| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
40.89 |
1.1016 |
0.1334 |
233 |
1 |
40.89 |
2013-05-07 |
| 2. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
40.80 |
1.0150 |
0.2639 |
325 |
1 |
40.80 |
2013-05-06 |
| 3. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
40.76 |
1.1296 |
0.1342 |
252 |
2 |
38.40 |
2013-05-06 |
| 4. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
40.64 |
1.1014 |
0.1648 |
273 |
1 |
40.64 |
2013-05-02 |
| 5. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
40.05 |
1.0829 |
0.1276 |
288 |
1 |
40.05 |
2013-05-02 |
| 6. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
40.03 |
1.0349 |
0.1741 |
234 |
1 |
40.03 |
2013-05-02 |
| 7. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
39.82 |
1.0596 |
0.1425 |
239 |
1 |
39.82 |
2013-05-06 |
| 8. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.73 |
0.9899 |
0.2080 |
163 |
1 |
39.73 |
2013-05-02 |
| 9. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
39.07 |
0.8951 |
0.2868 |
193 |
1 |
39.07 |
2013-05-02 |
| 10. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
38.89 |
0.8731 |
0.3063 |
199 |
1 |
38.89 |
2013-05-03 |
| 11. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
38.88 |
1.0252 |
0.1468 |
176 |
1 |
38.88 |
2013-05-02 |
| 12. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
38.81 |
1.0528 |
0.1171 |
201 |
1 |
38.81 |
2013-05-03 |
| 13. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
38.31 |
0.9131 |
0.2395 |
144 |
1 |
38.31 |
2013-05-03 |
| 14. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
38.30 |
0.9986 |
0.1550 |
162 |
2 |
37.00 |
2013-05-03 |
| 15. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
38.10 |
0.8919 |
0.2612 |
152 |
1 |
38.10 |
2013-04-30 |
| 16. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
37.85 |
1.0004 |
0.1405 |
212 |
1 |
37.85 |
2013-05-03 |
| 17. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
37.70 |
1.0320 |
0.1458 |
293 |
1 |
37.70 |
2013-05-03 |
| 18. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
37.55 |
0.9162 |
0.2170 |
165 |
2 |
37.41 |
2013-05-06 |
| 19. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
37.28 |
0.9500 |
0.1777 |
362 |
3 |
34.34 |
2013-05-06 |
| 20. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
37.19 |
0.9724 |
0.1520 |
237 |
2 |
36.31 |
2013-05-06 |
| 21. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
37.14 |
0.8890 |
0.2310 |
199 |
2 |
35.20 |
2013-05-02 |
| 22. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
37.11 |
0.9711 |
0.1503 |
176 |
2 |
36.06 |
2013-05-03 |
| 23. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
37.07 |
1.0577 |
0.0598 |
247 |
1 |
37.07 |
2013-05-03 |
| 24. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
36.77 |
1.0993 |
0.0103 |
265 |
1 |
36.77 |
2013-05-03 |
| 25. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
36.71 |
0.9260 |
0.1885 |
243 |
1 |
36.71 |
2013-05-02 |
| 26. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
36.65 |
0.8559 |
0.2517 |
191 |
1 |
36.65 |
2013-05-02 |
| 27. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
36.58 |
0.9756 |
0.1284 |
229 |
1 |
36.58 |
2013-05-03 |
| 28. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
36.34 |
1.0768 |
0.0594 |
295 |
1 |
36.34 |
2013-05-03 |
| 29. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
36.33 |
0.9844 |
0.1136 |
293 |
1 |
36.33 |
2013-05-07 |
| 30. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
36.21 |
0.9160 |
0.1747 |
112 |
1 |
36.21 |
2013-04-19 |
| 31. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
36.08 |
0.8792 |
0.2158 |
296 |
1 |
36.08 |
2013-05-03 |
| 32. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
36.04 |
1.0445 |
0.0436 |
373 |
1 |
36.04 |
2013-05-03 |
| 33. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
36.04 |
0.8971 |
0.1938 |
266 |
1 |
36.04 |
2013-04-30 |
| 34. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
36.01 |
0.9943 |
0.0938 |
373 |
1 |
