| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
76.47 |
1.0012 |
0.2066 |
260 |
1 |
76.47 |
2012-12-23 |
| 2. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
75.41 |
1.0515 |
0.1283 |
166 |
2 |
68.86 |
2012-12-23 |
| 3. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
75.08 |
1.0905 |
0.1238 |
210 |
1 |
75.08 |
2012-12-26 |
| 4. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
72.45 |
1.0445 |
0.0969 |
373 |
1 |
72.45 |
2012-12-26 |
| 5. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
72.33 |
1.0346 |
0.1460 |
244 |
1 |
72.33 |
2012-12-23 |
| 6. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
71.42 |
1.0240 |
0.0975 |
256 |
2 |
71.38 |
2012-12-26 |
| 7. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
70.83 |
0.9731 |
0.1291 |
129 |
1 |
70.83 |
2012-12-22 |
| 8. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
70.82 |
0.9855 |
0.1623 |
258 |
1 |
70.82 |
2012-12-25 |
| 9. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
70.69 |
1.0095 |
0.1019 |
316 |
1 |
70.69 |
2012-12-23 |
| 10. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
70.35 |
0.9942 |
0.1217 |
483 |
1 |
70.35 |
2012-12-26 |
| 11. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
70.10 |
0.9866 |
0.1128 |
218 |
2 |
65.53 |
2012-12-24 |
| 12. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
70.07 |
1.0025 |
0.1000 |
256 |
1 |
70.07 |
2012-12-24 |
| 13. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
69.79 |
1.0454 |
0.0490 |
255 |
1 |
69.79 |
2012-12-22 |
| 14. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
69.65 |
0.9691 |
0.1263 |
223 |
1 |
69.65 |
2012-12-25 |
| 15. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
69.47 |
1.0203 |
0.0761 |
261 |
2 |
65.09 |
2012-12-26 |
| 16. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
69.45 |
1.0972 |
0.0251 |
251 |
1 |
69.45 |
2012-12-26 |
| 17. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
69.39 |
1.0523 |
0.0352 |
256 |
1 |
69.39 |
2012-12-25 |
| 18. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
69.04 |
0.9513 |
0.1387 |
354 |
2 |
64.96 |
2012-12-23 |
| 19. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
68.80 |
1.0441 |
0.0398 |
252 |
1 |
68.80 |
2012-12-23 |
| 20. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
68.57 |
1.0496 |
0.0284 |
314 |
2 |
64.59 |
2012-12-23 |
| 21. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
68.44 |
0.9831 |
0.1015 |
469 |
1 |
68.44 |
2012-12-26 |
| 22. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
68.44 |
1.0767 |
-0.0023 |
212 |
1 |
68.44 |
2012-12-26 |
| 23. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
68.35 |
1.0719 |
0.0309 |
360 |
1 |
68.35 |
2012-12-24 |
| 24. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
68.00 |
1.0477 |
0.0243 |
360 |
2 |
66.49 |
2012-12-25 |
| 25. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
67.84 |
0.9709 |
0.1372 |
397 |
1 |
67.84 |
2012-12-30 |
| 26. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
67.72 |
1.0521 |
0.0083 |
171 |
1 |
67.72 |
2012-12-25 |
| 27. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
67.68 |
0.9559 |
0.1113 |
195 |
1 |
67.68 |
2012-12-22 |
| 28. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
67.61 |
0.9286 |
0.1338 |
194 |
1 |
67.61 |
2012-12-22 |
| 29. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
67.59 |
1.0907 |
-0.0249 |
303 |
1 |
67.59 |
2012-12-22 |
| 30. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
67.59 |
1.0251 |
0.0358 |
261 |
1 |
67.59 |
2012-12-23 |
| 31. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
67.52 |
0.9128 |
0.1907 |
369 |
3 |
65.15 |
2012-12-26 |
| 32. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
67.50 |
0.9148 |
0.1483 |
317 |
2 |
64.91 |
2012-12-30 |
| 33. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
67.25 |
0.9904 |
0.1079 |
203 |
1 |
67.25 |
2012-12-23 |
| 34. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
67.12 |
1.0053 |
0.0483 |
232 |
2 |
65.21 |
2012-12-22 |
| 35. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
67.09 |
1.0768 |
0.0185 |
295 |
1 |
67.09 |
2012-12-23 |
| 36. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
