| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
57.70 |
1.0679 |
1.0277 |
177 |
1 |
57.70 |
2013-03-22 |
| 2. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
34.71 |
0.9164 |
0.3290 |
121 |
1 |
34.71 |
2013-03-10 |
| 3. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
34.56 |
0.8809 |
0.3525 |
127 |
4 |
30.45 |
2013-03-22 |
| 4. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
34.12 |
0.9187 |
0.2950 |
118 |
1 |
34.12 |
2013-03-10 |
| 5. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
32.85 |
0.9466 |
0.2269 |
107 |
2 |
32.03 |
2013-03-07 |
| 6. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
32.69 |
0.9131 |
0.2512 |
144 |
1 |
32.69 |
2013-03-10 |
| 7. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
32.56 |
0.9320 |
0.2315 |
84 |
1 |
32.56 |
2013-03-06 |
| 8. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
32.42 |
1.0462 |
0.1096 |
184 |
2 |
28.58 |
2013-03-07 |
| 9. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
31.93 |
1.0381 |
0.0966 |
170 |
2 |
28.76 |
2013-03-22 |
| 10. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
31.81 |
0.9773 |
0.1559 |
123 |
1 |
31.81 |
2013-03-07 |
| 11. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
31.69 |
0.9688 |
0.1615 |
217 |
3 |
30.54 |
2013-03-22 |
| 12. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
31.43 |
0.9731 |
0.1441 |
129 |
1 |
31.43 |
2013-03-07 |
| 13. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.32 |
1.0029 |
0.1136 |
209 |
1 |
31.32 |
2013-03-22 |
| 14. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
31.19 |
0.9171 |
0.1967 |
165 |
1 |
31.19 |
2013-03-22 |
| 15. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
31.05 |
1.0205 |
0.0837 |
179 |
1 |
31.05 |
2013-03-10 |
| 16. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
30.97 |
0.9263 |
0.1833 |
188 |
2 |
29.57 |
2013-03-09 |
| 17. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
30.96 |
0.8867 |
0.2217 |
163 |
2 |
29.15 |
2013-03-07 |
| 18. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
30.91 |
0.8956 |
0.2113 |
217 |
1 |
30.91 |
2013-03-25 |
| 19. |
You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna... |
30.82 |
0.9126 |
0.1790 |
96 |
2 |
30.68 |
2013-03-06 |
| 20. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
30.78 |
0.9485 |
0.1536 |
291 |
1 |
30.78 |
2013-03-22 |
| 21. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
30.76 |
1.0565 |
0.0408 |
247 |
2 |
30.17 |
2013-03-25 |
| 22. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
30.73 |
1.0214 |
0.0739 |
166 |
2 |
28.71 |
2013-03-20 |
| 23. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
30.52 |
0.9160 |
0.1710 |
112 |
1 |
30.52 |
2013-03-01 |
| 24. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
30.50 |
0.8791 |
0.2104 |
190 |
1 |
30.50 |
2013-03-07 |
| 25. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
30.46 |
1.0131 |
0.0728 |
225 |
1 |
30.46 |
2013-03-25 |
| 26. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
30.34 |
0.8739 |
0.2075 |
136 |
1 |
30.34 |
2013-03-09 |
| 27. |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immo... |
30.17 |
0.8244 |
0.2558 |
73 |
1 |
30.17 |
2013-03-07 |
| 28. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
30.05 |
1.0917 |
0.0090 |
243 |
1 |
30.05 |
2013-03-06 |
| 29. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
29.94 |
0.9941 |
0.0738 |
217 |
1 |
29.94 |
2013-03-22 |
| 30. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
29.92 |
0.8660 |
0.2049 |
193 |
2 |
29.31 |
2013-03-08 |
| 31. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
29.91 |
0.8700 |
0.1988 |
127 |
2 |
28.01 |
2013-03-08 |
| 32. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
29.77 |
0.8500 |
0.2169 |
145 |
1 |
29.77 |
2013-03-10 |
| 33. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
29.63 |
0.9212 |
0.1381 |
231 |
1 |
29.63 |
2013-03-20 |
| 34. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
29.63 |
0.9286 |
0.1285 |
194 |
1 |
29.63 |
2013-03-22 |
| 35. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
29.59 |
1.0498 |
0.0043 |
180 |
1 |
29.59 |
2013-03-10 |
| 36. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
29.59 |
1.0337 |
0.0220 |
214 |
1 |
29.59 |
2013-03-10 |
| 37. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
29.36 |
0.9711 |
0.0772 |
176 |
1 |
29.36 |
2013-03-21 |
| 38. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
29.09 |
0.8581 |
0.1807 |
136 |
2 |
27.85 |
2013-03-10 |
| 39. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
29.04 |
1.0684 |
-0.0014 |
253 |
1 |
29.04 |
2013-03-22 |
| 40. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
29.04 |
1.0365 |
0.0345 |
162 |
1 |
