| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
55.90 |
1.0012 |
0.2242 |
260 |
1 |
55.90 |
2012-12-03 |
| 2. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
55.37 |
1.0788 |
0.1318 |
171 |
1 |
55.37 |
2016-08-29 |
| 3. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
53.64 |
0.9729 |
0.2025 |
255 |
1 |
53.64 |
2012-12-04 |
| 4. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
53.44 |
1.0298 |
0.1418 |
280 |
1 |
53.44 |
2016-08-29 |
| 5. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
53.15 |
0.9161 |
0.2486 |
200 |
3 |
52.30 |
2012-12-03 |
| 6. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
52.84 |
0.9820 |
0.1755 |
274 |
1 |
52.84 |
2012-12-04 |
| 7. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
52.62 |
1.0125 |
0.1386 |
224 |
2 |
49.48 |
2012-12-03 |
| 8. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
52.45 |
1.0429 |
0.1036 |
259 |
1 |
52.45 |
2016-08-29 |
| 9. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
52.40 |
0.9997 |
0.1474 |
382 |
1 |
52.40 |
2012-12-03 |
| 10. |
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not ... |
52.11 |
1.1182 |
0.0223 |
164 |
1 |
52.11 |
2016-08-27 |
| 11. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
52.05 |
1.1215 |
0.0392 |
200 |
2 |
49.40 |
2012-09-19 |
| 12. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
51.80 |
1.0389 |
0.0938 |
318 |
4 |
48.95 |
2012-12-04 |
| 13. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
51.53 |
0.9572 |
0.1719 |
201 |
1 |
51.53 |
2012-12-01 |
| 14. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
51.50 |
1.0679 |
0.0809 |
177 |
1 |
51.50 |
2012-12-03 |
| 15. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
51.43 |
1.0462 |
0.0778 |
184 |
2 |
48.24 |
2012-12-03 |
| 16. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
51.41 |
1.0214 |
0.1025 |
166 |
1 |
51.41 |
2012-12-04 |
| 17. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
51.39 |
1.0155 |
0.1101 |
232 |
1 |
51.39 |
2012-12-03 |
| 18. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
51.24 |
1.0138 |
0.1068 |
231 |
1 |
51.24 |
2012-09-19 |
| 19. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
51.19 |
1.0885 |
0.0305 |
315 |
1 |
51.19 |
2016-08-27 |
| 20. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
50.72 |
1.0483 |
0.0601 |
227 |
2 |
48.98 |
2012-12-04 |
| 21. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
50.64 |
1.0725 |
0.0601 |
233 |
2 |
48.91 |
2012-12-03 |
| 22. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
50.56 |
1.1016 |
0.0040 |
233 |
1 |
50.56 |
2012-09-11 |
| 23. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
50.55 |
0.9636 |
0.1420 |
254 |
1 |
50.55 |
2012-12-04 |
| 24. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
50.44 |
0.9665 |
0.1762 |
326 |
1 |
50.44 |
2012-12-04 |
| 25. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
50.22 |
1.0384 |
0.0587 |
183 |
1 |
50.22 |
2012-12-03 |
| 26. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
50.21 |
0.9844 |
0.1140 |
293 |
1 |
50.21 |
2012-09-19 |
| 27. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
50.15 |
0.9289 |
0.1679 |
204 |
1 |
50.15 |
2012-12-03 |
| 28. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
49.99 |
1.0150 |
0.1160 |
325 |
1 |
49.99 |
2016-08-27 |
| 29. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
49.96 |
1.0172 |
0.1014 |
341 |
1 |
49.96 |
2012-12-04 |
| 30. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
49.94 |
1.0390 |
0.0511 |
205 |
2 |
44.38 |
2012-12-01 |
| 31. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
49.67 |
1.1022 |
0.0140 |
259 |
1 |
49.67 |
2012-12-03 |
| 32. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
49.64 |
1.0352 |
0.0505 |
341 |
1 |
49.64 |
2012-12-03 |
| 33. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
49.60 |
0.9089 |
0.1784 |
187 |
1 |
49.60 |
2012-09-12 |
| 34. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
49.37 |
1.0740 |
