| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
60.69 |
1.0218 |
0.2667 |
268 |
1 |
60.69 |
2013-08-30 |
| 2. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
58.70 |
0.9866 |
0.2585 |
218 |
1 |
58.70 |
2013-08-29 |
| 3. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
58.30 |
1.0426 |
0.1968 |
323 |
1 |
58.30 |
2013-10-14 |
| 4. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
58.13 |
1.0213 |
0.2119 |
240 |
1 |
58.13 |
2013-10-14 |
| 5. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
57.92 |
1.0666 |
0.1652 |
297 |
1 |
57.92 |
2013-10-03 |
| 6. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
57.71 |
1.0515 |
0.1682 |
166 |
1 |
57.71 |
2013-10-03 |
| 7. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
57.07 |
0.9068 |
0.3054 |
225 |
1 |
57.07 |
2013-08-30 |
| 8. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
56.22 |
0.9582 |
0.2391 |
259 |
1 |
56.22 |
2013-09-25 |
| 9. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
56.10 |
0.9722 |
0.2229 |
283 |
1 |
56.10 |
2013-08-30 |
| 10. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
56.04 |
1.0368 |
0.1555 |
276 |
1 |
56.04 |
2013-08-30 |
| 11. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
55.72 |
1.0334 |
0.1449 |
131 |
1 |
55.72 |
2014-12-19 |
| 12. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
54.85 |
0.9991 |
0.1675 |
225 |
1 |
54.85 |
2014-12-19 |
| 13. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
54.08 |
1.0669 |
0.1149 |
286 |
2 |
45.88 |
2013-08-29 |
| 14. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
53.70 |
1.0621 |
0.0985 |
263 |
1 |
53.70 |
2013-08-29 |
| 15. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
53.60 |
1.0763 |
0.1042 |
367 |
1 |
53.60 |
2013-08-30 |
| 16. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
53.28 |
1.0099 |
0.1196 |
207 |
2 |
46.67 |
2013-08-30 |
| 17. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
53.16 |
0.9614 |
0.1713 |
292 |
1 |
53.16 |
2013-08-31 |
| 18. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
52.86 |
0.9289 |
0.1921 |
204 |
1 |
52.86 |
2014-12-19 |
| 19. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
52.80 |
0.9411 |
0.1817 |
318 |
4 |
48.40 |
2014-12-19 |
| 20. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
52.56 |
0.9572 |
0.1587 |
201 |
1 |
52.56 |
2013-08-22 |
| 21. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
52.34 |
1.0885 |
0.0267 |
315 |
1 |
52.34 |
2013-08-30 |
| 22. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
52.18 |
1.0679 |
0.0610 |
177 |
1 |
52.18 |
2013-08-31 |
| 23. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
52.13 |
0.9846 |
0.1218 |
281 |
2 |
44.59 |
2014-12-19 |
| 24. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
51.83 |
1.0516 |
0.0491 |
281 |
2 |
51.33 |
2014-12-19 |
| 25. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
51.68 |
0.8906 |
0.2119 |
238 |
1 |
51.68 |
2013-08-29 |
| 26. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
51.52 |
0.9576 |
0.1416 |
212 |
1 |
51.52 |
2013-08-22 |
| 27. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
51.21 |
1.0008 |
0.1300 |
473 |
1 |
51.21 |
2013-08-31 |
| 28. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
51.05 |
0.9593 |
0.1297 |
398 |
1 |
51.05 |
2013-08-29 |
| 29. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
50.97 |
1.0863 |
0.0313 |
210 |
2 |
49.64 |
2013-10-14 |
| 30. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
50.71 |
0.9572 |
0.1627 |
376 |
1 |
50.71 |
2013-08-29 |
| 31. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
50.37 |
0.9820 |
0.0880 |
274 |
1 |
50.37 |
2011-12-06 |
| 32. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
50.07 |
0.9912 |
0.0988 |
237 |
2 |
49.39 |
2013-10-14 |
| 33. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
49.67 |
1.0252 |
0.0230 |
176 |
2 |
45.03 |
2013-08-30 |
| 34. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
