| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
40.87 |
0.8994 |
0.3600 |
188 |
4 |
35.36 |
2010-12-02 |
| 2. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
39.75 |
1.0483 |
0.1711 |
227 |
1 |
39.75 |
2010-12-01 |
| 3. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
39.39 |
1.0251 |
0.1840 |
261 |
1 |
39.39 |
2010-12-01 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
39.19 |
1.0799 |
0.1214 |
243 |
2 |
34.13 |
2010-12-01 |
| 5. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
39.19 |
0.9844 |
0.2316 |
229 |
2 |
35.54 |
2010-12-01 |
| 6. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
38.70 |
0.9418 |
0.2536 |
188 |
1 |
38.70 |
2010-12-01 |
| 7. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
38.50 |
0.9820 |
0.2044 |
267 |
1 |
38.50 |
2010-12-01 |
| 8. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
38.21 |
0.9098 |
0.2611 |
167 |
3 |
31.78 |
2010-11-29 |
| 9. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
38.18 |
1.0403 |
0.1484 |
193 |
1 |
38.18 |
2010-11-28 |
| 10. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
38.10 |
0.9411 |
0.2309 |
318 |
1 |
38.10 |
2010-12-01 |
| 11. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
38.09 |
0.9350 |
0.2367 |
195 |
1 |
38.09 |
2010-12-01 |
| 12. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
37.92 |
0.8691 |
0.2829 |
119 |
1 |
37.92 |
2010-11-26 |
| 13. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
37.67 |
1.0863 |
0.1063 |
210 |
2 |
37.09 |
2010-12-03 |
| 14. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
37.53 |
0.9171 |
0.2367 |
165 |
1 |
37.53 |
2010-11-28 |
| 15. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
37.23 |
1.0516 |
0.0921 |
281 |
1 |
37.23 |
2010-12-02 |
| 16. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
37.06 |
1.0197 |
0.1162 |
226 |
1 |
37.06 |
2010-11-29 |
| 17. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
37.05 |
0.9340 |
0.2043 |
296 |
2 |
33.27 |
2010-12-01 |
| 18. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
36.96 |
1.1016 |
0.0342 |
233 |
1 |
36.96 |
2010-11-28 |
| 19. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
36.91 |
1.1215 |
0.0367 |
200 |
1 |
36.91 |
2010-11-28 |
| 20. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
36.70 |
1.0261 |
0.0997 |
273 |
1 |
36.70 |
2010-12-02 |
| 21. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
36.68 |
0.9500 |
0.1792 |
362 |
2 |
35.75 |
2011-01-06 |
| 22. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
36.33 |
0.9844 |
0.1366 |
293 |
1 |
36.33 |
2010-12-02 |
| 23. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
36.15 |
0.8154 |
0.2970 |
193 |
1 |
36.15 |
2010-12-02 |
| 24. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
36.05 |
1.0621 |
0.0648 |
263 |
2 |
35.12 |
2010-12-02 |
| 25. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
35.79 |
0.9196 |
0.1815 |
148 |
1 |
35.79 |
2010-12-01 |
| 26. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
35.79 |
1.0201 |
0.0797 |
303 |
3 |
33.60 |
2010-12-01 |
| 27. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
35.74 |
1.0090 |
0.1326 |
282 |
1 |
35.74 |
2010-12-01 |
| 28. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
35.73 |
1.0117 |
0.1306 |
297 |
1 |
35.73 |
2010-12-02 |
| 29. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
35.55 |
1.0396 |
0.0451 |
149 |
1 |
35.55 |
2010-12-01 |
| 30. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
35.40 |
1.0441 |
0.0447 |
252 |
1 |
35.40 |
2010-12-01 |
| 31. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
35.34 |
1.0429 |
0.0411 |
259 |
1 |
35.34 |
2010-11-29 |
| 32. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
