Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Never give up. Most races are decided in the last 10 percent... |
40.26 |
0.8777 |
0.4462 |
73 |
1 |
40.26 |
2012-05-25 |
2. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
37.84 |
0.8935 |
0.3521 |
118 |
1 |
37.84 |
2011-05-15 |
3. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
34.94 |
0.8805 |
0.2713 |
205 |
1 |
34.94 |
2012-02-02 |
4. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
34.87 |
0.8615 |
0.2884 |
171 |
1 |
34.87 |
2012-08-18 |
5. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
34.45 |
0.9841 |
0.1482 |
217 |
1 |
34.45 |
2012-05-18 |
6. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
34.02 |
0.9149 |
0.2048 |
153 |
1 |
34.02 |
2012-05-25 |
7. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
33.79 |
0.8863 |
0.2235 |
127 |
1 |
33.79 |
2012-02-24 |
8. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
33.66 |
0.9077 |
0.2006 |
155 |
1 |
33.66 |
2012-02-02 |
9. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
33.49 |
1.0288 |
0.0703 |
166 |
1 |
33.49 |
2012-08-18 |
10. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
33.38 |
0.8443 |
0.2557 |
179 |
1 |
33.38 |
2012-09-14 |
11. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
33.06 |
0.9925 |
0.0920 |
155 |
1 |
33.06 |
2012-05-18 |
12. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
33.01 |
0.9421 |
0.1441 |
173 |
1 |
33.01 |
2012-05-25 |
13. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
32.90 |
1.0595 |
0.0177 |
166 |
2 |
30.70 |
2012-02-19 |
14. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
32.86 |
0.9757 |
0.1034 |
176 |
1 |
32.86 |
2011-05-18 |
15. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
32.80 |
0.9791 |
0.0944 |
154 |
2 |
31.81 |
2012-05-25 |
16. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
32.63 |
0.9841 |
0.0901 |
154 |
1 |
32.63 |
2012-02-19 |
17. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
32.50 |
1.0800 |
-0.0121 |
213 |
1 |
32.50 |
2012-02-19 |
18. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
32.39 |
1.0521 |
0.0095 |
197 |
1 |
32.39 |
2012-02-02 |
19. |
Pulp: a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. |
32.32 |
0.7588 |
0.3031 |
46 |
2 |
28.48 |
2012-09-18 |
20. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
32.23 |
0.9976 |
0.0605 |
212 |
1 |
32.23 |
2012-05-25 |
21. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
32.19 |
1.0039 |
0.0627 |
255 |
2 |
30.69 |
2012-02-02 |
22. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
32.09 |
1.0883 |
-0.0244 |
189 |
1 |
32.09 |
2012-08-15 |
23. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
31.97 |
1.0204 |
0.0246 |
143 |
1 |
31.97 |
2011-05-14 |
24. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
31.77 |
0.9358 |
0.1042 |
188 |
1 |
31.77 |
2011-05-18 |
25. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
31.70 |
0.9080 |
0.1325 |
111 |
1 |
31.70 |
2012-08-15 |
26. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
31.69 |
0.9836 |
0.0515 |
123 |
1 |
31.69 |
2012-02-03 |
27. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
31.58 |
1.0561 |
-0.0179 |
227 |
1 |
31.58 |
2012-01-17 |
28. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
31.07 |
0.9166 |
0.1092 |
133 |
1 |
31.07 |
2012-05-11 |
29. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
30.89 |
0.9935 |
0.0259 |
217 |
1 |
30.89 |
2012-08-15 |
30. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
30.36 |
0.9408 |
0.0534 |
177 |
1 |
30.36 |
2012-02-26 |
31. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
30.23 |
0.8857 |
0.1067 |
172 |
1 |
30.23 |
2012-05-25 |
32. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
30.18 |
1.0471 |
-0.0618 |
170 |
1 |
30.18 |
2012-08-18 |
33. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
30.11 |
0.7384 |
0.2501 |
106 |
1 |
30.11 |
2012-03-30 |
34. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
30.08 |
0.9394 |
0.0492 |
195 |
1 |
30.08 |
2012-02-24 |
35. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
30.08 |
0.8811 |
0.1050 |
201 |
1 |
30.08 |
2012-03-29 |
36. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
30.03 |
0.9040 |
0.0845 |
188 |
2 |
29.67 |
2012-09-14 |
37. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
29.98 |
1.0178 |
-0.0324 |
207 |
1 |