66.86 |
1.1014 |
-0.0121 |
273 |
1 |
66.86 |
2012-12-26 |
| 37. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
66.46 |
1.0138 |
0.0309 |
231 |
2 |
65.06 |
2012-12-23 |
| 38. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
66.35 |
1.0696 |
-0.0297 |
226 |
1 |
66.35 |
2012-12-26 |
| 39. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
66.17 |
1.0331 |
0.0052 |
234 |
1 |
66.17 |
2012-12-22 |
| 40. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
65.90 |
1.0125 |
0.0615 |
413 |
1 |
65.90 |
2012-12-22 |
| 41. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
65.83 |
0.9342 |
0.1044 |
434 |
1 |
65.83 |
2012-12-22 |
| 42. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
65.70 |
0.9941 |
0.0365 |
217 |
1 |
65.70 |
2012-12-22 |
| 43. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
65.58 |
0.9965 |
0.0298 |
168 |
1 |
65.58 |
2012-12-25 |
| 44. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
65.43 |
0.9509 |
0.1162 |
225 |
1 |
65.43 |
2012-12-22 |
| 45. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
65.39 |
1.0516 |
-0.0239 |
281 |
1 |
65.39 |
2012-12-22 |
| 46. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
65.22 |
1.0320 |
0.0307 |
293 |
2 |
64.92 |
2012-12-24 |
| 47. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
64.89 |
1.0385 |
-0.0202 |
230 |
1 |
64.89 |
2012-12-26 |
| 48. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
64.65 |
0.9991 |
0.0177 |
225 |
1 |
64.65 |
2012-12-22 |
| 49. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
64.53 |
1.0201 |
-0.0125 |
172 |
2 |
63.41 |
2012-12-24 |
| 50. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
64.44 |
1.0008 |
0.0552 |
473 |
1 |
64.44 |
2012-12-22 |
| 51. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
64.32 |
0.9986 |
0.0076 |
162 |
1 |
64.32 |
2012-12-22 |
| 52. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
64.30 |
1.0885 |
-0.0745 |
315 |
1 |
64.30 |
2012-12-23 |
| 53. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
64.28 |
1.0993 |
-0.0910 |
265 |
1 |
64.28 |
2012-12-22 |
| 54. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
64.23 |
0.9485 |
0.0635 |
291 |
1 |
64.23 |
2012-12-25 |
| 55. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
64.08 |
1.0379 |
0.0042 |
245 |
1 |
64.08 |
2012-12-22 |
| 56. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
64.08 |
1.0033 |
-0.0028 |
189 |
1 |
64.08 |
2012-12-26 |
| 57. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
64.06 |
1.0595 |
-0.0501 |
379 |
1 |
64.06 |
2012-12-23 |
| 58. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
64.01 |
0.9665 |
0.0889 |
326 |
2 |
63.31 |
2012-12-23 |
| 59. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
63.99 |
1.0885 |
-0.0478 |
341 |
1 |
63.99 |
2012-12-23 |
| 60. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
63.71 |
0.9275 |
0.0705 |
211 |
1 |
63.71 |
2012-12-23 |
| 61. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
63.70 |
0.9464 |
0.0599 |
323 |
1 |
63.70 |
2012-12-23 |
| 62. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
63.54 |
0.9871 |
0.0477 |
209 |
1 |
63.54 |
2012-12-26 |
| 63. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
63.49 |
0.9514 |
0.0467 |
237 |
1 |
63.49 |
2012-12-26 |
| 64. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
63.49 |
0.9293 |
0.0693 |
355 |
2 |
59.52 |
2012-12-26 |
| 65. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
63.38 |
0.9994 |
0.0273 |
269 |
1 |
63.38 |
2012-12-22 |
| 66. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
63.29 |
1.0711 |
-0.0815 |
213 |
1 |
63.29 |
2012-12-22 |
| 67. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
63.28 |
1.0968 |
-0.0649 |
365 |
1 |
63.28 |
2012-12-26 |
| 68. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
63.18 |
0.9792 |
0.0521 |
265 |
2 |
63.15 |
2012-12-22 |
| 69. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
63.16 |
1.0031 |
0.0230 |
304 |
1 |
63.16 |
2012-12-22 |
| 70. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
63.09 |
1.0214 |
-0.0353 |
166 |
1 |
63.09 |
2012-12-24 |
| 71. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
