Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
112.97 |
1.1086 |
0.1307 |
233 |
1 |
112.97 |
2012-04-26 |
2. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
106.75 |
1.0682 |
0.1032 |
266 |
2 |
96.03 |
2012-04-26 |
3. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
105.46 |
1.0090 |
0.1527 |
300 |
1 |
105.46 |
2012-04-26 |
4. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
104.29 |
1.0481 |
0.0874 |
255 |
1 |
104.29 |
2012-04-26 |
5. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
102.87 |
0.9536 |
0.1825 |
311 |
2 |
98.46 |
2012-04-26 |
6. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
102.64 |
1.0103 |
0.1090 |
209 |
1 |
102.64 |
2012-04-26 |
7. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
102.30 |
0.9989 |
0.1295 |
282 |
1 |
102.30 |
2012-04-26 |
8. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
101.94 |
1.0082 |
0.1041 |
212 |
2 |
98.16 |
2012-04-26 |
9. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
101.62 |
1.0450 |
0.0741 |
358 |
1 |
101.62 |
2012-04-26 |
10. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
101.52 |
0.9841 |
0.1253 |
217 |
1 |
101.52 |
2012-04-26 |
11. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
100.67 |
0.9425 |
0.1615 |
248 |
1 |
100.67 |
2012-04-26 |
12. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
100.55 |
1.0736 |
0.0324 |
256 |
1 |
100.55 |
2012-04-25 |
13. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
99.73 |
1.0471 |
0.0581 |
406 |
1 |
99.73 |
2012-04-26 |
14. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
99.63 |
1.0338 |
0.0634 |
277 |
1 |
99.63 |
2012-04-26 |
15. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
99.17 |
1.0524 |
0.0325 |
177 |
1 |
99.17 |
2012-04-26 |
16. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
98.85 |
1.0390 |
0.0495 |
260 |
1 |
98.85 |
2012-04-25 |
17. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
98.56 |
1.0094 |
0.0708 |
256 |
1 |
98.56 |
2012-04-26 |
18. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
98.28 |
0.9494 |
0.1404 |
397 |
3 |
91.81 |
2012-04-26 |
19. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
98.08 |
1.0060 |
0.0755 |
244 |
1 |
98.08 |
2012-04-26 |
20. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
97.98 |
0.9352 |
0.1374 |
194 |
1 |
97.98 |
2012-04-25 |
21. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
97.92 |
0.9884 |
0.0871 |
267 |
1 |
97.92 |
2012-04-26 |
22. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
97.72 |
1.0461 |
0.0269 |
318 |
1 |
97.72 |
2012-04-26 |
23. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
97.52 |
0.9745 |
0.0962 |
388 |
1 |
97.52 |
2012-04-26 |
24. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
97.05 |
0.9541 |
0.1099 |
236 |
1 |
97.05 |
2012-04-26 |
25. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
96.75 |
1.0194 |
0.0386 |
224 |
1 |
96.75 |
2012-04-26 |
26. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
96.57 |
0.9849 |
0.0744 |
337 |
1 |
96.57 |
2012-04-26 |
27. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
96.20 |
1.0466 |
0.0071 |
230 |
1 |
96.20 |
2012-04-25 |
28. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
96.16 |
1.0332 |
0.0198 |
267 |
1 |
96.16 |
2012-04-26 |
29. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
96.06 |
0.9637 |
0.1009 |
342 |
1 |
96.06 |
2012-04-26 |
30. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
96.00 |
1.0208 |
0.0310 |
231 |
1 |
96.00 |
2012-04-26 |
31. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
95.50 |
0.9678 |
0.0829 |
392 |
2 |
95.16 |
2012-04-26 |
32. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
95.41 |
1.0444 |
0.0142 |
487 |
1 |
95.41 |
2012-04-26 |
33. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
95.36 |
0.9524 |
0.1081 |
410 |
1 |
95.36 |
2012-04-26 |
34. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
95.19 |
1.0267 |
0.0193 |
261 |
1 |
95.19 |
2012-04-26 |
35. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
95.15 |
0.9756 |
0.0662 |
223 |
1 |
95.15 |
2012-04-26 |
36. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
94.84 |
1.0392 |
0.0049 |
258 |
1 |
94.84 |
2012-04-26 |
37. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
94.76 |
1.0069 |
0.0346 |
242 |
1 |
94.76 |
2012-04-26 |
38. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
94.68 |
1.0883 |
-0.0446 |
189 |
1 |
94.68 |
2012-04-26 |
39. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
94.32 |
1.0529 |
-0.0170 |
373 |
1 |
94.32 |
2012-04-26 |
40. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
94.14 |
0.9829 |
0.0478 |
229 |
2 |
93.55 |
2012-04-25 |
41. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
94.12 |
1.0192 |
0.0172 |
243 |
1 |
94.12 |
2012-04-26 |
42. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
94.08 |
1.0272 |
0.0014 |
226 |
1 |
94.08 |
2012-04-25 |
43. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
93.94 |
1.0492 |
-0.0148 |
284 |
1 |
93.94 |
2012-04-26 |
44. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
93.77 |
0.9833 |
0.0464 |
387 |
1 |
93.77 |
2012-04-27 |
45. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
93.71 |
1.0341 |
-0.0081 |
273 |
1 |
93.71 |
2012-04-26 |
46. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
93.70 |
0.9909 |
0.0395 |
334 |
1 |
93.70 |
2012-04-26 |
47. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
93.57 |
0.9761 |
0.0535 |
227 |
1 |
93.57 |
2012-04-26 |
48. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
93.42 |
1.0253 |
0.0011 |
337 |
1 |
93.42 |
2012-04-26 |
49. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
93.31 |
1.0464 |
-0.0192 |
294 |
1 |
93.31 |
2012-04-26 |
50. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
93.17 |
1.0106 |
0.0091 |
302 |
1 |
93.17 |
2012-04-26 |
51. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
92.93 |
1.0521 |
-0.0397 |
197 |
1 |
92.93 |
2012-04-26 |
52. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
92.90 |
1.0035 |
0.0148 |
310 |
2 |
91.95 |
2012-04-25 |
53. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
92.81 |
0.9917 |
0.0271 |
317 |
1 |
92.81 |
2012-04-26 |
54. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
92.69 |
0.9359 |
0.0802 |
355 |
1 |
92.69 |
2012-04-26 |
55. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
92.64 |
0.9801 |
0.0344 |
289 |
1 |
92.64 |
2012-04-26 |
56. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
92.30 |
1.0333 |
-0.0273 |
176 |
1 |
92.30 |
2012-04-25 |
57. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
92.21 |
1.0504 |
-0.0384 |
225 |
2 |
91.30 |
2012-04-26 |
58. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
92.18 |
1.0511 |
-0.0395 |
252 |
1 |
92.18 |
2012-04-25 |
59. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
92.05 |
0.9706 |
0.0494 |
353 |
1 |
92.05 |
2012-04-25 |
60. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
91.99 |
0.9885 |
0.0259 |
469 |
2 |
89.68 |
2012-04-26 |
61. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
91.75 |
1.0669 |
-0.0587 |
379 |
2 |
88.80 |
2012-04-26 |
62. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
91.73 |
0.8984 |
0.1143 |
267 |
1 |
91.73 |
2012-04-26 |
63. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
91.67 |
0.9594 |
0.0429 |
258 |
1 |
91.67 |
2012-04-26 |
64. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
91.42 |
0.9660 |
0.0425 |
258 |
2 |
90.44 |
2012-04-26 |
65. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
91.36 |
0.9046 |
0.1090 |
448 |
2 |
84.29 |
2012-04-26 |
66. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
91.34 |
1.0033 |
-0.0025 |
203 |
1 |
91.34 |
2012-04-26 |
67. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
