| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
83.56 |
1.0385 |
0.2451 |
230 |
3 |
73.09 |
2013-01-23 |
| 2. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
82.52 |
1.0498 |
0.2145 |
180 |
2 |
74.55 |
2013-01-23 |
| 3. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
82.28 |
1.0714 |
0.1847 |
129 |
1 |
82.28 |
2012-12-03 |
| 4. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
81.85 |
1.0993 |
0.1575 |
265 |
2 |
78.60 |
2013-01-21 |
| 5. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
80.37 |
1.1014 |
0.1720 |
273 |
1 |
80.37 |
2012-12-10 |
| 6. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
78.19 |
0.9726 |
0.2222 |
154 |
1 |
78.19 |
2013-01-22 |
| 7. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
76.42 |
1.0384 |
0.1258 |
183 |
1 |
76.42 |
2012-12-03 |
| 8. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
76.11 |
1.0454 |
0.1212 |
255 |
2 |
68.82 |
2013-01-22 |
| 9. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
76.01 |
1.0063 |
0.1619 |
371 |
1 |
76.01 |
2012-11-29 |
| 10. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
75.88 |
1.0095 |
0.1551 |
316 |
2 |
70.04 |
2012-11-29 |
| 11. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
75.63 |
1.0529 |
0.1093 |
351 |
1 |
75.63 |
2013-01-20 |
| 12. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
74.78 |
1.0740 |
0.1133 |
264 |
2 |
71.13 |
2012-11-29 |
| 13. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
74.30 |
1.0387 |
0.1349 |
239 |
1 |
74.30 |
2012-11-29 |
| 14. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
73.77 |
1.0151 |
0.1086 |
152 |
1 |
73.77 |
2013-01-20 |
| 15. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
73.43 |
1.1114 |
0.0138 |
247 |
1 |
73.43 |
2012-12-03 |
| 16. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
73.27 |
1.0917 |
0.0572 |
243 |
1 |
73.27 |
2012-11-29 |
| 17. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
73.16 |
1.0214 |
0.1447 |
281 |
1 |
73.16 |
2012-11-28 |
| 18. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
73.10 |
0.9740 |
0.1446 |
209 |
1 |
73.10 |
2012-12-10 |
| 19. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
73.07 |
1.0340 |
0.0938 |
406 |
1 |
73.07 |
2014-04-06 |
| 20. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
72.63 |
1.0214 |
0.0927 |
269 |
1 |
72.63 |
2012-11-29 |
| 21. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
72.54 |
0.9340 |
0.1793 |
296 |
1 |
72.54 |
2012-11-28 |
| 22. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
72.26 |
0.9098 |
0.1957 |
167 |
1 |
72.26 |
2013-01-20 |
| 23. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
72.26 |
0.9831 |
0.1233 |
222 |
1 |
72.26 |
2012-12-03 |
| 24. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
72.13 |
0.9866 |
0.1176 |
218 |
1 |
72.13 |
2012-12-03 |
| 25. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
72.04 |
1.0531 |
0.0916 |
272 |
1 |
72.04 |
2012-11-29 |
| 26. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
72.02 |
1.0972 |
0.0383 |
251 |
1 |
72.02 |
2012-12-03 |
| 27. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
71.03 |
1.0555 |
0.0368 |
363 |
1 |
71.03 |
2012-11-28 |
| 28. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
70.88 |
0.9852 |
0.1035 |
264 |
1 |
70.88 |
2012-11-29 |
| 29. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
70.85 |
1.0288 |
0.0916 |
300 |
1 |
70.85 |
2012-11-29 |
| 30. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
70.84 |
0.8793 |
0.2092 |
157 |
1 |
70.84 |
2012-12-02 |
| 31. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
70.63 |
0.9505 |
0.1334 |
204 |
1 |
70.63 |
2012-11-28 |
| 32. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
70.48 |
1.0547 |
0.0622 |
257 |
1 |
70.48 |
2013-01-23 |
| 33. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
69.40 |
1.0088 |
0.0953 |
396 |
1 |
69.40 |
2012-11-29 |
| 34. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
68.68 |
1.0296 |
0.0311 |
437 |
1 |
68.68 |
2012-11-28 |
| 35. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
68.61 |
1.0412 |
0.0113 |
225 |
1 |
68.61 |
2012-11-29 |
| 36. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
68.59 |
1.0445 |
0.0095 |
373 |
1 |
68.59 |
2012-12-03 |
| 37. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
68.55 |
1.1068 |
-0.0144 |
393 |
1 |
68.55 |
2013-01-22 |
| 38. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
68.25 |
0.9897 |
0.0554 |
274 |
1 |
68.25 |
2012-11-29 |
| 39. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
68.24 |
0.9339 |
0.1118 |
310 |
1 |
68.24 |
2012-11-28 |
| 40. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
68.21 |
1.0669 |
