| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
55.21 |
1.1138 |
0.1086 |
341 |
1 |
55.21 |
2013-05-06 |
| 2. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
53.97 |
1.0192 |
0.1727 |
243 |
1 |
53.97 |
2013-03-05 |
| 3. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
53.40 |
1.0883 |
0.0923 |
189 |
1 |
53.40 |
2013-05-15 |
| 4. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
53.13 |
1.1086 |
0.0598 |
233 |
3 |
50.97 |
2012-12-03 |
| 5. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
53.08 |
1.0079 |
0.1582 |
273 |
1 |
53.08 |
2013-06-07 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
52.72 |
1.0881 |
0.0671 |
210 |
2 |
51.63 |
2013-05-15 |
| 7. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
52.67 |
1.1062 |
0.0537 |
200 |
1 |
52.67 |
2012-10-28 |
| 8. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
52.63 |
1.0562 |
0.1060 |
360 |
1 |
52.63 |
2012-10-09 |
| 9. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
52.59 |
1.0060 |
0.1515 |
260 |
2 |
48.88 |
2013-03-08 |
| 10. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
52.58 |
1.0427 |
0.1140 |
269 |
1 |
52.58 |
2013-03-05 |
| 11. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
52.15 |
0.9255 |
0.2220 |
174 |
1 |
52.15 |
2013-03-18 |
| 12. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
52.09 |
0.9358 |
0.2039 |
188 |
1 |
52.09 |
2013-05-15 |
| 13. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
52.00 |
0.9931 |
0.1624 |
381 |
1 |
52.00 |
2013-03-08 |
| 14. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
51.73 |
0.9108 |
0.2261 |
235 |
2 |
47.68 |
2013-03-05 |
| 15. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
51.24 |
1.0501 |
0.0769 |
263 |
1 |
51.24 |
2012-10-16 |
| 16. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
50.92 |
0.9384 |
0.1860 |
229 |
1 |
50.92 |
2013-05-06 |
| 17. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
50.79 |
0.8571 |
0.2591 |
202 |
1 |
50.79 |
2013-06-07 |
| 18. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
50.60 |
0.9621 |
0.1527 |
212 |
1 |
50.60 |
2012-11-22 |
| 19. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
50.60 |
1.0208 |
0.0911 |
232 |
1 |
50.60 |
2012-12-11 |
| 20. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
50.46 |
0.9604 |
0.1465 |
285 |
1 |
50.46 |
2013-05-22 |
| 21. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
50.45 |
0.8680 |
0.2362 |
196 |
1 |
50.45 |
2013-03-05 |
| 22. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
50.37 |
0.9561 |
0.1527 |
362 |
1 |
50.37 |
2013-04-09 |
| 23. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
50.20 |
1.0495 |
0.0534 |
323 |
1 |
50.20 |
2012-10-09 |
| 24. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
50.17 |
1.0682 |
0.0356 |
266 |
1 |
50.17 |
2012-10-10 |
| 25. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
50.06 |
1.0590 |
0.0402 |
250 |
1 |
50.06 |
2012-10-09 |
| 26. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
49.96 |
1.0332 |
0.0646 |
267 |
1 |
49.96 |
2012-11-22 |
| 27. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
49.93 |
1.0471 |
0.0428 |
170 |
1 |
49.93 |
2013-01-16 |
| 28. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
49.92 |
1.0800 |
0.0141 |
213 |
2 |
48.51 |
2012-10-23 |
| 29. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
49.73 |
1.0418 |
0.0518 |
214 |
1 |
49.73 |
2012-11-06 |
| 30. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
49.57 |
0.9745 |
0.1171 |
388 |
1 |
49.57 |
2013-05-06 |
| 31. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
49.55 |
0.9737 |
0.1178 |
237 |
2 |
43.69 |
2013-03-05 |
| 32. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
49.54 |
1.0466 |
0.0419 |
230 |
1 |
49.54 |
2012-10-10 |
| 33. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
49.28 |
0.9614 |
0.1232 |
195 |
2 |
48.64 |
2013-05-15 |
| 34. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
