| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
97.13 |
1.0511 |
0.3307 |
252 |
2 |
87.35 |
2013-07-20 |
| 2. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
92.08 |
1.0426 |
0.2615 |
131 |
1 |
92.08 |
2013-07-25 |
| 3. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
90.23 |
1.0481 |
0.2263 |
255 |
1 |
90.23 |
2013-07-25 |
| 4. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
87.46 |
1.0208 |
0.2211 |
231 |
2 |
85.28 |
2013-08-09 |
| 5. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
86.20 |
1.0128 |
0.2183 |
369 |
2 |
78.42 |
2013-10-26 |
| 6. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
86.06 |
1.0390 |
0.1882 |
260 |
1 |
86.06 |
2013-06-13 |
| 7. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
85.86 |
1.0777 |
0.1396 |
226 |
1 |
85.86 |
2013-07-01 |
| 8. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
84.14 |
1.0561 |
0.1365 |
227 |
1 |
84.14 |
2012-07-05 |
| 9. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
83.04 |
0.9890 |
0.1940 |
272 |
2 |
81.95 |
2013-08-03 |
| 10. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
83.01 |
1.0501 |
0.1292 |
263 |
1 |
83.01 |
2013-07-29 |
| 11. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
82.60 |
0.9603 |
0.2178 |
430 |
1 |
82.60 |
2013-06-13 |
| 12. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
82.43 |
1.0524 |
0.1157 |
177 |
1 |
82.43 |
2012-09-14 |
| 13. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
82.21 |
1.0197 |
0.1455 |
204 |
2 |
79.48 |
2013-07-25 |
| 14. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
82.13 |
0.9820 |
0.1924 |
297 |
1 |
82.13 |
2013-06-06 |
| 15. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
79.29 |
0.9854 |
0.1417 |
174 |
2 |
70.00 |
2012-08-09 |
| 16. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
79.12 |
1.0139 |
0.1224 |
349 |
1 |
79.12 |
2013-07-20 |
| 17. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
78.78 |
0.9680 |
0.1507 |
256 |
2 |
70.89 |
2013-06-05 |
| 18. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
78.38 |
0.9952 |
0.1196 |
220 |
2 |
68.81 |
2013-08-03 |
| 19. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
78.36 |
0.9719 |
0.1474 |
383 |
1 |
78.36 |
2013-08-21 |
| 20. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
78.32 |
1.0069 |
0.1078 |
242 |
1 |
78.32 |
2013-06-14 |
| 21. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
78.29 |
0.9425 |
0.1696 |
248 |
1 |
78.29 |
2013-08-03 |
| 22. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
78.17 |
1.0130 |
0.0964 |
288 |
1 |
78.17 |
2013-06-15 |
| 23. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
77.98 |
0.9541 |
0.1532 |
236 |
2 |
69.15 |
2013-06-13 |
| 24. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
77.91 |
0.9591 |
0.1617 |
428 |
1 |
77.91 |
2013-06-13 |
| 25. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
77.73 |
0.9609 |
0.1470 |
331 |
1 |
77.73 |
2013-07-31 |
| 26. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
77.38 |
1.0039 |
0.1004 |
255 |
1 |
77.38 |
2012-08-10 |
| 27. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
76.74 |
1.0379 |
0.0472 |
172 |
1 |
76.74 |
2012-08-09 |
| 28. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
76.68 |
0.9765 |
0.1108 |
269 |
1 |
76.68 |
2012-07-11 |
| 29. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
76.54 |
1.0461 |
0.0449 |
286 |
1 |
76.54 |
2012-08-10 |
| 30. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
76.38 |
1.0582 |
0.0225 |
180 |
1 |
76.38 |
2013-08-09 |
| 31. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
76.35 |
1.1070 |
-0.0247 |
265 |
1 |
76.35 |
2012-09-14 |
| 32. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
76.35 |
1.0181 |
0.0666 |
276 |
1 |
76.35 |
2012-11-27 |
| 33. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
76.22 |
0.9346 |
0.1444 |
211 |
1 |
76.22 |
2013-08-01 |
| 34. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
76.05 |
1.0471 |
0.0237 |
170 |
1 |
76.05 |
2012-08-10 |
| 35. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
75.83 |
0.9873 |
0.0993 |
396 |
1 |
75.83 |
2012-08-09 |
| 36. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
75.78 |
0.9873 |
0.0866 |
274 |
1 |
75.78 |
2013-06-13 |
| 37. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
75.71 |
0.9468 |
0.1273 |
318 |
2 |
64.34 |
2013-06-13 |
| 38. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
75.06 |
1.0304 |
0.0386 |
257 |
2 |
71.26 |
2013-06-13 |
| 39. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
75.05 |
1.0672 |
-0.0036 |
239 |
1 |
75.05 |
