| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
42.28 |
1.0795 |
0.1696 |
226 |
1 |
42.28 |
2012-02-11 |
| 2. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
42.23 |
0.9207 |
0.2990 |
174 |
1 |
42.23 |
2012-02-20 |
| 3. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
41.87 |
0.9873 |
0.2166 |
155 |
1 |
41.87 |
2012-02-20 |
| 4. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
41.79 |
1.0487 |
0.1506 |
231 |
1 |
41.79 |
2012-02-20 |
| 5. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
40.71 |
0.9774 |
0.1945 |
196 |
1 |
40.71 |
2012-02-11 |
| 6. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
40.20 |
0.9724 |
0.1892 |
237 |
2 |
37.66 |
2012-02-11 |
| 7. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
40.19 |
1.0528 |
0.0999 |
201 |
1 |
40.19 |
2012-02-20 |
| 8. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
40.14 |
0.8745 |
0.2795 |
169 |
1 |
40.14 |
2012-02-11 |
| 9. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
40.11 |
1.0567 |
0.0993 |
303 |
1 |
40.11 |
2012-02-11 |
| 10. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
40.09 |
0.9162 |
0.2390 |
165 |
1 |
40.09 |
2012-02-11 |
| 11. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
39.68 |
1.0131 |
0.1258 |
225 |
2 |
36.96 |
2012-03-02 |
| 12. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
39.67 |
1.0417 |
0.0984 |
253 |
1 |
39.67 |
2012-02-11 |
| 13. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
39.59 |
1.0444 |
0.0892 |
197 |
2 |
36.81 |
2012-02-11 |
| 14. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
39.55 |
0.9310 |
0.2042 |
188 |
1 |
39.55 |
2012-02-11 |
| 15. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
39.50 |
1.0379 |
0.1346 |
245 |
1 |
39.50 |
2012-02-11 |
| 16. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
39.44 |
0.8936 |
0.2407 |
127 |
1 |
39.44 |
2012-02-11 |
| 17. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
39.27 |
0.8709 |
0.2679 |
202 |
1 |
39.27 |
2012-02-20 |
| 18. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
38.89 |
0.8956 |
0.2268 |
217 |
1 |
38.89 |
2012-02-20 |
| 19. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
38.77 |
0.8077 |
0.3067 |
167 |
1 |
38.77 |
2012-02-11 |
| 20. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
38.72 |
0.9275 |
0.1841 |
211 |
3 |
36.45 |
2012-02-20 |
| 21. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
38.62 |
0.8785 |
0.2294 |
172 |
1 |
38.62 |
2012-02-11 |
| 22. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
38.62 |
1.0292 |
0.0815 |
262 |
1 |
38.62 |
2012-02-11 |
| 23. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
38.53 |
0.8910 |
0.2200 |
150 |
1 |
38.53 |
2012-02-20 |
| 24. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
38.49 |
0.9682 |
0.1381 |
143 |
1 |
38.49 |
2012-04-08 |
| 25. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
38.44 |
1.0577 |
0.0455 |
247 |
1 |
38.44 |
2012-02-11 |
| 26. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
38.39 |
1.0173 |
0.1322 |
268 |
2 |
36.02 |
2012-02-11 |
| 27. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
38.31 |
0.9068 |
0.1991 |
269 |
1 |
38.31 |
2012-02-11 |
| 28. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
38.23 |
0.9365 |
0.1655 |
248 |
1 |
38.23 |
2012-02-11 |
| 29. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
38.17 |
1.1016 |
-0.0026 |
233 |
1 |
38.17 |
2012-02-11 |
| 30. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
38.02 |
0.8614 |
0.2308 |
172 |
1 |
38.02 |
2012-02-11 |
| 31. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
37.95 |
1.0270 |
0.1015 |
255 |
1 |
37.95 |
2012-02-11 |
| 32. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
37.90 |
1.0138 |
0.0768 |
231 |
1 |
37.90 |
2012-02-20 |
| 33. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
37.88 |
0.9559 |
0.1372 |
195 |
1 |
37.88 |
2012-02-11 |
| 34. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
37.77 |
1.0154 |
0.1216 |
351 |
1 |
37.77 |
2012-02-11 |
| 35. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
