| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
71.53 |
1.0714 |
0.1166 |
129 |
1 |
71.53 |
2012-12-09 |
| 2. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
69.42 |
1.0459 |
0.1464 |
200 |
1 |
69.42 |
2012-10-28 |
| 3. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
68.12 |
1.0788 |
0.0550 |
171 |
1 |
68.12 |
2012-10-28 |
| 4. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
68.03 |
1.1018 |
0.0295 |
220 |
1 |
68.03 |
2013-01-24 |
| 5. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
67.38 |
1.0725 |
0.0801 |
233 |
1 |
67.38 |
2013-08-16 |
| 6. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
67.24 |
1.0390 |
0.0817 |
205 |
1 |
67.24 |
2012-10-28 |
| 7. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
67.20 |
1.0125 |
0.1088 |
224 |
2 |
61.53 |
2012-10-28 |
| 8. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
66.97 |
1.1022 |
0.0528 |
259 |
2 |
64.63 |
2012-10-29 |
| 9. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
66.86 |
1.1323 |
0.0198 |
341 |
2 |
64.78 |
2013-01-24 |
| 10. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
66.07 |
1.0604 |
0.0776 |
260 |
1 |
66.07 |
2012-10-28 |
| 11. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
65.92 |
1.0696 |
0.0292 |
226 |
1 |
65.92 |
2012-10-29 |
| 12. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
65.66 |
1.0885 |
0.0127 |
315 |
1 |
65.66 |
2012-10-28 |
| 13. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
65.61 |
1.0941 |
0.0341 |
256 |
2 |
64.84 |
2013-01-24 |
| 14. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
65.35 |
1.0412 |
0.0509 |
225 |
1 |
65.35 |
2012-10-29 |
| 15. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
65.26 |
1.0016 |
0.0847 |
218 |
1 |
65.26 |
2013-08-16 |
| 16. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
64.99 |
0.9866 |
0.0964 |
218 |
1 |
64.99 |
2012-10-29 |
| 17. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
64.83 |
1.0993 |
-0.0176 |
265 |
1 |
64.83 |
2012-10-28 |
| 18. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
64.62 |
1.0577 |
0.0188 |
247 |
1 |
64.62 |
2013-02-16 |
| 19. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
64.54 |
1.0398 |
0.0282 |
110 |
1 |
64.54 |
2012-10-28 |
| 20. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
64.51 |
1.0795 |
0.0291 |
226 |
1 |
64.51 |
2013-02-16 |
| 21. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
64.40 |
1.1114 |
-0.0378 |
247 |
1 |
64.40 |
2012-10-28 |
| 22. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.92 |
0.9740 |
0.0901 |
209 |
1 |
63.92 |
2012-10-28 |
| 23. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
63.90 |
0.9965 |
0.0719 |
310 |
1 |
63.90 |
2012-10-28 |
| 24. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
63.74 |
1.0667 |
0.0376 |
406 |
1 |
63.74 |
2012-10-28 |
| 25. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
63.57 |
0.8629 |
0.2039 |
299 |
1 |
63.57 |
2013-02-16 |
| 26. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
63.47 |
1.0462 |
0.0086 |
184 |
1 |
63.47 |
2013-08-16 |
| 27. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
63.11 |
1.0644 |
0.0267 |
257 |
2 |
61.40 |
2012-10-29 |
| 28. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
62.80 |
1.0214 |
0.0266 |
269 |
2 |
62.12 |
2013-02-16 |
| 29. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
62.79 |
0.8867 |
0.1676 |
241 |
1 |
62.79 |
2013-08-24 |
| 30. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
62.76 |
1.0441 |
0.0059 |
252 |
1 |
62.76 |
2012-10-28 |
| 31. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
62.67 |
1.0677 |
0.0098 |
284 |
2 |
62.29 |
2012-12-09 |
| 32. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
62.67 |
1.0038 |
0.0737 |
237 |
1 |
62.67 |
2012-10-29 |
| 33. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
