| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
36.92 |
0.8660 |
0.4292 |
193 |
3 |
30.11 |
2011-03-16 |
| 2. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
36.51 |
0.8739 |
0.4052 |
136 |
1 |
36.51 |
2011-03-29 |
| 3. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
36.29 |
0.8177 |
0.4511 |
124 |
2 |
31.97 |
2011-02-15 |
| 4. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.25 |
1.0213 |
0.2470 |
240 |
1 |
36.25 |
2011-04-04 |
| 5. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
35.52 |
0.8872 |
0.3534 |
168 |
1 |
35.52 |
2011-02-16 |
| 6. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
35.48 |
0.8936 |
0.3493 |
127 |
2 |
29.25 |
2011-03-29 |
| 7. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
35.23 |
0.9303 |
0.2979 |
176 |
3 |
31.78 |
2011-03-24 |
| 8. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
35.15 |
0.9320 |
0.2943 |
84 |
2 |
29.11 |
2011-03-02 |
| 9. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
35.09 |
0.9572 |
0.2716 |
201 |
1 |
35.09 |
2011-04-04 |
| 10. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
35.05 |
1.0516 |
0.1766 |
281 |
1 |
35.05 |
2011-04-06 |
| 11. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
34.63 |
0.8715 |
0.3394 |
130 |
2 |
28.45 |
2011-02-17 |
| 12. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
34.47 |
0.9171 |
0.2917 |
165 |
3 |
28.18 |
2011-02-28 |
| 13. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
34.37 |
1.0205 |
0.1773 |
179 |
3 |
29.80 |
2011-02-17 |
| 14. |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immo... |
34.12 |
0.8244 |
0.3733 |
73 |
2 |
24.68 |
2011-02-17 |
| 15. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
34.11 |
1.0795 |
0.1462 |
226 |
3 |
32.77 |
2011-04-04 |
| 16. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
34.02 |
0.8892 |
0.3097 |
207 |
2 |
31.99 |
2011-04-06 |
| 17. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
33.98 |
0.9965 |
0.1898 |
168 |
3 |
28.49 |
2011-03-24 |
| 18. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
33.68 |
1.0797 |
0.0951 |
210 |
1 |
33.68 |
2011-02-15 |
| 19. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
33.68 |
1.0151 |
0.1558 |
152 |
1 |
33.68 |
2011-03-10 |
| 20. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
33.22 |
0.9310 |
0.2283 |
188 |
3 |
30.83 |
2011-03-16 |
| 21. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
32.97 |
0.8614 |
0.2912 |
172 |
1 |
32.97 |
2011-02-11 |
| 22. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
32.82 |
1.0515 |
0.0903 |
166 |
1 |
32.82 |
2011-03-02 |
| 23. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
32.74 |
0.8506 |
0.2929 |
132 |
3 |
26.53 |
2011-03-29 |
| 24. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
32.65 |
1.0214 |
0.1171 |
166 |
3 |
27.46 |
2011-02-17 |
| 25. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
32.61 |
0.7801 |
0.3584 |
116 |
1 |
32.61 |
2011-04-06 |
| 26. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
32.35 |
1.0390 |
0.0904 |
205 |
1 |
32.35 |
2011-03-24 |
| 27. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
31.94 |
0.9559 |
0.1650 |
195 |
1 |
31.94 |
2011-02-17 |
| 28. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
31.84 |
0.8994 |
0.2174 |
188 |
1 |
31.84 |
2011-04-06 |
| 29. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
31.82 |
0.9884 |
0.1255 |
233 |
2 |
28.55 |
2011-03-29 |
| 30. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.79 |
1.0029 |
0.1039 |
209 |
1 |
31.79 |
2011-04-06 |
| 31. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
31.65 |
0.8791 |
0.2284 |
190 |
1 |
31.65 |
2011-03-07 |
| 32. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
31.55 |
1.0099 |
0.0918 |
207 |
1 |
31.55 |
2011-03-07 |
| 33. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
31.47 |
0.9772 |
0.1214 |
217 |
2 |
26.28 |
2011-03-29 |
