| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
56.50 |
1.0515 |
0.1171 |
250 |
2 |
51.92 |
2011-05-09 |
| 2. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
56.09 |
1.0399 |
0.1212 |
294 |
2 |
55.85 |
2011-05-09 |
| 3. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
55.96 |
1.0340 |
0.1244 |
406 |
1 |
55.96 |
2011-05-09 |
| 4. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
55.29 |
0.9873 |
0.1584 |
155 |
1 |
55.29 |
2011-05-07 |
| 5. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
55.13 |
1.1296 |
0.0382 |
252 |
1 |
55.13 |
2011-05-07 |
| 6. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
54.71 |
0.9212 |
0.2146 |
231 |
1 |
54.71 |
2011-05-07 |
| 7. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
54.35 |
1.0797 |
0.0433 |
210 |
2 |
51.98 |
2011-05-07 |
| 8. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
54.32 |
1.0391 |
0.0858 |
358 |
1 |
54.32 |
2011-05-09 |
| 9. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
53.84 |
0.9938 |
0.1217 |
339 |
1 |
53.84 |
2011-05-07 |
| 10. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
53.73 |
0.9303 |
0.1816 |
176 |
4 |
48.19 |
2011-05-09 |
| 11. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
53.57 |
0.9886 |
0.1199 |
220 |
2 |
52.40 |
2011-05-06 |
| 12. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
53.52 |
0.9844 |
0.1232 |
293 |
2 |
53.01 |
2011-05-07 |
| 13. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
53.49 |
1.0885 |
0.0438 |
341 |
1 |
53.49 |
2011-05-09 |
| 14. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
53.47 |
1.1215 |
0.0069 |
200 |
1 |
53.47 |
2011-05-06 |
| 15. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
53.38 |
0.9790 |
0.1576 |
311 |
1 |
53.38 |
2011-05-07 |
| 16. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
53.13 |
0.9340 |
0.1675 |
296 |
1 |
53.13 |
2011-05-06 |
| 17. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
52.80 |
1.0169 |
0.1045 |
346 |
1 |
52.80 |
2011-05-09 |
| 18. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
52.64 |
0.9068 |
0.1854 |
269 |
1 |
52.64 |
2011-05-06 |
| 19. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
52.46 |
0.9572 |
0.1612 |
376 |
1 |
52.46 |
2011-05-07 |
| 20. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
52.21 |
1.0284 |
0.0880 |
282 |
1 |
52.21 |
2011-05-05 |
| 21. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
52.11 |
0.9893 |
0.0890 |
323 |
1 |
52.11 |
2011-05-07 |
| 22. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
52.05 |
0.9871 |
0.1075 |
227 |
1 |
52.05 |
2011-05-07 |
| 23. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
52.03 |
1.0485 |
0.0588 |
153 |
1 |
52.03 |
2011-05-06 |
| 24. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
52.03 |
1.0173 |
0.0973 |
268 |
1 |
52.03 |
2011-05-07 |
| 25. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
51.96 |
0.9706 |
0.1061 |
216 |
3 |
50.42 |
2011-05-07 |
| 26. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
51.31 |
0.9726 |
0.0891 |
154 |
2 |
46.54 |
2011-05-07 |
| 27. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
51.20 |
1.0042 |
0.0834 |
352 |
1 |
51.20 |
2011-05-09 |
| 28. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
50.88 |
0.9672 |
0.0865 |
396 |
1 |
50.88 |
2011-05-09 |
| 29. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
50.87 |
1.0074 |
0.0477 |
242 |
1 |
50.87 |
2011-05-06 |
| 30. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
50.86 |
0.9665 |
0.1250 |
326 |
2 |
45.81 |
2011-05-06 |
| 31. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
50.78 |
0.8951 |
0.1582 |
193 |
1 |
50.78 |
2011-05-06 |
| 32. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
50.75 |
0.9710 |
0.0785 |
173 |
1 |
50.75 |
2011-05-05 |
| 33. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
50.67 |
1.0403 |
0.0424 |
275 |
1 |
50.67 |
2011-05-06 |
| 34. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
50.35 |
0.9527 |
0.0884 |
251 |
1 |
50.35 |
2011-05-09 |
| 35. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
50.34 |
0.9814 |
0.0919 |
364 |
1 |
50.34 |
2011-05-06 |
| 36. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
50.06 |
1.0662 |
-0.0061 |
407 |
1 |
50.06 |
2011-05-05 |
| 37. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
49.96 |
0.9851 |
0.0483 |
317 |
3 |
47.80 |
2011-05-07 |
| 38. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
49.67 |
0.9430 |
0.0836 |
211 |
1 |
49.67 |
2011-05-06 |
| 39. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
49.67 |
1.0320 |
0.0277 |
293 |
1 |
49.67 |
2011-05-06 |
| 40. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
49.66 |
1.0154 |
0.0493 |
351 |
3 |
47.76 |
2011-05-09 |
| 41. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
49.60 |
1.0346 |
0.0266 |
244 |
1 |
49.60 |
2011-05-06 |
| 42. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
49.50 |
1.0506 |
-0.0033 |
277 |
1 |
49.50 |
2011-05-07 |
| 43. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
49.37 |
1.0132 |
0.0074 |
143 |
1 |
49.37 |
2011-05-06 |
| 44. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
49.36 |
0.9795 |
0.0409 |
308 |
1 |
49.36 |
2011-05-07 |
| 45. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
49.33 |
0.9997 |
0.0211 |
382 |
1 |
49.33 |
2011-05-06 |
| 46. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
49.11 |
0.8975 |
