| 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... |
56.04 |
1.0417 |
0.3478 |
253 |
1 |
56.04 |
2010-11-09 |
| 2. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
54.80 |
1.0515 |
0.3016 |
166 |
2 |
47.66 |
2010-11-06 |
| 3. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
49.67 |
1.1016 |
0.1308 |
233 |
2 |
43.64 |
2010-11-09 |
| 4. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
48.89 |
0.9904 |
0.2629 |
203 |
2 |
43.23 |
2010-11-07 |
| 5. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
48.61 |
0.8723 |
0.3295 |
185 |
2 |
44.79 |
2010-11-09 |
| 6. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
48.51 |
1.0025 |
0.2006 |
256 |
1 |
48.51 |
2010-11-06 |
| 7. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
48.24 |
1.0337 |
0.1621 |
214 |
1 |
48.24 |
2010-11-09 |
| 8. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
48.15 |
0.8809 |
0.3111 |
127 |
1 |
48.15 |
2010-11-09 |
| 9. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
48.08 |
1.0993 |
0.0910 |
265 |
2 |
46.32 |
2010-11-07 |
| 10. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
47.97 |
1.1081 |
0.1162 |
206 |
1 |
47.97 |
2010-11-06 |
| 11. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
47.16 |
1.1162 |
0.0942 |
189 |
1 |
47.16 |
2010-10-31 |
| 12. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
47.07 |
0.9773 |
0.1819 |
123 |
1 |
47.07 |
2010-11-06 |
| 13. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
46.68 |
1.0189 |
0.1417 |
337 |
1 |
46.68 |
2010-11-09 |
| 14. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
46.05 |
1.0205 |
0.1145 |
179 |
1 |
46.05 |
2010-11-09 |
| 15. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
45.94 |
0.9196 |
0.2209 |
148 |
1 |
45.94 |
2010-11-06 |
| 16. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
45.38 |
1.0941 |
0.0618 |
256 |
1 |
45.38 |
2010-10-25 |
| 17. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
45.26 |
1.0863 |
0.0702 |
210 |
1 |
45.26 |
2010-11-06 |
| 18. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
44.99 |
0.9866 |
0.1247 |
218 |
1 |
44.99 |
2010-10-27 |
| 19. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
44.99 |
1.0596 |
0.0533 |
239 |
1 |
44.99 |
2010-10-31 |
| 20. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
44.80 |
0.9726 |
0.1312 |
154 |
1 |
44.80 |
2010-11-07 |
| 21. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
44.53 |
1.0403 |
0.0781 |
193 |
1 |
44.53 |
2010-10-31 |
| 22. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
44.40 |
0.9072 |
0.1913 |
237 |
1 |
44.40 |
2010-11-07 |
| 23. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
44.33 |
0.8941 |
0.2063 |
216 |
1 |
44.33 |
2010-11-06 |
| 24. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
44.29 |
0.9340 |
0.1632 |
296 |
2 |
40.90 |
2010-10-31 |
| 25. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
44.19 |
0.8553 |
0.2345 |
174 |
1 |
44.19 |
2010-11-09 |
| 26. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
44.14 |
0.8890 |
0.2011 |
199 |
1 |
44.14 |
2010-11-07 |
| 27. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
43.50 |
0.9844 |
0.0980 |
293 |
1 |
43.50 |
2010-11-09 |
| 28. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
43.37 |
0.8910 |
0.1850 |
150 |
1 |
43.37 |
2010-11-06 |
| 29. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
43.33 |
1.0788 |
-0.0111 |
171 |
1 |
43.33 |
2010-10-29 |
| 30. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
43.24 |
0.9886 |
0.0850 |
220 |
1 |
43.24 |
2010-10-31 |
| 31. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
43.22 |
1.0799 |
-0.0130 |
243 |
1 |
43.22 |
2010-11-06 |
| 32. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
43.20 |
0.9351 |
0.1295 |
190 |
1 |
43.20 |
2010-11-07 |
| 33. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
43.14 |
0.8971 |
0.1768 |
266 |
1 |
43.14 |
2010-11-07 |
| 34. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
43.05 |
0.9884 |
0.0822 |
262 |
1 |
43.05 |
2010-11-06 |
| 35. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
43.05 |
0.8157 |
0.2503 |
121 |
1 |
43.05 |
2010-10-31 |
| 36. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
42.77 |
1.0090 |
0.0941 |
282 |
1 |
42.77 |
2010-11-09 |
| 37. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
42.54 |
1.0403 |
0.0531 |
275 |
1 |
42.54 |
2010-11-06 |
| 38. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
42.41 |
0.9976 |
0.0729 |
174 |
1 |
