| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
74.28 |
1.0417 |
0.2646 |
253 |
1 |
74.28 |
2008-10-30 |
| 2. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
70.77 |
1.0252 |
0.2146 |
176 |
2 |
68.52 |
2008-10-26 |
| 3. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
69.81 |
1.0788 |
0.1448 |
171 |
2 |
61.69 |
2008-10-27 |
| 4. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
68.95 |
0.9513 |
0.2664 |
354 |
4 |
56.79 |
2008-10-27 |
| 5. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
67.74 |
1.0483 |
0.1411 |
227 |
1 |
67.74 |
2008-10-27 |
| 6. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
67.17 |
1.0696 |
0.1092 |
226 |
1 |
67.17 |
2008-10-25 |
| 7. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
65.84 |
1.0613 |
0.0982 |
266 |
1 |
65.84 |
2008-10-27 |
| 8. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
65.44 |
0.9653 |
0.1945 |
394 |
1 |
65.44 |
2008-10-27 |
| 9. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
64.26 |
1.0004 |
0.1240 |
212 |
1 |
64.26 |
2008-10-25 |
| 10. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
64.13 |
1.0138 |
0.1140 |
231 |
1 |
64.13 |
2008-10-27 |
| 11. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
64.04 |
1.0799 |
0.0430 |
243 |
2 |
63.23 |
2008-10-26 |
| 12. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
61.21 |
1.0477 |
0.0309 |
360 |
1 |
61.21 |
2008-10-25 |
| 13. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
60.93 |
1.0034 |
0.0663 |
302 |
1 |
60.93 |
2008-10-27 |
| 14. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
60.86 |
1.0389 |
0.0335 |
340 |
1 |
60.86 |
2008-10-26 |
| 15. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
60.73 |
1.0523 |
0.0111 |
256 |
2 |
59.77 |
2008-10-27 |
| 16. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
60.54 |
1.0385 |
0.0240 |
230 |
1 |
60.54 |
2008-10-27 |
| 17. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
60.31 |
1.0340 |
0.0314 |
406 |
1 |
60.31 |
2008-10-25 |
| 18. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
60.22 |
1.0462 |
0.0063 |
184 |
1 |
60.22 |
2008-10-27 |
| 19. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
60.18 |
1.0263 |
0.0308 |
267 |
1 |
60.18 |
2008-10-27 |
| 20. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
60.01 |
1.0885 |
-0.0303 |
315 |
1 |
60.01 |
2008-10-26 |
| 21. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
60.00 |
1.0445 |
0.0111 |
373 |
1 |
60.00 |
2008-10-27 |
| 22. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
59.94 |
0.9865 |
0.0682 |
276 |
1 |
59.94 |
2008-10-27 |
| 23. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
59.51 |
0.9964 |
0.0497 |
203 |
1 |
59.51 |
2008-10-25 |
| 24. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
59.33 |
0.9691 |
0.0732 |
223 |
1 |
59.33 |
2008-10-25 |
| 25. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
59.26 |
0.9576 |
0.0885 |
212 |
1 |
59.26 |
2008-10-25 |
| 26. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
57.48 |
0.9612 |
0.0487 |
256 |
1 |
57.48 |
2008-10-30 |
| 27. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
57.09 |
1.0261 |
-0.0251 |
273 |
1 |
57.09 |
2008-10-27 |
| 28. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
56.07 |
0.9074 |
0.0839 |
396 |
1 |
56.07 |
2008-10-26 |
| 29. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
56.04 |
0.9731 |
-0.0014 |
129 |
1 |
56.04 |
2008-10-27 |
| 30. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
55.93 |
1.0567 |
-0.0738 |
303 |
1 |
55.93 |
2008-10-25 |
| 31. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
55.91 |
0.9570 |
0.0266 |
287 |
1 |
55.91 |
2008-10-26 |
| 32. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
55.84 |
0.9768 |
0.0065 |
387 |
1 |
55.84 |
2008-10-25 |
| 33. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
55.78 |
0.9601 |
0.0242 |
308 |
1 |
55.78 |
2008-10-27 |
