| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
87.85 |
1.0060 |
0.2674 |
171 |
1 |
87.85 |
2011-10-20 |
| 2. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
83.70 |
1.0596 |
0.1551 |
239 |
1 |
83.70 |
2011-10-10 |
| 3. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
83.62 |
1.0944 |
0.1662 |
308 |
1 |
83.62 |
2011-10-27 |
| 4. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
83.05 |
1.0403 |
0.1821 |
193 |
2 |
76.92 |
2011-10-25 |
| 5. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
81.41 |
1.0669 |
0.1489 |
286 |
1 |
81.41 |
2011-10-25 |
| 6. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
81.36 |
1.0403 |
0.1824 |
275 |
2 |
77.86 |
2011-10-27 |
| 7. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
81.29 |
0.9769 |
0.2030 |
263 |
2 |
77.55 |
2011-04-03 |
| 8. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
81.27 |
1.1068 |
0.1151 |
393 |
1 |
81.27 |
2011-10-27 |
| 9. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
80.78 |
0.9910 |
0.1854 |
295 |
1 |
80.78 |
2011-04-03 |
| 10. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
78.80 |
0.9089 |
0.2398 |
342 |
1 |
78.80 |
2011-10-25 |
| 11. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
78.33 |
1.0214 |
0.1593 |
281 |
1 |
78.33 |
2011-04-03 |
| 12. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
78.28 |
1.0349 |
0.1016 |
234 |
2 |
75.86 |
2011-10-10 |
| 13. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
78.13 |
0.9855 |
0.1835 |
258 |
2 |
74.54 |
2011-10-27 |
| 14. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
77.54 |
0.9801 |
0.1895 |
428 |
1 |
77.54 |
2011-10-25 |
| 15. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
76.85 |
0.9785 |
0.1411 |
335 |
1 |
76.85 |
2011-10-27 |
| 16. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
76.73 |
1.0214 |
0.0920 |
269 |
1 |
76.73 |
2011-10-25 |
| 17. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
76.50 |
1.0477 |
0.0659 |
360 |
1 |
76.50 |
2011-04-03 |
| 18. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
76.45 |
1.0463 |
0.0597 |
182 |
1 |
76.45 |
2011-10-10 |
| 19. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
76.44 |
1.0177 |
0.1312 |
392 |
2 |
68.93 |
2011-10-27 |
| 20. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.37 |
1.0797 |
0.0243 |
210 |
1 |
76.37 |
2011-10-25 |
| 21. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
75.90 |
0.9275 |
0.1720 |
211 |
1 |
75.90 |
2011-10-10 |
| 22. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
75.26 |
1.0025 |
0.0902 |
256 |
1 |
75.26 |
2011-10-25 |
| 23. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
74.95 |
0.9852 |
0.1037 |
264 |
2 |
69.87 |
2011-10-27 |
| 24. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
74.87 |
1.0090 |
0.1222 |
282 |
1 |
74.87 |
2011-04-03 |
| 25. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
74.81 |
1.1016 |
-0.0154 |
233 |
2 |
72.56 |
2011-10-27 |
| 26. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
74.25 |
0.9619 |
0.1221 |
393 |
2 |
74.13 |
2011-10-10 |
| 27. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
74.23 |
1.0885 |
0.0246 |
341 |
1 |
74.23 |
2011-01-05 |
| 28. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
73.79 |
1.0288 |
0.0752 |
300 |
1 |
73.79 |
2011-10-25 |
| 29. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
73.79 |
0.8947 |
0.1821 |
366 |
1 |
73.79 |
2011-10-27 |
| 30. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
73.73 |
1.0203 |
0.0839 |
400 |
1 |
73.73 |
2011-10-25 |
| 31. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
73.61 |
0.9776 |
0.0917 |
308 |
1 |
73.61 |
2011-04-03 |
| 32. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
73.58 |
0.9635 |
0.1109 |
389 |
1 |
73.58 |
2011-10-27 |
| 33. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
73.54 |
0.9597 |
0.1122 |
347 |
1 |
73.54 |
2011-10-27 |
| 34. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
73.35 |
0.9942 |
0.0796 |
483 |
1 |
73.35 |
2011-10-25 |
| 35. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
73.34 |
1.0684 |
0.0266 |
253 |
1 |
73.34 |
2011-04-03 |
| 36. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
73.02 |
0.9916 |
0.1114 |
282 |
1 |
73.02 |
2011-10-25 |
| 37. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
73.00 |
0.9866 |
0.0699 |
218 |
1 |
73.00 |
2011-10-11 |
| 38. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
72.98 |
1.0711 |
-0.0166 |
213 |
1 |
72.98 |
2011-01-04 |
| 39. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
72.58 |
1.0669 |
0.0201 |
213 |
1 |
72.58 |
2011-10-27 |
| 40. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
72.15 |
0.9754 |
0.0781 |
362 |
2 |
65.33 |
