| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
41.27 |
0.8118 |
0.4989 |
109 |
1 |
41.27 |
2009-12-09 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
39.98 |
1.1016 |
0.1630 |
233 |
1 |
39.98 |
2009-12-09 |
| 3. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
38.59 |
0.8360 |
0.3833 |
170 |
1 |
38.59 |
2009-12-09 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
38.10 |
1.0799 |
0.1209 |
243 |
1 |
38.10 |
2009-12-09 |
| 5. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
37.93 |
1.0485 |
0.1852 |
153 |
1 |
37.93 |
2009-12-09 |
| 6. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
37.92 |
1.0993 |
0.0973 |
265 |
1 |
37.92 |
2009-12-09 |
| 7. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
37.05 |
0.8953 |
0.2761 |
193 |
1 |
37.05 |
2009-12-09 |
| 8. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
36.45 |
1.0463 |
0.1009 |
182 |
1 |
36.45 |
2009-12-09 |
| 9. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
36.42 |
0.9260 |
0.2352 |
243 |
1 |
36.42 |
2009-12-09 |
| 10. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
36.17 |
1.0201 |
0.1231 |
303 |
1 |
36.17 |
2009-12-09 |
| 11. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
35.28 |
0.9196 |
0.1965 |
148 |
1 |
35.28 |
2009-12-09 |
| 12. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
35.21 |
1.0523 |
0.0555 |
256 |
1 |
35.21 |
2009-12-09 |
| 13. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
35.17 |
1.0788 |
0.0265 |
171 |
1 |
35.17 |
2009-12-09 |
| 14. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
35.12 |
1.0795 |
0.0603 |
226 |
1 |
35.12 |
2009-12-09 |
| 15. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
35.02 |
0.8348 |
0.2776 |
219 |
1 |
35.02 |
2009-12-09 |
| 16. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
34.94 |
0.8157 |
0.2875 |
121 |
1 |
34.94 |
2009-12-09 |
| 17. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
34.88 |
0.8745 |
0.2249 |
169 |
1 |
34.88 |
2009-12-09 |
| 18. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
34.86 |
1.0669 |
0.0663 |
286 |
1 |
34.86 |
2009-12-09 |
| 19. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.60 |
0.8070 |
0.2825 |
167 |
2 |
30.28 |
2009-12-09 |
| 20. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
34.57 |
1.0090 |
0.1265 |
282 |
1 |
34.57 |
2009-12-09 |
| 21. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
34.31 |
0.8323 |
0.2515 |
203 |
1 |
34.31 |
2009-12-09 |
| 22. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
34.14 |
1.0483 |
0.0266 |
227 |
1 |
34.14 |
2009-12-09 |
| 23. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
34.12 |
1.0379 |
0.0743 |
245 |
1 |
34.12 |
2009-12-09 |
| 24. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
33.89 |
0.9710 |
0.0925 |
173 |
2 |
32.70 |
2009-12-07 |
| 25. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
33.86 |
1.0251 |
0.0417 |
261 |
1 |
33.86 |
2009-12-09 |
| 26. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
33.69 |
0.9665 |
0.1464 |
326 |
1 |
33.69 |
2009-12-09 |
| 27. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
33.33 |
1.0261 |
0.0241 |
273 |
1 |
33.33 |
2009-12-09 |
| 28. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
33.31 |
1.0168 |
0.0360 |
271 |
2 |
31.70 |
2009-12-09 |
| 29. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
33.18 |
0.9941 |
0.0508 |
217 |
1 |
33.18 |
2009-12-09 |
| 30. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
33.15 |
1.0214 |
0.0195 |
166 |
1 |
33.15 |
2009-12-07 |
| 31. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
33.05 |
0.9851 |
0.0602 |
317 |
1 |
33.05 |
2009-12-09 |
| 32. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
32.88 |
0.8956 |
0.1447 |
217 |
2 |
30.20 |
2009-12-09 |
| 33. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
32.87 |
1.0711 |
-0.0388 |
213 |
1 |
32.87 |
2009-12-09 |
| 34. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
32.29 |
0.8562 |
0.1627 |
170 |
1 |
32.29 |
2009-12-07 |
| 35. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
32.11 |
0.8722 |
0.1438 |
285 |
1 |
32.11 |
2009-12-09 |
| 36. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
31.88 |
0.8971 |
0.1139 |
266 |
1 |
31.88 |
2009-12-09 |
| 37. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
31.87 |
1.0201 |
-0.0215 |
172 |
1 |
31.87 |
2009-12-09 |
| 38. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
31.79 |
0.8533 |
0.1507 |
232 |
1 |
31.79 |
2009-12-09 |
| 39. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.77 |
1.0029 |
-0.0071 |
209 |
1 |
31.77 |
2009-12-07 |
| 40. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
31.37 |
0.9614 |
0.0310 |
292 |
1 |
31.37 |
2009-12-09 |
| 41. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
31.34 |
0.9916 |
0.0395 |
