| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
118.37 |
1.0669 |
0.3415 |
286 |
1 |
118.37 |
2012-11-04 |
| 2. |
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought... |
115.72 |
1.1378 |
0.2153 |
144 |
1 |
115.72 |
2019-03-27 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
113.26 |
1.0796 |
0.2315 |
129 |
1 |
113.26 |
2012-12-22 |
| 4. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
104.75 |
1.0885 |
0.1310 |
315 |
1 |
104.75 |
2012-11-04 |
| 5. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
103.61 |
0.9774 |
0.2244 |
196 |
1 |
103.61 |
2012-12-22 |
| 6. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
103.29 |
1.0972 |
0.1315 |
251 |
1 |
103.29 |
2012-10-30 |
| 7. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
102.79 |
1.0218 |
0.1686 |
268 |
1 |
102.79 |
2012-12-22 |
| 8. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
102.50 |
1.0644 |
0.1616 |
257 |
1 |
102.50 |
2012-10-30 |
| 9. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
101.80 |
1.0390 |
0.1389 |
205 |
1 |
101.80 |
2012-11-04 |
| 10. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
100.97 |
1.0189 |
0.1563 |
337 |
2 |
93.43 |
2012-12-22 |
| 11. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
99.63 |
1.0095 |
0.1455 |
316 |
1 |
99.63 |
2012-11-04 |
| 12. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
99.14 |
1.0679 |
0.1027 |
177 |
1 |
99.14 |
2012-10-19 |
| 13. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
99.06 |
1.0799 |
0.0660 |
243 |
1 |
99.06 |
2012-11-03 |
| 14. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
98.98 |
1.0138 |
0.1345 |
231 |
1 |
98.98 |
2012-11-04 |
| 15. |
I still want to smack him. Or remind him that the last trans... |
98.98 |
1.0024 |
0.1310 |
202 |
1 |
98.98 |
2018-06-08 |
| 16. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
98.93 |
1.0763 |
0.1132 |
367 |
1 |
98.93 |
2012-11-04 |
| 17. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
98.21 |
1.0797 |
0.0541 |
210 |
2 |
95.57 |
2012-10-19 |
| 18. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
97.65 |
1.0361 |
0.0978 |
269 |
1 |
97.65 |
2012-11-03 |
| 19. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
96.16 |
0.9905 |
0.1564 |
337 |
1 |
96.16 |
2012-12-22 |
| 20. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
96.13 |
1.0334 |
0.0752 |
131 |
1 |
96.13 |
2012-11-04 |
| 21. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
96.13 |
1.1296 |
0.0145 |
252 |
1 |
96.13 |
2012-11-03 |
| 22. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
95.72 |
1.0523 |
0.0537 |
256 |
2 |
94.64 |
2012-11-04 |
| 23. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
94.92 |
1.0944 |
0.0514 |
308 |
1 |
94.92 |
2012-12-22 |
| 24. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
94.83 |
1.0025 |
0.0982 |
336 |
1 |
94.83 |
2012-12-22 |
| 25. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
94.24 |
1.0252 |
0.0614 |
176 |
1 |
94.24 |
2012-11-04 |
| 26. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
94.06 |
1.0993 |
-0.0106 |
265 |
1 |
94.06 |
2012-10-18 |
| 27. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
93.63 |
0.9805 |
0.1100 |
292 |
1 |
93.63 |
2012-11-04 |
| 28. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
93.62 |
0.9693 |
0.1378 |
360 |
1 |
93.62 |
2013-06-15 |
| 29. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
92.51 |
1.0263 |
0.0454 |
267 |
1 |
92.51 |
2012-11-04 |
| 30. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
92.21 |
0.9820 |
0.0872 |
274 |
2 |
87.90 |
2012-11-04 |
| 31. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
92.19 |
1.0426 |
0.0257 |
323 |
1 |
92.19 |
2012-11-04 |
| 32. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
92.17 |
0.9699 |
0.0980 |
269 |
1 |
92.17 |
2012-11-04 |
| 33. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
