| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
77.61 |
1.0543 |
0.3260 |
113 |
1 |
77.61 |
2016-05-04 |
| 2. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
72.98 |
1.0767 |
0.2212 |
212 |
2 |
67.25 |
2016-05-04 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
70.63 |
1.0714 |
0.1848 |
129 |
1 |
70.63 |
2014-09-04 |
| 4. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
70.13 |
1.0349 |
0.2124 |
234 |
1 |
70.13 |
2016-04-27 |
| 5. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
69.44 |
0.9938 |
0.2412 |
339 |
1 |
69.44 |
2014-09-04 |
| 6. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
69.27 |
1.0598 |
0.1722 |
196 |
1 |
69.27 |
2014-07-18 |
| 7. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
69.17 |
0.9430 |
0.2872 |
211 |
1 |
69.17 |
2016-04-27 |
| 8. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
68.77 |
1.0529 |
0.1702 |
351 |
1 |
68.77 |
2014-09-04 |
| 9. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
65.87 |
1.0004 |
0.1711 |
212 |
1 |
65.87 |
2014-07-18 |
| 10. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
64.73 |
1.0787 |
0.0725 |
237 |
2 |
59.59 |
2016-05-04 |
| 11. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
63.97 |
1.1323 |
0.0054 |
341 |
2 |
63.63 |
2016-05-03 |
| 12. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
63.49 |
1.0131 |
0.1161 |
225 |
2 |
63.29 |
2016-05-02 |
| 13. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
63.24 |
1.0533 |
0.0714 |
257 |
1 |
63.24 |
2016-04-27 |
| 14. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
62.94 |
1.0885 |
0.0309 |
315 |
1 |
62.94 |
2016-06-08 |
| 15. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
62.37 |
1.0711 |
0.0381 |
213 |
1 |
62.37 |
2010-06-01 |
| 16. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
62.11 |
1.0177 |
0.0869 |
392 |
1 |
62.11 |
2016-05-04 |
| 17. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
61.95 |
0.9089 |
0.1929 |
342 |
2 |
53.92 |
2013-05-16 |
| 18. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
61.89 |
1.0389 |
0.0618 |
318 |
1 |
61.89 |
2014-09-04 |
| 19. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
61.55 |
1.0454 |
0.0493 |
255 |
1 |
61.55 |
2016-05-04 |
| 20. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
61.49 |
0.9772 |
0.1164 |
217 |
3 |
55.94 |
2016-05-03 |
| 21. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
61.20 |
1.1016 |
-0.0132 |
233 |
1 |
61.20 |
2014-09-04 |
| 22. |
Don't tell me what's in, don't tell me how to write, don't t... |
61.16 |
1.0695 |
0.0182 |
183 |
1 |
61.16 |
2016-04-27 |
| 23. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
61.05 |
1.0795 |
0.0063 |
226 |
1 |
61.05 |
2014-07-18 |
| 24. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
60.97 |
1.0384 |
0.0459 |
183 |
1 |
60.97 |
2016-04-27 |
| 25. |
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not ... |
60.68 |
1.1182 |
-0.0390 |
164 |
1 |
60.68 |
2016-06-08 |
| 26. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
60.64 |
1.0232 |
0.0553 |
236 |
2 |
58.72 |
2014-07-18 |
| 27. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
60.50 |
1.0621 |
0.0139 |
263 |
1 |
60.50 |
2010-08-09 |
| 28. |
Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the mos... |
60.35 |
0.9523 |
0.1210 |
245 |
1 |
60.35 |
2016-04-27 |
| 29. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
60.32 |
1.0062 |
0.0666 |
288 |
1 |
60.32 |
2014-07-18 |
| 30. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
60.19 |
1.0462 |
0.0243 |
184 |
1 |
60.19 |
2010-05-27 |
| 31. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
59.94 |
0.9109 |
0.1551 |
401 |
1 |
59.94 |
2016-05-09 |
| 32. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
59.81 |
0.9897 |
0.0740 |
274 |
1 |
59.81 |
2013-05-29 |
| 33. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
59.73 |
1.0534 |
0.0089 |
357 |
1 |
59.73 |
2016-05-09 |
