| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
79.63 |
1.0131 |
0.2951 |
225 |
1 |
79.63 |
2010-09-18 |
| 2. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
76.57 |
0.9991 |
0.2627 |
225 |
1 |
76.57 |
2010-04-09 |
| 3. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
73.34 |
0.9684 |
0.2414 |
388 |
1 |
73.34 |
2010-04-09 |
| 4. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
71.96 |
1.1081 |
0.1106 |
206 |
1 |
71.96 |
2010-09-16 |
| 5. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
71.63 |
0.9786 |
0.1951 |
193 |
2 |
61.84 |
2010-04-09 |
| 6. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
71.43 |
1.0774 |
0.1275 |
304 |
1 |
71.43 |
2010-09-18 |
| 7. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
70.66 |
1.0740 |
0.1270 |
264 |
1 |
70.66 |
2010-04-09 |
| 8. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
69.94 |
0.9965 |
0.1546 |
310 |
2 |
65.53 |
2010-04-09 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
69.80 |
1.0337 |
0.1140 |
214 |
1 |
69.80 |
2010-04-09 |
| 10. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
69.71 |
1.0213 |
0.1226 |
240 |
1 |
69.71 |
2010-09-16 |
| 11. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
69.00 |
1.0399 |
0.1006 |
294 |
1 |
69.00 |
2010-09-16 |
| 12. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
68.80 |
0.9846 |
0.1455 |
281 |
2 |
63.62 |
2010-04-09 |
| 13. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
68.67 |
1.0214 |
0.1029 |
166 |
1 |
68.67 |
2010-04-09 |
| 14. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
67.57 |
1.0885 |
0.0261 |
315 |
1 |
67.57 |
2010-04-09 |
| 15. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
66.88 |
0.9653 |
0.1430 |
394 |
1 |
66.88 |
2010-04-09 |
| 16. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
66.25 |
1.0595 |
0.0324 |
379 |
2 |
64.15 |
2010-04-09 |
| 17. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
66.25 |
0.9045 |
0.1855 |
235 |
2 |
58.09 |
2010-04-09 |
| 18. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
66.25 |
1.0429 |
0.0449 |
259 |
1 |
66.25 |
2010-09-16 |
| 19. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
65.56 |
1.0389 |
0.0408 |
318 |
1 |
65.56 |
2010-04-09 |
| 20. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
65.38 |
1.0711 |
-0.0015 |
213 |
1 |
65.38 |
2010-04-16 |
| 21. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
65.18 |
0.9233 |
0.1401 |
168 |
1 |
65.18 |
2010-04-16 |
| 22. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
65.10 |
0.9899 |
0.0754 |
163 |
1 |
65.10 |
2010-04-22 |
| 23. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
64.92 |
0.9614 |
0.1091 |
292 |
2 |
63.11 |
2010-04-09 |
| 24. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
64.92 |
1.0218 |
0.0425 |
268 |
1 |
64.92 |
2010-04-22 |
| 25. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
64.84 |
1.0555 |
0.0119 |
363 |
1 |
64.84 |
2010-04-09 |
| 26. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
64.79 |
1.0483 |
0.0135 |
227 |
1 |
64.79 |
2010-04-16 |
| 27. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
64.75 |
0.9844 |
0.0852 |
293 |
1 |
64.75 |
2010-04-22 |
| 28. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
64.72 |
0.8919 |
0.1707 |
205 |
1 |
64.72 |
2010-04-09 |
| 29. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
63.98 |
1.0214 |
0.0287 |
269 |
1 |
63.98 |
2010-09-16 |
| 30. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
63.96 |
1.1296 |
-0.0493 |
252 |
1 |
63.96 |
2010-09-16 |
| 31. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
63.59 |
0.9785 |
0.0695 |
335 |
1 |
63.59 |
2010-04-09 |
| 32. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
63.36 |
0.9212 |
0.1233 |
323 |
1 |
63.36 |
2010-04-09 |
