| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
64.41 |
1.0214 |
0.2257 |
166 |
1 |
64.41 |
2012-09-26 |
| 2. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
62.94 |
1.0613 |
0.1631 |
266 |
2 |
58.21 |
2012-10-15 |
| 3. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
62.93 |
0.8951 |
0.3304 |
193 |
2 |
57.82 |
2012-10-24 |
| 4. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
62.29 |
0.9688 |
0.2409 |
217 |
2 |
58.44 |
2012-09-28 |
| 5. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
61.78 |
0.9729 |
0.2277 |
255 |
2 |
58.53 |
2012-09-26 |
| 6. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
60.09 |
1.0441 |
0.1247 |
252 |
1 |
60.09 |
2012-09-20 |
| 7. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
60.08 |
1.0799 |
0.0836 |
243 |
1 |
60.08 |
2012-09-20 |
| 8. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
59.47 |
1.0023 |
0.1509 |
211 |
1 |
59.47 |
2012-09-19 |
| 9. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
58.61 |
1.0213 |
0.1141 |
240 |
1 |
58.61 |
2012-10-18 |
| 10. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
58.02 |
1.0201 |
0.1073 |
303 |
3 |
55.74 |
2012-10-02 |
| 11. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
57.80 |
1.0669 |
0.0888 |
213 |
1 |
57.80 |
2012-10-02 |
| 12. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
56.94 |
1.0596 |
0.0434 |
239 |
2 |
54.23 |
2012-10-24 |
| 13. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
56.70 |
1.0296 |
0.0778 |
437 |
1 |
56.70 |
2012-09-20 |
| 14. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
56.39 |
1.0131 |
0.0778 |
225 |
1 |
56.39 |
2012-09-26 |
| 15. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
55.66 |
1.0320 |
0.0855 |
293 |
1 |
55.66 |
2012-10-11 |
| 16. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
55.23 |
1.0719 |
0.0280 |
360 |
1 |
55.23 |
2012-09-20 |
| 17. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
55.18 |
1.0796 |
-0.0141 |
129 |
1 |
55.18 |
2012-10-15 |
| 18. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
55.15 |
0.9994 |
0.1019 |
269 |
1 |
55.15 |
2012-09-28 |
| 19. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
54.90 |
1.0099 |
0.0524 |
207 |
1 |
54.90 |
2012-09-19 |
| 20. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
54.73 |
0.9684 |
0.0963 |
388 |
1 |
54.73 |
2012-09-24 |
| 21. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
54.67 |
1.0025 |
0.0597 |
336 |
1 |
54.67 |
2012-10-24 |
| 22. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
54.64 |
1.0254 |
0.0755 |
217 |
1 |
54.64 |
2012-09-19 |
| 23. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
54.51 |
0.9368 |
0.1209 |
173 |
1 |
54.51 |
2012-10-15 |
| 24. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
54.43 |
1.0125 |
0.0412 |
224 |
1 |
54.43 |
2012-10-02 |
| 25. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
54.29 |
1.0201 |
0.0268 |
172 |
1 |
54.29 |
2012-09-27 |
| 26. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
54.14 |
0.9068 |
0.1465 |
269 |
2 |
51.16 |
2012-10-15 |
| 27. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
54.10 |
0.8958 |
0.1589 |
322 |
1 |
54.10 |
2012-10-18 |
| 28. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
54.04 |
1.0004 |
0.0420 |
212 |
1 |
54.04 |
2012-10-16 |
| 29. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
53.88 |
0.9798 |
0.0601 |
199 |
1 |
53.88 |
2012-09-26 |
| 30. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
53.88 |
1.0316 |
0.0178 |
333 |
1 |
53.88 |
2012-09-24 |
| 31. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
53.78 |
0.9740 |
0.0652 |
209 |
1 |
53.78 |
2012-09-19 |
| 32. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
53.74 |
0.9310 |
0.1069 |
188 |
1 |
53.74 |
2012-10-15 |
| 33. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
53.52 |
1.0284 |
0.0532 |
282 |
1 |
53.52 |
2012-09-20 |
| 34. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
53.33 |
0.8559 |
0.1798 |
191 |
1 |
53.33 |
2012-10-02 |
| 35. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
53.31 |
0.9567 |
0.0778 |
273 |
1 |
53.31 |
2012-10-02 |
| 36. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
53.08 |
0.9614 |
0.0717 |
292 |
1 |
53.08 |