29.04 |
2013-03-10 |
| 41. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
29.01 |
1.0124 |
0.0222 |
204 |
1 |
29.01 |
2013-03-07 |
| 42. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
28.88 |
0.9068 |
0.1240 |
225 |
1 |
28.88 |
2013-03-07 |
| 43. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
28.84 |
0.9991 |
0.0303 |
225 |
1 |
28.84 |
2013-03-10 |
| 44. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
28.84 |
0.9196 |
0.1092 |
148 |
2 |
27.09 |
2013-03-09 |
| 45. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
28.81 |
1.0201 |
0.0052 |
172 |
1 |
28.81 |
2013-03-10 |
| 46. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
28.80 |
0.9505 |
0.0772 |
204 |
1 |
28.80 |
2013-03-09 |
| 47. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
28.77 |
1.0796 |
-0.0561 |
129 |
1 |
28.77 |
2013-03-08 |
| 48. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
28.77 |
0.8821 |
0.1443 |
176 |
2 |
26.83 |
2013-03-06 |
| 49. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
28.77 |
1.0396 |
-0.0163 |
149 |
1 |
28.77 |
2013-03-07 |
| 50. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
28.68 |
0.8360 |
0.1888 |
170 |
1 |
28.68 |
2013-03-20 |
| 51. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
28.51 |
1.0270 |
0.0266 |
255 |
1 |
28.51 |
2013-03-20 |
| 52. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
28.50 |
0.9303 |
0.0831 |
176 |
1 |
28.50 |
2013-03-06 |
| 53. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
28.22 |
0.9221 |
0.0850 |
244 |
1 |
28.22 |
2013-03-07 |
| 54. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
28.17 |
0.8788 |
0.1250 |
134 |
1 |
28.17 |
2013-03-06 |
| 55. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
28.16 |
0.9251 |
0.0819 |
177 |
1 |
28.16 |
2013-03-10 |
| 56. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
28.11 |
1.0528 |
-0.0516 |
201 |
1 |
28.11 |
2013-03-07 |
| 57. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
28.05 |
0.9884 |
0.0153 |
262 |
1 |
28.05 |
2013-03-22 |
| 58. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
27.77 |
0.8614 |
0.1285 |
172 |
1 |
27.77 |
2013-03-06 |
| 59. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
27.72 |
0.8430 |
0.1468 |
147 |
1 |
27.72 |
2013-03-04 |
| 60. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
27.63 |
1.0168 |
-0.0305 |
271 |
1 |
27.63 |
2013-03-04 |
| 61. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
27.62 |
0.9710 |
0.0114 |
173 |
1 |
27.62 |
2013-03-08 |
| 62. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
27.56 |
1.0033 |
-0.0230 |
189 |
1 |
27.56 |
2013-03-06 |
| 63. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
27.49 |
0.8562 |
0.1249 |
170 |
1 |
27.49 |
2013-03-06 |
| 64. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
27.45 |
0.9851 |
-0.0048 |
317 |
1 |
27.45 |
2013-03-20 |
| 65. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
27.36 |
0.8817 |
0.0944 |
87 |
1 |
27.36 |
2013-03-04 |
| 66. |
Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot... |
27.30 |
0.8342 |
0.1427 |
97 |
1 |
27.30 |
2013-03-04 |
| 67. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
27.14 |
0.8142 |
0.1543 |
187 |
1 |
27.14 |
2013-03-07 |
| 68. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
27.12 |
0.8202 |
0.1477 |
178 |
1 |
27.12 |
2013-03-10 |
| 69. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
27.10 |
1.0343 |
-0.0270 |
242 |
1 |
27.10 |
2013-03-07 |
| 70. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
27.08 |
0.9202 |
0.0465 |
254 |
1 |
27.08 |
2013-03-10 |
| 71. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
27.01 |
0.9396 |
0.0211 |
119 |
1 |
27.01 |
2013-03-02 |
| 72. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
26.92 |
0.8372 |
0.1234 |
179 |
2 |
24.03 |
2013-03-06 |
| 73. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
26.89 |
1.0943 |
-0.1018 |
206 |
1 |
26.89 |
2013-03-10 |
| 74. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
26.87 |
0.7801 |
0.1785 |
116 |
1 |
26.87 |
2013-03-10 |
| 75. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
26.83 |
0.9226 |
0.0379 |
177 |
1 |
26.83 |
2013-03-04 |
| 76. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
26.78 |
0.9798 |
-0.0278 |
199 |
1 |
26.78 |
2013-03-10 |
| 77. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
26.69 |
1.0331 |
-0.0832 |
234 |
1 |
26.69 |
2013-03-04 |
| 78. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
26.44 |
0.8994 |
0.0449 |
188 |
1 |
26.44 |
2013-03-01 |
| 79. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
26.42 |
0.8918 |
0.0504 |
100 |
1 |
26.42 |
2013-03-02 |
| 80. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
26.37 |
