| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
71.66 |
1.1162 |
0.1343 |
189 |
1 |
71.66 |
2010-11-03 |
| 2. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
70.57 |
1.0487 |
0.1372 |
231 |
1 |
70.57 |
2010-11-03 |
| 3. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
70.10 |
1.0787 |
0.1029 |
237 |
1 |
70.10 |
2010-10-12 |
| 4. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
68.49 |
1.0016 |
0.1492 |
218 |
1 |
68.49 |
2010-11-10 |
| 5. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
67.69 |
1.0907 |
0.0538 |
303 |
2 |
63.76 |
2010-11-10 |
| 6. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
66.98 |
1.0523 |
0.0731 |
256 |
1 |
66.98 |
2010-09-27 |
| 7. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
66.06 |
0.9855 |
0.1618 |
258 |
1 |
66.06 |
2010-11-01 |
| 8. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
65.66 |
0.9820 |
0.1280 |
267 |
1 |
65.66 |
2010-11-25 |
| 9. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
65.47 |
1.1215 |
0.0064 |
200 |
2 |
63.46 |
2010-10-21 |
| 10. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
64.77 |
1.0095 |
0.0814 |
316 |
1 |
64.77 |
2010-11-25 |
| 11. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
64.44 |
1.0391 |
0.0534 |
358 |
1 |
64.44 |
2010-10-11 |
| 12. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
64.35 |
1.0337 |
0.0505 |
214 |
2 |
61.55 |
2010-10-21 |
| 13. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
64.35 |
1.0012 |
0.0869 |
260 |
1 |
64.35 |
2010-10-13 |
| 14. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
64.14 |
1.0167 |
0.0713 |
378 |
1 |
64.14 |
2010-11-02 |
| 15. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
63.66 |
1.0608 |
0.0455 |
258 |
2 |
59.91 |
2010-10-20 |
| 16. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
63.50 |
1.0515 |
0.0169 |
250 |
1 |
63.50 |
2010-10-16 |
| 17. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
63.40 |
0.9676 |
0.1093 |
442 |
1 |
63.40 |
2010-10-25 |
| 18. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
63.23 |
1.0062 |
0.0595 |
288 |
1 |
63.23 |
2010-10-10 |
| 19. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.98 |
1.1016 |
-0.0401 |
233 |
1 |
62.98 |
2010-10-09 |
| 20. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
62.80 |
1.0197 |
0.0358 |
226 |
1 |
62.80 |
2010-10-19 |
| 21. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
62.61 |
1.0883 |
-0.0011 |
303 |
2 |
60.35 |
2010-10-25 |
| 22. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
62.46 |
1.0885 |
-0.0010 |
341 |
1 |
62.46 |
2010-10-14 |
| 23. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
62.46 |
1.0668 |
-0.0117 |
350 |
1 |
62.46 |
2010-10-18 |
| 24. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
62.39 |
1.0288 |
0.0547 |
300 |
3 |
58.50 |
2010-10-11 |
| 25. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
62.25 |
0.9653 |
0.0920 |
394 |
2 |
59.23 |
2010-10-16 |
| 26. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
62.06 |
0.9045 |
0.1416 |
235 |
2 |
58.26 |
2010-10-23 |
| 27. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
62.05 |
1.0375 |
0.0541 |
200 |
2 |
61.09 |
2011-08-17 |
| 28. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
62.01 |
0.9965 |
0.0487 |
310 |
1 |
62.01 |
2011-08-17 |
| 29. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
61.90 |
0.9792 |
0.1022 |
265 |
1 |
61.90 |
2010-10-13 |
| 30. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
61.73 |
1.0389 |
0.0029 |
318 |
1 |
61.73 |
2010-09-28 |
| 31. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
61.66 |
0.9614 |
0.0805 |
292 |
3 |
59.27 |
2010-11-21 |
| 32. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
61.64 |
1.0993 |
-0.0628 |
265 |
1 |
61.64 |
2010-10-13 |
| 33. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
61.57 |
0.9844 |
0.0578 |
293 |
1 |
61.57 |
2010-11-21 |
| 34. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
61.52 |
0.9785 |
0.0612 |
335 |
1 |
61.52 |
2010-10-10 |
| 35. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
61.18 |
0.9814 |
0.0887 |
364 |
1 |
61.18 |
2010-09-26 |
| 36. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
61.15 |
1.0063 |
0.0243 |
371 |
1 |
61.15 |
2010-09-28 |
| 37. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
61.14 |
1.0696 |
-0.0430 |
226 |
1 |
61.14 |
2010-10-14 |
| 38. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
61.06 |
0.9726 |
0.0497 |
154 |
1 |
61.06 |
2010-10-11 |
| 39. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
60.89 |
0.9912 |
0.0615 |
237 |
1 |
60.89 |
2010-10-23 |
| 40. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
60.83 |
0.9668 |
0.1006 |
383 |
2 |
58.58 |
