| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
94.71 |
1.0577 |
0.2002 |
247 |
3 |
87.55 |
2011-05-10 |
| 2. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
92.59 |
1.0740 |
0.1973 |
264 |
1 |
92.59 |
2011-05-10 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
90.03 |
1.0799 |
0.1149 |
243 |
1 |
90.03 |
2011-05-08 |
| 4. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
87.72 |
1.0214 |
0.1447 |
269 |
1 |
87.72 |
2011-05-08 |
| 5. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
86.71 |
1.1323 |
0.0556 |
341 |
1 |
86.71 |
2012-06-08 |
| 6. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
85.63 |
1.1068 |
0.0730 |
393 |
1 |
85.63 |
2011-05-08 |
| 7. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
84.21 |
1.1018 |
0.0118 |
220 |
1 |
84.21 |
2012-06-08 |
| 8. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
84.21 |
1.0462 |
0.0681 |
184 |
1 |
84.21 |
2011-05-07 |
| 9. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
83.85 |
1.0201 |
0.0960 |
303 |
2 |
77.83 |
2011-05-07 |
| 10. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
83.79 |
1.0602 |
0.0584 |
389 |
1 |
83.79 |
2011-05-08 |
| 11. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
83.60 |
1.0529 |
0.0592 |
351 |
1 |
83.60 |
2011-05-08 |
| 12. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
83.57 |
1.0334 |
0.0717 |
131 |
1 |
83.57 |
2011-05-08 |
| 13. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
83.08 |
1.0943 |
0.0434 |
206 |
1 |
83.08 |
2011-05-10 |
| 14. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
82.57 |
0.9068 |
0.1896 |
225 |
1 |
82.57 |
2011-05-07 |
| 15. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
82.44 |
1.0863 |
0.0448 |
210 |
1 |
82.44 |
2011-05-10 |
| 16. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
82.36 |
0.9820 |
0.1132 |
274 |
1 |
82.36 |
2011-05-07 |
| 17. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
82.04 |
0.9088 |
0.1874 |
348 |
2 |
72.82 |
2011-05-10 |
| 18. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
81.29 |
1.0012 |
0.0824 |
260 |
1 |
81.29 |
2011-05-07 |
| 19. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
80.97 |
1.0391 |
0.0436 |
358 |
1 |
80.97 |
2011-05-07 |
| 20. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
80.74 |
1.0346 |
0.0807 |
244 |
2 |
78.83 |
2011-05-08 |
| 21. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
80.33 |
1.0396 |
0.0212 |
149 |
1 |
80.33 |
2011-05-10 |
| 22. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
80.21 |
1.0349 |
0.0305 |
234 |
2 |
78.60 |
2012-06-08 |
| 23. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
80.09 |
1.0719 |
0.0208 |
360 |
1 |
80.09 |
2011-05-10 |
| 24. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
80.00 |
1.1114 |
-0.0506 |
247 |
1 |
80.00 |
2011-05-07 |
| 25. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
79.85 |
1.0516 |
0.0092 |
281 |
2 |
75.24 |
2012-06-08 |
| 26. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
79.77 |
1.0679 |
0.0126 |
177 |
1 |
79.77 |
2012-06-08 |
| 27. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
79.45 |
1.0251 |
0.0292 |
261 |
2 |
77.10 |
2012-06-08 |
| 28. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
79.44 |
1.0189 |
0.0402 |
337 |
1 |
79.44 |
2011-05-10 |
| 29. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
79.10 |
1.0454 |
0.0030 |
255 |
1 |
79.10 |
2011-05-07 |
| 30. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
79.01 |
1.0684 |
0.0119 |
253 |
1 |
79.01 |
2011-05-08 |
| 31. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
78.38 |
1.0252 |
0.0101 |
176 |
2 |
77.63 |
2012-06-08 |
| 32. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
78.24 |
1.0523 |
-0.0166 |
256 |
2 |
74.50 |
2011-05-10 |
| 33. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
78.16 |
1.0214 |
0.0122 |
166 |
1 |
78.16 |
2011-05-08 |
| 34. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
78.05 |
0.9904 |
0.0874 |
203 |
1 |
78.05 |
2011-05-10 |
| 35. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
77.98 |
1.1162 |
-0.0385 |
189 |
1 |
77.98 |
2011-05-08 |
| 36. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
77.63 |
1.0595 |
-0.0252 |
379 |
1 |
77.63 |
