| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
92.70 |
1.0565 |
0.6583 |
247 |
1 |
92.70 |
2012-08-28 |
| 2. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
87.03 |
1.0941 |
0.5490 |
256 |
1 |
87.03 |
2012-08-28 |
| 3. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
84.36 |
1.0943 |
0.5003 |
206 |
2 |
80.50 |
2013-10-23 |
| 4. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
81.96 |
1.0132 |
0.4955 |
143 |
1 |
81.96 |
2013-06-09 |
| 5. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
81.59 |
1.0577 |
0.4490 |
247 |
1 |
81.59 |
2013-06-09 |
| 6. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
78.82 |
0.9074 |
0.5577 |
396 |
1 |
78.82 |
2013-10-23 |
| 7. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
78.30 |
0.9871 |
0.4978 |
209 |
1 |
78.30 |
2012-02-11 |
| 8. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
78.14 |
0.9976 |
0.4682 |
174 |
2 |
69.42 |
2012-08-28 |
| 9. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
76.93 |
1.0767 |
0.3445 |
212 |
1 |
76.93 |
2012-08-28 |
| 10. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
76.11 |
0.9772 |
0.4273 |
217 |
2 |
53.06 |
2012-08-28 |
| 11. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
74.19 |
1.0496 |
0.3216 |
314 |
1 |
74.19 |
2012-08-28 |
| 12. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
73.83 |
0.9852 |
0.3803 |
264 |
1 |
73.83 |
2012-08-28 |
| 13. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
73.57 |
1.0533 |
0.3339 |
257 |
1 |
73.57 |
2012-08-28 |
| 14. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
73.45 |
1.0213 |
0.3337 |
240 |
1 |
73.45 |
2012-08-28 |
| 15. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
71.81 |
1.0109 |
0.3176 |
276 |
1 |
71.81 |
2012-08-28 |
| 16. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
70.88 |
1.0124 |
0.2955 |
204 |
1 |
70.88 |
2012-02-24 |
| 17. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
70.08 |
1.0034 |
0.2906 |
302 |
1 |
70.08 |
2012-08-28 |
| 18. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
69.87 |
1.0426 |
0.2482 |
323 |
2 |
57.20 |
2011-04-13 |
| 19. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
69.82 |
0.9578 |
0.3323 |
281 |
1 |
69.82 |
2012-08-28 |
| 20. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
69.74 |
1.0352 |
0.2562 |
341 |
1 |
69.74 |
2012-02-17 |
| 21. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
69.34 |
1.0444 |
0.2306 |
197 |
1 |
69.34 |
2011-04-13 |
| 22. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
69.34 |
1.0399 |
0.2467 |
294 |
1 |
69.34 |
2012-02-11 |
| 23. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
69.17 |
1.0797 |
0.1931 |
210 |
1 |
69.17 |
2012-08-28 |
| 24. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
68.63 |
1.0125 |
0.2935 |
413 |
1 |
68.63 |
2012-08-28 |
| 25. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
68.41 |
0.9898 |
0.3119 |
353 |
1 |
68.41 |
2012-08-28 |
| 26. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
68.34 |
1.0555 |
0.2371 |
323 |
1 |
68.34 |
2012-08-28 |
| 27. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
68.17 |
0.9500 |
0.3121 |
362 |
1 |
68.17 |
2012-02-11 |
| 28. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
67.84 |
0.9351 |
0.3129 |
190 |
1 |
67.84 |
2012-08-28 |
| 29. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
67.55 |
1.0498 |
0.1935 |
180 |
1 |
67.55 |
2012-08-28 |
| 30. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
67.45 |
0.9508 |
0.3284 |
384 |
1 |
67.45 |
2012-02-17 |
| 31. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
67.42 |
0.9157 |
0.3350 |
350 |
1 |
67.42 |
2012-02-11 |
| 32. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
67.40 |
0.8787 |
0.3715 |
202 |
2 |
51.26 |
2012-08-28 |
