| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
73.20 |
1.0515 |
0.1758 |
250 |
1 |
73.20 |
2013-06-11 |
| 2. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
72.56 |
1.0016 |
0.2141 |
218 |
1 |
72.56 |
2013-06-11 |
| 3. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
70.89 |
1.1022 |
0.1223 |
259 |
2 |
67.54 |
2013-06-11 |
| 4. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
70.85 |
0.9726 |
0.2123 |
154 |
1 |
70.85 |
2013-06-11 |
| 5. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
70.71 |
1.0257 |
0.1640 |
401 |
1 |
70.71 |
2013-06-11 |
| 6. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
70.08 |
1.0384 |
0.1319 |
183 |
1 |
70.08 |
2013-06-11 |
| 7. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
69.97 |
1.0523 |
0.1198 |
256 |
1 |
69.97 |
2013-06-11 |
| 8. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
69.96 |
1.0714 |
0.0984 |
129 |
2 |
65.66 |
2013-06-11 |
| 9. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
69.62 |
1.0531 |
0.1516 |
272 |
1 |
69.62 |
2013-06-11 |
| 10. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
69.23 |
1.0602 |
0.1015 |
389 |
1 |
69.23 |
2013-06-11 |
| 11. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
68.81 |
0.9866 |
0.1657 |
218 |
1 |
68.81 |
2013-06-11 |
| 12. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
68.72 |
1.0567 |
0.0971 |
303 |
1 |
68.72 |
2013-06-12 |
| 13. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
68.43 |
0.9966 |
0.1513 |
259 |
2 |
65.42 |
2013-06-12 |
| 14. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
68.13 |
1.0905 |
0.0868 |
210 |
1 |
68.13 |
2013-06-12 |
| 15. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
68.02 |
1.0577 |
0.0805 |
247 |
1 |
68.02 |
2013-06-11 |
| 16. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
67.36 |
0.9532 |
0.1762 |
258 |
1 |
67.36 |
2013-06-12 |
| 17. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
67.24 |
1.0403 |
0.1283 |
275 |
1 |
67.24 |
2013-06-11 |
| 18. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
66.90 |
1.0297 |
0.0913 |
249 |
1 |
66.90 |
2013-06-11 |
| 19. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
66.73 |
0.9904 |
0.1708 |
203 |
1 |
66.73 |
2013-06-12 |
| 20. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
66.50 |
1.0090 |
0.1495 |
282 |
3 |
61.11 |
2013-06-12 |
| 21. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
65.32 |
1.0167 |
0.0816 |
378 |
1 |
65.32 |
2013-06-12 |
| 22. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
64.86 |
0.9884 |
0.0980 |
233 |
1 |
64.86 |
2013-06-11 |
| 23. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
64.80 |
1.0662 |
0.0522 |
407 |
1 |
64.80 |
2013-06-11 |
| 24. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
64.76 |
1.0498 |
0.0331 |
180 |
2 |
64.40 |
2013-06-11 |
| 25. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
64.43 |
0.9509 |
0.1677 |
225 |
2 |
51.53 |
2013-06-11 |
| 26. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
64.25 |
1.0441 |
0.0720 |
316 |
4 |
59.23 |
2013-06-12 |
| 27. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
64.23 |
0.9303 |
0.1423 |
176 |
1 |
64.23 |
2013-06-11 |
| 28. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
63.91 |
0.9635 |
0.1096 |
389 |
1 |
63.91 |
2013-06-12 |
| 29. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
63.31 |
0.9943 |
0.0675 |
373 |
1 |
63.31 |
2013-06-11 |
| 30. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
63.08 |
1.0444 |
0.0090 |
197 |
1 |
63.08 |
2013-06-11 |
| 31. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
62.88 |
0.9597 |
0.0965 |
347 |
1 |
62.88 |
2013-06-11 |
| 32. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
62.84 |
0.9865 |
0.0673 |
276 |
1 |
62.84 |
2013-06-11 |
| 33. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
62.68 |
1.0038 |
0.0777 |
237 |
1 |
62.68 |
2013-06-12 |
| 34. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
62.47 |
1.0774 |
-0.0015 |
304 |
2 |
60.19 |
2013-06-11 |
| 35. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
62.43 |
0.9672 |
0.0820 |
396 |
1 |
62.43 |
2013-06-11 |
| 36. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
62.31 |
1.0033 |
0.0376 |
189 |
1 |
62.31 |
2013-06-12 |
| 37. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
61.42 |
