| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
108.65 |
1.0684 |
0.1592 |
253 |
2 |
100.06 |
2010-12-14 |
| 2. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
106.78 |
1.0349 |
0.1414 |
234 |
1 |
106.78 |
2010-12-17 |
| 3. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
104.28 |
1.0444 |
0.0981 |
197 |
1 |
104.28 |
2010-12-14 |
| 4. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
103.89 |
1.1323 |
0.0462 |
341 |
1 |
103.89 |
2010-12-17 |
| 5. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
103.85 |
1.0296 |
0.1211 |
437 |
2 |
95.18 |
2010-12-17 |
| 6. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
103.35 |
0.9941 |
0.1422 |
217 |
1 |
103.35 |
2010-12-19 |
| 7. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
103.29 |
1.0337 |
0.1038 |
214 |
1 |
103.29 |
2010-12-17 |
| 8. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
102.92 |
1.1081 |
0.0604 |
206 |
1 |
102.92 |
2010-12-17 |
| 9. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
102.43 |
1.0441 |
0.0859 |
252 |
1 |
102.43 |
2010-12-17 |
| 10. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
102.27 |
1.0487 |
0.0730 |
231 |
3 |
95.58 |
2010-12-14 |
| 11. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
101.66 |
1.0506 |
0.0981 |
277 |
1 |
101.66 |
2010-12-17 |
| 12. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
101.52 |
1.0767 |
0.0394 |
212 |
2 |
93.11 |
2010-12-14 |
| 13. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
101.32 |
0.9991 |
0.1175 |
225 |
1 |
101.32 |
2010-12-14 |
| 14. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
101.29 |
1.0477 |
0.0705 |
360 |
2 |
99.66 |
2010-12-19 |
| 15. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
101.27 |
1.1014 |
0.0520 |
273 |
1 |
101.27 |
2010-12-14 |
| 16. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
101.22 |
0.9865 |
0.1296 |
276 |
1 |
101.22 |
2010-12-17 |
| 17. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
101.18 |
1.0515 |
0.0612 |
250 |
1 |
101.18 |
2010-12-17 |
| 18. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
101.17 |
0.9965 |
0.1131 |
168 |
1 |
101.17 |
2010-12-17 |
| 19. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
100.74 |
1.0666 |
0.0432 |
297 |
1 |
100.74 |
2010-12-17 |
| 20. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
100.54 |
1.0885 |
0.0222 |
315 |
2 |
95.87 |
2010-12-17 |
| 21. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
100.53 |
0.9289 |
0.1761 |
204 |
1 |
100.53 |
2010-12-19 |
| 22. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
100.45 |
0.9266 |
0.1799 |
267 |
1 |
100.45 |
2010-12-17 |
| 23. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
100.41 |
1.0454 |
0.0569 |
255 |
1 |
100.41 |
2010-12-17 |
| 24. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
99.76 |
0.9946 |
0.1039 |
246 |
1 |
99.76 |
2010-12-17 |
| 25. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
99.48 |
1.0284 |
0.1105 |
282 |
1 |
99.48 |
2010-12-14 |
| 26. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
99.31 |
0.9833 |
0.1120 |
355 |
2 |
98.82 |
2010-12-17 |
| 27. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
99.07 |
0.9614 |
0.1326 |
292 |
1 |
99.07 |
2010-12-19 |
| 28. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
98.93 |
1.0385 |
0.0492 |
230 |
2 |
91.07 |
2010-12-14 |
| 29. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
98.63 |
1.0004 |
0.0796 |
212 |
1 |
98.63 |
2010-12-14 |
| 30. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
97.70 |
1.0662 |
0.0473 |
407 |
2 |
94.78 |
2010-12-15 |
| 31. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
97.57 |
0.9965 |
0.0784 |
277 |
1 |
97.57 |
2010-12-17 |
| 32. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
97.38 |
1.0053 |
0.0649 |
232 |
2 |
83.30 |
2010-12-17 |
| 33. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
97.20 |
1.0201 |
0.0505 |
303 |
1 |
97.20 |
2010-12-14 |
| 34. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
96.97 |
0.9905 |
0.0849 |
377 |
1 |
96.97 |
2010-12-14 |
| 35. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
96.57 |
0.9351 |
0.1226 |
190 |
3 |
90.69 |
2010-12-17 |
| 36. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
96.50 |
0.9893 |
0.0732 |
323 |
1 |
96.50 |
2010-12-19 |
| 37. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
96.19 |
1.0529 |
0.0060 |
351 |
1 |
96.19 |
2010-12-14 |
| 38. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
95.68 |
1.0388 |
0.0461 |
243 |
1 |
95.68 |
2010-12-14 |
| 39. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
95.61 |
1.0462 |
0.0002 |
184 |
1 |
95.61 |
2010-12-14 |
| 40. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
95.54 |
1.0829 |
-0.0297 |
288 |
1 |
95.54 |
2010-12-13 |
| 41. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
95.28 |
0.9855 |
0.0966 |
