| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
52.59 |
0.9866 |
0.3676 |
218 |
2 |
44.75 |
2009-10-15 |
| 2. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
52.44 |
1.0337 |
0.3166 |
214 |
3 |
44.07 |
2009-10-22 |
| 3. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
51.05 |
0.9646 |
0.3500 |
264 |
1 |
51.05 |
2009-10-21 |
| 4. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
49.41 |
0.9221 |
0.3502 |
244 |
4 |
43.96 |
2009-10-22 |
| 5. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
49.00 |
1.0993 |
0.1625 |
265 |
1 |
49.00 |
2009-10-21 |
| 6. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
48.98 |
0.9873 |
0.2740 |
155 |
2 |
44.19 |
2009-10-21 |
| 7. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
48.97 |
0.9907 |
0.2703 |
211 |
1 |
48.97 |
2009-10-22 |
| 8. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
47.91 |
0.9884 |
0.2453 |
262 |
1 |
47.91 |
2009-10-21 |
| 9. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
47.75 |
0.9786 |
0.2510 |
235 |
1 |
47.75 |
2009-10-21 |
| 10. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
47.43 |
1.0441 |
0.1772 |
252 |
3 |
44.09 |
2009-10-21 |
| 11. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
46.96 |
0.9724 |
0.2368 |
237 |
1 |
46.96 |
2009-10-22 |
| 12. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.28 |
1.0334 |
0.1583 |
131 |
3 |
43.93 |
2009-10-17 |
| 13. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
46.20 |
0.9257 |
0.2640 |
317 |
1 |
46.20 |
2009-10-15 |
| 14. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
45.79 |
1.0062 |
0.1729 |
288 |
1 |
45.79 |
2009-10-22 |
| 15. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
45.12 |
1.0292 |
0.1327 |
262 |
1 |
45.12 |
2009-10-15 |
| 16. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
45.04 |
1.0907 |
0.0691 |
303 |
1 |
45.04 |
2009-10-15 |
| 17. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
44.98 |
1.0799 |
0.0784 |
243 |
1 |
44.98 |
2009-10-15 |
| 18. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
44.85 |
0.9161 |
0.2388 |
200 |
1 |
44.85 |
2009-10-21 |
| 19. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
44.83 |
1.0263 |
0.1281 |
267 |
1 |
44.83 |
2009-10-21 |
| 20. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
44.68 |
1.0013 |
0.1492 |
273 |
2 |
43.82 |
2009-10-21 |
| 21. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
44.63 |
0.9612 |
0.1880 |
256 |
2 |
41.30 |
2009-10-22 |
| 22. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
44.57 |
1.0068 |
0.1409 |
358 |
1 |
44.57 |
2009-10-22 |
| 23. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
44.52 |
1.0944 |
0.0520 |
308 |
1 |
44.52 |
2009-10-21 |
| 24. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
44.19 |
0.9500 |
0.1879 |
362 |
1 |
44.19 |
2009-10-22 |
| 25. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
44.00 |
1.0767 |
0.0563 |
212 |
2 |
41.47 |
2009-10-17 |
| 26. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
43.96 |
0.9851 |
0.1469 |
317 |
1 |
43.96 |
2009-10-21 |
| 27. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
43.73 |
1.0496 |
0.0765 |
314 |
1 |
43.73 |
2009-10-15 |
| 28. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
43.72 |
1.0053 |
0.1205 |
232 |
2 |
40.65 |
2009-10-21 |
| 29. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
43.61 |
0.9734 |
0.1496 |
289 |
2 |
42.62 |
2009-10-17 |
| 30. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
43.58 |
1.0331 |
0.0891 |
234 |
1 |
43.58 |
2009-10-15 |
| 31. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
43.53 |
0.9019 |
0.2190 |
204 |
2 |
40.68 |
2009-10-15 |
| 32. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
43.53 |
0.9938 |
0.1271 |
339 |
2 |
41.04 |
2009-10-15 |
| 33. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
43.32 |
1.0396 |
0.0759 |
149 |
1 |
43.32 |
2009-10-15 |
| 34. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
43.27 |
0.9726 |
0.1416 |
154 |
