| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
97.18 |
0.9866 |
0.2971 |
218 |
1 |
97.18 |
2012-12-25 |
| 2. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
93.35 |
1.0496 |
0.1856 |
314 |
2 |
83.62 |
2012-12-25 |
| 3. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
92.62 |
1.0885 |
0.1410 |
315 |
2 |
90.07 |
2012-12-26 |
| 4. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
91.67 |
1.0602 |
0.1571 |
389 |
3 |
87.45 |
2011-07-22 |
| 5. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
91.01 |
1.0577 |
0.1431 |
247 |
1 |
91.01 |
2012-06-24 |
| 6. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
89.09 |
1.0252 |
0.1471 |
176 |
1 |
89.09 |
2012-12-25 |
| 7. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
87.77 |
1.0314 |
0.1690 |
452 |
1 |
87.77 |
2011-09-01 |
| 8. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
87.29 |
1.0567 |
0.0990 |
303 |
3 |
82.26 |
2012-12-26 |
| 9. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
86.69 |
1.0968 |
0.0875 |
365 |
1 |
86.69 |
2011-09-01 |
| 10. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
82.53 |
1.0684 |
0.0528 |
253 |
1 |
82.53 |
2012-06-24 |
| 11. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
82.21 |
1.0515 |
0.0333 |
250 |
1 |
82.21 |
2011-12-20 |
| 12. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
82.10 |
0.9739 |
0.1474 |
412 |
1 |
82.10 |
2011-09-01 |
| 13. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
81.89 |
0.9699 |
0.1118 |
269 |
1 |
81.89 |
2011-09-01 |
| 14. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
81.65 |
1.0668 |
0.0148 |
350 |
1 |
81.65 |
2011-07-22 |
| 15. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
80.15 |
0.9553 |
0.1111 |
430 |
1 |
80.15 |
2011-07-19 |
| 16. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
79.75 |
1.0124 |
0.0390 |
204 |
1 |
79.75 |
2011-09-01 |
| 17. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
79.70 |
0.9540 |
0.0972 |
285 |
1 |
79.70 |
2011-09-01 |
| 18. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
79.56 |
1.0441 |
0.0085 |
252 |
1 |
79.56 |
2011-07-22 |
| 19. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
79.13 |
0.9088 |
0.1420 |
348 |
1 |
79.13 |
2012-12-26 |
| 20. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
78.79 |
1.0917 |
-0.0272 |
243 |
1 |
78.79 |
2011-07-22 |
| 21. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
78.71 |
0.9128 |
0.1687 |
369 |
1 |
78.71 |
2011-12-20 |
| 22. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
78.11 |
0.9426 |
0.0925 |
317 |
1 |
78.11 |
2012-06-24 |
| 23. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
78.04 |
1.0797 |
-0.0541 |
210 |
1 |
78.04 |
2011-07-19 |
| 24. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
77.94 |
1.0296 |
0.0066 |
437 |
1 |
77.94 |
2011-07-22 |
| 25. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
77.40 |
0.9672 |
0.0619 |
396 |
1 |
77.40 |
2011-12-20 |
| 26. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
77.08 |
0.9756 |
0.0412 |
229 |
1 |
77.08 |
2012-12-25 |
| 27. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
76.69 |
1.0677 |
-0.0245 |
284 |
1 |
76.69 |
2010-12-04 |
| 28. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
76.63 |
1.0396 |
-0.0347 |
149 |
1 |
76.63 |
2012-12-26 |
| 29. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
76.41 |
1.0214 |
-0.0136 |
269 |
1 |
76.41 |
2011-09-01 |
| 30. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
75.99 |
1.1081 |
-0.0702 |
206 |
1 |
75.99 |
2012-06-24 |
| 31. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
75.73 |
1.0389 |
-0.0363 |
340 |
1 |
75.73 |
2010-12-04 |
| 32. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
75.61 |
1.0251 |
-0.0285 |
261 |
1 |
75.61 |
2011-07-19 |
| 33. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
75.59 |
0.9684 |
0.0323 |
388 |
2 |
68.17 |
2011-07-19 |
| 34. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
75.47 |
0.9780 |
0.0196 |
337 |
1 |
75.47 |
2010-12-04 |
| 35. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
75.44 |
0.9922 |
0.0451 |
341 |
1 |
75.44 |
2012-06-24 |
