| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
40.77 |
1.0515 |
0.1903 |
250 |
2 |
38.69 |
2014-04-11 |
| 2. |
You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna... |
40.76 |
0.9126 |
0.3226 |
96 |
1 |
40.76 |
2014-04-11 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
40.25 |
1.0714 |
0.1474 |
129 |
1 |
40.25 |
2014-04-11 |
| 4. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
40.00 |
0.9260 |
0.3044 |
243 |
1 |
40.00 |
2014-04-11 |
| 5. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
39.39 |
0.9320 |
0.2619 |
84 |
1 |
39.39 |
2014-04-10 |
| 6. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
38.90 |
1.0799 |
0.1025 |
243 |
1 |
38.90 |
2014-04-11 |
| 7. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
38.82 |
1.0515 |
0.1243 |
166 |
1 |
38.82 |
2014-04-11 |
| 8. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
38.08 |
0.9263 |
0.2380 |
188 |
1 |
38.08 |
2014-04-10 |
| 9. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
37.99 |
1.0598 |
0.0924 |
196 |
1 |
37.99 |
2014-04-11 |
| 10. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
37.98 |
0.8841 |
0.2802 |
194 |
1 |
37.98 |
2014-04-11 |
| 11. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
37.82 |
0.8506 |
0.2980 |
132 |
2 |
37.04 |
2014-04-11 |
| 12. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
37.67 |
0.9239 |
0.2309 |
193 |
1 |
37.67 |
2014-04-11 |
| 13. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
37.55 |
1.0201 |
0.1176 |
172 |
2 |
34.61 |
2014-04-11 |
| 14. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
37.31 |
0.9350 |
0.2029 |
195 |
1 |
37.31 |
2014-04-11 |
| 15. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
36.70 |
0.8152 |
0.3033 |
163 |
1 |
36.70 |
2014-04-10 |
| 16. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
36.56 |
0.9559 |
0.1608 |
195 |
1 |
36.56 |
2014-04-10 |
| 17. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
36.48 |
0.9866 |
0.1212 |
218 |
2 |
33.30 |
2014-04-10 |
| 18. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
36.42 |
1.0033 |
0.0997 |
189 |
1 |
36.42 |
2014-04-11 |
| 19. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
36.35 |
1.0696 |
0.0344 |
226 |
2 |
33.38 |
2014-04-11 |
| 20. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
36.19 |
1.0496 |
0.0523 |
314 |
1 |
36.19 |
2014-04-11 |
| 21. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
36.12 |
0.9196 |
0.1825 |
148 |
1 |
36.12 |
2014-04-10 |
| 22. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
35.98 |
1.0214 |
0.1172 |
281 |
2 |
32.48 |
2014-04-11 |
| 23. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
35.95 |
0.8906 |
0.2089 |
238 |
1 |
35.95 |
2014-04-11 |
| 24. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
35.92 |
1.0297 |
0.0633 |
249 |
1 |
35.92 |
2014-04-11 |
| 25. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
35.73 |
1.0099 |
0.0756 |
207 |
2 |
34.19 |
2014-04-11 |
| 26. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
35.73 |
1.1296 |
-0.0121 |
252 |
1 |
35.73 |
2014-04-10 |
| 27. |
When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped... |
35.29 |
0.8297 |
0.2337 |
103 |
1 |
35.29 |
2014-04-10 |
| 28. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
35.26 |
1.0577 |
0.0127 |
247 |
1 |
35.26 |
2014-04-10 |
| 29. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
35.26 |
1.0993 |
-0.0275 |
265 |
1 |
35.26 |
2014-04-11 |
| 30. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
35.25 |
0.9673 |
0.1456 |
232 |
2 |
32.68 |
2014-04-11 |
| 31. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
34.74 |
0.9430 |
0.1178 |
297 |
1 |
34.74 |
2014-04-10 |
