| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
57.34 |
1.1016 |
0.2797 |
233 |
1 |
57.34 |
2011-05-17 |
| 2. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
53.47 |
1.0023 |
0.2851 |
211 |
1 |
53.47 |
2011-05-17 |
| 3. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
51.62 |
0.9263 |
0.3182 |
188 |
1 |
51.62 |
2011-05-17 |
| 4. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
50.74 |
0.9597 |
0.2635 |
347 |
1 |
50.74 |
2011-05-17 |
| 5. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
50.26 |
0.9964 |
0.2136 |
203 |
1 |
50.26 |
2011-05-17 |
| 6. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
49.88 |
1.0565 |
0.1439 |
247 |
2 |
46.82 |
2011-05-17 |
| 7. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
49.59 |
0.9722 |
0.2244 |
283 |
1 |
49.59 |
2011-05-17 |
| 8. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
49.20 |
1.0516 |
0.1325 |
281 |
1 |
49.20 |
2011-05-17 |
| 9. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
49.02 |
0.8809 |
0.3006 |
127 |
1 |
49.02 |
2011-05-17 |
| 10. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
48.91 |
0.9907 |
0.1861 |
211 |
1 |
48.91 |
2011-05-17 |
| 11. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
48.90 |
0.9792 |
0.2297 |
265 |
1 |
48.90 |
2011-05-17 |
| 12. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
48.80 |
1.0396 |
0.1344 |
149 |
2 |
46.91 |
2011-05-17 |
| 13. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
48.25 |
1.0567 |
0.1044 |
303 |
3 |
42.36 |
2011-05-17 |
| 14. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
47.45 |
0.9754 |
0.1679 |
362 |
1 |
47.45 |
2011-05-17 |
| 15. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
47.34 |
1.0214 |
0.1175 |
269 |
1 |
47.34 |
2011-05-17 |
| 16. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
47.33 |
1.0334 |
0.1034 |
131 |
1 |
47.33 |
2011-05-17 |
| 17. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
47.30 |
1.0063 |
0.1321 |
371 |
1 |
47.30 |
2011-05-17 |
| 18. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
47.28 |
1.0619 |
0.0762 |
354 |
1 |
47.28 |
2011-05-17 |
| 19. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
46.95 |
1.0419 |
0.0870 |
261 |
1 |
46.95 |
2011-05-17 |
| 20. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
46.42 |
1.0883 |
0.0541 |
303 |
1 |
46.42 |
2011-05-17 |
| 21. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
46.29 |
0.8951 |
0.2220 |
193 |
1 |
46.29 |
2011-05-17 |
| 22. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.12 |
1.0444 |
0.0646 |
197 |
1 |
46.12 |
2011-05-17 |
| 23. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
45.87 |
0.9697 |
0.1344 |
249 |
1 |
45.87 |
2011-05-17 |
| 24. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
45.83 |
1.0131 |
0.0898 |
225 |
1 |
45.83 |
2011-05-17 |
| 25. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
45.78 |
1.0197 |
0.0812 |
226 |
1 |
45.78 |
2011-05-17 |
| 26. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
45.72 |
1.0349 |
0.0656 |
234 |
1 |
45.72 |
2011-05-17 |
| 27. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
45.45 |
0.9266 |
0.1673 |
267 |
1 |
45.45 |
2011-05-17 |
| 28. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
45.41 |
1.0426 |
0.0500 |
323 |
1 |
45.41 |
2011-05-17 |
| 29. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
45.38 |
1.0389 |
0.0526 |
340 |
1 |
45.38 |
2011-05-17 |
| 30. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.21 |
0.9899 |
0.0972 |
163 |
1 |
45.21 |
2011-05-17 |
| 31. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
45.08 |
0.9966 |
0.0887 |
259 |
1 |
45.08 |
2011-05-17 |
| 32. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
44.89 |
1.0346 |
0.0809 |
244 |
1 |
44.89 |
2011-05-17 |
| 33. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
44.68 |
1.1114 |
-0.0380 |
247 |
1 |
44.68 |
2011-05-17 |
| 34. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
44.68 |
0.9216 |
0.1837 |
255 |
1 |
44.68 |
2011-05-17 |
| 35. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
44.31 |
1.0496 |
0.0162 |
314 |
2 |
39.60 |
2011-05-17 |
| 36. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
44.15 |
0.8615 |
0.2044 |
110 |
1 |
44.15 |
2011-05-17 |
| 37. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
43.99 |
0.9670 |
0.1248 |
307 |
1 |
43.99 |
2011-05-17 |
| 38. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
43.92 |
0.9023 |
0.1913 |
231 |
1 |
43.92 |
2011-05-17 |
| 39. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
43.73 |
0.7805 |
0.2736 |
154 |
1 |
43.73 |
