| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
54.81 |
1.0543 |
0.2046 |
182 |
1 |
54.81 |
2015-03-20 |
| 2. |
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and... |
53.82 |
1.0873 |
0.1585 |
219 |
2 |
53.03 |
2015-05-08 |
| 3. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
53.06 |
0.9539 |
0.2639 |
107 |
1 |
53.06 |
2015-05-08 |
| 4. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
52.66 |
1.0665 |
0.1468 |
210 |
1 |
52.66 |
2015-04-02 |
| 5. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
52.42 |
1.0264 |
0.1766 |
191 |
1 |
52.42 |
2015-03-20 |
| 6. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
51.58 |
0.9316 |
0.2579 |
188 |
1 |
51.58 |
2015-04-02 |
| 7. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
50.71 |
1.0291 |
0.1363 |
240 |
2 |
48.63 |
2015-05-08 |
| 8. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
49.89 |
1.0755 |
0.0735 |
243 |
1 |
49.89 |
2015-04-02 |
| 9. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
49.65 |
0.9980 |
0.1473 |
295 |
1 |
49.65 |
2015-03-20 |
| 10. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
49.58 |
1.0006 |
0.1408 |
311 |
1 |
49.58 |
2015-03-20 |
| 11. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
49.29 |
0.9358 |
0.1922 |
188 |
1 |
49.29 |
2012-04-13 |
| 12. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
49.02 |
1.0419 |
0.0898 |
341 |
1 |
49.02 |
2015-03-20 |
| 13. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
48.54 |
0.9285 |
0.1870 |
244 |
1 |
48.54 |
2015-03-20 |
| 14. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
48.54 |
0.9643 |
0.1615 |
282 |
1 |
48.54 |
2015-03-20 |
| 15. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
48.15 |
1.0018 |
0.1069 |
246 |
1 |
48.15 |
2015-03-20 |
| 16. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
48.08 |
0.9749 |
0.1411 |
337 |
1 |
48.08 |
2015-03-20 |
| 17. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
47.94 |
0.9829 |
0.1196 |
229 |
1 |
47.94 |
2015-03-20 |
| 18. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
47.78 |
0.9991 |
0.0994 |
339 |
1 |
47.78 |
2012-04-13 |
| 19. |
I would never want to forfeit my genders. Along with Aunt Au... |
47.77 |
0.9785 |
0.1235 |
204 |
1 |
47.77 |
2015-05-08 |
| 20. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
47.74 |
1.0392 |
0.0644 |
258 |
1 |
47.74 |
2012-04-13 |
| 21. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
47.74 |
0.9485 |
0.1455 |
227 |
1 |
47.74 |
2015-03-20 |
| 22. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
47.72 |
1.0057 |
0.0955 |
382 |
1 |
47.72 |
2012-04-13 |
| 23. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
47.65 |
1.0466 |
0.0496 |
230 |
1 |
47.65 |
2015-03-20 |
| 24. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
47.35 |
1.0667 |
0.0331 |
308 |
1 |
47.35 |
2012-04-13 |
| 25. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
47.28 |
0.9271 |
0.1633 |
323 |
1 |
47.28 |
2015-03-20 |
| 26. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
47.26 |
0.9464 |
0.1383 |
119 |
1 |
47.26 |
2012-04-13 |
| 27. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
47.12 |
0.9621 |
0.1240 |
212 |
1 |
47.12 |
2015-03-20 |
| 28. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
47.04 |
0.9258 |
0.1614 |
184 |
1 |
47.04 |
2015-05-08 |
| 29. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
46.99 |
0.9650 |
0.1189 |
347 |
1 |
46.99 |
2015-03-20 |
| 30. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
46.96 |
0.9541 |
0.1271 |
236 |
1 |
46.96 |
2015-03-20 |
| 31. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
46.95 |
1.0086 |
0.0673 |
218 |
1 |
46.95 |
2015-03-20 |
| 32. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
46.74 |
