| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
106.10 |
1.0696 |
0.2464 |
226 |
1 |
106.10 |
2011-09-28 |
| 2. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
105.34 |
0.9897 |
0.3180 |
274 |
1 |
105.34 |
2011-09-28 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
103.38 |
1.1018 |
0.1772 |
220 |
1 |
103.38 |
2011-09-28 |
| 4. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
102.52 |
0.9697 |
0.3095 |
266 |
1 |
102.52 |
2012-02-14 |
| 5. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
101.90 |
0.9731 |
0.2812 |
129 |
2 |
90.14 |
2012-04-17 |
| 6. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
100.95 |
1.0029 |
0.2455 |
209 |
2 |
90.23 |
2011-09-29 |
| 7. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
100.03 |
1.0666 |
0.1768 |
297 |
1 |
100.03 |
2011-09-18 |
| 8. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
100.02 |
1.0083 |
0.2790 |
273 |
2 |
86.89 |
2011-09-20 |
| 9. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
99.65 |
1.0349 |
0.2029 |
234 |
1 |
99.65 |
2011-09-20 |
| 10. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
99.49 |
1.0767 |
0.1576 |
212 |
2 |
94.75 |
2011-09-26 |
| 11. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
99.37 |
1.0684 |
0.1964 |
253 |
3 |
92.85 |
2011-09-22 |
| 12. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
99.05 |
1.0365 |
0.2244 |
162 |
1 |
99.05 |
2011-10-02 |
| 13. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
97.66 |
1.0521 |
0.1566 |
171 |
2 |
90.40 |
2012-02-15 |
| 14. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
96.64 |
1.0077 |
0.2343 |
250 |
1 |
96.64 |
2011-10-12 |
| 15. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
96.41 |
1.0905 |
0.1392 |
210 |
2 |
91.43 |
2011-09-21 |
| 16. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
95.19 |
1.0885 |
0.0973 |
315 |
1 |
95.19 |
2011-09-26 |
| 17. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
94.54 |
1.0004 |
0.1678 |
212 |
3 |
82.96 |
2011-10-01 |
| 18. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
93.68 |
1.0796 |
0.0791 |
129 |
1 |
93.68 |
2011-09-20 |
| 19. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
93.06 |
1.0025 |
0.1532 |
256 |
1 |
93.06 |
2011-09-23 |
| 20. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
91.78 |
1.0574 |
0.1102 |
205 |
1 |
91.78 |
2011-09-26 |
| 21. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
91.35 |
1.0463 |
0.0834 |
182 |
1 |
91.35 |
2011-09-29 |
| 22. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
91.14 |
1.0316 |
0.1038 |
333 |
1 |
91.14 |
2011-09-26 |
| 23. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
90.60 |
0.9976 |
0.1475 |
174 |
1 |
90.60 |
2011-09-20 |
| 24. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
90.48 |
1.0644 |
0.0951 |
257 |
2 |
89.57 |
2011-09-26 |
| 25. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
90.13 |
1.0523 |
0.0624 |
256 |
1 |
90.13 |
2011-09-26 |
| 26. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
89.96 |
1.0487 |
0.0631 |
231 |
1 |
89.96 |
2011-10-12 |
| 27. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
89.89 |
1.0095 |
0.1053 |
316 |
1 |
89.89 |
2011-09-20 |
| 28. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
89.67 |
1.1162 |
0.0380 |
189 |
3 |
83.77 |
2011-09-21 |
| 29. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
89.53 |
1.0385 |
0.0711 |
230 |
1 |
89.53 |
2011-09-21 |
| 30. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
89.45 |
1.0033 |
0.1004 |
189 |
1 |
89.45 |
2011-09-29 |
| 31. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
89.37 |
0.9597 |
0.1538 |
347 |
1 |
89.37 |
2011-09-28 |
| 32. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
88.96 |
1.0669 |
0.0697 |
286 |
2 |
86.57 |
2011-09-21 |
| 33. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
88.69 |
1.0167 |
0.0910 |
378 |
3 |
81.41 |
2011-09-21 |
