| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
147.34 |
1.0515 |
0.2753 |
250 |
1 |
147.34 |
2014-05-25 |
| 2. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
141.85 |
1.0417 |
0.2345 |
253 |
3 |
136.35 |
2014-06-19 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
138.14 |
1.1016 |
0.1434 |
233 |
2 |
136.59 |
2014-06-21 |
| 4. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
138.06 |
0.9986 |
0.2407 |
162 |
1 |
138.06 |
2014-05-20 |
| 5. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
136.08 |
1.0263 |
0.1991 |
267 |
1 |
136.08 |
2014-06-17 |
| 6. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
133.50 |
1.0444 |
0.1517 |
197 |
1 |
133.50 |
2014-05-23 |
| 7. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
133.31 |
0.9691 |
0.2313 |
223 |
1 |
133.31 |
2014-06-19 |
| 8. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
130.87 |
1.0574 |
0.1492 |
205 |
2 |
119.86 |
2014-05-23 |
| 9. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
130.03 |
1.0379 |
0.1681 |
245 |
2 |
127.58 |
2014-06-18 |
| 10. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
128.47 |
1.0211 |
0.1665 |
213 |
1 |
128.47 |
2014-06-17 |
| 11. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
128.14 |
0.9698 |
0.2170 |
397 |
1 |
128.14 |
2014-06-21 |
| 12. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
127.81 |
0.9340 |
0.2167 |
296 |
1 |
127.81 |
2014-05-20 |
| 13. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
127.74 |
0.9811 |
0.1718 |
272 |
1 |
127.74 |
2014-05-31 |
| 14. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
127.06 |
1.0943 |
0.0823 |
206 |
1 |
127.06 |
2014-06-19 |
| 15. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
127.05 |
0.9293 |
0.2154 |
355 |
1 |
127.05 |
2014-05-31 |
| 16. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
126.77 |
1.0387 |
0.1350 |
239 |
1 |
126.77 |
2014-06-21 |
| 17. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
126.45 |
1.0528 |
0.0807 |
201 |
1 |
126.45 |
2014-06-19 |
| 18. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
126.30 |
1.0496 |
0.0868 |
314 |
1 |
126.30 |
2014-06-18 |
| 19. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
126.30 |
0.9894 |
0.1521 |
323 |
1 |
126.30 |
2014-06-18 |
| 20. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
123.15 |
1.1068 |
0.0419 |
393 |
1 |
123.15 |
2014-05-23 |
| 21. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
122.56 |
1.0412 |
0.0613 |
225 |
1 |
122.56 |
2014-05-31 |
| 22. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
122.14 |
1.0547 |
0.0792 |
257 |
2 |
117.39 |
2014-06-21 |
| 23. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
121.84 |
0.9965 |
0.1006 |
277 |
2 |
119.76 |
2014-05-29 |
| 24. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
121.75 |
0.9426 |
0.1562 |
317 |
1 |
121.75 |
2014-05-25 |
| 25. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
121.66 |
1.0463 |
0.0440 |
182 |
1 |
121.66 |
2014-06-19 |
| 26. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
121.16 |
1.0673 |
0.0647 |
230 |
2 |
105.22 |
2014-05-27 |
| 27. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
120.83 |
0.9937 |
0.1183 |
429 |
2 |
117.93 |
2014-05-27 |
| 28. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
120.34 |
1.0426 |
0.0396 |
323 |
2 |
119.79 |
2014-05-27 |
| 29. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
120.28 |
1.0441 |
0.0397 |
252 |
1 |
120.28 |
2014-06-22 |
| 30. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
120.01 |
0.9672 |
0.1191 |
396 |
1 |
120.01 |
2014-06-18 |
| 31. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
119.66 |
1.0073 |
0.0774 |
369 |
1 |
119.66 |
2014-05-23 |
| 32. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
119.20 |
1.0346 |
0.0799 |
244 |
2 |
113.88 |
2014-05-20 |
| 33. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
119.03 |
1.0063 |
0.0650 |
371 |
1 |
119.03 |
2014-05-23 |
| 34. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
118.55 |
1.0740 |
0.0309 |
264 |
2 |
89.94 |
2014-05-27 |
| 35. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
117.73 |
1.0534 |
0.0079 |
357 |
1 |
117.73 |
2014-05-26 |
| 36. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
117.68 |
1.0454 |
0.0095 |
255 |
1 |
117.68 |
2014-05-22 |
| 37. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
117.47 |
1.0829 |
-0.0247 |
288 |
1 |
117.47 |
2014-05-31 |
