| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
55.54 |
0.9729 |
0.2929 |
255 |
1 |
55.54 |
2010-11-08 |
| 2. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
55.31 |
1.1081 |
0.1868 |
206 |
2 |
53.59 |
2010-12-06 |
| 3. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
55.22 |
1.0384 |
0.2099 |
183 |
1 |
55.22 |
2010-11-08 |
| 4. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
55.21 |
1.0917 |
0.1900 |
243 |
3 |
46.94 |
2010-12-06 |
| 5. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
54.00 |
0.9578 |
0.2725 |
281 |
1 |
54.00 |
2010-11-08 |
| 6. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
53.51 |
1.0487 |
0.1654 |
231 |
1 |
53.51 |
2010-12-20 |
| 7. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
53.16 |
1.0150 |
0.2452 |
325 |
1 |
53.16 |
2010-11-08 |
| 8. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
52.15 |
1.0829 |
0.1062 |
288 |
1 |
52.15 |
2010-11-15 |
| 9. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
52.07 |
0.9726 |
0.2062 |
154 |
1 |
52.07 |
2010-11-28 |
| 10. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
52.00 |
0.9844 |
0.2104 |
229 |
1 |
52.00 |
2010-10-30 |
| 11. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
51.65 |
1.0577 |
0.1149 |
247 |
2 |
48.97 |
2010-12-06 |
| 12. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
50.49 |
1.0531 |
0.1348 |
272 |
1 |
50.49 |
2010-12-06 |
| 13. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
50.26 |
1.0201 |
0.1247 |
303 |
1 |
50.26 |
2010-12-06 |
| 14. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
49.79 |
1.0555 |
0.0795 |
363 |
1 |
49.79 |
2010-12-06 |
| 15. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
49.77 |
1.0774 |
0.0851 |
304 |
1 |
49.77 |
2010-11-08 |
| 16. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
49.16 |
0.8562 |
0.2626 |
170 |
1 |
49.16 |
2010-11-28 |
| 17. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
48.76 |
0.9682 |
0.1401 |
143 |
1 |
48.76 |
2010-10-30 |
| 18. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
48.61 |
0.9886 |
0.1201 |
220 |
1 |
48.61 |
2010-12-06 |
| 19. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
48.13 |
0.9691 |
0.1255 |
223 |
1 |
48.13 |
2010-11-15 |
| 20. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
48.04 |
1.0038 |
0.1197 |
237 |
1 |
48.04 |
2010-11-08 |
| 21. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
47.87 |
0.9871 |
0.1383 |
209 |
2 |
41.88 |
2010-11-28 |
| 22. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
47.83 |
0.9226 |
0.1694 |
177 |
1 |
47.83 |
2010-12-06 |
| 23. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
47.78 |
1.0343 |
0.0899 |
242 |
1 |
47.78 |
2010-12-06 |
| 24. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
47.40 |
0.9873 |
0.0876 |
155 |
1 |
47.40 |
2010-11-08 |
| 25. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
47.32 |
1.0211 |
0.0860 |
213 |
1 |
47.32 |
2010-11-08 |
| 26. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
46.98 |
0.9814 |
0.1267 |
364 |
1 |
46.98 |
2010-12-06 |
| 27. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
46.88 |
1.0441 |
0.0236 |
252 |
1 |
46.88 |
2010-10-30 |
| 28. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
46.71 |
0.9946 |
0.0678 |
246 |
1 |
46.71 |
2010-10-30 |
| 29. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
46.61 |
1.0388 |
0.0531 |
243 |
1 |
46.61 |
2010-12-20 |
| 30. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
46.53 |
0.9986 |
0.0605 |
283 |
1 |
46.53 |
2010-10-30 |
| 31. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
46.45 |
0.9688 |
0.0866 |
217 |
2 |
42.90 |
2010-10-30 |
| 32. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
46.42 |
1.1016 |
-0.0463 |
233 |
1 |
46.42 |
2010-12-06 |
| 33. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
46.30 |
0.9016 |
0.1590 |
192 |
1 |
46.30 |
2010-12-06 |
| 34. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
45.96 |
1.0077 |
0.0785 |
250 |
1 |
45.96 |
2010-10-30 |
| 35. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
45.73 |
1.0232 |
0.0626 |
350 |
2 |
45.42 |
2010-12-06 |
| 36. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
45.71 |
0.9597 |
0.0838 |
347 |
1 |
45.71 |
2010-11-28 |
| 37. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
45.37 |
