| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
105.00 |
1.0829 |
0.1390 |
288 |
2 |
91.73 |
2010-08-17 |
| 2. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
104.53 |
1.0419 |
0.1730 |
261 |
3 |
95.49 |
2010-08-18 |
| 3. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
103.21 |
1.1215 |
0.1019 |
200 |
1 |
103.21 |
2010-08-18 |
| 4. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
103.00 |
1.0608 |
0.1694 |
258 |
1 |
103.00 |
2010-08-18 |
| 5. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
97.49 |
1.0885 |
0.0470 |
315 |
1 |
97.49 |
2010-08-18 |
| 6. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
97.44 |
1.0090 |
0.1664 |
282 |
1 |
97.44 |
2010-08-18 |
| 7. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
97.26 |
1.0288 |
0.1328 |
300 |
1 |
97.26 |
2010-08-18 |
| 8. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
96.60 |
0.9786 |
0.1426 |
235 |
1 |
96.60 |
2010-08-17 |
| 9. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
96.07 |
0.9553 |
0.1674 |
430 |
1 |
96.07 |
2010-08-18 |
| 10. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
95.84 |
1.0183 |
0.0889 |
191 |
1 |
95.84 |
2010-08-18 |
| 11. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
95.51 |
0.9665 |
0.1917 |
326 |
1 |
95.51 |
2010-08-18 |
| 12. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
94.81 |
1.0941 |
0.0378 |
256 |
1 |
94.81 |
2010-08-17 |
| 13. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
93.78 |
0.9785 |
0.1133 |
335 |
1 |
93.78 |
2010-08-18 |
| 14. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
93.68 |
1.0334 |
0.0475 |
131 |
1 |
93.68 |
2010-08-18 |
| 15. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
93.55 |
1.0725 |
0.0392 |
233 |
1 |
93.55 |
2010-08-18 |
| 16. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
93.22 |
0.9925 |
0.1262 |
247 |
2 |
87.78 |
2010-08-18 |
| 17. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
92.94 |
0.9529 |
0.1664 |
269 |
1 |
92.94 |
2010-08-18 |
| 18. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
92.25 |
0.9776 |
0.0932 |
308 |
1 |
92.25 |
2010-08-18 |
| 19. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
92.19 |
1.1114 |
-0.0442 |
247 |
1 |
92.19 |
2010-08-18 |
| 20. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
91.79 |
0.9937 |
0.0962 |
429 |
1 |
91.79 |
2010-08-18 |
| 21. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
91.70 |
1.0261 |
0.0362 |
273 |
1 |
91.70 |
2010-08-18 |
| 22. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
91.67 |
0.9942 |
0.0784 |
483 |
2 |
87.65 |
2010-08-17 |
| 23. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
91.56 |
1.0029 |
0.0532 |
209 |
1 |
91.56 |
2010-08-17 |
| 24. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
91.26 |
1.0214 |
0.0801 |
281 |
1 |
91.26 |
2010-08-17 |
| 25. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
91.16 |
1.0613 |
0.0015 |
456 |
1 |
91.16 |
2010-08-18 |
| 26. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
90.88 |
0.9339 |
0.1191 |
310 |
3 |
78.60 |
2010-08-18 |
| 27. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
90.77 |
0.9898 |
0.1010 |
353 |
1 |
90.77 |
2010-08-18 |
| 28. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
90.65 |
1.0358 |
0.0576 |
349 |
2 |
88.61 |
2010-08-18 |
| 29. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
90.33 |
0.9833 |
0.0664 |
355 |
1 |
90.33 |
2010-09-17 |
| 30. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
90.33 |
0.9632 |
0.0913 |
392 |
3 |
89.00 |
2010-08-18 |
| 31. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
89.25 |
0.9866 |
0.0451 |
218 |
1 |
89.25 |
2010-08-18 |
| 32. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
89.21 |
0.9636 |
0.0712 |
254 |
1 |
89.21 |
2010-08-18 |
| 33. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
89.18 |
0.9768 |
0.0604 |
387 |
1 |
89.18 |
2010-08-17 |
| 34. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
89.09 |
1.0201 |
0.0138 |
303 |
1 |
89.09 |
2010-08-18 |
| 35. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
88.94 |
1.0711 |
-0.0444 |
213 |
1 |
88.94 |
2010-08-18 |
| 36. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
88.79 |
1.0201 |
0.0139 |
375 |
2 |
88.35 |
2010-08-17 |
| 37. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
88.75 |
1.0232 |
0.0522 |
350 |
1 |
88.75 |
2010-08-18 |
