| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
97.25 |
0.9966 |
0.6692 |
377 |
1 |
97.25 |
2011-02-04 |
| 2. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
97.03 |
0.9801 |
0.6745 |
289 |
1 |
97.03 |
2011-02-04 |
| 3. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
96.30 |
0.9873 |
0.6538 |
274 |
1 |
96.30 |
2011-02-04 |
| 4. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
96.26 |
1.0279 |
0.6081 |
172 |
1 |
96.26 |
2011-02-04 |
| 5. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
90.61 |
0.9927 |
0.5529 |
276 |
1 |
90.61 |
2011-02-04 |
| 6. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
73.79 |
1.0264 |
0.2265 |
191 |
1 |
73.79 |
2011-02-04 |
| 7. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
71.97 |
0.9829 |
0.2423 |
229 |
1 |
71.97 |
2011-01-03 |
| 8. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
71.54 |
1.0969 |
0.1238 |
303 |
2 |
69.32 |
2011-01-03 |
| 9. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
71.25 |
1.1198 |
0.0928 |
247 |
1 |
71.25 |
2010-12-28 |
| 10. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
70.28 |
1.0601 |
0.1337 |
256 |
4 |
60.46 |
2012-09-11 |
| 11. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
69.41 |
0.9791 |
0.1964 |
154 |
2 |
64.63 |
2011-01-02 |
| 12. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
69.33 |
0.9780 |
0.1965 |
173 |
1 |
69.33 |
2010-12-28 |
| 13. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
68.97 |
1.0414 |
0.1322 |
234 |
1 |
68.97 |
2010-01-05 |
| 14. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
68.93 |
1.0638 |
0.1081 |
247 |
1 |
68.93 |
2011-01-02 |
| 15. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
67.77 |
1.1093 |
0.0391 |
220 |
1 |
67.77 |
2011-01-02 |
| 16. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
67.33 |
0.9980 |
0.1577 |
341 |
1 |
67.33 |
2011-01-03 |
| 17. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
66.78 |
1.0640 |
0.0788 |
210 |
2 |
65.52 |
2012-09-01 |
| 18. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
66.58 |
1.0426 |
0.0869 |
131 |
1 |
66.58 |
2011-01-04 |
| 19. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
66.49 |
1.0585 |
0.0765 |
226 |
1 |
66.49 |
2010-12-28 |
| 20. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
66.43 |
1.0042 |
0.1231 |
168 |
1 |
66.43 |
2009-05-17 |
| 21. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
65.43 |
0.9928 |
0.1205 |
293 |
1 |
65.43 |
2009-05-17 |
| 22. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
65.42 |
1.0667 |
0.0576 |
308 |
2 |
64.28 |
2011-01-02 |
| 23. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
64.82 |
1.0128 |
0.0975 |
369 |
1 |
64.82 |
2011-01-03 |
| 24. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
64.01 |
1.0881 |
-0.0024 |
210 |
1 |
64.01 |
2011-01-01 |
| 25. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
63.34 |
0.9927 |
0.0823 |
234 |
1 |
63.34 |
2011-01-04 |
| 26. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
63.03 |
0.9842 |
0.0908 |
335 |
2 |
55.54 |
2011-01-02 |
| 27. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
62.79 |
0.9952 |
0.0760 |
220 |
1 |
62.79 |
2011-01-02 |
| 28. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
62.26 |
0.9989 |
0.0680 |
282 |
1 |
62.26 |
2011-01-03 |
| 29. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
61.93 |
1.0540 |
-0.0050 |
184 |
2 |
60.82 |
2011-01-02 |
| 30. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
61.79 |
1.0607 |
-0.0063 |
357 |
1 |
61.79 |
2011-01-01 |
| 31. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
61.74 |
1.0199 |
0.0270 |
225 |
2 |
61.00 |
2011-01-02 |
| 32. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
61.39 |
0.9258 |
0.1236 |
184 |
2 |
55.94 |
2011-01-04 |
| 33. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
61.22 |
1.0320 |
0.0159 |
401 |
1 |
61.22 |
2011-01-03 |
| 34. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
61.17 |
1.0686 |
-0.0240 |
354 |
1 |
61.17 |
2011-01-03 |
| 35. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
61.15 |
1.0461 |
-0.0033 |
318 |
1 |
61.15 |
2010-12-28 |
| 36. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
61.12 |
1.0018 |
0.0387 |
246 |
1 |
61.12 |
2009-05-17 |
| 37. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
61.04 |
1.0067 |
0.0458 |
422 |
1 |
61.04 |
2011-01-03 |
| 38. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
60.99 |
1.0419 |
-0.0009 |
341 |
2 |
58.35 |
2010-12-28 |