2011-05-10 |
| 37. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
77.36 |
1.0168 |
0.0130 |
271 |
1 |
77.36 |
2011-05-10 |
| 38. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
77.22 |
0.9675 |
0.0680 |
383 |
2 |
72.46 |
2012-06-08 |
| 39. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
77.20 |
1.0109 |
0.0479 |
400 |
1 |
77.20 |
2011-05-07 |
| 40. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
76.83 |
0.9168 |
0.1058 |
240 |
2 |
65.58 |
2012-06-08 |
| 41. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
76.65 |
1.0545 |
0.0049 |
416 |
1 |
76.65 |
2011-05-08 |
| 42. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
76.64 |
1.0254 |
0.0335 |
217 |
1 |
76.64 |
2011-05-08 |
| 43. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
76.49 |
1.0201 |
0.0003 |
375 |
1 |
76.49 |
2011-05-08 |
| 44. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
76.42 |
0.8553 |
0.1552 |
174 |
1 |
76.42 |
2012-06-08 |
| 45. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
76.21 |
0.9758 |
0.0376 |
314 |
1 |
76.21 |
2011-05-07 |
| 46. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
75.73 |
1.0498 |
-0.0485 |
180 |
1 |
75.73 |
2011-05-08 |
| 47. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
75.55 |
0.9792 |
0.0631 |
265 |
1 |
75.55 |
2011-05-07 |
| 48. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
75.30 |
1.0533 |
-0.0262 |
257 |
1 |
75.30 |
2012-06-08 |
| 49. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
75.16 |
0.9763 |
0.0216 |
289 |
1 |
75.16 |
2011-05-07 |
| 50. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
75.15 |
0.9997 |
0.0024 |
382 |
2 |
73.81 |
2012-06-08 |
| 51. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
75.07 |
1.0429 |
-0.0472 |
259 |
1 |
75.07 |
2011-05-10 |
| 52. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
75.03 |
1.0596 |
-0.0652 |
239 |
2 |
74.81 |
2012-06-06 |
| 53. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
74.81 |
0.9632 |
0.0728 |
345 |
1 |
74.81 |
2012-06-08 |
| 54. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
74.69 |
1.0141 |
0.0144 |
304 |
1 |
74.69 |
2011-05-08 |
| 55. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
74.45 |
1.0787 |
-0.0913 |
237 |
1 |
74.45 |
2012-06-08 |
| 56. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
74.40 |
0.9670 |
0.0634 |
307 |
1 |
74.40 |
2011-05-08 |
| 57. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
74.31 |
1.0365 |
-0.0199 |
162 |
1 |
74.31 |
2011-05-08 |
| 58. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
74.18 |
0.9844 |
0.0060 |
293 |
1 |
74.18 |
2011-05-07 |
| 59. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
74.17 |
1.0426 |
-0.0581 |
323 |
1 |
74.17 |
2012-06-08 |
| 60. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
73.42 |
0.9089 |
0.0697 |
342 |
2 |
70.66 |
2011-05-07 |
| 61. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
73.31 |
0.9653 |
0.0168 |
394 |
1 |
73.31 |
2011-05-07 |
| 62. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
73.03 |
1.0232 |
-0.0177 |
236 |
1 |
73.03 |
2012-06-08 |
| 63. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
72.72 |
0.9353 |
0.0258 |
177 |
1 |
72.72 |
2011-05-08 |
| 64. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
72.53 |
1.0213 |
-0.0613 |
240 |
1 |
72.53 |
2011-05-08 |
| 65. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
72.45 |
0.9468 |
0.0152 |
276 |
1 |
72.45 |
2012-06-08 |
| 66. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
72.38 |
1.0033 |
-0.0491 |
189 |
1 |
72.38 |
2011-05-07 |
| 67. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
72.36 |
1.0068 |
-0.0427 |
358 |
1 |
72.36 |
2011-05-07 |
| 68. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
72.12 |
0.9785 |
-0.0179 |
335 |
1 |
72.12 |
2011-05-08 |
| 69. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
72.02 |
1.0487 |
-0.0975 |
231 |
1 |
72.02 |
2011-05-07 |
| 70. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
71.87 |
0.9833 |
-0.0274 |
355 |
1 |
71.87 |
2011-05-08 |
| 71. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
71.84 |
0.9991 |
-0.0447 |
225 |
1 |
71.84 |
2011-05-07 |
| 72. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
71.83 |
