| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
81.21 |
1.0943 |
0.2315 |
206 |
1 |
81.21 |
2012-12-25 |
| 2. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
81.14 |
1.0485 |
0.2779 |
153 |
2 |
63.57 |
2012-12-25 |
| 3. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
80.28 |
1.0060 |
0.2674 |
171 |
3 |
73.08 |
2012-12-25 |
| 4. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
79.65 |
1.0203 |
0.2511 |
261 |
1 |
79.65 |
2012-12-24 |
| 5. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
78.25 |
1.0740 |
0.2098 |
264 |
1 |
78.25 |
2012-12-24 |
| 6. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
77.89 |
0.9461 |
0.2931 |
276 |
1 |
77.89 |
2012-12-24 |
| 7. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
77.45 |
1.0201 |
0.2132 |
303 |
1 |
77.45 |
2012-12-25 |
| 8. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
77.22 |
0.9986 |
0.2310 |
283 |
1 |
77.22 |
2012-12-25 |
| 9. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
77.11 |
0.9673 |
0.2990 |
232 |
2 |
70.16 |
2012-12-26 |
| 10. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
77.07 |
1.0168 |
0.2115 |
271 |
1 |
77.07 |
2012-12-25 |
| 11. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
76.80 |
0.9513 |
0.2746 |
354 |
1 |
76.80 |
2012-12-25 |
| 12. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
76.45 |
1.0211 |
0.2260 |
213 |
1 |
76.45 |
2012-12-24 |
| 13. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
76.29 |
1.1018 |
0.1055 |
220 |
2 |
68.28 |
2012-12-26 |
| 14. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
75.89 |
1.0669 |
0.1729 |
286 |
1 |
75.89 |
2012-12-26 |
| 15. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
75.26 |
1.0547 |
0.1775 |
257 |
1 |
75.26 |
2012-12-25 |
| 16. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
74.92 |
0.9216 |
0.3097 |
255 |
1 |
74.92 |
2012-12-26 |
| 17. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
74.75 |
0.9798 |
0.2039 |
199 |
1 |
74.75 |
2012-12-26 |
| 18. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
74.61 |
1.0555 |
0.1330 |
363 |
1 |
74.61 |
2012-12-24 |
| 19. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
74.07 |
1.0379 |
0.1751 |
245 |
2 |
72.07 |
2012-12-26 |
| 20. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
73.83 |
0.9710 |
0.1971 |
173 |
1 |
73.83 |
2012-12-26 |
| 21. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
73.39 |
1.0296 |
0.1443 |
437 |
1 |
73.39 |
2012-12-25 |
| 22. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
72.80 |
1.0565 |
0.0985 |
247 |
1 |
72.80 |
2012-12-24 |
| 23. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
72.49 |
1.0429 |
0.1084 |
259 |
1 |
72.49 |
2012-12-26 |
| 24. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
72.49 |
0.9922 |
0.2017 |
341 |
3 |
63.56 |
2012-12-25 |
| 25. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
72.39 |
0.9851 |
0.1687 |
317 |
1 |
72.39 |
2012-12-24 |
| 26. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
72.29 |
0.9631 |
0.2378 |
345 |
1 |
72.29 |
2012-12-26 |
| 27. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
72.26 |
1.0787 |
0.0689 |
237 |
2 |
64.96 |
2012-12-26 |
| 28. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
71.69 |
1.0213 |
0.1156 |
240 |
2 |
65.85 |
2012-12-25 |
| 29. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
71.58 |
0.9681 |
0.1784 |
378 |
1 |
71.58 |
2012-12-25 |
| 30. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
71.43 |
1.1022 |
0.0687 |
259 |
1 |
71.43 |
2012-12-26 |
| 31. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
71.01 |
1.0384 |
0.0806 |
183 |
1 |
71.01 |
2012-12-25 |
| 32. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
70.96 |
0.9023 |
0.2690 |
