| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
53.98 |
1.0151 |
0.3035 |
152 |
1 |
53.98 |
2018-04-23 |
| 2. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
47.52 |
1.0829 |
0.0861 |
288 |
1 |
47.52 |
2010-04-28 |
| 3. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
47.20 |
1.0617 |
0.1077 |
247 |
1 |
47.20 |
2018-04-23 |
| 4. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
46.96 |
0.8951 |
0.2610 |
193 |
1 |
46.96 |
2010-04-28 |
| 5. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
46.73 |
1.0523 |
0.0915 |
256 |
2 |
43.73 |
2010-04-28 |
| 6. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
45.84 |
1.0025 |
0.1231 |
256 |
2 |
41.87 |
2010-04-28 |
| 7. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
45.73 |
1.0252 |
0.0915 |
176 |
1 |
45.73 |
2010-04-28 |
| 8. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
45.11 |
1.0389 |
0.0709 |
318 |
1 |
45.11 |
2011-05-04 |
| 9. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
45.08 |
1.0516 |
0.0547 |
281 |
2 |
41.97 |
2010-04-28 |
| 10. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
44.69 |
1.0714 |
0.0167 |
129 |
1 |
44.69 |
2010-04-21 |
| 11. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
44.38 |
1.0352 |
0.0578 |
341 |
1 |
44.38 |
2010-04-28 |
| 12. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
44.31 |
1.0201 |
0.0611 |
172 |
1 |
44.31 |
2010-04-22 |
| 13. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
44.17 |
0.9221 |
0.1606 |
244 |
1 |
44.17 |
2010-04-22 |
| 14. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
43.94 |
0.8935 |
0.1950 |
328 |
1 |
43.94 |
2010-04-21 |
| 15. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
43.93 |
0.9653 |
0.1219 |
394 |
1 |
43.93 |
2010-04-22 |
| 16. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
43.87 |
0.8353 |
0.2488 |
283 |
2 |
39.25 |
2010-04-28 |
| 17. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
43.69 |
0.8615 |
0.2106 |
110 |
1 |
43.69 |
2010-04-21 |
| 18. |
HAL, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in... |
43.50 |
0.9562 |
0.0965 |
316 |
1 |
43.50 |
2018-04-23 |
| 19. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
43.13 |
0.9965 |
0.0575 |
168 |
2 |
39.75 |
2010-04-28 |
| 20. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
42.98 |
0.9729 |
0.0818 |
255 |
1 |
42.98 |
2010-04-28 |
| 21. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
42.34 |
0.9965 |
0.0431 |
277 |
1 |
42.34 |
2010-04-28 |
| 22. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
42.33 |
0.8348 |
0.2097 |
219 |
2 |
39.90 |
2010-04-28 |
| 23. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
42.32 |
1.0120 |
0.0257 |
290 |
1 |
42.32 |
2010-04-22 |
| 24. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
41.99 |
1.0596 |
-0.0315 |
239 |
1 |
41.99 |
2011-05-04 |
| 25. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
41.36 |
1.0567 |
-0.0410 |
303 |
1 |
41.36 |
2010-04-21 |
| 26. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
41.08 |
0.9938 |
0.0138 |
339 |
1 |
41.08 |
2010-04-28 |
| 27. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
40.92 |
0.7876 |
0.2187 |
316 |
1 |
40.92 |
2010-04-22 |
| 28. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
40.83 |
0.8562 |
0.1450 |
170 |
1 |
40.83 |
2010-04-21 |
| 29. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
40.64 |
1.0390 |
-0.0457 |
205 |
1 |
40.64 |
2010-04-28 |
| 30. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
40.64 |
0.9724 |
0.0271 |
237 |
1 |
40.64 |
2010-04-21 |
| 31. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
40.51 |
0.9351 |
0.0529 |
190 |
1 |
40.51 |
2010-04-28 |
| 32. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
40.33 |
0.9281 |
0.0657 |
273 |
1 |
40.33 |
2010-04-28 |
