| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. |
33.30 |
1.1033 |
0.2252 |
40 |
1 |
33.30 |
2011-11-28 |
| 2. |
There was no mistaking the delight in Leslie's eyes. |
33.21 |
1.2096 |
0.1153 |
52 |
1 |
33.21 |
2011-10-28 |
| 3. |
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the presc... |
32.19 |
1.0889 |
0.1953 |
76 |
1 |
32.19 |
2011-11-07 |
| 4. |
The only country in the world that has a Bill of Rights for ... |
31.89 |
1.1422 |
0.1300 |
74 |
1 |
31.89 |
2011-11-28 |
| 5. |
My only wish was to take a bath as quickly as possible and l... |
31.75 |
1.1822 |
0.0844 |
77 |
1 |
31.75 |
2011-11-07 |
| 6. |
He pointed to three little kids trying to dig a wall to prot... |
30.88 |
1.1232 |
0.1087 |
141 |
2 |
30.14 |
2011-11-22 |
| 7. |
The yo-yo originated in the Phillipines, where it was used a... |
30.78 |
0.9881 |
0.2399 |
82 |
1 |
30.78 |
2011-10-28 |
| 8. |
He figured if he worked at it he could be the fastest runner... |
30.70 |
1.2443 |
-0.0195 |
80 |
1 |
30.70 |
2011-11-22 |
| 9. |
It takes twenty four hours for a tiny newborn swan to peck i... |
30.26 |
1.1057 |
0.1015 |
84 |
1 |
30.26 |
2011-09-16 |
| 10. |
The record for holding one's breath under water is 7.5 minut... |
30.09 |
1.0377 |
0.1627 |
63 |
2 |
25.91 |
2011-10-28 |
| 11. |
The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of up to fo... |
29.97 |
0.9982 |
0.1974 |
84 |
1 |
29.97 |
2011-11-07 |
| 12. |
Brian tried several times to tell his father, came really cl... |
29.79 |
1.1103 |
0.0782 |
157 |
1 |
29.79 |
2011-09-09 |
| 13. |
He jerked his head from one face to the next for someone to ... |
29.70 |
1.1269 |
0.0580 |
69 |
1 |
29.70 |
2011-10-28 |
| 14. |
The world is a place to show what you can do. We all have a ... |
29.07 |
1.1096 |
0.0501 |
112 |
1 |
29.07 |
2011-10-28 |
| 15. |
Bald Eagles are raptors that are quite good at catching fish... |
29.02 |
1.0562 |
0.1015 |
120 |
1 |
29.02 |
2011-09-09 |
| 16. |
Groups of tiny Sandpipers can be seen racing up and down bea... |
29.00 |
1.0661 |
0.0908 |
97 |
1 |
29.00 |
2011-09-09 |
| 17. |
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an... |
28.71 |
1.1995 |
-0.0541 |
71 |
1 |
28.71 |
2011-10-28 |
| 18. |
You may never know what results come of your action, but if ... |
28.48 |
1.2259 |
-0.0897 |
106 |
1 |
28.48 |
2011-09-16 |
| 19. |
She ran as if it was her nature. |
28.34 |
0.8918 |
0.2388 |
32 |
1 |
28.34 |
2011-09-09 |
| 20. |
Meter is the recurrence of a pattern of stressed and unstres... |
28.28 |
0.9927 |
0.1355 |
84 |
2 |
25.06 |
2011-09-16 |
| 21. |
When the women put the hot bricks between their feet to keep... |
28.16 |
1.1389 |
-0.0155 |
83 |
1 |
28.16 |
2011-09-09 |
| 22. |
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judg... |
28.13 |
0.9823 |
0.1399 |
105 |
1 |
28.13 |
2011-09-09 |
| 23. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
28.12 |
0.9528 |
0.1690 |
209 |
1 |
28.12 |
2011-09-09 |
| 24. |
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every vil... |
27.93 |
1.0707 |
0.0436 |
119 |
1 |
27.93 |
2011-09-16 |
| 25. |
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? |
