| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
114.21 |
1.0521 |
0.2331 |
171 |
1 |
114.21 |
2012-12-24 |
| 2. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
108.40 |
1.0445 |
0.1772 |
373 |
1 |
108.40 |
2012-12-24 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
108.15 |
1.1016 |
0.1164 |
233 |
1 |
108.15 |
2012-12-24 |
| 4. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
106.85 |
1.0352 |
0.1704 |
341 |
2 |
99.50 |
2012-12-24 |
| 5. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
106.61 |
0.9831 |
0.2165 |
222 |
2 |
101.93 |
2013-02-16 |
| 6. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
105.72 |
0.9731 |
0.2131 |
129 |
1 |
105.72 |
2012-12-24 |
| 7. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
105.65 |
0.9965 |
0.1922 |
168 |
1 |
105.65 |
2012-12-24 |
| 8. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
105.55 |
1.0454 |
0.1444 |
255 |
1 |
105.55 |
2012-12-24 |
| 9. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
104.37 |
1.0485 |
0.1649 |
153 |
1 |
104.37 |
2012-12-24 |
| 10. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
104.00 |
1.0167 |
0.1578 |
378 |
2 |
94.51 |
2012-12-24 |
| 11. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
103.98 |
1.0263 |
0.1449 |
267 |
2 |
101.98 |
2012-12-24 |
| 12. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
103.04 |
1.0684 |
0.1221 |
253 |
1 |
103.04 |
2012-12-24 |
| 13. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
102.93 |
1.0095 |
0.1500 |
316 |
1 |
102.93 |
2012-12-24 |
| 14. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
101.92 |
1.0668 |
0.0817 |
350 |
1 |
101.92 |
2012-12-24 |
| 15. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
101.21 |
1.0767 |
0.0616 |
212 |
1 |
101.21 |
2012-12-24 |
| 16. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
101.00 |
1.0125 |
0.1229 |
224 |
1 |
101.00 |
2012-12-24 |
| 17. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
99.23 |
1.0496 |
0.0671 |
314 |
1 |
99.23 |
2012-12-24 |
| 18. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
98.54 |
1.0403 |
0.0874 |
193 |
1 |
98.54 |
2012-12-24 |
| 19. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
97.71 |
1.0232 |
0.1220 |
350 |
1 |
97.71 |
2012-12-24 |
| 20. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
97.66 |
1.1068 |
0.0278 |
393 |
1 |
97.66 |
2012-12-24 |
| 21. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
97.08 |
1.0523 |
0.0390 |
256 |
1 |
97.08 |
2012-12-24 |
| 22. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
96.75 |
1.0203 |
0.0710 |
261 |
1 |
96.75 |
2012-12-24 |
| 23. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
96.71 |
0.9922 |
0.1347 |
341 |
1 |
96.71 |
2012-12-24 |
| 24. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
95.85 |
1.0483 |
0.0289 |
227 |
1 |
95.85 |
2012-12-24 |
| 25. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
95.63 |
0.9710 |
0.1028 |
173 |
1 |
95.63 |
2012-12-24 |
| 26. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
95.42 |
1.0725 |
0.0302 |
233 |
1 |
95.42 |
2013-02-14 |
| 27. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
95.34 |
1.1081 |
0.0011 |
206 |
1 |
95.34 |
2012-12-24 |
| 28. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
94.87 |
1.0349 |
0.0324 |
234 |
1 |
94.87 |
2012-12-24 |
| 29. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
94.55 |
0.9675 |
0.1011 |
383 |
1 |
94.55 |
2012-12-24 |
| 30. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
94.45 |
0.9912 |
0.1017 |
237 |
2 |
87.53 |
2012-12-24 |
| 31. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
93.63 |
0.9881 |
0.1021 |
424 |
3 |
85.32 |
2014-05-02 |
| 32. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
93.46 |
1.0528 |
-0.0034 |
201 |
1 |
93.46 |
2012-12-24 |
| 33. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
93.44 |
1.0667 |
0.0187 |
406 |
1 |
93.44 |
2013-02-14 |
| 34. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
93.35 |
0.9763 |
0.0743 |
289 |
1 |
93.35 |
2012-12-24 |
| 35. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
