| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
124.31 |
1.0993 |
0.7692 |
265 |
2 |
94.34 |
2013-11-28 |
| 2. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
119.24 |
0.9831 |
0.8081 |
222 |
1 |
119.24 |
2013-11-28 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
105.13 |
1.1016 |
0.4785 |
233 |
2 |
82.13 |
2013-11-28 |
| 4. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
105.10 |
1.0454 |
0.5305 |
255 |
1 |
105.10 |
2013-11-28 |
| 5. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
102.60 |
1.0883 |
0.4855 |
303 |
1 |
102.60 |
2013-11-28 |
| 6. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
101.37 |
1.0482 |
0.4985 |
487 |
1 |
101.37 |
2013-12-03 |
| 7. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
99.14 |
0.9601 |
0.5339 |
308 |
2 |
78.26 |
2013-12-03 |
| 8. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
98.31 |
1.0197 |
0.4541 |
226 |
2 |
83.08 |
2012-01-10 |
| 9. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
97.15 |
1.0567 |
0.4030 |
303 |
3 |
70.48 |
2013-11-28 |
| 10. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
95.99 |
1.0033 |
0.4315 |
189 |
1 |
95.99 |
2012-01-10 |
| 11. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
95.39 |
1.0555 |
0.4066 |
323 |
1 |
95.39 |
2013-11-28 |
| 12. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
94.13 |
1.0365 |
0.4067 |
162 |
1 |
94.13 |
2013-12-03 |
| 13. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
92.35 |
1.0441 |
0.3438 |
252 |
1 |
92.35 |
2012-01-10 |
| 14. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
91.71 |
1.0615 |
0.3404 |
305 |
1 |
91.71 |
2013-11-28 |
| 15. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
87.43 |
1.0340 |
0.2830 |
406 |
1 |
87.43 |
2011-08-13 |
| 16. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
84.23 |
1.0621 |
0.2206 |
263 |
1 |
84.23 |
2011-08-13 |
| 17. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
81.52 |
1.0714 |
0.1420 |
129 |
1 |
81.52 |
2013-11-28 |
| 18. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
80.72 |
1.0013 |
0.2080 |
273 |
1 |
80.72 |
2011-08-13 |
| 19. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
78.17 |
0.9879 |
0.1923 |
450 |
1 |
78.17 |
2011-08-13 |
| 20. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
77.95 |
0.9675 |
0.2102 |
383 |
1 |
77.95 |
2011-08-13 |
| 21. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
77.79 |
1.0477 |
0.1205 |
360 |
1 |
77.79 |
2011-08-13 |
| 22. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
77.72 |
0.9776 |
0.1873 |
308 |
1 |
77.72 |
2011-08-13 |
| 23. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
76.61 |
1.1296 |
0.0474 |
252 |
1 |
76.61 |
2010-07-18 |
| 24. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
76.49 |
1.0619 |
0.0878 |
354 |
1 |
76.49 |
2010-05-12 |
| 25. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
76.28 |
1.0288 |
0.1462 |
300 |
1 |
76.28 |
2011-08-13 |
| 26. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
76.12 |
1.0725 |
0.0938 |
233 |
1 |
76.12 |
2010-07-18 |
| 27. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
76.01 |
0.9966 |
0.1416 |
259 |
1 |
76.01 |
2011-08-13 |
| 28. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
75.67 |
0.9365 |
0.1985 |
248 |
2 |
63.78 |
2011-08-13 |
| 29. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
74.33 |
1.0060 |
0.1026 |
171 |
1 |
74.33 |
2011-08-13 |
| 30. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
73.68 |
1.1018 |
-0.0047 |
220 |
3 |
66.33 |
2010-04-19 |
| 31. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
71.52 |
1.0768 |
0.0341 |
295 |
1 |
71.52 |
2011-08-13 |
| 32. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
70.43 |
0.9881 |
0.1066 |
424 |
1 |
70.43 |
2010-07-18 |
| 33. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
69.57 |
1.0829 |
-0.0402 |
288 |
1 |
69.57 |
2010-05-14 |
| 34. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
69.13 |
0.9127 |
0.1196 |
252 |
1 |
69.13 |
2010-06-04 |
| 35. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
68.94 |
0.9820 |
0.0499 |
274 |
1 |
68.94 |
2010-05-12 |
| 36. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
68.09 |
1.0441 |
0.0160 |
316 |
2 |
61.33 |
2010-04-19 |
| 37. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
66.69 |
1.0154 |
0.0320 |
351 |
2 |
64.02 |
2010-05-12 |
| 38. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
66.49 |
1.0109 |
0.0165 |
400 |
2 |
63.03 |
2010-07-18 |
| 39. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
65.83 |
1.0165 |
-0.0281 |
392 |
1 |
65.83 |
2010-04-28 |
| 40. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
65.50 |
1.0496 |
-0.0708 |
314 |
1 |
65.50 |
2010-04-17 |
| 41. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
