| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
58.82 |
0.9303 |
0.3059 |
176 |
2 |
52.80 |
2012-01-16 |
| 2. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
55.62 |
1.0297 |
0.1434 |
249 |
1 |
55.62 |
2012-04-06 |
| 3. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
55.01 |
1.0787 |
0.0812 |
237 |
1 |
55.01 |
2011-09-19 |
| 4. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
54.98 |
1.0740 |
0.1251 |
264 |
2 |
49.49 |
2012-07-26 |
| 5. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
54.71 |
1.0905 |
0.0963 |
210 |
1 |
54.71 |
2012-11-09 |
| 6. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
54.49 |
1.0426 |
0.1069 |
323 |
1 |
54.49 |
2011-10-25 |
| 7. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
54.42 |
0.9430 |
0.2028 |
227 |
1 |
54.42 |
2011-11-03 |
| 8. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
53.83 |
1.0138 |
0.1220 |
231 |
1 |
53.83 |
2012-03-02 |
| 9. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
53.61 |
0.9196 |
0.2134 |
148 |
1 |
53.61 |
2011-09-19 |
| 10. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
53.43 |
0.9776 |
0.1502 |
308 |
2 |
48.81 |
2012-01-04 |
| 11. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
53.22 |
0.9572 |
0.1648 |
201 |
3 |
41.42 |
2012-07-31 |
| 12. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
53.21 |
0.9772 |
0.1422 |
217 |
1 |
53.21 |
2011-09-22 |
| 13. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
52.66 |
0.9532 |
0.1568 |
258 |
3 |
46.57 |
2011-10-12 |
| 14. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
52.54 |
1.0232 |
0.1313 |
350 |
2 |
52.19 |
2011-12-15 |
| 15. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
52.52 |
1.0523 |
0.0516 |
256 |
1 |
52.52 |
2013-10-08 |
| 16. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
52.41 |
1.0567 |
0.0497 |
303 |
2 |
50.46 |
2012-03-30 |
| 17. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
52.32 |
0.9846 |
0.1182 |
281 |
1 |
52.32 |
2012-02-28 |
| 18. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
52.20 |
1.0211 |
0.1110 |
213 |
1 |
52.20 |
2011-10-20 |
| 19. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
51.80 |
0.9724 |
0.1240 |
237 |
1 |
51.80 |
2011-11-16 |
| 20. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
51.71 |
0.9468 |
0.1436 |
276 |
1 |
51.71 |
2012-05-08 |
| 21. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
51.65 |
0.9430 |
0.1494 |
297 |
2 |
50.35 |
2012-03-06 |
| 22. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
51.16 |
0.9976 |
0.1017 |
174 |
2 |
49.30 |
2012-04-19 |
| 23. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
50.89 |
1.0673 |
0.0479 |
230 |
1 |
50.89 |
2012-02-22 |
| 24. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
50.86 |
1.0596 |
0.0110 |
239 |
1 |
50.86 |
2011-10-12 |
| 25. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
50.76 |
1.0218 |
0.0458 |
268 |
1 |
50.76 |
2013-03-05 |
| 26. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
50.59 |
0.9688 |
0.0980 |
217 |
1 |
50.59 |
2011-10-21 |
| 27. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
50.53 |
1.0214 |
0.0389 |
166 |
1 |
50.53 |
2009-11-26 |
| 28. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
50.19 |
1.0060 |
0.0477 |
171 |
1 |
50.19 |
2010-03-24 |
| 29. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
50.14 |
1.0120 |
0.0445 |
290 |
1 |
50.14 |
2011-12-15 |
| 30. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
50.13 |
1.0150 |
0.0913 |
325 |
2 |
49.82 |
2012-07-23 |
| 31. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
50.11 |
1.0528 |
-0.0011 |
201 |
2 |
46.46 |
2012-04-06 |
| 32. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
50.07 |
1.0943 |
-0.0058 |
206 |
1 |
50.07 |
2012-01-31 |
| 33. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
49.77 |
0.9583 |
0.1349 |
341 |
1 |
49.77 |
2012-03-01 |
| 34. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
49.59 |
0.9340 |
0.1114 |
296 |
1 |
49.59 |
2012-04-06 |
| 35. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
49.44 |
1.0496 |
-0.0079 |
314 |
1 |
49.44 |
2011-09-20 |
| 36. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
49.36 |
0.9710 |
0.0632 |
173 |
1 |
49.36 |
2012-05-08 |
| 37. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
49.29 |
0.9925 |
0.0834 |
247 |
1 |
49.29 |
2011-12-15 |
| 38. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
49.10 |
1.0462 |
-0.0171 |
184 |
1 |
49.10 |
2012-01-16 |
| 39. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
