| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
86.16 |
1.0515 |
0.2912 |
250 |
1 |
86.16 |
2013-06-23 |
| 2. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
81.83 |
1.0993 |
0.1750 |
265 |
3 |
75.86 |
2013-06-23 |
| 3. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
81.77 |
1.0907 |
0.1871 |
303 |
3 |
70.52 |
2011-03-21 |
| 4. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
81.20 |
1.0598 |
0.2006 |
196 |
1 |
81.20 |
2013-06-23 |
| 5. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
81.04 |
1.0240 |
0.2369 |
256 |
1 |
81.04 |
2011-03-21 |
| 6. |
If he stayed at home and carried on with his normal life he ... |
80.52 |
1.1217 |
0.1458 |
169 |
1 |
80.52 |
2017-12-21 |
| 7. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
80.04 |
1.1081 |
0.1745 |
206 |
1 |
80.04 |
2011-12-19 |
| 8. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
78.77 |
1.0016 |
0.2219 |
218 |
1 |
78.77 |
2011-12-19 |
| 9. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
77.85 |
1.0740 |
0.1779 |
264 |
1 |
77.85 |
2013-06-23 |
| 10. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
77.41 |
1.0767 |
0.1279 |
212 |
3 |
69.06 |
2011-03-24 |
| 11. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
75.01 |
1.0462 |
0.1171 |
184 |
1 |
75.01 |
2011-03-21 |
| 12. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
74.18 |
1.0621 |
0.1132 |
263 |
2 |
73.29 |
2011-12-19 |
| 13. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
74.17 |
0.9843 |
0.1664 |
234 |
1 |
74.17 |
2013-06-23 |
| 14. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
73.63 |
0.9871 |
0.1827 |
227 |
1 |
73.63 |
2013-06-23 |
| 15. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
72.74 |
1.0799 |
0.0494 |
243 |
2 |
67.84 |
2010-06-05 |
| 16. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
72.46 |
1.1296 |
0.0283 |
252 |
1 |
72.46 |
2010-10-04 |
| 17. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
71.50 |
1.0063 |
0.1076 |
371 |
2 |
69.65 |
2010-06-05 |
| 18. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
70.47 |
1.0506 |
0.0754 |
277 |
1 |
70.47 |
2010-02-17 |
| 19. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
70.35 |
1.0486 |
0.0477 |
289 |
2 |
68.02 |
2010-06-05 |
| 20. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
70.17 |
1.0725 |
0.0459 |
233 |
1 |
70.17 |
2010-06-05 |
| 21. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
69.71 |
0.9873 |
0.0950 |
155 |
1 |
69.71 |
2011-01-23 |
| 22. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
69.65 |
1.0516 |
0.0323 |
281 |
1 |
69.65 |
2010-06-18 |
| 23. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
69.32 |
1.0038 |
0.1058 |
237 |
1 |
69.32 |
2010-06-05 |
| 24. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
69.24 |
1.0214 |
0.0513 |
166 |
1 |
69.24 |
2010-10-07 |
| 25. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
69.17 |
1.0444 |
0.0260 |
197 |
2 |
65.98 |
2010-10-01 |
| 26. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
69.01 |
1.0602 |
0.0182 |
389 |
1 |
69.01 |
2010-06-05 |
| 27. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
68.76 |
1.0487 |
0.0169 |
231 |
1 |
68.76 |
2011-03-24 |
| 28. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
68.62 |
1.0668 |
0.0038 |
350 |
2 |
66.08 |
2010-10-04 |
| 29. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
68.04 |
1.0684 |
0.0208 |
253 |
1 |
68.04 |
2010-06-05 |
| 30. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
68.01 |
0.9633 |
0.0976 |
304 |
1 |
68.01 |
2010-06-05 |
| 31. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
67.81 |
0.9965 |
0.0595 |
277 |
2 |
64.74 |
2011-07-26 |
| 32. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
67.77 |
1.0025 |
0.0521 |
256 |
2 |
61.39 |
2010-06-05 |
| 33. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
67.22 |
0.9646 |
0.0807 |
264 |
1 |
67.22 |
2010-07-05 |
| 34. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
66.24 |
0.9426 |
0.0912 |
317 |
1 |
