| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
72.63 |
1.0943 |
0.2940 |
206 |
1 |
72.63 |
2010-08-30 |
| 2. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
70.70 |
1.0602 |
0.2631 |
389 |
1 |
70.70 |
2010-08-31 |
| 3. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
67.82 |
1.0740 |
0.2294 |
264 |
1 |
67.82 |
2010-08-22 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
65.99 |
1.0565 |
0.1715 |
247 |
1 |
65.99 |
2010-08-22 |
| 5. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
63.56 |
0.9976 |
0.2074 |
174 |
1 |
63.56 |
2010-08-17 |
| 6. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
62.92 |
0.9706 |
0.2064 |
216 |
1 |
62.92 |
2010-08-22 |
| 7. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
62.23 |
1.0993 |
0.0583 |
265 |
2 |
60.35 |
2010-08-30 |
| 8. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
62.23 |
1.0331 |
0.1244 |
234 |
1 |
62.23 |
2010-08-30 |
| 9. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
62.14 |
1.0385 |
0.1177 |
230 |
1 |
62.14 |
2010-08-30 |
| 10. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
62.05 |
1.0012 |
0.1584 |
260 |
1 |
62.05 |
2010-08-22 |
| 11. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
61.93 |
1.0389 |
0.1176 |
340 |
1 |
61.93 |
2010-08-30 |
| 12. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
61.54 |
1.0172 |
0.1646 |
341 |
1 |
61.54 |
2010-08-30 |
| 13. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
60.72 |
1.0907 |
0.0433 |
303 |
1 |
60.72 |
2010-08-26 |
| 14. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
60.55 |
1.0016 |
0.1219 |
218 |
1 |
60.55 |
2010-08-30 |
| 15. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
60.14 |
0.9633 |
0.1592 |
304 |
1 |
60.14 |
2010-08-17 |
| 16. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
60.01 |
0.9687 |
0.1539 |
371 |
1 |
60.01 |
2010-08-30 |
| 17. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
59.50 |
0.9986 |
0.1103 |
283 |
2 |
54.84 |
2010-08-30 |
| 18. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
59.48 |
0.9247 |
0.1879 |
253 |
1 |
59.48 |
2010-08-14 |
| 19. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
59.43 |
1.0619 |
0.0487 |
354 |
1 |
59.43 |
2010-08-30 |
| 20. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
59.37 |
0.9905 |
0.1467 |
337 |
1 |
59.37 |
2010-08-30 |
| 21. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
59.22 |
1.0320 |
0.1083 |
293 |
3 |
53.86 |
2010-08-26 |
| 22. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
59.14 |
0.9894 |
0.1165 |
323 |
2 |
53.55 |
2010-08-30 |
| 23. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
59.05 |
1.0567 |
0.0437 |
303 |
2 |
56.90 |
2010-08-30 |
| 24. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
59.03 |
0.9109 |
0.1911 |
401 |
2 |
49.89 |
2010-08-30 |
| 25. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
58.84 |
1.0485 |
0.0821 |
153 |
1 |
58.84 |
2010-08-15 |
| 26. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
58.77 |
0.9739 |
0.1564 |
412 |
1 |
58.77 |
2010-08-30 |
| 27. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
58.69 |
1.0053 |
0.0857 |
232 |
1 |
58.69 |
2010-08-30 |
| 28. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
58.67 |
1.0132 |
0.0707 |
143 |
1 |
58.67 |
2010-08-31 |
| 29. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
58.12 |
1.0515 |
0.0230 |
166 |
1 |
58.12 |
2010-08-26 |
| 30. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
58.00 |
0.9758 |
0.1049 |
314 |
1 |
58.00 |
2010-08-31 |
| 31. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
57.95 |
0.9820 |
0.0973 |
274 |
2 |
54.24 |
2010-08-26 |
| 32. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
57.92 |
1.1016 |
-0.0230 |
233 |
1 |
57.92 |
2010-08-12 |
| 33. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
