| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
65.48 |
0.9187 |
0.4458 |
118 |
1 |
65.48 |
2012-04-19 |
| 2. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
62.83 |
1.0023 |
0.3062 |
211 |
1 |
62.83 |
2012-05-18 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
62.52 |
1.1016 |
0.2006 |
233 |
1 |
62.52 |
2012-04-05 |
| 4. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
62.00 |
1.0668 |
0.2246 |
350 |
2 |
60.35 |
2012-07-08 |
| 5. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
59.81 |
0.8968 |
0.3504 |
186 |
1 |
59.81 |
2012-04-18 |
| 6. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
59.54 |
1.0155 |
0.2260 |
232 |
1 |
59.54 |
2012-04-19 |
| 7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
59.51 |
1.0331 |
0.2058 |
234 |
1 |
59.51 |
2012-04-03 |
| 8. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
58.87 |
0.9706 |
0.2571 |
216 |
2 |
55.92 |
2012-04-19 |
| 9. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
58.65 |
1.0167 |
0.2055 |
378 |
1 |
58.65 |
2012-04-19 |
| 10. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
58.50 |
1.0349 |
0.1837 |
234 |
2 |
52.64 |
2012-05-24 |
| 11. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
57.49 |
1.0696 |
0.1261 |
226 |
1 |
57.49 |
2012-04-19 |
| 12. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
57.45 |
1.1296 |
0.0936 |
252 |
1 |
57.45 |
2012-04-03 |
| 13. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
57.15 |
1.0515 |
0.1372 |
166 |
1 |
57.15 |
2012-04-12 |
| 14. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
56.66 |
1.0399 |
0.1401 |
294 |
1 |
56.66 |
2012-04-05 |
| 15. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
56.23 |
1.0218 |
0.1474 |
268 |
1 |
56.23 |
2012-05-18 |
| 16. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
56.12 |
0.8442 |
0.3277 |
265 |
2 |
49.81 |
2012-04-19 |
| 17. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
55.92 |
0.9786 |
0.1857 |
235 |
2 |
55.15 |
2012-05-24 |
| 18. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
55.89 |
0.9171 |
0.2491 |
165 |
1 |
55.89 |
2012-04-05 |
| 19. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
55.68 |
0.9576 |
0.2038 |
212 |
1 |
55.68 |
2012-04-19 |
| 20. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
55.47 |
0.9646 |
0.1906 |
264 |
1 |
55.47 |
2012-05-18 |
| 21. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
55.42 |
0.9567 |
0.2347 |
184 |
1 |
55.42 |
2012-04-27 |
| 22. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
55.41 |
0.9350 |
0.2210 |
195 |
1 |
55.41 |
2012-04-12 |
| 23. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
55.05 |
0.9697 |
0.1789 |
266 |
1 |
55.05 |
2012-04-19 |
| 24. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
54.99 |
0.8629 |
0.2859 |
299 |
1 |
54.99 |
2012-07-08 |
| 25. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
54.18 |
1.0595 |
0.0676 |
379 |
1 |
54.18 |
2012-04-19 |
| 26. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
54.04 |
0.9986 |
0.1257 |
283 |
1 |
54.04 |
2012-04-18 |
| 27. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
53.35 |
1.0528 |
0.0556 |
201 |
1 |
53.35 |
2012-05-24 |
| 28. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
52.97 |
0.9871 |
0.1494 |
209 |
3 |
41.11 |
2012-05-18 |
| 29. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
52.75 |
0.8541 |
0.2470 |
260 |
2 |
50.76 |
2012-05-18 |
| 30. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
52.52 |
1.0677 |
0.0507 |
284 |
1 |
52.52 |
2012-04-27 |
| 31. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
52.32 |
0.9396 |
0.1492 |
119 |
2 |
40.94 |
2012-04-19 |
| 32. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.90 |
1.0714 |
0.0069 |
129 |
1 |
51.90 |
2012-05-17 |
| 33. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
51.51 |
1.0613 |
0.0104 |
266 |
2 |
46.75 |
2012-05-17 |
| 34. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
51.50 |
0.8811 |
0.1940 |
239 |
1 |
51.50 |
2012-04-12 |
| 35. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
51.37 |
0.9505 |
0.1208 |
204 |
1 |
51.37 |
2012-05-17 |
| 36. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
51.27 |
0.8996 |
0.1666 |
192 |
2 |
43.95 |
2012-05-18 |
| 37. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
51.07 |
0.9068 |
0.1581 |
225 |
2 |
50.32 |
2012-04-24 |
| 38. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
50.99 |
0.9904 |
0.1072 |
203 |
1 |
50.99 |
2012-04-05 |
| 39. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
50.90 |
1.0150 |
0.0818 |
325 |
1 |
50.90 |
2012-05-18 |
| 40. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
50.84 |
0.9763 |
0.0810 |
289 |
1 |
50.84 |
2012-07-08 |
| 41. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
50.55 |
1.0565 |
-0.0052 |
247 |
1 |
50.55 |
2012-04-24 |
