Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
90.29 |
1.0042 |
0.5536 |
168 |
2 |
77.09 |
2009-04-07 |
2. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
87.12 |
0.7923 |
0.7148 |
316 |
1 |
87.12 |
2009-02-09 |
3. |
You know, sweetheart, if there's one thing I've learned, it'... |
78.71 |
1.0069 |
0.3523 |
161 |
1 |
78.71 |
2015-06-03 |
4. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
78.30 |
0.8845 |
0.4702 |
239 |
1 |
78.30 |
2009-02-09 |
5. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
71.99 |
1.0181 |
0.2270 |
276 |
1 |
71.99 |
2009-04-07 |
6. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
71.80 |
1.0873 |
0.1502 |
243 |
4 |
65.92 |
2009-04-18 |
7. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
71.23 |
1.0288 |
0.1971 |
166 |
2 |
67.31 |
2009-04-07 |
8. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
71.03 |
0.9644 |
0.2659 |
398 |
2 |
63.86 |
2009-02-09 |
9. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
69.04 |
0.9685 |
0.2248 |
304 |
1 |
69.04 |
2009-04-07 |
10. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
67.99 |
1.0334 |
0.1404 |
261 |
3 |
63.45 |
2009-08-02 |
11. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
66.71 |
1.0506 |
0.1011 |
259 |
3 |
61.20 |
2009-02-20 |
12. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
66.65 |
1.0960 |
0.0592 |
315 |
2 |
63.77 |
2009-02-10 |
13. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
65.93 |
1.0035 |
0.1357 |
310 |
2 |
61.48 |
2009-02-10 |
14. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
65.65 |
1.0676 |
0.0707 |
456 |
1 |
65.65 |
2009-02-10 |
15. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
65.12 |
1.0372 |
0.0869 |
249 |
3 |
62.14 |
2009-03-25 |
16. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
65.02 |
1.0234 |
0.1035 |
392 |
1 |
65.02 |
2009-02-10 |
17. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
64.80 |
1.0250 |
0.0969 |
271 |
2 |
52.47 |
2009-02-10 |
18. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
64.56 |
0.9852 |
0.1290 |
235 |
2 |
61.52 |
2009-04-07 |
19. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
64.56 |
1.0472 |
0.0613 |
149 |
2 |
63.67 |
2009-02-09 |
20. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
64.43 |
0.9974 |
0.1113 |
163 |
1 |
64.43 |
2009-03-25 |
21. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
64.01 |
0.9765 |
0.1281 |
269 |
5 |
58.90 |
2009-04-18 |
22. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
63.99 |
0.9538 |
0.1509 |
276 |
1 |
63.99 |
2009-02-20 |
23. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
63.97 |
1.0682 |
0.0375 |
266 |
2 |
62.53 |
2009-04-07 |
24. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
63.92 |
1.0362 |
0.0738 |
437 |
1 |
63.92 |
2009-02-10 |
25. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
63.87 |
1.0901 |
0.0147 |
288 |
1 |
63.87 |
2009-02-14 |
26. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
63.33 |
1.0638 |
0.0277 |
247 |
1 |
63.33 |
2009-02-10 |
27. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
63.27 |
1.1198 |
-0.0284 |
247 |
1 |
63.27 |
2009-02-14 |
28. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
62.83 |
1.0404 |
0.0493 |
406 |
1 |
62.83 |
2009-02-20 |
29. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
61.96 |
1.0582 |
0.0084 |
180 |
2 |
60.95 |
2009-02-10 |
30. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
61.78 |
0.9745 |
0.0941 |
388 |
2 |
60.66 |
2009-04-07 |
31. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
61.50 |
1.0576 |
0.0013 |
231 |
1 |
61.50 |
2009-02-09 |
32. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
61.47 |
1.0686 |
-0.0038 |
354 |
1 |
61.47 |
2009-02-10 |
33. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
61.29 |
1.0016 |
0.0548 |
217 |
2 |
56.43 |
2009-02-10 |
34. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
61.10 |
1.0865 |
-0.0320 |
237 |
