| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
77.13 |
1.0711 |
0.4100 |
213 |
2 |
67.48 |
2009-10-16 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
75.89 |
1.0696 |
0.3890 |
226 |
2 |
74.32 |
2009-05-28 |
| 3. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
68.15 |
1.0613 |
0.2513 |
266 |
2 |
60.57 |
2009-05-28 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
67.70 |
1.0565 |
0.2438 |
247 |
2 |
64.24 |
2009-05-28 |
| 5. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
63.70 |
1.0316 |
0.1974 |
333 |
1 |
63.70 |
2009-05-28 |
| 6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
63.54 |
1.0516 |
0.1701 |
281 |
2 |
60.46 |
2009-05-28 |
| 7. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.34 |
1.1016 |
0.0973 |
233 |
2 |
57.11 |
2009-05-27 |
| 8. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
62.07 |
0.9578 |
0.2352 |
281 |
1 |
62.07 |
2009-05-28 |
| 9. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
62.04 |
1.0577 |
0.1317 |
247 |
2 |
58.58 |
2009-05-28 |
| 10. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
61.69 |
0.9986 |
0.1881 |
283 |
1 |
61.69 |
2009-05-28 |
| 11. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
61.50 |
1.0337 |
0.1481 |
214 |
1 |
61.50 |
2009-05-27 |
| 12. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
61.33 |
1.0444 |
0.1281 |
197 |
2 |
59.69 |
2009-05-28 |
| 13. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
61.13 |
1.0033 |
0.1652 |
189 |
1 |
61.13 |
2009-05-28 |
| 14. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
61.06 |
1.0396 |
0.1271 |
149 |
2 |
56.63 |
2009-05-28 |
| 15. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
60.40 |
1.0515 |
0.1077 |
250 |
1 |
60.40 |
2009-05-28 |
| 16. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
59.70 |
1.0183 |
0.1236 |
191 |
1 |
59.70 |
2009-05-28 |
| 17. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
58.90 |
1.0389 |
0.0954 |
340 |
1 |
58.90 |
2009-05-27 |
| 18. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
58.67 |
0.9734 |
0.1537 |
289 |
1 |
58.67 |
2009-05-28 |
| 19. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
58.61 |
0.9965 |
0.1304 |
277 |
2 |
56.34 |
2009-05-28 |
| 20. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
58.28 |
1.0167 |
0.1100 |
378 |
3 |
54.20 |
2009-05-28 |
| 21. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
58.14 |
1.0201 |
0.1010 |
375 |
2 |
55.19 |
2009-10-16 |
| 22. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
58.02 |
1.0534 |
0.0636 |
357 |
1 |
58.02 |
2009-05-28 |
| 23. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
57.91 |
1.1114 |
-0.0014 |
247 |
1 |
57.91 |
2009-05-27 |
| 24. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
57.75 |
0.9763 |
0.1328 |
289 |
2 |
50.77 |
2009-05-28 |
| 25. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
57.73 |
1.0214 |
0.0861 |
269 |
2 |
54.95 |
2009-05-27 |
| 26. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
57.65 |
0.9597 |
0.1520 |
347 |
3 |
50.11 |
2009-05-28 |
| 27. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
57.63 |
1.0214 |
0.0804 |
166 |
3 |
52.16 |
2009-05-28 |
| 28. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
57.40 |
1.0073 |
0.1034 |
369 |
1 |
57.40 |
2009-05-28 |
| 29. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
57.18 |
1.0668 |
0.0342 |
350 |
1 |
57.18 |
2009-05-28 |
| 30. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
56.88 |
1.0829 |
0.0112 |
288 |
1 |
56.88 |
2009-05-22 |
| 31. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
56.87 |
0.9884 |
0.1032 |
233 |
1 |
56.87 |
2009-05-27 |
| 32. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
56.57 |
1.0296 |
0.0634 |
437 |
1 |
56.57 |
2009-05-27 |
| 33. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
56.32 |
0.9612 |
0.1206 |
256 |
1 |
56.32 |
2009-05-28 |
| 34. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
56.10 |
0.9851 |
0.0946 |
317 |
1 |
56.10 |
2009-05-27 |
| 35. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
55.87 |
0.9646 |
0.1075 |
264 |
3 |
50.77 |
2009-05-22 |
| 36. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
55.40 |
0.9351 |
0.1233 |
190 |
1 |
55.40 |
2009-05-28 |
| 37. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
55.38 |
1.0767 |
-0.0154 |
212 |
2 |
51.46 |
2009-05-27 |
| 38. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
55.34 |
0.9965 |
0.0665 |
310 |
1 |
55.34 |
2009-05-28 |
| 39. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
54.49 |
0.9649 |
0.0802 |
193 |
1 |
54.49 |
2009-05-27 |
| 40. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
54.37 |
0.9293 |
0.1154 |
355 |
1 |
54.37 |
2009-05-28 |
| 41. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
54.09 |
1.0796 |
-0.0460 |
129 |
2 |
53.27 |
2009-10-16 |
| 42. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
54.09 |
0.9768 |
0.0642 |
