| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
81.69 |
1.0365 |
0.2705 |
162 |
1 |
81.69 |
2009-12-13 |
| 2. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
80.07 |
1.0023 |
0.2471 |
211 |
2 |
71.67 |
2009-10-28 |
| 3. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
78.20 |
1.0352 |
0.1889 |
341 |
1 |
78.20 |
2009-10-24 |
| 4. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
77.21 |
1.0787 |
0.1261 |
237 |
2 |
72.61 |
2009-12-11 |
| 5. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
74.66 |
0.9780 |
0.1887 |
337 |
2 |
63.52 |
2009-12-05 |
| 6. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
74.25 |
0.9710 |
0.1820 |
173 |
1 |
74.25 |
2009-11-18 |
| 7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
74.22 |
1.0331 |
0.1237 |
234 |
2 |
62.38 |
2009-10-25 |
| 8. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
73.76 |
1.0534 |
0.1005 |
357 |
2 |
69.37 |
2009-12-11 |
| 9. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
73.16 |
1.0498 |
0.0875 |
180 |
2 |
70.42 |
2009-12-10 |
| 10. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
72.56 |
1.0388 |
0.1255 |
243 |
1 |
72.56 |
2009-12-05 |
| 11. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
71.91 |
0.9234 |
0.2044 |
346 |
2 |
65.92 |
2009-12-10 |
| 12. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
70.61 |
1.0099 |
0.0893 |
207 |
2 |
69.94 |
2009-10-26 |
| 13. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
70.11 |
1.0444 |
0.0431 |
197 |
3 |
60.04 |
2009-12-10 |
| 14. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
70.07 |
1.0197 |
0.0708 |
226 |
1 |
70.07 |
2009-12-10 |
| 15. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
70.05 |
0.9899 |
0.0985 |
163 |
2 |
63.19 |
2009-10-23 |
| 16. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
69.98 |
0.9239 |
0.1746 |
193 |
1 |
69.98 |
2009-11-18 |
| 17. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
69.73 |
0.9897 |
0.0961 |
274 |
1 |
69.73 |
2009-11-18 |
| 18. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
69.65 |
1.0666 |
0.0200 |
297 |
1 |
69.65 |
2009-11-02 |
| 19. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
69.34 |
0.9372 |
0.1486 |
320 |
1 |
69.34 |
2009-12-11 |
| 20. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
69.28 |
1.0316 |
0.0531 |
333 |
2 |
65.02 |
2009-10-22 |
| 21. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
68.92 |
1.0619 |
0.0168 |
354 |
1 |
68.92 |
2009-12-10 |
| 22. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
68.69 |
1.0944 |
0.0220 |
308 |
1 |
68.69 |
2009-12-06 |
| 23. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
68.68 |
1.0941 |
0.0087 |
256 |
2 |
64.51 |
2009-12-09 |
| 24. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
68.59 |
0.9157 |
0.1593 |
350 |
1 |
68.59 |
2009-12-11 |
| 25. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
68.48 |
0.8553 |
0.2079 |
174 |
1 |
68.48 |
2009-12-13 |
| 26. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
68.23 |
1.0379 |
0.0612 |
245 |
1 |
68.23 |
2009-11-01 |
| 27. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
68.11 |
0.9631 |
0.1505 |
345 |
1 |
68.11 |
2009-12-06 |
| 28. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
67.86 |
1.0669 |
0.0240 |
286 |
3 |
62.30 |
2009-12-04 |
| 29. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
67.76 |
0.9636 |
0.0931 |
254 |
1 |
67.76 |
2009-11-02 |
| 30. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
67.73 |
0.8958 |
0.1652 |
322 |
1 |
67.73 |
2009-12-11 |
| 31. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
67.27 |
1.0463 |
-0.0016 |
182 |
1 |
67.27 |
2009-12-05 |
| 32. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
67.08 |
1.0263 |
0.0194 |
267 |
1 |
67.08 |
2009-10-23 |
| 33. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
67.06 |
1.0441 |
0.0431 |
316 |
1 |
67.06 |
2009-12-10 |
| 34. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
66.41 |
0.9411 |
0.0955 |
318 |
1 |
66.41 |
2009-11-14 |
| 35. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
66.37 |
0.9682 |
0.0649 |
143 |
2 |
62.34 |
2009-11-09 |
