| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
58.13 |
1.0865 |
0.1448 |
237 |
1 |
58.13 |
2011-03-28 |
| 2. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
56.59 |
1.0095 |
0.1893 |
211 |
1 |
56.59 |
2011-03-28 |
| 3. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
55.60 |
1.0590 |
0.1188 |
250 |
2 |
53.08 |
2011-03-27 |
| 4. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
55.16 |
1.0755 |
0.0929 |
243 |
2 |
52.58 |
2011-03-25 |
| 5. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
54.66 |
1.0304 |
0.1274 |
256 |
1 |
54.66 |
2011-03-25 |
| 6. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
54.62 |
1.1138 |
0.0434 |
341 |
1 |
54.62 |
2011-03-27 |
| 7. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
54.55 |
0.9243 |
0.2313 |
231 |
1 |
54.55 |
2011-03-28 |
| 8. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
54.33 |
1.0495 |
0.1015 |
323 |
1 |
54.33 |
2011-03-24 |
| 9. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
54.27 |
1.1095 |
0.0402 |
252 |
1 |
54.27 |
2011-03-27 |
| 10. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
53.95 |
0.9925 |
0.1503 |
155 |
1 |
53.95 |
2011-03-07 |
| 11. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
53.58 |
0.8571 |
0.2779 |
202 |
2 |
49.00 |
2011-03-25 |
| 12. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
53.32 |
1.0094 |
0.1201 |
256 |
2 |
50.73 |
2011-03-25 |
| 13. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
53.28 |
1.0654 |
0.0633 |
247 |
2 |
52.06 |
2011-03-27 |
| 14. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
53.24 |
1.0082 |
0.1197 |
212 |
2 |
50.35 |
2011-03-27 |
| 15. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
53.23 |
1.0667 |
0.0610 |
308 |
1 |
53.23 |
2011-03-25 |
| 16. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
53.19 |
1.0039 |
0.1229 |
255 |
1 |
53.19 |
2011-03-28 |
| 17. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
53.10 |
1.0800 |
0.0449 |
129 |
1 |
53.10 |
2011-03-25 |
| 18. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
52.94 |
0.9791 |
0.1424 |
154 |
1 |
52.94 |
2011-03-27 |
| 19. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
52.84 |
0.9403 |
0.1791 |
345 |
1 |
52.84 |
2011-03-25 |
| 20. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
52.80 |
0.9384 |
0.1801 |
296 |
1 |
52.80 |
2011-03-26 |
| 21. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
52.72 |
0.9614 |
0.1553 |
195 |
1 |
52.72 |
2011-03-25 |
| 22. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
52.65 |
0.9762 |
0.1391 |
249 |
1 |
52.65 |
2011-03-24 |
| 23. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
52.22 |
0.9779 |
0.1283 |
255 |
1 |
52.22 |
2011-03-27 |
| 24. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
51.93 |
1.0521 |
0.0479 |
197 |
1 |
51.93 |
2011-03-27 |
| 25. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
51.61 |
0.9621 |
0.1311 |
201 |
1 |
51.61 |
2011-03-25 |
| 26. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
51.47 |
0.9783 |
0.1120 |
273 |
2 |
48.34 |
2011-03-26 |
| 27. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
51.40 |
0.9922 |
0.0966 |
264 |
1 |
51.40 |
2011-03-25 |
| 28. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
51.37 |
0.9643 |
0.1240 |
282 |
1 |
51.37 |
2011-03-28 |
| 29. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
51.25 |
1.0370 |
0.0486 |
262 |
1 |
51.25 |
2011-03-28 |
| 30. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
51.21 |
0.9930 |
0.0919 |
350 |
1 |
51.21 |
2011-03-25 |
| 31. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
51.08 |
1.0165 |
0.0655 |
316 |
1 |
51.08 |
2011-03-25 |
| 32. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
50.87 |
0.9857 |
0.0919 |
