| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
107.51 |
1.0638 |
0.3207 |
247 |
1 |
107.51 |
2013-01-06 |
| 2. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
106.21 |
1.0507 |
0.3249 |
253 |
1 |
106.21 |
2012-12-22 |
| 3. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
97.17 |
1.0753 |
0.1845 |
206 |
2 |
94.44 |
2014-11-01 |
| 4. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
96.32 |
0.9482 |
0.2994 |
476 |
1 |
96.32 |
2012-05-22 |
| 5. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
96.15 |
1.0334 |
0.2058 |
261 |
2 |
94.19 |
2013-06-01 |
| 6. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
95.83 |
1.0101 |
0.2273 |
336 |
2 |
79.57 |
2013-06-01 |
| 7. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
94.65 |
1.0412 |
0.1841 |
205 |
1 |
94.65 |
2013-06-16 |
| 8. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
94.03 |
1.0018 |
0.2108 |
246 |
1 |
94.03 |
2013-01-06 |
| 9. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
93.26 |
0.9609 |
0.2461 |
331 |
2 |
81.04 |
2013-01-06 |
| 10. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
92.76 |
1.0392 |
0.1615 |
258 |
1 |
92.76 |
2010-10-25 |
| 11. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
92.62 |
0.9374 |
0.2590 |
232 |
1 |
92.62 |
2010-10-27 |
| 12. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
92.10 |
1.0479 |
0.1376 |
205 |
2 |
88.97 |
2010-10-26 |
| 13. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
89.64 |
1.0800 |
0.0680 |
129 |
2 |
86.42 |
2010-09-23 |
| 14. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
89.63 |
1.0865 |
0.0682 |
237 |
1 |
89.63 |
2013-07-18 |
| 15. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
89.61 |
1.0059 |
0.1501 |
283 |
1 |
89.61 |
2013-06-16 |
| 16. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
88.26 |
1.0461 |
0.0960 |
286 |
1 |
88.26 |
2009-11-06 |
| 17. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
88.08 |
0.9928 |
0.1416 |
293 |
1 |
88.08 |
2012-12-22 |
| 18. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
87.74 |
1.0208 |
0.1097 |
231 |
1 |
87.74 |
2011-09-14 |
| 19. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
87.54 |
0.9392 |
0.1951 |
360 |
1 |
87.54 |
2010-10-25 |
| 20. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
87.08 |
0.9931 |
0.1253 |
218 |
2 |
74.69 |
2011-01-02 |
| 21. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
86.90 |
0.9763 |
0.1434 |
143 |
2 |
82.92 |
2013-07-18 |
| 22. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
86.74 |
1.0676 |
0.0552 |
456 |
1 |
86.74 |
2010-11-25 |
| 23. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
86.61 |
1.0283 |
0.0944 |
272 |
1 |
86.61 |
2013-06-01 |
| 24. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
86.57 |
1.0250 |
0.0937 |
271 |
3 |
75.97 |
2009-11-06 |
| 25. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
86.12 |
0.9698 |
0.1453 |
389 |
2 |
84.25 |
2012-12-22 |
| 26. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
85.64 |
0.8913 |
0.2140 |
201 |
3 |
74.24 |
2011-04-06 |
| 27. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
85.35 |
1.0464 |
0.0584 |
294 |
2 |
81.35 |
2009-11-06 |
| 28. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
84.54 |
0.9931 |
0.1005 |
339 |
1 |
84.54 |
2010-10-26 |
| 29. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
84.29 |
1.0125 |
0.0720 |
232 |
1 |
84.29 |
2009-11-06 |
| 30. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
84.27 |
1.0590 |
0.0254 |
250 |
2 |
77.49 |
2009-11-06 |
| 31. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
83.67 |
0.9402 |
0.1358 |
310 |
1 |
83.67 |
2012-05-22 |
| 32. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
83.49 |
0.8993 |
0.1794 |
366 |
1 |
83.49 |
2013-07-18 |
| 33. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
83.33 |
1.0094 |
0.0638 |
256 |
1 |
83.33 |
2013-01-06 |
