| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
109.44 |
1.0767 |
0.1664 |
212 |
1 |
109.44 |
2013-07-24 |
| 2. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
107.66 |
1.0714 |
0.1443 |
129 |
1 |
107.66 |
2013-07-28 |
| 3. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
105.74 |
1.0711 |
0.1266 |
213 |
1 |
105.74 |
2013-07-12 |
| 4. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
103.45 |
1.0463 |
0.1257 |
182 |
1 |
103.45 |
2013-07-24 |
| 5. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
103.06 |
1.0515 |
0.1184 |
250 |
1 |
103.06 |
2013-08-06 |
| 6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
100.99 |
1.1016 |
0.0462 |
233 |
3 |
99.36 |
2013-07-12 |
| 7. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
100.66 |
0.9233 |
0.2128 |
168 |
1 |
100.66 |
2013-07-28 |
| 8. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
98.81 |
1.1323 |
0.0249 |
341 |
1 |
98.81 |
2013-07-24 |
| 9. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
98.65 |
1.0232 |
0.1337 |
236 |
1 |
98.65 |
2013-07-12 |
| 10. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
98.27 |
1.1068 |
0.0506 |
393 |
1 |
98.27 |
2013-07-12 |
| 11. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
97.67 |
1.0429 |
0.0656 |
259 |
1 |
97.67 |
2013-07-26 |
| 12. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
97.17 |
1.0218 |
0.0798 |
268 |
2 |
95.14 |
2013-07-26 |
| 13. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
95.58 |
1.0696 |
0.0131 |
226 |
1 |
95.58 |
2013-07-25 |
| 14. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
95.32 |
0.9740 |
0.1047 |
209 |
1 |
95.32 |
2013-08-20 |
| 15. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
95.03 |
1.0496 |
0.0294 |
314 |
1 |
95.03 |
2013-07-18 |
| 16. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
94.09 |
0.9786 |
0.0899 |
235 |
1 |
94.09 |
2013-07-24 |
| 17. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
93.65 |
1.0165 |
0.0514 |
392 |
1 |
93.65 |
2013-07-18 |
| 18. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
92.70 |
1.0613 |
-0.0028 |
456 |
1 |
92.70 |
2013-07-26 |
| 19. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
92.55 |
1.0863 |
-0.0003 |
210 |
1 |
92.55 |
2013-07-26 |
| 20. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
92.44 |
1.0385 |
0.0096 |
230 |
1 |
92.44 |
2013-07-18 |
| 21. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
92.30 |
1.1114 |
-0.0658 |
247 |
1 |
92.30 |
2013-07-18 |
| 22. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
91.71 |
0.9468 |
0.0949 |
276 |
1 |
91.71 |
2013-07-26 |
| 23. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
91.09 |
0.9578 |
0.0766 |
281 |
1 |
91.09 |
2013-07-26 |
| 24. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
90.77 |
1.0561 |
0.0007 |
430 |
1 |
90.77 |
2013-07-18 |
| 25. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
90.63 |
0.9148 |
0.1159 |
317 |
1 |
90.63 |
2013-07-25 |
| 26. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
90.60 |
0.9128 |
0.1576 |
369 |
1 |
90.60 |
2013-07-25 |
| 27. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
90.32 |
1.0013 |
0.0233 |
273 |
2 |
88.96 |
2013-07-24 |
| 28. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
90.26 |
0.9681 |
0.0649 |
378 |
1 |
90.26 |
2013-07-26 |
| 29. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
90.04 |
0.9593 |
0.0678 |
398 |
1 |
90.04 |
2013-07-18 |
| 30. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
89.91 |
1.0337 |
-0.0136 |
214 |
1 |
89.91 |
2013-07-25 |
| 31. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
89.79 |
1.0677 |
-0.0179 |
284 |
1 |
89.79 |
2013-07-17 |
| 32. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
89.76 |
1.0531 |
0.0043 |
272 |
1 |
89.76 |
2013-08-27 |
| 33. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
89.41 |
0.9670 |
0.0904 |
307 |
1 |
89.41 |
2013-07-26 |
| 34. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
89.26 |
1.0403 |
0.0129 |
275 |
1 |
89.26 |
2013-07-25 |
| 35. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
89.14 |
1.0169 |
0.0339 |
346 |
1 |
89.14 |
2013-08-06 |
| 36. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
89.12 |
1.0033 |
0.0016 |
189 |
1 |
89.12 |
2013-07-17 |
| 37. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
89.09 |
0.9879 |
0.0325 |
450 |
1 |
89.09 |
2013-07-25 |
| 38. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
88.99 |
1.0375 |
0.0186 |
200 |
1 |
88.99 |
2013-07-28 |
| 39. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
88.95 |
1.0131 |
-0.0071 |
225 |
1 |
88.95 |
2013-07-25 |
| 40. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
88.80 |
0.9371 |
0.1099 |
318 |
1 |
88.80 |
2013-07-12 |
| 41. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
88.45 |
0.9678 |
0.0716 |
445 |
1 |
88.45 |
2013-11-07 |
| 42. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
88.02 |
0.9430 |
0.0490 |
211 |
1 |
88.02 |
2013-07-26 |
| 43. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
87.68 |
0.8553 |
0.1352 |
174 |
2 |
86.40 |
2013-08-20 |
| 44. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
87.64 |
1.0389 |
-0.0423 |
318 |
1 |
87.64 |
2013-07-26 |
| 45. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
87.37 |
0.9127 |
0.0760 |
252 |
1 |
87.37 |
2013-07-17 |
