| 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... |
113.28 |
1.0476 |
0.2187 |
110 |
1 |
113.28 |
2008-11-10 |
| 2. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
111.48 |
1.0333 |
0.2144 |
176 |
1 |
111.48 |
2008-11-10 |
| 3. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
109.14 |
1.0195 |
0.2079 |
239 |
1 |
109.14 |
2013-05-14 |
| 4. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
107.68 |
1.0461 |
0.1599 |
318 |
1 |
107.68 |
2013-05-14 |
| 5. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
106.10 |
1.0511 |
0.1375 |
252 |
1 |
106.10 |
2008-11-10 |
| 6. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
104.80 |
0.9183 |
0.2561 |
308 |
2 |
93.26 |
2008-11-10 |
| 7. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
103.59 |
1.0686 |
0.0911 |
354 |
2 |
93.18 |
2008-11-10 |
| 8. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
103.25 |
1.0264 |
0.1291 |
191 |
1 |
103.25 |
2009-06-29 |
| 9. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
102.25 |
0.9143 |
0.2310 |
300 |
2 |
89.90 |
2008-11-10 |
| 10. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
102.05 |
0.9926 |
0.1556 |
413 |
1 |
102.05 |
2011-09-22 |
| 11. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
99.77 |
1.0267 |
0.0912 |
261 |
1 |
99.77 |
2008-11-10 |
| 12. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
98.46 |
0.9976 |
0.1046 |
212 |
1 |
98.46 |
2013-05-14 |
| 13. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
98.24 |
1.0039 |
0.1023 |
255 |
1 |
98.24 |
2011-09-22 |
| 14. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
97.99 |
1.0873 |
0.0089 |
243 |
2 |
93.68 |
2011-09-22 |
| 15. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
96.73 |
1.0676 |
0.0154 |
456 |
1 |
96.73 |
2008-11-12 |
| 16. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
96.44 |
1.0103 |
0.0694 |
209 |
1 |
96.44 |
2011-09-22 |
| 17. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
95.73 |
0.9931 |
0.0791 |
339 |
1 |
95.73 |
2008-11-10 |
| 18. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
95.69 |
0.9332 |
0.1385 |
267 |
2 |
91.30 |
2013-05-14 |
| 19. |
Every time I hear that dear old wedding march, I feel rather... |
95.61 |
1.0520 |
0.0149 |
249 |
1 |
95.61 |
2023-04-25 |
| 20. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
95.53 |
0.9676 |
0.1080 |
247 |
1 |
95.53 |
2013-05-08 |
| 21. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
95.19 |
0.9330 |
0.1401 |
341 |
1 |
95.19 |
2011-09-22 |
| 22. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
95.04 |
0.9909 |
0.0730 |
334 |
2 |
88.62 |
2009-06-29 |
| 23. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
94.93 |
0.9541 |
0.1089 |
236 |
1 |
94.93 |
2013-05-14 |
| 24. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
94.87 |
0.9561 |
0.1126 |
364 |
1 |
94.87 |
2011-09-22 |
| 25. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
94.86 |
1.0188 |
0.0494 |
316 |
1 |
94.86 |
2013-05-08 |
| 26. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
94.69 |
0.9011 |
0.1602 |
322 |
1 |
94.69 |
2008-11-10 |
| 27. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
94.68 |
0.9703 |
0.0908 |
394 |
1 |
94.68 |
2008-11-10 |
| 28. |
Quitting a job doesn't have to mean giving up. A job is just... |
94.60 |
1.0453 |
0.0062 |
267 |
1 |
94.60 |
2023-04-25 |
| 29. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
94.17 |
1.0144 |
0.0455 |
162 |
1 |
94.17 |
2011-09-22 |
| 30. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
94.12 |
1.0189 |
0.0350 |
290 |
1 |
94.12 |
2008-11-10 |
| 31. |
These nights are endless, and a man can sleep through them, ... |
94.04 |
1.0682 |
-0.0172 |
359 |
1 |
94.04 |
2023-04-25 |
| 32. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
93.83 |
1.0341 |
0.0161 |
273 |
1 |
93.83 |
2008-11-10 |
| 33. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
93.71 |
1.0540 |
-0.0054 |
184 |
1 |
93.71 |
2008-11-10 |
| 34. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
93.32 |
1.0865 |
-0.0423 |
237 |
2 |
89.25 |
2011-09-22 |
| 35. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
93.07 |
0.9403 |
0.1076 |
345 |
1 |
93.07 |
2013-05-14 |
| 36. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
92.94 |
0.9974 |
0.0425 |
163 |
1 |
92.94 |
2008-11-10 |
| 37. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
92.51 |
0.9114 |
0.1255 |
399 |
1 |
92.51 |
2008-11-10 |
| 38. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
