| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
87.18 |
1.0341 |
0.1939 |
273 |
2 |
78.39 |
2012-04-27 |
| 2. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
84.36 |
1.0095 |
0.1780 |
211 |
1 |
84.36 |
2012-04-19 |
| 3. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
84.01 |
1.0576 |
0.1235 |
231 |
1 |
84.01 |
2012-04-27 |
| 4. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
83.73 |
1.1070 |
0.0720 |
265 |
1 |
83.73 |
2012-04-19 |
| 5. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
83.62 |
1.0543 |
0.1263 |
360 |
2 |
81.26 |
2012-06-25 |
| 6. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
81.84 |
1.0392 |
0.1189 |
258 |
1 |
81.84 |
2012-04-19 |
| 7. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
81.65 |
1.0333 |
0.1121 |
176 |
4 |
74.74 |
2012-06-25 |
| 8. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
81.26 |
1.0082 |
0.1317 |
212 |
2 |
75.01 |
2012-06-25 |
| 9. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
81.10 |
1.0588 |
0.0838 |
281 |
1 |
81.10 |
2012-04-27 |
| 10. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
80.82 |
1.0465 |
0.0835 |
183 |
1 |
80.82 |
2012-03-22 |
| 11. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
80.76 |
1.0873 |
0.0475 |
243 |
1 |
80.76 |
2012-04-27 |
| 12. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
80.69 |
1.0504 |
0.0886 |
225 |
1 |
80.69 |
2012-03-22 |
| 13. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
80.00 |
1.0665 |
0.0546 |
196 |
1 |
80.00 |
2012-04-19 |
| 14. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
78.02 |
0.9604 |
0.1363 |
285 |
1 |
78.02 |
2012-04-27 |
| 15. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
77.81 |
0.9564 |
0.1332 |
263 |
1 |
77.81 |
2012-04-04 |
| 16. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
77.69 |
1.0419 |
0.0558 |
341 |
1 |
77.69 |
2012-04-04 |
| 17. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
77.67 |
1.0086 |
0.0811 |
218 |
2 |
72.06 |
2012-04-03 |
| 18. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
77.39 |
0.9762 |
0.1137 |
249 |
2 |
70.31 |
2012-03-22 |
| 19. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
77.05 |
1.0857 |
0.0122 |
393 |
2 |
76.59 |
2012-06-25 |
| 20. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
76.89 |
1.0506 |
0.0319 |
259 |
1 |
76.89 |
2012-04-03 |
| 21. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
76.54 |
1.0208 |
0.0571 |
231 |
1 |
76.54 |
2011-02-18 |
| 22. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
76.09 |
1.0132 |
0.0589 |
371 |
1 |
76.09 |
2011-02-18 |
| 23. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
75.29 |
0.9931 |
0.0799 |
381 |
1 |
75.29 |
2012-06-25 |
| 24. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
75.23 |
1.0538 |
0.0184 |
367 |
1 |
75.23 |
2012-04-19 |
| 25. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
75.08 |
0.9673 |
0.0927 |
292 |
1 |
75.08 |
2012-03-22 |
| 26. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
74.76 |
0.9352 |
0.1164 |
194 |
1 |
74.76 |
2012-06-25 |
| 27. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
74.72 |
1.0287 |
0.0228 |
269 |
1 |
74.72 |
2012-03-22 |
| 28. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
74.37 |
1.0036 |
0.0448 |
277 |
1 |
74.37 |
2012-04-04 |
| 29. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
74.26 |
0.9706 |
0.0872 |
353 |
1 |
74.26 |
2012-04-19 |
| 30. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
74.20 |
0.9756 |
0.0686 |
223 |
2 |
73.49 |
2012-04-19 |
| 31. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
74.16 |
1.0387 |
0.0100 |
333 |
1 |
74.16 |
2012-04-27 |
| 32. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
74.02 |
0.9817 |
0.0659 |
304 |
1 |
74.02 |
2011-02-18 |
| 33. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
73.98 |
0.9402 |
0.0997 |
310 |
1 |
73.98 |
2011-02-17 |
| 34. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
73.96 |
1.0399 |
0.0069 |
257 |
1 |
73.96 |
2011-03-05 |
| 35. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
73.89 |
0.9801 |
0.0605 |
289 |
2 |
70.92 |
2012-04-27 |
| 36. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
73.84 |
1.0144 |
0.0262 |
162 |
1 |
73.84 |
2012-03-22 |
| 37. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
73.74 |
0.9338 |
0.1146 |
326 |
2 |
71.06 |
2012-04-19 |
| 38. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
73.72 |
1.0194 |
0.0164 |
224 |
2 |
72.25 |
2012-06-25 |
| 39. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
73.66 |
1.0791 |
-0.0365 |
259 |
1 |
73.66 |
2012-04-04 |
| 40. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
73.51 |
0.9829 |
0.0515 |
229 |
2 |
68.46 |
2011-02-17 |
| 41. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
73.25 |
0.9926 |
0.0503 |
413 |
1 |
73.25 |
2012-04-24 |
| 42. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
