| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
67.52 |
1.0543 |
0.1852 |
360 |
1 |
67.52 |
2014-03-13 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
66.22 |
1.1086 |
0.1051 |
233 |
1 |
66.22 |
2013-06-23 |
| 3. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
66.13 |
1.0865 |
0.1249 |
237 |
1 |
66.13 |
2013-08-30 |
| 4. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
64.88 |
1.0504 |
0.1402 |
225 |
1 |
64.88 |
2013-10-14 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
64.88 |
1.1093 |
0.0736 |
220 |
1 |
64.88 |
2013-08-30 |
| 6. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
63.84 |
1.0264 |
0.1386 |
191 |
2 |
56.85 |
2013-09-05 |
| 7. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
63.58 |
1.0370 |
0.1276 |
262 |
2 |
61.31 |
2014-03-07 |
| 8. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
63.18 |
1.0234 |
0.1380 |
392 |
2 |
57.10 |
2013-06-23 |
| 9. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
63.00 |
0.9836 |
0.1620 |
123 |
1 |
63.00 |
2012-11-24 |
| 10. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
61.59 |
1.0479 |
0.0786 |
205 |
1 |
61.59 |
2012-12-05 |
| 11. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
61.52 |
1.0051 |
0.1164 |
162 |
1 |
61.52 |
2012-11-24 |
| 12. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
61.49 |
1.0654 |
0.0582 |
247 |
3 |
56.16 |
2014-03-10 |
| 13. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
61.35 |
1.0466 |
0.0767 |
230 |
1 |
61.35 |
2013-08-28 |
| 14. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
61.29 |
1.0195 |
0.1092 |
239 |
1 |
61.29 |
2013-09-04 |
| 15. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
61.06 |
1.0060 |
0.1134 |
260 |
2 |
59.18 |
2013-10-14 |
| 16. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
60.73 |
1.0408 |
0.0787 |
257 |
1 |
60.73 |
2013-06-22 |
| 17. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
60.69 |
1.0243 |
0.0907 |
153 |
1 |
60.69 |
2014-03-13 |
| 18. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
60.29 |
1.0272 |
0.0746 |
226 |
2 |
60.21 |
2012-12-06 |
| 19. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
60.10 |
1.0364 |
0.0683 |
230 |
1 |
60.10 |
2013-06-21 |
| 20. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
59.64 |
1.0392 |
0.0579 |
258 |
2 |
59.54 |
2014-03-10 |
| 21. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
59.39 |
0.9745 |
0.1150 |
388 |
1 |
59.39 |
2013-10-14 |
| 22. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
59.22 |
1.0493 |
0.0419 |
264 |
1 |
59.22 |
2014-03-13 |
| 23. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
58.89 |
1.0665 |
0.0126 |
210 |
2 |
55.01 |
2012-12-06 |
| 24. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
58.75 |
1.0379 |
0.0345 |
172 |
3 |
57.45 |
2014-03-11 |
| 25. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
58.71 |
0.9627 |
0.1118 |
259 |
1 |
58.71 |
2012-11-26 |
| 26. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
58.21 |
0.9852 |
0.0800 |
235 |
1 |
58.21 |
2013-06-23 |
| 27. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
58.02 |
1.0060 |
0.0570 |
225 |
2 |
50.74 |
2013-08-30 |
| 28. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
57.97 |
0.9817 |
0.0850 |
304 |
2 |
56.90 |
2014-03-11 |
| 29. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
57.87 |
1.0543 |
0.0020 |
182 |
3 |
55.60 |
2012-12-05 |
| 30. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
57.49 |
0.9991 |
0.0527 |
339 |
1 |
57.49 |
2014-03-07 |
| 31. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
57.42 |
1.0334 |
0.0172 |
261 |
2 |
52.02 |
2012-11-24 |
| 32. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
57.38 |
0.9738 |
0.0787 |
266 |
2 |
54.58 |
2014-03-06 |
| 33. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
