| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
83.18 |
1.0060 |
0.4023 |
171 |
1 |
83.18 |
2011-11-08 |
| 2. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
78.85 |
1.0799 |
0.2553 |
243 |
1 |
78.85 |
2011-11-08 |
| 3. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
76.28 |
1.0767 |
0.2157 |
212 |
1 |
76.28 |
2009-09-01 |
| 4. |
This is a plea for peace to the oppressors of the world and ... |
75.36 |
0.9862 |
0.2935 |
297 |
1 |
75.36 |
2018-03-24 |
| 5. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
74.96 |
0.9202 |
0.3514 |
254 |
1 |
74.96 |
2011-11-08 |
| 6. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
73.43 |
1.0679 |
0.1981 |
177 |
1 |
73.43 |
2011-06-16 |
| 7. |
Maybe there aren't any such things as good friends or bad fr... |
73.18 |
1.0349 |
0.2078 |
422 |
1 |
73.18 |
2018-03-24 |
| 8. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
72.25 |
1.0412 |
0.1839 |
225 |
1 |
72.25 |
2011-11-09 |
| 9. |
No doubt when they speak of him as a Lion, they only mean he... |
71.53 |
0.9337 |
0.2677 |
437 |
1 |
71.53 |
2018-03-24 |
| 10. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
70.72 |
0.9811 |
0.2211 |
272 |
2 |
63.29 |
2011-06-16 |
| 11. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
68.76 |
0.9546 |
0.2425 |
198 |
1 |
68.76 |
2011-05-22 |
| 12. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
68.19 |
1.0463 |
0.1052 |
182 |
1 |
68.19 |
2011-11-09 |
| 13. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
67.55 |
1.0349 |
0.1095 |
234 |
1 |
67.55 |
2009-05-27 |
| 14. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
67.39 |
1.0077 |
0.1758 |
250 |
1 |
67.39 |
2011-11-09 |
| 15. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
67.30 |
1.0941 |
0.0780 |
256 |
1 |
67.30 |
2009-09-01 |
| 16. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
66.84 |
1.0331 |
0.0976 |
234 |
1 |
66.84 |
2009-09-01 |
| 17. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
66.19 |
0.9820 |
0.1425 |
267 |
2 |
58.05 |
2009-09-07 |
| 18. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
66.16 |
1.0095 |
0.1105 |
316 |
1 |
66.16 |
2009-09-01 |
| 19. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
66.10 |
0.9866 |
0.1300 |
218 |
1 |
66.10 |
2009-05-27 |
| 20. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
66.02 |
0.9278 |
0.1937 |
295 |
1 |
66.02 |
2011-11-09 |
| 21. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
65.69 |
0.9097 |
0.2451 |
464 |
1 |
65.69 |
2011-11-09 |
| 22. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
65.43 |
1.0459 |
0.0940 |
200 |
1 |
65.43 |
2011-11-08 |
| 23. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
65.13 |
0.8073 |
0.2981 |
173 |
1 |
65.13 |
2009-09-07 |
| 24. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
65.02 |
1.0296 |
0.0786 |
437 |
2 |
63.59 |
2011-05-22 |
| 25. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
64.69 |
0.9991 |
0.0974 |
225 |
1 |
64.69 |
2009-05-27 |
| 26. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
64.38 |
1.0025 |
0.0890 |
336 |
2 |
57.26 |
2009-09-07 |
| 27. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
64.13 |
1.0074 |
0.0809 |
242 |
1 |
64.13 |
2009-09-01 |
| 28. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
63.94 |
1.0337 |
0.0489 |
214 |
2 |
63.84 |
2009-09-01 |
| 29. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
63.82 |
0.9619 |
0.1247 |
393 |
1 |
63.82 |
2011-06-16 |
| 30. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
63.26 |
0.8845 |
0.1873 |
273 |
1 |
63.26 |
2011-06-16 |
| 31. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
63.17 |
0.9785 |
0.0947 |
335 |
1 |
63.17 |
2009-09-01 |
| 32. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
