| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
80.87 |
0.9461 |
0.6309 |
276 |
1 |
80.87 |
2013-03-09 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
68.80 |
1.0711 |
0.2659 |
213 |
2 |
63.70 |
2013-03-18 |
| 3. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
64.51 |
1.0528 |
0.2016 |
201 |
2 |
61.33 |
2013-03-19 |
| 4. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
63.28 |
1.0788 |
0.1503 |
171 |
1 |
63.28 |
2013-03-18 |
| 5. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
61.76 |
1.0529 |
0.1500 |
351 |
2 |
60.48 |
2013-03-21 |
| 6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
61.74 |
1.0516 |
0.1508 |
281 |
1 |
61.74 |
2013-03-19 |
| 7. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
61.34 |
1.0023 |
0.1900 |
211 |
1 |
61.34 |
2013-03-21 |
| 8. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
60.89 |
1.0535 |
0.1645 |
326 |
1 |
60.89 |
2013-03-19 |
| 9. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
60.78 |
1.1215 |
0.0888 |
200 |
2 |
58.91 |
2013-03-21 |
| 10. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
60.18 |
1.0257 |
0.1491 |
401 |
1 |
60.18 |
2013-03-19 |
| 11. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
60.09 |
1.0389 |
0.1322 |
340 |
2 |
56.40 |
2013-03-19 |
| 12. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
59.62 |
1.0533 |
0.1329 |
257 |
1 |
59.62 |
2013-03-19 |
| 13. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
59.57 |
1.1323 |
0.0592 |
341 |
1 |
59.57 |
2013-01-18 |
| 14. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
59.15 |
1.0506 |
0.1305 |
277 |
1 |
59.15 |
2013-03-19 |
| 15. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
59.02 |
1.1296 |
0.0512 |
252 |
2 |
52.85 |
2013-03-21 |
| 16. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
58.36 |
1.0289 |
0.1085 |
276 |
1 |
58.36 |
2013-03-19 |
| 17. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
57.82 |
0.9986 |
0.1269 |
283 |
1 |
57.82 |
2013-03-19 |
| 18. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
57.79 |
1.0125 |
0.1100 |
224 |
1 |
57.79 |
2013-03-20 |
| 19. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
57.35 |
0.9844 |
0.1331 |
293 |
1 |
57.35 |
2013-03-04 |
| 20. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
57.13 |
1.0523 |
0.0576 |
256 |
1 |
57.13 |
2013-03-19 |
| 21. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
57.03 |
1.0883 |
0.0538 |
303 |
1 |
57.03 |
2013-02-26 |
| 22. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
56.99 |
1.0213 |
0.0861 |
240 |
1 |
56.99 |
2013-03-21 |
| 23. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
56.67 |
0.8915 |
0.2123 |
188 |
1 |
56.67 |
2013-01-18 |
| 24. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
56.57 |
1.0498 |
0.0480 |
180 |
1 |
56.57 |
2013-03-19 |
| 25. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
56.25 |
1.0375 |
0.1046 |
200 |
1 |
56.25 |
2013-03-19 |
| 26. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
56.25 |
1.0331 |
0.0589 |
234 |
3 |
49.24 |
2013-03-21 |
| 27. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
56.11 |
0.9726 |
0.1154 |
154 |
2 |
49.60 |
2013-03-19 |
| 28. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
56.03 |
0.9786 |
0.1113 |
235 |
1 |
56.03 |
2013-03-04 |
| 29. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
55.74 |
1.0459 |
0.0730 |
200 |
1 |
55.74 |
2013-03-18 |
| 30. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
55.57 |
1.0155 |
0.0648 |
232 |
1 |
55.57 |
2013-03-21 |
| 31. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
55.51 |
1.0565 |
0.0216 |
247 |
1 |
55.51 |
2013-03-19 |
| 32. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
55.50 |
1.1016 |
-0.0226 |
233 |
1 |
55.50 |
2013-02-26 |
