| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
36.46 |
0.8666 |
0.4791 |
150 |
1 |
36.46 |
2010-12-07 |
| 2. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
34.24 |
1.0515 |
0.2099 |
166 |
1 |
34.24 |
2010-12-07 |
| 3. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
33.53 |
1.0462 |
0.1891 |
184 |
1 |
33.53 |
2010-12-07 |
| 4. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
33.34 |
0.9263 |
0.3045 |
188 |
1 |
33.34 |
2010-12-07 |
| 5. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
32.85 |
1.0574 |
0.1767 |
205 |
1 |
32.85 |
2010-12-06 |
| 6. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
31.88 |
0.9711 |
0.2062 |
176 |
2 |
31.70 |
2010-12-08 |
| 7. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
31.75 |
0.9846 |
0.1856 |
281 |
1 |
31.75 |
2010-02-07 |
| 8. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
31.60 |
1.0797 |
0.0835 |
210 |
1 |
31.60 |
2010-10-27 |
| 9. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
31.49 |
0.9844 |
0.1803 |
229 |
1 |
31.49 |
2010-12-07 |
| 10. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
31.47 |
0.9966 |
0.1639 |
259 |
1 |
31.47 |
2010-10-25 |
| 11. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
31.27 |
0.9196 |
0.2341 |
148 |
2 |
28.96 |
2010-10-25 |
| 12. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
31.19 |
1.0714 |
0.0764 |
129 |
2 |
30.21 |
2010-12-08 |
| 13. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
31.06 |
1.0403 |
0.1200 |
193 |
1 |
31.06 |
2010-10-27 |
| 14. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.67 |
1.0334 |
0.0945 |
131 |
2 |
28.43 |
2010-12-07 |
| 15. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
30.60 |
1.0463 |
0.0802 |
182 |
2 |
27.21 |
2010-12-06 |
| 16. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
30.56 |
1.0596 |
0.0658 |
239 |
2 |
28.89 |
2010-02-08 |
| 17. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
30.41 |
0.8936 |
0.2289 |
127 |
1 |
30.41 |
2010-02-07 |
| 18. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
30.41 |
0.9162 |
0.2063 |
165 |
1 |
30.41 |
2010-12-07 |
| 19. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
30.40 |
1.0201 |
0.0992 |
172 |
2 |
28.38 |
2010-12-06 |
| 20. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
30.22 |
1.0183 |
0.0940 |
191 |
1 |
30.22 |
2010-12-07 |
| 21. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
30.21 |
1.0390 |
0.0721 |
205 |
1 |
30.21 |
2010-12-07 |
| 22. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
30.06 |
0.8763 |
0.2320 |
105 |
1 |
30.06 |
2010-12-07 |
| 23. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
30.01 |
1.0943 |
0.0373 |
206 |
2 |
27.28 |
2010-12-08 |
| 24. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
29.98 |
0.8615 |
0.2469 |
110 |
1 |
29.98 |
2010-02-08 |
| 25. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
29.96 |
0.9884 |
0.1160 |
233 |
1 |
29.96 |
2010-10-25 |
| 26. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
29.88 |
1.0252 |
0.0745 |
176 |
2 |
28.61 |
2010-12-06 |
| 27. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
29.76 |
1.0711 |
0.0233 |
213 |
1 |
29.76 |
2010-12-08 |
| 28. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
29.55 |
0.8544 |
0.2350 |
170 |
1 |
29.55 |
2010-10-24 |
| 29. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.47 |
0.8190 |
0.2721 |
135 |
1 |
29.47 |
2010-12-07 |
| 30. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
29.40 |
0.7890 |
0.2980 |
230 |
1 |
29.40 |
2010-12-08 |
| 31. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
29.39 |
0.8854 |
0.1977 |
116 |
1 |
29.39 |
2010-10-25 |
| 32. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
29.32 |
0.8422 |
0.2401 |
164 |
2 |
26.86 |
2010-02-07 |
| 33. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
