| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
101.46 |
1.0504 |
0.1459 |
225 |
2 |
94.03 |
2013-02-11 |
| 2. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
99.62 |
1.0590 |
0.1156 |
250 |
2 |
91.48 |
2013-02-18 |
| 3. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
98.61 |
1.0686 |
0.0941 |
354 |
1 |
98.61 |
2013-03-06 |
| 4. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
98.43 |
1.0509 |
0.1098 |
295 |
1 |
98.43 |
2011-11-21 |
| 5. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
97.28 |
1.0960 |
0.0510 |
315 |
1 |
97.28 |
2013-02-08 |
| 6. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
96.80 |
1.0111 |
0.1304 |
452 |
1 |
96.80 |
2011-11-21 |
| 7. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
96.04 |
1.0877 |
0.0447 |
129 |
1 |
96.04 |
2014-10-28 |
| 8. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
95.97 |
1.0836 |
0.0481 |
206 |
1 |
95.97 |
2014-10-18 |
| 9. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
95.58 |
1.0481 |
0.0789 |
255 |
1 |
95.58 |
2011-11-24 |
| 10. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
95.50 |
1.0094 |
0.1166 |
256 |
2 |
89.64 |
2013-02-11 |
| 11. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
95.06 |
0.9889 |
0.1321 |
429 |
1 |
95.06 |
2014-10-27 |
| 12. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
94.99 |
1.0482 |
0.0718 |
407 |
1 |
94.99 |
2011-11-23 |
| 13. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
94.79 |
0.9974 |
0.1203 |
163 |
1 |
94.79 |
2011-12-07 |
| 14. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
94.43 |
1.0279 |
0.0856 |
172 |
2 |
92.28 |
2014-10-28 |
| 15. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
94.40 |
1.0543 |
0.0588 |
182 |
1 |
94.40 |
2011-11-24 |
| 16. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
94.37 |
1.0419 |
0.0709 |
323 |
1 |
94.37 |
2014-10-28 |
| 17. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
93.93 |
1.0672 |
0.0403 |
239 |
1 |
93.93 |
2011-12-07 |
| 18. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
93.80 |
0.9932 |
0.1129 |
281 |
2 |
93.59 |
2013-02-09 |
| 19. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
93.72 |
1.0543 |
0.0508 |
360 |
1 |
93.72 |
2011-12-03 |
| 20. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
93.70 |
1.0074 |
0.0975 |
410 |
1 |
93.70 |
2011-12-07 |
| 21. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
93.68 |
1.0427 |
0.0620 |
269 |
1 |
93.68 |
2011-11-23 |
| 22. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
93.55 |
1.0287 |
0.0744 |
269 |
2 |
89.82 |
2014-05-02 |
| 23. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
93.52 |
1.0753 |
0.0275 |
206 |
1 |
93.52 |
2013-03-06 |
| 24. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
93.46 |
1.0230 |
0.0790 |
200 |
1 |
93.46 |
2014-05-02 |
| 25. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
93.18 |
1.0585 |
0.0403 |
226 |
1 |
93.18 |
2014-10-27 |
| 26. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
92.64 |
0.9927 |
0.0996 |
276 |
1 |
92.64 |
2013-02-11 |
| 27. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
92.57 |
1.0192 |
0.0723 |
243 |
1 |
92.57 |
2011-12-03 |
| 28. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
92.49 |
0.9928 |
0.0978 |
293 |
1 |
92.49 |
2014-10-18 |
| 29. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
92.43 |
1.0576 |
0.0322 |
231 |
1 |
92.43 |
2013-03-03 |
| 30. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
92.34 |
1.0320 |
0.0568 |
401 |
1 |
92.34 |
2013-02-10 |
| 31. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
92.30 |
1.0270 |
0.0613 |
303 |
1 |
92.30 |
2011-12-07 |
| 32. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
92.24 |
1.0004 |
0.0873 |
373 |
1 |
92.24 |
2013-03-04 |
| 33. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
92.21 |
1.0665 |
0.0209 |
210 |
2 |
88.53 |
2013-03-24 |
| 34. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
92.12 |
1.0253 |
0.0609 |
337 |
1 |
92.12 |
2013-02-18 |
| 35. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
91.72 |
1.0132 |
0.0683 |
371 |
1 |
91.72 |
2014-10-28 |
| 36. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
91.69 |
0.9809 |
0.1003 |
250 |
1 |
91.69 |
2011-12-07 |
| 37. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
91.56 |
1.0873 |
-0.0077 |
243 |
1 |
91.56 |
2014-10-18 |
| 38. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
91.51 |
1.0538 |
0.0254 |
367 |
1 |
91.51 |
2011-11-23 |
| 39. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
91.39 |
0.9713 |
0.1063 |
193 |
1 |
91.39 |
2013-03-03 |
| 40. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
91.20 |
1.0304 |
0.0450 |
257 |
1 |
91.20 |
2011-12-03 |
| 41. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
90.83 |
1.0483 |
0.0227 |
305 |
1 |
90.83 |
2013-02-09 |
| 42. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
90.75 |