93.28 |
1.0131 |
0.0347 |
225 |
1 |
93.28 |
2013-02-16 |
| 36. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
92.69 |
1.0787 |
-0.0362 |
237 |
1 |
92.69 |
2012-12-24 |
| 37. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
92.29 |
1.0154 |
0.0703 |
351 |
1 |
92.29 |
2012-12-24 |
| 38. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
92.00 |
0.9925 |
0.0802 |
247 |
1 |
92.00 |
2012-12-24 |
| 39. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
91.87 |
1.0124 |
0.0202 |
204 |
2 |
89.90 |
2012-12-24 |
| 40. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
91.60 |
1.0621 |
-0.0086 |
263 |
1 |
91.60 |
2012-12-24 |
| 41. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
91.14 |
0.8770 |
0.1502 |
300 |
1 |
91.14 |
2012-12-24 |
| 42. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
90.80 |
0.9907 |
0.0615 |
397 |
1 |
90.80 |
2012-12-24 |
| 43. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
90.39 |
1.0714 |
-0.0584 |
129 |
2 |
87.04 |
2014-05-02 |
| 44. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
90.37 |
0.9439 |
0.0753 |
476 |
1 |
90.37 |
2012-12-24 |
| 45. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
89.97 |
1.0574 |
-0.0162 |
205 |
1 |
89.97 |
2012-12-24 |
| 46. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
89.85 |
1.0399 |
-0.0280 |
294 |
1 |
89.85 |
2012-12-24 |
| 47. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
89.65 |
1.0459 |
-0.0021 |
200 |
1 |
89.65 |
2012-12-24 |
| 48. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
89.44 |
0.9233 |
0.0800 |
168 |
2 |
86.11 |
2012-12-24 |
| 49. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
89.24 |
1.0289 |
-0.0232 |
276 |
1 |
89.24 |
2012-12-24 |
| 50. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
89.16 |
0.9907 |
0.0116 |
211 |
1 |
89.16 |
2012-12-24 |
| 51. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
89.02 |
1.0073 |
-0.0026 |
369 |
1 |
89.02 |
2012-12-24 |
| 52. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
88.30 |
1.0907 |
-0.0970 |
303 |
1 |
88.30 |
2014-05-02 |
| 53. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
88.28 |
1.0441 |
-0.0511 |
252 |
1 |
88.28 |
2012-12-24 |
| 54. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
88.19 |
0.9005 |
0.0919 |
212 |
1 |
88.19 |
2012-12-24 |
| 55. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
87.65 |
1.0482 |
-0.0463 |
487 |
1 |
87.65 |
2012-12-24 |
| 56. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
87.48 |
1.0099 |
-0.0266 |
207 |
1 |
87.48 |
2012-12-24 |
| 57. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
87.02 |
1.0203 |
-0.0127 |
400 |
1 |
87.02 |
2013-02-16 |
| 58. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
86.93 |
1.0320 |
-0.0151 |
293 |
1 |
86.93 |
2012-12-24 |
| 59. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
86.82 |
0.9831 |
-0.0031 |
469 |
1 |
86.82 |
2012-12-24 |
| 60. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
86.80 |
1.0669 |
-0.0575 |
286 |
1 |
86.80 |
2012-12-24 |
| 61. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
86.21 |
0.9614 |
0.0091 |
292 |
3 |
83.53 |
2012-12-24 |
| 62. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
86.17 |
1.0696 |
-0.1023 |
226 |
1 |
86.17 |
2012-12-24 |
| 63. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
86.16 |
0.8958 |
0.0757 |
322 |
1 |
86.16 |
2012-12-24 |
| 64. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
85.64 |
0.9504 |
0.0103 |
263 |
1 |
85.64 |
2013-02-14 |
| 65. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
84.65 |
1.0068 |
-0.0534 |
358 |
1 |
84.65 |
2012-12-24 |
| 66. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
84.59 |
1.0595 |
-0.1078 |
379 |
1 |
84.59 |
2012-12-24 |
| 67. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
84.04 |
0.9841 |
-0.0381 |
334 |
1 |
84.04 |
2012-12-24 |
| 68. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
83.75 |
0.9213 |
0.0211 |
295 |
1 |
83.75 |
2013-02-14 |
| 69. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
83.69 |
0.8826 |
0.0605 |