62.95 |
1.1162 |
-0.0860 |
189 |
1 |
62.95 |
2012-12-23 |
| 72. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
62.90 |
0.9023 |
0.1289 |
231 |
2 |
58.63 |
2012-12-27 |
| 73. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
62.86 |
0.9593 |
0.0332 |
398 |
1 |
62.86 |
2012-12-22 |
| 74. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
62.74 |
0.9546 |
0.0626 |
198 |
1 |
62.74 |
2012-12-23 |
| 75. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
62.73 |
0.9790 |
0.0473 |
311 |
1 |
62.73 |
2012-12-22 |
| 76. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
62.68 |
0.9857 |
-0.0018 |
293 |
1 |
62.68 |
2012-12-26 |
| 77. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
62.56 |
1.0619 |
-0.0753 |
354 |
1 |
62.56 |
2012-12-24 |
| 78. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
62.39 |
0.9936 |
-0.0136 |
311 |
1 |
62.39 |
2012-12-22 |
| 79. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
62.24 |
1.0117 |
0.0110 |
297 |
2 |
59.76 |
2012-12-24 |
| 80. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
62.22 |
0.9805 |
0.0017 |
292 |
1 |
62.22 |
2012-12-22 |
| 81. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
62.20 |
1.0168 |
-0.0381 |
271 |
1 |
62.20 |
2012-12-22 |
| 82. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
62.18 |
0.9688 |
0.0080 |
217 |
1 |
62.18 |
2012-12-22 |
| 83. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
62.08 |
0.9756 |
-0.0015 |
229 |
1 |
62.08 |
2012-12-22 |
| 84. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
62.01 |
1.0709 |
-0.0586 |
392 |
1 |
62.01 |
2012-12-22 |
| 85. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
61.88 |
0.9376 |
0.0700 |
360 |
1 |
61.88 |
2012-12-26 |
| 86. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
61.73 |
0.9553 |
0.0217 |
430 |
1 |
61.73 |
2012-12-23 |
| 87. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
61.67 |
0.9893 |
-0.0203 |
323 |
1 |
61.67 |
2012-12-22 |
| 88. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
61.34 |
0.9622 |
0.0078 |
392 |
1 |
61.34 |
2012-12-22 |
| 89. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
61.32 |
0.9157 |
0.0525 |
350 |
1 |
61.32 |
2012-12-22 |
| 90. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
61.16 |
1.0368 |
-0.0752 |
276 |
1 |
61.16 |
2012-12-30 |
| 91. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
61.11 |
0.9398 |
0.0295 |
419 |
1 |
61.11 |
2012-12-22 |
| 92. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
61.09 |
1.0444 |
-0.0914 |
197 |
1 |
61.09 |
2012-12-22 |
| 93. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
61.04 |
0.9266 |
0.0323 |
267 |
2 |
59.35 |
2012-12-22 |
| 94. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
60.98 |
0.9540 |
0.0021 |
285 |
1 |
60.98 |
2012-12-22 |
| 95. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
60.93 |
1.0668 |
-0.1072 |
350 |
1 |
60.93 |
2012-12-22 |
| 96. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
60.67 |
1.0284 |
-0.0322 |
282 |
1 |
60.67 |
2012-12-23 |
| 97. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
60.55 |
0.9672 |
-0.0097 |
396 |
1 |
60.55 |
2012-12-22 |
| 98. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
60.43 |
0.9216 |
0.0664 |
255 |
1 |
60.43 |
2012-12-22 |
| 99. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
60.40 |
1.0883 |
-0.1076 |
303 |
1 |
60.40 |
2012-12-23 |
| 100. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
60.15 |
0.8826 |
0.0635 |
296 |
1 |
60.15 |
2012-12-23 |
| 101. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
59.74 |
1.0316 |
-0.0897 |
333 |
1 |
59.74 |
2012-12-24 |
| 102. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
59.73 |
1.0506 |
-0.0838 |
277 |
1 |
59.73 |
2012-12-24 |
| 103. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
59.67 |
1.0167 |
-0.0729 |
378 |
1 |
59.67 |
2012-12-24 |
| 104. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
59.51 |
0.9922 |
-0.0166 |
341 |
2 |
57.85 |
2012-12-24 |
| 105. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
59.48 |
0.8968 |
0.0347 |
186 |
1 |
59.48 |
2012-12-24 |
| 106. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
