| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
73.56 |
1.0711 |
0.1748 |
213 |
2 |
69.30 |
2012-07-24 |
| 2. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
72.75 |
1.0261 |
0.2090 |
273 |
1 |
72.75 |
2013-03-04 |
| 3. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
71.98 |
0.9098 |
0.3103 |
167 |
1 |
71.98 |
2011-05-25 |
| 4. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
71.19 |
1.0398 |
0.1599 |
110 |
2 |
68.83 |
2011-05-26 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
70.21 |
1.1018 |
0.0852 |
220 |
2 |
67.43 |
2011-05-27 |
| 6. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
70.17 |
1.0183 |
0.1688 |
191 |
2 |
62.86 |
2013-03-04 |
| 7. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
69.82 |
1.0696 |
0.1136 |
226 |
2 |
65.06 |
2011-05-27 |
| 8. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
69.78 |
0.9938 |
0.1930 |
339 |
2 |
67.98 |
2012-01-29 |
| 9. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
69.66 |
1.0486 |
0.1362 |
289 |
1 |
69.66 |
2011-05-27 |
| 10. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
69.20 |
1.0565 |
0.1169 |
247 |
2 |
64.35 |
2013-03-04 |
| 11. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
68.98 |
1.0630 |
0.1425 |
397 |
1 |
68.98 |
2013-03-04 |
| 12. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
68.32 |
0.9884 |
0.1768 |
262 |
1 |
68.32 |
2013-03-04 |
| 13. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
68.07 |
1.0201 |
0.1297 |
172 |
1 |
68.07 |
2013-03-04 |
| 14. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
67.56 |
1.0013 |
0.1457 |
273 |
2 |
61.79 |
2011-05-26 |
| 15. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
66.62 |
1.0496 |
0.0814 |
314 |
1 |
66.62 |
2010-06-23 |
| 16. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
65.54 |
1.0709 |
0.0803 |
392 |
1 |
65.54 |
2012-01-29 |
| 17. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
65.35 |
1.0528 |
0.0521 |
201 |
2 |
62.66 |
2009-07-25 |
| 18. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
64.36 |
0.9740 |
0.1148 |
209 |
1 |
64.36 |
2013-03-04 |
| 19. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
63.71 |
1.0412 |
0.0399 |
225 |
1 |
63.71 |
2010-03-18 |
| 20. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
63.64 |
1.0138 |
0.0663 |
231 |
1 |
63.64 |
2012-07-24 |
| 21. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
63.41 |
0.9722 |
0.1065 |
283 |
1 |
63.41 |
2010-03-17 |
| 22. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
63.34 |
1.0441 |
0.0328 |
252 |
1 |
63.34 |
2010-03-18 |
| 23. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
62.70 |
1.0523 |
0.0078 |
256 |
3 |
58.95 |
2009-07-25 |
| 24. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
62.63 |
1.0125 |
0.0484 |
224 |
1 |
62.63 |
2009-07-22 |
| 25. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
62.62 |
1.0529 |
0.0100 |
351 |
2 |
59.27 |
2009-07-22 |
| 26. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
62.51 |
1.0534 |
0.0099 |
357 |
2 |
61.61 |
2010-11-27 |
| 27. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
62.44 |
0.9279 |
0.1385 |
317 |
1 |
62.44 |
2011-05-27 |
| 28. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
62.18 |
1.0399 |
0.0207 |
294 |
1 |
62.18 |
2013-03-04 |
| 29. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
61.74 |
0.9786 |
0.0641 |
193 |
2 |
59.05 |
2009-07-25 |
| 30. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
61.34 |
1.0462 |
-0.0113 |
184 |
1 |
61.34 |
2009-10-10 |
| 31. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
61.25 |
1.0062 |
0.0333 |
288 |
2 |
59.23 |
2010-06-23 |
| 32. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
60.71 |
1.0799 |
-0.0534 |
243 |
2 |
60.27 |
2010-03-19 |
| 33. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
60.66 |
0.9756 |
0.0524 |
229 |
2 |
60.11 |
2010-03-19 |
| 34. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
60.63 |
0.9601 |
0.0734 |
308 |
1 |
60.63 |
2011-05-27 |
| 35. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
60.05 |
1.0251 |
-0.0085 |
261 |
1 |
60.05 |
2012-01-29 |
| 36. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
