| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
94.08 |
1.0404 |
0.1596 |
406 |
2 |
91.00 |
2012-08-11 |
| 2. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
93.33 |
1.1138 |
0.0802 |
341 |
2 |
89.18 |
2012-08-15 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
91.99 |
1.1070 |
0.0603 |
265 |
1 |
91.99 |
2012-07-28 |
| 4. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
91.49 |
1.0042 |
0.1540 |
168 |
2 |
84.26 |
2012-08-03 |
| 5. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
90.31 |
1.0481 |
0.0912 |
255 |
2 |
88.46 |
2012-08-13 |
| 6. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
89.20 |
1.0199 |
0.1091 |
225 |
2 |
84.38 |
2012-08-12 |
| 7. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
89.09 |
1.0362 |
0.1015 |
437 |
1 |
89.09 |
2012-08-03 |
| 8. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
88.81 |
1.0504 |
0.0793 |
225 |
2 |
81.05 |
2012-08-11 |
| 9. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
87.60 |
1.0628 |
0.0516 |
363 |
2 |
83.57 |
2012-08-15 |
| 10. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
87.10 |
1.0791 |
0.0399 |
365 |
1 |
87.10 |
2012-08-12 |
| 11. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
86.12 |
1.0901 |
0.0054 |
288 |
1 |
86.12 |
2012-08-03 |
| 12. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
86.04 |
1.0501 |
0.0430 |
263 |
1 |
86.04 |
2012-08-11 |
| 13. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
85.93 |
0.9851 |
0.1108 |
237 |
1 |
85.93 |
2012-08-14 |
| 14. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
85.90 |
1.0506 |
0.0396 |
259 |
1 |
85.90 |
2012-08-03 |
| 15. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
85.72 |
1.0471 |
0.0534 |
406 |
1 |
85.72 |
2012-08-02 |
| 16. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
85.10 |
1.0686 |
0.0154 |
354 |
1 |
85.10 |
2012-08-03 |
| 17. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
84.49 |
1.0208 |
0.0517 |
231 |
1 |
84.49 |
2012-08-09 |
| 18. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
84.49 |
0.9885 |
0.0908 |
469 |
1 |
84.49 |
2012-08-02 |
| 19. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
84.35 |
1.0483 |
0.0279 |
305 |
1 |
84.35 |
2012-08-11 |
| 20. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
84.14 |
1.0132 |
0.0556 |
371 |
1 |
84.14 |
2012-07-29 |
| 21. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
84.07 |
1.0857 |
-0.0059 |
393 |
1 |
84.07 |
2012-08-02 |
| 22. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
84.05 |
1.0128 |
0.0610 |
369 |
1 |
84.05 |
2012-08-12 |
| 23. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
84.00 |
0.9763 |
0.0896 |
143 |
3 |
83.24 |
2012-08-11 |
| 24. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
83.82 |
1.0495 |
0.0141 |
323 |
1 |
83.82 |
2012-08-09 |
| 25. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
83.64 |
1.0743 |
-0.0114 |
297 |
1 |
83.64 |
2012-08-02 |
| 26. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
83.39 |
1.0333 |
0.0202 |
176 |
1 |
83.39 |
2012-08-02 |
| 27. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
82.97 |
1.0492 |
0.0092 |
284 |
1 |
82.97 |
2012-08-15 |
| 28. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
82.94 |
1.0476 |
-0.0041 |
110 |
1 |
82.94 |
2012-08-03 |
| 29. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
82.89 |
0.9636 |
0.0872 |
281 |
1 |
82.89 |
2012-08-14 |
| 30. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
82.80 |
1.0341 |
0.0164 |
273 |
1 |
82.80 |
2012-08-02 |
| 31. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
82.61 |
1.0419 |
0.0098 |
341 |
2 |
82.60 |
2012-08-09 |
| 32. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
82.51 |
0.9957 |
0.0515 |
323 |
2 |
78.25 |
2012-08-07 |
| 33. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
82.21 |
1.0792 |
-0.0308 |
251 |
1 |
82.21 |
2012-08-03 |
