| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
59.86 |
0.9212 |
0.3800 |
231 |
2 |
49.98 |
2010-10-22 |
| 2. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
59.20 |
1.0334 |
0.2434 |
131 |
1 |
59.20 |
2010-10-19 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
56.52 |
1.1018 |
0.1162 |
220 |
1 |
56.52 |
2010-09-06 |
| 4. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
55.05 |
1.0644 |
0.1645 |
257 |
1 |
55.05 |
2010-10-22 |
| 5. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
54.16 |
1.1016 |
0.0711 |
233 |
2 |
46.47 |
2010-10-19 |
| 6. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
53.95 |
0.9247 |
0.2484 |
253 |
1 |
53.95 |
2010-09-01 |
| 7. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
53.74 |
0.9576 |
0.2102 |
212 |
1 |
53.74 |
2010-10-21 |
| 8. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
53.23 |
1.1162 |
0.0777 |
189 |
2 |
46.46 |
2010-10-21 |
| 9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
51.49 |
1.0797 |
0.0294 |
210 |
1 |
51.49 |
2010-10-21 |
| 10. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
49.81 |
1.0567 |
0.0220 |
303 |
1 |
49.81 |
2010-11-02 |
| 11. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
49.38 |
1.0012 |
0.0698 |
260 |
1 |
49.38 |
2010-10-19 |
| 12. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
49.00 |
1.0496 |
0.0097 |
314 |
1 |
49.00 |
2010-11-02 |
| 13. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
48.78 |
0.9411 |
0.1149 |
318 |
1 |
48.78 |
2010-08-31 |
| 14. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
48.67 |
0.8096 |
0.2511 |
209 |
1 |
48.67 |
2010-10-21 |
| 15. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
48.54 |
0.9504 |
0.0938 |
263 |
2 |
46.94 |
2010-10-20 |
| 16. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
48.51 |
0.8884 |
0.1609 |
135 |
1 |
48.51 |
2010-10-19 |
| 17. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
48.35 |
1.0297 |
0.0148 |
249 |
2 |
47.00 |
2010-10-21 |
| 18. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
48.14 |
0.8951 |
0.1485 |
193 |
1 |
48.14 |
2010-10-22 |
| 19. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
48.13 |
0.9814 |
0.0991 |
364 |
1 |
48.13 |
2010-11-02 |
| 20. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
48.09 |
1.0419 |
-0.0021 |
261 |
1 |
48.09 |
2010-10-13 |
| 21. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
47.97 |
1.0528 |
-0.0200 |
201 |
1 |
47.97 |
2010-10-19 |
| 22. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
47.90 |
0.9820 |
0.0537 |
274 |
1 |
47.90 |
2010-10-19 |
| 23. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
47.54 |
1.0296 |
0.0050 |
437 |
1 |
47.54 |
2010-10-21 |
| 24. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
47.48 |
1.0034 |
0.0220 |
302 |
2 |
46.20 |
2010-10-19 |
| 25. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
47.26 |
0.9097 |
0.1121 |
153 |
2 |
46.54 |
2010-10-19 |
| 26. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
47.25 |
0.9527 |
0.0692 |
251 |
1 |
47.25 |
2010-10-21 |
| 27. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
47.15 |
0.9966 |
0.0224 |
259 |
1 |
47.15 |
2010-10-21 |
| 28. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
46.99 |
0.9844 |
0.0422 |
229 |
1 |
46.99 |
2010-10-19 |
| 29. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
46.94 |
0.9936 |
0.0211 |
311 |
2 |
44.72 |
2010-10-21 |
| 30. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
46.92 |
1.0025 |
0.0116 |
256 |
2 |
43.58 |
2010-10-19 |
| 31. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
46.82 |
0.9632 |
0.0913 |
345 |
1 |
46.82 |
2010-10-21 |
| 32. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
46.68 |
0.9740 |
0.0309 |
209 |
1 |
46.68 |
2010-10-19 |
| 33. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
46.62 |
0.9763 |
0.0310 |
289 |
1 |
46.62 |
2010-10-22 |
| 34. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
46.59 |
0.9342 |
0.0768 |
434 |
1 |
46.59 |
2010-10-21 |
| 35. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
46.57 |
0.8971 |
0.1147 |
266 |
2 |
44.59 |
2010-10-21 |
| 36. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
46.56 |
1.0173 |
0.0332 |
268 |
1 |
46.56 |
2010-10-13 |
| 37. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
46.51 |
1.0154 |
0.0399 |
351 |
1 |
46.51 |
2010-10-19 |
