Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
170.46 |
1.1095 |
0.1425 |
252 |
2 |
160.58 |
2012-01-09 |
2. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
168.21 |
1.0253 |
0.2109 |
337 |
2 |
155.64 |
2011-12-27 |
3. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
164.71 |
1.0498 |
0.1588 |
261 |
1 |
164.71 |
2011-12-27 |
4. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
161.43 |
0.9851 |
0.2030 |
237 |
1 |
161.43 |
2011-12-10 |
5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
161.00 |
1.1093 |
0.0651 |
220 |
1 |
161.00 |
2011-12-27 |
6. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
156.98 |
1.0507 |
0.1051 |
253 |
2 |
137.49 |
2011-12-13 |
7. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
156.32 |
0.9963 |
0.1468 |
274 |
1 |
156.32 |
2011-12-10 |
8. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
155.01 |
1.0520 |
0.0963 |
392 |
1 |
155.01 |
2012-01-27 |
9. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
154.81 |
1.0341 |
0.0997 |
273 |
3 |
150.72 |
2011-12-13 |
10. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
154.37 |
1.0576 |
0.0708 |
231 |
1 |
154.37 |
2011-12-27 |
11. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
154.14 |
0.9935 |
0.1382 |
217 |
1 |
154.14 |
2011-12-10 |
12. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
153.87 |
1.1062 |
0.0233 |
200 |
1 |
153.87 |
2011-12-10 |
13. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
153.06 |
1.0035 |
0.1186 |
310 |
4 |
138.83 |
2012-01-29 |
14. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
152.79 |
0.9740 |
0.1488 |
371 |
2 |
149.10 |
2011-12-13 |
15. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
152.64 |
0.9827 |
0.1366 |
314 |
2 |
147.37 |
2012-01-27 |
16. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
151.94 |
0.9989 |
0.1215 |
282 |
1 |
151.94 |
2011-12-13 |
17. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
150.17 |
1.0392 |
0.0660 |
258 |
1 |
150.17 |
2011-12-12 |
18. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
150.02 |
0.9852 |
0.1133 |
235 |
1 |
150.02 |
2012-01-09 |
19. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
149.83 |
0.9762 |
0.1215 |
249 |
2 |
141.03 |
2011-12-12 |
20. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
149.62 |
1.0521 |
0.0385 |
197 |
1 |
149.62 |
2011-12-27 |
21. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
149.13 |
1.0845 |
0.0070 |
212 |
3 |
119.10 |
2011-12-27 |
22. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
149.08 |
0.9424 |
0.1523 |
320 |
2 |
133.24 |
2011-12-14 |
23. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
148.42 |
0.9761 |
0.1157 |
227 |
2 |
135.40 |
2011-12-10 |
24. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
148.25 |
0.9561 |
0.1374 |
364 |
1 |
148.25 |
2011-12-12 |
25. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
147.81 |
0.9807 |
0.0905 |
129 |
2 |
117.78 |
2012-01-09 |
26. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
147.76 |
0.9597 |
0.1230 |
251 |
2 |
140.98 |
2012-01-09 |
27. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
147.34 |
1.0315 |
0.0474 |
193 |
2 |
140.69 |
2011-12-10 |
28. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
147.28 |
1.0617 |
0.0153 |
171 |
1 |
147.28 |
2011-12-27 |
29. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
146.06 |
1.0304 |
0.0433 |
257 |
1 |
146.06 |
2012-01-09 |
30. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
145.88 |
0.9500 |
0.1203 |
287 |
1 |
145.88 |
2012-01-27 |
31. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
145.59 |
1.0562 |
0.0155 |
360 |
1 |
145.59 |
2011-12-13 |
32. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
145.45 |
1.0432 |
0.0229 |
276 |
1 |
145.45 |
2011-12-10 |
33. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
145.38 |
1.0607 |
0.0070 |
357 |
1 |
145.38 |
2011-12-10 |
34. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
145.23 |
0.9854 |
0.0797 |
174 |
1 |
145.23 |
2011-12-13 |
35. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
145.19 |
1.0130 |
0.0506 |
288 |
1 |
145.19 |
2011-12-10 |
36. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
145.02 |
1.0736 |
-0.0087 |
350 |
1 |
145.02 |
2012-01-09 |
37. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
