Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
45.35 |
1.0178 |
0.3884 |
207 |
2 |
42.61 |
2009-11-24 |
2. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
45.27 |
0.9931 |
0.4084 |
218 |
2 |
36.35 |
2009-10-15 |
3. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.52 |
0.9213 |
0.3649 |
165 |
2 |
34.79 |
2009-11-23 |
4. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
41.30 |
0.8869 |
0.3923 |
176 |
2 |
37.91 |
2009-10-14 |
5. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
40.76 |
1.0881 |
0.1727 |
210 |
2 |
32.82 |
2009-11-23 |
6. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
40.28 |
0.9991 |
0.2501 |
339 |
2 |
38.54 |
2009-10-14 |
7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.02 |
1.0403 |
0.1997 |
234 |
2 |
39.41 |
2009-11-23 |
8. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
38.45 |
0.8592 |
0.3309 |
191 |
1 |
38.45 |
2009-10-04 |
9. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
38.36 |
0.9316 |
0.2604 |
188 |
2 |
34.18 |
2009-11-23 |
10. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
38.32 |
0.9357 |
0.2508 |
204 |
1 |
38.32 |
2009-11-23 |
11. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
38.24 |
1.0576 |
0.1258 |
231 |
3 |
31.21 |
2009-11-23 |
12. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
38.18 |
1.0743 |
0.1111 |
297 |
2 |
33.91 |
2009-11-23 |
13. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
37.98 |
0.8830 |
0.2891 |
134 |
1 |
37.98 |
2009-10-12 |
14. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
37.69 |
1.0332 |
0.1352 |
267 |
1 |
37.69 |
2009-10-14 |
15. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
37.17 |
1.0082 |
0.1396 |
212 |
2 |
31.16 |
2009-10-14 |
16. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
37.06 |
1.0969 |
0.0547 |
303 |
2 |
34.27 |
2009-10-14 |
17. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
36.86 |
1.0426 |
0.0965 |
131 |
3 |
34.03 |
2009-11-23 |
18. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
36.84 |
0.9264 |
0.2170 |
177 |
2 |
35.42 |
2009-11-23 |
19. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
36.72 |
1.0333 |
0.1004 |
176 |
1 |
36.72 |
2009-10-14 |
20. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
36.71 |
0.9286 |
0.2117 |
177 |
3 |
34.39 |
2009-10-14 |
21. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
36.70 |
1.0418 |
0.0971 |
214 |
2 |
33.43 |
2009-11-23 |
22. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
36.69 |
0.8375 |
0.2992 |
203 |
1 |
36.69 |
2009-10-06 |
23. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
36.65 |
0.9621 |
0.1769 |
212 |
1 |
36.65 |
2009-10-14 |
24. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.37 |
0.9425 |
0.1860 |
248 |
1 |
36.37 |
2009-10-14 |
25. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
35.93 |
1.0521 |
0.0564 |
197 |
1 |
35.93 |
2009-10-14 |
26. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
35.92 |
0.9285 |
0.1835 |
244 |
1 |
35.92 |
2009-11-23 |
27. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
35.84 |
0.9935 |
0.1200 |
217 |
1 |
35.84 |
2009-10-12 |
28. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
35.57 |
1.0479 |
0.0534 |
205 |
4 |
30.64 |
2009-10-12 |
29. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
35.55 |
1.0272 |
0.0730 |
226 |
2 |
34.90 |
2009-10-14 |
30. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
35.49 |
0.8986 |
0.2068 |
363 |
1 |
35.49 |
2009-10-15 |
31. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
35.46 |
0.8863 |
0.2097 |
127 |
1 |
35.46 |
2009-10-14 |
32. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
35.30 |
0.9255 |
0.1697 |
174 |
1 |
35.30 |
2009-11-24 |
33. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
35.15 |
1.0777 |
0.0100 |
226 |
1 |
35.15 |
2009-11-23 |
34. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
