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Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
154.75 |
1.0753 |
0.2053 |
206 |
1 |
154.75 |
2012-10-18 |
2. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
154.08 |
1.0144 |
0.2548 |
162 |
2 |
141.09 |
2012-10-23 |
3. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
149.78 |
1.0194 |
0.2111 |
224 |
2 |
135.59 |
2012-10-24 |
4. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
149.64 |
1.1198 |
0.1106 |
247 |
1 |
149.64 |
2012-10-24 |
5. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
148.78 |
1.0865 |
0.1376 |
237 |
1 |
148.78 |
2012-10-24 |
6. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
147.88 |
1.0665 |
0.1515 |
210 |
1 |
147.88 |
2012-10-24 |
7. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
146.90 |
1.0543 |
0.1567 |
360 |
1 |
146.90 |
2012-10-24 |
8. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
146.26 |
1.0208 |
0.1825 |
231 |
1 |
146.26 |
2012-10-22 |
9. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
145.68 |
1.0588 |
0.1399 |
281 |
1 |
145.68 |
2012-10-24 |
10. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
144.80 |
1.0362 |
0.1615 |
437 |
1 |
144.80 |
2012-10-23 |
11. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
144.14 |
1.1086 |
0.0777 |
233 |
1 |
144.14 |
2012-10-24 |
12. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
142.52 |
0.9985 |
0.1863 |
392 |
1 |
142.52 |
2012-10-22 |
13. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
142.38 |
1.0686 |
0.1064 |
354 |
2 |
130.11 |
2012-10-25 |
14. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
141.85 |
0.9756 |
0.1907 |
223 |
4 |
123.10 |
2012-10-24 |
15. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
141.73 |
1.0504 |
0.1175 |
225 |
2 |
135.77 |
2012-10-24 |
16. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
141.24 |
1.0419 |
0.1231 |
341 |
1 |
141.24 |
2012-10-18 |
17. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
141.08 |
1.0562 |
0.1096 |
360 |
1 |
141.08 |
2012-10-24 |
18. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
140.64 |
1.0682 |
0.0899 |
266 |
1 |
140.64 |
2012-10-24 |
19. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
140.38 |
1.0450 |
0.1151 |
358 |
2 |
134.39 |
2012-10-23 |
20. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
138.53 |
0.9425 |
0.1977 |
248 |
2 |
129.12 |
2012-10-24 |
21. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
137.20 |
1.0867 |
0.0374 |
171 |
1 |
137.20 |
2012-10-18 |
22. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
136.81 |
1.0364 |
0.0930 |
230 |
1 |
136.81 |
2012-10-24 |
23. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
136.57 |
1.0265 |
0.1005 |
375 |
1 |
136.57 |
2012-10-23 |
24. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
136.15 |
1.0039 |
0.1221 |
255 |
1 |
136.15 |
2012-10-24 |
25. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
135.34 |
0.9765 |
0.1359 |
269 |
1 |
135.34 |
2012-10-24 |
26. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
134.85 |
1.0464 |
0.0684 |
213 |
2 |
133.65 |
2012-10-23 |
27. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
133.95 |
1.0090 |
0.0982 |
300 |
1 |
133.95 |
2012-10-22 |
28. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
133.84 |
1.0042 |
0.0927 |
168 |
2 |
126.48 |
2012-10-24 |
29. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
133.80 |
1.0351 |
0.0692 |
276 |
2 |
121.35 |
2012-10-24 |
30. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
133.44 |
0.9422 |
0.1501 |
190 |
1 |
133.44 |
2012-10-24 |
31. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
133.36 |
1.0676 |
0.0338 |
456 |
1 |
133.36 |
2012-10-22 |
32. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
133.35 |
1.0881 |
0.0047 |
210 |
1 |
133.35 |
2012-10-22 |
33. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
132.96 |
0.9727 |
0.1274 |
442 |
1 |
132.96 |
2012-10-24 |
34. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
132.71 |
0.9841 |
0.1040 |
217 |
1 |
132.71 |
2012-10-21 |
35. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
132.52 |
0.9012 |
0.1921 |
322 |
1 |
132.52 |
2012-10-22 |
36. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
132.09 |
0.9745 |
0.1139 |
388 |
1 |
132.09 |
2012-10-24 |
37. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
132.03 |
1.0227 |
0.0692 |
378 |
1 |
132.03 |
2012-10-22 |
38. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
131.14 |
0.9841 |
0.1057 |
325 |
1 |
131.14 |
2012-10-24 |
39. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
130.64 |
0.9930 |
0.0903 |
350 |
1 |
130.64 |
2012-10-21 |
40. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
130.41 |
1.0561 |
0.0144 |
227 |
1 |
130.41 |
2012-10-22 |
41. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
129.75 |
1.0412 |
0.0307 |
205 |
1 |
129.75 |
2012-10-24 |
42. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
129.58 |
0.9880 |
0.0733 |
199 |
1 |
129.58 |
2012-10-22 |
43. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
129.45 |
1.0350 |
0.0439 |
416 |
1 |
129.45 |
2012-10-24 |
44. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
129.33 |
1.0060 |
0.0581 |
225 |
3 |
121.65 |
2012-10-23 |
45. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
129.30 |
1.0304 |
0.0365 |
257 |
1 |
129.30 |
2012-10-24 |
46. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
128.93 |
0.9743 |
0.0966 |
397 |
2 |
126.48 |
2012-10-23 |
47. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
128.10 |
1.0461 |
0.0229 |
535 |
1 |
128.10 |
2012-10-24 |
48. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
127.91 |
0.9523 |
0.1110 |
576 |
1 |
127.91 |
2012-10-22 |
49. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
127.51 |
0.9244 |
0.1292 |
225 |
1 |
127.51 |
2012-10-24 |
50. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
127.35 |
1.0338 |
0.0185 |
277 |
1 |
127.35 |
2012-10-24 |
51. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
127.22 |
0.9070 |
0.1342 |
192 |
1 |
127.22 |
2012-10-24 |
52. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
127.07 |
1.0115 |
0.0280 |
189 |
1 |
127.07 |
2012-10-24 |
53. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
126.56 |
1.0301 |
0.0091 |
268 |
1 |
126.56 |
2012-10-24 |
54. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
126.47 |
0.9915 |
0.0474 |
281 |
1 |
126.47 |
2012-10-24 |
55. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
126.45 |
0.9736 |
0.0731 |
378 |
3 |
121.13 |
2012-10-23 |
56. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
125.85 |
1.0250 |
0.0125 |
271 |
1 |
125.85 |
2012-10-22 |
57. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
125.78 |
0.8778 |
0.1581 |
285 |
1 |
125.78 |
2012-10-25 |
58. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
125.58 |
1.0529 |
-0.0179 |
373 |
1 |
125.58 |
2012-10-22 |
59. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
125.20 |
1.0267 |
0.0057 |
261 |
1 |
125.20 |
2012-10-22 |
60. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
124.81 |
0.9719 |
0.0613 |
383 |
1 |
124.81 |
2012-10-20 |
61. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
124.66 |
1.0590 |
-0.0353 |
250 |
1 |
124.66 |
2012-10-18 |
62. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
123.66 |
1.0471 |
-0.0184 |
406 |
2 |
118.55 |
2012-10-21 |
63. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
123.58 |
0.9631 |
0.0523 |
273 |
1 |
123.58 |
2012-10-18 |
64. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
123.57 |
0.9851 |
0.0356 |
237 |
2 |
119.88 |
2012-10-24 |
65. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
123.52 |
1.0018 |
0.0139 |
246 |
1 |
123.52 |
2012-10-16 |
66. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
123.43 |
0.9949 |
0.0301 |
304 |
1 |
123.43 |
2012-10-23 |
67. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
123.37 |
1.0615 |
-0.0504 |
201 |
2 |
115.68 |
2012-10-18 |
68. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
122.93 |
0.9101 |
0.1043 |
351 |
2 |
119.59 |
2012-10-24 |
69. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
122.90 |
0.9517 |
0.0666 |
397 |
1 |
122.90 |
2012-10-21 |
70. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
122.28 |
1.0059 |
0.0004 |
283 |
1 |
122.28 |
2012-10-24 |
71. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
122.20 |