144.54 |
1.0178 |
0.0393 |
207 |
1 |
144.54 |
2011-12-27 |
38. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
144.53 |
0.9422 |
0.1114 |
190 |
1 |
144.53 |
2012-01-09 |
39. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
144.27 |
1.0462 |
0.0136 |
340 |
1 |
144.27 |
2011-12-10 |
40. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
144.26 |
0.9354 |
0.1324 |
384 |
2 |
139.98 |
2011-12-10 |
41. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
144.15 |
0.9909 |
0.0689 |
334 |
2 |
139.99 |
2012-01-09 |
42. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
143.98 |
1.0639 |
-0.0082 |
303 |
1 |
143.98 |
2011-12-10 |
43. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
143.21 |
1.0461 |
0.0077 |
286 |
1 |
143.21 |
2011-12-10 |
44. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
143.06 |
0.9680 |
0.0799 |
256 |
2 |
134.32 |
2011-12-10 |
45. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
143.05 |
0.9352 |
0.1115 |
194 |
1 |
143.05 |
2011-12-13 |
46. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
142.65 |
0.9657 |
0.0905 |
424 |
2 |
130.04 |
2012-01-09 |
47. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
142.52 |
1.0461 |
0.0135 |
535 |
1 |
142.52 |
2011-12-10 |
48. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
142.47 |
0.9866 |
0.0573 |
308 |
2 |
138.12 |
2011-12-27 |
49. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
141.66 |
1.1086 |
-0.0707 |
233 |
1 |
141.66 |
2011-12-10 |
50. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
141.53 |
0.9949 |
0.0521 |
304 |
1 |
141.53 |
2011-12-13 |
51. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
141.33 |
1.0333 |
-0.0033 |
176 |
1 |
141.33 |
2011-12-10 |
52. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
141.33 |
1.0524 |
-0.0192 |
177 |
2 |
139.99 |
2012-01-09 |
53. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
141.16 |
1.0697 |
-0.0264 |
341 |
1 |
141.16 |
2011-12-10 |
54. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
140.97 |
0.9606 |
0.0760 |
203 |
2 |
134.09 |
2012-01-27 |
55. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
140.92 |
1.0419 |
-0.0067 |
341 |
1 |
140.92 |
2011-12-10 |
56. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
140.40 |
0.9829 |
0.0447 |
229 |
1 |
140.40 |
2011-12-27 |
57. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
140.15 |
1.0501 |
-0.0230 |
263 |
1 |
140.15 |
2011-12-13 |
58. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
139.87 |
0.9780 |
0.0401 |
173 |
2 |
134.44 |
2011-12-10 |
59. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
139.75 |
1.0230 |
0.0021 |
200 |
1 |
139.75 |
2011-12-27 |
60. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
139.38 |
1.0125 |
0.0033 |
171 |
2 |
136.92 |
2011-12-10 |
61. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
139.19 |
0.9012 |
0.1216 |
322 |
1 |
139.19 |
2011-12-27 |
62. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
139.17 |
1.0338 |
-0.0093 |
277 |
1 |
139.17 |
2011-12-27 |
63. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
138.60 |
1.0479 |
-0.0345 |
205 |
1 |
138.60 |
2011-12-10 |
64. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
138.55 |
0.9889 |
0.0389 |
429 |
2 |
130.37 |
2011-12-10 |
65. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
138.36 |
1.0364 |
-0.0191 |
230 |
2 |
132.82 |
2011-12-10 |
66. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
138.03 |
1.0792 |
-0.0635 |
251 |
1 |
138.03 |
2011-12-12 |
67. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
137.86 |
0.9947 |
0.0245 |
346 |
1 |
137.86 |
2011-12-27 |
68. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
137.82 |
0.9603 |
0.0544 |
430 |
2 |
127.55 |
2012-01-29 |
69. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
137.75 |
1.0086 |
-0.0042 |
218 |
1 |
137.75 |
2011-12-10 |
70. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
136.65 |
0.9425 |
0.0588 |
248 |
1 |
136.65 |
2011-12-10 |
71. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
136.64 |
0.9931 |
0.0198 |
381 |
1 |
136.64 |
2011-12-10 |
72. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
136.32 |
1.0682 |
-0.0689 |
266 |
1 |
136.32 |
2011-12-27 |
73. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
