| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
130.17 |
1.0498 |
0.2596 |
180 |
1 |
130.17 |
2009-01-13 |
| 2. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
122.26 |
1.0714 |
0.1533 |
129 |
3 |
112.28 |
2009-01-13 |
| 3. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
115.77 |
1.0033 |
0.1574 |
189 |
2 |
103.43 |
2009-10-30 |
| 4. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
113.95 |
1.0619 |
0.0906 |
354 |
1 |
113.95 |
2009-01-16 |
| 5. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
112.54 |
1.0399 |
0.0998 |
294 |
3 |
107.27 |
2009-02-06 |
| 6. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
111.46 |
1.0398 |
0.0732 |
110 |
1 |
111.46 |
2009-01-13 |
| 7. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
110.61 |
0.9293 |
0.1863 |
355 |
1 |
110.61 |
2009-12-19 |
| 8. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
110.34 |
0.9843 |
0.1228 |
234 |
3 |
103.03 |
2009-05-08 |
| 9. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
110.15 |
1.1114 |
-0.0040 |
247 |
1 |
110.15 |
2009-05-23 |
| 10. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
110.09 |
1.0483 |
0.0582 |
227 |
1 |
110.09 |
2009-07-20 |
| 11. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
109.24 |
1.1016 |
-0.0007 |
233 |
1 |
109.24 |
2009-01-12 |
| 12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
109.17 |
1.0787 |
0.0201 |
237 |
2 |
103.86 |
2009-01-14 |
| 13. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
109.04 |
1.0263 |
0.0717 |
267 |
1 |
109.04 |
2009-05-08 |
| 14. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
109.03 |
0.9941 |
0.1022 |
217 |
2 |
104.11 |
2009-05-23 |
| 15. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
108.99 |
1.0613 |
0.0420 |
456 |
3 |
104.31 |
2009-01-12 |
| 16. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
108.91 |
0.9731 |
0.1119 |
129 |
3 |
96.52 |
2009-01-14 |
| 17. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
108.86 |
1.0596 |
0.0353 |
239 |
1 |
108.86 |
2009-01-13 |
| 18. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
108.73 |
1.0062 |
0.0894 |
288 |
1 |
108.73 |
2009-01-13 |
| 19. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
107.81 |
1.0613 |
0.0259 |
266 |
1 |
107.81 |
2009-01-12 |
| 20. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
106.26 |
1.0799 |
-0.0131 |
243 |
1 |
106.26 |
2009-03-18 |
| 21. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
106.16 |
1.0534 |
0.0182 |
357 |
2 |
103.54 |
2009-01-13 |
| 22. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
105.99 |
1.0292 |
0.0372 |
262 |
2 |
100.81 |
2009-07-20 |
| 23. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
105.62 |
1.0577 |
0.0027 |
247 |
3 |
101.02 |
2009-05-08 |
| 24. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
105.53 |
1.1068 |
-0.0035 |
393 |
1 |
105.53 |
2009-12-19 |
| 25. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
105.42 |
0.8295 |
0.2342 |
209 |
1 |
105.42 |
2009-01-12 |
| 26. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
105.15 |
0.9905 |
0.0764 |
377 |
1 |
105.15 |
2009-01-13 |
| 27. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
104.97 |
1.1018 |
-0.0509 |
220 |
1 |
104.97 |
2009-05-08 |
| 28. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
104.86 |
1.0124 |
0.0414 |
204 |
2 |
102.24 |
2009-01-13 |
| 29. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
104.83 |
0.9785 |
0.0806 |
335 |
2 |
98.82 |
2009-01-16 |
| 30. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
104.72 |
1.0352 |
0.0227 |
341 |
1 |
104.72 |
2009-03-18 |
| 31. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
104.70 |
0.9710 |
0.0771 |
173 |
2 |
93.89 |
2009-09-04 |
| 32. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
104.52 |
1.0368 |
0.0168 |
276 |
2 |
103.80 |
2009-01-16 |
| 33. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