49.46 |
1.0211 |
0.0597 |
213 |
1 |
49.46 |
2014-12-19 |
| 35. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
49.42 |
1.0025 |
0.0466 |
256 |
1 |
49.42 |
2013-08-30 |
| 36. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
49.36 |
0.8884 |
0.1603 |
135 |
1 |
49.36 |
2013-08-29 |
| 37. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
49.09 |
0.9207 |
0.1244 |
174 |
2 |
46.44 |
2014-12-19 |
| 38. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
49.08 |
1.0534 |
-0.0092 |
357 |
1 |
49.08 |
2013-08-29 |
| 39. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
48.96 |
1.0031 |
0.0697 |
304 |
1 |
48.96 |
2014-10-06 |
| 40. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
48.93 |
1.0390 |
-0.0039 |
205 |
1 |
48.93 |
2014-10-06 |
| 41. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
48.90 |
0.9776 |
0.0606 |
308 |
1 |
48.90 |
2013-08-29 |
| 42. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
48.76 |
0.9855 |
0.0828 |
258 |
2 |
45.53 |
2013-08-29 |
| 43. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
48.68 |
1.0384 |
-0.0143 |
183 |
1 |
48.68 |
2013-08-29 |
| 44. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
48.58 |
1.0288 |
0.0347 |
300 |
1 |
48.58 |
2013-08-22 |
| 45. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
48.57 |
0.9365 |
0.0958 |
248 |
1 |
48.57 |
2013-08-22 |
| 46. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
48.28 |
1.0429 |
-0.0196 |
259 |
1 |
48.28 |
2013-08-29 |
| 47. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
48.22 |
1.0719 |
-0.0209 |
360 |
1 |
48.22 |
2013-10-07 |
| 48. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
48.13 |
0.9773 |
0.0367 |
123 |
1 |
48.13 |
2013-08-29 |
| 49. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
48.01 |
1.0201 |
0.0029 |
375 |
1 |
48.01 |
2013-08-29 |
| 50. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
47.78 |
1.0547 |
-0.0059 |
257 |
1 |
47.78 |
2013-08-22 |
| 51. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
47.57 |
0.9023 |
0.1501 |
231 |
2 |
46.72 |
2013-09-25 |
| 52. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
47.36 |
1.0799 |
-0.0785 |
243 |
1 |
47.36 |
2014-10-06 |
| 53. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
47.34 |
1.0662 |
-0.0241 |
407 |
1 |
47.34 |
2014-10-06 |
| 54. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
47.28 |
1.0767 |
-0.0755 |
212 |
1 |
47.28 |
2011-12-06 |
| 55. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
46.71 |
0.9843 |
0.0017 |
234 |
1 |
46.71 |
2013-08-29 |
| 56. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
46.59 |
1.0063 |
-0.0173 |
371 |
1 |
46.59 |
2013-10-14 |
| 57. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
46.53 |
0.9673 |
0.0592 |
232 |
2 |
45.63 |
2013-10-14 |
| 58. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
46.51 |
1.0441 |
-0.0160 |
316 |
1 |
46.51 |
2013-08-29 |
| 59. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
45.76 |
0.9293 |
0.0421 |
355 |
1 |
45.76 |
2013-10-07 |
| 60. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
45.73 |
0.9540 |
0.0141 |
285 |
1 |
45.73 |
2013-08-30 |
| 61. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
45.68 |
0.9905 |
0.0096 |
337 |
1 |
45.68 |
2013-08-29 |
| 62. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
44.83 |
0.9155 |
0.0841 |
168 |
1 |
44.83 |
2013-08-29 |
| 63. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
44.43 |
0.9844 |
-0.0378 |
293 |
1 |
44.43 |
2013-08-22 |
| 64. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
44.22 |
1.0398 |
-0.1128 |
110 |
1 |
44.22 |
2014-01-24 |
| 65. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
44.21 |
0.9532 |
-0.0170 |
258 |
1 |
44.21 |
2013-08-22 |
| 66. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
43.60 |
0.9780 |
-0.0530 |
337 |
1 |
43.60 |
2013-08-30 |
| 67. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
43.58 |
0.8595 |
0.0660 |
242 |
1 |
