| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
117.83 |
1.0334 |
0.2431 |
131 |
1 |
117.83 |
2012-04-30 |
| 2. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
112.17 |
1.0905 |
0.1617 |
210 |
2 |
91.44 |
2012-04-30 |
| 3. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
108.88 |
1.0968 |
0.1252 |
365 |
1 |
108.88 |
2012-06-28 |
| 4. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
108.34 |
1.0917 |
0.1104 |
243 |
3 |
101.96 |
2012-04-30 |
| 5. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
107.03 |
1.0799 |
0.0804 |
243 |
3 |
99.10 |
2012-10-17 |
| 6. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
106.43 |
0.9852 |
0.1727 |
264 |
2 |
96.72 |
2012-04-30 |
| 7. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
106.38 |
1.0033 |
0.1469 |
189 |
2 |
91.26 |
2012-06-28 |
| 8. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
106.20 |
1.0523 |
0.0985 |
256 |
1 |
106.20 |
2012-03-29 |
| 9. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
105.76 |
1.0577 |
0.0887 |
247 |
1 |
105.76 |
2012-05-01 |
| 10. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
105.56 |
1.0943 |
0.0864 |
206 |
1 |
105.56 |
2012-10-17 |
| 11. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
104.99 |
0.9976 |
0.1646 |
174 |
1 |
104.99 |
2012-04-18 |
| 12. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
104.99 |
1.0529 |
0.0887 |
351 |
2 |
102.30 |
2012-06-28 |
| 13. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
104.45 |
0.9772 |
0.1553 |
217 |
1 |
104.45 |
2012-04-22 |
| 14. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
103.84 |
1.0619 |
0.0710 |
354 |
1 |
103.84 |
2012-06-28 |
| 15. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
103.80 |
1.0534 |
0.0778 |
357 |
1 |
103.80 |
2012-04-22 |
| 16. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
103.80 |
1.0417 |
0.0842 |
253 |
1 |
103.80 |
2012-04-22 |
| 17. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
103.62 |
1.0109 |
0.1164 |
276 |
1 |
103.62 |
2012-04-30 |
| 18. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
103.50 |
1.0396 |
0.0786 |
149 |
2 |
98.07 |
2012-06-28 |
| 19. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
103.22 |
1.0498 |
0.0676 |
180 |
2 |
90.28 |
2012-04-30 |
| 20. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
101.85 |
1.0197 |
0.0846 |
226 |
1 |
101.85 |
2012-06-13 |
| 21. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
101.14 |
1.0201 |
0.0833 |
375 |
1 |
101.14 |
2012-04-30 |
| 22. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
101.02 |
1.0679 |
0.0502 |
177 |
1 |
101.02 |
2012-04-18 |
| 23. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
101.01 |
0.9688 |
0.1283 |
217 |
1 |
101.01 |
2012-04-18 |
| 24. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
99.62 |
1.0787 |
0.0025 |
237 |
1 |
99.62 |
2012-04-30 |
| 25. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
99.46 |
1.0063 |
0.0749 |
371 |
1 |
99.46 |
2012-04-18 |
| 26. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
99.35 |
0.9855 |
0.1277 |
258 |
2 |
93.35 |
2012-04-22 |
| 27. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
99.24 |
1.0630 |
0.0490 |
397 |
1 |
99.24 |
2012-04-30 |
| 28. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
99.23 |
1.0403 |
0.0529 |
193 |
2 |
92.67 |
2012-06-28 |
| 29. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
98.68 |
0.8994 |
0.1748 |
188 |
1 |
98.68 |
2012-04-18 |
| 30. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
98.65 |
0.9776 |
0.0948 |
308 |
2 |
96.64 |
2012-04-30 |
| 31. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
98.65 |
1.0486 |
0.0242 |
289 |
1 |
98.65 |
2012-04-30 |
| 32. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
98.05 |
1.0213 |
0.0410 |
240 |
1 |
98.05 |
2012-10-17 |
| 33. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
97.96 |
1.0677 |
0.0269 |
284 |
1 |
97.96 |
2012-04-30 |
| 34. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
97.90 |
1.0711 |
-0.0127 |
213 |
1 |
97.90 |
2012-06-28 |
| 35. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
97.74 |
1.0390 |
0.0191 |
205 |
2 |
60.61 |
2012-04-22 |