62.61 |
0.9763 |
0.0694 |
289 |
1 |
62.61 |
2012-10-28 |
| 34. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
62.48 |
0.9127 |
0.1285 |
252 |
2 |
61.51 |
2013-02-16 |
| 35. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
62.44 |
1.0177 |
0.0639 |
392 |
1 |
62.44 |
2012-12-09 |
| 36. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
62.41 |
1.0531 |
0.0279 |
272 |
1 |
62.41 |
2012-10-28 |
| 37. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
62.40 |
0.9684 |
0.0767 |
388 |
1 |
62.40 |
2013-02-16 |
| 38. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
62.35 |
0.9894 |
0.0569 |
323 |
3 |
56.21 |
2013-02-16 |
| 39. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
62.23 |
0.9941 |
0.0433 |
217 |
1 |
62.23 |
2012-10-28 |
| 40. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.92 |
0.9886 |
0.0484 |
220 |
2 |
59.06 |
2012-10-29 |
| 41. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
61.78 |
1.0796 |
-0.0529 |
129 |
1 |
61.78 |
2012-10-28 |
| 42. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
61.72 |
0.9005 |
0.1293 |
212 |
2 |
59.66 |
2013-02-26 |
| 43. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
61.45 |
1.0403 |
0.0009 |
193 |
1 |
61.45 |
2012-10-28 |
| 44. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
61.38 |
0.9881 |
0.0781 |
424 |
1 |
61.38 |
2013-08-16 |
| 45. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
61.38 |
0.9612 |
0.0644 |
256 |
2 |
58.97 |
2013-08-24 |
| 46. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
61.26 |
1.0154 |
0.0578 |
351 |
2 |
61.04 |
2012-10-28 |
| 47. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
61.22 |
1.0528 |
-0.0348 |
201 |
1 |
61.22 |
2013-02-16 |
| 48. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
61.19 |
0.9212 |
0.1043 |
231 |
1 |
61.19 |
2012-10-29 |
| 49. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
61.17 |
1.0131 |
0.0049 |
225 |
1 |
61.17 |
2013-02-13 |
| 50. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
61.07 |
1.0774 |
-0.0279 |
304 |
1 |
61.07 |
2012-10-29 |
| 51. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
60.93 |
0.9976 |
0.0405 |
174 |
1 |
60.93 |
2012-10-28 |
| 52. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
60.64 |
0.8775 |
0.1382 |
443 |
1 |
60.64 |
2013-02-16 |
| 53. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
60.62 |
0.9266 |
0.0858 |
267 |
2 |
53.40 |
2012-10-29 |
| 54. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
60.60 |
1.0719 |
-0.0318 |
360 |
1 |
60.60 |
2012-10-28 |
| 55. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
60.36 |
1.0316 |
-0.0194 |
333 |
1 |
60.36 |
2013-01-24 |
| 56. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
60.11 |
1.0567 |
-0.0518 |
303 |
3 |
57.35 |
2013-01-24 |
| 57. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
60.05 |
0.9863 |
0.0209 |
339 |
1 |
60.05 |
2013-08-16 |
| 58. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
59.98 |
1.0797 |
-0.0834 |
210 |
1 |
59.98 |
2012-10-28 |
| 59. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
59.89 |
0.9504 |
0.0440 |
263 |
1 |
59.89 |
2012-10-29 |
| 60. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
59.87 |
1.0320 |
0.0050 |
293 |
1 |
59.87 |
2013-08-16 |
| 61. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
59.86 |
1.0099 |
-0.0135 |
207 |
1 |
59.86 |
2012-10-29 |
| 62. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
59.82 |
1.0328 |
0.0050 |
356 |
2 |
59.64 |
2013-08-16 |
| 63. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
59.58 |
1.0387 |
-0.0117 |
239 |
1 |
59.58 |
2012-10-28 |
| 64. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
59.47 |
1.0417 |
-0.0514 |
253 |
1 |
59.47 |
2013-08-16 |
| 65. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
59.45 |
0.9852 |
0.0078 |
264 |
1 |
