| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
54.64 |
0.9791 |
0.2929 |
154 |
1 |
54.64 |
2011-02-09 |
| 2. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
52.51 |
0.9286 |
0.3017 |
177 |
2 |
51.67 |
2011-02-09 |
| 3. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
51.05 |
1.0112 |
0.1820 |
242 |
2 |
48.25 |
2011-02-09 |
| 4. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
50.14 |
0.9213 |
0.2493 |
165 |
1 |
50.14 |
2011-02-09 |
| 5. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
49.82 |
1.0095 |
0.1544 |
211 |
1 |
49.82 |
2011-03-29 |
| 6. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
49.59 |
0.9869 |
0.1694 |
193 |
1 |
49.59 |
2011-02-08 |
| 7. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
49.59 |
1.0543 |
0.1079 |
360 |
1 |
49.59 |
2011-02-08 |
| 8. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
49.57 |
0.9989 |
0.1676 |
282 |
1 |
49.57 |
2011-02-09 |
| 9. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
49.39 |
1.1095 |
0.0480 |
252 |
1 |
49.39 |
2011-02-09 |
| 10. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
49.39 |
1.0607 |
0.0973 |
357 |
1 |
49.39 |
2011-02-08 |
| 11. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
49.33 |
0.9253 |
0.2185 |
118 |
1 |
49.33 |
2011-02-08 |
| 12. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
49.08 |
0.9270 |
0.2239 |
193 |
1 |
49.08 |
2011-02-08 |
| 13. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
48.86 |
1.0800 |
0.0598 |
213 |
1 |
48.86 |
2011-02-09 |
| 14. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
48.62 |
1.1138 |
0.0318 |
341 |
2 |
46.88 |
2011-02-12 |
| 15. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
48.10 |
1.0654 |
0.0569 |
247 |
2 |
46.28 |
2011-02-08 |
| 16. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
48.01 |
0.9864 |
0.1401 |
292 |
1 |
48.01 |
2011-02-08 |
| 17. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
47.60 |
1.0590 |
0.0530 |
250 |
1 |
47.60 |
2011-02-08 |
| 18. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
47.31 |
1.0543 |
0.0487 |
182 |
2 |
46.99 |
2011-02-12 |
| 19. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
47.28 |
1.0418 |
0.0645 |
214 |
2 |
46.15 |
2011-02-09 |
| 20. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
47.25 |
0.8316 |
0.2766 |
304 |
1 |
47.25 |
2011-02-09 |
| 21. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
46.75 |
1.0543 |
0.0397 |
233 |
1 |
46.75 |
2011-02-08 |
| 22. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
46.67 |
0.9738 |
0.1194 |
266 |
1 |
46.67 |
2011-02-12 |
| 23. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
46.55 |
1.0125 |
0.0744 |
232 |
1 |
46.55 |
2011-02-12 |
| 24. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
46.35 |
1.0743 |
0.0105 |
297 |
1 |
46.35 |
2011-02-08 |
| 25. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
46.05 |
0.9243 |
0.1525 |
231 |
1 |
46.05 |
2011-02-12 |
| 26. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
45.98 |
1.0755 |
0.0001 |
243 |
2 |
45.86 |
2011-02-12 |
| 27. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
45.84 |
1.0753 |
0.0033 |
206 |
1 |
45.84 |
2011-02-12 |
| 28. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
45.22 |
1.0063 |
0.0557 |
293 |
1 |
45.22 |
2011-02-12 |
| 29. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
45.02 |
0.9162 |
0.1374 |
401 |
1 |
45.02 |
2011-02-09 |
| 30. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
44.99 |
0.9606 |
0.0952 |
203 |
3 |
38.87 |
2011-03-29 |
| 31. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
44.89 |
1.0028 |
0.0454 |
259 |
1 |
44.89 |
2011-02-08 |
| 32. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
44.88 |
0.9583 |
0.0913 |
237 |
2 |
43.71 |
2011-03-15 |
| 33. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
44.79 |
0.9621 |
0.0873 |
212 |
1 |
44.79 |
2011-03-15 |
| 34. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
44.63 |
1.0060 |
0.0386 |
260 |
1 |
44.63 |
2011-02-08 |
| 35. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
44.33 |
1.0320 |
0.0102 |
401 |
2 |
43.06 |
2011-03-29 |
