| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
84.94 |
1.0696 |
0.2405 |
226 |
1 |
84.94 |
2011-02-25 |
| 2. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
79.17 |
1.0993 |
0.1221 |
265 |
2 |
74.28 |
2010-12-08 |
| 3. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
76.60 |
1.0613 |
0.1229 |
266 |
2 |
73.11 |
2011-02-25 |
| 4. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
75.56 |
1.0292 |
0.1366 |
262 |
1 |
75.56 |
2010-12-08 |
| 5. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
74.83 |
1.0496 |
0.1054 |
314 |
3 |
71.96 |
2010-12-10 |
| 6. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
74.45 |
1.0529 |
0.0967 |
351 |
2 |
72.32 |
2010-12-08 |
| 7. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
74.31 |
1.0799 |
0.0640 |
243 |
1 |
74.31 |
2011-04-22 |
| 8. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
73.66 |
1.0679 |
0.0898 |
177 |
1 |
73.66 |
2010-12-07 |
| 9. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
73.63 |
1.0016 |
0.1307 |
218 |
1 |
73.63 |
2010-12-08 |
| 10. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
73.48 |
1.0907 |
0.0466 |
303 |
1 |
73.48 |
2010-12-08 |
| 11. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
73.45 |
1.1018 |
0.0259 |
220 |
1 |
73.45 |
2011-02-25 |
| 12. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
73.27 |
0.9865 |
0.1459 |
276 |
1 |
73.27 |
2010-12-07 |
| 13. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
72.91 |
0.9426 |
0.1862 |
317 |
2 |
62.33 |
2011-04-15 |
| 14. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
72.63 |
0.9675 |
0.1633 |
383 |
1 |
72.63 |
2011-04-15 |
| 15. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
72.45 |
1.0668 |
0.0542 |
350 |
1 |
72.45 |
2010-12-06 |
| 16. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
72.43 |
1.0506 |
0.0964 |
277 |
2 |
69.76 |
2010-12-08 |
| 17. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
71.77 |
0.9986 |
0.1099 |
283 |
1 |
71.77 |
2011-02-25 |
| 18. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
71.75 |
1.1068 |
0.0411 |
393 |
1 |
71.75 |
2010-12-07 |
| 19. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
71.70 |
0.9841 |
0.1265 |
334 |
1 |
71.70 |
2010-12-07 |
| 20. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
71.59 |
1.1162 |
0.0299 |
189 |
2 |
70.96 |
2010-12-07 |
| 21. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
71.39 |
1.0429 |
0.0577 |
259 |
1 |
71.39 |
2010-12-07 |
| 22. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
71.30 |
1.0368 |
0.0647 |
276 |
1 |
71.30 |
2010-12-07 |
| 23. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
70.58 |
1.1014 |
0.0257 |
273 |
1 |
70.58 |
2010-12-10 |
| 24. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
70.53 |
1.0883 |
0.0323 |
303 |
2 |
69.39 |
2011-03-24 |
| 25. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
70.52 |
0.9673 |
0.1604 |
232 |
2 |
62.59 |
2010-12-07 |
| 26. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
70.23 |
0.9965 |
0.0879 |
277 |
2 |
70.12 |
2011-04-22 |
| 27. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
70.10 |
1.0763 |
0.0470 |
367 |
2 |
69.31 |
2010-12-10 |
| 28. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
69.99 |
0.9844 |
0.1005 |
293 |
2 |
67.02 |
2011-02-25 |
| 29. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
69.97 |
0.9527 |
0.1270 |
251 |
2 |
68.07 |
2011-06-10 |
| 30. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
69.69 |
1.0358 |
0.0812 |
349 |
1 |
69.69 |
2010-12-07 |
| 31. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
69.65 |
0.9303 |
0.1382 |
176 |
2 |
62.08 |
2011-02-25 |
| 32. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
69.58 |
1.0521 |
0.0168 |
171 |
2 |
67.76 |
2010-12-07 |
| 33. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
69.38 |
1.0141 |
0.0928 |
304 |
1 |
69.38 |
2010-12-08 |
| 34. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
69.14 |
0.9894 |
0.0818 |
323 |
1 |
69.14 |
2010-12-08 |
| 35. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
68.98 |
1.0399 |
0.0296 |
294 |
1 |
68.98 |
2010-12-06 |
| 36. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
68.83 |
0.9513 |
0.1145 |
354 |
2 |
65.63 |
2011-03-24 |
| 37. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
68.83 |
0.9884 |
0.0728 |
233 |
2 |
64.09 |
2010-12-07 |
| 38. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
68.12 |