91.49 |
1.0314 |
0.0685 |
452 |
1 |
91.49 |
2012-10-19 |
| 34. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
91.12 |
0.9965 |
0.0551 |
168 |
1 |
91.12 |
2012-10-30 |
| 35. |
What's in your eyes 'cause they talk to me. They know how to... |
91.04 |
1.0277 |
0.0230 |
373 |
1 |
91.04 |
2019-03-27 |
| 36. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
90.44 |
1.0615 |
0.0118 |
305 |
1 |
90.44 |
2012-10-19 |
| 37. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
90.38 |
1.0429 |
0.0033 |
259 |
1 |
90.38 |
2012-10-30 |
| 38. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
90.01 |
0.9841 |
0.0631 |
334 |
1 |
90.01 |
2012-12-22 |
| 39. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
89.94 |
1.0719 |
-0.0018 |
360 |
1 |
89.94 |
2012-11-04 |
| 40. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
89.81 |
1.0696 |
-0.0322 |
226 |
1 |
89.81 |
2012-11-04 |
| 41. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
89.41 |
1.0004 |
0.0297 |
212 |
1 |
89.41 |
2012-11-04 |
| 42. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
88.96 |
1.0201 |
0.0150 |
375 |
2 |
82.39 |
2012-10-20 |
| 43. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
88.88 |
0.9843 |
0.0408 |
234 |
1 |
88.88 |
2012-12-22 |
| 44. |
Well, all I can say Gerry is that some marches are for thing... |
88.58 |
1.0371 |
0.0002 |
482 |
1 |
88.58 |
2018-06-08 |
| 45. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
87.93 |
1.0347 |
0.0098 |
550 |
1 |
87.93 |
2012-11-03 |
| 46. |
I'm dancing on the White House lawn; sipping tea by the Taj ... |
87.79 |
0.8560 |
0.1392 |
282 |
1 |
87.79 |
2019-03-27 |
| 47. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
87.72 |
1.0254 |
0.0318 |
217 |
2 |
86.91 |
2012-12-22 |
| 48. |
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to... |
87.65 |
1.0414 |
-0.0340 |
181 |
1 |
87.65 |
2019-03-27 |
| 49. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
87.40 |
0.9754 |
0.0435 |
362 |
1 |
87.40 |
2012-11-04 |
| 50. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
87.20 |
0.9202 |
0.0896 |
254 |
1 |
87.20 |
2012-11-04 |
| 51. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
87.18 |
0.8890 |
0.1175 |
199 |
1 |
87.18 |
2012-11-04 |
| 52. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
86.72 |
0.9426 |
0.0652 |
317 |
1 |
86.72 |
2012-12-22 |
| 53. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
86.47 |
1.0328 |
0.0073 |
356 |
1 |
86.47 |
2012-11-04 |
| 54. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
86.46 |
1.0088 |
0.0316 |
396 |
1 |
86.46 |
2012-12-22 |
| 55. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
85.83 |
1.0595 |
-0.0625 |
379 |
1 |
85.83 |
2012-11-03 |
| 56. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
85.58 |
0.9863 |
0.0094 |
339 |
1 |
85.58 |
2012-10-19 |
| 57. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
85.54 |
1.0399 |
-0.0438 |
294 |
1 |
85.54 |
2012-11-04 |
| 58. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
85.54 |
0.9148 |
0.0774 |
317 |
1 |
85.54 |
2012-10-19 |
| 59. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
85.46 |
0.9905 |
0.0072 |
377 |
1 |
85.46 |
2012-11-04 |
| 60. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
85.44 |
1.0349 |
-0.0458 |
234 |
1 |
85.44 |
2012-12-22 |
| 61. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
85.24 |
1.0211 |
-0.0031 |
213 |
1 |
85.24 |
2012-10-30 |
| 62. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
85.19 |
1.0331 |
-0.0486 |
234 |
2 |
84.37 |
2012-10-19 |
| 63. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
84.93 |
0.9899 |
-0.0109 |
163 |
2 |
71.51 |
2012-11-04 |
| 64. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
84.50 |
1.0077 |
0.0121 |
250 |
2 |
71.36 |
2012-12-22 |
| 65. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
84.35 |
