| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
47.43 |
1.0767 |
0.2455 |
212 |
1 |
47.43 |
2010-02-17 |
| 2. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
47.02 |
1.0389 |
0.2757 |
318 |
2 |
37.06 |
2010-07-01 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
46.93 |
1.1016 |
0.2088 |
233 |
1 |
46.93 |
2010-03-07 |
| 4. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
45.80 |
1.0829 |
0.1971 |
288 |
1 |
45.80 |
2010-03-14 |
| 5. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
45.56 |
0.9164 |
0.3588 |
121 |
1 |
45.56 |
2010-02-26 |
| 6. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
45.25 |
1.0334 |
0.2231 |
131 |
2 |
39.85 |
2010-04-10 |
| 7. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
44.77 |
0.9710 |
0.2719 |
173 |
1 |
44.77 |
2010-03-17 |
| 8. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
44.27 |
1.1014 |
0.1717 |
273 |
1 |
44.27 |
2010-04-10 |
| 9. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
43.69 |
1.0197 |
0.1964 |
226 |
2 |
40.27 |
2010-03-14 |
| 10. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
43.63 |
0.9532 |
0.2628 |
258 |
1 |
43.63 |
2010-03-09 |
| 11. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
43.49 |
0.9724 |
0.2445 |
237 |
1 |
43.49 |
2010-03-14 |
| 12. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
42.51 |
0.9325 |
0.2465 |
156 |
3 |
38.48 |
2010-03-10 |
| 13. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
42.06 |
0.9852 |
0.1881 |
264 |
1 |
42.06 |
2010-03-14 |
| 14. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
41.52 |
1.0251 |
0.1305 |
261 |
1 |
41.52 |
2010-03-14 |
| 15. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
41.48 |
1.0795 |
0.1077 |
226 |
2 |
32.83 |
2010-03-07 |
| 16. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
41.40 |
0.9866 |
0.1641 |
218 |
1 |
41.40 |
2010-03-09 |
| 17. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
41.39 |
0.9161 |
0.2360 |
200 |
2 |
33.67 |
2010-04-10 |
| 18. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
41.37 |
1.0679 |
0.1060 |
177 |
1 |
41.37 |
2010-04-10 |
| 19. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
41.19 |
0.9726 |
0.1695 |
154 |
3 |
32.32 |
2010-03-10 |
| 20. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
41.11 |
1.0396 |
0.0994 |
149 |
1 |
41.11 |
2010-04-10 |
| 21. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
40.58 |
1.0365 |
0.1247 |
162 |
1 |
40.58 |
2010-02-26 |
| 22. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
40.43 |
1.0013 |
0.1249 |
273 |
2 |
32.22 |
2010-03-10 |
| 23. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
40.32 |
0.9202 |
0.2031 |
254 |
1 |
40.32 |
2010-04-10 |
| 24. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
40.18 |
0.8971 |
0.2282 |
266 |
1 |
40.18 |
2010-03-14 |
| 25. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
40.09 |
0.9048 |
0.2173 |
271 |
1 |
40.09 |
2010-02-19 |
| 26. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
39.99 |
1.0379 |
0.1117 |
245 |
2 |
39.10 |
2010-03-17 |
| 27. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
39.86 |
0.9430 |
0.1607 |
211 |
2 |
35.27 |
2010-02-17 |
| 28. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
39.85 |
1.0120 |
0.0979 |
290 |
1 |
39.85 |
2010-02-17 |
| 29. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
39.76 |
1.0944 |
0.0586 |
308 |
1 |
39.76 |
2010-02-12 |
| 30. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
39.61 |
0.9485 |
0.1578 |
291 |
2 |
38.14 |
2010-04-10 |
| 31. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
39.46 |
0.9873 |
0.1097 |
155 |
1 |
39.46 |
2010-02-19 |
| 32. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
39.33 |
1.0390 |
0.0532 |
205 |
1 |
39.33 |
2010-03-10 |
| 33. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
39.18 |
0.9207 |
0.1737 |
174 |
1 |
39.18 |
2010-04-10 |
| 34. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
39.00 |
1.0343 |
0.0898 |
242 |
1 |
39.00 |
2010-04-10 |
| 35. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
38.97 |
0.8811 |
0.2094 |
239 |
1 |
38.97 |
2010-04-10 |
| 36. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
38.51 |
0.9938 |
0.0799 |
339 |
1 |
38.51 |
2010-04-10 |
| 37. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
38.49 |
1.0993 |
-0.0290 |
265 |
1 |
38.49 |
2010-02-17 |
| 38. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
38.48 |
1.0711 |
-0.0041 |
213 |
1 |
38.48 |
