| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
65.10 |
1.1016 |
0.4100 |
233 |
1 |
65.10 |
2013-07-22 |
| 2. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
61.46 |
0.9740 |
0.4484 |
209 |
1 |
61.46 |
2013-07-22 |
| 3. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
59.57 |
0.9899 |
0.3877 |
163 |
3 |
45.99 |
2013-07-22 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
57.45 |
1.0799 |
0.2490 |
243 |
2 |
56.67 |
2013-06-05 |
| 5. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
56.38 |
0.9559 |
0.3534 |
195 |
1 |
56.38 |
2012-10-15 |
| 6. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
53.08 |
1.0214 |
0.2077 |
269 |
1 |
53.08 |
2013-06-30 |
| 7. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
52.35 |
1.0596 |
0.1515 |
239 |
1 |
52.35 |
2012-10-15 |
| 8. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
51.76 |
1.1018 |
0.0908 |
220 |
1 |
51.76 |
2013-07-18 |
| 9. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
51.67 |
0.9911 |
0.2022 |
212 |
2 |
49.25 |
2013-06-05 |
| 10. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
51.45 |
0.9597 |
0.2366 |
347 |
2 |
47.35 |
2013-07-18 |
| 11. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
51.38 |
0.9348 |
0.2630 |
229 |
1 |
51.38 |
2013-06-16 |
| 12. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
50.53 |
0.8573 |
0.3165 |
270 |
1 |
50.53 |
2013-07-14 |
| 13. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
50.36 |
1.0025 |
0.1654 |
336 |
2 |
46.56 |
2013-06-30 |
| 14. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
50.36 |
1.0390 |
0.1243 |
205 |
2 |
46.31 |
2012-11-24 |
| 15. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
50.34 |
0.9756 |
0.1896 |
229 |
1 |
50.34 |
2013-06-05 |
| 16. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
50.14 |
1.0365 |
0.1545 |
162 |
1 |
50.14 |
2011-10-23 |
| 17. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
49.97 |
1.0796 |
0.0725 |
129 |
1 |
49.97 |
2012-11-24 |
| 18. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
49.79 |
0.9986 |
0.1493 |
162 |
1 |
49.79 |
2012-10-15 |
| 19. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
49.43 |
1.0673 |
0.1191 |
230 |
1 |
49.43 |
2012-06-11 |
| 20. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
49.24 |
1.0252 |
0.1086 |
176 |
1 |
49.24 |
2013-01-25 |
| 21. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
49.13 |
0.9582 |
0.1806 |
259 |
1 |
49.13 |
2013-01-25 |
| 22. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
48.64 |
0.9216 |
0.2440 |
255 |
1 |
48.64 |
2013-01-25 |
| 23. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
48.52 |
0.9072 |
0.2142 |
237 |
1 |
48.52 |
2012-10-15 |
| 24. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
48.45 |
0.8533 |
0.2692 |
232 |
1 |
48.45 |
2013-06-16 |
| 25. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
48.25 |
0.8792 |
0.2470 |
296 |
1 |
48.25 |
2012-05-31 |
| 26. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
48.20 |
1.0201 |
0.0963 |
303 |
1 |
48.20 |
2013-07-18 |
| 27. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
48.17 |
0.9128 |
0.2076 |
133 |
1 |
48.17 |
2011-10-23 |
| 28. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
47.84 |
0.8971 |
0.2152 |
266 |
1 |
47.84 |
2012-11-24 |
| 29. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
47.71 |
1.0403 |
0.1045 |
275 |
1 |
47.71 |
2012-06-22 |
| 30. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
47.63 |
0.9310 |
0.1666 |
188 |
1 |
47.63 |
2012-10-15 |
| 31. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
47.52 |
0.9576 |
0.1463 |
212 |
1 |
47.52 |
2011-10-23 |
| 32. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
47.11 |
0.9239 |
0.1724 |
193 |
1 |
47.11 |
2011-10-23 |
| 33. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
47.04 |
1.0684 |
0.0506 |
253 |
1 |
47.04 |
2013-07-07 |
| 34. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
46.96 |
1.0725 |
0.0399 |
233 |
1 |
46.96 |
