| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
83.09 |
1.0516 |
0.1792 |
281 |
1 |
83.09 |
2013-03-18 |
| 2. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
82.34 |
1.1296 |
0.1221 |
252 |
2 |
80.33 |
2013-03-18 |
| 3. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
81.24 |
1.1323 |
0.1027 |
341 |
2 |
81.05 |
2013-03-20 |
| 4. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
81.15 |
1.0968 |
0.1377 |
365 |
1 |
81.15 |
2013-03-18 |
| 5. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
80.78 |
1.0528 |
0.1415 |
201 |
1 |
80.78 |
2013-03-18 |
| 6. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
80.66 |
1.0033 |
0.1880 |
189 |
3 |
71.13 |
2013-03-18 |
| 7. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
79.08 |
0.9844 |
0.1880 |
293 |
2 |
73.49 |
2013-03-20 |
| 8. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
78.86 |
1.0252 |
0.1397 |
176 |
1 |
78.86 |
2013-03-18 |
| 9. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
78.65 |
1.0907 |
0.0742 |
303 |
1 |
78.65 |
2013-03-18 |
| 10. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
78.33 |
1.0885 |
0.1043 |
341 |
2 |
75.00 |
2013-03-18 |
| 11. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
78.16 |
1.0598 |
0.0928 |
196 |
1 |
78.16 |
2013-03-18 |
| 12. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
77.12 |
1.0389 |
0.1032 |
318 |
2 |
74.00 |
2013-03-18 |
| 13. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
76.98 |
1.0012 |
0.1393 |
260 |
1 |
76.98 |
2013-03-18 |
| 14. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
75.46 |
0.9430 |
0.1754 |
297 |
1 |
75.46 |
2013-03-18 |
| 15. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
75.28 |
0.9350 |
0.1777 |
195 |
1 |
75.28 |
2013-03-18 |
| 16. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
75.16 |
0.9649 |
0.1472 |
193 |
2 |
74.97 |
2013-03-18 |
| 17. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
75.15 |
1.0485 |
0.1013 |
153 |
2 |
73.76 |
2013-03-18 |
| 18. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
74.22 |
1.0602 |
0.0387 |
389 |
1 |
74.22 |
2013-03-18 |
| 19. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
74.21 |
1.0709 |
0.0610 |
392 |
1 |
74.21 |
2013-03-18 |
| 20. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
73.93 |
1.0203 |
0.1027 |
400 |
1 |
73.93 |
2013-03-18 |
| 21. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
73.89 |
1.0349 |
0.0580 |
234 |
1 |
73.89 |
2013-03-18 |
| 22. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
73.81 |
1.0125 |
0.0779 |
224 |
1 |
73.81 |
2013-03-18 |
| 23. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
73.65 |
1.0972 |
0.0226 |
251 |
1 |
73.65 |
2013-03-18 |
| 24. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
73.44 |
1.0214 |
0.0653 |
269 |
1 |
73.44 |
2013-03-18 |
| 25. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
73.42 |
1.0141 |
0.1048 |
304 |
2 |
67.59 |
2013-03-20 |
| 26. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
73.40 |
1.0740 |
0.0515 |
264 |
1 |
73.40 |
2013-03-20 |
| 27. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
73.27 |
1.0197 |
0.0629 |
226 |
1 |
73.27 |
2013-03-18 |
| 28. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
73.23 |
1.0062 |
0.0781 |
288 |
1 |
73.23 |
2013-03-18 |
| 29. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
72.90 |
1.0025 |
0.0769 |
336 |
2 |
71.56 |
2013-03-18 |
| 30. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
72.74 |
0.9946 |
0.0811 |
246 |
2 |
70.95 |
2013-03-18 |
| 31. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
72.05 |
0.9907 |
0.1069 |
397 |
2 |
67.73 |
2013-03-18 |
| 32. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
71.99 |
0.9758 |
0.0897 |
314 |
1 |
71.99 |
2013-03-18 |
| 33. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