43.58 |
2014-12-19 |
| 68. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
43.36 |
0.9798 |
-0.0667 |
199 |
1 |
43.36 |
2011-12-06 |
| 69. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
43.17 |
1.0314 |
-0.1195 |
172 |
1 |
43.17 |
2013-10-14 |
| 70. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
42.67 |
1.0343 |
-0.0928 |
242 |
2 |
37.14 |
2011-12-05 |
| 71. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
42.22 |
1.0385 |
-0.1456 |
230 |
1 |
42.22 |
2013-10-07 |
| 72. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
42.09 |
1.0379 |
-0.1114 |
245 |
1 |
42.09 |
2011-12-06 |
| 73. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
41.97 |
0.9795 |
-0.0905 |
308 |
1 |
41.97 |
2013-08-30 |
| 74. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
41.96 |
1.0013 |
-0.1131 |
273 |
1 |
41.96 |
2011-12-06 |
| 75. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
41.81 |
0.8725 |
0.0154 |
163 |
1 |
41.81 |
2014-10-06 |
| 76. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
41.80 |
1.0183 |
-0.1382 |
191 |
1 |
41.80 |
2011-12-05 |
| 77. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
41.74 |
1.0412 |
-0.1575 |
225 |
1 |
41.74 |
2011-12-05 |
| 78. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
41.39 |
1.0788 |
-0.2076 |
171 |
1 |
41.39 |
2011-12-05 |
| 79. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
41.02 |
0.9212 |
-0.0483 |
231 |
1 |
41.02 |
2011-12-06 |
| 80. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
40.47 |
1.0403 |
-0.1434 |
275 |
1 |
40.47 |
2011-12-05 |
| 81. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
40.33 |
0.9763 |
-0.1227 |
289 |
1 |
40.33 |
2011-12-06 |
| 82. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
40.12 |
0.8533 |
-0.0024 |
232 |
1 |
40.12 |
2013-08-22 |
| 83. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
39.82 |
0.8562 |
-0.0127 |
170 |
1 |
39.82 |
2011-12-06 |
| 84. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
39.74 |
0.9168 |
-0.0742 |
240 |
1 |
39.74 |
2013-10-03 |
| 85. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
38.91 |
0.9212 |
-0.0947 |
323 |
1 |
38.91 |
2011-12-06 |
| 86. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
37.43 |
0.9084 |
-0.1127 |
404 |
1 |
37.43 |
2011-12-06 |
| 87. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
37.22 |
0.9665 |
-0.1301 |
326 |
1 |
37.22 |
2011-12-06 |
| 88. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
37.05 |
1.0292 |
-0.2471 |
262 |
1 |
37.05 |
2011-12-05 |
| 89. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
37.04 |
0.9851 |
-0.1998 |
317 |
1 |
37.04 |
2011-12-05 |
| 90. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
36.73 |
0.8602 |
-0.0861 |
206 |
1 |
36.73 |
2011-12-06 |
| 91. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
36.63 |
0.9886 |
-0.2116 |
220 |
1 |
36.63 |
2011-10-27 |
| 92. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
36.25 |
0.9127 |
-0.1486 |
252 |
1 |
36.25 |
2011-10-27 |
| 93. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
35.76 |
0.8442 |
-0.0843 |
265 |
1 |
35.76 |
2011-10-27 |
| 94. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
35.25 |
1.0498 |
-0.3099 |
180 |
1 |
35.25 |
2014-12-25 |
| 95. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
34.84 |
1.0711 |
-0.3404 |
213 |
1 |
34.84 |
2011-12-05 |
| 96. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
34.46 |
0.8918 |
-0.1653 |
100 |
1 |
34.46 |
2011-12-05 |
| 97. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
33.71 |
0.7988 |
-0.0782 |
219 |
1 |
33.71 |
2011-12-05 |
| 98. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
32.30 |
0.9213 |
-0.2396 |
295 |
1 |
32.30 |
2011-10-27 |
| 99. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
30.01 |
1.0941 |
-0.4306 |
256 |
1 |
30.01 |
2011-12-05 |
| 100. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
28.80 |
1.0349 |
-0.4294 |
234 |
1 |
28.80 |
2011-10-27 |