| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
99.76 |
1.0857 |
0.0979 |
393 |
1 |
99.76 |
2012-12-09 |
| 2. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
99.61 |
1.0590 |
0.1095 |
250 |
1 |
99.61 |
2012-12-09 |
| 3. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
99.10 |
1.0639 |
0.1008 |
303 |
1 |
99.10 |
2012-12-09 |
| 4. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
98.00 |
1.0279 |
0.1171 |
172 |
1 |
98.00 |
2012-12-09 |
| 5. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
97.89 |
1.0736 |
0.0798 |
256 |
1 |
97.89 |
2012-12-17 |
| 6. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
97.37 |
1.0270 |
0.1168 |
303 |
1 |
97.37 |
2013-01-08 |
| 7. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
97.21 |
1.1062 |
0.0370 |
200 |
1 |
97.21 |
2012-12-10 |
| 8. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
96.69 |
1.0188 |
0.1257 |
316 |
1 |
96.69 |
2012-12-10 |
| 9. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
96.68 |
0.9841 |
0.1476 |
217 |
1 |
96.68 |
2012-12-17 |
| 10. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
95.62 |
1.0125 |
0.1050 |
171 |
1 |
95.62 |
2012-12-17 |
| 11. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
95.02 |
1.0287 |
0.0857 |
269 |
1 |
95.02 |
2012-12-09 |
| 12. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
94.51 |
0.9709 |
0.1372 |
264 |
1 |
94.51 |
2012-12-09 |
| 13. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
94.35 |
1.0230 |
0.0861 |
200 |
2 |
90.85 |
2012-12-09 |
| 14. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
94.13 |
1.0498 |
0.0563 |
261 |
1 |
94.13 |
2012-12-09 |
| 15. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
93.83 |
1.0487 |
0.0504 |
253 |
1 |
93.83 |
2012-12-10 |
| 16. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
93.23 |
1.0509 |
0.0572 |
430 |
1 |
93.23 |
2012-12-10 |
| 17. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
92.88 |
1.0288 |
0.0566 |
166 |
1 |
92.88 |
2012-12-09 |
| 18. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
92.40 |
1.0638 |
0.0185 |
247 |
1 |
92.40 |
2012-12-27 |
| 19. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
91.88 |
1.0346 |
0.0530 |
326 |
1 |
91.88 |
2012-12-27 |
| 20. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
91.80 |
1.0197 |
0.0559 |
204 |
1 |
91.80 |
2012-12-17 |
| 21. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
91.75 |
1.0511 |
0.0275 |
252 |
1 |
91.75 |
2012-12-09 |
| 22. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
91.22 |
0.9228 |
0.1520 |
305 |
2 |
87.10 |
2012-12-27 |
| 23. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
91.12 |
0.9745 |
0.0970 |
388 |
2 |
90.97 |
2012-12-10 |
| 24. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
91.04 |
1.1086 |
-0.0398 |
233 |
1 |
91.04 |
2012-12-17 |
| 25. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
90.95 |
0.9809 |
0.0943 |
250 |
1 |
90.95 |
2012-12-09 |
| 26. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
90.80 |
1.0529 |
0.0151 |
373 |
1 |
90.80 |
2013-01-08 |
| 27. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
90.47 |
1.0543 |
0.0083 |
233 |
1 |
90.47 |
2012-12-10 |
| 28. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
89.95 |
1.0333 |
0.0172 |
176 |
1 |
89.95 |
2012-12-17 |
| 29. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
89.61 |
1.0392 |
0.0174 |
258 |
1 |
89.61 |
2012-12-09 |
| 30. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
89.57 |
0.9869 |
0.0603 |
193 |
2 |
89.41 |
2013-01-08 |
| 31. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
89.45 |
0.9820 |
0.0761 |
297 |
1 |
89.45 |
2012-12-10 |
| 32. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
89.23 |
1.0243 |
0.0265 |
153 |
1 |
89.23 |
2012-12-09 |
| 33. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
88.93 |
0.9833 |
0.0627 |
387 |
1 |
88.93 |
2012-12-10 |
| 34. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
88.72 |
0.9839 |
0.0569 |
308 |
1 |
88.72 |
2012-12-10 |
| 35. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
88.47 |
1.0461 |
-0.0032 |
286 |
2 |
86.46 |
2012-12-10 |
| 36. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
88.44 |
0.9991 |
0.0382 |
339 |
1 |
88.44 |
2012-12-17 |
| 37. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
88.34 |
