| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
73.11 |
1.0598 |
0.1567 |
196 |
1 |
73.11 |
2013-01-18 |
| 2. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
72.94 |
1.1014 |
0.1558 |
273 |
1 |
72.94 |
2013-01-20 |
| 3. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
72.37 |
1.0387 |
0.2034 |
239 |
1 |
72.37 |
2013-02-16 |
| 4. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
71.99 |
0.9303 |
0.2667 |
176 |
1 |
71.99 |
2013-01-25 |
| 5. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
71.88 |
1.0725 |
0.1548 |
233 |
2 |
60.87 |
2013-01-19 |
| 6. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
69.97 |
1.0060 |
0.1585 |
171 |
1 |
69.97 |
2013-01-05 |
| 7. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
69.90 |
1.0477 |
0.1227 |
360 |
3 |
66.71 |
2013-02-25 |
| 8. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
69.75 |
1.0154 |
0.1999 |
351 |
2 |
62.54 |
2013-01-25 |
| 9. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
69.38 |
1.0787 |
0.0792 |
237 |
1 |
69.38 |
2013-01-05 |
| 10. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
69.09 |
1.0314 |
0.1199 |
172 |
1 |
69.09 |
2013-02-10 |
| 11. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
68.54 |
1.0883 |
0.0889 |
303 |
3 |
59.34 |
2013-01-18 |
| 12. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
68.00 |
0.9820 |
0.1541 |
274 |
2 |
59.08 |
2013-01-18 |
| 13. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
67.90 |
1.0384 |
0.0862 |
183 |
1 |
67.90 |
2013-01-19 |
| 14. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
67.67 |
1.0596 |
0.0687 |
239 |
2 |
56.58 |
2013-02-16 |
| 15. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
67.27 |
1.0567 |
0.0675 |
303 |
1 |
67.27 |
2013-01-27 |
| 16. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
67.02 |
1.0375 |
0.1279 |
200 |
1 |
67.02 |
2013-01-25 |
| 17. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
66.83 |
1.0619 |
0.0579 |
354 |
2 |
60.90 |
2013-01-20 |
| 18. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
65.77 |
1.0346 |
0.1057 |
244 |
1 |
65.77 |
2013-01-19 |
| 19. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
65.44 |
1.0090 |
0.1275 |
282 |
1 |
65.44 |
2013-01-20 |
| 20. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
65.39 |
1.0555 |
0.0377 |
363 |
1 |
65.39 |
2013-01-20 |
| 21. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
65.37 |
1.0349 |
0.0559 |
234 |
1 |
65.37 |
2013-01-19 |
| 22. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
65.36 |
0.8935 |
0.2075 |
328 |
1 |
65.36 |
2013-01-19 |
| 23. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
65.11 |
1.0993 |
-0.0143 |
265 |
1 |
65.11 |
2013-01-06 |
| 24. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
65.06 |
1.0788 |
0.0019 |
171 |
1 |
65.06 |
2013-02-10 |
| 25. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
64.91 |
0.9612 |
0.1225 |
256 |
1 |
64.91 |
2013-01-19 |
| 26. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
64.88 |
0.9904 |
0.1334 |
203 |
1 |
64.88 |
2013-01-05 |
| 27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
64.83 |
1.0613 |
0.0220 |
266 |
1 |
64.83 |
2013-01-22 |
| 28. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
64.43 |
1.0719 |
0.0313 |
360 |
1 |
64.43 |
2013-01-19 |
| 29. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
64.39 |
1.0796 |
-0.0095 |
129 |
3 |
62.83 |
2013-03-02 |
| 30. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
64.37 |
1.0033 |
0.0646 |
189 |
1 |
64.37 |
2013-01-05 |
| 31. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
64.00 |
0.9936 |
0.0744 |
311 |
1 |
64.00 |
2013-01-20 |
| 32. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
63.81 |
0.9894 |
0.0801 |
323 |
3 |
54.29 |
2013-02-16 |
| 33. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
63.77 |
1.0604 |
0.0374 |
260 |
1 |
63.77 |
2013-01-20 |
