| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
88.73 |
1.0012 |
0.2119 |
260 |
2 |
77.84 |
2010-11-10 |
| 2. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
88.49 |
1.0201 |
0.1798 |
172 |
4 |
72.22 |
2010-12-01 |
| 3. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
88.42 |
0.9965 |
0.2042 |
168 |
2 |
74.76 |
2010-12-01 |
| 4. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
85.65 |
1.0023 |
0.1632 |
211 |
1 |
85.65 |
2010-12-01 |
| 5. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
85.44 |
1.0264 |
0.1779 |
422 |
2 |
83.17 |
2011-05-26 |
| 6. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
84.99 |
1.0787 |
0.0782 |
237 |
1 |
84.99 |
2010-12-02 |
| 7. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
83.76 |
1.0799 |
0.0579 |
243 |
1 |
83.76 |
2010-12-01 |
| 8. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
83.21 |
1.0337 |
0.0993 |
214 |
3 |
76.90 |
2011-01-09 |
| 9. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
82.37 |
1.0677 |
0.0850 |
284 |
1 |
82.37 |
2010-11-17 |
| 10. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
81.98 |
1.0502 |
0.0925 |
535 |
1 |
81.98 |
2011-05-26 |
| 11. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
81.85 |
0.9907 |
0.1228 |
211 |
1 |
81.85 |
2010-11-17 |
| 12. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
81.82 |
0.9740 |
0.1367 |
209 |
1 |
81.82 |
2010-12-03 |
| 13. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
81.74 |
1.0252 |
0.0819 |
176 |
3 |
71.40 |
2010-12-03 |
| 14. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
81.20 |
1.0403 |
0.1057 |
275 |
1 |
81.20 |
2010-12-03 |
| 15. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
81.19 |
1.0173 |
0.1329 |
268 |
2 |
80.41 |
2010-12-03 |
| 16. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
81.08 |
1.0711 |
0.0281 |
213 |
1 |
81.08 |
2010-11-22 |
| 17. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
81.06 |
1.0768 |
0.0674 |
295 |
2 |
75.15 |
2010-12-03 |
| 18. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
80.92 |
1.0109 |
0.0922 |
276 |
1 |
80.92 |
2010-11-12 |
| 19. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
80.82 |
1.0008 |
0.1431 |
473 |
2 |
71.75 |
2010-12-01 |
| 20. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
80.81 |
1.0352 |
0.0678 |
341 |
1 |
80.81 |
2010-12-03 |
| 21. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
80.80 |
0.9509 |
0.1881 |
225 |
1 |
80.80 |
2010-12-01 |
| 22. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
80.48 |
1.0669 |
0.0623 |
213 |
1 |
80.48 |
2010-12-01 |
| 23. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
80.35 |
0.9672 |
0.1335 |
396 |
2 |
71.93 |
2011-05-26 |
| 24. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
79.19 |
1.0763 |
0.0435 |
367 |
1 |
79.19 |
2010-12-01 |
| 25. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
78.69 |
0.9786 |
0.0874 |
193 |
2 |
71.25 |
2010-12-01 |
| 26. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
78.64 |
1.0403 |
0.0455 |
193 |
1 |
78.64 |
2010-12-03 |
| 27. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
78.44 |
0.9857 |
0.0814 |
293 |
1 |
78.44 |
2010-11-08 |
| 28. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
78.04 |
1.0090 |
0.0973 |
282 |
1 |
78.04 |
2010-11-08 |
| 29. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
77.80 |
1.0608 |
0.0318 |
258 |
1 |
77.80 |
2010-12-03 |
| 30. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
77.50 |
0.9675 |
0.0969 |
383 |
1 |
77.50 |
2010-11-08 |
| 31. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
77.25 |
0.9372 |
0.1184 |
320 |
1 |
77.25 |
2010-12-01 |
| 32. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
77.19 |
1.0666 |
-0.0159 |
297 |
1 |
77.19 |
2010-11-05 |
| 33. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
76.85 |
0.9597 |
0.0905 |
347 |
2 |
74.07 |
2010-12-02 |
| 34. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