37.68 |
0.9226 |
0.1683 |
348 |
1 |
37.68 |
2012-02-20 |
| 36. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
37.47 |
1.0496 |
0.0282 |
314 |
2 |
32.19 |
2012-02-20 |
| 37. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
37.38 |
0.9857 |
0.0892 |
293 |
1 |
37.38 |
2012-02-11 |
| 38. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
37.23 |
1.0799 |
-0.0121 |
243 |
1 |
37.23 |
2012-02-11 |
| 39. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
37.17 |
1.0155 |
0.0554 |
232 |
1 |
37.17 |
2012-02-11 |
| 40. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
37.16 |
0.9965 |
0.0735 |
277 |
1 |
37.16 |
2012-02-11 |
| 41. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
37.13 |
1.0905 |
0.0100 |
210 |
1 |
37.13 |
2012-02-11 |
| 42. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
36.88 |
0.9485 |
0.1145 |
236 |
2 |
36.17 |
2012-04-08 |
| 43. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
36.83 |
1.0403 |
0.0594 |
275 |
2 |
35.82 |
2012-02-20 |
| 44. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
36.78 |
0.8360 |
0.2216 |
170 |
1 |
36.78 |
2012-02-11 |
| 45. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
36.77 |
1.0565 |
-0.0010 |
247 |
1 |
36.77 |
2012-02-11 |
| 46. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
36.67 |
0.9513 |
0.1077 |
354 |
1 |
36.67 |
2012-02-11 |
| 47. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
36.65 |
0.9097 |
0.1452 |
153 |
1 |
36.65 |
2012-02-11 |
| 48. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
36.56 |
1.0596 |
-0.0097 |
239 |
1 |
36.56 |
2012-02-11 |
| 49. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
36.43 |
0.9461 |
0.1019 |
276 |
2 |
35.71 |
2012-02-11 |
| 50. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
36.28 |
0.9846 |
0.0581 |
281 |
2 |
33.42 |
2012-02-11 |
| 51. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
36.09 |
1.0419 |
-0.0036 |
261 |
1 |
36.09 |
2012-02-11 |
| 52. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
36.03 |
0.8876 |
0.1472 |
118 |
1 |
36.03 |
2012-02-20 |
| 53. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
35.93 |
1.0621 |
-0.0091 |
263 |
1 |
35.93 |
2012-02-11 |
| 54. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
35.87 |
1.0033 |
0.0219 |
189 |
1 |
35.87 |
2012-02-11 |
| 55. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
35.74 |
1.0099 |
0.0153 |
207 |
1 |
35.74 |
2012-02-11 |
| 56. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
35.74 |
0.8900 |
0.1393 |
164 |
1 |
35.74 |
2012-02-11 |
| 57. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
35.72 |
1.0013 |
0.0253 |
273 |
1 |
35.72 |
2012-02-11 |
| 58. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
35.66 |
0.9307 |
0.1031 |
246 |
1 |
35.66 |
2012-02-11 |
| 59. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
35.59 |
1.0232 |
0.0361 |
236 |
1 |
35.59 |
2012-02-11 |
| 60. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
35.58 |
1.0483 |
-0.0279 |
227 |
2 |
35.29 |
2012-02-11 |
| 61. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
35.52 |
0.9597 |
0.0661 |
347 |
1 |
35.52 |
2012-02-20 |
| 62. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
35.51 |
0.8154 |
0.2078 |
193 |
2 |
35.50 |
2012-02-11 |
| 63. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
35.29 |
0.8961 |
0.1155 |
189 |
2 |
33.12 |
2012-02-20 |
| 64. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
35.29 |
0.9504 |
0.0592 |
263 |
1 |
35.29 |
2012-02-11 |
| 65. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
35.22 |
0.9303 |
0.0763 |
176 |
1 |
35.22 |
2012-02-11 |
| 66. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
35.13 |
1.0240 |
-0.0163 |
256 |
1 |
35.13 |
2012-02-11 |
| 67. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
34.94 |
1.0388 |
-0.0024 |
243 |
1 |
34.94 |
2012-02-11 |
| 68. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
34.93 |
0.9697 |
0.0350 |
249 |
1 |
34.93 |
2012-02-11 |
| 69. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.84 |
