| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
61.17 |
1.0333 |
0.4017 |
176 |
1 |
61.17 |
2013-02-22 |
| 2. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
58.09 |
0.9684 |
0.3959 |
240 |
1 |
58.09 |
2013-02-23 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
57.30 |
1.1086 |
0.2404 |
233 |
2 |
50.72 |
2010-10-01 |
| 4. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
56.82 |
1.0225 |
0.3069 |
152 |
1 |
56.82 |
2010-11-22 |
| 5. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
55.74 |
0.9213 |
0.3882 |
165 |
3 |
46.58 |
2011-06-26 |
| 6. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
54.37 |
0.9255 |
0.3545 |
174 |
3 |
44.02 |
2010-10-01 |
| 7. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
53.96 |
1.0960 |
0.1777 |
315 |
1 |
53.96 |
2010-11-22 |
| 8. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
53.41 |
0.8572 |
0.3977 |
232 |
1 |
53.41 |
2010-10-01 |
| 9. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
53.16 |
1.0543 |
0.1931 |
182 |
2 |
45.32 |
2010-02-20 |
| 10. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
51.84 |
0.8988 |
0.3199 |
193 |
1 |
51.84 |
2013-02-22 |
| 11. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.77 |
1.0800 |
0.1308 |
129 |
1 |
51.77 |
2010-10-22 |
| 12. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
51.58 |
1.0039 |
0.2156 |
255 |
1 |
51.58 |
2013-03-09 |
| 13. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
51.26 |
1.0291 |
0.1746 |
240 |
2 |
42.93 |
2011-09-17 |
| 14. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
51.05 |
0.9204 |
0.2812 |
121 |
1 |
51.05 |
2010-02-20 |
| 15. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
50.55 |
1.0194 |
0.1675 |
224 |
1 |
50.55 |
2010-10-22 |
| 16. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
50.53 |
1.0800 |
0.1056 |
213 |
1 |
50.53 |
2011-09-17 |
| 17. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
50.43 |
1.1198 |
0.0653 |
247 |
1 |
50.43 |
2010-10-01 |
| 18. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
50.39 |
1.0403 |
0.1432 |
234 |
1 |
50.39 |
2010-09-30 |
| 19. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
49.00 |
1.0561 |
0.0943 |
227 |
1 |
49.00 |
2010-02-26 |
| 20. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
48.93 |
0.9932 |
0.1651 |
281 |
1 |
48.93 |
2010-10-01 |
| 21. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
48.63 |
1.0130 |
0.1307 |
288 |
2 |
40.71 |
2013-02-22 |
| 22. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
48.58 |
0.9614 |
0.1825 |
195 |
1 |
48.58 |
2010-11-22 |
| 23. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
48.45 |
1.0079 |
0.1304 |
273 |
1 |
48.45 |
2010-10-22 |
| 24. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
48.38 |
1.0426 |
0.0911 |
131 |
2 |
40.62 |
2011-09-17 |
| 25. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
48.38 |
0.9459 |
0.1948 |
188 |
1 |
48.38 |
2010-10-01 |
| 26. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
48.11 |
1.0372 |
0.0937 |
249 |
2 |
47.36 |
2011-09-17 |
| 27. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
47.47 |
1.0101 |
0.1079 |
336 |
2 |
39.62 |
2010-10-01 |
| 28. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
47.47 |
0.9102 |
0.2112 |
239 |
2 |
44.56 |
2010-02-16 |
| 29. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
47.45 |
0.9206 |
0.1956 |
317 |
1 |
47.45 |
2010-09-30 |
| 30. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
47.34 |
1.0867 |
0.0220 |
171 |
1 |
47.34 |
2011-04-16 |
| 31. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
47.20 |
0.9925 |
0.1131 |
155 |
2 |
45.50 |
2010-10-22 |
| 32. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
47.20 |
0.9315 |
0.1801 |
273 |
3 |
38.27 |
2010-09-30 |
| 33. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
47.14 |
0.9023 |
0.2047 |
268 |
1 |
47.14 |
2010-02-20 |
| 34. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
47.07 |
1.0095 |
0.0958 |
211 |
1 |
47.07 |
2013-02-22 |
| 35. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
46.95 |
1.0086 |
0.0910 |
218 |
1 |
46.95 |
2010-09-30 |
