Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
89.04 |
0.9791 |
0.2683 |
154 |
1 |
89.04 |
2010-02-03 |
2. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
87.54 |
1.0495 |
0.1827 |
323 |
1 |
87.54 |
2010-02-17 |
3. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
87.41 |
1.0607 |
0.1730 |
357 |
1 |
87.41 |
2010-02-12 |
4. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
84.59 |
0.9780 |
0.2068 |
173 |
1 |
84.59 |
2010-02-05 |
5. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
84.16 |
0.9989 |
0.1931 |
282 |
2 |
76.24 |
2010-02-04 |
6. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
83.98 |
1.0178 |
0.1629 |
207 |
1 |
83.98 |
2010-02-03 |
7. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
82.95 |
1.0736 |
0.0982 |
256 |
1 |
82.95 |
2010-05-11 |
8. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
82.25 |
1.0865 |
0.0712 |
237 |
1 |
82.25 |
2010-02-03 |
9. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
81.93 |
1.0181 |
0.1365 |
276 |
1 |
81.93 |
2010-02-19 |
10. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
81.49 |
1.0272 |
0.1178 |
226 |
1 |
81.49 |
2010-02-03 |
11. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
81.27 |
1.0128 |
0.1380 |
369 |
1 |
81.27 |
2010-04-20 |
12. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
80.54 |
1.0279 |
0.1001 |
172 |
1 |
80.54 |
2010-02-19 |
13. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
79.88 |
1.0682 |
0.0572 |
266 |
2 |
77.27 |
2010-02-04 |
14. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
79.63 |
1.0067 |
0.1278 |
422 |
1 |
79.63 |
2010-04-20 |
15. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
79.23 |
0.9621 |
0.1501 |
201 |
1 |
79.23 |
2010-02-03 |
16. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
79.21 |
1.1070 |
0.0067 |
265 |
1 |
79.21 |
2010-02-04 |
17. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
78.68 |
0.9598 |
0.1497 |
209 |
1 |
78.68 |
2010-02-03 |
18. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
77.78 |
1.1198 |
-0.0262 |
247 |
1 |
77.78 |
2010-02-17 |
19. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
77.45 |
1.0132 |
0.0773 |
371 |
1 |
77.45 |
2010-02-03 |
20. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
77.42 |
0.9873 |
0.1010 |
274 |
3 |
74.98 |
2010-02-17 |
21. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
76.79 |
0.9922 |
0.0890 |
264 |
1 |
76.79 |
2010-02-03 |
22. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
76.61 |
0.9820 |
0.1044 |
297 |
1 |
76.61 |
2010-02-05 |
23. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
76.48 |
1.0759 |
0.0059 |
273 |
1 |
76.48 |
2010-02-03 |
24. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
76.47 |
0.9157 |
0.1730 |
353 |
1 |
76.47 |
2010-02-03 |
25. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
76.35 |
1.0600 |
0.0147 |
351 |
1 |
76.35 |
2010-02-04 |
26. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
75.99 |
1.0404 |
0.0338 |
406 |
1 |
75.99 |
2010-02-19 |
27. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
75.88 |
1.0139 |
0.0668 |
349 |
1 |
75.88 |
2010-02-04 |
28. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
75.56 |
1.0479 |
0.0137 |
205 |
1 |
75.56 |
2010-05-11 |
29. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
75.23 |
1.0188 |
0.0490 |
316 |
1 |
75.23 |
2010-02-04 |
30. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
75.10 |
1.0960 |
-0.0352 |
315 |
1 |
75.10 |
2010-02-04 |
31. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
74.96 |
1.0845 |
-0.0309 |
212 |
2 |
68.56 |
2010-02-04 |
32. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
74.94 |
0.9519 |
0.1064 |
323 |
1 |
74.94 |
2010-02-03 |
33. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
74.92 |
1.0511 |
0.0048 |
252 |
1 |
74.92 |
2010-02-03 |
34. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
74.67 |
1.0267 |
0.0270 |
261 |
1 |
74.67 |
2010-02-03 |
35. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
74.38 |
1.0590 |
-0.0136 |
250 |
1 |
74.38 |
2010-02-03 |
36. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
74.10 |
0.9680 |
0.0746 |
256 |
2 |
71.02 |
2010-02-04 |
37. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
74.09 |
0.9810 |
0.0664 |
362 |
1 |
74.09 |
2010-02-04 |
38. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
73.98 |
1.0617 |
-0.0228 |
171 |
1 |
73.98 |
2010-04-20 |
39. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
73.86 |
0.9384 |
0.0982 |
296 |
1 |
73.86 |
2010-02-12 |
40. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
73.82 |
1.0144 |
0.0253 |
162 |
2 |
69.72 |
