| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
107.72 |
0.9965 |
0.3021 |
168 |
1 |
107.72 |
2010-10-15 |
| 2. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
105.90 |
0.9843 |
0.2918 |
234 |
2 |
96.65 |
2010-05-29 |
| 3. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
102.70 |
1.0795 |
0.1930 |
226 |
3 |
99.67 |
2010-06-03 |
| 4. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
101.71 |
1.0608 |
0.2024 |
258 |
1 |
101.71 |
2010-05-28 |
| 5. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
99.79 |
1.1081 |
0.1330 |
206 |
2 |
91.84 |
2010-06-03 |
| 6. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
98.69 |
1.0885 |
0.1394 |
341 |
2 |
90.45 |
2010-10-15 |
| 7. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
98.61 |
1.0034 |
0.1872 |
302 |
2 |
96.14 |
2010-06-03 |
| 8. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
97.93 |
1.1296 |
0.0832 |
252 |
1 |
97.93 |
2010-06-03 |
| 9. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
97.58 |
1.0885 |
0.0943 |
315 |
1 |
97.58 |
2010-05-13 |
| 10. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
97.37 |
1.0168 |
0.1615 |
271 |
2 |
88.09 |
2010-05-19 |
| 11. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
97.29 |
1.0214 |
0.1528 |
269 |
2 |
95.00 |
2010-05-19 |
| 12. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
96.93 |
1.0316 |
0.1437 |
333 |
1 |
96.93 |
2010-05-29 |
| 13. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
95.53 |
1.0201 |
0.1383 |
375 |
3 |
83.70 |
2010-06-01 |
| 14. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
95.46 |
1.1016 |
0.0521 |
233 |
1 |
95.46 |
2010-05-13 |
| 15. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
95.43 |
1.0883 |
0.0970 |
303 |
1 |
95.43 |
2010-10-15 |
| 16. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
94.34 |
1.0482 |
0.1154 |
487 |
3 |
89.72 |
2010-06-01 |
| 17. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
93.07 |
1.0368 |
0.0885 |
276 |
2 |
92.78 |
2010-05-19 |
| 18. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
92.98 |
1.0596 |
0.0616 |
239 |
2 |
92.74 |
2010-06-03 |
| 19. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
92.84 |
1.0004 |
0.1151 |
212 |
1 |
92.84 |
2010-05-13 |
| 20. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
92.73 |
0.9833 |
0.1385 |
355 |
1 |
92.73 |
2010-05-13 |
| 21. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
92.53 |
1.0679 |
0.0702 |
177 |
1 |
92.53 |
2010-05-11 |
| 22. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
92.09 |
1.0462 |
0.0601 |
184 |
1 |
92.09 |
2010-05-11 |
| 23. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
92.04 |
1.0131 |
0.0948 |
225 |
1 |
92.04 |
2010-06-03 |
| 24. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
91.14 |
1.0565 |
0.0417 |
247 |
2 |
87.30 |
2010-05-29 |
| 25. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
90.95 |
1.0696 |
0.0254 |
226 |
1 |
90.95 |
2010-02-15 |
| 26. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
90.89 |
1.0719 |
0.0534 |
360 |
1 |
90.89 |
2010-06-01 |
| 27. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
90.86 |
1.0523 |
0.0408 |
256 |
2 |
86.58 |
2010-05-13 |
| 28. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
90.81 |
1.0232 |
0.1194 |
350 |
1 |
90.81 |
2010-02-17 |
| 29. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
90.63 |
1.0943 |
0.0328 |
206 |
1 |
90.63 |
2010-06-03 |
| 30. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
90.27 |
1.0288 |
0.0934 |
300 |
1 |
90.27 |
2010-06-03 |
| 31. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
90.20 |
1.0630 |
0.0595 |
397 |
1 |
90.20 |
2010-05-11 |
| 32. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
90.09 |
1.0767 |
0.0090 |
212 |
1 |
90.09 |
2010-05-11 |
| 33. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
89.84 |
0.9965 |
0.0887 |
310 |
1 |
89.84 |
2010-05-11 |
| 34. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
89.63 |
1.0261 |
0.0543 |
273 |
1 |
89.63 |
2010-05-13 |
| 35. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
