| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
127.52 |
0.9636 |
0.3160 |
281 |
1 |
127.52 |
2010-02-20 |
| 2. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
125.68 |
1.0320 |
0.2363 |
401 |
1 |
125.68 |
2010-11-28 |
| 3. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
124.75 |
1.0567 |
0.1958 |
314 |
1 |
124.75 |
2008-10-17 |
| 4. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
123.79 |
1.0743 |
0.1698 |
297 |
2 |
116.57 |
2010-11-28 |
| 5. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
120.89 |
1.0969 |
0.1193 |
303 |
1 |
120.89 |
2010-02-20 |
| 6. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
120.01 |
1.0272 |
0.1759 |
226 |
2 |
113.62 |
2010-11-28 |
| 7. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
118.80 |
1.0960 |
0.1009 |
315 |
2 |
111.64 |
2010-02-20 |
| 8. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
118.74 |
1.0628 |
0.1317 |
363 |
2 |
109.86 |
2010-02-20 |
| 9. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
118.60 |
1.0279 |
0.1574 |
172 |
1 |
118.60 |
2010-02-20 |
| 10. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
118.23 |
1.0432 |
0.1444 |
276 |
1 |
118.23 |
2010-02-20 |
| 11. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
117.17 |
1.0086 |
0.1635 |
218 |
1 |
117.17 |
2009-01-29 |
| 12. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
116.83 |
0.9927 |
0.1770 |
234 |
2 |
112.87 |
2008-10-17 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
116.34 |
1.0654 |
0.1001 |
247 |
1 |
116.34 |
2008-10-15 |
| 14. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
116.01 |
1.0585 |
0.1092 |
226 |
1 |
116.01 |
2010-02-20 |
| 15. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
115.42 |
1.0777 |
0.0789 |
226 |
4 |
107.76 |
2010-02-20 |
| 16. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
114.84 |
1.0372 |
0.1153 |
249 |
3 |
110.49 |
2010-11-28 |
| 17. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
114.64 |
0.9658 |
0.1888 |
308 |
2 |
107.11 |
2010-11-28 |
| 18. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
114.20 |
0.9632 |
0.1842 |
287 |
1 |
114.20 |
2008-10-16 |
| 19. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
113.97 |
1.0865 |
0.0574 |
237 |
2 |
111.31 |
2009-01-29 |
| 20. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
113.41 |
0.9027 |
0.2324 |
189 |
1 |
113.41 |
2010-02-20 |
| 21. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
113.19 |
1.0672 |
0.0678 |
239 |
1 |
113.19 |
2010-02-20 |
| 22. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
112.64 |
1.0125 |
0.1133 |
171 |
2 |
100.33 |
2010-02-20 |
| 23. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
112.57 |
0.9698 |
0.1652 |
389 |
1 |
112.57 |
2010-02-20 |
| 24. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
112.08 |
1.0333 |
0.0867 |
176 |
2 |
110.65 |
2010-02-20 |
| 25. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
111.42 |
1.1086 |
0.0102 |
233 |
1 |
111.42 |
2009-01-29 |
| 26. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
110.92 |
1.0419 |
0.0745 |
341 |
1 |
110.92 |
2010-11-28 |
| 27. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
110.79 |
1.0462 |
0.0687 |
340 |
1 |
110.79 |
2008-10-14 |
| 28. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
108.40 |
1.0426 |
0.0415 |
131 |
2 |
101.61 |
2009-01-29 |
| 29. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
108.02 |
1.0607 |
0.0263 |
357 |
2 |
101.40 |
2010-02-20 |
| 30. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
107.80 |
1.0301 |
0.0504 |
268 |
2 |
106.15 |
2010-02-20 |
| 31. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
107.65 |
1.0115 |
0.0637 |
189 |
1 |
107.65 |
2010-02-20 |
| 32. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
107.45 |
1.0466 |
0.0315 |
230 |
2 |
97.25 |
2010-02-20 |
| 33. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
105.66 |
1.0561 |
0.0024 |
227 |
3 |
94.27 |
2010-11-28 |
| 34. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
105.56 |
0.9829 |
0.0755 |
229 |
1 |
105.56 |
2008-10-16 |
| 35. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
105.22 |
1.0194 |
0.0344 |
224 |