1.0013 |
0.0294 |
273 |
1 |
45.37 |
2010-10-30 |
| 38. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
45.36 |
0.8996 |
0.1263 |
192 |
1 |
45.36 |
2010-12-06 |
| 39. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
45.32 |
1.0385 |
-0.0098 |
230 |
2 |
42.83 |
2010-12-06 |
| 40. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.25 |
0.9899 |
0.0341 |
163 |
1 |
45.25 |
2010-10-30 |
| 41. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
45.24 |
1.0595 |
-0.0283 |
379 |
1 |
45.24 |
2010-10-30 |
| 42. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
44.70 |
1.0684 |
-0.0222 |
253 |
1 |
44.70 |
2010-12-06 |
| 43. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
44.67 |
1.0993 |
-0.0858 |
265 |
1 |
44.67 |
2010-10-30 |
| 44. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
44.41 |
1.0797 |
-0.0757 |
210 |
1 |
44.41 |
2010-12-06 |
| 45. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
44.25 |
0.9049 |
0.1067 |
351 |
1 |
44.25 |
2010-12-06 |
| 46. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
44.13 |
1.0696 |
-0.0700 |
226 |
1 |
44.13 |
2010-10-30 |
| 47. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
43.98 |
1.0714 |
-0.0812 |
129 |
1 |
43.98 |
2010-12-06 |
| 48. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
43.67 |
1.0885 |
-0.0611 |
341 |
1 |
43.67 |
2010-12-06 |
| 49. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
43.58 |
0.8793 |
0.1119 |
157 |
1 |
43.58 |
2010-11-15 |
| 50. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
43.29 |
1.0025 |
-0.0175 |
336 |
2 |
41.58 |
2010-12-06 |
| 51. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
43.01 |
1.0567 |
-0.0784 |
303 |
1 |
43.01 |
2010-11-15 |
| 52. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
42.95 |
1.0218 |
-0.0487 |
268 |
1 |
42.95 |
2010-10-30 |
| 53. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
42.87 |
0.9905 |
0.0153 |
337 |
1 |
42.87 |
2010-11-08 |
| 54. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
42.85 |
1.0740 |
-0.0621 |
264 |
1 |
42.85 |
2010-10-30 |
| 55. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
42.63 |
1.0025 |
-0.0344 |
256 |
1 |
42.63 |
2010-12-06 |
| 56. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
42.60 |
1.0596 |
-0.0941 |
239 |
1 |
42.60 |
2010-12-20 |
| 57. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
42.57 |
1.0340 |
-0.0614 |
406 |
1 |
42.57 |
2010-11-08 |
| 58. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
42.54 |
0.9468 |
0.0199 |
276 |
1 |
42.54 |
2010-10-30 |
| 59. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
42.27 |
0.9557 |
0.0112 |
331 |
1 |
42.27 |
2010-11-08 |
| 60. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
42.19 |
1.0034 |
-0.0461 |
302 |
1 |
42.19 |
2010-10-30 |
| 61. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
42.10 |
0.9684 |
-0.0096 |
388 |
1 |
42.10 |
2010-12-06 |
| 62. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
42.04 |
0.9509 |
0.0425 |
225 |
3 |
39.29 |
2010-12-06 |
| 63. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
41.71 |
1.0379 |
-0.0559 |
245 |
1 |
41.71 |
2010-12-06 |
| 64. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
41.69 |
0.9965 |
-0.0543 |
168 |
1 |
41.69 |
2010-10-30 |
| 65. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
41.65 |
0.8821 |
0.0637 |
176 |
1 |
41.65 |
2010-12-20 |
| 66. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
41.43 |
0.9212 |
0.0227 |
323 |
1 |
41.43 |
2010-12-06 |
| 67. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
41.40 |
0.9904 |
-0.0101 |
203 |
1 |
41.40 |
2010-11-28 |
| 68. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
41.26 |
0.9865 |
-0.0482 |
276 |
1 |
41.26 |
2010-12-06 |
| 69. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
41.25 |
0.9128 |
0.0656 |
369 |
1 |
41.25 |
2010-10-30 |
| 70. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
40.97 |
0.9897 |
-0.0618 |
274 |
1 |
40.97 |
2010-12-06 |
| 71. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.92 |
0.9072 |
0.0198 |
237 |
1 |
40.92 |
2010-12-06 |
| 72. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
40.50 |
0.8919 |
0.0264 |
205 |
1 |
40.50 |
2010-12-06 |
| 73. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
40.50 |
1.0029 |
-0.0901 |
209 |
1 |
40.50 |