92.20 |
1.0479 |
-0.0165 |
205 |
1 |
92.20 |
2008-11-10 |
| 39. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
92.11 |
0.9884 |
0.0432 |
267 |
1 |
92.11 |
2008-11-10 |
| 40. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
92.07 |
1.0060 |
0.0239 |
225 |
2 |
91.90 |
2008-11-10 |
| 41. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
92.03 |
1.0495 |
-0.0194 |
323 |
1 |
92.03 |
2008-11-10 |
| 42. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
91.91 |
1.0095 |
0.0188 |
211 |
1 |
91.91 |
2013-05-08 |
| 43. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
91.75 |
1.0006 |
0.0269 |
311 |
2 |
91.36 |
2008-11-10 |
| 44. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
91.67 |
1.0743 |
-0.0487 |
297 |
2 |
87.99 |
2011-09-22 |
| 45. |
Looking back I know of one opportunity where an engineer cam... |
91.64 |
1.0520 |
-0.0288 |
515 |
1 |
91.64 |
2023-04-25 |
| 46. |
Sometimes at night I let it get to me. And sometimes, I'm su... |
91.26 |
1.0877 |
-0.0699 |
212 |
1 |
91.26 |
2023-04-25 |
| 47. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
91.18 |
0.9468 |
0.0744 |
318 |
1 |
91.18 |
2008-11-10 |
| 48. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
90.84 |
1.0607 |
-0.0443 |
357 |
1 |
90.84 |
2008-11-10 |
| 49. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
90.71 |
1.0351 |
-0.0195 |
276 |
1 |
90.71 |
2008-11-10 |
| 50. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
90.19 |
1.0509 |
-0.0353 |
295 |
1 |
90.19 |
2011-09-22 |
| 51. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
89.89 |
0.9128 |
0.0934 |
237 |
1 |
89.89 |
2008-11-10 |
| 52. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
89.38 |
1.0426 |
-0.0433 |
131 |
1 |
89.38 |
2008-11-10 |
| 53. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
88.91 |
0.9833 |
0.0123 |
387 |
1 |
88.91 |
2008-11-10 |
| 54. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
88.90 |
0.8437 |
0.1521 |
268 |
1 |
88.90 |
2008-11-10 |
| 55. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
88.73 |
1.0270 |
-0.0335 |
303 |
1 |
88.73 |
2008-11-10 |
| 56. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
88.22 |
0.9957 |
-0.0081 |
323 |
1 |
88.22 |
2008-11-10 |
| 57. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
88.01 |
1.0669 |
-0.0822 |
379 |
1 |
88.01 |
2008-11-10 |
| 58. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
88.01 |
1.0628 |
-0.0776 |
363 |
1 |
88.01 |
2011-09-22 |
| 59. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
87.91 |
1.0101 |
-0.0265 |
336 |
2 |
84.70 |
2008-11-10 |
| 60. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
87.90 |
1.0288 |
-0.0456 |
166 |
1 |
87.90 |
2008-11-10 |
| 61. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
87.71 |
0.9713 |
0.0104 |
193 |
1 |
87.71 |
2011-09-22 |
| 62. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
87.70 |
1.0362 |
-0.0544 |
437 |
1 |
87.70 |
2011-09-22 |
| 63. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
87.35 |
0.9917 |
-0.0140 |
317 |
1 |
87.35 |
2008-11-10 |
| 64. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
87.13 |
1.0057 |
-0.0303 |
382 |
1 |
87.13 |
2008-11-10 |
| 65. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
86.91 |
1.0419 |
-0.0693 |
341 |
1 |
86.91 |
2009-06-29 |
| 66. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
86.78 |
1.0035 |
-0.0329 |
310 |
1 |
86.78 |
2008-11-10 |
| 67. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
86.64 |
1.0404 |
-0.0705 |
406 |
1 |
86.64 |
2008-11-10 |
| 68. |
While walking through the train, Luke and I encountered a la... |
86.24 |
1.0022 |
-0.0401 |
339 |
1 |
86.24 |
2023-04-25 |
| 69. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
85.87 |
1.0777 |
-0.1175 |
226 |
1 |
85.87 |
2008-11-10 |
| 70. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
85.58 |
0.9271 |
0.0312 |
295 |
1 |
85.58 |
2008-11-10 |
| 71. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
85.48 |
0.9698 |
-0.0126 |
389 |
1 |
85.48 |
2008-11-10 |
| 72. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
85.41 |
1.0125 |
-0.0577 |
171 |
1 |
85.41 |
2011-09-22 |
| 73. |
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is no... |
85.09 |
0.9926 |
-0.0435 |
310 |
1 |
85.09 |
2023-04-25 |
| 74. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
85.06 |
1.0432 |
-0.0916 |
276 |
1 |
85.06 |
2008-11-10 |
| 75. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
