| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold and she'... |
55.55 |
1.0592 |
0.1932 |
192 |
1 |
55.55 |
2021-01-19 |
| 2. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
55.14 |
0.9365 |
0.3066 |
248 |
1 |
55.14 |
2012-09-30 |
| 3. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
55.12 |
0.9697 |
0.2730 |
266 |
3 |
52.44 |
2013-06-04 |
| 4. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
54.72 |
1.0905 |
0.1432 |
210 |
1 |
54.72 |
2013-06-04 |
| 5. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
54.31 |
1.0666 |
0.1578 |
297 |
1 |
54.31 |
2012-09-30 |
| 6. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
54.10 |
0.9572 |
0.2625 |
201 |
1 |
54.10 |
2013-05-31 |
| 7. |
You have two choices: you can keep running and hiding and bl... |
53.82 |
1.0660 |
0.1474 |
164 |
1 |
53.82 |
2021-01-19 |
| 8. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
53.33 |
1.1215 |
0.0808 |
200 |
1 |
53.33 |
2012-10-01 |
| 9. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
53.31 |
1.0567 |
0.1452 |
303 |
1 |
53.31 |
2013-06-04 |
| 10. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
52.82 |
1.0787 |
0.1121 |
237 |
2 |
51.72 |
2013-06-04 |
| 11. |
I have often walked down this street before, but the pavemen... |
51.86 |
1.0063 |
0.1629 |
179 |
1 |
51.86 |
2021-01-12 |
| 12. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
51.85 |
0.9316 |
0.2374 |
287 |
1 |
51.85 |
2012-10-02 |
| 13. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
51.80 |
1.0486 |
0.1192 |
289 |
1 |
51.80 |
2012-10-02 |
| 14. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
51.25 |
0.9567 |
0.1987 |
273 |
1 |
51.25 |
2012-10-02 |
| 15. |
If there is a design or pattern on our china, we eat until w... |
51.20 |
1.0244 |
0.1299 |
273 |
1 |
51.20 |
2021-01-12 |
| 16. |
To sit among all those unknown things before a puzzle like t... |
50.96 |
1.0479 |
0.1010 |
234 |
1 |
50.96 |
2021-01-19 |
| 17. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
50.84 |
1.0314 |
0.1148 |
172 |
1 |
50.84 |
2012-10-02 |
| 18. |
Every night you cry yourself to sleep, thinking "Why does th... |
50.45 |
1.0523 |
0.0851 |
276 |
1 |
50.45 |
2021-01-19 |
| 19. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
50.43 |
1.0384 |
0.0985 |
183 |
1 |
50.43 |
2012-10-01 |
| 20. |
I told him that you were really smart. And they'll figure it... |
49.88 |
1.0257 |
0.0988 |
154 |
1 |
49.88 |
2021-01-19 |
| 21. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
49.56 |
0.9986 |
0.1187 |
283 |
1 |
49.56 |
2012-09-30 |
| 22. |
We fell in love, we had our fun, you always had enough dream... |
49.32 |
1.0532 |
0.0587 |
153 |
1 |
49.32 |
2021-01-19 |
| 23. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
49.31 |
0.9941 |
0.1176 |
217 |
2 |
40.48 |
2012-09-30 |
| 24. |
All the times that I've cried, keeping all the things I knew... |
49.31 |
1.0472 |
0.0645 |
229 |
1 |
49.31 |
2021-01-12 |
| 25. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
49.26 |
1.0429 |
0.0677 |
259 |
1 |
49.26 |
2012-09-30 |
| 26. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
48.07 |
1.0297 |
0.0540 |
249 |
1 |
48.07 |
2013-06-04 |
| 27. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
48.06 |
0.9786 |
0.1049 |
235 |
3 |
43.27 |
2013-06-04 |
| 28. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
47.90 |
0.9946 |
0.0853 |
246 |
1 |
47.90 |
2012-10-02 |
| 29. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
47.89 |
1.0349 |
0.0448 |
234 |
2 |
46.13 |
2021-01-19 |
| 30. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
47.52 |
1.0523 |
0.0190 |
256 |
1 |
47.52 |
2012-10-01 |
