| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
139.04 |
1.0582 |
0.0782 |
180 |
1 |
139.04 |
2010-09-23 |
| 2. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
137.24 |
1.0669 |
0.0610 |
379 |
1 |
137.24 |
2010-09-23 |
| 3. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
135.04 |
1.0427 |
0.0648 |
269 |
1 |
135.04 |
2010-09-23 |
| 4. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
134.50 |
1.0529 |
0.0518 |
373 |
2 |
132.66 |
2010-09-24 |
| 5. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
134.14 |
1.0267 |
0.0756 |
261 |
1 |
134.14 |
2010-09-25 |
| 6. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
132.20 |
1.0481 |
0.0274 |
255 |
2 |
128.45 |
2010-09-30 |
| 7. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
132.07 |
1.1095 |
-0.0251 |
252 |
1 |
132.07 |
2010-09-30 |
| 8. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
131.99 |
1.0432 |
0.0388 |
276 |
2 |
128.34 |
2010-09-27 |
| 9. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
131.93 |
1.0743 |
0.0077 |
297 |
1 |
131.93 |
2010-09-30 |
| 10. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
131.30 |
1.0466 |
0.0287 |
230 |
1 |
131.30 |
2010-09-30 |
| 11. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
131.26 |
1.0493 |
0.0330 |
264 |
2 |
123.81 |
2010-09-23 |
| 12. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
131.17 |
1.0617 |
0.0111 |
171 |
2 |
125.57 |
2010-09-23 |
| 13. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
130.49 |
1.0686 |
0.0041 |
354 |
2 |
123.12 |
2010-09-24 |
| 14. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
130.39 |
1.0288 |
0.0347 |
166 |
2 |
126.96 |
2010-09-30 |
| 15. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
130.23 |
1.0128 |
0.0609 |
369 |
2 |
127.75 |
2010-09-23 |
| 16. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
130.19 |
1.1198 |
-0.0542 |
247 |
1 |
130.19 |
2010-09-23 |
| 17. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
129.98 |
1.0291 |
0.0337 |
240 |
1 |
129.98 |
2010-09-27 |
| 18. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
129.87 |
0.9206 |
0.1439 |
317 |
1 |
129.87 |
2010-09-25 |
| 19. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
129.85 |
0.9737 |
0.0928 |
237 |
1 |
129.85 |
2010-09-17 |
| 20. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
129.82 |
1.0006 |
0.0630 |
311 |
2 |
129.47 |
2010-09-30 |
| 21. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
129.35 |
1.0399 |
0.0247 |
257 |
1 |
129.35 |
2010-09-23 |
| 22. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
129.32 |
0.9981 |
0.0604 |
211 |
1 |
129.32 |
2010-09-25 |
| 23. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
129.30 |
0.9271 |
0.1347 |
323 |
1 |
129.30 |
2010-09-25 |
| 24. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
129.09 |
1.1086 |
-0.0507 |
233 |
2 |
124.63 |
2010-09-24 |
| 25. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
128.95 |
1.0616 |
0.0017 |
304 |
4 |
120.44 |
2010-09-30 |
| 26. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
128.92 |
1.0501 |
0.0067 |
263 |
1 |
128.92 |
2010-09-25 |
| 27. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
128.71 |
0.9709 |
0.0822 |
264 |
1 |
128.71 |
2010-09-23 |
| 28. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
128.62 |
1.1062 |
-0.0505 |
200 |
2 |
117.55 |
2010-09-23 |
| 29. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
128.58 |
1.0059 |
0.0486 |
283 |
1 |
128.58 |
2010-09-30 |
| 30. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
128.32 |
0.9933 |
0.0653 |
450 |
1 |
128.32 |
2010-09-23 |
| 31. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
128.30 |
0.9377 |
0.1210 |
198 |
2 |
122.46 |
2010-09-30 |
| 32. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
128.03 |
1.0165 |
0.0315 |
316 |
2 |
122.94 |
2010-09-25 |
| 33. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
127.96 |
0.9424 |
0.1083 |
