Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
66.00 |
1.0291 |
0.1781 |
240 |
2 |
63.32 |
2010-03-02 |
2. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
65.74 |
1.0332 |
0.1707 |
267 |
1 |
65.74 |
2008-12-20 |
3. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
64.86 |
0.8814 |
0.3049 |
169 |
1 |
64.86 |
2010-03-03 |
4. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
63.74 |
1.0128 |
0.1617 |
369 |
1 |
63.74 |
2008-12-20 |
5. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
63.16 |
0.9284 |
0.2323 |
346 |
2 |
58.37 |
2010-03-02 |
6. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
62.87 |
1.0288 |
0.1182 |
166 |
1 |
62.87 |
2010-03-02 |
7. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
62.84 |
0.9948 |
0.1552 |
233 |
1 |
62.84 |
2008-12-21 |
8. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
62.68 |
1.0082 |
0.1350 |
212 |
1 |
62.68 |
2008-12-20 |
9. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
62.48 |
1.0638 |
0.0787 |
247 |
2 |
60.61 |
2008-12-22 |
10. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
62.11 |
1.0115 |
0.1210 |
189 |
1 |
62.11 |
2011-11-25 |
11. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
61.94 |
1.1198 |
0.0137 |
247 |
1 |
61.94 |
2008-12-20 |
12. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
61.32 |
1.0006 |
0.1225 |
311 |
2 |
60.24 |
2008-12-20 |
13. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
61.13 |
1.0590 |
0.0595 |
250 |
1 |
61.13 |
2008-12-22 |
14. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
60.87 |
1.0472 |
0.0613 |
149 |
1 |
60.87 |
2008-12-20 |
15. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
60.51 |
1.0743 |
0.0350 |
297 |
2 |
53.80 |
2010-03-02 |
16. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
60.42 |
1.0476 |
0.0496 |
110 |
1 |
60.42 |
2008-12-22 |
17. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
60.20 |
1.0461 |
0.0586 |
318 |
1 |
60.20 |
2008-12-20 |
18. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
59.91 |
0.9631 |
0.1336 |
273 |
1 |
59.91 |
2008-12-21 |
19. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
59.70 |
0.9636 |
0.1283 |
281 |
2 |
55.35 |
2008-12-20 |
20. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
59.61 |
0.8913 |
0.2018 |
201 |
2 |
58.09 |
2008-12-20 |
21. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
59.59 |
1.0333 |
0.0529 |
176 |
1 |
59.59 |
2008-12-21 |
22. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
59.55 |
1.0016 |
0.0873 |
217 |
1 |
59.55 |
2008-12-22 |
23. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
59.12 |
1.0462 |
0.0394 |
340 |
1 |
59.12 |
2008-12-21 |
24. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
58.71 |
1.0736 |
0.0041 |
350 |
1 |
58.71 |
2008-12-20 |
25. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
58.56 |
0.9632 |
0.1103 |
287 |
2 |
57.07 |
2008-12-20 |
26. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
58.48 |
1.0264 |
0.0402 |
191 |
3 |
53.34 |
2010-03-03 |
27. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
58.47 |
1.0372 |
0.0330 |
249 |
1 |
58.47 |
2008-12-22 |
28. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
58.19 |
0.9829 |
0.0819 |
229 |
1 |
58.19 |
2008-12-22 |
29. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
58.06 |
0.9963 |
0.0644 |
274 |
2 |
56.87 |
2008-12-22 |
30. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
57.83 |
1.0669 |
-0.0048 |
379 |
1 |
57.83 |
2008-12-20 |
31. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
57.83 |
1.0588 |
0.0002 |
281 |
2 |
56.95 |
2008-12-20 |
32. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
57.58 |
0.9258 |
0.1330 |
184 |
1 |
57.58 |
2010-01-23 |
33. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
57.42 |
1.0511 |
0.0020 |
252 |
3 |
55.95 |
2008-12-21 |
34. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
