| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
39.01 |
1.0767 |
0.2306 |
212 |
1 |
39.01 |
2011-05-15 |
| 2. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
38.50 |
1.0365 |
0.2852 |
162 |
1 |
38.50 |
2011-05-11 |
| 3. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
38.20 |
0.8809 |
0.3990 |
127 |
1 |
38.20 |
2011-05-11 |
| 4. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
36.55 |
0.8118 |
0.4199 |
109 |
2 |
35.06 |
2011-05-11 |
| 5. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
36.15 |
1.0714 |
0.1320 |
129 |
2 |
32.27 |
2011-05-11 |
| 6. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
35.55 |
0.9776 |
0.2150 |
308 |
2 |
35.31 |
2011-05-15 |
| 7. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
35.32 |
0.9907 |
0.1923 |
211 |
2 |
30.31 |
2011-05-15 |
| 8. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
34.27 |
0.9171 |
0.2323 |
165 |
3 |
31.33 |
2011-05-16 |
| 9. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
34.01 |
0.9461 |
0.1898 |
193 |
1 |
34.01 |
2011-05-10 |
| 10. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
33.74 |
1.0117 |
0.1639 |
297 |
1 |
33.74 |
2011-05-11 |
| 11. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
33.70 |
0.9089 |
0.2241 |
342 |
1 |
33.70 |
2010-09-19 |
| 12. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
33.60 |
0.8994 |
0.2287 |
188 |
1 |
33.60 |
2010-09-18 |
| 13. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
33.56 |
0.8311 |
0.2874 |
124 |
3 |
31.63 |
2011-05-11 |
| 14. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
33.05 |
0.7850 |
0.3192 |
154 |
1 |
33.05 |
2011-05-11 |
| 15. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
33.03 |
1.1162 |
0.0318 |
189 |
1 |
33.03 |
2011-05-11 |
| 16. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
33.01 |
1.0023 |
0.1017 |
211 |
1 |
33.01 |
2010-10-07 |
| 17. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
32.71 |
0.9576 |
0.1424 |
212 |
1 |
32.71 |
2010-09-19 |
| 18. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
32.47 |
0.9941 |
0.0913 |
217 |
1 |
32.47 |
2010-09-18 |
| 19. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
32.23 |
0.9976 |
0.1024 |
174 |
2 |
32.08 |
2011-05-15 |
| 20. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
32.18 |
0.8142 |
0.2585 |
187 |
1 |
32.18 |
2010-09-18 |
| 21. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
32.17 |
1.0349 |
0.0418 |
234 |
1 |
32.17 |
2010-09-18 |
| 22. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
32.17 |
0.9028 |
0.1728 |
111 |
1 |
32.17 |
2010-09-18 |
| 23. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
32.15 |
0.8791 |
0.1970 |
190 |
1 |
32.15 |
2011-05-15 |
| 24. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
32.07 |
0.8810 |
0.1938 |
282 |
1 |
32.07 |
2011-05-15 |
| 25. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
31.69 |
0.9633 |
0.1002 |
304 |
2 |
28.63 |
2011-05-11 |
| 26. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
31.68 |
1.0506 |
0.0391 |
277 |
2 |
30.03 |
2011-05-15 |
| 27. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
31.68 |
0.8660 |
0.1953 |
193 |
1 |
31.68 |
2010-09-18 |
| 28. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
31.37 |
0.7988 |
0.2600 |
219 |
1 |
31.37 |
2011-05-11 |
| 29. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
31.20 |
1.0696 |
-0.0283 |
226 |
1 |
31.20 |
2011-05-16 |
| 30. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
31.10 |
0.8666 |
0.1785 |
150 |
1 |
31.10 |
2010-09-18 |
| 31. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
30.76 |
0.9769 |
0.0511 |
263 |
2 |
29.14 |
2011-05-16 |
| 32. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
30.70 |
1.1018 |
-0.0808 |
220 |
1 |
30.70 |
2010-09-18 |
| 33. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
30.60 |
0.8122 |
0.2149 |
181 |
1 |
30.60 |
2010-09-18 |
| 34. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
30.48 |
0.8275 |
0.1945 |
142 |
1 |
30.48 |
2010-09-18 |
| 35. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
30.35 |
0.9820 |
0.0338 |
274 |
1 |
30.35 |
2010-09-18 |
| 36. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
30.19 |
1.0232 |
0.0229 |
236 |
1 |
30.19 |
2010-10-07 |
| 37. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.19 |
1.0334 |
-0.0295 |
131 |
1 |
30.19 |
2010-09-18 |
| 38. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
29.99 |
1.0197 |
-0.0188 |
226 |
1 |
29.99 |
2010-09-18 |
| 39. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
29.96 |
1.0346 |
0.0099 |
244 |
1 |
29.96 |
2011-05-15 |
| 40. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
29.83 |
1.0521 |
-0.0590 |
171 |
1 |
29.83 |
2010-09-18 |
| 41. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
29.80 |
0.8900 |
0.1086 |
164 |
1 |
29.80 |
2011-05-10 |
| 42. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
29.71 |
0.9965 |
-0.0017 |
277 |
1 |
29.71 |
2011-05-11 |
| 43. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
29.71 |
1.0486 |
-0.0535 |
289 |
1 |
29.71 |
2010-09-18 |
| 44. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
29.59 |
0.8178 |
0.1730 |
159 |
1 |
29.59 |
2011-05-11 |
| 45. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
29.46 |
1.0523 |
-0.0708 |
256 |
1 |
29.46 |
2010-09-18 |
| 46. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
29.39 |
0.8615 |
0.1219 |
110 |
1 |
29.39 |
2010-09-18 |
| 47. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
29.15 |
0.9697 |
