| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
59.82 |
1.0205 |
0.3109 |
179 |
1 |
59.82 |
2012-10-05 |
| 2. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
58.70 |
0.9722 |
0.3426 |
283 |
1 |
58.70 |
2012-10-05 |
| 3. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
58.56 |
1.0788 |
0.2251 |
171 |
2 |
52.81 |
2012-10-05 |
| 4. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
58.28 |
1.0151 |
0.2791 |
152 |
2 |
53.65 |
2012-10-05 |
| 5. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
57.43 |
1.0596 |
0.2223 |
239 |
1 |
57.43 |
2012-10-03 |
| 6. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
55.85 |
1.0444 |
0.1975 |
197 |
1 |
55.85 |
2012-10-05 |
| 7. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
55.74 |
1.0797 |
0.1607 |
210 |
1 |
55.74 |
2012-10-05 |
| 8. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
55.15 |
0.9820 |
0.2506 |
274 |
2 |
53.63 |
2012-10-05 |
| 9. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
55.05 |
1.0595 |
0.1735 |
379 |
1 |
55.05 |
2012-10-03 |
| 10. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
54.74 |
1.0390 |
0.1804 |
205 |
1 |
54.74 |
2012-03-11 |
| 11. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
54.08 |
1.0352 |
0.1758 |
341 |
2 |
52.31 |
2012-10-05 |
| 12. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
53.95 |
0.8994 |
0.3080 |
188 |
1 |
53.95 |
2011-10-26 |
| 13. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
53.16 |
1.0613 |
0.1272 |
266 |
1 |
53.16 |
2012-10-03 |
| 14. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
52.46 |
1.0669 |
0.1372 |
286 |
1 |
52.46 |
2012-10-03 |
| 15. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
52.23 |
1.0368 |
0.1306 |
276 |
2 |
46.07 |
2012-12-14 |
| 16. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
52.04 |
0.8971 |
0.2704 |
266 |
1 |
52.04 |
2012-10-03 |
| 17. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
51.93 |
1.0684 |
0.1215 |
253 |
1 |
51.93 |
2012-10-05 |
| 18. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
51.80 |
1.0673 |
0.1313 |
230 |
1 |
51.80 |
2012-10-03 |
| 19. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
51.78 |
1.0214 |
0.1337 |
269 |
1 |
51.78 |
2012-10-04 |
| 20. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
50.93 |
1.0719 |
0.0930 |
360 |
1 |
50.93 |
2012-10-03 |
| 21. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
50.67 |
1.0289 |
0.1070 |
276 |
1 |
50.67 |
2012-10-04 |
| 22. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
50.34 |
0.9226 |
0.2076 |
348 |
1 |
50.34 |
2012-10-03 |
| 23. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
50.29 |
1.0261 |
0.0947 |
273 |
1 |
50.29 |
2012-10-05 |
| 24. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
50.19 |
0.9943 |
0.1293 |
373 |
2 |
43.90 |
2012-10-05 |
| 25. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
50.00 |
1.0053 |
0.1089 |
232 |
1 |
50.00 |
2012-10-05 |
| 26. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
49.96 |
1.0169 |
0.1371 |
346 |
1 |
49.96 |
2012-10-05 |
| 27. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
49.90 |
1.0213 |
0.0896 |
240 |
1 |
49.90 |
2012-10-05 |
| 28. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
49.69 |
1.0399 |
0.0746 |
294 |
2 |
45.50 |
2012-10-05 |
| 29. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
49.65 |
0.8884 |
0.2201 |
135 |
1 |
49.65 |
2012-10-05 |
| 30. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
49.49 |
0.8533 |
0.2526 |
232 |
2 |
43.58 |
2012-10-04 |
| 31. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
49.43 |
1.0214 |
0.1244 |
281 |
1 |
49.43 |
2012-10-05 |
| 32. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
49.39 |
1.0711 |
0.0261 |
213 |
2 |
49.26 |
2012-10-03 |
| 33. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
49.33 |
1.0796 |
0.0162 |
129 |
1 |
49.33 |
2011-07-02 |
