| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
54.56 |
0.9019 |
0.4500 |
204 |
1 |
54.56 |
2010-06-01 |
| 2. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
53.33 |
0.9724 |
0.3472 |
237 |
1 |
53.33 |
2010-05-28 |
| 3. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
53.14 |
1.0711 |
0.2351 |
213 |
5 |
45.26 |
2010-06-02 |
| 4. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
53.00 |
0.9907 |
0.3155 |
211 |
1 |
53.00 |
2010-06-02 |
| 5. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
51.73 |
0.8231 |
0.4556 |
180 |
1 |
51.73 |
2010-05-28 |
| 6. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
50.74 |
0.8773 |
0.3777 |
205 |
2 |
43.90 |
2010-05-28 |
| 7. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
49.49 |
0.9722 |
0.2502 |
283 |
3 |
43.61 |
2010-05-25 |
| 8. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
48.81 |
1.0205 |
0.1764 |
179 |
2 |
43.52 |
2010-05-28 |
| 9. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
48.73 |
1.0463 |
0.1505 |
182 |
2 |
47.29 |
2010-05-28 |
| 10. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
48.59 |
0.9325 |
0.2587 |
156 |
2 |
46.77 |
2010-05-28 |
| 11. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
48.58 |
1.0485 |
0.1839 |
153 |
1 |
48.58 |
2010-05-28 |
| 12. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
47.85 |
1.0025 |
0.1769 |
256 |
1 |
47.85 |
2010-05-28 |
| 13. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
47.71 |
1.0016 |
0.1698 |
218 |
1 |
47.71 |
2010-04-21 |
| 14. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
47.37 |
1.0213 |
0.1430 |
240 |
1 |
47.37 |
2010-05-25 |
| 15. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
47.33 |
0.9005 |
0.2645 |
212 |
1 |
47.33 |
2010-06-02 |
| 16. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
47.25 |
1.0398 |
0.1142 |
110 |
1 |
47.25 |
2010-05-28 |
| 17. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
47.23 |
0.8788 |
0.2817 |
134 |
2 |
45.12 |
2010-05-28 |
| 18. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
46.64 |
0.8900 |
0.2605 |
164 |
2 |
45.50 |
2010-06-01 |
| 19. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
46.59 |
1.0201 |
0.1284 |
303 |
2 |
42.69 |
2010-06-02 |
| 20. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
46.44 |
0.9226 |
0.2280 |
348 |
1 |
46.44 |
2010-05-28 |
| 21. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
46.27 |
0.9820 |
0.1583 |
274 |
2 |
40.69 |
2010-06-02 |
| 22. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
46.26 |
1.1018 |
0.0316 |
220 |
1 |
46.26 |
2010-04-13 |
| 23. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
45.55 |
1.0829 |
0.0408 |
288 |
1 |
45.55 |
2010-04-13 |
| 24. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
45.40 |
1.0567 |
0.0623 |
303 |
1 |
45.40 |
2010-05-28 |
| 25. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
45.32 |
1.1296 |
0.0159 |
252 |
1 |
45.32 |
2010-05-28 |
| 26. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
45.30 |
1.0483 |
0.0646 |
227 |
1 |
45.30 |
2010-04-16 |
| 27. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
45.18 |
1.0334 |
0.0730 |
131 |
1 |
45.18 |
2010-05-25 |
| 28. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
44.89 |
0.8821 |
0.2231 |
176 |
1 |
44.89 |
2010-05-28 |
| 29. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
44.76 |
1.1014 |
0.0389 |
273 |
1 |
44.76 |
2010-04-29 |
| 30. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
44.75 |
1.0396 |
0.0554 |
149 |
1 |
44.75 |
2010-04-15 |
| 31. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
44.26 |
0.8910 |
0.2007 |
150 |
1 |
44.26 |
2010-04-16 |
| 32. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
44.25 |
1.0441 |
0.0472 |
252 |
1 |
44.25 |
2010-04-29 |
| 33. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
44.00 |
1.0577 |
0.0223 |
247 |
