| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
53.25 |
1.0463 |
0.5378 |
182 |
2 |
43.31 |
2011-06-02 |
| 2. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
48.57 |
1.0396 |
0.4032 |
149 |
1 |
48.57 |
2011-06-03 |
| 3. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
43.25 |
0.9986 |
0.2888 |
283 |
1 |
43.25 |
2011-06-02 |
| 4. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
43.05 |
0.8691 |
0.4066 |
119 |
3 |
39.89 |
2011-06-02 |
| 5. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
41.90 |
1.0796 |
0.1636 |
129 |
1 |
41.90 |
2011-05-31 |
| 6. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
41.13 |
1.0515 |
0.1677 |
166 |
2 |
36.81 |
2011-05-28 |
| 7. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
41.06 |
0.8809 |
0.3380 |
127 |
3 |
36.87 |
2011-05-30 |
| 8. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.29 |
0.8792 |
0.3249 |
296 |
1 |
40.29 |
2011-05-27 |
| 9. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
40.18 |
1.0523 |
0.1410 |
256 |
1 |
40.18 |
2011-05-31 |
| 10. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
40.11 |
0.9559 |
0.2379 |
195 |
1 |
40.11 |
2011-05-28 |
| 11. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
39.92 |
1.0795 |
0.1408 |
226 |
1 |
39.92 |
2011-05-27 |
| 12. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
39.70 |
0.9260 |
0.2607 |
243 |
1 |
39.70 |
2011-05-28 |
| 13. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
39.66 |
0.9028 |
0.2753 |
111 |
1 |
39.66 |
2011-05-30 |
| 14. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
38.80 |
0.9873 |
0.1641 |
155 |
1 |
38.80 |
2011-05-27 |
| 15. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
38.52 |
0.8519 |
0.2953 |
150 |
2 |
34.31 |
2011-05-30 |
| 16. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
38.36 |
1.0023 |
0.1364 |
211 |
1 |
38.36 |
2011-05-30 |
| 17. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
37.63 |
0.9871 |
0.1704 |
209 |
2 |
37.31 |
2011-06-02 |
| 18. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
37.38 |
0.8811 |
0.2326 |
239 |
1 |
37.38 |
2011-05-30 |
| 19. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
37.36 |
1.0767 |
0.0321 |
212 |
1 |
37.36 |
2011-05-24 |
| 20. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
37.17 |
1.0016 |
0.1013 |
218 |
1 |
37.17 |
2011-05-26 |
| 21. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
37.06 |
0.9886 |
0.1135 |
220 |
2 |
35.55 |
2011-05-27 |
| 22. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
36.99 |
1.1296 |
0.0017 |
252 |
1 |
36.99 |
2011-05-26 |
| 23. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
36.70 |
1.0917 |
0.0263 |
243 |
1 |
36.70 |
2011-05-30 |
| 24. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
36.67 |
1.0907 |
-0.0005 |
303 |
1 |
36.67 |
2011-05-25 |
| 25. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
36.46 |
0.9706 |
0.1152 |
216 |
2 |
33.37 |
2011-05-24 |
| 26. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
36.41 |
1.0252 |
0.0541 |
176 |
1 |
36.41 |
2011-05-18 |
| 27. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
36.20 |
1.0565 |
0.0175 |
247 |
2 |
35.12 |
2011-05-28 |
| 28. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
36.12 |
1.1215 |
-0.0214 |
200 |
1 |
36.12 |
2011-05-19 |
| 29. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
36.03 |
0.9986 |
0.0686 |
162 |
1 |
36.03 |
2011-05-30 |
| 30. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
35.97 |
0.9202 |
0.1490 |
254 |
1 |
35.97 |
2011-05-31 |
| 31. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
35.93 |
0.9418 |
0.1284 |
188 |
1 |
35.93 |
2011-05-19 |
| 32. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
35.92 |
0.9098 |
0.1561 |
167 |
1 |
35.92 |
2011-05-24 |
| 33. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
35.72 |
0.9688 |
0.0913 |
217 |
3 |
34.44 |
2011-05-27 |
| 34. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
