| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
63.57 |
1.0074 |
0.2583 |
242 |
2 |
61.27 |
2015-03-18 |
| 2. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
62.86 |
1.0944 |
0.2000 |
308 |
2 |
53.78 |
2015-03-19 |
| 3. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
62.40 |
1.0385 |
0.2003 |
230 |
2 |
60.90 |
2015-03-16 |
| 4. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
61.84 |
1.0487 |
0.1757 |
231 |
2 |
55.93 |
2015-03-19 |
| 5. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
61.26 |
0.9843 |
0.2284 |
234 |
1 |
61.26 |
2015-03-19 |
| 6. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
61.22 |
1.0381 |
0.1680 |
170 |
1 |
61.22 |
2015-02-03 |
| 7. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
60.91 |
1.0211 |
0.2200 |
213 |
1 |
60.91 |
2015-02-08 |
| 8. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
60.49 |
1.0565 |
0.1428 |
247 |
3 |
57.92 |
2015-03-18 |
| 9. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
59.87 |
1.0885 |
0.1044 |
315 |
1 |
59.87 |
2015-01-29 |
| 10. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
59.68 |
0.9776 |
0.2087 |
308 |
1 |
59.68 |
2015-02-09 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
59.15 |
1.0797 |
0.0901 |
210 |
1 |
59.15 |
2015-03-29 |
| 12. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
59.14 |
1.0352 |
0.1432 |
341 |
1 |
59.14 |
2015-03-29 |
| 13. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
59.12 |
1.0523 |
0.1182 |
256 |
1 |
59.12 |
2015-02-01 |
| 14. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
58.53 |
0.9756 |
0.1859 |
229 |
4 |
51.61 |
2015-03-16 |
| 15. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
58.23 |
1.0917 |
0.0886 |
243 |
1 |
58.23 |
2015-03-29 |
| 16. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
58.13 |
1.0496 |
0.1045 |
314 |
1 |
58.13 |
2015-02-08 |
| 17. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
57.84 |
0.9632 |
0.1839 |
240 |
1 |
57.84 |
2015-01-29 |
| 18. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
57.56 |
0.9310 |
0.2078 |
188 |
1 |
57.56 |
2015-02-13 |
| 19. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
55.96 |
0.9684 |
0.1453 |
388 |
1 |
55.96 |
2015-03-21 |
| 20. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
55.91 |
1.0429 |
0.0658 |
259 |
1 |
55.91 |
2015-03-21 |
| 21. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
55.55 |
1.0131 |
0.0860 |
225 |
2 |
51.04 |
2015-02-08 |
| 22. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
55.30 |
1.0012 |
0.0994 |
260 |
1 |
55.30 |
2015-02-01 |
| 23. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
55.25 |
1.0515 |
0.0434 |
250 |
1 |
55.25 |
2015-03-16 |
| 24. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
55.25 |
1.0388 |
0.0899 |
243 |
1 |
55.25 |
2015-03-29 |
| 25. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
54.80 |
0.9161 |
0.1695 |
200 |
1 |
54.80 |
2015-02-08 |
| 26. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
54.01 |
0.9729 |
0.0994 |
255 |
1 |
54.01 |
2014-11-16 |
| 27. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
53.90 |
0.9780 |
0.0928 |
337 |
2 |
51.58 |
2015-02-13 |
| 28. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
53.78 |
1.0941 |
0.0045 |
256 |
1 |
53.78 |
2015-01-29 |
| 29. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
53.61 |
1.0905 |
0.0049 |
210 |
1 |
53.61 |
2014-11-22 |
| 30. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
53.59 |
0.9532 |
0.1090 |
258 |
1 |
53.59 |
2015-02-08 |
| 31. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
53.55 |
1.0154 |
0.0971 |
351 |
1 |
53.55 |
2014-11-17 |
| 32. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
53.48 |
1.0398 |
0.0107 |
110 |
1 |
53.48 |
2014-11-17 |
