| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
89.83 |
1.0459 |
0.1451 |
200 |
3 |
85.07 |
2013-10-05 |
| 2. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
89.52 |
0.9911 |
0.1609 |
212 |
1 |
89.52 |
2013-10-05 |
| 3. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
89.00 |
1.0596 |
0.0873 |
239 |
1 |
89.00 |
2013-10-05 |
| 4. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
88.73 |
0.9871 |
0.1945 |
209 |
2 |
84.58 |
2013-10-05 |
| 5. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
88.18 |
1.0454 |
0.0900 |
255 |
1 |
88.18 |
2013-10-05 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
87.64 |
1.0797 |
0.0462 |
210 |
1 |
87.64 |
2013-10-05 |
| 7. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
87.48 |
1.0252 |
0.0974 |
176 |
1 |
87.48 |
2013-10-05 |
| 8. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
86.62 |
1.0429 |
0.0736 |
259 |
1 |
86.62 |
2013-10-03 |
| 9. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
86.59 |
1.0972 |
0.0497 |
251 |
1 |
86.59 |
2013-10-05 |
| 10. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
86.51 |
1.0012 |
0.1177 |
260 |
1 |
86.51 |
2013-10-03 |
| 11. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
86.09 |
1.1296 |
0.0103 |
252 |
1 |
86.09 |
2013-10-03 |
| 12. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
85.96 |
0.9785 |
0.1339 |
335 |
1 |
85.96 |
2013-10-05 |
| 13. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
85.85 |
1.0151 |
0.0832 |
152 |
1 |
85.85 |
2013-10-05 |
| 14. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
85.24 |
1.0515 |
0.0463 |
250 |
1 |
85.24 |
2013-10-05 |
| 15. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
85.20 |
1.0396 |
0.0524 |
149 |
1 |
85.20 |
2013-10-05 |
| 16. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
85.06 |
1.0138 |
0.0833 |
231 |
1 |
85.06 |
2013-10-05 |
| 17. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
84.60 |
0.9866 |
0.1014 |
218 |
1 |
84.60 |
2013-10-05 |
| 18. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
84.47 |
1.0516 |
0.0377 |
281 |
1 |
84.47 |
2013-10-13 |
| 19. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
84.22 |
1.0337 |
0.0521 |
214 |
1 |
84.22 |
2013-10-05 |
| 20. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
82.61 |
1.0993 |
-0.0355 |
265 |
1 |
82.61 |
2013-10-05 |
| 21. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
82.59 |
0.9286 |
0.1356 |
194 |
1 |
82.59 |
2013-10-03 |
| 22. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
82.59 |
0.9965 |
0.0692 |
310 |
2 |
82.21 |
2013-10-05 |
| 23. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
82.44 |
1.0883 |
0.0077 |
303 |
1 |
82.44 |
2013-10-05 |
| 24. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
82.42 |
1.0073 |
0.0641 |
369 |
1 |
82.42 |
2013-10-05 |
| 25. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
81.24 |
1.0529 |
-0.0052 |
351 |
1 |
81.24 |
2013-10-03 |
| 26. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
80.94 |
0.9758 |
0.0687 |
314 |
1 |
80.94 |
2013-10-05 |
| 27. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
80.82 |
0.9509 |
0.1297 |
225 |
1 |
80.82 |
2013-10-05 |
| 28. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
80.59 |
1.0917 |
-0.0288 |
243 |
1 |
80.59 |
2013-10-05 |
| 29. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
80.56 |
0.9833 |
0.0572 |
355 |
1 |
80.56 |
2013-10-03 |
| 30. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
80.33 |
0.9622 |
0.0803 |
392 |
1 |
80.33 |
2013-10-05 |
| 31. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
80.02 |
1.0644 |
0.0037 |
257 |
1 |
80.02 |
2013-10-05 |
| 32. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
79.85 |
0.9675 |
0.0716 |
383 |
2 |
78.08 |
2013-10-05 |
| 33. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
79.83 |
1.0284 |
0.0440 |
282 |
1 |
79.83 |
2013-10-04 |
| 34. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
79.62 |
0.9570 |
0.0715 |
287 |
1 |
79.62 |
2013-10-05 |
| 35. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
79.35 |
0.9597 |
0.0675 |
347 |
1 |
79.35 |
2013-10-13 |
| 36. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
79.33 |
0.9709 |
0.0934 |
397 |
1 |
79.33 |
2013-10-03 |
| 37. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
79.12 |
0.9532 |
0.0655 |
258 |
1 |
79.12 |