85.05 |
1.0016 |
-0.0504 |
217 |
1 |
85.05 |
2008-11-10 |
| 76. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
85.04 |
0.9561 |
-0.0040 |
362 |
1 |
85.04 |
2008-11-10 |
| 77. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
84.72 |
0.9636 |
-0.0150 |
281 |
1 |
84.72 |
2008-11-10 |
| 78. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
84.35 |
0.8913 |
0.0530 |
201 |
1 |
84.35 |
2008-11-10 |
| 79. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
83.98 |
0.9797 |
-0.0349 |
269 |
1 |
83.98 |
2011-09-22 |
| 80. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
83.58 |
1.0576 |
-0.1233 |
231 |
1 |
83.58 |
2008-11-10 |
| 81. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
83.56 |
0.9841 |
-0.0489 |
217 |
2 |
82.69 |
2013-05-14 |
| 82. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
83.37 |
0.9681 |
-0.0347 |
392 |
1 |
83.37 |
2009-06-29 |
| 83. |
The market ceiling can function in the same way as when you ... |
83.34 |
1.0189 |
-0.0887 |
266 |
1 |
83.34 |
2023-04-25 |
| 84. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
83.04 |
0.9070 |
0.0220 |
192 |
1 |
83.04 |
2011-09-22 |
| 85. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
82.76 |
1.0287 |
-0.1031 |
269 |
1 |
82.76 |
2008-11-10 |
| 86. |
I search the faces of the gods... for ways to please you, to... |
82.69 |
1.0564 |
-0.1337 |
264 |
1 |
82.69 |
2023-04-25 |
| 87. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
82.60 |
0.8192 |
0.1066 |
200 |
1 |
82.60 |
2008-11-10 |
| 88. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
82.58 |
0.9880 |
-0.0645 |
199 |
1 |
82.58 |
2008-11-10 |
| 89. |
I know now that it's over. I knew it then. There would be no... |
82.44 |
0.9800 |
-0.0602 |
175 |
1 |
82.44 |
2023-04-25 |
| 90. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
82.17 |
0.9809 |
-0.0618 |
209 |
1 |
82.17 |
2008-11-10 |
| 91. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
81.97 |
0.9927 |
-0.0759 |
234 |
1 |
81.97 |
2008-11-10 |
| 92. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
81.92 |
0.8964 |
0.0201 |
199 |
1 |
81.92 |
2008-11-10 |
| 93. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
81.74 |
0.7923 |
0.1237 |
316 |
1 |
81.74 |
2008-11-10 |
| 94. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
81.70 |
0.9928 |
-0.0788 |
293 |
1 |
81.70 |
2008-11-11 |
| 95. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
80.17 |
0.9029 |
-0.0053 |
393 |
1 |
80.17 |
2008-11-10 |
| 96. |
They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I follow... |
80.05 |
1.0173 |
-0.1244 |
422 |
1 |
80.05 |
2023-04-25 |
| 97. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
79.91 |
1.0506 |
-0.1569 |
259 |
1 |
79.91 |
2008-11-10 |
| 98. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
79.75 |
1.0181 |
-0.1261 |
276 |
1 |
79.75 |
2008-11-12 |
| 99. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
79.63 |
0.9885 |
-0.0965 |
469 |
1 |
79.63 |
2008-11-10 |
| 100. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
79.40 |
1.0601 |
-0.1720 |
256 |
1 |
79.40 |
2009-06-29 |
| 101. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
78.66 |
0.9598 |
-0.0737 |
209 |
1 |
78.66 |
2011-09-22 |
| 102. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
77.90 |
0.8959 |
-0.0227 |
328 |
1 |
77.90 |
2008-11-11 |
| 103. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
77.13 |
0.8830 |
-0.0199 |
300 |
1 |
77.13 |
2011-09-22 |
| 104. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
76.46 |
0.9108 |
-0.0552 |
235 |
1 |
76.46 |
2008-11-10 |
| 105. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
75.87 |
0.9756 |
-0.1266 |
223 |
1 |
75.87 |
2008-11-10 |
| 106. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
75.50 |
0.9631 |
-0.1180 |
273 |
1 |
75.50 |
2008-11-10 |
| 107. |
Stars, in your multitudes - scarce to be counted, filling th... |
74.72 |
1.0405 |
-0.2080 |
295 |
1 |
74.72 |
2023-04-25 |
| 108. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
74.25 |
0.9425 |
-0.1117 |
248 |
1 |
74.25 |
2011-09-22 |
| 109. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
71.06 |
0.9068 |
-0.1122 |
212 |
1 |
71.06 |
2008-11-10 |
| 110. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
69.43 |
0.9258 |
-0.1422 |
184 |
1 |
69.43 |
2011-09-22 |
| 111. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
46.08 |
0.9726 |
-0.4577 |
396 |
1 |
46.08 |
2008-11-10 |