| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
88.92 |
1.0711 |
0.1844 |
213 |
1 |
88.92 |
2010-04-19 |
| 2. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
87.47 |
1.1018 |
0.1316 |
220 |
2 |
80.61 |
2010-04-20 |
| 3. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
85.87 |
1.0365 |
0.2103 |
162 |
2 |
81.30 |
2010-04-19 |
| 4. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
85.75 |
1.0767 |
0.1363 |
212 |
4 |
74.46 |
2010-04-20 |
| 5. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
82.32 |
1.0829 |
0.0846 |
288 |
1 |
82.32 |
2010-04-20 |
| 6. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
82.27 |
1.0316 |
0.1375 |
333 |
1 |
82.27 |
2010-04-19 |
| 7. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
81.93 |
1.0125 |
0.1456 |
224 |
1 |
81.93 |
2010-04-19 |
| 8. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
81.59 |
1.0013 |
0.1534 |
273 |
1 |
81.59 |
2010-04-08 |
| 9. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
81.20 |
1.0799 |
0.0664 |
243 |
1 |
81.20 |
2010-04-19 |
| 10. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
80.96 |
1.0331 |
0.1113 |
234 |
1 |
80.96 |
2010-04-13 |
| 11. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
80.81 |
0.9798 |
0.1589 |
199 |
1 |
80.81 |
2010-04-14 |
| 12. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
80.22 |
1.0668 |
0.0717 |
350 |
1 |
80.22 |
2010-04-08 |
| 13. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
79.58 |
0.9857 |
0.1401 |
293 |
3 |
74.52 |
2010-04-20 |
| 14. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
79.13 |
1.0516 |
0.0683 |
281 |
1 |
79.13 |
2010-04-20 |
| 15. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
78.54 |
0.9846 |
0.1262 |
281 |
2 |
71.15 |
2010-04-19 |
| 16. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
78.14 |
0.9557 |
0.1568 |
331 |
2 |
69.30 |
2010-04-19 |
| 17. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
77.67 |
1.0034 |
0.0945 |
302 |
1 |
77.67 |
2010-04-20 |
| 18. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
77.58 |
0.9893 |
0.1090 |
323 |
1 |
77.58 |
2010-04-20 |
| 19. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
77.33 |
1.0797 |
0.0093 |
210 |
2 |
71.29 |
2010-04-19 |
| 20. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
76.97 |
0.9964 |
0.0931 |
203 |
1 |
76.97 |
2010-04-20 |
| 21. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
76.78 |
0.9485 |
0.1406 |
291 |
1 |
76.78 |
2010-04-07 |
| 22. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
76.52 |
1.0328 |
0.0883 |
356 |
1 |
76.52 |
2010-04-20 |
| 23. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
76.41 |
0.8914 |
0.1908 |
366 |
1 |
76.41 |
2010-04-20 |
| 24. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
76.32 |
1.0189 |
0.0645 |
337 |
1 |
76.32 |
2010-04-20 |
| 25. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
76.27 |
0.9372 |
0.1462 |
320 |
1 |
76.27 |
2010-04-20 |
| 26. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
76.11 |
1.0211 |
0.0867 |
213 |
2 |
68.06 |
2010-04-19 |
| 27. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
76.05 |
1.0545 |
0.0624 |
416 |
1 |
76.05 |
2010-04-08 |
| 28. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
75.97 |
1.0257 |
0.0558 |
401 |
1 |
75.97 |
2010-04-08 |
| 29. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
75.83 |
1.0787 |
-0.0069 |
237 |
1 |
75.83 |
2010-04-20 |
| 30. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
75.71 |
1.0613 |
0.0110 |
266 |
1 |
75.71 |
2010-04-08 |
| 31. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
75.18 |
1.0213 |
0.0393 |
240 |
2 |
71.97 |
2010-04-19 |
| 32. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
75.05 |
1.0053 |
0.0546 |
232 |
1 |
75.05 |
2010-04-19 |
| 33. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
74.89 |
0.9938 |
0.0666 |
339 |
1 |
74.89 |
2010-04-08 |
| 34. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
74.89 |
0.9786 |
0.0758 |
193 |
1 |
74.89 |
2010-04-20 |
| 35. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
74.88 |
0.9907 |
0.0672 |
211 |
2 |
67.30 |
2010-04-20 |
| 36. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
74.87 |
1.0183 |
0.0354 |
191 |
1 |
74.87 |
2010-04-08 |
| 37. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
74.67 |
1.0485 |
0.0427 |
153 |
1 |
74.67 |
2010-04-19 |
| 38. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
74.67 |
1.0168 |
0.0411 |
271 |
1 |
74.67 |
2010-04-08 |
| 39. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
74.63 |
0.9756 |
0.0790 |
229 |
2 |
65.55 |
2010-04-19 |
| 40. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
74.40 |
0.9897 |
0.0606 |
274 |
2 |
70.00 |
2010-05-03 |
| 41. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
74.11 |
1.0358 |
0.0543 |
349 |
1 |
74.11 |
2010-04-05 |
| 42. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
73.92 |
1.0016 |
0.0395 |
218 |
1 |
73.92 |
