| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
100.91 |
1.1014 |
0.3946 |
273 |
1 |
100.91 |
2012-02-10 |
| 2. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
98.17 |
0.9965 |
0.4224 |
277 |
2 |
79.44 |
2009-10-21 |
| 3. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
93.99 |
0.9786 |
0.3782 |
235 |
3 |
76.31 |
2013-02-28 |
| 4. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
91.33 |
1.0201 |
0.3025 |
375 |
1 |
91.33 |
2009-09-16 |
| 5. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
89.66 |
1.0502 |
0.2705 |
535 |
1 |
89.66 |
2013-02-28 |
| 6. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
89.46 |
1.0768 |
0.2546 |
295 |
2 |
80.45 |
2013-02-28 |
| 7. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
89.11 |
1.0388 |
0.2790 |
243 |
1 |
89.11 |
2012-02-10 |
| 8. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
88.09 |
0.9801 |
0.3335 |
428 |
1 |
88.09 |
2012-02-10 |
| 9. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
87.46 |
0.9986 |
0.2641 |
283 |
2 |
74.46 |
2012-02-10 |
| 10. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
86.69 |
1.0496 |
0.2006 |
314 |
3 |
74.04 |
2009-09-16 |
| 11. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
85.59 |
1.0941 |
0.1720 |
256 |
2 |
71.89 |
2012-02-10 |
| 12. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
84.91 |
1.0398 |
0.1747 |
110 |
1 |
84.91 |
2009-09-10 |
| 13. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
84.67 |
0.9844 |
0.2419 |
293 |
1 |
84.67 |
2013-02-28 |
| 14. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
84.57 |
0.9938 |
0.2270 |
339 |
1 |
84.57 |
2010-04-15 |
| 15. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
83.83 |
1.0498 |
0.1546 |
180 |
1 |
83.83 |
2010-04-15 |
| 16. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
83.82 |
0.9622 |
0.2533 |
392 |
1 |
83.82 |
2012-02-09 |
| 17. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
83.38 |
0.9907 |
0.2104 |
211 |
2 |
78.95 |
2013-02-28 |
| 18. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
83.27 |
1.0444 |
0.1501 |
197 |
1 |
83.27 |
2010-04-28 |
| 19. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
82.14 |
0.8981 |
0.2911 |
393 |
1 |
82.14 |
2012-02-10 |
| 20. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
81.32 |
1.0565 |
0.1135 |
247 |
1 |
81.32 |
2009-09-16 |
| 21. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
80.32 |
0.9064 |
0.2609 |
399 |
1 |
80.32 |
2012-02-09 |
| 22. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
79.45 |
0.9758 |
0.1703 |
314 |
2 |
66.61 |
2012-02-10 |
| 23. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
79.38 |
0.9019 |
0.2477 |
204 |
1 |
79.38 |
2009-11-18 |
| 24. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
78.79 |
0.9879 |
0.1566 |
450 |
1 |
78.79 |
2010-04-28 |
| 25. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
77.64 |
1.1016 |
0.0175 |
233 |
2 |
70.30 |
2009-10-21 |
| 26. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
77.20 |
1.0053 |
0.1053 |
232 |
2 |
69.84 |
2012-02-09 |
| 27. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
77.08 |
0.9709 |
0.1809 |
397 |
1 |
77.08 |
2010-04-28 |
| 28. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
76.92 |
1.0441 |
0.1057 |
316 |
1 |
76.92 |
2010-04-17 |
| 29. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
76.79 |
1.0863 |
0.0551 |
210 |
1 |
76.79 |
2013-02-28 |
| 30. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
76.42 |
0.9710 |
0.1237 |
173 |
1 |
76.42 |
2013-02-28 |
| 31. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
76.38 |
0.9084 |
0.1963 |
404 |
1 |
76.38 |
2009-09-16 |
| 32. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
75.58 |
1.0352 |
0.0564 |
341 |
1 |
75.58 |
2009-09-10 |
| 33. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
74.53 |
1.0907 |
-0.0144 |
303 |
1 |
74.53 |
2009-09-16 |
| 34. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
73.63 |
0.8947 |
0.1707 |
366 |
1 |
73.63 |
2009-09-16 |
| 35. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
73.25 |
1.0095 |
0.0444 |
316 |
1 |
73.25 |
2009-09-16 |
| 36. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
73.22 |
0.9312 |
0.1740 |
320 |
1 |
73.22 |
2012-02-09 |
| 37. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
71.41 |
1.0165 |
0.0156 |
392 |
1 |
71.41 |
2009-09-16 |
| 38. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
71.12 |
0.9852 |
0.0390 |
264 |
1 |
71.12 |
2009-09-16 |