| 34. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
83.06 |
1.0576 |
0.0095 |
231 |
1 |
83.06 |
2010-01-22 |
| 35. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
82.90 |
0.8981 |
0.1790 |
255 |
1 |
82.90 |
2010-10-25 |
| 36. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
82.85 |
0.9935 |
0.0757 |
217 |
1 |
82.85 |
2013-06-16 |
| 37. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
82.83 |
1.0128 |
0.0612 |
369 |
1 |
82.83 |
2009-11-06 |
| 38. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
82.33 |
1.0481 |
0.0053 |
255 |
1 |
82.33 |
2009-02-05 |
| 39. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
81.90 |
1.0301 |
0.0235 |
268 |
1 |
81.90 |
2009-05-08 |
| 40. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
81.29 |
0.9890 |
0.0620 |
272 |
1 |
81.29 |
2009-11-10 |
| 41. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
81.15 |
0.9128 |
0.1293 |
237 |
2 |
73.57 |
2012-12-22 |
| 42. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
81.15 |
0.9538 |
0.0918 |
276 |
1 |
81.15 |
2011-01-02 |
| 43. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
81.07 |
1.0199 |
0.0206 |
225 |
2 |
75.93 |
2010-02-03 |
| 44. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
80.72 |
1.0404 |
0.0042 |
406 |
1 |
80.72 |
2011-12-22 |
| 45. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
80.63 |
1.0883 |
-0.0431 |
189 |
1 |
80.63 |
2013-06-16 |
| 46. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
80.62 |
0.9673 |
0.0735 |
292 |
1 |
80.62 |
2011-04-06 |
| 47. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
80.49 |
1.0194 |
0.0149 |
224 |
2 |
75.64 |
2013-06-16 |
| 48. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
80.32 |
1.0332 |
0.0003 |
267 |
1 |
80.32 |
2009-02-02 |
| 49. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
80.23 |
0.9357 |
0.0954 |
204 |
2 |
73.20 |
2009-05-29 |
| 50. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
80.21 |
0.9574 |
0.0788 |
354 |
2 |
76.90 |
2009-07-17 |
| 51. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
79.94 |
0.9909 |
0.0436 |
293 |
3 |
74.52 |
2010-10-25 |
| 52. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
79.90 |
1.0362 |
-0.0007 |
437 |
1 |
79.90 |
2009-02-05 |
| 53. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
79.88 |
1.0189 |
0.0092 |
290 |
1 |
79.88 |
2009-02-02 |
| 54. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
79.72 |
1.0234 |
0.0074 |
392 |
1 |
79.72 |
2013-07-04 |
| 55. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
79.58 |
0.9445 |
0.0891 |
389 |
1 |
79.58 |
2014-02-06 |
| 56. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
79.20 |
0.9719 |
0.0551 |
383 |
1 |
79.20 |
2011-09-14 |
| 57. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
79.10 |
0.9479 |
0.0724 |
317 |
1 |
79.10 |
2010-10-27 |
| 58. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
78.86 |
1.0387 |
-0.0187 |
333 |
1 |
78.86 |
2009-02-05 |
| 59. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
78.82 |
1.0476 |
-0.0423 |
110 |
2 |
69.80 |
2009-02-12 |
| 60. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
78.78 |
0.9809 |
0.0296 |
209 |
3 |
68.59 |
2010-09-23 |
| 61. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
78.73 |
1.0042 |
0.0060 |
168 |
1 |
78.73 |
2009-02-12 |
| 62. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
78.43 |
1.0654 |
-0.0583 |
247 |
1 |
78.43 |
2009-11-06 |
| 63. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
78.42 |
0.9299 |
0.0717 |
168 |
1 |
78.42 |
2013-06-16 |
| 64. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
78.18 |
0.9787 |
0.0319 |
364 |
1 |
78.18 |
2010-09-23 |
| 65. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
78.10 |
1.0351 |
-0.0254 |
276 |
1 |
78.10 |
2010-10-26 |
| 66. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
78.08 |
0.9783 |
0.0349 |
273 |
1 |
78.08 |
2010-10-25 |
| 67. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
