| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
131.35 |
1.0829 |
0.2737 |
288 |
2 |
124.04 |
2009-04-24 |
| 2. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
125.72 |
1.0796 |
0.2143 |
129 |
1 |
125.72 |
2009-04-23 |
| 3. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
125.01 |
1.0201 |
0.2721 |
375 |
1 |
125.01 |
2009-06-15 |
| 4. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
121.00 |
1.1018 |
0.1431 |
220 |
1 |
121.00 |
2009-04-23 |
| 5. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
116.89 |
1.0993 |
0.1056 |
265 |
2 |
108.46 |
2009-07-21 |
| 6. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
115.93 |
1.0767 |
0.1174 |
212 |
1 |
115.93 |
2009-04-23 |
| 7. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
115.02 |
1.0668 |
0.1199 |
350 |
1 |
115.02 |
2009-04-24 |
| 8. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
113.11 |
1.0034 |
0.1622 |
302 |
1 |
113.11 |
2009-04-24 |
| 9. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
112.41 |
1.0521 |
0.1046 |
171 |
2 |
108.97 |
2009-05-27 |
| 10. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
111.81 |
1.0060 |
0.1443 |
171 |
1 |
111.81 |
2009-04-24 |
| 11. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
111.29 |
1.0498 |
0.0946 |
180 |
1 |
111.29 |
2009-05-27 |
| 12. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
111.02 |
1.0337 |
0.1096 |
214 |
1 |
111.02 |
2010-03-12 |
| 13. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
110.32 |
1.0788 |
0.0552 |
171 |
1 |
110.32 |
2009-06-15 |
| 14. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
109.82 |
1.0120 |
0.1204 |
290 |
2 |
102.93 |
2009-06-29 |
| 15. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
109.10 |
1.0189 |
0.1076 |
337 |
1 |
109.10 |
2009-04-24 |
| 16. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
108.50 |
1.0214 |
0.0945 |
166 |
2 |
105.30 |
2009-04-23 |
| 17. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
108.15 |
1.0165 |
0.0994 |
392 |
2 |
99.98 |
2009-05-26 |
| 18. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
107.28 |
1.0331 |
0.0703 |
234 |
1 |
107.28 |
2009-04-24 |
| 19. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
107.20 |
1.0787 |
0.0253 |
237 |
1 |
107.20 |
2009-04-24 |
| 20. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
106.95 |
1.0252 |
0.0741 |
176 |
1 |
106.95 |
2009-04-24 |
| 21. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
106.24 |
1.0799 |
0.0121 |
243 |
1 |
106.24 |
2009-06-29 |
| 22. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
106.04 |
1.0441 |
0.0489 |
252 |
1 |
106.04 |
2009-04-24 |
| 23. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
105.00 |
1.0131 |
0.0665 |
225 |
1 |
105.00 |
2009-05-27 |
| 24. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
104.95 |
0.9339 |
0.1469 |
310 |
1 |
104.95 |
2009-04-24 |
| 25. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
104.74 |
0.9754 |
0.1069 |
362 |
1 |
104.74 |
2009-04-23 |
| 26. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
104.73 |
0.9886 |
0.0912 |
220 |
2 |
103.25 |
2009-06-15 |
| 27. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
104.61 |
1.0197 |
0.0565 |
226 |
2 |
104.16 |
2009-05-27 |
| 28. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
104.56 |
0.9795 |
0.0981 |
308 |
1 |
104.56 |
2009-04-24 |
| 29. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
104.41 |
0.9045 |
0.1714 |
235 |
1 |
104.41 |
2009-04-23 |
| 30. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
104.11 |
0.9894 |
0.0856 |
323 |
2 |
91.17 |
2009-04-24 |
| 31. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
104.08 |
1.0340 |
0.0408 |
406 |
1 |
104.08 |
2009-04-24 |
| 32. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
103.71 |
0.9500 |
0.1202 |
362 |
1 |
103.71 |
2009-04-24 |
| 33. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
103.02 |
0.9731 |
0.0824 |
129 |
1 |
103.02 |
2009-07-21 |
| 34. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
102.88 |
1.1016 |
-0.0426 |
233 |
1 |
102.88 |
2009-06-15 |
| 35. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
102.50 |
0.9464 |
0.1116 |
323 |
1 |
102.50 |
2009-05-27 |
| 36. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
102.32 |
1.0445 |
0.0102 |
373 |
1 |
102.32 |
2009-06-29 |
| 37. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
102.03 |
0.9997 |
0.0535 |
382 |
1 |
102.03 |
2009-04-23 |
| 38. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
101.20 |
1.0025 |
0.0405 |
336 |
1 |
101.20 |
2009-05-26 |
| 39. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
100.89 |
1.0398 |
-0.0066 |
110 |
1 |
100.89 |