| 33. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
67.15 |
0.9430 |
0.3007 |
297 |
1 |
67.15 |
2011-05-29 |
| 34. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
67.11 |
1.0567 |
0.1839 |
303 |
1 |
67.11 |
2012-08-28 |
| 35. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
67.09 |
1.1081 |
0.1661 |
206 |
1 |
67.09 |
2012-02-24 |
| 36. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
66.99 |
0.9646 |
0.2722 |
264 |
3 |
57.56 |
2012-08-28 |
| 37. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
66.85 |
1.0531 |
0.2200 |
272 |
1 |
66.85 |
2011-05-29 |
| 38. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
66.54 |
1.0486 |
0.1815 |
289 |
1 |
66.54 |
2011-04-13 |
| 39. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
66.47 |
1.0403 |
0.2027 |
193 |
1 |
66.47 |
2012-08-28 |
| 40. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
65.85 |
0.9567 |
0.3021 |
184 |
1 |
65.85 |
2012-08-28 |
| 41. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
65.57 |
0.9532 |
0.2568 |
258 |
1 |
65.57 |
2011-04-13 |
| 42. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
65.45 |
1.0917 |
0.1408 |
243 |
1 |
65.45 |
2012-08-28 |
| 43. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
65.40 |
0.9709 |
0.2780 |
397 |
1 |
65.40 |
2012-08-28 |
| 44. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
65.01 |
1.0340 |
0.1717 |
406 |
1 |
65.01 |
2011-04-13 |
| 45. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
63.97 |
0.9359 |
0.2847 |
353 |
1 |
63.97 |
2012-08-28 |
| 46. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
63.49 |
0.9884 |
0.1831 |
233 |
2 |
62.56 |
2012-08-28 |
| 47. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
63.39 |
0.9899 |
0.1759 |
163 |
1 |
63.39 |
2011-05-29 |
| 48. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.09 |
0.9740 |
0.1869 |
209 |
1 |
63.09 |
2011-04-13 |
| 49. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
63.05 |
0.9461 |
0.2181 |
276 |
1 |
63.05 |
2012-02-17 |
| 50. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
62.94 |
0.9663 |
0.2014 |
330 |
1 |
62.94 |
2012-08-28 |
| 51. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
62.94 |
0.9540 |
0.2062 |
285 |
2 |
57.93 |
2013-06-09 |
| 52. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
61.12 |
0.9893 |
0.1390 |
323 |
1 |
61.12 |
2011-04-13 |
| 53. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
60.78 |
0.9426 |
0.1824 |
317 |
1 |
60.78 |
2012-02-24 |
| 54. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
60.73 |
1.0165 |
0.1081 |
392 |
1 |
60.73 |
2011-05-30 |
| 55. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
60.48 |
1.0412 |
0.0744 |
225 |
1 |
60.48 |
2011-04-13 |
| 56. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
60.17 |
1.0169 |
0.1320 |
346 |
1 |
60.17 |
2012-08-28 |
| 57. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
59.58 |
0.9279 |
0.1777 |
317 |
1 |
59.58 |
2011-04-13 |
| 58. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
59.47 |
1.0261 |
0.1107 |
410 |
1 |
59.47 |
2011-05-30 |
| 59. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
59.10 |
1.0515 |
0.0371 |
250 |
1 |
59.10 |
2011-04-13 |
| 60. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
58.93 |
0.9064 |
0.1898 |
399 |
1 |
58.93 |
2012-08-28 |
| 61. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
58.36 |
0.9640 |
0.1417 |
334 |
1 |
58.36 |
2012-08-28 |
| 62. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
58.03 |
0.9376 |
0.1682 |
360 |
1 |
58.03 |
2012-08-28 |
| 63. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
57.22 |
0.9286 |
0.1256 |
194 |
1 |
57.22 |
2011-05-29 |
| 64. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
56.94 |
0.9089 |
0.1451 |
342 |
2 |
44.14 |
2011-05-30 |
| 65. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
