| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
47.82 |
0.9187 |
0.3384 |
118 |
3 |
37.22 |
2012-12-18 |
| 2. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
47.17 |
0.9396 |
0.3071 |
119 |
2 |
38.67 |
2013-01-11 |
| 3. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
45.94 |
1.0384 |
0.1686 |
183 |
2 |
39.67 |
2012-12-07 |
| 4. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
45.49 |
0.9598 |
0.2519 |
220 |
2 |
44.51 |
2013-01-07 |
| 5. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
45.37 |
0.9965 |
0.1996 |
168 |
1 |
45.37 |
2013-01-30 |
| 6. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
45.17 |
0.8323 |
0.3639 |
203 |
1 |
45.17 |
2013-01-30 |
| 7. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
44.77 |
0.9781 |
0.2100 |
193 |
1 |
44.77 |
2013-01-02 |
| 8. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
44.71 |
0.9711 |
0.2113 |
176 |
1 |
44.71 |
2012-11-29 |
| 9. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
44.14 |
1.0523 |
0.1117 |
256 |
1 |
44.14 |
2013-02-01 |
| 10. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
43.79 |
1.0390 |
0.1161 |
205 |
2 |
37.84 |
2012-12-17 |
| 11. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
43.36 |
0.9572 |
0.1892 |
201 |
1 |
43.36 |
2012-12-04 |
| 12. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
43.14 |
1.0574 |
0.1119 |
205 |
2 |
39.26 |
2013-01-02 |
| 13. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
43.14 |
0.9131 |
0.2242 |
144 |
2 |
40.43 |
2012-12-17 |
| 14. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
43.05 |
1.0714 |
0.0587 |
129 |
3 |
36.82 |
2012-12-12 |
| 15. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
42.64 |
1.0619 |
0.0695 |
354 |
1 |
42.64 |
2012-12-07 |
| 16. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
42.16 |
1.0398 |
0.0648 |
110 |
1 |
42.16 |
2013-01-18 |
| 17. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
42.02 |
1.0515 |
0.0521 |
166 |
2 |
40.95 |
2013-01-11 |
| 18. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
41.92 |
0.9418 |
0.1730 |
188 |
1 |
41.92 |
2012-12-14 |
| 19. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
41.85 |
0.9532 |
0.1525 |
258 |
1 |
41.85 |
2012-12-11 |
| 20. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
41.76 |
1.0138 |
0.0903 |
231 |
1 |
41.76 |
2012-12-17 |
| 21. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
41.72 |
1.0679 |
0.0558 |
177 |
1 |
41.72 |
2012-12-17 |
| 22. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.15 |
0.9171 |
0.1717 |
165 |
1 |
41.15 |
2012-12-05 |
| 23. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
41.14 |
1.0521 |
0.0309 |
171 |
1 |
41.14 |
2013-01-18 |
| 24. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
40.82 |
0.9726 |
0.1006 |
154 |
1 |
40.82 |
2012-12-14 |
| 25. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
40.73 |
1.0211 |
0.0864 |
213 |
1 |
40.73 |
2012-12-11 |
| 26. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
40.63 |
1.0577 |
0.0129 |
247 |
1 |
40.63 |
2012-12-07 |
| 27. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
40.63 |
0.9353 |
0.1350 |
177 |
1 |
40.63 |
2012-12-17 |
| 28. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
40.32 |
1.1296 |
-0.0344 |
252 |
1 |
40.32 |
2013-01-07 |
| 29. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
40.23 |
1.0125 |
0.0487 |
224 |
1 |
40.23 |
2012-12-12 |
| 30. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
40.14 |
1.0445 |
0.0173 |
373 |
1 |
40.14 |
2012-12-14 |
| 31. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
40.08 |
0.9724 |
0.0908 |
237 |
1 |
40.08 |
2013-02-01 |
| 32. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
40.00 |
0.9884 |
0.0734 |
262 |
1 |
40.00 |
2013-01-09 |
| 33. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
39.68 |
1.0796 |
-0.0357 |
129 |
1 |
39.68 |
2012-12-12 |
| 34. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
39.60 |
1.0917 |
-0.0215 |
243 |
1 |
39.60 |
2012-12-17 |
| 35. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
39.42 |
1.0787 |
-0.0382 |
237 |
1 |
39.42 |
2012-12-10 |
| 36. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
39.23 |
0.7484 |
0.2847 |
185 |
1 |
39.23 |
2012-12-19 |
| 37. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
39.21 |
1.0795 |
-0.0127 |
226 |
1 |
39.21 |
2013-01-07 |
| 38. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
39.21 |
0.9196 |
0.1184 |
148 |
1 |
39.21 |
2012-12-17 |
| 39. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
39.10 |
1.0183 |
0.0095 |
191 |
1 |
39.10 |
2012-12-10 |
| 40. |
Be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competiti... |
