| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
75.83 |
1.0388 |
1.4393 |
243 |
1 |
75.83 |
2024-09-06 |
| 2. |
But I have one want which I have never yet been able to sati... |
74.77 |
1.0682 |
1.3753 |
155 |
1 |
74.77 |
2024-09-06 |
| 3. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
67.88 |
0.9651 |
1.2532 |
389 |
1 |
67.88 |
2024-09-06 |
| 4. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
66.47 |
0.8915 |
1.2807 |
188 |
1 |
66.47 |
2010-05-24 |
| 5. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
66.36 |
0.9976 |
1.1710 |
174 |
1 |
66.36 |
2024-09-06 |
| 6. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
63.68 |
0.9509 |
1.1302 |
225 |
1 |
63.68 |
2024-09-06 |
| 7. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
60.78 |
0.8619 |
1.1244 |
119 |
2 |
44.41 |
2010-05-24 |
| 8. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
58.83 |
1.0485 |
0.8741 |
153 |
2 |
41.38 |
2024-09-06 |
| 9. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
58.59 |
0.9897 |
0.9250 |
274 |
1 |
58.59 |
2010-05-25 |
| 10. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
58.05 |
0.8809 |
1.0162 |
127 |
3 |
42.23 |
2010-06-06 |
| 11. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
56.13 |
0.9266 |
0.9077 |
267 |
1 |
56.13 |
2010-05-25 |
| 12. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
53.29 |
1.0343 |
0.7072 |
242 |
1 |
53.29 |
2010-05-28 |
| 13. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
51.70 |
0.8154 |
0.8741 |
193 |
1 |
51.70 |
2010-05-28 |
| 14. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
50.75 |
0.7988 |
0.8597 |
219 |
1 |
50.75 |
2010-05-24 |
| 15. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
50.68 |
0.9673 |
0.6889 |
232 |
1 |
50.68 |
2010-05-28 |
| 16. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
50.20 |
1.0214 |
0.6191 |
166 |
3 |
35.28 |
2010-05-28 |
| 17. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
46.76 |
1.0053 |
0.5228 |
232 |
2 |
38.40 |
2010-05-28 |
| 18. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
41.05 |
0.9164 |
0.4251 |
121 |
1 |
41.05 |
2010-05-25 |
| 19. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
35.50 |
0.8506 |
0.3095 |
132 |
2 |
34.70 |
2010-05-25 |
| 20. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
34.87 |
0.8867 |
0.2528 |
163 |
1 |
34.87 |
2010-05-25 |
| 21. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
34.80 |
1.0788 |
0.0585 |
171 |
1 |
34.80 |
2010-05-25 |
| 22. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
33.25 |
1.0396 |
0.0470 |
149 |
1 |
33.25 |
2010-05-26 |
| 23. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
32.85 |
0.9873 |
0.0862 |
155 |
1 |
32.85 |
2010-05-24 |
| 24. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
32.40 |
1.0796 |
-0.0208 |
129 |
1 |
32.40 |
2010-05-25 |
| 25. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
32.18 |
1.0523 |
-0.0007 |
256 |
1 |
32.18 |
2010-05-25 |
| 26. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
32.14 |
1.0829 |
-0.0326 |
288 |
1 |
32.14 |
2010-05-25 |
| 27. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
32.05 |
0.8745 |
0.1729 |
169 |
3 |
28.33 |
2010-05-25 |
| 28. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
31.97 |
0.9303 |
0.1145 |
176 |
2 |
26.74 |
2010-05-24 |
| 29. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
31.95 |
0.8876 |
0.1565 |
118 |
3 |
27.16 |
2010-05-24 |
| 30. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
31.79 |
0.9711 |
0.0678 |
176 |
3 |
31.16 |
2010-06-06 |
| 31. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
31.18 |
1.0205 |
-0.0015 |
179 |
2 |
31.12 |
2010-05-25 |
| 32. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