| 34. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
59.60 |
1.0068 |
0.0532 |
358 |
1 |
59.60 |
2012-09-16 |
| 35. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
59.25 |
1.0270 |
0.0268 |
255 |
2 |
55.50 |
2014-07-18 |
| 36. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
59.09 |
1.0740 |
-0.0231 |
264 |
1 |
59.09 |
2010-08-09 |
| 37. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
58.99 |
1.0619 |
-0.0128 |
354 |
1 |
58.99 |
2012-09-07 |
| 38. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
58.83 |
1.0441 |
0.0022 |
316 |
2 |
53.76 |
2016-04-27 |
| 39. |
All at sea again, and now my hurricanes, have brought down t... |
58.71 |
0.9843 |
0.0599 |
325 |
1 |
58.71 |
2016-04-27 |
| 40. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
58.30 |
0.9936 |
0.0433 |
311 |
1 |
58.30 |
2013-05-16 |
| 41. |
Dear Mr. Vernon, We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice... |
58.28 |
0.9575 |
0.0790 |
491 |
2 |
57.39 |
2016-05-03 |
| 42. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
58.13 |
1.0630 |
-0.0292 |
397 |
1 |
58.13 |
2012-09-07 |
| 43. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
58.11 |
0.9911 |
0.0424 |
212 |
1 |
58.11 |
2016-05-03 |
| 44. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
58.04 |
1.0023 |
0.0299 |
211 |
1 |
58.04 |
2016-04-27 |
| 45. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
57.84 |
1.0515 |
-0.0228 |
166 |
1 |
57.84 |
2012-09-07 |
| 46. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
57.81 |
1.0426 |
-0.0145 |
323 |
1 |
57.81 |
2010-05-27 |
| 47. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
57.58 |
0.9831 |
0.0410 |
222 |
1 |
57.58 |
2014-09-04 |
| 48. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
57.53 |
0.9786 |
0.0446 |
193 |
1 |
57.53 |
2010-08-09 |
| 49. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
57.44 |
0.9790 |
0.0426 |
311 |
1 |
57.44 |
2016-04-27 |
| 50. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
57.43 |
1.0172 |
0.0042 |
341 |
1 |
57.43 |
2012-09-13 |
| 51. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
57.33 |
1.0331 |
-0.0135 |
234 |
2 |
55.84 |
2016-05-04 |
| 52. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
57.28 |
0.9811 |
0.0376 |
272 |
1 |
57.28 |
2012-09-07 |
| 53. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
57.17 |
1.0521 |
-0.0353 |
171 |
1 |
57.17 |
2016-05-04 |
| 54. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
57.13 |
0.9233 |
0.0928 |
168 |
1 |
57.13 |
2012-09-19 |
| 55. |
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beaut... |
57.00 |
0.9654 |
0.0483 |
145 |
1 |
57.00 |
2016-06-30 |
| 56. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
56.81 |
0.9851 |
0.0253 |
317 |
1 |
56.81 |
2016-05-12 |
| 57. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
56.57 |
1.0352 |
-0.0291 |
341 |
1 |
56.57 |
2016-04-27 |
| 58. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
56.39 |
0.9411 |
0.0618 |
318 |
1 |
56.39 |
2016-04-27 |
| 59. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
56.34 |
1.0090 |
-0.0070 |
282 |
1 |
56.34 |
2013-05-22 |
| 60. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
56.32 |
0.9893 |
0.0123 |
323 |
1 |
56.32 |
2010-08-09 |
| 61. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
56.22 |
0.9371 |
0.0628 |
318 |
1 |
56.22 |
2014-09-04 |
| 62. |
Tim and the Princess lounge in the castle garden, laughing t... |
56.20 |
1.0152 |
-0.0157 |
192 |
1 |
56.20 |
2016-05-12 |
| 63. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
56.17 |
1.0334 |
-0.0344 |
131 |
1 |
56.17 |
2012-09-16 |
| 64. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
56.16 |
1.0719 |
-0.0731 |
360 |
1 |
56.16 |
2012-09-07 |
| 65. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
56.03 |
0.8382 |
0.1583 |
268 |
2 |
54.86 |
2013-05-17 |
| 66. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
