| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
49.75 |
0.9213 |
0.4159 |
165 |
1 |
49.75 |
2010-08-08 |
| 2. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
45.77 |
1.0845 |
0.1459 |
212 |
1 |
45.77 |
2010-09-11 |
| 3. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
44.78 |
0.8553 |
0.3543 |
145 |
1 |
44.78 |
2011-02-13 |
| 4. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
44.70 |
1.0243 |
0.1819 |
153 |
1 |
44.70 |
2010-05-19 |
| 5. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
44.36 |
0.9468 |
0.2465 |
318 |
1 |
44.36 |
2010-08-19 |
| 6. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
44.33 |
1.0165 |
0.1750 |
316 |
1 |
44.33 |
2010-09-11 |
| 7. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
44.23 |
1.0495 |
0.1400 |
323 |
1 |
44.23 |
2011-01-31 |
| 8. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
43.84 |
1.0506 |
0.1282 |
259 |
2 |
41.82 |
2011-05-05 |
| 9. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
43.73 |
1.0654 |
0.1083 |
247 |
2 |
39.58 |
2010-07-20 |
| 10. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
43.58 |
1.0638 |
0.1063 |
247 |
2 |
40.86 |
2011-04-20 |
| 11. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
43.49 |
1.0332 |
0.1358 |
267 |
1 |
43.49 |
2011-03-19 |
| 12. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
43.08 |
0.9841 |
0.1862 |
325 |
1 |
43.08 |
2011-04-02 |
| 13. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
42.88 |
0.9211 |
0.2306 |
165 |
1 |
42.88 |
2011-04-12 |
| 14. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
42.81 |
1.0466 |
0.1046 |
230 |
1 |
42.81 |
2011-03-19 |
| 15. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
42.63 |
0.8965 |
0.2507 |
150 |
1 |
42.63 |
2010-05-19 |
| 16. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
42.62 |
1.0969 |
0.0512 |
303 |
2 |
42.52 |
2011-04-12 |
| 17. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
42.43 |
1.0529 |
0.0912 |
373 |
1 |
42.43 |
2010-05-19 |
| 18. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
42.41 |
0.9422 |
0.1933 |
190 |
1 |
42.41 |
2011-03-19 |
| 19. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
42.36 |
1.0487 |
0.0882 |
253 |
2 |
42.28 |
2011-05-05 |
| 20. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
41.79 |
1.0106 |
0.1126 |
302 |
2 |
37.92 |
2011-03-29 |
| 21. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
41.77 |
1.0028 |
0.1196 |
259 |
3 |
36.49 |
2011-04-20 |
| 22. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
41.76 |
0.9010 |
0.2244 |
266 |
2 |
40.05 |
2011-04-02 |
| 23. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
41.73 |
0.9621 |
0.1621 |
212 |
1 |
41.73 |
2010-09-11 |
| 24. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
41.28 |
1.0079 |
0.1012 |
273 |
1 |
41.28 |
2011-03-19 |
| 25. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
41.21 |
1.1070 |
0.0002 |
265 |
2 |
39.90 |
2011-04-20 |
| 26. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
41.20 |
1.0418 |
0.0668 |
214 |
1 |
41.20 |
2011-01-31 |
| 27. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
41.01 |
1.0667 |
0.0463 |
308 |
3 |
39.32 |
2011-04-20 |
| 28. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
40.81 |
1.0288 |
0.0641 |
166 |
1 |
40.81 |
2011-05-05 |
| 29. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
40.74 |
1.0595 |
0.0293 |
166 |
1 |
40.74 |
2011-09-30 |
| 30. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
40.57 |
0.8371 |
0.2468 |
124 |
1 |
40.57 |
2010-12-22 |
| 31. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
40.57 |
0.9183 |
0.1736 |
308 |
1 |
40.57 |
2010-08-08 |
| 32. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.49 |
1.0403 |
0.0466 |
234 |
1 |
40.49 |
2010-08-08 |
| 33. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
40.39 |
1.0287 |
0.0565 |
269 |
2 |
35.71 |
2011-04-20 |
| 34. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
40.31 |
0.9054 |
0.1832 |
192 |
1 |
40.31 |
2011-02-13 |
| 35. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
40.18 |
1.0414 |
0.0377 |
234 |
1 |
40.18 |
2010-08-19 |
| 36. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
40.17 |
1.0112 |
0.0675 |
242 |
1 |
40.17 |
2011-09-30 |
| 37. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
40.16 |
0.9931 |
