| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
53.98 |
1.0944 |
0.1844 |
308 |
2 |
49.44 |
2011-10-08 |
| 2. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
52.35 |
1.0426 |
0.1530 |
323 |
1 |
52.35 |
2011-10-18 |
| 3. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
51.37 |
0.9339 |
0.2383 |
310 |
1 |
51.37 |
2011-10-09 |
| 4. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
48.41 |
0.9893 |
0.1161 |
323 |
1 |
48.41 |
2011-10-08 |
| 5. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
48.34 |
1.1215 |
0.0062 |
200 |
1 |
48.34 |
2011-10-08 |
| 6. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
48.32 |
1.0993 |
0.0018 |
265 |
1 |
48.32 |
2011-10-08 |
| 7. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
48.27 |
1.0767 |
0.0232 |
212 |
1 |
48.27 |
2011-10-08 |
| 8. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
48.23 |
0.9430 |
0.1553 |
227 |
1 |
48.23 |
2011-10-08 |
| 9. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
48.22 |
1.0787 |
0.0209 |
237 |
1 |
48.22 |
2011-10-18 |
| 10. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
48.21 |
1.0668 |
0.0364 |
350 |
1 |
48.21 |
2011-10-08 |
| 11. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
47.97 |
0.9866 |
0.1049 |
218 |
1 |
47.97 |
2011-10-08 |
| 12. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
47.85 |
1.0025 |
0.0898 |
256 |
1 |
47.85 |
2011-10-16 |
| 13. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
47.82 |
0.9873 |
0.1017 |
155 |
2 |
45.43 |
2011-10-08 |
| 14. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
47.79 |
0.9097 |
0.1816 |
153 |
3 |
46.23 |
2011-10-08 |
| 15. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
47.71 |
1.0251 |
0.0618 |
261 |
1 |
47.71 |
2011-10-18 |
| 16. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
47.50 |
0.9266 |
0.1595 |
278 |
1 |
47.50 |
2011-10-18 |
| 17. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
47.47 |
1.0797 |
-0.0017 |
210 |
1 |
47.47 |
2011-10-08 |
| 18. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
47.41 |
0.9072 |
0.1733 |
237 |
2 |
43.86 |
2011-10-08 |
| 19. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
47.11 |
1.0740 |
0.0396 |
264 |
1 |
47.11 |
2011-10-08 |
| 20. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
47.04 |
0.9632 |
0.1090 |
240 |
1 |
47.04 |
2011-10-08 |
| 21. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
47.03 |
1.0201 |
0.0537 |
303 |
1 |
47.03 |
2011-10-09 |
| 22. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
46.47 |
1.0608 |
0.0330 |
258 |
1 |
46.47 |
2011-10-08 |
| 23. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
46.47 |
1.0719 |
0.0162 |
360 |
1 |
46.47 |
2011-10-16 |
| 24. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
46.41 |
1.0240 |
0.0325 |
256 |
1 |
46.41 |
2011-10-08 |
| 25. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
46.34 |
1.0042 |
0.0948 |
352 |
1 |
46.34 |
2011-10-10 |
| 26. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
46.29 |
1.0297 |
0.0254 |
249 |
1 |
46.29 |
2011-10-09 |
| 27. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
46.17 |
0.9668 |
0.1294 |
383 |
2 |
46.16 |
2011-10-08 |
| 28. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
46.16 |
1.0529 |
0.0003 |
351 |
1 |
46.16 |
2011-10-08 |
| 29. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
45.85 |
1.0788 |
-0.0382 |
171 |
1 |
45.85 |
2011-10-08 |
| 30. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
45.73 |
1.0419 |
0.0015 |
261 |
1 |
45.73 |
2011-10-06 |
| 31. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
45.67 |
0.8787 |
0.1680 |
202 |
2 |
43.70 |
2011-10-14 |
| 32. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
45.54 |
0.9846 |
0.0533 |
281 |
1 |
45.54 |
2011-10-14 |
| 33. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
45.52 |
0.9350 |
0.1044 |
195 |
1 |
45.52 |
2011-10-07 |
| 34. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
45.36 |
0.9084 |
0.1283 |
300 |
1 |
45.36 |
2011-10-08 |
| 35. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
45.36 |
0.9711 |
0.0626 |
176 |
1 |
45.36 |
2011-10-06 |
| 36. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
45.29 |
1.0523 |
-0.0234 |
256 |
1 |
45.29 |
2011-10-06 |
| 37. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
45.28 |
1.0349 |
-0.0026 |
234 |
1 |
45.28 |
2011-10-08 |
| 38. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
45.23 |
1.0109 |
0.0218 |
276 |
2 |
42.20 |
2011-10-08 |
| 39. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
45.16 |