57.18 |
1.0521 |
-0.0110 |
197 |
2 |
54.40 |
2014-03-06 |
| 34. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
57.17 |
0.9930 |
0.0626 |
350 |
1 |
57.17 |
2013-06-21 |
| 35. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
57.16 |
0.9829 |
0.0629 |
229 |
1 |
57.16 |
2013-08-30 |
| 36. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
57.16 |
1.0588 |
-0.0123 |
281 |
1 |
57.16 |
2012-11-24 |
| 37. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
57.12 |
0.9500 |
0.0976 |
287 |
1 |
57.12 |
2013-09-06 |
| 38. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
56.85 |
1.0481 |
-0.0150 |
255 |
1 |
56.85 |
2012-11-22 |
| 39. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
56.85 |
0.9604 |
0.0781 |
285 |
1 |
56.85 |
2013-06-23 |
| 40. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
56.79 |
1.0165 |
0.0222 |
316 |
1 |
56.79 |
2012-11-22 |
| 41. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
56.63 |
1.0387 |
0.0023 |
333 |
1 |
56.63 |
2014-03-10 |
| 42. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
56.62 |
1.0792 |
-0.0378 |
251 |
1 |
56.62 |
2013-09-06 |
| 43. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
56.49 |
1.0538 |
-0.0074 |
367 |
1 |
56.49 |
2014-03-10 |
| 44. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
56.48 |
0.9909 |
0.0470 |
334 |
1 |
56.48 |
2014-03-13 |
| 45. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
56.47 |
1.0561 |
-0.0244 |
227 |
1 |
56.47 |
2013-10-15 |
| 46. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
56.45 |
1.0567 |
-0.0237 |
314 |
1 |
56.45 |
2012-11-24 |
| 47. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
56.35 |
1.0601 |
-0.0318 |
256 |
2 |
55.55 |
2013-06-16 |
| 48. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
56.28 |
1.0557 |
-0.0242 |
289 |
1 |
56.28 |
2012-11-22 |
| 49. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
56.08 |
1.0332 |
-0.0074 |
267 |
1 |
56.08 |
2014-03-13 |
| 50. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
55.97 |
0.9421 |
0.0814 |
173 |
1 |
55.97 |
2012-12-06 |
| 51. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
55.96 |
1.0288 |
-0.0091 |
166 |
1 |
55.96 |
2014-03-10 |
| 52. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
55.92 |
0.9606 |
0.0669 |
203 |
1 |
55.92 |
2014-03-07 |
| 53. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
55.87 |
1.0682 |
-0.0444 |
266 |
1 |
55.87 |
2013-06-23 |
| 54. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
55.72 |
0.9726 |
0.0526 |
396 |
1 |
55.72 |
2012-11-24 |
| 55. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
55.67 |
1.0320 |
-0.0069 |
401 |
1 |
55.67 |
2014-03-10 |
| 56. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
55.61 |
1.0412 |
-0.0185 |
205 |
1 |
55.61 |
2014-03-10 |
| 57. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
55.33 |
0.9981 |
0.0138 |
211 |
1 |
55.33 |
2014-03-10 |
| 58. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
55.29 |
1.0576 |
-0.0485 |
231 |
1 |
55.29 |
2012-11-22 |
| 59. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
55.08 |
0.9963 |
0.0093 |
274 |
1 |
55.08 |
2012-12-05 |
| 60. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
54.99 |
0.9974 |
0.0052 |
163 |
1 |
54.99 |
2013-06-16 |
| 61. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
54.79 |
1.1070 |
-0.1053 |
265 |
1 |
54.79 |
2012-12-05 |
| 62. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
54.77 |
1.0144 |
-0.0111 |
162 |
1 |
54.77 |
2013-07-04 |
| 63. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
54.65 |
1.0590 |
-0.0599 |
250 |
1 |
54.65 |
2012-11-27 |
| 64. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
54.46 |
0.9948 |
0.0009 |
233 |
1 |
54.46 |
2013-10-14 |
| 65. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