1.0857 |
-0.0687 |
393 |
1 |
122.20 |
2012-10-16 |
72. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
122.07 |
0.9583 |
0.0456 |
237 |
1 |
122.07 |
2012-10-19 |
73. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
122.02 |
1.1070 |
-0.1051 |
265 |
2 |
119.40 |
2012-10-23 |
74. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
121.29 |
0.9206 |
0.0768 |
317 |
1 |
121.29 |
2012-10-23 |
75. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
121.02 |
0.9763 |
0.0179 |
143 |
1 |
121.02 |
2012-10-24 |
76. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
120.63 |
1.0139 |
-0.0094 |
349 |
1 |
120.63 |
2012-10-23 |
77. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
120.25 |
1.0800 |
-0.0987 |
129 |
1 |
120.25 |
2012-10-23 |
78. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
119.89 |
0.9658 |
0.0233 |
308 |
1 |
119.89 |
2012-10-23 |
79. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
119.88 |
0.9783 |
0.0144 |
273 |
1 |
119.88 |
2012-10-22 |
80. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
119.84 |
0.9515 |
0.0435 |
334 |
2 |
112.48 |
2012-10-24 |
81. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
119.45 |
1.0576 |
-0.0787 |
231 |
1 |
119.45 |
2012-10-24 |
82. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
119.39 |
0.9927 |
-0.0109 |
276 |
2 |
104.92 |
2012-10-21 |
83. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
119.29 |
0.9931 |
-0.0003 |
381 |
1 |
119.29 |
2012-10-21 |
84. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
118.98 |
0.9839 |
-0.0063 |
308 |
1 |
118.98 |
2012-10-24 |
85. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
118.81 |
1.0755 |
-0.0985 |
243 |
1 |
118.81 |
2012-10-18 |
86. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
118.60 |
1.0264 |
-0.0559 |
191 |
1 |
118.60 |
2012-10-24 |
87. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
117.84 |
1.0189 |
-0.0511 |
290 |
1 |
117.84 |
2012-10-18 |
88. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
117.63 |
0.9927 |
-0.0293 |
234 |
1 |
117.63 |
2012-10-24 |
89. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
116.31 |
1.0800 |
-0.1272 |
213 |
1 |
116.31 |
2012-10-23 |
90. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
115.79 |
1.0418 |
-0.0896 |
214 |
3 |
104.44 |
2012-10-24 |
91. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
115.75 |
0.9157 |
0.0480 |
353 |
1 |
115.75 |
2012-10-24 |
92. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
115.65 |
0.9145 |
0.0393 |
404 |
1 |
115.65 |
2012-10-23 |
93. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
115.61 |
0.9479 |
0.0038 |
317 |
1 |
115.61 |
2012-10-24 |
94. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
115.28 |
1.0333 |
-0.0912 |
176 |
1 |
115.28 |
2012-10-16 |
95. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
115.01 |
0.9649 |
-0.0096 |
360 |
1 |
115.01 |
2012-10-25 |
96. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
114.59 |
1.0419 |
-0.0910 |
323 |
1 |
114.59 |
2012-10-24 |
97. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
114.51 |
0.9329 |
0.0224 |
345 |
1 |
114.51 |
2012-10-20 |
98. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
114.26 |
1.0507 |
-0.1065 |
253 |
1 |
114.26 |
2012-10-21 |
99. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
113.87 |
0.9889 |
-0.0401 |
429 |
1 |
113.87 |
2012-10-18 |
100. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
113.80 |
0.9404 |
0.0041 |
383 |
1 |
113.80 |
2012-10-22 |
101. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
113.62 |
0.9836 |
-0.0500 |
289 |
1 |
113.62 |
2012-10-16 |
102. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
113.38 |
1.0638 |
-0.1343 |
247 |
1 |
113.38 |
2012-10-18 |
103. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
113.35 |
0.9703 |
-0.0324 |
394 |
1 |
113.35 |
2012-10-23 |
104. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
113.28 |
0.9606 |
-0.0258 |
203 |
1 |
113.28 |
2012-10-23 |
105. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
113.05 |
0.9632 |
-0.0332 |
287 |
1 |
113.05 |
2012-10-24 |
106. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
113.02 |
1.0464 |
-0.1129 |
294 |
1 |
