| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
93.98 |
1.0943 |
0.3412 |
206 |
1 |
93.98 |
2013-10-04 |
| 2. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
91.18 |
1.0403 |
0.3603 |
275 |
1 |
91.18 |
2013-10-04 |
| 3. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
90.62 |
1.0644 |
0.3242 |
257 |
1 |
90.62 |
2013-09-28 |
| 4. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
88.98 |
0.9731 |
0.3418 |
129 |
1 |
88.98 |
2013-06-22 |
| 5. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
86.89 |
1.0788 |
0.2116 |
171 |
1 |
86.89 |
2012-10-22 |
| 6. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
86.58 |
1.0389 |
0.2543 |
318 |
1 |
86.58 |
2013-10-04 |
| 7. |
Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beaut... |
85.89 |
0.9654 |
0.3171 |
145 |
1 |
85.89 |
2016-03-31 |
| 8. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
85.81 |
1.0417 |
0.2354 |
253 |
1 |
85.81 |
2013-10-04 |
| 9. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
85.27 |
1.0361 |
0.2363 |
269 |
2 |
77.64 |
2013-06-22 |
| 10. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
83.20 |
1.0073 |
0.2414 |
369 |
1 |
83.20 |
2013-10-04 |
| 11. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
83.19 |
1.0375 |
0.2486 |
200 |
1 |
83.19 |
2013-10-04 |
| 12. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
82.36 |
1.1323 |
0.1294 |
341 |
1 |
82.36 |
2012-10-10 |
| 13. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
81.48 |
0.9871 |
0.2637 |
209 |
3 |
69.49 |
2013-09-28 |
| 14. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
81.35 |
1.0189 |
0.1968 |
337 |
1 |
81.35 |
2013-10-04 |
| 15. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
79.28 |
0.9286 |
0.2517 |
194 |
1 |
79.28 |
2013-08-07 |
| 16. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
79.05 |
1.0725 |
0.1310 |
233 |
1 |
79.05 |
2012-10-22 |
| 17. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
78.84 |
1.1296 |
0.0744 |
252 |
4 |
74.16 |
2016-03-31 |
| 18. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
78.81 |
1.0523 |
0.1178 |
256 |
3 |
70.14 |
2012-10-22 |
| 19. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
78.75 |
1.0696 |
0.1004 |
226 |
1 |
78.75 |
2012-10-10 |
| 20. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
78.66 |
1.0387 |
0.1652 |
239 |
1 |
78.66 |
2013-09-28 |
| 21. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
77.87 |
1.0263 |
0.1328 |
267 |
1 |
77.87 |
2012-10-10 |
| 22. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
77.20 |
1.1081 |
0.0762 |
206 |
1 |
77.20 |
2013-06-22 |
| 23. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
76.48 |
1.0016 |
0.1330 |
218 |
1 |
76.48 |
2013-09-28 |
| 24. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
76.47 |
0.9567 |
0.1825 |
273 |
1 |
76.47 |
2013-09-28 |
| 25. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
75.87 |
1.0053 |
0.1227 |
232 |
2 |
67.52 |
2013-08-07 |
| 26. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
75.50 |
0.9651 |
0.1953 |
389 |
1 |
75.50 |
2013-09-28 |
| 27. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
74.92 |
0.9894 |
0.1308 |
323 |
2 |
68.22 |
2013-09-28 |
| 28. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
74.55 |
0.9426 |
0.1706 |
317 |
2 |
73.87 |
2013-10-04 |
| 29. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
74.54 |
0.9734 |
0.1366 |
289 |
1 |
74.54 |
2013-06-22 |
| 30. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
74.26 |
1.0619 |
0.0476 |
354 |
2 |
72.00 |
2012-10-22 |
| 31. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
74.16 |
1.0604 |
0.0770 |
260 |
1 |
74.16 |
2013-09-28 |
| 32. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
73.85 |
1.0774 |
0.0515 |
304 |
1 |
73.85 |
2013-06-22 |
| 33. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
73.79 |
1.0165 |
0.0860 |
392 |
2 |
65.37 |
2013-06-22 |
| 34. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
72.57 |
0.9430 |
0.1396 |
297 |
2 |
63.23 |
2012-10-08 |
| 35. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
72.42 |
0.9846 |
0.0920 |
281 |
1 |
72.42 |
2013-06-22 |
| 36. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
72.21 |
1.0529 |
0.0219 |
351 |
1 |
72.21 |
2012-10-10 |
| 37. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
72.09 |
0.9557 |
0.1236 |
331 |
2 |
70.62 |
2013-10-04 |
| 38. |
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand h... |
70.92 |
1.0261 |
0.0445 |
335 |
1 |
70.92 |
2017-09-20 |
| 39. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
70.56 |
1.0023 |
0.0456 |
211 |
1 |
70.56 |
2013-06-22 |
| 40. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
70.50 |
0.9899 |
0.0544 |
163 |
1 |
70.50 |
2013-10-04 |
| 41. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
70.45 |
1.0412 |
0.0066 |
225 |
1 |
70.45 |
2013-01-17 |
