| 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 ... |
64.33 |
1.0365 |
0.2358 |
162 |
1 |
64.33 |
2010-11-10 |
| 2. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
63.78 |
1.0205 |
0.2047 |
179 |
2 |
61.40 |
2010-11-10 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
61.12 |
1.0796 |
0.0954 |
129 |
2 |
58.50 |
2010-11-22 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
60.62 |
1.0797 |
0.0847 |
210 |
2 |
58.86 |
2010-10-19 |
| 5. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
59.92 |
0.9567 |
0.2419 |
184 |
1 |
59.92 |
2010-10-14 |
| 6. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
59.87 |
1.0595 |
0.0984 |
379 |
2 |
49.04 |
2010-11-19 |
| 7. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
59.15 |
1.0487 |
0.0876 |
231 |
1 |
59.15 |
2010-10-15 |
| 8. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
58.19 |
1.0385 |
0.0823 |
230 |
1 |
58.19 |
2010-10-15 |
| 9. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
58.03 |
0.9899 |
0.1249 |
163 |
1 |
58.03 |
2010-10-15 |
| 10. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
57.91 |
1.0261 |
0.0891 |
273 |
1 |
57.91 |
2010-10-15 |
| 11. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
57.88 |
1.0696 |
0.0434 |
226 |
1 |
57.88 |
2010-11-19 |
| 12. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
57.59 |
1.0125 |
0.0961 |
224 |
2 |
53.06 |
2010-11-22 |
| 13. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
57.56 |
0.9559 |
0.1571 |
195 |
1 |
57.56 |
2010-10-21 |
| 14. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
57.44 |
1.0012 |
0.1101 |
260 |
1 |
57.44 |
2010-10-15 |
| 15. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
57.30 |
1.0515 |
0.0518 |
250 |
1 |
57.30 |
2010-10-15 |
| 16. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
57.02 |
0.9898 |
0.1476 |
353 |
1 |
57.02 |
2010-10-15 |
| 17. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
56.88 |
1.0799 |
0.0134 |
243 |
2 |
52.48 |
2010-10-18 |
| 18. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
56.48 |
1.1081 |
0.0157 |
206 |
1 |
56.48 |
2010-11-03 |
| 19. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
56.47 |
1.0213 |
0.0645 |
240 |
1 |
56.47 |
2010-11-18 |
| 20. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
56.46 |
0.9161 |
0.1707 |
200 |
1 |
56.46 |
2011-08-05 |
| 21. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
56.43 |
0.9726 |
0.1092 |
154 |
1 |
56.43 |
2010-11-19 |
| 22. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
56.32 |
1.0711 |
0.0099 |
213 |
2 |
53.90 |
2010-11-02 |
| 23. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
56.31 |
0.9226 |
0.1671 |
177 |
1 |
56.31 |
2010-11-18 |
| 24. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
56.13 |
0.9706 |
0.1161 |
216 |
1 |
56.13 |
2011-12-02 |
| 25. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
56.02 |
1.0596 |
0.0185 |
239 |
1 |
56.02 |
2010-10-19 |
| 26. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
56.01 |
1.0232 |
0.0925 |
236 |
1 |
56.01 |
2011-08-05 |
| 27. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
55.98 |
1.1323 |
-0.0191 |
341 |
2 |
55.21 |
2010-10-18 |
| 28. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
55.96 |
0.9857 |
0.0924 |
293 |
1 |
55.96 |
2010-10-15 |
| 29. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
55.72 |
1.0340 |
0.0456 |
406 |
1 |
55.72 |
2010-10-15 |
| 30. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
55.70 |
0.9805 |
0.0981 |
292 |
1 |
55.70 |
2010-10-15 |
| 31. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
55.63 |
0.9430 |
0.1325 |
297 |
1 |
55.63 |
2010-10-15 |
| 32. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
55.56 |
1.0719 |
0.0270 |
360 |
1 |
55.56 |
2010-11-01 |
| 33. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
55.51 |
1.0029 |
0.0610 |
209 |
2 |
54.21 |
2010-11-03 |
| 34. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