0.9756 |
0.0533 |
229 |
1 |
45.16 |
2011-10-08 |
| 40. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
45.00 |
0.9068 |
0.1227 |
269 |
1 |
45.00 |
2011-10-18 |
| 41. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
44.98 |
0.9722 |
0.0560 |
283 |
1 |
44.98 |
2011-10-18 |
| 42. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
44.98 |
0.9263 |
0.1033 |
188 |
1 |
44.98 |
2011-10-06 |
| 43. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
44.82 |
1.1114 |
-0.0917 |
247 |
1 |
44.82 |
2011-10-04 |
| 44. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
44.78 |
1.0477 |
-0.0238 |
360 |
1 |
44.78 |
2011-10-18 |
| 45. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
44.74 |
0.9820 |
0.0413 |
267 |
1 |
44.74 |
2011-10-08 |
| 46. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
44.60 |
1.0596 |
-0.0444 |
239 |
2 |
44.37 |
2011-10-07 |
| 47. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
43.97 |
1.0531 |
-0.0122 |
272 |
1 |
43.97 |
2011-10-28 |
| 48. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
43.88 |
1.0033 |
-0.0093 |
189 |
1 |
43.88 |
2011-10-06 |
| 49. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
43.79 |
0.8947 |
0.1088 |
366 |
1 |
43.79 |
2011-10-09 |
| 50. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
43.79 |
1.0679 |
-0.0490 |
177 |
1 |
43.79 |
2011-11-08 |
| 51. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
43.75 |
0.9286 |
0.0681 |
194 |
1 |
43.75 |
2011-10-08 |
| 52. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
43.72 |
1.0711 |
-0.0792 |
213 |
1 |
43.72 |
2011-10-08 |
| 53. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
43.70 |
1.0257 |
-0.0228 |
401 |
1 |
43.70 |
2011-10-23 |
| 54. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
43.70 |
0.9234 |
0.0785 |
346 |
1 |
43.70 |
2011-10-21 |
| 55. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
43.60 |
1.0547 |
-0.0258 |
257 |
1 |
43.60 |
2011-10-08 |
| 56. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
43.56 |
1.0390 |
-0.0495 |
205 |
1 |
43.56 |
2011-10-07 |
| 57. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
43.53 |
0.9430 |
0.0525 |
297 |
1 |
43.53 |
2011-10-10 |
| 58. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
43.47 |
0.9965 |
-0.0047 |
277 |
2 |
41.66 |
2011-10-08 |
| 59. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
43.44 |
0.8935 |
0.1067 |
328 |
1 |
43.44 |
2011-10-08 |
| 60. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
43.43 |
0.9897 |
-0.0017 |
274 |
1 |
43.43 |
2011-10-08 |
| 61. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
43.24 |
1.0201 |
-0.0410 |
172 |
1 |
43.24 |
2011-10-04 |
| 62. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
43.17 |
1.0063 |
-0.0216 |
371 |
1 |
43.17 |
2011-10-08 |
| 63. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
43.05 |
0.9212 |
0.0636 |
323 |
1 |
43.05 |
2011-10-08 |
| 64. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
42.65 |
1.0388 |
-0.0349 |
243 |
1 |
42.65 |
2011-10-09 |
| 65. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
42.59 |
0.9965 |
-0.0304 |
168 |
1 |
42.59 |
2011-10-04 |
| 66. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
42.55 |
1.0534 |
-0.0812 |
357 |
1 |
42.55 |
2011-10-08 |
| 67. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
42.54 |
0.9855 |
0.0175 |
258 |
1 |
42.54 |
2011-10-06 |
| 68. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
42.54 |
0.9593 |
0.0151 |
398 |
1 |
42.54 |
2011-10-18 |
| 69. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
42.48 |
1.0197 |
-0.0543 |
226 |
1 |
42.48 |
2011-10-06 |
| 70. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
42.46 |
1.0343 |
-0.0290 |
242 |
1 |
42.46 |
2011-10-08 |
| 71. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
42.42 |
0.9649 |
0.0010 |
193 |
2 |
39.58 |
2011-10-08 |
| 72. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
42.33 |
0.9844 |
-0.0147 |
293 |
1 |
42.33 |
2011-10-18 |
| 73. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
42.17 |
0.9016 |
0.0673 |
192 |
1 |
42.17 |
2011-10-05 |
| 74. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
41.98 |
0.9307 |
0.0341 |
246 |
1 |
41.98 |
2011-10-07 |
| 75. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
41.93 |
1.0429 |
-0.0887 |
259 |
1 |
41.93 |
2011-10-23 |
| 76. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
41.92 |
0.8910 |
0.0661 |
150 |
1 |
41.92 |
2011-10-07 |
| 77. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
41.74 |
0.9019 |
0.0545 |
204 |
1 |
41.74 |