1 |
105.22 |
2009-01-29 |
| 36. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
105.10 |
0.9918 |
0.0699 |
400 |
1 |
105.10 |
2011-07-29 |
| 37. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
105.09 |
1.0601 |
-0.0085 |
256 |
2 |
105.01 |
2010-02-20 |
| 38. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
104.83 |
1.0495 |
0.0020 |
323 |
1 |
104.83 |
2010-02-20 |
| 39. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
104.60 |
1.0901 |
-0.0386 |
288 |
1 |
104.60 |
2009-01-29 |
| 40. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
104.54 |
1.0082 |
0.0359 |
212 |
1 |
104.54 |
2009-01-29 |
| 41. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
104.50 |
1.0135 |
0.0382 |
358 |
1 |
104.50 |
2009-01-29 |
| 42. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
104.17 |
0.9736 |
0.0784 |
378 |
1 |
104.17 |
2008-10-16 |
| 43. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
103.36 |
1.0403 |
-0.0049 |
234 |
1 |
103.36 |
2008-10-16 |
| 44. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
102.76 |
1.0139 |
0.0300 |
349 |
1 |
102.76 |
2010-11-28 |
| 45. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
102.42 |
0.9768 |
0.0522 |
237 |
1 |
102.42 |
2008-10-01 |
| 46. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
102.39 |
0.9359 |
0.0920 |
355 |
1 |
102.39 |
2008-10-17 |
| 47. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
102.29 |
0.9935 |
0.0351 |
217 |
1 |
102.29 |
2011-07-29 |
| 48. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
102.21 |
1.0881 |
-0.0665 |
210 |
1 |
102.21 |
2008-10-01 |
| 49. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
101.60 |
1.0036 |
0.0166 |
277 |
2 |
100.99 |
2010-02-20 |
| 50. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
101.49 |
1.0464 |
-0.0233 |
294 |
1 |
101.49 |
2008-10-16 |
| 51. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
101.39 |
0.9873 |
0.0403 |
396 |
1 |
101.39 |
2010-02-20 |
| 52. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
101.32 |
1.0362 |
-0.0136 |
437 |
1 |
101.32 |
2008-10-16 |
| 53. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
101.17 |
1.0291 |
-0.0163 |
240 |
1 |
101.17 |
2010-02-20 |
| 54. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
101.08 |
1.0669 |
-0.0500 |
379 |
2 |
95.98 |
2009-01-29 |
| 55. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
101.08 |
0.9909 |
0.0269 |
334 |
2 |
97.89 |
2010-02-22 |
| 56. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
101.02 |
1.0026 |
0.0154 |
200 |
1 |
101.02 |
2010-02-20 |
| 57. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
100.84 |
1.0253 |
-0.0106 |
337 |
1 |
100.84 |
2009-01-29 |
| 58. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
100.60 |
1.0845 |
-0.0762 |
212 |
1 |
100.60 |
2010-02-20 |
| 59. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
100.22 |
1.0199 |
-0.0183 |
225 |
1 |
100.22 |
2009-01-29 |
| 60. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
100.12 |
1.0351 |
-0.0269 |
276 |
3 |
92.48 |
2010-02-20 |
| 61. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
99.98 |
1.0265 |
-0.0198 |
375 |
1 |
99.98 |
2010-02-20 |
| 62. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
99.85 |
0.8981 |
0.1124 |
255 |
1 |
99.85 |
2010-11-28 |
| 63. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
99.85 |
1.0404 |
-0.0341 |
406 |
1 |
99.85 |
2008-10-17 |
| 64. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
99.04 |
0.9203 |
0.0760 |
350 |
2 |
97.71 |
2010-02-20 |
| 65. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
98.91 |
0.9271 |
0.0673 |
323 |
1 |
98.91 |
2010-02-20 |
| 66. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
98.79 |
1.0414 |
-0.0513 |
234 |
1 |
98.79 |
2010-02-20 |
| 67. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
98.51 |
0.9243 |
0.0660 |
240 |
3 |
90.89 |
2009-01-29 |
| 68. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
98.36 |
0.9864 |
0.0039 |
292 |
1 |
98.36 |
2008-10-14 |
| 69. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
98.36 |
1.0094 |
-0.0227 |
256 |
2 |
96.24 |
2008-10-16 |
| 70. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
