| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
61.10 |
1.0515 |
0.1618 |
250 |
1 |
61.10 |
2012-07-17 |
| 2. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
59.27 |
0.9866 |
0.1884 |
218 |
1 |
59.27 |
2012-06-02 |
| 3. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
59.06 |
0.9938 |
0.1810 |
339 |
1 |
59.06 |
2012-06-07 |
| 4. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
58.41 |
1.1081 |
0.0875 |
206 |
1 |
58.41 |
2012-07-02 |
| 5. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
58.07 |
0.9068 |
0.2457 |
225 |
1 |
58.07 |
2012-07-03 |
| 6. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
56.47 |
1.0444 |
0.0714 |
197 |
3 |
54.19 |
2012-06-02 |
| 7. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
56.14 |
1.0529 |
0.0626 |
351 |
1 |
56.14 |
2012-07-02 |
| 8. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
55.77 |
0.9722 |
0.1380 |
283 |
1 |
55.77 |
2012-06-01 |
| 9. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
55.27 |
1.0885 |
0.0446 |
341 |
2 |
52.12 |
2012-07-01 |
| 10. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
55.00 |
1.0714 |
0.0123 |
129 |
1 |
55.00 |
2012-07-03 |
| 11. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
54.81 |
1.0016 |
0.0826 |
218 |
3 |
51.82 |
2012-07-17 |
| 12. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
54.63 |
0.9871 |
0.1344 |
209 |
1 |
54.63 |
2012-06-03 |
| 13. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
54.41 |
0.9844 |
0.1071 |
229 |
1 |
54.41 |
2012-06-01 |
| 14. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
54.33 |
1.0567 |
0.0234 |
303 |
1 |
54.33 |
2012-06-04 |
| 15. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
54.06 |
1.1018 |
-0.0346 |
220 |
1 |
54.06 |
2012-06-03 |
| 16. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
53.86 |
0.9226 |
0.1533 |
348 |
2 |
51.56 |
2012-08-12 |
| 17. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
53.79 |
1.0795 |
0.0191 |
226 |
1 |
53.79 |
2012-06-05 |
| 18. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
53.78 |
0.9162 |
0.1522 |
165 |
1 |
53.78 |
2012-06-02 |
| 19. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
53.28 |
0.9711 |
0.0855 |
176 |
1 |
53.28 |
2012-07-17 |
| 20. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
53.24 |
1.1215 |
-0.0404 |
200 |
1 |
53.24 |
2012-06-01 |
| 21. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
53.22 |
1.0352 |
0.0244 |
341 |
1 |
53.22 |
2012-06-01 |
| 22. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
53.03 |
0.9893 |
0.0638 |
323 |
1 |
53.03 |
2012-06-03 |
| 23. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
53.01 |
0.9894 |
0.0678 |
323 |
1 |
53.01 |
2012-06-02 |
| 24. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
52.69 |
1.0154 |
0.0806 |
351 |
1 |
52.69 |
2012-07-02 |
| 25. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
52.66 |
1.0485 |
0.0316 |
153 |
2 |
46.50 |
2012-06-03 |
| 26. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
52.66 |
1.0445 |
0.0022 |
373 |
1 |
52.66 |
2012-07-03 |
| 27. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
52.63 |
1.0863 |
-0.0067 |
210 |
1 |
52.63 |
2012-06-03 |
| 28. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
52.56 |
1.0763 |
0.0091 |
367 |
1 |
52.56 |
2012-06-01 |
| 29. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
52.55 |
1.0389 |
0.0062 |
318 |
1 |
52.55 |
2012-06-02 |
| 30. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
52.34 |
1.0331 |
0.0038 |
234 |
1 |
52.34 |
2012-07-02 |
| 31. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
52.29 |
0.9310 |
0.1026 |
188 |
1 |
52.29 |
2012-07-01 |
| 32. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
52.22 |
0.9897 |
0.0447 |
274 |
1 |
52.22 |
2012-06-03 |
| 33. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
52.13 |
1.0201 |
0.0154 |
303 |
1 |
52.13 |
2012-07-01 |
| 34. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
52.07 |
0.9286 |
0.1041 |
194 |
1 |
52.07 |
2012-07-17 |
