| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
121.80 |
0.9963 |
0.5931 |
274 |
1 |
121.80 |
2011-02-21 |
| 2. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
108.30 |
0.9842 |
0.4326 |
335 |
1 |
108.30 |
2011-02-21 |
| 3. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
98.04 |
0.9523 |
0.3389 |
576 |
1 |
98.04 |
2011-02-21 |
| 4. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
97.65 |
0.9636 |
0.3100 |
281 |
1 |
97.65 |
2011-02-21 |
| 5. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
97.47 |
0.9765 |
0.2954 |
269 |
1 |
97.47 |
2011-02-21 |
| 6. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
93.64 |
0.8624 |
0.3553 |
174 |
1 |
93.64 |
2011-02-21 |
| 7. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
90.11 |
1.0492 |
0.1322 |
284 |
1 |
90.11 |
2011-02-09 |
| 8. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
88.82 |
1.0777 |
0.0793 |
226 |
2 |
82.25 |
2011-02-01 |
| 9. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
88.82 |
1.0800 |
0.0761 |
213 |
2 |
83.46 |
2011-02-15 |
| 10. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
88.52 |
1.0867 |
0.0641 |
171 |
5 |
82.01 |
2011-02-16 |
| 11. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
88.22 |
1.0617 |
0.0876 |
171 |
1 |
88.22 |
2011-02-16 |
| 12. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
87.66 |
1.1093 |
0.0292 |
220 |
2 |
79.24 |
2011-02-01 |
| 13. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
87.62 |
1.0524 |
0.0891 |
177 |
2 |
83.18 |
2011-02-16 |
| 14. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
86.91 |
1.1070 |
0.0260 |
265 |
2 |
83.83 |
2011-02-09 |
| 15. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
85.72 |
1.0585 |
0.0629 |
226 |
2 |
85.17 |
2011-02-15 |
| 16. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
85.50 |
1.0845 |
0.0301 |
212 |
3 |
82.54 |
2011-02-15 |
| 17. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
84.57 |
1.0615 |
0.0389 |
201 |
2 |
81.03 |
2011-02-15 |
| 18. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
84.43 |
1.0582 |
0.0402 |
180 |
2 |
83.07 |
2011-02-16 |
| 19. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
83.59 |
1.0059 |
0.0856 |
283 |
2 |
73.55 |
2011-02-18 |
| 20. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
83.57 |
1.0755 |
0.0154 |
243 |
1 |
83.57 |
2011-02-08 |
| 21. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
83.18 |
1.0836 |
0.0050 |
206 |
1 |
83.18 |
2011-01-26 |
| 22. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
83.05 |
1.0881 |
-0.0085 |
210 |
1 |
83.05 |
2011-02-09 |
| 23. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
83.03 |
1.0529 |
0.0327 |
373 |
3 |
77.51 |
2011-02-15 |
| 24. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
82.46 |
1.1062 |
-0.0286 |
200 |
3 |
80.24 |
2011-02-16 |
| 25. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
82.23 |
0.9827 |
0.0908 |
314 |
1 |
82.23 |
2011-02-01 |
| 26. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
82.21 |
1.0418 |
0.0313 |
214 |
6 |
77.18 |
2011-02-19 |
| 27. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
81.78 |
1.0199 |
0.0431 |
225 |
1 |
81.78 |
2011-02-15 |
| 28. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
81.74 |
0.9736 |
0.0994 |
378 |
1 |
81.74 |
2011-02-15 |
| 29. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
81.28 |
1.0493 |
0.0179 |
264 |
1 |
81.28 |
2011-02-01 |
| 30. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
81.23 |
1.0103 |
0.0436 |
209 |
2 |
77.33 |
2011-02-15 |
| 31. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
81.18 |
1.0279 |
0.0255 |
172 |
1 |
81.18 |
2011-02-09 |
| 32. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
80.31 |
1.0243 |
0.0269 |
153 |
2 |
78.11 |
2011-02-16 |
| 33. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
80.30 |
1.0301 |
0.0159 |
268 |
2 |
77.90 |
2011-02-08 |
| 34. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
80.27 |
1.0498 |
-0.0016 |
261 |
1 |
80.27 |
2011-02-01 |
| 35. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
80.24 |
