| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
67.04 |
1.0767 |
0.4176 |
212 |
1 |
67.04 |
2011-12-30 |
| 2. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
62.46 |
0.9212 |
0.4753 |
231 |
1 |
62.46 |
2012-08-18 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
59.84 |
1.0799 |
0.2507 |
243 |
1 |
59.84 |
2011-12-30 |
| 4. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
58.92 |
1.0289 |
0.2894 |
276 |
1 |
58.92 |
2011-12-30 |
| 5. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
58.10 |
1.0883 |
0.2394 |
303 |
1 |
58.10 |
2014-11-16 |
| 6. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
56.71 |
1.0379 |
0.2605 |
245 |
1 |
56.71 |
2012-08-18 |
| 7. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
56.53 |
0.9831 |
0.2733 |
222 |
1 |
56.53 |
2011-12-23 |
| 8. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
56.18 |
1.0263 |
0.2247 |
267 |
2 |
52.35 |
2011-07-13 |
| 9. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
56.00 |
1.0316 |
0.2204 |
333 |
1 |
56.00 |
2011-12-30 |
| 10. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
55.54 |
0.9471 |
0.3007 |
312 |
1 |
55.54 |
2014-11-16 |
| 11. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
55.49 |
1.0429 |
0.1920 |
259 |
1 |
55.49 |
2011-12-30 |
| 12. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
55.15 |
1.0004 |
0.2221 |
212 |
1 |
55.15 |
2013-09-19 |
| 13. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
54.66 |
0.9127 |
0.3019 |
252 |
2 |
50.28 |
2016-03-22 |
| 14. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
54.45 |
0.9729 |
0.2399 |
255 |
1 |
54.45 |
2016-03-22 |
| 15. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
54.06 |
1.0565 |
0.1448 |
247 |
1 |
54.06 |
2011-07-08 |
| 16. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
53.40 |
1.0485 |
0.1750 |
153 |
1 |
53.40 |
2011-07-13 |
| 17. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
53.30 |
1.0168 |
0.1722 |
271 |
1 |
53.30 |
2013-09-19 |
| 18. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
52.70 |
0.9207 |
0.2545 |
174 |
1 |
52.70 |
2011-07-10 |
| 19. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
52.66 |
0.9846 |
0.1866 |
281 |
1 |
52.66 |
2014-11-16 |
| 20. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
51.56 |
1.0025 |
0.1451 |
256 |
1 |
51.56 |
2013-09-19 |
| 21. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
51.55 |
0.9754 |
0.1784 |
362 |
1 |
51.55 |
2011-09-29 |
| 22. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
51.54 |
0.9202 |
0.2271 |
254 |
2 |
40.53 |
2011-12-30 |
| 23. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
51.22 |
1.0167 |
0.1307 |
378 |
1 |
51.22 |
2011-07-10 |
| 24. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
50.60 |
0.9994 |
0.1577 |
269 |
1 |
50.60 |
2011-12-23 |
| 25. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
50.46 |
0.9873 |
0.1323 |
155 |
3 |
48.17 |
2011-07-10 |
| 26. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
49.98 |
1.0314 |
0.1204 |
452 |
1 |
49.98 |
2011-12-30 |
| 27. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
49.94 |
1.0169 |
0.1334 |
346 |
1 |
49.94 |
2012-08-18 |
| 28. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
49.64 |
1.0787 |
0.0244 |
237 |
1 |
49.64 |
2011-07-10 |
| 29. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
49.43 |
0.9350 |
0.1651 |
195 |
1 |
49.43 |
2011-07-10 |
| 30. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
49.09 |
1.0941 |
0.0294 |
256 |
2 |
48.95 |
2012-08-18 |
| 31. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
48.87 |
0.8878 |
0.1995 |
346 |
1 |
48.87 |
2012-01-17 |
| 32. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
48.69 |
