| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
50.02 |
1.0332 |
0.3897 |
267 |
1 |
50.02 |
2012-06-04 |
| 2. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
49.94 |
1.0524 |
0.3669 |
177 |
2 |
39.24 |
2012-06-03 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
49.58 |
1.1093 |
0.2960 |
220 |
1 |
49.58 |
2016-03-06 |
| 4. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
47.90 |
1.0509 |
0.3195 |
295 |
1 |
47.90 |
2012-06-03 |
| 5. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
47.27 |
1.0103 |
0.3290 |
209 |
1 |
47.27 |
2012-05-31 |
| 6. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
47.25 |
1.0582 |
0.2830 |
180 |
1 |
47.25 |
2012-06-04 |
| 7. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
46.35 |
1.0125 |
0.3012 |
171 |
1 |
46.35 |
2012-06-04 |
| 8. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
46.29 |
0.9631 |
0.3534 |
273 |
1 |
46.29 |
2011-11-16 |
| 9. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
46.08 |
1.0495 |
0.2608 |
323 |
1 |
46.08 |
2012-05-30 |
| 10. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
45.83 |
1.0465 |
0.2491 |
183 |
1 |
45.83 |
2011-11-16 |
| 11. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
45.57 |
1.0181 |
0.2795 |
276 |
1 |
45.57 |
2011-03-19 |
| 12. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
44.70 |
0.9757 |
0.2924 |
176 |
1 |
44.70 |
2012-06-03 |
| 13. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
44.05 |
1.0845 |
0.1672 |
212 |
1 |
44.05 |
2010-11-20 |
| 14. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
43.66 |
1.0665 |
0.1694 |
196 |
1 |
43.66 |
2012-06-03 |
| 15. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
43.33 |
1.0800 |
0.1452 |
129 |
1 |
43.33 |
2012-05-30 |
| 16. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
43.30 |
0.8880 |
0.3435 |
296 |
1 |
43.30 |
2012-05-31 |
| 17. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
42.47 |
0.9931 |
0.2108 |
218 |
2 |
38.72 |
2012-06-03 |
| 18. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
42.32 |
1.0051 |
0.1932 |
162 |
1 |
42.32 |
2011-11-16 |
| 19. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
41.74 |
0.9931 |
0.1982 |
339 |
1 |
41.74 |
2012-06-03 |
| 20. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
41.55 |
1.0279 |
0.1478 |
172 |
1 |
41.55 |
2010-11-04 |
| 21. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
41.47 |
1.0472 |
0.1256 |
149 |
2 |
35.10 |
2011-03-18 |
| 22. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
41.33 |
0.9597 |
0.2156 |
251 |
1 |
41.33 |
2010-10-11 |
| 23. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
41.15 |
1.0060 |
0.1647 |
225 |
3 |
40.38 |
2012-05-31 |
| 24. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
41.13 |
1.0755 |
0.0946 |
243 |
2 |
37.06 |
2011-03-18 |
| 25. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
40.65 |
0.9779 |
0.1762 |
255 |
2 |
38.14 |
2011-03-18 |
| 26. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
40.42 |
0.9380 |
0.2096 |
284 |
1 |
40.42 |
2012-06-03 |
| 27. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
40.09 |
1.1095 |
0.0324 |
252 |
1 |
40.09 |
2010-10-01 |
| 28. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
39.92 |
1.0867 |
0.0438 |
171 |
1 |
39.92 |
2011-03-12 |
| 29. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
39.87 |
0.8843 |
0.2605 |
168 |
1 |
39.87 |
2011-11-16 |
| 30. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
39.70 |
0.9925 |
0.1318 |
155 |
1 |
39.70 |
2010-10-11 |
| 31. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
39.49 |
0.8726 |
0.2522 |
150 |
1 |
39.49 |
2010-11-20 |
| 32. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
39.18 |
0.8576 |
0.2611 |
260 |
2 |
35.22 |
2011-11-16 |
| 33. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
39.17 |
1.0595 |
0.0472 |
166 |