| 39. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
70.93 |
1.0619 |
-0.0371 |
354 |
1 |
70.93 |
2009-11-18 |
| 40. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
70.93 |
0.9365 |
0.0861 |
248 |
1 |
70.93 |
2010-04-28 |
| 41. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
70.18 |
1.0088 |
0.0401 |
396 |
1 |
70.18 |
2009-11-18 |
| 42. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
69.96 |
1.0799 |
-0.0766 |
243 |
1 |
69.96 |
2009-11-18 |
| 43. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
69.54 |
1.0666 |
-0.0656 |
297 |
1 |
69.54 |
2009-09-14 |
| 44. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
69.31 |
1.0025 |
-0.0051 |
256 |
1 |
69.31 |
2009-09-10 |
| 45. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
69.26 |
1.0696 |
-0.0763 |
226 |
1 |
69.26 |
2009-09-14 |
| 46. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
69.17 |
1.0486 |
-0.0523 |
289 |
1 |
69.17 |
2009-09-10 |
| 47. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
69.14 |
1.0213 |
-0.0294 |
240 |
1 |
69.14 |
2009-09-16 |
| 48. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
68.87 |
1.0534 |
-0.0601 |
357 |
1 |
68.87 |
2009-09-16 |
| 49. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
68.73 |
0.9857 |
0.0024 |
293 |
1 |
68.73 |
2009-09-14 |
| 50. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
68.41 |
0.9754 |
0.0151 |
362 |
2 |
67.36 |
2009-09-16 |
| 51. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
68.37 |
1.0034 |
-0.0211 |
302 |
1 |
68.37 |
2009-09-09 |
| 52. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
67.09 |
1.0141 |
-0.0126 |
304 |
2 |
65.13 |
2009-10-21 |
| 53. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
66.58 |
1.0214 |
-0.0691 |
166 |
1 |
66.58 |
2009-11-18 |
| 54. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
66.55 |
1.0033 |
-0.0527 |
189 |
1 |
66.55 |
2010-04-15 |
| 55. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
66.17 |
1.0167 |
-0.0581 |
378 |
1 |
66.17 |
2009-09-14 |
| 56. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
66.16 |
1.0183 |
-0.0723 |
191 |
1 |
66.16 |
2009-09-10 |
| 57. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
65.97 |
1.0412 |
-0.0929 |
225 |
2 |
63.09 |
2009-09-14 |
| 58. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
65.85 |
0.9578 |
-0.0112 |
281 |
1 |
65.85 |
2009-09-16 |
| 59. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
65.57 |
1.0099 |
-0.0698 |
207 |
1 |
65.57 |
2009-09-09 |
| 60. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
65.50 |
0.9941 |
-0.0545 |
217 |
1 |
65.50 |
2009-09-14 |
| 61. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
65.34 |
0.9340 |
0.0055 |
296 |
1 |
65.34 |
2009-09-14 |
| 62. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
65.09 |
1.0074 |
-0.0695 |
242 |
1 |
65.09 |
2009-09-09 |
| 63. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
64.84 |
1.0711 |
-0.1438 |
213 |
1 |
64.84 |
2009-09-14 |
| 64. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
64.82 |
0.9293 |
0.0036 |
355 |
1 |
64.82 |
2009-11-18 |
| 65. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
64.70 |
1.0214 |
-0.0928 |
269 |
1 |
64.70 |
2009-11-18 |
| 66. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
64.59 |
0.9540 |
-0.0271 |
285 |
1 |
64.59 |
2009-09-09 |
| 67. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
63.91 |
1.0516 |
-0.1332 |
281 |
1 |
63.91 |
2009-11-18 |
| 68. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
63.85 |
0.9570 |
-0.0374 |
287 |
2 |
61.01 |
2009-11-18 |
| 69. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
63.42 |
0.9636 |
-0.0520 |
254 |
1 |
63.42 |
2009-09-10 |
| 70. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
63.13 |
0.9795 |
-0.0720 |
308 |
1 |
63.13 |
2009-09-09 |
| 71. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
62.87 |
0.9936 |
-0.0902 |
311 |
1 |
62.87 |
2009-09-10 |
| 72. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
62.23 |
1.0292 |
-0.1362 |
262 |
1 |
62.23 |
2009-09-10 |
| 73. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
62.05 |
0.9485 |
-0.0551 |
236 |
1 |
62.05 |
2009-09-09 |
| 74. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
61.87 |
0.9612 |
-0.0721 |
256 |
1 |
61.87 |
2009-09-09 |
| 75. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
61.77 |
0.8753 |
0.0215 |
427 |
2 |
59.23 |
2009-09-14 |
| 76. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
61.76 |