0.0122 |
286 |
1 |
68.21 |
2012-11-29 |
| 41. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
68.19 |
1.0379 |
0.0432 |
245 |
1 |
68.19 |
2012-11-29 |
| 42. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
67.99 |
1.0774 |
-0.0045 |
304 |
1 |
67.99 |
2012-12-03 |
| 43. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
67.75 |
1.0619 |
-0.0182 |
354 |
2 |
66.57 |
2012-12-10 |
| 44. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
67.74 |
1.0763 |
0.0051 |
367 |
1 |
67.74 |
2012-11-29 |
| 45. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
67.56 |
0.9976 |
0.0597 |
174 |
1 |
67.56 |
2012-11-28 |
| 46. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
67.35 |
1.0608 |
0.0059 |
258 |
1 |
67.35 |
2012-11-29 |
| 47. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
67.10 |
0.9529 |
0.1173 |
269 |
1 |
67.10 |
2012-12-03 |
| 48. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
66.47 |
1.1162 |
-0.0553 |
189 |
1 |
66.47 |
2012-12-12 |
| 49. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
66.22 |
1.0389 |
-0.0206 |
340 |
1 |
66.22 |
2014-04-06 |
| 50. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
66.11 |
1.0417 |
-0.0304 |
253 |
1 |
66.11 |
2012-11-28 |
| 51. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
65.24 |
1.0459 |
-0.0143 |
200 |
1 |
65.24 |
2012-12-09 |
| 52. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
64.73 |
0.9665 |
0.0758 |
326 |
2 |
63.10 |
2013-01-22 |
| 53. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
64.51 |
0.9532 |
0.0348 |
258 |
1 |
64.51 |
2012-12-01 |
| 54. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
64.41 |
1.0201 |
-0.0389 |
172 |
1 |
64.41 |
2012-10-22 |
| 55. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
63.91 |
0.8867 |
0.0983 |
241 |
1 |
63.91 |
2012-11-28 |
| 56. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
63.88 |
0.9898 |
0.0278 |
353 |
2 |
63.50 |
2012-11-29 |
| 57. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
63.71 |
0.9681 |
0.0171 |
378 |
1 |
63.71 |
2012-12-12 |
| 58. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
63.38 |
0.9997 |
-0.0240 |
382 |
1 |
63.38 |
2013-01-21 |
| 59. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
63.24 |
0.9936 |
-0.0038 |
227 |
1 |
63.24 |
2012-12-08 |
| 60. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
63.24 |
0.9278 |
0.0444 |
295 |
1 |
63.24 |
2013-01-22 |
| 61. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
63.20 |
0.9768 |
-0.0048 |
387 |
1 |
63.20 |
2014-04-08 |
| 62. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
63.13 |
0.9049 |
0.0687 |
351 |
1 |
63.13 |
2012-11-28 |
| 63. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
62.90 |
0.9763 |
-0.0125 |
289 |
1 |
62.90 |
2012-11-29 |
| 64. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
62.81 |
0.9668 |
0.0386 |
383 |
2 |
61.68 |
2012-12-03 |
| 65. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
62.60 |
0.8971 |
0.0676 |
266 |
1 |
62.60 |
2013-01-23 |
| 66. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
62.59 |
1.0073 |
-0.0396 |
369 |
1 |
62.59 |
2012-11-28 |
| 67. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
62.48 |
1.0201 |
-0.0582 |
375 |
1 |
62.48 |
2012-12-04 |
| 68. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
62.24 |
0.9846 |
-0.0322 |
281 |
1 |
62.24 |
2012-12-12 |
| 69. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
62.18 |
0.9567 |
0.0390 |
184 |
1 |
62.18 |
2012-12-12 |
| 70. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
62.09 |
1.0567 |
-0.1040 |
303 |
1 |
62.09 |
2012-12-03 |
| 71. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
61.62 |
1.0109 |
-0.0336 |
400 |
1 |
61.62 |
2012-11-28 |
| 72. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
61.60 |
1.0083 |
-0.0199 |
273 |
1 |
61.60 |
2012-11-28 |
| 73. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
61.27 |
0.9527 |
-0.0134 |
251 |
1 |
61.27 |
2012-11-28 |
| 74. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
61.24 |
0.9922 |
-0.0126 |
341 |
1 |
61.24 |
2013-01-23 |
| 75. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
60.73 |
1.0398 |
-0.1203 |
110 |
1 |
60.73 |
2012-12-03 |
| 76. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
60.71 |
1.0521 |
-0.1272 |
171 |
1 |
60.71 |
2012-10-22 |
| 77. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
60.62 |
1.0595 |
-0.1281 |
379 |
1 |
60.62 |
2012-10-22 |
| 78. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
60.60 |
0.9243 |
0.0442 |
448 |
1 |
60.60 |
2012-11-29 |
| 79. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
60.36 |
0.9986 |
-0.0730 |
283 |
1 |
60.36 |
2012-12-03 |