1 |
43.27 |
2009-10-22 |
| 35. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
42.83 |
0.9863 |
0.1166 |
339 |
2 |
40.58 |
2009-10-21 |
| 36. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
42.67 |
0.9991 |
0.0997 |
225 |
1 |
42.67 |
2009-10-21 |
| 37. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
42.44 |
0.9946 |
0.0982 |
246 |
1 |
42.44 |
2009-10-17 |
| 38. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
42.42 |
0.8899 |
0.2024 |
293 |
3 |
40.17 |
2009-10-21 |
| 39. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
42.39 |
0.8731 |
0.2185 |
199 |
1 |
42.39 |
2009-10-17 |
| 40. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
42.39 |
1.0379 |
0.0537 |
245 |
1 |
42.39 |
2009-10-17 |
| 41. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
42.34 |
1.0168 |
0.0735 |
271 |
2 |
40.01 |
2009-10-21 |
| 42. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
42.34 |
0.9633 |
0.1270 |
304 |
1 |
42.34 |
2009-10-21 |
| 43. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
42.22 |
0.7916 |
0.2956 |
184 |
1 |
42.22 |
2009-10-22 |
| 44. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
42.02 |
0.9342 |
0.1478 |
434 |
1 |
42.02 |
2009-10-14 |
| 45. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
41.99 |
0.9168 |
0.1645 |
240 |
2 |
39.38 |
2009-10-17 |
| 46. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
41.95 |
0.8915 |
0.1887 |
188 |
2 |
39.90 |
2009-10-13 |
| 47. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
41.92 |
1.0613 |
0.0182 |
266 |
1 |
41.92 |
2009-10-21 |
| 48. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
41.90 |
1.0251 |
0.0538 |
261 |
3 |
41.35 |
2009-10-22 |
| 49. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
41.77 |
1.0796 |
-0.0040 |
129 |
1 |
41.77 |
2009-10-21 |
| 50. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
41.76 |
1.0477 |
0.0276 |
360 |
1 |
41.76 |
2009-10-22 |
| 51. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
41.43 |
0.9196 |
0.1472 |
148 |
1 |
41.43 |
2009-10-21 |
| 52. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
41.08 |
0.9212 |
0.1366 |
323 |
2 |
41.04 |
2009-10-15 |
| 53. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
41.06 |
0.9772 |
0.0801 |
217 |
1 |
41.06 |
2009-10-17 |
| 54. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
40.85 |
0.9681 |
0.0838 |
378 |
1 |
40.85 |
2009-10-15 |
| 55. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
40.80 |
1.0797 |
-0.0291 |
210 |
1 |
40.80 |
2009-10-14 |
| 56. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
40.61 |
1.0254 |
0.0203 |
217 |
1 |
40.61 |
2009-10-15 |
| 57. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
40.29 |
1.0523 |
-0.0148 |
256 |
1 |
40.29 |
2009-10-22 |
| 58. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
40.00 |
1.0567 |
-0.0267 |
303 |
1 |
40.00 |
2009-10-15 |
| 59. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
39.80 |
1.0788 |
-0.0539 |
171 |
1 |
39.80 |
2009-10-13 |
| 60. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
39.53 |
1.0120 |
0.0059 |
290 |
2 |
38.88 |
2009-10-22 |
| 61. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
39.52 |
0.9339 |
0.0838 |
310 |
1 |
39.52 |
2009-10-22 |
| 62. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
39.21 |
0.9365 |
0.0732 |
248 |
1 |
39.21 |
2009-10-21 |
| 63. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
39.16 |
0.8122 |
0.1962 |
181 |
1 |
39.16 |
2009-10-14 |
| 64. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
39.13 |
0.8348 |
0.1728 |
219 |
1 |
39.13 |
2009-10-21 |
| 65. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
39.05 |
0.9871 |
0.0185 |
209 |
1 |
39.05 |
2009-10-17 |
| 66. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
39.00 |
0.9697 |
0.0346 |
249 |
1 |
39.00 |
2009-10-15 |
| 67. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
38.97 |
0.8295 |
0.1740 |
209 |
1 |
38.97 |
2009-10-15 |
| 68. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
