| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
84.18 |
1.1114 |
0.0645 |
247 |
1 |
84.18 |
2011-11-06 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
82.22 |
1.0565 |
0.0918 |
247 |
2 |
79.19 |
2011-11-23 |
| 3. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
82.14 |
1.0013 |
0.1475 |
273 |
1 |
82.14 |
2011-11-16 |
| 4. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
82.11 |
1.0462 |
0.0970 |
184 |
2 |
78.07 |
2011-11-04 |
| 5. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
81.78 |
1.1068 |
0.0781 |
393 |
2 |
77.15 |
2011-11-04 |
| 6. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
81.50 |
1.0905 |
0.0821 |
210 |
1 |
81.50 |
2011-11-04 |
| 7. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
81.40 |
1.0515 |
0.0799 |
166 |
1 |
81.40 |
2011-11-14 |
| 8. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
81.07 |
1.0154 |
0.1690 |
351 |
1 |
81.07 |
2011-11-08 |
| 9. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
81.06 |
1.0419 |
0.0925 |
261 |
1 |
81.06 |
2011-11-08 |
| 10. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
80.94 |
1.0885 |
0.0791 |
341 |
1 |
80.94 |
2011-11-04 |
| 11. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
80.77 |
1.1018 |
0.0221 |
220 |
1 |
80.77 |
2011-11-23 |
| 12. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
80.71 |
1.0767 |
0.0506 |
212 |
2 |
73.02 |
2011-11-14 |
| 13. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
79.67 |
0.9994 |
0.1460 |
269 |
1 |
79.67 |
2011-11-06 |
| 14. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
79.59 |
1.0346 |
0.1210 |
244 |
2 |
71.77 |
2011-11-04 |
| 15. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
79.39 |
0.9286 |
0.1812 |
194 |
1 |
79.39 |
2011-11-06 |
| 16. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
79.10 |
1.0381 |
0.0587 |
170 |
1 |
79.10 |
2011-11-08 |
| 17. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
78.77 |
1.1016 |
0.0005 |
233 |
1 |
78.77 |
2011-11-04 |
| 18. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
78.46 |
1.0615 |
0.0613 |
305 |
1 |
78.46 |
2011-11-23 |
| 19. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
78.26 |
0.9768 |
0.1206 |
387 |
2 |
73.83 |
2011-11-11 |
| 20. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
78.14 |
1.0296 |
0.0699 |
437 |
1 |
78.14 |
2011-11-06 |
| 21. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
77.32 |
0.9884 |
0.0974 |
262 |
1 |
77.32 |
2011-11-04 |
| 22. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
77.19 |
1.0669 |
0.0451 |
286 |
2 |
76.35 |
2011-11-14 |
| 23. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
77.14 |
1.0264 |
0.0926 |
422 |
1 |
77.14 |
2011-11-06 |
| 24. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
77.11 |
0.9907 |
0.1217 |
397 |
1 |
77.11 |
2011-11-06 |
| 25. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
76.99 |
0.9844 |
0.0972 |
293 |
2 |
70.81 |
2011-11-14 |
| 26. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
76.89 |
1.0496 |
0.0251 |
314 |
2 |
73.99 |
2011-11-04 |
| 27. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
76.23 |
0.9665 |
0.1489 |
326 |
1 |
76.23 |
2011-11-04 |
| 28. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
76.02 |
1.0029 |
0.0538 |
209 |
1 |
76.02 |
2011-11-04 |
| 29. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
76.00 |
1.0213 |
0.0383 |
240 |
1 |
76.00 |
2011-11-02 |
| 30. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
75.81 |
1.0257 |
0.0408 |
401 |
2 |
75.10 |
2011-11-04 |
| 31. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
75.50 |
1.0254 |
0.0711 |
217 |
1 |
75.50 |
2011-11-23 |
| 32. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
75.18 |
1.0619 |
-0.0071 |
354 |
1 |
75.18 |
2011-11-04 |
| 33. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
74.71 |
1.0829 |
-0.0368 |
288 |
1 |
74.71 |
2011-11-04 |
| 34. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
74.47 |
1.0696 |
-0.0319 |
226 |
1 |
74.47 |
2011-11-06 |
| 35. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
74.33 |
1.0203 |
0.0223 |
261 |
1 |
74.33 |
2011-11-04 |
| 36. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
74.32 |
0.9289 |
0.1078 |
204 |
2 |
72.81 |
2011-11-23 |
| 37. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
74.07 |
1.0787 |
-0.0445 |
237 |
2 |
72.14 |
2011-11-14 |
| 38. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
73.61 |
0.9776 |
0.0516 |
308 |
1 |
73.61 |
2011-11-16 |
| 39. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
73.58 |
0.9597 |
0.0730 |
347 |
1 |
73.58 |
2011-11-06 |
| 40. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
72.40 |
0.9684 |
0.0462 |
388 |
2 |
70.02 |
2011-11-02 |
| 41. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
72.40 |
1.0025 |
0.0093 |
256 |
1 |
72.40 |
2011-11-04 |
