| 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... |
67.79 |
1.1016 |
0.0802 |
233 |
2 |
64.60 |
2010-12-18 |
| 2. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
66.48 |
1.0375 |
0.1673 |
200 |
1 |
66.48 |
2010-10-31 |
| 3. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
65.66 |
1.0796 |
0.0598 |
129 |
2 |
61.78 |
2010-11-01 |
| 4. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
65.52 |
0.9688 |
0.1734 |
217 |
1 |
65.52 |
2010-12-07 |
| 5. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
65.18 |
0.9795 |
0.1561 |
308 |
1 |
65.18 |
2010-12-18 |
| 6. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
65.14 |
1.0261 |
0.1071 |
273 |
1 |
65.14 |
2010-10-31 |
| 7. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
64.89 |
0.9942 |
0.1452 |
483 |
1 |
64.89 |
2010-12-10 |
| 8. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
64.50 |
0.9612 |
0.1627 |
256 |
1 |
64.50 |
2010-12-18 |
| 9. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
63.27 |
1.0340 |
0.0730 |
406 |
1 |
63.27 |
2010-12-18 |
| 10. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
63.18 |
0.9843 |
0.1112 |
234 |
1 |
63.18 |
2010-10-29 |
| 11. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
63.05 |
1.0201 |
0.0786 |
303 |
1 |
63.05 |
2010-10-31 |
| 12. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
62.90 |
0.9461 |
0.1459 |
193 |
1 |
62.90 |
2010-11-01 |
| 13. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
62.87 |
0.9820 |
0.1134 |
274 |
1 |
62.87 |
2010-10-29 |
| 14. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
62.87 |
1.0012 |
0.0971 |
260 |
2 |
60.81 |
2010-11-07 |
| 15. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
62.77 |
1.0943 |
0.0316 |
206 |
1 |
62.77 |
2010-11-07 |
| 16. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
62.74 |
1.0787 |
0.0127 |
237 |
1 |
62.74 |
2010-10-30 |
| 17. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
62.67 |
0.9910 |
0.1024 |
295 |
1 |
62.67 |
2010-10-31 |
| 18. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
62.52 |
1.0252 |
0.0572 |
176 |
1 |
62.52 |
2010-10-31 |
| 19. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
62.48 |
0.9820 |
0.1088 |
267 |
1 |
62.48 |
2010-10-31 |
| 20. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
62.29 |
1.0288 |
0.0883 |
300 |
2 |
58.41 |
2010-11-01 |
| 21. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
62.22 |
1.0151 |
0.0603 |
152 |
1 |
62.22 |
2010-10-29 |
| 22. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
61.93 |
1.0696 |
0.0053 |
226 |
1 |
61.93 |
2010-10-30 |
| 23. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
61.88 |
0.9776 |
0.1001 |
308 |
2 |
57.69 |
2010-11-07 |
| 24. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
61.71 |
0.9879 |
0.0954 |
450 |
1 |
61.71 |
2010-12-09 |
| 25. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
61.49 |
0.9578 |
0.1125 |
281 |
1 |
61.49 |
2010-12-09 |
| 26. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
61.40 |
1.0053 |
0.0618 |
232 |
1 |
61.40 |
2010-10-31 |
| 27. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
61.03 |
1.0907 |
-0.0253 |
303 |
1 |
61.03 |
2010-10-31 |
| 28. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
60.85 |
1.0441 |
0.0567 |
316 |
1 |
60.85 |
2010-11-07 |
| 29. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
60.77 |
0.9756 |
0.0810 |
229 |
1 |
60.77 |
2010-11-01 |
| 30. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
60.75 |
0.9884 |
0.0684 |
233 |
1 |
60.75 |
2010-10-31 |
| 31. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
60.75 |
0.9576 |
0.1049 |
212 |
2 |
58.07 |
2010-11-07 |
| 32. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
60.72 |
0.9636 |
0.0933 |
254 |
3 |
57.52 |
2010-11-28 |
