| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
93.41 |
1.0343 |
0.2639 |
242 |
2 |
82.60 |
2010-10-01 |
| 2. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
90.22 |
0.9233 |
0.2860 |
168 |
2 |
83.87 |
2012-03-27 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
89.56 |
1.0799 |
0.1247 |
243 |
1 |
89.56 |
2012-03-20 |
| 4. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
89.51 |
1.0795 |
0.1587 |
226 |
2 |
79.43 |
2012-03-27 |
| 5. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
88.96 |
1.0787 |
0.1201 |
237 |
1 |
88.96 |
2010-02-26 |
| 6. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
88.30 |
1.0679 |
0.1434 |
177 |
2 |
79.85 |
2012-03-26 |
| 7. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
87.96 |
0.9614 |
0.2284 |
292 |
3 |
73.88 |
2012-04-10 |
| 8. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
87.40 |
0.9672 |
0.2185 |
396 |
1 |
87.40 |
2012-03-20 |
| 9. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
86.52 |
1.0796 |
0.0821 |
129 |
1 |
86.52 |
2012-04-10 |
| 10. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
85.65 |
1.0907 |
0.0667 |
303 |
1 |
85.65 |
2010-02-25 |
| 11. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
85.45 |
1.0358 |
0.1586 |
349 |
1 |
85.45 |
2012-03-22 |
| 12. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
85.31 |
1.0528 |
0.0930 |
201 |
1 |
85.31 |
2012-03-20 |
| 13. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
85.08 |
0.9907 |
0.1552 |
211 |
2 |
74.42 |
2012-06-21 |
| 14. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
84.82 |
1.0254 |
0.1590 |
217 |
1 |
84.82 |
2012-03-20 |
| 15. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
84.49 |
0.9805 |
0.1635 |
292 |
1 |
84.49 |
2012-04-20 |
| 16. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
84.40 |
1.0441 |
0.0953 |
252 |
1 |
84.40 |
2009-03-02 |
| 17. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
84.33 |
1.0396 |
0.0904 |
149 |
1 |
84.33 |
2009-03-06 |
| 18. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
83.22 |
1.0165 |
0.1094 |
392 |
1 |
83.22 |
2012-04-13 |
| 19. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
83.07 |
0.8919 |
0.2267 |
205 |
3 |
78.93 |
2012-04-30 |
| 20. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
82.93 |
0.9734 |
0.1448 |
289 |
1 |
82.93 |
2012-04-24 |
| 21. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
82.90 |
1.1296 |
0.0171 |
252 |
2 |
82.47 |
2012-07-17 |
| 22. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
82.72 |
0.9916 |
0.1663 |
282 |
2 |
79.41 |
2012-03-30 |
| 23. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
82.62 |
0.8753 |
0.2480 |
427 |
1 |
82.62 |
2012-04-17 |
| 24. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
82.61 |
1.0788 |
0.0292 |
171 |
1 |
82.61 |
2012-03-28 |
| 25. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
82.26 |
1.1016 |
0.0071 |
233 |
1 |
82.26 |
2011-04-24 |
| 26. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
82.04 |
1.0138 |
0.0916 |
231 |
3 |
75.03 |
2009-05-26 |
| 27. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
82.01 |
0.9342 |
0.1751 |
434 |
1 |
82.01 |
2012-03-28 |
| 28. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
81.75 |
1.0151 |
0.0777 |
152 |
1 |
81.75 |
2010-08-30 |
| 29. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
81.39 |
1.0602 |
0.0408 |
389 |
1 |
81.39 |
2012-03-20 |
| 30. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
81.32 |
0.9500 |
0.1482 |
362 |
1 |
81.32 |
2012-04-20 |
| 31. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
81.22 |
1.0385 |
0.0544 |
230 |
2 |
74.19 |
2012-06-21 |
| 32. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
81.07 |
1.0555 |
0.0672 |
323 |
1 |
81.07 |
2012-03-16 |
| 33. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
80.97 |
1.0340 |
0.0626 |
406 |
1 |
80.97 |
2010-08-30 |
| 34. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
80.64 |
1.0025 |
0.0853 |
336 |
1 |
80.64 |
2009-05-27 |
