| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
90.73 |
1.1086 |
0.2597 |
233 |
1 |
90.73 |
2011-07-09 |
| 2. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
90.68 |
1.0264 |
0.3365 |
191 |
1 |
90.68 |
2011-07-09 |
| 3. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
86.00 |
0.9948 |
0.3003 |
233 |
1 |
86.00 |
2011-07-08 |
| 4. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
85.98 |
1.0392 |
0.2617 |
258 |
1 |
85.98 |
2011-05-31 |
| 5. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
85.47 |
1.0341 |
0.2535 |
273 |
1 |
85.47 |
2011-07-08 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
84.15 |
1.0881 |
0.1762 |
210 |
2 |
81.78 |
2010-07-26 |
| 7. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
83.24 |
1.0582 |
0.1931 |
180 |
2 |
75.81 |
2011-07-08 |
| 8. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
83.12 |
1.0194 |
0.2311 |
224 |
2 |
75.84 |
2010-07-22 |
| 9. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
82.94 |
1.0004 |
0.2521 |
373 |
1 |
82.94 |
2011-07-08 |
| 10. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
82.12 |
1.0969 |
0.1428 |
303 |
1 |
82.12 |
2010-05-12 |
| 11. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
81.57 |
1.0225 |
0.1989 |
152 |
1 |
81.57 |
2010-06-14 |
| 12. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
80.72 |
0.9933 |
0.2304 |
450 |
2 |
70.72 |
2011-07-09 |
| 13. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
80.50 |
1.0800 |
0.1301 |
213 |
1 |
80.50 |
2010-06-16 |
| 14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
80.22 |
1.0333 |
0.1703 |
176 |
2 |
73.47 |
2012-11-05 |
| 15. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
80.19 |
1.0465 |
0.1536 |
183 |
1 |
80.19 |
2010-07-23 |
| 16. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
77.84 |
1.0234 |
0.1534 |
392 |
2 |
76.93 |
2010-07-29 |
| 17. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
77.72 |
1.0426 |
0.1242 |
131 |
2 |
75.24 |
2010-10-17 |
| 18. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
77.62 |
0.9909 |
0.1830 |
293 |
1 |
77.62 |
2010-06-30 |
| 19. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
77.52 |
0.9839 |
0.1837 |
308 |
1 |
77.52 |
2011-07-09 |
| 20. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
77.32 |
1.1095 |
0.0576 |
252 |
1 |
77.32 |
2010-06-16 |
| 21. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
76.77 |
1.0698 |
0.0936 |
303 |
2 |
75.83 |
2010-06-15 |
| 22. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
76.72 |
1.0543 |
0.0981 |
182 |
1 |
76.72 |
2010-06-09 |
| 23. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
76.61 |
1.0195 |
0.1409 |
239 |
1 |
76.61 |
2012-11-05 |
| 24. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
76.52 |
0.9980 |
0.1639 |
341 |
1 |
76.52 |
2010-06-15 |
| 25. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
76.46 |
0.9915 |
0.1594 |
281 |
2 |
72.24 |
2010-07-27 |
| 26. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
75.92 |
1.0464 |
0.1022 |
294 |
1 |
75.92 |
2010-06-14 |
| 27. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
75.77 |
1.0543 |
0.0879 |
233 |
1 |
75.77 |
2010-06-18 |
| 28. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
75.68 |
1.0538 |
0.0985 |
367 |
3 |
68.29 |
2011-07-08 |
| 29. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
75.31 |
1.0144 |
0.1210 |
162 |
2 |
69.17 |
2011-07-08 |
| 30. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
75.29 |
0.9931 |
0.1370 |
218 |
1 |
75.29 |
2010-06-16 |
| 31. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
75.00 |
0.9981 |
0.1307 |
211 |
2 |
73.55 |
2010-06-16 |
| 32. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
74.30 |
1.0628 |
0.0583 |
363 |
2 |
72.03 |
2010-07-24 |
| 33. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
73.89 |
1.0265 |
0.0900 |
375 |
3 |
71.50 |
2010-07-28 |
| 34. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
73.85 |
1.0332 |
0.0784 |
267 |
1 |
73.85 |
2010-05-12 |
| 35. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
73.10 |
1.0253 |
0.0786 |
337 |
1 |
73.10 |
2010-07-23 |
| 36. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