| 34. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
49.32 |
1.1323 |
0.0025 |
341 |
1 |
49.32 |
2012-10-03 |
| 35. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
49.07 |
0.9221 |
0.1719 |
244 |
1 |
49.07 |
2012-03-11 |
| 36. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
48.89 |
0.9207 |
0.1730 |
174 |
1 |
48.89 |
2012-10-03 |
| 37. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
48.86 |
0.9500 |
0.1426 |
362 |
1 |
48.86 |
2012-10-03 |
| 38. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
48.83 |
0.9763 |
0.1129 |
289 |
1 |
48.83 |
2012-10-05 |
| 39. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
48.81 |
1.0240 |
0.0623 |
256 |
1 |
48.81 |
2012-10-03 |
| 40. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
48.45 |
1.0023 |
0.0768 |
211 |
1 |
48.45 |
2012-10-03 |
| 41. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
47.88 |
0.9612 |
0.1075 |
256 |
1 |
47.88 |
2012-10-05 |
| 42. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
47.81 |
1.0125 |
0.0519 |
224 |
1 |
47.81 |
2012-10-05 |
| 43. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
47.66 |
1.0388 |
0.0564 |
243 |
1 |
47.66 |
2012-10-05 |
| 44. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
47.52 |
1.0523 |
0.0037 |
256 |
1 |
47.52 |
2012-10-03 |
| 45. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
47.48 |
1.0577 |
-0.0022 |
247 |
1 |
47.48 |
2012-10-03 |
| 46. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
47.44 |
0.9597 |
0.1027 |
347 |
1 |
47.44 |
2012-10-05 |
| 47. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
47.36 |
1.0025 |
0.0538 |
256 |
2 |
43.98 |
2012-10-03 |
| 48. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
47.12 |
1.0528 |
-0.0063 |
201 |
1 |
47.12 |
2012-10-03 |
| 49. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
46.70 |
1.0477 |
-0.0036 |
360 |
1 |
46.70 |
2012-10-05 |
| 50. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
46.68 |
0.9682 |
0.0715 |
143 |
2 |
37.25 |
2012-10-05 |
| 51. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
46.51 |
1.0365 |
0.0306 |
162 |
1 |
46.51 |
2012-10-03 |
| 52. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
46.34 |
0.8811 |
0.1570 |
239 |
1 |
46.34 |
2012-10-03 |
| 53. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
46.14 |
0.9941 |
0.0327 |
217 |
2 |
44.65 |
2012-10-03 |
| 54. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
46.02 |
1.0907 |
-0.0621 |
303 |
1 |
46.02 |
2012-10-03 |
| 55. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
45.97 |
1.0117 |
0.0582 |
297 |
2 |
43.77 |
2012-10-03 |
| 56. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
45.94 |
0.9005 |
0.1226 |
212 |
1 |
45.94 |
2012-10-05 |
| 57. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
45.80 |
1.0331 |
-0.0140 |
234 |
1 |
45.80 |
2012-10-03 |
| 58. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
45.55 |
0.9773 |
0.0304 |
123 |
1 |
45.55 |
2011-07-04 |
| 59. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
44.80 |
0.9912 |
0.0345 |
237 |
1 |
44.80 |
2012-10-03 |
| 60. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
44.65 |
0.9965 |
-0.0057 |
168 |
1 |
44.65 |
2012-10-04 |
| 61. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
44.64 |
1.0375 |
0.0036 |
200 |
1 |
44.64 |
2012-10-05 |
| 62. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
44.57 |
1.0154 |
0.0280 |
351 |
1 |
44.57 |
2012-10-03 |
| 63. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
44.54 |
1.0644 |
-0.0350 |
257 |
1 |
44.54 |
2012-10-05 |
| 64. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
44.25 |
0.9795 |
0.0072 |
308 |
1 |
44.25 |
2012-10-03 |
| 65. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
44.08 |
0.9852 |
-0.0024 |
264 |
1 |
44.08 |
2012-10-03 |
| 66. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
44.06 |
0.9857 |
-0.0047 |
293 |
1 |
44.06 |
