| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
81.88 |
1.0426 |
0.2371 |
131 |
1 |
81.88 |
2010-01-06 |
| 2. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
74.95 |
1.0287 |
0.1447 |
269 |
1 |
74.95 |
2010-01-05 |
| 3. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
73.62 |
0.9854 |
0.1694 |
174 |
1 |
73.62 |
2010-01-06 |
| 4. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
73.25 |
1.0243 |
0.1272 |
153 |
2 |
68.97 |
2010-01-04 |
| 5. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
73.08 |
1.0464 |
0.1036 |
294 |
1 |
73.08 |
2010-08-20 |
| 6. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
73.08 |
1.0450 |
0.1053 |
358 |
1 |
73.08 |
2010-08-21 |
| 7. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
72.98 |
1.0865 |
0.0568 |
237 |
2 |
71.59 |
2010-01-06 |
| 8. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
72.56 |
1.0338 |
0.1083 |
277 |
2 |
70.64 |
2010-01-05 |
| 9. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
71.97 |
1.0192 |
0.1136 |
243 |
1 |
71.97 |
2010-01-06 |
| 10. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
70.96 |
1.0194 |
0.0901 |
224 |
1 |
70.96 |
2010-01-05 |
| 11. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
70.58 |
1.0590 |
0.0455 |
250 |
1 |
70.58 |
2010-01-05 |
| 12. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
70.22 |
1.0403 |
0.0580 |
234 |
2 |
66.64 |
2010-01-04 |
| 13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
69.54 |
1.0800 |
0.0023 |
129 |
2 |
67.22 |
2010-08-20 |
| 14. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
69.47 |
0.9991 |
0.0885 |
339 |
1 |
69.47 |
2010-01-05 |
| 15. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
69.39 |
0.9931 |
0.0983 |
339 |
1 |
69.39 |
2010-08-21 |
| 16. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
69.17 |
0.9128 |
0.1678 |
237 |
1 |
69.17 |
2010-01-06 |
| 17. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
69.01 |
1.0487 |
0.0300 |
253 |
1 |
69.01 |
2010-01-06 |
| 18. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
68.89 |
0.9933 |
0.0931 |
450 |
1 |
68.89 |
2010-01-06 |
| 19. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
68.84 |
0.9377 |
0.1482 |
198 |
1 |
68.84 |
2010-05-10 |
| 20. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
68.83 |
1.0106 |
0.0665 |
302 |
1 |
68.83 |
2010-08-21 |
| 21. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
68.72 |
0.9719 |
0.1116 |
383 |
1 |
68.72 |
2010-01-05 |
| 22. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
68.47 |
1.0125 |
0.0550 |
171 |
1 |
68.47 |
2010-01-04 |
| 23. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
68.36 |
1.0667 |
0.0144 |
308 |
1 |
68.36 |
2010-01-04 |
| 24. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
67.48 |
1.0270 |
0.0304 |
303 |
1 |
67.48 |
2010-01-06 |
| 25. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
67.37 |
1.0208 |
0.0342 |
231 |
1 |
67.37 |
2010-01-05 |
| 26. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
67.15 |
1.0057 |
0.0488 |
382 |
3 |
54.77 |
2011-07-19 |
| 27. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
66.74 |
0.9636 |
0.0802 |
281 |
2 |
65.91 |
2010-01-06 |
| 28. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
66.63 |
0.9927 |
0.0513 |
276 |
1 |
66.63 |
2010-01-04 |
| 29. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
66.40 |
1.0090 |
0.0364 |
300 |
1 |
66.40 |
2010-05-10 |
| 30. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
66.10 |
0.9329 |
0.1166 |
345 |
2 |
61.12 |
2010-08-21 |
| 31. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
66.08 |
0.9756 |
0.0585 |
223 |
2 |
62.45 |
2010-01-05 |
| 32. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
66.06 |
0.9403 |
0.1068 |
345 |
1 |
66.06 |
2010-01-05 |
| 33. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
65.57 |
1.0103 |
0.0107 |
209 |
2 |
60.83 |
2010-01-01 |
| 34. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
65.40 |
1.0004 |
0.0262 |
373 |
1 |
65.40 |
2010-01-06 |
| 35. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
65.36 |
0.9500 |
0.0751 |
287 |
1 |
65.36 |
2010-01-06 |
| 36. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
65.33 |
1.0601 |
-0.0404 |
256 |
2 |
61.90 |
2010-01-01 |
| 37. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
65.30 |
0.9561 |
0.0680 |
362 |
2 |
62.07 |
2010-01-04 |
| 38. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
65.19 |
1.0042 |
0.0127 |
168 |
1 |
65.19 |
2010-01-01 |
| 39. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
65.10 |
1.0067 |
0.0263 |
422 |
1 |
65.10 |
2010-05-10 |
| 40. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
64.98 |
0.8966 |
0.1201 |
366 |
1 |
64.98 |
2010-01-06 |
| 41. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
64.51 |
1.0197 |
-0.0115 |
204 |
1 |
64.51 |
2010-01-04 |
| 42. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
64.35 |
0.9494 |
0.0709 |
397 |
1 |
64.35 |
2010-01-06 |
| 43. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
64.24 |
0.9703 |
0.0421 |
394 |
1 |
64.24 |
2010-01-04 |