1 |
44.00 |
2010-04-15 |
| 34. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
43.94 |
0.9965 |
0.0807 |
168 |
1 |
43.94 |
2010-04-15 |
| 35. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
43.67 |
0.9418 |
0.1391 |
188 |
2 |
40.18 |
2010-04-30 |
| 36. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
43.64 |
1.0796 |
-0.0098 |
129 |
1 |
43.64 |
2010-03-24 |
| 37. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
43.57 |
1.0252 |
0.0411 |
176 |
1 |
43.57 |
2010-04-29 |
| 38. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
43.27 |
0.9028 |
0.1607 |
111 |
1 |
43.27 |
2010-05-28 |
| 39. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
43.08 |
1.0138 |
0.0464 |
231 |
2 |
40.26 |
2010-05-28 |
| 40. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
42.89 |
1.1114 |
-0.0582 |
247 |
1 |
42.89 |
2010-04-26 |
| 41. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
42.84 |
1.0349 |
0.0190 |
234 |
1 |
42.84 |
2010-04-30 |
| 42. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
42.78 |
1.0151 |
0.0295 |
152 |
1 |
42.78 |
2010-05-25 |
| 43. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
42.77 |
0.9711 |
0.0806 |
176 |
1 |
42.77 |
2010-04-26 |
| 44. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
42.56 |
1.0515 |
-0.0058 |
250 |
1 |
42.56 |
2010-04-21 |
| 45. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
42.46 |
1.0444 |
-0.0058 |
197 |
2 |
39.09 |
2010-05-28 |
| 46. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
42.44 |
1.0795 |
-0.0043 |
226 |
2 |
36.48 |
2010-04-16 |
| 47. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
42.37 |
1.0074 |
0.0374 |
242 |
1 |
42.37 |
2010-04-21 |
| 48. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
42.37 |
1.0218 |
0.0182 |
268 |
1 |
42.37 |
2010-05-25 |
| 49. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
42.16 |
0.9865 |
0.0523 |
276 |
1 |
42.16 |
2010-05-28 |
| 50. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
41.91 |
1.0528 |
-0.0264 |
201 |
1 |
41.91 |
2010-05-24 |
| 51. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
41.83 |
1.0203 |
0.0126 |
261 |
1 |
41.83 |
2010-04-13 |
| 52. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
41.72 |
0.9221 |
0.1031 |
244 |
1 |
41.72 |
2010-04-15 |
| 53. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
41.66 |
1.0131 |
0.0082 |
225 |
2 |
41.53 |
2010-04-29 |
| 54. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
41.63 |
0.9731 |
0.0389 |
129 |
2 |
41.17 |
2010-04-21 |
| 55. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
41.47 |
1.0412 |
-0.0213 |
225 |
1 |
41.47 |
2010-04-29 |
| 56. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
41.20 |
1.0023 |
0.0096 |
211 |
1 |
41.20 |
2010-04-13 |
| 57. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
41.18 |
0.9943 |
0.0222 |
373 |
1 |
41.18 |
2010-04-26 |
| 58. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
41.05 |
1.0201 |
-0.0169 |
172 |
1 |
41.05 |
2010-03-29 |
| 59. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
40.83 |
0.8867 |
0.1237 |
163 |
1 |
40.83 |
2010-04-13 |
| 60. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
40.81 |
1.0496 |
-0.0463 |
314 |
1 |
40.81 |
2010-04-26 |
| 61. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
40.77 |
0.9991 |
0.0044 |
225 |
1 |
40.77 |
2010-04-15 |
| 62. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
40.59 |
0.8353 |
0.1708 |
283 |
1 |
40.59 |
2010-04-29 |
| 63. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
40.43 |
0.9863 |
0.0127 |
339 |
1 |
40.43 |
2010-04-30 |
| 64. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
40.36 |
0.9125 |
0.0821 |
308 |
1 |
40.36 |
2010-06-01 |
| 65. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
40.20 |
1.0214 |
-0.0343 |
269 |
2 |
39.01 |
2010-04-26 |
| 66. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
