| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
28.81 |
0.8936 |
0.4229 |
127 |
2 |
27.68 |
2011-06-22 |
| 2. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
28.24 |
0.9320 |
0.3535 |
84 |
3 |
22.95 |
2011-06-22 |
| 3. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
27.69 |
0.8157 |
0.4507 |
121 |
1 |
27.69 |
2011-06-22 |
| 4. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
26.29 |
0.9418 |
0.2656 |
188 |
3 |
24.55 |
2011-06-22 |
| 5. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
26.05 |
1.0498 |
0.1355 |
180 |
1 |
26.05 |
2011-06-22 |
| 6. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
26.04 |
0.8231 |
0.3702 |
180 |
3 |
21.62 |
2011-05-26 |
| 7. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
26.01 |
1.0396 |
0.1417 |
149 |
1 |
26.01 |
2011-05-26 |
| 8. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
25.80 |
0.8615 |
0.3174 |
110 |
2 |
20.62 |
2011-05-26 |
| 9. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
25.61 |
0.8918 |
0.2767 |
100 |
2 |
22.69 |
2011-05-31 |
| 10. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
25.55 |
0.8715 |
0.2931 |
130 |
4 |
18.38 |
2011-05-31 |
| 11. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
25.49 |
0.9873 |
0.1740 |
155 |
1 |
25.49 |
2011-06-22 |
| 12. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
25.38 |
1.0795 |
0.1102 |
226 |
1 |
25.38 |
2011-06-20 |
| 13. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
25.35 |
0.8788 |
0.2764 |
134 |
2 |
21.45 |
2011-05-26 |
| 14. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
25.28 |
0.7389 |
0.4177 |
145 |
3 |
22.46 |
2011-05-19 |
| 15. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
25.26 |
0.8852 |
0.2697 |
158 |
1 |
25.26 |
2011-05-26 |
| 16. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
25.26 |
0.8953 |
0.2599 |
193 |
1 |
25.26 |
2011-05-19 |
| 17. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
25.25 |
0.8872 |
0.2607 |
168 |
1 |
25.25 |
2011-05-26 |
| 18. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
25.21 |
0.9164 |
0.2393 |
121 |
2 |
21.99 |
2011-05-26 |
| 19. |
When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped... |
25.20 |
0.8297 |
0.3117 |
103 |
2 |
24.75 |
2011-05-31 |
| 20. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
25.14 |
1.0132 |
0.1263 |
143 |
1 |
25.14 |
2011-05-31 |
| 21. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
25.06 |
0.8145 |
0.3325 |
115 |
2 |
20.13 |
2011-06-22 |
| 22. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
24.76 |
1.0521 |
0.0734 |
171 |
1 |
24.76 |
2011-05-19 |
| 23. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
24.65 |
0.7996 |
0.3284 |
177 |
1 |
24.65 |
2011-06-22 |
| 24. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
24.59 |
0.9986 |
0.1190 |
162 |
2 |
20.55 |
2011-05-31 |
| 25. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
24.57 |
0.9063 |
0.2238 |
239 |
1 |
24.57 |
2011-05-26 |
| 26. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
24.48 |
0.9773 |
0.1324 |
123 |
1 |
24.48 |
2011-05-19 |
| 27. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
24.42 |
0.7934 |
0.3219 |
134 |
1 |
24.42 |
2011-05-26 |
| 28. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
24.41 |
1.0943 |
0.0529 |
206 |
1 |
24.41 |
2011-05-26 |
| 29. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
24.34 |
0.8821 |
0.2291 |
176 |
4 |
21.95 |
2011-05-31 |
| 30. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
24.32 |
0.7981 |
0.3108 |
126 |
2 |
20.68 |
2011-05-26 |
| 31. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
24.21 |
0.7916 |
0.3218 |
184 |
2 |
23.31 |
2011-05-26 |
| 32. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
24.20 |
1.0679 |
0.0569 |
177 |
2 |
21.72 |
2011-05-22 |
| 33. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
24.16 |
1.0029 |
0.0935 |
209 |
2 |
23.26 |
2011-05-26 |
| 34. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
24.10 |
0.8876 |