0.0097 |
266 |
1 |
29.15 |
2010-09-18 |
| 48. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
29.15 |
0.7389 |
0.2381 |
145 |
1 |
29.15 |
2010-09-19 |
| 49. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
29.01 |
0.9904 |
0.0205 |
203 |
1 |
29.01 |
2010-09-18 |
| 50. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
28.91 |
0.9161 |
0.0486 |
200 |
1 |
28.91 |
2011-05-10 |
| 51. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
28.84 |
0.9688 |
-0.0050 |
217 |
1 |
28.84 |
2010-09-18 |
| 52. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
28.80 |
0.9084 |
0.0587 |
404 |
1 |
28.80 |
2011-05-10 |
| 53. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
28.54 |
1.0090 |
-0.0108 |
282 |
1 |
28.54 |
2011-05-18 |
| 54. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
28.49 |
1.0261 |
-0.0753 |
273 |
1 |
28.49 |
2010-09-18 |
| 55. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
28.27 |
0.9673 |
0.0172 |
232 |
1 |
28.27 |
2010-09-19 |
| 56. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
28.19 |
0.9740 |
-0.0356 |
209 |
1 |
28.19 |
2010-09-18 |
| 57. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
28.05 |
0.8826 |
0.0570 |
296 |
1 |
28.05 |
2010-09-18 |
| 58. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
27.98 |
0.8793 |
0.0572 |
157 |
1 |
27.98 |
2011-05-15 |
| 59. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
27.80 |
0.9063 |
0.0312 |
239 |
1 |
27.80 |
2010-09-18 |
| 60. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
27.73 |
0.8956 |
0.0343 |
217 |
1 |
27.73 |
2010-09-18 |
| 61. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
27.73 |
0.8725 |
0.0569 |
163 |
1 |
27.73 |
2010-09-18 |
| 62. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
27.63 |
0.9936 |
-0.0498 |
227 |
1 |
27.63 |
2010-09-18 |
| 63. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
27.55 |
0.8562 |
0.0650 |
170 |
1 |
27.55 |
2010-09-18 |
| 64. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
27.52 |
0.8841 |
0.0428 |
194 |
1 |
27.52 |
2010-09-18 |
| 65. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
27.50 |
0.9897 |
-0.0729 |
274 |
1 |
27.50 |
2011-05-16 |
| 66. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
27.44 |
0.9773 |
-0.0683 |
123 |
1 |
27.44 |
2010-09-18 |
| 67. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
27.42 |
0.9005 |
0.0146 |
212 |
1 |
27.42 |
2011-05-16 |
| 68. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
27.42 |
1.0029 |
-0.0929 |
209 |
1 |
27.42 |
2010-09-18 |
| 69. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
27.20 |
0.7484 |
0.1575 |
185 |
1 |
27.20 |
2010-09-18 |
| 70. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
27.20 |
0.8876 |
0.0205 |
118 |
1 |
27.20 |
2010-09-18 |
| 71. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
27.00 |
0.7375 |
0.1694 |
148 |
1 |
27.00 |
2010-09-20 |
| 72. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
26.98 |
0.9325 |
-0.0378 |
156 |
1 |
26.98 |
2010-09-18 |
| 73. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
26.93 |
1.0375 |
-0.0917 |
200 |
1 |
26.93 |
2010-09-19 |
| 74. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
26.79 |
0.8595 |
0.0380 |
242 |
2 |
24.96 |
2010-09-18 |
| 75. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
26.62 |
0.8892 |
0.0069 |
207 |
1 |
26.62 |
2011-05-11 |
| 76. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
26.38 |
0.9649 |
-0.0845 |
193 |
1 |
26.38 |
2010-09-19 |
| 77. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
26.36 |
1.0284 |
-0.1045 |
282 |
1 |
26.36 |
2010-09-18 |
| 78. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
26.25 |
0.9844 |
-0.0969 |
229 |
1 |
26.25 |
2010-09-18 |
| 79. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
26.16 |
0.9468 |
-0.0729 |
276 |
1 |
26.16 |
2011-05-11 |
| 80. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
26.08 |
0.8951 |
-0.0215 |
193 |
1 |
26.08 |
2010-09-18 |
| 81. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
25.64 |
0.9287 |
-0.0795 |
108 |
1 |
25.64 |
2011-08-21 |
| 82. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
25.46 |
1.0168 |
-0.1649 |
271 |
1 |
25.46 |
2010-09-18 |
| 83. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
25.36 |
0.9351 |
-0.0939 |
190 |
1 |
25.36 |
2010-09-19 |
| 84. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
25.07 |
0.9682 |
-0.1328 |
143 |
1 |
25.07 |
2010-09-18 |
| 85. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
24.92 |
1.0669 |
-0.2021 |
213 |
1 |
24.92 |
2010-09-18 |
| 86. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
24.75 |
0.8263 |
-0.0023 |
162 |
1 |
24.75 |
2011-08-21 |
| 87. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
24.55 |
0.9216 |
-0.0630 |
255 |
1 |
24.55 |
2010-09-18 |
| 88. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
24.53 |
0.8295 |
-0.0091 |
209 |
1 |
24.53 |
2010-09-18 |
| 89. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
23.56 |
1.0292 |
-0.2451 |
262 |
1 |
23.56 |
2011-08-21 |
| 90. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
23.44 |
0.7981 |
-0.0178 |
126 |
1 |
23.44 |
2011-08-21 |
| 91. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
23.28 |
0.8073 |
-0.0292 |
173 |
1 |
23.28 |
2010-09-18 |
| 92. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
22.30 |
1.0124 |
-0.2720 |
204 |
1 |
22.30 |
2011-05-11 |
| 93. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
22.09 |
0.8854 |
-0.1500 |
116 |
1 |
22.09 |
2010-09-18 |