| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
77.51 |
0.9704 |
0.3312 |
254 |
4 |
64.73 |
2013-06-02 |
| 2. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
75.78 |
1.0487 |
0.2214 |
253 |
1 |
75.78 |
2013-06-01 |
| 3. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
74.31 |
0.9857 |
0.2678 |
268 |
2 |
70.99 |
2013-06-02 |
| 4. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
73.07 |
0.9358 |
0.2841 |
188 |
1 |
73.07 |
2012-11-28 |
| 5. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
73.05 |
1.0476 |
0.1690 |
110 |
2 |
68.60 |
2012-10-07 |
| 6. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
72.02 |
1.0873 |
0.1188 |
243 |
1 |
72.02 |
2012-10-21 |
| 7. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
71.31 |
0.9917 |
0.2082 |
317 |
1 |
71.31 |
2013-06-02 |
| 8. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
70.93 |
0.9873 |
0.2015 |
274 |
2 |
64.87 |
2012-10-21 |
| 9. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
70.74 |
0.9606 |
0.2306 |
203 |
2 |
66.80 |
2012-12-29 |
| 10. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
69.70 |
0.9549 |
0.2119 |
204 |
1 |
69.70 |
2012-11-28 |
| 11. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
68.54 |
1.0791 |
0.0762 |
259 |
2 |
62.13 |
2012-10-09 |
| 12. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
68.42 |
1.0125 |
0.1347 |
232 |
1 |
68.42 |
2013-06-07 |
| 13. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
68.40 |
0.9676 |
0.1858 |
247 |
2 |
68.07 |
2013-06-01 |
| 14. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
68.36 |
1.0857 |
0.0742 |
393 |
1 |
68.36 |
2012-11-28 |
| 15. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
68.21 |
1.0582 |
0.0833 |
180 |
2 |
64.35 |
2012-12-29 |
| 16. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.03 |
0.9658 |
0.1800 |
308 |
1 |
68.03 |
2013-06-01 |
| 17. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
67.92 |
1.0018 |
0.1386 |
246 |
2 |
66.03 |
2012-10-22 |
| 18. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
67.55 |
0.9791 |
0.1471 |
154 |
1 |
67.55 |
2012-10-09 |
| 19. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
67.30 |
1.0736 |
0.0584 |
350 |
1 |
67.30 |
2013-06-01 |
| 20. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
66.97 |
1.0465 |
0.0686 |
183 |
2 |
64.61 |
2013-06-01 |
| 21. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
66.92 |
0.9963 |
0.1243 |
274 |
1 |
66.92 |
2013-06-07 |
| 22. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
66.77 |
1.0562 |
0.0703 |
360 |
1 |
66.77 |
2013-06-01 |
| 23. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
66.75 |
0.9564 |
0.1569 |
263 |
2 |
57.23 |
2012-10-12 |
| 24. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
66.65 |
0.8656 |
0.2526 |
299 |
1 |
66.65 |
2013-05-24 |
| 25. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
66.47 |
1.0130 |
0.1023 |
288 |
3 |
57.00 |
2013-06-02 |
| 26. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
66.30 |
0.9991 |
0.1120 |
339 |
1 |
66.30 |
2012-10-21 |
| 27. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
65.61 |
0.9841 |
0.1285 |
325 |
2 |
60.75 |
2012-11-28 |
| 28. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
65.39 |
1.0498 |
0.0486 |
261 |
1 |
65.39 |
2012-11-28 |
| 29. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
65.28 |
1.0492 |
0.0516 |
284 |
2 |
55.00 |
2013-03-23 |
| 30. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
64.78 |
1.0509 |
0.0434 |
295 |
2 |
58.78 |
2013-03-23 |
| 31. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
63.90 |
1.0060 |
0.0725 |
244 |
2 |
63.36 |
2012-10-12 |
| 32. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
63.89 |
1.0304 |
0.0381 |
256 |
1 |
63.89 |
2012-11-28 |
| 33. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
63.59 |
1.0472 |
0.0132 |
149 |
1 |
63.59 |
2012-10-12 |
| 34. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
63.24 |
1.0404 |
0.0259 |
406 |
2 |
58.83 |
2013-06-02 |
| 35. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
