| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
85.37 |
1.0565 |
0.3004 |
247 |
2 |
72.02 |
2012-11-16 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
81.42 |
1.1016 |
0.1946 |
233 |
1 |
81.42 |
2012-11-16 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
78.12 |
1.1018 |
0.1351 |
220 |
1 |
78.12 |
2012-11-16 |
| 4. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
75.84 |
1.0644 |
0.1782 |
257 |
1 |
75.84 |
2012-11-16 |
| 5. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
74.53 |
1.0124 |
0.1707 |
204 |
1 |
74.53 |
2012-11-16 |
| 6. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
73.88 |
1.0412 |
0.1332 |
225 |
1 |
73.88 |
2012-11-16 |
| 7. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
73.82 |
1.0498 |
0.1193 |
180 |
1 |
73.82 |
2012-11-01 |
| 8. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
72.71 |
1.0829 |
0.0747 |
288 |
1 |
72.71 |
2012-11-01 |
| 9. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
72.65 |
1.0125 |
0.1404 |
224 |
1 |
72.65 |
2012-11-16 |
| 10. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
72.55 |
1.0384 |
0.1059 |
183 |
1 |
72.55 |
2012-11-15 |
| 11. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
71.41 |
1.0454 |
0.0862 |
255 |
2 |
65.15 |
2012-11-01 |
| 12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
71.22 |
1.0787 |
0.0521 |
237 |
1 |
71.22 |
2012-11-01 |
| 13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
71.21 |
1.0714 |
0.0518 |
129 |
1 |
71.21 |
2012-11-01 |
| 14. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
70.97 |
1.0944 |
0.0785 |
308 |
1 |
70.97 |
2012-11-15 |
| 15. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
70.72 |
1.0885 |
0.0388 |
315 |
1 |
70.72 |
2012-11-15 |
| 16. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
70.33 |
1.0463 |
0.0671 |
182 |
1 |
70.33 |
2012-11-16 |
| 17. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
70.16 |
1.0073 |
0.1156 |
369 |
1 |
70.16 |
2012-11-15 |
| 18. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
70.16 |
1.0297 |
0.0842 |
249 |
1 |
70.16 |
2012-11-15 |
| 19. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
69.98 |
0.9706 |
0.1460 |
216 |
1 |
69.98 |
2012-11-15 |
| 20. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
69.80 |
1.0296 |
0.0860 |
437 |
1 |
69.80 |
2012-11-16 |
| 21. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
69.28 |
1.0515 |
0.0418 |
166 |
1 |
69.28 |
2012-11-16 |
| 22. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
69.28 |
1.0201 |
0.0850 |
375 |
1 |
69.28 |
2012-11-15 |
| 23. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
68.95 |
1.0346 |
0.1032 |
244 |
1 |
68.95 |
2012-11-01 |
| 24. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
68.77 |
0.9805 |
0.1168 |
292 |
2 |
62.44 |
2012-11-15 |
| 25. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
68.67 |
1.0034 |
0.0864 |
302 |
1 |
68.67 |
2012-11-01 |
| 26. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
68.20 |
0.9786 |
0.0996 |
193 |
1 |
68.20 |
2012-11-16 |
| 27. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
67.59 |
1.1162 |
-0.0012 |
189 |
1 |
67.59 |
2012-11-01 |
| 28. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
67.07 |
1.0218 |
0.0407 |
268 |
2 |
60.80 |
2012-11-01 |
| 29. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
66.91 |
1.0095 |
0.0525 |
316 |
1 |
66.91 |
2012-11-15 |
| 30. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
66.60 |
1.0666 |
-0.0088 |
297 |
1 |
66.60 |
2012-11-15 |
| 31. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
66.52 |
1.0567 |
0.0006 |
303 |
1 |
66.52 |
2012-11-01 |
| 32. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
66.35 |
1.0053 |
0.0466 |
232 |
2 |
62.28 |
2012-11-15 |
| 33. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
66.31 |
1.1114 |
-0.0607 |
247 |
1 |
66.31 |
2012-11-01 |
| 34. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
66.13 |
1.0398 |
0.0000 |
110 |
1 |
66.13 |
2012-11-16 |
| 35. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
65.98 |
1.0214 |
0.0250 |
269 |
1 |
65.98 |
2012-11-01 |
| 36. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
65.74 |
0.9527 |
0.0912 |
251 |
2 |
61.36 |
2012-11-15 |
| 37. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
65.53 |
1.0725 |
-0.0059 |
233 |
2 |
64.49 |
2012-11-01 |
| 38. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
65.49 |
1.0396 |
-0.0065 |
149 |
1 |
65.49 |
2012-11-15 |
| 39. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
65.39 |
1.0763 |
0.0036 |
367 |
1 |
65.39 |
2012-11-01 |
| 40. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
