| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
77.11 |
1.0696 |
0.1855 |
226 |
3 |
73.21 |
2011-09-29 |
| 2. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
77.09 |
1.1296 |
0.1577 |
252 |
2 |
71.36 |
2010-10-02 |
| 3. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
76.36 |
1.0944 |
0.1963 |
308 |
1 |
76.36 |
2011-09-29 |
| 4. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
75.59 |
1.0320 |
0.2387 |
293 |
1 |
75.59 |
2010-10-01 |
| 5. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
72.76 |
1.0799 |
0.1030 |
243 |
1 |
72.76 |
2010-10-01 |
| 6. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
72.01 |
1.0396 |
0.1277 |
149 |
2 |
67.82 |
2010-10-01 |
| 7. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
71.96 |
1.0565 |
0.1142 |
247 |
1 |
71.96 |
2010-10-01 |
| 8. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
71.56 |
0.9946 |
0.1724 |
246 |
1 |
71.56 |
2010-10-20 |
| 9. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
71.10 |
1.0787 |
0.0792 |
237 |
1 |
71.10 |
2010-10-01 |
| 10. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
70.67 |
1.0596 |
0.0904 |
239 |
2 |
69.52 |
2011-09-29 |
| 11. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
70.48 |
1.0288 |
0.1528 |
300 |
1 |
70.48 |
2010-10-01 |
| 12. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
69.80 |
0.9943 |
0.1468 |
373 |
1 |
69.80 |
2010-10-20 |
| 13. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
69.52 |
0.9468 |
0.1866 |
276 |
1 |
69.52 |
2010-10-20 |
| 14. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
68.91 |
0.9593 |
0.1688 |
398 |
1 |
68.91 |
2010-10-20 |
| 15. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
68.66 |
1.0666 |
0.0529 |
297 |
1 |
68.66 |
2010-10-01 |
| 16. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
68.60 |
0.9965 |
0.1221 |
310 |
1 |
68.60 |
2010-10-20 |
| 17. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
68.28 |
0.9485 |
0.1670 |
291 |
1 |
68.28 |
2010-10-20 |
| 18. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
68.17 |
0.9649 |
0.1454 |
193 |
1 |
68.17 |
2010-10-17 |
| 19. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
68.07 |
1.0063 |
0.1033 |
371 |
1 |
68.07 |
2010-10-17 |
| 20. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
67.87 |
1.0426 |
0.0629 |
323 |
3 |
63.66 |
2010-10-01 |
| 21. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
67.50 |
1.0034 |
0.0954 |
302 |
1 |
67.50 |
2010-10-13 |
| 22. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
67.39 |
0.9879 |
0.1194 |
450 |
1 |
67.39 |
2011-09-29 |
| 23. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
66.54 |
0.9772 |
0.1037 |
217 |
1 |
66.54 |
2010-10-02 |
| 24. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
66.37 |
0.9109 |
0.1736 |
401 |
1 |
66.37 |
2010-09-30 |
| 25. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
66.30 |
1.0025 |
0.0788 |
336 |
1 |
66.30 |
2010-10-01 |
| 26. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
66.02 |
1.0613 |
0.0199 |
456 |
1 |
66.02 |
2010-09-30 |
| 27. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
65.81 |
0.9965 |
0.0762 |
277 |
1 |
65.81 |
2010-09-24 |
| 28. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
64.99 |
1.0073 |
0.0595 |
369 |
1 |
64.99 |
2010-10-19 |
| 29. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
64.89 |
0.9646 |
0.0916 |
264 |
1 |
64.89 |
2010-10-01 |
| 30. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
64.84 |
1.0213 |
0.0319 |
240 |
1 |
64.84 |
2010-09-30 |
| 31. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
64.84 |
0.8602 |
0.1941 |
206 |
1 |
64.84 |
2010-10-20 |
| 32. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
64.83 |
0.9726 |
0.0767 |
154 |
1 |
64.83 |
2010-10-17 |
| 33. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
64.75 |
0.9097 |
0.1449 |
153 |
1 |
64.75 |
2011-09-29 |
| 34. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
64.06 |
1.0711 |
-0.0330 |
213 |
1 |
64.06 |
2010-10-01 |
| 35. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
63.83 |
1.0684 |
0.0011 |
253 |
1 |
63.83 |
2010-10-01 |
| 36. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
62.96 |
1.0150 |
0.0591 |
325 |
1 |
62.96 |
2010-10-02 |
| 37. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
62.35 |
1.0008 |
0.0577 |
473 |
1 |
62.35 |
2011-09-29 |
| 38. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
62.27 |
0.9965 |
0.0127 |
168 |
1 |
62.27 |
2010-10-01 |
| 39. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
62.04 |
1.0907 |
-0.0784 |
303 |
1 |
62.04 |
2011-09-29 |
| 40. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
61.62 |
1.0515 |
-0.0505 |
250 |
1 |
61.62 |
2010-09-26 |
| 41. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
61.62 |
0.9673 |
0.0749 |
232 |
1 |
61.62 |
2010-10-01 |
| 42. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
61.44 |
0.9350 |
0.0657 |
195 |
1 |
61.44 |
2010-10-01 |
| 43. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
61.41 |
0.9678 |
0.0669 |
445 |
1 |
61.41 |
2010-10-01 |
| 44. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
61.24 |
1.0863 |
-0.0549 |
210 |
1 |
61.24 |
2010-09-26 |
| 45. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
61.22 |
0.9976 |
0.0192 |
174 |
1 |
61.22 |
2010-10-02 |
| 46. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
61.20 |
0.9514 |
0.0450 |
237 |
1 |
61.20 |
2010-10-01 |
| 47. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
61.03 |
1.0340 |
