| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
107.02 |
0.9682 |
0.2870 |
143 |
4 |
84.49 |
2010-12-17 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
106.13 |
1.0696 |
0.1734 |
226 |
1 |
106.13 |
2010-12-01 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
103.55 |
1.0714 |
0.1356 |
129 |
1 |
103.55 |
2010-12-13 |
| 4. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
102.86 |
0.9786 |
0.2286 |
235 |
3 |
91.19 |
2010-12-15 |
| 5. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
101.39 |
1.0613 |
0.1340 |
456 |
1 |
101.39 |
2010-12-13 |
| 6. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
100.93 |
1.0125 |
0.1700 |
224 |
1 |
100.93 |
2010-11-19 |
| 7. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
100.66 |
1.0941 |
0.1187 |
256 |
1 |
100.66 |
2010-12-17 |
| 8. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
100.65 |
0.9938 |
0.1885 |
339 |
1 |
100.65 |
2010-12-11 |
| 9. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
99.76 |
0.9461 |
0.2246 |
276 |
2 |
97.10 |
2011-09-06 |
| 10. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
99.73 |
0.9942 |
0.1852 |
483 |
1 |
99.73 |
2010-12-12 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
98.29 |
1.0138 |
0.1393 |
231 |
1 |
98.29 |
2010-10-28 |
| 12. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
97.48 |
1.0124 |
0.1291 |
204 |
1 |
97.48 |
2010-12-01 |
| 13. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
97.43 |
1.0165 |
0.1307 |
392 |
1 |
97.43 |
2010-11-15 |
| 14. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
97.32 |
0.9925 |
0.1862 |
247 |
1 |
97.32 |
2010-12-13 |
| 15. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
97.26 |
1.0567 |
0.0852 |
303 |
2 |
88.08 |
2010-11-17 |
| 16. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
97.10 |
1.0399 |
0.1047 |
294 |
1 |
97.10 |
2010-11-16 |
| 17. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
97.05 |
1.0053 |
0.1315 |
232 |
1 |
97.05 |
2011-09-03 |
| 18. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
96.80 |
1.0515 |
0.0824 |
250 |
2 |
92.75 |
2010-12-01 |
| 19. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
96.29 |
0.9601 |
0.1744 |
308 |
1 |
96.29 |
2011-02-02 |
| 20. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
96.25 |
0.9912 |
0.1650 |
237 |
1 |
96.25 |
2010-11-15 |
| 21. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
96.18 |
1.0361 |
0.0934 |
269 |
1 |
96.18 |
2010-12-11 |
| 22. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
95.57 |
1.0252 |
0.0895 |
176 |
2 |
91.08 |
2010-12-13 |
| 23. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
95.27 |
0.9855 |
0.1655 |
258 |
1 |
95.27 |
2010-12-11 |
| 24. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
95.24 |
0.9508 |
0.1997 |
384 |
1 |
95.24 |
2010-12-12 |
| 25. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
94.96 |
0.9965 |
0.1181 |
277 |
1 |
94.96 |
2010-11-02 |
| 26. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
94.94 |
0.9234 |
0.1957 |
346 |
1 |
94.94 |
2010-11-14 |
| 27. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
94.60 |
1.0403 |
0.0844 |
193 |
1 |
94.60 |
2010-11-14 |
| 28. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
94.00 |
1.0214 |
0.1237 |
281 |
2 |
90.41 |
2010-11-16 |
| 29. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
93.97 |
1.0662 |
0.0737 |
407 |
3 |
92.99 |
2010-12-11 |
| 30. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
93.68 |
1.1068 |
0.0323 |
393 |
2 |
89.37 |
2011-02-02 |
| 31. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
93.57 |
0.9908 |
0.1526 |
342 |
2 |
83.04 |
2010-12-12 |
| 32. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
93.46 |
0.9699 |
0.1257 |
269 |
1 |
93.46 |
2011-09-03 |
| 33. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
93.42 |
1.0004 |
0.0892 |
212 |
1 |
93.42 |
2010-11-16 |
| 34. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
93.23 |
0.9795 |
0.1139 |
308 |
1 |
93.23 |
2010-12-01 |
| 35. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
92.15 |
0.9758 |
0.1055 |
314 |
1 |