49.20 |
0.9144 |
0.1613 |
167 |
1 |
49.20 |
2013-02-13 |
| 35. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
48.90 |
0.9756 |
0.0982 |
223 |
1 |
48.90 |
2013-01-16 |
| 36. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
48.82 |
1.0392 |
0.0387 |
258 |
1 |
48.82 |
2013-03-18 |
| 37. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
48.82 |
1.0225 |
0.0429 |
152 |
1 |
48.82 |
2012-11-12 |
| 38. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
48.82 |
1.0106 |
0.0614 |
302 |
1 |
48.82 |
2012-12-11 |
| 39. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
48.72 |
0.9270 |
0.1466 |
193 |
2 |
42.18 |
2012-11-21 |
| 40. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
48.40 |
0.9480 |
0.1169 |
297 |
1 |
48.40 |
2012-11-06 |
| 41. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
48.35 |
0.9627 |
0.0995 |
259 |
2 |
48.34 |
2013-01-16 |
| 42. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
48.33 |
1.0408 |
0.0286 |
257 |
1 |
48.33 |
2013-03-14 |
| 43. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
48.20 |
1.0615 |
-0.0053 |
201 |
1 |
48.20 |
2013-01-04 |
| 44. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
48.12 |
1.0498 |
0.0088 |
261 |
1 |
48.12 |
2012-10-23 |
| 45. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
48.04 |
1.0472 |
0.0187 |
397 |
1 |
48.04 |
2013-04-09 |
| 46. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
48.02 |
1.0103 |
0.0392 |
209 |
1 |
48.02 |
2012-10-08 |
| 47. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
47.90 |
0.8775 |
0.1696 |
185 |
1 |
47.90 |
2012-12-03 |
| 48. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
47.89 |
1.0792 |
-0.0220 |
251 |
1 |
47.89 |
2013-03-08 |
| 49. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
47.84 |
0.9260 |
0.1286 |
348 |
1 |
47.84 |
2012-10-28 |
| 50. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
47.74 |
1.0112 |
0.0372 |
242 |
1 |
47.74 |
2012-10-08 |
| 51. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
47.53 |
1.0189 |
0.0249 |
290 |
1 |
47.53 |
2013-05-22 |
| 52. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
47.28 |
0.9807 |
0.0467 |
129 |
1 |
47.28 |
2012-10-09 |
| 53. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
46.95 |
0.9801 |
0.0596 |
282 |
1 |
46.95 |
2013-03-08 |
| 54. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
46.87 |
1.0588 |
-0.0289 |
281 |
1 |
46.87 |
2013-01-10 |
| 55. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
46.86 |
0.9948 |
0.0336 |
233 |
1 |
46.86 |
2012-10-09 |
| 56. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
46.74 |
0.9425 |
0.0850 |
248 |
2 |
45.89 |
2013-03-14 |
| 57. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
46.73 |
0.9394 |
0.0859 |
195 |
2 |
44.15 |
2013-01-16 |
| 58. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
46.52 |
1.0506 |
-0.0291 |
259 |
1 |
46.52 |
2012-12-11 |
| 59. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
46.50 |
1.0845 |
-0.0639 |
212 |
1 |
46.50 |
2012-10-16 |
| 60. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
46.23 |
0.9143 |
0.1022 |
300 |
1 |
46.23 |
2013-03-18 |
| 61. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
46.05 |
1.0493 |
-0.0307 |
264 |
1 |
46.05 |
2012-10-08 |
| 62. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
45.99 |
1.0018 |
0.0087 |
246 |
1 |
45.99 |
2012-11-12 |
| 63. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
45.96 |
1.0341 |
-0.0250 |
273 |
1 |
45.96 |
2013-02-21 |
| 64. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
45.96 |
0.8988 |
0.1101 |
193 |
1 |
45.96 |
2012-08-20 |
| 65. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
45.57 |
0.8993 |
0.1043 |
366 |
2 |
44.17 |
2013-03-14 |
| 66. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
45.45 |
1.0033 |
-0.0049 |
203 |
1 |
45.45 |
2012-09-10 |
| 67. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
