| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
69.02 |
0.9884 |
0.4422 |
262 |
1 |
69.02 |
2012-04-21 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
66.96 |
1.0797 |
0.2984 |
210 |
1 |
66.96 |
2013-07-09 |
| 3. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
65.94 |
1.0943 |
0.3006 |
206 |
1 |
65.94 |
2013-07-09 |
| 4. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
65.42 |
0.9649 |
0.3856 |
193 |
1 |
65.42 |
2013-03-19 |
| 5. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
65.26 |
1.0907 |
0.2596 |
303 |
2 |
63.59 |
2013-03-19 |
| 6. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
63.99 |
0.9162 |
0.4055 |
165 |
1 |
63.99 |
2013-03-19 |
| 7. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
63.41 |
1.0203 |
0.2925 |
261 |
1 |
63.41 |
2012-04-20 |
| 8. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
63.14 |
1.0483 |
0.2523 |
227 |
1 |
63.14 |
2013-03-19 |
| 9. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
62.40 |
1.0829 |
0.2069 |
288 |
1 |
62.40 |
2013-07-07 |
| 10. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
62.19 |
0.9758 |
0.3090 |
314 |
1 |
62.19 |
2013-03-19 |
| 11. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
61.30 |
0.9897 |
0.2733 |
274 |
1 |
61.30 |
2013-07-07 |
| 12. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
61.18 |
1.0796 |
0.1779 |
129 |
3 |
57.07 |
2013-07-09 |
| 13. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
60.91 |
1.0972 |
0.1897 |
251 |
1 |
60.91 |
2013-07-09 |
| 14. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
60.85 |
1.0138 |
0.2418 |
231 |
1 |
60.85 |
2013-03-19 |
| 15. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
60.08 |
1.0788 |
0.1554 |
171 |
1 |
60.08 |
2012-04-21 |
| 16. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
59.34 |
0.9820 |
0.2456 |
267 |
1 |
59.34 |
2013-07-09 |
| 17. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
58.78 |
1.0944 |
0.1630 |
308 |
1 |
58.78 |
2013-03-19 |
| 18. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
58.41 |
0.9646 |
0.2397 |
264 |
1 |
58.41 |
2013-07-13 |
| 19. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
58.31 |
0.9965 |
0.2071 |
277 |
1 |
58.31 |
2013-03-19 |
| 20. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
58.29 |
1.0389 |
0.1662 |
340 |
2 |
49.44 |
2013-03-20 |
| 21. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
57.94 |
0.9997 |
0.1995 |
382 |
2 |
50.64 |
2013-07-10 |
| 22. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
57.58 |
0.9471 |
0.2510 |
312 |
1 |
57.58 |
2013-07-07 |
| 23. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
57.14 |
1.0993 |
0.0773 |
265 |
1 |
57.14 |
2013-07-09 |
| 24. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
56.73 |
1.0343 |
0.1730 |
242 |
1 |
56.73 |
2013-03-19 |
| 25. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
56.38 |
1.0709 |
0.1305 |
392 |
1 |
56.38 |
2013-07-07 |
| 26. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
55.76 |
1.0621 |
0.1071 |
263 |
1 |
55.76 |
2013-03-19 |
| 27. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
55.69 |
1.0711 |
0.0721 |
213 |
1 |
55.69 |
2013-03-19 |
| 28. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
55.36 |
0.9239 |
0.2240 |
193 |
1 |
55.36 |
2013-03-19 |
| 29. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
54.57 |
0.9976 |
0.1478 |
174 |
1 |
54.57 |
2013-07-07 |
| 30. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
53.43 |
1.0251 |
0.0741 |
261 |
2 |
47.70 |
2013-07-09 |
| 31. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
53.39 |
1.0740 |
0.0647 |
264 |
1 |
53.39 |
2013-03-18 |
| 32. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
53.05 |
1.0613 |
0.0329 |
266 |
1 |
53.05 |
2012-04-21 |
| 33. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
52.48 |
0.9922 |
0.1302 |
341 |
1 |
52.48 |
2012-04-21 |
| 34. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
52.23 |
1.0197 |
0.0537 |
226 |
3 |
46.85 |
2011-01-14 |
| 35. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
51.68 |
1.0261 |
0.0366 |
273 |
1 |
51.68 |
2012-04-21 |
| 36. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
51.66 |
1.0768 |
0.0272 |
295 |
1 |
51.66 |
2010-11-23 |
| 37. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
51.45 |
1.1296 |
-0.0406 |
252 |
2 |
50.33 |
2010-11-01 |
| 38. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
51.20 |
0.9128 |
0.1835 |
369 |
2 |
46.51 |
2013-07-07 |
| 39. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
50.94 |
0.9899 |
0.0545 |
163 |
1 |
50.94 |
2010-11-01 |
| 40. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
50.39 |
0.9023 |
0.1786 |
231 |
1 |
50.39 |
2010-11-23 |
| 41. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
50.12 |
0.9844 |
0.0530 |
293 |
1 |
50.12 |
2012-04-21 |
| 42. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
