| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
61.40 |
1.0314 |
0.4208 |
172 |
1 |
61.40 |
2012-01-15 |
| 2. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
53.95 |
1.0117 |
0.3106 |
297 |
1 |
53.95 |
2012-01-17 |
| 3. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
52.79 |
1.0125 |
0.2347 |
224 |
1 |
52.79 |
2012-01-17 |
| 4. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
52.42 |
0.8670 |
0.3791 |
318 |
1 |
52.42 |
2012-01-17 |
| 5. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
52.16 |
0.9653 |
0.2684 |
349 |
1 |
52.16 |
2012-01-18 |
| 6. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
50.98 |
1.0684 |
0.1680 |
253 |
1 |
50.98 |
2012-01-17 |
| 7. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
49.98 |
0.9464 |
0.2415 |
323 |
1 |
49.98 |
2012-01-18 |
| 8. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
49.94 |
0.9672 |
0.2209 |
396 |
1 |
49.94 |
2012-01-18 |
| 9. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
49.37 |
0.9171 |
0.2514 |
165 |
1 |
49.37 |
2009-06-24 |
| 10. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
49.18 |
0.9922 |
0.2121 |
341 |
1 |
49.18 |
2010-09-02 |
| 11. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
49.18 |
1.0033 |
0.1533 |
189 |
2 |
42.37 |
2009-06-24 |
| 12. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
48.94 |
0.8961 |
0.2582 |
189 |
1 |
48.94 |
2012-01-17 |
| 13. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
48.76 |
0.9688 |
0.1836 |
217 |
1 |
48.76 |
2012-01-15 |
| 14. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
48.46 |
0.9350 |
0.2117 |
195 |
1 |
48.46 |
2010-08-24 |
| 15. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
48.43 |
1.0320 |
0.1507 |
293 |
1 |
48.43 |
2010-09-02 |
| 16. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
48.31 |
1.0417 |
0.0981 |
253 |
1 |
48.31 |
2009-03-21 |
| 17. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
47.95 |
1.0795 |
0.0848 |
226 |
1 |
47.95 |
2010-09-02 |
| 18. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
47.60 |
0.9019 |
0.2291 |
204 |
2 |
43.47 |
2009-06-24 |
| 19. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
47.55 |
1.0023 |
0.1201 |
211 |
1 |
47.55 |
2009-06-24 |
| 20. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
47.42 |
0.9729 |
0.1485 |
255 |
1 |
47.42 |
2010-08-18 |
| 21. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
47.12 |
0.9307 |
0.1913 |
246 |
1 |
47.12 |
2009-06-24 |
| 22. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
47.12 |
1.0077 |
0.1474 |
250 |
1 |
47.12 |
2010-08-18 |
| 23. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
47.09 |
1.0109 |
0.1030 |
276 |
1 |
47.09 |
2010-08-18 |
| 24. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
47.05 |
1.0787 |
0.0322 |
237 |
1 |
47.05 |
2009-03-21 |
| 25. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
47.00 |
0.9866 |
0.1212 |
218 |
1 |
47.00 |
2009-03-21 |
| 26. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
46.22 |
0.9905 |
0.1337 |
337 |
1 |
46.22 |
2010-09-02 |
| 27. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
46.17 |
1.0567 |
0.0355 |
303 |
1 |
46.17 |
2010-08-18 |
| 28. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
46.15 |
0.9614 |
0.1328 |
292 |
2 |
41.83 |
2010-09-02 |
| 29. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
45.91 |
0.9532 |
0.1306 |
258 |
1 |
45.91 |
2012-01-15 |
| 30. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
45.88 |
1.0528 |
0.0269 |
201 |
1 |
45.88 |
2009-03-21 |
| 31. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
45.87 |
0.9772 |
0.1037 |
217 |
1 |
45.87 |
2009-03-21 |
| 32. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
45.86 |
0.8936 |
0.1894 |
127 |
1 |
