| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
85.50 |
1.1016 |
0.1410 |
233 |
1 |
85.50 |
2011-07-01 |
| 2. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
84.78 |
1.0454 |
0.1828 |
255 |
1 |
84.78 |
2010-10-23 |
| 3. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
84.11 |
1.0523 |
0.1654 |
256 |
2 |
80.36 |
2011-09-06 |
| 4. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
84.00 |
1.0696 |
0.1473 |
226 |
1 |
84.00 |
2010-10-23 |
| 5. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
83.81 |
1.0477 |
0.1723 |
360 |
1 |
83.81 |
2010-10-26 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
82.99 |
1.1018 |
0.0974 |
220 |
2 |
78.67 |
2010-10-23 |
| 7. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
82.51 |
1.1162 |
0.1234 |
189 |
2 |
79.30 |
2011-07-01 |
| 8. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
82.49 |
1.0666 |
0.1318 |
297 |
1 |
82.49 |
2010-10-23 |
| 9. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
81.11 |
1.1296 |
0.0775 |
252 |
1 |
81.11 |
2011-07-01 |
| 10. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
80.52 |
1.0297 |
0.1384 |
249 |
3 |
75.68 |
2011-09-08 |
| 11. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
80.31 |
1.0167 |
0.1564 |
378 |
1 |
80.31 |
2011-09-08 |
| 12. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
78.47 |
0.9912 |
0.1749 |
237 |
3 |
67.06 |
2011-07-01 |
| 13. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
77.16 |
1.0719 |
0.0757 |
360 |
1 |
77.16 |
2010-10-23 |
| 14. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
76.50 |
0.9532 |
0.1558 |
258 |
1 |
76.50 |
2010-10-26 |
| 15. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
75.99 |
1.0767 |
0.0239 |
212 |
1 |
75.99 |
2011-09-08 |
| 16. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
75.84 |
1.0529 |
0.0476 |
351 |
2 |
68.20 |
2010-10-23 |
| 17. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
75.80 |
1.0668 |
0.0357 |
350 |
1 |
75.80 |
2010-10-23 |
| 18. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
75.60 |
0.9795 |
0.1176 |
308 |
2 |
75.39 |
2011-07-01 |
| 19. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
75.24 |
0.9691 |
0.1222 |
223 |
1 |
75.24 |
2011-09-06 |
| 20. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
75.07 |
0.9886 |
0.1032 |
220 |
2 |
74.34 |
2010-10-23 |
| 21. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
74.95 |
1.0284 |
0.1025 |
282 |
1 |
74.95 |
2011-07-01 |
| 22. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
74.81 |
0.9893 |
0.0963 |
323 |
1 |
74.81 |
2010-10-23 |
| 23. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
74.72 |
0.9529 |
0.1719 |
269 |
1 |
74.72 |
2011-09-08 |
| 24. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
74.68 |
1.0445 |
0.0400 |
373 |
1 |
74.68 |
2011-07-01 |
| 25. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
74.46 |
1.0203 |
0.0635 |
261 |
1 |
74.46 |
2011-09-08 |
| 26. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
73.96 |
0.9710 |
0.0955 |
173 |
1 |
73.96 |
2011-07-01 |
| 27. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
73.79 |
0.9068 |
0.1620 |
225 |
1 |
73.79 |
2010-10-23 |
| 28. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
73.58 |
1.0399 |
0.0327 |
294 |
2 |
69.07 |
2010-10-23 |
| 29. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
73.44 |
1.0023 |
0.0612 |
211 |
1 |
73.44 |
2011-07-01 |
| 30. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
73.16 |
1.0565 |
0.0022 |
247 |
1 |
73.16 |
2010-10-23 |
| 31. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
72.93 |
0.9411 |
0.1176 |
318 |
1 |
72.93 |
2010-12-01 |
| 32. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
