| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.28 |
1.0714 |
0.2311 |
129 |
1 |
51.28 |
2010-03-22 |
| 2. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
50.96 |
1.1014 |
0.2395 |
273 |
1 |
50.96 |
2010-07-07 |
| 3. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
50.49 |
1.0528 |
0.2332 |
201 |
2 |
48.29 |
2010-09-12 |
| 4. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
50.12 |
0.8994 |
0.3841 |
188 |
1 |
50.12 |
2010-07-30 |
| 5. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
49.17 |
1.0795 |
0.2079 |
226 |
2 |
45.57 |
2010-09-12 |
| 6. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
48.23 |
0.9316 |
0.3070 |
287 |
1 |
48.23 |
2010-08-04 |
| 7. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
48.22 |
0.9884 |
0.2483 |
262 |
1 |
48.22 |
2010-08-04 |
| 8. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
48.12 |
0.9281 |
0.3068 |
273 |
1 |
48.12 |
2010-07-30 |
| 9. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
48.00 |
1.0205 |
0.1997 |
179 |
1 |
48.00 |
2010-07-19 |
| 10. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
47.44 |
0.9785 |
0.2369 |
335 |
1 |
47.44 |
2010-03-22 |
| 11. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
47.26 |
1.0254 |
0.2230 |
217 |
1 |
47.26 |
2010-07-30 |
| 12. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
47.10 |
0.8918 |
0.3100 |
100 |
1 |
47.10 |
2010-08-04 |
| 13. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.85 |
1.0444 |
0.1460 |
197 |
1 |
46.85 |
2010-04-02 |
| 14. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
46.03 |
0.9171 |
0.2590 |
165 |
1 |
46.03 |
2010-07-08 |
| 15. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
45.90 |
0.9722 |
0.2024 |
283 |
1 |
45.90 |
2010-07-07 |
| 16. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
45.87 |
0.9430 |
0.2316 |
297 |
1 |
45.87 |
2010-07-30 |
| 17. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
45.57 |
0.9943 |
0.1728 |
373 |
1 |
45.57 |
2010-07-30 |
| 18. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
45.08 |
0.9612 |
0.1901 |
256 |
2 |
40.13 |
2010-08-31 |
| 19. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
44.95 |
1.0232 |
0.1706 |
350 |
1 |
44.95 |
2010-08-11 |
| 20. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
44.83 |
1.0788 |
0.0604 |
171 |
2 |
44.69 |
2010-08-30 |
| 21. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
44.42 |
0.8892 |
0.2510 |
207 |
1 |
44.42 |
2010-09-12 |
| 22. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
43.83 |
1.0131 |
0.1020 |
225 |
1 |
43.83 |
2010-08-04 |
| 23. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
43.74 |
1.0375 |
0.1252 |
200 |
1 |
43.74 |
2010-09-12 |
| 24. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
43.64 |
1.0883 |
0.0579 |
303 |
1 |
43.64 |
2010-07-30 |
| 25. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
43.55 |
1.0016 |
0.1056 |
218 |
4 |
42.36 |
2010-09-08 |
| 26. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
43.43 |
0.9559 |
0.1555 |
195 |
1 |
43.43 |
2010-03-22 |
| 27. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
43.39 |
0.9820 |
0.1284 |
267 |
1 |
43.39 |
2010-03-22 |
| 28. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
43.29 |
0.9161 |
0.1870 |
200 |
1 |
43.29 |
2010-07-19 |
| 29. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
43.15 |
0.9307 |
0.1787 |
246 |
2 |
39.84 |
2010-07-13 |
| 30. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
43.09 |
0.9303 |
0.1633 |
176 |
3 |
38.02 |
2010-07-30 |
| 31. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
43.07 |
0.8788 |
0.2171 |
134 |
1 |
43.07 |
2010-09-08 |
| 32. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
42.99 |
1.1114 |
-0.0168 |
247 |
1 |
42.99 |
2010-07-21 |
| 33. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
42.74 |
1.0270 |
0.0998 |
255 |
2 |
38.92 |
2010-09-12 |
| 34. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
42.50 |
1.0679 |
0.0371 |
177 |
1 |
42.50 |
2010-07-08 |
| 35. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
42.46 |
1.0183 |
0.0597 |
191 |
1 |
42.46 |
2010-07-30 |