2010-02-12 |
| 39. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
38.38 |
0.8709 |
0.2063 |
202 |
2 |
33.13 |
2010-02-19 |
| 40. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
38.36 |
0.9786 |
0.0896 |
235 |
1 |
38.36 |
2010-02-12 |
| 41. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
38.31 |
0.9619 |
0.1106 |
393 |
2 |
36.85 |
2010-07-01 |
| 42. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
38.19 |
0.9263 |
0.1411 |
188 |
1 |
38.19 |
2010-01-29 |
| 43. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
38.17 |
1.0515 |
0.0099 |
250 |
1 |
38.17 |
2010-02-19 |
| 44. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
38.03 |
1.0567 |
0.0033 |
303 |
2 |
35.46 |
2010-02-05 |
| 45. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
37.93 |
0.8915 |
0.1640 |
188 |
1 |
37.93 |
2010-02-26 |
| 46. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
37.89 |
0.8653 |
0.2014 |
255 |
1 |
37.89 |
2010-02-19 |
| 47. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
37.77 |
1.0619 |
-0.0062 |
354 |
1 |
37.77 |
2010-04-24 |
| 48. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
37.66 |
1.0445 |
0.0054 |
373 |
2 |
35.64 |
2010-02-12 |
| 49. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
37.04 |
0.9670 |
0.1066 |
307 |
1 |
37.04 |
2010-04-10 |
| 50. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
37.04 |
0.9128 |
0.1602 |
369 |
1 |
37.04 |
2010-03-14 |
| 51. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
36.55 |
0.9260 |
0.1021 |
243 |
1 |
36.55 |
2010-03-07 |
| 52. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
36.28 |
1.0388 |
0.0028 |
243 |
1 |
36.28 |
2010-03-14 |
| 53. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
36.16 |
0.9894 |
0.0217 |
323 |
1 |
36.16 |
2010-02-12 |
| 54. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
36.15 |
1.0565 |
-0.0527 |
247 |
3 |
31.75 |
2010-02-05 |
| 55. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
36.01 |
1.0201 |
-0.0245 |
172 |
1 |
36.01 |
2010-02-12 |
| 56. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
35.97 |
0.9729 |
0.0286 |
255 |
1 |
35.97 |
2010-02-05 |
| 57. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
35.79 |
0.9128 |
0.0889 |
133 |
1 |
35.79 |
2010-04-10 |
| 58. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
35.55 |
0.8360 |
0.1527 |
170 |
1 |
35.55 |
2010-02-26 |
| 59. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
35.53 |
0.9221 |
0.0653 |
244 |
1 |
35.53 |
2010-01-22 |
| 60. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
35.45 |
0.8906 |
0.1003 |
238 |
1 |
35.45 |
2010-02-26 |
| 61. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
35.44 |
0.8533 |
0.1342 |
232 |
2 |
32.47 |
2010-02-17 |
| 62. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
35.34 |
0.8506 |
0.1287 |
132 |
1 |
35.34 |
2010-01-29 |
| 63. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
35.22 |
0.9342 |
0.0495 |
434 |
1 |
35.22 |
2010-04-10 |
| 64. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
35.04 |
0.9633 |
0.0140 |
304 |
1 |
35.04 |
2010-02-26 |
| 65. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
35.02 |
1.0941 |
-0.0884 |
256 |
1 |
35.02 |
2010-02-05 |
| 66. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
34.86 |
1.0669 |
-0.0646 |
286 |
1 |
34.86 |
2010-02-26 |
| 67. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
34.66 |
1.0596 |
-0.0973 |
239 |
2 |
33.81 |
2010-02-12 |
| 68. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
34.31 |
1.0025 |
-0.0471 |
336 |
2 |
30.17 |
2010-02-19 |
| 69. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
33.90 |
0.8826 |
0.0617 |
296 |
1 |
33.90 |
2010-02-05 |
| 70. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
33.71 |
0.8900 |
0.0488 |
164 |
1 |
33.71 |
2010-03-07 |
| 71. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
33.68 |
1.0417 |
-0.1075 |
253 |
2 |
31.57 |
2010-02-05 |
| 72. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
33.58 |
0.8787 |
0.0599 |
202 |
1 |
33.58 |
2010-03-14 |
| 73. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
33.40 |
1.0138 |
-0.0854 |
231 |
1 |
33.40 |
2010-02-12 |
| 74. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
33.35 |
0.9884 |
-0.0618 |
233 |
1 |
33.35 |
2010-02-12 |
| 75. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
33.26 |
0.9649 |
-0.0411 |
193 |
1 |
33.26 |
2010-02-26 |
| 76. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
33.18 |
1.0799 |