63.12 |
1.0736 |
-0.0104 |
256 |
1 |
63.12 |
2012-10-21 |
| 36. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
62.56 |
1.0039 |
0.0519 |
255 |
2 |
60.95 |
2013-05-24 |
| 37. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
62.38 |
0.9985 |
0.0609 |
392 |
1 |
62.38 |
2013-06-02 |
| 38. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
62.34 |
0.9682 |
0.0880 |
341 |
1 |
62.34 |
2013-05-24 |
| 39. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
62.12 |
0.9194 |
0.1335 |
360 |
2 |
60.53 |
2013-06-07 |
| 40. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
61.85 |
1.0969 |
-0.0579 |
303 |
1 |
61.85 |
2012-10-07 |
| 41. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
61.35 |
1.0199 |
0.0053 |
225 |
1 |
61.35 |
2012-10-07 |
| 42. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
61.32 |
0.9824 |
0.0596 |
352 |
1 |
61.32 |
2013-06-01 |
| 43. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
61.29 |
0.9027 |
0.1220 |
189 |
2 |
55.79 |
2012-11-28 |
| 44. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
61.17 |
0.9631 |
0.0630 |
273 |
2 |
58.02 |
2012-11-28 |
| 45. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
60.92 |
0.9604 |
0.0591 |
285 |
2 |
56.70 |
2012-11-28 |
| 46. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
60.60 |
1.0139 |
0.0161 |
349 |
1 |
60.60 |
2013-06-01 |
| 47. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
60.49 |
0.9408 |
0.0676 |
177 |
1 |
60.49 |
2012-10-09 |
| 48. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
60.33 |
0.8981 |
0.1229 |
255 |
1 |
60.33 |
2013-03-23 |
| 49. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
60.32 |
1.0698 |
-0.0506 |
303 |
1 |
60.32 |
2012-10-12 |
| 50. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
60.19 |
1.0466 |
-0.0375 |
230 |
1 |
60.19 |
2012-11-28 |
| 51. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
60.17 |
0.9502 |
0.0654 |
312 |
1 |
60.17 |
2012-11-28 |
| 52. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
60.17 |
0.9278 |
0.0820 |
253 |
1 |
60.17 |
2012-10-07 |
| 53. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
59.84 |
1.0399 |
-0.0313 |
257 |
1 |
59.84 |
2012-10-07 |
| 54. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
59.79 |
0.9338 |
0.0790 |
326 |
1 |
59.79 |
2012-11-28 |
| 55. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
59.76 |
0.9660 |
0.0437 |
258 |
1 |
59.76 |
2013-06-02 |
| 56. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
59.74 |
0.8913 |
0.1128 |
201 |
2 |
56.48 |
2012-10-21 |
| 57. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
59.56 |
0.9530 |
0.0418 |
193 |
2 |
51.53 |
2012-10-21 |
| 58. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
59.54 |
1.0059 |
-0.0060 |
283 |
2 |
56.83 |
2013-06-02 |
| 59. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
59.50 |
0.9809 |
0.0245 |
250 |
1 |
59.50 |
2012-10-12 |
| 60. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
59.45 |
1.0654 |
-0.0711 |
247 |
1 |
59.45 |
2012-10-21 |
| 61. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
59.32 |
1.0640 |
-0.0637 |
210 |
1 |
59.32 |
2012-10-07 |
| 62. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
59.22 |
0.9468 |
0.0464 |
318 |
1 |
59.22 |
2012-11-28 |
| 63. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
59.16 |
1.0419 |
-0.0397 |
323 |
1 |
59.16 |
2012-11-28 |
| 64. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
59.02 |
0.9574 |
0.0358 |
354 |
1 |
59.02 |
2013-03-23 |
| 65. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
58.99 |
1.0543 |
-0.0646 |
233 |
1 |
58.99 |
2013-03-23 |
| 66. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
58.71 |
0.9927 |
-0.0114 |
234 |
1 |
58.71 |
2013-06-02 |
| 67. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
58.61 |
1.0079 |
-0.0261 |
273 |
1 |
58.61 |
2013-03-23 |
| 68. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
58.42 |
0.9829 |
-0.0037 |
229 |
1 |
58.42 |
2012-10-22 |
| 69. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
