| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
41.11 |
1.0292 |
0.1550 |
262 |
1 |
41.11 |
2012-12-06 |
| 2. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
41.08 |
0.9567 |
0.2701 |
184 |
1 |
41.08 |
2012-12-06 |
| 3. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
40.90 |
1.0596 |
0.1177 |
239 |
2 |
39.29 |
2012-12-06 |
| 4. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
40.58 |
1.0396 |
0.1232 |
149 |
2 |
36.49 |
2012-12-05 |
| 5. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
40.56 |
0.9851 |
0.1866 |
317 |
2 |
37.01 |
2012-12-06 |
| 6. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
40.54 |
1.0515 |
0.1096 |
166 |
2 |
36.68 |
2012-12-06 |
| 7. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
40.40 |
0.9820 |
0.1856 |
267 |
3 |
35.95 |
2012-12-06 |
| 8. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
40.19 |
1.0074 |
0.1532 |
242 |
1 |
40.19 |
2012-12-06 |
| 9. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
40.08 |
1.0498 |
0.1009 |
180 |
2 |
39.54 |
2012-12-09 |
| 10. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
39.76 |
1.0099 |
0.1333 |
207 |
1 |
39.76 |
2012-12-06 |
| 11. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
39.73 |
0.8915 |
0.2527 |
188 |
1 |
39.73 |
2012-12-06 |
| 12. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
39.71 |
0.8142 |
0.3249 |
187 |
1 |
39.71 |
2012-12-06 |
| 13. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
39.50 |
0.9325 |
0.1994 |
156 |
2 |
37.05 |
2012-12-05 |
| 14. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
39.01 |
1.0462 |
0.0720 |
184 |
1 |
39.01 |
2012-12-05 |
| 15. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
39.01 |
1.0033 |
0.1143 |
189 |
1 |
39.01 |
2012-12-05 |
| 16. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
38.98 |
0.9045 |
0.2192 |
235 |
2 |
37.96 |
2012-12-06 |
| 17. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
38.93 |
0.9846 |
0.1362 |
281 |
2 |
36.73 |
2012-12-06 |
| 18. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
38.68 |
1.0941 |
0.0518 |
256 |
1 |
38.68 |
2012-12-06 |
| 19. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
38.66 |
0.9831 |
0.1284 |
222 |
1 |
38.66 |
2012-12-06 |
| 20. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
38.50 |
1.1114 |
-0.0047 |
247 |
1 |
38.50 |
2012-12-06 |
| 21. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
38.11 |
0.9938 |
0.1050 |
339 |
2 |
33.27 |
2012-12-06 |
| 22. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
37.90 |
0.9844 |
0.1185 |
229 |
2 |
37.83 |
2012-12-06 |
| 23. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
37.44 |
0.9865 |
0.0931 |
276 |
1 |
37.44 |
2012-12-06 |
| 24. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
37.33 |
1.0203 |
0.0584 |
261 |
2 |
35.98 |
2012-12-06 |
| 25. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
37.18 |
0.8731 |
0.2048 |
199 |
1 |
37.18 |
2012-12-05 |
| 26. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
37.05 |
0.9097 |
0.1577 |
153 |
2 |
32.43 |
2012-12-06 |
| 27. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
37.02 |
1.0254 |
0.0817 |
217 |
1 |
37.02 |
2012-12-06 |
| 28. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
36.85 |
1.0205 |
0.0343 |
179 |
1 |
36.85 |
2012-12-06 |
| 29. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
36.83 |
1.0389 |
0.0235 |
318 |
1 |
36.83 |
2012-12-06 |
| 30. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
36.61 |
0.9598 |
0.1019 |
220 |
1 |
36.61 |
2012-12-09 |
| 31. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
36.57 |
1.0173 |
0.0801 |
268 |
1 |
36.57 |
2012-12-06 |
| 32. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
36.40 |
1.0459 |
0.0335 |
200 |
1 |
36.40 |
2012-12-05 |
| 33. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
36.32 |
0.9368 |
0.1096 |