| 34. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
82.20 |
1.0524 |
-0.0109 |
177 |
1 |
82.20 |
2012-08-03 |
| 35. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
82.06 |
1.0225 |
0.0113 |
152 |
3 |
76.13 |
2012-08-15 |
| 36. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
82.06 |
1.0543 |
-0.0104 |
360 |
1 |
82.06 |
2012-08-05 |
| 37. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
81.89 |
0.9824 |
0.0700 |
352 |
1 |
81.89 |
2012-08-11 |
| 38. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
81.71 |
0.9836 |
0.0536 |
289 |
1 |
81.71 |
2012-08-05 |
| 39. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
81.49 |
1.0638 |
-0.0315 |
247 |
1 |
81.49 |
2012-08-11 |
| 40. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
81.34 |
1.0016 |
0.0292 |
217 |
1 |
81.34 |
2012-07-28 |
| 41. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
81.22 |
1.0883 |
-0.0510 |
189 |
2 |
78.41 |
2012-08-05 |
| 42. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
81.17 |
0.9931 |
0.0496 |
381 |
2 |
77.76 |
2012-08-09 |
| 43. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
81.08 |
0.9631 |
0.0655 |
273 |
1 |
81.08 |
2012-08-12 |
| 44. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
80.99 |
1.0521 |
-0.0297 |
197 |
1 |
80.99 |
2012-08-03 |
| 45. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
80.86 |
1.0461 |
-0.0176 |
318 |
1 |
80.86 |
2012-08-03 |
| 46. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
80.68 |
0.9930 |
0.0400 |
350 |
3 |
74.88 |
2012-08-11 |
| 47. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
80.40 |
0.9917 |
0.0308 |
317 |
1 |
80.40 |
2012-08-09 |
| 48. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
80.38 |
0.9839 |
0.0361 |
308 |
1 |
80.38 |
2012-08-13 |
| 49. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
80.19 |
1.0881 |
-0.0743 |
210 |
1 |
80.19 |
2012-08-12 |
| 50. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
80.00 |
1.0189 |
-0.0042 |
290 |
1 |
80.00 |
2012-08-03 |
| 51. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
79.90 |
1.0230 |
-0.0074 |
200 |
1 |
79.90 |
2012-08-03 |
| 52. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
79.70 |
1.0557 |
-0.0430 |
289 |
2 |
78.97 |
2012-08-03 |
| 53. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
79.70 |
0.9583 |
0.0537 |
237 |
1 |
79.70 |
2012-08-03 |
| 54. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
79.62 |
1.0472 |
-0.0260 |
397 |
1 |
79.62 |
2012-08-05 |
| 55. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
79.55 |
0.9368 |
0.0663 |
176 |
1 |
79.55 |
2012-08-03 |
| 56. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
79.27 |
1.0351 |
-0.0252 |
276 |
1 |
79.27 |
2012-08-14 |
| 57. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
79.05 |
0.9632 |
0.0412 |
287 |
1 |
79.05 |
2012-08-09 |
| 58. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
78.94 |
0.9482 |
0.0592 |
476 |
2 |
78.51 |
2012-08-02 |
| 59. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
78.91 |
1.0427 |
-0.0404 |
269 |
2 |
76.47 |
2012-08-13 |
| 60. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
78.74 |
1.0639 |
-0.0636 |
303 |
1 |
78.74 |
2012-08-08 |
| 61. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
78.73 |
0.9817 |
0.0228 |
304 |
2 |
77.18 |
2012-08-05 |
| 62. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
78.60 |
1.0004 |
-0.0004 |
373 |
1 |
78.60 |
2012-08-02 |
| 63. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
78.56 |
1.0111 |
-0.0020 |
452 |
1 |
78.56 |
2012-08-12 |
| 64. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
78.55 |
1.0178 |
-0.0227 |
207 |
1 |
78.55 |
2012-08-11 |
| 65. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
78.39 |
0.9927 |
-0.0012 |
234 |
1 |
78.39 |
2012-08-03 |
| 66. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
78.24 |
0.8880 |
0.1049 |
296 |
