| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
50.28 |
1.0060 |
0.3139 |
171 |
1 |
50.28 |
2011-03-08 |
| 2. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
49.91 |
0.8809 |
0.4315 |
127 |
1 |
49.91 |
2011-03-09 |
| 3. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
49.44 |
0.9873 |
0.3117 |
155 |
1 |
49.44 |
2011-03-09 |
| 4. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
47.09 |
0.9187 |
0.3101 |
118 |
2 |
43.42 |
2011-03-08 |
| 5. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
45.25 |
1.1296 |
0.0904 |
252 |
1 |
45.25 |
2011-03-08 |
| 6. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
45.13 |
0.8867 |
0.3061 |
241 |
1 |
45.13 |
2011-02-16 |
| 7. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
44.71 |
0.8615 |
0.3147 |
110 |
1 |
44.71 |
2011-02-16 |
| 8. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
43.95 |
0.9171 |
0.2394 |
165 |
1 |
43.95 |
2011-03-08 |
| 9. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
43.68 |
1.1215 |
0.0516 |
200 |
2 |
41.79 |
2011-03-08 |
| 10. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
43.46 |
1.0349 |
0.1075 |
234 |
1 |
43.46 |
2011-03-08 |
| 11. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
43.23 |
0.8162 |
0.3263 |
149 |
1 |
43.23 |
2011-03-08 |
| 12. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.04 |
1.0125 |
0.1169 |
224 |
1 |
43.04 |
2011-03-08 |
| 13. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
42.98 |
0.9212 |
0.2125 |
231 |
1 |
42.98 |
2011-03-08 |
| 14. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
42.73 |
1.0498 |
0.0692 |
180 |
2 |
41.57 |
2011-02-27 |
| 15. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
42.63 |
0.9724 |
0.1516 |
237 |
2 |
37.40 |
2011-03-08 |
| 16. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
42.63 |
1.0829 |
0.0397 |
288 |
1 |
42.63 |
2011-02-22 |
| 17. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
42.57 |
0.9028 |
0.2138 |
111 |
1 |
42.57 |
2011-03-08 |
| 18. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
42.49 |
0.8202 |
0.2933 |
178 |
1 |
42.49 |
2011-02-16 |
| 19. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
42.38 |
0.9339 |
0.1792 |
310 |
1 |
42.38 |
2011-02-27 |
| 20. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
42.13 |
1.0506 |
0.0861 |
277 |
1 |
42.13 |
2011-03-08 |
| 21. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
41.13 |
0.9316 |
0.1558 |
287 |
1 |
41.13 |
2011-02-16 |
| 22. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
40.97 |
1.0797 |
-0.0081 |
210 |
1 |
40.97 |
2011-03-08 |
| 23. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
40.89 |
0.9726 |
0.0952 |
154 |
1 |
40.89 |
2011-03-09 |
| 24. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
40.65 |
0.9820 |
0.0898 |
267 |
1 |
40.65 |
2011-03-09 |
| 25. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
40.64 |
0.9251 |
0.1479 |
177 |
1 |
40.64 |
2011-02-16 |
| 26. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
40.49 |
0.9532 |
0.1098 |
258 |
1 |
40.49 |
2011-02-27 |
| 27. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
40.45 |
1.0485 |
0.0489 |
153 |
1 |
40.45 |
2011-03-09 |
| 28. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.27 |
0.9072 |
0.1491 |
237 |
1 |
40.27 |
2011-02-22 |
| 29. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
39.89 |
1.0521 |
-0.0091 |
171 |
1 |
39.89 |
2011-02-27 |
| 30. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
39.84 |
0.9865 |
0.0619 |
276 |
2 |
34.39 |
2011-03-08 |
| 31. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
39.55 |
0.9005 |
0.1373 |
212 |
2 |
37.25 |
2011-03-09 |
| 32. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
39.47 |
1.0799 |
-0.0465 |
243 |
1 |
39.47 |
2011-02-16 |
| 33. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
39.17 |
0.9128 |
0.1580 |
369 |
1 |
39.17 |
2011-02-16 |
| 34. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
39.09 |
1.0004 |
0.0204 |
212 |
1 |
39.09 |
2011-02-27 |
| 35. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
39.07 |
0.8788 |
0.1445 |
134 |
1 |
39.07 |
2011-02-27 |
| 36. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
38.89 |
0.9257 |
0.1009 |
317 |
2 |
37.83 |
2011-02-27 |
| 37. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
38.61 |
0.9430 |
0.0640 |
211 |
1 |
38.61 |
2011-02-27 |
| 38. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
38.14 |
0.9127 |
0.0859 |
252 |
1 |
38.14 |
2011-02-16 |
| 39. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
37.73 |
0.8906 |
0.1040 |
238 |
1 |
37.73 |
2011-02-16 |
| 40. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
37.54 |
0.9461 |
0.0354 |
193 |
1 |
37.54 |
2011-03-08 |
| 41. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
37.48 |
0.9820 |
0.0018 |
274 |
1 |
37.48 |
2011-02-16 |
| 42. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
37.44 |
1.0197 |
-0.0393 |
226 |
1 |
37.44 |
2011-02-16 |
| 43. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
37.42 |
1.0396 |
-0.0643 |
149 |
1 |
37.42 |
2011-03-09 |
| 44. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
37.34 |
0.9068 |
0.0713 |
225 |
1 |
37.34 |
2011-02-22 |
| 45. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
37.24 |
0.9289 |
0.0465 |
204 |
1 |
37.24 |
2011-03-08 |
| 46. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
37.24 |
1.0669 |
-0.0556 |
213 |
1 |
37.24 |
2011-03-09 |
| 47. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
37.19 |
0.9844 |
