| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
84.74 |
1.0788 |
0.1673 |
171 |
1 |
84.74 |
2012-10-27 |
| 2. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
82.04 |
1.0426 |
0.1682 |
323 |
2 |
72.39 |
2013-01-26 |
| 3. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
81.50 |
1.0943 |
0.1416 |
206 |
1 |
81.50 |
2012-10-29 |
| 4. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
81.39 |
1.0399 |
0.1673 |
294 |
2 |
76.40 |
2013-01-26 |
| 5. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
80.09 |
1.1296 |
0.0817 |
252 |
2 |
75.12 |
2013-01-06 |
| 6. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
79.65 |
1.0385 |
0.1355 |
230 |
2 |
74.34 |
2012-12-14 |
| 7. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
79.51 |
1.0025 |
0.1724 |
336 |
1 |
79.51 |
2013-01-18 |
| 8. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
79.47 |
1.0767 |
0.0941 |
212 |
1 |
79.47 |
2012-12-11 |
| 9. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
79.43 |
1.0506 |
0.1508 |
277 |
1 |
79.43 |
2012-12-14 |
| 10. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
78.70 |
0.9820 |
0.1829 |
267 |
1 |
78.70 |
2012-10-27 |
| 11. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
77.96 |
1.0944 |
0.1008 |
308 |
1 |
77.96 |
2012-10-29 |
| 12. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
77.52 |
1.0709 |
0.1118 |
392 |
2 |
72.40 |
2013-01-17 |
| 13. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
77.23 |
1.1022 |
0.0722 |
259 |
1 |
77.23 |
2013-01-06 |
| 14. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
76.86 |
1.1215 |
0.0366 |
200 |
1 |
76.86 |
2012-10-28 |
| 15. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
76.04 |
1.0099 |
0.1089 |
207 |
1 |
76.04 |
2013-01-06 |
| 16. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
75.48 |
1.0608 |
0.0862 |
258 |
1 |
75.48 |
2012-12-11 |
| 17. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
75.05 |
1.0968 |
0.0482 |
365 |
2 |
73.29 |
2013-01-18 |
| 18. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
75.02 |
1.0029 |
0.0973 |
209 |
1 |
75.02 |
2012-12-14 |
| 19. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
74.56 |
1.0797 |
0.0148 |
210 |
1 |
74.56 |
2012-10-27 |
| 20. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
74.41 |
1.0595 |
0.0408 |
379 |
1 |
74.41 |
2013-01-26 |
| 21. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
73.89 |
1.0829 |
0.0084 |
288 |
1 |
73.89 |
2012-12-12 |
| 22. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
73.61 |
0.9426 |
0.1466 |
317 |
2 |
69.15 |
2013-01-06 |
| 23. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
73.10 |
1.0619 |
0.0203 |
354 |
2 |
71.87 |
2012-10-29 |
| 24. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
72.08 |
1.0419 |
0.0208 |
261 |
1 |
72.08 |
2012-12-12 |
| 25. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
71.92 |
0.9916 |
0.1117 |
282 |
1 |
71.92 |
2013-01-06 |
| 26. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
71.83 |
0.9865 |
0.0739 |
276 |
1 |
71.83 |
2013-01-18 |
| 27. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
71.45 |
0.9922 |
0.1023 |
341 |
1 |
71.45 |
2012-10-29 |
| 28. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
71.41 |
0.9790 |
0.1146 |
311 |
2 |
68.62 |
2013-05-21 |
| 29. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
71.33 |
1.0138 |
0.0373 |
231 |
1 |
71.33 |
2012-12-11 |
| 30. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
71.29 |
1.0673 |
0.0254 |
230 |
1 |
71.29 |
2012-12-11 |
| 31. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
71.28 |
0.9965 |
0.0548 |
310 |
1 |
71.28 |
2013-01-06 |
| 32. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
70.87 |
0.9233 |
0.1131 |
168 |
2 |
66.30 |
2013-01-18 |
| 33. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
70.74 |
1.0567 |
-0.0127 |
303 |
1 |
70.74 |
2012-10-29 |
| 34. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
70.52 |
1.0289 |
0.0153 |
276 |
1 |
70.52 |
2013-05-21 |
| 35. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
70.37 |
1.0131 |
0.0202 |
225 |
1 |
70.37 |
2012-12-14 |
| 36. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
70.20 |
0.9879 |
0.0559 |
450 |
1 |
70.20 |
2012-10-27 |
| 37. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
70.19 |
1.0211 |
0.0443 |
213 |
1 |
70.19 |
2012-12-12 |
| 38. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
70.12 |
1.0214 |
0.0109 |
269 |
1 |
70.12 |
2012-12-11 |
| 39. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
69.95 |
1.0515 |
-0.0226 |
250 |
1 |
69.95 |
2012-10-29 |
