Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
62.00 |
1.0640 |
0.2688 |
210 |
3 |
52.48 |
2010-12-28 |
2. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
58.84 |
0.9278 |
0.3323 |
253 |
2 |
57.01 |
2010-12-28 |
3. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
58.12 |
1.0639 |
0.1808 |
303 |
1 |
58.12 |
2010-12-26 |
4. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
57.62 |
1.0836 |
0.1526 |
206 |
1 |
57.62 |
2010-12-28 |
5. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
56.99 |
1.0506 |
0.1683 |
259 |
2 |
52.35 |
2010-12-27 |
6. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
56.45 |
1.0607 |
0.1497 |
357 |
1 |
56.45 |
2010-12-24 |
7. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
56.30 |
1.1095 |
0.0972 |
252 |
3 |
49.05 |
2010-12-28 |
8. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
56.19 |
1.0103 |
0.1861 |
209 |
1 |
56.19 |
2010-12-28 |
9. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
55.47 |
1.0697 |
0.1263 |
341 |
1 |
55.47 |
2010-12-27 |
10. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
55.31 |
0.9635 |
0.2240 |
220 |
1 |
55.31 |
2010-12-25 |
11. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
54.92 |
0.9809 |
0.1899 |
209 |
1 |
54.92 |
2010-12-24 |
12. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
54.92 |
1.0115 |
0.1580 |
189 |
1 |
54.92 |
2010-12-27 |
13. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
54.79 |
1.0018 |
0.1704 |
246 |
3 |
52.60 |
2010-12-26 |
14. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
54.74 |
1.0638 |
0.1051 |
247 |
1 |
54.74 |
2010-12-25 |
15. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
54.64 |
1.0567 |
0.1117 |
314 |
1 |
54.64 |
2010-12-27 |
16. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
54.51 |
0.9884 |
0.1800 |
267 |
3 |
47.02 |
2010-12-27 |
17. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
54.43 |
0.9963 |
0.1655 |
274 |
1 |
54.43 |
2010-12-28 |
18. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
54.27 |
1.0736 |
0.0898 |
350 |
1 |
54.27 |
2010-12-28 |
19. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
53.97 |
0.8824 |
0.2736 |
202 |
1 |
53.97 |
2010-12-25 |
20. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
53.64 |
0.9108 |
0.2363 |
235 |
1 |
53.64 |
2010-12-24 |
21. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
53.51 |
1.0060 |
0.1391 |
225 |
3 |
46.96 |
2010-12-25 |
22. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
53.37 |
0.9836 |
0.1495 |
123 |
1 |
53.37 |
2010-12-27 |
23. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
53.22 |
0.9703 |
0.1745 |
394 |
1 |
53.22 |
2010-12-27 |
24. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
53.07 |
0.9927 |
0.1429 |
276 |
1 |
53.07 |
2010-12-27 |
25. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
52.41 |
1.0464 |
0.0801 |
213 |
2 |
50.87 |
2010-12-26 |
26. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
51.77 |
0.9402 |
0.1649 |
310 |
3 |
46.73 |
2010-12-24 |
27. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
51.68 |
0.9228 |
0.1868 |
305 |
1 |
51.68 |
2010-12-23 |
28. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
51.34 |
0.9745 |
0.1221 |
217 |
1 |
51.34 |
2010-12-27 |
29. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
51.26 |
1.0010 |
0.0989 |
213 |
1 |
51.26 |
2010-12-23 |
30. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
51.20 |
0.9265 |
0.1672 |
254 |
2 |
46.81 |
2010-12-27 |
31. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
51.19 |
1.0411 |
0.0552 |
341 |
1 |
51.19 |
2010-12-28 |
32. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
51.06 |
1.0334 |
0.0577 |
261 |
1 |
51.06 |
2010-12-25 |
33. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
50.98 |
0.9807 |
0.0977 |
129 |
1 |
50.98 |
2010-12-24 |
34. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
50.91 |
0.9080 |
0.1772 |
111 |
2 |
47.33 |
2010-12-25 |
35. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
50.91 |
1.0462 |
0.0453 |
340 |
1 |