2012-09-28 |
| 37. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
53.02 |
1.0381 |
-0.0205 |
170 |
1 |
53.02 |
2012-09-27 |
| 38. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
52.95 |
1.0619 |
-0.0308 |
354 |
1 |
52.95 |
2012-09-19 |
| 39. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
52.86 |
0.9365 |
0.0904 |
248 |
2 |
47.88 |
2012-09-26 |
| 40. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
52.76 |
0.9471 |
0.0867 |
312 |
1 |
52.76 |
2012-09-19 |
| 41. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
52.52 |
0.9722 |
0.0481 |
283 |
1 |
52.52 |
2012-09-26 |
| 42. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
52.41 |
1.0506 |
-0.0053 |
277 |
1 |
52.41 |
2012-10-02 |
| 43. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
52.37 |
0.9997 |
0.0199 |
382 |
1 |
52.37 |
2012-09-19 |
| 44. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
52.31 |
0.9540 |
0.0585 |
285 |
1 |
52.31 |
2012-09-28 |
| 45. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
52.26 |
0.9675 |
0.0555 |
383 |
1 |
52.26 |
2012-10-11 |
| 46. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
52.20 |
0.9894 |
0.0275 |
323 |
1 |
52.20 |
2012-10-18 |
| 47. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
52.20 |
0.9965 |
0.0113 |
168 |
1 |
52.20 |
2012-10-02 |
| 48. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
52.12 |
1.0941 |
-0.0519 |
256 |
1 |
52.12 |
2012-10-16 |
| 49. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
51.88 |
0.9910 |
0.0173 |
295 |
1 |
51.88 |
2012-10-18 |
| 50. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
51.86 |
1.0016 |
-0.0005 |
218 |
1 |
51.86 |
2012-09-20 |
| 51. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
51.70 |
0.9636 |
0.0386 |
254 |
1 |
51.70 |
2012-09-19 |
| 52. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
51.60 |
1.0232 |
0.0233 |
350 |
1 |
51.60 |
2012-09-24 |
| 53. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
51.60 |
0.9871 |
0.0499 |
209 |
2 |
49.34 |
2012-09-27 |
| 54. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.57 |
0.9212 |
0.0820 |
323 |
1 |
51.57 |
2012-09-28 |
| 55. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
51.29 |
0.9776 |
0.0174 |
308 |
1 |
51.29 |
2012-09-20 |
| 56. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
51.29 |
0.9904 |
0.0445 |
203 |
1 |
51.29 |
2012-09-20 |
| 57. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
51.25 |
1.0132 |
-0.0282 |
143 |
2 |
47.17 |
2012-09-27 |
| 58. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
51.10 |
0.9769 |
0.0121 |
263 |
2 |
47.65 |
2012-10-17 |
| 59. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
51.09 |
0.9965 |
-0.0054 |
310 |
1 |
51.09 |
2012-09-20 |
| 60. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
50.77 |
1.0385 |
-0.0559 |
230 |
2 |
50.34 |
2012-10-18 |
| 61. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
50.71 |
0.9514 |
0.0321 |
237 |
1 |
50.71 |
2012-10-16 |
| 62. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
50.60 |
0.9673 |
0.0529 |
232 |
1 |
50.60 |
2012-09-24 |
| 63. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
50.55 |
1.0033 |
-0.0302 |
189 |
1 |
50.55 |
2012-09-20 |
| 64. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
50.53 |
0.9567 |
0.0654 |
184 |
2 |
49.39 |
2012-10-16 |
| 65. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
50.52 |
0.9148 |
0.0663 |
317 |
1 |
50.52 |
2012-09-20 |
| 66. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
50.28 |
0.9879 |
-0.0042 |
450 |
1 |
50.28 |
2012-10-16 |
| 67. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
50.23 |
0.9905 |
-0.0086 |
377 |
1 |
50.23 |
2012-10-15 |
| 68. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
50.03 |
0.9278 |
0.0446 |
295 |
2 |
47.87 |
2012-09-20 |
| 69. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
49.77 |
1.0151 |
-0.0598 |
152 |
1 |
49.77 |
2012-09-20 |
| 70. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
49.38 |
0.9772 |
-0.0235 |
217 |
1 |
49.38 |
2012-09-27 |
| 71. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
49.38 |
0.9668 |
0.0328 |
383 |
1 |
49.38 |
2012-09-27 |
| 72. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
48.98 |
