| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
70.06 |
1.1162 |
0.2511 |
189 |
1 |
70.06 |
2011-12-27 |
| 2. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
67.62 |
1.0462 |
0.2274 |
184 |
1 |
67.62 |
2011-12-23 |
| 3. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
66.81 |
1.0917 |
0.1960 |
243 |
1 |
66.81 |
2011-12-25 |
| 4. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
66.74 |
1.0331 |
0.2276 |
234 |
1 |
66.74 |
2011-12-27 |
| 5. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
66.44 |
1.0132 |
0.2352 |
143 |
1 |
66.44 |
2011-12-23 |
| 6. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
64.00 |
1.0533 |
0.1838 |
257 |
2 |
58.80 |
2011-12-24 |
| 7. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
63.81 |
1.0441 |
0.2041 |
316 |
1 |
63.81 |
2011-12-29 |
| 8. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
62.20 |
1.0205 |
0.1491 |
179 |
1 |
62.20 |
2011-12-20 |
| 9. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
59.99 |
1.0787 |
0.0538 |
237 |
1 |
59.99 |
2011-12-21 |
| 10. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
59.83 |
1.1323 |
0.0322 |
341 |
1 |
59.83 |
2011-12-21 |
| 11. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
59.81 |
0.9187 |
0.2018 |
118 |
2 |
54.88 |
2011-12-20 |
| 12. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
59.42 |
1.0201 |
0.1033 |
303 |
2 |
55.69 |
2011-12-25 |
| 13. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
59.38 |
1.0297 |
0.0913 |
249 |
1 |
59.38 |
2011-12-20 |
| 14. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
58.95 |
0.9559 |
0.1608 |
195 |
1 |
58.95 |
2011-12-25 |
| 15. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
58.86 |
0.9916 |
0.1632 |
282 |
1 |
58.86 |
2011-12-22 |
| 16. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
58.68 |
1.0284 |
0.1237 |
282 |
1 |
58.68 |
2011-12-25 |
| 17. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
58.51 |
0.9353 |
0.1662 |
177 |
1 |
58.51 |
2011-12-24 |
| 18. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
57.78 |
0.9619 |
0.1349 |
393 |
1 |
57.78 |
2011-12-22 |
| 19. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
57.57 |
0.8951 |
0.1947 |
193 |
1 |
57.57 |
2011-12-24 |
| 20. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
57.56 |
1.0795 |
0.0384 |
226 |
2 |
56.00 |
2011-12-22 |
| 21. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
57.23 |
1.0412 |
0.0393 |
225 |
1 |
57.23 |
2011-12-22 |
| 22. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
57.21 |
1.0905 |
0.0221 |
210 |
1 |
57.21 |
2011-12-24 |
| 23. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
57.16 |
1.0203 |
0.0629 |
261 |
1 |
57.16 |
2011-12-22 |
| 24. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
57.09 |
0.9430 |
0.1325 |
227 |
1 |
57.09 |
2011-12-20 |
| 25. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
57.07 |
1.0968 |
0.0186 |
365 |
1 |
57.07 |
2011-12-22 |
| 26. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
57.07 |
0.8968 |
0.1787 |
186 |
1 |
57.07 |
2011-12-20 |
| 27. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
56.93 |
1.0031 |
0.1058 |
304 |
1 |
56.93 |
2011-12-21 |
| 28. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
56.33 |
1.0943 |
0.0022 |
206 |
2 |
54.40 |
2011-12-21 |
| 29. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
56.31 |
1.0073 |
0.0642 |
369 |
1 |
56.31 |
2011-12-24 |
| 30. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
56.27 |
0.9212 |
0.1453 |
231 |
1 |
56.27 |
2011-12-20 |
| 31. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
56.25 |
1.0555 |
0.0083 |
363 |
1 |
56.25 |
2011-12-24 |
| 32. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
55.54 |
1.0063 |
0.0429 |
371 |
2 |
54.13 |
2011-12-22 |
| 33. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
55.21 |
1.0515 |
-0.0168 |
166 |
1 |
55.21 |
2011-12-19 |
| 34. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
55.14 |
0.9866 |
0.0508 |
218 |
1 |
55.14 |
2011-12-22 |
| 35. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
55.13 |
0.9907 |
0.0486 |
211 |
1 |
55.13 |
2011-12-24 |
| 36. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
55.01 |
1.0403 |
0.0383 |
275 |
1 |
55.01 |
2011-12-23 |
| 37. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
54.97 |
1.1014 |
-0.0257 |
273 |
1 |
54.97 |
2011-12-20 |
| 38. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
54.85 |
0.8907 |
0.1577 |
351 |
1 |
54.85 |
2011-12-22 |
| 39. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
54.85 |
0.9601 |
0.0802 |
308 |
1 |
54.85 |
2011-12-22 |
| 40. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