92.15 |
2010-12-12 |
| 36. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
92.10 |
1.0379 |
0.0770 |
245 |
2 |
86.15 |
2010-11-15 |
| 37. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
91.49 |
1.0577 |
0.0116 |
247 |
1 |
91.49 |
2010-12-12 |
| 38. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
91.43 |
0.9904 |
0.1223 |
203 |
1 |
91.43 |
2010-11-26 |
| 39. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
91.34 |
1.0034 |
0.0661 |
302 |
1 |
91.34 |
2010-11-19 |
| 40. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
90.22 |
1.0711 |
-0.0185 |
213 |
1 |
90.22 |
2010-11-02 |
| 41. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
90.02 |
0.9897 |
0.0634 |
274 |
1 |
90.02 |
2010-11-19 |
| 42. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
90.01 |
1.0288 |
0.0585 |
300 |
1 |
90.01 |
2010-12-11 |
| 43. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
89.71 |
1.0555 |
-0.0024 |
363 |
1 |
89.71 |
2010-11-13 |
| 44. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
89.63 |
0.9852 |
0.0658 |
264 |
1 |
89.63 |
2010-12-01 |
| 45. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
89.40 |
1.0025 |
0.0454 |
256 |
2 |
88.79 |
2010-12-13 |
| 46. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
89.25 |
1.0042 |
0.0835 |
352 |
1 |
89.25 |
2010-11-19 |
| 47. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
89.21 |
0.9572 |
0.1316 |
376 |
1 |
89.21 |
2010-12-13 |
| 48. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
89.08 |
1.0565 |
-0.0149 |
247 |
1 |
89.08 |
2010-12-11 |
| 49. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
88.58 |
0.9991 |
0.0397 |
225 |
1 |
88.58 |
2010-12-11 |
| 50. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
88.50 |
0.9614 |
0.0789 |
292 |
1 |
88.50 |
2010-11-02 |
| 51. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
88.19 |
1.1114 |
-0.0805 |
247 |
1 |
88.19 |
2010-11-14 |
| 52. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
88.14 |
0.9045 |
0.1288 |
235 |
2 |
85.32 |
2010-11-26 |
| 53. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
87.89 |
1.0349 |
-0.0055 |
234 |
1 |
87.89 |
2011-08-20 |
| 54. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
87.81 |
1.0795 |
-0.0199 |
226 |
1 |
87.81 |
2010-11-15 |
| 55. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
87.46 |
0.9922 |
0.0739 |
341 |
1 |
87.46 |
2010-12-01 |
| 56. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
87.15 |
1.0214 |
-0.0055 |
166 |
1 |
87.15 |
2010-11-14 |
| 57. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
87.14 |
0.9879 |
0.0420 |
450 |
1 |
87.14 |
2010-12-01 |
| 58. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
87.05 |
0.9785 |
0.0448 |
335 |
1 |
87.05 |
2010-12-14 |
| 59. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
86.63 |
0.9529 |
0.1028 |
269 |
1 |
86.63 |
2010-11-02 |
| 60. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
86.53 |
1.0767 |
-0.0650 |
212 |
1 |
86.53 |
2010-12-11 |
| 61. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
86.39 |
1.0331 |
-0.0230 |
234 |
1 |
86.39 |
2010-11-14 |
| 62. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
86.36 |
0.9820 |
0.0301 |
274 |
1 |
86.36 |
2010-11-13 |
| 63. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
85.63 |
0.7876 |
0.2183 |
316 |
3 |
80.63 |
2010-11-26 |
| 64. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
85.61 |
0.9640 |
0.0683 |
334 |
2 |
83.15 |
2010-12-14 |
| 65. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
85.57 |
0.9330 |
0.0761 |
360 |
1 |
85.57 |
2010-12-13 |
| 66. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
85.50 |
1.0012 |
0.0038 |
260 |
1 |
85.50 |
2010-12-20 |
| 67. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
85.50 |
0.9359 |
0.1053 |
353 |
1 |
85.50 |
2010-10-28 |
| 68. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
85.31 |
0.9527 |
0.0467 |
251 |
1 |
85.31 |
2010-10-28 |
| 69. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
85.30 |
0.9289 |
0.0681 |
204 |
1 |
85.30 |
2010-11-14 |
| 70. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
