| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
98.78 |
1.0364 |
0.3847 |
230 |
1 |
98.78 |
2012-01-30 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
91.59 |
1.0800 |
0.2306 |
213 |
1 |
91.59 |
2011-10-16 |
| 3. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
89.75 |
1.0086 |
0.2740 |
218 |
1 |
89.75 |
2010-11-02 |
| 4. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
89.21 |
1.0836 |
0.1987 |
206 |
1 |
89.21 |
2010-10-30 |
| 5. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
88.52 |
1.0481 |
0.2134 |
255 |
1 |
88.52 |
2010-11-01 |
| 6. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
87.40 |
1.0755 |
0.1781 |
243 |
1 |
87.40 |
2010-12-07 |
| 7. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
86.52 |
1.0540 |
0.1813 |
184 |
1 |
86.52 |
2010-12-07 |
| 8. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
85.99 |
1.0033 |
0.2297 |
203 |
1 |
85.99 |
2010-11-19 |
| 9. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
85.49 |
1.0301 |
0.1941 |
268 |
2 |
78.50 |
2012-01-30 |
| 10. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
85.42 |
1.0411 |
0.1853 |
341 |
1 |
85.42 |
2011-01-15 |
| 11. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
85.16 |
0.9468 |
0.2738 |
318 |
1 |
85.16 |
2012-01-30 |
| 12. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
82.99 |
1.0557 |
0.1351 |
289 |
2 |
79.44 |
2011-04-16 |
| 13. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
81.76 |
1.0399 |
0.1367 |
257 |
1 |
81.76 |
2011-04-26 |
| 14. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
80.90 |
1.1070 |
0.0512 |
265 |
1 |
80.90 |
2010-12-01 |
| 15. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
80.63 |
1.0495 |
0.1056 |
323 |
1 |
80.63 |
2010-11-02 |
| 16. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
80.40 |
1.0125 |
0.1382 |
232 |
2 |
79.24 |
2010-11-29 |
| 17. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
79.33 |
0.9981 |
0.1378 |
211 |
1 |
79.33 |
2011-10-16 |
| 18. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
79.27 |
0.9952 |
0.1431 |
220 |
1 |
79.27 |
2011-10-16 |
| 19. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
79.04 |
1.0901 |
0.0444 |
288 |
2 |
74.51 |
2010-11-22 |
| 20. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
78.41 |
1.0640 |
0.0653 |
210 |
1 |
78.41 |
2010-10-16 |
| 21. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
78.39 |
0.9517 |
0.1702 |
276 |
3 |
72.93 |
2010-11-22 |
| 22. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
78.31 |
1.0464 |
0.0807 |
294 |
1 |
78.31 |
2010-12-07 |
| 23. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
78.25 |
1.0511 |
0.0719 |
252 |
1 |
78.25 |
2010-10-20 |
| 24. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
78.01 |
0.9864 |
0.1352 |
292 |
1 |
78.01 |
2011-07-03 |
| 25. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
77.98 |
1.0883 |
0.0353 |
189 |
3 |
73.20 |
2010-10-30 |
| 26. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
77.27 |
0.9480 |
0.1601 |
297 |
1 |
77.27 |
2010-11-22 |
| 27. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
76.88 |
1.0332 |
0.0675 |
267 |
1 |
76.88 |
2010-10-08 |
| 28. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
76.75 |
0.9713 |
0.1269 |
193 |
1 |
76.75 |
2010-10-13 |
| 29. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
76.44 |
0.9680 |
0.1273 |
256 |
1 |
76.44 |
2010-11-05 |
| 30. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
76.37 |
1.0189 |
0.0745 |
290 |
1 |
76.37 |
2010-11-02 |
| 31. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
76.27 |
1.0543 |
0.0406 |
360 |
1 |
76.27 |
2010-12-05 |
| 32. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
76.24 |
0.9706 |
0.1333 |
353 |
2 |
70.65 |
2010-11-22 |
| 33. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
75.92 |
0.9330 |
0.1663 |
341 |
1 |
75.92 |
2010-11-05 |
| 34. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
75.67 |
1.0338 |
0.0555 |
277 |
2 |
73.36 |
2010-12-01 |
| 35. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
75.29 |
0.9258 |
0.1574 |
184 |
2 |
70.41 |
2010-11-05 |
| 36. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
75.14 |
0.9637 |
0.1249 |
342 |
2 |
67.80 |
2012-01-30 |
| 37. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
74.77 |
1.0287 |
0.0412 |
269 |
1 |
74.77 |
2011-07-03 |
| 38. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
74.49 |
0.9271 |
0.1395 |
295 |
1 |
74.49 |
2010-12-05 |
| 39. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
