| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
66.87 |
1.1018 |
0.1446 |
220 |
1 |
66.87 |
2008-12-01 |
| 2. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
65.56 |
1.0340 |
0.1992 |
406 |
1 |
65.56 |
2008-11-29 |
| 3. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
64.23 |
1.0023 |
0.1987 |
211 |
1 |
64.23 |
2008-12-01 |
| 4. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
62.75 |
1.1114 |
0.0607 |
247 |
1 |
62.75 |
2008-12-01 |
| 5. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
62.70 |
1.0426 |
0.1306 |
323 |
3 |
56.27 |
2008-12-16 |
| 6. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
61.37 |
0.9936 |
0.1548 |
311 |
2 |
56.29 |
2008-11-30 |
| 7. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
61.22 |
0.9687 |
0.1819 |
371 |
1 |
61.22 |
2009-01-22 |
| 8. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
61.19 |
1.0668 |
0.0810 |
350 |
2 |
56.53 |
2009-01-22 |
| 9. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
60.88 |
1.0138 |
0.1253 |
231 |
2 |
57.60 |
2008-12-16 |
| 10. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
59.78 |
0.9048 |
0.2184 |
271 |
1 |
59.78 |
2008-11-29 |
| 11. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
59.74 |
1.0696 |
0.0448 |
226 |
2 |
51.75 |
2009-01-22 |
| 12. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
59.67 |
1.0711 |
0.0403 |
213 |
1 |
59.67 |
2009-01-22 |
| 13. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
59.54 |
0.9286 |
0.1845 |
194 |
2 |
58.64 |
2009-01-22 |
| 14. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
59.50 |
1.0289 |
0.0888 |
276 |
1 |
59.50 |
2009-01-22 |
| 15. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
58.85 |
0.9553 |
0.1529 |
430 |
1 |
58.85 |
2009-01-22 |
| 16. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
58.78 |
0.9772 |
0.1190 |
217 |
2 |
55.15 |
2009-01-22 |
| 17. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
58.29 |
0.9636 |
0.1267 |
254 |
1 |
58.29 |
2008-12-01 |
| 18. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
57.72 |
0.9884 |
0.0904 |
233 |
1 |
57.72 |
2009-01-22 |
| 19. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
57.70 |
1.0251 |
0.0520 |
261 |
2 |
56.57 |
2008-12-01 |
| 20. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
57.65 |
0.9866 |
0.0880 |
218 |
1 |
57.65 |
2009-01-22 |
| 21. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
57.52 |
0.9570 |
0.1206 |
287 |
2 |
50.61 |
2008-12-02 |
| 22. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
57.19 |
1.0183 |
0.0457 |
191 |
1 |
57.19 |
2009-01-22 |
| 23. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
57.14 |
0.9851 |
0.0858 |
317 |
2 |
54.05 |
2008-12-17 |
| 24. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
57.07 |
0.9776 |
0.0899 |
308 |
2 |
56.07 |
2008-12-17 |
| 25. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
57.06 |
1.0213 |
0.0426 |
240 |
1 |
57.06 |
2008-12-01 |
| 26. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
57.02 |
0.9729 |
0.0937 |
255 |
1 |
57.02 |
2009-01-22 |
| 27. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
56.85 |
1.0993 |
-0.0382 |
265 |
3 |
54.63 |
2008-11-28 |
| 28. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
56.56 |
0.9740 |
0.0796 |
209 |
1 |
56.56 |
2008-12-01 |
| 29. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
56.53 |
1.0515 |
0.0037 |
250 |
1 |
56.53 |
2008-11-28 |
| 30. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
56.47 |
1.0477 |
0.0107 |
360 |
1 |
56.47 |
2008-11-28 |
| 31. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
56.22 |
0.9293 |
0.1227 |
355 |
3 |
47.62 |
2009-01-22 |
| 32. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
56.18 |
1.0596 |
-0.0112 |
239 |
1 |
56.18 |
2008-11-30 |
| 33. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
56.09 |
1.0419 |
0.0069 |
261 |
1 |
56.09 |
2008-11-28 |
| 34. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
55.93 |
1.0385 |
0.0055 |
230 |
1 |
55.93 |
2008-11-28 |
| 35. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
55.89 |
1.0486 |
-0.0028 |
289 |
1 |
55.89 |
2008-11-30 |
| 36. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
55.88 |
0.9125 |
0.1341 |
308 |
1 |
55.88 |
2008-11-30 |
| 37. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
55.77 |
0.9540 |
0.0869 |
285 |
2 |
54.10 |
2008-11-28 |
| 38. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
55.26 |
1.0368 |
-0.0028 |
276 |
1 |
55.26 |
2008-11-28 |
| 39. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