36.01 |
2013-05-03 |
| 35. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
35.73 |
1.0506 |
0.0574 |
277 |
2 |
34.26 |
2013-04-30 |
| 36. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
35.72 |
0.8809 |
0.1949 |
127 |
1 |
35.72 |
2013-04-19 |
| 37. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
35.57 |
1.0883 |
0.0177 |
303 |
1 |
35.57 |
2013-05-02 |
| 38. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
35.51 |
1.0025 |
0.0693 |
256 |
1 |
35.51 |
2013-05-03 |
| 39. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
35.43 |
1.0314 |
0.0359 |
172 |
1 |
35.43 |
2013-05-06 |
| 40. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
35.41 |
0.9097 |
0.1586 |
153 |
1 |
35.41 |
2013-05-03 |
| 41. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
35.30 |
0.9342 |
0.1334 |
434 |
1 |
35.30 |
2013-05-02 |
| 42. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
35.26 |
0.9786 |
0.0858 |
235 |
1 |
35.26 |
2013-05-02 |
| 43. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
35.25 |
1.0523 |
0.0100 |
256 |
1 |
35.25 |
2013-05-06 |
| 44. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
35.13 |
0.9688 |
0.0904 |
217 |
1 |
35.13 |
2013-05-02 |
| 45. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
35.02 |
0.9706 |
0.0888 |
216 |
1 |
35.02 |
2013-05-03 |
| 46. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
34.91 |
1.0053 |
0.0476 |
232 |
1 |
34.91 |
2013-05-03 |
| 47. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
34.76 |
1.0696 |
-0.0223 |
226 |
1 |
34.76 |
2013-04-30 |
| 48. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
34.73 |
0.9631 |
0.1317 |
345 |
1 |
34.73 |
2013-05-03 |
| 49. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
34.69 |
1.0531 |
0.0313 |
272 |
1 |
34.69 |
2013-05-06 |
| 50. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
34.66 |
0.8793 |
0.1676 |
157 |
1 |
34.66 |
2013-05-06 |
| 51. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
34.59 |
0.8715 |
0.1718 |
130 |
2 |
34.05 |
2013-04-19 |
| 52. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
34.49 |
0.8826 |
0.1604 |
296 |
1 |
34.49 |
2013-04-30 |
| 53. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
34.12 |
0.8615 |
0.1699 |
110 |
1 |
34.12 |
2013-05-03 |
| 54. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
34.10 |
1.0644 |
0.0014 |
257 |
1 |
34.10 |
2013-05-03 |
| 55. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
34.03 |
0.9865 |
0.0409 |
276 |
1 |
34.03 |
2013-05-07 |
| 56. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
33.88 |
0.9168 |
0.1055 |
240 |
1 |
33.88 |
2013-05-03 |
| 57. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
33.80 |
0.9309 |
0.0878 |
284 |
1 |
33.80 |
2013-05-06 |
| 58. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
33.67 |
0.9325 |
0.0822 |
156 |
1 |
33.67 |
2013-05-03 |
| 59. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
33.44 |
1.0459 |
-0.0019 |
200 |
1 |
33.44 |
2013-05-02 |
| 60. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
33.44 |
0.9966 |
0.0120 |
259 |
1 |
33.44 |
2013-05-03 |
| 61. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
33.41 |
0.8348 |
0.1774 |
219 |
1 |
33.41 |
2013-05-03 |
| 62. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
33.33 |
0.9048 |
0.1038 |
271 |
1 |
33.33 |
2013-05-03 |
| 63. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
33.32 |
0.9340 |
0.0712 |
296 |
1 |
33.32 |
2013-05-02 |
| 64. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
33.23 |
0.8614 |
0.1406 |
172 |
2 |
29.19 |
2013-04-22 |
| 65. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
33.16 |
1.0183 |
-0.0209 |
191 |
1 |
33.16 |
2013-05-03 |
| 66. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
33.14 |
1.0487 |
-0.0517 |
231 |
1 |
33.14 |
2013-05-03 |
| 67. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
33.13 |
1.0203 |
-0.0188 |
261 |
1 |
33.13 |
2013-05-03 |
| 68. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
