| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
83.29 |
1.0314 |
0.1386 |
452 |
1 |
83.29 |
2010-01-31 |
| 2. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
82.23 |
1.0767 |
0.0370 |
212 |
1 |
82.23 |
2010-02-06 |
| 3. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
81.88 |
1.0993 |
0.0099 |
265 |
2 |
77.34 |
2010-01-31 |
| 4. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
81.87 |
1.0907 |
0.0225 |
303 |
1 |
81.87 |
2010-01-31 |
| 5. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
81.72 |
0.9293 |
0.1812 |
355 |
2 |
76.45 |
2010-02-06 |
| 6. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
81.07 |
0.9893 |
0.1108 |
323 |
1 |
81.07 |
2010-02-06 |
| 7. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
80.74 |
1.0419 |
0.0534 |
261 |
1 |
80.74 |
2010-01-31 |
| 8. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
80.65 |
0.9964 |
0.0977 |
203 |
1 |
80.65 |
2010-02-06 |
| 9. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
80.57 |
0.9884 |
0.1045 |
233 |
2 |
72.72 |
2010-01-30 |
| 10. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
80.25 |
1.0138 |
0.0744 |
231 |
2 |
78.24 |
2010-02-06 |
| 11. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
79.34 |
0.9897 |
0.0842 |
274 |
1 |
79.34 |
2010-01-31 |
| 12. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
78.95 |
1.0189 |
0.0551 |
337 |
1 |
78.95 |
2010-01-30 |
| 13. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
78.69 |
1.0218 |
0.0427 |
268 |
1 |
78.69 |
2010-01-30 |
| 14. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
78.62 |
0.9746 |
0.1208 |
405 |
1 |
78.62 |
2010-02-06 |
| 15. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
78.61 |
1.0337 |
0.0317 |
214 |
1 |
78.61 |
2010-02-04 |
| 16. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
78.53 |
0.9907 |
0.0731 |
211 |
1 |
78.53 |
2010-02-06 |
| 17. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
77.76 |
1.0109 |
0.0443 |
276 |
1 |
77.76 |
2010-02-06 |
| 18. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
77.53 |
1.1014 |
-0.0123 |
273 |
1 |
77.53 |
2010-01-31 |
| 19. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
77.26 |
1.0316 |
0.0203 |
333 |
1 |
77.26 |
2010-02-06 |
| 20. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
77.10 |
1.0941 |
-0.0173 |
256 |
1 |
77.10 |
2010-02-06 |
| 21. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
76.97 |
1.0444 |
-0.0073 |
197 |
1 |
76.97 |
2010-02-06 |
| 22. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
76.86 |
1.0426 |
-0.0011 |
323 |
1 |
76.86 |
2010-01-30 |
| 23. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
76.69 |
0.9430 |
0.0990 |
297 |
1 |
76.69 |
2010-02-06 |
| 24. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
76.51 |
1.0131 |
0.0204 |
225 |
1 |
76.51 |
2010-01-31 |
| 25. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
76.32 |
1.0714 |
-0.0459 |
129 |
1 |
76.32 |
2010-02-06 |
| 26. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
76.03 |
0.9873 |
0.0400 |
155 |
1 |
76.03 |
2009-08-31 |
| 27. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
76.02 |
1.0885 |
-0.0546 |
315 |
1 |
76.02 |
2010-01-30 |
| 28. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
75.96 |
1.0352 |
-0.0020 |
341 |
1 |
75.96 |
2010-01-31 |
| 29. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
75.73 |
1.0141 |
0.0490 |
304 |
1 |
75.73 |
2010-02-06 |
| 30. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
75.42 |
1.0352 |
-0.0103 |
341 |
2 |
74.17 |
2010-02-06 |
| 31. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
75.13 |
1.0412 |
-0.0233 |
225 |
1 |
75.13 |
2010-02-06 |
| 32. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
74.92 |
1.1114 |
-0.0986 |
247 |
1 |
74.92 |
2010-01-31 |
| 33. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
74.78 |
1.0358 |
0.0198 |
349 |
1 |
74.78 |
2010-01-31 |
| 34. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
74.43 |
0.9234 |
0.0906 |
346 |
2 |
69.93 |
2010-02-06 |
| 35. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
74.38 |
1.0270 |
0.0171 |
255 |
1 |
74.38 |
2010-02-06 |
| 36. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
74.06 |
1.0296 |
-0.0191 |
437 |
1 |
74.06 |
2010-02-06 |
| 37. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
73.59 |
0.8916 |
0.1063 |
216 |
2 |
68.61 |
2010-02-06 |
| 38. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
73.54 |
0.9676 |
0.0376 |
442 |
3 |
70.48 |
2010-02-06 |
| 39. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
73.46 |