55.07 |
0.9597 |
0.0739 |
347 |
1 |
55.07 |
2009-01-22 |
| 40. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
55.03 |
1.0167 |
0.0188 |
378 |
1 |
55.03 |
2008-12-01 |
| 41. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
55.02 |
0.9072 |
0.1196 |
237 |
2 |
49.87 |
2008-11-30 |
| 42. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
54.90 |
0.9426 |
0.0868 |
317 |
1 |
54.90 |
2008-12-01 |
| 43. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
54.85 |
0.9731 |
0.0397 |
129 |
1 |
54.85 |
2009-01-26 |
| 44. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
54.69 |
0.9684 |
0.0566 |
388 |
2 |
53.55 |
2008-11-30 |
| 45. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
54.66 |
1.0201 |
0.0020 |
303 |
4 |
53.22 |
2009-01-29 |
| 46. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
54.44 |
0.8958 |
0.1264 |
322 |
1 |
54.44 |
2009-01-22 |
| 47. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
54.08 |
0.9342 |
0.0800 |
434 |
1 |
54.08 |
2008-12-01 |
| 48. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
53.87 |
0.9398 |
0.0763 |
419 |
1 |
53.87 |
2008-12-01 |
| 49. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
53.81 |
1.0523 |
-0.0510 |
256 |
1 |
53.81 |
2008-12-01 |
| 50. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
53.58 |
0.9886 |
0.0152 |
220 |
1 |
53.58 |
2008-12-01 |
| 51. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
53.07 |
0.9213 |
0.0708 |
295 |
1 |
53.07 |
2008-11-29 |
| 52. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
53.06 |
0.9576 |
0.0384 |
212 |
2 |
52.11 |
2008-11-28 |
| 53. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
53.06 |
0.9532 |
0.0369 |
258 |
1 |
53.06 |
2009-01-22 |
| 54. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
52.98 |
1.0349 |
-0.0457 |
234 |
1 |
52.98 |
2008-12-01 |
| 55. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
52.96 |
1.0214 |
-0.0336 |
269 |
2 |
50.99 |
2008-11-30 |
| 56. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
52.72 |
1.0396 |
-0.0618 |
149 |
1 |
52.72 |
2008-11-27 |
| 57. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
52.66 |
0.9966 |
-0.0133 |
259 |
1 |
52.66 |
2008-12-01 |
| 58. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
52.55 |
1.0787 |
-0.0982 |
237 |
1 |
52.55 |
2008-11-28 |
| 59. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
52.52 |
0.9649 |
0.0152 |
193 |
1 |
52.52 |
2008-11-30 |
| 60. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
52.50 |
0.9841 |
0.0005 |
334 |
2 |
49.80 |
2008-12-01 |
| 61. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
52.31 |
0.9672 |
0.0165 |
396 |
1 |
52.31 |
2008-12-17 |
| 62. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
52.21 |
0.9513 |
0.0278 |
354 |
2 |
51.31 |
2008-12-17 |
| 63. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
52.07 |
0.9910 |
-0.0164 |
295 |
1 |
52.07 |
2008-11-29 |
| 64. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
51.98 |
0.9578 |
0.0127 |
281 |
2 |
51.39 |
2008-11-30 |
| 65. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
51.98 |
1.0062 |
-0.0352 |
288 |
1 |
51.98 |
2008-11-27 |
| 66. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.98 |
0.9212 |
0.0531 |
323 |
1 |
51.98 |
2008-11-30 |
| 67. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
51.88 |
1.0053 |
-0.0382 |
232 |
1 |
51.88 |
2008-11-28 |
| 68. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
51.88 |
1.0034 |
-0.0358 |
302 |
1 |
51.88 |
2008-11-28 |
| 69. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
51.85 |
0.9697 |
-0.0010 |
249 |
1 |
51.85 |
2008-12-01 |
| 70. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
51.81 |
1.0441 |
-0.0748 |
252 |
2 |
50.48 |
2008-11-28 |
| 71. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
51.13 |
0.9485 |
0.0081 |
236 |
1 |
51.13 |
2008-12-01 |
| 72. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
51.11 |
0.9768 |
-0.0197 |
387 |
1 |
51.11 |
2009-01-22 |
| 73. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
51.07 |
1.0417 |
-0.0904 |
253 |
1 |
51.07 |
2008-11-30 |
| 74. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
51.00 |
0.8826 |
0.0712 |
296 |
2 |
50.55 |
2008-11-30 |
| 75. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
50.87 |
0.9557 |
0.0006 |
331 |
1 |
50.87 |
2008-12-01 |
| 76. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.78 |
0.9164 |
0.0367 |
305 |
1 |
50.78 |
2008-11-30 |
| 77. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
50.77 |
0.9863 |
-0.0338 |
339 |
1 |
50.77 |