1 |
39.17 |
2010-11-04 |
| 34. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
39.15 |
0.9040 |
0.2090 |
188 |
1 |
39.15 |
2010-09-16 |
| 35. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
39.03 |
0.9673 |
0.1442 |
292 |
1 |
39.03 |
2012-06-04 |
| 36. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
38.90 |
0.9001 |
0.2061 |
217 |
1 |
38.90 |
2011-11-16 |
| 37. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
38.80 |
1.0069 |
0.0992 |
242 |
1 |
38.80 |
2010-10-15 |
| 38. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
38.61 |
0.8981 |
0.2079 |
255 |
2 |
35.55 |
2012-05-31 |
| 39. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
38.60 |
1.0873 |
0.0068 |
243 |
1 |
38.60 |
2010-10-26 |
| 40. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
38.57 |
1.0250 |
0.0741 |
271 |
1 |
38.57 |
2010-10-11 |
| 41. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
38.15 |
1.0287 |
0.0545 |
269 |
1 |
38.15 |
2010-10-29 |
| 42. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
37.83 |
0.9316 |
0.1455 |
188 |
2 |
33.84 |
2010-10-09 |
| 43. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
37.70 |
0.8805 |
0.1910 |
205 |
1 |
37.70 |
2010-10-26 |
| 44. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
37.65 |
0.9745 |
0.0975 |
388 |
2 |
37.22 |
2010-11-13 |
| 45. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
37.37 |
0.8936 |
0.1672 |
346 |
2 |
34.00 |
2010-10-04 |
| 46. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
37.29 |
1.0101 |
0.0513 |
336 |
2 |
30.67 |
2010-11-21 |
| 47. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
37.28 |
0.9935 |
0.0680 |
217 |
3 |
36.01 |
2010-10-11 |
| 48. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
37.18 |
0.9704 |
0.0861 |
254 |
1 |
37.18 |
2011-03-18 |
| 49. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
37.11 |
0.7852 |
0.2632 |
154 |
3 |
33.24 |
2011-11-16 |
| 50. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
37.01 |
0.9010 |
0.1531 |
266 |
2 |
36.35 |
2010-10-24 |
| 51. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
36.78 |
0.8770 |
0.1680 |
163 |
1 |
36.78 |
2010-11-20 |
| 52. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
36.51 |
0.8863 |
0.1475 |
127 |
1 |
36.51 |
2010-09-22 |
| 53. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.44 |
1.0291 |
0.0041 |
240 |
3 |
32.51 |
2010-10-24 |
| 54. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
36.19 |
1.0615 |
-0.0363 |
201 |
1 |
36.19 |
2010-10-26 |
| 55. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
35.88 |
1.0334 |
-0.0146 |
261 |
1 |
35.88 |
2010-10-24 |
| 56. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
35.81 |
0.8768 |
0.1445 |
199 |
1 |
35.81 |
2010-11-04 |
| 57. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
35.81 |
0.9264 |
0.0919 |
177 |
1 |
35.81 |
2010-10-02 |
| 58. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
35.53 |
0.8669 |
0.1486 |
255 |
1 |
35.53 |
2010-09-22 |
| 59. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
35.28 |
0.8236 |
0.1728 |
178 |
2 |
30.21 |
2010-10-02 |
| 60. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
35.09 |
0.9394 |
0.0558 |
195 |
1 |
35.09 |
2010-10-11 |
| 61. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
35.06 |
1.0600 |
-0.0637 |
351 |
1 |
35.06 |
2010-10-11 |
| 62. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
34.80 |
1.0504 |
-0.0601 |
225 |
2 |
34.48 |
2010-10-15 |
| 63. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
34.72 |
0.9204 |
0.0668 |
121 |
1 |
34.72 |
2010-09-25 |
| 64. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
34.69 |
0.8925 |
0.0998 |
293 |
1 |
34.69 |
2010-10-15 |
| 65. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
34.31 |
1.0800 |
-0.1085 |
213 |
1 |
34.31 |
2010-10-15 |
| 66. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