| 35. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
80.61 |
0.9601 |
0.1311 |
308 |
2 |
80.08 |
2014-10-24 |
| 36. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
80.30 |
0.9514 |
0.1310 |
237 |
1 |
80.30 |
2010-08-30 |
| 37. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
80.20 |
1.0993 |
-0.0206 |
265 |
1 |
80.20 |
2009-02-26 |
| 38. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
80.17 |
0.9289 |
0.1492 |
204 |
1 |
80.17 |
2010-10-01 |
| 39. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
79.99 |
1.0863 |
0.0262 |
210 |
1 |
79.99 |
2011-10-12 |
| 40. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
79.89 |
0.9851 |
0.0940 |
317 |
1 |
79.89 |
2010-02-26 |
| 41. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
79.87 |
1.0390 |
0.0334 |
205 |
3 |
64.45 |
2011-05-22 |
| 42. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
79.86 |
1.0004 |
0.0696 |
212 |
1 |
79.86 |
2012-06-21 |
| 43. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
79.62 |
1.0677 |
0.0354 |
284 |
1 |
79.62 |
2012-03-20 |
| 44. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
79.53 |
0.9871 |
0.1071 |
227 |
1 |
79.53 |
2010-10-01 |
| 45. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
79.43 |
0.9675 |
0.1122 |
383 |
1 |
79.43 |
2012-04-10 |
| 46. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
78.31 |
1.0124 |
0.0401 |
204 |
2 |
76.58 |
2012-04-20 |
| 47. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
78.18 |
1.0555 |
-0.0008 |
363 |
1 |
78.18 |
2012-03-16 |
| 48. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
78.10 |
0.9045 |
0.1483 |
235 |
1 |
78.10 |
2012-03-20 |
| 49. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
77.47 |
1.0117 |
0.0765 |
297 |
1 |
77.47 |
2010-08-01 |
| 50. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
77.27 |
1.0314 |
0.0486 |
452 |
1 |
77.27 |
2012-03-26 |
| 51. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
77.19 |
0.9785 |
0.0643 |
335 |
2 |
70.08 |
2010-02-26 |
| 52. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
77.14 |
1.0068 |
0.0354 |
358 |
1 |
77.14 |
2010-08-30 |
| 53. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
77.14 |
1.0252 |
0.0073 |
176 |
1 |
77.14 |
2008-11-12 |
| 54. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
77.00 |
1.0197 |
0.0145 |
226 |
1 |
77.00 |
2008-11-12 |
| 55. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
76.98 |
0.9619 |
0.0805 |
393 |
1 |
76.98 |
2012-03-26 |
| 56. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
76.78 |
0.9612 |
0.0733 |
256 |
1 |
76.78 |
2012-03-16 |
| 57. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
76.74 |
0.9266 |
0.1069 |
267 |
1 |
76.74 |
2012-04-26 |
| 58. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
76.49 |
0.9831 |
0.0550 |
469 |
2 |
65.23 |
2012-04-18 |
| 59. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
76.34 |
0.9631 |
0.1163 |
345 |
1 |
76.34 |
2012-03-20 |
| 60. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
76.23 |
0.9846 |
0.0405 |
281 |
1 |
76.23 |
2012-06-21 |
| 61. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
75.96 |
1.0719 |
-0.0213 |
360 |
1 |
75.96 |
2012-05-03 |
| 62. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
75.80 |
0.9710 |
0.0435 |
173 |
1 |
75.80 |
2012-03-22 |
| 63. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
75.79 |
0.9879 |
0.0417 |
450 |
1 |
75.79 |
2012-04-13 |
| 64. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
75.78 |
1.0320 |
0.0258 |
293 |
1 |
75.78 |
2010-07-26 |
| 65. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
75.54 |
0.9684 |
0.0513 |
388 |
1 |
75.54 |
2012-04-25 |
| 66. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
75.42 |
0.9127 |
0.1002 |
252 |
1 |
75.42 |
2010-02-25 |
| 67. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
75.17 |
1.0042 |
0.0498 |
352 |
1 |
75.17 |
2012-03-20 |
| 68. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
75.02 |
0.9508 |
0.0930 |
384 |
1 |
75.02 |
