| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
86.05 |
1.0555 |
0.1907 |
363 |
2 |
78.18 |
2013-08-04 |
| 2. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
86.05 |
1.1114 |
0.1305 |
247 |
1 |
86.05 |
2013-08-01 |
| 3. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
83.06 |
1.0528 |
0.1435 |
201 |
1 |
83.06 |
2011-10-08 |
| 4. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
82.96 |
1.1022 |
0.1322 |
259 |
1 |
82.96 |
2013-08-01 |
| 5. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
81.67 |
1.0441 |
0.1378 |
252 |
1 |
81.67 |
2013-08-04 |
| 6. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
80.44 |
0.9798 |
0.1772 |
199 |
2 |
74.93 |
2011-10-09 |
| 7. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
79.59 |
0.9729 |
0.1772 |
255 |
1 |
79.59 |
2011-10-08 |
| 8. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
78.76 |
1.0596 |
0.0761 |
239 |
1 |
78.76 |
2011-10-10 |
| 9. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
78.26 |
0.8941 |
0.2382 |
216 |
1 |
78.26 |
2011-10-08 |
| 10. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
77.27 |
1.0669 |
0.0816 |
286 |
1 |
77.27 |
2013-08-04 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.75 |
1.0613 |
0.0530 |
456 |
2 |
75.08 |
2013-09-21 |
| 12. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
76.67 |
0.9863 |
0.1256 |
339 |
1 |
76.67 |
2013-07-30 |
| 13. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
76.10 |
0.9855 |
0.1473 |
258 |
1 |
76.10 |
2012-10-13 |
| 14. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
76.01 |
0.9768 |
0.1241 |
387 |
1 |
76.01 |
2013-08-22 |
| 15. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
76.00 |
1.0033 |
0.0876 |
189 |
1 |
76.00 |
2012-01-23 |
| 16. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
75.76 |
1.0516 |
0.0420 |
281 |
1 |
75.76 |
2012-03-30 |
| 17. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
75.76 |
0.9772 |
0.1137 |
217 |
2 |
67.37 |
2013-08-01 |
| 18. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
75.66 |
1.0016 |
0.0864 |
218 |
1 |
75.66 |
2013-08-04 |
| 19. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
75.29 |
0.9734 |
0.1141 |
289 |
2 |
71.71 |
2013-08-01 |
| 20. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
75.24 |
1.0141 |
0.1088 |
304 |
1 |
75.24 |
2013-08-01 |
| 21. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
74.38 |
1.0787 |
-0.0062 |
237 |
1 |
74.38 |
2013-07-30 |
| 22. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
74.28 |
1.0201 |
0.0566 |
375 |
1 |
74.28 |
2011-10-09 |
| 23. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
74.20 |
1.0725 |
0.0245 |
233 |
1 |
74.20 |
2013-07-30 |
| 24. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
74.17 |
1.0615 |
0.0350 |
305 |
1 |
74.17 |
2013-08-21 |
| 25. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
74.10 |
1.0506 |
0.0481 |
277 |
2 |
69.94 |
2013-09-21 |
| 26. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
74.02 |
1.0023 |
0.0645 |
211 |
2 |
73.87 |
2013-07-30 |
| 27. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
73.94 |
0.9072 |
0.1583 |
237 |
1 |
73.94 |
2013-08-23 |
| 28. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
73.62 |
1.0486 |
0.0151 |
289 |
1 |
73.62 |
2011-10-10 |
| 29. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
73.22 |
1.0284 |
0.0719 |
282 |
1 |
73.22 |
2012-12-01 |
| 30. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
73.04 |
1.0138 |
0.0401 |
231 |
1 |
73.04 |
2011-10-09 |
| 31. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
72.90 |
0.9897 |
0.0604 |
274 |
1 |
72.90 |
2011-10-10 |
| 32. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
72.72 |
1.0533 |
0.0235 |
257 |
1 |
72.72 |
2013-08-24 |
| 33. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
72.63 |
1.0429 |
0.0040 |
259 |
1 |
72.63 |
2011-10-09 |
| 34. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
72.57 |
0.9820 |
0.0688 |
267 |
2 |
70.95 |
2012-03-30 |
| 35. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
72.13 |
1.0441 |
0.0385 |
316 |
1 |
72.13 |
2013-07-30 |
| 36. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
72.02 |
0.9936 |
0.0662 |
227 |
1 |
72.02 |
2011-10-08 |
| 37. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
