| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
96.56 |
1.0679 |
0.1944 |
177 |
4 |
87.02 |
2013-01-24 |
| 2. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
94.45 |
1.0602 |
0.1583 |
389 |
1 |
94.45 |
2013-01-24 |
| 3. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
94.43 |
1.0033 |
0.2043 |
189 |
3 |
88.24 |
2013-02-05 |
| 4. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
91.60 |
1.0403 |
0.1520 |
193 |
1 |
91.60 |
2013-01-24 |
| 5. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
91.21 |
1.0218 |
0.1480 |
268 |
1 |
91.21 |
2013-01-24 |
| 6. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
91.12 |
1.1081 |
0.0977 |
206 |
1 |
91.12 |
2013-01-23 |
| 7. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
90.25 |
0.9943 |
0.1687 |
373 |
1 |
90.25 |
2013-01-24 |
| 8. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
90.02 |
1.0487 |
0.1035 |
231 |
1 |
90.02 |
2013-01-24 |
| 9. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
89.85 |
1.0714 |
0.0743 |
129 |
1 |
89.85 |
2013-01-23 |
| 10. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
89.44 |
1.0441 |
0.1068 |
252 |
2 |
82.27 |
2013-02-04 |
| 11. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
89.23 |
0.9965 |
0.1511 |
277 |
1 |
89.23 |
2013-01-24 |
| 12. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
88.32 |
1.0619 |
0.0772 |
354 |
2 |
86.38 |
2013-01-24 |
| 13. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
87.97 |
0.9871 |
0.1663 |
227 |
1 |
87.97 |
2013-02-04 |
| 14. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
87.11 |
1.1323 |
0.0211 |
341 |
1 |
87.11 |
2013-01-23 |
| 15. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
87.09 |
1.0863 |
0.0672 |
210 |
1 |
87.09 |
2013-01-24 |
| 16. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
86.99 |
0.9905 |
0.1593 |
337 |
1 |
86.99 |
2013-01-24 |
| 17. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
86.81 |
1.0462 |
0.0633 |
184 |
1 |
86.81 |
2013-01-24 |
| 18. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
86.34 |
1.0165 |
0.0972 |
392 |
1 |
86.34 |
2013-02-04 |
| 19. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
86.29 |
1.0251 |
0.0817 |
261 |
2 |
83.05 |
2013-01-31 |
| 20. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
86.27 |
1.0264 |
0.1222 |
422 |
2 |
79.40 |
2013-01-31 |
| 21. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
85.22 |
1.0025 |
0.0935 |
336 |
1 |
85.22 |
2013-01-24 |
| 22. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
85.00 |
1.0042 |
0.1296 |
352 |
1 |
85.00 |
2013-01-23 |
| 23. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
84.68 |
1.0444 |
0.0366 |
197 |
1 |
84.68 |
2013-01-23 |
| 24. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
84.13 |
0.9398 |
0.1506 |
419 |
3 |
74.12 |
2013-01-24 |
| 25. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
84.10 |
1.0515 |
0.0266 |
250 |
1 |
84.10 |
2013-02-04 |
| 26. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
84.09 |
1.0561 |
0.0503 |
430 |
1 |
84.09 |
2013-01-31 |
| 27. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
84.08 |
1.0535 |
0.0616 |
326 |
1 |
84.08 |
2013-01-24 |
| 28. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
83.70 |
0.9339 |
0.1396 |
310 |
2 |
83.25 |
2013-01-31 |
| 29. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
83.28 |
0.9164 |
0.1586 |
305 |
2 |
75.83 |
2013-01-24 |
| 30. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
83.22 |
1.0799 |
-0.0150 |
243 |
1 |
83.22 |
2013-01-23 |
| 31. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
82.44 |
1.0068 |
0.0553 |
358 |
1 |
82.44 |
2013-01-24 |
| 32. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
82.28 |
1.0669 |
0.0232 |
213 |
1 |
82.28 |
2013-01-24 |
| 33. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
81.79 |
1.0763 |
0.0157 |
367 |
1 |
81.79 |
2013-01-23 |
| 34. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
81.68 |
0.9786 |
0.0697 |
235 |
3 |
70.79 |
2013-01-24 |
| 35. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
81.43 |
0.9820 |
0.0627 |
274 |
1 |
81.43 |
2013-02-05 |
| 36. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
81.39 |
0.9865 |
0.0598 |
276 |
1 |
81.39 |
2013-01-31 |
| 37. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
81.35 |
1.0533 |
0.0183 |
257 |
1 |
81.35 |
2013-01-23 |
| 38. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
81.35 |
1.0062 |
0.0379 |
288 |
1 |
81.35 |
2013-01-23 |
| 39. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
81.09 |
1.0109 |
0.0631 |
400 |
1 |
81.09 |
2013-01-24 |
| 40. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
80.81 |
0.8890 |
0.1448 |
199 |
3 |
71.54 |
2013-02-05 |
| 41. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
80.52 |
0.9852 |
0.0488 |
264 |
1 |
80.52 |
2013-01-24 |
| 42. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
80.40 |
1.0917 |
-0.0360 |
243 |
1 |
80.40 |
2013-01-23 |
| 43. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
