| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
91.65 |
0.9303 |
0.3594 |
176 |
1 |
91.65 |
2013-06-20 |
| 2. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
91.38 |
1.0905 |
0.2334 |
210 |
1 |
91.38 |
2013-07-01 |
| 3. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
90.34 |
1.0595 |
0.2198 |
379 |
1 |
90.34 |
2013-05-03 |
| 4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
89.52 |
1.0496 |
0.2150 |
314 |
1 |
89.52 |
2013-05-03 |
| 5. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
88.21 |
1.0565 |
0.1875 |
247 |
1 |
88.21 |
2013-06-23 |
| 6. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
88.11 |
1.0297 |
0.2143 |
249 |
1 |
88.11 |
2013-05-10 |
| 7. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
87.47 |
1.0885 |
0.1508 |
315 |
1 |
87.47 |
2013-06-20 |
| 8. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
86.56 |
1.0485 |
0.2093 |
153 |
1 |
86.56 |
2013-05-03 |
| 9. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
86.50 |
1.0630 |
0.1921 |
397 |
1 |
86.50 |
2013-05-03 |
| 10. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
85.95 |
1.0109 |
0.2044 |
276 |
1 |
85.95 |
2013-05-10 |
| 11. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
85.54 |
1.1081 |
0.1351 |
206 |
1 |
85.54 |
2013-06-20 |
| 12. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
85.30 |
1.0292 |
0.1746 |
262 |
1 |
85.30 |
2013-06-20 |
| 13. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
84.40 |
1.0398 |
0.1420 |
110 |
1 |
84.40 |
2013-06-20 |
| 14. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
84.03 |
1.0441 |
0.1445 |
252 |
1 |
84.03 |
2013-05-03 |
| 15. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
83.11 |
1.0211 |
0.1834 |
213 |
1 |
83.11 |
2013-05-03 |
| 16. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
82.68 |
0.9763 |
0.1911 |
289 |
1 |
82.68 |
2013-06-20 |
| 17. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
81.72 |
0.9881 |
0.2063 |
424 |
1 |
81.72 |
2013-05-10 |
| 18. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
81.64 |
0.9922 |
0.2017 |
341 |
1 |
81.64 |
2013-05-03 |
| 19. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
81.52 |
1.0352 |
0.1190 |
341 |
2 |
78.34 |
2013-06-20 |
| 20. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
81.51 |
1.0666 |
0.0843 |
297 |
1 |
81.51 |
2013-05-03 |
| 21. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
81.01 |
0.9636 |
0.1801 |
254 |
1 |
81.01 |
2013-05-03 |
| 22. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
80.82 |
1.0203 |
0.1242 |
261 |
1 |
80.82 |
2013-06-20 |
| 23. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
80.47 |
1.0799 |
0.0527 |
243 |
1 |
80.47 |
2013-05-03 |
| 24. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
79.93 |
1.0257 |
0.1091 |
401 |
1 |
79.93 |
2013-05-03 |
| 25. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
79.84 |
1.0141 |
0.1531 |
381 |
1 |
79.84 |
2013-05-03 |
| 26. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
79.79 |
0.9740 |
0.1485 |
209 |
1 |
79.79 |
2013-05-03 |
| 27. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
79.64 |
1.0679 |
0.0768 |
177 |
1 |
79.64 |
2013-06-20 |
| 28. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
79.30 |
1.0016 |
0.1132 |
218 |
1 |
79.30 |
2013-06-20 |
| 29. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
79.26 |
0.9966 |
0.1219 |
259 |
1 |
79.26 |
2013-06-20 |
| 30. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
79.19 |
0.9893 |
0.1288 |
323 |
1 |
79.19 |
2013-05-03 |
| 31. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
79.05 |
0.9601 |
0.1605 |
308 |
1 |
79.05 |
2013-05-03 |
| 32. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
79.01 |
1.0251 |
0.0880 |
261 |
1 |
79.01 |
2013-05-03 |
| 33. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
78.97 |
0.9769 |
0.1358 |
263 |
1 |
78.97 |
2013-06-20 |
| 34. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
78.82 |
1.0535 |
0.0940 |
326 |
1 |
78.82 |
2013-06-20 |
| 35. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
78.51 |
1.0768 |
0.0715 |
295 |
1 |
78.51 |
2013-06-20 |
| 36. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
78.44 |
1.0349 |
0.0717 |
234 |
1 |
78.44 |
2013-06-20 |
| 37. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
78.20 |
0.8775 |
0.2300 |
443 |
1 |
78.20 |
2013-06-20 |
| 38. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
78.00 |
0.9866 |
0.1108 |
218 |
3 |
70.34 |
2013-06-20 |
| 39. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
77.55 |
0.9168 |
0.1790 |
240 |
2 |
74.64 |
2013-06-20 |
| 40. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
77.25 |
1.0165 |
0.0775 |
392 |
1 |
77.25 |
2013-05-03 |
| 41. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
77.04 |
0.9504 |