59.98 |
0.9907 |
0.0253 |
211 |
2 |
59.38 |
2010-06-23 |
| 37. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
59.68 |
1.0389 |
-0.0247 |
318 |
1 |
59.68 |
2009-07-25 |
| 38. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
59.55 |
0.9612 |
0.0490 |
256 |
2 |
56.77 |
2009-07-23 |
| 39. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
59.22 |
1.0016 |
-0.0016 |
218 |
1 |
59.22 |
2009-07-22 |
| 40. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
59.05 |
0.9936 |
0.0078 |
311 |
1 |
59.05 |
2010-03-17 |
| 41. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
58.82 |
1.0477 |
-0.0476 |
360 |
1 |
58.82 |
2009-07-22 |
| 42. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
58.81 |
1.0060 |
-0.0132 |
171 |
2 |
54.25 |
2009-07-22 |
| 43. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
58.76 |
1.0124 |
-0.0181 |
204 |
1 |
58.76 |
2010-03-17 |
| 44. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
58.71 |
1.0521 |
-0.0611 |
171 |
1 |
58.71 |
2009-07-22 |
| 45. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
58.39 |
0.9769 |
0.0113 |
263 |
1 |
58.39 |
2009-07-16 |
| 46. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
58.28 |
1.0740 |
-0.0473 |
264 |
1 |
58.28 |
2010-03-17 |
| 47. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
58.19 |
0.9843 |
-0.0024 |
234 |
1 |
58.19 |
2009-07-22 |
| 48. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
58.18 |
0.8739 |
0.1088 |
136 |
1 |
58.18 |
2009-07-22 |
| 49. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
58.04 |
1.0684 |
-0.0543 |
253 |
1 |
58.04 |
2010-06-23 |
| 50. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
57.76 |
1.0214 |
-0.0436 |
269 |
1 |
57.76 |
2009-07-22 |
| 51. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
57.67 |
0.9884 |
-0.0113 |
233 |
1 |
57.67 |
2009-07-22 |
| 52. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
57.62 |
1.0385 |
-0.0632 |
230 |
1 |
57.62 |
2010-06-23 |
| 53. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
57.60 |
1.0391 |
-0.0563 |
358 |
1 |
57.60 |
2009-07-22 |
| 54. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
57.45 |
1.0613 |
-0.0862 |
266 |
1 |
57.45 |
2010-03-19 |
| 55. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
57.30 |
0.9567 |
0.0147 |
273 |
1 |
57.30 |
2009-07-25 |
| 56. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
57.22 |
1.0596 |
-0.0915 |
239 |
1 |
57.22 |
2009-07-16 |
| 57. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
57.21 |
0.9724 |
0.0012 |
237 |
1 |
57.21 |
2009-07-15 |
| 58. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
56.61 |
0.9780 |
-0.0173 |
337 |
2 |
53.45 |
2009-07-25 |
| 59. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
56.46 |
0.9866 |
-0.0331 |
218 |
1 |
56.46 |
2009-07-22 |
| 60. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
56.38 |
1.0788 |
-0.1286 |
171 |
1 |
56.38 |
2009-07-22 |
| 61. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
56.37 |
1.0668 |
-0.1087 |
350 |
1 |
56.37 |
2009-07-22 |
| 62. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
56.27 |
0.9886 |
-0.0322 |
220 |
1 |
56.27 |
2010-03-17 |
| 63. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
55.91 |
1.0033 |
-0.0623 |
189 |
1 |
55.91 |
2009-07-16 |
| 64. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
55.91 |
0.9786 |
-0.0314 |
235 |
2 |
52.55 |
2009-10-10 |
| 65. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
55.60 |
0.9763 |
-0.0344 |
289 |
1 |
55.60 |
2010-11-27 |
| 66. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
55.60 |
1.0218 |
-0.0823 |
268 |
1 |
55.60 |
2009-07-22 |
| 67. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
55.55 |
0.9710 |
-0.0360 |
173 |
2 |
49.45 |
2009-07-22 |
| 68. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
55.49 |
0.9986 |
-0.0575 |
283 |
1 |
55.49 |
2010-06-23 |
| 69. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
55.48 |
0.9309 |
0.0075 |
284 |
1 |
55.48 |
2009-07-22 |
| 70. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
55.47 |
0.9772 |
-0.0406 |
217 |
1 |
55.47 |
2009-07-23 |