0.2114 |
118 |
2 |
23.20 |
2011-06-20 |
| 35. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
24.05 |
0.8551 |
0.2434 |
171 |
1 |
24.05 |
2011-05-19 |
| 36. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
23.96 |
0.9559 |
0.1402 |
195 |
1 |
23.96 |
2011-05-26 |
| 37. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
23.91 |
0.9325 |
0.1521 |
156 |
2 |
20.16 |
2011-05-26 |
| 38. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
23.71 |
0.9028 |
0.1804 |
155 |
2 |
22.00 |
2011-05-22 |
| 39. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
23.62 |
1.0485 |
0.0639 |
153 |
1 |
23.62 |
2011-06-22 |
| 40. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
23.54 |
0.9353 |
0.1346 |
177 |
1 |
23.54 |
2011-06-22 |
| 41. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
23.53 |
0.9965 |
0.0727 |
168 |
2 |
23.28 |
2011-06-22 |
| 42. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
23.43 |
0.8562 |
0.2132 |
170 |
2 |
18.69 |
2011-06-20 |
| 43. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
23.41 |
1.0095 |
0.0574 |
316 |
1 |
23.41 |
2011-06-22 |
| 44. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
23.39 |
0.9202 |
0.1471 |
254 |
1 |
23.39 |
2011-05-31 |
| 45. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
23.24 |
0.8500 |
0.2164 |
145 |
1 |
23.24 |
2011-05-18 |
| 46. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
23.22 |
1.0487 |
0.0059 |
231 |
2 |
21.02 |
2011-05-26 |
| 47. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
23.21 |
0.7988 |
0.2687 |
219 |
1 |
23.21 |
2011-05-31 |
| 48. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
23.14 |
1.0252 |
0.0241 |
176 |
2 |
23.01 |
2011-05-22 |
| 49. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
23.08 |
0.8747 |
0.1745 |
201 |
2 |
19.18 |
2011-05-26 |
| 50. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
23.07 |
0.9187 |
0.1239 |
118 |
1 |
23.07 |
2011-05-26 |
| 51. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
22.90 |
1.0201 |
0.0182 |
172 |
2 |
19.61 |
2011-05-26 |
| 52. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
22.76 |
0.7850 |
0.2501 |
154 |
2 |
19.87 |
2011-05-26 |
| 53. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
22.61 |
0.7690 |
0.2645 |
142 |
2 |
21.09 |
2011-05-31 |
| 54. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
22.57 |
0.9162 |
0.1137 |
165 |
2 |
21.07 |
2011-06-20 |
| 55. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
22.55 |
0.9098 |
0.1148 |
167 |
2 |
19.02 |
2011-05-26 |
| 56. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
22.53 |
0.8263 |
0.1994 |
162 |
3 |
19.01 |
2011-05-31 |
| 57. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
22.50 |
0.8700 |
0.1565 |
127 |
3 |
18.85 |
2011-05-17 |
| 58. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
22.43 |
0.8037 |
0.2227 |
148 |
2 |
21.15 |
2011-05-26 |
| 59. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
22.37 |
0.8661 |
0.1460 |
94 |
1 |
22.37 |
2011-05-26 |
| 60. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
22.36 |
1.0214 |
-0.0069 |
166 |
2 |
14.96 |
2011-05-26 |
| 61. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
22.35 |
0.8142 |
0.2001 |
187 |
1 |
22.35 |
2011-05-31 |
| 62. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
22.35 |
0.8890 |
0.1268 |
199 |
1 |
22.35 |
2011-05-31 |
| 63. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
22.28 |
0.7375 |
0.2832 |
148 |
3 |
19.15 |
2011-05-26 |
| 64. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
22.23 |
0.8691 |
0.1325 |
119 |
2 |
22.00 |
2011-05-26 |
| 65. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
22.18 |
0.9340 |
0.0769 |
296 |
2 |
21.97 |
2011-05-26 |
| 66. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
22.10 |
0.7805 |
0.2230 |
154 |
4 |
16.73 |
2011-06-20 |
| 67. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
22.06 |
0.8152 |
0.1923 |
163 |
2 |
21.65 |
2011-06-22 |
| 68. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
