| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
77.68 |
1.1016 |
0.1743 |
233 |
1 |
77.68 |
2013-02-16 |
| 2. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
75.30 |
1.0151 |
0.2123 |
152 |
1 |
75.30 |
2012-12-21 |
| 3. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
74.59 |
1.0331 |
0.1894 |
234 |
1 |
74.59 |
2012-12-14 |
| 4. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
74.22 |
0.9831 |
0.2323 |
222 |
1 |
74.22 |
2013-02-17 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
73.52 |
1.1018 |
0.0986 |
220 |
1 |
73.52 |
2013-09-23 |
| 6. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
73.18 |
1.0714 |
0.1209 |
129 |
1 |
73.18 |
2012-12-15 |
| 7. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
71.87 |
1.0993 |
0.0783 |
265 |
1 |
71.87 |
2012-12-15 |
| 8. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
71.86 |
1.0314 |
0.1873 |
452 |
2 |
69.05 |
2012-12-19 |
| 9. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
71.75 |
1.0885 |
0.0926 |
315 |
1 |
71.75 |
2013-09-23 |
| 10. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
70.05 |
1.0907 |
0.0610 |
303 |
1 |
70.05 |
2012-12-15 |
| 11. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
68.83 |
1.0263 |
0.1018 |
267 |
2 |
66.49 |
2013-03-19 |
| 12. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
68.48 |
1.0496 |
0.0732 |
314 |
2 |
65.02 |
2012-12-22 |
| 13. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
68.35 |
1.0565 |
0.0619 |
247 |
1 |
68.35 |
2013-09-23 |
| 14. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
68.24 |
0.9706 |
0.1528 |
216 |
1 |
68.24 |
2012-12-21 |
| 15. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
68.04 |
1.0314 |
0.0811 |
172 |
1 |
68.04 |
2013-02-16 |
| 16. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
68.02 |
1.0384 |
0.0673 |
183 |
1 |
68.02 |
2012-12-21 |
| 17. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
67.58 |
1.0972 |
0.0408 |
251 |
1 |
67.58 |
2013-03-19 |
| 18. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
67.54 |
1.0099 |
0.0947 |
207 |
1 |
67.54 |
2012-12-19 |
| 19. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
67.26 |
1.0361 |
0.0679 |
269 |
1 |
67.26 |
2012-12-15 |
| 20. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
66.62 |
1.0574 |
0.0632 |
205 |
2 |
63.67 |
2012-12-19 |
| 21. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
66.24 |
0.9684 |
0.1203 |
388 |
2 |
63.37 |
2012-12-15 |
| 22. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
65.57 |
1.1022 |
0.0080 |
259 |
2 |
62.77 |
2012-12-19 |
| 23. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
64.85 |
1.0486 |
0.0153 |
289 |
1 |
64.85 |
2012-12-19 |
| 24. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
64.73 |
1.0334 |
0.0212 |
131 |
1 |
64.73 |
2012-12-21 |
| 25. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
64.60 |
1.0719 |
0.0150 |
360 |
1 |
64.60 |
2012-12-14 |
| 26. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
63.74 |
1.0261 |
0.0583 |
410 |
1 |
63.74 |
2013-09-23 |
| 27. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
63.74 |
0.9811 |
0.0664 |
272 |
2 |
61.69 |
2013-09-23 |
| 28. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
63.61 |
1.0763 |
0.0081 |
367 |
1 |
63.61 |
2013-09-23 |
| 29. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
63.32 |
1.0201 |
0.0217 |
375 |
1 |
63.32 |
2012-12-21 |
| 30. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
63.07 |
0.9303 |
0.0963 |
176 |
1 |
63.07 |
2012-12-17 |
| 31. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
62.87 |
1.1014 |
-0.0334 |
273 |
2 |
61.31 |
2013-02-16 |
| 32. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
62.65 |
1.0177 |
0.0472 |
392 |
1 |
62.65 |
2012-12-19 |
| 33. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
62.47 |
0.9089 |
0.1183 |
342 |
2 |
60.08 |
2012-12-21 |
| 34. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
62.29 |
1.0053 |
0.0135 |
232 |
1 |
62.29 |
2012-12-19 |