| 31. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
47.36 |
1.0214 |
0.0463 |
281 |
1 |
47.36 |
2012-10-02 |
| 32. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
47.36 |
1.0016 |
0.0661 |
218 |
1 |
47.36 |
2012-09-30 |
| 33. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
47.18 |
1.0669 |
-0.0032 |
286 |
1 |
47.18 |
2012-10-02 |
| 34. |
I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes. Love is all a... |
47.14 |
1.0608 |
0.0020 |
193 |
1 |
47.14 |
2021-01-18 |
| 35. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
47.08 |
1.0441 |
0.0173 |
316 |
2 |
44.99 |
2013-06-04 |
| 36. |
The poor man determined to find another home, hoping that wh... |
46.72 |
1.0296 |
0.0237 |
129 |
1 |
46.72 |
2021-01-12 |
| 37. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
46.57 |
1.0120 |
0.0379 |
290 |
1 |
46.57 |
2012-09-29 |
| 38. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
46.49 |
0.9893 |
0.0588 |
323 |
1 |
46.49 |
2013-06-04 |
| 39. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
46.36 |
0.9884 |
0.0568 |
233 |
1 |
46.36 |
2013-06-04 |
| 40. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
46.32 |
1.0565 |
-0.0122 |
247 |
1 |
46.32 |
2012-09-30 |
| 41. |
But look at me now, I'm on a cloud. All of my walls are crum... |
46.13 |
0.9814 |
0.0586 |
176 |
1 |
46.13 |
2025-11-05 |
| 42. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
45.99 |
0.9843 |
0.0525 |
234 |
1 |
45.99 |
2012-09-30 |
| 43. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
45.95 |
0.9776 |
0.0583 |
308 |
1 |
45.95 |
2021-01-12 |
| 44. |
It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situat... |
45.94 |
0.9145 |
0.1212 |
207 |
1 |
45.94 |
2013-06-04 |
| 45. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
45.90 |
1.0025 |
0.0323 |
336 |
1 |
45.90 |
2012-09-29 |
| 46. |
What you do as soon as you get up can underpin and affect yo... |
45.78 |
1.0448 |
-0.0127 |
291 |
1 |
45.78 |
2021-01-18 |
| 47. |
Each man is tortured by this dream, but the dream gives mean... |
45.76 |
1.0371 |
-0.0054 |
155 |
1 |
45.76 |
2021-01-19 |
| 48. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
45.46 |
0.9846 |
0.0403 |
281 |
1 |
45.46 |
2013-05-31 |
| 49. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
45.37 |
1.0117 |
0.0112 |
297 |
1 |
45.37 |
2025-11-05 |
| 50. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
45.10 |
0.8916 |
0.1252 |
216 |
1 |
45.10 |
2012-10-02 |
| 51. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
45.03 |
1.0150 |
0.0002 |
325 |
1 |
45.03 |
2013-06-04 |
| 52. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
44.63 |
0.8653 |
0.1409 |
255 |
1 |
44.63 |
2012-10-02 |
| 53. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
44.53 |
1.0498 |
-0.0459 |
180 |
1 |
44.53 |
2012-09-29 |
| 54. |
Days can be sunny, with never a sigh, don't need what money ... |
44.53 |
0.9965 |
0.0074 |
235 |
1 |
44.53 |
2021-01-12 |
| 55. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
44.52 |
1.0595 |
-0.0558 |
379 |
1 |
44.52 |
2012-10-01 |
| 56. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
44.42 |
0.9514 |
0.0500 |
237 |
2 |
44.14 |
2021-01-19 |
| 57. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
44.35 |
1.0608 |
-0.0609 |
258 |
1 |
44.35 |
2012-09-29 |
| 58. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
44.02 |
0.9576 |
0.0348 |
212 |
1 |
44.02 |
2012-10-02 |
| 59. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
43.83 |
0.9697 |
0.0184 |
249 |
2 |
43.09 |
2012-10-02 |
| 60. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
43.77 |
0.8562 |
0.1306 |
170 |
1 |
43.77 |
2012-09-30 |
