| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
114.40 |
1.0053 |
0.1957 |
232 |
1 |
114.40 |
2010-05-16 |
| 2. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
113.92 |
1.0391 |
0.1649 |
358 |
1 |
113.92 |
2010-05-27 |
| 3. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
111.63 |
0.9991 |
0.1750 |
225 |
1 |
111.63 |
2010-05-23 |
| 4. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
110.61 |
0.9820 |
0.1835 |
267 |
2 |
107.38 |
2010-05-16 |
| 5. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
109.62 |
0.9546 |
0.2289 |
198 |
1 |
109.62 |
2010-05-16 |
| 6. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
107.11 |
1.0388 |
0.1183 |
243 |
2 |
100.39 |
2012-02-26 |
| 7. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
106.31 |
1.0214 |
0.0939 |
269 |
2 |
103.04 |
2010-07-30 |
| 8. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
106.04 |
1.0666 |
0.0477 |
297 |
1 |
106.04 |
2010-05-16 |
| 9. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
105.92 |
1.0398 |
0.0626 |
110 |
1 |
105.92 |
2010-05-16 |
| 10. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
105.70 |
0.9857 |
0.1238 |
293 |
1 |
105.70 |
2010-05-18 |
| 11. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
105.46 |
0.9776 |
0.1306 |
308 |
1 |
105.46 |
2010-05-16 |
| 12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
105.44 |
1.0787 |
0.0278 |
237 |
1 |
105.44 |
2010-05-16 |
| 13. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
104.09 |
1.0025 |
0.0918 |
336 |
1 |
104.09 |
2010-05-16 |
| 14. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
103.27 |
1.0387 |
0.0783 |
239 |
1 |
103.27 |
2012-02-26 |
| 15. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
102.90 |
1.0577 |
0.0196 |
247 |
1 |
102.90 |
2010-05-16 |
| 16. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
102.34 |
1.0125 |
0.0600 |
224 |
1 |
102.34 |
2013-04-02 |
| 17. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
102.21 |
1.0534 |
0.0223 |
357 |
1 |
102.21 |
2010-07-31 |
| 18. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
101.51 |
0.9278 |
0.1409 |
295 |
1 |
101.51 |
2010-05-16 |
| 19. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
100.78 |
1.1081 |
-0.0152 |
206 |
1 |
100.78 |
2010-07-31 |
| 20. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
100.54 |
1.0252 |
0.0240 |
176 |
1 |
100.54 |
2010-05-16 |
| 21. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
100.49 |
1.0077 |
0.0888 |
250 |
1 |
100.49 |
2010-05-17 |
| 22. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
100.48 |
1.0320 |
0.0604 |
293 |
1 |
100.48 |
2010-05-16 |
| 23. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
100.31 |
1.0485 |
0.0395 |
153 |
3 |
83.20 |
2010-05-16 |
| 24. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
100.22 |
1.1162 |
-0.0229 |
189 |
1 |
100.22 |
2010-05-16 |
| 25. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
99.91 |
0.9500 |
0.1012 |
362 |
1 |
99.91 |
2010-05-16 |
| 26. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
99.26 |
0.9893 |
0.0529 |
323 |
1 |
99.26 |
2010-05-17 |
| 27. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
99.21 |
0.9866 |
0.0513 |
218 |
1 |
99.21 |
2010-05-17 |
| 28. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
99.07 |
1.0496 |
-0.0102 |
314 |
1 |
99.07 |
2010-05-18 |
| 29. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
98.22 |
0.9646 |
0.0655 |
264 |
1 |
98.22 |
2010-05-18 |
| 30. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
97.71 |
0.9578 |
0.0673 |
281 |
1 |
97.71 |
2010-05-16 |
| 31. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
97.60 |
1.0515 |
-0.0289 |
250 |
3 |
89.61 |
2010-05-18 |
| 32. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
97.39 |
0.9279 |
0.1008 |
317 |
1 |
97.39 |
2012-02-26 |
| 33. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
96.93 |
0.9994 |
0.0485 |
269 |
1 |
96.93 |
2010-07-31 |
| 34. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
96.79 |
1.0099 |
0.0030 |
207 |
1 |
96.79 |
2012-02-27 |
| 35. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
96.42 |
0.9213 |
0.0911 |
295 |
1 |
96.42 |
2010-05-16 |
| 36. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
96.36 |
0.9831 |
0.0362 |
469 |
1 |
96.36 |
2010-05-18 |
| 37. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
95.87 |
0.9897 |
0.0141 |
274 |
1 |
95.87 |
2010-05-16 |
| 38. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
95.77 |
1.0445 |
-0.0386 |
373 |
1 |
95.77 |
2010-05-23 |
| 39. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
95.28 |
0.9670 |
0.0749 |
307 |
1 |
95.28 |
2012-02-27 |
| 40. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
94.69 |
1.0567 |
-0.0626 |
303 |
1 |
94.69 |
2010-05-16 |
| 41. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
94.60 |
1.0673 |
-0.0330 |
230 |
1 |
94.60 |
2013-04-02 |
| 42. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
94.41 |
1.0232 |
0.0030 |
236 |
1 |
94.41 |
2010-05-23 |
| 43. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
94.40 |
0.9485 |
0.0436 |
236 |
1 |
94.40 |
2010-05-18 |
| 44. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
94.37 |
1.0167 |
-0.0198 |
378 |
1 |
94.37 |
2010-05-16 |
| 45. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
94.14 |
1.0183 |
-0.0362 |
191 |
1 |
94.14 |
2010-05-16 |
