| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
131.57 |
1.1086 |
0.3110 |
233 |
8 |
102.20 |
2010-12-06 |
| 2. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
130.80 |
1.0418 |
0.3698 |
214 |
7 |
104.01 |
2010-12-02 |
| 3. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
126.74 |
1.0521 |
0.3092 |
197 |
6 |
100.01 |
2010-10-29 |
| 4. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
125.57 |
1.0654 |
0.2863 |
247 |
4 |
103.86 |
2010-10-28 |
| 5. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
124.58 |
1.0465 |
0.2888 |
183 |
1 |
124.58 |
2010-11-30 |
| 6. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
124.38 |
1.0042 |
0.3333 |
168 |
5 |
106.05 |
2010-11-30 |
| 7. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
123.48 |
1.0524 |
0.2772 |
177 |
7 |
109.49 |
2010-12-01 |
| 8. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
120.88 |
1.0476 |
0.2464 |
110 |
5 |
101.44 |
2010-11-19 |
| 9. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
118.73 |
1.0426 |
0.2335 |
131 |
4 |
106.23 |
2010-11-18 |
| 10. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
117.18 |
0.9807 |
0.2710 |
129 |
3 |
105.33 |
2010-11-12 |
| 11. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
115.49 |
1.0877 |
0.1539 |
129 |
9 |
104.31 |
2010-12-08 |
| 12. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
115.35 |
1.0479 |
0.1940 |
205 |
2 |
103.91 |
2010-12-02 |
| 13. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
114.34 |
1.1062 |
0.1283 |
200 |
2 |
108.49 |
2010-12-06 |
| 14. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
113.07 |
1.0617 |
0.1552 |
171 |
7 |
99.65 |
2010-12-03 |
| 15. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
113.03 |
1.0755 |
0.1434 |
243 |
3 |
109.48 |
2010-11-15 |
| 16. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
112.76 |
1.0130 |
0.2025 |
288 |
1 |
112.76 |
2010-10-04 |
| 17. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
111.81 |
1.0288 |
0.1716 |
166 |
2 |
99.83 |
2010-10-18 |
| 18. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
111.70 |
1.0753 |
0.1355 |
206 |
5 |
102.82 |
2010-10-21 |
| 19. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
110.59 |
1.0412 |
0.1557 |
205 |
3 |
93.61 |
2010-10-28 |
| 20. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
109.51 |
0.9885 |
0.1918 |
355 |
3 |
97.50 |
2010-11-17 |
| 21. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
109.22 |
1.0506 |
0.1261 |
259 |
2 |
106.47 |
2010-11-23 |
| 22. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
109.13 |
1.0736 |
0.1051 |
350 |
3 |
101.17 |
2010-11-17 |
| 23. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
108.39 |
1.0399 |
0.1331 |
257 |
1 |
108.39 |
2010-09-21 |
| 24. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
106.82 |
1.0301 |
0.1197 |
268 |
1 |
106.82 |
2010-11-22 |
| 25. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
106.74 |
1.0867 |
0.0591 |
171 |
4 |
95.05 |
2010-12-06 |
| 26. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
105.57 |
1.0039 |
0.1398 |
255 |
3 |
93.58 |
2010-11-23 |
| 27. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
105.14 |
1.0800 |
0.0500 |
213 |
1 |
105.14 |
2010-10-01 |
| 28. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
104.74 |
1.0462 |
0.0853 |
340 |
1 |
104.74 |
2010-10-15 |
| 29. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
104.11 |
0.9966 |
0.1323 |
377 |
1 |
104.11 |
2013-10-07 |
| 30. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
103.07 |
1.0543 |
0.0528 |
182 |
2 |
93.79 |
2013-03-15 |
| 31. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
102.83 |
1.0698 |
0.0449 |
303 |
1 |
102.83 |
2010-09-27 |
| 32. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
102.74 |
1.0639 |
0.0441 |
303 |
2 |
94.17 |
2010-10-25 |
| 33. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
101.08 |
0.9852 |
0.1031 |
235 |
2 |
91.16 |
2010-11-15 |
| 34. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
100.60 |
0.9844 |
0.1114 |
351 |
1 |
100.60 |
2013-03-10 |
| 35. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
100.24 |
0.9368 |
0.1365 |
176 |
2 |
99.09 |
2010-11-30 |
| 36. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
99.58 |
1.0372 |
0.0350 |
249 |
1 |
99.58 |
2010-09-20 |
| 37. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
99.39 |
1.0387 |
0.0361 |
333 |
2 |
98.41 |
2010-10-21 |
| 38. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
98.02 |
1.1070 |
-0.0524 |
265 |
1 |
98.02 |
2010-10-04 |
| 39. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
97.78 |
1.0272 |
0.0238 |
226 |
2 |
96.54 |
2010-11-11 |
| 40. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
