| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
93.16 |
1.0543 |
0.6058 |
113 |
1 |
93.16 |
2016-02-10 |
| 2. |
In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea.... |
88.45 |
1.0605 |
0.5254 |
229 |
1 |
88.45 |
2016-10-06 |
| 3. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
87.66 |
1.0483 |
0.5098 |
227 |
1 |
87.66 |
2016-10-06 |
| 4. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
87.59 |
1.0429 |
0.5156 |
259 |
2 |
67.20 |
2016-10-06 |
| 5. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
86.90 |
1.0203 |
0.5604 |
400 |
1 |
86.90 |
2016-10-06 |
| 6. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
85.28 |
0.9632 |
0.5534 |
240 |
1 |
85.28 |
2016-02-10 |
| 7. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
85.07 |
1.0077 |
0.5482 |
250 |
1 |
85.07 |
2016-02-10 |
| 8. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
81.56 |
1.0292 |
0.4211 |
262 |
2 |
66.09 |
2015-06-09 |
| 9. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
81.31 |
0.9097 |
0.5375 |
153 |
1 |
81.31 |
2016-02-10 |
| 10. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
78.52 |
0.9614 |
0.4388 |
292 |
2 |
66.46 |
2016-10-06 |
| 11. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
72.73 |
1.0788 |
0.2086 |
171 |
1 |
72.73 |
2013-12-16 |
| 12. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
70.15 |
0.9792 |
0.3060 |
265 |
1 |
70.15 |
2016-02-10 |
| 13. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
69.02 |
0.9570 |
0.2712 |
287 |
1 |
69.02 |
2014-01-02 |
| 14. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
67.97 |
1.0567 |
0.1517 |
303 |
1 |
67.97 |
2013-12-10 |
| 15. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
67.47 |
0.9916 |
0.2496 |
282 |
1 |
67.47 |
2016-02-10 |
| 16. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
66.63 |
0.9635 |
0.2259 |
389 |
1 |
66.63 |
2016-02-10 |
| 17. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
66.57 |
1.0498 |
0.1278 |
180 |
2 |
60.67 |
2013-12-16 |
| 18. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
65.45 |
1.0365 |
0.1556 |
162 |
1 |
65.45 |
2014-01-03 |
| 19. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
64.22 |
1.0340 |
0.1116 |
406 |
2 |
58.76 |
2013-12-24 |
| 20. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
64.03 |
1.0201 |
0.1103 |
172 |
2 |
60.46 |
2014-01-03 |
| 21. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
63.89 |
0.9665 |
0.2171 |
326 |
1 |
63.89 |
2016-02-10 |
| 22. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
63.74 |
1.0381 |
0.0830 |
170 |
1 |
63.74 |
2013-12-08 |
| 23. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
63.10 |
0.9986 |
0.1165 |
162 |
1 |
63.10 |
2013-12-16 |
| 24. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
61.73 |
1.0941 |
0.0329 |
256 |
1 |
61.73 |
2013-12-08 |
| 25. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
61.46 |
1.0218 |
0.0660 |
268 |
1 |
61.46 |
2013-12-24 |
| 26. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
61.35 |
1.0165 |
0.0760 |
392 |
1 |
61.35 |
2014-01-14 |
| 27. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
61.08 |
0.9691 |
0.1143 |
223 |
2 |
55.62 |
2013-12-16 |
| 28. |
Finally, don't expect your cooking to taste exactly like res... |
60.75 |
0.8951 |
0.1904 |
246 |
1 |
60.75 |
2016-10-16 |
| 29. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
60.57 |
1.0662 |
0.0465 |
407 |
1 |
60.57 |
2014-01-02 |
| 30. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
60.39 |
1.0368 |
0.0354 |
276 |
2 |
56.72 |
2014-01-03 |
| 31. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
60.09 |
1.0257 |
0.0467 |
401 |
1 |
60.09 |
2014-02-02 |
| 32. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