231 |
4 |
63.40 |
2012-12-25 |
| 33. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
70.94 |
1.0613 |
0.0722 |
456 |
1 |
70.94 |
2012-12-24 |
| 34. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
70.88 |
1.0013 |
0.1247 |
273 |
2 |
67.83 |
2012-12-26 |
| 35. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
70.78 |
1.0232 |
0.1378 |
236 |
1 |
70.78 |
2012-12-24 |
| 36. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
70.49 |
1.0445 |
0.0773 |
373 |
1 |
70.49 |
2012-12-26 |
| 37. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
70.41 |
1.0788 |
0.0349 |
171 |
1 |
70.41 |
2012-12-26 |
| 38. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
70.15 |
0.9697 |
0.1455 |
249 |
1 |
70.15 |
2012-12-26 |
| 39. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
69.66 |
0.9699 |
0.1366 |
269 |
1 |
69.66 |
2012-12-25 |
| 40. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
69.24 |
0.9863 |
0.1186 |
339 |
1 |
69.24 |
2012-12-24 |
| 41. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
69.22 |
0.9811 |
0.1219 |
272 |
2 |
56.92 |
2012-12-26 |
| 42. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
69.20 |
0.9074 |
0.1990 |
396 |
1 |
69.20 |
2012-12-24 |
| 43. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
69.10 |
0.9790 |
0.1601 |
311 |
1 |
69.10 |
2012-12-24 |
| 44. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
68.62 |
1.0387 |
0.0840 |
239 |
1 |
68.62 |
2012-12-24 |
| 45. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
68.03 |
0.9342 |
0.1507 |
434 |
1 |
68.03 |
2012-12-26 |
| 46. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
67.98 |
0.8753 |
0.2145 |
427 |
1 |
67.98 |
2012-12-26 |
| 47. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
67.95 |
0.9371 |
0.1818 |
318 |
1 |
67.95 |
2012-12-26 |
| 48. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
67.65 |
1.0523 |
0.0185 |
256 |
1 |
67.65 |
2012-12-25 |
| 49. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
67.65 |
0.9461 |
0.1248 |
193 |
1 |
67.65 |
2012-12-25 |
| 50. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
67.39 |
0.9157 |
0.1598 |
350 |
2 |
66.95 |
2012-12-24 |
| 51. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
66.65 |
0.8878 |
0.1709 |
346 |
2 |
60.79 |
2012-12-24 |
| 52. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
66.63 |
0.9871 |
0.1077 |
209 |
1 |
66.63 |
2012-12-26 |
| 53. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
66.35 |
1.0396 |
0.0072 |
149 |
3 |
59.30 |
2012-12-24 |
| 54. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
66.33 |
1.0034 |
0.0491 |
302 |
1 |
66.33 |
2012-12-24 |
| 55. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
65.91 |
0.9632 |
0.0903 |
392 |
1 |
65.91 |
2012-12-24 |
| 56. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
65.87 |
0.9088 |
0.1427 |
348 |
3 |
59.97 |
2012-12-25 |
| 57. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
65.59 |
0.9871 |
0.0774 |
227 |
1 |
65.59 |
2012-12-25 |
| 58. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
65.47 |
0.9682 |
0.0703 |
143 |
1 |
65.47 |
2012-12-24 |
| 59. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
65.28 |
0.9309 |
0.1040 |
284 |
1 |
65.28 |
2012-12-24 |
| 60. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
65.10 |
1.0621 |
-0.0088 |
263 |
1 |
65.10 |
2012-12-25 |
| 61. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
65.02 |
0.9684 |
0.0667 |
388 |
1 |
65.02 |
2011-03-16 |
| 62. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
64.83 |
1.0053 |
0.0225 |
232 |
1 |
64.83 |
2011-04-05 |
| 63. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
64.21 |
0.9601 |
0.0644 |
308 |
1 |
64.21 |
2012-12-24 |
| 64. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