1.0669 |
0.0487 |
286 |
1 |
48.69 |
2011-03-25 |
| 33. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
48.27 |
0.8821 |
0.1915 |
176 |
1 |
48.27 |
2011-03-13 |
| 34. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
47.98 |
1.0668 |
0.0029 |
350 |
1 |
47.98 |
2011-07-13 |
| 35. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
47.72 |
0.9461 |
0.1110 |
193 |
1 |
47.72 |
2011-07-10 |
| 36. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
47.46 |
1.0034 |
0.0512 |
302 |
1 |
47.46 |
2011-07-10 |
| 37. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
47.29 |
0.9500 |
0.1038 |
362 |
3 |
39.15 |
2011-07-07 |
| 38. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
47.01 |
1.0124 |
0.0306 |
204 |
2 |
45.10 |
2011-03-18 |
| 39. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
46.86 |
1.0261 |
0.0138 |
273 |
1 |
46.86 |
2011-03-20 |
| 40. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
46.58 |
0.8562 |
0.1793 |
170 |
1 |
46.58 |
2011-07-10 |
| 41. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
46.45 |
0.9019 |
0.1362 |
204 |
1 |
46.45 |
2011-04-20 |
| 42. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.45 |
1.0334 |
-0.0072 |
131 |
2 |
45.53 |
2011-07-07 |
| 43. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
46.42 |
1.0365 |
0.0252 |
162 |
1 |
46.42 |
2011-12-30 |
| 44. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
46.42 |
1.0399 |
-0.0023 |
294 |
1 |
46.42 |
2011-03-18 |
| 45. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
46.37 |
0.9865 |
0.0459 |
276 |
1 |
46.37 |
2011-07-07 |
| 46. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
46.29 |
1.0346 |
0.0364 |
244 |
1 |
46.29 |
2011-03-20 |
| 47. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
46.09 |
0.9514 |
0.0738 |
237 |
1 |
46.09 |
2011-07-10 |
| 48. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
46.09 |
0.9710 |
0.0471 |
173 |
1 |
46.09 |
2011-03-13 |
| 49. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
46.05 |
0.9991 |
0.0253 |
225 |
1 |
46.05 |
2011-07-13 |
| 50. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
46.03 |
1.0574 |
-0.0058 |
205 |
1 |
46.03 |
2011-07-15 |
| 51. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
45.94 |
0.9049 |
0.1222 |
351 |
1 |
45.94 |
2014-11-16 |
| 52. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
45.47 |
1.0132 |
-0.0113 |
143 |
2 |
40.73 |
2011-07-10 |
| 53. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
45.42 |
0.9884 |
0.0249 |
262 |
1 |
45.42 |
2011-07-10 |
| 54. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
45.29 |
1.0496 |
-0.0437 |
314 |
1 |
45.29 |
2011-03-13 |
| 55. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
44.84 |
1.0201 |
-0.0303 |
172 |
2 |
41.56 |
2011-07-10 |
| 56. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
44.78 |
1.0515 |
-0.0644 |
166 |
1 |
44.78 |
2011-04-20 |
| 57. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
44.69 |
0.9946 |
-0.0015 |
246 |
1 |
44.69 |
2011-07-13 |
| 58. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
44.51 |
1.0154 |
0.0237 |
351 |
1 |
44.51 |
2011-07-08 |
| 59. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
44.47 |
1.0621 |
-0.0546 |
263 |
1 |
44.47 |
2016-03-22 |
| 60. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
44.47 |
0.9098 |
0.0740 |
167 |
1 |
44.47 |
2011-03-12 |
| 61. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
44.04 |
1.0352 |
-0.0542 |
341 |
1 |
44.04 |
2011-07-10 |
| 62. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
43.76 |
0.9884 |
-0.0164 |
233 |
1 |
43.76 |
2011-03-12 |
| 63. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
43.69 |
1.0403 |
-0.0296 |
275 |
1 |
43.69 |