| 46. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
86.98 |
0.9540 |
0.0311 |
285 |
1 |
86.98 |
2013-07-18 |
| 47. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
86.76 |
1.1014 |
-0.0790 |
273 |
1 |
86.76 |
2013-07-12 |
| 48. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
85.89 |
0.9653 |
0.0179 |
394 |
1 |
85.89 |
2013-07-23 |
| 49. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
85.72 |
1.0486 |
-0.0752 |
289 |
1 |
85.72 |
2013-07-17 |
| 50. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
85.54 |
1.0232 |
-0.0067 |
350 |
1 |
85.54 |
2013-07-18 |
| 51. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
85.44 |
0.9965 |
-0.0317 |
168 |
1 |
85.44 |
2013-07-30 |
| 52. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
85.32 |
1.0567 |
-0.0876 |
303 |
1 |
85.32 |
2013-07-26 |
| 53. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
85.30 |
1.1215 |
-0.1298 |
200 |
1 |
85.30 |
2013-07-18 |
| 54. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
85.18 |
0.9636 |
0.0024 |
254 |
1 |
85.18 |
2013-07-12 |
| 55. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
84.93 |
1.0214 |
-0.0154 |
281 |
2 |
82.38 |
2013-07-18 |
| 56. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
84.70 |
1.0630 |
-0.0683 |
397 |
1 |
84.70 |
2013-07-25 |
| 57. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
84.21 |
1.0412 |
-0.0863 |
225 |
1 |
84.21 |
2013-07-17 |
| 58. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
84.14 |
1.0334 |
-0.0854 |
131 |
1 |
84.14 |
2013-07-12 |
| 59. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
83.77 |
0.9881 |
0.0030 |
424 |
1 |
83.77 |
2013-07-12 |
| 60. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
83.73 |
0.9243 |
0.0653 |
448 |
1 |
83.73 |
2013-07-25 |
| 61. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
83.47 |
1.0058 |
-0.0359 |
411 |
1 |
83.47 |
2013-07-26 |
| 62. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
83.41 |
0.9672 |
-0.0144 |
396 |
1 |
83.41 |
2013-07-25 |
| 63. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
83.26 |
0.9632 |
-0.0125 |
392 |
1 |
83.26 |
2013-07-25 |
| 64. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
82.55 |
1.0368 |
-0.0998 |
276 |
1 |
82.55 |
2013-07-17 |
| 65. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
82.18 |
1.0604 |
-0.0953 |
260 |
1 |
82.18 |
2013-07-12 |
| 66. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
81.81 |
0.9289 |
-0.0035 |
204 |
1 |
81.81 |
2013-07-25 |
| 67. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
81.77 |
0.9635 |
-0.0303 |
389 |
1 |
81.77 |
2013-07-18 |
| 68. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
81.39 |
1.0154 |
-0.0426 |
351 |
1 |
81.39 |
2013-07-18 |
| 69. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
81.20 |
0.9866 |
-0.0695 |
218 |
1 |
81.20 |
2013-08-09 |
| 70. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
81.15 |
0.9871 |
-0.0307 |
209 |
2 |
75.51 |
2013-07-18 |
| 71. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
81.14 |
0.8826 |
0.0391 |
296 |
1 |
81.14 |
2013-07-17 |
| 72. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
80.49 |
1.0272 |
-0.0902 |
405 |
1 |
80.49 |
2013-07-17 |
| 73. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
80.35 |
1.0263 |
-0.1165 |
267 |
1 |
80.35 |
2013-07-12 |
| 74. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
80.20 |
1.0173 |
-0.0642 |
268 |
1 |
80.20 |
2013-07-24 |
| 75. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
79.48 |
0.9109 |
-0.0068 |
401 |
1 |
79.48 |
2013-07-24 |
| 76. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
79.33 |
0.9814 |
-0.0428 |
364 |
1 |
79.33 |
2013-07-18 |
| 77. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
79.30 |
1.0292 |
-0.1319 |
262 |
1 |
79.30 |
2013-07-12 |
| 78. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
78.86 |
0.9976 |
-0.0834 |
174 |
1 |
78.86 |
2013-07-18 |
| 79. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
78.57 |
0.9567 |
-0.0660 |
273 |
1 |
78.57 |
2013-07-12 |
| 80. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
78.15 |
0.9164 |
-0.0255 |
305 |
1 |
78.15 |
2013-07-12 |
| 81. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
77.14 |
0.8602 |
0.0117 |
206 |
1 |
77.14 |
2013-07-18 |
| 82. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
76.59 |
0.9649 |
-0.0981 |
193 |
1 |
76.59 |
2013-07-24 |
| 83. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
75.19 |
1.0031 |
-0.1183 |
304 |
1 |
75.19 |
2013-07-12 |
| 84. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
74.95 |
0.9925 |
-0.1068 |
247 |
1 |
74.95 |
2013-07-17 |
| 85. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
73.54 |
1.0297 |
-0.1983 |
249 |
1 |
73.54 |
2013-07-12 |
| 86. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
71.88 |
0.9275 |
-0.1171 |
211 |
2 |
69.42 |
2013-07-12 |
| 87. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
70.91 |
1.0095 |
-0.2086 |
316 |
1 |
70.91 |
2013-07-12 |
| 88. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
69.38 |
0.9855 |
-0.1672 |
258 |
1 |
69.38 |
2013-07-12 |
| 89. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
66.75 |
0.9359 |
-0.1416 |
353 |
1 |
66.75 |
2013-07-12 |
| 90. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
61.72 |
0.9023 |
-0.1626 |
231 |
1 |
61.72 |
2013-07-24 |