| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
120.25 |
1.0787 |
0.1422 |
237 |
1 |
120.25 |
2011-02-02 |
| 2. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
119.66 |
1.0441 |
0.1736 |
252 |
2 |
100.43 |
2011-02-02 |
| 3. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
118.84 |
1.0595 |
0.1509 |
379 |
1 |
118.84 |
2011-02-01 |
| 4. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
118.06 |
0.9936 |
0.2059 |
311 |
1 |
118.06 |
2011-02-01 |
| 5. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
117.46 |
1.0462 |
0.1413 |
184 |
1 |
117.46 |
2011-02-01 |
| 6. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
117.25 |
0.9365 |
0.2563 |
248 |
3 |
99.16 |
2011-02-02 |
| 7. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
116.51 |
1.0577 |
0.1226 |
247 |
1 |
116.51 |
2011-02-01 |
| 8. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
115.59 |
1.0666 |
0.1078 |
297 |
1 |
115.59 |
2011-01-30 |
| 9. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
114.16 |
1.0417 |
0.1155 |
253 |
1 |
114.16 |
2011-01-31 |
| 10. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
112.70 |
1.0444 |
0.0937 |
197 |
2 |
105.08 |
2011-01-31 |
| 11. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
112.56 |
1.0668 |
0.0790 |
350 |
1 |
112.56 |
2011-02-01 |
| 12. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
111.21 |
1.0483 |
0.0781 |
227 |
1 |
111.21 |
2011-01-31 |
| 13. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
110.70 |
0.9966 |
0.1271 |
259 |
1 |
110.70 |
2011-02-02 |
| 14. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
110.66 |
1.0944 |
0.0742 |
308 |
1 |
110.66 |
2011-02-02 |
| 15. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
110.28 |
1.0004 |
0.1133 |
212 |
1 |
110.28 |
2011-02-02 |
| 16. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
110.03 |
0.9734 |
0.1436 |
289 |
1 |
110.03 |
2011-01-31 |
| 17. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
109.79 |
0.9763 |
0.1380 |
289 |
2 |
99.10 |
2011-04-16 |
| 18. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
109.37 |
0.9941 |
0.1140 |
217 |
1 |
109.37 |
2011-01-30 |
| 19. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
108.91 |
1.1068 |
0.0393 |
393 |
1 |
108.91 |
2011-01-31 |
| 20. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
108.53 |
1.0679 |
0.0543 |
177 |
2 |
103.70 |
2011-02-01 |
| 21. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
107.66 |
1.0725 |
0.0462 |
233 |
1 |
107.66 |
2011-01-30 |
| 22. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
107.48 |
1.0796 |
0.0067 |
129 |
1 |
107.48 |
2011-01-31 |
| 23. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
107.40 |
1.0486 |
0.0425 |
289 |
1 |
107.40 |
2011-02-01 |
| 24. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
107.37 |
0.9922 |
0.1389 |
341 |
1 |
107.37 |
2011-01-31 |
| 25. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
107.36 |
0.9710 |
0.1124 |
173 |
1 |
107.36 |
2011-02-01 |
| 26. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
105.64 |
1.0168 |
0.0568 |
271 |
1 |
105.64 |
2011-01-31 |
| 27. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
105.58 |
0.9792 |
0.1308 |
265 |
1 |
105.58 |
2011-01-30 |
| 28. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
105.26 |
1.0482 |
0.0439 |
487 |
1 |
105.26 |
2011-02-01 |
| 29. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
105.02 |
1.0398 |
0.0155 |
110 |
1 |
105.02 |
2011-02-02 |
| 30. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
104.61 |
1.0463 |
0.0106 |
182 |
1 |
104.61 |
2011-01-30 |
| 31. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
104.40 |
1.0073 |
0.0601 |
369 |
1 |
104.40 |
2011-02-01 |
| 32. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
104.34 |
1.0696 |
-0.0143 |
226 |
1 |
104.34 |
2011-01-30 |
| 33. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
103.75 |
0.9811 |
0.0744 |
272 |
1 |
103.75 |
2011-01-30 |
| 34. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
103.66 |
1.0213 |
0.0273 |
240 |
1 |
103.66 |
2011-02-02 |
| 35. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
103.32 |
0.9619 |
0.0917 |
393 |
1 |
103.32 |
2011-01-31 |
| 36. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
103.07 |
1.1016 |
-0.0557 |
233 |
1 |
103.07 |
2011-01-30 |
| 37. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
103.05 |
1.0349 |
0.0100 |
234 |
1 |
103.05 |
2011-01-31 |
| 38. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
103.03 |
0.9798 |
0.0599 |
199 |
3 |
91.70 |
2011-02-03 |
| 39. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
102.78 |
1.0165 |
0.0302 |
392 |
1 |
102.78 |