2011-10-11 |
| 41. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
72.14 |
0.9464 |
0.1062 |
323 |
2 |
65.97 |
2011-10-27 |
| 42. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
71.70 |
1.0261 |
0.0126 |
273 |
1 |
71.70 |
2011-10-27 |
| 43. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
71.50 |
1.0109 |
0.0598 |
400 |
2 |
70.79 |
2011-12-16 |
| 44. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
71.32 |
0.9894 |
0.0503 |
323 |
1 |
71.32 |
2011-10-25 |
| 45. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
71.28 |
0.9567 |
0.1204 |
184 |
1 |
71.28 |
2011-10-20 |
| 46. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
70.86 |
0.9886 |
0.0423 |
220 |
1 |
70.86 |
2011-10-25 |
| 47. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
70.71 |
1.0531 |
0.0114 |
272 |
1 |
70.71 |
2011-04-03 |
| 48. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
70.65 |
0.9155 |
0.1590 |
168 |
1 |
70.65 |
2011-10-27 |
| 49. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
70.45 |
0.9994 |
0.0540 |
269 |
2 |
69.01 |
2011-10-20 |
| 50. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
70.40 |
1.0154 |
0.0563 |
351 |
1 |
70.40 |
2011-10-25 |
| 51. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
70.27 |
0.8916 |
0.1287 |
216 |
1 |
70.27 |
2011-12-16 |
| 52. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
70.07 |
0.8826 |
0.1359 |
296 |
1 |
70.07 |
2011-04-03 |
| 53. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
70.03 |
1.0379 |
0.0130 |
245 |
1 |
70.03 |
2011-10-11 |
| 54. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
69.95 |
0.9831 |
0.0286 |
222 |
1 |
69.95 |
2011-10-11 |
| 55. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
69.58 |
1.0124 |
-0.0052 |
204 |
1 |
69.58 |
2011-01-05 |
| 56. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
69.58 |
0.9125 |
0.0990 |
308 |
1 |
69.58 |
2011-04-03 |
| 57. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
69.58 |
1.0679 |
-0.0383 |
177 |
1 |
69.58 |
2011-01-04 |
| 58. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
69.38 |
0.9351 |
0.0662 |
190 |
1 |
69.38 |
2011-10-25 |
| 59. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
69.12 |
0.9583 |
0.0882 |
341 |
1 |
69.12 |
2011-10-25 |
| 60. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
69.00 |
1.0263 |
-0.0262 |
267 |
1 |
69.00 |
2011-10-27 |
| 61. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
68.99 |
0.9833 |
0.0193 |
355 |
1 |
68.99 |
2011-10-20 |
| 62. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
68.94 |
1.0384 |
-0.0482 |
183 |
1 |
68.94 |
2011-10-25 |
| 63. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
68.89 |
0.9540 |
0.0435 |
285 |
1 |
68.89 |
2011-04-03 |
| 64. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
68.54 |
0.9339 |
0.0589 |
310 |
1 |
68.54 |
2011-10-20 |
| 65. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
67.90 |
1.0352 |
-0.0469 |
341 |
1 |
67.90 |
2011-10-20 |
| 66. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
67.74 |
0.9814 |
0.0408 |
364 |
1 |
67.74 |
2011-10-25 |
| 67. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
67.61 |
0.9709 |
0.0512 |
397 |
1 |
67.61 |
2011-10-20 |
| 68. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
67.26 |
1.0151 |
-0.0489 |
152 |
1 |
67.26 |
2011-10-27 |
| 69. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
67.21 |
1.0389 |
-0.0616 |
340 |
3 |
63.70 |
2011-10-24 |
| 70. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
67.14 |
1.0042 |
0.0113 |
352 |
1 |
67.14 |
2011-01-05 |
| 71. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
66.90 |
1.0073 |
-0.0287 |
369 |
1 |
66.90 |
2011-10-11 |
| 72. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
66.54 |
0.8981 |
0.0715 |
393 |
1 |
66.54 |
2011-10-25 |
| 73. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
66.39 |
1.0545 |
-0.0509 |
416 |
1 |
66.39 |
2011-01-05 |
| 74. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
66.17 |
0.9557 |
0.0102 |
331 |
1 |
66.17 |
2011-01-05 |
| 75. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
65.62 |
0.9527 |
-0.0010 |
251 |
1 |
65.62 |
2011-04-03 |
| 76. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
65.27 |
0.9023 |
0.0871 |
231 |
1 |
65.27 |
2011-04-03 |
| 77. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
65.24 |
1.0863 |
-0.1056 |
210 |
1 |
65.24 |
2011-04-03 |
| 78. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
65.03 |
0.9780 |
-0.0342 |
337 |
1 |
65.03 |
2011-04-03 |
| 79. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
65.00 |
0.9758 |
-0.0327 |
314 |
1 |
65.00 |
2011-04-03 |
| 80. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
64.76 |
0.9632 |
