| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competiti... |
30.13 |
0.8447 |
0.4783 |
134 |
1 |
30.13 |
2012-07-20 |
| 2. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
29.67 |
0.9396 |
0.3674 |
119 |
2 |
25.41 |
2012-07-19 |
| 3. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
28.25 |
0.8691 |
0.3652 |
119 |
4 |
25.18 |
2012-07-30 |
| 4. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
28.21 |
0.8884 |
0.3565 |
135 |
4 |
21.77 |
2012-06-06 |
| 5. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
27.44 |
1.0679 |
0.1626 |
177 |
1 |
27.44 |
2012-07-23 |
| 6. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
27.28 |
1.0417 |
0.1590 |
253 |
1 |
27.28 |
2012-07-26 |
| 7. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
27.28 |
0.8661 |
0.3290 |
94 |
3 |
25.89 |
2012-07-31 |
| 8. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
27.27 |
0.8614 |
0.3391 |
172 |
2 |
21.10 |
2012-07-20 |
| 9. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
27.19 |
1.1018 |
0.0910 |
220 |
1 |
27.19 |
2012-07-23 |
| 10. |
When the mind is brought to rest and not allowed to wander, ... |
27.11 |
0.8650 |
0.3273 |
162 |
2 |
24.52 |
2012-06-14 |
| 11. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
26.85 |
1.0029 |
0.1748 |
209 |
2 |
24.28 |
2012-06-19 |
| 12. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
26.74 |
0.9221 |
0.2559 |
244 |
3 |
23.28 |
2012-06-06 |
| 13. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
26.64 |
0.8118 |
0.3685 |
109 |
1 |
26.64 |
2012-07-20 |
| 14. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
26.51 |
0.9633 |
0.2078 |
304 |
1 |
26.51 |
2012-07-20 |
| 15. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
26.47 |
1.0033 |
0.1572 |
189 |
2 |
22.94 |
2012-07-19 |
| 16. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
26.46 |
0.9196 |
0.2486 |
148 |
1 |
26.46 |
2012-06-14 |
| 17. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
26.45 |
0.8243 |
0.3457 |
134 |
1 |
26.45 |
2012-06-15 |
| 18. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
26.37 |
0.8372 |
0.3249 |
179 |
1 |
26.37 |
2012-07-30 |
| 19. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
26.35 |
1.0004 |
0.1554 |
212 |
2 |
22.84 |
2012-08-01 |
| 20. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
26.02 |
0.8178 |
0.3298 |
159 |
1 |
26.02 |
2012-07-20 |
| 21. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
25.96 |
0.9597 |
0.1888 |
347 |
1 |
25.96 |
2012-08-01 |
| 22. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
25.86 |
0.8918 |
0.2468 |
100 |
1 |
25.86 |
2012-06-15 |
| 23. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
25.84 |
1.0151 |
0.1148 |
152 |
2 |
23.71 |
2012-06-22 |
| 24. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
25.83 |
0.9873 |
0.1482 |
155 |
2 |
24.34 |
2012-07-30 |
| 25. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
25.63 |
0.8785 |
0.2472 |
172 |
1 |
25.63 |
2012-07-23 |
| 26. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
25.42 |
0.9758 |
0.1455 |
314 |
1 |
25.42 |
2012-07-31 |
| 27. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
25.32 |
0.9028 |
0.2142 |
155 |
1 |
25.32 |
2012-07-19 |
| 28. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
25.14 |
0.9320 |
0.1700 |
84 |
1 |
25.14 |
2012-06-05 |
| 29. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
25.12 |
0.8581 |
0.2456 |
136 |
1 |
25.12 |
2012-07-23 |
| 30. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
25.08 |
1.0013 |
0.1030 |
273 |
1 |
25.08 |
2012-07-20 |
| 31. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
24.90 |
0.9028 |
0.1923 |
111 |
1 |
24.90 |
2012-06-06 |
| 32. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
24.82 |
0.9871 |
0.1429 |
209 |
4 |
20.70 |
2012-06-19 |
| 33. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
24.80 |
0.8619 |
0.2295 |
119 |
1 |
24.80 |
2012-06-04 |
| 34. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
24.72 |
1.0521 |
0.0319 |
171 |
1 |
24.72 |
2012-07-19 |
| 35. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
24.51 |
0.9325 |
0.1405 |
156 |
2 |
23.22 |
2012-06-11 |
| 36. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
24.37 |
0.9941 |
0.0772 |
217 |
2 |
22.99 |
2012-06-14 |
| 37. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
24.22 |
1.0205 |
0.0395 |
179 |
1 |
24.22 |
2012-07-19 |
| 38. |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immo... |
24.18 |
0.8244 |
0.2427 |
73 |
1 |
24.18 |
2012-06-05 |
| 39. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
24.11 |
0.8430 |
0.2223 |
147 |
1 |
24.11 |
2012-07-19 |
| 40. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
24.09 |
1.0444 |
0.0102 |
197 |
1 |
24.09 |
2012-06-06 |
| 41. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
24.05 |
1.0183 |
0.0357 |
191 |
1 |
24.05 |
2012-06-14 |