1.0028 |
0.0428 |
259 |
3 |
77.12 |
2011-02-15 |
| 36. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
80.24 |
1.0686 |
-0.0186 |
354 |
1 |
80.24 |
2011-02-15 |
| 37. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
80.15 |
1.0506 |
-0.0057 |
259 |
2 |
79.85 |
2011-02-16 |
| 38. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
80.07 |
1.0227 |
0.0276 |
378 |
2 |
78.06 |
2011-02-15 |
| 39. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
79.64 |
1.0487 |
-0.0123 |
253 |
3 |
75.23 |
2011-02-15 |
| 40. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
79.63 |
1.0654 |
-0.0294 |
247 |
1 |
79.63 |
2011-02-10 |
| 41. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
79.63 |
1.0743 |
-0.0349 |
297 |
2 |
78.08 |
2011-01-25 |
| 42. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
79.62 |
1.0561 |
-0.0194 |
227 |
1 |
79.62 |
2011-02-01 |
| 43. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
79.54 |
1.0465 |
-0.0170 |
183 |
1 |
79.54 |
2011-01-25 |
| 44. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
79.44 |
0.9928 |
0.0427 |
293 |
3 |
78.26 |
2011-02-15 |
| 45. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
79.44 |
1.0370 |
-0.0012 |
262 |
1 |
79.44 |
2011-02-21 |
| 46. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
79.39 |
1.0272 |
0.0062 |
226 |
2 |
73.07 |
2011-02-08 |
| 47. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
79.19 |
1.0669 |
-0.0313 |
379 |
2 |
75.14 |
2011-02-10 |
| 48. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
79.08 |
1.0960 |
-0.0607 |
315 |
1 |
79.08 |
2011-02-10 |
| 49. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
78.98 |
1.0759 |
-0.0403 |
273 |
1 |
78.98 |
2011-02-18 |
| 50. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
78.59 |
0.9948 |
0.0290 |
233 |
2 |
77.84 |
2011-02-15 |
| 51. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
78.52 |
1.0320 |
-0.0020 |
401 |
2 |
77.84 |
2011-02-15 |
| 52. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
78.35 |
1.1095 |
-0.0852 |
252 |
1 |
78.35 |
2011-01-25 |
| 53. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
78.28 |
1.0482 |
-0.0145 |
407 |
1 |
78.28 |
2011-01-18 |
| 54. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
77.96 |
1.0557 |
-0.0378 |
289 |
2 |
77.19 |
2011-02-15 |
| 55. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
77.96 |
1.0130 |
0.0038 |
288 |
2 |
75.80 |
2011-02-15 |
| 56. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
77.91 |
1.0267 |
-0.0076 |
261 |
1 |
77.91 |
2011-02-14 |
| 57. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
77.81 |
1.0165 |
-0.0025 |
316 |
1 |
77.81 |
2011-02-09 |
| 58. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
77.73 |
0.9922 |
0.0219 |
264 |
1 |
77.73 |
2011-02-14 |
| 59. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
77.69 |
1.0628 |
-0.0474 |
363 |
1 |
77.69 |
2011-02-15 |
| 60. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
77.69 |
1.0969 |
-0.0815 |
303 |
1 |
77.69 |
2011-01-25 |
| 61. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
77.62 |
1.0264 |
-0.0183 |
191 |
1 |
77.62 |
2011-02-15 |
| 62. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
77.51 |
1.0225 |
-0.0192 |
152 |
1 |
77.51 |
2011-02-09 |
| 63. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
77.27 |
0.9583 |
0.0498 |
237 |
1 |
77.27 |
2011-02-15 |
| 64. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
77.24 |
1.0125 |
-0.0068 |
232 |
1 |
77.24 |
2011-02-10 |
| 65. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
77.18 |
0.9807 |
0.0144 |
129 |
1 |
77.18 |
2011-02-17 |
| 66. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
77.05 |
1.0501 |
-0.0447 |
263 |
1 |
77.05 |
2011-02-15 |
| 67. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
76.80 |
0.9685 |
0.0340 |
304 |
1 |
76.80 |
2011-01-19 |
| 68. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
76.78 |
1.0507 |
-0.0441 |
253 |
1 |
76.78 |
2011-02-01 |
| 69. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
76.47 |
1.0601 |
-0.0659 |
256 |
2 |