| 34. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
55.70 |
0.9776 |
0.0008 |
308 |
1 |
55.70 |
2008-10-27 |
| 35. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
55.69 |
1.0201 |
-0.0381 |
375 |
1 |
55.69 |
2008-10-25 |
| 36. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
55.27 |
1.0496 |
-0.0798 |
314 |
1 |
55.27 |
2008-10-25 |
| 37. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
55.27 |
0.9946 |
-0.0243 |
246 |
1 |
55.27 |
2008-10-25 |
| 38. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
55.20 |
0.9811 |
-0.0091 |
272 |
1 |
55.20 |
2008-10-27 |
| 39. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
54.59 |
0.9293 |
0.0299 |
355 |
1 |
54.59 |
2008-10-25 |
| 40. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
54.46 |
0.9514 |
0.0050 |
237 |
1 |
54.46 |
2008-10-26 |
| 41. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
54.33 |
0.8919 |
0.0602 |
205 |
2 |
53.65 |
2008-10-26 |
| 42. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
54.07 |
0.9281 |
0.0262 |
273 |
1 |
54.07 |
2008-10-25 |
| 43. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
53.95 |
1.0053 |
-0.0603 |
232 |
1 |
53.95 |
2008-10-25 |
| 44. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
53.63 |
0.9148 |
0.0279 |
317 |
1 |
53.63 |
2008-10-26 |
| 45. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
53.49 |
0.8753 |
0.0728 |
427 |
1 |
53.49 |
2008-10-27 |
| 46. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
53.26 |
1.0426 |
-0.1085 |
323 |
1 |
53.26 |
2008-10-27 |
| 47. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
53.12 |
1.0068 |
-0.0712 |
358 |
2 |
48.65 |
2008-10-30 |
| 48. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
52.96 |
0.9986 |
-0.0686 |
283 |
2 |
52.51 |
2008-10-30 |
| 49. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
52.42 |
1.0013 |
-0.0824 |
273 |
1 |
52.42 |
2008-10-25 |
| 50. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
50.67 |
0.9851 |
-0.0942 |
317 |
1 |
50.67 |
2008-10-25 |
| 51. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
50.12 |
0.9649 |
-0.0871 |
193 |
1 |
50.12 |
2008-10-30 |
| 52. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
49.55 |
0.9879 |
-0.1104 |
450 |
1 |
49.55 |
2008-10-26 |
| 53. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
49.39 |
1.0025 |
-0.1357 |
336 |
1 |
49.39 |
2008-10-27 |
| 54. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
49.37 |
0.9684 |
-0.1002 |
388 |
1 |
49.37 |
2008-10-25 |
| 55. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
49.15 |
0.8722 |
-0.0077 |
285 |
1 |
49.15 |
2008-10-25 |
| 56. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
48.93 |
0.9411 |
-0.0826 |
318 |
1 |
48.93 |
2008-10-27 |
| 57. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
48.61 |
0.8996 |
-0.0531 |
192 |
1 |
48.61 |
2008-10-25 |
| 58. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
48.41 |
0.8105 |
0.0337 |
204 |
3 |
45.08 |
2008-10-30 |
| 59. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
47.70 |
0.9572 |
-0.1225 |
201 |
1 |
47.70 |
2008-10-25 |
| 60. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
47.64 |
0.9045 |
-0.0694 |
235 |
1 |
47.64 |
2008-10-27 |
| 61. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
47.39 |
0.9740 |
-0.1478 |
209 |
1 |
47.39 |
2008-10-25 |
| 62. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
45.93 |
0.9965 |
-0.1970 |
168 |
1 |
45.93 |
2008-10-30 |
| 63. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
45.90 |
0.9843 |
-0.1855 |
234 |
1 |
45.90 |
2008-10-25 |
| 64. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
44.32 |
1.0251 |
-0.2516 |
261 |
1 |
44.32 |
2008-10-27 |
| 65. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
43.38 |
0.9266 |
-0.1675 |
267 |
1 |
43.38 |
2008-10-27 |
| 66. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
39.82 |
0.9365 |
-0.2395 |
248 |
1 |
39.82 |
2008-10-25 |