| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
100.84 |
1.0463 |
0.1682 |
182 |
3 |
94.08 |
2010-06-03 |
| 2. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
99.74 |
1.0684 |
0.1671 |
253 |
2 |
94.69 |
2010-07-02 |
| 3. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
98.77 |
1.0768 |
0.1571 |
295 |
1 |
98.77 |
2010-07-02 |
| 4. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
98.59 |
1.0644 |
0.1633 |
257 |
1 |
98.59 |
2010-06-03 |
| 5. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
97.04 |
1.0254 |
0.1881 |
217 |
1 |
97.04 |
2010-05-30 |
| 6. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
96.45 |
1.0506 |
0.1437 |
277 |
1 |
96.45 |
2010-07-02 |
| 7. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
96.31 |
1.0251 |
0.1364 |
261 |
1 |
96.31 |
2010-05-31 |
| 8. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
95.89 |
1.0696 |
0.0855 |
226 |
2 |
84.75 |
2010-06-05 |
| 9. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
95.65 |
1.0521 |
0.0988 |
171 |
1 |
95.65 |
2010-06-02 |
| 10. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
95.57 |
1.0444 |
0.1037 |
197 |
1 |
95.57 |
2010-05-30 |
| 11. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
95.47 |
1.0483 |
0.1022 |
227 |
2 |
88.47 |
2010-05-31 |
| 12. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
93.86 |
1.0261 |
0.1471 |
410 |
1 |
93.86 |
2010-06-03 |
| 13. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
93.52 |
1.0398 |
0.0794 |
110 |
1 |
93.52 |
2010-06-05 |
| 14. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
93.41 |
1.1068 |
0.0618 |
393 |
1 |
93.41 |
2010-05-31 |
| 15. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
93.04 |
1.0829 |
0.0424 |
288 |
2 |
92.80 |
2010-06-05 |
| 16. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
93.03 |
1.0565 |
0.0646 |
247 |
1 |
93.03 |
2010-05-30 |
| 17. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
92.78 |
0.9485 |
0.1738 |
236 |
1 |
92.78 |
2010-05-31 |
| 18. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
92.16 |
1.0799 |
0.0294 |
243 |
1 |
92.16 |
2010-06-03 |
| 19. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
91.24 |
1.0788 |
0.0174 |
171 |
2 |
89.97 |
2010-06-05 |
| 20. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
91.19 |
1.0399 |
0.0665 |
294 |
1 |
91.19 |
2010-06-03 |
| 21. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
91.12 |
1.0284 |
0.1152 |
282 |
1 |
91.12 |
2010-06-02 |
| 22. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
90.65 |
1.0941 |
0.0317 |
256 |
1 |
90.65 |
2010-06-02 |
| 23. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
90.62 |
1.1296 |
-0.0063 |
252 |
3 |
82.96 |
2010-05-31 |
| 24. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
90.57 |
1.0943 |
0.0319 |
206 |
1 |
90.57 |
2010-06-02 |
| 25. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
90.43 |
1.0168 |
0.0765 |
271 |
1 |
90.43 |
2010-06-02 |
| 26. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
90.12 |
1.0316 |
0.0603 |
333 |
1 |
90.12 |
2010-06-02 |
| 27. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
90.03 |
1.0004 |
0.0805 |
212 |
1 |
90.03 |
2010-05-31 |
| 28. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
89.27 |
1.0263 |
0.0506 |
267 |
1 |
89.27 |
2010-05-30 |
| 29. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
89.26 |
1.0154 |
0.1120 |
351 |
1 |
89.26 |
2010-05-30 |
| 30. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
89.25 |
1.0534 |
0.0263 |
357 |
1 |
89.25 |
2010-05-31 |
| 31. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
88.87 |
0.9910 |
0.0838 |
295 |
1 |
88.87 |
2010-06-02 |
| 32. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
88.80 |
1.0885 |
-0.0132 |
315 |
1 |
88.80 |
2010-06-05 |
| 33. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
88.34 |
0.9772 |
0.0857 |
217 |
1 |
88.34 |
2010-05-31 |
| 34. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
88.26 |
0.9852 |
0.0805 |
264 |
1 |
88.26 |
2010-05-30 |
| 35. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
88.00 |
1.0352 |
0.0301 |
341 |
2 |
85.27 |
2010-07-02 |
| 36. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