2009-04-23 |
| 40. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
100.77 |
0.9710 |
0.0638 |
173 |
1 |
100.77 |
2009-04-23 |
| 41. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
100.63 |
1.0385 |
-0.0029 |
230 |
2 |
94.67 |
2009-04-24 |
| 42. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
100.60 |
0.9763 |
0.0601 |
289 |
1 |
100.60 |
2009-06-15 |
| 43. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
100.59 |
1.0463 |
-0.0134 |
182 |
1 |
100.59 |
2009-04-24 |
| 44. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
100.50 |
0.9365 |
0.0993 |
248 |
1 |
100.50 |
2010-03-12 |
| 45. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
100.42 |
0.9593 |
0.0774 |
398 |
1 |
100.42 |
2009-04-23 |
| 46. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
100.15 |
1.0885 |
-0.0566 |
315 |
1 |
100.15 |
2009-06-29 |
| 47. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
100.11 |
0.9863 |
0.0469 |
339 |
1 |
100.11 |
2009-04-27 |
| 48. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
99.71 |
1.0477 |
-0.0197 |
360 |
1 |
99.71 |
2009-04-23 |
| 49. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
99.52 |
0.9372 |
0.0908 |
320 |
1 |
99.52 |
2009-04-23 |
| 50. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
99.46 |
0.9619 |
0.0654 |
393 |
2 |
96.85 |
2009-04-23 |
| 51. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
99.29 |
0.9846 |
0.0373 |
281 |
1 |
99.29 |
2009-06-29 |
| 52. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
98.51 |
0.9965 |
0.0182 |
277 |
2 |
96.26 |
2009-05-26 |
| 53. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
98.35 |
0.9514 |
0.0616 |
237 |
3 |
92.35 |
2009-05-27 |
| 54. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
97.95 |
1.0296 |
-0.0183 |
437 |
1 |
97.95 |
2009-04-24 |
| 55. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
97.94 |
1.0396 |
-0.0352 |
149 |
1 |
97.94 |
2009-05-26 |
| 56. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
97.41 |
0.9699 |
0.0330 |
269 |
1 |
97.41 |
2009-04-23 |
| 57. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
97.40 |
1.0361 |
-0.0329 |
269 |
1 |
97.40 |
2009-05-27 |
| 58. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
97.37 |
0.9570 |
0.0463 |
287 |
1 |
97.37 |
2009-04-23 |
| 59. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
97.02 |
0.9632 |
0.0389 |
392 |
1 |
97.02 |
2009-04-23 |
| 60. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
96.63 |
0.9342 |
0.0631 |
434 |
1 |
96.63 |
2009-04-23 |
| 61. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
96.40 |
0.9884 |
0.0032 |
233 |
1 |
96.40 |
2009-06-15 |
| 62. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
96.13 |
1.0016 |
-0.0138 |
218 |
2 |
91.73 |
2009-06-15 |
| 63. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
95.59 |
0.9964 |
-0.0126 |
203 |
1 |
95.59 |
2009-04-23 |
| 64. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
95.09 |
0.9786 |
0.0002 |
235 |
1 |
95.09 |
2009-04-23 |
| 65. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
94.87 |
1.0613 |
-0.0827 |
456 |
1 |
94.87 |
2009-05-26 |
| 66. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
94.79 |
0.8919 |
0.0836 |
205 |
1 |
94.79 |
2009-04-24 |
| 67. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
94.74 |
1.0429 |
-0.0686 |
259 |
1 |
94.74 |
2009-04-23 |
| 68. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
94.64 |
1.0168 |
-0.0426 |
271 |
1 |
94.64 |
2009-05-26 |
| 69. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
93.99 |
0.8878 |
0.0799 |
346 |
2 |
91.39 |
2009-04-23 |
| 70. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
93.81 |
1.0150 |
-0.0038 |
325 |
1 |
93.81 |
2010-03-12 |
| 71. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
93.76 |
0.9687 |
-0.0012 |
371 |
1 |
93.76 |
2009-05-27 |
| 72. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
93.64 |
0.9798 |
-0.0194 |
199 |
2 |
92.89 |
2009-04-24 |
| 73. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
93.63 |
0.9785 |
-0.0130 |
335 |
1 |
93.63 |
2009-05-27 |
| 74. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
93.46 |
0.9567 |
0.0054 |
273 |
1 |
93.46 |
2009-04-23 |
| 75. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
93.35 |
0.9426 |
0.0190 |
317 |
1 |
93.35 |
2009-04-23 |
| 76. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
93.02 |
1.0261 |
-0.0698 |
273 |
1 |
93.02 |
2009-04-25 |
| 77. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
92.60 |
0.9468 |
0.0056 |
276 |
1 |
92.60 |
2009-04-24 |
| 78. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
92.45 |
0.9233 |
0.0249 |
168 |
1 |
92.45 |
2009-04-23 |