71.97 |
1.0385 |
0.0255 |
230 |
2 |
68.29 |
2013-03-18 |
| 34. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
71.30 |
1.0441 |
0.0110 |
252 |
1 |
71.30 |
2013-03-18 |
| 35. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
70.73 |
1.1215 |
-0.0484 |
200 |
1 |
70.73 |
2013-03-20 |
| 36. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
70.59 |
1.0767 |
-0.0339 |
212 |
1 |
70.59 |
2013-03-20 |
| 37. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
70.58 |
1.0150 |
0.0748 |
325 |
1 |
70.58 |
2013-03-18 |
| 38. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
70.44 |
0.9922 |
0.0879 |
341 |
2 |
69.45 |
2013-03-18 |
| 39. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
70.42 |
0.9866 |
0.0531 |
218 |
2 |
67.78 |
2013-03-18 |
| 40. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
70.39 |
0.9942 |
0.0502 |
483 |
1 |
70.39 |
2013-03-18 |
| 41. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
70.34 |
1.0272 |
0.0308 |
405 |
1 |
70.34 |
2013-03-18 |
| 42. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
70.33 |
1.0596 |
-0.0202 |
239 |
1 |
70.33 |
2013-03-18 |
| 43. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
70.15 |
1.0796 |
-0.0455 |
129 |
1 |
70.15 |
2013-03-18 |
| 44. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
70.10 |
0.9776 |
0.0598 |
308 |
3 |
66.36 |
2013-03-18 |
| 45. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
70.06 |
0.9653 |
0.0749 |
394 |
1 |
70.06 |
2013-03-18 |
| 46. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
69.91 |
1.0077 |
0.0678 |
250 |
1 |
69.91 |
2013-03-18 |
| 47. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
69.90 |
0.9820 |
0.0538 |
267 |
1 |
69.90 |
2013-03-18 |
| 48. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
69.74 |
1.0167 |
0.0180 |
378 |
1 |
69.74 |
2013-03-18 |
| 49. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
69.52 |
1.0567 |
-0.0275 |
303 |
1 |
69.52 |
2013-03-18 |
| 50. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
69.34 |
1.0117 |
0.0581 |
297 |
1 |
69.34 |
2013-03-18 |
| 51. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
68.99 |
1.0213 |
-0.0023 |
240 |
1 |
68.99 |
2013-03-20 |
| 52. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
68.95 |
1.0662 |
-0.0145 |
407 |
1 |
68.95 |
2013-03-18 |
| 53. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
68.94 |
1.0615 |
-0.0165 |
305 |
1 |
68.94 |
2013-03-18 |
| 54. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
68.92 |
1.0314 |
-0.0163 |
172 |
1 |
68.92 |
2013-03-18 |
| 55. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
68.69 |
1.0337 |
-0.0191 |
214 |
1 |
68.69 |
2013-03-18 |
| 56. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
68.58 |
1.0379 |
0.0134 |
245 |
1 |
68.58 |
2013-03-18 |
| 57. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
68.16 |
1.0025 |
0.0053 |
256 |
1 |
68.16 |
2013-03-18 |
| 58. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
67.72 |
1.0120 |
-0.0103 |
290 |
1 |
67.72 |
2013-03-18 |
| 59. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
67.50 |
0.9801 |
0.0548 |
428 |
2 |
65.92 |
2013-03-18 |
| 60. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
67.07 |
1.0254 |
0.0105 |
217 |
1 |
67.07 |
2013-03-18 |
| 61. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
66.99 |
0.8996 |
0.0882 |
192 |
2 |
59.76 |
2013-03-18 |
| 62. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
66.68 |
0.9997 |
-0.0117 |
382 |
2 |
66.31 |
2013-03-20 |
| 63. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
66.43 |
0.8867 |
0.0960 |
241 |
1 |
66.43 |
2013-03-18 |
| 64. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
66.39 |
1.0232 |
-0.0055 |
236 |
1 |
66.39 |
2013-03-20 |
| 65. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
66.33 |
1.0604 |
-0.0465 |
260 |