1.0340 |
-0.1413 |
406 |
1 |
61.76 |
2009-09-10 |
| 77. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
61.60 |
1.0314 |
-0.1071 |
452 |
1 |
61.60 |
2009-09-16 |
| 78. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
61.57 |
0.9125 |
-0.0260 |
308 |
1 |
61.57 |
2009-09-16 |
| 79. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
61.34 |
0.9330 |
-0.0450 |
360 |
1 |
61.34 |
2009-09-14 |
| 80. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
61.14 |
1.0596 |
-0.1833 |
239 |
1 |
61.14 |
2009-09-16 |
| 81. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
61.09 |
0.9691 |
-0.0919 |
223 |
1 |
61.09 |
2009-09-14 |
| 82. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
60.86 |
1.0131 |
-0.1426 |
225 |
1 |
60.86 |
2009-09-09 |
| 83. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
60.43 |
0.9805 |
-0.1078 |
292 |
1 |
60.43 |
2009-09-09 |
| 84. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
60.17 |
1.0173 |
-0.1088 |
268 |
1 |
60.17 |
2009-10-21 |
| 85. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
60.10 |
0.9514 |
-0.0878 |
237 |
1 |
60.10 |
2009-09-09 |
| 86. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
59.78 |
0.9871 |
-0.0923 |
209 |
1 |
59.78 |
2009-09-10 |
| 87. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
59.00 |
0.9601 |
-0.1082 |
308 |
1 |
59.00 |
2009-09-11 |
| 88. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
58.80 |
1.0025 |
-0.1573 |
336 |
1 |
58.80 |
2009-09-09 |
| 89. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
58.79 |
1.0346 |
-0.1484 |
244 |
1 |
58.79 |
2009-09-11 |
| 90. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
58.74 |
0.9646 |
-0.1221 |
264 |
1 |
58.74 |
2009-09-09 |
| 91. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
58.40 |
0.9965 |
-0.1577 |
310 |
1 |
58.40 |
2009-09-11 |
| 92. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
58.39 |
1.0714 |
-0.2420 |
129 |
1 |
58.39 |
2009-09-10 |
| 93. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
57.76 |
1.0463 |
-0.2217 |
182 |
1 |
57.76 |
2009-09-09 |
| 94. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
57.73 |
0.9722 |
-0.1414 |
283 |
1 |
57.73 |
2009-09-09 |
| 95. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
57.56 |
1.0515 |
-0.2272 |
250 |
1 |
57.56 |
2009-10-21 |
| 96. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
57.53 |
0.9553 |
-0.1223 |
430 |
2 |
56.12 |
2009-10-21 |
| 97. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
57.49 |
0.9084 |
-0.0814 |
300 |
1 |
57.49 |
2009-09-16 |
| 98. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
57.01 |
0.9763 |
-0.1586 |
289 |
2 |
56.95 |
2009-09-16 |
| 99. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
56.55 |
1.0328 |
-0.1832 |
356 |
1 |
56.55 |
2009-09-10 |
| 100. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
56.34 |
0.8791 |
-0.0715 |
190 |
1 |
56.34 |
2009-09-09 |
| 101. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
55.99 |
1.0795 |
-0.2456 |
226 |
1 |
55.99 |
2009-10-21 |
| 102. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
55.80 |
0.8951 |
-0.0923 |
193 |
2 |
53.70 |
2009-09-09 |
| 103. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
55.33 |
1.0829 |
-0.2877 |
288 |
1 |
55.33 |
2009-09-09 |
| 104. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
55.22 |
0.8811 |
-0.0844 |
239 |
1 |
55.22 |
2009-09-09 |
| 105. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
55.04 |
0.8533 |
-0.0627 |
232 |
1 |
55.04 |
2009-09-09 |
| 106. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
54.65 |
1.0417 |
-0.2604 |
253 |
1 |
54.65 |
2009-09-11 |
| 107. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
54.32 |
0.8602 |
-0.0834 |
206 |
1 |
54.32 |
2009-09-10 |
| 108. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
54.05 |
0.9087 |
-0.1229 |
393 |
1 |
54.05 |
2009-11-18 |
| 109. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
53.90 |
0.9697 |
-0.1966 |
249 |
1 |
53.90 |
2009-09-16 |
| 110. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
52.62 |
1.0545 |
-0.2596 |
416 |
1 |
52.62 |
2009-09-09 |
| 111. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
52.12 |
0.9894 |
-0.2381 |
323 |
1 |
52.12 |
2009-09-10 |
| 112. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
51.59 |
0.9965 |
-0.2621 |
168 |
1 |
51.59 |
2009-09-11 |
| 113. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
46.30 |
0.8105 |
-0.1527 |
204 |
1 |
46.30 |
2009-09-11 |