| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
60.58 |
0.8773 |
0.7261 |
205 |
1 |
60.58 |
2013-01-25 |
| 2. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
48.51 |
0.9251 |
0.3584 |
177 |
2 |
41.26 |
2013-01-26 |
| 3. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
46.70 |
0.9724 |
0.2616 |
237 |
1 |
46.70 |
2013-01-26 |
| 4. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
46.56 |
0.9260 |
0.3111 |
243 |
2 |
43.33 |
2013-01-26 |
| 5. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
45.11 |
1.0201 |
0.1612 |
172 |
3 |
39.73 |
2013-01-26 |
| 6. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
44.73 |
1.0444 |
0.1269 |
197 |
2 |
43.70 |
2013-01-26 |
| 7. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
43.56 |
1.0528 |
0.0889 |
201 |
1 |
43.56 |
2013-01-25 |
| 8. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
43.51 |
1.0090 |
0.1801 |
282 |
2 |
40.54 |
2013-01-26 |
| 9. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
43.07 |
1.0905 |
0.0751 |
210 |
1 |
43.07 |
2013-01-25 |
| 10. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
43.04 |
1.0596 |
0.0711 |
239 |
1 |
43.04 |
2013-01-26 |
| 11. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
43.02 |
1.0016 |
0.1261 |
218 |
1 |
43.02 |
2013-01-25 |
| 12. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
42.78 |
1.0463 |
0.0752 |
182 |
1 |
42.78 |
2013-01-25 |
| 13. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
42.31 |
0.9774 |
0.1356 |
196 |
1 |
42.31 |
2013-01-25 |
| 14. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
41.82 |
1.0034 |
0.0956 |
302 |
1 |
41.82 |
2013-01-25 |
| 15. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
41.62 |
0.9722 |
0.1251 |
283 |
1 |
41.62 |
2013-01-26 |
| 16. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
41.35 |
1.0796 |
0.0034 |
129 |
1 |
41.35 |
2013-01-25 |
| 17. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
41.10 |
1.0462 |
0.0291 |
184 |
1 |
41.10 |
2013-01-25 |
| 18. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
40.97 |
0.9263 |
0.1550 |
188 |
1 |
40.97 |
2013-01-26 |
| 19. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
40.89 |
1.0993 |
-0.0257 |
265 |
1 |
40.89 |
2013-01-26 |
| 20. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
40.72 |
1.0320 |
0.0762 |
293 |
1 |
40.72 |
2013-01-25 |
| 21. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
40.71 |
0.9843 |
0.0815 |
234 |
3 |
35.01 |
2013-01-25 |
| 22. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
40.66 |
1.0506 |
0.0478 |
277 |
1 |
40.66 |
2013-01-27 |
| 23. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
40.57 |
0.9897 |
0.0752 |
274 |
1 |
40.57 |
2013-01-26 |
| 24. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
40.22 |
0.9772 |
0.0771 |
217 |
1 |
40.22 |
2013-01-25 |
| 25. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
39.96 |
0.9820 |
0.0692 |
274 |
2 |
35.78 |
2013-01-26 |
| 26. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
39.87 |
0.9986 |
0.0456 |
162 |
1 |
39.87 |
2013-01-25 |
| 27. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
39.87 |
0.8202 |
0.2260 |
178 |
1 |
39.87 |
2013-01-25 |
| 28. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
39.82 |
1.0403 |
0.0468 |
275 |
1 |
39.82 |
2013-01-25 |
| 29. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
39.71 |
1.1162 |
-0.0308 |
189 |
1 |
39.71 |
2013-01-25 |
| 30. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
39.65 |
1.0608 |
0.0152 |
258 |
1 |
39.65 |
2013-01-26 |
| 31. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
39.55 |
1.0214 |
0.0613 |
281 |
1 |
39.55 |
2013-01-25 |
| 32. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
39.51 |
1.0361 |
0.0036 |
269 |
1 |
39.51 |
2013-01-25 |
| 33. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
39.46 |
0.9572 |
0.0795 |
201 |
1 |
39.46 |
2013-01-25 |
| 34. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
39.22 |
1.0213 |
0.0066 |
240 |
1 |
39.22 |
2013-01-25 |
| 35. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
38.97 |
0.9098 |
0.1113 |
167 |
1 |
38.97 |
2013-01-25 |
| 36. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
38.78 |
0.9068 |
0.1112 |
225 |
1 |
38.78 |
2013-01-25 |
| 37. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
38.76 |
0.8867 |
0.1379 |
241 |
2 |
38.56 |
2013-01-26 |
| 38. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
38.55 |
0.9068 |
0.1099 |
269 |
1 |
38.55 |
2013-01-27 |
| 39. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
38.48 |
1.0331 |
-0.0238 |
234 |
1 |
38.48 |
2013-01-26 |
| 40. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
38.39 |
0.9161 |
0.0916 |
200 |
2 |
36.17 |
2013-01-26 |
| 41. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
38.30 |
0.9731 |
0.0213 |
129 |
1 |
38.30 |
2013-01-25 |
| 42. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
38.20 |
0.9097 |
0.0948 |
153 |
1 |
38.20 |
2013-01-25 |
| 43. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
38.18 |
0.8821 |
0.1212 |
176 |
1 |
38.18 |
2013-01-25 |
| 44. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
38.05 |
1.0346 |
0.0075 |
244 |
1 |
38.05 |
2013-01-25 |
| 45. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
37.53 |
1.0565 |