| 35. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
62.20 |
1.0523 |
-0.0373 |
256 |
1 |
62.20 |
2013-03-19 |
| 36. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
62.18 |
0.9792 |
0.0782 |
265 |
1 |
62.18 |
2013-02-16 |
| 37. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
62.05 |
0.9084 |
0.1101 |
300 |
1 |
62.05 |
2012-12-19 |
| 38. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
61.86 |
0.9965 |
0.0174 |
310 |
1 |
61.86 |
2012-12-15 |
| 39. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
61.69 |
0.9805 |
0.0350 |
292 |
1 |
61.69 |
2013-09-23 |
| 40. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
61.63 |
0.9202 |
0.0893 |
254 |
2 |
59.92 |
2013-02-16 |
| 41. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
61.55 |
1.0387 |
0.0018 |
239 |
1 |
61.55 |
2012-12-17 |
| 42. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
61.16 |
1.0767 |
-0.0770 |
212 |
1 |
61.16 |
2012-12-15 |
| 43. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
61.05 |
1.0677 |
-0.0373 |
284 |
1 |
61.05 |
2012-12-19 |
| 44. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
61.05 |
0.9774 |
0.0216 |
196 |
2 |
59.49 |
2012-12-16 |
| 45. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
61.02 |
1.0023 |
-0.0046 |
211 |
1 |
61.02 |
2012-12-15 |
| 46. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
60.81 |
1.0214 |
-0.0305 |
166 |
1 |
60.81 |
2012-12-15 |
| 47. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
60.74 |
1.0485 |
-0.0191 |
153 |
1 |
60.74 |
2012-12-19 |
| 48. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
60.57 |
1.0796 |
-0.0929 |
129 |
1 |
60.57 |
2012-12-15 |
| 49. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
60.46 |
0.9676 |
0.0312 |
442 |
1 |
60.46 |
2012-12-19 |
| 50. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
60.45 |
1.0218 |
-0.0346 |
268 |
2 |
56.87 |
2012-12-15 |
| 51. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
60.42 |
1.0172 |
0.0074 |
341 |
1 |
60.42 |
2012-12-17 |
| 52. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
60.05 |
0.8845 |
0.0991 |
273 |
2 |
55.31 |
2012-12-17 |
| 53. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
59.84 |
0.9125 |
0.0694 |
308 |
1 |
59.84 |
2013-02-17 |
| 54. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
59.59 |
1.0905 |
-0.0832 |
210 |
1 |
59.59 |
2012-12-17 |
| 55. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
59.53 |
0.9087 |
0.0771 |
393 |
1 |
59.53 |
2013-09-23 |
| 56. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
59.47 |
0.9673 |
0.0457 |
232 |
1 |
59.47 |
2012-12-14 |
| 57. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
59.12 |
0.9726 |
-0.0115 |
154 |
1 |
59.12 |
2013-09-23 |
| 58. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
58.71 |
1.0795 |
-0.0880 |
226 |
1 |
58.71 |
2013-09-23 |
| 59. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
58.63 |
1.0679 |
-0.0880 |
177 |
1 |
58.63 |
2012-12-19 |
| 60. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
58.57 |
1.0389 |
-0.0775 |
340 |
1 |
58.57 |
2012-12-14 |
| 61. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
58.34 |
1.0284 |
-0.0299 |
282 |
1 |
58.34 |
2012-12-19 |
| 62. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
58.33 |
1.0203 |
-0.0318 |
400 |
1 |
58.33 |
2012-12-17 |
| 63. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
58.27 |
0.9994 |
-0.0146 |
269 |
1 |
58.27 |
2012-12-17 |
| 64. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
58.05 |
0.9155 |
0.0840 |
168 |
1 |
58.05 |
2012-12-16 |
| 65. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
57.95 |
0.9514 |
-0.0025 |
237 |
1 |
57.95 |
2012-12-21 |
| 66. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
57.91 |
0.9780 |
-0.0291 |
337 |
1 |
57.91 |
2012-12-15 |
| 67. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
57.86 |
1.0211 |
-0.0434 |
213 |
1 |
57.86 |
2013-02-17 |
| 68. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
57.62 |
0.9485 |
-0.0028 |
291 |
1 |
57.62 |
2012-12-15 |
