| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
46.97 |
0.8984 |
0.0641 |
267 |
1 |
46.97 |
2012-08-31 |
| 2. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
44.02 |
0.9801 |
-0.0858 |
289 |
1 |
44.02 |
2012-08-27 |
| 3. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
51.95 |
0.9541 |
0.1031 |
236 |
1 |
51.95 |
2012-08-27 |
| 4. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
43.99 |
0.9368 |
-0.0504 |
176 |
1 |
43.99 |
2012-04-20 |
| 5. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
51.17 |
1.0867 |
-0.0506 |
171 |
1 |
51.17 |
2012-04-20 |
| 6. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.53 |
0.9974 |
-0.0763 |
163 |
2 |
43.20 |
2012-04-20 |
| 7. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
52.82 |
1.0042 |
0.0665 |
168 |
2 |
47.31 |
2012-04-20 |
| 8. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
57.83 |
0.9925 |
0.1796 |
155 |
2 |
56.74 |
2012-04-20 |
| 9. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
51.97 |
1.0472 |
0.0034 |
149 |
1 |
51.97 |
2012-04-20 |
| 10. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
54.09 |
0.9255 |
0.1752 |
174 |
1 |
54.09 |
2012-04-20 |
| 11. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
58.82 |
0.9270 |
0.2729 |
193 |
2 |
55.26 |
2012-04-20 |
| 12. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
50.98 |
0.8988 |
0.1373 |
193 |
1 |
50.98 |
2012-04-20 |
| 13. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
50.18 |
1.0060 |
0.0207 |
244 |
1 |
50.18 |
2012-04-20 |
| 14. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
54.26 |
1.0792 |
0.0294 |
251 |
2 |
52.24 |
2012-04-20 |
| 15. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
49.81 |
1.0069 |
0.0089 |
242 |
1 |
49.81 |
2012-04-20 |
| 16. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
55.60 |
1.0755 |
0.0563 |
243 |
1 |
55.60 |
2012-04-20 |
| 17. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
53.78 |
0.9893 |
0.1009 |
222 |
1 |
53.78 |
2012-04-19 |
| 18. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
52.94 |
0.9931 |
0.0800 |
218 |
2 |
51.54 |
2012-04-19 |
| 19. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
43.76 |
1.0033 |
-0.1142 |
203 |
1 |
43.76 |
2012-04-19 |
| 20. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
52.67 |
1.0736 |
0.0017 |
256 |
1 |
52.67 |
2012-04-19 |
| 21. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
56.51 |
1.0403 |
0.1077 |
234 |
1 |
56.51 |
2012-04-19 |
| 22. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
47.38 |
0.9817 |
-0.0134 |
304 |
1 |
47.38 |
2012-04-19 |
| 23. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
50.48 |
0.8775 |
0.1432 |
185 |
1 |
50.48 |
2012-04-19 |
| 24. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
54.24 |
1.0264 |
0.0730 |
191 |
2 |
46.89 |
2012-04-19 |
| 25. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
49.45 |
1.0582 |
-0.0560 |
180 |
1 |
49.45 |
2012-04-16 |
| 26. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
54.35 |
1.0189 |
0.0861 |
290 |
3 |
50.63 |
2012-04-16 |
| 27. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
48.51 |
0.8194 |
0.1659 |
193 |
2 |
47.40 |
2012-04-16 |
| 28. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
56.14 |
0.9338 |
0.2184 |
326 |
2 |
48.47 |
2012-04-11 |
| 29. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
41.98 |
1.0414 |
-0.1901 |
234 |
1 |
41.98 |
2012-04-10 |
| 30. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
48.86 |
1.0165 |
-0.0244 |
316 |
1 |
48.86 |
2012-04-10 |
| 31. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
38.55 |
0.8913 |
-0.1071 |
201 |
1 |
38.55 |
2012-03-30 |
| 32. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
51.24 |
0.9503 |
0.0851 |
211 |
2 |
49.95 |
2012-03-29 |
| 33. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
46.51 |
0.9339 |
0.0174 |
317 |
1 |
46.51 |
2012-03-29 |
| 34. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
51.83 |
0.9631 |
0.0908 |
273 |
1 |
51.83 |
2012-03-29 |
| 35. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
48.68 |
0.9113 |
0.0849 |
318 |
1 |
48.68 |
2012-03-29 |
| 36. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
45.47 |
0.8966 |
0.0263 |
366 |
1 |
45.47 |
2012-03-29 |
| 37. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
51.11 |
0.9873 |
0.0505 |
274 |
2 |
49.63 |
2012-03-29 |
| 38. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
44.04 |
0.9704 |
-0.0760 |
254 |
1 |
44.04 |
2012-03-29 |
| 39. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
48.40 |
1.0370 |
-0.0535 |
262 |
1 |
48.40 |
2012-03-29 |
| 40. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
47.78 |
1.0086 |
-0.0419 |
218 |
1 |
47.78 |
2012-03-29 |
