| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
72.17 |
1.0485 |
-1.0236 |
153 |
1 |
72.17 |
2010-10-05 |
| 2. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
71.01 |
0.9792 |
-0.9537 |
265 |
1 |
71.01 |
2010-10-05 |
| 3. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
70.28 |
1.0555 |
-1.0665 |
363 |
1 |
70.28 |
2010-10-05 |
| 4. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
69.93 |
1.0419 |
-1.0548 |
261 |
3 |
63.73 |
2008-11-13 |
| 5. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
68.31 |
1.0696 |
-1.0839 |
226 |
1 |
68.31 |
2009-10-02 |
| 6. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
67.35 |
1.0714 |
-1.0882 |
129 |
2 |
59.59 |
2008-11-22 |
| 7. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
65.53 |
0.9863 |
-0.9953 |
339 |
1 |
65.53 |
2008-11-13 |
| 8. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
65.16 |
0.9772 |
-0.9911 |
217 |
1 |
65.16 |
2008-11-13 |
| 9. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
65.16 |
1.0343 |
-1.0075 |
242 |
1 |
65.16 |
2010-10-20 |
| 10. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
65.03 |
0.9468 |
-0.9596 |
276 |
1 |
65.03 |
2010-10-20 |
| 11. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
64.84 |
1.0767 |
-1.0900 |
212 |
1 |
64.84 |
2010-10-20 |
| 12. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
64.25 |
1.0296 |
-1.0378 |
437 |
2 |
60.46 |
2008-11-15 |
| 13. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
63.77 |
1.1016 |
-1.1139 |
233 |
2 |
57.74 |
2009-04-18 |
| 14. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
63.71 |
0.9805 |
-0.9898 |
292 |
1 |
63.71 |
2008-11-13 |
| 15. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
63.29 |
1.0396 |
-1.0565 |
149 |
1 |
63.29 |
2009-02-04 |
| 16. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
63.19 |
1.0429 |
-1.0561 |
259 |
1 |
63.19 |
2008-11-13 |
| 17. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
62.62 |
1.0257 |
-1.0337 |
401 |
1 |
62.62 |
2009-02-04 |
| 18. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
62.49 |
1.0799 |
-1.0946 |
243 |
1 |
62.49 |
2010-10-05 |
| 19. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
59.76 |
1.0368 |
-1.0496 |
276 |
1 |
59.76 |
2008-11-14 |
| 20. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
59.54 |
0.9074 |
-0.9154 |
396 |
1 |
59.54 |
2010-10-20 |
| 21. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
59.53 |
0.9776 |
-0.9899 |
308 |
1 |
59.53 |
2008-11-13 |
| 22. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
59.38 |
1.1018 |
-1.1186 |
220 |
1 |
59.38 |
2008-11-22 |
| 23. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
59.36 |
0.9884 |
-1.0017 |
233 |
1 |
59.36 |
2008-11-22 |
| 24. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
59.11 |
0.9578 |
-0.9707 |
281 |
1 |
59.11 |
2008-11-02 |
| 25. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
58.70 |
0.9636 |
-0.9756 |
254 |
2 |
58.56 |
2008-11-13 |
| 26. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
58.69 |
1.0334 |
-1.0496 |
131 |
1 |
58.69 |
2008-11-13 |
| 27. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
58.22 |
0.8971 |
-0.9072 |
266 |
1 |
58.22 |
2009-04-08 |
| 28. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
58.17 |
1.0462 |
-1.0623 |
184 |
2 |
53.58 |
2009-04-18 |
| 29. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
58.16 |
0.9820 |
-0.9925 |
267 |
1 |
58.16 |
2008-11-13 |
| 30. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
57.84 |
1.0131 |
-1.0286 |
225 |
1 |
57.84 |
2009-10-02 |
| 31. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
57.66 |
1.0389 |
-1.0497 |
340 |
1 |
57.66 |
2008-11-16 |
| 32. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
57.17 |
0.9763 |
-0.9884 |
289 |
1 |
57.17 |
2009-02-04 |
| 33. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
57.13 |
0.8878 |
-0.8999 |
346 |
1 |
57.13 |
2009-02-04 |
| 34. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
57.00 |
0.8935 |
-0.9006 |
328 |
1 |
57.00 |
2008-11-02 |
| 35. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
56.71 |
0.8947 |
-0.9029 |
366 |
1 |
56.71 |
2010-10-20 |
| 36. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
56.51 |
1.0201 |
-1.0290 |
375 |
2 |
55.90 |
2008-11-30 |
| 37. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
56.49 |
1.0013 |
-1.0138 |
273 |
1 |
56.49 |
2009-04-18 |
| 38. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
56.22 |
0.9886 |
-0.9994 |
220 |
2 |
54.24 |
2009-10-02 |
| 39. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
55.91 |
0.8367 |
-0.8431 |
294 |
1 |
55.91 |
2010-10-05 |
| 40. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
55.90 |
0.9157 |
-0.9261 |
350 |
1 |
55.90 |
2010-10-20 |
| 41. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
55.83 |
0.9852 |
-0.9970 |
264 |
2 |
52.73 |
2008-11-14 |
| 42. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
55.77 |
1.0337 |
-1.0460 |
214 |
1 |
55.77 |
2008-11-15 |
| 43. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
55.74 |
0.9851 |
-0.9962 |
317 |
1 |
55.74 |
2008-11-01 |
| 44. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
55.55 |
0.9724 |
-0.9848 |
237 |
1 |
55.55 |
2008-11-22 |
| 45. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
55.29 |
