| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
70.12 |
1.0725 |
0.2936 |
233 |
1 |
70.12 |
2012-03-13 |
| 2. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
68.65 |
1.0885 |
0.2584 |
341 |
1 |
68.65 |
2012-03-13 |
| 3. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
66.52 |
1.0521 |
0.2138 |
171 |
1 |
66.52 |
2011-08-26 |
| 4. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
65.49 |
1.0385 |
0.2107 |
230 |
2 |
64.43 |
2012-03-13 |
| 5. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
65.32 |
0.9773 |
0.2627 |
123 |
1 |
65.32 |
2011-09-19 |
| 6. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
64.64 |
1.1114 |
0.1205 |
247 |
1 |
64.64 |
2011-09-19 |
| 7. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
63.61 |
1.0314 |
0.1802 |
172 |
1 |
63.61 |
2012-03-13 |
| 8. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
63.11 |
1.0029 |
0.1957 |
209 |
1 |
63.11 |
2011-04-29 |
| 9. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
62.79 |
1.1081 |
0.1253 |
206 |
1 |
62.79 |
2012-03-13 |
| 10. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
62.39 |
1.0390 |
0.1484 |
205 |
2 |
60.26 |
2011-08-30 |
| 11. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
61.25 |
1.0417 |
0.1248 |
253 |
1 |
61.25 |
2011-11-25 |
| 12. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
61.22 |
1.0528 |
0.1107 |
201 |
1 |
61.22 |
2011-04-30 |
| 13. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
60.86 |
0.9965 |
0.1602 |
168 |
1 |
60.86 |
2011-04-29 |
| 14. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
59.61 |
1.0944 |
0.0878 |
308 |
2 |
55.43 |
2011-08-30 |
| 15. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
59.61 |
0.9734 |
0.1637 |
289 |
1 |
59.61 |
2012-03-13 |
| 16. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
59.39 |
1.0004 |
0.1268 |
212 |
2 |
54.71 |
2011-04-30 |
| 17. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
59.11 |
1.0109 |
0.1177 |
276 |
2 |
56.84 |
2012-01-22 |
| 18. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
58.81 |
0.9633 |
0.1612 |
304 |
1 |
58.81 |
2011-04-29 |
| 19. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
58.81 |
1.0124 |
0.1072 |
204 |
1 |
58.81 |
2011-04-29 |
| 20. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
58.64 |
1.0016 |
0.1125 |
218 |
1 |
58.64 |
2011-08-26 |
| 21. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
58.53 |
1.0368 |
0.0805 |
276 |
2 |
55.75 |
2012-01-03 |
| 22. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
58.25 |
0.9941 |
0.1147 |
217 |
1 |
58.25 |
2011-11-25 |
| 23. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
57.86 |
0.9997 |
0.1074 |
382 |
2 |
55.57 |
2011-04-29 |
| 24. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
57.85 |
1.0314 |
0.1110 |
452 |
1 |
57.85 |
2012-03-13 |
| 25. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
57.78 |
1.0577 |
0.0409 |
247 |
1 |
57.78 |
2011-04-29 |
| 26. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
57.34 |
1.0788 |
0.0093 |
171 |
1 |
57.34 |
2011-05-13 |
| 27. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
56.85 |
1.0608 |
0.0567 |
258 |
2 |
44.20 |
2012-03-13 |
| 28. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
56.64 |
1.0384 |
0.0325 |
183 |
1 |
56.64 |
2011-04-29 |
| 29. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
56.50 |
1.0666 |
0.0107 |
297 |
1 |
56.50 |
2011-04-30 |
| 30. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
56.24 |
0.9769 |
0.0934 |
263 |
1 |
56.24 |
2011-04-29 |
| 31. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
56.23 |
1.0968 |
0.0127 |
365 |
1 |
56.23 |
2012-03-13 |
| 32. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
55.98 |
1.0529 |
0.0144 |
351 |
1 |
55.98 |
2011-08-26 |
| 33. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
55.85 |
1.0296 |
0.0415 |
437 |
1 |
55.85 |
2011-04-29 |
| 34. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
55.65 |
1.0154 |
0.0954 |
351 |
1 |
55.65 |
2011-04-29 |
| 35. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