| 80. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
60.21 |
1.0012 |
-0.0762 |
260 |
1 |
60.21 |
2012-12-03 |
| 81. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
60.14 |
0.9097 |
0.0535 |
464 |
1 |
60.14 |
2012-11-29 |
| 82. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
60.07 |
0.9756 |
-0.0564 |
229 |
1 |
60.07 |
2012-12-10 |
| 83. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
60.00 |
0.9991 |
-0.0792 |
225 |
1 |
60.00 |
2012-12-03 |
| 84. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
59.93 |
1.0528 |
-0.1394 |
201 |
1 |
59.93 |
2013-01-21 |
| 85. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
59.84 |
0.9907 |
-0.0753 |
211 |
1 |
59.84 |
2012-11-28 |
| 86. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
59.84 |
1.0419 |
-0.1253 |
261 |
1 |
59.84 |
2013-01-23 |
| 87. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
59.79 |
1.0441 |
-0.1268 |
252 |
1 |
59.79 |
2012-11-29 |
| 88. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
59.38 |
1.0189 |
-0.1063 |
337 |
1 |
59.38 |
2013-01-20 |
| 89. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
58.81 |
1.0077 |
-0.0659 |
250 |
1 |
58.81 |
2012-12-03 |
| 90. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
58.59 |
0.9678 |
-0.0350 |
445 |
1 |
58.59 |
2012-11-29 |
| 91. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
58.48 |
0.9567 |
-0.0608 |
273 |
1 |
58.48 |
2012-12-09 |
| 92. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
58.48 |
0.9309 |
-0.0372 |
284 |
1 |
58.48 |
2013-01-22 |
| 93. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
57.76 |
0.9911 |
-0.1103 |
212 |
1 |
57.76 |
2012-12-10 |
| 94. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
57.62 |
0.9925 |
-0.0734 |
247 |
1 |
57.62 |
2013-01-22 |
| 95. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
57.30 |
1.0252 |
-0.1546 |
176 |
1 |
57.30 |
2012-11-28 |
| 96. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
57.14 |
0.9213 |
-0.0457 |
295 |
1 |
57.14 |
2012-11-29 |
| 97. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
57.09 |
0.8753 |
0.0083 |
427 |
1 |
57.09 |
2013-01-22 |
| 98. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
56.98 |
1.0168 |
-0.1426 |
271 |
1 |
56.98 |
2012-10-22 |
| 99. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
56.48 |
0.9125 |
-0.0462 |
308 |
1 |
56.48 |
2012-11-29 |
| 100. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
56.22 |
0.9364 |
-0.0357 |
351 |
1 |
56.22 |
2012-12-08 |
| 101. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
55.62 |
0.9785 |
-0.1243 |
335 |
1 |
55.62 |
2012-11-29 |
| 102. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
55.50 |
0.8722 |
-0.0197 |
285 |
1 |
55.50 |
2012-11-28 |
| 103. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
55.24 |
0.9739 |
-0.0927 |
412 |
1 |
55.24 |
2012-11-29 |
| 104. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
54.92 |
1.0165 |
-0.1719 |
392 |
1 |
54.92 |
2012-12-09 |
| 105. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
54.76 |
0.8996 |
-0.0673 |
192 |
1 |
54.76 |
2012-11-29 |
| 106. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
54.59 |
1.0099 |
-0.1779 |
207 |
1 |
54.59 |
2012-12-03 |
| 107. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
54.27 |
1.0031 |
-0.1397 |
304 |
1 |
54.27 |
2012-10-23 |
| 108. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
53.19 |
0.9653 |
-0.1433 |
394 |
1 |
53.19 |
2012-12-10 |
| 109. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
52.31 |
0.9164 |
-0.1113 |
305 |
1 |
52.31 |
2012-10-22 |
| 110. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
51.78 |
0.9572 |
-0.1225 |
376 |
1 |
51.78 |
2012-11-29 |
| 111. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
51.61 |
0.9371 |
-0.1092 |
318 |
1 |
51.61 |
2012-12-03 |
| 112. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
51.53 |
0.9731 |
-0.1981 |
129 |
1 |
51.53 |
2012-12-10 |
| 113. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
51.33 |
1.0768 |
-0.2527 |
295 |
1 |
51.33 |
2012-10-23 |
| 114. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
50.59 |
0.9601 |
-0.1821 |
308 |
1 |
50.59 |
2012-12-02 |
| 115. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
49.25 |
0.7805 |
-0.0329 |
154 |
1 |
49.25 |
2012-12-04 |
| 116. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
49.24 |
0.9786 |
-0.2270 |
235 |
1 |
49.24 |
2013-01-23 |
| 117. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
49.13 |
0.9965 |
-0.2509 |
168 |
1 |
49.13 |
2012-10-22 |
| 118. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
43.25 |
1.0264 |
-0.3272 |
422 |
1 |
43.25 |
2012-10-22 |