| 42. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
23.97 |
0.9097 |
0.1460 |
153 |
1 |
23.97 |
2012-07-19 |
| 43. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
23.84 |
0.7934 |
0.2570 |
134 |
1 |
23.84 |
2012-06-22 |
| 44. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
23.84 |
0.8867 |
0.1703 |
163 |
3 |
19.71 |
2012-05-31 |
| 45. |
Pulp: a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. |
23.78 |
0.7559 |
0.2921 |
46 |
2 |
21.29 |
2012-06-06 |
| 46. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
23.69 |
0.8629 |
0.1848 |
299 |
1 |
23.69 |
2012-07-31 |
| 47. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
23.59 |
0.8788 |
0.1571 |
134 |
1 |
23.59 |
2012-06-05 |
| 48. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
23.59 |
0.8551 |
0.1847 |
171 |
1 |
23.59 |
2012-05-31 |
| 49. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
23.53 |
0.8500 |
0.1925 |
145 |
1 |
23.53 |
2012-06-05 |
| 50. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
23.39 |
1.0498 |
-0.0247 |
180 |
1 |
23.39 |
2012-06-01 |
| 51. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
23.33 |
0.8672 |
0.1616 |
128 |
1 |
23.33 |
2012-05-31 |
| 52. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
23.17 |
0.8311 |
0.1825 |
124 |
1 |
23.17 |
2012-06-04 |
| 53. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
23.13 |
0.8817 |
0.1321 |
87 |
1 |
23.13 |
2012-06-14 |
| 54. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
23.10 |
0.8700 |
0.1472 |
127 |
1 |
23.10 |
2012-06-05 |
| 55. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
23.07 |
0.8653 |
0.1617 |
255 |
1 |
23.07 |
2012-06-19 |
| 56. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
23.01 |
0.7818 |
0.2314 |
195 |
1 |
23.01 |
2012-06-04 |
| 57. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
22.84 |
1.0365 |
-0.0015 |
162 |
1 |
22.84 |
2012-07-26 |
| 58. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
22.80 |
1.0389 |
-0.0328 |
340 |
1 |
22.80 |
2012-06-19 |
| 59. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
22.68 |
0.8809 |
0.1151 |
127 |
1 |
22.68 |
2012-06-06 |
| 60. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
22.60 |
0.9965 |
-0.0064 |
168 |
3 |
21.74 |
2012-06-04 |
| 61. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
22.59 |
0.7850 |
0.2058 |
154 |
1 |
22.59 |
2012-06-05 |
| 62. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
22.52 |
1.0462 |
-0.0610 |
184 |
1 |
22.52 |
2012-06-05 |
| 63. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
22.51 |
0.8145 |
0.1787 |
115 |
1 |
22.51 |
2012-06-06 |
| 64. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
22.47 |
0.8520 |
0.1374 |
202 |
1 |
22.47 |
2012-06-15 |
| 65. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
22.29 |
0.8122 |
0.1714 |
181 |
1 |
22.29 |
2012-06-05 |
| 66. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
22.14 |
1.0506 |
-0.0476 |
277 |
1 |
22.14 |
2012-07-30 |
| 67. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
22.11 |
1.0201 |
-0.0538 |
172 |
2 |
21.50 |
2012-05-31 |
| 68. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
22.01 |
1.0463 |
-0.0825 |
182 |
1 |
22.01 |
2012-06-05 |
| 69. |
Problems are mind-made and need time to survive. They cannot... |
21.97 |
0.8342 |
0.1380 |
97 |
1 |
21.97 |
2012-06-19 |
| 70. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
21.94 |
0.9572 |
0.0067 |
201 |
1 |
21.94 |
2012-06-19 |
| 71. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
21.92 |
0.8082 |
0.1647 |
186 |
1 |
21.92 |
2012-06-04 |
| 72. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
21.79 |
0.8559 |
0.1039 |
191 |
1 |
21.79 |
2012-06-04 |
| 73. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
21.75 |
1.0487 |
-0.0969 |
231 |
2 |
21.23 |
2012-06-04 |
| 74. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
21.38 |
1.0099 |
-0.0727 |
207 |
1 |
21.38 |
2012-05-31 |
| 75. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
21.28 |
0.9202 |
0.0155 |
254 |
1 |
21.28 |
2012-07-30 |
| 76. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
21.25 |
0.8323 |
0.1032 |
203 |
1 |
21.25 |
2012-06-14 |
| 77. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
21.23 |
0.9466 |
-0.0180 |
107 |
1 |
21.23 |
2012-05-28 |
| 78. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
21.22 |
0.9904 |
-0.0169 |
203 |
1 |
21.22 |
2012-06-06 |
| 79. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
21.10 |
1.0796 |
-0.1572 |
129 |
1 |
21.10 |
2012-06-11 |
| 80. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
21.08 |
0.8422 |
0.0876 |
164 |
2 |
20.74 |
2012-05-31 |
| 81. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
21.04 |
0.8791 |
0.0452 |
190 |
1 |
21.04 |
2012-06-01 |
| 82. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
21.00 |
0.9310 |
-0.0123 |
188 |
1 |
21.00 |
2012-05-29 |
