| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
87.48 |
1.0352 |
0.1767 |
341 |
4 |
81.49 |
2009-09-28 |
| 2. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
85.78 |
1.0454 |
0.1365 |
255 |
2 |
82.16 |
2009-03-02 |
| 3. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
85.37 |
1.0016 |
0.1737 |
218 |
3 |
76.36 |
2009-06-10 |
| 4. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
84.92 |
1.1018 |
0.0654 |
220 |
1 |
84.92 |
2009-02-10 |
| 5. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
83.93 |
1.0498 |
0.1051 |
180 |
3 |
78.17 |
2009-02-10 |
| 6. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
83.37 |
1.0528 |
0.0941 |
201 |
4 |
75.82 |
2009-02-11 |
| 7. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
82.45 |
1.0025 |
0.1365 |
256 |
5 |
75.71 |
2009-04-16 |
| 8. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
81.42 |
0.9729 |
0.1520 |
255 |
1 |
81.42 |
2009-02-08 |
| 9. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
81.41 |
1.0567 |
0.0684 |
303 |
2 |
80.65 |
2009-02-10 |
| 10. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
81.33 |
0.9965 |
0.1221 |
168 |
1 |
81.33 |
2009-02-10 |
| 11. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
81.02 |
1.0417 |
0.0749 |
253 |
1 |
81.02 |
2009-02-11 |
| 12. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
80.99 |
1.0619 |
0.0604 |
354 |
2 |
77.24 |
2009-02-08 |
| 13. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
80.79 |
1.0521 |
0.0590 |
171 |
1 |
80.79 |
2009-02-10 |
| 14. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
80.38 |
1.0214 |
0.0833 |
166 |
6 |
74.59 |
2009-09-28 |
| 15. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
79.78 |
1.0596 |
0.0401 |
239 |
2 |
74.60 |
2009-02-09 |
| 16. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
79.74 |
1.0516 |
0.0492 |
281 |
1 |
79.74 |
2009-02-11 |
| 17. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
79.12 |
1.0444 |
0.0415 |
197 |
2 |
72.32 |
2009-06-10 |
| 18. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
78.97 |
1.0711 |
0.0142 |
213 |
2 |
78.72 |
2009-02-22 |
| 19. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
78.71 |
0.9897 |
0.0948 |
274 |
1 |
78.71 |
2009-02-07 |
| 20. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
78.70 |
0.9780 |
0.1097 |
337 |
1 |
78.70 |
2009-02-08 |
| 21. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
78.59 |
1.0441 |
0.0425 |
252 |
1 |
78.59 |
2009-02-11 |
| 22. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
78.07 |
1.0487 |
0.0242 |
231 |
2 |
73.84 |
2009-03-07 |
| 23. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
77.94 |
0.9833 |
0.0944 |
355 |
2 |
74.50 |
2009-02-09 |
| 24. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
77.64 |
1.0390 |
0.0291 |
205 |
1 |
77.64 |
2009-02-08 |
| 25. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
77.59 |
1.0095 |
0.0606 |
316 |
1 |
77.59 |
2009-02-10 |
| 26. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
77.53 |
0.9212 |
0.1524 |
323 |
3 |
71.20 |
2009-03-02 |
| 27. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
76.95 |
0.9866 |
0.0719 |
218 |
1 |
76.95 |
2009-03-02 |
| 28. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
76.86 |
1.0523 |
0.0044 |
256 |
1 |
76.86 |
2009-02-10 |
| 29. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
76.62 |
1.0073 |
0.0583 |
369 |
3 |
74.78 |
2009-02-09 |
| 30. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
76.48 |
0.9646 |
0.0902 |
264 |
1 |
76.48 |
2009-02-09 |
| 31. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
76.40 |
0.9857 |
0.0678 |
293 |
2 |
71.70 |
2009-02-08 |
| 32. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.27 |
1.0797 |
-0.0326 |
210 |
3 |
70.36 |
2008-10-11 |
| 33. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
76.26 |
1.0251 |
0.0253 |
261 |
2 |
61.07 |
2009-03-07 |
| 34. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
75.85 |
0.9500 |
0.0991 |
362 |
2 |
74.54 |
2009-02-09 |
| 35. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
75.29 |
0.9005 |
0.1370 |
212 |
1 |
75.29 |
2009-02-08 |
| 36. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
75.15 |
0.9776 |
0.0597 |
308 |
2 |
65.66 |
2009-02-10 |
| 37. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
74.99 |
1.0361 |
-0.0003 |
269 |
1 |
74.99 |
2009-02-08 |
| 38. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
74.98 |
0.8852 |
0.1516 |
201 |
1 |
74.98 |
2009-02-10 |
| 39. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
74.98 |
1.0907 |
-0.0533 |
303 |
1 |
74.98 |
2009-09-28 |
| 40. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
74.49 |
0.9941 |
0.0314 |
217 |
2 |
73.11 |
2009-04-16 |
| 41. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
74.10 |
1.0529 |