2013-06-06 |
| 40. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
74.84 |
1.0588 |
0.0029 |
281 |
1 |
74.84 |
2013-08-07 |
| 41. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
74.13 |
1.0042 |
0.0439 |
168 |
1 |
74.13 |
2012-07-11 |
| 42. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
74.06 |
0.9709 |
0.0786 |
264 |
3 |
68.75 |
2012-11-27 |
| 43. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
73.73 |
1.0487 |
-0.0050 |
253 |
1 |
73.73 |
2012-08-09 |
| 44. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
73.55 |
0.9479 |
0.0973 |
317 |
1 |
73.55 |
2013-06-06 |
| 45. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
73.42 |
1.0320 |
0.0155 |
401 |
1 |
73.42 |
2012-07-11 |
| 46. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
73.30 |
0.9113 |
0.1351 |
318 |
1 |
73.30 |
2013-08-08 |
| 47. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
72.77 |
0.9517 |
0.0888 |
397 |
1 |
72.77 |
2012-09-14 |
| 48. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
72.19 |
1.0877 |
-0.0674 |
129 |
2 |
55.52 |
2013-06-06 |
| 49. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
71.55 |
1.0272 |
-0.0144 |
226 |
2 |
71.35 |
2013-06-13 |
| 50. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
71.42 |
1.0270 |
-0.0132 |
303 |
1 |
71.42 |
2013-08-24 |
| 51. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
71.38 |
1.0192 |
-0.0013 |
243 |
1 |
71.38 |
2012-07-13 |
| 52. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
71.30 |
0.9070 |
0.0996 |
192 |
1 |
71.30 |
2012-07-06 |
| 53. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
71.26 |
1.0492 |
-0.0333 |
284 |
1 |
71.26 |
2012-08-15 |
| 54. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
70.85 |
0.9810 |
0.0288 |
362 |
1 |
70.85 |
2013-08-17 |
| 55. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
70.66 |
0.8381 |
0.1674 |
283 |
1 |
70.66 |
2012-07-05 |
| 56. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
70.65 |
0.9101 |
0.0960 |
351 |
1 |
70.65 |
2012-08-10 |
| 57. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
70.11 |
0.9598 |
0.0369 |
209 |
1 |
70.11 |
2013-06-06 |
| 58. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
69.97 |
0.8656 |
0.1283 |
242 |
1 |
69.97 |
2012-08-09 |
| 59. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
69.90 |
0.9403 |
0.0637 |
345 |
2 |
67.73 |
2013-06-06 |
| 60. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
69.60 |
0.9594 |
0.0260 |
258 |
1 |
69.60 |
2012-08-09 |
| 61. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
69.57 |
1.0101 |
-0.0215 |
336 |
1 |
69.57 |
2012-11-27 |
| 62. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
69.18 |
0.9827 |
-0.0007 |
314 |
1 |
69.18 |
2012-07-11 |
| 63. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
69.15 |
0.9269 |
0.0616 |
269 |
2 |
68.93 |
2012-11-27 |
| 64. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
68.85 |
0.9632 |
0.0144 |
287 |
1 |
68.85 |
2012-07-11 |
| 65. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
68.82 |
0.9636 |
0.0114 |
281 |
1 |
68.82 |
2012-08-09 |
| 66. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
68.79 |
0.9783 |
0.0049 |
273 |
1 |
68.79 |
2012-07-11 |
| 67. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
68.06 |
0.9839 |
-0.0189 |
308 |
1 |
68.06 |
2012-08-09 |
| 68. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
67.90 |
0.8666 |
0.0940 |
206 |
2 |
65.45 |
2013-08-09 |
| 69. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
67.76 |
1.0960 |
-0.1312 |
315 |
1 |
67.76 |
2012-08-10 |
| 70. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
67.26 |
0.9299 |
0.0157 |
168 |
1 |
67.26 |
2012-07-06 |
| 71. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
66.93 |
1.0521 |
-0.1085 |
197 |
1 |
66.93 |
2013-06-06 |
| 72. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
66.85 |
0.9631 |
-0.0154 |
273 |
1 |
66.85 |
2012-09-13 |
| 73. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
66.84 |
0.8830 |
0.0672 |
300 |
1 |
66.84 |
2012-08-09 |
| 74. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
66.81 |
0.9332 |
0.0154 |
295 |
1 |
66.81 |
2013-08-01 |
| 75. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
66.76 |
0.9957 |
-0.0494 |
323 |
1 |
66.76 |
2012-07-11 |
| 76. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
66.54 |
0.9852 |
-0.0425 |
235 |
1 |
66.54 |
2012-12-07 |
| 77. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
66.39 |
0.9981 |
-0.0575 |
211 |
1 |
66.39 |
2012-07-05 |
| 78. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
66.37 |