2010-10-16 |
| 41. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
60.76 |
0.9293 |
0.0951 |
355 |
1 |
60.76 |
2010-10-20 |
| 42. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
60.75 |
0.9612 |
0.0622 |
256 |
1 |
60.75 |
2010-10-14 |
| 43. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
60.71 |
1.0531 |
0.0077 |
272 |
1 |
60.71 |
2010-10-23 |
| 44. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
60.30 |
0.9303 |
0.0791 |
176 |
1 |
60.30 |
2010-11-10 |
| 45. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
60.24 |
0.9398 |
0.0842 |
419 |
1 |
60.24 |
2010-10-21 |
| 46. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
60.17 |
1.0426 |
-0.0298 |
323 |
1 |
60.17 |
2010-09-28 |
| 47. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
60.16 |
1.0203 |
-0.0036 |
261 |
1 |
60.16 |
2010-11-03 |
| 48. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
60.14 |
1.0090 |
0.0478 |
282 |
1 |
60.14 |
2010-10-19 |
| 49. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
60.06 |
0.9866 |
0.0213 |
218 |
1 |
60.06 |
2010-10-08 |
| 50. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
60.06 |
0.9376 |
0.0794 |
367 |
1 |
60.06 |
2010-11-04 |
| 51. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
60.02 |
0.8753 |
0.1449 |
427 |
1 |
60.02 |
2010-10-19 |
| 52. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
59.92 |
1.0619 |
-0.0491 |
354 |
1 |
59.92 |
2010-11-25 |
| 53. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
59.83 |
0.9905 |
0.0486 |
337 |
1 |
59.83 |
2010-10-10 |
| 54. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
59.60 |
1.0214 |
0.0249 |
281 |
1 |
59.60 |
2010-10-11 |
| 55. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
59.53 |
0.9811 |
0.0242 |
272 |
2 |
53.84 |
2010-10-09 |
| 56. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
59.46 |
0.9893 |
0.0122 |
323 |
1 |
59.46 |
2010-10-09 |
| 57. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
59.45 |
1.0596 |
-0.0605 |
239 |
2 |
58.60 |
2010-10-16 |
| 58. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
59.26 |
1.0555 |
-0.0561 |
363 |
1 |
59.26 |
2010-09-30 |
| 59. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
59.25 |
0.9684 |
0.0321 |
388 |
1 |
59.25 |
2010-09-30 |
| 60. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
59.23 |
0.9865 |
0.0121 |
276 |
1 |
59.23 |
2010-11-10 |
| 61. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
59.08 |
1.0240 |
-0.0317 |
256 |
1 |
59.08 |
2010-10-11 |
| 62. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
59.05 |
1.0077 |
0.0280 |
250 |
1 |
59.05 |
2010-09-24 |
| 63. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
59.00 |
1.0053 |
-0.0137 |
232 |
1 |
59.00 |
2010-10-23 |
| 64. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
58.81 |
0.9239 |
0.0730 |
193 |
1 |
58.81 |
2010-10-09 |
| 65. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
58.77 |
1.0214 |
-0.0372 |
166 |
1 |
58.77 |
2010-10-16 |
| 66. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
58.56 |
1.0714 |
-0.0943 |
129 |
1 |
58.56 |
2010-10-18 |
| 67. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
58.55 |
0.9879 |
0.0067 |
450 |
1 |
58.55 |
2010-09-23 |
| 68. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
58.54 |
1.0120 |
-0.0271 |
290 |
1 |
58.54 |
2010-10-09 |
| 69. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
58.41 |
1.0441 |
-0.0193 |
316 |
1 |
58.41 |
2010-11-01 |
| 70. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
58.32 |
0.8442 |
0.1418 |
265 |
1 |
58.32 |
2010-09-28 |
| 71. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
58.18 |
0.9786 |
-0.0042 |
193 |
1 |
58.18 |
2010-09-30 |
| 72. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
57.94 |
0.9148 |
0.0621 |
317 |
3 |
56.98 |
2010-11-01 |
| 73. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
57.77 |
1.0004 |
-0.0339 |
212 |
1 |
57.77 |
2011-08-17 |
| 74. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
57.59 |
1.0662 |
-0.0590 |
407 |
1 |
57.59 |
2010-10-21 |
| 75. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
57.54 |
0.9851 |
-0.0143 |
317 |
1 |
57.54 |
2010-10-18 |
| 76. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
57.42 |
0.9212 |
0.0487 |
323 |
1 |
57.42 |
2010-10-09 |
| 77. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
57.40 |
0.9072 |
0.0574 |
237 |
1 |
57.40 |
2010-10-14 |
| 78. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
57.14 |
1.0261 |
-0.0249 |
410 |
1 |
57.14 |
2010-10-02 |
| 79. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
56.95 |
1.0060 |
-0.0521 |
171 |
1 |
56.95 |
2010-10-21 |
| 80. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
56.92 |