1.0472 |
-0.0167 |
149 |
1 |
88.34 |
2012-12-17 |
| 38. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
88.27 |
1.0600 |
-0.0239 |
351 |
1 |
88.27 |
2012-12-17 |
| 39. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
88.16 |
1.0471 |
-0.0201 |
170 |
1 |
88.16 |
2012-12-17 |
| 40. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
87.99 |
0.9864 |
0.0497 |
292 |
1 |
87.99 |
2012-12-27 |
| 41. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
87.37 |
1.0291 |
-0.0061 |
240 |
1 |
87.37 |
2012-12-17 |
| 42. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
87.12 |
1.0079 |
0.0134 |
273 |
1 |
87.12 |
2012-12-17 |
| 43. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
86.92 |
0.9980 |
0.0239 |
295 |
2 |
85.25 |
2012-12-09 |
| 44. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
86.77 |
1.0341 |
-0.0166 |
273 |
1 |
86.77 |
2013-01-08 |
| 45. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
86.64 |
1.0195 |
0.0035 |
239 |
2 |
84.08 |
2013-01-08 |
| 46. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
86.64 |
1.0540 |
-0.0424 |
184 |
1 |
86.64 |
2012-12-27 |
| 47. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
86.63 |
0.9329 |
0.0977 |
345 |
1 |
86.63 |
2012-12-10 |
| 48. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
85.84 |
1.0493 |
-0.0353 |
264 |
1 |
85.84 |
2012-12-17 |
| 49. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
85.72 |
0.9966 |
0.0160 |
377 |
1 |
85.72 |
2012-12-27 |
| 50. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
85.45 |
0.9726 |
0.0349 |
396 |
1 |
85.45 |
2012-12-10 |
| 51. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
85.38 |
0.9145 |
0.0906 |
404 |
1 |
85.38 |
2013-01-08 |
| 52. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
85.24 |
0.9926 |
0.0185 |
413 |
1 |
85.24 |
2012-12-10 |
| 53. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
85.07 |
1.0060 |
-0.0072 |
225 |
2 |
81.89 |
2013-01-08 |
| 54. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
84.67 |
1.0419 |
-0.0392 |
323 |
1 |
84.67 |
2012-12-10 |
| 55. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
84.65 |
0.9346 |
0.0557 |
211 |
1 |
84.65 |
2012-12-10 |
| 56. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
84.08 |
1.0492 |
-0.0576 |
284 |
1 |
84.08 |
2012-12-17 |
| 57. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
83.93 |
0.8986 |
0.0908 |
363 |
1 |
83.93 |
2012-12-09 |
| 58. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
83.70 |
1.0039 |
-0.0159 |
255 |
1 |
83.70 |
2012-12-09 |
| 59. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
83.47 |
1.0128 |
-0.0272 |
369 |
1 |
83.47 |
2012-12-17 |
| 60. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
83.17 |
0.9597 |
0.0160 |
251 |
2 |
80.19 |
2012-12-17 |
| 61. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
82.93 |
0.8981 |
0.0835 |
255 |
1 |
82.93 |
2012-12-27 |
| 62. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
82.90 |
0.9377 |
0.0422 |
198 |
1 |
82.90 |
2012-12-09 |
| 63. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
82.71 |
1.0250 |
-0.0521 |
271 |
1 |
82.71 |
2012-12-17 |
| 64. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
82.56 |
0.9258 |
0.0473 |
184 |
1 |
82.56 |
2012-12-09 |
| 65. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
82.17 |
1.0444 |
-0.0677 |
487 |
1 |
82.17 |
2012-12-17 |
| 66. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
82.00 |
1.0304 |
-0.0649 |
257 |
1 |
82.00 |
2012-12-27 |
| 67. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
81.81 |
0.9157 |
0.0561 |
353 |
1 |
81.81 |
2012-12-17 |
| 68. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
81.81 |
0.9143 |
0.0461 |
300 |
1 |
81.81 |
2012-12-17 |
| 69. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
81.81 |
0.9765 |
-0.0177 |
269 |
1 |
81.81 |
2012-12-09 |
| 70. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
81.34 |
1.0111 |
-0.0452 |
452 |
1 |
81.34 |
2012-12-09 |
| 71. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
81.24 |
1.0481 |
-0.1030 |
255 |
1 |
81.24 |
2012-12-17 |
| 72. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
81.17 |
0.9561 |
-0.0024 |
362 |
1 |
81.17 |
2012-12-17 |
| 73. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
81.15 |
0.8936 |
0.0568 |
346 |
1 |
81.15 |