80.36 |
1.0029 |
0.0221 |
209 |
1 |
80.36 |
2013-01-31 |
| 44. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
80.27 |
0.9612 |
0.0696 |
256 |
1 |
80.27 |
2013-01-24 |
| 45. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
80.26 |
0.9976 |
0.0531 |
174 |
1 |
80.26 |
2013-01-24 |
| 46. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
80.01 |
1.1215 |
-0.0705 |
200 |
1 |
80.01 |
2013-01-24 |
| 47. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
79.92 |
1.0477 |
-0.0198 |
360 |
1 |
79.92 |
2013-01-24 |
| 48. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
79.88 |
0.9303 |
0.0874 |
176 |
1 |
79.88 |
2013-01-23 |
| 49. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
79.74 |
0.9774 |
0.0444 |
196 |
1 |
79.74 |
2013-01-24 |
| 50. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
79.43 |
0.9127 |
0.1035 |
252 |
1 |
79.43 |
2013-02-04 |
| 51. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
78.96 |
1.0630 |
-0.0156 |
397 |
1 |
78.96 |
2013-01-23 |
| 52. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
78.95 |
1.0379 |
0.0098 |
245 |
1 |
78.95 |
2013-01-31 |
| 53. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
78.85 |
1.0314 |
0.0199 |
452 |
1 |
78.85 |
2013-01-31 |
| 54. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
78.64 |
1.0214 |
-0.0135 |
269 |
1 |
78.64 |
2013-01-24 |
| 55. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
78.59 |
1.0340 |
-0.0199 |
406 |
1 |
78.59 |
2013-01-23 |
| 56. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
78.50 |
0.9911 |
0.0123 |
212 |
1 |
78.50 |
2013-01-23 |
| 57. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
78.32 |
0.9216 |
0.1227 |
255 |
1 |
78.32 |
2013-01-24 |
| 58. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
78.24 |
0.9213 |
0.0836 |
295 |
1 |
78.24 |
2013-01-23 |
| 59. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
77.43 |
1.0613 |
-0.0621 |
456 |
1 |
77.43 |
2013-01-23 |
| 60. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
77.39 |
1.0596 |
-0.0689 |
239 |
2 |
74.84 |
2013-02-04 |
| 61. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
77.37 |
1.0201 |
-0.0270 |
303 |
1 |
77.37 |
2013-01-24 |
| 62. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
77.32 |
0.9994 |
0.0235 |
269 |
1 |
77.32 |
2013-01-23 |
| 63. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
77.31 |
0.8996 |
0.0869 |
192 |
1 |
77.31 |
2013-01-24 |
| 64. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
77.26 |
1.0506 |
-0.0306 |
277 |
1 |
77.26 |
2013-01-24 |
| 65. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
77.19 |
0.9527 |
0.0379 |
251 |
2 |
70.59 |
2013-02-04 |
| 66. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
77.19 |
1.0419 |
-0.0517 |
261 |
2 |
77.03 |
2013-01-23 |
| 67. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
76.65 |
0.9513 |
0.0360 |
354 |
2 |
70.21 |
2013-01-24 |
| 68. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
76.41 |
0.9636 |
0.0163 |
254 |
1 |
76.41 |
2013-01-23 |
| 69. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
76.37 |
1.0385 |
-0.0606 |
230 |
1 |
76.37 |
2013-01-23 |
| 70. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
76.36 |
1.0004 |
0.0035 |
469 |
1 |
76.36 |
2013-01-23 |
| 71. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
76.05 |
1.0368 |
-0.0605 |
276 |
1 |
76.05 |
2013-01-23 |
| 72. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
75.97 |
0.9739 |
0.0367 |
412 |
2 |
75.25 |
2013-02-04 |
| 73. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
75.85 |
0.9964 |
-0.0236 |
203 |
2 |
68.10 |
2013-01-23 |
| 74. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
75.60 |
0.9279 |
0.0487 |
317 |
1 |
75.60 |
2013-02-05 |
| 75. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
75.24 |
1.1068 |
-0.1014 |
393 |
1 |
75.24 |
2013-01-23 |
| 76. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
75.17 |
1.0595 |
-0.0927 |
379 |
1 |
75.17 |
2013-01-23 |
| 77. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
74.79 |
0.9785 |
-0.0163 |
335 |
1 |
74.79 |
2013-01-24 |
| 78. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
74.68 |
0.9632 |
0.0010 |
392 |
1 |
74.68 |
2013-01-31 |
| 79. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
74.49 |
0.9846 |
-0.0308 |
281 |
1 |
74.49 |
2013-01-24 |
| 80. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
74.45 |
0.9212 |
0.0365 |
323 |
1 |
74.45 |
2013-02-04 |
| 81. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
74.33 |
1.0125 |
-0.0211 |
413 |
1 |
74.33 |
2013-01-23 |
| 82. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
74.22 |
0.9991 |
-0.0468 |
225 |
1 |
74.22 |
2013-01-24 |
| 83. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
74.07 |
0.9857 |
-0.0369 |
293 |
1 |
74.07 |
2013-01-24 |
| 84. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
74.04 |
0.9941 |
-0.0471 |
217 |
1 |
74.04 |
2013-01-23 |
| 85. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
