| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
83.55 |
1.1215 |
0.2620 |
200 |
1 |
83.55 |
2010-09-15 |
| 2. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
79.31 |
0.9711 |
0.3176 |
176 |
1 |
79.31 |
2010-09-15 |
| 3. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
78.84 |
1.0352 |
0.2495 |
341 |
1 |
78.84 |
2010-09-11 |
| 4. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
76.64 |
1.0218 |
0.2213 |
268 |
1 |
76.64 |
2010-09-10 |
| 5. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
75.28 |
1.1016 |
0.1222 |
233 |
1 |
75.28 |
2010-09-11 |
| 6. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
73.51 |
1.1114 |
0.0805 |
247 |
1 |
73.51 |
2010-09-15 |
| 7. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
73.06 |
1.0117 |
0.2203 |
297 |
2 |
63.67 |
2010-09-11 |
| 8. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
73.02 |
0.9048 |
0.2863 |
271 |
1 |
73.02 |
2010-09-10 |
| 9. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
71.65 |
1.0261 |
0.1773 |
410 |
1 |
71.65 |
2010-09-11 |
| 10. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
71.28 |
1.0264 |
0.1717 |
422 |
1 |
71.28 |
2010-09-11 |
| 11. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
71.26 |
1.0662 |
0.1291 |
407 |
1 |
71.26 |
2010-09-12 |
| 12. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
71.03 |
1.0368 |
0.1180 |
276 |
2 |
66.86 |
2010-09-14 |
| 13. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
71.01 |
1.0063 |
0.1476 |
371 |
1 |
71.01 |
2010-10-12 |
| 14. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
70.75 |
1.0025 |
0.1477 |
336 |
1 |
70.75 |
2010-09-10 |
| 15. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
70.41 |
1.0545 |
0.1299 |
416 |
1 |
70.41 |
2010-09-11 |
| 16. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
70.17 |
1.0214 |
0.1166 |
269 |
1 |
70.17 |
2010-09-10 |
| 17. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
69.90 |
1.0531 |
0.1203 |
272 |
1 |
69.90 |
2010-09-11 |
| 18. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
69.81 |
1.0365 |
0.1272 |
162 |
1 |
69.81 |
2010-09-10 |
| 19. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
69.61 |
1.0768 |
0.0938 |
295 |
1 |
69.61 |
2010-09-15 |
| 20. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
69.58 |
1.0496 |
0.0797 |
314 |
1 |
69.58 |
2010-09-15 |
| 21. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
69.34 |
1.0390 |
0.0833 |
205 |
1 |
69.34 |
2010-09-10 |
| 22. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
68.90 |
1.0595 |
0.0619 |
379 |
1 |
68.90 |
2010-09-11 |
| 23. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
68.86 |
1.0788 |
0.0338 |
171 |
1 |
68.86 |
2010-09-10 |
| 24. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
68.13 |
1.0151 |
0.0826 |
152 |
2 |
67.03 |
2010-10-12 |
| 25. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
68.07 |
1.0567 |
0.0491 |
303 |
2 |
67.83 |
2010-09-15 |
| 26. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
67.16 |
1.0168 |
0.0749 |
271 |
1 |
67.16 |
2010-09-10 |
| 27. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
66.12 |
1.0189 |
0.0576 |
337 |
1 |
66.12 |
2010-09-18 |
| 28. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
66.11 |
0.9468 |
0.1257 |
276 |
2 |
61.80 |
2010-09-15 |
| 29. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
65.64 |
0.9504 |
0.1095 |
263 |
2 |
64.09 |
2010-09-18 |
| 30. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
65.63 |
0.9790 |
0.1268 |
311 |
1 |
65.63 |
2010-09-11 |
| 31. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
65.61 |
0.9795 |
0.0853 |
308 |
1 |
65.61 |
2010-09-10 |
| 32. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
65.26 |
1.0795 |
0.0101 |
226 |
2 |
63.67 |
2010-09-12 |