72.81 |
1.0090 |
0.0931 |
300 |
2 |
69.68 |
2010-07-23 |
| 37. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
72.69 |
1.0125 |
0.0807 |
232 |
2 |
68.08 |
2010-07-29 |
| 38. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
72.44 |
1.0267 |
0.0673 |
261 |
1 |
72.44 |
2010-07-24 |
| 39. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
72.27 |
1.0026 |
0.0901 |
200 |
2 |
68.01 |
2012-11-05 |
| 40. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
71.84 |
0.9926 |
0.1004 |
413 |
1 |
71.84 |
2012-11-05 |
| 41. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
71.77 |
0.9530 |
0.1241 |
193 |
1 |
71.77 |
2010-06-14 |
| 42. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
71.70 |
1.0511 |
0.0304 |
252 |
1 |
71.70 |
2010-06-16 |
| 43. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
71.47 |
0.9070 |
0.1644 |
192 |
2 |
61.67 |
2010-05-11 |
| 44. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
70.89 |
1.0132 |
0.0548 |
371 |
1 |
70.89 |
2010-06-08 |
| 45. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
70.77 |
0.9658 |
0.1035 |
308 |
1 |
70.77 |
2010-07-22 |
| 46. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
70.57 |
1.0016 |
0.0594 |
217 |
1 |
70.57 |
2010-07-27 |
| 47. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
70.47 |
1.0777 |
-0.0188 |
226 |
1 |
70.47 |
2010-06-16 |
| 48. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
70.35 |
0.9801 |
0.0788 |
289 |
1 |
70.35 |
2010-06-15 |
| 49. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
70.32 |
0.9809 |
0.0740 |
209 |
2 |
62.53 |
2010-06-08 |
| 50. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
70.18 |
1.0189 |
0.0372 |
290 |
1 |
70.18 |
2010-06-08 |
| 51. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
70.17 |
1.1138 |
-0.0488 |
341 |
1 |
70.17 |
2010-06-08 |
| 52. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
69.32 |
0.9756 |
0.0673 |
223 |
1 |
69.32 |
2010-06-16 |
| 53. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
69.31 |
0.9927 |
0.0475 |
234 |
2 |
64.07 |
2010-07-21 |
| 54. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
68.74 |
0.9482 |
0.0922 |
476 |
1 |
68.74 |
2010-07-22 |
| 55. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
68.66 |
1.0498 |
-0.0150 |
261 |
2 |
65.91 |
2011-07-08 |
| 56. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
68.65 |
1.0616 |
-0.0212 |
304 |
1 |
68.65 |
2010-06-14 |
| 57. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
68.35 |
1.1093 |
-0.0860 |
220 |
1 |
68.35 |
2010-05-12 |
| 58. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
68.12 |
1.0181 |
0.0087 |
276 |
1 |
68.12 |
2010-07-29 |
| 59. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
67.72 |
1.0350 |
-0.0011 |
416 |
1 |
67.72 |
2010-07-23 |
| 60. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
67.60 |
1.0432 |
-0.0250 |
276 |
1 |
67.60 |
2010-06-15 |
| 61. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
67.49 |
1.0291 |
-0.0153 |
240 |
1 |
67.49 |
2010-07-29 |
| 62. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
67.46 |
0.9869 |
0.0250 |
193 |
1 |
67.46 |
2010-07-29 |
| 63. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
67.34 |
0.9783 |
0.0427 |
273 |
1 |
67.34 |
2012-11-05 |
| 64. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
67.00 |
0.9857 |
0.0287 |
268 |
2 |
64.73 |
2010-07-23 |
| 65. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
66.90 |
1.1198 |
-0.1138 |
247 |
1 |
66.90 |
2010-05-10 |
| 66. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
66.88 |
0.9864 |
0.0241 |
292 |
2 |
64.20 |
2010-06-08 |
| 67. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
66.82 |
1.0759 |
-0.0645 |
273 |
1 |
66.82 |
2010-06-16 |
| 68. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
66.75 |
1.0272 |
-0.0246 |
226 |
1 |
66.75 |
2010-05-11 |
| 69. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
66.68 |
0.8986 |
0.1034 |
205 |
1 |
66.68 |
2010-07-23 |
| 70. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
66.63 |
0.9704 |
0.0325 |
254 |
1 |
66.63 |
2010-07-23 |
| 71. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