136.24 |
1.0743 |
-0.0756 |
297 |
1 |
136.24 |
2012-01-29 |
74. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
135.47 |
1.0243 |
-0.0286 |
153 |
1 |
135.47 |
2011-12-10 |
75. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
135.22 |
0.9650 |
0.0278 |
347 |
1 |
135.22 |
2011-12-10 |
76. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
135.20 |
0.9880 |
-0.0023 |
199 |
1 |
135.20 |
2011-12-10 |
77. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
134.57 |
0.9842 |
0.0033 |
335 |
1 |
134.57 |
2011-12-10 |
78. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
134.41 |
0.9957 |
-0.0118 |
323 |
1 |
134.41 |
2011-12-10 |
79. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
134.34 |
0.9952 |
-0.0092 |
220 |
1 |
134.34 |
2011-12-27 |
80. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
134.12 |
1.0067 |
-0.0110 |
422 |
2 |
128.03 |
2012-01-09 |
81. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
134.12 |
0.9804 |
0.0018 |
227 |
2 |
114.24 |
2011-12-12 |
82. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
134.02 |
0.9403 |
0.0536 |
345 |
1 |
134.02 |
2011-12-10 |
83. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
133.87 |
1.0588 |
-0.0786 |
281 |
1 |
133.87 |
2012-01-09 |
84. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
133.62 |
1.0063 |
-0.0231 |
293 |
2 |
132.85 |
2012-01-09 |
85. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
133.58 |
1.0873 |
-0.1123 |
243 |
1 |
133.58 |
2011-12-10 |
86. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
133.56 |
0.9841 |
0.0052 |
325 |
1 |
133.56 |
2011-12-10 |
87. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
133.48 |
1.0103 |
-0.0387 |
209 |
2 |
131.02 |
2012-01-09 |
88. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
133.28 |
0.9108 |
0.0649 |
235 |
1 |
133.28 |
2011-12-27 |
89. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
133.23 |
0.9359 |
0.0402 |
355 |
1 |
133.23 |
2011-12-10 |
90. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
132.86 |
1.0483 |
-0.0703 |
305 |
2 |
126.62 |
2012-01-27 |
91. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
132.67 |
0.9583 |
0.0135 |
237 |
1 |
132.67 |
2011-12-10 |
92. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
131.99 |
0.9926 |
-0.0151 |
413 |
1 |
131.99 |
2011-12-12 |
93. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
131.62 |
1.0667 |
-0.0927 |
308 |
1 |
131.62 |
2011-12-10 |
94. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
130.92 |
0.9649 |
0.0038 |
360 |
1 |
130.92 |
2011-12-10 |
95. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
130.77 |
1.0567 |
-0.0997 |
314 |
1 |
130.77 |
2011-12-10 |
96. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
130.66 |
1.1198 |
-0.1643 |
247 |
1 |
130.66 |
2011-12-10 |
97. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
130.32 |
1.0538 |
-0.0875 |
367 |
1 |
130.32 |
2011-12-10 |
98. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
129.43 |
0.9706 |
-0.0115 |
353 |
1 |
129.43 |
2011-12-10 |
99. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
128.84 |
1.0131 |
-0.0666 |
245 |
1 |
128.84 |
2011-12-10 |
100. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
128.55 |
0.9801 |
-0.0310 |
282 |
1 |
128.55 |
2011-12-10 |
101. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
128.15 |
0.9957 |
-0.0537 |
323 |
1 |
128.15 |
2011-12-13 |
102. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
128.04 |
0.9404 |
0.0063 |
383 |
1 |
128.04 |
2011-12-10 |
103. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
127.42 |
0.9948 |
-0.0633 |
233 |
1 |
127.42 |
2011-12-10 |
104. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
127.39 |
1.0450 |
-0.1073 |
358 |
1 |
127.39 |
2011-12-14 |
105. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
127.18 |
0.9787 |
-0.0445 |
364 |
1 |
127.18 |
2011-12-10 |
106. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
127.17 |
1.0095 |
-0.0801 |
211 |
1 |
127.17 |
2011-12-10 |
107. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
127.03 |
0.9839 |
-0.0553 |
196 |
1 |
127.03 |
2011-12-10 |
108. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
126.88 |
1.0759 |
-0.1417 |
273 |
1 |
126.88 |
2011-12-10 |
109. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