1 |
61.10 |
2009-02-10 |
35. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
60.94 |
1.0588 |
-0.0067 |
281 |
1 |
60.94 |
2009-02-10 |
36. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
60.70 |
1.0540 |
-0.0112 |
184 |
2 |
59.83 |
2009-03-25 |
37. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
60.59 |
0.9119 |
0.1383 |
396 |
2 |
58.13 |
2009-02-10 |
38. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
60.53 |
1.0227 |
0.0282 |
378 |
2 |
56.86 |
2009-02-09 |
39. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
60.45 |
1.0427 |
0.0016 |
269 |
1 |
60.45 |
2009-02-09 |
40. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
60.35 |
1.0736 |
-0.0293 |
350 |
1 |
60.35 |
2009-02-09 |
41. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
60.25 |
1.0101 |
0.0317 |
336 |
1 |
60.25 |
2009-04-07 |
42. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
60.07 |
1.0487 |
-0.0140 |
253 |
2 |
56.45 |
2009-08-18 |
43. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
59.99 |
1.0267 |
0.0119 |
261 |
2 |
54.85 |
2009-08-02 |
44. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
59.87 |
1.0521 |
-0.0243 |
197 |
1 |
59.87 |
2009-02-09 |
45. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
59.84 |
1.0272 |
0.0036 |
226 |
1 |
59.84 |
2009-03-25 |
46. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
59.75 |
0.9952 |
0.0385 |
220 |
2 |
52.37 |
2009-04-18 |
47. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
59.65 |
1.0495 |
-0.0204 |
323 |
3 |
56.65 |
2009-08-02 |
48. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
59.60 |
0.8847 |
0.1418 |
282 |
1 |
59.60 |
2009-04-07 |
49. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
59.46 |
1.0881 |
-0.0657 |
210 |
1 |
59.46 |
2009-04-07 |
50. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
59.39 |
0.9519 |
0.0770 |
323 |
3 |
54.18 |
2009-08-02 |
51. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
59.34 |
1.0028 |
0.0203 |
259 |
1 |
59.34 |
2009-02-09 |
52. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
59.30 |
0.9833 |
0.0426 |
387 |
1 |
59.30 |
2009-02-20 |
53. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
59.27 |
1.0115 |
0.0063 |
189 |
1 |
59.27 |
2009-02-10 |
54. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
59.22 |
1.0845 |
-0.0635 |
212 |
2 |
54.13 |
2009-04-07 |
55. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
59.22 |
0.9807 |
0.0298 |
129 |
1 |
59.22 |
2009-02-10 |
56. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
59.14 |
1.0125 |
0.0067 |
232 |
1 |
59.14 |
2009-02-09 |
57. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
59.13 |
1.0418 |
-0.0205 |
214 |
2 |
51.98 |
2009-08-02 |
58. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
58.92 |
0.9604 |
0.0544 |
285 |
1 |
58.92 |
2009-02-09 |
59. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
58.74 |
1.0479 |
-0.0357 |
205 |
1 |
58.74 |
2009-02-14 |
60. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
58.31 |
1.0462 |
-0.0369 |
340 |
1 |
58.31 |
2009-02-21 |
61. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
58.29 |
1.0615 |
-0.0586 |
201 |
1 |
58.29 |
2009-02-09 |
62. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
58.24 |
1.0165 |
-0.0122 |
316 |
1 |
58.24 |
2009-02-09 |
63. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
58.08 |
1.0341 |
-0.0324 |
273 |
1 |
58.08 |
2009-02-10 |
64. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
58.04 |
0.9763 |
0.0248 |
143 |
1 |
58.04 |
2009-02-09 |
65. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
58.01 |
1.0743 |
-0.0721 |
297 |
1 |
58.01 |
2009-02-09 |
66. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
57.61 |
1.0197 |
-0.0274 |
204 |
2 |
50.80 |
2009-08-02 |
67. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
57.61 |
0.9183 |
0.0767 |
308 |
1 |
57.61 |
2009-08-02 |
68. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
