| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
172.97 |
0.9681 |
0.2150 |
378 |
1 |
172.97 |
2008-11-24 |
| 2. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
172.18 |
0.9342 |
0.2387 |
434 |
1 |
172.18 |
2009-01-31 |
| 3. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
172.12 |
0.9846 |
0.1832 |
281 |
1 |
172.12 |
2009-01-31 |
| 4. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
171.92 |
0.9866 |
0.1773 |
218 |
1 |
171.92 |
2008-11-04 |
| 5. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
170.89 |
0.9619 |
0.2038 |
393 |
1 |
170.89 |
2008-11-10 |
| 6. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
170.86 |
0.8947 |
0.2705 |
366 |
3 |
131.76 |
2009-01-31 |
| 7. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
170.55 |
1.0029 |
0.1489 |
209 |
1 |
170.55 |
2009-01-31 |
| 8. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
170.53 |
1.0352 |
0.1259 |
341 |
3 |
146.31 |
2009-04-15 |
| 9. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
169.98 |
1.0297 |
0.1233 |
249 |
1 |
169.98 |
2008-11-04 |
| 10. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
169.63 |
0.9212 |
0.2339 |
323 |
1 |
169.63 |
2008-11-04 |
| 11. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
169.57 |
1.0787 |
0.0714 |
237 |
1 |
169.57 |
2009-01-31 |
| 12. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
169.41 |
0.9857 |
0.1636 |
293 |
2 |
131.87 |
2008-11-04 |
| 13. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
167.90 |
1.0125 |
0.1252 |
224 |
1 |
167.90 |
2009-01-31 |
| 14. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
167.81 |
0.9593 |
0.1847 |
398 |
1 |
167.81 |
2009-01-31 |
| 15. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
165.28 |
1.1016 |
0.0205 |
233 |
1 |
165.28 |
2008-11-24 |
| 16. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
164.94 |
1.0214 |
0.0928 |
166 |
1 |
164.94 |
2009-01-31 |
| 17. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
162.73 |
0.9464 |
0.1632 |
323 |
1 |
162.73 |
2008-11-10 |
| 18. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
162.02 |
1.0529 |
0.0466 |
351 |
1 |
162.02 |
2008-11-04 |
| 19. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
157.03 |
1.0595 |
0.0083 |
379 |
2 |
155.30 |
2008-11-04 |
| 20. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
156.08 |
1.0668 |
-0.0055 |
350 |
1 |
156.08 |
2008-11-04 |
| 21. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
155.80 |
0.8826 |
0.1757 |
296 |
1 |
155.80 |
2008-11-04 |
| 22. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
154.70 |
0.9614 |
0.0909 |
292 |
1 |
154.70 |
2008-11-04 |
| 23. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
153.49 |
0.9785 |
0.0657 |
335 |
1 |
153.49 |
2008-11-04 |
| 24. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
153.04 |
1.0613 |
-0.0225 |
266 |
1 |
153.04 |
2008-11-10 |
| 25. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
152.98 |
0.9653 |
0.0805 |
394 |
2 |
130.88 |
2008-12-24 |
| 26. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
152.91 |
1.0389 |
-0.0002 |
318 |
1 |
152.91 |
2008-11-04 |
| 27. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
152.40 |
0.9756 |
0.0566 |
229 |
1 |
152.40 |
2008-11-10 |
| 28. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
150.98 |
0.9851 |
0.0409 |
317 |
2 |
130.32 |
2008-12-24 |
| 29. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
150.23 |
1.0261 |
-0.0094 |
273 |
1 |
150.23 |
2008-11-04 |
| 30. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
147.56 |
0.9965 |
-0.0010 |
168 |
1 |
147.56 |
2008-11-04 |
| 31. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
147.41 |
0.9740 |
0.0212 |
209 |
1 |
147.41 |
2008-11-04 |
| 32. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
146.91 |
0.9879 |
0.0166 |
450 |
1 |
146.91 |
2008-11-04 |
| 33. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
146.27 |
0.9045 |
0.0872 |
235 |
1 |
146.27 |
2008-11-04 |
| 34. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
146.27 |
1.0213 |
-0.0331 |
240 |
1 |
146.27 |
2008-11-04 |
| 35. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
145.36 |
0.9897 |
-0.0068 |
274 |
1 |
145.36 |
2008-11-04 |
| 36. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
145.32 |
1.0577 |
-0.0763 |
247 |
1 |
145.32 |
2008-11-10 |
| 37. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
145.23 |
1.0523 |
-0.0723 |
256 |
1 |
145.23 |
2008-11-24 |
| 38. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
145.22 |
0.9910 |
-0.0049 |
295 |
1 |
145.22 |
2008-11-04 |
| 39. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
144.09 |
0.9372 |
0.0433 |
320 |
1 |
144.09 |
2008-11-04 |
| 40. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
141.90 |
1.0714 |
-0.1189 |
129 |
1 |
141.90 |
2009-02-26 |
| 41. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
141.79 |
1.0441 |
-0.0819 |
252 |
1 |
141.79 |
2008-11-24 |
| 42. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
141.22 |
0.9234 |
0.0388 |
346 |
1 |
141.22 |
2008-11-04 |
| 43. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
140.02 |
0.9426 |
0.0090 |
317 |
2 |
121.65 |
2009-02-26 |
| 44. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
138.01 |
1.0528 |
-0.1231 |
201 |
1 |
138.01 |
2008-11-24 |
| 45. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
137.78 |
0.9899 |
-0.0614 |
163 |
1 |
137.78 |
2008-11-24 |
| 46. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
135.02 |
1.0296 |
-0.1090 |
437 |
1 |
135.02 |
2008-11-04 |
| 47. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
134.82 |
0.9005 |
0.0108 |
212 |
1 |
134.82 |
2009-01-31 |
| 48. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
128.66 |
0.9278 |
-0.0546 |
295 |
1 |
128.66 |
2008-11-10 |
| 49. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
127.02 |
1.0201 |
-0.1676 |
172 |
1 |
127.02 |
2008-11-04 |
| 50. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
124.24 |
0.9398 |
-0.0903 |
419 |
1 |
124.24 |
2008-11-04 |
| 51. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
124.22 |
0.8933 |
-0.0469 |
363 |
1 |
124.22 |
2008-11-04 |
| 52. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
123.78 |
0.8382 |
-0.0007 |
268 |
1 |
123.78 |
2008-11-04 |
| 53. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
122.11 |
0.8956 |
-0.0654 |
322 |
1 |
122.11 |
2008-11-04 |
| 54. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
121.22 |
0.8916 |
-0.0719 |
216 |
1 |
121.22 |
2008-11-04 |
| 55. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
110.59 |
0.9734 |
-0.2272 |
289 |
1 |
110.59 |
2009-04-15 |
| 56. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
108.41 |
1.0496 |
-0.3188 |
314 |
1 |
108.41 |
2008-12-24 |
| 57. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
106.21 |
1.0788 |
-0.3680 |
171 |
1 |
106.21 |
2008-11-04 |
| 58. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
100.70 |
0.9843 |
-0.3108 |
234 |
1 |
100.70 |
2008-11-04 |
| 59. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
97.75 |
0.9532 |
-0.2962 |
258 |
1 |
97.75 |
2008-12-24 |
| 60. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
96.26 |
0.8878 |
-0.2399 |
346 |
1 |
96.26 |
2008-11-04 |
| 61. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
91.56 |
1.0331 |
-0.4195 |
234 |
1 |
91.56 |
2008-12-24 |