45.86 |
2010-09-02 |
| 33. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
44.52 |
1.0252 |
0.0202 |
176 |
1 |
44.52 |
2010-09-02 |
| 34. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
44.30 |
1.0621 |
0.0039 |
263 |
1 |
44.30 |
2010-09-02 |
| 35. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
43.66 |
1.0521 |
-0.0259 |
171 |
1 |
43.66 |
2010-08-18 |
| 36. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
43.29 |
0.9941 |
0.0260 |
217 |
2 |
41.35 |
2009-04-04 |
| 37. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
43.14 |
0.9247 |
0.0990 |
253 |
1 |
43.14 |
2010-09-02 |
| 38. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
43.07 |
0.9316 |
0.0919 |
287 |
3 |
42.28 |
2009-03-21 |
| 39. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
43.05 |
1.0013 |
0.0145 |
273 |
2 |
42.20 |
2010-09-02 |
| 40. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
42.91 |
0.8811 |
0.1366 |
239 |
2 |
37.51 |
2009-06-24 |
| 41. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
42.79 |
1.0343 |
0.0134 |
242 |
1 |
42.79 |
2012-01-17 |
| 42. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
42.66 |
1.0419 |
-0.0347 |
261 |
2 |
42.66 |
2009-04-04 |
| 43. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
42.59 |
0.9570 |
0.0505 |
287 |
1 |
42.59 |
2010-09-02 |
| 44. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
42.48 |
0.9886 |
0.0170 |
220 |
1 |
42.48 |
2009-04-03 |
| 45. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
42.30 |
0.9342 |
0.0684 |
434 |
2 |
37.22 |
2012-02-01 |
| 46. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
42.21 |
0.9281 |
0.0733 |
273 |
1 |
42.21 |
2009-04-04 |
| 47. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
42.19 |
0.8890 |
0.1035 |
199 |
2 |
38.17 |
2010-08-18 |
| 48. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
42.18 |
0.8852 |
0.1132 |
201 |
1 |
42.18 |
2009-06-24 |
| 49. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
42.02 |
0.8792 |
0.1225 |
296 |
2 |
39.09 |
2009-03-21 |
| 50. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
41.96 |
0.8770 |
0.1169 |
300 |
1 |
41.96 |
2009-06-24 |
| 51. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
41.92 |
0.9684 |
0.0238 |
388 |
2 |
40.85 |
2009-04-03 |
| 52. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
41.88 |
1.0596 |
-0.0732 |
239 |
2 |
38.20 |
2009-04-03 |
| 53. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
41.86 |
0.9572 |
0.0296 |
201 |
1 |
41.86 |
2009-04-04 |
| 54. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
41.69 |
0.9805 |
0.0084 |
292 |
1 |
41.69 |
2010-08-24 |
| 55. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
41.55 |
0.9125 |
0.0702 |
308 |
2 |
41.54 |
2009-06-24 |
| 56. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
41.37 |
0.9257 |
0.0562 |
317 |
1 |
41.37 |
2009-04-04 |
| 57. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
41.33 |
0.9500 |
0.0276 |
362 |
3 |
33.74 |
2010-08-18 |
| 58. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
40.52 |
1.0483 |
-0.0953 |
227 |
1 |
40.52 |
2009-04-04 |
| 59. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
40.47 |
0.8595 |
0.0978 |
242 |
1 |
40.47 |
2012-01-18 |
| 60. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
40.02 |
1.0034 |
-0.0604 |
302 |
1 |
40.02 |
2009-06-24 |
| 61. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
39.89 |
0.8958 |
0.0503 |
322 |
2 |
38.88 |
2009-04-04 |
| 62. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
39.28 |
1.0197 |
-0.0960 |
226 |
2 |
38.88 |
2009-04-04 |
| 63. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
39.24 |
0.9567 |
-0.0309 |
273 |
1 |
39.24 |
2009-03-21 |
| 64. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