72.77 |
1.0396 |
0.0087 |
149 |
2 |
71.03 |
2011-07-01 |
| 33. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
72.31 |
0.9855 |
0.0966 |
258 |
1 |
72.31 |
2011-07-01 |
| 34. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
72.19 |
0.9873 |
0.0570 |
155 |
1 |
72.19 |
2011-07-01 |
| 35. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
72.17 |
1.0516 |
-0.0053 |
281 |
1 |
72.17 |
2010-10-23 |
| 36. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
71.99 |
1.0419 |
0.0022 |
261 |
1 |
71.99 |
2010-10-23 |
| 37. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
71.79 |
0.8533 |
0.1890 |
232 |
2 |
69.79 |
2011-07-01 |
| 38. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
71.78 |
0.9938 |
0.0480 |
339 |
1 |
71.78 |
2010-10-26 |
| 39. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
71.68 |
1.0528 |
-0.0183 |
201 |
1 |
71.68 |
2011-09-06 |
| 40. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
71.60 |
1.0214 |
0.0116 |
166 |
2 |
71.22 |
2011-07-01 |
| 41. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
71.30 |
0.9699 |
0.0635 |
269 |
1 |
71.30 |
2011-07-01 |
| 42. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
71.25 |
0.9342 |
0.1025 |
434 |
2 |
70.97 |
2011-07-01 |
| 43. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
71.15 |
1.0296 |
0.0086 |
437 |
2 |
70.42 |
2011-07-01 |
| 44. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
71.07 |
0.9164 |
0.1190 |
305 |
1 |
71.07 |
2010-10-23 |
| 45. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
70.99 |
1.0679 |
-0.0182 |
177 |
1 |
70.99 |
2011-07-01 |
| 46. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
70.99 |
0.9353 |
0.0900 |
177 |
1 |
70.99 |
2011-07-01 |
| 47. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
70.84 |
1.0008 |
0.0694 |
473 |
1 |
70.84 |
2010-10-26 |
| 48. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
70.69 |
1.0042 |
0.0623 |
352 |
1 |
70.69 |
2010-10-23 |
| 49. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
70.35 |
0.9792 |
0.0792 |
265 |
1 |
70.35 |
2010-10-26 |
| 50. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
70.23 |
0.9965 |
0.0221 |
310 |
2 |
68.75 |
2010-10-23 |
| 51. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
70.20 |
1.0714 |
-0.0625 |
129 |
1 |
70.20 |
2010-12-01 |
| 52. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
70.19 |
0.9632 |
0.0609 |
392 |
1 |
70.19 |
2011-07-01 |
| 53. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
69.74 |
0.9527 |
0.0583 |
251 |
2 |
67.52 |
2011-09-08 |
| 54. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
69.69 |
1.0608 |
-0.0172 |
258 |
1 |
69.69 |
2010-10-26 |
| 55. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
69.41 |
1.0218 |
-0.0185 |
268 |
1 |
69.41 |
2010-10-23 |
| 56. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
69.37 |
0.9907 |
0.0488 |
397 |
1 |
69.37 |
2011-09-06 |
| 57. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
69.22 |
0.9278 |
0.0783 |
295 |
2 |
66.74 |
2011-07-01 |
| 58. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
69.07 |
0.9504 |
0.0454 |
263 |
1 |
69.07 |
2010-10-23 |
| 59. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
68.84 |
0.9157 |
0.0870 |
350 |
1 |
68.84 |
2011-07-01 |
| 60. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
68.84 |
1.0125 |
0.0231 |
413 |
1 |
68.84 |
2011-07-01 |
| 61. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
68.34 |
1.0038 |
0.0170 |
237 |
1 |
68.34 |
2010-10-23 |
| 62. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
68.15 |
0.9509 |
0.0752 |
225 |
1 |
68.15 |
2011-07-01 |
| 63. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
68.04 |
0.9371 |
0.0879 |
318 |
2 |
62.08 |