1.0150 |
0.0600 |
325 |
2 |
56.99 |
2013-06-12 |
| 38. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
61.29 |
1.0379 |
0.0259 |
245 |
1 |
61.29 |
2013-06-11 |
| 39. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
61.11 |
1.0095 |
0.0146 |
316 |
1 |
61.11 |
2013-06-11 |
| 40. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
61.08 |
0.9239 |
0.1021 |
193 |
1 |
61.08 |
2013-06-12 |
| 41. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
61.07 |
1.0725 |
-0.0208 |
233 |
1 |
61.07 |
2013-06-11 |
| 42. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
60.93 |
1.0763 |
-0.0173 |
367 |
1 |
60.93 |
2013-06-11 |
| 43. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
60.91 |
1.0630 |
-0.0126 |
397 |
1 |
60.91 |
2013-06-11 |
| 44. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
60.82 |
1.0132 |
0.0000 |
143 |
1 |
60.82 |
2013-06-11 |
| 45. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
60.69 |
1.0201 |
-0.0023 |
303 |
1 |
60.69 |
2013-06-11 |
| 46. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
60.58 |
1.0109 |
0.0043 |
276 |
2 |
60.43 |
2013-06-11 |
| 47. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
60.55 |
0.9572 |
0.0561 |
201 |
1 |
60.55 |
2013-06-11 |
| 48. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
60.39 |
0.9795 |
0.0324 |
308 |
1 |
60.39 |
2013-06-12 |
| 49. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
60.28 |
1.0331 |
-0.0256 |
234 |
1 |
60.28 |
2013-06-11 |
| 50. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
60.25 |
0.9622 |
0.0500 |
392 |
1 |
60.25 |
2013-06-11 |
| 51. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
59.37 |
0.9619 |
0.0357 |
393 |
1 |
59.37 |
2013-06-11 |
| 52. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
59.25 |
0.9805 |
0.0143 |
292 |
2 |
58.49 |
2013-06-11 |
| 53. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
59.21 |
1.0529 |
-0.0609 |
351 |
1 |
59.21 |
2013-06-11 |
| 54. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
59.01 |
0.9843 |
0.0016 |
234 |
1 |
59.01 |
2013-06-11 |
| 55. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
58.95 |
0.9676 |
0.0238 |
442 |
1 |
58.95 |
2013-06-11 |
| 56. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
58.88 |
0.9941 |
-0.0095 |
217 |
1 |
58.88 |
2013-06-11 |
| 57. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
58.88 |
0.9631 |
0.0701 |
345 |
1 |
58.88 |
2013-06-11 |
| 58. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
58.82 |
0.9653 |
0.0240 |
394 |
1 |
58.82 |
2013-06-12 |
| 59. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
58.79 |
0.9439 |
0.0424 |
476 |
1 |
58.79 |
2013-06-11 |
| 60. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
58.67 |
1.0117 |
0.0151 |
297 |
1 |
58.67 |
2013-06-11 |
| 61. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
58.54 |
0.9371 |
0.0817 |
318 |
3 |
50.86 |
2013-06-12 |
| 62. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
58.41 |
1.0073 |
-0.0253 |
369 |
1 |
58.41 |
2013-06-11 |
| 63. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
58.35 |
0.9871 |
0.0139 |
227 |
1 |
58.35 |
2013-06-11 |
| 64. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
58.25 |
0.9897 |
-0.0150 |
274 |
1 |
58.25 |
2013-06-12 |
| 65. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
58.20 |
0.9279 |
0.0499 |
317 |
1 |
58.20 |
2013-06-12 |
| 66. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
58.15 |
1.0068 |
-0.0311 |
358 |
2 |
56.51 |
2013-06-12 |
| 67. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
57.90 |
0.9646 |
0.0048 |
264 |
1 |
57.90 |
2013-06-11 |
| 68. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
57.75 |
0.8787 |
0.0899 |
202 |
1 |
57.75 |
2013-06-11 |
| 69. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
57.59 |
1.0201 |
-0.0591 |
172 |
1 |
57.59 |
2013-06-11 |
| 70. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
57.11 |
0.9125 |
0.0446 |
308 |
1 |
57.11 |
2013-06-11 |
| 71. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
57.09 |
1.0883 |
-0.1000 |
303 |
1 |
57.09 |
2013-06-11 |
| 72. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
57.09 |
0.9776 |
-0.0215 |
308 |
1 |
57.09 |
2013-06-11 |
| 73. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
56.94 |
0.9994 |
-0.0154 |
269 |
1 |
56.94 |