35.04 |
1.0288 |
0.0529 |
166 |
3 |
29.23 |
2009-10-14 |
35. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
35.03 |
0.8553 |
0.2341 |
145 |
2 |
32.53 |
2009-10-02 |
36. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
35.02 |
1.0901 |
-0.0023 |
288 |
1 |
35.02 |
2009-10-06 |
37. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
34.88 |
1.0638 |
0.0156 |
247 |
2 |
30.36 |
2009-10-14 |
38. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
34.78 |
0.8758 |
0.2009 |
127 |
1 |
34.78 |
2009-10-14 |
39. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
34.55 |
0.9166 |
0.1571 |
133 |
1 |
34.55 |
2009-10-14 |
40. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
34.19 |
0.8958 |
0.1606 |
188 |
2 |
30.96 |
2009-10-11 |
41. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
34.17 |
0.8827 |
0.1726 |
190 |
1 |
34.17 |
2009-10-14 |
42. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
34.09 |
0.8161 |
0.2432 |
109 |
2 |
34.04 |
2009-10-14 |
43. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
34.06 |
0.8742 |
0.1861 |
202 |
2 |
32.28 |
2009-11-23 |
44. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
33.97 |
1.0472 |
-0.0005 |
149 |
1 |
33.97 |
2009-10-08 |
45. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
33.95 |
0.8718 |
0.1801 |
193 |
1 |
33.95 |
2009-10-14 |
46. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
33.93 |
1.0873 |
-0.0385 |
243 |
2 |
31.34 |
2009-10-14 |
47. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
33.83 |
1.0208 |
0.0278 |
231 |
1 |
33.83 |
2009-10-14 |
48. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
33.61 |
1.0279 |
0.0082 |
172 |
1 |
33.61 |
2009-10-14 |
49. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
33.56 |
1.0511 |
-0.0091 |
252 |
1 |
33.56 |
2009-10-14 |
50. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
33.37 |
1.0026 |
0.0361 |
200 |
4 |
30.74 |
2009-10-12 |
51. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
33.21 |
1.0845 |
-0.0563 |
212 |
3 |
32.91 |
2009-10-15 |
52. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
33.15 |
0.9371 |
0.0815 |
156 |
1 |
33.15 |
2009-10-11 |
53. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
33.15 |
0.9948 |
0.0315 |
233 |
1 |
33.15 |
2009-10-11 |
54. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
33.13 |
0.9927 |
0.0360 |
262 |
1 |
33.13 |
2009-10-07 |
55. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
32.96 |
0.9621 |
0.0565 |
201 |
1 |
32.96 |
2009-11-23 |
56. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
32.90 |
0.8777 |
0.1376 |
130 |
2 |
30.01 |
2009-10-06 |
57. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
32.80 |
0.8925 |
0.1310 |
293 |
2 |
30.81 |
2009-10-06 |
58. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
32.76 |
0.9598 |
0.0577 |
209 |
1 |
32.76 |
2009-10-14 |
59. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
32.76 |
0.9204 |
0.0957 |
121 |
1 |
32.76 |
2009-09-24 |
60. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
32.75 |
0.7987 |
0.2155 |
176 |
1 |
32.75 |
2009-10-03 |
61. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
32.63 |
0.8572 |
0.1523 |
232 |
2 |
30.66 |
2009-10-14 |
62. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
32.53 |
0.9673 |
0.0430 |
292 |
1 |
32.53 |
2009-10-04 |
63. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
32.51 |
0.8988 |
0.1079 |
193 |
1 |
32.51 |
2009-10-14 |
64. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
32.46 |
1.0865 |
-0.0808 |
237 |
1 |
32.46 |
2009-10-14 |
65. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
32.44 |
0.9310 |
0.0738 |
278 |
1 |
32.44 |
2009-10-01 |
66. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
32.34 |
0.9324 |
0.0728 |
246 |
1 |
32.34 |
2009-10-04 |
67. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
