Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
71.07 |
1.0427 |
0.1573 |
269 |
1 |
71.07 |
2014-12-04 |
2. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
71.05 |
0.9658 |
0.2369 |
308 |
1 |
71.05 |
2014-12-19 |
3. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
70.60 |
1.0288 |
0.1579 |
166 |
2 |
60.86 |
2014-12-02 |
4. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
70.53 |
1.0230 |
0.1683 |
200 |
1 |
70.53 |
2014-12-10 |
5. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
69.83 |
1.0901 |
0.0900 |
288 |
1 |
69.83 |
2014-12-04 |
6. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
69.60 |
1.0403 |
0.1323 |
234 |
1 |
69.60 |
2014-12-24 |
7. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
69.38 |
1.0418 |
0.1294 |
214 |
1 |
69.38 |
2015-01-19 |
8. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
69.25 |
1.0736 |
0.0988 |
256 |
1 |
69.25 |
2014-12-15 |
9. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
68.86 |
1.0857 |
0.0886 |
393 |
1 |
68.86 |
2014-12-10 |
10. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
68.81 |
1.0208 |
0.1394 |
232 |
1 |
68.81 |
2014-12-19 |
11. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
68.33 |
1.0106 |
0.1414 |
302 |
1 |
68.33 |
2015-10-15 |
12. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
68.10 |
1.0682 |
0.0818 |
266 |
1 |
68.10 |
2014-12-04 |
13. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
67.95 |
1.0777 |
0.0666 |
226 |
2 |
63.38 |
2014-12-04 |
14. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
67.33 |
0.9981 |
0.1371 |
211 |
1 |
67.33 |
2014-12-16 |
15. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
67.05 |
0.9842 |
0.1489 |
335 |
1 |
67.05 |
2014-12-29 |
16. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
66.71 |
1.0060 |
0.1199 |
260 |
1 |
66.71 |
2015-10-15 |
17. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
66.68 |
1.0086 |
0.1117 |
218 |
1 |
66.68 |
2015-07-07 |
18. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
66.42 |
1.0301 |
0.0890 |
268 |
1 |
66.42 |
2015-02-14 |
19. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
66.36 |
1.0103 |
0.1032 |
209 |
1 |
66.36 |
2014-03-02 |
20. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
65.96 |
1.0753 |
0.0441 |
206 |
1 |
65.96 |
2014-12-16 |
21. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
65.87 |
0.9909 |
0.1250 |
293 |
3 |
62.18 |
2015-10-14 |
22. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
65.77 |
1.0511 |
0.0598 |
252 |
2 |
62.64 |
2014-12-15 |
23. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
65.55 |
1.1095 |
-0.0018 |
252 |
1 |
65.55 |
2014-11-27 |
24. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
65.34 |
1.0800 |
0.0148 |
129 |
1 |
65.34 |
2014-12-07 |
25. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
65.14 |
0.9680 |
0.1309 |
256 |
1 |
65.14 |
2015-10-14 |
26. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
65.00 |
0.9708 |
0.1232 |
349 |
1 |
65.00 |
2014-12-24 |
27. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
64.85 |
0.9849 |
0.1100 |
337 |
1 |
64.85 |
2015-02-09 |
28. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
64.36 |
1.0124 |
0.0783 |
275 |
1 |
64.36 |
2014-12-12 |
29. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
64.33 |
1.0204 |
0.0562 |
143 |
1 |
64.33 |
2014-12-16 |
30. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
64.21 |
1.0304 |
0.0491 |
256 |
1 |
64.21 |
2015-01-19 |
31. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
64.14 |
0.9756 |
0.1053 |
223 |
1 |
64.14 |
2015-02-07 |
32. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
63.94 |
1.0495 |
0.0283 |
323 |
1 |
63.94 |
2014-12-02 |
33. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
63.38 |
0.9957 |
0.0728 |
323 |
1 |
63.38 |
2014-12-21 |
34. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
62.91 |
0.9358 |
0.1185 |
188 |
1 |
62.91 |
2014-12-19 |
35. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
62.89 |
1.0487 |
0.0093 |
253 |
1 |
62.89 |
2014-12-01 |
36. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
62.86 |
1.0616 |
0.0052 |
304 |
1 |
62.86 |
2014-12-29 |
37. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
62.48 |
1.0792 |
-0.0209 |
251 |
1 |
62.48 |
2014-12-04 |
38. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
62.46 |
0.9917 |
0.0639 |
317 |
1 |
62.46 |
2014-12-10 |
39. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
62.41 |
0.9284 |
0.1274 |
346 |
1 |
62.41 |
2015-10-14 |
40. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
62.40 |
1.1198 |
-0.0688 |
247 |
1 |
62.40 |