0.9681 |
0.1019 |
392 |
1 |
90.75 |
2011-12-03 |
| 43. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
90.56 |
1.0462 |
0.0216 |
340 |
2 |
90.24 |
2013-02-16 |
| 44. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
90.15 |
0.9403 |
0.1228 |
345 |
1 |
90.15 |
2011-11-24 |
| 45. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
89.83 |
0.9630 |
0.0963 |
379 |
1 |
89.83 |
2013-02-11 |
| 46. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
89.62 |
0.9864 |
0.0703 |
292 |
1 |
89.62 |
2011-12-07 |
| 47. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
89.54 |
0.9737 |
0.0821 |
237 |
1 |
89.54 |
2011-12-07 |
| 48. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
89.46 |
0.9827 |
0.0721 |
314 |
1 |
89.46 |
2013-02-18 |
| 49. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
89.11 |
1.0125 |
0.0382 |
171 |
2 |
87.68 |
2014-10-28 |
| 50. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
88.94 |
0.9703 |
0.0784 |
394 |
1 |
88.94 |
2014-10-18 |
| 51. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
88.42 |
0.8936 |
0.1491 |
346 |
3 |
85.12 |
2014-10-27 |
| 52. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
88.26 |
1.0267 |
0.0141 |
261 |
1 |
88.26 |
2014-10-27 |
| 53. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
88.24 |
1.0479 |
-0.0075 |
205 |
1 |
88.24 |
2013-02-09 |
| 54. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
88.06 |
1.0857 |
-0.0473 |
393 |
1 |
88.06 |
2014-10-27 |
| 55. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
88.02 |
0.9726 |
0.0653 |
396 |
1 |
88.02 |
2013-02-08 |
| 56. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
87.94 |
0.9657 |
0.0713 |
424 |
1 |
87.94 |
2013-02-11 |
| 57. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
87.60 |
1.0315 |
0.0014 |
193 |
1 |
87.60 |
2013-02-10 |
| 58. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
87.33 |
0.9869 |
0.0428 |
193 |
1 |
87.33 |
2014-10-18 |
| 59. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
87.23 |
1.0010 |
0.0276 |
213 |
1 |
87.23 |
2013-01-20 |
| 60. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
86.80 |
0.9987 |
0.0249 |
236 |
1 |
86.80 |
2013-03-14 |
| 61. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
86.66 |
0.9673 |
0.0545 |
292 |
1 |
86.66 |
2013-03-06 |
| 62. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
86.53 |
0.9966 |
0.0237 |
377 |
1 |
86.53 |
2013-02-11 |
| 63. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
86.45 |
1.0639 |
-0.0446 |
303 |
2 |
85.48 |
2014-10-19 |
| 64. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
86.31 |
1.0057 |
0.0120 |
382 |
1 |
86.31 |
2013-01-20 |
| 65. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
86.08 |
1.0250 |
-0.0099 |
271 |
1 |
86.08 |
2011-11-23 |
| 66. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
85.73 |
0.9852 |
0.0257 |
235 |
1 |
85.73 |
2011-12-02 |
| 67. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
85.70 |
0.9743 |
0.0362 |
397 |
1 |
85.70 |
2011-12-07 |
| 68. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
85.58 |
0.8913 |
0.1179 |
201 |
1 |
85.58 |
2011-12-03 |
| 69. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
85.45 |
0.9957 |
0.0119 |
323 |
1 |
85.45 |
2014-10-28 |
| 70. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
85.15 |
0.9692 |
0.0348 |
405 |
2 |
82.56 |
2014-10-18 |
| 71. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
84.96 |
0.9468 |
0.0550 |
318 |
2 |
82.49 |
2014-10-28 |
| 72. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
84.66 |
0.9424 |
0.0558 |
320 |
1 |
84.66 |
2013-01-20 |
| 73. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
84.53 |
1.0243 |
-0.0275 |
153 |
1 |
84.53 |
2013-02-11 |
| 74. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
84.33 |
0.9012 |
0.0931 |
322 |
1 |
84.33 |
2014-10-28 |
| 75. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
84.26 |
0.9918 |
0.0017 |
400 |
1 |
84.26 |
2013-02-11 |
| 76. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
84.26 |
0.9873 |
0.0063 |
396 |
1 |
84.26 |
2014-10-28 |
| 77. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
83.59 |
0.9332 |
0.0525 |
267 |
2 |
81.57 |
2013-02-09 |
| 78. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
83.55 |
0.9727 |
0.0125 |
442 |
1 |
83.55 |
2011-11-21 |
| 79. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
83.54 |
1.0792 |
-0.0941 |
251 |
1 |
83.54 |
2013-03-24 |
| 80. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
83.25 |
1.0291 |
-0.0475 |
240 |
1 |
83.25 |
2014-10-18 |
| 81. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
83.16 |
1.0181 |
-0.0375 |
276 |
1 |
83.16 |
2011-12-07 |
| 82. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
83.12 |
0.9404 |
0.0398 |
383 |
2 |
81.15 |
2013-02-09 |
| 83. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
83.07 |
0.9931 |
-0.0135 |
381 |
1 |
83.07 |
2011-12-02 |
