| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
47.28 |
0.9844 |
0.2877 |
229 |
1 |
47.28 |
2015-10-11 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
46.65 |
1.1016 |
0.1428 |
233 |
1 |
46.65 |
2015-10-05 |
| 3. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
44.54 |
0.8918 |
0.2942 |
100 |
1 |
44.54 |
2015-10-04 |
| 4. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
43.99 |
1.0429 |
0.1283 |
259 |
2 |
41.78 |
2015-10-05 |
| 5. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
43.83 |
1.1114 |
0.0540 |
247 |
1 |
43.83 |
2015-10-05 |
| 6. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
43.50 |
1.0314 |
0.1244 |
172 |
1 |
43.50 |
2015-10-04 |
| 7. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
43.45 |
0.9873 |
0.1678 |
155 |
1 |
43.45 |
2015-10-04 |
| 8. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
43.04 |
1.0012 |
0.1486 |
260 |
1 |
43.04 |
2015-10-05 |
| 9. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
42.95 |
0.8809 |
0.2617 |
127 |
1 |
42.95 |
2015-10-11 |
| 10. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
42.07 |
0.9772 |
0.1405 |
217 |
1 |
42.07 |
2015-10-05 |
| 11. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
41.45 |
0.9019 |
0.2080 |
204 |
1 |
41.45 |
2015-10-04 |
| 12. |
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever s... |
41.25 |
1.0972 |
0.0086 |
239 |
1 |
41.25 |
2015-10-04 |
| 13. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
41.23 |
1.0251 |
0.0712 |
261 |
1 |
41.23 |
2015-09-20 |
| 14. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
41.22 |
1.0617 |
0.0454 |
247 |
1 |
41.22 |
2015-10-05 |
| 15. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
41.17 |
1.0031 |
0.1269 |
304 |
1 |
41.17 |
2015-10-05 |
| 16. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
41.14 |
0.9936 |
0.1225 |
227 |
1 |
41.14 |
2015-09-19 |
| 17. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
41.09 |
1.0349 |
0.0588 |
234 |
1 |
41.09 |
2015-10-11 |
| 18. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
41.00 |
0.9212 |
0.1743 |
231 |
1 |
41.00 |
2015-09-19 |
| 19. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
40.87 |
0.9893 |
0.0993 |
323 |
1 |
40.87 |
2015-10-05 |
| 20. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
40.76 |
0.8559 |
0.2308 |
191 |
1 |
40.76 |
2015-10-04 |
| 21. |
You have two choices: you can keep running and hiding and bl... |
40.74 |
1.0660 |
0.0188 |
164 |
2 |
39.93 |
2015-09-19 |
| 22. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
40.42 |
1.0487 |
0.0228 |
231 |
1 |
40.42 |
2015-09-19 |
| 23. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.36 |
1.0138 |
0.0606 |
231 |
1 |
40.36 |
2015-10-05 |
| 24. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
40.13 |
1.0767 |
-0.0104 |
212 |
1 |
40.13 |
2015-10-05 |
| 25. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
40.07 |
0.9430 |
0.1209 |
227 |
3 |
38.47 |
2015-10-04 |
| 26. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
39.92 |
1.0034 |
0.0583 |
302 |
2 |
39.84 |
2015-11-06 |
| 27. |
It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole... |
39.75 |
0.8767 |
0.1746 |
198 |
1 |
39.75 |
2015-10-04 |
| 28. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
39.72 |
1.0090 |
0.0923 |
282 |
1 |
39.72 |
2015-10-05 |
| 29. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
39.69 |
1.0528 |
-0.0008 |
201 |
1 |
39.69 |
2015-09-14 |
| 30. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
39.60 |
0.9350 |
0.1200 |
195 |
2 |
36.92 |
2015-10-05 |
| 31. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
39.45 |
1.0905 |
-0.0086 |
210 |
1 |
39.45 |
2015-10-11 |
| 32. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
39.40 |