87.97 |
0.9758 |
0.0868 |
314 |
1 |
87.97 |
2010-12-08 |
| 37. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
87.76 |
0.9785 |
0.0840 |
335 |
1 |
87.76 |
2010-06-03 |
| 38. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
87.62 |
1.0417 |
0.0134 |
253 |
1 |
87.62 |
2010-07-02 |
| 39. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
87.55 |
1.0419 |
0.0148 |
261 |
1 |
87.55 |
2010-06-02 |
| 40. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
87.36 |
1.0596 |
-0.0073 |
239 |
1 |
87.36 |
2010-06-03 |
| 41. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
87.14 |
0.9675 |
0.0937 |
383 |
1 |
87.14 |
2010-05-31 |
| 42. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
87.12 |
1.0201 |
0.0318 |
303 |
1 |
87.12 |
2010-06-03 |
| 43. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
86.91 |
1.0496 |
-0.0014 |
314 |
1 |
86.91 |
2010-06-05 |
| 44. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
86.74 |
1.0389 |
0.0103 |
340 |
1 |
86.74 |
2010-06-17 |
| 45. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
86.67 |
0.9966 |
0.0488 |
259 |
1 |
86.67 |
2010-06-01 |
| 46. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
86.50 |
1.0343 |
0.0470 |
242 |
1 |
86.50 |
2010-07-02 |
| 47. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
86.48 |
0.9795 |
0.0642 |
308 |
1 |
86.48 |
2010-06-03 |
| 48. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
86.47 |
1.0314 |
0.0513 |
452 |
1 |
86.47 |
2010-05-30 |
| 49. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
86.46 |
1.0264 |
0.0571 |
422 |
1 |
86.46 |
2010-05-31 |
| 50. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
86.14 |
1.0232 |
0.0622 |
350 |
1 |
86.14 |
2010-06-02 |
| 51. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
86.03 |
1.0349 |
0.0026 |
234 |
1 |
86.03 |
2010-05-30 |
| 52. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
85.96 |
1.0297 |
0.0064 |
249 |
1 |
85.96 |
2010-05-30 |
| 53. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
85.88 |
1.0516 |
-0.0157 |
281 |
1 |
85.88 |
2010-05-31 |
| 54. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
84.64 |
1.0679 |
-0.0264 |
177 |
1 |
84.64 |
2010-06-02 |
| 55. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
84.52 |
1.0252 |
-0.0120 |
176 |
1 |
84.52 |
2010-07-02 |
| 56. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
84.37 |
1.0270 |
0.0269 |
255 |
1 |
84.37 |
2010-05-30 |
| 57. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
84.19 |
1.0767 |
-0.0632 |
212 |
1 |
84.19 |
2010-05-30 |
| 58. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
83.85 |
0.8947 |
0.1217 |
366 |
2 |
79.37 |
2010-07-02 |
| 59. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
83.50 |
1.0390 |
-0.0356 |
205 |
1 |
83.50 |
2010-07-02 |
| 60. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
83.45 |
0.9005 |
0.1046 |
212 |
1 |
83.45 |
2010-05-31 |
| 61. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
83.42 |
0.9936 |
0.0124 |
311 |
1 |
83.42 |
2010-05-30 |
| 62. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
83.27 |
0.9632 |
0.0835 |
345 |
1 |
83.27 |
2010-06-04 |
| 63. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
82.95 |
1.0173 |
0.0274 |
268 |
2 |
81.86 |
2010-06-02 |
| 64. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
82.72 |
1.0211 |
0.0073 |
213 |
1 |
82.72 |
2010-05-30 |
| 65. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
82.69 |
0.9857 |
0.0106 |
293 |
1 |
82.69 |
2010-05-31 |
| 66. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
82.67 |
0.9739 |
0.0590 |
412 |
1 |
82.67 |
2010-06-03 |
| 67. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
82.54 |
0.9364 |
0.0992 |
351 |
1 |
82.54 |
2010-06-05 |
| 68. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
82.54 |
0.9699 |
0.0250 |
269 |
1 |
82.54 |
2010-05-30 |
| 69. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
82.53 |
1.0485 |
-0.0184 |
153 |
2 |
80.27 |
2010-06-01 |
| 70. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
82.48 |
1.0025 |
-0.0068 |
336 |
1 |
82.48 |
2010-05-31 |
| 71. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
81.98 |
1.0797 |
-0.0966 |
210 |
1 |
81.98 |