| 79. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
91.38 |
0.9646 |
-0.0248 |
264 |
1 |
91.38 |
2009-04-23 |
| 80. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
91.01 |
0.9074 |
0.0327 |
396 |
1 |
91.01 |
2009-04-23 |
| 81. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
90.43 |
0.8553 |
0.0732 |
174 |
1 |
90.43 |
2009-04-23 |
| 82. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
90.05 |
1.0528 |
-0.1286 |
201 |
1 |
90.05 |
2009-04-23 |
| 83. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
89.84 |
1.0062 |
-0.0814 |
288 |
1 |
89.84 |
2009-05-27 |
| 84. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
89.84 |
1.0125 |
-0.0903 |
224 |
1 |
89.84 |
2009-06-15 |
| 85. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
89.46 |
0.9893 |
-0.0685 |
323 |
1 |
89.46 |
2009-05-27 |
| 86. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
89.15 |
1.0167 |
-0.0966 |
378 |
1 |
89.15 |
2009-04-23 |
| 87. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
89.15 |
1.0797 |
-0.1660 |
210 |
1 |
89.15 |
2009-05-27 |
| 88. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
89.13 |
0.9841 |
-0.0659 |
334 |
1 |
89.13 |
2009-04-23 |
| 89. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
88.85 |
0.9991 |
-0.0854 |
225 |
1 |
88.85 |
2009-04-23 |
| 90. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
88.80 |
0.9691 |
-0.0549 |
223 |
2 |
84.54 |
2009-09-25 |
| 91. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
87.89 |
0.9072 |
-0.0041 |
237 |
3 |
83.89 |
2009-09-25 |
| 92. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
87.51 |
0.8852 |
0.0155 |
201 |
2 |
85.15 |
2009-05-27 |
| 93. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
86.79 |
0.9049 |
-0.0097 |
351 |
1 |
86.79 |
2009-04-23 |
| 94. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
86.54 |
0.9202 |
-0.0297 |
254 |
2 |
83.63 |
2009-05-26 |
| 95. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
86.18 |
1.0462 |
-0.1632 |
184 |
1 |
86.18 |
2009-05-27 |
| 96. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
85.54 |
0.9234 |
-0.0413 |
346 |
1 |
85.54 |
2009-04-23 |
| 97. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
85.32 |
0.9684 |
-0.0899 |
388 |
1 |
85.32 |
2009-04-24 |
| 98. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
84.34 |
0.9966 |
-0.1296 |
259 |
1 |
84.34 |
2009-06-29 |
| 99. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
83.99 |
0.9278 |
-0.0624 |
295 |
2 |
81.50 |
2009-04-24 |
| 100. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
83.76 |
0.8996 |
-0.0413 |
192 |
2 |
79.35 |
2009-05-27 |
| 101. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
83.54 |
0.9289 |
-0.0711 |
204 |
1 |
83.54 |
2009-04-23 |
| 102. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
83.50 |
0.9697 |
-0.1104 |
249 |
2 |
83.49 |
2009-05-27 |
| 103. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
83.33 |
0.9532 |
-0.0972 |
258 |
1 |
83.33 |
2009-06-29 |
| 104. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
83.05 |
0.8770 |
-0.0215 |
300 |
1 |
83.05 |
2009-04-24 |
| 105. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
82.54 |
0.9279 |
-0.0766 |
317 |
1 |
82.54 |
2009-04-23 |
| 106. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
81.85 |
0.9087 |
-0.0619 |
393 |
1 |
81.85 |
2009-04-24 |
| 107. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
81.81 |
0.9286 |
-0.0890 |
194 |
1 |
81.81 |
2009-04-23 |
| 108. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
81.52 |
0.8753 |
-0.0326 |
427 |
1 |
81.52 |
2009-07-21 |
| 109. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
81.29 |
0.9622 |
-0.1242 |
392 |
1 |
81.29 |
2009-04-23 |
| 110. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
80.81 |
0.8933 |
-0.0588 |
363 |
1 |
80.81 |
2009-04-23 |
| 111. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
78.94 |
0.8981 |
-0.0848 |
393 |
1 |
78.94 |
2009-04-23 |
| 112. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
77.33 |
0.9986 |
-0.2042 |
283 |
1 |
77.33 |
2009-05-26 |
| 113. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
75.03 |
0.9682 |
-0.1992 |
143 |
1 |
75.03 |
2009-04-23 |
| 114. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
73.68 |
0.8382 |
-0.0815 |
268 |
1 |
73.68 |
2009-05-26 |
| 115. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
70.31 |
0.9164 |
-0.1933 |
305 |
1 |
70.31 |
2009-05-26 |
| 116. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
51.16 |
0.7876 |
-0.2628 |
316 |
1 |
51.16 |
2009-05-26 |
| 117. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
35.76 |
0.9772 |
-0.6164 |
217 |
1 |
35.76 |
2009-05-26 |