| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
77.29 |
1.0454 |
0.1302 |
255 |
1 |
77.29 |
2013-02-19 |
| 2. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
76.75 |
0.9991 |
0.1723 |
225 |
1 |
76.75 |
2013-02-17 |
| 3. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
76.71 |
0.9893 |
0.1811 |
323 |
1 |
76.71 |
2013-02-21 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
75.65 |
1.0797 |
0.0687 |
210 |
1 |
75.65 |
2013-02-15 |
| 5. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
74.86 |
1.0598 |
0.0762 |
196 |
2 |
73.83 |
2013-02-21 |
| 6. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
74.42 |
1.0398 |
0.0847 |
110 |
1 |
74.42 |
2013-02-19 |
| 7. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
73.49 |
0.9964 |
0.1244 |
203 |
1 |
73.49 |
2013-02-15 |
| 8. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
73.41 |
1.0829 |
0.0380 |
288 |
1 |
73.41 |
2013-02-21 |
| 9. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
73.09 |
1.0320 |
0.1198 |
293 |
1 |
73.09 |
2013-02-19 |
| 10. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
73.08 |
1.0131 |
0.0973 |
225 |
1 |
73.08 |
2013-02-19 |
| 11. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
73.00 |
1.0596 |
0.0514 |
239 |
1 |
73.00 |
2013-02-13 |
| 12. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
72.83 |
1.0944 |
0.0609 |
308 |
1 |
72.83 |
2013-02-18 |
| 13. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
72.83 |
1.0673 |
0.0849 |
230 |
1 |
72.83 |
2013-02-13 |
| 14. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
72.75 |
1.0528 |
0.0514 |
201 |
2 |
62.21 |
2013-02-17 |
| 15. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
72.62 |
1.0621 |
0.0645 |
263 |
1 |
72.62 |
2013-02-19 |
| 16. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
72.48 |
0.9364 |
0.2088 |
351 |
2 |
66.35 |
2013-02-21 |
| 17. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
72.42 |
1.0232 |
0.1268 |
350 |
1 |
72.42 |
2013-02-19 |
| 18. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
71.91 |
1.0023 |
0.0921 |
211 |
1 |
71.91 |
2013-02-21 |
| 19. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
71.88 |
1.0387 |
0.0894 |
239 |
1 |
71.88 |
2013-02-19 |
| 20. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
71.67 |
1.0462 |
0.0403 |
184 |
1 |
71.67 |
2013-02-15 |
| 21. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
71.37 |
1.0595 |
0.0310 |
379 |
2 |
68.44 |
2013-02-21 |
| 22. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
71.34 |
1.0189 |
0.0719 |
337 |
1 |
71.34 |
2013-02-14 |
| 23. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
71.16 |
1.0343 |
0.0878 |
242 |
1 |
71.16 |
2013-02-23 |
| 24. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
71.02 |
1.0254 |
0.0980 |
217 |
1 |
71.02 |
2013-02-19 |
| 25. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
70.23 |
0.9936 |
0.0765 |
311 |
1 |
70.23 |
2013-02-21 |
| 26. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
69.70 |
0.9907 |
0.1054 |
397 |
1 |
69.70 |
2013-02-14 |
| 27. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
69.64 |
0.9886 |
0.0752 |
220 |
1 |
69.64 |
2013-02-18 |
| 28. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
69.42 |
1.0053 |
0.0506 |
232 |
1 |
69.42 |
2013-02-19 |
| 29. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
69.33 |
1.1296 |
-0.0440 |
252 |
1 |
69.33 |
2013-02-19 |
| 30. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
69.27 |
0.9905 |
0.0729 |
377 |
1 |
69.27 |
2013-02-17 |
| 31. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
68.98 |
1.0077 |
0.0847 |
250 |
1 |
68.98 |
2013-02-19 |
| 32. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
68.45 |
1.0117 |
0.0760 |
297 |
2 |
61.46 |
2013-02-19 |
| 33. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
68.45 |
1.0668 |
-0.0214 |
350 |
1 |
68.45 |
2013-02-13 |
| 34. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
68.40 |
0.9763 |
0.0653 |
289 |
1 |
68.40 |
2013-02-19 |
| 35. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
67.99 |
0.9372 |
0.1026 |
320 |
2 |
62.98 |
2013-02-21 |
| 36. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
67.89 |
1.0062 |
0.0281 |
288 |
1 |
67.89 |
2013-02-13 |
| 37. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
67.72 |
1.0013 |
0.0295 |
273 |
1 |
67.72 |
