| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
98.97 |
1.0711 |
0.2589 |
213 |
2 |
95.72 |
2012-12-14 |
| 2. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
98.51 |
1.0829 |
0.2475 |
288 |
1 |
98.51 |
2012-12-04 |
| 3. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
98.38 |
1.0696 |
0.2542 |
226 |
1 |
98.38 |
2012-12-05 |
| 4. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
93.92 |
1.0740 |
0.2307 |
264 |
1 |
93.92 |
2012-12-14 |
| 5. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
91.73 |
1.0201 |
0.2172 |
303 |
2 |
78.88 |
2012-12-04 |
| 6. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
91.60 |
1.0788 |
0.1504 |
171 |
1 |
91.60 |
2012-12-04 |
| 7. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
90.49 |
1.0444 |
0.1688 |
197 |
1 |
90.49 |
2012-12-04 |
| 8. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
90.12 |
1.1296 |
0.1141 |
252 |
2 |
81.27 |
2012-12-14 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
89.72 |
1.0337 |
0.1748 |
214 |
1 |
89.72 |
2012-12-04 |
| 10. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
89.65 |
1.0125 |
0.1932 |
224 |
1 |
89.65 |
2012-12-04 |
| 11. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
89.17 |
1.0863 |
0.1501 |
210 |
1 |
89.17 |
2012-12-04 |
| 12. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
87.84 |
1.0391 |
0.1506 |
358 |
1 |
87.84 |
2012-11-30 |
| 13. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
87.58 |
0.9635 |
0.2224 |
389 |
1 |
87.58 |
2012-12-04 |
| 14. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
86.92 |
1.0774 |
0.1230 |
304 |
1 |
86.92 |
2012-11-30 |
| 15. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
85.00 |
1.0390 |
0.1021 |
205 |
3 |
76.97 |
2012-12-04 |
| 16. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
83.98 |
0.9710 |
0.1537 |
173 |
2 |
79.90 |
2012-12-04 |
| 17. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
83.52 |
0.9986 |
0.1268 |
283 |
1 |
83.52 |
2012-11-30 |
| 18. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
83.41 |
1.0331 |
0.0878 |
234 |
2 |
78.67 |
2012-11-30 |
| 19. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
83.12 |
1.0668 |
0.0548 |
350 |
1 |
83.12 |
2012-12-04 |
| 20. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
81.91 |
1.0885 |
0.0177 |
315 |
2 |
80.41 |
2012-11-30 |
| 21. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
81.47 |
1.0214 |
0.0702 |
166 |
1 |
81.47 |
2012-12-11 |
| 22. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
81.22 |
1.0068 |
0.0900 |
358 |
1 |
81.22 |
2012-12-14 |
| 23. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
81.01 |
0.9884 |
0.1017 |
233 |
2 |
80.01 |
2012-11-30 |
| 24. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
80.43 |
1.0388 |
0.0755 |
243 |
1 |
80.43 |
2012-11-30 |
| 25. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
80.26 |
1.0346 |
0.0875 |
244 |
1 |
80.26 |
2012-11-30 |
| 26. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
80.18 |
0.9780 |
0.1022 |
337 |
2 |
71.67 |
2012-12-05 |
| 27. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
80.17 |
0.9884 |
0.0948 |
262 |
1 |
80.17 |
2012-12-04 |
| 28. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
80.02 |
0.9514 |
0.1259 |
237 |
1 |
80.02 |
2012-12-04 |
| 29. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
79.99 |
1.0292 |
0.0460 |
262 |
1 |
79.99 |
2012-11-30 |
| 30. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
79.77 |
1.0169 |
0.0955 |
346 |
2 |
76.58 |
2012-12-14 |
| 31. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
78.79 |
1.0795 |
0.0111 |
226 |
1 |
78.79 |
2012-11-29 |
| 32. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
78.54 |
0.9411 |
0.1167 |
318 |
1 |
78.54 |
2012-12-04 |
| 33. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
78.43 |
1.1016 |
-0.0464 |
233 |
1 |
78.43 |
2012-11-29 |
| 34. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
78.30 |
0.9946 |
0.0591 |
246 |
2 |
77.69 |
2012-12-04 |
| 35. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
78.26 |
1.0063 |
0.0471 |
371 |
1 |
78.26 |
2012-12-04 |
| 36. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
78.11 |
1.0088 |
0.0810 |
396 |
1 |
78.11 |
2012-12-04 |
| 37. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
77.90 |
1.0023 |
0.0440 |
211 |
2 |
75.92 |
2012-12-14 |
| 38. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
77.54 |
1.0165 |
0.0307 |
392 |
1 |
77.54 |
2012-12-05 |
| 39. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
77.52 |
0.9795 |
0.0639 |
308 |
1 |
77.52 |
2012-11-30 |
| 40. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