-0.0731 |
247 |
1 |
37.53 |
2013-01-25 |
| 46. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
37.35 |
1.0426 |
-0.0618 |
323 |
1 |
37.35 |
2013-01-26 |
| 47. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
36.64 |
0.8916 |
0.0711 |
216 |
1 |
36.64 |
2013-01-25 |
| 48. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
36.52 |
1.0203 |
-0.0576 |
261 |
1 |
36.52 |
2013-01-26 |
| 49. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
36.18 |
0.9430 |
0.0103 |
297 |
1 |
36.18 |
2013-01-26 |
| 50. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
36.12 |
1.0941 |
-0.1141 |
256 |
1 |
36.12 |
2013-01-25 |
| 51. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
36.01 |
0.9164 |
0.0339 |
305 |
1 |
36.01 |
2013-01-26 |
| 52. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
35.84 |
0.9670 |
0.0163 |
307 |
1 |
35.84 |
2013-01-26 |
| 53. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
35.81 |
1.0459 |
-0.0742 |
200 |
1 |
35.81 |
2013-01-25 |
| 54. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
35.80 |
0.8653 |
0.0862 |
255 |
1 |
35.80 |
2013-01-25 |
| 55. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
35.38 |
1.0261 |
-0.0990 |
273 |
1 |
35.38 |
2013-01-25 |
| 56. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
35.36 |
0.9461 |
-0.0212 |
193 |
1 |
35.36 |
2013-01-25 |
| 57. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
35.35 |
0.8520 |
0.0776 |
202 |
1 |
35.35 |
2013-01-26 |
| 58. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
35.24 |
0.9289 |
-0.0058 |
204 |
1 |
35.24 |
2013-01-26 |
| 59. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
35.01 |
0.9485 |
-0.0269 |
291 |
1 |
35.01 |
2013-01-25 |
| 60. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
34.97 |
0.9567 |
-0.0388 |
273 |
1 |
34.97 |
2013-01-25 |
| 61. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
34.96 |
1.0419 |
-0.1241 |
261 |
1 |
34.96 |
2013-01-25 |
| 62. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
34.87 |
1.0412 |
-0.1264 |
225 |
1 |
34.87 |
2013-01-26 |
| 63. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
34.82 |
0.9504 |
-0.0414 |
263 |
1 |
34.82 |
2013-01-25 |
| 64. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
34.82 |
0.9048 |
0.0141 |
271 |
1 |
34.82 |
2013-01-25 |
| 65. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
34.62 |
0.9964 |
-0.0878 |
203 |
1 |
34.62 |
2013-01-26 |
| 66. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
34.45 |
1.0099 |
-0.1084 |
207 |
1 |
34.45 |
2013-01-25 |
| 67. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
34.31 |
0.7731 |
0.1294 |
145 |
1 |
34.31 |
2013-01-25 |
| 68. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
34.10 |
1.0788 |
-0.1895 |
171 |
1 |
34.10 |
2013-01-25 |
| 69. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
33.79 |
1.0389 |
-0.1500 |
340 |
1 |
33.79 |
2013-01-25 |
| 70. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
33.61 |
0.8541 |
0.0359 |
260 |
1 |
33.61 |
2013-01-25 |
| 71. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
33.58 |
1.0297 |
-0.1499 |
249 |
1 |
33.58 |
2013-01-26 |
| 72. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
33.44 |
1.0767 |
-0.2014 |
212 |
1 |
33.44 |
2013-01-25 |
| 73. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
33.30 |
0.8602 |
0.0110 |
206 |
1 |
33.30 |
2013-01-25 |
| 74. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
32.41 |
0.8826 |
-0.0297 |
241 |
1 |
32.41 |
2013-01-25 |
| 75. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
32.26 |
1.0883 |
-0.2102 |
303 |
1 |
32.26 |
2013-01-25 |
| 76. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
32.21 |
0.8914 |
-0.0460 |
366 |
1 |
32.21 |
2013-01-26 |
| 77. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
32.07 |
0.9811 |
-0.1375 |
272 |
1 |
32.07 |
2013-01-25 |
| 78. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
31.81 |
0.8615 |
-0.0274 |
110 |
1 |
31.81 |
2013-01-25 |
| 79. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
31.74 |
0.9614 |
-0.1263 |
292 |
1 |
31.74 |
2013-01-25 |
| 80. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
31.43 |
0.9886 |
-0.1622 |
220 |
1 |
31.43 |
2013-01-25 |
| 81. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
31.36 |
1.0677 |
-0.2152 |
284 |
1 |
31.36 |
2013-01-25 |
| 82. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
31.29 |
0.8892 |
-0.0628 |
207 |
1 |
31.29 |
2013-01-25 |
| 83. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
31.15 |
0.8788 |
-0.0656 |
134 |
1 |
31.15 |
2013-01-25 |
| 84. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
30.69 |
1.0384 |
-0.2435 |
183 |
1 |
30.69 |
2013-01-25 |
| 85. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
30.62 |
0.8553 |
-0.0581 |
174 |
1 |
30.62 |
2013-01-25 |
| 86. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
30.55 |
0.8562 |
-0.0552 |
170 |
1 |
30.55 |
2013-01-25 |
| 87. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
30.27 |
0.7876 |
0.0079 |
316 |
1 |
30.27 |
2013-01-26 |
| 88. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
30.22 |
0.7877 |
0.0086 |
142 |
1 |
30.22 |
2013-01-25 |
| 89. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
28.46 |
0.8787 |
-0.1291 |
202 |
1 |
28.46 |
2013-01-25 |