| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
122.69 |
1.0120 |
0.2698 |
290 |
2 |
103.40 |
2012-11-28 |
| 2. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
121.58 |
0.9614 |
0.3124 |
292 |
2 |
111.10 |
2012-10-24 |
| 3. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
118.74 |
1.1323 |
0.1423 |
341 |
1 |
118.74 |
2012-10-24 |
| 4. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
115.48 |
1.0463 |
0.1555 |
182 |
1 |
115.48 |
2012-10-23 |
| 5. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
115.06 |
0.9330 |
0.2756 |
360 |
2 |
110.00 |
2012-10-24 |
| 6. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
114.78 |
1.0667 |
0.1708 |
406 |
1 |
114.78 |
2012-10-22 |
| 7. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
114.26 |
1.0399 |
0.1589 |
294 |
1 |
114.26 |
2012-10-24 |
| 8. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
112.95 |
0.9899 |
0.1851 |
163 |
2 |
104.71 |
2012-10-24 |
| 9. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
112.79 |
1.0829 |
0.0966 |
288 |
1 |
112.79 |
2012-10-26 |
| 10. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
110.80 |
1.0053 |
0.1497 |
232 |
1 |
110.80 |
2012-10-23 |
| 11. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
110.35 |
0.9570 |
0.1970 |
287 |
2 |
109.77 |
2012-12-27 |
| 12. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
109.09 |
1.0993 |
0.0376 |
265 |
1 |
109.09 |
2009-05-27 |
| 13. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
109.03 |
1.0516 |
0.0863 |
281 |
1 |
109.03 |
2012-10-23 |
| 14. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
108.73 |
1.0038 |
0.1617 |
237 |
1 |
108.73 |
2012-10-23 |
| 15. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
108.20 |
1.0417 |
0.0854 |
253 |
1 |
108.20 |
2012-10-23 |
| 16. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
107.97 |
1.1016 |
0.0256 |
233 |
1 |
107.97 |
2012-10-23 |
| 17. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
106.67 |
0.9907 |
0.1566 |
397 |
1 |
106.67 |
2012-10-23 |
| 18. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
106.34 |
1.0197 |
0.0873 |
226 |
2 |
100.30 |
2012-10-23 |
| 19. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
105.45 |
1.0684 |
0.0619 |
253 |
1 |
105.45 |
2012-10-23 |
| 20. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
104.60 |
0.9758 |
0.1165 |
314 |
3 |
98.89 |
2014-05-09 |
| 21. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
104.11 |
1.0485 |
0.0726 |
153 |
1 |
104.11 |
2012-10-23 |
| 22. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
103.78 |
1.0944 |
0.0333 |
308 |
1 |
103.78 |
2012-12-17 |
| 23. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
102.85 |
0.9805 |
0.0972 |
292 |
1 |
102.85 |
2012-10-24 |
| 24. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
102.75 |
0.9897 |
0.0800 |
274 |
1 |
102.75 |
2009-05-27 |
| 25. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
102.48 |
1.0545 |
0.0554 |
416 |
1 |
102.48 |
2013-08-23 |
| 26. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
102.42 |
1.0261 |
0.0405 |
273 |
1 |
102.42 |
2008-10-30 |
| 27. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
102.01 |
1.0025 |
0.0626 |
336 |
2 |
85.53 |
2008-10-30 |
| 28. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
101.97 |
1.0615 |
0.0275 |
305 |
1 |
101.97 |
2012-10-23 |
| 29. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
101.46 |
1.0968 |
-0.0010 |
365 |
1 |
101.46 |
2012-12-27 |
| 30. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
101.13 |
1.0125 |
0.0802 |
413 |
1 |
101.13 |
2014-05-09 |
| 31. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
101.05 |
1.0025 |
0.0515 |
256 |
1 |
101.05 |
2008-10-30 |
| 32. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
100.38 |
0.9045 |
0.1428 |
235 |
1 |
100.38 |
2012-10-23 |
| 33. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
100.01 |
0.9687 |
0.0791 |
371 |
1 |
100.01 |
2012-10-24 |
| 34. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
99.88 |
1.0077 |
0.0753 |
250 |
1 |
99.88 |
2012-10-24 |