2013-06-11 |
| 74. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
56.50 |
1.0368 |
-0.0914 |
276 |
1 |
56.50 |
2013-06-11 |
| 75. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
56.30 |
1.0515 |
-0.1142 |
166 |
1 |
56.30 |
2013-06-11 |
| 76. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
55.80 |
1.0740 |
-0.1008 |
264 |
1 |
55.80 |
2013-06-11 |
| 77. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
55.74 |
0.9216 |
0.0482 |
255 |
1 |
55.74 |
2013-06-11 |
| 78. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
55.59 |
0.9844 |
-0.0525 |
293 |
1 |
55.59 |
2013-06-11 |
| 79. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
55.55 |
0.9739 |
-0.0113 |
412 |
1 |
55.55 |
2013-06-11 |
| 80. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
55.51 |
0.7805 |
0.1466 |
154 |
1 |
55.51 |
2013-06-11 |
| 81. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
55.43 |
0.9758 |
-0.0477 |
314 |
1 |
55.43 |
2013-06-11 |
| 82. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
55.37 |
1.0555 |
-0.1274 |
363 |
1 |
55.37 |
2013-06-11 |
| 83. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
55.32 |
0.9916 |
-0.0240 |
282 |
1 |
55.32 |
2013-06-11 |
| 84. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
55.01 |
1.0797 |
-0.1623 |
210 |
1 |
55.01 |
2013-06-12 |
| 85. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
54.42 |
0.9991 |
-0.0888 |
225 |
1 |
54.42 |
2013-06-11 |
| 86. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
53.92 |
0.9527 |
-0.0500 |
251 |
1 |
53.92 |
2013-06-11 |
| 87. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
53.50 |
0.9233 |
-0.0316 |
168 |
1 |
53.50 |
2013-06-11 |
| 88. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
53.29 |
0.9841 |
-0.0910 |
334 |
1 |
53.29 |
2013-06-11 |
| 89. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
53.03 |
0.9342 |
-0.0443 |
434 |
1 |
53.03 |
2013-06-11 |
| 90. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
52.65 |
0.9508 |
-0.0410 |
384 |
1 |
52.65 |
2013-06-11 |
| 91. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
52.61 |
0.9461 |
-0.0696 |
193 |
1 |
52.61 |
2013-06-11 |
| 92. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
52.30 |
0.8826 |
-0.0057 |
296 |
1 |
52.30 |
2013-06-11 |
| 93. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
52.07 |
0.8971 |
-0.0243 |
266 |
1 |
52.07 |
2013-06-11 |
| 94. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
51.98 |
1.0361 |
-0.1663 |
269 |
1 |
51.98 |
2013-06-11 |
| 95. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
51.85 |
0.9485 |
-0.0806 |
236 |
1 |
51.85 |
2013-06-11 |
| 96. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
51.52 |
0.9289 |
-0.0683 |
204 |
1 |
51.52 |
2013-06-11 |
| 97. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
51.17 |
0.9148 |
-0.0574 |
317 |
1 |
51.17 |
2013-06-11 |
| 98. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
51.04 |
0.9213 |
-0.0670 |
295 |
1 |
51.04 |
2013-06-11 |
| 99. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
50.94 |
0.9936 |
-0.1185 |
227 |
1 |
50.94 |
2013-06-11 |
| 100. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
50.83 |
0.9636 |
-0.1134 |
254 |
1 |
50.83 |
2013-06-11 |
| 101. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
50.75 |
0.8670 |
-0.0166 |
318 |
1 |
50.75 |
2013-06-11 |
| 102. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
50.14 |
0.9936 |
-0.1556 |
311 |
1 |
50.14 |
2013-06-11 |
| 103. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
49.92 |
0.9632 |
-0.0904 |
345 |
1 |
49.92 |
2013-06-11 |
| 104. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
49.84 |
0.9820 |
-0.1471 |
267 |
1 |
49.84 |
2013-06-11 |
| 105. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
49.58 |
0.9540 |
-0.1253 |
285 |
1 |
49.58 |
2013-06-11 |
| 106. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
49.19 |
0.9212 |
-0.0977 |
323 |
1 |
49.19 |
2013-06-11 |
| 107. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
48.70 |
0.8845 |
-0.0706 |
273 |
1 |
48.70 |
2013-06-11 |
| 108. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
48.65 |
0.9155 |
-0.0566 |
168 |
1 |
48.65 |
2013-06-11 |
| 109. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
44.82 |
0.9912 |
-0.2137 |
237 |
1 |
44.82 |
2013-06-11 |