-0.0306 |
351 |
3 |
64.66 |
2008-09-26 |
| 42. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
74.08 |
1.0399 |
-0.0126 |
294 |
1 |
74.08 |
2009-02-11 |
| 43. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
73.99 |
0.9769 |
0.0419 |
263 |
2 |
70.17 |
2009-02-22 |
| 44. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
73.62 |
1.0004 |
0.0092 |
212 |
2 |
72.25 |
2009-02-08 |
| 45. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
73.57 |
0.9820 |
0.0358 |
267 |
3 |
70.90 |
2009-03-02 |
| 46. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
73.55 |
0.9691 |
0.0451 |
223 |
2 |
71.82 |
2009-02-08 |
| 47. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
73.49 |
1.0025 |
0.0123 |
336 |
3 |
65.56 |
2009-02-22 |
| 48. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
73.32 |
1.0201 |
-0.0046 |
375 |
1 |
73.32 |
2009-02-09 |
| 49. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
73.22 |
0.8919 |
0.1165 |
205 |
2 |
71.17 |
2009-02-22 |
| 50. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
73.06 |
1.0787 |
-0.0721 |
237 |
1 |
73.06 |
2009-02-10 |
| 51. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
72.71 |
0.9636 |
0.0393 |
254 |
1 |
72.71 |
2009-02-08 |
| 52. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
72.62 |
0.9865 |
0.0163 |
276 |
1 |
72.62 |
2009-02-10 |
| 53. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
72.53 |
1.0389 |
-0.0360 |
340 |
1 |
72.53 |
2008-09-26 |
| 54. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
72.51 |
0.9699 |
0.0297 |
269 |
2 |
69.59 |
2009-06-10 |
| 55. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
72.39 |
0.9570 |
0.0432 |
287 |
1 |
72.39 |
2009-02-10 |
| 56. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
72.29 |
0.9148 |
0.0837 |
317 |
2 |
57.73 |
2009-02-10 |
| 57. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
72.25 |
1.0515 |
-0.0568 |
250 |
1 |
72.25 |
2008-09-26 |
| 58. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
72.10 |
0.9168 |
0.0790 |
240 |
2 |
68.40 |
2009-04-16 |
| 59. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
71.94 |
1.0463 |
-0.0587 |
182 |
1 |
71.94 |
2010-07-28 |
| 60. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
71.82 |
1.1114 |
-0.1236 |
247 |
1 |
71.82 |
2009-02-09 |
| 61. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
71.76 |
0.9964 |
-0.0066 |
203 |
1 |
71.76 |
2009-02-10 |
| 62. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
71.40 |
1.0496 |
-0.0656 |
314 |
1 |
71.40 |
2009-04-16 |
| 63. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
71.21 |
0.9740 |
0.0039 |
209 |
1 |
71.21 |
2009-02-07 |
| 64. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
71.11 |
0.9910 |
-0.0085 |
295 |
1 |
71.11 |
2009-06-10 |
| 65. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
71.08 |
1.0023 |
-0.0240 |
211 |
1 |
71.08 |
2009-04-16 |
| 66. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
71.06 |
0.9884 |
-0.0093 |
233 |
3 |
70.04 |
2009-02-09 |
| 67. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
71.03 |
1.0462 |
-0.0728 |
184 |
2 |
63.42 |
2009-02-08 |
| 68. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
70.94 |
0.9309 |
0.0455 |
284 |
1 |
70.94 |
2008-10-10 |
| 69. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
70.93 |
1.0099 |
-0.0347 |
207 |
1 |
70.93 |
2009-02-10 |
| 70. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
70.90 |
0.9430 |
0.0274 |
211 |
1 |
70.90 |
2008-09-26 |
| 71. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
70.82 |
0.9997 |
-0.0195 |
382 |
1 |
70.82 |
2009-02-09 |
| 72. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
70.56 |
1.0109 |
-0.0372 |
276 |
1 |
70.56 |
2008-09-26 |
| 73. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
70.32 |
0.9843 |
-0.0197 |
234 |
2 |
68.88 |
2009-03-02 |
| 74. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
70.29 |
0.9763 |
-0.0076 |
289 |
2 |
67.35 |
2009-03-07 |
| 75. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
70.27 |
0.9734 |
-0.0048 |
289 |
2 |
61.49 |
2009-02-09 |
| 76. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
70.02 |
0.9622 |
0.0096 |
392 |
1 |
70.02 |
2009-02-12 |
| 77. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
69.99 |
0.9965 |
-0.0309 |
277 |
1 |
69.99 |
2009-02-09 |
| 78. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
69.87 |
0.8602 |
0.1009 |
206 |
1 |
69.87 |
2009-02-09 |
| 79. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
69.80 |
0.9682 |
-0.0078 |
143 |
1 |
69.80 |
2009-02-08 |
| 80. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
69.60 |
1.0034 |
-0.0454 |
302 |
1 |
69.60 |
2008-09-26 |
| 81. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
69.42 |
0.9202 |
0.0361 |
254 |
1 |
69.42 |