2016-03-22 |
| 64. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
43.59 |
1.0677 |
-0.0688 |
284 |
1 |
43.59 |
2011-09-29 |
| 65. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
43.50 |
0.9226 |
0.0474 |
177 |
1 |
43.50 |
2011-07-08 |
| 66. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
43.46 |
0.7876 |
0.1805 |
316 |
1 |
43.46 |
2011-12-30 |
| 67. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
43.39 |
0.9688 |
-0.0059 |
217 |
1 |
43.39 |
2011-07-10 |
| 68. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
43.11 |
1.0398 |
-0.0933 |
110 |
1 |
43.11 |
2011-03-25 |
| 69. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
42.64 |
0.9851 |
-0.0353 |
317 |
1 |
42.64 |
2011-03-18 |
| 70. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
42.58 |
1.0025 |
-0.0556 |
336 |
2 |
41.24 |
2011-07-08 |
| 71. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
42.56 |
1.0077 |
-0.0215 |
250 |
1 |
42.56 |
2011-03-18 |
| 72. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
42.38 |
1.0419 |
-0.1009 |
261 |
1 |
42.38 |
2011-03-13 |
| 73. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
42.37 |
0.9247 |
0.0207 |
253 |
1 |
42.37 |
2011-03-18 |
| 74. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
42.29 |
0.8289 |
0.1170 |
304 |
1 |
42.29 |
2011-03-12 |
| 75. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
42.28 |
1.0462 |
-0.1131 |
184 |
2 |
39.83 |
2011-03-25 |
| 76. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
42.24 |
0.7916 |
0.1540 |
184 |
1 |
42.24 |
2011-04-20 |
| 77. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
42.19 |
0.9275 |
0.0062 |
211 |
1 |
42.19 |
2011-07-10 |
| 78. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
42.01 |
0.8914 |
0.0418 |
366 |
1 |
42.01 |
2011-07-10 |
| 79. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
41.93 |
1.0252 |
-0.1007 |
176 |
1 |
41.93 |
2011-03-13 |
| 80. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.88 |
0.9171 |
0.0129 |
165 |
1 |
41.88 |
2011-04-20 |
| 81. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
41.78 |
0.9855 |
-0.0242 |
258 |
1 |
41.78 |
2011-07-10 |
| 82. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
41.40 |
1.0337 |
-0.1154 |
214 |
2 |
40.40 |
2011-03-13 |
| 83. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
41.23 |
1.0797 |
-0.1699 |
210 |
1 |
41.23 |
2011-03-18 |
| 84. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
41.07 |
0.8884 |
0.0227 |
135 |
1 |
41.07 |
2011-03-25 |
| 85. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
40.81 |
0.9529 |
-0.0065 |
269 |
1 |
40.81 |
2011-03-20 |
| 86. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
40.54 |
0.9912 |
-0.0647 |
237 |
1 |
40.54 |
2011-03-18 |
| 87. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
40.18 |
0.9411 |
-0.0485 |
318 |
2 |
40.02 |
2011-07-10 |
| 88. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
40.01 |
1.0863 |
-0.1640 |
210 |
1 |
40.01 |
2011-03-12 |
| 89. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
39.97 |
0.9513 |
-0.0604 |
354 |
1 |
39.97 |
2011-03-18 |
| 90. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
39.85 |
0.8723 |
0.0071 |
185 |
1 |
39.85 |
2011-03-25 |
| 91. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
39.75 |
0.9353 |
-0.0583 |
177 |
1 |
39.75 |
2011-03-13 |
| 92. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
39.74 |
0.8975 |
-0.0156 |
268 |
2 |
39.36 |
2011-07-10 |
| 93. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
39.72 |
1.0099 |
-0.1318 |
207 |
1 |
39.72 |
2011-07-10 |
| 94. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
39.60 |
0.9567 |
-0.0778 |
273 |
1 |
39.60 |
2011-03-20 |
