| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
38.66 |
1.0565 |
0.3669 |
247 |
1 |
38.66 |
2009-07-22 |
| 2. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
36.07 |
1.0099 |
0.3168 |
207 |
1 |
36.07 |
2009-07-23 |
| 3. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
35.05 |
1.0025 |
0.2890 |
256 |
1 |
35.05 |
2009-07-15 |
| 4. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
33.92 |
0.8745 |
0.3728 |
169 |
1 |
33.92 |
2009-07-20 |
| 5. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
33.00 |
0.8070 |
0.4052 |
167 |
2 |
29.70 |
2009-07-22 |
| 6. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
32.55 |
0.9724 |
0.2298 |
237 |
3 |
29.67 |
2009-07-22 |
| 7. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
31.99 |
0.8700 |
0.3070 |
127 |
2 |
29.84 |
2009-07-25 |
| 8. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
31.32 |
0.9798 |
0.1673 |
199 |
3 |
27.95 |
2009-07-20 |
| 9. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
31.01 |
0.8145 |
0.3290 |
115 |
4 |
26.12 |
2009-08-15 |
| 10. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
31.00 |
0.8506 |
0.2861 |
132 |
1 |
31.00 |
2009-07-13 |
| 11. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
30.94 |
0.8956 |
0.2456 |
217 |
1 |
30.94 |
2009-07-21 |
| 12. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
30.54 |
0.9260 |
0.2081 |
243 |
1 |
30.54 |
2009-07-22 |
| 13. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
30.48 |
0.9171 |
0.2047 |
165 |
1 |
30.48 |
2009-07-25 |
| 14. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
30.34 |
1.0796 |
0.0319 |
129 |
2 |
29.54 |
2009-08-15 |
| 15. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.87 |
0.8190 |
0.2868 |
135 |
3 |
26.99 |
2009-07-16 |
| 16. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
29.82 |
1.0487 |
0.0432 |
231 |
2 |
28.74 |
2009-07-22 |
| 17. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
29.50 |
0.9884 |
0.0958 |
233 |
2 |
27.21 |
2009-07-15 |
| 18. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
29.44 |
0.8628 |
0.2166 |
196 |
3 |
27.69 |
2009-07-25 |
| 19. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
29.41 |
0.9513 |
0.1342 |
354 |
1 |
29.41 |
2009-07-15 |
| 20. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
29.29 |
1.0444 |
0.0262 |
197 |
3 |
27.89 |
2009-08-15 |
| 21. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
29.29 |
1.0029 |
0.0679 |
209 |
1 |
29.29 |
2009-07-25 |
| 22. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
29.23 |
1.1016 |
-0.0265 |
233 |
1 |
29.23 |
2009-07-20 |
| 23. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
29.21 |
0.9316 |
0.1486 |
287 |
1 |
29.21 |
2009-07-22 |
| 24. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
28.77 |
0.9965 |
0.0566 |
168 |
1 |
28.77 |
2009-07-25 |
| 25. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
28.46 |
0.9865 |
0.0609 |
276 |
1 |
28.46 |
2009-07-25 |
| 26. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
28.31 |
0.9275 |
0.1099 |
211 |
2 |
26.19 |
2009-07-23 |
| 27. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
28.26 |
0.9485 |
0.0921 |
236 |
1 |
28.26 |
2009-07-16 |
| 28. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
28.17 |
0.9758 |
0.0604 |
314 |
1 |
28.17 |
2009-07-22 |
| 29. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
28.11 |
0.9614 |
0.0749 |
292 |
1 |
28.11 |
2009-07-22 |
| 30. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
28.10 |
0.9286 |
0.1033 |
194 |
1 |
28.10 |
2009-07-25 |
| 31. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
28.05 |
0.8188 |
0.2134 |
183 |
1 |
28.05 |
2009-07-20 |
| 32. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