31.10 |
1.0565 |
-0.0402 |
247 |
1 |
31.10 |
2010-05-26 |
| 33. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
30.96 |
0.8615 |
0.1503 |
110 |
2 |
24.10 |
2010-05-25 |
| 34. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
30.93 |
1.0498 |
-0.0390 |
180 |
1 |
30.93 |
2010-05-25 |
| 35. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
30.82 |
1.0375 |
-0.0303 |
200 |
1 |
30.82 |
2010-05-25 |
| 36. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
30.71 |
0.8551 |
0.1485 |
171 |
1 |
30.71 |
2010-05-24 |
| 37. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
30.44 |
1.0023 |
-0.0075 |
211 |
1 |
30.44 |
2010-05-25 |
| 38. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
30.36 |
1.0033 |
-0.0111 |
189 |
3 |
28.39 |
2010-05-24 |
| 39. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
30.15 |
0.8936 |
0.0917 |
127 |
2 |
26.74 |
2010-05-25 |
| 40. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
30.08 |
0.8178 |
0.1652 |
159 |
2 |
27.54 |
2010-05-25 |
| 41. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
30.06 |
0.8562 |
0.1262 |
170 |
2 |
29.32 |
2010-05-25 |
| 42. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
30.03 |
0.9572 |
0.0242 |
201 |
1 |
30.03 |
2010-05-25 |
| 43. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
29.90 |
1.0528 |
-0.0757 |
201 |
2 |
27.55 |
2010-05-24 |
| 44. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
29.87 |
1.0379 |
-0.0618 |
245 |
1 |
29.87 |
2010-05-25 |
| 45. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
29.79 |
0.8763 |
0.0972 |
105 |
2 |
27.02 |
2010-05-25 |
| 46. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
29.73 |
1.0320 |
-0.0604 |
293 |
1 |
29.73 |
2010-05-25 |
| 47. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
29.66 |
0.9226 |
0.0467 |
177 |
1 |
29.66 |
2010-05-24 |
| 48. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
29.35 |
0.9724 |
-0.0132 |
237 |
1 |
29.35 |
2010-05-25 |
| 49. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
29.29 |
0.9128 |
0.0444 |
133 |
2 |
26.65 |
2010-05-25 |
| 50. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
29.27 |
1.0099 |
-0.0534 |
207 |
1 |
29.27 |
2010-05-25 |
| 51. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
29.25 |
1.0077 |
-0.0518 |
250 |
1 |
29.25 |
2010-05-25 |
| 52. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
29.14 |
1.0787 |
-0.1264 |
237 |
1 |
29.14 |
2010-05-25 |
| 53. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
29.10 |
0.8628 |
0.0882 |
196 |
1 |
29.10 |
2010-05-25 |
| 54. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
28.85 |
1.0696 |
-0.1268 |
226 |
1 |
28.85 |
2010-05-24 |
| 55. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
28.80 |
0.8500 |
0.0912 |
145 |
1 |
28.80 |
2010-05-24 |
| 56. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
28.70 |
0.8142 |
0.1237 |
187 |
1 |
28.70 |
2010-05-24 |
| 57. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
28.55 |
1.0063 |
-0.0733 |
371 |
2 |
27.90 |
2010-05-26 |
| 58. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
28.50 |
0.9576 |
-0.0262 |
212 |
1 |
28.50 |
2010-05-25 |
| 59. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
28.45 |
0.8422 |
0.0875 |
164 |
1 |
28.45 |
2010-05-25 |
| 60. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
28.31 |
0.9171 |
0.0081 |
165 |
1 |
28.31 |
2010-05-24 |
| 61. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
28.29 |
1.0574 |
-0.1329 |
205 |
1 |
28.29 |
2010-05-25 |
| 62. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
28.21 |
1.0521 |
-0.1302 |
171 |
1 |
28.21 |
2010-05-24 |
| 63. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
28.18 |
0.9196 |
0.0013 |
