| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
81.92 |
1.0885 |
0.1153 |
341 |
1 |
81.92 |
2012-03-23 |
| 2. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
81.78 |
1.1323 |
0.0683 |
341 |
1 |
81.78 |
2012-03-11 |
| 3. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
81.31 |
1.0941 |
0.0972 |
256 |
2 |
77.84 |
2012-03-18 |
| 4. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
81.06 |
1.0529 |
0.1035 |
351 |
2 |
73.89 |
2012-03-25 |
| 5. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
80.97 |
1.0365 |
0.1486 |
162 |
1 |
80.97 |
2012-03-19 |
| 6. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
79.47 |
1.0361 |
0.0985 |
269 |
1 |
79.47 |
2012-03-23 |
| 7. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
79.10 |
1.0677 |
0.0909 |
284 |
1 |
79.10 |
2012-03-19 |
| 8. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
78.98 |
1.0515 |
0.0731 |
250 |
1 |
78.98 |
2012-03-23 |
| 9. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
78.97 |
1.0441 |
0.0837 |
252 |
1 |
78.97 |
2012-03-23 |
| 10. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
78.91 |
1.0138 |
0.1113 |
231 |
1 |
78.91 |
2012-03-18 |
| 11. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
78.25 |
1.0033 |
0.1060 |
189 |
1 |
78.25 |
2012-03-23 |
| 12. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
77.67 |
1.0167 |
0.0977 |
378 |
1 |
77.67 |
2012-03-23 |
| 13. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
76.96 |
1.0004 |
0.0908 |
212 |
1 |
76.96 |
2012-03-23 |
| 14. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
76.71 |
1.0533 |
0.0670 |
257 |
1 |
76.71 |
2012-03-13 |
| 15. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
76.61 |
1.0201 |
0.0762 |
375 |
1 |
76.61 |
2012-03-20 |
| 16. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
76.14 |
1.1215 |
-0.0120 |
200 |
1 |
76.14 |
2012-03-25 |
| 17. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.02 |
1.0797 |
-0.0015 |
210 |
1 |
76.02 |
2012-03-18 |
| 18. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
75.86 |
0.9855 |
0.1293 |
258 |
1 |
75.86 |
2012-03-19 |
| 19. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
75.57 |
0.9994 |
0.1085 |
269 |
1 |
75.57 |
2012-03-23 |
| 20. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
75.53 |
0.9578 |
0.1184 |
281 |
1 |
75.53 |
2012-03-23 |
| 21. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
75.39 |
0.9763 |
0.0979 |
289 |
3 |
72.19 |
2012-03-18 |
| 22. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
74.79 |
1.0214 |
0.0871 |
281 |
1 |
74.79 |
2012-03-23 |
| 23. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
74.74 |
1.0240 |
0.0387 |
256 |
1 |
74.74 |
2012-03-18 |
| 24. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
74.46 |
1.0885 |
-0.0239 |
315 |
1 |
74.46 |
2012-03-24 |
| 25. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
74.03 |
1.0387 |
0.0487 |
239 |
1 |
74.03 |
2012-03-25 |
| 26. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
74.03 |
1.0669 |
0.0211 |
213 |
2 |
69.42 |
2012-03-23 |
| 27. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
73.78 |
1.0767 |
-0.0274 |
212 |
1 |
73.78 |
2012-03-11 |
| 28. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
73.76 |
1.0340 |
0.0224 |
406 |
1 |
73.76 |
2012-03-25 |
| 29. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
73.72 |
0.9831 |
0.0755 |
469 |
1 |
73.72 |
2012-03-23 |
| 30. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
73.71 |
1.0124 |
0.0357 |
204 |
1 |
73.71 |
2012-03-11 |
| 31. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
73.62 |
1.0068 |
0.0457 |
358 |
1 |
73.62 |
2012-03-23 |
| 32. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
73.50 |
1.0787 |
-0.0326 |
237 |
1 |
73.50 |
2012-03-18 |
