| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
98.81 |
1.0099 |
0.1940 |
207 |
3 |
83.16 |
2011-09-20 |
| 2. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
96.32 |
1.0768 |
0.1393 |
295 |
1 |
96.32 |
2011-09-20 |
| 3. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
94.59 |
1.0740 |
0.1190 |
264 |
1 |
94.59 |
2011-09-18 |
| 4. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
94.01 |
1.1114 |
0.0334 |
247 |
1 |
94.01 |
2011-09-18 |
| 5. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
93.95 |
1.0602 |
0.0906 |
389 |
1 |
93.95 |
2011-09-18 |
| 6. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
93.34 |
1.1323 |
0.0406 |
341 |
2 |
88.08 |
2011-09-20 |
| 7. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
92.06 |
1.0613 |
0.0630 |
266 |
1 |
92.06 |
2011-09-19 |
| 8. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
92.05 |
1.0252 |
0.0916 |
176 |
1 |
92.05 |
2011-09-20 |
| 9. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
91.95 |
0.9353 |
0.1827 |
177 |
1 |
91.95 |
2011-09-18 |
| 10. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
91.21 |
1.0883 |
0.0567 |
303 |
2 |
87.88 |
2011-09-19 |
| 11. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
90.47 |
1.0917 |
0.0356 |
243 |
1 |
90.47 |
2011-09-20 |
| 12. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
90.24 |
1.0340 |
0.0722 |
406 |
1 |
90.24 |
2011-09-18 |
| 13. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
90.12 |
0.9646 |
0.1340 |
264 |
1 |
90.12 |
2011-09-18 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
89.83 |
1.0444 |
0.0449 |
197 |
1 |
89.83 |
2011-09-18 |
| 15. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
89.38 |
1.0016 |
0.0842 |
218 |
2 |
86.45 |
2011-09-19 |
| 16. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
88.46 |
1.0403 |
0.0786 |
275 |
1 |
88.46 |
2011-09-19 |
| 17. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
88.37 |
1.0197 |
0.0553 |
226 |
1 |
88.37 |
2011-09-18 |
| 18. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
88.17 |
1.0320 |
0.0807 |
293 |
1 |
88.17 |
2011-09-19 |
| 19. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
88.05 |
1.0284 |
0.0888 |
282 |
2 |
78.88 |
2011-09-19 |
| 20. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
86.85 |
0.9569 |
0.1291 |
410 |
1 |
86.85 |
2011-09-18 |
| 21. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
86.76 |
1.0516 |
0.0060 |
281 |
1 |
86.76 |
2011-09-19 |
| 22. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
86.72 |
1.0613 |
0.0012 |
456 |
1 |
86.72 |
2011-09-18 |
| 23. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
86.67 |
1.0885 |
0.0033 |
341 |
1 |
86.67 |
2011-09-18 |
| 24. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
86.62 |
1.0213 |
0.0318 |
240 |
1 |
86.62 |
2011-09-18 |
| 25. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
86.53 |
1.0141 |
0.0774 |
304 |
1 |
86.53 |
2011-09-18 |
| 26. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
86.39 |
1.0972 |
-0.0142 |
251 |
1 |
86.39 |
2011-09-18 |
| 27. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
85.96 |
0.8961 |
0.1486 |
189 |
1 |
85.96 |
2011-09-19 |
| 28. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
85.70 |
1.0385 |
0.0046 |
230 |
1 |
85.70 |
2011-09-19 |
| 29. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
85.49 |
0.9911 |
0.0479 |
212 |
2 |
84.23 |
2011-09-20 |
| 30. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
84.87 |
0.9786 |
0.0556 |
235 |
1 |
84.87 |
2011-09-18 |
| 31. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
84.73 |
1.0167 |
0.0231 |
378 |
1 |
84.73 |
2011-09-18 |
| 32. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
84.64 |
1.0666 |
-0.0347 |
297 |
2 |
83.67 |
2011-09-20 |
| 33. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
84.39 |
0.9593 |
0.0742 |
398 |
1 |
84.39 |
2011-09-19 |
| 34. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
84.01 |
1.1296 |
-0.0764 |
252 |
2 |
83.32 |
2011-09-19 |
| 35. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
83.87 |
1.0334 |
-0.0176 |
131 |
1 |
83.87 |
2011-09-19 |
| 36. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
83.71 |
1.0725 |
-0.0263 |
233 |
1 |
83.71 |