| 33. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
63.26 |
1.0073 |
0.0405 |
369 |
2 |
62.32 |
2010-04-16 |
| 34. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
62.75 |
1.0060 |
0.0204 |
171 |
1 |
62.75 |
2010-04-09 |
| 35. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
62.67 |
0.9756 |
0.0528 |
229 |
1 |
62.67 |
2010-04-09 |
| 36. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
62.66 |
1.0025 |
0.0282 |
336 |
1 |
62.66 |
2010-04-09 |
| 37. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
62.51 |
1.0263 |
-0.0003 |
267 |
1 |
62.51 |
2010-04-22 |
| 38. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
62.37 |
1.0125 |
0.0097 |
224 |
1 |
62.37 |
2010-04-09 |
| 39. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
61.97 |
0.9649 |
0.0524 |
193 |
1 |
61.97 |
2010-04-09 |
| 40. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
61.73 |
1.0124 |
-0.0008 |
204 |
1 |
61.73 |
2010-04-09 |
| 41. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
61.58 |
1.0487 |
-0.0421 |
231 |
2 |
61.27 |
2010-09-16 |
| 42. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
61.53 |
0.9635 |
0.0532 |
389 |
1 |
61.53 |
2010-04-09 |
| 43. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
61.53 |
0.9884 |
0.0220 |
233 |
1 |
61.53 |
2010-04-09 |
| 44. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
60.99 |
0.9886 |
0.0157 |
220 |
1 |
60.99 |
2010-04-09 |
| 45. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
60.80 |
1.0352 |
-0.0332 |
341 |
1 |
60.80 |
2010-04-09 |
| 46. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
60.42 |
0.9942 |
0.0069 |
483 |
2 |
56.94 |
2010-04-09 |
| 47. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
60.33 |
0.9072 |
0.0816 |
237 |
3 |
58.23 |
2010-09-16 |
| 48. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
60.27 |
1.0328 |
-0.0043 |
356 |
2 |
58.77 |
2010-04-09 |
| 49. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
59.71 |
1.0257 |
-0.0387 |
401 |
1 |
59.71 |
2010-04-09 |
| 50. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
59.16 |
1.0088 |
0.0013 |
396 |
1 |
59.16 |
2010-04-09 |
| 51. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
59.09 |
1.0240 |
-0.0568 |
256 |
1 |
59.09 |
2010-04-22 |
| 52. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
58.96 |
1.0829 |
-0.1134 |
288 |
1 |
58.96 |
2010-04-09 |
| 53. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
58.74 |
0.9805 |
-0.0115 |
292 |
1 |
58.74 |
2010-04-09 |
| 54. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
58.71 |
0.9865 |
-0.0215 |
276 |
1 |
58.71 |
2010-04-09 |
| 55. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
58.70 |
0.9572 |
0.0496 |
376 |
1 |
58.70 |
2010-04-09 |
| 56. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
58.65 |
0.9646 |
-0.0026 |
264 |
2 |
58.19 |
2010-04-09 |
| 57. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
58.47 |
1.0486 |
-0.0879 |
289 |
1 |
58.47 |
2010-04-09 |
| 58. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
58.35 |
0.9780 |
-0.0192 |
337 |
1 |
58.35 |
2010-04-09 |
| 59. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
58.33 |
0.9997 |
-0.0383 |
382 |
1 |
58.33 |
2010-04-09 |
| 60. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
57.95 |
0.9772 |
-0.0293 |
217 |
1 |
57.95 |
2010-04-09 |
| 61. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
57.82 |
0.8916 |
0.0580 |
216 |
1 |
57.82 |
2010-04-09 |
| 62. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
57.77 |
0.9570 |
-0.0070 |
287 |
1 |
57.77 |
2010-04-09 |
| 63. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
57.60 |
1.0168 |
-0.0696 |
271 |
1 |
57.60 |
2010-09-16 |
| 64. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
57.28 |
1.0388 |
-0.0670 |
243 |
1 |
57.28 |
2010-09-16 |