2012-12-09 |
| 74. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
80.73 |
0.9402 |
0.0046 |
310 |
1 |
80.73 |
2012-12-17 |
| 75. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
80.38 |
0.9787 |
-0.0326 |
364 |
1 |
80.38 |
2012-12-09 |
| 76. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
80.23 |
0.9309 |
0.0199 |
376 |
2 |
80.23 |
2012-12-17 |
| 77. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
79.85 |
0.9029 |
0.0361 |
393 |
1 |
79.85 |
2012-12-10 |
| 78. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
79.71 |
0.9631 |
-0.0289 |
273 |
1 |
79.71 |
2012-12-10 |
| 79. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
79.48 |
1.0557 |
-0.1225 |
289 |
1 |
79.48 |
2013-01-08 |
| 80. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
79.41 |
1.0495 |
-0.1188 |
323 |
1 |
79.41 |
2012-12-17 |
| 81. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
79.26 |
0.9657 |
-0.0251 |
424 |
1 |
79.26 |
2012-12-27 |
| 82. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
79.11 |
0.9515 |
-0.0139 |
334 |
1 |
79.11 |
2012-12-09 |
| 83. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
78.90 |
0.9713 |
-0.0475 |
193 |
1 |
78.90 |
2012-12-27 |
| 84. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
78.85 |
1.0035 |
-0.0783 |
310 |
1 |
78.85 |
2012-12-09 |
| 85. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
78.42 |
1.0585 |
-0.1361 |
226 |
1 |
78.42 |
2012-12-17 |
| 86. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
78.17 |
0.9644 |
-0.0447 |
398 |
1 |
78.17 |
2012-12-10 |
| 87. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
78.16 |
0.9673 |
-0.0486 |
292 |
1 |
78.16 |
2013-01-08 |
| 88. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
78.09 |
0.8718 |
0.0471 |
318 |
1 |
78.09 |
2012-12-09 |
| 89. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
78.04 |
0.9346 |
-0.0092 |
471 |
1 |
78.04 |
2012-12-09 |
| 90. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
77.97 |
1.0461 |
-0.1297 |
318 |
1 |
77.97 |
2012-12-17 |
| 91. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
77.77 |
0.9839 |
-0.0727 |
196 |
1 |
77.77 |
2012-12-17 |
| 92. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
77.69 |
0.8974 |
0.0252 |
365 |
1 |
77.69 |
2012-12-09 |
| 93. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
77.19 |
0.8880 |
0.0170 |
296 |
1 |
77.19 |
2012-12-10 |
| 94. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
76.87 |
0.9783 |
-0.0696 |
273 |
1 |
76.87 |
2013-01-08 |
| 95. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
76.08 |
0.9930 |
-0.0922 |
350 |
1 |
76.08 |
2012-12-17 |
| 96. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
76.03 |
0.9425 |
-0.0506 |
248 |
1 |
76.03 |
2012-12-17 |
| 97. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
75.76 |
0.8887 |
0.0131 |
464 |
1 |
75.76 |
2013-01-08 |
| 98. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
75.74 |
0.9807 |
-0.1042 |
129 |
1 |
75.74 |
2012-12-10 |
| 99. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
75.67 |
0.9119 |
-0.0205 |
396 |
1 |
75.67 |
2012-12-17 |
| 100. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
75.49 |
1.0090 |
-0.1184 |
300 |
1 |
75.49 |
2012-12-09 |
| 101. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
74.42 |
0.9996 |
-0.1199 |
483 |
1 |
74.42 |
2012-12-17 |
| 102. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
74.38 |
0.9046 |
-0.0200 |
448 |
1 |
74.38 |
2012-12-10 |
| 103. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
74.27 |
0.9603 |
-0.0846 |
430 |
1 |
74.27 |
2012-12-17 |
| 104. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
73.33 |
0.9650 |
-0.1029 |
347 |
1 |
73.33 |
2013-01-08 |
| 105. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
72.96 |
0.8656 |
-0.0094 |
242 |
1 |
72.96 |
2012-12-10 |
| 106. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
72.71 |
0.9827 |
-0.1298 |
314 |
1 |
72.71 |
2012-12-17 |
| 107. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
72.33 |
0.9909 |
-0.1395 |
334 |
1 |
72.33 |
2012-12-27 |
| 108. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
67.78 |
0.9931 |
-0.2029 |
218 |
1 |
67.78 |
2012-12-09 |
| 109. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
65.87 |
0.9543 |
-0.1761 |
265 |
1 |
65.87 |
2012-12-27 |