0.1200 |
268 |
1 |
49.11 |
2011-05-07 |
| 47. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
49.09 |
1.0529 |
-0.0381 |
351 |
1 |
49.09 |
2011-05-06 |
| 48. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
49.04 |
1.0029 |
0.0106 |
209 |
1 |
49.04 |
2011-05-05 |
| 49. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
48.79 |
1.0523 |
-0.0445 |
256 |
1 |
48.79 |
2011-05-05 |
| 50. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
48.78 |
1.0385 |
-0.0311 |
230 |
1 |
48.78 |
2011-05-06 |
| 51. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
48.78 |
0.9365 |
0.0729 |
248 |
1 |
48.78 |
2011-05-07 |
| 52. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
48.73 |
1.0768 |
-0.0364 |
295 |
1 |
48.73 |
2011-05-05 |
| 53. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
48.64 |
0.9754 |
0.0315 |
362 |
1 |
48.64 |
2011-05-06 |
| 54. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
48.58 |
1.0799 |
-0.0760 |
243 |
1 |
48.58 |
2011-05-05 |
| 55. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
48.12 |
0.9411 |
0.0549 |
318 |
1 |
48.12 |
2011-05-06 |
| 56. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
48.08 |
0.8731 |
0.1241 |
199 |
1 |
48.08 |
2011-05-06 |
| 57. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
47.70 |
0.9907 |
-0.0051 |
211 |
1 |
47.70 |
2011-05-07 |
| 58. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
47.65 |
0.9468 |
0.0381 |
276 |
1 |
47.65 |
2011-05-06 |
| 59. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
47.23 |
1.0577 |
-0.0822 |
247 |
1 |
47.23 |
2011-05-05 |
| 60. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
47.00 |
0.9128 |
0.0929 |
369 |
1 |
47.00 |
2011-05-06 |
| 61. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
47.00 |
0.9048 |
0.0700 |
271 |
1 |
47.00 |
2011-05-05 |
| 62. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
46.99 |
1.0263 |
-0.0551 |
267 |
1 |
46.99 |
2011-05-06 |
| 63. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
46.94 |
1.0218 |
-0.0529 |
268 |
1 |
46.94 |
2011-05-06 |
| 64. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
46.70 |
1.0574 |
-0.0690 |
205 |
2 |
44.35 |
2011-05-06 |
| 65. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
46.69 |
1.0596 |
-0.0953 |
239 |
1 |
46.69 |
2011-05-06 |
| 66. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
46.67 |
0.9164 |
0.0488 |
305 |
1 |
46.67 |
2011-05-06 |
| 67. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
46.50 |
1.0602 |
-0.0984 |
389 |
1 |
46.50 |
2011-05-06 |
| 68. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
46.47 |
0.9773 |
-0.0163 |
123 |
1 |
46.47 |
2011-05-06 |
| 69. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
46.32 |
1.0232 |
-0.0287 |
350 |
1 |
46.32 |
2011-05-05 |
| 70. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
45.93 |
1.0120 |
-0.0628 |
290 |
1 |
45.93 |
2011-05-05 |
| 71. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
45.37 |
0.9509 |
0.0201 |
225 |
1 |
45.37 |
2011-05-05 |
| 72. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
44.21 |
0.9852 |
-0.0718 |
264 |
1 |
44.21 |
2011-05-06 |
| 73. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
43.98 |
1.0025 |
-0.0939 |
256 |
1 |
43.98 |
2011-05-06 |
| 74. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
43.87 |
1.0117 |
-0.0687 |
297 |
1 |
43.87 |
2011-05-05 |
| 75. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
43.65 |
0.9668 |
-0.0317 |
383 |
1 |
43.65 |
2011-05-06 |
| 76. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
43.48 |
1.0943 |
-0.1701 |
206 |
1 |
43.48 |
2011-05-05 |
| 77. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
42.89 |
0.9966 |
-0.1100 |
259 |
1 |
42.89 |
2011-05-05 |
| 78. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
42.37 |
0.8615 |
0.0174 |
110 |
1 |
42.37 |
2011-05-05 |
| 79. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
40.96 |
1.0334 |
-0.1900 |
131 |
1 |
40.96 |
2011-05-06 |
| 80. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
40.88 |
0.9168 |
-0.0733 |
240 |
1 |
40.88 |
2011-05-06 |
| 81. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
40.65 |
0.9976 |
-0.1392 |
174 |
1 |
40.65 |
2011-05-05 |
| 82. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
40.61 |
1.0725 |
-0.2088 |
233 |
1 |
40.61 |
2011-05-05 |
| 83. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
40.30 |
1.0917 |
-0.2366 |
243 |
1 |
40.30 |
2011-05-05 |
| 84. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
40.06 |
1.0444 |
-0.2182 |
197 |
1 |
40.06 |
2011-05-05 |
| 85. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
39.41 |
0.9216 |
-0.0776 |
255 |
2 |
38.72 |
2011-05-05 |
| 86. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
39.19 |
0.7708 |
0.0419 |
207 |
1 |
39.19 |
2011-05-05 |
| 87. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
39.17 |
0.8809 |
-0.0709 |
127 |
1 |
39.17 |
2011-05-05 |
| 88. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
39.04 |
0.9916 |
-0.1515 |
282 |
1 |
39.04 |
2011-05-05 |
| 89. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
35.97 |
0.9187 |
-0.1765 |
118 |
1 |
35.97 |
2011-05-05 |
| 90. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
35.15 |
1.0261 |
-0.3024 |
273 |
1 |
35.15 |
2011-05-05 |
| 91. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
34.98 |
0.9513 |
-0.2292 |
354 |
1 |
34.98 |
2011-05-05 |