| 32. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
34.66 |
1.0883 |
-0.0008 |
303 |
1 |
34.66 |
2014-04-11 |
| 33. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
34.54 |
0.8770 |
0.1779 |
300 |
1 |
34.54 |
2014-04-11 |
| 34. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
34.53 |
0.8628 |
0.1852 |
196 |
1 |
34.53 |
2014-04-11 |
| 35. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
34.23 |
1.0462 |
-0.0101 |
184 |
1 |
34.23 |
2014-04-11 |
| 36. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
34.21 |
0.9786 |
0.0624 |
235 |
1 |
34.21 |
2014-04-11 |
| 37. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
34.11 |
0.9912 |
0.0742 |
237 |
1 |
34.11 |
2014-04-11 |
| 38. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
34.05 |
0.8788 |
0.1543 |
134 |
1 |
34.05 |
2014-04-11 |
| 39. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
34.05 |
0.9466 |
0.0845 |
107 |
1 |
34.05 |
2014-04-11 |
| 40. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
33.90 |
0.9665 |
0.1148 |
326 |
1 |
33.90 |
2014-04-11 |
| 41. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
33.86 |
1.0131 |
0.0138 |
225 |
1 |
33.86 |
2014-04-11 |
| 42. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
33.82 |
0.9697 |
0.0644 |
266 |
1 |
33.82 |
2014-04-11 |
| 43. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
33.79 |
0.8910 |
0.1393 |
150 |
3 |
31.72 |
2014-04-11 |
| 44. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
33.57 |
0.9986 |
0.0238 |
283 |
1 |
33.57 |
2014-04-11 |
| 45. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
33.43 |
0.9171 |
0.1007 |
165 |
2 |
32.12 |
2014-04-11 |
| 46. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
33.41 |
1.0419 |
-0.0250 |
261 |
1 |
33.41 |
2014-04-10 |
| 47. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
33.32 |
0.8968 |
0.1148 |
186 |
1 |
33.32 |
2014-04-10 |
| 48. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
33.31 |
0.8810 |
0.1336 |
282 |
1 |
33.31 |
2014-04-11 |
| 49. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
33.29 |
0.8615 |
0.1518 |
110 |
1 |
33.29 |
2014-04-11 |
| 50. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
33.21 |
0.8442 |
0.1705 |
265 |
1 |
33.21 |
2014-04-11 |
| 51. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
33.15 |
0.8915 |
0.1163 |
188 |
1 |
33.15 |
2014-04-10 |
| 52. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
33.14 |
1.0109 |
-0.0015 |
276 |
2 |
32.17 |
2014-04-11 |
| 53. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
33.10 |
1.0038 |
0.0338 |
237 |
1 |
33.10 |
2014-04-11 |
| 54. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
33.09 |
1.0365 |
0.0004 |
162 |
2 |
33.06 |
2014-04-10 |
| 55. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
33.09 |
1.0711 |
-0.0692 |
213 |
1 |
33.09 |
2014-04-10 |
| 56. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
33.01 |
1.0232 |
0.0273 |
350 |
1 |
33.01 |
2014-04-11 |
| 57. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
32.96 |
0.9023 |
0.1435 |
231 |
1 |
32.96 |
2014-04-11 |
| 58. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
32.93 |
1.1016 |
-0.0994 |
233 |
1 |
32.93 |
2014-04-11 |
| 59. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
32.65 |
1.1215 |
-0.1040 |
200 |
1 |
32.65 |
2014-04-10 |
| 60. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
32.65 |
0.8867 |
0.1127 |
163 |
1 |
32.65 |
2014-04-10 |
| 61. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
32.44 |
0.9614 |
0.0286 |
292 |
1 |
32.44 |
2014-04-11 |
| 62. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
32.42 |
0.8105 |
0.1716 |
204 |
1 |
32.42 |
2014-04-10 |
| 63. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