0.9636 |
0.0851 |
254 |
2 |
37.81 |
2015-10-04 |
| 33. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
39.35 |
1.0150 |
0.0818 |
325 |
1 |
39.35 |
2015-10-05 |
| 34. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
39.30 |
1.0331 |
0.0109 |
234 |
2 |
38.93 |
2015-10-04 |
| 35. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
39.24 |
0.8956 |
0.1518 |
217 |
1 |
39.24 |
2015-10-04 |
| 36. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
39.22 |
1.1296 |
-0.0562 |
252 |
1 |
39.22 |
2015-09-19 |
| 37. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
39.04 |
0.9287 |
0.1038 |
108 |
1 |
39.04 |
2015-10-05 |
| 38. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
38.98 |
1.0388 |
0.0306 |
243 |
1 |
38.98 |
2015-10-04 |
| 39. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
38.87 |
1.0441 |
-0.0080 |
252 |
1 |
38.87 |
2015-10-04 |
| 40. |
When is a legend a legend? Why is a myth a myth? How old and... |
38.70 |
0.8288 |
0.2063 |
136 |
1 |
38.70 |
2015-10-05 |
| 41. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
38.68 |
1.0365 |
0.0228 |
162 |
2 |
36.15 |
2015-10-05 |
| 42. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
38.66 |
0.9811 |
0.0508 |
272 |
2 |
38.26 |
2015-10-11 |
| 43. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
38.63 |
0.8628 |
0.1622 |
196 |
1 |
38.63 |
2015-10-04 |
| 44. |
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It ... |
38.60 |
1.0153 |
0.0168 |
261 |
2 |
37.54 |
2015-10-11 |
| 45. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
38.51 |
1.0768 |
-0.0120 |
295 |
1 |
38.51 |
2015-09-14 |
| 46. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
38.38 |
1.0381 |
-0.0273 |
170 |
1 |
38.38 |
2015-09-19 |
| 47. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
38.38 |
0.9505 |
0.0707 |
204 |
1 |
38.38 |
2015-10-04 |
| 48. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
38.29 |
0.9212 |
0.1011 |
323 |
1 |
38.29 |
2015-10-11 |
| 49. |
So don't be afraid; your heart is in me, and it's racing so ... |
38.26 |
0.9833 |
0.0357 |
150 |
1 |
38.26 |
2015-10-04 |
| 50. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
38.17 |
0.9089 |
0.1106 |
342 |
1 |
38.17 |
2015-10-11 |
| 51. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
38.16 |
0.8842 |
0.1274 |
135 |
1 |
38.16 |
2015-11-06 |
| 52. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
37.92 |
0.9514 |
0.0579 |
237 |
2 |
36.54 |
2015-10-05 |
| 53. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
37.79 |
0.8653 |
0.1516 |
255 |
1 |
37.79 |
2015-09-19 |
| 54. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
37.71 |
0.9430 |
0.0532 |
211 |
2 |
34.65 |
2015-10-05 |
| 55. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
37.58 |
1.0574 |
-0.0294 |
205 |
2 |
36.25 |
2015-10-11 |
| 56. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
37.57 |
0.7259 |
0.2798 |
186 |
1 |
37.57 |
2015-10-04 |
| 57. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
37.55 |
1.0124 |
-0.0158 |
204 |
1 |
37.55 |
2015-09-19 |
| 58. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
37.36 |
1.0346 |
0.0013 |
244 |
1 |
37.36 |
2015-09-27 |
| 59. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
37.33 |
1.0684 |
-0.0452 |
253 |
2 |
34.64 |
2015-09-19 |
| 60. |
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everythin... |
37.28 |
1.0086 |
-0.0151 |
240 |
1 |
37.28 |
2015-10-04 |
| 61. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
37.23 |
0.8725 |
0.1200 |
163 |
1 |
37.23 |
2015-09-19 |
| 62. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
37.13 |
1.0390 |
-0.0550 |
205 |
1 |
37.13 |
2015-09-19 |
| 63. |
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. |
37.00 |
0.9657 |
0.0039 |
44 |