| 84. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
82.76 |
0.9801 |
-0.0043 |
289 |
1 |
82.76 |
2014-10-28 |
| 85. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
82.13 |
1.0101 |
-0.0417 |
336 |
1 |
82.13 |
2013-02-11 |
| 86. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
81.47 |
0.9329 |
0.0278 |
345 |
1 |
81.47 |
2011-12-07 |
| 87. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
81.41 |
0.9309 |
0.0290 |
376 |
1 |
81.41 |
2013-01-20 |
| 88. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
81.41 |
0.9927 |
-0.0327 |
234 |
1 |
81.41 |
2014-10-28 |
| 89. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
81.36 |
0.9740 |
-0.0147 |
371 |
1 |
81.36 |
2013-02-11 |
| 90. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
81.14 |
0.9824 |
-0.0257 |
352 |
1 |
81.14 |
2011-12-03 |
| 91. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
80.53 |
1.0444 |
-0.0949 |
487 |
1 |
80.53 |
2014-10-27 |
| 92. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
80.43 |
1.0103 |
-0.0618 |
209 |
1 |
80.43 |
2013-02-10 |
| 93. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
80.34 |
0.9682 |
-0.0208 |
341 |
1 |
80.34 |
2013-03-24 |
| 94. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
79.73 |
0.9756 |
-0.0354 |
223 |
1 |
79.73 |
2013-01-20 |
| 95. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
79.47 |
0.9136 |
0.0235 |
348 |
1 |
79.47 |
2011-12-03 |
| 96. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
78.92 |
0.9804 |
-0.0497 |
227 |
2 |
78.23 |
2013-03-24 |
| 97. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
78.70 |
1.0387 |
-0.1107 |
333 |
1 |
78.70 |
2013-02-09 |
| 98. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
77.56 |
0.9070 |
0.0075 |
192 |
1 |
77.56 |
2013-02-16 |
| 99. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
77.49 |
0.9660 |
-0.0523 |
258 |
1 |
77.49 |
2013-03-06 |
| 100. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
77.45 |
1.0197 |
-0.1065 |
204 |
1 |
77.45 |
2013-02-18 |
| 101. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
77.19 |
1.0301 |
-0.1198 |
268 |
1 |
77.19 |
2011-12-02 |
| 102. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
77.05 |
0.9346 |
-0.0261 |
471 |
1 |
77.05 |
2014-10-19 |
| 103. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
77.01 |
0.9931 |
-0.0851 |
339 |
1 |
77.01 |
2014-10-27 |
| 104. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
77.01 |
0.8794 |
0.0286 |
427 |
1 |
77.01 |
2011-11-24 |
| 105. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
76.77 |
0.8984 |
0.0069 |
267 |
1 |
76.77 |
2011-11-21 |
| 106. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
76.30 |
0.9480 |
-0.0483 |
297 |
1 |
76.30 |
2013-01-20 |
| 107. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
76.28 |
0.9598 |
-0.0604 |
209 |
1 |
76.28 |
2013-02-18 |
| 108. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
75.47 |
0.8988 |
-0.0089 |
193 |
1 |
75.47 |
2011-11-21 |
| 109. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
75.38 |
0.8843 |
0.0045 |
168 |
1 |
75.38 |
2014-10-28 |
| 110. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
74.95 |
0.9765 |
-0.0927 |
269 |
1 |
74.95 |
2011-12-03 |
| 111. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
74.48 |
1.0800 |
-0.2017 |
129 |
1 |
74.48 |
2013-02-08 |
| 112. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
74.37 |
0.7852 |
0.0917 |
154 |
1 |
74.37 |
2013-03-04 |
| 113. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
73.48 |
0.9402 |
-0.0738 |
310 |
1 |
73.48 |
2011-12-03 |
| 114. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
72.72 |
0.7923 |
0.0652 |
316 |
1 |
72.72 |
2013-03-24 |
| 115. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
72.63 |
0.9114 |
-0.0549 |
399 |
1 |
72.63 |
2013-03-24 |
| 116. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
72.40 |
0.8328 |
0.0210 |
343 |
1 |
72.40 |
2011-11-23 |
| 117. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
70.37 |
0.8666 |
-0.0368 |
206 |
1 |
70.37 |
2011-12-07 |
| 118. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
69.52 |
0.9029 |
-0.0831 |
393 |
1 |
69.52 |
2013-03-04 |
| 119. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
68.93 |
1.0194 |
-0.2066 |
224 |
1 |
68.93 |
2014-10-19 |
| 120. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
68.42 |
0.9829 |
-0.1761 |
229 |
1 |
68.42 |
2013-02-09 |
| 121. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
68.11 |
1.0476 |
-0.2445 |
110 |
1 |
68.11 |
2013-02-09 |
| 122. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
66.85 |
1.0845 |
-0.2962 |
212 |
1 |
66.85 |
2011-11-24 |
| 123. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
58.59 |
0.9791 |
-0.2881 |
154 |
1 |
58.59 |
2013-02-18 |
| 124. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
44.23 |
1.1086 |
-0.5869 |
233 |
2 |
41.35 |
2013-02-18 |