| 36. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
97.74 |
1.0533 |
0.0355 |
257 |
1 |
97.74 |
2012-04-22 |
| 37. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
97.58 |
0.9351 |
0.1196 |
190 |
2 |
91.09 |
2012-06-28 |
| 38. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
97.56 |
0.8725 |
0.1897 |
163 |
1 |
97.56 |
2012-10-17 |
| 39. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
97.12 |
0.8723 |
0.1788 |
185 |
1 |
97.12 |
2012-10-17 |
| 40. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
96.75 |
0.9734 |
0.0779 |
289 |
2 |
87.94 |
2012-05-01 |
| 41. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
96.70 |
1.0426 |
0.0072 |
323 |
1 |
96.70 |
2012-04-30 |
| 42. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
96.58 |
1.0621 |
0.0065 |
263 |
1 |
96.58 |
2012-04-30 |
| 43. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
96.53 |
1.0004 |
0.0422 |
212 |
1 |
96.53 |
2012-10-17 |
| 44. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
96.42 |
0.9946 |
0.0529 |
246 |
1 |
96.42 |
2012-04-30 |
| 45. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
96.00 |
0.9942 |
0.0574 |
483 |
2 |
85.77 |
2012-06-30 |
| 46. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
95.62 |
1.0829 |
-0.0428 |
288 |
1 |
95.62 |
2012-04-30 |
| 47. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
95.37 |
1.0008 |
0.0784 |
473 |
1 |
95.37 |
2012-04-30 |
| 48. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
95.29 |
0.9786 |
0.0559 |
235 |
1 |
95.29 |
2012-06-28 |
| 49. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
95.13 |
1.0074 |
0.0275 |
242 |
1 |
95.13 |
2012-04-18 |
| 50. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
95.07 |
0.9936 |
0.0389 |
311 |
1 |
95.07 |
2012-04-30 |
| 51. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
94.88 |
0.9646 |
0.0650 |
264 |
1 |
94.88 |
2012-03-29 |
| 52. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
94.80 |
1.0131 |
0.0127 |
225 |
2 |
93.09 |
2012-06-28 |
| 53. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
94.71 |
0.9893 |
0.0393 |
323 |
1 |
94.71 |
2012-05-24 |
| 54. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
94.46 |
0.9758 |
0.0508 |
314 |
1 |
94.46 |
2012-06-28 |
| 55. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
93.96 |
0.9907 |
0.0641 |
397 |
1 |
93.96 |
2012-06-28 |
| 56. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
93.32 |
0.9570 |
0.0582 |
287 |
3 |
87.95 |
2012-04-30 |
| 57. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
92.89 |
0.9769 |
0.0298 |
263 |
1 |
92.89 |
2012-06-28 |
| 58. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
92.83 |
1.0615 |
-0.0280 |
305 |
1 |
92.83 |
2012-04-30 |
| 59. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
92.66 |
0.9527 |
0.0537 |
251 |
1 |
92.66 |
2012-06-28 |
| 60. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
92.66 |
1.0445 |
-0.0372 |
373 |
1 |
92.66 |
2012-04-30 |
| 61. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
92.49 |
0.9922 |
0.0530 |
341 |
1 |
92.49 |
2012-04-30 |
| 62. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
92.13 |
1.0358 |
0.0065 |
349 |
1 |
92.13 |
2012-04-30 |
| 63. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
92.11 |
0.9831 |
0.0248 |
469 |
1 |
92.11 |
2012-06-28 |
| 64. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
91.99 |
0.9461 |
0.0485 |
193 |
1 |
91.99 |
2012-04-18 |
| 65. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
91.96 |
0.9651 |
0.0694 |
389 |
4 |
89.32 |
2012-06-13 |
| 66. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
91.80 |
1.0201 |
-0.0299 |
172 |
1 |
91.80 |
2012-04-22 |
| 67. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
91.70 |
0.9663 |
0.0346 |
330 |
1 |
91.70 |
2012-06-28 |
| 68. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
91.51 |
0.9851 |
0.0109 |
317 |
1 |
91.51 |
2012-06-28 |
| 69. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
91.25 |
0.9941 |
-0.0057 |
217 |
1 |
91.25 |
2012-04-30 |
| 70. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
91.25 |
1.0117 |
0.0236 |
297 |
2 |
89.47 |
2012-06-28 |
| 71. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
