| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
96.98 |
1.0398 |
0.2942 |
110 |
1 |
96.98 |
2012-07-22 |
| 2. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
86.92 |
1.0389 |
0.1567 |
340 |
1 |
86.92 |
2012-07-22 |
| 3. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
86.51 |
1.0462 |
0.1438 |
184 |
1 |
86.51 |
2011-07-19 |
| 4. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
86.01 |
1.0523 |
0.1308 |
256 |
1 |
86.01 |
2011-07-17 |
| 5. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
84.96 |
1.0403 |
0.1284 |
275 |
1 |
84.96 |
2011-07-16 |
| 6. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
84.85 |
1.0714 |
0.0958 |
129 |
1 |
84.85 |
2011-07-17 |
| 7. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
83.91 |
1.0767 |
0.0775 |
212 |
2 |
81.37 |
2011-07-17 |
| 8. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
83.78 |
1.0025 |
0.1499 |
256 |
1 |
83.78 |
2011-07-16 |
| 9. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
83.67 |
1.0240 |
0.1269 |
256 |
1 |
83.67 |
2011-07-17 |
| 10. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
83.33 |
0.9673 |
0.1790 |
232 |
1 |
83.33 |
2011-07-19 |
| 11. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
83.28 |
1.0515 |
0.0941 |
166 |
1 |
83.28 |
2011-07-17 |
| 12. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
83.13 |
1.0669 |
0.0766 |
286 |
1 |
83.13 |
2011-07-17 |
| 13. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
82.68 |
1.1014 |
0.0359 |
273 |
1 |
82.68 |
2011-07-16 |
| 14. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
82.41 |
1.0944 |
0.0392 |
308 |
1 |
82.41 |
2011-07-17 |
| 15. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
81.73 |
1.1323 |
-0.0081 |
341 |
2 |
81.20 |
2011-07-17 |
| 16. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
81.61 |
1.0797 |
0.0429 |
210 |
1 |
81.61 |
2012-07-22 |
| 17. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
81.58 |
0.9754 |
0.1468 |
362 |
1 |
81.58 |
2012-07-22 |
| 18. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
79.91 |
1.0151 |
0.0841 |
152 |
1 |
79.91 |
2011-07-19 |
| 19. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
79.86 |
1.0545 |
0.0440 |
416 |
1 |
79.86 |
2011-07-17 |
| 20. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
79.75 |
1.0885 |
0.0085 |
315 |
2 |
78.31 |
2011-07-19 |
| 21. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
79.54 |
1.0232 |
0.0709 |
236 |
3 |
76.44 |
2011-07-17 |
| 22. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
79.31 |
1.0008 |
0.0902 |
473 |
1 |
79.31 |
2011-07-16 |
| 23. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
79.27 |
1.0774 |
0.0130 |
304 |
1 |
79.27 |
2011-07-16 |
| 24. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
79.25 |
1.0529 |
0.0372 |
351 |
1 |
79.25 |
2011-07-16 |
| 25. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
78.81 |
0.9786 |
0.1055 |
235 |
1 |
78.81 |
2012-07-22 |
| 26. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
78.80 |
0.9710 |
0.1129 |
173 |
2 |
71.78 |
2012-07-22 |
| 27. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
78.79 |
1.0463 |
0.0375 |
182 |
1 |
78.79 |
2011-07-16 |
| 28. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
78.67 |
1.0138 |
0.0683 |
231 |
1 |
78.67 |
2011-07-17 |
| 29. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
78.50 |
1.0669 |
0.0129 |
213 |
1 |
78.50 |
2011-07-16 |
| 30. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
78.49 |
1.0349 |
0.0448 |
234 |
1 |
78.49 |
2011-07-19 |
| 31. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
78.45 |
0.9852 |
0.0939 |
264 |
2 |
77.01 |
2011-07-17 |
| 32. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
77.98 |
1.0506 |
0.0221 |
277 |
1 |
77.98 |
2011-07-17 |
| 33. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
77.97 |
1.0577 |
0.0148 |
247 |
1 |
77.97 |
2011-07-17 |
| 34. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
77.74 |
1.0168 |
0.0526 |
271 |
1 |
77.74 |
2011-07-17 |
| 35. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
77.06 |
1.0403 |
0.0197 |
193 |
1 |
77.06 |
2011-07-17 |
| 36. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
76.46 |
1.0768 |
-0.0250 |
295 |
1 |
76.46 |
2011-07-17 |
| 37. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
76.22 |
1.0328 |
0.0156 |
356 |
1 |
76.22 |
2011-07-17 |
| 38. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
76.03 |
1.0684 |
-0.0226 |
253 |
1 |
76.03 |
2011-07-17 |
| 39. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
75.59 |
1.0719 |
-0.0321 |
360 |
3 |
64.97 |
2011-07-17 |
| 40. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
74.94 |