1.0960 |
-0.0164 |
315 |
1 |
46.74 |
2012-04-13 |
| 33. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
46.52 |
0.9621 |
0.1050 |
201 |
1 |
46.52 |
2012-04-07 |
| 34. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
46.50 |
1.0857 |
-0.0031 |
393 |
1 |
46.50 |
2015-03-20 |
| 35. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
46.48 |
0.9517 |
0.1161 |
276 |
1 |
46.48 |
2015-04-02 |
| 36. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
46.12 |
1.0595 |
-0.0051 |
166 |
1 |
46.12 |
2015-05-08 |
| 37. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
45.87 |
1.0521 |
-0.0023 |
197 |
1 |
45.87 |
2012-04-13 |
| 38. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
45.87 |
1.0601 |
-0.0079 |
256 |
1 |
45.87 |
2015-03-20 |
| 39. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
45.64 |
0.9631 |
0.0868 |
273 |
1 |
45.64 |
2015-03-20 |
| 40. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
45.52 |
0.8837 |
0.1622 |
157 |
2 |
43.81 |
2012-04-07 |
| 41. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
45.52 |
0.9917 |
0.0580 |
317 |
1 |
45.52 |
2015-03-20 |
| 42. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
45.50 |
0.9915 |
0.0538 |
281 |
1 |
45.50 |
2015-03-20 |
| 43. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
45.48 |
0.9183 |
0.1241 |
252 |
2 |
44.74 |
2015-05-08 |
| 44. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
45.41 |
0.9068 |
0.1362 |
212 |
1 |
45.41 |
2012-04-13 |
| 45. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
45.17 |
1.0039 |
0.0413 |
255 |
2 |
44.42 |
2012-04-13 |
| 46. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
44.88 |
0.9841 |
0.0452 |
217 |
1 |
44.88 |
2015-03-20 |
| 47. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
44.88 |
0.9866 |
0.0466 |
308 |
1 |
44.88 |
2015-03-20 |
| 48. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
44.50 |
0.9594 |
0.0624 |
258 |
1 |
44.50 |
2012-04-13 |
| 49. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
44.31 |
0.9854 |
0.0353 |
174 |
2 |
38.56 |
2015-05-08 |
| 50. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
44.06 |
0.8161 |
0.2005 |
109 |
1 |
44.06 |
2012-04-07 |
| 51. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
43.90 |
0.9123 |
0.1067 |
351 |
1 |
43.90 |
2012-04-13 |
| 52. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
43.89 |
0.9930 |
0.0255 |
350 |
1 |
43.89 |
2015-04-02 |
| 53. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.86 |
1.0194 |
-0.0129 |
224 |
1 |
43.86 |
2012-04-07 |
| 54. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
43.86 |
0.9836 |
0.0165 |
123 |
1 |
43.86 |
2012-04-13 |
| 55. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
43.84 |
0.9422 |
0.0610 |
190 |
1 |
43.84 |
2015-03-20 |
| 56. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
43.83 |
0.9761 |
0.0370 |
227 |
1 |
43.83 |
2015-03-20 |
| 57. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
43.65 |
1.0204 |
-0.0248 |
143 |
1 |
43.65 |
2012-04-13 |
| 58. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
43.58 |
0.9324 |
0.0727 |
246 |
1 |
43.58 |
2012-04-13 |
| 59. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
43.56 |
0.9408 |
0.0553 |
177 |
1 |
43.56 |
2012-04-13 |
| 60. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
43.33 |
0.8901 |
0.1054 |
273 |
1 |
43.33 |
2015-04-02 |
| 61. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
43.25 |
1.0028 |
-0.0090 |
259 |
1 |
43.25 |
2015-05-08 |
| 62. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
43.07 |
0.9836 |
0.0070 |
289 |
1 |
43.07 |
2012-04-13 |
| 63. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
43.02 |
1.0287 |
-0.0402 |
269 |
3 |
42.62 |
2015-03-23 |
| 64. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
