| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
114.15 |
1.0561 |
0.2725 |
430 |
3 |
105.18 |
2012-12-19 |
| 2. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
108.95 |
1.0254 |
0.2685 |
217 |
2 |
103.01 |
2012-12-14 |
| 3. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
106.20 |
1.0763 |
0.1798 |
367 |
1 |
106.20 |
2012-11-15 |
| 4. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
105.01 |
1.0151 |
0.1841 |
152 |
2 |
95.95 |
2012-11-13 |
| 5. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
102.34 |
1.0412 |
0.1324 |
225 |
1 |
102.34 |
2012-10-16 |
| 6. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
101.83 |
0.9612 |
0.2069 |
256 |
1 |
101.83 |
2012-11-15 |
| 7. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
101.63 |
1.0666 |
0.0975 |
297 |
2 |
79.34 |
2012-11-15 |
| 8. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
101.63 |
1.0213 |
0.1421 |
240 |
1 |
101.63 |
2012-11-15 |
| 9. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
101.51 |
1.0709 |
0.1263 |
392 |
1 |
101.51 |
2012-11-15 |
| 10. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
101.44 |
1.0390 |
0.1210 |
205 |
1 |
101.44 |
2012-12-04 |
| 11. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
101.06 |
1.0972 |
0.0912 |
251 |
1 |
101.06 |
2011-10-05 |
| 12. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
100.85 |
1.0797 |
0.0730 |
210 |
1 |
100.85 |
2012-11-26 |
| 13. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
100.21 |
1.0608 |
0.1227 |
258 |
2 |
97.73 |
2012-12-14 |
| 14. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
100.11 |
1.0352 |
0.1134 |
341 |
1 |
100.11 |
2012-10-16 |
| 15. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
99.76 |
0.9776 |
0.1660 |
308 |
1 |
99.76 |
2012-11-13 |
| 16. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
99.76 |
1.0292 |
0.1137 |
262 |
1 |
99.76 |
2012-11-19 |
| 17. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
99.71 |
1.0261 |
0.1155 |
273 |
2 |
89.85 |
2012-11-15 |
| 18. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
99.40 |
1.0177 |
0.1555 |
392 |
1 |
99.40 |
2012-10-04 |
| 19. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
98.98 |
1.0496 |
0.0843 |
314 |
1 |
98.98 |
2012-11-15 |
| 20. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
98.80 |
1.0711 |
0.0572 |
213 |
1 |
98.80 |
2012-11-15 |
| 21. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
98.51 |
0.9916 |
0.1790 |
282 |
2 |
90.24 |
2011-10-07 |
| 22. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
98.30 |
0.9619 |
0.1677 |
393 |
2 |
96.09 |
2012-11-15 |
| 23. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
98.19 |
0.9303 |
0.1907 |
176 |
1 |
98.19 |
2011-10-05 |
| 24. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
97.96 |
1.0117 |
0.1550 |
297 |
1 |
97.96 |
2012-10-11 |
| 25. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
97.81 |
1.0314 |
0.1243 |
452 |
1 |
97.81 |
2012-10-15 |
| 26. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
97.79 |
1.0183 |
0.0994 |
191 |
1 |
97.79 |
2011-10-06 |
| 27. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
97.66 |
1.0232 |
0.1409 |
350 |
1 |
97.66 |
2011-10-06 |
| 28. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
97.39 |
1.0905 |
0.0601 |
210 |
2 |
92.52 |
2012-11-26 |
| 29. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
97.38 |
1.0340 |
0.0843 |
406 |
1 |
97.38 |
2012-11-15 |
| 30. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
97.19 |
1.0941 |
0.0525 |
256 |
1 |
97.19 |
2012-11-13 |
| 31. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
97.17 |
0.9649 |
0.1483 |
193 |
1 |
97.17 |
2012-10-15 |
| 32. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
97.03 |
0.9540 |
0.1578 |
285 |
1 |
97.03 |
2012-11-19 |
| 33. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
96.53 |
1.0398 |
0.0601 |
110 |
1 |
96.53 |
2011-10-06 |
| 34. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
