| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
60.43 |
1.0598 |
0.3861 |
196 |
2 |
56.41 |
2013-01-21 |
| 2. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
58.28 |
0.9916 |
0.4513 |
282 |
2 |
57.55 |
2012-11-05 |
| 3. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
57.94 |
1.0787 |
0.3117 |
237 |
1 |
57.94 |
2011-08-09 |
| 4. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
52.61 |
0.8852 |
0.3801 |
201 |
1 |
52.61 |
2012-11-05 |
| 5. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
52.33 |
1.0396 |
0.2088 |
149 |
1 |
52.33 |
2012-11-05 |
| 6. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
51.73 |
0.9247 |
0.3208 |
253 |
1 |
51.73 |
2011-09-13 |
| 7. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
51.14 |
0.9368 |
0.2896 |
173 |
1 |
51.14 |
2011-09-13 |
| 8. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
50.72 |
1.1114 |
0.1026 |
247 |
1 |
50.72 |
2011-08-05 |
| 9. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
49.36 |
0.8709 |
0.3205 |
202 |
1 |
49.36 |
2011-08-09 |
| 10. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
48.96 |
0.9263 |
0.2509 |
188 |
1 |
48.96 |
2011-09-20 |
| 11. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
48.09 |
1.0533 |
0.1269 |
257 |
1 |
48.09 |
2012-06-15 |
| 12. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
48.02 |
1.0390 |
0.1089 |
205 |
1 |
48.02 |
2011-08-09 |
| 13. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
47.60 |
0.9863 |
0.1592 |
339 |
1 |
47.60 |
2012-06-15 |
| 14. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
47.57 |
1.0131 |
0.1232 |
225 |
2 |
46.90 |
2012-06-15 |
| 15. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
47.52 |
1.0441 |
0.0963 |
252 |
1 |
47.52 |
2011-08-04 |
| 16. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
47.50 |
1.0099 |
0.1257 |
207 |
1 |
47.50 |
2011-10-04 |
| 17. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
47.37 |
1.0426 |
0.0921 |
323 |
1 |
47.37 |
2011-10-04 |
| 18. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
47.31 |
1.0943 |
0.0721 |
206 |
1 |
47.31 |
2012-11-05 |
| 19. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
47.28 |
1.0883 |
0.0776 |
303 |
1 |
47.28 |
2011-08-09 |
| 20. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
46.43 |
0.9127 |
0.1968 |
252 |
1 |
46.43 |
2012-06-15 |
| 21. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
46.42 |
0.9207 |
0.1935 |
174 |
1 |
46.42 |
2012-06-18 |
| 22. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
46.39 |
1.0154 |
0.1463 |
351 |
1 |
46.39 |
2011-10-04 |
| 23. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
46.39 |
0.9857 |
0.1250 |
293 |
1 |
46.39 |
2012-06-15 |
| 24. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
46.25 |
0.9946 |
0.1136 |
246 |
1 |
46.25 |
2011-09-08 |
| 25. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
45.72 |
1.0389 |
0.0586 |
318 |
1 |
45.72 |
2011-08-09 |
| 26. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
45.58 |
0.9257 |
0.1712 |
317 |
1 |
45.58 |
2011-08-04 |
| 27. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
45.34 |
0.8951 |
0.1934 |
193 |
1 |
45.34 |
2011-09-13 |
| 28. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
44.87 |
0.9019 |
0.1781 |
204 |
1 |
44.87 |
2011-10-04 |
| 29. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
44.71 |
0.8533 |
0.2182 |
232 |
1 |
44.71 |
2011-09-23 |
| 30. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
44.61 |
1.0608 |
0.0411 |
258 |
1 |
44.61 |
2012-06-15 |
| 31. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
44.49 |
1.0117 |
0.0987 |
297 |
1 |
44.49 |
2011-08-09 |
| 32. |
The forum has become one of the most consistent places in he... |
44.33 |
0.8481 |
0.2120 |
152 |
1 |
44.33 |
2011-09-20 |
| 33. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
44.29 |
0.9697 |
0.0948 |
266 |
1 |
44.29 |
2011-08-09 |
| 34. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
44.10 |
0.9251 |
0.1357 |
177 |
1 |
44.10 |
2012-11-05 |