55.27 |
1.0528 |
0.0078 |
201 |
2 |
52.22 |
2010-10-15 |
| 35. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
54.99 |
1.0565 |
0.0010 |
247 |
1 |
54.99 |
2012-07-05 |
| 36. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
54.98 |
1.0154 |
0.0944 |
351 |
1 |
54.98 |
2010-10-21 |
| 37. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
54.96 |
1.0463 |
0.0087 |
182 |
1 |
54.96 |
2010-11-01 |
| 38. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
54.87 |
1.1162 |
-0.0174 |
189 |
1 |
54.87 |
2010-11-01 |
| 39. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
54.85 |
1.0477 |
0.0121 |
360 |
1 |
54.85 |
2010-10-15 |
| 40. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
54.81 |
0.8442 |
0.2164 |
265 |
1 |
54.81 |
2010-10-15 |
| 41. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
54.77 |
1.0768 |
0.0192 |
295 |
1 |
54.77 |
2010-11-03 |
| 42. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
54.77 |
1.0677 |
0.0186 |
284 |
1 |
54.77 |
2010-10-21 |
| 43. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
54.75 |
0.9532 |
0.1010 |
258 |
1 |
54.75 |
2010-10-15 |
| 44. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
54.54 |
0.8941 |
0.1593 |
216 |
1 |
54.54 |
2010-10-08 |
| 45. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
54.34 |
1.0885 |
-0.0377 |
315 |
1 |
54.34 |
2010-10-19 |
| 46. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
54.32 |
1.0099 |
0.0343 |
207 |
2 |
41.60 |
2010-11-03 |
| 47. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
54.26 |
1.0389 |
0.0087 |
318 |
1 |
54.26 |
2010-11-03 |
| 48. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
54.12 |
1.0613 |
-0.0131 |
456 |
1 |
54.12 |
2012-07-05 |
| 49. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
54.05 |
1.0053 |
0.0345 |
232 |
1 |
54.05 |
2010-11-03 |
| 50. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
54.04 |
1.0173 |
0.0685 |
268 |
1 |
54.04 |
2010-10-08 |
| 51. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
53.84 |
1.0232 |
0.0604 |
350 |
2 |
49.62 |
2012-07-05 |
| 52. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
53.82 |
0.9500 |
0.0895 |
362 |
1 |
53.82 |
2010-10-18 |
| 53. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
53.82 |
1.0398 |
-0.0130 |
110 |
2 |
47.21 |
2010-11-03 |
| 54. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
53.59 |
0.9632 |
0.1119 |
345 |
1 |
53.59 |
2010-11-03 |
| 55. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
53.46 |
0.8852 |
0.1472 |
201 |
1 |
53.46 |
2010-11-03 |
| 56. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
53.43 |
1.0288 |
0.0330 |
300 |
2 |
48.27 |
2010-10-21 |
| 57. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
53.33 |
1.0042 |
0.0651 |
352 |
1 |
53.33 |
2010-11-18 |
| 58. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
53.03 |
1.1296 |
-0.0786 |
252 |
2 |
52.93 |
2011-08-05 |
| 59. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
53.01 |
0.9239 |
0.1042 |
193 |
1 |
53.01 |
2010-10-22 |
| 60. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
52.88 |
1.0063 |
0.0131 |
371 |
1 |
52.88 |
2010-11-18 |
| 61. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
52.84 |
1.0214 |
0.0393 |
281 |
1 |
52.84 |
2010-11-10 |
| 62. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
52.82 |
1.0117 |
0.0509 |
297 |
1 |
52.82 |
2012-07-05 |
| 63. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
52.82 |
0.9991 |
0.0192 |
225 |
1 |
52.82 |
2010-12-10 |
| 64. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
52.80 |
0.8958 |
0.1262 |
322 |
1 |
52.80 |
2010-10-18 |
| 65. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
52.75 |
0.9893 |
0.0272 |
323 |
1 |
52.75 |
2010-10-19 |
| 66. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
52.69 |
0.8629 |
0.1572 |
299 |
1 |
52.69 |
2010-10-15 |
| 67. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
