| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
76.94 |
1.0941 |
0.2156 |
256 |
2 |
71.65 |
2013-11-23 |
| 2. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
76.51 |
1.1215 |
0.1738 |
200 |
1 |
76.51 |
2013-11-23 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
74.75 |
1.1016 |
0.1402 |
233 |
1 |
74.75 |
2013-11-17 |
| 4. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
73.20 |
0.9911 |
0.2213 |
212 |
1 |
73.20 |
2013-11-22 |
| 5. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
72.81 |
0.9904 |
0.2594 |
203 |
1 |
72.81 |
2013-11-22 |
| 6. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
72.73 |
0.9866 |
0.2175 |
218 |
2 |
71.31 |
2013-11-20 |
| 7. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
70.81 |
0.9873 |
0.1856 |
155 |
1 |
70.81 |
2013-11-17 |
| 8. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
70.16 |
0.9709 |
0.2348 |
397 |
1 |
70.16 |
2013-11-17 |
| 9. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
70.10 |
0.9653 |
0.2067 |
394 |
1 |
70.10 |
2013-11-22 |
| 10. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
69.40 |
1.0567 |
0.0958 |
303 |
1 |
69.40 |
2013-11-22 |
| 11. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
68.82 |
1.0168 |
0.1268 |
271 |
1 |
68.82 |
2013-11-17 |
| 12. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
68.56 |
1.0124 |
0.1230 |
204 |
1 |
68.56 |
2013-11-23 |
| 13. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
67.74 |
1.0506 |
0.1023 |
277 |
1 |
67.74 |
2013-11-22 |
| 14. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
67.63 |
1.0349 |
0.0866 |
234 |
1 |
67.63 |
2013-11-11 |
| 15. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
67.52 |
1.0799 |
0.0368 |
243 |
1 |
67.52 |
2013-11-23 |
| 16. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
67.41 |
1.0125 |
0.1037 |
224 |
1 |
67.41 |
2013-11-17 |
| 17. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
67.22 |
0.9348 |
0.1886 |
229 |
1 |
67.22 |
2013-11-17 |
| 18. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
66.66 |
1.1068 |
0.0394 |
393 |
1 |
66.66 |
2013-11-17 |
| 19. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
66.57 |
1.0263 |
0.0773 |
267 |
1 |
66.57 |
2013-11-23 |
| 20. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
66.57 |
1.0205 |
0.0774 |
179 |
1 |
66.57 |
2013-11-17 |
| 21. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
66.37 |
1.0787 |
0.0211 |
237 |
1 |
66.37 |
2013-11-23 |
| 22. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
66.23 |
0.9786 |
0.1196 |
235 |
3 |
58.29 |
2013-11-23 |
| 23. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
65.29 |
1.0031 |
0.1134 |
304 |
1 |
65.29 |
2013-11-23 |
| 24. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
65.05 |
1.0666 |
0.0124 |
297 |
1 |
65.05 |
2013-11-17 |
| 25. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
64.80 |
0.9964 |
0.0784 |
203 |
2 |
58.76 |
2013-11-17 |
| 26. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
64.80 |
0.9907 |
0.1179 |
397 |
1 |
64.80 |
2013-11-20 |
| 27. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
64.71 |
0.8826 |
0.1920 |
296 |
1 |
64.71 |
2013-11-11 |
| 28. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
64.41 |
0.9439 |
0.1323 |
476 |
1 |
64.41 |
2013-11-17 |
| 29. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
64.28 |
0.9936 |
0.0721 |
311 |
1 |
64.28 |
2013-11-18 |
| 30. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
64.20 |
1.0063 |
0.0588 |
371 |
1 |
64.20 |
2013-11-17 |
| 31. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
64.06 |
0.9072 |
0.1534 |
237 |
1 |
64.06 |
2013-11-17 |
| 32. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
63.42 |
0.9976 |
0.0742 |
174 |
1 |
63.42 |
2013-11-17 |
| 33. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
63.41 |
0.9359 |
0.1550 |
353 |
2 |
54.90 |
2013-11-20 |
| 34. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
63.04 |
0.9212 |
0.1278 |
231 |
1 |
63.04 |
2013-11-18 |
| 35. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
62.91 |
0.9559 |
0.0898 |
195 |
1 |
62.91 |
2013-11-11 |
| 36. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
62.87 |
0.9509 |
0.1298 |
225 |
1 |
62.87 |
2013-11-19 |
| 37. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
62.83 |
0.9663 |
0.0809 |
330 |
1 |
62.83 |
2013-11-19 |
| 38. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
62.79 |
1.0340 |
0.0122 |
406 |
1 |
62.79 |
2013-11-22 |
| 39. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
62.79 |
1.0334 |
0.0011 |
131 |
2 |
62.22 |
2013-11-17 |
| 40. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
62.57 |
1.0034 |
0.0324 |
302 |
1 |
62.57 |
2013-11-17 |
| 41. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
62.40 |
0.9340 |
0.1002 |
296 |
1 |
62.40 |
2013-11-17 |
| 42. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
