| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
37.48 |
0.9773 |
0.3136 |
123 |
2 |
30.91 |
2014-07-26 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
36.53 |
1.0696 |
0.1921 |
226 |
1 |
36.53 |
2014-07-26 |
| 3. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
36.05 |
0.9418 |
0.3128 |
188 |
1 |
36.05 |
2014-08-02 |
| 4. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
35.55 |
0.9187 |
0.3028 |
118 |
2 |
31.99 |
2014-07-26 |
| 5. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
35.01 |
0.9866 |
0.2219 |
218 |
1 |
35.01 |
2014-07-26 |
| 6. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
34.85 |
0.9310 |
0.2720 |
188 |
1 |
34.85 |
2014-07-26 |
| 7. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
34.45 |
1.0608 |
0.1650 |
258 |
1 |
34.45 |
2014-07-26 |
| 8. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
34.41 |
0.8809 |
0.3081 |
127 |
1 |
34.41 |
2014-07-14 |
| 9. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
33.95 |
0.9582 |
0.2187 |
259 |
1 |
33.95 |
2014-08-02 |
| 10. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
33.89 |
1.0197 |
0.1503 |
226 |
2 |
32.73 |
2014-08-02 |
| 11. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
33.82 |
1.0787 |
0.0904 |
237 |
1 |
33.82 |
2014-08-02 |
| 12. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
33.55 |
1.0379 |
0.1578 |
245 |
1 |
33.55 |
2014-08-02 |
| 13. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
33.35 |
0.9897 |
0.1621 |
274 |
1 |
33.35 |
2014-07-26 |
| 14. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
32.95 |
0.9567 |
0.2257 |
184 |
1 |
32.95 |
2014-08-02 |
| 15. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
32.87 |
0.8788 |
0.2553 |
134 |
1 |
32.87 |
2014-07-14 |
| 16. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
32.83 |
1.0596 |
0.0741 |
239 |
2 |
32.64 |
2014-07-26 |
| 17. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
32.80 |
0.9884 |
0.1455 |
233 |
1 |
32.80 |
2014-07-21 |
| 18. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
32.73 |
0.9164 |
0.2195 |
121 |
2 |
28.34 |
2014-07-14 |
| 19. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
32.54 |
0.9127 |
0.2108 |
252 |
2 |
29.19 |
2014-08-02 |
| 20. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
31.88 |
1.0252 |
0.0709 |
176 |
1 |
31.88 |
2014-07-26 |
| 21. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
31.78 |
0.9986 |
0.0962 |
162 |
1 |
31.78 |
2013-10-04 |
| 22. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
31.63 |
1.0515 |
0.0346 |
166 |
1 |
31.63 |
2013-10-04 |
| 23. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
31.60 |
0.9461 |
0.1467 |
276 |
1 |
31.60 |
2014-07-14 |
| 24. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
31.57 |
1.0168 |
0.0762 |
271 |
2 |
29.02 |
2014-07-26 |
| 25. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
31.52 |
0.8892 |
0.2070 |
207 |
1 |
31.52 |
2014-07-21 |
| 26. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
31.51 |
1.0099 |
0.0770 |
207 |
3 |
28.81 |
2013-10-04 |
| 27. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
31.44 |
1.0515 |
0.0338 |
250 |
1 |
31.44 |
2014-08-02 |
| 28. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
31.31 |
0.8810 |
0.2027 |
282 |
2 |
30.13 |
2014-07-26 |
| 29. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
31.26 |
0.8793 |
0.2033 |
157 |
2 |
29.23 |
2014-07-21 |
| 30. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
31.24 |
0.9353 |
0.1410 |
177 |
1 |
31.24 |
2014-08-02 |
| 31. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
31.14 |
0.9233 |
0.1453 |
168 |
1 |
31.14 |
2014-07-26 |
| 32. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
31.03 |
1.0365 |
0.0665 |
162 |
2 |
27.47 |
2014-07-26 |
| 33. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
31.01 |