57.15 |
1.0103 |
0.0303 |
209 |
1 |
57.15 |
2008-12-20 |
35. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
56.86 |
0.9145 |
0.1300 |
404 |
1 |
56.86 |
2011-11-25 |
36. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
56.83 |
0.9561 |
0.0859 |
362 |
1 |
56.83 |
2008-12-19 |
37. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
56.66 |
0.9137 |
0.1256 |
342 |
1 |
56.66 |
2010-01-23 |
38. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
56.60 |
0.9849 |
0.0525 |
337 |
1 |
56.60 |
2010-03-03 |
39. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
56.49 |
0.9380 |
0.0947 |
284 |
1 |
56.49 |
2010-02-18 |
40. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
55.88 |
0.9583 |
0.0651 |
237 |
4 |
53.98 |
2010-01-23 |
41. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
55.87 |
0.9162 |
0.1078 |
401 |
1 |
55.87 |
2008-12-21 |
42. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
55.67 |
1.0672 |
-0.0493 |
239 |
1 |
55.67 |
2008-12-19 |
43. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
55.62 |
1.0234 |
-0.0012 |
392 |
2 |
52.60 |
2010-01-23 |
44. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
55.58 |
0.9621 |
0.0577 |
212 |
1 |
55.58 |
2010-01-23 |
45. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
55.40 |
1.0867 |
-0.0770 |
171 |
1 |
55.40 |
2008-12-20 |
46. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
55.08 |
0.9980 |
0.0124 |
295 |
1 |
55.08 |
2008-12-20 |
47. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
55.06 |
0.9400 |
0.0704 |
434 |
1 |
55.06 |
2008-12-22 |
48. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
54.69 |
1.0881 |
-0.0910 |
210 |
1 |
54.69 |
2010-01-12 |
49. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
54.23 |
0.9736 |
0.0260 |
378 |
1 |
54.23 |
2008-12-22 |
50. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
54.04 |
0.9352 |
0.0528 |
194 |
1 |
54.04 |
2008-12-20 |
51. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
53.88 |
0.9909 |
-0.0009 |
334 |
1 |
53.88 |
2008-12-20 |
52. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
53.79 |
0.9917 |
-0.0052 |
317 |
1 |
53.79 |
2009-04-14 |
53. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
53.61 |
0.9827 |
-0.0007 |
314 |
1 |
53.61 |
2008-12-20 |
54. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
53.61 |
0.8778 |
0.1051 |
285 |
2 |
52.50 |
2008-12-22 |
55. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
53.52 |
0.9265 |
0.0519 |
254 |
2 |
50.56 |
2010-01-12 |
56. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
53.52 |
0.9597 |
0.0200 |
251 |
1 |
53.52 |
2008-12-22 |
57. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
53.30 |
0.9203 |
0.0579 |
350 |
1 |
53.30 |
2010-01-23 |
58. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
53.20 |
1.0341 |
-0.0611 |
273 |
1 |
53.20 |
2008-12-21 |
59. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
53.05 |
0.9768 |
-0.0047 |
237 |
1 |
53.05 |
2008-12-19 |
60. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
52.40 |
1.0567 |
-0.0982 |
314 |
1 |
52.40 |
2008-12-21 |
61. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
52.33 |
0.9810 |
-0.0184 |
362 |
1 |
52.33 |
2008-12-20 |
62. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
52.31 |
1.0035 |
-0.0457 |
310 |
1 |
52.31 |
2008-12-22 |
63. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
52.14 |
1.0197 |
-0.0674 |
204 |
1 |
52.14 |
2008-12-20 |
64. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
51.80 |
0.8830 |
0.0673 |
300 |
1 |
51.80 |
2008-12-21 |
65. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
51.79 |
0.9650 |
-0.0147 |
347 |
1 |
51.79 |
2008-12-20 |
66. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
51.72 |
0.9023 |
0.0426 |
268 |
1 |
51.72 |
2008-12-19 |
67. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
51.49 |
1.0576 |
-0.1183 |
231 |
1 |
