| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
71.59 |
1.0031 |
-0.9825 |
304 |
1 |
71.59 |
2011-05-09 |
| 2. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
71.52 |
0.9729 |
-0.9856 |
255 |
1 |
71.52 |
2011-01-24 |
| 3. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
71.30 |
0.9786 |
-0.9920 |
235 |
1 |
71.30 |
2011-05-11 |
| 4. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
69.51 |
0.9899 |
-1.0075 |
163 |
1 |
69.51 |
2011-01-26 |
| 5. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
69.21 |
1.0074 |
-1.0184 |
242 |
1 |
69.21 |
2011-05-07 |
| 6. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
68.89 |
1.0768 |
-1.0496 |
295 |
1 |
68.89 |
2011-02-27 |
| 7. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
68.00 |
0.9509 |
-0.9254 |
225 |
2 |
63.79 |
2011-05-11 |
| 8. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
67.91 |
0.9303 |
-0.9495 |
176 |
2 |
65.75 |
2011-05-07 |
| 9. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
67.44 |
1.0218 |
-1.0376 |
268 |
1 |
67.44 |
2011-06-07 |
| 10. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
67.36 |
1.0577 |
-1.0741 |
247 |
1 |
67.36 |
2011-01-24 |
| 11. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
67.07 |
1.0388 |
-1.0201 |
243 |
2 |
66.31 |
2011-02-27 |
| 12. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
67.06 |
1.0941 |
-1.0758 |
256 |
2 |
66.82 |
2011-05-09 |
| 13. |
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by t... |
67.00 |
1.0081 |
-1.0146 |
308 |
1 |
67.00 |
2021-02-02 |
| 14. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
66.88 |
1.0725 |
-1.0596 |
233 |
1 |
66.88 |
2021-01-31 |
| 15. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
66.39 |
0.9699 |
-0.9834 |
269 |
1 |
66.39 |
2011-05-09 |
| 16. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
66.30 |
0.9430 |
-0.9530 |
297 |
2 |
62.34 |
2011-02-27 |
| 17. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
66.24 |
1.0483 |
-1.0642 |
227 |
2 |
64.53 |
2011-05-11 |
| 18. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
66.15 |
1.0498 |
-1.0675 |
180 |
2 |
61.13 |
2011-03-09 |
| 19. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
65.77 |
1.0025 |
-1.0145 |
336 |
3 |
63.24 |
2011-05-11 |
| 20. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
65.75 |
0.9485 |
-0.9597 |
236 |
1 |
65.75 |
2011-01-24 |
| 21. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
65.57 |
0.9234 |
-0.9309 |
346 |
1 |
65.57 |
2011-01-25 |
| 22. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
64.64 |
1.0099 |
-1.0257 |
207 |
1 |
64.64 |
2011-05-08 |
| 23. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
64.52 |
1.0232 |
-1.0005 |
236 |
1 |
64.52 |
2011-01-25 |
| 24. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
64.50 |
0.9776 |
-0.9903 |
308 |
1 |
64.50 |
2011-05-09 |
| 25. |
While there are few problems in today's world that the Unite... |
64.40 |
1.0464 |
-1.0536 |
152 |
1 |
64.40 |
2020-03-11 |
| 26. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
64.39 |
1.0389 |
-1.0501 |
318 |
2 |
63.90 |
2011-01-26 |
| 27. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
64.27 |
0.9844 |
-0.9925 |
293 |
1 |
64.27 |
2011-03-12 |
| 28. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
64.25 |
1.0167 |
-1.0228 |
378 |
1 |
64.25 |
2011-05-07 |
| 29. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
64.11 |
1.0993 |
-1.1143 |
265 |
1 |
64.11 |
2011-01-26 |
| 30. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
63.95 |
0.9278 |
-0.9380 |
295 |
1 |
63.95 |
2011-05-09 |
| 31. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
63.85 |
0.9966 |
-1.0101 |
259 |
1 |
63.85 |
2011-06-07 |
| 32. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
63.65 |
0.9653 |
-0.9699 |
394 |
2 |
62.13 |
2011-05-09 |
| 33. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
62.99 |
0.9559 |
-0.9661 |
195 |
1 |
62.99 |
2011-02-27 |
| 34. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
62.90 |
1.0444 |
-1.0639 |
197 |
1 |
62.90 |
2011-01-24 |
| 35. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
62.62 |
1.0013 |
-1.0151 |
273 |
1 |
62.62 |
2011-04-24 |
| 36. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
62.41 |
1.0463 |
-1.0638 |
182 |
1 |
62.41 |
2011-01-25 |
| 37. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
61.80 |
0.9790 |
-0.9513 |
311 |
1 |
61.80 |
2011-05-08 |
| 38. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
61.75 |
1.0154 |
-0.9785 |
351 |
2 |
60.08 |
2017-07-30 |
| 39. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
