| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
77.25 |
0.9986 |
0.2755 |
162 |
1 |
77.25 |
2010-12-17 |
| 2. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
76.69 |
1.0412 |
0.2279 |
225 |
2 |
62.16 |
2010-12-21 |
| 3. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
76.67 |
1.1323 |
0.1707 |
341 |
1 |
76.67 |
2010-12-21 |
| 4. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
73.96 |
1.0131 |
0.2070 |
225 |
1 |
73.96 |
2010-12-15 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
73.33 |
1.1018 |
0.1053 |
220 |
1 |
73.33 |
2010-12-15 |
| 6. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
73.22 |
1.1296 |
0.1111 |
252 |
3 |
65.70 |
2010-12-18 |
| 7. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
72.53 |
1.0796 |
0.1157 |
129 |
1 |
72.53 |
2010-12-10 |
| 8. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
71.75 |
1.0396 |
0.1402 |
149 |
2 |
69.29 |
2010-12-17 |
| 9. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
71.36 |
0.9722 |
0.2104 |
283 |
1 |
71.36 |
2010-12-18 |
| 10. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
70.97 |
1.0515 |
0.1147 |
166 |
1 |
70.97 |
2010-12-19 |
| 11. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
70.26 |
0.9884 |
0.1729 |
233 |
1 |
70.26 |
2010-12-19 |
| 12. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
70.01 |
1.0644 |
0.1296 |
257 |
1 |
70.01 |
2010-12-15 |
| 13. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
69.77 |
0.9965 |
0.1580 |
277 |
1 |
69.77 |
2010-12-18 |
| 14. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
69.54 |
0.9072 |
0.2412 |
237 |
1 |
69.54 |
2010-12-17 |
| 15. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
68.87 |
1.0684 |
0.1003 |
253 |
1 |
68.87 |
2010-12-20 |
| 16. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
68.43 |
0.9635 |
0.1734 |
389 |
2 |
63.30 |
2010-12-21 |
| 17. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
68.03 |
1.0941 |
0.0619 |
256 |
1 |
68.03 |
2010-12-14 |
| 18. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
68.01 |
1.0029 |
0.1152 |
209 |
1 |
68.01 |
2010-12-21 |
| 19. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
67.71 |
1.0668 |
0.0552 |
350 |
1 |
67.71 |
2010-12-15 |
| 20. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
67.44 |
0.9266 |
0.1902 |
278 |
1 |
67.44 |
2010-12-18 |
| 21. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
67.34 |
1.0619 |
0.0550 |
354 |
1 |
67.34 |
2010-12-14 |
| 22. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
67.29 |
1.0183 |
0.0886 |
191 |
4 |
56.67 |
2011-03-11 |
| 23. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
67.23 |
1.0033 |
0.1015 |
189 |
1 |
67.23 |
2010-12-15 |
| 24. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
67.19 |
1.0669 |
0.0762 |
286 |
1 |
67.19 |
2010-12-19 |
| 25. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
67.13 |
1.0109 |
0.0997 |
276 |
1 |
67.13 |
2010-12-25 |
| 26. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
66.93 |
1.0214 |
0.0833 |
269 |
1 |
66.93 |
2011-03-11 |
| 27. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
65.75 |
1.0025 |
0.0841 |
256 |
1 |
65.75 |
2010-12-17 |
| 28. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
65.69 |
1.0343 |
0.0888 |
242 |
2 |
61.25 |
2010-12-14 |
| 29. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
65.52 |
1.0419 |
0.0410 |
261 |
1 |
65.52 |
2010-12-14 |
| 30. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
65.47 |
1.0197 |
0.0594 |
226 |
1 |
65.47 |
2010-12-15 |
| 31. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
65.46 |
1.0608 |
0.0544 |
258 |
1 |
65.46 |
2010-12-17 |
| 32. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
65.44 |
1.0523 |
0.0249 |
256 |
1 |
65.44 |
2010-12-21 |
| 33. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
65.17 |
0.9976 |
0.0996 |
174 |
1 |
65.17 |
2010-12-18 |
| 34. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
64.84 |
1.0529 |
0.0185 |
351 |
1 |
64.84 |
2010-12-14 |
| 35. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
64.58 |
1.0441 |
0.0245 |
252 |
1 |
64.58 |
2010-12-10 |
| 36. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
64.31 |
0.9109 |
0.1543 |
401 |
1 |
64.31 |
2010-12-14 |
| 37. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
64.26 |
0.9633 |
0.1007 |
304 |
1 |
64.26 |
2010-12-17 |
| 38. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
64.20 |
0.9234 |
0.1428 |
346 |
2 |
63.37 |
2010-12-17 |
| 39. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
64.05 |
0.9881 |
0.1107 |
424 |
1 |
64.05 |
2010-12-10 |
| 40. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
63.92 |
1.0399 |
0.0214 |
294 |
1 |
63.92 |
2010-12-17 |
| 41. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
