| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
74.45 |
1.0684 |
0.1735 |
253 |
2 |
69.05 |
2011-04-05 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
73.91 |
1.0613 |
0.1474 |
456 |
1 |
73.91 |
2011-10-04 |
| 3. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
72.92 |
1.0403 |
0.1612 |
193 |
1 |
72.92 |
2011-04-27 |
| 4. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
72.16 |
1.0696 |
0.1013 |
226 |
2 |
66.07 |
2011-10-03 |
| 5. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
72.13 |
1.1296 |
0.0733 |
252 |
1 |
72.13 |
2011-10-12 |
| 6. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
71.17 |
1.0240 |
0.1310 |
256 |
1 |
71.17 |
2012-06-15 |
| 7. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
70.83 |
1.0719 |
0.1083 |
360 |
1 |
70.83 |
2011-04-06 |
| 8. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
70.48 |
1.0516 |
0.0943 |
281 |
2 |
65.72 |
2011-10-05 |
| 9. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
69.87 |
0.9897 |
0.1445 |
274 |
2 |
64.48 |
2012-06-15 |
| 10. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
68.82 |
1.0506 |
0.0974 |
277 |
1 |
68.82 |
2011-04-06 |
| 11. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
67.88 |
1.0177 |
0.1244 |
392 |
1 |
67.88 |
2012-06-15 |
| 12. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
67.70 |
1.0477 |
0.0556 |
360 |
2 |
65.45 |
2012-06-29 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
67.66 |
1.0577 |
0.0387 |
247 |
1 |
67.66 |
2011-04-06 |
| 14. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
67.53 |
0.9633 |
0.1370 |
304 |
1 |
67.53 |
2011-10-04 |
| 15. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
67.50 |
1.0004 |
0.0911 |
212 |
2 |
60.33 |
2011-10-05 |
| 16. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
67.43 |
1.0365 |
0.0894 |
162 |
1 |
67.43 |
2012-06-15 |
| 17. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
67.28 |
1.0531 |
0.0791 |
272 |
1 |
67.28 |
2011-04-06 |
| 18. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
66.48 |
1.0677 |
0.0434 |
284 |
3 |
61.94 |
2012-06-29 |
| 19. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
65.91 |
1.0068 |
0.0679 |
358 |
3 |
60.93 |
2012-06-15 |
| 20. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
65.79 |
0.9681 |
0.1096 |
378 |
1 |
65.79 |
2011-04-24 |
| 21. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
65.78 |
1.0545 |
0.0557 |
416 |
1 |
65.78 |
2012-06-29 |
| 22. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
65.76 |
1.0016 |
0.0626 |
218 |
1 |
65.76 |
2011-04-05 |
| 23. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
65.74 |
0.9698 |
0.1317 |
397 |
1 |
65.74 |
2011-10-04 |
| 24. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
65.48 |
0.9578 |
0.1065 |
281 |
1 |
65.48 |
2011-10-04 |
| 25. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
65.47 |
0.9697 |
0.0946 |
249 |
1 |
65.47 |
2011-04-19 |
| 26. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
65.26 |
0.9461 |
0.1105 |
193 |
2 |
64.00 |
2011-10-03 |
| 27. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
64.95 |
1.0669 |
0.0210 |
286 |
1 |
64.95 |
2011-10-03 |
| 28. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
64.39 |
0.9844 |
0.0672 |
293 |
2 |
59.07 |
2012-07-28 |
| 29. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
64.30 |
1.0399 |
0.0104 |
294 |
1 |
64.30 |
2012-06-29 |
| 30. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
64.20 |
0.9986 |
0.0394 |
162 |
1 |
64.20 |
2011-04-06 |
| 31. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
64.14 |
0.9485 |
0.0956 |
236 |
1 |
64.14 |
2011-10-04 |
| 32. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
64.09 |
1.0314 |
0.0493 |
452 |
1 |
64.09 |
2011-04-06 |
| 33. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
63.94 |
0.9676 |
0.0798 |
442 |
1 |
63.94 |
2011-04-06 |
| 34. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
63.91 |
1.0257 |
0.0193 |
401 |
1 |
63.91 |
2011-04-06 |
| 35. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
63.90 |
0.9226 |
0.1220 |
348 |
2 |
60.89 |
2012-06-29 |
| 36. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
63.79 |
1.0574 |
0.0071 |
205 |
1 |
63.79 |
2012-06-29 |
| 37. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
63.65 |
0.9894 |
0.0493 |
323 |
2 |
62.85 |
2011-04-05 |
| 38. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
63.63 |
1.0214 |
0.0072 |
166 |
1 |
63.63 |
2012-07-28 |
| 39. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
63.28 |
1.0515 |
-0.0254 |
250 |
2 |
59.58 |
2011-04-27 |
| 40. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
63.08 |
1.0352 |
-0.0078 |
341 |
1 |
63.08 |
2011-04-24 |
| 41. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