| 33. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
53.46 |
1.0767 |
-0.0180 |
212 |
2 |
50.70 |
2015-04-15 |
| 34. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
53.46 |
0.9699 |
0.0902 |
269 |
3 |
50.95 |
2015-03-16 |
| 35. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
53.33 |
1.0441 |
0.0556 |
316 |
1 |
53.33 |
2015-02-03 |
| 36. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
53.29 |
0.9233 |
0.1260 |
168 |
2 |
53.19 |
2015-03-30 |
| 37. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
53.28 |
0.9754 |
0.0879 |
362 |
1 |
53.28 |
2014-11-21 |
| 38. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
53.15 |
0.9691 |
0.0851 |
223 |
2 |
48.23 |
2015-02-09 |
| 39. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
53.14 |
0.9884 |
0.0702 |
262 |
1 |
53.14 |
2014-11-16 |
| 40. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
53.13 |
1.0016 |
0.0480 |
218 |
1 |
53.13 |
2015-03-18 |
| 41. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
53.11 |
0.8022 |
0.2546 |
215 |
2 |
44.25 |
2015-02-09 |
| 42. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
52.90 |
0.9672 |
0.0892 |
396 |
1 |
52.90 |
2015-02-03 |
| 43. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
52.72 |
0.9792 |
0.1054 |
265 |
1 |
52.72 |
2015-01-29 |
| 44. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
52.39 |
1.1162 |
-0.0356 |
189 |
1 |
52.39 |
2015-03-16 |
| 45. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
52.39 |
1.0662 |
0.0113 |
407 |
1 |
52.39 |
2015-02-13 |
| 46. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
52.33 |
1.0340 |
0.0095 |
406 |
1 |
52.33 |
2015-02-03 |
| 47. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
52.25 |
1.0169 |
0.0584 |
346 |
1 |
52.25 |
2015-02-08 |
| 48. |
If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to ... |
52.23 |
1.0294 |
0.0120 |
206 |
1 |
52.23 |
2015-06-28 |
| 49. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
52.17 |
1.0441 |
-0.0078 |
252 |
1 |
52.17 |
2015-02-13 |
| 50. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
52.13 |
0.9687 |
0.0704 |
371 |
1 |
52.13 |
2015-02-08 |
| 51. |
As a manager you will also be able to control gravity. Sir I... |
51.99 |
0.9706 |
0.0706 |
409 |
1 |
51.99 |
2015-04-21 |
| 52. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
51.87 |
0.9936 |
0.0353 |
311 |
1 |
51.87 |
2015-02-16 |
| 53. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
51.83 |
1.0883 |
-0.0279 |
303 |
1 |
51.83 |
2015-02-01 |
| 54. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
51.74 |
1.0213 |
0.0020 |
240 |
1 |
51.74 |
2015-02-01 |
| 55. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
51.71 |
0.9731 |
0.0402 |
129 |
2 |
45.39 |
2015-03-29 |
| 56. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
51.59 |
0.9710 |
0.0461 |
173 |
1 |
51.59 |
2015-03-12 |
| 57. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
51.56 |
0.9899 |
0.0281 |
163 |
1 |
51.56 |
2015-01-29 |
| 58. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
50.91 |
0.9698 |
0.0728 |
397 |
1 |
50.91 |
2015-03-26 |
| 59. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
50.90 |
0.9505 |
0.0587 |
204 |
1 |
50.90 |
2015-02-08 |
| 60. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
50.83 |
0.9871 |
0.0573 |
209 |
1 |
50.83 |
2015-03-16 |
| 61. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
50.48 |
0.9509 |
0.0885 |
225 |
2 |
48.32 |
2015-02-01 |
| 62. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
50.43 |
0.9045 |
0.0963 |
235 |
2 |
44.50 |
2014-11-22 |
| 63. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
50.07 |
1.0534 |
-0.0580 |
357 |
1 |
50.07 |
2015-02-01 |
| 64. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
49.94 |
0.8367 |
0.1632 |
294 |