1.0167 |
-0.0140 |
378 |
1 |
73.46 |
2009-08-31 |
| 40. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
73.21 |
0.9426 |
0.0529 |
317 |
1 |
73.21 |
2010-02-06 |
| 41. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
73.11 |
1.0666 |
-0.0754 |
297 |
2 |
70.97 |
2010-01-31 |
| 42. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
72.53 |
0.9064 |
0.0857 |
399 |
1 |
72.53 |
2010-02-06 |
| 43. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
72.53 |
0.9109 |
0.0751 |
401 |
1 |
72.53 |
2010-01-30 |
| 44. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
72.50 |
1.1016 |
-0.1197 |
233 |
1 |
72.50 |
2010-01-31 |
| 45. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
72.40 |
0.9843 |
-0.0082 |
234 |
1 |
72.40 |
2010-02-06 |
| 46. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
72.38 |
1.0391 |
-0.0524 |
358 |
1 |
72.38 |
2010-01-31 |
| 47. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
72.23 |
1.0150 |
0.0129 |
325 |
1 |
72.23 |
2010-02-06 |
| 48. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
70.46 |
1.0117 |
-0.0127 |
297 |
1 |
70.46 |
2010-01-30 |
| 49. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
70.39 |
0.9601 |
-0.0017 |
308 |
1 |
70.39 |
2010-01-31 |
| 50. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
70.39 |
0.9687 |
-0.0103 |
371 |
1 |
70.39 |
2009-10-08 |
| 51. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
70.29 |
0.9468 |
0.0053 |
276 |
1 |
70.29 |
2010-02-06 |
| 52. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
69.99 |
0.9886 |
-0.0383 |
220 |
1 |
69.99 |
2010-02-06 |
| 53. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
69.32 |
0.9351 |
-0.0019 |
190 |
1 |
69.32 |
2010-02-06 |
| 54. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
69.26 |
0.9330 |
0.0118 |
360 |
1 |
69.26 |
2010-02-06 |
| 55. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
69.12 |
1.0023 |
-0.0684 |
211 |
2 |
68.49 |
2010-01-31 |
| 56. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
68.76 |
1.0679 |
-0.1167 |
177 |
1 |
68.76 |
2010-02-06 |
| 57. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
68.33 |
0.9597 |
-0.0305 |
347 |
1 |
68.33 |
2009-08-31 |
| 58. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
68.30 |
0.9966 |
-0.0725 |
259 |
1 |
68.30 |
2010-01-30 |
| 59. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
68.20 |
0.9074 |
0.0225 |
396 |
1 |
68.20 |
2010-01-31 |
| 60. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
68.14 |
0.8670 |
0.0606 |
318 |
2 |
65.13 |
2010-02-06 |
| 61. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
67.46 |
0.8958 |
0.0224 |
322 |
1 |
67.46 |
2010-01-30 |
| 62. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
67.39 |
0.9805 |
-0.0636 |
292 |
2 |
65.93 |
2010-01-31 |
| 63. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
67.34 |
1.0201 |
-0.1154 |
172 |
1 |
67.34 |
2010-02-06 |
| 64. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
67.32 |
1.0073 |
-0.0878 |
369 |
1 |
67.32 |
2009-08-31 |
| 65. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
66.09 |
0.8890 |
0.0017 |
199 |
1 |
66.09 |
2010-02-06 |
| 66. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
66.08 |
0.8919 |
0.0011 |
205 |
1 |
66.08 |
2009-12-31 |
| 67. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
65.98 |
1.0417 |
-0.1517 |
253 |
1 |
65.98 |
2010-02-06 |
| 68. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
65.86 |
1.0034 |
-0.1132 |
302 |
1 |
65.86 |
2010-02-06 |
| 69. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
65.38 |
0.8553 |
0.0246 |
174 |
1 |
65.38 |
2010-02-04 |
| 70. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
65.21 |
0.9786 |
-0.1015 |
193 |
1 |
65.21 |
2010-02-04 |
| 71. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
64.50 |
0.9726 |
-0.1073 |
154 |
1 |
64.50 |
2010-01-30 |
| 72. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
63.58 |
1.0004 |
-0.1468 |
212 |
1 |
63.58 |
2010-01-31 |
| 73. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
62.94 |
0.9084 |
-0.0553 |
300 |
1 |
62.94 |
2010-02-06 |
| 74. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
61.64 |
0.9266 |
-0.0935 |
267 |
1 |
61.64 |
2010-01-30 |
| 75. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
61.25 |
0.9176 |
-0.0507 |
365 |
1 |
61.25 |
2010-01-30 |
| 76. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
60.22 |
0.9049 |
-0.0854 |
351 |
1 |
60.22 |
2010-02-06 |
| 77. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
59.68 |
0.9632 |
-0.1145 |
345 |
1 |
59.68 |
2010-01-30 |