96.43 |
1.0498 |
0.0522 |
180 |
1 |
96.43 |
2012-11-15 |
| 35. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
96.23 |
0.9966 |
0.1060 |
259 |
2 |
94.95 |
2012-12-04 |
| 36. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
95.74 |
1.0368 |
0.0597 |
276 |
1 |
95.74 |
2011-10-05 |
| 37. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
95.33 |
1.0719 |
0.0485 |
360 |
1 |
95.33 |
2011-10-05 |
| 38. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
95.08 |
1.0109 |
0.0787 |
276 |
1 |
95.08 |
2012-11-15 |
| 39. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
95.05 |
0.9430 |
0.1436 |
211 |
2 |
93.13 |
2012-10-11 |
| 40. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
94.97 |
1.0679 |
0.0449 |
177 |
1 |
94.97 |
2012-10-11 |
| 41. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
94.96 |
0.9532 |
0.1343 |
258 |
2 |
94.49 |
2012-10-15 |
| 42. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
94.89 |
0.8981 |
0.1914 |
393 |
1 |
94.89 |
2012-10-30 |
| 43. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
94.48 |
0.9468 |
0.1350 |
276 |
4 |
85.93 |
2012-12-19 |
| 44. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
94.19 |
1.0487 |
0.0273 |
231 |
1 |
94.19 |
2012-10-11 |
| 45. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
93.25 |
0.9768 |
0.0928 |
387 |
1 |
93.25 |
2012-11-13 |
| 46. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
93.08 |
1.0261 |
0.0755 |
410 |
1 |
93.08 |
2012-11-13 |
| 47. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
92.74 |
1.1068 |
-0.0089 |
393 |
1 |
92.74 |
2011-10-05 |
| 48. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
92.73 |
0.9785 |
0.0856 |
335 |
1 |
92.73 |
2012-10-15 |
| 49. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
92.14 |
1.0150 |
0.0861 |
325 |
1 |
92.14 |
2012-11-13 |
| 50. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
92.01 |
1.0644 |
0.0259 |
257 |
1 |
92.01 |
2012-11-13 |
| 51. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
91.96 |
1.0232 |
0.0664 |
236 |
1 |
91.96 |
2012-11-15 |
| 52. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
91.56 |
1.0389 |
0.0109 |
340 |
1 |
91.56 |
2011-10-05 |
| 53. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
91.52 |
1.0016 |
0.0445 |
218 |
1 |
91.52 |
2012-10-16 |
| 54. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
91.35 |
0.9072 |
0.1380 |
237 |
1 |
91.35 |
2011-10-06 |
| 55. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
91.29 |
0.9925 |
0.0905 |
247 |
1 |
91.29 |
2012-11-15 |
| 56. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
91.19 |
1.0034 |
0.0401 |
302 |
1 |
91.19 |
2012-11-15 |
| 57. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
91.11 |
0.9833 |
0.0613 |
355 |
2 |
89.23 |
2011-10-06 |
| 58. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
91.08 |
1.0669 |
0.0095 |
213 |
2 |
90.39 |
2011-10-05 |
| 59. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
91.07 |
0.9936 |
0.0490 |
311 |
1 |
91.07 |
2011-10-05 |
| 60. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
91.02 |
0.9049 |
0.1402 |
351 |
2 |
81.11 |
2012-12-04 |
| 61. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
90.78 |
0.9529 |
0.1266 |
269 |
2 |
79.94 |
2012-12-04 |
| 62. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
90.41 |
0.8961 |
0.1389 |
189 |
1 |
90.41 |
2012-10-11 |
| 63. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
90.33 |
1.0073 |
0.0307 |
369 |
1 |
90.33 |
2012-11-15 |
| 64. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
90.19 |
0.9216 |
0.1479 |
255 |
1 |
90.19 |
2012-11-13 |
| 65. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
89.92 |
1.0197 |
0.0082 |
226 |
1 |
89.92 |
2012-11-13 |
| 66. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
89.78 |
0.9866 |
0.0394 |
218 |
2 |
81.93 |
2012-11-13 |
| 67. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
89.39 |
0.9994 |
0.0548 |
269 |