2013-06-05 |
| 35. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
46.86 |
1.0547 |
0.0651 |
257 |
1 |
46.86 |
2012-11-24 |
| 36. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
46.66 |
1.0941 |
0.0173 |
256 |
1 |
46.66 |
2013-06-05 |
| 37. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
46.60 |
0.8918 |
0.1843 |
100 |
1 |
46.60 |
2013-06-05 |
| 38. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
46.53 |
0.9505 |
0.1255 |
204 |
1 |
46.53 |
2011-10-23 |
| 39. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
46.26 |
0.9649 |
0.1048 |
193 |
1 |
46.26 |
2012-06-11 |
| 40. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
45.86 |
0.9941 |
0.0647 |
217 |
1 |
45.86 |
2012-10-15 |
| 41. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
45.40 |
0.9884 |
0.0657 |
262 |
1 |
45.40 |
2011-10-26 |
| 42. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
45.37 |
1.0516 |
-0.0026 |
281 |
1 |
45.37 |
2013-06-05 |
| 43. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
45.14 |
1.1014 |
-0.0194 |
273 |
1 |
45.14 |
2013-06-05 |
| 44. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
45.06 |
1.0125 |
0.0273 |
224 |
1 |
45.06 |
2011-10-23 |
| 45. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
45.00 |
0.9851 |
0.0588 |
317 |
1 |
45.00 |
2011-10-23 |
| 46. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
44.86 |
0.9342 |
0.1074 |
434 |
1 |
44.86 |
2013-01-25 |
| 47. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
44.78 |
0.9263 |
0.1126 |
188 |
1 |
44.78 |
2011-10-23 |
| 48. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
44.58 |
0.9084 |
0.1265 |
404 |
1 |
44.58 |
2013-06-30 |
| 49. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
44.52 |
1.0679 |
-0.0178 |
177 |
1 |
44.52 |
2012-11-24 |
| 50. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
44.40 |
0.8348 |
0.1978 |
219 |
1 |
44.40 |
2011-10-23 |
| 51. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
44.36 |
0.9852 |
0.0414 |
264 |
1 |
44.36 |
2013-06-16 |
| 52. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
44.28 |
1.0677 |
-0.0129 |
284 |
1 |
44.28 |
2013-07-10 |
| 53. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
44.25 |
1.0205 |
-0.0045 |
179 |
1 |
44.25 |
2012-05-23 |
| 54. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
44.12 |
1.0619 |
-0.0374 |
354 |
1 |
44.12 |
2012-11-24 |
| 55. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
43.35 |
1.0340 |
-0.0260 |
406 |
1 |
43.35 |
2012-11-24 |
| 56. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
42.88 |
0.9724 |
0.0215 |
237 |
1 |
42.88 |
2012-11-24 |
| 57. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
42.44 |
0.9430 |
0.0402 |
297 |
1 |
42.44 |
2012-11-24 |
| 58. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
42.25 |
0.9164 |
0.0658 |
305 |
1 |
42.25 |
2013-06-16 |
| 59. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
41.81 |
0.9068 |
0.0618 |
269 |
1 |
41.81 |
2011-10-23 |
| 60. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.18 |
0.9699 |
-0.0190 |
269 |
1 |
41.18 |
2012-11-24 |
| 61. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
40.83 |
0.8914 |
0.0524 |
366 |
1 |
40.83 |
2013-07-10 |
| 62. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
40.80 |
0.9865 |
-0.0424 |
276 |
1 |
40.80 |
2012-07-05 |
| 63. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
40.75 |
1.0529 |
-0.1114 |
351 |
1 |
40.75 |
2011-10-23 |
| 64. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
40.53 |
0.9005 |
0.0344 |
212 |
1 |
40.53 |
2012-11-24 |
| 65. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
40.28 |
1.0352 |
-0.1012 |
341 |
1 |
40.28 |
2012-05-23 |
| 66. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
39.95 |
1.0555 |
-0.1310 |
363 |
1 |
39.95 |
2012-11-24 |
| 67. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
39.66 |
0.9976 |
-0.0610 |
174 |
1 |
39.66 |
2013-06-16 |
| 68. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
39.12 |
