| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
112.07 |
1.1215 |
0.2052 |
200 |
1 |
112.07 |
2012-01-18 |
| 2. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
110.59 |
1.0132 |
0.2635 |
143 |
1 |
110.59 |
2012-01-08 |
| 3. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
109.80 |
1.0138 |
0.2619 |
231 |
2 |
98.47 |
2010-07-29 |
| 4. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
103.69 |
0.9307 |
0.2817 |
246 |
2 |
94.90 |
2012-01-08 |
| 5. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
102.55 |
1.0257 |
0.1717 |
401 |
1 |
102.55 |
2012-01-18 |
| 6. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
102.12 |
1.0498 |
0.1313 |
180 |
1 |
102.12 |
2010-02-17 |
| 7. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
101.83 |
1.0125 |
0.1677 |
224 |
2 |
99.64 |
2012-02-24 |
| 8. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
101.37 |
1.0168 |
0.1617 |
271 |
2 |
93.09 |
2012-01-18 |
| 9. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
101.24 |
0.9772 |
0.1949 |
217 |
2 |
81.84 |
2012-02-24 |
| 10. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
101.16 |
1.0608 |
0.1472 |
258 |
1 |
101.16 |
2012-01-08 |
| 11. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
101.08 |
0.8821 |
0.2911 |
176 |
1 |
101.08 |
2012-01-08 |
| 12. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
100.28 |
1.0023 |
0.1601 |
211 |
2 |
92.92 |
2012-01-07 |
| 13. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
99.77 |
0.9893 |
0.1691 |
323 |
1 |
99.77 |
2012-01-08 |
| 14. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
99.20 |
1.0349 |
0.1161 |
234 |
1 |
99.20 |
2010-02-12 |
| 15. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
98.93 |
1.0596 |
0.0868 |
239 |
1 |
98.93 |
2010-02-12 |
| 16. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
98.49 |
1.0528 |
0.0855 |
201 |
1 |
98.49 |
2012-01-08 |
| 17. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
97.68 |
1.0131 |
0.1168 |
225 |
2 |
93.91 |
2010-07-29 |
| 18. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
97.13 |
0.9546 |
0.2041 |
198 |
1 |
97.13 |
2010-07-29 |
| 19. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
97.02 |
0.9894 |
0.1411 |
323 |
1 |
97.02 |
2012-02-06 |
| 20. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
95.80 |
0.9622 |
0.1559 |
392 |
2 |
92.23 |
2012-01-18 |
| 21. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
94.65 |
0.9398 |
0.1677 |
419 |
3 |
85.51 |
2012-02-06 |
| 22. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
94.25 |
1.0462 |
0.0412 |
184 |
2 |
91.36 |
2012-02-24 |
| 23. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
92.93 |
1.0263 |
0.0509 |
267 |
1 |
92.93 |
2010-02-11 |
| 24. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
92.48 |
0.9899 |
0.0782 |
163 |
2 |
92.05 |
2010-07-29 |
| 25. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
92.39 |
1.0441 |
0.0291 |
252 |
2 |
91.66 |
2010-02-17 |
| 26. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
92.39 |
0.9722 |
0.1016 |
283 |
1 |
92.39 |
2010-02-11 |
| 27. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
92.38 |
1.1296 |
-0.0289 |
252 |
1 |
92.38 |
2010-07-29 |
| 28. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
91.94 |
1.0183 |
0.0425 |
191 |
2 |
83.71 |
2012-01-08 |
| 29. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
91.64 |
1.0412 |
0.0211 |
225 |
1 |
91.64 |
2012-01-08 |
| 30. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
91.61 |
1.0109 |
0.0525 |
276 |
1 |
91.61 |
2012-01-08 |
| 31. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
91.08 |
1.0297 |
0.0254 |
249 |
1 |
91.08 |
2010-07-29 |
| 32. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
90.79 |
1.0666 |
-0.0136 |
297 |
1 |
90.79 |
2010-07-29 |
| 33. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
90.61 |
1.0574 |
