| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
So it was that over the course of time, the man and the weap... |
74.03 |
1.0282 |
0.2468 |
205 |
1 |
74.03 |
2022-12-07 |
| 2. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
72.21 |
1.0787 |
0.1649 |
237 |
1 |
72.21 |
2009-02-03 |
| 3. |
You can build a prison of stone and steel, but you merely pr... |
70.15 |
1.1067 |
0.1014 |
142 |
1 |
70.15 |
2024-01-25 |
| 4. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
70.06 |
1.0023 |
0.2043 |
211 |
2 |
68.00 |
2009-02-09 |
| 5. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
68.39 |
1.0349 |
0.1429 |
234 |
1 |
68.39 |
2009-02-10 |
| 6. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
68.04 |
1.0352 |
0.1366 |
341 |
4 |
63.64 |
2009-02-10 |
| 7. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
67.50 |
1.0138 |
0.1487 |
231 |
1 |
67.50 |
2009-02-08 |
| 8. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
67.08 |
0.9710 |
0.1843 |
173 |
1 |
67.08 |
2009-02-10 |
| 9. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
67.06 |
1.0063 |
0.1486 |
371 |
2 |
62.17 |
2009-02-08 |
| 10. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
66.97 |
1.0391 |
0.1143 |
358 |
2 |
62.73 |
2009-02-10 |
| 11. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
66.23 |
1.0197 |
0.1209 |
226 |
1 |
66.23 |
2009-02-08 |
| 12. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
65.94 |
1.0013 |
0.1343 |
273 |
1 |
65.94 |
2009-02-07 |
| 13. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
65.83 |
0.9756 |
0.1581 |
229 |
2 |
60.50 |
2009-02-08 |
| 14. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
65.52 |
0.9946 |
0.1338 |
246 |
2 |
59.36 |
2010-02-24 |
| 15. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
65.50 |
0.9649 |
0.1632 |
193 |
2 |
63.23 |
2009-02-10 |
| 16. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
65.32 |
1.0390 |
0.0860 |
205 |
2 |
59.01 |
2009-02-03 |
| 17. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
65.19 |
1.0711 |
0.0516 |
213 |
1 |
65.19 |
2009-01-29 |
| 18. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
64.84 |
1.0463 |
0.0704 |
182 |
1 |
64.84 |
2009-01-31 |
| 19. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
64.54 |
0.9532 |
0.1583 |
258 |
1 |
64.54 |
2009-02-03 |
| 20. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
64.40 |
1.1018 |
0.0073 |
220 |
2 |
64.25 |
2009-01-31 |
| 21. |
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on th... |
63.84 |
1.0720 |
0.0275 |
204 |
1 |
63.84 |
2024-04-18 |
| 22. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
63.81 |
1.0060 |
0.0930 |
171 |
2 |
61.88 |
2009-02-10 |
| 23. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
63.72 |
0.9814 |
0.1160 |
364 |
1 |
63.72 |
2024-06-26 |
| 24. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
63.70 |
0.9289 |
0.1682 |
204 |
1 |
63.70 |
2009-02-08 |
| 25. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
63.61 |
0.9758 |
0.1197 |
314 |
1 |
63.61 |
2009-02-03 |
| 26. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
63.29 |
1.0399 |
0.0501 |
294 |
1 |
63.29 |
2009-01-31 |
| 27. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
63.19 |
1.0053 |
0.0830 |
232 |
1 |
63.19 |
2009-02-08 |
| 28. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
63.03 |
0.9965 |
0.0890 |
168 |
1 |
63.03 |
2009-02-10 |
| 29. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
62.87 |
0.9048 |
0.1780 |
271 |
1 |
62.87 |
2009-02-03 |
| 30. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
62.80 |
1.0477 |
0.0339 |
360 |
2 |
61.57 |
2009-02-08 |
| 31. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.79 |
1.1016 |
-0.0202 |
233 |
1 |
62.79 |
2009-02-07 |
| 32. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
62.61 |
1.0214 |
0.0569 |
166 |
2 |
59.79 |
2009-02-10 |
| 33. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
