| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
48.64 |
1.0696 |
-1.0839 |
226 |
1 |
48.64 |
2014-12-19 |
| 2. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
47.70 |
1.0365 |
-1.0153 |
162 |
2 |
43.94 |
2012-09-10 |
| 3. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
47.07 |
1.0252 |
-1.0413 |
176 |
4 |
36.23 |
2014-12-17 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.87 |
1.0799 |
-1.0947 |
243 |
1 |
45.87 |
2011-09-03 |
| 5. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
45.62 |
0.8906 |
-0.8994 |
238 |
1 |
45.62 |
2014-12-19 |
| 6. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
45.48 |
0.9597 |
-0.9694 |
347 |
2 |
40.37 |
2012-05-13 |
| 7. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
45.38 |
1.1323 |
-1.1130 |
341 |
1 |
45.38 |
2011-10-24 |
| 8. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
45.06 |
0.9884 |
-0.9985 |
262 |
2 |
41.17 |
2011-10-21 |
| 9. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
44.98 |
1.1296 |
-1.1108 |
252 |
1 |
44.98 |
2012-09-10 |
| 10. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
44.83 |
1.1018 |
-1.1185 |
220 |
1 |
44.83 |
2011-10-24 |
| 11. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
44.67 |
1.1014 |
-1.0754 |
273 |
1 |
44.67 |
2012-05-11 |
| 12. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
44.57 |
1.0388 |
-1.0187 |
243 |
2 |
43.79 |
2012-09-10 |
| 13. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
44.47 |
0.9239 |
-0.9348 |
193 |
1 |
44.47 |
2012-05-16 |
| 14. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
44.12 |
0.9785 |
-0.9883 |
335 |
1 |
44.12 |
2011-10-24 |
| 15. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
44.01 |
1.0109 |
-1.0225 |
276 |
1 |
44.01 |
2011-08-19 |
| 16. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
43.96 |
0.8841 |
-0.8933 |
194 |
1 |
43.96 |
2011-10-24 |
| 17. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
43.95 |
1.0529 |
-1.0648 |
351 |
1 |
43.95 |
2011-09-03 |
| 18. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
43.94 |
0.9485 |
-0.9595 |
236 |
1 |
43.94 |
2011-10-24 |
| 19. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
43.89 |
1.0944 |
-1.0626 |
308 |
2 |
43.77 |
2012-05-11 |
| 20. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
43.56 |
1.0214 |
-1.0369 |
166 |
2 |
41.31 |
2011-10-24 |
| 21. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
43.55 |
1.0390 |
-1.0533 |
205 |
1 |
43.55 |
2014-12-19 |
| 22. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
43.09 |
0.9084 |
-0.9192 |
300 |
1 |
43.09 |
2012-05-18 |
| 23. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
43.00 |
0.9912 |
-0.9748 |
237 |
1 |
43.00 |
2012-05-18 |
| 24. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
42.91 |
0.9514 |
-0.9633 |
237 |
1 |
42.91 |
2011-10-21 |
| 25. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
42.90 |
0.9865 |
-0.9981 |
276 |
1 |
42.90 |
2014-12-17 |
| 26. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
42.88 |
1.0523 |
-1.0669 |
256 |
2 |
36.16 |
2011-08-19 |
| 27. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
42.68 |
1.0787 |
-1.0913 |
237 |
1 |
42.68 |
2012-05-16 |
| 28. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
42.57 |
0.9164 |
-0.9255 |
305 |
1 |
42.57 |
2012-09-10 |
| 29. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
42.49 |
0.9786 |
-0.9915 |
235 |
1 |
42.49 |
2011-09-03 |
| 30. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
42.37 |
0.9089 |
-0.9201 |
342 |
1 |
42.37 |
2011-10-24 |
| 31. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
42.24 |
1.0211 |
-1.0016 |
213 |
4 |
38.56 |
2011-10-21 |
| 32. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
41.95 |
1.0905 |
-1.0695 |
210 |
1 |
41.95 |
2011-08-19 |
| 33. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
41.89 |
0.8792 |
-0.8850 |
296 |
1 |
41.89 |
2012-05-16 |
| 34. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
41.86 |
1.0379 |
-1.0134 |
245 |
1 |
41.86 |
2011-09-03 |
| 35. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
41.82 |
1.0941 |
-1.0743 |
256 |
2 |
37.38 |
2011-08-19 |
