| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
83.49 |
1.0799 |
0.1140 |
243 |
2 |
81.13 |
2011-04-08 |
| 2. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
83.24 |
1.0555 |
0.1400 |
363 |
1 |
83.24 |
2011-02-18 |
| 3. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
81.84 |
1.1014 |
0.1099 |
273 |
2 |
78.81 |
2011-03-24 |
| 4. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
81.78 |
1.0619 |
0.1150 |
354 |
1 |
81.78 |
2011-02-18 |
| 5. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
81.58 |
1.0521 |
0.1124 |
171 |
1 |
81.58 |
2011-04-08 |
| 6. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
81.39 |
1.0389 |
0.1306 |
340 |
1 |
81.39 |
2011-03-25 |
| 7. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
81.26 |
1.0316 |
0.1378 |
333 |
1 |
81.26 |
2011-02-15 |
| 8. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
81.25 |
1.0669 |
0.1306 |
286 |
1 |
81.25 |
2011-02-15 |
| 9. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
79.21 |
1.0403 |
0.1354 |
275 |
1 |
79.21 |
2011-02-18 |
| 10. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
78.51 |
1.0289 |
0.1011 |
276 |
2 |
72.48 |
2011-02-24 |
| 11. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
78.45 |
1.0033 |
0.1144 |
189 |
1 |
78.45 |
2011-02-24 |
| 12. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
78.25 |
1.0907 |
0.0330 |
303 |
1 |
78.25 |
2011-02-18 |
| 13. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
78.15 |
1.0444 |
0.0690 |
197 |
1 |
78.15 |
2011-02-14 |
| 14. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
77.53 |
0.9964 |
0.1146 |
203 |
1 |
77.53 |
2011-02-14 |
| 15. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
77.52 |
1.1296 |
0.0103 |
252 |
1 |
77.52 |
2011-03-25 |
| 16. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
77.08 |
1.0441 |
0.0618 |
252 |
1 |
77.08 |
2011-03-24 |
| 17. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
76.69 |
0.9897 |
0.1068 |
274 |
1 |
76.69 |
2011-03-25 |
| 18. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
76.53 |
0.9886 |
0.1104 |
220 |
1 |
76.53 |
2011-02-18 |
| 19. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
76.25 |
1.0417 |
0.0481 |
253 |
1 |
76.25 |
2011-02-15 |
| 20. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
76.08 |
1.0621 |
0.0473 |
263 |
1 |
76.08 |
2011-02-14 |
| 21. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
75.97 |
1.0679 |
0.0409 |
177 |
1 |
75.97 |
2011-02-18 |
| 22. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
75.23 |
0.9936 |
0.0840 |
311 |
1 |
75.23 |
2011-02-15 |
| 23. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
75.01 |
1.0767 |
-0.0045 |
212 |
1 |
75.01 |
2011-03-24 |
| 24. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
74.82 |
0.9910 |
0.0828 |
295 |
1 |
74.82 |
2011-04-08 |
| 25. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
74.74 |
1.0025 |
0.0678 |
256 |
1 |
74.74 |
2011-02-14 |
| 26. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
74.57 |
0.9376 |
0.1361 |
367 |
1 |
74.57 |
2011-02-24 |
| 27. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
74.11 |
1.0389 |
0.0246 |
318 |
1 |
74.11 |
2011-02-18 |
| 28. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
73.95 |
1.0483 |
0.0076 |
227 |
2 |
72.54 |
2011-02-18 |
| 29. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
73.91 |
1.0463 |
0.0077 |
182 |
1 |
73.91 |
2011-03-24 |
| 30. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
73.90 |
1.0788 |
-0.0260 |
171 |
1 |
73.90 |
2011-02-24 |
| 31. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
73.48 |
1.0031 |
0.0824 |
304 |
1 |
73.48 |
2011-02-14 |
| 32. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
73.42 |
1.0797 |
-0.0336 |
210 |
1 |
73.42 |
2011-02-18 |
| 33. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
73.36 |
0.9278 |
0.1255 |
295 |
3 |
68.30 |
2011-03-25 |
| 34. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
73.35 |
0.9846 |
0.0645 |
281 |
1 |
73.35 |
2011-03-24 |
| 35. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
73.06 |
1.0740 |
0.0106 |
264 |
1 |
73.06 |
2011-02-18 |
| 36. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
72.84 |
1.0073 |
0.0441 |
369 |
1 |
72.84 |
2011-03-25 |
| 37. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
72.59 |
1.0109 |
0.0293 |
276 |
1 |
72.59 |
2011-03-25 |
| 38. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
72.34 |
1.0095 |
0.0250 |
316 |
1 |
72.34 |
