| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
51.41 |
1.1296 |
0.2344 |
252 |
2 |
46.04 |
2011-03-29 |
| 2. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
49.75 |
1.0795 |
0.2420 |
226 |
1 |
49.75 |
2011-03-29 |
| 3. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
48.93 |
1.0462 |
0.2251 |
184 |
1 |
48.93 |
2011-03-30 |
| 4. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
47.73 |
1.0917 |
0.1722 |
243 |
1 |
47.73 |
2011-03-29 |
| 5. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
47.40 |
1.0379 |
0.2260 |
245 |
2 |
44.94 |
2011-12-03 |
| 6. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
46.25 |
1.0331 |
0.1687 |
234 |
2 |
45.02 |
2011-04-11 |
| 7. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
46.00 |
1.0943 |
0.1272 |
206 |
1 |
46.00 |
2011-04-11 |
| 8. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.41 |
1.0799 |
0.0997 |
243 |
2 |
44.47 |
2011-06-28 |
| 9. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
45.16 |
0.9068 |
0.2692 |
225 |
1 |
45.16 |
2011-03-29 |
| 10. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
44.82 |
1.0214 |
0.1429 |
269 |
2 |
44.34 |
2011-12-03 |
| 11. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
44.76 |
1.0320 |
0.1637 |
293 |
1 |
44.76 |
2011-03-14 |
| 12. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
44.54 |
1.0261 |
0.1302 |
273 |
1 |
44.54 |
2011-03-29 |
| 13. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
44.42 |
1.0352 |
0.1193 |
341 |
1 |
44.42 |
2011-03-30 |
| 14. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
44.39 |
1.0131 |
0.1405 |
225 |
1 |
44.39 |
2011-04-11 |
| 15. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
43.24 |
1.0498 |
0.0721 |
180 |
1 |
43.24 |
2011-03-28 |
| 16. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
43.09 |
0.9559 |
0.1650 |
195 |
1 |
43.09 |
2011-03-26 |
| 17. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
42.92 |
1.0577 |
0.0566 |
247 |
1 |
42.92 |
2011-03-26 |
| 18. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
42.87 |
0.9786 |
0.1337 |
193 |
2 |
39.96 |
2011-03-30 |
| 19. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
42.78 |
0.9430 |
0.1703 |
297 |
2 |
38.75 |
2011-06-28 |
| 20. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
42.66 |
0.8975 |
0.2129 |
268 |
1 |
42.66 |
2011-03-30 |
| 21. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
42.61 |
1.0138 |
0.0930 |
231 |
1 |
42.61 |
2011-06-28 |
| 22. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
42.59 |
1.0013 |
0.1054 |
273 |
1 |
42.59 |
2011-03-29 |
| 23. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
42.42 |
0.9063 |
0.1987 |
239 |
2 |
35.95 |
2011-04-11 |
| 24. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
42.39 |
1.0099 |
0.0903 |
207 |
1 |
42.39 |
2011-03-26 |
| 25. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
42.14 |
0.8725 |
0.2246 |
163 |
1 |
42.14 |
2011-12-03 |
| 26. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
42.07 |
0.9820 |
0.1124 |
274 |
2 |
38.25 |
2011-03-28 |
| 27. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
42.05 |
1.0284 |
0.1003 |
282 |
1 |
42.05 |
2011-03-30 |
| 28. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
42.05 |
0.9212 |
0.1721 |
323 |
1 |
42.05 |
2011-04-11 |
| 29. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
41.59 |
0.9461 |
0.1355 |
276 |
1 |
41.59 |
2011-03-29 |
| 30. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
41.56 |
1.0334 |
0.0438 |
131 |
2 |
40.12 |
2011-03-14 |
| 31. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
41.46 |
0.9866 |
0.0907 |
218 |
3 |
38.67 |
2011-03-28 |
| 32. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
41.45 |
1.0679 |
0.0311 |
177 |
1 |
41.45 |
2011-06-28 |
| 33. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
41.28 |
1.0506 |
0.0453 |
277 |
1 |
41.28 |
2011-03-14 |
| 34. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
41.20 |
1.0429 |
0.0264 |
259 |
1 |
41.20 |
2011-03-29 |
| 35. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
40.84 |
0.8845 |
0.1775 |
273 |
1 |
40.84 |
2011-03-30 |
| 36. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
40.56 |
1.0074 |
0.0491 |
242 |
1 |
40.56 |
2011-03-14 |
| 37. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
40.45 |
0.8841 |
0.1687 |
194 |
1 |
40.45 |
2011-03-29 |
| 38. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
40.42 |
1.0173 |
0.0709 |
268 |
1 |
40.42 |
2011-06-28 |
| 39. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
40.40 |
1.0389 |
0.0100 |
318 |
1 |
40.40 |
