| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
62.34 |
1.1198 |
0.1764 |
247 |
1 |
62.34 |
2010-04-28 |
| 2. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
62.32 |
1.0112 |
0.2845 |
242 |
1 |
62.32 |
2010-04-19 |
| 3. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
60.09 |
1.0288 |
0.2166 |
166 |
3 |
53.23 |
2010-04-20 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
58.49 |
1.0638 |
0.1509 |
247 |
1 |
58.49 |
2010-04-20 |
| 5. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
57.99 |
0.9068 |
0.2975 |
212 |
2 |
51.22 |
2010-04-28 |
| 6. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
57.46 |
1.0035 |
0.1922 |
310 |
2 |
50.51 |
2010-04-27 |
| 7. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
55.86 |
1.0086 |
0.1488 |
218 |
1 |
55.86 |
2010-04-20 |
| 8. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
55.20 |
1.0617 |
0.0843 |
171 |
2 |
52.15 |
2009-09-07 |
| 9. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
54.92 |
1.0521 |
0.0843 |
197 |
1 |
54.92 |
2009-08-07 |
| 10. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
54.68 |
1.0960 |
0.0451 |
315 |
2 |
52.90 |
2010-04-19 |
| 11. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
54.58 |
0.9084 |
0.2280 |
271 |
3 |
47.78 |
2009-10-23 |
| 12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
54.00 |
1.0865 |
0.0361 |
237 |
1 |
54.00 |
2009-08-07 |
| 13. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
53.72 |
1.0060 |
0.1123 |
260 |
1 |
53.72 |
2010-04-27 |
| 14. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
53.55 |
0.9763 |
0.1366 |
143 |
2 |
48.24 |
2010-04-27 |
| 15. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
53.46 |
0.9745 |
0.1391 |
388 |
1 |
53.46 |
2010-04-20 |
| 16. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
53.43 |
1.0010 |
0.1138 |
213 |
1 |
53.43 |
2010-04-27 |
| 17. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
53.35 |
1.0387 |
0.0747 |
333 |
1 |
53.35 |
2009-10-23 |
| 18. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
53.33 |
1.0267 |
0.0852 |
261 |
1 |
53.33 |
2010-04-27 |
| 19. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
53.17 |
1.0411 |
0.0661 |
341 |
1 |
53.17 |
2010-04-19 |
| 20. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
52.60 |
0.9119 |
0.1859 |
396 |
1 |
52.60 |
2010-04-28 |
| 21. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
52.33 |
1.0600 |
0.0282 |
351 |
1 |
52.33 |
2009-08-08 |
| 22. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
51.91 |
1.0403 |
0.0371 |
234 |
1 |
51.91 |
2010-04-27 |
| 23. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
51.80 |
0.9070 |
0.1650 |
192 |
2 |
43.80 |
2010-04-19 |
| 24. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
51.63 |
1.0101 |
0.0649 |
336 |
1 |
51.63 |
2009-10-23 |
| 25. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
51.44 |
0.9023 |
0.1656 |
268 |
1 |
51.44 |
2010-04-20 |
| 26. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
51.36 |
1.0506 |
0.0166 |
259 |
1 |
51.36 |
2009-08-07 |
| 27. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
51.30 |
0.9726 |
0.0989 |
396 |
1 |
51.30 |
2010-04-19 |
| 28. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
51.13 |
1.0800 |
-0.0201 |
213 |
1 |
51.13 |
2009-08-06 |
| 29. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
51.08 |
0.9621 |
0.0967 |
201 |
1 |
51.08 |
2010-04-20 |
| 30. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
51.03 |
1.0639 |
-0.0021 |
303 |
1 |
51.03 |
2010-04-20 |
| 31. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
50.84 |
0.9801 |
0.0763 |
289 |
2 |
47.95 |
2010-04-19 |
| 32. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
50.40 |
1.0615 |
-0.0170 |
201 |
2 |
48.76 |
2010-04-20 |
| 33. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
49.42 |
0.9927 |
0.0362 |
262 |
2 |
46.80 |
2009-08-06 |
| 34. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
48.97 |
0.9740 |
0.0469 |
371 |
1 |
48.97 |
2009-10-23 |
| 35. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
48.88 |
1.0279 |
-0.0179 |
172 |
1 |
48.88 |
2009-08-07 |
| 36. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
48.55 |
0.9839 |
0.0247 |
308 |
1 |
48.55 |
2009-10-23 |
| 37. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
48.31 |
0.9713 |
0.0311 |
193 |
2 |
48.09 |
2009-08-07 |
| 38. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
48.13 |
0.9644 |
0.0388 |
398 |
1 |
48.13 |
2010-04-20 |
| 39. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
48.05 |
0.8966 |
0.1011 |
366 |
1 |
48.05 |
2010-04-20 |
| 40. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
47.90 |
0.8474 |
0.1484 |
265 |
1 |
47.90 |
2010-04-27 |
| 41. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
47.88 |
1.0026 |
-0.0034 |
200 |
1 |
47.88 |
2010-04-19 |
| 42. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
47.70 |
0.8988 |
0.0915 |
193 |
1 |
47.70 |
2009-08-07 |
| 43. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
47.68 |
0.9909 |
0.0044 |
293 |
1 |
47.68 |
2009-10-23 |
| 44. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
47.25 |
0.9948 |
-0.0142 |
233 |
1 |
47.25 |
2009-08-07 |
| 45. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
46.98 |
1.0461 |
-0.0679 |
