| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
61.99 |
0.9885 |
0.0836 |
469 |
1 |
61.99 |
2014-01-29 |
| 2. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
52.86 |
0.8787 |
0.0262 |
443 |
1 |
52.86 |
2014-02-09 |
| 3. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
57.86 |
0.9603 |
0.0391 |
430 |
1 |
57.86 |
2014-01-29 |
| 4. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
56.36 |
0.9926 |
-0.0131 |
413 |
1 |
56.36 |
2014-01-03 |
| 5. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
56.58 |
0.9545 |
0.0272 |
412 |
1 |
56.58 |
2014-01-02 |
| 6. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
58.03 |
1.0320 |
-0.0290 |
401 |
1 |
58.03 |
2014-01-03 |
| 7. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
55.69 |
0.9673 |
-0.0066 |
393 |
1 |
55.69 |
2013-12-21 |
| 8. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
57.04 |
0.9678 |
0.0164 |
392 |
1 |
57.04 |
2014-02-13 |
| 9. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
55.18 |
1.0132 |
-0.0651 |
371 |
1 |
55.18 |
2013-12-21 |
| 10. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
54.16 |
1.0538 |
-0.1112 |
367 |
1 |
54.16 |
2013-12-20 |
| 11. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
57.29 |
0.9787 |
0.0092 |
364 |
1 |
57.29 |
2014-02-17 |
| 12. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
58.69 |
0.9194 |
0.0997 |
360 |
1 |
58.69 |
2014-02-12 |
| 13. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
64.52 |
1.0135 |
0.0990 |
358 |
1 |
64.52 |
2014-02-21 |
| 14. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
51.81 |
0.9574 |
-0.0649 |
354 |
1 |
51.81 |
2014-01-24 |
| 15. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
58.63 |
0.9157 |
0.1043 |
353 |
1 |
58.63 |
2014-01-27 |
| 16. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
58.89 |
0.9123 |
0.1087 |
351 |
2 |
56.54 |
2014-02-13 |
| 17. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
60.58 |
1.0736 |
-0.0302 |
350 |
1 |
60.58 |
2014-02-13 |
| 18. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
61.54 |
1.0139 |
0.0571 |
349 |
1 |
61.54 |
2014-04-01 |
| 19. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
54.71 |
0.9403 |
0.0119 |
345 |
1 |
54.71 |
2014-02-16 |
| 20. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
52.41 |
0.9980 |
-0.0892 |
341 |
1 |
52.41 |
2014-06-09 |
| 21. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
63.88 |
1.1138 |
-0.0070 |
341 |
1 |
63.88 |
2014-01-22 |
| 22. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
55.08 |
1.0387 |
-0.0883 |
333 |
1 |
55.08 |
2014-02-03 |
| 23. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
55.49 |
0.9609 |
-0.0029 |
331 |
2 |
55.33 |
2014-02-09 |
| 24. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
56.08 |
0.9841 |
-0.0094 |
325 |
1 |
56.08 |
2014-01-29 |
| 25. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
63.59 |
0.9271 |
0.1684 |
323 |
1 |
63.59 |
2014-02-10 |
| 26. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
62.38 |
0.9957 |
0.0761 |
323 |
1 |
62.38 |
2014-02-12 |
| 27. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
47.62 |
0.7923 |
0.0253 |
316 |
1 |
47.62 |
2013-12-20 |
| 28. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
55.06 |
1.0035 |
-0.0573 |
310 |
1 |
55.06 |
2014-01-27 |
| 29. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
65.35 |
0.9866 |
0.1376 |
308 |
1 |
65.35 |
2014-02-21 |
| 30. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
69.87 |
1.0616 |
0.1469 |
304 |
1 |
69.87 |
2014-02-17 |
| 31. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
62.22 |
1.0639 |
0.0069 |
303 |
1 |
62.22 |
2014-03-26 |
| 32. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
53.82 |
1.0270 |
-0.1020 |
303 |
1 |
53.82 |
2014-02-03 |
| 33. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
51.51 |
0.9820 |
-0.0896 |
297 |
1 |
51.51 |
2013-12-20 |
| 34. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