56.02 |
1.0214 |
-0.0251 |
269 |
1 |
56.02 |
2013-05-29 |
| 67. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
55.99 |
0.9350 |
0.0608 |
195 |
1 |
55.99 |
2012-09-16 |
| 68. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
55.81 |
0.9886 |
0.0040 |
220 |
1 |
55.81 |
2016-05-12 |
| 69. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
55.73 |
0.9164 |
0.0748 |
305 |
1 |
55.73 |
2012-09-07 |
| 70. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
55.56 |
1.0669 |
-0.0788 |
286 |
1 |
55.56 |
2010-05-27 |
| 71. |
Soon I'll be sixty years old, my daddy got sixty-one. Rememb... |
55.55 |
0.9803 |
0.0077 |
216 |
3 |
51.34 |
2026-05-19 |
| 72. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
55.46 |
1.0099 |
-0.0235 |
207 |
1 |
55.46 |
2016-05-03 |
| 73. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
55.30 |
0.9873 |
-0.0038 |
155 |
1 |
55.30 |
2012-09-07 |
| 74. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
55.05 |
1.0211 |
-0.0420 |
213 |
2 |
52.92 |
2014-07-18 |
| 75. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
54.99 |
0.9048 |
0.0732 |
271 |
1 |
54.99 |
2012-09-16 |
| 76. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
54.75 |
0.8826 |
0.0911 |
241 |
1 |
54.75 |
2014-09-04 |
| 77. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
54.74 |
0.9844 |
-0.0109 |
293 |
1 |
54.74 |
2014-07-18 |
| 78. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
54.54 |
1.0498 |
-0.0798 |
180 |
1 |
54.54 |
2016-06-30 |
| 79. |
OK, let me get something straight: this is a journal, not a ... |
54.52 |
0.9951 |
-0.0255 |
299 |
1 |
54.52 |
2016-06-30 |
| 80. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
54.51 |
0.9632 |
0.0063 |
240 |
1 |
54.51 |
2013-05-16 |
| 81. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
54.50 |
1.0029 |
-0.0336 |
209 |
1 |
54.50 |
2012-09-19 |
| 82. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
54.37 |
1.0555 |
-0.0885 |
363 |
1 |
54.37 |
2012-09-16 |
| 83. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
54.31 |
1.0768 |
-0.1109 |
295 |
1 |
54.31 |
2010-08-09 |
| 84. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
54.30 |
0.9768 |
-0.0111 |
387 |
1 |
54.30 |
2016-04-27 |
| 85. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
54.25 |
0.9309 |
0.0339 |
284 |
1 |
54.25 |
2010-08-09 |
| 86. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
54.19 |
1.0328 |
-0.0690 |
356 |
1 |
54.19 |
2014-09-04 |
| 87. |
As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir I... |
54.13 |
0.9706 |
-0.0079 |
409 |
1 |
54.13 |
2016-04-27 |
| 88. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
53.89 |
0.9485 |
0.0099 |
291 |
1 |
53.89 |
2013-05-29 |
| 89. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
53.83 |
0.9780 |
-0.0206 |
337 |
1 |
53.83 |
2010-08-09 |
| 90. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
53.67 |
0.9688 |
-0.0143 |
217 |
1 |
53.67 |
2012-09-07 |
| 91. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
53.47 |
0.9365 |
0.0145 |
248 |
1 |
53.47 |
2012-09-07 |
| 92. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
53.23 |
0.9275 |
0.0192 |
211 |
1 |
53.23 |
2016-05-03 |
| 93. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
53.23 |
1.0515 |
-0.1048 |
250 |
1 |
53.23 |
2012-09-16 |
| 94. |
But pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own ... |
53.15 |
1.0154 |
-0.0701 |
420 |
1 |
53.15 |
2016-04-27 |
| 95. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
53.15 |
0.9353 |
0.0100 |
177 |
1 |
53.15 |
2010-08-09 |
| 96. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
53.04 |
1.0314 |
-0.0881 |
172 |
1 |
53.04 |
2017-02-17 |
| 97. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
53.03 |
0.9207 |
0.0224 |
174 |
2 |
49.03 |
2016-04-27 |
| 98. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
53.00 |
1.0240 |
-0.0814 |
256 |
1 |
53.00 |
