| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
89.78 |
1.0799 |
0.4213 |
243 |
1 |
89.78 |
2012-11-14 |
| 2. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
84.03 |
1.1323 |
0.3091 |
341 |
1 |
84.03 |
2012-11-14 |
| 3. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
82.93 |
1.0004 |
0.3826 |
212 |
3 |
60.82 |
2013-04-09 |
| 4. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
82.24 |
1.1296 |
0.2769 |
252 |
1 |
82.24 |
2013-04-09 |
| 5. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
81.99 |
1.0389 |
0.3367 |
340 |
2 |
69.42 |
2013-04-08 |
| 6. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
81.02 |
1.0349 |
0.3212 |
234 |
1 |
81.02 |
2013-04-09 |
| 7. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
80.90 |
1.0012 |
0.3569 |
260 |
1 |
80.90 |
2013-04-09 |
| 8. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
80.80 |
1.0444 |
0.3021 |
197 |
2 |
69.21 |
2012-11-13 |
| 9. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
78.02 |
1.0796 |
0.2217 |
129 |
1 |
78.02 |
2012-11-13 |
| 10. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
77.25 |
1.0907 |
0.2051 |
303 |
1 |
77.25 |
2013-04-09 |
| 11. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
77.21 |
0.9897 |
0.3004 |
274 |
3 |
61.13 |
2012-11-14 |
| 12. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
76.96 |
1.0203 |
0.3011 |
400 |
1 |
76.96 |
2012-11-13 |
| 13. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
76.62 |
1.0419 |
0.2405 |
261 |
1 |
76.62 |
2012-11-20 |
| 14. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
76.22 |
0.9871 |
0.3247 |
209 |
1 |
76.22 |
2012-11-13 |
| 15. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
74.79 |
0.9670 |
0.3266 |
307 |
2 |
60.86 |
2012-11-13 |
| 16. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
74.75 |
0.9233 |
0.3192 |
168 |
2 |
63.02 |
2013-04-08 |
| 17. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
73.85 |
0.9430 |
0.2853 |
211 |
1 |
73.85 |
2012-11-13 |
| 18. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
73.37 |
1.0768 |
0.1908 |
295 |
1 |
73.37 |
2012-11-13 |
| 19. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
73.37 |
1.0391 |
0.1945 |
358 |
1 |
73.37 |
2012-11-13 |
| 20. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
73.11 |
1.0677 |
0.1858 |
284 |
1 |
73.11 |
2012-11-13 |
| 21. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
72.98 |
1.0534 |
0.1697 |
357 |
1 |
72.98 |
2012-11-13 |
| 22. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
72.63 |
1.0577 |
0.1538 |
247 |
1 |
72.63 |
2012-11-14 |
| 23. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
72.32 |
1.1022 |
0.1426 |
259 |
1 |
72.32 |
2012-11-14 |
| 24. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
72.10 |
1.0531 |
0.1910 |
272 |
1 |
72.10 |
2012-11-13 |
| 25. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
70.77 |
0.8382 |
0.3458 |
268 |
2 |
58.08 |
2013-04-09 |
| 26. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
70.54 |
0.9164 |
0.2680 |
305 |
2 |
56.70 |
2012-11-14 |
| 27. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
70.38 |
1.0131 |
0.1599 |
225 |
2 |
61.50 |
2012-11-14 |
| 28. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
70.36 |
1.0254 |
0.1920 |
217 |
1 |
70.36 |
2012-11-14 |
| 29. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
70.31 |
0.9372 |
0.2425 |
320 |
1 |
70.31 |
2012-11-13 |
| 30. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
69.47 |
0.9597 |
0.2059 |
347 |
1 |
69.47 |
2013-04-09 |
| 31. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
69.41 |
1.0941 |
0.0976 |
256 |
1 |
69.41 |
2012-11-13 |
| 32. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
68.69 |
1.0412 |
0.1065 |
225 |
1 |
68.69 |
2012-11-13 |
| 33. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
68.46 |
0.9176 |
0.2657 |
365 |
1 |
68.46 |
2013-04-09 |
| 34. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
68.04 |
0.9665 |
0.2202 |
326 |
1 |
68.04 |
2012-11-13 |
| 35. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
67.95 |
0.8670 |
0.2742 |
318 |
1 |
67.95 |
2013-04-08 |
| 36. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
67.39 |
0.9353 |
0.1870 |
177 |
1 |
67.39 |
2012-11-13 |
| 37. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
67.29 |
0.9293 |
0.1962 |
355 |
2 |
66.78 |
2013-04-08 |
| 38. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
66.86 |
1.0613 |
0.0570 |
266 |
1 |
66.86 |
2012-11-13 |
| 39. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
66.85 |
0.9668 |
0.1930 |
383 |
1 |
66.85 |
2012-11-13 |
| 40. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
66.81 |
1.0025 |
0.1150 |
336 |
1 |
66.81 |
2012-11-20 |
| 41. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
66.12 |
1.0008 |
0.1471 |
473 |
1 |
66.12 |
2012-11-13 |