2 |
61.04 |
2013-03-20 |
| 66. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
66.32 |
0.9286 |
0.0508 |
194 |
1 |
66.32 |
2013-03-20 |
| 67. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
66.22 |
1.0375 |
-0.0109 |
200 |
1 |
66.22 |
2013-03-18 |
| 68. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
66.16 |
1.0463 |
-0.0714 |
182 |
1 |
66.16 |
2013-03-18 |
| 69. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
66.02 |
1.0031 |
0.0071 |
304 |
1 |
66.02 |
2013-03-20 |
| 70. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
65.98 |
0.9612 |
0.0149 |
256 |
1 |
65.98 |
2013-03-18 |
| 71. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
65.94 |
0.9908 |
0.0263 |
342 |
1 |
65.94 |
2013-03-20 |
| 72. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
65.87 |
1.0132 |
-0.0454 |
143 |
1 |
65.87 |
2013-03-20 |
| 73. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
65.78 |
0.9673 |
0.0463 |
232 |
2 |
63.46 |
2013-03-18 |
| 74. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
65.72 |
0.9570 |
0.0152 |
287 |
1 |
65.72 |
2013-03-18 |
| 75. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
65.59 |
0.9429 |
0.0271 |
287 |
1 |
65.59 |
2013-03-18 |
| 76. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
65.57 |
0.9513 |
0.0200 |
354 |
1 |
65.57 |
2013-03-18 |
| 77. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
65.53 |
1.0941 |
-0.0926 |
256 |
1 |
65.53 |
2013-03-18 |
| 78. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
65.52 |
1.0459 |
-0.0427 |
200 |
1 |
65.52 |
2013-03-18 |
| 79. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
65.50 |
0.9651 |
0.0363 |
389 |
1 |
65.50 |
2013-03-18 |
| 80. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
65.41 |
0.9109 |
0.0578 |
401 |
1 |
65.41 |
2013-03-18 |
| 81. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
65.39 |
0.9907 |
-0.0252 |
211 |
2 |
64.84 |
2013-03-18 |
| 82. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
65.32 |
0.9734 |
-0.0083 |
289 |
1 |
65.32 |
2013-03-18 |
| 83. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
65.26 |
0.9148 |
0.0516 |
317 |
1 |
65.26 |
2013-03-18 |
| 84. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
65.19 |
0.9279 |
0.0387 |
317 |
1 |
65.19 |
2013-03-18 |
| 85. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
65.19 |
0.9398 |
0.0290 |
419 |
1 |
65.19 |
2013-03-18 |
| 86. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
65.13 |
0.9226 |
0.0425 |
348 |
1 |
65.13 |
2013-03-18 |
| 87. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
65.01 |
0.9202 |
0.0413 |
254 |
1 |
65.01 |
2013-03-18 |
| 88. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
64.98 |
0.9371 |
0.0616 |
318 |
2 |
59.60 |
2013-03-18 |
| 89. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
64.84 |
0.9005 |
0.0584 |
212 |
2 |
60.96 |
2013-03-20 |
| 90. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
64.54 |
0.9593 |
-0.0030 |
398 |
1 |
64.54 |
2013-03-18 |
| 91. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
64.30 |
0.9798 |
-0.0329 |
199 |
1 |
64.30 |
2013-03-18 |
| 92. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
64.08 |
0.9699 |
-0.0230 |
269 |
1 |
64.08 |
2013-03-18 |
| 93. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
63.51 |
1.0214 |
-0.0414 |
281 |
1 |
63.51 |
2013-03-20 |
| 94. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
63.31 |
0.9631 |
0.0191 |
345 |
1 |
63.31 |
2013-03-18 |
| 95. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
62.97 |
0.9697 |
-0.0383 |
249 |
1 |
62.97 |
2013-03-18 |
| 96. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
62.95 |
0.9754 |
-0.0422 |
362 |
1 |
62.95 |
2013-03-18 |
| 97. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
62.72 |
0.8629 |
0.0660 |
299 |
1 |
62.72 |
2013-03-18 |