73.55 |
1.0132 |
0.0408 |
371 |
1 |
73.55 |
2010-10-25 |
| 40. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
73.34 |
1.0664 |
-0.0126 |
389 |
1 |
73.34 |
2010-12-01 |
| 41. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
72.41 |
1.0139 |
0.0364 |
349 |
2 |
69.89 |
2010-11-29 |
| 42. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
72.17 |
1.0414 |
-0.0086 |
234 |
1 |
72.17 |
2010-10-08 |
| 43. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
71.94 |
0.9933 |
0.0444 |
450 |
1 |
71.94 |
2011-04-21 |
| 44. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
71.76 |
0.9926 |
0.0462 |
413 |
1 |
71.76 |
2010-12-07 |
| 45. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
71.49 |
0.9070 |
0.1119 |
192 |
1 |
71.49 |
2010-12-07 |
| 46. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
70.62 |
1.0060 |
0.0059 |
225 |
1 |
70.62 |
2010-12-28 |
| 47. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
70.34 |
0.9932 |
0.0215 |
281 |
1 |
70.34 |
2010-11-02 |
| 48. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
69.87 |
0.9422 |
0.0531 |
190 |
1 |
69.87 |
2010-11-01 |
| 49. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
69.87 |
1.0607 |
-0.0573 |
357 |
1 |
69.87 |
2010-12-28 |
| 50. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
69.54 |
1.0090 |
-0.0078 |
300 |
1 |
69.54 |
2010-11-05 |
| 51. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
69.43 |
1.0234 |
-0.0252 |
392 |
1 |
69.43 |
2010-11-05 |
| 52. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
69.36 |
0.9966 |
0.0037 |
377 |
1 |
69.36 |
2010-11-02 |
| 53. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
69.19 |
0.9841 |
0.0034 |
217 |
1 |
69.19 |
2010-12-28 |
| 54. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
68.71 |
1.0250 |
-0.0384 |
271 |
1 |
68.71 |
2010-11-02 |
| 55. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
68.11 |
1.0063 |
-0.0263 |
293 |
1 |
68.11 |
2010-11-01 |
| 56. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
67.85 |
0.9157 |
0.0683 |
353 |
1 |
67.85 |
2010-10-20 |
| 57. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
67.53 |
0.9869 |
-0.0238 |
193 |
1 |
67.53 |
2010-11-05 |
| 58. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
67.48 |
0.8656 |
0.1015 |
242 |
1 |
67.48 |
2010-10-20 |
| 59. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
67.29 |
1.0432 |
-0.0793 |
276 |
1 |
67.29 |
2010-11-22 |
| 60. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
67.13 |
1.0082 |
-0.0523 |
212 |
1 |
67.13 |
2010-10-08 |
| 61. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
67.07 |
0.9434 |
0.0211 |
367 |
2 |
61.47 |
2010-10-30 |
| 62. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
67.06 |
1.0873 |
-0.1303 |
243 |
1 |
67.06 |
2010-12-05 |
| 63. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
67.04 |
0.9029 |
0.0595 |
393 |
1 |
67.04 |
2011-04-21 |
| 64. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
66.86 |
1.0112 |
-0.0551 |
242 |
1 |
66.86 |
2010-11-01 |
| 65. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
66.65 |
0.9183 |
0.0323 |
252 |
2 |
65.46 |
2010-12-01 |
| 66. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
66.55 |
0.9010 |
0.0542 |
266 |
1 |
66.55 |
2010-10-25 |
| 67. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
66.27 |
0.9445 |
0.0126 |
389 |
1 |
66.27 |
2011-06-28 |
| 68. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
66.10 |
0.8721 |
0.0799 |
231 |
1 |
66.10 |
2010-10-13 |
| 69. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
66.01 |
0.8984 |
0.0541 |
267 |
2 |
63.35 |
2010-12-05 |
| 70. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
65.95 |
1.0476 |
-0.1132 |
110 |
1 |
65.95 |
2010-12-07 |
| 71. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
65.67 |
0.9884 |
-0.0460 |
267 |
1 |
65.67 |
2010-10-25 |
| 72. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
65.36 |
0.8913 |
0.0458 |
201 |
1 |
65.36 |
2010-11-22 |
| 73. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
65.15 |
1.0628 |
-0.1284 |
363 |
2 |
64.51 |
2010-11-01 |
| 74. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
65.09 |
0.8966 |
0.0342 |
366 |
1 |
65.09 |
2010-10-16 |
| 75. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
65.06 |
0.9704 |
-0.0392 |
254 |
1 |
65.06 |
2010-10-25 |
| 76. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
64.99 |
0.9352 |
-0.0062 |
194 |
1 |
64.99 |
2010-12-01 |
| 77. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