65.07 |
1.0426 |
-0.0703 |
323 |
1 |
65.07 |
2010-04-05 |
| 42. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
65.01 |
1.0483 |
-0.0792 |
227 |
1 |
65.01 |
2010-04-28 |
| 43. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
65.00 |
0.9943 |
-0.0191 |
373 |
2 |
62.91 |
2010-05-14 |
| 44. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
64.49 |
1.0289 |
-0.0603 |
276 |
2 |
61.63 |
2010-04-28 |
| 45. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
63.79 |
1.0257 |
-0.0657 |
401 |
1 |
63.79 |
2010-05-05 |
| 46. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
63.73 |
1.0487 |
-0.1010 |
231 |
1 |
63.73 |
2010-05-03 |
| 47. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
63.54 |
1.0679 |
-0.0977 |
177 |
1 |
63.54 |
2010-05-03 |
| 48. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
63.43 |
1.0506 |
-0.0736 |
277 |
2 |
58.26 |
2010-04-20 |
| 49. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
63.40 |
0.9726 |
-0.0313 |
154 |
1 |
63.40 |
2010-04-17 |
| 50. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
63.39 |
1.0213 |
-0.0769 |
240 |
1 |
63.39 |
2010-05-12 |
| 51. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
63.29 |
1.1114 |
-0.1680 |
247 |
2 |
58.16 |
2010-04-06 |
| 52. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
62.07 |
1.0389 |
-0.1089 |
340 |
1 |
62.07 |
2010-04-03 |
| 53. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
61.92 |
0.9964 |
-0.0710 |
203 |
2 |
58.50 |
2010-05-12 |
| 54. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
61.86 |
0.9636 |
-0.0393 |
254 |
2 |
58.06 |
2010-05-03 |
| 55. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
61.65 |
0.9340 |
-0.0130 |
296 |
1 |
61.65 |
2010-04-13 |
| 56. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
61.49 |
1.0944 |
-0.1308 |
308 |
1 |
61.49 |
2010-04-12 |
| 57. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
61.42 |
1.0577 |
-0.1435 |
247 |
1 |
61.42 |
2010-04-05 |
| 58. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
61.36 |
0.9646 |
-0.0487 |
264 |
2 |
59.72 |
2010-04-13 |
| 59. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
60.99 |
0.9852 |
-0.0737 |
264 |
2 |
56.41 |
2010-04-12 |
| 60. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
60.92 |
1.0263 |
-0.1169 |
267 |
1 |
60.92 |
2010-04-03 |
| 61. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
60.83 |
1.0368 |
-0.1271 |
276 |
1 |
60.83 |
2010-04-19 |
| 62. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
60.82 |
1.0358 |
-0.0856 |
349 |
1 |
60.82 |
2010-04-13 |
| 63. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
60.41 |
0.9795 |
-0.0771 |
308 |
1 |
60.41 |
2010-04-17 |
| 64. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
60.29 |
1.0251 |
-0.1267 |
261 |
1 |
60.29 |
2010-05-03 |
| 65. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
60.26 |
1.0787 |
-0.1798 |
237 |
1 |
60.26 |
2010-04-13 |
| 66. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
60.25 |
1.0284 |
-0.0851 |
282 |
1 |
60.25 |
2010-04-19 |
| 67. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
60.23 |
1.0183 |
-0.1242 |
191 |
2 |
57.99 |
2010-05-12 |
| 68. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
60.09 |
0.9884 |
-0.0865 |
262 |
1 |
60.09 |
2010-04-12 |
| 69. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
59.99 |
0.9772 |
-0.0846 |
217 |
1 |
59.99 |
2010-05-12 |
| 70. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
59.77 |
1.0125 |
-0.1221 |
224 |
1 |
59.77 |
2010-04-03 |
| 71. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
59.42 |
0.9965 |
-0.1139 |
168 |
1 |
59.42 |
2010-04-19 |
| 72. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
59.34 |
0.9740 |
-0.0919 |
209 |
1 |
59.34 |
2010-04-12 |
| 73. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
59.17 |
0.9239 |
-0.0337 |
193 |
2 |
57.35 |
2010-04-03 |
| 74. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
59.13 |
0.9857 |
-0.1037 |
293 |
1 |
59.13 |
2010-04-20 |
| 75. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
58.89 |
1.0417 |
-0.1648 |
253 |
1 |
58.89 |
2010-04-05 |
| 76. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
58.73 |
0.9364 |
-0.0193 |
351 |
1 |
58.73 |
2010-04-12 |
| 77. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
57.95 |
1.0004 |
-0.1413 |
212 |
2 |
57.01 |
2010-04-03 |
| 78. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
57.62 |
0.9632 |
-0.0966 |
392 |
1 |
57.62 |
2010-04-05 |
| 79. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
57.37 |
0.9786 |
-0.1227 |
235 |
1 |
57.37 |
2010-04-03 |
| 80. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
57.17 |
0.9873 |
-0.1367 |
155 |
1 |
57.17 |
2010-04-13 |
