| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
58.35 |
0.9844 |
0.2923 |
229 |
1 |
58.35 |
2010-10-31 |
| 2. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
57.56 |
1.1081 |
0.1750 |
206 |
1 |
57.56 |
2012-03-10 |
| 3. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
55.96 |
0.9710 |
0.2365 |
173 |
1 |
55.96 |
2010-10-30 |
| 4. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
55.13 |
0.9884 |
0.2111 |
262 |
1 |
55.13 |
2010-10-30 |
| 5. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
54.89 |
0.9997 |
0.1946 |
382 |
1 |
54.89 |
2010-11-22 |
| 6. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
54.83 |
0.9726 |
0.2094 |
154 |
2 |
51.94 |
2010-11-08 |
| 7. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
54.80 |
0.9161 |
0.2697 |
200 |
3 |
53.20 |
2010-11-08 |
| 8. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
54.26 |
0.9820 |
0.1977 |
267 |
1 |
54.26 |
2010-11-06 |
| 9. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
54.01 |
0.9965 |
0.1699 |
168 |
2 |
52.21 |
2010-11-06 |
| 10. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
53.80 |
1.0343 |
0.1693 |
242 |
2 |
49.38 |
2010-10-28 |
| 11. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
53.67 |
0.9019 |
0.2670 |
204 |
1 |
53.67 |
2010-10-30 |
| 12. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
53.50 |
1.0768 |
0.1228 |
295 |
1 |
53.50 |
2010-11-02 |
| 13. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
53.42 |
0.9540 |
0.2021 |
285 |
1 |
53.42 |
2010-11-06 |
| 14. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
53.30 |
1.0669 |
0.1207 |
286 |
1 |
53.30 |
2010-10-30 |
| 15. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
52.56 |
1.0516 |
0.0870 |
281 |
1 |
52.56 |
2010-11-22 |
| 16. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
52.28 |
1.0213 |
0.1089 |
240 |
1 |
52.28 |
2010-11-02 |
| 17. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
52.23 |
0.9316 |
0.2067 |
287 |
1 |
52.23 |
2010-11-08 |
| 18. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
51.71 |
0.9636 |
0.1566 |
254 |
1 |
51.71 |
2010-11-08 |
| 19. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
51.37 |
0.9303 |
0.1757 |
176 |
1 |
51.37 |
2010-11-08 |
| 20. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
51.12 |
0.9668 |
0.1834 |
383 |
2 |
46.57 |
2010-11-06 |
| 21. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
50.89 |
1.0917 |
0.0344 |
243 |
1 |
50.89 |
2010-11-06 |
| 22. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
50.69 |
0.9504 |
0.1420 |
263 |
1 |
50.69 |
2010-11-12 |
| 23. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
50.56 |
1.0389 |
0.0589 |
340 |
1 |
50.56 |
2010-10-31 |
| 24. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
50.51 |
1.0398 |
0.0435 |
110 |
1 |
50.51 |
2010-11-07 |
| 25. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
50.39 |
1.0885 |
0.0381 |
341 |
1 |
50.39 |
2010-11-07 |
| 26. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
50.25 |
0.9559 |
0.1348 |
195 |
1 |
50.25 |
2010-11-02 |
| 27. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
50.16 |
1.0203 |
0.0698 |
261 |
1 |
50.16 |
2010-11-04 |
| 28. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
50.12 |
1.0214 |
0.0590 |
166 |
2 |
48.78 |
2012-03-10 |
| 29. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
50.11 |
1.0907 |
-0.0030 |
303 |
2 |
49.13 |
2010-11-17 |
| 30. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
50.07 |
0.8900 |
0.1959 |
164 |
1 |
50.07 |
2010-10-30 |
| 31. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
49.99 |
1.0684 |
0.0446 |
253 |
1 |
49.99 |
2010-10-30 |
| 32. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
49.08 |
1.0261 |
0.0346 |
273 |
1 |
49.08 |
2010-11-24 |