2010-06-02 |
| 72. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
81.87 |
0.9866 |
-0.0030 |
218 |
2 |
79.74 |
2010-06-03 |
| 73. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
81.84 |
0.9964 |
-0.0093 |
203 |
1 |
81.84 |
2010-05-31 |
| 74. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
81.82 |
1.0498 |
-0.0679 |
180 |
1 |
81.82 |
2010-05-31 |
| 75. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
81.74 |
0.9234 |
0.0677 |
346 |
1 |
81.74 |
2010-07-02 |
| 76. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
81.44 |
1.0375 |
-0.0094 |
200 |
1 |
81.44 |
2010-06-02 |
| 77. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
81.27 |
0.9673 |
0.0520 |
232 |
2 |
78.30 |
2010-05-31 |
| 78. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
80.92 |
0.9601 |
0.0203 |
308 |
1 |
80.92 |
2010-06-02 |
| 79. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
80.89 |
0.9865 |
-0.0100 |
276 |
2 |
80.71 |
2010-06-03 |
| 80. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
80.80 |
1.0062 |
-0.0319 |
288 |
1 |
80.80 |
2010-05-30 |
| 81. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
80.67 |
0.9089 |
0.0677 |
342 |
1 |
80.67 |
2010-06-05 |
| 82. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
80.61 |
0.9893 |
-0.0173 |
323 |
1 |
80.61 |
2010-06-27 |
| 83. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
80.00 |
1.0379 |
-0.0385 |
245 |
1 |
80.00 |
2010-05-30 |
| 84. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
79.16 |
0.9646 |
-0.0113 |
264 |
1 |
79.16 |
2010-06-03 |
| 85. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
79.15 |
1.0292 |
-0.0764 |
262 |
1 |
79.15 |
2010-05-31 |
| 86. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
79.15 |
0.9212 |
0.0362 |
323 |
1 |
79.15 |
2010-06-03 |
| 87. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
79.11 |
1.0150 |
-0.0124 |
325 |
1 |
79.11 |
2010-05-30 |
| 88. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
78.86 |
0.9567 |
-0.0063 |
273 |
1 |
78.86 |
2010-05-31 |
| 89. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
78.84 |
0.9622 |
-0.0055 |
392 |
1 |
78.84 |
2010-06-03 |
| 90. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
78.75 |
1.0038 |
-0.0243 |
237 |
3 |
69.03 |
2010-06-02 |
| 91. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
78.69 |
1.0391 |
-0.0845 |
358 |
2 |
76.18 |
2010-08-21 |
| 92. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
78.58 |
1.0602 |
-0.1091 |
389 |
1 |
78.58 |
2010-05-31 |
| 93. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
78.55 |
1.0288 |
-0.0499 |
300 |
1 |
78.55 |
2010-05-31 |
| 94. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
78.49 |
0.9614 |
-0.0124 |
292 |
1 |
78.49 |
2010-07-02 |
| 95. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
78.42 |
1.0328 |
-0.0495 |
356 |
2 |
75.35 |
2010-05-30 |
| 96. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
78.34 |
0.9583 |
0.0296 |
341 |
2 |
73.70 |
2010-06-03 |
| 97. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
78.24 |
0.9991 |
-0.0556 |
225 |
1 |
78.24 |
2010-06-01 |
| 98. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
78.12 |
1.0429 |
-0.1028 |
259 |
1 |
78.12 |
2010-06-02 |
| 99. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
77.59 |
0.9665 |
0.0178 |
326 |
1 |
77.59 |
2010-06-03 |
| 100. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
77.39 |
0.9723 |
-0.0360 |
364 |
1 |
77.39 |
2010-05-31 |
| 101. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
77.16 |
1.0213 |
-0.0947 |
240 |
1 |
77.16 |
2010-06-02 |
| 102. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
77.12 |
0.9557 |
-0.0201 |
331 |
2 |
73.77 |
2010-06-03 |
| 103. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
77.07 |
0.8602 |
0.0663 |
206 |
1 |
77.07 |
2010-06-05 |
| 104. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
76.99 |
0.9780 |
-0.0493 |
337 |
1 |
76.99 |
2010-05-31 |
| 105. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
76.77 |
0.9670 |
0.0001 |
307 |
1 |
76.77 |
2010-06-03 |
| 106. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
76.63 |
0.9943 |
-0.0678 |
373 |
1 |
76.63 |
2010-06-02 |