| 33. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
65.26 |
0.9578 |
0.1008 |
281 |
1 |
65.26 |
2010-09-11 |
| 34. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
64.57 |
0.9943 |
0.0566 |
373 |
1 |
64.57 |
2010-10-12 |
| 35. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
64.56 |
1.0346 |
0.0550 |
244 |
2 |
62.50 |
2010-09-15 |
| 36. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
64.48 |
1.0379 |
0.0433 |
245 |
1 |
64.48 |
2010-10-12 |
| 37. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
64.35 |
0.9786 |
0.0650 |
235 |
1 |
64.35 |
2010-09-12 |
| 38. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
64.12 |
1.0073 |
0.0411 |
369 |
2 |
64.08 |
2010-10-16 |
| 39. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
64.07 |
1.0034 |
0.0346 |
302 |
1 |
64.07 |
2010-09-29 |
| 40. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
64.07 |
0.9758 |
0.0644 |
314 |
1 |
64.07 |
2010-09-11 |
| 41. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
63.94 |
0.9820 |
0.0582 |
267 |
1 |
63.94 |
2010-09-10 |
| 42. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
63.87 |
0.9430 |
0.0961 |
297 |
2 |
58.63 |
2010-09-11 |
| 43. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
63.79 |
1.0534 |
-0.0163 |
357 |
1 |
63.79 |
2010-09-15 |
| 44. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
63.62 |
0.9207 |
0.1140 |
174 |
1 |
63.62 |
2010-10-12 |
| 45. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
63.52 |
0.9350 |
0.0963 |
195 |
1 |
63.52 |
2010-09-15 |
| 46. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
63.34 |
1.0004 |
0.0210 |
212 |
2 |
58.60 |
2010-09-12 |
| 47. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
63.13 |
0.9833 |
0.0424 |
355 |
1 |
63.13 |
2010-09-10 |
| 48. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
62.80 |
1.0417 |
-0.0255 |
253 |
1 |
62.80 |
2010-09-15 |
| 49. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
62.78 |
1.0232 |
0.0307 |
236 |
1 |
62.78 |
2010-09-10 |
| 50. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
62.77 |
0.9675 |
0.0602 |
383 |
1 |
62.77 |
2010-09-11 |
| 51. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
62.70 |
0.9908 |
0.0721 |
342 |
1 |
62.70 |
2010-09-11 |
| 52. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
62.63 |
0.9649 |
0.0499 |
193 |
1 |
62.63 |
2010-09-11 |
| 53. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
62.55 |
0.9513 |
0.0671 |
354 |
1 |
62.55 |
2010-09-11 |
| 54. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
62.36 |
0.8810 |
0.1312 |
282 |
1 |
62.36 |
2010-09-10 |
| 55. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
62.28 |
1.0205 |
-0.0169 |
179 |
1 |
62.28 |
2010-09-10 |
| 56. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
62.05 |
1.0477 |
-0.0390 |
360 |
1 |
62.05 |
2010-09-17 |
| 57. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
62.05 |
1.0596 |
-0.0554 |
239 |
1 |
62.05 |
2010-09-10 |
| 58. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
61.65 |
1.0023 |
-0.0044 |
211 |
1 |
61.65 |
2010-09-09 |
| 59. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
61.64 |
1.0099 |
-0.0132 |
207 |
1 |
61.64 |
2010-09-15 |
| 60. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
61.60 |
1.0516 |
-0.0530 |
281 |
1 |
61.60 |
2010-09-10 |
| 61. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
61.59 |
0.9529 |
0.0865 |
269 |
1 |
61.59 |
2010-09-17 |
| 62. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
61.49 |
1.1081 |
-0.0763 |
206 |
1 |
61.49 |
2010-09-11 |
| 63. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
61.31 |
0.9411 |
0.0539 |
318 |
1 |
61.31 |
2010-09-11 |
| 64. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
61.09 |
1.0320 |
-0.0041 |
293 |
2 |
