| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
108.12 |
1.0334 |
0.3098 |
131 |
1 |
108.12 |
2011-04-28 |
| 2. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
106.28 |
0.9907 |
0.3345 |
211 |
1 |
106.28 |
2011-04-27 |
| 3. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
101.28 |
1.0767 |
0.1844 |
212 |
2 |
89.00 |
2011-04-27 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
96.89 |
1.0797 |
0.1230 |
210 |
1 |
96.89 |
2010-05-21 |
| 5. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
95.79 |
1.0120 |
0.1814 |
290 |
2 |
88.65 |
2012-11-07 |
| 6. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
95.13 |
1.0034 |
0.1814 |
302 |
1 |
95.13 |
2011-04-28 |
| 7. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
94.99 |
1.0555 |
0.1303 |
363 |
4 |
88.41 |
2012-11-09 |
| 8. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
94.34 |
1.0829 |
0.0944 |
288 |
1 |
94.34 |
2011-04-27 |
| 9. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
94.28 |
0.9936 |
0.2019 |
227 |
2 |
91.45 |
2011-04-28 |
| 10. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
94.02 |
1.0719 |
0.1279 |
360 |
1 |
94.02 |
2011-02-04 |
| 11. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
93.96 |
1.0391 |
0.1382 |
358 |
1 |
93.96 |
2011-02-02 |
| 12. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
93.81 |
1.0883 |
0.1134 |
303 |
1 |
93.81 |
2011-04-27 |
| 13. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
93.48 |
1.0314 |
0.1730 |
452 |
2 |
72.90 |
2011-04-28 |
| 14. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
93.45 |
0.9671 |
0.2222 |
379 |
1 |
93.45 |
2014-05-15 |
| 15. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
93.10 |
1.0165 |
0.1479 |
392 |
1 |
93.10 |
2012-11-09 |
| 16. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
92.77 |
1.0905 |
0.0975 |
210 |
1 |
92.77 |
2012-11-09 |
| 17. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
92.71 |
1.0788 |
0.0710 |
171 |
1 |
92.71 |
2010-05-21 |
| 18. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
91.77 |
1.0565 |
0.0841 |
247 |
2 |
91.21 |
2012-11-09 |
| 19. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
91.15 |
1.0547 |
0.1160 |
257 |
1 |
91.15 |
2014-05-15 |
| 20. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
90.98 |
0.9461 |
0.1870 |
276 |
1 |
90.98 |
2014-05-15 |
| 21. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
90.37 |
1.0060 |
0.1151 |
171 |
1 |
90.37 |
2012-11-09 |
| 22. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
90.34 |
0.9811 |
0.1472 |
272 |
3 |
86.72 |
2011-05-02 |
| 23. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
90.33 |
1.0288 |
0.1291 |
300 |
1 |
90.33 |
2012-11-09 |
| 24. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
90.29 |
1.0993 |
0.0237 |
265 |
1 |
90.29 |
2010-05-21 |
| 25. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
89.95 |
1.0151 |
0.0961 |
152 |
2 |
78.79 |
2011-04-27 |
| 26. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
89.82 |
1.0109 |
0.1088 |
276 |
1 |
89.82 |
2011-04-28 |
| 27. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
89.32 |
1.0029 |
0.1033 |
209 |
1 |
89.32 |
2011-04-28 |
| 28. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
89.21 |
0.9910 |
0.1224 |
295 |
2 |
88.42 |
2012-11-09 |
| 29. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
89.10 |
1.0516 |
0.0577 |
281 |
2 |
85.94 |
2012-11-09 |
| 30. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
88.56 |
1.0577 |
0.0418 |
247 |
1 |
88.56 |
2011-02-02 |
| 31. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
88.53 |
0.9965 |
0.1068 |
277 |
1 |
88.53 |
2012-11-09 |
| 32. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
88.18 |
0.9212 |
0.1802 |
323 |
1 |
88.18 |
2011-02-04 |
| 33. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
88.14 |
1.0352 |
0.0651 |
341 |
1 |
88.14 |
2011-04-27 |
| 34. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
