| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
71.00 |
1.1018 |
0.1611 |
220 |
4 |
67.44 |
2008-08-16 |
| 2. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
67.00 |
0.9578 |
0.2387 |
281 |
3 |
61.05 |
2008-10-29 |
| 3. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
66.59 |
1.0053 |
0.1823 |
232 |
2 |
60.15 |
2008-08-15 |
| 4. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
66.42 |
1.0666 |
0.1201 |
297 |
2 |
61.76 |
2008-11-11 |
| 5. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
66.34 |
1.1296 |
0.0846 |
252 |
1 |
66.34 |
2010-08-14 |
| 6. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
66.10 |
1.0788 |
0.0964 |
171 |
1 |
66.10 |
2009-02-24 |
| 7. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
65.71 |
1.0120 |
0.1609 |
290 |
3 |
62.16 |
2009-05-19 |
| 8. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
65.38 |
0.8951 |
0.2749 |
193 |
2 |
61.25 |
2008-11-09 |
| 9. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
64.72 |
1.0398 |
0.1056 |
110 |
1 |
64.72 |
2009-03-18 |
| 10. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
64.44 |
1.0829 |
0.0694 |
288 |
3 |
61.56 |
2008-11-10 |
| 11. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
63.77 |
1.0993 |
0.0373 |
265 |
1 |
63.77 |
2008-11-11 |
| 12. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
62.91 |
0.9351 |
0.1826 |
190 |
2 |
57.33 |
2008-08-14 |
| 13. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
62.61 |
1.0445 |
0.0741 |
373 |
1 |
62.61 |
2008-10-29 |
| 14. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
62.60 |
1.0711 |
0.0414 |
213 |
3 |
57.15 |
2008-11-10 |
| 15. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
62.19 |
1.0062 |
0.1040 |
288 |
1 |
62.19 |
2008-11-11 |
| 16. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
61.92 |
1.0197 |
0.0827 |
226 |
1 |
61.92 |
2008-08-09 |
| 17. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
61.73 |
1.0016 |
0.0957 |
218 |
1 |
61.73 |
2008-12-30 |
| 18. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
60.98 |
0.9682 |
0.1182 |
143 |
1 |
60.98 |
2010-08-14 |
| 19. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
60.75 |
1.0885 |
-0.0010 |
315 |
1 |
60.75 |
2008-11-11 |
| 20. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
60.24 |
0.9884 |
0.0908 |
262 |
1 |
60.24 |
2009-03-01 |
| 21. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
60.12 |
1.0352 |
0.0402 |
341 |
1 |
60.12 |
2009-05-19 |
| 22. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
59.80 |
0.9907 |
0.0747 |
211 |
2 |
57.22 |
2009-02-24 |
| 23. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
59.74 |
0.9740 |
0.0878 |
209 |
1 |
59.74 |
2008-11-11 |
| 24. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
59.70 |
1.0767 |
-0.0137 |
212 |
1 |
59.70 |
2008-12-31 |
| 25. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
59.55 |
1.0555 |
0.0084 |
363 |
1 |
59.55 |
2008-08-23 |
| 26. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
59.42 |
0.9286 |
0.1305 |
194 |
1 |
59.42 |
2009-03-21 |
| 27. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
59.28 |
1.0787 |
-0.0224 |
237 |
1 |
59.28 |
2008-10-29 |
| 28. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
59.10 |
1.0668 |
-0.0099 |
350 |
1 |
59.10 |
2008-08-17 |
| 29. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
58.96 |
0.9275 |
0.1210 |
211 |
1 |
58.96 |
2008-12-30 |
| 30. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
58.69 |
1.0025 |
0.0444 |
256 |
1 |
58.69 |
2008-08-14 |
| 31. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
58.67 |
0.9846 |
0.0609 |
281 |
1 |
58.67 |
2008-11-10 |
| 32. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
58.63 |
1.0534 |
-0.0053 |
357 |
1 |
58.63 |
2009-03-18 |
| 33. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
58.19 |
0.8919 |
0.1443 |
205 |
1 |
58.19 |
2008-08-17 |
| 34. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
58.11 |
0.9756 |
0.0596 |
229 |
1 |
58.11 |
2008-08-16 |
| 35. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
57.71 |
0.9843 |
0.0400 |
234 |
2 |
54.06 |
2008-10-29 |
| 36. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
57.64 |
0.9866 |
0.0377 |
218 |
1 |
57.64 |
2008-11-09 |
| 37. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
57.63 |
0.9601 |
0.0724 |
308 |
1 |
57.63 |
2008-12-30 |
| 38. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
57.55 |
0.9632 |
0.0696 |
392 |
1 |
57.55 |
2008-12-30 |
| 39. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
57.51 |
1.0034 |
0.0207 |
302 |
2 |
55.12 |
2008-11-10 |
| 40. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
57.42 |
1.0796 |
-0.0604 |
129 |
1 |
57.42 |