52.69 |
0.9351 |
0.0747 |
190 |
1 |
52.69 |
2010-10-14 |
| 68. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
52.52 |
0.9758 |
0.0369 |
314 |
1 |
52.52 |
2010-10-08 |
| 69. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
52.50 |
1.0004 |
0.0051 |
212 |
1 |
52.50 |
2010-10-15 |
| 70. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
52.43 |
0.9688 |
0.0412 |
217 |
1 |
52.43 |
2012-07-05 |
| 71. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
52.29 |
1.0534 |
-0.0437 |
357 |
1 |
52.29 |
2010-10-08 |
| 72. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
52.27 |
0.9866 |
0.0168 |
218 |
1 |
52.27 |
2010-10-15 |
| 73. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
52.25 |
0.9855 |
0.0545 |
258 |
1 |
52.25 |
2010-11-19 |
| 74. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
51.64 |
0.8884 |
0.1070 |
135 |
1 |
51.64 |
2010-11-18 |
| 75. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
51.37 |
1.1215 |
-0.1080 |
200 |
2 |
46.76 |
2010-11-03 |
| 76. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
50.90 |
1.0016 |
-0.0259 |
218 |
1 |
50.90 |
2010-10-15 |
| 77. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
50.78 |
0.9212 |
0.0601 |
323 |
3 |
45.08 |
2010-10-28 |
| 78. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
50.62 |
0.9786 |
-0.0089 |
193 |
1 |
50.62 |
2010-11-03 |
| 79. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
50.45 |
0.9109 |
0.0633 |
401 |
1 |
50.45 |
2010-11-19 |
| 80. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
50.41 |
0.9023 |
0.1113 |
231 |
1 |
50.41 |
2010-11-18 |
| 81. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
50.31 |
1.0375 |
-0.0227 |
200 |
1 |
50.31 |
2011-08-05 |
| 82. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
49.89 |
1.0379 |
-0.0424 |
245 |
1 |
49.89 |
2010-10-14 |
| 83. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
49.84 |
1.0013 |
-0.0425 |
273 |
2 |
49.78 |
2010-11-18 |
| 84. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
49.84 |
0.9485 |
0.0136 |
291 |
1 |
49.84 |
2010-10-15 |
| 85. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
49.57 |
1.0314 |
-0.0378 |
452 |
1 |
49.57 |
2011-12-02 |
| 86. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
49.55 |
1.0396 |
-0.0928 |
149 |
1 |
49.55 |
2010-10-14 |
| 87. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
49.30 |
0.9646 |
-0.0164 |
264 |
1 |
49.30 |
2012-07-05 |
| 88. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
49.21 |
0.9772 |
-0.0333 |
217 |
1 |
49.21 |
2010-11-01 |
| 89. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
49.15 |
0.9946 |
-0.0486 |
246 |
1 |
49.15 |
2010-10-19 |
| 90. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
49.06 |
0.9084 |
0.0401 |
404 |
1 |
49.06 |
2012-07-05 |
| 91. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
48.95 |
0.9820 |
-0.0369 |
267 |
1 |
48.95 |
2010-10-14 |
| 92. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
48.64 |
0.9633 |
-0.0249 |
304 |
1 |
48.64 |
2010-10-15 |
| 93. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
48.22 |
0.9612 |
-0.0332 |
256 |
1 |
48.22 |
2010-10-14 |
| 94. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
47.91 |
0.8723 |
0.0458 |
185 |
1 |
47.91 |
2010-10-15 |
| 95. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
47.60 |
0.9966 |
-0.0813 |
259 |
1 |
47.60 |
2010-11-09 |
| 96. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
47.48 |
1.0725 |
-0.1331 |
233 |
1 |
47.48 |
2012-07-05 |
| 97. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
47.18 |
0.9464 |
-0.0336 |
323 |
1 |
47.18 |
2010-11-03 |
| 98. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
47.06 |
0.9965 |
-0.0908 |
310 |
1 |
47.06 |
2010-10-18 |
| 99. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
46.96 |
0.9776 |
-0.0739 |
308 |
1 |
46.96 |
2010-10-15 |
| 100. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
