| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
68.48 |
1.0767 |
0.5270 |
212 |
2 |
54.55 |
2013-04-10 |
| 2. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
62.99 |
1.0444 |
0.4252 |
197 |
3 |
47.80 |
2013-04-11 |
| 3. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
60.04 |
0.9910 |
0.4175 |
295 |
2 |
50.94 |
2013-04-15 |
| 4. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
58.75 |
0.9857 |
0.3890 |
293 |
1 |
58.75 |
2013-04-10 |
| 5. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
58.19 |
1.0214 |
0.3399 |
269 |
1 |
58.19 |
2013-04-10 |
| 6. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
57.31 |
0.9684 |
0.3759 |
388 |
1 |
57.31 |
2013-04-11 |
| 7. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
56.45 |
1.0053 |
0.3141 |
232 |
2 |
54.07 |
2013-11-03 |
| 8. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
56.15 |
0.8791 |
0.4344 |
190 |
1 |
56.15 |
2013-04-15 |
| 9. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
56.01 |
1.0711 |
0.2346 |
213 |
1 |
56.01 |
2013-04-11 |
| 10. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
54.73 |
1.0214 |
0.3018 |
281 |
1 |
54.73 |
2013-04-10 |
| 11. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
54.43 |
0.8899 |
0.3946 |
293 |
1 |
54.43 |
2013-03-21 |
| 12. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
54.30 |
0.9894 |
0.2857 |
323 |
1 |
54.30 |
2013-04-10 |
| 13. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
53.61 |
0.8996 |
0.3492 |
192 |
1 |
53.61 |
2013-04-10 |
| 14. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
53.52 |
1.0213 |
0.2278 |
240 |
1 |
53.52 |
2013-04-10 |
| 15. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
53.01 |
0.9310 |
0.3046 |
188 |
1 |
53.01 |
2013-02-22 |
| 16. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
52.49 |
1.0384 |
0.1793 |
183 |
1 |
52.49 |
2013-03-16 |
| 17. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
52.05 |
1.0419 |
0.1753 |
261 |
1 |
52.05 |
2013-02-22 |
| 18. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
52.00 |
0.8919 |
0.3230 |
205 |
1 |
52.00 |
2013-04-11 |
| 19. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
51.63 |
0.9964 |
0.2111 |
203 |
1 |
51.63 |
2013-03-16 |
| 20. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
50.89 |
0.9316 |
0.2647 |
287 |
1 |
50.89 |
2013-03-16 |
| 21. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
50.42 |
0.9681 |
0.2191 |
378 |
1 |
50.42 |
2013-04-10 |
| 22. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
50.15 |
1.0120 |
0.1597 |
290 |
3 |
39.14 |
2013-03-16 |
| 23. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
50.09 |
1.0669 |
0.1365 |
286 |
1 |
50.09 |
2013-04-29 |
| 24. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
50.07 |
0.9785 |
0.1925 |
154 |
1 |
50.07 |
2013-03-13 |
| 25. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
49.88 |
0.9233 |
0.2346 |
168 |
1 |
49.88 |
2013-04-10 |
| 26. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
49.47 |
1.0183 |
0.1326 |
191 |
1 |
49.47 |
2013-05-02 |
| 27. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
49.46 |
0.9418 |
0.2205 |
188 |
1 |
49.46 |
2013-02-22 |
| 28. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
49.14 |
0.9216 |
0.2663 |
255 |
1 |
49.14 |
2013-02-22 |
| 29. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
48.72 |
1.0389 |
0.1021 |
340 |
2 |
43.87 |
2013-03-14 |
| 30. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
48.51 |
1.1014 |
0.0700 |
273 |
1 |
48.51 |
2013-04-11 |
| 31. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
48.36 |
0.9567 |
0.2159 |
184 |
1 |
48.36 |
2013-10-27 |
| 32. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
48.10 |
0.9243 |
0.2395 |
448 |
1 |
48.10 |
2013-02-22 |
| 33. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
48.10 |
0.8842 |
0.2360 |
135 |
1 |
48.10 |
2013-03-10 |
| 34. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
47.96 |
1.0396 |
0.0740 |
149 |
1 |
47.96 |
2013-03-21 |
| 35. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
47.68 |
0.9275 |
0.1836 |
211 |
1 |
47.68 |
2013-04-10 |
