| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
81.98 |
1.0863 |
0.1119 |
210 |
1 |
81.98 |
2010-06-04 |
| 2. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
79.93 |
0.9263 |
0.2110 |
188 |
1 |
79.93 |
2010-06-01 |
| 3. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
78.59 |
1.0613 |
0.0584 |
456 |
2 |
75.92 |
2010-06-12 |
| 4. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
77.15 |
1.0349 |
0.0583 |
234 |
1 |
77.15 |
2010-10-28 |
| 5. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
76.90 |
1.0025 |
0.0877 |
256 |
1 |
76.90 |
2010-06-04 |
| 6. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
76.90 |
1.0117 |
0.1235 |
297 |
1 |
76.90 |
2010-10-29 |
| 7. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
76.87 |
1.0669 |
0.0560 |
213 |
1 |
76.87 |
2010-10-29 |
| 8. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
76.81 |
1.0201 |
0.0623 |
172 |
1 |
76.81 |
2010-06-12 |
| 9. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
76.71 |
1.1068 |
0.0208 |
393 |
1 |
76.71 |
2010-06-12 |
| 10. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
76.66 |
1.0251 |
0.0595 |
261 |
1 |
76.66 |
2010-11-01 |
| 11. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
76.60 |
1.0768 |
0.0492 |
295 |
1 |
76.60 |
2010-06-05 |
| 12. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
76.39 |
1.0426 |
0.0397 |
323 |
1 |
76.39 |
2010-10-25 |
| 13. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
76.06 |
1.0799 |
-0.0052 |
243 |
1 |
76.06 |
2010-06-04 |
| 14. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
75.69 |
1.0528 |
0.0152 |
201 |
1 |
75.69 |
2010-06-12 |
| 15. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
75.44 |
1.0521 |
0.0124 |
171 |
1 |
75.44 |
2010-06-04 |
| 16. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
75.44 |
1.0767 |
-0.0094 |
212 |
2 |
75.39 |
2010-06-04 |
| 17. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
75.41 |
1.0529 |
0.0160 |
351 |
1 |
75.41 |
2010-06-01 |
| 18. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
75.35 |
1.0062 |
0.0619 |
288 |
1 |
75.35 |
2010-07-17 |
| 19. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
75.31 |
1.0487 |
0.0137 |
231 |
1 |
75.31 |
2010-10-28 |
| 20. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
75.27 |
1.0515 |
0.0077 |
166 |
1 |
75.27 |
2010-06-01 |
| 21. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
75.27 |
1.0941 |
0.0042 |
256 |
1 |
75.27 |
2010-10-28 |
| 22. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
75.21 |
0.9866 |
0.0759 |
218 |
1 |
75.21 |
2010-06-12 |
| 23. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
74.97 |
1.0419 |
0.0208 |
261 |
1 |
74.97 |
2010-09-19 |
| 24. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
74.88 |
1.0684 |
0.0228 |
253 |
1 |
74.88 |
2010-06-12 |
| 25. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
74.17 |
1.0346 |
0.0586 |
244 |
1 |
74.17 |
2010-05-29 |
| 26. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
74.10 |
1.1296 |
-0.0501 |
252 |
1 |
74.10 |
2010-10-28 |
| 27. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
73.76 |
0.9780 |
0.0681 |
337 |
3 |
70.33 |
2010-10-28 |
| 28. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
73.71 |
1.0384 |
-0.0031 |
183 |
1 |
73.71 |
2010-06-04 |
| 29. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
73.69 |
0.9820 |
0.0626 |
274 |
1 |
73.69 |
2010-05-29 |
| 30. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
73.61 |
1.0596 |
-0.0186 |
239 |
1 |
73.61 |
2010-06-01 |
| 31. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
73.52 |
1.0669 |
0.0073 |
286 |
1 |
73.52 |
2010-06-04 |
| 32. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
73.51 |
1.0211 |
0.0512 |
213 |
1 |
73.51 |
2010-11-01 |
| 33. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
73.31 |
1.0545 |
0.0249 |
416 |
1 |
73.31 |
2010-10-25 |
| 34. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
73.30 |
0.9965 |
0.0373 |
168 |
1 |
73.30 |
2010-06-05 |
| 35. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
73.23 |
0.9857 |
0.0510 |
293 |
1 |
73.23 |
2010-10-28 |