173 |
1 |
36.32 |
2012-12-06 |
| 34. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
36.32 |
1.0711 |
-0.0303 |
213 |
1 |
36.32 |
2012-12-06 |
| 35. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
36.20 |
1.0829 |
-0.0390 |
288 |
1 |
36.20 |
2012-12-06 |
| 36. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
36.16 |
1.0644 |
0.0129 |
257 |
1 |
36.16 |
2012-12-06 |
| 37. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
36.06 |
0.9196 |
0.1204 |
148 |
2 |
33.43 |
2012-12-06 |
| 38. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
36.02 |
1.0337 |
0.0028 |
214 |
1 |
36.02 |
2012-12-06 |
| 39. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
35.90 |
0.9207 |
0.1155 |
174 |
3 |
31.79 |
2012-12-06 |
| 40. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
35.85 |
0.8994 |
0.1349 |
188 |
1 |
35.85 |
2012-12-06 |
| 41. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
35.81 |
1.0669 |
-0.0030 |
213 |
1 |
35.81 |
2012-12-06 |
| 42. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
35.76 |
1.0131 |
0.0125 |
225 |
1 |
35.76 |
2012-12-04 |
| 43. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
35.73 |
1.0725 |
-0.0180 |
233 |
2 |
34.30 |
2012-12-06 |
| 44. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
35.73 |
1.0029 |
0.0194 |
209 |
1 |
35.73 |
2012-12-05 |
| 45. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
35.60 |
0.9578 |
0.0666 |
281 |
1 |
35.60 |
2012-12-04 |
| 46. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
35.54 |
0.9798 |
0.0376 |
199 |
1 |
35.54 |
2012-12-06 |
| 47. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
35.52 |
0.9527 |
0.0697 |
251 |
2 |
30.96 |
2012-12-09 |
| 48. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
35.44 |
0.9461 |
0.0703 |
193 |
1 |
35.44 |
2012-12-05 |
| 49. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
35.42 |
1.0677 |
-0.0177 |
284 |
1 |
35.42 |
2012-12-06 |
| 50. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
35.41 |
1.0669 |
-0.0153 |
286 |
1 |
35.41 |
2012-12-06 |
| 51. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
35.41 |
0.9260 |
0.1037 |
243 |
1 |
35.41 |
2012-12-06 |
| 52. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
35.18 |
1.0787 |
-0.0674 |
237 |
1 |
35.18 |
2012-12-05 |
| 53. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
35.09 |
0.8559 |
0.1549 |
191 |
1 |
35.09 |
2012-12-04 |
| 54. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
35.07 |
0.9665 |
0.0922 |
326 |
1 |
35.07 |
2012-12-06 |
| 55. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
35.06 |
0.9513 |
0.0616 |
354 |
1 |
35.06 |
2012-12-05 |
| 56. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
34.94 |
0.8263 |
0.1772 |
162 |
1 |
34.94 |
2012-12-04 |
| 57. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
34.92 |
1.0385 |
-0.0352 |
230 |
1 |
34.92 |
2012-12-06 |
| 58. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
34.89 |
1.0263 |
-0.0229 |
267 |
1 |
34.89 |
2012-12-05 |
| 59. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
34.85 |
0.9965 |
0.0017 |
168 |
2 |
34.69 |
2012-12-06 |
| 60. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
34.72 |
0.9706 |
0.0329 |
216 |
2 |
33.02 |
2012-12-06 |
| 61. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
34.65 |
0.9028 |
0.0926 |
111 |
2 |
32.18 |
2012-12-06 |
| 62. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
34.59 |
0.9048 |
0.0952 |
271 |
1 |
34.59 |
2012-12-06 |
| 63. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
34.51 |
0.8348 |
0.1646 |
219 |
1 |
34.51 |
2012-12-06 |
| 64. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
34.49 |
0.9213 |
0.0717 |
295 |
1 |
34.49 |
2012-12-04 |
| 65. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
34.48 |
0.8918 |
0.0988 |
100 |
1 |
34.48 |
2012-12-06 |
| 66. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
