| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
36.40 |
0.8672 |
0.5687 |
128 |
2 |
30.94 |
2012-04-23 |
| 2. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
34.99 |
0.9740 |
0.4067 |
209 |
1 |
34.99 |
2012-04-24 |
| 3. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
34.02 |
0.8661 |
0.4764 |
94 |
2 |
33.43 |
2012-04-23 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
32.45 |
1.0799 |
0.1994 |
243 |
1 |
32.45 |
2012-04-24 |
| 5. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
30.24 |
0.7934 |
0.4005 |
134 |
1 |
30.24 |
2012-04-23 |
| 6. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
29.77 |
0.9350 |
0.2417 |
195 |
1 |
29.77 |
2012-04-23 |
| 7. |
Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot... |
29.53 |
0.8342 |
0.3312 |
97 |
1 |
29.53 |
2012-04-22 |
| 8. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
29.53 |
0.7981 |
0.3668 |
126 |
1 |
29.53 |
2012-04-24 |
| 9. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
29.51 |
0.8915 |
0.2746 |
188 |
2 |
27.36 |
2012-04-23 |
| 10. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.51 |
0.9731 |
0.1895 |
129 |
2 |
27.42 |
2012-04-23 |
| 11. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
29.45 |
0.8323 |
0.3321 |
145 |
3 |
28.32 |
2012-04-24 |
| 12. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
29.37 |
1.0023 |
0.1552 |
211 |
2 |
26.81 |
2012-04-24 |
| 13. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
29.33 |
0.8876 |
0.2696 |
118 |
1 |
29.33 |
2012-04-22 |
| 14. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
29.31 |
0.8562 |
0.3032 |
170 |
2 |
26.24 |
2012-04-24 |
| 15. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
28.95 |
0.8919 |
0.2512 |
152 |
2 |
28.73 |
2012-04-24 |
| 16. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
28.68 |
0.8809 |
0.2513 |
127 |
1 |
28.68 |
2012-04-23 |
| 17. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
28.04 |
0.9846 |
0.1206 |
281 |
1 |
28.04 |
2012-04-24 |
| 18. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
27.96 |
0.8788 |
0.2262 |
134 |
2 |
27.04 |
2012-04-23 |
| 19. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
27.95 |
0.9251 |
0.1806 |
177 |
1 |
27.95 |
2012-04-22 |
| 20. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
27.90 |
1.0521 |
0.0444 |
171 |
1 |
27.90 |
2012-04-23 |
| 21. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
27.80 |
0.8785 |
0.2171 |
172 |
2 |
24.91 |
2012-04-24 |
| 22. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
27.72 |
0.9307 |
0.1676 |
246 |
1 |
27.72 |
2012-04-24 |
| 23. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
27.60 |
0.8918 |
0.1981 |
100 |
2 |
27.01 |
2012-04-24 |
| 24. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
27.51 |
1.0993 |
-0.0160 |
265 |
1 |
27.51 |
2012-04-24 |
| 25. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
27.44 |
0.8854 |
0.1954 |
116 |
1 |
27.44 |
2012-04-23 |
| 26. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
27.44 |
1.0263 |
0.0549 |
267 |
1 |
27.44 |
2012-04-23 |
| 27. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
27.41 |
0.9164 |
0.1673 |
121 |
1 |
27.41 |
2012-04-23 |
| 28. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
27.34 |
0.9396 |
0.1376 |
119 |
2 |
26.56 |
2012-04-24 |
| 29. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
27.26 |
1.0788 |
-0.0057 |
171 |
2 |
25.85 |
2012-04-22 |
| 30. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
27.10 |
0.7791 |
0.2908 |
172 |
2 |
26.75 |
2012-04-23 |
| 31. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
27.08 |
0.8747 |
0.1923 |
201 |
1 |
27.08 |
2012-04-22 |
| 32. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