2011-05-17 |
| 40. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
43.62 |
1.0213 |
0.0270 |
240 |
1 |
43.62 |
2011-05-17 |
| 41. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
43.47 |
0.9016 |
0.1471 |
192 |
1 |
43.47 |
2011-05-17 |
| 42. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
43.37 |
0.9307 |
0.1177 |
246 |
1 |
43.37 |
2011-05-17 |
| 43. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
43.15 |
1.0740 |
-0.0045 |
264 |
1 |
43.15 |
2011-05-17 |
| 44. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
43.09 |
0.9430 |
0.0953 |
297 |
1 |
43.09 |
2011-05-17 |
| 45. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
43.08 |
1.0168 |
0.0181 |
271 |
1 |
43.08 |
2011-05-17 |
| 46. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
42.94 |
1.0368 |
-0.0035 |
276 |
1 |
42.94 |
2011-05-17 |
| 47. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
42.84 |
1.0462 |
-0.0167 |
184 |
1 |
42.84 |
2011-05-17 |
| 48. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
42.65 |
0.8791 |
0.1500 |
190 |
1 |
42.65 |
2011-05-17 |
| 49. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
42.44 |
1.0523 |
-0.0325 |
256 |
4 |
40.81 |
2011-05-17 |
| 50. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
42.41 |
0.8914 |
0.1303 |
366 |
1 |
42.41 |
2011-05-17 |
| 51. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
42.16 |
1.0025 |
0.0114 |
256 |
1 |
42.16 |
2011-05-17 |
| 52. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
41.89 |
0.9871 |
0.0545 |
209 |
1 |
41.89 |
2011-05-17 |
| 53. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
41.86 |
1.0240 |
-0.0169 |
256 |
1 |
41.86 |
2011-05-17 |
| 54. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
41.77 |
1.0677 |
-0.0378 |
284 |
1 |
41.77 |
2011-05-17 |
| 55. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
41.76 |
0.9567 |
0.0480 |
273 |
1 |
41.76 |
2011-05-17 |
| 56. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
41.55 |
1.0183 |
-0.0204 |
191 |
1 |
41.55 |
2011-05-17 |
| 57. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
41.54 |
1.0669 |
-0.0403 |
286 |
1 |
41.54 |
2011-05-17 |
| 58. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
41.45 |
1.0254 |
0.0101 |
217 |
1 |
41.45 |
2011-05-17 |
| 59. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
41.11 |
0.9162 |
0.0743 |
165 |
1 |
41.11 |
2011-05-17 |
| 60. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
41.08 |
1.0483 |
-0.0615 |
227 |
2 |
40.21 |
2011-05-17 |
| 61. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
41.04 |
0.9910 |
-0.0043 |
295 |
1 |
41.04 |
2011-05-17 |
| 62. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
40.82 |
0.9884 |
-0.0043 |
262 |
1 |
40.82 |
2011-05-17 |
| 63. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
40.62 |
0.9529 |
0.0566 |
269 |
1 |
40.62 |
2011-05-17 |
| 64. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
40.60 |
0.9863 |
-0.0101 |
339 |
1 |
40.60 |
2011-05-17 |
| 65. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
40.50 |
0.9212 |
0.0563 |
231 |
1 |
40.50 |
2011-05-17 |
| 66. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
40.50 |
1.0577 |
-0.0848 |
247 |
1 |
40.50 |
2011-05-17 |
| 67. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
40.46 |
0.8956 |
0.0784 |
322 |
1 |
40.46 |
2011-05-17 |
| 68. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
40.45 |
0.9500 |
0.0233 |
362 |
1 |
40.45 |
2011-05-17 |
| 69. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
40.41 |
0.8022 |
0.1717 |
215 |
2 |
37.72 |
2011-05-17 |
| 70. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
40.13 |
0.9532 |
0.0122 |
258 |
1 |
40.13 |
2011-05-17 |
| 71. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
40.05 |
0.7890 |
0.1777 |
230 |
1 |
40.05 |
2011-05-17 |
| 72. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
39.71 |
1.0463 |
-0.0928 |
182 |
1 |
39.71 |
2011-05-17 |
| 73. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
39.60 |
0.8918 |
0.0617 |
100 |
1 |
39.60 |
2011-05-17 |
| 74. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
39.54 |
1.0034 |
-0.0532 |
302 |
1 |
39.54 |
2011-05-17 |
| 75. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
39.50 |
1.0029 |
-0.0539 |
209 |
1 |
39.50 |
2011-05-17 |
| 76. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
39.50 |
1.0109 |
-0.0617 |
276 |
1 |
39.50 |
2011-05-17 |
| 77. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
39.47 |
0.8096 |
0.1440 |
209 |
1 |
39.47 |
2011-05-17 |
| 78. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
39.42 |
