| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Never give up. Most races are decided in the last 10 percent... |
152.83 |
0.8777 |
4.2315 |
73 |
1 |
152.83 |
2012-05-24 |
| 2. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
49.74 |
0.8646 |
0.7915 |
110 |
1 |
49.74 |
2012-12-24 |
| 3. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
46.61 |
1.0403 |
0.5128 |
234 |
1 |
46.61 |
2012-12-24 |
| 4. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
44.60 |
1.1198 |
0.3667 |
247 |
1 |
44.60 |
2012-12-24 |
| 5. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
42.95 |
0.9380 |
0.4928 |
284 |
1 |
42.95 |
2012-12-24 |
| 6. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
42.12 |
0.9780 |
0.4205 |
173 |
1 |
42.12 |
2012-12-24 |
| 7. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
41.82 |
0.9349 |
0.4624 |
287 |
2 |
40.19 |
2012-12-24 |
| 8. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
41.33 |
1.0615 |
0.3139 |
201 |
3 |
27.19 |
2012-12-24 |
| 9. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
40.70 |
1.0090 |
0.3539 |
300 |
1 |
40.70 |
2012-12-24 |
| 10. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
40.43 |
1.0332 |
0.3138 |
267 |
1 |
40.43 |
2012-12-24 |
| 11. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
40.30 |
1.0112 |
0.3309 |
242 |
1 |
40.30 |
2012-12-21 |
| 12. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
40.05 |
1.0288 |
0.3018 |
166 |
1 |
40.05 |
2012-12-21 |
| 13. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
39.81 |
1.0543 |
0.2751 |
360 |
1 |
39.81 |
2012-12-24 |
| 14. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
39.81 |
0.9763 |
0.3500 |
283 |
2 |
36.32 |
2012-12-24 |
| 15. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
39.18 |
1.0465 |
0.2509 |
183 |
4 |
27.82 |
2012-07-02 |
| 16. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
39.02 |
0.8175 |
0.4845 |
181 |
1 |
39.02 |
2012-12-21 |
| 17. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
39.00 |
0.8953 |
0.3990 |
158 |
1 |
39.00 |
2012-07-02 |
| 18. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
38.46 |
1.0387 |
0.2477 |
333 |
1 |
38.46 |
2012-12-24 |
| 19. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
38.38 |
1.0051 |
0.2685 |
162 |
5 |
23.14 |
2012-06-27 |
| 20. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
38.32 |
0.9329 |
0.3587 |
345 |
1 |
38.32 |
2012-12-24 |
| 21. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
38.04 |
1.0755 |
0.1929 |
243 |
1 |
38.04 |
2012-07-02 |
| 22. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
38.01 |
0.9285 |
0.3367 |
244 |
1 |
38.01 |
2012-12-21 |
| 23. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
37.84 |
1.0103 |
0.2450 |
209 |
1 |
37.84 |
2014-11-19 |
| 24. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
37.74 |
0.9549 |
0.3004 |
204 |
1 |
37.74 |
2012-07-02 |
| 25. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
37.67 |
0.9756 |
0.2821 |
216 |
1 |
37.67 |
2012-12-21 |
| 26. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
37.58 |
0.9880 |
0.2604 |
199 |
1 |
37.58 |
2012-07-02 |
| 27. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
36.94 |
0.8001 |
0.4234 |
88 |
1 |
36.94 |
2012-07-02 |
| 28. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
36.93 |
0.9189 |
0.3061 |
144 |
1 |
36.93 |
2012-12-21 |
| 29. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
36.72 |
1.1062 |
0.1193 |
200 |
1 |
36.72 |
2012-06-18 |
| 30. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
36.71 |
1.0426 |
0.1766 |
131 |
2 |
25.07 |
2012-12-21 |
| 31. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
36.63 |
0.9040 |
0.3164 |
188 |
4 |
26.44 |
2012-12-21 |
| 32. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
36.58 |
1.0557 |
0.1644 |
289 |
1 |
36.58 |
2012-06-27 |
| 33. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
36.53 |
0.9952 |
0.2244 |
220 |
1 |
36.53 |
2012-07-02 |
