| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
99.92 |
1.0795 |
0.2485 |
226 |
1 |
99.92 |
2011-04-20 |
| 2. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
97.29 |
1.0068 |
0.2595 |
358 |
2 |
88.08 |
2011-09-22 |
| 3. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
96.20 |
1.0205 |
0.2217 |
179 |
1 |
96.20 |
2011-10-16 |
| 4. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
95.70 |
1.0885 |
0.1570 |
315 |
2 |
91.39 |
2011-01-15 |
| 5. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
95.70 |
1.0885 |
0.1886 |
341 |
1 |
95.70 |
2011-01-16 |
| 6. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
95.69 |
1.0684 |
0.2034 |
253 |
2 |
87.03 |
2011-01-15 |
| 7. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
95.28 |
1.0254 |
0.2521 |
217 |
1 |
95.28 |
2011-01-15 |
| 8. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
94.79 |
1.0390 |
0.1874 |
205 |
2 |
93.81 |
2010-10-31 |
| 9. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
94.10 |
0.8961 |
0.3217 |
189 |
2 |
82.99 |
2011-01-15 |
| 10. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
93.74 |
1.0389 |
0.1800 |
340 |
1 |
93.74 |
2011-09-19 |
| 11. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
93.59 |
1.0555 |
0.1604 |
363 |
2 |
91.45 |
2010-10-23 |
| 12. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
91.92 |
0.9763 |
0.2158 |
289 |
1 |
91.92 |
2010-10-23 |
| 13. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
91.76 |
1.0496 |
0.1402 |
314 |
3 |
83.87 |
2011-02-24 |
| 14. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
91.11 |
1.0263 |
0.1549 |
267 |
1 |
91.11 |
2010-08-18 |
| 15. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
90.28 |
1.0644 |
0.1428 |
257 |
1 |
90.28 |
2011-01-16 |
| 16. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
89.67 |
1.0189 |
0.1475 |
337 |
1 |
89.67 |
2012-02-25 |
| 17. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
89.39 |
0.9986 |
0.1614 |
283 |
1 |
89.39 |
2010-08-18 |
| 18. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
88.87 |
1.1014 |
0.0890 |
273 |
1 |
88.87 |
2012-03-06 |
| 19. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
88.18 |
1.0385 |
0.1032 |
230 |
3 |
74.93 |
2012-07-04 |
| 20. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
87.50 |
1.0696 |
0.0615 |
226 |
1 |
87.50 |
2010-08-16 |
| 21. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
87.37 |
1.0714 |
0.0526 |
129 |
1 |
87.37 |
2011-10-04 |
| 22. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
86.76 |
0.9485 |
0.1788 |
291 |
1 |
86.76 |
2010-12-09 |
| 23. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
86.38 |
1.0201 |
0.1038 |
375 |
1 |
86.38 |
2010-11-11 |
| 24. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
85.98 |
1.0331 |
0.0794 |
234 |
1 |
85.98 |
2011-09-19 |
| 25. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
85.22 |
1.0131 |
0.0877 |
225 |
1 |
85.22 |
2011-06-29 |
| 26. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
85.07 |
0.8775 |
0.2289 |
443 |
1 |
85.07 |
2010-08-19 |
| 27. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
84.96 |
1.0296 |
0.0781 |
437 |
1 |
84.96 |
2010-11-20 |
| 28. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
84.72 |
0.9673 |
0.1702 |
232 |
1 |
84.72 |
2010-08-19 |
| 29. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
84.59 |
1.0346 |
0.1039 |
244 |
1 |
84.59 |
2012-02-11 |
| 30. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
84.35 |
0.9792 |
0.1525 |
265 |
1 |
84.35 |
2012-02-11 |
| 31. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
84.20 |
0.9831 |
0.1163 |
469 |
2 |
83.66 |
2010-10-30 |
| 32. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
83.85 |
0.9365 |
0.1517 |
248 |
1 |
83.85 |
2010-10-31 |
| 33. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
83.57 |
1.0352 |
0.0510 |
341 |
