| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
58.83 |
1.0619 |
0.2711 |
354 |
1 |
58.83 |
2015-02-20 |
| 2. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
58.25 |
1.0787 |
0.2395 |
237 |
2 |
52.03 |
2014-04-13 |
| 3. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
56.84 |
0.9774 |
0.3090 |
196 |
1 |
56.84 |
2015-02-20 |
| 4. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
56.44 |
0.9886 |
0.2897 |
220 |
1 |
56.44 |
2015-02-20 |
| 5. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
55.98 |
0.9734 |
0.2933 |
289 |
2 |
55.29 |
2015-07-30 |
| 6. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.12 |
0.9785 |
0.2709 |
335 |
1 |
55.12 |
2015-02-20 |
| 7. |
I just want to tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you unde... |
55.02 |
1.0302 |
0.2190 |
245 |
1 |
55.02 |
2015-07-30 |
| 8. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
54.83 |
1.0034 |
0.2368 |
302 |
2 |
50.95 |
2015-02-20 |
| 9. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
54.82 |
0.9731 |
0.2617 |
129 |
1 |
54.82 |
2014-04-09 |
| 10. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
54.21 |
1.0314 |
0.2300 |
452 |
1 |
54.21 |
2015-07-30 |
| 11. |
Punishment and negative reinforcement are opposites. Punishm... |
54.06 |
1.0338 |
0.1951 |
338 |
1 |
54.06 |
2015-07-30 |
| 12. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
52.89 |
1.0444 |
0.1484 |
197 |
3 |
50.06 |
2014-04-13 |
| 13. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
52.05 |
0.9739 |
0.2361 |
412 |
1 |
52.05 |
2015-02-20 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
52.04 |
1.0677 |
0.1406 |
284 |
1 |
52.04 |
2014-10-22 |
| 15. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
51.89 |
0.9084 |
0.2666 |
300 |
1 |
51.89 |
2015-01-08 |
| 16. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
51.73 |
0.9943 |
0.1764 |
373 |
2 |
44.16 |
2014-04-13 |
| 17. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
51.15 |
1.0596 |
0.0962 |
239 |
1 |
51.15 |
2014-04-09 |
| 18. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
51.11 |
1.0252 |
0.1277 |
176 |
1 |
51.11 |
2014-10-22 |
| 19. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
50.75 |
0.9965 |
0.1493 |
168 |
1 |
50.75 |
2015-01-08 |
| 20. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
50.69 |
0.9461 |
0.1970 |
193 |
2 |
41.94 |
2014-04-13 |
| 21. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
50.24 |
0.9257 |
0.2150 |
317 |
2 |
41.52 |
2014-03-18 |
| 22. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
49.86 |
0.9907 |
0.1356 |
211 |
1 |
49.86 |
2015-01-08 |
| 23. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
49.45 |
0.9665 |
0.2000 |
326 |
1 |
49.45 |
2014-04-13 |
| 24. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
49.38 |
0.9540 |
0.1623 |
285 |
1 |
49.38 |
2014-04-09 |
| 25. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
49.30 |
0.9673 |
0.1885 |
232 |
1 |
49.30 |
2014-04-09 |
| 26. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
48.74 |
0.9064 |
0.2010 |
399 |
1 |
48.74 |
2015-02-20 |
| 27. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
48.55 |
1.0131 |
0.0823 |
225 |
1 |
48.55 |
2014-04-13 |
| 28. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
48.53 |
1.0232 |
0.1188 |
350 |
2 |
45.51 |
2014-03-18 |
| 29. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
48.45 |
1.0429 |
0.0514 |
259 |
1 |
48.45 |
2014-04-13 |
| 30. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
48.43 |
0.9936 |
0.1011 |
311 |
1 |
48.43 |
2014-03-28 |
| 31. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
47.89 |
1.0615 |
0.0463 |
305 |
1 |
47.89 |
2014-10-22 |
| 32. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
47.64 |
1.0498 |
0.0238 |
180 |
2 |
47.02 |
2015-02-20 |
| 33. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
47.63 |
0.9722 |
0.1037 |
283 |
1 |
47.63 |
2014-04-09 |
| 34. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
47.31 |
0.9831 |
0.0837 |
222 |
1 |
47.31 |
2014-04-13 |
| 35. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
47.17 |
0.9047 |
0.1590 |
118 |
1 |
47.17 |
2013-10-30 |
| 36. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
47.15 |
1.0074 |
0.0579 |
242 |
1 |
47.15 |
2013-10-30 |
| 37. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
47.03 |
0.9670 |
0.1365 |
307 |
1 |
47.03 |
2015-02-20 |
| 38. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
46.95 |
0.8994 |
0.1616 |
188 |
1 |
46.95 |
2014-03-18 |
| 39. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
46.76 |
1.0201 |
0.0375 |
303 |
1 |
46.76 |
2014-04-09 |
| 40. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
46.67 |
1.0673 |
0.0304 |
230 |
1 |
46.67 |
2013-10-30 |
| 41. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
46.66 |
1.0349 |
0.0188 |
