Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
90.65 |
1.0881 |
0.2646 |
210 |
1 |
90.65 |
2010-12-15 |
2. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
83.95 |
1.0524 |
0.2016 |
177 |
2 |
77.54 |
2010-12-17 |
3. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
83.00 |
1.0540 |
0.1826 |
184 |
1 |
83.00 |
2010-12-15 |
4. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
80.81 |
1.0178 |
0.1892 |
207 |
1 |
80.81 |
2010-12-16 |
5. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
80.77 |
1.0301 |
0.1767 |
268 |
2 |
74.80 |
2010-12-15 |
6. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
80.39 |
1.0208 |
0.1815 |
231 |
1 |
80.39 |
2010-12-15 |
7. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
79.81 |
1.0412 |
0.1575 |
205 |
1 |
79.81 |
2010-12-17 |
8. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
79.26 |
0.9987 |
0.1911 |
236 |
2 |
75.10 |
2010-12-17 |
9. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
78.96 |
1.0504 |
0.1324 |
225 |
2 |
77.61 |
2010-12-18 |
10. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
77.46 |
1.0759 |
0.0880 |
273 |
2 |
71.74 |
2010-12-17 |
11. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
77.06 |
1.0288 |
0.1188 |
166 |
1 |
77.06 |
2010-12-18 |
12. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
76.88 |
1.0607 |
0.0917 |
357 |
1 |
76.88 |
2010-12-15 |
13. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
76.81 |
1.0432 |
0.1060 |
276 |
2 |
72.42 |
2010-12-17 |
14. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
75.93 |
0.9928 |
0.1419 |
293 |
1 |
75.93 |
2010-12-16 |
15. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
75.89 |
1.0350 |
0.1142 |
416 |
1 |
75.89 |
2010-12-17 |
16. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
75.83 |
1.0590 |
0.0737 |
250 |
1 |
75.83 |
2010-12-14 |
17. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
75.70 |
0.9709 |
0.1597 |
264 |
1 |
75.70 |
2010-12-17 |
18. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
75.52 |
1.0287 |
0.0994 |
269 |
1 |
75.52 |
2010-12-15 |
19. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
75.51 |
1.0006 |
0.1284 |
311 |
2 |
69.39 |
2010-12-18 |
20. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
75.21 |
1.0567 |
0.0675 |
314 |
1 |
75.21 |
2010-12-15 |
21. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
75.06 |
1.0131 |
0.1125 |
245 |
1 |
75.06 |
2010-12-16 |
22. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
74.85 |
1.0836 |
0.0389 |
206 |
1 |
74.85 |
2010-12-14 |
23. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
74.63 |
0.9918 |
0.1311 |
400 |
1 |
74.63 |
2010-12-16 |
24. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
74.38 |
1.0115 |
0.0953 |
189 |
1 |
74.38 |
2010-12-18 |
25. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
74.11 |
1.1093 |
-0.0069 |
220 |
1 |
74.11 |
2010-12-12 |
26. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
73.62 |
0.9841 |
0.1132 |
217 |
1 |
73.62 |
2010-12-15 |
27. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
73.07 |
1.0253 |
0.0700 |
337 |
1 |
73.07 |
2010-12-15 |
28. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
73.06 |
1.0667 |
0.0359 |
308 |
1 |
73.06 |
2010-12-17 |
29. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
71.93 |
0.9606 |
0.1187 |
203 |
1 |
71.93 |
2010-12-13 |
30. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
71.92 |
1.0857 |
0.0018 |
393 |
1 |
71.92 |
2010-12-15 |
31. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
71.86 |
0.9909 |
0.0878 |
293 |
1 |
71.86 |
2010-12-18 |
32. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
71.73 |
0.9991 |
0.0725 |
339 |
2 |
71.16 |
2010-12-15 |
33. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
71.53 |
1.0506 |
0.0182 |
259 |
1 |
71.53 |
2010-12-17 |
34. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
71.22 |
1.0698 |
0.0016 |
303 |
1 |
71.22 |
2010-12-15 |
35. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
71.15 |
1.0543 |
0.0115 |
360 |
1 |
71.15 |
2010-12-14 |
36. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
70.73 |
1.0332 |
0.0233 |
267 |
1 |
70.73 |
2010-12-14 |
37. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
70.70 |
0.9680 |
0.0888 |
256 |
2 |
68.03 |
2010-12-18 |
38. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
70.51 |
0.9780 |
0.0696 |
173 |
2 |
69.60 |
2010-12-17 |
39. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
70.39 |
1.0111 |
0.0531 |
452 |
1 |
70.39 |
2010-12-14 |
40. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
70.34 |
0.8656 |
0.1869 |
242 |
1 |
70.34 |
2010-12-15 |
41. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
70.30 |
1.0094 |
0.0414 |
256 |
2 |
67.86 |
2010-12-14 |
42. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
70.15 |
0.9678 |
0.0849 |
392 |
1 |
70.15 |
2010-12-17 |
43. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
70.01 |
0.9957 |
0.0504 |
323 |
1 |
70.01 |
2010-12-17 |
44. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