| 33. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
49.07 |
0.9731 |
0.0770 |
129 |
1 |
49.07 |
2010-11-03 |
| 34. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
48.81 |
0.8975 |
0.1599 |
268 |
1 |
48.81 |
2010-10-31 |
| 35. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
48.78 |
0.8961 |
0.1570 |
189 |
1 |
48.78 |
2010-11-24 |
| 36. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
48.68 |
1.0240 |
0.0270 |
256 |
1 |
48.68 |
2010-10-28 |
| 37. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
48.68 |
1.0613 |
-0.0062 |
266 |
1 |
48.68 |
2010-11-07 |
| 38. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
48.37 |
0.9098 |
0.1334 |
167 |
1 |
48.37 |
2010-11-07 |
| 39. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
48.20 |
0.9986 |
0.0398 |
162 |
1 |
48.20 |
2010-11-22 |
| 40. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
48.09 |
0.9632 |
0.0844 |
392 |
1 |
48.09 |
2010-10-31 |
| 41. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
48.03 |
0.9936 |
0.0462 |
311 |
2 |
45.73 |
2010-10-31 |
| 42. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
47.92 |
1.0320 |
0.0427 |
293 |
2 |
41.03 |
2010-11-04 |
| 43. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
47.86 |
1.1296 |
-0.0643 |
252 |
1 |
47.86 |
2010-11-06 |
| 44. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
47.59 |
0.9310 |
0.0946 |
188 |
1 |
47.59 |
2010-10-31 |
| 45. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
47.35 |
1.0412 |
-0.0166 |
225 |
2 |
45.52 |
2010-11-11 |
| 46. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
47.27 |
0.9164 |
0.1121 |
305 |
2 |
45.06 |
2010-11-06 |
| 47. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
47.24 |
1.0352 |
-0.0092 |
341 |
1 |
47.24 |
2010-11-04 |
| 48. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
47.23 |
0.8890 |
0.1297 |
199 |
1 |
47.23 |
2010-11-02 |
| 49. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
47.08 |
1.0034 |
0.0146 |
302 |
1 |
47.08 |
2010-11-02 |
| 50. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
47.06 |
0.9763 |
0.0419 |
289 |
1 |
47.06 |
2010-12-03 |
| 51. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
46.97 |
1.0797 |
-0.0684 |
210 |
2 |
45.44 |
2010-11-02 |
| 52. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
46.92 |
1.0337 |
-0.0188 |
214 |
1 |
46.92 |
2010-11-24 |
| 53. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
46.75 |
1.0429 |
-0.0327 |
259 |
1 |
46.75 |
2010-10-28 |
| 54. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
46.71 |
0.9072 |
0.1017 |
237 |
1 |
46.71 |
2010-11-06 |
| 55. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
46.59 |
1.0417 |
-0.0362 |
253 |
1 |
46.59 |
2010-10-30 |
| 56. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
46.58 |
0.9893 |
0.0189 |
323 |
2 |
45.36 |
2010-10-30 |
| 57. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
46.19 |
1.0053 |
-0.0076 |
232 |
2 |
43.44 |
2010-11-11 |
| 58. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
46.15 |
0.9768 |
0.0249 |
387 |
1 |
46.15 |
2010-10-31 |
| 59. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
46.11 |
0.9965 |
0.0017 |
310 |
1 |
46.11 |
2010-10-30 |
| 60. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
46.02 |
0.8899 |
0.1166 |
293 |
1 |
46.02 |
2010-11-02 |
| 61. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.96 |
0.9899 |
-0.0003 |
163 |
1 |
45.96 |
2010-11-02 |
| 62. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
45.82 |
1.0788 |
-0.0930 |
171 |
1 |
45.82 |
2010-11-17 |
| 63. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
45.70 |
1.0077 |
0.0220 |
250 |
1 |
45.70 |
2010-11-06 |
| 64. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
45.65 |
1.0167 |
-0.0217 |
378 |
1 |