58.28 |
1.0461 |
-0.0639 |
286 |
1 |
58.28 |
2012-10-22 |
| 70. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
58.03 |
0.9136 |
0.0627 |
348 |
1 |
58.03 |
2012-11-28 |
| 71. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
57.91 |
0.7764 |
0.1925 |
145 |
1 |
57.91 |
2012-10-12 |
| 72. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
57.91 |
0.9779 |
-0.0090 |
255 |
1 |
57.91 |
2012-10-07 |
| 73. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
57.79 |
1.0697 |
-0.0910 |
341 |
1 |
57.79 |
2012-10-07 |
| 74. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
57.69 |
0.9445 |
0.0314 |
389 |
1 |
57.69 |
2012-10-12 |
| 75. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
57.61 |
1.0667 |
-0.0906 |
308 |
1 |
57.61 |
2012-10-22 |
| 76. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
57.61 |
1.0412 |
-0.0698 |
205 |
1 |
57.61 |
2012-10-12 |
| 77. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
57.58 |
0.9503 |
0.0085 |
211 |
1 |
57.58 |
2012-10-07 |
| 78. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
57.37 |
1.0181 |
-0.0549 |
276 |
4 |
55.45 |
2012-12-29 |
| 79. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
57.27 |
0.9957 |
-0.0315 |
323 |
1 |
57.27 |
2012-10-07 |
| 80. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
57.15 |
1.0057 |
-0.0441 |
382 |
1 |
57.15 |
2012-10-07 |
| 81. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
56.98 |
0.9890 |
-0.0295 |
272 |
1 |
56.98 |
2012-10-07 |
| 82. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
56.96 |
0.9203 |
0.0370 |
350 |
1 |
56.96 |
2012-10-12 |
| 83. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
56.90 |
0.8887 |
0.0796 |
464 |
1 |
56.90 |
2012-10-21 |
| 84. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
56.82 |
0.9673 |
-0.0118 |
292 |
1 |
56.82 |
2012-10-21 |
| 85. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
56.61 |
0.9149 |
0.0324 |
153 |
1 |
56.61 |
2012-10-07 |
| 86. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
56.44 |
0.9974 |
-0.0552 |
163 |
2 |
55.44 |
2012-10-12 |
| 87. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
56.42 |
0.9228 |
0.0284 |
305 |
2 |
51.93 |
2012-11-28 |
| 88. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
56.16 |
1.0103 |
-0.0746 |
209 |
1 |
56.16 |
2012-10-07 |
| 89. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
56.13 |
0.9864 |
-0.0414 |
292 |
1 |
56.13 |
2012-10-22 |
| 90. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
55.88 |
1.0115 |
-0.0802 |
189 |
1 |
55.88 |
2012-10-07 |
| 91. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
55.58 |
0.9145 |
0.0203 |
404 |
1 |
55.58 |
2012-11-28 |
| 92. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
55.53 |
1.0743 |
-0.1420 |
297 |
1 |
55.53 |
2012-11-28 |
| 93. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
55.50 |
0.9480 |
-0.0173 |
297 |
1 |
55.50 |
2013-06-02 |
| 94. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
55.45 |
0.9849 |
-0.0542 |
337 |
1 |
55.45 |
2012-10-09 |
| 95. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
55.45 |
0.8988 |
0.0301 |
216 |
2 |
54.85 |
2012-10-21 |
| 96. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
55.34 |
1.0090 |
-0.0751 |
300 |
2 |
54.05 |
2012-10-07 |
| 97. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
55.34 |
0.9010 |
0.0285 |
266 |
1 |
55.34 |
2013-06-02 |
| 98. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.25 |
0.9698 |
-0.0379 |
389 |
2 |
50.77 |
2013-06-02 |
| 99. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
55.17 |
0.9020 |
0.0174 |
186 |
1 |
55.17 |
2012-10-07 |
| 100. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
55.06 |
1.0253 |
-0.0996 |
337 |
1 |
55.06 |
2012-10-21 |
| 101. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
54.80 |
0.8778 |
0.0429 |
285 |
1 |
54.80 |
2012-10-12 |
| 102. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
54.77 |
0.8328 |
0.0894 |
343 |
1 |
54.77 |
2012-10-21 |
| 103. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