2013-02-21 |
| 38. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
67.54 |
1.0972 |
-0.0387 |
251 |
1 |
67.54 |
2013-02-13 |
| 39. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
67.34 |
1.0485 |
0.0120 |
153 |
1 |
67.34 |
2013-02-15 |
| 40. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
67.05 |
0.9792 |
0.0805 |
265 |
1 |
67.05 |
2013-02-19 |
| 41. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
66.79 |
1.0012 |
0.0194 |
260 |
1 |
66.79 |
2013-02-13 |
| 42. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
66.57 |
0.9155 |
0.1477 |
168 |
1 |
66.57 |
2013-02-15 |
| 43. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
65.94 |
1.0257 |
-0.0151 |
401 |
2 |
64.62 |
2013-02-15 |
| 44. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
65.88 |
1.0211 |
0.0129 |
213 |
1 |
65.88 |
2013-02-19 |
| 45. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
65.84 |
0.9097 |
0.0933 |
153 |
1 |
65.84 |
2013-02-14 |
| 46. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
65.82 |
0.9916 |
0.0533 |
282 |
1 |
65.82 |
2013-02-21 |
| 47. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
65.81 |
1.0213 |
-0.0223 |
240 |
1 |
65.81 |
2013-02-19 |
| 48. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
65.51 |
0.9881 |
0.0500 |
424 |
1 |
65.51 |
2013-02-19 |
| 49. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
65.18 |
1.0167 |
-0.0174 |
378 |
1 |
65.18 |
2013-02-13 |
| 50. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
65.09 |
0.9567 |
0.0342 |
273 |
1 |
65.09 |
2013-02-19 |
| 51. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
65.08 |
1.0968 |
-0.0685 |
365 |
1 |
65.08 |
2013-02-13 |
| 52. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
64.97 |
0.8941 |
0.0971 |
216 |
1 |
64.97 |
2013-02-13 |
| 53. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
64.81 |
0.9567 |
0.0723 |
184 |
2 |
60.89 |
2013-02-13 |
| 54. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
64.79 |
1.0719 |
-0.0578 |
360 |
1 |
64.79 |
2013-02-15 |
| 55. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
64.57 |
0.9461 |
0.0332 |
193 |
2 |
60.74 |
2013-02-13 |
| 56. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
64.42 |
1.0385 |
-0.0595 |
230 |
1 |
64.42 |
2013-02-13 |
| 57. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
64.38 |
0.9884 |
-0.0091 |
233 |
1 |
64.38 |
2013-02-13 |
| 58. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
64.26 |
0.9965 |
-0.0176 |
277 |
2 |
62.38 |
2013-02-21 |
| 59. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
64.10 |
1.0083 |
0.0116 |
273 |
1 |
64.10 |
2013-02-13 |
| 60. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
63.70 |
0.8670 |
0.1080 |
318 |
1 |
63.70 |
2013-02-13 |
| 61. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
63.67 |
0.8958 |
0.0780 |
322 |
1 |
63.67 |
2013-02-13 |
| 62. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
63.59 |
1.0025 |
-0.0337 |
336 |
1 |
63.59 |
2013-02-13 |
| 63. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
63.51 |
0.9785 |
-0.0086 |
335 |
1 |
63.51 |
2013-02-19 |
| 64. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
63.41 |
1.0391 |
-0.0678 |
358 |
1 |
63.41 |
2013-02-13 |
| 65. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
63.38 |
0.9570 |
0.0094 |
287 |
1 |
63.38 |
2013-02-19 |
| 66. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
63.31 |
0.9593 |
0.0090 |
398 |
1 |
63.31 |
2013-02-13 |
| 67. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
63.00 |
0.9756 |
-0.0181 |
229 |
1 |
63.00 |
2013-02-14 |
| 68. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
62.94 |
0.9938 |
-0.0351 |
339 |
1 |
62.94 |
2013-02-13 |
| 69. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
62.86 |
0.9275 |
0.0259 |
211 |
1 |
62.86 |
2013-02-17 |
| 70. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
62.32 |
1.0296 |
-0.0748 |
437 |
1 |
62.32 |
2013-02-21 |
| 71. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
62.13 |
0.9672 |
-0.0153 |
396 |
1 |
62.13 |
2013-02-19 |
| 72. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
62.12 |
0.9439 |
0.0094 |
476 |
1 |
62.12 |
2013-02-18 |
| 73. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
62.05 |
1.0172 |
-0.0379 |
341 |
1 |
62.05 |
2013-02-19 |
| 74. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
61.99 |
