| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
42.52 |
1.0201 |
0.2009 |
303 |
1 |
42.52 |
2010-09-05 |
| 2. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
41.59 |
0.8788 |
0.3113 |
134 |
3 |
41.06 |
2010-09-06 |
| 3. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
40.91 |
0.9722 |
0.2038 |
283 |
2 |
39.75 |
2010-09-06 |
| 4. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
40.75 |
1.1014 |
0.1057 |
273 |
1 |
40.75 |
2010-09-06 |
| 5. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
39.69 |
0.9986 |
0.1350 |
162 |
1 |
39.69 |
2010-09-06 |
| 6. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
39.42 |
0.9325 |
0.1915 |
156 |
1 |
39.42 |
2010-09-05 |
| 7. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
39.37 |
0.8190 |
0.3172 |
135 |
2 |
36.51 |
2010-09-06 |
| 8. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
38.86 |
0.8792 |
0.2445 |
296 |
2 |
36.87 |
2010-09-06 |
| 9. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
38.73 |
1.0025 |
0.1081 |
256 |
1 |
38.73 |
2010-09-05 |
| 10. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
38.68 |
1.0711 |
0.0330 |
213 |
1 |
38.68 |
2010-09-06 |
| 11. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
38.67 |
1.0506 |
0.0871 |
277 |
1 |
38.67 |
2010-09-05 |
| 12. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
38.55 |
0.9247 |
0.1854 |
253 |
2 |
37.02 |
2010-09-06 |
| 13. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
38.53 |
1.0331 |
0.0696 |
234 |
1 |
38.53 |
2010-09-06 |
| 14. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
38.40 |
1.0074 |
0.0956 |
242 |
1 |
38.40 |
2010-09-05 |
| 15. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
38.25 |
1.0429 |
0.0524 |
259 |
1 |
38.25 |
2010-09-05 |
| 16. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
38.11 |
0.9028 |
0.1896 |
155 |
1 |
38.11 |
2010-09-05 |
| 17. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
38.05 |
0.8763 |
0.2140 |
105 |
1 |
38.05 |
2010-09-05 |
| 18. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
37.98 |
1.0349 |
0.0533 |
234 |
1 |
37.98 |
2010-09-05 |
| 19. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
37.93 |
1.0917 |
0.0193 |
243 |
1 |
37.93 |
2010-09-05 |
| 20. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
37.75 |
0.8941 |
0.1901 |
216 |
1 |
37.75 |
2010-09-06 |
| 21. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
37.69 |
0.9161 |
0.1624 |
200 |
2 |
35.33 |
2010-09-05 |
| 22. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
37.64 |
1.0053 |
0.0717 |
232 |
1 |
37.64 |
2010-09-06 |
| 23. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
37.49 |
1.0213 |
0.0502 |
240 |
2 |
36.25 |
2010-09-06 |
| 24. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
37.44 |
1.0388 |
0.0660 |
243 |
1 |
37.44 |
2010-09-05 |
| 25. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
37.41 |
0.9866 |
0.0821 |
218 |
1 |
37.41 |
2010-09-05 |
| 26. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
37.26 |
1.0679 |
0.0204 |
177 |
2 |
36.46 |
2010-09-06 |
| 27. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
37.14 |
0.9773 |
0.0793 |
123 |
1 |
37.14 |
2010-09-05 |
| 28. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
37.06 |
0.9527 |
0.1094 |
251 |
1 |
37.06 |
2010-09-06 |
| 29. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
37.01 |
1.0412 |
0.0190 |
225 |
1 |
37.01 |
2010-09-05 |
| 30. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
36.86 |
0.9260 |
0.1408 |
243 |
3 |
30.02 |
2010-09-06 |
| 31. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
36.76 |
1.0529 |
0.0005 |
351 |
2 |
35.61 |
2010-09-06 |
| 32. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
36.69 |
0.9871 |
0.1006 |
209 |
2 |
35.85 |
2010-09-06 |
| 33. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
36.61 |
1.0232 |
0.0719 |
350 |
1 |
36.61 |
2010-09-05 |
| 34. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
36.51 |
0.9309 |
0.1135 |
284 |
1 |
36.51 |
2010-09-05 |
| 35. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
36.45 |
1.0214 |
0.0214 |
269 |
1 |
36.45 |
2010-09-05 |
| 36. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
36.16 |
1.0567 |
-0.0200 |
303 |
1 |
36.16 |
2010-09-06 |
| 37. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
36.05 |
1.0565 |
-0.0262 |
247 |
1 |
36.05 |
2010-09-05 |
| 38. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
36.02 |
1.1215 |
-0.0655 |
200 |
2 |
34.49 |
2010-09-06 |
| 39. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
35.98 |
1.0621 |
-0.0118 |
263 |
1 |
35.98 |
2010-09-06 |
| 40. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
35.85 |
1.0232 |
0.0395 |
236 |
1 |
35.85 |
2010-09-06 |
| 41. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
35.72 |
0.9559 |
0.0701 |
195 |
1 |
35.72 |
2010-09-05 |
| 42. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
35.69 |
1.0787 |
-0.0575 |
237 |
1 |
35.69 |
2010-09-06 |
| 43. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
35.63 |
0.9711 |
0.0484 |
176 |
1 |
35.63 |
2010-09-05 |
| 44. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
35.51 |
0.9162 |
0.1015 |
165 |
1 |
35.51 |
2010-09-05 |
| 45. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
35.25 |
1.0943 |
-0.0520 |
206 |
1 |
35.25 |
2010-09-05 |
| 46. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
34.79 |
0.9740 |
0.0183 |
209 |
1 |
34.79 |
2010-09-05 |
| 47. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
34.71 |
0.8876 |