| 36. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
46.92 |
0.9756 |
0.1269 |
223 |
1 |
46.92 |
2009-12-23 |
| 37. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
46.31 |
1.0615 |
0.0242 |
201 |
1 |
46.31 |
2009-12-10 |
| 38. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
45.95 |
1.0112 |
0.0680 |
242 |
1 |
45.95 |
2010-03-12 |
| 39. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
45.76 |
1.0332 |
0.0419 |
267 |
1 |
45.76 |
2010-03-11 |
| 40. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
45.74 |
0.9084 |
0.1684 |
271 |
1 |
45.74 |
2010-10-01 |
| 41. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
45.52 |
0.9930 |
0.0861 |
350 |
1 |
45.52 |
2010-09-30 |
| 42. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
45.23 |
0.9536 |
0.1181 |
311 |
1 |
45.23 |
2013-02-22 |
| 43. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
45.18 |
1.0132 |
0.0494 |
371 |
1 |
45.18 |
2010-02-26 |
| 44. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
45.04 |
0.9829 |
0.0751 |
229 |
1 |
45.04 |
2010-10-22 |
| 45. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
45.01 |
1.0576 |
-0.0024 |
231 |
1 |
45.01 |
2011-06-26 |
| 46. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
44.71 |
0.9836 |
0.0590 |
123 |
1 |
44.71 |
2013-02-22 |
| 47. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
44.64 |
0.9137 |
0.1375 |
342 |
1 |
44.64 |
2010-09-30 |
| 48. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
44.62 |
1.0498 |
0.0002 |
261 |
2 |
44.28 |
2010-02-16 |
| 49. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
44.52 |
1.0845 |
-0.0392 |
212 |
1 |
44.52 |
2009-12-03 |
| 50. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
44.42 |
0.9123 |
0.1410 |
351 |
1 |
44.42 |
2013-02-22 |
| 51. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
44.34 |
1.0004 |
0.0444 |
373 |
1 |
44.34 |
2010-02-20 |
| 52. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
44.26 |
0.9368 |
0.0970 |
176 |
1 |
44.26 |
2010-10-01 |
| 53. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
44.19 |
1.0881 |
-0.0534 |
210 |
1 |
44.19 |
2010-02-16 |
| 54. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
44.17 |
1.0759 |
-0.0322 |
273 |
1 |
44.17 |
2009-12-23 |
| 55. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
44.13 |
0.9801 |
0.0653 |
282 |
2 |
43.03 |
2013-02-22 |
| 56. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
44.04 |
1.0131 |
0.0254 |
245 |
1 |
44.04 |
2010-10-22 |
| 57. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
44.03 |
0.8957 |
0.1391 |
186 |
1 |
44.03 |
2013-02-21 |
| 58. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
44.03 |
0.9957 |
0.0389 |
323 |
2 |
41.25 |
2010-03-12 |
| 59. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
43.99 |
1.0243 |
0.0134 |
153 |
1 |
43.99 |
2009-12-23 |
| 60. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
43.63 |
1.0639 |
-0.0374 |
303 |
1 |
43.63 |
2010-10-22 |
| 61. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
43.62 |
0.8775 |
0.1422 |
185 |
1 |
43.62 |
2011-09-17 |
| 62. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
43.42 |
0.9468 |
0.0734 |
318 |
1 |
43.42 |
2013-02-23 |
| 63. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
43.35 |
1.0082 |
0.0055 |
212 |
1 |
43.35 |
2010-10-01 |
| 64. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
43.35 |
0.9991 |
0.0190 |
339 |
2 |
39.88 |
2010-09-30 |
| 65. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
43.03 |
1.0567 |
-0.0458 |
314 |
1 |
43.03 |
2011-09-17 |
| 66. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
42.91 |
1.0418 |
-0.0327 |
214 |
2 |
42.34 |
2010-02-16 |
| 67. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
42.59 |
0.9931 |
0.0038 |
218 |
1 |
42.59 |
2010-01-22 |
| 68. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
42.49 |
0.9561 |
0.0497 |
364 |
1 |
42.49 |
2010-09-30 |
| 69. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
42.47 |
0.9636 |
0.0329 |
281 |
1 |
42.47 |
2009-12-10 |
| 70. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
42.42 |
1.0106 |
-0.0148 |
302 |
1 |
42.42 |
2011-06-26 |
