| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
67.06 |
1.1296 |
0.2787 |
252 |
1 |
67.06 |
2012-01-13 |
| 2. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
67.05 |
1.0679 |
0.3314 |
177 |
1 |
67.05 |
2011-07-06 |
| 3. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
66.38 |
1.1114 |
0.2509 |
247 |
2 |
63.91 |
2012-01-13 |
| 4. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
63.70 |
1.0907 |
0.2216 |
303 |
1 |
63.70 |
2011-07-04 |
| 5. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
63.49 |
1.0454 |
0.2561 |
255 |
1 |
63.49 |
2011-07-04 |
| 6. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
61.84 |
1.0788 |
0.1865 |
171 |
1 |
61.84 |
2011-07-06 |
| 7. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
61.78 |
1.0214 |
0.2428 |
166 |
1 |
61.78 |
2011-07-06 |
| 8. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
61.77 |
1.0201 |
0.2426 |
172 |
3 |
49.68 |
2012-01-04 |
| 9. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
61.52 |
1.0602 |
0.2080 |
389 |
1 |
61.52 |
2011-07-06 |
| 10. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
61.34 |
1.0483 |
0.2091 |
227 |
2 |
46.80 |
2011-07-07 |
| 11. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
61.00 |
0.9780 |
0.2765 |
337 |
1 |
61.00 |
2011-07-05 |
| 12. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
60.49 |
1.0498 |
0.1882 |
180 |
1 |
60.49 |
2011-07-06 |
| 13. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
59.90 |
1.0125 |
0.2158 |
224 |
1 |
59.90 |
2012-01-04 |
| 14. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
59.88 |
1.0485 |
0.2164 |
153 |
1 |
59.88 |
2011-07-05 |
| 15. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
59.40 |
1.0417 |
0.1760 |
253 |
1 |
59.40 |
2011-07-05 |
| 16. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
59.19 |
0.9907 |
0.2236 |
211 |
1 |
59.19 |
2011-07-05 |
| 17. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
59.13 |
1.0885 |
0.1610 |
341 |
1 |
59.13 |
2011-07-04 |
| 18. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
59.07 |
1.0968 |
0.1540 |
365 |
1 |
59.07 |
2012-01-04 |
| 19. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
58.60 |
1.0384 |
0.1556 |
183 |
1 |
58.60 |
2011-07-05 |
| 20. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
57.62 |
1.0595 |
0.1265 |
379 |
1 |
57.62 |
2011-07-06 |
| 21. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
56.99 |
0.9212 |
0.2528 |
231 |
1 |
56.99 |
2012-01-05 |
| 22. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
56.95 |
0.9811 |
0.1909 |
272 |
2 |
55.29 |
2011-07-06 |
| 23. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
56.77 |
1.0477 |
0.1203 |
360 |
1 |
56.77 |
2011-07-06 |
| 24. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
56.27 |
1.0506 |
0.1334 |
277 |
1 |
56.27 |
2011-07-06 |
| 25. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
56.12 |
0.9805 |
0.1763 |
292 |
1 |
56.12 |
2011-07-04 |
| 26. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
56.02 |
0.8884 |
0.2620 |
135 |
1 |
56.02 |
2011-07-06 |
| 27. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
55.89 |
1.0165 |
0.1347 |
392 |
1 |
55.89 |
2011-07-06 |
| 28. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
55.66 |
0.9884 |
0.1535 |
233 |
2 |
42.87 |
2011-07-06 |
| 29. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
55.52 |
1.0567 |
0.0836 |
303 |
1 |
55.52 |
2011-07-06 |
| 30. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
55.49 |
0.9758 |
0.1639 |
314 |
2 |
54.66 |
2012-01-13 |
| 31. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
55.40 |
0.9756 |
0.1604 |
229 |
1 |
55.40 |
2011-07-06 |
| 32. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
55.37 |
0.9772 |
0.1559 |
217 |
1 |
55.37 |
2011-07-05 |
| 33. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
55.11 |
0.9376 |
0.2289 |
360 |
1 |
55.11 |
2012-01-13 |
| 34. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
55.10 |
0.8971 |
0.2392 |
266 |
1 |
55.10 |
2011-07-04 |
| 35. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
54.67 |
1.0132 |
0.1001 |
143 |
1 |
54.67 |
2011-07-06 |
| 36. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
54.66 |
0.9946 |
0.1271 |
246 |
1 |
54.66 |
2011-07-04 |
| 37. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
54.49 |
1.0183 |
0.0943 |
191 |
1 |
54.49 |
2011-07-05 |
| 38. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
54.45 |
0.9936 |
0.1235 |
311 |
1 |
54.45 |
