| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
56.20 |
0.9340 |
0.3447 |
296 |
1 |
56.20 |
2011-11-24 |
| 2. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
55.51 |
1.0972 |
0.1958 |
251 |
2 |
51.56 |
2011-11-26 |
| 3. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
53.51 |
0.9426 |
0.2785 |
317 |
1 |
53.51 |
2011-11-26 |
| 4. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
52.82 |
0.9884 |
0.2170 |
262 |
1 |
52.82 |
2011-11-26 |
| 5. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
50.93 |
1.1016 |
0.0563 |
233 |
1 |
50.93 |
2011-11-26 |
| 6. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
50.90 |
1.0768 |
0.1206 |
295 |
2 |
48.48 |
2011-11-06 |
| 7. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
50.36 |
1.0025 |
0.1423 |
256 |
2 |
48.80 |
2011-11-26 |
| 8. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
50.34 |
0.9089 |
0.2392 |
342 |
1 |
50.34 |
2011-11-06 |
| 9. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
50.29 |
0.8573 |
0.2895 |
270 |
1 |
50.29 |
2011-11-20 |
| 10. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
50.15 |
0.9691 |
0.1706 |
223 |
1 |
50.15 |
2011-12-11 |
| 11. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
49.87 |
0.9907 |
0.1419 |
211 |
1 |
49.87 |
2011-11-26 |
| 12. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
49.84 |
1.0375 |
0.1415 |
200 |
1 |
49.84 |
2011-11-06 |
| 13. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
49.57 |
1.0213 |
0.1027 |
240 |
1 |
49.57 |
2011-10-01 |
| 14. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
49.43 |
1.0169 |
0.1458 |
346 |
1 |
49.43 |
2011-11-26 |
| 15. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
49.03 |
0.9559 |
0.1606 |
195 |
1 |
49.03 |
2011-11-26 |
| 16. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
48.71 |
1.0419 |
0.0652 |
261 |
1 |
48.71 |
2011-10-01 |
| 17. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
48.61 |
1.0515 |
0.0453 |
166 |
1 |
48.61 |
2011-10-02 |
| 18. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
48.54 |
0.9938 |
0.1095 |
339 |
1 |
48.54 |
2011-10-01 |
| 19. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
48.51 |
1.0214 |
0.0760 |
166 |
1 |
48.51 |
2011-11-26 |
| 20. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
48.48 |
1.1081 |
0.0282 |
206 |
1 |
48.48 |
2011-10-01 |
| 21. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
48.13 |
0.8559 |
0.2387 |
191 |
1 |
48.13 |
2011-11-26 |
| 22. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
48.11 |
1.0012 |
0.0946 |
260 |
1 |
48.11 |
2011-11-06 |
| 23. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
47.73 |
1.0907 |
-0.0039 |
303 |
1 |
47.73 |
2011-11-20 |
| 24. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
47.70 |
0.9289 |
0.1527 |
204 |
1 |
47.70 |
2011-11-06 |
| 25. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
47.40 |
1.0131 |
0.0601 |
225 |
1 |
47.40 |
2011-11-26 |
| 26. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
47.24 |
1.0644 |
0.0454 |
257 |
1 |
47.24 |
2011-11-19 |
| 27. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
47.18 |
1.0389 |
0.0356 |
340 |
1 |
47.18 |
2011-11-19 |
| 28. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
47.04 |
1.1296 |
-0.0318 |
252 |
2 |
45.70 |
2011-10-23 |
| 29. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
47.03 |
1.0390 |
0.0261 |
205 |
2 |
46.22 |
2011-11-06 |
| 30. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
46.84 |
0.9682 |
0.0946 |
143 |
1 |
46.84 |
2011-10-01 |
| 31. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
46.42 |
0.9785 |
0.0756 |
154 |
1 |
46.42 |
2011-11-26 |
| 32. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
46.18 |
1.0529 |
-0.0038 |
351 |
1 |
46.18 |
2011-11-06 |
| 33. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
46.18 |
1.0445 |
0.0059 |
373 |
1 |
46.18 |
2011-10-02 |
| 34. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
46.05 |
0.8867 |
0.1643 |
241 |
1 |
46.05 |
2011-11-26 |
| 35. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
45.79 |
0.9619 |
0.0839 |
393 |
2 |
43.49 |
2011-11-20 |
| 36. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
45.75 |
0.9097 |
0.1292 |
153 |
1 |
45.75 |
2011-10-02 |
| 37. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
45.51 |
0.9513 |
0.0864 |
354 |
1 |
45.51 |
2011-10-02 |
| 38. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
45.24 |
0.9754 |
0.0582 |
362 |
1 |
45.24 |
2011-10-02 |
| 39. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
45.13 |
1.0214 |
0.0020 |
269 |
1 |
45.13 |
2011-11-24 |
| 40. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
44.73 |
1.0477 |
-0.0300 |
360 |
1 |
44.73 |
2011-11-27 |
| 41. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
44.72 |
0.9500 |
0.0675 |
362 |
1 |
44.72 |
2011-10-02 |
| 42. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
44.52 |
0.9726 |
0.0311 |
154 |
1 |
44.52 |
2012-02-12 |
| 43. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
44.22 |
1.0388 |
-0.0031 |
243 |
1 |
44.22 |
2011-11-06 |
| 44. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
44.08 |
1.0205 |
-0.0271 |
179 |
1 |
44.08 |
2011-11-26 |
| 45. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
44.02 |
1.0214 |
0.0202 |
281 |
1 |
44.02 |
2011-10-03 |
| 46. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
43.97 |
0.9785 |
0.0228 |
335 |
1 |
43.97 |
2011-12-11 |
| 47. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
43.70 |
0.8533 |
