| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
85.75 |
1.1323 |
0.1558 |
341 |
2 |
80.87 |
2011-08-15 |
| 2. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
82.36 |
1.0829 |
0.1227 |
288 |
1 |
82.36 |
2011-08-06 |
| 3. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
79.16 |
1.0516 |
0.1045 |
281 |
2 |
76.76 |
2011-08-27 |
| 4. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
78.57 |
1.0288 |
0.1517 |
300 |
1 |
78.57 |
2011-08-28 |
| 5. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
77.80 |
1.0498 |
0.0820 |
180 |
3 |
72.96 |
2011-08-27 |
| 6. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
77.40 |
1.1296 |
0.0303 |
252 |
1 |
77.40 |
2011-08-27 |
| 7. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
76.37 |
1.0534 |
0.0648 |
357 |
2 |
74.60 |
2011-08-27 |
| 8. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
76.31 |
1.0346 |
0.1220 |
244 |
1 |
76.31 |
2011-07-26 |
| 9. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
76.11 |
0.9886 |
0.1256 |
220 |
1 |
76.11 |
2011-08-15 |
| 10. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
76.07 |
1.0214 |
0.0883 |
269 |
2 |
72.73 |
2011-08-27 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
75.87 |
1.0613 |
0.0525 |
456 |
1 |
75.87 |
2011-08-14 |
| 12. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
75.69 |
1.0270 |
0.1145 |
255 |
2 |
72.26 |
2011-08-15 |
| 13. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
75.55 |
1.0109 |
0.1255 |
400 |
1 |
75.55 |
2011-07-29 |
| 14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
75.42 |
1.0252 |
0.0698 |
176 |
1 |
75.42 |
2011-08-14 |
| 15. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
75.12 |
1.1014 |
0.0334 |
273 |
1 |
75.12 |
2011-08-11 |
| 16. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
74.69 |
0.9711 |
0.1183 |
176 |
1 |
74.69 |
2011-08-05 |
| 17. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
74.62 |
1.0714 |
0.0092 |
129 |
2 |
72.85 |
2011-08-15 |
| 18. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
74.09 |
1.0462 |
0.0298 |
184 |
1 |
74.09 |
2011-09-29 |
| 19. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
73.47 |
0.9632 |
0.1160 |
392 |
1 |
73.47 |
2011-08-27 |
| 20. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
73.18 |
0.9567 |
0.1120 |
273 |
1 |
73.18 |
2011-07-29 |
| 21. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
72.96 |
1.0740 |
0.0295 |
264 |
1 |
72.96 |
2011-08-14 |
| 22. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
72.75 |
1.0666 |
-0.0042 |
297 |
2 |
72.20 |
2011-08-27 |
| 23. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
72.70 |
1.0917 |
-0.0070 |
243 |
1 |
72.70 |
2011-08-15 |
| 24. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
72.68 |
0.9871 |
0.1101 |
209 |
1 |
72.68 |
2011-08-11 |
| 25. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
72.60 |
0.9072 |
0.1507 |
237 |
2 |
71.89 |
2011-08-14 |
| 26. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
72.57 |
1.0083 |
0.0956 |
273 |
2 |
67.01 |
2011-08-14 |
| 27. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
72.46 |
1.0389 |
0.0208 |
318 |
1 |
72.46 |
2011-07-26 |
| 28. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
72.38 |
1.0088 |
0.0866 |
396 |
1 |
72.38 |
2011-07-28 |
| 29. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
72.30 |
1.0151 |
0.0312 |
152 |
1 |
72.30 |
2011-08-10 |
| 30. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
72.16 |
1.0788 |
-0.0311 |
171 |
1 |
72.16 |
2011-07-28 |
| 31. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
72.04 |
0.8852 |
0.1689 |
201 |
3 |
70.20 |
2011-08-28 |
| 32. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