0.9785 |
0.0016 |
335 |
1 |
84.35 |
2012-11-03 |
| 66. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
83.70 |
0.9005 |
0.0673 |
212 |
2 |
72.44 |
2012-11-04 |
| 67. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
83.59 |
1.0515 |
-0.0854 |
250 |
1 |
83.59 |
2012-10-30 |
| 68. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
83.15 |
0.9881 |
0.0152 |
424 |
1 |
83.15 |
2012-10-30 |
| 69. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
83.13 |
1.0596 |
-0.0991 |
239 |
1 |
83.13 |
2012-10-19 |
| 70. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
83.10 |
0.9697 |
-0.0074 |
249 |
2 |
82.59 |
2012-11-04 |
| 71. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
82.98 |
0.9811 |
-0.0175 |
272 |
2 |
81.92 |
2012-11-04 |
| 72. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
82.72 |
0.9739 |
0.0197 |
412 |
1 |
82.72 |
2012-12-22 |
| 73. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
82.66 |
1.0004 |
-0.0199 |
469 |
1 |
82.66 |
2012-10-30 |
| 74. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
82.50 |
0.9831 |
-0.0307 |
222 |
1 |
82.50 |
2012-10-19 |
| 75. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
82.46 |
1.0498 |
-0.1000 |
180 |
1 |
82.46 |
2012-11-04 |
| 76. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
82.29 |
1.0292 |
-0.0777 |
262 |
1 |
82.29 |
2012-11-04 |
| 77. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
82.11 |
0.9936 |
-0.0229 |
227 |
1 |
82.11 |
2012-12-22 |
| 78. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
82.05 |
1.0533 |
-0.0769 |
257 |
1 |
82.05 |
2012-11-04 |
| 79. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
82.02 |
1.0555 |
-0.0762 |
323 |
1 |
82.02 |
2012-10-19 |
| 80. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
81.88 |
1.0506 |
-0.0739 |
277 |
2 |
80.38 |
2012-11-04 |
| 81. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
81.88 |
0.9884 |
-0.0412 |
233 |
1 |
81.88 |
2012-10-30 |
| 82. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
81.36 |
0.9942 |
-0.0436 |
483 |
1 |
81.36 |
2012-10-20 |
| 83. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
81.11 |
0.9504 |
-0.0170 |
263 |
1 |
81.11 |
2012-10-19 |
| 84. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
80.81 |
0.9087 |
0.0373 |
393 |
3 |
68.88 |
2012-12-22 |
| 85. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
80.76 |
1.0109 |
-0.0753 |
276 |
1 |
80.76 |
2012-12-22 |
| 86. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
80.73 |
0.9904 |
-0.0156 |
203 |
1 |
80.73 |
2012-10-19 |
| 87. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
80.43 |
1.0483 |
-0.1205 |
227 |
1 |
80.43 |
2012-10-30 |
| 88. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
80.31 |
1.0714 |
-0.1509 |
129 |
1 |
80.31 |
2012-10-30 |
| 89. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
80.26 |
0.9897 |
-0.0632 |
274 |
1 |
80.26 |
2012-10-19 |
| 90. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
80.16 |
0.9964 |
-0.0686 |
203 |
1 |
80.16 |
2012-11-03 |
| 91. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
79.62 |
0.9857 |
-0.0653 |
293 |
1 |
79.62 |
2012-10-19 |
| 92. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
79.55 |
1.0053 |
-0.0867 |
232 |
1 |
79.55 |
2012-10-19 |
| 93. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
79.47 |
1.0261 |
-0.1083 |
273 |
1 |
79.47 |
2012-11-03 |
| 94. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
79.12 |
0.9852 |
-0.0694 |
264 |
1 |
79.12 |
2012-12-22 |
| 95. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
78.89 |
1.0165 |
-0.0998 |
392 |
1 |
78.89 |
2012-10-19 |
| 96. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
78.68 |
0.9572 |
-0.0038 |
376 |
1 |
78.68 |
2012-12-22 |
| 97. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
78.45 |
0.9941 |
-0.0889 |
217 |
1 |
78.45 |
2012-11-04 |