| 33. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
73.28 |
1.0034 |
0.0394 |
302 |
1 |
73.28 |
2012-03-20 |
| 34. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
73.26 |
0.9684 |
0.0783 |
388 |
1 |
73.26 |
2012-03-19 |
| 35. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
73.25 |
0.9907 |
0.0515 |
211 |
1 |
73.25 |
2012-03-13 |
| 36. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
73.12 |
1.0487 |
-0.0118 |
231 |
2 |
70.06 |
2012-03-18 |
| 37. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
72.98 |
0.9785 |
0.0646 |
335 |
1 |
72.98 |
2012-03-18 |
| 38. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
72.87 |
1.0516 |
-0.0137 |
281 |
1 |
72.87 |
2012-03-11 |
| 39. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
72.85 |
1.0668 |
-0.0262 |
350 |
1 |
72.85 |
2012-03-18 |
| 40. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
72.59 |
1.0358 |
0.0401 |
349 |
1 |
72.59 |
2012-03-18 |
| 41. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
72.57 |
1.0389 |
-0.0025 |
340 |
2 |
71.50 |
2012-03-24 |
| 42. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
72.53 |
0.9976 |
0.0560 |
174 |
1 |
72.53 |
2012-03-23 |
| 43. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
72.47 |
0.9936 |
0.0591 |
227 |
1 |
72.47 |
2012-03-25 |
| 44. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
72.36 |
1.0263 |
0.0039 |
267 |
1 |
72.36 |
2012-03-20 |
| 45. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
72.24 |
1.0398 |
-0.0210 |
110 |
3 |
66.86 |
2012-03-18 |
| 46. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
72.18 |
1.0774 |
-0.0196 |
304 |
1 |
72.18 |
2012-03-19 |
| 47. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
72.11 |
0.9646 |
0.0619 |
264 |
2 |
69.99 |
2012-03-23 |
| 48. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
72.10 |
1.0016 |
0.0210 |
218 |
1 |
72.10 |
2012-03-18 |
| 49. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
72.10 |
0.9698 |
0.0903 |
397 |
1 |
72.10 |
2012-03-18 |
| 50. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
71.90 |
1.0644 |
-0.0040 |
257 |
1 |
71.90 |
2012-03-18 |
| 51. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
71.79 |
1.1018 |
-0.0854 |
220 |
1 |
71.79 |
2012-03-23 |
| 52. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
71.70 |
0.9754 |
0.0522 |
362 |
1 |
71.70 |
2012-03-14 |
| 53. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
71.58 |
0.9289 |
0.0885 |
204 |
1 |
71.58 |
2012-03-19 |
| 54. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
71.05 |
0.9557 |
0.0627 |
331 |
1 |
71.05 |
2012-03-23 |
| 55. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
70.95 |
0.9941 |
0.0141 |
217 |
1 |
70.95 |
2012-03-18 |
| 56. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
70.91 |
1.0498 |
-0.0445 |
180 |
1 |
70.91 |
2012-03-14 |
| 57. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
70.80 |
0.9851 |
0.0256 |
317 |
1 |
70.80 |
2012-03-23 |
| 58. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
70.80 |
1.0613 |
-0.0519 |
266 |
1 |
70.80 |
2012-03-23 |
| 59. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
70.61 |
1.0667 |
-0.0225 |
406 |
1 |
70.61 |
2012-03-13 |
| 60. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
70.20 |
0.9342 |
0.0691 |
434 |
1 |
70.20 |
2012-03-24 |
| 61. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
70.08 |
1.0429 |
-0.0462 |
259 |
1 |
70.08 |
2012-03-18 |
| 62. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
70.07 |
1.0029 |
-0.0114 |
209 |
1 |
70.07 |
2012-03-11 |
| 63. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
70.01 |
1.0390 |
-0.0457 |
205 |
1 |
70.01 |
2012-03-13 |
| 64. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
69.83 |
1.0696 |
-0.0786 |
226 |
1 |
69.83 |
2012-03-11 |
| 65. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
