| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
84.38 |
1.0349 |
0.3123 |
234 |
1 |
84.38 |
2010-11-29 |
| 2. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
80.86 |
1.0331 |
0.2558 |
234 |
1 |
80.86 |
2010-10-17 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
80.04 |
1.0796 |
0.1935 |
129 |
1 |
80.04 |
2011-04-06 |
| 4. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
79.37 |
1.1323 |
0.1685 |
341 |
1 |
79.37 |
2010-11-29 |
| 5. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
77.70 |
1.0863 |
0.1887 |
210 |
1 |
77.70 |
2010-10-20 |
| 6. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
76.30 |
1.0398 |
0.1673 |
110 |
1 |
76.30 |
2010-10-06 |
| 7. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
75.75 |
1.0477 |
0.1634 |
360 |
1 |
75.75 |
2010-10-04 |
| 8. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
74.41 |
1.0883 |
0.1309 |
303 |
1 |
74.41 |
2010-10-06 |
| 9. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
73.83 |
1.0516 |
0.1257 |
281 |
1 |
73.83 |
2010-10-04 |
| 10. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
73.74 |
1.0462 |
0.1240 |
184 |
2 |
72.37 |
2011-04-25 |
| 11. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
73.67 |
1.1296 |
0.0747 |
252 |
1 |
73.67 |
2010-10-06 |
| 12. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
73.07 |
1.0013 |
0.1633 |
273 |
2 |
63.28 |
2010-11-21 |
| 13. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
72.99 |
1.1114 |
0.0501 |
247 |
2 |
65.49 |
2010-11-29 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
72.34 |
1.0444 |
0.1027 |
197 |
2 |
67.33 |
2010-10-20 |
| 15. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
72.30 |
0.9649 |
0.1871 |
193 |
1 |
72.30 |
2010-10-06 |
| 16. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
71.71 |
1.0346 |
0.1510 |
244 |
1 |
71.71 |
2010-10-20 |
| 17. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
71.39 |
1.0574 |
0.1089 |
205 |
2 |
67.14 |
2010-10-17 |
| 18. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
71.11 |
1.0565 |
0.0748 |
247 |
1 |
71.11 |
2010-10-06 |
| 19. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
70.97 |
0.9986 |
0.1336 |
283 |
1 |
70.97 |
2010-10-20 |
| 20. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
70.66 |
1.0644 |
0.0983 |
257 |
2 |
67.82 |
2011-04-06 |
| 21. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
70.22 |
1.0993 |
0.0181 |
265 |
1 |
70.22 |
2010-11-29 |
| 22. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
70.07 |
1.0515 |
0.0578 |
166 |
1 |
70.07 |
2010-10-14 |
| 23. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
69.80 |
0.9893 |
0.1236 |
323 |
1 |
69.80 |
2010-10-17 |
| 24. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
69.71 |
1.0292 |
0.0808 |
262 |
1 |
69.71 |
2010-10-06 |
| 25. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
69.35 |
1.0201 |
0.0894 |
375 |
2 |
62.47 |
2010-11-21 |
| 26. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
68.90 |
1.0389 |
0.0610 |
318 |
2 |
65.74 |
2010-10-17 |
| 27. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
68.69 |
0.9509 |
0.1824 |
225 |
2 |
64.75 |
2010-11-21 |
| 28. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
68.35 |
1.0053 |
0.0821 |
232 |
2 |
67.57 |
2010-10-20 |
| 29. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
68.12 |
1.0941 |
0.0228 |
256 |
1 |
68.12 |
2010-10-06 |
| 30. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
68.04 |
1.1018 |
-0.0238 |
220 |
1 |
68.04 |
2010-09-25 |
| 31. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
67.97 |
1.0289 |
0.0587 |
276 |
1 |
67.97 |
2010-10-04 |
| 32. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
67.87 |