| 34. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
63.66 |
1.1296 |
-0.0379 |
252 |
2 |
60.74 |
2013-01-19 |
| 35. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
63.65 |
1.0263 |
0.0353 |
267 |
1 |
63.65 |
2013-01-06 |
| 36. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
63.31 |
0.9795 |
0.0772 |
308 |
1 |
63.31 |
2013-01-05 |
| 37. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
63.18 |
1.0292 |
0.0240 |
262 |
1 |
63.18 |
2013-01-19 |
| 38. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
63.02 |
0.9559 |
0.0986 |
195 |
1 |
63.02 |
2013-02-25 |
| 39. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
62.67 |
0.9234 |
0.1279 |
346 |
1 |
62.67 |
2013-01-19 |
| 40. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.64 |
1.1016 |
-0.0561 |
233 |
1 |
62.64 |
2013-01-20 |
| 41. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
62.19 |
1.0621 |
-0.0049 |
263 |
1 |
62.19 |
2013-01-20 |
| 42. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
62.17 |
1.0320 |
0.0427 |
293 |
1 |
62.17 |
2013-02-22 |
| 43. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
62.05 |
1.0352 |
0.0033 |
341 |
1 |
62.05 |
2013-01-05 |
| 44. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
61.96 |
0.9309 |
0.1011 |
284 |
1 |
61.96 |
2013-01-25 |
| 45. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
61.82 |
1.0218 |
0.0068 |
268 |
1 |
61.82 |
2013-01-24 |
| 46. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
61.69 |
0.9532 |
0.0748 |
258 |
1 |
61.69 |
2013-01-05 |
| 47. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
61.50 |
1.0141 |
0.0483 |
304 |
1 |
61.50 |
2013-02-25 |
| 48. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
61.39 |
1.0679 |
-0.0233 |
177 |
1 |
61.39 |
2013-01-19 |
| 49. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
61.31 |
1.0053 |
0.0156 |
232 |
1 |
61.31 |
2013-01-20 |
| 50. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
61.27 |
0.9831 |
0.0365 |
222 |
1 |
61.27 |
2013-02-10 |
| 51. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
61.21 |
0.9226 |
0.1049 |
348 |
1 |
61.21 |
2013-01-25 |
| 52. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
61.14 |
1.0528 |
-0.0378 |
201 |
1 |
61.14 |
2013-01-25 |
| 53. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
61.13 |
1.0257 |
0.0006 |
401 |
1 |
61.13 |
2013-01-18 |
| 54. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
60.93 |
0.9699 |
0.0460 |
269 |
1 |
60.93 |
2013-01-18 |
| 55. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
60.64 |
0.9353 |
0.0722 |
177 |
1 |
60.64 |
2013-01-18 |
| 56. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
60.64 |
0.9266 |
0.0851 |
267 |
2 |
59.76 |
2013-01-19 |
| 57. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
60.60 |
0.9514 |
0.0598 |
237 |
3 |
58.15 |
2013-02-10 |
| 58. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
60.38 |
1.0334 |
-0.0327 |
131 |
2 |
58.89 |
2013-01-19 |
| 59. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
60.24 |
1.0141 |
0.0308 |
381 |
1 |
60.24 |
2013-01-18 |
| 60. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
59.99 |
0.9233 |
0.0690 |
168 |
1 |
59.99 |
2013-01-06 |
| 61. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
59.96 |
0.9936 |
0.0266 |
227 |
2 |
58.45 |
2013-02-10 |
| 62. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
59.92 |
0.9991 |
0.0008 |
225 |
1 |
59.92 |
2013-01-20 |
| 63. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
59.91 |
0.9986 |
-0.0042 |
162 |
2 |
59.78 |
2013-02-11 |
| 64. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
59.79 |
0.9726 |
0.0182 |
154 |
1 |
59.79 |
2013-01-18 |
| 65. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
59.77 |
1.0496 |
-0.0534 |
314 |
1 |
59.77 |
2013-01-05 |
| 66. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
59.72 |
1.0669 |
-0.0386 |
286 |
2 |
59.00 |