62.48 |
1.0533 |
0.0227 |
257 |
1 |
62.48 |
2024-04-10 |
| 34. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
62.20 |
0.9553 |
0.1159 |
430 |
2 |
62.15 |
2009-02-10 |
| 35. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
61.99 |
0.9309 |
0.1367 |
284 |
1 |
61.99 |
2009-02-11 |
| 36. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
61.54 |
1.0767 |
-0.0168 |
212 |
2 |
57.93 |
2009-02-07 |
| 37. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
60.99 |
1.0189 |
0.0315 |
337 |
3 |
57.72 |
2009-02-10 |
| 38. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
60.70 |
0.9905 |
0.0549 |
377 |
2 |
56.53 |
2009-02-20 |
| 39. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
60.70 |
1.0567 |
-0.0113 |
303 |
1 |
60.70 |
2009-02-08 |
| 40. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
60.60 |
1.0534 |
-0.0097 |
357 |
2 |
58.29 |
2009-02-07 |
| 41. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
60.54 |
0.9084 |
0.1342 |
404 |
1 |
60.54 |
2009-02-10 |
| 42. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
60.47 |
0.8961 |
0.1453 |
189 |
1 |
60.47 |
2009-02-07 |
| 43. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
60.16 |
1.0083 |
0.0278 |
273 |
1 |
60.16 |
2024-04-10 |
| 44. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
60.14 |
1.0352 |
0.0005 |
341 |
1 |
60.14 |
2009-02-03 |
| 45. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
60.02 |
1.0131 |
0.0206 |
225 |
1 |
60.02 |
2009-02-08 |
| 46. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
59.23 |
0.9426 |
0.0775 |
317 |
1 |
59.23 |
2009-02-07 |
| 47. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
59.14 |
1.0029 |
0.0156 |
209 |
1 |
59.14 |
2009-01-29 |
| 48. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
59.11 |
1.0677 |
-0.0497 |
284 |
1 |
59.11 |
2025-01-27 |
| 49. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
59.09 |
0.9464 |
0.0713 |
323 |
1 |
59.09 |
2009-01-29 |
| 50. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
58.97 |
1.0630 |
-0.0474 |
397 |
1 |
58.97 |
2025-08-21 |
| 51. |
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefo... |
58.87 |
1.0681 |
-0.0542 |
158 |
1 |
58.87 |
2022-10-19 |
| 52. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
58.87 |
0.9936 |
0.0203 |
311 |
1 |
58.87 |
2009-02-10 |
| 53. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
58.82 |
1.0169 |
-0.0039 |
346 |
1 |
58.82 |
2024-04-15 |
| 54. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
58.78 |
0.9871 |
0.0252 |
209 |
2 |
55.77 |
2025-01-22 |
| 55. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
58.72 |
0.9684 |
0.0429 |
388 |
1 |
58.72 |
2009-02-10 |
| 56. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
58.70 |
1.0004 |
0.0105 |
212 |
2 |
58.29 |
2009-02-07 |
| 57. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
58.68 |
1.0201 |
-0.0095 |
303 |
1 |
58.68 |
2009-01-31 |
| 58. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
58.62 |
0.9665 |
0.0431 |
326 |
1 |
58.62 |
2024-01-25 |
| 59. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
58.52 |
0.9780 |
0.0298 |
337 |
2 |
56.86 |
2009-02-10 |
| 60. |
So don't be afraid to make mistakes, stumble and fall, becau... |
58.27 |
1.0751 |
-0.0716 |
350 |
1 |
58.27 |
2022-10-17 |
| 61. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
58.06 |
1.0417 |
-0.0418 |
253 |
1 |
58.06 |
2009-02-02 |
| 62. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
58.01 |
1.0214 |
-0.0223 |
269 |
1 |
58.01 |
2009-01-31 |
| 63. |
I just want to tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you unde... |
57.87 |
1.0302 |
-0.0335 |
245 |
1 |
57.87 |
2023-01-18 |
| 64. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
57.80 |
0.9884 |
0.0070 |
233 |
2 |
57.54 |
2009-02-10 |
| 65. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
57.75 |
1.0669 |
-0.0723 |