64.12 |
0.9155 |
0.1519 |
168 |
1 |
64.12 |
2012-12-26 |
| 65. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
63.31 |
1.0154 |
0.0396 |
351 |
1 |
63.31 |
2012-12-25 |
| 66. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
61.24 |
1.0031 |
0.0021 |
304 |
1 |
61.24 |
2012-12-25 |
| 67. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
61.02 |
0.9925 |
0.0128 |
247 |
2 |
55.70 |
2011-03-28 |
| 68. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
60.38 |
0.9786 |
-0.0257 |
193 |
1 |
60.38 |
2011-01-11 |
| 69. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
59.83 |
0.9557 |
0.0000 |
331 |
1 |
59.83 |
2012-12-24 |
| 70. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
59.23 |
0.9722 |
-0.0309 |
283 |
1 |
59.23 |
2011-03-16 |
| 71. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
58.88 |
1.0375 |
-0.0577 |
200 |
1 |
58.88 |
2011-03-28 |
| 72. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
58.72 |
1.0907 |
-0.1571 |
303 |
1 |
58.72 |
2011-04-05 |
| 73. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
58.42 |
1.0131 |
-0.0904 |
225 |
1 |
58.42 |
2011-01-12 |
| 74. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
58.29 |
1.1323 |
-0.1739 |
341 |
1 |
58.29 |
2011-01-10 |
| 75. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
57.92 |
1.0696 |
-0.1546 |
226 |
1 |
57.92 |
2011-01-11 |
| 76. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
57.85 |
0.9279 |
-0.0038 |
317 |
1 |
57.85 |
2011-03-28 |
| 77. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
57.82 |
0.9376 |
0.0149 |
360 |
1 |
57.82 |
2011-01-13 |
| 78. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
57.72 |
0.9873 |
-0.0753 |
155 |
1 |
57.72 |
2011-01-12 |
| 79. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
57.70 |
0.9907 |
-0.0771 |
211 |
1 |
57.70 |
2011-03-16 |
| 80. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
56.57 |
1.0109 |
-0.0813 |
400 |
1 |
56.57 |
2011-03-16 |
| 81. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
56.52 |
1.0025 |
-0.1054 |
336 |
1 |
56.52 |
2011-01-11 |
| 82. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
56.31 |
0.9886 |
-0.0936 |
220 |
1 |
56.31 |
2012-12-24 |
| 83. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
56.23 |
0.9966 |
-0.1057 |
259 |
1 |
56.23 |
2011-01-11 |
| 84. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
55.91 |
1.0167 |
-0.1235 |
378 |
1 |
55.91 |
2011-01-11 |
| 85. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
55.67 |
0.9168 |
-0.0328 |
240 |
1 |
55.67 |
2011-01-11 |
| 86. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
55.55 |
0.9938 |
-0.1131 |
339 |
1 |
55.55 |
2011-01-10 |
| 87. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
55.51 |
1.0644 |
-0.1482 |
257 |
2 |
55.36 |
2011-02-05 |
| 88. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
54.91 |
1.0496 |
-0.1802 |
314 |
1 |
54.91 |
2011-01-10 |
| 89. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
54.79 |
1.0214 |
-0.1109 |
281 |
2 |
54.39 |
2011-01-13 |
| 90. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
54.77 |
1.0795 |
-0.1814 |
226 |
1 |
54.77 |
2011-03-28 |
| 91. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
54.48 |
0.8793 |
-0.0152 |
157 |
1 |
54.48 |
2011-01-11 |
| 92. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
54.18 |
0.8914 |
-0.0326 |
366 |
1 |
54.18 |
2011-03-19 |
| 93. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
53.72 |
1.0506 |
-0.1710 |
277 |
1 |
53.72 |
2011-03-30 |
| 94. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
53.51 |
1.0441 |
-0.1551 |
316 |
1 |
53.51 |
2011-01-11 |
| 95. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
53.25 |
0.9426 |
-0.0961 |
317 |
2 |