27.87 |
1.0498 |
-0.0302 |
180 |
1 |
27.87 |
2009-07-15 |
| 33. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
27.86 |
1.0523 |
-0.0326 |
256 |
1 |
27.86 |
2009-07-20 |
| 34. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
27.56 |
0.9710 |
0.0353 |
173 |
1 |
27.56 |
2009-07-09 |
| 35. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
27.55 |
1.0396 |
-0.0343 |
149 |
1 |
27.55 |
2009-07-09 |
| 36. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
27.50 |
0.9907 |
0.0183 |
211 |
1 |
27.50 |
2009-07-22 |
| 37. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
27.32 |
1.0696 |
-0.0692 |
226 |
1 |
27.32 |
2009-07-20 |
| 38. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
27.29 |
0.9786 |
0.0190 |
193 |
1 |
27.29 |
2009-07-15 |
| 39. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
27.24 |
0.8791 |
0.1209 |
190 |
1 |
27.24 |
2009-07-20 |
| 40. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
27.22 |
0.8971 |
0.1084 |
266 |
3 |
26.03 |
2009-07-21 |
| 41. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
27.17 |
0.7916 |
0.2144 |
184 |
2 |
24.33 |
2009-07-23 |
| 42. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
27.09 |
1.0462 |
-0.0570 |
184 |
1 |
27.09 |
2009-07-16 |
| 43. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
27.06 |
0.9266 |
0.0694 |
278 |
1 |
27.06 |
2009-07-20 |
| 44. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
26.98 |
0.9649 |
0.0252 |
193 |
1 |
26.98 |
2009-07-22 |
| 45. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
26.98 |
1.0463 |
-0.0597 |
182 |
1 |
26.98 |
2009-07-15 |
| 46. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
26.87 |
1.0033 |
-0.0228 |
189 |
2 |
26.00 |
2009-07-25 |
| 47. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
26.83 |
0.8422 |
0.1452 |
164 |
1 |
26.83 |
2009-07-09 |
| 48. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
26.77 |
1.0131 |
-0.0336 |
225 |
1 |
26.77 |
2009-07-13 |
| 49. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
26.72 |
0.9691 |
0.0120 |
223 |
1 |
26.72 |
2009-07-09 |
| 50. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
26.65 |
0.9964 |
-0.0173 |
203 |
1 |
26.65 |
2009-07-23 |
| 51. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
26.63 |
0.9729 |
0.0055 |
255 |
3 |
26.30 |
2009-07-16 |
| 52. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
26.53 |
1.0261 |
-0.0535 |
273 |
1 |
26.53 |
2009-07-22 |
| 53. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
26.50 |
1.0528 |
-0.0844 |
201 |
2 |
26.26 |
2009-07-22 |
| 54. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
26.41 |
1.0567 |
-0.0861 |
303 |
1 |
26.41 |
2009-07-20 |
| 55. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
26.39 |
1.0183 |
-0.0546 |
191 |
1 |
26.39 |
2009-07-15 |
| 56. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
26.35 |
1.0445 |
-0.0758 |
373 |
1 |
26.35 |
2009-07-20 |
| 57. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
26.31 |
0.8323 |
0.1326 |
145 |
1 |
26.31 |
2009-07-09 |
| 58. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
26.22 |
0.9697 |
-0.0065 |
249 |
1 |
26.22 |
2009-07-16 |
| 59. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
26.19 |
0.8715 |
0.0864 |
130 |
1 |
26.19 |
2009-07-16 |
| 60. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
26.00 |
0.9307 |
0.0321 |
246 |
1 |
26.00 |
2009-07-23 |
| 61. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
25.92 |
1.0429 |
-0.0925 |
259 |
1 |
25.92 |
2009-07-09 |
| 62. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
25.61 |
0.9226 |
0.0215 |
177 |
1 |
25.61 |
2009-07-23 |
| 63. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
25.58 |
1.0168 |
-0.0763 |
271 |