0.1318 |
263 |
2 |
75.06 |
2013-06-20 |
| 42. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
76.97 |
1.0320 |
0.0914 |
293 |
1 |
76.97 |
2013-05-03 |
| 43. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
76.71 |
1.0528 |
0.0248 |
201 |
2 |
73.42 |
2013-06-20 |
| 44. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
76.54 |
1.0172 |
0.0978 |
341 |
1 |
76.54 |
2013-06-20 |
| 45. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
76.16 |
1.0545 |
0.0607 |
416 |
1 |
76.16 |
2013-05-03 |
| 46. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
75.61 |
0.9754 |
0.0973 |
362 |
1 |
75.61 |
2013-05-03 |
| 47. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
75.60 |
1.0201 |
0.0470 |
303 |
2 |
65.64 |
2013-06-20 |
| 48. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
75.45 |
0.8971 |
0.1729 |
266 |
1 |
75.45 |
2013-05-03 |
| 49. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
75.45 |
0.9879 |
0.0853 |
450 |
1 |
75.45 |
2013-06-20 |
| 50. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
75.24 |
1.0120 |
0.0488 |
290 |
1 |
75.24 |
2013-06-20 |
| 51. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
74.86 |
1.0387 |
0.0498 |
239 |
1 |
74.86 |
2013-05-03 |
| 52. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
74.77 |
1.0516 |
0.0029 |
281 |
1 |
74.77 |
2013-06-20 |
| 53. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
74.74 |
0.9863 |
0.0723 |
339 |
1 |
74.74 |
2013-05-10 |
| 54. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
74.70 |
1.0515 |
0.0005 |
250 |
1 |
74.70 |
2013-07-01 |
| 55. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
74.50 |
0.9213 |
0.1300 |
295 |
1 |
74.50 |
2013-05-03 |
| 56. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
74.03 |
0.9578 |
0.0860 |
281 |
1 |
74.03 |
2013-06-20 |
| 57. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
72.30 |
0.9911 |
0.0254 |
212 |
1 |
72.30 |
2013-06-20 |
| 58. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
71.94 |
1.0060 |
0.0037 |
171 |
1 |
71.94 |
2013-05-03 |
| 59. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
71.23 |
0.9593 |
0.0497 |
398 |
1 |
71.23 |
2013-06-20 |
| 60. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
71.02 |
0.9936 |
0.0071 |
311 |
1 |
71.02 |
2013-06-20 |
| 61. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
70.61 |
0.9904 |
0.0456 |
203 |
1 |
70.61 |
2013-06-20 |
| 62. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
70.39 |
0.9691 |
0.0226 |
223 |
1 |
70.39 |
2013-06-20 |
| 63. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
70.30 |
0.9233 |
0.0596 |
168 |
1 |
70.30 |
2013-06-20 |
| 64. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
69.45 |
1.0125 |
0.0041 |
413 |
1 |
69.45 |
2013-06-20 |
| 65. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
69.38 |
1.0124 |
-0.0369 |
204 |
1 |
69.38 |
2013-07-04 |
| 66. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
68.88 |
0.9468 |
0.0234 |
276 |
1 |
68.88 |
2013-05-03 |
| 67. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
68.59 |
0.8958 |
0.0753 |
322 |
1 |
68.59 |
2013-06-20 |
| 68. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
66.12 |
0.9164 |
0.0195 |
305 |
1 |
66.12 |
2013-06-20 |
| 69. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
65.14 |
0.9706 |
-0.0489 |
216 |
1 |
65.14 |
2012-08-23 |
| 70. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
63.55 |
1.0334 |
-0.1451 |
131 |
1 |
63.55 |
2012-08-23 |
| 71. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
63.49 |
1.0384 |
-0.1539 |
183 |
1 |
63.49 |
2012-08-20 |
| 72. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
63.45 |
1.0684 |
-0.1454 |
253 |
1 |
63.45 |
2012-08-23 |
| 73. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
63.30 |
0.9540 |
-0.0648 |
285 |
1 |
63.30 |
2012-08-23 |
| 74. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
63.15 |
1.0031 |
-0.0808 |
304 |
1 |
63.15 |
2012-10-18 |
| 75. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
63.15 |
1.0598 |
-0.1765 |
196 |
1 |
63.15 |
2012-08-21 |
| 76. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
63.14 |
1.0132 |
-0.1329 |
143 |
1 |
63.14 |
2012-08-23 |
| 77. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
62.96 |
0.9485 |
-0.0599 |
291 |
1 |
62.96 |
2012-08-23 |
| 78. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
62.69 |
0.9894 |
-0.1027 |
323 |
1 |
62.69 |
2012-08-23 |
| 79. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
62.62 |
1.1018 |
-0.2267 |
220 |
1 |
62.62 |
2012-08-23 |
| 80. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
62.58 |
1.0883 |
-0.1754 |
303 |
1 |
62.58 |
2012-08-20 |
| 81. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
62.36 |
0.9726 |
-0.1010 |
154 |
1 |
62.36 |
2012-08-23 |