89.63 |
1.0613 |
0.0260 |
456 |
1 |
89.63 |
2010-05-11 |
| 36. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
89.62 |
1.0498 |
0.0276 |
180 |
1 |
89.62 |
2010-05-29 |
| 37. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
89.57 |
1.0595 |
0.0246 |
379 |
1 |
89.57 |
2010-06-02 |
| 38. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
88.94 |
1.0863 |
0.0224 |
210 |
1 |
88.94 |
2010-06-03 |
| 39. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
88.87 |
1.0944 |
0.0234 |
308 |
1 |
88.87 |
2010-06-01 |
| 40. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
88.61 |
0.9682 |
0.0998 |
143 |
1 |
88.61 |
2010-06-03 |
| 41. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
88.53 |
1.0385 |
0.0286 |
230 |
1 |
88.53 |
2010-06-03 |
| 42. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
88.06 |
0.9540 |
0.1073 |
285 |
1 |
88.06 |
2010-02-15 |
| 43. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
88.04 |
1.0388 |
0.0557 |
243 |
1 |
88.04 |
2010-02-15 |
| 44. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
87.95 |
1.0763 |
0.0270 |
367 |
1 |
87.95 |
2010-06-03 |
| 45. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
87.94 |
0.9202 |
0.1408 |
254 |
2 |
80.85 |
2010-05-29 |
| 46. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
87.91 |
1.0426 |
0.0180 |
323 |
2 |
87.30 |
2010-06-03 |
| 47. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
87.81 |
1.0025 |
0.0575 |
256 |
2 |
77.81 |
2010-06-03 |
| 48. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
87.53 |
1.0257 |
0.0374 |
401 |
1 |
87.53 |
2010-05-29 |
| 49. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
87.45 |
1.0090 |
0.0905 |
282 |
1 |
87.45 |
2010-10-15 |
| 50. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
87.13 |
1.0668 |
-0.0125 |
350 |
1 |
87.13 |
2010-06-03 |
| 51. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
86.95 |
1.0201 |
0.0227 |
172 |
1 |
86.95 |
2010-05-11 |
| 52. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
86.65 |
0.9763 |
0.0691 |
289 |
2 |
82.17 |
2010-05-13 |
| 53. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
86.15 |
1.0218 |
0.0151 |
268 |
2 |
83.78 |
2010-06-03 |
| 54. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
86.11 |
1.0183 |
0.0154 |
191 |
2 |
82.94 |
2010-10-15 |
| 55. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
85.74 |
1.0419 |
-0.0071 |
261 |
2 |
84.64 |
2010-06-03 |
| 56. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
85.30 |
0.9865 |
0.0440 |
276 |
1 |
85.30 |
2010-05-11 |
| 57. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
85.14 |
1.0150 |
0.0615 |
325 |
1 |
85.14 |
2010-05-28 |
| 58. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
84.82 |
1.0124 |
0.0088 |
204 |
1 |
84.82 |
2010-05-19 |
| 59. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
84.79 |
1.0232 |
0.0356 |
236 |
1 |
84.79 |
2010-05-19 |
| 60. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
84.74 |
0.9699 |
0.0521 |
269 |
2 |
83.54 |
2010-05-10 |
| 61. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
84.27 |
1.0666 |
-0.0497 |
297 |
2 |
82.18 |
2010-05-19 |
| 62. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
83.78 |
0.9936 |
0.0169 |
311 |
1 |
83.78 |
2010-05-11 |
| 63. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
83.65 |
0.9785 |
0.0340 |
335 |
2 |
83.12 |
2010-05-11 |
| 64. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
83.65 |
0.9997 |
0.0132 |
382 |
2 |
73.46 |
2010-05-19 |
| 65. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
83.50 |
0.9632 |
0.0506 |
392 |
3 |
81.70 |
2010-05-29 |
| 66. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
83.40 |
1.0613 |
-0.0542 |
266 |
1 |
83.40 |
2010-05-13 |
| 67. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
83.14 |
1.0331 |
-0.0323 |
234 |
1 |
83.14 |
2010-06-03 |
| 68. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
82.76 |
1.0177 |
0.0189 |
392 |
2 |
81.00 |
2010-05-13 |
| 69. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
82.55 |
1.0619 |
-0.0625 |
354 |
1 |
82.55 |