282 |
1 |
31.34 |
2009-12-09 |
| 42. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
31.33 |
0.8792 |
0.1183 |
296 |
1 |
31.33 |
2009-12-07 |
| 43. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
31.29 |
1.0023 |
-0.0173 |
211 |
1 |
31.29 |
2009-12-07 |
| 44. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
31.12 |
0.9769 |
0.0024 |
263 |
1 |
31.12 |
2009-12-09 |
| 45. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
30.98 |
0.9871 |
0.0261 |
209 |
1 |
30.98 |
2009-12-09 |
| 46. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
30.72 |
0.8553 |
0.1083 |
174 |
2 |
28.22 |
2009-12-09 |
| 47. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
30.49 |
0.9084 |
0.0570 |
404 |
1 |
30.49 |
2009-12-09 |
| 48. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
30.47 |
0.8787 |
0.0867 |
202 |
1 |
30.47 |
2009-12-07 |
| 49. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
30.46 |
0.8541 |
0.1145 |
260 |
1 |
30.46 |
2009-12-07 |
| 50. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
30.44 |
0.9798 |
-0.0258 |
199 |
1 |
30.44 |
2009-12-07 |
| 51. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
30.40 |
0.9846 |
-0.0273 |
281 |
1 |
30.40 |
2009-12-09 |
| 52. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
30.24 |
1.0034 |
-0.0516 |
302 |
1 |
30.24 |
2009-12-09 |
| 53. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
29.97 |
0.8145 |
0.1325 |
115 |
1 |
29.97 |
2009-12-09 |
| 54. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
29.65 |
1.0679 |
-0.1131 |
177 |
1 |
29.65 |
2009-12-09 |
| 55. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
29.61 |
0.8275 |
0.1059 |
142 |
1 |
29.61 |
2009-12-09 |
| 56. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
29.58 |
0.8188 |
0.1145 |
183 |
1 |
29.58 |
2009-12-07 |
| 57. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
29.47 |
0.9128 |
0.0574 |
369 |
1 |
29.47 |
2009-12-09 |
| 58. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
29.29 |
0.9429 |
-0.0186 |
287 |
1 |
29.29 |
2009-12-09 |
| 59. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
29.22 |
0.9966 |
-0.0765 |
259 |
1 |
29.22 |
2009-12-07 |
| 60. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
29.12 |
1.0487 |
-0.1362 |
231 |
1 |
29.12 |
2009-12-07 |
| 61. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
29.07 |
0.8826 |
0.0347 |
296 |
1 |
29.07 |
2009-12-09 |
| 62. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
28.82 |
0.9532 |
-0.0465 |
258 |
1 |
28.82 |
2009-12-09 |
| 63. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
28.80 |
0.7850 |
0.1187 |
154 |
1 |
28.80 |
2009-12-07 |
| 64. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
28.64 |
0.9068 |
-0.0016 |
269 |
1 |
28.64 |
2009-12-09 |
| 65. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
27.71 |
0.8919 |
-0.0211 |
205 |
1 |
27.71 |
2009-12-07 |
| 66. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
27.69 |
0.9786 |
-0.1119 |
193 |
2 |
25.34 |
2009-12-09 |
| 67. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
27.63 |
0.8295 |
0.0422 |
209 |
1 |
27.63 |
2009-12-07 |
| 68. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
27.54 |
0.8961 |
-0.0324 |
189 |
1 |
27.54 |
2009-12-09 |
| 69. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
27.12 |
1.0390 |
-0.1892 |
205 |
1 |
27.12 |
2009-12-09 |
| 70. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
26.95 |
0.7934 |
0.0540 |
134 |
1 |
26.95 |
2009-12-07 |
| 71. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
26.08 |
0.9263 |
-0.1024 |
188 |
1 |
26.08 |
2009-12-09 |
| 72. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
25.81 |
1.0944 |
-0.2378 |
308 |
1 |
25.81 |
2009-12-09 |
| 73. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
25.51 |
0.8105 |
-0.0126 |
204 |
3 |
24.35 |
2009-12-09 |
| 74. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
25.33 |
1.0498 |
-0.2582 |
180 |
1 |
25.33 |
2009-12-09 |
| 75. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
25.25 |
1.0004 |
-0.2126 |
212 |
1 |
25.25 |
2009-12-09 |
| 76. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
24.87 |
1.0521 |
-0.2752 |
171 |
1 |
24.87 |
2009-12-09 |
| 77. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
24.72 |
0.9351 |
-0.1636 |
190 |
1 |
24.72 |
2009-12-09 |
| 78. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
23.66 |
1.0254 |
-0.2415 |
217 |
1 |
23.66 |
2009-12-04 |
| 79. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
22.71 |
0.9711 |
-0.2596 |
176 |
1 |
22.71 |
2009-12-09 |
| 80. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
22.46 |
0.9649 |
-0.2613 |
193 |
1 |
22.46 |
2009-12-07 |
| 81. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
15.10 |
0.7938 |
-0.3232 |
176 |
1 |
15.10 |
2009-12-04 |