59.99 |
1.1323 |
-0.0341 |
341 |
1 |
59.99 |
2014-01-02 |
| 33. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
59.90 |
1.0062 |
0.0564 |
288 |
2 |
57.62 |
2014-01-02 |
| 34. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
59.78 |
1.0331 |
0.0251 |
234 |
2 |
54.13 |
2013-12-17 |
| 35. |
At 211 degrees, water is hot. At 212 degrees, it boils. And ... |
58.91 |
0.8974 |
0.1476 |
174 |
1 |
58.91 |
2016-10-06 |
| 36. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
58.50 |
0.9504 |
0.0814 |
263 |
1 |
58.50 |
2014-01-03 |
| 37. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
57.84 |
1.0083 |
0.0618 |
273 |
1 |
57.84 |
2014-01-13 |
| 38. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
57.79 |
1.1162 |
-0.0502 |
189 |
1 |
57.79 |
2013-12-08 |
| 39. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
57.79 |
1.0668 |
-0.0395 |
350 |
1 |
57.79 |
2014-01-02 |
| 40. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
57.72 |
1.0797 |
-0.0616 |
210 |
2 |
56.45 |
2013-12-08 |
| 41. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
57.59 |
1.0379 |
0.0180 |
245 |
1 |
57.59 |
2014-01-02 |
| 42. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
57.23 |
0.9986 |
0.0166 |
283 |
2 |
56.34 |
2014-01-06 |
| 43. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
57.22 |
0.9697 |
0.0491 |
266 |
1 |
57.22 |
2013-12-08 |
| 44. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
57.11 |
1.0031 |
0.0428 |
304 |
1 |
57.11 |
2013-12-08 |
| 45. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
57.09 |
1.0008 |
0.0546 |
473 |
1 |
57.09 |
2014-01-03 |
| 46. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
56.56 |
1.0725 |
-0.0442 |
233 |
1 |
56.56 |
2013-12-16 |
| 47. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
56.55 |
1.0445 |
-0.0409 |
373 |
1 |
56.55 |
2014-01-05 |
| 48. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
56.05 |
0.9965 |
-0.0077 |
168 |
1 |
56.05 |
2014-01-13 |
| 49. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
55.97 |
1.1296 |
-0.1083 |
252 |
1 |
55.97 |
2013-12-16 |
| 50. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
55.76 |
1.0189 |
-0.0275 |
337 |
1 |
55.76 |
2013-12-09 |
| 51. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
55.41 |
1.0615 |
-0.0542 |
305 |
1 |
55.41 |
2013-12-09 |
| 52. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
55.26 |
0.8898 |
0.0851 |
158 |
1 |
55.26 |
2013-12-08 |
| 53. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
55.12 |
0.9632 |
0.0558 |
345 |
1 |
55.12 |
2014-01-13 |
| 54. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
55.10 |
0.9576 |
0.0232 |
212 |
1 |
55.10 |
2013-12-08 |
| 55. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
55.07 |
0.9943 |
-0.0153 |
373 |
1 |
55.07 |
2014-01-02 |
| 56. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
54.86 |
0.9213 |
0.0516 |
295 |
1 |
54.86 |
2013-12-10 |
| 57. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
54.85 |
1.0972 |
-0.0956 |
251 |
1 |
54.85 |
2013-12-09 |
| 58. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
54.65 |
1.0396 |
-0.0783 |
149 |
1 |
54.65 |
2013-12-08 |
| 59. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
54.19 |
0.9820 |
-0.0189 |
267 |
1 |
54.19 |
2013-12-09 |
| 60. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
54.10 |
0.9912 |
-0.0059 |
237 |
3 |
47.35 |
2014-01-02 |
| 61. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
54.01 |
0.9811 |
-0.0214 |
272 |
1 |
54.01 |
2014-02-25 |
| 62. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
53.90 |
0.9048 |
0.0544 |
271 |
1 |
53.90 |
2014-01-31 |
| 63. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
53.62 |
0.9843 |