39.03 |
0.8447 |
0.1795 |
134 |
1 |
39.03 |
2013-01-18 |
| 41. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
39.00 |
0.8900 |
0.1420 |
164 |
1 |
39.00 |
2012-12-12 |
| 42. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
38.97 |
1.0943 |
-0.0319 |
206 |
1 |
38.97 |
2012-12-04 |
| 43. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
38.97 |
1.0463 |
-0.0210 |
182 |
2 |
38.02 |
2013-01-09 |
| 44. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
38.90 |
0.9207 |
0.1101 |
174 |
1 |
38.90 |
2013-01-09 |
| 45. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
38.83 |
1.0004 |
0.0197 |
212 |
1 |
38.83 |
2013-02-01 |
| 46. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
38.78 |
1.0673 |
-0.0006 |
230 |
1 |
38.78 |
2012-12-12 |
| 47. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
38.76 |
0.9773 |
0.0393 |
123 |
1 |
38.76 |
2012-11-29 |
| 48. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
38.73 |
0.8122 |
0.2139 |
181 |
1 |
38.73 |
2012-11-28 |
| 49. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
38.72 |
0.8422 |
0.1826 |
164 |
1 |
38.72 |
2012-11-27 |
| 50. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
38.66 |
0.8731 |
0.1558 |
199 |
1 |
38.66 |
2013-01-18 |
| 51. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
38.56 |
1.0151 |
-0.0045 |
152 |
2 |
36.33 |
2012-12-03 |
| 52. |
Never give up. Most races are decided in the last 10 percent... |
38.54 |
0.8713 |
0.1417 |
73 |
2 |
35.27 |
2013-01-02 |
| 53. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
38.44 |
1.0528 |
-0.0422 |
201 |
2 |
36.82 |
2012-12-14 |
| 54. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
38.44 |
0.9263 |
0.0928 |
188 |
1 |
38.44 |
2013-01-09 |
| 55. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
38.28 |
1.0232 |
0.0240 |
236 |
1 |
38.28 |
2013-01-07 |
| 56. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
38.06 |
0.9097 |
0.0962 |
153 |
1 |
38.06 |
2012-12-18 |
| 57. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
38.00 |
1.0131 |
-0.0131 |
225 |
1 |
38.00 |
2013-01-04 |
| 58. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
37.97 |
1.0314 |
-0.0314 |
172 |
1 |
37.97 |
2012-11-27 |
| 59. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
37.89 |
0.9688 |
0.0325 |
217 |
1 |
37.89 |
2012-11-29 |
| 60. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
37.87 |
0.8559 |
0.1453 |
191 |
3 |
34.95 |
2013-01-04 |
| 61. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
37.63 |
0.9161 |
0.0765 |
200 |
1 |
37.63 |
2012-12-11 |
| 62. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
37.60 |
1.0487 |
-0.0606 |
231 |
1 |
37.60 |
2012-12-04 |
| 63. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
37.47 |
0.8202 |
0.1672 |
178 |
1 |
37.47 |
2013-01-28 |
| 64. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
37.43 |
0.9976 |
0.0109 |
174 |
1 |
37.43 |
2012-12-03 |
| 65. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
37.32 |
0.9769 |
0.0067 |
263 |
1 |
37.32 |
2012-12-10 |
| 66. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
37.09 |
0.9772 |
-0.0012 |
217 |
1 |
37.09 |
2012-12-03 |
| 67. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
37.09 |
0.9527 |
0.0266 |
251 |
1 |
37.09 |
2013-01-14 |
| 68. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
36.84 |
1.1162 |
-0.1023 |
189 |
2 |
35.59 |
2013-01-09 |
| 69. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
36.68 |
1.0863 |
-0.0827 |
210 |
2 |
35.70 |
2013-01-02 |
| 70. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
36.58 |
1.0883 |
-0.0903 |
303 |
1 |
36.58 |
2012-12-19 |
| 71. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
36.45 |
1.0060 |
-0.0484 |
171 |
1 |
36.45 |
2013-01-18 |
| 72. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.43 |
0.9899 |
-0.0327 |
163 |
1 |
36.43 |
2013-02-01 |
| 73. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
36.27 |
0.9281 |
0.0346 |
273 |
1 |
36.27 |
2013-01-04 |
| 74. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
36.03 |
0.8615 |
0.0898 |
110 |
1 |
36.03 |
2012-12-07 |
| 75. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
35.78 |
1.0109 |
-0.0656 |
276 |
2 |
34.97 |
2012-12-06 |
| 76. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
35.65 |
0.9986 |
-0.0573 |
283 |
1 |
35.65 |
2013-01-07 |
| 77. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
35.52 |
1.0941 |
-0.1253 |
256 |
1 |
35.52 |
2012-12-05 |
| 78. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
35.44 |
1.0403 |
-0.0899 |
193 |
2 |
32.80 |
2013-01-11 |
| 79. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
35.39 |
0.9500 |
-0.0137 |
362 |