33.12 |
1.0486 |
-0.0493 |
289 |
1 |
33.12 |
2013-05-03 |
| 69. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
33.11 |
0.8629 |
0.1391 |
299 |
1 |
33.11 |
2013-05-02 |
| 70. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
32.99 |
0.8898 |
0.1019 |
158 |
1 |
32.99 |
2013-04-30 |
| 71. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
32.92 |
0.9965 |
-0.0052 |
168 |
1 |
32.92 |
2013-05-03 |
| 72. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
32.81 |
1.0419 |
-0.0539 |
261 |
2 |
32.31 |
2013-05-06 |
| 73. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
32.77 |
1.0033 |
-0.0184 |
189 |
1 |
32.77 |
2013-04-19 |
| 74. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
32.70 |
0.9986 |
-0.0120 |
283 |
1 |
32.70 |
2013-05-02 |
| 75. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
32.54 |
0.8910 |
0.0911 |
150 |
1 |
32.54 |
2013-05-03 |
| 76. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
32.54 |
0.9247 |
0.0599 |
253 |
1 |
32.54 |
2013-05-02 |
| 77. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
32.50 |
0.8506 |
0.1263 |
132 |
1 |
32.50 |
2013-04-30 |
| 78. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
32.43 |
1.0403 |
-0.0442 |
193 |
1 |
32.43 |
2013-04-30 |
| 79. |
You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna... |
32.42 |
0.9126 |
0.0588 |
96 |
1 |
32.42 |
2013-04-19 |
| 80. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
32.21 |
0.9155 |
0.1017 |
168 |
2 |
30.66 |
2013-05-03 |
| 81. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
32.13 |
1.0740 |
-0.0657 |
264 |
1 |
32.13 |
2013-05-03 |
| 82. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
32.12 |
0.8791 |
0.0895 |
190 |
1 |
32.12 |
2013-04-19 |
| 83. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
32.09 |
0.9857 |
-0.0182 |
293 |
1 |
32.09 |
2013-05-03 |
| 84. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
31.95 |
0.9171 |
0.0460 |
165 |
1 |
31.95 |
2013-04-30 |
| 85. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
31.73 |
0.9098 |
0.0456 |
167 |
2 |
30.99 |
2013-05-03 |
| 86. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
31.66 |
0.9665 |
0.0365 |
326 |
1 |
31.66 |
2013-05-06 |
| 87. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
31.53 |
1.0154 |
-0.0177 |
351 |
2 |
30.15 |
2013-04-26 |
| 88. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
31.37 |
0.9786 |
-0.0347 |
193 |
1 |
31.37 |
2013-05-02 |
| 89. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
31.21 |
0.8747 |
0.0626 |
201 |
1 |
31.21 |
2013-04-22 |
| 90. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
31.18 |
0.9430 |
-0.0043 |
227 |
1 |
31.18 |
2013-05-03 |
| 91. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
30.93 |
0.9646 |
-0.0323 |
264 |
1 |
30.93 |
2013-05-03 |
| 92. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
30.79 |
1.0390 |
-0.1135 |
205 |
1 |
30.79 |
2013-05-03 |
| 93. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
30.74 |
0.9866 |
-0.0617 |
218 |
1 |
30.74 |
2013-04-22 |
| 94. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
30.71 |
0.9212 |
0.0058 |
323 |
1 |
30.71 |
2013-05-03 |
| 95. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
30.62 |
0.9196 |
0.0030 |
148 |
1 |
30.62 |
2013-04-19 |
| 96. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
30.51 |
1.0403 |
-0.0796 |
275 |
2 |
28.95 |
2013-05-03 |
| 97. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
30.50 |
0.9726 |
-0.0563 |
154 |
1 |
30.50 |
2013-05-02 |
| 98. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
30.46 |
1.0025 |
-0.0843 |
336 |
1 |
30.46 |
2013-05-02 |
| 99. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
30.28 |
1.0711 |
-0.1623 |
213 |
1 |
30.28 |
2013-05-03 |
| 100. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
30.28 |
1.0288 |
-0.0834 |
300 |
1 |
30.28 |
2013-05-02 |
| 101. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
30.23 |
0.8190 |
0.0983 |
135 |
1 |