32.37 |
0.9251 |
0.0647 |
177 |
1 |
32.37 |
2014-04-10 |
| 64. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
32.36 |
0.9368 |
0.0482 |
173 |
1 |
32.36 |
2014-04-11 |
| 65. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.33 |
0.9286 |
0.0540 |
194 |
2 |
31.20 |
2014-04-11 |
| 66. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
32.10 |
0.9670 |
0.0516 |
307 |
1 |
32.10 |
2014-04-11 |
| 67. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
32.09 |
0.9612 |
0.0150 |
256 |
1 |
32.09 |
2014-04-11 |
| 68. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
32.05 |
0.9786 |
-0.0088 |
193 |
1 |
32.05 |
2014-04-11 |
| 69. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
32.04 |
1.0528 |
-0.0831 |
201 |
1 |
32.04 |
2014-04-10 |
| 70. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
32.03 |
0.9089 |
0.0693 |
342 |
1 |
32.03 |
2014-04-10 |
| 71. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
31.93 |
0.9567 |
0.0568 |
184 |
1 |
31.93 |
2014-04-10 |
| 72. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
31.71 |
0.7708 |
0.1991 |
207 |
1 |
31.71 |
2014-04-10 |
| 73. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
31.68 |
0.9063 |
0.0653 |
239 |
1 |
31.68 |
2014-04-11 |
| 74. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
31.60 |
0.9016 |
0.0672 |
192 |
1 |
31.60 |
2014-04-10 |
| 75. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
31.54 |
1.0725 |
-0.0875 |
233 |
1 |
31.54 |
2014-04-11 |
| 76. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
31.52 |
1.0390 |
-0.0842 |
205 |
1 |
31.52 |
2014-04-10 |
| 77. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
31.51 |
0.9128 |
0.0510 |
133 |
1 |
31.51 |
2014-04-11 |
| 78. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
31.38 |
0.9884 |
-0.0298 |
262 |
1 |
31.38 |
2014-04-11 |
| 79. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
31.31 |
0.8188 |
0.1345 |
183 |
1 |
31.31 |
2014-04-11 |
| 80. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
31.30 |
1.0567 |
-0.1043 |
303 |
1 |
31.30 |
2014-04-11 |
| 81. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. Witho... |
31.30 |
0.8270 |
0.1250 |
117 |
1 |
31.30 |
2014-04-10 |
| 82. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
31.27 |
1.0138 |
-0.0633 |
231 |
1 |
31.27 |
2014-04-11 |
| 83. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
31.07 |
0.8077 |
0.1352 |
167 |
1 |
31.07 |
2014-04-10 |
| 84. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
30.92 |
1.0270 |
-0.0509 |
255 |
1 |
30.92 |
2014-04-11 |
| 85. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
30.84 |
0.8890 |
0.0451 |
199 |
1 |
30.84 |
2014-04-11 |
| 86. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
30.76 |
0.9578 |
-0.0231 |
281 |
1 |
30.76 |
2014-04-11 |
| 87. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
30.75 |
1.0346 |
-0.0577 |
244 |
1 |
30.75 |
2014-04-10 |
| 88. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
30.63 |
0.9221 |
0.0076 |
244 |
1 |
30.63 |
2014-04-10 |
| 89. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
30.61 |
0.9598 |
-0.0218 |
220 |
1 |
30.61 |
2014-04-11 |
| 90. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
30.57 |
0.9697 |
-0.0402 |
249 |
1 |
30.57 |
2014-04-10 |
| 91. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
30.49 |
0.8971 |
0.0351 |
266 |
1 |
30.49 |
2014-04-11 |
| 92. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.46 |
1.0334 |
-0.1139 |
131 |
1 |
30.46 |
2014-04-11 |
| 93. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
30.34 |
0.9907 |
-0.0700 |
211 |
1 |
30.34 |
2014-04-10 |
| 94. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