258 |
1 |
95.28 |
2010-12-14 |
| 42. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
94.93 |
1.0117 |
0.0780 |
297 |
1 |
94.93 |
2010-12-19 |
| 43. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
94.84 |
1.0189 |
0.0283 |
337 |
1 |
94.84 |
2010-12-14 |
| 44. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
94.55 |
1.0314 |
0.0485 |
452 |
1 |
94.55 |
2010-12-14 |
| 45. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
94.54 |
1.0795 |
-0.0084 |
226 |
1 |
94.54 |
2010-12-13 |
| 46. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
94.16 |
1.0567 |
-0.0198 |
303 |
1 |
94.16 |
2010-12-17 |
| 47. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
94.00 |
0.9792 |
0.0938 |
265 |
1 |
94.00 |
2010-12-17 |
| 48. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
93.98 |
1.0399 |
-0.0004 |
294 |
2 |
91.78 |
2010-12-15 |
| 49. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
93.92 |
1.0343 |
0.0368 |
242 |
1 |
93.92 |
2010-12-14 |
| 50. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
93.75 |
1.0150 |
0.0658 |
325 |
1 |
93.75 |
2010-12-14 |
| 51. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
93.46 |
1.0608 |
0.0010 |
258 |
1 |
93.46 |
2010-12-13 |
| 52. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
93.41 |
1.0331 |
-0.0073 |
234 |
1 |
93.41 |
2010-12-14 |
| 53. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
92.99 |
1.0292 |
-0.0072 |
262 |
1 |
92.99 |
2010-12-17 |
| 54. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
92.73 |
1.0138 |
0.0062 |
231 |
1 |
92.73 |
2010-12-14 |
| 55. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
92.70 |
0.9468 |
0.0728 |
276 |
1 |
92.70 |
2010-12-17 |
| 56. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
92.06 |
1.0264 |
0.0266 |
422 |
2 |
90.59 |
2010-12-14 |
| 57. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
91.99 |
1.0261 |
-0.0158 |
273 |
1 |
91.99 |
2010-12-14 |
| 58. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
91.89 |
1.0109 |
0.0009 |
276 |
1 |
91.89 |
2010-12-17 |
| 59. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
91.65 |
1.0725 |
-0.0383 |
233 |
1 |
91.65 |
2010-12-17 |
| 60. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
91.32 |
1.0099 |
-0.0081 |
207 |
1 |
91.32 |
2010-12-19 |
| 61. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
91.25 |
1.0993 |
-0.0975 |
265 |
1 |
91.25 |
2010-12-14 |
| 62. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
91.16 |
0.9734 |
0.0292 |
289 |
1 |
91.16 |
2010-12-14 |
| 63. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
90.41 |
0.9976 |
0.0171 |
174 |
1 |
90.41 |
2010-12-17 |
| 64. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
90.37 |
1.0498 |
-0.0605 |
180 |
1 |
90.37 |
2010-12-13 |
| 65. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
90.34 |
0.9372 |
0.0606 |
320 |
1 |
90.34 |
2010-12-19 |
| 66. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
89.83 |
1.0347 |
-0.0212 |
550 |
1 |
89.83 |
2010-12-14 |
| 67. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
89.66 |
1.0398 |
-0.0641 |
110 |
1 |
89.66 |
2010-12-14 |
| 68. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
89.58 |
0.9676 |
0.0260 |
442 |
1 |
89.58 |
2010-12-17 |
| 69. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
88.98 |
1.0201 |
-0.0483 |
172 |
1 |
88.98 |
2010-12-14 |
| 70. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
88.96 |
0.9527 |
0.0256 |
251 |
1 |
88.96 |
2010-12-13 |
| 71. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
88.71 |
0.9649 |
0.0096 |
193 |
1 |
88.71 |
2010-12-13 |
| 72. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
88.59 |
1.0025 |
-0.0273 |
336 |
1 |
88.59 |
2010-12-13 |
| 73. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
88.53 |
1.0441 |
-0.0292 |
316 |
1 |
88.53 |
2010-12-19 |
| 74. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
88.35 |
0.8105 |
0.1568 |
204 |
1 |
88.35 |
2010-12-19 |
| 75. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
88.34 |
1.0391 |
-0.0615 |
358 |
1 |
88.34 |
2010-12-14 |
| 76. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
88.30 |
1.0358 |
-0.0232 |
349 |
1 |
88.30 |
2010-12-14 |
| 77. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
87.98 |
0.9216 |
0.0848 |
255 |
2 |
80.64 |
2010-12-17 |
| 78. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
87.16 |
0.9509 |
0.0458 |
225 |
1 |
87.16 |
2010-12-17 |
| 79. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
86.86 |
0.9698 |
0.0181 |
397 |
2 |
83.71 |
2010-12-14 |
| 80. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
86.71 |
0.9371 |
0.0551 |
318 |
1 |
86.71 |
2010-12-17 |
| 81. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
86.37 |
0.9684 |
-0.0162 |
388 |
1 |
86.37 |
2010-12-14 |
| 82. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
