| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
74.15 |
0.9572 |
0.2545 |
201 |
1 |
74.15 |
2009-09-26 |
| 2. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
70.65 |
0.9899 |
0.1603 |
163 |
1 |
70.65 |
2009-09-18 |
| 3. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
69.85 |
1.0387 |
0.1353 |
239 |
1 |
69.85 |
2012-04-02 |
| 4. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
69.78 |
1.0787 |
0.0605 |
237 |
1 |
69.78 |
2009-09-19 |
| 5. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
68.86 |
1.0486 |
0.0775 |
289 |
1 |
68.86 |
2009-09-19 |
| 6. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
68.79 |
1.0567 |
0.0681 |
303 |
1 |
68.79 |
2009-12-13 |
| 7. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
68.31 |
0.9893 |
0.1270 |
323 |
1 |
68.31 |
2009-09-19 |
| 8. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
68.17 |
1.0767 |
0.0350 |
212 |
1 |
68.17 |
2009-09-19 |
| 9. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
68.03 |
0.9991 |
0.1130 |
225 |
1 |
68.03 |
2009-09-19 |
| 10. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
68.03 |
1.0419 |
0.0697 |
261 |
1 |
68.03 |
2012-04-02 |
| 11. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
67.99 |
1.0829 |
0.0296 |
288 |
1 |
67.99 |
2009-09-19 |
| 12. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
66.50 |
0.9653 |
0.1293 |
394 |
1 |
66.50 |
2009-09-19 |
| 13. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
66.21 |
1.0795 |
0.0325 |
226 |
1 |
66.21 |
2009-09-18 |
| 14. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
66.21 |
0.9672 |
0.1208 |
396 |
1 |
66.21 |
2009-09-19 |
| 15. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
66.07 |
1.0343 |
0.0823 |
242 |
1 |
66.07 |
2009-09-19 |
| 16. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
65.97 |
0.9684 |
0.1119 |
388 |
1 |
65.97 |
2009-09-19 |
| 17. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
65.11 |
0.9820 |
0.0816 |
274 |
1 |
65.11 |
2009-09-26 |
| 18. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
64.97 |
1.0677 |
0.0237 |
284 |
1 |
64.97 |
2012-04-02 |
| 19. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
64.72 |
1.0396 |
0.0101 |
149 |
2 |
51.42 |
2009-09-19 |
| 20. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
64.48 |
0.9468 |
0.1056 |
276 |
1 |
64.48 |
2009-09-18 |
| 21. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
64.31 |
0.9567 |
0.0932 |
273 |
1 |
64.31 |
2009-09-26 |
| 22. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
63.69 |
0.9907 |
0.0476 |
211 |
1 |
63.69 |
2009-09-19 |
| 23. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
63.65 |
1.0796 |
-0.0452 |
129 |
1 |
63.65 |
2009-09-19 |
| 24. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
63.39 |
0.9668 |
0.1107 |
383 |
1 |
63.39 |
2012-04-02 |
| 25. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
63.19 |
0.9074 |
0.1307 |
396 |
2 |
58.81 |
2010-05-28 |
| 26. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
63.08 |
1.0095 |
0.0192 |
316 |
1 |
63.08 |
2009-09-18 |
| 27. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
62.71 |
1.0150 |
0.0577 |
325 |
1 |
62.71 |
2009-09-19 |
| 28. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
62.44 |
0.9426 |
0.0797 |
317 |
1 |
62.44 |
2012-04-02 |
| 29. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
62.40 |
0.9532 |
0.0641 |
258 |
1 |
62.40 |
2009-09-19 |
| 30. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
62.39 |
1.0251 |
-0.0089 |
261 |
1 |
62.39 |
2009-09-28 |
| 31. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
62.10 |
0.9557 |
0.0642 |
331 |
1 |
62.10 |
2009-12-13 |
| 32. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
61.60 |
0.9045 |
0.1011 |
235 |
1 |
61.60 |
2009-09-19 |