1.0615 |
-0.1326 |
305 |
1 |
39.12 |
2013-07-07 |
| 69. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
38.92 |
0.9893 |
-0.0905 |
323 |
1 |
38.92 |
2012-10-15 |
| 70. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
38.44 |
0.9016 |
-0.0070 |
192 |
1 |
38.44 |
2011-10-23 |
| 71. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
38.34 |
0.9798 |
-0.1006 |
199 |
1 |
38.34 |
2013-06-16 |
| 72. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
37.79 |
0.9161 |
-0.0469 |
200 |
1 |
37.79 |
2012-11-24 |
| 73. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
37.79 |
1.0696 |
-0.2007 |
226 |
1 |
37.79 |
2011-10-23 |
| 74. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
37.38 |
0.9790 |
-0.0757 |
311 |
1 |
37.38 |
2012-11-24 |
| 75. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
37.27 |
1.0117 |
-0.1069 |
297 |
1 |
37.27 |
2011-10-23 |
| 76. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
36.57 |
0.9925 |
-0.1120 |
247 |
1 |
36.57 |
2012-11-24 |
| 77. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
36.47 |
0.9364 |
-0.0550 |
351 |
1 |
36.47 |
2012-11-24 |
| 78. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
36.05 |
1.0577 |
-0.2300 |
247 |
1 |
36.05 |
2011-10-23 |
| 79. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
35.95 |
0.9786 |
-0.1547 |
193 |
2 |
33.88 |
2012-11-24 |
| 80. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
35.49 |
0.9287 |
-0.1179 |
108 |
1 |
35.49 |
2012-07-05 |
| 81. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
35.39 |
1.0515 |
-0.2376 |
250 |
1 |
35.39 |
2012-10-15 |
| 82. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
34.88 |
0.9632 |
-0.1624 |
240 |
1 |
34.88 |
2012-11-24 |
| 83. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
34.55 |
0.9045 |
-0.1078 |
235 |
1 |
34.55 |
2011-10-23 |
| 84. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
34.10 |
0.9871 |
-0.1784 |
227 |
1 |
34.10 |
2011-10-23 |
| 85. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
33.67 |
0.7805 |
-0.0096 |
154 |
1 |
33.67 |
2012-06-22 |
| 86. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
33.41 |
0.8916 |
-0.1216 |
216 |
1 |
33.41 |
2011-10-23 |
| 87. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
32.64 |
1.0337 |
-0.2830 |
214 |
1 |
32.64 |
2012-10-15 |
| 88. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
31.96 |
0.9148 |
-0.1775 |
317 |
1 |
31.96 |
2012-11-24 |
| 89. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
31.60 |
0.7890 |
-0.0615 |
230 |
1 |
31.60 |
2012-05-31 |
| 90. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
31.33 |
0.9697 |
-0.2454 |
266 |
1 |
31.33 |
2012-09-20 |
| 91. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
31.27 |
0.9309 |
-0.2133 |
284 |
1 |
31.27 |
2012-07-05 |
| 92. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
31.17 |
1.0459 |
-0.2976 |
200 |
1 |
31.17 |
2012-11-24 |
| 93. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
31.07 |
0.9168 |
-0.2001 |
240 |
1 |
31.07 |
2011-10-23 |
| 94. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
30.48 |
0.9084 |
-0.2055 |
300 |
1 |
30.48 |
2012-07-05 |
| 95. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
29.73 |
0.9567 |
-0.2730 |
273 |
1 |
29.73 |
2011-10-23 |
| 96. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
29.72 |
0.8826 |
-0.1977 |
296 |
1 |
29.72 |
2012-10-15 |
| 97. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
29.53 |
1.0795 |
-0.3704 |
226 |
1 |
29.53 |
2012-07-05 |
| 98. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
29.45 |
1.0203 |
-0.3400 |
261 |
1 |
29.45 |
2012-07-05 |
| 99. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
27.76 |
0.8602 |
-0.2249 |
206 |
1 |
27.76 |
2012-11-24 |
| 100. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
25.85 |
0.8852 |
-0.2900 |
201 |
1 |
25.85 |
2012-05-31 |
| 101. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
21.35 |
0.7731 |
-0.2848 |
145 |
1 |
21.35 |
2013-01-25 |