54.58 |
0.9731 |
0.0448 |
129 |
1 |
54.58 |
2011-12-25 |
| 41. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
54.25 |
1.0944 |
-0.0255 |
308 |
1 |
54.25 |
2011-12-20 |
| 42. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
54.07 |
1.0387 |
0.0143 |
239 |
1 |
54.07 |
2011-12-27 |
| 43. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
53.66 |
0.9226 |
0.0965 |
348 |
1 |
53.66 |
2011-12-23 |
| 44. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
53.51 |
1.0016 |
0.0038 |
218 |
1 |
53.51 |
2011-12-23 |
| 45. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
53.32 |
1.0516 |
-0.0457 |
281 |
1 |
53.32 |
2011-12-22 |
| 46. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
53.16 |
0.9532 |
0.0488 |
258 |
3 |
46.52 |
2011-12-20 |
| 47. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
53.08 |
0.9964 |
0.0055 |
203 |
2 |
52.79 |
2011-12-22 |
| 48. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
52.86 |
1.0168 |
-0.0178 |
271 |
1 |
52.86 |
2011-12-22 |
| 49. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
52.83 |
1.0251 |
-0.0303 |
261 |
1 |
52.83 |
2011-12-20 |
| 50. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
52.82 |
0.9871 |
0.0319 |
227 |
1 |
52.82 |
2011-12-20 |
| 51. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
52.82 |
1.0595 |
-0.0602 |
379 |
1 |
52.82 |
2011-12-19 |
| 52. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
52.69 |
0.9653 |
0.0281 |
349 |
1 |
52.69 |
2011-12-20 |
| 53. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
52.69 |
0.9614 |
0.0359 |
292 |
1 |
52.69 |
2011-12-22 |
| 54. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
52.65 |
0.9635 |
0.0354 |
389 |
1 |
52.65 |
2011-12-20 |
| 55. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
52.65 |
0.8884 |
0.1057 |
135 |
1 |
52.65 |
2011-12-24 |
| 56. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
52.56 |
0.9471 |
0.0550 |
312 |
1 |
52.56 |
2011-12-23 |
| 57. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
52.51 |
1.0619 |
-0.0674 |
354 |
1 |
52.51 |
2011-12-24 |
| 58. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
52.43 |
0.9668 |
0.0651 |
383 |
1 |
52.43 |
2011-12-21 |
| 59. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
52.36 |
0.9508 |
0.0704 |
384 |
1 |
52.36 |
2011-12-22 |
| 60. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
52.29 |
0.9127 |
0.0717 |
252 |
1 |
52.29 |
2011-12-24 |
| 61. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
52.24 |
0.9289 |
0.0545 |
204 |
2 |
48.15 |
2011-12-22 |
| 62. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
52.17 |
0.9023 |
0.1249 |
231 |
1 |
52.17 |
2011-12-20 |
| 63. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
52.07 |
1.1016 |
-0.1190 |
233 |
1 |
52.07 |
2011-12-20 |
| 64. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
51.92 |
0.9202 |
0.0587 |
254 |
2 |
44.18 |
2011-12-22 |
| 65. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
51.71 |
1.0396 |
-0.0712 |
149 |
1 |
51.71 |
2011-12-21 |
| 66. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
51.66 |
1.0441 |
-0.0680 |
252 |
1 |
51.66 |
2011-12-18 |
| 67. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
51.37 |
1.0711 |
-0.1071 |
213 |
1 |
51.37 |
2011-12-22 |
| 68. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
51.21 |
0.9461 |
0.0197 |
276 |
1 |
51.21 |
2011-12-25 |
| 69. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
51.05 |
1.0763 |
-0.0718 |
367 |
1 |
51.05 |
2011-12-20 |
| 70. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
50.99 |
0.9893 |
-0.0274 |
323 |
1 |
50.99 |
2011-12-19 |
| 71. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
50.77 |
1.0567 |
-0.0985 |
303 |
1 |
50.77 |
2011-12-21 |
| 72. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
50.54 |
0.8914 |
0.0626 |
366 |
1 |
50.54 |
2011-12-25 |
| 73. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
50.45 |
0.8787 |
0.0775 |
202 |
1 |
50.45 |
2011-12-22 |
| 74. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
50.40 |
0.9846 |
-0.0352 |
281 |
1 |
50.40 |
2011-12-20 |
| 75. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
50.21 |
1.0013 |
-0.0553 |
273 |
1 |
50.21 |
2011-12-23 |
| 76. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
49.77 |
0.9359 |
0.0421 |
353 |
1 |
49.77 |
2011-12-22 |
| 77. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
49.59 |
1.0154 |
-0.0306 |
351 |
1 |
49.59 |
2011-12-18 |
| 78. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
49.43 |
0.9045 |
0.0278 |
235 |
1 |
49.43 |
2011-12-19 |
| 79. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