66.61 |
0.9930 |
0.0186 |
350 |
1 |
66.61 |
2010-06-16 |
| 72. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
66.37 |
1.1062 |
-0.1052 |
200 |
1 |
66.37 |
2010-06-08 |
| 73. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
66.23 |
1.0144 |
-0.0046 |
356 |
1 |
66.23 |
2010-06-30 |
| 74. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
66.13 |
0.9621 |
0.0303 |
201 |
1 |
66.13 |
2010-06-08 |
| 75. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
65.91 |
0.9480 |
0.0452 |
297 |
2 |
62.16 |
2010-05-11 |
| 76. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
65.68 |
0.9108 |
0.0776 |
235 |
1 |
65.68 |
2011-07-08 |
| 77. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
65.63 |
1.0057 |
-0.0151 |
382 |
1 |
65.63 |
2010-06-21 |
| 78. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
65.51 |
0.9762 |
0.0097 |
249 |
1 |
65.51 |
2010-06-16 |
| 79. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
64.93 |
1.0736 |
-0.0925 |
256 |
1 |
64.93 |
2010-06-08 |
| 80. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
64.68 |
0.9873 |
-0.0034 |
396 |
1 |
64.68 |
2010-06-18 |
| 81. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
64.09 |
0.9517 |
0.0208 |
397 |
1 |
64.09 |
2010-07-23 |
| 82. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
64.06 |
0.9810 |
-0.0120 |
362 |
1 |
64.06 |
2010-07-24 |
| 83. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
63.89 |
0.9536 |
0.0163 |
311 |
2 |
61.81 |
2011-07-09 |
| 84. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
63.52 |
0.9394 |
0.0149 |
195 |
1 |
63.52 |
2010-05-11 |
| 85. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
63.33 |
0.9849 |
-0.0308 |
337 |
1 |
63.33 |
2010-05-12 |
| 86. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
63.24 |
0.9836 |
-0.0319 |
289 |
1 |
63.24 |
2010-05-11 |
| 87. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
62.82 |
0.9143 |
0.0319 |
300 |
1 |
62.82 |
2010-10-17 |
| 88. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
62.49 |
1.0124 |
-0.0669 |
275 |
1 |
62.49 |
2010-06-09 |
| 89. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
62.27 |
0.9243 |
0.0147 |
240 |
1 |
62.27 |
2011-05-31 |
| 90. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
62.06 |
0.9765 |
-0.0435 |
269 |
2 |
59.13 |
2010-07-23 |
| 91. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
62.02 |
1.0250 |
-0.0890 |
271 |
1 |
62.02 |
2010-05-10 |
| 92. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
61.47 |
0.9918 |
-0.0600 |
400 |
1 |
61.47 |
2010-05-11 |
| 93. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
61.42 |
0.9329 |
0.0055 |
345 |
1 |
61.42 |
2010-06-30 |
| 94. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
60.87 |
1.0301 |
-0.1157 |
268 |
1 |
60.87 |
2010-05-11 |
| 95. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
60.80 |
0.8666 |
0.0455 |
206 |
1 |
60.80 |
2010-07-24 |
| 96. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
60.39 |
0.9650 |
-0.0539 |
347 |
1 |
60.39 |
2010-05-12 |
| 97. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
60.22 |
1.0362 |
-0.1241 |
437 |
1 |
60.22 |
2010-06-08 |
| 98. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
59.94 |
0.9698 |
-0.0632 |
389 |
1 |
59.94 |
2010-07-23 |
| 99. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
59.70 |
0.8624 |
0.0308 |
174 |
1 |
59.70 |
2010-07-29 |
| 100. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
59.42 |
1.0403 |
-0.1483 |
234 |
1 |
59.42 |
2010-05-10 |
| 101. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
59.37 |
1.0131 |
-0.1168 |
245 |
1 |
59.37 |
2010-05-10 |
| 102. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
59.30 |
0.9339 |
-0.0362 |
317 |
1 |
59.30 |
2010-05-11 |
| 103. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
59.23 |
1.0419 |
-0.1480 |
341 |
1 |
59.23 |
2010-05-11 |
| 104. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
59.12 |
0.9985 |
-0.0970 |
392 |
1 |
59.12 |
2010-06-14 |
| 105. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
58.96 |
0.9597 |
-0.0728 |
251 |
1 |
58.96 |
2010-06-14 |
| 106. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