-0.0354 |
406 |
1 |
61.03 |
2010-10-19 |
| 48. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
60.99 |
1.0679 |
-0.0552 |
177 |
1 |
60.99 |
2010-09-30 |
| 49. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
60.34 |
1.0385 |
-0.0583 |
230 |
1 |
60.34 |
2010-10-01 |
| 50. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
60.06 |
0.8951 |
0.0847 |
193 |
1 |
60.06 |
2010-09-30 |
| 51. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
59.97 |
0.9691 |
0.0062 |
223 |
2 |
55.87 |
2010-10-01 |
| 52. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
59.74 |
1.0774 |
-0.0760 |
304 |
1 |
59.74 |
2010-10-01 |
| 53. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
59.67 |
0.9676 |
0.0117 |
442 |
1 |
59.67 |
2010-10-01 |
| 54. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
59.61 |
0.9359 |
0.0737 |
353 |
1 |
59.61 |
2010-09-24 |
| 55. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
59.57 |
1.0613 |
-0.0912 |
266 |
2 |
58.93 |
2010-10-01 |
| 56. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
59.47 |
1.0263 |
-0.0598 |
267 |
1 |
59.47 |
2010-09-24 |
| 57. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
59.34 |
0.9831 |
-0.0098 |
469 |
1 |
59.34 |
2010-10-01 |
| 58. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
59.23 |
0.8916 |
0.0726 |
216 |
2 |
50.65 |
2010-09-30 |
| 59. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
59.08 |
0.9763 |
-0.0157 |
289 |
1 |
59.08 |
2010-09-30 |
| 60. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
58.77 |
0.9790 |
0.0178 |
311 |
1 |
58.77 |
2010-10-17 |
| 61. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
58.16 |
1.0343 |
-0.0511 |
242 |
1 |
58.16 |
2010-10-01 |
| 62. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
57.96 |
1.0885 |
-0.1425 |
315 |
1 |
57.96 |
2010-10-01 |
| 63. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
57.78 |
0.8753 |
0.0739 |
427 |
1 |
57.78 |
2010-10-01 |
| 64. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
57.67 |
0.9886 |
-0.0482 |
220 |
1 |
57.67 |
2011-09-29 |
| 65. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
57.65 |
1.0296 |
-0.0854 |
437 |
1 |
57.65 |
2010-10-01 |
| 66. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
57.35 |
0.8775 |
0.0581 |
443 |
1 |
57.35 |
2010-10-02 |
| 67. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
56.47 |
0.9844 |
-0.0556 |
229 |
1 |
56.47 |
2010-09-23 |
| 68. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
55.72 |
1.0077 |
-0.0610 |
250 |
1 |
55.72 |
2010-10-01 |
| 69. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
55.25 |
0.8914 |
0.0072 |
366 |
1 |
55.25 |
2010-09-26 |
| 70. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
55.19 |
0.9353 |
-0.0428 |
177 |
1 |
55.19 |
2010-10-01 |
| 71. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
54.73 |
0.9905 |
-0.0930 |
377 |
1 |
54.73 |
2010-10-19 |
| 72. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
54.50 |
0.9597 |
-0.0700 |
347 |
1 |
54.50 |
2010-09-23 |
| 73. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
54.48 |
0.9430 |
-0.0649 |
211 |
1 |
54.48 |
2010-10-19 |
| 74. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
53.88 |
1.0211 |
-0.1151 |
213 |
1 |
53.88 |
2010-10-01 |
| 75. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
53.85 |
1.0361 |
-0.1603 |
269 |
1 |
53.85 |
2010-10-01 |
| 76. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
53.40 |
0.8670 |
0.0057 |
318 |
1 |
53.40 |
2010-09-24 |
| 77. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
53.08 |
0.9570 |
-0.0930 |
287 |
1 |
53.08 |
2010-10-01 |
| 78. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
53.02 |
1.0029 |
-0.1482 |
209 |
1 |
53.02 |
2010-09-24 |
| 79. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
52.30 |
0.9411 |
-0.0910 |
318 |
1 |
52.30 |
2010-09-23 |
| 80. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
50.90 |
1.0053 |
-0.1810 |
232 |
1 |
50.90 |
2010-09-24 |
| 81. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
50.30 |
0.9289 |
-0.1148 |
204 |
1 |
50.30 |
2010-10-02 |
| 82. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
50.14 |
0.9863 |
-0.1682 |
339 |
1 |
50.14 |
2010-09-24 |
| 83. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
49.89 |
1.0365 |
-0.1974 |
162 |
1 |
49.89 |
2010-10-17 |
| 84. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
49.35 |
0.9532 |
-0.1538 |
258 |
1 |
49.35 |
2010-09-23 |
| 85. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
49.26 |
0.9811 |
-0.1791 |
272 |
2 |
47.83 |
2010-10-19 |
| 86. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
49.18 |
1.0218 |
-0.2268 |
268 |
2 |
47.48 |
2010-10-19 |
| 87. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
48.82 |
0.9899 |
-0.2029 |
163 |
1 |
48.82 |
2010-09-24 |
| 88. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
47.72 |
0.9266 |
-0.1529 |
267 |
1 |
47.72 |
2010-09-24 |
| 89. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
46.35 |
0.9540 |
-0.2048 |
285 |
1 |
46.35 |
2010-09-23 |
| 90. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
44.62 |
0.9176 |
-0.1560 |
365 |
1 |
44.62 |
2010-10-19 |
| 91. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
43.18 |
0.9371 |
-0.1991 |
318 |
1 |
43.18 |
2010-09-24 |
| 92. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
43.05 |
0.9509 |
-0.2158 |
225 |
1 |
43.05 |
2010-09-23 |
| 93. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
40.08 |
0.8890 |
-0.2448 |
199 |
1 |
40.08 |
2010-09-24 |