2014-12-28 |
41. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
62.34 |
1.0234 |
0.0319 |
392 |
1 |
62.34 |
2014-12-07 |
42. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
62.22 |
0.9352 |
0.1127 |
194 |
1 |
62.22 |
2014-12-15 |
43. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
62.16 |
1.0208 |
0.0271 |
231 |
1 |
62.16 |
2014-12-24 |
44. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
62.10 |
0.9791 |
0.0608 |
154 |
1 |
62.10 |
2014-12-01 |
45. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
61.87 |
1.0279 |
0.0098 |
172 |
1 |
61.87 |
2015-01-19 |
46. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
61.70 |
1.0881 |
-0.0516 |
210 |
1 |
61.70 |
2014-11-27 |
47. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
61.62 |
0.9299 |
0.1007 |
168 |
1 |
61.62 |
2014-11-26 |
48. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
61.60 |
1.0227 |
0.0222 |
378 |
1 |
61.60 |
2014-12-02 |
49. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
61.51 |
1.0698 |
-0.0258 |
303 |
1 |
61.51 |
2014-11-27 |
50. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
61.08 |
1.0026 |
0.0314 |
200 |
3 |
53.01 |
2014-12-21 |
51. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
60.91 |
0.9332 |
0.0934 |
267 |
1 |
60.91 |
2015-02-12 |
52. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
60.86 |
0.9797 |
0.0508 |
269 |
2 |
59.02 |
2014-12-16 |
53. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
60.73 |
0.9631 |
0.0606 |
273 |
1 |
60.73 |
2014-12-01 |
54. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
60.47 |
0.9598 |
0.0619 |
209 |
1 |
60.47 |
2014-12-07 |
55. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
60.41 |
0.9519 |
0.0706 |
323 |
2 |
59.60 |
2014-12-09 |
56. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
60.33 |
1.0628 |
-0.0436 |
363 |
1 |
60.33 |
2014-12-04 |
57. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
60.32 |
0.8837 |
0.1318 |
157 |
1 |
60.32 |
2014-12-13 |
58. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
60.27 |
0.9989 |
0.0243 |
282 |
1 |
60.27 |
2014-12-02 |
59. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
59.51 |
1.0665 |
-0.0624 |
210 |
1 |
59.51 |
2014-12-02 |
60. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
59.41 |
0.8981 |
0.1124 |
255 |
1 |
59.41 |
2014-12-02 |
61. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
59.41 |
1.0370 |
-0.0359 |
262 |
1 |
59.41 |
2014-11-27 |
62. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
59.35 |
1.0432 |
-0.0424 |
276 |
1 |
59.35 |
2013-08-26 |
63. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
59.30 |
0.9980 |
0.0040 |
295 |
1 |
59.30 |
2014-12-03 |
64. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
59.28 |
0.9765 |
0.0218 |
269 |
2 |
57.67 |
2014-12-16 |
65. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
59.02 |
1.0060 |
-0.0103 |
225 |
1 |
59.02 |
2014-11-27 |
66. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
58.90 |
1.0131 |
-0.0171 |
245 |
1 |
58.90 |
2014-11-27 |
67. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
58.89 |
1.0039 |
-0.0051 |
255 |
1 |
58.89 |
2014-12-04 |
68. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
58.83 |
0.9271 |
0.0643 |
295 |
1 |
58.83 |
2014-12-07 |
69. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
58.83 |
0.9549 |
0.0341 |
204 |
1 |
58.83 |
2014-12-02 |
70. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
58.50 |
0.9915 |
-0.0070 |
281 |
1 |
58.50 |
2014-11-29 |
71. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
58.48 |
0.9136 |
0.0753 |
348 |
1 |
58.48 |
2014-12-24 |
72. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
58.17 |
1.0877 |
-0.1114 |
129 |
2 |
54.87 |
2015-02-14 |
73. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
58.04 |
0.9332 |
0.0463 |
295 |
1 |
58.04 |
2014-11-27 |
74. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
57.89 |
1.0672 |
-0.0930 |
239 |
1 |
57.89 |
2014-11-27 |
75. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
57.67 |
1.0538 |
-0.0692 |
367 |
1 |
57.67 |
2014-12-04 |
76. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
57.67 |
0.9374 |
0.0371 |
232 |
1 |
57.67 |
2015-10-21 |
77. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
57.53 |
1.0006 |
-0.0309 |
311 |
1 |
57.53 |
2014-11-26 |
78. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
57.24 |
1.0267 |
-0.0589 |
261 |
2 |
50.50 |
2014-12-05 |
79. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
57.13 |
0.9801 |
-0.0093 |
282 |
2 |
54.57 |
2014-12-04 |
80. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
56.92 |
