| 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... |
115.66 |
1.1016 |
-1.1129 |
233 |
1 |
115.66 |
2009-09-02 |
| 2. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
114.01 |
1.0214 |
-1.0335 |
269 |
2 |
107.55 |
2012-03-29 |
| 3. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
112.12 |
1.0391 |
-1.0453 |
358 |
1 |
112.12 |
2009-09-03 |
| 4. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
111.38 |
1.0567 |
-1.0673 |
303 |
2 |
106.77 |
2009-09-03 |
| 5. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
111.38 |
1.0138 |
-1.0253 |
231 |
1 |
111.38 |
2009-09-04 |
| 6. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
109.38 |
1.0289 |
-1.0374 |
276 |
1 |
109.38 |
2009-09-04 |
| 7. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
108.53 |
1.0555 |
-1.0652 |
363 |
1 |
108.53 |
2010-04-09 |
| 8. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
107.60 |
1.0799 |
-1.0933 |
243 |
1 |
107.60 |
2009-09-02 |
| 9. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
106.34 |
0.9723 |
-0.9805 |
364 |
3 |
91.32 |
2009-09-03 |
| 10. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
104.73 |
1.0462 |
-1.0618 |
184 |
1 |
104.73 |
2009-09-03 |
| 11. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
103.82 |
1.0033 |
-1.0189 |
189 |
1 |
103.82 |
2009-09-03 |
| 12. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
103.55 |
1.0379 |
-1.0126 |
245 |
1 |
103.55 |
2009-09-04 |
| 13. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
103.42 |
1.0398 |
-1.0587 |
110 |
1 |
103.42 |
2009-09-02 |
| 14. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
102.10 |
1.0334 |
-1.0486 |
131 |
1 |
102.10 |
2010-04-09 |
| 15. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
101.81 |
1.0907 |
-1.1015 |
303 |
2 |
92.57 |
2009-09-02 |
| 16. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
101.11 |
0.9857 |
-0.9974 |
293 |
1 |
101.11 |
2009-09-03 |
| 17. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
100.85 |
1.0034 |
-1.0162 |
302 |
1 |
100.85 |
2009-09-03 |
| 18. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
100.83 |
1.0797 |
-1.0946 |
210 |
1 |
100.83 |
2009-09-02 |
| 19. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
100.27 |
1.0941 |
-1.0732 |
256 |
1 |
100.27 |
2009-09-02 |
| 20. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
100.16 |
0.9844 |
-0.9935 |
293 |
1 |
100.16 |
2009-09-03 |
| 21. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
99.99 |
1.0060 |
-1.0211 |
171 |
1 |
99.99 |
2009-09-04 |
| 22. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
99.71 |
1.0441 |
-1.0544 |
252 |
1 |
99.71 |
2009-09-02 |
| 23. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
99.64 |
1.0666 |
-1.0781 |
297 |
1 |
99.64 |
2009-09-03 |
| 24. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
99.48 |
0.9635 |
-0.9719 |
389 |
2 |
89.45 |
2009-09-02 |
| 25. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
99.48 |
1.0131 |
-1.0278 |
225 |
3 |
96.30 |
2009-09-03 |
| 26. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
98.53 |
1.0399 |
-1.0476 |
294 |
1 |
98.53 |
2009-09-03 |
| 27. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
98.40 |
0.9965 |
-1.0073 |
277 |
1 |
98.40 |
2009-09-04 |
| 28. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
98.33 |
0.9768 |
-0.9862 |
387 |
1 |
98.33 |
2009-09-03 |
| 29. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
97.59 |
0.9653 |
-0.9713 |
394 |
1 |
97.59 |
2009-09-04 |
| 30. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
97.26 |
1.0534 |
-1.0633 |
357 |
1 |
97.26 |
2009-09-03 |
| 31. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
97.07 |
1.0417 |
-1.0548 |
253 |
1 |
97.07 |
2012-03-28 |
| 32. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
96.72 |
1.0454 |
-1.0616 |
255 |
1 |
96.72 |
2009-09-02 |
| 33. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
96.70 |
1.0944 |
-1.0611 |
308 |
2 |
90.34 |
2009-09-02 |
| 34. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
96.61 |
1.0284 |
-0.9966 |
282 |
1 |
96.61 |
2012-03-28 |
| 35. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
96.51 |
1.0189 |
-1.0274 |
337 |
1 |
96.51 |
2009-09-03 |
| 36. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
96.36 |
0.9675 |
-0.9722 |
383 |
3 |
91.71 |
2010-01-25 |
| 37. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
96.28 |
0.9843 |
-0.9989 |
234 |
1 |
96.28 |
2009-09-04 |
| 38. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
96.01 |
0.9886 |
-0.9985 |
220 |
1 |
96.01 |
2009-09-02 |
| 39. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
95.70 |
1.0375 |
-1.0021 |
200 |
1 |
95.70 |
2009-09-03 |
