| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
67.25 |
1.0907 |
0.1299 |
303 |
1 |
67.25 |
2010-03-05 |
| 2. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
66.29 |
1.0799 |
0.1167 |
243 |
1 |
66.29 |
2010-02-02 |
| 3. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
65.90 |
1.0619 |
0.1349 |
354 |
1 |
65.90 |
2010-02-03 |
| 4. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
64.46 |
1.0483 |
0.1155 |
227 |
1 |
64.46 |
2010-02-02 |
| 5. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
64.00 |
1.0767 |
0.0795 |
212 |
2 |
56.56 |
2010-02-03 |
| 6. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
63.55 |
1.0252 |
0.1185 |
176 |
2 |
55.45 |
2010-02-04 |
| 7. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
63.28 |
1.1162 |
0.0700 |
189 |
1 |
63.28 |
2010-02-02 |
| 8. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
62.96 |
1.0711 |
0.0632 |
213 |
1 |
62.96 |
2010-02-04 |
| 9. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.64 |
1.1016 |
0.0320 |
233 |
1 |
62.64 |
2010-02-02 |
| 10. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
62.50 |
0.9897 |
0.1390 |
274 |
3 |
59.99 |
2010-02-02 |
| 11. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
61.87 |
1.0375 |
0.1279 |
200 |
2 |
61.58 |
2010-02-02 |
| 12. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
61.54 |
0.9675 |
0.1554 |
383 |
1 |
61.54 |
2010-02-23 |
| 13. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
61.48 |
1.0012 |
0.1144 |
260 |
1 |
61.48 |
2010-02-02 |
| 14. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
60.97 |
1.0340 |
0.0742 |
406 |
2 |
55.31 |
2010-02-02 |
| 15. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
60.91 |
1.0023 |
0.0977 |
211 |
2 |
55.84 |
2010-02-03 |
| 16. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
60.89 |
1.0506 |
0.0797 |
277 |
2 |
60.37 |
2010-02-02 |
| 17. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
60.84 |
0.9991 |
0.1020 |
225 |
2 |
57.78 |
2010-02-02 |
| 18. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
60.37 |
1.0441 |
0.0892 |
316 |
1 |
60.37 |
2010-02-04 |
| 19. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
60.31 |
0.8941 |
0.1988 |
216 |
3 |
55.43 |
2010-03-05 |
| 20. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
60.19 |
1.0034 |
0.0838 |
302 |
1 |
60.19 |
2010-02-02 |
| 21. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
60.07 |
1.0131 |
0.0695 |
225 |
2 |
53.32 |
2010-02-03 |
| 22. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
60.03 |
0.9886 |
0.0997 |
220 |
1 |
60.03 |
2010-02-03 |
| 23. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
59.97 |
1.0445 |
0.0411 |
373 |
1 |
59.97 |
2010-03-05 |
| 24. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
59.92 |
1.0829 |
0.0023 |
288 |
1 |
59.92 |
2010-02-23 |
| 25. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
59.89 |
1.0218 |
0.0585 |
268 |
1 |
59.89 |
2010-02-23 |
| 26. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
59.61 |
1.0567 |
0.0220 |
303 |
1 |
59.61 |
2010-02-02 |
| 27. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
59.54 |
1.0385 |
0.0365 |
230 |
3 |
54.59 |
2010-02-03 |
| 28. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
59.51 |
1.0515 |
0.0228 |
250 |
1 |
59.51 |
2010-02-02 |
| 29. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
59.48 |
1.0521 |
0.0188 |
171 |
2 |
59.31 |
2010-03-05 |
| 30. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
59.35 |
0.9857 |
0.0866 |
293 |
1 |
59.35 |
2010-02-23 |
| 31. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
59.29 |
0.9851 |
0.0893 |
317 |
1 |
59.29 |
2010-02-02 |
| 32. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
59.14 |
1.0528 |
0.0117 |
201 |
1 |
59.14 |
2010-02-02 |
| 33. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
59.10 |
1.0696 |
-0.0044 |
226 |
1 |
59.10 |
2010-02-23 |
| 34. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
58.99 |
0.9161 |
0.1486 |
200 |
2 |
58.20 |
2010-02-23 |
| 35. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
