Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
55.62 |
1.0877 |
0.3609 |
129 |
3 |
46.11 |
2011-09-25 |
2. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
50.45 |
1.0561 |
0.2587 |
227 |
2 |
49.92 |
2011-10-06 |
3. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
49.20 |
1.0881 |
0.1922 |
210 |
4 |
39.77 |
2011-10-05 |
4. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
48.96 |
1.0399 |
0.2432 |
257 |
1 |
48.96 |
2011-10-05 |
5. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
48.69 |
1.1086 |
0.1622 |
233 |
1 |
48.69 |
2011-10-05 |
6. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
47.21 |
0.9464 |
0.2828 |
119 |
1 |
47.21 |
2011-09-29 |
7. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
46.88 |
1.0755 |
0.1483 |
243 |
1 |
46.88 |
2011-10-07 |
8. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
45.06 |
0.9829 |
0.1919 |
229 |
1 |
45.06 |
2011-09-19 |
9. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
44.96 |
0.8970 |
0.2772 |
152 |
1 |
44.96 |
2011-09-29 |
10. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
44.95 |
0.8919 |
0.2802 |
116 |
1 |
44.95 |
2011-10-05 |
11. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
44.84 |
0.9480 |
0.2223 |
297 |
2 |
41.50 |
2011-09-30 |
12. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
44.69 |
0.9103 |
0.2552 |
269 |
1 |
44.69 |
2011-10-07 |
13. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
44.66 |
1.0667 |
0.1085 |
308 |
1 |
44.66 |
2011-10-06 |
14. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
44.63 |
1.0617 |
0.1003 |
171 |
1 |
44.63 |
2011-10-06 |
15. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
44.56 |
1.0857 |
0.0894 |
393 |
1 |
44.56 |
2011-10-07 |
16. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
44.38 |
0.9113 |
0.2424 |
225 |
1 |
44.38 |
2011-10-06 |
17. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
43.94 |
1.0600 |
0.0864 |
351 |
2 |
38.59 |
2011-10-05 |
18. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
43.82 |
0.9685 |
0.1752 |
304 |
1 |
43.82 |
2011-10-05 |
19. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
43.58 |
0.8768 |
0.2639 |
199 |
1 |
43.58 |
2011-09-25 |
20. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
43.52 |
0.8988 |
0.2360 |
216 |
1 |
43.52 |
2011-10-05 |
21. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
43.36 |
0.9253 |
0.1955 |
118 |
1 |
43.36 |
2011-09-23 |
22. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
43.35 |
1.0192 |
0.1169 |
243 |
1 |
43.35 |
2011-09-19 |
23. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
43.22 |
0.9893 |
0.1342 |
222 |
1 |
43.22 |
2011-09-30 |
24. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
43.16 |
1.0582 |
0.0642 |
180 |
3 |
38.17 |
2011-09-19 |
25. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
43.03 |
0.9631 |
0.1590 |
273 |
2 |
41.90 |
2011-10-07 |
26. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
42.83 |
1.0106 |
0.1056 |
302 |
1 |
42.83 |
2011-09-19 |
27. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
42.69 |
1.0332 |
0.0793 |
267 |
1 |
42.69 |
2011-10-05 |
28. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
42.63 |
1.0301 |
0.0803 |
268 |
1 |
42.63 |
2011-10-06 |
29. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
42.43 |
0.8830 |
0.2183 |
134 |
1 |
42.43 |
2011-09-29 |
30. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
42.05 |
0.8993 |
0.2004 |
366 |
1 |
42.05 |
2011-10-07 |
31. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
42.00 |
0.9275 |
0.1736 |
243 |
1 |
42.00 |
2011-09-26 |
32. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
41.88 |
0.9394 |
0.1511 |
195 |
2 |
40.01 |
2011-09-26 |
33. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
41.86 |
0.8474 |
0.2447 |
265 |
1 |
41.86 |
2011-10-07 |
34. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
41.83 |
1.0462 |
0.0474 |
340 |
1 |
41.83 |
2011-10-06 |
35. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
41.78 |
0.8236 |
0.2596 |
178 |
1 |
41.78 |
2011-09-30 |
36. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
41.74 |
1.0511 |
0.0389 |
252 |
1 |
41.74 |
2011-09-19 |
37. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
41.57 |
0.9948 |
0.0884 |
233 |
1 |
41.57 |
2011-10-06 |
38. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
41.49 |
1.0521 |
0.0242 |
197 |
1 |
41.49 |
2011-09-18 |
39. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
41.46 |
1.0291 |
0.0499 |
240 |
1 |
41.46 |
2011-09-19 |
40. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
41.46 |
1.0590 |
0.0208 |
250 |
3 |
37.78 |
2011-09-26 |
41. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
41.45 |
1.0588 |
0.0219 |
281 |
1 |
41.45 |
2011-09-25 |
42. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
41.39 |
1.0743 |
0.0063 |
297 |
1 |
41.39 |
2011-09-30 |
43. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
41.36 |
0.9149 |
0.1619 |
153 |
1 |
41.36 |
2011-10-05 |
44. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
41.13 |
1.0845 |
-0.0132 |
212 |
2 |
40.15 |
2011-09-26 |
45. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
40.96 |
0.9258 |
0.1469 |
184 |
1 |
40.96 |
2011-09-18 |
46. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
40.85 |
1.0334 |
0.0312 |
261 |
3 |
39.65 |
2011-09-30 |
47. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
40.71 |
1.0529 |
0.0114 |
373 |
1 |
40.71 |
2011-10-06 |
48. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
40.56 |
0.9976 |
0.0560 |
212 |
1 |
40.56 |
2011-09-19 |
49. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
40.31 |
1.0042 |
0.0431 |
168 |
1 |
40.31 |
2011-09-30 |
50. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
40.23 |
1.0028 |
0.0451 |
259 |
2 |
37.43 |
2011-10-05 |
51. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
40.11 |
1.0165 |
0.0280 |
316 |
1 |
40.11 |
2011-09-29 |
52. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
40.01 |
1.0103 |
0.0269 |
209 |
1 |
40.01 |
2011-09-23 |
53. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
39.81 |
1.0507 |
-0.0072 |
253 |
1 |
39.81 |
2011-09-19 |
54. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
39.71 |
0.9673 |
0.0702 |
292 |
1 |
39.71 |
2011-10-07 |
55. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
39.42 |
1.0026 |
0.0292 |
200 |
1 |
39.42 |
2011-09-18 |
56. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
39.29 |
0.9636 |
0.0596 |
281 |
2 |
33.47 |
2011-09-30 |
57. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
39.29 |
0.9928 |
0.0306 |
293 |
1 |
39.29 |
2011-09-30 |
58. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
39.28 |
0.9917 |
0.0347 |
317 |
1 |
39.28 |
2011-10-05 |
59. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
39.06 |
0.9650 |
0.0557 |
347 |
2 |
38.50 |
2011-09-23 |
60. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
39.06 |
1.0777 |
-0.0616 |
226 |
1 |
39.06 |
2011-09-18 |
61. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
39.05 |
1.0464 |
-0.0228 |
213 |
1 |
39.05 |
2011-09-29 |
62. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
38.98 |
0.9404 |
0.0851 |
383 |
1 |
38.98 |
2011-10-05 |
63. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
38.92 |
0.8208 |
0.1970 |
149 |
2 |
38.32 |
2011-09-18 |
64. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
38.91 |
1.0759 |
-0.0563 |
273 |
1 |
38.91 |
2011-09-26 |
65. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
38.86 |
1.0063 |
0.0114 |
293 |
1 |
38.86 |
2011-09-18 |
66. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
38.82 |
1.0315 |
-0.0204 |
193 |
1 |
38.82 |
2011-09-26 |
67. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
38.77 |
0.9925 |
0.0134 |
155 |
1 |
38.77 |
2011-06-16 |
68. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
38.67 |
0.9614 |
0.0477 |
195 |
1 |
38.67 |