29.31 |
0.9758 |
0.1040 |
314 |
1 |
29.31 |
2010-12-07 |
| 34. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
29.25 |
0.9226 |
0.1580 |
177 |
3 |
27.93 |
2010-10-24 |
| 35. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
29.13 |
0.8263 |
0.2495 |
162 |
4 |
27.84 |
2010-02-08 |
| 36. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
29.04 |
0.9350 |
0.1373 |
195 |
1 |
29.04 |
2010-10-27 |
| 37. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
28.99 |
1.0270 |
0.0709 |
255 |
2 |
28.40 |
2010-10-30 |
| 38. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
28.92 |
0.7934 |
0.2734 |
134 |
2 |
27.86 |
2010-10-24 |
| 39. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
28.91 |
0.8791 |
0.1891 |
190 |
1 |
28.91 |
2010-12-07 |
| 40. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
28.84 |
1.0331 |
0.0289 |
234 |
1 |
28.84 |
2009-03-12 |
| 41. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
28.67 |
0.8691 |
0.1844 |
119 |
1 |
28.67 |
2010-12-08 |
| 42. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
28.57 |
0.9351 |
0.1170 |
190 |
1 |
28.57 |
2010-12-07 |
| 43. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
28.56 |
0.8715 |
0.1812 |
130 |
1 |
28.56 |
2010-02-08 |
| 44. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
28.54 |
1.0214 |
0.0294 |
269 |
1 |
28.54 |
2010-10-30 |
| 45. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
28.53 |
0.8551 |
0.1962 |
171 |
1 |
28.53 |
2010-02-08 |
| 46. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
28.47 |
1.0379 |
0.0424 |
245 |
1 |
28.47 |
2010-02-08 |
| 47. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
28.46 |
0.9171 |
0.1338 |
165 |
1 |
28.46 |
2010-10-25 |
| 48. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
28.38 |
1.0251 |
0.0188 |
261 |
1 |
28.38 |
2010-12-07 |
| 49. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
28.32 |
0.8118 |
0.2339 |
109 |
1 |
28.32 |
2010-02-08 |
| 50. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
28.27 |
1.0483 |
-0.0080 |
227 |
1 |
28.27 |
2009-03-12 |
| 51. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
28.26 |
0.9251 |
0.1191 |
177 |
1 |
28.26 |
2010-02-07 |
| 52. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
28.20 |
0.9786 |
0.0586 |
193 |
1 |
28.20 |
2010-02-07 |
| 53. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
28.19 |
1.0565 |
-0.0187 |
247 |
2 |
26.72 |
2010-02-07 |
| 54. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
28.18 |
0.9612 |
0.0768 |
256 |
2 |
26.98 |
2010-12-07 |
| 55. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
28.16 |
1.0029 |
0.0337 |
209 |
1 |
28.16 |
2009-03-12 |
| 56. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
28.12 |
0.8660 |
0.1707 |
193 |
1 |
28.12 |
2010-10-30 |
| 57. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
28.05 |
0.8519 |
0.1848 |
150 |
2 |
27.38 |
2010-02-08 |
| 58. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
28.00 |
1.0444 |
-0.0140 |
197 |
1 |
28.00 |
2010-02-07 |
| 59. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
27.92 |
0.9048 |
0.1267 |
271 |
1 |
27.92 |
2010-12-07 |
| 60. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
27.88 |
0.8500 |
0.1783 |
145 |
2 |
27.78 |
2010-12-06 |
| 61. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
27.68 |
0.9726 |
0.0471 |
154 |
1 |
27.68 |
2010-10-24 |
| 62. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
27.63 |
0.9353 |
0.0836 |
177 |
1 |
27.63 |
2010-10-27 |
| 63. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
27.60 |
0.9866 |
0.0302 |
218 |
1 |
27.60 |
2010-02-07 |
| 64. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
27.59 |
0.8867 |
0.1311 |
163 |
2 |
25.91 |
2010-10-24 |
| 65. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
27.48 |
1.0375 |
0.0162 |
200 |
1 |