77.96 |
0.9885 |
0.0156 |
355 |
1 |
77.96 |
2013-07-04 |
| 68. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
77.89 |
1.0600 |
-0.0567 |
351 |
1 |
77.89 |
2009-02-05 |
| 69. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
77.74 |
1.0639 |
-0.0615 |
303 |
1 |
77.74 |
2009-05-18 |
| 70. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
77.70 |
1.0686 |
-0.0642 |
354 |
1 |
77.70 |
2009-02-05 |
| 71. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
77.32 |
0.9434 |
0.0568 |
367 |
2 |
73.93 |
2010-09-23 |
| 72. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
76.93 |
0.9676 |
0.0282 |
247 |
1 |
76.93 |
2013-06-01 |
| 73. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
76.44 |
1.0427 |
-0.0577 |
269 |
2 |
75.25 |
2009-09-14 |
| 74. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
76.40 |
0.9517 |
0.0400 |
397 |
1 |
76.40 |
2010-09-23 |
| 75. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
76.30 |
0.9703 |
0.0188 |
394 |
1 |
76.30 |
2009-11-06 |
| 76. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
75.61 |
0.9027 |
0.0673 |
189 |
1 |
75.61 |
2009-02-02 |
| 77. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
75.24 |
1.0028 |
-0.0351 |
259 |
1 |
75.24 |
2009-02-03 |
| 78. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
75.20 |
1.0063 |
-0.0333 |
293 |
1 |
75.20 |
2009-11-06 |
| 79. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
75.08 |
0.9801 |
-0.0134 |
289 |
1 |
75.08 |
2009-03-12 |
| 80. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
74.55 |
1.0264 |
-0.0707 |
191 |
1 |
74.55 |
2009-11-13 |
| 81. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
74.50 |
0.9780 |
-0.0250 |
173 |
2 |
68.66 |
2009-05-07 |
| 82. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
73.96 |
1.0130 |
-0.0610 |
288 |
2 |
71.73 |
2009-05-14 |
| 83. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
73.92 |
0.9740 |
-0.0190 |
371 |
1 |
73.92 |
2013-07-04 |
| 84. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
73.22 |
0.8964 |
0.0431 |
199 |
2 |
72.74 |
2009-04-29 |
| 85. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
73.19 |
0.9332 |
0.0086 |
267 |
1 |
73.19 |
2009-05-29 |
| 86. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
73.18 |
1.0350 |
-0.0784 |
416 |
1 |
73.18 |
2009-09-16 |
| 87. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
73.01 |
1.0320 |
-0.0862 |
401 |
1 |
73.01 |
2009-02-03 |
| 88. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
72.37 |
0.8887 |
0.0570 |
464 |
1 |
72.37 |
2009-02-02 |
| 89. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
72.28 |
1.0672 |
-0.1384 |
239 |
1 |
72.28 |
2009-05-14 |
| 90. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
71.81 |
0.9012 |
0.0265 |
322 |
1 |
71.81 |
2009-11-06 |
| 91. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
71.77 |
1.0432 |
-0.1192 |
276 |
2 |
71.68 |
2009-03-04 |
| 92. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
71.77 |
0.8172 |
0.1019 |
204 |
4 |
64.77 |
2011-01-02 |
| 93. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
71.07 |
0.9594 |
-0.0466 |
258 |
1 |
71.07 |
2009-05-29 |
| 94. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
70.79 |
1.0106 |
-0.1004 |
302 |
1 |
70.79 |
2009-02-05 |
| 95. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
70.75 |
1.0777 |
-0.1693 |
226 |
1 |
70.75 |
2009-02-02 |
| 96. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
70.10 |
1.0901 |
-0.1861 |
288 |
1 |
70.10 |
2009-02-02 |
| 97. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
70.09 |
0.8936 |
0.0073 |
346 |
2 |
64.62 |
2009-11-06 |
| 98. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
70.05 |
0.9650 |
-0.0610 |
347 |
1 |
70.05 |
2009-02-02 |
| 99. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
70.03 |
0.9135 |
-0.0033 |
393 |
1 |
70.03 |
2009-02-05 |
| 100. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