29.98 |
2011-05-14 |
38. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
29.98 |
0.9310 |
0.0556 |
278 |
1 |
29.98 |
2011-05-14 |
39. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
29.84 |
0.9244 |
0.0633 |
225 |
1 |
29.84 |
2011-05-14 |
40. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
29.82 |
0.8812 |
0.0995 |
177 |
1 |
29.82 |
2012-08-20 |
41. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
29.81 |
0.8201 |
0.1552 |
187 |
1 |
29.81 |
2011-05-18 |
42. |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immo... |
29.71 |
0.8288 |
0.1492 |
73 |
1 |
29.71 |
2012-09-14 |
43. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
29.61 |
1.0372 |
-0.0625 |
249 |
1 |
29.61 |
2012-03-29 |
44. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
29.58 |
0.9253 |
0.0381 |
118 |
1 |
29.58 |
2011-05-18 |
45. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
29.51 |
0.8919 |
0.0788 |
116 |
1 |
29.51 |
2012-02-03 |
46. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
29.40 |
0.9927 |
-0.0280 |
234 |
1 |
29.40 |
2012-01-18 |
47. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
29.29 |
0.9299 |
0.0262 |
168 |
1 |
29.29 |
2012-02-02 |
48. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
29.25 |
1.0901 |
-0.1251 |
288 |
1 |
29.25 |
2011-05-14 |
49. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
28.91 |
1.0144 |
-0.0618 |
162 |
1 |
28.91 |
2012-07-18 |
50. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
28.87 |
0.9332 |
0.0171 |
267 |
1 |
28.87 |
2012-02-02 |
51. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
28.86 |
0.9981 |
-0.0485 |
211 |
1 |
28.86 |
2012-02-19 |
52. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
28.79 |
1.0115 |
-0.0690 |
189 |
1 |
28.79 |
2012-08-20 |
53. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
28.74 |
0.8869 |
0.0572 |
176 |
1 |
28.74 |
2012-08-18 |
54. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
28.73 |
0.9780 |
-0.0382 |
173 |
2 |
27.84 |
2012-09-02 |
55. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
28.66 |
0.9500 |
-0.0045 |
287 |
1 |
28.66 |
2012-02-02 |
56. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
28.62 |
1.0736 |
-0.1272 |
256 |
1 |
28.62 |
2012-07-18 |
57. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
28.60 |
1.0753 |
-0.1268 |
206 |
1 |
28.60 |
2012-02-02 |
58. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
28.55 |
0.8236 |
0.1097 |
178 |
1 |
28.55 |
2012-05-25 |
59. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
28.30 |
0.9270 |
0.0073 |
193 |
1 |
28.30 |
2012-08-15 |
60. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
28.19 |
0.8571 |
0.0696 |
202 |
1 |
28.19 |
2011-05-14 |
61. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
28.18 |
0.7764 |
0.1496 |
145 |
1 |
28.18 |
2012-05-18 |
62. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
27.86 |
0.8830 |
0.0286 |
134 |
1 |
27.86 |
2011-05-18 |
63. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
27.69 |
0.9316 |
-0.0184 |
188 |
1 |
27.69 |
2012-08-15 |
64. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
27.36 |
0.7739 |
0.1283 |
207 |
1 |
27.36 |
2011-05-14 |
65. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
26.42 |
0.9685 |
-0.0987 |
304 |
1 |
26.42 |
2012-05-11 |
66. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
26.28 |
0.8964 |
-0.0348 |
199 |
1 |
26.28 |
2011-05-16 |
67. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
25.83 |
0.8127 |
0.0328 |
167 |
1 |
25.83 |
2012-05-18 |
68. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
25.79 |
0.8592 |
-0.0131 |
191 |
1 |
25.79 |
2012-02-02 |
69. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
25.42 |
0.8656 |
-0.0278 |
242 |
1 |
25.42 |
2012-02-02 |
70. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
25.20 |
0.8911 |
-0.0605 |
207 |
1 |
25.20 |
2011-05-18 |
71. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
24.87 |
0.8880 |
-0.0697 |
296 |
1 |
24.87 |
2012-05-25 |
72. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
24.57 |
0.8161 |
-0.0052 |
109 |
1 |
24.57 |
2011-05-17 |
73. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
23.46 |
0.7423 |
0.0272 |
145 |
1 |
23.46 |
2011-05-15 |
74. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
20.51 |
0.8281 |
-0.1540 |
134 |
1 |
20.51 |
2011-05-18 |