| 39. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
60.11 |
1.0873 |
-0.0674 |
243 |
1 |
60.11 |
2010-12-28 |
| 40. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
60.03 |
0.9931 |
0.0246 |
218 |
2 |
56.76 |
2011-01-03 |
| 41. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
59.91 |
1.0165 |
0.0021 |
316 |
1 |
59.91 |
2011-01-04 |
| 42. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
59.75 |
1.0026 |
0.0185 |
200 |
2 |
58.99 |
2010-12-28 |
| 43. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
59.71 |
0.9849 |
0.0323 |
337 |
2 |
57.41 |
2010-12-28 |
| 44. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
59.45 |
1.0334 |
-0.0223 |
261 |
1 |
59.45 |
2010-12-25 |
| 45. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
59.22 |
1.1086 |
-0.1006 |
233 |
1 |
59.22 |
2011-01-03 |
| 46. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
59.08 |
0.9857 |
0.0254 |
268 |
1 |
59.08 |
2011-01-02 |
| 47. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
58.58 |
0.9380 |
0.0572 |
284 |
2 |
56.00 |
2011-01-02 |
| 48. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
58.28 |
1.0028 |
-0.0123 |
259 |
1 |
58.28 |
2009-05-17 |
| 49. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
58.17 |
1.0639 |
-0.0732 |
303 |
1 |
58.17 |
2010-12-25 |
| 50. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
58.16 |
1.0387 |
-0.0450 |
333 |
2 |
57.59 |
2012-11-05 |
| 51. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
57.80 |
0.9408 |
0.0372 |
177 |
1 |
57.80 |
2011-01-02 |
| 52. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
57.77 |
1.0800 |
-0.1001 |
213 |
2 |
57.48 |
2011-01-01 |
| 53. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
57.45 |
0.9604 |
0.0148 |
285 |
1 |
57.45 |
2010-12-28 |
| 54. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
57.45 |
0.9597 |
0.0178 |
251 |
1 |
57.45 |
2010-12-28 |
| 55. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
57.32 |
0.9368 |
0.0316 |
176 |
1 |
57.32 |
2011-01-02 |
| 56. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
57.20 |
0.9530 |
0.0165 |
193 |
1 |
57.20 |
2010-12-25 |
| 57. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
56.98 |
0.9885 |
-0.0125 |
469 |
1 |
56.98 |
2011-01-02 |
| 58. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
56.74 |
1.0479 |
-0.0842 |
205 |
1 |
56.74 |
2010-12-28 |
| 59. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
56.73 |
1.0461 |
-0.0764 |
286 |
1 |
56.73 |
2010-12-28 |
| 60. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
56.65 |
1.0033 |
-0.0394 |
203 |
1 |
56.65 |
2010-12-28 |
| 61. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
56.25 |
1.0270 |
-0.0696 |
303 |
1 |
56.25 |
2010-01-05 |
| 62. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
56.02 |
1.0404 |
-0.0826 |
406 |
1 |
56.02 |
2009-04-10 |
| 63. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
55.98 |
0.9143 |
0.0389 |
300 |
1 |
55.98 |
2010-01-05 |
| 64. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
55.81 |
1.0125 |
-0.0648 |
232 |
1 |
55.81 |
2010-12-25 |
| 65. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
55.74 |
0.9676 |
-0.0145 |
247 |
1 |
55.74 |
2011-01-03 |
| 66. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
55.71 |
1.0291 |
-0.0837 |
240 |
1 |
55.71 |
2012-09-02 |
| 67. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
55.47 |
0.9451 |
0.0062 |
419 |
1 |
55.47 |
2011-01-02 |
| 68. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
55.16 |
0.9727 |
-0.0279 |
442 |
1 |
55.16 |
2011-05-29 |
| 69. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
55.08 |
0.9357 |
-0.0012 |
204 |
1 |
55.08 |
2011-05-26 |
| 70. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
54.63 |
0.9346 |
-0.0085 |
211 |
1 |
54.63 |
2009-04-10 |
| 71. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
54.28 |
1.0498 |
-0.1256 |
261 |
1 |
54.28 |
2011-01-02 |
| 72. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
54.10 |
0.9149 |
0.0038 |
153 |
1 |
54.10 |
2011-01-02 |
| 73. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
54.02 |
0.9404 |
-0.0123 |
383 |
1 |
54.02 |
2010-12-25 |
| 74. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
53.97 |
1.0095 |
-0.0932 |
211 |
1 |
53.97 |
2011-01-02 |
| 75. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
53.91 |
1.0059 |
-0.0880 |
283 |
1 |
53.91 |
2012-09-02 |
| 76. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
53.64 |
1.0060 |
-0.0926 |
260 |
1 |
53.64 |
2011-01-02 |