387 |
1 |
54.09 |
2009-05-27 |
| 43. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
53.90 |
1.0523 |
-0.0219 |
256 |
1 |
53.90 |
2009-05-28 |
| 44. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
53.39 |
1.0486 |
-0.0230 |
289 |
1 |
53.39 |
2009-05-27 |
| 45. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
53.02 |
0.9266 |
0.0928 |
278 |
2 |
47.87 |
2009-05-27 |
| 46. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
52.99 |
0.9699 |
0.0465 |
269 |
3 |
51.10 |
2009-05-22 |
| 47. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
52.97 |
1.0331 |
-0.0187 |
234 |
2 |
51.37 |
2009-05-22 |
| 48. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
52.88 |
0.8770 |
0.1411 |
300 |
1 |
52.88 |
2009-05-27 |
| 49. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
52.80 |
1.0062 |
0.0071 |
288 |
1 |
52.80 |
2009-05-22 |
| 50. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
52.62 |
0.9619 |
0.0531 |
393 |
1 |
52.62 |
2009-05-28 |
| 51. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
52.45 |
1.0189 |
-0.0091 |
337 |
1 |
52.45 |
2009-05-27 |
| 52. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
52.43 |
1.0441 |
-0.0365 |
252 |
1 |
52.43 |
2009-05-22 |
| 53. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
52.42 |
1.0555 |
-0.0481 |
363 |
1 |
52.42 |
2009-05-22 |
| 54. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
52.28 |
1.0201 |
-0.0237 |
172 |
1 |
52.28 |
2009-05-22 |
| 55. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
52.27 |
0.9710 |
0.0255 |
173 |
1 |
52.27 |
2009-05-22 |
| 56. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
52.05 |
0.9754 |
0.0295 |
362 |
1 |
52.05 |
2009-05-28 |
| 57. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
52.00 |
1.0292 |
-0.0327 |
262 |
1 |
52.00 |
2009-05-27 |
| 58. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
52.00 |
1.0398 |
-0.0525 |
110 |
1 |
52.00 |
2009-05-27 |
| 59. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
51.86 |
0.9729 |
0.0224 |
255 |
1 |
51.86 |
2009-05-22 |
| 60. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
51.78 |
1.0385 |
-0.0468 |
230 |
2 |
47.70 |
2009-05-22 |
| 61. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
51.76 |
1.0595 |
-0.0639 |
379 |
1 |
51.76 |
2009-05-22 |
| 62. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
51.48 |
0.8971 |
0.0959 |
266 |
3 |
46.25 |
2009-05-27 |
| 63. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
50.84 |
0.9212 |
0.0573 |
323 |
1 |
50.84 |
2009-05-28 |
| 64. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
50.56 |
0.9946 |
-0.0250 |
246 |
2 |
44.56 |
2009-05-27 |
| 65. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
50.34 |
1.0426 |
-0.0778 |
323 |
1 |
50.34 |
2009-05-22 |
| 66. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
50.32 |
0.9795 |
-0.0144 |
308 |
1 |
50.32 |
2009-05-22 |
| 67. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
50.22 |
1.0349 |
-0.0724 |
234 |
1 |
50.22 |
2009-05-22 |
| 68. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
49.88 |
1.0063 |
-0.0493 |
371 |
1 |
49.88 |
2009-05-22 |
| 69. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
49.83 |
0.8958 |
0.0644 |
322 |
2 |
47.09 |
2009-05-28 |
| 70. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
49.79 |
0.8951 |
0.0619 |
193 |
1 |
49.79 |
2009-05-22 |
| 71. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
49.49 |
0.9907 |
-0.0433 |
211 |
1 |
49.49 |
2009-10-16 |
| 72. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
49.10 |
1.1018 |
-0.1668 |
220 |
1 |
49.10 |
2009-05-22 |
| 73. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
49.07 |
1.0528 |
-0.1170 |
201 |
1 |
49.07 |
2009-05-22 |
| 74. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
48.89 |
1.0261 |
-0.0907 |
273 |
2 |
48.17 |
2009-05-22 |
| 75. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
48.38 |
0.9202 |
0.0065 |
254 |
1 |
48.38 |
2009-05-22 |
| 76. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
48.35 |
0.9636 |
-0.0369 |
254 |
1 |
48.35 |
2009-05-22 |
| 77. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
48.31 |
1.0095 |
-0.0845 |
316 |
1 |
48.31 |
2009-05-22 |
| 78. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
48.20 |
1.0340 |
-0.1049 |
406 |
2 |
47.51 |
2009-05-22 |
| 79. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
48.07 |
0.8353 |
0.0936 |
283 |
1 |
48.07 |
2009-05-22 |
| 80. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
47.99 |
0.9865 |
-0.0655 |
276 |
3 |
43.75 |
2009-05-22 |
| 81. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
47.99 |
0.9941 |
-0.0766 |
217 |
1 |
47.99 |
2009-05-22 |
| 82. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
47.94 |
0.9289 |
-0.0123 |
204 |
1 |
47.94 |
2009-05-27 |
| 83. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
47.80 |
0.9691 |
-0.0534 |
223 |
1 |
47.80 |
2009-05-22 |