45.44 |
1.0743 |
-0.0753 |
297 |
1 |
45.44 |
2013-02-13 |
| 68. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
45.41 |
0.8721 |
0.1313 |
231 |
2 |
42.70 |
2012-12-03 |
| 69. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
45.04 |
0.9621 |
0.0245 |
201 |
1 |
45.04 |
2012-09-06 |
| 70. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
45.03 |
1.0042 |
-0.0190 |
168 |
1 |
45.03 |
2013-01-10 |
| 71. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
44.94 |
1.0403 |
-0.0549 |
234 |
1 |
44.94 |
2013-05-15 |
| 72. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
44.74 |
1.0521 |
-0.0750 |
197 |
1 |
44.74 |
2013-01-16 |
| 73. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
44.73 |
0.9203 |
0.0650 |
350 |
1 |
44.73 |
2012-10-09 |
| 74. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
44.72 |
0.9981 |
-0.0167 |
211 |
1 |
44.72 |
2012-10-08 |
| 75. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
44.54 |
1.0351 |
-0.0530 |
276 |
1 |
44.54 |
2012-11-06 |
| 76. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
44.50 |
1.0270 |
-0.0490 |
303 |
1 |
44.50 |
2013-01-04 |
| 77. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
44.48 |
1.0315 |
-0.0550 |
193 |
1 |
44.48 |
2012-10-23 |
| 78. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
44.45 |
0.9824 |
0.0070 |
352 |
1 |
44.45 |
2013-02-07 |
| 79. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
44.37 |
0.9027 |
0.0683 |
189 |
1 |
44.37 |
2013-02-21 |
| 80. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
43.89 |
0.9660 |
0.0049 |
258 |
1 |
43.89 |
2013-05-15 |
| 81. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
43.68 |
0.9183 |
0.0417 |
308 |
2 |
40.78 |
2013-01-04 |
| 82. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
43.64 |
1.0426 |
-0.0881 |
131 |
1 |
43.64 |
2012-10-08 |
| 83. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
43.60 |
1.0960 |
-0.1346 |
315 |
1 |
43.60 |
2013-01-10 |
| 84. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
43.57 |
0.9820 |
-0.0167 |
297 |
1 |
43.57 |
2012-10-09 |
| 85. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
43.46 |
0.8971 |
0.0546 |
100 |
2 |
41.71 |
2013-01-28 |
| 86. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
43.37 |
1.0131 |
-0.0575 |
245 |
1 |
43.37 |
2012-10-09 |
| 87. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
43.27 |
1.0010 |
-0.0470 |
213 |
2 |
40.59 |
2012-11-27 |
| 88. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
43.20 |
0.9338 |
0.0248 |
326 |
3 |
41.89 |
2012-10-08 |
| 89. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
42.87 |
0.9271 |
0.0137 |
295 |
1 |
42.87 |
2012-11-21 |
| 90. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
42.63 |
1.0304 |
-0.0971 |
256 |
1 |
42.63 |
2012-09-18 |
| 91. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
42.47 |
1.0016 |
-0.0707 |
217 |
1 |
42.47 |
2013-01-04 |
| 92. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
42.42 |
0.9137 |
0.0197 |
342 |
1 |
42.42 |
2013-01-28 |
| 93. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
42.42 |
0.9309 |
0.0104 |
376 |
1 |
42.42 |
2013-04-09 |
| 94. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
42.37 |
1.0333 |
-0.1081 |
176 |
1 |
42.37 |
2012-10-10 |
| 95. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
42.24 |
0.8192 |
0.1103 |
200 |
1 |
42.24 |
2013-01-16 |
| 96. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
42.23 |
0.9583 |
-0.0307 |
237 |
1 |
42.23 |
2013-01-10 |
| 97. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
41.93 |
0.9538 |
-0.0335 |
276 |
1 |
41.93 |
2012-10-10 |
| 98. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
41.93 |
0.9851 |
-0.0596 |
237 |
1 |
41.93 |
2012-11-21 |
| 99. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
41.84 |
0.8328 |
0.0893 |
343 |
1 |
41.84 |
2012-11-06 |
| 100. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.75 |