0.9966 |
0.0844 |
259 |
1 |
67.87 |
2010-10-20 |
| 33. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
67.51 |
1.0419 |
0.0339 |
261 |
1 |
67.51 |
2010-11-21 |
| 34. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
67.25 |
1.0025 |
0.0690 |
256 |
2 |
64.06 |
2011-04-06 |
| 35. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
67.03 |
0.8553 |
0.2077 |
174 |
1 |
67.03 |
2010-11-21 |
| 36. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
67.03 |
1.0441 |
0.0653 |
316 |
1 |
67.03 |
2010-10-06 |
| 37. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
67.01 |
1.0384 |
0.0198 |
183 |
1 |
67.01 |
2010-10-17 |
| 38. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
66.73 |
0.8996 |
0.1581 |
192 |
2 |
58.64 |
2010-10-20 |
| 39. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
66.47 |
1.0485 |
0.0453 |
153 |
1 |
66.47 |
2010-10-14 |
| 40. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
66.19 |
0.9485 |
0.1077 |
236 |
1 |
66.19 |
2010-10-17 |
| 41. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
65.48 |
1.0095 |
0.0325 |
316 |
1 |
65.48 |
2010-10-17 |
| 42. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
65.41 |
0.9758 |
0.0669 |
314 |
2 |
61.80 |
2010-10-06 |
| 43. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
65.29 |
0.9286 |
0.1104 |
194 |
1 |
65.29 |
2010-10-20 |
| 44. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
65.15 |
1.0031 |
0.0682 |
304 |
1 |
65.15 |
2010-10-07 |
| 45. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
64.64 |
0.9653 |
0.0725 |
394 |
1 |
64.64 |
2010-10-07 |
| 46. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
64.64 |
0.9943 |
0.0384 |
373 |
2 |
63.62 |
2010-10-20 |
| 47. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
64.49 |
1.0029 |
0.0178 |
209 |
2 |
60.78 |
2010-10-07 |
| 48. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
64.46 |
1.0417 |
-0.0176 |
253 |
1 |
64.46 |
2010-11-21 |
| 49. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
64.46 |
0.9897 |
0.0346 |
274 |
1 |
64.46 |
2010-09-25 |
| 50. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.93 |
0.9601 |
0.0627 |
308 |
1 |
63.93 |
2010-10-17 |
| 51. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
63.84 |
0.9593 |
0.0620 |
398 |
1 |
63.84 |
2010-10-06 |
| 52. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
63.55 |
1.0523 |
-0.0446 |
256 |
2 |
60.32 |
2010-10-06 |
| 53. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
63.33 |
0.9851 |
0.0255 |
317 |
1 |
63.33 |
2010-10-20 |
| 54. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
63.31 |
0.9164 |
0.0965 |
305 |
2 |
60.63 |
2010-11-21 |
| 55. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
63.03 |
0.9583 |
0.0890 |
341 |
1 |
63.03 |
2010-10-04 |
| 56. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
62.78 |
0.9632 |
0.0427 |
392 |
1 |
62.78 |
2010-10-04 |
| 57. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
62.68 |
1.0787 |
-0.0821 |
237 |
1 |
62.68 |
2010-10-14 |
| 58. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
62.46 |
1.0297 |
-0.0365 |
249 |
1 |
62.46 |
2010-11-21 |
| 59. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
62.43 |
1.0016 |
-0.0123 |
218 |
3 |
56.98 |
2010-11-29 |
| 60. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
62.14 |
1.0169 |
0.0109 |
346 |
1 |
62.14 |
2010-10-17 |
| 61. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
62.10 |
1.0214 |
0.0097 |
281 |
1 |
62.10 |
2010-10-06 |
| 62. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
61.98 |
0.9936 |
-0.0073 |
311 |
1 |
61.98 |
2010-10-04 |
| 63. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
61.61 |
0.9635 |
0.0226 |
389 |
1 |
61.61 |