-0.0393 |
234 |
1 |
53.62 |
2014-01-06 |
| 64. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
53.62 |
1.0384 |
-0.0985 |
183 |
1 |
53.62 |
2013-12-08 |
| 65. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
53.48 |
1.0398 |
-0.1032 |
110 |
1 |
53.48 |
2013-12-16 |
| 66. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
53.13 |
1.0214 |
-0.0856 |
166 |
1 |
53.13 |
2013-12-08 |
| 67. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
53.12 |
0.9805 |
-0.0349 |
292 |
1 |
53.12 |
2013-12-08 |
| 68. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
53.03 |
1.0361 |
-0.0960 |
269 |
1 |
53.03 |
2013-12-08 |
| 69. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
52.99 |
0.9865 |
-0.0468 |
276 |
1 |
52.99 |
2014-01-02 |
| 70. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
52.93 |
1.0125 |
-0.0371 |
413 |
1 |
52.93 |
2014-01-06 |
| 71. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
52.44 |
1.0565 |
-0.1306 |
247 |
1 |
52.44 |
2013-12-08 |
| 72. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
52.18 |
0.9339 |
-0.0113 |
310 |
1 |
52.18 |
2013-12-11 |
| 73. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
51.92 |
1.0346 |
-0.0733 |
244 |
1 |
51.92 |
2014-01-02 |
| 74. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
51.49 |
1.0289 |
-0.1129 |
276 |
1 |
51.49 |
2013-12-08 |
| 75. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
51.43 |
0.9513 |
-0.0370 |
354 |
1 |
51.43 |
2013-12-17 |
| 76. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
51.33 |
0.9646 |
-0.0567 |
264 |
1 |
51.33 |
2013-12-08 |
| 77. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
51.02 |
0.9016 |
0.0095 |
192 |
1 |
51.02 |
2013-12-08 |
| 78. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
50.90 |
0.9212 |
-0.0167 |
231 |
1 |
50.90 |
2013-12-24 |
| 79. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
50.90 |
0.9532 |
-0.0534 |
258 |
1 |
50.90 |
2014-01-03 |
| 80. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
50.55 |
0.9681 |
-0.0650 |
378 |
2 |
50.37 |
2014-02-25 |
| 81. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
50.28 |
0.9468 |
-0.0570 |
276 |
1 |
50.28 |
2013-12-24 |
| 82. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
50.20 |
1.0787 |
-0.1918 |
237 |
1 |
50.20 |
2013-12-19 |
| 83. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
50.11 |
0.9286 |
-0.0429 |
194 |
1 |
50.11 |
2014-01-02 |
| 84. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
49.63 |
1.0060 |
-0.1326 |
171 |
1 |
49.63 |
2013-12-08 |
| 85. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
49.61 |
1.0677 |
-0.1596 |
284 |
1 |
49.61 |
2013-12-08 |
| 86. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
49.44 |
1.0183 |
-0.1490 |
191 |
1 |
49.44 |
2014-01-02 |
| 87. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
49.40 |
1.0604 |
-0.1531 |
260 |
1 |
49.40 |
2013-12-08 |
| 88. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
49.30 |
1.0261 |
-0.1558 |
273 |
1 |
49.30 |
2013-12-08 |
| 89. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
49.28 |
1.0444 |
-0.1789 |
197 |
1 |
49.28 |
2013-12-13 |
| 90. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
49.16 |
0.9682 |
-0.0999 |
143 |
1 |
49.16 |
2013-12-08 |
| 91. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
49.05 |
0.9127 |
-0.0476 |
252 |
1 |
49.05 |
2013-12-16 |
| 92. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
49.02 |
1.0412 |
-0.1744 |
225 |
1 |
49.02 |
2013-12-24 |
| 93. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
48.61 |
0.9851 |
-0.1227 |
317 |
1 |
48.61 |
2013-12-08 |
| 94. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
48.60 |
0.9768 |
-0.1143 |
387 |
1 |
48.60 |