69.97 |
1.0588 |
-0.0130 |
281 |
1 |
69.97 |
2010-12-16 |
45. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
69.21 |
1.0060 |
0.0297 |
260 |
1 |
69.21 |
2010-12-13 |
46. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
69.04 |
0.9844 |
0.0594 |
351 |
1 |
69.04 |
2010-12-17 |
47. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
68.40 |
0.9873 |
0.0453 |
396 |
1 |
68.40 |
2010-12-17 |
48. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
68.19 |
0.9408 |
0.0729 |
177 |
1 |
68.19 |
2010-12-15 |
49. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
68.18 |
0.9183 |
0.1014 |
308 |
1 |
68.18 |
2010-12-14 |
50. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
67.58 |
1.0669 |
-0.0539 |
379 |
1 |
67.58 |
2010-12-14 |
51. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
67.56 |
0.9332 |
0.0777 |
295 |
1 |
67.56 |
2010-12-13 |
52. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
67.48 |
0.9765 |
0.0311 |
269 |
1 |
67.48 |
2010-12-15 |
53. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
67.25 |
0.9632 |
0.0428 |
287 |
2 |
64.75 |
2010-12-15 |
54. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
66.96 |
0.9594 |
0.0393 |
258 |
1 |
66.96 |
2010-12-15 |
55. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
66.82 |
0.9597 |
0.0389 |
251 |
2 |
64.22 |
2010-12-14 |
56. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
66.74 |
1.0543 |
-0.0604 |
182 |
1 |
66.74 |
2010-12-17 |
57. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
66.44 |
1.0194 |
-0.0288 |
224 |
2 |
62.52 |
2010-12-15 |
58. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
66.39 |
0.9949 |
0.0074 |
304 |
1 |
66.39 |
2010-12-15 |
59. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
66.26 |
0.9561 |
0.0354 |
362 |
2 |
65.30 |
2010-12-15 |
60. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
66.25 |
0.9183 |
0.0681 |
252 |
1 |
66.25 |
2010-12-14 |
61. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
66.21 |
0.9933 |
0.0033 |
450 |
1 |
66.21 |
2010-12-13 |
62. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
66.09 |
0.8986 |
0.0871 |
205 |
1 |
66.09 |
2010-12-18 |
63. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
66.01 |
0.9706 |
0.0273 |
353 |
1 |
66.01 |
2010-12-17 |
64. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
65.89 |
1.1086 |
-0.1238 |
233 |
1 |
65.89 |
2010-12-12 |
65. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
65.63 |
0.9309 |
0.0597 |
376 |
1 |
65.63 |
2010-12-17 |
66. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
65.42 |
0.9243 |
0.0551 |
240 |
1 |
65.42 |
2010-12-15 |
67. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
65.34 |
1.0338 |
-0.0524 |
277 |
2 |
64.91 |
2010-12-15 |
68. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
65.33 |
1.0265 |
-0.0468 |
375 |
1 |
65.33 |
2010-12-18 |
69. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
65.26 |
1.0192 |
-0.0390 |
243 |
1 |
65.26 |
2010-12-13 |
70. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
65.21 |
0.9839 |
-0.0099 |
308 |
2 |
63.91 |
2010-12-15 |
71. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
65.11 |
1.0128 |
-0.0333 |
369 |
1 |
65.11 |
2010-12-13 |
72. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
65.04 |
1.0112 |
-0.0406 |
242 |
1 |
65.04 |
2010-12-15 |
73. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
64.92 |
0.9880 |
-0.0224 |
199 |
1 |
64.92 |
2010-12-13 |
74. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
64.88 |
0.9480 |
0.0224 |
297 |
1 |
64.88 |
2010-12-15 |
75. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
64.77 |
0.9517 |
0.0239 |
397 |
1 |
64.77 |
2010-12-15 |
76. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
64.76 |
1.0403 |
-0.0746 |
234 |
1 |
64.76 |
2010-12-14 |
77. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
64.67 |
0.9864 |
-0.0166 |
292 |
2 |
63.48 |
2010-12-13 |
78. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
64.57 |
1.0464 |
-0.0769 |
294 |
1 |
64.57 |
2010-12-13 |
79. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
64.48 |
0.9119 |
0.0556 |
396 |
1 |
64.48 |
2010-12-13 |
80. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
64.42 |
1.0135 |
-0.0479 |
358 |
1 |
64.42 |
2010-12-13 |
81. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
64.37 |
0.9330 |
0.0402 |
341 |
1 |
64.37 |
2010-12-15 |
82. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
64.32 |
0.9515 |
0.0194 |
334 |
1 |
64.32 |
2010-12-16 |
83. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
63.72 |
0.9299 |
0.0135 |
168 |
1 |
63.72 |
2010-12-13 |
84. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
63.44 |
1.0095 |
-0.0634 |
211 |
2 |
62.06 |
2010-12-13 |
85. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
63.31 |
1.0616 |
-0.1091 |
304 |
3 |
61.80 |
2010-12-16 |
86. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
63.31 |
0.9745 |
-0.0301 |
217 |
1 |
63.31 |
2010-12-12 |
87. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