| 38. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
117.39 |
1.0545 |
0.0422 |
416 |
1 |
117.39 |
2014-05-22 |
| 39. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
117.21 |
1.0768 |
0.0177 |
295 |
2 |
106.79 |
2014-06-18 |
| 40. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
117.01 |
1.0799 |
-0.0311 |
243 |
1 |
117.01 |
2014-05-20 |
| 41. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
116.75 |
1.0529 |
-0.0028 |
351 |
1 |
116.75 |
2014-05-31 |
| 42. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
116.23 |
1.0668 |
-0.0189 |
350 |
1 |
116.23 |
2014-05-23 |
| 43. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
115.83 |
1.0289 |
0.0173 |
276 |
1 |
115.83 |
2014-06-19 |
| 44. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
115.80 |
1.0403 |
0.0411 |
275 |
1 |
115.80 |
2014-05-20 |
| 45. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
115.50 |
0.9866 |
0.0485 |
218 |
1 |
115.50 |
2014-05-20 |
| 46. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
115.32 |
1.0218 |
0.0124 |
268 |
2 |
112.55 |
2014-05-28 |
| 47. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
114.91 |
0.9893 |
0.0442 |
323 |
2 |
107.92 |
2014-05-31 |
| 48. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
114.74 |
1.0615 |
-0.0044 |
305 |
1 |
114.74 |
2014-06-18 |
| 49. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
114.68 |
0.9682 |
0.0612 |
143 |
1 |
114.68 |
2014-05-20 |
| 50. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
114.21 |
1.0320 |
0.0323 |
293 |
2 |
98.84 |
2014-06-18 |
| 51. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
113.98 |
0.9693 |
0.0770 |
360 |
1 |
113.98 |
2014-05-21 |
| 52. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
113.89 |
0.9697 |
0.0546 |
249 |
2 |
96.02 |
2014-06-23 |
| 53. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
113.74 |
1.0619 |
-0.0355 |
354 |
1 |
113.74 |
2014-05-26 |
| 54. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
113.18 |
0.9372 |
0.0845 |
320 |
1 |
113.18 |
2014-05-31 |
| 55. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
112.85 |
0.9912 |
0.0504 |
237 |
1 |
112.85 |
2014-05-28 |
| 56. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
112.62 |
1.0150 |
0.0466 |
325 |
1 |
112.62 |
2014-05-20 |
| 57. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
112.47 |
0.9513 |
0.0637 |
354 |
1 |
112.47 |
2014-06-17 |
| 58. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
112.38 |
1.0349 |
-0.0252 |
234 |
1 |
112.38 |
2014-06-18 |
| 59. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
111.68 |
0.9646 |
0.0385 |
264 |
1 |
111.68 |
2014-05-23 |
| 60. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
110.63 |
1.0521 |
-0.0625 |
171 |
1 |
110.63 |
2014-06-19 |
| 61. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
110.51 |
0.9905 |
0.0106 |
377 |
1 |
110.51 |
2014-05-23 |
| 62. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
109.47 |
1.0023 |
-0.0203 |
211 |
1 |
109.47 |
2014-06-01 |
| 63. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
109.29 |
0.9986 |
-0.0158 |
283 |
2 |
102.80 |
2014-05-28 |
| 64. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
109.20 |
1.0429 |
-0.0629 |
259 |
1 |
109.20 |
2014-05-28 |
| 65. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
109.17 |
0.9635 |
0.0230 |
389 |
1 |
109.17 |
2014-05-22 |
| 66. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
108.77 |
1.0038 |
0.0040 |
237 |
1 |
108.77 |
2014-05-20 |
| 67. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
108.57 |
0.9946 |
-0.0191 |
246 |
1 |
108.57 |
2014-06-02 |
| 68. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
107.21 |
1.0060 |
-0.0474 |
171 |
2 |
92.12 |
2014-05-20 |
| 69. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
107.05 |
0.9905 |
0.0027 |
337 |
1 |
107.05 |
2014-05-23 |
| 70. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
106.64 |
0.9908 |
0.0132 |
342 |
2 |
92.12 |
2014-05-23 |
| 71. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
105.94 |
1.0595 |
-0.1053 |
379 |
1 |
105.94 |
2014-05-20 |
| 72. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
105.73 |
1.0669 |
-0.0848 |
286 |
1 |
105.73 |
2014-05-20 |
| 73. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
104.61 |
0.9546 |
0.0163 |
198 |
1 |
104.61 |
2014-05-22 |
| 74. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
104.26 |
0.9772 |
-0.0443 |
217 |
1 |
104.26 |