87.29 |
1.0183 |
0.0635 |
191 |
1 |
87.29 |
2011-04-27 |
| 35. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
86.67 |
0.9734 |
0.1061 |
289 |
1 |
86.67 |
2012-11-07 |
| 36. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
86.56 |
0.9899 |
0.0831 |
163 |
3 |
80.08 |
2011-05-02 |
| 37. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
86.04 |
1.0124 |
0.0565 |
204 |
2 |
78.95 |
2012-11-09 |
| 38. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
85.48 |
0.9795 |
0.0854 |
308 |
1 |
85.48 |
2011-02-04 |
| 39. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
85.37 |
1.0117 |
0.0959 |
297 |
2 |
84.58 |
2011-04-27 |
| 40. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
85.19 |
1.0201 |
0.0411 |
303 |
1 |
85.19 |
2012-11-09 |
| 41. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
85.13 |
0.9635 |
0.1024 |
389 |
1 |
85.13 |
2010-05-21 |
| 42. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
85.04 |
1.0042 |
0.0963 |
352 |
1 |
85.04 |
2011-04-27 |
| 43. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
84.98 |
1.0388 |
0.0509 |
243 |
1 |
84.98 |
2011-04-27 |
| 44. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
84.86 |
1.0528 |
-0.0009 |
201 |
2 |
81.40 |
2011-05-02 |
| 45. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
84.83 |
0.9994 |
0.0876 |
269 |
1 |
84.83 |
2011-04-27 |
| 46. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
84.81 |
0.9678 |
0.1234 |
445 |
2 |
64.02 |
2012-11-09 |
| 47. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
84.72 |
0.9500 |
0.1068 |
362 |
1 |
84.72 |
2011-05-02 |
| 48. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
84.51 |
1.0125 |
0.0370 |
224 |
2 |
82.52 |
2011-04-27 |
| 49. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
84.13 |
1.0521 |
-0.0101 |
171 |
1 |
84.13 |
2010-05-21 |
| 50. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
84.10 |
1.0515 |
-0.0127 |
166 |
1 |
84.10 |
2010-05-22 |
| 51. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
84.08 |
1.0714 |
-0.0340 |
129 |
1 |
84.08 |
2010-05-21 |
| 52. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
84.03 |
1.0662 |
0.0180 |
407 |
1 |
84.03 |
2011-04-27 |
| 53. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
83.95 |
1.0669 |
0.0114 |
213 |
1 |
83.95 |
2011-02-04 |
| 54. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
83.26 |
0.9942 |
0.0509 |
483 |
1 |
83.26 |
2012-11-09 |
| 55. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
82.75 |
0.9865 |
0.0447 |
276 |
2 |
79.22 |
2011-04-27 |
| 56. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
82.20 |
0.9798 |
0.0375 |
199 |
1 |
82.20 |
2011-04-27 |
| 57. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
81.93 |
0.9364 |
0.1233 |
351 |
1 |
81.93 |
2011-05-02 |
| 58. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
81.91 |
0.9109 |
0.1116 |
401 |
1 |
81.91 |
2011-04-27 |
| 59. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
81.88 |
1.1323 |
-0.0794 |
341 |
1 |
81.88 |
2010-05-22 |
| 60. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
81.28 |
0.9601 |
0.0561 |
308 |
1 |
81.28 |
2011-04-27 |
| 61. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
81.21 |
0.9439 |
0.0745 |
476 |
1 |
81.21 |
2010-05-21 |
| 62. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
80.80 |
0.9844 |
0.0260 |
293 |
1 |
80.80 |
2011-04-27 |
| 63. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
80.75 |
0.8996 |
0.0996 |
192 |
1 |
80.75 |
2010-05-21 |
| 64. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
80.48 |
1.0252 |
-0.0304 |
176 |
2 |
76.11 |
2011-04-28 |
| 65. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
79.80 |
0.9532 |
0.0382 |
258 |
2 |
79.70 |
2011-05-02 |
| 66. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
79.71 |
0.9820 |
0.0092 |
274 |
1 |
79.71 |
2010-05-21 |
| 67. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