| 35. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
51.97 |
1.0141 |
0.0541 |
304 |
1 |
51.97 |
2013-04-17 |
| 36. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
51.68 |
1.0598 |
-0.0400 |
196 |
1 |
51.68 |
2012-06-05 |
| 37. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
51.68 |
1.0029 |
0.0166 |
209 |
1 |
51.68 |
2012-06-03 |
| 38. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
51.66 |
1.0696 |
-0.0474 |
226 |
1 |
51.66 |
2012-06-04 |
| 39. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
51.59 |
0.9922 |
0.0729 |
341 |
1 |
51.59 |
2012-06-02 |
| 40. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
51.56 |
0.9359 |
0.1272 |
353 |
1 |
51.56 |
2012-09-14 |
| 41. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
51.14 |
0.9941 |
0.0188 |
217 |
2 |
48.57 |
2012-06-03 |
| 42. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
51.14 |
1.0673 |
-0.0105 |
230 |
1 |
51.14 |
2012-06-05 |
| 43. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
50.78 |
0.9768 |
0.0338 |
387 |
1 |
50.78 |
2012-06-01 |
| 44. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
50.73 |
0.9820 |
0.0278 |
267 |
1 |
50.73 |
2012-06-02 |
| 45. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
50.45 |
1.0284 |
0.0160 |
282 |
1 |
50.45 |
2012-07-02 |
| 46. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
50.45 |
1.0004 |
-0.0053 |
212 |
1 |
50.45 |
2012-06-01 |
| 47. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
50.43 |
0.9758 |
0.0257 |
314 |
1 |
50.43 |
2012-06-03 |
| 48. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
50.09 |
1.0297 |
-0.0369 |
249 |
1 |
50.09 |
2012-06-01 |
| 49. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
50.00 |
1.0604 |
-0.0351 |
260 |
1 |
50.00 |
2012-06-01 |
| 50. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
49.92 |
1.0183 |
-0.0332 |
191 |
1 |
49.92 |
2012-06-01 |
| 51. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
49.84 |
1.0389 |
-0.0476 |
340 |
1 |
49.84 |
2012-07-02 |
| 52. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
49.82 |
0.9904 |
0.0387 |
203 |
1 |
49.82 |
2012-06-01 |
| 53. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
49.70 |
1.0387 |
-0.0207 |
239 |
1 |
49.70 |
2012-06-03 |
| 54. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
49.61 |
1.0523 |
-0.0722 |
256 |
1 |
49.61 |
2012-06-02 |
| 55. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
49.50 |
1.1014 |
-0.0816 |
273 |
1 |
49.50 |
2012-06-10 |
| 56. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
49.50 |
0.9936 |
-0.0117 |
311 |
1 |
49.50 |
2012-07-02 |
| 57. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
49.42 |
1.0173 |
0.0073 |
268 |
2 |
47.64 |
2012-06-03 |
| 58. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
49.34 |
0.9805 |
0.0030 |
292 |
1 |
49.34 |
2012-06-01 |
| 59. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
49.25 |
1.0012 |
-0.0214 |
260 |
1 |
49.25 |
2012-06-05 |
| 60. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
49.17 |
0.9155 |
0.1092 |
168 |
1 |
49.17 |
2012-09-14 |
| 61. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
49.07 |
0.9726 |
-0.0060 |
154 |
1 |
49.07 |
2012-07-01 |
| 62. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
48.99 |
0.8968 |
0.0717 |
186 |
1 |
48.99 |
2012-06-01 |
| 63. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
48.93 |
1.0487 |
-0.0831 |
231 |
1 |
48.93 |
2012-06-01 |
| 64. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
48.90 |
0.9430 |
0.0238 |
227 |
2 |
47.60 |
2012-07-02 |
| 65. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
48.86 |
0.9598 |
0.0167 |
220 |
1 |
48.86 |
2012-06-01 |
| 66. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
48.47 |
1.0426 |
-0.0819 |
323 |
1 |
48.47 |
2012-06-01 |
| 67. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
48.15 |
1.0621 |
-0.0877 |
263 |
1 |
48.15 |
2012-07-02 |
| 68. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
48.09 |
0.9570 |
-0.0016 |
287 |
1 |
48.09 |
2012-06-05 |
