| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
72.75 |
1.0352 |
0.1723 |
341 |
1 |
72.75 |
2009-01-01 |
| 2. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
71.60 |
1.0213 |
0.1613 |
240 |
2 |
67.29 |
2008-12-30 |
| 3. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
71.39 |
1.0619 |
0.1242 |
354 |
2 |
64.53 |
2009-01-01 |
| 4. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
70.01 |
1.0787 |
0.0788 |
237 |
1 |
70.01 |
2009-01-01 |
| 5. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
69.44 |
1.0340 |
0.1209 |
406 |
1 |
69.44 |
2009-01-01 |
| 6. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
68.20 |
1.0214 |
0.1059 |
269 |
1 |
68.20 |
2008-12-30 |
| 7. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
67.49 |
1.0515 |
0.0633 |
250 |
1 |
67.49 |
2008-12-30 |
| 8. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
66.04 |
1.1016 |
-0.0093 |
233 |
1 |
66.04 |
2008-12-30 |
| 9. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
65.77 |
1.0797 |
0.0029 |
210 |
1 |
65.77 |
2009-02-07 |
| 10. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
64.88 |
1.0788 |
-0.0113 |
171 |
2 |
60.54 |
2008-12-30 |
| 11. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
64.00 |
0.9831 |
0.0834 |
469 |
1 |
64.00 |
2009-01-03 |
| 12. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
63.87 |
0.9682 |
0.0866 |
143 |
1 |
63.87 |
2008-12-30 |
| 13. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
63.26 |
0.9866 |
0.0560 |
218 |
1 |
63.26 |
2008-12-30 |
| 14. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
63.23 |
0.9852 |
0.0606 |
264 |
1 |
63.23 |
2009-01-10 |
| 15. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.01 |
0.9740 |
0.0636 |
209 |
1 |
63.01 |
2008-12-30 |
| 16. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
62.94 |
1.0060 |
0.0299 |
171 |
1 |
62.94 |
2008-12-30 |
| 17. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
62.26 |
1.0334 |
-0.0106 |
131 |
1 |
62.26 |
2008-12-30 |
| 18. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
62.07 |
1.0555 |
-0.0278 |
363 |
2 |
59.37 |
2009-02-07 |
| 19. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
61.72 |
1.0596 |
-0.0417 |
239 |
1 |
61.72 |
2008-12-30 |
| 20. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
61.71 |
0.9786 |
0.0363 |
193 |
1 |
61.71 |
2009-02-07 |
| 21. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
61.27 |
0.9684 |
0.0468 |
388 |
1 |
61.27 |
2008-12-30 |
| 22. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
60.88 |
1.0711 |
-0.0702 |
213 |
1 |
60.88 |
2009-02-07 |
| 23. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
59.46 |
0.9843 |
-0.0069 |
234 |
1 |
59.46 |
2008-12-10 |
| 24. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
59.29 |
1.0297 |
-0.0514 |
249 |
1 |
59.29 |
2008-12-30 |
| 25. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
59.02 |
1.0486 |
-0.0728 |
289 |
1 |
59.02 |
2008-12-10 |
| 26. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
58.93 |
1.0034 |
-0.0311 |
302 |
1 |
58.93 |
2008-12-30 |
| 27. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
58.61 |
1.0483 |
-0.0834 |
227 |
1 |
58.61 |
2008-12-10 |
| 28. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
58.58 |
0.9936 |
-0.0261 |
311 |
2 |
58.26 |
2009-02-07 |
| 29. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
58.08 |
1.0023 |
-0.0449 |
211 |
1 |
58.08 |
2008-12-30 |
| 30. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
58.02 |
0.9309 |
0.0255 |
284 |
1 |
58.02 |
2008-12-30 |
| 31. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
57.99 |
0.9965 |
-0.0380 |
277 |
1 |
57.99 |
2008-12-31 |
| 32. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
57.79 |
1.0567 |
-0.1013 |
303 |
1 |
57.79 |
2008-12-10 |
| 33. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
57.14 |
0.9532 |
-0.0110 |
258 |
1 |
57.14 |
2008-12-30 |
| 34. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
56.84 |
0.9697 |
-0.0312 |
249 |
1 |
56.84 |
2008-12-30 |
| 35. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
56.84 |
0.9986 |
-0.0594 |
283 |
1 |
56.84 |
2008-12-10 |
| 36. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
56.27 |
1.0337 |
-0.1054 |
214 |
1 |
56.27 |
2008-12-30 |
| 37. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
56.22 |
0.9084 |
0.0215 |
300 |
1 |
56.22 |
2009-02-07 |
| 38. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
55.77 |
1.0218 |
-0.1041 |
268 |
1 |
55.77 |
2008-12-30 |
| 39. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
55.42 |
0.9072 |
0.0055 |
237 |
1 |
55.42 |
2009-02-07 |
| 40. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
55.25 |
0.8961 |
0.0125 |
189 |
1 |
55.25 |
2008-12-30 |
| 41. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
55.07 |
0.9841 |
-0.0711 |
334 |
1 |
55.07 |
2009-02-07 |
| 42. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
54.90 |
0.9619 |
-0.0503 |
393 |
1 |
54.90 |
2008-12-30 |
| 43. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
54.71 |
0.9601 |
-0.0524 |
308 |
1 |
54.71 |
2008-12-10 |
| 44. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
54.40 |
0.9330 |
-0.0286 |
360 |
1 |
54.40 |
2008-12-30 |
| 45. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
54.18 |
1.0445 |
-0.1493 |
373 |
1 |
54.18 |
2008-12-30 |
| 46. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
54.10 |
0.9005 |
-0.0092 |
212 |
1 |
54.10 |
2009-02-07 |
| 47. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
54.03 |
1.0025 |
-0.1113 |
256 |
1 |
54.03 |
2008-12-30 |
| 48. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
53.86 |
0.9570 |
-0.0666 |
287 |
1 |
53.86 |
2008-12-30 |
| 49. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
53.64 |
0.9148 |
-0.0283 |
317 |
1 |
53.64 |
2008-12-10 |
| 50. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
52.64 |
0.9622 |
-0.0874 |
392 |
1 |
52.64 |
2008-12-30 |
| 51. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
51.31 |
0.9865 |
-0.1394 |
276 |
1 |
51.31 |
2008-12-10 |
| 52. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
49.67 |
0.9275 |
-0.1121 |
211 |
1 |
49.67 |
2008-12-10 |
| 53. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
49.58 |
1.0796 |
-0.2681 |
129 |
1 |
49.58 |
2008-12-30 |