| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
92.92 |
1.1114 |
0.1835 |
247 |
1 |
92.92 |
2011-01-23 |
| 2. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
91.03 |
1.0023 |
0.2665 |
211 |
1 |
91.03 |
2011-05-08 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
88.17 |
1.0799 |
0.1471 |
243 |
2 |
87.11 |
2011-05-09 |
| 4. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
87.53 |
1.0885 |
0.1363 |
315 |
2 |
78.11 |
2011-05-08 |
| 5. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
87.44 |
1.0613 |
0.1599 |
266 |
2 |
82.28 |
2011-05-08 |
| 6. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
86.73 |
1.0515 |
0.1569 |
250 |
1 |
86.73 |
2011-05-09 |
| 7. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
85.51 |
1.0173 |
0.2200 |
268 |
1 |
85.51 |
2011-05-08 |
| 8. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
84.96 |
1.0917 |
0.1171 |
243 |
1 |
84.96 |
2011-05-08 |
| 9. |
Would you like to ski Antarctica, but you're snowed under wi... |
84.54 |
0.9558 |
0.1854 |
447 |
1 |
84.54 |
2020-02-02 |
| 10. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
84.32 |
1.0060 |
0.1656 |
171 |
1 |
84.32 |
2011-05-08 |
| 11. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
83.65 |
1.0444 |
0.1157 |
197 |
2 |
80.25 |
2011-05-08 |
| 12. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
83.43 |
1.0668 |
0.0995 |
350 |
1 |
83.43 |
2011-05-01 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
83.34 |
1.0577 |
0.1012 |
247 |
2 |
78.26 |
2011-05-09 |
| 14. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
83.13 |
1.0463 |
0.1087 |
182 |
1 |
83.13 |
2011-05-08 |
| 15. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
82.80 |
1.0711 |
0.0788 |
213 |
1 |
82.80 |
2011-05-08 |
| 16. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
82.67 |
1.0033 |
0.1430 |
189 |
2 |
82.51 |
2011-05-09 |
| 17. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
82.11 |
1.0349 |
0.1096 |
234 |
1 |
82.11 |
2011-05-08 |
| 18. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
81.79 |
1.0787 |
0.0606 |
237 |
1 |
81.79 |
2011-05-08 |
| 19. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
81.63 |
0.9351 |
0.1978 |
190 |
2 |
78.30 |
2011-05-08 |
| 20. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
80.92 |
0.9991 |
0.1297 |
225 |
1 |
80.92 |
2011-05-09 |
| 21. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
80.06 |
1.0529 |
0.0633 |
351 |
1 |
80.06 |
2011-05-08 |
| 22. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
80.05 |
1.0117 |
0.1493 |
297 |
1 |
80.05 |
2011-05-09 |
| 23. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
79.87 |
1.0331 |
0.0782 |
234 |
1 |
79.87 |
2011-05-08 |
| 24. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
79.71 |
1.0613 |
0.0550 |
456 |
1 |
79.71 |
2011-05-08 |
| 25. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
79.02 |
1.0263 |
0.0743 |
267 |
2 |
78.50 |
2011-05-09 |
| 26. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
78.63 |
0.9739 |
0.1580 |
412 |
1 |
78.63 |
2011-05-08 |
| 27. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
78.59 |
0.9303 |
0.1586 |
176 |
1 |
78.59 |
2011-05-08 |
| 28. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
78.36 |
0.9514 |
0.1410 |
237 |
1 |
78.36 |
2011-05-07 |
| 29. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
77.87 |
0.9684 |
0.1195 |
388 |
1 |
77.87 |
2011-05-09 |
| 30. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
77.42 |
1.0445 |
0.0356 |
373 |
2 |
68.86 |
2011-05-08 |
| 31. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
77.21 |
1.0240 |
0.0494 |
256 |
1 |
77.21 |
2011-05-01 |
| 32. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
76.84 |
1.0125 |
0.0960 |
413 |
1 |
76.84 |
2011-05-08 |
| 33. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
76.75 |
1.0426 |
0.0263 |
323 |
1 |
76.75 |
2011-04-30 |
| 34. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
76.70 |
0.9936 |
0.0953 |
227 |
1 |
76.70 |
2011-05-01 |
| 35. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
76.60 |
0.9863 |
0.0855 |
339 |
1 |
76.60 |
2011-05-09 |
| 36. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