57.30 |
0.9941 |
0.0703 |
217 |
1 |
57.30 |
2010-08-16 |
| 34. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
56.74 |
1.0719 |
0.0120 |
360 |
1 |
56.74 |
2010-08-31 |
| 35. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
56.73 |
0.9776 |
0.0787 |
308 |
1 |
56.73 |
2010-08-17 |
| 36. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
56.35 |
0.9966 |
0.0517 |
259 |
1 |
56.35 |
2010-08-22 |
| 37. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
56.30 |
0.9672 |
0.0873 |
396 |
1 |
56.30 |
2010-08-31 |
| 38. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
56.27 |
1.0150 |
0.0814 |
325 |
1 |
56.27 |
2010-08-22 |
| 39. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
56.21 |
0.9699 |
0.0758 |
269 |
1 |
56.21 |
2010-08-17 |
| 40. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
56.15 |
1.0201 |
0.0291 |
375 |
1 |
56.15 |
2010-08-17 |
| 41. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
56.08 |
1.0117 |
0.0769 |
297 |
2 |
54.28 |
2010-08-26 |
| 42. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
56.06 |
0.9429 |
0.1019 |
287 |
2 |
49.16 |
2010-08-31 |
| 43. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
56.03 |
0.9710 |
0.0654 |
173 |
1 |
56.03 |
2010-08-17 |
| 44. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
55.60 |
0.9266 |
0.1100 |
278 |
1 |
55.60 |
2010-08-15 |
| 45. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
55.58 |
0.9646 |
0.0689 |
264 |
1 |
55.58 |
2010-08-31 |
| 46. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.53 |
0.9785 |
0.0582 |
335 |
2 |
53.66 |
2010-08-26 |
| 47. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
55.36 |
0.9485 |
0.0835 |
236 |
2 |
52.69 |
2010-08-26 |
| 48. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
55.18 |
0.9527 |
0.0741 |
251 |
2 |
51.63 |
2010-08-26 |
| 49. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
55.11 |
1.0264 |
0.0393 |
422 |
1 |
55.11 |
2010-08-31 |
| 50. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
54.84 |
0.8810 |
0.1403 |
282 |
1 |
54.84 |
2010-08-31 |
| 51. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
54.82 |
1.0173 |
0.0470 |
268 |
1 |
54.82 |
2010-08-26 |
| 52. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
54.71 |
0.9376 |
0.0858 |
367 |
1 |
54.71 |
2010-08-22 |
| 53. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
54.71 |
1.0189 |
0.0024 |
337 |
2 |
51.66 |
2010-08-26 |
| 54. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
54.40 |
1.0023 |
0.0080 |
211 |
1 |
54.40 |
2010-08-30 |
| 55. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
54.39 |
0.9653 |
0.0550 |
394 |
1 |
54.39 |
2010-08-22 |
| 56. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
54.31 |
0.8971 |
0.1187 |
266 |
1 |
54.31 |
2010-08-12 |
| 57. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
54.29 |
0.9851 |
0.0272 |
317 |
1 |
54.29 |
2010-08-26 |
| 58. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
53.62 |
0.9792 |
0.0567 |
265 |
2 |
51.40 |
2010-08-17 |
| 59. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
53.43 |
0.9846 |
0.0082 |
281 |
2 |
53.40 |
2010-08-26 |
| 60. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
53.38 |
0.9811 |
0.0146 |
272 |
1 |
53.38 |
2010-08-30 |
| 61. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
53.16 |
1.0033 |
-0.0212 |
189 |
1 |
53.16 |
2010-08-26 |
| 62. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
53.16 |
1.1323 |
-0.1098 |
341 |
1 |
53.16 |
2010-08-12 |
| 63. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
53.03 |
1.0201 |
-0.0333 |
303 |
2 |
52.67 |
2010-08-28 |
| 64. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
52.90 |
0.9790 |
0.0455 |
311 |
1 |
52.90 |
2010-08-31 |
| 65. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
52.83 |
1.0788 |
-0.1018 |
171 |
1 |
52.83 |