| 35. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
99.60 |
1.0297 |
0.0079 |
249 |
1 |
99.60 |
2012-10-24 |
| 36. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
99.36 |
0.9500 |
0.0884 |
362 |
1 |
99.36 |
2009-05-27 |
| 37. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
99.29 |
0.9632 |
0.0787 |
392 |
2 |
93.72 |
2012-10-24 |
| 38. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
98.52 |
1.0063 |
0.0215 |
371 |
1 |
98.52 |
2009-05-27 |
| 39. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
98.40 |
0.9831 |
0.0510 |
469 |
2 |
96.46 |
2012-10-25 |
| 40. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
97.82 |
0.9164 |
0.1084 |
305 |
1 |
97.82 |
2012-10-25 |
| 41. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
97.46 |
0.8958 |
0.1250 |
322 |
1 |
97.46 |
2013-08-23 |
| 42. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
96.39 |
0.9820 |
0.0257 |
267 |
2 |
94.36 |
2012-10-23 |
| 43. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
96.35 |
0.9635 |
0.0463 |
389 |
1 |
96.35 |
2012-10-24 |
| 44. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
96.16 |
0.9342 |
0.0717 |
434 |
1 |
96.16 |
2008-10-30 |
| 45. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
95.76 |
1.0619 |
-0.0601 |
354 |
1 |
95.76 |
2008-10-30 |
| 46. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
95.31 |
1.0117 |
0.0266 |
297 |
1 |
95.31 |
2012-10-24 |
| 47. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
95.22 |
0.9908 |
0.0476 |
342 |
1 |
95.22 |
2012-10-23 |
| 48. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
95.19 |
0.9734 |
0.0185 |
289 |
1 |
95.19 |
2012-10-23 |
| 49. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
94.64 |
0.9942 |
0.0010 |
483 |
2 |
91.17 |
2009-05-27 |
| 50. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
93.84 |
0.9279 |
0.0565 |
317 |
1 |
93.84 |
2012-10-23 |
| 51. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
93.46 |
1.0379 |
-0.0291 |
245 |
1 |
93.46 |
2012-10-23 |
| 52. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
92.30 |
0.9723 |
-0.0069 |
364 |
1 |
92.30 |
2012-10-24 |
| 53. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
92.11 |
0.9309 |
0.0269 |
284 |
2 |
89.65 |
2012-12-27 |
| 54. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
91.87 |
0.9275 |
0.0263 |
211 |
1 |
91.87 |
2012-10-24 |
| 55. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
91.42 |
1.0183 |
-0.0715 |
191 |
1 |
91.42 |
2008-10-30 |
| 56. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
91.37 |
1.0029 |
-0.0574 |
209 |
2 |
90.32 |
2011-06-19 |
| 57. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
91.36 |
1.0068 |
-0.0517 |
358 |
1 |
91.36 |
2008-10-30 |
| 58. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
90.91 |
0.9814 |
0.0050 |
364 |
1 |
90.91 |
2012-10-22 |
| 59. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
90.84 |
0.9709 |
0.0164 |
397 |
1 |
90.84 |
2012-10-24 |
| 60. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
90.77 |
0.9941 |
-0.0510 |
217 |
1 |
90.77 |
2009-05-27 |
| 61. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
90.48 |
1.0523 |
-0.1141 |
256 |
1 |
90.48 |
2011-06-19 |
| 62. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
90.41 |
0.9763 |
-0.0351 |
289 |
1 |
90.41 |
2012-10-23 |
| 63. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
90.36 |
1.0031 |
-0.0284 |
304 |
1 |
90.36 |
2012-10-24 |
| 64. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
89.98 |
0.9468 |
-0.0101 |
276 |
1 |
89.98 |
2008-10-30 |
| 65. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
89.62 |
0.9739 |
-0.0047 |
412 |
1 |
89.62 |
2012-10-22 |
| 66. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
89.60 |
1.0008 |
-0.0246 |
473 |
1 |
89.60 |
2012-10-22 |
| 67. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
89.56 |
0.9672 |
-0.0279 |
396 |
1 |
89.56 |
2009-07-29 |
| 68. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
89.42 |
1.0083 |
-0.0329 |
273 |
1 |
89.42 |
2012-10-23 |
| 69. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
89.38 |
1.0167 |
