| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
93.30 |
1.0941 |
0.3481 |
256 |
3 |
84.48 |
2014-02-19 |
| 2. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
90.49 |
1.0462 |
0.3391 |
184 |
1 |
90.49 |
2012-06-30 |
| 3. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
84.23 |
0.9161 |
0.3735 |
200 |
1 |
84.23 |
2012-06-30 |
| 4. |
The breath of the morning, I keep forgetting the smell of th... |
82.41 |
1.0382 |
0.2239 |
353 |
1 |
82.41 |
2019-08-28 |
| 5. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
82.12 |
1.0264 |
0.2420 |
422 |
1 |
82.12 |
2014-02-19 |
| 6. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
80.70 |
0.9684 |
0.2671 |
388 |
2 |
73.82 |
2014-02-19 |
| 7. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
80.42 |
1.0943 |
0.1492 |
206 |
1 |
80.42 |
2023-08-24 |
| 8. |
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your... |
79.72 |
1.0301 |
0.1918 |
322 |
1 |
79.72 |
2019-08-28 |
| 9. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
78.79 |
1.0120 |
0.1939 |
290 |
1 |
78.79 |
2014-10-05 |
| 10. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
78.23 |
1.0288 |
0.1811 |
300 |
1 |
78.23 |
2012-06-30 |
| 11. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
78.03 |
0.9243 |
0.2820 |
448 |
1 |
78.03 |
2014-02-19 |
| 12. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
77.76 |
0.9207 |
0.2700 |
174 |
1 |
77.76 |
2012-06-30 |
| 13. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
77.65 |
0.9857 |
0.2027 |
293 |
1 |
77.65 |
2014-02-19 |
| 14. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
77.43 |
1.0387 |
0.1580 |
239 |
1 |
77.43 |
2019-08-28 |
| 15. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
76.95 |
1.0515 |
0.1256 |
166 |
2 |
71.14 |
2012-06-30 |
| 16. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
76.19 |
0.9844 |
0.1821 |
229 |
1 |
76.19 |
2012-05-26 |
| 17. |
Well you know she hates to travel. Besides we decided this w... |
75.43 |
0.9080 |
0.2479 |
223 |
1 |
75.43 |
2019-08-28 |
| 18. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
74.76 |
0.9886 |
0.1556 |
220 |
3 |
66.51 |
2012-05-27 |
| 19. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
74.60 |
0.9047 |
0.2374 |
118 |
1 |
74.60 |
2012-06-30 |
| 20. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
74.43 |
0.9907 |
0.1483 |
211 |
1 |
74.43 |
2012-06-28 |
| 21. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
74.39 |
1.0669 |
0.0847 |
213 |
3 |
52.70 |
2012-05-27 |
| 22. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
73.94 |
1.0917 |
0.0509 |
243 |
1 |
73.94 |
2012-07-25 |
| 23. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
73.41 |
1.0252 |
0.0978 |
176 |
1 |
73.41 |
2012-06-28 |
| 24. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
73.25 |
1.0483 |
0.0723 |
227 |
1 |
73.25 |
2012-06-30 |
| 25. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
73.09 |
0.9976 |
0.1313 |
174 |
1 |
73.09 |
2012-06-30 |
| 26. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
72.58 |
1.0679 |
0.0541 |
177 |
1 |
72.58 |
2012-05-26 |
| 27. |
I'm so happy because today I've found my friends. They're in... |
72.34 |
0.9247 |
0.1827 |
252 |
1 |
72.34 |
2019-08-28 |
| 28. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
71.83 |
1.0331 |
0.0659 |
234 |
1 |
71.83 |
2012-05-27 |
| 29. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
70.21 |
1.0031 |
0.0840 |
304 |
1 |
70.21 |
2024-08-15 |
| 30. |
Now the scandal and the light are to be distributed differen... |
70.21 |
0.9838 |
0.0919 |
426 |
1 |
70.21 |
2023-08-24 |
| 31. |
Three or four generations ago, an order of knights protected... |
69.84 |
0.9120 |
0.1581 |
357 |
1 |