| 61. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
43.75 |
1.0547 |
-0.0684 |
257 |
2 |
42.51 |
2025-11-05 |
| 62. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
43.56 |
0.9792 |
0.0029 |
265 |
1 |
43.56 |
2012-09-30 |
| 63. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
43.54 |
1.0615 |
-0.0799 |
305 |
1 |
43.54 |
2012-10-01 |
| 64. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
43.54 |
0.9247 |
0.0569 |
253 |
1 |
43.54 |
2012-09-30 |
| 65. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
43.46 |
0.9068 |
0.0730 |
225 |
1 |
43.46 |
2013-06-04 |
| 66. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
43.41 |
0.9991 |
-0.0204 |
225 |
2 |
39.59 |
2013-05-31 |
| 67. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
43.38 |
0.9351 |
0.0429 |
190 |
1 |
43.38 |
2013-05-31 |
| 68. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
43.31 |
0.9795 |
-0.0031 |
308 |
1 |
43.31 |
2012-09-30 |
| 69. |
This is a plea for peace to the oppressors of the world and ... |
43.02 |
0.9862 |
-0.0163 |
297 |
1 |
43.02 |
2021-01-18 |
| 70. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
42.68 |
0.9286 |
0.0336 |
194 |
1 |
42.68 |
2012-09-30 |
| 71. |
No fair. You really know how to make me cry when you give me... |
42.58 |
0.9872 |
-0.0272 |
178 |
1 |
42.58 |
2021-01-18 |
| 72. |
Finally, don't expect your cooking to taste exactly like res... |
42.58 |
0.8951 |
0.0649 |
246 |
1 |
42.58 |
2021-01-12 |
| 73. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
42.45 |
0.9461 |
0.0109 |
193 |
1 |
42.45 |
2012-10-10 |
| 74. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
42.29 |
0.9866 |
-0.0332 |
218 |
1 |
42.29 |
2012-10-03 |
| 75. |
So don't be afraid; your heart is in me, and it's racing so ... |
42.17 |
0.9833 |
-0.0326 |
150 |
1 |
42.17 |
2021-01-18 |
| 76. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
42.02 |
0.8826 |
0.0647 |
296 |
1 |
42.02 |
2012-10-02 |
| 77. |
As Harry and Ron walked back to the castle for dinner, their... |
41.89 |
1.0138 |
-0.0694 |
243 |
1 |
41.89 |
2021-01-18 |
| 78. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
41.72 |
0.9593 |
-0.0187 |
398 |
1 |
41.72 |
2012-10-02 |
| 79. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
41.70 |
0.9649 |
-0.0248 |
193 |
1 |
41.70 |
2013-06-04 |
| 80. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
41.68 |
1.0288 |
-0.0891 |
300 |
1 |
41.68 |
2013-05-31 |
| 81. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
41.66 |
0.9897 |
-0.0505 |
274 |
2 |
38.68 |
2012-09-29 |
| 82. |
As the sound of the playgrounds faded, the despair set in. V... |
41.56 |
1.0430 |
-0.1060 |
119 |
1 |
41.56 |
2025-11-05 |
| 83. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
41.55 |
1.0917 |
-0.1550 |
243 |
1 |
41.55 |
2012-09-29 |
| 84. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
41.45 |
0.9509 |
-0.0164 |
225 |
1 |
41.45 |
2012-10-02 |
| 85. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
41.43 |
0.8773 |
0.0567 |
205 |
1 |
41.43 |
2012-09-30 |
| 86. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
41.42 |
0.9187 |
0.0151 |
118 |
1 |
41.42 |
2012-09-29 |
| 87. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
41.23 |
1.0038 |
-0.0743 |
237 |
2 |
40.13 |
2021-01-18 |
| 88. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
41.20 |
0.9098 |
0.0191 |
167 |
1 |
41.20 |
2012-10-01 |
| 89. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
41.19 |
0.9691 |
-0.0405 |
223 |
1 |
41.19 |
2012-09-30 |
| 90. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
41.02 |
0.9213 |
0.0035 |
295 |
1 |
41.02 |
2012-09-29 |
| 91. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