30.27 |
1.0117 |
-0.0468 |
297 |
1 |
30.27 |
2014-04-11 |
| 95. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
30.24 |
0.9097 |
0.0098 |
153 |
1 |
30.24 |
2014-04-11 |
| 96. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
30.15 |
1.0211 |
-0.0740 |
213 |
1 |
30.15 |
2014-04-11 |
| 97. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
30.08 |
0.8826 |
0.0330 |
296 |
1 |
30.08 |
2014-04-11 |
| 98. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
29.50 |
1.0396 |
-0.1504 |
149 |
1 |
29.50 |
2014-04-10 |
| 99. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
29.38 |
0.8876 |
0.0034 |
118 |
1 |
29.38 |
2014-04-10 |
| 100. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
29.33 |
0.9873 |
-0.0989 |
155 |
1 |
29.33 |
2014-04-10 |
| 101. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
29.31 |
0.9266 |
-0.0360 |
267 |
1 |
29.31 |
2014-04-10 |
| 102. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
29.31 |
0.8826 |
0.0102 |
241 |
1 |
29.31 |
2014-04-10 |
| 103. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
29.22 |
1.0619 |
-0.1706 |
354 |
1 |
29.22 |
2014-04-11 |
| 104. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
29.16 |
1.0124 |
-0.1289 |
204 |
1 |
29.16 |
2014-04-11 |
| 105. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
29.16 |
0.9938 |
-0.1071 |
339 |
1 |
29.16 |
2014-04-11 |
| 106. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
29.04 |
0.9941 |
-0.1143 |
217 |
1 |
29.04 |
2014-04-10 |
| 107. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
28.88 |
0.9843 |
-0.1120 |
234 |
1 |
28.88 |
2014-04-10 |
| 108. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
28.82 |
1.0669 |
-0.1592 |
286 |
1 |
28.82 |
2014-04-11 |
| 109. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
28.70 |
0.9844 |
-0.1079 |
293 |
1 |
28.70 |
2014-04-10 |
| 110. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
28.68 |
0.8773 |
-0.0027 |
205 |
1 |
28.68 |
2014-04-11 |
| 111. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
28.37 |
0.8731 |
-0.0046 |
199 |
1 |
28.37 |
2014-04-11 |
| 112. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
28.37 |
0.8382 |
0.0238 |
268 |
1 |
28.37 |
2014-04-11 |
| 113. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
28.27 |
0.9430 |
-0.0874 |
227 |
1 |
28.27 |
2014-04-10 |
| 114. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
28.17 |
0.9965 |
-0.1459 |
168 |
1 |
28.17 |
2014-04-10 |
| 115. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
28.13 |
0.8854 |
-0.0320 |
116 |
1 |
28.13 |
2014-04-10 |
| 116. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
27.55 |
0.8958 |
-0.0549 |
322 |
1 |
27.55 |
2014-04-10 |
| 117. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
27.26 |
0.9226 |
-0.0915 |
177 |
1 |
27.26 |
2014-04-10 |
| 118. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
26.11 |
1.0666 |
-0.2746 |
297 |
1 |
26.11 |
2014-04-10 |
| 119. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
26.09 |
0.9710 |
-0.1862 |
173 |
1 |
26.09 |
2014-04-10 |
| 120. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
25.56 |
0.8916 |
-0.1164 |
216 |
1 |
25.56 |
2014-04-11 |
| 121. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
25.53 |
0.9769 |
-0.2050 |
263 |
1 |
25.53 |
2014-04-10 |
| 122. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
25.17 |
0.8793 |
-0.1148 |
157 |
1 |
25.17 |
2014-04-10 |
| 123. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
23.08 |
0.9682 |
-0.2716 |
143 |
1 |
23.08 |
2014-04-10 |
| 124. |
When the mind is brought to rest and not allowed to wander, ... |
12.14 |
0.8650 |
-0.5073 |
162 |
1 |
12.14 |
2014-04-10 |