71.76 |
1.0419 |
0.0053 |
261 |
1 |
71.76 |
2011-07-28 |
| 33. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
71.66 |
0.9430 |
0.1053 |
297 |
1 |
71.66 |
2011-08-05 |
| 34. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
71.61 |
1.0131 |
0.0283 |
225 |
3 |
68.81 |
2011-08-28 |
| 35. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
71.52 |
1.0545 |
0.0303 |
416 |
1 |
71.52 |
2011-08-28 |
| 36. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
71.19 |
0.9942 |
0.0536 |
483 |
1 |
71.19 |
2011-07-28 |
| 37. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
71.18 |
0.9653 |
0.0821 |
394 |
1 |
71.18 |
2011-07-28 |
| 38. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
71.12 |
1.0292 |
0.0073 |
262 |
1 |
71.12 |
2011-07-28 |
| 39. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
71.05 |
1.0613 |
-0.0234 |
266 |
1 |
71.05 |
2011-08-04 |
| 40. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
71.05 |
1.0885 |
-0.0482 |
315 |
2 |
70.68 |
2011-08-28 |
| 41. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
71.04 |
0.9776 |
0.0596 |
308 |
2 |
69.71 |
2011-07-28 |
| 42. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
70.98 |
0.9831 |
0.0607 |
469 |
1 |
70.98 |
2011-08-28 |
| 43. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
70.98 |
1.0232 |
0.0586 |
350 |
1 |
70.98 |
2011-08-27 |
| 44. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
70.87 |
0.9943 |
0.0431 |
373 |
1 |
70.87 |
2011-08-05 |
| 45. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
70.85 |
1.0426 |
-0.0092 |
323 |
1 |
70.85 |
2011-07-29 |
| 46. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
70.79 |
0.9682 |
0.0635 |
143 |
2 |
61.73 |
2011-08-14 |
| 47. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
70.79 |
0.9936 |
0.0394 |
311 |
2 |
69.33 |
2011-07-28 |
| 48. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
70.67 |
0.9593 |
0.0768 |
398 |
2 |
67.45 |
2011-08-14 |
| 49. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
70.52 |
1.0555 |
-0.0248 |
363 |
2 |
69.64 |
2011-08-14 |
| 50. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
70.26 |
1.0595 |
-0.0316 |
379 |
2 |
69.14 |
2011-08-10 |
| 51. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
70.21 |
0.9673 |
0.0964 |
232 |
1 |
70.21 |
2011-08-11 |
| 52. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
70.06 |
1.0521 |
-0.0349 |
171 |
1 |
70.06 |
2011-08-15 |
| 53. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
70.02 |
1.0619 |
-0.0363 |
354 |
1 |
70.02 |
2011-07-26 |
| 54. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
69.81 |
0.9863 |
0.0367 |
339 |
1 |
69.81 |
2011-07-28 |
| 55. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
69.15 |
1.0257 |
-0.0103 |
401 |
1 |
69.15 |
2011-07-26 |
| 56. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
69.10 |
1.0482 |
-0.0160 |
487 |
1 |
69.10 |
2011-08-27 |
| 57. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
69.04 |
1.0515 |
-0.0463 |
250 |
1 |
69.04 |
2011-07-29 |
| 58. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
68.81 |
1.0669 |
-0.0308 |
286 |
1 |
68.81 |
2011-07-28 |
| 59. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
68.81 |
0.9084 |
0.0972 |
300 |
1 |
68.81 |
2011-08-27 |
| 60. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
68.57 |
0.9286 |
0.0707 |
194 |
1 |
68.57 |
2011-07-26 |
| 61. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
68.45 |
0.9675 |
0.0404 |
383 |
1 |
68.45 |
2011-07-28 |
| 62. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
68.33 |
1.0154 |
0.0311 |
351 |
1 |
68.33 |
2011-08-11 |
| 63. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
67.86 |
1.0095 |
-0.0211 |
316 |
1 |