| 40. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
95.30 |
0.9831 |
-0.9885 |
469 |
1 |
95.30 |
2009-09-02 |
| 41. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
94.94 |
0.9965 |
-1.0081 |
310 |
2 |
94.70 |
2009-09-02 |
| 42. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
94.70 |
1.0068 |
-1.0154 |
358 |
1 |
94.70 |
2009-09-02 |
| 43. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
94.26 |
1.0361 |
-1.0467 |
269 |
1 |
94.26 |
2009-09-03 |
| 44. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
93.81 |
0.9894 |
-0.9978 |
323 |
1 |
93.81 |
2009-09-03 |
| 45. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
93.79 |
0.9871 |
-0.9613 |
209 |
1 |
93.79 |
2009-09-03 |
| 46. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
93.48 |
1.0444 |
-1.0613 |
197 |
2 |
91.23 |
2009-09-04 |
| 47. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
93.20 |
0.9966 |
-1.0084 |
259 |
1 |
93.20 |
2009-09-02 |
| 48. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
93.12 |
1.0211 |
-1.0006 |
213 |
1 |
93.12 |
2009-09-02 |
| 49. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
93.01 |
1.1114 |
-1.1245 |
247 |
1 |
93.01 |
2009-09-03 |
| 50. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
92.92 |
0.9942 |
-0.9996 |
483 |
1 |
92.92 |
2010-04-09 |
| 51. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
92.50 |
1.0264 |
-1.0003 |
422 |
1 |
92.50 |
2010-04-09 |
| 52. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
92.48 |
0.9769 |
-0.9898 |
263 |
4 |
85.02 |
2012-03-29 |
| 53. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
92.46 |
0.9866 |
-1.0014 |
218 |
2 |
87.87 |
2009-09-04 |
| 54. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
92.41 |
0.9846 |
-0.9966 |
281 |
1 |
92.41 |
2009-09-03 |
| 55. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
92.20 |
1.0445 |
-1.0543 |
373 |
1 |
92.20 |
2009-09-02 |
| 56. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
92.04 |
0.9811 |
-0.9894 |
272 |
1 |
92.04 |
2009-09-02 |
| 57. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
91.96 |
0.9671 |
-0.9579 |
379 |
1 |
91.96 |
2009-09-04 |
| 58. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
91.94 |
0.9583 |
-0.9279 |
341 |
1 |
91.94 |
2009-09-03 |
| 59. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
91.92 |
0.9485 |
-0.9587 |
236 |
1 |
91.92 |
2009-09-02 |
| 60. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
91.90 |
1.0296 |
-1.0359 |
437 |
2 |
91.25 |
2012-03-28 |
| 61. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
91.81 |
0.8919 |
-0.9035 |
205 |
3 |
88.69 |
2009-12-08 |
| 62. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
91.38 |
0.9468 |
-0.9585 |
276 |
1 |
91.38 |
2009-09-02 |
| 63. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
91.36 |
0.9682 |
-0.9814 |
143 |
1 |
91.36 |
2009-09-02 |
| 64. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
91.36 |
1.0165 |
-1.0255 |
392 |
1 |
91.36 |
2009-09-02 |
| 65. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
90.78 |
1.0016 |
-1.0158 |
218 |
1 |
90.78 |
2009-09-03 |
| 66. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
90.43 |
0.9756 |
-0.9878 |
229 |
1 |
90.43 |
2009-09-02 |
| 67. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
90.33 |
1.0396 |
-1.0559 |
149 |
1 |
90.33 |
2009-09-02 |
| 68. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
90.30 |
0.9865 |
-0.9969 |
276 |
2 |
82.65 |
2012-03-28 |
| 69. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
90.22 |
0.9754 |
-0.9825 |
362 |
2 |
88.56 |
2012-03-28 |
| 70. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
90.09 |
0.9593 |
-0.9672 |
398 |
1 |
90.09 |
2009-09-04 |
| 71. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
89.89 |
1.0125 |
-0.9885 |
413 |
1 |
89.89 |
2012-03-28 |
| 72. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
89.85 |
0.9776 |
-0.9886 |
308 |
1 |
89.85 |
2009-09-03 |
| 73. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
89.52 |
1.0477 |
-1.0575 |
360 |
1 |
89.52 |
2009-09-04 |
| 74. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
89.45 |
1.0385 |
-1.0503 |
230 |
1 |
89.45 |
2009-09-02 |
| 75. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
89.36 |
0.9814 |
-0.9541 |
364 |
2 |
87.87 |
2009-09-03 |
| 76. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
89.34 |
0.9553 |
-0.9612 |
430 |
2 |
88.93 |
2012-03-29 |
| 77. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
89.11 |
0.9820 |
-0.9949 |
274 |
1 |
89.11 |
2009-09-04 |
| 78. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
88.77 |
1.0109 |
-0.9901 |
400 |
1 |
88.77 |
2010-01-25 |
| 79. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
88.12 |
1.1014 |
