| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
133.69 |
1.0567 |
0.5768 |
303 |
2 |
108.63 |
2013-11-22 |
| 2. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
131.43 |
1.0531 |
0.5897 |
272 |
1 |
131.43 |
2013-11-22 |
| 3. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
130.23 |
1.0523 |
0.5334 |
256 |
1 |
130.23 |
2013-11-22 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
129.83 |
1.0565 |
0.5256 |
247 |
2 |
100.37 |
2013-11-22 |
| 5. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
129.67 |
0.9312 |
0.7025 |
320 |
1 |
129.67 |
2013-11-22 |
| 6. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
129.38 |
0.9084 |
0.6728 |
300 |
2 |
101.58 |
2013-11-22 |
| 7. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
129.25 |
0.8775 |
0.7032 |
443 |
1 |
129.25 |
2013-11-22 |
| 8. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
128.12 |
0.9897 |
0.5718 |
274 |
1 |
128.12 |
2013-11-22 |
| 9. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
127.24 |
1.0013 |
0.5509 |
273 |
1 |
127.24 |
2013-11-22 |
| 10. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
123.71 |
1.0316 |
0.4821 |
333 |
1 |
123.71 |
2013-11-22 |
| 11. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
106.41 |
1.0669 |
0.2629 |
213 |
1 |
106.41 |
2013-11-22 |
| 12. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
105.15 |
1.0029 |
0.2717 |
209 |
1 |
105.15 |
2013-11-22 |
| 13. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
99.64 |
1.0031 |
0.2436 |
304 |
1 |
99.64 |
2013-11-21 |
| 14. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
99.57 |
1.0972 |
0.1449 |
251 |
1 |
99.57 |
2013-11-21 |
| 15. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
99.10 |
0.9485 |
0.2608 |
291 |
1 |
99.10 |
2013-11-21 |
| 16. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
98.51 |
1.0331 |
0.1640 |
234 |
1 |
98.51 |
2013-02-13 |
| 17. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
97.13 |
0.9631 |
0.2706 |
345 |
3 |
89.62 |
2013-11-21 |
| 18. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
96.66 |
0.9266 |
0.2499 |
267 |
1 |
96.66 |
2013-11-21 |
| 19. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
95.52 |
1.0214 |
0.1398 |
269 |
1 |
95.52 |
2013-11-21 |
| 20. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
95.44 |
0.9936 |
0.1882 |
227 |
1 |
95.44 |
2013-11-21 |
| 21. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
94.75 |
0.9893 |
0.1638 |
323 |
1 |
94.75 |
2013-11-21 |
| 22. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
94.14 |
1.1114 |
0.0314 |
247 |
2 |
84.47 |
2013-11-06 |
| 23. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
93.47 |
1.0767 |
0.0585 |
212 |
1 |
93.47 |
2013-11-03 |
| 24. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
91.94 |
0.8442 |
0.2783 |
265 |
1 |
91.94 |
2013-11-21 |
| 25. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
88.11 |
1.0352 |
0.0388 |
341 |
1 |
88.11 |
2013-02-08 |
| 26. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
87.67 |
1.0534 |
0.0152 |
357 |
2 |
84.52 |
2013-02-16 |
| 27. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
87.60 |
1.0399 |
0.0306 |
294 |
1 |
87.60 |
2013-02-12 |
| 28. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
87.60 |
1.0787 |
-0.0151 |
237 |
1 |
87.60 |
2013-02-13 |
| 29. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
86.80 |
1.0666 |
-0.0109 |
297 |
1 |
86.80 |
2013-02-10 |
| 30. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
85.83 |
0.9710 |
0.0660 |
173 |
1 |
85.83 |
2013-02-08 |
| 31. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
85.67 |
1.0417 |
-0.0030 |
253 |
1 |
85.67 |
2013-10-28 |
| 32. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
85.22 |
0.9855 |
0.0840 |
258 |
1 |
85.22 |