58.98 |
0.9936 |
0.0726 |
311 |
1 |
58.98 |
2010-02-02 |
| 36. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
58.82 |
1.0361 |
0.0285 |
269 |
1 |
58.82 |
2010-02-02 |
| 37. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
58.70 |
1.0463 |
0.0105 |
182 |
2 |
57.71 |
2010-02-23 |
| 38. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
58.39 |
1.0124 |
0.0409 |
204 |
1 |
58.39 |
2010-02-23 |
| 39. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
58.21 |
1.0885 |
-0.0328 |
315 |
1 |
58.21 |
2010-02-02 |
| 40. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
58.20 |
1.0523 |
-0.0043 |
256 |
2 |
58.09 |
2010-02-23 |
| 41. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
58.10 |
1.0516 |
-0.0016 |
281 |
1 |
58.10 |
2010-02-02 |
| 42. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
58.09 |
0.9938 |
0.0573 |
339 |
2 |
55.62 |
2010-02-02 |
| 43. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
58.04 |
1.0496 |
-0.0010 |
314 |
2 |
57.12 |
2010-02-02 |
| 44. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
57.94 |
0.9430 |
0.1074 |
297 |
1 |
57.94 |
2010-02-04 |
| 45. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
57.91 |
0.9212 |
0.1296 |
231 |
1 |
57.91 |
2010-02-02 |
| 46. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
57.75 |
1.0016 |
0.0378 |
218 |
1 |
57.75 |
2010-02-02 |
| 47. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
57.57 |
0.9672 |
0.0800 |
396 |
3 |
53.00 |
2010-02-22 |
| 48. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
57.40 |
0.9699 |
0.0671 |
269 |
2 |
50.39 |
2010-02-02 |
| 49. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
57.29 |
0.8914 |
0.1450 |
366 |
1 |
57.29 |
2010-02-02 |
| 50. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
57.17 |
1.0232 |
0.0561 |
350 |
1 |
57.17 |
2010-02-02 |
| 51. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
57.05 |
1.0666 |
-0.0353 |
297 |
1 |
57.05 |
2010-02-01 |
| 52. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
57.01 |
0.9722 |
0.0604 |
283 |
1 |
57.01 |
2010-02-02 |
| 53. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
56.84 |
0.9514 |
0.0763 |
237 |
2 |
49.37 |
2010-02-02 |
| 54. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
56.78 |
1.0138 |
0.0121 |
231 |
1 |
56.78 |
2010-02-02 |
| 55. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
56.56 |
0.9148 |
0.1089 |
317 |
3 |
52.95 |
2010-02-23 |
| 56. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
56.52 |
0.9786 |
0.0377 |
193 |
1 |
56.52 |
2010-02-23 |
| 57. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
56.51 |
1.0316 |
-0.0065 |
333 |
1 |
56.51 |
2010-02-04 |
| 58. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
56.45 |
1.0203 |
0.0033 |
261 |
1 |
56.45 |
2010-02-02 |
| 59. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
56.41 |
0.9769 |
0.0405 |
263 |
3 |
51.51 |
2010-02-02 |
| 60. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
56.18 |
1.0261 |
-0.0127 |
273 |
1 |
56.18 |
2010-02-02 |
| 61. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
56.09 |
0.9731 |
0.0280 |
129 |
1 |
56.09 |
2010-02-04 |
| 62. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
56.02 |
0.9734 |
0.0387 |
289 |
1 |
56.02 |
2010-02-03 |
| 63. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
56.00 |
0.9916 |
0.0630 |
282 |
1 |
56.00 |
2010-02-03 |
| 64. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.96 |
0.9635 |
0.0532 |
389 |
1 |
55.96 |
2010-03-05 |
| 65. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
55.94 |
1.0349 |
-0.0247 |
234 |
2 |
54.48 |
2010-02-03 |
| 66. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
55.83 |
1.0117 |
0.0420 |
297 |
1 |
55.83 |
2010-02-03 |
| 67. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
55.80 |
0.9429 |
0.0667 |
287 |
1 |
55.80 |
2010-02-02 |
| 68. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
55.73 |
0.9814 |
0.0651 |
364 |
1 |
55.73 |
2010-02-02 |
| 69. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
55.60 |
1.0062 |
-0.0015 |
288 |
1 |
55.60 |