| 69. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
47.80 |
0.9567 |
-0.0086 |
273 |
1 |
47.80 |
2012-06-01 |
| 70. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
47.72 |
0.9863 |
-0.0356 |
339 |
1 |
47.72 |
2012-06-03 |
| 71. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
47.72 |
1.0320 |
-0.0484 |
293 |
1 |
47.72 |
2012-06-02 |
| 72. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
47.67 |
0.9780 |
-0.0317 |
337 |
1 |
47.67 |
2012-06-05 |
| 73. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
47.45 |
1.0352 |
-0.0910 |
341 |
1 |
47.45 |
2012-06-04 |
| 74. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
47.43 |
0.9754 |
-0.0289 |
362 |
1 |
47.43 |
2012-06-02 |
| 75. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
47.22 |
0.9633 |
-0.0249 |
304 |
1 |
47.22 |
2012-06-03 |
| 76. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
47.08 |
0.9084 |
0.0289 |
404 |
1 |
47.08 |
2012-06-02 |
| 77. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
46.82 |
1.0669 |
-0.1064 |
286 |
1 |
46.82 |
2012-06-02 |
| 78. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
46.77 |
0.9774 |
-0.0515 |
196 |
1 |
46.77 |
2012-06-02 |
| 79. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
46.72 |
1.0316 |
-0.1015 |
333 |
1 |
46.72 |
2012-06-06 |
| 80. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
46.59 |
0.9303 |
-0.0138 |
176 |
1 |
46.59 |
2012-06-01 |
| 81. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
46.54 |
0.9471 |
-0.0143 |
312 |
1 |
46.54 |
2012-06-03 |
| 82. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
46.34 |
1.0232 |
-0.0587 |
350 |
1 |
46.34 |
2012-06-04 |
| 83. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
46.22 |
0.9023 |
0.0567 |
231 |
1 |
46.22 |
2012-08-12 |
| 84. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
46.21 |
0.9670 |
-0.0091 |
307 |
1 |
46.21 |
2012-07-17 |
| 85. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
46.12 |
0.8906 |
0.0274 |
238 |
1 |
46.12 |
2012-06-05 |
| 86. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
46.00 |
0.9631 |
-0.0001 |
345 |
1 |
46.00 |
2012-06-01 |
| 87. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
45.85 |
0.8602 |
0.0466 |
206 |
1 |
45.85 |
2012-06-02 |
| 88. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
45.64 |
0.9912 |
-0.0599 |
237 |
1 |
45.64 |
2012-06-01 |
| 89. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
45.57 |
0.9831 |
-0.0721 |
469 |
1 |
45.57 |
2012-06-02 |
| 90. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
44.45 |
0.9045 |
-0.0233 |
235 |
1 |
44.45 |
2012-06-02 |
| 91. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
44.41 |
0.8958 |
-0.0112 |
322 |
1 |
44.41 |
2012-07-03 |
| 92. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
44.40 |
0.9207 |
-0.0387 |
174 |
1 |
44.40 |
2012-06-03 |
| 93. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
44.24 |
1.0337 |
-0.1581 |
214 |
1 |
44.24 |
2012-06-03 |
| 94. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
43.50 |
0.8961 |
-0.0381 |
189 |
1 |
43.50 |
2012-06-01 |
| 95. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
43.40 |
0.9786 |
-0.1241 |
193 |
1 |
43.40 |
2012-06-01 |
| 96. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
42.38 |
0.9649 |
-0.1269 |
193 |
1 |
42.38 |
2012-07-02 |
| 97. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
41.81 |
0.9212 |
-0.0905 |
323 |
1 |
41.81 |
2012-06-06 |
| 98. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
41.53 |
0.9293 |
-0.1062 |
355 |
1 |
41.53 |
2012-06-01 |
| 99. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
40.20 |
0.7876 |
0.0102 |
316 |
1 |
40.20 |
2012-07-16 |
| 100. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
38.94 |
0.9773 |
-0.2157 |
123 |
1 |
38.94 |
2012-06-02 |
| 101. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
37.92 |
0.9994 |
-0.2194 |
269 |
1 |
37.92 |
2012-06-05 |
| 102. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
33.55 |
0.8022 |
-0.1379 |
215 |
1 |
33.55 |
2012-06-01 |