104.21 |
0.9612 |
0.0884 |
256 |
3 |
95.76 |
2009-05-23 |
| 34. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
104.17 |
1.0767 |
-0.0297 |
212 |
1 |
104.17 |
2009-05-08 |
| 35. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
103.67 |
1.0340 |
0.0153 |
406 |
1 |
103.67 |
2009-03-02 |
| 36. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
103.45 |
1.0025 |
0.0392 |
256 |
1 |
103.45 |
2009-06-06 |
| 37. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
103.19 |
0.9691 |
0.0696 |
223 |
2 |
98.61 |
2009-12-19 |
| 38. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
103.02 |
1.0201 |
0.0213 |
375 |
1 |
103.02 |
2009-01-29 |
| 39. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
102.90 |
0.9910 |
0.0471 |
295 |
1 |
102.90 |
2009-01-16 |
| 40. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
102.88 |
1.0454 |
-0.0131 |
255 |
2 |
101.20 |
2009-12-19 |
| 41. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
102.72 |
1.0165 |
0.0218 |
392 |
2 |
97.73 |
2009-01-17 |
| 42. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
102.58 |
1.0337 |
-0.0014 |
214 |
2 |
95.01 |
2009-01-13 |
| 43. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
102.51 |
1.0201 |
0.0125 |
303 |
1 |
102.51 |
2009-01-12 |
| 44. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
101.65 |
0.9851 |
0.0406 |
317 |
1 |
101.65 |
2009-01-20 |
| 45. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
101.23 |
1.0109 |
0.0091 |
276 |
1 |
101.23 |
2009-03-02 |
| 46. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
101.12 |
0.9532 |
0.0636 |
258 |
1 |
101.12 |
2009-01-13 |
| 47. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
101.08 |
1.0385 |
-0.0226 |
230 |
1 |
101.08 |
2009-01-30 |
| 48. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
101.04 |
0.9372 |
0.0840 |
320 |
2 |
90.10 |
2009-01-13 |
| 49. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
100.46 |
0.9687 |
0.0473 |
371 |
2 |
97.81 |
2009-10-30 |
| 50. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
99.95 |
0.9907 |
0.0138 |
211 |
2 |
99.90 |
2009-02-06 |
| 51. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
99.94 |
1.0201 |
-0.0209 |
172 |
2 |
99.20 |
2009-01-13 |
| 52. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
99.79 |
0.9852 |
0.0196 |
264 |
2 |
95.37 |
2009-01-13 |
| 53. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
99.78 |
0.9540 |
0.0486 |
285 |
1 |
99.78 |
2009-12-19 |
| 54. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
99.73 |
1.0515 |
-0.0495 |
250 |
1 |
99.73 |
2009-01-13 |
| 55. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
99.20 |
0.9723 |
0.0299 |
364 |
2 |
97.95 |
2009-03-18 |
| 56. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
99.05 |
1.0523 |
-0.0596 |
256 |
2 |
96.66 |
2009-05-23 |
| 57. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
98.62 |
0.9795 |
0.0131 |
308 |
1 |
98.62 |
2009-01-13 |
| 58. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
98.48 |
1.0419 |
-0.0508 |
261 |
1 |
98.48 |
2009-01-14 |
| 59. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
98.26 |
1.0565 |
-0.0702 |
247 |
2 |
94.57 |
2009-03-03 |
| 60. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
98.16 |
1.0711 |
-0.0883 |
213 |
2 |
97.05 |
2009-01-16 |
| 61. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
98.12 |
1.0389 |
-0.0497 |
318 |
1 |
98.12 |
2009-01-12 |
| 62. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
97.96 |
0.9986 |
-0.0122 |
283 |
2 |
96.56 |
2009-12-19 |
| 63. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
97.92 |
1.0788 |
-0.0990 |
171 |
2 |
97.48 |
2009-09-04 |
| 64. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
97.74 |
0.9997 |
-0.0125 |
382 |
1 |
97.74 |
2009-01-12 |
| 65. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
97.54 |
1.0696 |
-0.0915 |
226 |
1 |
97.54 |
