| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
56.67 |
1.0515 |
0.3977 |
250 |
2 |
51.75 |
2015-05-29 |
| 2. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
53.43 |
0.9063 |
0.4655 |
239 |
1 |
53.43 |
2015-03-30 |
| 3. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
53.33 |
1.0829 |
0.2816 |
288 |
1 |
53.33 |
2015-01-24 |
| 4. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
52.03 |
0.9781 |
0.3556 |
193 |
2 |
49.54 |
2014-07-09 |
| 5. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
50.51 |
0.9251 |
0.3689 |
177 |
3 |
46.86 |
2015-01-24 |
| 6. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
50.50 |
1.0907 |
0.2011 |
303 |
2 |
45.87 |
2015-01-24 |
| 7. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
50.10 |
1.0515 |
0.2252 |
166 |
1 |
50.10 |
2015-01-24 |
| 8. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
48.86 |
0.9559 |
0.2941 |
195 |
1 |
48.86 |
2015-01-24 |
| 9. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
47.11 |
0.9325 |
0.2704 |
156 |
1 |
47.11 |
2014-11-16 |
| 10. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
46.48 |
1.0669 |
0.1540 |
286 |
1 |
46.48 |
2015-01-24 |
| 11. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
45.48 |
0.9964 |
0.1651 |
203 |
1 |
45.48 |
2015-01-24 |
| 12. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
45.08 |
0.9863 |
0.1674 |
339 |
1 |
45.08 |
2015-01-24 |
| 13. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
44.85 |
0.9576 |
0.1899 |
212 |
1 |
44.85 |
2015-05-29 |
| 14. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
44.74 |
1.1081 |
0.0708 |
206 |
2 |
43.45 |
2014-06-18 |
| 15. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
44.42 |
0.9339 |
0.2007 |
310 |
3 |
38.69 |
2015-01-24 |
| 16. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
44.28 |
1.0232 |
0.1528 |
350 |
1 |
44.28 |
2015-01-24 |
| 17. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
44.26 |
0.8918 |
0.2377 |
100 |
1 |
44.26 |
2014-07-09 |
| 18. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
44.18 |
1.0023 |
0.1245 |
211 |
1 |
44.18 |
2015-08-24 |
| 19. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
43.93 |
1.0016 |
0.1186 |
218 |
1 |
43.93 |
2015-01-24 |
| 20. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
43.74 |
1.0725 |
0.0732 |
233 |
2 |
41.62 |
2015-03-30 |
| 21. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
43.44 |
1.1114 |
-0.0038 |
247 |
1 |
43.44 |
2015-01-24 |
| 22. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
43.17 |
1.0251 |
0.0758 |
261 |
1 |
43.17 |
2015-01-24 |
| 23. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
43.08 |
0.9365 |
0.1645 |
248 |
2 |
40.44 |
2014-11-17 |
| 24. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
43.05 |
1.0796 |
0.0163 |
129 |
2 |
41.11 |
2014-07-09 |
| 25. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
42.89 |
0.8787 |
0.2190 |
202 |
1 |
42.89 |
2015-11-27 |
| 26. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.88 |
0.9293 |
0.1667 |
355 |
1 |
42.88 |
2015-01-24 |
| 27. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
42.66 |
0.9513 |
0.1400 |
354 |
1 |
42.66 |
2015-03-30 |
| 28. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
42.64 |
1.0138 |
0.0742 |
231 |
1 |
42.64 |
2014-11-16 |
| 29. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
42.38 |
1.0534 |
0.0291 |
357 |
1 |
42.38 |
2015-01-24 |
| 30. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
42.37 |
0.9351 |
0.1442 |
190 |
2 |
38.54 |
2014-11-16 |
| 31. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
42.33 |
1.0331 |
0.0455 |
234 |
1 |
42.33 |
2014-07-03 |
| 32. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
42.12 |
0.8968 |
0.1774 |
186 |
1 |
42.12 |
2015-01-24 |
| 33. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
41.93 |
1.1016 |
-0.0319 |
233 |
1 |
41.93 |
2014-06-18 |
| 34. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
41.65 |
1.0205 |
0.0389 |
179 |
1 |
41.65 |
2014-06-18 |
| 35. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
41.60 |
1.0419 |
0.0185 |
261 |
1 |
41.60 |
2015-01-24 |
| 36. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
41.55 |
1.0596 |
0.0000 |
239 |
2 |
40.61 |
2014-07-03 |
| 37. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
41.25 |
1.0696 |
-0.0183 |
226 |
1 |
41.25 |
2014-11-16 |
| 38. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
41.22 |
1.0270 |
0.0612 |
255 |
1 |
41.22 |
2014-11-17 |
| 39. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
41.17 |
0.9646 |
0.0863 |
264 |
1 |
41.17 |
2015-01-24 |
| 40. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
40.89 |
0.9635 |
0.0820 |
389 |
1 |
40.89 |
2015-01-24 |
| 41. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
40.84 |
0.7877 |
0.2576 |
142 |
1 |
40.84 |
2014-11-16 |
| 42. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
40.78 |
0.9598 |
