| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
62.73 |
1.1296 |
0.2558 |
252 |
1 |
62.73 |
2011-10-04 |
| 2. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
59.49 |
0.9986 |
0.2816 |
162 |
1 |
59.49 |
2011-09-08 |
| 3. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
59.06 |
0.9734 |
0.3029 |
289 |
2 |
52.23 |
2011-10-05 |
| 4. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
57.73 |
1.0905 |
0.1881 |
210 |
1 |
57.73 |
2011-10-03 |
| 5. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
54.39 |
0.8996 |
0.2691 |
192 |
1 |
54.39 |
2011-10-04 |
| 6. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
53.76 |
0.9897 |
0.1683 |
274 |
2 |
51.18 |
2011-09-30 |
| 7. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
53.61 |
1.0677 |
0.1198 |
284 |
2 |
51.70 |
2011-09-09 |
| 8. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
53.55 |
1.0384 |
0.1075 |
183 |
1 |
53.55 |
2011-09-20 |
| 9. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
53.47 |
0.9226 |
0.2356 |
177 |
1 |
53.47 |
2011-09-07 |
| 10. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
53.31 |
1.0419 |
0.1085 |
261 |
1 |
53.31 |
2011-10-06 |
| 11. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
53.27 |
0.9731 |
0.1640 |
129 |
1 |
53.27 |
2011-09-13 |
| 12. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
53.04 |
1.0602 |
0.0885 |
389 |
1 |
53.04 |
2011-09-30 |
| 13. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
52.87 |
1.0060 |
0.1303 |
171 |
1 |
52.87 |
2011-09-13 |
| 14. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
52.68 |
0.9786 |
0.1578 |
235 |
2 |
49.54 |
2011-09-13 |
| 15. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
52.37 |
0.9365 |
0.1952 |
248 |
2 |
46.97 |
2011-09-30 |
| 16. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
51.68 |
1.0252 |
0.0833 |
176 |
2 |
47.99 |
2011-09-20 |
| 17. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
51.57 |
1.0531 |
0.0977 |
272 |
1 |
51.57 |
2011-09-30 |
| 18. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
51.23 |
0.9785 |
0.1297 |
335 |
1 |
51.23 |
2011-10-10 |
| 19. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
51.10 |
0.9863 |
0.1205 |
339 |
3 |
47.29 |
2011-09-13 |
| 20. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
50.98 |
1.1016 |
-0.0021 |
233 |
1 |
50.98 |
2011-09-13 |
| 21. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
50.90 |
1.0131 |
0.0811 |
225 |
2 |
43.78 |
2011-09-07 |
| 22. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
50.46 |
1.0125 |
0.0734 |
224 |
1 |
50.46 |
2011-09-15 |
| 23. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
50.37 |
1.0240 |
0.0594 |
256 |
1 |
50.37 |
2011-10-10 |
| 24. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
50.33 |
0.9504 |
0.1296 |
263 |
2 |
48.20 |
2011-10-17 |
| 25. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
50.26 |
1.0486 |
0.0363 |
289 |
1 |
50.26 |
2011-09-30 |
| 26. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
50.19 |
1.0515 |
0.0230 |
166 |
1 |
50.19 |
2011-09-08 |
| 27. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
49.93 |
1.0154 |
0.1112 |
351 |
1 |
49.93 |
2011-10-05 |
| 28. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
49.85 |
0.9811 |
0.0968 |
272 |
1 |
49.85 |
2011-10-03 |
| 29. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
49.84 |
1.0331 |
0.0396 |
234 |
1 |
49.84 |
2011-09-26 |
| 30. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
49.75 |
1.0615 |
0.0369 |
305 |
1 |
49.75 |
2011-10-03 |
| 31. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
49.47 |
0.9572 |
0.1082 |
201 |
1 |
49.47 |
2011-10-04 |
| 32. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
49.46 |
1.0403 |
0.0662 |
275 |
2 |
47.96 |
2011-10-03 |
