| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
121.21 |
1.0711 |
0.4094 |
213 |
5 |
90.25 |
2011-07-10 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
120.39 |
1.1016 |
0.3739 |
233 |
4 |
87.27 |
2010-09-05 |
| 3. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
116.17 |
1.0577 |
0.3621 |
247 |
1 |
116.17 |
2011-07-10 |
| 4. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
114.67 |
1.0334 |
0.3648 |
131 |
3 |
102.48 |
2011-07-23 |
| 5. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
110.99 |
1.0797 |
0.2739 |
210 |
1 |
110.99 |
2008-10-07 |
| 6. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
106.44 |
1.0331 |
0.2677 |
234 |
1 |
106.44 |
2009-06-11 |
| 7. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
103.00 |
0.9986 |
0.2624 |
283 |
3 |
91.79 |
2010-09-01 |
| 8. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
100.07 |
0.9912 |
0.2599 |
237 |
1 |
100.07 |
2011-07-23 |
| 9. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
99.40 |
1.0095 |
0.2053 |
316 |
2 |
89.79 |
2009-10-28 |
| 10. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
99.35 |
0.9286 |
0.2857 |
194 |
1 |
99.35 |
2009-10-28 |
| 11. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
98.14 |
1.0516 |
0.1484 |
281 |
1 |
98.14 |
2008-10-07 |
| 12. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
97.47 |
1.0340 |
0.1633 |
406 |
3 |
80.87 |
2009-06-13 |
| 13. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
96.02 |
1.0788 |
0.0898 |
171 |
3 |
93.76 |
2009-10-27 |
| 14. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
95.86 |
0.9772 |
0.1915 |
217 |
2 |
85.75 |
2009-10-26 |
| 15. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
95.73 |
1.0120 |
0.1578 |
290 |
2 |
94.72 |
2010-09-04 |
| 16. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
95.36 |
1.0029 |
0.1567 |
209 |
1 |
95.36 |
2009-09-04 |
| 17. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
95.28 |
0.9566 |
0.2310 |
576 |
1 |
95.28 |
2011-07-23 |
| 18. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
94.71 |
0.9675 |
0.2000 |
383 |
1 |
94.71 |
2011-07-23 |
| 19. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
94.49 |
1.0941 |
0.0923 |
256 |
1 |
94.49 |
2010-04-19 |
| 20. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
94.47 |
1.0125 |
0.1402 |
224 |
1 |
94.47 |
2009-05-07 |
| 21. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
94.38 |
0.9991 |
0.1553 |
225 |
2 |
85.27 |
2011-07-10 |
| 22. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
94.33 |
1.0696 |
0.0802 |
226 |
2 |
92.19 |
2008-10-20 |
| 23. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
93.79 |
0.9461 |
0.1967 |
193 |
1 |
93.79 |
2010-09-01 |
| 24. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
93.63 |
1.0666 |
0.0781 |
297 |
1 |
93.63 |
2009-10-26 |
| 25. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
93.45 |
0.9045 |
0.2382 |
235 |
1 |
93.45 |
2009-10-28 |
| 26. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
93.32 |
0.9865 |
0.1554 |
276 |
1 |
93.32 |
2009-10-26 |
| 27. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
93.12 |
1.0060 |
0.1276 |
171 |
3 |
87.22 |
2009-10-26 |
| 28. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
92.85 |
1.0368 |
0.0991 |
276 |
1 |
92.85 |
2010-09-01 |
| 29. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
92.58 |
1.0390 |
0.0888 |
205 |
1 |
92.58 |
2009-10-26 |
| 30. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
91.53 |
1.0426 |
0.0753 |
323 |
2 |
82.20 |
2009-06-11 |
| 31. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
91.40 |
0.9841 |
0.1367 |
334 |
2 |
74.24 |
2010-04-13 |
| 32. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
91.24 |
1.0595 |
0.0581 |
379 |
1 |
91.24 |
2009-10-26 |
| 33. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