0.0213 |
205 |
1 |
90.61 |
2012-01-08 |
| 34. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
90.59 |
1.0004 |
0.0441 |
212 |
2 |
79.06 |
2010-02-18 |
| 35. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
90.41 |
0.9532 |
0.0940 |
258 |
1 |
90.41 |
2010-07-29 |
| 36. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
90.36 |
0.9946 |
0.0531 |
246 |
1 |
90.36 |
2010-07-29 |
| 37. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
90.16 |
0.9855 |
0.0933 |
258 |
3 |
82.20 |
2012-02-24 |
| 38. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
90.03 |
1.0396 |
-0.0028 |
149 |
1 |
90.03 |
2010-02-17 |
| 39. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
89.83 |
1.0053 |
0.0344 |
232 |
1 |
89.83 |
2010-02-17 |
| 40. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
89.68 |
0.9063 |
0.1416 |
239 |
2 |
84.01 |
2012-01-08 |
| 41. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
89.68 |
0.9852 |
0.0550 |
264 |
1 |
89.68 |
2012-01-08 |
| 42. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
89.33 |
1.0391 |
0.0028 |
358 |
1 |
89.33 |
2010-07-29 |
| 43. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
89.27 |
1.0696 |
-0.0380 |
226 |
2 |
87.48 |
2010-02-17 |
| 44. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
89.01 |
1.0669 |
-0.0026 |
286 |
1 |
89.01 |
2010-02-11 |
| 45. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
89.00 |
0.9576 |
0.0789 |
212 |
1 |
89.00 |
2012-01-08 |
| 46. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
88.87 |
0.9936 |
0.0365 |
311 |
1 |
88.87 |
2012-02-24 |
| 47. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
88.85 |
1.0062 |
0.0240 |
288 |
1 |
88.85 |
2012-02-24 |
| 48. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
88.74 |
1.0214 |
0.0500 |
281 |
2 |
83.60 |
2012-01-18 |
| 49. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
88.21 |
1.0907 |
-0.0654 |
303 |
1 |
88.21 |
2010-02-11 |
| 50. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
87.69 |
0.9814 |
0.0745 |
364 |
2 |
86.84 |
2010-07-29 |
| 51. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
87.62 |
0.9266 |
0.0892 |
267 |
1 |
87.62 |
2012-02-06 |
| 52. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
87.50 |
1.0677 |
-0.0230 |
284 |
1 |
87.50 |
2010-07-29 |
| 53. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
87.07 |
1.0375 |
0.0178 |
200 |
3 |
80.90 |
2010-07-29 |
| 54. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
86.46 |
1.0555 |
-0.0520 |
363 |
1 |
86.46 |
2010-02-17 |
| 55. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
86.14 |
1.0063 |
-0.0076 |
371 |
2 |
83.20 |
2010-02-12 |
| 56. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
86.14 |
0.9048 |
0.0981 |
271 |
1 |
86.14 |
2010-02-11 |
| 57. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
85.78 |
0.9509 |
0.0816 |
225 |
2 |
78.27 |
2012-01-08 |
| 58. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
85.69 |
0.9649 |
0.0271 |
193 |
2 |
82.73 |
2012-01-08 |
| 59. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
85.32 |
0.8951 |
0.0958 |
193 |
1 |
85.32 |
2012-01-07 |
| 60. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
85.27 |
1.0343 |
-0.0088 |
242 |
2 |
81.73 |
2010-02-11 |
| 61. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
85.26 |
0.8295 |
0.1603 |
209 |
1 |
85.26 |
2012-01-08 |
| 62. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
85.16 |
0.9871 |
0.0359 |
209 |
1 |
85.16 |
2010-02-11 |
| 63. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
84.94 |
1.0124 |
-0.0305 |
204 |
1 |
84.94 |
2010-02-12 |
| 64. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
84.87 |
0.9439 |
0.0475 |
476 |
1 |
84.87 |
2010-07-29 |
| 65. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
84.48 |
0.9691 |
0.0092 |
223 |
2 |
80.98 |
2010-07-29 |
| 66. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