35.11 |
0.9682 |
0.1081 |
143 |
1 |
35.11 |
2010-11-29 |
| 33. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
35.08 |
0.8971 |
0.1855 |
266 |
3 |
31.10 |
2010-12-02 |
| 34. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
34.89 |
1.0941 |
0.0085 |
256 |
1 |
34.89 |
2010-11-29 |
| 35. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
34.85 |
1.0714 |
-0.0101 |
129 |
1 |
34.85 |
2010-12-01 |
| 36. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
34.49 |
0.9221 |
0.1354 |
244 |
3 |
28.82 |
2010-11-29 |
| 37. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
34.35 |
1.0013 |
0.0524 |
273 |
1 |
34.35 |
2010-11-28 |
| 38. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
34.34 |
0.8792 |
0.1844 |
296 |
1 |
34.34 |
2010-12-02 |
| 39. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
34.27 |
0.9572 |
0.0938 |
201 |
2 |
34.20 |
2010-12-01 |
| 40. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
34.07 |
0.8422 |
0.2054 |
164 |
1 |
34.07 |
2010-11-25 |
| 41. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
34.05 |
0.9247 |
0.1253 |
253 |
1 |
34.05 |
2010-12-01 |
| 42. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
33.94 |
0.9904 |
0.0921 |
203 |
1 |
33.94 |
2010-12-02 |
| 43. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
33.83 |
0.9233 |
0.1069 |
168 |
2 |
32.86 |
2010-11-28 |
| 44. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
33.80 |
0.9251 |
0.1174 |
177 |
1 |
33.80 |
2010-11-28 |
| 45. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
33.80 |
0.7850 |
0.2489 |
154 |
1 |
33.80 |
2010-12-01 |
| 46. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
33.77 |
0.9673 |
0.1086 |
232 |
1 |
33.77 |
2010-11-28 |
| 47. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
33.72 |
1.0795 |
-0.0140 |
226 |
1 |
33.72 |
2010-11-26 |
| 48. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
33.69 |
1.0124 |
0.0193 |
204 |
2 |
30.64 |
2010-11-28 |
| 49. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
33.67 |
1.0025 |
0.0309 |
256 |
1 |
33.67 |
2010-12-01 |
| 50. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
33.59 |
0.8700 |
0.1603 |
127 |
1 |
33.59 |
2010-11-26 |
| 51. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
33.50 |
0.9614 |
0.0698 |
292 |
1 |
33.50 |
2010-11-28 |
| 52. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
33.45 |
0.9097 |
0.1173 |
153 |
1 |
33.45 |
2010-11-26 |
| 53. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
33.20 |
0.9786 |
0.0351 |
193 |
1 |
33.20 |
2010-11-28 |
| 54. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
33.18 |
0.8867 |
0.1375 |
163 |
1 |
33.18 |
2010-11-25 |
| 55. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
33.15 |
1.0417 |
-0.0269 |
253 |
1 |
33.15 |
2010-11-26 |
| 56. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
33.13 |
1.0463 |
-0.0342 |
182 |
1 |
33.13 |
2010-11-26 |
| 57. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
33.05 |
1.0150 |
0.0482 |
325 |
1 |
33.05 |
2010-11-26 |
| 58. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
32.86 |
0.9976 |
0.0309 |
174 |
1 |
32.86 |
2010-11-29 |
| 59. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
32.78 |
0.8918 |
0.1124 |
100 |
1 |
32.78 |
2010-11-26 |
| 60. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
32.71 |
1.0033 |
-0.0063 |
189 |
1 |
32.71 |
2010-12-02 |
| 61. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
32.69 |
0.9430 |
0.0629 |
297 |
1 |
32.69 |
2010-12-01 |
| 62. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
32.58 |
0.8745 |
0.1229 |
169 |
1 |
32.58 |
2010-11-26 |
| 63. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
32.55 |
1.0270 |
0.0077 |
255 |
1 |