53.05 |
2011-03-19 |
| 96. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
53.24 |
0.9846 |
-0.1430 |
281 |
1 |
53.24 |
2011-01-10 |
| 97. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
53.14 |
1.0334 |
-0.1983 |
131 |
1 |
53.14 |
2011-01-11 |
| 98. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
52.74 |
1.0252 |
-0.1966 |
176 |
1 |
52.74 |
2011-01-11 |
| 99. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
52.71 |
0.8956 |
-0.0563 |
322 |
1 |
52.71 |
2012-12-28 |
| 100. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
52.70 |
0.9756 |
-0.1424 |
229 |
2 |
50.45 |
2011-09-01 |
| 101. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
52.60 |
1.0077 |
-0.1338 |
250 |
1 |
52.60 |
2011-01-11 |
| 102. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
52.49 |
1.0063 |
-0.1749 |
371 |
1 |
52.49 |
2011-01-11 |
| 103. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
52.18 |
0.9500 |
-0.1218 |
362 |
1 |
52.18 |
2011-01-11 |
| 104. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
51.84 |
1.0883 |
-0.2355 |
303 |
1 |
51.84 |
2011-01-11 |
| 105. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
51.37 |
0.9504 |
-0.1430 |
263 |
1 |
51.37 |
2011-01-13 |
| 106. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
50.94 |
1.0349 |
-0.2297 |
234 |
1 |
50.94 |
2011-01-11 |
| 107. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
50.78 |
0.9936 |
-0.1698 |
227 |
1 |
50.78 |
2011-01-13 |
| 108. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
50.50 |
1.0320 |
-0.1957 |
293 |
1 |
50.50 |
2011-01-13 |
| 109. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
50.29 |
1.0483 |
-0.2558 |
227 |
1 |
50.29 |
2011-01-12 |
| 110. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
50.18 |
1.0574 |
-0.2354 |
205 |
1 |
50.18 |
2011-01-11 |
| 111. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
50.13 |
0.9567 |
-0.1634 |
273 |
1 |
50.13 |
2011-01-11 |
| 112. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
49.85 |
0.8125 |
-0.0203 |
197 |
1 |
49.85 |
2011-01-12 |
| 113. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
49.58 |
0.9514 |
-0.1668 |
237 |
1 |
49.58 |
2011-01-11 |
| 114. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
48.63 |
0.9640 |
-0.1651 |
334 |
1 |
48.63 |
2011-01-13 |
| 115. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
48.40 |
0.7877 |
-0.0177 |
142 |
1 |
48.40 |
2011-01-12 |
| 116. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
47.58 |
0.9663 |
-0.2088 |
330 |
1 |
47.58 |
2012-12-24 |
| 117. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
46.89 |
0.9941 |
-0.2554 |
217 |
1 |
46.89 |
2011-01-11 |
| 118. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
46.65 |
0.9364 |
-0.1591 |
351 |
1 |
46.65 |
2011-01-10 |
| 119. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
46.21 |
1.0521 |
-0.3272 |
171 |
1 |
46.21 |
2011-01-11 |
| 120. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
45.98 |
0.8629 |
-0.1321 |
299 |
1 |
45.98 |
2011-01-11 |
| 121. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
45.77 |
0.8382 |
-0.1142 |
268 |
1 |
45.77 |
2011-01-12 |
| 122. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
44.63 |
0.9278 |
-0.2204 |
295 |
1 |
44.63 |
2011-01-10 |
| 123. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
41.44 |
0.9946 |
-0.3411 |
246 |
1 |
41.44 |
2011-01-10 |
| 124. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
40.03 |
0.9649 |
-0.3350 |
193 |
1 |
40.03 |
2011-01-11 |
| 125. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
33.53 |
0.8105 |
-0.2889 |
204 |
1 |
33.53 |
2011-01-12 |
| 126. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
32.55 |
0.9540 |
-0.4456 |
285 |
1 |
32.55 |
2011-01-11 |