| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
An octopus has three hearts. |
56.10 |
1.3554 |
0.7193 |
28 |
1 |
56.10 |
2012-09-12 |
| 2. |
She pushed open the gate and walked down the drive into the ... |
44.07 |
1.3233 |
0.3065 |
67 |
1 |
44.07 |
2012-12-07 |
| 3. |
The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles witho... |
39.23 |
1.2891 |
0.1617 |
81 |
1 |
39.23 |
2013-02-14 |
| 4. |
It takes one twenty year old tree to produce seven hundred p... |
37.00 |
1.1308 |
0.2375 |
78 |
2 |
34.78 |
2012-12-07 |
| 5. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
35.18 |
1.0335 |
0.2675 |
118 |
1 |
35.18 |
2013-02-06 |
| 6. |
Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled ... |
34.99 |
1.1040 |
0.1900 |
92 |
1 |
34.99 |
2013-02-14 |
| 7. |
I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have l... |
32.88 |
1.0863 |
0.1297 |
90 |
1 |
32.88 |
2013-02-14 |
| 8. |
Stars come in different colors; hot stars give off blue ligh... |
32.44 |
1.1080 |
0.0917 |
103 |
1 |
32.44 |
2013-02-06 |
| 9. |
To be called a mammal, the female must feed her young on mil... |
32.07 |
1.1705 |
0.0155 |
79 |
1 |
32.07 |
2012-12-17 |
| 10. |
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets. |
31.96 |
1.0595 |
0.1224 |
61 |
1 |
31.96 |
2012-12-03 |
| 11. |
She pushed open the gate and walked down the drive into the ... |
31.89 |
1.1949 |
-0.0156 |
67 |
1 |
31.89 |
2012-12-03 |
| 12. |
He glanced downward and had to force himself to suppress a s... |
31.38 |
0.9923 |
0.1682 |
66 |
1 |
31.38 |
2013-02-14 |
| 13. |
There are five trillion atoms in one pound of iron. |
31.23 |
1.0987 |
0.0562 |
51 |
1 |
31.23 |
2012-12-17 |
| 14. |
The face of a penny can hold thirty drops of water. |
31.16 |
1.1766 |
-0.0242 |
51 |
1 |
31.16 |
2012-12-07 |
| 15. |
In the movie ET, the sound of his walking was made by someon... |
31.04 |
1.1579 |
-0.0100 |
91 |
2 |
28.52 |
2013-02-06 |
| 16. |
Topography is the shape of the land. |
30.79 |
1.1387 |
0.0000 |
36 |
1 |
30.79 |
2012-08-17 |
| 17. |
To keep from being separated while sleeping, sea otters tie ... |
30.53 |
1.0351 |
0.0940 |
90 |
2 |
29.55 |
2012-12-07 |
| 18. |
Now it's about the kind of clothes you wear or how rich you ... |
30.50 |
1.0019 |
0.1260 |
103 |
1 |
30.50 |
2012-12-17 |
| 19. |
Dividing the stars into constellations helps to find and ide... |
30.29 |
1.1588 |
-0.0386 |
89 |
2 |
26.30 |
2013-02-06 |
| 20. |
If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in t... |
30.25 |
0.9627 |
0.1560 |
140 |
1 |
30.25 |
2012-12-07 |
| 21. |
Two and five are the only prime numbers that end in two or f... |
30.21 |
1.0544 |
0.0628 |
64 |
1 |
30.21 |
2012-09-28 |
| 22. |
Sea floor spreading is the process that adds new rock to the... |
29.78 |
0.9938 |
0.1075 |
110 |
1 |
29.78 |
2012-12-07 |
| 23. |
Bits of light danced in the deep forest shadows around me. |
29.36 |
1.0660 |
0.0198 |
58 |
1 |
29.36 |
2012-11-02 |
| 24. |
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes m... |
29.25 |
1.0347 |
0.0470 |
92 |
1 |
29.25 |
2012-10-25 |
| 25. |
This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of be... |
28.95 |
1.0288 |
0.0418 |
72 |
1 |
28.95 |
2012-12-17 |
| 26. |
The smallest unit of time is the yoctosecond. |
28.80 |
1.0668 |
-0.0017 |
45 |
1 |
28.80 |
2012-12-03 |
| 27. |
Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the t... |
28.72 |
0.8888 |
0.1733 |
65 |
1 |
28.72 |
2012-09-12 |