26.95 |
0.8821 |
0.1822 |
176 |
1 |
26.95 |
2012-04-24 |
| 33. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
26.92 |
0.9559 |
0.1067 |
195 |
1 |
26.92 |
2012-04-22 |
| 34. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
26.82 |
0.8506 |
0.2067 |
132 |
2 |
26.81 |
2012-04-23 |
| 35. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
26.81 |
0.8666 |
0.1912 |
150 |
1 |
26.81 |
2012-04-22 |
| 36. |
It's usually best to run as quick as you can for the first f... |
26.70 |
0.8508 |
0.1979 |
117 |
1 |
26.70 |
2012-04-23 |
| 37. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
26.60 |
1.0254 |
0.0639 |
217 |
2 |
22.90 |
2012-04-24 |
| 38. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
26.52 |
1.0151 |
0.0293 |
152 |
1 |
26.52 |
2012-04-24 |
| 39. |
Be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competiti... |
26.49 |
0.8447 |
0.1967 |
134 |
1 |
26.49 |
2012-04-23 |
| 40. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
26.43 |
1.0132 |
0.0277 |
143 |
1 |
26.43 |
2012-04-22 |
| 41. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
26.40 |
1.0515 |
-0.0126 |
166 |
1 |
26.40 |
2012-04-24 |
| 42. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
26.39 |
0.7801 |
0.2609 |
116 |
1 |
26.39 |
2012-04-24 |
| 43. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
26.29 |
0.8906 |
0.1497 |
238 |
1 |
26.29 |
2012-04-24 |
| 44. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
26.23 |
0.8791 |
0.1574 |
190 |
1 |
26.23 |
2012-04-22 |
| 45. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
26.18 |
0.8442 |
0.1912 |
265 |
2 |
25.77 |
2012-04-24 |
| 46. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
26.10 |
1.0577 |
-0.0304 |
247 |
1 |
26.10 |
2012-04-23 |
| 47. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
26.07 |
0.9368 |
0.0921 |
173 |
2 |
25.10 |
2012-04-23 |
| 48. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
26.06 |
1.0201 |
0.0056 |
172 |
1 |
26.06 |
2012-04-23 |
| 49. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
26.05 |
0.9711 |
0.0578 |
176 |
1 |
26.05 |
2012-04-23 |
| 50. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
26.03 |
0.8073 |
0.2193 |
173 |
3 |
25.20 |
2012-04-24 |
| 51. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
25.99 |
0.9028 |
0.1230 |
111 |
1 |
25.99 |
2012-04-22 |
| 52. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
25.96 |
0.8614 |
0.1637 |
172 |
3 |
24.20 |
2012-04-23 |
| 53. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
25.81 |
0.8122 |
0.2064 |
181 |
1 |
25.81 |
2012-04-22 |
| 54. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
25.73 |
0.8372 |
0.1765 |
179 |
1 |
25.73 |
2012-04-22 |
| 55. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
25.65 |
0.9820 |
0.0300 |
274 |
2 |
22.19 |
2012-04-24 |
| 56. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
25.62 |
0.9884 |
0.0211 |
233 |
1 |
25.62 |
2012-04-24 |
| 57. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
25.62 |
0.9461 |
0.0628 |
193 |
1 |
25.62 |
2012-04-24 |
| 58. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
25.62 |
0.8919 |
0.1173 |
205 |
1 |
25.62 |
2012-04-23 |
| 59. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
25.50 |
1.0270 |
0.0097 |
255 |
1 |
25.50 |
2012-04-23 |
| 60. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
25.33 |
1.0396 |
-0.0427 |
149 |
1 |
25.33 |
2012-04-23 |
| 61. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
25.31 |
0.8551 |
0.1425 |
171 |
1 |
25.31 |
2012-04-24 |
| 62. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
25.25 |
0.9340 |
0.0630 |
296 |
1 |
25.25 |
2012-04-23 |
| 63. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