34.26 |
0.8936 |
0.0784 |
135 |
1 |
34.26 |
2010-09-25 |
| 67. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
34.21 |
0.9459 |
0.0288 |
188 |
1 |
34.21 |
2010-10-25 |
| 68. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
34.13 |
1.0901 |
-0.1188 |
288 |
1 |
34.13 |
2010-10-11 |
| 69. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
34.10 |
1.0487 |
-0.0825 |
253 |
1 |
34.10 |
2010-09-16 |
| 70. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
33.94 |
0.9408 |
0.0178 |
177 |
1 |
33.94 |
2010-09-22 |
| 71. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
33.86 |
0.9763 |
-0.0152 |
283 |
1 |
33.86 |
2011-07-21 |
| 72. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
33.81 |
1.0462 |
-0.0830 |
340 |
1 |
33.81 |
2010-10-02 |
| 73. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
33.73 |
1.0264 |
-0.0727 |
191 |
1 |
33.73 |
2010-09-25 |
| 74. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
33.57 |
0.8775 |
0.0704 |
185 |
1 |
33.57 |
2010-10-11 |
| 75. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
33.25 |
0.8666 |
0.0750 |
206 |
2 |
31.02 |
2010-10-10 |
| 76. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
33.24 |
0.8603 |
0.0835 |
270 |
1 |
33.24 |
2010-10-24 |
| 77. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
33.23 |
0.7920 |
0.1489 |
230 |
1 |
33.23 |
2010-10-11 |
| 78. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
33.01 |
0.8837 |
0.0529 |
157 |
2 |
32.06 |
2010-09-30 |
| 79. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
32.98 |
1.0865 |
-0.1504 |
237 |
1 |
32.98 |
2010-09-21 |
| 80. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
32.94 |
0.8938 |
0.0424 |
238 |
1 |
32.94 |
2010-09-16 |
| 81. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
32.93 |
0.7130 |
0.2209 |
131 |
1 |
32.93 |
2010-10-15 |
| 82. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
32.80 |
0.9103 |
0.0208 |
269 |
1 |
32.80 |
2010-10-24 |
| 83. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
32.61 |
0.9922 |
-0.0657 |
264 |
1 |
32.61 |
2010-10-01 |
| 84. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
32.40 |
1.0125 |
-0.0941 |
232 |
1 |
32.40 |
2010-10-29 |
| 85. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
32.19 |
0.9108 |
0.0030 |
235 |
1 |
32.19 |
2010-10-11 |
| 86. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
32.10 |
0.9468 |
-0.0356 |
318 |
1 |
32.10 |
2010-10-15 |
| 87. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
32.06 |
1.0036 |
-0.0925 |
277 |
1 |
32.06 |
2010-10-15 |
| 88. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
31.91 |
0.9810 |
-0.0702 |
362 |
1 |
31.91 |
2010-09-30 |
| 89. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
31.90 |
1.0192 |
-0.1083 |
243 |
1 |
31.90 |
2010-09-20 |
| 90. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
31.87 |
0.9737 |
-0.0663 |
237 |
1 |
31.87 |
2010-09-16 |
| 91. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
31.85 |
0.9368 |
-0.0394 |
176 |
2 |
25.79 |
2010-10-02 |
| 92. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
31.62 |
1.0197 |
-0.1238 |
204 |
1 |
31.62 |
2010-09-16 |
| 93. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
31.53 |
0.8572 |
0.0361 |
232 |
1 |
31.53 |
2010-10-24 |
| 94. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
31.46 |
0.9299 |
-0.0453 |
168 |
2 |
27.61 |
2010-10-11 |
| 95. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
31.11 |
1.0132 |
-0.1296 |
371 |
1 |
31.11 |
2010-09-30 |
| 96. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
30.83 |
0.9974 |
-0.1263 |
163 |
1 |
30.83 |
2010-10-11 |
| 97. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
30.49 |
0.9265 |
-0.0623 |
254 |
1 |
30.49 |
2010-10-11 |
| 98. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
30.46 |
0.7271 |
0.1381 |
186 |
1 |
30.46 |
