Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
167.04 |
1.0531 |
0.1471 |
288 |
2 |
161.51 |
2012-06-30 |
2. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
163.20 |
1.0507 |
0.1205 |
166 |
1 |
163.20 |
2012-06-30 |
3. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
162.87 |
0.9896 |
0.1794 |
311 |
1 |
162.87 |
2012-05-08 |
4. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
159.26 |
1.0480 |
0.0914 |
196 |
1 |
159.26 |
2012-06-30 |
5. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
158.09 |
0.9585 |
0.1753 |
193 |
1 |
158.09 |
2012-05-08 |
6. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
156.88 |
1.0301 |
0.0922 |
206 |
1 |
156.88 |
2012-05-08 |
7. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
155.44 |
1.0605 |
0.0581 |
220 |
1 |
155.44 |
2012-06-30 |
8. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
154.49 |
1.0149 |
0.0920 |
269 |
1 |
154.49 |
2011-05-22 |
9. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
154.12 |
0.9978 |
0.1050 |
168 |
1 |
154.12 |
2011-05-22 |
10. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
153.35 |
0.8817 |
0.2037 |
209 |
1 |
153.35 |
2012-06-30 |
11. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
153.33 |
1.0423 |
0.0565 |
110 |
1 |
153.33 |
2012-05-08 |
12. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
150.95 |
0.9976 |
0.0869 |
277 |
1 |
150.95 |
2011-05-22 |
13. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
150.92 |
1.0365 |
0.0446 |
131 |
1 |
150.92 |
2012-06-30 |
14. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
150.82 |
0.9782 |
0.1053 |
236 |
1 |
150.82 |
2012-06-30 |
15. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
148.84 |
1.0064 |
0.0606 |
225 |
1 |
148.84 |
2011-05-22 |
16. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
148.80 |
1.0439 |
0.0293 |
171 |
1 |
148.80 |
2012-05-08 |
17. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
148.76 |
0.9890 |
0.0879 |
287 |
1 |
148.76 |
2012-06-30 |
18. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
148.47 |
0.9946 |
0.0696 |
237 |
1 |
148.47 |
2011-05-22 |
19. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
148.32 |
1.0031 |
0.0604 |
234 |
1 |
148.32 |
2011-05-22 |
20. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
147.72 |
0.9506 |
0.1071 |
442 |
1 |
147.72 |
2011-05-22 |
21. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
147.38 |
0.9941 |
0.0726 |
195 |
1 |
147.38 |
2012-06-30 |
22. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
147.25 |
1.0193 |
0.0347 |
268 |
1 |
147.25 |
2012-06-30 |
23. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
146.56 |
1.0255 |
0.0233 |
182 |
1 |
146.56 |
2012-06-30 |
24. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
145.06 |
0.9243 |
0.1182 |
128 |
2 |
142.76 |
2012-06-30 |
25. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
144.67 |
0.9374 |
0.1039 |
186 |
1 |
144.67 |
2012-06-30 |
26. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
144.63 |
0.9430 |
0.0884 |
317 |
1 |
144.63 |
2011-05-22 |
27. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
143.61 |
0.9982 |
0.0364 |
176 |
2 |
141.69 |
2012-06-30 |
28. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
143.30 |
1.0407 |
-0.0090 |
239 |
1 |
143.30 |
2012-06-30 |
29. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
142.46 |
1.0255 |
0.0003 |
351 |
2 |
142.40 |
2012-06-30 |
30. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
140.90 |
0.9406 |
0.0704 |
248 |
1 |
140.90 |
2012-06-30 |
31. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
140.87 |
0.9719 |
0.0418 |
256 |
1 |
140.87 |
2011-05-22 |
32. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
140.52 |
1.0441 |
-0.0383 |
256 |
1 |
140.52 |
2012-06-30 |
33. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
140.50 |
0.9602 |
0.0473 |
163 |
1 |
140.50 |
2012-06-30 |
34. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
140.01 |
0.9840 |
0.0205 |
187 |
1 |
140.01 |
2012-06-30 |
35. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
139.74 |
0.9882 |
0.0117 |
276 |
1 |
139.74 |
2012-06-30 |
36. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
139.68 |
1.0030 |
-0.0054 |
264 |
2 |
136.08 |
2012-06-30 |
37. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
139.46 |
0.9839 |
0.0172 |
341 |
1 |
139.46 |
2011-05-22 |
38. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
139.05 |
0.9344 |
0.0692 |
211 |
1 |
139.05 |
2011-05-22 |
39. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
139.04 |
0.9916 |
0.0138 |
220 |
2 |
134.14 |
2012-06-30 |
40. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
138.89 |
1.0145 |
-0.0209 |
209 |
1 |
138.89 |
2012-06-30 |
41. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
138.52 |
1.0366 |
-0.0468 |
250 |
1 |
138.52 |
2012-06-30 |
42. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
138.46 |
0.9725 |
0.0251 |