2010-02-04 |
41. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
73.75 |
1.0464 |
-0.0038 |
294 |
1 |
73.75 |
2010-05-11 |
42. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
73.12 |
1.0462 |
-0.0145 |
340 |
1 |
73.12 |
2010-02-03 |
43. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
72.96 |
1.0333 |
-0.0120 |
176 |
2 |
71.90 |
2010-04-20 |
44. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
72.87 |
1.0588 |
-0.0336 |
281 |
2 |
71.01 |
2010-02-12 |
45. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
72.80 |
1.0103 |
0.0081 |
209 |
1 |
72.80 |
2010-02-05 |
46. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
72.37 |
0.9658 |
0.0559 |
308 |
1 |
72.37 |
2010-02-04 |
47. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
72.32 |
0.9678 |
0.0538 |
392 |
1 |
72.32 |
2010-02-03 |
48. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
72.20 |
0.9726 |
0.0482 |
396 |
1 |
72.20 |
2010-02-03 |
49. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
72.18 |
1.0039 |
0.0177 |
255 |
1 |
72.18 |
2010-02-03 |
50. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
71.91 |
1.0481 |
-0.0443 |
255 |
1 |
71.91 |
2010-02-05 |
51. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
71.89 |
1.0350 |
-0.0093 |
416 |
1 |
71.89 |
2010-02-03 |
52. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
71.84 |
0.9265 |
0.0829 |
254 |
1 |
71.84 |
2010-02-03 |
53. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
71.72 |
0.9801 |
0.0284 |
289 |
1 |
71.72 |
2010-02-12 |
54. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
71.62 |
0.9637 |
0.0558 |
342 |
1 |
71.62 |
2010-02-17 |
55. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
71.42 |
1.0101 |
-0.0037 |
336 |
1 |
71.42 |
2010-05-11 |
56. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
71.38 |
0.8913 |
0.1142 |
201 |
1 |
71.38 |
2010-02-03 |
57. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
71.20 |
0.9503 |
0.0445 |
211 |
1 |
71.20 |
2010-02-03 |
58. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
71.14 |
0.9357 |
0.0627 |
204 |
2 |
66.29 |
2010-02-19 |
59. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
70.99 |
1.0509 |
-0.0383 |
430 |
1 |
70.99 |
2010-05-11 |
60. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
70.88 |
1.0540 |
-0.0620 |
184 |
1 |
70.88 |
2010-02-03 |
61. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
70.67 |
1.0873 |
-0.0963 |
243 |
1 |
70.67 |
2010-02-03 |
62. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
70.42 |
0.9842 |
0.0084 |
335 |
1 |
70.42 |
2010-02-03 |
63. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
70.16 |
0.9594 |
0.0256 |
258 |
1 |
70.16 |
2010-04-20 |
64. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
70.12 |
0.9787 |
0.0109 |
364 |
2 |
67.06 |
2010-05-12 |
65. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
70.03 |
1.0667 |
-0.0714 |
308 |
1 |
70.03 |
2010-02-04 |
66. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
69.99 |
1.0243 |
-0.0361 |
153 |
2 |
69.74 |
2010-02-04 |
67. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
69.92 |
1.0403 |
-0.0586 |
234 |
1 |
69.92 |
2010-02-03 |
68. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
69.44 |
0.9339 |
0.0485 |
317 |
2 |
65.11 |
2010-05-12 |
69. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
69.26 |
0.9644 |
0.0127 |
398 |
1 |
69.26 |
2010-02-03 |
70. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
68.81 |
0.9880 |
-0.0245 |
199 |
1 |
68.81 |
2010-02-17 |
71. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
68.66 |
0.9392 |
0.0324 |
360 |
1 |
68.66 |
2010-02-12 |
72. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
68.65 |
0.9543 |
0.0179 |
265 |
1 |
68.65 |
2010-02-17 |
73. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
68.30 |
0.9119 |
0.0528 |
396 |
1 |
68.30 |
2010-02-03 |
74. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
68.21 |
0.9857 |
-0.0206 |
268 |
1 |
68.21 |
2010-02-03 |
75. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
67.92 |
1.0189 |
-0.0644 |
290 |
1 |
67.92 |
2010-02-05 |
76. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
67.80 |
0.9681 |
-0.0091 |
392 |
1 |
67.80 |
2010-02-04 |
77. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
67.51 |
0.9538 |
-0.0047 |
276 |
1 |
67.51 |
2010-02-12 |
78. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
67.51 |
1.0291 |
-0.0819 |
240 |
1 |
67.51 |
2010-02-03 |
79. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
67.51 |
0.9801 |
-0.0226 |
282 |
1 |
67.51 |
2010-02-04 |
80. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
67.30 |
1.0287 |
