| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
66.00 |
0.9603 |
0.0302 |
430 |
1 |
66.00 |
2015-12-19 |
| 2. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
60.65 |
0.8794 |
0.0319 |
427 |
1 |
60.65 |
2015-12-19 |
| 3. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
71.83 |
1.0067 |
0.0795 |
422 |
1 |
71.83 |
2015-12-19 |
| 4. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
58.87 |
0.9162 |
-0.0369 |
401 |
1 |
58.87 |
2015-12-17 |
| 5. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
69.94 |
0.9644 |
0.0831 |
398 |
1 |
69.94 |
2015-12-17 |
| 6. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
65.07 |
0.9681 |
0.0084 |
392 |
1 |
65.07 |
2015-12-15 |
| 7. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
67.78 |
1.0234 |
-0.0075 |
392 |
1 |
67.78 |
2015-12-17 |
| 8. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
65.27 |
0.9698 |
0.0094 |
389 |
1 |
65.27 |
2015-12-17 |
| 9. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
58.61 |
0.9404 |
-0.0567 |
383 |
1 |
58.61 |
2015-12-17 |
| 10. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
70.27 |
1.0529 |
-0.0011 |
373 |
1 |
70.27 |
2015-12-17 |
| 11. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
64.89 |
0.9740 |
-0.0021 |
371 |
1 |
64.89 |
2015-12-17 |
| 12. |
I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a ni... |
62.42 |
0.9857 |
-0.0444 |
371 |
1 |
62.42 |
2015-12-21 |
| 13. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
70.81 |
1.0538 |
0.0159 |
367 |
1 |
70.81 |
2015-12-17 |
| 14. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
64.48 |
0.9561 |
0.0137 |
364 |
1 |
64.48 |
2015-12-19 |
| 15. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
70.51 |
0.9561 |
0.0986 |
362 |
1 |
70.51 |
2015-12-17 |
| 16. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
77.33 |
1.0543 |
0.1034 |
360 |
1 |
77.33 |
2015-12-17 |
| 17. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
55.95 |
0.9157 |
-0.0691 |
353 |
1 |
55.95 |
2015-12-17 |
| 18. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
52.65 |
0.9284 |
-0.1401 |
346 |
1 |
52.65 |
2015-12-27 |
| 19. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
59.25 |
0.9637 |
-0.0680 |
342 |
1 |
59.25 |
2015-12-27 |
| 20. |
I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart o... |
69.42 |
1.0528 |
-0.0092 |
321 |
1 |
69.42 |
2015-12-19 |
| 21. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
55.17 |
0.9113 |
-0.0825 |
318 |
1 |
55.17 |
2015-12-27 |
| 22. |
All life's battles teach us something, even those we lose. W... |
59.62 |
1.0139 |
-0.1189 |
291 |
1 |
59.62 |
2015-12-17 |
| 23. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
71.21 |
1.0557 |
0.0090 |
289 |
1 |
71.21 |
2015-12-27 |
| 24. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
61.27 |
0.8847 |
0.0275 |
282 |
1 |
61.27 |
2015-12-17 |
| 25. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
71.04 |
0.9801 |
0.0889 |
282 |
1 |
71.04 |
2015-12-21 |
| 26. |
We live in an age when people do more writing than they have... |
67.36 |
1.0121 |
-0.0194 |
280 |
1 |
67.36 |
2015-12-21 |
| 27. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
73.27 |
1.0124 |
0.0873 |
275 |
1 |
73.27 |
2015-12-17 |
| 28. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
68.53 |
0.9963 |
0.0246 |
274 |
1 |
68.53 |
2015-12-17 |
| 29. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
64.78 |
0.9765 |
-0.0103 |
269 |
1 |
64.78 |
2015-12-17 |
| 30. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
62.26 |
0.8984 |
0.0383 |
267 |
1 |
62.26 |
2015-12-17 |
| 31. |
Despair comes slowly, crawling its way up inside you until i... |
68.47 |
0.9814 |
0.0455 |
266 |
1 |
68.47 |