0.9909 |
-0.0700 |
293 |
1 |
41.75 |
2012-09-24 |
| 101. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
41.69 |
0.8830 |
0.0346 |
300 |
1 |
41.69 |
2013-02-13 |
| 102. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
41.63 |
1.0069 |
-0.0898 |
242 |
1 |
41.63 |
2012-09-18 |
| 103. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
41.47 |
1.0283 |
-0.1114 |
272 |
1 |
41.47 |
2012-11-21 |
| 104. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
41.25 |
0.9380 |
-0.0339 |
284 |
1 |
41.25 |
2012-11-27 |
| 105. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
41.09 |
0.8669 |
0.0414 |
255 |
1 |
41.09 |
2013-01-10 |
| 106. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
40.90 |
0.9650 |
-0.0645 |
347 |
1 |
40.90 |
2012-10-10 |
| 107. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
40.69 |
0.9299 |
-0.0449 |
168 |
1 |
40.69 |
2012-10-28 |
| 108. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
40.55 |
0.8208 |
0.0725 |
149 |
1 |
40.55 |
2012-10-16 |
| 109. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
40.52 |
0.9706 |
-0.0695 |
353 |
1 |
40.52 |
2013-03-08 |
| 110. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
40.30 |
0.9915 |
-0.1078 |
281 |
1 |
40.30 |
2012-08-30 |
| 111. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
40.30 |
0.9403 |
-0.0471 |
307 |
1 |
40.30 |
2013-02-21 |
| 112. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
40.18 |
1.0617 |
-0.1818 |
171 |
1 |
40.18 |
2012-10-28 |
| 113. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
40.14 |
1.0267 |
-0.1426 |
261 |
1 |
40.14 |
2012-09-24 |
| 114. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
39.91 |
0.9517 |
-0.0768 |
276 |
1 |
39.91 |
2012-11-21 |
| 115. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
39.80 |
1.0370 |
-0.1638 |
262 |
1 |
39.80 |
2012-09-10 |
| 116. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
39.72 |
0.9206 |
-0.0482 |
317 |
2 |
39.56 |
2013-03-14 |
| 117. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.69 |
0.9974 |
-0.1302 |
163 |
1 |
39.69 |
2012-11-21 |
| 118. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
39.17 |
0.9636 |
-0.1054 |
281 |
2 |
38.81 |
2012-11-27 |
| 119. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
38.92 |
0.9574 |
-0.1002 |
354 |
1 |
38.92 |
2012-09-18 |
| 120. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
38.72 |
0.8936 |
-0.0452 |
346 |
1 |
38.72 |
2012-10-16 |
| 121. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
38.37 |
0.8281 |
0.0131 |
134 |
1 |
38.37 |
2012-08-20 |
| 122. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
38.32 |
0.8437 |
-0.0036 |
268 |
1 |
38.32 |
2012-09-10 |
| 123. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
38.21 |
0.9797 |
-0.1373 |
269 |
1 |
38.21 |
2012-10-08 |
| 124. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
37.94 |
0.9145 |
-0.0787 |
404 |
1 |
37.94 |
2012-08-20 |
| 125. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
36.68 |
0.9841 |
-0.1828 |
217 |
1 |
36.68 |
2012-10-09 |
| 126. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
35.89 |
0.8172 |
-0.0345 |
204 |
1 |
35.89 |
2012-11-22 |
| 127. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
35.86 |
1.0039 |
-0.2112 |
255 |
1 |
35.86 |
2012-08-22 |
| 128. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
35.86 |
0.8805 |
-0.0939 |
205 |
1 |
35.86 |
2012-11-22 |
| 129. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
35.77 |
0.9757 |
-0.1943 |
176 |
1 |
35.77 |
2012-08-30 |
| 130. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
32.14 |
0.9931 |
-0.2926 |
218 |
1 |
32.14 |
2012-11-22 |
| 131. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
31.08 |
0.8837 |
-0.2035 |
157 |
1 |
31.08 |
2012-09-06 |
| 132. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
30.58 |
0.9128 |
-0.2459 |
237 |
1 |
30.58 |
2012-08-20 |