56.63 |
0.8775 |
0.1706 |
443 |
1 |
56.63 |
2012-02-17 |
| 66. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
56.36 |
1.0173 |
0.0662 |
268 |
2 |
44.31 |
2011-05-29 |
| 67. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
55.90 |
0.9088 |
0.1270 |
348 |
1 |
55.90 |
2011-04-13 |
| 68. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
55.16 |
1.0197 |
-0.0057 |
226 |
1 |
55.16 |
2011-05-30 |
| 69. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
55.13 |
0.9965 |
0.0202 |
310 |
1 |
55.13 |
2011-04-13 |
| 70. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
55.08 |
1.0183 |
-0.0084 |
191 |
1 |
55.08 |
2012-08-28 |
| 71. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
53.54 |
0.8852 |
0.1036 |
201 |
1 |
53.54 |
2012-08-28 |
| 72. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
53.52 |
0.9884 |
0.0023 |
262 |
1 |
53.52 |
2010-09-01 |
| 73. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
52.02 |
0.9711 |
-0.0138 |
176 |
2 |
45.16 |
2010-07-28 |
| 74. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
51.93 |
0.9127 |
0.0417 |
252 |
2 |
51.80 |
2012-02-17 |
| 75. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
51.69 |
0.9699 |
-0.0184 |
269 |
1 |
51.69 |
2011-05-29 |
| 76. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
51.50 |
1.0168 |
-0.0670 |
271 |
1 |
51.50 |
2011-05-30 |
| 77. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
50.74 |
1.1018 |
-0.1737 |
220 |
1 |
50.74 |
2010-07-28 |
| 78. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
50.54 |
1.0944 |
-0.1190 |
308 |
1 |
50.54 |
2010-09-01 |
| 79. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
49.83 |
0.7876 |
0.1323 |
316 |
1 |
49.83 |
2012-08-28 |
| 80. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
48.55 |
1.0211 |
-0.0970 |
213 |
1 |
48.55 |
2010-09-01 |
| 81. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
47.33 |
0.9213 |
-0.0502 |
295 |
1 |
47.33 |
2011-05-30 |
| 82. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
46.25 |
0.8666 |
-0.0131 |
150 |
1 |
46.25 |
2010-08-01 |
| 83. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
43.61 |
0.8348 |
-0.0272 |
219 |
1 |
43.61 |
2010-08-01 |
| 84. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
43.59 |
0.9570 |
-0.1546 |
287 |
1 |
43.59 |
2011-04-02 |
| 85. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
43.47 |
0.9068 |
-0.1048 |
269 |
1 |
43.47 |
2010-09-01 |
| 86. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
42.31 |
0.9678 |
-0.1560 |
445 |
1 |
42.31 |
2013-06-09 |
| 87. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
42.11 |
0.9504 |
-0.1822 |
263 |
1 |
42.11 |
2010-06-27 |
| 88. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
41.70 |
1.0398 |
-0.2847 |
110 |
1 |
41.70 |
2010-09-01 |
| 89. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
40.54 |
0.9897 |
-0.2480 |
274 |
1 |
40.54 |
2010-09-01 |
| 90. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
40.30 |
1.0907 |
-0.3485 |
303 |
1 |
40.30 |
2010-06-19 |
| 91. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
38.53 |
0.9684 |
-0.2592 |
388 |
1 |
38.53 |
2010-06-27 |
| 92. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
38.47 |
1.0417 |
-0.3389 |
253 |
1 |
38.47 |
2010-06-27 |
| 93. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
38.18 |
1.0131 |
-0.3170 |
225 |
1 |
38.18 |
2010-06-27 |
| 94. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
36.76 |
1.0441 |
-0.3691 |
252 |
2 |
34.67 |
2010-06-27 |
| 95. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
36.28 |
1.0252 |
-0.3672 |
176 |
1 |
36.28 |
2010-06-19 |
| 96. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
36.02 |
1.0483 |
-0.3915 |
227 |
1 |
36.02 |
2010-06-19 |
| 97. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