79.50 |
1.0296 |
-0.0341 |
437 |
1 |
79.50 |
2012-11-09 |
| 68. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
79.35 |
0.9365 |
0.0522 |
248 |
2 |
76.18 |
2011-04-27 |
| 69. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
79.26 |
0.9429 |
0.0446 |
287 |
1 |
79.26 |
2011-04-28 |
| 70. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
79.07 |
1.0270 |
-0.0075 |
255 |
1 |
79.07 |
2010-05-21 |
| 71. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
78.87 |
1.0379 |
-0.0222 |
245 |
1 |
78.87 |
2011-02-02 |
| 72. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
78.83 |
0.9731 |
-0.0052 |
129 |
1 |
78.83 |
2012-11-09 |
| 73. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
78.55 |
1.0261 |
-0.0095 |
410 |
1 |
78.55 |
2012-11-07 |
| 74. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
78.48 |
0.9359 |
0.0799 |
353 |
1 |
78.48 |
2011-02-04 |
| 75. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
78.38 |
0.9157 |
0.0637 |
350 |
1 |
78.38 |
2010-05-21 |
| 76. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
78.28 |
1.0644 |
-0.0544 |
257 |
1 |
78.28 |
2010-05-22 |
| 77. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
77.98 |
1.0083 |
0.0058 |
273 |
1 |
77.98 |
2011-04-27 |
| 78. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
77.98 |
0.9120 |
0.0915 |
436 |
2 |
76.62 |
2011-04-28 |
| 79. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
77.94 |
0.9852 |
-0.0156 |
264 |
1 |
77.94 |
2010-05-21 |
| 80. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
77.94 |
1.0012 |
-0.0294 |
260 |
1 |
77.94 |
2010-05-21 |
| 81. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
77.65 |
0.9045 |
0.0618 |
235 |
1 |
77.65 |
2012-11-09 |
| 82. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
77.55 |
0.9986 |
-0.0336 |
283 |
1 |
77.55 |
2012-11-07 |
| 83. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
77.19 |
0.9687 |
-0.0039 |
371 |
2 |
72.02 |
2012-11-09 |
| 84. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
77.16 |
0.9785 |
-0.0160 |
335 |
1 |
77.16 |
2010-05-21 |
| 85. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
76.87 |
1.0211 |
-0.0347 |
213 |
1 |
76.87 |
2011-02-02 |
| 86. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
76.73 |
1.0941 |
-0.1088 |
256 |
1 |
76.73 |
2012-11-09 |
| 87. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
76.27 |
1.0031 |
-0.0216 |
304 |
1 |
76.27 |
2011-02-02 |
| 88. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
75.88 |
1.0696 |
-0.1296 |
226 |
1 |
75.88 |
2010-05-21 |
| 89. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
75.74 |
0.9866 |
-0.0486 |
218 |
1 |
75.74 |
2010-05-21 |
| 90. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
75.31 |
0.9164 |
0.0250 |
305 |
1 |
75.31 |
2010-05-21 |
| 91. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
75.07 |
0.8956 |
0.0423 |
322 |
1 |
75.07 |
2010-05-21 |
| 92. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
74.77 |
0.9922 |
-0.0217 |
341 |
1 |
74.77 |
2010-05-22 |
| 93. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
74.48 |
1.0684 |
-0.1127 |
253 |
1 |
74.48 |
2010-05-21 |
| 94. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
74.47 |
0.8753 |
0.0598 |
427 |
1 |
74.47 |
2011-02-04 |
| 95. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
74.22 |
0.9846 |
-0.0639 |
281 |
1 |
74.22 |
2012-11-09 |
| 96. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
73.75 |
0.9064 |
0.0195 |
399 |
1 |
73.75 |
2011-04-28 |
| 97. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
73.52 |
1.0943 |
-0.1482 |
206 |
1 |
73.52 |
2010-05-21 |
| 98. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
72.77 |
0.9084 |
-0.0024 |
300 |
1 |
72.77 |
2011-05-02 |
| 99. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
72.15 |
1.0289 |
-0.1280 |
276 |
1 |
72.15 |
2011-04-28 |
| 100. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
