Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
At three in the morning the blood runs slow and thick, and s... |
69.40 |
1.0258 |
0.5375 |
203 |
1 |
69.40 |
2021-08-24 |
2. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
68.86 |
1.0387 |
0.5130 |
333 |
1 |
68.86 |
2016-02-09 |
3. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
66.62 |
0.8959 |
0.6060 |
328 |
1 |
66.62 |
2015-09-07 |
4. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
64.92 |
1.0144 |
0.4511 |
356 |
1 |
64.92 |
2021-08-24 |
5. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
61.88 |
0.9536 |
0.4433 |
311 |
1 |
61.88 |
2023-11-27 |
6. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
61.40 |
1.0501 |
0.3351 |
263 |
1 |
61.40 |
2015-08-19 |
7. |
Now, normally, she sells seashells by the seashore, but toda... |
61.02 |
1.0044 |
0.3703 |
261 |
1 |
61.02 |
2021-08-24 |
8. |
If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to ... |
60.66 |
1.0345 |
0.3323 |
206 |
1 |
60.66 |
2015-06-18 |
9. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
60.57 |
0.9339 |
0.4313 |
108 |
1 |
60.57 |
2013-11-05 |
10. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
60.10 |
0.9485 |
0.4062 |
227 |
1 |
60.10 |
2015-04-30 |
11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
55.28 |
1.0676 |
0.1782 |
456 |
1 |
55.28 |
2014-11-15 |
12. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
54.60 |
0.9884 |
0.2421 |
267 |
2 |
47.26 |
2015-09-02 |
13. |
In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea.... |
54.22 |
1.0654 |
0.1562 |
229 |
1 |
54.22 |
2021-08-24 |
14. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
53.81 |
0.7923 |
0.4206 |
316 |
1 |
53.81 |
2015-08-19 |
15. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
53.55 |
0.9931 |
0.2136 |
218 |
2 |
45.79 |
2013-11-22 |
16. |
Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up... |
52.90 |
0.9168 |
0.2761 |
608 |
1 |
52.90 |
2017-01-25 |
17. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
52.71 |
1.0543 |
0.1333 |
182 |
1 |
52.71 |
2013-11-06 |
18. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
52.16 |
0.9243 |
0.2514 |
231 |
1 |
52.16 |
2013-11-10 |
19. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
51.72 |
0.9278 |
0.2382 |
253 |
2 |
47.73 |
2013-11-22 |
20. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
50.44 |
1.0042 |
0.1322 |
168 |
1 |
50.44 |
2015-02-06 |
21. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
50.36 |
1.0479 |
0.0867 |
205 |
2 |
47.18 |
2013-11-05 |
22. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
49.57 |
0.9974 |
0.1194 |
163 |
1 |
49.57 |
2014-11-15 |
23. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
49.21 |
1.0543 |
0.0567 |
233 |
1 |
49.21 |
2013-11-06 |
24. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
49.12 |
1.0264 |
0.0802 |
191 |
2 |
45.45 |
2013-11-06 |
25. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
49.10 |
1.0471 |
0.0592 |
170 |
1 |
49.10 |
2013-11-03 |
26. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
49.02 |
0.9329 |
0.1743 |
345 |
1 |
49.02 |
2015-02-06 |
27. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
48.49 |
1.0664 |
0.0265 |
389 |
1 |
48.49 |
2014-04-04 |
28. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
48.03 |
1.0404 |
0.0419 |
406 |
1 |
48.03 |
2014-06-17 |
29. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
47.58 |
0.8936 |
0.1789 |
135 |
1 |
47.58 |
2013-11-17 |
30. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
46.78 |
1.0461 |
0.0080 |
318 |
2 |
43.57 |
2013-11-05 |
31. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
46.70 |
1.0079 |
0.0444 |
273 |
2 |
44.66 |
2015-06-18 |
32. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
46.43 |
1.0493 |
-0.0005 |
264 |
1 |
46.43 |
2013-11-03 |
33. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
46.30 |
1.0414 |
0.0019 |
234 |
2 |
41.29 |
2013-11-02 |
34. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
46.24 |
0.8624 |
0.1794 |
174 |
2 |
41.70 |
2015-04-30 |
35. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
45.80 |
1.0639 |
-0.0321 |
303 |
1 |
45.80 |
2013-11-02 |
36. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
45.68 |
0.9765 |
0.0527 |
269 |
1 |
45.68 |
2013-11-10 |
37. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
44.90 |
0.9866 |
0.0250 |
308 |
2 |
41.66 |
2014-03-07 |
38. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
44.47 |
1.0033 |
-0.0013 |
203 |
1 |
44.47 |
2013-11-03 |
39. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
44.45 |
1.0698 |
-0.0664 |
303 |
1 |
44.45 |
2013-11-02 |
40. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
44.39 |
0.9836 |
0.0169 |
123 |
1 |
44.39 |
2013-11-03 |
41. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
44.28 |
0.9872 |
0.0117 |
229 |
1 |
44.28 |
2013-11-04 |
42. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
44.23 |
1.0304 |
-0.0317 |
257 |
1 |
44.23 |
2013-11-04 |
43. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
43.95 |
0.9549 |
0.0353 |
204 |
2 |
32.78 |
2013-11-04 |
44. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
43.49 |
0.9927 |
-0.0125 |
262 |
1 |
43.49 |
2013-11-06 |
45. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
43.20 |
1.0243 |
-0.0486 |
153 |
1 |
43.20 |
2013-11-04 |
46. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
43.09 |
0.8603 |
0.1112 |
270 |
1 |
43.09 |
2013-11-04 |
47. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
42.83 |
1.0969 |
-0.1317 |
303 |
1 |
42.83 |
2013-10-29 |
48. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
42.59 |
0.8378 |
0.1222 |
219 |
1 |
42.59 |
2013-11-22 |
49. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
42.45 |
0.8628 |
0.0939 |
136 |
1 |
42.45 |
2013-11-04 |
50. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
42.29 |
0.9857 |
-0.0303 |
268 |
1 |
42.29 |
2013-11-05 |
51. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
42.24 |
1.0069 |
-0.0523 |
242 |
1 |
42.24 |
2013-11-04 |
52. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
42.13 |
0.9425 |
0.0069 |
248 |
1 |
42.13 |
2013-11-04 |
53. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
41.85 |
1.0208 |
-0.0771 |
232 |
1 |
41.85 |
2013-11-04 |
54. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
41.78 |
0.8913 |
0.0503 |
201 |
1 |
41.78 |
2013-11-04 |
55. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
41.75 |
0.9931 |
-0.0524 |
339 |
1 |
41.75 |
2013-11-06 |
56. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
41.44 |
1.0472 |
-0.1135 |
149 |
1 |
41.44 |
2013-10-29 |
57. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
41.44 |
1.0333 |
-0.0997 |
176 |
1 |
41.44 |
2013-11-08 |
58. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
41.19 |
1.0408 |
-0.1108 |
257 |
1 |
41.19 |
2013-11-06 |
59. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
41.01 |
1.0585 |
-0.1322 |
226 |
1 |
41.01 |
2013-11-13 |
60. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
40.88 |
0.9332 |
-0.0120 |
267 |
1 |
40.88 |
2013-11-04 |
61. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
40.88 |
1.0010 |
-0.0778 |
213 |
1 |
40.88 |
2013-11-02 |
62. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
40.80 |
0.9299 |
-0.0107 |
168 |
1 |
40.80 |
2013-11-04 |
63. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
40.72 |
0.9631 |
-0.0455 |
273 |
1 |
40.72 |
2013-11-06 |
64. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
40.64 |
1.0250 |
-0.1095 |
271 |
1 |
40.64 |
2013-10-29 |
65. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
40.49 |
1.0288 |
-0.1165 |
166 |
1 |
40.49 |
2013-10-29 |
66. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
40.08 |
0.9604 |
-0.0572 |
285 |
1 |
40.08 |
2013-11-03 |
67. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
39.92 |
1.0189 |
-0.1196 |
290 |
1 |
39.92 |
2013-11-02 |
68. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
39.89 |
0.8572 |
0.0422 |
232 |
2 |
38.56 |
2013-11-04 |
69. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
39.41 |
0.9310 |
-0.0430 |
278 |
1 |
39.41 |
2013-11-04 |
70. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
39.38 |
0.9991 |
-0.1117 |
339 |
1 |
39.38 |
2013-10-29 |
71. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
39.35 |
0.9763 |
-0.0898 |
143 |
1 |
39.35 |
2013-11-04 |
72. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
39.27 |
0.9143 |
-0.0294 |
300 |
1 |
39.27 |
2013-10-29 |
73. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
39.03 |
0.9315 |
-0.0517 |
273 |
1 |
39.03 |
2013-10-29 |
74. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
38.89 |
1.0086 |
-0.1325 |
218 |
1 |
38.89 |
2013-11-04 |
75. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
38.82 |
0.9709 |
-0.0963 |
264 |
1 |
38.82 |
2013-11-02 |
76. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
38.35 |
1.0615 |
-0.1978 |
201 |
1 |
38.35 |
2013-10-29 |
77. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
38.21 |
0.8869 |
-0.0257 |
176 |
1 |
38.21 |
2013-11-10 |
78. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
38.10 |
1.0018 |
-0.1434 |
246 |
2 |
36.84 |
2013-11-04 |
79. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
38.09 |
0.8375 |
0.0211 |
224 |
1 |
38.09 |
2013-11-04 |
80. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
37.67 |
0.9660 |
-0.1153 |
258 |
1 |
37.67 |
2013-11-02 |
81. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
37.64 |
0.8981 |
-0.0478 |
255 |
1 |
37.64 |
2013-11-06 |
82. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
37.44 |
0.9713 |
-0.1279 |
193 |
1 |
37.44 |
2013-11-07 |
83. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
36.56 |
0.9561 |
-0.1299 |
364 |
1 |
36.56 |
2013-10-29 |
84. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
36.04 |
0.9841 |
-0.1723 |
263 |
1 |
36.04 |
2013-10-29 |
85. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
35.82 |
0.9745 |
-0.1670 |
217 |
1 |
35.82 |
2013-11-03 |
86. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
35.59 |
1.0332 |
-0.2315 |
267 |
1 |
35.59 |
2013-11-02 |
87. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
35.48 |
1.0103 |
-0.2111 |
209 |
1 |
35.48 |
2013-11-02 |
88. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
35.08 |
0.8576 |
-0.0669 |
260 |
1 |
35.08 |
2013-11-04 |
89. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
35.06 |
0.9144 |
-0.1241 |
167 |
1 |
35.06 |
2013-11-02 |
90. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
34.74 |
0.8770 |
-0.0945 |
163 |
1 |
34.74 |
2013-11-02 |
91. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
34.73 |
0.9020 |
-0.1195 |
186 |
1 |
34.73 |
2013-11-02 |
92. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
34.57 |
0.8680 |
-0.0885 |
196 |
1 |
34.57 |
2013-11-03 |
93. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
34.18 |
0.8666 |
-0.0968 |
206 |
1 |
34.18 |
2013-11-04 |
94. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
33.63 |
1.0341 |
-0.2766 |
273 |
1 |
33.63 |
2013-10-29 |
95. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
33.12 |
0.9538 |
-0.2076 |
276 |
1 |
33.12 |
2013-11-03 |
96. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
33.00 |
0.8964 |
-0.1531 |
199 |
1 |
33.00 |
2013-11-04 |
97. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
31.61 |
0.8837 |
-0.1713 |
157 |
1 |
31.61 |
2013-10-29 |
98. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
24.36 |
0.9400 |
-0.3913 |
434 |
1 |
24.36 |
2013-11-04 |