| 33. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
60.72 |
1.0261 |
0.0705 |
410 |
1 |
60.72 |
2010-10-31 |
| 34. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
60.60 |
0.9855 |
0.1028 |
258 |
1 |
60.60 |
2010-10-29 |
| 35. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
60.54 |
1.0668 |
-0.0105 |
350 |
1 |
60.54 |
2010-11-07 |
| 36. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
60.52 |
1.0068 |
0.0500 |
358 |
1 |
60.52 |
2010-12-18 |
| 37. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
60.39 |
1.0644 |
0.0231 |
257 |
2 |
55.96 |
2010-12-18 |
| 38. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
60.28 |
0.9938 |
0.0566 |
339 |
1 |
60.28 |
2010-10-31 |
| 39. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
60.26 |
0.9786 |
0.0699 |
235 |
1 |
60.26 |
2010-10-30 |
| 40. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
60.16 |
1.0619 |
-0.0112 |
354 |
1 |
60.16 |
2010-12-13 |
| 41. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
60.10 |
1.0025 |
0.0436 |
256 |
2 |
57.63 |
2010-12-25 |
| 42. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
60.07 |
0.8890 |
0.1532 |
199 |
1 |
60.07 |
2010-10-31 |
| 43. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
59.40 |
0.9439 |
0.0981 |
476 |
1 |
59.40 |
2010-12-07 |
| 44. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
59.35 |
1.0941 |
-0.0297 |
256 |
1 |
59.35 |
2010-10-31 |
| 45. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
59.20 |
1.0391 |
-0.0027 |
358 |
1 |
59.20 |
2010-10-30 |
| 46. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
59.09 |
1.0201 |
0.0124 |
375 |
1 |
59.09 |
2010-12-11 |
| 47. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
59.07 |
1.0725 |
-0.0186 |
233 |
1 |
59.07 |
2010-12-10 |
| 48. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
58.66 |
1.0284 |
0.0359 |
282 |
1 |
58.66 |
2010-10-31 |
| 49. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
58.63 |
1.0042 |
0.0578 |
352 |
2 |
56.17 |
2010-11-07 |
| 50. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
58.62 |
0.9275 |
0.0895 |
211 |
1 |
58.62 |
2010-11-28 |
| 51. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
58.61 |
1.0117 |
0.0531 |
297 |
1 |
58.61 |
2010-10-30 |
| 52. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
58.53 |
1.0029 |
0.0093 |
209 |
1 |
58.53 |
2010-12-07 |
| 53. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
58.48 |
0.9633 |
0.0569 |
304 |
1 |
58.48 |
2010-11-01 |
| 54. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
58.38 |
1.0168 |
0.0004 |
271 |
1 |
58.38 |
2010-12-07 |
| 55. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
58.03 |
1.0031 |
0.0401 |
304 |
1 |
58.03 |
2010-12-18 |
| 56. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
58.03 |
1.0131 |
-0.0072 |
225 |
1 |
58.03 |
2010-11-07 |
| 57. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
57.98 |
1.0154 |
0.0432 |
351 |
1 |
57.98 |
2010-10-31 |
| 58. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
57.95 |
1.0211 |
0.0179 |
213 |
1 |
57.95 |
2010-12-10 |
| 59. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
57.94 |
1.0444 |
-0.0428 |
197 |
1 |
57.94 |
2010-12-09 |
| 60. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
57.93 |
1.0331 |
-0.0273 |
234 |
1 |
57.93 |
2010-10-31 |
| 61. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
57.55 |
1.0254 |
0.0169 |
217 |
1 |
57.55 |
2010-10-31 |
| 62. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
57.48 |
1.0251 |
-0.0273 |
261 |
2 |
56.26 |
2010-11-28 |
| 63. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
57.42 |
0.9780 |
0.0219 |
337 |
2 |
54.02 |
2010-10-30 |
| 64. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
57.39 |
0.9364 |
0.1023 |
351 |
2 |
55.24 |
2010-12-07 |
| 65. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