1.0016 |
-0.0527 |
218 |
1 |
71.83 |
2012-06-08 |
| 73. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
71.17 |
1.0154 |
-0.0208 |
351 |
1 |
71.17 |
2011-05-07 |
| 74. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
70.72 |
0.9697 |
-0.0310 |
249 |
1 |
70.72 |
2011-05-07 |
| 75. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
70.16 |
0.9805 |
-0.0446 |
292 |
1 |
70.16 |
2011-05-07 |
| 76. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
69.85 |
0.9964 |
-0.0694 |
203 |
2 |
66.72 |
2012-06-08 |
| 77. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
69.77 |
0.9513 |
-0.0216 |
354 |
1 |
69.77 |
2012-06-08 |
| 78. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
69.75 |
0.9635 |
-0.0320 |
389 |
1 |
69.75 |
2011-05-07 |
| 79. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
69.30 |
1.0150 |
-0.0464 |
325 |
1 |
69.30 |
2011-05-07 |
| 80. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
69.20 |
0.9893 |
-0.0711 |
323 |
1 |
69.20 |
2012-06-08 |
| 81. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
69.19 |
0.9572 |
0.0040 |
376 |
1 |
69.19 |
2011-05-08 |
| 82. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
68.95 |
0.9509 |
0.0022 |
225 |
1 |
68.95 |
2012-06-08 |
| 83. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
68.91 |
0.9557 |
-0.0349 |
331 |
1 |
68.91 |
2011-05-08 |
| 84. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
67.90 |
0.9612 |
-0.0602 |
256 |
1 |
67.90 |
2011-05-07 |
| 85. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
67.79 |
0.9905 |
-0.0832 |
377 |
1 |
67.79 |
2011-05-10 |
| 86. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
67.33 |
1.0042 |
-0.0694 |
352 |
1 |
67.33 |
2011-05-07 |
| 87. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
67.25 |
0.8935 |
0.0084 |
328 |
1 |
67.25 |
2011-05-07 |
| 88. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
67.20 |
1.0099 |
-0.1218 |
207 |
1 |
67.20 |
2011-05-07 |
| 89. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
66.97 |
1.0403 |
-0.1122 |
275 |
1 |
66.97 |
2011-05-08 |
| 90. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
66.34 |
0.8981 |
-0.0138 |
393 |
1 |
66.34 |
2011-05-08 |
| 91. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
66.11 |
0.9731 |
-0.1091 |
129 |
1 |
66.11 |
2011-05-08 |
| 92. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
66.01 |
0.8595 |
0.0181 |
242 |
1 |
66.01 |
2012-06-08 |
| 93. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
66.00 |
0.9278 |
-0.0500 |
295 |
1 |
66.00 |
2011-05-08 |
| 94. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
65.55 |
0.9155 |
0.0028 |
168 |
1 |
65.55 |
2012-06-08 |
| 95. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
65.21 |
1.0034 |
-0.1401 |
302 |
1 |
65.21 |
2011-05-08 |
| 96. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
65.14 |
1.0398 |
-0.1870 |
110 |
1 |
65.14 |
2011-05-08 |
| 97. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
64.94 |
0.9671 |
-0.0816 |
379 |
1 |
64.94 |
2012-06-08 |
| 98. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
64.19 |
0.8914 |
-0.0401 |
366 |
1 |
64.19 |
2011-05-07 |
| 99. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
64.15 |
0.9120 |
-0.0282 |
436 |
1 |
64.15 |
2011-05-10 |
| 100. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
63.90 |
0.9213 |
-0.0736 |
295 |
1 |
63.90 |
2012-06-08 |
| 101. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
63.89 |
0.9776 |
-0.1305 |
308 |
1 |
63.89 |
2011-05-08 |
| 102. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
63.88 |
0.8958 |
-0.0442 |
322 |
1 |
63.88 |
2012-06-08 |
| 103. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
63.82 |
0.9514 |
-0.1053 |
237 |
1 |
63.82 |
2012-06-08 |
| 104. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
62.26 |
1.0574 |
-0.2045 |
205 |
1 |
62.26 |
2011-05-08 |
| 105. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
61.25 |
0.9871 |
-0.1396 |
209 |
1 |
61.25 |
2011-05-08 |
| 106. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
55.57 |
0.8382 |
-0.1025 |
268 |
1 |
55.57 |
2011-05-07 |
| 107. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
47.42 |
0.8467 |
-0.1969 |
343 |
1 |
47.42 |
2011-05-08 |