| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
109.00 |
0.8826 |
2.4087 |
296 |
1 |
109.00 |
2014-10-07 |
| 2. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
81.29 |
0.8295 |
1.6224 |
209 |
1 |
81.29 |
2009-10-28 |
| 3. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
77.75 |
1.0621 |
1.3000 |
263 |
1 |
77.75 |
2014-11-05 |
| 4. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
70.49 |
1.0944 |
1.0729 |
308 |
1 |
70.49 |
2014-10-07 |
| 5. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
69.27 |
0.9852 |
1.1008 |
264 |
1 |
69.27 |
2014-10-07 |
| 6. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
68.94 |
0.9907 |
1.0836 |
211 |
2 |
45.47 |
2014-10-16 |
| 7. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
65.26 |
1.0053 |
0.9569 |
232 |
2 |
48.31 |
2014-11-06 |
| 8. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
63.44 |
0.8629 |
1.0505 |
299 |
1 |
63.44 |
2014-10-16 |
| 9. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
62.50 |
0.8660 |
1.0151 |
193 |
2 |
41.23 |
2009-10-26 |
| 10. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
61.95 |
1.0567 |
0.8081 |
303 |
1 |
61.95 |
2014-09-01 |
| 11. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
59.66 |
1.0168 |
0.7794 |
271 |
1 |
59.66 |
2014-10-14 |
| 12. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
55.92 |
0.9509 |
0.7686 |
225 |
1 |
55.92 |
2014-09-01 |
| 13. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
52.07 |
0.7259 |
0.8452 |
186 |
1 |
52.07 |
2009-10-26 |
| 14. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
51.36 |
0.9665 |
0.6260 |
326 |
1 |
51.36 |
2014-08-25 |
| 15. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
48.39 |
0.7850 |
0.6649 |
154 |
1 |
48.39 |
2009-10-21 |
| 16. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
44.20 |
0.7934 |
0.5331 |
134 |
1 |
44.20 |
2009-10-21 |
| 17. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
39.78 |
0.9074 |
0.2913 |
396 |
1 |
39.78 |
2014-10-14 |
| 18. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
39.63 |
0.8788 |
0.3061 |
134 |
2 |
29.24 |
2014-11-07 |
| 19. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
39.51 |
0.8994 |
0.2865 |
188 |
1 |
39.51 |
2014-11-19 |
| 20. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
39.27 |
0.9785 |
0.1986 |
154 |
1 |
39.27 |
2014-11-06 |
| 21. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
38.19 |
0.9946 |
0.1494 |
246 |
1 |
38.19 |
2014-11-19 |
| 22. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
37.52 |
0.9943 |
0.1325 |
373 |
1 |
37.52 |
2014-11-19 |
| 23. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
37.23 |
0.8323 |
0.2822 |
145 |
1 |
37.23 |
2009-03-06 |
| 24. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
37.19 |
0.8666 |
0.2511 |
150 |
4 |
26.01 |
2009-03-10 |
| 25. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
37.18 |
0.8709 |
0.2506 |
202 |
2 |
34.33 |
2014-11-19 |
| 26. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
36.33 |
1.1081 |
0.0139 |
206 |
1 |
36.33 |
2014-11-07 |
| 27. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
35.91 |
0.8602 |
0.2128 |
206 |
1 |
35.91 |
2014-10-14 |
| 28. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
34.96 |
0.8884 |
0.1579 |
135 |
1 |
34.96 |
2014-11-07 |
| 29. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
34.91 |
1.0485 |
0.0305 |
153 |
1 |
34.91 |
2014-11-19 |
| 30. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
34.25 |
0.9247 |
0.1047 |
253 |
1 |
34.25 |
2014-11-06 |
| 31. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
34.19 |
0.9207 |
0.1046 |
174 |
1 |
34.19 |
2014-11-18 |
| 32. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
34.16 |
0.9711 |
0.0494 |
176 |
1 |
34.16 |
2014-11-19 |
| 33. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
33.73 |
0.9965 |
0.0128 |
277 |
2 |
30.21 |
2014-11-18 |
| 34. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
33.39 |
1.0349 |
-0.0374 |
234 |
1 |
33.39 |
2014-11-18 |
| 35. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
33.38 |
0.9938 |
0.0049 |
339 |
1 |
33.38 |
2014-11-19 |
| 36. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
33.35 |
0.9863 |
0.0153 |
339 |
1 |
33.35 |
2014-11-18 |
| 37. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
33.29 |
1.0016 |
-0.0108 |
218 |
1 |
33.29 |
2014-11-07 |
| 38. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
33.18 |
1.1016 |
-0.1096 |
233 |
1 |
33.18 |
2014-11-07 |
| 39. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
33.13 |
1.0515 |
-0.0687 |
166 |
1 |
33.13 |
2010-09-01 |
| 40. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