2011-01-30 |
| 40. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
102.62 |
1.0203 |
0.0243 |
261 |
1 |
102.62 |
2011-01-30 |
| 41. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
102.17 |
1.0031 |
0.0669 |
304 |
2 |
93.42 |
2011-01-31 |
| 42. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
102.14 |
0.8602 |
0.1738 |
206 |
2 |
99.30 |
2011-02-02 |
| 43. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
101.75 |
1.0025 |
0.0306 |
336 |
1 |
101.75 |
2011-02-02 |
| 44. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
101.10 |
1.0389 |
-0.0117 |
318 |
1 |
101.10 |
2011-02-01 |
| 45. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
101.10 |
1.0621 |
-0.0170 |
263 |
1 |
101.10 |
2011-02-02 |
| 46. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
101.07 |
0.9769 |
0.0462 |
263 |
1 |
101.07 |
2011-02-02 |
| 47. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
100.78 |
1.0261 |
-0.0057 |
273 |
1 |
100.78 |
2011-02-03 |
| 48. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
100.72 |
1.0316 |
-0.0061 |
333 |
1 |
100.72 |
2011-01-30 |
| 49. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
100.41 |
0.9646 |
0.0530 |
264 |
1 |
100.41 |
2011-01-31 |
| 50. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
100.11 |
1.0214 |
-0.0076 |
269 |
1 |
100.11 |
2011-01-30 |
| 51. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
100.08 |
0.9723 |
0.0465 |
364 |
1 |
100.08 |
2011-01-31 |
| 52. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
99.91 |
0.9746 |
0.0671 |
405 |
1 |
99.91 |
2011-02-01 |
| 53. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
99.40 |
1.0284 |
0.0231 |
282 |
1 |
99.40 |
2011-01-31 |
| 54. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
99.18 |
1.0346 |
0.0132 |
244 |
1 |
99.18 |
2011-02-01 |
| 55. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
98.63 |
0.9233 |
0.0686 |
168 |
1 |
98.63 |
2011-02-06 |
| 56. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
98.00 |
0.9509 |
0.0812 |
225 |
1 |
98.00 |
2011-01-30 |
| 57. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
97.76 |
1.0608 |
-0.0362 |
258 |
1 |
97.76 |
2011-01-30 |
| 58. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
97.57 |
1.0561 |
-0.0408 |
430 |
1 |
97.57 |
2011-02-02 |
| 59. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
97.30 |
0.9884 |
-0.0027 |
233 |
1 |
97.30 |
2011-02-01 |
| 60. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
97.14 |
1.0232 |
0.0076 |
350 |
1 |
97.14 |
2011-01-30 |
| 61. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
97.03 |
0.8553 |
0.1233 |
174 |
1 |
97.03 |
2011-01-30 |
| 62. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
96.57 |
0.9570 |
0.0237 |
287 |
2 |
94.78 |
2011-02-02 |
| 63. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
96.40 |
0.9553 |
0.0292 |
430 |
1 |
96.40 |
2011-01-30 |
| 64. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
96.27 |
1.0565 |
-0.0832 |
247 |
1 |
96.27 |
2011-01-31 |
| 65. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
96.22 |
0.9566 |
0.0413 |
576 |
1 |
96.22 |
2011-02-01 |
| 66. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
96.17 |
1.0261 |
-0.0118 |
410 |
1 |
96.17 |
2011-02-01 |
| 67. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
95.50 |
1.0023 |
-0.0362 |
211 |
1 |
95.50 |
2011-01-30 |
| 68. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
95.03 |
0.9064 |
0.0661 |
399 |
1 |
95.03 |
2011-02-02 |
| 69. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
95.03 |
0.9731 |
-0.0224 |
129 |
1 |
95.03 |
2011-01-31 |
| 70. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
94.72 |
1.0797 |
-0.1253 |
210 |
1 |
94.72 |
2011-01-30 |
| 71. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
94.46 |
0.9084 |
0.0508 |
300 |
2 |
92.53 |
2011-01-31 |
| 72. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
94.20 |
0.9670 |
0.0298 |
307 |
1 |
94.20 |
2011-02-01 |
| 73. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
94.12 |
1.0292 |
-0.0766 |
262 |
1 |
94.12 |
2011-02-03 |
| 74. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
93.78 |
1.0763 |
-0.0844 |
367 |
1 |
93.78 |
2011-04-16 |
| 75. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
93.75 |
0.9946 |
-0.0446 |
246 |
1 |
93.75 |
2011-01-30 |
| 76. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
93.68 |
0.8878 |
0.0613 |
346 |
1 |
93.68 |
2011-01-30 |
| 77. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
93.55 |
1.0060 |
-0.0627 |
171 |
1 |
93.55 |
2011-02-01 |
| 78. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
93.50 |
0.9831 |
-0.0276 |
469 |
1 |
93.50 |
2011-01-31 |