50.91 |
2010-12-25 |
36. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
50.79 |
1.0287 |
0.0561 |
269 |
1 |
50.79 |
2010-12-28 |
37. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
50.78 |
1.0476 |
0.0287 |
110 |
1 |
50.78 |
2010-12-27 |
38. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
50.72 |
0.9989 |
0.0926 |
282 |
1 |
50.72 |
2010-12-28 |
39. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
50.51 |
0.9283 |
0.1530 |
317 |
1 |
50.51 |
2010-12-23 |
40. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
50.46 |
0.9797 |
0.1033 |
269 |
2 |
44.80 |
2010-12-27 |
41. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
50.29 |
0.9685 |
0.1074 |
304 |
1 |
50.29 |
2010-12-27 |
42. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
49.30 |
0.9374 |
0.1192 |
232 |
1 |
49.30 |
2010-12-28 |
43. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
49.21 |
1.0628 |
-0.0088 |
363 |
1 |
49.21 |
2010-12-25 |
44. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
49.21 |
1.0264 |
0.0214 |
191 |
1 |
49.21 |
2010-12-25 |
45. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
48.87 |
0.9358 |
0.1031 |
188 |
2 |
45.44 |
2010-12-24 |
46. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
48.86 |
0.9849 |
0.0607 |
337 |
2 |
46.67 |
2010-12-28 |
47. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
48.85 |
1.0192 |
0.0303 |
243 |
1 |
48.85 |
2010-12-28 |
48. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
48.82 |
0.9243 |
0.1195 |
231 |
1 |
48.82 |
2010-12-25 |
49. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
48.73 |
1.0562 |
-0.0094 |
360 |
2 |
46.89 |
2010-12-23 |
50. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
48.46 |
1.1062 |
-0.0684 |
200 |
2 |
48.32 |
2010-12-24 |
51. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
48.34 |
1.0427 |
-0.0085 |
269 |
1 |
48.34 |
2010-12-25 |
52. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
48.32 |
0.9931 |
0.0358 |
218 |
2 |
46.56 |
2010-12-25 |
53. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
48.14 |
0.9926 |
0.0476 |
413 |
1 |
48.14 |
2010-12-28 |
54. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
48.04 |
1.0495 |
-0.0232 |
323 |
1 |
48.04 |
2010-12-25 |
55. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
47.91 |
1.0304 |
-0.0093 |
256 |
1 |
47.91 |
2010-12-27 |
56. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
47.66 |
0.8958 |
0.1193 |
188 |
3 |
43.69 |
2010-12-24 |
57. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
47.44 |
1.0362 |
-0.0160 |
437 |
1 |
47.44 |
2010-12-22 |
58. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
47.43 |
0.9583 |
0.0559 |
237 |
1 |
47.43 |
2010-12-25 |
59. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
47.36 |
0.8986 |
0.1186 |
363 |
1 |
47.36 |
2010-12-23 |
60. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
47.32 |
0.9636 |
0.0463 |
281 |
1 |
47.32 |
2010-12-23 |
61. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
47.29 |
1.0243 |
-0.0098 |
153 |
1 |
47.29 |
2010-12-26 |
62. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
47.03 |
1.0487 |
-0.0458 |
253 |
1 |
47.03 |
2010-12-24 |
63. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
46.96 |
1.0125 |
-0.0104 |
232 |
1 |
46.96 |
2010-12-22 |
64. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
46.89 |
0.9500 |
0.0538 |
287 |
2 |
45.89 |
2010-12-25 |
65. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
46.77 |
0.9538 |
0.0455 |
276 |
1 |
46.77 |
2010-12-27 |
66. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
46.51 |
0.9738 |
0.0221 |
266 |
1 |
46.51 |
2010-12-24 |
67. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
46.45 |
1.0654 |
-0.0753 |
247 |
2 |
43.86 |
2010-12-24 |
68. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
46.41 |
1.0086 |
-0.0211 |
218 |
1 |
46.41 |
2010-12-22 |
69. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
46.38 |
0.9844 |
0.0188 |
351 |
1 |
46.38 |
2010-12-23 |
70. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
