| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
120.91 |
1.0125 |
0.2401 |
224 |
1 |
120.91 |
2010-07-28 |
| 2. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
120.88 |
1.0993 |
0.1532 |
265 |
1 |
120.88 |
2010-08-06 |
| 3. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
119.05 |
1.0696 |
0.1623 |
226 |
1 |
119.05 |
2010-08-06 |
| 4. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
117.84 |
1.0201 |
0.1958 |
172 |
1 |
117.84 |
2010-08-06 |
| 5. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
116.32 |
1.0621 |
0.1641 |
263 |
1 |
116.32 |
2010-07-31 |
| 6. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
114.22 |
1.0577 |
0.1236 |
247 |
1 |
114.22 |
2010-08-06 |
| 7. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
114.09 |
1.0296 |
0.1602 |
437 |
1 |
114.09 |
2010-07-28 |
| 8. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
113.26 |
0.9162 |
0.2589 |
165 |
1 |
113.26 |
2010-07-27 |
| 9. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
112.38 |
1.0496 |
0.1152 |
314 |
1 |
112.38 |
2010-07-31 |
| 10. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
110.43 |
1.0561 |
0.1149 |
430 |
1 |
110.43 |
2010-07-28 |
| 11. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
110.26 |
1.0829 |
0.0619 |
288 |
2 |
105.54 |
2010-07-31 |
| 12. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
109.41 |
1.0725 |
0.0876 |
233 |
1 |
109.41 |
2010-08-06 |
| 13. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
108.73 |
1.0462 |
0.0749 |
184 |
1 |
108.73 |
2010-07-28 |
| 14. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
108.53 |
1.0343 |
0.1282 |
242 |
1 |
108.53 |
2010-07-28 |
| 15. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
107.78 |
1.0677 |
0.0799 |
284 |
2 |
99.95 |
2010-07-31 |
| 16. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
107.21 |
1.1014 |
0.0477 |
273 |
1 |
107.21 |
2010-07-27 |
| 17. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
106.47 |
0.9706 |
0.1372 |
216 |
1 |
106.47 |
2010-07-27 |
| 18. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
106.12 |
0.9125 |
0.1891 |
308 |
2 |
99.92 |
2010-07-27 |
| 19. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
106.10 |
1.0138 |
0.0854 |
231 |
1 |
106.10 |
2010-08-05 |
| 20. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
105.76 |
1.0062 |
0.0899 |
288 |
1 |
105.76 |
2010-08-06 |
| 21. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
105.14 |
1.0515 |
0.0303 |
166 |
1 |
105.14 |
2010-07-27 |
| 22. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
104.12 |
1.0417 |
0.0347 |
253 |
1 |
104.12 |
2010-07-28 |
| 23. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
104.06 |
1.0684 |
0.0396 |
253 |
1 |
104.06 |
2010-08-06 |
| 24. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
104.01 |
0.9527 |
0.1249 |
251 |
1 |
104.01 |
2010-07-28 |
| 25. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
102.90 |
0.8614 |
0.2024 |
172 |
1 |
102.90 |
2010-07-27 |
| 26. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
102.30 |
0.9894 |
0.0748 |
323 |
1 |
102.30 |
2010-07-31 |
| 27. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
102.05 |
1.0719 |
0.0129 |
360 |
1 |
102.05 |
2010-08-05 |
| 28. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
102.03 |
1.0565 |
-0.0021 |
247 |
1 |
102.03 |
2010-07-31 |
| 29. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
101.99 |
1.0454 |
0.0074 |
255 |
1 |
101.99 |
2010-08-06 |
| 30. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
101.94 |
1.0025 |
0.0544 |
336 |
3 |
95.18 |
2010-07-31 |
| 31. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
101.82 |
1.0669 |
0.0208 |
213 |
1 |
101.82 |
2010-08-06 |
| 32. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
101.50 |
0.8941 |
0.1593 |
216 |
1 |
101.50 |
2010-07-27 |
| 33. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
101.25 |
0.8553 |
0.1884 |
174 |
2 |
89.70 |
2010-07-28 |
| 34. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
100.75 |
0.9943 |
0.0524 |
373 |
1 |
100.75 |
2010-07-27 |
| 35. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
100.67 |
0.9941 |
0.0462 |
217 |
1 |
100.67 |
2010-07-31 |
| 36. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
100.59 |
1.0379 |
0.0389 |
245 |
1 |
100.59 |
2010-07-27 |
| 37. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
100.37 |
1.0391 |
0.0066 |
358 |
1 |
100.37 |
2010-07-28 |
| 38. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
100.03 |
1.0361 |
0.0009 |
269 |
1 |
100.03 |
2010-07-28 |