213 |
1 |
57.75 |
2024-04-18 |
| 66. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
57.64 |
1.0885 |
-0.0958 |
341 |
1 |
57.64 |
2024-04-04 |
| 67. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
57.58 |
1.0257 |
-0.0340 |
401 |
1 |
57.58 |
2009-02-07 |
| 68. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
57.32 |
1.0389 |
-0.0517 |
318 |
1 |
57.32 |
2009-02-13 |
| 69. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
57.28 |
0.9365 |
0.0500 |
248 |
2 |
54.12 |
2009-02-10 |
| 70. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
57.13 |
0.9202 |
0.0637 |
254 |
1 |
57.13 |
2009-02-03 |
| 71. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
57.07 |
0.9234 |
0.0595 |
346 |
1 |
57.07 |
2009-02-10 |
| 72. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
56.73 |
0.9342 |
0.0428 |
434 |
1 |
56.73 |
2009-02-01 |
| 73. |
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and res... |
56.63 |
1.0843 |
-0.1090 |
258 |
1 |
56.63 |
2024-06-19 |
| 74. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
56.58 |
1.0124 |
-0.0380 |
204 |
1 |
56.58 |
2009-02-04 |
| 75. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
56.58 |
0.9398 |
0.0346 |
419 |
1 |
56.58 |
2009-02-09 |
| 76. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
56.53 |
0.9500 |
0.0236 |
362 |
1 |
56.53 |
2009-01-31 |
| 77. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
56.50 |
1.0385 |
-0.0654 |
230 |
1 |
56.50 |
2009-02-07 |
| 78. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
56.49 |
0.9430 |
0.0299 |
211 |
1 |
56.49 |
2009-02-03 |
| 79. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
56.41 |
1.0368 |
-0.0653 |
276 |
1 |
56.41 |
2009-02-07 |
| 80. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
56.40 |
1.0201 |
-0.0488 |
375 |
1 |
56.40 |
2009-02-03 |
| 81. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
56.40 |
0.9213 |
0.0500 |
295 |
1 |
56.40 |
2009-02-08 |
| 82. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
56.20 |
0.9991 |
-0.0312 |
225 |
1 |
56.20 |
2009-02-10 |
| 83. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
56.13 |
0.9614 |
0.0053 |
292 |
1 |
56.13 |
2009-02-10 |
| 84. |
People remember their high school days as the high point of ... |
56.09 |
1.0301 |
-0.0641 |
482 |
1 |
56.09 |
2022-09-21 |
| 85. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
55.98 |
0.9266 |
0.0375 |
278 |
1 |
55.98 |
2009-01-28 |
| 86. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
55.82 |
1.0496 |
-0.0883 |
314 |
1 |
55.82 |
2009-02-05 |
| 87. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
55.78 |
0.9376 |
0.0231 |
367 |
2 |
54.19 |
2009-02-13 |
| 88. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
55.64 |
1.0031 |
-0.0449 |
304 |
1 |
55.64 |
2025-01-27 |
| 89. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
55.55 |
0.9965 |
-0.0398 |
277 |
1 |
55.55 |
2009-02-10 |
| 90. |
You only filled me with despair, by showing love that wasn't... |
55.47 |
1.0916 |
-0.1363 |
241 |
2 |
53.96 |
2024-04-18 |
| 91. |
Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandf... |
55.38 |
1.1098 |
-0.1560 |
336 |
1 |
55.38 |
2025-08-21 |
| 92. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
55.16 |
0.9731 |
-0.0231 |
129 |
1 |
55.16 |
2009-01-29 |
| 93. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
55.12 |
1.1114 |
-0.1621 |
247 |
1 |
55.12 |
2009-01-31 |
| 94. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
55.11 |
0.8602 |
0.0889 |
206 |
1 |
55.11 |
2009-02-03 |
| 95. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
54.88 |
0.9088 |
0.0364 |
348 |
1 |
54.88 |
2009-02-05 |
| 96. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
54.86 |
1.0577 |
-0.1129 |
247 |
1 |
54.86 |
2009-02-10 |
| 97. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
54.84 |
0.8753 |
0.0692 |
427 |
1 |
54.84 |
2009-02-03 |