296 |
1 |
83.69 |
2012-12-24 |
| 70. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
83.58 |
1.0109 |
-0.0713 |
276 |
1 |
83.58 |
2012-12-24 |
| 71. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
83.09 |
0.8947 |
0.0429 |
366 |
1 |
83.09 |
2012-12-24 |
| 72. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
82.92 |
0.9632 |
0.0065 |
345 |
1 |
82.92 |
2012-12-24 |
| 73. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
82.82 |
0.9279 |
0.0060 |
317 |
2 |
81.53 |
2012-12-24 |
| 74. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
82.69 |
0.9376 |
0.0241 |
360 |
1 |
82.69 |
2012-12-24 |
| 75. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
82.64 |
0.9216 |
0.0437 |
255 |
1 |
82.64 |
2012-12-24 |
| 76. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
82.51 |
1.0396 |
-0.1159 |
149 |
1 |
82.51 |
2013-02-14 |
| 77. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
82.46 |
0.9699 |
-0.0430 |
269 |
1 |
82.46 |
2012-12-24 |
| 78. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
82.32 |
0.9569 |
-0.0135 |
410 |
1 |
82.32 |
2013-02-16 |
| 79. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
82.18 |
0.9468 |
-0.0235 |
276 |
1 |
82.18 |
2012-12-24 |
| 80. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
81.41 |
0.9646 |
-0.0496 |
264 |
1 |
81.41 |
2013-02-16 |
| 81. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
81.02 |
1.0328 |
-0.0889 |
356 |
1 |
81.02 |
2012-12-24 |
| 82. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
80.32 |
0.9529 |
-0.0100 |
269 |
2 |
77.55 |
2012-12-24 |
| 83. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
80.24 |
0.9820 |
-0.0783 |
267 |
1 |
80.24 |
2013-02-14 |
| 84. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
80.04 |
0.9426 |
-0.0422 |
317 |
1 |
80.04 |
2013-02-14 |
| 85. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
79.05 |
1.0863 |
-0.1625 |
210 |
1 |
79.05 |
2012-12-24 |
| 86. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
79.02 |
1.0189 |
-0.1297 |
337 |
1 |
79.02 |
2012-12-24 |
| 87. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
78.93 |
0.9678 |
-0.0523 |
445 |
1 |
78.93 |
2012-12-24 |
| 88. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
78.08 |
1.0375 |
-0.1121 |
200 |
1 |
78.08 |
2012-12-24 |
| 89. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
77.81 |
0.9866 |
-0.1142 |
218 |
1 |
77.81 |
2012-12-24 |
| 90. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
77.05 |
0.9884 |
-0.1236 |
233 |
1 |
77.05 |
2014-05-02 |
| 91. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
77.02 |
1.0615 |
-0.1711 |
305 |
1 |
77.02 |
2012-12-24 |
| 92. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
76.86 |
1.0173 |
-0.1092 |
268 |
1 |
76.86 |
2012-12-24 |
| 93. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
76.68 |
0.9976 |
-0.1139 |
174 |
1 |
76.68 |
2012-12-24 |
| 94. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
76.14 |
0.9128 |
-0.0174 |
369 |
1 |
76.14 |
2012-12-24 |
| 95. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
75.57 |
0.9176 |
-0.0344 |
365 |
2 |
75.02 |
2014-05-02 |
| 96. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
74.69 |
0.9275 |
-0.0902 |
211 |
1 |
74.69 |
2012-12-24 |
| 97. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
70.60 |
0.7876 |
0.0075 |
316 |
2 |
69.93 |
2014-05-02 |
| 98. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
70.17 |
0.9513 |
-0.1620 |
354 |
1 |
70.17 |
2014-05-02 |
| 99. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
69.93 |
1.0463 |
-0.2647 |
182 |
1 |
69.93 |
2014-05-02 |
| 100. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
69.83 |
0.9843 |
-0.2032 |
234 |
1 |
69.83 |
2012-12-24 |
| 101. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
67.36 |
0.8553 |
-0.1019 |
174 |
1 |
67.36 |
2013-02-14 |
| 102. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
66.24 |
0.8916 |
-0.1489 |
216 |
1 |
66.24 |
2013-02-14 |
| 103. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
65.38 |
1.0613 |
-0.3282 |
266 |
1 |
65.38 |
2014-05-02 |