| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
112.61 |
1.0417 |
0.2115 |
253 |
1 |
112.61 |
2011-05-02 |
| 2. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
109.45 |
1.0796 |
0.1355 |
129 |
1 |
109.45 |
2011-05-09 |
| 3. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
108.17 |
1.0528 |
0.1486 |
201 |
3 |
102.74 |
2011-05-09 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
107.88 |
1.0565 |
0.1433 |
247 |
3 |
90.02 |
2011-05-02 |
| 5. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
105.75 |
1.0696 |
0.1058 |
226 |
1 |
105.75 |
2010-11-28 |
| 6. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
105.68 |
1.0292 |
0.1472 |
262 |
1 |
105.68 |
2011-05-02 |
| 7. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
102.36 |
1.0389 |
0.1041 |
340 |
1 |
102.36 |
2011-05-06 |
| 8. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
100.79 |
0.9841 |
0.1428 |
334 |
1 |
100.79 |
2010-11-28 |
| 9. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
100.67 |
1.0398 |
0.0707 |
110 |
1 |
100.67 |
2010-11-28 |
| 10. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
99.53 |
1.0763 |
0.0743 |
367 |
2 |
94.58 |
2010-11-29 |
| 11. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
97.22 |
1.0016 |
0.0763 |
218 |
1 |
97.22 |
2010-12-27 |
| 12. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
96.67 |
1.1215 |
-0.0213 |
200 |
1 |
96.67 |
2011-04-12 |
| 13. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
96.18 |
1.0189 |
0.0550 |
337 |
2 |
92.56 |
2010-11-28 |
| 14. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
96.00 |
1.0426 |
0.0255 |
323 |
2 |
94.99 |
2011-05-05 |
| 15. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
95.97 |
0.8933 |
0.1816 |
363 |
1 |
95.97 |
2010-11-29 |
| 16. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
95.73 |
1.0384 |
0.0173 |
183 |
1 |
95.73 |
2011-05-02 |
| 17. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
95.05 |
0.9886 |
0.0720 |
220 |
2 |
89.73 |
2010-12-27 |
| 18. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
94.83 |
1.0621 |
0.0128 |
263 |
2 |
90.82 |
2011-05-06 |
| 19. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
94.81 |
1.0485 |
0.0413 |
153 |
1 |
94.81 |
2011-05-05 |
| 20. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
94.80 |
1.0352 |
0.0227 |
341 |
1 |
94.80 |
2010-11-29 |
| 21. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
94.12 |
1.0429 |
0.0032 |
259 |
1 |
94.12 |
2010-12-27 |
| 22. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
93.89 |
0.9820 |
0.0627 |
274 |
1 |
93.89 |
2011-05-01 |
| 23. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
93.46 |
0.9636 |
0.0763 |
254 |
1 |
93.46 |
2010-11-28 |
| 24. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
93.35 |
1.0619 |
-0.0190 |
354 |
1 |
93.35 |
2011-05-05 |
| 25. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
93.34 |
1.0331 |
0.0035 |
234 |
1 |
93.34 |
2011-05-02 |
| 26. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
93.32 |
1.0768 |
0.0017 |
295 |
1 |
93.32 |
2010-12-27 |
| 27. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
93.27 |
0.9676 |
0.0789 |
442 |
1 |
93.27 |
2010-11-28 |
| 28. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
93.25 |
0.9567 |
0.0815 |
273 |
1 |
93.25 |
2010-11-28 |
| 29. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
93.12 |
0.9740 |
0.0581 |
209 |
1 |
93.12 |
2010-11-29 |
| 30. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
92.37 |
1.0124 |
0.0131 |
204 |
1 |
92.37 |
2010-11-28 |
| 31. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
92.13 |
1.0252 |
-0.0065 |
176 |
1 |
92.13 |
2010-11-28 |
| 32. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
92.11 |
1.0885 |
-0.0603 |
315 |
1 |
92.11 |
2010-11-29 |
| 33. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
91.94 |
1.0150 |
0.0572 |
325 |
1 |
91.94 |
2011-05-01 |
