| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
116.89 |
1.0515 |
0.2932 |
166 |
2 |
108.11 |
2014-04-24 |
| 2. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
104.51 |
1.1323 |
0.1097 |
341 |
1 |
104.51 |
2014-04-24 |
| 3. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
104.45 |
1.0669 |
0.1728 |
286 |
1 |
104.45 |
2012-11-01 |
| 4. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
103.69 |
1.0485 |
0.1844 |
153 |
3 |
95.92 |
2012-11-01 |
| 5. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
102.81 |
1.0907 |
0.0998 |
303 |
2 |
98.38 |
2014-04-24 |
| 6. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
102.07 |
1.0388 |
0.1726 |
243 |
1 |
102.07 |
2014-04-24 |
| 7. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
101.78 |
1.0214 |
0.1534 |
269 |
1 |
101.78 |
2012-10-31 |
| 8. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
100.21 |
1.0214 |
0.1789 |
281 |
1 |
100.21 |
2014-04-24 |
| 9. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
99.41 |
1.0454 |
0.1000 |
255 |
2 |
96.44 |
2012-10-31 |
| 10. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
98.79 |
1.1296 |
0.0407 |
252 |
1 |
98.79 |
2012-11-01 |
| 11. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
97.48 |
1.0515 |
0.0724 |
250 |
1 |
97.48 |
2012-10-31 |
| 12. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
97.19 |
1.0669 |
0.0887 |
213 |
1 |
97.19 |
2014-04-24 |
| 13. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
97.09 |
0.9353 |
0.1816 |
177 |
1 |
97.09 |
2012-10-31 |
| 14. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
96.87 |
0.9946 |
0.1242 |
246 |
1 |
96.87 |
2012-10-31 |
| 15. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
96.78 |
1.0387 |
0.1112 |
239 |
2 |
93.02 |
2012-10-31 |
| 16. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
96.54 |
1.0385 |
0.0747 |
230 |
1 |
96.54 |
2012-10-31 |
| 17. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
96.24 |
1.0173 |
0.1382 |
268 |
2 |
92.60 |
2012-10-31 |
| 18. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
93.97 |
1.0261 |
0.0985 |
410 |
1 |
93.97 |
2012-11-01 |
| 19. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
93.93 |
1.0972 |
0.0168 |
251 |
2 |
92.12 |
2012-10-31 |
| 20. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
93.84 |
0.9698 |
0.1465 |
397 |
1 |
93.84 |
2014-04-24 |
| 21. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
93.74 |
1.0167 |
0.0726 |
378 |
1 |
93.74 |
2012-10-31 |
| 22. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
93.40 |
0.9597 |
0.1226 |
347 |
2 |
90.19 |
2014-04-24 |
| 23. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
93.39 |
0.9986 |
0.0801 |
283 |
2 |
89.08 |
2012-10-31 |
| 24. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
93.28 |
1.0787 |
-0.0034 |
237 |
1 |
93.28 |
2012-10-31 |
| 25. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
93.07 |
1.0604 |
0.0474 |
260 |
2 |
85.45 |
2012-10-31 |
| 26. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
92.37 |
1.0496 |
0.0160 |
314 |
1 |
92.37 |
2012-10-31 |
| 27. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
91.93 |
0.9527 |
0.1087 |
251 |
1 |
91.93 |
2012-10-31 |
| 28. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
91.66 |
1.0213 |
0.0336 |
240 |
1 |
91.66 |
2012-10-31 |
| 29. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
91.59 |
1.0284 |
0.0720 |
282 |
1 |
91.59 |
2012-10-31 |
| 30. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
91.29 |
1.0296 |
0.0306 |
437 |
1 |
91.29 |
2012-10-31 |
| 31. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
91.26 |
1.1162 |
-0.0217 |
189 |
2 |
87.57 |
2012-10-31 |
| 32. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
91.25 |
0.9997 |
0.0573 |
382 |
1 |
91.25 |
2012-10-31 |
| 33. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
90.80 |
1.0141 |
0.0702 |
304 |
1 |
90.80 |
2012-10-31 |
| 34. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
90.73 |
1.0506 |
0.0251 |
277 |
1 |
90.73 |
2012-10-31 |
| 35. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
90.44 |
0.9768 |
0.0698 |
387 |
1 |
90.44 |
2012-10-31 |
| 36. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
89.85 |
1.0462 |
-0.0153 |
184 |
1 |
89.85 |
2012-10-31 |
| 37. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
89.44 |
1.0379 |
0.0289 |
245 |
1 |
89.44 |
2012-10-31 |
