| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
98.32 |
1.0944 |
0.2459 |
308 |
1 |
98.32 |
2009-10-12 |
| 2. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
94.39 |
1.0426 |
0.1999 |
323 |
1 |
94.39 |
2009-10-11 |
| 3. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
90.29 |
1.0352 |
0.1561 |
341 |
1 |
90.29 |
2010-04-15 |
| 4. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
90.21 |
1.0183 |
0.1637 |
191 |
1 |
90.21 |
2012-01-07 |
| 5. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
85.21 |
1.0004 |
0.1146 |
212 |
1 |
85.21 |
2011-05-22 |
| 6. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
84.40 |
1.0025 |
0.1087 |
336 |
3 |
78.49 |
2010-02-01 |
| 7. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
84.07 |
1.0696 |
0.0328 |
226 |
1 |
84.07 |
2010-02-01 |
| 8. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
83.93 |
1.0679 |
0.0564 |
177 |
1 |
83.93 |
2011-05-21 |
| 9. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
83.93 |
1.0016 |
0.0978 |
218 |
1 |
83.93 |
2010-04-15 |
| 10. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
83.20 |
0.9672 |
0.1336 |
396 |
1 |
83.20 |
2009-10-12 |
| 11. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
82.72 |
1.0829 |
0.0065 |
288 |
2 |
82.71 |
2010-04-21 |
| 12. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
82.43 |
1.1068 |
0.0176 |
393 |
2 |
81.02 |
2009-10-12 |
| 13. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
82.43 |
1.0521 |
0.0272 |
171 |
1 |
82.43 |
2009-10-12 |
| 14. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
82.18 |
1.0073 |
0.0815 |
369 |
2 |
78.63 |
2009-10-03 |
| 15. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
82.16 |
1.1114 |
-0.0336 |
247 |
1 |
82.16 |
2009-10-11 |
| 16. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
82.06 |
0.9649 |
0.1132 |
193 |
1 |
82.06 |
2010-08-10 |
| 17. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
81.90 |
1.0619 |
0.0187 |
354 |
1 |
81.90 |
2011-05-21 |
| 18. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
81.89 |
1.0396 |
0.0301 |
149 |
1 |
81.89 |
2010-02-01 |
| 19. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
81.82 |
0.9527 |
0.1232 |
251 |
1 |
81.82 |
2010-04-15 |
| 20. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
81.56 |
0.9964 |
0.0762 |
203 |
2 |
81.51 |
2009-10-15 |
| 21. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
81.04 |
1.0331 |
0.0303 |
234 |
1 |
81.04 |
2010-04-15 |
| 22. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
80.51 |
0.9966 |
0.0613 |
259 |
1 |
80.51 |
2009-10-17 |
| 23. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
80.05 |
1.0368 |
0.0165 |
276 |
1 |
80.05 |
2009-10-03 |
| 24. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
79.79 |
1.0257 |
0.0296 |
401 |
1 |
79.79 |
2009-10-12 |
| 25. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
79.73 |
0.9894 |
0.0631 |
323 |
1 |
79.73 |
2010-04-15 |
| 26. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
79.60 |
1.0417 |
0.0022 |
253 |
1 |
79.60 |
2009-10-11 |
| 27. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
79.43 |
1.0141 |
0.0664 |
304 |
1 |
79.43 |
2009-10-11 |
| 28. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
79.41 |
1.0375 |
0.0524 |
200 |
1 |
79.41 |
2009-10-11 |
| 29. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
79.18 |
1.0099 |
0.0280 |
207 |
1 |
79.18 |
2009-10-12 |
| 30. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
79.17 |
1.0485 |
0.0269 |
153 |
1 |
79.17 |
2010-02-01 |
| 31. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
78.92 |
0.9786 |
0.0536 |
193 |
1 |
78.92 |
2011-05-21 |
| 32. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
78.85 |
1.0555 |
-0.0177 |
363 |
1 |
78.85 |
2009-10-03 |
| 33. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
78.79 |
0.9820 |
0.0564 |
267 |
1 |
78.79 |
2009-12-26 |
| 34. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
78.59 |
0.9127 |
0.1180 |
252 |
1 |
78.59 |
2009-10-12 |
| 35. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
78.56 |
1.0077 |
0.0662 |
250 |
1 |
78.56 |
2010-08-10 |
| 36. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