91.07 |
1.0498 |
0.0584 |
180 |
3 |
87.09 |
2008-10-07 |
| 34. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
90.80 |
1.0109 |
0.1316 |
400 |
1 |
90.80 |
2009-10-28 |
| 35. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
89.88 |
0.9893 |
0.1091 |
323 |
1 |
89.88 |
2009-06-13 |
| 36. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
89.26 |
0.9649 |
0.1246 |
193 |
1 |
89.26 |
2009-06-11 |
| 37. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
88.89 |
0.9946 |
0.0912 |
246 |
2 |
85.37 |
2008-10-07 |
| 38. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
88.57 |
1.0165 |
0.0695 |
392 |
2 |
80.21 |
2009-09-04 |
| 39. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
88.51 |
1.0389 |
0.0441 |
318 |
1 |
88.51 |
2008-10-07 |
| 40. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
88.07 |
0.9754 |
0.1066 |
362 |
2 |
75.06 |
2008-10-07 |
| 41. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
88.03 |
1.0375 |
0.0839 |
200 |
1 |
88.03 |
2011-07-23 |
| 42. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
87.14 |
0.9966 |
0.0672 |
259 |
3 |
74.61 |
2009-09-04 |
| 43. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
87.04 |
0.9672 |
0.1024 |
396 |
1 |
87.04 |
2009-06-11 |
| 44. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
86.96 |
1.0154 |
0.0966 |
351 |
1 |
86.96 |
2009-10-26 |
| 45. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
86.94 |
1.0296 |
0.0387 |
437 |
1 |
86.94 |
2008-10-07 |
| 46. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
86.74 |
1.0254 |
0.0748 |
217 |
1 |
86.74 |
2009-10-26 |
| 47. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
86.68 |
1.0025 |
0.0561 |
256 |
1 |
86.68 |
2008-10-07 |
| 48. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
86.53 |
0.8753 |
0.1907 |
427 |
1 |
86.53 |
2010-04-19 |
| 49. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
86.52 |
0.9430 |
0.1064 |
211 |
1 |
86.52 |
2008-10-07 |
| 50. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
86.29 |
0.9233 |
0.1223 |
168 |
1 |
86.29 |
2008-10-20 |
| 51. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
86.07 |
1.0454 |
0.0020 |
255 |
1 |
86.07 |
2010-04-19 |
| 52. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
86.04 |
0.9120 |
0.1720 |
436 |
1 |
86.04 |
2010-09-05 |
| 53. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
85.91 |
0.9997 |
0.0531 |
382 |
1 |
85.91 |
2009-06-13 |
| 54. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
85.15 |
1.0619 |
-0.0185 |
354 |
1 |
85.15 |
2008-10-07 |
| 55. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
84.84 |
1.0213 |
0.0114 |
240 |
1 |
84.84 |
2008-10-20 |
| 56. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
84.41 |
0.9697 |
0.0611 |
249 |
1 |
84.41 |
2011-07-23 |
| 57. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
82.82 |
1.0297 |
-0.0199 |
249 |
2 |
82.76 |
2009-10-26 |
| 58. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
82.43 |
1.0320 |
0.0114 |
293 |
1 |
82.43 |
2011-07-23 |
| 59. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
82.35 |
0.9464 |
0.0639 |
323 |
2 |
72.18 |
2009-05-07 |
| 60. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
82.27 |
0.9570 |
0.0489 |
287 |
1 |
82.27 |
2008-10-07 |
| 61. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
82.22 |
1.0483 |
-0.0477 |
227 |
1 |
82.22 |
2008-12-20 |
| 62. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
82.18 |
0.9756 |
0.0262 |
229 |
1 |
82.18 |
2009-05-07 |
| 63. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
82.08 |
1.0131 |
-0.0152 |
225 |
1 |
82.08 |
2009-05-07 |
| 64. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
81.67 |
0.9597 |
0.0412 |
347 |
1 |
81.67 |
2009-06-13 |
| 65. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
80.71 |
1.0534 |
-0.0663 |
357 |
1 |
80.71 |