2009-09-04 |
| 66. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
97.50 |
1.0004 |
-0.0253 |
212 |
1 |
97.50 |
2009-12-19 |
| 67. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
97.20 |
1.0361 |
-0.0570 |
269 |
1 |
97.20 |
2009-01-12 |
| 68. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
96.99 |
0.9768 |
0.0018 |
387 |
2 |
95.89 |
2009-05-23 |
| 69. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
96.84 |
1.0417 |
-0.0698 |
253 |
1 |
96.84 |
2009-01-12 |
| 70. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
96.79 |
1.0214 |
-0.0529 |
166 |
2 |
93.99 |
2009-01-12 |
| 71. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
96.79 |
0.9468 |
0.0266 |
276 |
1 |
96.79 |
2009-01-12 |
| 72. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
96.65 |
0.9899 |
-0.0221 |
163 |
1 |
96.65 |
2009-01-12 |
| 73. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
96.61 |
0.9965 |
-0.0238 |
277 |
1 |
96.61 |
2009-05-08 |
| 74. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
96.55 |
1.0168 |
-0.0439 |
271 |
1 |
96.55 |
2009-01-13 |
| 75. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
96.20 |
0.9485 |
0.0218 |
291 |
1 |
96.20 |
2009-10-30 |
| 76. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
95.71 |
0.9426 |
0.0234 |
317 |
2 |
90.67 |
2009-01-14 |
| 77. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
95.35 |
1.0167 |
-0.0507 |
378 |
1 |
95.35 |
2009-05-23 |
| 78. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
95.23 |
0.9365 |
0.0229 |
248 |
1 |
95.23 |
2009-01-14 |
| 79. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
95.19 |
1.0797 |
-0.1277 |
210 |
1 |
95.19 |
2009-01-12 |
| 80. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
95.17 |
0.9966 |
-0.0398 |
259 |
1 |
95.17 |
2009-05-08 |
| 81. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
94.75 |
0.9805 |
-0.0228 |
292 |
3 |
90.08 |
2009-01-12 |
| 82. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
94.61 |
0.8602 |
0.0893 |
206 |
1 |
94.61 |
2009-01-16 |
| 83. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
94.58 |
1.0189 |
-0.0642 |
337 |
1 |
94.58 |
2009-01-13 |
| 84. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
94.26 |
1.0352 |
-0.0845 |
341 |
2 |
92.77 |
2009-01-14 |
| 85. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
94.20 |
1.0487 |
-0.1062 |
231 |
2 |
93.55 |
2009-01-13 |
| 86. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
94.03 |
0.9646 |
-0.0197 |
264 |
1 |
94.03 |
2009-01-12 |
| 87. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
93.82 |
1.0060 |
-0.0671 |
171 |
1 |
93.82 |
2009-01-13 |
| 88. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
93.78 |
0.8958 |
0.0520 |
322 |
1 |
93.78 |
2009-01-12 |
| 89. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
93.55 |
0.9398 |
0.0104 |
419 |
1 |
93.55 |
2009-01-30 |
| 90. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
93.24 |
1.0053 |
-0.0696 |
232 |
1 |
93.24 |
2009-01-16 |
| 91. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
93.11 |
0.9675 |
-0.0216 |
383 |
1 |
93.11 |
2009-01-16 |
| 92. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
92.96 |
0.9289 |
0.0037 |
204 |
1 |
92.96 |
2009-01-12 |
| 93. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
92.96 |
0.9109 |
0.0266 |
401 |
3 |
90.25 |
2009-05-08 |
| 94. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
92.91 |
0.9429 |
-0.0072 |
287 |
1 |
92.91 |
2009-05-08 |
| 95. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
92.71 |
0.9557 |
-0.0171 |
331 |
2 |
91.08 |
2009-01-13 |
| 96. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
92.45 |
1.0120 |
-0.0831 |
290 |
2 |
90.53 |
2009-01-12 |
| 97. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
92.09 |
0.8919 |
0.0324 |
205 |
1 |
92.09 |
2009-02-06 |
| 98. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
91.98 |
1.0444 |