39.09 |
1.0516 |
-0.1303 |
281 |
2 |
33.59 |
2009-04-06 |
| 65. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
38.82 |
0.9266 |
-0.0094 |
278 |
1 |
38.82 |
2009-03-21 |
| 66. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
38.51 |
1.0349 |
-0.1277 |
234 |
1 |
38.51 |
2009-03-21 |
| 67. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
38.27 |
1.0577 |
-0.1592 |
247 |
1 |
38.27 |
2009-03-21 |
| 68. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
38.10 |
0.9894 |
-0.0866 |
323 |
1 |
38.10 |
2010-08-18 |
| 69. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
38.09 |
0.8154 |
0.0844 |
193 |
2 |
36.66 |
2010-08-18 |
| 70. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
37.90 |
0.8295 |
0.0659 |
209 |
1 |
37.90 |
2009-03-21 |
| 71. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
37.89 |
0.9068 |
-0.0107 |
269 |
1 |
37.89 |
2009-04-04 |
| 72. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
36.46 |
0.9260 |
-0.0561 |
243 |
2 |
35.45 |
2009-04-06 |
| 73. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
36.33 |
0.8971 |
-0.0360 |
266 |
1 |
36.33 |
2009-03-21 |
| 74. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
36.16 |
1.0029 |
-0.1575 |
209 |
1 |
36.16 |
2009-04-04 |
| 75. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
35.86 |
0.8887 |
-0.0296 |
128 |
1 |
35.86 |
2009-03-21 |
| 76. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
35.83 |
0.9646 |
-0.1214 |
264 |
1 |
35.83 |
2009-04-06 |
| 77. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
35.81 |
0.9339 |
-0.0919 |
310 |
1 |
35.81 |
2009-04-04 |
| 78. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
35.39 |
0.9763 |
-0.1435 |
289 |
1 |
35.39 |
2009-03-21 |
| 79. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
35.37 |
0.9527 |
-0.1194 |
251 |
1 |
35.37 |
2009-04-04 |
| 80. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
35.07 |
0.8573 |
-0.0281 |
270 |
1 |
35.07 |
2009-03-21 |
| 81. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
35.06 |
0.9485 |
-0.1212 |
236 |
1 |
35.06 |
2009-03-21 |
| 82. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
34.13 |
1.0183 |
-0.2204 |
191 |
1 |
34.13 |
2009-04-04 |
| 83. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
34.10 |
1.0396 |
-0.2441 |
149 |
1 |
34.10 |
2009-03-21 |
| 84. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
34.09 |
0.9275 |
-0.1282 |
211 |
1 |
34.09 |
2009-04-04 |
| 85. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
34.03 |
0.9233 |
-0.1305 |
168 |
1 |
34.03 |
2009-03-30 |
| 86. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
33.87 |
0.9612 |
-0.1638 |
256 |
2 |
33.68 |
2009-04-18 |
| 87. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
32.21 |
0.8382 |
-0.0798 |
268 |
1 |
32.21 |
2010-08-23 |
| 88. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
32.11 |
0.9168 |
-0.1602 |
240 |
1 |
32.11 |
2009-04-04 |
| 89. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
31.86 |
0.8553 |
-0.1112 |
174 |
2 |
28.97 |
2009-03-30 |
| 90. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
31.13 |
0.9811 |
-0.2468 |
272 |
1 |
31.13 |
2009-04-03 |
| 91. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
30.47 |
0.9072 |
-0.1935 |
237 |
1 |
30.47 |
2009-03-30 |
| 92. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
29.95 |
1.0131 |
-0.3136 |
225 |
1 |
29.95 |
2009-04-03 |
| 93. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
29.87 |
0.8533 |
-0.1508 |
232 |
1 |
29.87 |
2009-04-03 |
| 94. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
27.34 |
0.9196 |
-0.2771 |
148 |
1 |
27.34 |
2009-03-21 |
| 95. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
27.31 |
1.0168 |
-0.3749 |
271 |
1 |
27.31 |
2009-04-04 |