| 69. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
57.58 |
0.9088 |
0.0389 |
348 |
1 |
57.58 |
2012-12-17 |
| 70. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
57.58 |
0.9430 |
0.0019 |
297 |
1 |
57.58 |
2013-09-23 |
| 71. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
57.49 |
0.8810 |
0.0606 |
282 |
1 |
57.49 |
2012-12-17 |
| 72. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
56.97 |
0.9678 |
-0.0004 |
445 |
2 |
53.57 |
2012-12-19 |
| 73. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
56.65 |
0.9376 |
0.0251 |
360 |
1 |
56.65 |
2013-09-23 |
| 74. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
56.49 |
0.8670 |
0.0626 |
318 |
2 |
53.58 |
2012-12-17 |
| 75. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
56.37 |
1.0596 |
-0.1395 |
239 |
1 |
56.37 |
2013-02-16 |
| 76. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
56.32 |
0.9699 |
-0.0491 |
269 |
1 |
56.32 |
2012-12-19 |
| 77. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
55.83 |
0.9312 |
0.0329 |
320 |
1 |
55.83 |
2013-02-16 |
| 78. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
55.58 |
0.9597 |
-0.0463 |
347 |
1 |
55.58 |
2012-12-14 |
| 79. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
55.07 |
1.0261 |
-0.1274 |
273 |
1 |
55.07 |
2012-12-17 |
| 80. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
55.06 |
0.8947 |
0.0112 |
366 |
1 |
55.06 |
2012-12-15 |
| 81. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
55.02 |
1.0083 |
-0.0639 |
273 |
1 |
55.02 |
2012-12-22 |
| 82. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
54.68 |
0.9841 |
-0.0857 |
334 |
1 |
54.68 |
2012-12-15 |
| 83. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
54.58 |
0.9398 |
-0.0375 |
419 |
1 |
54.58 |
2012-12-15 |
| 84. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
54.54 |
0.9371 |
-0.0060 |
318 |
1 |
54.54 |
2012-12-19 |
| 85. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
54.31 |
0.9109 |
-0.0196 |
401 |
1 |
54.31 |
2012-12-17 |
| 86. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
54.24 |
1.0154 |
-0.0785 |
351 |
1 |
54.24 |
2012-12-17 |
| 87. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
53.81 |
0.7389 |
0.1427 |
145 |
1 |
53.81 |
2012-12-14 |
| 88. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
53.62 |
0.9910 |
-0.1121 |
295 |
1 |
53.62 |
2012-12-15 |
| 89. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
53.06 |
0.9546 |
-0.0559 |
198 |
1 |
53.06 |
2013-09-23 |
| 90. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
52.72 |
0.9814 |
-0.0800 |
364 |
1 |
52.72 |
2012-12-15 |
| 91. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
51.74 |
0.9509 |
-0.0671 |
225 |
1 |
51.74 |
2012-12-17 |
| 92. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
51.53 |
0.9176 |
-0.0417 |
267 |
1 |
51.53 |
2012-12-15 |
| 93. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
50.93 |
0.8022 |
0.0327 |
215 |
1 |
50.93 |
2012-12-14 |
| 94. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
50.33 |
0.9097 |
-0.0456 |
464 |
1 |
50.33 |
2012-12-14 |
| 95. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
49.64 |
0.8553 |
-0.0495 |
174 |
2 |
48.26 |
2012-12-22 |
| 96. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
49.49 |
0.8961 |
-0.0912 |
189 |
1 |
49.49 |
2012-12-15 |
| 97. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
49.22 |
1.0169 |
-0.1744 |
346 |
1 |
49.22 |
2012-12-15 |
| 98. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
48.23 |
1.0788 |
-0.2971 |
171 |
1 |
48.23 |
2013-02-16 |
| 99. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
47.65 |
0.9365 |
-0.1572 |
248 |
1 |
47.65 |
2012-12-22 |
| 100. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
45.92 |
0.9212 |
-0.1690 |
323 |
1 |
45.92 |
2012-12-17 |
| 101. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
45.02 |
0.9908 |
-0.2106 |
342 |
1 |
45.02 |
2012-12-15 |
| 102. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
42.86 |
0.7876 |
-0.0867 |
316 |
1 |
42.86 |
2012-12-14 |