| 40. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
69.89 |
1.0053 |
0.0231 |
232 |
1 |
69.89 |
2012-10-28 |
| 41. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
69.82 |
0.9557 |
0.0802 |
331 |
1 |
69.82 |
2013-01-17 |
| 42. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
69.28 |
0.9910 |
0.0320 |
295 |
1 |
69.28 |
2012-12-12 |
| 43. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
68.86 |
1.0154 |
0.0494 |
351 |
1 |
68.86 |
2012-10-28 |
| 44. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
68.48 |
1.0141 |
0.0360 |
381 |
1 |
68.48 |
2013-01-18 |
| 45. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
68.37 |
0.9844 |
0.0282 |
293 |
1 |
68.37 |
2012-10-29 |
| 46. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
68.31 |
0.9120 |
0.1284 |
436 |
1 |
68.31 |
2013-05-21 |
| 47. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
68.29 |
1.0613 |
-0.0540 |
266 |
1 |
68.29 |
2012-10-29 |
| 48. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
68.07 |
1.0296 |
-0.0198 |
437 |
1 |
68.07 |
2012-12-12 |
| 49. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
67.97 |
1.0486 |
-0.0464 |
289 |
1 |
67.97 |
2013-03-17 |
| 50. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
67.94 |
1.0083 |
0.0370 |
273 |
1 |
67.94 |
2012-10-29 |
| 51. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
67.87 |
1.0905 |
-0.0587 |
210 |
1 |
67.87 |
2012-10-28 |
| 52. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
67.81 |
0.9461 |
0.0523 |
276 |
1 |
67.81 |
2012-10-27 |
| 53. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
67.63 |
0.9897 |
0.0043 |
274 |
1 |
67.63 |
2012-10-29 |
| 54. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
67.62 |
0.8958 |
0.1055 |
322 |
1 |
67.62 |
2012-12-11 |
| 55. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
67.41 |
0.9513 |
0.0459 |
354 |
1 |
67.41 |
2013-01-26 |
| 56. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
67.27 |
1.0288 |
-0.0051 |
300 |
1 |
67.27 |
2012-10-28 |
| 57. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
67.23 |
1.0883 |
-0.0653 |
303 |
1 |
67.23 |
2012-10-29 |
| 58. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
67.16 |
0.9780 |
0.0124 |
337 |
1 |
67.16 |
2012-12-14 |
| 59. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
67.13 |
0.9653 |
0.0324 |
394 |
1 |
67.13 |
2012-10-29 |
| 60. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
67.03 |
1.0403 |
-0.0127 |
275 |
1 |
67.03 |
2013-01-06 |
| 61. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
66.97 |
0.9908 |
0.0421 |
342 |
1 |
66.97 |
2013-01-06 |
| 62. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
66.93 |
1.0487 |
-0.0677 |
231 |
1 |
66.93 |
2012-10-28 |
| 63. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
66.90 |
0.9831 |
0.0108 |
469 |
1 |
66.90 |
2012-12-12 |
| 64. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
66.82 |
1.0343 |
-0.0128 |
242 |
1 |
66.82 |
2012-12-11 |
| 65. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
66.66 |
0.9833 |
0.0003 |
355 |
1 |
66.66 |
2012-10-29 |
| 66. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
66.51 |
1.0669 |
-0.0548 |
286 |
1 |
66.51 |
2012-10-29 |
| 67. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
66.50 |
0.9994 |
0.0110 |
269 |
1 |
66.50 |
2012-10-27 |
| 68. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
66.26 |
0.9411 |
0.0358 |
318 |
1 |
66.26 |
2012-12-12 |
| 69. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
66.20 |
1.0496 |
-0.0753 |
314 |
1 |
66.20 |
2012-12-14 |
| 70. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
65.94 |
1.0012 |
-0.0276 |
260 |
1 |
65.94 |
2012-10-27 |
| 71. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
65.85 |
0.9350 |
0.0350 |
195 |
1 |
65.85 |
2013-01-03 |
| 72. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
65.82 |
1.0117 |
0.0025 |
297 |
1 |
65.82 |
2012-10-27 |
| 73. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
65.25 |
0.9632 |
0.0402 |
345 |
1 |
65.25 |
2012-10-27 |
| 74. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
64.82 |
0.9540 |
-0.0015 |
285 |
1 |
64.82 |
2012-10-29 |
| 75. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
64.75 |
1.0331 |
-0.0820 |
234 |
1 |
64.75 |
2012-10-29 |
| 76. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
64.62 |
1.0077 |
-0.0153 |
250 |
1 |
64.62 |
2013-01-17 |
| 77. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
64.48 |
1.0483 |
-0.1022 |
227 |
1 |
64.48 |
2012-10-27 |
| 78. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
64.18 |
0.9461 |
-0.0054 |
193 |
1 |
64.18 |
2012-10-29 |
| 79. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