62.95 |
1.0150 |
0.0567 |
325 |
1 |
62.95 |
2011-10-03 |
| 42. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
62.93 |
0.9820 |
0.0403 |
274 |
1 |
62.93 |
2011-04-06 |
| 43. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
62.83 |
1.0441 |
0.0181 |
316 |
2 |
61.15 |
2011-04-06 |
| 44. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
62.40 |
1.0403 |
0.0133 |
275 |
2 |
61.09 |
2011-04-19 |
| 45. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
62.21 |
0.9936 |
0.0371 |
227 |
1 |
62.21 |
2011-10-04 |
| 46. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
62.19 |
1.0483 |
-0.0413 |
227 |
1 |
62.19 |
2011-04-27 |
| 47. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
62.12 |
1.0218 |
-0.0157 |
268 |
1 |
62.12 |
2011-04-19 |
| 48. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
61.93 |
0.9691 |
0.0363 |
223 |
1 |
61.93 |
2011-10-03 |
| 49. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
61.55 |
0.9884 |
0.0109 |
233 |
1 |
61.55 |
2011-04-06 |
| 50. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
61.46 |
0.9814 |
0.0564 |
364 |
1 |
61.46 |
2011-10-04 |
| 51. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
61.04 |
1.0787 |
-0.0889 |
237 |
1 |
61.04 |
2011-04-05 |
| 52. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
60.99 |
0.9843 |
0.0011 |
234 |
2 |
54.95 |
2011-04-06 |
| 53. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
60.89 |
1.0125 |
-0.0262 |
224 |
1 |
60.89 |
2011-10-05 |
| 54. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
60.86 |
0.9045 |
0.0845 |
235 |
2 |
57.64 |
2011-10-03 |
| 55. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
60.86 |
1.0662 |
-0.0398 |
407 |
1 |
60.86 |
2012-07-28 |
| 56. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
60.73 |
1.0941 |
-0.0767 |
256 |
1 |
60.73 |
2011-10-05 |
| 57. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
60.66 |
1.0349 |
-0.0508 |
234 |
1 |
60.66 |
2011-10-05 |
| 58. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
60.59 |
1.0031 |
0.0142 |
304 |
1 |
60.59 |
2011-04-06 |
| 59. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
60.46 |
1.0012 |
-0.0168 |
260 |
1 |
60.46 |
2011-04-27 |
| 60. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
60.42 |
1.0154 |
0.0155 |
351 |
1 |
60.42 |
2011-04-19 |
| 61. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
60.36 |
0.9339 |
0.0447 |
310 |
1 |
60.36 |
2011-04-05 |
| 62. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
60.24 |
0.9792 |
0.0374 |
265 |
1 |
60.24 |
2011-04-06 |
| 63. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
60.18 |
0.9734 |
0.0039 |
289 |
1 |
60.18 |
2011-04-06 |
| 64. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
60.17 |
1.0385 |
-0.0632 |
230 |
2 |
57.00 |
2011-10-05 |
| 65. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
60.12 |
0.9833 |
-0.0055 |
355 |
1 |
60.12 |
2011-10-12 |
| 66. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
60.04 |
0.9768 |
0.0010 |
387 |
1 |
60.04 |
2011-04-19 |
| 67. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
60.00 |
0.9601 |
0.0190 |
308 |
1 |
60.00 |
2011-04-06 |
| 68. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
59.99 |
1.0232 |
-0.0135 |
236 |
1 |
59.99 |
2011-04-19 |
| 69. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
59.97 |
0.8602 |
0.1116 |
206 |
1 |
59.97 |
2011-10-04 |
| 70. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
59.93 |
1.0284 |
-0.0121 |
282 |
1 |
59.93 |
2011-04-04 |
| 71. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
59.79 |
1.0797 |
-0.1144 |
210 |
1 |
59.79 |
2012-06-29 |
| 72. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
59.77 |
0.9243 |
0.0858 |
448 |
1 |
59.77 |
2011-04-06 |
| 73. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
59.69 |
0.9371 |
0.0711 |
318 |
1 |
59.69 |
2011-04-27 |
| 74. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
59.56 |
1.0567 |
-0.0889 |
303 |
1 |
59.56 |
2011-04-05 |
| 75. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
59.48 |
0.9353 |
0.0258 |
177 |
1 |
59.48 |
2011-04-04 |
| 76. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
59.45 |
0.9801 |
0.0279 |
428 |
1 |
59.45 |
2011-10-04 |
| 77. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
59.06 |
0.9722 |
-0.0116 |
283 |
1 |
59.06 |
2011-10-05 |
| 78. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
59.06 |
0.9871 |
0.0078 |
209 |
1 |
59.06 |
2011-10-04 |
| 79. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
58.98 |
0.9946 |
-0.0372 |
246 |
1 |
58.98 |
2011-10-12 |
| 80. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
58.74 |
0.9763 |
-0.0235 |
289 |
1 |
58.74 |
2011-10-04 |
| 81. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
