| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
71.89 |
1.1016 |
0.2039 |
233 |
1 |
71.89 |
2013-11-17 |
| 2. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
71.18 |
1.0477 |
0.2472 |
360 |
2 |
66.37 |
2014-05-01 |
| 3. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
69.39 |
1.0534 |
0.2092 |
357 |
1 |
69.39 |
2013-11-19 |
| 4. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
67.88 |
1.0388 |
0.2252 |
243 |
1 |
67.88 |
2014-05-05 |
| 5. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
67.14 |
1.0796 |
0.1337 |
129 |
1 |
67.14 |
2013-11-02 |
| 6. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
66.43 |
1.0943 |
0.1440 |
206 |
2 |
65.00 |
2014-07-31 |
| 7. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
65.31 |
1.0944 |
0.1353 |
308 |
1 |
65.31 |
2013-11-19 |
| 8. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
64.80 |
1.0203 |
0.1590 |
261 |
1 |
64.80 |
2013-11-04 |
| 9. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
64.12 |
1.0173 |
0.1900 |
268 |
2 |
58.85 |
2014-04-30 |
| 10. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
63.28 |
1.1323 |
0.0496 |
341 |
1 |
63.28 |
2013-11-19 |
| 11. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
63.06 |
1.0463 |
0.0931 |
182 |
3 |
56.61 |
2014-04-30 |
| 12. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
62.13 |
0.9897 |
0.1348 |
274 |
1 |
62.13 |
2014-05-01 |
| 13. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
61.75 |
0.8826 |
0.2387 |
241 |
1 |
61.75 |
2013-11-19 |
| 14. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
61.64 |
1.0172 |
0.1358 |
341 |
1 |
61.64 |
2013-11-19 |
| 15. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
61.38 |
0.9597 |
0.1574 |
347 |
1 |
61.38 |
2013-11-04 |
| 16. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
61.20 |
1.0177 |
0.1304 |
392 |
1 |
61.20 |
2014-07-31 |
| 17. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
60.89 |
1.1014 |
0.0404 |
273 |
1 |
60.89 |
2013-11-04 |
| 18. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
60.77 |
1.0883 |
0.0459 |
303 |
1 |
60.77 |
2013-11-11 |
| 19. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
60.27 |
0.9567 |
0.1785 |
184 |
1 |
60.27 |
2013-11-19 |
| 20. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
60.01 |
0.9691 |
0.1183 |
223 |
2 |
58.02 |
2013-11-20 |
| 21. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
59.96 |
1.0774 |
0.0390 |
304 |
1 |
59.96 |
2013-11-08 |
| 22. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
59.93 |
0.9430 |
0.1395 |
227 |
1 |
59.93 |
2013-11-19 |
| 23. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
59.92 |
1.0567 |
0.0306 |
303 |
1 |
59.92 |
2012-10-31 |
| 24. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
59.84 |
1.1114 |
-0.0293 |
247 |
1 |
59.84 |
2014-08-07 |
| 25. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
59.34 |
0.9894 |
0.0907 |
323 |
1 |
59.34 |
2013-11-08 |
| 26. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
59.20 |
0.9911 |
0.0783 |
212 |
1 |
59.20 |
2013-11-17 |
| 27. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
59.10 |
1.0714 |
-0.0094 |
129 |
1 |
59.10 |
2014-05-01 |
| 28. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
58.96 |
1.0257 |
0.0494 |
401 |
1 |
58.96 |
2013-11-04 |
| 29. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
58.79 |
1.0331 |
0.0302 |
234 |
1 |
58.79 |
2013-11-19 |
| 30. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
58.79 |
0.8915 |
0.1723 |
188 |
1 |
58.79 |
2012-10-30 |
| 31. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
58.71 |
1.0381 |
0.0150 |
170 |
1 |
58.71 |
2013-11-19 |
| 32. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
58.56 |
0.9776 |
0.0841 |