| 95. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
39.43 |
0.9682 |
-0.0949 |
143 |
1 |
39.43 |
2011-07-10 |
| 96. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
39.31 |
0.9084 |
-0.0343 |
300 |
1 |
39.31 |
2011-04-20 |
| 97. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
39.15 |
0.9464 |
-0.0727 |
323 |
1 |
39.15 |
2011-07-10 |
| 98. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
39.15 |
0.9798 |
-0.1171 |
199 |
1 |
39.15 |
2011-07-07 |
| 99. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
39.03 |
0.9633 |
-0.0957 |
304 |
1 |
39.03 |
2011-03-12 |
| 100. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
39.02 |
1.0390 |
-0.1769 |
205 |
1 |
39.02 |
2011-03-12 |
| 101. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
38.77 |
1.0725 |
-0.1871 |
233 |
1 |
38.77 |
2011-03-12 |
| 102. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
38.46 |
1.0445 |
-0.1903 |
373 |
1 |
38.46 |
2011-04-20 |
| 103. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
38.44 |
0.8867 |
-0.0293 |
241 |
1 |
38.44 |
2011-03-13 |
| 104. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
38.23 |
0.9226 |
-0.0685 |
348 |
1 |
38.23 |
2011-07-10 |
| 105. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
38.16 |
1.0534 |
-0.2045 |
357 |
1 |
38.16 |
2011-04-20 |
| 106. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
38.10 |
1.0684 |
-0.1936 |
253 |
1 |
38.10 |
2011-03-13 |
| 107. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
38.01 |
0.9278 |
-0.0824 |
295 |
1 |
38.01 |
2011-12-30 |
| 108. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
37.80 |
0.9863 |
-0.1438 |
339 |
1 |
37.80 |
2011-04-20 |
| 109. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
37.67 |
0.9665 |
-0.0820 |
326 |
1 |
37.67 |
2011-03-12 |
| 110. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
37.36 |
0.8791 |
-0.0521 |
190 |
1 |
37.36 |
2011-03-18 |
| 111. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
37.18 |
0.9731 |
-0.1617 |
129 |
1 |
37.18 |
2011-03-12 |
| 112. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
37.15 |
0.9168 |
-0.0916 |
240 |
1 |
37.15 |
2011-10-30 |
| 113. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
36.41 |
0.9916 |
-0.1419 |
282 |
1 |
36.41 |
2011-03-18 |
| 114. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
36.03 |
0.9636 |
-0.1658 |
254 |
1 |
36.03 |
2011-03-13 |
| 115. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
35.94 |
0.9005 |
-0.1059 |
212 |
2 |
34.44 |
2011-07-10 |
| 116. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
34.89 |
0.9740 |
-0.2059 |
209 |
1 |
34.89 |
2011-03-25 |
| 117. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
34.61 |
0.8520 |
-0.0855 |
202 |
1 |
34.61 |
2011-03-18 |
| 118. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
34.58 |
0.9684 |
-0.2003 |
388 |
1 |
34.58 |
2011-03-13 |
| 119. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
34.32 |
0.8533 |
-0.0929 |
232 |
1 |
34.32 |
2011-04-20 |
| 120. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
32.60 |
1.0666 |
-0.3452 |
297 |
1 |
32.60 |
2011-03-12 |
| 121. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
31.14 |
0.9325 |
-0.2517 |
156 |
1 |
31.14 |
2011-04-16 |
| 122. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
29.64 |
1.0213 |
-0.3701 |
240 |
1 |
29.64 |
2011-03-13 |
| 123. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
27.80 |
1.0016 |
-0.3935 |
218 |
1 |
27.80 |
2011-04-16 |
| 124. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
26.84 |
0.8628 |
-0.2749 |
196 |
1 |
26.84 |
2011-10-07 |
| 125. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
26.26 |
0.8595 |
-0.2789 |
242 |
1 |
26.26 |
2011-07-07 |