58.67 |
1.0197 |
-0.0702 |
226 |
1 |
58.67 |
2011-04-24 |
| 82. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
58.66 |
0.8852 |
0.0694 |
201 |
1 |
58.66 |
2011-10-04 |
| 83. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
58.40 |
0.9731 |
-0.0379 |
129 |
1 |
58.40 |
2012-07-28 |
| 84. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
58.21 |
0.9430 |
-0.0055 |
211 |
1 |
58.21 |
2011-10-12 |
| 85. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
58.03 |
0.9665 |
0.0246 |
326 |
1 |
58.03 |
2011-10-04 |
| 86. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
57.78 |
0.9597 |
-0.0180 |
347 |
1 |
57.78 |
2011-04-05 |
| 87. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
57.61 |
0.9461 |
-0.0118 |
276 |
1 |
57.61 |
2011-04-06 |
| 88. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
57.44 |
1.0668 |
-0.1324 |
350 |
1 |
57.44 |
2011-04-05 |
| 89. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
57.25 |
0.8951 |
0.0363 |
193 |
1 |
57.25 |
2011-04-06 |
| 90. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
57.09 |
1.0083 |
-0.0375 |
273 |
1 |
57.09 |
2011-04-05 |
| 91. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
56.84 |
1.0375 |
-0.0694 |
200 |
1 |
56.84 |
2011-04-05 |
| 92. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
56.78 |
0.9846 |
-0.0650 |
281 |
1 |
56.78 |
2011-10-04 |
| 93. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
56.60 |
1.0388 |
-0.0888 |
243 |
2 |
52.31 |
2011-04-19 |
| 94. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
56.56 |
0.9881 |
-0.0297 |
424 |
1 |
56.56 |
2011-10-04 |
| 95. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
56.40 |
0.9772 |
-0.0656 |
217 |
1 |
56.40 |
2011-04-19 |
| 96. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
56.27 |
0.9754 |
-0.0566 |
362 |
1 |
56.27 |
2011-04-27 |
| 97. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
56.15 |
1.0725 |
-0.1360 |
233 |
1 |
56.15 |
2011-04-27 |
| 98. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
56.12 |
0.9365 |
-0.0246 |
248 |
1 |
56.12 |
2011-10-12 |
| 99. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
55.97 |
1.0346 |
-0.0849 |
244 |
1 |
55.97 |
2011-04-06 |
| 100. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
55.89 |
1.0368 |
-0.1296 |
276 |
1 |
55.89 |
2011-10-03 |
| 101. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
55.71 |
0.8961 |
0.0042 |
189 |
1 |
55.71 |
2011-04-04 |
| 102. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
55.71 |
0.9529 |
-0.0088 |
269 |
1 |
55.71 |
2011-04-06 |
| 103. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
55.67 |
0.9879 |
-0.0759 |
450 |
1 |
55.67 |
2011-04-05 |
| 104. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
55.61 |
0.9678 |
-0.0308 |
445 |
1 |
55.61 |
2011-04-19 |
| 105. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
54.94 |
1.0596 |
-0.1710 |
239 |
1 |
54.94 |
2011-10-04 |
| 106. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
54.60 |
0.9936 |
-0.1084 |
311 |
1 |
54.60 |
2011-04-04 |
| 107. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
53.83 |
0.9672 |
-0.0880 |
396 |
1 |
53.83 |
2011-10-05 |
| 108. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
53.52 |
0.9723 |
-0.1006 |
364 |
1 |
53.52 |
2011-04-04 |
| 109. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
53.44 |
1.0201 |
-0.1499 |
375 |
1 |
53.44 |
2011-04-06 |
| 110. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
53.24 |
1.0523 |
-0.1936 |
256 |
1 |
53.24 |
2011-04-04 |
| 111. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
52.53 |
0.9711 |
-0.1213 |
176 |
1 |
52.53 |
2011-04-05 |
| 112. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
51.95 |
0.9168 |
-0.0735 |
240 |
1 |
51.95 |
2011-04-05 |
| 113. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
51.88 |
0.9965 |
-0.1556 |
310 |
1 |
51.88 |
2011-10-04 |
| 114. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
51.28 |
0.9966 |
-0.1663 |
259 |
1 |
51.28 |
2011-04-06 |
| 115. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
51.24 |
1.0169 |
-0.1482 |
346 |
1 |
51.24 |
2011-04-04 |
| 116. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
49.68 |
0.8731 |
-0.0618 |
199 |
1 |
49.68 |
2011-04-04 |
| 117. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
49.11 |
1.0396 |
-0.2517 |
149 |
1 |
49.11 |
2011-04-27 |
| 118. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
48.43 |
0.9866 |
-0.2062 |
218 |
1 |
48.43 |
2011-04-04 |
| 119. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
48.36 |
1.0090 |
-0.1827 |
282 |
1 |
48.36 |
2011-04-04 |
| 120. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
47.45 |
0.9567 |
-0.1467 |
184 |
1 |
47.45 |
2011-04-04 |