| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
111.18 |
1.0139 |
0.2895 |
349 |
1 |
111.18 |
2011-07-05 |
| 2. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
110.79 |
1.0682 |
0.2187 |
266 |
2 |
104.55 |
2011-07-05 |
| 3. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
108.40 |
1.0225 |
0.2277 |
152 |
1 |
108.40 |
2011-07-04 |
| 4. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
103.11 |
1.0524 |
0.1420 |
177 |
1 |
103.11 |
2011-07-04 |
| 5. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
102.80 |
1.0464 |
0.1520 |
213 |
2 |
101.47 |
2011-07-15 |
| 6. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
102.56 |
1.0686 |
0.1249 |
354 |
1 |
102.56 |
2011-07-04 |
| 7. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
101.74 |
1.0857 |
0.1071 |
393 |
2 |
100.04 |
2011-07-15 |
| 8. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
101.66 |
0.9836 |
0.1959 |
289 |
1 |
101.66 |
2011-07-04 |
| 9. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
101.63 |
1.0427 |
0.1372 |
269 |
1 |
101.63 |
2011-07-04 |
| 10. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
101.03 |
1.0585 |
0.1163 |
226 |
2 |
94.52 |
2011-07-04 |
| 11. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
100.22 |
1.0504 |
0.1141 |
225 |
1 |
100.22 |
2011-07-05 |
| 12. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
99.58 |
1.1086 |
0.0469 |
233 |
1 |
99.58 |
2011-07-04 |
| 13. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
99.09 |
1.0461 |
0.1055 |
318 |
2 |
95.39 |
2011-07-05 |
| 14. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
98.90 |
1.0399 |
0.1122 |
257 |
1 |
98.90 |
2011-07-07 |
| 15. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
98.29 |
1.0845 |
0.0545 |
212 |
1 |
98.29 |
2011-07-04 |
| 16. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
97.86 |
0.9763 |
0.1583 |
143 |
1 |
97.86 |
2011-07-04 |
| 17. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
97.42 |
0.9765 |
0.1527 |
269 |
3 |
92.12 |
2011-07-04 |
| 18. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
97.36 |
1.0836 |
0.0490 |
206 |
1 |
97.36 |
2011-07-05 |
| 19. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
97.34 |
1.0082 |
0.1158 |
212 |
1 |
97.34 |
2011-07-15 |
| 20. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
96.90 |
1.0487 |
0.0730 |
253 |
1 |
96.90 |
2011-07-04 |
| 21. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
96.14 |
0.9827 |
0.1332 |
314 |
1 |
96.14 |
2011-07-05 |
| 22. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
95.66 |
0.9271 |
0.1848 |
323 |
1 |
95.66 |
2011-07-04 |
| 23. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
94.78 |
1.0250 |
0.0770 |
271 |
2 |
79.96 |
2011-07-04 |
| 24. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
94.11 |
0.9650 |
0.1290 |
347 |
1 |
94.11 |
2011-07-04 |
| 25. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
93.90 |
1.1093 |
-0.0260 |
220 |
2 |
89.71 |
2011-07-04 |
| 26. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
93.71 |
1.0450 |
0.0470 |
358 |
1 |
93.71 |
2011-07-04 |
| 27. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
91.96 |
0.9749 |
0.1004 |
337 |
1 |
91.96 |
2011-07-04 |
| 28. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
91.59 |
0.9890 |
0.0768 |
272 |
1 |
91.59 |
2011-07-04 |
| 29. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
90.82 |
1.0654 |
-0.0149 |
247 |
1 |
90.82 |
2011-07-05 |
| 30. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
90.82 |
1.0482 |
0.0178 |
407 |
1 |
90.82 |
2011-07-05 |
| 31. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
89.59 |
0.9604 |
0.0761 |
285 |
1 |
89.59 |
2011-07-04 |
| 32. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
89.01 |
0.9756 |
0.0555 |
223 |
1 |
89.01 |
2011-07-04 |
| 33. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
88.87 |
1.0283 |
0.0085 |
272 |
1 |
88.87 |
2011-07-04 |
| 34. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
88.51 |
0.9425 |
0.0842 |
248 |
2 |
82.64 |
2011-07-04 |
| 35. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
88.37 |
1.0060 |
0.0198 |
