| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
65.85 |
1.0867 |
0.2822 |
171 |
1 |
65.85 |
2012-09-24 |
| 2. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
61.88 |
1.0291 |
0.2592 |
240 |
1 |
61.88 |
2014-11-20 |
| 3. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
59.40 |
1.0617 |
0.1741 |
171 |
1 |
59.40 |
2012-09-27 |
| 4. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
58.98 |
1.0132 |
0.2166 |
371 |
1 |
58.98 |
2013-10-02 |
| 5. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
58.93 |
1.0561 |
0.1700 |
227 |
1 |
58.93 |
2012-10-01 |
| 6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
58.50 |
1.1086 |
0.1106 |
233 |
1 |
58.50 |
2012-10-01 |
| 7. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
58.43 |
1.1138 |
0.1129 |
341 |
1 |
58.43 |
2012-09-24 |
| 8. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
58.37 |
0.9614 |
0.2561 |
195 |
1 |
58.37 |
2012-09-26 |
| 9. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
58.25 |
1.0390 |
0.1802 |
260 |
1 |
58.25 |
2012-09-26 |
| 10. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
57.72 |
1.0362 |
0.1733 |
437 |
3 |
45.02 |
2012-09-24 |
| 11. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
57.35 |
0.9541 |
0.2419 |
236 |
1 |
57.35 |
2012-10-24 |
| 12. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
57.09 |
0.9857 |
0.2098 |
268 |
1 |
57.09 |
2012-10-02 |
| 13. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
55.65 |
0.9817 |
0.1831 |
304 |
1 |
55.65 |
2012-09-24 |
| 14. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
55.59 |
0.9963 |
0.1596 |
274 |
1 |
55.59 |
2012-10-18 |
| 15. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
54.92 |
0.9829 |
0.1608 |
229 |
1 |
54.92 |
2012-09-21 |
| 16. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
54.91 |
0.9756 |
0.1707 |
216 |
1 |
54.91 |
2012-10-05 |
| 17. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
54.53 |
0.9676 |
0.1738 |
247 |
1 |
54.53 |
2012-09-21 |
| 18. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
53.88 |
0.8847 |
0.2353 |
282 |
2 |
53.50 |
2012-09-24 |
| 19. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
53.86 |
0.9890 |
0.1371 |
272 |
1 |
53.86 |
2012-09-24 |
| 20. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
53.72 |
1.0543 |
0.0617 |
182 |
1 |
53.72 |
2012-10-02 |
| 21. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
53.70 |
0.9425 |
0.1772 |
248 |
1 |
53.70 |
2012-09-24 |
| 22. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
53.62 |
1.0845 |
0.0314 |
212 |
1 |
53.62 |
2012-07-10 |
| 23. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
53.28 |
0.9643 |
0.1545 |
282 |
1 |
53.28 |
2012-09-24 |
| 24. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
53.14 |
1.0543 |
0.0547 |
360 |
1 |
53.14 |
2012-09-24 |
| 25. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
52.96 |
1.0483 |
0.0605 |
305 |
1 |
52.96 |
2012-10-02 |
| 26. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
52.90 |
0.9394 |
0.1606 |
195 |
1 |
52.90 |
2012-07-23 |
| 27. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
52.83 |
0.9103 |
0.1898 |
269 |
1 |
52.83 |
2012-09-21 |
| 28. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
52.16 |
1.0243 |
0.0655 |
153 |
1 |
52.16 |
2012-10-02 |
| 29. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
51.98 |
1.0543 |
0.0291 |
233 |
1 |
51.98 |
2012-09-27 |
| 30. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
51.21 |
1.0197 |
0.0451 |
204 |
1 |
51.21 |
2012-09-24 |
| 31. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
51.00 |
1.0595 |
-0.0041 |
166 |
1 |
51.00 |
2012-09-17 |
| 32. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
50.96 |
0.9380 |
0.1218 |
284 |
2 |
47.96 |
2012-10-02 |
| 33. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
50.86 |
0.9536 |
0.1143 |
311 |
1 |
50.86 |
2012-10-02 |
| 34. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
50.83 |
0.9783 |
0.0880 |
273 |
1 |
50.83 |
2012-09-26 |
| 35. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
50.63 |
0.9621 |
0.0942 |
212 |
1 |
50.63 |
2012-07-10 |
| 36. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
50.42 |
1.0192 |
0.0362 |
243 |
1 |
50.42 |
2012-09-21 |
| 37. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
50.21 |
1.0033 |
0.0425 |
203 |
1 |
50.21 |
2012-09-17 |
| 38. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
49.83 |
0.9762 |
0.0614 |
249 |
1 |
49.83 |
2012-10-01 |
| 39. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
49.81 |
0.9922 |
0.0457 |
264 |
1 |
49.81 |
2012-09-24 |
| 40. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
49.75 |
0.9673 |
0.0713 |
292 |
1 |
49.75 |
2012-07-23 |
| 41. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
49.54 |
0.8656 |
0.1663 |
299 |
1 |
49.54 |
2012-09-24 |
| 42. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
49.48 |
0.9745 |
0.0577 |
388 |
1 |
49.48 |
2012-09-21 |
| 43. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
49.36 |
0.9359 |
0.0931 |
355 |
1 |
49.36 |
2012-09-24 |
| 44. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
48.81 |
0.9244 |
0.0971 |
225 |
1 |
48.81 |
2012-09-24 |
| 45. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
48.17 |
0.9660 |
0.0443 |
258 |
2 |
46.58 |
2012-07-09 |
| 46. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
48.16 |
0.9357 |