40.99 |
0.9682 |
-0.0441 |
143 |
1 |
40.99 |
2012-10-02 |
| 92. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
40.98 |
0.8777 |
0.0462 |
177 |
1 |
40.98 |
2012-10-02 |
| 93. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
40.62 |
1.0167 |
-0.1009 |
378 |
1 |
40.62 |
2012-09-29 |
| 94. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
40.57 |
1.0197 |
-0.1050 |
226 |
1 |
40.57 |
2012-09-29 |
| 95. |
I'm tryna buy my neighbor house and turn it to a yard. If yo... |
40.55 |
1.0094 |
-0.0952 |
116 |
1 |
40.55 |
2025-11-05 |
| 96. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
40.50 |
0.9884 |
-0.0753 |
262 |
1 |
40.50 |
2012-09-29 |
| 97. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
40.43 |
1.0346 |
-0.1231 |
244 |
1 |
40.43 |
2012-09-30 |
| 98. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
40.41 |
0.9857 |
-0.0747 |
293 |
1 |
40.41 |
2012-10-01 |
| 99. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
40.22 |
1.0459 |
-0.1391 |
200 |
1 |
40.22 |
2012-09-30 |
| 100. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
39.92 |
1.0463 |
-0.1463 |
182 |
1 |
39.92 |
2012-09-29 |
| 101. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
39.85 |
1.0218 |
-0.1234 |
268 |
1 |
39.85 |
2012-09-29 |
| 102. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
39.82 |
1.0063 |
-0.1086 |
371 |
1 |
39.82 |
2012-09-29 |
| 103. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
39.38 |
0.9633 |
-0.0755 |
304 |
1 |
39.38 |
2012-09-29 |
| 104. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
39.21 |
1.0596 |
-0.1756 |
239 |
1 |
39.21 |
2012-09-29 |
| 105. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
39.08 |
1.0684 |
-0.1873 |
253 |
1 |
39.08 |
2012-09-30 |
| 106. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
38.81 |
0.9597 |
-0.0847 |
347 |
1 |
38.81 |
2012-09-29 |
| 107. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
38.43 |
0.9023 |
-0.0359 |
231 |
1 |
38.43 |
2012-09-30 |
| 108. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
37.68 |
0.9916 |
-0.1421 |
282 |
1 |
37.68 |
2012-09-30 |
| 109. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
37.14 |
0.8553 |
-0.0180 |
174 |
1 |
37.14 |
2012-09-30 |
| 110. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
37.02 |
0.8996 |
-0.0650 |
192 |
1 |
37.02 |
2012-09-30 |
| 111. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
36.81 |
0.8442 |
-0.0143 |
265 |
1 |
36.81 |
2012-10-02 |
| 112. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
36.71 |
0.9756 |
-0.1480 |
229 |
1 |
36.71 |
2012-09-30 |
| 113. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
36.57 |
0.9758 |
-0.1513 |
314 |
1 |
36.57 |
2012-09-29 |
| 114. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
36.09 |
0.9049 |
-0.0913 |
351 |
1 |
36.09 |
2012-09-29 |
| 115. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
36.03 |
0.8792 |
-0.0669 |
296 |
1 |
36.03 |
2012-09-30 |
| 116. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
35.81 |
0.9411 |
-0.1338 |
318 |
1 |
35.81 |
2012-09-29 |
| 117. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
35.57 |
0.9785 |
-0.1766 |
335 |
1 |
35.57 |
2012-09-29 |
| 118. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
35.12 |
0.7731 |
0.0187 |
145 |
1 |
35.12 |
2012-09-30 |
| 119. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
34.38 |
0.8467 |
-0.0716 |
343 |
1 |
34.38 |
2025-11-05 |
| 120. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
33.51 |
1.0124 |
-0.2569 |
204 |
1 |
33.51 |
2012-09-29 |
| 121. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
30.55 |
0.8961 |
-0.2073 |
189 |
1 |
30.55 |
2012-09-29 |