63.03 |
1.0797 |
-0.0178 |
210 |
1 |
63.03 |
2009-09-01 |
| 33. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
62.88 |
1.0120 |
0.0521 |
290 |
2 |
52.29 |
2009-05-27 |
| 34. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
62.70 |
0.9426 |
0.1224 |
317 |
1 |
62.70 |
2009-09-01 |
| 35. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
62.53 |
1.0328 |
0.0646 |
356 |
1 |
62.53 |
2009-09-01 |
| 36. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
62.48 |
1.0516 |
0.0061 |
281 |
2 |
59.66 |
2009-05-27 |
| 37. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
62.45 |
1.0340 |
0.0291 |
406 |
2 |
60.35 |
2011-06-16 |
| 38. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
61.97 |
0.9884 |
0.0653 |
262 |
2 |
55.51 |
2009-05-02 |
| 39. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
61.66 |
0.8533 |
0.1920 |
232 |
2 |
51.15 |
2009-05-02 |
| 40. |
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolution... |
61.23 |
0.9474 |
0.0579 |
189 |
1 |
61.23 |
2018-03-24 |
| 41. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
61.17 |
0.9724 |
0.0668 |
237 |
1 |
61.17 |
2009-05-02 |
| 42. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
61.14 |
1.0379 |
0.0322 |
245 |
2 |
56.51 |
2011-06-03 |
| 43. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
61.14 |
1.0389 |
-0.0020 |
318 |
2 |
58.14 |
2009-09-07 |
| 44. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
61.04 |
0.9485 |
0.0866 |
236 |
1 |
61.04 |
2009-09-01 |
| 45. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
60.75 |
0.9910 |
0.0396 |
295 |
1 |
60.75 |
2009-05-03 |
| 46. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
60.30 |
1.0684 |
-0.0177 |
253 |
1 |
60.30 |
2011-05-22 |
| 47. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
60.18 |
0.9756 |
0.0419 |
229 |
1 |
60.18 |
2009-05-27 |
| 48. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
60.16 |
1.0441 |
-0.0242 |
252 |
1 |
60.16 |
2009-09-10 |
| 49. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
59.80 |
1.1018 |
-0.0961 |
220 |
1 |
59.80 |
2009-03-03 |
| 50. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
59.77 |
0.9468 |
0.0644 |
276 |
1 |
59.77 |
2009-09-30 |
| 51. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
59.45 |
1.0033 |
-0.0038 |
189 |
1 |
59.45 |
2009-05-27 |
| 52. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
59.31 |
0.9233 |
0.0723 |
168 |
1 |
59.31 |
2011-06-16 |
| 53. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
59.28 |
0.9907 |
0.0111 |
211 |
1 |
59.28 |
2009-05-27 |
| 54. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
58.75 |
1.0496 |
-0.0561 |
314 |
1 |
58.75 |
2011-06-16 |
| 55. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
58.51 |
1.0168 |
-0.0253 |
271 |
1 |
58.51 |
2009-05-27 |
| 56. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
58.50 |
0.9411 |
0.0497 |
318 |
1 |
58.50 |
2009-09-01 |
| 57. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
58.49 |
0.8442 |
0.1498 |
265 |
1 |
58.49 |
2009-05-02 |
| 58. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
58.33 |
0.9429 |
0.0456 |
287 |
1 |
58.33 |
2009-09-01 |
| 59. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
58.25 |
0.9068 |
0.0817 |
269 |
1 |
58.25 |
2009-05-27 |
| 60. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
57.87 |
0.9682 |
0.0091 |
143 |
1 |
57.87 |
2009-05-27 |
| 61. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
57.79 |
1.0257 |
-0.0415 |
401 |
1 |
57.79 |
2009-05-27 |
| 62. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
57.61 |
0.9212 |
0.0567 |
323 |
1 |
57.61 |
2009-09-01 |
| 63. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
57.52 |
1.0595 |
-0.0836 |
379 |
1 |
57.52 |
2009-05-27 |