32.33 |
1.0800 |
-0.0851 |
129 |
2 |
31.08 |
2009-10-12 |
68. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
32.29 |
0.8378 |
0.1654 |
219 |
2 |
31.66 |
2009-10-18 |
69. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
32.23 |
0.9084 |
0.0919 |
271 |
1 |
32.23 |
2009-10-13 |
70. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
32.23 |
0.7966 |
0.2082 |
184 |
1 |
32.23 |
2009-10-04 |
71. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
32.15 |
0.9070 |
0.0845 |
192 |
2 |
26.03 |
2009-10-14 |
72. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
32.09 |
0.9745 |
0.0220 |
388 |
1 |
32.09 |
2009-10-14 |
73. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
32.08 |
1.0033 |
-0.0089 |
203 |
2 |
30.22 |
2009-10-14 |
74. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
31.96 |
0.8988 |
0.0915 |
216 |
1 |
31.96 |
2009-10-11 |
75. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
31.83 |
0.9981 |
-0.0127 |
211 |
1 |
31.83 |
2009-10-11 |
76. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
31.69 |
1.1070 |
-0.1262 |
265 |
2 |
29.54 |
2009-10-07 |
77. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
31.50 |
0.8656 |
0.1116 |
242 |
1 |
31.50 |
2009-10-14 |
78. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
31.46 |
1.0199 |
-0.0489 |
225 |
1 |
31.46 |
2009-10-04 |
79. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
31.42 |
0.9102 |
0.0685 |
239 |
1 |
31.42 |
2009-09-24 |
80. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
30.61 |
1.0197 |
-0.0733 |
204 |
2 |
27.67 |
2009-10-14 |
81. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
30.57 |
0.9685 |
-0.0208 |
304 |
1 |
30.57 |
2009-09-30 |
82. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
30.46 |
0.9384 |
0.0027 |
296 |
1 |
30.46 |
2009-10-06 |
83. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
30.41 |
0.9890 |
-0.0431 |
272 |
1 |
30.41 |
2009-10-14 |
84. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
30.39 |
1.0250 |
-0.0807 |
271 |
1 |
30.39 |
2009-10-14 |
85. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
30.37 |
0.9574 |
-0.0134 |
354 |
1 |
30.37 |
2009-10-06 |
86. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
30.37 |
0.9974 |
-0.0605 |
163 |
2 |
29.44 |
2009-10-14 |
87. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
30.14 |
0.9243 |
0.0095 |
231 |
1 |
30.14 |
2009-10-13 |
88. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
30.12 |
0.9503 |
-0.0240 |
211 |
1 |
30.12 |
2009-11-23 |
89. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
30.09 |
1.0189 |
-0.0875 |
290 |
1 |
30.09 |
2009-10-06 |
90. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
29.82 |
0.9809 |
-0.0612 |
209 |
1 |
29.82 |
2009-10-14 |
91. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
29.63 |
0.9014 |
0.0162 |
193 |
1 |
29.63 |
2009-10-02 |
92. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
29.55 |
0.8603 |
0.0548 |
270 |
1 |
29.55 |
2009-10-03 |
93. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
29.54 |
0.9807 |
-0.0774 |
129 |
1 |
29.54 |
2009-10-04 |
94. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
29.48 |
1.0101 |
-0.0953 |
336 |
1 |
29.48 |
2009-10-06 |
95. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
29.27 |
0.8201 |
0.0800 |
187 |
2 |
27.66 |
2009-10-02 |
96. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
29.18 |
1.0095 |
-0.1072 |
211 |
1 |
29.18 |
2009-10-02 |
97. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
29.14 |
0.8845 |
0.0192 |
239 |
1 |
29.14 |
2009-10-04 |
98. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
29.09 |
0.8789 |
0.0163 |
136 |
1 |
29.09 |
2009-09-26 |
99. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
29.04 |
0.8053 |
0.0921 |
126 |
1 |
29.04 |
2009-10-01 |
100. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