| 34. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
36.38 |
0.9583 |
0.2544 |
237 |
1 |
36.38 |
2012-12-24 |
| 35. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
36.21 |
0.9252 |
0.2817 |
148 |
1 |
36.21 |
2012-06-27 |
| 36. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
35.50 |
1.0509 |
0.1390 |
295 |
1 |
35.50 |
2014-08-13 |
| 37. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
35.21 |
1.0654 |
0.1049 |
247 |
1 |
35.21 |
2012-06-30 |
| 38. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
35.19 |
1.0471 |
0.1166 |
170 |
1 |
35.19 |
2012-06-27 |
| 39. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
35.18 |
0.9243 |
0.2502 |
240 |
1 |
35.18 |
2012-12-24 |
| 40. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
35.00 |
0.8663 |
0.2955 |
172 |
2 |
32.45 |
2014-08-13 |
| 41. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
34.99 |
0.8971 |
0.2658 |
100 |
1 |
34.99 |
2012-06-27 |
| 42. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
34.53 |
0.9102 |
0.2453 |
239 |
1 |
34.53 |
2014-08-13 |
| 43. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
34.37 |
0.8775 |
0.2617 |
185 |
1 |
34.37 |
2012-07-02 |
| 44. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
34.33 |
0.9054 |
0.2429 |
192 |
1 |
34.33 |
2012-07-02 |
| 45. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
34.02 |
1.0026 |
0.1348 |
200 |
1 |
34.02 |
2012-12-21 |
| 46. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
33.98 |
1.0033 |
0.1287 |
203 |
2 |
28.96 |
2012-06-27 |
| 47. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
33.91 |
0.8127 |
0.3127 |
167 |
1 |
33.91 |
2012-07-02 |
| 48. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
33.69 |
1.0279 |
0.0889 |
172 |
1 |
33.69 |
2014-08-13 |
| 49. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
33.50 |
1.0392 |
0.0815 |
258 |
1 |
33.50 |
2012-12-21 |
| 50. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
33.39 |
1.0418 |
0.0709 |
214 |
1 |
33.39 |
2012-06-27 |
| 51. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
33.39 |
1.0877 |
0.0203 |
129 |
1 |
33.39 |
2014-08-13 |
| 52. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
33.37 |
0.8666 |
0.2425 |
206 |
1 |
33.37 |
2012-12-24 |
| 53. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
33.33 |
0.9425 |
0.1684 |
248 |
1 |
33.33 |
2014-08-13 |
| 54. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
33.23 |
0.8805 |
0.2263 |
205 |
1 |
33.23 |
2012-12-21 |
| 55. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
33.22 |
0.8957 |
0.2103 |
186 |
1 |
33.22 |
2014-08-13 |
| 56. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
33.16 |
1.0462 |
0.0612 |
340 |
1 |
33.16 |
2012-12-21 |
| 57. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
33.02 |
0.9947 |
0.1148 |
346 |
1 |
33.02 |
2012-07-02 |
| 58. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
32.86 |
1.0561 |
0.0361 |
227 |
2 |
32.62 |
2012-12-20 |
| 59. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
32.66 |
0.9286 |
0.1610 |
177 |
1 |
32.66 |
2012-06-27 |
| 60. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
32.42 |
0.9928 |
0.0861 |
293 |
1 |
32.42 |
2012-07-11 |
| 61. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
32.25 |
1.0115 |
0.0570 |
189 |
1 |
32.25 |
2012-12-20 |
| 62. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
31.94 |
0.9614 |
0.1032 |
195 |
1 |
31.94 |
2012-12-21 |
| 63. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
31.84 |
1.0036 |
0.0576 |
277 |
1 |
31.84 |
2012-06-27 |
| 64. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
31.82 |
0.9574 |
0.1052 |
354 |
1 |
31.82 |
2012-06-27 |
| 65. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
31.64 |
0.9244 |
0.1341 |
225 |
1 |
31.64 |
2014-08-13 |
| 66. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
31.62 |
0.8572 |
0.1937 |
232 |
1 |
31.62 |
2012-07-02 |
| 67. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
31.47 |
0.9070 |
0.1359 |
192 |
2 |