54.40 |
0.9101 |
0.0895 |
351 |
1 |
54.40 |
2013-09-06 |
| 66. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
54.37 |
0.9763 |
0.0183 |
143 |
1 |
54.37 |
2013-08-30 |
| 67. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
53.99 |
1.0063 |
-0.0134 |
293 |
2 |
52.79 |
2013-06-21 |
| 68. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
53.93 |
1.0800 |
-0.1002 |
129 |
1 |
53.93 |
2013-08-31 |
| 69. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
53.74 |
1.0506 |
-0.0676 |
259 |
1 |
53.74 |
2012-11-24 |
| 70. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
53.57 |
1.0094 |
-0.0291 |
256 |
2 |
53.07 |
2012-11-24 |
| 71. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
53.42 |
0.9713 |
0.0048 |
193 |
2 |
47.38 |
2012-12-06 |
| 72. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
53.27 |
0.9791 |
-0.0109 |
154 |
1 |
53.27 |
2013-08-28 |
| 73. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
53.22 |
1.1062 |
-0.1305 |
200 |
1 |
53.22 |
2012-11-28 |
| 74. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
53.07 |
1.0664 |
-0.0919 |
389 |
2 |
53.00 |
2012-12-05 |
| 75. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
53.04 |
0.9893 |
-0.0221 |
222 |
2 |
52.24 |
2013-08-28 |
| 76. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
53.01 |
0.9561 |
0.0173 |
291 |
1 |
53.01 |
2012-11-27 |
| 77. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
52.90 |
0.8981 |
0.0785 |
255 |
1 |
52.90 |
2013-08-30 |
| 78. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
52.79 |
1.0418 |
-0.0751 |
214 |
1 |
52.79 |
2012-11-24 |
| 79. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
52.63 |
0.9621 |
-0.0020 |
201 |
1 |
52.63 |
2014-03-07 |
| 80. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
52.58 |
1.0791 |
-0.1118 |
259 |
1 |
52.58 |
2012-11-24 |
| 81. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
52.57 |
1.0529 |
-0.0882 |
373 |
1 |
52.57 |
2012-11-24 |
| 82. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
52.54 |
1.0010 |
-0.0358 |
213 |
2 |
52.15 |
2014-03-11 |
| 83. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
52.34 |
0.9810 |
-0.0182 |
362 |
1 |
52.34 |
2012-11-24 |
| 84. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
52.16 |
1.0250 |
-0.0678 |
271 |
1 |
52.16 |
2013-08-30 |
| 85. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
52.04 |
0.9857 |
-0.0277 |
268 |
1 |
52.04 |
2012-11-26 |
| 86. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
52.03 |
1.0495 |
-0.0980 |
323 |
1 |
52.03 |
2012-11-24 |
| 87. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
51.94 |
0.9737 |
-0.0207 |
237 |
1 |
51.94 |
2012-11-24 |
| 88. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
51.78 |
1.0755 |
-0.1276 |
243 |
1 |
51.78 |
2012-11-24 |
| 89. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
51.74 |
0.9329 |
0.0281 |
345 |
1 |
51.74 |
2014-03-10 |
| 90. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
51.54 |
1.0881 |
-0.1492 |
210 |
1 |
51.54 |
2012-11-24 |
| 91. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
51.33 |
1.0039 |
-0.0586 |
255 |
1 |
51.33 |
2012-11-24 |
| 92. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
51.21 |
1.0095 |
-0.0743 |
211 |
1 |
51.21 |
2012-11-24 |
| 93. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
50.97 |
0.9704 |
-0.0379 |
254 |
1 |
50.97 |
2012-11-26 |
| 94. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
50.87 |
1.0124 |
-0.0766 |
275 |
1 |
50.87 |
2012-11-24 |
| 95. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
50.69 |
1.0501 |
-0.1221 |
263 |
1 |
50.69 |
2012-11-28 |
| 96. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
50.03 |
0.9809 |
-0.0696 |
209 |
2 |
47.64 |
2012-11-24 |
| 97. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.01 |