77.35 |
1.0673 |
0.0152 |
230 |
1 |
77.35 |
2012-12-04 |
| 41. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
77.14 |
0.9994 |
0.0693 |
269 |
1 |
77.14 |
2012-11-30 |
| 42. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
76.23 |
1.0944 |
-0.0244 |
308 |
1 |
76.23 |
2012-12-14 |
| 43. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
75.90 |
1.0389 |
-0.0161 |
318 |
1 |
75.90 |
2012-12-05 |
| 44. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
75.89 |
1.0025 |
0.0195 |
336 |
1 |
75.89 |
2012-12-04 |
| 45. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
75.80 |
0.9572 |
0.1054 |
376 |
1 |
75.80 |
2012-12-04 |
| 46. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
75.43 |
1.0284 |
0.0295 |
282 |
1 |
75.43 |
2012-12-05 |
| 47. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
74.78 |
1.0167 |
-0.0040 |
378 |
1 |
74.78 |
2012-12-04 |
| 48. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
74.62 |
0.8947 |
0.1141 |
366 |
2 |
72.36 |
2012-12-04 |
| 49. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
74.61 |
1.0117 |
0.0363 |
297 |
1 |
74.61 |
2012-12-04 |
| 50. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
74.57 |
1.0763 |
-0.0317 |
367 |
1 |
74.57 |
2012-11-29 |
| 51. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
74.51 |
0.9910 |
0.0132 |
295 |
1 |
74.51 |
2012-11-30 |
| 52. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
74.30 |
0.8919 |
0.1059 |
205 |
1 |
74.30 |
2012-12-04 |
| 53. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
74.28 |
0.9964 |
0.0024 |
203 |
1 |
74.28 |
2012-12-04 |
| 54. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
74.14 |
1.0403 |
-0.0287 |
193 |
1 |
74.14 |
2012-12-14 |
| 55. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
74.05 |
1.0016 |
-0.0106 |
218 |
1 |
74.05 |
2012-12-04 |
| 56. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
73.86 |
0.9365 |
0.0582 |
248 |
2 |
72.35 |
2012-11-30 |
| 57. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
73.77 |
0.9925 |
0.0364 |
247 |
1 |
73.77 |
2012-12-04 |
| 58. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
73.45 |
1.0340 |
-0.0411 |
406 |
1 |
73.45 |
2012-12-05 |
| 59. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
73.41 |
0.9726 |
0.0075 |
154 |
1 |
73.41 |
2012-12-05 |
| 60. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
73.34 |
1.0459 |
-0.0290 |
200 |
1 |
73.34 |
2012-12-11 |
| 61. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
73.23 |
1.0669 |
-0.0501 |
286 |
1 |
73.23 |
2012-12-04 |
| 62. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
73.16 |
1.0604 |
-0.0435 |
260 |
1 |
73.16 |
2012-12-04 |
| 63. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
73.11 |
0.9879 |
0.0040 |
450 |
1 |
73.11 |
2012-11-30 |
| 64. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
72.83 |
1.0189 |
-0.0367 |
337 |
1 |
72.83 |
2012-12-14 |
| 65. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
72.63 |
0.9758 |
0.0014 |
314 |
1 |
72.63 |
2012-12-04 |
| 66. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
72.59 |
0.9936 |
0.0024 |
227 |
1 |
72.59 |
2012-12-12 |
| 67. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
72.49 |
1.0183 |
-0.0492 |
191 |
1 |
72.49 |
2012-12-05 |
| 68. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
72.26 |
1.0033 |
-0.0388 |
189 |
1 |
72.26 |
2012-12-14 |
| 69. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
72.15 |
0.9275 |
0.0392 |
211 |
1 |
72.15 |
2012-11-30 |
| 70. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
72.08 |
1.0099 |
-0.0442 |
207 |
1 |
72.08 |
2012-12-14 |
| 71. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
72.07 |
0.9632 |
0.0120 |
392 |
1 |
72.07 |
2012-12-05 |
| 72. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
71.94 |
0.9676 |
0.0079 |
442 |
1 |
71.94 |
2012-12-04 |
| 73. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
71.85 |
0.9936 |
-0.0280 |
311 |
1 |
71.85 |
2012-12-14 |
| 74. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
71.78 |
0.9622 |
0.0092 |
392 |
1 |
71.78 |
2012-11-30 |
| 75. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
71.41 |
0.9855 |
0.0079 |
258 |
1 |
71.41 |
2012-12-05 |
| 76. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
71.40 |
0.9342 |
0.0292 |
434 |
3 |
66.85 |
2012-12-14 |
| 77. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
71.31 |
1.0445 |
-0.0849 |
373 |
1 |
71.31 |
2012-12-05 |
| 78. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
70.94 |
1.0053 |
-0.0538 |
232 |
1 |
70.94 |
2012-12-04 |
| 79. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