2010-05-19 |
| 70. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
82.36 |
1.0725 |
-0.0532 |
233 |
2 |
81.37 |
2010-06-03 |
| 71. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
82.10 |
0.9372 |
0.0571 |
320 |
1 |
82.10 |
2010-02-15 |
| 72. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
81.94 |
1.0516 |
-0.0636 |
281 |
1 |
81.94 |
2010-05-13 |
| 73. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
81.89 |
1.0521 |
-0.0692 |
171 |
1 |
81.89 |
2010-05-11 |
| 74. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
81.35 |
0.9593 |
0.0265 |
398 |
1 |
81.35 |
2010-05-11 |
| 75. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
80.88 |
0.9339 |
0.0400 |
310 |
1 |
80.88 |
2010-02-15 |
| 76. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
80.87 |
0.9553 |
0.0272 |
430 |
1 |
80.87 |
2010-05-11 |
| 77. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
80.76 |
0.9089 |
0.0689 |
342 |
1 |
80.76 |
2010-05-13 |
| 78. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
79.78 |
0.9684 |
-0.0037 |
388 |
1 |
79.78 |
2010-05-13 |
| 79. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
79.73 |
0.9792 |
0.0206 |
265 |
1 |
79.73 |
2010-02-17 |
| 80. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
79.47 |
0.9572 |
0.0441 |
376 |
2 |
75.85 |
2010-05-19 |
| 81. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
79.36 |
0.9731 |
-0.0288 |
129 |
1 |
79.36 |
2010-02-15 |
| 82. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
79.08 |
0.9965 |
-0.0425 |
277 |
1 |
79.08 |
2010-05-13 |
| 83. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
78.86 |
1.0343 |
-0.0462 |
242 |
1 |
78.86 |
2010-05-19 |
| 84. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
78.49 |
1.0337 |
-0.0881 |
214 |
2 |
72.26 |
2010-05-11 |
| 85. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
78.41 |
1.0528 |
-0.1126 |
201 |
1 |
78.41 |
2010-05-11 |
| 86. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
78.30 |
1.0025 |
-0.0577 |
336 |
2 |
77.49 |
2010-05-11 |
| 87. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
77.74 |
0.9670 |
0.0121 |
307 |
1 |
77.74 |
2010-05-19 |
| 88. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
77.61 |
0.9697 |
-0.0341 |
249 |
2 |
74.98 |
2010-05-19 |
| 89. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
77.51 |
0.9672 |
-0.0265 |
396 |
1 |
77.51 |
2010-05-19 |
| 90. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
77.37 |
0.9912 |
-0.0318 |
237 |
1 |
77.37 |
2010-05-19 |
| 91. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
77.08 |
0.9904 |
-0.0208 |
203 |
1 |
77.08 |
2010-06-01 |
| 92. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
76.93 |
0.9908 |
-0.0178 |
342 |
1 |
76.93 |
2010-05-19 |
| 93. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
76.41 |
0.9893 |
-0.0684 |
323 |
1 |
76.41 |
2010-06-03 |
| 94. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
76.17 |
0.9514 |
-0.0332 |
237 |
1 |
76.17 |
2010-05-28 |
| 95. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
76.04 |
0.9943 |
-0.0748 |
373 |
1 |
76.04 |
2010-05-13 |
| 96. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
75.26 |
0.9740 |
-0.0714 |
209 |
1 |
75.26 |
2010-05-19 |
| 97. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
75.22 |
1.0292 |
-0.1243 |
262 |
1 |
75.22 |
2010-05-13 |
| 98. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
75.17 |
0.8919 |
0.0120 |
205 |
1 |
75.17 |
2010-05-19 |
| 99. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
74.94 |
0.9631 |
-0.0090 |
345 |
1 |
74.94 |
2010-05-19 |
| 100. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
74.70 |
0.9866 |
-0.0904 |
218 |
1 |
74.70 |
2010-05-11 |
| 101. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
74.48 |
0.9916 |
-0.0518 |
282 |
1 |
74.48 |
2010-05-11 |
| 102. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
74.31 |
1.0060 |
-0.1156 |
171 |
1 |
74.31 |
2010-05-13 |
| 103. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
74.14 |
0.9841 |
-0.0873 |
334 |
1 |
74.14 |
2010-05-11 |
