| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
88.21 |
1.1323 |
0.1705 |
341 |
2 |
75.84 |
2012-08-19 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
88.06 |
1.0797 |
0.1816 |
210 |
1 |
88.06 |
2012-08-16 |
| 3. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
87.07 |
1.0004 |
0.2460 |
212 |
2 |
84.84 |
2012-08-19 |
| 4. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
85.74 |
1.0714 |
0.1529 |
129 |
1 |
85.74 |
2012-08-19 |
| 5. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
84.40 |
1.0314 |
0.1793 |
172 |
2 |
74.10 |
2012-08-19 |
| 6. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
83.83 |
0.9567 |
0.2910 |
184 |
1 |
83.83 |
2013-12-20 |
| 7. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
83.77 |
1.0384 |
0.1566 |
183 |
3 |
75.59 |
2012-09-14 |
| 8. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
83.31 |
1.0829 |
0.1165 |
288 |
1 |
83.31 |
2012-08-16 |
| 9. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
82.68 |
1.0598 |
0.1231 |
196 |
1 |
82.68 |
2012-08-16 |
| 10. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
82.38 |
1.0711 |
0.1082 |
213 |
1 |
82.38 |
2012-08-16 |
| 11. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
82.24 |
1.1016 |
0.0809 |
233 |
1 |
82.24 |
2012-08-16 |
| 12. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
80.91 |
0.9576 |
0.2100 |
212 |
1 |
80.91 |
2012-09-14 |
| 13. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
79.63 |
1.0516 |
0.0924 |
281 |
1 |
79.63 |
2012-08-19 |
| 14. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
79.52 |
1.0565 |
0.0837 |
247 |
1 |
79.52 |
2012-08-18 |
| 15. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
79.17 |
0.9814 |
0.1957 |
364 |
2 |
76.14 |
2012-08-19 |
| 16. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
79.06 |
1.0173 |
0.1630 |
268 |
2 |
73.90 |
2012-08-19 |
| 17. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
78.91 |
1.0331 |
0.0987 |
234 |
1 |
78.91 |
2012-08-16 |
| 18. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
78.56 |
1.1296 |
0.0284 |
252 |
1 |
78.56 |
2013-08-18 |
| 19. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
78.54 |
1.1081 |
0.0551 |
206 |
1 |
78.54 |
2013-08-18 |
| 20. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
78.25 |
0.9632 |
0.1597 |
240 |
1 |
78.25 |
2014-03-09 |
| 21. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
78.20 |
1.0381 |
0.0756 |
170 |
1 |
78.20 |
2012-08-15 |
| 22. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
78.09 |
1.0403 |
0.0967 |
193 |
1 |
78.09 |
2012-08-16 |
| 23. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
78.09 |
1.0391 |
0.0890 |
358 |
1 |
78.09 |
2013-12-20 |
| 24. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
77.43 |
1.0154 |
0.1468 |
351 |
3 |
67.46 |
2012-09-14 |
| 25. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
77.39 |
1.0429 |
0.0676 |
259 |
1 |
77.39 |
2012-08-15 |
| 26. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
77.18 |
1.0034 |
0.1039 |
302 |
1 |
77.18 |
2013-08-18 |
| 27. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
77.17 |
1.0725 |
0.0620 |
233 |
2 |
74.80 |
2013-08-18 |
| 28. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
77.16 |
1.0095 |
0.0979 |
316 |
2 |
74.02 |
2012-08-16 |
| 29. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
77.15 |
1.0613 |
0.0480 |
266 |
2 |
72.13 |
2013-12-20 |
| 30. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
77.03 |
1.0138 |
0.0924 |
231 |
1 |
77.03 |
2012-08-19 |
| 31. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
77.02 |
1.0417 |
0.0623 |
253 |
2 |
76.05 |
2012-09-14 |
| 32. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
77.00 |
1.0388 |
0.0990 |
243 |
2 |
75.99 |
2012-08-15 |
| 33. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
76.58 |
0.9464 |
0.1588 |
323 |
2 |
69.90 |
2012-08-16 |
| 34. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
76.55 |
1.0533 |
0.0730 |
257 |
2 |
66.15 |
2013-08-18 |
| 35. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
76.11 |
1.0053 |
0.0860 |
232 |