| 39. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
99.92 |
0.9684 |
0.0691 |
388 |
2 |
99.60 |
2010-08-06 |
| 40. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
99.75 |
1.0885 |
-0.0206 |
341 |
1 |
99.75 |
2010-07-31 |
| 41. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
99.69 |
1.0254 |
0.0478 |
217 |
1 |
99.69 |
2010-07-27 |
| 42. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
99.57 |
0.9756 |
0.0543 |
229 |
2 |
94.37 |
2010-08-06 |
| 43. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
98.87 |
0.9833 |
0.0421 |
355 |
1 |
98.87 |
2010-07-31 |
| 44. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
98.29 |
1.0141 |
0.0399 |
304 |
1 |
98.29 |
2010-07-28 |
| 45. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
98.11 |
0.9068 |
0.1074 |
225 |
1 |
98.11 |
2010-07-27 |
| 46. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
98.09 |
0.9514 |
0.0645 |
237 |
1 |
98.09 |
2010-07-27 |
| 47. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
97.78 |
1.0419 |
-0.0295 |
261 |
1 |
97.78 |
2010-07-27 |
| 48. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
97.25 |
1.0167 |
-0.0031 |
378 |
1 |
97.25 |
2010-07-28 |
| 49. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
97.02 |
0.9578 |
0.0461 |
281 |
1 |
97.02 |
2010-07-27 |
| 50. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
96.71 |
1.0337 |
-0.0331 |
214 |
2 |
91.99 |
2010-08-06 |
| 51. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
96.67 |
1.0403 |
0.0004 |
275 |
1 |
96.67 |
2010-07-27 |
| 52. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
96.43 |
1.0384 |
-0.0498 |
183 |
1 |
96.43 |
2010-07-27 |
| 53. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
96.32 |
0.9841 |
0.0168 |
334 |
1 |
96.32 |
2010-07-28 |
| 54. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
95.89 |
1.0358 |
-0.0016 |
349 |
1 |
95.89 |
2010-08-06 |
| 55. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
95.62 |
0.9831 |
0.0146 |
469 |
1 |
95.62 |
2010-07-28 |
| 56. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
95.28 |
0.9509 |
0.0737 |
225 |
2 |
94.26 |
2010-07-28 |
| 57. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
95.28 |
0.9529 |
0.0739 |
269 |
1 |
95.28 |
2010-07-27 |
| 58. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
95.01 |
0.9863 |
0.0014 |
339 |
1 |
95.01 |
2010-08-06 |
| 59. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
94.90 |
0.9649 |
0.0162 |
193 |
1 |
94.90 |
2010-07-31 |
| 60. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
94.75 |
0.8910 |
0.0913 |
150 |
1 |
94.75 |
2010-07-27 |
| 61. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
94.51 |
0.9785 |
0.0028 |
335 |
1 |
94.51 |
2010-07-28 |
| 62. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
94.47 |
0.9168 |
0.0622 |
240 |
1 |
94.47 |
2010-08-06 |
| 63. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
94.44 |
0.9852 |
-0.0075 |
264 |
2 |
91.20 |
2010-07-28 |
| 64. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
94.41 |
1.0666 |
-0.0894 |
297 |
1 |
94.41 |
2010-07-27 |
| 65. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
94.38 |
0.8961 |
0.0772 |
189 |
1 |
94.38 |
2010-07-27 |
| 66. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
93.63 |
0.9844 |
-0.0107 |
293 |
1 |
93.63 |
2010-07-31 |
| 67. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
93.31 |
1.0023 |
-0.0387 |
211 |
1 |
93.31 |
2010-08-05 |
| 68. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
93.00 |
0.9780 |
-0.0147 |
337 |
1 |
93.00 |
2010-07-28 |
| 69. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
92.97 |
0.9339 |
0.0266 |
310 |
1 |
92.97 |
2010-07-31 |
| 70. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
92.88 |
0.8562 |
0.1049 |
170 |
1 |
92.88 |
2010-07-27 |
| 71. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
92.86 |
0.8852 |
0.0777 |
201 |
1 |
92.86 |
2010-07-27 |
| 72. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
92.42 |
0.9216 |
0.0735 |
255 |
1 |
92.42 |
2010-07-28 |
| 73. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
92.27 |
0.9632 |
0.0337 |
345 |
1 |
92.27 |
2010-07-28 |
| 74. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
92.25 |
0.9871 |
-0.0105 |
227 |
1 |
92.25 |
2010-07-28 |
| 75. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
92.11 |
1.0943 |
-0.1088 |
206 |
1 |
92.11 |
2010-08-06 |
| 76. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
92.06 |
1.0567 |
-0.1037 |
303 |
1 |
92.06 |
2010-07-28 |
| 77. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
91.89 |
1.0328 |
-0.0441 |