| 104. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
73.43 |
0.8933 |
-0.0025 |
363 |
2 |
72.12 |
2010-05-13 |
| 105. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
73.19 |
0.9168 |
-0.0341 |
240 |
1 |
73.19 |
2010-02-15 |
| 106. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
73.03 |
0.9739 |
-0.0586 |
412 |
1 |
73.03 |
2010-05-10 |
| 107. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
72.77 |
1.0063 |
-0.1296 |
371 |
1 |
72.77 |
2010-05-11 |
| 108. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
72.05 |
0.8947 |
-0.0223 |
366 |
1 |
72.05 |
2010-05-11 |
| 109. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
72.04 |
1.0485 |
-0.1464 |
153 |
1 |
72.04 |
2010-05-11 |
| 110. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
71.99 |
0.9546 |
-0.0565 |
198 |
1 |
71.99 |
2010-05-11 |
| 111. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
71.98 |
1.0768 |
-0.1700 |
295 |
1 |
71.98 |
2010-05-19 |
| 112. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
71.56 |
1.0053 |
-0.1458 |
232 |
1 |
71.56 |
2010-05-11 |
| 113. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
71.46 |
0.9668 |
-0.0639 |
383 |
1 |
71.46 |
2010-05-13 |
| 114. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
71.37 |
0.9976 |
-0.1182 |
174 |
1 |
71.37 |
2010-05-11 |
| 115. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
70.95 |
0.9786 |
-0.1297 |
193 |
1 |
70.95 |
2010-02-15 |
| 116. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
70.74 |
1.0077 |
-0.1149 |
250 |
1 |
70.74 |
2010-05-11 |
| 117. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
70.32 |
0.9709 |
-0.0835 |
397 |
1 |
70.32 |
2010-05-13 |
| 118. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
69.88 |
1.0270 |
-0.1500 |
255 |
1 |
69.88 |
2010-05-13 |
| 119. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
69.31 |
0.9398 |
-0.0965 |
419 |
1 |
69.31 |
2010-05-19 |
| 120. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
69.26 |
1.0023 |
-0.1708 |
211 |
1 |
69.26 |
2010-05-10 |
| 121. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
69.02 |
0.9814 |
-0.1115 |
364 |
1 |
69.02 |
2010-05-19 |
| 122. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
68.44 |
0.9426 |
-0.1161 |
317 |
1 |
68.44 |
2010-05-13 |
| 123. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
68.40 |
0.8602 |
-0.0395 |
206 |
1 |
68.40 |
2010-05-13 |
| 124. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
68.27 |
0.9382 |
-0.0918 |
440 |
1 |
68.27 |
2010-05-13 |
| 125. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
67.76 |
0.9072 |
-0.0938 |
237 |
1 |
67.76 |
2010-05-11 |
| 126. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
67.56 |
0.9964 |
-0.1837 |
203 |
1 |
67.56 |
2010-05-11 |
| 127. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
67.42 |
1.0088 |
-0.1592 |
396 |
1 |
67.42 |
2010-05-19 |
| 128. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
66.98 |
0.8553 |
-0.0548 |
174 |
1 |
66.98 |
2010-05-13 |
| 129. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
66.74 |
0.9673 |
-0.1254 |
232 |
1 |
66.74 |
2010-05-11 |
| 130. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
66.25 |
0.9922 |
-0.1545 |
341 |
1 |
66.25 |
2010-05-11 |
| 131. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
65.71 |
0.9429 |
-0.1516 |
287 |
1 |
65.71 |
2010-05-11 |
| 132. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
63.27 |
0.9234 |
-0.1578 |
346 |
1 |
63.27 |
2010-05-19 |
| 133. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
63.06 |
0.8753 |
-0.1084 |
427 |
1 |
63.06 |
2010-05-19 |
| 134. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
60.17 |
0.9286 |
-0.2073 |
194 |
1 |
60.17 |
2010-02-15 |
| 135. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
58.26 |
0.8981 |
-0.1945 |
393 |
1 |
58.26 |
2010-05-11 |
| 136. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
58.05 |
0.8852 |
-0.1867 |
201 |
1 |
58.05 |
2010-06-02 |
| 137. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
49.01 |
0.9359 |
-0.3104 |
353 |
1 |
49.01 |
2010-05-11 |