| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
52.32 |
1.0463 |
0.2422 |
182 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-03-09 |
| 2. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
48.42 |
1.0787 |
0.1138 |
237 |
2 |
44.84 |
2009-03-06 |
| 3. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
47.46 |
0.8077 |
0.3611 |
167 |
1 |
47.46 |
2009-03-06 |
| 4. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
45.90 |
0.9068 |
0.2236 |
269 |
1 |
45.90 |
2009-03-05 |
| 5. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
45.84 |
1.0696 |
0.0593 |
226 |
2 |
43.85 |
2009-03-05 |
| 6. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
45.36 |
0.9128 |
0.2043 |
133 |
1 |
45.36 |
2009-03-05 |
| 7. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
44.99 |
1.0567 |
0.0513 |
303 |
1 |
44.99 |
2009-03-05 |
| 8. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
44.93 |
1.0799 |
0.0266 |
243 |
1 |
44.93 |
2009-03-09 |
| 9. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
44.87 |
1.0426 |
0.0624 |
323 |
1 |
44.87 |
2009-03-09 |
| 10. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
44.74 |
1.0349 |
0.0669 |
234 |
1 |
44.74 |
2009-03-05 |
| 11. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
44.68 |
1.0444 |
0.0560 |
197 |
1 |
44.68 |
2009-02-25 |
| 12. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
44.30 |
0.9946 |
0.0964 |
246 |
1 |
44.30 |
2009-03-04 |
| 13. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
44.19 |
1.0993 |
-0.0110 |
265 |
1 |
44.19 |
2009-02-26 |
| 14. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
43.82 |
1.0138 |
0.0654 |
231 |
1 |
43.82 |
2009-03-07 |
| 15. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
43.63 |
1.0109 |
0.0636 |
276 |
1 |
43.63 |
2009-02-25 |
| 16. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
43.28 |
0.9893 |
0.0766 |
323 |
1 |
43.28 |
2009-02-26 |
| 17. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
42.82 |
0.9263 |
0.1282 |
188 |
1 |
42.82 |
2009-03-04 |
| 18. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
42.71 |
1.0252 |
0.0266 |
176 |
1 |
42.71 |
2009-02-26 |
| 19. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
42.71 |
1.0099 |
0.0419 |
207 |
1 |
42.71 |
2009-02-26 |
| 20. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
42.41 |
1.0797 |
-0.0352 |
210 |
2 |
41.18 |
2009-03-09 |
| 21. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
42.29 |
1.0595 |
-0.0180 |
379 |
1 |
42.29 |
2009-03-06 |
| 22. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
42.20 |
0.9965 |
0.0428 |
277 |
1 |
42.20 |
2009-03-05 |
| 23. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
42.05 |
1.0004 |
0.0352 |
212 |
1 |
42.05 |
2009-02-26 |
| 24. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
42.05 |
0.9910 |
0.0446 |
295 |
1 |
42.05 |
2009-03-05 |
| 25. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
42.00 |
0.8791 |
0.1553 |
190 |
2 |
38.69 |
2009-02-25 |
| 26. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
41.80 |
0.9316 |
0.0978 |
287 |
2 |
38.61 |
2009-03-04 |
| 27. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
41.68 |
0.9795 |
0.0470 |
308 |
1 |
41.68 |
2009-02-25 |
| 28. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
41.40 |
0.9514 |
0.0682 |
237 |
1 |
41.40 |
2009-03-07 |
| 29. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
41.19 |
1.0528 |
-0.0384 |
201 |
2 |
41.18 |
2009-03-05 |
| 30. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
41.13 |
1.0201 |
-0.0072 |
303 |
1 |
41.13 |
2009-03-05 |
| 31. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
41.08 |
0.9941 |
0.0176 |
217 |
2 |
39.19 |
2009-03-09 |
| 32. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
41.01 |
1.0441 |
-0.0341 |
252 |
1 |
41.01 |
2009-03-06 |
| 33. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
40.93 |
0.9649 |
0.0431 |
193 |
2 |
38.34 |
2009-03-06 |
| 34. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.79 |
0.8792 |
0.1254 |
296 |
2 |
37.39 |
2009-03-09 |
| 35. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.79 |
0.9072 |
0.0974 |
237 |
1 |
40.79 |
2009-02-26 |
| 36. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
40.76 |
1.0462 |
-0.0424 |
184 |
1 |
40.76 |
2009-03-04 |
| 37. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
40.40 |
0.9811 |
0.0139 |
272 |
1 |
40.40 |
2009-02-25 |
| 38. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
40.11 |
0.9786 |
0.0092 |
193 |
1 |
40.11 |
2009-03-04 |
| 39. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
40.11 |
0.9886 |
-0.0008 |
220 |
1 |
40.11 |
2009-03-06 |
| 40. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
39.68 |
0.9429 |
0.0343 |
287 |
1 |
39.68 |
2009-03-05 |
| 41. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
39.48 |
0.9266 |
0.0457 |
278 |
1 |
39.48 |
2009-02-26 |
| 42. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
39.46 |
0.9965 |
-0.0247 |
168 |
2 |
39.29 |
2009-03-05 |
| 43. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
39.43 |
0.9851 |
-0.0140 |
317 |
1 |
39.43 |
2009-03-04 |
| 44. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
39.39 |
1.1018 |
-0.1317 |
220 |
1 |
39.39 |
2009-03-06 |
| 45. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
38.31 |
1.0711 |
-0.1276 |
213 |
1 |
38.31 |
2009-03-05 |
| 46. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
38.20 |
0.8811 |
0.0597 |
239 |
1 |
38.20 |
2009-02-26 |
| 47. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
38.17 |
0.8852 |
0.0548 |
201 |
2 |
36.82 |
2009-03-06 |
| 48. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
38.09 |
1.0168 |
-0.0787 |
271 |
1 |
38.09 |
2009-02-25 |
| 49. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
37.91 |
0.9844 |
-0.0508 |
293 |
1 |
37.91 |
2009-02-26 |
| 50. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
37.84 |
0.9468 |
-0.0149 |
276 |
1 |
37.84 |
2009-03-06 |
| 51. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
37.60 |
0.8442 |
0.0818 |
265 |
1 |
37.60 |
2009-02-26 |
| 52. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
37.41 |
0.9865 |
-0.0652 |
276 |
2 |
36.05 |
2009-03-04 |
| 53. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
37.18 |
0.8975 |
0.0182 |
268 |
1 |
37.18 |
2009-02-28 |
| 54. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
36.96 |
0.9212 |
-0.0110 |
323 |
1 |
36.96 |
2009-02-25 |
| 55. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
35.98 |
0.9866 |
-0.1005 |
218 |
2 |
31.62 |
2009-03-05 |
| 56. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
35.47 |
0.9691 |
-0.0956 |
223 |
1 |
35.47 |
2009-02-28 |
| 57. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
34.15 |
0.8153 |
0.0257 |
200 |
1 |
34.15 |
2009-02-26 |
| 58. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
33.44 |
1.0496 |
-0.2261 |
314 |
1 |
33.44 |
2009-02-28 |
| 59. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
33.20 |
0.9430 |
-0.1254 |
211 |
1 |
33.20 |
2009-02-26 |
| 60. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
31.45 |
0.9540 |
-0.1795 |
285 |
1 |
31.45 |
2009-02-25 |
| 61. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
27.80 |
0.8602 |
-0.1756 |
206 |
1 |
27.80 |
2009-02-25 |
| 62. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
27.76 |
0.8653 |
-0.1816 |
255 |
1 |
27.76 |
2009-02-25 |