| 71. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
55.00 |
0.9614 |
-0.0263 |
292 |
1 |
55.00 |
2009-10-10 |
| 72. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
54.96 |
0.9593 |
-0.0232 |
398 |
1 |
54.96 |
2010-03-17 |
| 73. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
54.94 |
1.0068 |
-0.0725 |
358 |
1 |
54.94 |
2009-10-10 |
| 74. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
54.55 |
0.9964 |
-0.0720 |
203 |
1 |
54.55 |
2009-07-22 |
| 75. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
54.55 |
0.9045 |
0.0201 |
235 |
1 |
54.55 |
2009-07-16 |
| 76. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
54.43 |
1.0331 |
-0.1130 |
234 |
1 |
54.43 |
2009-07-25 |
| 77. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
54.38 |
1.0767 |
-0.1575 |
212 |
1 |
54.38 |
2009-07-22 |
| 78. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
54.37 |
0.9426 |
-0.0183 |
317 |
1 |
54.37 |
2010-03-17 |
| 79. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
53.94 |
1.0042 |
-0.0488 |
352 |
1 |
53.94 |
2013-03-04 |
| 80. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
53.33 |
0.9005 |
0.0014 |
212 |
2 |
52.88 |
2009-07-22 |
| 81. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
53.03 |
0.8916 |
0.0069 |
216 |
1 |
53.03 |
2010-03-17 |
| 82. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
53.00 |
0.9084 |
-0.0066 |
404 |
1 |
53.00 |
2009-07-15 |
| 83. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
52.95 |
0.9893 |
-0.0923 |
323 |
1 |
52.95 |
2009-10-10 |
| 84. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
52.70 |
0.9411 |
-0.0477 |
318 |
1 |
52.70 |
2009-07-16 |
| 85. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
52.61 |
0.9670 |
-0.0339 |
307 |
1 |
52.61 |
2010-03-18 |
| 86. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
52.54 |
0.9213 |
-0.0310 |
295 |
1 |
52.54 |
2009-07-16 |
| 87. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
52.42 |
0.9833 |
-0.0940 |
355 |
1 |
52.42 |
2009-10-10 |
| 88. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
52.26 |
0.8821 |
0.0024 |
176 |
1 |
52.26 |
2009-07-15 |
| 89. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
52.21 |
1.0555 |
-0.1700 |
363 |
1 |
52.21 |
2009-07-22 |
| 90. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
51.83 |
0.9754 |
-0.0917 |
362 |
2 |
49.75 |
2009-07-22 |
| 91. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
51.72 |
0.9682 |
-0.0944 |
143 |
1 |
51.72 |
2009-07-22 |
| 92. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
51.64 |
0.8553 |
0.0139 |
174 |
1 |
51.64 |
2009-07-22 |
| 93. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
51.21 |
1.0368 |
-0.1689 |
276 |
1 |
51.21 |
2009-07-22 |
| 94. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
50.91 |
0.9514 |
-0.0893 |
237 |
1 |
50.91 |
2009-07-16 |
| 95. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.58 |
0.9293 |
-0.0724 |
355 |
1 |
50.58 |
2010-03-19 |
| 96. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
50.43 |
1.0099 |
-0.1592 |
207 |
1 |
50.43 |
2009-07-16 |
| 97. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
50.24 |
1.0012 |
-0.1476 |
260 |
1 |
50.24 |
2010-03-19 |
| 98. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
49.94 |
0.9513 |
-0.1024 |
354 |
1 |
49.94 |
2009-07-17 |
| 99. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
49.01 |
1.0095 |
-0.1814 |
316 |
1 |
49.01 |
2009-07-16 |
| 100. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
48.18 |
0.9176 |
-0.0639 |
365 |
1 |
48.18 |
2010-03-17 |
| 101. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
47.60 |
0.9619 |
-0.1518 |
393 |
1 |
47.60 |
2009-07-22 |
| 102. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
47.28 |
0.9372 |
-0.1338 |
320 |
1 |
47.28 |
2009-07-22 |
| 103. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
46.24 |
0.9464 |
-0.1597 |
323 |
1 |
46.24 |
2010-06-23 |
| 104. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
45.17 |
0.9072 |
-0.1457 |
237 |
1 |
45.17 |
2009-07-15 |
| 105. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
41.86 |
0.9148 |
-0.2071 |
317 |
1 |
41.86 |
2009-07-17 |