| 64. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
57.40 |
0.9786 |
-0.0081 |
235 |
1 |
57.40 |
2009-09-07 |
| 65. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
57.03 |
1.1016 |
-0.1368 |
233 |
1 |
57.03 |
2009-09-01 |
| 66. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
57.01 |
0.8852 |
0.0815 |
201 |
2 |
54.09 |
2009-05-02 |
| 67. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
56.84 |
1.0090 |
-0.0039 |
282 |
1 |
56.84 |
2009-09-01 |
| 68. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
56.78 |
1.0131 |
-0.0567 |
225 |
1 |
56.78 |
2009-05-27 |
| 69. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
56.76 |
0.9768 |
-0.0141 |
387 |
2 |
50.78 |
2009-03-03 |
| 70. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
56.74 |
0.8975 |
0.0629 |
268 |
1 |
56.74 |
2009-05-02 |
| 71. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
56.61 |
0.9351 |
0.0169 |
190 |
1 |
56.61 |
2009-09-01 |
| 72. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
56.43 |
0.8573 |
0.1007 |
270 |
1 |
56.43 |
2008-11-03 |
| 73. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
56.42 |
1.0523 |
-0.1024 |
256 |
1 |
56.42 |
2009-05-03 |
| 74. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
56.41 |
0.9649 |
-0.0119 |
193 |
2 |
52.48 |
2009-09-01 |
| 75. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
56.26 |
1.0454 |
-0.0975 |
255 |
1 |
56.26 |
2009-09-01 |
| 76. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
56.19 |
1.0023 |
-0.0541 |
211 |
1 |
56.19 |
2009-05-27 |
| 77. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
56.07 |
0.8956 |
0.0572 |
322 |
2 |
52.68 |
2011-06-16 |
| 78. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
56.05 |
0.9965 |
-0.0533 |
168 |
1 |
56.05 |
2009-05-27 |
| 79. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
56.04 |
1.0529 |
-0.1052 |
351 |
2 |
51.11 |
2009-09-01 |
| 80. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
55.95 |
0.8810 |
0.0659 |
282 |
1 |
55.95 |
2009-05-27 |
| 81. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
55.93 |
0.9843 |
-0.0434 |
234 |
1 |
55.93 |
2010-05-06 |
| 82. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
55.82 |
1.0252 |
-0.0876 |
176 |
1 |
55.82 |
2011-06-16 |
| 83. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
55.80 |
1.0062 |
-0.0627 |
288 |
1 |
55.80 |
2009-05-03 |
| 84. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
55.80 |
1.0477 |
-0.1017 |
360 |
1 |
55.80 |
2008-11-03 |
| 85. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
55.60 |
0.9540 |
-0.0157 |
285 |
1 |
55.60 |
2009-09-30 |
| 86. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
55.30 |
0.9922 |
-0.0160 |
341 |
1 |
55.30 |
2009-09-01 |
| 87. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
55.21 |
0.9572 |
-0.0248 |
201 |
1 |
55.21 |
2009-05-27 |
| 88. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
55.12 |
0.9884 |
-0.0572 |
233 |
1 |
55.12 |
2008-11-03 |
| 89. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
55.12 |
0.9780 |
-0.0450 |
337 |
1 |
55.12 |
2008-11-03 |
| 90. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
55.10 |
0.9464 |
-0.0096 |
323 |
1 |
55.10 |
2009-05-24 |
| 91. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
55.01 |
1.0099 |
-0.0827 |
207 |
2 |
52.00 |
2009-05-27 |
| 92. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
55.01 |
0.8951 |
0.0373 |
193 |
1 |
55.01 |
2009-05-27 |
| 93. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
54.82 |
0.9964 |
-0.0695 |
203 |
1 |
54.82 |
2009-09-01 |
| 94. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
54.67 |
0.9376 |
-0.0081 |
367 |
1 |
54.67 |
2009-05-07 |
| 95. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
54.35 |
1.0399 |