320 |
2 |
125.69 |
2010-09-27 |
| 34. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
127.95 |
0.9403 |
0.1165 |
307 |
1 |
127.95 |
2010-09-25 |
| 35. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
127.65 |
0.9857 |
0.0659 |
268 |
1 |
127.65 |
2010-09-25 |
| 36. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
127.37 |
1.0845 |
-0.0422 |
212 |
1 |
127.37 |
2010-09-27 |
| 37. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
126.97 |
1.0524 |
-0.0142 |
177 |
2 |
120.94 |
2010-09-23 |
| 38. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
126.45 |
0.9917 |
0.0462 |
317 |
1 |
126.45 |
2010-09-30 |
| 39. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
126.30 |
1.0199 |
0.0108 |
225 |
1 |
126.30 |
2010-09-30 |
| 40. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
126.20 |
1.1070 |
-0.0744 |
265 |
1 |
126.20 |
2010-09-16 |
| 41. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
126.13 |
0.9866 |
0.0469 |
308 |
1 |
126.13 |
2010-09-23 |
| 42. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
125.21 |
0.9479 |
0.0794 |
317 |
2 |
124.66 |
2010-09-30 |
| 43. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
125.00 |
0.9963 |
0.0251 |
274 |
1 |
125.00 |
2010-09-25 |
| 44. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
124.60 |
0.9765 |
0.0433 |
269 |
2 |
123.45 |
2010-09-30 |
| 45. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
124.50 |
1.0615 |
-0.0448 |
201 |
1 |
124.50 |
2010-09-25 |
| 46. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
124.39 |
1.0111 |
0.0199 |
452 |
2 |
122.72 |
2010-09-24 |
| 47. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
123.97 |
0.9775 |
0.0508 |
473 |
1 |
123.97 |
2010-09-25 |
| 48. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
123.88 |
0.9927 |
0.0186 |
234 |
1 |
123.88 |
2010-09-23 |
| 49. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
123.80 |
1.0370 |
-0.0233 |
262 |
1 |
123.80 |
2010-09-25 |
| 50. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
123.51 |
1.0144 |
-0.0017 |
162 |
1 |
123.51 |
2010-09-25 |
| 51. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
123.42 |
1.0197 |
-0.0107 |
204 |
1 |
123.42 |
2010-09-23 |
| 52. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
123.42 |
0.9324 |
0.0910 |
440 |
1 |
123.42 |
2010-09-23 |
| 53. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
123.39 |
1.0588 |
-0.0481 |
281 |
2 |
121.81 |
2010-09-25 |
| 54. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
123.17 |
0.9265 |
0.0812 |
254 |
1 |
123.17 |
2010-09-23 |
| 55. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
122.95 |
1.0115 |
-0.0098 |
189 |
3 |
117.70 |
2010-09-30 |
| 56. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
122.93 |
0.9852 |
0.0210 |
235 |
1 |
122.93 |
2010-09-24 |
| 57. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
122.76 |
0.9644 |
0.0441 |
398 |
1 |
122.76 |
2010-09-17 |
| 58. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
122.71 |
0.9974 |
0.0037 |
163 |
1 |
122.71 |
2010-09-25 |
| 59. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
122.53 |
0.8830 |
0.1230 |
300 |
1 |
122.53 |
2010-09-25 |
| 60. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
122.23 |
0.9682 |
0.0432 |
341 |
1 |
122.23 |
2010-09-27 |
| 61. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
121.84 |
1.0461 |
-0.0326 |
535 |
1 |
121.84 |
2010-09-23 |
| 62. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
121.69 |
1.0283 |
-0.0251 |
272 |
2 |
120.89 |
2010-09-30 |
| 63. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
121.66 |
1.0640 |
-0.0619 |
210 |
1 |
121.66 |
2010-09-23 |
| 64. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
121.64 |
1.0418 |
-0.0449 |
214 |
1 |
121.64 |
2010-09-23 |
| 65. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
121.62 |
1.0482 |
-0.0392 |
407 |
1 |
121.62 |
2010-09-24 |
| 66. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