27.83 |
1.0328 |
0.0775 |
44 |
2 |
27.05 |
2011-11-07 |
| 26. |
If you are an okay basketball player and you start hanging a... |
27.79 |
1.0252 |
0.0835 |
172 |
1 |
27.79 |
2011-09-16 |
| 27. |
A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only four miles ... |
27.75 |
1.0517 |
0.0554 |
137 |
1 |
27.75 |
2011-09-16 |
| 28. |
A group of kangaroos is called a mob. |
27.72 |
1.0298 |
0.0761 |
37 |
1 |
27.72 |
2011-09-16 |
| 29. |
Congress adopted a new flag with a field of stars on blue to... |
27.72 |
0.9913 |
0.1146 |
90 |
1 |
27.72 |
2011-09-16 |
| 30. |
Professional hockey players skate at average speeds of twent... |
27.71 |
0.9533 |
0.1522 |
92 |
1 |
27.71 |
2011-11-28 |
| 31. |
Would you like them with a mouse? |
27.58 |
1.0588 |
0.0415 |
33 |
1 |
27.58 |
2011-09-09 |
| 32. |
Would you eat them in a box? |
27.56 |
0.9405 |
0.1590 |
28 |
1 |
27.56 |
2011-09-16 |
| 33. |
Climate refers to weather changes in an area that are usuall... |
27.41 |
1.1089 |
-0.0154 |
74 |
1 |
27.41 |
2011-11-22 |
| 34. |
Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle. |
27.23 |
1.2905 |
-0.2042 |
41 |
1 |
27.23 |
2011-11-07 |
| 35. |
Unit rate is the term used when one of two quantities is giv... |
26.87 |
1.0262 |
0.0458 |
84 |
1 |
26.87 |
2011-09-16 |
| 36. |
When she got there the cupboard was bare, so her little dog ... |
26.86 |
1.0479 |
0.0237 |
69 |
1 |
26.86 |
2011-10-28 |
| 37. |
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one o... |
26.84 |
0.9155 |
0.1553 |
103 |
1 |
26.84 |
2011-11-07 |
| 38. |
The number 57 on a Heinz ketchup bottle represents the numbe... |
26.75 |
0.9592 |
0.1080 |
106 |
1 |
26.75 |
2011-11-07 |
| 39. |
Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. |
26.58 |
1.0871 |
-0.0267 |
59 |
1 |
26.58 |
2011-09-16 |
| 40. |
There's a part of me that wants to let him in but then I fee... |
26.49 |
1.1379 |
-0.0811 |
113 |
1 |
26.49 |
2011-11-22 |
| 41. |
This was the kid who had spent an entire days at a time begg... |
26.44 |
1.0769 |
-0.0221 |
152 |
1 |
26.44 |
2011-11-22 |
| 42. |
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, up... |
26.43 |
0.9774 |
0.0770 |
94 |
1 |
26.43 |
2011-10-28 |
| 43. |
I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down a... |
26.38 |
1.1356 |
-0.0832 |
101 |
1 |
26.38 |
2011-11-28 |
| 44. |
Great Blue Herons nest communally, building bulky stick nest... |
26.34 |
0.9326 |
0.1182 |
124 |
1 |
26.34 |
2011-11-22 |
| 45. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
26.31 |
1.0363 |
0.0133 |
165 |
1 |
26.31 |
2011-09-16 |
| 46. |
Motionless they hung, huge, heavy, steady in the sky, a blas... |
26.30 |
0.9463 |
0.1029 |
81 |
1 |
26.30 |
2011-11-22 |
| 47. |
They heard uproar from the distant boundary of the school as... |
25.90 |
0.9677 |
0.0656 |
194 |
1 |
25.90 |
2011-10-28 |
| 48. |
Properties refers to the description of an object that tells... |
25.68 |
1.0867 |
-0.0622 |
113 |
1 |
25.68 |
2011-09-16 |
| 49. |
Most campers weren't given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a ca... |
25.43 |
0.9683 |
0.0462 |
76 |
1 |
25.43 |
2011-09-16 |