263 |
2 |
133.92 |
2012-06-30 |
43. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
138.40 |
1.0263 |
-0.0344 |
210 |
1 |
138.40 |
2012-06-30 |
44. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
138.24 |
0.9910 |
0.0107 |
193 |
1 |
138.24 |
2012-06-30 |
45. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
138.15 |
0.9351 |
0.0519 |
184 |
1 |
138.15 |
2012-06-30 |
46. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
137.99 |
0.9715 |
0.0172 |
233 |
1 |
137.99 |
2012-06-30 |
47. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
137.57 |
1.0126 |
-0.0268 |
226 |
1 |
137.57 |
2012-06-30 |
48. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
136.95 |
1.0548 |
-0.0767 |
243 |
1 |
136.95 |
2012-06-30 |
49. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
136.82 |
0.9176 |
0.0766 |
149 |
1 |
136.82 |
2012-06-30 |
50. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
136.78 |
1.0067 |
-0.0192 |
276 |
1 |
136.78 |
2011-05-22 |
51. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
135.78 |
1.0244 |
-0.0512 |
205 |
1 |
135.78 |
2012-06-30 |
52. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
135.71 |
1.0273 |
-0.0559 |
318 |
1 |
135.71 |
2012-06-30 |
53. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
135.11 |
1.0008 |
-0.0288 |
167 |
1 |
135.11 |
2012-06-30 |
54. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
134.29 |
1.0426 |
-0.0758 |
189 |
1 |
134.29 |
2012-06-30 |
55. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
134.28 |
1.0141 |
-0.0523 |
172 |
1 |
134.28 |
2011-05-22 |
56. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
134.13 |
0.9660 |
-0.0002 |
200 |
1 |
134.13 |
2012-06-30 |
57. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
133.65 |
1.0668 |
-0.1092 |
200 |
1 |
133.65 |
2012-06-30 |
58. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
133.59 |
0.9558 |
0.0007 |
194 |
1 |
133.59 |
2012-06-30 |
59. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
133.03 |
1.0144 |
-0.0580 |
253 |
1 |
133.03 |
2012-06-30 |
60. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
133.01 |
0.9509 |
0.0078 |
282 |
1 |
133.01 |
2012-06-30 |
61. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
132.94 |
1.0091 |
-0.0633 |
406 |
1 |
132.94 |
2011-05-22 |
62. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
132.39 |
0.9601 |
-0.0128 |
339 |
1 |
132.39 |
2012-06-30 |
63. |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Be... |
132.10 |
0.9482 |
-0.0022 |
214 |
1 |
132.10 |
2012-05-08 |
64. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
131.96 |
0.9401 |
-0.0066 |
271 |
1 |
131.96 |
2012-06-30 |
65. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
131.50 |
0.9443 |
-0.0054 |
276 |
1 |
131.50 |
2011-05-22 |
66. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
131.21 |
0.9347 |
0.0062 |
310 |
1 |
131.21 |
2011-05-22 |
67. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
130.85 |
0.9996 |
-0.0630 |
272 |
1 |
130.85 |
2012-06-30 |
68. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
129.36 |
0.8826 |
0.0372 |
346 |
1 |
129.36 |
2012-06-30 |
69. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
129.25 |
1.0088 |
-0.0839 |
267 |
1 |
129.25 |
2012-06-30 |
70. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
128.58 |
0.9558 |
-0.0336 |
173 |
1 |
128.58 |
2012-06-30 |
71. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
127.41 |
0.9520 |
-0.0507 |
165 |
1 |
127.41 |
2012-06-30 |
72. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
126.90 |
0.9938 |
-0.0852 |
203 |
1 |
126.90 |
2012-06-30 |
73. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
126.27 |
0.9558 |
-0.0519 |
258 |
1 |
126.27 |
2011-05-22 |
74. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
124.64 |
0.8967 |
-0.0108 |
393 |
1 |
124.64 |
2011-05-22 |
75. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
124.55 |
1.0225 |
-0.1325 |
176 |
1 |
124.55 |
2012-06-30 |
76. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
124.21 |
0.9553 |
-0.0686 |
133 |
1 |
124.21 |
2012-06-30 |
77. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
122.45 |
0.9506 |
-0.0769 |
264 |
2 |
114.70 |
2012-06-30 |
78. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
121.80 |
1.0302 |
-0.1587 |
256 |
1 |
121.80 |
2012-06-30 |
79. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
121.06 |
0.8308 |
0.0295 |
154 |
1 |
121.06 |
2012-06-30 |
80. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
120.22 |
0.9451 |
-0.0806 |
168 |
1 |
120.22 |
2012-06-30 |
81. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
119.46 |
0.9606 |
-0.1085 |
135 |
1 |
119.46 |
2012-06-30 |
82. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
115.89 |
0.9507 |
-0.1236 |
258 |
1 |
115.89 |
2012-06-30 |
83. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
112.98 |
0.9652 |
-0.1603 |
282 |
1 |
112.98 |
2012-06-30 |