260 |
1 |
88.37 |
2011-07-04 |
| 36. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
87.76 |
1.0461 |
-0.0131 |
535 |
1 |
87.76 |
2011-07-04 |
| 37. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
87.75 |
1.0498 |
-0.0315 |
261 |
1 |
87.75 |
2011-07-04 |
| 38. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
87.29 |
1.0279 |
-0.0218 |
172 |
1 |
87.29 |
2011-07-04 |
| 39. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
87.27 |
0.9468 |
0.0645 |
318 |
1 |
87.27 |
2011-07-04 |
| 40. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
87.20 |
0.9377 |
0.0807 |
198 |
1 |
87.20 |
2011-07-04 |
| 41. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
86.79 |
0.9926 |
0.0246 |
413 |
1 |
86.79 |
2011-07-04 |
| 42. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
86.65 |
0.9479 |
0.0581 |
317 |
1 |
86.65 |
2011-07-07 |
| 43. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
86.51 |
1.0639 |
-0.0601 |
303 |
1 |
86.51 |
2011-07-04 |
| 44. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
86.48 |
1.0288 |
-0.0312 |
166 |
1 |
86.48 |
2011-07-04 |
| 45. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
86.46 |
1.0115 |
-0.0146 |
189 |
1 |
86.46 |
2011-07-07 |
| 46. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
86.20 |
0.9931 |
0.0021 |
218 |
1 |
86.20 |
2011-07-07 |
| 47. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
85.97 |
0.9980 |
0.0076 |
341 |
1 |
85.97 |
2011-07-15 |
| 48. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
85.85 |
0.9332 |
0.0632 |
295 |
1 |
85.85 |
2011-07-04 |
| 49. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
85.56 |
0.9445 |
0.0556 |
389 |
1 |
85.56 |
2011-07-07 |
| 50. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
85.29 |
0.9917 |
-0.0011 |
317 |
1 |
85.29 |
2011-07-04 |
| 51. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
85.17 |
0.9346 |
0.0633 |
471 |
1 |
85.17 |
2011-07-05 |
| 52. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
85.01 |
0.9503 |
0.0282 |
211 |
1 |
85.01 |
2011-07-04 |
| 53. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
84.99 |
1.0883 |
-0.0969 |
189 |
1 |
84.99 |
2011-07-05 |
| 54. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
84.95 |
0.9809 |
0.0114 |
250 |
1 |
84.95 |
2011-07-04 |
| 55. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
84.86 |
0.8718 |
0.1151 |
318 |
1 |
84.86 |
2011-07-04 |
| 56. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
84.42 |
0.9258 |
0.0571 |
184 |
1 |
84.42 |
2011-07-04 |
| 57. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
84.25 |
0.9101 |
0.0701 |
351 |
1 |
84.25 |
2011-07-04 |
| 58. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
83.86 |
1.0582 |
-0.0895 |
180 |
1 |
83.86 |
2011-07-04 |
| 59. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
83.15 |
0.9692 |
0.0106 |
405 |
1 |
83.15 |
2011-07-04 |
| 60. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
83.07 |
0.9515 |
0.0212 |
334 |
1 |
83.07 |
2011-07-04 |
| 61. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
82.69 |
0.9952 |
-0.0347 |
220 |
1 |
82.69 |
2011-07-04 |
| 62. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
82.40 |
0.9719 |
-0.0099 |
383 |
1 |
82.40 |
2011-07-04 |
| 63. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
82.26 |
1.0466 |
-0.0939 |
230 |
1 |
82.26 |
2011-07-04 |
| 64. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
82.21 |
1.0419 |
-0.0863 |
341 |
1 |
82.21 |
2011-07-04 |
| 65. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
81.91 |
0.9530 |
0.0092 |
445 |
2 |
73.47 |
2011-07-15 |
| 66. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
81.88 |
0.9338 |
0.0248 |
326 |
1 |
81.88 |
2011-07-04 |
| 67. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
81.49 |
1.0877 |
-0.1470 |
129 |
1 |
81.49 |
2011-07-04 |
| 68. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
81.46 |
0.9574 |
-0.0104 |
354 |
1 |
81.46 |
2011-07-04 |
| 69. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
80.57 |
0.8856 |
0.0554 |
369 |
1 |
80.57 |
2011-07-04 |
| 70. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