0.1394 |
232 |
1 |
43.70 |
2011-10-01 |
| 48. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
43.54 |
1.0261 |
-0.0399 |
273 |
1 |
43.54 |
2011-11-19 |
| 49. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
43.39 |
1.0679 |
-0.0628 |
177 |
1 |
43.39 |
2011-10-01 |
| 50. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
43.12 |
0.9597 |
0.0231 |
347 |
2 |
41.11 |
2011-12-11 |
| 51. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
43.11 |
0.9411 |
0.0383 |
318 |
1 |
43.11 |
2011-11-06 |
| 52. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
43.10 |
1.0025 |
-0.0231 |
336 |
1 |
43.10 |
2011-11-19 |
| 53. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
42.91 |
0.9019 |
0.0772 |
204 |
1 |
42.91 |
2011-11-19 |
| 54. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
42.82 |
0.9964 |
-0.0248 |
203 |
1 |
42.82 |
2011-11-26 |
| 55. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
42.74 |
0.9904 |
0.0198 |
203 |
1 |
42.74 |
2011-11-06 |
| 56. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
42.68 |
1.0013 |
-0.0337 |
273 |
1 |
42.68 |
2011-11-06 |
| 57. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
42.50 |
1.0669 |
-0.0702 |
286 |
1 |
42.50 |
2011-12-03 |
| 58. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
42.27 |
0.9207 |
0.0401 |
174 |
1 |
42.27 |
2011-11-26 |
| 59. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
42.16 |
1.0251 |
-0.0704 |
261 |
1 |
42.16 |
2011-10-02 |
| 60. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
42.15 |
0.9916 |
0.0077 |
282 |
1 |
42.15 |
2011-10-01 |
| 61. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
41.99 |
0.8442 |
0.1122 |
265 |
1 |
41.99 |
2011-11-19 |
| 62. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
41.85 |
0.9125 |
0.0387 |
308 |
1 |
41.85 |
2011-11-01 |
| 63. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
41.73 |
1.0264 |
-0.0395 |
422 |
1 |
41.73 |
2011-11-20 |
| 64. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
41.57 |
0.7708 |
0.1772 |
207 |
2 |
40.88 |
2011-11-19 |
| 65. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
41.55 |
1.0060 |
-0.0684 |
171 |
1 |
41.55 |
2011-10-02 |
| 66. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
41.38 |
1.0696 |
-0.1342 |
226 |
1 |
41.38 |
2011-11-06 |
| 67. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
41.26 |
1.0379 |
-0.0675 |
245 |
1 |
41.26 |
2011-12-03 |
| 68. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
41.04 |
0.9893 |
-0.0584 |
323 |
1 |
41.04 |
2011-11-06 |
| 69. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
40.94 |
1.0173 |
-0.0448 |
268 |
1 |
40.94 |
2011-11-01 |
| 70. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
40.58 |
0.9045 |
0.0163 |
235 |
1 |
40.58 |
2011-11-06 |
| 71. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
40.38 |
0.9831 |
-0.0709 |
222 |
1 |
40.38 |
2011-10-09 |
| 72. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
40.35 |
0.9504 |
-0.0414 |
263 |
1 |
40.35 |
2011-10-09 |
| 73. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
39.88 |
0.9233 |
-0.0275 |
168 |
1 |
39.88 |
2011-10-03 |
| 74. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
39.85 |
0.9855 |
-0.0484 |
258 |
1 |
39.85 |
2011-11-26 |
| 75. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
39.44 |
0.8348 |
0.0650 |
219 |
1 |
39.44 |
2011-10-01 |
| 76. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
39.12 |
1.0254 |
-0.0986 |
217 |
1 |
39.12 |
2011-11-27 |
| 77. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
38.92 |
0.8653 |
0.0276 |
255 |
1 |
38.92 |
2011-11-20 |
| 78. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
38.69 |
1.0077 |
-0.0900 |
250 |
1 |
38.69 |
2011-11-20 |
| 79. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
38.67 |
0.9068 |
-0.0280 |
269 |
1 |
38.67 |
2011-10-01 |
| 80. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
38.56 |
0.9279 |
-0.0472 |
317 |
1 |
38.56 |
2011-11-01 |
| 81. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
37.83 |
1.0099 |
-0.1561 |
207 |
1 |
37.83 |
2011-12-03 |
| 82. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
36.79 |
0.9023 |
-0.0262 |
231 |
1 |
36.79 |
2011-11-06 |
| 83. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
36.35 |
1.0211 |
-0.1675 |
213 |
1 |
36.35 |
2011-11-06 |
| 84. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
35.27 |
0.8971 |
-0.0942 |
266 |
1 |
35.27 |
2011-10-09 |
| 85. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
34.52 |
0.9461 |
-0.1696 |
193 |
1 |
34.52 |
2011-11-19 |
| 86. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
33.95 |
0.9213 |
-0.1527 |
295 |
1 |
33.95 |
2011-11-26 |
| 87. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
33.44 |
0.8353 |
-0.0722 |
283 |
1 |
33.44 |
2011-11-24 |
| 88. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
33.23 |
0.9865 |
-0.2340 |
276 |
1 |
33.23 |
2011-11-06 |
| 89. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
32.87 |
0.8722 |
-0.1261 |
285 |
1 |
32.87 |
2011-12-03 |
| 90. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
31.77 |
0.9353 |
-0.2227 |
177 |
1 |
31.77 |
2011-11-19 |
| 91. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
31.62 |
0.8916 |
-0.1769 |
216 |
1 |
31.62 |
2011-11-20 |
| 92. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
26.60 |
1.0201 |
-0.4282 |
172 |
1 |
26.60 |
2011-11-26 |
| 93. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
22.20 |
0.8763 |
-0.3788 |
105 |
1 |
22.20 |
2011-11-19 |