| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun... |
60.84 |
1.0448 |
0.4122 |
96 |
1 |
60.84 |
2023-08-16 |
| 2. |
When we got to the Mint I parked on the street in front of t... |
56.40 |
1.0462 |
0.3044 |
158 |
1 |
56.40 |
2015-08-02 |
| 3. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
54.09 |
1.0074 |
0.2879 |
242 |
1 |
54.09 |
2014-01-10 |
| 4. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
54.06 |
1.0543 |
0.2403 |
113 |
2 |
50.47 |
2026-04-26 |
| 5. |
It's sometimes quite astonishing that a single, average life... |
52.47 |
1.0347 |
0.2218 |
162 |
1 |
52.47 |
2021-11-02 |
| 6. |
Things merely heard and read are quickly lost but things und... |
52.08 |
1.1195 |
0.1277 |
119 |
1 |
52.08 |
2026-04-26 |
| 7. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
52.04 |
1.0379 |
0.2083 |
245 |
1 |
52.04 |
2014-01-27 |
| 8. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
51.41 |
1.1296 |
0.1015 |
252 |
1 |
51.41 |
2014-01-06 |
| 9. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
50.87 |
0.9899 |
0.2283 |
163 |
1 |
50.87 |
2014-01-09 |
| 10. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
50.82 |
0.9855 |
0.2315 |
258 |
2 |
48.97 |
2026-04-26 |
| 11. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
50.74 |
1.0031 |
0.2120 |
304 |
1 |
50.74 |
2014-01-09 |
| 12. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
50.63 |
1.0669 |
0.1456 |
213 |
2 |
41.96 |
2015-08-02 |
| 13. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
50.46 |
0.9965 |
0.2119 |
168 |
1 |
50.46 |
2015-08-02 |
| 14. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
50.27 |
1.0349 |
0.1689 |
234 |
1 |
50.27 |
2014-01-10 |
| 15. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
49.57 |
0.9316 |
0.2555 |
287 |
1 |
49.57 |
2014-01-10 |
| 16. |
On Halloween night, the Great Pumpkin rises from his pumpkin... |
49.39 |
0.9075 |
0.2753 |
134 |
1 |
49.39 |
2023-08-16 |
| 17. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
49.39 |
1.0829 |
0.0999 |
288 |
1 |
49.39 |
2014-01-06 |
| 18. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
49.28 |
0.9857 |
0.1944 |
293 |
2 |
46.75 |
2022-02-24 |
| 19. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
49.07 |
1.0608 |
0.1143 |
258 |
1 |
49.07 |
2015-08-02 |
| 20. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
49.00 |
1.0368 |
0.1366 |
276 |
1 |
49.00 |
2015-08-02 |
| 21. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
48.90 |
0.9846 |
0.1864 |
281 |
2 |
42.15 |
2014-01-10 |
| 22. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
48.59 |
1.0183 |
0.1453 |
191 |
2 |
39.15 |
2014-01-09 |
| 23. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
48.58 |
0.9773 |
0.1861 |
123 |
1 |
48.58 |
2015-08-02 |
| 24. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
48.50 |
0.9505 |
0.2110 |
204 |
1 |
48.50 |
2014-01-09 |
| 25. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
48.49 |
0.9688 |
0.1924 |
217 |
1 |
48.49 |
2014-01-10 |
| 26. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
48.32 |
1.0385 |
0.1186 |
230 |
2 |
40.18 |
2014-01-09 |
| 27. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
48.11 |
1.0515 |
0.1006 |
250 |
2 |
44.81 |
2014-01-28 |
| 28. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
47.98 |
1.0445 |
0.1045 |
373 |
1 |
47.98 |
2014-01-10 |
| 29. |
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It ... |
47.78 |
1.0153 |
0.1289 |
261 |
1 |
47.78 |
2015-08-02 |
| 30. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
47.62 |
0.9161 |
0.2243 |
200 |
1 |
47.62 |
2015-08-02 |
| 31. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
47.50 |
0.9682 |
0.1693 |
143 |
1 |
47.50 |
2015-08-02 |
| 32. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
46.94 |
1.0863 |
0.0378 |
210 |
1 |
46.94 |
2014-01-06 |
| 33. |
What you do as soon as you get up can underpin and affect yo... |
46.88 |
1.0448 |
0.0779 |
291 |
1 |
46.88 |
2021-07-16 |
| 34. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
46.83 |