| 36. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
41.66 |
1.0412 |
-1.0534 |
225 |
1 |
41.66 |
2011-10-24 |
| 37. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
41.64 |
0.9505 |
-0.9656 |
204 |
1 |
41.64 |
2014-12-13 |
| 38. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
41.62 |
1.0796 |
-1.0953 |
129 |
1 |
41.62 |
2012-05-18 |
| 39. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
41.62 |
0.9722 |
-0.9854 |
283 |
1 |
41.62 |
2014-12-13 |
| 40. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
41.50 |
0.8295 |
-0.8399 |
209 |
1 |
41.50 |
2012-09-10 |
| 41. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
41.35 |
0.9726 |
-0.9900 |
154 |
1 |
41.35 |
2011-06-28 |
| 42. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
41.28 |
0.9019 |
-0.9106 |
204 |
1 |
41.28 |
2015-11-09 |
| 43. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
41.25 |
1.0441 |
-1.0551 |
252 |
1 |
41.25 |
2011-10-24 |
| 44. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
41.17 |
0.8562 |
-0.8707 |
170 |
2 |
40.83 |
2011-10-21 |
| 45. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
41.15 |
0.9281 |
-0.9375 |
273 |
2 |
39.18 |
2011-09-03 |
| 46. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
41.05 |
0.9871 |
-0.9617 |
209 |
1 |
41.05 |
2011-08-19 |
| 47. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
41.04 |
0.9097 |
-0.9243 |
153 |
1 |
41.04 |
2012-05-16 |
| 48. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
41.03 |
0.9048 |
-0.9150 |
271 |
1 |
41.03 |
2011-09-03 |
| 49. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
41.01 |
1.0201 |
-1.0315 |
303 |
1 |
41.01 |
2011-10-21 |
| 50. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
40.90 |
0.9843 |
-0.9995 |
234 |
1 |
40.90 |
2011-09-03 |
| 51. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
40.82 |
0.9266 |
-0.9398 |
278 |
1 |
40.82 |
2012-05-11 |
| 52. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
40.80 |
1.0644 |
-1.0404 |
257 |
1 |
40.80 |
2011-10-21 |
| 53. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
40.22 |
0.8961 |
-0.9091 |
189 |
1 |
40.22 |
2011-09-03 |
| 54. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
40.12 |
0.8157 |
-0.8293 |
121 |
1 |
40.12 |
2011-08-18 |
| 55. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
40.10 |
0.8777 |
-0.8903 |
177 |
1 |
40.10 |
2012-05-18 |
| 56. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
40.04 |
0.9084 |
-0.9166 |
404 |
2 |
38.55 |
2011-08-19 |
| 57. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.96 |
0.9899 |
-1.0052 |
163 |
1 |
39.96 |
2012-05-18 |
| 58. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
39.89 |
1.0090 |
-0.9780 |
282 |
1 |
39.89 |
2011-10-24 |
| 59. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
39.89 |
1.0131 |
-1.0286 |
225 |
1 |
39.89 |
2012-05-10 |
| 60. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
39.81 |
0.9303 |
-0.9481 |
176 |
1 |
39.81 |
2011-09-03 |
| 61. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
39.68 |
1.0232 |
-0.9900 |
350 |
1 |
39.68 |
2014-12-13 |
| 62. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
39.57 |
1.0334 |
-1.0496 |
131 |
2 |
31.73 |
2012-05-11 |
| 63. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
39.54 |
0.9711 |
-0.9856 |
176 |
2 |
30.08 |
2011-09-03 |
| 64. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
39.45 |
1.0257 |
-1.0337 |
401 |
1 |
39.45 |
2011-09-03 |
| 65. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
39.21 |
0.8845 |
-0.8973 |
273 |
1 |
39.21 |
2011-10-21 |
| 66. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
39.15 |
0.9263 |
-0.9391 |
188 |
1 |
39.15 |
2011-08-19 |
| 67. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
39.08 |
1.0124 |
-1.0259 |
204 |
1 |
39.08 |
2011-09-03 |
| 68. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
39.03 |
1.0189 |
-1.0285 |
337 |
1 |
39.03 |
2012-09-10 |
| 69. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
38.44 |
0.9936 |
-0.9830 |
227 |
2 |
36.74 |
2013-03-14 |
| 70. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
38.42 |
0.9226 |
-0.9330 |
177 |
1 |
38.42 |
2011-06-28 |
| 71. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