2014-05-28 |
| 75. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
103.99 |
1.0099 |
-0.0788 |
207 |
1 |
103.99 |
2014-06-01 |
| 76. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
103.99 |
1.0565 |
-0.1251 |
247 |
2 |
96.63 |
2014-05-20 |
| 77. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
103.64 |
1.0031 |
-0.0388 |
304 |
1 |
103.64 |
2014-05-25 |
| 78. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
103.58 |
0.9278 |
0.0051 |
295 |
1 |
103.58 |
2014-05-20 |
| 79. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
102.53 |
1.0604 |
-0.1064 |
260 |
1 |
102.53 |
2014-05-20 |
| 80. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
100.50 |
0.9709 |
-0.0277 |
397 |
1 |
100.50 |
2014-05-20 |
| 81. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
100.42 |
0.9681 |
-0.0583 |
378 |
1 |
100.42 |
2014-05-23 |
| 82. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
99.78 |
0.9640 |
-0.0391 |
334 |
1 |
99.78 |
2014-05-20 |
| 83. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
99.39 |
0.9831 |
-0.0830 |
469 |
1 |
99.39 |
2014-05-22 |
| 84. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
99.22 |
0.9897 |
-0.1015 |
274 |
1 |
99.22 |
2014-05-20 |
| 85. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
98.46 |
1.0677 |
-0.1537 |
284 |
3 |
97.09 |
2014-05-23 |
| 86. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
98.30 |
1.0083 |
-0.0820 |
273 |
1 |
98.30 |
2014-05-21 |
| 87. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
97.53 |
1.1014 |
-0.1884 |
273 |
1 |
97.53 |
2014-05-20 |
| 88. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
97.29 |
0.9966 |
-0.1242 |
259 |
1 |
97.29 |
2014-05-20 |
| 89. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
96.21 |
1.0389 |
-0.1741 |
318 |
1 |
96.21 |
2014-05-20 |
| 90. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
95.43 |
0.8791 |
-0.0240 |
190 |
1 |
95.43 |
2014-05-20 |
| 91. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
95.30 |
0.9233 |
-0.0767 |
168 |
1 |
95.30 |
2014-06-01 |
| 92. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
94.09 |
1.0125 |
-0.1710 |
224 |
1 |
94.09 |
2014-05-20 |
| 93. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
94.04 |
0.9087 |
-0.0546 |
393 |
1 |
94.04 |
2014-05-31 |
| 94. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
93.80 |
0.9339 |
-0.0942 |
310 |
1 |
93.80 |
2014-05-20 |
| 95. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
93.69 |
1.0714 |
-0.2401 |
129 |
1 |
93.69 |
2014-05-21 |
| 96. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
93.65 |
0.9529 |
-0.0725 |
269 |
1 |
93.65 |
2014-05-21 |
| 97. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
92.95 |
0.9485 |
-0.1126 |
291 |
1 |
92.95 |
2014-05-20 |
| 98. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
92.62 |
1.0483 |
-0.2209 |
227 |
1 |
92.62 |
2014-05-20 |
| 99. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
89.75 |
0.9899 |
-0.1903 |
163 |
1 |
89.75 |
2014-05-22 |
| 100. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
89.15 |
0.9359 |
-0.0975 |
353 |
1 |
89.15 |
2014-05-20 |
| 101. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
88.57 |
0.9632 |
-0.1273 |
345 |
1 |
88.57 |
2014-05-22 |
| 102. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
88.52 |
1.0214 |
-0.2300 |
269 |
1 |
88.52 |
2014-05-20 |
| 103. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
87.60 |
0.9176 |
-0.0941 |
365 |
1 |
87.60 |
2014-05-20 |
| 104. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
86.97 |
1.0621 |
-0.2637 |
263 |
1 |
86.97 |
2014-05-22 |
| 105. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
84.87 |
0.8996 |
-0.1452 |
192 |
1 |
84.87 |
2014-05-20 |
| 106. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
82.85 |
1.0883 |
-0.3147 |
303 |
1 |
82.85 |
2014-05-20 |
| 107. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
81.24 |
0.7876 |
-0.0582 |
316 |
1 |
81.24 |
2014-05-20 |
| 108. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
79.14 |
0.9553 |
-0.2404 |
430 |
1 |
79.14 |
2014-05-20 |
| 109. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
70.26 |
0.8722 |
-0.2425 |
285 |
2 |
55.82 |
2014-05-31 |
| 110. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
68.65 |
0.8890 |
-0.2804 |
199 |
1 |
68.65 |
2014-05-22 |
| 111. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
36.79 |
1.0033 |
-0.6879 |
189 |
1 |
36.79 |
2014-05-22 |