| 79. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
93.39 |
0.9863 |
-0.0355 |
339 |
1 |
93.39 |
2011-01-31 |
| 80. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
92.99 |
0.9709 |
0.0124 |
397 |
2 |
85.86 |
2011-02-03 |
| 81. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
92.37 |
0.9698 |
-0.0011 |
397 |
1 |
92.37 |
2011-01-31 |
| 82. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
91.87 |
1.0263 |
-0.0964 |
267 |
1 |
91.87 |
2011-01-30 |
| 83. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
91.32 |
1.0088 |
-0.0450 |
396 |
2 |
84.58 |
2011-02-01 |
| 84. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
90.75 |
1.0368 |
-0.1166 |
276 |
1 |
90.75 |
2011-02-02 |
| 85. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
89.42 |
0.9678 |
-0.0275 |
445 |
1 |
89.42 |
2011-01-31 |
| 86. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
89.40 |
0.9097 |
0.0373 |
464 |
1 |
89.40 |
2011-01-30 |
| 87. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
89.27 |
1.0257 |
-0.1153 |
401 |
1 |
89.27 |
2011-01-30 |
| 88. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
88.77 |
1.1296 |
-0.2016 |
252 |
1 |
88.77 |
2011-02-01 |
| 89. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
88.66 |
1.1014 |
-0.1658 |
273 |
1 |
88.66 |
2011-01-30 |
| 90. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
88.54 |
0.9820 |
-0.0827 |
267 |
1 |
88.54 |
2011-02-01 |
| 91. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
88.44 |
0.8595 |
0.0378 |
242 |
1 |
88.44 |
2011-01-31 |
| 92. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
88.25 |
0.9881 |
-0.0539 |
424 |
1 |
88.25 |
2011-01-30 |
| 93. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
88.15 |
1.0441 |
-0.1103 |
316 |
1 |
88.15 |
2011-01-30 |
| 94. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
87.82 |
0.9109 |
-0.0193 |
401 |
1 |
87.82 |
2011-02-02 |
| 95. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
87.51 |
1.0109 |
-0.0919 |
400 |
1 |
87.51 |
2011-02-02 |
| 96. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
87.05 |
1.0619 |
-0.1771 |
354 |
1 |
87.05 |
2011-01-31 |
| 97. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
86.27 |
0.8775 |
-0.0007 |
443 |
1 |
86.27 |
2011-01-30 |
| 98. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
85.82 |
1.0297 |
-0.1623 |
249 |
1 |
85.82 |
2011-01-30 |
| 99. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
85.45 |
0.9084 |
-0.0396 |
404 |
1 |
85.45 |
2011-02-01 |
| 100. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
85.23 |
0.9546 |
-0.0607 |
198 |
1 |
85.23 |
2011-02-02 |
| 101. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
84.42 |
1.0365 |
-0.1525 |
162 |
1 |
84.42 |
2011-01-31 |
| 102. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
84.36 |
0.9965 |
-0.1426 |
310 |
1 |
84.36 |
2011-01-31 |
| 103. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
84.06 |
0.8022 |
0.0514 |
215 |
1 |
84.06 |
2011-01-30 |
| 104. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
84.04 |
0.9772 |
-0.1304 |
217 |
1 |
84.04 |
2011-02-01 |
| 105. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
83.75 |
0.9279 |
-0.0741 |
317 |
1 |
83.75 |
2011-02-01 |
| 106. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
83.28 |
0.9087 |
-0.0554 |
393 |
1 |
83.28 |
2011-02-02 |
| 107. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
82.59 |
0.8933 |
-0.0515 |
363 |
1 |
82.59 |
2011-02-01 |
| 108. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
81.93 |
1.0173 |
-0.1445 |
268 |
2 |
80.99 |
2011-02-02 |
| 109. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
79.81 |
0.9330 |
-0.1195 |
360 |
1 |
79.81 |
2011-02-03 |
| 110. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
79.69 |
1.0516 |
-0.2465 |
281 |
1 |
79.69 |
2011-02-02 |
| 111. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
77.25 |
0.9693 |
-0.1673 |
360 |
1 |
77.25 |
2011-01-31 |
| 112. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
76.49 |
0.9023 |
-0.0867 |
231 |
1 |
76.49 |
2011-01-30 |
| 113. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
76.37 |
0.8961 |
-0.1280 |
189 |
1 |
76.37 |
2011-01-31 |
| 114. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
75.96 |
0.9364 |
-0.1290 |
351 |
1 |
75.96 |
2011-02-01 |
| 115. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
75.26 |
0.9508 |
-0.1574 |
384 |
1 |
75.26 |
2011-02-02 |
| 116. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
75.15 |
0.9567 |
-0.1555 |
184 |
1 |
75.15 |
2011-01-31 |
| 117. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
73.32 |
0.9904 |
-0.2097 |
203 |
1 |
73.32 |
2011-02-02 |