0.0842 |
220 |
1 |
40.78 |
2014-06-18 |
| 43. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
40.77 |
0.9128 |
0.1681 |
369 |
1 |
40.77 |
2015-03-30 |
| 44. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
40.67 |
0.9916 |
0.0886 |
282 |
1 |
40.67 |
2015-01-24 |
| 45. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
40.50 |
0.9168 |
0.1169 |
240 |
1 |
40.50 |
2015-01-24 |
| 46. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
40.45 |
1.0201 |
0.0133 |
303 |
1 |
40.45 |
2015-01-24 |
| 47. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
40.38 |
0.8747 |
0.1522 |
201 |
1 |
40.38 |
2014-07-02 |
| 48. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
40.35 |
0.9303 |
0.0962 |
176 |
2 |
38.53 |
2014-07-09 |
| 49. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
40.00 |
1.0714 |
-0.0547 |
129 |
1 |
40.00 |
2014-11-17 |
| 50. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
39.90 |
1.0183 |
-0.0030 |
191 |
1 |
39.90 |
2014-06-18 |
| 51. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
39.72 |
1.0598 |
-0.0500 |
196 |
1 |
39.72 |
2014-07-03 |
| 52. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
39.31 |
1.0577 |
-0.0566 |
247 |
1 |
39.31 |
2014-07-09 |
| 53. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
39.14 |
0.9612 |
0.0383 |
256 |
2 |
35.56 |
2014-07-03 |
| 54. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
39.04 |
0.9368 |
0.0577 |
173 |
1 |
39.04 |
2014-07-02 |
| 55. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
38.91 |
0.9266 |
0.0666 |
267 |
1 |
38.91 |
2014-11-16 |
| 56. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
38.87 |
1.0604 |
-0.0355 |
260 |
1 |
38.87 |
2014-07-09 |
| 57. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
38.75 |
0.9504 |
0.0358 |
263 |
1 |
38.75 |
2014-07-09 |
| 58. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
38.75 |
1.0013 |
-0.0130 |
273 |
1 |
38.75 |
2014-06-18 |
| 59. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
38.55 |
0.9430 |
0.0391 |
227 |
1 |
38.55 |
2014-07-09 |
| 60. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
38.44 |
0.9908 |
0.0320 |
342 |
1 |
38.44 |
2015-01-24 |
| 61. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
38.44 |
0.9724 |
0.0094 |
237 |
1 |
38.44 |
2014-06-18 |
| 62. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
38.40 |
1.0132 |
-0.0385 |
143 |
3 |
37.13 |
2015-01-24 |
| 63. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
38.37 |
0.9965 |
-0.0179 |
277 |
2 |
38.04 |
2014-07-09 |
| 64. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
38.22 |
0.9798 |
-0.0078 |
199 |
2 |
36.35 |
2014-07-12 |
| 65. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
37.95 |
1.0214 |
-0.0118 |
281 |
1 |
37.95 |
2014-07-03 |
| 66. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
37.92 |
1.0516 |
-0.0842 |
281 |
1 |
37.92 |
2014-10-14 |
| 67. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
37.90 |
0.8951 |
0.0731 |
193 |
1 |
37.90 |
2014-11-17 |
| 68. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
37.81 |
0.9790 |
0.0240 |
311 |
1 |
37.81 |
2015-01-24 |
| 69. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
37.77 |
0.9529 |
0.0507 |
269 |
1 |
37.77 |
2015-01-24 |
| 70. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
37.72 |
1.0379 |
-0.0384 |
245 |
1 |
37.72 |
2014-07-03 |
| 71. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
37.67 |
0.9938 |
-0.0326 |
339 |
1 |
37.67 |
2014-07-09 |
| 72. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
37.66 |
0.9907 |
-0.0310 |
211 |
1 |
37.66 |
2014-07-03 |
| 73. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
37.64 |
0.8520 |
0.1091 |
202 |
2 |
35.24 |
2015-03-30 |
| 74. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
37.62 |
1.0429 |
-0.0843 |
259 |
1 |
37.62 |
2015-01-24 |
| 75. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
37.50 |
0.9986 |
-0.0420 |
283 |
1 |
37.50 |
2014-07-09 |
| 76. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
37.44 |
0.9706 |
-0.0134 |
216 |
1 |
37.44 |
2014-07-03 |
| 77. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
37.29 |
1.0025 |
-0.0517 |
256 |
1 |
37.29 |
2014-06-18 |
| 78. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
37.19 |
0.9884 |
-0.0407 |
233 |
1 |
37.19 |
2014-07-03 |
| 79. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
36.95 |
0.9811 |
-0.0381 |
272 |
1 |
36.95 |
2014-07-09 |
| 80. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
36.83 |
0.8777 |
0.0632 |
177 |
1 |
36.83 |
2014-07-09 |
| 81. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
36.81 |
0.9763 |
-0.0378 |
289 |
2 |
35.86 |
2014-10-14 |
| 82. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
36.75 |
0.8731 |
0.0684 |
199 |
1 |
36.75 |
2014-07-09 |
| 83. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
36.70 |
0.8614 |
0.0739 |
172 |
1 |
36.70 |
2014-07-03 |