27.48 |
2010-12-07 |
| 66. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
27.41 |
0.9430 |
0.0659 |
211 |
1 |
27.41 |
2010-10-25 |
| 67. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
27.36 |
0.8506 |
0.1582 |
132 |
1 |
27.36 |
2010-02-08 |
| 68. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
27.32 |
0.8295 |
0.1790 |
209 |
1 |
27.32 |
2010-10-25 |
| 69. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
27.29 |
0.9673 |
0.0744 |
232 |
1 |
27.29 |
2010-10-25 |
| 70. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
27.28 |
0.8996 |
0.1044 |
192 |
2 |
22.29 |
2010-10-27 |
| 71. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
27.27 |
0.8747 |
0.1299 |
201 |
1 |
27.27 |
2010-10-24 |
| 72. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
27.23 |
1.0365 |
-0.0049 |
162 |
3 |
26.10 |
2010-10-25 |
| 73. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
27.18 |
0.8915 |
0.1119 |
188 |
1 |
27.18 |
2010-10-25 |
| 74. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
27.17 |
0.8323 |
0.1708 |
145 |
1 |
27.17 |
2010-02-08 |
| 75. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
27.15 |
0.9820 |
0.0193 |
274 |
2 |
27.14 |
2010-10-27 |
| 76. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
27.10 |
1.0033 |
-0.0068 |
189 |
1 |
27.10 |
2009-03-12 |
| 77. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
27.09 |
1.0168 |
-0.0206 |
271 |
2 |
26.24 |
2010-12-08 |
| 78. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
26.88 |
0.9936 |
0.0162 |
227 |
1 |
26.88 |
2010-10-25 |
| 79. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
26.81 |
0.9697 |
0.0178 |
249 |
1 |
26.81 |
2009-03-12 |
| 80. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
26.72 |
0.9068 |
0.0793 |
225 |
1 |
26.72 |
2010-10-27 |
| 81. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
26.67 |
0.9164 |
0.0684 |
121 |
1 |
26.67 |
2009-03-12 |
| 82. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
26.65 |
0.8520 |
0.1309 |
202 |
1 |
26.65 |
2010-12-08 |
| 83. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
26.57 |
0.9965 |
-0.0191 |
168 |
2 |
26.49 |
2010-02-08 |
| 84. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
26.56 |
0.9286 |
0.0495 |
194 |
4 |
25.21 |
2010-10-27 |
| 85. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
26.39 |
0.9688 |
0.0039 |
217 |
1 |
26.39 |
2010-12-07 |
| 86. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
26.25 |
0.8152 |
0.1514 |
163 |
1 |
26.25 |
2010-10-25 |
| 87. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
26.03 |
1.0077 |
-0.0158 |
250 |
1 |
26.03 |
2010-02-07 |
| 88. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
25.78 |
0.8070 |
0.1434 |
137 |
1 |
25.78 |
2010-10-25 |
| 89. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
25.75 |
0.8810 |
0.0700 |
282 |
1 |
25.75 |
2010-10-27 |
| 90. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
25.75 |
0.8811 |
0.0702 |
239 |
2 |
25.06 |
2010-12-06 |
| 91. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
25.73 |
0.8089 |
0.1390 |
158 |
2 |
25.09 |
2010-11-13 |
| 92. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
25.69 |
1.0419 |
-0.0973 |
261 |
1 |
25.69 |
2010-02-07 |
| 93. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
25.63 |
1.0211 |
-0.0508 |
213 |
1 |
25.63 |
2010-02-07 |
| 94. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
25.63 |
0.9023 |
0.0781 |
231 |
1 |
25.63 |
2010-12-07 |
| 95. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
25.60 |
0.9316 |
0.0142 |
287 |
1 |
25.60 |
2010-02-07 |
| 96. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
25.57 |
0.9207 |
0.0225 |
174 |
1 |
25.57 |
2010-02-08 |
| 97. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
25.44 |
0.7877 |
0.1517 |
142 |
1 |
25.44 |
2010-10-24 |