2008-10-29 |
| 41. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
57.31 |
0.9729 |
0.0493 |
255 |
1 |
57.31 |
2008-10-29 |
| 42. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
57.30 |
1.0099 |
0.0091 |
207 |
1 |
57.30 |
2009-03-18 |
| 43. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
57.22 |
0.9966 |
0.0232 |
259 |
1 |
57.22 |
2008-08-16 |
| 44. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
57.17 |
0.9125 |
0.1088 |
308 |
2 |
53.72 |
2008-08-14 |
| 45. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
57.09 |
0.9865 |
0.0327 |
276 |
2 |
55.93 |
2008-08-11 |
| 46. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
56.90 |
0.9670 |
0.0897 |
307 |
1 |
56.90 |
2010-03-30 |
| 47. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
56.78 |
0.9852 |
0.0276 |
264 |
2 |
55.88 |
2009-03-21 |
| 48. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
56.68 |
1.0396 |
-0.0361 |
149 |
1 |
56.68 |
2008-10-29 |
| 49. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
56.23 |
0.9691 |
0.0329 |
223 |
1 |
56.23 |
2008-08-09 |
| 50. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
56.11 |
1.0334 |
-0.0395 |
131 |
1 |
56.11 |
2008-12-30 |
| 51. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
55.93 |
1.0168 |
-0.0183 |
271 |
1 |
55.93 |
2008-08-13 |
| 52. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
55.92 |
0.9879 |
0.0177 |
450 |
1 |
55.92 |
2009-01-01 |
| 53. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
55.83 |
0.9833 |
0.0136 |
355 |
1 |
55.83 |
2008-08-20 |
| 54. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
55.61 |
1.0292 |
-0.0392 |
262 |
1 |
55.61 |
2009-05-19 |
| 55. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
55.54 |
0.9633 |
0.0290 |
304 |
1 |
55.54 |
2008-08-09 |
| 56. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
55.48 |
0.9997 |
-0.0071 |
382 |
1 |
55.48 |
2008-11-10 |
| 57. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
55.25 |
0.8996 |
0.0797 |
192 |
2 |
52.63 |
2008-08-14 |
| 58. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
55.14 |
1.0444 |
-0.0682 |
197 |
1 |
55.14 |
2008-10-04 |
| 59. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
54.97 |
0.8382 |
0.1421 |
268 |
2 |
49.26 |
2008-10-25 |
| 60. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
54.92 |
1.0214 |
-0.0479 |
166 |
1 |
54.92 |
2008-10-29 |
| 61. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
54.84 |
0.9266 |
0.0509 |
267 |
2 |
50.35 |
2008-08-14 |
| 62. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
54.79 |
0.9884 |
-0.0127 |
233 |
1 |
54.79 |
2008-08-15 |
| 63. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
54.52 |
1.0337 |
-0.0626 |
214 |
1 |
54.52 |
2008-12-30 |
| 64. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
54.52 |
1.0523 |
-0.0849 |
256 |
1 |
54.52 |
2009-12-08 |
| 65. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
54.47 |
0.9513 |
0.0233 |
354 |
2 |
54.03 |
2008-08-23 |
| 66. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
54.32 |
0.9936 |
-0.0259 |
311 |
1 |
54.32 |
2009-05-14 |
| 67. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
54.22 |
1.1016 |
-0.1353 |
233 |
1 |
54.22 |
2009-02-24 |
| 68. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
54.13 |
0.9339 |
0.0292 |
310 |
1 |
54.13 |
2008-08-17 |
| 69. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
53.99 |
1.0417 |
-0.0821 |
253 |
1 |
53.99 |
2008-11-10 |
| 70. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
53.95 |
0.9672 |
0.0007 |
396 |
1 |
53.95 |
2008-08-12 |
| 71. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
53.93 |
0.9468 |
0.0137 |
276 |
1 |
53.93 |
2008-08-08 |
| 72. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
53.93 |
0.9697 |
-0.0085 |
249 |
1 |
53.93 |
2008-12-30 |
| 73. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
53.92 |
1.0515 |
-0.0926 |
250 |
1 |
53.92 |
2008-09-12 |
| 74. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
53.78 |
0.9723 |
-0.0103 |
364 |
1 |
53.78 |
2008-08-16 |
| 75. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
53.65 |
0.9811 |
-0.0225 |
272 |
1 |
53.65 |
2009-05-19 |
| 76. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
53.65 |
1.0529 |
-0.0971 |
351 |
2 |
52.40 |
2008-10-25 |
| 77. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
53.53 |
1.0063 |
-0.0521 |
371 |
1 |
53.53 |
2008-08-16 |
| 78. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
53.41 |
1.0399 |
-0.0831 |
294 |
1 |
53.41 |
2008-12-30 |
| 79. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
53.31 |
0.9851 |
-0.0331 |
317 |
1 |
53.31 |
2008-08-14 |
| 80. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
53.23 |
0.9798 |
