| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
49.57 |
1.0197 |
0.5524 |
204 |
1 |
49.57 |
2009-04-17 |
| 2. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
47.75 |
1.0370 |
0.4786 |
262 |
1 |
47.75 |
2009-04-17 |
| 3. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
47.59 |
0.9917 |
0.5211 |
317 |
1 |
47.59 |
2009-04-17 |
| 4. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
46.70 |
0.9915 |
0.4900 |
281 |
1 |
46.70 |
2009-04-17 |
| 5. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
40.79 |
0.9286 |
0.3672 |
177 |
1 |
40.79 |
2009-04-17 |
| 6. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
37.65 |
0.8789 |
0.3093 |
136 |
1 |
37.65 |
2009-04-20 |
| 7. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
37.13 |
0.8906 |
0.2959 |
128 |
2 |
33.25 |
2009-04-24 |
| 8. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
36.78 |
0.9213 |
0.2427 |
165 |
1 |
36.78 |
2009-04-17 |
| 9. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
36.12 |
0.8161 |
0.3315 |
109 |
1 |
36.12 |
2009-04-20 |
| 10. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
36.06 |
1.0472 |
0.0897 |
149 |
2 |
32.62 |
2009-04-20 |
| 11. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
35.72 |
1.0403 |
0.0904 |
234 |
1 |
35.72 |
2009-04-20 |
| 12. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
34.83 |
1.0199 |
0.0803 |
225 |
1 |
34.83 |
2009-04-20 |
| 13. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
33.66 |
0.8375 |
0.2281 |
203 |
1 |
33.66 |
2009-04-20 |
| 14. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
33.23 |
1.0106 |
0.0414 |
302 |
1 |
33.23 |
2009-04-20 |
| 15. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
32.90 |
0.8718 |
0.1702 |
193 |
1 |
32.90 |
2009-04-17 |
| 16. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
32.77 |
1.0028 |
0.0345 |
259 |
1 |
32.77 |
2009-04-20 |
| 17. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
32.42 |
0.9704 |
0.0568 |
254 |
1 |
32.42 |
2009-04-20 |
| 18. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
32.38 |
1.0333 |
-0.0125 |
176 |
1 |
32.38 |
2009-04-20 |
| 19. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
32.37 |
0.8847 |
0.1387 |
282 |
1 |
32.37 |
2009-04-20 |
| 20. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
32.26 |
0.9349 |
0.0898 |
287 |
1 |
32.26 |
2009-04-17 |
| 21. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
31.81 |
0.8827 |
0.1211 |
190 |
1 |
31.81 |
2009-04-20 |
| 22. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
31.71 |
0.8814 |
0.1212 |
169 |
1 |
31.71 |
2009-04-20 |
| 23. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
31.24 |
1.0287 |
-0.0402 |
269 |
1 |
31.24 |
2009-04-24 |
| 24. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
31.16 |
1.0341 |
-0.0477 |
273 |
1 |
31.16 |
2009-04-20 |
| 25. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
31.06 |
0.9621 |
0.0241 |
212 |
1 |
31.06 |
2009-04-20 |
| 26. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
30.45 |
0.7904 |
0.1784 |
149 |
1 |
30.45 |
2009-04-20 |
| 27. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
30.36 |
0.9713 |
-0.0112 |
193 |
1 |
30.36 |
2009-04-17 |
| 28. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
30.05 |
1.0125 |
-0.0623 |
232 |
1 |
30.05 |
2009-04-17 |
| 29. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
29.74 |
0.9252 |
0.0172 |
148 |
1 |
29.74 |
2009-04-20 |
| 30. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
29.58 |
0.9166 |
0.0227 |
133 |
2 |
27.27 |
2009-04-20 |
| 31. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
29.44 |
1.0877 |
-0.1589 |
129 |
1 |
29.44 |
2009-04-20 |
| 32. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
29.19 |
0.7901 |
0.1289 |
154 |
1 |
29.19 |
2009-04-20 |
| 33. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
29.19 |
0.9927 |
-0.0718 |
234 |
1 |
29.19 |
2009-04-20 |
| 34. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
29.01 |
0.8863 |
0.0287 |
127 |
1 |
29.01 |
2009-04-24 |
| 35. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
28.89 |
0.9927 |
-0.0774 |
276 |
1 |
28.89 |
2009-04-17 |
| 36. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
28.78 |
0.8192 |
0.0940 |
200 |
1 |
28.78 |
2009-04-20 |
| 37. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
28.74 |
1.0103 |
-0.1061 |
209 |
1 |
28.74 |
2009-04-17 |
| 38. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
28.73 |
0.9927 |
-0.0812 |
262 |
1 |
28.73 |
2009-04-17 |
| 39. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
28.64 |
1.0082 |
-0.1065 |
212 |
1 |
28.64 |
2009-04-20 |
| 40. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
28.61 |
1.0800 |
-0.1771 |
213 |
1 |
28.61 |
2009-04-17 |
| 41. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
28.53 |
0.9604 |
-0.0593 |
285 |
1 |
28.53 |
2009-04-24 |
| 42. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
28.45 |
0.9027 |
-0.0055 |
189 |
1 |
28.45 |
2009-04-20 |
| 43. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
28.19 |
0.9762 |
-0.0838 |
249 |
1 |
28.19 |
2009-04-20 |
| 44. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
28.11 |
0.9827 |
-0.0920 |
314 |
1 |
28.11 |
2009-04-17 |
| 45. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
27.68 |
0.8913 |
-0.0137 |
201 |
1 |
27.68 |
2009-04-20 |
| 46. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
27.57 |
0.9981 |
-0.1264 |
211 |
1 |
27.57 |
2009-04-20 |
| 47. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
27.54 |
0.8201 |
0.0451 |
187 |
1 |
27.54 |
2009-04-20 |
| 48. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
27.46 |
0.9931 |
-0.1195 |
339 |
1 |
27.46 |
2009-04-17 |
| 49. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
25.78 |
0.9836 |
-0.1680 |
289 |
1 |
25.78 |
2009-04-17 |
| 50. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
25.69 |
1.0845 |
-0.2729 |
212 |
1 |
25.69 |
2009-04-17 |
| 51. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
25.63 |
1.0264 |
-0.2198 |
191 |
1 |
25.63 |
2009-04-24 |
| 52. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
25.57 |
1.0267 |
-0.2147 |
261 |
1 |
25.57 |
2009-04-17 |
| 53. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
24.51 |
0.9001 |
-0.1246 |
217 |
1 |
24.51 |
2009-04-20 |
| 54. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
24.11 |
0.7271 |
0.0356 |
186 |
1 |
24.11 |
2009-04-20 |
| 55. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
23.40 |
0.8986 |
-0.1606 |
205 |
1 |
23.40 |
2009-04-17 |
| 56. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
22.60 |
1.0418 |
-0.3268 |
214 |
1 |
22.60 |
2009-04-17 |
| 57. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
22.34 |
0.9346 |
-0.2316 |
211 |
1 |
22.34 |
2009-04-17 |