73.11 |
1.0227 |
0.0131 |
378 |
1 |
73.11 |
2012-04-19 |
| 43. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
73.11 |
1.0090 |
0.0264 |
300 |
1 |
73.11 |
2012-03-22 |
| 44. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
72.42 |
0.9820 |
0.0460 |
297 |
1 |
72.42 |
2012-04-19 |
| 45. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
72.35 |
1.0016 |
0.0156 |
217 |
2 |
69.09 |
2011-02-17 |
| 46. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
72.34 |
1.0404 |
-0.0168 |
406 |
1 |
72.34 |
2012-04-27 |
| 47. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
72.33 |
1.0270 |
-0.0077 |
303 |
2 |
67.61 |
2011-03-05 |
| 48. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
72.30 |
1.0264 |
-0.0124 |
191 |
1 |
72.30 |
2012-04-19 |
| 49. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
71.29 |
1.0370 |
-0.0336 |
262 |
2 |
69.72 |
2009-12-25 |
| 50. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
71.23 |
0.9709 |
0.0307 |
264 |
1 |
71.23 |
2008-10-22 |
| 51. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
71.10 |
0.9719 |
0.0362 |
383 |
1 |
71.10 |
2012-04-04 |
| 52. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
71.02 |
1.0004 |
0.0019 |
373 |
1 |
71.02 |
2012-03-22 |
| 53. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
70.97 |
0.9377 |
0.0689 |
198 |
1 |
70.97 |
2011-02-17 |
| 54. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
70.93 |
1.0432 |
-0.0442 |
276 |
1 |
70.93 |
2012-06-25 |
| 55. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
70.71 |
0.9930 |
0.0114 |
350 |
1 |
70.71 |
2012-04-04 |
| 56. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
70.69 |
0.8974 |
0.1098 |
365 |
1 |
70.69 |
2012-04-04 |
| 57. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
70.65 |
0.9716 |
0.0270 |
330 |
1 |
70.65 |
2012-04-19 |
| 58. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
70.55 |
0.9783 |
0.0226 |
273 |
1 |
70.55 |
2012-04-19 |
| 59. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
70.52 |
1.0283 |
-0.0289 |
272 |
1 |
70.52 |
2012-03-22 |
| 60. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
70.45 |
0.9743 |
0.0289 |
397 |
1 |
70.45 |
2012-04-27 |
| 61. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
70.36 |
0.9027 |
0.0844 |
189 |
1 |
70.36 |
2012-04-27 |
| 62. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
70.34 |
1.0736 |
-0.0793 |
256 |
2 |
68.46 |
2012-04-27 |
| 63. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
70.17 |
1.0006 |
-0.0126 |
311 |
2 |
67.93 |
2012-03-22 |
| 64. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
69.81 |
1.0585 |
-0.0733 |
226 |
1 |
69.81 |
2011-02-17 |
| 65. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
69.73 |
0.9123 |
0.0787 |
351 |
3 |
59.29 |
2012-03-22 |
| 66. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
69.64 |
0.9503 |
0.0235 |
211 |
1 |
69.64 |
2009-12-25 |
| 67. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
69.45 |
0.9271 |
0.0529 |
323 |
1 |
69.45 |
2012-06-25 |
| 68. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
69.34 |
0.9451 |
0.0391 |
419 |
1 |
69.34 |
2011-02-18 |
| 69. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
69.30 |
0.9561 |
0.0270 |
364 |
1 |
69.30 |
2012-04-27 |
| 70. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
69.17 |
1.0676 |
-0.0888 |
456 |
2 |
68.10 |
2012-04-04 |
| 71. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
68.98 |
1.0960 |
-0.1209 |
315 |
1 |
68.98 |
2011-02-17 |
| 72. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
68.90 |
0.9836 |
-0.0137 |
289 |
2 |
65.66 |
2012-03-22 |
| 73. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
68.89 |
0.9917 |
-0.0196 |
317 |
2 |
68.42 |
2012-04-27 |
| 74. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
68.80 |
0.9841 |
-0.0042 |
325 |
3 |
66.03 |
2012-06-25 |
| 75. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
68.77 |
1.0332 |
-0.0662 |
267 |
1 |
68.77 |
2011-02-18 |
| 76. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
68.72 |
0.9137 |
0.0552 |
342 |
1 |
68.72 |
2009-11-18 |
| 77. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
68.71 |
0.9244 |
0.0478 |
225 |
1 |
68.71 |
2011-02-18 |
| 78. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
68.56 |
1.0540 |
-0.0938 |
184 |
1 |
68.56 |
2011-02-17 |
| 79. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
68.46 |
0.8993 |
0.0674 |
366 |
2 |
61.41 |
2011-03-05 |
| 80. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
68.17 |
0.9780 |
-0.0246 |
173 |
1 |
68.17 |
2012-04-27 |
| 81. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
68.06 |
0.9194 |
0.0493 |
360 |
1 |
68.06 |
2011-03-05 |
| 82. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
67.56 |
0.9143 |
0.0375 |
300 |
1 |
67.56 |
2012-04-27 |
| 83. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