46.33 |
0.9763 |
0.0132 |
143 |
1 |
46.33 |
2010-12-28 |
71. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
46.29 |
1.0090 |
-0.0142 |
300 |
1 |
46.29 |
2010-12-23 |
72. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
46.12 |
0.9974 |
-0.0158 |
163 |
1 |
46.12 |
2010-12-25 |
73. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
46.08 |
0.9084 |
0.0778 |
271 |
1 |
46.08 |
2010-12-27 |
74. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
45.95 |
1.0529 |
-0.0684 |
373 |
1 |
45.95 |
2010-12-25 |
75. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
45.77 |
1.0492 |
-0.0660 |
284 |
1 |
45.77 |
2010-12-28 |
76. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
45.74 |
0.9011 |
0.0794 |
322 |
2 |
43.08 |
2010-12-28 |
77. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
45.73 |
0.9981 |
-0.0219 |
211 |
1 |
45.73 |
2010-12-25 |
78. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
45.70 |
1.0095 |
-0.0344 |
211 |
1 |
45.70 |
2010-12-25 |
79. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
45.40 |
0.9872 |
-0.0101 |
229 |
1 |
45.40 |
2010-12-24 |
80. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
45.39 |
1.0664 |
-0.0931 |
389 |
1 |
45.39 |
2010-12-23 |
81. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
45.28 |
0.9271 |
0.0429 |
323 |
1 |
45.28 |
2010-12-22 |
82. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
45.24 |
0.9183 |
0.0492 |
308 |
2 |
44.75 |
2010-12-28 |
83. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
45.12 |
1.0204 |
-0.0646 |
143 |
1 |
45.12 |
2010-12-28 |
84. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
44.87 |
0.9564 |
-0.0039 |
263 |
1 |
44.87 |
2010-12-23 |
85. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
44.76 |
0.9927 |
-0.0345 |
262 |
1 |
44.76 |
2010-12-22 |
86. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
44.75 |
0.8778 |
0.0801 |
285 |
1 |
44.75 |
2010-12-23 |
87. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
44.57 |
1.0341 |
-0.0825 |
273 |
1 |
44.57 |
2010-12-23 |
88. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
44.46 |
0.9948 |
-0.0461 |
233 |
1 |
44.46 |
2010-12-22 |
89. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
44.22 |
1.0540 |
-0.1143 |
184 |
1 |
44.22 |
2010-12-24 |
90. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
44.20 |
1.0399 |
-0.0908 |
257 |
1 |
44.20 |
2010-12-26 |
91. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
44.17 |
0.9621 |
-0.0214 |
201 |
1 |
44.17 |
2010-12-24 |
92. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
44.05 |
1.0557 |
-0.1135 |
289 |
1 |
44.05 |
2010-12-22 |
93. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
44.04 |
1.0617 |
-0.1228 |
171 |
1 |
44.04 |
2010-12-22 |
94. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
43.80 |
1.0188 |
-0.0739 |
316 |
1 |
43.80 |
2010-12-25 |
95. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
43.77 |
0.9673 |
-0.0284 |
393 |
1 |
43.77 |
2010-12-27 |
96. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
43.64 |
0.9931 |
-0.0564 |
339 |
1 |
43.64 |
2010-12-23 |
97. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
43.61 |
0.9244 |
0.0123 |
225 |
1 |
43.61 |
2010-12-24 |
98. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
43.46 |
1.0006 |
-0.0723 |
311 |
1 |
43.46 |
2010-12-23 |
99. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
43.34 |
1.0582 |
-0.1356 |
180 |
1 |
43.34 |
2010-12-23 |
100. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
43.33 |
1.0667 |
-0.1308 |
308 |
1 |
43.33 |
2010-12-24 |
101. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
43.31 |
0.9780 |
-0.0591 |
173 |
1 |
43.31 |
2010-12-22 |
102. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
43.22 |
1.0755 |
-0.1517 |
243 |
1 |
43.22 |
2010-12-22 |
103. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
43.03 |
0.7923 |
0.1274 |
316 |
1 |
43.03 |
2010-12-24 |
104. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
42.96 |
1.0412 |
-0.1186 |
205 |
1 |