2 |
88.31 |
2012-06-24 |
| 68. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
89.24 |
1.0555 |
-0.0073 |
323 |
1 |
89.24 |
2011-10-05 |
| 69. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
89.10 |
1.0320 |
0.0270 |
293 |
2 |
79.73 |
2012-10-16 |
| 70. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
88.55 |
1.0031 |
0.0452 |
304 |
1 |
88.55 |
2012-10-11 |
| 71. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
88.54 |
1.0095 |
0.0042 |
316 |
1 |
88.54 |
2011-10-05 |
| 72. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
88.47 |
0.9383 |
0.0909 |
471 |
1 |
88.47 |
2012-11-13 |
| 73. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
88.45 |
0.9266 |
0.0858 |
267 |
1 |
88.45 |
2012-10-15 |
| 74. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
88.38 |
0.9912 |
0.0500 |
237 |
1 |
88.38 |
2011-10-05 |
| 75. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
88.19 |
0.9756 |
0.0332 |
229 |
1 |
88.19 |
2011-10-05 |
| 76. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
88.02 |
0.9583 |
0.0903 |
341 |
1 |
88.02 |
2011-10-05 |
| 77. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
87.91 |
1.0534 |
-0.0464 |
357 |
1 |
87.91 |
2011-10-05 |
| 78. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
86.98 |
1.0337 |
-0.0394 |
214 |
1 |
86.98 |
2011-10-05 |
| 79. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
86.97 |
0.9671 |
0.0461 |
379 |
1 |
86.97 |
2011-10-06 |
| 80. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
86.36 |
0.9286 |
0.0585 |
194 |
1 |
86.36 |
2011-10-05 |
| 81. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
86.33 |
0.9430 |
0.0466 |
297 |
1 |
86.33 |
2011-10-05 |
| 82. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
85.99 |
0.9278 |
0.0582 |
295 |
1 |
85.99 |
2012-11-15 |
| 83. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
85.86 |
0.9631 |
0.0665 |
345 |
1 |
85.86 |
2012-11-13 |
| 84. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
85.52 |
0.9986 |
-0.0197 |
283 |
1 |
85.52 |
2012-12-04 |
| 85. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
85.02 |
0.9798 |
-0.0104 |
199 |
1 |
85.02 |
2012-11-19 |
| 86. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
84.82 |
0.9398 |
0.0358 |
419 |
1 |
84.82 |
2012-06-24 |
| 87. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
84.67 |
1.0547 |
-0.0484 |
257 |
1 |
84.67 |
2011-10-05 |
| 88. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
84.46 |
0.9852 |
-0.0188 |
264 |
2 |
57.57 |
2012-12-14 |
| 89. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
84.42 |
0.9557 |
0.0139 |
331 |
2 |
82.67 |
2012-11-13 |
| 90. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
83.87 |
0.9844 |
-0.0234 |
293 |
1 |
83.87 |
2012-07-02 |
| 91. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
83.56 |
0.9570 |
-0.0004 |
287 |
1 |
83.56 |
2011-10-06 |
| 92. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
83.44 |
1.0169 |
-0.0257 |
346 |
1 |
83.44 |
2011-10-05 |
| 93. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
82.89 |
0.9881 |
-0.0032 |
424 |
1 |
82.89 |
2012-10-08 |
| 94. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
82.87 |
0.9289 |
0.0182 |
204 |
1 |
82.87 |
2012-11-13 |
| 95. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
82.77 |
0.9922 |
-0.0073 |
341 |
1 |
82.77 |
2011-10-06 |
| 96. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
82.77 |
0.9646 |
-0.0180 |
264 |
1 |
82.77 |
2012-10-15 |
| 97. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
82.65 |
1.0211 |
-0.0432 |
213 |
1 |
82.65 |
2012-11-15 |
| 98. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
82.64 |
0.8722 |
0.0752 |
285 |
2 |
55.00 |
2012-10-15 |
| 99. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
81.88 |
0.9769 |
-0.0415 |
263 |
1 |
81.88 |
2011-10-06 |
| 100. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
81.73 |
0.9635 |
-0.0268 |
389 |
2 |
74.66 |
2011-10-07 |