2010-08-26 |
| 66. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
52.76 |
1.0555 |
-0.0728 |
363 |
1 |
52.76 |
2010-08-26 |
| 67. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
52.70 |
0.9583 |
0.0656 |
341 |
1 |
52.70 |
2010-08-31 |
| 68. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
52.54 |
0.9884 |
-0.0121 |
233 |
1 |
52.54 |
2010-08-30 |
| 69. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
52.52 |
0.9632 |
0.0200 |
392 |
1 |
52.52 |
2010-08-31 |
| 70. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
52.39 |
1.0252 |
-0.0574 |
176 |
1 |
52.39 |
2010-08-26 |
| 71. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
52.21 |
0.9430 |
0.0308 |
297 |
1 |
52.21 |
2010-08-12 |
| 72. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
51.51 |
1.0613 |
-0.0986 |
456 |
1 |
51.51 |
2010-08-26 |
| 73. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
51.49 |
0.9426 |
0.0179 |
317 |
1 |
51.49 |
2010-08-15 |
| 74. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
51.46 |
0.9529 |
0.0445 |
269 |
1 |
51.46 |
2010-08-26 |
| 75. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
51.36 |
1.0462 |
-0.0974 |
184 |
1 |
51.36 |
2010-08-26 |
| 76. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
51.28 |
1.0352 |
-0.0787 |
341 |
1 |
51.28 |
2010-08-26 |
| 77. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
51.23 |
0.9994 |
-0.0163 |
269 |
1 |
51.23 |
2010-08-16 |
| 78. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
51.17 |
0.9161 |
0.0332 |
200 |
1 |
51.17 |
2010-08-26 |
| 79. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
51.15 |
0.9513 |
0.0034 |
354 |
1 |
51.15 |
2010-08-22 |
| 80. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
51.14 |
0.9673 |
0.0228 |
232 |
2 |
45.65 |
2010-08-31 |
| 81. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
51.13 |
0.9763 |
-0.0262 |
289 |
1 |
51.13 |
2010-08-31 |
| 82. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
51.00 |
0.9723 |
-0.0205 |
364 |
1 |
51.00 |
2010-08-30 |
| 83. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
50.84 |
0.9266 |
0.0186 |
267 |
1 |
50.84 |
2010-08-31 |
| 84. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
50.82 |
0.8914 |
0.0541 |
366 |
1 |
50.82 |
2010-08-30 |
| 85. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
50.69 |
1.0388 |
-0.0649 |
243 |
2 |
48.30 |
2010-08-31 |
| 86. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
50.57 |
0.9097 |
0.0719 |
464 |
1 |
50.57 |
2010-08-30 |
| 87. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
50.48 |
0.9879 |
-0.0409 |
450 |
1 |
50.48 |
2010-08-22 |
| 88. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
50.33 |
1.0029 |
-0.0738 |
209 |
3 |
47.80 |
2010-08-31 |
| 89. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
50.08 |
0.8670 |
0.0692 |
318 |
1 |
50.08 |
2010-08-30 |
| 90. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
50.05 |
1.0183 |
-0.0937 |
191 |
1 |
50.05 |
2010-08-26 |
| 91. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
49.85 |
1.0213 |
-0.0981 |
240 |
1 |
49.85 |
2010-08-26 |
| 92. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
49.65 |
0.8367 |
0.0963 |
294 |
1 |
49.65 |
2010-08-14 |
| 93. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
49.45 |
0.9946 |
-0.0759 |
246 |
1 |
49.45 |
2010-08-26 |
| 94. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
49.43 |
1.0124 |
-0.0963 |
204 |
1 |
49.43 |
2010-08-30 |
| 95. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
49.17 |
1.0090 |
-0.0516 |
282 |
1 |
49.17 |
2010-08-30 |
| 96. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
48.86 |
0.9964 |
-0.0885 |
203 |
1 |
48.86 |
2010-08-31 |
| 97. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
48.72 |
0.9216 |
0.0225 |
255 |
1 |
48.72 |
2010-08-31 |