61.61 |
1.0365 |
-1.0195 |
162 |
1 |
61.61 |
2011-01-26 |
| 40. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
61.48 |
0.9722 |
-0.9830 |
283 |
1 |
61.48 |
2011-04-24 |
| 41. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
61.48 |
1.0352 |
-1.0450 |
341 |
1 |
61.48 |
2011-06-07 |
| 42. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
61.29 |
0.9846 |
-0.9986 |
281 |
1 |
61.29 |
2011-01-26 |
| 43. |
As passions are contagious, and the bulk of men are more gui... |
61.20 |
1.0380 |
-1.0521 |
274 |
1 |
61.20 |
2021-02-02 |
| 44. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
61.11 |
1.0644 |
-1.0412 |
257 |
1 |
61.11 |
2011-04-14 |
| 45. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
61.06 |
0.9946 |
-1.0077 |
246 |
1 |
61.06 |
2011-01-26 |
| 46. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
60.97 |
1.0740 |
-1.0486 |
264 |
1 |
60.97 |
2011-05-08 |
| 47. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
60.83 |
1.1018 |
-1.1211 |
220 |
1 |
60.83 |
2020-03-11 |
| 48. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
60.80 |
0.9351 |
-0.9535 |
190 |
2 |
58.18 |
2011-05-09 |
| 49. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
60.73 |
1.0060 |
-1.0236 |
171 |
1 |
60.73 |
2011-05-08 |
| 50. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
60.67 |
0.9279 |
-0.9343 |
317 |
1 |
60.67 |
2011-02-27 |
| 51. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
60.63 |
1.0496 |
-1.0632 |
314 |
1 |
60.63 |
2011-04-14 |
| 52. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
60.51 |
1.0555 |
-1.0670 |
363 |
2 |
56.50 |
2011-05-08 |
| 53. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
60.39 |
0.9936 |
-1.0068 |
311 |
1 |
60.39 |
2011-02-27 |
| 54. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
60.36 |
1.0173 |
-0.9860 |
268 |
1 |
60.36 |
2011-01-25 |
| 55. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
60.22 |
1.0183 |
-1.0368 |
191 |
1 |
60.22 |
2011-01-24 |
| 56. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
60.20 |
1.0412 |
-1.0547 |
225 |
1 |
60.20 |
2011-05-09 |
| 57. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
60.11 |
0.8670 |
-0.8745 |
318 |
1 |
60.11 |
2011-05-08 |
| 58. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
60.04 |
1.0417 |
-1.0571 |
253 |
1 |
60.04 |
2011-05-07 |
| 59. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
60.02 |
1.0666 |
-1.0794 |
297 |
1 |
60.02 |
2011-01-26 |
| 60. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
59.99 |
0.9633 |
-0.9740 |
304 |
1 |
59.99 |
2011-01-24 |
| 61. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
59.88 |
1.0441 |
-1.0555 |
252 |
1 |
59.88 |
2011-05-07 |
| 62. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
59.87 |
0.9005 |
-0.9149 |
212 |
1 |
59.87 |
2011-04-14 |
| 63. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
59.68 |
0.9739 |
-0.9510 |
412 |
2 |
57.52 |
2011-05-07 |
| 64. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
59.61 |
0.9904 |
-0.9627 |
203 |
1 |
59.61 |
2011-05-08 |
| 65. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
59.31 |
1.0477 |
-1.0582 |
360 |
1 |
59.31 |
2011-04-24 |
| 66. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
59.29 |
0.9851 |
-0.9958 |
317 |
1 |
59.29 |
2011-04-14 |
| 67. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
59.01 |
0.9852 |
-0.9978 |
264 |
1 |
59.01 |
2011-03-12 |
| 68. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
58.73 |
0.9820 |
-0.9947 |
274 |
1 |
58.73 |
2011-05-09 |
| 69. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
58.67 |
1.0314 |
-1.0051 |
452 |
1 |
58.67 |
2011-04-24 |
| 70. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
58.45 |
1.0141 |
-0.9907 |
304 |
1 |
58.45 |
2011-06-07 |
| 71. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
57.63 |
1.0012 |
-1.0108 |
260 |
1 |
57.63 |
2011-04-24 |
| 72. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
57.55 |
0.9632 |
-0.9338 |
345 |
1 |
57.55 |
2011-05-11 |
| 73. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
57.54 |
1.0016 |
-1.0191 |
218 |
1 |
57.54 |
2011-05-11 |
| 74. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
57.48 |
0.9805 |
-0.9888 |
292 |
1 |
57.48 |
2011-04-24 |
| 75. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
57.37 |
1.0343 |
-1.0098 |
242 |
1 |
57.37 |
2011-05-08 |
| 76. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
57.30 |
0.9439 |
-0.9488 |
476 |
1 |
57.30 |
2011-03-12 |
| 77. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
57.20 |
0.9098 |