97.63 |
1.0178 |
0.0320 |
207 |
1 |
97.63 |
2010-11-12 |
| 41. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
97.22 |
1.0601 |
-0.0163 |
256 |
2 |
88.69 |
2010-09-29 |
| 42. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
97.07 |
1.0511 |
-0.0039 |
252 |
1 |
97.07 |
2010-11-30 |
| 43. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
96.55 |
1.0264 |
0.0092 |
191 |
1 |
96.55 |
2010-09-28 |
| 44. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
96.38 |
1.0332 |
0.0041 |
267 |
1 |
96.38 |
2010-11-15 |
| 45. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
95.99 |
1.1093 |
-0.0812 |
220 |
2 |
92.88 |
2010-11-29 |
| 46. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
95.91 |
1.0585 |
-0.0228 |
226 |
2 |
95.56 |
2010-12-09 |
| 47. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
95.90 |
1.0315 |
0.0007 |
193 |
1 |
95.90 |
2010-09-27 |
| 48. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
95.58 |
1.0131 |
0.0196 |
245 |
2 |
94.40 |
2010-10-28 |
| 49. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
95.34 |
1.0960 |
-0.0652 |
315 |
1 |
95.34 |
2010-09-23 |
| 50. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
95.17 |
1.0582 |
-0.0365 |
180 |
5 |
86.48 |
2010-11-30 |
| 51. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
95.09 |
1.0208 |
0.0031 |
231 |
3 |
92.02 |
2010-11-12 |
| 52. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
94.98 |
1.0529 |
-0.0275 |
373 |
1 |
94.98 |
2010-11-18 |
| 53. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
94.76 |
1.0302 |
0.0044 |
550 |
2 |
89.10 |
2010-09-24 |
| 54. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
94.70 |
1.0557 |
-0.0348 |
289 |
1 |
94.70 |
2010-11-17 |
| 55. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
94.14 |
1.0686 |
-0.0513 |
354 |
1 |
94.14 |
2010-10-25 |
| 56. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
94.12 |
1.0125 |
-0.0039 |
171 |
2 |
90.73 |
2010-10-06 |
| 57. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
93.57 |
0.9933 |
0.0216 |
450 |
1 |
93.57 |
2010-09-21 |
| 58. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
93.29 |
0.9574 |
0.0503 |
354 |
1 |
93.29 |
2013-03-10 |
| 59. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
92.34 |
1.0616 |
-0.0605 |
304 |
1 |
92.34 |
2010-11-16 |
| 60. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
92.30 |
1.0682 |
-0.0734 |
266 |
1 |
92.30 |
2010-11-22 |
| 61. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
92.05 |
0.9809 |
0.0062 |
209 |
1 |
92.05 |
2013-02-19 |
| 62. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
90.79 |
1.0901 |
-0.1107 |
288 |
2 |
90.52 |
2010-09-23 |
| 63. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
90.61 |
0.9804 |
-0.0048 |
227 |
1 |
90.61 |
2010-10-13 |
| 64. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
90.59 |
1.0427 |
-0.0666 |
269 |
1 |
90.59 |
2010-10-29 |
| 65. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
90.13 |
1.0461 |
-0.0737 |
318 |
3 |
83.93 |
2010-10-13 |
| 66. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
89.57 |
0.9775 |
-0.0003 |
473 |
1 |
89.57 |
2010-10-28 |
| 67. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
89.19 |
0.8948 |
0.0646 |
164 |
1 |
89.19 |
2010-09-20 |
| 68. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
89.13 |
1.0197 |
-0.0621 |
204 |
1 |
89.13 |
2010-11-12 |
| 69. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
88.28 |
1.0279 |
-0.0834 |
172 |
1 |
88.28 |
2010-11-03 |
| 70. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
88.21 |
1.0334 |
-0.0846 |
261 |
1 |
88.21 |
2010-11-11 |
| 71. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
88.04 |
0.9135 |
0.0429 |
393 |
1 |
88.04 |
2010-11-12 |
| 72. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
87.10 |
1.0132 |
-0.0752 |
371 |
1 |
87.10 |
2010-09-20 |
| 73. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
86.37 |
1.0419 |
-0.1093 |
341 |
1 |
86.37 |
2010-09-22 |
| 74. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
86.15 |
0.9500 |
-0.0212 |
287 |
2 |
79.34 |
2010-11-04 |
| 75. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
85.84 |
0.9866 |
-0.0624 |
308 |
1 |
85.84 |
2010-09-30 |
| 76. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
85.76 |
1.0640 |
-0.1353 |
210 |
1 |
85.76 |
2010-09-23 |
| 77. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
85.65 |
1.0341 |
-0.1130 |
273 |
2 |
84.31 |
2010-09-29 |
| 78. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
85.63 |
0.9787 |
-0.0538 |
364 |
1 |
85.63 |
2010-09-20 |
| 79. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
85.46 |
1.0590 |
-0.1405 |
250 |