356 |
1 |
91.89 |
2010-08-05 |
| 78. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
91.16 |
1.1296 |
-0.1575 |
252 |
1 |
91.16 |
2010-08-06 |
| 79. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
91.03 |
1.0008 |
-0.0162 |
473 |
1 |
91.03 |
2010-07-28 |
| 80. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
90.77 |
0.9430 |
-0.0114 |
211 |
2 |
88.25 |
2010-07-31 |
| 81. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
90.24 |
0.7708 |
0.1679 |
207 |
1 |
90.24 |
2010-07-27 |
| 82. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
89.64 |
0.9461 |
-0.0193 |
276 |
1 |
89.64 |
2010-07-27 |
| 83. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
89.52 |
0.9293 |
-0.0027 |
355 |
1 |
89.52 |
2010-07-31 |
| 84. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
89.38 |
1.0090 |
-0.0409 |
282 |
1 |
89.38 |
2010-07-27 |
| 85. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
89.04 |
1.0154 |
-0.0449 |
351 |
1 |
89.04 |
2010-07-28 |
| 86. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
88.98 |
1.0768 |
-0.1166 |
295 |
1 |
88.98 |
2010-08-05 |
| 87. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
88.97 |
0.9049 |
0.0205 |
351 |
1 |
88.97 |
2010-08-06 |
| 88. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
88.90 |
0.9922 |
-0.0318 |
341 |
1 |
88.90 |
2010-08-06 |
| 89. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
88.69 |
1.1081 |
-0.1564 |
206 |
1 |
88.69 |
2010-07-28 |
| 90. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
88.42 |
0.9614 |
-0.0442 |
292 |
1 |
88.42 |
2010-07-27 |
| 91. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
88.16 |
0.9843 |
-0.0778 |
234 |
1 |
88.16 |
2010-07-27 |
| 92. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
88.10 |
0.9176 |
0.0321 |
365 |
1 |
88.10 |
2010-07-28 |
| 93. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
88.06 |
0.9005 |
0.0085 |
212 |
1 |
88.06 |
2010-07-28 |
| 94. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
86.43 |
0.9212 |
-0.0245 |
323 |
1 |
86.43 |
2010-08-06 |
| 95. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
86.40 |
0.9699 |
-0.0774 |
269 |
1 |
86.40 |
2010-07-31 |
| 96. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
85.77 |
0.9468 |
-0.0608 |
276 |
1 |
85.77 |
2010-08-06 |
| 97. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
85.44 |
0.9266 |
-0.0435 |
267 |
1 |
85.44 |
2010-07-27 |
| 98. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
84.56 |
0.8629 |
0.0157 |
299 |
1 |
84.56 |
2010-07-27 |
| 99. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
84.22 |
0.9698 |
-0.0667 |
397 |
1 |
84.22 |
2010-07-28 |
| 100. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
83.73 |
0.8775 |
-0.0088 |
443 |
1 |
83.73 |
2010-07-31 |
| 101. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
83.40 |
0.9897 |
-0.1304 |
274 |
1 |
83.40 |
2010-07-27 |
| 102. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
83.08 |
0.9653 |
-0.0987 |
394 |
2 |
82.60 |
2010-07-28 |
| 103. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
82.09 |
0.9303 |
-0.0887 |
176 |
1 |
82.09 |
2010-07-27 |
| 104. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
80.45 |
0.8793 |
-0.0470 |
157 |
1 |
80.45 |
2010-07-27 |
| 105. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
80.17 |
1.0251 |
-0.1996 |
261 |
1 |
80.17 |
2010-07-28 |
| 106. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
79.96 |
1.0365 |
-0.1811 |
162 |
1 |
79.96 |
2010-07-31 |
| 107. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
79.90 |
0.9176 |
-0.0589 |
267 |
1 |
79.90 |
2010-08-06 |
| 108. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
78.78 |
1.0498 |
-0.2414 |
180 |
1 |
78.78 |
2010-07-27 |
| 109. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
78.47 |
0.9651 |
-0.1194 |
389 |
1 |
78.47 |
2010-08-06 |
| 110. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
75.84 |
1.0016 |
-0.2239 |
218 |
1 |
75.84 |
2010-07-28 |
| 111. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
75.62 |
0.8105 |
-0.0348 |
204 |
1 |
75.62 |
2010-07-28 |
| 112. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
74.66 |
0.9074 |
-0.1309 |
396 |
1 |
74.66 |
2010-07-28 |
| 113. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
71.56 |
0.8958 |
-0.1537 |
322 |
1 |
71.56 |
2010-07-27 |
| 114. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
66.32 |
1.0077 |
-0.2839 |
250 |
1 |
66.32 |
2010-07-27 |
| 115. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
57.07 |
0.9278 |
-0.3396 |
295 |
1 |
57.07 |
2010-07-27 |