27.36 |
2012-06-27 |
| 68. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
31.28 |
1.1070 |
-0.0667 |
265 |
1 |
31.28 |
2012-06-18 |
| 69. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
31.22 |
0.9339 |
0.0969 |
108 |
1 |
31.22 |
2012-12-21 |
| 70. |
We believe not in death but in life and there is no object m... |
31.11 |
0.9182 |
0.0555 |
91 |
1 |
31.11 |
2020-11-26 |
| 71. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
31.07 |
0.8117 |
0.2260 |
209 |
1 |
31.07 |
2012-12-24 |
| 72. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
30.82 |
0.8339 |
0.1916 |
209 |
2 |
30.19 |
2014-08-13 |
| 73. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
30.69 |
0.9930 |
0.0376 |
350 |
1 |
30.69 |
2012-12-20 |
| 74. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
30.56 |
0.8827 |
0.1307 |
190 |
2 |
21.23 |
2012-06-27 |
| 75. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
30.40 |
1.0461 |
-0.0294 |
286 |
1 |
30.40 |
2012-06-18 |
| 76. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
29.73 |
0.8164 |
0.1738 |
197 |
1 |
29.73 |
2012-06-27 |
| 77. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
29.28 |
0.8863 |
0.0845 |
127 |
3 |
20.21 |
2012-12-20 |
| 78. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
28.17 |
1.0208 |
-0.0840 |
232 |
1 |
28.17 |
2012-06-18 |
| 79. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
27.76 |
0.8669 |
0.0628 |
255 |
1 |
27.76 |
2014-11-19 |
| 80. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
27.70 |
1.0595 |
-0.1448 |
166 |
1 |
27.70 |
2011-01-12 |
| 81. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
27.55 |
0.8770 |
0.0395 |
163 |
1 |
27.55 |
2012-06-30 |
| 82. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
27.38 |
1.0873 |
-0.1797 |
243 |
1 |
27.38 |
2012-06-18 |
| 83. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
27.11 |
0.8837 |
0.0167 |
157 |
1 |
27.11 |
2012-06-30 |
| 84. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
27.04 |
0.8281 |
0.0721 |
134 |
1 |
27.04 |
2011-01-12 |
| 85. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
26.80 |
0.8938 |
-0.0020 |
238 |
1 |
26.80 |
2012-05-26 |
| 86. |
What torments me is not the humps nor the hollows nor the ug... |
25.81 |
0.9029 |
-0.1099 |
135 |
1 |
25.81 |
2020-11-26 |
| 87. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
25.52 |
0.7973 |
0.0568 |
127 |
1 |
25.52 |
2011-01-12 |
| 88. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
25.52 |
0.9408 |
-0.0981 |
177 |
1 |
25.52 |
2014-08-13 |
| 89. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
25.14 |
0.8970 |
-0.0601 |
152 |
1 |
25.14 |
2011-01-10 |
| 90. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
24.75 |
0.9213 |
-0.1007 |
165 |
1 |
24.75 |
2011-01-10 |
| 91. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
24.59 |
1.0867 |
-0.2739 |
171 |
2 |
22.78 |
2011-01-08 |
| 92. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
24.00 |
0.7739 |
0.0255 |
207 |
1 |
24.00 |
2014-08-13 |
| 93. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
23.57 |
0.8204 |
-0.0392 |
121 |
1 |
23.57 |
2012-06-18 |
| 94. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
22.65 |
0.8918 |
-0.1340 |
163 |
3 |
18.03 |
2011-01-08 |
| 95. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
22.61 |
0.8830 |
-0.1374 |
134 |
2 |
17.43 |
2011-01-10 |
| 96. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
21.96 |
0.8985 |
-0.1722 |
127 |
2 |
20.75 |
2011-01-08 |
| 97. |
When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped... |
21.51 |
0.8387 |
-0.1311 |
103 |
1 |
21.51 |
2011-01-08 |
| 98. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
21.30 |
0.8718 |
-0.1655 |
193 |
1 |
21.30 |
2011-01-10 |
| 99. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
21.14 |
0.7868 |
-0.0888 |
116 |
1 |
21.14 |
2012-06-18 |
| 100. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
21.09 |
0.8785 |
-0.1881 |
119 |
2 |
17.94 |
