| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
57.74 |
1.0205 |
0.4851 |
179 |
1 |
57.74 |
2011-05-13 |
| 2. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
56.83 |
1.0483 |
0.4368 |
227 |
2 |
52.07 |
2011-05-05 |
| 3. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
50.67 |
0.9310 |
0.3905 |
188 |
1 |
50.67 |
2011-05-14 |
| 4. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
49.86 |
0.8852 |
0.4209 |
201 |
1 |
49.86 |
2011-05-10 |
| 5. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
49.58 |
1.0132 |
0.2747 |
143 |
1 |
49.58 |
2011-01-19 |
| 6. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
49.24 |
1.0444 |
0.2366 |
197 |
1 |
49.24 |
2011-05-06 |
| 7. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
48.72 |
0.9084 |
0.3673 |
300 |
1 |
48.72 |
2011-05-13 |
| 8. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
48.59 |
0.8867 |
0.3889 |
241 |
3 |
38.90 |
2011-05-12 |
| 9. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
48.59 |
1.0124 |
0.2556 |
204 |
2 |
40.17 |
2011-05-05 |
| 10. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
48.43 |
1.0068 |
0.2627 |
358 |
1 |
48.43 |
2011-05-19 |
| 11. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
47.90 |
0.9894 |
0.2672 |
323 |
1 |
47.90 |
2011-09-11 |
| 12. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
47.83 |
0.8811 |
0.3739 |
239 |
2 |
36.72 |
2011-05-11 |
| 13. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
47.65 |
0.9289 |
0.3144 |
204 |
1 |
47.65 |
2012-08-20 |
| 14. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
47.57 |
0.9724 |
0.2747 |
237 |
2 |
39.11 |
2011-05-05 |
| 15. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
47.47 |
1.0829 |
0.1595 |
288 |
3 |
40.62 |
2011-05-05 |
| 16. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
47.03 |
0.9353 |
0.2898 |
177 |
1 |
47.03 |
2011-07-25 |
| 17. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
47.01 |
0.9418 |
0.2925 |
188 |
4 |
37.45 |
2011-01-17 |
| 18. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
46.98 |
0.9684 |
0.2622 |
388 |
1 |
46.98 |
2011-05-05 |
| 19. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
46.53 |
1.0799 |
0.1324 |
243 |
1 |
46.53 |
2011-05-05 |
| 20. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
46.45 |
1.0337 |
0.1796 |
214 |
3 |
39.28 |
2011-09-18 |
| 21. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
45.99 |
1.0384 |
0.1538 |
183 |
1 |
45.99 |
2011-05-05 |
| 22. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
45.86 |
0.9636 |
0.2346 |
254 |
2 |
35.16 |
2011-01-26 |
| 23. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
45.54 |
0.9368 |
0.2536 |
173 |
1 |
45.54 |
2011-09-18 |
| 24. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
45.36 |
0.9635 |
0.2270 |
389 |
1 |
45.36 |
2011-05-05 |
| 25. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
44.86 |
0.8022 |
0.3728 |
215 |
1 |
44.86 |
2012-08-20 |
| 26. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
44.73 |
0.9938 |
0.1755 |
339 |
1 |
44.73 |
2011-09-11 |
| 27. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
44.39 |
1.0004 |
0.1530 |
212 |
1 |
44.39 |
2011-05-06 |
| 28. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
44.34 |
1.0169 |
0.1799 |
346 |
1 |
44.34 |
2011-05-05 |
| 29. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
44.18 |
0.9128 |
0.2827 |
369 |
1 |
44.18 |
2011-01-25 |
| 30. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
43.94 |
0.9233 |
0.2160 |
168 |
1 |
43.94 |
2011-05-05 |
| 31. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
43.90 |
0.9619 |
0.1899 |
393 |
1 |
43.90 |
2011-09-13 |
| 32. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.36 |
1.0125 |
0.1175 |
224 |
1 |
43.36 |
2011-01-19 |
| 33. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
43.17 |
1.0173 |
0.1542 |
268 |
1 |
43.17 |
2011-05-05 |
| 34. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
43.15 |
0.9572 |
0.1685 |
201 |
1 |
43.15 |
2010-09-16 |
| 35. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
43.10 |
1.0314 |
0.1332 |
452 |
1 |
43.10 |
2011-05-06 |
| 36. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
43.03 |
0.9226 |
0.2073 |
348 |
1 |
43.03 |
2011-01-26 |
| 37. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
42.97 |
1.0389 |
0.0855 |
340 |
1 |
42.97 |
2010-06-13 |
| 38. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
42.62 |
0.9213 |
0.1920 |
295 |
1 |
42.62 |
2011-05-19 |
| 39. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
42.53 |
1.0417 |
0.0662 |
253 |
2 |
41.25 |
2011-05-05 |
| 40. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
42.50 |
1.0506 |
0.0878 |
277 |
1 |
42.50 |
2011-09-21 |
| 41. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
42.17 |
