| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
61.56 |
1.0788 |
0.3556 |
171 |
2 |
52.80 |
2012-05-20 |
| 2. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
58.11 |
0.9986 |
0.3548 |
162 |
1 |
58.11 |
2012-05-14 |
| 3. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
57.58 |
1.0462 |
0.2941 |
184 |
1 |
57.58 |
2012-05-20 |
| 4. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
56.83 |
1.0602 |
0.2723 |
389 |
1 |
56.83 |
2012-05-16 |
| 5. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
55.38 |
1.0477 |
0.2489 |
360 |
2 |
52.81 |
2012-05-20 |
| 6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
55.34 |
1.1016 |
0.1915 |
233 |
5 |
46.34 |
2012-05-15 |
| 7. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
54.88 |
0.9873 |
0.2920 |
155 |
1 |
54.88 |
2012-05-15 |
| 8. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
54.44 |
0.9097 |
0.3622 |
153 |
1 |
54.44 |
2012-05-14 |
| 9. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
52.76 |
0.9646 |
0.2670 |
264 |
1 |
52.76 |
2012-05-15 |
| 10. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
52.75 |
1.0197 |
0.2096 |
226 |
1 |
52.75 |
2012-05-14 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
52.64 |
0.9899 |
0.2348 |
163 |
2 |
46.95 |
2012-05-15 |
| 12. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
52.53 |
1.0740 |
0.1913 |
264 |
1 |
52.53 |
2012-05-15 |
| 13. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
52.39 |
1.1114 |
0.1094 |
247 |
2 |
52.21 |
2012-05-14 |
| 14. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
52.27 |
1.0155 |
0.2063 |
232 |
1 |
52.27 |
2012-05-20 |
| 15. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
52.26 |
0.9226 |
0.3021 |
177 |
1 |
52.26 |
2012-05-16 |
| 16. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
52.26 |
1.0426 |
0.1774 |
323 |
2 |
49.33 |
2012-05-14 |
| 17. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
52.24 |
1.0031 |
0.2504 |
304 |
1 |
52.24 |
2012-05-16 |
| 18. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
52.17 |
1.0314 |
0.2263 |
452 |
1 |
52.17 |
2012-05-16 |
| 19. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
51.89 |
0.9233 |
0.2804 |
168 |
1 |
51.89 |
2012-05-16 |
| 20. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
51.44 |
1.0375 |
0.2096 |
200 |
1 |
51.44 |
2012-05-15 |
| 21. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
50.80 |
1.0387 |
0.1796 |
239 |
1 |
50.80 |
2012-05-15 |
| 22. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
50.68 |
1.0486 |
0.1356 |
289 |
2 |
44.68 |
2012-05-14 |
| 23. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
50.33 |
0.9514 |
0.2239 |
237 |
1 |
50.33 |
2012-05-15 |
| 24. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
50.08 |
1.0679 |
0.1212 |
177 |
1 |
50.08 |
2012-05-20 |
| 25. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
50.05 |
1.0013 |
0.1662 |
273 |
3 |
40.63 |
2012-05-13 |
| 26. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
49.82 |
1.0829 |
0.0816 |
288 |
2 |
44.18 |
2012-05-20 |
| 27. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
49.78 |
0.9710 |
0.1847 |
173 |
1 |
49.78 |
2012-05-13 |
| 28. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
49.70 |
1.0944 |
0.1103 |
308 |
1 |
49.70 |
2012-05-15 |
| 29. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
49.20 |
0.9247 |
0.2285 |
253 |
1 |
49.20 |
2012-05-14 |
| 30. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
48.95 |
1.0417 |
0.0980 |
253 |
1 |
48.95 |
2012-05-15 |
| 31. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
48.69 |
0.9740 |
0.1581 |
209 |
1 |
48.69 |
2012-05-15 |
| 32. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
48.69 |
1.0218 |
0.1116 |
268 |
2 |
44.72 |
2012-05-15 |
| 33. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
48.56 |
1.0444 |
0.0823 |
197 |
1 |
48.56 |
2012-05-15 |
| 34. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
47.88 |
0.9532 |
0.1627 |
258 |
1 |
47.88 |
2012-05-20 |
| 35. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
47.78 |
0.9684 |
0.1489 |
388 |
1 |
47.78 |
2012-05-20 |
| 36. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
47.69 |
1.0696 |
0.0397 |
226 |
1 |
47.69 |
2012-05-20 |
| 37. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
47.68 |
0.9943 |
0.1213 |
373 |
2 |
41.59 |
2012-05-14 |
| 38. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
47.29 |
1.0063 |
0.0971 |
371 |
1 |
47.29 |
2012-05-15 |
| 39. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
47.13 |
1.0214 |
0.0728 |
166 |
1 |
47.13 |
2012-05-20 |
| 40. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
46.89 |
1.0604 |
0.0668 |
260 |
1 |
46.89 |
2012-05-16 |
| 41. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
46.82 |
1.0684 |