0.9148 |
0.0299 |
317 |
1 |
61.99 |
2013-02-13 |
| 75. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
61.87 |
1.0346 |
-0.0512 |
244 |
1 |
61.87 |
2013-02-13 |
| 76. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
61.46 |
1.0016 |
-0.0711 |
218 |
1 |
61.46 |
2013-02-13 |
| 77. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
61.40 |
0.9698 |
-0.0027 |
397 |
1 |
61.40 |
2013-02-13 |
| 78. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
60.81 |
1.0429 |
-0.1192 |
259 |
1 |
60.81 |
2013-02-15 |
| 79. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
60.69 |
0.9871 |
-0.0417 |
227 |
4 |
54.19 |
2013-02-19 |
| 80. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
60.37 |
1.0662 |
-0.1102 |
407 |
1 |
60.37 |
2013-02-13 |
| 81. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
60.25 |
0.9376 |
-0.0158 |
367 |
1 |
60.25 |
2013-02-13 |
| 82. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
60.13 |
0.9164 |
0.0030 |
305 |
1 |
60.13 |
2013-02-18 |
| 83. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
59.94 |
0.9863 |
-0.0703 |
339 |
1 |
59.94 |
2013-02-19 |
| 84. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
59.86 |
1.0203 |
-0.0767 |
400 |
1 |
59.86 |
2013-02-15 |
| 85. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
59.83 |
0.9464 |
-0.0313 |
323 |
2 |
59.53 |
2013-02-13 |
| 86. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
59.62 |
0.9212 |
-0.0112 |
323 |
1 |
59.62 |
2013-02-21 |
| 87. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
59.60 |
0.9843 |
-0.0829 |
234 |
1 |
59.60 |
2013-02-13 |
| 88. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
59.37 |
0.8961 |
0.0034 |
189 |
1 |
59.37 |
2013-02-14 |
| 89. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
59.29 |
0.9811 |
-0.0768 |
272 |
1 |
59.29 |
2013-02-15 |
| 90. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
59.27 |
0.9157 |
-0.0095 |
350 |
1 |
59.27 |
2013-02-18 |
| 91. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
58.76 |
0.9673 |
-0.0346 |
232 |
1 |
58.76 |
2013-02-13 |
| 92. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
58.67 |
1.0214 |
-0.1347 |
166 |
1 |
58.67 |
2013-02-13 |
| 93. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
58.60 |
0.8890 |
-0.0016 |
199 |
1 |
58.60 |
2013-02-14 |
| 94. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
58.51 |
0.9922 |
-0.0615 |
341 |
1 |
58.51 |
2013-02-13 |
| 95. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
58.51 |
0.9786 |
-0.0895 |
235 |
1 |
58.51 |
2013-02-15 |
| 96. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
58.30 |
1.0905 |
-0.1722 |
210 |
1 |
58.30 |
2013-02-14 |
| 97. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
58.17 |
0.9640 |
-0.0504 |
334 |
1 |
58.17 |
2013-02-14 |
| 98. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
58.09 |
0.9911 |
-0.1113 |
212 |
1 |
58.09 |
2013-02-19 |
| 99. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
57.90 |
0.9109 |
-0.0281 |
401 |
1 |
57.90 |
2013-02-13 |
| 100. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
57.58 |
0.8947 |
-0.0146 |
366 |
1 |
57.58 |
2013-02-13 |
| 101. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
57.37 |
0.9897 |
-0.1200 |
274 |
1 |
57.37 |
2013-02-21 |
| 102. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
57.26 |
0.9365 |
-0.0648 |
248 |
1 |
57.26 |
2013-02-13 |
| 103. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
56.34 |
1.0232 |
-0.1315 |
236 |
1 |
56.34 |
2013-02-14 |
| 104. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
54.82 |
0.8722 |
-0.0366 |
285 |
1 |
54.82 |
2013-02-13 |
| 105. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
54.74 |
0.9994 |
-0.1374 |
269 |
1 |
54.74 |
2013-02-13 |
| 106. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
54.58 |
0.8787 |
-0.0450 |
202 |
1 |
54.58 |
2013-02-13 |
| 107. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
53.56 |
0.9681 |
-0.1466 |
378 |
1 |
53.56 |
2013-02-13 |
| 108. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
53.35 |
0.8105 |
-0.0048 |
204 |
1 |
53.35 |
2013-02-15 |
| 109. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
53.21 |
0.9168 |
-0.1077 |
240 |
1 |
53.21 |
2013-02-21 |
| 110. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
50.18 |
1.0767 |
-0.3178 |
212 |
1 |
50.18 |
2013-02-13 |