78.44 |
1.0090 |
0.0658 |
282 |
2 |
75.85 |
2009-10-12 |
| 37. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
78.37 |
1.0203 |
0.0131 |
261 |
2 |
78.01 |
2009-10-12 |
| 38. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
78.28 |
0.9376 |
0.1267 |
360 |
1 |
78.28 |
2011-05-21 |
| 39. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
78.03 |
0.9161 |
0.1074 |
200 |
1 |
78.03 |
2009-10-03 |
| 40. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
77.98 |
1.0218 |
0.0002 |
268 |
1 |
77.98 |
2009-10-15 |
| 41. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
77.53 |
0.9723 |
0.0503 |
364 |
1 |
77.53 |
2010-04-21 |
| 42. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
77.36 |
0.9941 |
0.0201 |
217 |
1 |
77.36 |
2010-08-10 |
| 43. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
77.16 |
1.0565 |
-0.0452 |
247 |
1 |
77.16 |
2009-10-03 |
| 44. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
77.05 |
1.0068 |
0.0090 |
358 |
1 |
77.05 |
2009-10-11 |
| 45. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
76.98 |
0.9831 |
0.0365 |
469 |
1 |
76.98 |
2009-11-01 |
| 46. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
76.85 |
1.0320 |
0.0151 |
293 |
1 |
76.85 |
2010-04-21 |
| 47. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
76.78 |
1.0595 |
-0.0481 |
379 |
1 |
76.78 |
2010-02-01 |
| 48. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
76.76 |
1.0261 |
-0.0194 |
273 |
2 |
72.50 |
2009-11-01 |
| 49. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
76.67 |
0.9513 |
0.0599 |
354 |
1 |
76.67 |
2010-04-21 |
| 50. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
76.61 |
1.0025 |
0.0040 |
256 |
1 |
76.61 |
2010-02-01 |
| 51. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
76.50 |
0.9811 |
0.0268 |
272 |
2 |
74.81 |
2009-10-12 |
| 52. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
76.30 |
0.9710 |
0.0250 |
173 |
2 |
71.30 |
2009-10-11 |
| 53. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
76.20 |
0.9109 |
0.0929 |
401 |
1 |
76.20 |
2010-04-15 |
| 54. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
75.97 |
0.9087 |
0.1001 |
393 |
1 |
75.97 |
2010-02-01 |
| 55. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
75.96 |
0.9857 |
0.0113 |
293 |
3 |
70.69 |
2010-04-21 |
| 56. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
75.74 |
0.9844 |
0.0154 |
293 |
1 |
75.74 |
2009-10-17 |
| 57. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
75.48 |
0.9768 |
0.0174 |
387 |
1 |
75.48 |
2009-10-11 |
| 58. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
75.39 |
0.9202 |
0.0695 |
254 |
1 |
75.39 |
2010-02-01 |
| 59. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
75.35 |
0.9461 |
0.0436 |
276 |
1 |
75.35 |
2010-04-21 |
| 60. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
75.23 |
0.9351 |
0.0477 |
190 |
3 |
72.81 |
2010-08-10 |
| 61. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
75.21 |
1.0907 |
-0.1000 |
303 |
1 |
75.21 |
2009-10-03 |
| 62. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
74.90 |
0.9843 |
-0.0054 |
234 |
1 |
74.90 |
2009-10-12 |
| 63. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
74.87 |
0.9846 |
-0.0022 |
281 |
1 |
74.87 |
2009-10-12 |
| 64. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
74.66 |
0.9619 |
0.0240 |
393 |
1 |
74.66 |
2011-05-21 |
| 65. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
74.47 |
0.9088 |
0.0745 |
348 |
1 |
74.47 |
2009-10-11 |
| 66. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
74.17 |
0.9593 |
0.0196 |
398 |
1 |
74.17 |
2009-10-04 |
| 67. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
74.16 |
0.8602 |
0.1116 |
206 |
1 |
74.16 |
2010-04-15 |
| 68. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
73.52 |
0.8753 |
0.0994 |
427 |
1 |
73.52 |
2009-10-11 |
| 69. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
73.38 |
1.0441 |
-0.0392 |
316 |
1 |
73.38 |
2009-10-03 |
| 70. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
73.22 |
1.0124 |
-0.0533 |
204 |
1 |
73.22 |
2010-02-01 |
| 71. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
73.21 |
1.0038 |
-0.0121 |
237 |
1 |
73.21 |