| 36. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
72.96 |
1.0774 |
-0.0144 |
304 |
1 |
72.96 |
2010-06-12 |
| 37. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
72.89 |
1.0502 |
0.0084 |
535 |
1 |
72.89 |
2010-05-29 |
| 38. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
72.88 |
0.9946 |
0.0378 |
246 |
2 |
71.29 |
2010-10-28 |
| 39. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
72.69 |
1.1215 |
-0.0676 |
200 |
1 |
72.69 |
2010-06-12 |
| 40. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
72.42 |
0.9841 |
0.0456 |
334 |
1 |
72.42 |
2010-06-12 |
| 41. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
72.32 |
1.0232 |
0.0473 |
350 |
1 |
72.32 |
2010-06-12 |
| 42. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
72.15 |
0.9353 |
0.0830 |
177 |
2 |
70.78 |
2010-10-28 |
| 43. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
72.14 |
0.9897 |
0.0301 |
274 |
1 |
72.14 |
2010-06-04 |
| 44. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
71.89 |
1.0331 |
-0.0168 |
234 |
2 |
71.64 |
2010-06-04 |
| 45. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
71.78 |
1.0138 |
0.0027 |
231 |
1 |
71.78 |
2010-06-04 |
| 46. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
71.70 |
0.9938 |
0.0229 |
339 |
1 |
71.70 |
2010-06-12 |
| 47. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
71.67 |
1.0168 |
-0.0003 |
271 |
2 |
70.68 |
2010-10-25 |
| 48. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
71.65 |
1.0213 |
-0.0096 |
240 |
1 |
71.65 |
2010-10-28 |
| 49. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
71.64 |
1.0396 |
-0.0317 |
149 |
1 |
71.64 |
2010-10-28 |
| 50. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
71.24 |
1.0485 |
-0.0047 |
153 |
1 |
71.24 |
2010-06-01 |
| 51. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
71.22 |
1.0368 |
-0.0272 |
276 |
1 |
71.22 |
2010-06-04 |
| 52. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
71.14 |
1.0602 |
-0.0483 |
389 |
1 |
71.14 |
2010-10-28 |
| 53. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
71.08 |
1.0120 |
-0.0059 |
290 |
1 |
71.08 |
2010-05-29 |
| 54. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
70.98 |
0.9675 |
0.0472 |
383 |
2 |
67.45 |
2010-10-28 |
| 55. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
70.93 |
0.8878 |
0.1165 |
346 |
1 |
70.93 |
2010-06-12 |
| 56. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
70.83 |
0.9785 |
0.0279 |
335 |
1 |
70.83 |
2010-06-12 |
| 57. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
70.82 |
1.0214 |
-0.0199 |
269 |
1 |
70.82 |
2010-06-04 |
| 58. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
70.76 |
1.0151 |
-0.0210 |
152 |
3 |
67.56 |
2010-10-28 |
| 59. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
70.70 |
0.9907 |
0.0091 |
211 |
1 |
70.70 |
2010-11-01 |
| 60. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
70.62 |
0.9851 |
0.0172 |
317 |
1 |
70.62 |
2010-06-12 |
| 61. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
70.57 |
1.0516 |
-0.0524 |
281 |
1 |
70.57 |
2010-06-04 |
| 62. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
70.56 |
0.9758 |
0.0242 |
314 |
1 |
70.56 |
2010-06-05 |
| 63. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
70.44 |
1.0165 |
-0.0151 |
392 |
1 |
70.44 |
2010-06-04 |
| 64. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
70.28 |
0.9709 |
0.0653 |
397 |
2 |
69.68 |
2010-06-12 |
| 65. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
70.04 |
0.9303 |
0.0555 |
176 |
1 |
70.04 |
2010-10-28 |
| 66. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
69.94 |
1.0034 |
-0.0143 |
302 |
1 |
69.94 |
2010-06-12 |
| 67. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
69.90 |
1.0029 |
-0.0194 |
209 |
1 |
69.90 |
2010-10-28 |
| 68. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
69.83 |
0.9863 |
0.0068 |
339 |
1 |
69.83 |
2010-06-04 |
| 69. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
69.83 |
1.0131 |
-0.0281 |
225 |
1 |
69.83 |
2010-09-19 |
| 70. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
69.76 |
1.0883 |
-0.0683 |
303 |