| 42. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
66.02 |
0.9997 |
0.1071 |
382 |
1 |
66.02 |
2012-11-13 |
| 43. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
66.00 |
0.9907 |
0.1461 |
397 |
1 |
66.00 |
2013-04-08 |
| 44. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
64.75 |
0.9916 |
0.1327 |
282 |
1 |
64.75 |
2012-11-14 |
| 45. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
64.49 |
0.9309 |
0.1445 |
284 |
1 |
64.49 |
2012-11-13 |
| 46. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
64.33 |
0.9342 |
0.1439 |
434 |
1 |
64.33 |
2013-04-08 |
| 47. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
60.57 |
0.9863 |
0.0292 |
339 |
1 |
60.57 |
2012-11-13 |
| 48. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
59.60 |
0.9339 |
0.0593 |
310 |
1 |
59.60 |
2012-11-14 |
| 49. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
59.09 |
0.9682 |
0.0159 |
143 |
2 |
50.05 |
2012-11-13 |
| 50. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
59.04 |
0.9724 |
0.0164 |
237 |
1 |
59.04 |
2009-06-11 |
| 51. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
58.98 |
1.0398 |
-0.0661 |
110 |
2 |
54.78 |
2013-04-09 |
| 52. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
58.41 |
1.0496 |
-0.0757 |
314 |
1 |
58.41 |
2009-06-23 |
| 53. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
57.94 |
0.9846 |
-0.0191 |
281 |
2 |
52.91 |
2009-06-11 |
| 54. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
57.19 |
0.9632 |
0.0330 |
345 |
1 |
57.19 |
2013-04-09 |
| 55. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
57.09 |
1.0053 |
-0.0551 |
232 |
1 |
57.09 |
2009-06-11 |
| 56. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
56.66 |
0.9776 |
-0.0324 |
308 |
1 |
56.66 |
2009-06-04 |
| 57. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
56.52 |
1.1016 |
-0.1589 |
233 |
1 |
56.52 |
2009-06-30 |
| 58. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
55.90 |
1.0993 |
-0.1693 |
265 |
2 |
53.50 |
2009-06-23 |
| 59. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
55.39 |
0.9798 |
-0.0620 |
199 |
1 |
55.39 |
2009-06-23 |
| 60. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
55.33 |
0.9820 |
-0.0567 |
267 |
1 |
55.33 |
2009-06-04 |
| 61. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
55.06 |
1.0696 |
-0.1552 |
226 |
1 |
55.06 |
2009-06-11 |
| 62. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
54.62 |
1.0201 |
-0.1164 |
172 |
2 |
53.39 |
2009-06-11 |
| 63. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
54.42 |
1.0711 |
-0.1691 |
213 |
1 |
54.42 |
2009-05-13 |
| 64. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
54.38 |
1.0379 |
-0.0966 |
245 |
1 |
54.38 |
2010-01-10 |
| 65. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
54.32 |
1.0023 |
-0.0988 |
211 |
2 |
53.92 |
2010-01-10 |
| 66. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
54.17 |
1.0261 |
-0.1251 |
273 |
1 |
54.17 |
2009-11-12 |
| 67. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
53.99 |
0.9886 |
-0.0863 |
220 |
1 |
53.99 |
2009-06-11 |
| 68. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
53.52 |
0.9910 |
-0.0972 |
295 |
2 |
52.27 |
2009-06-04 |
| 69. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
53.47 |
0.9936 |
-0.1029 |
311 |
1 |
53.47 |
2009-06-11 |
| 70. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
53.11 |
0.9729 |
-0.0877 |
255 |
1 |
53.11 |
2009-06-11 |
| 71. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
52.76 |
0.9672 |
-0.0817 |
396 |
2 |
50.20 |
2009-06-23 |
| 72. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
52.54 |
0.9636 |
-0.0884 |
254 |
2 |
51.50 |
2009-06-17 |
| 73. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
52.38 |
0.9351 |
-0.0680 |
190 |
1 |
52.38 |
2009-06-30 |
| 74. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
52.38 |
0.9049 |
-0.0269 |
351 |
1 |
52.38 |
2009-06-23 |
| 75. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
52.35 |
0.9593 |
-0.0825 |
398 |
1 |
52.35 |
2009-06-11 |
| 76. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
52.33 |
1.0666 |
-0.1947 |
297 |
1 |
52.33 |
2009-05-23 |
| 77. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
52.06 |
1.0417 |
-0.1770 |
253 |
1 |
52.06 |
2009-06-11 |
| 78. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
52.00 |
1.0385 |
-0.1741 |
230 |
1 |
52.00 |
2009-06-23 |
| 79. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
51.90 |
1.0263 |
-0.1626 |
267 |
1 |
51.90 |
2009-05-13 |
| 80. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
51.84 |
1.0034 |
-0.1414 |
302 |
2 |
51.32 |
2009-06-23 |
| 81. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
51.70 |
1.0213 |
-0.1634 |
240 |
1 |
51.70 |
2009-06-23 |
| 82. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
51.38 |
0.8961 |
-0.0438 |
189 |
1 |
51.38 |
2009-06-30 |