| 41. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
54.58 |
1.0524 |
0.0557 |
177 |
1 |
54.58 |
2012-03-29 |
| 42. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
51.18 |
0.9403 |
0.1092 |
307 |
2 |
48.20 |
2012-03-29 |
| 43. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
51.74 |
1.0543 |
-0.0013 |
233 |
1 |
51.74 |
2012-03-29 |
| 44. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
32.95 |
0.7923 |
-0.1239 |
316 |
1 |
32.95 |
2012-03-26 |
| 45. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
40.78 |
0.9749 |
-0.1375 |
337 |
1 |
40.78 |
2012-03-26 |
| 46. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
40.89 |
1.0194 |
-0.1915 |
224 |
1 |
40.89 |
2012-03-26 |
| 47. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
42.69 |
0.9162 |
-0.0475 |
401 |
2 |
40.40 |
2012-03-26 |
| 48. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
52.49 |
0.9346 |
0.1302 |
211 |
1 |
52.49 |
2012-03-26 |
| 49. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
46.74 |
0.8837 |
0.0649 |
157 |
1 |
46.74 |
2012-03-26 |
| 50. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
47.45 |
0.9392 |
0.0315 |
360 |
1 |
47.45 |
2012-03-26 |
| 51. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
46.05 |
0.9644 |
-0.0255 |
398 |
1 |
46.05 |
2012-03-26 |
| 52. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
52.87 |
0.9278 |
0.1487 |
253 |
2 |
44.56 |
2012-03-26 |
| 53. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
56.37 |
1.0836 |
0.0665 |
206 |
1 |
56.37 |
2012-03-23 |
| 54. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
47.16 |
1.0181 |
-0.0585 |
276 |
1 |
47.16 |
2012-03-23 |
| 55. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
44.81 |
0.9068 |
0.0019 |
212 |
1 |
44.81 |
2012-03-23 |
| 56. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
54.88 |
1.0664 |
0.0535 |
389 |
1 |
54.88 |
2012-03-23 |
| 57. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
33.19 |
0.9103 |
-0.2381 |
269 |
1 |
33.19 |
2012-03-23 |
| 58. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
51.21 |
1.0057 |
0.0387 |
382 |
1 |
51.21 |
2012-03-23 |
| 59. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
50.84 |
0.9636 |
0.0693 |
281 |
1 |
50.84 |
2012-03-23 |
| 60. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
46.72 |
0.8981 |
0.0606 |
255 |
1 |
46.72 |
2012-03-23 |
| 61. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
55.72 |
1.0426 |
0.0870 |
131 |
1 |
55.72 |
2012-03-22 |
| 62. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
47.80 |
0.8974 |
0.0862 |
365 |
1 |
47.80 |
2012-03-22 |
| 63. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
43.60 |
0.9145 |
-0.0257 |
404 |
1 |
43.60 |
2012-03-22 |
| 64. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
49.91 |
0.9851 |
0.0345 |
237 |
1 |
49.91 |
2012-03-22 |
| 65. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
47.00 |
0.9459 |
0.0126 |
188 |
2 |
44.75 |
2012-03-14 |
| 66. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
45.99 |
1.0283 |
-0.0871 |
272 |
1 |
45.99 |
2012-03-14 |
| 67. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
44.38 |
0.9991 |
-0.0985 |
339 |
1 |
44.38 |
2012-03-12 |
| 68. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
43.37 |
1.0095 |
-0.1300 |
211 |
1 |
43.37 |
2012-03-12 |
| 69. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
40.32 |
0.9756 |
-0.1578 |
223 |
1 |
40.32 |
2012-03-12 |
| 70. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
45.51 |
0.9810 |
-0.0513 |
362 |
1 |
45.51 |
2012-03-12 |
| 71. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
44.41 |
1.0743 |
-0.1707 |
297 |
1 |
44.41 |
2012-03-12 |
| 72. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
41.91 |
1.0495 |
-0.1989 |
323 |
1 |
41.91 |
2012-03-12 |
| 73. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
54.56 |
0.9635 |
0.1504 |
220 |
1 |
54.56 |
2012-03-08 |
| 74. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
46.04 |
0.9836 |
-0.0480 |
289 |
1 |
46.04 |
2012-03-08 |
| 75. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
57.49 |
0.8830 |
0.2815 |
134 |
2 |
56.56 |
2012-03-08 |
| 76. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
51.67 |
0.9980 |
0.0618 |
341 |
1 |
51.67 |
2012-03-08 |
| 77. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
45.63 |
0.9136 |
0.0169 |
348 |
1 |
45.63 |
2012-03-08 |
| 78. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
45.82 |
0.9211 |
0.0082 |
165 |
1 |
45.82 |
2012-03-08 |
| 79. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
46.06 |
0.8812 |
0.0535 |
177 |
1 |
46.06 |
2012-03-08 |
| 80. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
48.72 |
1.0250 |
-0.0313 |
271 |
1 |
48.72 |
2012-03-08 |