25.24 |
0.9943 |
0.0005 |
373 |
1 |
25.24 |
2012-04-23 |
| 64. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
25.22 |
0.8777 |
0.1193 |
177 |
1 |
25.22 |
2012-04-24 |
| 65. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
25.21 |
1.0767 |
-0.0848 |
212 |
1 |
25.21 |
2012-04-23 |
| 66. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
25.20 |
0.7826 |
0.2099 |
97 |
1 |
25.20 |
2012-04-23 |
| 67. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
25.14 |
0.9266 |
0.0639 |
267 |
1 |
25.14 |
2012-04-24 |
| 68. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
25.13 |
0.7484 |
0.2429 |
185 |
1 |
25.13 |
2012-04-24 |
| 69. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
25.13 |
0.9785 |
0.0127 |
154 |
2 |
24.78 |
2012-04-23 |
| 70. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
25.08 |
0.7877 |
0.2036 |
142 |
1 |
25.08 |
2012-04-23 |
| 71. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
25.03 |
0.9171 |
0.0713 |
165 |
1 |
25.03 |
2012-04-22 |
| 72. |
Never give up. Most races are decided in the last 10 percent... |
25.03 |
0.8713 |
0.1154 |
73 |
1 |
25.03 |
2012-04-22 |
| 73. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
25.02 |
0.9430 |
0.0447 |
297 |
1 |
25.02 |
2012-04-22 |
| 74. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
25.01 |
0.9286 |
0.0567 |
194 |
1 |
25.01 |
2012-04-23 |
| 75. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
24.94 |
1.0429 |
-0.0618 |
259 |
1 |
24.94 |
2012-04-24 |
| 76. |
The forum has become one of the most consistent places in he... |
24.74 |
0.8481 |
0.1292 |
152 |
1 |
24.74 |
2012-04-23 |
| 77. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
24.69 |
1.0214 |
-0.0117 |
281 |
1 |
24.69 |
2012-04-24 |
| 78. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
24.50 |
0.8089 |
0.1567 |
158 |
2 |
22.36 |
2012-04-23 |
| 79. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
24.50 |
0.9365 |
0.0292 |
248 |
1 |
24.50 |
2012-04-24 |
| 80. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
24.47 |
1.0252 |
-0.0630 |
176 |
1 |
24.47 |
2012-04-23 |
| 81. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
24.46 |
0.8023 |
0.1645 |
182 |
2 |
23.77 |
2012-04-23 |
| 82. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
24.42 |
0.9986 |
-0.0364 |
162 |
1 |
24.42 |
2012-04-23 |
| 83. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
24.28 |
0.9673 |
0.0277 |
232 |
1 |
24.28 |
2012-04-23 |
| 84. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
24.19 |
0.7996 |
0.1549 |
177 |
2 |
22.68 |
2012-04-23 |
| 85. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
24.16 |
0.9289 |
0.0224 |
204 |
2 |
22.90 |
2012-04-24 |
| 86. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
24.13 |
0.7916 |
0.1607 |
184 |
1 |
24.13 |
2012-04-23 |
| 87. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
24.10 |
1.0214 |
-0.0731 |
166 |
1 |
24.10 |
2012-04-23 |
| 88. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
23.94 |
0.9168 |
0.0249 |
240 |
1 |
23.94 |
2012-04-23 |
| 89. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
23.89 |
0.9233 |
0.0174 |
168 |
1 |
23.89 |
2012-04-23 |
| 90. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
23.83 |
0.9567 |
0.0219 |
184 |
1 |
23.83 |
2012-04-23 |
| 91. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
23.80 |
0.8884 |
0.0506 |
135 |
1 |
23.80 |
2012-04-24 |
| 92. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
23.80 |
0.9572 |
-0.0179 |
201 |
1 |
23.80 |
2012-04-22 |
| 93. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
23.76 |
0.9855 |
-0.0218 |
258 |
1 |
23.76 |
2012-04-22 |
| 94. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