121.62 |
0.9801 |
0.0156 |
289 |
1 |
121.62 |
2010-09-23 |
| 67. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
121.49 |
0.9957 |
0.0032 |
323 |
1 |
121.49 |
2010-09-23 |
| 68. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
121.46 |
0.9673 |
0.0313 |
393 |
1 |
121.46 |
2010-09-25 |
| 69. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
121.37 |
0.9809 |
0.0091 |
209 |
1 |
121.37 |
2010-09-23 |
| 70. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
121.30 |
0.9824 |
0.0239 |
352 |
1 |
121.30 |
2010-09-23 |
| 71. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
121.11 |
0.9561 |
0.0390 |
291 |
1 |
121.11 |
2010-09-17 |
| 72. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
121.03 |
0.9869 |
0.0006 |
193 |
1 |
121.03 |
2010-09-16 |
| 73. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
120.93 |
1.0498 |
-0.0583 |
261 |
1 |
120.93 |
2010-09-23 |
| 74. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
120.92 |
0.9980 |
0.0014 |
341 |
1 |
120.92 |
2010-09-18 |
| 75. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
120.47 |
1.0567 |
-0.0705 |
314 |
1 |
120.47 |
2010-09-16 |
| 76. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
120.43 |
0.9841 |
-0.0012 |
217 |
1 |
120.43 |
2010-09-23 |
| 77. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
119.97 |
1.0877 |
-0.1087 |
129 |
2 |
119.75 |
2010-09-25 |
| 78. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
119.90 |
0.9745 |
0.0094 |
388 |
1 |
119.90 |
2010-09-24 |
| 79. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
119.80 |
0.9500 |
0.0327 |
287 |
4 |
111.32 |
2010-09-25 |
| 80. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
119.58 |
1.0607 |
-0.0787 |
357 |
1 |
119.58 |
2010-09-30 |
| 81. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
119.14 |
1.0094 |
-0.0338 |
256 |
1 |
119.14 |
2010-09-27 |
| 82. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
118.93 |
0.9402 |
0.0317 |
310 |
1 |
118.93 |
2010-09-23 |
| 83. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
118.76 |
0.9524 |
0.0357 |
410 |
1 |
118.76 |
2010-09-25 |
| 84. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
118.73 |
1.0264 |
-0.0584 |
191 |
1 |
118.73 |
2010-09-25 |
| 85. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
118.49 |
1.0194 |
-0.0513 |
224 |
1 |
118.49 |
2010-09-30 |
| 86. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
118.38 |
1.0272 |
-0.0600 |
226 |
1 |
118.38 |
2010-09-24 |
| 87. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
118.36 |
0.9523 |
0.0284 |
576 |
1 |
118.36 |
2010-09-17 |
| 88. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
118.25 |
1.0836 |
-0.1120 |
206 |
1 |
118.25 |
2010-09-23 |
| 89. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
117.89 |
1.0287 |
-0.0646 |
269 |
1 |
117.89 |
2010-09-23 |
| 90. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
117.71 |
1.0125 |
-0.0536 |
171 |
1 |
117.71 |
2010-09-24 |
| 91. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
117.70 |
0.9740 |
-0.0070 |
371 |
1 |
117.70 |
2010-09-23 |
| 92. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
117.33 |
1.0338 |
-0.0679 |
277 |
1 |
117.33 |
2010-09-25 |
| 93. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
117.27 |
0.9736 |
-0.0064 |
378 |
1 |
117.27 |
2010-09-23 |
| 94. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
117.18 |
1.0130 |
-0.0535 |
288 |
1 |
117.18 |
2010-09-23 |
| 95. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
116.82 |
1.0576 |
-0.1040 |
231 |
1 |
116.82 |
2010-09-27 |
| 96. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
116.77 |
0.9330 |
0.0347 |
341 |
1 |
116.77 |
2010-09-23 |
| 97. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
116.76 |
1.0538 |
-0.0856 |
367 |
1 |
116.76 |
2010-09-16 |
| 98. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
116.46 |
0.9918 |
-0.0312 |
400 |
1 |