22.06 |
0.8731 |
0.1399 |
199 |
1 |
22.06 |
2011-06-20 |
| 69. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
21.96 |
0.9350 |
0.0670 |
195 |
2 |
21.68 |
2011-05-31 |
| 70. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
21.93 |
0.9161 |
0.0815 |
200 |
3 |
21.35 |
2011-05-26 |
| 71. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
21.85 |
0.8082 |
0.1967 |
186 |
1 |
21.85 |
2011-05-22 |
| 72. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
21.79 |
0.8077 |
0.1835 |
167 |
1 |
21.79 |
2011-06-20 |
| 73. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
21.69 |
0.9871 |
0.0380 |
209 |
1 |
21.69 |
2011-06-22 |
| 74. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
21.67 |
0.8996 |
0.0828 |
192 |
1 |
21.67 |
2011-05-26 |
| 75. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
21.49 |
0.8614 |
0.1157 |
172 |
2 |
20.27 |
2011-05-22 |
| 76. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
21.44 |
0.7708 |
0.2120 |
207 |
2 |
19.88 |
2011-05-26 |
| 77. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
21.44 |
0.8162 |
0.1666 |
149 |
3 |
18.02 |
2011-05-22 |
| 78. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
21.38 |
0.9303 |
0.0373 |
176 |
1 |
21.38 |
2011-05-26 |
| 79. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
21.27 |
0.8323 |
0.1367 |
145 |
2 |
19.14 |
2011-05-19 |
| 80. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
21.12 |
0.8745 |
0.0866 |
169 |
1 |
21.12 |
2011-05-26 |
| 81. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
21.02 |
0.8660 |
0.0924 |
193 |
2 |
21.00 |
2011-05-31 |
| 82. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
20.96 |
0.8190 |
0.1440 |
135 |
1 |
20.96 |
2011-05-26 |
| 83. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
20.93 |
0.8559 |
0.0989 |
191 |
1 |
20.93 |
2011-05-19 |
| 84. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
20.84 |
1.0205 |
-0.0776 |
179 |
1 |
20.84 |
2011-05-17 |
| 85. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
20.78 |
0.7877 |
0.1638 |
142 |
1 |
20.78 |
2011-05-26 |
| 86. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
20.73 |
0.8581 |
0.0832 |
136 |
1 |
20.73 |
2011-05-22 |
| 87. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
20.62 |
0.9820 |
-0.0426 |
274 |
1 |
20.62 |
2011-06-20 |
| 88. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
20.60 |
0.8811 |
0.0619 |
239 |
1 |
20.60 |
2011-05-26 |
| 89. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
20.55 |
0.8791 |
0.0563 |
190 |
1 |
20.55 |
2011-05-31 |
| 90. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
20.51 |
0.9572 |
-0.0242 |
201 |
1 |
20.51 |
2011-05-31 |
| 91. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
20.50 |
1.0334 |
-0.1061 |
131 |
1 |
20.50 |
2011-05-17 |
| 92. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
20.48 |
0.7443 |
0.1881 |
169 |
1 |
20.48 |
2011-05-22 |
| 93. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
20.43 |
0.9941 |
-0.0657 |
217 |
1 |
20.43 |
2011-05-19 |
| 94. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
20.42 |
1.0462 |
-0.1218 |
184 |
1 |
20.42 |
2011-05-22 |
| 95. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
20.29 |
0.9514 |
-0.0270 |
237 |
1 |
20.29 |
2011-05-28 |
| 96. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
20.28 |
0.8422 |
0.0844 |
164 |
1 |
20.28 |
2011-05-18 |
| 97. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
20.27 |
0.8773 |
0.0495 |
205 |
1 |
20.27 |
2011-05-22 |
| 98. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
20.21 |
0.9740 |
-0.0578 |
209 |
2 |
18.83 |
2011-05-19 |
| 99. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
19.95 |
0.9351 |
-0.0322 |
190 |
1 |
19.95 |
2011-05-18 |
| 100. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
19.71 |
0.8884 |
0.0091 |
135 |
1 |
19.71 |
2011-05-19 |
| 101. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
19.55 |
0.8188 |
0.0731 |
183 |
1 |