67.86 |
2011-08-10 |
| 64. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
67.74 |
0.9148 |
0.0748 |
317 |
3 |
65.76 |
2011-08-14 |
| 65. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
67.52 |
0.9668 |
0.0606 |
383 |
1 |
67.52 |
2011-07-28 |
| 66. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
67.46 |
0.9754 |
0.0145 |
362 |
1 |
67.46 |
2011-07-22 |
| 67. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
67.42 |
0.9527 |
0.0309 |
251 |
1 |
67.42 |
2011-07-28 |
| 68. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
67.33 |
1.0375 |
-0.0096 |
200 |
1 |
67.33 |
2011-07-28 |
| 69. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
67.20 |
1.0403 |
-0.0456 |
193 |
1 |
67.20 |
2011-07-28 |
| 70. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
67.12 |
0.9907 |
-0.0132 |
211 |
1 |
67.12 |
2011-07-26 |
| 71. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
67.03 |
0.9471 |
0.0407 |
312 |
1 |
67.03 |
2011-08-27 |
| 72. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
66.91 |
0.9504 |
0.0198 |
263 |
1 |
66.91 |
2011-07-27 |
| 73. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
66.86 |
1.0213 |
-0.0493 |
240 |
1 |
66.86 |
2011-08-27 |
| 74. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
66.77 |
0.9941 |
-0.0227 |
217 |
1 |
66.77 |
2011-08-14 |
| 75. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
66.72 |
0.9855 |
0.0211 |
258 |
1 |
66.72 |
2011-08-28 |
| 76. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
66.69 |
0.8996 |
0.0674 |
192 |
1 |
66.69 |
2011-08-27 |
| 77. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
66.50 |
1.0033 |
-0.0403 |
189 |
1 |
66.50 |
2011-08-14 |
| 78. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
66.30 |
1.0189 |
-0.0491 |
337 |
1 |
66.30 |
2011-07-26 |
| 79. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
66.27 |
1.0352 |
-0.0663 |
341 |
1 |
66.27 |
2011-07-21 |
| 80. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
66.21 |
0.9964 |
-0.0310 |
203 |
1 |
66.21 |
2011-07-28 |
| 81. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
65.81 |
0.9851 |
-0.0230 |
317 |
1 |
65.81 |
2011-08-14 |
| 82. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
65.68 |
0.9461 |
0.0074 |
193 |
1 |
65.68 |
2011-08-28 |
| 83. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
65.62 |
1.0768 |
-0.0804 |
295 |
1 |
65.62 |
2011-08-06 |
| 84. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
65.60 |
1.0669 |
-0.0774 |
213 |
1 |
65.60 |
2011-08-05 |
| 85. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
65.58 |
0.9353 |
0.0163 |
177 |
1 |
65.58 |
2011-08-15 |
| 86. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
65.39 |
1.0117 |
-0.0136 |
297 |
1 |
65.39 |
2011-08-14 |
| 87. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
65.33 |
0.9289 |
0.0212 |
204 |
1 |
65.33 |
2011-07-29 |
| 88. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
65.28 |
1.0711 |
-0.1246 |
213 |
1 |
65.28 |
2011-08-15 |
| 89. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
65.27 |
0.9485 |
0.0056 |
291 |
2 |
62.36 |
2011-08-27 |
| 90. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
65.19 |
0.8826 |
0.0694 |
296 |
1 |
65.19 |
2011-07-26 |
| 91. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
64.98 |
0.9266 |
0.0205 |
267 |
1 |
64.98 |
2011-08-10 |
| 92. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
64.64 |
1.0444 |
-0.1087 |
197 |
1 |
64.64 |
2011-08-27 |
| 93. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
64.55 |
0.9698 |
0.0040 |
397 |
1 |
64.55 |
2011-08-05 |
| 94. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
64.39 |
0.9649 |
-0.0272 |
193 |
1 |
64.39 |
2011-08-14 |
