| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
43.57 |
0.8794 |
0.0168 |
427 |
1 |
43.57 |
2013-07-11 |
| 2. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
45.43 |
0.9145 |
0.0162 |
404 |
1 |
45.43 |
2009-03-20 |
| 3. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
45.24 |
0.9644 |
-0.0376 |
398 |
1 |
45.24 |
2009-03-20 |
| 4. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
45.26 |
0.9745 |
-0.0486 |
388 |
1 |
45.26 |
2010-02-13 |
| 5. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
52.67 |
1.0057 |
0.0738 |
382 |
1 |
52.67 |
2010-02-13 |
| 6. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
44.66 |
1.0265 |
-0.1110 |
375 |
1 |
44.66 |
2009-04-01 |
| 7. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
51.65 |
1.0132 |
0.0427 |
371 |
2 |
50.86 |
2009-04-04 |
| 8. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
48.56 |
0.8856 |
0.1140 |
369 |
1 |
48.56 |
2011-12-03 |
| 9. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
43.41 |
0.9561 |
-0.0686 |
362 |
1 |
43.41 |
2009-03-30 |
| 10. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
47.11 |
1.0607 |
-0.0955 |
357 |
1 |
47.11 |
2009-04-01 |
| 11. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
46.91 |
0.9136 |
0.0476 |
348 |
1 |
46.91 |
2009-04-01 |
| 12. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
48.18 |
0.9260 |
0.0610 |
348 |
1 |
48.18 |
2009-04-04 |
| 13. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
39.57 |
1.0101 |
-0.2010 |
336 |
1 |
39.57 |
2009-03-30 |
| 14. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
42.46 |
0.8959 |
-0.0239 |
328 |
1 |
42.46 |
2009-03-18 |
| 15. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
50.55 |
0.9957 |
0.0412 |
323 |
1 |
50.55 |
2009-04-06 |
| 16. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
45.82 |
0.9468 |
-0.0114 |
318 |
1 |
45.82 |
2009-04-01 |
| 17. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
42.97 |
0.9206 |
-0.0430 |
317 |
1 |
42.97 |
2009-04-01 |
| 18. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
55.45 |
0.9827 |
0.1518 |
314 |
1 |
55.45 |
2009-04-06 |
| 19. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
53.40 |
0.9183 |
0.1741 |
308 |
2 |
51.89 |
2009-04-24 |
| 20. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
49.79 |
0.9839 |
0.0332 |
308 |
1 |
49.79 |
2009-03-19 |
| 21. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
40.46 |
0.8830 |
-0.0551 |
300 |
1 |
40.46 |
2009-04-24 |
| 22. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
51.15 |
0.9980 |
0.0496 |
295 |
1 |
51.15 |
2009-04-04 |
| 23. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
48.65 |
0.9271 |
0.0665 |
295 |
2 |
47.58 |
2011-12-03 |
| 24. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
51.91 |
0.9909 |
0.0748 |
293 |
1 |
51.91 |
2009-04-21 |
| 25. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
50.55 |
1.0189 |
0.0133 |
290 |
1 |
50.55 |
2009-04-06 |
| 26. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
50.69 |
1.0901 |
-0.0526 |
288 |
1 |
50.69 |
2009-03-20 |
| 27. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
36.03 |
0.9500 |
-0.2139 |
287 |
1 |
36.03 |
2009-03-23 |
| 28. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
52.76 |
0.9801 |
0.1062 |
282 |
1 |
52.76 |
2011-12-03 |
| 29. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
51.55 |
0.9915 |
0.0604 |
281 |
1 |
51.55 |
2009-04-01 |
| 30. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
50.25 |
0.9927 |
0.0346 |
276 |
2 |
45.12 |
2009-04-04 |
| 31. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
52.94 |
0.9315 |
0.1520 |
273 |
1 |
52.94 |
2009-04-01 |
| 32. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
50.40 |
0.9631 |
0.0665 |
273 |
1 |
50.40 |
2009-09-14 |
| 33. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
52.78 |
1.0287 |
0.0491 |
269 |
1 |
52.78 |
2009-04-21 |
| 34. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
51.39 |
1.0301 |
0.0186 |
268 |
1 |
51.39 |
2009-04-01 |
| 35. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
50.47 |
0.9857 |
0.0511 |
268 |
1 |
50.47 |
2013-06-29 |
| 36. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
53.83 |
0.9884 |
0.1146 |
267 |
3 |
48.16 |
2011-12-03 |
| 37. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
51.92 |
0.9543 |
0.1136 |
265 |
1 |
51.92 |
2011-12-03 |
| 38. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
45.59 |