1 |
69.76 |
2010-06-01 |
| 71. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
69.74 |
1.0189 |
-0.0280 |
337 |
1 |
69.74 |
2010-05-29 |
| 72. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
69.45 |
0.9943 |
-0.0074 |
373 |
1 |
69.45 |
2010-09-19 |
| 73. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
69.37 |
1.0263 |
-0.0445 |
267 |
1 |
69.37 |
2010-07-17 |
| 74. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
69.20 |
0.9831 |
0.0047 |
469 |
1 |
69.20 |
2010-05-29 |
| 75. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
69.02 |
1.0352 |
-0.0556 |
341 |
1 |
69.02 |
2010-06-04 |
| 76. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
68.96 |
0.9687 |
0.0125 |
371 |
1 |
68.96 |
2010-06-12 |
| 77. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
68.79 |
1.0787 |
-0.1061 |
237 |
1 |
68.79 |
2010-06-12 |
| 78. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
68.78 |
1.0740 |
-0.0618 |
264 |
1 |
68.78 |
2010-06-04 |
| 79. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
68.74 |
1.0254 |
-0.0112 |
217 |
1 |
68.74 |
2010-06-12 |
| 80. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
68.63 |
1.0885 |
-0.1137 |
315 |
1 |
68.63 |
2010-06-05 |
| 81. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
68.62 |
0.9691 |
0.0019 |
223 |
1 |
68.62 |
2010-06-04 |
| 82. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
68.60 |
0.9109 |
0.0629 |
401 |
1 |
68.60 |
2010-06-04 |
| 83. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
68.49 |
1.0004 |
-0.0367 |
212 |
1 |
68.49 |
2010-06-04 |
| 84. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
68.43 |
0.9330 |
0.0423 |
360 |
1 |
68.43 |
2010-09-19 |
| 85. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.26 |
0.9740 |
-0.0116 |
209 |
1 |
68.26 |
2010-10-28 |
| 86. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
68.16 |
0.8933 |
0.0779 |
363 |
1 |
68.16 |
2010-10-28 |
| 87. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
68.15 |
0.8670 |
0.1030 |
318 |
1 |
68.15 |
2010-11-01 |
| 88. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
68.10 |
0.9814 |
0.0221 |
364 |
1 |
68.10 |
2010-10-28 |
| 89. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
67.97 |
1.0197 |
-0.0603 |
226 |
1 |
67.97 |
2010-07-17 |
| 90. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
67.96 |
0.9514 |
0.0109 |
237 |
1 |
67.96 |
2010-06-12 |
| 91. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
67.87 |
0.9212 |
0.0426 |
323 |
1 |
67.87 |
2010-10-28 |
| 92. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
67.82 |
1.0099 |
-0.0526 |
207 |
1 |
67.82 |
2010-05-29 |
| 93. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
67.74 |
0.9509 |
0.0465 |
225 |
1 |
67.74 |
2010-05-29 |
| 94. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
67.73 |
1.0763 |
-0.0761 |
367 |
1 |
67.73 |
2010-06-04 |
| 95. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
67.64 |
0.9786 |
-0.0266 |
193 |
1 |
67.64 |
2010-06-04 |
| 96. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
67.63 |
1.0334 |
-0.0824 |
131 |
1 |
67.63 |
2010-10-28 |
| 97. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
67.49 |
1.0429 |
-0.0890 |
259 |
1 |
67.49 |
2010-09-19 |
| 98. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
67.48 |
0.9572 |
0.0409 |
376 |
1 |
67.48 |
2010-06-04 |
| 99. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
67.48 |
0.8890 |
0.0626 |
199 |
1 |
67.48 |
2010-06-12 |
| 100. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
67.48 |
0.9049 |
0.0554 |
351 |
2 |
67.36 |
2010-06-05 |
| 101. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
67.18 |
0.9309 |
0.0181 |
284 |
1 |
67.18 |
2010-06-04 |
| 102. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
67.06 |
1.0141 |
-0.0288 |
304 |
1 |
67.06 |
2010-06-12 |
| 103. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
67.02 |
0.9622 |
-0.0076 |
392 |
2 |
66.01 |
2010-09-19 |
| 104. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
66.93 |
1.0172 |
-0.0350 |
341 |
1 |
66.93 |
2010-10-28 |
| 105. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
