| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
45.29 |
0.9775 |
0.0901 |
473 |
1 |
45.29 |
2013-07-29 |
| 2. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
34.14 |
0.8955 |
-0.0918 |
436 |
2 |
33.87 |
2013-07-29 |
| 3. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
40.45 |
1.0074 |
-0.0522 |
410 |
1 |
40.45 |
2013-07-29 |
| 4. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
41.77 |
0.9931 |
-0.0085 |
381 |
1 |
41.77 |
2013-07-29 |
| 5. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
42.44 |
0.9561 |
0.0388 |
364 |
1 |
42.44 |
2013-08-05 |
| 6. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
37.26 |
0.9561 |
-0.0884 |
362 |
1 |
37.26 |
2013-07-29 |
| 7. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
36.93 |
1.0562 |
-0.1921 |
360 |
1 |
36.93 |
2013-08-06 |
| 8. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
36.69 |
1.0135 |
-0.1573 |
358 |
1 |
36.69 |
2013-10-14 |
| 9. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
35.76 |
0.9574 |
-0.1231 |
354 |
1 |
35.76 |
2013-08-05 |
| 10. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
40.62 |
0.9844 |
-0.0273 |
351 |
1 |
40.62 |
2013-10-04 |
| 11. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
41.64 |
0.9203 |
0.0509 |
350 |
1 |
41.64 |
2014-03-19 |
| 12. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
39.00 |
0.9403 |
-0.0206 |
345 |
1 |
39.00 |
2013-07-30 |
| 13. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
46.15 |
0.9980 |
0.0857 |
341 |
1 |
46.15 |
2013-09-03 |
| 14. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
50.50 |
0.9842 |
0.1941 |
335 |
1 |
50.50 |
2013-10-07 |
| 15. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
32.95 |
0.9909 |
-0.2217 |
334 |
1 |
32.95 |
2013-07-29 |
| 16. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
39.31 |
0.9841 |
-0.0584 |
325 |
1 |
39.31 |
2013-07-29 |
| 17. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
36.38 |
0.9011 |
-0.0519 |
322 |
1 |
36.38 |
2013-07-29 |
| 18. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
49.36 |
1.0461 |
0.1058 |
318 |
1 |
49.36 |
2013-09-02 |
| 19. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
42.65 |
0.8718 |
0.1237 |
318 |
3 |
38.28 |
2013-09-09 |
| 20. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
36.78 |
1.0960 |
-0.2371 |
315 |
1 |
36.78 |
2013-08-05 |
| 21. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
37.08 |
0.9827 |
-0.1198 |
314 |
1 |
37.08 |
2013-07-29 |
| 22. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
48.29 |
1.0567 |
0.0673 |
314 |
1 |
48.29 |
2013-09-27 |
| 23. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
42.09 |
0.9502 |
0.0359 |
312 |
1 |
42.09 |
2013-07-29 |
| 24. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
39.27 |
1.0006 |
-0.0871 |
311 |
1 |
39.27 |
2013-08-06 |
| 25. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
35.36 |
0.9402 |
-0.1205 |
310 |
1 |
35.36 |
2013-08-06 |
| 26. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
50.88 |
1.0667 |
0.1287 |
308 |
1 |
50.88 |
2013-07-29 |
| 27. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
53.36 |
1.0969 |
0.1480 |
303 |
1 |
53.36 |
2013-08-05 |
| 28. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
44.45 |
1.0639 |
-0.0278 |
303 |
1 |
44.45 |
2013-07-29 |
| 29. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
46.20 |
1.0270 |
0.0493 |
303 |
1 |
46.20 |
2013-07-29 |
| 30. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
35.51 |
0.8830 |
-0.0552 |
300 |
1 |
35.51 |
2013-07-29 |
| 31. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
42.50 |
0.9820 |
0.0151 |
297 |
1 |
42.50 |
2013-09-27 |
| 32. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
46.84 |
1.0743 |
0.0177 |
297 |
2 |
