| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
61.21 |
0.7389 |
0.8432 |
145 |
1 |
61.21 |
2013-10-10 |
| 2. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
58.70 |
1.0602 |
0.4591 |
389 |
1 |
58.70 |
2013-10-07 |
| 3. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
58.68 |
0.8551 |
0.6589 |
171 |
1 |
58.68 |
2013-10-10 |
| 4. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
58.50 |
0.9303 |
0.5733 |
176 |
1 |
58.50 |
2013-10-10 |
| 5. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
58.30 |
1.0993 |
0.4032 |
265 |
1 |
58.30 |
2013-10-07 |
| 6. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
58.19 |
0.8968 |
0.6031 |
186 |
1 |
58.19 |
2013-10-10 |
| 7. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
57.40 |
1.0165 |
0.4684 |
392 |
1 |
57.40 |
2013-10-07 |
| 8. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
56.49 |
0.8573 |
0.6039 |
270 |
1 |
56.49 |
2013-10-10 |
| 9. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
55.91 |
1.0213 |
0.4178 |
240 |
1 |
55.91 |
2013-10-07 |
| 10. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
55.04 |
1.0669 |
0.3859 |
213 |
1 |
55.04 |
2013-10-08 |
| 11. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
54.30 |
1.1162 |
0.3254 |
189 |
1 |
54.30 |
2013-10-07 |
| 12. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
53.33 |
0.8793 |
0.4977 |
157 |
1 |
53.33 |
2013-10-10 |
| 13. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
53.31 |
0.8442 |
0.5347 |
265 |
1 |
53.31 |
2013-10-05 |
| 14. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
52.11 |
1.0214 |
0.3648 |
281 |
2 |
46.10 |
2013-10-05 |
| 15. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
50.48 |
1.1018 |
0.1930 |
220 |
2 |
44.59 |
2013-10-10 |
| 16. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
49.97 |
1.0462 |
0.2356 |
184 |
4 |
39.51 |
2013-04-25 |
| 17. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
48.77 |
1.0574 |
0.2271 |
205 |
2 |
43.15 |
2013-10-07 |
| 18. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
48.49 |
0.8653 |
0.3953 |
255 |
1 |
48.49 |
2013-10-05 |
| 19. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
46.64 |
0.9216 |
0.3186 |
255 |
1 |
46.64 |
2013-10-05 |
| 20. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
45.90 |
0.9287 |
0.2475 |
108 |
1 |
45.90 |
2011-09-15 |
| 21. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
45.37 |
1.0796 |
0.0836 |
129 |
1 |
45.37 |
2012-03-22 |
| 22. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
45.12 |
1.0883 |
0.1054 |
303 |
2 |
41.27 |
2011-09-15 |
| 23. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
44.26 |
0.9688 |
0.1708 |
217 |
1 |
44.26 |
2011-09-25 |
| 24. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
43.81 |
0.9946 |
0.1326 |
246 |
1 |
43.81 |
2011-09-15 |
| 25. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
43.49 |
1.0711 |
0.0428 |
213 |
3 |
40.91 |
2011-09-25 |
| 26. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
43.20 |
0.9612 |
0.1505 |
256 |
2 |
34.28 |
2013-10-05 |
| 27. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
42.88 |
0.8975 |
0.2064 |
268 |
1 |
42.88 |
2013-10-05 |
| 28. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
42.82 |
1.0483 |
0.0506 |
227 |
1 |
42.82 |
2011-09-15 |
| 29. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
42.75 |
0.9275 |
0.1692 |
211 |
1 |
42.75 |
2011-09-15 |
| 30. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
42.46 |
0.9820 |
0.1130 |
267 |
2 |
37.49 |
2011-09-15 |
| 31. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
42.34 |
1.0263 |
0.0625 |
267 |
1 |
42.34 |
2011-09-15 |
| 32. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
42.32 |
0.8037 |
0.2877 |
148 |
1 |
42.32 |
2013-10-10 |
| 33. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
41.99 |
1.0944 |
0.0305 |
308 |
2 |
38.31 |
2012-03-28 |
| 34. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
41.12 |
0.9904 |
0.1076 |
203 |
2 |
40.61 |
2011-09-15 |
| 35. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
40.86 |
0.9740 |
0.0727 |
209 |
1 |
40.86 |
2012-03-22 |
| 36. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
40.75 |
1.0284 |
0.0629 |
282 |
1 |
40.75 |
2011-09-15 |
| 37. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
40.71 |
1.0521 |
-0.0102 |
171 |
1 |
40.71 |
2011-09-15 |
| 38. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
40.45 |
0.9886 |
0.0540 |
220 |
1 |
40.45 |
2011-09-15 |
| 39. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
40.28 |
0.9418 |
0.0999 |
188 |
1 |
40.28 |
2011-09-05 |
| 40. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
39.70 |
0.9368 |
0.0846 |
173 |
1 |
39.70 |
2012-03-22 |
| 41. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