148 |
2 |
27.57 |
2010-05-25 |
| 64. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
28.08 |
0.7352 |
0.1824 |
106 |
1 |
28.08 |
2010-05-25 |
| 65. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
28.06 |
0.9063 |
0.0107 |
239 |
1 |
28.06 |
2010-05-25 |
| 66. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
27.91 |
0.9045 |
0.0076 |
235 |
2 |
24.70 |
2010-05-25 |
| 67. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
27.86 |
0.8773 |
0.0332 |
205 |
1 |
27.86 |
2010-05-24 |
| 68. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
27.83 |
1.0463 |
-0.1368 |
182 |
1 |
27.83 |
2010-05-24 |
| 69. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
27.80 |
1.0025 |
-0.0940 |
256 |
1 |
27.80 |
2010-06-06 |
| 70. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
27.77 |
0.9843 |
-0.0768 |
234 |
1 |
27.77 |
2010-05-25 |
| 71. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
27.73 |
1.0714 |
-0.1652 |
129 |
2 |
27.50 |
2010-05-24 |
| 72. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
27.57 |
0.9430 |
-0.0420 |
297 |
1 |
27.57 |
2010-05-25 |
| 73. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
27.53 |
0.9266 |
-0.0269 |
278 |
1 |
27.53 |
2010-05-25 |
| 74. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
27.50 |
0.7818 |
0.1169 |
195 |
2 |
25.28 |
2010-05-24 |
| 75. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
27.49 |
0.7690 |
0.1294 |
142 |
1 |
27.49 |
2010-05-25 |
| 76. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
27.41 |
0.9884 |
-0.0926 |
233 |
2 |
27.26 |
2010-05-26 |
| 77. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
27.26 |
1.0252 |
-0.1343 |
176 |
3 |
22.78 |
2010-05-24 |
| 78. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
27.02 |
0.8073 |
0.0757 |
173 |
1 |
27.02 |
2010-05-24 |
| 79. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
26.98 |
0.9097 |
-0.0280 |
153 |
1 |
26.98 |
2010-05-24 |
| 80. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
26.72 |
0.9772 |
-0.1040 |
217 |
1 |
26.72 |
2010-05-24 |
| 81. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
26.65 |
1.0337 |
-0.1628 |
214 |
1 |
26.65 |
2010-05-25 |
| 82. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
26.61 |
0.8731 |
-0.0035 |
199 |
1 |
26.61 |
2010-05-25 |
| 83. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
26.45 |
0.9068 |
-0.0424 |
225 |
1 |
26.45 |
2010-05-26 |
| 84. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
26.44 |
0.7801 |
0.0840 |
116 |
1 |
26.44 |
2010-05-24 |
| 85. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
26.36 |
0.8231 |
0.0383 |
180 |
1 |
26.36 |
2010-05-25 |
| 86. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
26.20 |
0.8541 |
0.0021 |
260 |
2 |
25.97 |
2010-05-24 |
| 87. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
26.19 |
0.8157 |
0.0402 |
121 |
1 |
26.19 |
2010-05-24 |
| 88. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
26.18 |
0.8177 |
0.0379 |
124 |
2 |
21.50 |
2010-05-24 |
| 89. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
26.01 |
1.0390 |
-0.1890 |
205 |
1 |
26.01 |
2010-05-24 |
| 90. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
26.01 |
0.9758 |
-0.1258 |
314 |
1 |
26.01 |
2010-05-25 |
| 91. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
25.98 |
0.7484 |
0.1006 |
185 |
1 |
25.98 |
2010-05-24 |
| 92. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
25.97 |
0.9786 |
-0.1299 |
193 |
2 |
24.10 |
2010-05-25 |
| 93. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
25.96 |
0.9418 |
-0.0934 |
188 |
1 |
25.96 |
2010-05-24 |
| 94. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
25.93 |
1.0109 |
-0.1635 |
276 |
1 |
25.93 |
2010-05-25 |