62.28 |
1.0343 |
0.0355 |
242 |
1 |
62.28 |
2013-11-11 |
| 43. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
62.26 |
0.8670 |
0.1705 |
318 |
1 |
62.26 |
2013-11-23 |
| 44. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
62.08 |
1.0389 |
-0.0074 |
340 |
1 |
62.08 |
2013-11-10 |
| 45. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
61.62 |
0.9213 |
0.1006 |
295 |
1 |
61.62 |
2013-11-17 |
| 46. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
61.34 |
0.9699 |
0.0462 |
269 |
1 |
61.34 |
2013-11-11 |
| 47. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
61.25 |
1.0483 |
-0.0362 |
227 |
2 |
60.30 |
2013-11-17 |
| 48. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
61.23 |
0.9048 |
0.1146 |
271 |
1 |
61.23 |
2013-11-17 |
| 49. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
61.16 |
1.0528 |
-0.0442 |
201 |
1 |
61.16 |
2013-11-10 |
| 50. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
60.98 |
1.0684 |
-0.0280 |
253 |
1 |
60.98 |
2013-11-11 |
| 51. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
60.91 |
0.9894 |
0.0244 |
323 |
1 |
60.91 |
2013-11-11 |
| 52. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
60.90 |
0.9768 |
0.0351 |
387 |
1 |
60.90 |
2013-11-23 |
| 53. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
60.83 |
1.0131 |
-0.0089 |
225 |
2 |
60.16 |
2013-11-17 |
| 54. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
60.80 |
0.9851 |
0.0247 |
317 |
2 |
57.14 |
2013-11-20 |
| 55. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
60.78 |
0.8533 |
0.1551 |
232 |
1 |
60.78 |
2013-11-23 |
| 56. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
60.60 |
1.0496 |
-0.0461 |
314 |
1 |
60.60 |
2013-11-17 |
| 57. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
60.57 |
1.0218 |
-0.0210 |
268 |
1 |
60.57 |
2013-11-10 |
| 58. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
60.37 |
1.0203 |
-0.0165 |
261 |
1 |
60.37 |
2013-11-17 |
| 59. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
60.27 |
1.0314 |
0.0065 |
452 |
1 |
60.27 |
2013-11-19 |
| 60. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
60.22 |
1.1014 |
-0.0657 |
273 |
1 |
60.22 |
2013-11-10 |
| 61. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
59.89 |
0.8770 |
0.1185 |
300 |
3 |
56.78 |
2013-11-17 |
| 62. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
59.71 |
0.9088 |
0.0857 |
348 |
1 |
59.71 |
2013-11-17 |
| 63. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
59.66 |
0.9279 |
0.0671 |
317 |
1 |
59.66 |
2013-11-17 |
| 64. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
59.62 |
0.9740 |
0.0097 |
209 |
1 |
59.62 |
2013-11-22 |
| 65. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
59.34 |
0.9785 |
0.0078 |
335 |
1 |
59.34 |
2013-11-22 |
| 66. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
59.16 |
1.0008 |
0.0223 |
473 |
1 |
59.16 |
2013-11-17 |
| 67. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
58.93 |
1.0445 |
-0.0674 |
373 |
1 |
58.93 |
2013-11-20 |
| 68. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
58.67 |
0.9631 |
0.0600 |
345 |
1 |
58.67 |
2013-11-18 |
| 69. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
58.65 |
0.8723 |
0.0953 |
185 |
1 |
58.65 |
2013-11-11 |
| 70. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
58.64 |
0.9820 |
-0.0105 |
274 |
2 |
57.88 |
2013-11-17 |
| 71. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
58.61 |
0.9266 |
0.0443 |
267 |
2 |
55.12 |
2013-11-23 |
| 72. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
58.57 |
1.0095 |
-0.0404 |
316 |
1 |
58.57 |
2013-11-17 |
| 73. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
58.30 |
0.8961 |
0.0661 |
189 |
1 |
58.30 |
2013-11-11 |
| 74. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
58.21 |
0.9991 |
-0.0345 |
225 |
2 |
57.37 |
2013-11-17 |
| 75. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
58.07 |
0.9833 |
-0.0199 |
355 |
2 |
57.74 |
2013-11-23 |
| 76. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
57.64 |
1.0387 |
-0.0518 |
239 |
1 |
57.64 |
2013-11-11 |
| 77. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
57.59 |
0.9831 |
-0.0214 |
469 |
1 |
57.59 |
2013-11-23 |
| 78. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
57.44 |
0.9275 |
0.0204 |
211 |
2 |
55.07 |
2013-11-22 |
| 79. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
57.09 |
1.1018 |
-0.1629 |
220 |
1 |
57.09 |
2013-11-20 |
| 80. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
56.86 |
1.0829 |
-0.1399 |
288 |
1 |
56.86 |
2013-11-10 |
| 81. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
56.51 |
0.8845 |
0.0515 |
273 |
1 |
56.51 |
2013-11-17 |
| 82. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
56.48 |
1.0486 |
-0.1127 |
289 |
1 |
56.48 |
2013-11-23 |
| 83. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
