| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
44.62 |
0.9931 |
0.1612 |
218 |
2 |
36.51 |
2016-02-12 |
| 2. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
33.05 |
0.9621 |
-0.1093 |
201 |
2 |
31.34 |
2016-01-26 |
| 3. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
27.94 |
0.9851 |
-0.2577 |
237 |
2 |
26.43 |
2016-01-26 |
| 4. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
43.03 |
1.0845 |
0.0308 |
212 |
2 |
35.77 |
2016-02-12 |
| 5. |
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live i... |
28.10 |
1.1242 |
-0.3919 |
144 |
2 |
26.06 |
2016-01-26 |
| 6. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
38.86 |
0.8936 |
0.1126 |
135 |
2 |
30.76 |
2016-08-08 |
| 7. |
If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to ... |
40.68 |
1.0345 |
0.0243 |
206 |
2 |
32.57 |
2016-08-11 |
| 8. |
Be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competiti... |
24.91 |
0.8533 |
-0.2148 |
134 |
2 |
22.71 |
2016-01-26 |
| 9. |
Ever seen the size of one of their molars? They go through b... |
24.79 |
0.8839 |
-0.2571 |
139 |
2 |
24.76 |
2016-01-26 |
| 10. |
God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his ... |
40.19 |
1.0067 |
0.0382 |
188 |
2 |
33.85 |
2016-08-11 |
| 11. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
30.51 |
0.9869 |
-0.2007 |
193 |
2 |
28.42 |
2017-01-28 |
| 12. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
39.40 |
1.0479 |
-0.0278 |
205 |
2 |
32.33 |
2016-02-12 |
| 13. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
27.63 |
0.9332 |
-0.2189 |
267 |
1 |
27.63 |
2016-01-26 |
| 14. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
28.61 |
0.8594 |
-0.1225 |
170 |
1 |
28.61 |
2016-01-26 |
| 15. |
George, I am an old man and most people hate me. But I don't... |
55.18 |
1.0376 |
0.3983 |
371 |
1 |
55.18 |
2018-12-15 |
| 16. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
36.44 |
0.8965 |
0.0486 |
150 |
1 |
36.44 |
2016-02-12 |
| 17. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
37.71 |
0.9650 |
0.0153 |
347 |
1 |
37.71 |
2016-02-12 |
| 18. |
It's a funny thing, but people mostly have it backward. They... |
32.81 |
1.0677 |
-0.2198 |
173 |
1 |
32.81 |
2016-02-12 |
| 19. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
61.13 |
1.0873 |
0.4983 |
243 |
1 |
61.13 |
2018-12-15 |
| 20. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
51.15 |
0.9809 |
0.3549 |
250 |
1 |
51.15 |
2017-01-28 |
| 21. |
And now for a brief public service announcement: alligators.... |
52.32 |
0.9298 |
0.4013 |
292 |
1 |
52.32 |
2017-01-28 |
| 22. |
It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all... |
56.41 |
1.0201 |
0.4538 |
312 |
1 |
56.41 |
2017-01-28 |
| 23. |
Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'fur... |
44.39 |
0.9879 |
0.1575 |
165 |
1 |
44.39 |
2017-08-20 |
| 24. |
Of the Cold War era's myriad development projects, none has ... |
47.52 |
0.8463 |
0.3603 |
263 |
1 |
47.52 |
2018-12-15 |
| 25. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
23.64 |
0.7764 |
-0.1673 |
145 |
1 |
23.64 |
2016-01-26 |
| 26. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
25.92 |
1.0511 |
-0.3796 |
252 |
1 |
25.92 |
2016-01-26 |
| 27. |
The wind was bitterly cold. The snow swirled, blurring his v... |
44.96 |
1.0045 |
0.1645 |
298 |
1 |
44.96 |
2017-01-28 |
| 28. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
22.62 |
1.0561 |
-0.4744 |
227 |
1 |
22.62 |
2016-01-26 |
| 29. |
One just can't imagine what prison is like from outside. You... |
51.96 |
1.0389 |
0.3222 |
271 |
1 |
51.96 |
2017-01-28 |
| 30. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
31.15 |
0.8721 |
-0.0595 |
231 |
1 |
31.15 |
2016-02-12 |
| 31. |
Thousands of groups exist to influence government. Among the... |
52.14 |
0.9368 |
0.3915 |
299 |
1 |
52.14 |
2017-01-28 |
| 32. |
I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an esse... |
56.35 |
1.0261 |
0.4502 |
174 |
1 |
56.35 |
2017-01-28 |
| 33. |
And I despise your books, I despise wisdom and the blessings... |
41.94 |
0.9755 |
0.1203 |
404 |
1 |
41.94 |
2017-01-28 |
| 34. |
I can and do say that nothing human beings have ever before ... |
