| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
48.51 |
1.0205 |
0.2881 |
179 |
1 |
48.51 |
2011-10-14 |
| 2. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
46.06 |
1.0799 |
0.1645 |
243 |
1 |
46.06 |
2011-10-31 |
| 3. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
45.21 |
1.1014 |
0.1613 |
273 |
1 |
45.21 |
2012-10-17 |
| 4. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
44.61 |
1.0485 |
0.1945 |
153 |
1 |
44.61 |
2011-10-31 |
| 5. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
43.66 |
1.0389 |
0.1456 |
318 |
1 |
43.66 |
2011-11-03 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
43.56 |
1.0797 |
0.0947 |
210 |
1 |
43.56 |
2011-10-13 |
| 7. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.55 |
1.0125 |
0.1645 |
224 |
1 |
43.55 |
2011-11-03 |
| 8. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
42.53 |
0.9776 |
0.1744 |
308 |
1 |
42.53 |
2011-10-31 |
| 9. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
41.95 |
0.9781 |
0.1603 |
193 |
1 |
41.95 |
2012-10-17 |
| 10. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
41.93 |
1.0696 |
0.0622 |
226 |
1 |
41.93 |
2011-10-12 |
| 11. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
41.88 |
0.7916 |
0.3505 |
184 |
1 |
41.88 |
2011-11-09 |
| 12. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
41.85 |
1.0077 |
0.1663 |
250 |
1 |
41.85 |
2011-11-09 |
| 13. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
41.67 |
0.9897 |
0.1359 |
274 |
1 |
41.67 |
2011-11-05 |
| 14. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
41.47 |
0.9016 |
0.2288 |
192 |
1 |
41.47 |
2011-10-29 |
| 15. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
41.13 |
0.9307 |
0.1905 |
246 |
1 |
41.13 |
2011-10-31 |
| 16. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
40.99 |
1.0214 |
0.0827 |
166 |
1 |
40.99 |
2011-10-27 |
| 17. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
40.87 |
1.0379 |
0.1030 |
245 |
1 |
40.87 |
2011-10-14 |
| 18. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
40.35 |
0.9572 |
0.1333 |
201 |
1 |
40.35 |
2012-10-17 |
| 19. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
40.33 |
0.9089 |
0.1925 |
187 |
2 |
39.01 |
2012-10-17 |
| 20. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
40.06 |
1.0944 |
0.0342 |
308 |
2 |
36.61 |
2011-11-05 |
| 21. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
39.68 |
0.9722 |
0.1032 |
283 |
1 |
39.68 |
2011-10-12 |
| 22. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
39.64 |
0.9171 |
0.1560 |
165 |
1 |
39.64 |
2012-10-17 |
| 23. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
39.52 |
0.9582 |
0.1124 |
259 |
2 |
36.74 |
2011-11-08 |
| 24. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
39.20 |
0.9598 |
0.1077 |
220 |
1 |
39.20 |
2011-10-21 |
| 25. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
39.16 |
1.0388 |
0.0523 |
243 |
1 |
39.16 |
2011-11-08 |
| 26. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
39.15 |
0.9471 |
0.1222 |
312 |
1 |
39.15 |
2011-10-30 |
| 27. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
39.05 |
0.8615 |
0.1949 |
110 |
1 |
39.05 |
2011-11-07 |
| 28. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
39.04 |
1.0669 |
0.0222 |
213 |
2 |
38.15 |
2011-10-31 |
| 29. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
38.96 |
0.9221 |
0.1304 |
244 |
1 |
38.96 |
2011-10-11 |
| 30. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
38.93 |
0.8915 |
0.1602 |
188 |
1 |
38.93 |
2011-11-08 |
| 31. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
38.68 |
1.0459 |
0.0312 |
200 |
1 |
38.68 |
2011-10-31 |
| 32. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
38.45 |
1.0596 |
-0.0220 |
239 |
1 |
38.45 |
2011-10-11 |
| 33. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
38.43 |
1.0343 |
0.0422 |
242 |
1 |
38.43 |
2011-11-09 |
| 34. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
38.42 |
1.0201 |
0.0125 |
172 |
1 |
38.42 |
2011-10-13 |
| 35. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
38.30 |
0.9911 |
0.0411 |
212 |
1 |
38.30 |
2011-10-31 |
| 36. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
37.98 |
0.9852 |
0.0421 |
264 |
1 |
37.98 |
2011-10-13 |
| 37. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
37.95 |
0.8125 |
0.2173 |
197 |
1 |
37.95 |