2013-01-18 |
| 67. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
59.57 |
1.0337 |
-0.0408 |
214 |
2 |
56.80 |
2013-01-06 |
| 68. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
59.48 |
0.8573 |
0.1383 |
270 |
1 |
59.48 |
2013-01-19 |
| 69. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
59.28 |
0.9365 |
0.0535 |
248 |
1 |
59.28 |
2013-01-19 |
| 70. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
59.24 |
1.0023 |
-0.0163 |
211 |
1 |
59.24 |
2013-02-22 |
| 71. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
59.05 |
1.0533 |
-0.0420 |
257 |
1 |
59.05 |
2013-01-18 |
| 72. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
58.67 |
0.9426 |
0.0388 |
317 |
1 |
58.67 |
2013-01-25 |
| 73. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
58.11 |
1.0214 |
-0.0543 |
269 |
1 |
58.11 |
2013-01-20 |
| 74. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
58.10 |
1.0063 |
-0.0372 |
371 |
1 |
58.10 |
2013-01-18 |
| 75. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
58.06 |
1.0167 |
-0.0419 |
378 |
1 |
58.06 |
2013-01-18 |
| 76. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
58.03 |
0.9754 |
-0.0018 |
362 |
1 |
58.03 |
2013-01-18 |
| 77. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
57.98 |
1.0696 |
-0.1065 |
226 |
1 |
57.98 |
2013-01-25 |
| 78. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
57.96 |
1.0795 |
-0.0827 |
226 |
1 |
57.96 |
2013-01-18 |
| 79. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
57.69 |
0.9072 |
0.0528 |
237 |
1 |
57.69 |
2013-01-18 |
| 80. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
57.41 |
1.0763 |
-0.0778 |
367 |
1 |
57.41 |
2013-01-05 |
| 81. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
57.35 |
1.0515 |
-0.0974 |
250 |
1 |
57.35 |
2013-01-06 |
| 82. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
57.32 |
1.0314 |
-0.0367 |
452 |
1 |
57.32 |
2013-01-25 |
| 83. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
57.26 |
1.0042 |
-0.0082 |
352 |
1 |
57.26 |
2013-01-05 |
| 84. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
56.97 |
0.9045 |
0.0454 |
235 |
1 |
56.97 |
2013-01-25 |
| 85. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
56.61 |
1.0403 |
-0.0569 |
275 |
1 |
56.61 |
2013-02-04 |
| 86. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
56.56 |
1.0441 |
-0.0601 |
316 |
1 |
56.56 |
2013-01-05 |
| 87. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
56.53 |
1.0077 |
-0.0243 |
250 |
1 |
56.53 |
2013-01-24 |
| 88. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
56.41 |
0.9912 |
-0.0242 |
237 |
1 |
56.41 |
2013-01-19 |
| 89. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
56.10 |
1.0444 |
-0.1161 |
197 |
1 |
56.10 |
2013-01-05 |
| 90. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
55.95 |
1.0829 |
-0.1491 |
288 |
1 |
55.95 |
2013-01-19 |
| 91. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
55.27 |
0.9359 |
0.0245 |
353 |
1 |
55.27 |
2013-01-25 |
| 92. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
55.25 |
1.0403 |
-0.1048 |
193 |
1 |
55.25 |
2013-01-25 |
| 93. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
55.18 |
0.9691 |
-0.0503 |
223 |
1 |
55.18 |
2013-01-20 |
| 94. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
55.10 |
1.0031 |
-0.0516 |
304 |
1 |
55.10 |
2013-01-24 |
| 95. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
54.86 |
1.0385 |
-0.1264 |
230 |
1 |
54.86 |
2013-01-05 |
| 96. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
54.80 |
0.9731 |
-0.0727 |
129 |
2 |
54.58 |
2013-02-16 |
| 97. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
54.78 |
1.0486 |
-0.1352 |
289 |
1 |
54.78 |
2013-01-06 |
| 98. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
54.35 |
0.9665 |
-0.0119 |
326 |
2 |
53.69 |
2013-01-20 |
| 99. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
54.33 |