| 38. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
89.43 |
0.9908 |
0.0871 |
342 |
2 |
85.32 |
2014-04-24 |
| 39. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
89.42 |
1.0426 |
-0.0115 |
323 |
1 |
89.42 |
2012-10-31 |
| 40. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
89.13 |
0.9790 |
0.0901 |
311 |
1 |
89.13 |
2012-10-31 |
| 41. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
88.98 |
0.9612 |
0.0657 |
256 |
1 |
88.98 |
2012-10-31 |
| 42. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
88.92 |
1.0352 |
-0.0067 |
341 |
1 |
88.92 |
2012-10-31 |
| 43. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
88.80 |
1.0252 |
-0.0072 |
176 |
1 |
88.80 |
2012-10-31 |
| 44. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
88.66 |
1.0595 |
-0.0341 |
379 |
1 |
88.66 |
2012-10-31 |
| 45. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
88.60 |
0.9871 |
0.0577 |
227 |
1 |
88.60 |
2014-04-24 |
| 46. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
88.53 |
0.9439 |
0.0856 |
476 |
1 |
88.53 |
2014-04-24 |
| 47. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
88.26 |
1.0796 |
-0.0668 |
129 |
1 |
88.26 |
2012-10-31 |
| 48. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
88.17 |
1.0183 |
-0.0066 |
191 |
1 |
88.17 |
2012-10-31 |
| 49. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
88.14 |
1.0095 |
0.0059 |
316 |
1 |
88.14 |
2012-10-31 |
| 50. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
87.94 |
0.9303 |
0.0772 |
176 |
1 |
87.94 |
2012-10-31 |
| 51. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
87.73 |
1.0068 |
0.0085 |
358 |
1 |
87.73 |
2012-10-31 |
| 52. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
87.63 |
1.0444 |
-0.0401 |
197 |
1 |
87.63 |
2012-10-31 |
| 53. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
87.43 |
0.9754 |
0.0391 |
362 |
1 |
87.43 |
2012-10-31 |
| 54. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
87.03 |
0.9731 |
0.0181 |
129 |
1 |
87.03 |
2012-10-31 |
| 55. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
86.43 |
0.9005 |
0.0949 |
212 |
1 |
86.43 |
2012-10-31 |
| 56. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
86.34 |
0.9461 |
0.0491 |
276 |
1 |
86.34 |
2012-10-31 |
| 57. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
86.15 |
0.9045 |
0.0897 |
235 |
1 |
86.15 |
2012-10-31 |
| 58. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
85.39 |
1.0177 |
0.0052 |
392 |
2 |
84.00 |
2014-04-24 |
| 59. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
85.29 |
1.0008 |
0.0261 |
473 |
1 |
85.29 |
2012-10-31 |
| 60. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
84.83 |
1.0441 |
-0.0245 |
316 |
1 |
84.83 |
2012-10-31 |
| 61. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
84.60 |
0.9801 |
0.0382 |
428 |
1 |
84.60 |
2012-10-31 |
| 62. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
84.60 |
1.0596 |
-0.0865 |
239 |
1 |
84.60 |
2012-10-31 |
| 63. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
84.49 |
1.0013 |
-0.0281 |
273 |
1 |
84.49 |
2012-11-01 |
| 64. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
84.09 |
1.0483 |
-0.0821 |
227 |
1 |
84.09 |
2012-10-31 |
| 65. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
83.95 |
0.9941 |
-0.0286 |
217 |
1 |
83.95 |
2012-10-31 |
| 66. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
83.10 |
1.0644 |
-0.0700 |
257 |
1 |
83.10 |
2012-10-31 |
| 67. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
83.06 |
1.0577 |
-0.1041 |
247 |
1 |
83.06 |
2012-10-31 |
| 68. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
82.57 |
1.0352 |
-0.0801 |
341 |
1 |
82.57 |
2012-11-01 |
| 69. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
82.49 |
0.9795 |
-0.0284 |
308 |
1 |
82.49 |
2012-10-31 |
| 70. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
82.08 |
0.9843 |
-0.0433 |
234 |
1 |
82.08 |
2012-10-31 |
| 71. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
82.02 |
1.0545 |
-0.0683 |
416 |
1 |
82.02 |
2012-10-31 |
| 72. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
81.95 |
0.9785 |
-0.0311 |
335 |
1 |
81.95 |
2012-10-31 |
| 73. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
81.67 |
0.9635 |
-0.0164 |
389 |
1 |
81.67 |
2012-10-31 |
| 74. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
81.58 |
0.9676 |
-0.0191 |
442 |
1 |
81.58 |
2012-10-31 |