35.68 |
1.0090 |
0.0944 |
282 |
1 |
35.68 |
2011-05-25 |
| 35. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
35.68 |
0.8289 |
0.2363 |
304 |
1 |
35.68 |
2011-05-27 |
| 36. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
35.65 |
0.9226 |
0.1398 |
177 |
1 |
35.65 |
2011-05-26 |
| 37. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
35.62 |
0.9233 |
0.1320 |
168 |
1 |
35.62 |
2011-06-02 |
| 38. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
35.43 |
0.9207 |
0.1336 |
174 |
3 |
32.13 |
2011-05-26 |
| 39. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
35.31 |
0.9221 |
0.1266 |
244 |
1 |
35.31 |
2011-05-31 |
| 40. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
35.28 |
0.9722 |
0.0771 |
283 |
1 |
35.28 |
2011-05-19 |
| 41. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
35.28 |
0.9731 |
0.0699 |
129 |
1 |
35.28 |
2011-05-27 |
| 42. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
35.27 |
0.9614 |
0.0873 |
292 |
1 |
35.27 |
2011-05-26 |
| 43. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
35.21 |
1.0696 |
-0.0254 |
226 |
2 |
31.84 |
2011-05-26 |
| 44. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
35.02 |
1.0829 |
-0.0424 |
288 |
1 |
35.02 |
2011-05-24 |
| 45. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
34.96 |
0.8615 |
0.1788 |
110 |
2 |
34.28 |
2011-05-28 |
| 46. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
34.93 |
0.8910 |
0.1472 |
150 |
2 |
33.99 |
2011-05-25 |
| 47. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
34.79 |
0.8994 |
0.1350 |
188 |
1 |
34.79 |
2011-05-31 |
| 48. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
34.73 |
0.8162 |
0.2178 |
149 |
1 |
34.73 |
2011-05-25 |
| 49. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
34.72 |
1.0201 |
0.0083 |
172 |
1 |
34.72 |
2011-05-30 |
| 50. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.68 |
1.0138 |
0.0154 |
231 |
1 |
34.68 |
2011-05-25 |
| 51. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
34.48 |
0.9786 |
0.0436 |
193 |
1 |
34.48 |
2011-05-19 |
| 52. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
34.47 |
1.0385 |
-0.0157 |
230 |
1 |
34.47 |
2011-05-28 |
| 53. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
34.41 |
0.9212 |
0.1027 |
231 |
1 |
34.41 |
2011-05-28 |
| 54. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
34.34 |
1.0797 |
-0.0631 |
210 |
2 |
32.66 |
2011-05-19 |
| 55. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
34.32 |
1.0083 |
0.0549 |
273 |
1 |
34.32 |
2011-05-14 |
| 56. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
34.24 |
0.8295 |
0.1903 |
209 |
1 |
34.24 |
2011-05-27 |
| 57. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
34.23 |
0.9089 |
0.1100 |
342 |
1 |
34.23 |
2011-05-27 |
| 58. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
34.15 |
1.0109 |
0.0033 |
276 |
1 |
34.15 |
2011-05-14 |
| 59. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
34.13 |
0.8793 |
0.1352 |
157 |
2 |
31.72 |
2011-05-25 |
| 60. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
34.12 |
0.9966 |
0.0165 |
259 |
1 |
34.12 |
2011-05-24 |
| 61. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
33.98 |
1.0131 |
-0.0060 |
225 |
1 |
33.98 |
2011-05-16 |
| 62. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
33.76 |
0.9468 |
0.0553 |
276 |
1 |
33.76 |
2011-06-02 |
| 63. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
33.76 |
0.9576 |
0.0467 |
212 |
1 |
33.76 |
2011-05-27 |
| 64. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
33.66 |
0.9485 |
0.0534 |
291 |
1 |
33.66 |
2011-05-24 |
| 65. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
33.66 |
0.9976 |
0.0244 |
174 |
1 |
33.66 |
2011-05-25 |
| 66. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
33.61 |
0.9843 |
0.0114 |
234 |
1 |
33.61 |
2011-05-18 |
| 67. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
33.49 |
0.9430 |
0.0534 |
297 |
1 |
33.49 |