| 42. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
70.39 |
1.0667 |
0.0196 |
406 |
2 |
67.69 |
2012-10-22 |
| 43. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
70.27 |
0.9120 |
0.1669 |
436 |
1 |
70.27 |
2013-10-04 |
| 44. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
70.18 |
1.1114 |
-0.0701 |
247 |
1 |
70.18 |
2012-10-10 |
| 45. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
69.98 |
0.9278 |
0.1161 |
295 |
2 |
61.67 |
2013-06-22 |
| 46. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
69.88 |
1.0138 |
0.0254 |
231 |
1 |
69.88 |
2012-10-08 |
| 47. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
69.60 |
1.0608 |
0.0079 |
258 |
1 |
69.60 |
2013-06-22 |
| 48. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
69.11 |
1.0531 |
0.0131 |
272 |
3 |
56.00 |
2013-06-22 |
| 49. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
69.08 |
1.0515 |
-0.0258 |
250 |
1 |
69.08 |
2012-10-22 |
| 50. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
68.80 |
1.0993 |
-0.0780 |
265 |
1 |
68.80 |
2012-09-29 |
| 51. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
68.62 |
1.0068 |
0.0173 |
358 |
1 |
68.62 |
2013-10-04 |
| 52. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
68.53 |
0.9089 |
0.1142 |
342 |
1 |
68.53 |
2013-06-22 |
| 53. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
68.21 |
1.0714 |
-0.0658 |
129 |
1 |
68.21 |
2012-09-29 |
| 54. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
68.15 |
0.9513 |
0.0662 |
354 |
1 |
68.15 |
2012-10-08 |
| 55. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
68.03 |
1.0203 |
-0.0053 |
261 |
1 |
68.03 |
2013-09-28 |
| 56. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
67.53 |
1.0292 |
-0.0263 |
262 |
1 |
67.53 |
2012-09-29 |
| 57. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
67.53 |
1.0240 |
-0.0227 |
256 |
1 |
67.53 |
2012-10-10 |
| 58. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
67.49 |
0.9941 |
0.0074 |
217 |
1 |
67.49 |
2013-01-17 |
| 59. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
67.29 |
0.9673 |
0.0726 |
232 |
1 |
67.29 |
2012-11-24 |
| 60. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
67.20 |
0.9164 |
0.0882 |
305 |
2 |
58.49 |
2013-10-04 |
| 61. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
66.63 |
0.9570 |
0.0355 |
287 |
1 |
66.63 |
2012-10-10 |
| 62. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
66.60 |
0.9612 |
0.0295 |
256 |
1 |
66.60 |
2012-10-22 |
| 63. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
66.43 |
1.0917 |
-0.0804 |
243 |
1 |
66.43 |
2012-10-22 |
| 64. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
66.11 |
0.9905 |
0.0240 |
337 |
2 |
63.63 |
2012-11-24 |
| 65. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
65.69 |
0.9798 |
-0.0089 |
199 |
2 |
57.01 |
2012-10-10 |
| 66. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
65.62 |
1.0034 |
-0.0291 |
302 |
1 |
65.62 |
2012-10-10 |
| 67. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
65.52 |
0.9529 |
0.0616 |
269 |
1 |
65.52 |
2012-10-08 |
| 68. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
65.46 |
1.0684 |
-0.0653 |
253 |
1 |
65.46 |
2013-06-22 |
| 69. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
65.44 |
0.9763 |
-0.0041 |
289 |
2 |
62.98 |
2012-10-22 |
| 70. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
65.19 |
0.9997 |
-0.0269 |
382 |
1 |
65.19 |
2013-01-20 |
| 71. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
65.11 |
1.0496 |
-0.0824 |
314 |
1 |
65.11 |
2012-10-10 |
| 72. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
64.64 |
1.0498 |
-0.0939 |
180 |
1 |
64.64 |
2012-10-22 |
| 73. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
64.58 |
1.0141 |
-0.0138 |
381 |
1 |
64.58 |
2013-09-28 |
| 74. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
64.27 |
0.9649 |
-0.0106 |
193 |
1 |
64.27 |
2012-10-22 |
| 75. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
63.70 |
0.9675 |
-0.0115 |
383 |
1 |
63.70 |
2012-09-29 |
| 76. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
63.70 |
1.0521 |
-0.1105 |
171 |
1 |
63.70 |
2012-10-22 |
| 77. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
63.52 |
0.9088 |
0.0403 |
348 |
2 |
59.79 |
2012-10-22 |
| 78. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
63.28 |
0.9769 |
-0.0384 |
263 |
1 |
63.28 |
2012-11-24 |
| 79. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
63.06 |
0.8961 |
0.0375 |
189 |
1 |
63.06 |
2013-10-04 |
| 80. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
62.71 |
1.0154 |
-0.0339 |
351 |
1 |
62.71 |
2013-10-04 |
| 81. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
62.52 |
0.9786 |
-0.0504 |
235 |
1 |
62.52 |
2012-10-22 |
| 82. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
62.25 |
0.9776 |
-0.0524 |
308 |
2 |
62.05 |
2012-10-22 |
