| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
61.75 |
0.9098 |
0.3361 |
167 |
1 |
61.75 |
2011-12-22 |
| 2. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
60.56 |
1.0574 |
0.1965 |
205 |
2 |
57.44 |
2012-02-19 |
| 3. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
58.62 |
1.0907 |
0.0943 |
303 |
2 |
56.99 |
2011-12-22 |
| 4. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
58.18 |
1.0029 |
0.1703 |
209 |
1 |
58.18 |
2012-02-19 |
| 5. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
57.55 |
1.0615 |
0.1269 |
305 |
2 |
52.53 |
2012-02-03 |
| 6. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
56.34 |
1.0063 |
0.1321 |
371 |
1 |
56.34 |
2012-02-19 |
| 7. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
56.06 |
0.9016 |
0.2356 |
192 |
1 |
56.06 |
2011-12-22 |
| 8. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
56.02 |
0.9886 |
0.1439 |
220 |
1 |
56.02 |
2012-02-03 |
| 9. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
55.88 |
1.0205 |
0.1030 |
179 |
1 |
55.88 |
2011-12-22 |
| 10. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
55.44 |
1.0340 |
0.0883 |
406 |
2 |
53.00 |
2012-02-03 |
| 11. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
55.43 |
1.0099 |
0.1091 |
207 |
2 |
52.26 |
2011-12-22 |
| 12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
55.42 |
1.0595 |
0.0608 |
379 |
1 |
55.42 |
2012-02-03 |
| 13. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
55.37 |
1.0314 |
0.0829 |
172 |
2 |
49.41 |
2012-02-03 |
| 14. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
55.33 |
1.0463 |
0.0682 |
182 |
1 |
55.33 |
2012-02-03 |
| 15. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
55.13 |
1.0943 |
0.0523 |
206 |
2 |
49.89 |
2012-02-03 |
| 16. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
55.03 |
0.9593 |
0.1547 |
398 |
2 |
52.89 |
2012-02-19 |
| 17. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
54.82 |
1.0944 |
0.0558 |
308 |
1 |
54.82 |
2012-01-19 |
| 18. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
54.47 |
0.9997 |
0.1027 |
382 |
1 |
54.47 |
2012-02-19 |
| 19. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
54.12 |
0.9986 |
0.0947 |
283 |
1 |
54.12 |
2011-12-22 |
| 20. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
53.78 |
1.1215 |
-0.0087 |
200 |
2 |
53.55 |
2011-12-22 |
| 21. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
53.55 |
0.9353 |
0.1434 |
177 |
1 |
53.55 |
2011-12-22 |
| 22. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
53.45 |
1.0297 |
0.0488 |
249 |
1 |
53.45 |
2011-12-22 |
| 23. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
53.38 |
0.9582 |
0.1194 |
259 |
1 |
53.38 |
2012-01-19 |
| 24. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
53.32 |
0.9965 |
0.0782 |
168 |
1 |
53.32 |
2012-01-19 |
| 25. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
53.31 |
1.0261 |
0.0494 |
273 |
1 |
53.31 |
2012-01-19 |
| 26. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
53.13 |
1.0131 |
0.0574 |
225 |
2 |
47.22 |
2011-12-22 |
| 27. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
53.11 |
0.9946 |
0.0770 |
246 |
1 |
53.11 |
2011-12-22 |
| 28. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
52.91 |
0.9884 |
0.0815 |
262 |
1 |
52.91 |
2011-12-20 |
| 29. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
52.85 |
0.9514 |
0.1159 |
237 |
1 |
52.85 |
2012-01-19 |
| 30. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
52.60 |
0.9097 |
0.1508 |
153 |
1 |
52.60 |
2012-02-03 |
| 31. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
52.56 |
1.0795 |
0.0145 |
226 |
1 |
52.56 |
2011-12-22 |
| 32. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