69.94 |
1.0719 |
-0.1043 |
360 |
1 |
69.94 |
2012-12-14 |
| 80. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
69.72 |
0.9567 |
-0.0198 |
273 |
2 |
61.17 |
2012-12-06 |
| 81. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
69.20 |
0.9754 |
-0.0397 |
362 |
1 |
69.20 |
2012-12-04 |
| 82. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
68.52 |
0.9820 |
-0.0585 |
267 |
1 |
68.52 |
2012-11-30 |
| 83. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
68.01 |
0.9922 |
-0.0377 |
341 |
1 |
68.01 |
2012-12-04 |
| 84. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
67.92 |
0.9687 |
-0.0516 |
371 |
1 |
67.92 |
2012-12-14 |
| 85. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
67.79 |
0.9908 |
-0.0342 |
342 |
1 |
67.79 |
2012-12-04 |
| 86. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
66.74 |
1.0365 |
-0.1108 |
162 |
1 |
66.74 |
2012-12-04 |
| 87. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
66.71 |
0.9376 |
-0.0364 |
367 |
2 |
56.83 |
2012-12-14 |
| 88. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
66.10 |
0.9364 |
-0.0089 |
351 |
1 |
66.10 |
2012-11-30 |
| 89. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
66.03 |
0.9120 |
0.0080 |
436 |
1 |
66.03 |
2012-11-30 |
| 90. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
65.52 |
0.9665 |
-0.0376 |
326 |
1 |
65.52 |
2012-11-30 |
| 91. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
65.29 |
0.9619 |
-0.0800 |
393 |
1 |
65.29 |
2012-12-11 |
| 92. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
65.26 |
0.9485 |
-0.0708 |
236 |
1 |
65.26 |
2012-11-30 |
| 93. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
65.21 |
0.9776 |
-0.1019 |
308 |
1 |
65.21 |
2012-11-30 |
| 94. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
65.03 |
0.8852 |
-0.0099 |
201 |
1 |
65.03 |
2012-12-04 |
| 95. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
64.69 |
1.0272 |
-0.1345 |
405 |
1 |
64.69 |
2012-12-04 |
| 96. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
63.74 |
0.9699 |
-0.1155 |
269 |
1 |
63.74 |
2012-12-04 |
| 97. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
63.55 |
0.9673 |
-0.0755 |
232 |
1 |
63.55 |
2012-12-12 |
| 98. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
63.47 |
1.0725 |
-0.1952 |
233 |
1 |
63.47 |
2012-12-05 |
| 99. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
63.32 |
0.8722 |
-0.0195 |
285 |
1 |
63.32 |
2012-11-29 |
| 100. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
61.73 |
0.9084 |
-0.0768 |
404 |
1 |
61.73 |
2012-12-04 |
| 101. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
61.43 |
0.9426 |
-0.1156 |
317 |
1 |
61.43 |
2012-12-04 |
| 102. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
61.40 |
0.9371 |
-0.0747 |
318 |
1 |
61.40 |
2012-12-14 |
| 103. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
60.98 |
0.9312 |
-0.0629 |
320 |
1 |
60.98 |
2012-12-04 |
| 104. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
60.66 |
0.9330 |
-0.1129 |
360 |
1 |
60.66 |
2012-12-04 |
| 105. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
60.00 |
0.8602 |
-0.0579 |
206 |
1 |
60.00 |
2012-12-04 |
| 106. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
59.65 |
0.9216 |
-0.0827 |
255 |
1 |
59.65 |
2012-12-06 |
| 107. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
59.36 |
0.9339 |
-0.1398 |
310 |
1 |
59.36 |
2012-12-04 |
| 108. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
59.28 |
0.9670 |
-0.1303 |
307 |
1 |
59.28 |
2012-11-29 |
| 109. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
58.99 |
0.9965 |
-0.2053 |
277 |
1 |
58.99 |
2012-12-19 |
| 110. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
57.93 |
0.9668 |
-0.1481 |
383 |
1 |
57.93 |
2012-12-06 |
| 111. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
57.61 |
0.9233 |
-0.1598 |
168 |
1 |
57.61 |
2012-11-30 |
| 112. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
57.06 |
0.8961 |
-0.1352 |
189 |
1 |
57.06 |
2012-12-14 |
| 113. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
55.82 |
0.9640 |
-0.1868 |
334 |
1 |
55.82 |
2012-12-14 |
| 114. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
54.25 |
0.9546 |
-0.1975 |
198 |
1 |
54.25 |
2012-11-30 |
| 115. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
51.06 |
0.9439 |
-0.2533 |
476 |
1 |
51.06 |
2012-11-30 |
| 116. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
47.50 |
1.0547 |
-0.3859 |
257 |
1 |
47.50 |
2012-12-06 |
| 117. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
46.85 |
0.9072 |
-0.2841 |
237 |
1 |
46.85 |
2012-12-05 |