0.0831 |
218 |
2 |
37.84 |
2011-09-30 |
| 38. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
39.63 |
1.0498 |
0.0167 |
261 |
1 |
39.63 |
2011-03-29 |
| 39. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
39.46 |
0.9780 |
0.0769 |
173 |
1 |
39.46 |
2010-08-19 |
| 40. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
39.34 |
1.0042 |
0.0498 |
168 |
1 |
39.34 |
2010-09-11 |
| 41. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
39.28 |
1.0883 |
-0.0256 |
189 |
1 |
39.28 |
2011-04-20 |
| 42. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
39.15 |
0.9536 |
0.1076 |
311 |
1 |
39.15 |
2010-12-22 |
| 43. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
38.84 |
0.9757 |
0.0649 |
176 |
1 |
38.84 |
2010-08-19 |
| 44. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
38.82 |
0.8988 |
0.1443 |
216 |
1 |
38.82 |
2010-08-08 |
| 45. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
38.78 |
0.9857 |
0.0625 |
268 |
1 |
38.78 |
2011-04-20 |
| 46. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
38.76 |
1.1062 |
-0.0624 |
200 |
1 |
38.76 |
2011-01-31 |
| 47. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
38.29 |
0.9884 |
0.0436 |
267 |
2 |
36.71 |
2010-09-11 |
| 48. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
38.24 |
0.9271 |
0.1033 |
323 |
2 |
38.20 |
2010-08-19 |
| 49. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
38.16 |
1.0341 |
-0.0092 |
273 |
1 |
38.16 |
2011-03-19 |
| 50. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
38.13 |
0.9403 |
0.0934 |
307 |
2 |
34.27 |
2011-04-02 |
| 51. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
37.78 |
0.9374 |
0.0806 |
232 |
1 |
37.78 |
2010-05-19 |
| 52. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
37.44 |
1.0279 |
-0.0270 |
172 |
1 |
37.44 |
2011-09-30 |
| 53. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
37.12 |
0.9643 |
0.0420 |
282 |
1 |
37.12 |
2010-12-22 |
| 54. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
37.01 |
0.9561 |
0.0400 |
362 |
1 |
37.01 |
2010-09-11 |
| 55. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
36.99 |
0.8680 |
0.1216 |
196 |
2 |
30.09 |
2011-05-05 |
| 56. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
36.95 |
0.8003 |
0.1958 |
219 |
1 |
36.95 |
2011-02-13 |
| 57. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
36.94 |
0.9316 |
0.0631 |
188 |
1 |
36.94 |
2011-04-20 |
| 58. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
36.61 |
1.0101 |
-0.0242 |
336 |
1 |
36.61 |
2010-08-19 |
| 59. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
36.50 |
0.9243 |
0.0563 |
231 |
1 |
36.50 |
2011-01-31 |
| 60. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
36.47 |
0.9380 |
0.0405 |
284 |
1 |
36.47 |
2010-08-19 |
| 61. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
36.42 |
0.9144 |
0.0582 |
167 |
1 |
36.42 |
2011-04-20 |
| 62. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
36.40 |
0.9650 |
0.0158 |
347 |
1 |
36.40 |
2010-08-19 |
| 63. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
36.27 |
1.0082 |
-0.0386 |
212 |
1 |
36.27 |
2011-04-12 |
| 64. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
36.26 |
0.9761 |
0.0032 |
227 |
1 |
36.26 |
2011-04-12 |
| 65. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
35.89 |
1.0010 |
-0.0329 |
213 |
2 |
33.06 |
2011-03-19 |
| 66. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
35.87 |
0.9852 |
-0.0221 |
235 |
1 |
35.87 |
2010-05-19 |
| 67. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
35.54 |
0.9680 |
-0.0128 |
256 |
1 |
35.54 |
2010-12-22 |
| 68. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
35.42 |
0.9637 |
0.0003 |
342 |
1 |
35.42 |
2010-09-11 |
| 69. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
35.29 |
0.8572 |
0.0891 |
232 |
1 |
35.29 |
2010-07-20 |
| 70. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
35.28 |
0.9809 |
-0.0256 |
250 |
1 |
35.28 |
2011-04-20 |
| 71. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
35.19 |
0.9841 |
-0.0400 |
263 |
1 |
35.19 |
2011-04-20 |
| 72. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
35.00 |
0.9310 |
0.0086 |
278 |
1 |
35.00 |
2010-09-11 |
| 73. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
34.74 |
0.8925 |
0.0474 |
293 |
1 |
34.74 |
2011-03-19 |