42.41 |
2010-11-06 |
| 39. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
42.34 |
1.0365 |
0.0419 |
162 |
1 |
42.34 |
2010-11-06 |
| 40. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
42.23 |
0.9257 |
0.1256 |
317 |
1 |
42.23 |
2010-10-25 |
| 41. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
42.22 |
1.0390 |
0.0027 |
205 |
1 |
42.22 |
2010-11-06 |
| 42. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
42.12 |
0.8096 |
0.2413 |
209 |
2 |
36.64 |
2010-11-09 |
| 43. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
42.06 |
1.0263 |
0.0144 |
267 |
1 |
42.06 |
2010-10-25 |
| 44. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
41.63 |
0.8022 |
0.2316 |
215 |
1 |
41.63 |
2010-11-07 |
| 45. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
41.52 |
0.9899 |
0.0334 |
163 |
1 |
41.52 |
2010-11-06 |
| 46. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
41.41 |
0.9233 |
0.0936 |
168 |
1 |
41.41 |
2010-11-09 |
| 47. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
41.30 |
0.9635 |
0.0644 |
389 |
1 |
41.30 |
2010-11-07 |
| 48. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
41.18 |
0.8573 |
0.1657 |
270 |
1 |
41.18 |
2010-11-06 |
| 49. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
41.02 |
0.8878 |
0.1274 |
346 |
1 |
41.02 |
2010-11-09 |
| 50. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
40.75 |
0.8958 |
0.1175 |
322 |
1 |
40.75 |
2010-10-25 |
| 51. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
40.67 |
0.8852 |
0.1236 |
201 |
1 |
40.67 |
2010-11-09 |
| 52. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
40.62 |
1.0029 |
-0.0039 |
209 |
1 |
40.62 |
2010-11-06 |
| 53. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
40.54 |
1.0288 |
0.0067 |
300 |
1 |
40.54 |
2010-11-07 |
| 54. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
40.50 |
0.8906 |
0.1161 |
238 |
1 |
40.50 |
2010-11-06 |
| 55. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
40.48 |
0.8077 |
0.1923 |
167 |
1 |
40.48 |
2010-10-31 |
| 56. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
40.46 |
1.0384 |
-0.0466 |
183 |
1 |
40.46 |
2010-10-31 |
| 57. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
40.29 |
1.0214 |
-0.0297 |
166 |
1 |
40.29 |
2010-10-31 |
| 58. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
40.25 |
1.0883 |
-0.0601 |
303 |
1 |
40.25 |
2010-11-07 |
| 59. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
40.21 |
1.0621 |
-0.0476 |
263 |
1 |
40.21 |
2010-11-06 |
| 60. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
40.19 |
0.9567 |
0.0377 |
273 |
1 |
40.19 |
2010-11-07 |
| 61. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
40.17 |
0.8996 |
0.0890 |
192 |
2 |
37.58 |
2010-11-07 |
| 62. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
40.12 |
0.9855 |
0.0407 |
258 |
1 |
40.12 |
2010-11-06 |
| 63. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
40.07 |
0.9724 |
0.0228 |
237 |
1 |
40.07 |
2010-11-09 |
| 64. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
39.93 |
1.0463 |
-0.0628 |
182 |
1 |
39.93 |
2010-11-06 |
| 65. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
39.76 |
0.9943 |
-0.0073 |
373 |
1 |
39.76 |
2010-11-06 |
| 66. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
39.58 |
1.0711 |
-0.0969 |
213 |
1 |
39.58 |
2010-10-31 |
| 67. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
39.58 |
1.0515 |
-0.0741 |
250 |
1 |
39.58 |
2010-11-07 |
| 68. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
39.43 |
1.0917 |
-0.0926 |
243 |
1 |
39.43 |
2010-11-06 |
| 69. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
39.41 |
0.9532 |
0.0206 |
258 |
2 |
39.21 |
2010-10-31 |
| 70. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
39.40 |
1.1018 |
-0.1334 |
220 |
1 |
39.40 |
2010-10-29 |
| 71. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
39.21 |
1.0214 |
-0.0530 |
269 |
1 |
39.21 |
2010-11-07 |
| 72. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
39.16 |
0.8770 |
0.0950 |
300 |
1 |
39.16 |
2010-11-06 |
| 73. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
38.98 |
0.9851 |
-0.0186 |
317 |
1 |
38.98 |
2010-10-31 |
| 74. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.93 |
0.9614 |
0.0046 |
292 |
1 |
38.93 |
2010-11-06 |
| 75. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
38.88 |
0.9468 |
0.0145 |
276 |
1 |
38.88 |
2010-11-06 |
| 76. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
38.80 |