2011-09-20 |
| 37. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
83.48 |
1.0515 |
-0.0359 |
250 |
1 |
83.48 |
2011-09-20 |
| 38. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
83.29 |
0.9898 |
0.0630 |
353 |
2 |
79.91 |
2011-09-19 |
| 39. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
83.17 |
0.9831 |
0.0280 |
222 |
1 |
83.17 |
2011-09-19 |
| 40. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
82.87 |
1.0774 |
-0.0380 |
304 |
1 |
82.87 |
2011-09-19 |
| 41. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
82.80 |
1.0829 |
-0.0723 |
288 |
1 |
82.80 |
2011-09-18 |
| 42. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
82.77 |
0.9157 |
0.0980 |
350 |
1 |
82.77 |
2011-09-19 |
| 43. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
82.11 |
1.0463 |
-0.0503 |
182 |
1 |
82.11 |
2011-09-20 |
| 44. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
81.86 |
0.9670 |
0.0726 |
307 |
1 |
81.86 |
2011-09-18 |
| 45. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
81.83 |
1.0073 |
-0.0021 |
369 |
1 |
81.83 |
2011-09-19 |
| 46. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
81.65 |
1.0608 |
-0.0326 |
258 |
1 |
81.65 |
2011-09-18 |
| 47. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
81.44 |
0.9938 |
-0.0007 |
339 |
3 |
77.99 |
2011-09-20 |
| 48. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
81.28 |
0.9763 |
0.0136 |
289 |
1 |
81.28 |
2011-09-19 |
| 49. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
81.25 |
1.1162 |
-0.0852 |
189 |
1 |
81.25 |
2011-09-19 |
| 50. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
81.18 |
0.9691 |
0.0195 |
223 |
1 |
81.18 |
2011-09-20 |
| 51. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
81.14 |
1.0677 |
-0.0487 |
284 |
1 |
81.14 |
2011-09-18 |
| 52. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
81.04 |
1.0214 |
-0.0357 |
269 |
1 |
81.04 |
2011-09-19 |
| 53. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
80.75 |
0.9936 |
-0.0101 |
311 |
1 |
80.75 |
2011-09-18 |
| 54. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
80.27 |
0.9532 |
0.0234 |
258 |
1 |
80.27 |
2011-09-19 |
| 55. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
80.16 |
0.9795 |
-0.0030 |
308 |
1 |
80.16 |
2011-09-18 |
| 56. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
80.13 |
1.0502 |
-0.0475 |
535 |
1 |
80.13 |
2011-09-19 |
| 57. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
80.07 |
0.9879 |
-0.0038 |
450 |
1 |
80.07 |
2011-09-19 |
| 58. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
79.79 |
0.9614 |
0.0136 |
292 |
2 |
75.85 |
2011-09-19 |
| 59. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
79.74 |
0.9710 |
-0.0061 |
173 |
2 |
79.06 |
2011-09-19 |
| 60. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
79.71 |
0.9897 |
-0.0210 |
274 |
1 |
79.71 |
2011-09-19 |
| 61. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
79.57 |
1.0347 |
-0.0400 |
550 |
1 |
79.57 |
2011-09-19 |
| 62. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
79.40 |
0.9426 |
0.0277 |
317 |
1 |
79.40 |
2011-09-20 |
| 63. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
79.26 |
0.9756 |
-0.0115 |
229 |
2 |
74.80 |
2011-09-20 |
| 64. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
79.22 |
1.0391 |
-0.0681 |
358 |
1 |
79.22 |
2011-09-18 |
| 65. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
79.14 |
0.9651 |
0.0347 |
389 |
1 |
79.14 |
2011-09-19 |
| 66. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
79.10 |
0.9871 |
0.0126 |
209 |
1 |
79.10 |
2011-09-19 |
| 67. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
79.02 |
0.9986 |
-0.0355 |
283 |
1 |
79.02 |
2011-09-18 |
| 68. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
78.97 |
1.0595 |
-0.0951 |
379 |
1 |
78.97 |
2011-09-19 |
| 69. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
78.87 |
1.0173 |
-0.0125 |
268 |
1 |
78.87 |
2011-09-19 |
| 70. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
78.83 |
0.9665 |
0.0429 |
326 |
1 |
78.83 |
2011-09-19 |
| 71. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
78.79 |
0.9309 |
0.0268 |
284 |
1 |
78.79 |
2011-09-20 |
| 72. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