85.18 |
1.0885 |
-0.0557 |
341 |
1 |
85.18 |
2010-12-15 |
| 71. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
84.95 |
1.0060 |
-0.0155 |
171 |
1 |
84.95 |
2010-12-14 |
| 72. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
84.78 |
0.9756 |
0.0163 |
229 |
1 |
84.78 |
2010-11-14 |
| 73. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
84.58 |
1.0389 |
-0.0464 |
318 |
1 |
84.58 |
2010-12-17 |
| 74. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
84.22 |
1.0368 |
-0.0494 |
276 |
1 |
84.22 |
2011-08-20 |
| 75. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
84.18 |
1.0531 |
-0.0290 |
272 |
1 |
84.18 |
2010-12-01 |
| 76. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
84.11 |
1.0944 |
-0.0644 |
308 |
1 |
84.11 |
2010-11-14 |
| 77. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
84.05 |
0.8775 |
0.1106 |
443 |
1 |
84.05 |
2010-12-17 |
| 78. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
83.96 |
1.0203 |
-0.0335 |
261 |
1 |
83.96 |
2010-11-26 |
| 79. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
83.95 |
1.0483 |
-0.0680 |
227 |
1 |
83.95 |
2010-12-11 |
| 80. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
83.89 |
0.9790 |
0.0442 |
311 |
2 |
81.68 |
2010-11-16 |
| 81. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
83.51 |
1.0016 |
-0.0281 |
218 |
2 |
82.69 |
2010-12-13 |
| 82. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
83.08 |
1.0621 |
-0.0697 |
263 |
1 |
83.08 |
2010-11-13 |
| 83. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
82.95 |
0.9125 |
0.0608 |
308 |
1 |
82.95 |
2010-11-15 |
| 84. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
82.92 |
1.0211 |
-0.0193 |
213 |
1 |
82.92 |
2010-11-26 |
| 85. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
82.61 |
0.9461 |
0.0175 |
193 |
1 |
82.61 |
2010-11-14 |
| 86. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
82.60 |
1.0117 |
0.0004 |
297 |
1 |
82.60 |
2010-12-04 |
| 87. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
82.40 |
0.9893 |
-0.0243 |
323 |
1 |
82.40 |
2010-12-13 |
| 88. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
82.15 |
0.9884 |
-0.0272 |
233 |
1 |
82.15 |
2010-11-13 |
| 89. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
82.10 |
0.8914 |
0.0708 |
366 |
1 |
82.10 |
2010-11-15 |
| 90. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
82.06 |
0.9881 |
0.0133 |
424 |
1 |
82.06 |
2010-11-19 |
| 91. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
81.68 |
1.0419 |
-0.0855 |
261 |
1 |
81.68 |
2010-12-11 |
| 92. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
81.42 |
1.0289 |
-0.0712 |
276 |
1 |
81.42 |
2010-12-11 |
| 93. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
81.41 |
0.9965 |
-0.0481 |
168 |
2 |
80.06 |
2010-12-15 |
| 94. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
80.81 |
0.9964 |
-0.0502 |
203 |
1 |
80.81 |
2010-12-11 |
| 95. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
80.77 |
1.0201 |
-0.0813 |
172 |
1 |
80.77 |
2010-11-26 |
| 96. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
80.51 |
0.9293 |
0.0140 |
355 |
1 |
80.51 |
2010-11-15 |
| 97. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
80.33 |
1.0358 |
-0.0538 |
349 |
1 |
80.33 |
2010-11-26 |
| 98. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
80.00 |
0.9946 |
-0.0584 |
246 |
1 |
80.00 |
2010-10-28 |
| 99. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
79.90 |
0.9894 |
-0.0497 |
323 |
1 |
79.90 |
2010-11-13 |
| 100. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
79.88 |
0.9513 |
-0.0125 |
354 |
1 |
79.88 |
2010-10-28 |
| 101. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
79.79 |
0.9439 |
-0.0019 |
476 |
1 |
79.79 |
2010-11-14 |
| 102. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
79.54 |
1.0177 |
-0.0485 |
392 |
1 |
79.54 |
2010-11-14 |
| 103. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
79.16 |
0.9468 |
-0.0208 |
276 |
1 |
79.16 |
2010-10-29 |
| 104. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
79.09 |
1.0316 |
-0.1022 |
333 |
1 |
79.09 |
