-0.0199 |
193 |
1 |
57.49 |
2010-12-20 |
| 117. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
57.47 |
0.9372 |
-0.0605 |
320 |
1 |
57.47 |
2010-12-26 |
| 118. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
57.28 |
0.9572 |
-0.0443 |
376 |
1 |
57.28 |
2010-12-23 |
| 119. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
57.04 |
1.0288 |
-0.1306 |
300 |
1 |
57.04 |
2010-12-19 |
| 120. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
56.97 |
0.9964 |
-0.1313 |
203 |
1 |
56.97 |
2010-12-19 |
| 121. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
56.11 |
0.9583 |
-0.0629 |
341 |
1 |
56.11 |
2010-12-20 |
| 122. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
55.98 |
1.0398 |
-0.2006 |
110 |
1 |
55.98 |
2011-01-06 |
| 123. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
54.87 |
0.8382 |
-0.0051 |
268 |
1 |
54.87 |
2010-12-19 |
| 124. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
53.74 |
1.0485 |
-0.1986 |
153 |
1 |
53.74 |
2010-12-19 |
| 125. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
53.66 |
0.9814 |
-0.1280 |
364 |
1 |
53.66 |
2010-12-26 |
| 126. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
52.12 |
0.9128 |
-0.0810 |
369 |
1 |
52.12 |
2010-12-19 |
| 127. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
52.11 |
0.9330 |
-0.1363 |
360 |
1 |
52.11 |
2010-12-19 |
| 128. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
51.41 |
1.0829 |
-0.3021 |
288 |
1 |
51.41 |
2010-12-15 |
| 129. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
51.25 |
1.0214 |
-0.2499 |
166 |
1 |
51.25 |
2010-12-21 |
| 130. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
51.01 |
1.0740 |
-0.2625 |
264 |
1 |
51.01 |
2010-12-19 |
| 131. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
50.54 |
0.9213 |
-0.1549 |
295 |
1 |
50.54 |
2010-12-19 |
| 132. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
50.15 |
0.9371 |
-0.1383 |
318 |
1 |
50.15 |
2010-12-21 |
| 133. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
49.84 |
0.9857 |
-0.2316 |
293 |
1 |
49.84 |
2010-12-20 |
| 134. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
49.45 |
0.9485 |
-0.1977 |
236 |
1 |
49.45 |
2010-12-20 |
| 135. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
49.21 |
1.0029 |
-0.2639 |
209 |
1 |
49.21 |
2010-12-19 |
| 136. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
48.93 |
1.0365 |
-0.2655 |
162 |
1 |
48.93 |
2010-12-23 |
| 137. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
48.93 |
0.9884 |
-0.2481 |
233 |
1 |
48.93 |
2010-12-23 |
| 138. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
48.78 |
0.9698 |
-0.1981 |
397 |
1 |
48.78 |
2010-12-20 |
| 139. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
47.09 |
0.9068 |
-0.1958 |
225 |
1 |
47.09 |
2010-12-19 |
| 140. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
42.53 |
0.8467 |
-0.1800 |
343 |
1 |
42.53 |
2010-12-19 |
| 141. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
38.90 |
0.8553 |
-0.2739 |
174 |
1 |
38.90 |
2010-12-19 |