49.08 |
0.9908 |
0.0899 |
342 |
1 |
49.08 |
2011-10-14 |
| 40. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
48.96 |
0.8951 |
0.1393 |
193 |
1 |
48.96 |
2011-09-21 |
| 41. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
48.96 |
0.9310 |
0.0973 |
188 |
1 |
48.96 |
2012-03-30 |
| 42. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
48.88 |
0.9754 |
0.0612 |
362 |
1 |
48.88 |
2011-10-14 |
| 43. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
48.84 |
1.0797 |
-0.0557 |
210 |
1 |
48.84 |
2011-09-22 |
| 44. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
48.77 |
0.9281 |
0.1051 |
273 |
1 |
48.77 |
2010-03-30 |
| 45. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
48.75 |
0.9216 |
0.1450 |
255 |
2 |
46.96 |
2012-02-22 |
| 46. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
48.74 |
0.9527 |
0.0747 |
251 |
1 |
48.74 |
2012-06-07 |
| 47. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
48.68 |
0.9997 |
0.0300 |
382 |
2 |
46.39 |
2010-03-25 |
| 48. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
48.60 |
1.0666 |
-0.0421 |
297 |
1 |
48.60 |
2011-10-21 |
| 49. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
48.59 |
0.9965 |
0.0284 |
277 |
1 |
48.59 |
2012-01-30 |
| 50. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
48.52 |
0.9045 |
0.1187 |
235 |
1 |
48.52 |
2013-11-07 |
| 51. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
48.50 |
1.0083 |
0.0582 |
273 |
1 |
48.50 |
2011-09-21 |
| 52. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
48.46 |
0.8968 |
0.1222 |
186 |
1 |
48.46 |
2011-09-19 |
| 53. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
48.29 |
1.0252 |
-0.0137 |
176 |
1 |
48.29 |
2011-09-19 |
| 54. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
48.12 |
1.0595 |
-0.0426 |
379 |
1 |
48.12 |
2010-03-30 |
| 55. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
48.11 |
0.9430 |
0.0637 |
211 |
1 |
48.11 |
2012-11-09 |
| 56. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
48.06 |
0.8935 |
0.1293 |
328 |
1 |
48.06 |
2010-03-30 |
| 57. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
48.04 |
0.9706 |
0.0462 |
216 |
1 |
48.04 |
2012-01-04 |
| 58. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
47.74 |
1.1114 |
-0.1080 |
247 |
1 |
47.74 |
2012-04-19 |
| 59. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
47.64 |
1.0316 |
-0.0238 |
333 |
1 |
47.64 |
2012-01-24 |
| 60. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
47.55 |
1.0154 |
0.0364 |
351 |
2 |
46.53 |
2011-11-16 |
| 61. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
47.40 |
1.0388 |
-0.0083 |
243 |
1 |
47.40 |
2011-10-10 |
| 62. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
47.11 |
0.9351 |
0.0520 |
190 |
2 |
43.29 |
2012-01-16 |
| 63. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
47.02 |
1.0078 |
-0.0268 |
280 |
1 |
47.02 |
2015-04-17 |
| 64. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
46.97 |
0.9910 |
0.0006 |
295 |
2 |
45.71 |
2011-10-27 |
| 65. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
46.97 |
1.0555 |
-0.0644 |
363 |
1 |
46.97 |
2012-03-02 |
| 66. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
46.92 |
0.8975 |
0.0917 |
268 |
1 |
46.92 |
2011-10-25 |
| 67. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
46.88 |
1.0025 |
-0.0138 |
336 |
1 |
46.88 |
2011-09-13 |
| 68. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
46.87 |
0.9852 |
0.0027 |
264 |
1 |
46.87 |
2010-03-25 |
| 69. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
46.84 |
0.9504 |
0.0311 |
263 |
1 |
46.84 |
2011-10-20 |
| 70. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
46.45 |
0.9128 |
0.0713 |
133 |
1 |
46.45 |
2009-11-25 |
| 71. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
46.40 |
0.8723 |
0.1013 |
185 |
1 |
46.40 |
2012-02-23 |
| 72. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
46.10 |
0.8533 |
0.1189 |
232 |
1 |
46.10 |
2009-11-27 |
| 73. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
46.09 |
0.9429 |
0.0293 |
287 |
1 |
46.09 |
2009-11-30 |
| 74. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
45.39 |
0.9365 |
0.0209 |
248 |
1 |
45.39 |
2011-09-14 |
| 75. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
45.28 |
0.9780 |
-0.0234 |
337 |
1 |
45.28 |
2014-05-30 |
| 76. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
45.17 |
0.8559 |
0.0962 |
191 |
1 |
45.17 |
2011-09-23 |
| 77. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
