| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
66.62 |
1.0487 |
0.2157 |
231 |
1 |
66.62 |
2013-04-20 |
| 2. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
66.52 |
1.1081 |
0.1936 |
206 |
1 |
66.52 |
2013-11-03 |
| 3. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
66.04 |
1.0669 |
0.2242 |
213 |
1 |
66.04 |
2013-04-20 |
| 4. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
65.07 |
1.0907 |
0.1510 |
303 |
1 |
65.07 |
2013-04-20 |
| 5. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
64.15 |
1.0214 |
0.1990 |
269 |
1 |
64.15 |
2013-11-03 |
| 6. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
63.89 |
1.0261 |
0.1886 |
273 |
1 |
63.89 |
2013-04-20 |
| 7. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
63.68 |
1.0521 |
0.1555 |
171 |
1 |
63.68 |
2013-11-03 |
| 8. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
62.96 |
0.9505 |
0.2480 |
204 |
1 |
62.96 |
2013-04-09 |
| 9. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.93 |
1.1016 |
0.0964 |
233 |
1 |
62.93 |
2013-11-03 |
| 10. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
62.87 |
0.9430 |
0.2564 |
297 |
1 |
62.87 |
2013-11-03 |
| 11. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
62.76 |
1.0528 |
0.1374 |
201 |
1 |
62.76 |
2013-11-03 |
| 12. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
62.46 |
0.9894 |
0.2043 |
323 |
1 |
62.46 |
2013-11-03 |
| 13. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
62.02 |
1.0615 |
0.1447 |
305 |
2 |
52.81 |
2013-11-03 |
| 14. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
61.70 |
0.9855 |
0.2225 |
258 |
1 |
61.70 |
2013-04-09 |
| 15. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
61.63 |
1.0201 |
0.1571 |
375 |
2 |
59.02 |
2013-04-20 |
| 16. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
61.35 |
1.0384 |
0.1193 |
183 |
2 |
59.67 |
2013-04-20 |
| 17. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
61.20 |
0.9614 |
0.2067 |
292 |
2 |
55.90 |
2013-11-03 |
| 18. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
61.07 |
0.9774 |
0.1839 |
196 |
1 |
61.07 |
2013-04-09 |
| 19. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
61.01 |
1.0523 |
0.1048 |
256 |
1 |
61.01 |
2013-11-03 |
| 20. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
60.70 |
0.9820 |
0.1764 |
267 |
3 |
53.47 |
2013-11-03 |
| 21. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
59.07 |
1.0352 |
0.0920 |
341 |
2 |
53.70 |
2013-04-09 |
| 22. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
59.03 |
0.9966 |
0.1261 |
259 |
1 |
59.03 |
2013-11-03 |
| 23. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
59.00 |
0.9997 |
0.1267 |
382 |
1 |
59.00 |
2013-04-20 |
| 24. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
58.93 |
1.0168 |
0.1061 |
271 |
1 |
58.93 |
2013-04-09 |
| 25. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
58.18 |
0.9567 |
0.1503 |
273 |
1 |
58.18 |
2013-04-09 |
| 26. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
58.11 |
1.0515 |
0.0519 |
250 |
1 |
58.11 |
2013-04-09 |
| 27. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
57.94 |
1.0257 |
0.0829 |
401 |
1 |
57.94 |
2013-11-03 |
| 28. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
57.93 |
0.9881 |
0.1547 |
424 |
1 |
57.93 |
2013-11-03 |
| 29. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
57.05 |
1.0252 |
0.0533 |
176 |
2 |
50.88 |
2013-04-09 |
| 30. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
56.98 |
1.0679 |
0.0358 |
177 |
3 |
51.52 |
2013-04-20 |
| 31. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
56.91 |
0.9723 |
0.1142 |
364 |
1 |
56.91 |
2013-04-09 |
| 32. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
56.89 |
1.0132 |
0.0600 |
143 |
1 |
56.89 |
2013-11-03 |
| 33. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
56.85 |
0.9632 |
0.1602 |
345 |
2 |
52.26 |
2013-04-20 |
| 34. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
56.65 |
1.0120 |
0.0645 |
290 |
1 |
56.65 |
2013-04-20 |
| 35. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
56.64 |
0.9570 |
0.1219 |
287 |
1 |
56.64 |
2013-04-14 |
| 36. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
56.52 |
0.9593 |
0.1203 |
398 |
1 |
56.52 |
2013-11-03 |
| 37. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
56.20 |
0.9168 |
0.1535 |
240 |
1 |
56.20 |
2013-11-03 |
| 38. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
56.09 |
0.9353 |
0.1268 |
177 |
1 |
56.09 |
2013-11-03 |
| 39. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
55.90 |
0.8787 |
0.1890 |
202 |
1 |
55.90 |
2013-04-20 |
| 40. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
55.84 |
0.8914 |
0.1708 |
366 |
2 |
49.44 |
2013-04-20 |
| 41. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