19.55 |
2011-05-22 |
| 102. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
19.42 |
1.0444 |
-0.1669 |
197 |
1 |
19.42 |
2011-05-15 |
| 103. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
19.36 |
0.8520 |
0.0298 |
202 |
1 |
19.36 |
2011-05-19 |
| 104. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
19.33 |
0.7104 |
0.1725 |
131 |
1 |
19.33 |
2011-06-22 |
| 105. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
19.32 |
1.0390 |
-0.1636 |
205 |
1 |
19.32 |
2011-05-19 |
| 106. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
19.29 |
0.7852 |
0.0990 |
149 |
2 |
19.26 |
2011-05-26 |
| 107. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
19.24 |
0.7352 |
0.1409 |
106 |
3 |
16.60 |
2011-05-31 |
| 108. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
19.15 |
0.8202 |
0.0484 |
178 |
3 |
17.69 |
2011-05-31 |
| 109. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
19.03 |
0.7484 |
0.1143 |
185 |
1 |
19.03 |
2011-05-18 |
| 110. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
18.89 |
0.8311 |
0.0226 |
124 |
1 |
18.89 |
2011-05-17 |
| 111. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
18.74 |
0.8070 |
0.0487 |
137 |
2 |
18.51 |
2011-05-22 |
| 112. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
18.60 |
0.7908 |
0.0611 |
127 |
1 |
18.60 |
2011-05-17 |
| 113. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
18.57 |
0.9844 |
-0.1291 |
229 |
1 |
18.57 |
2011-05-17 |
| 114. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
18.54 |
1.0023 |
-0.1611 |
211 |
2 |
17.31 |
2011-05-17 |
| 115. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
18.41 |
1.0528 |
-0.2202 |
201 |
2 |
17.64 |
2011-05-22 |
| 116. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
18.37 |
0.9226 |
-0.0831 |
177 |
1 |
18.37 |
2011-05-15 |
| 117. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
17.89 |
0.8122 |
0.0044 |
181 |
2 |
17.08 |
2011-05-18 |
| 118. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
17.69 |
0.8023 |
0.0075 |
182 |
1 |
17.69 |
2011-05-17 |
| 119. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
17.59 |
0.9798 |
-0.1860 |
199 |
1 |
17.59 |
2011-05-15 |
| 120. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
17.56 |
0.9286 |
-0.1316 |
194 |
1 |
17.56 |
2011-05-22 |
| 121. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
17.39 |
0.8725 |
-0.0801 |
163 |
1 |
17.39 |
2011-05-15 |
| 122. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
17.37 |
0.9726 |
-0.1903 |
154 |
1 |
17.37 |
2011-05-17 |
| 123. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
16.87 |
1.0375 |
-0.2255 |
200 |
1 |
16.87 |
2011-05-15 |
| 124. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
16.70 |
1.0151 |
-0.2659 |
152 |
1 |
16.70 |
2011-05-15 |
| 125. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
16.64 |
0.8763 |
-0.1198 |
105 |
1 |
16.64 |
2011-05-19 |
| 126. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
16.53 |
0.9028 |
-0.1543 |
111 |
2 |
16.33 |
2011-05-17 |
| 127. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
16.41 |
1.0033 |
-0.2652 |
189 |
1 |
16.41 |
2011-05-15 |
| 128. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
15.52 |
0.9682 |
-0.2659 |
143 |
1 |
15.52 |
2011-05-17 |
| 129. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
15.44 |
0.8553 |
-0.1601 |
174 |
1 |
15.44 |
2011-05-15 |
| 130. |
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. |
15.40 |
0.9580 |
-0.2659 |
62 |
1 |
15.40 |
2011-05-15 |
| 131. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
15.23 |
1.0004 |
-0.3161 |
212 |
1 |
15.23 |
2011-06-06 |
| 132. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
15.12 |
0.7259 |
-0.0341 |
186 |
1 |
15.12 |
2011-05-15 |
| 133. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
13.84 |
0.9221 |
-0.2971 |
244 |
1 |
13.84 |
2011-05-15 |
| 134. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
8.61 |
0.8867 |
-0.4948 |
163 |
1 |
8.61 |
2011-05-17 |