| 38. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
88.73 |
1.0099 |
0.0165 |
207 |
1 |
88.73 |
2010-08-17 |
| 39. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
88.58 |
0.9513 |
0.0800 |
354 |
1 |
88.58 |
2010-08-17 |
| 40. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
88.56 |
1.0740 |
-0.0084 |
264 |
2 |
82.27 |
2010-08-18 |
| 41. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
88.41 |
0.9527 |
0.0727 |
251 |
1 |
88.41 |
2010-08-18 |
| 42. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
88.35 |
1.0214 |
0.0017 |
269 |
1 |
88.35 |
2010-08-18 |
| 43. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
88.34 |
0.9734 |
0.0510 |
289 |
2 |
82.46 |
2010-08-17 |
| 44. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
88.20 |
0.9540 |
0.0673 |
285 |
1 |
88.20 |
2010-08-17 |
| 45. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
88.12 |
1.0109 |
0.0441 |
400 |
3 |
85.46 |
2010-08-18 |
| 46. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
88.08 |
1.0120 |
0.0089 |
290 |
1 |
88.08 |
2010-08-17 |
| 47. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
88.05 |
0.9601 |
0.0659 |
308 |
1 |
88.05 |
2010-08-17 |
| 48. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
87.80 |
0.9202 |
0.0975 |
254 |
1 |
87.80 |
2010-08-17 |
| 49. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
87.46 |
1.0173 |
0.0413 |
268 |
1 |
87.46 |
2010-08-13 |
| 50. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
87.44 |
0.9754 |
0.0448 |
362 |
2 |
84.45 |
2010-08-17 |
| 51. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
87.43 |
0.9740 |
0.0359 |
209 |
2 |
83.47 |
2010-08-18 |
| 52. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
86.93 |
1.1296 |
-0.0924 |
252 |
1 |
86.93 |
2010-08-18 |
| 53. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
86.51 |
0.9792 |
0.0624 |
265 |
1 |
86.51 |
2010-08-13 |
| 54. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
85.25 |
0.8996 |
0.0833 |
192 |
2 |
80.89 |
2010-08-18 |
| 55. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
85.13 |
1.0577 |
-0.0742 |
247 |
1 |
85.13 |
2010-08-17 |
| 56. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
84.80 |
1.0574 |
-0.0464 |
205 |
1 |
84.80 |
2010-08-18 |
| 57. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
84.61 |
1.0328 |
-0.0138 |
356 |
1 |
84.61 |
2010-08-18 |
| 58. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
84.40 |
0.9726 |
-0.0006 |
154 |
1 |
84.40 |
2010-08-17 |
| 59. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
84.13 |
1.0454 |
-0.0738 |
255 |
1 |
84.13 |
2010-08-17 |
| 60. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
84.09 |
0.8878 |
0.0868 |
346 |
2 |
81.52 |
2010-08-18 |
| 61. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
84.06 |
1.0154 |
0.0088 |
351 |
1 |
84.06 |
2010-08-18 |
| 62. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
84.06 |
0.9583 |
0.0598 |
341 |
1 |
84.06 |
2010-08-18 |
| 63. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
84.01 |
1.0763 |
-0.0610 |
367 |
2 |
82.61 |
2010-08-18 |
| 64. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
84.00 |
1.0441 |
-0.0291 |
316 |
1 |
84.00 |
2010-08-17 |
| 65. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
83.86 |
1.0426 |
-0.0712 |
323 |
1 |
83.86 |
2010-08-17 |
| 66. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
83.79 |
0.9376 |
0.0391 |
367 |
1 |
83.79 |
2010-08-18 |
| 67. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
83.78 |
0.9504 |
0.0153 |
263 |
1 |
83.78 |
2010-08-17 |
| 68. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
83.10 |
0.9879 |
-0.0160 |
450 |
1 |
83.10 |
2010-09-17 |
| 69. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
83.09 |
0.9084 |
0.0587 |
404 |
1 |
83.09 |
2010-08-18 |
| 70. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
83.05 |
0.8852 |
0.0795 |
201 |
1 |
83.05 |
2010-08-17 |
| 71. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
82.62 |
1.0189 |
-0.0581 |
337 |
1 |
82.62 |
2010-08-17 |
| 72. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
82.55 |
1.0368 |
-0.0792 |
276 |
1 |
82.55 |
2010-08-18 |
| 73. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
82.52 |
0.9698 |
0.0194 |
397 |
1 |
82.52 |
2010-08-18 |
| 74. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
81.92 |
1.0621 |
-0.0934 |
263 |
1 |
81.92 |
2010-08-18 |