1 |
83.57 |
2010-10-23 |
| 34. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
83.46 |
1.0016 |
0.0754 |
218 |
1 |
83.46 |
2011-09-27 |
| 35. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
83.28 |
0.9553 |
0.1312 |
430 |
1 |
83.28 |
2010-10-31 |
| 36. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
83.07 |
0.9672 |
0.1158 |
396 |
2 |
82.32 |
2012-08-01 |
| 37. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
82.72 |
1.0117 |
0.1050 |
297 |
1 |
82.72 |
2012-03-05 |
| 38. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
82.56 |
0.9997 |
0.0737 |
382 |
1 |
82.56 |
2010-08-16 |
| 39. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
82.35 |
1.0515 |
0.0078 |
166 |
1 |
82.35 |
2010-08-15 |
| 40. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
82.02 |
1.1162 |
-0.0124 |
189 |
1 |
82.02 |
2010-08-15 |
| 41. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
81.74 |
1.0388 |
0.0519 |
243 |
2 |
72.99 |
2012-03-06 |
| 42. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
81.41 |
1.0261 |
0.0681 |
410 |
1 |
81.41 |
2011-10-14 |
| 43. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
80.97 |
0.8770 |
0.1752 |
300 |
1 |
80.97 |
2010-08-17 |
| 44. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
80.94 |
0.9216 |
0.1659 |
255 |
1 |
80.94 |
2012-02-11 |
| 45. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
80.35 |
0.8845 |
0.1568 |
273 |
1 |
80.35 |
2010-08-18 |
| 46. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
80.27 |
0.7805 |
0.2552 |
154 |
1 |
80.27 |
2011-10-14 |
| 47. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
80.21 |
0.9429 |
0.0974 |
287 |
1 |
80.21 |
2011-09-19 |
| 48. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
80.21 |
0.9663 |
0.0782 |
330 |
1 |
80.21 |
2011-09-20 |
| 49. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
80.04 |
0.9461 |
0.0869 |
193 |
1 |
80.04 |
2010-10-30 |
| 50. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
79.82 |
0.9780 |
0.0569 |
337 |
1 |
79.82 |
2011-01-15 |
| 51. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
79.66 |
0.9176 |
0.1480 |
267 |
1 |
79.66 |
2010-08-16 |
| 52. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
79.48 |
1.0662 |
0.0009 |
407 |
1 |
79.48 |
2011-09-22 |
| 53. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
79.35 |
0.9570 |
0.0724 |
287 |
1 |
79.35 |
2010-10-31 |
| 54. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
79.10 |
0.9740 |
0.0464 |
209 |
1 |
79.10 |
2010-10-30 |
| 55. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
78.80 |
0.9353 |
0.0811 |
177 |
1 |
78.80 |
2011-01-15 |
| 56. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
78.63 |
1.0013 |
0.0161 |
273 |
1 |
78.63 |
2011-09-20 |
| 57. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
78.11 |
1.0034 |
0.0066 |
302 |
1 |
78.11 |
2011-01-15 |
| 58. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
78.05 |
0.9513 |
0.0632 |
354 |
1 |
78.05 |
2010-11-11 |
| 59. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
78.05 |
0.9309 |
0.0779 |
284 |
1 |
78.05 |
2010-08-16 |
| 60. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
78.04 |
1.0172 |
0.0285 |
341 |
1 |
78.04 |
2010-08-20 |
| 61. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
77.95 |
1.0169 |
0.0311 |
346 |
1 |
77.95 |
2010-10-16 |
| 62. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
77.83 |
0.9342 |
0.0771 |
434 |
1 |
77.83 |
2010-10-31 |
| 63. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
77.70 |
0.9857 |
0.0194 |
293 |
1 |
77.70 |
2010-08-15 |
| 64. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
77.57 |
0.9863 |
0.0225 |
339 |
1 |
77.57 |
2012-07-25 |
| 65. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
76.87 |
1.0547 |
-0.0248 |
257 |
1 |
76.87 |
2012-02-11 |
| 66. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