71.76 |
0.9942 |
0.0503 |
483 |
1 |
71.76 |
2013-08-18 |
| 38. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
71.67 |
0.9941 |
0.0380 |
217 |
1 |
71.67 |
2013-08-01 |
| 39. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
71.25 |
1.0644 |
0.0004 |
257 |
1 |
71.25 |
2011-10-14 |
| 40. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
70.34 |
1.0095 |
0.0041 |
316 |
1 |
70.34 |
2012-10-13 |
| 41. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
70.18 |
1.0177 |
0.0333 |
392 |
1 |
70.18 |
2012-10-13 |
| 42. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
70.08 |
0.9353 |
0.0713 |
177 |
1 |
70.08 |
2011-10-08 |
| 43. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
70.00 |
1.0252 |
-0.0217 |
176 |
2 |
59.55 |
2011-10-20 |
| 44. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
69.99 |
1.1014 |
-0.0537 |
273 |
1 |
69.99 |
2011-10-08 |
| 45. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
69.97 |
1.0296 |
-0.0134 |
437 |
1 |
69.97 |
2013-07-30 |
| 46. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
69.95 |
1.0004 |
0.0027 |
212 |
1 |
69.95 |
2013-07-30 |
| 47. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
69.69 |
1.0883 |
-0.0504 |
303 |
1 |
69.69 |
2011-10-08 |
| 48. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
69.63 |
1.0498 |
-0.0501 |
180 |
1 |
69.63 |
2011-10-08 |
| 49. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
69.62 |
0.9785 |
0.0291 |
335 |
1 |
69.62 |
2013-08-18 |
| 50. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
69.46 |
0.9540 |
0.0461 |
285 |
1 |
69.46 |
2011-10-08 |
| 51. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
69.42 |
0.9376 |
0.0693 |
367 |
1 |
69.42 |
2013-08-01 |
| 52. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
69.39 |
1.0151 |
-0.0234 |
152 |
1 |
69.39 |
2011-10-08 |
| 53. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
69.21 |
1.0595 |
-0.0584 |
379 |
1 |
69.21 |
2013-08-01 |
| 54. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
68.89 |
1.0292 |
-0.0369 |
262 |
1 |
68.89 |
2011-10-08 |
| 55. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
68.43 |
1.0264 |
0.0009 |
422 |
1 |
68.43 |
2011-10-10 |
| 56. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
68.04 |
1.0462 |
-0.0708 |
184 |
2 |
67.78 |
2011-10-09 |
| 57. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
67.74 |
0.9790 |
0.0388 |
311 |
1 |
67.74 |
2013-08-01 |
| 58. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
67.59 |
1.0088 |
0.0047 |
396 |
1 |
67.59 |
2011-10-08 |
| 59. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
67.41 |
1.0125 |
-0.0429 |
224 |
1 |
67.41 |
2011-10-10 |
| 60. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
67.35 |
0.9780 |
-0.0058 |
337 |
1 |
67.35 |
2013-07-30 |
| 61. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
67.26 |
0.9991 |
-0.0284 |
225 |
1 |
67.26 |
2011-10-10 |
| 62. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
67.12 |
1.0788 |
-0.1165 |
171 |
1 |
67.12 |
2011-10-08 |
| 63. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
67.05 |
1.0477 |
-0.0787 |
360 |
1 |
67.05 |
2011-10-10 |
| 64. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
66.91 |
1.0053 |
-0.0423 |
232 |
1 |
66.91 |
2013-08-21 |
| 65. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
66.71 |
0.9894 |
-0.0230 |
323 |
1 |
66.71 |
2012-06-10 |
| 66. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
66.42 |
0.9567 |
0.0013 |
273 |
1 |
66.42 |
2011-10-09 |
| 67. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
66.24 |
1.0574 |
-0.0741 |
205 |
1 |
66.24 |
2011-10-09 |
| 68. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
65.78 |
0.9303 |
0.0109 |
176 |
1 |
65.78 |
2011-10-08 |
| 69. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
65.74 |
0.9176 |
0.0639 |
267 |
1 |
65.74 |
2012-01-23 |
| 70. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
65.65 |
1.0972 |
-0.1213 |
251 |
1 |
65.65 |
2011-10-10 |
| 71. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
65.43 |
1.0109 |
-0.0670 |
276 |
1 |
65.43 |
2011-10-16 |
| 72. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
65.39 |
1.0154 |
-0.0228 |
351 |
1 |
65.39 |
2011-10-14 |