| 84. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
47.80 |
0.8810 |
0.0360 |
282 |
1 |
47.80 |
2009-05-22 |
| 85. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
47.72 |
0.9567 |
-0.0423 |
273 |
1 |
47.72 |
2009-05-27 |
| 86. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
47.72 |
1.0463 |
-0.1363 |
182 |
2 |
46.64 |
2009-05-22 |
| 87. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
47.54 |
0.9776 |
-0.0663 |
308 |
1 |
47.54 |
2009-05-22 |
| 88. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
47.18 |
0.9532 |
-0.0504 |
258 |
2 |
44.10 |
2009-05-22 |
| 89. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
47.12 |
0.9811 |
-0.0755 |
272 |
1 |
47.12 |
2009-05-27 |
| 90. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
46.93 |
0.8996 |
-0.0059 |
192 |
2 |
46.31 |
2009-10-16 |
| 91. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
46.74 |
1.0025 |
-0.1060 |
336 |
1 |
46.74 |
2009-05-22 |
| 92. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
46.44 |
0.9756 |
-0.0872 |
229 |
1 |
46.44 |
2009-05-27 |
| 93. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
46.38 |
0.9148 |
-0.0248 |
317 |
1 |
46.38 |
2009-05-27 |
| 94. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
46.38 |
1.0487 |
-0.1651 |
231 |
1 |
46.38 |
2009-05-22 |
| 95. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
46.22 |
1.0799 |
-0.1982 |
243 |
1 |
46.22 |
2009-05-22 |
| 96. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
46.16 |
1.0389 |
-0.1529 |
318 |
1 |
46.16 |
2009-05-22 |
| 97. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
46.07 |
0.9084 |
-0.0218 |
404 |
1 |
46.07 |
2009-05-27 |
| 98. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
46.05 |
0.9844 |
-0.0975 |
293 |
1 |
46.05 |
2009-05-27 |
| 99. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
45.86 |
0.9125 |
-0.0322 |
308 |
1 |
45.86 |
2009-05-22 |
| 100. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
45.84 |
1.0120 |
-0.1347 |
290 |
1 |
45.84 |
2009-05-22 |
| 101. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
45.78 |
0.9411 |
-0.0634 |
318 |
1 |
45.78 |
2009-05-22 |
| 102. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
45.38 |
0.9893 |
-0.1201 |
323 |
1 |
45.38 |
2009-05-22 |
| 103. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
45.26 |
0.9964 |
-0.1295 |
203 |
1 |
45.26 |
2009-05-22 |
| 104. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
44.95 |
0.8573 |
0.0071 |
270 |
1 |
44.95 |
2009-05-22 |
| 105. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
44.56 |
1.0099 |
-0.1596 |
207 |
1 |
44.56 |
2009-10-16 |
| 106. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
44.22 |
0.9593 |
-0.1080 |
398 |
1 |
44.22 |
2009-05-22 |
| 107. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
44.20 |
0.9365 |
-0.0889 |
248 |
2 |
40.94 |
2009-05-22 |
| 108. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
44.15 |
0.9740 |
-0.1329 |
209 |
1 |
44.15 |
2009-05-22 |
| 109. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
44.11 |
0.9805 |
-0.1315 |
292 |
1 |
44.11 |
2009-05-22 |
| 110. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.52 |
1.0125 |
-0.1818 |
224 |
1 |
43.52 |
2009-05-22 |
| 111. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
43.42 |
0.8852 |
-0.0521 |
201 |
3 |
40.07 |
2009-05-28 |
| 112. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
43.20 |
0.8442 |
-0.0134 |
265 |
1 |
43.20 |
2009-05-22 |
| 113. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
42.67 |
0.9731 |
-0.1691 |
129 |
1 |
42.67 |
2009-05-22 |
| 114. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
41.96 |
0.9088 |
-0.1009 |
348 |
1 |
41.96 |
2009-05-22 |
| 115. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
41.89 |
0.8890 |
-0.0913 |
199 |
1 |
41.89 |
2009-05-22 |
| 116. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
41.29 |
0.9109 |
-0.1187 |
401 |
1 |
41.29 |
2009-05-22 |
| 117. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
40.87 |
0.9500 |
-0.1663 |
362 |
1 |
40.87 |
2009-05-22 |
| 118. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.66 |
0.9072 |
-0.1315 |
237 |
1 |
40.66 |
2009-05-28 |
| 119. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
40.37 |
0.9841 |
-0.2086 |
334 |
1 |
40.37 |
2009-05-22 |
| 120. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
40.35 |
0.9820 |
-0.2078 |
267 |
1 |
40.35 |
2009-05-22 |
| 121. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
38.82 |
0.9309 |
-0.1912 |
284 |
1 |
38.82 |
2009-05-22 |
| 122. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
37.17 |
0.8602 |
-0.1528 |
206 |
1 |
37.17 |
2009-05-22 |
| 123. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
31.87 |
0.8975 |
-0.2905 |
268 |
1 |
31.87 |
2009-05-22 |
| 124. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
29.25 |
0.8553 |
-0.3048 |
174 |
1 |
29.25 |
2009-05-22 |