| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
72.38 |
1.0795 |
0.2246 |
226 |
2 |
69.73 |
2010-05-25 |
| 2. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
71.05 |
1.0053 |
0.2431 |
232 |
2 |
69.92 |
2010-07-14 |
| 3. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
70.90 |
1.0240 |
0.2205 |
256 |
1 |
70.90 |
2010-05-26 |
| 4. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
70.30 |
1.1014 |
0.1732 |
273 |
1 |
70.30 |
2010-05-27 |
| 5. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
68.26 |
1.0506 |
0.1788 |
277 |
1 |
68.26 |
2010-05-26 |
| 6. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
68.06 |
1.1215 |
0.0994 |
200 |
1 |
68.06 |
2010-05-25 |
| 7. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
67.11 |
1.0109 |
0.1699 |
276 |
2 |
57.80 |
2010-05-25 |
| 8. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
67.08 |
0.9513 |
0.2322 |
354 |
2 |
59.94 |
2010-09-10 |
| 9. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
66.63 |
1.0787 |
0.0914 |
237 |
1 |
66.63 |
2009-08-22 |
| 10. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
65.99 |
1.0796 |
0.0752 |
129 |
1 |
65.99 |
2010-05-25 |
| 11. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
65.75 |
0.9578 |
0.1980 |
281 |
1 |
65.75 |
2010-05-25 |
| 12. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
65.59 |
1.0352 |
0.1213 |
341 |
1 |
65.59 |
2010-09-10 |
| 13. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
65.01 |
1.0254 |
0.1580 |
217 |
1 |
65.01 |
2010-05-25 |
| 14. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
64.70 |
0.9279 |
0.2163 |
317 |
1 |
64.70 |
2010-09-10 |
| 15. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
63.74 |
0.8852 |
0.2375 |
201 |
1 |
63.74 |
2010-05-25 |
| 16. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
63.38 |
0.9936 |
0.1404 |
227 |
1 |
63.38 |
2010-05-25 |
| 17. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
63.34 |
1.0365 |
0.1062 |
162 |
1 |
63.34 |
2010-05-26 |
| 18. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
62.40 |
0.8826 |
0.2155 |
296 |
1 |
62.40 |
2010-05-27 |
| 19. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
62.02 |
1.0388 |
0.0826 |
243 |
1 |
62.02 |
2010-07-14 |
| 20. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
61.81 |
1.0863 |
0.0345 |
210 |
1 |
61.81 |
2010-06-04 |
| 21. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
61.70 |
1.0993 |
-0.0173 |
265 |
2 |
51.15 |
2010-05-24 |
| 22. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
61.45 |
0.9546 |
0.1561 |
198 |
1 |
61.45 |
2010-05-26 |
| 23. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
61.40 |
1.0264 |
0.0924 |
422 |
1 |
61.40 |
2010-05-25 |
| 24. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
61.25 |
1.0483 |
0.0244 |
227 |
1 |
61.25 |
2010-05-26 |
| 25. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
61.13 |
0.9127 |
0.1582 |
252 |
1 |
61.13 |
2010-05-27 |
| 26. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
60.23 |
1.0063 |
0.0517 |
371 |
1 |
60.23 |
2010-05-25 |
| 27. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
60.22 |
0.9668 |
0.1334 |
383 |
1 |
60.22 |
2010-05-26 |
| 28. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
59.86 |
0.9697 |
0.0817 |
249 |
1 |
59.86 |
2010-09-10 |
| 29. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
59.82 |
1.0799 |
-0.0331 |
243 |
1 |
59.82 |
2009-08-07 |
| 30. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
59.26 |
0.9636 |
0.0766 |
254 |
1 |
59.26 |
2010-05-26 |
| 31. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
59.17 |
1.0389 |
0.0019 |
318 |
1 |
59.17 |
2010-05-24 |
| 32. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
59.15 |
1.0477 |
-0.0068 |
360 |
2 |
55.13 |
2009-08-13 |
| 33. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
58.71 |
0.9364 |
0.1346 |
351 |
1 |
58.71 |
2010-05-25 |
| 34. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
58.55 |
0.9063 |
0.1294 |
239 |
1 |
58.55 |
2010-05-24 |
| 35. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
58.54 |
1.0073 |
0.0288 |
369 |
1 |
58.54 |
2010-05-25 |
| 36. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
58.36 |
1.0419 |
-0.0176 |
261 |
1 |
58.36 |
2009-08-07 |
| 37. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
58.29 |
0.9965 |
0.0275 |
277 |
2 |
52.78 |
2010-05-25 |
| 38. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
58.26 |
0.9084 |
0.1162 |
300 |
1 |
58.26 |
2010-05-25 |
| 39. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
58.07 |
0.9905 |
0.0371 |
377 |
1 |
58.07 |
2010-05-27 |
| 40. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
57.88 |
1.0257 |
-0.0032 |
401 |
1 |
57.88 |
2009-08-22 |
| 41. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
57.81 |
0.9699 |