38.13 |
0.8968 |
-0.9135 |
186 |
1 |
38.13 |
2012-05-18 |
| 72. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
38.10 |
0.8722 |
-0.8822 |
285 |
2 |
37.31 |
2013-03-14 |
| 73. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
38.00 |
1.0120 |
-1.0241 |
290 |
1 |
38.00 |
2011-08-19 |
| 74. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
37.81 |
1.0385 |
-1.0511 |
230 |
1 |
37.81 |
2012-05-18 |
| 75. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
37.77 |
0.7988 |
-0.8044 |
219 |
1 |
37.77 |
2012-05-16 |
| 76. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
37.69 |
0.8821 |
-0.8971 |
176 |
1 |
37.69 |
2011-08-19 |
| 77. |
It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situat... |
37.66 |
0.9145 |
-0.9262 |
207 |
1 |
37.66 |
2013-03-14 |
| 78. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
37.66 |
0.8867 |
-0.8983 |
241 |
1 |
37.66 |
2011-09-03 |
| 79. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
37.58 |
0.9023 |
-0.8709 |
231 |
1 |
37.58 |
2011-08-19 |
| 80. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
37.45 |
1.0029 |
-1.0185 |
209 |
1 |
37.45 |
2013-03-14 |
| 81. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
37.35 |
0.9251 |
-0.9357 |
177 |
2 |
30.99 |
2011-07-18 |
| 82. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
37.25 |
1.0608 |
-1.0383 |
258 |
1 |
37.25 |
2011-06-29 |
| 83. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
37.20 |
0.9936 |
-1.0061 |
311 |
1 |
37.20 |
2012-05-11 |
| 84. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
37.19 |
0.9339 |
-0.9473 |
310 |
1 |
37.19 |
2011-08-19 |
| 85. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
37.11 |
0.8653 |
-0.8707 |
255 |
1 |
37.11 |
2011-08-19 |
| 86. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
37.11 |
0.9724 |
-0.9850 |
237 |
2 |
33.75 |
2011-07-18 |
| 87. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
36.97 |
1.0205 |
-1.0394 |
179 |
1 |
36.97 |
2011-08-17 |
| 88. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
36.90 |
1.0445 |
-1.0551 |
373 |
3 |
35.00 |
2012-05-18 |
| 89. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
36.62 |
0.9098 |
-0.9264 |
167 |
1 |
36.62 |
2011-06-27 |
| 90. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
36.59 |
0.9529 |
-0.9254 |
269 |
1 |
36.59 |
2011-08-18 |
| 91. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
36.55 |
1.0352 |
-1.0446 |
341 |
1 |
36.55 |
2012-05-10 |
| 92. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
36.46 |
0.7850 |
-0.7986 |
154 |
1 |
36.46 |
2011-06-28 |
| 93. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
36.45 |
0.9127 |
-0.9271 |
252 |
1 |
36.45 |
2011-08-19 |
| 94. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
35.70 |
0.9851 |
-0.9963 |
317 |
1 |
35.70 |
2011-06-27 |
| 95. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
35.28 |
0.9682 |
-0.9826 |
143 |
2 |
33.93 |
2011-07-17 |
| 96. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
35.17 |
0.8442 |
-0.8538 |
265 |
1 |
35.17 |
2011-08-17 |
| 97. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
34.46 |
1.0669 |
-1.0457 |
286 |
1 |
34.46 |
2011-06-28 |
| 98. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
34.30 |
0.7839 |
-0.7929 |
257 |
1 |
34.30 |
2011-08-17 |
| 99. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
34.29 |
1.0487 |
-1.0640 |
231 |
1 |
34.29 |
2011-08-17 |
| 100. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
34.06 |
0.8793 |
-0.8923 |
157 |
1 |
34.06 |
2011-06-27 |
| 101. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
34.02 |
0.7876 |
-0.7966 |
316 |
1 |
34.02 |
2011-10-24 |
| 102. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
33.85 |
1.0768 |
-1.0498 |
295 |
1 |
33.85 |
2011-07-17 |
| 103. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
32.88 |
0.9769 |
-0.9905 |
263 |
1 |
32.88 |
2011-09-03 |
| 104. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
32.86 |
0.9340 |
-0.9478 |
296 |
2 |
32.68 |
2011-07-17 |
| 105. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
32.77 |
0.8037 |
-0.8127 |
148 |
2 |
28.90 |
2011-07-18 |