| 33. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
61.47 |
1.0595 |
-0.0538 |
379 |
1 |
61.47 |
2009-09-18 |
| 34. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
61.35 |
1.0444 |
-0.0498 |
197 |
1 |
61.35 |
2009-09-19 |
| 35. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
61.16 |
1.0131 |
-0.0189 |
225 |
1 |
61.16 |
2009-09-18 |
| 36. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
60.53 |
0.8602 |
0.1252 |
206 |
1 |
60.53 |
2009-09-28 |
| 37. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
60.35 |
1.0254 |
0.0001 |
217 |
2 |
58.26 |
2009-09-19 |
| 38. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
60.33 |
0.9851 |
0.0014 |
317 |
1 |
60.33 |
2009-09-26 |
| 39. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
59.78 |
1.0389 |
-0.0620 |
318 |
1 |
59.78 |
2009-09-19 |
| 40. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
59.44 |
1.0390 |
-0.0732 |
205 |
2 |
52.04 |
2009-09-26 |
| 41. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
58.59 |
1.0183 |
-0.0683 |
191 |
1 |
58.59 |
2009-09-19 |
| 42. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
57.91 |
0.9005 |
0.0423 |
212 |
1 |
57.91 |
2009-09-18 |
| 43. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
57.45 |
0.9097 |
0.0686 |
464 |
1 |
57.45 |
2009-10-20 |
| 44. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
57.28 |
0.9731 |
-0.0517 |
129 |
1 |
57.28 |
2012-04-02 |
| 45. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
57.14 |
0.9814 |
-0.0104 |
364 |
1 |
57.14 |
2009-09-28 |
| 46. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
57.11 |
0.9843 |
-0.0582 |
234 |
1 |
57.11 |
2009-09-18 |
| 47. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
56.97 |
0.9351 |
-0.0118 |
190 |
1 |
56.97 |
2009-09-18 |
| 48. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
56.82 |
0.9164 |
0.0147 |
305 |
1 |
56.82 |
2009-09-19 |
| 49. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
56.63 |
0.8382 |
0.0855 |
268 |
1 |
56.63 |
2010-05-28 |
| 50. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
56.49 |
0.9997 |
-0.0752 |
382 |
1 |
56.49 |
2009-09-19 |
| 51. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
56.11 |
0.9905 |
-0.0681 |
377 |
1 |
56.11 |
2009-09-18 |
| 52. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
55.87 |
0.8753 |
0.0445 |
427 |
1 |
55.87 |
2009-09-19 |
| 53. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
55.86 |
0.8770 |
0.0367 |
300 |
1 |
55.86 |
2009-09-18 |
| 54. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
54.54 |
0.9785 |
-0.0867 |
335 |
1 |
54.54 |
2009-12-13 |
| 55. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
54.54 |
0.9330 |
-0.0378 |
360 |
1 |
54.54 |
2009-09-19 |
| 56. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
54.36 |
0.8826 |
0.0045 |
296 |
1 |
54.36 |
2009-10-20 |
| 57. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
53.51 |
1.0261 |
-0.1564 |
273 |
1 |
53.51 |
2009-09-18 |
| 58. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
53.05 |
0.9514 |
-0.0871 |
237 |
1 |
53.05 |
2009-09-28 |
| 59. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
51.61 |
0.9309 |
-0.0926 |
284 |
1 |
51.61 |
2009-09-26 |
| 60. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
51.35 |
0.9636 |
-0.1278 |
254 |
1 |
51.35 |
2009-09-18 |
| 61. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
48.45 |
0.8961 |
-0.1115 |
189 |
1 |
48.45 |
2009-09-19 |
| 62. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
45.34 |
0.9769 |
-0.2424 |
263 |
1 |
45.34 |
2009-09-19 |
| 63. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
41.92 |
0.8916 |
-0.2113 |
216 |
1 |
41.92 |
2009-09-18 |
| 64. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
30.70 |
0.9461 |
-0.4553 |
193 |
1 |
30.70 |
2012-04-02 |