0.1047 |
118 |
1 |
34.71 |
2010-09-05 |
| 48. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
34.43 |
0.9865 |
0.0005 |
276 |
1 |
34.43 |
2010-09-05 |
| 49. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
34.42 |
0.8723 |
0.1094 |
185 |
1 |
34.42 |
2010-09-05 |
| 50. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
34.18 |
0.9063 |
0.0804 |
239 |
1 |
34.18 |
2010-09-06 |
| 51. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
33.96 |
0.8793 |
0.0946 |
157 |
1 |
33.96 |
2010-09-06 |
| 52. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
33.93 |
0.9430 |
0.0211 |
211 |
1 |
33.93 |
2010-09-05 |
| 53. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
33.87 |
0.9005 |
0.0677 |
212 |
2 |
30.27 |
2010-09-06 |
| 54. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
33.85 |
0.8628 |
0.1029 |
196 |
1 |
33.85 |
2010-09-05 |
| 55. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
33.75 |
0.8867 |
0.0847 |
241 |
1 |
33.75 |
2010-09-06 |
| 56. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
33.61 |
0.9936 |
-0.0318 |
311 |
1 |
33.61 |
2010-09-06 |
| 57. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
33.56 |
0.9795 |
-0.0188 |
308 |
1 |
33.56 |
2010-09-06 |
| 58. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
33.35 |
0.8916 |
0.0633 |
216 |
1 |
33.35 |
2010-09-05 |
| 59. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
33.32 |
0.9529 |
0.0414 |
269 |
1 |
33.32 |
2010-09-06 |
| 60. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
33.30 |
1.0334 |
-0.0868 |
131 |
1 |
33.30 |
2010-09-05 |
| 61. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
33.23 |
1.0016 |
-0.0551 |
218 |
1 |
33.23 |
2010-09-05 |
| 62. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
33.19 |
0.9852 |
-0.0350 |
264 |
1 |
33.19 |
2010-09-06 |
| 63. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
32.89 |
0.9513 |
-0.0063 |
354 |
2 |
32.33 |
2010-09-06 |
| 64. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
32.76 |
0.9912 |
-0.0268 |
237 |
1 |
32.76 |
2010-09-05 |
| 65. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
32.65 |
1.0574 |
-0.0952 |
205 |
2 |
30.16 |
2010-09-05 |
| 66. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
32.51 |
1.0150 |
-0.0358 |
325 |
1 |
32.51 |
2010-09-05 |
| 67. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
32.21 |
0.9098 |
0.0080 |
167 |
1 |
32.21 |
2010-09-06 |
| 68. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
31.84 |
0.8811 |
0.0343 |
239 |
1 |
31.84 |
2010-09-05 |
| 69. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
31.68 |
0.9684 |
-0.0596 |
388 |
2 |
31.42 |
2010-09-06 |
| 70. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
31.50 |
0.8996 |
-0.0042 |
192 |
1 |
31.50 |
2010-09-06 |
| 71. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
31.42 |
1.0516 |
-0.1534 |
281 |
1 |
31.42 |
2010-09-05 |
| 72. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
31.41 |
0.9786 |
-0.0855 |
193 |
1 |
31.41 |
2010-09-05 |
| 73. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
31.36 |
0.8442 |
0.0567 |
265 |
2 |
30.37 |
2010-09-05 |
| 74. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
31.34 |
1.0396 |
-0.1505 |
149 |
1 |
31.34 |
2010-09-06 |
| 75. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
31.25 |
1.0288 |
-0.1030 |
300 |
1 |
31.25 |
2010-09-05 |
| 76. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
31.16 |
0.9430 |
-0.0490 |
297 |
1 |
31.16 |
2010-09-06 |
| 77. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
31.03 |
0.8096 |
0.0856 |
209 |
1 |
31.03 |
2010-09-05 |
| 78. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
30.97 |
0.9509 |
-0.0270 |
225 |
2 |
30.45 |
2010-09-06 |
| 79. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
30.86 |
0.9769 |
-0.0966 |
263 |
1 |
30.86 |
2010-09-05 |
| 80. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
30.37 |
1.0385 |
-0.1722 |
230 |
1 |
30.37 |
2010-09-05 |
| 81. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
30.30 |
0.9485 |
-0.0800 |
291 |
1 |
30.30 |
2010-09-05 |
| 82. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
30.21 |
0.9670 |
-0.0614 |
307 |
1 |
30.21 |
2010-09-06 |
| 83. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
29.83 |
0.8353 |
0.0247 |
283 |
1 |
29.83 |
2010-09-05 |
| 84. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
29.29 |
0.8994 |
-0.0605 |
188 |
1 |
29.29 |
2010-09-06 |
| 85. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
29.04 |
0.8382 |
-0.0081 |
268 |
1 |
29.04 |
2010-09-05 |
| 86. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
29.02 |
0.8559 |
-0.0261 |
191 |
1 |
29.02 |
2010-09-06 |
| 87. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
28.32 |
0.9187 |
-0.1199 |
118 |
1 |
28.32 |
2010-09-06 |
| 88. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
27.89 |
0.9089 |
-0.1088 |
342 |
1 |
27.89 |
2010-09-05 |
| 89. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
27.38 |
0.8919 |
-0.1122 |
205 |
1 |
27.38 |
2010-09-05 |
| 90. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
26.70 |
0.7805 |
-0.0229 |
154 |
1 |
26.70 |
2010-09-06 |
| 91. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
25.94 |
1.0109 |
-0.2705 |
276 |
1 |
25.94 |
2010-09-05 |
| 92. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
25.40 |
0.8533 |
-0.1282 |
232 |
1 |
25.40 |
2010-09-05 |
| 93. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
25.17 |
0.8553 |
-0.1431 |
174 |
1 |
25.17 |
2010-09-05 |