1.0574 |
0.0214 |
205 |
2 |
63.35 |
2010-12-07 |
| 39. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
67.99 |
0.9798 |
0.0634 |
199 |
1 |
67.99 |
2010-12-15 |
| 40. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
67.94 |
0.9578 |
0.0898 |
281 |
1 |
67.94 |
2010-12-08 |
| 41. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
67.88 |
0.9910 |
0.0580 |
295 |
1 |
67.88 |
2010-12-10 |
| 42. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
67.05 |
0.9790 |
0.0958 |
311 |
2 |
65.16 |
2010-12-07 |
| 43. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
67.04 |
1.0719 |
-0.0103 |
360 |
1 |
67.04 |
2010-12-10 |
| 44. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
66.95 |
1.0352 |
0.0000 |
341 |
1 |
66.95 |
2010-12-07 |
| 45. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
66.83 |
1.0251 |
0.0034 |
261 |
2 |
66.65 |
2010-12-10 |
| 46. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
66.39 |
0.9684 |
0.0582 |
388 |
2 |
62.76 |
2010-12-10 |
| 47. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
66.27 |
0.9411 |
0.0817 |
318 |
1 |
66.27 |
2011-04-25 |
| 48. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
65.76 |
1.0714 |
-0.0663 |
129 |
1 |
65.76 |
2010-12-07 |
| 49. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
65.71 |
1.0788 |
-0.0711 |
171 |
1 |
65.71 |
2011-03-24 |
| 50. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
65.42 |
1.0296 |
-0.0145 |
437 |
1 |
65.42 |
2010-12-07 |
| 51. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
65.14 |
0.8956 |
0.1134 |
322 |
2 |
60.40 |
2010-12-08 |
| 52. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
64.86 |
1.0270 |
0.0090 |
255 |
2 |
61.88 |
2011-02-25 |
| 53. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
64.42 |
0.9946 |
-0.0017 |
246 |
1 |
64.42 |
2010-12-08 |
| 54. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
64.36 |
0.9943 |
0.0011 |
373 |
1 |
64.36 |
2010-12-06 |
| 55. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
64.36 |
0.9572 |
0.0781 |
376 |
2 |
62.43 |
2011-02-25 |
| 56. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
64.24 |
1.0095 |
-0.0203 |
316 |
1 |
64.24 |
2010-12-07 |
| 57. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
63.99 |
0.9897 |
-0.0056 |
274 |
1 |
63.99 |
2010-12-20 |
| 58. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
63.94 |
1.0083 |
0.0214 |
273 |
1 |
63.94 |
2010-12-07 |
| 59. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
63.80 |
1.0284 |
-0.0017 |
282 |
1 |
63.80 |
2010-12-10 |
| 60. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
63.51 |
0.9597 |
0.0233 |
347 |
2 |
62.51 |
2010-12-08 |
| 61. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
63.36 |
0.9309 |
0.0438 |
284 |
3 |
63.04 |
2011-02-25 |
| 62. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
63.30 |
0.9330 |
0.0492 |
360 |
1 |
63.30 |
2010-12-08 |
| 63. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
63.00 |
1.0063 |
-0.0350 |
371 |
2 |
60.00 |
2010-12-07 |
| 64. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
62.96 |
0.9286 |
0.0407 |
194 |
2 |
57.45 |
2010-12-07 |
| 65. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
62.92 |
1.0183 |
-0.0542 |
191 |
2 |
54.68 |
2010-12-08 |
| 66. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
62.84 |
1.0008 |
0.0106 |
473 |
1 |
62.84 |
2010-12-07 |
| 67. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
62.76 |
0.9723 |
-0.0014 |
364 |
1 |
62.76 |
2010-12-08 |
| 68. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
62.73 |
1.0073 |
-0.0326 |
369 |
1 |
62.73 |
2010-12-07 |
| 69. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
62.48 |
0.9916 |
0.0138 |
282 |
1 |
62.48 |
2010-12-07 |
| 70. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
62.23 |
0.9672 |
-0.0018 |
396 |
1 |
62.23 |
2010-12-07 |
| 71. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
62.20 |
0.9792 |
0.0176 |
265 |
1 |
62.20 |
2010-12-06 |
| 72. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
62.14 |
0.9429 |
0.0159 |
287 |
1 |
62.14 |
2010-12-15 |
| 73. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
61.96 |
0.9339 |
0.0193 |
310 |
1 |
61.96 |
2010-12-06 |
| 74. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
61.95 |
0.9120 |
0.0757 |
436 |
1 |
61.95 |
2011-02-25 |
| 75. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
61.81 |
1.0441 |
-0.0902 |
252 |
1 |
61.81 |