0.0441 |
269 |
1 |
57.81 |
2010-05-25 |
| 42. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
57.31 |
0.9164 |
0.0948 |
305 |
2 |
51.57 |
2010-05-24 |
| 43. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
57.14 |
0.9673 |
0.0748 |
232 |
1 |
57.14 |
2010-07-14 |
| 44. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
56.85 |
0.9567 |
0.0413 |
273 |
1 |
56.85 |
2010-05-25 |
| 45. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
56.70 |
0.9461 |
0.0448 |
193 |
1 |
56.70 |
2010-05-25 |
| 46. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
56.43 |
0.9786 |
0.0111 |
235 |
2 |
56.22 |
2010-05-26 |
| 47. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
56.32 |
1.0008 |
0.0309 |
473 |
1 |
56.32 |
2012-05-24 |
| 48. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
56.06 |
0.8981 |
0.0902 |
393 |
1 |
56.06 |
2010-05-25 |
| 49. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
56.04 |
1.0441 |
-0.0192 |
316 |
1 |
56.04 |
2010-05-26 |
| 50. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
55.61 |
0.8821 |
0.0933 |
176 |
1 |
55.61 |
2010-05-24 |
| 51. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
55.30 |
0.9109 |
0.0623 |
401 |
1 |
55.30 |
2009-08-13 |
| 52. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
54.52 |
1.0577 |
-0.1051 |
247 |
1 |
54.52 |
2009-08-22 |
| 53. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
54.45 |
1.0523 |
-0.1014 |
256 |
1 |
54.45 |
2010-05-24 |
| 54. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
54.33 |
0.9740 |
-0.0253 |
209 |
1 |
54.33 |
2009-08-22 |
| 55. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
54.32 |
0.9088 |
0.0492 |
348 |
1 |
54.32 |
2010-05-26 |
| 56. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
54.17 |
1.0337 |
-0.0843 |
214 |
1 |
54.17 |
2009-08-22 |
| 57. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
54.00 |
1.0379 |
-0.0562 |
245 |
1 |
54.00 |
2010-05-26 |
| 58. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
52.50 |
1.0201 |
-0.0957 |
375 |
1 |
52.50 |
2009-08-16 |
| 59. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
52.32 |
0.7876 |
0.1322 |
316 |
2 |
50.87 |
2010-06-02 |
| 60. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
52.08 |
0.9233 |
-0.0186 |
168 |
1 |
52.08 |
2009-08-13 |
| 61. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
51.11 |
1.0013 |
-0.1067 |
273 |
1 |
51.11 |
2009-08-13 |
| 62. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
50.86 |
1.0788 |
-0.1932 |
171 |
1 |
50.86 |
2009-08-22 |
| 63. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
50.34 |
0.9731 |
-0.1038 |
129 |
1 |
50.34 |
2009-08-22 |
| 64. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
49.06 |
0.9330 |
-0.0670 |
360 |
1 |
49.06 |
2009-08-12 |
| 65. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
48.73 |
1.0767 |
-0.2255 |
212 |
1 |
48.73 |
2009-08-12 |
| 66. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
48.10 |
0.9964 |
-0.1543 |
203 |
1 |
48.10 |
2009-08-22 |
| 67. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
47.99 |
0.9986 |
-0.1578 |
283 |
1 |
47.99 |
2012-05-24 |
| 68. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
47.54 |
0.9567 |
-0.0821 |
184 |
1 |
47.54 |
2010-05-24 |
| 69. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
47.35 |
0.9514 |
-0.1222 |
237 |
1 |
47.35 |
2009-08-12 |
| 70. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
46.83 |
0.9619 |
-0.1367 |
393 |
1 |
46.83 |
2009-08-07 |
| 71. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
46.65 |
0.9583 |
-0.0983 |
341 |
1 |
46.65 |
2010-07-14 |
| 72. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
46.18 |
0.9429 |
-0.1333 |
287 |
1 |
46.18 |
2009-08-08 |
| 73. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
45.70 |
1.0567 |
-0.2562 |
303 |
1 |
45.70 |
2009-08-07 |
| 74. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
45.56 |
1.0516 |
-0.2553 |
281 |
1 |
45.56 |
2009-08-07 |
| 75. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
45.33 |
1.0025 |
-0.2101 |
256 |
1 |
45.33 |
2009-08-07 |
| 76. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
44.78 |
1.0120 |
-0.2296 |
290 |
1 |
44.78 |
2009-08-07 |
| 77. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
41.05 |
0.8811 |
-0.1602 |
239 |
1 |
41.05 |
2009-08-07 |
| 78. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
40.85 |
0.9286 |
-0.2165 |
194 |
1 |
40.85 |
2010-09-10 |
| 79. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
40.73 |
1.0399 |
-0.3234 |
294 |
1 |
40.73 |
2010-05-25 |
| 80. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
26.01 |
1.0417 |
-0.5952 |
253 |
1 |
26.01 |
2010-05-24 |
| 81. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
23.46 |
0.9938 |
-0.5895 |
339 |
1 |
23.46 |
2010-05-24 |