2010-02-03 |
| 70. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
55.43 |
1.0183 |
-0.0223 |
191 |
1 |
55.43 |
2010-02-02 |
| 71. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
55.41 |
1.0167 |
-0.0087 |
378 |
1 |
55.41 |
2010-02-03 |
| 72. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
55.27 |
1.0205 |
-0.0284 |
179 |
1 |
55.27 |
2010-02-01 |
| 73. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
55.13 |
1.1068 |
-0.0704 |
393 |
1 |
55.13 |
2010-02-02 |
| 74. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
55.00 |
0.9758 |
0.0186 |
314 |
2 |
52.93 |
2010-02-02 |
| 75. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
54.89 |
0.8935 |
0.1079 |
328 |
1 |
54.89 |
2010-02-02 |
| 76. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
54.67 |
0.9668 |
0.0635 |
383 |
1 |
54.67 |
2010-02-22 |
| 77. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
54.62 |
0.9676 |
0.0274 |
442 |
1 |
54.62 |
2010-02-02 |
| 78. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
54.46 |
0.9583 |
0.0692 |
341 |
1 |
54.46 |
2010-02-02 |
| 79. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
54.30 |
0.9665 |
0.0637 |
326 |
1 |
54.30 |
2010-02-04 |
| 80. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
54.16 |
1.0454 |
-0.0708 |
255 |
1 |
54.16 |
2010-02-01 |
| 81. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
54.15 |
1.0201 |
-0.0488 |
172 |
1 |
54.15 |
2010-02-02 |
| 82. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
54.05 |
0.9578 |
0.0180 |
281 |
2 |
45.29 |
2010-02-02 |
| 83. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
53.97 |
1.0264 |
-0.0115 |
422 |
1 |
53.97 |
2010-02-23 |
| 84. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
53.86 |
1.0257 |
-0.0465 |
401 |
1 |
53.86 |
2010-02-02 |
| 85. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
53.84 |
1.0211 |
-0.0179 |
213 |
3 |
50.69 |
2010-03-05 |
| 86. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
53.72 |
0.9570 |
0.0150 |
287 |
1 |
53.72 |
2010-02-22 |
| 87. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
53.68 |
1.0462 |
-0.0828 |
184 |
1 |
53.68 |
2010-02-02 |
| 88. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
53.65 |
0.9646 |
0.0035 |
264 |
1 |
53.65 |
2010-02-01 |
| 89. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
53.58 |
1.0053 |
-0.0396 |
232 |
2 |
51.89 |
2010-02-01 |
| 90. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
53.36 |
1.0365 |
-0.0429 |
162 |
1 |
53.36 |
2010-02-02 |
| 91. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
53.29 |
1.0095 |
-0.0482 |
316 |
1 |
53.29 |
2010-03-05 |
| 92. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
53.09 |
1.0263 |
-0.0684 |
267 |
1 |
53.09 |
2010-02-01 |
| 93. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
52.92 |
1.0485 |
-0.0582 |
153 |
1 |
52.92 |
2010-02-03 |
| 94. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
52.72 |
1.0441 |
-0.0906 |
252 |
2 |
47.83 |
2010-02-03 |
| 95. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
52.59 |
0.9871 |
-0.0013 |
209 |
1 |
52.59 |
2010-02-02 |
| 96. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
52.47 |
0.8933 |
0.0605 |
363 |
1 |
52.47 |
2010-02-22 |
| 97. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
52.33 |
1.0240 |
-0.0818 |
256 |
1 |
52.33 |
2010-02-01 |
| 98. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
52.32 |
0.9805 |
-0.0312 |
292 |
1 |
52.32 |
2010-02-02 |
| 99. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
52.10 |
1.0352 |
-0.0915 |
341 |
1 |
52.10 |
2010-02-22 |
| 100. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
51.98 |
0.9763 |
-0.0384 |
289 |
1 |
51.98 |
2010-02-03 |
| 101. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
51.98 |
0.9865 |
-0.0470 |
276 |
1 |
51.98 |
2010-02-02 |
| 102. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
51.91 |
0.9687 |
-0.0269 |
371 |
1 |
51.91 |
2010-02-02 |
| 103. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
51.87 |
0.9843 |
-0.0529 |
234 |
1 |
51.87 |
2010-02-01 |