2011-02-14 |
| 39. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
72.28 |
0.9567 |
0.0787 |
273 |
1 |
72.28 |
2011-03-24 |
| 40. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
72.27 |
1.0487 |
-0.0189 |
231 |
1 |
72.27 |
2011-02-14 |
| 41. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
72.00 |
1.0515 |
-0.0227 |
250 |
1 |
72.00 |
2011-02-15 |
| 42. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
71.96 |
0.9376 |
0.1286 |
360 |
2 |
66.28 |
2011-03-25 |
| 43. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
71.84 |
0.9925 |
0.0730 |
247 |
1 |
71.84 |
2011-02-15 |
| 44. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
71.68 |
0.9500 |
0.0785 |
362 |
1 |
71.68 |
2011-02-24 |
| 45. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
71.67 |
0.9768 |
0.0524 |
387 |
1 |
71.67 |
2011-04-08 |
| 46. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
71.66 |
1.0240 |
-0.0011 |
256 |
1 |
71.66 |
2011-03-25 |
| 47. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
71.43 |
1.0711 |
-0.0538 |
213 |
1 |
71.43 |
2011-02-18 |
| 48. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
70.70 |
0.9795 |
0.0332 |
308 |
1 |
70.70 |
2011-02-24 |
| 49. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
70.43 |
1.0053 |
0.0012 |
232 |
2 |
70.06 |
2011-03-24 |
| 50. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
70.41 |
0.9087 |
0.1104 |
393 |
1 |
70.41 |
2011-03-25 |
| 51. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
70.26 |
0.9916 |
0.0570 |
282 |
1 |
70.26 |
2011-02-14 |
| 52. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
70.02 |
1.0320 |
0.0073 |
293 |
1 |
70.02 |
2011-03-24 |
| 53. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
69.96 |
1.0496 |
-0.0491 |
314 |
2 |
68.89 |
2011-02-15 |
| 54. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
69.94 |
1.0379 |
-0.0023 |
245 |
2 |
68.77 |
2011-03-24 |
| 55. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
69.83 |
1.0391 |
-0.0335 |
358 |
1 |
69.83 |
2011-02-15 |
| 56. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
69.53 |
1.0151 |
-0.0296 |
152 |
1 |
69.53 |
2011-02-24 |
| 57. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
69.46 |
0.9790 |
0.0559 |
311 |
2 |
67.78 |
2011-04-08 |
| 58. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
69.42 |
1.0213 |
-0.0308 |
240 |
1 |
69.42 |
2011-03-24 |
| 59. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
69.41 |
1.0154 |
0.0280 |
351 |
1 |
69.41 |
2011-04-08 |
| 60. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
69.21 |
1.0077 |
0.0237 |
250 |
1 |
69.21 |
2011-02-18 |
| 61. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
68.99 |
1.0390 |
-0.0550 |
205 |
2 |
67.46 |
2011-03-25 |
| 62. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
68.85 |
1.0165 |
-0.0268 |
392 |
1 |
68.85 |
2011-04-08 |
| 63. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
68.25 |
0.9831 |
0.0018 |
469 |
1 |
68.25 |
2011-02-18 |
| 64. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
68.00 |
1.0595 |
-0.0839 |
379 |
1 |
68.00 |
2011-02-15 |
| 65. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
67.79 |
0.9699 |
-0.0007 |
269 |
1 |
67.79 |
2011-02-15 |
| 66. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
67.77 |
0.9513 |
0.0224 |
354 |
1 |
67.77 |
2011-02-15 |
| 67. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
67.68 |
0.9089 |
0.0627 |
342 |
1 |
67.68 |
2011-02-18 |
| 68. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
67.61 |
0.9398 |
0.0374 |
419 |
2 |
67.57 |
2011-02-15 |
| 69. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
67.05 |
0.9731 |
-0.0267 |
129 |
1 |
67.05 |
2011-02-15 |
| 70. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
66.74 |
0.9508 |
0.0380 |
384 |
1 |
66.74 |
2011-03-24 |
| 71. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
66.73 |
0.9411 |
0.0144 |
318 |
2 |
63.56 |
2011-03-25 |
| 72. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
66.51 |
0.9786 |
-0.0324 |
193 |
1 |
66.51 |
2011-02-18 |
| 73. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
66.50 |
0.9857 |
-0.0355 |
293 |
1 |
66.50 |
2011-02-15 |
| 74. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
66.35 |
1.0168 |
-0.0658 |
271 |
1 |
66.35 |
2011-02-24 |
| 75. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
66.18 |
0.9723 |
-0.0215 |
364 |
1 |
66.18 |
2011-02-24 |
| 76. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
65.99 |