2008-11-28 |
| 78. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
50.56 |
0.8533 |
0.0919 |
232 |
1 |
50.56 |
2008-11-30 |
| 79. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
50.45 |
0.8595 |
0.0843 |
242 |
2 |
45.01 |
2008-12-01 |
| 80. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
50.37 |
0.9897 |
-0.0515 |
274 |
2 |
48.45 |
2009-01-22 |
| 81. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
50.26 |
0.9279 |
0.0170 |
317 |
1 |
50.26 |
2008-11-30 |
| 82. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
49.89 |
0.8442 |
0.0912 |
265 |
1 |
49.89 |
2008-11-29 |
| 83. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
49.56 |
0.8971 |
0.0334 |
266 |
1 |
49.56 |
2008-11-30 |
| 84. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
49.43 |
0.9846 |
-0.0630 |
281 |
1 |
49.43 |
2008-11-30 |
| 85. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
49.41 |
0.8811 |
0.0458 |
239 |
1 |
49.41 |
2008-11-28 |
| 86. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
49.40 |
0.9202 |
0.0013 |
254 |
2 |
46.28 |
2009-01-22 |
| 87. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
49.40 |
0.8382 |
0.0845 |
268 |
1 |
49.40 |
2008-11-30 |
| 88. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
49.12 |
0.9527 |
-0.0359 |
251 |
1 |
49.12 |
2008-11-30 |
| 89. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
48.76 |
0.9289 |
-0.0212 |
204 |
2 |
48.22 |
2008-11-30 |
| 90. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
48.21 |
0.9798 |
-0.0859 |
199 |
1 |
48.21 |
2008-11-29 |
| 91. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
48.21 |
0.9857 |
-0.0871 |
293 |
1 |
48.21 |
2008-11-30 |
| 92. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
47.72 |
0.8105 |
0.0756 |
204 |
1 |
47.72 |
2008-12-17 |
| 93. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
47.61 |
0.9088 |
-0.0153 |
348 |
1 |
47.61 |
2008-11-28 |
| 94. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
47.50 |
0.9567 |
-0.0707 |
273 |
2 |
47.35 |
2009-01-22 |
| 95. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
47.38 |
0.9365 |
-0.0512 |
248 |
1 |
47.38 |
2008-11-30 |
| 96. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
47.09 |
1.0296 |
-0.1448 |
437 |
1 |
47.09 |
2008-11-27 |
| 97. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
46.83 |
0.9682 |
-0.0966 |
143 |
1 |
46.83 |
2008-11-28 |
| 98. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
46.79 |
0.8890 |
-0.0198 |
199 |
2 |
43.16 |
2008-11-28 |
| 99. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
46.72 |
1.0099 |
-0.1414 |
207 |
1 |
46.72 |
2008-11-30 |
| 100. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
46.64 |
1.0399 |
-0.1648 |
294 |
1 |
46.64 |
2008-11-28 |
| 101. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
46.49 |
0.9411 |
-0.0732 |
318 |
1 |
46.49 |
2008-11-27 |
| 102. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
46.11 |
0.8956 |
-0.0311 |
322 |
1 |
46.11 |
2008-11-27 |
| 103. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
46.10 |
0.9266 |
-0.0668 |
267 |
1 |
46.10 |
2008-12-01 |
| 104. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
45.96 |
1.0714 |
-0.2233 |
129 |
1 |
45.96 |
2008-11-28 |
| 105. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
45.90 |
0.9429 |
-0.0857 |
287 |
1 |
45.90 |
2008-12-16 |
| 106. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
45.53 |
0.8916 |
-0.0424 |
216 |
1 |
45.53 |
2008-11-28 |
| 107. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
45.29 |
0.9168 |
-0.0711 |
240 |
1 |
45.29 |
2008-12-01 |
| 108. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
45.18 |
0.9275 |
-0.0885 |
211 |
1 |
45.18 |
2008-11-28 |
| 109. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
44.75 |
1.0577 |
-0.2271 |
247 |
1 |
44.75 |
2008-11-28 |
| 110. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
44.62 |
1.0496 |
-0.2186 |
314 |
1 |
44.62 |
2008-11-27 |
| 111. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
43.66 |
1.0334 |
-0.2264 |
131 |
1 |
43.66 |
2009-01-26 |
| 112. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
43.39 |
0.9795 |
-0.1711 |
308 |
1 |
43.39 |
2008-11-28 |
| 113. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
42.75 |
0.9964 |
-0.2000 |
203 |
1 |
42.75 |
2008-11-28 |
| 114. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
41.74 |
0.9710 |
-0.2003 |
173 |
1 |
41.74 |
2008-11-28 |
| 115. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
41.41 |
1.0257 |
-0.2484 |
401 |
1 |
41.41 |
2008-12-02 |