125.93 |
0.9980 |
-0.0742 |
295 |
1 |
125.93 |
2012-01-09 |
110. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
125.90 |
0.9228 |
0.0031 |
305 |
1 |
125.90 |
2011-12-10 |
111. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
125.73 |
0.9933 |
-0.0657 |
450 |
1 |
125.73 |
2011-12-10 |
112. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
125.72 |
1.0640 |
-0.1381 |
210 |
2 |
117.94 |
2011-12-27 |
113. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
125.59 |
0.9243 |
-0.0031 |
240 |
1 |
125.59 |
2011-12-10 |
114. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
125.54 |
0.8887 |
0.0440 |
464 |
1 |
125.54 |
2012-01-29 |
115. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
125.52 |
0.9157 |
0.0155 |
353 |
1 |
125.52 |
2011-12-10 |
116. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
125.32 |
0.9749 |
-0.0487 |
337 |
1 |
125.32 |
2011-12-27 |
117. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
124.85 |
0.9046 |
0.0220 |
448 |
1 |
124.85 |
2011-12-10 |
118. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
123.39 |
1.0195 |
-0.1102 |
239 |
1 |
123.39 |
2012-01-27 |
119. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
123.03 |
0.9594 |
-0.0609 |
258 |
1 |
123.03 |
2011-12-10 |
120. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
122.94 |
0.8787 |
0.0190 |
443 |
1 |
122.94 |
2012-01-09 |
121. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
121.75 |
0.9885 |
-0.0976 |
355 |
1 |
121.75 |
2012-01-27 |
122. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
121.66 |
0.9644 |
-0.0711 |
398 |
2 |
103.50 |
2011-12-13 |
123. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
121.15 |
0.9332 |
-0.0468 |
267 |
1 |
121.15 |
2011-12-10 |
124. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
120.70 |
0.9763 |
-0.0937 |
143 |
1 |
120.70 |
2012-01-09 |
125. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
120.11 |
0.9183 |
-0.0386 |
308 |
2 |
116.52 |
2012-01-09 |
126. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
120.07 |
0.9271 |
-0.0461 |
323 |
1 |
120.07 |
2012-01-27 |
127. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
119.58 |
0.9561 |
-0.0796 |
362 |
1 |
119.58 |
2011-12-27 |
128. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
119.49 |
0.9269 |
-0.0448 |
269 |
1 |
119.49 |
2011-12-10 |
129. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
118.17 |
1.0426 |
-0.1821 |
131 |
1 |
118.17 |
2011-12-10 |
130. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
118.12 |
0.9922 |
-0.1275 |
264 |
1 |
118.12 |
2011-12-10 |
131. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
116.28 |
0.9402 |
-0.0916 |
310 |
1 |
116.28 |
2012-01-09 |
132. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
116.00 |
1.0372 |
-0.1891 |
249 |
1 |
116.00 |
2012-01-29 |
133. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
115.03 |
0.9271 |
-0.0862 |
295 |
1 |
115.03 |
2011-12-10 |
134. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
114.13 |
0.9123 |
-0.0683 |
351 |
1 |
114.13 |
2011-12-27 |
135. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
114.02 |
0.9468 |
-0.1131 |
318 |
1 |
114.02 |
2012-02-08 |
136. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
114.02 |
1.0074 |
-0.1595 |
410 |
1 |
114.02 |
2011-12-27 |
137. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
113.61 |
0.9869 |
-0.1596 |
193 |
1 |
113.61 |
2011-12-10 |
138. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
113.47 |
1.0189 |
-0.1897 |
290 |
1 |
113.47 |
2011-12-13 |
139. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
112.02 |
0.9678 |
-0.1443 |
392 |
1 |
112.02 |
2012-02-10 |
140. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
111.65 |
1.0412 |
-0.2198 |
205 |
1 |
111.65 |
2011-12-27 |
141. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
109.82 |
0.9357 |
-0.1350 |
204 |
1 |
109.82 |
2011-12-10 |
142. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
109.36 |
0.9801 |
-0.1808 |
289 |
2 |
108.75 |
2012-01-29 |
143. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
108.64 |
0.9265 |
-0.1334 |
254 |
1 |
108.64 |
2011-12-27 |
144. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
99.43 |
0.9194 |
-0.1825 |
360 |
1 |
99.43 |
2011-12-10 |