| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
152.60 |
1.0743 |
0.1690 |
297 |
1 |
152.60 |
2009-11-01 |
| 2. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
150.94 |
1.0582 |
0.1673 |
180 |
2 |
141.89 |
2009-11-01 |
| 3. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
148.85 |
1.0178 |
0.1920 |
207 |
1 |
148.85 |
2009-11-01 |
| 4. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
147.02 |
1.0682 |
0.1295 |
266 |
1 |
147.02 |
2009-11-01 |
| 5. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
143.24 |
1.0615 |
0.1011 |
201 |
1 |
143.24 |
2009-10-31 |
| 6. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
141.98 |
1.1198 |
0.0345 |
247 |
2 |
139.94 |
2009-10-31 |
| 7. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
141.56 |
1.0472 |
0.0984 |
149 |
3 |
129.07 |
2009-11-01 |
| 8. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
140.65 |
1.0865 |
0.0578 |
237 |
2 |
137.93 |
2009-11-01 |
| 9. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
140.30 |
1.0498 |
0.0930 |
261 |
1 |
140.30 |
2009-11-05 |
| 10. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
137.77 |
1.0543 |
0.0633 |
182 |
1 |
137.77 |
2009-11-01 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
137.68 |
1.0881 |
0.0282 |
210 |
1 |
137.68 |
2012-05-04 |
| 12. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
134.76 |
1.0403 |
0.0543 |
234 |
1 |
134.76 |
2009-10-31 |
| 13. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
134.26 |
1.0504 |
0.0437 |
225 |
2 |
122.56 |
2009-11-01 |
| 14. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
134.21 |
1.0253 |
0.0695 |
337 |
1 |
134.21 |
2009-11-01 |
| 15. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
134.15 |
1.0302 |
0.0753 |
550 |
1 |
134.15 |
2009-10-31 |
| 16. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
134.00 |
1.0529 |
0.0398 |
373 |
1 |
134.00 |
2009-11-01 |
| 17. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
133.89 |
1.0111 |
0.0903 |
452 |
1 |
133.89 |
2009-11-02 |
| 18. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
133.54 |
1.0082 |
0.0731 |
212 |
1 |
133.54 |
2009-10-31 |
| 19. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
133.50 |
0.9890 |
0.1009 |
272 |
2 |
133.39 |
2009-11-01 |
| 20. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
133.16 |
1.0557 |
0.0287 |
289 |
1 |
133.16 |
2009-10-31 |
| 21. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
132.50 |
1.0287 |
0.0480 |
269 |
1 |
132.50 |
2009-11-01 |
| 22. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
132.47 |
1.0165 |
0.0602 |
316 |
1 |
132.47 |
2009-11-01 |
| 23. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
132.44 |
1.0010 |
0.0802 |
213 |
2 |
122.19 |
2009-11-01 |
| 24. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
132.25 |
0.9915 |
0.0833 |
281 |
1 |
132.25 |
2009-10-31 |
| 25. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
132.06 |
0.9451 |
0.1370 |
419 |
1 |
132.06 |
2009-11-01 |
| 26. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
131.36 |
1.0106 |
0.0569 |
302 |
1 |
131.36 |
2009-10-31 |
| 27. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
131.16 |
1.0800 |
-0.0202 |
129 |
1 |
131.16 |
2009-10-31 |
| 28. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
131.15 |
0.9801 |
0.0948 |
282 |
1 |
131.15 |
2009-11-02 |
| 29. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
130.48 |
1.0334 |
0.0273 |
261 |
2 |
127.99 |
2012-05-03 |
| 30. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
129.84 |
0.9909 |
0.0697 |
293 |
1 |
129.84 |
2009-10-31 |
| 31. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
128.88 |
1.0234 |
0.0289 |
392 |
1 |
128.88 |
2009-11-01 |
| 32. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
128.15 |
1.0227 |
0.0256 |
378 |
2 |
117.80 |
2009-11-01 |
| 33. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
127.59 |
0.9101 |
0.1314 |
351 |
1 |
127.59 |