39.67 |
0.9711 |
0.0477 |
176 |
1 |
39.67 |
2011-09-15 |
| 42. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
39.35 |
1.0016 |
0.0051 |
218 |
1 |
39.35 |
2011-09-25 |
| 43. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
39.17 |
0.8918 |
0.1137 |
100 |
1 |
39.17 |
2011-09-05 |
| 44. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
38.68 |
0.8884 |
0.1063 |
135 |
1 |
38.68 |
2011-09-07 |
| 45. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
38.59 |
0.8520 |
0.1411 |
202 |
2 |
35.40 |
2011-09-25 |
| 46. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
38.34 |
1.1215 |
-0.1124 |
200 |
2 |
30.42 |
2012-07-26 |
| 47. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
38.15 |
1.1114 |
-0.1338 |
247 |
1 |
38.15 |
2011-09-02 |
| 48. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
38.00 |
0.7988 |
0.1864 |
219 |
1 |
38.00 |
2012-03-28 |
| 49. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
37.87 |
0.9316 |
0.0475 |
287 |
1 |
37.87 |
2011-11-14 |
| 50. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
37.61 |
1.0621 |
-0.0766 |
263 |
1 |
37.61 |
2011-09-25 |
| 51. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
37.56 |
0.9871 |
0.0139 |
209 |
1 |
37.56 |
2011-09-02 |
| 52. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
37.04 |
0.8899 |
0.0726 |
293 |
1 |
37.04 |
2011-09-06 |
| 53. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
36.98 |
0.9912 |
-0.0147 |
237 |
1 |
36.98 |
2013-10-08 |
| 54. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
36.98 |
0.9505 |
-0.0005 |
204 |
1 |
36.98 |
2011-09-25 |
| 55. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
36.95 |
1.0523 |
-0.1074 |
256 |
1 |
36.95 |
2011-09-06 |
| 56. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
36.72 |
0.8770 |
0.0690 |
300 |
1 |
36.72 |
2011-09-15 |
| 57. |
You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna... |
36.61 |
0.9126 |
0.0197 |
96 |
1 |
36.61 |
2011-09-05 |
| 58. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
36.48 |
1.0004 |
-0.0697 |
212 |
1 |
36.48 |
2011-08-29 |
| 59. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
36.35 |
1.0515 |
-0.1200 |
250 |
1 |
36.35 |
2011-09-06 |
| 60. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
36.27 |
0.9213 |
0.0103 |
295 |
2 |
34.94 |
2011-08-31 |
| 61. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
36.21 |
0.9758 |
-0.0455 |
314 |
1 |
36.21 |
2011-09-07 |
| 62. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
36.12 |
0.8951 |
0.0345 |
193 |
1 |
36.12 |
2011-09-07 |
| 63. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
35.99 |
0.8691 |
0.0417 |
119 |
1 |
35.99 |
2011-08-29 |
| 64. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
35.90 |
1.0025 |
-0.0802 |
336 |
2 |
34.31 |
2011-09-07 |
| 65. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
35.85 |
1.0109 |
-0.0898 |
276 |
1 |
35.85 |
2011-09-06 |
| 66. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
35.83 |
0.9430 |
-0.0256 |
227 |
1 |
35.83 |
2011-09-05 |
| 67. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
35.77 |
1.0183 |
-0.1055 |
191 |
1 |
35.77 |
2011-09-07 |
| 68. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
35.75 |
1.0083 |
-0.0464 |
273 |
1 |
35.75 |
2011-09-25 |
| 69. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
35.51 |
0.8821 |
0.0292 |
176 |
1 |
35.51 |
2011-09-04 |
| 70. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
35.45 |
0.9098 |
-0.0034 |
167 |
1 |
35.45 |
2011-11-14 |
| 71. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
35.44 |
0.9871 |
-0.0552 |
227 |
1 |
35.44 |
2011-09-07 |
| 72. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
35.42 |
1.0829 |
-0.1723 |
288 |
1 |
35.42 |
2011-09-02 |
| 73. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
35.42 |
0.9072 |
0.0002 |
237 |
1 |
35.42 |
2011-09-05 |
| 74. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
35.34 |
1.0090 |
-0.0582 |
282 |
1 |
35.34 |
2011-09-06 |
| 75. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
35.25 |
0.9340 |
-0.0292 |
296 |
1 |
35.25 |
2011-09-05 |
| 76. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
35.21 |
1.0132 |
-0.1180 |
143 |
1 |
35.21 |
2011-09-06 |
| 77. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
35.16 |
1.0232 |
-0.0750 |
350 |
1 |
35.16 |
2011-09-06 |
| 78. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
34.56 |
1.0487 |
-0.1670 |
231 |
1 |
34.56 |
2011-09-02 |
| 79. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
34.45 |
1.0668 |
-0.1806 |
350 |
1 |
34.45 |
2013-10-08 |
| 80. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
34.22 |
0.9731 |
-0.1075 |
129 |
1 |
34.22 |
2011-09-04 |
| 81. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