| 101. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
81.25 |
0.9790 |
-0.0108 |
311 |
1 |
81.25 |
2011-10-05 |
| 102. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
81.03 |
0.8105 |
0.1143 |
204 |
1 |
81.03 |
2012-10-11 |
| 103. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
80.66 |
0.9731 |
-0.0567 |
129 |
1 |
80.66 |
2012-10-08 |
| 104. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
80.66 |
0.9897 |
-0.0680 |
274 |
1 |
80.66 |
2011-10-05 |
| 105. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
80.52 |
0.8996 |
0.0184 |
192 |
1 |
80.52 |
2011-10-05 |
| 106. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
80.02 |
1.0462 |
-0.1343 |
184 |
2 |
78.94 |
2012-10-11 |
| 107. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
79.60 |
0.9739 |
-0.0309 |
412 |
1 |
79.60 |
2011-10-05 |
| 108. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
79.55 |
0.9429 |
-0.0328 |
287 |
1 |
79.55 |
2011-10-05 |
| 109. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
79.17 |
1.0459 |
-0.1061 |
200 |
1 |
79.17 |
2011-10-05 |
| 110. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
77.91 |
0.9811 |
-0.0891 |
272 |
1 |
77.91 |
2011-10-06 |
| 111. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
77.85 |
1.0677 |
-0.1469 |
284 |
1 |
77.85 |
2012-10-15 |
| 112. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
77.69 |
0.9857 |
-0.0978 |
293 |
1 |
77.69 |
2011-10-05 |
| 113. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
77.31 |
0.9665 |
-0.0343 |
326 |
1 |
77.31 |
2011-10-05 |
| 114. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
76.82 |
1.0120 |
-0.1335 |
290 |
1 |
76.82 |
2011-10-07 |
| 115. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
76.30 |
0.9673 |
-0.0542 |
232 |
1 |
76.30 |
2011-10-06 |
| 116. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
74.77 |
1.0968 |
-0.2094 |
365 |
1 |
74.77 |
2011-10-06 |
| 117. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
74.55 |
0.8670 |
-0.0134 |
318 |
1 |
74.55 |
2011-10-06 |
| 118. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
74.33 |
0.8595 |
-0.0093 |
242 |
1 |
74.33 |
2012-11-13 |
| 119. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
73.91 |
0.9074 |
-0.0594 |
396 |
1 |
73.91 |
2011-10-05 |
| 120. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
73.42 |
0.8467 |
0.0167 |
343 |
1 |
73.42 |
2012-12-04 |
| 121. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
73.13 |
0.9243 |
-0.0546 |
448 |
1 |
73.13 |
2011-10-06 |
| 122. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
72.92 |
0.9084 |
-0.0742 |
300 |
1 |
72.92 |
2011-10-05 |
| 123. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
72.76 |
0.9527 |
-0.1214 |
251 |
1 |
72.76 |
2012-10-15 |
| 124. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
72.45 |
0.8792 |
-0.0459 |
296 |
2 |
50.15 |
2011-10-05 |
| 125. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
72.09 |
0.9064 |
-0.0774 |
399 |
1 |
72.09 |
2011-10-05 |
| 126. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
71.50 |
0.9109 |
-0.0927 |
401 |
1 |
71.50 |
2012-12-04 |
| 127. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
70.55 |
0.9023 |
-0.0523 |
231 |
1 |
70.55 |
2012-10-11 |
| 128. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
69.79 |
0.9485 |
-0.1510 |
236 |
1 |
69.79 |
2011-10-05 |
| 129. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
67.17 |
0.9247 |
-0.1566 |
253 |
1 |
67.17 |
2011-10-06 |
| 130. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.75 |
0.9202 |
-0.1582 |
254 |
1 |
66.75 |
2012-10-11 |
| 131. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
66.63 |
0.9359 |
-0.1411 |
353 |
1 |
66.63 |
2011-10-06 |
| 132. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
63.44 |
0.8933 |
-0.1659 |
363 |
1 |
63.44 |
2011-10-05 |
| 133. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
55.73 |
0.8919 |
-0.2580 |
205 |
1 |
55.73 |
2011-10-05 |