| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
63.82 |
1.0787 |
0.1261 |
237 |
2 |
62.30 |
2012-11-20 |
| 2. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
62.53 |
0.9612 |
0.2208 |
256 |
3 |
57.57 |
2012-11-29 |
| 3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
62.04 |
1.0829 |
0.0908 |
288 |
1 |
62.04 |
2012-11-16 |
| 4. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
61.35 |
0.9632 |
0.1941 |
240 |
2 |
59.76 |
2012-11-20 |
| 5. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
59.77 |
1.0795 |
0.0798 |
226 |
1 |
59.77 |
2012-12-04 |
| 6. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
59.45 |
1.0270 |
0.1317 |
255 |
1 |
59.45 |
2012-11-20 |
| 7. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
59.07 |
1.0644 |
0.0876 |
257 |
1 |
59.07 |
2012-11-20 |
| 8. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
59.00 |
1.1081 |
0.0405 |
206 |
1 |
59.00 |
2012-11-20 |
| 9. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
58.67 |
1.0515 |
0.0544 |
250 |
1 |
58.67 |
2012-11-19 |
| 10. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
58.62 |
1.0463 |
0.0559 |
182 |
1 |
58.62 |
2012-11-19 |
| 11. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
58.61 |
1.0292 |
0.0761 |
262 |
1 |
58.61 |
2012-12-04 |
| 12. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
57.82 |
1.0885 |
0.0063 |
315 |
2 |
57.34 |
2012-11-28 |
| 13. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
57.81 |
1.0943 |
0.0299 |
206 |
1 |
57.81 |
2012-11-28 |
| 14. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
57.80 |
1.0124 |
0.0764 |
204 |
2 |
56.79 |
2012-12-04 |
| 15. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
57.49 |
1.0201 |
0.0588 |
172 |
2 |
57.30 |
2012-11-28 |
| 16. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
57.45 |
1.0595 |
0.0278 |
379 |
1 |
57.45 |
2012-11-28 |
| 17. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
57.03 |
1.0337 |
0.0420 |
214 |
1 |
57.03 |
2012-12-07 |
| 18. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
57.01 |
0.9894 |
0.0913 |
323 |
1 |
57.01 |
2012-11-28 |
| 19. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
56.79 |
1.0352 |
0.0401 |
341 |
1 |
56.79 |
2012-11-19 |
| 20. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
56.65 |
1.0555 |
0.0153 |
363 |
2 |
55.61 |
2012-11-21 |
| 21. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
55.74 |
1.0201 |
0.0324 |
303 |
1 |
55.74 |
2012-11-21 |
| 22. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
55.51 |
1.0534 |
-0.0033 |
357 |
2 |
54.00 |
2012-11-21 |
| 23. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
55.51 |
1.0213 |
0.0231 |
240 |
1 |
55.51 |
2012-11-16 |
| 24. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
55.46 |
1.0211 |
0.0559 |
213 |
1 |
55.46 |
2012-11-21 |
| 25. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
55.46 |
1.0340 |
0.0178 |
406 |
1 |
55.46 |
2012-12-04 |
| 26. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
55.33 |
0.9997 |
0.0482 |
382 |
1 |
55.33 |
2012-11-28 |
| 27. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
55.25 |
1.0602 |
-0.0137 |
389 |
1 |
55.25 |
2012-11-20 |
| 28. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
55.06 |
0.8935 |
0.1553 |
328 |
1 |
55.06 |
2012-11-20 |
| 29. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
55.06 |
0.9786 |
0.0598 |
235 |
2 |
53.41 |
2012-11-16 |
| 30. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
54.47 |
1.0768 |
-0.0094 |
295 |
1 |
54.47 |
2012-11-20 |
| 31. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
54.33 |
1.0533 |
-0.0015 |
257 |
1 |
54.33 |
2012-11-27 |
| 32. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
54.23 |
0.9769 |
0.0442 |
263 |
1 |
54.23 |
2012-11-28 |
| 33. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
54.22 |
0.9754 |
0.0535 |
362 |
1 |
54.22 |
2012-12-04 |
| 34. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
54.20 |
1.0788 |
-0.0620 |
171 |
1 |
54.20 |
2012-11-19 |
| 35. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
54.03 |
0.9943 |
0.0280 |
373 |
1 |
54.03 |
2012-12-04 |
| 36. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
53.87 |