1 |
85.46 |
2010-10-05 |
| 80. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
85.25 |
0.9594 |
-0.0438 |
258 |
1 |
85.25 |
2010-09-21 |
| 81. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
84.97 |
1.0481 |
-0.1415 |
255 |
1 |
84.97 |
2010-09-23 |
| 82. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
84.83 |
1.0035 |
-0.0901 |
310 |
1 |
84.83 |
2010-09-20 |
| 83. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
83.63 |
1.0362 |
-0.1301 |
437 |
1 |
83.63 |
2010-10-22 |
| 84. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
82.93 |
0.9338 |
-0.0317 |
326 |
1 |
82.93 |
2010-10-21 |
| 85. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
82.64 |
0.8986 |
-0.0112 |
205 |
1 |
82.64 |
2010-09-21 |
| 86. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
80.81 |
1.0873 |
-0.2210 |
243 |
1 |
80.81 |
2010-09-21 |
| 87. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
80.28 |
0.9884 |
-0.1224 |
267 |
1 |
80.28 |
2010-09-20 |
| 88. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
80.09 |
0.9980 |
-0.1273 |
341 |
1 |
80.09 |
2010-09-28 |
| 89. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
80.07 |
0.9761 |
-0.1103 |
227 |
1 |
80.07 |
2010-09-23 |
| 90. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
79.49 |
1.0414 |
-0.1873 |
234 |
1 |
79.49 |
2010-09-27 |
| 91. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
79.28 |
1.0504 |
-0.1958 |
225 |
1 |
79.28 |
2010-10-11 |
| 92. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
79.04 |
1.0026 |
-0.1481 |
200 |
1 |
79.04 |
2010-09-22 |
| 93. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
78.81 |
1.0845 |
-0.2380 |
212 |
2 |
74.84 |
2010-09-23 |
| 94. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
78.31 |
1.0086 |
-0.1707 |
218 |
1 |
78.31 |
2010-09-22 |
| 95. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
78.30 |
1.0103 |
-0.1739 |
209 |
1 |
78.30 |
2010-09-24 |
| 96. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
77.90 |
0.9763 |
-0.1391 |
143 |
1 |
77.90 |
2010-09-23 |
| 97. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
77.36 |
0.9824 |
-0.1375 |
352 |
1 |
77.36 |
2010-09-20 |
| 98. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
77.17 |
0.9745 |
-0.1426 |
388 |
1 |
77.17 |
2010-09-21 |
| 99. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
76.96 |
0.9765 |
-0.1496 |
269 |
1 |
76.96 |
2010-11-15 |
| 100. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
76.47 |
0.9374 |
-0.1125 |
232 |
1 |
76.47 |
2010-09-23 |
| 101. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
75.57 |
0.9143 |
-0.1008 |
300 |
1 |
75.57 |
2010-09-20 |
| 102. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
75.04 |
1.0392 |
-0.2274 |
258 |
1 |
75.04 |
2010-09-21 |
| 103. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
74.81 |
0.9676 |
-0.1582 |
247 |
1 |
74.81 |
2010-09-20 |
| 104. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
74.17 |
0.9932 |
-0.1883 |
281 |
1 |
74.17 |
2010-09-20 |
| 105. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
74.15 |
0.9756 |
-0.1792 |
223 |
1 |
74.15 |
2010-09-23 |
| 106. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
73.46 |
0.7904 |
0.0036 |
149 |
1 |
73.46 |
2010-11-11 |
| 107. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
72.33 |
0.9309 |
-0.1434 |
376 |
1 |
72.33 |
2010-10-14 |
| 108. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
72.05 |
0.9713 |
-0.1983 |
193 |
1 |
72.05 |
2010-10-06 |
| 109. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
71.69 |
0.9869 |
-0.2200 |
193 |
1 |
71.69 |
2010-09-24 |
| 110. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
71.22 |
1.0079 |
-0.2435 |
273 |
1 |
71.22 |
2010-09-22 |
| 111. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
69.49 |
0.9269 |
-0.1724 |
269 |
1 |
69.49 |
2010-10-14 |
| 112. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
68.85 |
0.9503 |
-0.2173 |
211 |
1 |
68.85 |
2010-11-11 |
| 113. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
64.39 |
0.8172 |
-0.1301 |
204 |
1 |
64.39 |
2010-09-23 |
| 114. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
63.45 |
0.9704 |
-0.2892 |
254 |
1 |
63.45 |
2010-09-21 |
| 115. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
55.68 |
0.9791 |
-0.3887 |
154 |
1 |
55.68 |
2010-10-06 |
| 116. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
55.36 |
0.7852 |
-0.1977 |
154 |
1 |
55.36 |
2010-09-21 |
| 117. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
54.66 |
0.9299 |
-0.3523 |
168 |
1 |
54.66 |
2010-09-23 |
| 118. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
31.69 |
0.8778 |
-0.5389 |
285 |
1 |
31.69 |
2010-10-19 |