64.11 |
1.1014 |
-0.1198 |
273 |
1 |
64.11 |
2012-10-27 |
| 80. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
64.01 |
0.9514 |
-0.0085 |
237 |
1 |
64.01 |
2012-10-29 |
| 81. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
63.89 |
1.0768 |
-0.0964 |
295 |
1 |
63.89 |
2012-10-28 |
| 82. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
63.80 |
0.9763 |
-0.0376 |
289 |
1 |
63.80 |
2012-10-29 |
| 83. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
63.78 |
1.0197 |
-0.0836 |
226 |
2 |
59.64 |
2013-03-17 |
| 84. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
63.44 |
1.0368 |
-0.1022 |
276 |
1 |
63.44 |
2012-10-29 |
| 85. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
62.99 |
0.8353 |
0.0990 |
283 |
1 |
62.99 |
2012-10-29 |
| 86. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
62.98 |
0.9213 |
0.0065 |
295 |
1 |
62.98 |
2012-12-12 |
| 87. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
62.89 |
0.9863 |
-0.0562 |
339 |
1 |
62.89 |
2012-10-29 |
| 88. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
62.87 |
0.9646 |
-0.0403 |
264 |
1 |
62.87 |
2012-10-29 |
| 89. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
62.80 |
0.9805 |
-0.0515 |
292 |
1 |
62.80 |
2012-10-27 |
| 90. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
62.40 |
0.9893 |
-0.0709 |
323 |
1 |
62.40 |
2012-10-29 |
| 91. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
62.37 |
0.9084 |
0.0115 |
300 |
1 |
62.37 |
2012-10-29 |
| 92. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
62.08 |
0.9769 |
-0.0652 |
263 |
1 |
62.08 |
2012-12-14 |
| 93. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
61.76 |
1.0615 |
-0.1271 |
305 |
2 |
61.66 |
2012-10-29 |
| 94. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
61.58 |
1.0201 |
-0.1098 |
375 |
1 |
61.58 |
2012-10-27 |
| 95. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.15 |
0.9886 |
-0.0865 |
220 |
1 |
61.15 |
2012-10-27 |
| 96. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
60.86 |
0.9905 |
-0.0870 |
377 |
2 |
57.77 |
2012-12-14 |
| 97. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
60.60 |
1.0165 |
-0.1206 |
392 |
1 |
60.60 |
2012-10-28 |
| 98. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
60.54 |
0.9786 |
-0.0884 |
235 |
1 |
60.54 |
2012-12-12 |
| 99. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
60.51 |
0.9640 |
-0.0437 |
334 |
1 |
60.51 |
2012-10-29 |
| 100. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
60.04 |
0.9941 |
-0.1135 |
217 |
1 |
60.04 |
2012-10-29 |
| 101. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
59.93 |
0.9684 |
-0.0843 |
388 |
1 |
59.93 |
2012-10-29 |
| 102. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
59.20 |
0.9676 |
-0.0884 |
442 |
1 |
59.20 |
2012-10-27 |
| 103. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
58.69 |
0.9339 |
-0.0725 |
310 |
1 |
58.69 |
2012-10-27 |
| 104. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
58.61 |
1.0232 |
-0.1259 |
236 |
1 |
58.61 |
2013-01-06 |
| 105. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
57.88 |
0.9567 |
-0.1055 |
273 |
1 |
57.88 |
2012-12-12 |
| 106. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
57.28 |
0.9087 |
-0.0556 |
393 |
1 |
57.28 |
2013-01-26 |
| 107. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
57.22 |
0.9293 |
-0.0867 |
355 |
1 |
57.22 |
2012-12-11 |
| 108. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
57.03 |
0.8775 |
-0.0371 |
443 |
2 |
56.61 |
2012-12-11 |
| 109. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
55.87 |
0.8770 |
-0.0527 |
300 |
1 |
55.87 |
2012-10-29 |
| 110. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
54.62 |
0.8981 |
-0.0911 |
393 |
1 |
54.62 |
2012-10-27 |
| 111. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
54.32 |
1.0141 |
-0.1800 |
304 |
1 |
54.32 |
2012-10-29 |
| 112. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
54.25 |
0.9005 |
-0.1053 |
212 |
1 |
54.25 |
2012-12-12 |
| 113. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
53.59 |
0.9774 |
-0.1922 |
196 |
1 |
53.59 |
2012-10-29 |
| 114. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
53.21 |
0.9045 |
-0.1229 |
235 |
1 |
53.21 |
2012-10-29 |
| 115. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
50.24 |
0.9176 |
-0.1469 |
267 |
1 |
50.24 |
2012-10-28 |
| 116. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
44.93 |
0.9351 |
-0.2829 |
190 |
1 |
44.93 |
2012-12-12 |
| 117. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
41.45 |
1.0063 |
-0.4007 |
371 |
1 |
41.45 |
2012-10-28 |