0.9691 |
0.1524 |
223 |
1 |
46.83 |
2015-08-02 |
| 35. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
46.77 |
1.0016 |
0.1184 |
218 |
1 |
46.77 |
2014-01-09 |
| 36. |
Cause this is thriller, thriller night. And no one's gonna s... |
46.76 |
1.0826 |
0.0372 |
204 |
1 |
46.76 |
2026-04-26 |
| 37. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
46.70 |
1.0905 |
0.0279 |
210 |
1 |
46.70 |
2014-01-09 |
| 38. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
46.65 |
0.9758 |
0.1414 |
314 |
1 |
46.65 |
2014-01-09 |
| 39. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
46.58 |
0.9852 |
0.1303 |
264 |
1 |
46.58 |
2014-01-28 |
| 40. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
46.55 |
0.9722 |
0.1426 |
283 |
1 |
46.55 |
2014-01-06 |
| 41. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
46.48 |
0.8906 |
0.2225 |
238 |
2 |
41.40 |
2014-01-09 |
| 42. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
46.20 |
1.0993 |
0.0071 |
265 |
1 |
46.20 |
2014-01-06 |
| 43. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
46.16 |
0.9614 |
0.1440 |
292 |
1 |
46.16 |
2014-01-28 |
| 44. |
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the d... |
46.06 |
1.1225 |
-0.0195 |
195 |
1 |
46.06 |
2026-04-26 |
| 45. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
45.91 |
1.0257 |
0.0737 |
401 |
1 |
45.91 |
2022-02-24 |
| 46. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
45.83 |
1.0403 |
0.0572 |
193 |
1 |
45.83 |
2026-04-26 |
| 47. |
No matter how a program twists and turns to get out of itsel... |
45.66 |
1.0094 |
0.0840 |
238 |
1 |
45.66 |
2021-07-21 |
| 48. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
45.62 |
1.0218 |
0.0707 |
268 |
1 |
45.62 |
2014-01-28 |
| 49. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
45.36 |
0.9904 |
0.0959 |
203 |
1 |
45.36 |
2014-01-10 |
| 50. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
45.29 |
0.9576 |
0.1270 |
212 |
1 |
45.29 |
2014-01-27 |
| 51. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
45.28 |
0.9966 |
0.0877 |
259 |
1 |
45.28 |
2014-01-06 |
| 52. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
45.23 |
0.8722 |
0.2109 |
285 |
1 |
45.23 |
2015-08-02 |
| 53. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
45.05 |
0.9619 |
0.1169 |
393 |
1 |
45.05 |
2014-01-09 |
| 54. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
44.94 |
1.0506 |
0.0256 |
277 |
1 |
44.94 |
2015-08-02 |
| 55. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
44.70 |
1.0025 |
0.0680 |
256 |
1 |
44.70 |
2014-01-05 |
| 56. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
44.64 |
0.8941 |
0.1749 |
216 |
1 |
44.64 |
2014-01-06 |
| 57. |
I always make offers with escape clauses. In real estate, I ... |
44.53 |
1.0151 |
0.0513 |
265 |
1 |
44.53 |
2026-04-26 |
| 58. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
44.27 |
1.0352 |
0.0250 |
341 |
1 |
44.27 |
2014-01-06 |
| 59. |
All of me, why not take all of me? Can't you see? I'm no goo... |
44.09 |
1.0266 |
0.0292 |
290 |
1 |
44.09 |
2026-04-26 |
| 60. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
44.05 |
0.8731 |
0.1818 |
199 |
1 |
44.05 |
2015-08-02 |
| 61. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
43.95 |
0.8653 |
0.1872 |
255 |
1 |
43.95 |
2015-08-02 |
| 62. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
43.88 |
0.9673 |
0.0835 |
232 |
1 |
43.88 |
2014-01-09 |
| 63. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
43.75 |
1.0644 |
-0.0167 |
257 |
1 |
43.75 |
2015-08-02 |
| 64. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
43.53 |
1.0388 |
0.0036 |
243 |
2 |
41.96 |
2026-04-26 |
| 65. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
43.45 |
0.9731 |
0.0674 |
129 |
1 |
43.45 |
2014-01-09 |
| 66. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
43.35 |
1.0095 |
0.0286 |
316 |
1 |
43.35 |
2014-01-09 |
| 67. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
43.20 |
0.9820 |
0.0525 |
267 |
1 |
43.20 |
2014-01-09 |