1 |
35.39 |
2012-11-28 |
| 80. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
35.33 |
1.0033 |
-0.0776 |
189 |
2 |
32.91 |
2012-12-06 |
| 81. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
35.30 |
0.8956 |
0.0387 |
217 |
2 |
31.40 |
2012-12-07 |
| 82. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
35.07 |
1.0218 |
-0.0993 |
268 |
1 |
35.07 |
2012-12-17 |
| 83. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
34.95 |
0.8723 |
0.0461 |
185 |
1 |
34.95 |
2012-12-19 |
| 84. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.95 |
0.9798 |
-0.0635 |
199 |
1 |
34.95 |
2012-12-17 |
| 85. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
34.76 |
1.0288 |
-0.0794 |
300 |
1 |
34.76 |
2012-11-27 |
| 86. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
34.71 |
0.8178 |
0.0974 |
159 |
1 |
34.71 |
2013-01-02 |
| 87. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
34.66 |
0.9368 |
-0.0215 |
173 |
1 |
34.66 |
2012-11-27 |
| 88. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
34.62 |
0.8919 |
0.0198 |
205 |
1 |
34.62 |
2012-12-17 |
| 89. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
34.60 |
0.9991 |
-0.0856 |
225 |
1 |
34.60 |
2012-11-27 |
| 90. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
34.39 |
0.9128 |
0.0001 |
133 |
1 |
34.39 |
2012-11-29 |
| 91. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
34.32 |
1.0074 |
-0.0997 |
242 |
1 |
34.32 |
2013-01-02 |
| 92. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
34.12 |
0.8884 |
0.0124 |
135 |
2 |
31.90 |
2013-01-30 |
| 93. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
34.07 |
0.8975 |
0.0018 |
268 |
1 |
34.07 |
2012-12-07 |
| 94. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
34.02 |
1.0016 |
-0.1089 |
218 |
1 |
34.02 |
2013-01-14 |
| 95. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
33.44 |
0.8152 |
0.0669 |
163 |
1 |
33.44 |
2013-01-14 |
| 96. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
33.36 |
0.9430 |
-0.0705 |
211 |
1 |
33.36 |
2013-01-04 |
| 97. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
33.16 |
0.8906 |
-0.0116 |
238 |
1 |
33.16 |
2012-12-11 |
| 98. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
33.15 |
0.8811 |
-0.0021 |
239 |
1 |
33.15 |
2012-11-28 |
| 99. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
33.10 |
1.0596 |
-0.1890 |
239 |
1 |
33.10 |
2012-11-27 |
| 100. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
33.03 |
0.8295 |
0.0433 |
209 |
1 |
33.03 |
2012-12-07 |
| 101. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
32.94 |
0.9089 |
-0.0305 |
187 |
1 |
32.94 |
2012-11-29 |
| 102. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
32.52 |
0.9682 |
-0.1128 |
143 |
2 |
31.61 |
2013-01-16 |
| 103. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
32.34 |
0.7690 |
0.0852 |
142 |
1 |
32.34 |
2012-12-19 |
| 104. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
32.21 |
0.8533 |
-0.0029 |
232 |
1 |
32.21 |
2012-11-27 |
| 105. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
32.16 |
0.9430 |
-0.0978 |
227 |
1 |
32.16 |
2012-12-11 |
| 106. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
32.13 |
0.9731 |
-0.1386 |
129 |
1 |
32.13 |
2012-11-29 |
| 107. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
32.11 |
1.0053 |
-0.1611 |
232 |
1 |
32.11 |
2013-01-09 |
| 108. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
31.55 |
1.1014 |
-0.2324 |
273 |
1 |
31.55 |
2013-01-14 |
| 109. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
30.74 |
1.0788 |
-0.2748 |
171 |
1 |
30.74 |
2012-12-17 |
| 110. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
30.32 |
1.0349 |
-0.2372 |
234 |
1 |
30.32 |
2012-12-14 |
| 111. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
30.25 |
0.9350 |
-0.1376 |
195 |
1 |
30.25 |
2012-11-28 |
| 112. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
29.89 |
0.7731 |
0.0158 |
145 |
1 |
29.89 |
2013-01-28 |
| 113. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
29.48 |
1.0711 |
-0.3005 |
213 |
1 |
29.48 |
2012-11-27 |
| 114. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
29.23 |
0.8553 |
-0.0911 |
174 |
1 |
29.23 |
2012-11-27 |
| 115. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
28.90 |
0.9710 |
-0.2170 |
173 |
1 |
28.90 |
2012-11-27 |
| 116. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
27.37 |
0.9233 |
-0.2119 |
168 |
1 |
27.37 |
2012-12-12 |
| 117. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
26.26 |
0.7852 |
-0.0898 |
149 |
1 |
26.26 |
2012-12-03 |
| 118. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
24.87 |
0.7996 |
-0.1462 |
177 |
1 |
24.87 |
2012-11-28 |