2011-07-01 |
| 64. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
67.72 |
0.8353 |
0.1536 |
283 |
1 |
67.72 |
2010-10-23 |
| 65. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
67.27 |
1.0365 |
-0.0318 |
162 |
1 |
67.27 |
2010-10-23 |
| 66. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
67.01 |
0.9881 |
0.0234 |
424 |
1 |
67.01 |
2011-09-08 |
| 67. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
66.40 |
1.0257 |
-0.0573 |
401 |
1 |
66.40 |
2011-07-01 |
| 68. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
66.31 |
1.0482 |
-0.0638 |
487 |
1 |
66.31 |
2010-10-23 |
| 69. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
66.25 |
1.0444 |
-0.0912 |
197 |
1 |
66.25 |
2010-10-26 |
| 70. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
66.16 |
1.0201 |
-0.0576 |
375 |
1 |
66.16 |
2011-07-01 |
| 71. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
66.12 |
1.0289 |
-0.0666 |
276 |
2 |
65.96 |
2011-07-01 |
| 72. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
66.12 |
1.0109 |
-0.0522 |
276 |
1 |
66.12 |
2011-07-01 |
| 73. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
66.07 |
1.0029 |
-0.0521 |
209 |
1 |
66.07 |
2011-07-01 |
| 74. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
65.85 |
0.9994 |
-0.0149 |
269 |
1 |
65.85 |
2010-10-23 |
| 75. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
65.82 |
1.0077 |
-0.0129 |
250 |
2 |
62.39 |
2011-07-01 |
| 76. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
65.73 |
1.0261 |
-0.0758 |
273 |
1 |
65.73 |
2011-09-08 |
| 77. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
65.67 |
0.8914 |
0.0607 |
366 |
1 |
65.67 |
2010-10-23 |
| 78. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
65.62 |
0.9597 |
-0.0050 |
347 |
1 |
65.62 |
2010-10-23 |
| 79. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
65.54 |
1.0337 |
-0.0849 |
214 |
1 |
65.54 |
2010-10-23 |
| 80. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
65.35 |
0.9072 |
0.0377 |
237 |
1 |
65.35 |
2011-07-01 |
| 81. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
65.27 |
0.9986 |
-0.0526 |
283 |
1 |
65.27 |
2010-10-23 |
| 82. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
65.26 |
1.0062 |
-0.0609 |
288 |
1 |
65.26 |
2010-10-23 |
| 83. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
65.23 |
1.0545 |
-0.0690 |
416 |
1 |
65.23 |
2010-10-23 |
| 84. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
64.95 |
0.9635 |
-0.0174 |
389 |
1 |
64.95 |
2010-10-23 |
| 85. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
64.92 |
1.0025 |
-0.0613 |
336 |
2 |
63.95 |
2010-10-23 |
| 86. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
64.90 |
0.9557 |
-0.0094 |
331 |
1 |
64.90 |
2011-09-06 |
| 87. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
64.86 |
0.9593 |
-0.0152 |
398 |
1 |
64.86 |
2010-10-23 |
| 88. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
64.78 |
1.0073 |
-0.0611 |
369 |
1 |
64.78 |
2011-07-01 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
64.64 |
0.9064 |
0.0390 |
399 |
1 |
64.64 |
2010-10-23 |
| 90. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
64.62 |
0.9202 |
0.0150 |
254 |
1 |
64.62 |
2011-07-01 |
| 91. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
64.33 |
1.0316 |
-0.0962 |
333 |
1 |
64.33 |
2010-10-23 |
| 92. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
63.86 |
0.9681 |
-0.0351 |
378 |
2 |
63.39 |
2011-09-08 |
| 93. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
63.82 |
0.9682 |
-0.0460 |
143 |
1 |
63.82 |
2010-10-23 |
| 94. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
63.71 |
1.0213 |
-0.1020 |
240 |
1 |
63.71 |
2010-10-23 |