2011-10-05 |
| 78. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
41.62 |
1.0169 |
-0.0298 |
346 |
1 |
41.62 |
2011-10-08 |
| 79. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
41.50 |
0.9907 |
-0.0466 |
211 |
1 |
41.50 |
2011-10-16 |
| 80. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
41.37 |
1.0167 |
-0.0672 |
378 |
1 |
41.37 |
2011-10-08 |
| 81. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
41.27 |
1.0567 |
-0.1157 |
303 |
1 |
41.27 |
2011-10-05 |
| 82. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
41.25 |
0.8958 |
0.0487 |
322 |
1 |
41.25 |
2011-10-08 |
| 83. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
41.22 |
1.0151 |
-0.0844 |
152 |
1 |
41.22 |
2011-10-08 |
| 84. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
41.21 |
1.0232 |
-0.0383 |
350 |
1 |
41.21 |
2011-10-06 |
| 85. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
41.09 |
0.9636 |
-0.0275 |
254 |
2 |
39.77 |
2011-10-08 |
| 86. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
41.02 |
0.8615 |
0.0732 |
110 |
1 |
41.02 |
2011-10-04 |
| 87. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
40.89 |
0.9028 |
0.0270 |
111 |
1 |
40.89 |
2011-10-07 |
| 88. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
40.88 |
0.9986 |
-0.0721 |
162 |
1 |
40.88 |
2011-10-07 |
| 89. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
40.80 |
0.9904 |
-0.0203 |
203 |
1 |
40.80 |
2011-10-14 |
| 90. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
40.77 |
1.0183 |
-0.0951 |
191 |
1 |
40.77 |
2011-10-06 |
| 91. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
40.68 |
0.8289 |
0.1053 |
304 |
1 |
40.68 |
2011-10-06 |
| 92. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
40.56 |
0.9774 |
-0.0543 |
196 |
1 |
40.56 |
2011-10-06 |
| 93. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
40.46 |
0.9811 |
-0.0567 |
272 |
1 |
40.46 |
2011-10-06 |
| 94. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
40.45 |
0.9653 |
-0.0448 |
349 |
1 |
40.45 |
2011-10-08 |
| 95. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
40.38 |
0.9871 |
-0.0451 |
227 |
1 |
40.38 |
2011-10-08 |
| 96. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
40.14 |
0.8906 |
0.0280 |
238 |
1 |
40.14 |
2011-10-07 |
| 97. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
39.93 |
1.0396 |
-0.1374 |
149 |
1 |
39.93 |
2011-10-05 |
| 98. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
39.88 |
0.9504 |
-0.0475 |
263 |
1 |
39.88 |
2011-10-07 |
| 99. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
39.49 |
0.9309 |
-0.0335 |
284 |
1 |
39.49 |
2011-10-08 |
| 100. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
39.24 |
0.9614 |
-0.0649 |
292 |
1 |
39.24 |
2011-10-07 |
| 101. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
39.21 |
0.9275 |
-0.0380 |
211 |
1 |
39.21 |
2011-10-08 |
| 102. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
38.68 |
0.8722 |
0.0113 |
285 |
1 |
38.68 |
2011-10-08 |
| 103. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
38.68 |
0.9109 |
-0.0277 |
401 |
1 |
38.68 |
2011-10-08 |
| 104. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
38.47 |
1.0574 |
-0.1538 |
205 |
1 |
38.47 |
2011-10-07 |
| 105. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
38.09 |
0.8852 |
-0.0162 |
201 |
1 |
38.09 |
2011-10-07 |
| 106. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
37.96 |
0.9865 |
-0.1215 |
276 |
1 |
37.96 |
2011-10-07 |
| 107. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
37.86 |
0.9941 |
-0.1349 |
217 |
1 |
37.86 |
2011-10-05 |
| 108. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
37.20 |
0.9946 |
-0.1484 |
246 |
1 |
37.20 |
2011-10-07 |
| 109. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
36.81 |
0.9964 |
-0.1589 |
203 |
1 |
36.81 |
2011-10-04 |
| 110. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
36.56 |
0.9567 |
-0.0829 |
184 |
1 |
36.56 |
2011-10-05 |
| 111. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
35.86 |
0.8202 |
-0.0075 |
178 |
1 |
35.86 |
2011-10-07 |
| 112. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
35.07 |
0.8348 |
-0.0313 |
219 |
1 |
35.07 |
2011-10-07 |
| 113. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
34.47 |
0.9912 |
-0.1810 |
237 |
1 |
34.47 |
2011-10-06 |
| 114. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
34.31 |
0.9353 |
-0.1598 |
177 |
1 |
34.31 |
2011-10-06 |
| 115. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
33.58 |
0.7876 |
-0.0222 |
316 |
1 |
33.58 |
2011-10-05 |