91.24 |
0.9692 |
0.0465 |
405 |
1 |
91.24 |
2012-04-26 |
68. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
91.02 |
1.0582 |
-0.0643 |
180 |
1 |
91.02 |
2012-04-26 |
69. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
90.85 |
0.9643 |
0.0394 |
282 |
1 |
90.85 |
2012-04-25 |
70. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
90.80 |
1.0792 |
-0.0797 |
251 |
1 |
90.80 |
2012-04-25 |
71. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
90.53 |
0.9136 |
0.0813 |
348 |
2 |
86.59 |
2012-04-27 |
72. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
90.24 |
0.9852 |
0.0026 |
235 |
1 |
90.24 |
2012-04-26 |
73. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
90.15 |
0.9402 |
0.0453 |
310 |
1 |
90.15 |
2012-04-25 |
74. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
90.14 |
1.0616 |
-0.0674 |
304 |
1 |
90.14 |
2012-04-27 |
75. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
90.10 |
1.0250 |
-0.0353 |
271 |
1 |
90.10 |
2012-04-26 |
76. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
89.83 |
1.0018 |
-0.0176 |
246 |
1 |
89.83 |
2012-04-25 |
77. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
89.73 |
1.0302 |
-0.0332 |
550 |
1 |
89.73 |
2012-04-26 |
78. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
89.62 |
0.9817 |
0.0052 |
304 |
1 |
89.62 |
2012-04-26 |
79. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
89.33 |
0.9948 |
-0.0175 |
233 |
1 |
89.33 |
2012-04-26 |
80. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
89.22 |
1.0125 |
-0.0403 |
171 |
1 |
89.22 |
2012-04-25 |
81. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
88.80 |
0.9451 |
0.0353 |
419 |
2 |
84.43 |
2012-04-26 |
82. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
88.67 |
1.0135 |
-0.0391 |
358 |
1 |
88.67 |
2012-04-26 |
83. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
88.54 |
0.9519 |
0.0216 |
323 |
1 |
88.54 |
2012-04-26 |
84. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
88.14 |
1.0067 |
-0.0278 |
422 |
1 |
88.14 |
2012-04-25 |
85. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
88.14 |
0.9183 |
0.0478 |
308 |
1 |
88.14 |
2012-04-26 |
86. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
88.07 |
0.9851 |
-0.0157 |
237 |
1 |
88.07 |
2012-04-26 |
87. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
88.04 |
0.9330 |
0.0428 |
341 |
1 |
88.04 |
2012-04-25 |
88. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
87.99 |
1.0101 |
-0.0447 |
336 |
1 |
87.99 |
2012-04-27 |
89. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
87.95 |
0.9801 |
-0.0088 |
282 |
1 |
87.95 |
2012-04-25 |
90. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
87.81 |
0.9762 |
-0.0146 |
249 |
1 |
87.81 |
2012-04-25 |
91. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
87.74 |
1.0042 |
-0.0472 |
168 |
1 |
87.74 |
2012-04-26 |
92. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
87.47 |
0.9403 |
0.0263 |
307 |
1 |
87.47 |
2012-04-26 |
93. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
87.42 |
1.0086 |
-0.0556 |
218 |
2 |
85.78 |
2012-04-26 |
94. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
87.31 |
0.9841 |
-0.0296 |
263 |
1 |
87.31 |
2012-04-25 |
95. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
87.27 |
1.0543 |
-0.1020 |
182 |
1 |
87.27 |
2012-04-25 |
96. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
87.26 |
1.0676 |
-0.1075 |
456 |
1 |
87.26 |
2012-04-26 |
97. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
87.22 |
1.0057 |
-0.0477 |
382 |
1 |
87.22 |
2012-04-26 |
98. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
86.92 |
0.9842 |
-0.0302 |
335 |
2 |
82.62 |
2012-04-26 |
99. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
86.91 |
1.0736 |
-0.1193 |
350 |
1 |
86.91 |
2012-04-26 |
100. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