| 71. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
42.42 |
0.9561 |
0.0423 |
362 |
3 |
41.17 |
2010-09-30 |
| 72. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
42.10 |
0.9928 |
-0.0042 |
293 |
1 |
42.10 |
2009-12-23 |
| 73. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
42.02 |
0.9756 |
0.0143 |
216 |
2 |
41.62 |
2010-10-01 |
| 74. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
42.01 |
1.0588 |
-0.0716 |
281 |
1 |
42.01 |
2010-01-22 |
| 75. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
41.89 |
0.8805 |
0.1037 |
205 |
1 |
41.89 |
2009-12-02 |
| 76. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
41.76 |
0.9631 |
0.0176 |
273 |
2 |
38.98 |
2010-02-26 |
| 77. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
41.58 |
0.8824 |
0.0962 |
202 |
1 |
41.58 |
2009-12-26 |
| 78. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
41.49 |
0.8339 |
0.1404 |
209 |
1 |
41.49 |
2013-02-21 |
| 79. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
41.45 |
0.9243 |
0.0516 |
240 |
1 |
41.45 |
2010-02-20 |
| 80. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
41.23 |
1.0279 |
-0.0650 |
172 |
1 |
41.23 |
2009-12-02 |
| 81. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
41.20 |
0.8856 |
0.0899 |
369 |
2 |
38.51 |
2013-02-23 |
| 82. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
41.02 |
0.8770 |
0.0866 |
163 |
1 |
41.02 |
2010-10-22 |
| 83. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
40.94 |
0.9791 |
-0.0239 |
154 |
1 |
40.94 |
2010-09-30 |
| 84. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
40.84 |
1.0617 |
-0.1042 |
171 |
2 |
38.81 |
2009-12-18 |
| 85. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
40.76 |
1.0873 |
-0.1328 |
243 |
2 |
40.40 |
2010-02-16 |
| 86. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
40.64 |
0.9685 |
-0.0131 |
304 |
1 |
40.64 |
2011-04-16 |
| 87. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
40.46 |
0.9927 |
-0.0417 |
276 |
1 |
40.46 |
2009-12-10 |
| 88. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
40.21 |
0.9101 |
0.0383 |
351 |
1 |
40.21 |
2011-09-17 |
| 89. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
40.03 |
0.9517 |
-0.0127 |
276 |
1 |
40.03 |
2010-03-11 |
| 90. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
39.86 |
0.9128 |
0.0206 |
237 |
1 |
39.86 |
2009-12-26 |
| 91. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
39.63 |
0.9709 |
-0.0414 |
264 |
1 |
39.63 |
2010-10-01 |
| 92. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
39.59 |
1.0287 |
-0.1000 |
269 |
1 |
39.59 |
2009-12-18 |
| 93. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
39.04 |
0.9836 |
-0.0667 |
289 |
1 |
39.04 |
2009-12-02 |
| 94. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
38.99 |
0.9757 |
-0.0633 |
176 |
1 |
38.99 |
2009-12-02 |
| 95. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
38.63 |
0.9915 |
-0.0852 |
281 |
1 |
38.63 |
2009-12-03 |
| 96. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
38.56 |
0.9779 |
-0.0739 |
255 |
2 |
36.94 |
2009-12-23 |
| 97. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
38.47 |
0.9820 |
-0.0702 |
297 |
1 |
38.47 |
2009-12-18 |
| 98. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
38.43 |
0.9480 |
-0.0444 |
297 |
1 |
38.43 |
2009-12-23 |
| 99. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
38.40 |
0.9841 |
-0.0710 |
325 |
1 |
38.40 |
2009-12-03 |
| 100. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
38.34 |
0.8936 |
0.0056 |
346 |
1 |
38.34 |
2010-02-26 |
| 101. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
38.31 |
0.8666 |
0.0305 |
206 |
1 |
38.31 |
2009-12-02 |
| 102. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
38.29 |
0.9852 |
-0.0867 |
235 |
1 |
38.29 |
2009-12-10 |
| 103. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
38.28 |
0.9271 |
-0.0257 |
323 |
1 |
38.28 |
2009-12-23 |
| 104. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
38.11 |
1.0042 |
-0.1131 |
168 |
1 |
38.11 |
2009-12-10 |
| 105. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
38.07 |
0.9264 |