34.39 |
1.0390 |
-0.0532 |
205 |
3 |
33.22 |
2012-12-09 |
| 67. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
34.38 |
0.9339 |
0.0539 |
310 |
1 |
34.38 |
2012-12-09 |
| 68. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
34.33 |
0.8341 |
0.1623 |
224 |
1 |
34.33 |
2012-12-06 |
| 69. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
34.25 |
0.9340 |
0.0513 |
296 |
1 |
34.25 |
2012-12-05 |
| 70. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
34.25 |
1.0516 |
-0.0665 |
281 |
1 |
34.25 |
2012-12-05 |
| 71. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
34.23 |
1.0863 |
-0.0666 |
210 |
1 |
34.23 |
2012-12-05 |
| 72. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
34.10 |
0.9430 |
0.0308 |
211 |
2 |
33.32 |
2012-12-06 |
| 73. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
34.08 |
0.9758 |
0.0055 |
314 |
1 |
34.08 |
2012-12-04 |
| 74. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
33.99 |
0.9991 |
-0.0207 |
225 |
1 |
33.99 |
2012-12-06 |
| 75. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
33.99 |
1.0109 |
-0.0322 |
276 |
1 |
33.99 |
2012-12-06 |
| 76. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
33.90 |
0.9774 |
-0.0030 |
196 |
1 |
33.90 |
2012-12-06 |
| 77. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
33.89 |
1.0714 |
-0.1053 |
129 |
1 |
33.89 |
2012-12-04 |
| 78. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
33.89 |
1.0883 |
-0.0812 |
303 |
1 |
33.89 |
2012-12-04 |
| 79. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
33.79 |
0.9785 |
-0.0068 |
154 |
2 |
31.92 |
2012-12-06 |
| 80. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
33.76 |
0.8653 |
0.1172 |
255 |
1 |
33.76 |
2012-12-05 |
| 81. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
33.72 |
0.8295 |
0.1424 |
209 |
1 |
33.72 |
2012-12-04 |
| 82. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
33.66 |
0.8890 |
0.0757 |
199 |
1 |
33.66 |
2012-12-06 |
| 83. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
33.52 |
0.9649 |
-0.0018 |
193 |
1 |
33.52 |
2012-12-05 |
| 84. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
33.31 |
0.8898 |
0.0638 |
158 |
1 |
33.31 |
2012-12-05 |
| 85. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
33.15 |
1.0016 |
-0.0527 |
218 |
1 |
33.15 |
2012-12-06 |
| 86. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
33.06 |
0.8892 |
0.0676 |
207 |
1 |
33.06 |
2012-12-04 |
| 87. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
32.94 |
0.9289 |
0.0161 |
204 |
2 |
31.32 |
2012-12-04 |
| 88. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
32.78 |
0.9266 |
0.0179 |
278 |
1 |
32.78 |
2012-12-06 |
| 89. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
32.67 |
0.8996 |
0.0344 |
192 |
1 |
32.67 |
2012-12-06 |
| 90. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
32.66 |
0.9646 |
-0.0263 |
264 |
1 |
32.66 |
2012-12-05 |
| 91. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
32.63 |
0.9281 |
0.0153 |
273 |
1 |
32.63 |
2012-12-05 |
| 92. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
32.60 |
0.9684 |
-0.0283 |
388 |
1 |
32.60 |
2012-12-05 |
| 93. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
32.57 |
0.9769 |
-0.0425 |
263 |
1 |
32.57 |
2012-12-04 |
| 94. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
32.53 |
0.8533 |
0.0832 |
232 |
1 |
32.53 |
2012-12-06 |
| 95. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
32.51 |
1.0429 |
-0.1095 |
259 |
1 |
32.51 |
2012-12-04 |
| 96. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
32.42 |
0.9740 |
-0.0459 |
209 |
1 |
32.42 |
2012-12-06 |
| 97. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
32.35 |
0.9128 |
0.0588 |
369 |
2 |
30.95 |
2012-12-09 |
| 98. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
32.32 |
0.9711 |
-0.0430 |
176 |