| 36. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
42.13 |
1.0917 |
0.0069 |
243 |
1 |
42.13 |
2010-08-11 |
| 37. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
42.08 |
1.0565 |
0.0147 |
247 |
1 |
42.08 |
2010-03-22 |
| 38. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
41.83 |
0.8541 |
0.2214 |
260 |
1 |
41.83 |
2010-07-30 |
| 39. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
41.80 |
1.0029 |
0.0573 |
209 |
1 |
41.80 |
2010-07-19 |
| 40. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
41.79 |
1.0577 |
0.0051 |
247 |
1 |
41.79 |
2010-07-06 |
| 41. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
41.74 |
1.0608 |
0.0375 |
258 |
1 |
41.74 |
2010-07-06 |
| 42. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
41.71 |
1.0033 |
0.0542 |
189 |
1 |
41.71 |
2010-07-14 |
| 43. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
41.70 |
0.9418 |
0.1278 |
188 |
1 |
41.70 |
2010-07-20 |
| 44. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
41.61 |
1.0197 |
0.0391 |
226 |
3 |
35.06 |
2010-07-07 |
| 45. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
41.41 |
1.0429 |
0.0122 |
259 |
1 |
41.41 |
2010-04-02 |
| 46. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
41.30 |
1.0567 |
-0.0024 |
303 |
1 |
41.30 |
2010-07-08 |
| 47. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
41.14 |
1.0125 |
0.0347 |
224 |
1 |
41.14 |
2010-08-30 |
| 48. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
41.02 |
1.0666 |
-0.0201 |
297 |
1 |
41.02 |
2010-08-04 |
| 49. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
40.64 |
1.0412 |
-0.0052 |
225 |
1 |
40.64 |
2010-07-08 |
| 50. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
40.58 |
0.9866 |
0.0448 |
218 |
1 |
40.58 |
2010-07-06 |
| 51. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
40.55 |
0.9697 |
0.0692 |
266 |
1 |
40.55 |
2010-08-04 |
| 52. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
40.49 |
0.9916 |
0.0837 |
282 |
1 |
40.49 |
2010-07-20 |
| 53. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
40.42 |
1.0214 |
0.0078 |
269 |
1 |
40.42 |
2010-08-04 |
| 54. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
40.38 |
0.9365 |
0.0948 |
248 |
2 |
38.40 |
2010-09-08 |
| 55. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
40.25 |
0.9786 |
0.0427 |
193 |
1 |
40.25 |
2010-07-29 |
| 56. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
40.16 |
0.9063 |
0.1259 |
239 |
1 |
40.16 |
2010-03-22 |
| 57. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
40.13 |
0.9772 |
0.0427 |
217 |
1 |
40.13 |
2010-08-30 |
| 58. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
40.05 |
1.0343 |
0.0245 |
242 |
1 |
40.05 |
2010-03-22 |
| 59. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
40.00 |
0.8562 |
0.1640 |
170 |
1 |
40.00 |
2010-07-30 |
| 60. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
40.00 |
1.0154 |
0.0545 |
351 |
1 |
40.00 |
2010-07-07 |
| 61. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
39.97 |
1.0829 |
-0.0621 |
288 |
1 |
39.97 |
2010-07-19 |
| 62. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
39.75 |
0.9758 |
0.0385 |
314 |
1 |
39.75 |
2010-08-31 |
| 63. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
39.62 |
0.9726 |
0.0313 |
154 |
2 |
38.92 |
2010-07-08 |
| 64. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
39.35 |
1.0799 |
-0.0803 |
243 |
1 |
39.35 |
2010-03-22 |
| 65. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
39.33 |
0.9614 |
0.0444 |
292 |
2 |
36.82 |
2010-07-19 |
| 66. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
39.26 |
0.9852 |
0.0161 |
264 |
1 |
39.26 |
2010-07-06 |
| 67. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
39.09 |
1.0314 |
0.0044 |
452 |
1 |
39.09 |
2010-07-06 |
| 68. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
38.97 |
1.0252 |
-0.0382 |
176 |
1 |
38.97 |
2010-03-22 |
| 69. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
38.91 |
1.0025 |
-0.0097 |
336 |
2 |
35.10 |
2010-09-08 |
| 70. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
38.77 |
1.0390 |
-0.0545 |
205 |
2 |
37.75 |