57.04 |
1.0545 |
-0.0216 |
416 |
1 |
57.04 |
2010-11-07 |
| 66. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
56.95 |
0.9936 |
0.0171 |
227 |
1 |
56.95 |
2010-12-18 |
| 67. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
56.85 |
1.0486 |
-0.0588 |
289 |
1 |
56.85 |
2010-10-29 |
| 68. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
56.65 |
1.0498 |
-0.0692 |
180 |
1 |
56.65 |
2010-12-02 |
| 69. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
56.62 |
0.8826 |
0.1037 |
296 |
1 |
56.62 |
2010-12-18 |
| 70. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
56.44 |
0.9681 |
0.0216 |
378 |
1 |
56.44 |
2010-10-31 |
| 71. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
56.33 |
1.0496 |
-0.0706 |
314 |
1 |
56.33 |
2010-10-30 |
| 72. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
55.97 |
1.0595 |
-0.0839 |
379 |
1 |
55.97 |
2010-10-31 |
| 73. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
55.91 |
1.0173 |
-0.0006 |
268 |
1 |
55.91 |
2010-10-30 |
| 74. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
55.78 |
1.0337 |
-0.0643 |
214 |
1 |
55.78 |
2010-12-07 |
| 75. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
55.72 |
0.9567 |
0.0547 |
184 |
1 |
55.72 |
2010-10-29 |
| 76. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
55.71 |
0.9798 |
-0.0169 |
199 |
1 |
55.71 |
2010-10-30 |
| 77. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
55.34 |
0.9871 |
-0.0025 |
227 |
1 |
55.34 |
2010-10-30 |
| 78. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
55.34 |
1.0218 |
-0.0624 |
268 |
1 |
55.34 |
2010-10-31 |
| 79. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
55.25 |
1.0083 |
-0.0033 |
273 |
2 |
54.80 |
2010-11-01 |
| 80. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
55.20 |
1.1114 |
-0.1541 |
247 |
1 |
55.20 |
2010-10-31 |
| 81. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
55.16 |
0.9216 |
0.0766 |
255 |
2 |
51.34 |
2010-11-07 |
| 82. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
55.14 |
1.0403 |
-0.0664 |
193 |
1 |
55.14 |
2010-10-31 |
| 83. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
55.01 |
0.9310 |
0.0221 |
188 |
1 |
55.01 |
2010-11-01 |
| 84. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
55.00 |
0.9074 |
0.0555 |
396 |
1 |
55.00 |
2010-11-01 |
| 85. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
55.00 |
0.9698 |
0.0193 |
397 |
1 |
55.00 |
2010-11-07 |
| 86. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
54.74 |
1.0613 |
-0.1086 |
266 |
1 |
54.74 |
2010-12-02 |
| 87. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
54.73 |
0.9125 |
0.0408 |
308 |
1 |
54.73 |
2010-12-25 |
| 88. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
54.71 |
0.9109 |
0.0429 |
401 |
2 |
52.60 |
2010-12-18 |
| 89. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
54.38 |
1.0214 |
-0.0332 |
281 |
1 |
54.38 |
2010-10-30 |
| 90. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
54.38 |
1.0412 |
-0.0963 |
225 |
1 |
54.38 |
2010-10-31 |
| 91. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
54.27 |
1.0555 |
-0.1103 |
363 |
1 |
54.27 |
2010-10-31 |
| 92. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
54.25 |
0.9790 |
0.0047 |
311 |
1 |
54.25 |
2010-12-10 |
| 93. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
53.99 |
0.9398 |
0.0079 |
419 |
1 |
53.99 |
2010-10-31 |
| 94. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
53.96 |
0.9672 |
-0.0228 |
396 |
1 |
53.96 |
2010-12-25 |
| 95. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
53.92 |
0.9792 |
-0.0034 |
265 |
1 |
53.92 |
2010-10-31 |
| 96. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
53.70 |
0.9897 |
-0.0585 |
274 |
1 |
53.70 |
2010-10-30 |
| 97. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