2011-09-30 |
69. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
38.66 |
0.9922 |
0.0160 |
264 |
1 |
38.66 |
2011-10-02 |
70. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
38.64 |
1.1095 |
-0.1001 |
252 |
1 |
38.64 |
2011-09-19 |
71. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
38.59 |
0.9745 |
0.0295 |
217 |
1 |
38.59 |
2011-06-16 |
72. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
38.59 |
1.0506 |
-0.0453 |
259 |
1 |
38.59 |
2011-09-19 |
73. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
38.48 |
1.0698 |
-0.0599 |
303 |
1 |
38.48 |
2011-06-16 |
74. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
38.34 |
0.9310 |
0.0677 |
278 |
1 |
38.34 |
2011-09-19 |
75. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
38.25 |
0.9935 |
0.0053 |
217 |
1 |
38.25 |
2011-09-19 |
76. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
38.05 |
0.8988 |
0.0924 |
193 |
1 |
38.05 |
2011-09-25 |
77. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
37.97 |
1.0144 |
-0.0240 |
162 |
2 |
34.99 |
2011-10-07 |
78. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
37.68 |
0.9809 |
-0.0030 |
209 |
1 |
37.68 |
2011-09-18 |
79. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
37.61 |
1.0557 |
-0.0745 |
289 |
1 |
37.61 |
2011-06-16 |
80. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
37.29 |
1.0543 |
-0.0860 |
182 |
1 |
37.29 |
2011-09-18 |
81. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
37.17 |
0.9682 |
0.0106 |
341 |
1 |
37.17 |
2011-09-19 |
82. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
37.12 |
1.0069 |
-0.0366 |
242 |
1 |
37.12 |
2011-10-02 |
83. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
36.56 |
1.0101 |
-0.0557 |
336 |
3 |
33.53 |
2011-09-29 |
84. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
36.42 |
1.0288 |
-0.0846 |
166 |
2 |
33.98 |
2011-09-26 |
85. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
36.25 |
0.9915 |
-0.0484 |
281 |
1 |
36.25 |
2011-09-19 |
86. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
36.08 |
0.9299 |
0.0017 |
168 |
1 |
36.08 |
2011-07-19 |
87. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
36.02 |
0.9597 |
-0.0208 |
251 |
1 |
36.02 |
2011-09-18 |
88. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
35.96 |
0.8172 |
0.1151 |
204 |
2 |
35.58 |
2011-09-25 |
89. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
35.80 |
0.9084 |
0.0255 |
271 |
2 |
32.44 |
2011-09-29 |
90. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
35.73 |
0.8845 |
0.0474 |
239 |
1 |
35.73 |
2011-06-16 |
91. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
35.67 |
1.0010 |
-0.0681 |
213 |
1 |
35.67 |
2011-09-11 |
92. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
35.48 |
0.8824 |
0.0436 |
202 |
1 |
35.48 |
2011-09-19 |
93. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
35.44 |
1.0178 |
-0.0967 |
207 |
1 |
35.44 |
2011-09-26 |
94. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
35.43 |
0.8663 |
0.0523 |
172 |
1 |
35.43 |
2011-10-02 |
95. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
35.30 |
0.8646 |
0.0515 |
110 |
1 |
35.30 |
2011-09-18 |
96. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
35.29 |
0.9952 |
-0.0736 |
220 |
2 |
33.52 |
2011-09-25 |
97. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
35.26 |
0.8770 |
0.0414 |
163 |
1 |
35.26 |
2011-09-25 |
98. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
35.26 |
1.0086 |
-0.0946 |
218 |
2 |
32.04 |
2011-09-26 |
99. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
35.08 |
0.7966 |
0.1236 |
184 |
1 |
35.08 |
2011-09-11 |
100. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
34.74 |
0.9820 |
-0.0689 |
297 |
1 |
34.74 |
2011-06-16 |
101. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
34.65 |
0.9604 |
-0.0603 |
285 |
1 |
34.65 |
2011-09-18 |
102. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
34.50 |
0.9780 |