| 68. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
43.19 |
1.0714 |
-0.0371 |
129 |
1 |
43.19 |
2014-01-09 |
| 69. |
Words bend our thinking to infinite paths of self-delusion, ... |
43.13 |
1.0502 |
-0.0173 |
254 |
1 |
43.13 |
2022-02-24 |
| 70. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
43.01 |
1.0232 |
0.0068 |
236 |
1 |
43.01 |
2014-01-06 |
| 71. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
42.87 |
0.9353 |
0.0913 |
177 |
1 |
42.87 |
2014-01-06 |
| 72. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
42.43 |
0.8947 |
0.1214 |
366 |
1 |
42.43 |
2014-01-10 |
| 73. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
42.37 |
0.9164 |
0.0983 |
305 |
1 |
42.37 |
2015-08-02 |
| 74. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
42.36 |
0.9572 |
0.0572 |
376 |
1 |
42.36 |
2014-01-28 |
| 75. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
42.33 |
0.9529 |
0.0608 |
269 |
1 |
42.33 |
2015-08-02 |
| 76. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
42.07 |
1.0214 |
-0.0139 |
281 |
1 |
42.07 |
2014-01-09 |
| 77. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
42.00 |
0.9734 |
0.0324 |
289 |
1 |
42.00 |
2014-01-06 |
| 78. |
It is always painful to part from people whom one has known ... |
41.83 |
0.9751 |
0.0266 |
253 |
1 |
41.83 |
2023-08-16 |
| 79. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
41.81 |
0.9941 |
0.0071 |
217 |
1 |
41.81 |
2014-01-09 |
| 80. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
41.72 |
0.8878 |
0.1113 |
346 |
1 |
41.72 |
2015-08-02 |
| 81. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
41.31 |
0.9342 |
0.0551 |
434 |
1 |
41.31 |
2015-08-02 |
| 82. |
I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on... |
41.23 |
0.9233 |
0.0641 |
181 |
1 |
41.23 |
2015-08-02 |
| 83. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
41.18 |
0.9795 |
0.0067 |
308 |
1 |
41.18 |
2014-01-10 |
| 84. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
41.11 |
0.8533 |
0.1312 |
232 |
1 |
41.11 |
2014-01-05 |
| 85. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
41.00 |
0.9309 |
0.0510 |
284 |
1 |
41.00 |
2014-01-06 |
| 86. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
40.84 |
0.8442 |
0.1338 |
265 |
1 |
40.84 |
2014-01-28 |
| 87. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
40.83 |
0.8770 |
0.1008 |
300 |
1 |
40.83 |
2014-01-09 |
| 88. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
40.71 |
0.9665 |
0.0084 |
326 |
1 |
40.71 |
2014-01-05 |
| 89. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
40.50 |
1.1162 |
-0.1463 |
189 |
1 |
40.50 |
2014-01-09 |
| 90. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
40.33 |
0.8615 |
0.1043 |
110 |
1 |
40.33 |
2014-01-05 |
| 91. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
40.31 |
0.9216 |
0.0437 |
255 |
1 |
40.31 |
2014-01-10 |
| 92. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
40.24 |
0.8892 |
0.0745 |
207 |
1 |
40.24 |
2014-01-06 |
| 93. |
I'm on the top of the world looking down on creation and the... |
39.85 |
1.0976 |
-0.1433 |
191 |
1 |
39.85 |
2022-05-20 |
| 94. |
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read an... |
39.84 |
0.9819 |
-0.0278 |
326 |
1 |
39.84 |
2015-08-02 |
| 95. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
39.37 |
0.8791 |
0.0637 |
190 |
1 |
39.37 |
2014-01-05 |
| 96. |
We'll send him cheesy movies, the worst we can find. He'll h... |
39.34 |
1.0411 |
-0.0990 |
245 |
1 |
39.34 |
2023-08-16 |
| 97. |
Something's up, commander. We got called in for a rescue mis... |
39.14 |
1.0291 |
-0.0918 |
231 |
1 |
39.14 |
2023-08-16 |
| 98. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
38.54 |
0.8520 |
0.0709 |
202 |
1 |
38.54 |
2014-01-09 |
| 99. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
37.76 |
1.0547 |
-0.1504 |
257 |
1 |
37.76 |
2014-01-07 |
| 100. |
Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring. Seems he was tro... |
37.64 |
0.9333 |
-0.0319 |
174 |
1 |
37.64 |
2023-08-16 |
| 101. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