0.8975 |
0.1193 |
268 |
1 |
53.87 |
2012-12-04 |
| 37. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
53.79 |
1.0677 |
-0.0229 |
284 |
1 |
53.79 |
2012-11-19 |
| 38. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
53.48 |
1.0719 |
-0.0355 |
360 |
1 |
53.48 |
2012-11-20 |
| 39. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
53.39 |
0.9965 |
0.0108 |
310 |
1 |
53.39 |
2012-11-19 |
| 40. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
53.37 |
0.9567 |
0.0501 |
273 |
1 |
53.37 |
2012-11-19 |
| 41. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
53.37 |
1.0154 |
0.0410 |
351 |
1 |
53.37 |
2012-11-29 |
| 42. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
53.36 |
0.8867 |
0.1248 |
241 |
1 |
53.36 |
2012-11-16 |
| 43. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
53.35 |
0.9865 |
0.0209 |
276 |
1 |
53.35 |
2012-12-07 |
| 44. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
53.31 |
0.9646 |
0.0400 |
264 |
1 |
53.31 |
2012-12-04 |
| 45. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
53.16 |
1.0214 |
0.0236 |
281 |
2 |
51.81 |
2012-12-04 |
| 46. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
53.11 |
0.8573 |
0.1478 |
270 |
1 |
53.11 |
2012-11-16 |
| 47. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
52.88 |
1.0029 |
-0.0122 |
209 |
1 |
52.88 |
2012-11-20 |
| 48. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
52.87 |
0.9365 |
0.0622 |
248 |
2 |
51.43 |
2012-12-04 |
| 49. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
52.86 |
0.9795 |
0.0178 |
308 |
2 |
51.56 |
2012-12-04 |
| 50. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
52.83 |
1.0679 |
-0.0516 |
177 |
1 |
52.83 |
2012-11-28 |
| 51. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
52.79 |
1.0314 |
-0.0393 |
172 |
1 |
52.79 |
2012-11-21 |
| 52. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
52.10 |
0.9684 |
0.0164 |
388 |
1 |
52.10 |
2012-12-04 |
| 53. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
51.93 |
0.9936 |
-0.0146 |
311 |
1 |
51.93 |
2012-11-20 |
| 54. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
51.85 |
0.9527 |
0.0252 |
251 |
1 |
51.85 |
2012-11-21 |
| 55. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
51.72 |
1.0320 |
-0.0196 |
293 |
1 |
51.72 |
2012-11-20 |
| 56. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
51.71 |
0.9776 |
-0.0023 |
308 |
1 |
51.71 |
2012-11-20 |
| 57. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
51.66 |
0.9303 |
0.0367 |
176 |
1 |
51.66 |
2012-11-16 |
| 58. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
51.65 |
1.0165 |
-0.0389 |
392 |
1 |
51.65 |
2012-11-28 |
| 59. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
51.63 |
0.8022 |
0.1741 |
215 |
2 |
50.57 |
2012-12-07 |
| 60. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
51.61 |
0.9576 |
0.0196 |
212 |
1 |
51.61 |
2012-11-19 |
| 61. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
51.56 |
1.0613 |
-0.0884 |
266 |
1 |
51.56 |
2012-11-19 |
| 62. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
51.55 |
1.0574 |
-0.0576 |
205 |
1 |
51.55 |
2012-12-04 |
| 63. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
51.39 |
1.1162 |
-0.1062 |
189 |
1 |
51.39 |
2012-11-20 |
| 64. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
51.35 |
0.9128 |
0.0968 |
369 |
1 |
51.35 |
2012-11-28 |
| 65. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
51.23 |
0.9342 |
0.0353 |
434 |
1 |
51.23 |
2012-11-19 |
| 66. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
51.21 |
0.9663 |
0.0044 |
330 |
1 |
51.21 |
2012-11-28 |
| 67. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.19 |
0.9212 |
0.0470 |
323 |
2 |
48.87 |
2012-11-28 |
| 68. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
51.12 |
0.9164 |
0.0524 |
305 |
1 |
51.12 |
2012-11-19 |
| 69. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
51.05 |
0.9202 |
0.0420 |
254 |
1 |
51.05 |
2012-12-04 |
| 70. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
50.90 |
1.0218 |
-0.0653 |
268 |
1 |
50.90 |
2012-12-04 |
| 71. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
50.90 |
0.9709 |
0.0297 |
397 |
1 |
50.90 |
2012-11-21 |