30.23 |
2013-04-19 |
| 102. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
30.08 |
0.9529 |
-0.0062 |
269 |
1 |
30.08 |
2013-05-02 |
| 103. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
29.99 |
0.8670 |
0.0388 |
318 |
1 |
29.99 |
2013-05-02 |
| 104. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
29.94 |
0.9023 |
0.0444 |
231 |
1 |
29.94 |
2013-04-30 |
| 105. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
29.83 |
0.9911 |
-0.0942 |
212 |
1 |
29.83 |
2013-04-22 |
| 106. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
29.43 |
0.9567 |
-0.0702 |
273 |
1 |
29.43 |
2013-05-02 |
| 107. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
29.32 |
0.7805 |
0.1019 |
154 |
1 |
29.32 |
2013-05-03 |
| 108. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
29.25 |
0.9251 |
-0.0415 |
177 |
1 |
29.25 |
2013-04-19 |
| 109. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
29.10 |
0.9946 |
-0.1188 |
246 |
1 |
29.10 |
2013-05-02 |
| 110. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
29.05 |
0.8295 |
0.0485 |
209 |
1 |
29.05 |
2013-04-19 |
| 111. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
28.81 |
0.8878 |
-0.0196 |
346 |
1 |
28.81 |
2013-05-02 |
| 112. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
28.63 |
1.0083 |
-0.1021 |
273 |
1 |
28.63 |
2013-05-02 |
| 113. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
28.45 |
0.8666 |
-0.0068 |
150 |
1 |
28.45 |
2013-04-19 |
| 114. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
28.45 |
0.9266 |
-0.0693 |
267 |
1 |
28.45 |
2013-05-03 |
| 115. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
28.29 |
0.8996 |
-0.0502 |
192 |
1 |
28.29 |
2013-04-19 |
| 116. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
28.17 |
1.0213 |
-0.1743 |
240 |
1 |
28.17 |
2013-05-02 |
| 117. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
28.02 |
0.9773 |
-0.1357 |
123 |
1 |
28.02 |
2013-04-19 |
| 118. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
27.75 |
0.8089 |
0.0247 |
158 |
1 |
27.75 |
2013-04-19 |
| 119. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
27.56 |
0.9598 |
-0.1269 |
220 |
1 |
27.56 |
2013-04-17 |
| 120. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
27.40 |
1.0023 |
-0.1792 |
211 |
1 |
27.40 |
2013-04-17 |
| 121. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
27.38 |
0.7877 |
0.0394 |
142 |
1 |
27.38 |
2013-04-19 |
| 122. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
27.27 |
1.0396 |
-0.2226 |
149 |
1 |
27.27 |
2013-04-19 |
| 123. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
26.81 |
0.9016 |
-0.0891 |
192 |
2 |
26.36 |
2013-04-22 |
| 124. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
26.71 |
0.9226 |
-0.1155 |
177 |
1 |
26.71 |
2013-04-19 |
| 125. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
26.54 |
0.8177 |
-0.0157 |
124 |
1 |
26.54 |
2013-04-19 |
| 126. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
26.33 |
0.9740 |
-0.1833 |
209 |
1 |
26.33 |
2013-04-19 |
| 127. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
26.09 |
0.8178 |
-0.0319 |
159 |
1 |
26.09 |
2013-04-22 |
| 128. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
26.08 |
0.9673 |
-0.1409 |
232 |
1 |
26.08 |
2013-04-22 |
| 129. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
25.90 |
1.0214 |
-0.2006 |
281 |
1 |
25.90 |
2013-04-17 |
| 130. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
25.40 |
0.9559 |
-0.1911 |
195 |
1 |
25.40 |
2013-04-19 |
| 131. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
25.23 |
0.9612 |
-0.2016 |
256 |
1 |
25.23 |
2013-04-17 |
| 132. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
24.96 |
0.7443 |
0.0081 |
169 |
1 |
24.96 |
2013-04-19 |
| 133. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
23.88 |
0.7731 |
-0.0522 |
145 |
1 |
23.88 |
2013-04-22 |
| 134. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
21.82 |
0.8231 |
-0.1648 |
180 |
1 |
21.82 |
2013-04-19 |