0.9212 |
0.1096 |
323 |
3 |
72.60 |
2011-07-17 |
| 41. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
74.73 |
0.9635 |
0.0645 |
389 |
1 |
74.73 |
2011-07-17 |
| 42. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
74.50 |
1.0289 |
-0.0041 |
276 |
1 |
74.50 |
2011-07-16 |
| 43. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
74.49 |
1.0165 |
0.0082 |
392 |
1 |
74.49 |
2011-07-17 |
| 44. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
74.37 |
0.9651 |
0.0579 |
389 |
1 |
74.37 |
2011-07-17 |
| 45. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
74.10 |
1.0083 |
0.0110 |
273 |
2 |
71.68 |
2011-07-17 |
| 46. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
73.71 |
1.0257 |
-0.0118 |
401 |
1 |
73.71 |
2011-07-16 |
| 47. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
73.57 |
1.0284 |
-0.0164 |
282 |
2 |
69.40 |
2011-07-17 |
| 48. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
73.45 |
0.9350 |
0.0753 |
195 |
1 |
73.45 |
2011-07-16 |
| 49. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
73.44 |
1.0167 |
-0.0065 |
378 |
2 |
71.80 |
2012-07-22 |
| 50. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
72.91 |
0.9084 |
0.0945 |
300 |
3 |
69.68 |
2011-07-17 |
| 51. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
72.88 |
0.9365 |
0.0660 |
248 |
1 |
72.88 |
2011-07-19 |
| 52. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
72.77 |
0.9672 |
0.0338 |
396 |
1 |
72.77 |
2011-07-17 |
| 53. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
72.76 |
1.0252 |
-0.0243 |
176 |
1 |
72.76 |
2011-07-17 |
| 54. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
72.57 |
0.9578 |
0.0404 |
281 |
2 |
71.07 |
2011-07-17 |
| 55. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
72.08 |
1.0068 |
-0.0153 |
358 |
1 |
72.08 |
2011-07-16 |
| 56. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
71.94 |
0.9601 |
0.0295 |
308 |
1 |
71.94 |
2011-07-17 |
| 57. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
71.87 |
0.9936 |
-0.0050 |
227 |
1 |
71.87 |
2011-07-17 |
| 58. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
71.82 |
0.9570 |
0.0309 |
287 |
1 |
71.82 |
2011-07-16 |
| 59. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
71.54 |
1.0150 |
-0.0309 |
325 |
1 |
71.54 |
2011-07-16 |
| 60. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
71.46 |
0.9965 |
-0.0135 |
310 |
1 |
71.46 |
2011-07-17 |
| 61. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
71.39 |
1.0454 |
-0.0634 |
255 |
1 |
71.39 |
2011-07-16 |
| 62. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
71.35 |
0.9676 |
0.0139 |
442 |
1 |
71.35 |
2011-07-17 |
| 63. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
71.32 |
1.0787 |
-0.0977 |
237 |
1 |
71.32 |
2011-07-16 |
| 64. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
71.29 |
0.9997 |
-0.0191 |
382 |
1 |
71.29 |
2011-07-17 |
| 65. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
71.05 |
0.9005 |
0.0768 |
212 |
3 |
69.25 |
2012-07-22 |
| 66. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
71.05 |
0.8722 |
0.1051 |
285 |
1 |
71.05 |
2011-07-16 |
| 67. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
70.49 |
1.0154 |
-0.0458 |
351 |
1 |
70.49 |
2011-07-17 |
| 68. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
70.08 |
1.0619 |
-0.0979 |
354 |
1 |
70.08 |
2011-07-16 |
| 69. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
70.00 |
0.9125 |
0.0504 |
308 |
1 |
70.00 |
2011-07-16 |
| 70. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
69.99 |
0.9164 |
0.0464 |
305 |
1 |
69.99 |
2011-07-17 |
| 71. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
69.80 |
0.9844 |
-0.0243 |
293 |
2 |
65.43 |
2011-07-19 |
| 72. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
69.79 |
1.0214 |
-0.0614 |
281 |
1 |
69.79 |
2011-07-19 |
| 73. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
69.67 |
1.0038 |
-0.0455 |
237 |
1 |
69.67 |
2011-07-17 |
| 74. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
69.63 |
1.0060 |
-0.0482 |
171 |
1 |
69.63 |
2011-07-17 |
| 75. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
69.59 |
0.9089 |
0.0483 |
342 |
1 |
69.59 |
2012-07-22 |
| 76. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
69.58 |
0.9986 |
-0.0415 |
283 |
1 |
69.58 |
2011-07-16 |
| 77. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
69.54 |
0.8956 |
0.0610 |
322 |
1 |
69.54 |
2011-07-17 |
| 78. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
69.34 |
1.1296 |
-0.1758 |
252 |
1 |
69.34 |
2011-07-16 |
| 79. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
69.23 |
0.9631 |
-0.0108 |
345 |
1 |
69.23 |