| 42. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
50.43 |
1.0403 |
0.0245 |
193 |
1 |
50.43 |
2012-04-03 |
| 43. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
50.37 |
0.9672 |
0.0821 |
396 |
1 |
50.37 |
2012-04-20 |
| 44. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
50.34 |
0.9045 |
0.1433 |
235 |
1 |
50.34 |
2012-05-18 |
| 45. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
50.24 |
0.9846 |
0.0606 |
281 |
1 |
50.24 |
2012-04-19 |
| 46. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
50.21 |
0.9899 |
0.0540 |
163 |
1 |
50.21 |
2012-04-18 |
| 47. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
50.13 |
0.7850 |
0.2594 |
154 |
1 |
50.13 |
2012-04-19 |
| 48. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
49.86 |
0.9281 |
0.1127 |
273 |
2 |
47.76 |
2012-05-18 |
| 49. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
49.49 |
1.0368 |
-0.0068 |
276 |
1 |
49.49 |
2012-04-19 |
| 50. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
49.40 |
1.0025 |
0.0243 |
336 |
2 |
48.53 |
2012-04-19 |
| 51. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
49.08 |
1.0099 |
0.0100 |
207 |
1 |
49.08 |
2012-04-18 |
| 52. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
48.94 |
1.0284 |
0.0260 |
282 |
2 |
47.62 |
2012-05-18 |
| 53. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
48.89 |
1.1215 |
-0.0824 |
200 |
1 |
48.89 |
2012-04-12 |
| 54. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
48.77 |
0.9916 |
0.0570 |
282 |
1 |
48.77 |
2012-04-18 |
| 55. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
48.76 |
0.9768 |
0.0378 |
387 |
2 |
47.40 |
2012-04-27 |
| 56. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
48.73 |
1.0666 |
-0.0539 |
297 |
2 |
46.33 |
2012-05-17 |
| 57. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
48.42 |
0.9365 |
0.0714 |
248 |
1 |
48.42 |
2012-07-08 |
| 58. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
48.39 |
1.0533 |
-0.0275 |
257 |
1 |
48.39 |
2012-05-10 |
| 59. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
48.16 |
1.1022 |
-0.0705 |
259 |
1 |
48.16 |
2012-05-09 |
| 60. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
48.15 |
0.8810 |
0.1236 |
282 |
1 |
48.15 |
2012-04-19 |
| 61. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
48.06 |
1.0390 |
-0.0415 |
205 |
1 |
48.06 |
2012-04-19 |
| 62. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
47.93 |
1.0025 |
-0.0057 |
256 |
1 |
47.93 |
2012-05-24 |
| 63. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
47.92 |
1.0444 |
-0.0487 |
197 |
1 |
47.92 |
2012-05-17 |
| 64. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
47.70 |
0.9785 |
0.0146 |
154 |
1 |
47.70 |
2012-04-05 |
| 65. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
47.41 |
0.9513 |
0.0354 |
354 |
2 |
46.28 |
2012-05-09 |
| 66. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
47.35 |
0.9758 |
0.0088 |
314 |
1 |
47.35 |
2012-04-19 |
| 67. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
47.30 |
0.7996 |
0.1856 |
177 |
1 |
47.30 |
2012-04-19 |
| 68. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
47.28 |
1.0389 |
-0.0561 |
318 |
1 |
47.28 |
2012-04-12 |
| 69. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
47.26 |
0.8809 |
0.1033 |
127 |
2 |
46.87 |
2012-05-24 |
| 70. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
47.06 |
0.9532 |
0.0260 |
258 |
1 |
47.06 |
2012-04-27 |
| 71. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
46.78 |
0.8153 |
0.1604 |
200 |
1 |
46.78 |
2012-05-18 |
| 72. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
46.72 |
0.8910 |
0.0818 |
150 |
1 |
46.72 |
2012-05-17 |
| 73. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
46.65 |
0.9028 |
0.0688 |
111 |
1 |
46.65 |
2012-05-17 |
| 74. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
46.43 |
0.9811 |
-0.0168 |
272 |
1 |
46.43 |
2012-05-17 |
| 75. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
46.36 |
1.0426 |
-0.0786 |
323 |
2 |
45.14 |
2012-04-19 |
| 76. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
46.26 |
1.0669 |
-0.0777 |
213 |
1 |
46.26 |
2012-04-03 |
| 77. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
46.11 |
1.0173 |
-0.0202 |
268 |
1 |
46.11 |
2012-04-12 |
| 78. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
46.07 |
0.9430 |
0.0161 |
227 |
1 |
46.07 |
2012-05-24 |
| 79. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
46.04 |
0.8951 |
0.0653 |
193 |
1 |
46.04 |
2012-05-24 |
| 80. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
45.77 |
0.9164 |
0.0356 |
305 |
1 |
45.77 |
2012-05-18 |
| 81. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
45.73 |
0.9509 |
0.0333 |
225 |
1 |
45.73 |
2012-07-08 |
| 82. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
45.71 |
1.0719 |