2010-12-04 |
| 105. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
78.72 |
0.9382 |
0.0082 |
440 |
1 |
78.72 |
2010-11-16 |
| 106. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
78.44 |
1.0365 |
-0.0887 |
162 |
1 |
78.44 |
2010-11-14 |
| 107. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
78.31 |
0.9636 |
-0.0473 |
254 |
1 |
78.31 |
2010-11-16 |
| 108. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
78.00 |
0.9863 |
-0.0692 |
339 |
2 |
76.39 |
2010-11-17 |
| 109. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
77.85 |
0.9723 |
-0.0577 |
364 |
1 |
77.85 |
2010-12-11 |
| 110. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
77.61 |
0.9088 |
0.0045 |
348 |
1 |
77.61 |
2010-11-02 |
| 111. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
77.33 |
0.8467 |
0.0823 |
343 |
1 |
77.33 |
2010-11-26 |
| 112. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
77.26 |
1.0261 |
-0.0828 |
410 |
1 |
77.26 |
2010-11-14 |
| 113. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
76.97 |
0.9500 |
-0.0473 |
362 |
1 |
76.97 |
2010-11-14 |
| 114. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
76.89 |
0.9976 |
-0.0779 |
174 |
1 |
76.89 |
2010-12-11 |
| 115. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
76.34 |
0.9074 |
-0.0079 |
396 |
1 |
76.34 |
2010-12-13 |
| 116. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
76.06 |
0.8956 |
-0.0013 |
322 |
1 |
76.06 |
2010-11-02 |
| 117. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
76.05 |
1.0529 |
-0.1634 |
351 |
1 |
76.05 |
2010-12-11 |
| 118. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
75.87 |
0.8553 |
0.0270 |
174 |
1 |
75.87 |
2010-11-26 |
| 119. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
75.68 |
0.9769 |
-0.0938 |
263 |
1 |
75.68 |
2010-11-17 |
| 120. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
75.20 |
0.9780 |
-0.0975 |
337 |
1 |
75.20 |
2011-02-01 |
| 121. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
74.84 |
1.0426 |
-0.1681 |
323 |
1 |
74.84 |
2010-12-15 |
| 122. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
73.95 |
0.9097 |
-0.0034 |
464 |
1 |
73.95 |
2010-11-15 |
| 123. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
72.96 |
0.9567 |
-0.1040 |
273 |
1 |
72.96 |
2010-10-28 |
| 124. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
72.93 |
0.8958 |
-0.0387 |
322 |
2 |
71.75 |
2010-11-16 |
| 125. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
72.63 |
0.8845 |
-0.0351 |
273 |
1 |
72.63 |
2010-12-17 |
| 126. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
72.45 |
0.9670 |
-0.0780 |
307 |
1 |
72.45 |
2010-12-11 |
| 127. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
71.52 |
0.8961 |
-0.0637 |
189 |
2 |
69.65 |
2010-11-14 |
| 128. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
71.45 |
0.8996 |
-0.0701 |
192 |
1 |
71.45 |
2010-11-15 |
| 129. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
71.41 |
0.9087 |
-0.0635 |
393 |
1 |
71.41 |
2010-11-13 |
| 130. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
69.54 |
0.9509 |
-0.1002 |
225 |
1 |
69.54 |
2010-11-26 |
| 131. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
68.84 |
1.0031 |
-0.1656 |
304 |
1 |
68.84 |
2010-11-26 |
| 132. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
63.32 |
1.0669 |
-0.2955 |
213 |
1 |
63.32 |
2010-11-13 |
| 133. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
62.60 |
1.0863 |
-0.3215 |
210 |
1 |
62.60 |
2010-11-14 |
| 134. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
56.09 |
0.8770 |
-0.2211 |
300 |
1 |
56.09 |
2010-11-13 |
| 135. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
48.94 |
1.0150 |
-0.3981 |
325 |
1 |
48.94 |
2011-09-19 |
| 136. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
34.56 |
1.0667 |
-0.6310 |
406 |
1 |
34.56 |
2011-09-03 |
| 137. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
32.81 |
0.9916 |
-0.5725 |
282 |
1 |
32.81 |
2010-12-11 |
| 138. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
23.81 |
0.9831 |
-0.7055 |
469 |
1 |
23.81 |
2010-11-14 |