45.66 |
2013-08-05 |
| 33. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
43.06 |
0.9480 |
0.0545 |
297 |
1 |
43.06 |
2013-09-02 |
| 34. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
44.71 |
0.8815 |
0.1640 |
296 |
1 |
44.71 |
2013-07-30 |
| 35. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
32.48 |
1.0509 |
-0.2897 |
295 |
1 |
32.48 |
2013-07-29 |
| 36. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
36.92 |
0.9928 |
-0.1353 |
293 |
1 |
36.92 |
2013-07-29 |
| 37. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
44.32 |
1.0189 |
0.0120 |
290 |
1 |
44.32 |
2013-09-09 |
| 38. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
45.86 |
1.0901 |
-0.0207 |
288 |
2 |
45.82 |
2013-10-07 |
| 39. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
43.36 |
1.0492 |
-0.0350 |
284 |
1 |
43.36 |
2013-09-03 |
| 40. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
38.58 |
0.9380 |
-0.0424 |
284 |
1 |
38.58 |
2013-09-02 |
| 41. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
41.00 |
0.9989 |
-0.0382 |
282 |
1 |
41.00 |
2013-07-29 |
| 42. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
35.82 |
0.9643 |
-0.1229 |
282 |
1 |
35.82 |
2013-08-06 |
| 43. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
44.52 |
1.0036 |
0.0336 |
277 |
1 |
44.52 |
2013-09-03 |
| 44. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
43.09 |
1.0181 |
-0.0143 |
276 |
1 |
43.09 |
2013-08-06 |
| 45. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
37.05 |
0.9538 |
-0.0920 |
276 |
1 |
37.05 |
2013-07-29 |
| 46. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
37.98 |
0.9927 |
-0.1089 |
276 |
1 |
37.98 |
2013-07-29 |
| 47. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
45.07 |
0.9783 |
0.0784 |
273 |
1 |
45.07 |
2013-07-29 |
| 48. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
45.53 |
0.9631 |
0.0968 |
273 |
1 |
45.53 |
2013-10-07 |
| 49. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
35.77 |
0.9084 |
-0.0756 |
271 |
1 |
35.77 |
2013-07-29 |
| 50. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
38.53 |
0.9332 |
-0.0375 |
267 |
1 |
38.53 |
2013-09-09 |
| 51. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
47.94 |
0.9884 |
0.1306 |
267 |
1 |
47.94 |
2013-10-14 |
| 52. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
42.43 |
0.8474 |
0.1403 |
265 |
1 |
42.43 |
2013-07-30 |
| 53. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
44.24 |
0.9922 |
0.0381 |
264 |
1 |
44.24 |
2013-08-05 |
| 54. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
42.26 |
0.9564 |
0.0202 |
263 |
1 |
42.26 |
2013-09-04 |
| 55. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
41.60 |
0.9927 |
-0.0235 |
262 |
1 |
41.60 |
2013-07-30 |
| 56. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
45.34 |
1.0370 |
0.0180 |
262 |
1 |
45.34 |
2014-08-04 |
| 57. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
41.70 |
0.9627 |
0.0063 |
259 |
1 |
41.70 |
2013-07-29 |
| 58. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
39.95 |
0.9660 |
-0.0294 |
258 |
2 |
39.65 |
2013-08-05 |
| 59. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
52.80 |
1.0601 |
0.1669 |
256 |
2 |
48.59 |
2013-10-09 |
| 60. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
41.81 |
0.9680 |
0.0052 |
256 |
1 |
41.81 |
2013-10-04 |
| 61. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
41.32 |
0.8981 |
0.0722 |
255 |
1 |
41.32 |
2013-07-29 |
| 62. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
43.24 |
0.9779 |
0.0265 |
255 |
1 |
43.24 |
2013-07-29 |
| 63. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
40.37 |
0.9265 |
0.0119 |
254 |
1 |
40.37 |
2013-07-30 |
| 64. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
47.33 |
0.9278 |