2011-04-07 |
| 101. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
21.01 |
1.0582 |
-0.3640 |
180 |
2 |
18.72 |
2011-01-10 |
| 102. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
20.73 |
0.9166 |
-0.2262 |
133 |
2 |
20.17 |
2011-01-08 |
| 103. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
20.42 |
0.9211 |
-0.2453 |
165 |
1 |
20.42 |
2011-01-08 |
| 104. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
20.36 |
0.8161 |
-0.1374 |
109 |
1 |
20.36 |
2011-01-10 |
| 105. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
20.22 |
0.8208 |
-0.1467 |
149 |
1 |
20.22 |
2011-01-10 |
| 106. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
19.81 |
0.8957 |
-0.2416 |
168 |
2 |
16.54 |
2011-01-08 |
| 107. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
19.04 |
0.8857 |
-0.2580 |
172 |
1 |
19.04 |
2011-01-08 |
| 108. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
18.97 |
0.8789 |
-0.2530 |
136 |
2 |
15.61 |
2011-01-08 |
| 109. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
18.56 |
0.9807 |
-0.3772 |
129 |
2 |
17.20 |
2011-01-08 |
| 110. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
18.47 |
0.8053 |
-0.1940 |
126 |
2 |
17.71 |
2011-01-08 |
| 111. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
17.39 |
0.8135 |
-0.2361 |
173 |
1 |
17.39 |
2011-01-08 |
| 112. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
17.33 |
0.9204 |
-0.3448 |
121 |
1 |
17.33 |
2011-01-08 |
| 113. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
17.30 |
0.8218 |
-0.2472 |
163 |
1 |
17.30 |
2011-04-07 |
| 114. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
17.12 |
0.8246 |
-0.2568 |
183 |
1 |
17.12 |
2011-01-08 |
| 115. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
16.96 |
0.8553 |
-0.2889 |
145 |
1 |
16.96 |
2011-01-08 |
| 116. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
16.84 |
0.9077 |
-0.3508 |
155 |
1 |
16.84 |
2011-01-08 |
| 117. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
16.51 |
0.8732 |
-0.3343 |
94 |
1 |
16.51 |
2011-01-08 |
| 118. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
16.36 |
0.9621 |
-0.4238 |
201 |
1 |
16.36 |
2011-01-08 |
| 119. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
16.25 |
0.8825 |
-0.3443 |
105 |
1 |
16.25 |
2011-01-08 |
| 120. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
15.95 |
0.8936 |
-0.3672 |
135 |
1 |
15.95 |
2011-01-08 |
| 121. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
15.80 |
0.8965 |
-0.3731 |
150 |
1 |
15.80 |
2011-01-08 |
| 122. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
14.85 |
0.9836 |
-0.5013 |
123 |
1 |
14.85 |
2011-01-08 |
| 123. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
13.99 |
1.0204 |
-0.5665 |
143 |
1 |
13.99 |
2011-04-07 |
| 124. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
13.68 |
0.9925 |
-0.5454 |
155 |
1 |
13.68 |
2011-01-08 |
| 125. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
13.54 |
0.8606 |
-0.4119 |
170 |
1 |
13.54 |
2011-01-08 |
| 126. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
13.35 |
0.8240 |
-0.3832 |
159 |
1 |
13.35 |
2011-01-08 |
| 127. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
12.94 |
0.8283 |
-0.3993 |
180 |
1 |
12.94 |
2011-01-08 |
| 128. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
12.39 |
0.8964 |
-0.4907 |
199 |
1 |
12.39 |
2011-01-08 |
| 129. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
11.83 |
0.8758 |
-0.4866 |
127 |
1 |
11.83 |
2011-01-08 |
| 130. |
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. |
10.97 |
0.9620 |
-0.6088 |
62 |
2 |
10.93 |
2011-01-08 |
| 131. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
10.53 |
1.0524 |
-0.7084 |
177 |
1 |
10.53 |
2011-01-08 |
| 132. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
9.70 |
0.8201 |
-0.5077 |
187 |
1 |
9.70 |
2011-01-08 |
| 133. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
9.49 |
1.0095 |
-0.6995 |
211 |
1 |
9.49 |
2011-01-08 |