| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It's a funny thing, but people mostly have it backward. They... |
180.66 |
1.0612 |
0.1705 |
173 |
1 |
180.66 |
2015-04-13 |
| 2. |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
170.49 |
0.9657 |
0.1825 |
44 |
1 |
170.49 |
2015-07-04 |
| 3. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
166.40 |
1.0613 |
0.0745 |
266 |
1 |
166.40 |
2013-11-13 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
166.26 |
1.0797 |
0.0488 |
210 |
1 |
166.26 |
2014-05-19 |
| 5. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
166.18 |
1.0083 |
0.1694 |
273 |
1 |
166.18 |
2015-07-04 |
| 6. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
166.06 |
1.0531 |
0.1176 |
272 |
1 |
166.06 |
2014-05-19 |
| 7. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
165.57 |
1.0883 |
0.0730 |
303 |
1 |
165.57 |
2013-11-08 |
| 8. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
163.76 |
0.9986 |
0.1187 |
283 |
1 |
163.76 |
2015-06-16 |
| 9. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
163.62 |
1.0023 |
0.1114 |
211 |
1 |
163.62 |
2013-11-13 |
| 10. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
163.39 |
0.9540 |
0.1581 |
285 |
2 |
152.31 |
2013-11-11 |
| 11. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
162.53 |
1.0598 |
0.0423 |
196 |
1 |
162.53 |
2013-11-08 |
| 12. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
162.26 |
1.1022 |
0.0392 |
259 |
2 |
160.03 |
2013-11-13 |
| 13. |
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everythin... |
162.20 |
0.9895 |
0.1032 |
240 |
1 |
162.20 |
2015-07-04 |
| 14. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
161.53 |
1.0547 |
0.0813 |
257 |
1 |
161.53 |
2015-01-05 |
| 15. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
161.50 |
1.0673 |
0.0755 |
230 |
1 |
161.50 |
2015-06-16 |
| 16. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
161.34 |
1.0403 |
0.0743 |
193 |
1 |
161.34 |
2015-04-13 |
| 17. |
My mom, especially, challenged us on everything. She'd use w... |
160.83 |
1.0249 |
0.0868 |
357 |
1 |
160.83 |
2015-07-04 |
| 18. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
160.71 |
1.0617 |
0.0430 |
247 |
1 |
160.71 |
2015-06-16 |
| 19. |
There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because ... |
160.55 |
1.0778 |
0.0272 |
409 |
1 |
160.55 |
2015-07-04 |
| 20. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
158.77 |
1.0125 |
0.0672 |
224 |
2 |
153.37 |
2015-07-04 |
| 21. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
158.51 |
1.0165 |
0.0679 |
392 |
1 |
158.51 |
2015-07-04 |
| 22. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
157.33 |
1.0387 |
0.0656 |
239 |
1 |
157.33 |
2013-11-08 |
| 23. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
157.31 |
1.0972 |
0.0045 |
251 |
2 |
148.21 |
2014-05-19 |
| 24. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
157.17 |
1.0232 |
0.0938 |
350 |
2 |
149.20 |
2015-07-04 |
| 25. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
156.48 |
0.8602 |
0.2042 |
206 |
1 |
156.48 |
2013-11-11 |
| 26. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
156.05 |
1.0565 |
0.0041 |
247 |
1 |
156.05 |
2015-07-04 |
| 27. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
155.88 |
1.0555 |
0.0083 |
363 |
2 |
150.90 |
2015-01-05 |
| 28. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
155.87 |
1.0619 |
0.0043 |
354 |
1 |
155.87 |
2014-05-19 |
| 29. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
155.74 |
1.1114 |
-0.0529 |
247 |
1 |
155.74 |
2015-06-16 |
| 30. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
155.19 |
0.9844 |
0.0783 |
293 |
1 |
155.19 |
2014-05-12 |
| 31. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
155.19 |
1.0232 |
0.0700 |
236 |
1 |
155.19 |
2015-07-04 |
| 32. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
154.89 |
1.0073 |