| 36. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
75.36 |
1.0197 |
-0.0274 |
226 |
1 |
75.36 |
2011-09-01 |
| 37. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
73.97 |
0.9723 |
0.0083 |
364 |
1 |
73.97 |
2011-09-01 |
| 38. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
73.87 |
1.0483 |
-0.0763 |
227 |
1 |
73.87 |
2011-07-22 |
| 39. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
73.76 |
0.9833 |
-0.0078 |
355 |
1 |
73.76 |
2012-12-25 |
| 40. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
73.13 |
1.0254 |
-0.0195 |
217 |
1 |
73.13 |
2011-07-19 |
| 41. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
71.99 |
0.9769 |
-0.0287 |
263 |
1 |
71.99 |
2010-12-04 |
| 42. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
71.96 |
0.9991 |
-0.0488 |
225 |
1 |
71.96 |
2012-06-24 |
| 43. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
71.31 |
0.9567 |
-0.0156 |
273 |
2 |
69.90 |
2011-09-01 |
| 44. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
70.60 |
0.9649 |
-0.0343 |
193 |
1 |
70.60 |
2012-06-24 |
| 45. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
70.56 |
0.9572 |
0.0168 |
376 |
1 |
70.56 |
2011-07-19 |
| 46. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
70.44 |
1.0608 |
-0.0982 |
258 |
1 |
70.44 |
2011-12-20 |
| 47. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
70.40 |
0.9682 |
-0.0408 |
143 |
1 |
70.40 |
2011-07-19 |
| 48. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
70.07 |
1.0388 |
-0.0828 |
243 |
1 |
70.07 |
2011-07-19 |
| 49. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
69.88 |
1.0399 |
-0.1127 |
294 |
1 |
69.88 |
2010-12-04 |
| 50. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
69.63 |
1.0004 |
-0.0881 |
212 |
2 |
66.62 |
2011-07-22 |
| 51. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
69.62 |
0.9653 |
-0.0384 |
394 |
1 |
69.62 |
2011-07-19 |
| 52. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
69.36 |
0.9567 |
0.0005 |
184 |
1 |
69.36 |
2011-12-20 |
| 53. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
68.87 |
0.9907 |
-0.0479 |
397 |
1 |
68.87 |
2011-09-01 |
| 54. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
68.79 |
1.0375 |
-0.0844 |
200 |
1 |
68.79 |
2012-06-24 |
| 55. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
68.77 |
1.0201 |
-0.1125 |
303 |
1 |
68.77 |
2011-07-19 |
| 56. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
68.18 |
1.0099 |
-0.1141 |
207 |
1 |
68.18 |
2011-07-22 |
| 57. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
67.71 |
1.0679 |
-0.1551 |
177 |
1 |
67.71 |
2011-07-19 |
| 58. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
66.99 |
0.9546 |
-0.0403 |
198 |
1 |
66.99 |
2010-12-04 |
| 59. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
66.83 |
0.9798 |
-0.1043 |
199 |
1 |
66.83 |
2011-07-22 |
| 60. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
65.75 |
0.9289 |
-0.0647 |
204 |
1 |
65.75 |
2011-09-01 |
| 61. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
64.75 |
1.0125 |
-0.1618 |
224 |
1 |
64.75 |
2011-12-20 |
| 62. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
64.62 |
0.9976 |
-0.1258 |
174 |
1 |
64.62 |
2011-07-19 |
| 63. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
64.48 |
0.9468 |
-0.0972 |
276 |
1 |
64.48 |
2010-12-04 |
| 64. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
63.92 |
0.8852 |
-0.0407 |
201 |
1 |
63.92 |
2011-07-19 |
| 65. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
62.16 |
0.8382 |
-0.0187 |
268 |
2 |
60.71 |
2011-07-19 |
| 66. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
62.05 |
1.0165 |
-0.1955 |
392 |
1 |
62.05 |
2010-12-04 |
| 67. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
61.35 |
1.0796 |
-0.2773 |
129 |
1 |
61.35 |
2010-12-04 |
| 68. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
60.19 |
1.0426 |
-0.2511 |
323 |
1 |
60.19 |
2010-12-04 |
| 69. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
57.75 |
1.0725 |
-0.2873 |
233 |
1 |
57.75 |
2010-12-04 |
| 70. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
57.65 |
0.9202 |
-0.1622 |
254 |
1 |
57.65 |
2011-07-22 |