| 73. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
64.95 |
0.9340 |
0.0016 |
296 |
1 |
64.95 |
2011-10-14 |
| 74. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
64.84 |
0.8996 |
0.0295 |
192 |
1 |
64.84 |
2011-10-14 |
| 75. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
64.68 |
0.9351 |
-0.0083 |
190 |
1 |
64.68 |
2011-10-10 |
| 76. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
64.32 |
0.9127 |
0.0114 |
252 |
1 |
64.32 |
2012-10-13 |
| 77. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
63.94 |
0.9359 |
0.0253 |
353 |
1 |
63.94 |
2011-10-08 |
| 78. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
63.69 |
0.9841 |
-0.0622 |
334 |
2 |
63.05 |
2011-10-09 |
| 79. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
63.57 |
1.0150 |
-0.0499 |
325 |
1 |
63.57 |
2011-10-08 |
| 80. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
63.31 |
0.9763 |
-0.0645 |
289 |
1 |
63.31 |
2011-10-10 |
| 81. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
63.06 |
0.9670 |
-0.0161 |
307 |
1 |
63.06 |
2012-10-13 |
| 82. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
63.02 |
0.9665 |
-0.0090 |
326 |
1 |
63.02 |
2011-10-08 |
| 83. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
62.85 |
0.9084 |
-0.0010 |
300 |
1 |
62.85 |
2013-07-29 |
| 84. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
62.72 |
0.9893 |
-0.0856 |
323 |
1 |
62.72 |
2011-10-08 |
| 85. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
62.47 |
0.9653 |
-0.0568 |
394 |
1 |
62.47 |
2011-10-20 |
| 86. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
62.44 |
1.0796 |
-0.1855 |
129 |
1 |
62.44 |
2011-10-09 |
| 87. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
62.41 |
0.9776 |
-0.0781 |
308 |
1 |
62.41 |
2012-06-10 |
| 88. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
62.28 |
0.9430 |
-0.0435 |
297 |
1 |
62.28 |
2012-10-13 |
| 89. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
61.90 |
1.0213 |
-0.1326 |
240 |
1 |
61.90 |
2011-10-10 |
| 90. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
61.60 |
0.9673 |
-0.0408 |
232 |
1 |
61.60 |
2011-10-10 |
| 91. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
61.52 |
0.9632 |
-0.0347 |
345 |
1 |
61.52 |
2011-10-08 |
| 92. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
61.39 |
1.0454 |
-0.1642 |
255 |
1 |
61.39 |
2011-10-08 |
| 93. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
61.11 |
0.9884 |
-0.1086 |
233 |
1 |
61.11 |
2011-10-10 |
| 94. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
60.36 |
0.9155 |
0.0027 |
168 |
1 |
60.36 |
2011-10-10 |
| 95. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
59.99 |
0.9567 |
-0.0505 |
184 |
1 |
59.99 |
2011-10-10 |
| 96. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
59.37 |
0.9125 |
-0.0561 |
308 |
1 |
59.37 |
2011-10-10 |
| 97. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
59.36 |
0.9243 |
-0.0299 |
448 |
1 |
59.36 |
2011-10-10 |
| 98. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
58.89 |
0.9570 |
-0.1075 |
287 |
1 |
58.89 |
2011-10-16 |
| 99. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
57.97 |
0.9097 |
-0.0336 |
464 |
1 |
57.97 |
2011-10-09 |
| 100. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
57.74 |
1.0254 |
-0.1542 |
217 |
1 |
57.74 |
2011-10-10 |
| 101. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
57.17 |
0.9910 |
-0.1664 |
295 |
1 |
57.17 |
2011-10-10 |
| 102. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
56.67 |
0.9233 |
-0.1164 |
168 |
1 |
56.67 |
2011-10-09 |
| 103. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
56.59 |
1.0141 |
-0.1596 |
381 |
1 |
56.59 |
2011-10-08 |
| 104. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
56.24 |
0.8914 |
-0.0821 |
366 |
1 |
56.24 |
2011-10-10 |
| 105. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
55.95 |
1.0331 |
-0.2307 |
234 |
1 |
55.95 |
2011-10-08 |
| 106. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
55.33 |
0.9342 |
-0.1348 |
434 |
1 |
55.33 |
2011-10-10 |
| 107. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
52.80 |
0.9005 |
-0.1432 |
212 |
1 |
52.80 |
2011-10-08 |
| 108. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
51.95 |
0.9411 |
-0.1939 |
318 |
1 |
51.95 |
2011-10-10 |