| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
101.26 |
1.0696 |
0.1653 |
226 |
1 |
101.26 |
2014-09-30 |
| 2. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
96.93 |
1.1162 |
0.1097 |
189 |
3 |
89.55 |
2014-10-12 |
| 3. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
95.19 |
1.0944 |
0.1138 |
308 |
1 |
95.19 |
2014-10-13 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
93.37 |
1.0799 |
0.0573 |
243 |
1 |
93.37 |
2014-10-12 |
| 5. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
92.86 |
1.0263 |
0.1075 |
267 |
2 |
91.58 |
2014-09-09 |
| 6. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
91.91 |
1.0711 |
0.0467 |
213 |
1 |
91.91 |
2014-09-30 |
| 7. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
91.14 |
1.0604 |
0.0862 |
260 |
1 |
91.14 |
2014-09-04 |
| 8. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
90.79 |
1.0412 |
0.0672 |
225 |
1 |
90.79 |
2014-10-13 |
| 9. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
90.63 |
0.9286 |
0.1774 |
194 |
1 |
90.63 |
2014-10-18 |
| 10. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
90.48 |
1.0515 |
0.0459 |
166 |
1 |
90.48 |
2014-10-12 |
| 11. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
90.34 |
0.9897 |
0.1115 |
274 |
1 |
90.34 |
2014-09-11 |
| 12. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
90.09 |
1.0669 |
0.0658 |
286 |
1 |
90.09 |
2014-10-15 |
| 13. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
90.01 |
1.0459 |
0.0847 |
200 |
1 |
90.01 |
2014-09-30 |
| 14. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
89.74 |
1.0917 |
0.0278 |
243 |
1 |
89.74 |
2014-10-13 |
| 15. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
89.31 |
1.0993 |
-0.0107 |
265 |
3 |
83.71 |
2014-09-25 |
| 16. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
89.28 |
1.0214 |
0.0636 |
166 |
1 |
89.28 |
2014-09-13 |
| 17. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
89.03 |
1.0829 |
0.0059 |
288 |
1 |
89.03 |
2014-09-07 |
| 18. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
88.87 |
0.9991 |
0.0867 |
225 |
1 |
88.87 |
2014-09-09 |
| 19. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
88.84 |
1.0008 |
0.1271 |
473 |
1 |
88.84 |
2014-10-09 |
| 20. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
88.62 |
1.0077 |
0.1158 |
250 |
2 |
81.62 |
2014-09-14 |
| 21. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
88.60 |
1.0516 |
0.0300 |
281 |
1 |
88.60 |
2014-10-13 |
| 22. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
88.54 |
1.1018 |
-0.0270 |
220 |
1 |
88.54 |
2014-09-30 |
| 23. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
88.47 |
0.9871 |
0.1294 |
209 |
2 |
81.38 |
2014-09-25 |
| 24. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
88.23 |
0.9898 |
0.1252 |
353 |
1 |
88.23 |
2014-09-25 |
| 25. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
87.95 |
1.0498 |
0.0193 |
180 |
1 |
87.95 |
2014-09-25 |
| 26. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
87.69 |
1.0297 |
0.0398 |
249 |
2 |
85.27 |
2014-10-12 |
| 27. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
87.57 |
1.0387 |
0.0628 |
239 |
4 |
83.09 |
2014-09-25 |
| 28. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
86.98 |
1.0270 |
0.0709 |
255 |
1 |
86.98 |
2014-09-25 |
| 29. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
86.95 |
1.0073 |
0.0623 |
369 |
2 |
86.27 |
2014-09-30 |
| 30. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
86.68 |
1.0487 |
0.0045 |
231 |
1 |
86.68 |
2014-09-25 |
| 31. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
86.59 |
1.1068 |
-0.0094 |
393 |
2 |
85.39 |
2014-09-25 |
| 32. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
86.57 |
1.1296 |
-0.0436 |
252 |
1 |
86.57 |
2014-09-07 |
| 33. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
86.26 |
0.9943 |
0.0619 |
373 |
1 |
86.26 |
2014-09-25 |
| 34. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