| 42. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
71.99 |
1.0444 |
-0.0449 |
197 |
1 |
71.99 |
2011-07-04 |
| 43. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
71.79 |
1.0251 |
-0.0241 |
261 |
1 |
71.79 |
2011-11-14 |
| 44. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
71.54 |
0.9756 |
0.0228 |
229 |
1 |
71.54 |
2011-11-04 |
| 45. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
71.53 |
1.0168 |
-0.0159 |
271 |
1 |
71.53 |
2011-11-04 |
| 46. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
71.52 |
0.9303 |
0.0628 |
176 |
1 |
71.52 |
2011-11-06 |
| 47. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
71.47 |
0.8919 |
0.1051 |
205 |
1 |
71.47 |
2011-11-04 |
| 48. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
71.47 |
0.9376 |
0.0665 |
367 |
2 |
68.07 |
2011-11-06 |
| 49. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
71.14 |
0.9936 |
0.0205 |
227 |
1 |
71.14 |
2011-11-04 |
| 50. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
71.08 |
0.9740 |
0.0151 |
209 |
1 |
71.08 |
2011-11-04 |
| 51. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
70.85 |
0.9128 |
0.1186 |
369 |
1 |
70.85 |
2011-11-02 |
| 52. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
70.81 |
0.9897 |
-0.0026 |
274 |
1 |
70.81 |
2011-11-02 |
| 53. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
70.74 |
1.0167 |
-0.0215 |
378 |
1 |
70.74 |
2011-11-02 |
| 54. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
70.62 |
1.0399 |
-0.0480 |
294 |
2 |
69.97 |
2011-11-04 |
| 55. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
70.57 |
1.0117 |
0.0191 |
297 |
2 |
68.61 |
2011-11-06 |
| 56. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
70.56 |
1.0529 |
-0.0672 |
351 |
1 |
70.56 |
2011-11-02 |
| 57. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
70.54 |
1.0577 |
-0.0757 |
247 |
1 |
70.54 |
2011-11-06 |
| 58. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
70.53 |
0.9157 |
0.0746 |
350 |
2 |
60.36 |
2011-11-23 |
| 59. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
70.49 |
0.9553 |
0.0367 |
430 |
2 |
65.98 |
2011-11-04 |
| 60. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
70.21 |
1.0189 |
-0.0347 |
337 |
1 |
70.21 |
2011-11-02 |
| 61. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
70.16 |
1.0595 |
-0.0768 |
379 |
2 |
64.78 |
2011-11-23 |
| 62. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
70.10 |
1.0403 |
-0.0460 |
193 |
1 |
70.10 |
2011-11-04 |
| 63. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
70.07 |
1.0385 |
-0.0614 |
230 |
1 |
70.07 |
2011-11-06 |
| 64. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
70.05 |
0.9426 |
0.0391 |
317 |
2 |
68.75 |
2011-11-04 |
| 65. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
69.97 |
1.0535 |
-0.0412 |
326 |
1 |
69.97 |
2011-11-02 |
| 66. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
69.96 |
0.8670 |
0.1157 |
318 |
1 |
69.96 |
2011-11-16 |
| 67. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
69.77 |
1.0270 |
-0.0164 |
255 |
1 |
69.77 |
2011-11-16 |
| 68. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
69.73 |
0.9339 |
0.0387 |
310 |
2 |
66.69 |
2011-11-14 |
| 69. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
69.69 |
1.0719 |
-0.0708 |
360 |
1 |
69.69 |
2011-11-02 |
| 70. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
69.69 |
0.9709 |
0.0436 |
397 |
1 |
69.69 |
2011-11-06 |
| 71. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
69.64 |
1.0083 |
0.0086 |
273 |
1 |
69.64 |
2011-11-14 |
| 72. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
69.12 |
0.9266 |
0.0389 |
267 |
2 |
65.89 |
2011-11-04 |
| 73. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
69.08 |
1.0669 |
-0.0691 |
213 |
1 |
69.08 |
2011-11-02 |
| 74. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
68.98 |
0.9567 |
0.0065 |
273 |
1 |
68.98 |
2011-11-04 |
| 75. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
68.84 |
0.9774 |
-0.0168 |
196 |
1 |
68.84 |
2011-11-04 |
| 76. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
68.79 |
1.0613 |
-0.0955 |
456 |
1 |
68.79 |
2011-11-02 |
| 77. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
68.69 |
1.0214 |
-0.0675 |
166 |
1 |
68.69 |
2011-11-02 |
| 78. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
68.50 |
1.0403 |
-0.0437 |
275 |
1 |
68.50 |
2011-11-04 |
| 79. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
68.50 |
1.0320 |
-0.0380 |
293 |
2 |
67.74 |
2011-11-02 |
| 80. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
68.34 |
0.9072 |
0.0455 |
237 |
1 |
68.34 |
2011-11-14 |
| 81. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
68.33 |
0.9509 |
0.0417 |
225 |
1 |
68.33 |
2011-11-04 |
| 82. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
68.32 |
0.9278 |