-0.0835 |
269 |
1 |
67.30 |
2010-02-03 |
81. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
67.24 |
1.0028 |
-0.0585 |
259 |
1 |
67.24 |
2010-02-03 |
82. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
67.13 |
0.9841 |
-0.0288 |
325 |
1 |
67.13 |
2010-02-03 |
83. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
66.90 |
0.9673 |
-0.0228 |
393 |
1 |
66.90 |
2010-02-03 |
84. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
66.75 |
1.0199 |
-0.0852 |
225 |
1 |
66.75 |
2010-02-03 |
85. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
66.58 |
1.0057 |
-0.0667 |
382 |
1 |
66.58 |
2010-02-03 |
86. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
65.99 |
0.9206 |
0.0076 |
317 |
1 |
65.99 |
2010-02-04 |
87. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
65.89 |
0.9839 |
-0.0578 |
308 |
1 |
65.89 |
2010-02-04 |
88. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
65.88 |
0.9403 |
-0.0014 |
345 |
1 |
65.88 |
2010-02-12 |
89. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
65.70 |
0.9561 |
-0.0292 |
291 |
2 |
64.33 |
2010-02-03 |
90. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
65.51 |
0.9329 |
0.0025 |
345 |
1 |
65.51 |
2010-02-03 |
91. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
65.27 |
0.9884 |
-0.0683 |
267 |
1 |
65.27 |
2010-02-05 |
92. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
65.18 |
0.9479 |
-0.0299 |
317 |
1 |
65.18 |
2010-02-04 |
93. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
65.08 |
0.9630 |
-0.0347 |
379 |
1 |
65.08 |
2010-02-04 |
94. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
64.83 |
0.9609 |
-0.0448 |
331 |
1 |
64.83 |
2010-02-03 |
95. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
64.27 |
0.9403 |
-0.0282 |
307 |
1 |
64.27 |
2010-02-03 |
96. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
64.02 |
0.9927 |
-0.0922 |
276 |
1 |
64.02 |
2010-02-03 |
97. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
63.50 |
1.0472 |
-0.1610 |
149 |
1 |
63.50 |
2010-02-03 |
98. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
63.45 |
0.9996 |
-0.1003 |
483 |
1 |
63.45 |
2010-02-05 |
99. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
63.20 |
0.9643 |
-0.0674 |
282 |
1 |
63.20 |
2010-02-12 |
100. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
63.09 |
0.9500 |
-0.0616 |
287 |
1 |
63.09 |
2010-02-04 |
101. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
63.07 |
0.9108 |
-0.0245 |
235 |
1 |
63.07 |
2010-02-03 |
102. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
62.90 |
0.9985 |
-0.1022 |
392 |
1 |
62.90 |
2010-02-04 |
103. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
62.80 |
0.8887 |
0.0078 |
464 |
1 |
62.80 |
2010-02-19 |
104. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
62.69 |
0.9145 |
-0.0300 |
404 |
1 |
62.69 |
2010-02-03 |
105. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
62.34 |
0.9974 |
-0.1252 |
163 |
1 |
62.34 |
2010-02-04 |
106. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
61.73 |
0.9380 |
-0.0720 |
284 |
1 |
61.73 |
2010-02-03 |
107. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
61.45 |
0.9228 |
-0.0548 |
305 |
1 |
61.45 |
2010-02-04 |
108. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
61.31 |
0.9027 |
-0.0447 |
189 |
1 |
61.31 |
2010-02-03 |
109. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
60.72 |
0.9377 |
-0.0768 |
198 |
1 |
60.72 |
2010-02-03 |
110. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
60.64 |
0.8936 |
-0.0427 |
346 |
1 |
60.64 |
2010-02-03 |
111. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
60.55 |
0.9114 |
-0.0531 |
399 |
1 |
60.55 |
2010-02-17 |
112. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
59.87 |
0.9271 |
-0.0864 |
295 |
1 |
59.87 |
2010-02-03 |
113. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
59.29 |
0.8986 |
-0.0607 |
363 |
1 |
59.29 |
2010-02-03 |
114. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
58.74 |
0.8656 |
-0.0393 |
242 |
1 |
58.74 |
2010-02-05 |
115. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
58.72 |
0.7923 |
0.0332 |
316 |
1 |
58.72 |
2010-02-12 |
116. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
57.58 |
0.9927 |
-0.1873 |
234 |
1 |
57.58 |
2010-02-03 |
117. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
57.37 |
1.0016 |
-0.1975 |
217 |
1 |
57.37 |
2010-02-03 |
118. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
55.89 |
0.8666 |
-0.0843 |
206 |
1 |
55.89 |
2010-02-05 |
119. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
55.72 |
1.0130 |
-0.2305 |
288 |
1 |
55.72 |
2010-02-03 |