-0.1159 |
294 |
1 |
54.35 |
2009-05-02 |
| 96. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
54.32 |
0.9814 |
-0.0236 |
364 |
1 |
54.32 |
2010-11-23 |
| 97. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
53.88 |
0.9128 |
0.0394 |
369 |
1 |
53.88 |
2010-11-23 |
| 98. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
53.63 |
0.9125 |
-0.0043 |
308 |
1 |
53.63 |
2009-05-27 |
| 99. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
53.43 |
0.9168 |
-0.0125 |
240 |
1 |
53.43 |
2009-09-10 |
| 100. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
53.09 |
0.9769 |
-0.0818 |
263 |
1 |
53.09 |
2008-11-03 |
| 101. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
52.63 |
0.9851 |
-0.0934 |
317 |
1 |
52.63 |
2008-11-03 |
| 102. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
52.50 |
1.0498 |
-0.1677 |
180 |
2 |
48.03 |
2009-09-01 |
| 103. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
52.10 |
0.8105 |
0.0655 |
204 |
1 |
52.10 |
2009-05-27 |
| 104. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
51.93 |
1.0396 |
-0.1695 |
149 |
1 |
51.93 |
2009-03-04 |
| 105. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
50.95 |
0.9731 |
-0.1251 |
129 |
1 |
50.95 |
2009-09-07 |
| 106. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
50.93 |
0.9226 |
-0.0562 |
348 |
1 |
50.93 |
2009-05-27 |
| 107. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
50.60 |
0.9281 |
-0.0686 |
273 |
2 |
47.59 |
2009-05-27 |
| 108. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
50.54 |
0.9532 |
-0.1010 |
258 |
1 |
50.54 |
2009-05-27 |
| 109. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
50.48 |
0.9997 |
-0.1438 |
382 |
2 |
46.80 |
2011-06-03 |
| 110. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
49.77 |
0.9593 |
-0.1144 |
398 |
1 |
49.77 |
2009-09-01 |
| 111. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
49.60 |
0.9266 |
-0.0875 |
278 |
1 |
49.60 |
2009-03-03 |
| 112. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
49.47 |
0.8958 |
-0.0561 |
322 |
1 |
49.47 |
2009-05-02 |
| 113. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
49.08 |
0.9045 |
-0.0757 |
235 |
1 |
49.08 |
2009-05-27 |
| 114. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
48.87 |
0.9365 |
-0.1102 |
248 |
1 |
48.87 |
2008-11-03 |
| 115. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
48.43 |
1.0714 |
-0.2631 |
129 |
2 |
48.12 |
2010-11-23 |
| 116. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
47.89 |
1.0263 |
-0.2192 |
267 |
1 |
47.89 |
2008-11-03 |
| 117. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
47.31 |
1.0201 |
-0.2179 |
375 |
1 |
47.31 |
2008-11-06 |
| 118. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
47.23 |
0.8899 |
-0.0821 |
293 |
1 |
47.23 |
2008-11-03 |
| 119. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
46.25 |
1.0214 |
-0.2468 |
166 |
1 |
46.25 |
2008-11-03 |
| 120. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
46.10 |
0.9863 |
-0.2046 |
339 |
1 |
46.10 |
2008-11-03 |
| 121. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
45.85 |
1.0390 |
-0.2697 |
205 |
1 |
45.85 |
2008-11-03 |
| 122. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
44.98 |
1.0483 |
-0.2933 |
227 |
1 |
44.98 |
2008-11-03 |
| 123. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
44.31 |
1.0068 |
-0.2569 |
358 |
1 |
44.31 |
2009-03-03 |
| 124. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
43.89 |
1.0385 |
-0.3008 |
230 |
1 |
43.89 |
2008-11-03 |
| 125. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
42.20 |
0.7876 |
-0.0744 |
316 |
1 |
42.20 |
2008-11-03 |
| 126. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
22.90 |
1.0528 |
-0.6783 |
201 |
1 |
22.90 |
2009-05-07 |