55.32 |
1.0218 |
0.0270 |
268 |
1 |
55.32 |
2013-05-06 |
| 42. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
54.82 |
0.9348 |
0.1152 |
229 |
1 |
54.82 |
2013-04-20 |
| 43. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
54.70 |
0.9411 |
0.0996 |
318 |
1 |
54.70 |
2013-11-03 |
| 44. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
54.02 |
0.9148 |
0.1135 |
317 |
1 |
54.02 |
2013-11-03 |
| 45. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
53.88 |
0.9557 |
0.0746 |
331 |
1 |
53.88 |
2013-04-09 |
| 46. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
53.19 |
0.9786 |
0.0316 |
235 |
1 |
53.19 |
2013-11-03 |
| 47. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
53.18 |
0.9991 |
0.0120 |
225 |
2 |
51.66 |
2012-05-06 |
| 48. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
53.06 |
1.0598 |
-0.0577 |
196 |
1 |
53.06 |
2012-05-06 |
| 49. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
52.90 |
0.8890 |
0.1126 |
199 |
1 |
52.90 |
2013-11-03 |
| 50. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
52.38 |
0.9310 |
0.0596 |
188 |
1 |
52.38 |
2012-05-06 |
| 51. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
52.04 |
1.0545 |
-0.0250 |
416 |
1 |
52.04 |
2013-04-20 |
| 52. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
52.03 |
0.9430 |
0.0382 |
211 |
1 |
52.03 |
2013-04-20 |
| 53. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
51.95 |
1.0352 |
-0.0457 |
341 |
1 |
51.95 |
2012-08-17 |
| 54. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
51.88 |
1.0034 |
-0.0192 |
302 |
2 |
48.92 |
2013-05-06 |
| 55. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
51.66 |
1.0197 |
-0.0413 |
226 |
2 |
49.16 |
2012-08-17 |
| 56. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
51.58 |
1.1022 |
-0.0874 |
259 |
1 |
51.58 |
2012-10-03 |
| 57. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
51.53 |
1.0131 |
-0.0381 |
225 |
1 |
51.53 |
2012-05-06 |
| 58. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
51.37 |
1.0183 |
-0.0481 |
191 |
1 |
51.37 |
2013-04-20 |
| 59. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
51.20 |
0.9068 |
0.0685 |
269 |
2 |
47.36 |
2012-10-03 |
| 60. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
51.06 |
0.9127 |
0.0543 |
252 |
2 |
49.30 |
2013-05-06 |
| 61. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
50.94 |
1.0941 |
-0.0955 |
256 |
1 |
50.94 |
2012-05-06 |
| 62. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
50.85 |
0.9758 |
-0.0094 |
314 |
1 |
50.85 |
2012-06-11 |
| 63. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
50.84 |
0.9769 |
-0.0133 |
263 |
1 |
50.84 |
2013-11-03 |
| 64. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
50.74 |
1.1162 |
-0.1114 |
189 |
1 |
50.74 |
2012-10-03 |
| 65. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
50.31 |
0.9504 |
-0.0007 |
263 |
2 |
49.45 |
2013-04-20 |
| 66. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
50.01 |
1.0254 |
-0.0353 |
217 |
1 |
50.01 |
2012-06-11 |
| 67. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
49.85 |
1.0012 |
-0.0521 |
260 |
2 |
48.29 |
2012-08-17 |
| 68. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
49.84 |
1.0365 |
-0.0606 |
162 |
1 |
49.84 |
2012-05-06 |
| 69. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
49.60 |
1.0426 |
-0.1017 |
323 |
1 |
49.60 |
2012-10-03 |
| 70. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
49.55 |
0.8467 |
0.1187 |
343 |
1 |
49.55 |
2013-04-20 |
| 71. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
49.45 |
1.0203 |
-0.0783 |
261 |
1 |
49.45 |
2013-04-20 |
| 72. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
49.45 |
0.9233 |
0.0072 |
168 |
2 |
47.92 |
2012-08-17 |
| 73. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
49.26 |
1.0060 |
-0.0757 |
171 |
2 |
48.96 |
2012-10-03 |
| 74. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
49.19 |
0.9833 |
-0.0478 |
355 |
1 |
49.19 |
2012-08-17 |
| 75. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
48.86 |
0.9772 |
-0.0531 |
217 |
1 |
48.86 |
2012-05-06 |
| 76. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
48.86 |
0.9852 |
-0.0575 |
264 |
1 |
48.86 |
2012-05-06 |
| 77. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
48.56 |
0.8826 |
0.0407 |
296 |
1 |
48.56 |
2013-11-04 |
| 78. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
48.01 |
0.9619 |
-0.0454 |
393 |
1 |
48.01 |
2012-08-17 |
| 79. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
47.87 |
0.9863 |
-0.0737 |
339 |
3 |
45.08 |
2012-08-17 |
| 80. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
47.68 |
0.9368 |
-0.0319 |
173 |
2 |
45.40 |
2012-05-06 |
| 81. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