-0.0855 |
173 |
1 |
34.50 |
2011-06-16 |
103. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
34.17 |
0.9768 |
-0.0859 |
237 |
1 |
34.17 |
2011-09-25 |
104. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
33.72 |
0.8964 |
-0.0212 |
199 |
1 |
33.72 |
2011-06-16 |
105. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
33.47 |
0.8880 |
-0.0161 |
296 |
1 |
33.47 |
2011-06-16 |
106. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
33.25 |
0.9827 |
-0.1161 |
314 |
1 |
33.25 |
2011-09-18 |
107. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
33.23 |
0.8742 |
-0.0043 |
202 |
1 |
33.23 |
2011-07-19 |
108. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
33.17 |
0.8687 |
-0.0063 |
119 |
1 |
33.17 |
2010-11-14 |
109. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
33.15 |
0.9980 |
-0.1324 |
295 |
1 |
33.15 |
2011-09-25 |
110. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
33.01 |
0.9981 |
-0.1394 |
211 |
1 |
33.01 |
2010-11-14 |
111. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
32.98 |
0.8863 |
-0.0310 |
127 |
1 |
32.98 |
2011-10-01 |
112. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
32.96 |
0.8067 |
0.0521 |
215 |
1 |
32.96 |
2011-09-19 |
113. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
32.75 |
0.9809 |
-0.1208 |
250 |
1 |
32.75 |
2011-07-19 |
114. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
32.61 |
0.8887 |
-0.0348 |
194 |
1 |
32.61 |
2011-09-18 |
115. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
32.46 |
0.7915 |
0.0553 |
142 |
1 |
32.46 |
2011-09-26 |
116. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
32.24 |
0.8837 |
-0.0456 |
157 |
1 |
32.24 |
2011-09-18 |
117. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
32.06 |
0.9228 |
-0.0834 |
305 |
1 |
32.06 |
2011-09-18 |
118. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
31.79 |
0.9841 |
-0.1574 |
154 |
1 |
31.79 |
2011-10-02 |
119. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
31.58 |
0.9010 |
-0.0767 |
266 |
1 |
31.58 |
2011-09-26 |
120. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
31.46 |
0.9574 |
-0.1355 |
354 |
1 |
31.46 |
2010-11-14 |
121. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
31.40 |
0.9807 |
-0.1751 |
129 |
1 |
31.40 |
2010-11-14 |
122. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
30.72 |
0.8680 |
-0.0732 |
196 |
1 |
30.72 |
2011-09-18 |
123. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
30.40 |
1.1062 |
-0.3134 |
200 |
1 |
30.40 |
2011-09-11 |
124. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
30.36 |
0.8656 |
-0.0741 |
242 |
1 |
30.36 |
2011-09-23 |
125. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
30.15 |
1.0498 |
-0.2644 |
261 |
1 |
30.15 |
2011-09-11 |
126. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
30.07 |
0.8594 |
-0.0804 |
170 |
1 |
30.07 |
2010-11-14 |
127. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
29.62 |
1.0051 |
-0.2400 |
162 |
1 |
29.62 |
2011-09-11 |
128. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
29.31 |
0.8789 |
-0.1199 |
136 |
1 |
29.31 |
2010-06-03 |
129. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
28.48 |
0.8966 |
-0.1570 |
366 |
1 |
28.48 |
2011-09-08 |
130. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
28.00 |
1.0279 |
-0.3052 |
172 |
2 |
24.55 |
2011-06-21 |
131. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
27.72 |
0.9183 |
-0.1966 |
308 |
1 |
27.72 |
2011-09-08 |
132. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
27.49 |
0.8316 |
-0.1139 |
304 |
1 |
27.49 |
2011-09-18 |
133. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
27.44 |
0.8778 |
-0.1624 |
285 |
1 |
27.44 |
2011-09-11 |
134. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
23.63 |
0.7868 |
-0.1772 |
116 |
1 |
23.63 |
2010-11-14 |
135. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
22.99 |
0.8571 |
-0.2616 |
202 |
1 |
22.99 |
2010-06-03 |