-0.0179 |
392 |
1 |
64.76 |
2011-01-05 |
| 81. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
63.99 |
0.9289 |
-0.0039 |
204 |
2 |
61.36 |
2011-10-25 |
| 82. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
63.98 |
0.9212 |
0.0093 |
323 |
1 |
63.98 |
2011-10-25 |
| 83. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
63.98 |
0.9851 |
-0.0552 |
317 |
1 |
63.98 |
2011-10-27 |
| 84. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
63.95 |
1.0201 |
-0.0926 |
303 |
1 |
63.95 |
2011-10-25 |
| 85. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
63.64 |
1.0662 |
-0.1058 |
407 |
1 |
63.64 |
2011-10-24 |
| 86. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
63.23 |
0.9786 |
-0.0673 |
193 |
1 |
63.23 |
2011-01-04 |
| 87. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
63.21 |
0.9768 |
-0.0578 |
387 |
1 |
63.21 |
2011-01-04 |
| 88. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
62.84 |
0.9740 |
-0.0677 |
209 |
1 |
62.84 |
2011-10-25 |
| 89. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
62.76 |
0.9364 |
0.0132 |
351 |
1 |
62.76 |
2011-01-10 |
| 90. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
61.95 |
1.0368 |
-0.1386 |
276 |
1 |
61.95 |
2011-05-27 |
| 91. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
61.84 |
0.9278 |
-0.0293 |
295 |
1 |
61.84 |
2011-01-04 |
| 92. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
61.54 |
1.0398 |
-0.1592 |
110 |
1 |
61.54 |
2011-01-05 |
| 93. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
61.34 |
0.9087 |
-0.0091 |
393 |
1 |
61.34 |
2011-10-20 |
| 94. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
61.26 |
0.9216 |
0.0050 |
255 |
1 |
61.26 |
2011-12-03 |
| 95. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
61.10 |
1.0555 |
-0.1689 |
363 |
1 |
61.10 |
2011-01-04 |
| 96. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
61.08 |
0.8467 |
0.0627 |
343 |
2 |
59.03 |
2011-10-27 |
| 97. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
61.04 |
0.9831 |
-0.0908 |
469 |
1 |
61.04 |
2011-01-05 |
| 98. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
60.69 |
1.0141 |
-0.0988 |
304 |
1 |
60.69 |
2011-10-25 |
| 99. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
60.49 |
0.9293 |
-0.0520 |
355 |
2 |
56.56 |
2011-04-03 |
| 100. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
60.37 |
0.9509 |
-0.0384 |
225 |
1 |
60.37 |
2011-10-25 |
| 101. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
58.50 |
0.9429 |
-0.0946 |
287 |
2 |
56.40 |
2011-10-25 |
| 102. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
58.10 |
0.8975 |
-0.0560 |
268 |
1 |
58.10 |
2011-01-04 |
| 103. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
58.08 |
0.9844 |
-0.1386 |
293 |
1 |
58.08 |
2011-10-10 |
| 104. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
58.07 |
1.0141 |
-0.1331 |
381 |
1 |
58.07 |
2011-10-25 |
| 105. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
57.77 |
0.9991 |
-0.1624 |
225 |
1 |
57.77 |
2011-10-25 |
| 106. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
57.69 |
0.9084 |
-0.0718 |
300 |
1 |
57.69 |
2011-05-27 |
| 107. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
57.28 |
0.9965 |
-0.1670 |
277 |
2 |
56.47 |
2011-10-25 |
| 108. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
56.91 |
1.0201 |
-0.2032 |
172 |
1 |
56.91 |
2011-04-03 |
| 109. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
56.72 |
0.8878 |
-0.0674 |
346 |
1 |
56.72 |
2011-01-05 |
| 110. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
56.63 |
1.0506 |
-0.2026 |
277 |
1 |
56.63 |
2011-01-05 |
| 111. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
56.23 |
0.8341 |
-0.0125 |
224 |
1 |
56.23 |
2011-01-10 |
| 112. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
54.50 |
0.7805 |
0.0029 |
154 |
1 |
54.50 |
2011-10-10 |
| 113. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
54.10 |
0.9164 |
-0.1290 |
305 |
1 |
54.10 |
2011-04-03 |
| 114. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
51.91 |
1.0498 |
-0.3047 |
180 |
1 |
51.91 |
2011-05-27 |
| 115. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
51.76 |
0.9049 |
-0.1515 |
351 |
1 |
51.76 |
2011-04-03 |
| 116. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
51.59 |
1.0795 |
-0.3040 |
226 |
1 |
51.59 |
2011-10-11 |
| 117. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
49.96 |
0.9904 |
-0.2288 |
203 |
1 |
49.96 |
2011-05-27 |
| 118. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
47.94 |
0.9064 |
-0.2053 |
399 |
1 |
47.94 |
2011-10-25 |
| 119. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
41.18 |
0.9665 |
-0.3250 |
326 |
1 |
41.18 |
2011-10-25 |