58.49 |
2010-09-12 |
| 65. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
60.95 |
1.0172 |
0.0062 |
341 |
1 |
60.95 |
2010-09-17 |
| 66. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
60.82 |
0.9461 |
0.0362 |
193 |
1 |
60.82 |
2010-09-11 |
| 67. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
60.81 |
0.9684 |
0.0203 |
388 |
1 |
60.81 |
2010-09-15 |
| 68. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
60.67 |
0.9045 |
0.0795 |
235 |
1 |
60.67 |
2010-09-11 |
| 69. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
60.63 |
1.0297 |
-0.0479 |
249 |
1 |
60.63 |
2010-09-10 |
| 70. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
60.37 |
0.8845 |
0.0947 |
273 |
1 |
60.37 |
2010-09-15 |
| 71. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
60.32 |
0.9098 |
0.0644 |
167 |
1 |
60.32 |
2010-10-12 |
| 72. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
59.97 |
1.0197 |
-0.0504 |
226 |
1 |
59.97 |
2010-09-15 |
| 73. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
59.58 |
0.9266 |
0.0393 |
267 |
1 |
59.58 |
2010-09-10 |
| 74. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
59.49 |
0.8996 |
0.0592 |
192 |
2 |
57.43 |
2010-09-12 |
| 75. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
59.38 |
0.9709 |
0.0326 |
397 |
1 |
59.38 |
2010-09-11 |
| 76. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
59.24 |
0.9072 |
0.0513 |
237 |
2 |
50.11 |
2010-09-12 |
| 77. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
59.11 |
1.0138 |
-0.0561 |
231 |
1 |
59.11 |
2010-09-10 |
| 78. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
58.89 |
0.9922 |
0.0033 |
341 |
2 |
55.94 |
2010-09-12 |
| 79. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
58.70 |
0.9572 |
0.0372 |
376 |
1 |
58.70 |
2010-09-10 |
| 80. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
58.50 |
0.9710 |
-0.0295 |
173 |
2 |
57.12 |
2010-09-15 |
| 81. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
58.30 |
1.0343 |
-0.0521 |
242 |
1 |
58.30 |
2010-09-11 |
| 82. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
58.18 |
0.9293 |
0.0143 |
355 |
1 |
58.18 |
2010-09-15 |
| 83. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
58.10 |
0.8933 |
0.0546 |
363 |
2 |
53.49 |
2010-10-12 |
| 84. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
57.77 |
0.9768 |
-0.0382 |
387 |
1 |
57.77 |
2010-09-11 |
| 85. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
57.45 |
0.9866 |
-0.0595 |
218 |
1 |
57.45 |
2010-09-11 |
| 86. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
57.15 |
0.9439 |
-0.0100 |
476 |
1 |
57.15 |
2010-09-10 |
| 87. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
57.14 |
1.1018 |
-0.1825 |
220 |
1 |
57.14 |
2010-09-15 |
| 88. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
56.87 |
0.9786 |
-0.0625 |
193 |
1 |
56.87 |
2010-09-11 |
| 89. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
56.79 |
0.9814 |
-0.0221 |
364 |
1 |
56.79 |
2010-09-11 |
| 90. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
56.44 |
0.9583 |
-0.0004 |
341 |
1 |
56.44 |
2010-09-11 |
| 91. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
56.27 |
0.9925 |
-0.0444 |
247 |
2 |
56.12 |
2010-09-13 |
| 92. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
56.26 |
1.0095 |
-0.0994 |
316 |
1 |
56.26 |
2010-09-11 |
| 93. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
55.93 |
1.0254 |
-0.0788 |
217 |
1 |
55.93 |
2010-09-11 |
| 94. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
55.61 |
0.9286 |
-0.0290 |
194 |
1 |
55.61 |
2010-09-14 |
| 95. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
55.57 |
0.9247 |
-0.0201 |
253 |
1 |
55.57 |
2010-09-11 |
| 96. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
55.55 |