-0.1261 |
197 |
1 |
91.98 |
2009-09-04 |
| 99. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
91.61 |
0.9213 |
0.0003 |
295 |
2 |
88.49 |
2009-05-08 |
| 100. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
91.56 |
1.0521 |
-0.1363 |
171 |
1 |
91.56 |
2009-01-12 |
| 101. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
91.18 |
0.9485 |
-0.0301 |
236 |
2 |
90.54 |
2009-10-01 |
| 102. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
91.04 |
1.0462 |
-0.1370 |
184 |
1 |
91.04 |
2009-01-13 |
| 103. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
90.97 |
0.9593 |
-0.0400 |
398 |
1 |
90.97 |
2009-01-13 |
| 104. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
90.92 |
1.0025 |
-0.0875 |
336 |
1 |
90.92 |
2009-01-12 |
| 105. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
90.50 |
0.9330 |
-0.0166 |
360 |
1 |
90.50 |
2009-01-13 |
| 106. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
90.49 |
0.9464 |
-0.0316 |
323 |
1 |
90.49 |
2009-01-13 |
| 107. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
89.98 |
0.8753 |
0.0384 |
427 |
1 |
89.98 |
2009-01-13 |
| 108. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
89.88 |
0.8947 |
0.0137 |
366 |
1 |
89.88 |
2009-01-12 |
| 109. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
89.69 |
0.9097 |
0.0334 |
464 |
1 |
89.69 |
2009-01-12 |
| 110. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
89.30 |
1.0073 |
-0.1017 |
369 |
1 |
89.30 |
2009-01-12 |
| 111. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
88.27 |
0.9991 |
-0.1116 |
225 |
1 |
88.27 |
2009-01-12 |
| 112. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
88.25 |
1.0516 |
-0.1652 |
281 |
1 |
88.25 |
2009-01-12 |
| 113. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
88.22 |
0.9164 |
-0.0251 |
305 |
1 |
88.22 |
2009-01-13 |
| 114. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
88.20 |
0.9553 |
-0.0618 |
430 |
1 |
88.20 |
2009-01-13 |
| 115. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
88.03 |
0.9635 |
-0.0735 |
389 |
1 |
88.03 |
2009-01-13 |
| 116. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
87.98 |
0.9089 |
-0.0209 |
342 |
1 |
87.98 |
2009-12-19 |
| 117. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
87.94 |
0.9758 |
-0.0914 |
314 |
1 |
87.94 |
2009-01-14 |
| 118. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
87.87 |
0.9601 |
-0.0724 |
308 |
1 |
87.87 |
2009-01-13 |
| 119. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
87.76 |
1.0068 |
-0.1216 |
358 |
1 |
87.76 |
2009-01-12 |
| 120. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
86.94 |
0.9202 |
-0.0474 |
254 |
1 |
86.94 |
2009-07-20 |
| 121. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
86.65 |
0.8916 |
-0.0208 |
216 |
2 |
85.12 |
2009-01-12 |
| 122. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
86.43 |
0.9045 |
-0.0359 |
235 |
1 |
86.43 |
2009-01-12 |
| 123. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
85.96 |
0.9653 |
-0.0935 |
394 |
1 |
85.96 |
2009-01-13 |
| 124. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
85.63 |
0.9234 |
-0.0579 |
346 |
1 |
85.63 |
2009-05-23 |
| 125. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
84.35 |
0.9072 |
-0.0618 |
237 |
1 |
84.35 |
2009-01-13 |
| 126. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
84.01 |
0.9776 |
-0.1338 |
308 |
1 |
84.01 |
2009-01-13 |
| 127. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
82.86 |
0.9786 |
-0.1472 |
235 |
1 |
82.86 |
2009-01-13 |
| 128. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
82.11 |
0.9074 |
-0.0767 |
396 |
1 |
82.11 |
2009-01-12 |
| 129. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
81.97 |
0.8382 |
-0.0149 |
268 |
2 |
77.84 |
2009-05-23 |
| 130. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
79.54 |
0.8852 |
-0.0851 |
201 |
1 |
79.54 |
2009-07-20 |