0.9798 |
0.0164 |
199 |
1 |
34.84 |
2012-02-11 |
| 70. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
34.57 |
0.9633 |
0.0329 |
304 |
1 |
34.57 |
2012-02-11 |
| 71. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
34.53 |
0.8295 |
0.1651 |
209 |
1 |
34.53 |
2012-02-11 |
| 72. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
34.17 |
0.9851 |
-0.0005 |
317 |
1 |
34.17 |
2012-02-11 |
| 73. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
34.16 |
0.9028 |
0.0775 |
111 |
1 |
34.16 |
2012-02-11 |
| 74. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
34.13 |
0.9045 |
0.0770 |
235 |
1 |
34.13 |
2012-02-11 |
| 75. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
34.07 |
1.0261 |
-0.0486 |
273 |
1 |
34.07 |
2012-02-11 |
| 76. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
33.95 |
0.8653 |
0.1219 |
255 |
1 |
33.95 |
2012-02-11 |
| 77. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
33.84 |
0.8810 |
0.0925 |
282 |
1 |
33.84 |
2012-02-11 |
| 78. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
33.84 |
1.0201 |
-0.0542 |
172 |
2 |
32.57 |
2012-02-11 |
| 79. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
33.80 |
0.9758 |
-0.0035 |
314 |
1 |
33.80 |
2012-02-11 |
| 80. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
33.80 |
1.0063 |
-0.0343 |
371 |
1 |
33.80 |
2012-02-11 |
| 81. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
33.75 |
0.9260 |
0.0545 |
243 |
1 |
33.75 |
2012-02-11 |
| 82. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
33.73 |
0.9016 |
0.0756 |
192 |
1 |
33.73 |
2012-02-11 |
| 83. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
33.71 |
1.0529 |
-0.0840 |
351 |
1 |
33.71 |
2012-02-11 |
| 84. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
33.67 |
1.0390 |
-0.0750 |
205 |
1 |
33.67 |
2012-02-11 |
| 85. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
33.62 |
0.9598 |
0.0139 |
220 |
1 |
33.62 |
2012-02-11 |
| 86. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
33.57 |
0.8852 |
0.0801 |
158 |
1 |
33.57 |
2012-02-11 |
| 87. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
33.38 |
1.0767 |
-0.1196 |
212 |
1 |
33.38 |
2012-02-11 |
| 88. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
33.05 |
0.9505 |
-0.0009 |
204 |
1 |
33.05 |
2012-02-11 |
| 89. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
32.86 |
0.9886 |
-0.0419 |
220 |
1 |
32.86 |
2012-02-11 |
| 90. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
32.62 |
0.9429 |
-0.0044 |
287 |
1 |
32.62 |
2012-02-11 |
| 91. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
32.61 |
1.0486 |
-0.1109 |
289 |
1 |
32.61 |
2012-02-11 |
| 92. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
32.58 |
1.0150 |
-0.0300 |
325 |
1 |
32.58 |
2012-02-11 |
| 93. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
32.54 |
0.9831 |
-0.0508 |
222 |
1 |
32.54 |
2012-02-11 |
| 94. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
32.44 |
1.0547 |
-0.0880 |
257 |
1 |
32.44 |
2012-02-11 |
| 95. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
32.39 |
1.0346 |
-0.0621 |
244 |
1 |
32.39 |
2012-02-11 |
| 96. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
32.34 |
0.7708 |
0.1637 |
207 |
1 |
32.34 |
2012-02-11 |
| 97. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
32.10 |
0.8867 |
0.0406 |
241 |
1 |
32.10 |
2012-02-11 |
| 98. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
31.87 |
0.9084 |
0.0088 |
300 |
1 |
31.87 |
2012-02-11 |
| 99. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
31.84 |
1.0334 |
-0.1254 |
131 |
1 |
31.84 |
2012-02-11 |
| 100. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
31.84 |
0.8919 |
0.0209 |
205 |
1 |
31.84 |
2012-02-11 |
| 101. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
31.83 |
0.9411 |
-0.0261 |
318 |
1 |
31.83 |
2012-02-11 |
| 102. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
31.75 |
0.9529 |
-0.0004 |
269 |
1 |
31.75 |
2012-02-11 |
| 103. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
