| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
96.99 |
1.0799 |
0.3148 |
243 |
2 |
86.18 |
2010-04-16 |
| 2. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
95.85 |
1.0993 |
0.2804 |
265 |
1 |
95.85 |
2010-04-16 |
| 3. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
86.06 |
1.0444 |
0.1883 |
197 |
1 |
86.06 |
2010-04-15 |
| 4. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
85.94 |
1.0389 |
0.2004 |
318 |
1 |
85.94 |
2010-04-16 |
| 5. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
85.69 |
0.9907 |
0.2416 |
211 |
1 |
85.69 |
2010-04-16 |
| 6. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
84.36 |
1.0768 |
0.1779 |
295 |
1 |
84.36 |
2010-04-15 |
| 7. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
83.83 |
1.0214 |
0.1838 |
269 |
2 |
81.69 |
2010-04-16 |
| 8. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
83.03 |
1.0391 |
0.1622 |
358 |
2 |
77.68 |
2010-04-15 |
| 9. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
82.67 |
1.0595 |
0.1330 |
379 |
2 |
79.18 |
2010-04-16 |
| 10. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
82.44 |
1.0696 |
0.1135 |
226 |
1 |
82.44 |
2010-04-16 |
| 11. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
80.96 |
1.0941 |
0.1022 |
256 |
1 |
80.96 |
2010-04-22 |
| 12. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
79.77 |
1.0441 |
0.1052 |
252 |
1 |
79.77 |
2010-04-15 |
| 13. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
78.98 |
0.9997 |
0.1402 |
382 |
2 |
77.93 |
2010-04-16 |
| 14. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
78.78 |
1.0388 |
0.1262 |
243 |
1 |
78.78 |
2010-04-21 |
| 15. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
78.74 |
1.0565 |
0.0737 |
247 |
1 |
78.74 |
2010-04-14 |
| 16. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
78.49 |
1.1016 |
0.0277 |
233 |
1 |
78.49 |
2010-04-16 |
| 17. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
78.36 |
1.0829 |
0.0459 |
288 |
2 |
78.31 |
2010-04-16 |
| 18. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
78.07 |
1.0165 |
0.1105 |
392 |
2 |
74.01 |
2010-04-21 |
| 19. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
78.04 |
1.0189 |
0.1070 |
337 |
2 |
77.27 |
2010-04-16 |
| 20. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
77.73 |
1.0429 |
0.0738 |
259 |
1 |
77.73 |
2010-04-14 |
| 21. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
77.73 |
1.0441 |
0.1153 |
316 |
2 |
77.25 |
2010-04-16 |
| 22. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
77.72 |
0.9938 |
0.1250 |
339 |
1 |
77.72 |
2010-04-22 |
| 23. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
77.31 |
1.0515 |
0.0586 |
250 |
1 |
77.31 |
2010-04-16 |
| 24. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
77.25 |
0.9893 |
0.1219 |
323 |
3 |
73.95 |
2010-04-16 |
| 25. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
77.15 |
1.0485 |
0.0959 |
153 |
2 |
63.30 |
2010-04-15 |
| 26. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
76.63 |
1.0577 |
0.0409 |
247 |
2 |
76.10 |
2010-04-16 |
| 27. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
76.45 |
0.9936 |
0.1056 |
311 |
2 |
69.46 |
2010-04-16 |
| 28. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
76.27 |
1.0516 |
0.0449 |
281 |
1 |
76.27 |
2010-04-14 |
| 29. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
76.22 |
1.0613 |
0.0398 |
456 |
1 |
76.22 |
2010-04-15 |
| 30. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
75.42 |
1.0343 |
0.0876 |
242 |
1 |
75.42 |
2010-04-16 |
| 31. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
75.02 |
0.9846 |
0.0930 |
281 |
1 |
75.02 |
2010-04-16 |
| 32. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
74.84 |
0.9942 |
0.0907 |
483 |
1 |
74.84 |
2010-04-16 |
| 33. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
74.68 |
1.0426 |
0.0304 |
323 |
2 |
73.77 |
2010-04-16 |
| 34. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
74.56 |
0.9964 |
0.0757 |
203 |
2 |
69.47 |
2010-04-16 |
| 35. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
74.03 |
1.1068 |
-0.0022 |
393 |
1 |
74.03 |
2010-04-15 |
| 36. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
73.94 |
1.0352 |
0.0304 |
341 |
3 |
71.13 |
2010-04-15 |
| 37. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
73.12 |
1.0331 |
0.0157 |
234 |
1 |
73.12 |
2010-04-15 |
| 38. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
73.09 |
1.0320 |
0.0559 |
293 |
1 |
73.09 |
2010-04-15 |
| 39. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
72.70 |
0.9514 |
0.0938 |
237 |
1 |
72.70 |
2010-04-15 |
| 40. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