2013-11-21 |
| 33. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
85.12 |
0.9376 |
0.1025 |
367 |
1 |
85.12 |
2013-02-12 |
| 34. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
84.40 |
1.0463 |
-0.0252 |
182 |
1 |
84.40 |
2013-02-08 |
| 35. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
84.21 |
0.9772 |
0.0429 |
217 |
2 |
81.07 |
2013-02-13 |
| 36. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
84.14 |
1.0941 |
-0.0403 |
256 |
1 |
84.14 |
2013-02-15 |
| 37. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
84.01 |
1.0387 |
0.0143 |
239 |
1 |
84.01 |
2013-02-12 |
| 38. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
83.42 |
0.9991 |
0.0153 |
225 |
1 |
83.42 |
2013-02-12 |
| 39. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
83.03 |
0.9678 |
0.0762 |
445 |
2 |
76.89 |
2013-10-20 |
| 40. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
82.59 |
1.0545 |
-0.0102 |
416 |
1 |
82.59 |
2013-10-28 |
| 41. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
82.15 |
1.0788 |
-0.0864 |
171 |
1 |
82.15 |
2013-02-10 |
| 42. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
81.92 |
1.0201 |
-0.0313 |
172 |
1 |
81.92 |
2013-02-08 |
| 43. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
81.79 |
1.0391 |
-0.0394 |
358 |
1 |
81.79 |
2013-02-10 |
| 44. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
81.44 |
1.0944 |
-0.0605 |
308 |
2 |
78.54 |
2013-02-10 |
| 45. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
81.44 |
1.0608 |
-0.0382 |
258 |
2 |
76.36 |
2013-11-21 |
| 46. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
81.34 |
0.8919 |
0.0949 |
205 |
1 |
81.34 |
2013-10-20 |
| 47. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
81.26 |
0.9649 |
0.0214 |
193 |
2 |
75.15 |
2013-10-20 |
| 48. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
81.10 |
1.0516 |
-0.0672 |
281 |
1 |
81.10 |
2013-02-10 |
| 49. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
80.95 |
0.9833 |
0.0018 |
355 |
2 |
76.20 |
2013-10-30 |
| 50. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
80.80 |
1.0368 |
-0.0547 |
276 |
2 |
77.94 |
2013-02-12 |
| 51. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
80.53 |
1.0459 |
-0.0369 |
200 |
2 |
75.28 |
2013-10-28 |
| 52. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
80.37 |
0.9676 |
0.0170 |
442 |
1 |
80.37 |
2013-02-10 |
| 53. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
80.33 |
1.0529 |
-0.0772 |
351 |
1 |
80.33 |
2013-02-13 |
| 54. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
80.29 |
1.0296 |
-0.0479 |
437 |
1 |
80.29 |
2013-02-12 |
| 55. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
80.13 |
0.9359 |
0.0770 |
353 |
1 |
80.13 |
2013-02-10 |
| 56. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
79.75 |
0.9936 |
-0.0252 |
311 |
1 |
79.75 |
2013-10-28 |
| 57. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
79.29 |
0.9946 |
-0.0317 |
246 |
1 |
79.29 |
2013-10-28 |
| 58. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
78.29 |
0.9831 |
-0.0358 |
222 |
1 |
78.29 |
2013-02-10 |
| 59. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
78.01 |
1.0201 |
-0.0689 |
375 |
1 |
78.01 |
2013-11-06 |
| 60. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
77.74 |
1.0240 |
-0.0832 |
256 |
1 |
77.74 |
2013-11-06 |
| 61. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
77.40 |
1.0596 |
-0.1223 |
239 |
1 |
77.40 |
2013-10-28 |
| 62. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
77.30 |
0.9109 |
0.0305 |
401 |
1 |
77.30 |
2013-11-03 |
| 63. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
76.97 |
0.9303 |
-0.0030 |
176 |
1 |
76.97 |
2013-02-10 |
| 64. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
76.94 |
1.0361 |
-0.1013 |