| 34. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
88.66 |
0.9365 |
0.1654 |
248 |
1 |
88.66 |
2011-09-21 |
| 35. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
88.37 |
1.0426 |
0.0536 |
323 |
2 |
79.88 |
2011-09-26 |
| 36. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
87.81 |
1.0173 |
0.1167 |
268 |
1 |
87.81 |
2011-09-26 |
| 37. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
87.03 |
0.9997 |
0.0839 |
382 |
1 |
87.03 |
2011-10-14 |
| 38. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
86.75 |
1.0201 |
0.0568 |
303 |
1 |
86.75 |
2011-09-23 |
| 39. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
86.62 |
1.0799 |
-0.0087 |
243 |
1 |
86.62 |
2011-09-18 |
| 40. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
86.49 |
1.0211 |
0.0828 |
213 |
1 |
86.49 |
2011-09-23 |
| 41. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
86.05 |
1.0203 |
0.0508 |
261 |
1 |
86.05 |
2011-09-29 |
| 42. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
86.02 |
0.9922 |
0.1162 |
341 |
1 |
86.02 |
2011-09-20 |
| 43. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
85.69 |
1.0829 |
-0.0182 |
288 |
2 |
79.31 |
2011-09-26 |
| 44. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
85.60 |
0.9430 |
0.1118 |
211 |
1 |
85.60 |
2012-04-17 |
| 45. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
85.39 |
1.0613 |
0.0031 |
456 |
1 |
85.39 |
2011-09-20 |
| 46. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
84.59 |
1.0320 |
0.0547 |
293 |
1 |
84.59 |
2011-09-20 |
| 47. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
84.31 |
1.0561 |
0.0158 |
430 |
1 |
84.31 |
2011-09-22 |
| 48. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
83.91 |
1.0763 |
0.0060 |
367 |
2 |
82.56 |
2011-09-29 |
| 49. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
83.90 |
1.0125 |
0.0259 |
224 |
1 |
83.90 |
2011-09-18 |
| 50. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
83.67 |
0.9866 |
0.0475 |
218 |
1 |
83.67 |
2011-09-20 |
| 51. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
83.64 |
1.0621 |
-0.0052 |
263 |
1 |
83.64 |
2011-09-20 |
| 52. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
83.41 |
1.0496 |
-0.0157 |
314 |
1 |
83.41 |
2011-10-03 |
| 53. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
82.66 |
1.0197 |
0.0025 |
226 |
1 |
82.66 |
2011-09-19 |
| 54. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
82.35 |
0.9894 |
0.0363 |
323 |
1 |
82.35 |
2011-10-02 |
| 55. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
81.87 |
1.0531 |
0.0002 |
272 |
1 |
81.87 |
2011-09-21 |
| 56. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
81.85 |
0.9710 |
0.0375 |
173 |
1 |
81.85 |
2011-09-18 |
| 57. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
81.35 |
0.9646 |
0.0432 |
264 |
1 |
81.35 |
2011-09-20 |
| 58. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
81.21 |
1.0352 |
-0.0257 |
341 |
1 |
81.21 |
2011-09-18 |
| 59. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
80.92 |
1.0088 |
0.0332 |
396 |
1 |
80.92 |
2011-09-21 |
| 60. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
80.86 |
1.0454 |
-0.0466 |
255 |
1 |
80.86 |
2011-09-20 |
| 61. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
80.80 |
1.0013 |
-0.0004 |
273 |
1 |
80.80 |
2011-09-18 |
| 62. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
80.67 |
1.0459 |
-0.0145 |
200 |
1 |
80.67 |
2011-09-19 |
| 63. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
80.27 |
0.9871 |
0.0442 |
209 |
1 |
80.27 |
2011-09-20 |
| 64. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
80.21 |
0.9289 |
0.0632 |
204 |
1 |
80.21 |
2011-09-20 |
| 65. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
79.90 |
0.9601 |
0.0351 |
308 |
2 |
75.27 |
2011-09-25 |
| 66. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
79.55 |
1.0403 |
-0.0392 |
193 |
1 |
79.55 |
2011-09-26 |
| 67. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