54.73 |
0.8624 |
0.0507 |
174 |
3 |
51.04 |
2012-11-28 |
| 104. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
54.66 |
0.9271 |
-0.0087 |
323 |
1 |
54.66 |
2013-03-23 |
| 105. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
54.59 |
0.8984 |
0.0246 |
267 |
1 |
54.59 |
2012-10-29 |
| 106. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
54.56 |
0.9157 |
0.0121 |
353 |
1 |
54.56 |
2012-10-07 |
| 107. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
54.55 |
0.9162 |
0.0000 |
401 |
1 |
54.55 |
2012-10-21 |
| 108. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
54.51 |
0.9392 |
-0.0189 |
360 |
1 |
54.51 |
2012-10-09 |
| 109. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
54.36 |
0.9854 |
-0.0726 |
174 |
1 |
54.36 |
2012-10-09 |
| 110. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
54.34 |
0.9357 |
-0.0271 |
204 |
1 |
54.34 |
2012-10-07 |
| 111. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
54.13 |
0.9957 |
-0.0886 |
323 |
1 |
54.13 |
2012-10-21 |
| 112. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
54.11 |
0.9265 |
-0.0201 |
254 |
1 |
54.11 |
2012-10-07 |
| 113. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
53.94 |
1.0392 |
-0.1300 |
258 |
1 |
53.94 |
2012-10-07 |
| 114. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
53.81 |
1.0462 |
-0.1414 |
340 |
1 |
53.81 |
2013-06-01 |
| 115. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
53.62 |
1.0178 |
-0.1211 |
207 |
1 |
53.62 |
2012-10-07 |
| 116. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
53.45 |
1.0086 |
-0.1173 |
218 |
1 |
53.45 |
2013-03-23 |
| 117. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
53.45 |
0.8666 |
0.0269 |
206 |
1 |
53.45 |
2012-11-28 |
| 118. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
53.23 |
0.8856 |
0.0141 |
369 |
2 |
52.10 |
2012-10-07 |
| 119. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
53.19 |
0.8955 |
0.0064 |
436 |
1 |
53.19 |
2012-11-28 |
| 120. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
53.07 |
1.0132 |
-0.1236 |
371 |
1 |
53.07 |
2012-10-12 |
| 121. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
52.75 |
0.9980 |
-0.1119 |
295 |
1 |
52.75 |
2012-10-12 |
| 122. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
52.57 |
1.0777 |
-0.1986 |
226 |
1 |
52.57 |
2012-10-12 |
| 123. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
52.45 |
1.0004 |
-0.1194 |
373 |
1 |
52.45 |
2012-10-12 |
| 124. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
52.42 |
1.0208 |
-0.1427 |
231 |
1 |
52.42 |
2012-10-12 |
| 125. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
51.33 |
0.9519 |
-0.0880 |
323 |
1 |
51.33 |
2012-10-12 |
| 126. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
50.96 |
0.9869 |
-0.1367 |
193 |
1 |
50.96 |
2012-10-07 |
| 127. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
49.81 |
0.9836 |
-0.1491 |
289 |
1 |
49.81 |
2012-10-12 |
| 128. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
49.44 |
0.9541 |
-0.1253 |
236 |
1 |
49.44 |
2012-10-09 |
| 129. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
49.43 |
1.0540 |
-0.2309 |
184 |
1 |
49.43 |
2012-10-07 |
| 130. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
48.17 |
0.9046 |
-0.0844 |
448 |
1 |
48.17 |
2012-10-12 |
| 131. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
48.13 |
0.9949 |
-0.1786 |
304 |
1 |
48.13 |
2012-10-12 |
| 132. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
47.60 |
1.0033 |
-0.2062 |
203 |
1 |
47.60 |
2012-10-12 |
| 133. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
47.48 |
0.8986 |
-0.1047 |
205 |
1 |
47.48 |
2012-10-29 |
| 134. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
46.78 |
0.9851 |
-0.1968 |
237 |
1 |
46.78 |
2012-11-28 |
| 135. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
45.71 |
1.0418 |
-0.2761 |
214 |
1 |
45.71 |
2012-10-21 |
| 136. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
43.90 |
0.9113 |
-0.1702 |
318 |
2 |
40.91 |
2012-10-07 |