2008-09-26 |
| 82. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
69.40 |
0.9831 |
-0.0184 |
469 |
1 |
69.40 |
2009-02-22 |
| 83. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.71 |
0.9601 |
-0.0083 |
308 |
1 |
68.71 |
2009-02-10 |
| 84. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
68.67 |
0.9342 |
0.0158 |
434 |
1 |
68.67 |
2008-09-26 |
| 85. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
68.49 |
0.9109 |
0.0357 |
401 |
3 |
64.79 |
2009-02-09 |
| 86. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
68.21 |
0.9464 |
-0.0012 |
323 |
1 |
68.21 |
2008-12-25 |
| 87. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
68.20 |
0.9672 |
-0.0207 |
396 |
3 |
67.22 |
2009-04-16 |
| 88. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
68.16 |
0.9266 |
0.0129 |
267 |
1 |
68.16 |
2009-03-02 |
| 89. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
68.06 |
1.0013 |
-0.0642 |
273 |
1 |
68.06 |
2008-09-26 |
| 90. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
68.02 |
0.8890 |
0.0449 |
199 |
1 |
68.02 |
2009-02-10 |
| 91. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
68.01 |
1.0124 |
-0.0775 |
204 |
1 |
68.01 |
2008-09-26 |
| 92. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
67.85 |
1.0297 |
-0.0958 |
249 |
1 |
67.85 |
2009-02-07 |
| 93. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
67.80 |
0.9612 |
-0.0268 |
256 |
2 |
65.06 |
2009-09-28 |
| 94. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
67.70 |
0.9049 |
0.0335 |
351 |
2 |
64.26 |
2009-02-08 |
| 95. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
67.33 |
0.9514 |
-0.0233 |
237 |
1 |
67.33 |
2009-06-10 |
| 96. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
67.06 |
0.9684 |
-0.0417 |
388 |
1 |
67.06 |
2009-02-09 |
| 97. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
66.52 |
0.9852 |
-0.0684 |
264 |
1 |
66.52 |
2009-02-10 |
| 98. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
66.37 |
0.9578 |
-0.0439 |
281 |
1 |
66.37 |
2009-04-16 |
| 99. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
66.28 |
0.9756 |
-0.0638 |
229 |
1 |
66.28 |
2008-12-25 |
| 100. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
66.15 |
0.9942 |
-0.0741 |
483 |
1 |
66.15 |
2009-02-08 |
| 101. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
65.76 |
1.0565 |
-0.1532 |
247 |
1 |
65.76 |
2008-09-26 |
| 102. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
65.67 |
1.0398 |
-0.1457 |
110 |
1 |
65.67 |
2009-02-09 |
| 103. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
65.37 |
1.0829 |
-0.1810 |
288 |
1 |
65.37 |
2008-09-26 |
| 104. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
65.29 |
0.9532 |
-0.0552 |
258 |
1 |
65.29 |
2008-09-27 |
| 105. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
65.27 |
0.9614 |
-0.0594 |
292 |
1 |
65.27 |
2009-04-16 |
| 106. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
64.63 |
1.0595 |
-0.1669 |
379 |
1 |
64.63 |
2008-09-26 |
| 107. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
64.61 |
0.9339 |
-0.0456 |
310 |
1 |
64.61 |
2008-09-26 |
| 108. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
63.48 |
0.9426 |
-0.0655 |
317 |
1 |
63.48 |
2009-02-09 |
| 109. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
63.20 |
0.9485 |
-0.0767 |
236 |
1 |
63.20 |
2009-04-16 |
| 110. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
62.48 |
0.9372 |
-0.0731 |
320 |
1 |
62.48 |
2008-09-26 |
| 111. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
61.26 |
0.9084 |
-0.0613 |
404 |
1 |
61.26 |
2008-09-25 |
| 112. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
60.16 |
0.9710 |
-0.1499 |
173 |
1 |
60.16 |
2009-04-16 |
| 113. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
60.06 |
0.9213 |
-0.0946 |
295 |
1 |
60.06 |
2009-02-08 |
| 114. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
58.87 |
0.9653 |
-0.1474 |
394 |
1 |
58.87 |
2008-09-24 |
| 115. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
57.92 |
0.9723 |
-0.1723 |
364 |
1 |
57.92 |
2008-09-26 |
| 116. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
57.27 |
0.9772 |
-0.1934 |
217 |
1 |
57.27 |
2008-09-26 |
| 117. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
56.95 |
0.9649 |
-0.1832 |
193 |
1 |
56.95 |
2008-09-24 |
| 118. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
54.94 |
0.8826 |
-0.1265 |
296 |
1 |
54.94 |
2008-09-24 |
| 119. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
52.99 |
0.9045 |
-0.1767 |
235 |
1 |
52.99 |
2008-09-26 |
| 120. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
51.74 |
1.0534 |
-0.3412 |
357 |
1 |
51.74 |
2008-09-24 |
| 121. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
49.31 |
0.9513 |
-0.2715 |
354 |
1 |
49.31 |
2008-09-24 |