58.87 |
0.9029 |
-0.0148 |
393 |
1 |
58.87 |
2010-06-30 |
| 107. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
58.32 |
0.9673 |
-0.0864 |
393 |
2 |
57.86 |
2010-07-24 |
| 108. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
58.18 |
0.8936 |
-0.0198 |
346 |
1 |
58.18 |
2010-06-30 |
| 109. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
58.11 |
0.9137 |
-0.0378 |
342 |
1 |
58.11 |
2010-06-22 |
| 110. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
57.90 |
1.0139 |
-0.1302 |
349 |
1 |
57.90 |
2010-06-15 |
| 111. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
57.70 |
0.9594 |
-0.0935 |
258 |
1 |
57.70 |
2010-06-14 |
| 112. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
57.68 |
0.9841 |
-0.1184 |
263 |
1 |
57.68 |
2010-05-10 |
| 113. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
56.51 |
0.9957 |
-0.1421 |
323 |
1 |
56.51 |
2010-05-12 |
| 114. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
56.47 |
0.9632 |
-0.1130 |
287 |
1 |
56.47 |
2010-06-15 |
| 115. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
55.78 |
0.9660 |
-0.1203 |
258 |
2 |
48.67 |
2010-05-11 |
| 116. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
55.49 |
0.9713 |
-0.1385 |
193 |
1 |
55.49 |
2010-05-11 |
| 117. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
55.27 |
0.9479 |
-0.1154 |
317 |
1 |
55.27 |
2010-05-11 |
| 118. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
55.07 |
1.0095 |
-0.1831 |
211 |
1 |
55.07 |
2010-06-09 |
| 119. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
54.94 |
0.9989 |
-0.1659 |
282 |
1 |
54.94 |
2010-06-14 |
| 120. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
54.53 |
0.7923 |
0.0279 |
316 |
1 |
54.53 |
2010-07-22 |
| 121. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
54.24 |
0.9817 |
-0.1610 |
304 |
1 |
54.24 |
2010-06-08 |
| 122. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
54.06 |
0.8794 |
-0.0603 |
427 |
1 |
54.06 |
2010-05-12 |
| 123. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
53.78 |
0.9884 |
-0.1776 |
267 |
1 |
53.78 |
2010-06-09 |
| 124. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
53.57 |
0.9680 |
-0.1628 |
256 |
1 |
53.57 |
2010-05-12 |
| 125. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
53.54 |
0.9101 |
-0.1016 |
351 |
1 |
53.54 |
2010-06-22 |
| 126. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
53.49 |
1.0115 |
-0.2128 |
189 |
1 |
53.49 |
2010-06-14 |
| 127. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
52.88 |
0.9644 |
-0.1666 |
398 |
1 |
52.88 |
2010-05-11 |
| 128. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
52.87 |
0.9299 |
-0.1438 |
168 |
1 |
52.87 |
2010-05-10 |
| 129. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
52.77 |
0.8986 |
-0.1050 |
216 |
1 |
52.77 |
2010-05-12 |
| 130. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
51.39 |
0.9012 |
-0.1256 |
322 |
1 |
51.39 |
2010-07-21 |
| 131. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
49.81 |
0.8986 |
-0.1454 |
363 |
1 |
49.81 |
2010-05-12 |
| 132. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
49.50 |
0.8974 |
-0.1420 |
365 |
1 |
49.50 |
2010-05-11 |
| 133. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
48.79 |
0.9157 |
-0.1704 |
353 |
1 |
48.79 |
2012-11-05 |
| 134. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
48.09 |
0.9598 |
-0.2355 |
209 |
1 |
48.09 |
2011-07-08 |
| 135. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
47.05 |
0.9011 |
-0.1915 |
322 |
1 |
47.05 |
2010-05-12 |
| 136. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
45.77 |
0.9068 |
-0.2217 |
212 |
1 |
45.77 |
2010-05-12 |
| 137. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
45.35 |
0.8721 |
-0.1856 |
231 |
1 |
45.35 |
2010-06-18 |
| 138. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
44.61 |
0.9852 |
-0.3164 |
235 |
1 |
44.61 |
2010-06-14 |
| 139. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
43.62 |
1.0743 |
-0.4188 |
297 |
1 |
43.62 |
2010-05-12 |
| 140. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
42.49 |
0.9377 |
-0.2927 |
198 |
1 |
42.49 |
2010-06-14 |