Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
79.15 |
1.0466 |
0.2749 |
230 |
1 |
79.15 |
2013-10-21 |
2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
77.99 |
1.1086 |
0.1941 |
233 |
1 |
77.99 |
2012-12-22 |
3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
74.06 |
1.0901 |
0.1482 |
288 |
1 |
74.06 |
2013-10-19 |
4. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
74.00 |
1.1095 |
0.1284 |
252 |
1 |
74.00 |
2013-10-19 |
5. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
73.88 |
1.0800 |
0.1464 |
129 |
2 |
70.05 |
2013-10-21 |
6. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
73.82 |
1.0672 |
0.1639 |
239 |
1 |
73.82 |
2013-11-02 |
7. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
73.71 |
1.1093 |
0.1158 |
220 |
2 |
67.01 |
2012-12-22 |
8. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
73.10 |
1.0507 |
0.1750 |
253 |
2 |
69.04 |
2013-10-21 |
9. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
72.46 |
1.0640 |
0.1516 |
210 |
2 |
66.21 |
2013-06-01 |
10. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
72.10 |
0.9368 |
0.2603 |
176 |
2 |
69.13 |
2013-10-19 |
11. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
71.56 |
0.9650 |
0.2321 |
347 |
1 |
71.56 |
2013-10-19 |
12. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
71.50 |
1.0208 |
0.1726 |
231 |
2 |
56.38 |
2013-10-19 |
13. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
70.61 |
0.9820 |
0.2050 |
297 |
1 |
70.61 |
2013-06-03 |
14. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
69.03 |
1.0511 |
0.1027 |
252 |
1 |
69.03 |
2013-10-19 |
15. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
68.65 |
1.0006 |
0.1448 |
311 |
1 |
68.65 |
2013-10-19 |
16. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
68.26 |
1.0301 |
0.1076 |
268 |
1 |
68.26 |
2013-05-28 |
17. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
68.12 |
0.9703 |
0.1728 |
394 |
1 |
68.12 |
2013-10-21 |
18. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
67.17 |
1.0667 |
0.0644 |
308 |
1 |
67.17 |
2012-03-21 |
19. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
65.77 |
0.9991 |
0.0978 |
339 |
1 |
65.77 |
2012-03-23 |
20. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
65.39 |
0.9980 |
0.0951 |
295 |
1 |
65.39 |
2012-04-19 |
21. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
64.67 |
1.0664 |
0.0162 |
389 |
1 |
64.67 |
2012-04-02 |
22. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
63.55 |
0.9880 |
0.0676 |
199 |
1 |
63.55 |
2012-05-08 |
23. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
63.32 |
1.0960 |
-0.0358 |
315 |
1 |
63.32 |
2012-12-22 |
24. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
63.31 |
0.9271 |
0.1284 |
295 |
1 |
63.31 |
2013-10-21 |
25. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
63.19 |
1.0524 |
-0.0002 |
177 |
1 |
63.19 |
2012-03-20 |
26. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
62.58 |
1.0370 |
0.0065 |
262 |
1 |
62.58 |
2012-06-07 |
27. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
62.44 |
0.9948 |
0.0455 |
233 |
1 |
62.44 |
2013-10-29 |
28. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
61.84 |
0.9833 |
0.0505 |
387 |
1 |
61.84 |
2013-10-21 |
29. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
61.53 |
1.0225 |
-0.0038 |
152 |
1 |
61.53 |
2012-04-02 |
30. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
61.51 |
0.8988 |
0.1273 |
216 |
1 |
61.51 |
2013-06-03 |
31. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
61.33 |
1.0144 |
0.0098 |
162 |
1 |
61.33 |
2013-10-19 |
32. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
61.07 |
1.0669 |
-0.0456 |
379 |
1 |
61.07 |
2013-11-02 |
33. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
61.06 |
0.9996 |
0.0261 |
483 |
1 |
61.06 |
2012-12-22 |
34. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
61.03 |
0.9791 |
0.0324 |
154 |
1 |
61.03 |
2013-10-19 |
35. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
60.82 |
1.0334 |
-0.0198 |
261 |
1 |
60.82 |
2013-10-21 |
36. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
60.72 |
1.0873 |
-0.0776 |
243 |
1 |
60.72 |
2012-04-06 |
37. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
60.46 |
1.0124 |
0.0012 |
275 |
1 |
60.46 |
2012-03-20 |
38. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
60.20 |
0.9836 |
0.0123 |
123 |
1 |
60.20 |
2012-04-19 |
39. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
60.15 |
0.9631 |
0.0395 |
273 |
2 |
52.72 |
2012-12-22 |
40. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
60.08 |
1.0698 |
-0.0610 |
303 |
1 |
60.08 |
2013-10-19 |
41. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
59.99 |
1.0408 |
-0.0330 |
257 |
1 |
59.99 |
2012-03-21 |
42. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
59.96 |
1.0472 |
-0.0534 |
149 |
1 |
59.96 |
2012-06-07 |
43. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
59.74 |
1.0165 |
-0.0210 |
316 |
1 |
59.74 |
2012-04-02 |
44. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
59.72 |
1.0033 |
-0.0074 |
203 |
1 |
59.72 |
2012-06-07 |
45. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
59.60 |
1.0736 |
-0.0757 |
256 |
1 |
59.60 |
2012-04-02 |
46. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
59.46 |
1.0390 |
-0.0423 |
260 |
1 |
59.46 |
2012-12-23 |
47. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
59.32 |
0.9737 |
0.0180 |
237 |
1 |
59.32 |
2012-12-22 |
48. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
59.19 |
1.0492 |
-0.0569 |
284 |
1 |
59.19 |
2012-05-04 |
49. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
58.74 |
1.0777 |
-0.1005 |
226 |
1 |
58.74 |
2012-03-21 |
50. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
58.66 |
1.0188 |
-0.0314 |
316 |
1 |
58.66 |
2012-03-21 |
51. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
58.46 |
1.0399 |
-0.0603 |
257 |
1 |
58.46 |
2012-04-02 |
52. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
58.41 |
1.0426 |
-0.0726 |
131 |
1 |
58.41 |
2012-03-20 |
53. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
58.01 |
1.0881 |
-0.1248 |
210 |
1 |
58.01 |
2012-04-02 |
54. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
57.98 |
0.9797 |
-0.0090 |
269 |
1 |
57.98 |
2013-10-19 |
55. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
57.88 |
0.9980 |
-0.0240 |
341 |
1 |
57.88 |
2012-03-21 |
56. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
57.51 |
0.9698 |
-0.0061 |
389 |
1 |
57.51 |
2012-05-08 |
57. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
57.32 |
0.9329 |
0.0369 |
345 |
1 |
57.32 |
2013-10-19 |
58. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
57.12 |
1.0471 |
-0.1024 |
170 |
1 |
57.12 |
2013-06-03 |
59. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
56.79 |
1.0125 |
-0.0674 |
232 |
2 |
56.16 |
2012-05-04 |
60. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
56.19 |
0.9685 |
-0.0309 |
304 |
1 |
56.19 |
2012-05-08 |
61. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
56.17 |
0.9403 |
0.0046 |
307 |
1 |
56.17 |
2012-03-21 |
62. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
55.91 |
0.9783 |
-0.0389 |
273 |
1 |
55.91 |
2012-03-21 |
63. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
55.85 |
0.9183 |
0.0093 |
252 |
1 |
55.85 |
2012-06-07 |
64. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
55.75 |
0.9963 |
-0.0694 |
274 |
1 |
55.75 |
2012-03-21 |
65. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
55.04 |
0.9749 |
-0.0486 |
337 |
1 |
55.04 |
2012-03-21 |
66. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
54.58 |
1.0234 |
-0.1099 |
392 |
1 |
54.58 |
2012-05-04 |
67. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
54.57 |
0.8938 |
0.0168 |
238 |
1 |
54.57 |
2012-03-20 |
68. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
54.23 |
0.9829 |
-0.0800 |
229 |
1 |
54.23 |
2013-05-28 |
69. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
54.13 |
0.9976 |
-0.0988 |
212 |
1 |
54.13 |
2013-10-19 |
70. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
54.09 |
0.8993 |
0.0046 |
366 |
1 |
54.09 |
2012-03-21 |
71. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
53.73 |
0.9145 |
-0.0157 |
404 |
1 |
53.73 |
2012-05-08 |
72. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
53.62 |
0.9517 |
-0.0593 |
276 |
1 |
53.62 |
2012-03-21 |
73. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
53.55 |
0.9836 |
-0.0910 |
289 |
1 |
53.55 |
2012-03-21 |
74. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
52.78 |
0.8375 |
0.0474 |
224 |
1 |
52.78 |
2013-10-21 |
75. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
52.29 |
1.0540 |
-0.1877 |
184 |
1 |
52.29 |
2012-03-29 |
76. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
51.11 |
1.0461 |
-0.1925 |
318 |
1 |
51.11 |
2012-03-20 |
77. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
50.97 |
0.9068 |
-0.0597 |
212 |
1 |
50.97 |
2013-10-19 |
78. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
50.83 |
0.9374 |
-0.0880 |
232 |
1 |
50.83 |
2013-10-19 |
79. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
50.64 |
0.9480 |
-0.1032 |
297 |
1 |
50.64 |
2012-03-21 |
80. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
49.91 |
1.0130 |
-0.1816 |
288 |
1 |
49.91 |
2012-06-07 |
81. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
48.39 |
0.9606 |
-0.1508 |
203 |
1 |
48.39 |
2012-03-20 |
82. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
48.36 |
0.9316 |
-0.1242 |
188 |
1 |
48.36 |
2012-03-20 |
83. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
47.20 |
0.9339 |
-0.1426 |
317 |
1 |
47.20 |
2012-05-04 |
84. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
46.83 |
0.9070 |
-0.1323 |
192 |
1 |
46.83 |
2013-06-01 |
85. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
46.20 |
0.9357 |
-0.1687 |
204 |
1 |
46.20 |
2012-03-20 |
86. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
38.33 |
1.0028 |
-0.3668 |
259 |
1 |
38.33 |
2012-03-20 |
87. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
37.83 |
0.9485 |
-0.3235 |
227 |
1 |
37.83 |
2012-03-22 |
88. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
27.46 |
1.0588 |
-0.6040 |
281 |
1 |
27.46 |
2012-03-20 |