72.06 |
1.0240 |
0.0090 |
256 |
1 |
72.06 |
2010-04-16 |
| 41. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
71.98 |
1.0252 |
0.0027 |
176 |
1 |
71.98 |
2010-04-16 |
| 42. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
71.96 |
1.0379 |
0.0312 |
245 |
2 |
71.94 |
2010-04-27 |
| 43. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
71.46 |
1.0284 |
0.0418 |
282 |
1 |
71.46 |
2010-04-16 |
| 44. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
71.38 |
0.9763 |
0.0489 |
289 |
1 |
71.38 |
2010-04-15 |
| 45. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
71.32 |
1.0131 |
0.0078 |
225 |
1 |
71.32 |
2010-04-16 |
| 46. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
71.18 |
1.0029 |
0.0135 |
209 |
1 |
71.18 |
2010-04-16 |
| 47. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
71.18 |
1.0368 |
-0.0131 |
276 |
1 |
71.18 |
2010-04-15 |
| 48. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
70.73 |
0.9965 |
0.0201 |
310 |
1 |
70.73 |
2010-04-15 |
| 49. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
70.58 |
0.9941 |
0.0176 |
217 |
2 |
69.50 |
2010-04-15 |
| 50. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
70.45 |
1.0669 |
-0.0224 |
286 |
1 |
70.45 |
2010-04-15 |
| 51. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
70.42 |
0.9886 |
0.0256 |
220 |
1 |
70.42 |
2010-04-16 |
| 52. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
70.26 |
0.9286 |
0.0798 |
194 |
1 |
70.26 |
2010-04-15 |
| 53. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
70.22 |
0.9485 |
0.0620 |
236 |
1 |
70.22 |
2010-04-16 |
| 54. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
70.16 |
0.9398 |
0.0775 |
419 |
1 |
70.16 |
2010-04-16 |
| 55. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
69.94 |
0.9468 |
0.0575 |
276 |
2 |
69.03 |
2010-04-16 |
| 56. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
69.85 |
0.9908 |
0.0586 |
342 |
1 |
69.85 |
2010-04-15 |
| 57. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
69.52 |
0.9500 |
0.0508 |
362 |
1 |
69.52 |
2010-04-14 |
| 58. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
69.37 |
1.0796 |
-0.0879 |
129 |
1 |
69.37 |
2010-04-14 |
| 59. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
69.19 |
0.9795 |
0.0143 |
308 |
1 |
69.19 |
2010-04-16 |
| 60. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
69.11 |
0.9922 |
0.0416 |
341 |
1 |
69.11 |
2010-04-15 |
| 61. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
68.84 |
1.0068 |
-0.0147 |
358 |
1 |
68.84 |
2010-04-16 |
| 62. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
68.84 |
1.0314 |
-0.0034 |
452 |
1 |
68.84 |
2010-04-16 |
| 63. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
68.44 |
1.0004 |
-0.0236 |
212 |
1 |
68.44 |
2010-04-14 |
| 64. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
68.18 |
0.9289 |
0.0480 |
204 |
2 |
63.78 |
2010-04-15 |
| 65. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
68.16 |
1.0034 |
-0.0260 |
302 |
1 |
68.16 |
2010-04-14 |
| 66. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
67.51 |
0.9910 |
-0.0197 |
295 |
1 |
67.51 |
2010-04-15 |
| 67. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
67.28 |
0.9852 |
-0.0188 |
264 |
1 |
67.28 |
2010-04-16 |
| 68. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
67.11 |
0.9844 |
-0.0160 |
293 |
1 |
67.11 |
2010-04-21 |
| 69. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
67.07 |
1.0125 |
-0.0518 |
224 |
1 |
67.07 |
2010-04-16 |
| 70. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
66.82 |
0.9675 |
0.0014 |
383 |
1 |
66.82 |
2010-04-15 |
| 71. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
66.73 |
0.9965 |
-0.0378 |
277 |
1 |
66.73 |
2010-04-14 |
| 72. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
66.58 |
0.9649 |
-0.0101 |
193 |
1 |
66.58 |
2010-04-14 |
| 73. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
66.47 |
1.0296 |
-0.0689 |
437 |
1 |
66.47 |
2010-04-15 |
| 74. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
66.39 |
1.0529 |
-0.0999 |
351 |
1 |
66.39 |
2010-04-15 |
| 75. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
65.73 |
0.9851 |
-0.0394 |
317 |
1 |
65.73 |
2010-04-15 |
| 76. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
65.49 |
1.0201 |
-0.0869 |
172 |
1 |
65.49 |
2010-04-15 |
| 77. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
65.40 |
0.9084 |
0.0321 |
300 |
2 |
61.97 |
2010-04-27 |
| 78. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
65.21 |
1.0487 |
-0.1178 |
231 |
2 |
63.00 |
2010-04-14 |
| 79. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