| 36. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
47.46 |
1.0033 |
0.0988 |
189 |
1 |
47.46 |
2013-04-09 |
| 37. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
47.27 |
1.1018 |
-0.0040 |
220 |
2 |
46.13 |
2013-04-10 |
| 38. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
47.14 |
0.9485 |
0.1545 |
236 |
1 |
47.14 |
2013-02-22 |
| 39. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
47.05 |
0.8890 |
0.2067 |
199 |
1 |
47.05 |
2013-02-22 |
| 40. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
45.77 |
1.0381 |
0.0201 |
170 |
1 |
45.77 |
2013-02-25 |
| 41. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
45.54 |
0.9612 |
0.1027 |
256 |
2 |
41.28 |
2013-03-11 |
| 42. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
45.46 |
0.8912 |
0.1726 |
186 |
2 |
40.20 |
2013-03-16 |
| 43. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
45.45 |
0.9514 |
0.1103 |
237 |
1 |
45.45 |
2013-04-11 |
| 44. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
45.09 |
0.9904 |
0.1029 |
203 |
1 |
45.09 |
2013-02-22 |
| 45. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
44.85 |
1.0417 |
0.0028 |
253 |
1 |
44.85 |
2013-04-10 |
| 46. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
44.79 |
1.1215 |
-0.0518 |
200 |
2 |
42.87 |
2013-03-14 |
| 47. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
44.54 |
0.9965 |
0.0387 |
168 |
1 |
44.54 |
2013-03-16 |
| 48. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
44.07 |
0.9263 |
0.1059 |
188 |
1 |
44.07 |
2013-03-13 |
| 49. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
44.04 |
1.0025 |
0.0252 |
256 |
1 |
44.04 |
2013-03-16 |
| 50. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
43.56 |
0.9171 |
0.1004 |
165 |
2 |
39.83 |
2013-03-16 |
| 51. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
43.28 |
0.7731 |
0.2391 |
145 |
1 |
43.28 |
2013-03-13 |
| 52. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
43.20 |
0.9936 |
0.0145 |
311 |
1 |
43.20 |
2013-03-11 |
| 53. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
43.08 |
1.0211 |
0.0147 |
213 |
2 |
42.07 |
2013-04-29 |
| 54. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
42.96 |
0.8559 |
0.1477 |
191 |
1 |
42.96 |
2013-02-22 |
| 55. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
42.74 |
0.9986 |
-0.0065 |
162 |
1 |
42.74 |
2013-03-14 |
| 56. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
42.72 |
0.9943 |
0.0056 |
373 |
1 |
42.72 |
2013-03-21 |
| 57. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
42.66 |
1.0252 |
-0.0363 |
176 |
1 |
42.66 |
2013-03-13 |
| 58. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
42.52 |
1.0013 |
-0.0102 |
273 |
1 |
42.52 |
2013-03-13 |
| 59. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
42.36 |
0.9855 |
0.0363 |
258 |
1 |
42.36 |
2013-03-13 |
| 60. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
42.22 |
0.9706 |
0.0186 |
216 |
1 |
42.22 |
2013-03-21 |
| 61. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
42.18 |
1.0328 |
-0.0102 |
356 |
1 |
42.18 |
2013-04-10 |
| 62. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
42.14 |
0.9396 |
0.0407 |
119 |
1 |
42.14 |
2013-03-16 |
| 63. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
41.96 |
0.9873 |
-0.0116 |
155 |
1 |
41.96 |
2013-03-16 |
| 64. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
41.94 |
1.0907 |
-0.1100 |
303 |
1 |
41.94 |
2013-03-11 |
| 65. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
41.94 |
1.0288 |
-0.0181 |
300 |
3 |
39.46 |
2013-04-10 |
| 66. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
41.55 |
1.0943 |
-0.0924 |
206 |
1 |
41.55 |
2013-02-22 |
| 67. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
41.32 |
0.9688 |
-0.0059 |
217 |
1 |
41.32 |
2013-02-22 |
| 68. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
41.01 |
0.8961 |
0.0569 |
189 |
1 |
41.01 |
2013-04-11 |
| 69. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
40.96 |
1.0232 |
-0.0221 |
350 |
1 |
40.96 |
2013-02-22 |
| 70. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
40.94 |
0.9769 |
-0.0241 |
263 |
1 |
40.94 |