84.47 |
0.9632 |
0.0219 |
392 |
1 |
84.47 |
2010-02-12 |
| 67. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
84.42 |
1.0012 |
-0.0198 |
260 |
1 |
84.42 |
2010-02-17 |
| 68. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
83.98 |
0.9798 |
-0.0125 |
199 |
1 |
83.98 |
2012-01-07 |
| 69. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
83.77 |
0.9846 |
-0.0152 |
281 |
1 |
83.77 |
2012-01-08 |
| 70. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
83.62 |
0.9485 |
0.0227 |
291 |
1 |
83.62 |
2010-02-22 |
| 71. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
83.55 |
0.8996 |
0.0628 |
192 |
2 |
72.70 |
2012-01-18 |
| 72. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
83.34 |
0.9514 |
0.0144 |
237 |
1 |
83.34 |
2010-02-17 |
| 73. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
83.06 |
1.0214 |
-0.0646 |
166 |
2 |
81.88 |
2010-02-12 |
| 74. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
82.49 |
0.9567 |
-0.0014 |
273 |
1 |
82.49 |
2010-02-12 |
| 75. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
82.38 |
0.9670 |
0.0293 |
307 |
1 |
82.38 |
2012-01-18 |
| 76. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
82.32 |
0.9088 |
0.0499 |
348 |
2 |
79.69 |
2012-02-24 |
| 77. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
82.16 |
0.9684 |
-0.0141 |
388 |
1 |
82.16 |
2010-02-11 |
| 78. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
81.73 |
1.0417 |
-0.0976 |
253 |
1 |
81.73 |
2010-02-12 |
| 79. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
81.59 |
0.9965 |
-0.0564 |
168 |
1 |
81.59 |
2010-02-11 |
| 80. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
81.58 |
0.9710 |
-0.0327 |
173 |
1 |
81.58 |
2010-02-12 |
| 81. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
81.46 |
1.0025 |
-0.0582 |
336 |
1 |
81.46 |
2010-02-22 |
| 82. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
81.42 |
0.8792 |
0.0730 |
296 |
1 |
81.42 |
2010-02-11 |
| 83. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
81.38 |
0.9540 |
-0.0133 |
285 |
1 |
81.38 |
2010-02-12 |
| 84. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
81.37 |
0.8595 |
0.0846 |
242 |
1 |
81.37 |
2012-02-24 |
| 85. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
81.30 |
0.9786 |
-0.0376 |
235 |
2 |
73.91 |
2012-01-18 |
| 86. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
81.23 |
0.9593 |
-0.0139 |
398 |
1 |
81.23 |
2010-02-17 |
| 87. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
80.69 |
0.8958 |
0.0432 |
322 |
1 |
80.69 |
2012-01-08 |
| 88. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
80.65 |
0.8914 |
0.0433 |
366 |
1 |
80.65 |
2012-01-08 |
| 89. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
80.62 |
0.9072 |
0.0246 |
237 |
2 |
76.44 |
2010-02-22 |
| 90. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
80.12 |
0.9636 |
-0.0360 |
254 |
1 |
80.12 |
2010-02-11 |
| 91. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
80.09 |
0.9572 |
0.0132 |
376 |
1 |
80.09 |
2010-02-12 |
| 92. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
79.79 |
0.8899 |
0.0450 |
293 |
1 |
79.79 |
2010-02-11 |
| 93. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
79.54 |
0.9289 |
-0.0103 |
204 |
2 |
75.36 |
2010-02-22 |
| 94. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
79.00 |
1.0077 |
-0.0519 |
250 |
1 |
79.00 |
2010-02-11 |
| 95. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
78.96 |
1.0740 |
-0.1217 |
264 |
1 |
78.96 |
2010-02-12 |
| 96. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
78.96 |
1.0201 |
-0.1129 |
172 |
1 |
78.96 |
2010-02-11 |
| 97. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
78.46 |
0.9216 |
0.0255 |
255 |
1 |
78.46 |
2012-01-08 |
| 98. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
77.89 |
0.7988 |
0.1114 |
219 |
1 |