| 33. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
49.43 |
0.9986 |
0.0679 |
283 |
1 |
49.43 |
2011-10-05 |
| 34. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
49.42 |
0.9207 |
0.1474 |
174 |
1 |
49.42 |
2011-09-08 |
| 35. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
48.94 |
1.0251 |
0.0281 |
261 |
1 |
48.94 |
2011-09-09 |
| 36. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
48.79 |
1.0257 |
0.0327 |
401 |
1 |
48.79 |
2011-09-20 |
| 37. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
48.69 |
0.9572 |
0.1357 |
376 |
1 |
48.69 |
2011-10-05 |
| 38. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
48.62 |
0.9513 |
0.1007 |
354 |
2 |
46.74 |
2011-10-12 |
| 39. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
48.62 |
0.8968 |
0.1481 |
186 |
1 |
48.62 |
2011-10-06 |
| 40. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
48.46 |
1.0352 |
0.0121 |
341 |
1 |
48.46 |
2011-09-13 |
| 41. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
48.36 |
0.9846 |
0.0564 |
281 |
2 |
47.42 |
2011-09-30 |
| 42. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
48.14 |
1.0768 |
0.0006 |
295 |
1 |
48.14 |
2011-09-15 |
| 43. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
48.08 |
1.0120 |
0.0236 |
290 |
1 |
48.08 |
2011-09-07 |
| 44. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
47.92 |
0.8941 |
0.1405 |
216 |
1 |
47.92 |
2011-09-30 |
| 45. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
47.84 |
0.9063 |
0.1330 |
239 |
1 |
47.84 |
2011-09-14 |
| 46. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
47.84 |
1.0389 |
-0.0052 |
340 |
2 |
36.53 |
2011-09-30 |
| 47. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
47.76 |
0.8912 |
0.1403 |
186 |
1 |
47.76 |
2011-09-06 |
| 48. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
47.51 |
1.0462 |
-0.0281 |
184 |
1 |
47.51 |
2011-09-13 |
| 49. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
46.99 |
0.8520 |
0.1612 |
202 |
1 |
46.99 |
2011-10-03 |
| 50. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
46.99 |
1.0381 |
-0.0363 |
170 |
1 |
46.99 |
2011-09-08 |
| 51. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
46.94 |
1.0033 |
0.0016 |
189 |
1 |
46.94 |
2011-09-13 |
| 52. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
46.82 |
0.9908 |
0.0642 |
342 |
1 |
46.82 |
2011-10-12 |
| 53. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
46.80 |
0.9279 |
0.0874 |
317 |
1 |
46.80 |
2011-09-26 |
| 54. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
46.69 |
0.9965 |
0.0050 |
168 |
1 |
46.69 |
2011-09-15 |
| 55. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
46.50 |
0.8935 |
0.1183 |
328 |
1 |
46.50 |
2011-09-20 |
| 56. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
46.15 |
1.0797 |
-0.0908 |
210 |
1 |
46.15 |
2011-10-06 |
| 57. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
46.13 |
0.9342 |
0.0635 |
434 |
1 |
46.13 |
2011-10-07 |
| 58. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
46.12 |
1.0763 |
-0.0408 |
367 |
1 |
46.12 |
2011-10-04 |
| 59. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
46.10 |
1.0426 |
-0.0500 |
323 |
2 |
44.59 |
2011-10-10 |
| 60. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
46.06 |
1.1162 |
-0.0826 |
189 |
1 |
46.06 |
2011-09-09 |
| 61. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
45.92 |
1.0284 |
0.0042 |
282 |
2 |
40.02 |
2011-09-15 |
| 62. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
45.86 |
0.9763 |
0.0111 |
289 |
1 |
45.86 |
2011-09-07 |
| 63. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
45.73 |
0.9212 |
0.0674 |
231 |
1 |
45.73 |
2011-09-13 |
| 64. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
45.70 |
0.9910 |
-0.0043 |
295 |