53.45 |
0.8753 |
0.0628 |
427 |
1 |
53.45 |
2010-12-18 |
| 98. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
53.44 |
0.9699 |
-0.0416 |
269 |
1 |
53.44 |
2010-11-07 |
| 99. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
53.40 |
0.9769 |
-0.0508 |
263 |
2 |
51.48 |
2010-10-31 |
| 100. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
53.24 |
0.9532 |
-0.0290 |
258 |
1 |
53.24 |
2010-11-01 |
| 101. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
52.90 |
0.9691 |
-0.0503 |
223 |
1 |
52.90 |
2010-12-18 |
| 102. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
52.32 |
1.0240 |
-0.1173 |
256 |
1 |
52.32 |
2010-10-31 |
| 103. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
52.23 |
0.9898 |
-0.0447 |
353 |
1 |
52.23 |
2010-12-25 |
| 104. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
52.11 |
0.9619 |
-0.0514 |
393 |
1 |
52.11 |
2010-12-25 |
| 105. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
52.00 |
0.9846 |
-0.0821 |
281 |
1 |
52.00 |
2010-10-30 |
| 106. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
51.89 |
0.9293 |
-0.0270 |
355 |
1 |
51.89 |
2010-11-28 |
| 107. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
51.62 |
0.9529 |
-0.0156 |
269 |
1 |
51.62 |
2010-12-10 |
| 108. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
51.54 |
0.9635 |
-0.0627 |
389 |
1 |
51.54 |
2010-10-30 |
| 109. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
51.25 |
1.0213 |
-0.1343 |
240 |
1 |
51.25 |
2010-10-31 |
| 110. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
51.11 |
0.9023 |
0.0284 |
231 |
1 |
51.11 |
2010-11-07 |
| 111. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
51.07 |
0.9097 |
0.0189 |
464 |
1 |
51.07 |
2010-10-31 |
| 112. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
49.95 |
0.8981 |
-0.0262 |
393 |
1 |
49.95 |
2010-11-07 |
| 113. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
49.86 |
0.9786 |
-0.1182 |
193 |
1 |
49.86 |
2010-10-31 |
| 114. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
49.73 |
1.0232 |
-0.1238 |
236 |
1 |
49.73 |
2010-11-07 |
| 115. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
49.67 |
0.8670 |
0.0007 |
318 |
1 |
49.67 |
2010-11-07 |
| 116. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
49.67 |
0.9303 |
-0.0740 |
176 |
1 |
49.67 |
2010-10-30 |
| 117. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
49.30 |
0.8907 |
-0.0218 |
351 |
1 |
49.30 |
2010-11-28 |
| 118. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
49.22 |
0.9731 |
-0.1308 |
129 |
1 |
49.22 |
2010-11-07 |
| 119. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
48.85 |
0.9922 |
-0.1031 |
341 |
1 |
48.85 |
2010-10-31 |
| 120. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
48.60 |
0.8722 |
-0.0259 |
285 |
1 |
48.60 |
2010-11-07 |
| 121. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
48.09 |
1.0033 |
-0.1753 |
189 |
1 |
48.09 |
2010-11-07 |
| 122. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
48.07 |
1.0621 |
-0.2085 |
263 |
1 |
48.07 |
2010-11-07 |
| 123. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
47.55 |
0.9430 |
-0.1251 |
211 |
1 |
47.55 |
2010-10-30 |
| 124. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
45.64 |
0.9597 |
-0.1642 |
347 |
1 |
45.64 |
2010-11-07 |
| 125. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
45.39 |
0.8602 |
-0.0756 |
206 |
1 |
45.39 |
2010-11-07 |
| 126. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
45.05 |
0.8947 |
-0.1090 |
366 |
1 |
45.05 |
2010-10-31 |
| 127. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
42.94 |
0.9202 |
-0.1769 |
254 |
1 |
42.94 |
2010-10-30 |
| 128. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
42.09 |
0.9353 |
-0.2103 |
177 |
1 |
42.09 |
2010-11-28 |