69.76 |
0.9485 |
0.0467 |
236 |
1 |
69.76 |
2012-03-18 |
| 66. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
69.57 |
0.9353 |
0.0513 |
177 |
1 |
69.57 |
2012-03-13 |
| 67. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
69.53 |
1.0077 |
0.0238 |
250 |
1 |
69.53 |
2012-03-23 |
| 68. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
69.40 |
0.9212 |
0.0704 |
323 |
1 |
69.40 |
2012-03-18 |
| 69. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
69.32 |
1.0917 |
-0.0811 |
243 |
1 |
69.32 |
2012-03-13 |
| 70. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
69.28 |
1.0168 |
-0.0289 |
271 |
1 |
69.28 |
2012-03-11 |
| 71. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
69.23 |
0.9844 |
0.0062 |
293 |
1 |
69.23 |
2012-03-18 |
| 72. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
69.09 |
0.9619 |
0.0271 |
393 |
1 |
69.09 |
2012-03-11 |
| 73. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
68.99 |
0.9857 |
-0.0043 |
293 |
1 |
68.99 |
2012-03-23 |
| 74. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
68.92 |
1.0214 |
-0.0454 |
166 |
1 |
68.92 |
2012-03-19 |
| 75. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
68.89 |
0.9965 |
-0.0153 |
310 |
1 |
68.89 |
2012-03-11 |
| 76. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
68.77 |
0.9871 |
0.0283 |
209 |
1 |
68.77 |
2012-03-11 |
| 77. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
68.69 |
0.8933 |
0.0911 |
363 |
1 |
68.69 |
2012-03-20 |
| 78. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
68.66 |
1.0053 |
-0.0297 |
232 |
1 |
68.66 |
2012-03-18 |
| 79. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
68.54 |
0.9429 |
0.0343 |
287 |
1 |
68.54 |
2012-03-18 |
| 80. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
67.98 |
0.9546 |
0.0445 |
198 |
1 |
67.98 |
2012-03-24 |
| 81. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
67.86 |
1.0709 |
-0.0668 |
392 |
1 |
67.86 |
2012-03-13 |
| 82. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
67.27 |
1.0445 |
-0.0860 |
373 |
1 |
67.27 |
2012-03-11 |
| 83. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
67.14 |
0.9339 |
0.0203 |
310 |
1 |
67.14 |
2012-03-18 |
| 84. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
67.12 |
1.0083 |
-0.0088 |
273 |
1 |
67.12 |
2012-03-25 |
| 85. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
66.84 |
0.9852 |
-0.0336 |
264 |
1 |
66.84 |
2012-03-24 |
| 86. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
66.73 |
0.9653 |
-0.0072 |
394 |
1 |
66.73 |
2012-03-14 |
| 87. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
66.62 |
0.9910 |
-0.0409 |
295 |
1 |
66.62 |
2012-03-23 |
| 88. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.56 |
0.9202 |
0.0264 |
254 |
1 |
66.56 |
2012-03-19 |
| 89. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
66.06 |
0.9614 |
-0.0183 |
292 |
1 |
66.06 |
2012-03-11 |
| 90. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
65.82 |
0.9699 |
-0.0339 |
269 |
1 |
65.82 |
2012-03-18 |
| 91. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
65.61 |
0.9801 |
-0.0042 |
428 |
1 |
65.61 |
2012-03-11 |
| 92. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
65.48 |
0.8961 |
0.0322 |
189 |
1 |
65.48 |
2012-03-11 |
| 93. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
65.34 |
1.0099 |
-0.0831 |
207 |
1 |
65.34 |
2012-03-11 |
| 94. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
65.21 |
0.8996 |
0.0227 |
192 |
1 |
65.21 |
2012-03-13 |
| 95. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
65.03 |
0.9612 |
-0.0360 |
256 |
1 |
65.03 |
2012-03-20 |
| 96. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
64.95 |
0.9468 |
-0.0232 |
276 |
2 |
61.70 |
2012-03-23 |
| 97. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