0.9382 |
0.0316 |
440 |
1 |
65.99 |
2011-03-25 |
| 77. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
65.85 |
0.9309 |
0.0090 |
284 |
2 |
64.21 |
2011-03-24 |
| 78. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
65.23 |
0.9841 |
-0.0472 |
334 |
1 |
65.23 |
2011-02-15 |
| 79. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
64.84 |
0.9635 |
-0.0302 |
389 |
1 |
64.84 |
2011-02-18 |
| 80. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
64.76 |
0.7876 |
0.1409 |
316 |
1 |
64.76 |
2011-04-08 |
| 81. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
64.15 |
0.9651 |
-0.0121 |
389 |
1 |
64.15 |
2011-03-24 |
| 82. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
64.11 |
0.9468 |
-0.0302 |
276 |
1 |
64.11 |
2011-02-14 |
| 83. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
64.07 |
1.0365 |
-0.0911 |
162 |
1 |
64.07 |
2011-03-25 |
| 84. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
63.99 |
0.9710 |
-0.0628 |
173 |
1 |
63.99 |
2011-03-24 |
| 85. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
63.89 |
0.9965 |
-0.0824 |
277 |
1 |
63.89 |
2011-03-24 |
| 86. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
63.87 |
1.0337 |
-0.1215 |
214 |
1 |
63.87 |
2011-02-14 |
| 87. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
63.66 |
1.0516 |
-0.1422 |
281 |
1 |
63.66 |
2011-02-15 |
| 88. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
63.16 |
0.8914 |
0.0117 |
366 |
1 |
63.16 |
2011-02-15 |
| 89. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
63.16 |
0.9798 |
-0.0828 |
199 |
1 |
63.16 |
2011-02-18 |
| 90. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
62.66 |
0.9293 |
-0.0322 |
355 |
1 |
62.66 |
2011-02-18 |
| 91. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
62.34 |
0.9653 |
-0.0657 |
394 |
1 |
62.34 |
2011-02-15 |
| 92. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
62.30 |
1.0768 |
-0.1467 |
295 |
1 |
62.30 |
2011-03-23 |
| 93. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
61.94 |
0.8890 |
-0.0077 |
199 |
1 |
61.94 |
2011-02-15 |
| 94. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
61.84 |
0.9739 |
-0.0542 |
412 |
1 |
61.84 |
2011-03-24 |
| 95. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
61.69 |
0.9763 |
-0.0954 |
289 |
1 |
61.69 |
2011-02-15 |
| 96. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
61.15 |
0.9678 |
-0.0586 |
445 |
1 |
61.15 |
2011-03-25 |
| 97. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
61.07 |
0.9994 |
-0.0961 |
269 |
3 |
59.73 |
2011-03-24 |
| 98. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
60.92 |
1.0358 |
-0.1234 |
349 |
1 |
60.92 |
2011-03-24 |
| 99. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
60.51 |
0.8852 |
-0.0181 |
201 |
1 |
60.51 |
2011-02-15 |
| 100. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
60.49 |
0.9619 |
-0.0922 |
393 |
1 |
60.49 |
2011-03-25 |
| 101. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
60.44 |
0.9593 |
-0.0913 |
398 |
1 |
60.44 |
2011-03-24 |
| 102. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
59.98 |
0.9670 |
-0.0679 |
307 |
1 |
59.98 |
2011-02-15 |
| 103. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
59.36 |
0.9128 |
-0.0236 |
369 |
1 |
59.36 |
2011-02-14 |
| 104. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
58.13 |
0.9084 |
-0.0748 |
404 |
1 |
58.13 |
2011-03-25 |
| 105. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
57.56 |
0.8533 |
-0.0312 |
232 |
1 |
57.56 |
2011-02-15 |
| 106. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
57.07 |
0.9045 |
-0.0896 |
235 |
1 |
57.07 |
2011-04-08 |
| 107. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
56.55 |
0.9023 |
-0.0523 |
231 |
1 |
56.55 |
2011-02-15 |
| 108. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
56.48 |
0.9168 |
-0.1090 |
240 |
1 |
56.48 |
2011-02-24 |
| 109. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
56.29 |
0.9567 |
-0.1110 |
184 |
1 |
56.29 |
2011-02-21 |
| 110. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
54.59 |
1.1016 |
-0.3235 |
233 |
1 |
54.59 |
2011-02-15 |
| 111. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
54.40 |
0.9936 |
-0.1976 |
227 |
1 |
54.40 |
2011-02-15 |
| 112. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
52.67 |
0.8916 |
-0.1405 |
216 |
1 |
52.67 |
2011-02-15 |
| 113. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
47.86 |
1.0232 |
-0.3067 |
236 |
1 |
47.86 |
2011-02-21 |