234 |
1 |
46.66 |
2014-04-09 |
| 42. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
46.14 |
0.9597 |
0.0853 |
347 |
2 |
44.55 |
2014-04-09 |
| 43. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
46.10 |
0.9846 |
0.0565 |
281 |
2 |
45.19 |
2014-03-18 |
| 44. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
46.05 |
1.0516 |
-0.0112 |
281 |
1 |
46.05 |
2014-04-13 |
| 45. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
45.98 |
0.8947 |
0.1481 |
366 |
2 |
44.07 |
2014-10-22 |
| 46. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
45.93 |
0.9461 |
0.0906 |
276 |
1 |
45.93 |
2014-04-09 |
| 47. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
45.93 |
0.9798 |
0.0546 |
199 |
1 |
45.93 |
2014-03-18 |
| 48. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
45.91 |
0.9811 |
0.0572 |
272 |
1 |
45.91 |
2014-03-28 |
| 49. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
45.90 |
0.8900 |
0.1499 |
164 |
1 |
45.90 |
2014-03-18 |
| 50. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
45.78 |
0.9340 |
0.0991 |
296 |
1 |
45.78 |
2014-03-28 |
| 51. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
45.52 |
0.9216 |
0.1436 |
255 |
2 |
42.15 |
2014-04-20 |
| 52. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
45.46 |
0.9161 |
0.1093 |
200 |
1 |
45.46 |
2014-04-13 |
| 53. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
45.39 |
0.9279 |
0.1007 |
317 |
1 |
45.39 |
2014-04-13 |
| 54. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
45.38 |
1.0320 |
0.0324 |
293 |
2 |
44.22 |
2014-04-09 |
| 55. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
45.23 |
1.0263 |
-0.0048 |
267 |
1 |
45.23 |
2014-04-05 |
| 56. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
45.17 |
0.8842 |
0.1338 |
135 |
1 |
45.17 |
2014-03-18 |
| 57. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
45.14 |
0.8809 |
0.1358 |
127 |
1 |
45.14 |
2014-03-28 |
| 58. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
45.03 |
0.9485 |
0.0694 |
236 |
1 |
45.03 |
2013-10-30 |
| 59. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
45.02 |
0.9772 |
0.0390 |
217 |
1 |
45.02 |
2014-03-18 |
| 60. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
44.90 |
0.9351 |
0.0764 |
190 |
2 |
38.68 |
2014-04-20 |
| 61. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
44.79 |
0.9312 |
0.1277 |
320 |
1 |
44.79 |
2014-04-13 |
| 62. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
44.55 |
1.0529 |
-0.0466 |
351 |
2 |
44.33 |
2014-03-18 |
| 63. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
44.48 |
0.8890 |
0.1143 |
199 |
1 |
44.48 |
2014-04-09 |
| 64. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
44.27 |
0.9908 |
0.0513 |
342 |
1 |
44.27 |
2015-02-20 |
| 65. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
44.14 |
0.9148 |
0.0838 |
317 |
1 |
44.14 |
2014-10-22 |
| 66. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
44.12 |
0.9426 |
0.0548 |
317 |
1 |
44.12 |
2014-04-09 |
| 67. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
43.97 |
0.9682 |
0.0237 |
143 |
2 |
37.64 |
2014-10-22 |
| 68. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
43.90 |
1.0385 |
-0.0480 |
230 |
1 |
43.90 |
2014-10-22 |
| 69. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
43.70 |
1.0388 |
-0.0193 |
243 |
1 |
43.70 |
2014-04-13 |
| 70. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
43.50 |
0.9871 |
0.0192 |
227 |
2 |
43.27 |
2014-04-20 |
| 71. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
43.30 |
0.9263 |
0.0534 |
188 |
1 |
43.30 |
2013-06-19 |
| 72. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
43.24 |
1.0496 |
-0.0739 |
314 |
1 |
43.24 |
2014-04-13 |
| 73. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
43.10 |
0.9583 |
0.0557 |
341 |
1 |
43.10 |
2014-04-13 |
| 74. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
43.09 |
0.8793 |
0.0935 |
157 |
2 |
41.14 |
2014-04-09 |
| 75. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
43.03 |
1.0297 |
-0.0589 |
249 |
1 |
43.03 |
2014-03-18 |
| 76. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
43.00 |
0.9023 |
0.1132 |
231 |
2 |
37.92 |
2014-03-18 |
| 77. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
42.98 |
0.8731 |
0.1010 |
199 |
1 |
42.98 |
2014-03-18 |
| 78. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
42.97 |
0.9986 |
-0.0334 |
162 |
1 |
42.97 |
2014-04-13 |
| 79. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
42.86 |
1.1114 |
-0.1454 |
247 |
1 |
42.86 |
2013-10-30 |
| 80. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
42.84 |
0.9884 |
-0.0193 |
262 |
1 |
42.84 |
2014-10-22 |
| 81. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
42.79 |
0.8770 |
0.0910 |
300 |
1 |
42.79 |
2014-04-13 |
| 82. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