-0.0790 |
378 |
1 |
89.38 |
2008-10-31 |
| 70. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
89.27 |
0.9049 |
0.0302 |
351 |
1 |
89.27 |
2008-10-31 |
| 71. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
88.62 |
0.9907 |
-0.0695 |
211 |
1 |
88.62 |
2008-10-30 |
| 72. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
88.42 |
0.9966 |
-0.0765 |
259 |
1 |
88.42 |
2008-10-30 |
| 73. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
88.05 |
0.9936 |
-0.0771 |
311 |
1 |
88.05 |
2008-10-30 |
| 74. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
87.93 |
0.9768 |
-0.0587 |
387 |
2 |
83.69 |
2009-05-27 |
| 75. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
87.86 |
0.9776 |
-0.0626 |
308 |
1 |
87.86 |
2008-10-30 |
| 76. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
87.81 |
0.9691 |
-0.0553 |
223 |
2 |
83.05 |
2012-10-22 |
| 77. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
87.27 |
1.0334 |
-0.1313 |
131 |
1 |
87.27 |
2008-10-30 |
| 78. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
87.11 |
1.0714 |
-0.1734 |
129 |
1 |
87.11 |
2008-10-30 |
| 79. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
86.76 |
0.9844 |
-0.0764 |
293 |
1 |
86.76 |
2008-10-30 |
| 80. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
86.66 |
1.0201 |
-0.1140 |
375 |
1 |
86.66 |
2008-10-30 |
| 81. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
86.49 |
0.9097 |
0.0322 |
464 |
1 |
86.49 |
2008-10-30 |
| 82. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
86.44 |
0.9148 |
-0.0136 |
317 |
1 |
86.44 |
2009-07-29 |
| 83. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
86.30 |
1.0673 |
-0.1273 |
230 |
1 |
86.30 |
2012-10-23 |
| 84. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
86.04 |
0.9312 |
0.0151 |
320 |
1 |
86.04 |
2012-10-24 |
| 85. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
85.89 |
0.9485 |
-0.0528 |
236 |
1 |
85.89 |
2008-10-30 |
| 86. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
84.43 |
0.9772 |
-0.1021 |
217 |
1 |
84.43 |
2009-05-27 |
| 87. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
84.06 |
0.9886 |
-0.1114 |
220 |
1 |
84.06 |
2008-10-30 |
| 88. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
81.64 |
0.9213 |
-0.0717 |
295 |
1 |
81.64 |
2009-07-29 |
| 89. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
81.60 |
0.9128 |
-0.0226 |
369 |
1 |
81.60 |
2012-10-22 |
| 90. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
81.36 |
0.9212 |
-0.0717 |
323 |
1 |
81.36 |
2008-10-30 |
| 91. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
81.25 |
0.8595 |
-0.0127 |
242 |
1 |
81.25 |
2012-10-24 |
| 92. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
80.56 |
0.9795 |
-0.1418 |
308 |
1 |
80.56 |
2008-10-30 |
| 93. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
80.17 |
0.9088 |
-0.0700 |
348 |
1 |
80.17 |
2012-10-23 |
| 94. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
79.96 |
0.9612 |
-0.1298 |
256 |
1 |
79.96 |
2008-10-30 |
| 95. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
79.44 |
0.8933 |
-0.0610 |
363 |
1 |
79.44 |
2012-10-22 |
| 96. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
79.03 |
0.9964 |
-0.1747 |
203 |
1 |
79.03 |
2012-10-23 |
| 97. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
78.55 |
0.8996 |
-0.0886 |
192 |
1 |
78.55 |
2012-10-23 |
| 98. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
77.97 |
1.0444 |
-0.2406 |
197 |
1 |
77.97 |
2008-10-30 |
| 99. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
77.72 |
0.9260 |
-0.1079 |
243 |
1 |
77.72 |
2008-10-30 |
| 100. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
77.49 |
0.8602 |
-0.0571 |
206 |
1 |
77.49 |
2012-10-22 |
| 101. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
76.21 |
0.9567 |
-0.1651 |
273 |
1 |
76.21 |
2008-10-30 |
| 102. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
73.57 |
0.7876 |
-0.0211 |
316 |
1 |
73.57 |
2012-10-23 |
| 103. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
66.53 |
0.9234 |
-0.2284 |
346 |
1 |
66.53 |
2008-10-30 |