47.65 |
1.0604 |
-0.1230 |
260 |
2 |
46.98 |
2012-05-06 |
| 82. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
47.56 |
1.0151 |
-0.1219 |
152 |
1 |
47.56 |
2012-05-06 |
| 83. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
47.52 |
0.9911 |
-0.0931 |
212 |
1 |
47.52 |
2012-05-06 |
| 84. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
47.42 |
0.9724 |
-0.0694 |
237 |
1 |
47.42 |
2012-05-06 |
| 85. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
47.37 |
1.0016 |
-0.1076 |
218 |
1 |
47.37 |
2012-05-06 |
| 86. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
47.37 |
0.9710 |
-0.0786 |
173 |
1 |
47.37 |
2012-05-06 |
| 87. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
47.31 |
1.0829 |
-0.1840 |
288 |
1 |
47.31 |
2012-05-06 |
| 88. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
47.22 |
0.9212 |
-0.0222 |
323 |
1 |
47.22 |
2012-10-03 |
| 89. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
47.16 |
1.0109 |
-0.0834 |
400 |
1 |
47.16 |
2012-05-06 |
| 90. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
46.65 |
0.9965 |
-0.1112 |
277 |
1 |
46.65 |
2012-05-06 |
| 91. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
46.52 |
1.0719 |
-0.1619 |
360 |
1 |
46.52 |
2012-05-06 |
| 92. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
46.41 |
0.9485 |
-0.0666 |
236 |
2 |
44.98 |
2012-06-11 |
| 93. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
45.95 |
0.9303 |
-0.0659 |
176 |
1 |
45.95 |
2012-06-11 |
| 94. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
45.92 |
1.0033 |
-0.1393 |
189 |
1 |
45.92 |
2012-05-06 |
| 95. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
45.75 |
1.0483 |
-0.1840 |
227 |
1 |
45.75 |
2012-05-06 |
| 96. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
45.35 |
1.0399 |
-0.1748 |
294 |
1 |
45.35 |
2012-05-06 |
| 97. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
45.18 |
1.0117 |
-0.1105 |
297 |
1 |
45.18 |
2012-05-06 |
| 98. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
44.77 |
0.9426 |
-0.0909 |
317 |
1 |
44.77 |
2012-08-17 |
| 99. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
44.74 |
1.0388 |
-0.1589 |
243 |
1 |
44.74 |
2012-05-06 |
| 100. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
44.70 |
0.9213 |
-0.0732 |
295 |
1 |
44.70 |
2012-05-06 |
| 101. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
44.68 |
0.9871 |
-0.1039 |
209 |
1 |
44.68 |
2012-03-11 |
| 102. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
44.63 |
0.9857 |
-0.1409 |
293 |
1 |
44.63 |
2012-05-06 |
| 103. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.56 |
0.9843 |
-0.1447 |
234 |
1 |
44.56 |
2012-05-06 |
| 104. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
44.50 |
1.0677 |
-0.1941 |
284 |
1 |
44.50 |
2012-05-06 |
| 105. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
44.06 |
0.9964 |
-0.1614 |
203 |
1 |
44.06 |
2012-10-03 |
| 106. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
43.64 |
0.9936 |
-0.1668 |
311 |
1 |
43.64 |
2012-05-06 |
| 107. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
43.44 |
0.9844 |
-0.1563 |
293 |
1 |
43.44 |
2012-05-06 |
| 108. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
43.42 |
0.8731 |
-0.0434 |
199 |
1 |
43.42 |
2012-03-11 |
| 109. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
43.18 |
0.8956 |
-0.0729 |
322 |
1 |
43.18 |
2012-05-06 |
| 110. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
42.85 |
0.9763 |
-0.1652 |
289 |
1 |
42.85 |
2012-05-06 |
| 111. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
42.83 |
1.0008 |
-0.1462 |
473 |
1 |
42.83 |
2012-05-06 |
| 112. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
42.77 |
0.8353 |
-0.0178 |
283 |
1 |
42.77 |
2012-05-06 |
| 113. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
42.70 |
1.0331 |
-0.2266 |
234 |
1 |
42.70 |
2012-05-06 |
| 114. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
42.60 |
0.9023 |
-0.0523 |
231 |
1 |
42.60 |
2012-05-06 |
| 115. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
42.51 |
1.0885 |
-0.2802 |
315 |
1 |
42.51 |
2012-05-06 |
| 116. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
42.41 |
0.9866 |
-0.1868 |
218 |
1 |
42.41 |
2012-06-11 |
| 117. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
42.13 |
0.9706 |
-0.1686 |
216 |
1 |
42.13 |
2012-06-11 |
| 118. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
42.04 |
0.8553 |
-0.0641 |
174 |
1 |
42.04 |
2012-05-06 |
| 119. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
39.72 |
1.0232 |
-0.2361 |
236 |
2 |
38.10 |
2012-06-11 |
| 120. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
35.68 |
0.8105 |
-0.1414 |
204 |
1 |
35.68 |
2012-05-06 |