2009-05-07 |
| 66. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
80.62 |
0.9426 |
0.0443 |
317 |
1 |
80.62 |
2009-06-13 |
| 67. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
80.60 |
1.0399 |
-0.0512 |
294 |
2 |
77.27 |
2008-10-07 |
| 68. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
80.56 |
1.0138 |
-0.0312 |
231 |
1 |
80.56 |
2009-11-17 |
| 69. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
80.55 |
0.9866 |
-0.0074 |
218 |
1 |
80.55 |
2008-12-20 |
| 70. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
80.37 |
0.9601 |
0.0253 |
308 |
1 |
80.37 |
2009-10-26 |
| 71. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
80.25 |
1.0167 |
-0.0307 |
378 |
1 |
80.25 |
2008-10-07 |
| 72. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
78.93 |
0.9684 |
-0.0028 |
388 |
1 |
78.93 |
2008-10-07 |
| 73. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
78.64 |
0.9088 |
0.0557 |
348 |
1 |
78.64 |
2008-12-20 |
| 74. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
78.33 |
0.9894 |
-0.0295 |
323 |
2 |
69.59 |
2009-06-13 |
| 75. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
77.73 |
0.9699 |
-0.0225 |
269 |
1 |
77.73 |
2009-10-26 |
| 76. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
77.61 |
1.0292 |
-0.0839 |
262 |
1 |
77.61 |
2009-06-13 |
| 77. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
77.56 |
1.0555 |
-0.1082 |
363 |
1 |
77.56 |
2008-10-07 |
| 78. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
77.51 |
0.8553 |
0.0849 |
174 |
1 |
77.51 |
2008-10-07 |
| 79. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
76.98 |
0.8826 |
0.0576 |
296 |
1 |
76.98 |
2009-05-07 |
| 80. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
76.75 |
0.9527 |
-0.0169 |
251 |
1 |
76.75 |
2009-06-13 |
| 81. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
76.65 |
1.0445 |
-0.1089 |
373 |
1 |
76.65 |
2008-12-20 |
| 82. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
75.59 |
0.9682 |
-0.0485 |
143 |
1 |
75.59 |
2008-10-07 |
| 83. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
74.95 |
0.9567 |
-0.0432 |
273 |
1 |
74.95 |
2008-10-07 |
| 84. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
74.64 |
0.9072 |
0.0009 |
237 |
1 |
74.64 |
2009-10-26 |
| 85. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
74.63 |
0.9275 |
-0.0211 |
211 |
2 |
68.94 |
2008-10-06 |
| 86. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
74.51 |
0.9213 |
-0.0126 |
295 |
1 |
74.51 |
2008-10-20 |
| 87. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
74.49 |
0.9795 |
-0.0715 |
308 |
1 |
74.49 |
2008-12-20 |
| 88. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
74.48 |
1.0462 |
-0.1444 |
184 |
1 |
74.48 |
2008-10-06 |
| 89. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
74.16 |
1.0417 |
-0.1403 |
253 |
1 |
74.16 |
2008-10-06 |
| 90. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
73.42 |
1.0073 |
-0.1045 |
369 |
1 |
73.42 |
2008-10-07 |
| 91. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
73.17 |
0.9293 |
-0.0368 |
355 |
1 |
73.17 |
2009-10-26 |
| 92. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
72.84 |
0.9776 |
-0.0898 |
308 |
2 |
72.57 |
2008-10-07 |
| 93. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
72.20 |
1.0025 |
-0.1219 |
336 |
1 |
72.20 |
2008-10-07 |
| 94. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
71.87 |
0.9266 |
-0.0509 |
267 |
1 |
71.87 |
2008-10-07 |
| 95. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
71.71 |
0.9670 |
-0.0513 |
307 |
1 |
71.71 |
2010-09-01 |
| 96. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
71.23 |
1.0391 |
-0.1653 |
358 |
1 |
71.23 |
2008-10-07 |
| 97. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
70.39 |
0.8916 |
-0.0340 |
216 |
1 |
70.39 |
2009-10-26 |
