| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
107.63 |
1.0873 |
0.2509 |
243 |
1 |
107.63 |
2011-12-05 |
| 2. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
100.86 |
1.0836 |
0.1763 |
206 |
1 |
100.86 |
2011-12-03 |
| 3. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
97.82 |
1.0543 |
0.1650 |
233 |
1 |
97.82 |
2011-12-02 |
| 4. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
97.41 |
1.0792 |
0.1390 |
251 |
1 |
97.41 |
2011-12-03 |
| 5. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
95.71 |
1.0697 |
0.1317 |
341 |
1 |
95.71 |
2011-12-05 |
| 6. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
95.53 |
1.0139 |
0.1889 |
349 |
1 |
95.53 |
2011-12-03 |
| 7. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
93.63 |
1.0667 |
0.1097 |
308 |
2 |
90.85 |
2011-12-06 |
| 8. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
93.20 |
1.0509 |
0.1238 |
430 |
1 |
93.20 |
2011-12-03 |
| 9. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
93.12 |
1.0461 |
0.1157 |
318 |
1 |
93.12 |
2011-12-05 |
| 10. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
92.75 |
0.9884 |
0.1691 |
267 |
1 |
92.75 |
2011-12-02 |
| 11. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
92.40 |
1.1062 |
0.0464 |
200 |
1 |
92.40 |
2011-12-02 |
| 12. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
92.06 |
1.0495 |
0.0963 |
323 |
1 |
92.06 |
2011-12-02 |
| 13. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
91.26 |
1.0390 |
0.1025 |
260 |
1 |
91.26 |
2011-12-02 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
91.19 |
1.0521 |
0.0777 |
197 |
2 |
87.29 |
2011-12-05 |
| 15. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
91.00 |
0.9842 |
0.1510 |
335 |
1 |
91.00 |
2011-12-02 |
| 16. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
90.55 |
1.0901 |
0.0393 |
288 |
1 |
90.55 |
2011-12-03 |
| 17. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
88.64 |
1.0482 |
0.0683 |
407 |
1 |
88.64 |
2011-12-02 |
| 18. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
88.57 |
0.9631 |
0.1390 |
273 |
1 |
88.57 |
2011-12-05 |
| 19. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
88.11 |
1.0128 |
0.0909 |
369 |
1 |
88.11 |
2011-12-02 |
| 20. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
87.25 |
0.9745 |
0.1137 |
388 |
1 |
87.25 |
2011-12-03 |
| 21. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
86.47 |
0.9927 |
0.0803 |
234 |
1 |
86.47 |
2011-12-03 |
| 22. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
86.13 |
1.0471 |
0.0372 |
406 |
1 |
86.13 |
2011-12-05 |
| 23. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
85.99 |
1.0736 |
-0.0007 |
350 |
1 |
85.99 |
2011-12-03 |
| 24. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
85.68 |
0.9561 |
0.1177 |
364 |
1 |
85.68 |
2011-12-05 |
| 25. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
85.59 |
1.0018 |
0.0638 |
246 |
1 |
85.59 |
2011-12-02 |
| 26. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
85.51 |
1.0399 |
0.0293 |
257 |
1 |
85.51 |
2011-12-05 |
| 27. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
85.25 |
1.0234 |
0.0418 |
392 |
1 |
85.25 |
2011-12-02 |
| 28. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
84.69 |
1.0208 |
0.0332 |
231 |
1 |
84.69 |
2011-12-05 |
| 29. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
84.65 |
0.9503 |
0.0966 |
211 |
1 |
84.65 |
2011-12-02 |
| 30. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
84.55 |
1.0845 |
-0.0333 |
212 |
1 |
84.55 |
2011-12-02 |
| 31. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
84.55 |
0.9775 |
0.0878 |
473 |
1 |
84.55 |
2011-12-02 |
| 32. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
84.52 |
1.0600 |
-0.0078 |
351 |
1 |
84.52 |
2011-12-03 |
| 33. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
84.38 |
0.9536 |
0.1051 |
311 |
1 |
84.38 |
2011-12-02 |
| 34. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
84.35 |
1.0865 |
-0.0369 |
237 |
1 |
84.35 |
2011-12-02 |
| 35. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
84.02 |
1.0362 |
0.0158 |
437 |
1 |
84.02 |
2011-12-02 |
| 36. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
84.01 |
0.9574 |
0.0913 |
354 |
1 |
84.01 |
2011-12-02 |
| 37. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
83.73 |
1.1086 |
-0.0662 |
233 |
1 |
83.73 |
2011-12-05 |
| 38. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
83.67 |
0.9763 |
0.0645 |
143 |
2 |
77.53 |
2011-12-05 |
| 39. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
83.62 |
0.9889 |
0.0650 |
429 |
1 |
83.62 |
2011-12-03 |
| 40. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
83.47 |
0.9893 |
0.0464 |
222 |
1 |
83.47 |
2011-12-05 |
| 41. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
83.34 |
0.9996 |
0.0451 |
483 |
1 |
83.34 |
2011-12-02 |
| 42. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