2013-10-03 |
| 38. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
78.70 |
1.0120 |
0.0018 |
290 |
1 |
78.70 |
2013-10-05 |
| 39. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
78.66 |
1.0257 |
-0.0050 |
401 |
1 |
78.66 |
2013-10-05 |
| 40. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
78.61 |
1.0390 |
-0.0290 |
205 |
1 |
78.61 |
2013-10-03 |
| 41. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
78.60 |
0.9583 |
0.0987 |
341 |
1 |
78.60 |
2013-10-05 |
| 42. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
78.52 |
1.0506 |
-0.0096 |
277 |
1 |
78.52 |
2013-10-05 |
| 43. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
78.46 |
1.0545 |
-0.0023 |
416 |
2 |
76.91 |
2013-10-05 |
| 44. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
78.38 |
0.9938 |
0.0164 |
339 |
1 |
78.38 |
2013-10-03 |
| 45. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
78.05 |
0.9687 |
0.0424 |
371 |
1 |
78.05 |
2013-10-05 |
| 46. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
77.94 |
1.0201 |
-0.0151 |
303 |
1 |
77.94 |
2013-10-05 |
| 47. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
77.61 |
0.9684 |
0.0345 |
388 |
1 |
77.61 |
2013-10-05 |
| 48. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
77.57 |
1.0521 |
-0.0577 |
171 |
1 |
77.57 |
2013-10-03 |
| 49. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
77.50 |
1.0264 |
0.0128 |
422 |
1 |
77.50 |
2013-10-03 |
| 50. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
77.37 |
0.9212 |
0.0791 |
323 |
1 |
77.37 |
2013-10-05 |
| 51. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
77.29 |
1.1016 |
-0.1059 |
233 |
1 |
77.29 |
2013-10-05 |
| 52. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
77.18 |
1.0232 |
0.0174 |
350 |
1 |
77.18 |
2013-10-03 |
| 53. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
76.86 |
1.0029 |
-0.0189 |
209 |
1 |
76.86 |
2013-10-05 |
| 54. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
76.74 |
1.0885 |
-0.0963 |
315 |
1 |
76.74 |
2013-10-05 |
| 55. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
76.43 |
0.8947 |
0.0957 |
366 |
1 |
76.43 |
2013-10-05 |
| 56. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
76.39 |
1.0767 |
-0.0947 |
212 |
1 |
76.39 |
2013-10-03 |
| 57. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
76.36 |
1.0630 |
-0.0449 |
397 |
1 |
76.36 |
2013-10-03 |
| 58. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
76.28 |
1.0403 |
-0.0428 |
193 |
1 |
76.28 |
2013-10-05 |
| 59. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
76.07 |
0.9614 |
0.0225 |
292 |
1 |
76.07 |
2013-10-03 |
| 60. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
76.07 |
0.9786 |
-0.0035 |
193 |
2 |
75.31 |
2013-10-05 |
| 61. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
76.01 |
1.0347 |
-0.0288 |
550 |
1 |
76.01 |
2013-10-03 |
| 62. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
75.98 |
0.9698 |
0.0423 |
397 |
1 |
75.98 |
2013-10-05 |
| 63. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
75.93 |
1.0314 |
-0.0136 |
452 |
1 |
75.93 |
2013-10-03 |
| 64. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
75.81 |
1.0555 |
-0.0771 |
363 |
1 |
75.81 |
2013-10-03 |
| 65. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
75.78 |
1.0058 |
-0.0062 |
411 |
1 |
75.78 |
2013-10-05 |
| 66. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
75.66 |
1.0088 |
0.0050 |
396 |
1 |
75.66 |
2013-10-04 |
| 67. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
75.33 |
1.0613 |
-0.0851 |
456 |
1 |
75.33 |
2013-10-05 |
| 68. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
74.42 |
0.9723 |
-0.0094 |
364 |
1 |
74.42 |
2013-10-05 |
| 69. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
74.34 |
0.9353 |
0.0174 |
177 |
2 |
74.06 |
2013-10-05 |
| 70. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
73.94 |
1.0270 |
-0.0385 |
255 |
1 |
73.94 |
2013-10-03 |
| 71. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
73.30 |
0.9164 |
0.0330 |
305 |
1 |
73.30 |
2013-10-03 |
| 72. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
73.17 |
0.9168 |
0.0274 |
240 |
1 |
73.17 |
2013-10-03 |
| 73. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
73.16 |
0.9966 |
-0.0550 |
259 |
2 |
73.05 |
2013-10-05 |
| 74. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
73.15 |
