| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
87.61 |
1.0901 |
0.2184 |
288 |
1 |
87.61 |
2011-07-26 |
| 2. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
83.20 |
1.1198 |
0.1195 |
247 |
1 |
83.20 |
2011-07-26 |
| 3. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
81.28 |
0.9931 |
0.2149 |
218 |
2 |
68.85 |
2016-06-24 |
| 4. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
81.27 |
0.9851 |
0.2312 |
237 |
1 |
81.27 |
2016-06-24 |
| 5. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
78.22 |
0.9632 |
0.2038 |
287 |
1 |
78.22 |
2016-07-05 |
| 6. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
78.12 |
0.9503 |
0.2073 |
211 |
1 |
78.12 |
2011-05-27 |
| 7. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
77.47 |
1.0777 |
0.0748 |
226 |
1 |
77.47 |
2015-11-28 |
| 8. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
76.54 |
1.0640 |
0.0822 |
210 |
1 |
76.54 |
2011-07-26 |
| 9. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
76.02 |
1.0194 |
0.1111 |
224 |
1 |
76.02 |
2011-07-26 |
| 10. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
75.07 |
1.0576 |
0.0581 |
231 |
1 |
75.07 |
2015-11-27 |
| 11. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
74.32 |
0.9928 |
0.1139 |
293 |
2 |
67.21 |
2016-06-24 |
| 12. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
73.49 |
0.9839 |
0.1097 |
196 |
1 |
73.49 |
2016-07-05 |
| 13. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
73.35 |
0.9604 |
0.1301 |
285 |
1 |
73.35 |
2011-05-27 |
| 14. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
73.31 |
1.0404 |
0.0568 |
406 |
1 |
73.31 |
2015-11-28 |
| 15. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
73.09 |
1.0067 |
0.0961 |
422 |
1 |
73.09 |
2016-06-24 |
| 16. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
72.52 |
1.0472 |
0.0442 |
397 |
1 |
72.52 |
2016-06-24 |
| 17. |
God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his ... |
71.75 |
1.0067 |
0.0647 |
188 |
1 |
71.75 |
2016-06-24 |
| 18. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
71.72 |
0.9841 |
0.0811 |
217 |
1 |
71.72 |
2011-07-26 |
| 19. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
71.69 |
0.9591 |
0.1240 |
428 |
1 |
71.69 |
2016-06-24 |
| 20. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
71.48 |
1.0697 |
0.0045 |
341 |
1 |
71.48 |
2011-07-11 |
| 21. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
71.37 |
1.0332 |
0.0290 |
267 |
1 |
71.37 |
2011-07-11 |
| 22. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
71.30 |
0.9864 |
0.0795 |
292 |
1 |
71.30 |
2016-06-24 |
| 23. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
71.23 |
0.8856 |
0.1831 |
369 |
2 |
66.06 |
2011-05-27 |
| 24. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
71.06 |
1.0543 |
0.0049 |
233 |
1 |
71.06 |
2011-05-27 |
| 25. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
70.90 |
1.1095 |
-0.0512 |
252 |
1 |
70.90 |
2016-06-24 |
| 26. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
70.86 |
1.0128 |
0.0496 |
369 |
1 |
70.86 |
2011-05-27 |
| 27. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
70.77 |
1.0301 |
0.0227 |
268 |
1 |
70.77 |
2011-05-27 |
| 28. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
70.74 |
1.0736 |
-0.0160 |
256 |
1 |
70.74 |
2015-11-27 |
| 29. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
70.71 |
1.0018 |
0.0519 |
246 |
1 |
70.71 |
2016-06-24 |
| 30. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
70.06 |
1.0867 |
-0.0477 |
171 |
1 |
70.06 |
2011-07-11 |
| 31. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
69.70 |
0.9873 |
0.0614 |
396 |
1 |
69.70 |
2011-07-12 |
| 32. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