37.48 |
1.0343 |
-0.0569 |
306 |
1 |
37.48 |
2016-02-12 |
| 35. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
58.59 |
1.0464 |
0.4813 |
294 |
1 |
58.59 |
2017-01-28 |
| 36. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
26.52 |
0.9285 |
-0.2445 |
244 |
1 |
26.52 |
2016-01-26 |
| 37. |
Now the years are rolling by me. They are rocking evenly. An... |
49.50 |
1.0143 |
0.2707 |
261 |
1 |
49.50 |
2017-01-28 |
| 38. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
30.98 |
0.9264 |
-0.1232 |
177 |
1 |
30.98 |
2016-01-26 |
| 39. |
But this rough magic I here abjure, and when I have required... |
52.72 |
0.9877 |
0.3821 |
284 |
1 |
52.72 |
2017-01-28 |
| 40. |
This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it... |
68.81 |
1.0531 |
0.7433 |
204 |
1 |
68.81 |
2018-12-15 |
| 41. |
Robbers never strike at the homes of the poor; private wealt... |
55.50 |
0.9833 |
0.4229 |
209 |
1 |
55.50 |
2018-12-15 |
| 42. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
26.22 |
0.8913 |
-0.2117 |
201 |
1 |
26.22 |
2016-01-26 |
| 43. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
26.93 |
0.9189 |
-0.2281 |
144 |
1 |
26.93 |
2016-01-26 |
| 44. |
The robins were singing vespers in the high tree-tops, filli... |
51.32 |
1.0214 |
0.3171 |
287 |
1 |
51.32 |
2017-01-28 |
| 45. |
I think I'm starting to lose my sense of humor. Everything's... |
59.00 |
0.9805 |
0.5185 |
306 |
1 |
59.00 |
2018-12-15 |
| 46. |
Tim and the Princess lounge in the castle garden, laughing t... |
27.05 |
1.0197 |
-0.3197 |
192 |
1 |
27.05 |
2016-01-26 |
| 47. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
66.09 |
1.0665 |
0.6457 |
196 |
1 |
66.09 |
2016-09-20 |
| 48. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
30.67 |
0.8205 |
-0.0241 |
135 |
1 |
30.67 |
2016-01-26 |
| 49. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
40.44 |
0.9931 |
0.0602 |
339 |
1 |
40.44 |
2016-08-15 |
| 50. |
You have two choices: you can keep running and hiding and bl... |
26.00 |
1.0722 |
-0.4009 |
164 |
1 |
26.00 |
2016-01-26 |
| 51. |
So, ahem, how much is it, then, Tom? - You know how much, Ni... |
36.73 |
0.8410 |
0.0994 |
333 |
1 |
36.73 |
2016-08-11 |
| 52. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
41.60 |
1.0529 |
0.0291 |
373 |
1 |
41.60 |
2016-02-12 |
| 53. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
39.92 |
0.9330 |
0.1139 |
341 |
1 |
39.92 |
2016-08-11 |
| 54. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
40.92 |
0.9880 |
0.0694 |
199 |
1 |
40.92 |
2016-02-12 |
| 55. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
48.66 |
1.0538 |
0.2221 |
367 |
1 |
48.66 |
2016-08-11 |
| 56. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
35.69 |
0.9252 |
0.0002 |
148 |
1 |
35.69 |
2016-02-12 |
| 57. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
50.18 |
1.0399 |
0.2684 |
257 |
1 |
50.18 |
2016-08-11 |
| 58. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
29.12 |
0.7130 |
0.0391 |
131 |
1 |
29.12 |
2016-02-12 |
| 59. |
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the ke... |
28.33 |
1.0086 |
-0.2789 |
196 |
1 |
28.33 |
2016-01-26 |
| 60. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
31.34 |
0.8168 |
-0.0071 |
115 |
1 |
31.34 |
2016-02-12 |
| 61. |
When the mind is brought to rest and not allowed to wander, ... |
28.52 |
0.8733 |
-0.1371 |
162 |
1 |
28.52 |
2016-01-26 |
| 62. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
32.62 |
0.8592 |
-0.0165 |
191 |
1 |
32.62 |
2016-02-12 |
| 63. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
56.19 |
0.9332 |
0.5280 |
295 |
1 |
56.19 |
2018-12-15 |
| 64. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
25.90 |
0.8624 |
-0.1975 |
174 |
1 |
25.90 |
2016-01-26 |
| 65. |
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no un... |
48.43 |
0.9663 |
0.2974 |
364 |
1 |
48.43 |
2016-08-11 |
| 66. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
26.32 |
0.8378 |
-0.1547 |
219 |
1 |
26.32 |
2016-01-26 |
| 67. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
41.27 |
0.8959 |
0.1802 |
328 |
1 |
41.27 |
2016-08-11 |
| 68. |
They say, "Find a purpose in your life and live it." But, so... |