32.94 |
1.1162 |
-0.0901 |
189 |
1 |
32.94 |
2014-11-07 |
| 41. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
32.79 |
1.0381 |
-0.0684 |
170 |
1 |
32.79 |
2014-11-07 |
| 42. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
31.94 |
0.9598 |
0.0021 |
220 |
1 |
31.94 |
2014-11-07 |
| 43. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
31.91 |
0.8777 |
0.0782 |
177 |
1 |
31.91 |
2014-11-19 |
| 44. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
31.25 |
0.9293 |
0.0057 |
355 |
1 |
31.25 |
2014-10-14 |
| 45. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
31.16 |
0.9786 |
-0.0527 |
193 |
2 |
25.46 |
2014-11-06 |
| 46. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
31.15 |
0.9028 |
0.0260 |
111 |
1 |
31.15 |
2014-11-18 |
| 47. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
31.15 |
0.9540 |
-0.0253 |
285 |
1 |
31.15 |
2014-11-18 |
| 48. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
30.75 |
1.0232 |
-0.0587 |
350 |
1 |
30.75 |
2014-10-14 |
| 49. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
30.36 |
0.9365 |
-0.0282 |
248 |
1 |
30.36 |
2014-11-18 |
| 50. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
30.36 |
0.9339 |
-0.0287 |
310 |
1 |
30.36 |
2014-11-05 |
| 51. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
30.28 |
0.9871 |
-0.0602 |
227 |
2 |
29.27 |
2014-11-19 |
| 52. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
30.26 |
0.9019 |
0.0075 |
204 |
2 |
29.62 |
2014-11-14 |
| 53. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
29.97 |
1.0669 |
-0.1397 |
286 |
1 |
29.97 |
2014-11-05 |
| 54. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
29.75 |
0.9632 |
-0.0768 |
240 |
1 |
29.75 |
2014-11-18 |
| 55. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
29.53 |
0.9340 |
-0.0530 |
296 |
1 |
29.53 |
2014-11-19 |
| 56. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
29.11 |
0.9171 |
-0.0474 |
165 |
1 |
29.11 |
2014-11-19 |
| 57. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
28.94 |
1.0943 |
-0.1979 |
206 |
1 |
28.94 |
2014-10-14 |
| 58. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
28.81 |
0.8890 |
-0.0327 |
199 |
1 |
28.81 |
2014-11-19 |
| 59. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
28.65 |
1.0173 |
-0.1183 |
268 |
1 |
28.65 |
2014-11-06 |
| 60. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
28.60 |
0.9576 |
-0.1000 |
212 |
1 |
28.60 |
2010-09-01 |
| 61. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
28.60 |
1.0232 |
-0.1341 |
236 |
1 |
28.60 |
2014-11-18 |
| 62. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
28.55 |
0.9068 |
-0.0566 |
225 |
1 |
28.55 |
2014-10-14 |
| 63. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
28.54 |
0.9187 |
-0.0771 |
118 |
1 |
28.54 |
2014-11-14 |
| 64. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
28.42 |
0.8916 |
-0.0432 |
216 |
1 |
28.42 |
2014-10-14 |
| 65. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
28.40 |
0.9724 |
-0.1217 |
237 |
1 |
28.40 |
2014-11-06 |
| 66. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
28.11 |
0.9221 |
-0.0847 |
244 |
1 |
28.11 |
2014-11-07 |
| 67. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
28.04 |
1.1215 |
-0.2612 |
200 |
1 |
28.04 |
2014-11-06 |
| 68. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
27.99 |
0.9910 |
-0.1539 |
295 |
1 |
27.99 |
2014-11-19 |
| 69. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
27.82 |
0.9731 |
-0.1558 |
129 |
1 |
27.82 |
2014-11-18 |
| 70. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
27.81 |
1.0288 |
-0.1670 |
300 |
1 |
27.81 |
2014-11-14 |
| 71. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
27.72 |
0.9411 |
-0.1135 |
318 |
1 |
27.72 |
2014-11-19 |
| 72. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
27.70 |
0.9212 |
-0.0919 |
323 |
1 |
27.70 |
2014-11-06 |
| 73. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
27.65 |
1.0463 |
-0.2264 |
182 |
1 |
27.65 |
2014-11-06 |
| 74. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
27.45 |
1.0252 |
-0.2131 |
176 |
1 |
27.45 |
2014-11-18 |
| 75. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
27.42 |
0.9820 |
-0.1613 |
267 |
1 |
27.42 |
2010-09-01 |
| 76. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
27.14 |
0.8541 |
-0.0364 |
260 |
1 |
27.14 |
2014-11-07 |
| 77. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
27.11 |
0.8731 |
-0.0577 |
199 |
1 |
27.11 |
2014-11-18 |
| 78. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
26.87 |
0.8519 |
-0.0468 |
150 |
1 |
26.87 |
2009-10-21 |