0.8914 |
0.0090 |
366 |
2 |
48.78 |
2010-09-11 |
| 97. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
55.36 |
0.9619 |
-0.0602 |
393 |
1 |
55.36 |
2010-09-10 |
| 98. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
55.33 |
0.9673 |
-0.0320 |
232 |
1 |
55.33 |
2010-09-11 |
| 99. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
55.02 |
0.9359 |
-0.0055 |
353 |
1 |
55.02 |
2010-09-10 |
| 100. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
54.89 |
0.9898 |
-0.0635 |
353 |
1 |
54.89 |
2010-09-10 |
| 101. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
54.49 |
0.9176 |
-0.0016 |
267 |
2 |
52.50 |
2010-09-11 |
| 102. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
54.47 |
0.8956 |
-0.0092 |
322 |
1 |
54.47 |
2010-09-15 |
| 103. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
54.14 |
0.9798 |
-0.1091 |
199 |
1 |
54.14 |
2010-09-11 |
| 104. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
54.12 |
0.9109 |
-0.0322 |
401 |
2 |
53.69 |
2010-09-12 |
| 105. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
53.90 |
0.9429 |
-0.0691 |
287 |
1 |
53.90 |
2010-09-11 |
| 106. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
53.77 |
0.9088 |
-0.0333 |
348 |
1 |
53.77 |
2010-09-18 |
| 107. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
53.76 |
0.9946 |
-0.1246 |
246 |
1 |
53.76 |
2010-09-11 |
| 108. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
53.64 |
1.0288 |
-0.1285 |
300 |
1 |
53.64 |
2010-09-29 |
| 109. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
52.62 |
0.9279 |
-0.0699 |
317 |
1 |
52.62 |
2010-09-11 |
| 110. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
52.51 |
0.9640 |
-0.0851 |
334 |
1 |
52.51 |
2010-09-11 |
| 111. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
52.43 |
0.9509 |
-0.0642 |
225 |
1 |
52.43 |
2010-09-15 |
| 112. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
52.40 |
0.8878 |
-0.0402 |
346 |
1 |
52.40 |
2010-09-12 |
| 113. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
52.07 |
1.0398 |
-0.2079 |
110 |
1 |
52.07 |
2010-09-11 |
| 114. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
51.83 |
0.9601 |
-0.1169 |
308 |
1 |
51.83 |
2010-09-11 |
| 115. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
51.75 |
0.9275 |
-0.0936 |
211 |
1 |
51.75 |
2010-09-13 |
| 116. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
51.73 |
0.9089 |
-0.0682 |
342 |
1 |
51.73 |
2010-09-10 |
| 117. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
51.66 |
0.9905 |
-0.1234 |
337 |
1 |
51.66 |
2010-09-12 |
| 118. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
51.00 |
0.9097 |
-0.0433 |
464 |
1 |
51.00 |
2010-09-10 |
| 119. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
50.50 |
0.8602 |
-0.0458 |
206 |
1 |
50.50 |
2010-09-11 |
| 120. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
50.45 |
0.9084 |
-0.0885 |
404 |
1 |
50.45 |
2010-09-11 |
| 121. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
49.95 |
0.7805 |
0.0230 |
154 |
1 |
49.95 |
2010-09-11 |
| 122. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
49.52 |
0.9353 |
-0.1389 |
177 |
1 |
49.52 |
2010-09-11 |
| 123. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
48.71 |
0.8382 |
-0.0505 |
268 |
1 |
48.71 |
2010-09-11 |
| 124. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
45.65 |
0.7876 |
-0.0480 |
316 |
1 |
45.65 |
2010-09-11 |
| 125. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
42.15 |
0.8595 |
-0.1782 |
242 |
1 |
42.15 |
2010-09-15 |
| 126. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
37.69 |
0.8852 |
-0.2769 |
201 |
1 |
37.69 |
2010-09-10 |
| 127. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
36.67 |
0.8105 |
-0.2253 |
204 |
1 |
36.67 |
2010-09-29 |