79.26 |
0.9904 |
0.0327 |
203 |
2 |
58.29 |
2011-10-02 |
| 68. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
79.21 |
0.9672 |
0.0211 |
396 |
1 |
79.21 |
2011-09-20 |
| 69. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
79.19 |
1.0545 |
-0.0322 |
416 |
2 |
77.02 |
2011-09-29 |
| 70. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
79.18 |
0.9820 |
-0.0004 |
274 |
1 |
79.18 |
2011-09-20 |
| 71. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
79.15 |
1.0399 |
-0.0536 |
294 |
1 |
79.15 |
2011-09-27 |
| 72. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
79.00 |
0.9790 |
0.0408 |
311 |
1 |
79.00 |
2011-09-26 |
| 73. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
78.86 |
0.9578 |
0.0191 |
281 |
1 |
78.86 |
2011-09-20 |
| 74. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
78.83 |
1.0719 |
-0.0672 |
360 |
1 |
78.83 |
2011-10-14 |
| 75. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
78.69 |
0.9681 |
0.0155 |
378 |
3 |
77.23 |
2011-10-02 |
| 76. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
78.24 |
0.9863 |
-0.0123 |
339 |
1 |
78.24 |
2011-09-20 |
| 77. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
77.78 |
0.9376 |
0.0317 |
367 |
1 |
77.78 |
2011-09-26 |
| 78. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
77.74 |
1.0214 |
-0.0597 |
269 |
1 |
77.74 |
2011-09-27 |
| 79. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
77.43 |
0.9148 |
0.0461 |
317 |
1 |
77.43 |
2011-09-26 |
| 80. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
77.41 |
1.0595 |
-0.0978 |
379 |
1 |
77.41 |
2011-09-23 |
| 81. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
77.20 |
1.0177 |
-0.0229 |
392 |
1 |
77.20 |
2011-09-20 |
| 82. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
75.89 |
1.0125 |
-0.0346 |
413 |
1 |
75.89 |
2011-09-22 |
| 83. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
75.81 |
1.0941 |
-0.1238 |
256 |
1 |
75.81 |
2011-09-20 |
| 84. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
75.62 |
1.0120 |
-0.0761 |
290 |
1 |
75.62 |
2011-09-20 |
| 85. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
75.56 |
0.9286 |
0.0064 |
194 |
1 |
75.56 |
2011-09-21 |
| 86. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
75.40 |
0.9723 |
-0.0346 |
364 |
1 |
75.40 |
2011-09-20 |
| 87. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
74.86 |
0.9342 |
-0.0035 |
434 |
2 |
72.79 |
2011-09-18 |
| 88. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
74.22 |
1.0109 |
-0.0588 |
400 |
1 |
74.22 |
2011-09-23 |
| 89. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
74.16 |
0.8919 |
0.0248 |
205 |
2 |
67.04 |
2011-09-20 |
| 90. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
74.05 |
0.9371 |
0.0188 |
318 |
1 |
74.05 |
2011-09-26 |
| 91. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
74.04 |
1.0023 |
-0.0873 |
211 |
1 |
74.04 |
2011-09-21 |
| 92. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
73.97 |
1.0109 |
-0.0941 |
276 |
2 |
59.10 |
2011-10-01 |
| 93. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
73.89 |
0.9942 |
-0.0704 |
483 |
1 |
73.89 |
2011-09-20 |
| 94. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
73.84 |
0.9567 |
-0.0001 |
184 |
2 |
71.18 |
2011-10-02 |
| 95. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
73.80 |
1.0667 |
-0.1143 |
406 |
1 |
73.80 |
2011-09-23 |
| 96. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
72.70 |
1.0486 |
-0.1477 |
289 |
1 |
72.70 |
2011-09-29 |
| 97. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
72.68 |
0.9176 |
0.0160 |
267 |
1 |
72.68 |
2011-09-20 |
| 98. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
72.54 |
0.9774 |
-0.0802 |
196 |
1 |
72.54 |
2011-09-18 |
| 99. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
72.14 |
1.0506 |
-0.1288 |
277 |
1 |
72.14 |
2011-09-21 |
| 100. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
