| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
92.21 |
1.0972 |
0.2592 |
251 |
2 |
88.16 |
2012-06-05 |
| 2. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
90.28 |
1.0033 |
0.2887 |
189 |
1 |
90.28 |
2012-06-05 |
| 3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
85.31 |
1.0829 |
0.1451 |
288 |
2 |
77.54 |
2012-06-05 |
| 4. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
84.41 |
1.0459 |
0.1987 |
200 |
1 |
84.41 |
2012-06-06 |
| 5. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
84.20 |
1.0944 |
0.1608 |
308 |
1 |
84.20 |
2012-06-05 |
| 6. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
82.85 |
1.0125 |
0.1760 |
224 |
2 |
74.78 |
2012-06-06 |
| 7. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
82.73 |
1.0213 |
0.1645 |
240 |
1 |
82.73 |
2012-06-04 |
| 8. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
82.61 |
1.0799 |
0.1037 |
243 |
1 |
82.61 |
2012-06-06 |
| 9. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
80.85 |
1.0384 |
0.1137 |
183 |
2 |
77.32 |
2012-06-06 |
| 10. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
80.23 |
1.0385 |
0.1124 |
230 |
1 |
80.23 |
2012-06-04 |
| 11. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
80.22 |
1.0725 |
0.1059 |
233 |
1 |
80.22 |
2012-06-05 |
| 12. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
79.90 |
1.0389 |
0.1107 |
318 |
1 |
79.90 |
2012-06-05 |
| 13. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
79.81 |
1.0099 |
0.1338 |
207 |
3 |
76.79 |
2012-06-05 |
| 14. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
79.74 |
1.0515 |
0.0922 |
250 |
1 |
79.74 |
2012-06-04 |
| 15. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
79.21 |
1.0714 |
0.0576 |
129 |
1 |
79.21 |
2012-06-05 |
| 16. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
77.98 |
1.1296 |
0.0195 |
252 |
1 |
77.98 |
2012-06-04 |
| 17. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
77.45 |
1.0528 |
0.0545 |
201 |
2 |
77.14 |
2012-06-06 |
| 18. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
77.37 |
1.0314 |
0.1190 |
452 |
1 |
77.37 |
2012-06-05 |
| 19. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
76.93 |
1.0131 |
0.0878 |
225 |
1 |
76.93 |
2012-06-06 |
| 20. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
76.60 |
1.0073 |
0.1007 |
369 |
1 |
76.60 |
2012-06-06 |
| 21. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
76.42 |
1.0993 |
-0.0040 |
265 |
1 |
76.42 |
2012-06-05 |
| 22. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
76.20 |
0.9908 |
0.1493 |
342 |
1 |
76.20 |
2012-06-06 |
| 23. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
75.65 |
1.0172 |
0.1041 |
341 |
2 |
75.44 |
2012-06-06 |
| 24. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
75.22 |
1.0257 |
0.0606 |
401 |
2 |
74.73 |
2012-06-04 |
| 25. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
75.14 |
1.0444 |
0.0278 |
197 |
1 |
75.14 |
2012-06-06 |
| 26. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
75.07 |
1.0555 |
0.0519 |
323 |
1 |
75.07 |
2012-06-04 |
| 27. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
75.04 |
0.9795 |
0.0978 |
308 |
1 |
75.04 |
2012-06-04 |
| 28. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
74.68 |
1.0531 |
0.0571 |
272 |
1 |
74.68 |
2012-06-06 |
| 29. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
74.67 |
1.0150 |
0.1059 |
325 |
1 |
74.67 |
2012-06-05 |
| 30. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
74.14 |
1.0669 |
0.0302 |
213 |
2 |
72.88 |
2012-06-06 |
| 31. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
73.85 |
1.0496 |
0.0097 |
314 |
1 |
73.85 |
2012-06-05 |
| 32. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
73.55 |
1.0201 |
0.0396 |
375 |
1 |
73.55 |
2012-06-06 |
| 33. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
73.51 |
1.0361 |
0.0200 |
269 |
1 |
73.51 |
2012-06-06 |
| 34. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
