| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
100.00 |
1.0498 |
0.1907 |
180 |
1 |
100.00 |
2012-03-17 |
| 2. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
95.17 |
1.0496 |
0.1344 |
314 |
1 |
95.17 |
2012-03-16 |
| 3. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
89.58 |
1.0314 |
0.0783 |
172 |
1 |
89.58 |
2012-03-15 |
| 4. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
88.16 |
1.0368 |
0.0605 |
276 |
1 |
88.16 |
2012-03-16 |
| 5. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
87.91 |
1.1068 |
0.0268 |
393 |
1 |
87.91 |
2012-03-17 |
| 6. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
87.61 |
1.0615 |
0.0538 |
305 |
1 |
87.61 |
2012-03-17 |
| 7. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
87.59 |
1.0167 |
0.0798 |
378 |
2 |
84.52 |
2012-03-17 |
| 8. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
87.17 |
1.1215 |
-0.0136 |
200 |
1 |
87.17 |
2012-03-15 |
| 9. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
87.12 |
1.0385 |
0.0431 |
230 |
1 |
87.12 |
2012-03-15 |
| 10. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
87.04 |
1.0555 |
0.0574 |
323 |
1 |
87.04 |
2012-03-17 |
| 11. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
86.93 |
1.0613 |
0.0209 |
266 |
1 |
86.93 |
2012-03-16 |
| 12. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
86.86 |
0.9635 |
0.1230 |
389 |
1 |
86.86 |
2012-03-17 |
| 13. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
86.46 |
1.0138 |
0.0607 |
231 |
2 |
86.01 |
2012-03-16 |
| 14. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
86.33 |
1.0331 |
0.0381 |
234 |
2 |
79.85 |
2012-03-17 |
| 15. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
86.13 |
1.0529 |
0.0179 |
351 |
1 |
86.13 |
2012-03-16 |
| 16. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
85.97 |
1.0211 |
0.0786 |
213 |
2 |
83.49 |
2012-03-17 |
| 17. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
85.44 |
0.9567 |
0.1061 |
273 |
1 |
85.44 |
2012-03-17 |
| 18. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
85.31 |
1.0673 |
0.0349 |
230 |
1 |
85.31 |
2012-03-16 |
| 19. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
84.83 |
0.9578 |
0.0966 |
281 |
1 |
84.83 |
2012-03-17 |
| 20. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
84.54 |
1.0125 |
0.0359 |
224 |
2 |
84.03 |
2012-03-15 |
| 21. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
84.54 |
1.0412 |
0.0095 |
225 |
1 |
84.54 |
2012-03-15 |
| 22. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
84.35 |
0.9893 |
0.0594 |
323 |
1 |
84.35 |
2012-03-17 |
| 23. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
84.31 |
0.9636 |
0.0842 |
254 |
1 |
84.31 |
2012-03-15 |
| 24. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
84.16 |
0.9851 |
0.0641 |
317 |
1 |
84.16 |
2012-03-17 |
| 25. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
83.38 |
0.9758 |
0.0614 |
314 |
1 |
83.38 |
2012-03-17 |
| 26. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
83.38 |
0.9289 |
0.1053 |
204 |
1 |
83.38 |
2012-03-15 |
| 27. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
83.28 |
1.0150 |
0.0694 |
325 |
1 |
83.28 |
2012-03-17 |
| 28. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
82.95 |
1.1014 |
-0.0329 |
273 |
1 |
82.95 |
2012-03-15 |
| 29. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
82.91 |
0.9833 |
0.0487 |
355 |
2 |
81.91 |
2012-03-17 |
| 30. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
82.88 |
1.0063 |
0.0240 |
371 |
1 |
82.88 |
2012-03-16 |
| 31. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
82.81 |
0.9430 |
0.0789 |
211 |
1 |
82.81 |
2012-03-15 |
| 32. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
82.75 |
1.0662 |
0.0005 |
407 |
1 |
82.75 |
2012-03-15 |
| 33. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
82.39 |
0.9740 |
0.0456 |
209 |
1 |
82.39 |
2012-03-18 |
| 34. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
82.22 |
1.0053 |
0.0148 |
232 |
1 |
82.22 |
2012-03-17 |
| 35. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
82.05 |
0.9795 |
0.0407 |
308 |
1 |
82.05 |
2012-03-16 |
| 36. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
81.82 |
0.9899 |
0.0220 |
163 |
1 |
81.82 |
2012-03-16 |
| 37. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
81.78 |
1.0292 |
-0.0144 |
262 |
1 |
81.78 |
2012-03-17 |
| 38. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
81.58 |
0.9464 |
0.0725 |
323 |
1 |
81.58 |
2012-03-16 |
| 39. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
81.41 |
1.1323 |
-0.0866 |
341 |
1 |
81.41 |
2012-03-17 |
| 40. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
81.32 |
0.9212 |
0.0922 |
323 |
1 |
81.32 |
2012-03-17 |
| 41. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
81.18 |
1.0073 |
0.0098 |
369 |
1 |
81.18 |
2012-03-18 |
| 42. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
80.99 |
1.0141 |
0.0331 |
381 |
2 |
78.21 |
2012-03-17 |
| 43. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
80.64 |
0.9312 |
0.1213 |
320 |
2 |
75.02 |
2012-03-15 |
| 44. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
80.48 |
0.9780 |
0.0229 |
337 |
1 |
80.48 |
2012-03-17 |
| 45. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
80.36 |
1.0288 |
0.0022 |
300 |
1 |
80.36 |
2012-03-17 |
| 46. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
80.29 |
1.0099 |
-0.0156 |
207 |
1 |
80.29 |
2012-03-17 |