2 |
71.21 |
2013-08-18 |
| 36. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
75.91 |
1.0555 |
0.0363 |
363 |
1 |
75.91 |
2014-03-09 |
| 37. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
75.80 |
0.9072 |
0.1799 |
237 |
1 |
75.80 |
2012-08-16 |
| 38. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
75.56 |
1.0602 |
0.0291 |
389 |
1 |
75.56 |
2012-09-14 |
| 39. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
75.54 |
1.0419 |
0.0431 |
261 |
1 |
75.54 |
2012-08-16 |
| 40. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
75.18 |
1.0787 |
-0.0003 |
237 |
1 |
75.18 |
2012-08-16 |
| 41. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
75.11 |
1.0619 |
0.0204 |
354 |
1 |
75.11 |
2012-08-16 |
| 42. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
74.86 |
1.0462 |
0.0228 |
184 |
1 |
74.86 |
2012-08-16 |
| 43. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
74.84 |
0.8975 |
0.1778 |
268 |
1 |
74.84 |
2013-08-18 |
| 44. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
74.62 |
1.0529 |
0.0186 |
351 |
1 |
74.62 |
2013-12-20 |
| 45. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
74.37 |
1.0763 |
0.0332 |
367 |
1 |
74.37 |
2012-08-17 |
| 46. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
74.05 |
1.0232 |
0.0757 |
236 |
2 |
62.93 |
2012-08-19 |
| 47. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
74.01 |
1.0124 |
0.0479 |
204 |
1 |
74.01 |
2012-08-18 |
| 48. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
73.48 |
1.0483 |
0.0037 |
227 |
1 |
73.48 |
2012-08-15 |
| 49. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
73.39 |
0.9811 |
0.0753 |
272 |
1 |
73.39 |
2013-08-18 |
| 50. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
73.39 |
0.9857 |
0.0670 |
293 |
1 |
73.39 |
2012-08-16 |
| 51. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
73.31 |
1.0261 |
0.0659 |
410 |
1 |
73.31 |
2012-08-16 |
| 52. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
73.22 |
1.0917 |
-0.0169 |
243 |
1 |
73.22 |
2013-08-18 |
| 53. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
72.93 |
0.9663 |
0.0862 |
330 |
1 |
72.93 |
2012-09-14 |
| 54. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
72.66 |
1.0214 |
0.0200 |
269 |
2 |
70.31 |
2012-08-19 |
| 55. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
72.46 |
1.0063 |
0.0343 |
371 |
1 |
72.46 |
2012-08-16 |
| 56. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
72.44 |
1.0567 |
-0.0162 |
303 |
1 |
72.44 |
2012-08-15 |
| 57. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
72.10 |
0.9064 |
0.1378 |
399 |
1 |
72.10 |
2013-12-20 |
| 58. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
72.08 |
1.0320 |
0.0400 |
293 |
1 |
72.08 |
2012-08-16 |
| 59. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
72.00 |
1.0284 |
0.0484 |
282 |
1 |
72.00 |
2012-08-16 |
| 60. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
71.86 |
0.9997 |
0.0354 |
382 |
1 |
71.86 |
2012-08-14 |
| 61. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
71.81 |
0.8933 |
0.1439 |
363 |
2 |
70.58 |
2012-08-16 |
| 62. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
71.70 |
1.0257 |
0.0099 |
401 |
1 |
71.70 |
2012-08-14 |
| 63. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
71.62 |
0.9275 |
0.0972 |
211 |
2 |
60.81 |
2012-08-19 |
| 64. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
71.15 |
0.9879 |
0.0420 |
450 |
1 |
71.15 |
2012-08-16 |
| 65. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
71.09 |
1.0120 |
0.0075 |
290 |
1 |
71.09 |
2012-08-14 |
| 66. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
71.08 |
1.0168 |
0.0048 |
271 |
1 |
71.08 |
2012-08-17 |
| 67. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
70.91 |
0.9278 |
0.0926 |
295 |
1 |
70.91 |
2013-12-20 |
| 68. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
70.70 |
1.0062 |
0.0084 |
288 |
1 |
70.70 |
2012-08-14 |
| 69. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
70.63 |
0.9966 |
0.0164 |
259 |
1 |
70.63 |
2012-08-14 |
| 70. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