113.02 |
2012-10-25 |
107. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
112.59 |
0.9957 |
-0.0667 |
323 |
1 |
112.59 |
2012-10-21 |
108. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
112.50 |
0.9545 |
-0.0206 |
412 |
1 |
112.50 |
2012-10-18 |
109. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
112.34 |
0.9864 |
-0.0597 |
292 |
1 |
112.34 |
2012-10-22 |
110. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
111.26 |
0.9451 |
-0.0232 |
419 |
1 |
111.26 |
2012-10-23 |
111. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
111.14 |
1.0509 |
-0.1238 |
430 |
1 |
111.14 |
2012-10-22 |
112. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
109.44 |
0.9740 |
-0.0718 |
371 |
2 |
98.10 |
2012-10-21 |
113. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
109.10 |
0.9359 |
-0.0391 |
355 |
1 |
109.10 |
2012-10-22 |
114. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
108.85 |
0.9598 |
-0.0636 |
209 |
2 |
103.31 |
2012-10-24 |
115. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
108.77 |
1.0466 |
-0.1536 |
230 |
1 |
108.77 |
2012-10-21 |
116. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
108.36 |
1.0036 |
-0.1126 |
277 |
1 |
108.36 |
2012-10-22 |
117. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
107.93 |
0.9810 |
-0.0896 |
362 |
1 |
107.93 |
2012-10-24 |
118. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
107.86 |
1.0387 |
-0.1486 |
333 |
1 |
107.86 |
2012-10-18 |
119. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
107.48 |
0.9673 |
-0.0824 |
292 |
1 |
107.48 |
2012-10-24 |
120. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
106.49 |
0.8666 |
0.0054 |
206 |
1 |
106.49 |
2012-10-24 |
121. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
106.45 |
1.0538 |
-0.1673 |
367 |
1 |
106.45 |
2012-10-23 |
122. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
103.25 |
0.9948 |
-0.1482 |
233 |
1 |
103.25 |
2012-10-24 |
123. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
103.12 |
1.0082 |
-0.1665 |
212 |
1 |
103.12 |
2012-10-21 |
124. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
101.63 |
0.9980 |
-0.1545 |
341 |
1 |
101.63 |
2012-10-22 |
125. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
101.34 |
1.0640 |
-0.2263 |
210 |
1 |
101.34 |
2012-10-24 |
126. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
99.68 |
1.0125 |
-0.1992 |
171 |
1 |
99.68 |
2012-10-22 |
127. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
98.80 |
1.0060 |
-0.1884 |
244 |
1 |
98.80 |
2012-10-25 |
128. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
97.07 |
1.0582 |
-0.2647 |
180 |
1 |
97.07 |
2012-10-20 |
129. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
96.27 |
0.9162 |
-0.1250 |
401 |
1 |
96.27 |
2012-10-21 |
130. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
94.60 |
0.9604 |
-0.1863 |
285 |
1 |
94.60 |
2012-10-22 |
131. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
94.58 |
0.9357 |
-0.1619 |
204 |
1 |
94.58 |
2012-10-21 |
132. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
94.26 |
0.9801 |
-0.2070 |
289 |
1 |
94.26 |
2012-10-24 |
133. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
93.96 |
1.0476 |
-0.2861 |
110 |
1 |
93.96 |
2012-10-18 |
134. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
93.81 |
0.9135 |
-0.1350 |
393 |
1 |
93.81 |
2012-10-19 |
135. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
92.09 |
0.8913 |
-0.1344 |
201 |
1 |
92.09 |
2012-10-21 |
136. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
91.04 |
0.8172 |
-0.0748 |
204 |
1 |
91.04 |
2012-10-23 |
137. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
90.00 |
1.0243 |
-0.2824 |
153 |
1 |
90.00 |
2012-10-22 |
138. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
78.24 |
0.9591 |
-0.3036 |
428 |
1 |
78.24 |
2012-10-22 |
139. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
74.53 |
0.9271 |
-0.3144 |
323 |
1 |
74.53 |
2012-10-19 |
140. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
71.41 |
0.9403 |
-0.3472 |
307 |
1 |
71.41 |
2012-10-22 |
141. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
60.80 |
0.9027 |
-0.4096 |
189 |
1 |
60.80 |
2012-10-21 |