| 95. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
63.70 |
1.0168 |
-0.0930 |
271 |
1 |
63.70 |
2010-10-23 |
| 96. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
63.29 |
0.9811 |
-0.0620 |
272 |
1 |
63.29 |
2011-09-06 |
| 97. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
62.95 |
1.0261 |
-0.0753 |
410 |
1 |
62.95 |
2010-10-23 |
| 98. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
62.49 |
1.0328 |
-0.0901 |
356 |
1 |
62.49 |
2010-10-23 |
| 99. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
62.37 |
0.9234 |
-0.0151 |
346 |
1 |
62.37 |
2011-09-08 |
| 100. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
62.30 |
0.9905 |
-0.0573 |
337 |
1 |
62.30 |
2011-07-01 |
| 101. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
62.21 |
0.9120 |
0.0217 |
436 |
1 |
62.21 |
2010-10-23 |
| 102. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
62.13 |
0.9964 |
-0.0970 |
203 |
1 |
62.13 |
2011-07-01 |
| 103. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
62.10 |
1.0521 |
-0.1580 |
171 |
1 |
62.10 |
2010-10-23 |
| 104. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
62.04 |
1.0154 |
-0.0676 |
351 |
1 |
62.04 |
2010-10-26 |
| 105. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
61.76 |
0.9098 |
-0.0196 |
167 |
1 |
61.76 |
2010-10-23 |
| 106. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
61.71 |
0.9820 |
-0.0860 |
267 |
1 |
61.71 |
2011-07-01 |
| 107. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
61.67 |
0.9790 |
-0.0458 |
311 |
1 |
61.67 |
2010-10-23 |
| 108. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
61.59 |
0.9364 |
-0.0049 |
351 |
1 |
61.59 |
2011-07-01 |
| 109. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
60.09 |
0.9376 |
-0.0328 |
360 |
1 |
60.09 |
2010-10-23 |
| 110. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
59.59 |
0.8595 |
0.0043 |
242 |
1 |
59.59 |
2010-10-23 |
| 111. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
59.08 |
0.9578 |
-0.1038 |
281 |
1 |
59.08 |
2010-10-23 |
| 112. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
58.27 |
0.9243 |
-0.0423 |
448 |
1 |
58.27 |
2010-10-23 |
| 113. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
58.20 |
1.0090 |
-0.1236 |
282 |
2 |
58.18 |
2011-07-01 |
| 114. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
57.90 |
0.8933 |
-0.0497 |
363 |
1 |
57.90 |
2011-07-01 |
| 115. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
57.89 |
0.9508 |
-0.0805 |
384 |
2 |
54.06 |
2010-10-23 |
| 116. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
56.52 |
0.8553 |
-0.0434 |
174 |
1 |
56.52 |
2010-10-23 |
| 117. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
55.20 |
0.9339 |
-0.1378 |
310 |
1 |
55.20 |
2010-10-26 |
| 118. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
55.04 |
0.9023 |
-0.0643 |
231 |
1 |
55.04 |
2010-10-23 |
| 119. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
54.81 |
0.8775 |
-0.0820 |
443 |
1 |
54.81 |
2010-10-23 |
| 120. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
54.45 |
0.8878 |
-0.1014 |
346 |
1 |
54.45 |
2011-07-01 |
| 121. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
53.28 |
0.9216 |
-0.1133 |
255 |
1 |
53.28 |
2010-10-26 |
| 122. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
52.94 |
0.9461 |
-0.1855 |
193 |
1 |
52.94 |
2010-10-23 |
| 123. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
51.18 |
0.9168 |
-0.1769 |
240 |
1 |
51.18 |
2011-07-01 |
| 124. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
49.66 |
0.8614 |
-0.1475 |
172 |
1 |
49.66 |
2010-10-23 |
| 125. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
48.42 |
0.8602 |
-0.1644 |
206 |
1 |
48.42 |
2010-10-23 |