70.02 |
1.0561 |
-0.1573 |
227 |
1 |
70.02 |
2009-11-13 |
| 101. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
69.56 |
0.9827 |
-0.0867 |
314 |
1 |
69.56 |
2009-05-12 |
| 102. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
69.22 |
0.9380 |
-0.0489 |
284 |
1 |
69.22 |
2009-03-04 |
| 103. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
68.87 |
0.9206 |
-0.0339 |
317 |
1 |
68.87 |
2009-05-29 |
| 104. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
68.39 |
0.9183 |
-0.0375 |
308 |
1 |
68.39 |
2009-02-02 |
| 105. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
68.38 |
1.0472 |
-0.1737 |
149 |
1 |
68.38 |
2009-04-24 |
| 106. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
68.25 |
0.9869 |
-0.1124 |
193 |
1 |
68.25 |
2009-02-02 |
| 107. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
68.15 |
1.0615 |
-0.1875 |
201 |
1 |
68.15 |
2009-02-12 |
| 108. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.12 |
0.9658 |
-0.0856 |
308 |
2 |
65.74 |
2009-04-10 |
| 109. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
67.68 |
0.9101 |
-0.0353 |
351 |
1 |
67.68 |
2009-03-10 |
| 110. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
67.68 |
0.9258 |
-0.0504 |
184 |
1 |
67.68 |
2012-12-22 |
| 111. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
67.00 |
0.9980 |
-0.1337 |
295 |
1 |
67.00 |
2009-02-02 |
| 112. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
66.89 |
0.9726 |
-0.1069 |
396 |
1 |
66.89 |
2009-09-13 |
| 113. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
66.84 |
1.0557 |
-0.1947 |
289 |
1 |
66.84 |
2009-02-03 |
| 114. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
66.79 |
0.9866 |
-0.1267 |
308 |
1 |
66.79 |
2009-09-14 |
| 115. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
66.67 |
1.0487 |
-0.1936 |
253 |
1 |
66.67 |
2009-03-10 |
| 116. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
66.20 |
0.9136 |
-0.0589 |
348 |
2 |
65.29 |
2009-02-03 |
| 117. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
65.99 |
1.0506 |
-0.2024 |
259 |
1 |
65.99 |
2009-02-12 |
| 118. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
65.63 |
0.9713 |
-0.1283 |
193 |
1 |
65.63 |
2009-02-19 |
| 119. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
65.56 |
0.9243 |
-0.0788 |
240 |
1 |
65.56 |
2009-05-07 |
| 120. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
65.46 |
0.9963 |
-0.1569 |
274 |
1 |
65.46 |
2009-09-14 |
| 121. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
65.23 |
0.9029 |
-0.0612 |
393 |
1 |
65.23 |
2009-11-06 |
| 122. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
64.62 |
1.0132 |
-0.1818 |
371 |
1 |
64.62 |
2009-03-04 |
| 123. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
62.90 |
0.9228 |
-0.1092 |
305 |
1 |
62.90 |
2009-02-02 |
| 124. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
62.71 |
1.0115 |
-0.2105 |
189 |
1 |
62.71 |
2009-02-09 |
| 125. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
62.56 |
0.9352 |
-0.1320 |
194 |
1 |
62.56 |
2009-02-02 |
| 126. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
62.19 |
0.9927 |
-0.1925 |
276 |
1 |
62.19 |
2009-05-12 |
| 127. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
57.36 |
0.9852 |
-0.2489 |
235 |
1 |
57.36 |
2009-03-04 |
| 128. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
57.13 |
1.0144 |
-0.2798 |
162 |
1 |
57.13 |
2010-02-03 |
| 129. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
56.79 |
0.9839 |
-0.2544 |
308 |
1 |
56.79 |
2009-02-02 |
| 130. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
55.35 |
0.9922 |
-0.2808 |
264 |
1 |
55.35 |
2009-02-02 |
| 131. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
51.65 |
1.0060 |
-0.3422 |
225 |
1 |
51.65 |
2009-02-02 |
| 132. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
50.05 |
0.9271 |
-0.2825 |
323 |
1 |
50.05 |
2009-05-12 |