| 28. |
Some birds make a call that sounds like their name. The Bobw... |
28.41 |
1.0015 |
0.0492 |
80 |
1 |
28.41 |
2012-09-28 |
| 29. |
A group of crows is called a murder. |
28.22 |
1.2340 |
-0.1904 |
36 |
1 |
28.22 |
2012-12-07 |
| 30. |
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot make its own food. |
28.18 |
0.9137 |
0.1284 |
59 |
1 |
28.18 |
2012-12-06 |
| 31. |
It ran for fifteen or twenty seconds before it finally keele... |
28.17 |
1.1032 |
-0.0614 |
76 |
1 |
28.17 |
2012-12-03 |
| 32. |
Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on a pony. |
27.65 |
1.0151 |
0.0074 |
45 |
1 |
27.65 |
2012-09-05 |
| 33. |
Mary Shelley wrote the book Frankenstein at the age of ninet... |
27.56 |
0.9266 |
0.0926 |
64 |
1 |
27.56 |
2012-12-06 |
| 34. |
He kept changing his grip on the shovel to try to avoid the ... |
27.47 |
1.0315 |
-0.0156 |
65 |
1 |
27.47 |
2012-09-07 |
| 35. |
The first female monster to appeaar on the big screen was th... |
27.37 |
1.0122 |
0.0000 |
84 |
1 |
27.37 |
2012-12-03 |
| 36. |
Because of the rotation of the earth, an object can be throw... |
27.34 |
1.0841 |
-0.0730 |
91 |
1 |
27.34 |
2012-12-03 |
| 37. |
I cried for those things which had happened that night which... |
26.90 |
1.1636 |
-0.1688 |
98 |
1 |
26.90 |
2013-02-06 |
| 38. |
But it seemed wrong to take an outside kid like Jimmy and lo... |
26.63 |
1.1231 |
-0.1383 |
94 |
1 |
26.63 |
2012-09-05 |
| 39. |
Less than 2 percent of the water on Earth is fresh. |
26.62 |
1.2023 |
-0.2178 |
51 |
2 |
25.33 |
2013-02-07 |
| 40. |
Seaweed is one of the ingredients in some ice cream. |
26.58 |
1.1622 |
-0.1792 |
52 |
1 |
26.58 |
2012-12-03 |
| 41. |
The tail section of an airplane gives the bumpiest ride. |
26.37 |
0.8995 |
0.0757 |
56 |
1 |
26.37 |
2013-02-14 |
| 42. |
The record for holding one's breath under water is 7.5 minut... |
26.23 |
0.9442 |
0.0258 |
63 |
1 |
26.23 |
2012-12-07 |
| 43. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
26.00 |
0.9245 |
0.0370 |
188 |
1 |
26.00 |
2013-02-14 |
| 44. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
25.90 |
0.9805 |
-0.0227 |
179 |
1 |
25.90 |
2012-09-07 |
| 45. |
The amount of potato chips Americans eat each year weighs si... |
25.74 |
0.8544 |
0.0975 |
114 |
1 |
25.74 |
2012-09-12 |
| 46. |
Bamboo is the world's tallest grass and can grow up to ninet... |
25.69 |
0.9880 |
-0.0379 |
83 |
1 |
25.69 |
2012-12-07 |
| 47. |
Pirates thought having an earring would improve their eyesig... |
25.56 |
1.2346 |
-0.2893 |
63 |
1 |
25.56 |
2012-09-12 |
| 48. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
25.40 |
0.9393 |
0.0000 |
142 |
1 |
25.40 |
2012-12-03 |
| 49. |
In the comic strip Peanuts, Charlie Brown's father is a barb... |
25.21 |
0.9861 |
-0.0538 |
63 |
2 |
21.09 |
2012-12-06 |
| 50. |
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music. |
25.14 |
1.1931 |
-0.2634 |
51 |
1 |
25.14 |
2012-10-25 |
| 51. |
Three little kittens, they lost their mittens, and they bega... |
25.05 |
1.0676 |
-0.1412 |
69 |
1 |
25.05 |
2012-09-05 |
| 52. |
Evolution is the gradual change in a species over time. |
24.85 |
0.9360 |
-0.0170 |
55 |
1 |
24.85 |
2012-08-27 |
| 53. |
Astronomers know of at least 28 moons that orbit around Jupi... |
24.79 |
0.9127 |
0.0041 |
64 |
1 |
24.79 |
2012-12-07 |
| 54. |
Compression is a force which tends to reduce or shorten some... |
24.77 |
1.1343 |
-0.2183 |
78 |
1 |
24.77 |
2012-10-25 |