0.0648 |
204 |
1 |
48.16 |
2012-09-24 |
| 47. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
48.16 |
1.0418 |
-0.0384 |
214 |
1 |
48.16 |
2012-09-27 |
| 48. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
47.94 |
0.9023 |
0.0942 |
268 |
1 |
47.94 |
2012-09-24 |
| 49. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
47.77 |
0.8938 |
0.1010 |
238 |
1 |
47.77 |
2012-07-10 |
| 50. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
47.66 |
0.9206 |
0.0723 |
317 |
1 |
47.66 |
2012-09-28 |
| 51. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
47.56 |
0.9869 |
-0.0002 |
193 |
1 |
47.56 |
2012-09-28 |
| 52. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
47.34 |
0.9915 |
-0.0074 |
281 |
1 |
47.34 |
2012-07-09 |
| 53. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
47.20 |
0.9709 |
0.0104 |
264 |
1 |
47.20 |
2012-10-24 |
| 54. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
46.99 |
1.0590 |
-0.0822 |
250 |
2 |
44.03 |
2012-07-13 |
| 55. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
46.91 |
0.9329 |
0.0580 |
345 |
1 |
46.91 |
2012-07-10 |
| 56. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
46.53 |
0.9403 |
0.0410 |
345 |
1 |
46.53 |
2012-10-02 |
| 57. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
46.24 |
0.8571 |
0.1042 |
202 |
1 |
46.24 |
2012-07-23 |
| 58. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
46.22 |
0.8666 |
0.0931 |
206 |
1 |
46.22 |
2012-10-02 |
| 59. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
44.70 |
0.9284 |
0.0052 |
346 |
1 |
44.70 |
2012-07-13 |
| 60. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
44.44 |
0.9824 |
-0.0444 |
352 |
1 |
44.44 |
2012-09-21 |
| 61. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
44.09 |
1.0969 |
-0.1778 |
303 |
1 |
44.09 |
2012-07-09 |
| 62. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
43.64 |
1.0511 |
-0.1416 |
252 |
1 |
43.64 |
2012-10-02 |
| 63. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
43.47 |
0.9842 |
-0.0777 |
335 |
1 |
43.47 |
2012-09-17 |
| 64. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
43.04 |
1.0112 |
-0.1172 |
242 |
1 |
43.04 |
2012-09-17 |
| 65. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
42.92 |
1.0743 |
-0.1800 |
297 |
1 |
42.92 |
2012-07-10 |
| 66. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
42.76 |
0.9136 |
-0.0207 |
348 |
1 |
42.76 |
2012-10-04 |
| 67. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
42.60 |
0.9271 |
-0.0387 |
323 |
1 |
42.60 |
2012-09-20 |
| 68. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
42.49 |
0.8988 |
-0.0155 |
216 |
1 |
42.49 |
2012-07-09 |
| 69. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
42.22 |
0.8208 |
0.0606 |
149 |
1 |
42.22 |
2012-07-23 |
| 70. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
42.01 |
0.8843 |
0.0007 |
168 |
1 |
42.01 |
2012-09-21 |
| 71. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
41.80 |
0.9260 |
-0.0536 |
348 |
1 |
41.80 |
2012-09-21 |
| 72. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
41.54 |
0.9145 |
-0.0474 |
404 |
1 |
41.54 |
2012-09-20 |
| 73. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
41.50 |
1.1062 |
-0.2412 |
200 |
1 |
41.50 |
2012-07-23 |
| 74. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
41.41 |
1.0607 |
-0.1963 |
357 |
1 |
41.41 |
2012-07-14 |
| 75. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
41.27 |
1.0103 |
-0.1578 |
209 |
1 |
41.27 |
2012-07-10 |
| 76. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
40.72 |
0.9866 |
-0.1388 |
308 |
1 |
40.72 |
2012-07-23 |
| 77. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
40.58 |
0.9315 |
-0.0863 |
273 |
1 |
40.58 |
2012-07-13 |
| 78. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
40.43 |
0.8981 |
-0.0483 |
255 |
1 |
40.43 |
2012-07-23 |
| 79. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
40.43 |
0.8339 |
0.0063 |
209 |
1 |
40.43 |
2012-07-09 |
| 80. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
40.36 |
0.9080 |
-0.0730 |
111 |
1 |
40.36 |
2012-07-10 |
| 81. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
39.74 |
0.9255 |
-0.0991 |
174 |
1 |
39.74 |
2012-09-20 |
| 82. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
39.18 |
0.8948 |
-0.0809 |
164 |
1 |
39.18 |
2012-07-10 |
| 83. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
38.63 |
1.0759 |
-0.2673 |
273 |
1 |
38.63 |
2012-07-09 |
| 84. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
37.75 |
1.0506 |
-0.2667 |
259 |
1 |
37.75 |
2012-09-17 |
| 85. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
37.24 |
0.8624 |
-0.0929 |
174 |
1 |
37.24 |
2012-07-10 |
| 86. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
34.80 |
1.0304 |
-0.3111 |
256 |
1 |
34.80 |
2012-07-13 |
| 87. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
32.02 |
0.8236 |
-0.1660 |
178 |
1 |
32.02 |
2012-07-09 |
| 88. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
31.76 |
0.9144 |
-0.2616 |
167 |
1 |
31.76 |
2012-10-02 |
| 89. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
28.68 |
0.8845 |
-0.2891 |
239 |
1 |
28.68 |
2012-07-10 |
| 90. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
27.41 |
0.8718 |
-0.3007 |
318 |
1 |
27.41 |
2013-10-02 |
| 91. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
27.25 |
1.0101 |
-0.4435 |
336 |
1 |
27.25 |
2012-07-09 |