| 36. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
44.16 |
0.9783 |
0.0613 |
273 |
1 |
44.16 |
2011-02-09 |
| 37. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
43.93 |
0.9779 |
0.0474 |
255 |
1 |
43.93 |
2011-02-12 |
| 38. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
43.81 |
1.0304 |
-0.0093 |
256 |
1 |
43.81 |
2011-02-08 |
| 39. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
43.37 |
1.0010 |
0.0165 |
213 |
1 |
43.37 |
2011-02-08 |
| 40. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
43.21 |
0.9797 |
0.0343 |
269 |
1 |
43.21 |
2011-03-15 |
| 41. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
42.87 |
0.9852 |
0.0161 |
235 |
1 |
42.87 |
2011-02-08 |
| 42. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
42.85 |
1.0472 |
-0.0521 |
149 |
1 |
42.85 |
2011-02-08 |
| 43. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
42.64 |
0.9564 |
0.0339 |
263 |
1 |
42.64 |
2011-02-08 |
| 44. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
42.62 |
0.9839 |
0.0119 |
308 |
1 |
42.62 |
2011-02-08 |
| 45. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
42.60 |
0.9357 |
0.0576 |
204 |
2 |
39.02 |
2011-02-08 |
| 46. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
42.58 |
1.0511 |
-0.0543 |
252 |
1 |
42.58 |
2011-02-08 |
| 47. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
42.56 |
1.0399 |
-0.0404 |
257 |
1 |
42.56 |
2011-02-12 |
| 48. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
42.36 |
0.9614 |
0.0300 |
195 |
1 |
42.36 |
2011-02-12 |
| 49. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
42.26 |
1.0272 |
-0.0418 |
226 |
1 |
42.26 |
2011-03-29 |
| 50. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
42.26 |
1.0189 |
-0.0320 |
290 |
1 |
42.26 |
2011-03-15 |
| 51. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
42.23 |
1.0639 |
-0.0760 |
303 |
1 |
42.23 |
2011-03-15 |
| 52. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
42.11 |
0.9981 |
-0.0150 |
211 |
1 |
42.11 |
2011-02-08 |
| 53. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
42.01 |
1.0016 |
-0.0216 |
217 |
1 |
42.01 |
2011-02-09 |
| 54. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
41.92 |
1.0387 |
-0.0550 |
333 |
1 |
41.92 |
2011-02-12 |
| 55. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
41.80 |
0.9780 |
-0.0075 |
173 |
1 |
41.80 |
2011-02-08 |
| 56. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
41.62 |
1.0800 |
-0.1145 |
129 |
1 |
41.62 |
2011-03-15 |
| 57. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
41.52 |
0.9726 |
0.0027 |
396 |
1 |
41.52 |
2011-02-08 |
| 58. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
41.52 |
0.9275 |
0.0478 |
243 |
1 |
41.52 |
2011-03-15 |
| 59. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
41.43 |
0.9745 |
-0.0077 |
217 |
1 |
41.43 |
2011-02-07 |
| 60. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
41.41 |
1.0969 |
-0.1272 |
303 |
2 |
39.74 |
2011-02-12 |
| 61. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
41.39 |
1.0165 |
-0.0503 |
316 |
1 |
41.39 |
2011-03-29 |
| 62. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
41.23 |
0.9054 |
0.0627 |
192 |
1 |
41.23 |
2011-02-07 |
| 63. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
41.20 |
1.0640 |
-0.0956 |
210 |
1 |
41.20 |
2011-02-08 |
| 64. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
41.12 |
0.8236 |
0.1311 |
178 |
1 |
41.12 |
2011-02-12 |
| 65. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
40.97 |
1.0462 |
-0.0860 |
340 |
1 |
40.97 |
2011-03-29 |
| 66. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
40.91 |
1.0227 |
-0.0608 |
378 |
1 |
40.91 |
2011-02-12 |
| 67. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
40.72 |
1.0197 |
-0.0702 |
204 |
1 |
40.72 |
2011-02-08 |
| 68. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
40.66 |
0.9763 |
-0.0269 |
283 |
1 |
40.66 |
2011-02-12 |
| 69. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
40.51 |
0.9183 |
0.0247 |
252 |
2 |
39.27 |
2011-03-15 |
| 70. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
40.49 |
0.9927 |
-0.0462 |
276 |
1 |
40.49 |
2011-02-12 |