2011-07-06 |
| 67. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
43.93 |
0.9851 |
-0.0034 |
317 |
2 |
43.41 |
2012-10-05 |
| 68. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
43.92 |
1.0201 |
-0.0406 |
303 |
1 |
43.92 |
2012-10-03 |
| 69. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
43.90 |
0.9019 |
0.0822 |
204 |
1 |
43.90 |
2011-07-06 |
| 70. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
43.71 |
1.0534 |
-0.0767 |
357 |
1 |
43.71 |
2012-10-03 |
| 71. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
43.63 |
0.9364 |
0.0760 |
351 |
1 |
43.63 |
2012-10-04 |
| 72. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
43.55 |
0.9109 |
0.0626 |
401 |
1 |
43.55 |
2012-10-05 |
| 73. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
43.49 |
0.9710 |
-0.0081 |
173 |
2 |
39.97 |
2012-10-05 |
| 74. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
43.41 |
1.0486 |
-0.0804 |
289 |
1 |
43.41 |
2012-01-22 |
| 75. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
43.40 |
0.9684 |
0.0012 |
388 |
1 |
43.40 |
2011-07-06 |
| 76. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
43.27 |
1.1014 |
-0.0995 |
273 |
1 |
43.27 |
2017-01-18 |
| 77. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
43.20 |
1.0666 |
-0.1036 |
297 |
1 |
43.20 |
2012-10-03 |
| 78. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
43.11 |
0.9485 |
0.0138 |
236 |
1 |
43.11 |
2012-10-03 |
| 79. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
43.05 |
0.9226 |
0.0407 |
177 |
1 |
43.05 |
2012-10-03 |
| 80. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
42.90 |
1.0138 |
-0.0584 |
231 |
1 |
42.90 |
2012-10-05 |
| 81. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
42.80 |
1.0829 |
-0.1279 |
288 |
1 |
42.80 |
2011-08-30 |
| 82. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
42.74 |
0.9461 |
0.0020 |
193 |
1 |
42.74 |
2012-10-05 |
| 83. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
42.61 |
0.9699 |
-0.0214 |
269 |
1 |
42.61 |
2012-10-03 |
| 84. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
42.57 |
1.0993 |
-0.1530 |
265 |
1 |
42.57 |
2011-07-06 |
| 85. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
42.53 |
1.0696 |
-0.1255 |
226 |
2 |
40.49 |
2011-07-06 |
| 86. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
42.47 |
0.9964 |
-0.0503 |
203 |
1 |
42.47 |
2011-07-06 |
| 87. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
42.46 |
0.8918 |
0.0527 |
100 |
1 |
42.46 |
2011-07-06 |
| 88. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
42.15 |
0.9263 |
0.0161 |
188 |
1 |
42.15 |
2012-10-03 |
| 89. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
41.99 |
0.9863 |
-0.0467 |
339 |
1 |
41.99 |
2011-10-26 |
| 90. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
41.88 |
0.9646 |
-0.0327 |
264 |
1 |
41.88 |
2012-10-03 |
| 91. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
41.78 |
0.9986 |
-0.0674 |
283 |
1 |
41.78 |
2011-08-30 |
| 92. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
41.67 |
0.9376 |
-0.0040 |
367 |
1 |
41.67 |
2012-10-03 |
| 93. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
41.60 |
1.0077 |
-0.0402 |
250 |
1 |
41.60 |
2011-08-30 |
| 94. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
41.41 |
0.9509 |
0.0096 |
225 |
1 |
41.41 |
2012-10-05 |
| 95. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
41.38 |
1.0257 |
-0.0978 |
401 |
1 |
41.38 |
2012-10-03 |
| 96. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
40.56 |
0.9769 |
-0.0758 |
263 |
2 |
35.89 |
2011-08-30 |
| 97. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
40.27 |
0.9088 |
-0.0071 |
348 |
1 |
40.27 |
2012-03-11 |
| 98. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
40.01 |
1.0403 |
-0.1349 |
193 |
1 |
40.01 |
2012-10-03 |
| 99. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
39.99 |