2009-11-01 |
| 34. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
127.12 |
1.0115 |
0.0171 |
189 |
1 |
127.12 |
2009-10-31 |
| 35. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
127.10 |
1.0320 |
0.0076 |
401 |
1 |
127.10 |
2009-10-31 |
| 36. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
127.03 |
1.0509 |
-0.0104 |
295 |
1 |
127.03 |
2009-10-31 |
| 37. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
126.36 |
0.9745 |
0.0552 |
388 |
2 |
117.37 |
2009-11-01 |
| 38. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
126.33 |
0.9963 |
0.0286 |
274 |
1 |
126.33 |
2009-11-01 |
| 39. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
125.62 |
1.0350 |
0.0010 |
416 |
1 |
125.62 |
2009-10-31 |
| 40. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
125.59 |
1.0601 |
-0.0420 |
256 |
1 |
125.59 |
2009-10-31 |
| 41. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
125.39 |
0.9135 |
0.1149 |
393 |
1 |
125.39 |
2009-11-01 |
| 42. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
125.37 |
1.0461 |
-0.0244 |
318 |
1 |
125.37 |
2009-10-31 |
| 43. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
125.32 |
0.9070 |
0.1072 |
192 |
1 |
125.32 |
2009-10-31 |
| 44. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
124.82 |
0.9632 |
0.0530 |
287 |
1 |
124.82 |
2009-10-31 |
| 45. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
124.59 |
1.0638 |
-0.0527 |
247 |
1 |
124.59 |
2009-11-01 |
| 46. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
123.58 |
1.0194 |
-0.0167 |
224 |
1 |
123.58 |
2009-10-31 |
| 47. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
123.39 |
0.9658 |
0.0412 |
308 |
1 |
123.39 |
2009-10-31 |
| 48. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
122.74 |
0.9927 |
0.0019 |
234 |
1 |
122.74 |
2009-10-31 |
| 49. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
122.65 |
0.9402 |
0.0551 |
310 |
1 |
122.65 |
2009-10-31 |
| 50. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
122.62 |
0.9012 |
0.0993 |
322 |
1 |
122.62 |
2009-11-01 |
| 51. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
122.13 |
0.9650 |
0.0306 |
347 |
1 |
122.13 |
2009-11-01 |
| 52. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
121.51 |
0.9801 |
0.0075 |
289 |
1 |
121.51 |
2009-10-31 |
| 53. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
120.71 |
0.9922 |
-0.0103 |
264 |
1 |
120.71 |
2009-11-01 |
| 54. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
120.46 |
0.9873 |
0.0025 |
396 |
1 |
120.46 |
2012-05-03 |
| 55. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
120.39 |
1.0208 |
-0.0422 |
231 |
1 |
120.39 |
2009-10-31 |
| 56. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
120.06 |
1.0759 |
-0.0943 |
273 |
2 |
112.02 |
2009-11-01 |
| 57. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
120.03 |
0.9425 |
0.0340 |
248 |
1 |
120.03 |
2009-11-01 |
| 58. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
119.64 |
0.9468 |
0.0256 |
318 |
1 |
119.64 |
2009-11-01 |
| 59. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
119.23 |
0.9917 |
-0.0204 |
317 |
2 |
115.68 |
2009-11-06 |
| 60. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
118.98 |
1.0669 |
-0.0965 |
379 |
1 |
118.98 |
2012-05-03 |
| 61. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
117.93 |
1.0590 |
-0.1015 |
250 |
1 |
117.93 |
2012-05-03 |
| 62. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
117.91 |
1.0686 |
-0.1066 |
354 |
1 |
117.91 |
2009-10-31 |
| 63. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
117.78 |
1.0877 |
-0.1337 |
129 |
2 |
104.51 |
2010-11-09 |
| 64. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
117.43 |
1.0521 |
-0.1032 |
197 |
1 |
117.43 |
2009-11-01 |
| 65. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
116.62 |
1.0125 |
-0.0661 |
232 |
1 |
116.62 |
2009-11-01 |
| 66. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