2011-05-21 |
| 72. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
73.10 |
1.0168 |
-0.0555 |
271 |
1 |
73.10 |
2009-10-03 |
| 73. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
72.77 |
0.9097 |
0.0874 |
464 |
1 |
72.77 |
2009-10-03 |
| 74. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
72.12 |
0.9899 |
-0.0477 |
163 |
1 |
72.12 |
2010-04-15 |
| 75. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
71.82 |
0.9851 |
-0.0400 |
317 |
1 |
71.82 |
2010-08-10 |
| 76. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
71.63 |
0.9546 |
0.0171 |
198 |
1 |
71.63 |
2009-10-15 |
| 77. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
71.62 |
1.0346 |
-0.0524 |
244 |
1 |
71.62 |
2009-10-03 |
| 78. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
71.56 |
1.0515 |
-0.1140 |
250 |
1 |
71.56 |
2009-10-03 |
| 79. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
71.31 |
1.0165 |
-0.0765 |
392 |
1 |
71.31 |
2009-10-03 |
| 80. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
71.17 |
1.0529 |
-0.1188 |
351 |
1 |
71.17 |
2009-10-11 |
| 81. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
70.78 |
0.9936 |
-0.0649 |
311 |
1 |
70.78 |
2009-10-03 |
| 82. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
70.05 |
0.9942 |
-0.0661 |
483 |
1 |
70.05 |
2009-10-03 |
| 83. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
69.67 |
0.9532 |
-0.0402 |
258 |
1 |
69.67 |
2009-10-03 |
| 84. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
69.39 |
1.0577 |
-0.1507 |
247 |
1 |
69.39 |
2009-10-03 |
| 85. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
68.48 |
0.9049 |
-0.0011 |
351 |
1 |
68.48 |
2009-10-12 |
| 86. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
68.46 |
0.8595 |
0.0405 |
242 |
1 |
68.46 |
2009-10-17 |
| 87. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
68.05 |
0.9709 |
-0.0372 |
397 |
1 |
68.05 |
2009-10-03 |
| 88. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
67.69 |
0.9468 |
-0.0594 |
276 |
2 |
67.60 |
2009-10-03 |
| 89. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
67.60 |
1.0023 |
-0.1175 |
211 |
1 |
67.60 |
2009-10-03 |
| 90. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
67.60 |
1.0390 |
-0.1561 |
205 |
1 |
67.60 |
2009-10-03 |
| 91. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
67.35 |
0.9731 |
-0.1022 |
129 |
1 |
67.35 |
2009-10-03 |
| 92. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
67.33 |
0.9792 |
-0.0577 |
265 |
1 |
67.33 |
2011-05-22 |
| 93. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
67.30 |
0.9583 |
-0.0319 |
341 |
1 |
67.30 |
2009-10-03 |
| 94. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
65.98 |
0.9682 |
-0.1049 |
143 |
2 |
64.52 |
2009-10-04 |
| 95. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
65.44 |
1.0328 |
-0.1367 |
356 |
1 |
65.44 |
2009-10-11 |
| 96. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
65.11 |
0.9084 |
-0.0507 |
404 |
1 |
65.11 |
2009-10-03 |
| 97. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
64.98 |
0.9005 |
-0.0501 |
212 |
1 |
64.98 |
2009-10-03 |
| 98. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
63.86 |
0.9464 |
-0.1043 |
323 |
1 |
63.86 |
2009-10-03 |
| 99. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
63.31 |
1.0125 |
-0.1852 |
224 |
1 |
63.31 |
2009-10-03 |
| 100. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
63.13 |
0.9485 |
-0.1196 |
236 |
1 |
63.13 |
2009-10-03 |
| 101. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
62.75 |
1.0349 |
-0.2134 |
234 |
1 |
62.75 |
2009-10-03 |
| 102. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
61.81 |
1.0445 |
-0.2339 |
373 |
1 |
61.81 |
2009-10-03 |
| 103. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
60.88 |
0.9309 |
-0.1355 |
284 |
1 |
60.88 |
2009-10-03 |
| 104. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
60.77 |
0.9293 |
-0.1327 |
355 |
1 |
60.77 |
2009-11-01 |
| 105. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
56.29 |
0.9289 |
-0.1950 |
204 |
1 |
56.29 |
2009-10-03 |
| 106. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
48.50 |
0.9212 |
-0.2854 |
323 |
1 |
48.50 |
2009-10-24 |