55.65 |
0.9461 |
0.1114 |
193 |
1 |
55.65 |
2011-04-29 |
| 36. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
55.59 |
1.0012 |
0.0619 |
260 |
1 |
55.59 |
2011-09-19 |
| 37. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
55.51 |
0.9687 |
0.0944 |
371 |
1 |
55.51 |
2011-04-27 |
| 38. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
55.10 |
1.0169 |
0.0721 |
346 |
1 |
55.10 |
2011-08-26 |
| 39. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
54.92 |
1.0214 |
0.0201 |
166 |
1 |
54.92 |
2011-04-28 |
| 40. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
54.87 |
0.9792 |
0.1052 |
265 |
3 |
50.84 |
2011-04-30 |
| 41. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
54.82 |
1.0033 |
0.0350 |
189 |
1 |
54.82 |
2011-04-30 |
| 42. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
54.75 |
1.0284 |
0.0587 |
282 |
1 |
54.75 |
2011-04-30 |
| 43. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
54.56 |
0.9866 |
0.0498 |
218 |
1 |
54.56 |
2011-04-29 |
| 44. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
54.54 |
0.9964 |
0.0430 |
203 |
1 |
54.54 |
2011-04-29 |
| 45. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
54.29 |
1.0829 |
-0.0467 |
288 |
1 |
54.29 |
2011-04-27 |
| 46. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
54.01 |
1.0172 |
0.0471 |
341 |
1 |
54.01 |
2011-04-29 |
| 47. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
53.78 |
1.0068 |
0.0213 |
358 |
1 |
53.78 |
2011-04-27 |
| 48. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
53.77 |
0.9912 |
0.0603 |
237 |
1 |
53.77 |
2011-04-29 |
| 49. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
53.75 |
1.0487 |
-0.0294 |
231 |
1 |
53.75 |
2011-04-27 |
| 50. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
53.49 |
1.0352 |
-0.0128 |
341 |
1 |
53.49 |
2011-08-26 |
| 51. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
53.49 |
0.9632 |
0.0549 |
240 |
1 |
53.49 |
2012-01-03 |
| 52. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
53.29 |
0.8442 |
0.1754 |
265 |
1 |
53.29 |
2011-08-30 |
| 53. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
53.06 |
1.0201 |
-0.0157 |
172 |
1 |
53.06 |
2011-11-27 |
| 54. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
52.76 |
1.0669 |
-0.0293 |
286 |
1 |
52.76 |
2011-04-29 |
| 55. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
52.60 |
1.0596 |
-0.0596 |
239 |
1 |
52.60 |
2011-04-29 |
| 56. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
52.49 |
0.9309 |
0.0673 |
284 |
1 |
52.49 |
2011-08-26 |
| 57. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
52.48 |
0.9724 |
0.0312 |
237 |
1 |
52.48 |
2011-05-13 |
| 58. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
52.36 |
0.9593 |
0.0430 |
398 |
2 |
51.80 |
2012-01-03 |
| 59. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
52.20 |
1.0595 |
-0.0629 |
379 |
1 |
52.20 |
2012-01-22 |
| 60. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
52.12 |
0.9772 |
0.0123 |
217 |
1 |
52.12 |
2011-04-27 |
| 61. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
52.00 |
0.9251 |
0.0705 |
177 |
1 |
52.00 |
2012-01-22 |
| 62. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
51.94 |
1.0201 |
-0.0266 |
375 |
1 |
51.94 |
2011-04-29 |
| 63. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
51.80 |
0.9485 |
0.0407 |
291 |
1 |
51.80 |
2011-11-25 |
| 64. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
51.71 |
1.0679 |
-0.0626 |
177 |
1 |
51.71 |
2012-01-03 |
| 65. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
51.64 |
0.8919 |
0.0901 |
205 |
1 |
51.64 |
2012-01-03 |
| 66. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
51.58 |
1.0062 |
-0.0237 |
288 |
1 |
51.58 |
2011-04-29 |
| 67. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.42 |
1.0714 |
-0.1009 |
129 |
1 |
51.42 |
2011-04-29 |
| 68. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
51.28 |
0.9289 |
0.0456 |
204 |
1 |
51.28 |
2012-01-03 |
| 69. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