76.44 |
0.9109 |
0.1569 |
401 |
1 |
76.44 |
2011-05-08 |
| 37. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
76.40 |
1.0368 |
0.0288 |
276 |
1 |
76.40 |
2011-05-08 |
| 38. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
76.34 |
0.9833 |
0.0821 |
355 |
2 |
72.52 |
2011-05-08 |
| 39. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
76.19 |
0.9756 |
0.0848 |
229 |
2 |
75.80 |
2011-05-08 |
| 40. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
75.73 |
1.0004 |
0.0486 |
212 |
2 |
67.35 |
2011-05-08 |
| 41. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
75.61 |
1.0029 |
0.0442 |
209 |
1 |
75.61 |
2011-05-01 |
| 42. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
75.51 |
1.0719 |
0.0077 |
360 |
1 |
75.51 |
2011-05-07 |
| 43. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
75.39 |
0.9855 |
0.0979 |
258 |
2 |
70.54 |
2011-05-01 |
| 44. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
75.36 |
0.9723 |
0.0813 |
364 |
1 |
75.36 |
2011-05-08 |
| 45. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
75.03 |
1.1068 |
-0.0211 |
393 |
1 |
75.03 |
2011-05-08 |
| 46. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
74.91 |
1.1162 |
-0.0317 |
189 |
1 |
74.91 |
2011-05-08 |
| 47. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
74.73 |
0.9632 |
0.1201 |
345 |
1 |
74.73 |
2011-05-07 |
| 48. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
74.61 |
1.0201 |
0.0125 |
172 |
1 |
74.61 |
2011-05-08 |
| 49. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
74.13 |
1.0763 |
-0.0022 |
367 |
1 |
74.13 |
2011-05-01 |
| 50. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
73.97 |
0.9411 |
0.0901 |
318 |
1 |
73.97 |
2011-05-01 |
| 51. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
73.96 |
1.0375 |
0.0385 |
200 |
1 |
73.96 |
2011-05-08 |
| 52. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
73.91 |
1.0677 |
-0.0081 |
284 |
1 |
73.91 |
2011-05-08 |
| 53. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
73.83 |
1.0441 |
-0.0143 |
252 |
1 |
73.83 |
2011-05-08 |
| 54. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
73.73 |
1.0062 |
0.0206 |
288 |
1 |
73.73 |
2011-05-08 |
| 55. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
73.44 |
1.0270 |
0.0319 |
255 |
1 |
73.44 |
2011-05-09 |
| 56. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
73.42 |
0.9567 |
0.0657 |
273 |
2 |
71.02 |
2011-05-08 |
| 57. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
73.41 |
1.0412 |
-0.0193 |
225 |
1 |
73.41 |
2011-04-30 |
| 58. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
73.10 |
1.0172 |
0.0357 |
341 |
1 |
73.10 |
2011-05-07 |
| 59. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
73.09 |
0.9164 |
0.1065 |
305 |
1 |
73.09 |
2011-05-08 |
| 60. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
73.01 |
1.0486 |
-0.0309 |
289 |
1 |
73.01 |
2011-05-01 |
| 61. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
72.82 |
1.0252 |
-0.0174 |
176 |
1 |
72.82 |
2011-05-08 |
| 62. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
72.70 |
1.0388 |
0.0054 |
243 |
1 |
72.70 |
2011-01-10 |
| 63. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
72.13 |
0.9831 |
0.0294 |
469 |
1 |
72.13 |
2011-04-30 |
| 64. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
72.09 |
0.9120 |
0.1248 |
436 |
2 |
68.64 |
2011-05-08 |
| 65. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
72.07 |
1.0740 |
-0.0323 |
264 |
1 |
72.07 |
2011-01-10 |
| 66. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
71.88 |
1.0177 |
0.0212 |
392 |
1 |
71.88 |
2011-05-08 |
| 67. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
71.87 |
0.9691 |
0.0311 |
223 |
2 |
60.77 |
2011-04-30 |
| 68. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
71.81 |
1.0169 |
0.0214 |
346 |
1 |
71.81 |
2011-05-08 |
| 69. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
71.71 |
0.9904 |
0.0484 |
203 |
1 |
71.71 |
2011-05-08 |
| 70. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
71.42 |
1.0288 |
-0.0025 |
300 |
2 |
68.92 |
2011-05-09 |
| 71. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
71.27 |
1.0254 |
0.0076 |
217 |
2 |
63.32 |