| 65. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
57.04 |
0.9289 |
0.0048 |
204 |
1 |
57.04 |
2010-04-22 |
| 66. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
57.00 |
0.9740 |
-0.0428 |
209 |
1 |
57.00 |
2010-09-18 |
| 67. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
56.82 |
1.0498 |
-0.1223 |
180 |
1 |
56.82 |
2010-04-09 |
| 68. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
56.76 |
0.9212 |
0.0137 |
231 |
1 |
56.76 |
2010-04-09 |
| 69. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
56.74 |
0.9922 |
-0.0201 |
341 |
1 |
56.74 |
2010-04-09 |
| 70. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
56.45 |
0.9792 |
-0.0145 |
265 |
1 |
56.45 |
2010-04-22 |
| 71. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
55.82 |
0.9622 |
-0.0399 |
392 |
1 |
55.82 |
2010-04-09 |
| 72. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
55.45 |
0.9632 |
-0.0114 |
345 |
1 |
55.45 |
2010-04-09 |
| 73. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
55.33 |
0.8971 |
0.0157 |
266 |
1 |
55.33 |
2010-04-09 |
| 74. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
55.19 |
0.9513 |
-0.0422 |
354 |
1 |
55.19 |
2010-04-09 |
| 75. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
55.08 |
1.0669 |
-0.1312 |
286 |
1 |
55.08 |
2010-04-09 |
| 76. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
54.88 |
0.8670 |
0.0383 |
318 |
1 |
54.88 |
2010-04-09 |
| 77. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
54.84 |
0.9852 |
-0.0855 |
264 |
1 |
54.84 |
2010-04-09 |
| 78. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
54.66 |
1.0141 |
-0.0813 |
304 |
1 |
54.66 |
2010-04-09 |
| 79. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
54.36 |
0.9266 |
-0.0335 |
278 |
1 |
54.36 |
2010-04-09 |
| 80. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
54.14 |
0.8890 |
-0.0048 |
199 |
1 |
54.14 |
2010-04-22 |
| 81. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
54.03 |
0.8753 |
0.0202 |
427 |
1 |
54.03 |
2010-09-18 |
| 82. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
53.82 |
0.9965 |
-0.1186 |
168 |
1 |
53.82 |
2010-09-16 |
| 83. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
53.80 |
1.0506 |
-0.1398 |
277 |
1 |
53.80 |
2010-04-16 |
| 84. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
53.48 |
0.9709 |
-0.0528 |
397 |
1 |
53.48 |
2010-04-09 |
| 85. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
53.45 |
0.9202 |
-0.0440 |
254 |
1 |
53.45 |
2010-04-09 |
| 86. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
53.29 |
0.9064 |
-0.0233 |
399 |
1 |
53.29 |
2010-09-18 |
| 87. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
52.73 |
0.9364 |
-0.0320 |
351 |
1 |
52.73 |
2010-04-22 |
| 88. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
49.54 |
0.9125 |
-0.0994 |
308 |
1 |
49.54 |
2010-04-09 |
| 89. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
48.67 |
1.0788 |
-0.2877 |
171 |
1 |
48.67 |
2010-04-09 |
| 90. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
47.20 |
1.0029 |
-0.2371 |
209 |
1 |
47.20 |
2010-04-09 |
| 91. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
46.63 |
0.9293 |
-0.1652 |
355 |
1 |
46.63 |
2010-04-16 |
| 92. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
45.04 |
0.8553 |
-0.1239 |
174 |
1 |
45.04 |
2010-04-09 |
| 93. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
44.56 |
0.8722 |
-0.1406 |
285 |
1 |
44.56 |
2010-04-09 |
| 94. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
44.55 |
0.9339 |
-0.2072 |
310 |
1 |
44.55 |
2010-04-09 |
| 95. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
44.34 |
1.0398 |
-0.3259 |
110 |
1 |
44.34 |
2010-04-09 |
| 96. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
40.90 |
1.0349 |
-0.3684 |
234 |
1 |
40.90 |
2010-04-09 |