59.45 |
2013-08-16 |
| 66. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
59.43 |
0.9567 |
0.0359 |
273 |
2 |
57.91 |
2012-10-29 |
| 67. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
59.42 |
1.0068 |
-0.0112 |
358 |
2 |
58.57 |
2013-02-13 |
| 68. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
59.31 |
0.9691 |
0.0207 |
223 |
2 |
55.65 |
2012-12-09 |
| 69. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
59.06 |
0.9723 |
0.0179 |
364 |
1 |
59.06 |
2012-10-28 |
| 70. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
58.94 |
1.0426 |
-0.0591 |
323 |
1 |
58.94 |
2012-12-09 |
| 71. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
58.90 |
1.0197 |
-0.0391 |
226 |
1 |
58.90 |
2012-10-28 |
| 72. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
58.52 |
0.8919 |
0.0838 |
205 |
1 |
58.52 |
2013-02-16 |
| 73. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
58.45 |
0.9303 |
0.0385 |
176 |
1 |
58.45 |
2013-02-16 |
| 74. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
58.42 |
1.0419 |
-0.0668 |
261 |
1 |
58.42 |
2012-10-28 |
| 75. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
58.38 |
0.9649 |
0.0089 |
193 |
1 |
58.38 |
2012-10-29 |
| 76. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
58.29 |
0.9529 |
0.0607 |
269 |
1 |
58.29 |
2013-02-16 |
| 77. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
58.06 |
0.9243 |
0.0846 |
448 |
2 |
56.55 |
2012-10-29 |
| 78. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
57.80 |
0.9857 |
-0.0219 |
293 |
1 |
57.80 |
2012-10-28 |
| 79. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
57.67 |
0.9278 |
0.0375 |
295 |
2 |
55.81 |
2012-12-09 |
| 80. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
57.66 |
1.0169 |
-0.0157 |
346 |
1 |
57.66 |
2012-10-28 |
| 81. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
57.62 |
1.0375 |
-0.0299 |
200 |
1 |
57.62 |
2012-10-28 |
| 82. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
57.57 |
0.8770 |
0.0872 |
300 |
1 |
57.57 |
2013-01-24 |
| 83. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
57.29 |
0.9247 |
0.0362 |
253 |
1 |
57.29 |
2013-01-24 |
| 84. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
57.29 |
0.9871 |
-0.0083 |
227 |
3 |
51.76 |
2013-08-16 |
| 85. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
57.19 |
1.0684 |
-0.0838 |
253 |
1 |
57.19 |
2012-10-28 |
| 86. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
56.46 |
0.9665 |
0.0250 |
326 |
1 |
56.46 |
2013-01-24 |
| 87. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
56.45 |
0.9831 |
-0.0331 |
469 |
1 |
56.45 |
2013-08-16 |
| 88. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
56.44 |
0.9087 |
0.0441 |
393 |
1 |
56.44 |
2013-02-13 |
| 89. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
56.26 |
0.8670 |
0.0769 |
318 |
1 |
56.26 |
2013-01-24 |
| 90. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
56.16 |
0.9109 |
0.0292 |
401 |
2 |
51.71 |
2013-02-16 |
| 91. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
56.06 |
1.0917 |
-0.1329 |
243 |
1 |
56.06 |
2013-02-16 |
| 92. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
55.98 |
0.8852 |
0.0513 |
201 |
2 |
51.87 |
2013-01-24 |
| 93. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
55.92 |
0.9342 |
0.0026 |
434 |
1 |
55.92 |
2012-10-28 |
| 94. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
55.88 |
0.8467 |
0.1103 |
343 |
1 |
55.88 |
2013-08-16 |
| 95. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
55.80 |
1.0483 |
-0.1206 |
227 |
1 |
55.80 |
2013-01-09 |
| 96. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
55.50 |
1.0621 |
-0.1168 |
263 |
1 |
55.50 |
2012-10-29 |
| 97. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
55.46 |
0.9202 |
0.0048 |
254 |
2 |
54.89 |
2013-02-16 |