2011-05-25 |
| 68. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
33.47 |
0.8190 |
0.1811 |
135 |
1 |
33.47 |
2011-05-30 |
| 69. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
33.45 |
0.9936 |
0.0237 |
227 |
1 |
33.45 |
2011-05-19 |
| 70. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
33.45 |
0.9514 |
0.0421 |
237 |
2 |
31.84 |
2011-05-19 |
| 71. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
33.26 |
0.9350 |
0.0521 |
195 |
1 |
33.26 |
2011-05-14 |
| 72. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
32.93 |
0.9097 |
0.0674 |
153 |
1 |
32.93 |
2011-05-27 |
| 73. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
32.87 |
0.8628 |
0.1135 |
196 |
1 |
32.87 |
2011-05-14 |
| 74. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
32.73 |
0.8884 |
0.0838 |
135 |
2 |
29.12 |
2011-05-26 |
| 75. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
32.61 |
0.8787 |
0.0918 |
202 |
1 |
32.61 |
2011-05-28 |
| 76. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
32.61 |
1.0388 |
-0.0384 |
243 |
1 |
32.61 |
2011-05-28 |
| 77. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
32.52 |
1.0483 |
-0.0848 |
227 |
1 |
32.52 |
2011-05-31 |
| 78. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
32.50 |
1.0567 |
-0.0910 |
303 |
1 |
32.50 |
2011-05-18 |
| 79. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
32.49 |
0.9239 |
0.0432 |
193 |
1 |
32.49 |
2011-05-19 |
| 80. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
32.19 |
0.8918 |
0.0626 |
100 |
1 |
32.19 |
2011-05-14 |
| 81. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
32.06 |
1.0787 |
-0.1278 |
237 |
2 |
29.96 |
2011-05-30 |
| 82. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
32.03 |
1.1114 |
-0.1626 |
247 |
1 |
32.03 |
2011-05-24 |
| 83. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
32.02 |
1.0218 |
-0.0733 |
268 |
1 |
32.02 |
2011-05-18 |
| 84. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
31.83 |
1.0506 |
-0.0766 |
277 |
1 |
31.83 |
2011-05-28 |
| 85. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
31.82 |
0.9019 |
0.0462 |
204 |
1 |
31.82 |
2011-05-13 |
| 86. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
31.76 |
0.9068 |
0.0365 |
225 |
1 |
31.76 |
2011-05-27 |
| 87. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
31.75 |
0.9128 |
0.0326 |
133 |
1 |
31.75 |
2011-05-13 |
| 88. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
31.73 |
0.7852 |
0.1591 |
149 |
1 |
31.73 |
2011-05-25 |
| 89. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
31.64 |
0.9485 |
-0.0090 |
236 |
1 |
31.64 |
2011-05-26 |
| 90. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
31.59 |
0.9805 |
-0.0410 |
292 |
1 |
31.59 |
2011-05-26 |
| 91. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
31.44 |
0.8791 |
0.0538 |
190 |
1 |
31.44 |
2011-05-16 |
| 92. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
31.43 |
1.0498 |
-0.1203 |
180 |
1 |
31.43 |
2011-05-25 |
| 93. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
31.38 |
0.9665 |
0.0130 |
326 |
1 |
31.38 |
2011-05-28 |
| 94. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
31.30 |
0.9682 |
-0.0405 |
143 |
1 |
31.30 |
2011-05-24 |
| 95. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
31.12 |
1.0270 |
-0.0677 |
255 |
1 |
31.12 |
2011-05-28 |
| 96. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
31.12 |
0.8941 |
0.0315 |
216 |
1 |
31.12 |
2011-05-16 |
| 97. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
31.08 |
0.9164 |
0.0076 |
305 |
1 |
31.08 |
2011-05-27 |
| 98. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
31.06 |
0.9567 |
0.0088 |
184 |
1 |
31.06 |
2011-05-27 |
| 99. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
31.02 |
0.8915 |
0.0296 |
188 |
1 |
31.02 |
2011-05-19 |
| 100. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
30.88 |
1.0943 |
-0.1457 |
206 |
1 |
30.88 |
2011-05-30 |