43.01 |
1.0060 |
-0.0104 |
244 |
1 |
43.01 |
2015-03-20 |
| 65. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
42.97 |
1.0131 |
-0.0216 |
245 |
1 |
42.97 |
2012-04-07 |
| 66. |
Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, h... |
42.89 |
0.9917 |
-0.0098 |
179 |
1 |
42.89 |
2015-05-08 |
| 67. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
42.87 |
1.0288 |
-0.0474 |
166 |
1 |
42.87 |
2012-04-07 |
| 68. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.61 |
0.9359 |
0.0451 |
355 |
1 |
42.61 |
2015-03-20 |
| 69. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
42.45 |
0.9027 |
0.0700 |
189 |
1 |
42.45 |
2015-03-20 |
| 70. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
42.42 |
1.0351 |
-0.0556 |
276 |
2 |
41.31 |
2012-04-13 |
| 71. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
42.40 |
0.9213 |
0.0517 |
165 |
1 |
42.40 |
2012-04-13 |
| 72. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
42.37 |
0.9842 |
-0.0078 |
335 |
1 |
42.37 |
2012-04-13 |
| 73. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
42.31 |
1.0090 |
-0.0301 |
300 |
1 |
42.31 |
2012-04-13 |
| 74. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
42.24 |
0.9873 |
-0.0175 |
274 |
1 |
42.24 |
2012-04-13 |
| 75. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
42.11 |
1.0791 |
-0.1055 |
259 |
1 |
42.11 |
2012-04-07 |
| 76. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.97 |
0.9909 |
-0.0209 |
293 |
1 |
41.97 |
2012-04-07 |
| 77. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
41.81 |
0.9374 |
0.0265 |
232 |
1 |
41.81 |
2015-03-20 |
| 78. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
41.66 |
0.8966 |
0.0603 |
366 |
1 |
41.66 |
2015-03-20 |
| 79. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
41.59 |
0.9737 |
-0.0148 |
237 |
1 |
41.59 |
2015-03-20 |
| 80. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
41.59 |
0.9614 |
-0.0041 |
195 |
1 |
41.59 |
2015-03-20 |
| 81. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
41.57 |
0.7841 |
0.1684 |
172 |
1 |
41.57 |
2015-05-08 |
| 82. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
41.56 |
0.9980 |
-0.0334 |
341 |
1 |
41.56 |
2015-03-20 |
| 83. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
41.53 |
0.9270 |
0.0307 |
193 |
1 |
41.53 |
2015-04-02 |
| 84. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
41.51 |
1.0736 |
-0.1151 |
256 |
1 |
41.51 |
2012-04-13 |
| 85. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
41.51 |
0.8948 |
0.0590 |
164 |
1 |
41.51 |
2012-04-13 |
| 86. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
41.51 |
0.9583 |
-0.0034 |
237 |
1 |
41.51 |
2012-04-07 |
| 87. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
41.29 |
0.9269 |
0.0302 |
269 |
1 |
41.29 |
2012-04-07 |
| 88. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
41.22 |
1.0111 |
-0.0512 |
452 |
1 |
41.22 |
2012-04-07 |
| 89. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
41.07 |
1.0686 |
-0.1204 |
354 |
1 |
41.07 |
2015-03-20 |
| 90. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
41.03 |
0.9402 |
0.0012 |
310 |
1 |
41.03 |
2012-04-13 |
| 91. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
41.00 |
0.9698 |
-0.0217 |
389 |
1 |
41.00 |
2012-04-07 |
| 92. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.87 |
0.8815 |
0.0632 |
296 |
1 |
40.87 |
2015-03-23 |
| 93. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
40.83 |
0.9394 |
-0.0026 |
195 |
1 |
40.83 |
2012-04-13 |
| 94. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
40.46 |
0.9713 |
-0.0423 |
193 |
1 |
40.46 |
2012-04-13 |
| 95. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. Witho... |
40.44 |
0.8336 |
0.0975 |