| 95. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
64.36 |
0.9570 |
-0.0171 |
287 |
1 |
64.36 |
2011-08-27 |
| 96. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
64.32 |
0.9965 |
-0.0586 |
310 |
1 |
64.32 |
2011-07-29 |
| 97. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
63.73 |
0.9843 |
-0.0605 |
234 |
1 |
63.73 |
2011-07-28 |
| 98. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
63.59 |
0.9908 |
-0.0180 |
342 |
1 |
63.59 |
2011-08-11 |
| 99. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
63.43 |
0.9790 |
-0.0139 |
311 |
1 |
63.43 |
2011-07-28 |
| 100. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
63.43 |
1.0177 |
-0.0551 |
392 |
2 |
62.21 |
2011-07-28 |
| 101. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
63.25 |
1.0943 |
-0.1399 |
206 |
1 |
63.25 |
2011-08-11 |
| 102. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
62.87 |
0.9176 |
0.0322 |
267 |
1 |
62.87 |
2011-08-06 |
| 103. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
62.33 |
0.8956 |
0.0172 |
322 |
2 |
61.04 |
2011-08-27 |
| 104. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
62.14 |
0.7805 |
0.1203 |
154 |
1 |
62.14 |
2011-08-15 |
| 105. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
61.93 |
1.0124 |
-0.1127 |
204 |
1 |
61.93 |
2011-07-28 |
| 106. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
61.68 |
0.9087 |
0.0008 |
393 |
1 |
61.68 |
2011-08-05 |
| 107. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
61.59 |
0.9064 |
0.0002 |
399 |
1 |
61.59 |
2011-08-14 |
| 108. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
61.56 |
0.9811 |
-0.0816 |
272 |
1 |
61.56 |
2011-07-28 |
| 109. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
60.80 |
0.9678 |
-0.0472 |
445 |
1 |
60.80 |
2011-08-14 |
| 110. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
60.70 |
0.9994 |
-0.0846 |
269 |
1 |
60.70 |
2011-08-05 |
| 111. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
60.58 |
0.9912 |
-0.0821 |
237 |
1 |
60.58 |
2011-07-27 |
| 112. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
60.24 |
1.0417 |
-0.1672 |
253 |
1 |
60.24 |
2011-08-05 |
| 113. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
60.20 |
0.9910 |
-0.1122 |
295 |
1 |
60.20 |
2011-07-27 |
| 114. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
59.50 |
0.9233 |
-0.0652 |
168 |
2 |
59.05 |
2011-08-14 |
| 115. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
59.41 |
0.9726 |
-0.1144 |
154 |
1 |
59.41 |
2011-08-06 |
| 116. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
57.85 |
1.0662 |
-0.1863 |
407 |
1 |
57.85 |
2011-07-27 |
| 117. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
57.49 |
0.9936 |
-0.1369 |
227 |
1 |
57.49 |
2011-08-10 |
| 118. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
57.02 |
0.9899 |
-0.1652 |
163 |
1 |
57.02 |
2011-07-29 |
| 119. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
56.90 |
0.9109 |
-0.0800 |
401 |
1 |
56.90 |
2011-08-11 |
| 120. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
55.06 |
0.9278 |
-0.1245 |
295 |
1 |
55.06 |
2011-07-26 |
| 121. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
52.95 |
0.9546 |
-0.1540 |
198 |
1 |
52.95 |
2011-08-05 |
| 122. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
51.72 |
0.9699 |
-0.2195 |
269 |
1 |
51.72 |
2011-08-27 |
| 123. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
50.61 |
0.7352 |
0.0003 |
106 |
1 |
50.61 |
2011-07-21 |
| 124. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
47.24 |
1.0334 |
-0.3549 |
131 |
1 |
47.24 |
2011-08-15 |
| 125. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
37.97 |
0.9734 |
-0.4252 |
289 |
1 |
37.97 |
2011-08-11 |