| 55. |
The Barn Swallow has one of the longest migration routes of ... |
24.55 |
1.0760 |
-0.1681 |
89 |
1 |
24.55 |
2013-02-06 |
| 56. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
24.51 |
0.9064 |
0.0000 |
159 |
1 |
24.51 |
2012-09-14 |
| 57. |
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of... |
24.13 |
0.8222 |
0.0702 |
67 |
1 |
24.13 |
2012-10-15 |
| 58. |
There once were more sea lions on Earth than people. |
23.86 |
1.1625 |
-0.2801 |
52 |
1 |
23.86 |
2012-09-06 |
| 59. |
A mockingbird can and will expertly mimic many of the calls ... |
23.54 |
0.7771 |
0.0935 |
75 |
1 |
23.54 |
2012-09-28 |
| 60. |
A group of toads is called a knot. |
23.38 |
1.0207 |
-0.1561 |
34 |
1 |
23.38 |
2012-12-03 |
| 61. |
Every time that Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured... |
23.32 |
1.0395 |
-0.1771 |
86 |
1 |
23.32 |
2013-01-17 |
| 62. |
I gazed at the pond, glassy grey and calm, until she was rea... |
23.27 |
0.9636 |
-0.1030 |
72 |
1 |
23.27 |
2012-12-03 |
| 63. |
The campers are forbidden to lie in the hammock. It belongs ... |
22.94 |
0.9306 |
-0.0822 |
101 |
1 |
22.94 |
2012-10-15 |
| 64. |
Eating raw onions is good for unblocking a stuffed nose. |
22.82 |
0.8336 |
0.0103 |
56 |
1 |
22.82 |
2012-08-27 |
| 65. |
On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where... |
22.71 |
1.0145 |
-0.1746 |
69 |
1 |
22.71 |
2012-09-12 |
| 66. |
The sun blows a constant stream of invisible particles out i... |
22.63 |
0.9424 |
-0.1055 |
120 |
1 |
22.63 |
2012-12-06 |
| 67. |
You got kids like me who haven't hit their growth spurt yet ... |
22.44 |
0.8455 |
-0.0156 |
113 |
1 |
22.44 |
2012-09-07 |
| 68. |
Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves tod... |
22.29 |
0.8269 |
-0.0026 |
63 |
1 |
22.29 |
2013-02-06 |
| 69. |
Ecology is the study of how living things interact with each... |
22.17 |
0.8569 |
-0.0370 |
90 |
1 |
22.17 |
2012-12-03 |
| 70. |
New stars form within vast clouds of gas and dust, called ne... |
22.08 |
0.9153 |
-0.0987 |
66 |
1 |
22.08 |
2012-08-27 |
| 71. |
The billionth digit of pi is nine. |
21.90 |
0.8989 |
-0.0890 |
34 |
1 |
21.90 |
2012-10-30 |
| 72. |
Sharks' fossil records date back more than twice as far as t... |
21.68 |
1.0049 |
-0.2031 |
82 |
1 |
21.68 |
2012-12-17 |
| 73. |
Small pieces of debris floating around in the Solar System a... |
21.64 |
0.8741 |
-0.0738 |
81 |
1 |
21.64 |
2012-12-17 |
| 74. |
Then I stood up and stepped into my new life, whatever that ... |
21.30 |
0.9890 |
-0.2013 |
69 |
1 |
21.30 |
2012-09-12 |
| 75. |
The average lead pencil can draw a line thirty-five miles lo... |
20.68 |
0.8574 |
-0.0926 |
115 |
1 |
20.68 |
2012-12-17 |
| 76. |
A protist is a eukaryotic organism that cannot be classified... |
20.15 |
0.7452 |
0.0000 |
92 |
1 |
20.15 |
2012-10-26 |
| 77. |
On average, there are 178 sesame seeds on each McDonald's Bi... |
19.22 |
0.8092 |
-0.0984 |
70 |
1 |
19.22 |
2012-12-03 |
| 78. |
Plate tectonics refers to the theory that explains the forma... |
18.85 |
0.9450 |
-0.2479 |
118 |
1 |
18.85 |
2012-08-27 |
| 79. |
A Blue Moon is the second full moon within a calendar month. |
18.36 |
0.6790 |
0.0000 |
60 |
1 |
18.36 |
2012-10-25 |
| 80. |
The lithosphere is the rocky crust and top part of mantle. |
16.02 |
0.5924 |
0.0000 |
58 |
1 |
16.02 |
2012-09-06 |
| 81. |
Mars looks like a bright, orange-red star. |
15.98 |
0.9153 |
-0.3243 |
42 |
1 |
15.98 |
2012-09-07 |