65.31 |
0.9820 |
0.0578 |
267 |
1 |
65.31 |
2012-11-16 |
| 41. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
65.25 |
0.9820 |
0.0546 |
274 |
1 |
65.25 |
2012-11-16 |
| 42. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
64.94 |
1.0486 |
-0.0165 |
289 |
1 |
64.94 |
2012-11-01 |
| 43. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
64.87 |
1.0441 |
-0.0124 |
252 |
1 |
64.87 |
2012-11-01 |
| 44. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
64.54 |
1.0595 |
-0.0325 |
379 |
2 |
61.49 |
2012-11-01 |
| 45. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
63.85 |
1.0521 |
-0.0432 |
171 |
1 |
63.85 |
2012-11-15 |
| 46. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
63.76 |
0.9653 |
0.0463 |
349 |
1 |
63.76 |
2012-11-01 |
| 47. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
63.65 |
0.9773 |
0.0256 |
123 |
1 |
63.65 |
2012-11-01 |
| 48. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
63.14 |
1.0331 |
-0.0330 |
234 |
1 |
63.14 |
2012-11-15 |
| 49. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
63.10 |
0.9636 |
0.0378 |
254 |
4 |
57.62 |
2012-11-15 |
| 50. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
62.87 |
1.0173 |
0.0249 |
268 |
2 |
60.03 |
2012-11-01 |
| 51. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
62.87 |
0.9342 |
0.0672 |
434 |
1 |
62.87 |
2012-11-01 |
| 52. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
62.76 |
0.9904 |
0.0463 |
203 |
1 |
62.76 |
2012-11-16 |
| 53. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
62.42 |
1.0385 |
-0.0494 |
230 |
1 |
62.42 |
2012-11-01 |
| 54. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
62.22 |
1.0545 |
-0.0264 |
416 |
2 |
62.10 |
2012-11-15 |
| 55. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
62.04 |
0.9907 |
-0.0076 |
211 |
1 |
62.04 |
2012-11-01 |
| 56. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
61.94 |
1.0767 |
-0.0957 |
212 |
1 |
61.94 |
2012-10-31 |
| 57. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
61.84 |
1.0214 |
-0.0455 |
166 |
1 |
61.84 |
2012-11-01 |
| 58. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
61.78 |
0.9687 |
0.0165 |
371 |
1 |
61.78 |
2012-11-01 |
| 59. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
61.66 |
0.9127 |
0.0637 |
252 |
1 |
61.66 |
2012-11-01 |
| 60. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
61.60 |
0.9698 |
0.0405 |
397 |
1 |
61.60 |
2012-11-15 |
| 61. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
61.48 |
0.9884 |
-0.0136 |
233 |
1 |
61.48 |
2012-11-01 |
| 62. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
61.31 |
1.0168 |
-0.0427 |
271 |
2 |
60.14 |
2012-11-01 |
| 63. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
61.13 |
0.8791 |
0.0904 |
190 |
1 |
61.13 |
2012-10-31 |
| 64. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
61.04 |
1.0547 |
-0.0514 |
257 |
1 |
61.04 |
2012-11-01 |
| 65. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
60.82 |
1.0768 |
-0.0717 |
295 |
1 |
60.82 |
2012-11-01 |
| 66. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
60.57 |
1.0441 |
-0.0418 |
316 |
1 |
60.57 |
2012-10-30 |
| 67. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
60.44 |
0.9504 |
0.0034 |
263 |
1 |
60.44 |
2012-11-15 |
| 68. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
60.30 |
0.9365 |
0.0215 |
248 |
1 |
60.30 |
2012-11-15 |
| 69. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
60.29 |
1.0426 |
-0.0868 |
323 |
1 |
60.29 |
2012-10-30 |
| 70. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
60.21 |
0.9886 |
-0.0309 |
220 |
1 |
60.21 |
2012-11-16 |
| 71. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
60.10 |
0.9631 |
0.0415 |
345 |
1 |
60.10 |
2012-10-31 |
| 72. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
59.99 |
0.9881 |
0.0039 |
424 |
1 |
59.99 |
2012-11-01 |
| 73. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
59.89 |
1.0008 |
-0.0077 |
473 |
1 |
59.89 |
2012-10-31 |
| 74. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
59.81 |
0.9843 |
-0.0406 |
234 |
1 |
59.81 |
2012-11-01 |
| 75. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
59.71 |
0.9312 |
0.0665 |
320 |
1 |
59.71 |
2012-11-01 |
| 76. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
59.29 |
0.9646 |
-0.0250 |
264 |
1 |
59.29 |
2012-11-01 |
| 77. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
59.03 |
0.9461 |
-0.0098 |
276 |
1 |
59.03 |
2012-11-15 |
| 78. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
58.72 |
0.9619 |
-0.0256 |
393 |
1 |
58.72 |
2012-11-01 |
| 79. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