| 33. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
55.40 |
1.0596 |
0.0170 |
239 |
1 |
55.40 |
2013-03-19 |
| 34. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
55.31 |
1.0167 |
0.0625 |
378 |
1 |
55.31 |
2013-03-21 |
| 35. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
54.94 |
1.0165 |
0.0536 |
392 |
1 |
54.94 |
2013-03-18 |
| 36. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
54.68 |
0.9710 |
0.0892 |
173 |
1 |
54.68 |
2013-02-26 |
| 37. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
54.57 |
0.9911 |
0.0672 |
212 |
2 |
52.06 |
2013-03-20 |
| 38. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
54.57 |
1.1014 |
-0.0019 |
273 |
1 |
54.57 |
2013-03-04 |
| 39. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
54.16 |
0.9772 |
0.0755 |
217 |
1 |
54.16 |
2013-03-21 |
| 40. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
53.91 |
1.0454 |
0.0011 |
255 |
1 |
53.91 |
2013-03-21 |
| 41. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
53.87 |
1.0684 |
0.0093 |
253 |
1 |
53.87 |
2013-03-18 |
| 42. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
53.61 |
1.0795 |
-0.0041 |
226 |
1 |
53.61 |
2013-03-18 |
| 43. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
53.43 |
1.0441 |
0.0338 |
316 |
1 |
53.43 |
2013-03-19 |
| 44. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
53.38 |
0.9663 |
0.0722 |
330 |
1 |
53.38 |
2013-03-19 |
| 45. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
53.35 |
1.0042 |
0.0710 |
352 |
1 |
53.35 |
2013-03-25 |
| 46. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
53.22 |
0.9673 |
0.1086 |
232 |
1 |
53.22 |
2013-03-21 |
| 47. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
53.13 |
0.9097 |
0.1222 |
153 |
1 |
53.13 |
2013-03-01 |
| 48. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
52.87 |
1.0211 |
0.0394 |
213 |
2 |
51.86 |
2013-03-21 |
| 49. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
52.86 |
0.9485 |
0.0801 |
236 |
2 |
49.16 |
2013-03-19 |
| 50. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
52.78 |
0.9910 |
0.0362 |
295 |
1 |
52.78 |
2013-03-04 |
| 51. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
52.68 |
0.9941 |
0.0286 |
217 |
1 |
52.68 |
2013-03-19 |
| 52. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
52.56 |
1.0941 |
-0.0392 |
256 |
1 |
52.56 |
2013-03-21 |
| 53. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
52.46 |
1.0297 |
-0.0106 |
249 |
2 |
49.48 |
2013-03-21 |
| 54. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
52.31 |
1.0521 |
-0.0376 |
171 |
1 |
52.31 |
2013-02-26 |
| 55. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
52.26 |
0.9991 |
0.0166 |
225 |
1 |
52.26 |
2013-03-20 |
| 56. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
52.24 |
0.9631 |
0.0996 |
345 |
1 |
52.24 |
2013-03-19 |
| 57. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
51.85 |
0.9691 |
0.0394 |
223 |
1 |
51.85 |
2013-03-20 |
| 58. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
51.53 |
1.0343 |
0.0076 |
242 |
1 |
51.53 |
2013-03-21 |
| 59. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
51.35 |
0.9886 |
0.0102 |
220 |
1 |
51.35 |
2013-02-26 |
| 60. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
51.26 |
0.9665 |
0.0784 |
326 |
1 |
51.26 |
2013-03-04 |
| 61. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
51.14 |
1.0349 |
-0.0417 |
234 |
1 |
51.14 |
2013-03-01 |
| 62. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
51.10 |
0.9768 |
0.0180 |
387 |
1 |
51.10 |
2013-03-21 |
| 63. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
50.81 |
1.0917 |
-0.0769 |
243 |
1 |
50.81 |
2013-03-20 |
| 64. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
50.74 |
0.9964 |
-0.0105 |
203 |
1 |
50.74 |