32.55 |
2010-11-26 |
| 64. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
32.43 |
0.8541 |
0.1491 |
260 |
1 |
32.43 |
2011-01-04 |
| 65. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
32.43 |
0.8615 |
0.1336 |
110 |
1 |
32.43 |
2010-11-28 |
| 66. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
32.36 |
1.0131 |
-0.0242 |
225 |
1 |
32.36 |
2010-11-28 |
| 67. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
32.32 |
0.8810 |
0.1113 |
282 |
2 |
28.84 |
2010-12-02 |
| 68. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
32.21 |
0.9711 |
0.0158 |
176 |
1 |
32.21 |
2011-01-04 |
| 69. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
32.18 |
1.0095 |
-0.0234 |
316 |
1 |
32.18 |
2011-01-06 |
| 70. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
32.16 |
0.8878 |
0.0986 |
346 |
1 |
32.16 |
2010-11-28 |
| 71. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
32.06 |
0.9567 |
0.0266 |
273 |
1 |
32.06 |
2010-11-28 |
| 72. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
31.94 |
0.8854 |
0.0936 |
116 |
1 |
31.94 |
2010-11-26 |
| 73. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
31.92 |
0.9164 |
0.0675 |
305 |
1 |
31.92 |
2010-11-28 |
| 74. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
31.77 |
0.9773 |
-0.0108 |
123 |
1 |
31.77 |
2010-11-26 |
| 75. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
31.76 |
0.8915 |
0.0815 |
188 |
1 |
31.76 |
2010-11-26 |
| 76. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
31.74 |
1.0669 |
-0.0611 |
286 |
1 |
31.74 |
2010-11-28 |
| 77. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
31.65 |
0.9986 |
-0.0328 |
162 |
1 |
31.65 |
2010-11-26 |
| 78. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
31.57 |
1.0669 |
-0.0658 |
213 |
1 |
31.57 |
2010-11-28 |
| 79. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
31.51 |
0.9907 |
-0.0259 |
211 |
1 |
31.51 |
2010-11-28 |
| 80. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
31.45 |
0.8892 |
0.0813 |
207 |
1 |
31.45 |
2010-12-02 |
| 81. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
31.45 |
0.9646 |
-0.0010 |
264 |
1 |
31.45 |
2010-12-01 |
| 82. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
31.37 |
1.0496 |
-0.0883 |
314 |
1 |
31.37 |
2010-11-28 |
| 83. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
31.29 |
1.0412 |
-0.0823 |
225 |
1 |
31.29 |
2010-11-26 |
| 84. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
31.26 |
0.8295 |
0.1309 |
209 |
1 |
31.26 |
2010-11-26 |
| 85. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
31.18 |
0.9758 |
-0.0190 |
314 |
1 |
31.18 |
2010-11-26 |
| 86. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
31.16 |
1.0120 |
-0.0573 |
290 |
1 |
31.16 |
2010-11-28 |
| 87. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
31.02 |
0.8311 |
0.1141 |
124 |
2 |
27.37 |
2010-11-26 |
| 88. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
30.99 |
0.8122 |
0.1404 |
181 |
1 |
30.99 |
2010-11-26 |
| 89. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
30.79 |
1.0083 |
-0.0202 |
273 |
1 |
30.79 |
2010-11-26 |
| 90. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
30.39 |
0.9023 |
0.0721 |
231 |
1 |
30.39 |
2010-12-03 |
| 91. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
30.34 |
1.0419 |
-0.1119 |
261 |
1 |
30.34 |
2010-11-26 |
| 92. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
30.25 |
0.7708 |
0.1618 |
207 |
1 |
30.25 |
2010-11-28 |
| 93. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
30.07 |
0.9857 |
-0.0651 |
293 |
1 |
30.07 |
2010-11-26 |
| 94. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
29.77 |
0.7805 |
0.1277 |
154 |
2 |
27.68 |
2010-12-01 |