| 72. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
50.51 |
1.0062 |
-0.0543 |
288 |
1 |
50.51 |
2012-11-20 |
| 73. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
50.45 |
1.0042 |
-0.0116 |
352 |
2 |
46.96 |
2012-11-20 |
| 74. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
50.25 |
1.0521 |
-0.1102 |
171 |
1 |
50.25 |
2012-12-04 |
| 75. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
50.15 |
0.9820 |
-0.0338 |
267 |
1 |
50.15 |
2012-11-20 |
| 76. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
50.01 |
0.9461 |
-0.0041 |
276 |
1 |
50.01 |
2012-11-19 |
| 77. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
49.97 |
0.8951 |
0.0491 |
193 |
1 |
49.97 |
2012-11-19 |
| 78. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
49.80 |
0.9426 |
-0.0011 |
317 |
1 |
49.80 |
2012-12-04 |
| 79. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
49.76 |
0.9665 |
0.0205 |
326 |
1 |
49.76 |
2012-11-20 |
| 80. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
49.67 |
0.7876 |
0.1510 |
316 |
1 |
49.67 |
2012-12-04 |
| 81. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
49.62 |
1.0621 |
-0.1077 |
263 |
1 |
49.62 |
2014-10-29 |
| 82. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
49.59 |
1.0334 |
-0.1055 |
131 |
1 |
49.59 |
2012-12-11 |
| 83. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
49.43 |
1.0459 |
-0.0836 |
200 |
1 |
49.43 |
2012-11-20 |
| 84. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
49.41 |
0.9964 |
-0.0655 |
203 |
1 |
49.41 |
2012-11-16 |
| 85. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
49.23 |
0.8826 |
0.0466 |
296 |
1 |
49.23 |
2012-12-07 |
| 86. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
49.20 |
1.0390 |
-0.1160 |
205 |
1 |
49.20 |
2012-11-21 |
| 87. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
49.16 |
0.9216 |
0.0439 |
255 |
1 |
49.16 |
2012-11-20 |
| 88. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
49.06 |
1.0696 |
-0.1487 |
226 |
1 |
49.06 |
2012-11-20 |
| 89. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
48.56 |
0.9601 |
-0.0406 |
308 |
2 |
48.49 |
2012-11-21 |
| 90. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
48.48 |
1.0183 |
-0.1106 |
191 |
1 |
48.48 |
2012-12-04 |
| 91. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
48.23 |
0.8884 |
0.0202 |
135 |
1 |
48.23 |
2012-11-20 |
| 92. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
47.98 |
1.0189 |
-0.1121 |
337 |
1 |
47.98 |
2014-10-17 |
| 93. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
47.83 |
1.0630 |
-0.1288 |
397 |
1 |
47.83 |
2012-11-20 |
| 94. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
47.51 |
0.9593 |
-0.0599 |
398 |
1 |
47.51 |
2012-11-20 |
| 95. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
46.93 |
0.9635 |
-0.0740 |
389 |
1 |
46.93 |
2012-11-19 |
| 96. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
46.70 |
0.9758 |
-0.0959 |
314 |
1 |
46.70 |
2012-11-28 |
| 97. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
46.61 |
0.8919 |
-0.0158 |
205 |
1 |
46.61 |
2012-11-28 |
| 98. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
46.34 |
1.0297 |
-0.1586 |
249 |
1 |
46.34 |
2012-12-04 |
| 99. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
46.15 |
0.9411 |
-0.0716 |
318 |
1 |
46.15 |
2012-11-21 |
| 100. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
45.27 |
0.9509 |
-0.0608 |
225 |
2 |
44.96 |
2012-11-20 |
| 101. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
44.95 |
0.7805 |
0.0609 |
154 |
1 |
44.95 |
2012-11-19 |
| 102. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
43.75 |
0.9532 |
-0.1317 |
258 |
1 |
43.75 |
2014-10-29 |
| 103. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
42.61 |
0.9049 |
-0.0984 |
351 |
1 |
42.61 |
2012-11-19 |
| 104. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
41.18 |
0.9088 |
-0.1298 |
348 |
1 |
41.18 |
2012-11-19 |
| 105. |
For thirty years, I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad... |
40.33 |
0.9146 |
-0.1829 |
305 |
1 |
40.33 |
2017-05-25 |
| 106. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
38.91 |
0.8595 |
-0.1270 |
242 |
1 |
38.91 |
2012-11-16 |