268 |
1 |
50.87 |
2011-03-26 |
| 33. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
50.54 |
1.0399 |
0.0308 |
257 |
1 |
50.54 |
2011-03-24 |
| 34. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
50.52 |
0.9680 |
0.1022 |
256 |
1 |
50.52 |
2011-03-24 |
| 35. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
50.49 |
1.0225 |
0.0470 |
152 |
2 |
47.67 |
2011-03-27 |
| 36. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
50.32 |
0.9738 |
0.0921 |
266 |
1 |
50.32 |
2011-03-25 |
| 37. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
50.30 |
1.0069 |
0.0588 |
242 |
2 |
48.78 |
2011-03-25 |
| 38. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
50.26 |
1.0465 |
0.0183 |
183 |
2 |
49.46 |
2011-03-21 |
| 39. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
50.21 |
1.0341 |
0.0295 |
273 |
2 |
48.49 |
2011-03-27 |
| 40. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
50.17 |
1.0845 |
-0.0218 |
212 |
2 |
44.20 |
2011-03-27 |
| 41. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
50.15 |
1.0511 |
0.0112 |
252 |
1 |
50.15 |
2011-03-26 |
| 42. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
49.94 |
0.9917 |
0.0662 |
317 |
1 |
49.94 |
2011-03-25 |
| 43. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
49.84 |
1.0498 |
0.0060 |
261 |
1 |
49.84 |
2011-03-27 |
| 44. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
49.76 |
1.0267 |
0.0275 |
261 |
1 |
49.76 |
2011-03-27 |
| 45. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
49.71 |
0.9338 |
0.1192 |
326 |
1 |
49.71 |
2011-03-25 |
| 46. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
49.54 |
1.0272 |
0.0223 |
226 |
1 |
49.54 |
2011-03-27 |
| 47. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
49.46 |
0.9842 |
0.0635 |
335 |
1 |
49.46 |
2011-03-24 |
| 48. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
49.35 |
1.0270 |
0.0184 |
303 |
1 |
49.35 |
2011-03-26 |
| 49. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
49.33 |
1.0617 |
-0.0167 |
171 |
1 |
49.33 |
2011-03-27 |
| 50. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
49.04 |
1.0639 |
-0.0251 |
303 |
1 |
49.04 |
2011-03-24 |
| 51. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
48.98 |
0.9480 |
0.0895 |
297 |
1 |
48.98 |
2011-03-24 |
| 52. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
48.93 |
1.0628 |
-0.0263 |
363 |
1 |
48.93 |
2011-03-25 |
| 53. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
48.91 |
0.9408 |
0.0954 |
177 |
1 |
48.91 |
2011-03-24 |
| 54. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
48.88 |
1.0253 |
0.0101 |
337 |
1 |
48.88 |
2011-03-26 |
| 55. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
48.74 |
0.9422 |
0.0904 |
190 |
2 |
45.80 |
2011-03-26 |
| 56. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
48.70 |
0.9839 |
0.0478 |
308 |
2 |
42.73 |
2011-03-27 |
| 57. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
48.58 |
0.9260 |
0.1032 |
348 |
1 |
48.58 |
2011-03-26 |
| 58. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
48.54 |
0.9332 |
0.0950 |
295 |
1 |
48.54 |
2011-03-27 |
| 59. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
48.53 |
1.0079 |
0.0201 |
273 |
2 |
45.91 |
2011-03-27 |
| 60. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
48.52 |
1.0404 |
-0.0126 |
406 |
1 |
48.52 |
2011-03-25 |
| 61. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
48.48 |
1.0538 |
-0.0267 |
367 |
1 |
48.48 |
2011-03-25 |
| 62. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
48.41 |
1.0901 |
-0.0646 |
288 |
1 |
48.41 |
2011-03-21 |
| 63. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
48.20 |
0.9001 |
0.1209 |
217 |
1 |
48.20 |
2011-03-27 |
| 64. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