| 81. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
54.36 |
0.9698 |
0.1415 |
389 |
1 |
54.36 |
2012-03-08 |
| 82. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
37.56 |
0.8624 |
-0.1049 |
174 |
1 |
37.56 |
2012-03-07 |
| 83. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
37.26 |
0.9780 |
-0.2281 |
173 |
1 |
37.26 |
2012-03-07 |
| 84. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
51.26 |
0.9957 |
0.0507 |
323 |
1 |
51.26 |
2012-03-07 |
| 85. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
51.71 |
1.0101 |
0.0436 |
336 |
1 |
51.71 |
2012-03-07 |
| 86. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
55.52 |
1.0521 |
0.0719 |
197 |
1 |
55.52 |
2012-03-07 |
| 87. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.89 |
0.9673 |
-0.1756 |
292 |
1 |
38.89 |
2012-03-07 |
| 88. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
56.56 |
1.1086 |
0.0423 |
233 |
1 |
56.56 |
2012-03-07 |
| 89. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
48.82 |
0.9684 |
0.0205 |
240 |
1 |
48.82 |
2012-03-06 |
| 90. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
52.04 |
1.0509 |
0.0146 |
295 |
1 |
52.04 |
2012-03-06 |
| 91. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
56.36 |
0.8964 |
0.2474 |
199 |
1 |
56.36 |
2012-03-06 |
| 92. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
45.52 |
0.9384 |
-0.0089 |
229 |
1 |
45.52 |
2012-03-06 |
| 93. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
52.94 |
0.8236 |
0.2467 |
178 |
1 |
52.94 |
2012-03-06 |
| 94. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
50.25 |
1.0540 |
-0.0371 |
184 |
1 |
50.25 |
2012-03-06 |
| 95. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
43.48 |
0.8663 |
0.0127 |
172 |
1 |
43.48 |
2012-03-05 |
| 96. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
51.43 |
0.9922 |
0.0542 |
264 |
1 |
51.43 |
2012-03-05 |
| 97. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
57.47 |
0.9598 |
0.2119 |
209 |
1 |
57.47 |
2012-03-05 |
| 98. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
50.74 |
0.8656 |
0.1665 |
299 |
1 |
50.74 |
2012-03-05 |
| 99. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
50.61 |
1.0036 |
0.0265 |
277 |
1 |
50.61 |
2012-03-05 |
| 100. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
43.58 |
1.0464 |
-0.1553 |
213 |
1 |
43.58 |
2012-03-02 |
| 101. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
45.18 |
0.9425 |
-0.0237 |
248 |
1 |
45.18 |
2012-03-02 |
| 102. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
48.70 |
1.0028 |
-0.0137 |
259 |
1 |
48.70 |
2012-03-02 |
| 103. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
49.00 |
1.0466 |
-0.0508 |
230 |
1 |
49.00 |
2012-03-02 |
| 104. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
43.43 |
0.9271 |
-0.0451 |
295 |
1 |
43.43 |
2012-03-02 |
| 105. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
55.67 |
1.0338 |
0.1040 |
277 |
1 |
55.67 |
2012-03-02 |
| 106. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
52.91 |
0.9857 |
0.0961 |
268 |
1 |
52.91 |
2012-03-02 |
| 107. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
50.09 |
1.0059 |
0.0138 |
283 |
1 |
50.09 |
2012-03-02 |
| 108. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
45.39 |
1.0103 |
-0.0939 |
209 |
1 |
45.39 |
2012-03-02 |
| 109. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
48.81 |
1.0617 |
-0.0718 |
171 |
1 |
48.81 |
2012-03-02 |
| 110. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
48.57 |
0.9113 |
0.0720 |
225 |
1 |
48.57 |
2012-03-02 |
| 111. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
50.13 |
0.9358 |
0.0769 |
188 |
1 |
50.13 |
2012-03-01 |
| 112. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
49.83 |
1.0601 |
-0.0501 |
256 |
1 |
49.83 |
2012-03-01 |
| 113. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
46.96 |
0.9023 |
0.0508 |
268 |
1 |
46.96 |
2012-03-01 |
| 114. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
52.47 |
0.9357 |
0.1292 |
204 |
1 |
52.47 |
2012-03-01 |
| 115. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
54.12 |
1.0178 |
0.0811 |
207 |
1 |
54.12 |
2012-03-01 |
| 116. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
46.26 |
0.9269 |
0.0209 |
269 |
1 |
46.26 |
2012-03-01 |
| 117. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
48.65 |
1.0672 |
-0.0797 |
239 |
1 |
48.65 |
2012-02-29 |
| 118. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
54.49 |
0.9762 |
0.1320 |
249 |
1 |
54.49 |
2012-02-29 |
| 119. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
48.06 |
1.0615 |
-0.0872 |
201 |
1 |
48.06 |
2012-02-29 |
| 120. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
43.49 |
0.9299 |
-0.0548 |
168 |
1 |
43.49 |
2012-02-29 |