| 83. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
61.45 |
0.9831 |
-0.0625 |
469 |
1 |
61.45 |
2012-10-22 |
| 84. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
61.43 |
0.9699 |
-0.0583 |
269 |
1 |
61.43 |
2012-09-29 |
| 85. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
61.11 |
1.0289 |
-0.1169 |
276 |
1 |
61.11 |
2012-10-22 |
| 86. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.07 |
0.9886 |
-0.0791 |
220 |
1 |
61.07 |
2012-09-29 |
| 87. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
60.87 |
1.0483 |
-0.1475 |
227 |
1 |
60.87 |
2012-09-29 |
| 88. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
60.46 |
1.0169 |
-0.0805 |
346 |
1 |
60.46 |
2012-09-29 |
| 89. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
59.91 |
1.0666 |
-0.1768 |
297 |
1 |
59.91 |
2012-10-26 |
| 90. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
59.69 |
1.0385 |
-0.1541 |
230 |
1 |
59.69 |
2012-10-10 |
| 91. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
59.58 |
0.9754 |
-0.0848 |
362 |
1 |
59.58 |
2012-09-29 |
| 92. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
59.22 |
0.9684 |
-0.0868 |
388 |
1 |
59.22 |
2012-10-10 |
| 93. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
58.90 |
0.9936 |
-0.0992 |
227 |
1 |
58.90 |
2012-10-22 |
| 94. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
58.47 |
0.9792 |
-0.0730 |
265 |
1 |
58.47 |
2012-10-17 |
| 95. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
58.39 |
0.9790 |
-0.0717 |
311 |
1 |
58.39 |
2012-10-08 |
| 96. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
57.65 |
1.0083 |
-0.1084 |
273 |
1 |
57.65 |
2012-10-22 |
| 97. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
57.33 |
0.9468 |
-0.0963 |
276 |
1 |
57.33 |
2012-10-22 |
| 98. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
57.27 |
1.0254 |
-0.1351 |
217 |
1 |
57.27 |
2012-10-22 |
| 99. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
56.97 |
0.9312 |
-0.0354 |
320 |
1 |
56.97 |
2012-10-10 |
| 100. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
55.66 |
0.8933 |
-0.0614 |
363 |
2 |
53.80 |
2012-10-24 |
| 101. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
54.75 |
1.0441 |
-0.2309 |
252 |
1 |
54.75 |
2012-09-29 |
| 102. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
54.68 |
0.9072 |
-0.0984 |
237 |
1 |
54.68 |
2012-09-29 |
| 103. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
54.53 |
1.0151 |
-0.2156 |
152 |
1 |
54.53 |
2012-10-24 |
| 104. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
54.40 |
0.9907 |
-0.1855 |
211 |
1 |
54.40 |
2012-09-29 |
| 105. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
53.94 |
1.0358 |
-0.1943 |
349 |
1 |
53.94 |
2012-10-10 |
| 106. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
53.61 |
0.9668 |
-0.1297 |
383 |
1 |
53.61 |
2012-09-29 |
| 107. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
53.43 |
0.9698 |
-0.1450 |
397 |
1 |
53.43 |
2012-09-29 |
| 108. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
53.30 |
0.9351 |
-0.1507 |
190 |
1 |
53.30 |
2012-10-22 |
| 109. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
53.06 |
0.9364 |
-0.1100 |
351 |
1 |
53.06 |
2012-10-22 |
| 110. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
52.95 |
0.8602 |
-0.0775 |
206 |
1 |
52.95 |
2012-10-22 |
| 111. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
51.74 |
0.9965 |
-0.2348 |
168 |
1 |
51.74 |
2012-10-22 |
| 112. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
51.26 |
0.9697 |
-0.2105 |
249 |
1 |
51.26 |
2012-10-22 |
| 113. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
51.26 |
0.9461 |
-0.1873 |
276 |
1 |
51.26 |
2012-09-29 |
| 114. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
50.21 |
0.9640 |
-0.1909 |
334 |
1 |
50.21 |
2012-10-22 |
| 115. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
49.21 |
0.9710 |
-0.2489 |
173 |
1 |
49.21 |
2012-10-22 |
| 116. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
47.58 |
0.8890 |
-0.1887 |
199 |
1 |
47.58 |
2012-10-22 |
| 117. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
47.38 |
0.9811 |
-0.2776 |
272 |
1 |
47.38 |
2012-09-29 |
| 118. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
44.93 |
0.9691 |
-0.3058 |
223 |
1 |
44.93 |
2012-09-29 |
| 119. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
43.13 |
0.9023 |
-0.2228 |
231 |
1 |
43.13 |
2012-09-29 |
| 120. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
42.94 |
0.9176 |
-0.2450 |
365 |
1 |
42.94 |
2012-11-24 |
| 121. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
42.74 |
0.9234 |
-0.2874 |
346 |
1 |
42.74 |
2012-09-29 |
| 122. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
38.68 |
1.0173 |
-0.4036 |
268 |
1 |
38.68 |
2012-10-10 |
| 123. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
38.63 |
0.9597 |
-0.3868 |
347 |
1 |
38.63 |
2013-01-20 |