0.0564 |
369 |
2 |
150.61 |
2014-08-21 |
| 33. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
154.76 |
0.9155 |
0.1882 |
168 |
1 |
154.76 |
2014-08-21 |
| 34. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
154.66 |
1.0515 |
0.0003 |
250 |
4 |
142.58 |
2015-01-05 |
| 35. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
154.57 |
0.9936 |
0.0595 |
311 |
1 |
154.57 |
2013-11-11 |
| 36. |
Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until i... |
154.19 |
0.9772 |
0.0809 |
266 |
1 |
154.19 |
2015-04-13 |
| 37. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
154.17 |
1.0298 |
0.0263 |
280 |
1 |
154.17 |
2015-07-04 |
| 38. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
154.00 |
1.0296 |
0.0263 |
437 |
1 |
154.00 |
2013-11-10 |
| 39. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
153.72 |
1.0426 |
0.0041 |
323 |
1 |
153.72 |
2015-01-05 |
| 40. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
153.53 |
1.0214 |
0.0194 |
166 |
2 |
143.27 |
2015-01-05 |
| 41. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
152.79 |
1.0004 |
0.0648 |
469 |
1 |
152.79 |
2013-11-11 |
| 42. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
152.63 |
1.0095 |
0.0289 |
316 |
1 |
152.63 |
2015-01-05 |
| 43. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
152.44 |
0.9339 |
0.1031 |
310 |
1 |
152.44 |
2013-11-08 |
| 44. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
152.39 |
1.0031 |
0.0685 |
304 |
1 |
152.39 |
2013-11-08 |
| 45. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
152.37 |
1.0361 |
0.0028 |
269 |
2 |
134.37 |
2015-01-05 |
| 46. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
152.31 |
1.0314 |
0.0454 |
452 |
1 |
152.31 |
2015-01-05 |
| 47. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
152.14 |
0.9894 |
0.0515 |
323 |
1 |
152.14 |
2015-06-16 |
| 48. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
152.03 |
0.9682 |
0.0661 |
143 |
1 |
152.03 |
2015-01-05 |
| 49. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
151.71 |
0.9074 |
0.1326 |
396 |
1 |
151.71 |
2014-05-12 |
| 50. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
151.27 |
1.0799 |
-0.0533 |
243 |
1 |
151.27 |
2013-11-08 |
| 51. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
150.90 |
0.9780 |
0.0509 |
337 |
1 |
150.90 |
2015-07-04 |
| 52. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
150.72 |
0.9005 |
0.1248 |
212 |
2 |
126.25 |
2015-06-16 |
| 53. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
150.52 |
1.0346 |
0.0325 |
244 |
2 |
133.64 |
2015-01-05 |
| 54. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
150.46 |
1.1215 |
-0.0728 |
200 |
2 |
140.17 |
2015-06-16 |
| 55. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
148.41 |
0.9088 |
0.1071 |
348 |
1 |
148.41 |
2013-11-13 |
| 56. |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is gen... |
147.49 |
0.9850 |
0.0330 |
384 |
1 |
147.49 |
2015-07-04 |
| 57. |
But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To kno... |
146.51 |
1.0686 |
-0.0650 |
255 |
1 |
146.51 |
2015-07-04 |
| 58. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
145.65 |
1.0117 |
0.0247 |
297 |
1 |
145.65 |
2015-06-16 |
| 59. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
145.45 |
1.0596 |
-0.0716 |
239 |
1 |
145.45 |
2015-07-04 |
| 60. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
145.38 |
0.9908 |
0.0452 |
342 |
1 |
145.38 |
2014-08-21 |
| 61. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
145.24 |
1.0502 |
-0.0346 |
535 |
1 |
145.24 |
2013-11-11 |
| 62. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
145.23 |
0.9879 |
0.0099 |
450 |
2 |
144.33 |
2015-07-04 |
| 63. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
144.78 |
1.0668 |
-0.0788 |
350 |
1 |
144.78 |
2015-07-04 |
| 64. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
144.27 |
0.8753 |
0.1163 |