| 36. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
66.03 |
0.8595 |
0.1719 |
242 |
1 |
66.03 |
2009-12-06 |
| 37. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
65.91 |
0.9986 |
0.0295 |
283 |
1 |
65.91 |
2009-12-10 |
| 38. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
65.65 |
0.9776 |
0.0462 |
308 |
1 |
65.65 |
2009-12-10 |
| 39. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
65.14 |
0.9798 |
0.0298 |
199 |
1 |
65.14 |
2009-11-29 |
| 40. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
64.84 |
1.0218 |
-0.0139 |
268 |
1 |
64.84 |
2009-10-25 |
| 41. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
64.83 |
1.0577 |
-0.0506 |
247 |
1 |
64.83 |
2009-12-04 |
| 42. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
64.75 |
1.0529 |
-0.0435 |
351 |
1 |
64.75 |
2009-12-06 |
| 43. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
64.57 |
1.0232 |
0.0292 |
350 |
1 |
64.57 |
2009-12-11 |
| 44. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
64.57 |
0.9946 |
0.0117 |
246 |
2 |
61.02 |
2009-11-14 |
| 45. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
64.18 |
0.9851 |
0.0174 |
317 |
1 |
64.18 |
2009-10-08 |
| 46. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
63.88 |
1.0390 |
-0.0470 |
205 |
1 |
63.88 |
2009-11-01 |
| 47. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
63.83 |
1.0346 |
0.0023 |
244 |
1 |
63.83 |
2009-11-14 |
| 48. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
63.74 |
1.0521 |
-0.0635 |
171 |
1 |
63.74 |
2009-10-18 |
| 49. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
63.56 |
1.0201 |
-0.0361 |
172 |
1 |
63.56 |
2009-10-07 |
| 50. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
63.47 |
1.0252 |
-0.0424 |
176 |
1 |
63.47 |
2009-10-28 |
| 51. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
63.30 |
1.0201 |
-0.0295 |
375 |
1 |
63.30 |
2009-12-10 |
| 52. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
63.13 |
1.0696 |
-0.0893 |
226 |
1 |
63.13 |
2009-11-09 |
| 53. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
63.12 |
0.9212 |
0.0655 |
323 |
1 |
63.12 |
2009-11-09 |
| 54. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
62.95 |
1.0034 |
-0.0237 |
302 |
1 |
62.95 |
2009-12-10 |
| 55. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
62.66 |
0.9731 |
-0.0089 |
129 |
1 |
62.66 |
2009-12-10 |
| 56. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
62.62 |
1.0013 |
-0.0263 |
273 |
1 |
62.62 |
2009-12-02 |
| 57. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
62.53 |
0.9965 |
-0.0217 |
277 |
1 |
62.53 |
2009-12-04 |
| 58. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
62.51 |
0.9281 |
0.0511 |
273 |
1 |
62.51 |
2009-11-09 |
| 59. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
62.41 |
1.0399 |
-0.0624 |
294 |
1 |
62.41 |
2011-01-07 |
| 60. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
62.36 |
1.0799 |
-0.1118 |
243 |
1 |
62.36 |
2009-12-10 |
| 61. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
62.32 |
1.0361 |
-0.0642 |
269 |
1 |
62.32 |
2009-10-28 |
| 62. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
62.26 |
0.9045 |
0.0658 |
235 |
1 |
62.26 |
2009-12-06 |
| 63. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
62.22 |
1.0668 |
-0.0950 |
350 |
1 |
62.22 |
2009-11-09 |
| 64. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
61.92 |
1.0254 |
-0.0197 |
217 |
1 |
61.92 |
2009-10-07 |
| 65. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
61.62 |
0.9266 |
0.0336 |
267 |
2 |
60.12 |
2009-12-09 |
| 66. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
61.62 |
0.9513 |
0.0125 |
354 |
1 |
61.62 |
2009-10-18 |
| 67. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
61.30 |
0.9871 |
0.0040 |
209 |
2 |
54.94 |
2009-10-23 |
| 68. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
61.28 |
0.9601 |
-0.0008 |
308 |
1 |
61.28 |
2009-12-09 |
| 69. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
60.83 |
0.9557 |
-0.0020 |
331 |
1 |
60.83 |
2009-12-10 |
| 70. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
60.72 |
1.0251 |