1 |
45.70 |
2011-10-05 |
| 65. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
45.64 |
0.9774 |
0.0047 |
196 |
2 |
44.55 |
2011-10-10 |
| 66. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
45.60 |
1.0459 |
-0.0327 |
200 |
1 |
45.60 |
2011-09-09 |
| 67. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
45.56 |
0.9578 |
0.0236 |
281 |
2 |
38.49 |
2011-09-20 |
| 68. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
45.48 |
0.9798 |
-0.0056 |
199 |
1 |
45.48 |
2011-09-09 |
| 69. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
45.46 |
1.0684 |
-0.0592 |
253 |
1 |
45.46 |
2011-09-29 |
| 70. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
45.40 |
1.0038 |
0.0043 |
237 |
1 |
45.40 |
2011-10-03 |
| 71. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
45.35 |
1.0907 |
-0.1116 |
303 |
1 |
45.35 |
2011-09-09 |
| 72. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
45.31 |
0.9371 |
0.0780 |
318 |
2 |
43.51 |
2011-10-10 |
| 73. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
45.25 |
0.9128 |
0.0674 |
133 |
1 |
45.25 |
2011-09-08 |
| 74. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
44.98 |
0.9635 |
0.0112 |
389 |
1 |
44.98 |
2011-09-20 |
| 75. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
44.87 |
0.9597 |
0.0108 |
347 |
1 |
44.87 |
2011-10-04 |
| 76. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
44.83 |
0.9941 |
-0.0309 |
217 |
1 |
44.83 |
2011-09-08 |
| 77. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
44.66 |
0.9275 |
0.0313 |
211 |
1 |
44.66 |
2011-09-30 |
| 78. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
44.65 |
0.9773 |
-0.0239 |
123 |
1 |
44.65 |
2011-09-06 |
| 79. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
44.45 |
0.9226 |
0.0409 |
348 |
1 |
44.45 |
2011-09-15 |
| 80. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
44.23 |
0.8810 |
0.0720 |
282 |
1 |
44.23 |
2011-09-09 |
| 81. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
44.09 |
0.9673 |
0.0212 |
232 |
1 |
44.09 |
2011-10-03 |
| 82. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
44.05 |
0.9430 |
-0.0017 |
211 |
1 |
44.05 |
2011-10-05 |
| 83. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
44.01 |
1.0077 |
-0.0191 |
250 |
1 |
44.01 |
2011-09-20 |
| 84. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
43.92 |
0.8602 |
0.0835 |
206 |
1 |
43.92 |
2011-10-04 |
| 85. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
43.91 |
1.0567 |
-0.1104 |
303 |
1 |
43.91 |
2011-09-06 |
| 86. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
43.87 |
1.1081 |
-0.1292 |
206 |
1 |
43.87 |
2011-09-13 |
| 87. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
43.76 |
1.0254 |
-0.0427 |
217 |
1 |
43.76 |
2011-10-12 |
| 88. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
43.37 |
0.9670 |
0.0088 |
307 |
1 |
43.37 |
2011-09-08 |
| 89. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
43.13 |
0.9855 |
-0.0235 |
258 |
1 |
43.13 |
2011-10-10 |
| 90. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
43.07 |
1.0740 |
-0.1086 |
264 |
1 |
43.07 |
2011-09-08 |
| 91. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
43.02 |
0.9023 |
0.0668 |
231 |
1 |
43.02 |
2011-09-22 |
| 92. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
43.00 |
0.9769 |
-0.0532 |
263 |
1 |
43.00 |
2011-09-13 |
| 93. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
42.94 |
1.0788 |
-0.1603 |
171 |
1 |
42.94 |
2011-09-06 |
| 94. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
42.92 |
0.9028 |
0.0190 |
111 |
1 |
42.92 |
2011-09-06 |
| 95. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
42.89 |
0.9247 |
0.0033 |
253 |
1 |
42.89 |
2011-09-27 |
| 96. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
42.84 |