| 98. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
78.37 |
0.9678 |
-0.0265 |
445 |
1 |
78.37 |
2012-10-19 |
| 99. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
77.85 |
1.0073 |
-0.0985 |
369 |
1 |
77.85 |
2012-10-19 |
| 100. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
77.19 |
1.0120 |
-0.1201 |
290 |
1 |
77.19 |
2012-10-19 |
| 101. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
77.17 |
0.8947 |
0.0030 |
366 |
1 |
77.17 |
2012-10-20 |
| 102. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
77.10 |
0.9212 |
-0.0261 |
323 |
1 |
77.10 |
2012-11-04 |
| 103. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
76.94 |
0.8996 |
-0.0153 |
192 |
1 |
76.94 |
2012-10-19 |
| 104. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
76.74 |
0.9966 |
-0.1095 |
259 |
1 |
76.74 |
2012-10-19 |
| 105. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
76.72 |
1.0038 |
-0.0862 |
237 |
1 |
76.72 |
2012-10-30 |
| 106. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
76.67 |
0.8961 |
-0.0129 |
189 |
2 |
75.02 |
2012-11-04 |
| 107. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
76.55 |
0.9074 |
-0.0156 |
396 |
1 |
76.55 |
2012-11-03 |
| 108. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
76.52 |
0.9312 |
0.0043 |
320 |
1 |
76.52 |
2012-11-04 |
| 109. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
76.45 |
0.9239 |
-0.0331 |
193 |
1 |
76.45 |
2019-03-27 |
| 110. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
75.40 |
0.9084 |
-0.0326 |
404 |
1 |
75.40 |
2012-12-22 |
| 111. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
75.31 |
0.8553 |
0.0104 |
174 |
1 |
75.31 |
2012-10-19 |
| 112. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
75.05 |
0.9651 |
-0.0616 |
389 |
1 |
75.05 |
2012-11-04 |
| 113. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
74.17 |
0.8670 |
-0.0042 |
318 |
1 |
74.17 |
2012-11-04 |
| 114. |
I'm free to be whatever I choose, and I'll sing the blues if... |
74.10 |
0.9366 |
-0.1214 |
138 |
1 |
74.10 |
2019-03-27 |
| 115. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
73.70 |
0.9468 |
-0.0954 |
276 |
1 |
73.70 |
2012-10-30 |
| 116. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
73.03 |
1.0141 |
-0.1300 |
381 |
1 |
73.03 |
2012-10-30 |
| 117. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
71.91 |
0.9176 |
-0.0531 |
267 |
2 |
64.20 |
2013-06-15 |
| 118. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
71.89 |
1.0314 |
-0.2039 |
172 |
1 |
71.89 |
2012-11-04 |
| 119. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
71.24 |
0.9342 |
-0.1077 |
434 |
1 |
71.24 |
2012-11-04 |
| 120. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
69.77 |
0.9670 |
-0.1190 |
307 |
1 |
69.77 |
2012-12-22 |
| 121. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
68.85 |
0.9097 |
-0.0731 |
464 |
1 |
68.85 |
2012-11-04 |
| 122. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
68.74 |
0.9665 |
-0.1236 |
326 |
1 |
68.74 |
2012-10-19 |
| 123. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
68.26 |
0.8753 |
-0.0780 |
427 |
1 |
68.26 |
2012-11-04 |
| 124. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
68.22 |
0.9529 |
-0.1248 |
269 |
1 |
68.22 |
2012-10-30 |
| 125. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
68.20 |
0.8602 |
-0.0750 |
206 |
1 |
68.20 |
2012-11-04 |
| 126. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
66.31 |
0.9279 |
-0.1561 |
317 |
1 |
66.31 |
2012-10-30 |
| 127. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
63.75 |
0.9681 |
-0.2247 |
378 |
1 |
63.75 |
2012-10-30 |
| 128. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
62.43 |
0.8467 |
-0.1028 |
343 |
1 |
62.43 |
2012-10-30 |
| 129. |
Aristophanes once wrote, roughly translated, "Youth ages, im... |
59.64 |
0.8038 |
-0.1434 |
160 |
1 |
59.64 |
2019-03-27 |