51.21 |
1.0125 |
-0.0394 |
224 |
2 |
51.11 |
2011-04-27 |
| 70. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
51.14 |
0.8996 |
0.0688 |
192 |
1 |
51.14 |
2011-04-27 |
| 71. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
50.83 |
1.0684 |
-0.0705 |
253 |
1 |
50.83 |
2011-04-27 |
| 72. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
50.81 |
1.0167 |
-0.0424 |
378 |
1 |
50.81 |
2011-04-27 |
| 73. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
50.79 |
0.9768 |
-0.0069 |
387 |
1 |
50.79 |
2011-04-29 |
| 74. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
50.75 |
0.9353 |
0.0273 |
177 |
1 |
50.75 |
2012-01-22 |
| 75. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
50.73 |
0.8914 |
0.0755 |
366 |
2 |
49.99 |
2011-04-30 |
| 76. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
50.60 |
0.9697 |
-0.0014 |
266 |
1 |
50.60 |
2011-04-27 |
| 77. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
50.60 |
1.0288 |
-0.0330 |
300 |
1 |
50.60 |
2011-04-27 |
| 78. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
50.49 |
0.8845 |
0.0775 |
273 |
1 |
50.49 |
2011-09-19 |
| 79. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
50.41 |
0.9247 |
0.0402 |
253 |
1 |
50.41 |
2011-04-29 |
| 80. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
50.05 |
1.0131 |
-0.0640 |
225 |
1 |
50.05 |
2011-04-27 |
| 81. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
50.01 |
0.9612 |
-0.0089 |
256 |
1 |
50.01 |
2011-09-19 |
| 82. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
49.97 |
0.9790 |
0.0130 |
311 |
1 |
49.97 |
2011-04-29 |
| 83. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
49.86 |
1.0531 |
-0.0658 |
272 |
1 |
49.86 |
2011-04-27 |
| 84. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
49.82 |
0.9688 |
-0.0198 |
217 |
1 |
49.82 |
2011-04-28 |
| 85. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
49.49 |
1.0214 |
-0.0365 |
281 |
1 |
49.49 |
2011-04-29 |
| 86. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
49.42 |
1.0270 |
-0.0501 |
255 |
1 |
49.42 |
2011-04-30 |
| 87. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
49.18 |
1.0613 |
-0.1242 |
266 |
1 |
49.18 |
2011-04-27 |
| 88. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
49.16 |
1.0189 |
-0.0798 |
337 |
1 |
49.16 |
2011-08-26 |
| 89. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
49.02 |
0.9088 |
0.0294 |
348 |
1 |
49.02 |
2011-05-13 |
| 90. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
48.90 |
0.9567 |
0.0164 |
184 |
2 |
46.13 |
2012-03-13 |
| 91. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
48.63 |
0.9570 |
-0.0300 |
287 |
1 |
48.63 |
2011-08-26 |
| 92. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
48.63 |
0.8022 |
0.1265 |
215 |
1 |
48.63 |
2011-08-26 |
| 93. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
48.50 |
0.9164 |
0.0112 |
305 |
1 |
48.50 |
2011-11-25 |
| 94. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
48.49 |
0.9665 |
0.0057 |
326 |
1 |
48.49 |
2011-08-26 |
| 95. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
48.45 |
0.9682 |
-0.0480 |
143 |
1 |
48.45 |
2012-03-13 |
| 96. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
48.33 |
1.0365 |
-0.0866 |
162 |
1 |
48.33 |
2012-03-13 |
| 97. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
48.31 |
1.0232 |
-0.0580 |
350 |
1 |
48.31 |
2011-04-27 |
| 98. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
48.19 |
1.0545 |
-0.0969 |
416 |
1 |
48.19 |
2011-04-28 |
| 99. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
48.09 |
1.0885 |
-0.1702 |
315 |
1 |
48.09 |
2011-04-27 |
| 100. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
47.99 |
0.9213 |
-0.0077 |
295 |
1 |
47.99 |
2011-04-27 |
| 101. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
47.85 |
0.9601 |
-0.0449 |
308 |
1 |
47.85 |
2011-08-26 |
| 102. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
47.83 |
0.9731 |
-0.0752 |
129 |
1 |
47.83 |
2011-04-28 |
| 103. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