2010-08-31 |
| 71. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
38.73 |
0.8975 |
0.0903 |
268 |
2 |
36.40 |
2010-07-07 |
| 72. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
38.71 |
1.0263 |
-0.0403 |
267 |
1 |
38.71 |
2010-08-05 |
| 73. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
38.71 |
1.0099 |
-0.0260 |
207 |
1 |
38.71 |
2010-03-22 |
| 74. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
38.70 |
0.9912 |
0.0222 |
237 |
2 |
36.94 |
2010-08-31 |
| 75. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
38.45 |
0.8915 |
0.0875 |
188 |
1 |
38.45 |
2010-07-07 |
| 76. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
38.23 |
1.0441 |
-0.0284 |
316 |
1 |
38.23 |
2010-09-06 |
| 77. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
38.21 |
0.9820 |
-0.0079 |
274 |
1 |
38.21 |
2010-07-30 |
| 78. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
38.07 |
0.9646 |
0.0047 |
264 |
1 |
38.07 |
2010-03-22 |
| 79. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
38.04 |
0.9846 |
-0.0162 |
281 |
1 |
38.04 |
2010-07-07 |
| 80. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
37.71 |
1.0117 |
-0.0059 |
297 |
1 |
37.71 |
2010-04-02 |
| 81. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
37.53 |
0.9429 |
0.0147 |
287 |
1 |
37.53 |
2010-08-30 |
| 82. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
37.42 |
0.9684 |
-0.0122 |
388 |
1 |
37.42 |
2010-07-07 |
| 83. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
37.36 |
0.8152 |
0.1369 |
163 |
1 |
37.36 |
2010-03-22 |
| 84. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
37.32 |
0.9028 |
0.0463 |
111 |
1 |
37.32 |
2010-09-12 |
| 85. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
37.08 |
1.0863 |
-0.1068 |
210 |
1 |
37.08 |
2010-08-20 |
| 86. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
36.99 |
0.8553 |
0.0820 |
174 |
1 |
36.99 |
2010-09-08 |
| 87. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
36.90 |
0.8914 |
0.0494 |
366 |
1 |
36.90 |
2010-07-20 |
| 88. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
36.81 |
0.9289 |
0.0065 |
204 |
2 |
33.41 |
2010-07-12 |
| 89. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
36.51 |
1.0211 |
-0.0604 |
213 |
1 |
36.51 |
2010-07-06 |
| 90. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
36.24 |
0.7818 |
0.1405 |
195 |
1 |
36.24 |
2010-07-07 |
| 91. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
36.18 |
0.9310 |
-0.0135 |
188 |
1 |
36.18 |
2010-08-20 |
| 92. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
35.95 |
0.8559 |
0.0604 |
191 |
1 |
35.95 |
2010-07-07 |
| 93. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
35.95 |
0.8289 |
0.0940 |
304 |
1 |
35.95 |
2010-07-30 |
| 94. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
35.89 |
1.0173 |
-0.0592 |
268 |
1 |
35.89 |
2010-03-22 |
| 95. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
35.74 |
0.9309 |
-0.0227 |
284 |
1 |
35.74 |
2010-09-08 |
| 96. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
35.57 |
1.0337 |
-0.1286 |
214 |
1 |
35.57 |
2010-03-22 |
| 97. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
35.44 |
0.9776 |
-0.0751 |
308 |
1 |
35.44 |
2010-09-06 |
| 98. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
35.40 |
0.8077 |
0.0917 |
167 |
1 |
35.40 |
2010-08-04 |
| 99. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
35.18 |
0.9353 |
-0.0438 |
177 |
1 |
35.18 |
2010-07-30 |
| 100. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
35.12 |
1.0168 |
-0.1213 |
271 |
1 |
35.12 |
2010-08-31 |
| 101. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
34.97 |
0.9572 |
-0.0681 |
201 |
1 |
34.97 |
2010-03-22 |
| 102. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
34.84 |
0.9023 |
0.0273 |
231 |
1 |
34.84 |
2010-08-04 |
| 103. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
34.51 |
0.9430 |
-0.0720 |
211 |
2 |
31.51 |
2010-08-04 |
| 104. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
34.44 |
0.8787 |
0.0025 |
202 |
2 |
32.75 |
2010-08-05 |
| 105. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
34.43 |
1.0261 |