2013-02-22 |
| 71. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
40.90 |
0.8731 |
0.0878 |
199 |
1 |
40.90 |
2013-03-14 |
| 72. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
40.88 |
0.9411 |
0.0131 |
318 |
1 |
40.88 |
2013-03-13 |
| 73. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
40.79 |
0.9776 |
-0.0260 |
308 |
1 |
40.79 |
2013-05-02 |
| 74. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
40.55 |
0.9754 |
-0.0239 |
362 |
1 |
40.55 |
2013-03-16 |
| 75. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
40.42 |
1.0270 |
-0.0487 |
255 |
1 |
40.42 |
2013-03-18 |
| 76. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
40.15 |
1.0388 |
-0.0709 |
243 |
1 |
40.15 |
2013-03-16 |
| 77. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
39.96 |
0.9670 |
0.0067 |
307 |
1 |
39.96 |
2013-03-13 |
| 78. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
39.74 |
0.8809 |
0.0435 |
127 |
1 |
39.74 |
2013-03-14 |
| 79. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
39.69 |
0.9936 |
-0.0482 |
227 |
1 |
39.69 |
2013-03-13 |
| 80. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
39.66 |
1.0314 |
-0.1103 |
172 |
1 |
39.66 |
2013-03-21 |
| 81. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
39.23 |
0.8811 |
0.0377 |
239 |
1 |
39.23 |
2013-02-22 |
| 82. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
39.10 |
0.9763 |
-0.0657 |
289 |
1 |
39.10 |
2013-03-09 |
| 83. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
39.08 |
0.8773 |
0.0371 |
205 |
1 |
39.08 |
2013-03-27 |
| 84. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
38.91 |
1.0795 |
-0.1424 |
226 |
1 |
38.91 |
2013-02-25 |
| 85. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
38.85 |
0.9976 |
-0.0718 |
174 |
1 |
38.85 |
2013-03-16 |
| 86. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
38.85 |
0.9098 |
-0.0084 |
167 |
1 |
38.85 |
2013-02-22 |
| 87. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
38.73 |
0.8353 |
0.0746 |
283 |
1 |
38.73 |
2013-03-09 |
| 88. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
38.61 |
1.0214 |
-0.1271 |
166 |
1 |
38.61 |
2013-03-13 |
| 89. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
38.45 |
1.0201 |
-0.1306 |
172 |
1 |
38.45 |
2013-03-13 |
| 90. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
38.40 |
0.8629 |
0.0361 |
299 |
1 |
38.40 |
2013-03-18 |
| 91. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
38.38 |
0.9157 |
-0.0168 |
350 |
1 |
38.38 |
2013-05-02 |
| 92. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
38.32 |
1.0379 |
-0.1103 |
245 |
2 |
36.91 |
2013-03-13 |
| 93. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
38.28 |
1.0025 |
-0.1097 |
336 |
2 |
35.73 |
2013-02-25 |
| 94. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
38.21 |
1.0125 |
-0.1247 |
224 |
1 |
38.21 |
2013-02-22 |
| 95. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
38.20 |
0.9758 |
-0.0851 |
314 |
1 |
38.20 |
2013-03-16 |
| 96. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
38.19 |
1.0740 |
-0.1461 |
264 |
1 |
38.19 |
2013-02-25 |
| 97. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
38.18 |
0.9128 |
-0.0179 |
133 |
1 |
38.18 |
2013-02-21 |
| 98. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
37.90 |
0.8553 |
0.0227 |
174 |
1 |
37.90 |
2013-03-14 |
| 99. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
37.77 |
0.8715 |
0.0058 |
130 |
1 |
37.77 |
2013-03-09 |
| 100. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
37.76 |
0.8770 |
0.0057 |
300 |
2 |
36.75 |
2013-03-11 |
| 101. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
37.70 |
1.0412 |
-0.1637 |
225 |
1 |
37.70 |
2013-03-11 |
| 102. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
37.65 |
1.0555 |
-0.1771 |
363 |
1 |
37.65 |
2013-03-16 |
| 103. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
37.55 |
0.9353 |
-0.0651 |
177 |
1 |
37.55 |
2013-02-21 |
| 104. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
37.40 |
0.9350 |
-0.0633 |
195 |
1 |
37.40 |
2013-02-25 |
| 105. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
37.37 |