63.76 |
0.9886 |
0.0673 |
220 |
1 |
63.76 |
2010-12-15 |
| 42. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
63.45 |
1.0768 |
0.0115 |
295 |
1 |
63.45 |
2010-12-21 |
| 43. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
63.41 |
0.8947 |
0.1578 |
366 |
1 |
63.41 |
2010-12-21 |
| 44. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
62.70 |
1.0213 |
0.0112 |
240 |
1 |
62.70 |
2010-12-17 |
| 45. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
62.43 |
1.0314 |
0.0390 |
452 |
1 |
62.43 |
2010-12-14 |
| 46. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
62.02 |
1.0012 |
0.0264 |
260 |
1 |
62.02 |
2010-12-21 |
| 47. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
61.53 |
1.0124 |
0.0013 |
204 |
1 |
61.53 |
2010-12-14 |
| 48. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
61.50 |
0.9768 |
0.0414 |
387 |
1 |
61.50 |
2010-12-18 |
| 49. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
61.40 |
1.0390 |
-0.0288 |
205 |
1 |
61.40 |
2011-03-11 |
| 50. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
61.37 |
0.9672 |
0.0528 |
396 |
1 |
61.37 |
2010-12-10 |
| 51. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
61.15 |
1.0254 |
0.0252 |
217 |
1 |
61.15 |
2010-12-10 |
| 52. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
60.97 |
1.0201 |
-0.0093 |
375 |
2 |
60.82 |
2010-12-21 |
| 53. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
60.92 |
1.0521 |
-0.0510 |
171 |
1 |
60.92 |
2010-12-17 |
| 54. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
60.59 |
1.0403 |
-0.0249 |
193 |
1 |
60.59 |
2011-03-11 |
| 55. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
60.55 |
0.9303 |
0.0631 |
176 |
1 |
60.55 |
2010-12-17 |
| 56. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
60.44 |
0.8722 |
0.1286 |
285 |
1 |
60.44 |
2010-12-15 |
| 57. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
60.44 |
0.9691 |
0.0283 |
223 |
1 |
60.44 |
2010-12-10 |
| 58. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
60.36 |
1.0038 |
0.0231 |
237 |
1 |
60.36 |
2010-12-10 |
| 59. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
60.19 |
0.9553 |
0.0456 |
430 |
1 |
60.19 |
2010-12-10 |
| 60. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
60.13 |
0.9578 |
0.0344 |
281 |
1 |
60.13 |
2010-12-21 |
| 61. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
60.08 |
0.9632 |
0.0710 |
345 |
1 |
60.08 |
2010-12-10 |
| 62. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
60.00 |
0.9557 |
0.0411 |
331 |
1 |
60.00 |
2010-12-10 |
| 63. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
59.80 |
0.9773 |
0.0020 |
123 |
1 |
59.80 |
2011-03-11 |
| 64. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
59.76 |
0.8935 |
0.1027 |
328 |
1 |
59.76 |
2010-12-18 |
| 65. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
59.71 |
0.9772 |
0.0050 |
217 |
1 |
59.71 |
2010-12-21 |
| 66. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
59.63 |
1.0008 |
0.0266 |
473 |
1 |
59.63 |
2010-12-10 |
| 67. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
59.35 |
1.0621 |
-0.0630 |
263 |
1 |
59.35 |
2010-12-10 |
| 68. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
58.91 |
1.0361 |
-0.0628 |
269 |
2 |
55.42 |
2010-12-17 |
| 69. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
58.58 |
1.0169 |
-0.0115 |
346 |
1 |
58.58 |
2010-12-10 |
| 70. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
58.54 |
0.9841 |
-0.0142 |
334 |
1 |
58.54 |
2011-03-11 |
| 71. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
58.51 |
1.0042 |
0.0029 |
352 |
1 |
58.51 |
2010-12-17 |
| 72. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
58.49 |
1.0289 |
-0.0592 |
276 |
1 |
58.49 |
2010-12-17 |
| 73. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
58.04 |
1.0574 |
-0.0717 |
205 |
1 |
58.04 |
2010-12-17 |
| 74. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
57.83 |
1.0483 |
-0.0971 |
227 |
1 |
57.83 |
2010-12-17 |
| 75. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
57.76 |
0.9365 |
0.0180 |
248 |
1 |
57.76 |
2010-12-10 |
| 76. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
57.60 |
0.9429 |
0.0088 |
287 |
1 |
57.60 |
2010-12-10 |
| 77. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
57.58 |
0.8595 |
0.0924 |
242 |
2 |
55.90 |
2010-12-20 |
| 78. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
57.50 |
0.9941 |
-0.0478 |
217 |
1 |
57.50 |
2010-12-17 |
| 79. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
57.45 |
1.0320 |
-0.0468 |
293 |
1 |
57.45 |
2010-12-19 |
| 80. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
57.38 |
1.0150 |
-0.0193 |
325 |
1 |
57.38 |
2010-12-17 |
| 81. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