46.82 |
1.0917 |
-0.1675 |
243 |
1 |
46.82 |
2010-10-14 |
| 101. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
46.73 |
0.9785 |
-0.0763 |
335 |
1 |
46.73 |
2011-12-02 |
| 102. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.43 |
1.0334 |
-0.1468 |
131 |
1 |
46.43 |
2010-10-15 |
| 103. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
46.41 |
1.0403 |
-0.1326 |
193 |
2 |
44.56 |
2010-11-19 |
| 104. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
46.40 |
1.0361 |
-0.1426 |
269 |
1 |
46.40 |
2010-10-18 |
| 105. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
46.00 |
0.9865 |
-0.1007 |
276 |
1 |
46.00 |
2010-10-15 |
| 106. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
45.92 |
0.9936 |
-0.0903 |
227 |
1 |
45.92 |
2010-11-01 |
| 107. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
45.63 |
1.0523 |
-0.1791 |
256 |
1 |
45.63 |
2010-10-08 |
| 108. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
45.61 |
0.9843 |
-0.1122 |
234 |
1 |
45.61 |
2010-10-14 |
| 109. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
45.09 |
1.0346 |
-0.1256 |
244 |
2 |
36.32 |
2010-10-15 |
| 110. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
44.92 |
1.0429 |
-0.1807 |
259 |
2 |
43.49 |
2010-10-18 |
| 111. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
44.90 |
0.9005 |
-0.0387 |
212 |
2 |
42.87 |
2012-07-05 |
| 112. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
44.85 |
1.0168 |
-0.1531 |
271 |
1 |
44.85 |
2010-10-15 |
| 113. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
44.53 |
1.0496 |
-0.1943 |
314 |
1 |
44.53 |
2010-10-08 |
| 114. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
44.46 |
0.9907 |
-0.1376 |
211 |
2 |
43.31 |
2010-10-18 |
| 115. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
44.00 |
1.0669 |
-0.1883 |
213 |
1 |
44.00 |
2010-11-03 |
| 116. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
43.95 |
1.0138 |
-0.1695 |
231 |
1 |
43.95 |
2010-10-19 |
| 117. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
43.80 |
0.9844 |
-0.1378 |
293 |
1 |
43.80 |
2010-10-15 |
| 118. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
43.59 |
1.0506 |
-0.1841 |
277 |
1 |
43.59 |
2010-11-18 |
| 119. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
43.42 |
0.9614 |
-0.1240 |
292 |
1 |
43.42 |
2010-10-08 |
| 120. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
43.29 |
0.7805 |
0.0472 |
154 |
1 |
43.29 |
2010-10-18 |
| 121. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
43.29 |
0.8919 |
-0.0618 |
205 |
2 |
42.71 |
2012-07-05 |
| 122. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
43.11 |
0.9429 |
-0.1133 |
287 |
1 |
43.11 |
2010-10-19 |
| 123. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
42.55 |
0.9068 |
-0.0864 |
269 |
1 |
42.55 |
2010-10-14 |
| 124. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
42.33 |
0.8353 |
-0.0147 |
283 |
1 |
42.33 |
2010-10-28 |
| 125. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
42.16 |
1.0941 |
-0.2531 |
256 |
1 |
42.16 |
2011-12-02 |
| 126. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
41.56 |
0.8956 |
-0.0929 |
322 |
1 |
41.56 |
2010-11-03 |
| 127. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
41.33 |
0.9691 |
-0.1760 |
223 |
1 |
41.33 |
2012-07-05 |
| 128. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
41.17 |
0.9986 |
-0.2075 |
283 |
1 |
41.17 |
2010-10-15 |
| 129. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
40.45 |
0.8722 |
-0.0929 |
285 |
1 |
40.45 |
2010-11-05 |
| 130. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
40.16 |
0.9430 |
-0.1795 |
211 |
1 |
40.16 |
2010-10-08 |
| 131. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
38.27 |
0.8916 |
-0.1574 |
216 |
1 |
38.27 |
2010-10-15 |
| 132. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
31.67 |
0.9910 |
-0.3840 |
295 |
1 |
31.67 |
2010-11-01 |