0.0372 |
264 |
1 |
49.37 |
2012-12-03 |
| 35. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
49.27 |
0.9430 |
0.1358 |
227 |
1 |
49.27 |
2016-08-29 |
| 36. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
49.22 |
1.0331 |
0.0429 |
234 |
1 |
49.22 |
2012-09-11 |
| 37. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
49.12 |
1.0013 |
0.0730 |
273 |
2 |
48.95 |
2012-09-20 |
| 38. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
49.00 |
1.0883 |
0.0085 |
303 |
1 |
49.00 |
2012-09-19 |
| 39. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
48.88 |
1.0696 |
-0.0020 |
226 |
2 |
47.78 |
2012-12-01 |
| 40. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
48.85 |
1.0615 |
0.0267 |
305 |
2 |
45.18 |
2012-12-03 |
| 41. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
48.83 |
0.9351 |
0.1324 |
190 |
1 |
48.83 |
2016-08-27 |
| 42. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
48.61 |
1.0993 |
-0.0373 |
265 |
1 |
48.61 |
2012-09-19 |
| 43. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
48.51 |
0.9899 |
0.0701 |
163 |
1 |
48.51 |
2012-09-19 |
| 44. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
48.43 |
0.8723 |
0.1883 |
185 |
1 |
48.43 |
2012-12-04 |
| 45. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
48.41 |
0.9583 |
0.1323 |
341 |
2 |
44.42 |
2016-08-27 |
| 46. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
48.17 |
0.9635 |
0.0902 |
389 |
1 |
48.17 |
2012-12-04 |
| 47. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
48.16 |
0.9646 |
0.0889 |
264 |
1 |
48.16 |
2012-09-11 |
| 48. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
48.12 |
1.0441 |
0.0401 |
316 |
1 |
48.12 |
2012-09-20 |
| 49. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
48.00 |
1.0337 |
0.0145 |
214 |
4 |
45.66 |
2012-12-04 |
| 50. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
47.90 |
0.9691 |
0.0785 |
223 |
1 |
47.90 |
2012-09-19 |
| 51. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
47.80 |
0.9904 |
0.0913 |
203 |
1 |
47.80 |
2012-12-04 |
| 52. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
47.70 |
1.0088 |
0.0624 |
396 |
1 |
47.70 |
2012-12-04 |
| 53. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
47.68 |
1.0381 |
0.0022 |
170 |
1 |
47.68 |
2012-09-19 |
| 54. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
47.67 |
1.0004 |
0.0408 |
212 |
2 |
45.84 |
2012-09-20 |
| 55. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
47.55 |
0.9559 |
0.0850 |
195 |
1 |
47.55 |
2012-12-03 |
| 56. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
47.52 |
1.0797 |
-0.0424 |
210 |
1 |
47.52 |
2012-09-19 |
| 57. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
47.52 |
1.0673 |
0.0093 |
230 |
1 |
47.52 |
2012-09-19 |
| 58. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
47.45 |
0.9897 |
0.0479 |
274 |
1 |
47.45 |
2012-09-19 |
| 59. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
47.35 |
0.9893 |
0.0463 |
323 |
1 |
47.35 |
2016-09-03 |
| 60. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
47.32 |
0.9946 |
0.0395 |
246 |
1 |
47.32 |
2012-12-03 |
| 61. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
47.25 |
1.0352 |
-0.0013 |
341 |
1 |
47.25 |
2012-11-10 |
| 62. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
47.04 |
1.0095 |
0.0187 |
316 |
2 |
42.16 |
2012-09-19 |
| 63. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
47.02 |
0.9966 |
0.0319 |
259 |
3 |
44.64 |
2012-12-04 |
| 64. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
46.95 |
1.0596 |
-0.0340 |
239 |
1 |
46.95 |
2012-09-12 |
| 65. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
46.68 |
0.8541 |
0.1697 |
260 |
1 |
46.68 |
2012-09-19 |
| 66. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
46.47 |
1.0168 |
-0.0024 |
271 |
2 |
42.96 |
2012-12-01 |
| 67. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
46.44 |
0.9464 |
0.0701 |
323 |
1 |
46.44 |
2012-09-12 |
| 68. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