57.90 |
0.9928 |
0.0012 |
293 |
1 |
57.90 |
2013-12-21 |
| 35. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
64.07 |
0.9909 |
0.1154 |
293 |
1 |
64.07 |
2014-02-03 |
| 36. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
60.85 |
0.9864 |
0.0632 |
292 |
1 |
60.85 |
2014-06-09 |
| 37. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
53.80 |
0.9500 |
-0.0244 |
287 |
1 |
53.80 |
2014-01-30 |
| 38. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
53.06 |
1.0461 |
-0.1304 |
286 |
1 |
53.06 |
2013-12-20 |
| 39. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
57.14 |
1.0492 |
-0.0626 |
284 |
1 |
57.14 |
2013-12-20 |
| 40. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
59.28 |
0.9989 |
0.0268 |
282 |
1 |
59.28 |
2013-12-21 |
| 41. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
59.66 |
1.0588 |
-0.0339 |
281 |
2 |
57.16 |
2014-02-13 |
| 42. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
57.09 |
0.9636 |
0.0161 |
281 |
1 |
57.09 |
2013-12-20 |
| 43. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
58.70 |
0.9310 |
0.0769 |
278 |
1 |
58.70 |
2014-01-22 |
| 44. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
60.08 |
1.0036 |
0.0298 |
277 |
1 |
60.08 |
2014-02-20 |
| 45. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
55.57 |
0.9538 |
0.0009 |
276 |
1 |
55.57 |
2014-05-23 |
| 46. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
66.19 |
0.9873 |
0.1492 |
274 |
2 |
59.47 |
2014-02-13 |
| 47. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
63.51 |
0.9963 |
0.0928 |
274 |
1 |
63.51 |
2014-02-12 |
| 48. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
48.23 |
0.9023 |
-0.0762 |
268 |
1 |
48.23 |
2013-12-20 |
| 49. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
68.29 |
1.0332 |
0.1402 |
267 |
1 |
68.29 |
2014-02-12 |
| 50. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
68.36 |
0.9841 |
0.1901 |
263 |
1 |
68.36 |
2014-02-03 |
| 51. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
55.27 |
0.9564 |
-0.0137 |
263 |
1 |
55.27 |
2014-02-20 |
| 52. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
59.97 |
1.0267 |
0.0068 |
261 |
1 |
59.97 |
2014-01-29 |
| 53. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
54.92 |
1.0060 |
-0.0621 |
260 |
1 |
54.92 |
2013-12-21 |
| 54. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
66.22 |
1.0506 |
0.0874 |
259 |
1 |
66.22 |
2014-03-05 |
| 55. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
64.57 |
1.0791 |
0.0362 |
259 |
1 |
64.57 |
2013-12-20 |
| 56. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
51.00 |
1.0094 |
-0.1342 |
256 |
1 |
51.00 |
2014-06-09 |
| 57. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
63.53 |
1.1095 |
-0.0152 |
252 |
1 |
63.53 |
2014-01-22 |
| 58. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
52.44 |
0.9183 |
-0.0220 |
252 |
1 |
52.44 |
2014-01-02 |
| 59. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
51.46 |
1.0590 |
-0.1769 |
250 |
1 |
51.46 |
2013-12-20 |
| 60. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
56.29 |
0.9762 |
-0.0096 |
249 |
1 |
56.29 |
2013-12-26 |
| 61. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
62.25 |
1.0018 |
0.0686 |
246 |
2 |
59.10 |
2014-02-13 |
| 62. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
61.00 |
1.0060 |
0.0487 |
244 |
1 |
61.00 |
2014-02-21 |
| 63. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
53.11 |
1.0195 |
-0.1015 |
239 |
1 |
53.11 |
2014-02-03 |
| 64. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
61.51 |
0.9851 |
0.0768 |
237 |
1 |
61.51 |
2014-05-23 |
| 65. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
63.82 |
0.9541 |
0.1436 |
236 |
2 |
62.78 |
2014-02-17 |
| 66. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
54.57 |
0.9852 |
-0.0488 |
235 |
1 |
54.57 |
2014-01-29 |
| 67. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
58.49 |
0.9948 |
0.0093 |