0.9281 |
0.0230 |
273 |
1 |
39.42 |
2011-05-17 |
| 79. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
39.38 |
1.0795 |
-0.1050 |
226 |
1 |
39.38 |
2011-05-17 |
| 80. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
39.35 |
0.9780 |
-0.0321 |
337 |
1 |
39.35 |
2011-05-17 |
| 81. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
39.17 |
1.0941 |
-0.1252 |
256 |
1 |
39.17 |
2011-05-17 |
| 82. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
38.88 |
1.0288 |
-0.0676 |
300 |
1 |
38.88 |
2011-05-17 |
| 83. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
38.79 |
0.9893 |
-0.0565 |
323 |
1 |
38.79 |
2011-05-17 |
| 84. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
38.75 |
0.9429 |
-0.0118 |
287 |
1 |
38.75 |
2011-05-17 |
| 85. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
38.44 |
1.0337 |
-0.1111 |
214 |
1 |
38.44 |
2011-05-17 |
| 86. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
38.19 |
0.8722 |
0.0469 |
285 |
1 |
38.19 |
2011-05-17 |
| 87. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
37.96 |
0.9048 |
0.0107 |
271 |
1 |
37.96 |
2011-05-17 |
| 88. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
37.92 |
1.0403 |
-0.0943 |
275 |
1 |
37.92 |
2011-05-17 |
| 89. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
37.61 |
0.9567 |
-0.0152 |
184 |
1 |
37.61 |
2011-05-17 |
| 90. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
37.48 |
0.9851 |
-0.0842 |
317 |
1 |
37.48 |
2011-05-17 |
| 91. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
37.45 |
0.7818 |
0.1194 |
195 |
1 |
37.45 |
2011-05-17 |
| 92. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
37.27 |
0.9943 |
-0.0980 |
373 |
1 |
37.27 |
2011-05-17 |
| 93. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
37.23 |
1.0486 |
-0.1543 |
289 |
1 |
37.23 |
2011-05-17 |
| 94. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
37.04 |
0.8553 |
0.0344 |
174 |
1 |
37.04 |
2011-05-17 |
| 95. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.80 |
0.9365 |
-0.0515 |
248 |
1 |
36.80 |
2011-05-17 |
| 96. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
36.77 |
1.0211 |
-0.1107 |
213 |
1 |
36.77 |
2011-05-17 |
| 97. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
36.43 |
1.0343 |
-0.1248 |
242 |
1 |
36.43 |
2011-05-17 |
| 98. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
36.38 |
0.9646 |
-0.0900 |
264 |
1 |
36.38 |
2011-05-17 |
| 99. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
35.69 |
0.8382 |
0.0204 |
268 |
1 |
35.69 |
2011-05-17 |
| 100. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
35.51 |
0.8348 |
0.0220 |
219 |
1 |
35.51 |
2011-05-17 |
| 101. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
35.40 |
1.1018 |
-0.2522 |
220 |
1 |
35.40 |
2011-05-17 |
| 102. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
35.30 |
1.0725 |
-0.1996 |
233 |
1 |
35.30 |
2011-05-17 |
| 103. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
34.31 |
0.9756 |
-0.1522 |
229 |
1 |
34.31 |
2011-05-17 |
| 104. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
34.13 |
0.8975 |
-0.0759 |
268 |
1 |
34.13 |
2011-05-17 |
| 105. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
33.97 |
0.8919 |
-0.0761 |
205 |
1 |
33.97 |
2011-05-17 |
| 106. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
33.92 |
0.9045 |
-0.0895 |
235 |
1 |
33.92 |
2011-05-17 |
| 107. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
33.86 |
0.8788 |
-0.0632 |
134 |
1 |
33.86 |
2011-05-17 |
| 108. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
33.60 |
1.0251 |
-0.2199 |
261 |
1 |
33.60 |
2011-05-17 |
| 109. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
33.51 |
0.9631 |
-0.1215 |
345 |
1 |
33.51 |
2011-05-17 |
| 110. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
33.18 |
0.9275 |
-0.1312 |
211 |
1 |
33.18 |
2011-05-17 |
| 111. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
32.07 |
0.8770 |
-0.1065 |
300 |
1 |
32.07 |
2011-05-17 |
| 112. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
30.79 |
0.9028 |
-0.1625 |
111 |
1 |
30.79 |
2011-05-17 |
| 113. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
30.73 |
0.9351 |
-0.1982 |
190 |
1 |
30.73 |
2011-05-17 |
| 114. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
29.76 |
0.9251 |
-0.2080 |
177 |
1 |
29.76 |
2011-05-17 |
| 115. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
29.62 |
0.9786 |
-0.2697 |
193 |
1 |
29.62 |
2011-05-17 |
| 116. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
29.62 |
0.7731 |
-0.0592 |
145 |
1 |
29.62 |
2011-05-17 |