69.84 |
2019-08-28 |
| 32. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
69.63 |
1.0263 |
0.0392 |
267 |
1 |
69.63 |
2012-05-26 |
| 33. |
And who are you, the proud lord said, that I must bow so low... |
69.56 |
1.0250 |
0.0397 |
122 |
1 |
69.56 |
2019-08-28 |
| 34. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
68.98 |
0.9128 |
0.1582 |
369 |
1 |
68.98 |
2012-06-30 |
| 35. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
68.82 |
1.0173 |
0.0542 |
268 |
1 |
68.82 |
2012-06-30 |
| 36. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
68.70 |
1.0025 |
0.0487 |
256 |
1 |
68.70 |
2012-06-30 |
| 37. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
68.29 |
0.9514 |
0.0935 |
237 |
2 |
59.10 |
2012-06-28 |
| 38. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
68.01 |
1.0419 |
-0.0016 |
261 |
1 |
68.01 |
2012-06-30 |
| 39. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
67.79 |
0.8900 |
0.1476 |
164 |
1 |
67.79 |
2012-06-28 |
| 40. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
66.56 |
1.0668 |
-0.0487 |
350 |
1 |
66.56 |
2012-05-27 |
| 41. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
66.43 |
1.0201 |
-0.0040 |
303 |
1 |
66.43 |
2012-05-26 |
| 42. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
66.09 |
0.9843 |
0.0263 |
234 |
1 |
66.09 |
2012-07-06 |
| 43. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
66.01 |
0.9636 |
0.0462 |
254 |
1 |
66.01 |
2012-06-28 |
| 44. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
65.89 |
0.9943 |
0.0137 |
373 |
1 |
65.89 |
2012-05-27 |
| 45. |
She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so com... |
65.87 |
0.9981 |
0.0110 |
252 |
1 |
65.87 |
2023-08-24 |
| 46. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
65.59 |
0.9754 |
0.0285 |
362 |
1 |
65.59 |
2012-07-12 |
| 47. |
Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is... |
65.47 |
0.9366 |
0.0656 |
229 |
1 |
65.47 |
2024-08-15 |
| 48. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
65.41 |
1.0150 |
0.0036 |
325 |
1 |
65.41 |
2012-07-12 |
| 49. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
65.33 |
0.8541 |
0.1463 |
260 |
1 |
65.33 |
2012-06-30 |
| 50. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
65.22 |
1.0125 |
-0.0148 |
224 |
1 |
65.22 |
2012-06-30 |
| 51. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
65.07 |
0.8906 |
0.1062 |
238 |
1 |
65.07 |
2012-06-28 |
| 52. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
64.63 |
0.9239 |
0.0655 |
193 |
1 |
64.63 |
2012-06-30 |
| 53. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
64.35 |
1.0218 |
-0.0379 |
268 |
1 |
64.35 |
2012-05-26 |
| 54. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
64.34 |
0.9740 |
0.0103 |
209 |
1 |
64.34 |
2012-06-28 |
| 55. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
64.06 |
0.8096 |
0.1717 |
209 |
1 |
64.06 |
2012-06-28 |
| 56. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
64.01 |
1.0506 |
-0.0601 |
277 |
2 |
59.27 |
2012-07-06 |
| 57. |
Poverty is a peculiar, insidious thing: a cause whose effect... |
63.91 |
0.9820 |
-0.0026 |
198 |
1 |
63.91 |
2023-08-24 |
| 58. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
63.89 |
0.9852 |
-0.0078 |
264 |
1 |
63.89 |
2012-05-27 |
| 59. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
62.63 |
1.0343 |
-0.0594 |
242 |
1 |
62.63 |
2012-05-27 |
| 60. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
62.53 |
1.0669 |
-0.0973 |
286 |
1 |
62.53 |
2012-07-06 |
| 61. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
62.53 |
1.0168 |
-0.0607 |
271 |
1 |
62.53 |
2012-06-30 |
| 62. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
62.34 |
1.0567 |
-0.1032 |