2011-03-26 |
| 40. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
40.38 |
0.9540 |
0.0952 |
285 |
2 |
33.59 |
2011-03-28 |
| 41. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
40.36 |
1.0168 |
0.0300 |
271 |
1 |
40.36 |
2011-03-28 |
| 42. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
40.27 |
0.8341 |
0.2152 |
224 |
2 |
37.18 |
2011-03-30 |
| 43. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
40.23 |
0.9772 |
0.0675 |
217 |
2 |
38.45 |
2011-06-28 |
| 44. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
40.20 |
1.0095 |
0.0343 |
316 |
1 |
40.20 |
2011-03-28 |
| 45. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
39.90 |
0.8918 |
0.1459 |
100 |
1 |
39.90 |
2011-03-28 |
| 46. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
39.76 |
0.8900 |
0.1445 |
164 |
1 |
39.76 |
2011-03-29 |
| 47. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
39.61 |
0.9464 |
0.0835 |
323 |
1 |
39.61 |
2011-03-29 |
| 48. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
39.36 |
0.9005 |
0.1221 |
212 |
1 |
39.36 |
2011-03-30 |
| 49. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
39.34 |
0.9263 |
0.0968 |
188 |
1 |
39.34 |
2011-03-28 |
| 50. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
39.32 |
0.9811 |
0.0388 |
272 |
1 |
39.32 |
2011-03-28 |
| 51. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
39.13 |
1.0232 |
0.0299 |
350 |
1 |
39.13 |
2011-03-29 |
| 52. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
38.95 |
0.9965 |
0.0146 |
277 |
1 |
38.95 |
2011-03-14 |
| 53. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
38.69 |
0.9509 |
0.0870 |
225 |
1 |
38.69 |
2011-04-11 |
| 54. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
38.51 |
0.8353 |
0.1686 |
283 |
1 |
38.51 |
2011-03-14 |
| 55. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
38.44 |
0.9430 |
0.0545 |
211 |
1 |
38.44 |
2011-03-28 |
| 56. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
38.30 |
0.9368 |
0.0591 |
173 |
1 |
38.30 |
2011-12-03 |
| 57. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
38.25 |
0.9908 |
0.0362 |
342 |
1 |
38.25 |
2011-06-28 |
| 58. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
38.23 |
0.8188 |
0.1748 |
183 |
2 |
38.05 |
2011-03-28 |
| 59. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
38.08 |
0.8154 |
0.1760 |
193 |
1 |
38.08 |
2011-04-11 |
| 60. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
38.04 |
0.9309 |
0.0564 |
284 |
1 |
38.04 |
2011-06-28 |
| 61. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
38.01 |
0.9976 |
0.0082 |
174 |
1 |
38.01 |
2011-03-26 |
| 62. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
37.95 |
0.9504 |
0.0356 |
263 |
1 |
37.95 |
2011-03-28 |
| 63. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
37.93 |
0.8573 |
0.1312 |
270 |
2 |
36.68 |
2011-04-18 |
| 64. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
37.77 |
1.0485 |
-0.0370 |
153 |
1 |
37.77 |
2011-03-28 |
| 65. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
37.40 |
0.8023 |
0.1703 |
182 |
1 |
37.40 |
2011-03-26 |
| 66. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
37.26 |
0.9461 |
0.0210 |
193 |
1 |
37.26 |
2011-03-28 |
| 67. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
37.22 |
1.0396 |
-0.0742 |
149 |
1 |
37.22 |
2011-03-14 |
| 68. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
37.22 |
0.8787 |
0.0906 |
202 |
1 |
37.22 |
2011-03-26 |
| 69. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
37.19 |
0.9633 |
0.0037 |
304 |
1 |
37.19 |
2011-03-14 |
| 70. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
37.02 |
0.9943 |
-0.0327 |
373 |
1 |
37.02 |
2011-03-14 |
| 71. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
37.02 |
0.9916 |
0.0034 |
282 |
1 |
37.02 |
2011-08-10 |
| 72. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
36.97 |
0.8994 |
0.0624 |
188 |
1 |
36.97 |
2011-06-28 |
| 73. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
36.89 |
0.9089 |
0.0506 |
342 |
1 |
36.89 |
2011-03-28 |
| 74. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
36.81 |
0.8811 |
0.0777 |
239 |
1 |
36.81 |
2011-03-26 |
| 75. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
36.68 |
0.8821 |
0.0719 |
176 |
1 |
36.68 |
2011-03-28 |
| 76. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.61 |
0.9899 |
-0.0404 |
163 |
1 |
36.61 |
2011-03-26 |
| 77. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
36.58 |
0.9468 |
0.0024 |
276 |
1 |
36.58 |
2011-03-14 |
| 78. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
36.53 |
1.0567 |