308 |
1 |
58.56 |
2013-11-19 |
| 33. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
58.51 |
1.0677 |
0.0231 |
284 |
2 |
49.74 |
2013-11-19 |
| 34. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
58.33 |
1.0389 |
0.0206 |
340 |
1 |
58.33 |
2013-11-19 |
| 35. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
58.28 |
1.0662 |
0.0282 |
407 |
1 |
58.28 |
2013-11-19 |
| 36. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
58.28 |
0.9844 |
0.0769 |
293 |
1 |
58.28 |
2013-11-17 |
| 37. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
58.27 |
1.0154 |
0.0906 |
351 |
1 |
58.27 |
2013-11-04 |
| 38. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
58.00 |
1.0031 |
0.0812 |
304 |
1 |
58.00 |
2013-11-08 |
| 39. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
57.74 |
1.0486 |
-0.0016 |
289 |
1 |
57.74 |
2014-07-31 |
| 40. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
57.60 |
1.0797 |
-0.0414 |
210 |
1 |
57.60 |
2013-11-08 |
| 41. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
57.53 |
1.0375 |
0.0508 |
200 |
1 |
57.53 |
2014-05-01 |
| 42. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
57.53 |
1.0352 |
0.0097 |
341 |
1 |
57.53 |
2013-11-02 |
| 43. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
57.39 |
0.9769 |
0.0611 |
263 |
1 |
57.39 |
2013-11-19 |
| 44. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
57.28 |
1.0125 |
0.0227 |
224 |
2 |
54.52 |
2013-11-20 |
| 45. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
57.24 |
0.9866 |
0.0470 |
218 |
1 |
57.24 |
2012-10-30 |
| 46. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
57.22 |
1.0167 |
0.0273 |
378 |
2 |
54.75 |
2013-11-02 |
| 47. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
57.19 |
0.9485 |
0.0904 |
291 |
1 |
57.19 |
2013-11-19 |
| 48. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
56.95 |
0.9504 |
0.0755 |
263 |
1 |
56.95 |
2013-11-19 |
| 49. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
56.70 |
0.9814 |
0.0853 |
364 |
1 |
56.70 |
2013-11-04 |
| 50. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
56.62 |
0.9946 |
0.0312 |
246 |
1 |
56.62 |
2014-05-05 |
| 51. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
56.56 |
1.0615 |
-0.0114 |
305 |
1 |
56.56 |
2013-11-19 |
| 52. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
56.24 |
0.9938 |
0.0251 |
339 |
1 |
56.24 |
2013-11-02 |
| 53. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
55.99 |
0.9368 |
0.0771 |
173 |
1 |
55.99 |
2013-11-08 |
| 54. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
55.82 |
1.0132 |
-0.0109 |
143 |
1 |
55.82 |
2013-11-08 |
| 55. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
55.56 |
1.0334 |
-0.0337 |
131 |
1 |
55.56 |
2014-05-01 |
| 56. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
55.43 |
1.0387 |
-0.0027 |
239 |
1 |
55.43 |
2014-05-01 |
| 57. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
55.34 |
1.0385 |
-0.0381 |
230 |
1 |
55.34 |
2013-11-08 |
| 58. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
55.32 |
1.0719 |
-0.0422 |
360 |
1 |
55.32 |
2013-11-19 |
| 59. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
55.29 |
1.0358 |
0.0075 |
349 |
1 |
55.29 |
2013-11-20 |
| 60. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
55.12 |
1.0063 |
-0.0079 |
371 |
1 |
55.12 |
2013-11-08 |
| 61. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
54.92 |
1.0203 |
0.0078 |
400 |
1 |
54.92 |
2013-11-19 |
| 62. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
54.90 |
1.0201 |
-0.0254 |
303 |
1 |
54.90 |
2013-11-05 |
| 63. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
54.89 |
0.9681 |
0.0341 |
378 |
1 |
54.89 |
2013-11-19 |
| 64. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