63.25 |
0.9866 |
-0.0415 |
308 |
1 |
63.25 |
2010-12-18 |
88. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
63.10 |
0.9545 |
-0.0024 |
412 |
1 |
63.10 |
2010-12-17 |
89. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
63.01 |
0.9927 |
-0.0549 |
234 |
1 |
63.01 |
2010-12-13 |
90. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
62.91 |
0.9206 |
0.0195 |
317 |
1 |
62.91 |
2010-12-15 |
91. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
62.40 |
0.9046 |
0.0402 |
448 |
1 |
62.40 |
2010-12-13 |
92. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
62.32 |
1.0016 |
-0.0725 |
217 |
1 |
62.32 |
2010-12-18 |
93. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
62.22 |
0.9494 |
-0.0074 |
397 |
1 |
62.22 |
2010-12-17 |
94. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
62.17 |
0.9145 |
0.0175 |
404 |
2 |
59.17 |
2010-12-13 |
95. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
62.17 |
0.9536 |
-0.0166 |
311 |
1 |
62.17 |
2010-12-14 |
96. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
62.09 |
1.0144 |
-0.0860 |
162 |
1 |
62.09 |
2010-12-14 |
97. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
62.08 |
0.9374 |
-0.0076 |
232 |
1 |
62.08 |
2010-12-15 |
98. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
61.84 |
0.9681 |
-0.0390 |
392 |
1 |
61.84 |
2010-12-17 |
99. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
61.59 |
1.0883 |
-0.1622 |
189 |
1 |
61.59 |
2010-12-13 |
100. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
61.54 |
0.9873 |
-0.0695 |
274 |
1 |
61.54 |
2010-12-14 |
101. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
61.11 |
0.9517 |
-0.0405 |
276 |
1 |
61.11 |
2010-12-13 |
102. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
60.85 |
0.9801 |
-0.0633 |
282 |
1 |
60.85 |
2010-12-17 |
103. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
60.29 |
0.9989 |
-0.0916 |
282 |
1 |
60.29 |
2010-12-13 |
104. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
59.78 |
0.9162 |
-0.0225 |
401 |
1 |
59.78 |
2010-12-15 |
105. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
59.66 |
0.8984 |
0.0002 |
267 |
1 |
59.66 |
2010-12-13 |
106. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
59.23 |
1.0341 |
-0.1504 |
273 |
1 |
59.23 |
2010-12-13 |
107. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
59.20 |
1.0601 |
-0.1795 |
256 |
1 |
59.20 |
2010-12-13 |
108. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
58.38 |
1.0101 |
-0.1368 |
336 |
1 |
58.38 |
2010-12-13 |
109. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
58.35 |
0.9228 |
-0.0473 |
305 |
1 |
58.35 |
2010-12-15 |
110. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
58.25 |
0.9339 |
-0.0586 |
317 |
1 |
58.25 |
2010-12-15 |
111. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
58.19 |
1.0165 |
-0.1487 |
316 |
1 |
58.19 |
2010-12-12 |
112. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
57.34 |
1.0103 |
-0.1602 |
209 |
1 |
57.34 |
2010-12-15 |
113. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
57.18 |
0.8887 |
-0.0214 |
464 |
1 |
57.18 |
2010-12-15 |
114. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
56.09 |
0.9011 |
-0.0609 |
322 |
1 |
56.09 |
2010-12-15 |
115. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
55.86 |
1.0640 |
-0.2246 |
210 |
1 |
55.86 |
2010-12-12 |
116. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
55.62 |
1.0450 |
-0.2097 |
358 |
1 |
55.62 |
2010-12-13 |
117. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
55.13 |
0.9101 |
-0.0836 |
351 |
1 |
55.13 |
2010-12-12 |
118. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
54.94 |
0.9203 |
-0.0977 |
350 |
1 |
54.94 |
2010-12-12 |
119. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
54.88 |
0.9451 |
-0.1183 |
419 |
1 |
54.88 |
2010-12-15 |
120. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
54.71 |
0.8172 |
-0.0052 |
204 |
1 |
54.71 |
2010-12-15 |
121. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
54.47 |
0.9931 |
-0.1759 |
339 |
1 |
54.47 |
2010-12-12 |
122. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
54.42 |
0.9827 |
-0.1699 |
314 |
1 |
54.42 |
2010-12-15 |
123. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
54.38 |
0.8624 |
-0.0558 |
174 |
1 |
54.38 |
2010-12-13 |
124. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
53.92 |
0.9068 |
-0.1043 |
212 |
1 |
53.92 |
2010-12-12 |
125. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
53.84 |
0.9824 |
-0.1662 |
352 |
1 |
53.84 |
2010-12-13 |
126. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
52.14 |
0.8721 |
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1 |
52.14 |
2010-12-13 |
127. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
47.89 |
0.9530 |
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47.89 |
2010-12-13 |
128. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
47.47 |
0.8986 |
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1 |
47.47 |
2010-12-18 |