| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
62.10 |
0.9614 |
0.8016 |
195 |
1 |
62.10 |
2010-11-17 |
| 2. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
56.96 |
1.0288 |
0.5817 |
166 |
1 |
56.96 |
2015-07-24 |
| 3. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
55.07 |
0.9852 |
0.5756 |
235 |
1 |
55.07 |
2015-07-27 |
| 4. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
54.41 |
1.0039 |
0.5449 |
255 |
1 |
54.41 |
2015-08-06 |
| 5. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
53.05 |
1.0060 |
0.4986 |
225 |
1 |
53.05 |
2015-07-24 |
| 6. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
52.94 |
0.9149 |
0.5846 |
153 |
1 |
52.94 |
2015-07-24 |
| 7. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
52.77 |
1.0230 |
0.4745 |
200 |
1 |
52.77 |
2015-07-27 |
| 8. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
52.37 |
1.0264 |
0.4539 |
191 |
2 |
44.22 |
2015-08-06 |
| 9. |
When we got to the Mint I parked on the street in front of t... |
51.99 |
1.0511 |
0.4239 |
158 |
1 |
51.99 |
2015-07-24 |
| 10. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
50.89 |
1.0588 |
0.3837 |
281 |
1 |
50.89 |
2010-11-17 |
| 11. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
49.94 |
1.0479 |
0.3659 |
205 |
2 |
47.83 |
2015-07-24 |
| 12. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
49.86 |
0.9684 |
0.4417 |
240 |
1 |
49.86 |
2015-07-27 |
| 13. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
49.70 |
0.8571 |
0.5507 |
202 |
1 |
49.70 |
2010-11-18 |
| 14. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
48.65 |
0.9549 |
0.4213 |
204 |
1 |
48.65 |
2015-07-24 |
| 15. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
48.48 |
1.0543 |
0.3162 |
182 |
2 |
39.96 |
2010-11-18 |
| 16. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
48.41 |
0.9917 |
0.3822 |
317 |
1 |
48.41 |
2015-07-24 |
| 17. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
48.36 |
0.8127 |
0.5541 |
167 |
1 |
48.36 |
2010-11-19 |
| 18. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
48.32 |
0.9324 |
0.4398 |
246 |
1 |
48.32 |
2010-11-18 |
| 19. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
48.32 |
1.0060 |
0.3646 |
260 |
1 |
48.32 |
2015-07-27 |
| 20. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
47.99 |
0.9909 |
0.3735 |
293 |
1 |
47.99 |
2015-07-24 |
| 21. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
47.89 |
1.0379 |
0.3159 |
172 |
1 |
47.89 |
2015-07-24 |
| 22. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
47.60 |
1.0466 |
0.3017 |
230 |
1 |
47.60 |
2015-07-24 |
| 23. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
47.40 |
0.9989 |
0.3513 |
282 |
1 |
47.40 |
2015-07-27 |
| 24. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
46.83 |
0.9869 |
0.3363 |
193 |
2 |
35.56 |
2010-11-17 |
| 25. |
Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, h... |
46.38 |
0.9917 |
0.3186 |
179 |
1 |
46.38 |
2015-08-06 |
| 26. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
45.66 |
1.0301 |
0.2621 |
268 |
1 |
45.66 |
2015-07-27 |
| 27. |
If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to ... |
45.62 |
1.0345 |
0.2611 |
206 |
1 |
45.62 |
2015-07-27 |
| 28. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
45.37 |
0.9827 |
0.3035 |
314 |
1 |
45.37 |
2015-07-24 |
| 29. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
45.29 |
0.8594 |
0.4202 |
170 |
1 |
45.29 |
2015-07-27 |
| 30. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
44.91 |
1.0124 |
0.2651 |
275 |
1 |
44.91 |
2015-07-24 |
| 31. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
44.22 |
0.9981 |
0.2535 |
211 |
2 |
34.34 |
2015-07-27 |
| 32. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
44.20 |
1.0464 |
0.2113 |
213 |
1 |
44.20 |
2015-07-24 |
| 33. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
44.07 |
0.9976 |
0.2472 |
212 |
1 |
44.07 |
2014-05-15 |
| 34. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
43.54 |
1.0026 |
0.2350 |
200 |
1 |
43.54 |
2010-11-18 |
| 35. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
43.28 |
0.8918 |
0.3383 |
163 |
1 |
43.28 |
2015-07-24 |
| 36. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
43.17 |
0.8938 |
0.3296 |
238 |
1 |
43.17 |
2010-11-18 |
| 37. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
42.80 |
1.0867 |
0.1210 |
171 |
1 |
42.80 |
2015-07-27 |
| 38. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
42.42 |
1.0585 |
0.1456 |
226 |
1 |
42.42 |
2015-07-24 |
| 39. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
42.02 |
0.8474 |
0.3430 |