0.1751 |
253 |
1 |
47.33 |
2013-07-30 |
| 65. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
36.81 |
0.9597 |
-0.1035 |
251 |
1 |
36.81 |
2013-09-02 |
| 66. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
51.94 |
1.0590 |
0.1497 |
250 |
1 |
51.94 |
2013-10-07 |
| 67. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
39.90 |
0.9809 |
-0.0454 |
250 |
1 |
39.90 |
2013-09-02 |
| 68. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
40.61 |
0.9762 |
-0.0318 |
249 |
1 |
40.61 |
2013-09-02 |
| 69. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
47.35 |
1.0372 |
0.0649 |
249 |
1 |
47.35 |
2013-07-29 |
| 70. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
42.51 |
0.9425 |
0.0476 |
248 |
1 |
42.51 |
2013-09-27 |
| 71. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
46.09 |
0.9676 |
0.1106 |
247 |
1 |
46.09 |
2013-09-03 |
| 72. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
46.82 |
1.0654 |
0.0220 |
247 |
1 |
46.82 |
2013-07-29 |
| 73. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
48.10 |
1.0638 |
0.0539 |
247 |
1 |
48.10 |
2013-07-30 |
| 74. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
50.92 |
1.0755 |
0.1111 |
243 |
1 |
50.92 |
2013-07-29 |
| 75. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
52.68 |
1.0069 |
0.2233 |
242 |
1 |
52.68 |
2013-09-03 |
| 76. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
40.55 |
1.0112 |
-0.0697 |
242 |
1 |
40.55 |
2013-07-30 |
| 77. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
41.03 |
0.8873 |
0.0666 |
241 |
1 |
41.03 |
2013-07-30 |
| 78. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
41.09 |
0.9243 |
0.0342 |
240 |
1 |
41.09 |
2013-08-05 |
| 79. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
47.39 |
0.8938 |
0.2099 |
238 |
1 |
47.39 |
2013-08-06 |
| 80. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
48.82 |
0.9768 |
0.1607 |
237 |
1 |
48.82 |
2013-07-30 |
| 81. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
46.60 |
0.9852 |
0.0992 |
235 |
1 |
46.60 |
2013-10-04 |
| 82. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
48.89 |
1.0125 |
0.1247 |
232 |
1 |
48.89 |
2013-09-03 |
| 83. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
51.02 |
0.9374 |
0.2539 |
232 |
1 |
51.02 |
2013-07-30 |
| 84. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
41.62 |
0.8721 |
0.1023 |
231 |
1 |
41.62 |
2013-09-03 |
| 85. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
41.53 |
1.0364 |
-0.0660 |
230 |
1 |
41.53 |
2013-08-06 |
| 86. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
42.96 |
0.9829 |
0.0162 |
229 |
1 |
42.96 |
2013-07-30 |
| 87. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
50.29 |
1.0199 |
0.1475 |
225 |
3 |
43.07 |
2013-07-30 |
| 88. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
40.33 |
0.9244 |
0.0189 |
225 |
1 |
40.33 |
2013-09-02 |
| 89. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
42.00 |
0.9756 |
0.0008 |
223 |
1 |
42.00 |
2013-09-03 |
| 90. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
52.16 |
1.1093 |
0.0998 |
220 |
1 |
52.16 |
2013-09-02 |
| 91. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
39.51 |
1.0086 |
-0.0942 |
218 |
1 |
39.51 |
2013-07-29 |
| 92. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
42.48 |
0.9841 |
0.0011 |
217 |
2 |
35.57 |
2013-09-09 |
| 93. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
48.89 |
0.9621 |
0.1783 |
212 |
1 |
48.89 |
2014-08-04 |
| 94. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
51.29 |
1.0640 |
0.1364 |
210 |
1 |
51.29 |
2013-08-05 |
| 95. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
45.57 |
1.0881 |
-0.0311 |
210 |
1 |
45.57 |
2013-09-03 |
| 96. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
