| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
74.06 |
1.0799 |
0.2224 |
243 |
1 |
74.06 |
2012-10-27 |
| 2. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
72.78 |
0.9724 |
0.3140 |
237 |
1 |
72.78 |
2014-09-30 |
| 3. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
65.61 |
1.0462 |
0.1034 |
184 |
1 |
65.61 |
2012-10-27 |
| 4. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
64.31 |
1.1215 |
0.0348 |
200 |
1 |
64.31 |
2014-09-30 |
| 5. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
63.36 |
1.0796 |
0.0305 |
129 |
1 |
63.36 |
2012-10-27 |
| 6. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
63.10 |
0.9068 |
0.2022 |
225 |
1 |
63.10 |
2012-10-28 |
| 7. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
62.91 |
1.0060 |
0.0967 |
171 |
1 |
62.91 |
2012-10-28 |
| 8. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
62.77 |
0.9426 |
0.1656 |
317 |
3 |
59.45 |
2012-10-28 |
| 9. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
62.62 |
1.0063 |
0.0963 |
371 |
1 |
62.62 |
2014-09-30 |
| 10. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
62.08 |
1.0885 |
0.0076 |
315 |
1 |
62.08 |
2014-10-04 |
| 11. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
61.82 |
0.9697 |
0.1225 |
266 |
1 |
61.82 |
2012-10-27 |
| 12. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
61.56 |
1.0340 |
0.0548 |
406 |
1 |
61.56 |
2014-09-30 |
| 13. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
61.38 |
1.0668 |
0.0157 |
350 |
1 |
61.38 |
2014-10-04 |
| 14. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
61.23 |
1.0429 |
0.0331 |
259 |
2 |
55.54 |
2014-09-30 |
| 15. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
60.87 |
1.0463 |
0.0202 |
182 |
1 |
60.87 |
2014-09-30 |
| 16. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
60.80 |
1.0944 |
0.0201 |
308 |
1 |
60.80 |
2012-10-27 |
| 17. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
60.29 |
1.0498 |
0.0062 |
180 |
1 |
60.29 |
2012-11-02 |
| 18. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
60.13 |
1.0696 |
-0.0151 |
226 |
1 |
60.13 |
2012-10-28 |
| 19. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
60.08 |
0.9965 |
0.0609 |
310 |
2 |
54.82 |
2014-09-30 |
| 20. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
60.07 |
0.9485 |
0.1102 |
236 |
1 |
60.07 |
2012-10-27 |
| 21. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
59.91 |
1.0673 |
0.0285 |
230 |
1 |
59.91 |
2012-11-02 |
| 22. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
59.63 |
1.0346 |
0.0562 |
244 |
1 |
59.63 |
2012-10-28 |
| 23. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
59.59 |
1.0483 |
-0.0032 |
227 |
1 |
59.59 |
2012-10-27 |
| 24. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
59.45 |
1.0083 |
0.0819 |
273 |
1 |
59.45 |
2012-10-27 |
| 25. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
59.05 |
0.9567 |
0.0822 |
273 |
1 |
59.05 |
2012-10-28 |
| 26. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
58.69 |
0.9572 |
0.0737 |
201 |
1 |
58.69 |
2012-10-27 |
| 27. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
58.54 |
0.9635 |
0.0720 |
389 |
1 |
58.54 |
2012-10-28 |
| 28. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
58.27 |
1.0352 |
-0.0078 |
341 |
1 |
58.27 |
2012-10-27 |
| 29. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
58.14 |
1.0088 |
0.0525 |
396 |
1 |
58.14 |
2014-10-04 |
| 30. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
57.92 |
1.0613 |
-0.0371 |
456 |
1 |
57.92 |
2012-10-27 |
| 31. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
57.81 |
1.0577 |
-0.0448 |
247 |
1 |
57.81 |
2012-10-27 |
| 32. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
57.79 |
0.8951 |
0.1236 |
193 |
1 |
57.79 |
2012-10-27 |
| 33. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
57.74 |
1.0296 |
-0.0077 |
437 |
1 |
57.74 |
2012-10-28 |
| 34. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
57.51 |
1.0038 |
0.0378 |
237 |
1 |
57.51 |
2012-10-27 |
| 35. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
57.47 |
0.9758 |
0.0355 |
314 |
3 |
53.86 |
2012-11-02 |
| 36. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
56.94 |
1.0768 |
-0.0359 |
295 |
1 |
56.94 |
2012-10-27 |
| 37. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
56.72 |
0.9365 |
0.0623 |
248 |
1 |
56.72 |
2012-10-27 |
| 38. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
56.67 |
1.0099 |
-0.0168 |
207 |
1 |
56.67 |
2012-10-27 |
| 39. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
56.33 |
0.9307 |
0.0673 |
246 |
1 |
56.33 |
2012-10-27 |
| 40. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
56.22 |
1.0077 |
0.0216 |
250 |
1 |
56.22 |
2012-10-27 |
| 41. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
55.87 |
1.0595 |
-0.0749 |
379 |
1 |
55.87 |
2012-10-27 |