72.12 |
1.0883 |
-0.1634 |
303 |
1 |
72.12 |
2011-09-20 |
| 101. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
71.91 |
1.0774 |
-0.1578 |
304 |
1 |
71.91 |
2011-09-21 |
| 102. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
71.87 |
0.9084 |
-0.0170 |
300 |
1 |
71.87 |
2011-09-20 |
| 103. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
71.60 |
0.9905 |
-0.0728 |
337 |
1 |
71.60 |
2011-09-21 |
| 104. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
71.44 |
0.9088 |
-0.0194 |
348 |
1 |
71.44 |
2011-09-21 |
| 105. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
71.35 |
1.0725 |
-0.1636 |
233 |
1 |
71.35 |
2011-09-20 |
| 106. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
71.28 |
0.9064 |
-0.0150 |
399 |
1 |
71.28 |
2011-09-20 |
| 107. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
71.25 |
1.0025 |
-0.1197 |
336 |
1 |
71.25 |
2011-09-23 |
| 108. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
70.89 |
1.0169 |
-0.1010 |
346 |
2 |
70.07 |
2011-09-20 |
| 109. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
70.89 |
0.9382 |
-0.0358 |
440 |
1 |
70.89 |
2011-09-20 |
| 110. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
70.77 |
0.9213 |
-0.0450 |
295 |
1 |
70.77 |
2011-09-21 |
| 111. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
69.69 |
1.0944 |
-0.1873 |
308 |
1 |
69.69 |
2011-09-18 |
| 112. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
69.50 |
0.9795 |
-0.1196 |
308 |
1 |
69.50 |
2011-09-20 |
| 113. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
69.36 |
1.0060 |
-0.1526 |
171 |
1 |
69.36 |
2011-09-28 |
| 114. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
69.07 |
0.8722 |
-0.0148 |
285 |
1 |
69.07 |
2011-09-28 |
| 115. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
68.53 |
0.9278 |
-0.0774 |
295 |
1 |
68.53 |
2011-09-22 |
| 116. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
68.39 |
1.0183 |
-0.1780 |
191 |
1 |
68.39 |
2011-09-21 |
| 117. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
67.49 |
0.9769 |
-0.1444 |
263 |
1 |
67.49 |
2011-09-18 |
| 118. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
66.14 |
0.9673 |
-0.1103 |
232 |
1 |
66.14 |
2011-09-20 |
| 119. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
65.81 |
0.9726 |
-0.1655 |
154 |
1 |
65.81 |
2011-09-20 |
| 120. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
65.06 |
0.9097 |
-0.0640 |
464 |
1 |
65.06 |
2011-09-20 |
| 121. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
64.36 |
0.9155 |
-0.0709 |
168 |
1 |
64.36 |
2011-10-12 |
| 122. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
63.79 |
0.9074 |
-0.1127 |
396 |
1 |
63.79 |
2011-09-23 |
| 123. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
62.11 |
0.9359 |
-0.1293 |
353 |
1 |
62.11 |
2011-10-02 |
| 124. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
61.80 |
1.0346 |
-0.2294 |
244 |
1 |
61.80 |
2011-09-21 |
| 125. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
61.16 |
0.8826 |
-0.1260 |
296 |
1 |
61.16 |
2011-09-20 |
| 126. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
60.65 |
1.0343 |
-0.2482 |
242 |
1 |
60.65 |
2011-09-20 |
| 127. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
52.22 |
1.0261 |
-0.3438 |
410 |
1 |
52.22 |
2011-09-18 |
| 128. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
51.64 |
0.8467 |
-0.1869 |
343 |
1 |
51.64 |
2011-09-18 |
| 129. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
45.55 |
0.9786 |
-0.4247 |
193 |
1 |
45.55 |
2011-09-19 |
| 130. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
40.70 |
1.0240 |
-0.5284 |
256 |
1 |
40.70 |
2011-09-20 |
| 131. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
38.62 |
0.8852 |
-0.4110 |
201 |
1 |
38.62 |
2012-02-14 |
| 132. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
23.46 |
1.0768 |
-0.7550 |
295 |
1 |
23.46 |
2011-09-21 |