265 |
1 |
42.02 |
2010-11-17 |
| 40. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
41.33 |
0.8656 |
0.3055 |
299 |
1 |
41.33 |
2010-11-19 |
| 41. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
41.24 |
0.9352 |
0.2314 |
194 |
1 |
41.24 |
2010-11-18 |
| 42. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
39.75 |
0.8824 |
0.2446 |
202 |
1 |
39.75 |
2010-11-19 |
| 43. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
36.94 |
0.7966 |
0.2547 |
184 |
2 |
32.12 |
2010-11-18 |
| 44. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
36.82 |
0.8964 |
0.1426 |
199 |
1 |
36.82 |
2010-11-18 |
| 45. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
34.35 |
0.9020 |
0.0656 |
186 |
1 |
34.35 |
2014-05-15 |
| 46. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
32.92 |
0.9704 |
-0.0395 |
254 |
1 |
32.92 |
2015-07-24 |
| 47. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
32.83 |
0.8825 |
0.0447 |
105 |
2 |
31.90 |
2010-11-18 |
| 48. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
31.77 |
0.8935 |
0.0021 |
118 |
1 |
31.77 |
2010-11-18 |
| 49. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
31.63 |
0.9459 |
-0.0487 |
188 |
1 |
31.63 |
2010-11-18 |
| 50. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
31.55 |
0.8805 |
0.0114 |
205 |
2 |
30.33 |
2010-11-18 |
| 51. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
31.52 |
0.9756 |
-0.0820 |
216 |
1 |
31.52 |
2010-11-18 |
| 52. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
31.43 |
1.0060 |
-0.1108 |
244 |
2 |
31.41 |
2014-05-15 |
| 53. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
31.41 |
0.8721 |
0.0217 |
231 |
3 |
28.10 |
2010-11-18 |
| 54. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
31.29 |
0.9286 |
-0.0423 |
177 |
1 |
31.29 |
2010-11-18 |
| 55. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
31.05 |
0.9077 |
-0.0322 |
155 |
1 |
31.05 |
2010-11-17 |
| 56. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
30.90 |
0.9841 |
-0.1140 |
217 |
1 |
30.90 |
2010-11-18 |
| 57. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
30.90 |
0.9349 |
-0.0589 |
287 |
1 |
30.90 |
2010-11-18 |
| 58. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
30.88 |
1.0079 |
-0.1361 |
273 |
1 |
30.88 |
2010-11-18 |
| 59. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
30.75 |
0.8553 |
0.0171 |
145 |
1 |
30.75 |
2010-11-18 |
| 60. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
30.52 |
1.0270 |
-0.1638 |
303 |
1 |
30.52 |
2010-11-18 |
| 61. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
29.74 |
0.9270 |
-0.0836 |
193 |
1 |
29.74 |
2010-11-18 |
| 62. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
29.66 |
0.9932 |
-0.1475 |
281 |
1 |
29.66 |
2010-11-18 |
| 63. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
29.60 |
1.0132 |
-0.1762 |
371 |
2 |
29.49 |
2010-11-19 |
| 64. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
29.56 |
1.1062 |
-0.2690 |
200 |
1 |
29.56 |
2010-11-18 |
| 65. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
29.48 |
0.9836 |
-0.1589 |
123 |
1 |
29.48 |
2010-11-18 |
| 66. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
29.36 |
0.8135 |
0.0170 |
173 |
1 |
29.36 |
2010-11-18 |
| 67. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
29.26 |
0.9252 |
-0.0979 |
148 |
1 |
29.26 |
2010-11-18 |
| 68. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
29.04 |
0.9368 |
-0.1229 |
176 |
1 |
29.04 |
2010-11-18 |
| 69. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
28.76 |
0.9144 |
-0.1077 |
167 |
1 |
28.76 |
2010-11-18 |
| 70. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
28.59 |
1.0743 |
-0.2656 |
297 |
1 |
28.59 |
2010-11-19 |
| 71. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
28.57 |
0.8663 |
-0.0633 |
172 |
1 |
28.57 |
2010-11-18 |
| 72. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
28.48 |
0.9636 |
-0.1605 |
281 |
1 |
28.48 |
2010-11-17 |
| 73. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
28.42 |
0.8469 |
-0.0444 |
164 |
1 |
28.42 |
2010-11-17 |
| 74. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
28.37 |
1.0865 |
-0.2853 |
237 |
1 |
28.37 |
2010-11-18 |
| 75. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
28.25 |
0.9737 |
-0.1731 |
237 |
1 |
28.25 |
2010-11-18 |
| 76. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
28.17 |
0.8236 |
-0.0339 |
178 |
1 |
28.17 |
2010-11-18 |
| 77. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
28.03 |
1.0225 |
-0.2386 |
152 |
2 |
25.48 |
2010-11-18 |
| 78. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