70.62 |
0.9863 |
0.0316 |
339 |
2 |
68.95 |
2012-09-14 |
| 71. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
70.62 |
0.9786 |
0.0297 |
193 |
1 |
70.62 |
2012-08-16 |
| 72. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
70.51 |
0.9557 |
0.0625 |
331 |
1 |
70.51 |
2013-08-18 |
| 73. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
70.27 |
1.0403 |
0.0080 |
275 |
1 |
70.27 |
2012-08-18 |
| 74. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
70.25 |
1.0201 |
-0.0116 |
303 |
1 |
70.25 |
2012-08-15 |
| 75. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
70.23 |
0.9653 |
0.0508 |
394 |
1 |
70.23 |
2013-08-18 |
| 76. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
70.10 |
0.9364 |
0.1096 |
351 |
2 |
67.79 |
2013-08-18 |
| 77. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
69.91 |
0.9636 |
0.0395 |
254 |
1 |
69.91 |
2012-08-18 |
| 78. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
69.91 |
0.9833 |
0.0215 |
355 |
1 |
69.91 |
2012-08-15 |
| 79. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
69.47 |
0.9508 |
0.0792 |
384 |
2 |
68.23 |
2012-08-16 |
| 80. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
69.27 |
0.9881 |
0.0462 |
424 |
2 |
56.17 |
2013-08-18 |
| 81. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
69.21 |
1.0677 |
-0.0443 |
284 |
1 |
69.21 |
2012-08-14 |
| 82. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
69.12 |
0.9691 |
0.0221 |
223 |
1 |
69.12 |
2012-08-16 |
| 83. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
68.75 |
1.0375 |
-0.0052 |
200 |
2 |
66.89 |
2013-12-20 |
| 84. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
68.73 |
0.9266 |
0.0595 |
267 |
1 |
68.73 |
2012-08-19 |
| 85. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
68.69 |
0.9234 |
0.0674 |
346 |
1 |
68.69 |
2012-08-16 |
| 86. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
68.67 |
1.0088 |
0.0150 |
396 |
1 |
68.67 |
2012-08-16 |
| 87. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
68.64 |
0.9871 |
0.0338 |
209 |
1 |
68.64 |
2012-08-15 |
| 88. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
68.28 |
0.9649 |
0.0135 |
193 |
1 |
68.28 |
2012-08-14 |
| 89. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
68.22 |
0.8722 |
0.1093 |
285 |
2 |
66.81 |
2013-12-20 |
| 90. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
68.21 |
0.9964 |
-0.0179 |
203 |
1 |
68.21 |
2012-08-14 |
| 91. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.08 |
0.9740 |
-0.0015 |
209 |
1 |
68.08 |
2012-08-19 |
| 92. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
67.40 |
0.8947 |
0.0769 |
366 |
1 |
67.40 |
2013-12-20 |
| 93. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
67.37 |
0.9509 |
0.0537 |
225 |
1 |
67.37 |
2012-08-18 |
| 94. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
67.21 |
0.9084 |
0.0573 |
300 |
2 |
66.44 |
2013-12-20 |
| 95. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
67.01 |
0.9946 |
-0.0338 |
246 |
1 |
67.01 |
2012-08-16 |
| 96. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
66.93 |
0.9546 |
0.0365 |
198 |
1 |
66.93 |
2012-08-15 |
| 97. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
66.92 |
0.9309 |
0.0269 |
284 |
1 |
66.92 |
2012-08-17 |
| 98. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
66.80 |
0.9843 |
-0.0313 |
234 |
1 |
66.80 |
2013-08-18 |
| 99. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
65.70 |
0.9109 |
0.0337 |
401 |
2 |
63.34 |
2012-08-19 |
| 100. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
65.57 |
1.0251 |
-0.0872 |
261 |
1 |
65.57 |
2012-08-14 |
| 101. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
65.56 |
0.9754 |
-0.0294 |
362 |
1 |
65.56 |
2012-08-15 |
| 102. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
64.65 |
0.9120 |
0.0479 |
436 |
1 |
64.65 |
2014-03-09 |
| 103. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
64.52 |
0.9687 |
-0.0392 |
371 |
1 |
64.52 |
2012-08-16 |
| 104. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
64.41 |
0.9500 |
-0.0246 |
362 |
1 |
64.41 |