90.91 |
1.0389 |
-0.0503 |
318 |
1 |
90.91 |
2012-04-30 |
| 72. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
90.61 |
1.0138 |
-0.0308 |
231 |
2 |
89.05 |
2012-05-01 |
| 73. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
90.55 |
0.8961 |
0.0834 |
189 |
1 |
90.55 |
2012-06-13 |
| 74. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
90.16 |
1.0272 |
-0.0240 |
405 |
1 |
90.16 |
2012-04-22 |
| 75. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
90.10 |
1.0463 |
-0.0731 |
182 |
2 |
88.01 |
2012-04-30 |
| 76. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
90.03 |
1.0483 |
-0.0743 |
227 |
1 |
90.03 |
2012-04-30 |
| 77. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
89.90 |
1.0596 |
-0.0861 |
239 |
1 |
89.90 |
2012-04-22 |
| 78. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
89.86 |
1.0125 |
0.0008 |
413 |
1 |
89.86 |
2012-04-30 |
| 79. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
89.54 |
0.9049 |
0.0724 |
351 |
2 |
87.42 |
2012-06-30 |
| 80. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
89.49 |
1.0025 |
-0.0316 |
256 |
1 |
89.49 |
2012-06-28 |
| 81. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
89.31 |
1.1016 |
-0.1326 |
233 |
1 |
89.31 |
2012-04-30 |
| 82. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
89.21 |
1.0368 |
-0.0679 |
276 |
1 |
89.21 |
2012-06-13 |
| 83. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
88.93 |
0.9698 |
0.0282 |
397 |
2 |
87.17 |
2012-06-30 |
| 84. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
88.92 |
1.0053 |
-0.0424 |
232 |
1 |
88.92 |
2012-05-24 |
| 85. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
88.91 |
1.0459 |
-0.0501 |
200 |
2 |
86.39 |
2012-04-30 |
| 86. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
88.83 |
1.0669 |
-0.0699 |
213 |
1 |
88.83 |
2012-04-30 |
| 87. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
88.51 |
0.8709 |
0.0976 |
202 |
1 |
88.51 |
2012-10-17 |
| 88. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
88.36 |
1.0598 |
-0.1071 |
196 |
1 |
88.36 |
2012-03-29 |
| 89. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
88.13 |
0.9675 |
-0.0018 |
383 |
2 |
82.02 |
2012-04-30 |
| 90. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
87.90 |
0.9279 |
0.0325 |
317 |
1 |
87.90 |
2012-04-30 |
| 91. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
87.51 |
0.9673 |
0.0213 |
232 |
1 |
87.51 |
2012-05-01 |
| 92. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
87.08 |
0.9097 |
0.0769 |
464 |
2 |
77.77 |
2012-06-28 |
| 93. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
86.72 |
0.9925 |
-0.0150 |
247 |
1 |
86.72 |
2012-04-22 |
| 94. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
86.66 |
0.9064 |
0.0433 |
399 |
1 |
86.66 |
2012-06-28 |
| 95. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
86.58 |
0.8775 |
0.0648 |
443 |
2 |
83.05 |
2012-06-30 |
| 96. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
86.52 |
1.0062 |
-0.0678 |
288 |
1 |
86.52 |
2012-04-30 |
| 97. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
86.31 |
0.9631 |
0.0244 |
345 |
2 |
83.85 |
2012-06-28 |
| 98. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
86.23 |
0.9795 |
-0.0437 |
308 |
1 |
86.23 |
2012-04-22 |
| 99. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
85.92 |
1.0328 |
-0.0623 |
356 |
1 |
85.92 |
2012-05-01 |
| 100. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
85.69 |
0.9411 |
-0.0108 |
318 |
1 |
85.69 |
2012-03-29 |
| 101. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
85.65 |
0.9691 |
-0.0406 |
223 |
1 |
85.65 |
2012-04-22 |
| 102. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
85.58 |
1.0331 |
-0.1072 |
234 |
1 |
85.58 |
2012-03-29 |
| 103. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
85.55 |
1.0944 |
-0.1219 |
308 |
1 |
85.55 |
2012-06-28 |
| 104. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
85.04 |
0.9398 |
-0.0079 |
419 |
2 |
83.09 |
2012-06-28 |
| 105. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
84.67 |
1.0347 |
-0.0906 |
550 |
1 |
84.67 |
2012-04-22 |
| 106. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