0.0538 |
253 |
1 |
46.82 |
2012-05-14 |
| 42. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
46.67 |
0.9910 |
0.0998 |
295 |
1 |
46.67 |
2012-05-20 |
| 43. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
46.63 |
0.9734 |
0.1145 |
289 |
1 |
46.63 |
2012-05-16 |
| 44. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.23 |
0.9798 |
0.0929 |
199 |
1 |
46.23 |
2012-05-15 |
| 45. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
46.13 |
0.9884 |
0.0917 |
262 |
1 |
46.13 |
2012-05-20 |
| 46. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
46.01 |
1.0621 |
0.0303 |
263 |
1 |
46.01 |
2012-05-14 |
| 47. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
45.76 |
0.8933 |
0.1803 |
363 |
1 |
45.76 |
2012-05-14 |
| 48. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
45.71 |
0.9754 |
0.0965 |
362 |
1 |
45.71 |
2012-05-16 |
| 49. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
45.24 |
1.0445 |
0.0115 |
373 |
2 |
39.80 |
2012-05-13 |
| 50. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
45.11 |
0.9221 |
0.1284 |
244 |
1 |
45.11 |
2012-05-13 |
| 51. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
44.94 |
0.9567 |
0.1335 |
184 |
1 |
44.94 |
2012-05-20 |
| 52. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
44.72 |
0.9785 |
0.0671 |
335 |
1 |
44.72 |
2012-05-14 |
| 53. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
44.62 |
0.9916 |
0.0913 |
282 |
1 |
44.62 |
2012-05-13 |
| 54. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
44.14 |
0.9756 |
0.0520 |
229 |
1 |
44.14 |
2012-05-15 |
| 55. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
43.77 |
1.0613 |
-0.0403 |
266 |
2 |
40.65 |
2012-05-14 |
| 56. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
43.61 |
0.9636 |
0.0525 |
254 |
2 |
37.92 |
2012-05-14 |
| 57. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
43.57 |
0.8562 |
0.1595 |
170 |
1 |
43.57 |
2012-05-14 |
| 58. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
43.41 |
1.0796 |
-0.0734 |
129 |
1 |
43.41 |
2010-02-23 |
| 59. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
43.16 |
0.9461 |
0.0555 |
193 |
1 |
43.16 |
2012-05-15 |
| 60. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
43.02 |
0.8826 |
0.1215 |
296 |
1 |
43.02 |
2012-05-14 |
| 61. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
42.86 |
0.9884 |
0.0099 |
233 |
1 |
42.86 |
2012-05-14 |
| 62. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
42.48 |
0.9430 |
0.0490 |
297 |
1 |
42.48 |
2012-05-14 |
| 63. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
42.32 |
0.8867 |
0.1043 |
241 |
1 |
42.32 |
2012-05-14 |
| 64. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
42.14 |
0.8602 |
0.1196 |
206 |
1 |
42.14 |
2012-05-15 |
| 65. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
42.07 |
0.9871 |
0.0156 |
227 |
1 |
42.07 |
2012-05-14 |
| 66. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
41.93 |
0.8533 |
0.1245 |
232 |
1 |
41.93 |
2012-05-14 |
| 67. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
41.88 |
0.9908 |
0.0308 |
342 |
1 |
41.88 |
2012-05-14 |
| 68. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
40.99 |
1.0943 |
-0.1071 |
206 |
1 |
40.99 |
2012-05-13 |
| 69. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
40.82 |
1.0498 |
-0.1042 |
180 |
1 |
40.82 |
2009-01-19 |
| 70. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
40.61 |
0.9731 |
-0.0402 |
129 |
1 |
40.61 |
2012-05-13 |
| 71. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
40.30 |
0.9559 |
-0.0153 |
195 |
1 |
40.30 |
2010-02-12 |
| 72. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
40.19 |
0.8884 |
0.0473 |
135 |
1 |
40.19 |
2012-05-13 |
| 73. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
40.08 |
0.8544 |
0.0808 |
170 |
1 |
40.08 |
2012-05-13 |
| 74. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
39.77 |
0.9697 |
-0.0439 |
249 |
2 |
37.45 |
2009-01-19 |
| 75. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
39.65 |
1.0885 |
-0.1623 |
315 |
1 |
39.65 |
2009-04-13 |
| 76. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
39.28 |
0.9936 |
-0.0593 |
227 |
1 |
39.28 |
2012-05-14 |
| 77. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
39.11 |
0.9653 |
-0.0467 |
394 |
1 |
39.11 |
2009-01-19 |
| 78. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
38.93 |
1.0168 |
-0.1091 |
271 |
1 |
38.93 |
2010-02-12 |
| 79. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
38.36 |
0.9281 |
-0.0309 |
273 |
1 |
38.36 |
2009-08-26 |
| 80. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
38.06 |
0.9820 |
-0.0968 |
274 |
1 |
38.06 |
2009-08-26 |
| 81. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
37.84 |
0.9196 |
-0.0379 |
148 |
1 |
37.84 |
2010-07-29 |