-0.9264 |
167 |
1 |
57.20 |
2011-01-24 |
| 78. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
57.00 |
1.0767 |
-1.0918 |
212 |
1 |
57.00 |
2011-05-07 |
| 79. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
56.91 |
0.9504 |
-0.9687 |
263 |
1 |
56.91 |
2011-03-12 |
| 80. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
56.87 |
1.0774 |
-1.0609 |
304 |
1 |
56.87 |
2011-05-08 |
| 81. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
56.77 |
1.0711 |
-1.0891 |
213 |
1 |
56.77 |
2011-05-08 |
| 82. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
56.65 |
0.9941 |
-1.0094 |
217 |
1 |
56.65 |
2011-01-25 |
| 83. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
56.55 |
1.0296 |
-1.0361 |
437 |
1 |
56.55 |
2011-03-12 |
| 84. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
56.54 |
1.0088 |
-0.9830 |
396 |
1 |
56.54 |
2011-05-08 |
| 85. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
56.24 |
0.9769 |
-0.9919 |
263 |
1 |
56.24 |
2011-02-27 |
| 86. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
56.17 |
0.9023 |
-0.8724 |
231 |
1 |
56.17 |
2011-01-24 |
| 87. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
56.17 |
1.0292 |
-1.0434 |
262 |
1 |
56.17 |
2011-02-27 |
| 88. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
55.94 |
0.9578 |
-0.9712 |
281 |
1 |
55.94 |
2011-03-12 |
| 89. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
55.68 |
1.0684 |
-1.0515 |
253 |
1 |
55.68 |
2011-01-25 |
| 90. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
55.63 |
0.9411 |
-0.9532 |
318 |
1 |
55.63 |
2011-01-26 |
| 91. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
55.52 |
1.0389 |
-1.0494 |
340 |
1 |
55.52 |
2011-02-27 |
| 92. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
54.92 |
0.9786 |
-0.9967 |
193 |
1 |
54.92 |
2011-05-07 |
| 93. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
54.89 |
0.9670 |
-0.9378 |
307 |
1 |
54.89 |
2011-01-25 |
| 94. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
54.81 |
0.9697 |
-0.9824 |
249 |
1 |
54.81 |
2016-03-04 |
| 95. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
54.67 |
0.9216 |
-0.8956 |
255 |
1 |
54.67 |
2011-02-27 |
| 96. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
54.61 |
0.9430 |
-0.9632 |
211 |
1 |
54.61 |
2011-01-26 |
| 97. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
54.58 |
0.9723 |
-0.9815 |
364 |
1 |
54.58 |
2021-01-31 |
| 98. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
53.83 |
0.9247 |
-0.9329 |
253 |
1 |
53.83 |
2011-04-24 |
| 99. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
53.58 |
0.9631 |
-0.9247 |
345 |
1 |
53.58 |
2011-01-25 |
| 100. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
52.86 |
1.0109 |
-0.9909 |
400 |
1 |
52.86 |
2011-05-09 |
| 101. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
52.74 |
0.9768 |
-0.9871 |
387 |
1 |
52.74 |
2011-01-24 |
| 102. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
52.44 |
0.9049 |
-0.9124 |
351 |
1 |
52.44 |
2011-02-27 |
| 103. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
52.28 |
0.9353 |
-0.9523 |
177 |
1 |
52.28 |
2011-05-09 |
| 104. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.56 |
1.0714 |
-1.0932 |
129 |
2 |
51.42 |
2011-02-27 |
| 105. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
51.54 |
0.9897 |
-1.0049 |
274 |
1 |
51.54 |
2011-01-26 |
| 106. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
51.21 |
0.9691 |
-0.9825 |
223 |
1 |
51.21 |
2011-06-07 |
| 107. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
50.49 |
1.0419 |
-1.0548 |
261 |
1 |
50.49 |
2011-04-23 |
| 108. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
50.25 |
0.9965 |
-1.0088 |
277 |
1 |
50.25 |
2011-05-07 |
| 109. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
49.58 |
1.0165 |
-1.0255 |
392 |
1 |
49.58 |
2011-01-26 |
| 110. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
49.52 |
0.8722 |
-0.8822 |
285 |
1 |
49.52 |
2011-02-27 |
| 111. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
49.39 |
0.9710 |
-0.9904 |
173 |
1 |
49.39 |
2011-02-27 |
| 112. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
49.30 |
0.8919 |
-0.9065 |
205 |
1 |
49.30 |
2011-05-07 |
| 113. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
49.29 |
0.9916 |
-0.9619 |
282 |
1 |
49.29 |
2011-02-27 |
| 114. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
49.23 |
0.9426 |
-0.9524 |
317 |
1 |
49.23 |
2011-05-07 |
| 115. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
48.39 |
1.0033 |
-1.0229 |
189 |
1 |
48.39 |
2011-03-09 |