2 |
48.74 |
2015-02-15 |
| 65. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
49.93 |
1.0033 |
-0.0201 |
189 |
1 |
49.93 |
2015-01-29 |
| 66. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
49.88 |
0.8961 |
0.0895 |
189 |
1 |
49.88 |
2015-03-29 |
| 67. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
49.77 |
0.9171 |
0.0705 |
165 |
1 |
49.77 |
2014-11-15 |
| 68. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
49.76 |
1.0197 |
-0.0360 |
226 |
2 |
48.93 |
2014-11-17 |
| 69. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
49.55 |
0.9965 |
-0.0138 |
310 |
1 |
49.55 |
2015-03-29 |
| 70. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
49.36 |
0.9084 |
0.0740 |
404 |
1 |
49.36 |
2015-01-29 |
| 71. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
49.34 |
1.0263 |
-0.0491 |
267 |
1 |
49.34 |
2015-02-08 |
| 72. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
49.14 |
1.0419 |
-0.0680 |
261 |
1 |
49.14 |
2014-11-16 |
| 73. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
49.01 |
1.0417 |
-0.0729 |
253 |
2 |
48.40 |
2015-02-13 |
| 74. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
48.73 |
1.0124 |
-0.0490 |
204 |
1 |
48.73 |
2015-04-15 |
| 75. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
48.67 |
0.9897 |
-0.0274 |
274 |
1 |
48.67 |
2015-02-01 |
| 76. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
48.66 |
1.0189 |
-0.0512 |
337 |
1 |
48.66 |
2014-11-16 |
| 77. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
48.65 |
0.9279 |
0.0431 |
317 |
1 |
48.65 |
2015-03-31 |
| 78. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
48.64 |
0.9212 |
0.0461 |
323 |
1 |
48.64 |
2015-02-08 |
| 79. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
48.52 |
1.0284 |
-0.0235 |
282 |
1 |
48.52 |
2015-02-08 |
| 80. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
48.51 |
1.0023 |
-0.0429 |
211 |
2 |
47.32 |
2014-11-16 |
| 81. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
48.46 |
1.0774 |
-0.0875 |
304 |
1 |
48.46 |
2015-03-19 |
| 82. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
48.41 |
1.0368 |
-0.0765 |
276 |
2 |
44.47 |
2015-02-08 |
| 83. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
48.26 |
0.9485 |
0.0106 |
291 |
1 |
48.26 |
2015-03-19 |
| 84. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
48.05 |
0.9207 |
0.0340 |
174 |
1 |
48.05 |
2015-02-01 |
| 85. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
48.01 |
1.0535 |
-0.0671 |
326 |
1 |
48.01 |
2015-02-13 |
| 86. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
47.98 |
0.9612 |
-0.0100 |
256 |
1 |
47.98 |
2014-11-22 |
| 87. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
47.53 |
0.9063 |
0.0437 |
239 |
1 |
47.53 |
2014-11-16 |
| 88. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
46.83 |
0.9251 |
0.0079 |
177 |
1 |
46.83 |
2014-11-22 |
| 89. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
46.82 |
0.9601 |
-0.0278 |
308 |
1 |
46.82 |
2015-03-21 |
| 90. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
46.26 |
1.0389 |
-0.1208 |
318 |
1 |
46.26 |
2014-11-15 |
| 91. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
45.75 |
0.8996 |
0.0009 |
192 |
3 |
41.85 |
2014-11-17 |
| 92. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
45.66 |
1.0099 |
-0.1089 |
207 |
1 |
45.66 |
2015-03-16 |
| 93. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
45.54 |
0.9936 |
-0.0716 |
227 |
1 |
45.54 |
2014-11-16 |
| 94. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
45.07 |
0.9673 |
-0.0357 |
232 |
1 |
45.07 |
2014-11-16 |
| 95. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
44.94 |
0.9619 |
-0.0667 |
393 |
1 |
44.94 |
2014-11-16 |
| 96. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