86.11 |
1.0719 |
0.0069 |
360 |
1 |
86.11 |
2014-09-14 |
| 35. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
86.09 |
0.9798 |
0.0654 |
199 |
1 |
86.09 |
2014-10-12 |
| 36. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
85.89 |
0.9976 |
0.0711 |
174 |
1 |
85.89 |
2014-09-13 |
| 37. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
85.73 |
1.0023 |
0.0423 |
211 |
1 |
85.73 |
2014-09-16 |
| 38. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
85.28 |
0.8793 |
0.1632 |
157 |
1 |
85.28 |
2014-09-25 |
| 39. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
85.15 |
1.0621 |
-0.0034 |
263 |
2 |
84.43 |
2014-10-13 |
| 40. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
84.85 |
1.0907 |
-0.0524 |
303 |
1 |
84.85 |
2014-09-13 |
| 41. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
84.78 |
0.9925 |
0.0790 |
247 |
2 |
79.36 |
2014-09-11 |
| 42. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
84.58 |
1.0173 |
0.0592 |
268 |
2 |
84.40 |
2014-10-12 |
| 43. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
84.37 |
1.0613 |
-0.0266 |
456 |
2 |
73.94 |
2014-09-11 |
| 44. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
84.37 |
1.0296 |
0.0065 |
437 |
1 |
84.37 |
2014-09-11 |
| 45. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
84.33 |
1.0125 |
0.0144 |
224 |
1 |
84.33 |
2014-09-11 |
| 46. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
84.29 |
0.9907 |
0.0364 |
211 |
1 |
84.29 |
2014-09-25 |
| 47. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
84.17 |
1.0403 |
0.0019 |
193 |
2 |
80.77 |
2014-09-13 |
| 48. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
83.92 |
1.0016 |
0.0179 |
218 |
1 |
83.92 |
2014-10-12 |
| 49. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
83.92 |
1.0534 |
-0.0271 |
357 |
1 |
83.92 |
2014-09-11 |
| 50. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
83.81 |
1.0389 |
-0.0137 |
340 |
1 |
83.81 |
2014-09-30 |
| 51. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
83.66 |
1.0486 |
-0.0269 |
289 |
1 |
83.66 |
2014-09-25 |
| 52. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
83.57 |
1.0787 |
-0.0602 |
237 |
2 |
81.43 |
2014-10-13 |
| 53. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
83.55 |
1.0390 |
-0.0232 |
205 |
1 |
83.55 |
2014-09-05 |
| 54. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
83.42 |
0.9430 |
0.0676 |
211 |
1 |
83.42 |
2014-10-01 |
| 55. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
83.12 |
0.9278 |
0.0891 |
295 |
1 |
83.12 |
2014-09-09 |
| 56. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
82.96 |
0.9500 |
0.0645 |
362 |
1 |
82.96 |
2014-09-25 |
| 57. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
82.82 |
1.0714 |
-0.0698 |
129 |
1 |
82.82 |
2014-09-11 |
| 58. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
82.75 |
1.0109 |
0.0317 |
400 |
1 |
82.75 |
2014-09-25 |
| 59. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
82.49 |
1.0630 |
-0.0233 |
397 |
1 |
82.49 |
2014-09-05 |
| 60. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
82.49 |
1.0595 |
-0.0505 |
379 |
1 |
82.49 |
2014-09-23 |
| 61. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
82.48 |
0.9509 |
0.0938 |
225 |
1 |
82.48 |
2014-09-11 |
| 62. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
82.45 |
1.0063 |
0.0001 |
371 |
1 |
82.45 |
2014-09-02 |
| 63. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
82.30 |
1.0053 |
-0.0032 |
232 |
1 |
82.30 |
2014-10-13 |
| 64. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
82.12 |
0.9965 |
0.0057 |
310 |
1 |
82.12 |
2014-09-23 |
| 65. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
82.04 |
1.0201 |
-0.0188 |
303 |
1 |
82.04 |
2014-09-04 |
| 66. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
81.60 |
1.0358 |
0.0013 |
349 |
2 |
80.94 |
2014-09-11 |
| 67. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