-0.0316 |
177 |
1 |
38.07 |
2010-09-30 |
| 106. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
38.02 |
0.9704 |
-0.0777 |
254 |
1 |
38.02 |
2009-12-10 |
| 107. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
37.99 |
1.0063 |
-0.1094 |
293 |
2 |
37.18 |
2010-10-01 |
| 108. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
37.66 |
1.0414 |
-0.1581 |
234 |
1 |
37.66 |
2009-12-02 |
| 109. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
37.60 |
1.0010 |
-0.1143 |
213 |
1 |
37.60 |
2010-02-26 |
| 110. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
37.47 |
0.8827 |
-0.0070 |
190 |
1 |
37.47 |
2009-12-02 |
| 111. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
37.08 |
0.9357 |
-0.0674 |
204 |
1 |
37.08 |
2009-12-03 |
| 112. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
37.07 |
0.9371 |
-0.0756 |
156 |
1 |
37.07 |
2009-12-02 |
| 113. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
36.94 |
0.9866 |
-0.1190 |
308 |
1 |
36.94 |
2010-03-11 |
| 114. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
36.89 |
0.8218 |
0.0443 |
163 |
1 |
36.89 |
2010-02-16 |
| 115. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
36.72 |
0.9011 |
-0.0359 |
322 |
1 |
36.72 |
2009-12-03 |
| 116. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
36.54 |
1.0487 |
-0.1932 |
253 |
1 |
36.54 |
2010-02-26 |
| 117. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
36.38 |
0.9392 |
-0.0791 |
360 |
1 |
36.38 |
2013-03-02 |
| 118. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
35.71 |
0.9538 |
-0.1159 |
276 |
1 |
35.71 |
2010-02-26 |
| 119. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
35.55 |
1.1070 |
-0.2738 |
265 |
1 |
35.55 |
2009-12-10 |
| 120. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
35.50 |
0.9310 |
-0.0984 |
278 |
1 |
35.50 |
2010-10-22 |
| 121. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
35.24 |
0.8913 |
-0.0628 |
201 |
1 |
35.24 |
2010-10-01 |
| 122. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
34.42 |
0.8603 |
-0.0528 |
270 |
1 |
34.42 |
2009-12-18 |
| 123. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
34.39 |
1.0493 |
-0.2355 |
264 |
1 |
34.39 |
2010-02-20 |
| 124. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
33.96 |
0.9012 |
-0.1010 |
322 |
1 |
33.96 |
2010-10-01 |
| 125. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
33.72 |
0.8869 |
-0.0982 |
176 |
1 |
33.72 |
2013-03-02 |
| 126. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
31.99 |
0.9400 |
-0.1872 |
434 |
1 |
31.99 |
2009-11-30 |
| 127. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
31.87 |
1.0600 |
-0.3124 |
351 |
1 |
31.87 |
2009-12-02 |
| 128. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
31.82 |
1.0125 |
-0.2713 |
171 |
1 |
31.82 |
2010-10-01 |
| 129. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
31.74 |
0.8208 |
-0.0736 |
149 |
1 |
31.74 |
2010-02-26 |
| 130. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
31.65 |
0.9809 |
-0.2427 |
209 |
2 |
29.19 |
2009-12-02 |
| 131. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
31.43 |
0.9880 |
-0.2553 |
199 |
1 |
31.43 |
2010-09-30 |
| 132. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
31.28 |
0.8966 |
-0.1639 |
366 |
1 |
31.28 |
2009-12-02 |
| 133. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
30.93 |
0.9561 |
-0.2277 |
291 |
1 |
30.93 |
2009-12-18 |
| 134. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
30.92 |
1.0125 |
-0.2891 |
232 |
1 |
30.92 |
2010-02-16 |
| 135. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
30.82 |
0.9927 |
-0.2735 |
234 |
1 |
30.82 |
2009-12-10 |
| 136. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
29.40 |
0.9974 |
-0.3124 |
163 |
1 |
29.40 |
2010-10-01 |
| 137. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
28.22 |
0.9809 |
-0.3121 |
250 |
1 |
28.22 |
2009-12-02 |
| 138. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
28.12 |
0.9258 |
-0.2625 |
184 |
1 |
28.12 |
2009-12-02 |
| 139. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
23.69 |
0.9841 |
-0.4335 |
217 |
1 |
23.69 |
2009-12-23 |