-0.0371 |
199 |
1 |
53.23 |
2009-05-14 |
| 81. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
53.05 |
0.9831 |
-0.0300 |
469 |
1 |
53.05 |
2008-12-30 |
| 82. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
53.00 |
0.9072 |
0.0353 |
237 |
2 |
51.45 |
2008-08-18 |
| 83. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
52.92 |
1.0214 |
-0.0803 |
269 |
2 |
50.59 |
2008-10-29 |
| 84. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
52.73 |
0.9844 |
-0.0403 |
293 |
1 |
52.73 |
2008-08-13 |
| 85. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
52.60 |
1.0577 |
-0.1242 |
247 |
1 |
52.60 |
2008-12-30 |
| 86. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
52.43 |
1.0025 |
-0.0677 |
336 |
1 |
52.43 |
2008-10-29 |
| 87. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
52.22 |
0.9863 |
-0.0518 |
339 |
1 |
52.22 |
2009-03-18 |
| 88. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
51.80 |
0.8890 |
0.0299 |
199 |
2 |
49.55 |
2008-11-10 |
| 89. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
51.77 |
1.0462 |
-0.1303 |
184 |
1 |
51.77 |
2009-05-19 |
| 90. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
51.71 |
0.9168 |
0.0054 |
240 |
3 |
47.71 |
2009-03-21 |
| 91. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
51.70 |
0.9612 |
-0.0405 |
256 |
1 |
51.70 |
2008-08-16 |
| 92. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
51.16 |
0.9763 |
-0.0658 |
289 |
1 |
51.16 |
2008-10-29 |
| 93. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
51.15 |
0.9649 |
-0.0552 |
193 |
1 |
51.15 |
2008-08-08 |
| 94. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
50.88 |
1.0403 |
-0.0945 |
275 |
1 |
50.88 |
2010-08-14 |
| 95. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
50.69 |
0.9279 |
-0.0189 |
317 |
1 |
50.69 |
2008-11-09 |
| 96. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
50.58 |
1.0213 |
-0.1240 |
240 |
1 |
50.58 |
2008-12-30 |
| 97. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
50.54 |
1.0109 |
-0.1103 |
276 |
1 |
50.54 |
2009-03-01 |
| 98. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
50.37 |
0.9675 |
-0.0613 |
383 |
1 |
50.37 |
2009-03-01 |
| 99. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
50.23 |
1.0516 |
-0.1578 |
281 |
1 |
50.23 |
2008-10-29 |
| 100. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
50.22 |
0.9567 |
-0.0629 |
273 |
1 |
50.22 |
2008-08-23 |
| 101. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
50.19 |
0.9233 |
-0.0381 |
168 |
1 |
50.19 |
2009-05-14 |
| 102. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
50.13 |
0.9372 |
-0.0408 |
320 |
1 |
50.13 |
2009-02-24 |
| 103. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
49.81 |
0.8958 |
-0.0046 |
322 |
1 |
49.81 |
2008-10-29 |
| 104. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
49.80 |
0.9576 |
-0.0666 |
212 |
1 |
49.80 |
2008-10-25 |
| 105. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
49.62 |
0.8722 |
0.0139 |
285 |
1 |
49.62 |
2009-02-16 |
| 106. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
49.62 |
0.9500 |
-0.0646 |
362 |
1 |
49.62 |
2008-08-23 |
| 107. |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Be... |
48.80 |
0.8786 |
0.0069 |
214 |
1 |
48.80 |
2008-08-08 |
| 108. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
47.93 |
0.9622 |
-0.1032 |
392 |
1 |
47.93 |
2008-08-09 |
| 109. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
47.71 |
0.9527 |
-0.1041 |
251 |
1 |
47.71 |
2009-02-24 |
| 110. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
47.61 |
0.8933 |
-0.0400 |
363 |
1 |
47.61 |
2008-08-14 |
| 111. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
47.61 |
0.9653 |
-0.1101 |
394 |
1 |
47.61 |
2008-08-13 |
| 112. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
47.04 |
0.9772 |
-0.1441 |
217 |
1 |
47.04 |
2008-08-15 |
| 113. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
46.18 |
0.8770 |
-0.0528 |
300 |
1 |
46.18 |
2008-10-29 |
| 114. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
45.94 |
0.8553 |
-0.0437 |
174 |
1 |
45.94 |
2008-11-11 |
| 115. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
45.75 |
0.9532 |
-0.1412 |
258 |
1 |
45.75 |
2008-08-08 |
| 116. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
44.95 |
0.9213 |
-0.1220 |
295 |
1 |
44.95 |
2008-08-08 |
| 117. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
44.13 |
0.8105 |
-0.0308 |
204 |
1 |
44.13 |
2008-08-08 |
| 118. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
44.07 |
0.9941 |
-0.2136 |
217 |
1 |
44.07 |
2008-08-09 |
| 119. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
40.74 |
0.8961 |
-0.1767 |
189 |
1 |
40.74 |
2008-10-29 |