74.02 |
0.9566 |
0.0159 |
576 |
1 |
74.02 |
2013-01-31 |
| 86. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
73.50 |
0.9089 |
0.0366 |
342 |
1 |
73.50 |
2013-01-31 |
| 87. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
73.44 |
1.0214 |
-0.0375 |
281 |
1 |
73.44 |
2013-01-24 |
| 88. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
72.68 |
0.9907 |
-0.0242 |
397 |
1 |
72.68 |
2013-02-04 |
| 89. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
72.46 |
0.9851 |
-0.0535 |
317 |
1 |
72.46 |
2013-01-31 |
| 90. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
72.25 |
1.0203 |
-0.0603 |
400 |
1 |
72.25 |
2013-01-23 |
| 91. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
72.21 |
1.0463 |
-0.1253 |
182 |
1 |
72.21 |
2013-02-05 |
| 92. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
71.81 |
0.9871 |
-0.0306 |
209 |
1 |
71.81 |
2013-02-04 |
| 93. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
71.78 |
0.9965 |
-0.0810 |
168 |
1 |
71.78 |
2013-01-23 |
| 94. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
71.78 |
1.0214 |
-0.1066 |
166 |
1 |
71.78 |
2013-01-23 |
| 95. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
71.53 |
0.9064 |
0.0198 |
399 |
1 |
71.53 |
2013-01-24 |
| 96. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
71.49 |
0.9509 |
0.0037 |
225 |
1 |
71.49 |
2013-01-31 |
| 97. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
71.28 |
0.9699 |
-0.0571 |
269 |
1 |
71.28 |
2013-02-05 |
| 98. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
71.12 |
1.0172 |
-0.0703 |
341 |
1 |
71.12 |
2013-01-23 |
| 99. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
70.66 |
0.8826 |
0.0246 |
296 |
1 |
70.66 |
2013-01-24 |
| 100. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
70.62 |
1.0151 |
-0.1199 |
152 |
1 |
70.62 |
2013-01-24 |
| 101. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
70.53 |
1.0031 |
-0.0663 |
304 |
1 |
70.53 |
2013-01-23 |
| 102. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
70.34 |
1.0232 |
-0.0759 |
350 |
1 |
70.34 |
2013-01-24 |
| 103. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
68.38 |
0.9084 |
-0.0288 |
404 |
1 |
68.38 |
2013-01-23 |
| 104. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
68.11 |
0.9426 |
-0.0669 |
317 |
1 |
68.11 |
2013-01-23 |
| 105. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
68.09 |
0.9946 |
-0.1227 |
246 |
1 |
68.09 |
2013-01-23 |
| 106. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
67.92 |
0.9084 |
-0.0366 |
300 |
1 |
67.92 |
2013-01-23 |
| 107. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
67.76 |
0.9734 |
-0.1056 |
289 |
1 |
67.76 |
2013-01-23 |
| 108. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
67.75 |
0.9668 |
-0.0567 |
383 |
1 |
67.75 |
2013-02-04 |
| 109. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
66.98 |
0.9109 |
-0.0500 |
401 |
1 |
66.98 |
2013-01-24 |
| 110. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
66.64 |
1.0396 |
-0.1938 |
149 |
1 |
66.64 |
2013-01-23 |
| 111. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
66.45 |
1.0284 |
-0.1345 |
282 |
1 |
66.45 |
2013-01-24 |
| 112. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
66.43 |
0.9234 |
-0.0678 |
346 |
1 |
66.43 |
2013-01-23 |
| 113. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
66.07 |
1.0077 |
-0.1211 |
250 |
1 |
66.07 |
2013-01-24 |
| 114. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
65.88 |
1.0125 |
-0.1719 |
224 |
1 |
65.88 |
2013-02-04 |
| 115. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
65.79 |
0.8753 |
-0.0237 |
427 |
1 |
65.79 |
2013-01-24 |
| 116. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
65.56 |
0.9429 |
-0.1021 |
287 |
2 |
64.95 |
2013-01-24 |
| 117. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
65.11 |
0.9886 |
-0.1528 |
220 |
1 |
65.11 |
2013-01-24 |
| 118. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
63.13 |
0.9557 |
-0.1415 |
331 |
1 |
63.13 |
2013-01-23 |
| 119. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
61.35 |
0.9665 |
-0.1327 |
326 |
1 |
61.35 |
2013-01-23 |
| 120. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
61.14 |
1.0346 |
-0.2112 |
244 |
1 |
61.14 |
2013-01-23 |
| 121. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
60.31 |
0.7876 |
-0.0141 |
316 |
1 |
60.31 |
2013-01-24 |
| 122. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
60.18 |
0.8933 |
-0.1175 |
363 |
1 |
60.18 |
2013-02-04 |
| 123. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
56.03 |
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2013-01-24 |
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Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
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2013-02-05 |
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The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
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2013-01-23 |