52.05 |
1.0365 |
0.0483 |
162 |
2 |
50.78 |
2011-12-22 |
| 33. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
52.04 |
0.9811 |
0.0705 |
272 |
1 |
52.04 |
2011-12-22 |
| 34. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
52.03 |
0.9740 |
0.0747 |
209 |
1 |
52.03 |
2011-12-22 |
| 35. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
52.02 |
0.9897 |
0.0596 |
274 |
1 |
52.02 |
2011-12-22 |
| 36. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
51.97 |
1.0528 |
-0.0058 |
201 |
1 |
51.97 |
2011-12-20 |
| 37. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
51.85 |
0.8898 |
0.1511 |
158 |
1 |
51.85 |
2012-02-03 |
| 38. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
51.83 |
1.0398 |
0.0005 |
110 |
1 |
51.83 |
2011-12-22 |
| 39. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
51.81 |
1.0462 |
-0.0034 |
184 |
1 |
51.81 |
2012-02-03 |
| 40. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
51.56 |
0.9576 |
0.0835 |
212 |
1 |
51.56 |
2011-12-20 |
| 41. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
51.51 |
1.0696 |
-0.0316 |
226 |
1 |
51.51 |
2011-12-22 |
| 42. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
51.49 |
1.0993 |
-0.0605 |
265 |
1 |
51.49 |
2012-02-03 |
| 43. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
51.45 |
1.0288 |
0.0421 |
300 |
1 |
51.45 |
2012-01-19 |
| 44. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
51.06 |
1.0165 |
0.0153 |
392 |
1 |
51.06 |
2012-02-19 |
| 45. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
50.75 |
0.9710 |
0.0502 |
173 |
1 |
50.75 |
2012-01-19 |
| 46. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
49.71 |
1.0483 |
-0.0470 |
227 |
1 |
49.71 |
2011-12-22 |
| 47. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
49.41 |
0.8968 |
0.0971 |
186 |
1 |
49.41 |
2012-01-19 |
| 48. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
48.82 |
0.9871 |
0.0366 |
209 |
1 |
48.82 |
2011-12-22 |
| 49. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
48.44 |
1.0316 |
-0.0530 |
333 |
1 |
48.44 |
2012-02-03 |
| 50. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
48.38 |
1.0740 |
-0.0587 |
264 |
1 |
48.38 |
2012-02-03 |
| 51. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
48.19 |
0.9239 |
0.0501 |
193 |
1 |
48.19 |
2012-02-03 |
| 52. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
48.14 |
1.0412 |
-0.0698 |
225 |
2 |
47.71 |
2012-02-03 |
| 53. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
47.64 |
0.9964 |
-0.0357 |
203 |
1 |
47.64 |
2011-12-22 |
| 54. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
47.36 |
1.0419 |
-0.0885 |
261 |
1 |
47.36 |
2011-12-22 |
| 55. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
47.25 |
0.9619 |
-0.0059 |
393 |
1 |
47.25 |
2012-02-03 |
| 56. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
47.11 |
0.9758 |
-0.0254 |
314 |
1 |
47.11 |
2011-12-22 |
| 57. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
46.99 |
0.9509 |
0.0350 |
225 |
1 |
46.99 |
2011-12-22 |
| 58. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
46.90 |
1.0829 |
-0.1367 |
288 |
1 |
46.90 |
2011-12-22 |
| 59. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
46.74 |
0.9089 |
0.0352 |
342 |
1 |
46.74 |
2012-01-19 |
| 60. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
46.73 |
1.0361 |
-0.0935 |
269 |
1 |
46.73 |
2011-12-22 |
| 61. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
46.66 |
1.0679 |
-0.1019 |
177 |
1 |
46.66 |
2012-01-19 |
| 62. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
46.60 |
0.9365 |
0.0039 |
248 |
1 |
46.60 |
2012-02-03 |
| 63. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
46.57 |
0.8916 |
0.0479 |
216 |
1 |