76.86 |
0.9508 |
0.0775 |
384 |
1 |
76.86 |
2010-08-15 |
| 67. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
76.84 |
0.9468 |
0.0475 |
276 |
2 |
74.80 |
2010-10-30 |
| 68. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
75.97 |
0.9330 |
0.0570 |
360 |
2 |
72.81 |
2012-11-27 |
| 69. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
75.72 |
1.0264 |
-0.0062 |
422 |
1 |
75.72 |
2010-08-15 |
| 70. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
75.67 |
0.8753 |
0.1134 |
427 |
1 |
75.67 |
2010-08-16 |
| 71. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
75.49 |
0.9439 |
0.0412 |
476 |
1 |
75.49 |
2010-08-20 |
| 72. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
75.15 |
1.0334 |
-0.0672 |
131 |
1 |
75.15 |
2010-08-18 |
| 73. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
75.11 |
1.0516 |
-0.0799 |
281 |
1 |
75.11 |
2011-09-20 |
| 74. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
74.61 |
1.0498 |
-0.0890 |
180 |
1 |
74.61 |
2010-10-26 |
| 75. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
74.54 |
1.0029 |
-0.0446 |
209 |
1 |
74.54 |
2010-08-16 |
| 76. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
74.49 |
1.0232 |
-0.0133 |
350 |
1 |
74.49 |
2010-08-19 |
| 77. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
74.47 |
1.0033 |
-0.0463 |
189 |
1 |
74.47 |
2010-08-16 |
| 78. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
74.42 |
0.9339 |
0.0277 |
310 |
1 |
74.42 |
2010-10-23 |
| 79. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
73.82 |
0.9097 |
0.0871 |
464 |
2 |
72.03 |
2011-10-04 |
| 80. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
73.81 |
1.0441 |
-0.0875 |
252 |
1 |
73.81 |
2010-08-18 |
| 81. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
73.63 |
0.8467 |
0.1302 |
343 |
3 |
67.65 |
2011-09-21 |
| 82. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
73.42 |
0.9567 |
0.0355 |
184 |
1 |
73.42 |
2010-10-26 |
| 83. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
73.28 |
1.0004 |
-0.0584 |
212 |
1 |
73.28 |
2012-02-25 |
| 84. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
73.11 |
0.9464 |
0.0046 |
323 |
1 |
73.11 |
2011-01-15 |
| 85. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
73.05 |
1.0767 |
-0.1338 |
212 |
1 |
73.05 |
2010-08-20 |
| 86. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
72.58 |
1.0213 |
-0.0855 |
240 |
1 |
72.58 |
2010-10-16 |
| 87. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
72.48 |
0.9614 |
-0.0208 |
292 |
1 |
72.48 |
2010-08-17 |
| 88. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
72.47 |
0.9697 |
-0.0320 |
249 |
2 |
69.12 |
2010-10-31 |
| 89. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
71.61 |
1.0257 |
-0.0931 |
401 |
1 |
71.61 |
2010-10-11 |
| 90. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
70.97 |
1.0613 |
-0.1426 |
266 |
1 |
70.97 |
2011-01-16 |
| 91. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
70.91 |
1.0261 |
-0.1109 |
273 |
1 |
70.91 |
2010-08-18 |
| 92. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
70.68 |
1.0151 |
-0.1096 |
152 |
1 |
70.68 |
2011-06-29 |
| 93. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
70.46 |
0.9768 |
-0.0630 |
387 |
1 |
70.46 |
2010-08-18 |
| 94. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
70.46 |
0.8878 |
0.0232 |
346 |
1 |
70.46 |
2010-08-15 |
| 95. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
70.39 |
1.0368 |
-0.1257 |
276 |
1 |
70.39 |
2010-08-19 |
| 96. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
70.18 |
1.0031 |
-0.0621 |
304 |
1 |
70.18 |
2011-01-16 |
| 97. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
69.99 |
0.8914 |
0.0144 |
366 |
1 |
69.99 |
2011-10-16 |
| 98. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
69.75 |
0.9266 |
-0.0247 |
267 |
1 |
69.75 |