| 50. |
A baby gray whale drinks enough milk to fill more than two t... |
25.23 |
1.2800 |
-0.2735 |
82 |
1 |
25.23 |
2011-11-22 |
| 51. |
The doctor in charge was barking orders like a Marine drill ... |
24.96 |
0.9967 |
-0.0009 |
107 |
1 |
24.96 |
2011-09-16 |
| 52. |
Feudalism refers to a political system based on bonds of loy... |
24.59 |
0.9604 |
0.0206 |
91 |
1 |
24.59 |
2011-11-04 |
| 53. |
Unfortunately, the influx of Starlings has helped reduce the... |
24.59 |
0.9401 |
0.0409 |
100 |
1 |
24.59 |
2011-11-22 |
| 54. |
It takes three thousand cows to supply the NFL with enough l... |
24.46 |
1.0224 |
-0.0466 |
100 |
1 |
24.46 |
2011-11-22 |
| 55. |
Genes refer to a segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes f... |
24.43 |
0.9659 |
0.0087 |
80 |
1 |
24.43 |
2011-10-28 |
| 56. |
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. |
24.16 |
1.1201 |
-0.1562 |
62 |
1 |
24.16 |
2011-10-28 |
| 57. |
A newly hatched crocodile is three times as large as the egg... |
23.93 |
0.9738 |
-0.0191 |
83 |
1 |
23.93 |
2011-09-09 |
| 58. |
Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight. |
23.84 |
0.9896 |
-0.0385 |
50 |
1 |
23.84 |
2011-11-22 |
| 59. |
Action expresses priorities. |
23.78 |
0.8478 |
0.1009 |
28 |
1 |
23.78 |
2011-11-22 |
| 60. |
Small pieces of debris floating around in the Solar System a... |
23.68 |
0.9474 |
-0.0027 |
81 |
1 |
23.68 |
2011-11-22 |
| 61. |
Kangaroos usually give birth to one young annually. |
23.50 |
1.1581 |
-0.2206 |
51 |
1 |
23.50 |
2011-09-09 |
| 62. |
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on yo... |
23.31 |
0.9805 |
-0.0506 |
67 |
1 |
23.31 |
2011-11-04 |
| 63. |
Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things ... |
23.19 |
1.0736 |
-0.1484 |
107 |
1 |
23.19 |
2011-09-16 |
| 64. |
Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take ... |
23.07 |
0.9873 |
-0.0669 |
103 |
1 |
23.07 |
2011-11-28 |
| 65. |
If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that ... |
23.04 |
0.9447 |
-0.0255 |
113 |
1 |
23.04 |
2011-11-07 |
| 66. |
Mood is the feeling that a piece of writing conveys to the r... |
23.00 |
1.1846 |
-0.2670 |
66 |
1 |
23.00 |
2011-11-04 |
| 67. |
Jess did not know people for whom money was not a problem. |
22.91 |
1.1258 |
-0.2118 |
58 |
1 |
22.91 |
2011-09-09 |
| 68. |
The largest object ever found in the Los Angeles sewer syste... |
22.61 |
1.1145 |
-0.2125 |
79 |
1 |
22.61 |
2011-11-22 |
| 69. |
The protagonist is the main character in the story; the good... |
22.61 |
0.9450 |
-0.0430 |
71 |
1 |
22.61 |
2011-09-16 |
| 70. |
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day... |
22.58 |
0.9104 |
-0.0096 |
65 |
1 |
22.58 |
2011-09-16 |
| 71. |
Relation refers to any set of ordered pairs (x,y) |
22.56 |
0.8735 |
0.0265 |
49 |
1 |
22.56 |
2011-09-09 |
| 72. |
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. |
22.50 |
1.0487 |
-0.1511 |
43 |
1 |
22.50 |
2011-11-07 |
| 73. |
He had gotten up early everyday all summer to run. |
22.46 |
1.1180 |
-0.2220 |
50 |
1 |
22.46 |
2011-11-28 |
| 74. |
Dinosaurs belonged to one of two groups according to the des... |