| 98. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
55.45 |
1.0555 |
-0.1003 |
323 |
1 |
55.45 |
2012-10-28 |
| 99. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
55.43 |
0.9557 |
-0.0245 |
331 |
1 |
55.43 |
2012-10-28 |
| 100. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
55.42 |
1.0172 |
-0.0577 |
341 |
1 |
55.42 |
2012-10-28 |
| 101. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
55.20 |
0.9792 |
-0.0198 |
265 |
1 |
55.20 |
2013-02-16 |
| 102. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
55.11 |
0.9509 |
0.0067 |
225 |
1 |
55.11 |
2013-01-09 |
| 103. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
55.00 |
1.0403 |
-0.0830 |
275 |
1 |
55.00 |
2013-01-09 |
| 104. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
54.88 |
1.0673 |
-0.1101 |
230 |
2 |
54.25 |
2012-10-28 |
| 105. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
54.87 |
0.9965 |
-0.0859 |
168 |
1 |
54.87 |
2013-01-24 |
| 106. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
54.80 |
0.9879 |
-0.0649 |
450 |
1 |
54.80 |
2012-10-28 |
| 107. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
54.56 |
0.9601 |
-0.0452 |
308 |
1 |
54.56 |
2012-12-09 |
| 108. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
54.40 |
0.9593 |
-0.0473 |
398 |
1 |
54.40 |
2013-01-10 |
| 109. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
54.25 |
0.9376 |
-0.0274 |
367 |
2 |
53.07 |
2012-10-29 |
| 110. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
54.25 |
0.9739 |
-0.0332 |
412 |
1 |
54.25 |
2012-10-29 |
| 111. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
53.98 |
1.0613 |
-0.1602 |
266 |
1 |
53.98 |
2012-10-29 |
| 112. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
53.41 |
1.0254 |
-0.0943 |
217 |
1 |
53.41 |
2013-02-26 |
| 113. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
53.01 |
0.8573 |
0.0298 |
270 |
1 |
53.01 |
2012-10-28 |
| 114. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
52.69 |
1.0334 |
-0.1616 |
131 |
1 |
52.69 |
2012-10-21 |
| 115. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
52.57 |
0.9312 |
-0.0042 |
320 |
1 |
52.57 |
2012-10-28 |
| 116. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
52.53 |
0.8958 |
-0.0152 |
322 |
1 |
52.53 |
2012-10-28 |
| 117. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
52.37 |
1.0441 |
-0.1297 |
316 |
1 |
52.37 |
2013-01-24 |
| 118. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
52.22 |
1.0349 |
-0.1655 |
234 |
1 |
52.22 |
2012-10-22 |
| 119. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
51.65 |
0.9088 |
-0.0429 |
348 |
1 |
51.65 |
2012-12-09 |
| 120. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
51.46 |
0.9916 |
-0.0914 |
282 |
1 |
51.46 |
2013-02-16 |
| 121. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
51.21 |
0.9687 |
-0.1105 |
371 |
1 |
51.21 |
2012-10-28 |
| 122. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
51.16 |
0.8935 |
-0.0312 |
328 |
1 |
51.16 |
2013-02-16 |
| 123. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
50.92 |
1.0533 |
-0.1781 |
257 |
1 |
50.92 |
2012-10-28 |
| 124. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
49.27 |
1.0284 |
-0.1646 |
282 |
1 |
49.27 |
2012-10-29 |
| 125. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
49.20 |
0.9964 |
-0.1771 |
203 |
1 |
49.20 |
2013-01-24 |
| 126. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
49.18 |
0.9843 |
-0.1704 |
234 |
1 |
49.18 |
2012-10-28 |
| 127. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
49.13 |
0.9640 |
-0.1160 |
334 |
1 |
49.13 |
2013-02-16 |
| 128. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
47.19 |
1.0042 |
-0.1771 |
352 |
1 |
47.19 |
2012-10-29 |
| 129. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
46.11 |
1.0574 |
-0.2623 |
205 |
1 |
46.11 |
2012-10-21 |