2013-08-18 |
| 105. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
64.15 |
1.0352 |
-0.1132 |
341 |
1 |
64.15 |
2012-08-19 |
| 106. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
63.92 |
0.9128 |
0.0448 |
369 |
1 |
63.92 |
2012-08-19 |
| 107. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
63.75 |
0.9710 |
-0.0639 |
173 |
1 |
63.75 |
2013-12-20 |
| 108. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
63.72 |
1.0261 |
-0.1148 |
273 |
1 |
63.72 |
2012-08-19 |
| 109. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
62.65 |
0.7805 |
0.1130 |
154 |
2 |
57.85 |
2014-03-09 |
| 110. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
62.50 |
0.9776 |
-0.0819 |
308 |
1 |
62.50 |
2012-08-16 |
| 111. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
62.29 |
0.8382 |
0.0547 |
268 |
1 |
62.29 |
2014-03-09 |
| 112. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
61.60 |
0.8595 |
0.0247 |
242 |
1 |
61.60 |
2012-08-16 |
| 113. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
60.37 |
0.9148 |
-0.0489 |
317 |
1 |
60.37 |
2012-08-19 |
| 114. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
59.89 |
1.0523 |
-0.1991 |
256 |
2 |
55.04 |
2012-08-19 |
| 115. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
59.48 |
1.0125 |
-0.1632 |
224 |
2 |
56.54 |
2012-08-19 |
| 116. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
59.04 |
0.9646 |
-0.1203 |
264 |
1 |
59.04 |
2012-08-19 |
| 117. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
58.96 |
0.8602 |
-0.0184 |
206 |
1 |
58.96 |
2012-08-16 |
| 118. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
58.65 |
0.8553 |
-0.0209 |
174 |
1 |
58.65 |
2013-12-20 |
| 119. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
58.04 |
0.9912 |
-0.1337 |
237 |
1 |
58.04 |
2013-08-18 |
| 120. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
57.98 |
0.9084 |
-0.0745 |
404 |
1 |
57.98 |
2012-08-19 |
| 121. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
56.12 |
0.8467 |
-0.0198 |
343 |
1 |
56.12 |
2012-08-16 |
| 122. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
55.99 |
0.9597 |
-0.1548 |
347 |
1 |
55.99 |
2012-08-19 |
| 123. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
55.37 |
0.8845 |
-0.0923 |
273 |
1 |
55.37 |
2012-08-16 |
| 124. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
55.20 |
0.9965 |
-0.2119 |
168 |
2 |
51.28 |
2012-08-19 |
| 125. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
53.00 |
0.8341 |
-0.0682 |
224 |
2 |
50.94 |
2012-08-19 |
| 126. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
52.54 |
0.9485 |
-0.1961 |
236 |
1 |
52.54 |
2012-08-19 |
| 127. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
50.11 |
0.8787 |
-0.1586 |
202 |
1 |
50.11 |
2012-08-19 |
| 128. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
46.94 |
0.9831 |
-0.3164 |
222 |
1 |
46.94 |
2012-08-19 |
| 129. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
46.11 |
1.0346 |
-0.3354 |
244 |
1 |
46.11 |
2012-08-19 |
| 130. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
45.78 |
0.9711 |
-0.3198 |
176 |
1 |
45.78 |
2012-08-19 |
| 131. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
45.23 |
0.8533 |
-0.2077 |
232 |
1 |
45.23 |
2012-08-19 |
| 132. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
44.89 |
0.9213 |
-0.2813 |
295 |
1 |
44.89 |
2012-08-19 |
| 133. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
42.81 |
0.8793 |
-0.2684 |
157 |
1 |
42.81 |
2012-08-19 |
| 134. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
41.42 |
1.0684 |
-0.4495 |
253 |
1 |
41.42 |
2012-08-19 |
| 135. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
39.69 |
0.9005 |
-0.3381 |
212 |
1 |
39.69 |
2012-08-19 |
| 136. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
39.40 |
0.9286 |
-0.3699 |
194 |
1 |
39.40 |
2012-08-19 |
| 137. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
37.44 |
1.0615 |
-0.5051 |
305 |
1 |
37.44 |
2012-08-19 |
| 138. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
36.09 |
1.0131 |
-0.5054 |
225 |
1 |
36.09 |
2012-08-19 |