54.77 |
0.9916 |
0.0430 |
282 |
1 |
54.77 |
2013-11-04 |
| 65. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
54.75 |
0.9943 |
0.0002 |
373 |
1 |
54.75 |
2012-10-31 |
| 66. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
54.71 |
0.9724 |
0.0212 |
237 |
1 |
54.71 |
2013-11-08 |
| 67. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
54.66 |
0.9668 |
0.0655 |
383 |
3 |
54.21 |
2014-05-01 |
| 68. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
54.52 |
0.9774 |
0.0086 |
196 |
1 |
54.52 |
2012-10-30 |
| 69. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
54.51 |
1.0316 |
-0.0406 |
333 |
1 |
54.51 |
2013-11-17 |
| 70. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
54.46 |
1.0506 |
-0.0357 |
277 |
1 |
54.46 |
2014-05-01 |
| 71. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
54.08 |
0.9212 |
0.0610 |
231 |
1 |
54.08 |
2014-05-01 |
| 72. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
53.96 |
0.9710 |
-0.0004 |
173 |
2 |
53.87 |
2013-11-04 |
| 73. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
53.79 |
1.0429 |
-0.0707 |
259 |
1 |
53.79 |
2012-10-30 |
| 74. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
53.77 |
0.9722 |
0.0028 |
283 |
1 |
53.77 |
2013-08-22 |
| 75. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
53.59 |
0.9865 |
-0.0151 |
276 |
1 |
53.59 |
2013-11-19 |
| 76. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
53.44 |
0.9893 |
-0.0219 |
323 |
1 |
53.44 |
2013-11-21 |
| 77. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
53.29 |
1.0240 |
-0.0625 |
256 |
1 |
53.29 |
2013-11-19 |
| 78. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
52.99 |
1.0296 |
-0.0639 |
437 |
1 |
52.99 |
2013-11-19 |
| 79. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
52.67 |
0.9553 |
0.0051 |
430 |
1 |
52.67 |
2013-11-04 |
| 80. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
52.60 |
0.9612 |
-0.0089 |
256 |
1 |
52.60 |
2012-10-31 |
| 81. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
52.47 |
0.9557 |
0.0003 |
331 |
1 |
52.47 |
2013-11-04 |
| 82. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
52.30 |
0.9786 |
-0.0326 |
235 |
1 |
52.30 |
2013-11-17 |
| 83. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
52.29 |
0.9509 |
0.0337 |
225 |
2 |
41.28 |
2013-11-01 |
| 84. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
52.21 |
0.9372 |
0.0123 |
320 |
1 |
52.21 |
2014-05-01 |
| 85. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
52.02 |
0.9429 |
0.0000 |
287 |
1 |
52.02 |
2013-11-19 |
| 86. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
52.02 |
0.9833 |
-0.0403 |
355 |
1 |
52.02 |
2014-05-05 |
| 87. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
51.89 |
1.0403 |
-0.0867 |
193 |
1 |
51.89 |
2013-11-04 |
| 88. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
51.78 |
0.9763 |
-0.0398 |
289 |
1 |
51.78 |
2013-11-19 |
| 89. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
51.49 |
0.9485 |
-0.0150 |
236 |
1 |
51.49 |
2013-11-19 |
| 90. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
51.35 |
0.9376 |
0.0271 |
360 |
1 |
51.35 |
2013-11-19 |
| 91. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
51.27 |
0.9084 |
0.0229 |
404 |
1 |
51.27 |
2014-07-31 |
| 92. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
51.03 |
0.9886 |
-0.0630 |
220 |
1 |
51.03 |
2013-11-08 |
| 93. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
51.01 |
1.0232 |
-0.0545 |
350 |
1 |
51.01 |
2014-05-01 |
| 94. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
50.78 |
1.0604 |
-0.1087 |
260 |
1 |
50.78 |
2013-11-02 |
| 95. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
50.01 |
0.9342 |
-0.0260 |
434 |
1 |