| 74. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
34.65 |
0.9935 |
-0.0608 |
217 |
2 |
31.39 |
2011-03-19 |
| 75. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
34.47 |
1.0743 |
-0.1470 |
297 |
1 |
34.47 |
2011-04-20 |
| 76. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
34.36 |
0.8988 |
0.0236 |
193 |
1 |
34.36 |
2011-05-05 |
| 77. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
34.26 |
0.8847 |
0.0331 |
282 |
1 |
34.26 |
2010-08-19 |
| 78. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
34.17 |
0.9917 |
-0.0714 |
317 |
1 |
34.17 |
2010-05-19 |
| 79. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
33.60 |
0.9756 |
-0.0740 |
223 |
1 |
33.60 |
2011-03-19 |
| 80. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
33.52 |
0.9538 |
-0.0532 |
276 |
2 |
33.48 |
2011-09-30 |
| 81. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
33.48 |
0.9854 |
-0.0848 |
174 |
1 |
33.48 |
2010-12-22 |
| 82. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
33.32 |
1.0561 |
-0.1634 |
227 |
1 |
33.32 |
2010-07-20 |
| 83. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
33.30 |
0.9989 |
-0.0975 |
282 |
1 |
33.30 |
2011-04-12 |
| 84. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
33.30 |
0.9258 |
-0.0268 |
184 |
1 |
33.30 |
2011-01-31 |
| 85. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
33.11 |
1.0507 |
-0.1559 |
253 |
1 |
33.11 |
2011-04-12 |
| 86. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
32.42 |
0.9866 |
-0.1154 |
308 |
1 |
32.42 |
2011-03-19 |
| 87. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
32.41 |
0.8576 |
0.0177 |
260 |
1 |
32.41 |
2010-07-20 |
| 88. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.09 |
0.8656 |
-0.0024 |
242 |
1 |
32.09 |
2011-04-02 |
| 89. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
31.87 |
0.9260 |
-0.0674 |
348 |
1 |
31.87 |
2010-08-08 |
| 90. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
31.74 |
0.7739 |
0.0800 |
207 |
1 |
31.74 |
2011-01-31 |
| 91. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
31.47 |
0.7915 |
0.0550 |
142 |
1 |
31.47 |
2010-08-08 |
| 92. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
31.39 |
0.8966 |
-0.0550 |
366 |
1 |
31.39 |
2016-02-12 |
| 93. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
31.25 |
0.8805 |
-0.0416 |
205 |
1 |
31.25 |
2011-04-20 |
| 94. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
30.71 |
0.8863 |
-0.0656 |
127 |
1 |
30.71 |
2010-05-19 |
| 95. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
30.51 |
1.0090 |
-0.1842 |
300 |
1 |
30.51 |
2011-04-20 |
| 96. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
30.38 |
0.8843 |
-0.0578 |
168 |
1 |
30.38 |
2011-09-30 |
| 97. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
30.00 |
1.0094 |
-0.2045 |
256 |
1 |
30.00 |
2011-05-05 |
| 98. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
29.92 |
0.8958 |
-0.0968 |
188 |
1 |
29.92 |
2011-04-20 |
| 99. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
29.83 |
0.9530 |
-0.1565 |
193 |
1 |
29.83 |
2015-10-01 |
| 100. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
29.81 |
0.8624 |
-0.0671 |
174 |
1 |
29.81 |
2011-03-29 |
| 101. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
29.75 |
0.8936 |
-0.0968 |
135 |
1 |
29.75 |
2010-07-20 |
| 102. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
29.62 |
0.8812 |
-0.0877 |
177 |
1 |
29.62 |
2015-10-18 |
| 103. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
29.45 |
1.0291 |
-0.2409 |
240 |
1 |
29.45 |
2016-02-12 |
| 104. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
29.15 |
0.9243 |
-0.1398 |
240 |
1 |
29.15 |
2011-04-20 |
| 105. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
28.41 |
0.8669 |
-0.0986 |
255 |
1 |
28.41 |
2011-02-13 |
| 106. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
28.27 |
1.0582 |
-0.3031 |
180 |
1 |
28.27 |
2011-04-20 |
| 107. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
25.76 |
0.8666 |
-0.1786 |
206 |
1 |
25.76 |
2010-07-20 |
| 108. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
25.02 |
0.8194 |
-0.1499 |
193 |
1 |
25.02 |
2011-04-20 |
| 109. |
It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal! You stole... |
24.78 |
0.8849 |
-0.2266 |
198 |
1 |
24.78 |
2015-10-18 |