| 101. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
30.88 |
1.0168 |
-0.1010 |
271 |
2 |
30.13 |
2011-05-27 |
| 102. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
30.71 |
0.9084 |
0.0050 |
404 |
1 |
30.71 |
2011-05-28 |
| 103. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
30.70 |
1.0034 |
-0.0935 |
302 |
1 |
30.70 |
2011-05-31 |
| 104. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
30.61 |
1.0251 |
-0.1186 |
261 |
1 |
30.61 |
2011-05-24 |
| 105. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
30.45 |
1.0254 |
-0.0779 |
217 |
1 |
30.45 |
2011-05-28 |
| 106. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
30.41 |
0.8595 |
0.0436 |
242 |
1 |
30.41 |
2011-05-18 |
| 107. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
30.33 |
0.9196 |
-0.0203 |
148 |
1 |
30.33 |
2011-05-19 |
| 108. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
30.27 |
0.9128 |
0.0253 |
369 |
1 |
30.27 |
2011-05-27 |
| 109. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
30.23 |
0.8142 |
0.0829 |
187 |
1 |
30.23 |
2011-05-16 |
| 110. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
30.15 |
0.8145 |
0.0818 |
115 |
1 |
30.15 |
2011-05-14 |
| 111. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
30.10 |
0.8845 |
0.0089 |
273 |
1 |
30.10 |
2011-05-24 |
| 112. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
30.00 |
0.9756 |
-0.0864 |
229 |
1 |
30.00 |
2011-05-28 |
| 113. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
29.93 |
0.8961 |
-0.0087 |
189 |
1 |
29.93 |
2011-05-30 |
| 114. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
29.74 |
0.9430 |
-0.0634 |
211 |
1 |
29.74 |
2011-05-31 |
| 115. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
29.73 |
0.8670 |
0.0167 |
318 |
1 |
29.73 |
2011-05-27 |
| 116. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
29.68 |
1.0004 |
-0.1226 |
212 |
1 |
29.68 |
2011-05-19 |
| 117. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
29.64 |
0.9532 |
-0.0743 |
258 |
1 |
29.64 |
2011-05-28 |
| 118. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
29.50 |
0.8958 |
-0.0185 |
322 |
1 |
29.50 |
2011-05-31 |
| 119. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
29.24 |
1.0214 |
-0.1128 |
281 |
1 |
29.24 |
2011-05-24 |
| 120. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
28.95 |
0.8841 |
-0.0229 |
194 |
1 |
28.95 |
2011-05-24 |
| 121. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
28.60 |
0.9303 |
-0.0859 |
176 |
1 |
28.60 |
2011-05-28 |
| 122. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
28.05 |
0.8553 |
-0.0260 |
174 |
1 |
28.05 |
2011-05-28 |
| 123. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
27.98 |
0.9904 |
-0.1191 |
203 |
1 |
27.98 |
2011-05-24 |
| 124. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
27.82 |
0.8996 |
-0.0778 |
192 |
1 |
27.82 |
2011-05-25 |
| 125. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
27.74 |
1.0521 |
-0.2326 |
171 |
1 |
27.74 |
2011-05-14 |
| 126. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
26.79 |
0.9907 |
-0.1980 |
211 |
1 |
26.79 |
2011-05-30 |
| 127. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
26.66 |
0.9726 |
-0.1860 |
154 |
1 |
26.66 |
2011-05-25 |
| 128. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
26.56 |
0.9597 |
-0.1706 |
347 |
1 |
26.56 |
2011-05-25 |
| 129. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
26.27 |
0.8202 |
-0.0417 |
178 |
1 |
26.27 |
2011-05-26 |
| 130. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
26.11 |
0.9740 |
-0.2025 |
209 |
1 |
26.11 |
2011-05-28 |
| 131. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
24.67 |
0.8916 |
-0.1616 |
216 |
1 |
24.67 |
2011-05-14 |
| 132. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
22.27 |
0.7801 |
-0.1241 |
116 |
1 |
22.27 |
2011-05-25 |
| 133. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
16.35 |
0.7916 |
-0.3077 |
184 |
1 |
16.35 |
2011-05-16 |