2012-03-30 |
| 69. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
74.91 |
1.0257 |
-0.0107 |
401 |
1 |
74.91 |
2012-05-04 |
| 70. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
74.91 |
1.0251 |
-0.0185 |
261 |
1 |
74.91 |
2011-04-24 |
| 71. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
74.08 |
0.9546 |
0.0740 |
198 |
1 |
74.08 |
2010-02-26 |
| 72. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
74.00 |
0.9756 |
0.0193 |
229 |
1 |
74.00 |
2012-04-09 |
| 73. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
73.54 |
0.9125 |
0.0794 |
308 |
1 |
73.54 |
2009-03-06 |
| 74. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
73.49 |
1.0441 |
-0.0135 |
316 |
1 |
73.49 |
2012-04-05 |
| 75. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
73.17 |
0.9084 |
0.0783 |
300 |
1 |
73.17 |
2012-03-20 |
| 76. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
72.80 |
0.9886 |
-0.0063 |
220 |
1 |
72.80 |
2008-11-12 |
| 77. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
72.61 |
1.0696 |
-0.0958 |
226 |
2 |
70.73 |
2010-08-30 |
| 78. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
72.44 |
0.9597 |
0.0192 |
347 |
1 |
72.44 |
2010-02-26 |
| 79. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
72.42 |
0.9632 |
0.0537 |
345 |
1 |
72.42 |
2012-03-22 |
| 80. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
72.10 |
1.0201 |
-0.0492 |
303 |
1 |
72.10 |
2012-04-09 |
| 81. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
72.08 |
0.9843 |
-0.0193 |
234 |
1 |
72.08 |
2010-07-26 |
| 82. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
72.02 |
1.0099 |
-0.0439 |
207 |
1 |
72.02 |
2010-08-30 |
| 83. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
71.33 |
0.9857 |
-0.0270 |
293 |
1 |
71.33 |
2010-10-01 |
| 84. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
71.01 |
0.8890 |
0.0629 |
199 |
2 |
69.65 |
2010-02-26 |
| 85. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
70.61 |
0.9632 |
-0.0067 |
392 |
1 |
70.61 |
2010-10-01 |
| 86. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
69.63 |
0.9936 |
-0.0571 |
311 |
2 |
69.41 |
2011-10-12 |
| 87. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
69.39 |
0.9376 |
0.0012 |
367 |
2 |
69.17 |
2012-03-20 |
| 88. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
69.27 |
1.0125 |
-0.0832 |
224 |
2 |
65.79 |
2010-02-25 |
| 89. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
69.17 |
0.9168 |
0.0151 |
240 |
1 |
69.17 |
2012-04-05 |
| 90. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
69.15 |
0.9946 |
-0.0646 |
246 |
1 |
69.15 |
2010-07-26 |
| 91. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
69.15 |
0.9540 |
-0.0260 |
285 |
1 |
69.15 |
2009-03-06 |
| 92. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
68.64 |
1.0334 |
-0.1168 |
131 |
1 |
68.64 |
2012-03-20 |
| 93. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
68.63 |
0.8933 |
0.0362 |
363 |
1 |
68.63 |
2010-02-26 |
| 94. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
68.62 |
0.9339 |
-0.0126 |
310 |
1 |
68.62 |
2009-05-26 |
| 95. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
68.40 |
0.9426 |
-0.0197 |
317 |
1 |
68.40 |
2009-05-26 |
| 96. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
68.20 |
0.9176 |
0.0333 |
267 |
2 |
62.34 |
2012-04-17 |
| 97. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
67.59 |
0.9351 |
-0.0318 |
190 |
1 |
67.59 |
2012-03-20 |
| 98. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
67.17 |
0.9593 |
-0.0515 |
398 |
1 |
67.17 |
2008-11-12 |
| 99. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
67.04 |
1.0487 |
-0.1523 |
231 |
1 |
67.04 |
2012-03-20 |
| 100. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
67.03 |
1.0031 |
-0.0686 |
304 |
1 |
67.03 |
2010-08-01 |
| 101. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
66.44 |
0.9636 |
-0.0708 |
254 |
2 |
62.80 |
2009-02-26 |
| 102. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
66.42 |
0.8722 |