| 98. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
69.26 |
0.8670 |
-0.0183 |
318 |
1 |
69.26 |
2009-09-04 |
| 99. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
69.26 |
0.9910 |
-0.1458 |
295 |
1 |
69.26 |
2008-10-06 |
| 100. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
69.20 |
1.0004 |
-0.1639 |
212 |
2 |
68.44 |
2009-05-07 |
| 101. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
68.37 |
0.9398 |
-0.0982 |
419 |
1 |
68.37 |
2008-10-06 |
| 102. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
67.43 |
0.8770 |
-0.0531 |
300 |
1 |
67.43 |
2008-10-07 |
| 103. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
66.99 |
0.9164 |
-0.0963 |
305 |
1 |
66.99 |
2008-10-06 |
| 104. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
66.64 |
0.9907 |
-0.1814 |
211 |
1 |
66.64 |
2008-12-20 |
| 105. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
66.57 |
0.9234 |
-0.1079 |
346 |
1 |
66.57 |
2008-10-07 |
| 106. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
66.55 |
0.9622 |
-0.1460 |
392 |
1 |
66.55 |
2008-10-07 |
| 107. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
66.11 |
0.9851 |
-0.1785 |
317 |
1 |
66.11 |
2008-10-06 |
| 108. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
65.46 |
0.9372 |
-0.1368 |
320 |
1 |
65.46 |
2008-10-06 |
| 109. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
65.30 |
1.0429 |
-0.2499 |
259 |
1 |
65.30 |
2008-10-30 |
| 110. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
65.11 |
0.9532 |
-0.1625 |
258 |
1 |
65.11 |
2008-10-06 |
| 111. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
65.07 |
0.9731 |
-0.1941 |
129 |
1 |
65.07 |
2008-10-07 |
| 112. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
64.71 |
1.0201 |
-0.2290 |
375 |
1 |
64.71 |
2008-10-06 |
| 113. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
64.63 |
0.9005 |
-0.1159 |
212 |
1 |
64.63 |
2008-10-30 |
| 114. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
64.07 |
1.0099 |
-0.2336 |
207 |
1 |
64.07 |
2008-10-07 |
| 115. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
63.31 |
0.9513 |
-0.1777 |
354 |
2 |
60.07 |
2009-11-17 |
| 116. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
62.16 |
0.9279 |
-0.1658 |
317 |
1 |
62.16 |
2008-12-20 |
| 117. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
61.39 |
0.8878 |
-0.1420 |
346 |
1 |
61.39 |
2008-10-06 |
| 118. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
61.38 |
0.9653 |
-0.2111 |
394 |
1 |
61.38 |
2008-10-06 |
| 119. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
61.05 |
1.0419 |
-0.3001 |
261 |
1 |
61.05 |
2008-10-07 |
| 120. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
60.79 |
0.9330 |
-0.1878 |
360 |
2 |
60.35 |
2008-10-06 |
| 121. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
60.67 |
0.8105 |
-0.0777 |
204 |
1 |
60.67 |
2008-10-07 |
| 122. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
60.06 |
0.9884 |
-0.2596 |
233 |
1 |
60.06 |
2008-10-20 |
| 123. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
59.83 |
0.9212 |
-0.1911 |
323 |
1 |
59.83 |
2009-10-28 |
| 124. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
59.75 |
0.9769 |
-0.2532 |
263 |
1 |
59.75 |
2008-10-06 |
| 125. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
58.29 |
0.8890 |
-0.1849 |
199 |
1 |
58.29 |
2008-12-20 |
| 126. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
56.42 |
0.9289 |
-0.2466 |
204 |
1 |
56.42 |
2008-10-07 |
| 127. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
55.02 |
1.0477 |
-0.3780 |
360 |
1 |
55.02 |
2008-10-06 |
| 128. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
46.45 |
0.8595 |
-0.2964 |
242 |
1 |
46.45 |
2009-06-13 |
| 129. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
43.57 |
0.9857 |
-0.4610 |
293 |
1 |
43.57 |
2008-10-06 |