66.24 |
2010-10-03 |
| 35. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
66.20 |
0.9855 |
0.0781 |
258 |
1 |
66.20 |
2010-06-05 |
| 36. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
65.75 |
0.8996 |
0.1179 |
192 |
1 |
65.75 |
2010-10-04 |
| 37. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
65.59 |
1.0677 |
-0.0170 |
284 |
1 |
65.59 |
2010-06-21 |
| 38. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
65.03 |
0.9846 |
0.0256 |
281 |
1 |
65.03 |
2010-10-04 |
| 39. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
64.85 |
1.0029 |
-0.0006 |
209 |
2 |
61.35 |
2010-06-04 |
| 40. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
64.70 |
0.9682 |
0.0368 |
143 |
1 |
64.70 |
2010-02-15 |
| 41. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
64.70 |
1.0788 |
-0.0780 |
171 |
1 |
64.70 |
2010-06-04 |
| 42. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
64.67 |
0.9907 |
0.0139 |
211 |
1 |
64.67 |
2010-10-04 |
| 43. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
64.56 |
1.0379 |
0.0012 |
245 |
2 |
63.73 |
2010-06-05 |
| 44. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
64.19 |
1.0270 |
0.0073 |
255 |
1 |
64.19 |
2010-10-01 |
| 45. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
64.12 |
1.0201 |
-0.0188 |
375 |
1 |
64.12 |
2010-10-01 |
| 46. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
63.88 |
1.0033 |
-0.0166 |
189 |
1 |
63.88 |
2010-06-05 |
| 47. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
63.66 |
1.0252 |
-0.0416 |
176 |
1 |
63.66 |
2010-06-04 |
| 48. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
63.42 |
1.0796 |
-0.0986 |
129 |
1 |
63.42 |
2010-06-04 |
| 49. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
63.17 |
1.0320 |
-0.0123 |
293 |
1 |
63.17 |
2010-06-05 |
| 50. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
62.95 |
0.9546 |
0.0556 |
198 |
2 |
56.01 |
2010-02-17 |
| 51. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
62.54 |
1.0368 |
-0.0636 |
276 |
1 |
62.54 |
2011-03-20 |
| 52. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
62.42 |
0.9734 |
-0.0027 |
289 |
1 |
62.42 |
2010-06-05 |
| 53. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
61.86 |
1.0385 |
-0.0786 |
230 |
2 |
61.70 |
2010-02-15 |
| 54. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
61.82 |
1.0251 |
-0.0660 |
261 |
1 |
61.82 |
2010-10-01 |
| 55. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
61.74 |
1.0417 |
-0.0846 |
253 |
1 |
61.74 |
2010-10-01 |
| 56. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
61.60 |
1.1018 |
-0.1508 |
220 |
1 |
61.60 |
2010-02-15 |
| 57. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
61.59 |
1.0567 |
-0.0983 |
303 |
1 |
61.59 |
2010-07-05 |
| 58. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
61.54 |
0.9912 |
-0.0076 |
237 |
1 |
61.54 |
2010-06-04 |
| 59. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
61.23 |
1.0211 |
-0.0388 |
213 |
1 |
61.23 |
2010-10-01 |
| 60. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
61.05 |
0.9758 |
-0.0262 |
314 |
1 |
61.05 |
2010-06-05 |
| 61. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
60.97 |
0.9699 |
-0.0230 |
269 |
2 |
56.54 |
2010-06-04 |
| 62. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
60.95 |
0.9622 |
-0.0082 |
392 |
1 |
60.95 |
2010-10-01 |
| 63. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
60.60 |
1.0696 |
-0.1311 |
226 |
1 |
60.60 |
2010-10-01 |
| 64. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
60.49 |
1.0441 |
-0.0626 |
316 |
1 |
60.49 |
2010-02-15 |
| 65. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
60.18 |
0.9540 |
-0.0208 |
285 |
1 |
60.18 |
2010-02-15 |
| 66. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
59.93 |
0.8553 |
0.0711 |
174 |
2 |
55.09 |
2010-10-01 |
| 67. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
59.86 |
1.0167 |
-0.0795 |
378 |
1 |
59.86 |
2010-02-15 |
| 68. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