56.92 |
1.0132 |
-0.0829 |
143 |
1 |
56.92 |
2010-12-18 |
| 82. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
56.88 |
0.9798 |
-0.0471 |
199 |
1 |
56.88 |
2011-03-11 |
| 83. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
56.83 |
0.9128 |
0.0662 |
369 |
1 |
56.83 |
2010-12-15 |
| 84. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
56.80 |
0.9243 |
0.0520 |
448 |
1 |
56.80 |
2010-12-17 |
| 85. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
56.53 |
0.9651 |
0.0032 |
389 |
1 |
56.53 |
2010-12-10 |
| 86. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
56.51 |
0.8105 |
0.1174 |
204 |
1 |
56.51 |
2010-12-14 |
| 87. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
56.37 |
0.8958 |
0.0386 |
322 |
1 |
56.37 |
2010-12-21 |
| 88. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
56.23 |
0.9500 |
-0.0203 |
362 |
1 |
56.23 |
2010-12-14 |
| 89. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
56.20 |
1.0214 |
-0.0998 |
166 |
1 |
56.20 |
2010-12-17 |
| 90. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
56.17 |
0.9726 |
-0.0525 |
154 |
1 |
56.17 |
2010-12-10 |
| 91. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
56.04 |
0.9176 |
0.0455 |
365 |
1 |
56.04 |
2010-12-18 |
| 92. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
55.95 |
0.8914 |
0.0322 |
366 |
1 |
55.95 |
2010-12-10 |
| 93. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
55.89 |
0.9697 |
-0.0477 |
249 |
2 |
54.74 |
2010-12-17 |
| 94. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
55.79 |
1.0077 |
-0.0463 |
250 |
1 |
55.79 |
2010-12-14 |
| 95. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
55.65 |
0.8961 |
0.0183 |
189 |
1 |
55.65 |
2010-12-16 |
| 96. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
55.57 |
0.9546 |
-0.0068 |
198 |
1 |
55.57 |
2010-12-18 |
| 97. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
55.47 |
0.9912 |
-0.0495 |
237 |
1 |
55.47 |
2010-12-10 |
| 98. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
55.18 |
0.9464 |
-0.0314 |
323 |
1 |
55.18 |
2010-12-17 |
| 99. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
55.12 |
0.9330 |
-0.0175 |
360 |
1 |
55.12 |
2010-12-17 |
| 100. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
55.09 |
0.9640 |
-0.0263 |
334 |
2 |
55.02 |
2010-12-21 |
| 101. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
53.94 |
1.0090 |
-0.0760 |
282 |
1 |
53.94 |
2010-12-17 |
| 102. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
53.65 |
0.9675 |
-0.0737 |
383 |
1 |
53.65 |
2010-12-15 |
| 103. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
53.59 |
0.9084 |
-0.0210 |
404 |
1 |
53.59 |
2010-12-14 |
| 104. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
53.56 |
0.9670 |
-0.0421 |
307 |
1 |
53.56 |
2010-12-10 |
| 105. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
52.73 |
1.0463 |
-0.1819 |
182 |
1 |
52.73 |
2010-12-21 |
| 106. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
52.01 |
0.9790 |
-0.0815 |
311 |
1 |
52.01 |
2010-12-17 |
| 107. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
51.81 |
1.0023 |
-0.1506 |
211 |
1 |
51.81 |
2010-12-19 |
| 108. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
51.73 |
0.9740 |
-0.1259 |
209 |
1 |
51.73 |
2010-12-17 |
| 109. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
51.39 |
0.8919 |
-0.0471 |
205 |
1 |
51.39 |
2010-12-10 |
| 110. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
49.68 |
0.9649 |
-0.1481 |
193 |
1 |
49.68 |
2010-12-10 |
| 111. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
48.04 |
0.8367 |
-0.0359 |
294 |
1 |
48.04 |
2010-12-18 |
| 112. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
47.80 |
0.9088 |
-0.1171 |
348 |
1 |
47.80 |
2010-12-18 |
| 113. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
46.44 |
0.9559 |
-0.1894 |
195 |
1 |
46.44 |
2010-12-10 |
| 114. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
43.90 |
1.0261 |
-0.3067 |
273 |
1 |
43.90 |
2010-12-18 |
| 115. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
43.11 |
0.8520 |
-0.1430 |
202 |
1 |
43.11 |
2010-12-15 |
| 116. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
42.09 |
0.9461 |
-0.2553 |
276 |
1 |
42.09 |
2010-12-21 |
| 117. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
33.54 |
1.0120 |
-0.4648 |
290 |
1 |
33.54 |
2010-12-18 |
| 118. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
31.53 |
1.0337 |
-0.5199 |
214 |
1 |
31.53 |
2010-12-21 |
| 119. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
30.13 |
1.0534 |
-0.5602 |
357 |
1 |
30.13 |
2010-12-18 |
| 120. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
24.08 |
0.9439 |
-0.5461 |
476 |
1 |
24.08 |
2010-12-21 |