2011-10-14 |
| 38. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
37.87 |
0.9636 |
0.0601 |
254 |
2 |
34.86 |
2011-10-30 |
| 39. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
37.85 |
0.9505 |
0.0727 |
204 |
1 |
37.85 |
2011-10-29 |
| 40. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
37.83 |
1.0053 |
0.0157 |
232 |
1 |
37.83 |
2011-10-12 |
| 41. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
37.75 |
0.9724 |
0.0515 |
237 |
1 |
37.75 |
2011-10-29 |
| 42. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
37.28 |
1.0232 |
0.0305 |
350 |
1 |
37.28 |
2011-10-12 |
| 43. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
37.03 |
0.9941 |
0.0046 |
217 |
1 |
37.03 |
2011-11-08 |
| 44. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
36.98 |
1.0063 |
-0.0065 |
371 |
2 |
33.75 |
2011-10-29 |
| 45. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
36.96 |
0.9068 |
0.0951 |
269 |
1 |
36.96 |
2011-11-09 |
| 46. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.95 |
0.7852 |
0.2200 |
149 |
1 |
36.95 |
2011-10-29 |
| 47. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
36.92 |
0.9509 |
0.0854 |
225 |
1 |
36.92 |
2011-11-05 |
| 48. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.92 |
0.9899 |
0.0032 |
163 |
1 |
36.92 |
2011-10-14 |
| 49. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
36.92 |
1.0320 |
0.0033 |
293 |
1 |
36.92 |
2011-10-14 |
| 50. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
36.77 |
0.9247 |
0.0740 |
253 |
1 |
36.77 |
2011-10-29 |
| 51. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
36.75 |
1.0016 |
-0.0130 |
218 |
1 |
36.75 |
2011-10-29 |
| 52. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
36.72 |
0.9731 |
0.0068 |
129 |
2 |
35.09 |
2011-10-29 |
| 53. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
36.67 |
0.9710 |
0.0138 |
173 |
1 |
36.67 |
2011-10-29 |
| 54. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
36.60 |
0.8968 |
0.0891 |
186 |
1 |
36.60 |
2011-10-31 |
| 55. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
36.58 |
0.9286 |
0.0590 |
194 |
1 |
36.58 |
2011-10-27 |
| 56. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
36.51 |
1.1081 |
-0.0870 |
206 |
1 |
36.51 |
2011-10-29 |
| 57. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
36.47 |
1.0131 |
-0.0313 |
225 |
2 |
35.55 |
2011-10-12 |
| 58. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
36.33 |
1.0403 |
-0.0186 |
275 |
1 |
36.33 |
2011-10-21 |
| 59. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
36.17 |
0.8725 |
0.1073 |
163 |
1 |
36.17 |
2011-10-11 |
| 60. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
35.99 |
0.8933 |
0.0857 |
363 |
1 |
35.99 |
2011-10-31 |
| 61. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
35.91 |
0.9597 |
0.0147 |
347 |
1 |
35.91 |
2011-10-09 |
| 62. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
35.89 |
0.9340 |
0.0351 |
296 |
1 |
35.89 |
2011-10-09 |
| 63. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
35.85 |
0.8562 |
0.1128 |
170 |
1 |
35.85 |
2011-10-31 |
| 64. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
35.64 |
1.0365 |
-0.0441 |
162 |
2 |
35.55 |
2011-10-29 |
| 65. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
35.48 |
0.9430 |
0.0178 |
297 |
1 |
35.48 |
2011-10-14 |
| 66. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
35.40 |
0.8914 |
0.0655 |
366 |
1 |
35.40 |
2011-10-14 |
| 67. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
35.37 |
0.8791 |
0.0756 |
190 |
1 |
35.37 |
2011-10-09 |
| 68. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
35.29 |
0.9576 |
-0.0002 |
212 |
1 |
35.29 |
2011-10-11 |
| 69. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
35.25 |
1.0768 |
-0.0849 |
295 |
1 |
35.25 |
2011-10-21 |
| 70. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
35.22 |
0.9365 |
0.0165 |
248 |
1 |
35.22 |
2011-10-21 |
| 71. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
35.20 |
0.9429 |
0.0095 |
287 |
3 |
33.29 |
2011-10-29 |
| 72. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
35.13 |
1.0288 |
-0.0475 |
300 |
1 |
35.13 |
2011-10-21 |
| 73. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
35.10 |
0.9670 |
0.0233 |
307 |
1 |
35.10 |
2011-10-13 |
| 74. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
34.90 |