115.84 |
1.0006 |
-0.0591 |
311 |
1 |
115.84 |
2009-11-01 |
| 67. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
115.33 |
0.8718 |
0.0690 |
318 |
2 |
109.01 |
2009-11-01 |
| 68. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
115.15 |
0.9136 |
0.0255 |
348 |
1 |
115.15 |
2009-11-01 |
| 69. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
115.02 |
0.9143 |
0.0215 |
300 |
1 |
115.02 |
2009-11-01 |
| 70. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
114.29 |
0.9809 |
-0.0560 |
209 |
1 |
114.29 |
2009-10-31 |
| 71. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
114.10 |
0.9119 |
0.0197 |
396 |
1 |
114.10 |
2009-11-01 |
| 72. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
113.85 |
0.9704 |
-0.0452 |
254 |
1 |
113.85 |
2009-10-31 |
| 73. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
113.83 |
0.9682 |
-0.0328 |
341 |
1 |
113.83 |
2009-10-31 |
| 74. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
113.21 |
0.9400 |
-0.0174 |
434 |
2 |
112.10 |
2009-11-02 |
| 75. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
112.86 |
0.9980 |
-0.0787 |
295 |
1 |
112.86 |
2009-11-06 |
| 76. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
112.31 |
0.9162 |
-0.0024 |
401 |
1 |
112.31 |
2010-11-09 |
| 77. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
112.29 |
0.9989 |
-0.0794 |
282 |
1 |
112.29 |
2012-05-04 |
| 78. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
112.02 |
0.9114 |
0.0063 |
399 |
1 |
112.02 |
2009-11-01 |
| 79. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
111.95 |
0.9762 |
-0.0665 |
249 |
1 |
111.95 |
2009-11-01 |
| 80. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
111.91 |
0.9765 |
-0.0679 |
269 |
1 |
111.91 |
2009-11-01 |
| 81. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
110.83 |
1.0060 |
-0.0988 |
244 |
1 |
110.83 |
2009-11-01 |
| 82. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
110.64 |
0.9889 |
-0.0768 |
429 |
1 |
110.64 |
2009-10-31 |
| 83. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
110.28 |
0.9574 |
-0.0582 |
354 |
1 |
110.28 |
2009-11-02 |
| 84. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
109.32 |
1.0128 |
-0.1179 |
369 |
1 |
109.32 |
2009-10-31 |
| 85. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
109.10 |
0.9157 |
-0.0168 |
353 |
1 |
109.10 |
2009-11-01 |
| 86. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
107.50 |
0.9598 |
-0.0843 |
209 |
1 |
107.50 |
2009-10-31 |
| 87. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
106.02 |
1.1086 |
-0.2470 |
233 |
1 |
106.02 |
2009-10-31 |
| 88. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
105.31 |
0.8666 |
-0.0138 |
206 |
1 |
105.31 |
2009-10-31 |
| 89. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
104.80 |
1.0291 |
-0.1800 |
240 |
1 |
104.80 |
2009-11-01 |
| 90. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
104.29 |
0.9844 |
-0.1253 |
351 |
1 |
104.29 |
2009-10-31 |
| 91. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
103.47 |
0.9952 |
-0.1525 |
220 |
1 |
103.47 |
2009-11-01 |
| 92. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
103.29 |
0.9271 |
-0.0858 |
323 |
1 |
103.29 |
2009-10-31 |
| 93. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
101.26 |
0.9494 |
-0.1144 |
397 |
1 |
101.26 |
2009-11-01 |
| 94. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
100.97 |
0.8830 |
-0.0607 |
300 |
1 |
100.97 |
2009-10-31 |
| 95. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
98.95 |
0.9352 |
-0.1330 |
194 |
1 |
98.95 |
2009-10-31 |
| 96. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
97.88 |
0.9332 |
-0.1386 |
267 |
1 |
97.88 |
2009-10-31 |
| 97. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
97.14 |
0.9338 |
-0.1354 |
326 |
1 |
97.14 |
2012-05-04 |
| 98. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
89.13 |
1.0301 |
-0.3084 |
268 |
1 |
89.13 |
2009-11-01 |