| 75. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
81.61 |
1.0213 |
-0.0788 |
240 |
1 |
81.61 |
2010-08-17 |
| 76. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
81.58 |
0.9811 |
-0.0331 |
272 |
2 |
72.60 |
2010-08-18 |
| 77. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
81.58 |
0.9084 |
0.0387 |
300 |
1 |
81.58 |
2010-08-18 |
| 78. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
81.55 |
0.9359 |
0.0486 |
353 |
1 |
81.55 |
2010-08-18 |
| 79. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
80.94 |
0.9790 |
-0.0006 |
311 |
1 |
80.94 |
2010-08-17 |
| 80. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
80.77 |
0.9612 |
-0.0254 |
256 |
1 |
80.77 |
2010-08-18 |
| 81. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
80.61 |
0.9905 |
-0.0488 |
377 |
1 |
80.61 |
2010-08-18 |
| 82. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
80.43 |
1.0034 |
-0.0731 |
302 |
1 |
80.43 |
2010-08-13 |
| 83. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
80.40 |
0.9468 |
-0.0159 |
276 |
2 |
77.86 |
2010-08-17 |
| 84. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
80.26 |
1.0077 |
-0.0366 |
250 |
1 |
80.26 |
2010-08-18 |
| 85. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
80.14 |
1.0396 |
-0.1184 |
149 |
1 |
80.14 |
2010-08-13 |
| 86. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
80.12 |
1.0506 |
-0.0936 |
277 |
1 |
80.12 |
2010-08-18 |
| 87. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
79.65 |
0.9514 |
-0.0285 |
237 |
1 |
79.65 |
2010-08-17 |
| 88. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
78.85 |
0.9943 |
-0.0779 |
373 |
1 |
78.85 |
2010-09-17 |
| 89. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
78.80 |
0.9485 |
-0.0341 |
236 |
1 |
78.80 |
2010-08-18 |
| 90. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
78.18 |
0.8916 |
0.0141 |
216 |
1 |
78.18 |
2010-08-27 |
| 91. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
77.56 |
0.9852 |
-0.0868 |
264 |
1 |
77.56 |
2010-08-18 |
| 92. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
77.11 |
0.9649 |
-0.0732 |
193 |
1 |
77.11 |
2010-08-18 |
| 93. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
77.03 |
0.9243 |
0.0069 |
448 |
1 |
77.03 |
2010-08-17 |
| 94. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
76.82 |
1.0004 |
-0.1171 |
212 |
1 |
76.82 |
2010-08-17 |
| 95. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
76.59 |
0.9697 |
-0.0828 |
249 |
1 |
76.59 |
2010-08-18 |
| 96. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
76.23 |
1.0031 |
-0.0871 |
304 |
1 |
76.23 |
2010-08-17 |
| 97. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
76.16 |
1.0270 |
-0.1094 |
255 |
1 |
76.16 |
2010-08-17 |
| 98. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
75.47 |
0.8753 |
0.0074 |
427 |
1 |
75.47 |
2010-08-18 |
| 99. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
75.45 |
0.9871 |
-0.0776 |
209 |
2 |
73.54 |
2010-08-17 |
| 100. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
75.13 |
0.9668 |
-0.0547 |
383 |
1 |
75.13 |
2010-08-13 |
| 101. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
74.93 |
0.8382 |
0.0295 |
268 |
1 |
74.93 |
2010-08-18 |
| 102. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
74.33 |
0.9814 |
-0.0819 |
364 |
1 |
74.33 |
2010-08-17 |
| 103. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
73.82 |
0.9088 |
-0.0494 |
348 |
1 |
73.82 |
2010-08-17 |
| 104. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
72.44 |
0.9699 |
-0.1325 |
269 |
1 |
72.44 |
2010-08-18 |
| 105. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
71.09 |
0.9216 |
-0.0606 |
255 |
1 |
71.09 |
2010-08-13 |
| 106. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
70.87 |
1.0042 |
-0.1432 |
352 |
1 |
70.87 |
2010-08-13 |
| 107. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
70.16 |
1.0165 |
-0.2014 |
392 |
1 |
70.16 |
2010-08-17 |
| 108. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
69.56 |
1.0788 |
-0.2803 |
171 |
1 |
69.56 |
2010-08-13 |
| 109. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
69.04 |
0.8981 |
-0.0955 |
393 |
1 |
69.04 |
2010-08-17 |
| 110. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
64.40 |
0.9351 |
-0.1971 |
190 |
1 |
64.40 |
2010-08-13 |
| 111. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
61.21 |
0.9546 |
-0.2173 |
198 |
1 |
61.21 |
2010-08-17 |