42.65 |
0.8202 |
0.1424 |
178 |
1 |
42.65 |
2013-10-30 |
| 83. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
42.50 |
0.9048 |
0.0569 |
271 |
1 |
42.50 |
2014-03-18 |
| 84. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
42.48 |
0.8553 |
0.1018 |
174 |
1 |
42.48 |
2014-04-09 |
| 85. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
42.30 |
1.0083 |
-0.0096 |
273 |
1 |
42.30 |
2014-03-18 |
| 86. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
41.99 |
1.0099 |
-0.0628 |
207 |
1 |
41.99 |
2013-10-30 |
| 87. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
41.48 |
0.9532 |
-0.0176 |
258 |
1 |
41.48 |
2014-03-18 |
| 88. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
41.43 |
1.0337 |
-0.1000 |
214 |
1 |
41.43 |
2014-03-28 |
| 89. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
41.39 |
0.8341 |
0.1039 |
224 |
1 |
41.39 |
2014-04-09 |
| 90. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
41.38 |
0.9756 |
-0.0423 |
229 |
1 |
41.38 |
2013-10-30 |
| 91. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
41.00 |
1.0053 |
-0.0808 |
232 |
1 |
41.00 |
2014-04-13 |
| 92. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
40.57 |
0.8723 |
0.0398 |
185 |
1 |
40.57 |
2013-10-30 |
| 93. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
40.28 |
0.9365 |
-0.0270 |
248 |
1 |
40.28 |
2014-03-18 |
| 94. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
40.18 |
0.9396 |
-0.0371 |
119 |
1 |
40.18 |
2014-03-18 |
| 95. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
40.16 |
1.0023 |
-0.0983 |
211 |
1 |
40.16 |
2013-06-19 |
| 96. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
40.13 |
1.0740 |
-0.1292 |
264 |
1 |
40.13 |
2012-09-30 |
| 97. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
40.06 |
0.8105 |
0.0916 |
204 |
2 |
34.14 |
2014-04-05 |
| 98. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
39.85 |
0.7708 |
0.1319 |
207 |
1 |
39.85 |
2014-03-18 |
| 99. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
39.43 |
0.9640 |
-0.0496 |
334 |
1 |
39.43 |
2014-04-13 |
| 100. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
38.74 |
0.9289 |
-0.0562 |
204 |
1 |
38.74 |
2013-10-30 |
| 101. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
38.29 |
0.8162 |
0.0496 |
149 |
1 |
38.29 |
2013-03-22 |
| 102. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
37.61 |
1.1016 |
-0.2546 |
233 |
1 |
37.61 |
2013-03-22 |
| 103. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
37.43 |
0.8442 |
0.0019 |
265 |
1 |
37.43 |
2014-03-18 |
| 104. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
37.30 |
0.9697 |
-0.1281 |
249 |
1 |
37.30 |
2013-03-22 |
| 105. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
37.15 |
0.9852 |
-0.1479 |
264 |
1 |
37.15 |
2013-06-19 |
| 106. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
36.93 |
1.0381 |
-0.2120 |
170 |
1 |
36.93 |
2012-12-10 |
| 107. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
36.41 |
0.7877 |
0.0351 |
142 |
1 |
36.41 |
2014-03-18 |
| 108. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
36.27 |
1.0109 |
-0.1934 |
276 |
1 |
36.27 |
2013-03-22 |
| 109. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
35.97 |
0.9202 |
-0.1091 |
254 |
1 |
35.97 |
2013-10-30 |
| 110. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
35.74 |
1.0426 |
-0.2370 |
323 |
1 |
35.74 |
2012-09-30 |
| 111. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
35.65 |
0.8845 |
-0.0815 |
273 |
1 |
35.65 |
2013-10-30 |
| 112. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
34.94 |
0.9786 |
-0.1916 |
235 |
1 |
34.94 |
2012-12-10 |
| 113. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
34.33 |
0.9855 |
-0.1789 |
258 |
1 |
34.33 |
2013-05-08 |
| 114. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
33.85 |
0.9873 |
-0.2285 |
155 |
1 |
33.85 |
2012-09-30 |
| 115. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
33.47 |
0.9500 |
-0.1949 |
362 |
1 |
33.47 |
2013-10-30 |
| 116. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
33.44 |
0.9863 |
-0.2315 |
339 |
1 |
33.44 |
2013-06-19 |
| 117. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
32.91 |
1.0679 |
-0.3022 |
177 |
1 |
32.91 |
2012-11-23 |
| 118. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
32.90 |
0.9504 |
-0.2134 |
263 |
1 |
32.90 |
2013-05-08 |
| 119. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
32.12 |
1.0669 |
-0.3108 |
286 |
1 |
32.12 |
2012-09-30 |
| 120. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
31.49 |
0.9529 |
-0.2046 |
269 |
1 |
31.49 |
2012-12-10 |
| 121. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
31.04 |
1.0608 |
-0.3280 |
258 |
1 |
31.04 |
2012-10-01 |
| 122. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
28.98 |
0.8910 |
-0.2400 |
150 |
1 |
28.98 |
2013-04-22 |