427 |
1 |
144.27 |
2014-08-21 |
| 65. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
143.83 |
0.9697 |
0.0094 |
249 |
1 |
143.83 |
2015-01-05 |
| 66. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
143.74 |
1.0033 |
-0.0316 |
189 |
1 |
143.74 |
2015-01-05 |
| 67. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
143.55 |
1.0289 |
-0.0471 |
276 |
1 |
143.55 |
2014-08-21 |
| 68. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
143.53 |
1.0173 |
0.0037 |
268 |
1 |
143.53 |
2014-05-19 |
| 69. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
143.27 |
0.9846 |
-0.0110 |
281 |
1 |
143.27 |
2013-11-11 |
| 70. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
142.97 |
0.8956 |
0.0823 |
322 |
1 |
142.97 |
2013-11-08 |
| 71. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
142.83 |
1.0396 |
-0.0746 |
149 |
1 |
142.83 |
2013-12-05 |
| 72. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
142.21 |
1.0574 |
-0.0614 |
205 |
1 |
142.21 |
2015-07-04 |
| 73. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
141.94 |
1.0025 |
-0.0352 |
336 |
1 |
141.94 |
2013-12-05 |
| 74. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
141.70 |
1.0644 |
-0.0635 |
257 |
1 |
141.70 |
2015-06-22 |
| 75. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
141.51 |
1.0168 |
-0.0519 |
271 |
1 |
141.51 |
2015-07-04 |
| 76. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
141.49 |
1.0444 |
-0.0879 |
197 |
1 |
141.49 |
2015-06-16 |
| 77. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
141.42 |
0.9601 |
0.0073 |
308 |
1 |
141.42 |
2015-01-05 |
| 78. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
141.41 |
0.9593 |
0.0079 |
398 |
2 |
139.96 |
2013-11-13 |
| 79. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
141.38 |
0.9376 |
0.0603 |
360 |
1 |
141.38 |
2015-06-16 |
| 80. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
141.24 |
1.0213 |
-0.0631 |
240 |
1 |
141.24 |
2015-01-05 |
| 81. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
140.94 |
0.9164 |
0.0480 |
305 |
1 |
140.94 |
2013-11-11 |
| 82. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
139.84 |
1.0109 |
-0.0264 |
400 |
1 |
139.84 |
2013-11-13 |
| 83. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
139.50 |
1.0429 |
-0.0952 |
259 |
1 |
139.50 |
2015-01-05 |
| 84. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
139.42 |
1.0417 |
-0.0957 |
253 |
1 |
139.42 |
2015-01-05 |
| 85. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
139.38 |
1.0483 |
-0.1031 |
227 |
1 |
139.38 |
2013-11-11 |
| 86. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
139.21 |
0.9176 |
0.0634 |
267 |
1 |
139.21 |
2015-01-05 |
| 87. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
139.16 |
0.9833 |
-0.0346 |
355 |
1 |
139.16 |
2013-11-13 |
| 88. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
138.92 |
1.0711 |
-0.1311 |
213 |
1 |
138.92 |
2014-08-21 |
| 89. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
138.67 |
1.0218 |
-0.0812 |
268 |
1 |
138.67 |
2014-05-19 |
| 90. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
138.67 |
0.9814 |
0.0017 |
364 |
1 |
138.67 |
2015-06-22 |
| 91. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
137.70 |
1.0368 |
-0.0993 |
276 |
2 |
136.43 |
2014-08-21 |
| 92. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
137.61 |
1.0498 |
-0.1184 |
180 |
2 |
135.99 |
2015-07-04 |
| 93. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
137.42 |
0.9851 |
-0.0476 |
317 |
1 |
137.42 |
2014-05-19 |
| 94. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
136.58 |
1.0719 |
-0.1149 |
360 |
1 |
136.58 |
2013-11-13 |
| 95. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
136.53 |
0.9772 |
-0.0518 |
217 |
2 |
133.49 |
2015-07-04 |
| 96. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
136.51 |
1.0365 |
-0.0783 |
162 |
2 |
135.62 |
2014-05-19 |