50.05 |
0.9697 |
0.0611 |
249 |
2 |
42.67 |
2013-07-07 |
| 43. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
50.02 |
0.9820 |
0.0480 |
274 |
1 |
50.02 |
2013-03-20 |
| 44. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
49.60 |
1.0379 |
0.0183 |
245 |
1 |
49.60 |
2010-08-25 |
| 45. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
49.29 |
0.9418 |
0.0791 |
188 |
1 |
49.29 |
2010-08-30 |
| 46. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
48.33 |
1.0529 |
-0.0580 |
351 |
1 |
48.33 |
2010-10-29 |
| 47. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
48.30 |
1.0399 |
-0.0403 |
294 |
1 |
48.30 |
2011-08-11 |
| 48. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
48.26 |
0.9509 |
0.0808 |
225 |
2 |
44.75 |
2013-07-09 |
| 49. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
48.11 |
0.9814 |
0.0485 |
364 |
1 |
48.11 |
2013-07-09 |
| 50. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
47.71 |
0.9946 |
-0.0127 |
246 |
1 |
47.71 |
2010-08-25 |
| 51. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
47.18 |
0.9763 |
-0.0060 |
289 |
1 |
47.18 |
2011-08-11 |
| 52. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
46.66 |
1.0012 |
-0.0385 |
260 |
1 |
46.66 |
2010-08-25 |
| 53. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
46.40 |
0.9578 |
-0.0032 |
281 |
1 |
46.40 |
2010-11-23 |
| 54. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
46.23 |
0.8968 |
0.0510 |
186 |
1 |
46.23 |
2012-04-20 |
| 55. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
45.82 |
0.9941 |
-0.0539 |
217 |
2 |
44.72 |
2010-11-23 |
| 56. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
45.78 |
0.9665 |
0.0246 |
326 |
1 |
45.78 |
2010-08-23 |
| 57. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
45.71 |
0.9768 |
-0.0336 |
387 |
1 |
45.71 |
2010-08-25 |
| 58. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
45.46 |
0.9635 |
-0.0226 |
389 |
1 |
45.46 |
2013-07-07 |
| 59. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
45.44 |
0.9045 |
0.0308 |
235 |
1 |
45.44 |
2010-08-25 |
| 60. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
45.33 |
1.0214 |
-0.0944 |
166 |
1 |
45.33 |
2010-11-23 |
| 61. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
45.23 |
1.0516 |
-0.1221 |
281 |
2 |
44.99 |
2010-09-01 |
| 62. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
45.18 |
0.9128 |
0.0219 |
133 |
1 |
45.18 |
2010-08-23 |
| 63. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
44.92 |
1.0487 |
-0.1300 |
231 |
1 |
44.92 |
2010-09-19 |
| 64. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
44.79 |
0.9212 |
0.0031 |
323 |
1 |
44.79 |
2010-08-25 |
| 65. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
44.66 |
0.9907 |
-0.0738 |
211 |
1 |
44.66 |
2010-08-30 |
| 66. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
44.58 |
1.0385 |
-0.1236 |
230 |
1 |
44.58 |
2010-08-30 |
| 67. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
44.50 |
1.0167 |
-0.0946 |
378 |
1 |
44.50 |
2010-11-23 |
| 68. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
44.46 |
1.0074 |
-0.0917 |
242 |
1 |
44.46 |
2010-11-24 |
| 69. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
44.41 |
1.0725 |
-0.1337 |
233 |
1 |
44.41 |
2010-11-23 |
| 70. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
44.20 |
1.1114 |
-0.2055 |
247 |
1 |
44.20 |
2010-08-24 |
| 71. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
44.09 |
0.9786 |
-0.0773 |
193 |
2 |
40.90 |
2010-11-20 |
| 72. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
43.92 |
1.0297 |
-0.1281 |
249 |
1 |
43.92 |
2010-11-23 |
| 73. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
43.82 |
0.9275 |
-0.0297 |
211 |
1 |
43.82 |
2010-11-23 |
| 74. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
43.80 |
1.0403 |
-0.1252 |
193 |
1 |
43.80 |
2011-08-03 |
| 75. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
43.73 |
1.0109 |
-0.1114 |
276 |
1 |
43.73 |
2010-08-24 |
| 76. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
43.73 |
1.0025 |
-0.1040 |
256 |
1 |
43.73 |
2010-08-25 |
| 77. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
43.64 |
0.9247 |
-0.0228 |
253 |
1 |
43.64 |
2010-08-19 |
| 78. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
43.60 |
1.0063 |
-0.1099 |
371 |
1 |
43.60 |
2010-08-25 |
| 79. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
43.58 |
1.0485 |
-0.1183 |
153 |
2 |
39.07 |
2010-11-01 |
| 80. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
43.52 |
1.0885 |
-0.1590 |
341 |
1 |
43.52 |
2010-08-23 |
| 81. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
43.43 |
1.0117 |
-0.0742 |
297 |
1 |
43.43 |
2010-10-29 |
| 82. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
43.39 |
0.9729 |
-0.0809 |
255 |
1 |
43.39 |
2010-08-23 |
| 83. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