2010-10-05 |
| 99. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
30.43 |
0.8204 |
0.0410 |
121 |
1 |
30.43 |
2010-09-22 |
| 100. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
30.38 |
0.8201 |
0.0359 |
187 |
1 |
30.38 |
2010-09-07 |
| 101. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
30.11 |
0.9713 |
-0.1183 |
193 |
2 |
25.29 |
2010-10-29 |
| 102. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
30.00 |
0.9503 |
-0.1057 |
211 |
1 |
30.00 |
2010-10-24 |
| 103. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
29.71 |
1.0540 |
-0.2160 |
184 |
1 |
29.71 |
2010-09-13 |
| 104. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
29.62 |
0.9080 |
-0.0708 |
111 |
1 |
29.62 |
2010-08-31 |
| 105. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
29.09 |
1.0370 |
-0.2120 |
262 |
1 |
29.09 |
2010-09-07 |
| 106. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
29.07 |
0.9243 |
-0.0994 |
231 |
1 |
29.07 |
2010-10-15 |
| 107. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
29.06 |
0.9210 |
-0.1004 |
200 |
1 |
29.06 |
2010-09-06 |
| 108. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
29.04 |
0.9371 |
-0.1222 |
156 |
1 |
29.04 |
2010-10-15 |
| 109. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
28.66 |
1.0243 |
-0.2075 |
153 |
1 |
28.66 |
2010-09-02 |
| 110. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
28.50 |
0.9980 |
-0.1874 |
295 |
1 |
28.50 |
2010-09-20 |
| 111. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
28.41 |
0.8971 |
-0.0944 |
100 |
1 |
28.41 |
2010-08-30 |
| 112. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
28.38 |
0.8077 |
-0.0027 |
148 |
1 |
28.38 |
2010-09-11 |
| 113. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
28.36 |
0.9384 |
-0.1365 |
296 |
1 |
28.36 |
2010-10-02 |
| 114. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
27.33 |
0.8856 |
-0.1031 |
369 |
1 |
27.33 |
2010-09-30 |
| 115. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
27.28 |
1.1070 |
-0.3346 |
265 |
1 |
27.28 |
2010-08-30 |
| 116. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
27.22 |
0.8208 |
-0.0460 |
149 |
1 |
27.22 |
2010-10-02 |
| 117. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
27.11 |
0.7915 |
-0.0210 |
142 |
1 |
27.11 |
2010-09-30 |
| 118. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
26.55 |
0.9023 |
-0.1510 |
268 |
1 |
26.55 |
2010-09-06 |
| 119. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
26.41 |
1.0638 |
-0.3172 |
247 |
1 |
26.41 |
2010-09-13 |
| 120. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
25.92 |
0.8986 |
-0.1658 |
205 |
1 |
25.92 |
2010-10-11 |
| 121. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
25.91 |
0.8628 |
-0.1333 |
136 |
1 |
25.91 |
2010-09-11 |
| 122. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
25.91 |
0.7739 |
-0.0377 |
207 |
1 |
25.91 |
2010-10-15 |
| 123. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
25.67 |
0.9070 |
-0.1843 |
192 |
2 |
20.93 |
2010-09-13 |
| 124. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
25.16 |
0.9137 |
-0.1988 |
342 |
2 |
25.07 |
2010-09-11 |
| 125. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
24.77 |
0.9417 |
-0.2440 |
84 |
1 |
24.77 |
2010-09-11 |
| 126. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
24.76 |
0.7988 |
-0.0993 |
134 |
1 |
24.76 |
2010-09-09 |
| 127. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
23.25 |
0.8316 |
-0.1699 |
304 |
1 |
23.25 |
2010-09-11 |
| 128. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
22.45 |
0.8371 |
-0.2080 |
124 |
1 |
22.45 |
2010-08-31 |
| 129. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
21.05 |
1.0617 |
-0.4682 |
171 |
1 |
21.05 |
2010-08-31 |
| 130. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
14.50 |
0.7384 |
-0.3338 |
106 |
1 |
14.50 |
2010-09-02 |