1.0334 |
-0.0980 |
131 |
1 |
73.15 |
2013-10-05 |
| 75. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
73.11 |
1.0214 |
-0.0851 |
166 |
1 |
73.11 |
2013-10-05 |
| 76. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
72.84 |
0.9430 |
-0.0123 |
211 |
1 |
72.84 |
2013-10-05 |
| 77. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
72.75 |
0.9632 |
0.0161 |
345 |
1 |
72.75 |
2013-10-03 |
| 78. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
72.69 |
0.9049 |
0.0369 |
351 |
1 |
72.69 |
2013-10-05 |
| 79. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
72.58 |
0.9769 |
-0.0441 |
263 |
1 |
72.58 |
2013-10-05 |
| 80. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
72.45 |
0.9635 |
-0.0244 |
389 |
1 |
72.45 |
2013-10-03 |
| 81. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
72.29 |
0.8811 |
0.0539 |
239 |
1 |
72.29 |
2013-10-03 |
| 82. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
72.28 |
0.9365 |
-0.0040 |
248 |
1 |
72.28 |
2013-10-03 |
| 83. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
72.11 |
0.9640 |
-0.0053 |
334 |
1 |
72.11 |
2013-10-03 |
| 84. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
72.08 |
0.8878 |
0.0403 |
346 |
1 |
72.08 |
2013-10-05 |
| 85. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
71.99 |
1.0168 |
-0.0879 |
271 |
1 |
71.99 |
2013-10-05 |
| 86. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
71.90 |
1.0604 |
-0.1015 |
260 |
1 |
71.90 |
2013-10-05 |
| 87. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
71.76 |
1.0788 |
-0.1606 |
171 |
1 |
71.76 |
2013-10-05 |
| 88. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
71.53 |
0.9790 |
-0.0173 |
311 |
1 |
71.53 |
2013-10-05 |
| 89. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
70.84 |
0.9831 |
-0.0628 |
469 |
1 |
70.84 |
2013-10-04 |
| 90. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
70.82 |
1.0167 |
-0.0978 |
378 |
1 |
70.82 |
2013-10-05 |
| 91. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
70.68 |
1.0679 |
-0.1378 |
177 |
1 |
70.68 |
2013-10-03 |
| 92. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
70.58 |
0.8919 |
0.0155 |
205 |
1 |
70.58 |
2013-10-05 |
| 93. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
70.12 |
0.9986 |
-0.0953 |
283 |
1 |
70.12 |
2013-10-05 |
| 94. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
70.02 |
0.9342 |
-0.0292 |
434 |
1 |
70.02 |
2013-10-03 |
| 95. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
69.94 |
0.9936 |
-0.0732 |
227 |
1 |
69.94 |
2013-10-03 |
| 96. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
69.91 |
0.9572 |
-0.0143 |
376 |
1 |
69.91 |
2013-10-05 |
| 97. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
69.90 |
0.9330 |
-0.0263 |
360 |
1 |
69.90 |
2013-10-05 |
| 98. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
69.02 |
0.9897 |
-0.1040 |
274 |
1 |
69.02 |
2013-10-04 |
| 99. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
67.95 |
0.9820 |
-0.1047 |
267 |
1 |
67.95 |
2013-10-04 |
| 100. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
67.82 |
0.9907 |
-0.1195 |
211 |
1 |
67.82 |
2013-10-05 |
| 101. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
67.22 |
0.9202 |
-0.0556 |
254 |
1 |
67.22 |
2013-10-03 |
| 102. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
66.98 |
0.9843 |
-0.1276 |
234 |
1 |
66.98 |
2013-10-05 |
| 103. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
65.92 |
0.9636 |
-0.1163 |
254 |
1 |
65.92 |
2013-10-04 |
| 104. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
65.82 |
0.9176 |
-0.0323 |
365 |
1 |
65.82 |
2013-10-05 |
| 105. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
65.65 |
1.0343 |
-0.1530 |
242 |
1 |
65.65 |
2013-10-05 |
| 106. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
65.33 |
0.9045 |
-0.0641 |
235 |
1 |
65.33 |
2013-10-05 |
| 107. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
65.30 |
1.0154 |
-0.1259 |
351 |
1 |
65.30 |
2013-10-05 |
| 108. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
61.58 |
1.0095 |
-0.2199 |
316 |
1 |
61.58 |
2013-10-03 |
| 109. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
60.77 |
1.0419 |
-0.2616 |
261 |
1 |
60.77 |
2013-10-04 |
| 110. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
60.27 |
0.8961 |
-0.1254 |
189 |
1 |
60.27 |
2013-10-05 |