76.78 |
0.8994 |
0.1482 |
188 |
1 |
76.78 |
2010-12-03 |
| 35. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
76.63 |
0.9411 |
0.1030 |
318 |
1 |
76.63 |
2011-01-09 |
| 36. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
76.46 |
1.0477 |
-0.0045 |
360 |
2 |
74.26 |
2011-01-09 |
| 37. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
76.19 |
0.9540 |
0.0812 |
285 |
1 |
76.19 |
2010-11-08 |
| 38. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
75.64 |
1.0320 |
0.0346 |
293 |
1 |
75.64 |
2010-11-29 |
| 39. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
75.60 |
0.9772 |
0.0483 |
217 |
2 |
71.11 |
2010-12-16 |
| 40. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
75.50 |
0.9612 |
0.0665 |
256 |
1 |
75.50 |
2010-12-02 |
| 41. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
75.44 |
1.0013 |
0.0247 |
273 |
1 |
75.44 |
2010-12-02 |
| 42. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
75.27 |
0.9088 |
0.1207 |
348 |
1 |
75.27 |
2011-01-09 |
| 43. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
74.70 |
1.0154 |
0.0509 |
351 |
1 |
74.70 |
2010-12-01 |
| 44. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
74.44 |
0.9790 |
0.0745 |
311 |
1 |
74.44 |
2010-12-03 |
| 45. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
74.22 |
1.0125 |
0.0351 |
413 |
1 |
74.22 |
2010-11-08 |
| 46. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
74.13 |
0.9202 |
0.0879 |
254 |
1 |
74.13 |
2010-12-02 |
| 47. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
74.08 |
1.0613 |
-0.0482 |
456 |
1 |
74.08 |
2010-11-10 |
| 48. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
73.99 |
1.0183 |
-0.0170 |
191 |
1 |
73.99 |
2010-12-01 |
| 49. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
73.60 |
1.0577 |
-0.0599 |
247 |
1 |
73.60 |
2011-01-09 |
| 50. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
73.56 |
1.0297 |
-0.0301 |
249 |
1 |
73.56 |
2010-12-01 |
| 51. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
73.46 |
1.0567 |
-0.0566 |
303 |
1 |
73.46 |
2010-11-10 |
| 52. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
72.78 |
0.8845 |
0.1061 |
273 |
1 |
72.78 |
2010-12-02 |
| 53. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
72.76 |
0.9865 |
0.0044 |
276 |
1 |
72.76 |
2010-12-01 |
| 54. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
72.68 |
1.0346 |
-0.0039 |
244 |
2 |
71.25 |
2010-12-03 |
| 55. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
72.59 |
1.0375 |
-0.0039 |
200 |
1 |
72.59 |
2010-12-01 |
| 56. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
72.54 |
1.0613 |
-0.0736 |
266 |
1 |
72.54 |
2010-12-03 |
| 57. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
72.41 |
1.0349 |
-0.0506 |
234 |
2 |
71.68 |
2010-11-18 |
| 58. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
72.13 |
1.0124 |
-0.0337 |
204 |
1 |
72.13 |
2010-11-08 |
| 59. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
71.78 |
1.0328 |
-0.0187 |
356 |
1 |
71.78 |
2010-11-18 |
| 60. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
71.66 |
0.9072 |
0.0657 |
237 |
1 |
71.66 |
2010-11-12 |
| 61. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
71.56 |
1.0595 |
-0.0841 |
379 |
1 |
71.56 |
2010-11-14 |
| 62. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
70.23 |
0.9811 |
-0.0234 |
272 |
1 |
70.23 |
2010-12-03 |
| 63. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
70.14 |
1.0388 |
-0.0536 |
243 |
2 |
67.56 |
2010-12-01 |
| 64. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
69.87 |
1.0529 |
-0.1030 |
351 |
1 |
69.87 |
2010-11-29 |
| 65. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
69.67 |
0.7731 |
0.1762 |
145 |
1 |
69.67 |
2010-11-08 |
| 66. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
69.50 |
1.0714 |
-0.1354 |
129 |
1 |
69.50 |
2010-11-22 |
| 67. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
69.21 |
0.9833 |
-0.0408 |
355 |
1 |