269 |
2 |
76.82 |
2013-11-06 |
| 65. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
76.84 |
1.0528 |
-0.1247 |
201 |
1 |
76.84 |
2013-10-28 |
| 66. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
76.76 |
0.9411 |
-0.0085 |
318 |
2 |
74.26 |
2013-02-10 |
| 67. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
76.52 |
1.0261 |
-0.0995 |
273 |
1 |
76.52 |
2013-02-10 |
| 68. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
76.38 |
1.0604 |
-0.1001 |
260 |
1 |
76.38 |
2013-02-08 |
| 69. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
76.29 |
0.9776 |
-0.0513 |
308 |
1 |
76.29 |
2013-02-10 |
| 70. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
75.56 |
1.0109 |
-0.0934 |
276 |
1 |
75.56 |
2013-02-15 |
| 71. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
75.55 |
1.0613 |
-0.1435 |
266 |
1 |
75.55 |
2013-02-10 |
| 72. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
75.19 |
1.0426 |
-0.1308 |
323 |
2 |
73.52 |
2013-11-21 |
| 73. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
74.63 |
1.0063 |
-0.1005 |
371 |
2 |
73.48 |
2013-11-21 |
| 74. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
74.29 |
0.9567 |
-0.0552 |
273 |
1 |
74.29 |
2013-10-20 |
| 75. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
74.26 |
1.0398 |
-0.1497 |
110 |
1 |
74.26 |
2013-02-08 |
| 76. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
74.13 |
0.8933 |
0.0125 |
363 |
1 |
74.13 |
2013-02-10 |
| 77. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
73.59 |
0.9089 |
-0.0126 |
342 |
1 |
73.59 |
2013-02-10 |
| 78. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
73.27 |
1.0644 |
-0.1392 |
257 |
1 |
73.27 |
2013-10-31 |
| 79. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
72.77 |
0.9342 |
-0.0478 |
434 |
1 |
72.77 |
2013-02-10 |
| 80. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
72.69 |
1.0264 |
-0.1045 |
422 |
1 |
72.69 |
2013-02-08 |
| 81. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
72.48 |
0.9619 |
-0.0773 |
393 |
1 |
72.48 |
2013-11-04 |
| 82. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
72.32 |
0.9709 |
-0.0525 |
397 |
1 |
72.32 |
2013-10-28 |
| 83. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
72.09 |
0.9371 |
-0.0238 |
318 |
1 |
72.09 |
2013-10-20 |
| 84. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
72.08 |
0.9986 |
-0.1238 |
283 |
2 |
71.29 |
2013-03-07 |
| 85. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
71.98 |
0.9640 |
-0.0613 |
334 |
1 |
71.98 |
2013-10-28 |
| 86. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
71.84 |
0.9430 |
-0.0790 |
211 |
1 |
71.84 |
2013-10-20 |
| 87. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
71.64 |
1.1296 |
-0.2318 |
252 |
1 |
71.64 |
2013-10-28 |
| 88. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
71.58 |
1.0232 |
-0.1094 |
350 |
1 |
71.58 |
2013-02-08 |
| 89. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
71.58 |
0.9681 |
-0.0919 |
378 |
1 |
71.58 |
2013-02-13 |
| 90. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
71.41 |
1.0774 |
-0.1822 |
304 |
1 |
71.41 |
2013-02-12 |
| 91. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
70.70 |
1.0412 |
-0.1845 |
225 |
1 |
70.70 |
2013-10-28 |
| 92. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
70.51 |
0.9898 |
-0.0970 |
353 |
1 |
70.51 |
2013-10-28 |
| 93. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
70.38 |
1.0613 |
-0.2026 |
456 |
1 |
70.38 |
2013-03-07 |
| 94. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
70.18 |
0.9508 |
-0.0664 |
384 |
1 |
70.18 |
2013-02-08 |
| 95. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
70.10 |
0.9148 |
-0.0635 |
317 |
2 |
68.78 |
2013-10-28 |
| 96. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