46.41 |
0.9912 |
0.0476 |
237 |
1 |
46.41 |
2024-01-25 |
| 69. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
46.35 |
0.9532 |
0.0606 |
258 |
2 |
41.79 |
2012-09-20 |
| 70. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
46.32 |
1.0379 |
0.0062 |
245 |
1 |
46.32 |
2012-12-01 |
| 71. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
45.78 |
0.9513 |
0.0500 |
354 |
1 |
45.78 |
2013-06-20 |
| 72. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
45.73 |
0.9196 |
0.0811 |
148 |
1 |
45.73 |
2012-09-12 |
| 73. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
45.71 |
0.9576 |
0.0438 |
212 |
1 |
45.71 |
2012-12-04 |
| 74. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
45.68 |
1.1114 |
-0.1146 |
247 |
1 |
45.68 |
2012-09-12 |
| 75. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
45.58 |
0.9908 |
0.0393 |
342 |
1 |
45.58 |
2012-09-19 |
| 76. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
45.50 |
0.9886 |
0.0061 |
220 |
1 |
45.50 |
2012-09-12 |
| 77. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
45.33 |
1.0120 |
-0.0214 |
290 |
1 |
45.33 |
2012-11-10 |
| 78. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
45.32 |
0.9706 |
0.0217 |
216 |
1 |
45.32 |
2012-09-11 |
| 79. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
45.18 |
1.0441 |
-0.0569 |
252 |
1 |
45.18 |
2012-12-03 |
| 80. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
45.15 |
0.9281 |
0.0621 |
273 |
1 |
45.15 |
2012-09-12 |
| 81. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
45.04 |
1.0214 |
-0.0375 |
269 |
1 |
45.04 |
2012-09-20 |
| 82. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
45.04 |
0.9128 |
0.1056 |
369 |
2 |
41.13 |
2012-12-03 |
| 83. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
44.79 |
1.0083 |
0.0074 |
273 |
1 |
44.79 |
2012-12-03 |
| 84. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
44.65 |
0.8890 |
0.0862 |
199 |
1 |
44.65 |
2012-09-19 |
| 85. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
44.63 |
0.9731 |
0.0014 |
129 |
1 |
44.63 |
2012-09-12 |
| 86. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
44.43 |
0.9597 |
0.0127 |
347 |
2 |
43.06 |
2012-12-01 |
| 87. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
44.43 |
1.0516 |
-0.0811 |
281 |
1 |
44.43 |
2012-12-01 |
| 88. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
44.41 |
0.9619 |
0.0100 |
393 |
1 |
44.41 |
2012-09-12 |
| 89. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
44.39 |
1.0346 |
-0.0291 |
244 |
1 |
44.39 |
2012-12-01 |
| 90. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
44.36 |
0.9941 |
-0.0254 |
217 |
2 |
44.35 |
2012-12-03 |
| 91. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
44.35 |
0.9769 |
-0.0081 |
263 |
1 |
44.35 |
2012-09-12 |
| 92. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
44.05 |
0.8975 |
0.0671 |
268 |
1 |
44.05 |
2012-09-19 |
| 93. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
44.00 |
1.0403 |
-0.0441 |
275 |
1 |
44.00 |
2012-09-11 |
| 94. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
43.97 |
0.8941 |
0.0688 |
216 |
1 |
43.97 |
2012-12-03 |
| 95. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
43.80 |
0.8907 |
0.0704 |
351 |
1 |
43.80 |
2012-09-12 |
| 96. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
43.68 |
0.9772 |
-0.0229 |
217 |
2 |
43.58 |
2012-12-03 |
| 97. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
43.52 |
1.0320 |
-0.0486 |
293 |
1 |
43.52 |
2012-09-12 |
| 98. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
42.82 |
1.0444 |
-0.1098 |
197 |
1 |
42.82 |
2012-09-12 |
| 99. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
42.76 |
0.9814 |
-0.0151 |
364 |
1 |
42.76 |
2012-11-10 |
| 100. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
42.58 |
0.9938 |
-0.0621 |
339 |
1 |
42.58 |
2012-09-12 |
| 101. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
42.41 |
1.0403 |
-0.0982 |
193 |
1 |