49.10 |
1.0725 |
-0.1210 |
233 |
1 |
49.10 |
2011-12-20 |
| 80. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
48.94 |
0.9005 |
0.0206 |
212 |
1 |
48.94 |
2011-12-24 |
| 81. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
48.89 |
1.0365 |
-0.0849 |
162 |
1 |
48.89 |
2011-12-19 |
| 82. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
48.83 |
1.0669 |
-0.1141 |
286 |
1 |
48.83 |
2011-12-19 |
| 83. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
48.71 |
1.0109 |
-0.0919 |
276 |
2 |
48.01 |
2011-12-23 |
| 84. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
48.24 |
0.9884 |
-0.0800 |
233 |
1 |
48.24 |
2011-12-20 |
| 85. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
48.23 |
0.9897 |
-0.0830 |
274 |
1 |
48.23 |
2011-12-18 |
| 86. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
48.22 |
0.9342 |
-0.0218 |
434 |
1 |
48.22 |
2011-12-22 |
| 87. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
48.04 |
0.9049 |
0.0059 |
351 |
1 |
48.04 |
2011-12-19 |
| 88. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
47.98 |
1.0167 |
-0.1056 |
378 |
1 |
47.98 |
2011-12-19 |
| 89. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
47.92 |
0.9646 |
-0.0624 |
264 |
1 |
47.92 |
2011-12-19 |
| 90. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
47.55 |
0.9884 |
-0.0880 |
262 |
1 |
47.55 |
2011-12-19 |
| 91. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
47.53 |
0.9672 |
-0.0650 |
396 |
1 |
47.53 |
2011-12-20 |
| 92. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
47.45 |
1.0270 |
-0.0969 |
255 |
2 |
45.68 |
2011-12-23 |
| 93. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
47.37 |
1.0375 |
-0.0989 |
200 |
1 |
47.37 |
2011-12-19 |
| 94. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
47.33 |
0.8935 |
0.0080 |
328 |
1 |
47.33 |
2011-12-21 |
| 95. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
47.30 |
0.9266 |
-0.0352 |
267 |
1 |
47.30 |
2011-12-19 |
| 96. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
47.27 |
0.9997 |
-0.1054 |
382 |
1 |
47.27 |
2011-12-23 |
| 97. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
47.10 |
0.9682 |
-0.0827 |
143 |
1 |
47.10 |
2011-12-18 |
| 98. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
46.59 |
0.8810 |
-0.0025 |
282 |
1 |
46.59 |
2011-12-20 |
| 99. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
46.58 |
1.0454 |
-0.1716 |
255 |
1 |
46.58 |
2011-12-20 |
| 100. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
46.42 |
0.9912 |
-0.0899 |
237 |
1 |
46.42 |
2011-12-20 |
| 101. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
46.40 |
0.9943 |
-0.1170 |
373 |
1 |
46.40 |
2011-12-19 |
| 102. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
46.27 |
0.8899 |
-0.0072 |
293 |
1 |
46.27 |
2011-12-18 |
| 103. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
45.88 |
0.9763 |
-0.1127 |
289 |
1 |
45.88 |
2012-04-30 |
| 104. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
44.77 |
0.9430 |
-0.1074 |
211 |
1 |
44.77 |
2011-12-19 |
| 105. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
44.43 |
0.9429 |
-0.1052 |
287 |
1 |
44.43 |
2011-12-20 |
| 106. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
44.34 |
0.9168 |
-0.0808 |
240 |
2 |
41.22 |
2011-12-20 |
| 107. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
43.93 |
1.0117 |
-0.1400 |
297 |
1 |
43.93 |
2011-12-19 |
| 108. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
43.80 |
0.9312 |
-0.0561 |
320 |
1 |
43.80 |
2011-12-18 |
| 109. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
43.01 |
0.9941 |
-0.1872 |
217 |
1 |
43.01 |
2011-12-20 |
| 110. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
42.95 |
0.9216 |
-0.0746 |
255 |
1 |
42.95 |
2011-12-19 |
| 111. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
42.87 |
1.0528 |
-0.2512 |
201 |
1 |
42.87 |
2011-12-19 |
| 112. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
42.72 |
0.8826 |
-0.0775 |
296 |
1 |
42.72 |
2011-12-20 |
| 113. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
42.09 |
0.9697 |
-0.1778 |
249 |
1 |
42.09 |
2011-12-18 |
| 114. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
41.61 |
1.0352 |
-0.2501 |
341 |
1 |
41.61 |
2011-12-19 |
| 115. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
41.20 |
0.9843 |
-0.2146 |
234 |
1 |
41.20 |
2011-12-18 |
| 116. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
40.96 |
0.9653 |
-0.1869 |
394 |
1 |
40.96 |
2011-12-19 |
| 117. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
40.83 |
0.9904 |
-0.1822 |
203 |
1 |
40.83 |
2011-12-19 |