-0.1518 |
273 |
1 |
34.43 |
2010-07-06 |
| 106. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
34.34 |
1.0297 |
-0.1570 |
249 |
1 |
34.34 |
2010-07-08 |
| 107. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
34.29 |
0.8961 |
-0.0269 |
189 |
1 |
34.29 |
2010-04-02 |
| 108. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
34.28 |
0.9841 |
-0.1079 |
334 |
1 |
34.28 |
2010-07-30 |
| 109. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
34.10 |
1.0365 |
-0.1389 |
162 |
1 |
34.10 |
2010-07-07 |
| 110. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
33.79 |
0.9293 |
-0.0688 |
355 |
1 |
33.79 |
2010-08-11 |
| 111. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
33.75 |
1.0334 |
-0.1812 |
131 |
1 |
33.75 |
2010-08-31 |
| 112. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
33.71 |
0.8442 |
0.0175 |
265 |
1 |
33.71 |
2010-08-04 |
| 113. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
33.55 |
0.8958 |
-0.0377 |
322 |
1 |
33.55 |
2010-03-22 |
| 114. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
33.48 |
0.8826 |
-0.0295 |
296 |
1 |
33.48 |
2010-07-07 |
| 115. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
33.29 |
0.9946 |
-0.1480 |
246 |
1 |
33.29 |
2010-07-29 |
| 116. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
33.27 |
0.8022 |
0.0472 |
215 |
1 |
33.27 |
2010-08-11 |
| 117. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
33.20 |
1.0151 |
-0.1791 |
152 |
1 |
33.20 |
2010-07-08 |
| 118. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
33.01 |
0.9485 |
-0.1065 |
291 |
2 |
31.90 |
2010-08-31 |
| 119. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
32.99 |
0.8295 |
0.0114 |
209 |
1 |
32.99 |
2010-03-23 |
| 120. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
32.41 |
1.0083 |
-0.1401 |
273 |
1 |
32.41 |
2010-07-08 |
| 121. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
32.21 |
1.0213 |
-0.2056 |
240 |
1 |
32.21 |
2010-07-30 |
| 122. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
32.17 |
0.9670 |
-0.1070 |
307 |
1 |
32.17 |
2010-07-08 |
| 123. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
31.98 |
1.0944 |
-0.2366 |
308 |
1 |
31.98 |
2010-08-04 |
| 124. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
31.75 |
0.8162 |
-0.0041 |
149 |
1 |
31.75 |
2010-08-31 |
| 125. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
31.75 |
0.9865 |
-0.1784 |
276 |
1 |
31.75 |
2010-08-30 |
| 126. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
31.26 |
0.9128 |
-0.0769 |
369 |
1 |
31.26 |
2010-07-08 |
| 127. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
31.03 |
0.7708 |
0.0230 |
207 |
1 |
31.03 |
2010-08-31 |
| 128. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
30.89 |
0.8919 |
-0.1088 |
205 |
1 |
30.89 |
2010-09-08 |
| 129. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
30.88 |
0.9509 |
-0.1279 |
225 |
1 |
30.88 |
2010-07-29 |
| 130. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
30.86 |
0.8202 |
-0.0388 |
178 |
1 |
30.86 |
2010-07-30 |
| 131. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
30.33 |
0.8845 |
-0.1137 |
273 |
1 |
30.33 |
2010-03-22 |
| 132. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
30.08 |
0.9965 |
-0.2320 |
277 |
1 |
30.08 |
2010-03-22 |
| 133. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
29.59 |
0.8153 |
-0.0592 |
200 |
1 |
29.59 |
2010-09-06 |
| 134. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
29.57 |
0.9786 |
-0.2284 |
235 |
1 |
29.57 |
2010-07-19 |
| 135. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
29.29 |
0.9084 |
-0.1631 |
300 |
1 |
29.29 |
2010-07-06 |
| 136. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
29.28 |
0.8951 |
-0.1497 |
193 |
1 |
29.28 |
2010-07-07 |
| 137. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
29.23 |
0.9532 |
-0.2125 |
258 |
1 |
29.23 |
2010-07-07 |
| 138. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
28.44 |
0.8105 |
-0.0932 |
204 |
1 |
28.44 |
2010-07-21 |
| 139. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
26.37 |
1.1081 |
-0.4054 |
206 |
1 |
26.37 |
2010-07-30 |