34.18 |
0.8747 |
-0.0021 |
201 |
1 |
34.18 |
2011-08-30 |
| 82. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
34.05 |
1.0666 |
-0.1933 |
297 |
1 |
34.05 |
2011-09-05 |
| 83. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
33.82 |
0.9514 |
-0.0837 |
237 |
1 |
33.82 |
2011-09-02 |
| 84. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
33.80 |
0.9468 |
-0.0804 |
276 |
1 |
33.80 |
2011-09-07 |
| 85. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
33.61 |
0.8745 |
-0.0138 |
169 |
1 |
33.61 |
2011-09-04 |
| 86. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
33.40 |
0.8826 |
-0.0247 |
296 |
1 |
33.40 |
2011-09-06 |
| 87. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
33.37 |
0.8323 |
0.0222 |
145 |
1 |
33.37 |
2011-08-30 |
| 88. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
33.36 |
0.9873 |
-0.1342 |
155 |
1 |
33.36 |
2011-09-05 |
| 89. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
33.16 |
0.8541 |
0.0043 |
260 |
1 |
33.16 |
2011-08-29 |
| 90. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
33.15 |
0.9226 |
-0.0658 |
348 |
1 |
33.15 |
2011-09-05 |
| 91. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
33.00 |
0.8994 |
-0.0508 |
188 |
1 |
33.00 |
2011-08-30 |
| 92. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
32.98 |
1.0337 |
-0.1888 |
214 |
1 |
32.98 |
2011-09-07 |
| 93. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
32.88 |
1.0012 |
-0.1549 |
260 |
1 |
32.88 |
2013-10-08 |
| 94. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
32.61 |
0.8852 |
-0.0486 |
158 |
1 |
32.61 |
2011-09-05 |
| 95. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
32.36 |
0.9063 |
-0.0685 |
239 |
1 |
32.36 |
2011-09-05 |
| 96. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
32.30 |
0.9597 |
-0.1277 |
347 |
1 |
32.30 |
2011-09-05 |
| 97. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
32.26 |
0.9846 |
-0.1588 |
281 |
1 |
32.26 |
2011-09-05 |
| 98. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
31.75 |
0.8202 |
-0.0089 |
178 |
1 |
31.75 |
2011-09-04 |
| 99. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
31.21 |
0.8559 |
-0.0555 |
191 |
1 |
31.21 |
2011-08-30 |
| 100. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
30.67 |
1.0403 |
-0.2398 |
193 |
1 |
30.67 |
2011-09-01 |
| 101. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
30.66 |
0.8845 |
-0.0987 |
273 |
1 |
30.66 |
2011-09-05 |
| 102. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
30.36 |
1.0669 |
-0.2571 |
286 |
1 |
30.36 |
2011-09-05 |
| 103. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
30.33 |
0.9774 |
-0.2012 |
196 |
1 |
30.33 |
2013-10-08 |
| 104. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
30.27 |
0.9966 |
-0.2220 |
259 |
1 |
30.27 |
2011-08-29 |
| 105. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
30.15 |
0.9168 |
-0.1435 |
240 |
1 |
30.15 |
2012-03-22 |
| 106. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
30.14 |
0.9309 |
-0.1611 |
284 |
1 |
30.14 |
2011-09-04 |
| 107. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
29.83 |
0.8533 |
-0.0882 |
232 |
1 |
29.83 |
2011-09-05 |
| 108. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
29.12 |
1.0679 |
-0.3024 |
177 |
1 |
29.12 |
2011-08-29 |
| 109. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
29.07 |
0.9843 |
-0.2455 |
234 |
1 |
29.07 |
2013-10-08 |
| 110. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
29.06 |
1.0120 |
-0.2692 |
290 |
1 |
29.06 |
2011-09-05 |
| 111. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
28.86 |
0.9863 |
-0.2437 |
339 |
1 |
28.86 |
2011-08-30 |
| 112. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
28.39 |
0.8628 |
-0.1398 |
196 |
1 |
28.39 |
2011-09-02 |
| 113. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
28.01 |
0.8595 |
-0.1415 |
242 |
1 |
28.01 |
2011-08-30 |
| 114. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
27.48 |
1.0529 |
-0.3505 |
351 |
1 |
27.48 |
2011-08-29 |
| 115. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
27.43 |
0.9266 |
-0.2235 |
278 |
1 |
27.43 |
2011-08-29 |
| 116. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
27.41 |
1.0577 |
-0.3606 |
247 |
1 |
27.41 |
2013-10-08 |
| 117. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
26.54 |
0.9936 |
-0.3162 |
311 |
1 |
26.54 |
2011-09-05 |
| 118. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
26.45 |
0.9045 |
-0.2287 |
235 |
1 |
26.45 |
2011-08-29 |
| 119. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
23.18 |
0.8841 |
-0.2865 |
194 |
1 |
23.18 |
2011-08-29 |
| 120. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
19.41 |
0.9251 |
-0.4276 |
177 |
1 |
19.41 |
2011-08-29 |