1 |
37.00 |
2015-10-04 |
| 64. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
36.82 |
0.9612 |
0.0186 |
256 |
1 |
36.82 |
2015-09-20 |
| 65. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
36.82 |
0.9646 |
0.0139 |
264 |
1 |
36.82 |
2015-10-04 |
| 66. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
36.81 |
1.0203 |
-0.0380 |
261 |
1 |
36.81 |
2015-09-12 |
| 67. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
36.81 |
1.1014 |
-0.0845 |
273 |
1 |
36.81 |
2015-09-27 |
| 68. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
36.69 |
0.9485 |
0.0299 |
291 |
1 |
36.69 |
2015-10-04 |
| 69. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
36.67 |
0.8533 |
0.1230 |
232 |
1 |
36.67 |
2015-10-04 |
| 70. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
36.62 |
0.9769 |
-0.0047 |
263 |
1 |
36.62 |
2015-10-02 |
| 71. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
36.53 |
1.0389 |
-0.0656 |
318 |
1 |
36.53 |
2015-09-20 |
| 72. |
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I ... |
36.43 |
0.9764 |
-0.0143 |
137 |
1 |
36.43 |
2015-10-04 |
| 73. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
36.36 |
0.9857 |
-0.0198 |
293 |
1 |
36.36 |
2015-09-14 |
| 74. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
36.29 |
0.9598 |
0.0127 |
220 |
1 |
36.29 |
2015-10-11 |
| 75. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
36.22 |
0.8791 |
0.0833 |
190 |
1 |
36.22 |
2015-10-05 |
| 76. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
36.21 |
1.0016 |
-0.0433 |
218 |
1 |
36.21 |
2015-09-14 |
| 77. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
36.19 |
1.1162 |
-0.1125 |
189 |
1 |
36.19 |
2015-09-10 |
| 78. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
35.98 |
1.0261 |
-0.0713 |
273 |
1 |
35.98 |
2015-09-27 |
| 79. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
35.82 |
1.0297 |
-0.0784 |
249 |
2 |
34.46 |
2015-09-14 |
| 80. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
35.80 |
0.9871 |
-0.0126 |
227 |
1 |
35.80 |
2015-10-11 |
| 81. |
At least he had a BMW. He might live in a dump, but the worl... |
35.75 |
0.8544 |
0.0822 |
190 |
1 |
35.75 |
2015-10-04 |
| 82. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
35.74 |
1.0619 |
-0.1078 |
354 |
1 |
35.74 |
2015-09-12 |
| 83. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
35.70 |
0.8615 |
0.0878 |
110 |
1 |
35.70 |
2015-10-05 |
| 84. |
I can and do say that nothing human beings have ever before ... |
35.65 |
1.0296 |
-0.0744 |
306 |
1 |
35.65 |
2015-09-14 |
| 85. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
35.52 |
0.9758 |
-0.0307 |
314 |
1 |
35.52 |
2015-09-10 |
| 86. |
A problem in communication is that people don't smile enough... |
35.48 |
1.0148 |
-0.0647 |
272 |
1 |
35.48 |
2015-10-02 |
| 87. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
35.45 |
0.8792 |
0.0727 |
296 |
1 |
35.45 |
2015-10-02 |
| 88. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
35.35 |
0.8914 |
0.0489 |
366 |
1 |
35.35 |
2015-09-19 |
| 89. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
35.28 |
1.0155 |
-0.0767 |
232 |
1 |
35.28 |
2015-09-10 |
| 90. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
35.09 |
0.8202 |
0.1097 |
178 |
1 |
35.09 |
2015-10-04 |
| 91. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
34.98 |
0.7988 |
0.1395 |
219 |
1 |
34.98 |
2015-10-04 |
| 92. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
34.93 |
0.9368 |
-0.0080 |
173 |
1 |
34.93 |
2015-09-12 |
| 93. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
34.87 |
1.0038 |
-0.0466 |
237 |
1 |
34.87 |
2015-09-27 |
| 94. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
34.86 |
1.0288 |
-0.0699 |
300 |
1 |
34.86 |
2015-10-04 |