86.19 |
1.0034 |
-0.0574 |
302 |
1 |
86.19 |
2010-12-13 |
| 83. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
86.09 |
0.9785 |
-0.0289 |
335 |
2 |
82.49 |
2010-12-13 |
| 84. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
85.88 |
1.0496 |
-0.1062 |
314 |
1 |
85.88 |
2010-12-13 |
| 85. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
85.75 |
0.9109 |
0.0343 |
401 |
2 |
79.04 |
2010-12-14 |
| 86. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
85.68 |
0.9790 |
0.0034 |
311 |
1 |
85.68 |
2010-12-14 |
| 87. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
84.65 |
0.9553 |
-0.0177 |
430 |
1 |
84.65 |
2010-12-14 |
| 88. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
84.18 |
1.0177 |
-0.0544 |
392 |
1 |
84.18 |
2010-12-14 |
| 89. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
84.08 |
0.9687 |
-0.0400 |
371 |
1 |
84.08 |
2010-12-13 |
| 90. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
83.77 |
0.8845 |
0.0365 |
273 |
1 |
83.77 |
2010-12-14 |
| 91. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
83.67 |
0.9997 |
-0.0767 |
382 |
1 |
83.67 |
2010-12-14 |
| 92. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
82.63 |
1.0120 |
-0.1049 |
290 |
1 |
82.63 |
2010-12-14 |
| 93. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
82.31 |
1.0340 |
-0.1245 |
406 |
1 |
82.31 |
2010-12-13 |
| 94. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
80.98 |
0.9074 |
-0.0114 |
396 |
1 |
80.98 |
2010-12-14 |
| 95. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
80.97 |
1.0297 |
-0.1415 |
249 |
1 |
80.97 |
2010-12-19 |
| 96. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
80.81 |
1.0630 |
-0.1422 |
397 |
1 |
80.81 |
2010-12-13 |
| 97. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
80.39 |
0.9411 |
-0.0574 |
318 |
1 |
80.39 |
2010-12-13 |
| 98. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
80.12 |
0.9168 |
-0.0356 |
240 |
2 |
77.31 |
2010-12-14 |
| 99. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
79.99 |
0.9164 |
-0.0332 |
305 |
1 |
79.99 |
2010-12-13 |
| 100. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
79.86 |
0.9045 |
-0.0272 |
235 |
1 |
79.86 |
2010-12-14 |
| 101. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
79.62 |
0.9925 |
-0.0815 |
247 |
1 |
79.62 |
2010-12-13 |
| 102. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
79.04 |
0.9286 |
-0.0617 |
194 |
1 |
79.04 |
2010-12-14 |
| 103. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
78.00 |
0.9293 |
-0.0722 |
355 |
1 |
78.00 |
2010-12-13 |
| 104. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
77.43 |
1.0025 |
-0.1527 |
256 |
1 |
77.43 |
2010-12-14 |
| 105. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
77.30 |
0.9064 |
-0.0487 |
399 |
2 |
74.73 |
2010-12-13 |
| 106. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
77.23 |
1.0577 |
-0.2135 |
247 |
1 |
77.23 |
2010-12-14 |
| 107. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
77.22 |
0.9672 |
-0.1131 |
396 |
1 |
77.22 |
2010-12-14 |
| 108. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
77.10 |
1.0008 |
-0.1116 |
473 |
1 |
77.10 |
2010-12-13 |
| 109. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
76.96 |
0.9508 |
-0.0729 |
384 |
2 |
73.99 |
2010-12-13 |
| 110. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
75.73 |
0.9365 |
-0.1041 |
248 |
1 |
75.73 |
2010-12-13 |
| 111. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
74.94 |
0.8553 |
-0.0382 |
174 |
1 |
74.94 |
2010-12-14 |
| 112. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
74.69 |
0.8914 |
-0.0712 |
366 |
1 |
74.69 |
2010-12-13 |
| 113. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
74.55 |
1.0346 |
-0.1748 |
244 |
1 |
74.55 |
2010-12-13 |
| 114. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
73.63 |
0.9820 |
-0.1716 |
267 |
1 |
73.63 |
2010-12-13 |
| 115. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
72.53 |
0.9636 |
-0.1684 |
254 |
1 |
72.53 |
2010-12-14 |
| 116. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
71.48 |
0.9212 |
-0.1343 |
323 |
1 |
71.48 |
2010-12-14 |
| 117. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
71.00 |
0.9567 |
-0.1786 |
273 |
1 |
71.00 |
2010-12-13 |
| 118. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
69.55 |
1.0183 |
-0.2618 |
191 |
1 |
69.55 |
2010-12-13 |
| 119. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
68.66 |
0.9514 |
-0.1989 |
237 |
1 |
68.66 |
2010-12-13 |
| 120. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
66.89 |
0.8826 |
-0.1487 |
296 |
1 |
66.89 |
2010-12-13 |
| 121. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
65.36 |
0.9084 |
-0.1889 |
404 |
1 |
65.36 |
2010-12-13 |
| 122. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
63.88 |
0.9485 |
-0.2472 |
291 |
1 |
63.88 |
2010-12-13 |