| 84. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
36.53 |
1.0292 |
-0.0989 |
262 |
1 |
36.53 |
2014-07-09 |
| 85. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
36.42 |
0.9342 |
-0.0036 |
434 |
1 |
36.42 |
2014-07-09 |
| 86. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
36.29 |
0.9936 |
-0.0444 |
227 |
1 |
36.29 |
2014-07-09 |
| 87. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
36.27 |
0.9125 |
0.0133 |
308 |
1 |
36.27 |
2014-07-03 |
| 88. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
36.20 |
0.9281 |
-0.0015 |
273 |
1 |
36.20 |
2014-07-09 |
| 89. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
36.05 |
0.8852 |
0.0346 |
201 |
1 |
36.05 |
2015-01-24 |
| 90. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
36.05 |
0.9430 |
-0.0220 |
297 |
1 |
36.05 |
2014-06-18 |
| 91. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
36.04 |
1.0297 |
-0.1119 |
249 |
2 |
33.94 |
2014-10-14 |
| 92. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
35.99 |
0.8467 |
0.0955 |
343 |
1 |
35.99 |
2015-01-24 |
| 93. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
35.82 |
1.0506 |
-0.1082 |
277 |
1 |
35.82 |
2015-01-24 |
| 94. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
35.72 |
0.9774 |
-0.0666 |
196 |
1 |
35.72 |
2014-07-08 |
| 95. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
35.60 |
1.0528 |
-0.1479 |
201 |
1 |
35.60 |
2014-06-18 |
| 96. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
35.45 |
0.9855 |
-0.0488 |
258 |
1 |
35.45 |
2014-07-09 |
| 97. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
35.40 |
0.9649 |
-0.0627 |
193 |
1 |
35.40 |
2014-11-17 |
| 98. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
35.34 |
0.8629 |
0.0410 |
299 |
1 |
35.34 |
2015-01-24 |
| 99. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
34.94 |
1.0943 |
-0.1714 |
206 |
1 |
34.94 |
2014-06-18 |
| 100. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
34.94 |
0.9943 |
-0.1029 |
373 |
1 |
34.94 |
2014-07-08 |
| 101. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
34.92 |
1.0211 |
-0.0989 |
213 |
1 |
34.92 |
2014-06-18 |
| 102. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
34.86 |
0.8595 |
0.0299 |
242 |
1 |
34.86 |
2014-07-09 |
| 103. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
34.54 |
1.0483 |
-0.1700 |
227 |
1 |
34.54 |
2014-07-02 |
| 104. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
34.45 |
0.9857 |
-0.1082 |
293 |
1 |
34.45 |
2014-11-16 |
| 105. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
34.36 |
0.9871 |
-0.0885 |
227 |
2 |
31.78 |
2014-11-16 |
| 106. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
34.08 |
0.8996 |
-0.0339 |
192 |
1 |
34.08 |
2014-06-18 |
| 107. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
34.06 |
0.9758 |
-0.1078 |
314 |
1 |
34.06 |
2014-06-18 |
| 108. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
33.96 |
0.9084 |
-0.0419 |
300 |
2 |
33.39 |
2014-06-18 |
| 109. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
33.86 |
0.8899 |
-0.0219 |
293 |
1 |
33.86 |
2014-06-18 |
| 110. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
33.13 |
0.9710 |
-0.1300 |
173 |
1 |
33.13 |
2014-07-02 |
| 111. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
32.75 |
1.0684 |
-0.2047 |
253 |
1 |
32.75 |
2014-06-18 |
| 112. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
32.67 |
0.8791 |
-0.0472 |
190 |
1 |
32.67 |
2014-07-02 |
| 113. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
32.55 |
0.8994 |
-0.0695 |
188 |
1 |
32.55 |
2014-06-18 |
| 114. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
32.50 |
0.9005 |
-0.0726 |
212 |
1 |
32.50 |
2014-07-03 |
| 115. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
32.37 |
0.9196 |
-0.0958 |
148 |
1 |
32.37 |
2014-11-16 |
| 116. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
32.34 |
0.7988 |
0.0313 |
219 |
1 |
32.34 |
2014-07-03 |
| 117. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
32.31 |
0.9665 |
-0.0955 |
326 |
1 |
32.31 |
2014-07-02 |
| 118. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
31.86 |
0.9289 |
-0.1184 |
204 |
1 |
31.86 |
2014-06-18 |
| 119. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
31.78 |
0.9468 |
-0.1383 |
276 |
1 |
31.78 |
2014-06-18 |
| 120. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
30.73 |
0.8096 |
-0.0217 |
209 |
2 |
29.60 |
2014-11-16 |
| 121. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
30.27 |
0.8022 |
-0.0308 |
215 |
1 |
30.27 |
2014-07-09 |
| 122. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
30.22 |
0.9904 |
-0.1795 |
203 |
1 |
30.22 |
2014-06-18 |
| 123. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
29.63 |
0.8919 |
-0.1388 |
205 |
1 |
29.63 |
2014-06-18 |
| 124. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
28.44 |
0.7876 |
-0.0617 |
316 |
1 |
28.44 |
2014-07-02 |