70.06 |
0.9202 |
-0.0712 |
254 |
1 |
70.06 |
2013-10-20 |
| 97. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
69.65 |
0.9795 |
-0.1349 |
308 |
1 |
69.65 |
2013-02-10 |
| 98. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
69.49 |
0.9243 |
-0.0424 |
448 |
1 |
69.49 |
2013-02-15 |
| 99. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
69.27 |
0.9966 |
-0.1575 |
259 |
1 |
69.27 |
2013-02-10 |
| 100. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
69.25 |
1.0167 |
-0.1704 |
378 |
1 |
69.25 |
2013-11-04 |
| 101. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
69.01 |
1.0189 |
-0.1795 |
337 |
1 |
69.01 |
2013-02-08 |
| 102. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
69.01 |
0.9698 |
-0.1005 |
397 |
1 |
69.01 |
2013-02-08 |
| 103. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
68.97 |
0.9636 |
-0.1281 |
254 |
1 |
68.97 |
2013-02-08 |
| 104. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
68.76 |
0.8348 |
0.0047 |
219 |
1 |
68.76 |
2013-11-21 |
| 105. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
68.71 |
1.0454 |
-0.2159 |
255 |
1 |
68.71 |
2013-02-10 |
| 106. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
68.41 |
0.9045 |
-0.0749 |
235 |
1 |
68.41 |
2013-02-16 |
| 107. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
68.18 |
0.9279 |
-0.0950 |
317 |
1 |
68.18 |
2013-02-10 |
| 108. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
68.14 |
0.7876 |
0.0407 |
316 |
1 |
68.14 |
2013-10-20 |
| 109. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
67.52 |
0.9884 |
-0.1709 |
233 |
1 |
67.52 |
2013-02-10 |
| 110. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
67.42 |
0.9731 |
-0.1690 |
129 |
1 |
67.42 |
2013-11-03 |
| 111. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
67.38 |
0.8845 |
-0.0682 |
273 |
1 |
67.38 |
2013-02-10 |
| 112. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
66.88 |
0.9635 |
-0.1475 |
389 |
1 |
66.88 |
2013-10-28 |
| 113. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
66.74 |
0.9769 |
-0.1704 |
263 |
1 |
66.74 |
2013-11-21 |
| 114. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
66.61 |
0.7805 |
0.0217 |
154 |
1 |
66.61 |
2013-10-28 |
| 115. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
66.57 |
0.9912 |
-0.1581 |
237 |
1 |
66.57 |
2013-02-10 |
| 116. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
66.47 |
0.9622 |
-0.1506 |
392 |
1 |
66.47 |
2013-10-28 |
| 117. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
65.00 |
1.0768 |
-0.2501 |
295 |
1 |
65.00 |
2013-11-03 |
| 118. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
64.29 |
1.0403 |
-0.2222 |
275 |
1 |
64.29 |
2013-02-13 |
| 119. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
63.84 |
0.9155 |
-0.0937 |
168 |
1 |
63.84 |
2013-10-20 |
| 120. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
63.42 |
0.9665 |
-0.1496 |
326 |
1 |
63.42 |
2013-02-10 |
| 121. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
62.40 |
0.9646 |
-0.2105 |
264 |
1 |
62.40 |
2013-11-04 |
| 122. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
60.30 |
0.9023 |
-0.1301 |
231 |
1 |
60.30 |
2013-10-28 |
| 123. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
60.00 |
0.9785 |
-0.2500 |
335 |
1 |
60.00 |
2013-02-10 |
| 124. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
59.68 |
0.8753 |
-0.1444 |
427 |
1 |
59.68 |
2013-02-12 |
| 125. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
59.01 |
0.9383 |
-0.2034 |
471 |
1 |
59.01 |
2013-02-14 |
| 126. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
58.15 |
0.9976 |
-0.2746 |
174 |
1 |
58.15 |
2013-11-21 |
| 127. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
56.12 |
0.7988 |
-0.1129 |
219 |
1 |
56.12 |
2013-11-21 |