Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
40.98 |
1.1093 |
0.1722 |
220 |
1 |
40.98 |
2011-05-22 |
2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
39.01 |
1.0777 |
0.1456 |
226 |
1 |
39.01 |
2011-05-22 |
3. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
38.36 |
0.9253 |
0.2684 |
118 |
1 |
38.36 |
2011-05-21 |
4. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
38.06 |
0.9211 |
0.2721 |
165 |
2 |
33.00 |
2011-10-17 |
5. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
37.55 |
1.0268 |
0.1449 |
179 |
1 |
37.55 |
2011-05-22 |
6. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
37.10 |
0.9809 |
0.1799 |
209 |
1 |
37.10 |
2011-05-22 |
7. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.48 |
1.0208 |
0.1243 |
231 |
1 |
36.48 |
2011-05-22 |
8. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
36.26 |
0.9636 |
0.1739 |
281 |
1 |
36.26 |
2011-05-22 |
9. |
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. |
35.91 |
0.9620 |
0.1562 |
62 |
1 |
35.91 |
2011-05-21 |
10. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
35.75 |
0.9394 |
0.1809 |
195 |
1 |
35.75 |
2011-05-21 |
11. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
35.59 |
0.9149 |
0.2006 |
153 |
1 |
35.59 |
2011-05-21 |
12. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
35.50 |
0.9757 |
0.1351 |
176 |
1 |
35.50 |
2011-05-21 |
13. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
35.05 |
0.9791 |
0.1139 |
154 |
1 |
35.05 |
2011-05-21 |
14. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
35.01 |
1.0743 |
0.0260 |
297 |
1 |
35.01 |
2011-05-22 |
15. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
34.88 |
0.8965 |
0.1985 |
150 |
1 |
34.88 |
2011-05-21 |
16. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
34.86 |
1.0472 |
0.0407 |
149 |
1 |
34.86 |
2011-05-21 |
17. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
34.47 |
0.8572 |
0.2228 |
232 |
1 |
34.47 |
2011-05-22 |
18. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
34.43 |
0.8988 |
0.1812 |
193 |
1 |
34.43 |
2011-05-22 |
19. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
34.40 |
1.0264 |
0.0494 |
191 |
1 |
34.40 |
2011-05-22 |
20. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
34.40 |
1.0590 |
0.0194 |
250 |
3 |
32.56 |
2011-10-11 |
21. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
34.33 |
1.0115 |
0.0607 |
189 |
1 |
34.33 |
2011-05-21 |
22. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
34.28 |
0.8814 |
0.1931 |
169 |
1 |
34.28 |
2011-05-21 |
23. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
34.22 |
1.0372 |
0.0365 |
249 |
1 |
34.22 |
2011-05-21 |
24. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
34.21 |
0.9564 |
0.1108 |
263 |
1 |
34.21 |
2011-05-22 |
25. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
34.07 |
1.0615 |
0.0051 |
201 |
1 |
34.07 |
2011-05-22 |
26. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
33.85 |
1.0338 |
0.0338 |
277 |
1 |
33.85 |
2011-05-22 |
27. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
33.73 |
0.8768 |
0.1854 |
199 |
1 |
33.73 |
2011-05-21 |
28. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
33.70 |
0.9271 |
0.1305 |
295 |
2 |
31.55 |
2011-05-22 |
29. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
33.23 |
1.0487 |
-0.0085 |
253 |
1 |
33.23 |
2011-05-22 |
30. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
33.07 |
1.0493 |
-0.0046 |
264 |
1 |
33.07 |
2011-05-22 |
31. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
33.06 |
0.8815 |
0.1608 |
296 |
1 |
33.06 |
2011-10-19 |
32. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
33.02 |
0.9137 |
0.1240 |
342 |
1 |
33.02 |
2011-10-19 |
33. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
32.83 |
0.9841 |
0.0429 |
217 |
2 |
32.55 |
2011-10-17 |
34. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
32.79 |
1.0036 |
0.0262 |
277 |
1 |
32.79 |
2011-05-23 |
35. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
32.71 |
1.0461 |
-0.0151 |
286 |
1 |
32.71 |
2011-05-23 |
36. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
32.66 |
0.8001 |
0.2162 |
88 |
1 |
32.66 |
2011-10-19 |
37. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
32.61 |
0.9841 |
0.0379 |
154 |
1 |
32.61 |
2011-10-17 |
38. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
32.55 |
0.9144 |
0.1007 |
167 |
1 |
32.55 |
2011-05-21 |
39. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
32.38 |
0.8789 |
0.1338 |
136 |
1 |
32.38 |
2011-05-21 |
40. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
32.30 |
1.0639 |
-0.0489 |
303 |
1 |
32.30 |
2011-10-17 |
41. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
32.20 |
1.0601 |
-0.0530 |
256 |
1 |
32.20 |
2011-05-21 |
42. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
32.04 |
0.8161 |
0.1918 |
109 |
1 |
32.04 |
2011-10-17 |
43. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
31.93 |
0.9598 |
0.0442 |
209 |
1 |
31.93 |
2011-05-21 |
44. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
31.84 |
1.0521 |
-0.0588 |
197 |
1 |
31.84 |
2011-05-21 |
45. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
31.72 |
0.9384 |
0.0537 |
296 |
2 |
31.69 |
2011-05-21 |
46. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
31.67 |
1.0509 |
-0.0502 |
295 |
1 |
31.67 |
2011-05-21 |
47. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
31.63 |
0.9001 |
0.0924 |
217 |
1 |
31.63 |
2011-05-21 |
48. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
31.40 |
0.9957 |
-0.0110 |
323 |
1 |
31.40 |
2011-05-21 |
49. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
31.19 |
0.9637 |
0.0271 |
342 |
1 |
31.19 |
2011-05-22 |
50. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
31.12 |
0.9685 |
0.0080 |
304 |
1 |
31.12 |
2011-05-21 |
51. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
31.09 |
0.9932 |
-0.0104 |
281 |
1 |
31.09 |
2011-05-23 |
52. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
31.06 |
1.0873 |
-0.1161 |
243 |
1 |
31.06 |
2011-05-21 |
53. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
31.05 |
1.0426 |
-0.0727 |
131 |
1 |
31.05 |
2011-05-21 |
54. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
30.96 |
0.9866 |
-0.0146 |
308 |
1 |
30.96 |
2011-05-21 |
55. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
30.90 |
1.0010 |
-0.0280 |
213 |
1 |
30.90 |
2011-10-19 |
56. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
30.90 |
1.1086 |
-0.1395 |
233 |
1 |
30.90 |
2011-05-21 |
57. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
30.83 |
1.0094 |
-0.0427 |
256 |
1 |
30.83 |
2011-05-21 |
58. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
30.74 |
0.9827 |
-0.0177 |
314 |
1 |
30.74 |
2011-05-21 |
59. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
30.48 |
0.8964 |
0.0565 |
199 |
1 |
30.48 |
2011-05-21 |
60. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
30.35 |
0.9935 |
-0.0399 |
217 |
1 |
30.35 |
2011-05-21 |
61. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
30.26 |
0.8845 |
0.0653 |
239 |
1 |
30.26 |
2011-05-21 |
62. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
30.14 |
0.9756 |
-0.0311 |
223 |
1 |
30.14 |
2011-05-21 |
63. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
29.95 |
0.9927 |
-0.0527 |
276 |
1 |
29.95 |
2011-05-21 |
64. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
29.91 |
0.8316 |
0.1092 |
304 |
2 |
28.73 |
2011-05-21 |
65. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
29.75 |
0.9183 |
0.0105 |
252 |
1 |
29.75 |
2011-05-22 |
66. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
29.62 |
1.0291 |
-0.1022 |
240 |
1 |
29.62 |
2011-05-22 |
67. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
29.60 |
0.9614 |
-0.0324 |
195 |
1 |
29.60 |
2011-05-21 |
68. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
29.57 |
0.9621 |
-0.0330 |
212 |
1 |
29.57 |
2011-05-21 |
69. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
28.92 |
0.9738 |
-0.0656 |
266 |
1 |
28.92 |
2011-10-17 |
70. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
28.70 |
0.9841 |
-0.0729 |
325 |
1 |
28.70 |
2011-05-21 |
71. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
28.66 |
0.8721 |
0.0325 |
231 |
2 |
27.30 |
2011-05-21 |
72. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
28.36 |
0.9258 |
-0.0319 |
184 |
1 |
28.36 |
2011-05-22 |
73. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
28.31 |
0.9931 |
-0.1012 |
339 |
1 |
28.31 |
2011-05-21 |
74. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
28.17 |
0.9922 |
-0.1085 |
264 |
2 |
27.81 |
2011-10-11 |
75. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
28.06 |
0.9869 |
-0.1108 |
193 |
1 |
28.06 |
2011-05-22 |
76. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
27.31 |
0.9403 |
-0.0756 |
307 |
1 |
27.31 |
2011-05-22 |
77. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
27.08 |
0.9836 |
-0.1439 |
123 |
1 |
27.08 |
2011-10-17 |
78. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
26.97 |
0.8305 |
0.0096 |
162 |
1 |
26.97 |
2011-05-21 |
79. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
26.88 |
0.9606 |
-0.1146 |
203 |
1 |
26.88 |
2011-05-22 |
80. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
26.86 |
0.7271 |
0.1156 |
186 |
1 |
26.86 |
2011-05-21 |
81. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
26.56 |
0.8603 |
-0.0286 |
270 |
1 |
26.56 |
2011-05-21 |
82. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
25.91 |
0.7875 |
0.0264 |
257 |
1 |
25.91 |
2011-05-21 |
83. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
25.90 |
0.8856 |
-0.0665 |
369 |
1 |
25.90 |
2011-05-21 |
84. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
25.82 |
0.9635 |
-0.1509 |
220 |
1 |
25.82 |
2011-10-17 |
85. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
25.77 |
0.9244 |
-0.1120 |
225 |
1 |
25.77 |
2011-05-21 |
86. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
25.58 |
0.8172 |
-0.0206 |
204 |
1 |
25.58 |
2011-05-21 |
87. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
22.58 |
0.8837 |
-0.1786 |
157 |
1 |
22.58 |
2011-10-17 |
88. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
21.10 |
0.7915 |
-0.1304 |
142 |
1 |
21.10 |
2011-10-19 |