| 98. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
54.65 |
1.0483 |
-0.1071 |
227 |
1 |
54.65 |
2009-02-07 |
| 99. |
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end unt... |
54.44 |
1.0350 |
-0.0974 |
405 |
1 |
54.44 |
2022-10-19 |
| 100. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
54.29 |
0.9072 |
0.0278 |
237 |
1 |
54.29 |
2009-01-31 |
| 101. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
54.18 |
0.9372 |
-0.0041 |
320 |
1 |
54.18 |
2009-02-04 |
| 102. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
54.17 |
0.9754 |
-0.0425 |
362 |
1 |
54.17 |
2009-02-08 |
| 103. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
53.95 |
0.9863 |
-0.0572 |
339 |
1 |
53.95 |
2009-02-10 |
| 104. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
53.60 |
1.0025 |
-0.0794 |
256 |
1 |
53.60 |
2009-02-04 |
| 105. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
53.20 |
0.9266 |
-0.0104 |
267 |
1 |
53.20 |
2009-02-10 |
| 106. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
53.09 |
1.0016 |
-0.0873 |
218 |
1 |
53.09 |
2009-01-31 |
| 107. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
53.06 |
0.9168 |
-0.0030 |
240 |
1 |
53.06 |
2009-02-10 |
| 108. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
53.03 |
0.9698 |
-0.0565 |
397 |
1 |
53.03 |
2024-04-10 |
| 109. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
53.01 |
0.9593 |
-0.0463 |
398 |
2 |
52.02 |
2009-02-10 |
| 110. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
52.59 |
0.9275 |
-0.0218 |
211 |
1 |
52.59 |
2009-02-20 |
| 111. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
52.43 |
0.9567 |
-0.0537 |
273 |
1 |
52.43 |
2009-01-31 |
| 112. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
52.17 |
1.0441 |
-0.1456 |
252 |
1 |
52.17 |
2009-02-10 |
| 113. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
51.74 |
1.0445 |
-0.1534 |
373 |
1 |
51.74 |
2009-02-10 |
| 114. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
51.46 |
0.9772 |
-0.0909 |
217 |
1 |
51.46 |
2009-02-07 |
| 115. |
You can't quit until you try. You can't live until you die. ... |
51.44 |
1.0336 |
-0.1477 |
384 |
1 |
51.44 |
2023-04-12 |
| 116. |
Yes, not only humans but also every other organism in the co... |
51.44 |
0.9948 |
-0.1089 |
333 |
1 |
51.44 |
2022-10-06 |
| 117. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
50.57 |
0.9583 |
-0.0874 |
341 |
1 |
50.57 |
2024-04-22 |
| 118. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
49.82 |
0.9619 |
-0.1039 |
393 |
1 |
49.82 |
2009-02-07 |
| 119. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
49.47 |
0.9049 |
-0.0529 |
351 |
1 |
49.47 |
2009-02-07 |
| 120. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
49.43 |
1.0621 |
-0.2108 |
263 |
1 |
49.43 |
2024-06-19 |
| 121. |
So if this was a touching romantic story this is probably wh... |
48.20 |
1.0689 |
-0.2388 |
218 |
1 |
48.20 |
2022-10-17 |
| 122. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
48.02 |
1.0296 |
-0.2026 |
437 |
1 |
48.02 |
2009-01-29 |
| 123. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
47.92 |
0.8996 |
-0.0743 |
192 |
1 |
47.92 |
2009-02-10 |
| 124. |
What's in your eyes 'cause they talk to me. They know how to... |
47.89 |
1.0277 |
-0.2029 |
373 |
1 |
47.89 |
2023-01-18 |
| 125. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
47.33 |
0.8958 |
-0.0807 |
322 |
1 |
47.33 |
2009-02-10 |
| 126. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
47.00 |
0.9176 |
-0.1082 |
267 |
1 |
47.00 |
2024-01-25 |
| 127. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
45.14 |
0.9005 |
-0.1231 |
212 |
1 |
45.14 |
2009-01-31 |
| 128. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
43.56 |
1.0068 |
-0.2566 |
358 |
1 |
43.56 |
2009-01-30 |
| 129. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
40.49 |
0.8105 |
-0.1132 |
204 |
1 |
40.49 |
2009-01-31 |