73.32 |
1.0062 |
0.0461 |
288 |
1 |
73.32 |
2012-06-04 |
| 35. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
73.23 |
0.9339 |
0.1156 |
310 |
1 |
73.23 |
2012-06-05 |
| 36. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
73.19 |
1.0696 |
-0.0227 |
226 |
2 |
70.97 |
2012-06-06 |
| 37. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
72.67 |
1.0483 |
-0.0084 |
227 |
1 |
72.67 |
2012-06-04 |
| 38. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
72.52 |
0.9084 |
0.1364 |
404 |
1 |
72.52 |
2012-06-06 |
| 39. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
72.31 |
0.9863 |
0.0557 |
339 |
1 |
72.31 |
2012-06-04 |
| 40. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
72.28 |
0.9769 |
0.0582 |
263 |
1 |
72.28 |
2012-06-04 |
| 41. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
72.03 |
0.9710 |
0.0561 |
173 |
3 |
68.02 |
2012-06-06 |
| 42. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
71.64 |
1.0218 |
0.0032 |
268 |
1 |
71.64 |
2012-06-05 |
| 43. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
71.61 |
0.9509 |
0.1150 |
225 |
1 |
71.61 |
2012-06-05 |
| 44. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
71.42 |
1.0669 |
-0.0099 |
286 |
1 |
71.42 |
2012-06-04 |
| 45. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
71.20 |
1.0029 |
0.0122 |
209 |
2 |
66.67 |
2012-06-04 |
| 46. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
70.68 |
1.0214 |
-0.0128 |
166 |
1 |
70.68 |
2012-06-06 |
| 47. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
70.59 |
0.9351 |
0.0721 |
190 |
2 |
70.23 |
2012-06-04 |
| 48. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
70.37 |
0.9411 |
0.0692 |
318 |
2 |
66.60 |
2012-06-05 |
| 49. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
70.05 |
0.9698 |
0.0679 |
397 |
3 |
65.55 |
2012-06-06 |
| 50. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
69.65 |
1.0042 |
0.0363 |
352 |
1 |
69.65 |
2012-06-05 |
| 51. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
69.45 |
0.8878 |
0.1081 |
346 |
2 |
64.41 |
2012-06-06 |
| 52. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
69.45 |
1.0183 |
-0.0278 |
191 |
2 |
65.18 |
2012-06-04 |
| 53. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
69.29 |
1.1018 |
-0.1144 |
220 |
1 |
69.29 |
2012-06-05 |
| 54. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
69.26 |
0.9925 |
0.0375 |
247 |
1 |
69.26 |
2012-06-05 |
| 55. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
69.22 |
1.0252 |
-0.0389 |
176 |
1 |
69.22 |
2012-06-04 |
| 56. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
69.15 |
0.8845 |
0.1076 |
273 |
1 |
69.15 |
2012-06-04 |
| 57. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
69.13 |
1.0141 |
0.0174 |
381 |
1 |
69.13 |
2012-06-04 |
| 58. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
68.97 |
0.9376 |
0.0569 |
367 |
1 |
68.97 |
2012-06-05 |
| 59. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
68.97 |
0.9675 |
0.0311 |
383 |
1 |
68.97 |
2012-06-05 |
| 60. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
68.81 |
0.9831 |
0.0011 |
222 |
1 |
68.81 |
2012-06-04 |
| 61. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
68.72 |
0.9768 |
0.0113 |
387 |
1 |
68.72 |
2012-06-04 |
| 62. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.67 |
0.9601 |
0.0294 |
308 |
1 |
68.67 |
2012-06-04 |
| 63. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
68.52 |
1.0008 |
0.0248 |
473 |
1 |
68.52 |
2012-06-04 |
| 64. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
68.49 |
1.0016 |
-0.0241 |
218 |
1 |
68.49 |
2012-06-04 |
| 65. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
68.49 |
0.9429 |
0.0405 |
287 |
2 |
67.45 |
2012-06-04 |
| 66. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
68.23 |
1.0943 |
-0.0833 |
206 |
1 |
68.23 |
2012-06-04 |
| 67. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
68.15 |
0.9074 |
0.0763 |
396 |
1 |
68.15 |