0.8629 |
0.0841 |
299 |
1 |
34.90 |
2011-10-30 |
| 75. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
34.85 |
0.9063 |
0.0431 |
239 |
1 |
34.85 |
2011-11-07 |
| 76. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
34.73 |
0.8788 |
0.0565 |
134 |
1 |
34.73 |
2011-10-11 |
| 77. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
34.34 |
0.8842 |
0.0393 |
135 |
1 |
34.34 |
2011-10-29 |
| 78. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
34.33 |
0.7731 |
0.1560 |
145 |
1 |
34.33 |
2011-10-14 |
| 79. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
34.30 |
0.8961 |
0.0268 |
189 |
1 |
34.30 |
2011-10-29 |
| 80. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
34.17 |
0.9411 |
-0.0177 |
318 |
1 |
34.17 |
2011-10-21 |
| 81. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
34.14 |
0.9805 |
-0.0540 |
292 |
1 |
34.14 |
2011-10-14 |
| 82. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
34.13 |
1.0252 |
-0.1102 |
176 |
1 |
34.13 |
2011-10-29 |
| 83. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
34.13 |
0.9946 |
-0.0731 |
246 |
1 |
34.13 |
2011-11-08 |
| 84. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
33.94 |
0.8975 |
0.0194 |
268 |
1 |
33.94 |
2011-10-27 |
| 85. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
33.52 |
0.8971 |
0.0129 |
266 |
1 |
33.52 |
2011-10-29 |
| 86. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
33.47 |
1.0254 |
-0.0813 |
217 |
1 |
33.47 |
2011-10-12 |
| 87. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
33.30 |
0.8289 |
0.0769 |
304 |
1 |
33.30 |
2011-10-21 |
| 88. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
33.13 |
0.8919 |
0.0010 |
205 |
1 |
33.13 |
2011-11-07 |
| 89. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
32.98 |
0.8670 |
0.0282 |
318 |
1 |
32.98 |
2011-10-27 |
| 90. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
32.87 |
1.0829 |
-0.1944 |
288 |
2 |
32.65 |
2011-10-09 |
| 91. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
32.63 |
0.8520 |
0.0291 |
202 |
1 |
32.63 |
2011-10-11 |
| 92. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
32.51 |
0.9196 |
-0.0408 |
148 |
1 |
32.51 |
2011-10-20 |
| 93. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
32.48 |
1.0349 |
-0.1594 |
234 |
1 |
32.48 |
2011-11-05 |
| 94. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
32.48 |
0.9162 |
-0.0396 |
165 |
1 |
32.48 |
2011-10-11 |
| 95. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
32.38 |
0.7876 |
0.0887 |
316 |
2 |
31.52 |
2012-10-17 |
| 96. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
32.34 |
0.9631 |
-0.0393 |
345 |
1 |
32.34 |
2011-10-27 |
| 97. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
32.29 |
0.9125 |
-0.0394 |
308 |
1 |
32.29 |
2011-10-29 |
| 98. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
31.93 |
0.8810 |
-0.0191 |
282 |
1 |
31.93 |
2011-10-29 |
| 99. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
31.85 |
0.8541 |
0.0134 |
260 |
1 |
31.85 |
2011-10-29 |
| 100. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
31.57 |
0.9468 |
-0.0953 |
276 |
1 |
31.57 |
2011-10-29 |
| 101. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
30.74 |
1.0498 |
-0.2260 |
180 |
1 |
30.74 |
2011-10-10 |
| 102. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
30.61 |
0.8096 |
0.0236 |
209 |
1 |
30.61 |
2011-11-03 |
| 103. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
30.31 |
0.9097 |
-0.0929 |
153 |
1 |
30.31 |
2011-10-11 |
| 104. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
30.12 |
0.9289 |
-0.1195 |
204 |
1 |
30.12 |
2011-10-11 |
| 105. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
29.63 |
1.0033 |
-0.2117 |
189 |
1 |
29.63 |
2011-10-21 |
| 106. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
29.40 |
0.9168 |
-0.1232 |
240 |
1 |
29.40 |
2011-10-13 |
| 107. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
28.68 |
0.8811 |
-0.1044 |
239 |
1 |
28.68 |
2011-10-09 |
| 108. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
28.55 |
1.0213 |
-0.2556 |
240 |
1 |
28.55 |
2011-10-28 |
| 109. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
28.26 |
0.9155 |
-0.1055 |
168 |
1 |
28.26 |
2011-10-09 |
| 110. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
28.14 |
0.7877 |
-0.0255 |
142 |
1 |
28.14 |
2011-10-29 |