69.67 |
1.0562 |
-0.0132 |
360 |
1 |
69.67 |
2016-06-24 |
| 33. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
69.62 |
1.0600 |
-0.0227 |
351 |
1 |
69.62 |
2015-11-27 |
| 34. |
Even though there may be a deceiver of some sort, very power... |
69.61 |
1.0215 |
0.0257 |
321 |
1 |
69.61 |
2016-06-24 |
| 35. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
69.37 |
1.0836 |
-0.0473 |
206 |
1 |
69.37 |
2011-07-26 |
| 36. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
69.11 |
0.9949 |
0.0448 |
304 |
1 |
69.11 |
2011-07-12 |
| 37. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
68.78 |
0.9425 |
0.0827 |
248 |
1 |
68.78 |
2011-05-27 |
| 38. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
68.77 |
1.0287 |
-0.0054 |
269 |
1 |
68.77 |
2011-05-27 |
| 39. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
68.62 |
0.9114 |
0.1183 |
399 |
1 |
68.62 |
2011-07-26 |
| 40. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
68.51 |
1.0342 |
-0.0107 |
280 |
1 |
68.51 |
2016-07-05 |
| 41. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
68.49 |
1.0462 |
-0.0232 |
340 |
1 |
68.49 |
2016-06-24 |
| 42. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
68.41 |
1.0461 |
-0.0250 |
318 |
1 |
68.41 |
2011-07-26 |
| 43. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
68.38 |
0.8718 |
0.1498 |
318 |
1 |
68.38 |
2016-06-24 |
| 44. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
68.27 |
1.0052 |
0.0231 |
400 |
1 |
68.27 |
2011-07-11 |
| 45. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
68.11 |
0.9884 |
0.0286 |
267 |
1 |
68.11 |
2011-05-27 |
| 46. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
68.05 |
0.9933 |
0.0278 |
450 |
1 |
68.05 |
2016-07-05 |
| 47. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
67.98 |
0.9269 |
0.0932 |
269 |
1 |
67.98 |
2015-11-27 |
| 48. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
67.93 |
0.9740 |
0.0410 |
371 |
1 |
67.93 |
2011-07-11 |
| 49. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
67.84 |
0.9530 |
0.0533 |
193 |
1 |
67.84 |
2011-05-27 |
| 50. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
67.82 |
0.9561 |
0.0553 |
362 |
3 |
66.19 |
2016-06-24 |
| 51. |
I never wanted to become someone like him. So secure, conten... |
67.45 |
1.0591 |
-0.0517 |
245 |
1 |
67.45 |
2016-06-24 |
| 52. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
67.38 |
0.8901 |
0.1122 |
273 |
1 |
67.38 |
2015-11-27 |
| 53. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
67.21 |
1.0538 |
-0.0405 |
367 |
1 |
67.21 |
2011-05-27 |
| 54. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
66.68 |
1.0399 |
-0.0418 |
257 |
1 |
66.68 |
2016-06-24 |
| 55. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
66.24 |
0.8830 |
0.1058 |
300 |
1 |
66.24 |
2011-05-27 |
| 56. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
66.21 |
1.0095 |
-0.0252 |
211 |
1 |
66.21 |
2015-11-27 |
| 57. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
65.98 |
1.0557 |
-0.0721 |
289 |
1 |
65.98 |
2011-07-12 |
| 58. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
65.72 |
1.0178 |
-0.0414 |
207 |
1 |
65.72 |
2016-06-24 |
| 59. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
65.53 |
0.9631 |
0.0125 |
273 |
2 |
64.77 |
2016-07-05 |
| 60. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
65.50 |
0.9947 |
-0.0098 |
346 |
1 |
65.50 |
2011-07-11 |
| 61. |
The child is brought up in a culture where he or she simply ... |
65.45 |
1.0215 |
-0.0382 |
356 |
1 |
65.45 |
2016-06-24 |
| 62. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
65.36 |
1.0057 |
-0.0295 |
382 |
1 |
65.36 |
2011-05-27 |
| 63. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