| 44. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
64.15 |
1.0509 |
-0.0390 |
295 |
1 |
64.15 |
2010-01-01 |
| 45. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
64.15 |
0.8845 |
0.1212 |
239 |
1 |
64.15 |
2010-01-01 |
| 46. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
64.08 |
1.0482 |
-0.0319 |
407 |
1 |
64.08 |
2010-08-20 |
| 47. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
64.07 |
1.0495 |
-0.0469 |
323 |
2 |
60.94 |
2010-08-21 |
| 48. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
63.84 |
0.9203 |
0.0820 |
350 |
1 |
63.84 |
2010-01-06 |
| 49. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
63.47 |
1.0669 |
-0.0701 |
379 |
1 |
63.47 |
2010-08-21 |
| 50. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
62.93 |
0.9885 |
-0.0033 |
355 |
1 |
62.93 |
2010-04-12 |
| 51. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
62.87 |
0.9632 |
0.0222 |
287 |
1 |
62.87 |
2010-01-06 |
| 52. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
62.69 |
0.8988 |
0.0818 |
193 |
1 |
62.69 |
2010-01-01 |
| 53. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
62.12 |
0.9974 |
-0.0289 |
163 |
2 |
61.01 |
2010-01-05 |
| 54. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
62.06 |
0.9966 |
-0.0180 |
377 |
1 |
62.06 |
2010-08-20 |
| 55. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
61.95 |
1.0628 |
-0.0911 |
363 |
1 |
61.95 |
2010-01-04 |
| 56. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
61.20 |
1.0010 |
-0.0392 |
213 |
1 |
61.20 |
2010-01-01 |
| 57. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
61.18 |
0.9519 |
0.0096 |
323 |
1 |
61.18 |
2010-01-04 |
| 58. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
60.84 |
0.9352 |
0.0159 |
194 |
1 |
60.84 |
2010-01-06 |
| 59. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
60.76 |
0.9403 |
0.0194 |
307 |
1 |
60.76 |
2010-01-04 |
| 60. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
60.66 |
0.9183 |
0.0320 |
308 |
1 |
60.66 |
2010-01-04 |
| 61. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
60.53 |
1.0498 |
-0.1013 |
261 |
1 |
60.53 |
2010-08-20 |
| 62. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
60.32 |
0.9673 |
-0.0211 |
292 |
1 |
60.32 |
2010-01-06 |
| 63. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
59.66 |
0.9935 |
-0.0577 |
217 |
1 |
59.66 |
2010-01-06 |
| 64. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
59.41 |
0.8856 |
0.0517 |
369 |
1 |
59.41 |
2010-01-01 |
| 65. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
59.13 |
0.9338 |
0.0014 |
326 |
1 |
59.13 |
2010-01-01 |
| 66. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
58.88 |
0.9736 |
-0.0452 |
378 |
1 |
58.88 |
2010-01-01 |
| 67. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
58.75 |
0.8172 |
0.0978 |
204 |
1 |
58.75 |
2010-01-01 |
| 68. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
58.61 |
1.0039 |
-0.0806 |
255 |
2 |
56.30 |
2010-08-21 |
| 69. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
58.47 |
1.0253 |
-0.1074 |
337 |
1 |
58.47 |
2010-01-04 |
| 70. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
58.30 |
0.9228 |
-0.0061 |
305 |
1 |
58.30 |
2010-01-05 |
| 71. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
58.11 |
1.0476 |
-0.1478 |
110 |
1 |
58.11 |
2010-01-04 |
| 72. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
58.05 |
0.9101 |
0.0021 |
351 |
1 |
58.05 |
2010-01-01 |
| 73. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
57.46 |
1.0576 |
-0.1614 |
231 |
1 |
57.46 |
2010-01-01 |
| 74. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
57.36 |
0.9932 |
-0.0882 |
281 |
1 |
57.36 |
2010-08-20 |
| 75. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
56.73 |
1.0481 |
-0.1683 |
255 |
1 |
56.73 |
2010-01-01 |
| 76. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
56.53 |
0.9136 |
-0.0260 |
348 |
1 |
56.53 |
2010-01-06 |
| 77. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
56.08 |
0.9123 |
-0.0258 |
351 |
1 |
56.08 |
2010-05-10 |
| 78. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
55.53 |
0.9243 |
-0.0536 |
240 |
1 |
55.53 |
2010-05-10 |
| 79. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
55.44 |
0.9928 |
-0.1263 |
293 |
1 |
55.44 |
2010-01-05 |
| 80. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
54.90 |
0.8974 |
-0.0269 |
365 |
1 |
54.90 |
2010-01-06 |
| 81. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
53.73 |
1.0028 |
-0.1637 |
259 |
1 |
53.73 |
2010-01-01 |
| 82. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
51.99 |
1.0387 |
-0.2217 |
333 |
1 |
51.99 |
2011-07-19 |
| 83. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
51.73 |
0.8624 |
-0.0584 |
174 |
1 |
51.73 |
2010-01-06 |
| 84. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
51.65 |
0.9380 |
-0.1321 |
284 |
1 |
51.65 |
2010-01-01 |
| 85. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
50.76 |
0.8936 |
-0.1013 |
346 |
1 |
50.76 |
2010-08-21 |
| 86. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
24.99 |
0.9299 |
-0.5508 |
168 |
1 |
24.99 |
2010-01-01 |