| 95. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
29.75 |
0.9429 |
-0.0299 |
287 |
1 |
29.75 |
2010-12-01 |
| 96. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
29.34 |
0.9527 |
-0.0539 |
251 |
1 |
29.34 |
2010-12-12 |
| 97. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
29.19 |
1.0288 |
-0.1024 |
300 |
2 |
28.10 |
2010-11-30 |
| 98. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
29.00 |
1.0485 |
-0.1254 |
153 |
1 |
29.00 |
2010-12-01 |
| 99. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
28.36 |
1.0684 |
-0.1701 |
253 |
1 |
28.36 |
2010-11-26 |
| 100. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
28.30 |
1.0528 |
-0.1912 |
201 |
1 |
28.30 |
2010-11-26 |
| 101. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
28.28 |
0.9266 |
-0.0605 |
267 |
1 |
28.28 |
2010-11-26 |
| 102. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
28.24 |
0.9769 |
-0.1143 |
263 |
1 |
28.24 |
2010-11-25 |
| 103. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
28.22 |
0.8202 |
0.0412 |
178 |
1 |
28.22 |
2010-11-25 |
| 104. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
28.13 |
0.8941 |
-0.0308 |
216 |
1 |
28.13 |
2010-11-26 |
| 105. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
27.63 |
0.7876 |
0.0608 |
316 |
1 |
27.63 |
2010-11-26 |
| 106. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
27.20 |
0.9339 |
-0.1030 |
310 |
1 |
27.20 |
2010-11-26 |
| 107. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
26.89 |
0.7731 |
0.0517 |
145 |
1 |
26.89 |
2011-01-04 |
| 108. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
26.87 |
1.0487 |
-0.2315 |
231 |
1 |
26.87 |
2010-11-20 |
| 109. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
26.76 |
0.9320 |
-0.1206 |
84 |
1 |
26.76 |
2010-11-20 |
| 110. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
26.67 |
0.8022 |
0.0168 |
215 |
1 |
26.67 |
2010-11-26 |
| 111. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
26.65 |
0.8841 |
-0.0622 |
194 |
1 |
26.65 |
2010-11-26 |
| 112. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
26.49 |
0.8916 |
-0.0809 |
216 |
1 |
26.49 |
2010-11-28 |
| 113. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
26.46 |
0.8739 |
-0.0685 |
136 |
1 |
26.46 |
2010-11-25 |
| 114. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
26.43 |
0.7938 |
0.0157 |
176 |
1 |
26.43 |
2010-11-25 |
| 115. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
26.30 |
1.0168 |
-0.2110 |
271 |
1 |
26.30 |
2010-11-25 |
| 116. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
26.05 |
0.8723 |
-0.0795 |
185 |
1 |
26.05 |
2010-11-20 |
| 117. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
26.00 |
0.9897 |
-0.1969 |
274 |
1 |
26.00 |
2010-11-20 |
| 118. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
25.45 |
0.7981 |
-0.0225 |
126 |
1 |
25.45 |
2010-11-20 |
| 119. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
24.90 |
0.8553 |
-0.0995 |
174 |
1 |
24.90 |
2010-11-25 |
| 120. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
24.75 |
0.9724 |
-0.2125 |
237 |
1 |
24.75 |
2010-11-20 |
| 121. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
24.28 |
1.0320 |
-0.2530 |
293 |
1 |
24.28 |
2010-11-20 |
| 122. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
23.46 |
0.9005 |
-0.1858 |
212 |
1 |
23.46 |
2010-11-20 |
| 123. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
23.02 |
0.9351 |
-0.2381 |
190 |
1 |
23.02 |
2010-11-29 |
| 124. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
21.78 |
0.8809 |
-0.2191 |
127 |
1 |
21.78 |
2010-11-20 |
| 125. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
10.63 |
0.8996 |
-0.5876 |
192 |
1 |
10.63 |
2010-11-26 |