2011-05-08 |
| 72. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
71.21 |
0.9763 |
0.0147 |
289 |
2 |
59.59 |
2011-05-08 |
| 73. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
71.12 |
0.8919 |
0.0965 |
205 |
2 |
68.34 |
2011-05-09 |
| 74. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
70.90 |
1.0788 |
-0.0974 |
171 |
1 |
70.90 |
2011-05-08 |
| 75. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
70.27 |
0.9074 |
0.0772 |
396 |
1 |
70.27 |
2011-05-08 |
| 76. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
70.05 |
1.0214 |
-0.0040 |
281 |
1 |
70.05 |
2011-04-30 |
| 77. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
69.89 |
1.0261 |
-0.0139 |
410 |
1 |
69.89 |
2011-05-09 |
| 78. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
69.75 |
1.0943 |
-0.0910 |
206 |
1 |
69.75 |
2011-04-30 |
| 79. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
69.36 |
0.9439 |
0.0292 |
476 |
3 |
61.40 |
2011-05-08 |
| 80. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
69.27 |
1.0379 |
-0.0390 |
245 |
1 |
69.27 |
2011-05-01 |
| 81. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
68.96 |
1.0232 |
-0.0176 |
350 |
2 |
61.22 |
2011-05-01 |
| 82. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
68.47 |
1.0498 |
-0.1020 |
180 |
1 |
68.47 |
2011-01-05 |
| 83. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
68.38 |
1.0063 |
-0.0544 |
371 |
2 |
63.37 |
2011-01-10 |
| 84. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
68.37 |
0.9353 |
0.0118 |
177 |
2 |
65.85 |
2011-05-08 |
| 85. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
68.28 |
0.9583 |
0.0355 |
341 |
1 |
68.28 |
2011-01-23 |
| 86. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
68.25 |
1.0077 |
-0.0169 |
250 |
1 |
68.25 |
2011-05-08 |
| 87. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
68.11 |
0.8956 |
0.0567 |
322 |
2 |
67.80 |
2011-05-09 |
| 88. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
68.09 |
0.8722 |
0.0781 |
285 |
1 |
68.09 |
2011-05-08 |
| 89. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
67.89 |
1.0403 |
-0.0559 |
275 |
1 |
67.89 |
2011-05-07 |
| 90. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
67.79 |
0.9636 |
-0.0205 |
254 |
1 |
67.79 |
2011-01-12 |
| 91. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
67.39 |
0.9814 |
-0.0043 |
364 |
1 |
67.39 |
2011-04-30 |
| 92. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
67.36 |
0.9202 |
0.0164 |
254 |
1 |
67.36 |
2011-05-08 |
| 93. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
67.23 |
1.0714 |
-0.1451 |
129 |
1 |
67.23 |
2011-01-10 |
| 94. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
67.17 |
1.0120 |
-0.0785 |
290 |
1 |
67.17 |
2011-01-23 |
| 95. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
67.16 |
0.9675 |
-0.0237 |
383 |
1 |
67.16 |
2011-05-08 |
| 96. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
66.99 |
0.9593 |
-0.0227 |
398 |
1 |
66.99 |
2011-01-10 |
| 97. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
66.79 |
0.9279 |
0.0077 |
317 |
2 |
65.25 |
2011-04-30 |
| 98. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
66.57 |
0.9233 |
-0.0056 |
168 |
1 |
66.57 |
2011-05-01 |
| 99. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
66.30 |
1.0340 |
-0.1064 |
406 |
1 |
66.30 |
2011-01-23 |
| 100. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
66.26 |
0.8914 |
0.0310 |
366 |
1 |
66.26 |
2011-05-08 |
| 101. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
66.11 |
0.9711 |
-0.0527 |
176 |
1 |
66.11 |
2011-04-30 |
| 102. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
65.87 |
0.9572 |
0.0020 |
376 |
2 |
63.65 |
2011-05-08 |
| 103. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
65.63 |
0.9278 |
-0.0124 |
295 |
1 |
65.63 |
2011-05-01 |
| 104. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
65.59 |
0.9649 |
-0.0539 |
193 |
1 |
65.59 |
2011-05-01 |
| 105. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
65.56 |
0.8553 |
0.0513 |
174 |
2 |
62.82 |
2011-05-01 |
| 106. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
65.51 |
0.9430 |
-0.0393 |
211 |
1 |
65.51 |
2011-05-01 |