| 38. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
46.29 |
0.9303 |
0.0633 |
176 |
1 |
46.29 |
2010-10-22 |
| 39. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
46.23 |
0.9790 |
0.0611 |
311 |
1 |
46.23 |
2010-10-19 |
| 40. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
46.22 |
0.9899 |
0.0043 |
163 |
2 |
44.72 |
2010-10-21 |
| 41. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
45.98 |
1.0531 |
-0.0211 |
272 |
1 |
45.98 |
2010-08-31 |
| 42. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
45.84 |
0.9171 |
0.0741 |
165 |
1 |
45.84 |
2010-10-19 |
| 43. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
45.74 |
0.9844 |
0.0093 |
293 |
1 |
45.74 |
2010-10-21 |
| 44. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
45.57 |
1.0403 |
-0.0408 |
193 |
1 |
45.57 |
2010-10-21 |
| 45. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
45.31 |
0.9925 |
0.0236 |
247 |
1 |
45.31 |
2010-10-22 |
| 46. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
45.08 |
0.9912 |
0.0098 |
237 |
1 |
45.08 |
2010-09-06 |
| 47. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
44.26 |
1.0008 |
-0.0013 |
473 |
1 |
44.26 |
2010-10-19 |
| 48. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
44.21 |
1.0331 |
-0.0804 |
234 |
1 |
44.21 |
2010-08-31 |
| 49. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
44.06 |
0.9567 |
-0.0048 |
273 |
1 |
44.06 |
2010-10-21 |
| 50. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
43.64 |
1.0205 |
-0.0848 |
179 |
1 |
43.64 |
2010-10-19 |
| 51. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
43.53 |
1.0485 |
-0.0739 |
153 |
1 |
43.53 |
2010-09-06 |
| 52. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
43.36 |
1.0284 |
-0.0486 |
282 |
1 |
43.36 |
2010-10-21 |
| 53. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
43.29 |
0.9540 |
-0.0211 |
285 |
1 |
43.29 |
2010-10-19 |
| 54. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
42.87 |
0.9221 |
0.0023 |
244 |
1 |
42.87 |
2010-08-31 |
| 55. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
42.53 |
1.1215 |
-0.1794 |
200 |
1 |
42.53 |
2010-09-01 |
| 56. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
42.28 |
0.9216 |
0.0306 |
255 |
2 |
41.27 |
2010-10-19 |
| 57. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
42.12 |
0.9128 |
0.0381 |
369 |
1 |
42.12 |
2010-10-13 |
| 58. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
41.33 |
0.9706 |
-0.0746 |
216 |
1 |
41.33 |
2010-08-31 |
| 59. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
41.23 |
1.0320 |
-0.1050 |
293 |
1 |
41.23 |
2010-10-15 |
| 60. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
41.10 |
0.9653 |
-0.0698 |
394 |
1 |
41.10 |
2010-10-19 |
| 61. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
40.99 |
1.0013 |
-0.1177 |
273 |
1 |
40.99 |
2010-10-13 |
| 62. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
40.49 |
0.8878 |
-0.0144 |
346 |
2 |
36.73 |
2010-10-13 |
| 63. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
40.22 |
0.7988 |
0.0771 |
219 |
1 |
40.22 |
2010-10-19 |
| 64. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
40.11 |
0.9649 |
-0.1005 |
193 |
1 |
40.11 |
2010-08-31 |
| 65. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
39.57 |
0.8845 |
-0.0310 |
273 |
1 |
39.57 |
2010-10-13 |
| 66. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
39.41 |
0.9893 |
-0.1394 |
323 |
1 |
39.41 |
2010-11-02 |
| 67. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
38.62 |
0.9293 |
-0.0954 |
355 |
2 |
37.96 |
2010-11-02 |
| 68. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
38.33 |
1.0168 |
-0.1887 |
271 |
1 |
38.33 |
2010-09-01 |
| 69. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
38.29 |
0.8996 |
-0.0797 |
192 |
2 |
37.68 |
2010-10-15 |
| 70. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
37.52 |
0.9846 |
-0.1777 |
281 |
1 |
37.52 |
2010-10-19 |
| 71. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
37.09 |
0.9863 |
-0.1828 |
339 |
1 |
37.09 |
2010-10-15 |
| 72. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
36.22 |
0.9168 |
-0.1351 |
240 |
1 |
36.22 |
2010-10-19 |
| 73. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
34.77 |
0.8533 |
-0.1040 |
232 |
1 |
34.77 |
2010-10-09 |
| 74. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
32.84 |
0.8442 |
-0.1342 |
265 |
1 |
32.84 |
2010-08-31 |