76.41 |
2011-02-14 |
| 70. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
76.42 |
1.0495 |
-0.0535 |
323 |
1 |
76.42 |
2011-01-25 |
| 71. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
76.30 |
1.0504 |
-0.0536 |
225 |
1 |
76.30 |
2011-02-15 |
| 72. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
76.17 |
0.9801 |
0.0127 |
289 |
1 |
76.17 |
2011-02-11 |
| 73. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
76.14 |
1.0036 |
-0.0100 |
277 |
1 |
76.14 |
2011-02-14 |
| 74. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
76.00 |
1.0016 |
-0.0122 |
217 |
1 |
76.00 |
2011-02-09 |
| 75. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
75.83 |
1.0562 |
-0.0623 |
360 |
1 |
75.83 |
2011-01-25 |
| 76. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
75.77 |
0.9763 |
0.0112 |
143 |
1 |
75.77 |
2011-01-18 |
| 77. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
75.73 |
1.0540 |
-0.0714 |
184 |
1 |
75.73 |
2011-02-01 |
| 78. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
75.72 |
1.0208 |
-0.0336 |
231 |
1 |
75.72 |
2011-01-25 |
| 79. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
75.64 |
1.0464 |
-0.0543 |
213 |
1 |
75.64 |
2011-01-19 |
| 80. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
75.49 |
1.0472 |
-0.0690 |
149 |
2 |
75.27 |
2011-02-15 |
| 81. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
75.48 |
0.9981 |
-0.0148 |
211 |
1 |
75.48 |
2011-02-01 |
| 82. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
75.34 |
1.0427 |
-0.0597 |
269 |
2 |
75.23 |
2011-01-27 |
| 83. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
75.30 |
1.0509 |
-0.0617 |
295 |
1 |
75.30 |
2011-01-24 |
| 84. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
75.27 |
1.0538 |
-0.0602 |
367 |
1 |
75.27 |
2011-01-25 |
| 85. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
75.22 |
0.9787 |
0.0055 |
364 |
1 |
75.22 |
2011-01-31 |
| 86. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
75.08 |
1.0189 |
-0.0406 |
290 |
1 |
75.08 |
2011-01-25 |
| 87. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
75.04 |
0.9839 |
-0.0058 |
308 |
2 |
67.49 |
2011-02-18 |
| 88. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
75.04 |
1.0035 |
-0.0245 |
310 |
1 |
75.04 |
2011-01-26 |
| 89. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
74.60 |
0.9836 |
-0.0190 |
123 |
1 |
74.60 |
2011-01-19 |
| 90. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
74.19 |
1.0095 |
-0.0436 |
211 |
1 |
74.19 |
2011-01-25 |
| 91. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
74.00 |
0.9561 |
0.0104 |
362 |
1 |
74.00 |
2011-02-11 |
| 92. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
73.93 |
1.0144 |
-0.0379 |
356 |
1 |
73.93 |
2011-02-15 |
| 93. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
73.90 |
1.0511 |
-0.0859 |
252 |
1 |
73.90 |
2011-02-01 |
| 94. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
73.19 |
0.9884 |
-0.0320 |
267 |
1 |
73.19 |
2011-02-15 |
| 95. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
73.18 |
1.0060 |
-0.0512 |
225 |
1 |
73.18 |
2011-01-25 |
| 96. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
73.01 |
1.0607 |
-0.1061 |
357 |
1 |
73.01 |
2011-01-25 |
| 97. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
72.95 |
0.9890 |
-0.0341 |
272 |
1 |
72.95 |
2011-01-27 |
| 98. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
72.45 |
0.9933 |
-0.0416 |
450 |
1 |
72.45 |
2011-02-15 |
| 99. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
72.21 |
0.9866 |
-0.0451 |
308 |
2 |
71.44 |
2011-01-24 |
| 100. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
72.14 |
0.9598 |
-0.0173 |
209 |
1 |
72.14 |
2011-02-14 |
| 101. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
72.06 |
1.0234 |
-0.0802 |
392 |
1 |
72.06 |
2011-01-25 |
| 102. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
71.84 |
1.0128 |
-0.0699 |
369 |
1 |
71.84 |
2011-02-11 |
| 103. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
70.97 |
0.9332 |
-0.0082 |
267 |
2 |
68.25 |
2011-01-19 |