1 |
78.24 |
2012-07-31 |
| 67. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
78.21 |
1.0461 |
-0.0488 |
286 |
1 |
78.21 |
2012-08-02 |
| 68. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
78.02 |
0.9658 |
0.0279 |
308 |
1 |
78.02 |
2012-07-29 |
| 69. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
77.97 |
0.9854 |
0.0053 |
174 |
1 |
77.97 |
2012-08-03 |
| 70. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
77.87 |
1.0039 |
-0.0096 |
255 |
1 |
77.87 |
2012-08-13 |
| 71. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
77.71 |
1.0529 |
-0.0642 |
373 |
1 |
77.71 |
2012-08-03 |
| 72. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
77.69 |
0.9849 |
0.0021 |
337 |
1 |
77.69 |
2012-08-11 |
| 73. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
77.65 |
0.9338 |
0.0614 |
326 |
1 |
77.65 |
2012-08-11 |
| 74. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
77.62 |
0.9027 |
0.0787 |
189 |
1 |
77.62 |
2012-08-01 |
| 75. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
77.42 |
0.9352 |
0.0461 |
194 |
1 |
77.42 |
2012-08-13 |
| 76. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
76.92 |
0.9807 |
-0.0163 |
129 |
1 |
76.92 |
2012-08-03 |
| 77. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
76.55 |
1.0304 |
-0.0554 |
257 |
2 |
74.06 |
2012-08-03 |
| 78. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
76.52 |
0.8981 |
0.0815 |
255 |
1 |
76.52 |
2012-07-29 |
| 79. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
76.47 |
0.9698 |
0.0054 |
389 |
1 |
76.47 |
2012-08-02 |
| 80. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
76.35 |
0.9451 |
0.0315 |
419 |
1 |
76.35 |
2012-08-05 |
| 81. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
76.24 |
0.9680 |
-0.0006 |
256 |
2 |
74.74 |
2012-08-03 |
| 82. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
76.04 |
0.9010 |
0.0662 |
266 |
1 |
76.04 |
2012-07-28 |
| 83. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
75.99 |
0.9981 |
-0.0349 |
211 |
1 |
75.99 |
2012-08-03 |
| 84. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
75.94 |
0.9377 |
0.0335 |
198 |
2 |
72.35 |
2012-08-09 |
| 85. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
75.93 |
0.9538 |
0.0093 |
276 |
2 |
74.51 |
2012-08-08 |
| 86. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
75.75 |
1.0069 |
-0.0426 |
242 |
1 |
75.75 |
2012-08-03 |
| 87. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
75.66 |
0.9657 |
0.0056 |
424 |
1 |
75.66 |
2012-07-31 |
| 88. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
75.63 |
0.9809 |
-0.0136 |
250 |
2 |
71.88 |
2012-08-14 |
| 89. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
75.50 |
0.9775 |
-0.0066 |
473 |
1 |
75.50 |
2012-08-01 |
| 90. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
75.39 |
0.9206 |
0.0363 |
317 |
1 |
75.39 |
2012-08-02 |
| 91. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
75.06 |
1.0791 |
-0.1216 |
259 |
1 |
75.06 |
2012-08-03 |
| 92. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
74.95 |
1.0079 |
-0.0581 |
273 |
1 |
74.95 |
2012-08-03 |
| 93. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
74.88 |
0.9434 |
0.0110 |
367 |
2 |
74.85 |
2012-08-05 |
| 94. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
74.87 |
0.9706 |
-0.0091 |
353 |
1 |
74.87 |
2012-08-09 |
| 95. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
74.57 |
0.9480 |
-0.0008 |
297 |
1 |
74.57 |
2012-08-08 |
| 96. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
74.50 |
1.0033 |
-0.0579 |
203 |
2 |
74.49 |
2012-08-03 |
| 97. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
74.41 |
0.9070 |
0.0321 |
192 |
2 |
69.96 |
2012-08-02 |
| 98. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
74.40 |
0.9284 |
0.0191 |
346 |
1 |
74.40 |
2012-08-03 |
| 99. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
74.03 |