| 77. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
53.43 |
0.9880 |
-0.0837 |
199 |
1 |
53.43 |
2011-01-02 |
| 78. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
53.43 |
1.0495 |
-0.1415 |
323 |
1 |
53.43 |
2010-01-05 |
| 79. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
52.90 |
0.9194 |
-0.0095 |
360 |
1 |
52.90 |
2010-12-25 |
| 80. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
52.69 |
0.8778 |
0.0198 |
285 |
1 |
52.69 |
2010-01-05 |
| 81. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
52.38 |
1.0115 |
-0.1262 |
189 |
1 |
52.38 |
2011-01-04 |
| 82. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
52.07 |
1.0194 |
-0.1363 |
224 |
1 |
52.07 |
2010-12-16 |
| 83. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
52.05 |
0.9206 |
-0.0352 |
317 |
1 |
52.05 |
2010-12-28 |
| 84. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
51.99 |
0.9873 |
-0.0930 |
396 |
1 |
51.99 |
2010-01-05 |
| 85. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
51.99 |
0.8986 |
-0.0142 |
216 |
2 |
51.69 |
2011-01-04 |
| 86. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
51.89 |
0.9673 |
-0.0830 |
292 |
1 |
51.89 |
2009-05-17 |
| 87. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
51.87 |
0.8966 |
-0.0155 |
366 |
1 |
51.87 |
2010-12-28 |
| 88. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
51.82 |
0.9757 |
-0.0981 |
176 |
1 |
51.82 |
2011-01-02 |
| 89. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
51.76 |
0.9123 |
-0.0231 |
351 |
1 |
51.76 |
2011-01-02 |
| 90. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
50.85 |
0.9841 |
-0.1083 |
325 |
1 |
50.85 |
2011-01-02 |
| 91. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
50.78 |
0.8936 |
-0.0316 |
346 |
1 |
50.78 |
2012-09-02 |
| 92. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
50.30 |
0.9909 |
-0.1314 |
293 |
1 |
50.30 |
2009-03-18 |
| 93. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.17 |
0.9228 |
-0.0656 |
305 |
1 |
50.17 |
2011-01-01 |
| 94. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
50.11 |
0.9519 |
-0.0963 |
323 |
1 |
50.11 |
2009-04-10 |
| 95. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
50.10 |
0.9756 |
-0.1248 |
223 |
1 |
50.10 |
2011-01-04 |
| 96. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
50.01 |
0.9583 |
-0.1079 |
237 |
1 |
50.01 |
2009-05-17 |
| 97. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
49.57 |
0.9650 |
-0.1199 |
347 |
1 |
49.57 |
2011-01-02 |
| 98. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
49.24 |
0.9538 |
-0.1172 |
276 |
1 |
49.24 |
2009-05-17 |
| 99. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
48.56 |
0.9260 |
-0.0979 |
348 |
1 |
48.56 |
2009-04-10 |
| 100. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
48.36 |
1.0267 |
-0.2019 |
261 |
1 |
48.36 |
2009-04-10 |
| 101. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
48.34 |
0.9271 |
-0.1033 |
323 |
1 |
48.34 |
2009-03-18 |
| 102. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
47.97 |
0.9922 |
-0.1766 |
264 |
1 |
47.97 |
2009-03-26 |
| 103. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
47.56 |
0.9515 |
-0.1334 |
334 |
1 |
47.56 |
2010-12-25 |
| 104. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
47.35 |
0.9698 |
-0.1604 |
389 |
1 |
47.35 |
2010-01-05 |
| 105. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
46.62 |
1.0462 |
-0.2513 |
340 |
1 |
46.62 |
2011-01-04 |
| 106. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
46.38 |
1.0004 |
-0.2100 |
373 |
1 |
46.38 |
2011-01-02 |
| 107. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
45.16 |
0.9621 |
-0.1928 |
212 |
1 |
45.16 |
2009-03-18 |
| 108. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
45.06 |
1.0103 |
-0.2507 |
209 |
1 |
45.06 |
2010-12-28 |
| 109. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
44.65 |
0.9948 |
-0.2377 |
233 |
1 |
44.65 |
2009-05-17 |
| 110. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
44.63 |
0.8880 |
-0.1301 |
296 |
1 |
44.63 |
2011-01-02 |
| 111. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
44.36 |
0.9594 |
-0.2079 |
258 |
1 |
44.36 |
2011-01-02 |
| 112. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
42.32 |
0.9797 |
-0.2572 |
269 |
2 |
40.58 |
2011-01-02 |
| 113. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
41.04 |
0.9974 |
-0.3049 |
163 |
1 |
41.04 |
2011-01-02 |
| 114. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
38.04 |
0.8624 |
-0.2221 |
174 |
1 |
38.04 |
2009-04-10 |