2013-03-18 |
| 65. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
50.70 |
1.0885 |
-0.0699 |
341 |
1 |
50.70 |
2013-03-19 |
| 66. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
50.68 |
1.0124 |
-0.0288 |
204 |
1 |
50.68 |
2013-03-19 |
| 67. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
50.43 |
1.0150 |
0.0109 |
325 |
1 |
50.43 |
2013-03-20 |
| 68. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
50.24 |
1.0403 |
-0.0459 |
193 |
2 |
45.77 |
2013-03-04 |
| 69. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
50.21 |
1.0029 |
-0.0299 |
209 |
1 |
50.21 |
2013-03-04 |
| 70. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
50.06 |
1.0595 |
-0.0856 |
379 |
1 |
50.06 |
2013-03-19 |
| 71. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
50.05 |
0.9871 |
0.0093 |
227 |
1 |
50.05 |
2013-03-18 |
| 72. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
49.83 |
1.0201 |
-0.0509 |
303 |
1 |
49.83 |
2013-03-20 |
| 73. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
49.74 |
0.9340 |
0.0316 |
296 |
1 |
49.74 |
2013-03-21 |
| 74. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
49.69 |
0.9553 |
0.0147 |
430 |
1 |
49.69 |
2013-03-19 |
| 75. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
49.68 |
0.8933 |
0.0762 |
363 |
1 |
49.68 |
2013-03-19 |
| 76. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
49.52 |
0.9936 |
-0.0317 |
311 |
1 |
49.52 |
2013-03-20 |
| 77. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
49.50 |
0.8787 |
0.0846 |
202 |
1 |
49.50 |
2013-02-26 |
| 78. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
49.40 |
0.9965 |
-0.0366 |
310 |
2 |
48.93 |
2013-03-19 |
| 79. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
49.34 |
0.9468 |
0.0114 |
276 |
1 |
49.34 |
2013-03-19 |
| 80. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
49.19 |
0.9871 |
0.0071 |
209 |
1 |
49.19 |
2013-03-19 |
| 81. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
49.16 |
0.9879 |
-0.0282 |
450 |
1 |
49.16 |
2013-01-18 |
| 82. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
49.08 |
1.0669 |
-0.0797 |
286 |
1 |
49.08 |
2013-03-19 |
| 83. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
48.46 |
0.9907 |
-0.0505 |
211 |
1 |
48.46 |
2013-03-19 |
| 84. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
48.27 |
0.9672 |
-0.0267 |
396 |
1 |
48.27 |
2013-03-20 |
| 85. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
48.25 |
1.0068 |
-0.0676 |
358 |
1 |
48.25 |
2013-03-04 |
| 86. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
48.20 |
0.9866 |
-0.0523 |
218 |
1 |
48.20 |
2013-03-04 |
| 87. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
48.18 |
0.9865 |
-0.0500 |
276 |
1 |
48.18 |
2013-02-26 |
| 88. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
48.13 |
0.9852 |
-0.0503 |
264 |
1 |
48.13 |
2013-03-21 |
| 89. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
48.12 |
1.0604 |
-0.0922 |
260 |
1 |
48.12 |
2013-03-21 |
| 90. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
47.78 |
0.9670 |
0.0017 |
307 |
1 |
47.78 |
2013-03-21 |
| 91. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
47.71 |
1.0232 |
-0.0515 |
350 |
1 |
47.71 |
2013-03-05 |
| 92. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
47.54 |
0.8821 |
0.0404 |
176 |
1 |
47.54 |
2013-03-01 |
| 93. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
47.33 |
0.8653 |
0.0600 |
255 |
1 |
47.33 |
2013-02-26 |
| 94. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
47.08 |
0.9697 |
-0.0545 |
249 |
1 |
47.08 |
2013-03-28 |
| 95. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
47.05 |
0.9570 |
-0.0427 |
287 |
2 |
45.47 |
2013-03-09 |
| 96. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
46.86 |