| 98. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
25.39 |
0.7690 |
0.1689 |
142 |
1 |
25.39 |
2010-02-07 |
| 99. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
25.34 |
0.9636 |
-0.0309 |
254 |
1 |
25.34 |
2009-03-12 |
| 100. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
25.24 |
0.8956 |
0.0357 |
217 |
1 |
25.24 |
2009-03-12 |
| 101. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
25.05 |
0.8311 |
0.0916 |
124 |
1 |
25.05 |
2010-10-24 |
| 102. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
25.05 |
0.9221 |
0.0002 |
244 |
1 |
25.05 |
2010-10-24 |
| 103. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
24.76 |
1.0213 |
-0.1111 |
240 |
1 |
24.76 |
2010-11-13 |
| 104. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
24.63 |
1.0132 |
-0.1072 |
143 |
2 |
23.64 |
2010-11-13 |
| 105. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
24.32 |
0.8900 |
0.0069 |
164 |
1 |
24.32 |
2009-03-12 |
| 106. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
24.26 |
0.9045 |
-0.0114 |
235 |
1 |
24.26 |
2009-03-12 |
| 107. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
24.24 |
0.8154 |
0.0793 |
193 |
1 |
24.24 |
2010-10-25 |
| 108. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
24.21 |
0.8442 |
0.0502 |
265 |
1 |
24.21 |
2010-12-07 |
| 109. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
23.86 |
0.9772 |
-0.0995 |
217 |
2 |
23.44 |
2009-03-12 |
| 110. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
23.50 |
0.8037 |
0.0636 |
148 |
1 |
23.50 |
2010-10-27 |
| 111. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
23.44 |
0.8918 |
-0.0281 |
100 |
1 |
23.44 |
2010-10-25 |
| 112. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
23.42 |
0.8884 |
-0.0253 |
135 |
1 |
23.42 |
2010-11-13 |
| 113. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
23.40 |
0.8793 |
-0.0162 |
157 |
1 |
23.40 |
2010-10-25 |
| 114. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
23.15 |
0.9128 |
-0.0583 |
133 |
1 |
23.15 |
2010-10-24 |
| 115. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
23.13 |
0.7443 |
0.1063 |
169 |
1 |
23.13 |
2009-03-12 |
| 116. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
22.99 |
0.7908 |
0.0550 |
127 |
1 |
22.99 |
2009-03-12 |
| 117. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
22.99 |
0.8153 |
0.0331 |
200 |
1 |
22.99 |
2009-03-12 |
| 118. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
22.75 |
0.9340 |
-0.0949 |
296 |
1 |
22.75 |
2010-10-24 |
| 119. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
22.66 |
0.9202 |
-0.0864 |
254 |
1 |
22.66 |
2009-03-12 |
| 120. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
22.52 |
0.9028 |
-0.0731 |
111 |
1 |
22.52 |
2010-10-24 |
| 121. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
22.42 |
0.8105 |
0.0140 |
204 |
1 |
22.42 |
2009-03-12 |
| 122. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
22.25 |
0.9763 |
-0.1587 |
289 |
1 |
22.25 |
2010-10-24 |
| 123. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
22.23 |
0.9509 |
-0.1002 |
225 |
1 |
22.23 |
2010-10-25 |
| 124. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
21.81 |
0.8910 |
-0.0879 |
150 |
1 |
21.81 |
2009-03-12 |
| 125. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
20.92 |
0.8890 |
-0.1208 |
199 |
1 |
20.92 |
2010-10-24 |
| 126. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
20.65 |
0.8202 |
-0.0580 |
178 |
1 |
20.65 |
2010-10-24 |
| 127. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
20.56 |
0.8562 |
-0.0971 |
170 |
1 |
20.56 |
2010-10-24 |
| 128. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
20.53 |
0.8553 |
-0.1013 |
174 |
1 |
20.53 |
2010-10-24 |
| 129. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
20.10 |
0.8919 |
-0.1534 |
205 |
1 |
20.10 |
2010-10-24 |