233 |
2 |
58.49 |
2014-01-22 |
| 68. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
59.75 |
1.0125 |
0.0128 |
232 |
1 |
59.75 |
2014-02-27 |
| 69. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
54.00 |
1.0466 |
-0.1197 |
230 |
1 |
54.00 |
2013-12-21 |
| 70. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
59.08 |
1.0561 |
-0.0432 |
227 |
1 |
59.08 |
2013-12-20 |
| 71. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
55.52 |
0.9804 |
-0.0266 |
227 |
1 |
55.52 |
2014-02-10 |
| 72. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
59.90 |
1.0504 |
-0.0191 |
225 |
1 |
59.90 |
2014-01-22 |
| 73. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
54.98 |
0.9113 |
0.0288 |
225 |
1 |
54.98 |
2013-12-20 |
| 74. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
52.05 |
0.8375 |
0.0609 |
224 |
1 |
52.05 |
2013-12-20 |
| 75. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
54.15 |
0.9756 |
-0.0465 |
223 |
1 |
54.15 |
2014-02-09 |
| 76. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
69.00 |
1.1093 |
0.0714 |
220 |
2 |
65.78 |
2014-03-26 |
| 77. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
56.21 |
1.0418 |
-0.0757 |
214 |
2 |
52.32 |
2013-12-20 |
| 78. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
67.17 |
1.0800 |
0.0719 |
213 |
1 |
67.17 |
2014-02-21 |
| 79. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
57.10 |
1.0640 |
-0.0775 |
210 |
1 |
57.10 |
2014-01-22 |
| 80. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
60.30 |
0.9598 |
0.0786 |
209 |
1 |
60.30 |
2014-03-26 |
| 81. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
44.07 |
0.8666 |
-0.1134 |
206 |
1 |
44.07 |
2013-12-21 |
| 82. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
48.87 |
1.0412 |
-0.1975 |
205 |
1 |
48.87 |
2014-01-27 |
| 83. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
52.83 |
1.0479 |
-0.1425 |
205 |
1 |
52.83 |
2014-06-09 |
| 84. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
55.14 |
1.0197 |
-0.0747 |
204 |
2 |
54.76 |
2013-12-21 |
| 85. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
57.91 |
1.1062 |
-0.1095 |
200 |
1 |
57.91 |
2013-12-28 |
| 86. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
55.63 |
0.9880 |
-0.0366 |
199 |
1 |
55.63 |
2014-01-03 |
| 87. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
57.52 |
0.9713 |
0.0157 |
193 |
2 |
56.41 |
2014-01-02 |
| 88. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
64.25 |
1.0883 |
0.0228 |
189 |
1 |
64.25 |
2014-02-21 |
| 89. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
58.65 |
1.0543 |
-0.0500 |
182 |
1 |
58.65 |
2014-02-12 |
| 90. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
54.97 |
1.0524 |
-0.1106 |
177 |
1 |
54.97 |
2014-06-06 |
| 91. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
51.63 |
0.9255 |
-0.0389 |
174 |
1 |
51.63 |
2013-12-27 |
| 92. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
56.36 |
0.8624 |
0.1011 |
174 |
1 |
56.36 |
2013-12-20 |
| 93. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
60.84 |
1.0867 |
-0.0456 |
171 |
1 |
60.84 |
2014-02-09 |
| 94. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
57.63 |
1.0595 |
-0.0762 |
166 |
1 |
57.63 |
2014-02-12 |
| 95. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
59.01 |
0.9791 |
0.0276 |
154 |
2 |
56.94 |
2014-02-21 |
| 96. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
64.02 |
1.0225 |
0.0694 |
152 |
1 |
64.02 |
2014-06-09 |
| 97. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
50.60 |
0.9763 |
-0.1079 |
143 |
1 |
50.60 |
2013-12-28 |
| 98. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
53.70 |
1.0426 |
-0.1246 |
131 |
1 |
53.70 |
2014-02-19 |
| 99. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
56.52 |
1.0800 |
-0.1164 |
129 |
2 |
55.24 |
2013-12-21 |
| 100. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
55.17 |
0.7868 |
0.1569 |
116 |
1 |
55.17 |
2013-12-20 |