98.35 |
0.9329 |
0.0679 |
345 |
1 |
98.35 |
2010-02-20 |
| 71. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
98.24 |
1.0638 |
-0.0805 |
247 |
1 |
98.24 |
2008-10-16 |
| 72. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
97.94 |
1.0189 |
-0.0371 |
290 |
1 |
97.94 |
2009-01-29 |
| 73. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
97.83 |
0.9597 |
0.0217 |
251 |
2 |
96.88 |
2008-10-16 |
| 74. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
97.78 |
1.0615 |
-0.0837 |
201 |
1 |
97.78 |
2008-10-17 |
| 75. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
97.76 |
0.9917 |
-0.0092 |
317 |
1 |
97.76 |
2009-01-29 |
| 76. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
97.39 |
0.9703 |
0.0129 |
394 |
1 |
97.39 |
2010-02-20 |
| 77. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
97.24 |
0.9135 |
0.0704 |
393 |
1 |
97.24 |
2008-10-16 |
| 78. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
97.16 |
1.0867 |
-0.1165 |
171 |
1 |
97.16 |
2010-02-20 |
| 79. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
97.11 |
1.0590 |
-0.0860 |
250 |
1 |
97.11 |
2010-02-20 |
| 80. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
96.48 |
0.9745 |
-0.0047 |
388 |
1 |
96.48 |
2008-10-16 |
| 81. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
96.03 |
0.9880 |
-0.0293 |
199 |
2 |
79.74 |
2009-01-29 |
| 82. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
96.01 |
0.9915 |
-0.0294 |
281 |
1 |
96.01 |
2008-10-01 |
| 83. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
95.78 |
0.9136 |
0.0502 |
348 |
2 |
89.46 |
2008-10-16 |
| 84. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
95.37 |
1.0016 |
-0.0467 |
217 |
1 |
95.37 |
2008-10-16 |
| 85. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
94.95 |
0.9885 |
-0.0361 |
355 |
1 |
94.95 |
2009-01-29 |
| 86. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
94.90 |
0.9339 |
0.0234 |
317 |
1 |
94.90 |
2009-01-29 |
| 87. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
94.79 |
1.0600 |
-0.1091 |
351 |
1 |
94.79 |
2008-10-14 |
| 88. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
93.65 |
0.9468 |
-0.0078 |
318 |
1 |
93.65 |
2008-10-17 |
| 89. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
93.62 |
0.9726 |
-0.0288 |
396 |
2 |
92.99 |
2008-10-14 |
| 90. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
93.56 |
0.9425 |
-0.0037 |
248 |
2 |
89.26 |
2009-01-29 |
| 91. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
93.13 |
1.0130 |
-0.0790 |
288 |
1 |
93.13 |
2008-10-17 |
| 92. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
93.10 |
0.9380 |
-0.0059 |
284 |
1 |
93.10 |
2010-02-22 |
| 93. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
92.89 |
0.9933 |
-0.0545 |
450 |
1 |
92.89 |
2008-10-01 |
| 94. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
92.89 |
0.9957 |
-0.0603 |
323 |
1 |
92.89 |
2008-10-14 |
| 95. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
92.51 |
0.9727 |
-0.0388 |
442 |
2 |
87.68 |
2009-01-29 |
| 96. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
92.45 |
0.9206 |
0.0070 |
317 |
2 |
91.82 |
2010-02-20 |
| 97. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
92.14 |
0.9068 |
0.0151 |
212 |
1 |
92.14 |
2010-02-20 |
| 98. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
92.12 |
0.8986 |
0.0255 |
216 |
2 |
90.26 |
2008-10-16 |
| 99. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
92.06 |
1.0227 |
-0.0937 |
378 |
1 |
92.06 |
2010-02-20 |
| 100. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
92.04 |
0.9012 |
0.0251 |
322 |
1 |
92.04 |
2010-02-20 |
| 101. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
91.80 |
1.0018 |
-0.0811 |
246 |
1 |
91.80 |
2009-01-29 |
| 102. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
91.63 |
0.9854 |
-0.0657 |
174 |
1 |
91.63 |
2010-02-20 |
| 103. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
91.36 |
0.9265 |
-0.0115 |
254 |
1 |
91.36 |
2008-10-17 |
| 104. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
91.34 |
0.9817 |
-0.0606 |
304 |
1 |
91.34 |
2010-02-20 |
| 105. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