318 |
1 |
46.98 |
2009-08-07 |
| 46. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
46.97 |
0.8847 |
0.0889 |
282 |
1 |
46.97 |
2009-08-09 |
| 47. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
46.79 |
0.9827 |
-0.0097 |
314 |
1 |
46.79 |
2010-04-27 |
| 48. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
46.68 |
0.9183 |
0.0524 |
308 |
1 |
46.68 |
2010-04-27 |
| 49. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
46.60 |
0.9704 |
-0.0023 |
254 |
1 |
46.60 |
2009-08-08 |
| 50. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
46.40 |
0.9299 |
0.0256 |
168 |
1 |
46.40 |
2009-10-23 |
| 51. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
46.11 |
0.8669 |
0.0971 |
255 |
1 |
46.11 |
2009-08-06 |
| 52. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
46.04 |
1.0669 |
-0.1073 |
379 |
1 |
46.04 |
2010-04-19 |
| 53. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
45.96 |
0.9271 |
0.0301 |
323 |
1 |
45.96 |
2009-08-07 |
| 54. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
45.91 |
1.0287 |
-0.0761 |
269 |
1 |
45.91 |
2009-08-07 |
| 55. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
45.48 |
0.9931 |
-0.0439 |
339 |
1 |
45.48 |
2010-04-19 |
| 56. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
45.27 |
0.9480 |
-0.0065 |
297 |
1 |
45.27 |
2010-04-27 |
| 57. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
45.26 |
1.0504 |
-0.1084 |
225 |
1 |
45.26 |
2010-04-19 |
| 58. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
45.18 |
0.9915 |
-0.0540 |
281 |
1 |
45.18 |
2009-10-23 |
| 59. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
45.08 |
0.9719 |
-0.0284 |
383 |
1 |
45.08 |
2009-08-07 |
| 60. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
44.73 |
1.0039 |
-0.0687 |
255 |
1 |
44.73 |
2010-04-19 |
| 61. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
44.68 |
0.9137 |
0.0162 |
342 |
1 |
44.68 |
2010-04-19 |
| 62. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
44.67 |
0.9332 |
-0.0055 |
267 |
1 |
44.67 |
2010-04-19 |
| 63. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
44.34 |
0.9632 |
-0.0412 |
287 |
1 |
44.34 |
2010-04-19 |
| 64. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
44.03 |
0.9957 |
-0.0816 |
323 |
1 |
44.03 |
2009-08-06 |
| 65. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
44.01 |
1.0561 |
-0.1441 |
227 |
1 |
44.01 |
2010-04-19 |
| 66. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
43.95 |
0.9852 |
-0.0731 |
235 |
1 |
43.95 |
2009-08-07 |
| 67. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
43.75 |
0.8959 |
0.0180 |
328 |
1 |
43.75 |
2009-08-08 |
| 68. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
43.61 |
0.9101 |
-0.0006 |
351 |
1 |
43.61 |
2009-08-06 |
| 69. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
43.51 |
0.9768 |
-0.0720 |
237 |
1 |
43.51 |
2009-08-06 |
| 70. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
43.44 |
0.9425 |
-0.0398 |
248 |
1 |
43.44 |
2009-08-07 |
| 71. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
43.17 |
0.9927 |
-0.0996 |
234 |
1 |
43.17 |
2009-08-09 |
| 72. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
43.12 |
0.9809 |
-0.0895 |
209 |
3 |
41.44 |
2009-08-07 |
| 73. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
43.09 |
0.9561 |
-0.0598 |
362 |
1 |
43.09 |
2009-08-06 |
| 74. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
42.98 |
0.9857 |
-0.0874 |
268 |
1 |
42.98 |
2009-10-23 |
| 75. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
42.83 |
1.0529 |
-0.1610 |
373 |
1 |
42.83 |
2010-04-19 |
| 76. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
42.52 |
0.8830 |
0.0023 |
300 |
1 |
42.52 |
2010-04-20 |
| 77. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
42.44 |
0.9917 |
-0.1085 |
317 |
1 |
42.44 |
2010-04-27 |
| 78. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
42.42 |
0.7923 |
0.0890 |
316 |
1 |
42.42 |
2010-04-27 |
| 79. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
42.33 |
0.9963 |
-0.1199 |
274 |
1 |
42.33 |
2009-08-06 |
| 80. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
42.19 |
0.8381 |
0.0414 |
283 |
1 |
42.19 |
2009-08-06 |
| 81. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
41.57 |
0.9503 |
-0.0941 |
211 |
1 |
41.57 |
2009-09-07 |
| 82. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
41.21 |
0.8666 |
-0.0137 |
206 |
1 |
41.21 |
2010-04-20 |
| 83. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
40.75 |
0.9001 |
-0.0539 |
217 |
1 |
40.75 |
2009-08-07 |
| 84. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
39.47 |
1.0079 |
-0.1899 |
273 |
1 |
39.47 |
2009-08-06 |
| 85. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
39.39 |
1.0901 |
-0.2708 |
288 |
1 |
39.39 |
2009-08-06 |
| 86. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
39.34 |
1.0199 |
-0.2074 |
225 |
1 |
39.34 |
2009-08-06 |
| 87. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
38.79 |
0.9981 |
-0.1942 |
211 |
2 |
37.68 |
2009-08-07 |
| 88. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
37.52 |
0.8572 |
-0.0807 |
232 |
1 |
37.52 |
2009-08-06 |
| 89. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
26.82 |
0.9538 |
-0.3995 |
276 |
1 |
26.82 |
2009-08-06 |