2011-07-04 |
| 39. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
54.03 |
0.9247 |
0.1888 |
253 |
1 |
54.03 |
2011-07-04 |
| 40. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
53.75 |
1.0218 |
0.0781 |
268 |
1 |
53.75 |
2011-07-05 |
| 41. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
53.66 |
1.0029 |
0.0918 |
209 |
1 |
53.66 |
2011-07-06 |
| 42. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
53.65 |
1.0099 |
0.0880 |
207 |
1 |
53.65 |
2011-07-05 |
| 43. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
53.16 |
0.9706 |
0.1244 |
216 |
1 |
53.16 |
2011-07-05 |
| 44. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
52.52 |
0.8467 |
0.2550 |
343 |
1 |
52.52 |
2011-07-05 |
| 45. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
52.46 |
0.9303 |
0.1393 |
176 |
1 |
52.46 |
2011-07-04 |
| 46. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
52.30 |
0.9340 |
0.1387 |
296 |
1 |
52.30 |
2011-07-06 |
| 47. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
52.12 |
0.9922 |
0.1180 |
341 |
1 |
52.12 |
2011-07-05 |
| 48. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
51.98 |
1.0270 |
0.0753 |
255 |
1 |
51.98 |
2011-07-05 |
| 49. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
51.98 |
0.9894 |
0.0812 |
323 |
1 |
51.98 |
2011-07-05 |
| 50. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
51.94 |
0.9871 |
0.1144 |
209 |
1 |
51.94 |
2011-07-06 |
| 51. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
51.63 |
1.0288 |
0.0622 |
300 |
1 |
51.63 |
2011-07-04 |
| 52. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
50.80 |
1.0150 |
0.0759 |
325 |
1 |
50.80 |
2011-07-04 |
| 53. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
50.73 |
1.0033 |
0.0302 |
189 |
2 |
49.38 |
2011-07-06 |
| 54. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
50.28 |
1.0352 |
-0.0012 |
341 |
1 |
50.28 |
2011-07-04 |
| 55. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
50.24 |
1.0666 |
-0.0364 |
297 |
1 |
50.24 |
2011-07-04 |
| 56. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
50.22 |
1.0375 |
0.0380 |
200 |
1 |
50.22 |
2011-07-04 |
| 57. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
49.88 |
0.9904 |
0.0727 |
203 |
1 |
49.88 |
2011-07-04 |
| 58. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
49.72 |
0.9905 |
0.0366 |
377 |
1 |
49.72 |
2011-07-05 |
| 59. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
49.26 |
0.9852 |
0.0248 |
264 |
2 |
47.39 |
2011-07-05 |
| 60. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
48.94 |
0.9505 |
0.0525 |
204 |
1 |
48.94 |
2012-01-04 |
| 61. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
48.90 |
0.9578 |
0.0440 |
281 |
1 |
48.90 |
2011-07-05 |
| 62. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
48.78 |
0.8933 |
0.1128 |
363 |
1 |
48.78 |
2011-07-05 |
| 63. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
48.58 |
0.9844 |
0.0160 |
293 |
1 |
48.58 |
2011-07-05 |
| 64. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
48.31 |
0.8916 |
0.0988 |
216 |
1 |
48.31 |
2011-07-06 |
| 65. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
48.25 |
1.0214 |
0.0098 |
281 |
1 |
48.25 |
2011-07-04 |
| 66. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
48.01 |
0.9148 |
0.0705 |
317 |
1 |
48.01 |
2011-07-04 |
| 67. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
47.84 |
0.9670 |
0.0553 |
307 |
1 |
47.84 |
2011-07-04 |
| 68. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
47.70 |
0.9635 |
0.0192 |
389 |
1 |
47.70 |
2011-07-05 |
| 69. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
47.65 |
0.8935 |
0.0926 |
328 |
1 |
47.65 |
2011-07-04 |
| 70. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
47.35 |
1.0349 |
-0.0654 |
234 |
1 |
47.35 |
2011-07-04 |
| 71. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
47.29 |
0.9682 |
-0.0012 |
143 |
1 |
47.29 |
2011-07-04 |
| 72. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
47.10 |
1.0173 |
-0.0082 |
268 |
1 |
47.10 |
2011-07-04 |
| 73. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
46.65 |
0.9281 |
0.0325 |
273 |
1 |
46.65 |
2011-07-04 |
| 74. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
46.61 |
1.0768 |
-0.0820 |
295 |
1 |
46.61 |
2011-07-04 |
| 75. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
45.96 |
0.9673 |
0.0132 |
232 |
1 |
45.96 |
2011-07-05 |
| 76. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
45.66 |
0.9820 |