48.14 |
1.0867 |
-0.0669 |
171 |
1 |
48.14 |
2011-03-24 |
| 65. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
47.96 |
1.0124 |
0.0036 |
275 |
1 |
47.96 |
2011-03-27 |
| 66. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
47.88 |
1.0561 |
-0.0418 |
227 |
1 |
47.88 |
2011-03-27 |
| 67. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
47.86 |
0.9604 |
0.0535 |
285 |
1 |
47.86 |
2011-03-26 |
| 68. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
47.85 |
0.9275 |
0.0861 |
243 |
1 |
47.85 |
2011-03-27 |
| 69. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
47.68 |
0.9737 |
0.0363 |
237 |
1 |
47.68 |
2011-03-25 |
| 70. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
47.55 |
0.9108 |
0.0965 |
235 |
1 |
47.55 |
2011-03-26 |
| 71. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
47.40 |
0.9352 |
0.0689 |
194 |
1 |
47.40 |
2011-03-26 |
| 72. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
47.40 |
0.9775 |
0.0267 |
473 |
1 |
47.40 |
2011-03-27 |
| 73. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
47.14 |
0.9801 |
0.0185 |
282 |
2 |
46.57 |
2011-03-26 |
| 74. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
47.11 |
0.9606 |
0.0374 |
203 |
2 |
44.29 |
2011-03-27 |
| 75. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
47.09 |
0.8913 |
0.1063 |
201 |
2 |
44.63 |
2011-03-28 |
| 76. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
47.00 |
1.0600 |
-0.0644 |
351 |
1 |
47.00 |
2011-03-07 |
| 77. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
46.96 |
0.9368 |
0.0580 |
176 |
1 |
46.96 |
2011-03-27 |
| 78. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
46.94 |
0.9010 |
0.0933 |
266 |
1 |
46.94 |
2011-03-26 |
| 79. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
46.92 |
0.9703 |
0.0236 |
394 |
1 |
46.92 |
2011-03-26 |
| 80. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
46.89 |
0.9332 |
0.0602 |
267 |
2 |
45.30 |
2011-03-27 |
| 81. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
46.85 |
1.0461 |
-0.0536 |
286 |
1 |
46.85 |
2011-03-24 |
| 82. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
46.66 |
0.9749 |
0.0135 |
337 |
1 |
46.66 |
2011-03-24 |
| 83. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
46.65 |
0.8603 |
0.1279 |
270 |
1 |
46.65 |
2011-03-25 |
| 84. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
46.33 |
0.9817 |
-0.0002 |
304 |
1 |
46.33 |
2011-03-24 |
| 85. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
46.21 |
0.9757 |
0.0033 |
176 |
1 |
46.21 |
2011-03-26 |
| 86. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
46.19 |
0.9538 |
0.0246 |
276 |
1 |
46.19 |
2011-03-27 |
| 87. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
45.99 |
1.0418 |
-0.0676 |
214 |
2 |
44.51 |
2011-03-24 |
| 88. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
45.96 |
1.0060 |
-0.0323 |
244 |
1 |
45.96 |
2011-03-24 |
| 89. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
45.82 |
0.8988 |
0.0718 |
193 |
1 |
45.82 |
2011-03-27 |
| 90. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
45.79 |
0.8721 |
0.0979 |
231 |
1 |
45.79 |
2011-03-26 |
| 91. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
45.66 |
1.0487 |
-0.0814 |
253 |
1 |
45.66 |
2011-03-21 |
| 92. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
45.60 |
0.9299 |
0.0360 |
168 |
2 |
43.58 |
2011-03-27 |
| 93. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
45.58 |
1.0960 |
-0.1305 |
315 |
1 |
45.58 |
2011-03-21 |
| 94. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
45.47 |
0.8375 |
0.1257 |
224 |
1 |
45.47 |
2011-03-28 |
| 95. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
45.44 |
0.8624 |
0.1002 |
174 |
1 |