39.86 |
0.9612 |
0.0192 |
256 |
2 |
34.33 |
2010-04-29 |
| 67. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
39.79 |
0.9429 |
0.0370 |
287 |
2 |
37.30 |
2010-06-01 |
| 68. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
39.78 |
1.0343 |
-0.0185 |
242 |
1 |
39.78 |
2010-05-11 |
| 69. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
39.72 |
0.9430 |
0.0368 |
297 |
2 |
38.61 |
2010-06-01 |
| 70. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
39.51 |
0.9946 |
-0.0232 |
246 |
1 |
39.51 |
2010-06-02 |
| 71. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
39.47 |
0.9572 |
0.0123 |
201 |
1 |
39.47 |
2010-04-30 |
| 72. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
39.44 |
0.8506 |
0.1151 |
132 |
1 |
39.44 |
2010-04-15 |
| 73. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
39.29 |
0.9309 |
0.0334 |
284 |
1 |
39.29 |
2010-04-21 |
| 74. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
39.27 |
1.0740 |
-0.0700 |
264 |
1 |
39.27 |
2010-04-29 |
| 75. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
39.15 |
0.9636 |
-0.0010 |
254 |
1 |
39.15 |
2010-05-24 |
| 76. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
38.97 |
1.0211 |
-0.0322 |
213 |
2 |
36.74 |
2010-04-29 |
| 77. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
38.84 |
0.8971 |
0.0631 |
266 |
1 |
38.84 |
2010-05-28 |
| 78. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
38.62 |
0.8811 |
0.0730 |
239 |
1 |
38.62 |
2010-04-21 |
| 79. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
38.47 |
0.9068 |
0.0419 |
269 |
1 |
38.47 |
2010-05-28 |
| 80. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
38.45 |
0.8845 |
0.0611 |
273 |
1 |
38.45 |
2010-06-02 |
| 81. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
38.32 |
0.9063 |
0.0437 |
239 |
1 |
38.32 |
2010-04-21 |
| 82. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
38.14 |
1.0090 |
-0.0277 |
282 |
1 |
38.14 |
2010-04-21 |
| 83. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
38.09 |
1.0941 |
-0.1266 |
256 |
1 |
38.09 |
2010-03-23 |
| 84. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
37.96 |
1.0486 |
-0.1148 |
289 |
1 |
37.96 |
2010-04-21 |
| 85. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
37.68 |
0.9893 |
-0.0632 |
323 |
1 |
37.68 |
2010-04-13 |
| 86. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
37.55 |
1.0506 |
-0.0990 |
277 |
1 |
37.55 |
2010-04-13 |
| 87. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
37.20 |
1.0679 |
-0.1335 |
177 |
1 |
37.20 |
2010-04-21 |
| 88. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
37.18 |
1.0399 |
-0.1211 |
294 |
1 |
37.18 |
2010-04-16 |
| 89. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
37.07 |
0.9846 |
-0.0749 |
281 |
1 |
37.07 |
2010-04-15 |
| 90. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
37.05 |
0.9275 |
-0.0205 |
211 |
2 |
35.51 |
2010-04-13 |
| 91. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
36.86 |
0.9128 |
-0.0017 |
133 |
1 |
36.86 |
2010-03-30 |
| 92. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
36.72 |
1.0173 |
-0.0710 |
268 |
2 |
34.65 |
2010-04-15 |
| 93. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
36.10 |
0.9045 |
-0.0175 |
235 |
2 |
35.35 |
2010-04-30 |
| 94. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
36.08 |
0.9430 |
-0.0641 |
211 |
1 |
36.08 |
2010-05-25 |
| 95. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
36.03 |
0.9754 |
-0.0844 |
362 |
1 |
36.03 |
2010-04-13 |
| 96. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
36.00 |
0.9699 |
-0.0863 |
269 |
1 |
36.00 |
2010-04-26 |
| 97. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
35.99 |
1.0375 |
-0.1076 |
200 |
1 |
35.99 |
2010-04-21 |
| 98. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
35.80 |
0.9936 |
-0.1147 |
311 |
1 |