1.0462 |
0.0200 |
184 |
2 |
29.90 |
2014-08-02 |
| 34. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
30.87 |
0.9325 |
0.1281 |
156 |
1 |
30.87 |
2014-07-16 |
| 35. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
30.80 |
0.8559 |
0.2097 |
191 |
1 |
30.80 |
2013-10-04 |
| 36. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
30.79 |
0.8916 |
0.1730 |
216 |
2 |
26.45 |
2014-07-26 |
| 37. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
30.79 |
1.1016 |
-0.0371 |
233 |
1 |
30.79 |
2013-10-04 |
| 38. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
30.73 |
1.0214 |
0.0355 |
166 |
2 |
28.55 |
2014-08-02 |
| 39. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
30.69 |
0.9691 |
0.0913 |
223 |
1 |
30.69 |
2013-10-04 |
| 40. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
30.52 |
0.8231 |
0.2345 |
180 |
2 |
27.15 |
2013-10-04 |
| 41. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
30.52 |
1.0251 |
0.0276 |
261 |
1 |
30.52 |
2014-07-26 |
| 42. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
30.48 |
0.9772 |
0.0729 |
217 |
2 |
28.02 |
2014-07-14 |
| 43. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
30.40 |
0.9785 |
0.0718 |
154 |
1 |
30.40 |
2013-10-04 |
| 44. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
30.33 |
0.8023 |
0.2515 |
182 |
1 |
30.33 |
2014-07-14 |
| 45. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
30.17 |
0.9466 |
0.0908 |
107 |
1 |
30.17 |
2013-09-20 |
| 46. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
29.86 |
1.1014 |
-0.0317 |
273 |
1 |
29.86 |
2014-08-02 |
| 47. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
29.83 |
0.8275 |
0.2032 |
142 |
1 |
29.83 |
2013-10-04 |
| 48. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
29.73 |
1.0396 |
-0.0192 |
149 |
2 |
28.10 |
2014-07-14 |
| 49. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
29.71 |
0.9028 |
0.1225 |
111 |
2 |
29.54 |
2013-09-20 |
| 50. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
29.55 |
1.0506 |
-0.0007 |
277 |
2 |
28.45 |
2014-07-14 |
| 51. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
29.55 |
1.0023 |
0.0169 |
211 |
1 |
29.55 |
2014-07-26 |
| 52. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
29.51 |
0.9226 |
0.1012 |
177 |
1 |
29.51 |
2013-09-20 |
| 53. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
29.32 |
0.8852 |
0.1300 |
201 |
1 |
29.32 |
2014-07-21 |
| 54. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
29.06 |
1.0796 |
-0.0805 |
129 |
1 |
29.06 |
2013-10-04 |
| 55. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
29.02 |
1.0232 |
0.0252 |
350 |
1 |
29.02 |
2013-09-20 |
| 56. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
28.99 |
0.8953 |
0.1065 |
193 |
1 |
28.99 |
2013-10-04 |
| 57. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
28.98 |
0.8787 |
0.1273 |
202 |
1 |
28.98 |
2013-09-20 |
| 58. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
28.94 |
0.8899 |
0.1211 |
293 |
1 |
28.94 |
2014-07-14 |
| 59. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
28.93 |
0.9098 |
0.0861 |
167 |
2 |
27.02 |
2013-10-04 |
| 60. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
28.86 |
0.9368 |
0.0610 |
173 |
1 |
28.86 |
2013-10-04 |
| 61. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
28.75 |
0.9509 |
0.0806 |
225 |
2 |
27.55 |
2014-08-02 |
| 62. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
28.73 |
0.8125 |
0.1825 |
197 |
2 |
23.36 |
2013-09-20 |
| 63. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
28.66 |
0.9710 |
0.0126 |
173 |
1 |
28.66 |
2013-10-04 |
| 64. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
28.54 |
0.9350 |
0.0517 |
195 |
2 |
28.06 |
2013-09-20 |
| 65. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
28.49 |
1.0288 |
-0.0126 |
300 |
1 |
28.49 |
2013-10-04 |