56.85 |
0.9841 |
-0.0048 |
263 |
3 |
54.59 |
2009-04-07 |
69. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
56.49 |
0.9849 |
-0.0090 |
337 |
1 |
56.49 |
2009-02-20 |
70. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
56.27 |
0.9332 |
0.0377 |
267 |
1 |
56.27 |
2009-02-10 |
71. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
56.17 |
0.9108 |
0.0582 |
235 |
2 |
52.17 |
2009-04-07 |
72. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
55.99 |
1.0057 |
-0.0368 |
382 |
1 |
55.99 |
2009-02-09 |
73. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
55.84 |
0.9315 |
0.0337 |
273 |
2 |
53.73 |
2009-08-18 |
74. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
55.82 |
1.0006 |
-0.0375 |
311 |
1 |
55.82 |
2009-02-14 |
75. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
55.81 |
0.9756 |
-0.0134 |
223 |
1 |
55.81 |
2009-02-10 |
76. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
55.75 |
0.9980 |
-0.0340 |
295 |
2 |
54.49 |
2009-03-25 |
77. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
55.59 |
0.9228 |
0.0408 |
305 |
2 |
50.48 |
2009-02-09 |
78. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.48 |
0.9698 |
-0.0076 |
389 |
1 |
55.48 |
2009-02-10 |
79. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
55.39 |
1.0601 |
-0.1077 |
256 |
1 |
55.39 |
2009-02-09 |
80. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
55.34 |
1.0877 |
-0.1364 |
129 |
1 |
55.34 |
2009-02-09 |
81. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
55.22 |
1.0189 |
-0.0669 |
290 |
2 |
54.63 |
2009-02-09 |
82. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
55.04 |
0.9931 |
-0.0475 |
218 |
1 |
55.04 |
2009-02-09 |
83. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
54.94 |
1.0082 |
-0.0654 |
212 |
1 |
54.94 |
2009-02-09 |
84. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
54.88 |
1.0253 |
-0.0756 |
337 |
1 |
54.88 |
2009-02-10 |
85. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
54.58 |
0.9963 |
-0.0572 |
274 |
1 |
54.58 |
2009-02-10 |
86. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
54.55 |
1.0036 |
-0.0616 |
277 |
1 |
54.55 |
2009-02-21 |
87. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
54.52 |
1.0208 |
-0.0804 |
231 |
1 |
54.52 |
2009-02-09 |
88. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
54.45 |
0.9284 |
0.0146 |
346 |
1 |
54.45 |
2009-02-10 |
89. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
54.30 |
1.0095 |
-0.0742 |
211 |
1 |
54.30 |
2009-02-09 |
90. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
54.03 |
0.9271 |
0.0045 |
295 |
1 |
54.03 |
2009-02-09 |
91. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
53.95 |
0.9836 |
-0.0529 |
289 |
1 |
53.95 |
2009-03-25 |
92. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
53.92 |
0.9885 |
-0.0583 |
355 |
1 |
53.92 |
2009-02-09 |
93. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
53.88 |
0.9890 |
-0.0557 |
272 |
1 |
53.88 |
2009-02-20 |
94. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
53.88 |
0.9915 |
-0.0630 |
281 |
1 |
53.88 |
2009-02-21 |
95. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
53.71 |
0.9927 |
-0.0696 |
234 |
2 |
50.36 |
2009-02-09 |
96. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
53.68 |
1.0387 |
-0.1086 |
333 |
2 |
52.87 |
2009-04-07 |
97. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
53.64 |
0.9206 |
0.0051 |
317 |
2 |
50.91 |
2009-03-25 |
98. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
53.29 |
1.0476 |
-0.1379 |
110 |
1 |
53.29 |
2009-02-10 |
99. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
53.28 |
0.9650 |
-0.0434 |
347 |
1 |
53.28 |
2009-04-07 |
100. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
53.28 |
1.1086 |
-0.1893 |
233 |
1 |
53.28 |
2009-02-14 |
101. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
53.21 |
0.9713 |
-0.0550 |
193 |
1 |
53.21 |
2009-02-09 |
102. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
53.14 |
0.9243 |
-0.0057 |
240 |
1 |
53.14 |
2009-04-18 |
103. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
53.06 |
0.9709 |
-0.0571 |
264 |
2 |
52.76 |
2009-04-07 |
104. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
52.91 |
0.9392 |
-0.0206 |
360 |
1 |
52.91 |
2009-08-02 |
105. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
52.81 |
0.9827 |
-0.0710 |
314 |
1 |
52.81 |
2009-02-10 |
106. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
52.73 |
1.0461 |
-0.1345 |
318 |
1 |
52.73 |
2009-02-09 |
107. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
52.40 |
0.9927 |
-0.0884 |
276 |
1 |
52.40 |
2009-02-10 |
108. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
52.32 |
0.9603 |
-0.0525 |
430 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-02-09 |
109. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
52.20 |
0.9011 |
0.0023 |
322 |
1 |
52.20 |
2009-02-10 |
110. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
51.50 |
0.9884 |
-0.0979 |
267 |
1 |
51.50 |
2009-02-09 |
111. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
51.31 |
1.0511 |
-0.1646 |
252 |
1 |
51.31 |
2009-02-09 |
112. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
51.20 |
0.9260 |
-0.0402 |
348 |
1 |
51.20 |
2009-02-09 |
113. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
51.19 |
1.0403 |
-0.1593 |
234 |
1 |
51.19 |
2009-02-21 |
114. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
51.18 |
1.0543 |
-0.1751 |
182 |
1 |
51.18 |
2009-04-07 |
115. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
51.10 |
1.0590 |
-0.1790 |
250 |
1 |
51.10 |
2009-02-09 |
116. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
50.94 |
0.9829 |
-0.1053 |
229 |
2 |
44.62 |
2009-04-07 |
117. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
50.72 |
0.8986 |
-0.0191 |
363 |
1 |
50.72 |
2009-02-14 |
118. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
50.62 |
0.9673 |
-0.0923 |
292 |
1 |
50.62 |
2009-02-09 |
119. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
50.30 |
1.0291 |
-0.1640 |
240 |
1 |
50.30 |
2009-02-09 |
120. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
50.29 |
0.9597 |
-0.0925 |
251 |
1 |
50.29 |
2009-02-09 |
121. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
49.26 |
0.9931 |
-0.1395 |
339 |
1 |
49.26 |
2009-02-09 |
122. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
49.13 |
0.9339 |
-0.0812 |
317 |
1 |
49.13 |
2009-02-09 |
123. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
48.63 |
1.0466 |
-0.2088 |
230 |
1 |
48.63 |
2009-04-07 |
124. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
48.09 |
0.9468 |
-0.1182 |
318 |
1 |
48.09 |
2009-02-10 |
125. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
47.94 |
1.0018 |
-0.1753 |
246 |
1 |
47.94 |
2009-02-10 |
126. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
47.53 |
0.9451 |
-0.1181 |
419 |
1 |
47.53 |
2009-02-09 |
127. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
47.15 |
0.9780 |
-0.1717 |
173 |
2 |
44.31 |
2009-03-25 |
128. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
47.13 |
0.9869 |
-0.1783 |
193 |
1 |
47.13 |
2009-04-18 |
129. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
45.53 |
0.8624 |
-0.0827 |
174 |
1 |
45.53 |
2009-02-10 |
130. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
45.27 |
0.8986 |
-0.1181 |
216 |
1 |
45.27 |
2009-08-02 |
131. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
41.69 |
0.8880 |
-0.1702 |
296 |
1 |
41.69 |
2009-08-02 |
132. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
40.97 |
0.8936 |
-0.1895 |
346 |
1 |
40.97 |
2009-02-09 |
133. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
40.68 |
0.9352 |
-0.2361 |
194 |
1 |
40.68 |
2009-02-10 |
134. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
26.09 |
0.9948 |
-0.5491 |
233 |
1 |
26.09 |
2009-08-18 |