| 95. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
34.68 |
0.8915 |
0.0290 |
188 |
1 |
34.68 |
2015-09-10 |
| 96. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
34.20 |
0.9155 |
0.0425 |
168 |
1 |
34.20 |
2015-09-14 |
| 97. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
34.16 |
0.8793 |
0.0294 |
157 |
1 |
34.16 |
2015-09-27 |
| 98. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
34.04 |
1.0621 |
-0.1381 |
263 |
1 |
34.04 |
2015-10-04 |
| 99. |
To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary fo... |
34.03 |
0.9175 |
-0.0098 |
240 |
2 |
31.10 |
2015-10-04 |
| 100. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
34.01 |
0.8770 |
0.0299 |
300 |
2 |
32.72 |
2015-10-05 |
| 101. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
33.90 |
1.0669 |
-0.1339 |
286 |
1 |
33.90 |
2015-09-10 |
| 102. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
33.89 |
1.0013 |
-0.1018 |
273 |
1 |
33.89 |
2015-09-20 |
| 103. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
33.86 |
0.9023 |
0.0402 |
231 |
1 |
33.86 |
2015-09-27 |
| 104. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
33.83 |
1.0078 |
-0.1194 |
280 |
1 |
33.83 |
2015-09-14 |
| 105. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
33.68 |
0.9171 |
-0.0217 |
165 |
1 |
33.68 |
2015-09-12 |
| 106. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
33.31 |
0.9468 |
-0.0621 |
276 |
1 |
33.31 |
2015-09-14 |
| 107. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
33.23 |
0.9763 |
-0.0941 |
289 |
1 |
33.23 |
2015-09-12 |
| 108. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
32.63 |
1.0596 |
-0.1953 |
239 |
1 |
32.63 |
2015-09-10 |
| 109. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.62 |
0.8595 |
0.0088 |
242 |
1 |
32.62 |
2015-09-19 |
| 110. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
32.51 |
0.9202 |
-0.0570 |
254 |
1 |
32.51 |
2015-10-04 |
| 111. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
32.48 |
1.0214 |
-0.1603 |
269 |
1 |
32.48 |
2015-09-10 |
| 112. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
32.31 |
1.0523 |
-0.1986 |
256 |
1 |
32.31 |
2015-09-12 |
| 113. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
32.21 |
0.8162 |
0.0442 |
149 |
1 |
32.21 |
2015-09-10 |
| 114. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
32.21 |
0.9976 |
-0.1218 |
174 |
1 |
32.21 |
2015-10-02 |
| 115. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
32.16 |
0.9068 |
-0.0503 |
269 |
1 |
32.16 |
2015-09-19 |
| 116. |
Everybody's talking about revolution, evolution, mastication... |
31.80 |
0.8913 |
-0.0514 |
188 |
1 |
31.80 |
2015-09-12 |
| 117. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
31.67 |
0.9084 |
-0.0639 |
404 |
1 |
31.67 |
2015-09-07 |
| 118. |
Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you,... |
31.52 |
0.9499 |
-0.1170 |
100 |
1 |
31.52 |
2015-10-02 |
| 119. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
31.49 |
0.8867 |
-0.0459 |
241 |
1 |
31.49 |
2015-09-07 |
| 120. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
31.46 |
0.9461 |
-0.1152 |
193 |
1 |
31.46 |
2015-09-20 |
| 121. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
31.15 |
0.9005 |
-0.0752 |
212 |
1 |
31.15 |
2015-10-11 |
| 122. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
31.08 |
0.8916 |
-0.0664 |
216 |
1 |
31.08 |
2015-09-12 |
| 123. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
30.01 |
0.8022 |
-0.0034 |
215 |
2 |
29.72 |
2015-09-27 |
| 124. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
28.70 |
0.9756 |
-0.2164 |
229 |
1 |
28.70 |
2015-09-12 |
| 125. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
27.44 |
0.8961 |
-0.1729 |
189 |
1 |
27.44 |
2015-09-27 |