0.9275 |
0.0290 |
211 |
1 |
38.80 |
2010-10-31 |
| 77. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
38.73 |
0.8709 |
0.0950 |
202 |
1 |
38.73 |
2010-11-09 |
| 78. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
38.35 |
0.8915 |
0.0559 |
188 |
1 |
38.35 |
2010-11-07 |
| 79. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
38.30 |
0.9212 |
0.0298 |
231 |
1 |
38.30 |
2010-11-06 |
| 80. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
38.26 |
0.9016 |
0.0523 |
192 |
1 |
38.26 |
2010-10-31 |
| 81. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
37.61 |
0.9461 |
-0.0200 |
193 |
3 |
34.11 |
2010-11-09 |
| 82. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
37.33 |
1.0213 |
-0.1016 |
240 |
1 |
37.33 |
2010-10-31 |
| 83. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
37.32 |
0.9247 |
0.0027 |
253 |
1 |
37.32 |
2010-10-31 |
| 84. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
37.23 |
0.9912 |
-0.0439 |
237 |
1 |
37.23 |
2010-11-06 |
| 85. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
37.07 |
0.8961 |
0.0169 |
189 |
1 |
37.07 |
2010-10-31 |
| 86. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
36.78 |
0.9706 |
-0.0572 |
216 |
1 |
36.78 |
2010-11-09 |
| 87. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
36.51 |
0.8520 |
0.0513 |
202 |
1 |
36.51 |
2010-10-31 |
| 88. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
36.39 |
0.8867 |
0.0179 |
241 |
1 |
36.39 |
2010-11-09 |
| 89. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
36.10 |
0.9941 |
-0.1044 |
217 |
1 |
36.10 |
2010-11-07 |
| 90. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
35.98 |
1.0429 |
-0.1552 |
259 |
1 |
35.98 |
2010-10-31 |
| 91. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
35.62 |
0.9631 |
-0.0317 |
345 |
1 |
35.62 |
2010-10-25 |
| 92. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
35.41 |
0.8811 |
-0.0017 |
239 |
1 |
35.41 |
2010-11-09 |
| 93. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
35.25 |
0.9633 |
-0.0903 |
304 |
1 |
35.25 |
2010-10-31 |
| 94. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
34.59 |
0.9207 |
-0.0639 |
174 |
1 |
34.59 |
2010-11-06 |
| 95. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
34.28 |
0.8541 |
0.0006 |
260 |
1 |
34.28 |
2010-10-30 |
| 96. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
33.66 |
1.0714 |
-0.2494 |
129 |
1 |
33.66 |
2010-11-06 |
| 97. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
33.40 |
0.9966 |
-0.1728 |
259 |
1 |
33.40 |
2010-10-31 |
| 98. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
33.20 |
0.8602 |
-0.0430 |
206 |
1 |
33.20 |
2010-11-06 |
| 99. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
32.96 |
1.0498 |
-0.2412 |
180 |
2 |
32.82 |
2010-11-09 |
| 100. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
32.83 |
1.0577 |
-0.2511 |
247 |
1 |
32.83 |
2010-10-30 |
| 101. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
31.36 |
0.9805 |
-0.2026 |
292 |
1 |
31.36 |
2010-09-02 |
| 102. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
31.14 |
1.0117 |
-0.1991 |
297 |
1 |
31.14 |
2010-10-30 |
| 103. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
30.85 |
0.9527 |
-0.1923 |
251 |
1 |
30.85 |
2010-11-09 |
| 104. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
30.49 |
1.0419 |
-0.2904 |
261 |
1 |
30.49 |
2010-11-01 |
| 105. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
30.27 |
0.9697 |
-0.2236 |
249 |
1 |
30.27 |
2010-10-30 |
| 106. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
29.80 |
1.0125 |
-0.2806 |
224 |
1 |
29.80 |
2010-11-06 |
| 107. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
29.80 |
0.9221 |
-0.1894 |
244 |
1 |
29.80 |
2010-11-09 |
| 108. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
29.11 |
0.9125 |
-0.1938 |
308 |
1 |
29.11 |
2010-10-30 |
| 109. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
28.09 |
0.9350 |
-0.2429 |
195 |
1 |
28.09 |
2010-11-09 |
| 110. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
27.48 |
1.0151 |
-0.3476 |
152 |
1 |
27.48 |
2010-10-29 |
| 111. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
25.16 |
0.7876 |
-0.1672 |
316 |
1 |
25.16 |
2010-11-06 |
| 112. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
23.47 |
1.0483 |
-0.4758 |
227 |
1 |
23.47 |
2010-10-30 |
| 113. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
21.98 |
0.7805 |
-0.2465 |
154 |
1 |
21.98 |
2010-11-06 |