-0.0989 |
360 |
1 |
45.71 |
2012-05-10 |
| 83. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
45.67 |
0.9653 |
-0.0140 |
394 |
1 |
45.67 |
2012-04-04 |
| 84. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
45.29 |
0.9722 |
-0.0279 |
283 |
1 |
45.29 |
2012-05-18 |
| 85. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
45.15 |
0.8077 |
0.1327 |
167 |
1 |
45.15 |
2012-05-18 |
| 86. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
45.02 |
0.9897 |
-0.0536 |
274 |
1 |
45.02 |
2012-04-03 |
| 87. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
44.98 |
0.8941 |
0.0431 |
216 |
1 |
44.98 |
2012-05-18 |
| 88. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
44.64 |
0.9485 |
-0.0213 |
291 |
1 |
44.64 |
2012-05-18 |
| 89. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
44.41 |
0.8912 |
0.0342 |
186 |
1 |
44.41 |
2012-05-17 |
| 90. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
44.38 |
0.8994 |
0.0253 |
188 |
1 |
44.38 |
2012-05-17 |
| 91. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
44.37 |
0.9632 |
-0.0393 |
240 |
1 |
44.37 |
2012-05-17 |
| 92. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
44.33 |
1.0387 |
-0.0910 |
239 |
1 |
44.33 |
2012-07-08 |
| 93. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
44.05 |
0.8341 |
0.0849 |
224 |
1 |
44.05 |
2012-05-17 |
| 94. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
43.99 |
0.7801 |
0.1345 |
116 |
1 |
43.99 |
2012-04-19 |
| 95. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
43.61 |
0.9855 |
-0.0528 |
258 |
1 |
43.61 |
2012-05-24 |
| 96. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
43.29 |
0.8890 |
0.0101 |
199 |
1 |
43.29 |
2012-04-17 |
| 97. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
43.28 |
1.0679 |
-0.1460 |
177 |
1 |
43.28 |
2012-04-19 |
| 98. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
42.83 |
0.8202 |
0.0733 |
178 |
1 |
42.83 |
2012-04-18 |
| 99. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
42.35 |
0.9048 |
-0.0216 |
271 |
1 |
42.35 |
2012-05-17 |
| 100. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
42.22 |
0.9936 |
-0.0962 |
227 |
1 |
42.22 |
2012-04-19 |
| 101. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
42.04 |
0.7708 |
0.1064 |
207 |
1 |
42.04 |
2012-05-24 |
| 102. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
41.98 |
1.0863 |
-0.1848 |
210 |
1 |
41.98 |
2012-05-17 |
| 103. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
41.90 |
1.0615 |
-0.1709 |
305 |
1 |
41.90 |
2012-04-19 |
| 104. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
41.81 |
0.9376 |
-0.0679 |
367 |
1 |
41.81 |
2012-04-19 |
| 105. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
41.76 |
0.9461 |
-0.0771 |
276 |
1 |
41.76 |
2012-04-03 |
| 106. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
41.73 |
0.9339 |
-0.0664 |
310 |
1 |
41.73 |
2012-04-19 |
| 107. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
41.70 |
0.9582 |
-0.0894 |
259 |
1 |
41.70 |
2012-04-24 |
| 108. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
41.56 |
0.9247 |
-0.0575 |
253 |
1 |
41.56 |
2012-05-18 |
| 109. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
40.18 |
0.8725 |
-0.0357 |
163 |
1 |
40.18 |
2012-04-18 |
| 110. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
40.13 |
0.8595 |
-0.0253 |
242 |
1 |
40.13 |
2012-05-18 |
| 111. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
39.57 |
0.9529 |
-0.0983 |
269 |
1 |
39.57 |
2012-05-24 |
| 112. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
39.20 |
0.9865 |
-0.1718 |
276 |
1 |
39.20 |
2012-04-18 |
| 113. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
38.60 |
0.8919 |
-0.0903 |
205 |
1 |
38.60 |
2012-05-18 |
| 114. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
38.37 |
1.1081 |
-0.2800 |
206 |
1 |
38.37 |
2012-04-27 |
| 115. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
37.35 |
1.0197 |
-0.2450 |
226 |
1 |
37.35 |
2012-04-19 |
| 116. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
36.83 |
0.9286 |
-0.1640 |
194 |
1 |
36.83 |
2012-04-18 |
| 117. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
36.75 |
0.9740 |
-0.2113 |
209 |
1 |
36.75 |
2012-04-19 |
| 118. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
35.43 |
0.9866 |
-0.2511 |
218 |
1 |
35.43 |
2012-04-03 |
| 119. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
35.32 |
0.9631 |
-0.1932 |
345 |
1 |
35.32 |
2012-05-17 |
| 120. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
34.09 |
0.8520 |
-0.1432 |
202 |
1 |
34.09 |
2012-05-18 |
| 121. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
33.66 |
0.9614 |
-0.2624 |
292 |
1 |
33.66 |
2012-05-17 |
| 122. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
26.54 |
0.8722 |
-0.3220 |
285 |
1 |
26.54 |
2012-04-19 |