| 107. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
76.61 |
1.0719 |
-0.1212 |
360 |
1 |
76.61 |
2010-06-05 |
| 108. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
76.48 |
0.9786 |
-0.0576 |
235 |
2 |
76.39 |
2010-06-02 |
| 109. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
76.44 |
1.0203 |
-0.0959 |
261 |
1 |
76.44 |
2010-05-30 |
| 110. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
76.23 |
0.9084 |
0.0141 |
404 |
1 |
76.23 |
2010-05-31 |
| 111. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
75.95 |
0.9897 |
-0.0770 |
274 |
1 |
75.95 |
2010-06-02 |
| 112. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
75.67 |
0.9855 |
-0.0406 |
258 |
1 |
75.67 |
2010-07-02 |
| 113. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
75.66 |
0.9074 |
0.0106 |
396 |
3 |
73.08 |
2010-06-05 |
| 114. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
74.93 |
0.9125 |
-0.0082 |
308 |
1 |
74.93 |
2010-05-30 |
| 115. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
74.85 |
1.0029 |
-0.1077 |
209 |
2 |
74.17 |
2010-05-31 |
| 116. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
74.81 |
0.9843 |
-0.0882 |
234 |
1 |
74.81 |
2010-06-03 |
| 117. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
74.19 |
1.0528 |
-0.1643 |
201 |
1 |
74.19 |
2010-05-30 |
| 118. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
74.16 |
1.0740 |
-0.1426 |
264 |
1 |
74.16 |
2010-06-05 |
| 119. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
73.78 |
0.9372 |
-0.0447 |
320 |
2 |
73.04 |
2010-06-05 |
| 120. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
72.78 |
0.9640 |
-0.0584 |
334 |
2 |
72.34 |
2010-06-03 |
| 121. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
72.60 |
0.8382 |
0.0364 |
268 |
3 |
63.63 |
2010-08-21 |
| 122. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
72.50 |
0.9359 |
-0.0235 |
353 |
2 |
69.63 |
2010-06-02 |
| 123. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
72.27 |
0.9632 |
-0.0868 |
392 |
1 |
72.27 |
2010-05-30 |
| 124. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
71.86 |
0.9631 |
-0.0468 |
345 |
1 |
71.86 |
2010-06-04 |
| 125. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
71.69 |
0.8852 |
-0.0201 |
201 |
1 |
71.69 |
2010-07-02 |
| 126. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
71.55 |
1.0796 |
-0.2232 |
129 |
1 |
71.55 |
2010-06-01 |
| 127. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
71.15 |
1.0025 |
-0.1462 |
256 |
1 |
71.15 |
2010-05-31 |
| 128. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
71.15 |
1.0177 |
-0.1231 |
392 |
1 |
71.15 |
2010-05-30 |
| 129. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
70.30 |
0.9763 |
-0.1308 |
289 |
1 |
70.30 |
2010-05-31 |
| 130. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
69.85 |
1.0331 |
-0.1948 |
234 |
1 |
69.85 |
2010-06-03 |
| 131. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
68.25 |
0.9500 |
-0.1269 |
362 |
1 |
68.25 |
2010-05-30 |
| 132. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
67.64 |
0.9309 |
-0.1193 |
284 |
1 |
67.64 |
2010-06-02 |
| 133. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
67.46 |
0.9965 |
-0.1900 |
168 |
1 |
67.46 |
2010-06-03 |
| 134. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
66.80 |
0.9023 |
-0.0563 |
231 |
1 |
66.80 |
2010-06-03 |
| 135. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
65.64 |
0.9908 |
-0.1559 |
342 |
1 |
65.64 |
2010-06-01 |
| 136. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
65.40 |
0.8747 |
-0.0931 |
201 |
1 |
65.40 |
2010-05-29 |
| 137. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
63.40 |
0.9786 |
-0.2221 |
193 |
1 |
63.40 |
2010-06-05 |
| 138. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
59.61 |
0.8826 |
-0.1658 |
296 |
1 |
59.61 |
2010-05-31 |
| 139. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
59.16 |
0.9461 |
-0.2400 |
193 |
1 |
59.16 |
2010-06-01 |
| 140. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
57.60 |
0.9798 |
-0.2947 |
199 |
1 |
57.60 |
2010-06-01 |
| 141. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
52.33 |
0.9567 |
-0.2881 |
184 |
1 |
52.33 |
2010-06-17 |