2012-06-04 |
| 68. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
68.05 |
1.0264 |
-0.0105 |
422 |
1 |
68.05 |
2012-06-04 |
| 69. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
67.70 |
0.9676 |
0.0114 |
442 |
2 |
67.61 |
2012-06-05 |
| 70. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
67.67 |
0.8852 |
0.0871 |
201 |
1 |
67.67 |
2012-06-06 |
| 71. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
67.65 |
0.9529 |
0.0576 |
269 |
1 |
67.65 |
2012-06-06 |
| 72. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
67.56 |
1.0719 |
-0.0757 |
360 |
1 |
67.56 |
2012-06-05 |
| 73. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
67.49 |
1.0429 |
-0.0767 |
259 |
1 |
67.49 |
2012-06-05 |
| 74. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
67.47 |
0.9646 |
0.0018 |
264 |
2 |
65.36 |
2012-06-05 |
| 75. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
67.46 |
1.0346 |
-0.0254 |
244 |
1 |
67.46 |
2012-06-04 |
| 76. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
67.40 |
1.0417 |
-0.0779 |
253 |
1 |
67.40 |
2012-06-05 |
| 77. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
66.83 |
0.9212 |
0.0401 |
323 |
2 |
65.08 |
2012-06-06 |
| 78. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
66.74 |
0.9234 |
0.0387 |
346 |
1 |
66.74 |
2012-06-06 |
| 79. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
66.59 |
1.0389 |
-0.0820 |
340 |
1 |
66.59 |
2012-06-04 |
| 80. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
66.43 |
1.0297 |
-0.0787 |
249 |
1 |
66.43 |
2012-06-04 |
| 81. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
66.42 |
1.0487 |
-0.1016 |
231 |
1 |
66.42 |
2012-06-06 |
| 82. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
66.42 |
1.0523 |
-0.1045 |
256 |
1 |
66.42 |
2012-06-04 |
| 83. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
66.32 |
0.9353 |
0.0112 |
177 |
1 |
66.32 |
2012-06-04 |
| 84. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
66.26 |
1.0063 |
-0.0561 |
371 |
2 |
64.40 |
2012-06-06 |
| 85. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
66.19 |
1.0462 |
-0.1036 |
184 |
1 |
66.19 |
2012-06-04 |
| 86. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
66.13 |
0.9780 |
-0.0291 |
337 |
2 |
61.77 |
2012-06-05 |
| 87. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
66.10 |
0.9398 |
0.0169 |
419 |
1 |
66.10 |
2012-06-05 |
| 88. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
66.02 |
1.0125 |
-0.0284 |
413 |
1 |
66.02 |
2012-06-04 |
| 89. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
65.97 |
1.0120 |
-0.0673 |
290 |
1 |
65.97 |
2012-06-04 |
| 90. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
65.92 |
0.8996 |
0.0397 |
192 |
1 |
65.92 |
2012-06-06 |
| 91. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
65.83 |
0.9508 |
0.0259 |
384 |
1 |
65.83 |
2012-06-06 |
| 92. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
65.61 |
0.9820 |
-0.0415 |
274 |
1 |
65.61 |
2012-06-04 |
| 93. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
65.03 |
0.9127 |
0.0169 |
252 |
2 |
63.51 |
2012-06-05 |
| 94. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
64.88 |
1.0387 |
-0.0767 |
239 |
1 |
64.88 |
2012-06-04 |
| 95. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
64.82 |
1.0529 |
-0.1242 |
351 |
1 |
64.82 |
2012-06-04 |
| 96. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
64.66 |
0.9672 |
-0.0342 |
396 |
1 |
64.66 |
2012-06-04 |
| 97. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
64.64 |
0.9045 |
0.0220 |
235 |
1 |
64.64 |
2012-06-04 |
| 98. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
64.59 |
0.9790 |
-0.0129 |
311 |
1 |
64.59 |
2012-06-06 |
| 99. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
64.48 |
1.0398 |
-0.1264 |
110 |
1 |
64.48 |
2012-06-05 |
| 100. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
64.39 |
0.9697 |
-0.0469 |
249 |
1 |
64.39 |
2012-06-05 |
