| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
48.28 |
1.0567 |
0.1521 |
303 |
1 |
48.28 |
2009-02-17 |
| 2. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
47.76 |
1.0596 |
0.1327 |
239 |
1 |
47.76 |
2009-02-19 |
| 3. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
45.43 |
1.0711 |
0.0591 |
213 |
1 |
45.43 |
2009-02-17 |
| 4. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
42.73 |
1.0034 |
0.0630 |
302 |
1 |
42.73 |
2009-02-18 |
| 5. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
42.19 |
1.0389 |
0.0168 |
318 |
1 |
42.19 |
2009-02-19 |
| 6. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
41.02 |
0.9540 |
0.0679 |
285 |
1 |
41.02 |
2009-02-19 |
| 7. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
40.89 |
0.9532 |
0.0663 |
258 |
1 |
40.89 |
2009-02-18 |
| 8. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
40.53 |
1.0261 |
-0.0165 |
273 |
1 |
40.53 |
2009-02-17 |
| 9. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
40.38 |
1.0487 |
-0.0457 |
231 |
1 |
40.38 |
2009-02-17 |
| 10. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
40.24 |
0.8810 |
0.1236 |
282 |
1 |
40.24 |
2009-02-19 |
| 11. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
40.11 |
1.0029 |
-0.0084 |
209 |
1 |
40.11 |
2009-02-19 |
| 12. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
38.96 |
0.9795 |
-0.0069 |
308 |
1 |
38.96 |
2009-02-17 |
| 13. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
38.64 |
0.9202 |
0.0436 |
254 |
1 |
38.64 |
2009-02-18 |
| 14. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
38.38 |
0.8653 |
0.1029 |
255 |
1 |
38.38 |
2009-02-17 |
| 15. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
38.25 |
1.0095 |
-0.0570 |
316 |
1 |
38.25 |
2009-02-17 |
| 16. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
38.08 |
1.0168 |
-0.0650 |
271 |
1 |
38.08 |
2009-02-17 |
| 17. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
37.82 |
0.8353 |
0.1149 |
283 |
1 |
37.82 |
2009-02-17 |
| 18. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
37.45 |
0.9171 |
0.0165 |
165 |
1 |
37.45 |
2009-02-17 |
| 19. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
37.34 |
0.9266 |
0.0041 |
267 |
1 |
37.34 |
2009-02-17 |
| 20. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
35.07 |
0.9212 |
-0.0446 |
323 |
1 |
35.07 |
2009-02-19 |
| 21. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
33.44 |
0.9899 |
-0.1624 |
163 |
1 |
33.44 |
2009-02-18 |
| 22. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
33.30 |
0.9857 |
-0.1579 |
293 |
2 |
32.69 |
2009-02-17 |
| 23. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
33.29 |
0.9907 |
-0.1632 |
211 |
1 |
33.29 |
2009-02-17 |