| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
73.67 |
1.0441 |
0.1814 |
252 |
1 |
73.67 |
2012-11-26 |
| 2. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
68.28 |
0.9897 |
0.1417 |
274 |
1 |
68.28 |
2011-05-17 |
| 3. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
66.60 |
1.0463 |
0.0546 |
182 |
1 |
66.60 |
2012-05-28 |
| 4. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
64.13 |
0.9739 |
0.1261 |
412 |
1 |
64.13 |
2012-01-19 |
| 5. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
62.69 |
0.9120 |
0.1617 |
436 |
1 |
62.69 |
2012-11-26 |
| 6. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
62.61 |
1.0016 |
0.0321 |
218 |
1 |
62.61 |
2011-05-08 |
| 7. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
62.33 |
0.8826 |
0.1529 |
296 |
1 |
62.33 |
2012-01-19 |
| 8. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
62.06 |
0.9711 |
0.0564 |
176 |
1 |
62.06 |
2011-05-17 |
| 9. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
60.83 |
0.8670 |
0.1467 |
318 |
1 |
60.83 |
2012-01-19 |
| 10. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
60.43 |
0.9365 |
0.0672 |
248 |
1 |
60.43 |
2012-05-28 |
| 11. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
59.06 |
1.0203 |
-0.0380 |
261 |
1 |
59.06 |
2012-05-28 |
| 12. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
58.90 |
1.0944 |
-0.0736 |
308 |
1 |
58.90 |
2011-05-08 |
| 13. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
58.78 |
0.8852 |
0.0916 |
201 |
1 |
58.78 |
2012-05-28 |
| 14. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
57.67 |
0.9649 |
-0.0102 |
193 |
1 |
57.67 |
2011-05-08 |
| 15. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
57.66 |
1.0444 |
-0.0957 |
197 |
1 |
57.66 |
2011-05-17 |
| 16. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
57.54 |
0.9879 |
-0.0256 |
450 |
1 |
57.54 |
2010-12-01 |
| 17. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
57.27 |
1.0168 |
-0.0661 |
271 |
1 |
57.27 |
2010-12-01 |
| 18. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
55.30 |
0.9286 |
-0.0139 |
194 |
1 |
55.30 |
2011-05-08 |
| 19. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
55.05 |
0.9567 |
-0.0025 |
184 |
1 |
55.05 |
2010-12-01 |
| 20. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
54.99 |
0.9125 |
-0.0003 |
308 |
1 |
54.99 |
2012-01-19 |
| 21. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
53.13 |
1.0426 |
-0.1641 |
323 |
1 |
53.13 |
2011-05-08 |
| 22. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
52.93 |
1.0719 |
-0.1678 |
360 |
1 |
52.93 |
2010-12-01 |
| 23. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
47.27 |
0.8775 |
-0.0943 |
443 |
1 |
47.27 |
2012-01-19 |