0.9504 |
0.1451 |
263 |
1 |
42.17 |
2011-05-05 |
| 42. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
42.03 |
1.0445 |
0.0536 |
373 |
1 |
42.03 |
2011-01-17 |
| 43. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
41.77 |
0.9820 |
0.1111 |
267 |
1 |
41.77 |
2011-01-19 |
| 44. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
41.60 |
0.9164 |
0.1742 |
305 |
1 |
41.60 |
2011-05-14 |
| 45. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
41.56 |
1.0390 |
0.0420 |
205 |
1 |
41.56 |
2010-06-10 |
| 46. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
41.21 |
1.0031 |
0.1059 |
304 |
1 |
41.21 |
2011-09-17 |
| 47. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
40.91 |
1.0150 |
0.1016 |
325 |
1 |
40.91 |
2011-09-17 |
| 48. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
40.74 |
0.9266 |
0.1383 |
278 |
1 |
40.74 |
2010-09-16 |
| 49. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
40.48 |
0.9863 |
0.0743 |
339 |
1 |
40.48 |
2011-01-25 |
| 50. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
40.27 |
1.0288 |
0.0540 |
300 |
1 |
40.27 |
2010-09-16 |
| 51. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
39.82 |
0.9699 |
0.0683 |
269 |
1 |
39.82 |
2010-09-16 |
| 52. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
39.82 |
1.0042 |
0.0761 |
352 |
1 |
39.82 |
2011-05-05 |
| 53. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
39.63 |
1.0334 |
-0.0061 |
131 |
1 |
39.63 |
2010-06-05 |
| 54. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
39.21 |
0.9514 |
0.0716 |
237 |
1 |
39.21 |
2010-06-05 |
| 55. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.04 |
1.0138 |
0.0040 |
231 |
1 |
39.04 |
2010-09-16 |
| 56. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
39.01 |
0.8520 |
0.1663 |
202 |
1 |
39.01 |
2011-05-06 |
| 57. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
38.93 |
0.9986 |
0.0173 |
283 |
1 |
38.93 |
2011-01-19 |
| 58. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
38.87 |
0.9649 |
0.0477 |
193 |
2 |
38.27 |
2010-09-14 |
| 59. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
38.67 |
0.9239 |
0.0911 |
193 |
3 |
32.62 |
2010-09-16 |
| 60. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
38.39 |
0.9633 |
0.0399 |
304 |
1 |
38.39 |
2011-01-17 |
| 61. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
38.33 |
0.9567 |
0.0426 |
273 |
1 |
38.33 |
2010-06-10 |
| 62. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
38.14 |
0.9202 |
0.0735 |
254 |
3 |
32.79 |
2010-09-16 |
| 63. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
37.95 |
1.0077 |
0.0230 |
250 |
1 |
37.95 |
2010-06-13 |
| 64. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
37.87 |
1.0214 |
-0.0395 |
166 |
2 |
31.33 |
2010-09-16 |
| 65. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
37.61 |
1.0033 |
-0.0296 |
189 |
1 |
37.61 |
2010-09-16 |
| 66. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
37.20 |
1.0621 |
-0.0731 |
263 |
1 |
37.20 |
2010-09-16 |
| 67. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
37.12 |
0.9303 |
0.0309 |
176 |
1 |
37.12 |
2010-09-16 |
| 68. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
36.92 |
0.9023 |
0.1027 |
231 |
1 |
36.92 |
2010-06-05 |
| 69. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
36.86 |
0.9976 |
-0.0168 |
174 |
3 |
31.86 |
2010-09-16 |
| 70. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
36.53 |
1.0595 |
-0.1051 |
379 |
1 |
36.53 |
2010-09-16 |
| 71. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
35.59 |
1.0168 |
-0.0883 |
271 |
1 |
35.59 |
2010-06-10 |
| 72. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
35.52 |
0.9612 |
-0.0360 |
256 |
1 |
35.52 |
2011-01-19 |
| 73. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
35.18 |
0.9430 |
-0.0340 |
211 |
1 |
35.18 |
2011-01-25 |
| 74. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
34.69 |
0.7104 |
0.1957 |
131 |
1 |
34.69 |
2010-02-05 |
| 75. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
34.24 |
0.9851 |
-0.0915 |
317 |
2 |
31.25 |
2010-02-05 |
| 76. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
34.12 |
1.1018 |
-0.2199 |
220 |
1 |
34.12 |
2010-02-05 |
| 77. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
33.79 |
1.0023 |
-0.1247 |
211 |
2 |
31.73 |
2010-02-05 |
| 78. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
33.26 |
0.8023 |
0.0687 |
182 |
1 |
33.26 |
2010-02-05 |
| 79. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
33.05 |
1.0396 |
-0.1868 |
149 |
1 |
33.05 |
2010-02-05 |
| 80. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
33.02 |
0.7981 |
0.0587 |
126 |
1 |
33.02 |
2010-02-05 |
| 81. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
32.92 |
0.8190 |
0.0446 |
135 |
1 |
32.92 |
2010-02-05 |
