Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
111.03 |
0.9930 |
0.0498 |
350 |
6 |
102.99 |
2010-06-09 |
2. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
110.56 |
1.0181 |
0.0126 |
276 |
3 |
102.72 |
2010-05-19 |
3. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
113.58 |
0.9839 |
0.0735 |
308 |
3 |
105.45 |
2010-07-03 |
4. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
118.62 |
0.9981 |
0.1058 |
211 |
3 |
114.18 |
2010-07-03 |
5. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
116.03 |
1.0506 |
0.0296 |
259 |
3 |
115.07 |
2010-07-03 |
6. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
110.52 |
0.9143 |
0.1157 |
300 |
3 |
106.99 |
2010-06-14 |
7. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
115.05 |
1.0082 |
0.0582 |
212 |
3 |
92.87 |
2010-07-04 |
8. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
104.89 |
0.8993 |
0.0797 |
366 |
2 |
100.64 |
2010-07-24 |
9. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
103.71 |
0.8830 |
0.0847 |
300 |
2 |
97.75 |
2010-06-13 |
10. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
115.61 |
1.0476 |
0.0197 |
110 |
2 |
111.61 |
2010-06-09 |
11. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
122.19 |
1.0540 |
0.0793 |
184 |
2 |
118.31 |
2010-05-21 |
12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
125.08 |
1.0865 |
0.0787 |
237 |
2 |
123.90 |
2010-05-19 |
13. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
113.04 |
1.0125 |
0.0386 |
232 |
2 |
109.62 |
2010-06-28 |
14. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
103.38 |
0.9598 |
0.0045 |
209 |
2 |
103.23 |
2010-06-18 |
15. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
110.15 |
1.0189 |
0.0060 |
290 |
2 |
109.01 |
2010-07-24 |
16. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
125.34 |
1.0332 |
0.1340 |
267 |
2 |
118.52 |
2010-07-03 |
17. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
103.78 |
0.9801 |
-0.0146 |
289 |
2 |
103.51 |
2010-06-01 |
18. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
106.70 |
0.9737 |
0.0222 |
237 |
2 |
100.35 |
2010-07-03 |
19. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
101.01 |
0.9228 |
0.0216 |
305 |
2 |
94.99 |
2010-07-24 |
20. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
111.66 |
0.9359 |
0.1045 |
355 |
2 |
102.55 |
2010-05-21 |
21. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
115.76 |
1.0059 |
0.0734 |
283 |
2 |
114.71 |
2010-06-01 |
22. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
101.16 |
0.9271 |
0.0138 |
295 |
1 |
101.16 |
2010-05-27 |
23. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
113.64 |
0.9719 |
0.0935 |
383 |
1 |
113.64 |
2010-06-01 |
24. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
103.41 |
1.0399 |
-0.0726 |
257 |
1 |
103.41 |
2010-07-04 |
25. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
109.32 |
0.8305 |
0.1826 |
162 |
1 |
109.32 |
2010-05-19 |
26. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
96.85 |
1.0111 |
-0.0980 |
452 |
1 |
96.85 |
2010-05-19 |
27. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
91.68 |
0.9606 |
-0.1040 |
203 |
1 |
91.68 |
2010-07-13 |
28. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
90.99 |
0.9801 |
-0.1258 |
282 |
1 |
90.99 |
2010-07-04 |
29. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
101.24 |
0.8880 |
0.0542 |
296 |
1 |
101.24 |
2010-07-04 |
30. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
102.26 |
1.0362 |
-0.0783 |
437 |
1 |
102.26 |
2010-07-04 |
31. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
111.52 |
1.0616 |
-0.0164 |
304 |
1 |
111.52 |
2010-07-04 |
32. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
105.51 |
0.9594 |
0.0209 |
258 |
1 |
105.51 |
2010-07-04 |
33. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
108.63 |
0.9957 |
0.0154 |
323 |
1 |
108.63 |
2010-07-04 |
34. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
104.60 |
0.9029 |
0.0733 |
393 |
1 |
104.60 |
2010-05-21 |
35. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
113.87 |
1.0283 |
0.0387 |
272 |
1 |
113.87 |
2010-07-04 |
36. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
115.27 |
1.0615 |
0.0090 |
201 |
1 |
115.27 |
2010-05-19 |
37. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
74.20 |
1.0139 |
-0.3121 |
349 |
1 |
74.20 |
2010-07-04 |
38. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
104.28 |
1.0301 |
-0.0609 |
268 |
1 |
104.28 |
2010-05-19 |
39. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
117.43 |
0.9070 |
0.1819 |
192 |
1 |
117.43 |
2010-07-24 |
40. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
102.74 |
0.9530 |
0.0163 |
445 |
1 |
102.74 |
2010-07-24 |
41. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
106.99 |
0.9947 |
0.0109 |
346 |
1 |
106.99 |
2010-06-01 |
42. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
114.88 |
1.1062 |
-0.0344 |
200 |
1 |
114.88 |
2010-07-04 |
43. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
99.66 |
0.9011 |
0.0294 |
322 |
1 |
99.66 |
2010-07-04 |
44. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
114.35 |
1.0509 |
0.0281 |
430 |
1 |
114.35 |
2010-06-01 |
45. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
97.40 |
1.0192 |
-0.1078 |
243 |
1 |
97.40 |
2010-07-04 |
46. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
105.91 |
0.9917 |
-0.0038 |
317 |
1 |
105.91 |
2010-06-01 |
47. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
103.76 |
1.0576 |
-0.0947 |
231 |
1 |
103.76 |
2010-07-03 |
48. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
116.76 |
1.0492 |
0.0434 |
284 |
1 |
116.76 |
2010-05-31 |
49. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
109.93 |
0.8986 |
0.1232 |
205 |
1 |
109.93 |
2010-07-24 |
50. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
102.30 |
0.8964 |
0.0527 |
199 |
1 |
102.30 |
2010-05-24 |
51. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
109.52 |
0.9136 |
0.1093 |
348 |
1 |
109.52 |
2010-05-21 |
52. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
113.75 |
0.9841 |
0.0718 |
217 |
1 |
113.75 |
2010-05-21 |
53. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
104.81 |
0.9644 |
0.0142 |
398 |
1 |
104.81 |
2010-07-24 |
54. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
97.22 |
0.9636 |
-0.0606 |
281 |
1 |
97.22 |
2010-07-24 |
55. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
54.12 |
1.1198 |
-0.6201 |
247 |
1 |
54.12 |
2010-07-13 |
56. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
102.60 |
0.9374 |
0.0201 |
232 |
1 |
102.60 |
2010-05-20 |
57. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
105.44 |
0.9864 |
-0.0012 |
292 |
1 |
105.44 |
2010-07-03 |
58. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
97.74 |
1.0672 |
-0.1591 |
239 |
1 |
97.74 |
2010-05-19 |
59. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
113.72 |
0.9425 |
0.1172 |
248 |
1 |
113.72 |
2010-07-03 |
60. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
120.95 |
1.0461 |
0.0854 |
286 |
1 |
120.95 |
2010-05-19 |
61. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
103.56 |
0.8955 |
0.0783 |
436 |
1 |
103.56 |
2010-07-24 |
62. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
114.57 |
1.0387 |
0.0324 |
333 |
1 |
114.57 |
2010-05-19 |
63. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
115.00 |
1.0567 |
0.0139 |
314 |
1 |
115.00 |
2010-05-19 |
64. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
91.04 |
0.8974 |
-0.0390 |
365 |
1 |
91.04 |
2010-05-19 |
65. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
108.20 |
0.9284 |
0.0825 |
346 |
1 |
108.20 |
2010-05-19 |
66. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
105.98 |
0.9660 |
0.0276 |
258 |
1 |
105.98 |
2010-05-19 |
67. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
115.26 |
1.0498 |
0.0248 |
261 |
1 |
115.26 |
2010-07-24 |
68. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
98.85 |
0.9541 |
-0.0338 |
236 |
1 |
98.85 |
2010-05-19 |
69. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
104.00 |
0.9824 |
-0.0015 |
352 |
1 |
104.00 |
2010-06-18 |
70. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
105.22 |
0.9145 |
0.0683 |
404 |
1 |
105.22 |
2010-05-19 |
71. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
113.68 |
0.9756 |
0.0823 |
223 |
1 |
113.68 |
2010-06-18 |
72. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
96.54 |
0.9027 |
-0.0082 |
189 |
1 |
96.54 |
2010-06-01 |
73. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