65.08 |
1.0506 |
-0.0878 |
277 |
1 |
65.08 |
2010-04-15 |
| 80. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
64.91 |
1.0060 |
-0.0791 |
171 |
1 |
64.91 |
2010-04-14 |
| 81. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
64.24 |
1.0498 |
-0.1328 |
180 |
1 |
64.24 |
2010-04-15 |
| 82. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
64.17 |
0.9879 |
-0.0584 |
450 |
1 |
64.17 |
2010-04-15 |
| 83. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
63.98 |
1.0346 |
-0.0746 |
244 |
1 |
63.98 |
2010-04-22 |
| 84. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
63.15 |
0.9097 |
0.0379 |
464 |
1 |
63.15 |
2010-04-15 |
| 85. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
63.06 |
1.0154 |
-0.0609 |
351 |
2 |
62.83 |
2010-04-15 |
| 86. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
62.67 |
0.8916 |
0.0077 |
216 |
1 |
62.67 |
2010-04-15 |
| 87. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
62.42 |
0.9976 |
-0.0821 |
174 |
1 |
62.42 |
2010-04-15 |
| 88. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
62.37 |
0.9364 |
-0.0017 |
351 |
2 |
59.66 |
2010-04-16 |
| 89. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
62.31 |
0.9168 |
-0.0218 |
240 |
1 |
62.31 |
2010-04-16 |
| 90. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
61.91 |
0.9212 |
-0.0300 |
323 |
1 |
61.91 |
2010-04-15 |
| 91. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
61.54 |
0.8947 |
-0.0073 |
366 |
1 |
61.54 |
2010-04-16 |
| 92. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
61.41 |
0.9597 |
-0.0750 |
347 |
1 |
61.41 |
2010-04-15 |
| 93. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
60.95 |
1.1014 |
-0.1896 |
273 |
1 |
60.95 |
2010-04-14 |
| 94. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
60.63 |
0.9632 |
-0.0875 |
392 |
1 |
60.63 |
2010-04-14 |
| 95. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
60.39 |
0.9365 |
-0.0693 |
248 |
1 |
60.39 |
2010-04-16 |
| 96. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
60.09 |
0.8958 |
-0.0298 |
322 |
1 |
60.09 |
2010-04-16 |
| 97. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
60.01 |
1.0173 |
-0.1128 |
268 |
1 |
60.01 |
2010-04-16 |
| 98. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
59.37 |
0.9157 |
-0.0598 |
350 |
1 |
59.37 |
2010-04-16 |
| 99. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
59.33 |
1.0012 |
-0.1475 |
260 |
1 |
59.33 |
2010-04-14 |
| 100. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
58.97 |
1.0090 |
-0.1201 |
282 |
1 |
58.97 |
2010-04-22 |
| 101. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
58.29 |
0.9710 |
-0.1423 |
173 |
1 |
58.29 |
2010-04-15 |
| 102. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
57.69 |
0.9084 |
-0.0778 |
404 |
1 |
57.69 |
2010-04-14 |
| 103. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
57.28 |
0.9278 |
-0.1045 |
295 |
1 |
57.28 |
2010-04-22 |
| 104. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
57.20 |
0.8933 |
-0.0675 |
363 |
1 |
57.20 |
2010-04-16 |
| 105. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
56.42 |
0.8878 |
-0.0800 |
346 |
1 |
56.42 |
2010-04-15 |
| 106. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
55.65 |
0.9546 |
-0.1265 |
198 |
1 |
55.65 |
2010-04-16 |
| 107. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
55.51 |
0.9049 |
-0.1047 |
351 |
1 |
55.51 |
2010-04-14 |
| 108. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
55.49 |
0.9709 |
-0.1354 |
397 |
1 |
55.49 |
2010-04-15 |
| 109. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
55.25 |
1.0270 |
-0.2000 |
255 |
1 |
55.25 |
2010-04-15 |
| 110. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
55.04 |
0.9176 |
-0.0908 |
365 |
1 |
55.04 |
2010-04-16 |
| 111. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
54.36 |
1.0596 |
-0.2836 |
239 |
1 |
54.36 |
2010-04-14 |
| 112. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
53.76 |
0.9740 |
-0.2088 |
209 |
1 |
53.76 |
2010-04-14 |
| 113. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
51.06 |
0.9636 |
-0.2337 |
254 |
1 |
51.06 |
2010-04-15 |
| 114. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
49.35 |
0.8382 |
-0.1325 |
268 |
1 |
49.35 |
2010-04-14 |
| 115. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
48.16 |
0.8670 |
-0.1737 |
318 |
1 |
48.16 |
2010-04-15 |
| 116. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
40.30 |
0.8105 |
-0.2413 |
204 |
1 |
40.30 |
2010-04-16 |
| 117. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
39.72 |
1.0177 |
-0.4145 |
392 |
1 |
39.72 |
2010-04-15 |