| 34. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
31.40 |
0.9855 |
0.1477 |
258 |
1 |
31.40 |
2011-03-16 |
| 35. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
31.23 |
1.0214 |
0.1145 |
281 |
1 |
31.23 |
2011-02-17 |
| 36. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
30.89 |
0.8077 |
0.2713 |
167 |
1 |
30.89 |
2011-03-21 |
| 37. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
30.86 |
0.7908 |
0.2954 |
127 |
2 |
28.00 |
2011-03-02 |
| 38. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
30.77 |
0.8700 |
0.2073 |
127 |
1 |
30.77 |
2011-02-01 |
| 39. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
30.67 |
0.8773 |
0.1999 |
205 |
1 |
30.67 |
2011-03-21 |
| 40. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
30.34 |
0.9646 |
0.0965 |
264 |
1 |
30.34 |
2011-03-29 |
| 41. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
30.31 |
0.8731 |
0.1945 |
199 |
1 |
30.31 |
2011-03-29 |
| 42. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
30.26 |
1.0016 |
0.0528 |
218 |
1 |
30.26 |
2011-02-01 |
| 43. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
30.25 |
0.9340 |
0.1240 |
296 |
2 |
28.00 |
2011-02-17 |
| 44. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
30.03 |
1.0521 |
-0.0064 |
171 |
2 |
27.96 |
2011-02-28 |
| 45. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.93 |
0.8190 |
0.2359 |
135 |
1 |
29.93 |
2011-02-23 |
| 46. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
29.86 |
0.9697 |
0.0752 |
249 |
1 |
29.86 |
2011-02-28 |
| 47. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
29.67 |
1.0004 |
0.0317 |
212 |
2 |
23.47 |
2011-02-09 |
| 48. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
29.63 |
0.7484 |
0.2855 |
185 |
1 |
29.63 |
2011-02-17 |
| 49. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
29.59 |
0.8919 |
0.1422 |
205 |
1 |
29.59 |
2011-02-15 |
| 50. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
29.57 |
0.9820 |
0.0524 |
274 |
2 |
24.56 |
2011-02-11 |
| 51. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
29.53 |
1.0943 |
-0.0285 |
206 |
1 |
29.53 |
2011-03-02 |
| 52. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
29.46 |
0.8809 |
0.1475 |
127 |
4 |
26.81 |
2011-03-09 |
| 53. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
29.31 |
1.0711 |
-0.0509 |
213 |
2 |
29.10 |
2011-02-18 |
| 54. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
29.30 |
0.8551 |
0.1709 |
171 |
1 |
29.30 |
2011-02-16 |
| 55. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
29.30 |
0.9098 |
0.1112 |
167 |
1 |
29.30 |
2011-02-28 |
| 56. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
29.23 |
1.0334 |
-0.0173 |
131 |
1 |
29.23 |
2011-02-16 |
| 57. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
29.20 |
0.8787 |
0.1474 |
202 |
1 |
29.20 |
2011-03-29 |
| 58. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
29.18 |
0.8916 |
0.1297 |
216 |
1 |
29.18 |
2011-03-29 |
| 59. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
29.08 |
0.9226 |
0.0985 |
177 |
1 |
29.08 |
2011-03-02 |
| 60. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
29.07 |
0.8941 |
0.1243 |
216 |
1 |
29.07 |
2011-02-18 |
| 61. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
29.03 |
1.0666 |
-0.0507 |
297 |
1 |
29.03 |
2011-02-09 |
| 62. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
28.98 |
1.0498 |
-0.0409 |
180 |
1 |
28.98 |
2011-03-07 |
| 63. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
28.94 |
0.9910 |
0.0235 |
295 |
1 |
28.94 |
2011-02-17 |
| 64. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
28.85 |
0.8910 |
0.1198 |
150 |
1 |
28.85 |
2011-03-21 |
| 65. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
28.81 |
0.8202 |
0.1843 |
178 |
1 |
28.81 |
2011-02-11 |
| 66. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
28.71 |
0.9871 |
0.0398 |
227 |
1 |