66.85 |
1.0042 |
-0.0164 |
352 |
1 |
66.85 |
2010-06-05 |
| 106. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
66.84 |
0.9922 |
-0.0051 |
341 |
1 |
66.84 |
2010-10-28 |
| 107. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.78 |
0.9202 |
0.0244 |
254 |
1 |
66.78 |
2010-06-04 |
| 108. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
66.67 |
0.9792 |
0.0028 |
265 |
1 |
66.67 |
2010-06-12 |
| 109. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
66.65 |
0.9795 |
-0.0364 |
308 |
1 |
66.65 |
2010-05-29 |
| 110. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
66.57 |
0.9976 |
-0.0355 |
174 |
1 |
66.57 |
2010-06-05 |
| 111. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
66.20 |
0.9084 |
0.0302 |
300 |
1 |
66.20 |
2010-10-28 |
| 112. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
65.61 |
1.0008 |
-0.0294 |
473 |
1 |
65.61 |
2010-06-12 |
| 113. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
65.60 |
0.9005 |
0.0262 |
212 |
1 |
65.60 |
2010-06-12 |
| 114. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
65.58 |
0.9064 |
0.0305 |
399 |
1 |
65.58 |
2010-10-25 |
| 115. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
65.42 |
1.0445 |
-0.1181 |
373 |
1 |
65.42 |
2010-05-29 |
| 116. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
65.07 |
1.0154 |
-0.0450 |
351 |
1 |
65.07 |
2010-06-12 |
| 117. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
65.06 |
0.9936 |
-0.0532 |
227 |
1 |
65.06 |
2010-10-28 |
| 118. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
65.05 |
0.9635 |
-0.0378 |
389 |
2 |
64.42 |
2010-10-28 |
| 119. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
65.05 |
0.9513 |
-0.0272 |
354 |
1 |
65.05 |
2010-06-12 |
| 120. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
65.00 |
1.0173 |
-0.0534 |
268 |
1 |
65.00 |
2010-06-12 |
| 121. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
64.86 |
1.0025 |
-0.0842 |
336 |
1 |
64.86 |
2010-06-04 |
| 122. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
64.84 |
0.9365 |
-0.0178 |
248 |
1 |
64.84 |
2010-10-28 |
| 123. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
64.57 |
0.9631 |
0.0015 |
345 |
1 |
64.57 |
2010-06-04 |
| 124. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
64.41 |
0.8981 |
0.0176 |
393 |
1 |
64.41 |
2010-06-04 |
| 125. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
64.19 |
0.9820 |
-0.0714 |
267 |
1 |
64.19 |
2010-10-28 |
| 126. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
64.05 |
1.0257 |
-0.1134 |
401 |
1 |
64.05 |
2010-07-17 |
| 127. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
64.00 |
0.9678 |
-0.0278 |
445 |
1 |
64.00 |
2010-06-12 |
| 128. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
63.66 |
0.7876 |
0.1153 |
316 |
1 |
63.66 |
2010-06-04 |
| 129. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
62.93 |
0.9176 |
0.0110 |
365 |
1 |
62.93 |
2010-06-04 |
| 130. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
62.68 |
1.0398 |
-0.1640 |
110 |
2 |
61.12 |
2010-10-28 |
| 131. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
61.69 |
1.0403 |
-0.1282 |
275 |
1 |
61.69 |
2010-10-28 |
| 132. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
61.62 |
0.9289 |
-0.0599 |
204 |
1 |
61.62 |
2010-10-28 |
| 133. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
61.31 |
1.0109 |
-0.1434 |
276 |
1 |
61.31 |
2010-06-12 |
| 134. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
60.50 |
0.9088 |
-0.0486 |
348 |
1 |
60.50 |
2010-07-17 |
| 135. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
60.20 |
0.8852 |
-0.0323 |
201 |
1 |
60.20 |
2010-06-04 |
| 136. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
59.80 |
0.8753 |
-0.0212 |
427 |
1 |
59.80 |
2010-06-12 |
| 137. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
59.66 |
0.9120 |
-0.0357 |
436 |
1 |
59.66 |
2010-10-28 |
| 138. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
58.27 |
0.9293 |
-0.1055 |
355 |
1 |
58.27 |
2010-06-04 |
| 139. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
57.31 |
0.8602 |
-0.0533 |
206 |
1 |
57.31 |
2010-10-28 |