-0.0816 |
261 |
1 |
60.72 |
2009-10-28 |
| 71. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
60.70 |
0.9213 |
0.0245 |
295 |
1 |
60.70 |
2009-10-07 |
| 72. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
60.63 |
0.9275 |
0.0137 |
211 |
1 |
60.63 |
2009-11-28 |
| 73. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
60.25 |
1.0907 |
-0.1496 |
303 |
1 |
60.25 |
2009-10-07 |
| 74. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
60.07 |
0.8845 |
0.0516 |
273 |
2 |
58.70 |
2009-10-25 |
| 75. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
59.81 |
0.9233 |
0.0001 |
168 |
1 |
59.81 |
2009-12-04 |
| 76. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
59.51 |
0.9125 |
0.0158 |
308 |
1 |
59.51 |
2009-10-26 |
| 77. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
59.16 |
1.0264 |
-0.0654 |
422 |
1 |
59.16 |
2010-01-05 |
| 78. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
58.23 |
0.9084 |
0.0021 |
404 |
1 |
58.23 |
2009-11-09 |
| 79. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
58.17 |
0.9852 |
-0.0795 |
264 |
1 |
58.17 |
2009-10-28 |
| 80. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
58.12 |
1.0885 |
-0.1806 |
315 |
1 |
58.12 |
2009-10-28 |
| 81. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
57.76 |
0.8852 |
0.0160 |
201 |
1 |
57.76 |
2009-12-05 |
| 82. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
57.71 |
1.1014 |
-0.1654 |
273 |
1 |
57.71 |
2009-10-28 |
| 83. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
57.58 |
0.9072 |
-0.0127 |
237 |
1 |
57.58 |
2009-11-14 |
| 84. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
57.44 |
0.9833 |
-0.0876 |
355 |
1 |
57.44 |
2009-10-08 |
| 85. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
56.97 |
0.9509 |
-0.0259 |
225 |
1 |
56.97 |
2009-12-10 |
| 86. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
56.86 |
0.9330 |
-0.0417 |
360 |
1 |
56.86 |
2009-10-24 |
| 87. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
56.67 |
0.9278 |
-0.0433 |
295 |
1 |
56.67 |
2009-11-09 |
| 88. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
56.66 |
1.0154 |
-0.0839 |
351 |
1 |
56.66 |
2011-01-07 |
| 89. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
56.54 |
0.9785 |
-0.0955 |
335 |
1 |
56.54 |
2009-10-23 |
| 90. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
55.49 |
0.9212 |
-0.0538 |
231 |
1 |
55.49 |
2009-10-07 |
| 91. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
55.47 |
0.9965 |
-0.1384 |
168 |
1 |
55.47 |
2009-10-09 |
| 92. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
55.08 |
0.8947 |
-0.0333 |
366 |
1 |
55.08 |
2009-12-11 |
| 93. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
54.85 |
0.9811 |
-0.1252 |
272 |
1 |
54.85 |
2009-10-23 |
| 94. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
54.84 |
1.0165 |
-0.1598 |
392 |
1 |
54.84 |
2009-10-22 |
| 95. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
54.82 |
0.9843 |
-0.1367 |
234 |
2 |
54.20 |
2009-10-26 |
| 96. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
54.56 |
1.0124 |
-0.1662 |
204 |
1 |
54.56 |
2009-10-24 |
| 97. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
54.22 |
0.8670 |
-0.0186 |
318 |
2 |
53.61 |
2009-12-09 |
| 98. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
52.57 |
0.9684 |
-0.1485 |
388 |
1 |
52.57 |
2009-10-07 |
| 99. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
52.32 |
0.9464 |
-0.1281 |
323 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-10-28 |
| 100. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
51.99 |
0.9991 |
-0.1905 |
225 |
1 |
51.99 |
2009-12-08 |
| 101. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
51.99 |
0.8916 |
-0.0835 |
216 |
2 |
51.26 |
2011-01-07 |
| 102. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
51.23 |
1.0334 |
-0.2438 |
131 |
1 |
51.23 |
2009-12-17 |
| 103. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
50.97 |
0.9786 |
-0.1922 |
193 |
1 |
50.97 |
2009-10-09 |
| 104. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
38.35 |
1.0385 |
-0.4475 |
230 |
1 |
38.35 |
2009-10-07 |