38.49 |
1.0529 |
-0.0618 |
351 |
1 |
38.49 |
2009-10-15 |
| 69. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
38.47 |
0.8559 |
0.1347 |
191 |
2 |
38.09 |
2009-10-21 |
| 70. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
38.27 |
0.9005 |
0.0850 |
212 |
1 |
38.27 |
2009-10-15 |
| 71. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
38.23 |
0.8573 |
0.1271 |
270 |
1 |
38.23 |
2009-10-21 |
| 72. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
38.13 |
1.0346 |
-0.0527 |
244 |
1 |
38.13 |
2009-10-17 |
| 73. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
38.13 |
1.0034 |
-0.0215 |
302 |
2 |
38.13 |
2009-10-17 |
| 74. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
37.98 |
0.9251 |
0.0529 |
177 |
1 |
37.98 |
2009-10-21 |
| 75. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
37.97 |
1.1114 |
-0.1337 |
247 |
1 |
37.97 |
2009-10-15 |
| 76. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
37.96 |
1.1016 |
-0.1241 |
233 |
1 |
37.96 |
2009-10-21 |
| 77. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
37.91 |
0.9576 |
0.0186 |
212 |
1 |
37.91 |
2009-10-15 |
| 78. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
37.90 |
0.8533 |
0.1226 |
232 |
1 |
37.90 |
2009-10-13 |
| 79. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
37.81 |
0.9740 |
-0.0004 |
209 |
1 |
37.81 |
2009-10-22 |
| 80. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
37.80 |
0.9684 |
0.0050 |
388 |
1 |
37.80 |
2009-10-21 |
| 81. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
37.71 |
0.9540 |
0.0170 |
285 |
1 |
37.71 |
2009-10-21 |
| 82. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
37.56 |
1.0063 |
-0.0391 |
371 |
1 |
37.56 |
2009-10-15 |
| 83. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
37.49 |
1.0419 |
-0.0765 |
261 |
1 |
37.49 |
2009-10-21 |
| 84. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
37.25 |
1.0150 |
-0.0558 |
325 |
1 |
37.25 |
2009-10-13 |
| 85. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
37.19 |
1.0197 |
-0.0620 |
226 |
2 |
36.89 |
2009-10-17 |
| 86. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
37.16 |
0.9897 |
-0.0328 |
274 |
1 |
37.16 |
2009-10-17 |
| 87. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
37.15 |
0.9776 |
-0.0210 |
308 |
2 |
35.82 |
2009-10-15 |
| 88. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
37.08 |
0.8353 |
0.1195 |
283 |
1 |
37.08 |
2009-10-17 |
| 89. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
37.01 |
1.0528 |
-0.0998 |
201 |
1 |
37.01 |
2009-10-17 |
| 90. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
36.90 |
0.9350 |
0.0152 |
195 |
1 |
36.90 |
2009-10-14 |
| 91. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
36.65 |
0.8878 |
0.0560 |
346 |
1 |
36.65 |
2009-10-15 |
| 92. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
36.53 |
1.0385 |
-0.0978 |
230 |
1 |
36.53 |
2009-10-21 |
| 93. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
36.39 |
0.8442 |
0.0929 |
265 |
1 |
36.39 |
2009-10-17 |
| 94. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
36.29 |
0.8162 |
0.1183 |
149 |
2 |
33.60 |
2009-10-21 |
| 95. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
36.26 |
1.0445 |
-0.1108 |
373 |
1 |
36.26 |
2009-10-15 |
| 96. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
36.11 |
1.0211 |
-0.0913 |
213 |
1 |
36.11 |
2009-10-22 |
| 97. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
36.00 |
0.8422 |
0.0848 |
164 |
1 |
36.00 |
2009-10-21 |
| 98. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
35.50 |
0.9266 |
-0.0125 |
267 |
1 |
35.50 |
2009-10-15 |
| 99. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
35.39 |
0.8788 |
0.0325 |
134 |
2 |
34.03 |
2009-10-21 |
| 100. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
35.34 |
0.9202 |
-0.0102 |
254 |
1 |
35.34 |
2009-10-21 |
| 101. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
35.32 |
1.0090 |
-0.0995 |
282 |
1 |
35.32 |