2010-10-20 |
| 64. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
61.30 |
1.0033 |
-0.0343 |
189 |
2 |
60.76 |
2010-10-14 |
| 65. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
61.29 |
0.9795 |
-0.0040 |
308 |
1 |
61.29 |
2010-09-27 |
| 66. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
60.99 |
0.9965 |
-0.0306 |
168 |
1 |
60.99 |
2010-10-20 |
| 67. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
60.94 |
0.9168 |
0.0544 |
240 |
1 |
60.94 |
2010-11-29 |
| 68. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
60.81 |
1.0917 |
-0.1004 |
243 |
1 |
60.81 |
2010-11-29 |
| 69. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
60.73 |
0.8916 |
0.0752 |
216 |
1 |
60.73 |
2010-10-07 |
| 70. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
60.46 |
0.9202 |
0.0412 |
254 |
1 |
60.46 |
2010-11-29 |
| 71. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
60.32 |
0.9841 |
-0.0204 |
334 |
2 |
59.86 |
2010-10-14 |
| 72. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
60.20 |
1.0429 |
-0.0864 |
259 |
1 |
60.20 |
2010-10-06 |
| 73. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
60.17 |
0.9045 |
0.0533 |
235 |
1 |
60.17 |
2010-09-25 |
| 74. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
60.06 |
1.0060 |
-0.0550 |
171 |
1 |
60.06 |
2010-11-21 |
| 75. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
60.01 |
1.0132 |
-0.0670 |
143 |
1 |
60.01 |
2010-10-20 |
| 76. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
59.85 |
1.0358 |
-0.0419 |
349 |
1 |
59.85 |
2010-09-25 |
| 77. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
59.61 |
0.9353 |
0.0090 |
177 |
1 |
59.61 |
2010-10-18 |
| 78. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
59.52 |
1.0320 |
-0.0477 |
293 |
1 |
59.52 |
2010-10-04 |
| 79. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
59.10 |
1.0068 |
-0.0633 |
358 |
1 |
59.10 |
2010-09-25 |
| 80. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
58.95 |
1.0257 |
-0.0815 |
401 |
1 |
58.95 |
2010-10-04 |
| 81. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
58.89 |
1.0385 |
-0.1035 |
230 |
1 |
58.89 |
2010-11-21 |
| 82. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
58.75 |
1.0232 |
-0.0427 |
350 |
1 |
58.75 |
2010-11-21 |
| 83. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
58.72 |
0.9871 |
-0.0308 |
227 |
1 |
58.72 |
2010-09-27 |
| 84. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
58.25 |
0.9805 |
-0.0494 |
292 |
1 |
58.25 |
2010-10-06 |
| 85. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
57.88 |
0.9557 |
-0.0289 |
331 |
1 |
57.88 |
2010-10-04 |
| 86. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
57.81 |
1.0099 |
-0.0934 |
207 |
1 |
57.81 |
2010-10-04 |
| 87. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
57.47 |
1.0063 |
-0.0920 |
371 |
1 |
57.47 |
2010-09-27 |
| 88. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
57.36 |
0.9064 |
0.0149 |
399 |
1 |
57.36 |
2010-10-06 |
| 89. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
57.25 |
1.0125 |
-0.1044 |
224 |
1 |
57.25 |
2010-11-29 |
| 90. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
57.17 |
0.9946 |
-0.0857 |
246 |
1 |
57.17 |
2010-10-20 |
| 91. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
56.83 |
0.9916 |
-0.0454 |
282 |
2 |
51.41 |
2010-10-06 |
| 92. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
56.69 |
0.9430 |
-0.0490 |
211 |
1 |
56.69 |
2010-10-14 |
| 93. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
56.67 |
0.9723 |
-0.0676 |
364 |
1 |
56.67 |
2010-09-27 |
| 94. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
56.01 |
1.0725 |
-0.1563 |
233 |
1 |
56.01 |
2010-10-04 |