58.53 |
1.0090 |
-0.0371 |
282 |
1 |
58.53 |
2012-10-30 |
| 80. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
58.39 |
0.9673 |
-0.0020 |
232 |
1 |
58.39 |
2012-11-15 |
| 81. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
58.17 |
1.0972 |
-0.1452 |
251 |
1 |
58.17 |
2012-11-01 |
| 82. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
58.09 |
0.8907 |
0.0434 |
351 |
2 |
53.31 |
2012-11-01 |
| 83. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
57.99 |
0.9798 |
-0.0662 |
199 |
1 |
57.99 |
2012-11-01 |
| 84. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
57.88 |
0.9632 |
-0.0391 |
392 |
1 |
57.88 |
2012-11-01 |
| 85. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
57.78 |
1.0459 |
-0.0985 |
200 |
1 |
57.78 |
2012-10-30 |
| 86. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
57.54 |
0.9128 |
0.0409 |
369 |
1 |
57.54 |
2012-11-15 |
| 87. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
57.12 |
0.9087 |
0.0073 |
393 |
1 |
57.12 |
2012-11-01 |
| 88. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
57.00 |
1.0328 |
-0.0914 |
356 |
1 |
57.00 |
2012-11-01 |
| 89. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
56.98 |
1.0252 |
-0.1284 |
176 |
1 |
56.98 |
2012-10-31 |
| 90. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
56.97 |
0.9651 |
-0.0262 |
389 |
1 |
56.97 |
2012-11-01 |
| 91. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
56.83 |
0.9084 |
-0.0058 |
300 |
1 |
56.83 |
2012-10-31 |
| 92. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
56.73 |
0.9780 |
-0.0779 |
337 |
1 |
56.73 |
2012-11-01 |
| 93. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
56.70 |
1.0077 |
-0.0676 |
250 |
1 |
56.70 |
2012-11-01 |
| 94. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
56.58 |
0.9846 |
-0.0888 |
281 |
2 |
56.43 |
2012-10-31 |
| 95. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
56.30 |
0.9790 |
-0.0461 |
311 |
1 |
56.30 |
2012-10-30 |
| 96. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
56.07 |
0.9514 |
-0.0625 |
237 |
2 |
51.57 |
2012-11-01 |
| 97. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
55.42 |
0.8793 |
0.0006 |
157 |
2 |
54.78 |
2012-10-31 |
| 98. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
55.38 |
0.8916 |
-0.0139 |
216 |
2 |
55.01 |
2012-11-15 |
| 99. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
55.07 |
0.9125 |
-0.0383 |
308 |
1 |
55.07 |
2012-11-01 |
| 100. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
54.85 |
0.9089 |
-0.0359 |
342 |
1 |
54.85 |
2012-11-01 |
| 101. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
54.77 |
1.0151 |
-0.1555 |
152 |
1 |
54.77 |
2012-10-30 |
| 102. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
54.43 |
1.0529 |
-0.1907 |
351 |
1 |
54.43 |
2012-10-30 |
| 103. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
54.08 |
0.9064 |
-0.0408 |
399 |
1 |
54.08 |
2012-11-01 |
| 104. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
53.94 |
1.0172 |
-0.1279 |
341 |
1 |
53.94 |
2012-11-01 |
| 105. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
53.02 |
0.8941 |
-0.0522 |
216 |
1 |
53.02 |
2012-11-01 |
| 106. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
52.93 |
0.8022 |
0.0391 |
215 |
2 |
43.61 |
2012-11-01 |
| 107. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
52.49 |
0.8770 |
-0.0429 |
300 |
1 |
52.49 |
2012-11-01 |
| 108. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
52.44 |
0.9665 |
-0.0869 |
326 |
1 |
52.44 |
2012-10-30 |
| 109. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
52.41 |
0.8826 |
-0.0498 |
241 |
1 |
52.41 |
2012-11-01 |
| 110. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
50.91 |
0.9157 |
-0.1051 |
350 |
1 |
50.91 |
2012-10-30 |
| 111. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
50.74 |
0.7876 |
0.0179 |
316 |
1 |
50.74 |
2012-11-01 |
| 112. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
50.74 |
1.0261 |
-0.2250 |
273 |
1 |
50.74 |
2012-11-01 |
| 113. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
49.55 |
0.9936 |
-0.1898 |
227 |
1 |
49.55 |
2012-10-31 |
| 114. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
49.51 |
1.0201 |
-0.2365 |
303 |
1 |
49.51 |
2012-10-31 |
| 115. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
49.18 |
0.8105 |
-0.0370 |
204 |
2 |
46.65 |
2012-11-01 |
| 116. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
47.22 |
1.0169 |
-0.2320 |
346 |
1 |
47.22 |
2012-10-30 |
| 117. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
44.98 |
0.9726 |
-0.2683 |
154 |
1 |
44.98 |
2012-10-30 |