42.41 |
2012-09-12 |
| 102. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
42.16 |
1.0595 |
-0.1391 |
379 |
1 |
42.16 |
2012-09-12 |
| 103. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
41.63 |
0.9758 |
-0.0666 |
314 |
1 |
41.63 |
2012-09-20 |
| 104. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
41.42 |
0.9005 |
0.0047 |
212 |
1 |
41.42 |
2012-09-12 |
| 105. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
41.39 |
0.8996 |
0.0038 |
192 |
1 |
41.39 |
2012-09-19 |
| 106. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
41.34 |
1.0547 |
-0.1207 |
257 |
1 |
41.34 |
2012-09-12 |
| 107. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
41.32 |
0.9994 |
-0.0704 |
269 |
1 |
41.32 |
2012-12-03 |
| 108. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
40.72 |
0.9131 |
-0.0228 |
144 |
1 |
40.72 |
2012-09-11 |
| 109. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
40.70 |
0.7805 |
0.1105 |
154 |
2 |
38.96 |
2012-12-03 |
| 110. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
40.67 |
0.8520 |
0.0379 |
202 |
1 |
40.67 |
2012-09-12 |
| 111. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
40.59 |
0.9045 |
-0.0176 |
235 |
1 |
40.59 |
2012-09-12 |
| 112. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
40.59 |
1.0498 |
-0.1650 |
180 |
1 |
40.59 |
2012-09-11 |
| 113. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
40.54 |
0.9640 |
-0.0594 |
334 |
1 |
40.54 |
2012-12-01 |
| 114. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
40.29 |
0.9780 |
-0.0983 |
337 |
1 |
40.29 |
2012-09-19 |
| 115. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
39.97 |
0.9843 |
-0.1131 |
234 |
1 |
39.97 |
2012-09-12 |
| 116. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
39.82 |
0.8947 |
-0.0230 |
366 |
1 |
39.82 |
2012-12-01 |
| 117. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
39.62 |
0.9266 |
-0.0613 |
267 |
1 |
39.62 |
2016-08-29 |
| 118. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
39.45 |
0.9964 |
-0.1352 |
203 |
1 |
39.45 |
2012-09-12 |
| 119. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
39.20 |
1.0396 |
-0.1846 |
149 |
1 |
39.20 |
2012-09-19 |
| 120. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
39.17 |
0.8971 |
-0.0390 |
266 |
1 |
39.17 |
2012-09-20 |
| 121. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
38.92 |
1.0288 |
-0.1525 |
300 |
1 |
38.92 |
2012-09-11 |
| 122. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
38.91 |
1.0608 |
-0.1829 |
258 |
1 |
38.91 |
2012-09-12 |
| 123. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
38.51 |
0.9468 |
-0.1063 |
276 |
1 |
38.51 |
2012-09-12 |
| 124. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
38.45 |
1.1296 |
-0.2634 |
252 |
1 |
38.45 |
2012-09-12 |
| 125. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
38.02 |
0.9275 |
-0.0979 |
211 |
1 |
38.02 |
2012-09-12 |
| 126. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
37.43 |
0.8722 |
-0.0541 |
285 |
1 |
37.43 |
2012-09-12 |
| 127. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
36.69 |
0.8919 |
-0.0912 |
205 |
1 |
36.69 |
2012-09-12 |
| 128. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
36.63 |
0.7876 |
0.0138 |
316 |
1 |
36.63 |
2012-12-01 |
| 129. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
36.53 |
0.8022 |
-0.0028 |
215 |
1 |
36.53 |
2012-09-19 |
| 130. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
35.91 |
0.9247 |
-0.1376 |
253 |
1 |
35.91 |
2012-09-11 |
| 131. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
34.90 |
1.0038 |
-0.2171 |
237 |
1 |
34.90 |
2012-09-12 |
| 132. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
34.90 |
0.8878 |
-0.1256 |
346 |
1 |
34.90 |
2012-09-12 |
| 133. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.90 |
0.8595 |
-0.1416 |
242 |
1 |
32.90 |
2012-09-12 |
| 134. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
29.65 |
0.8096 |
-0.1592 |
209 |
1 |
29.65 |
2012-09-12 |