27.77 |
0.8161 |
-0.0293 |
109 |
1 |
27.77 |
2010-11-18 |
| 79. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
27.76 |
0.9244 |
-0.1352 |
225 |
1 |
27.76 |
2010-11-18 |
| 80. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
27.69 |
0.9643 |
-0.1737 |
282 |
1 |
27.69 |
2010-11-18 |
| 81. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
27.66 |
0.8201 |
-0.0454 |
187 |
1 |
27.66 |
2010-11-18 |
| 82. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
27.56 |
0.8068 |
-0.0318 |
138 |
1 |
27.56 |
2010-11-18 |
| 83. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
27.46 |
0.9283 |
-0.1514 |
317 |
1 |
27.46 |
2010-11-18 |
| 84. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
27.45 |
1.0069 |
-0.2284 |
242 |
1 |
27.45 |
2010-11-18 |
| 85. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
27.44 |
0.8925 |
-0.1106 |
293 |
1 |
27.44 |
2010-11-18 |
| 86. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
27.29 |
0.8785 |
-0.1188 |
119 |
1 |
27.29 |
2010-11-18 |
| 87. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
27.07 |
0.8628 |
-0.1035 |
136 |
1 |
27.07 |
2010-11-18 |
| 88. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
27.04 |
0.8204 |
-0.0592 |
121 |
1 |
27.04 |
2010-11-18 |
| 89. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
27.04 |
0.7874 |
-0.0257 |
195 |
1 |
27.04 |
2010-11-18 |
| 90. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
26.94 |
0.9113 |
-0.1545 |
225 |
1 |
26.94 |
2010-11-18 |
| 91. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
26.81 |
1.0461 |
-0.2869 |
318 |
1 |
26.81 |
2010-11-18 |
| 92. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
26.59 |
0.8830 |
-0.1383 |
134 |
1 |
26.59 |
2010-11-18 |
| 93. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
26.32 |
1.0487 |
-0.3079 |
253 |
1 |
26.32 |
2010-11-18 |
| 94. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
26.01 |
0.8718 |
-0.1381 |
193 |
1 |
26.01 |
2010-11-18 |
| 95. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
25.91 |
0.8194 |
-0.0890 |
193 |
1 |
25.91 |
2010-11-18 |
| 96. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
25.73 |
1.0969 |
-0.3685 |
303 |
1 |
25.73 |
2010-11-17 |
| 97. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
25.69 |
0.8919 |
-0.1677 |
116 |
1 |
25.69 |
2010-11-17 |
| 98. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
25.25 |
1.0529 |
-0.3378 |
373 |
1 |
25.25 |
2010-11-18 |
| 99. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
25.14 |
0.9011 |
-0.1885 |
322 |
1 |
25.14 |
2010-11-19 |
| 100. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
25.06 |
0.7901 |
-0.0882 |
154 |
1 |
25.06 |
2010-11-18 |
| 101. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
25.01 |
1.0131 |
-0.3040 |
245 |
1 |
25.01 |
2010-11-18 |
| 102. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
24.95 |
0.7868 |
-0.0864 |
116 |
1 |
24.95 |
2010-11-17 |
| 103. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
24.94 |
0.9530 |
-0.2529 |
193 |
1 |
24.94 |
2010-11-18 |
| 104. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
24.77 |
1.0638 |
-0.3669 |
247 |
1 |
24.77 |
2010-11-17 |
| 105. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
24.76 |
0.8948 |
-0.1969 |
164 |
1 |
24.76 |
2010-11-18 |
| 106. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
24.75 |
0.9480 |
-0.2485 |
297 |
1 |
24.75 |
2010-11-18 |
| 107. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
24.64 |
0.8913 |
-0.1946 |
201 |
1 |
24.64 |
2010-11-18 |
| 108. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
24.18 |
0.9756 |
-0.2942 |
223 |
1 |
24.18 |
2010-11-17 |
| 109. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
24.06 |
0.7130 |
-0.0356 |
131 |
1 |
24.06 |
2010-11-18 |
| 110. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
23.53 |
0.8911 |
-0.2246 |
241 |
1 |
23.53 |
2010-11-18 |
| 111. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
23.37 |
1.0208 |
-0.3619 |
231 |
1 |
23.37 |
2010-11-18 |
| 112. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
23.32 |
0.8887 |
-0.2266 |
194 |
1 |
23.32 |
2010-11-17 |
| 113. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
23.26 |
0.7904 |
-0.1301 |
149 |
1 |
23.26 |
2010-11-18 |
| 114. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
23.03 |
1.0338 |
-0.3791 |
277 |
1 |
23.03 |
2015-07-27 |
| 115. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
22.96 |
0.9010 |
-0.2511 |
266 |
1 |
22.96 |
2010-11-17 |
| 116. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
22.57 |
0.8281 |
-0.1926 |
134 |
1 |
22.57 |
2010-11-17 |