56.41 |
0.9786 |
-0.0499 |
193 |
1 |
56.41 |
2013-11-17 |
| 84. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
56.37 |
0.9168 |
0.0177 |
240 |
1 |
56.37 |
2013-11-19 |
| 85. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
56.07 |
0.8996 |
0.0231 |
192 |
3 |
53.46 |
2013-11-17 |
| 86. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
55.79 |
0.9997 |
-0.0726 |
382 |
1 |
55.79 |
2013-11-17 |
| 87. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
55.24 |
1.0029 |
-0.0950 |
209 |
1 |
55.24 |
2013-11-22 |
| 88. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
55.08 |
0.9514 |
-0.0395 |
237 |
1 |
55.08 |
2013-11-11 |
| 89. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
54.92 |
0.9734 |
-0.0648 |
289 |
1 |
54.92 |
2013-11-11 |
| 90. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
54.85 |
0.8890 |
0.0151 |
199 |
1 |
54.85 |
2013-11-17 |
| 91. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
54.76 |
0.8602 |
0.0438 |
206 |
1 |
54.76 |
2013-11-11 |
| 92. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
54.68 |
0.8722 |
0.0356 |
285 |
2 |
52.39 |
2013-11-23 |
| 93. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
54.60 |
0.9844 |
-0.0761 |
293 |
1 |
54.60 |
2013-11-17 |
| 94. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
54.25 |
1.0201 |
-0.1184 |
375 |
3 |
47.11 |
2013-11-20 |
| 95. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
54.23 |
1.0004 |
-0.1092 |
212 |
1 |
54.23 |
2013-11-10 |
| 96. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
54.07 |
0.9898 |
-0.0576 |
353 |
1 |
54.07 |
2013-11-10 |
| 97. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
53.95 |
0.9567 |
-0.0643 |
273 |
1 |
53.95 |
2013-11-23 |
| 98. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
53.88 |
1.0412 |
-0.1504 |
225 |
1 |
53.88 |
2013-11-18 |
| 99. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
53.67 |
0.8753 |
0.0218 |
427 |
1 |
53.67 |
2013-11-19 |
| 100. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
53.66 |
0.9754 |
-0.0815 |
362 |
1 |
53.66 |
2013-11-17 |
| 101. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
53.50 |
1.0555 |
-0.1407 |
323 |
1 |
53.50 |
2013-11-11 |
| 102. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
53.43 |
0.9678 |
-0.0492 |
445 |
1 |
53.43 |
2013-11-17 |
| 103. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
53.32 |
1.0013 |
-0.1202 |
273 |
1 |
53.32 |
2013-11-10 |
| 104. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
52.98 |
0.9125 |
-0.0344 |
308 |
1 |
52.98 |
2013-11-17 |
| 105. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
52.96 |
1.0264 |
-0.1103 |
422 |
1 |
52.96 |
2013-11-10 |
| 106. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
52.82 |
0.9468 |
-0.0736 |
276 |
2 |
51.46 |
2013-11-19 |
| 107. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
51.99 |
0.9064 |
-0.0375 |
399 |
1 |
51.99 |
2013-11-20 |
| 108. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
51.97 |
0.9553 |
-0.0887 |
430 |
1 |
51.97 |
2013-11-10 |
| 109. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
51.91 |
0.9293 |
-0.0701 |
355 |
1 |
51.91 |
2013-11-10 |
| 110. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
51.61 |
0.9350 |
-0.0809 |
195 |
1 |
51.61 |
2013-11-10 |
| 111. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
51.54 |
0.9351 |
-0.0884 |
190 |
1 |
51.54 |
2013-11-23 |
| 112. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
51.02 |
0.9632 |
-0.0775 |
345 |
1 |
51.02 |
2013-11-11 |
| 113. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
50.85 |
1.0033 |
-0.1694 |
189 |
1 |
50.85 |
2013-11-23 |
| 114. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
50.47 |
1.0608 |
-0.1933 |
258 |
1 |
50.47 |
2013-11-22 |
| 115. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
50.41 |
0.9084 |
-0.0734 |
300 |
1 |
50.41 |
2013-11-11 |
| 116. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
49.46 |
0.9622 |
-0.1385 |
392 |
1 |
49.46 |
2013-11-10 |
| 117. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
48.99 |
1.0677 |
-0.2279 |
284 |
1 |
48.99 |
2013-11-17 |
| 118. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
48.89 |
0.9371 |
-0.0905 |
318 |
1 |
48.89 |
2013-11-20 |
| 119. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
48.63 |
1.0390 |
-0.2395 |
205 |
1 |
48.63 |
2013-11-10 |
| 120. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
47.68 |
0.9461 |
-0.1625 |
193 |
2 |
45.82 |
2013-11-22 |
| 121. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
45.85 |
0.9023 |
-0.1028 |
231 |
1 |
45.85 |
2013-11-17 |
| 122. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
42.54 |
1.0251 |
-0.3262 |
261 |
1 |
42.54 |
2013-11-17 |
| 123. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
39.50 |
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