0.9500 |
-0.0384 |
362 |
2 |
44.46 |
2013-03-20 |
| 97. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
46.84 |
1.0095 |
-0.0998 |
316 |
1 |
46.84 |
2013-02-26 |
| 98. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
46.06 |
1.0621 |
-0.1452 |
263 |
1 |
46.06 |
2013-02-26 |
| 99. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
46.04 |
1.0441 |
-0.1499 |
252 |
1 |
46.04 |
2013-03-04 |
| 100. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
46.00 |
1.0679 |
-0.1500 |
177 |
2 |
45.47 |
2013-02-26 |
| 101. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
45.97 |
0.9128 |
0.0201 |
369 |
1 |
45.97 |
2013-02-28 |
| 102. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
45.87 |
0.9731 |
-0.0887 |
129 |
1 |
45.87 |
2013-03-21 |
| 103. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
45.11 |
1.0214 |
-0.1460 |
269 |
1 |
45.11 |
2013-03-19 |
| 104. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
44.87 |
0.9846 |
-0.1142 |
281 |
1 |
44.87 |
2013-03-04 |
| 105. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
44.75 |
1.0292 |
-0.1612 |
262 |
1 |
44.75 |
2013-02-26 |
| 106. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
44.71 |
1.0403 |
-0.1317 |
275 |
1 |
44.71 |
2013-02-26 |
| 107. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
44.67 |
0.8852 |
-0.0175 |
201 |
1 |
44.67 |
2013-02-26 |
| 108. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
44.50 |
0.9540 |
-0.0904 |
285 |
1 |
44.50 |
2013-02-26 |
| 109. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
44.49 |
0.9632 |
-0.0615 |
345 |
1 |
44.49 |
2013-03-19 |
| 110. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
44.48 |
1.0172 |
-0.1210 |
341 |
1 |
44.48 |
2013-03-19 |
| 111. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
44.17 |
0.9084 |
-0.0487 |
404 |
1 |
44.17 |
2013-03-21 |
| 112. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
43.96 |
1.0251 |
-0.1732 |
261 |
1 |
43.96 |
2013-02-26 |
| 113. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
43.92 |
0.9286 |
-0.0777 |
194 |
1 |
43.92 |
2013-02-26 |
| 114. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
43.86 |
0.9411 |
-0.0887 |
318 |
2 |
42.94 |
2013-03-04 |
| 115. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
43.63 |
0.9342 |
-0.0850 |
434 |
1 |
43.63 |
2013-02-26 |
| 116. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
43.54 |
0.8884 |
-0.0440 |
135 |
1 |
43.54 |
2013-02-26 |
| 117. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
43.38 |
0.8916 |
-0.0495 |
216 |
1 |
43.38 |
2013-02-26 |
| 118. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.72 |
0.9293 |
-0.0995 |
355 |
1 |
42.72 |
2013-03-21 |
| 119. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
42.33 |
0.9614 |
-0.1395 |
292 |
1 |
42.33 |
2013-03-04 |
| 120. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
41.32 |
0.8947 |
-0.0894 |
366 |
1 |
41.32 |
2013-02-26 |
| 121. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
40.99 |
0.8919 |
-0.0974 |
205 |
1 |
40.99 |
2013-03-21 |
| 122. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
40.98 |
0.9792 |
-0.1470 |
265 |
1 |
40.98 |
2013-02-26 |
| 123. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
40.10 |
0.8628 |
-0.0861 |
196 |
1 |
40.10 |
2013-02-26 |
| 124. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
40.00 |
0.9936 |
-0.1950 |
227 |
1 |
40.00 |
2013-02-26 |
| 125. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
39.84 |
1.0485 |
-0.2391 |
153 |
1 |
39.84 |
2013-02-26 |
| 126. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
39.50 |
0.8341 |
-0.0649 |
224 |
1 |
39.50 |
2013-02-26 |
| 127. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
37.98 |
0.8958 |
-0.1576 |
322 |
1 |
37.98 |
2013-03-02 |