0.9228 |
-0.0034 |
305 |
1 |
50.01 |
2012-11-26 |
| 98. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
49.79 |
1.0498 |
-0.1380 |
261 |
1 |
49.79 |
2012-11-24 |
| 99. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
49.44 |
1.0101 |
-0.1042 |
336 |
1 |
49.44 |
2012-11-24 |
| 100. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
49.43 |
0.9827 |
-0.0776 |
314 |
1 |
49.43 |
2012-11-27 |
| 101. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
49.32 |
1.0333 |
-0.1362 |
176 |
1 |
49.32 |
2012-11-22 |
| 102. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
49.22 |
0.8911 |
0.0120 |
241 |
1 |
49.22 |
2012-11-27 |
| 103. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
49.01 |
0.9866 |
-0.0898 |
308 |
1 |
49.01 |
2012-11-22 |
| 104. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
48.90 |
0.9278 |
-0.0323 |
253 |
1 |
48.90 |
2012-11-24 |
| 105. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
48.69 |
0.9394 |
-0.0505 |
195 |
1 |
48.69 |
2012-11-22 |
| 106. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
48.67 |
0.9145 |
-0.0210 |
404 |
1 |
48.67 |
2012-11-24 |
| 107. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
48.66 |
0.8666 |
0.0209 |
206 |
1 |
48.66 |
2014-03-07 |
| 108. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
48.64 |
0.9922 |
-0.1021 |
264 |
1 |
48.64 |
2012-11-24 |
| 109. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
48.46 |
0.8992 |
-0.0012 |
320 |
1 |
48.46 |
2012-11-24 |
| 110. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
48.30 |
0.9597 |
-0.0762 |
251 |
1 |
48.30 |
2012-11-22 |
| 111. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
47.94 |
1.0585 |
-0.1790 |
226 |
1 |
47.94 |
2012-11-24 |
| 112. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
47.91 |
0.9255 |
-0.0487 |
174 |
1 |
47.91 |
2012-11-24 |
| 113. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
47.74 |
0.9357 |
-0.0650 |
204 |
1 |
47.74 |
2014-03-12 |
| 114. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
47.64 |
0.9027 |
-0.0352 |
189 |
2 |
44.69 |
2012-11-24 |
| 115. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
47.59 |
0.9183 |
-0.0472 |
308 |
1 |
47.59 |
2012-12-05 |
| 116. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
47.49 |
1.0403 |
-0.1737 |
234 |
1 |
47.49 |
2012-11-26 |
| 117. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
47.19 |
1.0230 |
-0.1586 |
200 |
1 |
47.19 |
2014-03-07 |
| 118. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
47.04 |
0.9564 |
-0.1025 |
263 |
1 |
47.04 |
2012-11-26 |
| 119. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
47.01 |
0.9029 |
-0.0406 |
393 |
1 |
47.01 |
2012-11-24 |
| 120. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
46.92 |
1.0461 |
-0.1861 |
318 |
1 |
46.92 |
2012-11-24 |
| 121. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
46.62 |
1.0026 |
-0.1461 |
200 |
1 |
46.62 |
2012-11-24 |
| 122. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
46.54 |
0.9660 |
-0.1083 |
258 |
1 |
46.54 |
2012-11-24 |
| 123. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
46.34 |
1.0492 |
-0.1972 |
284 |
1 |
46.34 |
2012-11-24 |
| 124. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
45.87 |
0.9352 |
-0.0978 |
194 |
2 |
44.81 |
2012-11-24 |
| 125. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
45.07 |
0.8964 |
-0.0755 |
199 |
1 |
45.07 |
2012-11-26 |
| 126. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
44.25 |
0.9368 |
-0.1349 |
176 |
1 |
44.25 |
2012-11-24 |
| 127. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
44.23 |
0.9643 |
-0.1473 |
282 |
1 |
44.23 |
2012-11-24 |
| 128. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
43.92 |
0.8986 |
-0.0977 |
205 |
1 |
43.92 |
2012-11-28 |