-0.0443 |
267 |
1 |
45.66 |
2011-07-04 |
| 77. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
44.41 |
1.0396 |
-0.1378 |
149 |
2 |
43.23 |
2009-02-23 |
| 78. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
43.04 |
0.7708 |
0.1153 |
207 |
1 |
43.04 |
2011-07-04 |
| 79. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
42.79 |
0.9168 |
-0.0401 |
240 |
1 |
42.79 |
2011-07-04 |
| 80. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
42.76 |
0.9371 |
-0.0234 |
318 |
1 |
42.76 |
2012-01-04 |
| 81. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
41.59 |
0.8628 |
-0.0155 |
196 |
1 |
41.59 |
2009-02-14 |
| 82. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
40.98 |
0.8615 |
-0.0235 |
110 |
1 |
40.98 |
2009-02-23 |
| 83. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
40.82 |
0.9128 |
-0.0727 |
133 |
1 |
40.82 |
2009-02-23 |
| 84. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.47 |
1.0331 |
-0.2081 |
234 |
1 |
40.47 |
2009-02-23 |
| 85. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
40.41 |
0.9202 |
-0.0948 |
254 |
1 |
40.41 |
2011-07-04 |
| 86. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
39.45 |
0.8747 |
-0.0729 |
201 |
1 |
39.45 |
2009-02-14 |
| 87. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
39.06 |
1.0486 |
-0.2497 |
289 |
2 |
37.08 |
2009-02-17 |
| 88. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
38.62 |
0.9729 |
-0.1838 |
255 |
1 |
38.62 |
2009-02-23 |
| 89. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
38.41 |
0.9068 |
-0.1193 |
269 |
1 |
38.41 |
2009-02-23 |
| 90. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
37.67 |
1.1016 |
-0.3324 |
233 |
1 |
37.67 |
2009-02-23 |
| 91. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
37.36 |
0.8573 |
-0.0910 |
270 |
1 |
37.36 |
2009-02-23 |
| 92. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
35.87 |
0.9514 |
-0.2195 |
237 |
2 |
33.25 |
2009-02-14 |
| 93. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
35.67 |
0.9266 |
-0.1973 |
278 |
1 |
35.67 |
2009-02-17 |
| 94. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
35.66 |
0.9196 |
-0.1908 |
148 |
1 |
35.66 |
2009-02-17 |
| 95. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
35.38 |
0.9897 |
-0.2705 |
274 |
1 |
35.38 |
2009-02-23 |
| 96. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
35.08 |
1.0714 |
-0.3650 |
129 |
1 |
35.08 |
2009-02-23 |
| 97. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
34.92 |
0.9540 |
-0.2438 |
285 |
1 |
34.92 |
2009-02-14 |
| 98. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
34.83 |
0.9500 |
-0.2377 |
362 |
1 |
34.83 |
2009-02-23 |
| 99. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
34.69 |
0.9411 |
-0.2331 |
318 |
1 |
34.69 |
2009-02-23 |
| 100. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
34.30 |
0.8077 |
-0.1105 |
167 |
1 |
34.30 |
2009-02-23 |
| 101. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
33.82 |
0.9286 |
-0.2403 |
194 |
1 |
33.82 |
2009-02-23 |
| 102. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
32.63 |
0.9965 |
-0.3313 |
277 |
1 |
32.63 |
2009-02-23 |
| 103. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
32.40 |
0.9045 |
-0.2445 |
235 |
1 |
32.40 |
2009-02-14 |
| 104. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
31.96 |
0.9691 |
-0.3189 |
223 |
1 |
31.96 |
2009-02-14 |
| 105. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
31.59 |
0.9072 |
-0.2660 |
237 |
1 |
31.59 |
2009-02-23 |
| 106. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
31.16 |
1.0023 |
-0.3702 |
211 |
1 |
31.16 |
2009-02-23 |
| 107. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
30.43 |
0.8188 |
-0.1987 |
183 |
1 |
30.43 |
2009-02-14 |
| 108. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
29.96 |
1.0016 |
-0.3972 |
218 |
1 |
29.96 |
2009-02-14 |
| 109. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
29.70 |
0.8153 |
-0.2068 |
200 |
1 |
29.70 |
2009-02-23 |
| 110. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
28.02 |
0.8722 |
-0.3005 |
285 |
1 |
28.02 |
2009-02-15 |
| 111. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
27.65 |
0.8602 |
-0.3012 |
206 |
1 |
27.65 |
2009-02-14 |
| 112. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
27.61 |
1.0429 |
-0.4841 |
259 |
1 |
27.61 |
2009-02-14 |
| 113. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
25.12 |
0.8154 |
-0.3050 |
193 |
1 |
25.12 |
2009-02-14 |