| 82. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
32.89 |
0.9196 |
-0.0621 |
148 |
1 |
32.89 |
2010-02-04 |
| 83. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
32.75 |
0.8077 |
0.0425 |
167 |
2 |
30.19 |
2011-01-25 |
| 84. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
32.41 |
1.0263 |
-0.1840 |
267 |
1 |
32.41 |
2010-02-05 |
| 85. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
32.23 |
0.9063 |
-0.0600 |
239 |
2 |
29.73 |
2010-02-05 |
| 86. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
32.17 |
0.8096 |
0.0351 |
209 |
1 |
32.17 |
2010-06-10 |
| 87. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
32.11 |
0.8961 |
-0.0643 |
189 |
1 |
32.11 |
2010-09-16 |
| 88. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
31.95 |
0.8899 |
-0.0478 |
293 |
1 |
31.95 |
2010-02-05 |
| 89. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
31.71 |
0.9340 |
-0.1096 |
296 |
1 |
31.71 |
2010-02-05 |
| 90. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
31.22 |
0.8573 |
-0.0420 |
270 |
1 |
31.22 |
2010-02-05 |
| 91. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
31.10 |
0.9966 |
-0.1887 |
259 |
1 |
31.10 |
2010-02-05 |
| 92. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
31.09 |
0.9665 |
-0.1090 |
326 |
2 |
30.53 |
2010-02-05 |
| 93. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
30.86 |
1.0261 |
-0.2258 |
273 |
1 |
30.86 |
2010-02-04 |
| 94. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
30.84 |
1.0523 |
-0.2550 |
256 |
1 |
30.84 |
2010-02-05 |
| 95. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
30.83 |
0.9711 |
-0.1709 |
176 |
1 |
30.83 |
2010-02-05 |
| 96. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
30.65 |
0.9758 |
-0.1785 |
314 |
1 |
30.65 |
2010-02-04 |
| 97. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
30.56 |
0.7839 |
0.0159 |
257 |
1 |
30.56 |
2010-02-05 |
| 98. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
30.44 |
1.0767 |
-0.2878 |
212 |
1 |
30.44 |
2010-02-04 |
| 99. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
29.89 |
0.8996 |
-0.1286 |
192 |
1 |
29.89 |
2010-02-05 |
| 100. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
29.89 |
0.8142 |
-0.0433 |
187 |
1 |
29.89 |
2010-02-05 |
| 101. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
29.46 |
1.0252 |
-0.2665 |
176 |
1 |
29.46 |
2010-02-05 |
| 102. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
29.40 |
1.0941 |
-0.2993 |
256 |
1 |
29.40 |
2010-02-05 |
| 103. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
29.40 |
1.0795 |
-0.2854 |
226 |
1 |
29.40 |
2010-02-05 |
| 104. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
29.26 |
0.8070 |
-0.0502 |
167 |
1 |
29.26 |
2010-02-05 |
| 105. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
29.26 |
0.7389 |
0.0224 |
145 |
1 |
29.26 |
2010-02-05 |
| 106. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
28.85 |
0.8154 |
-0.0645 |
193 |
1 |
28.85 |
2010-02-05 |
| 107. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
28.85 |
0.8975 |
-0.1479 |
268 |
1 |
28.85 |
2010-02-05 |
| 108. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
28.31 |
0.8145 |
-0.0774 |
115 |
1 |
28.31 |
2010-02-05 |
| 109. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
28.22 |
0.8562 |
-0.1237 |
170 |
1 |
28.22 |
2010-02-05 |
| 110. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
28.21 |
1.0711 |
-0.3440 |
213 |
1 |
28.21 |
2010-02-05 |
| 111. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
28.20 |
0.8916 |
-0.1594 |
216 |
2 |
27.75 |
2010-02-05 |
| 112. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
27.99 |
0.8660 |
-0.1392 |
193 |
1 |
27.99 |
2010-02-04 |
| 113. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
27.72 |
0.8787 |
-0.1548 |
202 |
1 |
27.72 |
2010-02-05 |
| 114. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
26.54 |
0.9161 |
-0.2300 |
200 |
1 |
26.54 |
2010-02-04 |
| 115. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
26.52 |
0.8821 |
-0.1951 |
176 |
1 |
26.52 |
2010-02-04 |
| 116. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
26.39 |
0.9786 |
-0.2997 |
193 |
1 |
26.39 |
2010-02-04 |
| 117. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
25.38 |
1.0029 |
-0.3519 |
209 |
1 |
25.38 |
2010-02-04 |
| 118. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
25.20 |
0.8553 |
-0.2077 |
174 |
1 |
25.20 |
2010-02-04 |
| 119. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
24.27 |
0.8442 |
-0.2121 |
265 |
1 |
24.27 |
2010-02-04 |
| 120. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
23.98 |
1.0498 |
-0.4341 |
180 |
1 |
23.98 |
2010-02-04 |
| 121. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
20.08 |
0.8971 |
-0.3744 |
266 |
1 |
20.08 |
2010-02-05 |