83.03 |
0.9338 |
0.1094 |
326 |
1 |
83.03 |
2011-12-03 |
| 43. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
82.76 |
1.0411 |
-0.0094 |
341 |
1 |
82.76 |
2011-12-03 |
| 44. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
82.69 |
0.9543 |
0.0815 |
265 |
1 |
82.69 |
2011-12-03 |
| 45. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
82.58 |
1.0511 |
-0.0217 |
252 |
1 |
82.58 |
2011-12-02 |
| 46. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
82.42 |
1.0615 |
-0.0389 |
201 |
1 |
82.42 |
2011-12-03 |
| 47. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
82.25 |
0.9606 |
0.0670 |
203 |
1 |
82.25 |
2011-12-02 |
| 48. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
81.68 |
1.0419 |
-0.0224 |
341 |
2 |
76.62 |
2011-12-06 |
| 49. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
81.30 |
1.0304 |
-0.0151 |
257 |
1 |
81.30 |
2011-12-02 |
| 50. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
80.95 |
0.9183 |
0.0898 |
308 |
2 |
74.00 |
2011-12-03 |
| 51. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
80.92 |
1.0404 |
-0.0286 |
406 |
1 |
80.92 |
2011-12-02 |
| 52. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
80.84 |
1.0341 |
-0.0288 |
273 |
1 |
80.84 |
2011-12-03 |
| 53. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
80.69 |
0.9873 |
0.0272 |
396 |
1 |
80.69 |
2011-12-03 |
| 54. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
80.61 |
0.9524 |
0.0663 |
410 |
1 |
80.61 |
2011-12-02 |
| 55. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
80.56 |
1.0130 |
-0.0106 |
288 |
1 |
80.56 |
2011-12-06 |
| 56. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
79.98 |
1.0506 |
-0.0559 |
259 |
1 |
79.98 |
2011-12-02 |
| 57. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
79.94 |
0.9849 |
0.0109 |
337 |
1 |
79.94 |
2011-12-03 |
| 58. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
79.77 |
0.9400 |
0.0551 |
434 |
1 |
79.77 |
2011-12-05 |
| 59. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
79.70 |
0.9762 |
0.0154 |
249 |
1 |
79.70 |
2011-12-02 |
| 60. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
79.65 |
0.9756 |
0.0147 |
223 |
1 |
79.65 |
2011-12-02 |
| 61. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
79.39 |
0.9123 |
0.0847 |
351 |
1 |
79.39 |
2011-12-02 |
| 62. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
79.38 |
0.9985 |
0.0014 |
392 |
1 |
79.38 |
2011-12-02 |
| 63. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
79.23 |
0.9980 |
-0.0031 |
341 |
1 |
79.23 |
2011-12-03 |
| 64. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
79.11 |
0.9678 |
0.0207 |
392 |
1 |
79.11 |
2011-12-02 |
| 65. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
79.09 |
1.0101 |
-0.0244 |
336 |
2 |
78.58 |
2011-12-02 |
| 66. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
78.88 |
0.9869 |
-0.0092 |
193 |
1 |
78.88 |
2011-12-02 |
| 67. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
78.74 |
0.9787 |
0.0043 |
364 |
1 |
78.74 |
2011-12-06 |
| 68. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
78.32 |
1.0074 |
-0.0191 |
410 |
1 |
78.32 |
2011-12-03 |
| 69. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
78.27 |
1.0016 |
-0.0295 |
217 |
1 |
78.27 |
2011-12-05 |
| 70. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
78.08 |
0.9451 |
0.0341 |
419 |
1 |
78.08 |
2011-12-04 |
| 71. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
78.04 |
1.0561 |
-0.0872 |
227 |
1 |
78.04 |
2011-12-02 |
| 72. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
77.99 |
0.9866 |
-0.0160 |
308 |
2 |
76.23 |
2011-12-02 |
| 73. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
77.94 |
1.0682 |
-0.0976 |
266 |
1 |
77.94 |
2011-12-06 |
| 74. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
77.54 |
0.9948 |
-0.0314 |
233 |
1 |
77.54 |
2011-12-04 |
| 75. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
77.47 |
1.0669 |
-0.1000 |
379 |
1 |
77.47 |
2011-12-03 |
| 76. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
77.37 |
1.0243 |
-0.0581 |
153 |
1 |
77.37 |
2011-12-05 |
| 77. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
77.19 |
1.0086 |
-0.0527 |
218 |
1 |
77.19 |
2011-12-02 |
| 78. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
76.90 |
0.8721 |
0.0903 |
231 |
1 |
76.90 |
2011-12-03 |
| 79. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
76.87 |
0.8964 |
0.0569 |
199 |
1 |
76.87 |
2011-12-05 |
| 80. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
76.53 |
0.8936 |
0.0572 |
346 |
2 |
74.67 |
2011-12-05 |
| 81. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
76.34 |
1.0483 |
-0.0935 |
305 |
1 |
76.34 |
2011-12-06 |
| 82. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
76.29 |
1.0419 |
-0.0836 |
323 |
1 |
76.29 |
2011-12-05 |
| 83. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