44.89 |
0.9072 |
-0.0204 |
237 |
1 |
44.89 |
2014-11-16 |
| 97. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
44.87 |
1.0531 |
-0.1266 |
272 |
1 |
44.87 |
2014-11-23 |
| 98. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
44.86 |
0.8810 |
0.0077 |
282 |
1 |
44.86 |
2014-11-16 |
| 99. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
44.54 |
0.9763 |
-0.0952 |
289 |
1 |
44.54 |
2014-11-16 |
| 100. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
44.34 |
0.9226 |
-0.0408 |
177 |
1 |
44.34 |
2014-11-17 |
| 101. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
44.26 |
0.9668 |
-0.0481 |
383 |
1 |
44.26 |
2015-03-12 |
| 102. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
44.18 |
0.9109 |
-0.0334 |
401 |
1 |
44.18 |
2014-11-16 |
| 103. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
44.00 |
0.9127 |
-0.0445 |
252 |
1 |
44.00 |
2014-11-16 |
| 104. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
43.87 |
0.8852 |
-0.0145 |
201 |
3 |
42.10 |
2015-03-31 |
| 105. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
43.63 |
0.8602 |
0.0013 |
206 |
1 |
43.63 |
2014-11-22 |
| 106. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
43.24 |
1.0150 |
-0.1104 |
325 |
1 |
43.24 |
2014-11-16 |
| 107. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
42.98 |
1.0254 |
-0.1344 |
217 |
1 |
42.98 |
2014-11-17 |
| 108. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
42.54 |
0.9965 |
-0.1596 |
168 |
1 |
42.54 |
2014-11-16 |
| 109. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
42.31 |
0.8933 |
-0.0499 |
363 |
1 |
42.31 |
2014-11-16 |
| 110. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
42.02 |
0.9088 |
-0.0724 |
348 |
1 |
42.02 |
2015-03-16 |
| 111. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
41.82 |
0.9811 |
-0.1512 |
272 |
1 |
41.82 |
2015-02-03 |
| 112. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
41.07 |
0.8348 |
-0.0164 |
219 |
1 |
41.07 |
2014-11-17 |
| 113. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
40.14 |
0.9216 |
-0.0890 |
255 |
1 |
40.14 |
2014-11-16 |
| 114. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
40.04 |
0.9164 |
-0.1199 |
305 |
1 |
40.04 |
2014-11-16 |
| 115. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
39.77 |
1.0604 |
-0.2412 |
260 |
1 |
39.77 |
2014-11-16 |
| 116. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
39.68 |
0.9805 |
-0.1917 |
292 |
1 |
39.68 |
2014-11-17 |
| 117. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
39.42 |
0.7877 |
-0.0042 |
142 |
1 |
39.42 |
2014-11-17 |
| 118. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
39.37 |
0.9636 |
-0.1861 |
254 |
1 |
39.37 |
2014-11-16 |
| 119. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
39.21 |
0.9461 |
-0.1756 |
193 |
1 |
39.21 |
2014-11-17 |
| 120. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
39.20 |
0.9089 |
-0.1309 |
342 |
1 |
39.20 |
2014-11-15 |
| 121. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
39.01 |
0.9461 |
-0.1759 |
276 |
1 |
39.01 |
2014-11-21 |
| 122. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
38.16 |
0.9275 |
-0.1770 |
211 |
1 |
38.16 |
2014-11-16 |
| 123. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
37.99 |
0.8595 |
-0.1072 |
242 |
2 |
37.25 |
2014-11-22 |
| 124. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
37.74 |
0.9965 |
-0.2509 |
277 |
1 |
37.74 |
2015-03-31 |
| 125. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
37.69 |
0.7876 |
-0.0408 |
316 |
1 |
37.69 |
2015-06-24 |
| 126. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
36.45 |
1.0574 |
-0.3102 |
205 |
1 |
36.45 |
2015-02-13 |
| 127. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
35.42 |
0.8956 |
-0.1924 |
322 |
1 |
35.42 |
2014-11-15 |