69.21 |
2010-12-02 |
| 68. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
68.76 |
0.9670 |
0.0097 |
307 |
1 |
68.76 |
2010-12-01 |
| 69. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
68.44 |
0.9884 |
-0.0590 |
233 |
1 |
68.44 |
2010-11-17 |
| 70. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
68.37 |
0.9303 |
-0.0072 |
176 |
1 |
68.37 |
2010-11-05 |
| 71. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
68.19 |
1.0203 |
-0.0901 |
261 |
1 |
68.19 |
2010-11-26 |
| 72. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
68.01 |
0.8919 |
0.0308 |
205 |
1 |
68.01 |
2010-11-29 |
| 73. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
67.97 |
1.0150 |
-0.0423 |
325 |
1 |
67.97 |
2010-12-16 |
| 74. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
67.57 |
0.9567 |
-0.0386 |
273 |
1 |
67.57 |
2010-11-17 |
| 75. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
66.98 |
0.9500 |
-0.0375 |
362 |
1 |
66.98 |
2010-11-08 |
| 76. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
66.48 |
0.9084 |
-0.0011 |
404 |
1 |
66.48 |
2010-11-05 |
| 77. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
66.42 |
1.0419 |
-0.1394 |
261 |
1 |
66.42 |
2010-11-10 |
| 78. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
66.42 |
1.0565 |
-0.1568 |
247 |
1 |
66.42 |
2010-11-14 |
| 79. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
66.32 |
1.0774 |
-0.1471 |
304 |
2 |
62.84 |
2010-11-17 |
| 80. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
65.94 |
1.0943 |
-0.1658 |
206 |
1 |
65.94 |
2010-11-18 |
| 81. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
65.86 |
1.0214 |
-0.0839 |
281 |
1 |
65.86 |
2010-11-07 |
| 82. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
65.58 |
0.9125 |
-0.0200 |
308 |
1 |
65.58 |
2010-11-08 |
| 83. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
64.88 |
0.8916 |
-0.0102 |
216 |
1 |
64.88 |
2010-12-01 |
| 84. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
64.78 |
0.8852 |
-0.0032 |
201 |
2 |
47.59 |
2010-12-01 |
| 85. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
64.48 |
0.9905 |
-0.0836 |
337 |
1 |
64.48 |
2010-11-18 |
| 86. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
64.24 |
1.0025 |
-0.1303 |
256 |
1 |
64.24 |
2010-11-07 |
| 87. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
63.56 |
1.0487 |
-0.1907 |
231 |
1 |
63.56 |
2010-11-17 |
| 88. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
62.03 |
0.9350 |
-0.0921 |
195 |
1 |
62.03 |
2010-11-13 |
| 89. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
62.01 |
0.9631 |
-0.0703 |
345 |
1 |
62.01 |
2010-11-18 |
| 90. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
61.78 |
0.9698 |
-0.0986 |
397 |
1 |
61.78 |
2010-11-14 |
| 91. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
60.85 |
0.9461 |
-0.1240 |
193 |
1 |
60.85 |
2010-11-12 |
| 92. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
60.61 |
0.8559 |
-0.0327 |
191 |
1 |
60.61 |
2010-11-29 |
| 93. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
60.16 |
0.9281 |
-0.1068 |
273 |
1 |
60.16 |
2010-11-05 |
| 94. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
59.32 |
0.8382 |
-0.0331 |
268 |
1 |
59.32 |
2010-12-03 |
| 95. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
58.84 |
0.9976 |
-0.1797 |
174 |
1 |
58.84 |
2010-11-26 |
| 96. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
58.59 |
1.0379 |
-0.2086 |
245 |
1 |
58.59 |
2010-11-07 |
| 97. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
57.91 |
0.9786 |
-0.1940 |
235 |
1 |
57.91 |
2011-01-09 |
| 98. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
57.68 |
0.8653 |
-0.0720 |
255 |
1 |
57.68 |
2010-12-02 |
| 99. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
52.34 |
0.8773 |
-0.1652 |
205 |
1 |
52.34 |
2010-11-29 |
| 100. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
38.33 |
0.8787 |
-0.3585 |
202 |
1 |
38.33 |
2010-11-05 |