59.08 |
1.0297 |
-0.1033 |
249 |
1 |
59.08 |
2012-12-22 |
| 107. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
58.88 |
1.0358 |
-0.0697 |
349 |
1 |
58.88 |
2012-12-22 |
| 108. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
58.75 |
0.9912 |
-0.0419 |
237 |
1 |
58.75 |
2012-12-22 |
| 109. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
58.49 |
0.9567 |
0.0037 |
184 |
1 |
58.49 |
2012-12-26 |
| 110. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
58.44 |
0.9109 |
0.0091 |
401 |
1 |
58.44 |
2012-12-22 |
| 111. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
58.14 |
0.9084 |
0.0084 |
404 |
2 |
55.62 |
2012-12-22 |
| 112. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
58.12 |
0.9430 |
-0.0379 |
211 |
1 |
58.12 |
2012-12-30 |
| 113. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
58.10 |
0.9916 |
-0.0370 |
282 |
1 |
58.10 |
2012-12-22 |
| 114. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
58.07 |
0.8951 |
0.0187 |
193 |
1 |
58.07 |
2012-12-23 |
| 115. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
57.98 |
0.9074 |
0.0092 |
396 |
1 |
57.98 |
2012-12-22 |
| 116. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
57.94 |
0.8670 |
0.0479 |
318 |
1 |
57.94 |
2012-12-22 |
| 117. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
57.71 |
0.9758 |
-0.0693 |
314 |
1 |
57.71 |
2012-12-22 |
| 118. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
57.61 |
1.0257 |
-0.1151 |
401 |
1 |
57.61 |
2012-12-22 |
| 119. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
57.48 |
0.9371 |
0.0040 |
318 |
1 |
57.48 |
2012-12-23 |
| 120. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
57.41 |
0.8602 |
0.0386 |
206 |
1 |
57.41 |
2012-12-23 |
| 121. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
57.26 |
0.9699 |
-0.0718 |
269 |
2 |
56.84 |
2012-12-25 |
| 122. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
57.08 |
0.9365 |
-0.0393 |
248 |
1 |
57.08 |
2012-12-24 |
| 123. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
56.90 |
1.0334 |
-0.1470 |
131 |
1 |
56.90 |
2012-12-26 |
| 124. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
56.25 |
0.8890 |
-0.0100 |
199 |
1 |
56.25 |
2012-12-26 |
| 125. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
56.15 |
0.9089 |
-0.0240 |
342 |
1 |
56.15 |
2012-12-24 |
| 126. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
55.68 |
0.9461 |
-0.0764 |
193 |
1 |
55.68 |
2012-12-22 |
| 127. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
55.29 |
0.9905 |
-0.0918 |
337 |
1 |
55.29 |
2012-12-22 |
| 128. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
54.78 |
0.9429 |
-0.0824 |
287 |
1 |
54.78 |
2012-12-22 |
| 129. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
54.54 |
0.9811 |
-0.1230 |
272 |
1 |
54.54 |
2012-12-22 |
| 130. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
53.51 |
0.8595 |
-0.0187 |
242 |
2 |
52.15 |
2012-12-22 |
| 131. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
53.48 |
0.8553 |
-0.0219 |
174 |
1 |
53.48 |
2012-12-22 |
| 132. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
53.44 |
1.0165 |
-0.1748 |
392 |
1 |
53.44 |
2012-12-22 |
| 133. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
53.35 |
0.9678 |
-0.0967 |
445 |
1 |
53.35 |
2012-12-22 |
| 134. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
53.18 |
0.9886 |
-0.1524 |
220 |
1 |
53.18 |
2012-12-22 |
| 135. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
53.07 |
0.8958 |
-0.0592 |
322 |
1 |
53.07 |
2012-12-22 |
| 136. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
52.36 |
1.0151 |
-0.2029 |
152 |
1 |
52.36 |
2012-12-22 |
| 137. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
52.10 |
0.9682 |
-0.1536 |
143 |
1 |
52.10 |
2012-12-22 |
| 138. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
51.66 |
0.9843 |
-0.1798 |
234 |
1 |
51.66 |
2012-12-24 |
| 139. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
49.72 |
1.0528 |
-0.2792 |
201 |
1 |
49.72 |
2012-12-22 |
| 140. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
48.84 |
0.9508 |
-0.1530 |
384 |
1 |
48.84 |
2012-12-22 |