| 98. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
62.66 |
0.9871 |
-0.0226 |
209 |
1 |
62.66 |
2013-03-18 |
| 99. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
62.61 |
0.9176 |
0.0426 |
365 |
1 |
62.61 |
2013-03-18 |
| 100. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
61.88 |
1.0232 |
-0.0641 |
350 |
1 |
61.88 |
2013-03-18 |
| 101. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
61.36 |
0.9904 |
-0.0421 |
203 |
1 |
61.36 |
2013-03-18 |
| 102. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
61.22 |
1.0090 |
-0.0614 |
282 |
1 |
61.22 |
2013-03-18 |
| 103. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
61.17 |
0.9509 |
-0.0090 |
225 |
1 |
61.17 |
2013-03-18 |
| 104. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
60.92 |
0.9943 |
-0.0940 |
373 |
1 |
60.92 |
2013-03-18 |
| 105. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
60.85 |
0.9339 |
-0.0358 |
310 |
1 |
60.85 |
2013-03-18 |
| 106. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
60.70 |
0.9865 |
-0.0895 |
276 |
1 |
60.70 |
2013-03-18 |
| 107. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
60.43 |
1.0083 |
-0.0720 |
273 |
1 |
60.43 |
2013-03-18 |
| 108. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
60.16 |
0.9619 |
-0.0705 |
393 |
1 |
60.16 |
2013-03-18 |
| 109. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
60.12 |
0.9351 |
-0.0502 |
190 |
1 |
60.12 |
2013-03-18 |
| 110. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
60.12 |
0.9072 |
-0.0202 |
237 |
1 |
60.12 |
2013-03-18 |
| 111. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
59.35 |
0.9726 |
-0.1002 |
154 |
1 |
59.35 |
2013-03-18 |
| 112. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
59.09 |
1.1014 |
-0.1910 |
273 |
1 |
59.09 |
2013-03-18 |
| 113. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
58.30 |
1.0396 |
-0.1831 |
149 |
1 |
58.30 |
2013-03-18 |
| 114. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
58.27 |
0.9097 |
-0.0117 |
464 |
1 |
58.27 |
2013-03-18 |
| 115. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
57.84 |
0.8722 |
-0.0163 |
285 |
1 |
57.84 |
2013-03-18 |
| 116. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
57.54 |
0.9342 |
-0.0825 |
434 |
1 |
57.54 |
2013-03-18 |
| 117. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
57.35 |
0.9084 |
-0.0607 |
300 |
1 |
57.35 |
2013-03-18 |
| 118. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
57.02 |
0.9665 |
-0.0767 |
326 |
1 |
57.02 |
2013-03-18 |
| 119. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
56.89 |
0.8775 |
-0.0321 |
443 |
1 |
56.89 |
2013-03-18 |
| 120. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
56.77 |
0.8753 |
-0.0325 |
427 |
1 |
56.77 |
2013-03-18 |
| 121. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
55.99 |
0.8914 |
-0.0654 |
366 |
1 |
55.99 |
2013-03-18 |
| 122. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
52.61 |
0.9682 |
-0.1937 |
143 |
1 |
52.61 |
2013-03-18 |
| 123. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
51.83 |
0.9155 |
-0.1056 |
168 |
1 |
51.83 |
2013-03-18 |
| 124. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.06 |
0.9212 |
-0.1675 |
323 |
1 |
51.06 |
2013-03-18 |
| 125. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
50.79 |
0.9049 |
-0.1538 |
351 |
1 |
50.79 |
2013-03-20 |
| 126. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
50.18 |
0.9023 |
-0.1185 |
231 |
1 |
50.18 |
2013-03-18 |
| 127. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
50.00 |
0.8919 |
-0.1555 |
205 |
1 |
50.00 |
2013-03-18 |
| 128. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
49.90 |
0.8916 |
-0.1561 |
216 |
1 |
49.90 |
2013-03-18 |
| 129. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
47.53 |
1.0398 |
-0.3461 |
110 |
1 |
47.53 |
2013-03-18 |