| 42. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
55.72 |
0.9893 |
-0.0099 |
323 |
2 |
53.18 |
2012-10-27 |
| 43. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
55.51 |
0.9668 |
0.0514 |
383 |
1 |
55.51 |
2012-10-27 |
| 44. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
55.10 |
1.0297 |
-0.0626 |
249 |
1 |
55.10 |
2012-10-27 |
| 45. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
55.03 |
0.9916 |
0.0182 |
282 |
1 |
55.03 |
2012-10-27 |
| 46. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
54.96 |
1.0608 |
-0.0617 |
258 |
1 |
54.96 |
2012-10-27 |
| 47. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
54.88 |
0.8775 |
0.0898 |
443 |
1 |
54.88 |
2012-11-02 |
| 48. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
54.67 |
1.0441 |
-0.0419 |
316 |
1 |
54.67 |
2012-10-27 |
| 49. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
54.45 |
0.9074 |
0.0558 |
396 |
1 |
54.45 |
2012-10-27 |
| 50. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
54.36 |
1.0485 |
-0.0589 |
153 |
1 |
54.36 |
2014-09-30 |
| 51. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
54.34 |
0.9619 |
-0.0015 |
393 |
2 |
52.37 |
2012-10-27 |
| 52. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
54.10 |
0.9247 |
0.0306 |
253 |
1 |
54.10 |
2012-10-27 |
| 53. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
54.06 |
0.9991 |
-0.0486 |
225 |
1 |
54.06 |
2012-10-27 |
| 54. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
53.98 |
1.0399 |
-0.0861 |
294 |
1 |
53.98 |
2014-10-04 |
| 55. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
53.42 |
0.9636 |
-0.0255 |
254 |
1 |
53.42 |
2012-11-02 |
| 56. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
53.32 |
0.9925 |
-0.0189 |
247 |
1 |
53.32 |
2012-10-27 |
| 57. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
53.28 |
1.0349 |
-0.1000 |
234 |
1 |
53.28 |
2012-11-23 |
| 58. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
53.26 |
0.9514 |
-0.0156 |
237 |
1 |
53.26 |
2014-09-30 |
| 59. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
53.13 |
1.0487 |
-0.1205 |
231 |
1 |
53.13 |
2012-10-27 |
| 60. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
52.66 |
0.9863 |
-0.0570 |
339 |
1 |
52.66 |
2014-10-04 |
| 61. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
52.36 |
1.0684 |
-0.1188 |
253 |
1 |
52.36 |
2012-10-27 |
| 62. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
52.35 |
0.8573 |
0.0654 |
270 |
1 |
52.35 |
2012-10-27 |
| 63. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
52.34 |
0.9278 |
-0.0059 |
295 |
1 |
52.34 |
2012-11-02 |
| 64. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
52.18 |
1.0941 |
-0.1465 |
256 |
1 |
52.18 |
2012-10-27 |
| 65. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.44 |
0.9212 |
-0.0148 |
323 |
1 |
51.44 |
2012-10-27 |
| 66. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
50.73 |
1.0004 |
-0.1160 |
212 |
1 |
50.73 |
2012-10-28 |
| 67. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
50.71 |
0.8826 |
0.0092 |
296 |
1 |
50.71 |
2012-10-27 |
| 68. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
50.47 |
0.9774 |
-0.0927 |
196 |
1 |
50.47 |
2012-10-27 |
| 69. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
50.43 |
0.9805 |
-0.0906 |
292 |
1 |
50.43 |
2012-10-27 |
| 70. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
50.39 |
0.9339 |
-0.0510 |
310 |
1 |
50.39 |
2012-10-27 |
| 71. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
50.22 |
0.8670 |
0.0196 |
318 |
1 |
50.22 |
2012-10-27 |
| 72. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
49.95 |
0.8996 |
-0.0285 |
192 |
1 |
49.95 |
2012-10-27 |
| 73. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
49.84 |
1.0375 |
-0.1170 |
200 |
1 |
49.84 |
2014-09-30 |
| 74. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
49.52 |
0.9155 |
0.0026 |
168 |
1 |
49.52 |
2012-10-28 |
| 75. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
49.39 |
0.9529 |
-0.0458 |
269 |
1 |
49.39 |
2012-10-31 |
| 76. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
49.19 |
1.0211 |
-0.1275 |
213 |
1 |
49.19 |
2012-10-27 |
| 77. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
48.60 |
0.9312 |
-0.0280 |
320 |
1 |
48.60 |
2012-10-27 |
| 78. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
48.06 |
1.0213 |
-0.1814 |
240 |
1 |
48.06 |
2012-10-27 |
| 79. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
47.92 |
0.9786 |
-0.1387 |
235 |
1 |
47.92 |
2012-10-28 |
| 80. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
47.64 |
0.9049 |
-0.0639 |
351 |
1 |
47.64 |
2012-10-27 |
| 81. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
47.41 |
0.7876 |
0.0464 |
316 |
1 |
47.41 |
2012-10-28 |
| 82. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
43.80 |
0.9678 |
-0.1657 |
445 |
1 |
43.80 |
2012-10-27 |