0.8899 |
0.0570 |
293 |
1 |
26.37 |
2013-03-06 |
| 81. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
26.35 |
0.9309 |
0.0078 |
284 |
1 |
26.35 |
2013-03-07 |
| 82. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
26.32 |
0.8295 |
0.1124 |
209 |
2 |
25.88 |
2013-03-10 |
| 83. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
26.09 |
0.9325 |
-0.0031 |
156 |
1 |
26.09 |
2013-03-02 |
| 84. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
26.06 |
0.8089 |
0.1183 |
158 |
1 |
26.06 |
2013-03-10 |
| 85. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
25.95 |
0.9045 |
0.0211 |
235 |
1 |
25.95 |
2013-03-10 |
| 86. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
25.78 |
1.0213 |
-0.1035 |
240 |
1 |
25.78 |
2013-03-04 |
| 87. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
25.76 |
0.8023 |
0.1222 |
182 |
1 |
25.76 |
2013-03-02 |
| 88. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
25.73 |
0.7352 |
0.1848 |
106 |
2 |
24.91 |
2013-03-02 |
| 89. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
25.65 |
0.8178 |
0.0979 |
159 |
1 |
25.65 |
2013-03-03 |
| 90. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
25.48 |
0.9207 |
-0.0113 |
174 |
1 |
25.48 |
2013-03-04 |
| 91. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
25.47 |
0.7826 |
0.1293 |
97 |
1 |
25.47 |
2013-03-01 |
| 92. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
25.45 |
1.0797 |
-0.1755 |
210 |
1 |
25.45 |
2013-03-06 |
| 93. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
25.36 |
0.9612 |
-0.0562 |
256 |
1 |
25.36 |
2013-03-04 |
| 94. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
25.36 |
0.8628 |
0.0409 |
196 |
1 |
25.36 |
2013-03-02 |
| 95. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
25.23 |
0.9820 |
-0.0807 |
267 |
1 |
25.23 |
2013-03-01 |
| 96. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
25.19 |
0.9871 |
-0.0505 |
209 |
1 |
25.19 |
2013-03-02 |
| 97. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
25.07 |
0.9871 |
-0.0695 |
227 |
1 |
25.07 |
2013-03-07 |
| 98. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
25.06 |
1.0154 |
-0.0747 |
351 |
1 |
25.06 |
2013-03-10 |
| 99. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
25.04 |
1.0485 |
-0.1186 |
153 |
1 |
25.04 |
2013-03-02 |
| 100. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
24.92 |
0.7104 |
0.1822 |
131 |
1 |
24.92 |
2013-03-06 |
| 101. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
24.79 |
0.9758 |
-0.0918 |
314 |
1 |
24.79 |
2013-03-07 |
| 102. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
24.67 |
0.9820 |
-0.1038 |
274 |
1 |
24.67 |
2013-03-02 |
| 103. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
24.37 |
0.8910 |
-0.0220 |
150 |
1 |
24.37 |
2013-03-06 |
| 104. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
24.16 |
0.7877 |
0.0763 |
142 |
2 |
23.46 |
2013-03-04 |
| 105. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
24.09 |
0.8996 |
-0.0439 |
192 |
2 |
23.74 |
2013-03-06 |
| 106. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
24.03 |
1.0521 |
-0.1984 |
171 |
1 |
24.03 |
2013-03-04 |
| 107. |
Pulp: a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. |
23.91 |
0.7559 |
0.0968 |
46 |
1 |
23.91 |
2013-03-04 |
| 108. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
23.90 |
0.8745 |
-0.0253 |
169 |
1 |
23.90 |
2013-03-04 |
| 109. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
23.84 |
0.8348 |
0.0187 |
219 |
1 |
23.84 |
2013-03-02 |
| 110. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
23.56 |
0.8936 |
-0.0530 |
127 |
1 |
23.56 |
2013-03-01 |
| 111. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
23.52 |
0.7708 |
0.0715 |
207 |
1 |
23.52 |
2013-03-02 |
| 112. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
23.38 |
1.0375 |
-0.1569 |
200 |
2 |
23.31 |
2013-03-04 |
| 113. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
22.99 |
0.7484 |
0.0719 |
185 |
1 |
22.99 |
2013-03-06 |
| 114. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
22.90 |
0.8890 |
-0.0747 |
199 |
1 |
22.90 |
2013-03-02 |
| 115. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
22.83 |
0.8553 |
-0.0446 |
174 |
3 |
22.25 |
2013-03-06 |
| 116. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
22.80 |
0.9673 |
-0.1144 |
232 |
1 |
22.80 |
2013-03-06 |
| 117. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
22.78 |
0.9351 |
-0.1269 |
190 |
1 |
22.78 |
2013-03-04 |
| 118. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
22.72 |
0.7375 |
0.0735 |
148 |
1 |
22.72 |
2013-03-02 |
| 119. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
22.59 |
0.9216 |
-0.0805 |
255 |
1 |
22.59 |
2013-03-02 |