| 82. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
62.26 |
1.0025 |
-0.1265 |
256 |
2 |
60.95 |
2012-08-23 |
| 83. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
61.70 |
0.9905 |
-0.1148 |
377 |
1 |
61.70 |
2012-08-23 |
| 84. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
61.60 |
1.0131 |
-0.1502 |
225 |
1 |
61.60 |
2012-08-23 |
| 85. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
61.55 |
1.0218 |
-0.1587 |
268 |
1 |
61.55 |
2012-08-23 |
| 86. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
61.48 |
0.9905 |
-0.0942 |
337 |
1 |
61.48 |
2012-10-18 |
| 87. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
61.24 |
1.0477 |
-0.1836 |
360 |
1 |
61.24 |
2012-08-23 |
| 88. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
61.16 |
1.0385 |
-0.1797 |
230 |
2 |
59.21 |
2012-08-28 |
| 89. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
60.75 |
1.0795 |
-0.1942 |
226 |
1 |
60.75 |
2012-08-23 |
| 90. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
60.69 |
1.0201 |
-0.1623 |
375 |
1 |
60.69 |
2012-08-23 |
| 91. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
60.68 |
0.9965 |
-0.1424 |
277 |
1 |
60.68 |
2012-08-20 |
| 92. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
60.52 |
0.9187 |
-0.0768 |
118 |
1 |
60.52 |
2012-08-20 |
| 93. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
60.44 |
0.9675 |
-0.1079 |
383 |
1 |
60.44 |
2012-08-20 |
| 94. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
59.86 |
0.9734 |
-0.1318 |
289 |
1 |
59.86 |
2012-08-23 |
| 95. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
59.85 |
1.0088 |
-0.1284 |
396 |
1 |
59.85 |
2012-08-23 |
| 96. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
59.63 |
1.0314 |
-0.1958 |
172 |
1 |
59.63 |
2012-08-23 |
| 97. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
59.59 |
1.0083 |
-0.1260 |
273 |
2 |
57.20 |
2012-08-23 |
| 98. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
59.26 |
1.0189 |
-0.1822 |
337 |
1 |
59.26 |
2012-08-23 |
| 99. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
59.23 |
1.0462 |
-0.2192 |
184 |
1 |
59.23 |
2012-08-21 |
| 100. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
58.48 |
1.0829 |
-0.2592 |
288 |
1 |
58.48 |
2012-08-20 |
| 101. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
58.43 |
1.0521 |
-0.2354 |
171 |
1 |
58.43 |
2012-08-20 |
| 102. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
57.81 |
0.9699 |
-0.1578 |
269 |
1 |
57.81 |
2012-08-23 |
| 103. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
57.54 |
1.0358 |
-0.1856 |
349 |
1 |
57.54 |
2012-08-23 |
| 104. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
57.31 |
1.0154 |
-0.1601 |
351 |
1 |
57.31 |
2012-08-23 |
| 105. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
56.81 |
0.9908 |
-0.1468 |
342 |
1 |
56.81 |
2012-08-21 |
| 106. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
56.15 |
0.9723 |
-0.1796 |
364 |
1 |
56.15 |
2012-08-20 |
| 107. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
55.87 |
1.0596 |
-0.2768 |
239 |
1 |
55.87 |
2012-08-23 |
| 108. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
55.71 |
0.9651 |
-0.1467 |
389 |
1 |
55.71 |
2012-08-23 |
| 109. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
55.63 |
0.9088 |
-0.1221 |
348 |
1 |
55.63 |
2012-08-23 |
| 110. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
55.16 |
1.0232 |
-0.2125 |
236 |
1 |
55.16 |
2012-08-23 |
| 111. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
55.11 |
1.0177 |
-0.2055 |
392 |
1 |
55.11 |
2012-08-20 |
| 112. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
54.85 |
0.9426 |
-0.1690 |
317 |
1 |
54.85 |
2012-08-20 |
| 113. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
54.82 |
1.0038 |
-0.2035 |
237 |
1 |
54.82 |
2012-08-23 |
| 114. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
54.28 |
0.9546 |
-0.1612 |
198 |
1 |
54.28 |
2012-08-23 |
| 115. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
54.22 |
0.9109 |
-0.1470 |
401 |
1 |
54.22 |
2012-08-23 |
| 116. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
54.16 |
1.0232 |
-0.2168 |
350 |
1 |
54.16 |
2012-08-20 |
| 117. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
53.86 |
0.9649 |
-0.2097 |
193 |
1 |
53.86 |
2012-08-20 |
| 118. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
53.31 |
0.9084 |
-0.1559 |
404 |
1 |
53.31 |
2012-08-20 |
| 119. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
52.99 |
0.9619 |
-0.2130 |
393 |
1 |
52.99 |
2012-08-23 |
| 120. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
51.12 |
0.8595 |
-0.1406 |
242 |
1 |
51.12 |
2012-08-20 |
| 121. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
49.19 |
1.0719 |
-0.3548 |
360 |
1 |
49.19 |
2012-08-21 |