1 |
32.32 |
2012-12-04 |
| 99. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
32.27 |
0.8968 |
0.0285 |
186 |
1 |
32.27 |
2012-12-06 |
| 100. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
32.16 |
0.9897 |
-0.0674 |
274 |
1 |
32.16 |
2012-12-04 |
| 101. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
32.09 |
0.8105 |
0.1078 |
204 |
1 |
32.09 |
2012-12-06 |
| 102. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
31.94 |
0.9212 |
0.0003 |
323 |
1 |
31.94 |
2012-12-05 |
| 103. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
31.90 |
0.9884 |
-0.0722 |
233 |
1 |
31.90 |
2012-12-06 |
| 104. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
31.83 |
0.8791 |
0.0350 |
190 |
1 |
31.83 |
2012-12-06 |
| 105. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
31.77 |
0.9871 |
-0.0377 |
209 |
1 |
31.77 |
2012-12-05 |
| 106. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
31.69 |
0.9986 |
-0.0871 |
283 |
1 |
31.69 |
2012-12-05 |
| 107. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
31.64 |
0.8811 |
0.0329 |
239 |
1 |
31.64 |
2012-12-06 |
| 108. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
31.58 |
0.8628 |
0.0415 |
196 |
1 |
31.58 |
2012-12-05 |
| 109. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
31.37 |
0.7708 |
0.1362 |
207 |
2 |
29.20 |
2012-12-09 |
| 110. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
31.03 |
0.9098 |
-0.0218 |
167 |
1 |
31.03 |
2012-12-04 |
| 111. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
31.02 |
0.9514 |
-0.0597 |
237 |
1 |
31.02 |
2012-12-06 |
| 112. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
30.97 |
0.8725 |
0.0195 |
163 |
1 |
30.97 |
2012-12-05 |
| 113. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
30.90 |
0.8867 |
0.0064 |
241 |
1 |
30.90 |
2012-12-05 |
| 114. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.38 |
1.0334 |
-0.1672 |
131 |
1 |
30.38 |
2012-12-06 |
| 115. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
30.34 |
0.9966 |
-0.1257 |
259 |
1 |
30.34 |
2012-12-09 |
| 116. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
30.28 |
0.9910 |
-0.1193 |
295 |
1 |
30.28 |
2012-12-06 |
| 117. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
30.09 |
0.8077 |
0.0547 |
167 |
1 |
30.09 |
2012-12-06 |
| 118. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
29.66 |
0.9729 |
-0.1210 |
255 |
1 |
29.66 |
2012-12-09 |
| 119. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
28.94 |
1.0768 |
-0.2060 |
295 |
1 |
28.94 |
2012-12-04 |
| 120. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
28.87 |
0.7876 |
0.0437 |
316 |
1 |
28.87 |
2012-12-04 |
| 121. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
28.61 |
0.9468 |
-0.1262 |
276 |
1 |
28.61 |
2012-12-04 |
| 122. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
28.56 |
0.8919 |
-0.0739 |
205 |
1 |
28.56 |
2012-12-04 |
| 123. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
28.41 |
1.0025 |
-0.1863 |
336 |
1 |
28.41 |
2012-12-05 |
| 124. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
28.39 |
0.8353 |
-0.0131 |
283 |
1 |
28.39 |
2012-12-06 |
| 125. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
28.11 |
0.9216 |
-0.0762 |
255 |
1 |
28.11 |
2012-12-06 |
| 126. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
26.06 |
0.9016 |
-0.1471 |
192 |
1 |
26.06 |
2012-12-06 |
| 127. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
25.13 |
0.9019 |
-0.1770 |
204 |
1 |
25.13 |
2012-12-04 |
| 128. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
24.22 |
0.8553 |
-0.1673 |
174 |
1 |
24.22 |
2012-12-04 |
| 129. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
24.21 |
1.0083 |
-0.2714 |
273 |
1 |
24.21 |
2012-12-04 |
| 130. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
23.66 |
0.9612 |
-0.2844 |
256 |
1 |
23.66 |
2012-12-04 |