47.80 |
0.8670 |
0.0478 |
318 |
1 |
47.80 |
2011-04-29 |
| 104. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
47.59 |
1.0053 |
-0.1019 |
232 |
1 |
47.59 |
2011-04-27 |
| 105. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
47.21 |
1.0388 |
-0.1091 |
243 |
1 |
47.21 |
2011-05-13 |
| 106. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
47.16 |
0.9865 |
-0.0882 |
276 |
1 |
47.16 |
2011-04-27 |
| 107. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
47.16 |
0.9084 |
-0.0072 |
404 |
1 |
47.16 |
2011-04-27 |
| 108. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
46.72 |
0.9351 |
-0.0519 |
190 |
1 |
46.72 |
2011-04-30 |
| 109. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
46.59 |
0.9207 |
-0.0315 |
174 |
1 |
46.59 |
2011-04-27 |
| 110. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
46.32 |
0.9776 |
-0.0965 |
308 |
1 |
46.32 |
2012-01-03 |
| 111. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
46.21 |
0.9508 |
-0.0390 |
384 |
1 |
46.21 |
2011-08-26 |
| 112. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
45.75 |
0.8916 |
-0.0215 |
216 |
1 |
45.75 |
2011-04-28 |
| 113. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
45.63 |
0.8878 |
-0.0205 |
346 |
1 |
45.63 |
2011-04-29 |
| 114. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
45.52 |
0.8553 |
0.0052 |
174 |
1 |
45.52 |
2011-04-29 |
| 115. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
45.25 |
0.8353 |
0.0326 |
283 |
1 |
45.25 |
2011-04-27 |
| 116. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
45.21 |
0.9986 |
-0.1387 |
283 |
1 |
45.21 |
2011-04-27 |
| 117. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
44.96 |
0.9774 |
-0.1231 |
196 |
1 |
44.96 |
2012-01-22 |
| 118. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
44.54 |
0.7805 |
0.0622 |
154 |
1 |
44.54 |
2011-04-30 |
| 119. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
44.45 |
1.0567 |
-0.2111 |
303 |
1 |
44.45 |
2011-04-27 |
| 120. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
44.22 |
0.9786 |
-0.1436 |
193 |
1 |
44.22 |
2011-04-26 |
| 121. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
44.17 |
1.0151 |
-0.1837 |
152 |
1 |
44.17 |
2011-04-29 |
| 122. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
43.90 |
0.9894 |
-0.1508 |
323 |
1 |
43.90 |
2011-04-27 |
| 123. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
43.36 |
0.9653 |
-0.1334 |
394 |
1 |
43.36 |
2011-04-27 |
| 124. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
43.26 |
0.9844 |
-0.1579 |
293 |
1 |
43.26 |
2011-04-29 |
| 125. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
43.07 |
0.8852 |
-0.0648 |
201 |
1 |
43.07 |
2011-04-28 |
| 126. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
43.06 |
0.9863 |
-0.1640 |
339 |
1 |
43.06 |
2011-04-27 |
| 127. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
43.05 |
0.9202 |
-0.1029 |
254 |
1 |
43.05 |
2011-04-27 |
| 128. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
43.01 |
0.9871 |
-0.1477 |
227 |
1 |
43.01 |
2011-04-28 |
| 129. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
42.91 |
0.9631 |
-0.0968 |
345 |
1 |
42.91 |
2011-04-27 |
| 130. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
42.53 |
0.9364 |
-0.0883 |
351 |
1 |
42.53 |
2011-04-28 |
| 131. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
42.23 |
0.8787 |
-0.0718 |
202 |
1 |
42.23 |
2011-04-29 |
| 132. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
41.97 |
0.8890 |
-0.0955 |
199 |
1 |
41.97 |
2011-04-27 |
| 133. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
41.19 |
0.8077 |
-0.0271 |
167 |
1 |
41.19 |
2011-04-27 |
| 134. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
41.11 |
0.8162 |
-0.0304 |
149 |
1 |
41.11 |
2011-04-27 |
| 135. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
38.89 |
1.0403 |
-0.2876 |
193 |
1 |
38.89 |
2011-04-27 |
| 136. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
38.83 |
0.9785 |
-0.2389 |
335 |
1 |
38.83 |
2011-11-27 |