0.8595 |
0.0130 |
242 |
1 |
37.37 |
2013-03-16 |
| 106. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
37.26 |
1.0385 |
-0.1726 |
230 |
1 |
37.26 |
2013-02-22 |
| 107. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
37.20 |
0.9774 |
-0.1122 |
196 |
2 |
36.56 |
2013-03-16 |
| 108. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
37.13 |
1.0261 |
-0.1634 |
273 |
1 |
37.13 |
2013-02-22 |
| 109. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
36.99 |
0.8096 |
0.0599 |
209 |
1 |
36.99 |
2013-03-14 |
| 110. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
36.94 |
1.0331 |
-0.1752 |
234 |
1 |
36.94 |
2013-02-25 |
| 111. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
36.59 |
1.0254 |
-0.1329 |
217 |
1 |
36.59 |
2013-03-21 |
| 112. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
36.45 |
0.8914 |
-0.0423 |
366 |
1 |
36.45 |
2013-04-12 |
| 113. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
36.24 |
0.8382 |
0.0064 |
268 |
2 |
34.68 |
2013-05-02 |
| 114. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
36.13 |
0.8295 |
0.0134 |
209 |
1 |
36.13 |
2013-02-22 |
| 115. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
36.07 |
1.0516 |
-0.2126 |
281 |
1 |
36.07 |
2013-03-13 |
| 116. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
35.82 |
1.0598 |
-0.2322 |
196 |
1 |
35.82 |
2013-02-22 |
| 117. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
35.77 |
0.9726 |
-0.1470 |
154 |
1 |
35.77 |
2013-03-13 |
| 118. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
35.73 |
1.0031 |
-0.1381 |
304 |
1 |
35.73 |
2013-02-25 |
| 119. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
35.42 |
1.0320 |
-0.1705 |
293 |
1 |
35.42 |
2013-02-25 |
| 120. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
35.38 |
0.9773 |
-0.1620 |
123 |
1 |
35.38 |
2013-03-21 |
| 121. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
35.35 |
1.0621 |
-0.2201 |
263 |
1 |
35.35 |
2013-03-16 |
| 122. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
34.63 |
0.8916 |
-0.0856 |
216 |
1 |
34.63 |
2013-02-22 |
| 123. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
34.47 |
0.9916 |
-0.1471 |
282 |
1 |
34.47 |
2013-03-11 |
| 124. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
34.27 |
0.9911 |
-0.1977 |
212 |
1 |
34.27 |
2013-02-11 |
| 125. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
33.91 |
0.9005 |
-0.1134 |
212 |
1 |
33.91 |
2013-03-13 |
| 126. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
33.43 |
0.9649 |
-0.1885 |
193 |
1 |
33.43 |
2013-03-16 |
| 127. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
33.33 |
1.0403 |
-0.2256 |
275 |
2 |
32.68 |
2013-03-16 |
| 128. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
33.28 |
1.0972 |
-0.2940 |
251 |
1 |
33.28 |
2013-02-25 |
| 129. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
33.02 |
0.9665 |
-0.1496 |
326 |
1 |
33.02 |
2013-03-13 |
| 130. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
32.80 |
0.9368 |
-0.1743 |
173 |
1 |
32.80 |
2013-02-21 |
| 131. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
31.87 |
0.7988 |
-0.0500 |
219 |
1 |
31.87 |
2013-02-21 |
| 132. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
31.01 |
0.9207 |
-0.1982 |
174 |
2 |
29.12 |
2013-03-11 |
| 133. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
29.81 |
0.9633 |
-0.2694 |
304 |
1 |
29.81 |
2013-03-16 |
| 134. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
29.61 |
0.8845 |
-0.1975 |
273 |
1 |
29.61 |
2013-03-16 |
| 135. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
29.49 |
0.9125 |
-0.2265 |
308 |
1 |
29.49 |
2013-02-20 |
| 136. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
28.39 |
0.8442 |
-0.1821 |
265 |
1 |
28.39 |
2013-02-11 |
| 137. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
27.76 |
0.9871 |
-0.3077 |
209 |
1 |
27.76 |
2013-02-25 |
| 138. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
25.98 |
0.9731 |
-0.3846 |
129 |
1 |
25.98 |
2013-04-11 |
| 139. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
22.96 |
0.8852 |
-0.3531 |
201 |
1 |
22.96 |
2013-03-13 |