0.0238 |
285 |
1 |
66.42 |
2009-04-22 |
| 103. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
66.15 |
0.9723 |
-0.0790 |
364 |
1 |
66.15 |
2012-03-20 |
| 104. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
65.61 |
1.1081 |
-0.1919 |
206 |
1 |
65.61 |
2012-04-09 |
| 105. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
65.17 |
0.9855 |
-0.0762 |
258 |
1 |
65.17 |
2012-03-20 |
| 106. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
64.61 |
0.9697 |
-0.1015 |
249 |
2 |
62.57 |
2010-07-26 |
| 107. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
64.59 |
1.0077 |
-0.0989 |
250 |
1 |
64.59 |
2010-08-30 |
| 108. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
63.98 |
0.9279 |
-0.0617 |
317 |
1 |
63.98 |
2009-03-18 |
| 109. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
63.87 |
1.0885 |
-0.2273 |
315 |
1 |
63.87 |
2009-02-26 |
| 110. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
63.43 |
0.8467 |
0.0300 |
343 |
2 |
61.43 |
2012-03-20 |
| 111. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
63.32 |
0.9429 |
-0.0908 |
287 |
1 |
63.32 |
2008-11-12 |
| 112. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
63.08 |
0.9866 |
-0.1428 |
218 |
1 |
63.08 |
2008-11-12 |
| 113. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
63.05 |
1.0534 |
-0.2040 |
357 |
1 |
63.05 |
2009-02-26 |
| 114. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
62.93 |
0.9910 |
-0.1436 |
295 |
1 |
62.93 |
2008-11-12 |
| 115. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
62.35 |
1.0168 |
-0.1778 |
271 |
1 |
62.35 |
2009-03-02 |
| 116. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
62.14 |
0.8852 |
-0.0483 |
201 |
1 |
62.14 |
2010-08-30 |
| 117. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
61.97 |
0.9986 |
-0.1659 |
283 |
1 |
61.97 |
2008-11-12 |
| 118. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
61.89 |
0.9786 |
-0.1481 |
235 |
2 |
59.81 |
2012-04-05 |
| 119. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
61.58 |
0.7805 |
0.0420 |
154 |
1 |
61.58 |
2012-03-16 |
| 120. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
61.27 |
0.9938 |
-0.1707 |
339 |
1 |
61.27 |
2010-02-25 |
| 121. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
60.98 |
0.9833 |
-0.1629 |
355 |
1 |
60.98 |
2009-03-02 |
| 122. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
60.77 |
1.0013 |
-0.1866 |
273 |
1 |
60.77 |
2009-03-06 |
| 123. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
60.01 |
1.0375 |
-0.1862 |
200 |
1 |
60.01 |
2012-04-09 |
| 124. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
59.87 |
0.9844 |
-0.1758 |
293 |
1 |
59.87 |
2008-11-12 |
| 125. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
59.70 |
1.0034 |
-0.2036 |
302 |
1 |
59.70 |
2009-02-16 |
| 126. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
59.67 |
0.9097 |
-0.0671 |
464 |
1 |
59.67 |
2010-07-26 |
| 127. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
58.18 |
1.0095 |
-0.2305 |
316 |
2 |
57.33 |
2011-04-06 |
| 128. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
57.28 |
0.9772 |
-0.2124 |
217 |
1 |
57.28 |
2009-03-02 |
| 129. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
56.50 |
0.9884 |
-0.2313 |
233 |
1 |
56.50 |
2010-02-26 |
| 130. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
55.46 |
0.9941 |
-0.2530 |
217 |
1 |
55.46 |
2009-03-13 |
| 131. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
55.40 |
0.9852 |
-0.2424 |
264 |
1 |
55.40 |
2009-03-06 |
| 132. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
51.31 |
0.9049 |
-0.2127 |
351 |
1 |
51.31 |
2010-02-25 |
| 133. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
51.07 |
0.9681 |
-0.2764 |
378 |
1 |
51.07 |
2009-02-16 |
| 134. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
50.86 |
1.0797 |
-0.4046 |
210 |
1 |
50.86 |
2010-02-25 |
| 135. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
43.99 |
1.0214 |
-0.4358 |
269 |
1 |
43.99 |
2009-02-16 |