0.9529 |
0.0458 |
269 |
1 |
56.92 |
2011-08-17 |
| 81. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
56.67 |
0.9678 |
0.0207 |
445 |
1 |
56.67 |
2010-11-04 |
| 82. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
56.46 |
0.9964 |
-0.0461 |
203 |
1 |
56.46 |
2010-09-26 |
| 83. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
56.14 |
0.8878 |
0.0568 |
346 |
1 |
56.14 |
2010-11-02 |
| 84. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
56.01 |
1.0109 |
-0.0355 |
400 |
1 |
56.01 |
2010-10-10 |
| 85. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
55.95 |
0.8826 |
0.0603 |
296 |
1 |
55.95 |
2010-10-20 |
| 86. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
55.38 |
0.9127 |
0.0168 |
252 |
1 |
55.38 |
2010-10-14 |
| 87. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
55.32 |
1.1114 |
-0.1833 |
247 |
1 |
55.32 |
2010-09-30 |
| 88. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
55.30 |
0.9597 |
-0.0252 |
347 |
1 |
55.30 |
2010-11-02 |
| 89. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
55.27 |
1.0379 |
-0.0731 |
245 |
1 |
55.27 |
2010-10-25 |
| 90. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
55.23 |
0.9074 |
0.0283 |
396 |
1 |
55.23 |
2010-10-12 |
| 91. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
54.90 |
1.0150 |
-0.0424 |
325 |
1 |
54.90 |
2010-09-30 |
| 92. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
54.76 |
1.0073 |
-0.0781 |
369 |
1 |
54.76 |
2010-11-02 |
| 93. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
54.22 |
0.9546 |
-0.0113 |
198 |
1 |
54.22 |
2010-11-03 |
| 94. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
54.18 |
0.8933 |
0.0244 |
363 |
1 |
54.18 |
2010-11-03 |
| 95. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
54.06 |
0.9278 |
-0.0158 |
295 |
2 |
49.30 |
2010-10-14 |
| 96. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
54.04 |
0.9651 |
-0.0204 |
389 |
1 |
54.04 |
2010-10-25 |
| 97. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
53.89 |
1.0189 |
-0.1092 |
337 |
1 |
53.89 |
2010-10-09 |
| 98. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
53.78 |
1.0297 |
-0.1264 |
249 |
1 |
53.78 |
2010-10-12 |
| 99. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
53.78 |
1.0506 |
-0.1173 |
277 |
1 |
53.78 |
2010-09-23 |
| 100. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
53.76 |
0.9089 |
-0.0008 |
342 |
1 |
53.76 |
2010-09-23 |
| 101. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
53.60 |
0.8467 |
0.0789 |
343 |
2 |
52.84 |
2010-11-10 |
| 102. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
53.58 |
0.9176 |
0.0173 |
267 |
1 |
53.58 |
2010-10-13 |
| 103. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
53.21 |
0.9310 |
-0.0401 |
188 |
1 |
53.21 |
2010-09-26 |
| 104. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
52.89 |
0.9233 |
-0.0423 |
168 |
1 |
52.89 |
2010-09-26 |
| 105. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
52.69 |
1.0441 |
-0.1567 |
252 |
1 |
52.69 |
2010-09-23 |
| 106. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
52.43 |
0.9763 |
-0.0953 |
289 |
1 |
52.43 |
2010-09-24 |
| 107. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
52.33 |
0.9776 |
-0.0976 |
308 |
1 |
52.33 |
2010-09-24 |
| 108. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
52.28 |
0.9691 |
-0.0907 |
223 |
1 |
52.28 |
2010-09-27 |
| 109. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
52.12 |
0.9504 |
-0.0796 |
263 |
1 |
52.12 |
2010-10-09 |
| 110. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
51.36 |
0.9157 |
-0.0476 |
350 |
1 |
51.36 |
2010-10-02 |
| 111. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
50.84 |
0.9646 |
-0.1111 |
264 |
1 |
50.84 |
2010-10-02 |
| 112. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
50.75 |
0.8961 |
-0.0467 |
189 |
1 |
50.75 |
2010-11-25 |
| 113. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
50.45 |
0.8553 |
-0.0127 |
174 |
1 |
50.45 |
2010-10-18 |
| 114. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
50.41 |
0.8914 |
-0.0436 |
366 |
1 |
50.41 |
2010-10-20 |
| 115. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
50.40 |
0.9672 |
-0.1139 |
396 |
1 |
50.40 |
2010-10-02 |
| 116. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
48.85 |
0.8353 |
-0.0074 |
283 |
1 |
48.85 |
2010-10-09 |
| 117. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
48.36 |
1.0388 |
-0.1952 |
243 |
1 |
48.36 |
2010-09-23 |
| 118. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
45.39 |
0.9365 |
-0.1737 |
248 |
1 |
45.39 |
2010-10-12 |
| 119. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
45.25 |
0.8951 |
-0.1339 |
193 |
1 |
45.25 |
2010-09-27 |