-0.1610 |
243 |
1 |
33.18 |
2010-01-22 |
| 77. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
33.17 |
0.9509 |
0.0099 |
225 |
3 |
28.12 |
2010-03-10 |
| 78. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
33.03 |
0.8628 |
0.0522 |
196 |
1 |
33.03 |
2010-02-19 |
| 79. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
32.93 |
0.9168 |
0.0001 |
240 |
2 |
31.94 |
2010-02-26 |
| 80. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
32.34 |
0.8788 |
0.0167 |
134 |
1 |
32.34 |
2010-02-26 |
| 81. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
31.98 |
0.9266 |
-0.0377 |
267 |
2 |
30.43 |
2010-02-19 |
| 82. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
31.97 |
0.9899 |
-0.1061 |
163 |
1 |
31.97 |
2010-03-09 |
| 83. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
31.86 |
1.0346 |
-0.1072 |
244 |
1 |
31.86 |
2010-02-05 |
| 84. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
31.49 |
0.8852 |
-0.0081 |
201 |
1 |
31.49 |
2010-02-12 |
| 85. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
30.73 |
0.9740 |
-0.1245 |
209 |
1 |
30.73 |
2010-02-26 |
| 86. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
30.70 |
0.9233 |
-0.0789 |
168 |
1 |
30.70 |
2010-02-12 |
| 87. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
30.42 |
0.8910 |
-0.0445 |
150 |
1 |
30.42 |
2010-01-29 |
| 88. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
30.18 |
1.0375 |
-0.1534 |
200 |
1 |
30.18 |
2010-01-29 |
| 89. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
30.07 |
0.9976 |
-0.1425 |
174 |
1 |
30.07 |
2010-02-05 |
| 90. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
29.36 |
1.0506 |
-0.2069 |
277 |
1 |
29.36 |
2010-01-22 |
| 91. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
29.10 |
0.8562 |
-0.0485 |
170 |
1 |
29.10 |
2010-01-15 |
| 92. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
29.04 |
0.8348 |
-0.0226 |
219 |
1 |
29.04 |
2010-01-22 |
| 93. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
29.03 |
0.9820 |
-0.1762 |
274 |
1 |
29.03 |
2010-01-29 |
| 94. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
28.88 |
0.8553 |
-0.0590 |
174 |
1 |
28.88 |
2010-01-22 |
| 95. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
28.54 |
1.0034 |
-0.2131 |
302 |
1 |
28.54 |
2010-01-08 |
| 96. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
28.31 |
0.7890 |
-0.0028 |
230 |
1 |
28.31 |
2010-02-26 |
| 97. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
28.10 |
1.0053 |
-0.2279 |
232 |
2 |
27.76 |
2010-02-19 |
| 98. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
27.67 |
0.9857 |
-0.2194 |
293 |
1 |
27.67 |
2010-01-08 |
| 99. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
27.62 |
1.0463 |
-0.2850 |
182 |
1 |
27.62 |
2010-01-15 |
| 100. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
27.37 |
0.7938 |
-0.0340 |
176 |
1 |
27.37 |
2010-02-26 |
| 101. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
27.33 |
1.0485 |
-0.2561 |
153 |
2 |
24.70 |
2010-02-19 |
| 102. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
27.21 |
0.9820 |
-0.2249 |
267 |
1 |
27.21 |
2010-01-22 |
| 103. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
26.92 |
1.0284 |
-0.2390 |
282 |
1 |
26.92 |
2010-01-15 |
| 104. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
26.85 |
1.0441 |
-0.2586 |
316 |
1 |
26.85 |
2010-02-12 |
| 105. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
26.49 |
0.7981 |
-0.0665 |
126 |
1 |
26.49 |
2010-02-26 |
| 106. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
26.35 |
0.8996 |
-0.1750 |
192 |
1 |
26.35 |
2010-01-15 |
| 107. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
26.31 |
0.9871 |
-0.2220 |
209 |
1 |
26.31 |
2010-01-29 |
| 108. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
25.95 |
1.0173 |
-0.2543 |
268 |
1 |
25.95 |
2010-01-15 |
| 109. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
25.37 |
0.8892 |
-0.1808 |
207 |
1 |
25.37 |
2010-01-15 |
| 110. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
25.12 |
0.9991 |
-0.3032 |
225 |
1 |
25.12 |
2010-01-22 |
| 111. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
24.84 |
0.9239 |
-0.2298 |
193 |
1 |
24.84 |
2010-02-12 |
| 112. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
24.54 |
0.8125 |
-0.1310 |
197 |
1 |
24.54 |
2010-02-26 |
| 113. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
24.39 |
1.0666 |
-0.3917 |
297 |
1 |
24.39 |
2010-01-08 |