-1.0745 |
273 |
1 |
88.12 |
2009-09-02 |
| 80. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
88.12 |
1.0498 |
-1.0642 |
180 |
1 |
88.12 |
2009-09-02 |
| 81. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
87.67 |
1.0177 |
-0.9932 |
392 |
1 |
87.67 |
2012-03-29 |
| 82. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
86.99 |
0.9965 |
-1.0102 |
168 |
1 |
86.99 |
2012-03-29 |
| 83. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
86.96 |
0.9513 |
-0.9601 |
354 |
1 |
86.96 |
2009-09-02 |
| 84. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
86.86 |
1.0263 |
-1.0376 |
267 |
1 |
86.86 |
2009-09-02 |
| 85. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
86.82 |
0.9557 |
-0.9625 |
331 |
1 |
86.82 |
2009-09-03 |
| 86. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
86.68 |
1.0669 |
-1.0447 |
286 |
1 |
86.68 |
2009-09-02 |
| 87. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
86.60 |
0.9964 |
-1.0079 |
203 |
1 |
86.60 |
2009-09-03 |
| 88. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
86.11 |
1.0337 |
-1.0449 |
214 |
1 |
86.11 |
2012-03-29 |
| 89. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
85.24 |
1.0023 |
-1.0154 |
211 |
1 |
85.24 |
2009-09-02 |
| 90. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
85.03 |
0.8775 |
-0.8851 |
443 |
1 |
85.03 |
2012-03-28 |
| 91. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
85.03 |
0.9342 |
-0.9428 |
434 |
1 |
85.03 |
2009-09-03 |
| 92. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
84.86 |
1.0740 |
-1.0462 |
264 |
1 |
84.86 |
2012-03-28 |
| 93. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
84.39 |
1.0261 |
-0.9997 |
410 |
1 |
84.39 |
2012-03-28 |
| 94. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
84.35 |
0.9734 |
-0.9849 |
289 |
1 |
84.35 |
2009-09-02 |
| 95. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
83.68 |
0.9612 |
-0.9718 |
256 |
1 |
83.68 |
2009-09-03 |
| 96. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
83.31 |
0.9986 |
-1.0093 |
283 |
1 |
83.31 |
2012-03-28 |
| 97. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
83.17 |
0.9088 |
-0.9167 |
348 |
1 |
83.17 |
2009-09-02 |
| 98. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
83.07 |
0.8956 |
-0.9032 |
322 |
1 |
83.07 |
2009-09-03 |
| 99. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
82.40 |
1.0347 |
-1.0237 |
550 |
1 |
82.40 |
2009-09-02 |
| 100. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
81.84 |
0.9649 |
-0.9769 |
193 |
1 |
81.84 |
2009-09-02 |
| 101. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
81.48 |
0.9064 |
-0.9101 |
399 |
1 |
81.48 |
2009-09-02 |
| 102. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
79.56 |
1.0596 |
-1.0726 |
239 |
1 |
79.56 |
2009-09-02 |
| 103. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
79.51 |
0.9614 |
-0.9709 |
292 |
1 |
79.51 |
2009-09-02 |
| 104. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
79.36 |
0.9786 |
-0.9931 |
193 |
1 |
79.36 |
2009-09-02 |
| 105. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
79.12 |
0.8553 |
-0.8700 |
174 |
1 |
79.12 |
2009-09-04 |
| 106. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
78.67 |
0.9879 |
-0.9931 |
450 |
1 |
78.67 |
2009-09-02 |
| 107. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
78.55 |
0.9293 |
-0.9397 |
355 |
2 |
77.78 |
2009-09-02 |
| 108. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
78.14 |
1.0154 |
-0.9786 |
351 |
1 |
78.14 |
2010-01-25 |
| 109. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
77.28 |
0.7876 |
-0.7963 |
316 |
2 |
76.39 |
2009-09-04 |
| 110. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
77.21 |
0.9632 |
-0.9703 |
392 |
1 |
77.21 |
2010-04-09 |
| 111. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
75.93 |
0.9731 |
-0.9935 |
129 |
1 |
75.93 |
2009-09-02 |
| 112. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
74.74 |
0.8845 |
-0.8962 |
273 |
2 |
72.27 |
2009-09-02 |
| 113. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
74.25 |
0.9540 |
-0.9660 |
285 |
1 |
74.25 |
2012-03-29 |
| 114. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
71.74 |
1.0343 |
-1.0070 |
242 |
2 |
65.72 |
2009-09-03 |
| 115. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
71.22 |
0.9672 |
-0.9741 |
396 |
1 |
71.22 |
2009-09-02 |
| 116. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
69.36 |
0.8595 |
-0.8700 |
242 |
1 |
69.36 |
2009-09-02 |
| 117. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
66.53 |
0.8382 |
-0.8487 |
268 |
1 |
66.53 |
2009-09-02 |
| 118. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
60.16 |
1.0254 |
-0.9942 |
217 |
1 |
60.16 |
2009-09-04 |