| 104. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
70.70 |
1.0588 |
-0.1372 |
281 |
1 |
70.70 |
2010-12-30 |
| 105. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
70.30 |
1.0877 |
-0.1750 |
129 |
1 |
70.30 |
2011-02-14 |
| 106. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
70.26 |
1.0462 |
-0.1277 |
340 |
1 |
70.26 |
2011-01-19 |
| 107. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
70.26 |
0.9357 |
-0.0221 |
204 |
1 |
70.26 |
2011-01-25 |
| 108. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
69.81 |
1.0194 |
-0.1117 |
224 |
1 |
69.81 |
2011-01-24 |
| 109. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
69.65 |
0.9101 |
0.0012 |
351 |
1 |
69.65 |
2011-01-31 |
| 110. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
69.22 |
0.9359 |
-0.0332 |
355 |
1 |
69.22 |
2011-01-18 |
| 111. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
69.17 |
0.9070 |
-0.0105 |
192 |
1 |
69.17 |
2011-02-01 |
| 112. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
69.09 |
1.0419 |
-0.1386 |
341 |
1 |
69.09 |
2010-12-30 |
| 113. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
68.91 |
1.0672 |
-0.1705 |
239 |
1 |
68.91 |
2011-01-19 |
| 114. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
68.70 |
0.9952 |
-0.0976 |
220 |
1 |
68.70 |
2011-02-14 |
| 115. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
68.64 |
0.9930 |
-0.0897 |
350 |
1 |
68.64 |
2011-02-11 |
| 116. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
67.68 |
0.9681 |
-0.0810 |
392 |
1 |
67.68 |
2011-01-18 |
| 117. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
67.42 |
0.9791 |
-0.1070 |
154 |
1 |
67.42 |
2011-01-25 |
| 118. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
67.10 |
1.0476 |
-0.1829 |
110 |
1 |
67.10 |
2011-01-19 |
| 119. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
66.86 |
0.9657 |
-0.0834 |
424 |
1 |
66.86 |
2011-01-19 |
| 120. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
66.80 |
1.0188 |
-0.1392 |
316 |
1 |
66.80 |
2010-10-28 |
| 121. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
66.70 |
0.9991 |
-0.1306 |
339 |
1 |
66.70 |
2011-01-19 |
| 122. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
66.20 |
0.9804 |
-0.1180 |
227 |
2 |
65.31 |
2011-01-18 |
| 123. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
65.53 |
0.9480 |
-0.0931 |
297 |
1 |
65.53 |
2010-12-30 |
| 124. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
65.44 |
1.0901 |
-0.2357 |
288 |
1 |
65.44 |
2011-01-25 |
| 125. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
64.41 |
0.9632 |
-0.1233 |
287 |
1 |
64.41 |
2010-10-28 |
| 126. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
63.77 |
1.0315 |
-0.2014 |
193 |
1 |
63.77 |
2011-02-09 |
| 127. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
63.09 |
0.9243 |
-0.1006 |
240 |
1 |
63.09 |
2011-01-24 |
| 128. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
63.07 |
0.9299 |
-0.1167 |
168 |
1 |
63.07 |
2011-01-19 |
| 129. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
62.46 |
1.0094 |
-0.1960 |
256 |
1 |
62.46 |
2011-01-18 |
| 130. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
62.11 |
0.9011 |
-0.0892 |
322 |
1 |
62.11 |
2011-01-19 |
| 131. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
61.78 |
0.9864 |
-0.1783 |
292 |
1 |
61.78 |
2011-01-19 |
| 132. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
61.65 |
0.9403 |
-0.1290 |
307 |
1 |
61.65 |
2011-01-18 |
| 133. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
58.00 |
0.9536 |
-0.1903 |
311 |
1 |
58.00 |
2011-01-31 |
| 134. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
57.66 |
0.8794 |
-0.1226 |
427 |
1 |
57.66 |
2011-01-18 |
| 135. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
55.22 |
0.9810 |
-0.2579 |
362 |
1 |
55.22 |
2010-12-30 |
| 136. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
42.59 |
0.8986 |
-0.3411 |
363 |
1 |
42.59 |
2011-01-20 |
| 137. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
39.61 |
0.9931 |
-0.4752 |
339 |
1 |
39.61 |
2011-01-20 |