28.71 |
2011-03-24 |
| 67. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
28.64 |
0.8162 |
0.1909 |
149 |
1 |
28.64 |
2011-03-29 |
| 68. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
28.64 |
0.8422 |
0.1624 |
164 |
1 |
28.64 |
2011-02-01 |
| 69. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
28.60 |
0.8157 |
0.1845 |
121 |
1 |
28.60 |
2011-01-31 |
| 70. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
28.59 |
0.9164 |
0.0878 |
121 |
1 |
28.59 |
2011-02-01 |
| 71. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
28.39 |
1.0033 |
-0.0173 |
189 |
2 |
28.31 |
2011-02-28 |
| 72. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
28.33 |
0.8918 |
0.0974 |
100 |
1 |
28.33 |
2011-02-01 |
| 73. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
28.22 |
1.0487 |
-0.0669 |
231 |
1 |
28.22 |
2011-02-23 |
| 74. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
28.13 |
0.9965 |
-0.0122 |
277 |
2 |
27.43 |
2011-04-04 |
| 75. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
28.03 |
0.7352 |
0.2453 |
106 |
1 |
28.03 |
2011-03-16 |
| 76. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
27.94 |
0.8442 |
0.1367 |
265 |
1 |
27.94 |
2011-02-15 |
| 77. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
27.76 |
0.8691 |
0.0890 |
119 |
1 |
27.76 |
2011-02-17 |
| 78. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
27.74 |
0.8153 |
0.1591 |
200 |
2 |
25.11 |
2011-02-23 |
| 79. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
27.66 |
0.9710 |
-0.0104 |
173 |
2 |
23.16 |
2011-02-09 |
| 80. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
27.61 |
0.8559 |
0.1105 |
191 |
2 |
24.25 |
2011-03-16 |
| 81. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
27.57 |
0.7805 |
0.1787 |
154 |
2 |
26.47 |
2011-02-17 |
| 82. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
27.49 |
0.9168 |
0.0458 |
240 |
1 |
27.49 |
2011-02-15 |
| 83. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
27.40 |
0.9726 |
-0.0218 |
154 |
1 |
27.40 |
2011-01-31 |
| 84. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
26.99 |
0.9976 |
-0.0340 |
174 |
1 |
26.99 |
2011-02-11 |
| 85. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
26.99 |
0.8971 |
0.0512 |
266 |
1 |
26.99 |
2011-01-31 |
| 86. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
26.97 |
0.8661 |
0.0681 |
94 |
3 |
23.64 |
2010-05-26 |
| 87. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
26.92 |
0.8145 |
0.1287 |
115 |
1 |
26.92 |
2011-03-02 |
| 88. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
26.84 |
0.9125 |
0.0273 |
308 |
1 |
26.84 |
2011-03-09 |
| 89. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
26.46 |
1.0343 |
-0.0727 |
242 |
1 |
26.46 |
2011-02-23 |
| 90. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
26.38 |
1.0679 |
-0.1263 |
177 |
1 |
26.38 |
2010-05-26 |
| 91. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
26.07 |
0.8915 |
0.0176 |
188 |
1 |
26.07 |
2010-05-21 |
| 92. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
25.99 |
0.8341 |
0.0819 |
224 |
1 |
25.99 |
2011-03-29 |
| 93. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
25.90 |
0.9127 |
-0.0110 |
252 |
2 |
24.10 |
2011-02-17 |
| 94. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
25.85 |
0.9873 |
-0.0877 |
155 |
1 |
25.85 |
2010-05-11 |
| 95. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
25.76 |
0.9068 |
-0.0045 |
269 |
1 |
25.76 |
2011-03-21 |
| 96. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
25.69 |
0.8263 |
0.0687 |
162 |
1 |
25.69 |
2010-05-25 |
| 97. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
25.28 |
0.7988 |
0.0920 |
219 |
1 |
25.28 |
2011-02-01 |
| 98. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
24.90 |
1.0201 |
-0.1503 |
303 |
1 |
24.90 |
2011-02-01 |
| 99. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
24.89 |