81.53 |
0.9663 |
0.0338 |
330 |
1 |
81.53 |
2014-09-11 |
| 68. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
81.33 |
0.9965 |
-0.0038 |
277 |
1 |
81.33 |
2014-09-11 |
| 69. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
81.25 |
1.0117 |
0.0242 |
297 |
1 |
81.25 |
2014-09-17 |
| 70. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
80.87 |
1.0615 |
-0.0499 |
305 |
2 |
79.63 |
2014-09-14 |
| 71. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
80.83 |
1.0795 |
-0.0631 |
226 |
1 |
80.83 |
2014-09-14 |
| 72. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
80.78 |
0.9567 |
0.0708 |
184 |
1 |
80.78 |
2014-09-11 |
| 73. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
80.69 |
1.0426 |
-0.0591 |
323 |
1 |
80.69 |
2014-09-13 |
| 74. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
80.66 |
1.0885 |
-0.1014 |
315 |
2 |
78.93 |
2014-09-16 |
| 75. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
80.49 |
1.0168 |
-0.0337 |
271 |
1 |
80.49 |
2014-09-13 |
| 76. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
80.39 |
1.1014 |
-0.0831 |
273 |
1 |
80.39 |
2014-09-25 |
| 77. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
80.14 |
0.9786 |
-0.0064 |
193 |
1 |
80.14 |
2014-09-25 |
| 78. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
80.14 |
1.0257 |
-0.0419 |
401 |
2 |
77.85 |
2014-09-30 |
| 79. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
80.11 |
1.0531 |
-0.0380 |
272 |
1 |
80.11 |
2014-09-03 |
| 80. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
80.09 |
1.0013 |
-0.0254 |
273 |
2 |
75.05 |
2014-09-11 |
| 81. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
79.91 |
0.9936 |
-0.0193 |
311 |
1 |
79.91 |
2014-09-04 |
| 82. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
79.75 |
1.0004 |
-0.0339 |
212 |
1 |
79.75 |
2014-09-04 |
| 83. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
79.53 |
1.0099 |
-0.0429 |
207 |
1 |
79.53 |
2014-09-07 |
| 84. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
79.49 |
1.0740 |
-0.0663 |
264 |
1 |
79.49 |
2014-09-13 |
| 85. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
79.39 |
0.9756 |
-0.0088 |
229 |
1 |
79.39 |
2014-09-02 |
| 86. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
79.30 |
1.0124 |
-0.0478 |
204 |
1 |
79.30 |
2014-09-03 |
| 87. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
78.92 |
1.0337 |
-0.0720 |
214 |
1 |
78.92 |
2014-09-04 |
| 88. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
78.63 |
0.9429 |
0.0172 |
287 |
2 |
78.60 |
2014-09-13 |
| 89. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
78.58 |
0.9513 |
0.0106 |
354 |
1 |
78.58 |
2014-09-13 |
| 90. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
78.56 |
0.9899 |
-0.0367 |
163 |
1 |
78.56 |
2014-09-14 |
| 91. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
78.29 |
1.0340 |
-0.0742 |
406 |
1 |
78.29 |
2014-09-11 |
| 92. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
78.18 |
1.0381 |
-0.0948 |
170 |
1 |
78.18 |
2014-09-13 |
| 93. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
78.13 |
0.9557 |
0.0032 |
331 |
1 |
78.13 |
2014-09-05 |
| 94. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
77.75 |
0.9894 |
-0.0371 |
323 |
1 |
77.75 |
2014-09-04 |
| 95. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
77.71 |
0.9866 |
-0.0429 |
218 |
2 |
77.03 |
2014-09-13 |
| 96. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
77.47 |
0.9426 |
0.0049 |
317 |
1 |
77.47 |
2014-09-14 |
| 97. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
77.15 |
0.9776 |
-0.0369 |
308 |
1 |
77.15 |
2014-09-11 |
| 98. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
76.84 |
0.9731 |
-0.0490 |
129 |
1 |
76.84 |
2014-09-13 |
| 99. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
76.57 |
0.9820 |
-0.0459 |
267 |
1 |
76.57 |
2014-09-13 |
| 100. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