0.9726 |
-0.0894 |
154 |
1 |
39.99 |
2011-07-06 |
| 100. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
39.69 |
1.0132 |
-0.1386 |
143 |
1 |
39.69 |
2011-10-26 |
| 101. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
39.65 |
0.9257 |
-0.0378 |
317 |
1 |
39.65 |
2011-07-06 |
| 102. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
39.59 |
0.8787 |
0.0072 |
202 |
1 |
39.59 |
2012-10-05 |
| 103. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
39.37 |
0.9485 |
-0.0698 |
291 |
1 |
39.37 |
2012-10-03 |
| 104. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
39.17 |
1.0099 |
-0.1415 |
207 |
1 |
39.17 |
2017-01-18 |
| 105. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
39.16 |
1.0883 |
-0.1847 |
303 |
1 |
39.16 |
2011-10-26 |
| 106. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
39.01 |
0.9865 |
-0.1173 |
276 |
1 |
39.01 |
2012-10-03 |
| 107. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
38.95 |
0.9731 |
-0.1190 |
129 |
1 |
38.95 |
2011-07-06 |
| 108. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
38.58 |
0.7876 |
0.0734 |
316 |
2 |
38.38 |
2012-10-05 |
| 109. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
38.33 |
0.8602 |
-0.0095 |
206 |
1 |
38.33 |
2012-10-05 |
| 110. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
38.31 |
0.9916 |
-0.0967 |
282 |
1 |
38.31 |
2012-03-11 |
| 111. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
37.70 |
1.0602 |
-0.2178 |
389 |
1 |
37.70 |
2011-10-26 |
| 112. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
37.47 |
1.0095 |
-0.1777 |
316 |
1 |
37.47 |
2012-10-03 |
| 113. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
36.95 |
0.9786 |
-0.1623 |
193 |
1 |
36.95 |
2011-10-26 |
| 114. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
36.63 |
0.8153 |
0.0038 |
200 |
1 |
36.63 |
2011-07-02 |
| 115. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
36.51 |
1.0334 |
-0.2284 |
131 |
1 |
36.51 |
2012-10-03 |
| 116. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
36.26 |
0.9633 |
-0.1551 |
304 |
1 |
36.26 |
2011-07-05 |
| 117. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
36.13 |
0.7988 |
0.0126 |
219 |
1 |
36.13 |
2011-07-06 |
| 118. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
35.83 |
0.9350 |
-0.1381 |
195 |
1 |
35.83 |
2011-07-02 |
| 119. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
35.54 |
0.9582 |
-0.1671 |
259 |
1 |
35.54 |
2012-10-03 |
| 120. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
35.51 |
0.8792 |
-0.0806 |
296 |
1 |
35.51 |
2011-07-04 |
| 121. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
35.10 |
1.0445 |
-0.2636 |
373 |
1 |
35.10 |
2012-01-22 |
| 122. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
34.72 |
0.9740 |
-0.2071 |
209 |
1 |
34.72 |
2011-07-02 |
| 123. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
34.67 |
1.0462 |
-0.2820 |
184 |
1 |
34.67 |
2011-07-02 |
| 124. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
34.39 |
0.8723 |
-0.1128 |
185 |
1 |
34.39 |
2011-07-02 |
| 125. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
33.52 |
0.9461 |
-0.2025 |
276 |
1 |
33.52 |
2011-07-05 |
| 126. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
33.01 |
0.8867 |
-0.1491 |
241 |
1 |
33.01 |
2011-10-26 |
| 127. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
28.48 |
0.9125 |
-0.2804 |
308 |
1 |
28.48 |
2011-07-06 |
| 128. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
27.65 |
0.9567 |
-0.3029 |
184 |
1 |
27.65 |
2011-07-02 |
| 129. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
25.82 |
0.7877 |
-0.2130 |
142 |
1 |
25.82 |
2011-07-02 |
| 130. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
25.61 |
0.9162 |
-0.3505 |
165 |
1 |
25.61 |
2011-07-02 |
| 131. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
8.98 |
0.8177 |
-0.6317 |
124 |
1 |
8.98 |
2011-07-02 |