2011-07-17 |
| 80. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
69.09 |
0.9684 |
-0.0180 |
388 |
1 |
69.09 |
2011-07-17 |
| 81. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
69.05 |
0.8981 |
0.0517 |
393 |
1 |
69.05 |
2011-07-19 |
| 82. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
68.82 |
0.9430 |
0.0037 |
211 |
1 |
68.82 |
2011-07-17 |
| 83. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
68.81 |
1.0388 |
-0.0923 |
243 |
1 |
68.81 |
2011-07-17 |
| 84. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
68.62 |
1.0498 |
-0.1059 |
180 |
1 |
68.62 |
2011-07-16 |
| 85. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
68.38 |
0.9176 |
0.0230 |
267 |
1 |
68.38 |
2011-07-17 |
| 86. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
68.32 |
1.0297 |
-0.0899 |
249 |
1 |
68.32 |
2011-07-16 |
| 87. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
68.32 |
0.9942 |
-0.0544 |
483 |
1 |
68.32 |
2011-07-16 |
| 88. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
68.22 |
1.0099 |
-0.0715 |
207 |
1 |
68.22 |
2011-07-16 |
| 89. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
68.04 |
0.9572 |
-0.0213 |
376 |
1 |
68.04 |
2011-07-16 |
| 90. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
68.01 |
0.9553 |
-0.0198 |
430 |
2 |
67.72 |
2011-07-17 |
| 91. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
67.49 |
0.9640 |
-0.0356 |
334 |
1 |
67.49 |
2011-07-17 |
| 92. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
67.39 |
1.0117 |
-0.0847 |
297 |
1 |
67.39 |
2011-07-17 |
| 93. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
67.15 |
0.9128 |
0.0109 |
369 |
2 |
65.85 |
2011-07-17 |
| 94. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
67.15 |
0.9527 |
-0.0290 |
251 |
1 |
67.15 |
2011-07-17 |
| 95. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
66.97 |
0.9372 |
-0.0160 |
320 |
1 |
66.97 |
2011-07-17 |
| 96. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
66.90 |
0.8961 |
0.0241 |
189 |
1 |
66.90 |
2011-07-16 |
| 97. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
66.54 |
0.9965 |
-0.0812 |
168 |
1 |
66.54 |
2011-07-16 |
| 98. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
66.53 |
0.9820 |
-0.0668 |
274 |
1 |
66.53 |
2011-07-17 |
| 99. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
66.15 |
0.9376 |
-0.0277 |
360 |
1 |
66.15 |
2011-07-16 |
| 100. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
66.07 |
0.8595 |
0.0493 |
242 |
2 |
63.77 |
2011-07-17 |
| 101. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
65.89 |
1.0907 |
-0.1843 |
303 |
1 |
65.89 |
2011-07-17 |
| 102. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
65.04 |
0.8947 |
0.0000 |
366 |
1 |
65.04 |
2011-07-17 |
| 103. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
64.97 |
0.9884 |
-0.0947 |
233 |
1 |
64.97 |
2011-07-16 |
| 104. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
64.57 |
0.9202 |
-0.0320 |
254 |
2 |
60.99 |
2011-07-16 |
| 105. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
64.27 |
1.0270 |
-0.1429 |
255 |
1 |
64.27 |
2011-07-16 |
| 106. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
63.97 |
0.8878 |
-0.0079 |
346 |
1 |
63.97 |
2011-07-16 |
| 107. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
63.83 |
0.9286 |
-0.0506 |
194 |
1 |
63.83 |
2011-07-17 |
| 108. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
63.29 |
0.9922 |
-0.1216 |
341 |
1 |
63.29 |
2011-07-17 |
| 109. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
63.09 |
0.9157 |
-0.0479 |
350 |
1 |
63.09 |
2011-07-16 |
| 110. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
62.91 |
1.0288 |
-0.1634 |
300 |
1 |
62.91 |
2011-07-17 |
| 111. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
62.75 |
1.0441 |
-0.1809 |
316 |
1 |
62.75 |
2011-07-17 |
| 112. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
62.73 |
1.0053 |
-0.1424 |
232 |
1 |
62.73 |
2011-07-17 |
| 113. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
61.78 |
1.0029 |
-0.1531 |
209 |
1 |
61.78 |
2012-07-22 |
| 114. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
61.71 |
0.9243 |
-0.0754 |
448 |
1 |
61.71 |
2011-07-16 |
| 115. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
60.51 |
0.8793 |
-0.0470 |
157 |
1 |
60.51 |
2011-07-17 |
| 116. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
59.28 |
0.8890 |
-0.0736 |
199 |
1 |
59.28 |
2011-07-17 |
| 117. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
58.06 |
1.0169 |
-0.2183 |
346 |
1 |
58.06 |
2011-07-17 |
| 118. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
57.81 |
1.0334 |
-0.2382 |
131 |
1 |
57.81 |
2011-07-16 |