64.92 |
0.9426 |
-0.0158 |
317 |
1 |
64.92 |
2012-03-23 |
| 98. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
64.75 |
1.0426 |
-0.1221 |
323 |
1 |
64.75 |
2012-03-23 |
| 99. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
64.62 |
0.9128 |
0.0480 |
369 |
1 |
64.62 |
2012-03-18 |
| 100. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
64.44 |
1.0203 |
-0.1002 |
261 |
1 |
64.44 |
2012-03-25 |
| 101. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
64.26 |
0.9693 |
-0.0338 |
360 |
1 |
64.26 |
2012-03-24 |
| 102. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
64.18 |
1.0391 |
-0.1200 |
358 |
1 |
64.18 |
2012-03-11 |
| 103. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
64.14 |
1.0150 |
-0.0536 |
325 |
1 |
64.14 |
2012-03-14 |
| 104. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
64.03 |
1.0214 |
-0.1123 |
269 |
1 |
64.03 |
2012-03-23 |
| 105. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
63.87 |
0.9651 |
-0.0208 |
389 |
1 |
63.87 |
2012-03-11 |
| 106. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
63.77 |
0.9946 |
-0.0877 |
246 |
1 |
63.77 |
2012-03-11 |
| 107. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
62.80 |
0.9583 |
-0.0215 |
341 |
1 |
62.80 |
2012-03-20 |
| 108. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
62.59 |
0.8602 |
0.0276 |
206 |
1 |
62.59 |
2012-03-23 |
| 109. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
62.19 |
0.9279 |
-0.0371 |
317 |
1 |
62.19 |
2012-03-23 |
| 110. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
62.13 |
0.8382 |
0.0457 |
268 |
1 |
62.13 |
2012-03-19 |
| 111. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
61.94 |
1.0535 |
-0.1380 |
326 |
1 |
61.94 |
2012-03-18 |
| 112. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
61.86 |
1.0257 |
-0.1398 |
401 |
1 |
61.86 |
2012-03-11 |
| 113. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
61.77 |
1.0375 |
-0.1133 |
200 |
1 |
61.77 |
2012-03-18 |
| 114. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
61.51 |
1.0441 |
-0.1283 |
316 |
1 |
61.51 |
2012-03-20 |
| 115. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
61.50 |
0.9670 |
-0.0506 |
307 |
1 |
61.50 |
2012-03-23 |
| 116. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
61.40 |
0.9330 |
-0.0535 |
360 |
1 |
61.40 |
2012-03-11 |
| 117. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
61.21 |
0.9234 |
-0.0479 |
346 |
1 |
61.21 |
2012-03-20 |
| 118. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
61.01 |
0.8670 |
0.0056 |
318 |
2 |
60.94 |
2012-03-20 |
| 119. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
60.29 |
0.8553 |
-0.0035 |
174 |
1 |
60.29 |
2012-03-11 |
| 120. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
58.98 |
0.8916 |
-0.0533 |
216 |
1 |
58.98 |
2012-03-11 |
| 121. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
58.78 |
0.9640 |
-0.0996 |
334 |
1 |
58.78 |
2012-03-13 |
| 122. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
58.39 |
0.9351 |
-0.1112 |
190 |
1 |
58.39 |
2012-03-11 |
| 123. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
58.32 |
0.8852 |
-0.0547 |
201 |
1 |
58.32 |
2012-03-18 |
| 124. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
57.64 |
0.9372 |
-0.1146 |
320 |
1 |
57.64 |
2012-03-11 |
| 125. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
57.39 |
0.8467 |
-0.0075 |
343 |
1 |
57.39 |
2012-03-18 |
| 126. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
55.81 |
0.9780 |
-0.1848 |
337 |
1 |
55.81 |
2012-03-23 |
| 127. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
53.28 |
0.8914 |
-0.1349 |
366 |
1 |
53.28 |
2012-03-11 |
| 128. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
50.24 |
0.9155 |
-0.1543 |
168 |
1 |
50.24 |
2012-03-11 |