| 95. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
55.88 |
1.0316 |
-0.1395 |
333 |
1 |
55.88 |
2010-09-26 |
| 96. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
55.85 |
0.9672 |
-0.0729 |
396 |
1 |
55.85 |
2010-10-20 |
| 97. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
55.17 |
0.9567 |
-0.0377 |
184 |
1 |
55.17 |
2010-09-25 |
| 98. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
54.87 |
0.8022 |
0.0729 |
215 |
1 |
54.87 |
2010-10-04 |
| 99. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
54.87 |
0.9176 |
-0.0118 |
267 |
1 |
54.87 |
2010-10-04 |
| 100. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
54.56 |
1.0151 |
-0.1566 |
152 |
1 |
54.56 |
2010-10-20 |
| 101. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
54.33 |
0.9148 |
-0.0501 |
317 |
1 |
54.33 |
2010-10-04 |
| 102. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
54.33 |
0.9243 |
-0.0217 |
448 |
2 |
48.58 |
2010-10-04 |
| 103. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
54.29 |
0.9570 |
-0.0927 |
287 |
1 |
54.29 |
2010-11-29 |
| 104. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
53.97 |
0.9023 |
-0.0020 |
231 |
1 |
53.97 |
2010-09-25 |
| 105. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
53.69 |
0.9675 |
-0.1050 |
383 |
1 |
53.69 |
2010-10-04 |
| 106. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
53.64 |
0.9233 |
-0.0795 |
168 |
1 |
53.64 |
2010-09-25 |
| 107. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
53.48 |
0.8382 |
0.0119 |
268 |
1 |
53.48 |
2010-10-14 |
| 108. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
53.03 |
0.9614 |
-0.1161 |
292 |
1 |
53.03 |
2010-10-20 |
| 109. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
52.77 |
1.0038 |
-0.1354 |
237 |
1 |
52.77 |
2010-10-06 |
| 110. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
51.86 |
0.9279 |
-0.0980 |
317 |
1 |
51.86 |
2010-10-04 |
| 111. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
51.51 |
1.0270 |
-0.1732 |
255 |
1 |
51.51 |
2010-10-06 |
| 112. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
51.11 |
1.0799 |
-0.2723 |
243 |
1 |
51.11 |
2010-09-25 |
| 113. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
50.56 |
1.0088 |
-0.1676 |
396 |
1 |
50.56 |
2010-10-06 |
| 114. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
50.37 |
1.0577 |
-0.2618 |
247 |
1 |
50.37 |
2010-10-04 |
| 115. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
50.27 |
0.8533 |
-0.0544 |
232 |
1 |
50.27 |
2010-09-25 |
| 116. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
50.11 |
1.0714 |
-0.2851 |
129 |
1 |
50.11 |
2010-09-25 |
| 117. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
49.97 |
0.9514 |
-0.1581 |
237 |
1 |
49.97 |
2010-09-25 |
| 118. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
49.60 |
0.9074 |
-0.1139 |
396 |
1 |
49.60 |
2010-10-04 |
| 119. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
49.56 |
0.9711 |
-0.1860 |
176 |
1 |
49.56 |
2010-11-29 |
| 120. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
48.97 |
0.9756 |
-0.2001 |
229 |
1 |
48.97 |
2010-10-04 |
| 121. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
47.27 |
0.9213 |
-0.1714 |
295 |
1 |
47.27 |
2010-09-27 |
| 122. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
46.83 |
0.9922 |
-0.2088 |
341 |
1 |
46.83 |
2010-10-04 |
| 123. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
46.72 |
0.9682 |
-0.2296 |
143 |
1 |
46.72 |
2010-10-06 |
| 124. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
45.43 |
0.8602 |
-0.1427 |
206 |
1 |
45.43 |
2010-10-07 |
| 125. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
44.01 |
0.9908 |
-0.2481 |
342 |
1 |
44.01 |
2010-09-25 |