| 95. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
25.81 |
1.0183 |
-0.1748 |
191 |
1 |
25.81 |
2010-05-25 |
| 96. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
25.80 |
0.8958 |
-0.0527 |
322 |
1 |
25.80 |
2010-05-25 |
| 97. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
25.79 |
0.9212 |
-0.0784 |
231 |
1 |
25.79 |
2010-05-24 |
| 98. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
25.74 |
0.9612 |
-0.1200 |
256 |
1 |
25.74 |
2010-05-25 |
| 99. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
25.70 |
0.8852 |
-0.0453 |
158 |
1 |
25.70 |
2010-05-24 |
| 100. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
25.67 |
0.8145 |
0.0244 |
115 |
2 |
25.38 |
2010-05-25 |
| 101. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
25.67 |
0.9514 |
-0.1125 |
237 |
1 |
25.67 |
2010-05-24 |
| 102. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
25.51 |
1.1215 |
-0.2878 |
200 |
1 |
25.51 |
2010-05-25 |
| 103. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
25.49 |
0.8533 |
-0.0203 |
232 |
1 |
25.49 |
2010-05-24 |
| 104. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
25.45 |
0.8810 |
-0.0493 |
282 |
1 |
25.45 |
2010-05-24 |
| 105. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
25.44 |
0.7890 |
0.0424 |
230 |
2 |
22.51 |
2010-05-24 |
| 106. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
25.40 |
1.0120 |
-0.1819 |
290 |
1 |
25.40 |
2010-05-25 |
| 107. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
25.35 |
0.9729 |
-0.1445 |
255 |
2 |
24.14 |
2010-05-24 |
| 108. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
25.27 |
1.0334 |
-0.2076 |
131 |
1 |
25.27 |
2010-05-24 |
| 109. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
25.25 |
0.9289 |
-0.1037 |
204 |
1 |
25.25 |
2010-05-24 |
| 110. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
25.00 |
0.8910 |
-0.0740 |
150 |
1 |
25.00 |
2010-05-24 |
| 111. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
24.99 |
1.0679 |
-0.2512 |
177 |
1 |
24.99 |
2010-05-25 |
| 112. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
24.91 |
0.9429 |
-0.1288 |
287 |
1 |
24.91 |
2010-06-06 |
| 113. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
24.62 |
0.9212 |
-0.1166 |
323 |
1 |
24.62 |
2010-05-25 |
| 114. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
24.55 |
0.9202 |
-0.1179 |
254 |
1 |
24.55 |
2010-05-25 |
| 115. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
23.43 |
0.8153 |
-0.0496 |
200 |
1 |
23.43 |
2010-05-24 |
| 116. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
23.41 |
0.7839 |
-0.0189 |
257 |
1 |
23.41 |
2010-05-24 |
| 117. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
22.94 |
0.9851 |
-0.2354 |
317 |
1 |
22.94 |
2010-05-24 |
| 118. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
22.86 |
0.8919 |
-0.1448 |
205 |
1 |
22.86 |
2010-05-25 |
| 119. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
22.52 |
0.8105 |
-0.0746 |
204 |
1 |
22.52 |
2010-05-24 |
| 120. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
22.43 |
0.8961 |
-0.1631 |
189 |
1 |
22.43 |
2010-05-24 |
| 121. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
22.40 |
0.9461 |
-0.2141 |
276 |
1 |
22.40 |
2010-05-24 |
| 122. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
22.29 |
0.9213 |
-0.1929 |
295 |
1 |
22.29 |
2010-05-24 |
| 123. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
22.24 |
1.0725 |
-0.3457 |
233 |
1 |
22.24 |
2010-05-25 |
| 124. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
22.13 |
0.9161 |
-0.1929 |
200 |
1 |
22.13 |
2010-05-25 |
| 125. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
19.44 |
0.7981 |
-0.1628 |
126 |
1 |
19.44 |
2010-05-24 |