50.01 |
2013-11-19 |
| 96. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
49.87 |
0.9514 |
-0.0493 |
237 |
1 |
49.87 |
2013-11-04 |
| 97. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
49.71 |
0.9682 |
-0.0707 |
143 |
1 |
49.71 |
2013-11-08 |
| 98. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
49.51 |
0.9726 |
-0.0844 |
154 |
1 |
49.51 |
2013-11-21 |
| 99. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
49.34 |
0.8935 |
0.0084 |
328 |
1 |
49.34 |
2013-11-02 |
| 100. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
49.05 |
0.9128 |
0.0157 |
369 |
1 |
49.05 |
2014-05-05 |
| 101. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
48.96 |
0.9570 |
-0.0700 |
287 |
1 |
48.96 |
2013-11-19 |
| 102. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
48.87 |
1.0320 |
-0.1113 |
293 |
1 |
48.87 |
2013-11-19 |
| 103. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
48.85 |
0.9873 |
-0.1075 |
155 |
1 |
48.85 |
2013-08-22 |
| 104. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
48.78 |
1.0365 |
-0.1251 |
162 |
1 |
48.78 |
2013-11-19 |
| 105. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
48.52 |
1.0361 |
-0.1581 |
269 |
1 |
48.52 |
2013-11-04 |
| 106. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
48.12 |
0.9540 |
-0.0863 |
285 |
1 |
48.12 |
2013-11-04 |
| 107. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
47.81 |
0.9513 |
-0.0834 |
354 |
1 |
47.81 |
2013-11-02 |
| 108. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
47.37 |
1.0398 |
-0.1948 |
110 |
1 |
47.37 |
2013-11-02 |
| 109. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
47.20 |
0.9411 |
-0.0872 |
318 |
1 |
47.20 |
2013-11-02 |
| 110. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
47.18 |
0.8971 |
-0.0396 |
266 |
1 |
47.18 |
2013-11-19 |
| 111. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
46.75 |
0.9049 |
-0.0546 |
351 |
1 |
46.75 |
2013-11-01 |
| 112. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
46.51 |
0.9097 |
-0.0276 |
464 |
1 |
46.51 |
2013-11-02 |
| 113. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
46.35 |
0.8933 |
-0.0495 |
363 |
1 |
46.35 |
2013-11-08 |
| 114. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
46.25 |
1.0197 |
-0.1871 |
226 |
1 |
46.25 |
2013-08-22 |
| 115. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
45.95 |
0.9266 |
-0.0951 |
278 |
1 |
45.95 |
2013-11-01 |
| 116. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
45.80 |
0.8467 |
0.0052 |
343 |
2 |
44.57 |
2013-11-08 |
| 117. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
45.52 |
0.9266 |
-0.1047 |
267 |
1 |
45.52 |
2013-11-02 |
| 118. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
45.24 |
1.0725 |
-0.2300 |
233 |
1 |
45.24 |
2013-08-22 |
| 119. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
44.66 |
0.9176 |
-0.0776 |
267 |
1 |
44.66 |
2013-11-08 |
| 120. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
44.09 |
0.9275 |
-0.1348 |
211 |
1 |
44.09 |
2012-10-30 |
| 121. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
43.87 |
1.0595 |
-0.2652 |
379 |
1 |
43.87 |
2013-11-01 |
| 122. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
43.79 |
0.9202 |
-0.1301 |
254 |
1 |
43.79 |
2013-11-08 |
| 123. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
42.92 |
0.8968 |
-0.1259 |
186 |
1 |
42.92 |
2013-11-01 |
| 124. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
41.26 |
0.8105 |
-0.0712 |
204 |
2 |
40.09 |
2013-11-19 |
| 125. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
35.90 |
1.0074 |
-0.3604 |
242 |
1 |
35.90 |
2013-08-13 |
| 126. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
28.90 |
0.9756 |
-0.4597 |
229 |
1 |
28.90 |
2013-08-13 |