76.24 |
1.0616 |
-0.1064 |
304 |
1 |
76.24 |
2011-12-05 |
| 84. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
75.98 |
1.0543 |
-0.1126 |
182 |
1 |
75.98 |
2011-12-02 |
| 85. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
75.91 |
0.9981 |
-0.0549 |
211 |
1 |
75.91 |
2011-12-06 |
| 86. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
75.90 |
1.0036 |
-0.0586 |
277 |
1 |
75.90 |
2011-12-02 |
| 87. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
75.43 |
0.9918 |
-0.0466 |
400 |
1 |
75.43 |
2011-12-02 |
| 88. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
75.22 |
0.9329 |
0.0170 |
345 |
2 |
69.98 |
2011-12-02 |
| 89. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
75.18 |
1.0090 |
-0.0684 |
300 |
1 |
75.18 |
2011-12-03 |
| 90. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
75.12 |
0.9966 |
-0.0552 |
377 |
1 |
75.12 |
2011-12-03 |
| 91. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
75.12 |
1.0283 |
-0.0875 |
272 |
1 |
75.12 |
2011-12-02 |
| 92. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
75.10 |
0.8913 |
0.0442 |
201 |
2 |
69.62 |
2011-12-06 |
| 93. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
75.04 |
0.9046 |
0.0415 |
448 |
1 |
75.04 |
2011-12-03 |
| 94. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
74.65 |
0.8778 |
0.0524 |
285 |
1 |
74.65 |
2011-12-03 |
| 95. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
74.14 |
1.0315 |
-0.1100 |
193 |
2 |
69.10 |
2011-12-05 |
| 96. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
73.79 |
0.8624 |
0.0505 |
174 |
1 |
73.79 |
2011-12-02 |
| 97. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
73.64 |
1.0387 |
-0.1188 |
333 |
1 |
73.64 |
2011-12-05 |
| 98. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
73.37 |
1.0131 |
-0.0974 |
245 |
1 |
73.37 |
2011-12-02 |
| 99. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
73.32 |
0.9852 |
-0.0741 |
235 |
1 |
73.32 |
2011-12-02 |
| 100. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
72.96 |
1.0264 |
-0.1234 |
191 |
1 |
72.96 |
2011-12-02 |
| 101. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
72.95 |
0.9841 |
-0.0803 |
217 |
1 |
72.95 |
2011-12-02 |
| 102. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
72.77 |
0.8856 |
0.0268 |
369 |
1 |
72.77 |
2011-12-02 |
| 103. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
71.75 |
1.0617 |
-0.1715 |
171 |
1 |
71.75 |
2011-12-05 |
| 104. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
71.74 |
0.8986 |
-0.0017 |
363 |
1 |
71.74 |
2011-12-02 |
| 105. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
71.66 |
0.9989 |
-0.1009 |
282 |
1 |
71.66 |
2011-12-02 |
| 106. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
71.31 |
1.0418 |
-0.1545 |
214 |
1 |
71.31 |
2011-12-02 |
| 107. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
70.81 |
0.8787 |
-0.0003 |
443 |
1 |
70.81 |
2011-12-02 |
| 108. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
70.22 |
1.0301 |
-0.1585 |
268 |
1 |
70.22 |
2011-12-03 |
| 109. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
69.52 |
0.9957 |
-0.1318 |
323 |
1 |
69.52 |
2011-12-05 |
| 110. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
69.44 |
0.9194 |
-0.0458 |
360 |
1 |
69.44 |
2011-12-02 |
| 111. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
68.92 |
0.9810 |
-0.1194 |
362 |
1 |
68.92 |
2011-12-03 |
| 112. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
68.84 |
0.9801 |
-0.1248 |
289 |
1 |
68.84 |
2011-12-02 |
| 113. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
68.83 |
1.0665 |
-0.2168 |
196 |
1 |
68.83 |
2011-12-03 |
| 114. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
68.64 |
0.9206 |
-0.0670 |
317 |
1 |
68.64 |
2011-12-02 |
| 115. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
68.04 |
0.8986 |
-0.0547 |
205 |
1 |
68.04 |
2011-12-03 |
| 116. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
67.14 |
0.7852 |
0.0430 |
154 |
1 |
67.14 |
2011-12-02 |
| 117. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
66.59 |
1.0498 |
-0.2211 |
261 |
1 |
66.59 |
2011-12-02 |
| 118. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
66.53 |
0.9538 |
-0.1273 |
276 |
1 |
66.53 |
2011-12-02 |
| 119. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
65.31 |
0.9676 |
-0.1511 |
247 |
1 |
65.31 |
2011-12-02 |
| 120. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
65.16 |
0.9114 |
-0.0943 |
399 |
1 |
65.16 |
2011-12-02 |
| 121. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
63.31 |
0.9713 |
-0.1863 |
193 |
1 |
63.31 |
2011-12-06 |
| 122. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
63.13 |
0.9244 |
-0.1351 |
225 |
1 |
63.13 |
2011-12-02 |
| 123. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
62.04 |
0.9070 |
-0.1413 |
192 |
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