1.0013 |
-0.0802 |
273 |
1 |
42.84 |
2011-09-22 |
| 97. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
42.82 |
0.9893 |
-0.0677 |
323 |
1 |
42.82 |
2011-09-06 |
| 98. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
42.81 |
1.0774 |
-0.1266 |
304 |
1 |
42.81 |
2011-09-15 |
| 99. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
42.61 |
0.8533 |
0.0648 |
232 |
1 |
42.61 |
2011-10-10 |
| 100. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
42.55 |
0.9665 |
-0.0014 |
326 |
1 |
42.55 |
2011-10-05 |
| 101. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
42.38 |
0.9790 |
-0.0262 |
311 |
1 |
42.38 |
2011-09-23 |
| 102. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
42.37 |
0.9468 |
-0.0349 |
276 |
1 |
42.37 |
2011-09-08 |
| 103. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
42.25 |
0.9281 |
-0.0141 |
273 |
1 |
42.25 |
2011-09-08 |
| 104. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
42.03 |
0.8442 |
0.0643 |
265 |
3 |
40.36 |
2011-09-20 |
| 105. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
41.98 |
1.0487 |
-0.1504 |
231 |
1 |
41.98 |
2011-09-06 |
| 106. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
41.89 |
0.9045 |
-0.0025 |
235 |
1 |
41.89 |
2011-09-20 |
| 107. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
41.15 |
0.9509 |
-0.0275 |
225 |
2 |
39.44 |
2011-09-15 |
| 108. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
40.63 |
1.0725 |
-0.1730 |
233 |
1 |
40.63 |
2011-09-09 |
| 109. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.61 |
0.9619 |
-0.0829 |
393 |
1 |
40.61 |
2011-09-13 |
| 110. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
40.44 |
0.8295 |
0.0420 |
209 |
1 |
40.44 |
2011-09-06 |
| 111. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
40.33 |
0.9682 |
-0.1024 |
143 |
1 |
40.33 |
2011-09-07 |
| 112. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
39.94 |
0.8898 |
-0.0355 |
158 |
1 |
39.94 |
2011-09-06 |
| 113. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
39.72 |
1.0944 |
-0.1959 |
308 |
1 |
39.72 |
2011-09-06 |
| 114. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
39.00 |
0.8105 |
0.0232 |
204 |
1 |
39.00 |
2011-10-03 |
| 115. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
38.89 |
0.7805 |
0.0508 |
154 |
1 |
38.89 |
2011-09-30 |
| 116. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
38.31 |
0.8077 |
0.0131 |
167 |
2 |
33.73 |
2011-09-06 |
| 117. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
38.22 |
1.0621 |
-0.2215 |
263 |
1 |
38.22 |
2011-09-08 |
| 118. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
37.89 |
0.9289 |
-0.1172 |
204 |
1 |
37.89 |
2011-09-14 |
| 119. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
37.52 |
0.9084 |
-0.0987 |
404 |
1 |
37.52 |
2011-09-08 |
| 120. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
37.34 |
0.8541 |
-0.0437 |
260 |
1 |
37.34 |
2011-09-06 |
| 121. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
37.07 |
0.9411 |
-0.1442 |
318 |
1 |
37.07 |
2011-09-06 |
| 122. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
36.02 |
0.8890 |
-0.1194 |
199 |
1 |
36.02 |
2011-09-06 |
| 123. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
33.68 |
0.9168 |
-0.1931 |
240 |
1 |
33.68 |
2011-09-06 |
| 124. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
32.47 |
0.8723 |
-0.1809 |
185 |
1 |
32.47 |
2011-09-06 |
| 125. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
31.29 |
0.9844 |
-0.3093 |
293 |
1 |
31.29 |
2011-09-13 |
| 126. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
29.32 |
0.8581 |
-0.2346 |
136 |
1 |
29.32 |
2011-09-06 |
| 127. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
28.73 |
0.9649 |
-0.3517 |
193 |
1 |
28.73 |
2011-08-18 |