45.65 |
2010-10-30 |
| 65. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
45.53 |
0.9675 |
0.0271 |
383 |
1 |
45.53 |
2010-11-07 |
| 66. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
45.52 |
1.0232 |
-0.0027 |
236 |
1 |
45.52 |
2010-10-30 |
| 67. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
45.52 |
1.0297 |
-0.0459 |
249 |
1 |
45.52 |
2010-10-30 |
| 68. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
45.48 |
1.0284 |
-0.0012 |
282 |
1 |
45.48 |
2010-10-31 |
| 69. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
45.17 |
1.0679 |
-0.0707 |
177 |
1 |
45.17 |
2010-10-28 |
| 70. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
45.16 |
0.9128 |
0.1059 |
369 |
1 |
45.16 |
2010-11-02 |
| 71. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
45.15 |
0.9991 |
-0.0217 |
225 |
2 |
45.05 |
2010-10-31 |
| 72. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
44.94 |
0.9365 |
0.0373 |
248 |
1 |
44.94 |
2010-11-03 |
| 73. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
44.83 |
1.0296 |
-0.0533 |
437 |
1 |
44.83 |
2010-11-04 |
| 74. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
44.78 |
0.9936 |
-0.0047 |
227 |
2 |
38.83 |
2010-10-31 |
| 75. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
44.75 |
1.0214 |
-0.0109 |
281 |
1 |
44.75 |
2010-10-30 |
| 76. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
44.74 |
0.8533 |
0.1154 |
232 |
2 |
43.79 |
2010-10-31 |
| 77. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
44.72 |
1.0463 |
-0.0835 |
182 |
1 |
44.72 |
2010-10-28 |
| 78. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
44.62 |
1.0883 |
-0.0908 |
303 |
2 |
44.08 |
2010-11-08 |
| 79. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
44.53 |
1.0555 |
-0.0907 |
363 |
1 |
44.53 |
2010-10-31 |
| 80. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
44.41 |
0.9846 |
-0.0257 |
281 |
1 |
44.41 |
2010-11-17 |
| 81. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
44.15 |
0.9371 |
0.0567 |
318 |
1 |
44.15 |
2010-11-12 |
| 82. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
44.10 |
1.0117 |
-0.0133 |
297 |
1 |
44.10 |
2010-11-24 |
| 83. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
44.08 |
0.9340 |
0.0187 |
296 |
2 |
41.78 |
2010-10-30 |
| 84. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
44.03 |
0.7877 |
0.1688 |
142 |
1 |
44.03 |
2011-10-11 |
| 85. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
43.82 |
0.9697 |
-0.0219 |
249 |
1 |
43.82 |
2010-10-28 |
| 86. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
43.78 |
0.8792 |
0.0768 |
296 |
1 |
43.78 |
2010-11-02 |
| 87. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
43.20 |
0.9089 |
0.0286 |
342 |
1 |
43.20 |
2010-10-30 |
| 88. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
43.11 |
0.9045 |
0.0282 |
235 |
1 |
43.11 |
2010-10-28 |
| 89. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
43.07 |
0.9125 |
0.0204 |
308 |
1 |
43.07 |
2010-10-30 |
| 90. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
42.87 |
0.9786 |
-0.0522 |
235 |
1 |
42.87 |
2010-10-30 |
| 91. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
42.57 |
0.9342 |
-0.0102 |
434 |
2 |
40.46 |
2010-11-02 |
| 92. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
42.37 |
0.9289 |
-0.0154 |
204 |
1 |
42.37 |
2010-11-02 |
| 93. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
42.29 |
0.8811 |
0.0371 |
239 |
1 |
42.29 |
2010-11-01 |
| 94. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
42.29 |
0.9871 |
-0.0504 |
227 |
1 |
42.29 |
2010-11-07 |
| 95. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
42.25 |
0.9646 |
-0.0522 |
264 |
1 |
42.25 |
2010-11-03 |
| 96. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
42.15 |