29.00 |
0.7875 |
0.1130 |
257 |
1 |
29.00 |
2009-10-04 |
101. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
28.85 |
1.0264 |
-0.1372 |
191 |
1 |
28.85 |
2009-10-06 |
102. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
28.68 |
0.9275 |
-0.0342 |
243 |
1 |
28.68 |
2009-10-05 |
103. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
28.62 |
0.8172 |
0.0647 |
204 |
2 |
28.59 |
2009-10-06 |
104. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
28.55 |
0.8986 |
-0.0140 |
216 |
1 |
28.55 |
2009-10-14 |
105. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
28.37 |
0.8205 |
0.0597 |
135 |
1 |
28.37 |
2009-09-29 |
106. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
28.10 |
1.0877 |
-0.2211 |
129 |
1 |
28.10 |
2009-10-14 |
107. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
27.80 |
1.0004 |
-0.1372 |
373 |
1 |
27.80 |
2009-10-11 |
108. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
27.69 |
0.8208 |
0.0394 |
149 |
1 |
27.69 |
2009-10-14 |
109. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
27.33 |
0.9228 |
-0.0723 |
305 |
1 |
27.33 |
2009-10-10 |
110. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
27.28 |
0.7384 |
0.1024 |
106 |
1 |
27.28 |
2009-10-01 |
111. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
27.27 |
1.0800 |
-0.2388 |
213 |
3 |
26.65 |
2009-10-12 |
112. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
27.12 |
0.9027 |
-0.0668 |
189 |
1 |
27.12 |
2009-10-15 |
113. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
27.09 |
0.8124 |
0.0217 |
167 |
1 |
27.09 |
2009-10-14 |
114. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
26.68 |
0.9791 |
-0.1600 |
154 |
1 |
26.68 |
2009-10-14 |
115. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
26.60 |
1.0063 |
-0.1782 |
293 |
1 |
26.60 |
2009-09-29 |
116. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
26.54 |
0.7988 |
0.0204 |
134 |
2 |
26.26 |
2009-10-02 |
117. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
26.35 |
0.8948 |
-0.0801 |
164 |
1 |
26.35 |
2009-10-14 |
118. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
26.33 |
1.0615 |
-0.2497 |
201 |
1 |
26.33 |
2009-10-02 |
119. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
25.95 |
0.7271 |
0.0762 |
186 |
1 |
25.95 |
2009-10-04 |
120. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
25.84 |
0.8986 |
-0.1008 |
205 |
1 |
25.84 |
2009-10-04 |
121. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
25.71 |
0.9927 |
-0.2005 |
234 |
1 |
25.71 |
2009-10-14 |
122. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
25.39 |
1.0125 |
-0.2285 |
232 |
1 |
25.39 |
2009-09-30 |
123. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
25.34 |
0.9869 |
-0.2066 |
193 |
1 |
25.34 |
2009-10-01 |
124. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
25.26 |
0.9500 |
-0.1669 |
287 |
1 |
25.26 |
2009-10-01 |
125. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
24.97 |
0.7724 |
-0.0017 |
142 |
1 |
24.97 |
2009-09-28 |
126. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
24.80 |
1.0543 |
-0.2905 |
182 |
1 |
24.80 |
2009-10-14 |
127. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
23.95 |
0.8811 |
-0.1453 |
201 |
1 |
23.95 |
2009-09-30 |
128. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
23.67 |
0.7889 |
-0.0536 |
97 |
1 |
23.67 |
2009-10-02 |
129. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
23.13 |
0.8646 |
-0.1531 |
110 |
1 |
23.13 |
2009-09-30 |
130. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
22.80 |
0.8551 |
-0.1502 |
150 |
1 |
22.80 |
2009-09-19 |
131. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
22.23 |
0.8218 |
-0.1347 |
163 |
1 |
22.23 |
2009-09-25 |
132. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
21.33 |
0.9332 |
-0.2743 |
267 |
1 |
21.33 |
2009-10-04 |