| 34. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
91.73 |
0.9532 |
0.0662 |
258 |
1 |
91.73 |
2010-11-29 |
| 35. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
91.60 |
0.9851 |
0.0368 |
317 |
1 |
91.60 |
2011-05-05 |
| 36. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
91.55 |
0.9439 |
0.0826 |
476 |
1 |
91.55 |
2011-05-01 |
| 37. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
91.35 |
0.9045 |
0.1126 |
235 |
1 |
91.35 |
2011-05-09 |
| 38. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
91.15 |
0.9359 |
0.1180 |
353 |
2 |
87.90 |
2011-04-12 |
| 39. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
91.13 |
0.9866 |
0.0239 |
218 |
1 |
91.13 |
2010-11-28 |
| 40. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
91.13 |
0.9670 |
0.0892 |
307 |
1 |
91.13 |
2010-11-29 |
| 41. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
90.92 |
0.8753 |
0.1458 |
427 |
1 |
90.92 |
2010-12-27 |
| 42. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
90.47 |
1.0038 |
0.0330 |
237 |
2 |
88.75 |
2011-05-01 |
| 43. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
90.32 |
1.0033 |
-0.0052 |
189 |
1 |
90.32 |
2010-11-28 |
| 44. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
90.20 |
0.9790 |
0.0653 |
311 |
1 |
90.20 |
2010-11-28 |
| 45. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
90.09 |
1.0795 |
-0.0470 |
226 |
1 |
90.09 |
2010-11-28 |
| 46. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
90.08 |
0.9893 |
0.0129 |
323 |
1 |
90.08 |
2010-11-28 |
| 47. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
89.71 |
0.9798 |
0.0126 |
199 |
1 |
89.71 |
2010-11-28 |
| 48. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
89.71 |
1.0232 |
0.0207 |
350 |
1 |
89.71 |
2011-05-09 |
| 49. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
89.04 |
0.9202 |
0.0699 |
254 |
1 |
89.04 |
2011-05-09 |
| 50. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
89.00 |
1.0109 |
-0.0203 |
276 |
1 |
89.00 |
2010-11-28 |
| 51. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
88.69 |
1.0883 |
-0.0695 |
303 |
1 |
88.69 |
2010-11-28 |
| 52. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
88.09 |
0.9372 |
0.0471 |
320 |
1 |
88.09 |
2010-11-28 |
| 53. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
87.98 |
0.8971 |
0.0863 |
266 |
1 |
87.98 |
2010-11-28 |
| 54. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
87.96 |
0.8956 |
0.0874 |
322 |
1 |
87.96 |
2011-05-09 |
| 55. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
87.81 |
1.0025 |
-0.0264 |
256 |
1 |
87.81 |
2010-11-29 |
| 56. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
87.73 |
0.9212 |
0.0576 |
323 |
1 |
87.73 |
2011-05-05 |
| 57. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
87.56 |
0.8958 |
0.0829 |
322 |
1 |
87.56 |
2010-11-28 |
| 58. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
87.23 |
0.9614 |
0.0119 |
292 |
1 |
87.23 |
2010-11-29 |
| 59. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
86.55 |
0.9088 |
0.0589 |
348 |
1 |
86.55 |
2010-11-28 |
| 60. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
86.48 |
0.9097 |
0.0938 |
464 |
1 |
86.48 |
2011-05-06 |
| 61. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
86.41 |
0.8996 |
0.0557 |
192 |
3 |
81.09 |
2011-05-09 |
| 62. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
86.37 |
1.0060 |
-0.0506 |
171 |
1 |
86.37 |
2010-12-27 |
| 63. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
86.26 |
0.9513 |
0.0116 |
354 |
1 |
86.26 |
2010-11-28 |
| 64. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
85.98 |
0.9619 |
-0.0003 |
393 |
1 |
85.98 |
2010-11-28 |
| 65. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
85.96 |
1.0574 |
-0.0736 |
205 |
2 |
80.90 |
2011-05-09 |
| 66. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
85.94 |
1.0083 |
-0.0085 |
273 |
2 |
80.02 |
2011-05-09 |