| 66. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
28.45 |
0.9287 |
0.0482 |
108 |
1 |
28.45 |
2013-09-20 |
| 67. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
28.43 |
0.8323 |
0.1483 |
145 |
1 |
28.43 |
2014-07-16 |
| 68. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
28.43 |
0.9072 |
0.0729 |
237 |
1 |
28.43 |
2013-10-04 |
| 69. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
28.42 |
0.8951 |
0.0887 |
193 |
2 |
28.31 |
2014-07-14 |
| 70. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
28.33 |
0.8152 |
0.1634 |
163 |
2 |
25.96 |
2013-09-20 |
| 71. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
28.22 |
0.8372 |
0.1360 |
179 |
1 |
28.22 |
2013-09-19 |
| 72. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
28.22 |
0.8821 |
0.0923 |
176 |
1 |
28.22 |
2013-10-04 |
| 73. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
28.14 |
1.0403 |
-0.0535 |
193 |
2 |
25.89 |
2013-10-04 |
| 74. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
28.07 |
0.7890 |
0.1815 |
230 |
2 |
27.74 |
2014-08-02 |
| 75. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
27.95 |
0.9068 |
0.0568 |
225 |
2 |
25.79 |
2014-07-14 |
| 76. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
27.86 |
0.8941 |
0.0701 |
216 |
1 |
27.86 |
2013-09-20 |
| 77. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
27.83 |
0.9162 |
0.0453 |
165 |
1 |
27.83 |
2013-10-04 |
| 78. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
27.78 |
1.0390 |
-0.0835 |
205 |
1 |
27.78 |
2013-09-20 |
| 79. |
It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situat... |
27.63 |
0.9145 |
0.0454 |
207 |
1 |
27.63 |
2013-10-04 |
| 80. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
27.54 |
0.7916 |
0.1670 |
184 |
1 |
27.54 |
2013-10-04 |
| 81. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
27.44 |
0.9097 |
0.0380 |
153 |
1 |
27.44 |
2014-07-14 |
| 82. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
26.86 |
0.8958 |
0.0357 |
322 |
1 |
26.86 |
2013-10-04 |
| 83. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
26.83 |
1.0314 |
-0.1086 |
172 |
1 |
26.83 |
2014-07-14 |
| 84. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
26.76 |
0.7850 |
0.1350 |
154 |
2 |
25.24 |
2013-10-04 |
| 85. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
26.73 |
0.9128 |
0.0153 |
133 |
1 |
26.73 |
2014-07-26 |
| 86. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
26.66 |
1.0053 |
-0.0874 |
232 |
1 |
26.66 |
2013-10-04 |
| 87. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
26.65 |
1.0033 |
-0.0903 |
189 |
2 |
25.42 |
2013-10-04 |
| 88. |
It's usually best to run as quick as you can for the first f... |
26.34 |
0.8508 |
0.0531 |
117 |
1 |
26.34 |
2013-10-04 |
| 89. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
26.31 |
0.8323 |
0.0760 |
203 |
1 |
26.31 |
2013-09-20 |
| 90. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
26.18 |
0.9559 |
-0.0499 |
195 |
1 |
26.18 |
2013-10-04 |
| 91. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
26.15 |
0.8311 |
0.0654 |
124 |
1 |
26.15 |
2013-10-04 |
| 92. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
26.14 |
0.8739 |
0.0245 |
136 |
1 |
26.14 |
2013-10-04 |
| 93. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
25.97 |
0.9257 |
-0.0241 |
317 |
1 |
25.97 |
2013-09-20 |
| 94. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
25.96 |
0.9682 |
-0.0746 |
143 |
1 |
25.96 |
2014-07-14 |
| 95. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
25.84 |
1.0528 |
-0.1665 |
201 |
1 |
25.84 |
2013-09-20 |
| 96. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
25.83 |
0.9527 |
-0.0619 |
251 |
1 |
25.83 |
2014-07-14 |
| 97. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
25.82 |
0.8777 |
0.0157 |
177 |
1 |
25.82 |
2013-10-04 |