65.26 |
0.8624 |
0.1046 |
174 |
1 |
65.26 |
2016-06-24 |
| 64. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
64.96 |
0.9980 |
-0.0285 |
295 |
1 |
64.96 |
2011-07-26 |
| 65. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
64.80 |
0.9564 |
0.0019 |
263 |
2 |
62.02 |
2015-11-28 |
| 66. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
64.60 |
0.9536 |
0.0167 |
311 |
1 |
64.60 |
2016-06-24 |
| 67. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
63.74 |
1.0272 |
-0.0805 |
226 |
1 |
63.74 |
2011-05-27 |
| 68. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
63.23 |
0.9403 |
0.0134 |
345 |
1 |
63.23 |
2016-06-24 |
| 69. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
62.78 |
0.8880 |
0.0468 |
296 |
1 |
62.78 |
2016-06-24 |
| 70. |
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no un... |
62.70 |
0.9663 |
-0.0267 |
364 |
1 |
62.70 |
2015-11-27 |
| 71. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
62.65 |
0.9228 |
0.0145 |
305 |
1 |
62.65 |
2015-11-28 |
| 72. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
62.18 |
0.9128 |
0.0095 |
237 |
1 |
62.18 |
2011-05-27 |
| 73. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
62.07 |
0.9637 |
-0.0277 |
342 |
1 |
62.07 |
2015-11-27 |
| 74. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
61.88 |
0.9827 |
-0.0608 |
314 |
1 |
61.88 |
2011-07-26 |
| 75. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
61.67 |
0.9807 |
-0.0747 |
129 |
1 |
61.67 |
2011-07-26 |
| 76. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
61.24 |
0.8981 |
0.0224 |
255 |
1 |
61.24 |
2011-07-26 |
| 77. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
60.56 |
0.8328 |
0.0724 |
343 |
2 |
59.52 |
2016-06-24 |
| 78. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
60.22 |
0.9358 |
-0.0463 |
188 |
1 |
60.22 |
2015-11-28 |
| 79. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
59.85 |
0.8974 |
0.0050 |
365 |
1 |
59.85 |
2015-11-27 |
| 80. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
59.43 |
0.9719 |
-0.0807 |
383 |
1 |
59.43 |
2011-07-26 |
| 81. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
59.35 |
1.0540 |
-0.1759 |
184 |
1 |
59.35 |
2011-05-27 |
| 82. |
Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the mos... |
58.97 |
0.9568 |
-0.0765 |
245 |
1 |
58.97 |
2015-11-30 |
| 83. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
57.91 |
0.9119 |
-0.0462 |
396 |
1 |
57.91 |
2011-05-27 |
| 84. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
57.21 |
1.0227 |
-0.1654 |
378 |
1 |
57.21 |
2011-07-26 |
| 85. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
57.13 |
0.9594 |
-0.1115 |
258 |
1 |
57.13 |
2011-05-27 |
| 86. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
56.96 |
1.0060 |
-0.1580 |
225 |
1 |
56.96 |
2011-07-26 |
| 87. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
56.00 |
0.9338 |
-0.0911 |
326 |
1 |
56.00 |
2011-07-12 |
| 88. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
55.23 |
0.9284 |
-0.1037 |
346 |
1 |
55.23 |
2011-05-27 |
| 89. |
Tyrone: "I don't want that dog dribbling on my seats." Vinny... |
53.25 |
0.7808 |
0.0034 |
209 |
1 |
53.25 |
2015-11-27 |
| 90. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
51.68 |
1.0561 |
-0.2902 |
227 |
1 |
51.68 |
2016-06-24 |
| 91. |
When is a legend a legend? Why is a myth a myth? How old and... |
50.92 |
0.8337 |
-0.0736 |
136 |
1 |
50.92 |
2016-06-24 |
| 92. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
45.14 |
0.9113 |
-0.2347 |
318 |
1 |
45.14 |
2011-07-26 |
| 93. |
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I hones... |
23.74 |
1.0277 |
-0.6761 |
272 |
1 |
23.74 |
2016-07-05 |