2010-12-07 |
| 76. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
61.31 |
0.9879 |
-0.0347 |
450 |
1 |
61.31 |
2014-12-04 |
| 77. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
61.13 |
0.9109 |
0.0334 |
401 |
1 |
61.13 |
2010-12-07 |
| 78. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
60.94 |
1.0398 |
-0.1115 |
110 |
1 |
60.94 |
2010-12-08 |
| 79. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
60.01 |
0.9087 |
0.0262 |
393 |
1 |
60.01 |
2011-02-25 |
| 80. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
59.49 |
1.0169 |
-0.0622 |
346 |
3 |
56.71 |
2010-12-10 |
| 81. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
59.35 |
0.9127 |
-0.0011 |
252 |
1 |
59.35 |
2010-12-07 |
| 82. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
58.85 |
1.0025 |
-0.0965 |
256 |
1 |
58.85 |
2010-12-07 |
| 83. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
58.61 |
1.0034 |
-0.1025 |
302 |
1 |
58.61 |
2010-12-06 |
| 84. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
58.48 |
0.9504 |
-0.0555 |
263 |
1 |
58.48 |
2010-12-07 |
| 85. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
58.38 |
0.9213 |
-0.0220 |
295 |
2 |
57.60 |
2010-12-07 |
| 86. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
58.32 |
0.9678 |
-0.0353 |
445 |
3 |
57.63 |
2011-04-15 |
| 87. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
58.07 |
1.0029 |
-0.1154 |
209 |
1 |
58.07 |
2010-12-08 |
| 88. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
57.96 |
1.0090 |
-0.0730 |
282 |
1 |
57.96 |
2010-12-07 |
| 89. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
57.91 |
0.9699 |
-0.0791 |
269 |
1 |
57.91 |
2010-12-06 |
| 90. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
57.53 |
0.8753 |
0.0194 |
427 |
2 |
57.13 |
2011-04-15 |
| 91. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
57.51 |
1.0261 |
-0.1428 |
273 |
1 |
57.51 |
2010-12-07 |
| 92. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
56.48 |
0.9964 |
-0.1272 |
203 |
1 |
56.48 |
2010-12-08 |
| 93. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
56.02 |
1.0289 |
-0.1626 |
276 |
1 |
56.02 |
2010-12-07 |
| 94. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
55.79 |
0.9072 |
-0.0506 |
237 |
1 |
55.79 |
2010-12-07 |
| 95. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
55.55 |
0.9570 |
-0.1007 |
287 |
2 |
52.05 |
2010-12-07 |
| 96. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
55.13 |
0.9622 |
-0.1078 |
392 |
1 |
55.13 |
2010-12-06 |
| 97. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
55.05 |
0.9278 |
-0.0783 |
295 |
1 |
55.05 |
2010-12-07 |
| 98. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
55.04 |
0.8382 |
0.0089 |
268 |
1 |
55.04 |
2010-12-06 |
| 99. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
54.99 |
1.0365 |
-0.1608 |
162 |
1 |
54.99 |
2010-12-07 |
| 100. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
54.74 |
0.9157 |
-0.0689 |
350 |
2 |
54.15 |
2010-12-10 |
| 101. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
54.64 |
0.9023 |
-0.0191 |
231 |
2 |
52.38 |
2010-12-07 |
| 102. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
54.45 |
0.8553 |
-0.0230 |
174 |
1 |
54.45 |
2011-03-24 |
| 103. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
54.27 |
0.9529 |
-0.0777 |
269 |
1 |
54.27 |
2010-12-06 |
| 104. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
54.01 |
0.8826 |
-0.0507 |
296 |
1 |
54.01 |
2010-12-07 |
| 105. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
53.26 |
0.9376 |
-0.0834 |
360 |
1 |
53.26 |
2010-12-07 |
| 106. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
52.14 |
0.9359 |
-0.0951 |
353 |
1 |
52.14 |
2010-12-06 |
| 107. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
50.79 |
0.8105 |
-0.0345 |
204 |
1 |
50.79 |
2010-12-06 |
| 108. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
48.73 |
0.8958 |
-0.1431 |
322 |
1 |
48.73 |
2011-04-22 |
| 109. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
47.44 |
0.9202 |
-0.1930 |
254 |
1 |
47.44 |
2010-12-06 |
| 110. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
46.93 |
0.9084 |
-0.1843 |
404 |
1 |
46.93 |
2010-12-06 |
| 111. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
44.56 |
0.9351 |
-0.2576 |
190 |
1 |
44.56 |
2010-12-10 |
| 112. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
44.20 |
0.9649 |
-0.2887 |
193 |
1 |
44.20 |
2010-12-06 |