| 83. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
20.97 |
0.8725 |
0.0517 |
163 |
1 |
20.97 |
2012-05-28 |
| 84. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
20.82 |
0.8088 |
0.0956 |
94 |
2 |
18.72 |
2012-05-26 |
| 85. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
20.73 |
0.7890 |
0.1235 |
230 |
1 |
20.73 |
2012-06-14 |
| 86. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
20.68 |
1.0565 |
-0.1503 |
247 |
1 |
20.68 |
2012-06-01 |
| 87. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
20.65 |
0.8898 |
0.0133 |
158 |
1 |
20.65 |
2012-05-26 |
| 88. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
20.60 |
0.8544 |
0.0531 |
170 |
1 |
20.60 |
2012-05-29 |
| 89. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
20.42 |
0.7375 |
0.1643 |
148 |
1 |
20.42 |
2012-06-04 |
| 90. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
20.37 |
0.7852 |
0.1163 |
149 |
1 |
20.37 |
2012-05-28 |
| 91. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
20.33 |
0.8660 |
0.0276 |
193 |
1 |
20.33 |
2012-06-05 |
| 92. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
20.14 |
0.8323 |
0.0523 |
145 |
1 |
20.14 |
2012-06-06 |
| 93. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
20.02 |
0.7805 |
0.0946 |
154 |
3 |
17.97 |
2012-07-19 |
| 94. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
19.98 |
0.8919 |
-0.0115 |
152 |
1 |
19.98 |
2012-05-28 |
| 95. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
19.96 |
0.8956 |
-0.0159 |
217 |
1 |
19.96 |
2012-05-28 |
| 96. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
19.88 |
0.9286 |
-0.0563 |
194 |
1 |
19.88 |
2012-06-01 |
| 97. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
19.84 |
0.7908 |
0.0867 |
127 |
2 |
18.89 |
2012-06-07 |
| 98. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
19.81 |
0.9786 |
-0.1134 |
193 |
1 |
19.81 |
2012-06-04 |
| 99. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
19.68 |
0.9171 |
-0.0520 |
165 |
1 |
19.68 |
2012-05-30 |
| 100. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
19.63 |
1.0485 |
-0.1519 |
153 |
1 |
19.63 |
2012-05-25 |
| 101. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
19.47 |
0.8876 |
-0.0339 |
118 |
1 |
19.47 |
2012-05-29 |
| 102. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
19.44 |
0.8263 |
0.0254 |
162 |
1 |
19.44 |
2012-05-29 |
| 103. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
19.17 |
0.7877 |
0.0586 |
142 |
2 |
17.70 |
2012-06-06 |
| 104. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
19.04 |
1.1162 |
-0.2390 |
189 |
1 |
19.04 |
2012-05-29 |
| 105. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
18.44 |
0.7259 |
0.0898 |
186 |
1 |
18.44 |
2012-06-11 |
| 106. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
18.28 |
0.9731 |
-0.1837 |
129 |
1 |
18.28 |
2012-05-26 |
| 107. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
18.26 |
0.8231 |
-0.0189 |
180 |
1 |
18.26 |
2012-05-24 |
| 108. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
18.06 |
0.8023 |
-0.0043 |
182 |
1 |
18.06 |
2012-05-26 |
| 109. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
18.00 |
0.9351 |
-0.1510 |
190 |
1 |
18.00 |
2012-05-25 |
| 110. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
18.00 |
0.8615 |
-0.0721 |
110 |
1 |
18.00 |
2012-05-28 |
| 111. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
17.86 |
0.8177 |
-0.0383 |
124 |
1 |
17.86 |
2012-05-24 |
| 112. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
17.52 |
0.9233 |
-0.1634 |
168 |
1 |
17.52 |
2012-05-28 |
| 113. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. Witho... |
17.17 |
0.8270 |
-0.0732 |
117 |
1 |
17.17 |
2012-06-06 |
| 114. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
17.07 |
0.9418 |
-0.1879 |
188 |
1 |
17.07 |
2012-05-24 |
| 115. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
16.83 |
0.8936 |
-0.1573 |
127 |
1 |
16.83 |
2012-05-25 |
| 116. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
16.79 |
0.8142 |
-0.0840 |
187 |
1 |
16.79 |
2012-05-24 |
| 117. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
16.69 |
0.8900 |
-0.1577 |
164 |
1 |
16.69 |
2012-05-24 |
| 118. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
16.52 |
0.8089 |
-0.0874 |
158 |
1 |
16.52 |
2012-05-25 |
| 119. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
16.37 |
0.8360 |
-0.1191 |
170 |
1 |
16.37 |
2012-05-24 |
| 120. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
16.26 |
0.8073 |
-0.0936 |
173 |
1 |
16.26 |
2012-05-29 |
| 121. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
16.17 |
0.7389 |
-0.0292 |
145 |
1 |
16.17 |
2012-05-25 |
| 122. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
16.10 |
0.9340 |
-0.2299 |
296 |
1 |
16.10 |
2012-05-24 |
| 123. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
15.81 |
0.8553 |
-0.1682 |
174 |
1 |
15.81 |
2012-06-01 |