45.08 |
0.8900 |
0.0607 |
164 |
1 |
45.08 |
2009-11-27 |
| 78. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
45.08 |
0.8153 |
0.1389 |
200 |
1 |
45.08 |
2011-09-22 |
| 79. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
44.80 |
0.7988 |
0.1533 |
219 |
1 |
44.80 |
2011-09-19 |
| 80. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
44.63 |
1.1016 |
-0.1617 |
233 |
1 |
44.63 |
2011-10-10 |
| 81. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
44.57 |
0.9893 |
-0.0507 |
323 |
1 |
44.57 |
2016-04-05 |
| 82. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
44.51 |
1.0270 |
-0.0538 |
255 |
1 |
44.51 |
2016-04-05 |
| 83. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
44.48 |
0.9785 |
-0.0387 |
335 |
1 |
44.48 |
2012-04-05 |
| 84. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
44.42 |
0.9922 |
-0.0158 |
341 |
1 |
44.42 |
2012-02-01 |
| 85. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
44.25 |
0.9682 |
-0.0384 |
143 |
1 |
44.25 |
2011-10-12 |
| 86. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.19 |
0.9293 |
0.0019 |
355 |
1 |
44.19 |
2011-10-27 |
| 87. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
44.10 |
0.8573 |
0.0747 |
270 |
1 |
44.10 |
2011-11-03 |
| 88. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
43.99 |
0.9514 |
-0.0250 |
237 |
1 |
43.99 |
2010-03-24 |
| 89. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
43.98 |
1.0669 |
-0.1088 |
286 |
1 |
43.98 |
2011-10-21 |
| 90. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
43.65 |
1.0419 |
-0.1231 |
261 |
1 |
43.65 |
2011-09-23 |
| 91. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
43.61 |
0.9226 |
-0.0007 |
177 |
1 |
43.61 |
2009-11-25 |
| 92. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
43.54 |
0.9339 |
-0.0189 |
310 |
1 |
43.54 |
2009-11-26 |
| 93. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
43.21 |
0.8105 |
0.0946 |
204 |
1 |
43.21 |
2012-02-28 |
| 94. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
43.12 |
0.8914 |
0.0169 |
366 |
1 |
43.12 |
2012-04-05 |
| 95. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
43.08 |
0.9884 |
-0.0825 |
233 |
1 |
43.08 |
2010-03-25 |
| 96. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
42.94 |
0.9168 |
-0.0118 |
240 |
1 |
42.94 |
2012-03-30 |
| 97. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
42.52 |
1.0487 |
-0.1590 |
231 |
1 |
42.52 |
2011-10-20 |
| 98. |
I make my living off the evening news. Just give me somethin... |
42.29 |
1.0139 |
-0.1323 |
138 |
1 |
42.29 |
2018-09-13 |
| 99. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
42.28 |
0.9005 |
-0.0124 |
212 |
1 |
42.28 |
2011-11-03 |
| 100. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
42.14 |
1.0829 |
-0.1948 |
288 |
2 |
39.83 |
2010-04-01 |
| 101. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
42.01 |
0.9164 |
-0.0278 |
305 |
1 |
42.01 |
2012-03-27 |
| 102. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
41.51 |
1.0444 |
-0.1778 |
197 |
1 |
41.51 |
2012-07-23 |
| 103. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
40.84 |
0.8602 |
-0.0035 |
206 |
1 |
40.84 |
2011-09-13 |
| 104. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
40.10 |
0.9088 |
-0.0605 |
348 |
1 |
40.10 |
2010-03-23 |
| 105. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
39.88 |
0.9863 |
-0.1435 |
339 |
1 |
39.88 |
2011-09-20 |
| 106. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
38.65 |
0.9207 |
-0.1060 |
174 |
1 |
38.65 |
2009-11-24 |
| 107. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
37.73 |
0.9936 |
-0.1810 |
227 |
1 |
37.73 |
2011-10-21 |
| 108. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
36.72 |
1.0173 |
-0.2022 |
268 |
1 |
36.72 |
2011-09-14 |
| 109. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
36.72 |
0.9567 |
-0.1436 |
184 |
1 |
36.72 |
2011-09-20 |
| 110. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
33.27 |
1.0334 |
-0.3427 |
131 |
1 |
33.27 |
2010-04-16 |
| 111. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
31.76 |
1.0516 |
-0.3871 |
281 |
1 |
31.76 |
2010-04-16 |
| 112. |
The number one challenge I've seen with myself and with othe... |
30.70 |
1.0117 |
-0.3641 |
239 |
1 |
30.70 |
2015-04-17 |
| 113. |
The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity ... |
30.30 |
0.8235 |
-0.2102 |
289 |
1 |
30.30 |
2018-09-13 |
| 114. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
23.14 |
1.0515 |
-0.5724 |
250 |
1 |
23.14 |
2009-11-30 |