0.8341 |
0.0794 |
224 |
1 |
54.33 |
2013-01-18 |
| 100. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
54.12 |
0.9513 |
-0.0461 |
354 |
1 |
54.12 |
2013-01-25 |
| 101. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
54.04 |
0.9673 |
-0.0279 |
232 |
1 |
54.04 |
2013-01-25 |
| 102. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
54.02 |
0.9376 |
-0.0325 |
367 |
1 |
54.02 |
2013-01-24 |
| 103. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
53.47 |
0.9351 |
-0.0501 |
190 |
1 |
53.47 |
2013-01-05 |
| 104. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
53.42 |
0.8947 |
-0.0002 |
366 |
1 |
53.42 |
2013-01-20 |
| 105. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
53.40 |
1.0328 |
-0.1054 |
356 |
1 |
53.40 |
2013-01-06 |
| 106. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
53.15 |
1.0211 |
-0.1054 |
213 |
1 |
53.15 |
2013-01-20 |
| 107. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
52.92 |
0.9635 |
-0.0769 |
389 |
1 |
52.92 |
2013-01-24 |
| 108. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
52.45 |
1.0004 |
-0.1333 |
212 |
1 |
52.45 |
2013-01-27 |
| 109. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
52.39 |
0.9084 |
-0.0321 |
404 |
1 |
52.39 |
2013-01-20 |
| 110. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
52.09 |
0.9342 |
-0.0636 |
434 |
1 |
52.09 |
2013-03-02 |
| 111. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
52.07 |
0.9286 |
-0.0628 |
194 |
1 |
52.07 |
2013-01-25 |
| 112. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
52.02 |
0.8775 |
-0.0079 |
443 |
1 |
52.02 |
2013-01-20 |
| 113. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
51.98 |
0.9312 |
-0.0152 |
320 |
1 |
51.98 |
2013-01-24 |
| 114. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
51.87 |
0.9908 |
-0.0815 |
342 |
1 |
51.87 |
2013-01-05 |
| 115. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
51.80 |
1.0684 |
-0.1764 |
253 |
1 |
51.80 |
2013-01-05 |
| 116. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
51.65 |
0.8810 |
-0.0205 |
282 |
1 |
51.65 |
2013-01-05 |
| 117. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
51.42 |
1.0099 |
-0.1570 |
207 |
1 |
51.42 |
2013-01-24 |
| 118. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
51.24 |
0.8595 |
-0.0049 |
242 |
1 |
51.24 |
2013-01-20 |
| 119. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
51.04 |
1.0232 |
-0.1279 |
350 |
1 |
51.04 |
2013-01-05 |
| 120. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
50.76 |
0.9897 |
-0.1473 |
274 |
1 |
50.76 |
2013-01-24 |
| 121. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
50.62 |
0.9168 |
-0.0732 |
240 |
1 |
50.62 |
2013-02-10 |
| 122. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
50.36 |
0.9546 |
-0.0854 |
198 |
1 |
50.36 |
2013-01-05 |
| 123. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
50.33 |
0.9364 |
-0.0589 |
351 |
1 |
50.33 |
2013-01-18 |
| 124. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
49.92 |
0.8956 |
-0.0605 |
322 |
1 |
49.92 |
2013-01-05 |
| 125. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
49.14 |
0.9461 |
-0.1326 |
193 |
2 |
47.79 |
2013-01-06 |
| 126. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
48.23 |
0.9148 |
-0.1115 |
317 |
1 |
48.23 |
2013-01-05 |
| 127. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
47.64 |
0.9125 |
-0.1187 |
308 |
1 |
47.64 |
2013-01-05 |
| 128. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
46.96 |
0.9841 |
-0.1998 |
334 |
1 |
46.96 |
2013-01-05 |
| 129. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
46.14 |
0.9792 |
-0.1742 |
265 |
1 |
46.14 |
2013-01-05 |
| 130. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
44.76 |
0.9649 |
-0.2227 |
193 |
1 |
44.76 |
2013-01-05 |
| 131. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
43.01 |
1.0254 |
-0.2709 |
217 |
1 |
43.01 |
2013-01-05 |