78.78 |
1.0012 |
-0.0384 |
260 |
1 |
78.78 |
2011-09-19 |
| 73. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
78.60 |
0.9855 |
0.0051 |
258 |
1 |
78.60 |
2011-09-19 |
| 74. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
78.51 |
0.9709 |
0.0263 |
397 |
1 |
78.51 |
2011-09-19 |
| 75. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
78.22 |
0.9513 |
0.0051 |
354 |
1 |
78.22 |
2011-09-19 |
| 76. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
78.16 |
1.0711 |
-0.1243 |
213 |
1 |
78.16 |
2011-09-19 |
| 77. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
78.07 |
1.0441 |
-0.0520 |
316 |
2 |
77.66 |
2011-09-19 |
| 78. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
78.01 |
0.8878 |
0.0620 |
346 |
2 |
75.72 |
2011-09-18 |
| 79. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
78.00 |
0.9684 |
-0.0158 |
388 |
1 |
78.00 |
2011-09-19 |
| 80. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
77.84 |
1.0240 |
-0.0787 |
256 |
1 |
77.84 |
2011-09-19 |
| 81. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
77.68 |
1.0398 |
-0.1044 |
110 |
1 |
77.68 |
2011-09-18 |
| 82. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
77.44 |
0.9653 |
-0.0232 |
349 |
1 |
77.44 |
2011-09-19 |
| 83. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
77.21 |
1.0168 |
-0.0753 |
271 |
1 |
77.21 |
2011-09-18 |
| 84. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
77.13 |
0.9632 |
-0.0177 |
392 |
1 |
77.13 |
2011-09-19 |
| 85. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
76.68 |
1.0138 |
-0.0806 |
231 |
1 |
76.68 |
2011-09-18 |
| 86. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
75.51 |
0.9342 |
-0.0115 |
434 |
1 |
75.51 |
2011-09-18 |
| 87. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
75.06 |
0.9905 |
-0.0455 |
337 |
2 |
74.54 |
2011-09-19 |
| 88. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
74.88 |
1.0331 |
-0.1239 |
234 |
1 |
74.88 |
2011-09-19 |
| 89. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
74.54 |
1.0788 |
-0.1772 |
171 |
1 |
74.54 |
2011-09-19 |
| 90. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
74.13 |
1.0169 |
-0.0762 |
346 |
1 |
74.13 |
2011-09-18 |
| 91. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
73.94 |
1.0025 |
-0.1028 |
256 |
1 |
73.94 |
2011-09-18 |
| 92. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
73.71 |
0.9852 |
-0.0880 |
264 |
1 |
73.71 |
2011-09-18 |
| 93. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
73.41 |
0.9566 |
-0.0408 |
576 |
1 |
73.41 |
2011-09-19 |
| 94. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
72.83 |
1.0214 |
-0.1407 |
166 |
1 |
72.83 |
2011-09-18 |
| 95. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
72.59 |
0.9814 |
-0.0589 |
364 |
1 |
72.59 |
2011-09-18 |
| 96. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
72.14 |
0.9780 |
-0.0994 |
337 |
1 |
72.14 |
2011-09-19 |
| 97. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
71.55 |
0.9758 |
-0.1048 |
314 |
1 |
71.55 |
2011-09-18 |
| 98. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
70.71 |
1.0289 |
-0.1646 |
276 |
1 |
70.71 |
2011-09-18 |
| 99. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
70.52 |
0.9851 |
-0.1253 |
317 |
1 |
70.52 |
2011-09-19 |
| 100. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
70.39 |
0.8956 |
-0.0350 |
322 |
1 |
70.39 |
2011-09-19 |
| 101. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
70.35 |
1.0025 |
-0.1461 |
336 |
1 |
70.35 |
2011-09-19 |
| 102. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
69.79 |
0.9681 |
-0.1113 |
378 |
1 |
69.79 |
2011-09-19 |
| 103. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
68.71 |
1.0141 |
-0.1388 |
381 |
1 |
68.71 |
2011-09-18 |
| 104. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
67.76 |
1.0090 |
-0.1417 |
282 |
1 |
67.76 |
2011-09-18 |
| 105. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
65.49 |
0.9805 |
-0.1804 |
292 |
1 |
65.49 |
2011-09-18 |
| 106. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
61.92 |
0.9155 |
-0.1148 |
168 |
1 |
61.92 |
2011-09-18 |
| 107. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
59.09 |
0.8467 |
-0.1060 |
343 |
1 |
59.09 |
2011-09-18 |