23.54 |
0.8157 |
0.1136 |
121 |
3 |
22.93 |
2012-04-23 |
| 95. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
23.52 |
0.9805 |
-0.0535 |
292 |
1 |
23.52 |
2012-04-23 |
| 96. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
23.44 |
0.8996 |
0.0222 |
192 |
2 |
23.19 |
2012-04-24 |
| 97. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
23.41 |
0.7938 |
0.1303 |
176 |
1 |
23.41 |
2012-04-24 |
| 98. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
23.40 |
0.8852 |
0.0368 |
201 |
1 |
23.40 |
2012-04-24 |
| 99. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
23.35 |
0.9161 |
0.0048 |
200 |
1 |
23.35 |
2012-04-22 |
| 100. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
23.28 |
0.9697 |
-0.0531 |
249 |
2 |
23.24 |
2012-04-23 |
| 101. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
23.24 |
0.8422 |
0.0753 |
164 |
1 |
23.24 |
2012-04-23 |
| 102. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
23.08 |
0.9820 |
-0.0731 |
267 |
1 |
23.08 |
2012-04-23 |
| 103. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
23.07 |
0.9097 |
0.0001 |
153 |
1 |
23.07 |
2012-04-24 |
| 104. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
23.06 |
0.9207 |
-0.0106 |
174 |
1 |
23.06 |
2012-04-23 |
| 105. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
22.93 |
1.0403 |
-0.1207 |
193 |
1 |
22.93 |
2012-04-24 |
| 106. |
When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped... |
22.90 |
0.8297 |
0.0702 |
103 |
1 |
22.90 |
2012-04-23 |
| 107. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
22.84 |
0.7375 |
0.1636 |
148 |
1 |
22.84 |
2012-04-23 |
| 108. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
22.72 |
0.7890 |
0.1092 |
230 |
1 |
22.72 |
2012-04-24 |
| 109. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
22.71 |
0.9936 |
-0.0781 |
227 |
1 |
22.71 |
2012-04-23 |
| 110. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
22.60 |
0.8867 |
0.0050 |
163 |
1 |
22.60 |
2012-04-23 |
| 111. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
22.52 |
0.8082 |
0.0804 |
186 |
1 |
22.52 |
2012-04-24 |
| 112. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
22.46 |
0.8311 |
0.0536 |
124 |
1 |
22.46 |
2012-04-22 |
| 113. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
22.35 |
1.0498 |
-0.1722 |
180 |
1 |
22.35 |
2012-04-22 |
| 114. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
22.23 |
0.9128 |
-0.0344 |
133 |
2 |
18.44 |
2012-04-23 |
| 115. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
22.22 |
0.7850 |
0.0906 |
154 |
1 |
22.22 |
2012-04-23 |
| 116. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
22.07 |
0.7839 |
0.0881 |
257 |
1 |
22.07 |
2012-04-22 |
| 117. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
22.06 |
0.7104 |
0.1616 |
131 |
1 |
22.06 |
2012-04-23 |
| 118. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
21.80 |
0.8553 |
0.0019 |
174 |
1 |
21.80 |
2012-04-23 |
| 119. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
21.77 |
0.9871 |
-0.0946 |
209 |
2 |
20.63 |
2012-04-23 |
| 120. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
21.74 |
0.7389 |
0.1198 |
145 |
1 |
21.74 |
2012-04-23 |
| 121. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
21.03 |
0.9726 |
-0.1452 |
154 |
1 |
21.03 |
2012-04-23 |
| 122. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
20.61 |
0.8177 |
-0.0042 |
124 |
1 |
20.61 |
2012-04-22 |
| 123. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
20.06 |
0.8573 |
-0.0643 |
270 |
1 |
20.06 |
2012-04-22 |
| 124. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
17.20 |
0.8190 |
-0.1389 |
135 |
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17.20 |
2012-04-22 |