0.9761 |
-0.0302 |
227 |
1 |
66.37 |
2012-07-06 |
| 79. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
66.28 |
0.9740 |
-0.0309 |
371 |
1 |
66.28 |
2012-07-06 |
| 80. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
66.22 |
0.9519 |
-0.0089 |
323 |
1 |
66.22 |
2013-07-29 |
| 81. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
66.17 |
0.8843 |
0.0651 |
168 |
1 |
66.17 |
2013-06-13 |
| 82. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
66.12 |
0.9909 |
-0.0487 |
293 |
1 |
66.12 |
2012-07-12 |
| 83. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
66.07 |
1.0800 |
-0.1463 |
213 |
1 |
66.07 |
2012-07-11 |
| 84. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
65.50 |
1.0464 |
-0.1120 |
213 |
1 |
65.50 |
2012-07-05 |
| 85. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
65.09 |
0.9869 |
-0.0675 |
193 |
1 |
65.09 |
2012-07-12 |
| 86. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
64.84 |
0.9434 |
-0.0197 |
367 |
1 |
64.84 |
2013-08-21 |
| 87. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
64.55 |
0.9643 |
-0.0407 |
282 |
1 |
64.55 |
2012-07-11 |
| 88. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
64.52 |
0.9265 |
-0.0124 |
254 |
1 |
64.52 |
2013-06-13 |
| 89. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
64.32 |
0.9857 |
-0.0682 |
268 |
1 |
64.32 |
2012-07-11 |
| 90. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
64.07 |
0.8437 |
0.0642 |
268 |
1 |
64.07 |
2012-07-06 |
| 91. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
63.99 |
0.9780 |
-0.0769 |
173 |
1 |
63.99 |
2012-07-11 |
| 92. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
63.91 |
0.8718 |
0.0373 |
318 |
1 |
63.91 |
2012-07-20 |
| 93. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
63.80 |
0.9500 |
-0.0438 |
287 |
1 |
63.80 |
2012-07-11 |
| 94. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
63.75 |
1.0010 |
-0.0936 |
213 |
2 |
62.81 |
2012-08-10 |
| 95. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
63.70 |
0.9258 |
-0.0182 |
184 |
1 |
63.70 |
2012-11-27 |
| 96. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
63.38 |
0.9422 |
-0.0489 |
190 |
1 |
63.38 |
2013-06-14 |
| 97. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
63.37 |
0.9400 |
-0.0389 |
434 |
1 |
63.37 |
2012-07-11 |
| 98. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
63.10 |
0.9330 |
-0.0271 |
341 |
1 |
63.10 |
2012-07-05 |
| 99. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
63.09 |
0.8721 |
0.0281 |
231 |
1 |
63.09 |
2012-09-14 |
| 100. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
62.79 |
0.9027 |
-0.0163 |
189 |
1 |
62.79 |
2012-09-14 |
| 101. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
62.55 |
1.0540 |
-0.1722 |
184 |
1 |
62.55 |
2012-07-11 |
| 102. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
62.27 |
0.9676 |
-0.0799 |
247 |
1 |
62.27 |
2012-07-11 |
| 103. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
61.68 |
1.0033 |
-0.1291 |
203 |
1 |
61.68 |
2012-07-11 |
| 104. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
61.55 |
1.0301 |
-0.1592 |
268 |
1 |
61.55 |
2012-07-11 |
| 105. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
61.41 |
0.9745 |
-0.1060 |
217 |
1 |
61.41 |
2011-10-05 |
| 106. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
60.14 |
1.0472 |
-0.2013 |
149 |
1 |
60.14 |
2012-07-06 |
| 107. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
59.09 |
0.9779 |
-0.1424 |
255 |
1 |
59.09 |
2011-10-05 |
| 108. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
57.79 |
0.9080 |
-0.0932 |
111 |
1 |
57.79 |
2011-09-13 |
| 109. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
56.39 |
0.8986 |
-0.0993 |
216 |
1 |
56.39 |
2013-08-25 |
| 110. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
55.95 |
0.8856 |
-0.0858 |
369 |
1 |
55.95 |
2012-07-11 |
| 111. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
51.66 |
0.9989 |
-0.2609 |
282 |
1 |
51.66 |
2011-09-15 |
| 112. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
40.93 |
1.0063 |
-0.4236 |
293 |
1 |
40.93 |
2011-09-13 |
| 113. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
39.30 |
0.9915 |
-0.4383 |
281 |
1 |
39.30 |
2012-07-11 |
| 114. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
38.95 |
0.9980 |
-0.4461 |
295 |
1 |
38.95 |
2011-09-13 |
| 115. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
38.66 |
0.8572 |
-0.3137 |
232 |
1 |
38.66 |
2011-09-13 |
| 116. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
36.12 |
0.9374 |
-0.4257 |
232 |
1 |
36.12 |
2011-10-05 |