2010-08-15 |
| 99. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
69.68 |
0.9278 |
-0.0242 |
295 |
1 |
69.68 |
2010-10-23 |
| 100. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
69.51 |
1.0502 |
-0.1250 |
535 |
1 |
69.51 |
2010-10-26 |
| 101. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
68.72 |
0.9756 |
-0.0886 |
229 |
1 |
68.72 |
2011-01-16 |
| 102. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
67.99 |
0.9532 |
-0.0757 |
258 |
1 |
67.99 |
2010-10-30 |
| 103. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
66.95 |
1.0630 |
-0.1647 |
397 |
1 |
66.95 |
2010-10-16 |
| 104. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
66.76 |
0.9852 |
-0.1223 |
264 |
1 |
66.76 |
2011-09-22 |
| 105. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
66.69 |
0.9148 |
-0.0517 |
317 |
1 |
66.69 |
2010-08-20 |
| 106. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
66.36 |
0.9649 |
-0.1086 |
193 |
2 |
63.35 |
2010-10-30 |
| 107. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
66.06 |
0.9514 |
-0.0976 |
237 |
1 |
66.06 |
2010-11-16 |
| 108. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
65.99 |
1.0596 |
-0.2092 |
239 |
1 |
65.99 |
2010-08-18 |
| 109. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
65.89 |
0.9411 |
-0.0891 |
318 |
1 |
65.89 |
2010-08-17 |
| 110. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
64.54 |
0.9936 |
-0.1604 |
311 |
1 |
64.54 |
2010-08-16 |
| 111. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
64.35 |
0.9786 |
-0.1481 |
235 |
1 |
64.35 |
2010-10-16 |
| 112. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
63.95 |
0.9546 |
-0.0975 |
198 |
1 |
63.95 |
2010-08-16 |
| 113. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
63.63 |
0.9572 |
-0.0925 |
376 |
1 |
63.63 |
2010-08-16 |
| 114. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
63.35 |
1.0602 |
-0.2383 |
389 |
1 |
63.35 |
2010-10-16 |
| 115. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
63.06 |
1.0445 |
-0.2295 |
373 |
1 |
63.06 |
2010-08-15 |
| 116. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
62.28 |
0.8105 |
-0.0109 |
204 |
1 |
62.28 |
2010-10-23 |
| 117. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
62.25 |
0.9786 |
-0.1803 |
193 |
1 |
62.25 |
2010-10-30 |
| 118. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
61.86 |
0.9567 |
-0.1585 |
273 |
1 |
61.86 |
2010-10-09 |
| 119. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
61.71 |
0.8947 |
-0.0934 |
366 |
1 |
61.71 |
2010-08-15 |
| 120. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
61.62 |
0.9005 |
-0.1068 |
212 |
1 |
61.62 |
2011-06-29 |
| 121. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
61.41 |
0.9925 |
-0.1633 |
247 |
1 |
61.41 |
2010-08-15 |
| 122. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
61.37 |
0.9120 |
-0.0869 |
436 |
1 |
61.37 |
2010-12-14 |
| 123. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
59.66 |
0.8826 |
-0.1117 |
296 |
1 |
59.66 |
2010-11-22 |
| 124. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
59.33 |
0.9976 |
-0.2122 |
174 |
1 |
59.33 |
2010-08-19 |
| 125. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
54.71 |
0.8916 |
-0.1867 |
216 |
1 |
54.71 |
2012-03-06 |
| 126. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
54.66 |
0.9509 |
-0.2086 |
225 |
1 |
54.66 |
2012-07-04 |
| 127. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
54.55 |
0.9820 |
-0.2767 |
267 |
1 |
54.55 |
2010-08-16 |
| 128. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
47.13 |
0.9168 |
-0.3103 |
240 |
1 |
47.13 |
2010-11-12 |
| 129. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
46.85 |
0.9072 |
-0.3074 |
237 |
1 |
46.85 |
2012-07-25 |
| 130. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
35.04 |
0.7876 |
-0.3384 |
316 |
1 |
35.04 |
2010-08-15 |