26.93 |
1.0207 |
-0.3212 |
182 |
1 |
26.93 |
2016-01-26 |
| 69. |
You know, sweetheart, if there's one thing I've learned, it'... |
42.98 |
1.0069 |
0.1069 |
161 |
1 |
42.98 |
2016-08-08 |
| 70. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
31.91 |
1.0736 |
-0.2434 |
256 |
1 |
31.91 |
2016-01-26 |
| 71. |
I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the sens... |
50.77 |
1.0131 |
0.3112 |
214 |
1 |
50.77 |
2016-08-08 |
| 72. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
24.73 |
1.0243 |
-0.3819 |
153 |
1 |
24.73 |
2016-01-26 |
| 73. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
25.22 |
0.9756 |
-0.3247 |
223 |
1 |
25.22 |
2016-01-26 |
| 74. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
40.48 |
0.9183 |
0.1326 |
308 |
1 |
40.48 |
2016-08-08 |
| 75. |
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joi... |
55.29 |
1.1601 |
0.2778 |
109 |
1 |
55.29 |
2018-12-15 |
| 76. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
28.35 |
0.8175 |
-0.0828 |
181 |
1 |
28.35 |
2016-01-26 |
| 77. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
36.52 |
0.7923 |
0.1549 |
316 |
1 |
36.52 |
2016-08-08 |
| 78. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
22.25 |
0.9105 |
-0.3441 |
118 |
1 |
22.25 |
2016-01-26 |
| 79. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
51.36 |
1.0472 |
0.2804 |
149 |
1 |
51.36 |
2016-08-08 |
| 80. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
25.50 |
0.8203 |
-0.1668 |
94 |
1 |
25.50 |
2016-01-26 |
| 81. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
38.30 |
0.9244 |
0.0737 |
225 |
1 |
38.30 |
2016-08-04 |
| 82. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
26.49 |
0.8732 |
-0.1960 |
94 |
1 |
26.49 |
2016-01-26 |
| 83. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
21.80 |
0.8958 |
-0.3371 |
188 |
1 |
21.80 |
2016-01-26 |
| 84. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
23.43 |
1.0288 |
-0.4285 |
166 |
1 |
23.43 |
2016-01-26 |
| 85. |
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped - turn... |
62.18 |
0.9847 |
0.6224 |
192 |
1 |
62.18 |
2018-12-16 |
| 86. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
24.40 |
0.8572 |
-0.2287 |
232 |
1 |
24.40 |
2016-01-26 |
| 87. |
Oxygen gets you high. In a catastrophic emergency, you're ta... |
51.01 |
0.8454 |
0.4500 |
247 |
1 |
51.01 |
2018-12-15 |
| 88. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
25.42 |
0.8964 |
-0.2424 |
199 |
1 |
25.42 |
2016-01-26 |
| 89. |
One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood... |
58.59 |
0.9276 |
0.5711 |
403 |
1 |
58.59 |
2018-12-16 |
| 90. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
23.30 |
0.9054 |
-0.3016 |
204 |
1 |
23.30 |
2016-01-26 |
| 91. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
39.21 |
0.9635 |
0.0573 |
220 |
1 |
39.21 |
2016-02-12 |
| 92. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
26.40 |
0.9358 |
-0.2599 |
188 |
1 |
26.40 |
2016-01-26 |
| 93. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
36.08 |
0.9763 |
-0.0420 |
283 |
1 |
36.08 |
2016-02-12 |
| 94. |
And, anyway, it's not about making money, it's about taking ... |
23.94 |
1.0155 |
-0.4019 |
172 |
1 |
23.94 |
2016-01-26 |
| 95. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
29.85 |
0.9854 |
-0.2114 |
174 |
1 |
29.85 |
2016-02-12 |
| 96. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
26.09 |
0.8218 |
-0.1459 |
163 |
1 |
26.09 |
2016-01-26 |
| 97. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
37.93 |
0.9144 |
0.0629 |
167 |
1 |
37.93 |
2016-02-12 |
| 98. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
25.62 |
0.8887 |
-0.2217 |
194 |
1 |
25.62 |
2016-01-26 |
| 99. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
35.25 |
0.9310 |
-0.0182 |
278 |
1 |
35.25 |
2016-02-12 |
| 100. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
26.43 |
0.9873 |
-0.3056 |
274 |
1 |
26.43 |
2016-01-26 |
| 101. |
I have a dream, a fantasy, to help me through reality. And m... |
48.42 |
1.0174 |
0.2318 |
148 |
1 |
48.42 |
2018-12-16 |
| 102. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
62.57 |
1.0487 |
0.5752 |
253 |
1 |
62.57 |
2018-12-16 |