84.62 |
0.9309 |
-0.0151 |
284 |
1 |
84.62 |
2012-04-30 |
| 107. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
84.40 |
1.0034 |
-0.0895 |
302 |
1 |
84.40 |
2012-04-22 |
| 108. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
83.57 |
0.9991 |
-0.0924 |
225 |
1 |
83.57 |
2012-04-30 |
| 109. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
83.51 |
0.9619 |
-0.0510 |
393 |
2 |
83.36 |
2012-06-28 |
| 110. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
83.49 |
0.9805 |
-0.0706 |
292 |
2 |
83.23 |
2012-06-30 |
| 111. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
83.48 |
0.9937 |
-0.0634 |
429 |
1 |
83.48 |
2012-04-30 |
| 112. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
83.33 |
0.9339 |
-0.0319 |
310 |
1 |
83.33 |
2012-04-30 |
| 113. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
82.42 |
0.9814 |
-0.0484 |
364 |
1 |
82.42 |
2012-05-01 |
| 114. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
82.20 |
1.0709 |
-0.1415 |
392 |
1 |
82.20 |
2012-03-29 |
| 115. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
81.21 |
1.0232 |
-0.0972 |
350 |
1 |
81.21 |
2012-04-22 |
| 116. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
81.05 |
1.0412 |
-0.1634 |
225 |
1 |
81.05 |
2012-10-17 |
| 117. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
80.80 |
0.9831 |
-0.1107 |
222 |
1 |
80.80 |
2012-06-28 |
| 118. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
80.61 |
1.0165 |
-0.1391 |
392 |
1 |
80.61 |
2012-04-22 |
| 119. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
80.31 |
0.8467 |
0.0482 |
343 |
1 |
80.31 |
2012-04-30 |
| 120. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
79.76 |
1.0038 |
-0.1093 |
237 |
1 |
79.76 |
2012-04-30 |
| 121. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
79.73 |
1.0696 |
-0.2091 |
226 |
1 |
79.73 |
2012-04-22 |
| 122. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
79.28 |
0.8958 |
-0.0319 |
322 |
1 |
79.28 |
2012-04-22 |
| 123. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
78.65 |
1.0343 |
-0.1451 |
242 |
1 |
78.65 |
2012-04-30 |
| 124. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
78.25 |
0.9722 |
-0.1226 |
283 |
1 |
78.25 |
2012-10-17 |
| 125. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
78.04 |
0.9697 |
-0.1243 |
249 |
1 |
78.04 |
2012-04-22 |
| 126. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
77.62 |
0.9886 |
-0.1455 |
220 |
1 |
77.62 |
2012-04-18 |
| 127. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
77.59 |
0.9546 |
-0.0830 |
198 |
1 |
77.59 |
2012-05-01 |
| 128. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
76.83 |
0.9243 |
-0.0525 |
448 |
1 |
76.83 |
2012-06-28 |
| 129. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
76.72 |
0.9557 |
-0.1187 |
331 |
1 |
76.72 |
2012-05-01 |
| 130. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
76.15 |
0.8981 |
-0.0689 |
393 |
1 |
76.15 |
2012-04-22 |
| 131. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
75.65 |
0.9084 |
-0.0856 |
404 |
1 |
75.65 |
2012-04-30 |
| 132. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
75.20 |
0.9365 |
-0.1209 |
248 |
1 |
75.20 |
2012-10-17 |
| 133. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
74.74 |
0.9871 |
-0.1418 |
209 |
1 |
74.74 |
2012-03-29 |
| 134. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
74.05 |
0.8154 |
-0.0121 |
193 |
1 |
74.05 |
2012-10-17 |
| 135. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
74.00 |
1.0172 |
-0.1813 |
341 |
1 |
74.00 |
2012-06-28 |
| 136. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
73.61 |
0.9005 |
-0.1054 |
212 |
1 |
73.61 |
2012-10-17 |
| 137. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
73.57 |
0.7876 |
0.0112 |
316 |
2 |
72.45 |
2012-04-22 |
| 138. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
69.32 |
0.9569 |
-0.1803 |
410 |
1 |
69.32 |
2012-04-30 |
| 139. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
68.20 |
0.8753 |
-0.1288 |
427 |
1 |
68.20 |
2012-06-28 |
| 140. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
63.90 |
1.0151 |
-0.3345 |
152 |
1 |
63.90 |
2012-10-17 |