45.44 |
2011-03-25 |
| 96. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
45.02 |
0.9673 |
-0.0136 |
292 |
1 |
45.02 |
2011-03-27 |
| 97. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
44.99 |
0.9011 |
0.0519 |
322 |
3 |
44.89 |
2011-03-27 |
| 98. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
44.96 |
0.9991 |
-0.0466 |
339 |
2 |
44.65 |
2011-03-27 |
| 99. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
44.83 |
0.8911 |
0.0585 |
241 |
1 |
44.83 |
2011-03-27 |
| 100. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
44.66 |
0.8880 |
0.0580 |
296 |
1 |
44.66 |
2011-03-27 |
| 101. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
44.40 |
0.8778 |
0.0627 |
285 |
1 |
44.40 |
2011-03-07 |
| 102. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
44.29 |
0.9866 |
-0.0484 |
308 |
3 |
42.69 |
2011-03-24 |
| 103. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
44.17 |
0.9145 |
0.0212 |
404 |
1 |
44.17 |
2011-03-27 |
| 104. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
43.60 |
0.8718 |
0.0518 |
318 |
1 |
43.60 |
2011-03-24 |
| 105. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
43.46 |
1.0427 |
-0.1220 |
269 |
1 |
43.46 |
2011-03-27 |
| 106. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
43.37 |
0.9704 |
-0.0517 |
254 |
1 |
43.37 |
2011-03-21 |
| 107. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
43.35 |
0.9400 |
-0.0216 |
434 |
1 |
43.35 |
2011-03-27 |
| 108. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
43.34 |
1.0264 |
-0.1083 |
191 |
1 |
43.34 |
2011-03-27 |
| 109. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
43.08 |
0.9402 |
-0.0276 |
310 |
1 |
43.08 |
2011-03-27 |
| 110. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
42.97 |
1.0479 |
-0.1377 |
205 |
1 |
42.97 |
2011-03-27 |
| 111. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
42.95 |
0.9479 |
-0.0381 |
317 |
1 |
42.95 |
2011-03-27 |
| 112. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
42.30 |
1.1086 |
-0.2124 |
233 |
1 |
42.30 |
2011-03-27 |
| 113. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
42.01 |
0.9915 |
-0.1015 |
281 |
2 |
41.59 |
2011-03-27 |
| 114. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
41.90 |
0.8328 |
0.0549 |
343 |
1 |
41.90 |
2011-03-26 |
| 115. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
41.82 |
1.0101 |
-0.1242 |
336 |
2 |
41.30 |
2011-03-27 |
| 116. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
41.58 |
0.8901 |
-0.0093 |
273 |
1 |
41.58 |
2011-03-27 |
| 117. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
41.47 |
0.8856 |
-0.0070 |
369 |
1 |
41.47 |
2011-03-27 |
| 118. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
41.40 |
0.9880 |
-0.1110 |
199 |
1 |
41.40 |
2011-03-27 |
| 119. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
40.70 |
0.9149 |
-0.0527 |
153 |
1 |
40.70 |
2011-03-26 |
| 120. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
40.66 |
0.9084 |
-0.0471 |
271 |
1 |
40.66 |
2011-03-27 |
| 121. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
39.80 |
1.0125 |
-0.1694 |
171 |
1 |
39.80 |
2011-03-26 |
| 122. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
39.61 |
0.8172 |
0.0219 |
204 |
1 |
39.61 |
2011-03-27 |
| 123. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
39.41 |
1.0051 |
-0.1703 |
162 |
1 |
39.41 |
2011-03-21 |
| 124. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
39.07 |
0.9403 |
-0.1126 |
307 |
1 |
39.07 |
2011-03-27 |
| 125. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
38.07 |
0.9265 |
-0.1200 |
254 |
1 |
38.07 |
2011-03-07 |
| 126. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
24.12 |
0.9213 |
-0.4102 |
165 |
1 |
24.12 |
2011-03-27 |