| 98. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
48.63 |
1.0346 |
-0.0891 |
244 |
1 |
48.63 |
2010-08-28 |
| 99. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
48.16 |
0.9168 |
-0.0209 |
240 |
1 |
48.16 |
2010-08-26 |
| 100. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
48.13 |
0.9841 |
-0.0863 |
334 |
1 |
48.13 |
2010-08-26 |
| 101. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
47.77 |
1.0368 |
-0.1486 |
276 |
1 |
47.77 |
2010-08-17 |
| 102. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
47.57 |
0.9045 |
-0.0207 |
235 |
1 |
47.57 |
2010-08-26 |
| 103. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
47.49 |
1.0214 |
-0.1448 |
166 |
1 |
47.49 |
2010-08-12 |
| 104. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
47.35 |
0.9164 |
-0.0323 |
305 |
1 |
47.35 |
2010-08-28 |
| 105. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
47.34 |
1.0197 |
-0.1434 |
226 |
1 |
47.34 |
2010-08-26 |
| 106. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
47.13 |
0.9649 |
-0.0908 |
193 |
1 |
47.13 |
2010-08-17 |
| 107. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
47.05 |
1.0795 |
-0.1753 |
226 |
1 |
47.05 |
2010-08-16 |
| 108. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
47.03 |
0.9871 |
-0.0916 |
227 |
1 |
47.03 |
2010-08-26 |
| 109. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
46.75 |
0.8916 |
-0.0233 |
216 |
1 |
46.75 |
2010-08-17 |
| 110. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
46.71 |
0.9936 |
-0.1266 |
311 |
1 |
46.71 |
2010-08-22 |
| 111. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
46.62 |
0.8941 |
-0.0265 |
216 |
1 |
46.62 |
2010-08-30 |
| 112. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
46.43 |
0.9125 |
-0.0487 |
308 |
1 |
46.43 |
2010-08-17 |
| 113. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
45.41 |
0.9286 |
-0.0868 |
194 |
1 |
45.41 |
2010-08-26 |
| 114. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
45.39 |
0.8933 |
-0.0445 |
363 |
1 |
45.39 |
2010-08-26 |
| 115. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
45.34 |
1.0334 |
-0.1984 |
131 |
1 |
45.34 |
2010-08-26 |
| 116. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
45.07 |
0.8975 |
-0.0606 |
268 |
1 |
45.07 |
2010-08-15 |
| 117. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
44.67 |
0.9805 |
-0.1471 |
292 |
1 |
44.67 |
2010-08-25 |
| 118. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
44.66 |
0.8382 |
-0.0090 |
268 |
1 |
44.66 |
2010-08-14 |
| 119. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
44.64 |
0.9852 |
-0.1566 |
264 |
1 |
44.64 |
2010-08-14 |
| 120. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
44.40 |
0.7876 |
0.0388 |
316 |
1 |
44.40 |
2010-08-31 |
| 121. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
44.08 |
1.0120 |
-0.1951 |
290 |
1 |
44.08 |
2010-08-22 |
| 122. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
43.58 |
1.0297 |
-0.2226 |
249 |
1 |
43.58 |
2010-08-26 |
| 123. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
43.52 |
0.9128 |
-0.0641 |
369 |
1 |
43.52 |
2010-08-26 |
| 124. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
43.39 |
1.0270 |
-0.1863 |
255 |
1 |
43.39 |
2010-08-26 |
| 125. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
43.34 |
0.9148 |
-0.1096 |
317 |
1 |
43.34 |
2010-08-26 |
| 126. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
41.10 |
0.9904 |
-0.1882 |
203 |
2 |
36.78 |
2010-08-26 |
| 127. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
39.50 |
0.8890 |
-0.1612 |
199 |
1 |
39.50 |
2010-08-26 |
| 128. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
38.46 |
0.9049 |
-0.1877 |
351 |
1 |
38.46 |
2010-08-26 |
| 129. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
38.22 |
0.8884 |
-0.1805 |
135 |
1 |
38.22 |
2010-08-26 |