| 82. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
37.64 |
1.0390 |
-0.1674 |
205 |
1 |
37.64 |
2009-04-13 |
| 83. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
37.44 |
0.9965 |
-0.1252 |
277 |
1 |
37.44 |
2010-02-12 |
| 84. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
37.27 |
0.9726 |
-0.1126 |
154 |
1 |
37.27 |
2010-02-23 |
| 85. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
36.63 |
0.8956 |
-0.0411 |
217 |
2 |
34.34 |
2009-08-26 |
| 86. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
36.11 |
0.9936 |
-0.1544 |
311 |
1 |
36.11 |
2008-11-13 |
| 87. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
35.78 |
0.9965 |
-0.1696 |
168 |
1 |
35.78 |
2009-01-18 |
| 88. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
35.72 |
0.8791 |
-0.0498 |
190 |
1 |
35.72 |
2010-02-12 |
| 89. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
35.47 |
0.8887 |
-0.0501 |
128 |
1 |
35.47 |
2008-11-17 |
| 90. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
35.46 |
1.0666 |
-0.2423 |
297 |
1 |
35.46 |
2009-01-18 |
| 91. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
35.05 |
0.7877 |
0.0313 |
142 |
1 |
35.05 |
2012-05-13 |
| 92. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
34.93 |
0.9251 |
-0.1085 |
177 |
1 |
34.93 |
2009-01-23 |
| 93. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
34.92 |
1.0337 |
-0.2232 |
214 |
2 |
29.43 |
2009-01-28 |
| 94. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
34.81 |
0.9866 |
-0.1814 |
218 |
1 |
34.81 |
2010-02-12 |
| 95. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
34.61 |
0.9461 |
-0.1427 |
276 |
1 |
34.61 |
2010-02-12 |
| 96. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
34.48 |
0.7852 |
0.0220 |
149 |
1 |
34.48 |
2010-02-23 |
| 97. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
34.47 |
0.8810 |
-0.0798 |
282 |
1 |
34.47 |
2008-11-27 |
| 98. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
33.39 |
0.8996 |
-0.1300 |
192 |
1 |
33.39 |
2010-02-23 |
| 99. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
33.20 |
0.8500 |
-0.0731 |
145 |
1 |
33.20 |
2010-02-23 |
| 100. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
33.18 |
0.9365 |
-0.1648 |
248 |
1 |
33.18 |
2009-10-01 |
| 101. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
33.03 |
0.9351 |
-0.1740 |
190 |
2 |
30.34 |
2010-02-23 |
| 102. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
32.94 |
0.8122 |
-0.0449 |
181 |
1 |
32.94 |
2010-02-23 |
| 103. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
32.38 |
0.9289 |
-0.1800 |
204 |
1 |
32.38 |
2009-01-23 |
| 104. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
32.22 |
0.7375 |
0.0146 |
148 |
1 |
32.22 |
2010-02-23 |
| 105. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
32.12 |
1.0521 |
-0.3121 |
171 |
1 |
32.12 |
2009-08-26 |
| 106. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
32.09 |
0.9772 |
-0.2361 |
217 |
1 |
32.09 |
2009-01-16 |
| 107. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
32.01 |
1.0767 |
-0.3364 |
212 |
1 |
32.01 |
2009-01-23 |
| 108. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
31.72 |
0.9986 |
-0.2623 |
283 |
1 |
31.72 |
2009-01-19 |
| 109. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
31.70 |
0.8096 |
-0.0663 |
209 |
1 |
31.70 |
2010-02-12 |
| 110. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
31.68 |
0.8770 |
-0.1390 |
300 |
2 |
30.84 |
2009-01-22 |
| 111. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
31.28 |
0.8961 |
-0.1741 |
189 |
1 |
31.28 |
2009-08-26 |
| 112. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
31.23 |
0.9843 |
-0.2652 |
234 |
1 |
31.23 |
2008-11-27 |
| 113. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
31.22 |
0.9275 |
-0.2066 |
211 |
1 |
31.22 |
2009-01-23 |
| 114. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.07 |
0.8709 |
-0.1425 |
202 |
1 |
31.07 |
2009-01-23 |
| 115. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
30.69 |
0.8890 |
-0.1813 |
199 |
1 |
30.69 |
2010-02-23 |
| 116. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
29.49 |
0.7876 |
-0.1019 |
316 |
1 |
29.49 |
2009-01-23 |
| 117. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
29.44 |
0.8551 |
-0.1722 |
171 |
1 |
29.44 |
2010-02-23 |
| 118. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
28.54 |
0.9068 |
-0.2434 |
269 |
1 |
28.54 |
2009-08-26 |
| 119. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
27.50 |
0.9068 |
-0.2726 |
225 |
1 |
27.50 |
2010-07-29 |
| 120. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
27.08 |
1.0201 |
-0.4004 |
172 |
1 |
27.08 |
2010-02-23 |
| 121. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
26.95 |
0.9682 |
-0.3466 |
143 |
1 |
26.95 |
2008-11-27 |