45.96 |
1.0665 |
0.0043 |
210 |
1 |
45.96 |
2013-08-05 |
| 97. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
41.55 |
0.9809 |
-0.0183 |
209 |
1 |
41.55 |
2013-10-07 |
| 98. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
31.49 |
0.8339 |
-0.1036 |
209 |
1 |
31.49 |
2013-08-06 |
| 99. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
41.65 |
0.8911 |
0.0794 |
207 |
1 |
41.65 |
2013-08-05 |
| 100. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
54.03 |
1.0836 |
0.1785 |
206 |
3 |
49.23 |
2013-10-07 |
| 101. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
40.43 |
1.0753 |
-0.1282 |
206 |
1 |
40.43 |
2013-07-29 |
| 102. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
39.42 |
0.8742 |
0.0471 |
202 |
1 |
39.42 |
2013-07-29 |
| 103. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
40.88 |
0.8913 |
0.0617 |
201 |
2 |
39.82 |
2013-10-04 |
| 104. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
44.96 |
0.9880 |
0.0543 |
199 |
1 |
44.96 |
2013-08-05 |
| 105. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
42.47 |
0.8201 |
0.1619 |
187 |
1 |
42.47 |
2013-07-30 |
| 106. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
31.38 |
1.0524 |
-0.3260 |
177 |
1 |
31.38 |
2013-07-29 |
| 107. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
37.38 |
0.9408 |
-0.0778 |
177 |
1 |
37.38 |
2013-07-29 |
| 108. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
44.45 |
0.8869 |
0.1456 |
176 |
2 |
38.82 |
2013-07-29 |
| 109. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
51.04 |
0.9421 |
0.2449 |
173 |
1 |
51.04 |
2013-07-29 |
| 110. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
33.32 |
1.0279 |
-0.2595 |
172 |
1 |
33.32 |
2013-07-29 |
| 111. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
41.37 |
1.0867 |
-0.1289 |
171 |
1 |
41.37 |
2013-08-06 |
| 112. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
44.27 |
0.8594 |
0.1674 |
170 |
1 |
44.27 |
2013-07-29 |
| 113. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
37.25 |
0.9299 |
-0.0725 |
168 |
1 |
37.25 |
2014-05-02 |
| 114. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
43.42 |
1.0042 |
0.0026 |
168 |
1 |
43.42 |
2013-08-05 |
| 115. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
41.49 |
1.0288 |
-0.0683 |
166 |
2 |
35.50 |
2013-07-29 |
| 116. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
42.37 |
0.9211 |
0.0626 |
165 |
1 |
42.37 |
2013-07-30 |
| 117. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
37.70 |
0.9974 |
-0.1250 |
163 |
1 |
37.70 |
2013-08-06 |
| 118. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
41.72 |
1.0144 |
-0.0430 |
162 |
1 |
41.72 |
2013-09-27 |
| 119. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
41.40 |
0.7852 |
0.1713 |
154 |
1 |
41.40 |
2013-08-05 |
| 120. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
38.23 |
0.8965 |
-0.0076 |
150 |
1 |
38.23 |
2013-10-04 |
| 121. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
42.30 |
1.0472 |
-0.0694 |
149 |
1 |
42.30 |
2013-07-29 |
| 122. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
49.74 |
0.9252 |
0.2336 |
148 |
2 |
48.97 |
2013-07-30 |
| 123. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
31.00 |
0.9763 |
-0.2567 |
143 |
1 |
31.00 |
2013-07-29 |
| 124. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
41.29 |
0.7915 |
0.1703 |
142 |
2 |
38.23 |
2013-08-06 |
| 125. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
52.01 |
0.8830 |
0.3230 |
134 |
1 |
52.01 |
2013-10-07 |
| 126. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
48.66 |
0.8863 |
0.2431 |
127 |
1 |
48.66 |
2013-07-30 |
| 127. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
46.16 |
0.9339 |
0.1315 |
108 |
3 |
43.28 |
2013-08-06 |