| 101. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
64.02 |
0.9936 |
-0.0767 |
311 |
1 |
64.02 |
2012-06-04 |
| 102. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
63.96 |
0.8467 |
0.0938 |
343 |
1 |
63.96 |
2012-06-05 |
| 103. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
63.95 |
0.9570 |
-0.0391 |
287 |
1 |
63.95 |
2012-06-05 |
| 104. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
63.89 |
1.0232 |
-0.0723 |
236 |
1 |
63.89 |
2012-06-06 |
| 105. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
63.77 |
0.9746 |
-0.0326 |
405 |
1 |
63.77 |
2012-06-04 |
| 106. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
63.71 |
1.0767 |
-0.1662 |
212 |
1 |
63.71 |
2012-06-04 |
| 107. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
63.68 |
0.9612 |
-0.0489 |
256 |
1 |
63.68 |
2012-06-05 |
| 108. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
63.63 |
1.0621 |
-0.1312 |
263 |
1 |
63.63 |
2012-06-04 |
| 109. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
63.45 |
0.8553 |
0.0485 |
174 |
1 |
63.45 |
2012-06-06 |
| 110. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
62.89 |
0.9811 |
-0.0776 |
272 |
1 |
62.89 |
2012-06-05 |
| 111. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
62.77 |
0.9213 |
-0.0218 |
295 |
1 |
62.77 |
2012-06-04 |
| 112. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
62.39 |
0.8890 |
0.0009 |
199 |
1 |
62.39 |
2012-06-04 |
| 113. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
61.35 |
0.9936 |
-0.0951 |
227 |
1 |
61.35 |
2012-06-04 |
| 114. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
60.90 |
1.0077 |
-0.0945 |
250 |
1 |
60.90 |
2012-06-04 |
| 115. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
60.87 |
0.9176 |
-0.0074 |
365 |
1 |
60.87 |
2012-06-06 |
| 116. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
60.52 |
0.7876 |
0.0814 |
316 |
1 |
60.52 |
2012-06-04 |
| 117. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
60.39 |
0.9851 |
-0.1184 |
317 |
1 |
60.39 |
2012-06-05 |
| 118. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
60.15 |
0.9266 |
-0.0655 |
267 |
3 |
56.09 |
2012-06-04 |
| 119. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
59.76 |
0.9233 |
-0.0763 |
168 |
1 |
59.76 |
2012-06-05 |
| 120. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
59.32 |
1.0090 |
-0.1163 |
282 |
1 |
59.32 |
2012-06-04 |
| 121. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
59.09 |
0.9756 |
-0.1313 |
229 |
1 |
59.09 |
2012-06-04 |
| 122. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
58.95 |
0.9843 |
-0.1458 |
234 |
1 |
58.95 |
2012-06-05 |
| 123. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
58.69 |
1.0169 |
-0.1385 |
346 |
1 |
58.69 |
2012-06-05 |
| 124. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
58.63 |
1.0796 |
-0.2455 |
129 |
1 |
58.63 |
2012-06-04 |
| 125. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
57.71 |
1.0679 |
-0.2221 |
177 |
1 |
57.71 |
2012-06-04 |
| 126. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
56.84 |
0.8602 |
-0.0495 |
206 |
1 |
56.84 |
2012-06-04 |
| 127. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
56.53 |
0.8629 |
-0.0497 |
299 |
1 |
56.53 |
2012-06-04 |
| 128. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
56.28 |
0.8775 |
-0.0691 |
443 |
1 |
56.28 |
2012-06-04 |
| 129. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
56.12 |
0.9527 |
-0.1504 |
251 |
1 |
56.12 |
2012-06-05 |
| 130. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
55.91 |
0.9049 |
-0.1001 |
351 |
1 |
55.91 |
2012-06-04 |
| 131. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
54.24 |
0.8105 |
-0.0397 |
204 |
1 |
54.24 |
2012-06-06 |
| 132. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
51.05 |
1.0138 |
-0.2854 |
231 |
1 |
51.05 |
2012-06-06 |
| 133. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
49.60 |
0.9155 |
-0.1585 |
168 |
1 |
49.60 |
2012-06-05 |