37.18 |
0.8890 |
0.0014 |
199 |
2 |
35.56 |
2014-01-05 |
| 102. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
36.67 |
1.0038 |
-0.1256 |
237 |
1 |
36.67 |
2014-01-05 |
| 103. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
36.60 |
0.7805 |
0.0960 |
154 |
2 |
33.47 |
2014-01-28 |
| 104. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
36.36 |
0.9884 |
-0.1177 |
262 |
1 |
36.36 |
2014-01-04 |
| 105. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
36.20 |
0.9226 |
-0.0557 |
177 |
1 |
36.20 |
2014-01-04 |
| 106. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
36.03 |
0.7876 |
0.0752 |
316 |
1 |
36.03 |
2014-01-06 |
| 107. |
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapt... |
35.96 |
1.1057 |
-0.2445 |
282 |
1 |
35.96 |
2022-05-20 |
| 108. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
35.47 |
1.0669 |
-0.2175 |
286 |
1 |
35.47 |
2014-01-04 |
| 109. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
35.12 |
1.0567 |
-0.2157 |
303 |
1 |
35.12 |
2014-01-04 |
| 110. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
35.09 |
0.9986 |
-0.1583 |
283 |
1 |
35.09 |
2022-02-24 |
| 111. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
34.84 |
0.7708 |
0.0635 |
207 |
1 |
34.84 |
2014-01-10 |
| 112. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
34.84 |
0.8118 |
0.0225 |
109 |
1 |
34.84 |
2014-01-04 |
| 113. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
34.67 |
1.0331 |
-0.2028 |
234 |
1 |
34.67 |
2014-01-04 |
| 114. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
34.05 |
1.0673 |
-0.2519 |
230 |
1 |
34.05 |
2014-01-04 |
| 115. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
33.99 |
0.8551 |
-0.0411 |
171 |
1 |
33.99 |
2014-01-04 |
| 116. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
33.52 |
0.9213 |
-0.1186 |
295 |
1 |
33.52 |
2014-01-05 |
| 117. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
32.49 |
0.8773 |
-0.0992 |
205 |
1 |
32.49 |
2014-01-04 |
| 118. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
31.81 |
0.8723 |
-0.1105 |
185 |
1 |
31.81 |
2014-01-04 |
| 119. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
31.54 |
1.0150 |
-0.2597 |
325 |
1 |
31.54 |
2014-01-04 |
| 120. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
31.35 |
1.0483 |
-0.2975 |
227 |
1 |
31.35 |
2014-01-04 |
| 121. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
31.27 |
0.9340 |
-0.1852 |
296 |
2 |
31.16 |
2014-01-04 |
| 122. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
31.16 |
0.8323 |
-0.0861 |
203 |
1 |
31.16 |
2014-01-04 |
| 123. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
30.99 |
0.7389 |
0.0032 |
145 |
1 |
30.99 |
2014-01-04 |
| 124. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
30.80 |
1.0125 |
-0.2749 |
224 |
1 |
30.80 |
2014-01-04 |
| 125. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
30.65 |
1.0390 |
-0.3050 |
205 |
1 |
30.65 |
2014-01-04 |
| 126. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
29.77 |
1.0320 |
-0.3191 |
293 |
1 |
29.77 |
2014-01-04 |
| 127. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
28.94 |
0.9128 |
-0.2198 |
369 |
1 |
28.94 |
2014-01-04 |
| 128. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
28.77 |
0.9155 |
-0.2265 |
168 |
1 |
28.77 |
2014-01-04 |
| 129. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
28.64 |
0.8559 |
-0.1700 |
191 |
1 |
28.64 |
2014-01-04 |
| 130. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
28.02 |
0.9485 |
-0.2775 |
236 |
1 |
28.02 |
2014-01-04 |
| 131. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
27.83 |
0.8994 |
-0.2329 |
188 |
1 |
27.83 |
2014-01-04 |
| 132. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
27.66 |
0.7731 |
-0.1107 |
145 |
1 |
27.66 |
2014-01-04 |
| 133. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
27.38 |
0.8202 |
-0.1645 |
178 |
1 |
27.38 |
2014-01-04 |
| 134. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
26.64 |
0.9303 |
-0.2923 |
176 |
1 |
26.64 |
2014-01-04 |