0.9631 |
0.0374 |
345 |
1 |
48.98 |
2012-10-18 |
| 73. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
48.93 |
1.0905 |
-0.1107 |
210 |
1 |
48.93 |
2012-10-11 |
| 74. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
48.85 |
1.0829 |
-0.1350 |
288 |
1 |
48.85 |
2012-10-17 |
| 75. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
48.49 |
0.9532 |
-0.0149 |
258 |
1 |
48.49 |
2012-09-24 |
| 76. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
48.31 |
0.9578 |
-0.0220 |
281 |
1 |
48.31 |
2012-09-24 |
| 77. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
48.18 |
0.9811 |
-0.0449 |
272 |
1 |
48.18 |
2012-10-24 |
| 78. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
48.10 |
0.9851 |
-0.0507 |
317 |
1 |
48.10 |
2012-09-19 |
| 79. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
48.00 |
0.9216 |
0.0475 |
255 |
2 |
46.81 |
2012-09-20 |
| 80. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
47.05 |
0.9786 |
-0.0679 |
235 |
1 |
47.05 |
2012-09-26 |
| 81. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
46.90 |
0.9429 |
-0.0331 |
287 |
1 |
46.90 |
2012-10-17 |
| 82. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
46.62 |
1.0240 |
-0.1243 |
256 |
1 |
46.62 |
2012-10-17 |
| 83. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
46.54 |
0.9857 |
-0.0855 |
293 |
1 |
46.54 |
2012-09-26 |
| 84. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
46.29 |
0.9164 |
-0.0148 |
305 |
1 |
46.29 |
2012-09-20 |
| 85. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
46.21 |
0.9773 |
-0.0910 |
123 |
1 |
46.21 |
2012-09-19 |
| 86. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
45.85 |
0.9678 |
-0.0449 |
445 |
1 |
45.85 |
2012-10-16 |
| 87. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
45.63 |
1.0042 |
-0.0791 |
352 |
1 |
45.63 |
2012-09-20 |
| 88. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
45.21 |
0.8533 |
0.0226 |
232 |
1 |
45.21 |
2012-09-20 |
| 89. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
44.98 |
0.9187 |
-0.0587 |
118 |
1 |
44.98 |
2012-10-15 |
| 90. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
44.94 |
0.9922 |
-0.0814 |
341 |
1 |
44.94 |
2012-09-24 |
| 91. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
44.41 |
0.9371 |
-0.0387 |
318 |
2 |
44.08 |
2012-10-24 |
| 92. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
44.24 |
0.9899 |
-0.1387 |
163 |
1 |
44.24 |
2012-10-24 |
| 93. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.06 |
0.9293 |
-0.0756 |
355 |
2 |
39.96 |
2012-10-24 |
| 94. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
43.99 |
0.9340 |
-0.0835 |
296 |
1 |
43.99 |
2012-10-17 |
| 95. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
43.98 |
0.9855 |
-0.1009 |
258 |
1 |
43.98 |
2012-09-28 |
| 96. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
43.34 |
1.0485 |
-0.1758 |
153 |
1 |
43.34 |
2012-09-20 |
| 97. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
43.30 |
0.9088 |
-0.0660 |
348 |
1 |
43.30 |
2012-10-15 |
| 98. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
43.30 |
0.9168 |
-0.0776 |
240 |
2 |
43.16 |
2012-10-17 |
| 99. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
42.49 |
1.0328 |
-0.1724 |
356 |
1 |
42.49 |
2012-09-19 |
| 100. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
42.27 |
0.9786 |
-0.1663 |
193 |
1 |
42.27 |
2012-09-26 |
| 101. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
42.04 |
0.9005 |
-0.0891 |
212 |
1 |
42.04 |
2012-09-20 |
| 102. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
41.87 |
0.9430 |
-0.1407 |
211 |
1 |
41.87 |
2012-10-15 |
| 103. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
41.39 |
0.9907 |
-0.1919 |
211 |
1 |
41.39 |
2012-09-27 |
| 104. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
40.74 |
0.9941 |
-0.2092 |
217 |
1 |
40.74 |
2012-09-19 |
| 105. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
40.20 |
0.7876 |
-0.0083 |
316 |
1 |
40.20 |
2012-09-24 |
| 106. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
39.70 |
0.8826 |
-0.1141 |
296 |
1 |
39.70 |
2012-09-26 |
| 107. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
39.18 |
0.8467 |
-0.0654 |
343 |
1 |
39.18 |
2012-09-24 |