2010-04-20 |
| 43. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
73.72 |
0.9500 |
0.0951 |
362 |
1 |
73.72 |
2010-04-20 |
| 44. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
73.56 |
1.0173 |
0.0675 |
268 |
2 |
68.97 |
2010-04-19 |
| 45. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
73.47 |
1.1162 |
-0.0359 |
189 |
1 |
73.47 |
2010-04-07 |
| 46. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
73.42 |
1.0284 |
0.0535 |
282 |
1 |
73.42 |
2010-04-07 |
| 47. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
73.37 |
1.0441 |
-0.0047 |
252 |
2 |
70.86 |
2010-04-05 |
| 48. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
73.13 |
1.0565 |
-0.0247 |
247 |
1 |
73.13 |
2010-04-08 |
| 49. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
73.06 |
0.9776 |
0.0560 |
308 |
2 |
67.78 |
2010-04-07 |
| 50. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
72.46 |
0.9841 |
0.0445 |
334 |
1 |
72.46 |
2010-04-08 |
| 51. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
72.31 |
1.0740 |
-0.0130 |
264 |
1 |
72.31 |
2010-04-08 |
| 52. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
72.16 |
0.9965 |
0.0192 |
168 |
1 |
72.16 |
2010-04-20 |
| 53. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
71.84 |
1.0496 |
-0.0344 |
314 |
1 |
71.84 |
2010-04-05 |
| 54. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
71.71 |
1.0390 |
-0.0287 |
205 |
2 |
67.02 |
2010-04-20 |
| 55. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
71.66 |
1.0109 |
0.0033 |
276 |
1 |
71.66 |
2010-04-19 |
| 56. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
71.25 |
1.0177 |
0.0280 |
392 |
1 |
71.25 |
2010-04-20 |
| 57. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
71.21 |
0.9279 |
0.0855 |
317 |
1 |
71.21 |
2010-04-07 |
| 58. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
71.00 |
0.9646 |
0.0384 |
264 |
1 |
71.00 |
2010-04-20 |
| 59. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
70.84 |
1.0165 |
-0.0110 |
392 |
1 |
70.84 |
2010-04-14 |
| 60. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
70.56 |
1.0109 |
0.0196 |
400 |
1 |
70.56 |
2010-04-20 |
| 61. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
70.49 |
1.0388 |
-0.0106 |
243 |
1 |
70.49 |
2010-04-20 |
| 62. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
70.42 |
0.9612 |
0.0344 |
256 |
2 |
69.05 |
2010-04-20 |
| 63. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
70.18 |
0.9202 |
0.0713 |
254 |
1 |
70.18 |
2010-04-20 |
| 64. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
70.06 |
0.9936 |
-0.0034 |
311 |
1 |
70.06 |
2010-04-19 |
| 65. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
69.87 |
0.9064 |
0.0905 |
399 |
2 |
65.03 |
2010-04-19 |
| 66. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
69.83 |
0.9691 |
0.0176 |
223 |
1 |
69.83 |
2010-04-07 |
| 67. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
69.43 |
1.0150 |
0.0154 |
325 |
1 |
69.43 |
2010-04-19 |
| 68. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
69.20 |
1.0993 |
-0.1233 |
265 |
2 |
67.58 |
2010-04-07 |
| 69. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
69.08 |
1.0025 |
-0.0252 |
336 |
2 |
69.01 |
2010-04-19 |
| 70. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
69.06 |
1.0352 |
-0.0560 |
341 |
1 |
69.06 |
2010-04-19 |
| 71. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
68.88 |
0.9865 |
-0.0118 |
276 |
1 |
68.88 |
2010-04-05 |
| 72. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
68.83 |
0.9997 |
-0.0233 |
382 |
1 |
68.83 |
2010-04-05 |
| 73. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
68.67 |
1.0426 |
-0.0728 |
323 |
1 |
68.67 |
2010-04-05 |
| 74. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
68.32 |
0.8553 |
0.1051 |
174 |
2 |
64.30 |
2010-04-08 |
| 75. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
68.29 |
1.0555 |
-0.0890 |
363 |
1 |
68.29 |
2010-04-08 |
| 76. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
68.08 |
0.9527 |
0.0093 |
251 |
1 |
68.08 |
2010-04-19 |
| 77. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
67.95 |
0.9754 |
-0.0091 |
362 |
1 |
67.95 |
2010-04-08 |
| 78. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
67.83 |
0.9792 |
0.0177 |
265 |
1 |
67.83 |
2010-04-20 |
| 79. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
67.53 |
1.0201 |
-0.0727 |
172 |
1 |
67.53 |
2010-04-24 |
| 80. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
67.23 |
0.9529 |
0.0376 |
269 |
1 |
67.23 |
2010-04-05 |
| 81. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
67.16 |
1.0619 |
-0.1094 |
354 |
1 |
67.16 |
2010-04-13 |
| 82. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
67.12 |
0.9383 |
0.0312 |
471 |
1 |
67.12 |
2010-04-14 |
| 83. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
67.01 |
1.0201 |
-0.0693 |
375 |
1 |
67.01 |
2010-04-13 |
| 84. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
66.97 |