43.30 |
1.0008 |
-0.0674 |
473 |
1 |
43.30 |
2010-08-25 |
| 84. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
42.86 |
0.9125 |
-0.0298 |
308 |
1 |
42.86 |
2010-08-30 |
| 85. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
42.85 |
1.0696 |
-0.1924 |
226 |
1 |
42.85 |
2010-08-24 |
| 86. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
42.77 |
1.0412 |
-0.1628 |
225 |
1 |
42.77 |
2010-08-25 |
| 87. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
42.66 |
0.9912 |
-0.0877 |
237 |
1 |
42.66 |
2010-11-01 |
| 88. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
42.59 |
1.0396 |
-0.1716 |
149 |
1 |
42.59 |
2010-11-20 |
| 89. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
42.29 |
0.8595 |
0.0117 |
242 |
2 |
39.66 |
2010-11-01 |
| 90. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
42.24 |
1.0029 |
-0.1416 |
209 |
1 |
42.24 |
2010-11-23 |
| 91. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
42.09 |
0.8573 |
0.0108 |
270 |
1 |
42.09 |
2010-11-01 |
| 92. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
41.99 |
1.0189 |
-0.1532 |
337 |
1 |
41.99 |
2010-08-23 |
| 93. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
41.95 |
0.9965 |
-0.1393 |
168 |
1 |
41.95 |
2010-09-01 |
| 94. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
41.88 |
0.9309 |
-0.0725 |
284 |
1 |
41.88 |
2010-10-29 |
| 95. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
41.22 |
0.9857 |
-0.1401 |
293 |
1 |
41.22 |
2010-12-11 |
| 96. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
41.14 |
1.0669 |
-0.1889 |
213 |
1 |
41.14 |
2010-11-24 |
| 97. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
41.10 |
0.8867 |
-0.0375 |
241 |
2 |
36.00 |
2010-11-23 |
| 98. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
40.99 |
0.9894 |
-0.1431 |
323 |
1 |
40.99 |
2010-08-25 |
| 99. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
40.76 |
0.8770 |
-0.0367 |
300 |
1 |
40.76 |
2010-08-30 |
| 100. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
40.69 |
0.8723 |
-0.0411 |
185 |
2 |
37.94 |
2011-01-14 |
| 101. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
40.68 |
1.0025 |
-0.1661 |
336 |
1 |
40.68 |
2010-09-01 |
| 102. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
40.65 |
0.8289 |
0.0128 |
304 |
1 |
40.65 |
2010-08-25 |
| 103. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
40.64 |
0.9430 |
-0.1062 |
297 |
1 |
40.64 |
2011-08-03 |
| 104. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
40.54 |
0.9682 |
-0.1372 |
143 |
1 |
40.54 |
2010-12-11 |
| 105. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
40.45 |
0.9500 |
-0.1174 |
362 |
1 |
40.45 |
2010-08-30 |
| 106. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
40.40 |
0.9097 |
-0.0803 |
153 |
1 |
40.40 |
2010-08-22 |
| 107. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
40.39 |
1.0214 |
-0.1935 |
269 |
1 |
40.39 |
2010-08-25 |
| 108. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
40.31 |
0.7805 |
0.0426 |
154 |
1 |
40.31 |
2010-09-19 |
| 109. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
40.19 |
0.9559 |
-0.1284 |
195 |
1 |
40.19 |
2010-08-22 |
| 110. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
39.87 |
0.7988 |
0.0280 |
219 |
1 |
39.87 |
2010-08-23 |
| 111. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
39.81 |
0.8975 |
-0.0797 |
268 |
2 |
38.80 |
2010-09-01 |
| 112. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
39.64 |
0.9310 |
-0.1220 |
188 |
1 |
39.64 |
2010-11-20 |
| 113. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
39.51 |
0.9964 |
-0.1855 |
203 |
1 |
39.51 |
2010-08-25 |
| 114. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
39.50 |
1.0596 |
-0.2512 |
239 |
1 |
39.50 |
2010-08-23 |
| 115. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
39.47 |
0.9365 |
-0.1248 |
248 |
1 |
39.47 |
2010-11-23 |
| 116. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
39.46 |
0.9161 |
-0.1085 |
200 |
1 |
39.46 |
2010-08-25 |
| 117. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
39.44 |
1.0120 |
-0.2034 |
290 |
1 |
39.44 |
2010-09-19 |
| 118. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
38.89 |
0.9986 |
-0.2000 |
283 |
1 |
38.89 |
2010-11-23 |
| 119. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
38.38 |
0.9841 |
-0.1927 |
334 |
1 |
38.38 |
2010-08-24 |
| 120. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
37.86 |
1.0042 |
-0.1859 |
352 |
1 |
37.86 |
2010-11-20 |
| 121. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
35.18 |
0.9266 |
-0.2061 |
267 |
1 |
35.18 |
2010-08-24 |
| 122. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
34.43 |
0.9726 |
-0.2744 |
154 |
1 |
34.43 |
2010-11-23 |
| 123. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
30.75 |
0.9936 |
-0.3452 |
227 |
1 |
30.75 |
2011-01-14 |