| 75. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
81.49 |
1.0077 |
-0.0276 |
250 |
1 |
81.49 |
2012-10-31 |
| 76. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
81.20 |
0.8919 |
0.0425 |
205 |
1 |
81.20 |
2012-11-01 |
| 77. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
81.02 |
0.9678 |
0.0009 |
445 |
2 |
79.54 |
2012-10-31 |
| 78. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
80.96 |
0.9936 |
-0.0405 |
227 |
1 |
80.96 |
2012-10-31 |
| 79. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
80.68 |
0.8914 |
0.0388 |
366 |
1 |
80.68 |
2012-10-31 |
| 80. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
80.63 |
1.0038 |
-0.0446 |
237 |
2 |
79.41 |
2012-10-31 |
| 81. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
80.62 |
1.0320 |
-0.0658 |
293 |
1 |
80.62 |
2012-10-31 |
| 82. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
80.52 |
1.0088 |
-0.0423 |
396 |
1 |
80.52 |
2012-10-31 |
| 83. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
80.38 |
0.9991 |
-0.0723 |
225 |
1 |
80.38 |
2012-10-31 |
| 84. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
79.47 |
0.9464 |
-0.0255 |
323 |
1 |
79.47 |
2012-10-31 |
| 85. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
79.39 |
0.9176 |
0.0358 |
365 |
1 |
79.39 |
2014-04-24 |
| 86. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
78.81 |
0.9275 |
-0.0228 |
211 |
1 |
78.81 |
2012-10-31 |
| 87. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
77.62 |
0.9699 |
-0.0769 |
269 |
1 |
77.62 |
2012-10-31 |
| 88. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
77.52 |
0.8956 |
0.0018 |
322 |
2 |
76.75 |
2012-10-31 |
| 89. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
77.05 |
0.9653 |
-0.0696 |
394 |
1 |
77.05 |
2012-10-31 |
| 90. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
75.93 |
1.0365 |
-0.1329 |
162 |
1 |
75.93 |
2012-10-31 |
| 91. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
75.72 |
0.9125 |
-0.0390 |
308 |
1 |
75.72 |
2012-10-31 |
| 92. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
75.72 |
0.9359 |
-0.0246 |
353 |
1 |
75.72 |
2012-10-31 |
| 93. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
75.48 |
0.8981 |
-0.0246 |
393 |
1 |
75.48 |
2012-10-31 |
| 94. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
75.26 |
1.0109 |
-0.1117 |
400 |
1 |
75.26 |
2012-10-31 |
| 95. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
75.07 |
0.9774 |
-0.1145 |
196 |
1 |
75.07 |
2012-10-31 |
| 96. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
74.59 |
0.9023 |
-0.0008 |
231 |
1 |
74.59 |
2012-10-31 |
| 97. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
74.01 |
0.9289 |
-0.0795 |
204 |
1 |
74.01 |
2012-10-31 |
| 98. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
73.97 |
0.9925 |
-0.1044 |
247 |
1 |
73.97 |
2012-10-31 |
| 99. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
72.51 |
1.0349 |
-0.2017 |
234 |
1 |
72.51 |
2012-10-31 |
| 100. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
72.36 |
0.9176 |
-0.0514 |
267 |
1 |
72.36 |
2012-10-31 |
| 101. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
72.03 |
0.9898 |
-0.1232 |
353 |
1 |
72.03 |
2012-10-31 |
| 102. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
71.95 |
0.9529 |
-0.0848 |
269 |
1 |
71.95 |
2012-10-31 |
| 103. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
71.86 |
0.9786 |
-0.1572 |
193 |
1 |
71.86 |
2012-10-31 |
| 104. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
69.29 |
0.9763 |
-0.1804 |
289 |
1 |
69.29 |
2012-10-31 |
| 105. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
69.17 |
0.8467 |
-0.0269 |
343 |
1 |
69.17 |
2012-10-31 |
| 106. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
69.09 |
0.9411 |
-0.1461 |
318 |
1 |
69.09 |
2012-10-31 |
| 107. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
68.55 |
0.9583 |
-0.1269 |
341 |
1 |
68.55 |
2012-10-31 |
| 108. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
66.96 |
0.9681 |
-0.1905 |
378 |
1 |
66.96 |
2012-10-31 |
| 109. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
66.10 |
0.9509 |
-0.1534 |
225 |
1 |
66.10 |
2012-10-31 |
| 110. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
62.29 |
0.7876 |
-0.0702 |
316 |
1 |
62.29 |
2012-10-31 |
| 111. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
60.08 |
1.0012 |
-0.3096 |
260 |
1 |
60.08 |
2012-10-31 |