| 71. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
40.42 |
0.8986 |
0.0439 |
205 |
1 |
40.42 |
2011-02-08 |
| 72. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
40.37 |
1.1070 |
-0.1650 |
265 |
1 |
40.37 |
2011-03-29 |
| 73. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
40.34 |
0.8805 |
0.0619 |
205 |
1 |
40.34 |
2011-02-08 |
| 74. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
40.26 |
0.9329 |
0.0220 |
345 |
1 |
40.26 |
2011-02-08 |
| 75. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
40.24 |
0.9841 |
-0.0474 |
217 |
1 |
40.24 |
2011-02-12 |
| 76. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
40.23 |
1.0667 |
-0.1165 |
308 |
1 |
40.23 |
2011-03-29 |
| 77. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
40.19 |
0.8847 |
0.0519 |
282 |
1 |
40.19 |
2011-02-08 |
| 78. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
40.04 |
0.8669 |
0.0746 |
255 |
1 |
40.04 |
2011-03-15 |
| 79. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
39.90 |
1.0086 |
-0.0809 |
218 |
1 |
39.90 |
2011-03-29 |
| 80. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
39.81 |
0.8721 |
0.0637 |
231 |
1 |
39.81 |
2011-02-08 |
| 81. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
39.73 |
0.8594 |
0.0652 |
170 |
2 |
38.81 |
2011-03-29 |
| 82. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
39.55 |
0.9315 |
-0.0059 |
273 |
1 |
39.55 |
2011-02-12 |
| 83. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
39.23 |
1.0686 |
-0.1487 |
354 |
1 |
39.23 |
2011-02-12 |
| 84. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
39.11 |
1.1093 |
-0.2015 |
220 |
1 |
39.11 |
2011-02-12 |
| 85. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
39.04 |
0.8981 |
0.0224 |
255 |
1 |
39.04 |
2011-02-07 |
| 86. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
38.93 |
0.9917 |
-0.0804 |
317 |
1 |
38.93 |
2011-02-07 |
| 87. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
38.78 |
0.9922 |
-0.0859 |
264 |
1 |
38.78 |
2011-02-08 |
| 88. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
38.73 |
1.0493 |
-0.1379 |
264 |
3 |
36.91 |
2011-03-29 |
| 89. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
38.71 |
0.9538 |
-0.0500 |
276 |
1 |
38.71 |
2011-03-15 |
| 90. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
38.38 |
0.8656 |
0.0315 |
299 |
1 |
38.38 |
2011-02-12 |
| 91. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
38.22 |
0.8718 |
0.0242 |
318 |
1 |
38.22 |
2011-03-15 |
| 92. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
37.65 |
1.0664 |
-0.1838 |
389 |
1 |
37.65 |
2011-02-09 |
| 93. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
36.96 |
0.9650 |
-0.0994 |
347 |
1 |
36.96 |
2011-02-07 |
| 94. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
36.71 |
1.0412 |
-0.1792 |
205 |
1 |
36.71 |
2011-03-29 |
| 95. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
36.37 |
0.8391 |
0.0159 |
294 |
1 |
36.37 |
2011-02-09 |
| 96. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
36.11 |
1.0101 |
-0.1654 |
336 |
1 |
36.11 |
2011-03-15 |
| 97. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
36.11 |
0.9108 |
-0.0680 |
235 |
1 |
36.11 |
2011-02-07 |
| 98. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
35.81 |
0.9890 |
-0.1493 |
272 |
1 |
35.81 |
2011-02-12 |
| 99. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
35.80 |
0.8778 |
-0.0404 |
285 |
1 |
35.80 |
2011-03-15 |
| 100. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
35.07 |
0.9561 |
-0.1344 |
291 |
1 |
35.07 |
2011-02-12 |
| 101. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
34.83 |
1.0615 |
-0.2517 |
201 |
1 |
34.83 |
2011-03-15 |
| 102. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
33.60 |
0.9660 |
-0.1750 |
258 |
1 |
33.60 |
2011-03-29 |
| 103. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
33.20 |
0.8576 |
-0.0781 |
260 |
1 |
33.20 |
2011-02-07 |
| 104. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
33.09 |
0.9001 |
-0.1278 |
217 |
1 |
33.09 |
2011-02-07 |
| 105. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
32.96 |
0.8770 |
-0.1083 |
163 |
1 |
32.96 |
2011-03-15 |