72.08 |
0.9279 |
-0.0257 |
317 |
1 |
72.08 |
2012-11-09 |
| 101. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
71.95 |
1.0403 |
-0.1067 |
275 |
1 |
71.95 |
2010-05-21 |
| 102. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
71.06 |
0.8933 |
-0.0043 |
363 |
1 |
71.06 |
2011-04-27 |
| 103. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
70.52 |
1.0459 |
-0.1392 |
200 |
1 |
70.52 |
2012-11-09 |
| 104. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
69.82 |
0.8467 |
0.0449 |
343 |
1 |
69.82 |
2011-02-02 |
| 105. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
69.30 |
0.9168 |
-0.0549 |
240 |
1 |
69.30 |
2010-05-21 |
| 106. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
69.10 |
0.9676 |
-0.1013 |
442 |
1 |
69.10 |
2010-05-21 |
| 107. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
68.90 |
0.9546 |
-0.0681 |
198 |
1 |
68.90 |
2012-11-09 |
| 108. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
68.44 |
0.9925 |
-0.1061 |
247 |
1 |
68.44 |
2010-05-21 |
| 109. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
68.38 |
0.9202 |
-0.0717 |
254 |
1 |
68.38 |
2010-05-21 |
| 110. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
67.52 |
1.0232 |
-0.1497 |
236 |
1 |
67.52 |
2010-05-21 |
| 111. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
67.04 |
0.9622 |
-0.1238 |
392 |
1 |
67.04 |
2010-05-22 |
| 112. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
66.28 |
0.9673 |
-0.1057 |
232 |
1 |
66.28 |
2010-05-21 |
| 113. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
66.17 |
0.9597 |
-0.1347 |
347 |
1 |
66.17 |
2010-05-22 |
| 114. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
65.61 |
0.9176 |
-0.0700 |
267 |
1 |
65.61 |
2012-11-09 |
| 115. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
65.35 |
0.9155 |
-0.0559 |
168 |
1 |
65.35 |
2012-11-09 |
| 116. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
64.89 |
0.9382 |
-0.1077 |
440 |
1 |
64.89 |
2010-05-21 |
| 117. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
64.59 |
0.8188 |
-0.0165 |
183 |
1 |
64.59 |
2010-05-21 |
| 118. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
64.01 |
0.9383 |
-0.1229 |
471 |
1 |
64.01 |
2010-05-21 |
| 119. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
63.79 |
0.9330 |
-0.1352 |
360 |
1 |
63.79 |
2010-05-22 |
| 120. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
63.72 |
1.0365 |
-0.2169 |
162 |
1 |
63.72 |
2010-05-22 |
| 121. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
62.99 |
0.9908 |
-0.1637 |
342 |
1 |
62.99 |
2010-05-21 |
| 122. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
61.90 |
0.9936 |
-0.2266 |
311 |
2 |
56.54 |
2011-04-27 |
| 123. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
61.37 |
0.8852 |
-0.1223 |
201 |
1 |
61.37 |
2010-05-21 |
| 124. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
60.16 |
0.9665 |
-0.1719 |
326 |
1 |
60.16 |
2010-05-22 |
| 125. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
60.13 |
0.9946 |
-0.2498 |
246 |
1 |
60.13 |
2010-05-21 |
| 126. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
59.62 |
0.9863 |
-0.2436 |
339 |
1 |
59.62 |
2010-05-22 |
| 127. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
59.48 |
1.0441 |
-0.3063 |
252 |
1 |
59.48 |
2011-04-27 |
| 128. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
57.86 |
0.7876 |
-0.0689 |
316 |
1 |
57.86 |
2010-05-21 |
| 129. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
56.56 |
0.9776 |
-0.2775 |
308 |
1 |
56.56 |
2010-05-22 |
| 130. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
55.62 |
1.0619 |
-0.3700 |
354 |
1 |
55.62 |
2011-04-27 |
| 131. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
48.60 |
1.0515 |
-0.4542 |
250 |
1 |
48.60 |
2011-04-27 |
| 132. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
47.05 |
0.9739 |
-0.3580 |
412 |
1 |
47.05 |
2011-04-27 |