-0.1090 |
303 |
1 |
36.53 |
2011-03-24 |
| 79. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
36.43 |
0.9910 |
-0.0457 |
295 |
1 |
36.43 |
2011-03-29 |
| 80. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
36.29 |
0.7805 |
0.1634 |
154 |
2 |
33.49 |
2011-03-29 |
| 81. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
36.21 |
0.8722 |
0.0687 |
285 |
1 |
36.21 |
2011-03-29 |
| 82. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
36.08 |
0.8520 |
0.0860 |
202 |
1 |
36.08 |
2011-03-14 |
| 83. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
35.66 |
1.0004 |
-0.0760 |
212 |
2 |
34.72 |
2011-03-28 |
| 84. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
35.64 |
0.9706 |
-0.0440 |
216 |
1 |
35.64 |
2011-03-14 |
| 85. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
35.52 |
0.9251 |
-0.0001 |
177 |
1 |
35.52 |
2011-04-18 |
| 86. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
35.41 |
0.9697 |
-0.0506 |
249 |
1 |
35.41 |
2011-03-14 |
| 87. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
35.31 |
0.8770 |
0.0400 |
300 |
1 |
35.31 |
2011-08-10 |
| 88. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
35.28 |
0.7839 |
0.1347 |
257 |
1 |
35.28 |
2011-03-24 |
| 89. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
35.08 |
0.9614 |
-0.0503 |
292 |
1 |
35.08 |
2011-03-14 |
| 90. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
34.91 |
1.0213 |
-0.1165 |
240 |
1 |
34.91 |
2011-03-14 |
| 91. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
34.86 |
0.9726 |
-0.0678 |
154 |
1 |
34.86 |
2011-06-28 |
| 92. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
34.81 |
1.0090 |
-0.0701 |
282 |
1 |
34.81 |
2011-03-14 |
| 93. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
34.76 |
0.9649 |
-0.0627 |
193 |
1 |
34.76 |
2011-03-28 |
| 94. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
34.69 |
0.8961 |
0.0041 |
189 |
2 |
34.02 |
2011-12-06 |
| 95. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
34.54 |
1.0486 |
-0.1528 |
289 |
1 |
34.54 |
2011-12-06 |
| 96. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
34.52 |
1.0388 |
-0.1168 |
243 |
1 |
34.52 |
2011-03-17 |
| 97. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
34.42 |
0.9485 |
-0.0543 |
236 |
1 |
34.42 |
2011-12-06 |
| 98. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
34.29 |
0.8022 |
0.0897 |
215 |
1 |
34.29 |
2011-03-14 |
| 99. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
34.14 |
0.9576 |
-0.0697 |
212 |
1 |
34.14 |
2011-03-26 |
| 100. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
33.99 |
0.9187 |
-0.0368 |
118 |
1 |
33.99 |
2011-03-14 |
| 101. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
33.96 |
0.8709 |
0.0135 |
202 |
1 |
33.96 |
2011-06-28 |
| 102. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
33.92 |
1.0829 |
-0.2034 |
288 |
1 |
33.92 |
2011-03-14 |
| 103. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
33.90 |
0.9857 |
-0.1066 |
293 |
1 |
33.90 |
2011-03-17 |
| 104. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
33.61 |
0.9023 |
0.0065 |
231 |
1 |
33.61 |
2011-03-14 |
| 105. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
33.61 |
0.8867 |
-0.0125 |
241 |
1 |
33.61 |
2011-03-28 |
| 106. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
32.99 |
0.9922 |
-0.1058 |
341 |
1 |
32.99 |
2011-03-14 |
| 107. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
32.52 |
0.9278 |
-0.0831 |
295 |
1 |
32.52 |
2011-03-14 |
| 108. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.07 |
0.8595 |
-0.0273 |
242 |
1 |
32.07 |
2011-03-28 |
| 109. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
32.02 |
0.8914 |
-0.0596 |
366 |
1 |
32.02 |
2011-03-26 |
| 110. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
31.35 |
0.9593 |
-0.1449 |
398 |
1 |
31.35 |
2011-06-28 |
| 111. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
31.19 |
0.9164 |
-0.1075 |
305 |
1 |
31.19 |
2011-03-14 |
| 112. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
31.18 |
1.0684 |
-0.2356 |
253 |
1 |
31.18 |
2011-03-28 |
| 113. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
30.77 |
0.8105 |
-0.0129 |
204 |
1 |
30.77 |
2011-04-11 |
| 114. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
30.08 |
0.8602 |
-0.0803 |
206 |
1 |
30.08 |
2011-03-14 |
| 115. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
30.08 |
0.9798 |
-0.2017 |
199 |
1 |
30.08 |
2011-03-26 |
| 116. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
24.26 |
1.0205 |
-0.3926 |
179 |
1 |
24.26 |
2011-03-28 |