0.7104 |
0.1612 |
131 |
2 |
22.67 |
2011-03-10 |
| 100. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
24.82 |
1.0211 |
-0.1242 |
213 |
1 |
24.82 |
2011-02-01 |
| 101. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
24.48 |
0.7375 |
0.1210 |
148 |
1 |
24.48 |
2011-03-21 |
| 102. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
24.43 |
0.8289 |
0.0305 |
304 |
1 |
24.43 |
2011-02-17 |
| 103. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
24.38 |
0.8519 |
0.0027 |
150 |
1 |
24.38 |
2011-02-11 |
| 104. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
24.35 |
0.9350 |
-0.0850 |
195 |
2 |
23.14 |
2010-05-19 |
| 105. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
24.25 |
0.8900 |
-0.0427 |
164 |
1 |
24.25 |
2010-05-26 |
| 106. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
24.09 |
0.8996 |
-0.0647 |
192 |
1 |
24.09 |
2011-03-24 |
| 107. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
24.08 |
0.8951 |
-0.0526 |
193 |
1 |
24.08 |
2011-02-17 |
| 108. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
23.89 |
0.8595 |
-0.0239 |
242 |
1 |
23.89 |
2011-02-23 |
| 109. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
23.88 |
0.8037 |
0.0324 |
148 |
1 |
23.88 |
2010-06-04 |
| 110. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
23.71 |
0.8544 |
-0.0254 |
170 |
2 |
20.86 |
2011-01-31 |
| 111. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
23.64 |
0.9941 |
-0.1719 |
217 |
1 |
23.64 |
2011-02-11 |
| 112. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
23.64 |
0.9196 |
-0.0937 |
148 |
2 |
22.11 |
2010-06-04 |
| 113. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
23.39 |
1.0132 |
-0.2063 |
143 |
1 |
23.39 |
2010-05-19 |
| 114. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
23.32 |
1.0528 |
-0.2443 |
201 |
1 |
23.32 |
2011-01-31 |
| 115. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
23.14 |
0.8323 |
-0.0259 |
145 |
1 |
23.14 |
2010-05-25 |
| 116. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
23.03 |
0.9028 |
-0.1021 |
111 |
1 |
23.03 |
2010-06-04 |
| 117. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
22.98 |
0.8867 |
-0.0786 |
163 |
2 |
21.42 |
2010-05-07 |
| 118. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
22.66 |
0.7877 |
0.0067 |
142 |
1 |
22.66 |
2011-03-07 |
| 119. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
22.41 |
0.8975 |
-0.1160 |
268 |
1 |
22.41 |
2010-05-11 |
| 120. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
21.74 |
1.0799 |
-0.3264 |
243 |
1 |
21.74 |
2010-05-17 |
| 121. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
21.66 |
0.9461 |
-0.1959 |
193 |
1 |
21.66 |
2011-02-28 |
| 122. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
21.17 |
0.9128 |
-0.1705 |
133 |
1 |
21.17 |
2010-05-17 |
| 123. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
20.40 |
0.8118 |
-0.0967 |
109 |
1 |
20.40 |
2010-04-26 |
| 124. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
20.33 |
0.8747 |
-0.1716 |
201 |
1 |
20.33 |
2010-04-21 |
| 125. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
19.95 |
0.9871 |
-0.2571 |
209 |
1 |
19.95 |
2011-01-31 |
| 126. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
19.47 |
0.8105 |
-0.1383 |
204 |
1 |
19.47 |
2010-05-21 |
| 127. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
18.88 |
0.8122 |
-0.1537 |
181 |
1 |
18.88 |
2010-04-21 |
| 128. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
17.37 |
1.0023 |
-0.4019 |
211 |
1 |
17.37 |
2010-05-11 |
| 129. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
16.73 |
0.9786 |
-0.4041 |
193 |
1 |
16.73 |
2010-04-26 |
| 130. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
16.67 |
0.8154 |
-0.2361 |
193 |
1 |
16.67 |
2010-05-14 |
| 131. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
16.15 |
0.9161 |
-0.3594 |
200 |
1 |
16.15 |
2010-04-19 |