| 47. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
79.94 |
0.9682 |
0.0237 |
143 |
1 |
79.94 |
2012-03-15 |
| 48. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
79.91 |
1.0426 |
-0.0507 |
323 |
1 |
79.91 |
2012-03-17 |
| 49. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
79.89 |
0.9905 |
0.0342 |
337 |
2 |
72.88 |
2012-03-17 |
| 50. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
79.58 |
0.9943 |
-0.0033 |
373 |
1 |
79.58 |
2012-03-15 |
| 51. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
79.49 |
0.9865 |
0.0022 |
276 |
1 |
79.49 |
2012-03-17 |
| 52. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
79.33 |
0.9508 |
0.0688 |
384 |
1 |
79.33 |
2012-03-16 |
| 53. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
79.16 |
1.0630 |
-0.0455 |
397 |
1 |
79.16 |
2012-03-15 |
| 54. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
79.14 |
0.9670 |
0.0584 |
307 |
1 |
79.14 |
2012-03-17 |
| 55. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
78.89 |
0.9790 |
0.0417 |
311 |
1 |
78.89 |
2012-03-17 |
| 56. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
78.89 |
0.9997 |
-0.0159 |
382 |
2 |
74.46 |
2012-03-16 |
| 57. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
78.79 |
0.9351 |
0.0381 |
190 |
1 |
78.79 |
2012-03-17 |
| 58. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
78.51 |
1.0719 |
-0.0686 |
360 |
1 |
78.51 |
2012-03-15 |
| 59. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
78.42 |
1.0444 |
-0.0773 |
197 |
1 |
78.42 |
2012-03-15 |
| 60. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
78.08 |
0.9278 |
0.0444 |
295 |
1 |
78.08 |
2012-03-17 |
| 61. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
78.01 |
0.8961 |
0.0693 |
189 |
1 |
78.01 |
2012-03-17 |
| 62. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
77.70 |
0.9942 |
-0.0203 |
483 |
1 |
77.70 |
2012-03-17 |
| 63. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
77.51 |
0.9922 |
0.0114 |
341 |
1 |
77.51 |
2012-03-17 |
| 64. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
76.84 |
0.9651 |
0.0249 |
389 |
1 |
76.84 |
2012-03-17 |
| 65. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
76.42 |
0.9376 |
0.0167 |
367 |
1 |
76.42 |
2012-03-16 |
| 66. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
76.25 |
1.0340 |
-0.0817 |
406 |
1 |
76.25 |
2012-03-16 |
| 67. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
75.38 |
0.9243 |
0.0512 |
448 |
1 |
75.38 |
2012-03-15 |
| 68. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
75.05 |
0.9064 |
0.0346 |
399 |
1 |
75.05 |
2012-03-16 |
| 69. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
75.04 |
0.9601 |
-0.0237 |
308 |
1 |
75.04 |
2012-03-15 |
| 70. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
74.93 |
1.0254 |
-0.0553 |
217 |
1 |
74.93 |
2012-03-17 |
| 71. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
74.76 |
0.9855 |
-0.0240 |
258 |
1 |
74.76 |
2012-03-17 |
| 72. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
74.53 |
1.0203 |
-0.0917 |
261 |
1 |
74.53 |
2012-03-15 |
| 73. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
74.18 |
1.0547 |
-0.0991 |
257 |
1 |
74.18 |
2012-03-15 |
| 74. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
73.14 |
0.9005 |
0.0054 |
212 |
1 |
73.14 |
2012-03-17 |
| 75. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
72.92 |
0.9687 |
-0.0589 |
371 |
1 |
72.92 |
2012-03-15 |
| 76. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
72.88 |
1.0141 |
-0.0735 |
304 |
1 |
72.88 |
2012-03-15 |
| 77. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
72.43 |
1.0375 |
-0.0935 |
200 |
1 |
72.43 |
2012-03-16 |
| 78. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
71.29 |
0.9353 |
-0.0565 |
177 |
1 |
71.29 |
2012-03-16 |
| 79. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
71.28 |
0.9084 |
-0.0207 |
404 |
1 |
71.28 |
2012-03-16 |
| 80. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
71.13 |
0.8878 |
-0.0057 |
346 |
1 |
71.13 |
2012-03-15 |
| 81. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
70.91 |
1.0016 |
-0.1270 |
218 |
1 |
70.91 |
2012-03-15 |
| 82. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
70.49 |
0.9514 |
-0.0766 |
237 |
1 |
70.49 |
2012-03-15 |
| 83. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
69.78 |
0.9871 |
-0.0859 |
209 |
1 |
69.78 |
2012-03-16 |
| 84. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
69.50 |
0.9546 |
-0.0620 |
198 |
1 |
69.50 |
2012-03-17 |
| 85. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
69.05 |
0.9559 |
-0.0987 |
195 |
1 |
69.05 |
2012-03-15 |
| 86. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
68.65 |
1.0154 |
-0.1148 |
351 |
1 |
68.65 |
2012-03-16 |
| 87. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
67.43 |
0.8933 |
-0.0510 |
363 |
1 |
67.43 |
2012-03-15 |
| 88. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
66.68 |
0.8947 |
-0.0630 |
366 |
1 |
66.68 |
2012-03-16 |
| 89. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
65.74 |
0.9697 |
-0.1553 |
249 |
1 |
65.74 |
2012-03-16 |
| 90. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
65.58 |
0.8670 |
-0.0498 |
318 |
1 |
65.58 |
2012-03-15 |
| 91. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
65.09 |
0.9668 |
-0.1182 |
383 |
1 |
65.09 |
2012-03-17 |
| 92. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
63.11 |
0.8753 |
-0.0845 |
427 |
1 |
63.11 |
2012-03-16 |