303 |
1 |
62.34 |
2011-11-06 |
| 63. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
62.24 |
1.0025 |
-0.0509 |
336 |
1 |
62.24 |
2012-06-30 |
| 64. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
62.04 |
0.9841 |
-0.0351 |
334 |
1 |
62.04 |
2012-07-12 |
| 65. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
61.51 |
0.8653 |
0.0770 |
255 |
1 |
61.51 |
2012-06-30 |
| 66. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
61.19 |
0.9557 |
-0.0193 |
331 |
1 |
61.19 |
2012-05-27 |
| 67. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
60.52 |
0.9567 |
-0.0308 |
273 |
1 |
60.52 |
2012-06-30 |
| 68. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
59.78 |
1.0034 |
-0.0893 |
302 |
1 |
59.78 |
2012-05-27 |
| 69. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
59.51 |
1.0535 |
-0.1327 |
326 |
1 |
59.51 |
2012-05-26 |
| 70. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
59.45 |
0.9068 |
0.0032 |
225 |
1 |
59.45 |
2012-06-30 |
| 71. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
59.38 |
0.8975 |
0.0114 |
268 |
1 |
59.38 |
2012-06-30 |
| 72. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
59.08 |
0.9513 |
-0.0475 |
354 |
3 |
55.76 |
2012-07-12 |
| 73. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
58.98 |
0.9964 |
-0.0946 |
203 |
1 |
58.98 |
2011-11-06 |
| 74. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
58.81 |
0.9612 |
-0.0616 |
256 |
1 |
58.81 |
2012-05-27 |
| 75. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
58.75 |
0.9023 |
0.0142 |
231 |
2 |
50.14 |
2012-07-06 |
| 76. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
58.26 |
0.9912 |
-0.0887 |
237 |
2 |
58.03 |
2012-07-25 |
| 77. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
58.04 |
0.9673 |
-0.0618 |
232 |
1 |
58.04 |
2011-11-06 |
| 78. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
57.34 |
1.0077 |
-0.1147 |
250 |
1 |
57.34 |
2012-06-30 |
| 79. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
56.72 |
0.9905 |
-0.1230 |
377 |
1 |
56.72 |
2012-07-12 |
| 80. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
55.86 |
0.9663 |
-0.1117 |
330 |
1 |
55.86 |
2011-11-06 |
| 81. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
55.51 |
1.0232 |
-0.1595 |
236 |
1 |
55.51 |
2012-05-26 |
| 82. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
55.33 |
1.0389 |
-0.1931 |
318 |
1 |
55.33 |
2012-06-30 |
| 83. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
55.08 |
0.9768 |
-0.1343 |
387 |
1 |
55.08 |
2012-05-27 |
| 84. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
54.96 |
0.9074 |
-0.0664 |
396 |
1 |
54.96 |
2012-05-27 |
| 85. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
53.64 |
0.8947 |
-0.0738 |
366 |
1 |
53.64 |
2012-07-06 |
| 86. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
53.55 |
0.9016 |
-0.0824 |
192 |
1 |
53.55 |
2012-06-30 |
| 87. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
52.77 |
0.8914 |
-0.0843 |
366 |
1 |
52.77 |
2012-05-27 |
| 88. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
50.01 |
0.8826 |
-0.1175 |
296 |
1 |
50.01 |
2011-11-06 |
| 89. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
49.93 |
0.9866 |
-0.2233 |
218 |
1 |
49.93 |
2011-11-06 |
| 90. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
48.23 |
0.7876 |
-0.0497 |
316 |
1 |
48.23 |
2011-11-06 |
| 91. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
46.75 |
0.9216 |
-0.1930 |
255 |
1 |
46.75 |
2011-11-06 |
| 92. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
45.79 |
1.0796 |
-0.3803 |
129 |
1 |
45.79 |
2012-05-27 |
| 93. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
44.79 |
1.0725 |
-0.3762 |
233 |
1 |
44.79 |
2011-11-24 |