| 104. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
51.81 |
0.8753 |
0.0692 |
427 |
1 |
51.81 |
2010-02-02 |
| 105. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
51.40 |
1.0254 |
-0.0568 |
217 |
1 |
51.40 |
2010-02-03 |
| 106. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
51.19 |
0.9709 |
-0.0059 |
397 |
1 |
51.19 |
2010-02-03 |
| 107. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
50.40 |
1.0486 |
-0.1383 |
289 |
1 |
50.40 |
2010-02-01 |
| 108. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
50.34 |
0.9202 |
-0.0125 |
254 |
1 |
50.34 |
2010-02-02 |
| 109. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
50.19 |
1.0013 |
-0.0965 |
273 |
1 |
50.19 |
2010-02-01 |
| 110. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
49.98 |
1.0251 |
-0.1255 |
261 |
1 |
49.98 |
2010-02-23 |
| 111. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
49.95 |
1.0025 |
-0.1003 |
336 |
1 |
49.95 |
2010-02-01 |
| 112. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
49.85 |
0.9691 |
-0.0702 |
223 |
1 |
49.85 |
2010-02-01 |
| 113. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
49.82 |
0.9726 |
-0.0801 |
154 |
1 |
49.82 |
2010-02-04 |
| 114. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
49.52 |
0.9567 |
-0.0211 |
184 |
1 |
49.52 |
2010-02-02 |
| 115. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
49.30 |
0.8811 |
0.0129 |
239 |
1 |
49.30 |
2010-02-01 |
| 116. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
48.74 |
0.9863 |
-0.1028 |
339 |
1 |
48.74 |
2010-03-05 |
| 117. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
48.67 |
0.9176 |
-0.0010 |
365 |
1 |
48.67 |
2010-02-22 |
| 118. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
48.25 |
0.9943 |
-0.1209 |
373 |
1 |
48.25 |
2010-02-02 |
| 119. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
48.20 |
0.8533 |
0.0170 |
232 |
1 |
48.20 |
2010-02-03 |
| 120. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
47.56 |
0.9540 |
-0.0983 |
285 |
1 |
47.56 |
2010-02-01 |
| 121. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
47.49 |
0.9649 |
-0.1097 |
193 |
1 |
47.49 |
2010-02-01 |
| 122. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
46.35 |
0.9309 |
-0.0974 |
284 |
1 |
46.35 |
2010-02-01 |
| 123. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.30 |
1.0444 |
-0.2165 |
197 |
1 |
46.30 |
2010-02-01 |
| 124. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
45.80 |
0.9697 |
-0.1442 |
249 |
1 |
45.80 |
2010-02-03 |
| 125. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
45.73 |
0.9632 |
-0.0969 |
345 |
1 |
45.73 |
2010-02-02 |
| 126. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
45.32 |
1.0596 |
-0.2452 |
239 |
1 |
45.32 |
2010-02-01 |
| 127. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
43.72 |
0.8722 |
-0.0820 |
285 |
1 |
43.72 |
2010-02-01 |
| 128. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
43.70 |
0.9048 |
-0.1133 |
271 |
1 |
43.70 |
2010-02-03 |
| 129. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
43.60 |
0.9529 |
-0.1272 |
269 |
1 |
43.60 |
2010-02-01 |
| 130. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
42.85 |
0.9907 |
-0.2210 |
211 |
1 |
42.85 |
2010-02-01 |
| 131. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
42.19 |
0.8961 |
-0.1402 |
189 |
1 |
42.19 |
2010-02-01 |
| 132. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
41.52 |
0.9922 |
-0.2041 |
341 |
1 |
41.52 |
2010-02-01 |
| 133. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
41.31 |
0.8595 |
-0.1146 |
242 |
1 |
41.31 |
2010-02-01 |
| 134. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
41.13 |
0.9339 |
-0.1955 |
310 |
1 |
41.13 |
2010-02-01 |
| 135. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
41.07 |
0.9128 |
-0.1325 |
369 |
1 |
41.07 |
2010-02-02 |
| 136. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.62 |
0.9614 |
-0.2645 |
292 |
1 |
38.62 |
2010-02-01 |
| 137. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
37.03 |
0.9710 |
-0.3127 |
173 |
1 |
37.03 |
2010-02-01 |