| 46. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
94.14 |
0.9668 |
0.0635 |
383 |
1 |
94.14 |
2010-05-16 |
| 47. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
94.06 |
1.0314 |
-0.0054 |
452 |
1 |
94.06 |
2010-05-16 |
| 48. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
93.76 |
0.9164 |
0.0720 |
305 |
1 |
93.76 |
2012-02-27 |
| 49. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
93.76 |
0.9881 |
0.0360 |
424 |
1 |
93.76 |
2012-02-27 |
| 50. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
93.68 |
0.9986 |
-0.0152 |
283 |
1 |
93.68 |
2010-05-18 |
| 51. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
92.69 |
0.9965 |
-0.0290 |
168 |
1 |
92.69 |
2010-05-16 |
| 52. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
92.40 |
1.0352 |
-0.0634 |
341 |
1 |
92.40 |
2010-05-16 |
| 53. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
92.11 |
0.9871 |
0.0152 |
209 |
2 |
87.67 |
2010-05-17 |
| 54. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
91.70 |
0.9723 |
-0.0069 |
364 |
1 |
91.70 |
2010-05-16 |
| 55. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
91.33 |
1.0131 |
-0.0592 |
225 |
1 |
91.33 |
2010-05-16 |
| 56. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
91.30 |
0.9687 |
-0.0065 |
371 |
1 |
91.30 |
2010-05-16 |
| 57. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
91.29 |
0.9148 |
0.0440 |
317 |
1 |
91.29 |
2010-05-16 |
| 58. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
91.06 |
0.9635 |
-0.0032 |
389 |
1 |
91.06 |
2012-02-26 |
| 59. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
90.61 |
0.9342 |
0.0195 |
434 |
1 |
90.61 |
2010-05-18 |
| 60. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
90.60 |
1.0358 |
-0.0441 |
349 |
1 |
90.60 |
2012-02-26 |
| 61. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
90.15 |
0.8467 |
0.1228 |
343 |
1 |
90.15 |
2010-05-16 |
| 62. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
90.11 |
0.8996 |
0.0397 |
192 |
1 |
90.11 |
2012-02-27 |
| 63. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
90.10 |
0.9925 |
-0.0111 |
247 |
1 |
90.10 |
2010-05-16 |
| 64. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
90.05 |
1.0565 |
-0.1149 |
247 |
1 |
90.05 |
2010-05-18 |
| 65. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
89.76 |
0.9087 |
0.0431 |
393 |
1 |
89.76 |
2010-05-18 |
| 66. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
89.57 |
0.9597 |
-0.0165 |
347 |
1 |
89.57 |
2010-07-31 |
| 67. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
88.81 |
1.0531 |
-0.0840 |
272 |
1 |
88.81 |
2012-02-27 |
| 68. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
88.58 |
0.9570 |
-0.0267 |
287 |
1 |
88.58 |
2010-05-16 |
| 69. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
88.44 |
1.0426 |
-0.1162 |
323 |
1 |
88.44 |
2010-05-16 |
| 70. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
88.40 |
0.9790 |
-0.0117 |
311 |
1 |
88.40 |
2012-02-27 |
| 71. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
88.17 |
0.8981 |
0.0307 |
393 |
2 |
85.62 |
2012-02-26 |
| 72. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
88.10 |
0.9681 |
-0.0363 |
378 |
1 |
88.10 |
2010-05-16 |
| 73. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
87.90 |
1.0379 |
-0.0816 |
245 |
1 |
87.90 |
2010-05-16 |
| 74. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
87.75 |
1.0711 |
-0.1564 |
213 |
1 |
87.75 |
2012-02-26 |
| 75. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
86.86 |
0.9309 |
-0.0225 |
284 |
1 |
86.86 |
2010-05-23 |
| 76. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
86.12 |
0.8826 |
0.0212 |
296 |
1 |
86.12 |
2010-05-16 |
| 77. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
86.01 |
1.0331 |
-0.1340 |
234 |
1 |
86.01 |
2010-05-16 |
| 78. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
85.78 |
0.9673 |
-0.0292 |
232 |
2 |
76.52 |
2010-05-16 |
| 79. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
85.65 |
1.0389 |
-0.1391 |
340 |
1 |
85.65 |
2010-05-16 |
| 80. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
82.59 |
0.9293 |
-0.0636 |
355 |
1 |
82.59 |
2010-05-16 |
| 81. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
81.16 |
0.9682 |
-0.1204 |
143 |
1 |
81.16 |
2010-05-16 |
| 82. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
80.86 |
0.9665 |
-0.0707 |
326 |
2 |
80.42 |
2010-05-16 |
| 83. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
80.61 |
0.9212 |
-0.0740 |
323 |
1 |
80.61 |
2010-05-16 |
| 84. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
80.42 |
0.9731 |
-0.1437 |
129 |
1 |
80.42 |
2010-05-16 |
| 85. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
79.43 |
0.9640 |
-0.1034 |
334 |
2 |
77.77 |
2010-05-16 |
| 86. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
77.10 |
0.9289 |
-0.1246 |
204 |
1 |
77.10 |
2010-05-27 |
| 87. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
76.52 |
1.0201 |
-0.2265 |
172 |
1 |
76.52 |
2010-05-16 |
| 88. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
75.70 |
0.9176 |
-0.0871 |
365 |
1 |
75.70 |
2010-05-16 |
| 89. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
74.10 |
0.9286 |
-0.1549 |
194 |
1 |
74.10 |
2010-05-16 |
| 90. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
68.68 |
1.0419 |
-0.3248 |
261 |
1 |
68.68 |
2010-05-16 |