51.49 |
2008-12-22 |
68. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
51.40 |
1.0320 |
-0.0856 |
401 |
1 |
51.40 |
2008-12-20 |
69. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
51.23 |
0.9745 |
-0.0351 |
388 |
2 |
50.38 |
2009-04-14 |
70. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
51.22 |
0.9866 |
-0.0491 |
308 |
1 |
51.22 |
2008-12-20 |
71. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
50.97 |
1.0194 |
-0.0890 |
224 |
1 |
50.97 |
2011-11-26 |
72. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
50.92 |
1.0529 |
-0.1187 |
373 |
1 |
50.92 |
2008-12-20 |
73. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
50.85 |
0.9503 |
-0.0267 |
211 |
2 |
50.08 |
2008-12-20 |
74. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
50.79 |
0.9422 |
-0.0181 |
190 |
1 |
50.79 |
2008-12-22 |
75. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
50.60 |
1.0018 |
-0.0758 |
246 |
1 |
50.60 |
2008-12-20 |
76. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
50.22 |
0.9468 |
-0.0283 |
318 |
1 |
50.22 |
2008-12-20 |
77. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
50.10 |
1.0404 |
-0.1190 |
406 |
1 |
50.10 |
2009-04-14 |
78. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
50.06 |
1.0464 |
-0.1256 |
294 |
1 |
50.06 |
2008-12-22 |
79. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
50.00 |
0.9538 |
-0.0394 |
276 |
2 |
48.03 |
2008-12-20 |
80. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
49.91 |
0.9228 |
-0.0053 |
305 |
2 |
49.12 |
2010-02-01 |
81. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
49.82 |
0.9070 |
-0.0005 |
192 |
1 |
49.82 |
2008-12-20 |
82. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
49.56 |
0.9541 |
-0.0470 |
236 |
1 |
49.56 |
2008-12-22 |
83. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
49.13 |
0.8880 |
0.0107 |
296 |
1 |
49.13 |
2008-12-22 |
84. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
49.06 |
0.9681 |
-0.0652 |
392 |
1 |
49.06 |
2008-12-20 |
85. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
49.05 |
0.9931 |
-0.0999 |
218 |
1 |
49.05 |
2008-12-20 |
86. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
48.68 |
0.9880 |
-0.1019 |
199 |
1 |
48.68 |
2008-12-20 |
87. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
48.58 |
0.8986 |
-0.0118 |
205 |
1 |
48.58 |
2008-12-20 |
88. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
47.80 |
0.9359 |
-0.0611 |
355 |
1 |
47.80 |
2008-12-19 |
89. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
47.48 |
0.9402 |
-0.0739 |
310 |
1 |
47.48 |
2010-01-12 |
90. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
47.35 |
0.8669 |
0.0051 |
255 |
1 |
47.35 |
2010-01-12 |
91. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
47.32 |
0.9108 |
-0.0456 |
235 |
1 |
47.32 |
2008-12-20 |
92. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
47.18 |
0.9842 |
-0.1193 |
335 |
1 |
47.18 |
2008-12-20 |
93. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
46.85 |
1.0582 |
-0.2047 |
180 |
1 |
46.85 |
2008-12-19 |
94. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
46.69 |
1.0101 |
-0.1546 |
336 |
1 |
46.69 |
2010-01-23 |
95. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
45.97 |
0.8381 |
0.0059 |
283 |
1 |
45.97 |
2008-12-20 |
96. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
45.43 |
0.9011 |
-0.0674 |
322 |
1 |
45.43 |
2008-12-20 |
97. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
44.78 |
0.8986 |
-0.0751 |
363 |
1 |
44.78 |
2008-12-19 |
98. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
43.65 |
0.9922 |
-0.1939 |
264 |
1 |
43.65 |
2008-12-19 |
99. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
37.75 |
0.7923 |
-0.1027 |
316 |
1 |
37.75 |
2010-01-23 |
100. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
32.74 |
0.8624 |
-0.2703 |
174 |
1 |
32.74 |
2008-12-19 |