22.45 |
1.0003 |
-0.1047 |
125 |
1 |
22.45 |
2011-11-22 |
| 75. |
The Titanic was running at twenty-two knots when she hit the... |
22.35 |
0.9838 |
-0.0922 |
69 |
1 |
22.35 |
2011-10-28 |
| 76. |
When we neared the house, the dull glow of a kerosene lamp w... |
22.28 |
0.9788 |
-0.0900 |
99 |
1 |
22.28 |
2011-09-09 |
| 77. |
Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock. The cloc... |
22.25 |
0.8752 |
0.0125 |
114 |
1 |
22.25 |
2011-11-22 |
| 78. |
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal ... |
22.21 |
0.8891 |
-0.0030 |
168 |
1 |
22.21 |
2011-11-07 |
| 79. |
Our government rests in public opinion. |
21.67 |
0.9590 |
-0.0945 |
39 |
1 |
21.67 |
2011-09-16 |
| 80. |
Might people freely choose to give up their humanity in orde... |
21.50 |
1.0129 |
-0.1552 |
220 |
1 |
21.50 |
2011-09-09 |
| 81. |
Sleeping Beauty slept one hundred years. |
21.30 |
0.9358 |
-0.0860 |
40 |
1 |
21.30 |
2011-11-07 |
| 82. |
Theropods, or meat-eating dinosaurs, developed early on and ... |
21.29 |
0.9276 |
-0.0782 |
98 |
1 |
21.29 |
2011-09-09 |
| 83. |
Every episode of Seinfeld contains a Superman reference in i... |
21.18 |
0.7000 |
0.1450 |
72 |
1 |
21.18 |
2011-09-16 |
| 84. |
When Andy laughed, the whole world lit up, like the sun comi... |
20.94 |
1.0170 |
-0.1816 |
83 |
1 |
20.94 |
2011-11-22 |
| 85. |
Parallel refers to straight lines or planes that remain a co... |
20.68 |
1.0755 |
-0.2505 |
112 |
1 |
20.68 |
2011-11-28 |
| 86. |
This is where Oogway unraveled the mysteries of harmony and ... |
20.43 |
0.9730 |
-0.1580 |
102 |
1 |
20.43 |
2011-11-07 |
| 87. |
A tree that may in summer wear a nest of robins in her hair;... |
20.26 |
1.0337 |
-0.2254 |
67 |
1 |
20.26 |
2011-11-28 |
| 88. |
Shrimp swim backward. |
20.00 |
0.7673 |
0.0306 |
21 |
1 |
20.00 |
2011-11-22 |
| 89. |
A simple machine is any of the various basic mechanisms incl... |
19.76 |
1.0012 |
-0.2129 |
138 |
1 |
19.76 |
2011-09-16 |
| 90. |
Reproduction is the process by which plants and animals give... |
19.65 |
1.0336 |
-0.2497 |
79 |
1 |
19.65 |
2011-11-04 |
| 91. |
Measuring about eight feet at birth, killer whale bulls can ... |
19.21 |
0.9582 |
-0.1918 |
115 |
1 |
19.21 |
2011-09-09 |
| 92. |
No white man saw the Grand Canyon until after the Civil War ... |
19.07 |
0.7809 |
-0.0201 |
68 |
1 |
19.07 |
2011-11-22 |
| 93. |
A million colored dust-motes danced and swirled as the two m... |
18.70 |
1.0231 |
-0.2771 |
93 |
1 |
18.70 |
2011-10-28 |
| 94. |
The Earth is one of eight planets that travel around, or orb... |
17.82 |
0.9826 |
-0.2717 |
72 |
1 |
17.82 |
2011-09-16 |
| 95. |
Some seemed healthier than Jeffrey, and others were in such ... |
17.56 |
0.9592 |
-0.2587 |
119 |
1 |
17.56 |
2011-11-22 |
| 96. |
Seals can sleep underwater and surface for air without even ... |
16.66 |
0.8979 |
-0.2333 |
67 |
1 |
16.66 |
2011-09-16 |
| 97. |
Leslie named their secret land "Terabithia." |
16.52 |
0.6391 |
0.0200 |
44 |
1 |
16.52 |
2011-10-28 |
| 98. |
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. |
16.10 |
1.1209 |
-0.4786 |
48 |
1 |
16.10 |
2011-09-09 |