| 67. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
85.90 |
1.0131 |
-0.0619 |
225 |
1 |
85.90 |
2010-11-29 |
| 68. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
85.45 |
1.0270 |
-0.0411 |
255 |
1 |
85.45 |
2011-05-09 |
| 69. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
85.22 |
0.9176 |
0.0686 |
365 |
1 |
85.22 |
2010-12-27 |
| 70. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
85.19 |
0.9739 |
0.0090 |
412 |
1 |
85.19 |
2010-11-28 |
| 71. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
84.77 |
0.9665 |
0.0252 |
326 |
2 |
83.25 |
2011-04-12 |
| 72. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
84.69 |
0.9936 |
-0.0523 |
311 |
1 |
84.69 |
2010-11-29 |
| 73. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
84.68 |
1.0477 |
-0.1042 |
360 |
1 |
84.68 |
2010-11-28 |
| 74. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
84.45 |
1.0399 |
-0.0957 |
294 |
2 |
81.66 |
2010-11-28 |
| 75. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
83.66 |
0.9233 |
-0.0018 |
168 |
1 |
83.66 |
2010-11-29 |
| 76. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
83.13 |
0.9213 |
0.0033 |
295 |
1 |
83.13 |
2010-11-29 |
| 77. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
83.03 |
0.9342 |
-0.0078 |
434 |
1 |
83.03 |
2010-11-29 |
| 78. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
82.87 |
1.0396 |
-0.1259 |
149 |
1 |
82.87 |
2011-05-06 |
| 79. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
82.62 |
0.9286 |
-0.0117 |
194 |
1 |
82.62 |
2010-11-28 |
| 80. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
82.61 |
1.0214 |
-0.1087 |
166 |
1 |
82.61 |
2010-12-27 |
| 81. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
82.43 |
0.9279 |
-0.0052 |
317 |
2 |
76.29 |
2010-12-27 |
| 82. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
82.09 |
1.0004 |
-0.0945 |
212 |
1 |
82.09 |
2010-11-28 |
| 83. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
81.25 |
1.0679 |
-0.1454 |
177 |
1 |
81.25 |
2011-05-01 |
| 84. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
81.24 |
0.9820 |
-0.0764 |
267 |
1 |
81.24 |
2010-11-28 |
| 85. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
81.21 |
1.0254 |
-0.0828 |
217 |
1 |
81.21 |
2011-05-05 |
| 86. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
80.59 |
0.9572 |
-0.0189 |
376 |
1 |
80.59 |
2010-11-29 |
| 87. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
80.04 |
1.0346 |
-0.1039 |
244 |
1 |
80.04 |
2010-12-27 |
| 88. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
79.68 |
1.0602 |
-0.1715 |
389 |
1 |
79.68 |
2010-11-29 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
78.85 |
0.9289 |
-0.0557 |
204 |
1 |
78.85 |
2010-12-27 |
| 90. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
77.72 |
0.8826 |
-0.0181 |
296 |
1 |
77.72 |
2010-11-29 |
| 91. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
76.87 |
0.9871 |
-0.1111 |
227 |
1 |
76.87 |
2010-11-29 |
| 92. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
76.80 |
1.0261 |
-0.1340 |
410 |
1 |
76.80 |
2011-05-09 |
| 93. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
75.18 |
1.0029 |
-0.1753 |
209 |
1 |
75.18 |
2010-11-28 |
| 94. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
74.23 |
0.9278 |
-0.1017 |
295 |
1 |
74.23 |
2010-11-29 |
| 95. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
73.96 |
1.0125 |
-0.1538 |
413 |
1 |
73.96 |
2011-05-05 |
| 96. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
71.56 |
1.0885 |
-0.2601 |
341 |
1 |
71.56 |
2010-11-29 |
| 97. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
70.70 |
0.9309 |
-0.1491 |
284 |
1 |
70.70 |
2010-11-28 |
| 98. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
68.30 |
0.8961 |
-0.1427 |
189 |
1 |
68.30 |
2011-05-09 |
| 99. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
60.90 |
1.0183 |
-0.3504 |
191 |
1 |
60.90 |
2010-11-28 |