117 |
1 |
40.44 |
2012-04-07 |
| 96. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
40.40 |
0.9536 |
-0.0162 |
311 |
1 |
40.40 |
2012-04-13 |
| 97. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.33 |
1.0403 |
-0.1150 |
234 |
1 |
40.33 |
2012-04-13 |
| 98. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
40.08 |
1.0672 |
-0.1473 |
239 |
1 |
40.08 |
2012-04-07 |
| 99. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
39.92 |
1.0877 |
-0.1741 |
129 |
1 |
39.92 |
2015-03-20 |
| 100. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
39.81 |
1.0461 |
-0.1263 |
286 |
1 |
39.81 |
2012-04-07 |
| 101. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
39.54 |
0.9849 |
-0.0749 |
337 |
1 |
39.54 |
2012-04-07 |
| 102. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
39.52 |
0.8993 |
0.0122 |
366 |
1 |
39.52 |
2012-04-13 |
| 103. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
39.49 |
0.9329 |
-0.0109 |
345 |
1 |
39.49 |
2012-04-13 |
| 104. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
39.46 |
1.0124 |
-0.1002 |
275 |
2 |
37.17 |
2012-04-13 |
| 105. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
39.13 |
1.0128 |
-0.1064 |
369 |
1 |
39.13 |
2012-04-13 |
| 106. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
38.90 |
1.0567 |
-0.1629 |
314 |
1 |
38.90 |
2012-04-13 |
| 107. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
38.50 |
1.0333 |
-0.1537 |
176 |
1 |
38.50 |
2015-03-20 |
| 108. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
38.45 |
0.8067 |
0.0774 |
215 |
1 |
38.45 |
2015-05-08 |
| 109. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
38.02 |
0.9704 |
-0.0970 |
254 |
1 |
38.02 |
2012-04-07 |
| 110. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
37.90 |
0.8988 |
-0.0284 |
216 |
1 |
37.90 |
2015-05-08 |
| 111. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
37.77 |
1.0370 |
-0.1695 |
262 |
1 |
37.77 |
2012-04-13 |
| 112. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
37.71 |
1.0372 |
-0.1712 |
249 |
1 |
37.71 |
2012-04-13 |
| 113. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
37.26 |
1.0507 |
-0.1890 |
253 |
1 |
37.26 |
2012-04-07 |
| 114. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
36.82 |
0.8721 |
-0.0201 |
231 |
1 |
36.82 |
2012-04-13 |
| 115. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
36.55 |
0.8843 |
-0.0334 |
168 |
1 |
36.55 |
2012-04-13 |
| 116. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
36.32 |
0.9804 |
-0.1459 |
227 |
1 |
36.32 |
2012-04-07 |
| 117. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
35.83 |
0.8981 |
-0.0660 |
255 |
1 |
35.83 |
2012-04-07 |
| 118. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
34.97 |
0.8378 |
-0.0322 |
219 |
1 |
34.97 |
2012-04-13 |
| 119. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
34.96 |
0.9357 |
-0.1351 |
204 |
1 |
34.96 |
2015-05-08 |
| 120. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
34.77 |
0.8646 |
-0.0698 |
110 |
1 |
34.77 |
2012-04-13 |
| 121. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
34.38 |
0.8986 |
-0.1042 |
363 |
1 |
34.38 |
2012-04-13 |
| 122. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
34.32 |
0.9113 |
-0.1168 |
318 |
1 |
34.32 |
2012-04-13 |
| 123. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
33.80 |
0.9503 |
-0.1809 |
211 |
1 |
33.80 |
2012-04-07 |
| 124. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
33.11 |
1.0800 |
-0.3273 |
129 |
1 |
33.11 |
2012-04-13 |
| 125. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
33.02 |
1.0250 |
-0.2638 |
271 |
1 |
33.02 |
2012-04-13 |
| 126. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
32.80 |
0.8316 |
-0.0758 |
304 |
1 |
32.80 |
2012-04-13 |