36.01 |
0.8915 |
-0.2326 |
188 |
2 |
35.21 |
2010-06-27 |
| 98. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
35.35 |
0.9805 |
-0.3290 |
292 |
1 |
35.35 |
2010-06-19 |
| 99. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
35.09 |
1.0385 |
-0.3979 |
230 |
1 |
35.09 |
2010-06-27 |
| 100. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.53 |
1.0138 |
-0.3824 |
231 |
1 |
34.53 |
2010-06-27 |
| 101. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
34.34 |
0.9266 |
-0.2982 |
267 |
1 |
34.34 |
2010-06-27 |
| 102. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
34.08 |
0.9567 |
-0.3335 |
273 |
1 |
34.08 |
2010-07-28 |
| 103. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
34.02 |
0.8157 |
-0.1939 |
121 |
2 |
32.03 |
2010-06-19 |
| 104. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
33.62 |
0.9966 |
-0.3822 |
259 |
1 |
33.62 |
2010-06-27 |
| 105. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
33.40 |
1.0023 |
-0.3935 |
211 |
2 |
31.07 |
2010-06-19 |
| 106. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
33.17 |
1.0261 |
-0.4215 |
273 |
1 |
33.17 |
2010-06-27 |
| 107. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
32.90 |
0.9904 |
-0.3485 |
203 |
1 |
32.90 |
2010-06-19 |
| 108. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
32.88 |
1.0240 |
-0.4255 |
256 |
2 |
32.05 |
2010-06-27 |
| 109. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
32.52 |
1.0829 |
-0.4872 |
288 |
1 |
32.52 |
2010-06-19 |
| 110. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
32.48 |
0.9068 |
-0.3147 |
225 |
1 |
32.48 |
2010-06-19 |
| 111. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
32.45 |
1.0788 |
-0.4914 |
171 |
1 |
32.45 |
2010-06-19 |
| 112. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
32.30 |
1.0487 |
-0.4636 |
231 |
1 |
32.30 |
2010-06-19 |
| 113. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
31.77 |
0.8323 |
-0.2515 |
203 |
1 |
31.77 |
2010-06-19 |
| 114. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
31.73 |
0.9786 |
-0.4045 |
193 |
1 |
31.73 |
2010-06-27 |
| 115. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
31.51 |
0.8275 |
-0.2522 |
142 |
1 |
31.51 |
2010-06-19 |
| 116. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
31.19 |
0.9798 |
-0.4163 |
199 |
1 |
31.19 |
2010-06-27 |
| 117. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
31.07 |
0.9485 |
-0.3795 |
236 |
1 |
31.07 |
2010-06-27 |
| 118. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
30.76 |
0.8709 |
-0.3014 |
202 |
1 |
30.76 |
2010-06-19 |
| 119. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
30.38 |
1.0679 |
-0.4932 |
177 |
1 |
30.38 |
2010-06-27 |
| 120. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
29.86 |
0.8867 |
-0.3364 |
241 |
1 |
29.86 |
2010-06-27 |
| 121. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
29.63 |
0.9303 |
-0.3961 |
176 |
1 |
29.63 |
2010-06-19 |
| 122. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
29.30 |
1.0390 |
-0.5085 |
205 |
1 |
29.30 |
2010-06-19 |
| 123. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
28.54 |
0.8553 |
-0.3404 |
174 |
1 |
28.54 |
2010-06-27 |
| 124. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
28.44 |
0.8077 |
-0.2910 |
167 |
1 |
28.44 |
2010-06-28 |
| 125. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
28.22 |
0.9936 |
-0.4801 |
311 |
1 |
28.22 |
2010-06-19 |
| 126. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
25.71 |
0.8382 |
-0.3705 |
268 |
1 |
25.71 |
2010-06-19 |
| 127. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
22.36 |
0.8910 |
-0.4847 |
150 |
1 |
22.36 |
2010-06-19 |
| 128. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
12.70 |
0.9572 |
-0.7337 |
201 |
1 |
12.70 |
2010-03-24 |