86.76 |
0.8666 |
0.0809 |
206 |
1 |
86.76 |
2012-04-26 |
101. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
86.56 |
0.8913 |
0.0580 |
201 |
1 |
86.56 |
2012-04-26 |
102. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
86.54 |
0.9981 |
-0.0514 |
211 |
1 |
86.54 |
2012-04-26 |
103. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
86.32 |
1.0403 |
-0.0968 |
234 |
1 |
86.32 |
2012-04-26 |
104. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
86.15 |
1.0320 |
-0.0827 |
401 |
1 |
86.15 |
2012-04-25 |
105. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
85.76 |
1.0506 |
-0.1120 |
259 |
1 |
85.76 |
2012-04-25 |
106. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
85.58 |
1.0432 |
-0.1056 |
276 |
1 |
85.58 |
2012-04-25 |
107. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
85.35 |
0.9869 |
-0.0560 |
193 |
1 |
85.35 |
2012-04-27 |
108. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
85.06 |
0.9931 |
-0.0657 |
218 |
1 |
85.06 |
2012-04-25 |
109. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
85.04 |
1.0601 |
-0.1322 |
256 |
1 |
85.04 |
2012-04-25 |
110. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
84.94 |
1.0791 |
-0.1438 |
259 |
1 |
84.94 |
2012-04-25 |
111. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
84.93 |
0.9632 |
-0.0321 |
287 |
1 |
84.93 |
2012-04-26 |
112. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
84.79 |
1.0901 |
-0.1598 |
288 |
1 |
84.79 |
2012-04-26 |
113. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
84.79 |
0.9787 |
-0.0470 |
364 |
1 |
84.79 |
2012-04-26 |
114. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
84.75 |
1.0419 |
-0.1046 |
323 |
1 |
84.75 |
2012-04-26 |
115. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
84.36 |
1.0288 |
-0.1099 |
166 |
1 |
84.36 |
2012-04-26 |
116. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
84.34 |
0.9377 |
-0.0066 |
198 |
1 |
84.34 |
2012-04-26 |
117. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
84.11 |
0.9517 |
-0.0228 |
397 |
1 |
84.11 |
2012-04-25 |
118. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
82.60 |
0.9649 |
-0.0504 |
360 |
1 |
82.60 |
2012-04-25 |
119. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
81.87 |
1.0020 |
-0.0938 |
411 |
1 |
81.87 |
2012-04-26 |
120. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
79.72 |
0.8986 |
-0.0256 |
216 |
1 |
79.72 |
2012-04-26 |
121. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
79.58 |
1.0287 |
-0.1589 |
269 |
1 |
79.58 |
2012-04-25 |
122. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
78.77 |
0.9681 |
-0.1005 |
392 |
1 |
78.77 |
2012-04-26 |
123. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
78.42 |
1.0130 |
-0.1548 |
288 |
1 |
78.42 |
2012-04-25 |
124. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
78.23 |
0.9598 |
-0.1016 |
209 |
1 |
78.23 |
2012-04-26 |
125. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
77.83 |
1.0753 |
-0.2168 |
206 |
1 |
77.83 |
2012-04-26 |
126. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
77.49 |
0.7923 |
0.0562 |
316 |
1 |
77.49 |
2012-04-26 |
127. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
76.85 |
0.9194 |
-0.0681 |
360 |
1 |
76.85 |
2012-04-25 |
128. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
76.59 |
0.9012 |
-0.0598 |
322 |
1 |
76.59 |
2012-04-26 |
129. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
76.15 |
0.8955 |
-0.0524 |
436 |
1 |
76.15 |
2012-04-25 |
130. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
75.23 |
1.0144 |
-0.1904 |
162 |
1 |
75.23 |
2012-04-26 |
131. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
67.93 |
0.8843 |
-0.1304 |
168 |
1 |
67.93 |
2012-04-25 |
132. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
60.81 |
0.8830 |
-0.2165 |
300 |
1 |
60.81 |
2012-04-25 |