76.27 |
0.8890 |
0.0370 |
199 |
1 |
76.27 |
2014-09-13 |
| 101. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
76.20 |
0.9127 |
0.0137 |
252 |
1 |
76.20 |
2014-09-11 |
| 102. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
76.03 |
1.0666 |
-0.1399 |
297 |
2 |
75.94 |
2014-10-19 |
| 103. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
76.02 |
1.0197 |
-0.0961 |
226 |
1 |
76.02 |
2014-09-07 |
| 104. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
75.96 |
0.9578 |
-0.0325 |
281 |
1 |
75.96 |
2014-09-13 |
| 105. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
75.56 |
0.9997 |
-0.0753 |
382 |
1 |
75.56 |
2014-09-23 |
| 106. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
75.41 |
0.9843 |
-0.0703 |
234 |
1 |
75.41 |
2014-09-04 |
| 107. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
75.03 |
0.9485 |
-0.0325 |
236 |
1 |
75.03 |
2014-09-25 |
| 108. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
74.99 |
0.9546 |
-0.0095 |
198 |
1 |
74.99 |
2014-09-13 |
| 109. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
74.68 |
0.9831 |
-0.0758 |
222 |
2 |
73.45 |
2014-09-13 |
| 110. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
74.53 |
0.9965 |
-0.0932 |
168 |
1 |
74.53 |
2014-09-25 |
| 111. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
74.20 |
1.0398 |
-0.1463 |
110 |
2 |
71.08 |
2014-10-12 |
| 112. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
74.00 |
1.0254 |
-0.0831 |
217 |
1 |
74.00 |
2014-09-05 |
| 113. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
74.00 |
0.9312 |
0.0210 |
320 |
1 |
74.00 |
2014-09-04 |
| 114. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
73.75 |
0.8753 |
0.0324 |
427 |
1 |
73.75 |
2014-09-03 |
| 115. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
73.62 |
1.0403 |
-0.1036 |
275 |
1 |
73.62 |
2014-09-17 |
| 116. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
73.43 |
1.0331 |
-0.1408 |
234 |
1 |
73.43 |
2014-09-04 |
| 117. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
73.30 |
0.9614 |
-0.0655 |
292 |
1 |
73.30 |
2014-09-02 |
| 118. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
73.09 |
1.0545 |
-0.1235 |
416 |
1 |
73.09 |
2014-09-04 |
| 119. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
72.35 |
1.0090 |
-0.0840 |
282 |
1 |
72.35 |
2014-09-11 |
| 120. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
71.67 |
0.8878 |
-0.0153 |
346 |
1 |
71.67 |
2014-09-04 |
| 121. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
71.53 |
1.0725 |
-0.1757 |
233 |
1 |
71.53 |
2014-09-02 |
| 122. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
70.67 |
0.9687 |
-0.1036 |
371 |
1 |
70.67 |
2014-09-04 |
| 123. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
70.52 |
1.0201 |
-0.1684 |
172 |
1 |
70.52 |
2014-09-02 |
| 124. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
70.03 |
1.0029 |
-0.1568 |
209 |
1 |
70.03 |
2014-09-02 |
| 125. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
67.60 |
0.9364 |
-0.0738 |
351 |
1 |
67.60 |
2014-09-04 |
| 126. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
65.21 |
0.9072 |
-0.1160 |
237 |
1 |
65.21 |
2014-09-02 |
| 127. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
63.72 |
0.9532 |
-0.1800 |
258 |
1 |
63.72 |
2014-09-04 |
| 128. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
61.99 |
0.9631 |
-0.1587 |
345 |
1 |
61.99 |
2014-09-02 |
| 129. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
60.65 |
0.9376 |
-0.1656 |
360 |
1 |
60.65 |
2014-09-04 |
| 130. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
58.59 |
0.9529 |
-0.2012 |
269 |
1 |
58.59 |
2014-09-02 |
| 131. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
56.56 |
0.9376 |
-0.2462 |
367 |
1 |
56.56 |
2014-09-02 |
| 132. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
50.11 |
1.0346 |
-0.3863 |
244 |
1 |
50.11 |
2014-09-02 |