35.80 |
2010-04-15 |
| 99. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
35.60 |
0.8348 |
0.0457 |
219 |
1 |
35.60 |
2010-04-13 |
| 100. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
35.55 |
0.7934 |
0.0788 |
134 |
1 |
35.55 |
2010-03-30 |
| 101. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
35.31 |
0.9673 |
-0.0610 |
232 |
1 |
35.31 |
2010-05-24 |
| 102. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
34.89 |
1.0417 |
-0.1877 |
253 |
1 |
34.89 |
2010-03-25 |
| 103. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
34.80 |
1.0429 |
-0.1900 |
259 |
1 |
34.80 |
2010-03-26 |
| 104. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
34.78 |
0.8614 |
-0.0099 |
172 |
1 |
34.78 |
2010-06-01 |
| 105. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
34.71 |
0.8263 |
0.0236 |
162 |
1 |
34.71 |
2010-03-23 |
| 106. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
34.15 |
0.8919 |
-0.0555 |
205 |
1 |
34.15 |
2010-04-29 |
| 107. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
34.11 |
1.0183 |
-0.1868 |
191 |
1 |
34.11 |
2010-03-29 |
| 108. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
34.11 |
0.8826 |
-0.0441 |
296 |
3 |
32.45 |
2010-04-21 |
| 109. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
34.07 |
1.0004 |
-0.1704 |
212 |
1 |
34.07 |
2010-04-26 |
| 110. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
33.98 |
0.8553 |
-0.0266 |
174 |
1 |
33.98 |
2010-05-25 |
| 111. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
33.95 |
0.8360 |
-0.0037 |
170 |
1 |
33.95 |
2010-03-31 |
| 112. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
33.54 |
0.9266 |
-0.1036 |
267 |
1 |
33.54 |
2010-03-31 |
| 113. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
33.13 |
1.0232 |
-0.1646 |
350 |
1 |
33.13 |
2010-03-24 |
| 114. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.92 |
0.9286 |
-0.1222 |
194 |
1 |
32.92 |
2010-04-13 |
| 115. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
32.88 |
0.8573 |
-0.0473 |
270 |
1 |
32.88 |
2010-05-24 |
| 116. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
32.71 |
0.9769 |
-0.1768 |
263 |
1 |
32.71 |
2010-03-29 |
| 117. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
32.30 |
0.9168 |
-0.1235 |
240 |
1 |
32.30 |
2010-03-24 |
| 118. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
32.30 |
0.8709 |
-0.0710 |
202 |
1 |
32.30 |
2010-04-21 |
| 119. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
32.20 |
0.9726 |
-0.1895 |
154 |
1 |
32.20 |
2010-03-25 |
| 120. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
32.02 |
0.8615 |
-0.0764 |
110 |
1 |
32.02 |
2010-03-25 |
| 121. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
31.98 |
0.8519 |
-0.0642 |
150 |
1 |
31.98 |
2010-03-29 |
| 122. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
31.89 |
0.9485 |
-0.1643 |
291 |
1 |
31.89 |
2010-04-13 |
| 123. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
31.87 |
0.8919 |
-0.1084 |
152 |
1 |
31.87 |
2010-03-25 |
| 124. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
31.57 |
0.9266 |
-0.1510 |
278 |
1 |
31.57 |
2010-03-26 |
| 125. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
31.22 |
0.8562 |
-0.0910 |
170 |
1 |
31.22 |
2010-04-13 |
| 126. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
31.02 |
0.8295 |
-0.0676 |
209 |
1 |
31.02 |
2010-03-24 |
| 127. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
29.70 |
0.7690 |
-0.0402 |
142 |
1 |
29.70 |
2010-03-23 |
| 128. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
29.01 |
0.9567 |
-0.2045 |
184 |
1 |
29.01 |
2010-03-25 |
| 129. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
28.86 |
0.8533 |
-0.1459 |
232 |
1 |
28.86 |
2010-03-30 |
| 130. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
25.60 |
0.8852 |
-0.2581 |
201 |
1 |
25.60 |
2010-03-24 |