0.0024 |
229 |
1 |
37.19 |
2011-02-16 |
| 48. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
37.16 |
0.9851 |
-0.0066 |
317 |
1 |
37.16 |
2011-02-22 |
| 49. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
37.14 |
0.9098 |
0.0609 |
167 |
1 |
37.14 |
2011-03-08 |
| 50. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
37.11 |
0.9769 |
-0.0043 |
263 |
1 |
37.11 |
2011-03-08 |
| 51. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
37.09 |
0.8811 |
0.0969 |
239 |
1 |
37.09 |
2011-02-16 |
| 52. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
36.90 |
0.8541 |
0.1226 |
260 |
1 |
36.90 |
2011-02-16 |
| 53. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
36.80 |
1.0528 |
-0.0914 |
201 |
1 |
36.80 |
2011-02-16 |
| 54. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
36.70 |
0.9576 |
0.0098 |
212 |
1 |
36.70 |
2011-03-08 |
| 55. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
36.40 |
0.9019 |
0.0588 |
204 |
1 |
36.40 |
2011-02-22 |
| 56. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
36.26 |
0.8533 |
0.0992 |
232 |
1 |
36.26 |
2011-02-18 |
| 57. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
36.14 |
1.0232 |
-0.0288 |
350 |
1 |
36.14 |
2011-02-16 |
| 58. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
36.12 |
1.0941 |
-0.1148 |
256 |
1 |
36.12 |
2011-02-16 |
| 59. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
36.07 |
1.0515 |
-0.1069 |
250 |
1 |
36.07 |
2011-03-09 |
| 60. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
36.05 |
1.0445 |
-0.0970 |
373 |
1 |
36.05 |
2011-02-22 |
| 61. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
36.03 |
0.9612 |
-0.0151 |
256 |
1 |
36.03 |
2011-03-08 |
| 62. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
36.03 |
0.9691 |
-0.0241 |
223 |
1 |
36.03 |
2011-02-22 |
| 63. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
35.94 |
0.8899 |
0.0638 |
293 |
1 |
35.94 |
2011-02-16 |
| 64. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
35.81 |
0.9213 |
0.0193 |
295 |
1 |
35.81 |
2011-02-22 |
| 65. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
35.79 |
1.0426 |
-0.1041 |
323 |
1 |
35.79 |
2011-02-16 |
| 66. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
35.59 |
0.9899 |
-0.0608 |
163 |
1 |
35.59 |
2011-02-22 |
| 67. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
35.56 |
0.9128 |
0.0255 |
133 |
1 |
35.56 |
2011-03-08 |
| 68. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
34.90 |
0.9790 |
-0.0227 |
311 |
1 |
34.90 |
2011-03-08 |
| 69. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
34.81 |
0.7801 |
0.1280 |
116 |
1 |
34.81 |
2011-02-16 |
| 70. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
34.79 |
0.9504 |
-0.0437 |
263 |
1 |
34.79 |
2011-02-16 |
| 71. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
34.65 |
0.7389 |
0.1717 |
145 |
1 |
34.65 |
2011-02-16 |
| 72. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
34.37 |
0.9430 |
-0.0394 |
297 |
1 |
34.37 |
2011-02-16 |
| 73. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
34.30 |
0.8910 |
0.0096 |
150 |
1 |
34.30 |
2011-03-08 |
| 74. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
33.50 |
0.9514 |
-0.0727 |
237 |
1 |
33.50 |
2011-03-08 |
| 75. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
33.49 |
0.9811 |
-0.1001 |
272 |
1 |
33.49 |
2011-02-16 |
| 76. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
33.38 |
0.9266 |
-0.0516 |
267 |
1 |
33.38 |
2011-02-16 |
| 77. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
33.27 |
0.9843 |
-0.1170 |
234 |
1 |
33.27 |
2011-03-08 |
| 78. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
32.92 |
1.0251 |
-0.1641 |
261 |
1 |
32.92 |
2011-02-22 |
| 79. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
32.69 |
1.0016 |
-0.1496 |
218 |
2 |
31.85 |
2011-02-22 |
| 80. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
32.69 |
0.9711 |
-0.1161 |
176 |
1 |
32.69 |
2011-02-22 |
| 81. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
32.62 |
0.9682 |
-0.1148 |
143 |
1 |
32.62 |
2011-02-22 |
| 82. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
32.32 |
0.9776 |
-0.1305 |
308 |
1 |
32.32 |
2011-02-16 |
| 83. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
32.01 |
1.0767 |
-0.2403 |
212 |
1 |
32.01 |
2011-02-18 |
| 84. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
31.33 |
0.8892 |
-0.0624 |
207 |
1 |
31.33 |
2011-02-22 |
| 85. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
30.97 |
0.9729 |
-0.1621 |
255 |
1 |
30.97 |
2011-02-22 |
| 86. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
30.89 |
1.0151 |
-0.2159 |
152 |
1 |
30.89 |
2011-02-18 |
| 87. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
30.49 |
0.8852 |
-0.0844 |
201 |
1 |
30.49 |
2011-03-09 |
| 88. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
29.33 |
0.9758 |
-0.2077 |
314 |
1 |
29.33 |
2011-02-16 |
| 89. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
28.06 |
1.1162 |
-0.3415 |
189 |
1 |
28.06 |
2011-03-09 |
| 90. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
27.37 |
0.8070 |
-0.0889 |
137 |
1 |
27.37 |
2011-02-22 |
| 91. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
27.29 |
0.8105 |
-0.1020 |
204 |
1 |
27.29 |
2011-02-22 |
| 92. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
26.75 |
1.0038 |
-0.2746 |
237 |
1 |
26.75 |
2011-02-18 |
| 93. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
25.07 |
0.9844 |
-0.3253 |
293 |
1 |
25.07 |
2011-02-16 |