| 83. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
51.31 |
1.0555 |
-0.1996 |
363 |
1 |
51.31 |
2009-06-23 |
| 84. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
51.15 |
0.9843 |
-0.1375 |
234 |
2 |
49.69 |
2009-06-23 |
| 85. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
50.83 |
0.9731 |
-0.1392 |
129 |
1 |
50.83 |
2009-06-30 |
| 86. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
50.71 |
1.0251 |
-0.1829 |
261 |
1 |
50.71 |
2009-11-12 |
| 87. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
50.58 |
1.0885 |
-0.2430 |
315 |
2 |
50.13 |
2009-06-23 |
| 88. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
50.55 |
0.9614 |
-0.1167 |
292 |
2 |
50.53 |
2009-06-17 |
| 89. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
49.93 |
0.9635 |
-0.1269 |
389 |
1 |
49.93 |
2009-06-11 |
| 90. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
49.87 |
1.0477 |
-0.2151 |
360 |
1 |
49.87 |
2009-05-23 |
| 91. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
49.81 |
1.0441 |
-0.2134 |
252 |
2 |
49.76 |
2009-06-23 |
| 92. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
49.56 |
0.9763 |
-0.1519 |
289 |
1 |
49.56 |
2009-06-30 |
| 93. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
49.51 |
1.0523 |
-0.2325 |
256 |
1 |
49.51 |
2009-06-07 |
| 94. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
49.44 |
0.9785 |
-0.1524 |
335 |
1 |
49.44 |
2009-05-07 |
| 95. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
49.41 |
1.0062 |
-0.1838 |
288 |
1 |
49.41 |
2010-01-10 |
| 96. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
49.33 |
0.9376 |
-0.1111 |
367 |
1 |
49.33 |
2009-05-23 |
| 97. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
49.30 |
1.0063 |
-0.1854 |
371 |
1 |
49.30 |
2009-05-23 |
| 98. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
49.21 |
0.9866 |
-0.1713 |
218 |
1 |
49.21 |
2009-05-23 |
| 99. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
48.86 |
0.9429 |
-0.1285 |
287 |
1 |
48.86 |
2009-06-11 |
| 100. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
48.83 |
1.0025 |
-0.1900 |
256 |
1 |
48.83 |
2009-05-23 |
| 101. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
48.76 |
0.9646 |
-0.1541 |
264 |
1 |
48.76 |
2009-06-04 |
| 102. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
48.47 |
0.8981 |
-0.0870 |
393 |
1 |
48.47 |
2009-06-11 |
| 103. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
48.04 |
1.0316 |
-0.2286 |
333 |
1 |
48.04 |
2009-06-03 |
| 104. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
48.02 |
1.0429 |
-0.2454 |
259 |
1 |
48.02 |
2009-05-13 |
| 105. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
47.98 |
0.9768 |
-0.1760 |
387 |
1 |
47.98 |
2009-06-11 |
| 106. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
47.57 |
0.9330 |
-0.1351 |
360 |
1 |
47.57 |
2009-06-03 |
| 107. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
47.32 |
0.9857 |
-0.1996 |
293 |
1 |
47.32 |
2009-05-23 |
| 108. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
47.18 |
0.9769 |
-0.1943 |
263 |
1 |
47.18 |
2009-06-11 |
| 109. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
47.15 |
0.9365 |
-0.1509 |
248 |
1 |
47.15 |
2009-06-04 |
| 110. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
47.02 |
1.0396 |
-0.2648 |
149 |
1 |
47.02 |
2009-05-12 |
| 111. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
46.49 |
1.0197 |
-0.2496 |
226 |
1 |
46.49 |
2009-05-07 |
| 112. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
46.30 |
0.9786 |
-0.2140 |
193 |
1 |
46.30 |
2009-06-11 |
| 113. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
46.25 |
1.0399 |
-0.2657 |
294 |
1 |
46.25 |
2009-05-23 |
| 114. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
46.12 |
0.9740 |
-0.2113 |
209 |
1 |
46.12 |
2009-05-07 |
| 115. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
45.59 |
0.8919 |
-0.1358 |
205 |
1 |
45.59 |
2009-06-07 |
| 116. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
45.52 |
0.8947 |
-0.1332 |
366 |
1 |
45.52 |
2009-06-15 |
| 117. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
45.38 |
0.9572 |
-0.2040 |
201 |
1 |
45.38 |
2009-05-07 |
| 118. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
45.23 |
0.8602 |
-0.1107 |
206 |
1 |
45.23 |
2009-06-11 |
| 119. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
44.16 |
0.9734 |
-0.2401 |
289 |
1 |
44.16 |
2009-06-15 |
| 120. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
42.71 |
0.8595 |
-0.1486 |
242 |
1 |
42.71 |
2009-06-23 |
| 121. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
41.39 |
0.9464 |
-0.2545 |
323 |
1 |
41.39 |
2009-05-23 |
| 122. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
41.00 |
1.0334 |
-0.3597 |
131 |
1 |
41.00 |
2009-05-23 |
| 123. |
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