2009-10-13 |
| 102. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
35.15 |
0.8382 |
0.0669 |
268 |
1 |
35.15 |
2009-10-13 |
| 103. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
34.83 |
1.0004 |
-0.1035 |
212 |
1 |
34.83 |
2009-10-21 |
| 104. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
34.82 |
0.9843 |
-0.0877 |
234 |
1 |
34.82 |
2009-10-21 |
| 105. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
34.63 |
0.9084 |
-0.0167 |
300 |
1 |
34.63 |
2009-10-21 |
| 106. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
34.63 |
0.9429 |
-0.0512 |
287 |
1 |
34.63 |
2009-10-22 |
| 107. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
34.52 |
0.9068 |
-0.0179 |
269 |
1 |
34.52 |
2009-10-14 |
| 108. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
34.31 |
0.8821 |
0.0014 |
176 |
1 |
34.31 |
2009-10-13 |
| 109. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
34.20 |
0.9527 |
-0.0720 |
251 |
1 |
34.20 |
2009-10-14 |
| 110. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
33.75 |
0.9865 |
-0.1174 |
276 |
1 |
33.75 |
2009-10-21 |
| 111. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
33.38 |
0.9266 |
-0.0671 |
278 |
2 |
32.56 |
2009-10-13 |
| 112. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
33.32 |
0.9281 |
-0.0701 |
273 |
1 |
33.32 |
2009-10-15 |
| 113. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
33.00 |
0.8722 |
-0.0224 |
285 |
2 |
30.55 |
2009-10-21 |
| 114. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
32.94 |
1.0252 |
-0.1770 |
176 |
1 |
32.94 |
2009-10-15 |
| 115. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
32.39 |
0.8105 |
0.0236 |
204 |
2 |
31.79 |
2009-10-15 |
| 116. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
32.12 |
0.9226 |
-0.0955 |
177 |
1 |
32.12 |
2009-10-15 |
| 117. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
31.65 |
0.8935 |
-0.0785 |
328 |
1 |
31.65 |
2009-10-22 |
| 118. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
31.54 |
1.0124 |
-0.2002 |
204 |
1 |
31.54 |
2009-10-13 |
| 119. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
31.45 |
0.8553 |
-0.0455 |
174 |
2 |
31.06 |
2009-10-21 |
| 120. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.44 |
0.8709 |
-0.0613 |
202 |
1 |
31.44 |
2009-10-13 |
| 121. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
31.20 |
0.9941 |
-0.1907 |
217 |
1 |
31.20 |
2009-10-13 |
| 122. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
30.40 |
0.8595 |
-0.0767 |
242 |
1 |
30.40 |
2009-10-13 |
| 123. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
30.04 |
1.0795 |
-0.3060 |
226 |
1 |
30.04 |
2009-10-13 |
| 124. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
29.04 |
0.9769 |
-0.2291 |
263 |
1 |
29.04 |
2009-10-21 |
| 125. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
28.60 |
0.9811 |
-0.2446 |
272 |
1 |
28.60 |
2009-10-15 |
| 126. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
28.04 |
0.9682 |
-0.2462 |
143 |
1 |
28.04 |
2009-10-21 |
| 127. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
27.90 |
0.8961 |
-0.1777 |
189 |
1 |
27.90 |
2009-10-13 |
| 128. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
27.73 |
0.8615 |
-0.1474 |
110 |
1 |
27.73 |
2009-10-13 |
| 129. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
26.76 |
0.8996 |
-0.2105 |
192 |
1 |
26.76 |
2009-10-14 |
| 130. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
26.55 |
0.9351 |
-0.2514 |
190 |
1 |
26.55 |
2009-10-21 |
| 131. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
26.39 |
0.9212 |
-0.2416 |
231 |
1 |
26.39 |
2009-10-21 |
| 132. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
25.62 |
0.8602 |
-0.2005 |
206 |
1 |
25.62 |
2009-10-17 |
| 133. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
24.87 |
0.9171 |
-0.2767 |
165 |
1 |
24.87 |
2009-10-21 |
| 134. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
24.01 |
0.7375 |
-0.1192 |
148 |
1 |
24.01 |
2009-10-13 |