0.9820 |
-0.0713 |
274 |
1 |
42.15 |
2010-11-01 |
| 97. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
41.75 |
0.9670 |
-0.0225 |
307 |
1 |
41.75 |
2010-11-01 |
| 98. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
41.74 |
0.9084 |
-0.0026 |
404 |
1 |
41.74 |
2010-10-31 |
| 99. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
41.74 |
0.9649 |
-0.0637 |
193 |
1 |
41.74 |
2010-10-30 |
| 100. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
41.73 |
0.9196 |
-0.0165 |
148 |
1 |
41.73 |
2010-10-31 |
| 101. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
41.71 |
1.0340 |
-0.1273 |
406 |
1 |
41.71 |
2010-11-04 |
| 102. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
41.54 |
0.9567 |
-0.0166 |
184 |
1 |
41.54 |
2010-10-30 |
| 103. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
41.41 |
0.8810 |
0.0142 |
282 |
1 |
41.41 |
2010-11-06 |
| 104. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
41.26 |
1.0719 |
-0.1525 |
360 |
1 |
41.26 |
2010-10-28 |
| 105. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
40.96 |
1.0445 |
-0.1583 |
373 |
1 |
40.96 |
2010-11-04 |
| 106. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
40.82 |
1.0346 |
-0.1110 |
244 |
1 |
40.82 |
2010-10-31 |
| 107. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
40.77 |
0.9278 |
-0.0445 |
295 |
1 |
40.77 |
2010-10-28 |
| 108. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
40.22 |
0.9016 |
-0.0252 |
192 |
1 |
40.22 |
2010-10-28 |
| 109. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
40.16 |
0.9350 |
-0.0674 |
195 |
1 |
40.16 |
2010-11-02 |
| 110. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
40.11 |
1.0384 |
-0.1822 |
183 |
1 |
40.11 |
2010-10-31 |
| 111. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
40.00 |
0.8520 |
0.0123 |
202 |
1 |
40.00 |
2010-11-02 |
| 112. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
38.74 |
0.9884 |
-0.1525 |
233 |
1 |
38.74 |
2010-10-28 |
| 113. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
37.97 |
1.0944 |
-0.2305 |
308 |
1 |
37.97 |
2010-10-31 |
| 114. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
37.92 |
0.9221 |
-0.1052 |
244 |
1 |
37.92 |
2010-10-31 |
| 115. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
37.91 |
0.8348 |
-0.0108 |
219 |
1 |
37.91 |
2010-11-02 |
| 116. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
37.64 |
0.8971 |
-0.0800 |
266 |
1 |
37.64 |
2010-10-28 |
| 117. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
37.41 |
1.0211 |
-0.1835 |
213 |
1 |
37.41 |
2010-10-30 |
| 118. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
36.97 |
0.7876 |
0.0124 |
316 |
1 |
36.97 |
2010-10-30 |
| 119. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
36.86 |
0.9286 |
-0.1348 |
194 |
2 |
36.68 |
2010-11-08 |
| 120. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
36.76 |
0.9411 |
-0.1473 |
318 |
1 |
36.76 |
2010-11-04 |
| 121. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
35.51 |
1.0016 |
-0.2409 |
218 |
1 |
35.51 |
2010-11-02 |
| 122. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
35.40 |
0.9514 |
-0.1881 |
237 |
1 |
35.40 |
2010-10-31 |
| 123. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
34.53 |
0.8670 |
-0.1180 |
318 |
1 |
34.53 |
2010-11-17 |
| 124. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
34.17 |
0.8958 |
-0.1548 |
322 |
1 |
34.17 |
2010-11-02 |
| 125. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
33.45 |
0.9773 |
-0.2655 |
123 |
1 |
33.45 |
2010-10-31 |
| 126. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
33.03 |
0.9908 |
-0.2335 |
342 |
1 |
33.03 |
2010-10-31 |
| 127. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
29.11 |
0.9527 |
-0.3272 |
251 |
1 |
29.11 |
2010-10-31 |