64.96 |
1.0521 |
-0.1281 |
197 |
2 |
58.79 |
2010-12-01 |
| 78. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
64.45 |
0.8974 |
0.0369 |
365 |
1 |
64.45 |
2010-11-01 |
| 79. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
64.34 |
0.7923 |
0.1291 |
316 |
1 |
64.34 |
2011-06-28 |
| 80. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
64.20 |
0.9228 |
0.0006 |
305 |
1 |
64.20 |
2010-10-30 |
| 81. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
64.08 |
0.9974 |
-0.0843 |
163 |
1 |
64.08 |
2010-11-02 |
| 82. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
63.66 |
0.9011 |
0.0130 |
322 |
1 |
63.66 |
2010-11-02 |
| 83. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
63.43 |
1.0333 |
-0.1306 |
176 |
1 |
63.43 |
2010-11-22 |
| 84. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
63.05 |
0.9604 |
-0.0604 |
285 |
1 |
63.05 |
2010-11-02 |
| 85. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
62.86 |
1.0493 |
-0.1431 |
264 |
1 |
62.86 |
2010-10-25 |
| 86. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
62.79 |
1.0427 |
-0.1434 |
269 |
1 |
62.79 |
2011-04-16 |
| 87. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
62.75 |
0.9538 |
-0.0562 |
276 |
1 |
62.75 |
2010-10-25 |
| 88. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
62.69 |
0.8936 |
0.0023 |
346 |
1 |
62.69 |
2010-11-02 |
| 89. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
62.54 |
1.0010 |
-0.1023 |
213 |
2 |
59.72 |
2010-12-07 |
| 90. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
62.12 |
0.9703 |
-0.0748 |
394 |
1 |
62.12 |
2010-12-07 |
| 91. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
62.00 |
1.0074 |
-0.1064 |
410 |
1 |
62.00 |
2010-11-01 |
| 92. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
61.93 |
1.0315 |
-0.1464 |
193 |
1 |
61.93 |
2010-11-22 |
| 93. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
61.28 |
1.0867 |
-0.2144 |
171 |
1 |
61.28 |
2010-10-25 |
| 94. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
61.27 |
0.9332 |
-0.0553 |
295 |
1 |
61.27 |
2010-10-20 |
| 95. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
61.03 |
0.8901 |
-0.0178 |
273 |
1 |
61.03 |
2010-10-08 |
| 96. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
60.92 |
0.9931 |
-0.1171 |
339 |
1 |
60.92 |
2010-12-05 |
| 97. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
60.80 |
1.0743 |
-0.2034 |
297 |
1 |
60.80 |
2010-10-25 |
| 98. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
60.38 |
1.0270 |
-0.1627 |
303 |
1 |
60.38 |
2010-10-25 |
| 99. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
60.27 |
1.0039 |
-0.1355 |
255 |
1 |
60.27 |
2010-12-05 |
| 100. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
60.04 |
0.9827 |
-0.1229 |
314 |
1 |
60.04 |
2010-11-05 |
| 101. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
59.73 |
0.9594 |
-0.1068 |
258 |
1 |
59.73 |
2010-11-01 |
| 102. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
58.95 |
0.9644 |
-0.1182 |
398 |
1 |
58.95 |
2010-10-25 |
| 103. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
58.44 |
0.8172 |
0.0143 |
204 |
1 |
58.44 |
2010-12-05 |
| 104. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
57.94 |
0.9890 |
-0.1565 |
272 |
1 |
57.94 |
2011-07-03 |
| 105. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
57.64 |
0.9756 |
-0.1521 |
223 |
1 |
57.64 |
2010-10-25 |
| 106. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
57.33 |
0.9339 |
-0.1083 |
317 |
2 |
56.72 |
2010-12-07 |
| 107. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
57.18 |
1.0130 |
-0.1954 |
288 |
1 |
57.18 |
2010-10-25 |
| 108. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
54.88 |
0.9841 |
-0.2012 |
263 |
1 |
54.88 |
2010-10-25 |
| 109. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
53.19 |
0.9597 |
-0.1993 |
251 |
1 |
53.19 |
2010-10-25 |
| 110. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
49.99 |
0.9374 |
-0.2207 |
232 |
1 |
49.99 |
2010-10-25 |
| 111. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
49.29 |
0.8328 |
-0.1252 |
343 |
1 |
49.29 |
2010-10-25 |
| 112. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
46.53 |
0.9354 |
-0.2600 |
384 |
1 |
46.53 |
2010-12-05 |
| 113. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
42.16 |
1.0759 |
-0.4691 |
273 |
1 |
42.16 |
2010-10-25 |
| 114. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
40.05 |
0.8955 |
-0.3149 |
436 |
1 |
40.05 |
2010-10-25 |