2015-12-17 |
| 32. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
65.50 |
0.9543 |
0.0302 |
265 |
1 |
65.50 |
2015-12-17 |
| 33. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
63.96 |
1.1070 |
-0.1535 |
265 |
1 |
63.96 |
2015-12-19 |
| 34. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
71.45 |
0.9841 |
0.0814 |
263 |
1 |
71.45 |
2015-12-17 |
| 35. |
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It ... |
64.23 |
1.0201 |
-0.0585 |
261 |
1 |
64.23 |
2015-12-17 |
| 36. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
79.85 |
1.0791 |
0.1195 |
259 |
1 |
79.85 |
2015-12-19 |
| 37. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
76.94 |
1.0481 |
0.0938 |
255 |
1 |
76.94 |
2015-12-17 |
| 38. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
57.46 |
0.8981 |
-0.0323 |
255 |
1 |
57.46 |
2015-12-17 |
| 39. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
68.53 |
1.1198 |
-0.0974 |
247 |
1 |
68.53 |
2015-12-17 |
| 40. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
78.95 |
1.0638 |
0.1137 |
247 |
1 |
78.95 |
2015-12-17 |
| 41. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
85.45 |
1.0131 |
0.2675 |
245 |
2 |
78.50 |
2015-12-17 |
| 42. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
50.13 |
0.8656 |
-0.1176 |
242 |
1 |
50.13 |
2015-12-17 |
| 43. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
69.56 |
0.9852 |
0.0528 |
235 |
2 |
65.36 |
2015-12-17 |
| 44. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
75.64 |
1.0414 |
0.0877 |
234 |
1 |
75.64 |
2015-12-17 |
| 45. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
65.07 |
0.9948 |
-0.0247 |
233 |
1 |
65.07 |
2015-12-17 |
| 46. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
68.37 |
1.0466 |
-0.0261 |
230 |
1 |
68.37 |
2015-12-19 |
| 47. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
68.33 |
0.9829 |
0.0364 |
229 |
1 |
68.33 |
2015-12-15 |
| 48. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
62.77 |
1.0016 |
-0.0665 |
217 |
1 |
62.77 |
2015-12-17 |
| 49. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
75.80 |
1.0753 |
0.0640 |
206 |
1 |
75.80 |
2015-12-17 |
| 50. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
76.87 |
1.0230 |
0.1271 |
200 |
1 |
76.87 |
2015-12-17 |
| 51. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
75.68 |
1.0264 |
0.1001 |
191 |
1 |
75.68 |
2015-12-17 |
| 52. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
71.14 |
1.0543 |
0.0050 |
182 |
1 |
71.14 |
2015-12-19 |
| 53. |
They say, "Find a purpose in your life and live it." But, so... |
61.91 |
1.0207 |
-0.0941 |
182 |
1 |
61.91 |
2015-12-17 |
| 54. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
74.52 |
1.0582 |
0.0518 |
180 |
1 |
74.52 |
2015-12-17 |
| 55. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
68.04 |
0.9408 |
0.0700 |
177 |
1 |
68.04 |
2015-12-21 |
| 56. |
And, anyway, it's not about making money, it's about taking ... |
40.11 |
1.0155 |
-0.4232 |
172 |
1 |
40.11 |
2015-12-27 |
| 57. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
59.57 |
0.8843 |
0.0154 |
168 |
1 |
59.57 |
2015-12-17 |
| 58. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
79.38 |
1.0996 |
0.0886 |
153 |
2 |
77.60 |
2015-12-19 |
| 59. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
63.06 |
1.0204 |
-0.0873 |
143 |
1 |
63.06 |
2015-12-17 |
| 60. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
65.66 |
1.0426 |
-0.0664 |
131 |
1 |
65.66 |
2015-12-17 |
| 61. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
59.56 |
0.9464 |
-0.0603 |
119 |
1 |
59.56 |
2015-12-15 |
| 62. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
59.64 |
1.0476 |
-0.1674 |
110 |
1 |
59.64 |
2015-12-19 |