77.89 |
2012-01-07 |
| 99. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
77.75 |
1.0521 |
-0.1571 |
171 |
2 |
74.68 |
2010-02-17 |
| 100. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
77.53 |
0.8961 |
-0.0022 |
189 |
1 |
77.53 |
2010-02-12 |
| 101. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
77.37 |
0.9286 |
-0.0342 |
194 |
1 |
77.37 |
2010-02-11 |
| 102. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
77.36 |
0.9841 |
-0.0850 |
334 |
1 |
77.36 |
2010-02-17 |
| 103. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
77.29 |
0.9527 |
-0.0584 |
251 |
1 |
77.29 |
2010-02-11 |
| 104. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
77.20 |
0.8602 |
0.0310 |
206 |
1 |
77.20 |
2012-01-08 |
| 105. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
77.18 |
1.0486 |
-0.1546 |
289 |
2 |
72.63 |
2010-02-12 |
| 106. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
76.91 |
1.0270 |
-0.1010 |
255 |
2 |
75.80 |
2010-07-29 |
| 107. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
76.78 |
0.9723 |
-0.0801 |
364 |
1 |
76.78 |
2010-02-17 |
| 108. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
76.49 |
1.0261 |
-0.1429 |
273 |
1 |
76.49 |
2010-02-11 |
| 109. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
75.88 |
0.9844 |
-0.1017 |
293 |
2 |
75.85 |
2010-02-12 |
| 110. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
75.60 |
0.8722 |
0.0053 |
285 |
1 |
75.60 |
2010-02-17 |
| 111. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
75.48 |
0.9351 |
-0.0674 |
190 |
1 |
75.48 |
2010-02-12 |
| 112. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
75.22 |
1.0361 |
-0.1650 |
269 |
1 |
75.22 |
2010-02-12 |
| 113. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
75.21 |
0.9087 |
-0.0280 |
393 |
1 |
75.21 |
2010-02-12 |
| 114. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
74.55 |
0.9468 |
-0.0850 |
276 |
2 |
73.74 |
2010-02-17 |
| 115. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
74.52 |
0.9263 |
-0.0609 |
188 |
1 |
74.52 |
2010-02-11 |
| 116. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
74.31 |
0.9866 |
-0.1308 |
218 |
1 |
74.31 |
2010-02-18 |
| 117. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
74.11 |
0.9776 |
-0.1203 |
308 |
1 |
74.11 |
2010-02-11 |
| 118. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
73.97 |
0.9125 |
-0.0552 |
308 |
1 |
73.97 |
2010-07-29 |
| 119. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
73.03 |
1.0034 |
-0.1605 |
302 |
1 |
73.03 |
2010-02-11 |
| 120. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
71.39 |
0.9164 |
-0.0864 |
305 |
1 |
71.39 |
2012-01-08 |
| 121. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
70.70 |
0.9910 |
-0.1720 |
295 |
1 |
70.70 |
2010-02-11 |
| 122. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
70.38 |
0.9785 |
-0.1620 |
335 |
1 |
70.38 |
2010-02-12 |
| 123. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
70.37 |
0.9127 |
-0.1018 |
252 |
1 |
70.37 |
2010-02-11 |
| 124. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
70.27 |
1.0426 |
-0.2313 |
323 |
1 |
70.27 |
2010-02-12 |
| 125. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
70.20 |
0.9168 |
-0.1043 |
240 |
1 |
70.20 |
2010-02-13 |
| 126. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
69.63 |
0.9884 |
-0.1847 |
233 |
1 |
69.63 |
2010-02-12 |
| 127. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
68.73 |
1.0516 |
-0.2580 |
281 |
1 |
68.73 |
2010-02-11 |
| 128. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
66.20 |
0.9084 |
-0.1423 |
300 |
1 |
66.20 |
2010-02-11 |
| 129. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
65.38 |
0.8981 |
-0.1389 |
393 |
1 |
65.38 |
2010-02-12 |
| 130. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
61.03 |
0.9275 |
-0.2272 |
211 |
1 |
61.03 |
2010-02-12 |