1.0036 |
-0.0434 |
277 |
1 |
56.92 |
2014-11-21 |
81. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
56.67 |
0.9780 |
-0.0291 |
173 |
1 |
56.67 |
2014-11-27 |
82. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
56.63 |
1.0464 |
-0.0869 |
294 |
1 |
56.63 |
2014-12-01 |
83. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
56.60 |
0.9756 |
-0.0196 |
216 |
1 |
56.60 |
2015-01-19 |
84. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
56.59 |
0.8843 |
0.0805 |
168 |
1 |
56.59 |
2015-01-19 |
85. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
56.14 |
0.9809 |
-0.0390 |
209 |
1 |
56.14 |
2014-12-05 |
86. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
56.13 |
0.9841 |
-0.0269 |
325 |
1 |
56.13 |
2014-12-17 |
87. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
55.61 |
0.8993 |
0.0407 |
366 |
1 |
55.61 |
2014-12-10 |
88. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
55.48 |
1.0094 |
-0.0748 |
256 |
1 |
55.48 |
2014-12-01 |
89. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
55.19 |
0.8718 |
0.0613 |
318 |
1 |
55.19 |
2014-10-25 |
90. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
55.03 |
0.9183 |
0.0048 |
252 |
1 |
55.03 |
2014-11-26 |
91. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
54.97 |
1.0501 |
-0.1233 |
263 |
1 |
54.97 |
2014-11-27 |
92. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
54.89 |
1.0498 |
-0.1242 |
261 |
1 |
54.89 |
2014-12-01 |
93. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
54.17 |
0.8721 |
0.0466 |
231 |
1 |
54.17 |
2014-12-06 |
94. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
53.81 |
1.0178 |
-0.1133 |
207 |
1 |
53.81 |
2014-11-27 |
95. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
52.96 |
0.9113 |
-0.0127 |
318 |
1 |
52.96 |
2014-12-07 |
96. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
52.78 |
0.9643 |
-0.0667 |
282 |
1 |
52.78 |
2014-11-27 |
97. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
52.55 |
1.0069 |
-0.1188 |
242 |
1 |
52.55 |
2014-11-21 |
98. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
52.28 |
0.9685 |
-0.0876 |
304 |
1 |
52.28 |
2014-11-27 |
99. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
52.22 |
0.8794 |
0.0069 |
427 |
1 |
52.22 |
2014-12-12 |
100. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
50.98 |
0.9445 |
-0.0774 |
389 |
1 |
50.98 |
2014-12-02 |
101. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
50.59 |
1.0408 |
-0.1814 |
257 |
1 |
50.59 |
2015-01-19 |
102. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
50.53 |
0.9627 |
-0.1128 |
259 |
1 |
50.53 |
2013-08-26 |
103. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
50.53 |
1.0462 |
-0.1924 |
340 |
1 |
50.53 |
2014-12-04 |
104. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.12 |
0.9228 |
-0.0740 |
305 |
1 |
50.12 |
2014-11-28 |
105. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
49.65 |
0.8936 |
-0.0589 |
346 |
1 |
49.65 |
2014-12-01 |
106. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
49.15 |
0.9761 |
-0.1437 |
227 |
1 |
49.15 |
2014-11-27 |
107. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
48.64 |
1.0414 |
-0.2239 |
234 |
1 |
48.64 |
2014-11-25 |
108. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
47.52 |
0.9621 |
-0.1606 |
212 |
1 |
47.52 |
2013-04-02 |
109. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
47.10 |
0.8992 |
-0.0948 |
320 |
1 |
47.10 |
2014-12-04 |
110. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
46.83 |
1.1093 |
-0.3271 |
220 |
1 |
46.83 |
2015-10-15 |
111. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
46.61 |
0.8656 |
-0.0797 |
242 |
1 |
46.61 |
2014-11-21 |
112. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.54 |
1.0426 |
-0.2636 |
131 |
1 |
46.54 |
2013-08-26 |
113. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
45.76 |
0.9673 |
-0.1949 |
292 |
1 |
45.76 |
2013-04-09 |
114. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
45.38 |
1.0865 |
-0.3236 |
237 |
1 |
45.38 |
2013-04-02 |
115. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
45.14 |
0.9243 |
-0.1653 |
231 |
1 |
45.14 |
2013-04-09 |
116. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
43.22 |
0.9400 |
-0.2104 |
434 |
1 |
43.22 |
2014-11-23 |
117. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
41.85 |
0.9020 |
-0.2032 |
186 |
1 |
41.85 |
2013-04-10 |
118. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
41.52 |
0.9884 |
-0.2877 |
267 |
1 |
41.52 |
2013-04-02 |
119. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
37.53 |
0.9394 |
-0.3111 |
195 |
1 |
37.53 |
2014-12-29 |