3 |
23.76 |
2009-08-15 |
| 64. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
25.46 |
0.9682 |
-0.0354 |
143 |
1 |
25.46 |
2009-07-22 |
| 65. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
25.45 |
0.8096 |
0.1326 |
209 |
3 |
24.31 |
2009-07-21 |
| 66. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
25.44 |
1.0334 |
-0.1060 |
131 |
1 |
25.44 |
2009-07-20 |
| 67. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
25.36 |
1.0023 |
-0.0732 |
211 |
1 |
25.36 |
2009-07-09 |
| 68. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
25.05 |
1.0124 |
-0.0954 |
204 |
1 |
25.05 |
2009-07-20 |
| 69. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
24.82 |
1.0218 |
-0.1138 |
268 |
1 |
24.82 |
2009-07-23 |
| 70. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
24.78 |
0.8295 |
0.0817 |
209 |
1 |
24.78 |
2009-07-25 |
| 71. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
24.62 |
1.0787 |
-0.1766 |
237 |
1 |
24.62 |
2009-07-15 |
| 72. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
24.41 |
0.8892 |
0.0124 |
207 |
1 |
24.41 |
2009-07-14 |
| 73. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
24.28 |
0.8602 |
0.0284 |
206 |
1 |
24.28 |
2009-07-21 |
| 74. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
24.09 |
0.8788 |
0.0014 |
134 |
2 |
23.18 |
2009-07-16 |
| 75. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
24.04 |
0.7852 |
0.1025 |
149 |
1 |
24.04 |
2009-07-14 |
| 76. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
23.90 |
0.8826 |
-0.0046 |
296 |
1 |
23.90 |
2009-07-16 |
| 77. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
23.65 |
0.8544 |
0.0133 |
170 |
1 |
23.65 |
2009-07-13 |
| 78. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
23.62 |
0.9763 |
-0.1106 |
289 |
1 |
23.62 |
2009-07-23 |
| 79. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
23.60 |
0.9731 |
-0.1202 |
129 |
1 |
23.60 |
2009-07-20 |
| 80. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
23.49 |
0.9221 |
-0.0622 |
244 |
1 |
23.49 |
2009-07-14 |
| 81. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
23.45 |
0.8037 |
0.0589 |
148 |
1 |
23.45 |
2009-07-13 |
| 82. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
22.99 |
0.7934 |
0.0485 |
134 |
1 |
22.99 |
2009-07-16 |
| 83. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
22.95 |
0.8916 |
-0.0500 |
216 |
1 |
22.95 |
2009-07-09 |
| 84. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
22.67 |
0.9251 |
-0.0893 |
177 |
1 |
22.67 |
2009-07-15 |
| 85. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
22.38 |
0.8154 |
0.0064 |
193 |
1 |
22.38 |
2009-08-19 |
| 86. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
22.27 |
0.9128 |
-0.0914 |
133 |
1 |
22.27 |
2009-07-13 |
| 87. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
22.05 |
1.0390 |
-0.2350 |
205 |
1 |
22.05 |
2009-08-15 |
| 88. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
21.61 |
0.8615 |
-0.0700 |
110 |
2 |
21.37 |
2009-08-15 |
| 89. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
21.29 |
0.8910 |
-0.1098 |
150 |
1 |
21.29 |
2009-07-21 |
| 90. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
21.19 |
0.7908 |
-0.0103 |
127 |
1 |
21.19 |
2009-07-09 |
| 91. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
20.99 |
0.9266 |
-0.1582 |
267 |
1 |
20.99 |
2009-07-20 |
| 92. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
20.75 |
0.8747 |
-0.1198 |
201 |
1 |
20.75 |
2009-07-15 |
| 93. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
20.13 |
0.7690 |
-0.0311 |
142 |
1 |
20.13 |
2009-07-20 |
| 94. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
19.54 |
0.8809 |
-0.1688 |
127 |
1 |
19.54 |
2009-07-15 |