59.66 |
1.0117 |
-0.0400 |
297 |
1 |
59.66 |
2010-10-01 |
| 69. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
59.65 |
0.9831 |
-0.0483 |
469 |
1 |
59.65 |
2010-10-01 |
| 70. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
59.18 |
0.9216 |
0.0372 |
255 |
1 |
59.18 |
2010-10-01 |
| 71. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
59.16 |
0.9711 |
-0.0533 |
176 |
1 |
59.16 |
2010-02-17 |
| 72. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
58.90 |
1.0232 |
-0.0622 |
350 |
1 |
58.90 |
2010-10-01 |
| 73. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
58.55 |
1.0829 |
-0.1720 |
288 |
1 |
58.55 |
2010-02-15 |
| 74. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
58.51 |
1.0023 |
-0.0955 |
211 |
1 |
58.51 |
2010-02-15 |
| 75. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
58.51 |
0.9461 |
-0.0376 |
276 |
1 |
58.51 |
2010-02-17 |
| 76. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
58.45 |
0.9938 |
-0.0853 |
339 |
1 |
58.45 |
2010-02-15 |
| 77. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
58.42 |
0.9916 |
-0.0414 |
282 |
1 |
58.42 |
2010-06-04 |
| 78. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
58.20 |
0.9798 |
-0.0814 |
199 |
1 |
58.20 |
2010-07-05 |
| 79. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
57.60 |
1.0463 |
-0.1564 |
182 |
1 |
57.60 |
2010-02-15 |
| 80. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
57.52 |
1.0352 |
-0.1386 |
341 |
1 |
57.52 |
2010-02-17 |
| 81. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
57.44 |
1.0523 |
-0.1644 |
256 |
1 |
57.44 |
2010-06-04 |
| 82. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
56.97 |
0.9289 |
-0.0466 |
204 |
1 |
56.97 |
2010-02-19 |
| 83. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
56.88 |
1.0389 |
-0.1539 |
318 |
1 |
56.88 |
2010-02-07 |
| 84. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
56.73 |
1.0125 |
-0.1340 |
224 |
1 |
56.73 |
2010-02-17 |
| 85. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
55.57 |
1.0257 |
-0.1567 |
401 |
1 |
55.57 |
2010-02-15 |
| 86. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
54.80 |
0.9597 |
-0.1053 |
347 |
1 |
54.80 |
2010-02-15 |
| 87. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
54.62 |
0.9097 |
-0.0202 |
464 |
1 |
54.62 |
2010-02-17 |
| 88. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
54.56 |
0.9746 |
-0.0993 |
405 |
1 |
54.56 |
2010-10-01 |
| 89. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
54.14 |
0.9786 |
-0.1391 |
235 |
1 |
54.14 |
2010-02-15 |
| 90. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
53.94 |
1.0419 |
-0.2052 |
261 |
1 |
53.94 |
2010-02-15 |
| 91. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
53.88 |
1.0328 |
-0.1583 |
356 |
1 |
53.88 |
2010-02-15 |
| 92. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
52.73 |
1.0331 |
-0.2176 |
234 |
1 |
52.73 |
2010-10-01 |
| 93. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
52.64 |
0.9811 |
-0.1619 |
272 |
1 |
52.64 |
2010-06-04 |
| 94. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
52.07 |
1.0390 |
-0.2355 |
205 |
1 |
52.07 |
2010-02-07 |
| 95. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
51.48 |
1.0004 |
-0.2084 |
212 |
1 |
51.48 |
2010-02-17 |
| 96. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
47.50 |
0.8615 |
-0.1259 |
110 |
1 |
47.50 |
2010-02-07 |
| 97. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
47.15 |
0.9529 |
-0.1825 |
269 |
1 |
47.15 |
2010-02-07 |
| 98. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
46.44 |
1.0365 |
-0.2881 |
162 |
1 |
46.44 |
2010-02-07 |
| 99. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
46.02 |
1.0053 |
-0.2952 |
232 |
1 |
46.02 |
2011-03-31 |
| 100. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
40.11 |
0.8961 |
-0.2806 |
189 |
1 |
40.11 |
2011-03-21 |
| 101. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
39.01 |
0.9176 |
-0.2771 |
365 |
1 |
39.01 |
2011-12-28 |