1.0493 |
-0.1116 |
264 |
1 |
45.59 |
2011-12-03 |
| 39. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
51.25 |
0.9709 |
0.0751 |
264 |
1 |
51.25 |
2009-04-24 |
| 40. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
50.25 |
0.9841 |
0.0412 |
263 |
1 |
50.25 |
2009-04-06 |
| 41. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
53.60 |
0.9927 |
0.1045 |
262 |
1 |
53.60 |
2009-04-21 |
| 42. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
44.36 |
0.8981 |
0.0166 |
255 |
1 |
44.36 |
2011-12-03 |
| 43. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
49.27 |
0.9425 |
0.0649 |
248 |
1 |
49.27 |
2013-06-29 |
| 44. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
51.47 |
1.1198 |
-0.0692 |
247 |
1 |
51.47 |
2009-04-04 |
| 45. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
44.24 |
0.8656 |
0.0391 |
242 |
1 |
44.24 |
2009-04-24 |
| 46. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
53.29 |
1.0672 |
0.0205 |
239 |
1 |
53.29 |
2009-04-01 |
| 47. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
45.95 |
0.9768 |
-0.0378 |
237 |
1 |
45.95 |
2009-04-01 |
| 48. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
36.46 |
0.9852 |
-0.2427 |
235 |
1 |
36.46 |
2009-03-19 |
| 49. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
51.88 |
1.0414 |
0.0175 |
234 |
1 |
51.88 |
2009-03-24 |
| 50. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
50.45 |
1.0576 |
-0.0297 |
231 |
1 |
50.45 |
2009-04-04 |
| 51. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
54.38 |
1.0272 |
0.0823 |
226 |
2 |
47.52 |
2009-04-01 |
| 52. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
54.32 |
1.0777 |
0.0306 |
226 |
1 |
54.32 |
2009-04-24 |
| 53. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
56.36 |
1.0199 |
0.1286 |
225 |
1 |
56.36 |
2009-04-06 |
| 54. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
44.79 |
1.0060 |
-0.0908 |
225 |
1 |
44.79 |
2010-02-13 |
| 55. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
44.80 |
0.9756 |
-0.0617 |
223 |
1 |
44.80 |
2009-04-01 |
| 56. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
47.09 |
0.9841 |
-0.0256 |
217 |
1 |
47.09 |
2011-12-03 |
| 57. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
48.30 |
0.8986 |
0.0887 |
216 |
2 |
45.95 |
2009-04-06 |
| 58. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
42.66 |
0.8988 |
-0.0286 |
216 |
1 |
42.66 |
2009-03-24 |
| 59. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
55.47 |
0.9621 |
0.1737 |
212 |
1 |
55.47 |
2011-12-03 |
| 60. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
45.36 |
0.9346 |
-0.0112 |
211 |
1 |
45.36 |
2009-03-19 |
| 61. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
53.05 |
1.0881 |
-0.0076 |
210 |
1 |
53.05 |
2009-04-01 |
| 62. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
49.30 |
0.8666 |
0.1382 |
206 |
2 |
44.74 |
2009-04-24 |
| 63. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
42.42 |
0.8986 |
-0.0343 |
205 |
1 |
42.42 |
2009-04-06 |
| 64. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
48.85 |
0.9357 |
0.0599 |
204 |
3 |
47.21 |
2011-12-03 |
| 65. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
50.26 |
1.0033 |
0.0237 |
203 |
1 |
50.26 |
2009-03-20 |
| 66. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
48.42 |
0.9377 |
0.0589 |
198 |
1 |
48.42 |
2011-12-03 |
| 67. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
53.98 |
1.0315 |
0.0710 |
193 |
1 |
53.98 |
2011-12-03 |
| 68. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
54.25 |
1.0264 |
0.0785 |
191 |
2 |
47.17 |
2011-12-03 |
| 69. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
58.27 |
1.0524 |
0.1369 |
177 |
1 |
58.27 |
2013-06-29 |
| 70. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
46.41 |
1.0279 |
-0.0855 |
172 |
1 |
46.41 |
2009-03-19 |
| 71. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
48.04 |
1.0125 |
-0.0362 |
171 |
1 |
48.04 |
2009-04-04 |
| 72. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
43.58 |
1.0867 |
-0.2016 |
171 |
1 |
43.58 |
2009-03-18 |
| 73. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
52.26 |
1.0042 |
0.0601 |
168 |
1 |
52.26 |
2009-04-24 |
| 74. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
34.71 |
1.0472 |
-0.3464 |
149 |
1 |
34.71 |
2009-04-24 |
| 75. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
52.22 |
1.0877 |
-0.0246 |
129 |
1 |
52.22 |
2009-03-20 |