| 35. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
43.49 |
0.9286 |
0.1117 |
194 |
1 |
43.49 |
2011-08-09 |
| 36. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
43.36 |
1.0684 |
0.0000 |
253 |
1 |
43.36 |
2011-08-09 |
| 37. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
43.30 |
0.9665 |
0.1197 |
326 |
1 |
43.30 |
2012-06-15 |
| 38. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
43.11 |
0.9633 |
0.0707 |
304 |
1 |
43.11 |
2011-09-23 |
| 39. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
41.74 |
0.8670 |
0.1370 |
318 |
1 |
41.74 |
2011-08-05 |
| 40. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
41.27 |
0.8442 |
0.1471 |
265 |
1 |
41.27 |
2011-08-09 |
| 41. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
40.97 |
0.9911 |
-0.0146 |
212 |
1 |
40.97 |
2011-09-13 |
| 42. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
40.23 |
0.9632 |
0.0416 |
345 |
1 |
40.23 |
2011-08-18 |
| 43. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
40.05 |
1.0029 |
-0.0515 |
209 |
1 |
40.05 |
2011-10-04 |
| 44. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
39.94 |
0.9532 |
0.0008 |
258 |
1 |
39.94 |
2011-08-05 |
| 45. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
39.51 |
0.9884 |
-0.0438 |
233 |
1 |
39.51 |
2011-10-04 |
| 46. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
39.42 |
1.1081 |
-0.1310 |
206 |
2 |
30.96 |
2011-09-16 |
| 47. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
37.69 |
0.7826 |
0.1222 |
97 |
1 |
37.69 |
2011-09-20 |
| 48. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
37.51 |
0.9936 |
-0.0769 |
227 |
1 |
37.51 |
2011-10-04 |
| 49. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
36.94 |
0.9098 |
-0.0317 |
167 |
1 |
36.94 |
2011-08-09 |
| 50. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
35.12 |
0.9768 |
-0.1353 |
387 |
1 |
35.12 |
2011-08-05 |
| 51. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
34.62 |
0.8723 |
-0.0508 |
185 |
2 |
28.86 |
2011-09-20 |
| 52. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
33.94 |
0.8975 |
-0.0876 |
268 |
1 |
33.94 |
2011-08-04 |
| 53. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
33.11 |
1.0331 |
-0.2457 |
234 |
1 |
33.11 |
2013-01-30 |
| 54. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
32.85 |
1.0205 |
-0.2444 |
179 |
1 |
32.85 |
2012-11-05 |
| 55. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
31.77 |
1.0232 |
-0.2303 |
236 |
1 |
31.77 |
2013-01-30 |
| 56. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
31.75 |
1.0132 |
-0.2654 |
143 |
1 |
31.75 |
2011-09-15 |
| 57. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
31.61 |
0.7988 |
-0.0372 |
219 |
1 |
31.61 |
2013-01-30 |
| 58. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
31.38 |
0.9187 |
-0.1822 |
118 |
1 |
31.38 |
2013-01-30 |
| 59. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
30.62 |
0.9212 |
-0.1888 |
323 |
1 |
30.62 |
2013-01-30 |
| 60. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
29.87 |
1.0203 |
-0.3057 |
261 |
1 |
29.87 |
2013-01-30 |
| 61. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
29.44 |
0.9310 |
-0.2352 |
188 |
1 |
29.44 |
2011-09-15 |
| 62. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
25.88 |
0.8096 |
-0.1875 |
209 |
1 |
25.88 |
2011-08-09 |
| 63. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
25.44 |
0.8154 |
-0.2101 |
193 |
1 |
25.44 |
2011-09-08 |
| 64. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
25.34 |
1.0419 |
-0.4407 |
261 |
1 |
25.34 |
2011-08-09 |
| 65. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
24.98 |
0.9965 |
-0.4086 |
168 |
1 |
24.98 |
2011-09-08 |
| 66. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
22.83 |
1.0788 |
-0.5441 |
171 |
1 |
22.83 |
2011-09-20 |
| 67. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
21.89 |
1.0444 |
-0.5335 |
197 |
1 |
21.89 |
2011-09-20 |
| 68. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
21.66 |
1.0403 |
-0.5137 |
193 |
1 |
21.66 |
2011-09-16 |