80.38 |
0.8880 |
0.0433 |
296 |
1 |
80.38 |
2011-07-04 |
| 71. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
80.03 |
1.0074 |
-0.0663 |
410 |
1 |
80.03 |
2011-07-04 |
| 72. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
79.60 |
1.0338 |
-0.1064 |
277 |
1 |
79.60 |
2011-07-05 |
| 73. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
79.52 |
0.9841 |
-0.0662 |
217 |
1 |
79.52 |
2011-07-04 |
| 74. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
79.45 |
0.9380 |
-0.0191 |
284 |
1 |
79.45 |
2011-07-15 |
| 75. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
79.45 |
0.9143 |
0.0071 |
300 |
1 |
79.45 |
2011-07-07 |
| 76. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
79.27 |
1.0026 |
-0.0799 |
200 |
1 |
79.27 |
2011-07-04 |
| 77. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
78.99 |
0.9797 |
-0.0605 |
269 |
2 |
78.53 |
2011-07-04 |
| 78. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
78.99 |
1.0800 |
-0.1679 |
213 |
1 |
78.99 |
2011-07-04 |
| 79. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
78.87 |
0.9801 |
-0.0583 |
282 |
1 |
78.87 |
2011-07-04 |
| 80. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
78.77 |
0.9108 |
0.0015 |
235 |
1 |
78.77 |
2011-07-04 |
| 81. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
78.51 |
0.9046 |
0.0177 |
448 |
1 |
78.51 |
2011-07-04 |
| 82. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
78.17 |
0.9538 |
-0.0486 |
276 |
1 |
78.17 |
2011-07-15 |
| 83. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
77.76 |
0.9678 |
-0.0629 |
392 |
1 |
77.76 |
2011-07-07 |
| 84. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
77.21 |
0.8328 |
0.0650 |
343 |
1 |
77.21 |
2011-07-04 |
| 85. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
76.88 |
0.9844 |
-0.0819 |
351 |
1 |
76.88 |
2011-07-04 |
| 86. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
76.69 |
1.0243 |
-0.1323 |
153 |
1 |
76.69 |
2011-07-04 |
| 87. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
76.23 |
1.0132 |
-0.1298 |
371 |
1 |
76.23 |
2011-07-05 |
| 88. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
75.29 |
0.9824 |
-0.0976 |
352 |
1 |
75.29 |
2011-07-04 |
| 89. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
75.26 |
0.9594 |
-0.0897 |
258 |
1 |
75.26 |
2011-07-04 |
| 90. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
74.88 |
0.9243 |
-0.0551 |
240 |
1 |
74.88 |
2011-07-04 |
| 91. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
74.56 |
1.0493 |
-0.1791 |
264 |
1 |
74.56 |
2011-07-04 |
| 92. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
74.53 |
1.0016 |
-0.1402 |
217 |
1 |
74.53 |
2011-07-04 |
| 93. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
73.73 |
0.8794 |
-0.0192 |
427 |
1 |
73.73 |
2011-07-04 |
| 94. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
73.32 |
1.0197 |
-0.1726 |
204 |
1 |
73.32 |
2011-07-04 |
| 95. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
73.25 |
0.9597 |
-0.1115 |
251 |
1 |
73.25 |
2011-07-04 |
| 96. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
72.48 |
0.9740 |
-0.1316 |
371 |
1 |
72.48 |
2011-07-05 |
| 97. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
71.69 |
0.9987 |
-0.1644 |
236 |
1 |
71.69 |
2011-07-04 |
| 98. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
71.53 |
1.0103 |
-0.1880 |
209 |
1 |
71.53 |
2011-07-04 |
| 99. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
71.50 |
1.0426 |
-0.2190 |
131 |
1 |
71.50 |
2011-07-04 |
| 100. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
69.52 |
0.9500 |
-0.1438 |
287 |
1 |
69.52 |
2011-07-04 |
| 101. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
69.07 |
0.8721 |
-0.0669 |
231 |
1 |
69.07 |
2011-07-04 |
| 102. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
68.89 |
0.9157 |
-0.1059 |
353 |
1 |
68.89 |
2011-07-04 |
| 103. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
66.95 |
0.7923 |
-0.0171 |
316 |
2 |
66.31 |
2011-07-15 |
| 104. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
61.24 |
1.0178 |
-0.3115 |
207 |
1 |
61.24 |
2011-07-04 |