46.57 |
2012-02-03 |
| 64. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
46.56 |
0.9164 |
0.0245 |
305 |
1 |
46.56 |
2011-12-22 |
| 65. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
46.11 |
0.8811 |
0.0503 |
239 |
1 |
46.11 |
2011-12-22 |
| 66. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
45.79 |
1.0863 |
-0.1273 |
210 |
1 |
45.79 |
2012-02-03 |
| 67. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
45.72 |
1.0053 |
-0.0842 |
232 |
1 |
45.72 |
2012-02-03 |
| 68. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
45.67 |
1.0596 |
-0.1400 |
239 |
1 |
45.67 |
2012-01-19 |
| 69. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
45.59 |
0.9429 |
-0.0234 |
287 |
1 |
45.59 |
2011-12-22 |
| 70. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
45.56 |
1.0042 |
-0.0480 |
352 |
1 |
45.56 |
2011-12-22 |
| 71. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
45.45 |
1.0060 |
-0.0922 |
171 |
1 |
45.45 |
2011-12-22 |
| 72. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
45.37 |
0.9912 |
-0.0473 |
237 |
1 |
45.37 |
2012-01-19 |
| 73. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
45.28 |
0.9278 |
-0.0130 |
295 |
1 |
45.28 |
2011-12-22 |
| 74. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
44.89 |
1.0384 |
-0.1391 |
183 |
1 |
44.89 |
2011-12-22 |
| 75. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
44.72 |
0.9266 |
-0.0251 |
267 |
2 |
42.25 |
2012-01-19 |
| 76. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
44.69 |
1.0214 |
-0.0791 |
281 |
1 |
44.69 |
2012-01-19 |
| 77. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
44.56 |
1.0168 |
-0.1187 |
271 |
1 |
44.56 |
2011-12-22 |
| 78. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
44.06 |
0.9540 |
-0.0663 |
285 |
1 |
44.06 |
2012-01-19 |
| 79. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
43.62 |
0.9309 |
-0.0532 |
284 |
1 |
43.62 |
2012-02-19 |
| 80. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
43.12 |
0.9234 |
-0.0521 |
346 |
1 |
43.12 |
2011-12-22 |
| 81. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
42.94 |
1.0284 |
-0.1207 |
282 |
1 |
42.94 |
2011-12-22 |
| 82. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
42.64 |
0.9965 |
-0.1372 |
277 |
1 |
42.64 |
2011-12-22 |
| 83. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
42.31 |
0.9936 |
-0.1177 |
227 |
1 |
42.31 |
2012-01-19 |
| 84. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
41.45 |
1.0515 |
-0.2180 |
250 |
1 |
41.45 |
2012-01-19 |
| 85. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
41.37 |
0.9088 |
-0.0725 |
348 |
1 |
41.37 |
2011-12-22 |
| 86. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
41.08 |
0.9127 |
-0.0873 |
252 |
1 |
41.08 |
2012-01-19 |
| 87. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
40.94 |
0.8595 |
-0.0342 |
242 |
1 |
40.94 |
2011-12-22 |
| 88. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
40.93 |
0.8295 |
-0.0031 |
209 |
1 |
40.93 |
2011-12-22 |
| 89. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
40.31 |
0.9202 |
-0.1081 |
254 |
1 |
40.31 |
2011-12-22 |
| 90. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
40.12 |
0.8884 |
-0.0812 |
135 |
1 |
40.12 |
2011-12-22 |
| 91. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
38.94 |
1.0352 |
-0.2503 |
341 |
1 |
38.94 |
2012-02-03 |
| 92. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
35.29 |
0.9068 |
-0.1961 |
269 |
1 |
35.29 |
2012-02-03 |
| 93. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
34.03 |
0.9023 |
-0.1744 |
231 |
1 |
34.03 |
2011-12-20 |
| 94. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
30.83 |
0.8996 |
-0.2841 |
192 |
1 |
30.83 |
2011-12-22 |