| 97. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
136.48 |
0.9364 |
0.0321 |
351 |
1 |
136.48 |
2015-01-05 |
| 98. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
136.35 |
1.0197 |
-0.0950 |
226 |
1 |
136.35 |
2013-12-05 |
| 99. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
136.07 |
1.0060 |
-0.0851 |
171 |
1 |
136.07 |
2015-01-05 |
| 100. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
135.89 |
1.0388 |
-0.0828 |
243 |
1 |
135.89 |
2013-11-13 |
| 101. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
134.24 |
0.8916 |
0.0218 |
216 |
1 |
134.24 |
2015-01-05 |
| 102. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
133.57 |
1.0331 |
-0.1271 |
234 |
1 |
133.57 |
2015-01-05 |
| 103. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
133.25 |
1.0257 |
-0.1131 |
401 |
1 |
133.25 |
2015-01-05 |
| 104. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
132.87 |
0.9266 |
-0.0232 |
267 |
1 |
132.87 |
2015-01-05 |
| 105. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
132.76 |
0.9871 |
-0.0617 |
227 |
1 |
132.76 |
2015-06-16 |
| 106. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
132.55 |
0.9673 |
-0.0268 |
232 |
1 |
132.55 |
2013-11-11 |
| 107. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
132.55 |
0.9342 |
-0.0291 |
434 |
2 |
131.82 |
2014-05-19 |
| 108. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
132.46 |
0.9468 |
-0.0460 |
276 |
1 |
132.46 |
2014-05-19 |
| 109. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
132.24 |
0.8878 |
0.0111 |
346 |
1 |
132.24 |
2013-11-11 |
| 110. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
131.67 |
0.9072 |
-0.0140 |
237 |
1 |
131.67 |
2013-11-08 |
| 111. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
130.54 |
0.9557 |
-0.0618 |
331 |
1 |
130.54 |
2014-08-21 |
| 112. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
130.33 |
0.9740 |
-0.0922 |
209 |
1 |
130.33 |
2015-01-05 |
| 113. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
130.05 |
0.9636 |
-0.0799 |
254 |
1 |
130.05 |
2014-05-19 |
| 114. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
129.26 |
0.9865 |
-0.1067 |
276 |
1 |
129.26 |
2013-11-11 |
| 115. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
128.52 |
1.0034 |
-0.1311 |
302 |
1 |
128.52 |
2013-11-08 |
| 116. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
128.30 |
0.9905 |
-0.0867 |
337 |
1 |
128.30 |
2014-11-09 |
| 117. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
128.16 |
1.0398 |
-0.1796 |
110 |
2 |
127.36 |
2015-06-16 |
| 118. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
126.07 |
0.8981 |
-0.0369 |
393 |
1 |
126.07 |
2015-01-05 |
| 119. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
125.84 |
1.0763 |
-0.1795 |
367 |
1 |
125.84 |
2014-11-09 |
| 120. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
125.37 |
0.9665 |
-0.0654 |
326 |
1 |
125.37 |
2013-12-05 |
| 121. |
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not ... |
124.65 |
1.1182 |
-0.2678 |
164 |
1 |
124.65 |
2015-07-04 |
| 122. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
122.67 |
0.8933 |
-0.0537 |
363 |
1 |
122.67 |
2014-11-09 |
| 123. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
121.39 |
0.8105 |
0.0093 |
204 |
1 |
121.39 |
2014-05-19 |
| 124. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
119.78 |
0.8467 |
-0.0088 |
343 |
1 |
119.78 |
2015-01-05 |
| 125. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
119.37 |
1.0154 |
-0.1551 |
351 |
1 |
119.37 |
2013-11-08 |
| 126. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
117.50 |
0.8852 |
-0.0853 |
201 |
1 |
117.50 |
2014-05-19 |
| 127. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
107.93 |
0.8553 |
-0.1288 |
174 |
1 |
107.93 |
2013-11-08 |
| 128. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
93.35 |
0.9731 |
-0.3549 |
129 |
1 |
93.35 |
2015-01-05 |