1.0619 |
-1.0725 |
354 |
1 |
55.29 |
2008-11-02 |
| 46. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
55.06 |
0.9646 |
-0.9772 |
264 |
2 |
50.05 |
2008-11-13 |
| 47. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
54.99 |
1.0498 |
-1.0653 |
180 |
1 |
54.99 |
2008-11-14 |
| 48. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
54.94 |
0.9365 |
-0.9486 |
248 |
1 |
54.94 |
2008-11-14 |
| 49. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
54.81 |
1.0477 |
-1.0584 |
360 |
2 |
52.84 |
2008-11-02 |
| 50. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
54.67 |
1.0251 |
-1.0384 |
261 |
2 |
54.07 |
2009-10-02 |
| 51. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
54.45 |
0.9936 |
-1.0062 |
311 |
1 |
54.45 |
2009-04-18 |
| 52. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
54.36 |
1.0417 |
-1.0557 |
253 |
2 |
53.72 |
2008-11-13 |
| 53. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
54.27 |
1.0053 |
-1.0185 |
232 |
1 |
54.27 |
2008-11-02 |
| 54. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
54.27 |
1.0331 |
-1.0477 |
234 |
1 |
54.27 |
2008-11-13 |
| 55. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
54.06 |
0.9202 |
-0.9325 |
254 |
1 |
54.06 |
2008-11-22 |
| 56. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
54.06 |
0.9710 |
-0.9880 |
173 |
1 |
54.06 |
2008-11-13 |
| 57. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
53.80 |
0.9964 |
-1.0088 |
203 |
1 |
53.80 |
2008-11-22 |
| 58. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
53.76 |
0.9687 |
-0.9777 |
371 |
1 |
53.76 |
2008-11-30 |
| 59. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
53.66 |
1.0529 |
-1.0648 |
351 |
1 |
53.66 |
2008-11-13 |
| 60. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
53.62 |
1.0523 |
-1.0671 |
256 |
2 |
53.35 |
2009-10-02 |
| 61. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
53.58 |
0.9785 |
-0.9883 |
335 |
1 |
53.58 |
2008-11-13 |
| 62. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
53.43 |
1.0567 |
-1.0682 |
303 |
1 |
53.43 |
2008-11-02 |
| 63. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
53.38 |
1.0025 |
-1.0149 |
256 |
2 |
53.25 |
2008-11-15 |
| 64. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
52.81 |
1.0214 |
-1.0370 |
166 |
1 |
52.81 |
2008-11-13 |
| 65. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
52.70 |
0.9212 |
-0.9317 |
323 |
1 |
52.70 |
2009-03-12 |
| 66. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
52.66 |
0.9279 |
-0.9358 |
317 |
1 |
52.66 |
2008-11-30 |
| 67. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
52.55 |
1.0390 |
-1.0533 |
205 |
1 |
52.55 |
2009-04-18 |
| 68. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
52.51 |
0.9430 |
-0.9589 |
211 |
2 |
50.26 |
2009-04-18 |
| 69. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
52.47 |
0.9342 |
-0.9438 |
434 |
1 |
52.47 |
2008-11-13 |
| 70. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
52.37 |
0.9513 |
-0.9609 |
354 |
1 |
52.37 |
2008-11-13 |
| 71. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
51.61 |
0.8958 |
-0.9047 |
322 |
2 |
50.72 |
2008-11-30 |
| 72. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
51.11 |
1.0426 |
-1.0552 |
323 |
1 |
51.11 |
2009-04-18 |
| 73. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
50.69 |
0.9500 |
-0.9601 |
362 |
1 |
50.69 |
2008-11-02 |
| 74. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
50.61 |
1.0398 |
-1.0596 |
110 |
1 |
50.61 |
2008-11-02 |
| 75. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
50.33 |
0.9795 |
-0.9916 |
308 |
1 |
50.33 |
2008-11-22 |
| 76. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
49.96 |
0.9293 |
-0.9402 |
355 |
1 |
49.96 |
2008-11-02 |
| 77. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
49.85 |
0.9485 |
-0.9596 |
236 |
1 |
49.85 |
2009-04-18 |
| 78. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
49.76 |
0.9754 |
-0.9835 |
362 |
1 |
49.76 |
2010-10-05 |
| 79. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
49.76 |
1.0797 |
-1.0954 |
210 |
1 |
49.76 |
2008-11-13 |
| 80. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
49.35 |
0.9723 |
-0.9818 |
364 |
1 |
49.35 |
2009-04-18 |
| 81. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
49.21 |
0.9965 |
-1.0094 |
310 |
1 |
49.21 |
2009-04-18 |
| 82. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
48.57 |
0.8602 |
-0.8733 |
206 |
1 |
48.57 |
2010-10-20 |
| 83. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
48.27 |
0.9682 |
-0.9826 |
143 |
1 |
48.27 |
2008-11-15 |
| 84. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
47.89 |
0.8553 |
-0.8705 |
174 |
1 |
47.89 |
2009-04-18 |
| 85. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
47.73 |
0.8916 |
-0.9036 |
216 |
1 |
47.73 |
2008-11-02 |
| 86. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
47.41 |
0.9734 |
-0.9858 |
289 |
1 |
47.41 |
2008-11-22 |
| 87. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
46.12 |
1.0441 |
-1.0551 |
252 |
1 |
46.12 |
2008-11-22 |
| 88. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
44.69 |
0.9168 |
-0.9276 |
240 |
1 |
44.69 |
2008-11-16 |
| 89. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
44.44 |
0.9330 |
-0.9406 |
360 |
1 |
44.44 |
2008-11-13 |