0.9258 |
0.0179 |
184 |
1 |
74.03 |
2012-08-03 |
| 100. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
73.88 |
0.9829 |
-0.0464 |
229 |
1 |
73.88 |
2012-08-09 |
| 101. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
73.80 |
0.8964 |
0.0368 |
199 |
1 |
73.80 |
2012-08-03 |
| 102. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
73.55 |
0.9194 |
0.0241 |
360 |
1 |
73.55 |
2012-08-03 |
| 103. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
73.53 |
1.0482 |
-0.1025 |
407 |
1 |
73.53 |
2012-08-03 |
| 104. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
73.47 |
1.0192 |
-0.0820 |
243 |
1 |
73.47 |
2012-08-03 |
| 105. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
73.42 |
1.0020 |
-0.0586 |
411 |
1 |
73.42 |
2012-08-02 |
| 106. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
73.34 |
0.9515 |
-0.0111 |
334 |
1 |
73.34 |
2012-08-01 |
| 107. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
73.20 |
1.0250 |
-0.0936 |
271 |
1 |
73.20 |
2012-08-01 |
| 108. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
72.86 |
0.9598 |
-0.0335 |
209 |
1 |
72.86 |
2012-08-03 |
| 109. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
72.70 |
0.9890 |
-0.0630 |
272 |
1 |
72.70 |
2012-08-01 |
| 110. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
72.63 |
0.9329 |
0.0027 |
345 |
2 |
71.77 |
2012-08-05 |
| 111. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
72.33 |
1.0272 |
-0.1119 |
226 |
2 |
71.68 |
2012-08-03 |
| 112. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
72.32 |
0.9873 |
-0.0596 |
396 |
1 |
72.32 |
2012-08-05 |
| 113. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
72.01 |
0.9380 |
-0.0262 |
284 |
1 |
72.01 |
2012-07-29 |
| 114. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
71.95 |
1.0561 |
-0.1455 |
227 |
1 |
71.95 |
2012-08-03 |
| 115. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
71.63 |
0.8656 |
0.0440 |
242 |
1 |
71.63 |
2012-08-02 |
| 116. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
71.59 |
0.9643 |
-0.0478 |
282 |
1 |
71.59 |
2012-07-31 |
| 117. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
71.31 |
0.8974 |
0.0188 |
365 |
1 |
71.31 |
2012-08-03 |
| 118. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
70.86 |
0.9530 |
-0.0580 |
193 |
1 |
70.86 |
2012-08-11 |
| 119. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
70.64 |
0.9403 |
-0.0318 |
345 |
1 |
70.64 |
2012-07-28 |
| 120. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
70.56 |
0.9425 |
-0.0470 |
248 |
1 |
70.56 |
2012-08-13 |
| 121. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
70.45 |
0.9271 |
-0.0341 |
295 |
1 |
70.45 |
2012-08-03 |
| 122. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
70.22 |
0.8984 |
-0.0001 |
267 |
1 |
70.22 |
2012-07-28 |
| 123. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
70.05 |
0.9703 |
-0.0754 |
394 |
1 |
70.05 |
2012-08-08 |
| 124. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
69.66 |
0.9678 |
-0.0802 |
392 |
1 |
69.66 |
2012-08-01 |
| 125. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
69.32 |
0.9162 |
-0.0361 |
401 |
1 |
69.32 |
2012-08-02 |
| 126. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
68.07 |
0.9780 |
-0.1212 |
173 |
1 |
68.07 |
2012-08-02 |
| 127. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
67.24 |
0.9271 |
-0.0722 |
323 |
1 |
67.24 |
2012-07-29 |
| 128. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
65.93 |
0.8887 |
-0.0391 |
464 |
1 |
65.93 |
2012-08-03 |
| 129. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
65.79 |
0.9468 |
-0.1131 |
318 |
1 |
65.79 |
2012-07-28 |
| 130. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
64.94 |
0.9609 |
-0.1331 |
331 |
1 |
64.94 |
2012-08-02 |
| 131. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
62.00 |
0.9809 |
-0.1993 |
209 |
1 |
62.00 |
2012-08-05 |