2010-10-30 |
| 74. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
40.19 |
1.0485 |
-0.1020 |
153 |
1 |
40.19 |
2010-11-28 |
| 75. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
40.18 |
0.9068 |
0.0030 |
225 |
1 |
40.18 |
2010-11-15 |
| 76. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
40.03 |
1.0483 |
-0.1430 |
227 |
1 |
40.03 |
2010-12-06 |
| 77. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
39.90 |
0.8884 |
0.0169 |
135 |
1 |
39.90 |
2010-10-30 |
| 78. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
39.84 |
1.0521 |
-0.1532 |
171 |
1 |
39.84 |
2010-10-30 |
| 79. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
39.57 |
0.8602 |
0.0358 |
206 |
1 |
39.57 |
2010-12-06 |
| 80. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
39.43 |
0.9964 |
-0.1016 |
203 |
1 |
39.43 |
2010-12-06 |
| 81. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
39.40 |
0.8792 |
0.0242 |
296 |
1 |
39.40 |
2010-11-28 |
| 82. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
39.27 |
1.0677 |
-0.1461 |
284 |
1 |
39.27 |
2010-10-30 |
| 83. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
39.27 |
0.9884 |
-0.0975 |
233 |
2 |
35.49 |
2010-12-06 |
| 84. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
39.09 |
0.9632 |
-0.0338 |
345 |
1 |
39.09 |
2010-12-06 |
| 85. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
38.98 |
0.9786 |
-0.0992 |
193 |
1 |
38.98 |
2010-11-28 |
| 86. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
38.63 |
0.9699 |
-0.0942 |
269 |
1 |
38.63 |
2010-10-30 |
| 87. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
38.63 |
0.8899 |
-0.0030 |
293 |
1 |
38.63 |
2010-12-06 |
| 88. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
38.50 |
1.0334 |
-0.1665 |
131 |
1 |
38.50 |
2010-12-06 |
| 89. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
38.45 |
1.0361 |
-0.1630 |
269 |
1 |
38.45 |
2010-12-06 |
| 90. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
38.37 |
0.9966 |
-0.1267 |
259 |
1 |
38.37 |
2010-12-06 |
| 91. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
38.31 |
1.0214 |
-0.1100 |
281 |
1 |
38.31 |
2010-10-30 |
| 92. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
38.19 |
0.9365 |
-0.0685 |
248 |
1 |
38.19 |
2010-11-15 |
| 93. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
38.09 |
0.8826 |
-0.0169 |
296 |
1 |
38.09 |
2010-11-28 |
| 94. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
37.89 |
1.0390 |
-0.1831 |
205 |
1 |
37.89 |
2010-12-06 |
| 95. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
37.84 |
1.0419 |
-0.1839 |
261 |
1 |
37.84 |
2010-12-06 |
| 96. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
37.70 |
0.9941 |
-0.1415 |
217 |
1 |
37.70 |
2010-10-30 |
| 97. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
37.65 |
0.9852 |
-0.1310 |
264 |
1 |
37.65 |
2010-12-06 |
| 98. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
37.57 |
0.9350 |
-0.0827 |
195 |
1 |
37.57 |
2010-10-30 |
| 99. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
37.53 |
1.0337 |
-0.1834 |
214 |
1 |
37.53 |
2010-11-28 |
| 100. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.72 |
1.0138 |
-0.1819 |
231 |
1 |
36.72 |
2010-11-08 |
| 101. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
36.71 |
0.8770 |
-0.0415 |
300 |
1 |
36.71 |
2010-10-30 |
| 102. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
36.71 |
0.8096 |
0.0305 |
209 |
1 |
36.71 |
2010-12-06 |
| 103. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
36.46 |
0.9670 |
-0.0983 |
307 |
1 |
36.46 |
2010-10-30 |
| 104. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
36.07 |
0.9811 |
-0.1608 |
272 |
1 |
36.07 |
2010-10-30 |
| 105. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
35.62 |
0.8951 |
-0.0857 |
193 |
1 |
35.62 |
2010-10-30 |
| 106. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
35.22 |
0.9711 |
-0.1749 |
176 |
1 |
35.22 |
2010-11-15 |
| 107. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
34.53 |
0.8810 |
-0.0986 |
282 |
1 |
34.53 |
2010-10-30 |
| 108. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
34.40 |
0.8553 |
-0.0811 |
174 |
1 |
34.40 |
2010-12-20 |
| 109. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
33.65 |
0.9084 |
-0.1430 |
404 |
1 |
33.65 |
2010-12-06 |