1.0334 |
-0.0937 |
131 |
1 |
66.97 |
2010-04-19 |
| 85. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
66.96 |
0.9795 |
-0.0334 |
308 |
1 |
66.96 |
2010-04-05 |
| 86. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
66.95 |
1.0534 |
-0.1053 |
357 |
2 |
65.13 |
2010-04-13 |
| 87. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
66.95 |
1.0073 |
-0.0534 |
369 |
1 |
66.95 |
2010-04-24 |
| 88. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
66.94 |
0.9731 |
-0.0398 |
129 |
1 |
66.94 |
2010-04-20 |
| 89. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
66.68 |
0.9844 |
-0.0376 |
293 |
1 |
66.68 |
2010-04-19 |
| 90. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
66.59 |
0.8595 |
0.0831 |
242 |
1 |
66.59 |
2010-04-08 |
| 91. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
66.50 |
0.9946 |
-0.0553 |
246 |
1 |
66.50 |
2010-04-05 |
| 92. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
66.46 |
0.9583 |
0.0243 |
341 |
1 |
66.46 |
2010-04-08 |
| 93. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
66.33 |
1.0314 |
-0.0552 |
452 |
1 |
66.33 |
2010-04-05 |
| 94. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
66.17 |
1.0679 |
-0.1129 |
177 |
1 |
66.17 |
2010-04-08 |
| 95. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
66.16 |
0.9514 |
-0.0165 |
237 |
1 |
66.16 |
2010-04-14 |
| 96. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
66.09 |
0.9922 |
-0.0175 |
341 |
1 |
66.09 |
2010-04-05 |
| 97. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
65.57 |
0.9567 |
-0.0307 |
273 |
2 |
65.41 |
2010-04-20 |
| 98. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
65.57 |
0.9005 |
0.0242 |
212 |
1 |
65.57 |
2010-04-03 |
| 99. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
65.19 |
1.0252 |
-0.1110 |
176 |
1 |
65.19 |
2010-04-05 |
| 100. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
64.73 |
0.9709 |
-0.0158 |
397 |
2 |
64.30 |
2010-04-20 |
| 101. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
64.60 |
1.0270 |
-0.0787 |
255 |
1 |
64.60 |
2010-04-14 |
| 102. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
64.15 |
1.0399 |
-0.1289 |
294 |
1 |
64.15 |
2010-04-05 |
| 103. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
63.57 |
1.0444 |
-0.1535 |
197 |
2 |
61.42 |
2010-04-24 |
| 104. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
62.95 |
0.9597 |
-0.0670 |
347 |
1 |
62.95 |
2010-04-07 |
| 105. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
62.46 |
0.9991 |
-0.1170 |
225 |
1 |
62.46 |
2010-04-08 |
| 106. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
62.38 |
0.8753 |
0.0144 |
427 |
1 |
62.38 |
2010-04-20 |
| 107. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
62.37 |
0.9866 |
-0.1100 |
218 |
1 |
62.37 |
2010-04-08 |
| 108. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
62.31 |
0.9168 |
-0.0360 |
240 |
1 |
62.31 |
2010-04-20 |
| 109. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
62.11 |
0.9546 |
-0.0467 |
198 |
2 |
62.05 |
2010-04-19 |
| 110. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
62.09 |
1.0099 |
-0.1365 |
207 |
1 |
62.09 |
2010-04-07 |
| 111. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
61.62 |
1.0669 |
-0.1650 |
286 |
1 |
61.62 |
2010-04-19 |
| 112. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
61.20 |
1.0088 |
-0.1065 |
396 |
1 |
61.20 |
2010-04-05 |
| 113. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
61.02 |
0.8933 |
-0.0259 |
363 |
1 |
61.02 |
2010-04-05 |
| 114. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
59.04 |
1.0060 |
-0.1781 |
171 |
1 |
59.04 |
2010-04-19 |
| 115. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
58.46 |
1.0768 |
-0.2124 |
295 |
1 |
58.46 |
2010-04-19 |
| 116. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
57.85 |
0.7876 |
0.0306 |
316 |
1 |
57.85 |
2010-04-07 |
| 117. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
55.74 |
0.8996 |
-0.1197 |
192 |
1 |
55.74 |
2010-04-08 |
| 118. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
53.71 |
0.8770 |
-0.1175 |
300 |
1 |
53.71 |
2010-04-05 |
| 119. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
53.42 |
1.0379 |
-0.2509 |
245 |
1 |
53.42 |
2010-04-19 |
| 120. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
52.68 |
0.9740 |
-0.2366 |
209 |
1 |
52.68 |
2010-04-05 |
| 121. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
52.56 |
0.8382 |
-0.0979 |
268 |
1 |
52.56 |
2010-04-05 |
| 122. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
42.73 |
0.9966 |
-0.3981 |
259 |
1 |
42.73 |
2010-04-03 |
| 123. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
39.81 |
0.8105 |
-0.2576 |
204 |
1 |
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2010-04-05 |
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Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
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2010-04-05 |