0.0290 |
295 |
2 |
62.79 |
2011-11-16 |
| 83. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
68.15 |
1.0567 |
-0.1044 |
303 |
1 |
68.15 |
2011-11-02 |
| 84. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
68.12 |
0.8947 |
0.0615 |
366 |
1 |
68.12 |
2011-11-02 |
| 85. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
67.97 |
0.9691 |
-0.0204 |
223 |
1 |
67.97 |
2011-11-02 |
| 86. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
67.91 |
0.9668 |
0.0241 |
383 |
1 |
67.91 |
2011-11-02 |
| 87. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
67.87 |
1.0337 |
-0.0866 |
214 |
1 |
67.87 |
2011-11-02 |
| 88. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
67.85 |
0.9088 |
0.0439 |
348 |
1 |
67.85 |
2011-11-06 |
| 89. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
67.71 |
1.0390 |
-0.0973 |
205 |
1 |
67.71 |
2011-11-04 |
| 90. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
67.67 |
1.0073 |
-0.0544 |
369 |
1 |
67.67 |
2011-11-02 |
| 91. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
67.64 |
0.9976 |
-0.0329 |
174 |
1 |
67.64 |
2011-11-16 |
| 92. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
67.31 |
0.9801 |
0.0020 |
428 |
1 |
67.31 |
2011-11-04 |
| 93. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
67.26 |
0.9731 |
-0.0465 |
129 |
1 |
67.26 |
2011-11-04 |
| 94. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
66.94 |
0.9675 |
-0.0234 |
383 |
1 |
66.94 |
2011-11-04 |
| 95. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
66.72 |
0.9857 |
-0.0552 |
293 |
1 |
66.72 |
2011-11-04 |
| 96. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
65.77 |
1.0034 |
-0.0869 |
302 |
1 |
65.77 |
2011-11-02 |
| 97. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
65.68 |
0.7805 |
0.1321 |
154 |
2 |
61.67 |
2011-11-21 |
| 98. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
65.68 |
0.9663 |
-0.0441 |
330 |
1 |
65.68 |
2011-11-14 |
| 99. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
65.53 |
0.9353 |
-0.0248 |
177 |
2 |
62.89 |
2011-11-04 |
| 100. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
65.50 |
0.8602 |
0.0518 |
206 |
1 |
65.50 |
2011-11-23 |
| 101. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
65.49 |
0.9681 |
-0.0457 |
378 |
1 |
65.49 |
2011-11-02 |
| 102. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
65.40 |
1.0943 |
-0.1489 |
206 |
1 |
65.40 |
2011-07-04 |
| 103. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
65.33 |
0.9710 |
-0.0657 |
173 |
1 |
65.33 |
2011-11-04 |
| 104. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
65.12 |
0.9364 |
0.0125 |
351 |
1 |
65.12 |
2011-11-02 |
| 105. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
64.91 |
0.9726 |
-0.0732 |
154 |
1 |
64.91 |
2011-11-16 |
| 106. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
64.77 |
1.1162 |
-0.1713 |
189 |
1 |
64.77 |
2011-07-04 |
| 107. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
64.73 |
0.9886 |
-0.0828 |
220 |
1 |
64.73 |
2011-07-04 |
| 108. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
64.47 |
1.0774 |
-0.1484 |
304 |
1 |
64.47 |
2011-11-02 |
| 109. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
64.36 |
0.9852 |
-0.0868 |
264 |
1 |
64.36 |
2011-11-02 |
| 110. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
64.23 |
1.0025 |
-0.1054 |
336 |
1 |
64.23 |
2011-11-14 |
| 111. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
63.64 |
0.9724 |
-0.0809 |
237 |
1 |
63.64 |
2011-11-04 |
| 112. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
63.51 |
0.9168 |
-0.0295 |
240 |
1 |
63.51 |
2011-11-02 |
| 113. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
63.34 |
0.9682 |
-0.0865 |
143 |
1 |
63.34 |
2011-11-02 |
| 114. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
62.51 |
0.9614 |
-0.0865 |
292 |
1 |
62.51 |
2011-11-02 |
| 115. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
62.28 |
0.9243 |
-0.0164 |
448 |
1 |
62.28 |
2011-11-06 |
| 116. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
60.41 |
1.0365 |
-0.1645 |
162 |
1 |
60.41 |
2011-07-04 |
| 117. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
60.36 |
0.7876 |
0.0564 |
316 |
2 |
59.70 |
2011-11-04 |
| 118. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
59.20 |
1.0077 |
-0.1414 |
250 |
1 |
59.20 |
2011-11-04 |
| 119. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
59.11 |
0.9064 |
-0.0735 |
399 |
1 |
59.11 |
2011-11-16 |
| 120. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
58.15 |
0.8878 |
-0.0778 |
346 |
1 |
58.15 |
2011-11-23 |
| 121. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
56.47 |
1.0941 |
-0.2765 |
256 |
1 |
56.47 |
2011-11-23 |
| 122. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
28.04 |
0.9376 |
-0.5182 |
360 |
1 |
28.04 |
2011-11-23 |