2012-09-16 |
| 99. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
52.77 |
0.9045 |
0.0340 |
235 |
1 |
52.77 |
2014-10-24 |
| 100. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
52.66 |
1.0679 |
-0.1313 |
177 |
1 |
52.66 |
2010-05-27 |
| 101. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
52.61 |
0.9699 |
-0.0342 |
269 |
1 |
52.61 |
2016-06-30 |
| 102. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
52.47 |
1.0388 |
-0.1056 |
243 |
1 |
52.47 |
2016-04-27 |
| 103. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
51.98 |
0.9084 |
0.0161 |
300 |
1 |
51.98 |
2013-05-16 |
| 104. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
51.85 |
1.0375 |
-0.1154 |
200 |
1 |
51.85 |
2010-05-27 |
| 105. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
51.78 |
1.0288 |
-0.1079 |
300 |
1 |
51.78 |
2012-09-16 |
| 106. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
50.97 |
0.9281 |
-0.0216 |
273 |
1 |
50.97 |
2012-09-16 |
| 107. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
50.69 |
0.9871 |
-0.0856 |
227 |
1 |
50.69 |
2010-08-09 |
| 108. |
Every time people try to punish the rich, the rich don't sim... |
50.65 |
1.0150 |
-0.1142 |
411 |
1 |
50.65 |
2026-05-19 |
| 109. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
50.48 |
0.9684 |
-0.0706 |
388 |
1 |
50.48 |
2014-09-04 |
| 110. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
50.36 |
0.9786 |
-0.0830 |
235 |
1 |
50.36 |
2012-09-16 |
| 111. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
50.24 |
1.0316 |
-0.1381 |
333 |
1 |
50.24 |
2016-04-27 |
| 112. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
49.80 |
0.9176 |
-0.0319 |
365 |
1 |
49.80 |
2017-02-17 |
| 113. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
48.97 |
0.9676 |
-0.0967 |
442 |
1 |
48.97 |
2014-09-04 |
| 114. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
48.76 |
0.9234 |
-0.0562 |
346 |
1 |
48.76 |
2012-09-07 |
| 115. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
48.71 |
0.8961 |
-0.0298 |
189 |
1 |
48.71 |
2010-08-09 |
| 116. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
48.58 |
0.9646 |
-0.1006 |
264 |
1 |
48.58 |
2012-09-07 |
| 117. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
48.11 |
1.0796 |
-0.2240 |
129 |
1 |
48.11 |
2012-09-16 |
| 118. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
48.04 |
1.0169 |
-0.1625 |
346 |
1 |
48.04 |
2012-09-07 |
| 119. |
It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting he... |
47.99 |
1.0424 |
-0.1889 |
171 |
1 |
47.99 |
2016-05-09 |
| 120. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
47.36 |
0.9871 |
-0.1448 |
209 |
1 |
47.36 |
2012-09-16 |
| 121. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
47.17 |
0.8956 |
-0.0567 |
322 |
1 |
47.17 |
2010-05-27 |
| 122. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
46.52 |
0.9632 |
-0.1358 |
345 |
1 |
46.52 |
2012-09-07 |
| 123. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
45.31 |
0.8467 |
-0.0409 |
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45.31 |
2014-07-18 |
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0.0181 |
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2016-04-27 |
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Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
44.98 |
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2012-09-07 |
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I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
43.40 |
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2012-09-07 |
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2022-04-05 |
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41.63 |
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2010-05-27 |
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39.39 |
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2014-09-04 |