| 107. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
65.41 |
0.9905 |
-0.0495 |
337 |
1 |
65.41 |
2011-01-23 |
| 108. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
65.34 |
1.0767 |
-0.1704 |
212 |
1 |
65.34 |
2011-01-10 |
| 109. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
65.13 |
0.9907 |
-0.0866 |
211 |
1 |
65.13 |
2011-05-08 |
| 110. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
64.97 |
0.9023 |
0.0439 |
231 |
1 |
64.97 |
2011-05-08 |
| 111. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
64.88 |
0.9619 |
-0.0543 |
393 |
1 |
64.88 |
2011-05-08 |
| 112. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
64.87 |
0.9780 |
-0.0749 |
337 |
1 |
64.87 |
2011-04-30 |
| 113. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
64.76 |
1.0608 |
-0.1271 |
258 |
1 |
64.76 |
2011-01-12 |
| 114. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
64.75 |
1.0201 |
-0.1157 |
375 |
1 |
64.75 |
2011-04-30 |
| 115. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
64.44 |
0.9922 |
-0.0551 |
341 |
1 |
64.44 |
2011-05-08 |
| 116. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
63.63 |
0.9097 |
0.0164 |
464 |
1 |
63.63 |
2011-05-08 |
| 117. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
63.43 |
1.0644 |
-0.1466 |
257 |
1 |
63.43 |
2011-01-10 |
| 118. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
63.34 |
0.9127 |
-0.0346 |
252 |
1 |
63.34 |
2011-01-12 |
| 119. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
63.12 |
1.0534 |
-0.1737 |
357 |
1 |
63.12 |
2011-01-10 |
| 120. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
62.01 |
1.0314 |
-0.1306 |
452 |
1 |
62.01 |
2011-01-12 |
| 121. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
61.91 |
0.9365 |
-0.0748 |
248 |
1 |
61.91 |
2011-01-12 |
| 122. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
61.06 |
0.9866 |
-0.1420 |
218 |
1 |
61.06 |
2010-12-30 |
| 123. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
60.79 |
1.0358 |
-0.1495 |
349 |
1 |
60.79 |
2011-01-05 |
| 124. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
59.90 |
1.0251 |
-0.1954 |
261 |
1 |
59.90 |
2011-01-10 |
| 125. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
59.88 |
0.9865 |
-0.1538 |
276 |
1 |
59.88 |
2010-12-30 |
| 126. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
59.87 |
1.0154 |
-0.1342 |
351 |
1 |
59.87 |
2011-01-10 |
| 127. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
58.89 |
0.9234 |
-0.1005 |
346 |
1 |
58.89 |
2010-12-30 |
| 128. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
58.61 |
1.0795 |
-0.2352 |
226 |
1 |
58.61 |
2011-01-10 |
| 129. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
58.18 |
0.9212 |
-0.1103 |
323 |
1 |
58.18 |
2011-01-10 |
| 130. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
58.08 |
0.9792 |
-0.1345 |
265 |
1 |
58.08 |
2011-01-05 |
| 131. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
57.35 |
0.9372 |
-0.1372 |
320 |
1 |
57.35 |
2011-01-05 |
| 132. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
56.85 |
0.8826 |
-0.0923 |
296 |
1 |
56.85 |
2011-01-10 |
| 133. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
56.48 |
0.9168 |
-0.1319 |
240 |
1 |
56.48 |
2011-05-07 |
| 134. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
56.35 |
0.9293 |
-0.1467 |
355 |
1 |
56.35 |
2011-01-23 |
| 135. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
55.33 |
0.9176 |
-0.1113 |
365 |
1 |
55.33 |
2011-01-05 |
| 136. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
54.58 |
1.0993 |
-0.3446 |
265 |
1 |
54.58 |
2010-12-30 |
| 137. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
53.22 |
1.0506 |
-0.2842 |
277 |
1 |
53.22 |
2011-01-14 |
| 138. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
52.76 |
0.9601 |
-0.2241 |
308 |
1 |
52.76 |
2011-01-10 |
| 139. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
52.38 |
0.9851 |
-0.2569 |
317 |
1 |
52.38 |
2011-01-05 |
| 140. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
51.02 |
0.9330 |
-0.2197 |
360 |
1 |
51.02 |
2011-01-05 |
| 141. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
45.97 |
0.9508 |
-0.2820 |
384 |
1 |
45.97 |
2011-01-12 |