| 106. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
32.69 |
0.9758 |
-0.9878 |
314 |
1 |
32.69 |
2011-08-17 |
| 107. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
32.61 |
1.0429 |
-1.0562 |
259 |
1 |
32.61 |
2011-06-27 |
| 108. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.33 |
0.8595 |
-0.8707 |
242 |
1 |
32.33 |
2011-08-18 |
| 109. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
32.22 |
0.9684 |
-0.9790 |
388 |
1 |
32.22 |
2011-06-28 |
| 110. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
32.04 |
0.9863 |
-0.9955 |
339 |
1 |
32.04 |
2011-06-27 |
| 111. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
31.88 |
1.0943 |
-1.0732 |
206 |
1 |
31.88 |
2011-08-18 |
| 112. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
31.84 |
0.9430 |
-0.9539 |
297 |
1 |
31.84 |
2011-06-27 |
| 113. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
31.80 |
1.0419 |
-1.0549 |
261 |
1 |
31.80 |
2011-06-26 |
| 114. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
31.68 |
1.0403 |
-1.0351 |
193 |
1 |
31.68 |
2011-06-27 |
| 115. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
31.67 |
0.8700 |
-0.8818 |
127 |
1 |
31.67 |
2011-08-17 |
| 116. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
31.57 |
0.7708 |
-0.7806 |
207 |
1 |
31.57 |
2012-05-10 |
| 117. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
31.37 |
0.9418 |
-0.9509 |
188 |
1 |
31.37 |
2011-08-18 |
| 118. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
31.28 |
1.0528 |
-1.0684 |
201 |
1 |
31.28 |
2011-07-17 |
| 119. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
31.10 |
0.7484 |
-0.7601 |
185 |
1 |
31.10 |
2011-06-27 |
| 120. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
30.86 |
0.8936 |
-0.9057 |
127 |
1 |
30.86 |
2011-07-19 |
| 121. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
30.68 |
1.0368 |
-1.0497 |
276 |
1 |
30.68 |
2011-07-17 |
| 122. |
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. |
30.45 |
0.9580 |
-0.9700 |
62 |
1 |
30.45 |
2011-06-27 |
| 123. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
30.16 |
0.9207 |
-0.9335 |
174 |
1 |
30.16 |
2011-06-27 |
| 124. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
30.12 |
0.8723 |
-0.8891 |
185 |
2 |
26.46 |
2011-07-20 |
| 125. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
29.32 |
0.9310 |
-0.9475 |
188 |
2 |
25.63 |
2011-07-20 |
| 126. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
28.79 |
0.8826 |
-0.8936 |
296 |
1 |
28.79 |
2011-06-27 |
| 127. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
28.29 |
0.8506 |
-0.8656 |
132 |
1 |
28.29 |
2011-07-19 |
| 128. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
27.77 |
1.0396 |
-1.0566 |
149 |
1 |
27.77 |
2011-07-19 |
| 129. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
27.22 |
0.9266 |
-0.9391 |
267 |
1 |
27.22 |
2011-07-17 |
| 130. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
26.11 |
0.9351 |
-0.9511 |
190 |
1 |
26.11 |
2011-07-20 |
| 131. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
25.27 |
0.8089 |
-0.8261 |
158 |
1 |
25.27 |
2011-07-19 |
| 132. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
24.89 |
0.8178 |
-0.8289 |
159 |
1 |
24.89 |
2011-07-19 |
| 133. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
24.79 |
1.0521 |
-1.0667 |
171 |
1 |
24.79 |
2011-07-19 |
| 134. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
24.50 |
0.8725 |
-0.8841 |
163 |
1 |
24.50 |
2011-07-19 |
| 135. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
23.36 |
0.7352 |
-0.7451 |
106 |
1 |
23.36 |
2011-07-17 |
| 136. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
23.34 |
1.0596 |
-1.0734 |
239 |
1 |
23.34 |
2011-07-19 |
| 137. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
22.79 |
0.8809 |
-0.8962 |
127 |
1 |
22.79 |
2011-07-20 |
| 138. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
21.49 |
0.8745 |
-0.8895 |
169 |
1 |
21.49 |
2011-07-19 |
| 139. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
20.28 |
0.8884 |
-0.9028 |
135 |
1 |
20.28 |
2011-07-19 |
| 140. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
20.04 |
0.8188 |
-0.8308 |
183 |
1 |
20.04 |
2011-07-19 |