67.37 |
1.0640 |
-0.1101 |
210 |
1 |
67.37 |
2012-03-22 |
| 84. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
67.22 |
0.9515 |
0.0052 |
334 |
1 |
67.22 |
2012-03-22 |
| 85. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
67.13 |
1.0144 |
-0.0560 |
356 |
1 |
67.13 |
2012-04-04 |
| 86. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
66.91 |
0.9359 |
0.0069 |
355 |
1 |
66.91 |
2012-03-22 |
| 87. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
66.80 |
1.0234 |
-0.0792 |
392 |
1 |
66.80 |
2011-02-17 |
| 88. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
66.80 |
0.9849 |
-0.0437 |
337 |
1 |
66.80 |
2012-03-22 |
| 89. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
66.45 |
0.9827 |
-0.0466 |
314 |
1 |
66.45 |
2012-04-04 |
| 90. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
66.37 |
0.9949 |
-0.0505 |
304 |
1 |
66.37 |
2012-04-04 |
| 91. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
66.23 |
0.9650 |
-0.0304 |
347 |
1 |
66.23 |
2011-02-17 |
| 92. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
65.91 |
0.9931 |
-0.0613 |
339 |
1 |
65.91 |
2009-11-18 |
| 93. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
65.91 |
0.8936 |
0.0327 |
346 |
1 |
65.91 |
2011-02-18 |
| 94. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
65.89 |
1.0507 |
-0.1179 |
253 |
1 |
65.89 |
2012-04-19 |
| 95. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
65.85 |
0.9346 |
0.0033 |
471 |
1 |
65.85 |
2012-06-25 |
| 96. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
65.83 |
0.9113 |
0.0216 |
318 |
1 |
65.83 |
2012-04-27 |
| 97. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
65.62 |
1.0669 |
-0.1403 |
379 |
1 |
65.62 |
2009-12-25 |
| 98. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
65.45 |
0.8984 |
0.0304 |
267 |
2 |
65.22 |
2012-04-19 |
| 99. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
65.39 |
1.0272 |
-0.1091 |
226 |
1 |
65.39 |
2009-11-18 |
| 100. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
65.35 |
0.8437 |
0.0756 |
268 |
1 |
65.35 |
2012-03-22 |
| 101. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
65.10 |
0.9713 |
-0.0565 |
193 |
1 |
65.10 |
2011-02-17 |
| 102. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
65.00 |
0.9424 |
-0.0246 |
320 |
1 |
65.00 |
2009-11-18 |
| 103. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
64.76 |
0.9068 |
0.0026 |
212 |
1 |
64.76 |
2008-10-22 |
| 104. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
64.23 |
0.8887 |
0.0292 |
464 |
1 |
64.23 |
2009-11-18 |
| 105. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
64.18 |
0.9243 |
-0.0189 |
240 |
1 |
64.18 |
2012-04-04 |
| 106. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
63.98 |
0.9543 |
-0.0473 |
265 |
1 |
63.98 |
2012-04-04 |
| 107. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
63.92 |
0.8935 |
0.0140 |
351 |
1 |
63.92 |
2012-03-22 |
| 108. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
63.87 |
0.8721 |
0.0326 |
231 |
1 |
63.87 |
2011-03-05 |
| 109. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.79 |
0.9809 |
-0.0875 |
209 |
1 |
63.79 |
2009-11-18 |
| 110. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
63.64 |
1.0877 |
-0.1964 |
129 |
1 |
63.64 |
2012-03-22 |
| 111. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
63.27 |
0.8843 |
0.0170 |
168 |
1 |
63.27 |
2012-04-04 |
| 112. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
63.18 |
0.9974 |
-0.1127 |
163 |
1 |
63.18 |
2012-04-04 |
| 113. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
63.08 |
0.9681 |
-0.0750 |
392 |
1 |
63.08 |
2012-04-04 |
| 114. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
62.92 |
0.9269 |
-0.0340 |
269 |
1 |
62.92 |
2011-02-18 |
| 115. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
62.22 |
1.0074 |
-0.1181 |
410 |
1 |
62.22 |
2012-04-04 |
| 116. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
61.46 |
0.9108 |
-0.0461 |
235 |
1 |
61.46 |
2008-10-22 |
| 117. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
61.32 |
0.9737 |
-0.1086 |
237 |
1 |
61.32 |
2011-03-05 |
| 118. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
61.30 |
0.9632 |
-0.0998 |
287 |
1 |
61.30 |
2011-02-17 |
| 119. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
61.26 |
0.9541 |
-0.0919 |
236 |
1 |
61.26 |
2008-10-22 |
| 120. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
60.90 |
0.9922 |
-0.1351 |
264 |
1 |
60.90 |
2009-11-18 |
| 121. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
60.44 |
0.9727 |
-0.1160 |
442 |
1 |
60.44 |
2008-10-22 |
| 122. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
57.53 |
0.8172 |
-0.0130 |
204 |
1 |
57.53 |
2009-11-18 |
| 123. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
52.91 |
0.9807 |
-0.2492 |
129 |
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