111.34 |
0.9243 |
0.1145 |
240 |
1 |
111.34 |
2010-06-18 |
74. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
107.27 |
0.9980 |
0.0097 |
341 |
1 |
107.27 |
2010-06-01 |
75. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
103.35 |
1.0026 |
-0.0364 |
200 |
1 |
103.35 |
2010-07-24 |
76. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
111.50 |
1.0067 |
0.0452 |
422 |
1 |
111.50 |
2010-06-01 |
77. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
113.13 |
1.0462 |
0.0102 |
340 |
1 |
113.13 |
2010-06-14 |
78. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
110.59 |
0.9692 |
0.0767 |
405 |
1 |
110.59 |
2010-06-01 |
79. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
114.77 |
1.0588 |
0.0101 |
281 |
1 |
114.77 |
2010-06-13 |
80. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
94.33 |
1.0883 |
-0.2046 |
189 |
1 |
94.33 |
2010-06-01 |
81. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
117.83 |
0.9658 |
0.1353 |
308 |
1 |
117.83 |
2010-06-13 |
82. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
93.94 |
0.9809 |
-0.0994 |
250 |
1 |
93.94 |
2010-06-01 |
83. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
108.13 |
0.9709 |
0.0344 |
264 |
1 |
108.13 |
2010-06-13 |
84. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
112.89 |
0.9966 |
0.0618 |
377 |
1 |
112.89 |
2010-06-01 |
85. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
102.38 |
0.9649 |
-0.0019 |
360 |
1 |
102.38 |
2010-06-13 |
86. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
100.20 |
0.9817 |
-0.0440 |
304 |
1 |
100.20 |
2010-05-31 |
87. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
117.06 |
1.0561 |
0.0322 |
227 |
1 |
117.06 |
2010-06-13 |
88. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
90.87 |
0.9123 |
-0.0581 |
351 |
1 |
90.87 |
2010-05-24 |
89. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
114.78 |
1.0101 |
0.0606 |
336 |
1 |
114.78 |
2010-06-13 |
90. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
91.04 |
0.9424 |
-0.0934 |
320 |
1 |
91.04 |
2010-05-24 |
91. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
107.15 |
0.9604 |
0.0349 |
285 |
1 |
107.15 |
2010-06-13 |
92. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
110.93 |
1.0601 |
-0.0305 |
256 |
1 |
110.93 |
2010-05-21 |
93. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
113.22 |
1.0128 |
0.0483 |
369 |
1 |
113.22 |
2010-05-21 |
94. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
112.12 |
1.0736 |
-0.0270 |
350 |
1 |
112.12 |
2010-05-21 |
95. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
118.54 |
1.0743 |
0.0309 |
297 |
1 |
118.54 |
2010-05-21 |
96. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
111.43 |
0.9935 |
0.0462 |
217 |
1 |
111.43 |
2010-05-19 |
97. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
108.17 |
0.9827 |
0.0252 |
314 |
1 |
108.17 |
2010-07-24 |
98. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
73.86 |
1.0350 |
-0.3349 |
416 |
1 |
73.86 |
2010-05-21 |
99. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
112.77 |
1.0450 |
0.0104 |
358 |
1 |
112.77 |
2010-05-19 |
100. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
118.29 |
1.0103 |
0.0858 |
209 |
1 |
118.29 |
2010-05-21 |
101. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
102.08 |
0.9952 |
-0.0429 |
220 |
1 |
102.08 |
2010-05-19 |
102. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
103.31 |
0.9963 |
-0.0373 |
274 |
1 |
103.31 |
2010-05-20 |
103. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
108.03 |
1.0543 |
-0.0463 |
360 |
1 |
108.03 |
2010-05-19 |
104. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
106.00 |
0.9468 |
0.0396 |
318 |
1 |
106.00 |
2010-05-19 |
105. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
110.23 |
1.0472 |
-0.0272 |
149 |
1 |
110.23 |
2010-07-24 |
106. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
109.39 |
0.9957 |
0.0267 |
323 |
1 |
109.39 |
2010-05-19 |
107. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
106.67 |
1.0466 |
-0.0541 |
230 |
1 |
106.67 |
2010-06-13 |
108. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
104.21 |
0.9931 |
-0.0187 |
339 |
1 |
104.21 |
2010-05-19 |
109. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
104.99 |
0.9517 |
0.0336 |
397 |
1 |
104.99 |
2010-06-13 |
110. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
98.25 |
0.9403 |
-0.0175 |
307 |
1 |
98.25 |
2010-05-19 |
111. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
92.25 |
0.8778 |
-0.0181 |
285 |
1 |
92.25 |
2010-06-13 |
112. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
105.87 |
0.9844 |
0.0131 |
351 |
1 |
105.87 |
2010-05-19 |
113. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
119.56 |
1.0585 |
0.0580 |
226 |
1 |
119.56 |
2010-06-09 |
114. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
102.60 |
1.0419 |
-0.0840 |
341 |
1 |
102.60 |
2010-05-19 |
115. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
110.44 |
1.0507 |
-0.0171 |
253 |
1 |
110.44 |
2010-06-09 |
116. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
106.77 |
1.0411 |
-0.0454 |
341 |
1 |
106.77 |
2010-05-19 |
117. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
125.40 |
1.0426 |
0.1218 |
131 |
1 |
125.40 |
2010-05-19 |
118. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
97.23 |
0.9108 |
-0.0064 |
235 |
1 |
97.23 |
2010-05-19 |
119. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
112.39 |
0.9804 |
0.0663 |
227 |
1 |
112.39 |
2010-05-19 |
120. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
105.71 |
1.0333 |
-0.0545 |
176 |
1 |
105.71 |
2010-05-19 |
121. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
93.71 |
0.9332 |
-0.0617 |
267 |
1 |
93.71 |
2010-07-24 |
122. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
109.23 |
1.0501 |
-0.0325 |
263 |
1 |
109.23 |
2010-06-09 |
123. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
105.72 |
0.9857 |
0.0042 |
268 |
1 |
105.72 |
2010-06-03 |
124. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
108.73 |
0.9928 |
0.0188 |
293 |
1 |
108.73 |
2010-05-19 |
125. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
109.80 |
0.9408 |
0.0761 |
177 |
1 |
109.80 |
2010-06-02 |
126. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
113.34 |
1.0607 |
-0.0025 |
357 |
1 |
113.34 |
2010-05-19 |
127. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
108.27 |
1.0131 |
-0.0018 |
245 |
1 |
108.27 |
2010-06-02 |
128. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
97.90 |
0.9451 |
-0.0264 |
419 |
1 |
97.90 |
2010-05-19 |
129. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
114.80 |
0.9841 |
0.0834 |
263 |
1 |
114.80 |
2010-06-02 |
130. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
98.48 |
0.9494 |
-0.0204 |
397 |
1 |
98.48 |
2010-05-19 |
131. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
110.73 |
0.9357 |
0.0930 |
204 |
1 |
110.73 |
2010-06-02 |
132. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
118.91 |
1.0094 |
0.0983 |
256 |
1 |
118.91 |
2010-05-19 |
133. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
110.08 |
0.9392 |
0.0918 |
360 |
1 |
110.08 |
2010-06-02 |
134. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
109.72 |
1.0090 |
0.0181 |
300 |
1 |
109.72 |
2010-05-19 |
135. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
107.56 |
0.9434 |
0.0624 |
367 |
1 |
107.56 |
2010-06-02 |
136. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
112.12 |
1.0243 |
0.0235 |
153 |
1 |
112.12 |
2010-05-19 |
137. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
110.01 |
0.9931 |
0.0272 |
218 |
1 |
110.01 |
2010-06-02 |
138. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
104.37 |
0.9985 |
-0.0148 |
392 |
1 |
104.37 |
2010-05-19 |
139. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
124.66 |
1.0060 |
0.1621 |
244 |
1 |
124.66 |
2010-06-01 |
140. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
82.44 |
0.7923 |
-0.0257 |
316 |
1 |
82.44 |
2010-05-19 |
141. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
112.45 |
0.9597 |
0.0876 |
251 |
1 |
112.45 |
2010-06-01 |
142. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
80.22 |
1.0590 |
-0.3149 |
250 |
1 |
80.22 |
2010-05-19 |
143. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
101.97 |
1.0063 |
-0.0525 |
293 |
1 |
101.97 |
2010-07-24 |
144. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
105.55 |
0.9873 |
0.0056 |
396 |
1 |
105.55 |
2010-07-24 |