| 98. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
25.74 |
0.8628 |
0.0218 |
196 |
1 |
25.74 |
2013-09-19 |
| 99. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
25.70 |
1.0485 |
-0.1275 |
153 |
1 |
25.70 |
2013-10-04 |
| 100. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
25.63 |
0.9786 |
-0.1001 |
193 |
1 |
25.63 |
2013-09-19 |
| 101. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
25.54 |
0.7690 |
0.1135 |
142 |
1 |
25.54 |
2013-10-04 |
| 102. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
25.52 |
1.0621 |
-0.1627 |
263 |
1 |
25.52 |
2013-10-04 |
| 103. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
25.41 |
0.8202 |
0.0538 |
178 |
1 |
25.41 |
2013-10-04 |
| 104. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
25.36 |
0.8077 |
0.0653 |
167 |
1 |
25.36 |
2013-10-04 |
| 105. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
25.34 |
0.8975 |
-0.0231 |
268 |
1 |
25.34 |
2013-10-04 |
| 106. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
25.28 |
0.9811 |
-0.1067 |
272 |
1 |
25.28 |
2013-10-04 |
| 107. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
25.28 |
0.8826 |
-0.0096 |
296 |
1 |
25.28 |
2014-07-14 |
| 108. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
25.19 |
0.7104 |
0.1613 |
131 |
1 |
25.19 |
2013-10-04 |
| 109. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
25.19 |
0.8142 |
0.0493 |
187 |
1 |
25.19 |
2014-07-16 |
| 110. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
25.06 |
0.8533 |
0.0121 |
232 |
1 |
25.06 |
2014-07-21 |
| 111. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
24.91 |
1.0574 |
-0.1707 |
205 |
1 |
24.91 |
2013-10-04 |
| 112. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
24.81 |
0.8890 |
-0.0373 |
199 |
1 |
24.81 |
2013-10-04 |
| 113. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
24.75 |
0.8595 |
-0.0046 |
242 |
1 |
24.75 |
2013-09-20 |
| 114. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
24.45 |
0.9289 |
-0.0884 |
204 |
1 |
24.45 |
2014-07-14 |
| 115. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
24.43 |
0.9871 |
-0.1229 |
227 |
1 |
24.43 |
2013-10-04 |
| 116. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
24.14 |
0.8661 |
-0.0428 |
94 |
1 |
24.14 |
2013-10-04 |
| 117. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
24.02 |
0.7852 |
0.0480 |
149 |
1 |
24.02 |
2013-10-04 |
| 118. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
23.97 |
0.7375 |
0.0917 |
148 |
1 |
23.97 |
2013-09-20 |
| 119. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
23.90 |
0.9263 |
-0.0994 |
188 |
1 |
23.90 |
2013-09-19 |
| 120. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
23.82 |
1.0016 |
-0.1857 |
218 |
1 |
23.82 |
2013-10-04 |
| 121. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
23.64 |
1.0183 |
-0.2095 |
191 |
1 |
23.64 |
2013-09-20 |
| 122. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
23.52 |
1.0487 |
-0.2437 |
231 |
1 |
23.52 |
2013-09-19 |
| 123. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
23.41 |
0.9572 |
-0.1518 |
201 |
1 |
23.41 |
2013-09-20 |
| 124. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
23.35 |
0.8553 |
-0.0562 |
174 |
1 |
23.35 |
2013-10-04 |
| 125. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
22.70 |
1.0334 |
-0.2583 |
131 |
1 |
22.70 |
2013-09-20 |
| 126. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
22.35 |
0.7938 |
-0.0235 |
176 |
1 |
22.35 |
2013-09-20 |
| 127. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
22.16 |
0.8994 |
-0.1344 |
188 |
1 |
22.16 |
2013-10-04 |
| 128. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
21.86 |
0.8910 |
-0.1373 |
150 |
2 |
21.40 |
2013-09-19 |
| 129. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
21.46 |
0.9673 |
-0.1899 |
232 |
1 |
21.46 |
2014-07-14 |