42.96 |
2010-12-23 |
105. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
42.94 |
0.9985 |
-0.0691 |
392 |
1 |
42.94 |
2010-12-25 |
106. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
42.90 |
1.0063 |
-0.0851 |
293 |
2 |
41.72 |
2010-12-25 |
107. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
42.77 |
1.0588 |
-0.1452 |
281 |
1 |
42.77 |
2010-12-23 |
108. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
42.74 |
0.9854 |
-0.0713 |
174 |
2 |
42.49 |
2010-12-23 |
109. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
42.64 |
0.9206 |
-0.0094 |
317 |
1 |
42.64 |
2010-12-27 |
110. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
42.51 |
0.9183 |
-0.0138 |
252 |
1 |
42.51 |
2010-12-27 |
111. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
42.45 |
0.9932 |
-0.0790 |
281 |
1 |
42.45 |
2010-12-22 |
112. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
42.36 |
0.7852 |
0.1134 |
154 |
1 |
42.36 |
2010-12-28 |
113. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
42.18 |
0.9864 |
-0.0818 |
292 |
1 |
42.18 |
2010-12-23 |
114. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
41.74 |
0.9162 |
-0.0237 |
401 |
1 |
41.74 |
2010-12-22 |
115. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
41.00 |
0.9269 |
-0.0436 |
269 |
2 |
40.59 |
2010-12-25 |
116. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
40.63 |
0.9561 |
-0.0870 |
362 |
1 |
40.63 |
2010-12-25 |
117. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
40.47 |
1.0883 |
-0.2179 |
189 |
1 |
40.47 |
2010-12-22 |
118. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
40.25 |
0.9054 |
-0.0441 |
204 |
1 |
40.25 |
2010-12-24 |
119. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
39.97 |
0.8666 |
-0.0158 |
206 |
1 |
39.97 |
2010-12-22 |
120. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
39.57 |
0.8718 |
-0.0236 |
318 |
1 |
39.57 |
2010-12-23 |
121. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
39.16 |
0.9574 |
-0.1183 |
354 |
1 |
39.16 |
2010-12-23 |
122. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
39.06 |
0.9980 |
-0.1621 |
295 |
1 |
39.06 |
2010-12-23 |
123. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
39.05 |
0.9621 |
-0.1262 |
212 |
1 |
39.05 |
2010-12-25 |
124. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
39.01 |
0.9866 |
-0.1536 |
308 |
1 |
39.01 |
2010-12-23 |
125. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
38.97 |
0.8887 |
-0.0524 |
194 |
1 |
38.97 |
2010-12-24 |
126. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
38.92 |
0.9149 |
-0.0854 |
153 |
2 |
38.43 |
2010-12-23 |
127. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
37.77 |
0.8966 |
-0.0913 |
366 |
1 |
37.77 |
2010-12-24 |
128. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
37.64 |
1.0039 |
-0.1945 |
255 |
1 |
37.64 |
2010-12-23 |
129. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
36.94 |
1.0060 |
-0.2165 |
260 |
1 |
36.94 |
2010-12-24 |
130. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
36.73 |
0.8571 |
-0.0742 |
202 |
1 |
36.73 |
2010-12-22 |
131. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
36.52 |
0.9530 |
-0.1775 |
193 |
1 |
36.52 |
2010-12-23 |
132. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
35.88 |
0.9935 |
-0.2260 |
217 |
1 |
35.88 |
2010-12-22 |
133. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
35.83 |
0.9070 |
-0.1475 |
192 |
1 |
35.83 |
2010-12-26 |
134. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
34.57 |
1.0338 |
-0.2913 |
277 |
1 |
34.57 |
2010-12-24 |
135. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
32.64 |
0.9210 |
-0.2291 |
200 |
1 |
32.64 |
2010-12-22 |
136. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
30.70 |
0.8127 |
-0.1624 |
167 |
1 |
30.70 |
2010-12-22 |
137. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
30.51 |
0.9503 |
-0.3071 |
211 |
1 |
30.51 |
2010-12-24 |
138. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.48 |
1.0426 |
-0.3974 |
131 |
1 |
30.48 |
2010-12-22 |