2013-12-08 |
| 95. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
48.55 |
1.0352 |
-0.1737 |
341 |
1 |
48.55 |
2013-12-08 |
| 96. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
48.42 |
1.0385 |
-0.1838 |
230 |
1 |
48.42 |
2013-12-09 |
| 97. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
48.23 |
0.9710 |
-0.1241 |
173 |
1 |
48.23 |
2013-12-08 |
| 98. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
47.91 |
1.0334 |
-0.1924 |
131 |
1 |
47.91 |
2014-01-02 |
| 99. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
47.17 |
0.9089 |
-0.0712 |
342 |
1 |
47.17 |
2013-12-08 |
| 100. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
47.16 |
0.8467 |
0.0118 |
343 |
1 |
47.16 |
2013-12-08 |
| 101. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
47.15 |
1.0441 |
-0.1691 |
316 |
1 |
47.15 |
2013-12-17 |
| 102. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
46.69 |
0.9266 |
-0.1012 |
267 |
1 |
46.69 |
2013-12-08 |
| 103. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
46.57 |
0.9790 |
-0.1150 |
311 |
2 |
44.21 |
2013-12-17 |
| 104. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
46.33 |
0.9731 |
-0.1668 |
129 |
1 |
46.33 |
2013-12-16 |
| 105. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
45.96 |
1.0203 |
-0.2049 |
261 |
1 |
45.96 |
2013-12-08 |
| 106. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
45.54 |
1.1081 |
-0.2690 |
206 |
2 |
44.18 |
2014-01-14 |
| 107. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
45.45 |
0.9084 |
-0.1035 |
300 |
1 |
45.45 |
2013-12-08 |
| 108. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
45.38 |
1.0023 |
-0.2025 |
211 |
1 |
45.38 |
2013-12-08 |
| 109. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
45.35 |
1.0516 |
-0.2510 |
281 |
1 |
45.35 |
2013-12-08 |
| 110. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
45.27 |
0.8722 |
-0.0691 |
285 |
2 |
43.94 |
2014-01-06 |
| 111. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
44.79 |
0.9148 |
-0.1220 |
317 |
1 |
44.79 |
2014-01-02 |
| 112. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
44.57 |
0.7876 |
0.0024 |
316 |
1 |
44.57 |
2013-12-17 |
| 113. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
44.29 |
1.1022 |
-0.2849 |
259 |
1 |
44.29 |
2013-12-10 |
| 114. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
44.20 |
0.9005 |
-0.1212 |
212 |
1 |
44.20 |
2013-12-08 |
| 115. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
44.13 |
0.8353 |
-0.0486 |
283 |
1 |
44.13 |
2013-12-10 |
| 116. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
43.27 |
0.9841 |
-0.2161 |
334 |
1 |
43.27 |
2013-12-16 |
| 117. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
42.98 |
0.9351 |
-0.1818 |
190 |
1 |
42.98 |
2013-12-09 |
| 118. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
42.59 |
0.9109 |
-0.1562 |
401 |
1 |
42.59 |
2013-12-08 |
| 119. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
42.50 |
0.8382 |
-0.0871 |
268 |
1 |
42.50 |
2013-12-08 |
| 120. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
41.75 |
0.8533 |
-0.1156 |
232 |
1 |
41.75 |
2013-12-08 |
| 121. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
40.55 |
0.9398 |
-0.2152 |
419 |
1 |
40.55 |
2013-12-08 |
| 122. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
39.36 |
0.8878 |
-0.1943 |
346 |
1 |
39.36 |
2013-12-08 |
| 123. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
37.81 |
0.8971 |
-0.2260 |
266 |
1 |
37.81 |
2013-12-10 |
| 124. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
34.81 |
0.9426 |
-0.3275 |
317 |
1 |
34.81 |
2013-12-08 |
| 125. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
33.15 |
0.9897 |
-0.4099 |
274 |
1 |
33.15 |
2013-12-11 |