116.46 |
2010-09-17 |
| 99. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
116.37 |
1.0543 |
-0.1049 |
182 |
1 |
116.37 |
2010-09-17 |
| 100. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
116.14 |
1.0444 |
-0.0804 |
487 |
1 |
116.14 |
2010-09-18 |
| 101. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
116.13 |
0.9380 |
0.0112 |
284 |
1 |
116.13 |
2010-09-23 |
| 102. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
116.09 |
1.0403 |
-0.0916 |
234 |
1 |
116.09 |
2010-09-24 |
| 103. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
115.57 |
0.9829 |
-0.0375 |
229 |
1 |
115.57 |
2010-09-23 |
| 104. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
115.50 |
0.9543 |
-0.0019 |
265 |
1 |
115.50 |
2010-09-30 |
| 105. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
114.77 |
0.9603 |
-0.0153 |
430 |
1 |
114.77 |
2010-09-16 |
| 106. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
114.73 |
1.0086 |
-0.0737 |
218 |
1 |
114.73 |
2010-09-23 |
| 107. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
114.68 |
0.8880 |
0.0509 |
296 |
1 |
114.68 |
2010-09-25 |
| 108. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
114.45 |
0.9594 |
-0.0243 |
258 |
1 |
114.45 |
2010-09-23 |
| 109. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
114.04 |
1.0074 |
-0.0599 |
410 |
1 |
114.04 |
2010-09-18 |
| 110. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
113.72 |
1.1138 |
-0.1744 |
341 |
1 |
113.72 |
2010-09-16 |
| 111. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
113.14 |
0.9145 |
0.0151 |
404 |
1 |
113.14 |
2010-09-23 |
| 112. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
112.80 |
1.0777 |
-0.1565 |
226 |
1 |
112.80 |
2010-09-23 |
| 113. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
112.80 |
0.8981 |
0.0339 |
255 |
1 |
112.80 |
2010-09-23 |
| 114. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
112.65 |
0.9400 |
-0.0153 |
434 |
1 |
112.65 |
2010-09-23 |
| 115. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
112.51 |
1.0464 |
-0.1198 |
213 |
1 |
112.51 |
2010-09-25 |
| 116. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
112.33 |
1.0178 |
-0.1001 |
207 |
1 |
112.33 |
2010-09-24 |
| 117. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
112.14 |
0.9339 |
-0.0102 |
317 |
2 |
108.19 |
2010-09-30 |
| 118. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
111.36 |
0.9561 |
-0.0373 |
364 |
1 |
111.36 |
2010-09-16 |
| 119. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
111.02 |
1.0476 |
-0.1484 |
110 |
2 |
109.13 |
2010-09-30 |
| 120. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
110.98 |
0.9392 |
-0.0248 |
360 |
1 |
110.98 |
2010-09-25 |
| 121. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
110.33 |
0.9658 |
-0.0592 |
308 |
1 |
110.33 |
2010-09-16 |
| 122. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
109.71 |
1.0350 |
-0.1227 |
416 |
1 |
109.71 |
2010-09-18 |
| 123. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
109.46 |
0.9980 |
-0.1000 |
295 |
1 |
109.46 |
2010-09-16 |
| 124. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
107.93 |
0.9128 |
-0.0324 |
237 |
1 |
107.93 |
2010-09-25 |
| 125. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
105.75 |
0.9119 |
-0.0424 |
396 |
1 |
105.75 |
2010-09-18 |
| 126. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
105.60 |
0.8805 |
-0.0165 |
205 |
1 |
105.60 |
2010-09-16 |
| 127. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
104.56 |
0.9157 |
-0.0477 |
353 |
1 |
104.56 |
2010-09-23 |
| 128. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
102.83 |
1.0372 |
-0.1965 |
249 |
1 |
102.83 |
2010-09-17 |
| 129. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
101.59 |
0.9494 |
-0.1057 |
397 |
1 |
101.59 |
2010-09-17 |
| 130. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
94.19 |
0.9108 |
-0.1409 |
235 |
1 |
94.19 |
2010-09-23 |