| 33. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
40.26 |
0.9776 |
0.0099 |
308 |
1 |
40.26 |
2010-04-21 |
| 34. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
40.25 |
1.0131 |
-0.0300 |
225 |
1 |
40.25 |
2010-04-28 |
| 35. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
39.36 |
1.0053 |
-0.0421 |
232 |
1 |
39.36 |
2011-05-04 |
| 36. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
39.17 |
1.0767 |
-0.1188 |
212 |
1 |
39.17 |
2010-04-21 |
| 37. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
38.75 |
1.0485 |
-0.0646 |
153 |
1 |
38.75 |
2010-04-21 |
| 38. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
38.73 |
0.8153 |
0.1383 |
200 |
1 |
38.73 |
2010-04-21 |
| 39. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
38.63 |
0.9500 |
-0.0012 |
362 |
1 |
38.63 |
2010-04-21 |
| 40. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
38.57 |
0.9684 |
-0.0206 |
388 |
1 |
38.57 |
2010-04-21 |
| 41. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
38.56 |
1.0445 |
-0.0981 |
373 |
1 |
38.56 |
2010-04-28 |
| 42. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
38.53 |
0.9636 |
-0.0197 |
254 |
1 |
38.53 |
2010-04-21 |
| 43. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
38.43 |
0.9758 |
-0.0333 |
314 |
1 |
38.43 |
2010-04-21 |
| 44. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
38.39 |
0.9631 |
0.0290 |
345 |
1 |
38.39 |
2010-04-28 |
| 45. |
JavaScript is very flexible about the types of values it req... |
38.11 |
0.8130 |
0.0981 |
307 |
1 |
38.11 |
2018-04-23 |
| 46. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
37.78 |
1.0029 |
-0.0837 |
209 |
1 |
37.78 |
2010-04-22 |
| 47. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
37.01 |
0.9212 |
-0.0116 |
231 |
1 |
37.01 |
2010-04-22 |
| 48. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
36.79 |
0.7938 |
0.1087 |
176 |
1 |
36.79 |
2010-04-28 |
| 49. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
36.78 |
1.0399 |
-0.1337 |
294 |
1 |
36.78 |
2010-04-28 |
| 50. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
36.56 |
1.0419 |
-0.1467 |
261 |
1 |
36.56 |
2010-04-22 |
| 51. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
36.48 |
0.9907 |
-0.0987 |
211 |
1 |
36.48 |
2010-04-21 |
| 52. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
36.40 |
0.7988 |
0.1007 |
219 |
1 |
36.40 |
2010-04-21 |
| 53. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
36.39 |
1.1016 |
-0.2110 |
233 |
1 |
36.39 |
2010-04-21 |
| 54. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
36.16 |
0.9697 |
-0.0844 |
249 |
1 |
36.16 |
2010-04-21 |
| 55. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
36.01 |
0.7890 |
0.0933 |
230 |
1 |
36.01 |
2010-04-21 |
| 56. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
35.34 |
0.9916 |
-0.0837 |
282 |
1 |
35.34 |
2010-04-21 |
| 57. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
35.06 |
0.9509 |
-0.0544 |
225 |
1 |
35.06 |
2010-04-21 |
| 58. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
34.62 |
1.0109 |
-0.1631 |
276 |
1 |
34.62 |
2010-04-22 |
| 59. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
34.38 |
0.8890 |
-0.0515 |
199 |
1 |
34.38 |
2010-04-28 |
| 60. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
33.83 |
0.9649 |
-0.1383 |
193 |
1 |
33.83 |
2010-04-21 |
| 61. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
33.41 |
0.9128 |
-0.0541 |
369 |
1 |
33.41 |
2010-04-22 |
| 62. |
With no power comes no responsibility, except that wasn't tr... |
33.39 |
0.8083 |
-0.0483 |
63 |
1 |
33.39 |
2018-04-23 |
| 63. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
31.13 |
0.9213 |
-0.1601 |
295 |
1 |
31.13 |
2010-04-22 |
| 64. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
30.02 |
0.8105 |
-0.0823 |
204 |
1 |
30.02 |
2010-04-22 |