31.62 |
1.0053 |
-0.0992 |
232 |
1 |
31.62 |
2012-02-11 |
| 104. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
31.57 |
0.8725 |
0.0362 |
163 |
1 |
31.57 |
2012-02-11 |
| 105. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
31.51 |
0.9155 |
0.0387 |
168 |
1 |
31.51 |
2012-02-11 |
| 106. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
31.49 |
1.0711 |
-0.1719 |
213 |
1 |
31.49 |
2012-02-11 |
| 107. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
31.42 |
1.0252 |
-0.1294 |
176 |
1 |
31.42 |
2012-02-11 |
| 108. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
31.35 |
1.0684 |
-0.1384 |
253 |
1 |
31.35 |
2012-02-11 |
| 109. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
31.24 |
1.0218 |
-0.1277 |
268 |
1 |
31.24 |
2012-02-11 |
| 110. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
31.19 |
1.0205 |
-0.1314 |
179 |
1 |
31.19 |
2012-02-11 |
| 111. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
31.17 |
1.0485 |
-0.1188 |
153 |
1 |
31.17 |
2012-02-11 |
| 112. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
31.03 |
0.9289 |
-0.0403 |
204 |
1 |
31.03 |
2012-02-11 |
| 113. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
30.85 |
0.9740 |
-0.0924 |
209 |
2 |
27.64 |
2012-02-11 |
| 114. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
30.59 |
0.9353 |
-0.0613 |
177 |
1 |
30.59 |
2012-02-11 |
| 115. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
30.44 |
0.9342 |
-0.0570 |
434 |
1 |
30.44 |
2012-02-11 |
| 116. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
30.34 |
1.0574 |
-0.1587 |
205 |
1 |
30.34 |
2012-02-11 |
| 117. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
30.09 |
1.0254 |
-0.1211 |
217 |
1 |
30.09 |
2012-02-11 |
| 118. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
29.63 |
0.9351 |
-0.0905 |
190 |
1 |
29.63 |
2012-02-11 |
| 119. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
29.59 |
0.8442 |
0.0088 |
265 |
1 |
29.59 |
2012-02-11 |
| 120. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
29.48 |
1.0029 |
-0.1635 |
209 |
1 |
29.48 |
2012-02-11 |
| 121. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
29.37 |
0.9127 |
-0.0725 |
252 |
1 |
29.37 |
2012-02-11 |
| 122. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
29.35 |
0.9309 |
-0.0908 |
284 |
1 |
29.35 |
2012-02-11 |
| 123. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
29.05 |
0.9509 |
-0.0793 |
225 |
1 |
29.05 |
2012-02-11 |
| 124. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
28.40 |
1.0498 |
-0.2403 |
180 |
1 |
28.40 |
2012-02-11 |
| 125. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
28.12 |
0.8845 |
-0.0780 |
273 |
1 |
28.12 |
2012-02-11 |
| 126. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
27.21 |
0.9636 |
-0.1841 |
254 |
1 |
27.21 |
2012-02-11 |
| 127. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
26.51 |
0.9196 |
-0.1587 |
148 |
1 |
26.51 |
2012-02-11 |
| 128. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
26.45 |
0.8996 |
-0.1476 |
192 |
1 |
26.45 |
2012-02-11 |
| 129. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
26.13 |
0.9871 |
-0.2027 |
209 |
1 |
26.13 |
2012-02-11 |
| 130. |
Pulp: a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. |
25.14 |
0.7559 |
-0.0367 |
46 |
1 |
25.14 |
2012-02-11 |
| 131. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
25.00 |
1.0183 |
-0.3086 |
191 |
1 |
25.00 |
2012-02-11 |
| 132. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
24.53 |
0.8916 |
-0.1897 |
216 |
1 |
24.53 |
2012-02-11 |
| 133. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
23.81 |
0.8082 |
-0.1187 |
186 |
1 |
23.81 |
2012-02-11 |
| 134. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
23.15 |
0.8202 |
-0.1615 |
178 |
1 |
23.15 |
2012-02-11 |
| 135. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
22.70 |
0.8854 |
-0.2378 |
116 |
1 |
22.70 |
2012-02-11 |
| 136. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
21.11 |
0.7731 |
-0.1691 |
145 |
1 |
21.11 |
2012-02-11 |