| 79. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
26.85 |
1.0151 |
-0.2238 |
152 |
2 |
26.18 |
2014-11-07 |
| 80. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
26.27 |
0.9673 |
-0.1453 |
232 |
1 |
26.27 |
2010-09-01 |
| 81. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
25.90 |
0.8553 |
-0.0886 |
174 |
2 |
22.57 |
2014-11-07 |
| 82. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
25.80 |
0.9260 |
-0.1463 |
243 |
1 |
25.80 |
2014-11-07 |
| 83. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
25.65 |
0.9257 |
-0.1562 |
317 |
1 |
25.65 |
2014-11-06 |
| 84. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
25.45 |
0.9430 |
-0.1882 |
227 |
1 |
25.45 |
2014-11-06 |
| 85. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
25.37 |
0.9843 |
-0.2338 |
234 |
1 |
25.37 |
2014-11-06 |
| 86. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
25.24 |
0.9418 |
-0.1841 |
188 |
1 |
25.24 |
2014-11-07 |
| 87. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
24.84 |
1.0320 |
-0.2552 |
293 |
1 |
24.84 |
2014-11-07 |
| 88. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
24.53 |
1.0033 |
-0.2800 |
189 |
1 |
24.53 |
2009-09-16 |
| 89. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
24.38 |
1.0099 |
-0.2876 |
207 |
1 |
24.38 |
2014-11-07 |
| 90. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
24.19 |
1.0788 |
-0.3647 |
171 |
3 |
21.99 |
2009-03-13 |
| 91. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
24.09 |
0.8809 |
-0.1662 |
127 |
2 |
23.34 |
2009-03-13 |
| 92. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
23.81 |
1.0062 |
-0.2980 |
288 |
1 |
23.81 |
2010-09-05 |
| 93. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
23.20 |
0.9682 |
-0.2799 |
143 |
2 |
22.42 |
2014-11-18 |
| 94. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
23.10 |
0.8082 |
-0.1128 |
186 |
1 |
23.10 |
2014-11-06 |
| 95. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
22.72 |
1.0124 |
-0.3397 |
204 |
1 |
22.72 |
2014-10-16 |
| 96. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
22.63 |
0.9233 |
-0.2590 |
168 |
1 |
22.63 |
2014-11-06 |
| 97. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
22.29 |
0.8177 |
-0.1591 |
124 |
2 |
21.90 |
2009-03-10 |
| 98. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
22.10 |
1.0385 |
-0.3839 |
230 |
1 |
22.10 |
2014-10-14 |
| 99. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
21.91 |
1.0214 |
-0.3760 |
166 |
2 |
20.94 |
2009-03-11 |
| 100. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
21.54 |
0.9226 |
-0.2790 |
177 |
1 |
21.54 |
2009-03-06 |
| 101. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
21.25 |
0.9128 |
-0.2767 |
133 |
1 |
21.25 |
2009-03-06 |
| 102. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
20.96 |
0.8739 |
-0.2536 |
136 |
1 |
20.96 |
2009-03-13 |
| 103. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
20.23 |
0.8037 |
-0.2005 |
148 |
1 |
20.23 |
2009-03-10 |
| 104. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
20.19 |
0.8070 |
-0.2052 |
137 |
2 |
19.13 |
2009-03-18 |
| 105. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
19.98 |
0.8188 |
-0.2247 |
183 |
1 |
19.98 |
2009-03-06 |
| 106. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
19.98 |
0.8077 |
-0.2177 |
167 |
1 |
19.98 |
2009-03-18 |
| 107. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
19.89 |
0.7375 |
-0.1434 |
148 |
2 |
19.76 |
2009-03-13 |
| 108. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
19.70 |
0.8263 |
-0.2445 |
162 |
1 |
19.70 |
2009-03-05 |
| 109. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
19.60 |
1.0201 |
-0.4458 |
172 |
1 |
19.60 |
2009-03-09 |
| 110. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
19.42 |
0.8700 |
-0.2945 |
127 |
2 |
18.66 |
2009-03-06 |
| 111. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
19.18 |
1.0396 |
-0.4787 |
149 |
2 |
18.95 |
2009-03-05 |
| 112. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
18.98 |
0.7389 |
-0.1751 |
145 |
1 |
18.98 |
2009-03-06 |
| 113. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
18.97 |
1.0390 |
-0.4813 |
205 |
1 |
18.97 |
2009-03-11 |
| 114. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
18.83 |
0.7352 |
-0.1773 |
106 |
1 |
18.83 |
2009-03-06 |
| 115. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
17.17 |
0.8910 |
-0.3820 |
150 |
1 |
17.17 |
2009-03-05 |
| 116. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
14.72 |
0.9965 |
-0.5683 |
168 |
1 |
14.72 |
2014-11-07 |
| 117. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
14.22 |
0.9196 |
-0.5002 |
148 |
1 |
14.22 |
2014-11-07 |