| 81. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
57.14 |
1.0088 |
-0.1172 |
396 |
1 |
57.14 |
2010-04-13 |
| 82. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
57.05 |
1.0211 |
-0.1389 |
213 |
1 |
57.05 |
2010-04-03 |
| 83. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
57.00 |
0.9266 |
-0.0740 |
278 |
1 |
57.00 |
2010-04-03 |
| 84. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
56.51 |
0.9942 |
-0.1421 |
483 |
1 |
56.51 |
2010-04-05 |
| 85. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
56.08 |
0.9084 |
-0.0698 |
300 |
1 |
56.08 |
2010-04-03 |
| 86. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
55.57 |
0.9461 |
-0.1172 |
276 |
1 |
55.57 |
2010-04-03 |
| 87. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
55.56 |
1.0109 |
-0.1812 |
276 |
1 |
55.56 |
2010-04-05 |
| 88. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
55.43 |
1.0240 |
-0.1996 |
256 |
1 |
55.43 |
2010-04-03 |
| 89. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
55.27 |
1.0429 |
-0.2198 |
259 |
1 |
55.27 |
2010-04-19 |
| 90. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
55.24 |
0.9976 |
-0.1533 |
174 |
1 |
55.24 |
2010-04-05 |
| 91. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.21 |
0.9785 |
-0.1517 |
335 |
1 |
55.21 |
2010-04-13 |
| 92. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
55.11 |
1.1162 |
-0.2531 |
189 |
1 |
55.11 |
2010-04-03 |
| 93. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
55.09 |
1.0799 |
-0.2618 |
243 |
1 |
55.09 |
2010-04-03 |
| 94. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
55.06 |
0.8951 |
-0.0715 |
193 |
1 |
55.06 |
2010-04-13 |
| 95. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
54.82 |
0.9792 |
-0.1231 |
265 |
1 |
54.82 |
2010-04-05 |
| 96. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
54.32 |
1.0031 |
-0.1594 |
304 |
1 |
54.32 |
2010-04-03 |
| 97. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
54.21 |
1.0120 |
-0.2043 |
290 |
1 |
54.21 |
2010-04-03 |
| 98. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
53.75 |
0.9899 |
-0.1931 |
163 |
1 |
53.75 |
2010-04-13 |
| 99. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
53.18 |
0.8595 |
-0.0648 |
242 |
1 |
53.18 |
2010-04-03 |
| 100. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
53.08 |
1.0399 |
-0.2433 |
294 |
1 |
53.08 |
2010-04-13 |
| 101. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
53.05 |
1.0218 |
-0.2338 |
268 |
1 |
53.05 |
2010-04-05 |
| 102. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
52.93 |
0.9176 |
-0.0897 |
365 |
2 |
51.23 |
2010-04-06 |
| 103. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
52.87 |
0.9593 |
-0.1664 |
398 |
1 |
52.87 |
2010-04-03 |
| 104. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
52.72 |
1.0361 |
-0.2492 |
269 |
1 |
52.72 |
2010-04-03 |
| 105. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
52.65 |
0.9289 |
-0.1464 |
204 |
2 |
51.99 |
2010-04-19 |
| 106. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
52.55 |
0.9005 |
-0.1187 |
212 |
1 |
52.55 |
2010-04-03 |
| 107. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
52.29 |
0.9863 |
-0.2025 |
339 |
1 |
52.29 |
2010-04-03 |
| 108. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
51.98 |
1.0201 |
-0.2414 |
375 |
1 |
51.98 |
2010-04-03 |
| 109. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
51.94 |
0.9851 |
-0.2088 |
317 |
1 |
51.94 |
2010-04-03 |
| 110. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
51.37 |
0.9164 |
-0.1461 |
305 |
1 |
51.37 |
2010-04-05 |
| 111. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
51.28 |
0.9635 |
-0.1940 |
389 |
1 |
51.28 |
2010-04-03 |
| 112. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
50.91 |
1.0516 |
-0.2935 |
281 |
1 |
50.91 |
2010-04-03 |
| 113. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
50.34 |
0.8670 |
-0.1118 |
318 |
1 |
50.34 |
2010-04-03 |
| 114. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
49.96 |
0.9866 |
-0.2462 |
218 |
1 |
49.96 |
2010-04-03 |
| 115. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
49.48 |
0.9266 |
-0.1897 |
267 |
1 |
49.48 |
2010-04-05 |
| 116. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
48.81 |
0.9376 |
-0.2055 |
367 |
1 |
48.81 |
2010-04-03 |
| 117. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
48.14 |
0.9768 |
-0.2577 |
387 |
1 |
48.14 |
2010-04-03 |
| 118. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
48.06 |
0.9894 |
-0.2697 |
323 |
1 |
48.06 |
2010-04-03 |
| 119. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
47.24 |
0.9281 |
-0.2201 |
273 |
1 |
47.24 |
2010-04-03 |
| 120. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
46.17 |
0.9509 |
-0.2258 |
225 |
1 |
46.17 |
2010-04-06 |