90.82 |
1.0476 |
-0.1465 |
110 |
1 |
90.82 |
2008-10-14 |
| 106. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
90.79 |
0.9324 |
-0.0099 |
440 |
1 |
90.79 |
2010-02-20 |
| 107. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
90.77 |
0.9143 |
-0.0033 |
300 |
1 |
90.77 |
2008-10-01 |
| 108. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
89.95 |
0.9011 |
0.0038 |
322 |
2 |
85.16 |
2009-01-29 |
| 109. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
89.69 |
0.9145 |
-0.0119 |
404 |
1 |
89.69 |
2010-02-20 |
| 110. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
89.67 |
0.8993 |
0.0022 |
366 |
1 |
89.67 |
2009-01-29 |
| 111. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
89.42 |
0.9594 |
-0.0647 |
258 |
1 |
89.42 |
2008-10-15 |
| 112. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
89.29 |
0.9631 |
-0.0685 |
273 |
1 |
89.29 |
2008-10-17 |
| 113. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
88.86 |
1.0264 |
-0.1397 |
191 |
1 |
88.86 |
2008-10-14 |
| 114. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
88.74 |
0.9519 |
-0.0584 |
323 |
1 |
88.74 |
2008-10-01 |
| 115. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
88.72 |
0.9931 |
-0.1075 |
218 |
1 |
88.72 |
2008-10-15 |
| 116. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
88.43 |
0.8794 |
0.0135 |
427 |
1 |
88.43 |
2008-10-14 |
| 117. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
88.37 |
0.9807 |
-0.1063 |
129 |
1 |
88.37 |
2009-01-29 |
| 118. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
88.24 |
0.9780 |
-0.0996 |
173 |
1 |
88.24 |
2008-10-15 |
| 119. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
88.21 |
1.0582 |
-0.1772 |
180 |
1 |
88.21 |
2008-10-16 |
| 120. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
88.03 |
0.8913 |
-0.0074 |
201 |
1 |
88.03 |
2008-10-16 |
| 121. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
87.93 |
1.0128 |
-0.1249 |
369 |
2 |
85.34 |
2010-02-20 |
| 122. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
87.87 |
0.9842 |
-0.1013 |
335 |
1 |
87.87 |
2008-10-01 |
| 123. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
87.31 |
0.9637 |
-0.0767 |
342 |
1 |
87.31 |
2010-02-20 |
| 124. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
86.84 |
0.9673 |
-0.0932 |
393 |
1 |
86.84 |
2008-10-01 |
| 125. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
86.83 |
0.9909 |
-0.1163 |
293 |
2 |
84.85 |
2008-10-21 |
| 126. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
85.84 |
0.9981 |
-0.1387 |
211 |
1 |
85.84 |
2008-10-01 |
| 127. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
85.70 |
0.9644 |
-0.1024 |
398 |
1 |
85.70 |
2011-07-29 |
| 128. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
84.90 |
0.9841 |
-0.1349 |
263 |
1 |
84.90 |
2009-01-29 |
| 129. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
84.89 |
0.9966 |
-0.1390 |
377 |
1 |
84.89 |
2008-10-01 |
| 130. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
84.07 |
0.9400 |
-0.0950 |
434 |
1 |
84.07 |
2008-10-16 |
| 131. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
83.98 |
0.9583 |
-0.1164 |
237 |
1 |
83.98 |
2008-10-01 |
| 132. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
83.37 |
0.9162 |
-0.0797 |
401 |
1 |
83.37 |
2010-02-20 |
| 133. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
82.79 |
1.0800 |
-0.2575 |
129 |
1 |
82.79 |
2008-10-17 |
| 134. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
80.47 |
0.9957 |
-0.1898 |
323 |
1 |
80.47 |
2010-02-20 |
| 135. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
79.22 |
0.9108 |
-0.1176 |
235 |
1 |
79.22 |
2008-10-01 |
| 136. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
78.57 |
0.9352 |
-0.1496 |
194 |
2 |
74.81 |
2010-11-28 |
| 137. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
77.60 |
0.8901 |
-0.1135 |
273 |
1 |
77.60 |
2010-02-20 |
| 138. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
75.07 |
1.0472 |
-0.3017 |
149 |
1 |
75.07 |
2010-02-20 |
| 139. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
67.29 |
0.8437 |
-0.1713 |
268 |
1 |
67.29 |
2008-10-17 |