| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
29.35 |
0.8788 |
0.7787 |
134 |
2 |
20.59 |
2010-01-05 |
| 2. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
26.73 |
0.8936 |
0.6164 |
127 |
1 |
26.73 |
2010-01-05 |
| 3. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
25.74 |
0.9965 |
0.4538 |
168 |
1 |
25.74 |
2009-12-31 |
| 4. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
25.58 |
0.7850 |
0.6574 |
154 |
1 |
25.58 |
2010-01-06 |
| 5. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
24.68 |
0.8747 |
0.5155 |
201 |
1 |
24.68 |
2010-01-02 |
| 6. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
24.58 |
0.8037 |
0.5880 |
148 |
5 |
16.03 |
2010-01-06 |
| 7. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
24.37 |
0.9873 |
0.3870 |
155 |
4 |
17.29 |
2010-01-06 |
| 8. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
23.19 |
0.9726 |
0.3307 |
154 |
1 |
23.19 |
2010-01-05 |
| 9. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
23.09 |
0.8975 |
0.4070 |
268 |
3 |
16.64 |
2010-01-06 |
| 10. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
23.03 |
0.8122 |
0.4908 |
181 |
1 |
23.03 |
2010-01-05 |
| 11. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
22.90 |
0.8295 |
0.4655 |
209 |
3 |
14.36 |
2010-01-06 |
| 12. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
22.87 |
1.0205 |
0.2644 |
179 |
3 |
19.31 |
2010-01-06 |
| 13. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
22.53 |
0.8125 |
0.4621 |
197 |
3 |
19.74 |
2010-01-05 |
| 14. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
22.41 |
0.8809 |
0.3821 |
127 |
3 |
21.01 |
2010-01-06 |
| 15. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
22.31 |
0.7443 |
0.5138 |
169 |
1 |
22.31 |
2010-01-05 |
| 16. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
21.97 |
0.9559 |
0.2869 |
195 |
1 |
21.97 |
2009-12-31 |
| 17. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
21.47 |
0.8791 |
0.3316 |
190 |
1 |
21.47 |
2010-01-05 |
| 18. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
21.13 |
0.8821 |
0.3096 |
176 |
2 |
15.91 |
2010-01-05 |
| 19. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
21.13 |
0.9286 |
0.2626 |
194 |
2 |
20.34 |
2010-08-15 |
| 20. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
20.96 |
0.9128 |
0.2752 |
133 |
2 |
18.78 |
2010-01-06 |
| 21. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
20.11 |
0.8915 |
0.2414 |
188 |
2 |
16.57 |
2010-08-15 |
| 22. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
20.10 |
1.0487 |
0.0798 |
231 |
1 |
20.10 |
2010-01-05 |
| 23. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
19.85 |
0.9740 |
0.1411 |
209 |
2 |
17.76 |
2010-01-06 |
| 24. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
19.77 |
1.0714 |
0.0343 |
129 |
1 |
19.77 |
2010-01-02 |
| 25. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
19.28 |
0.9303 |
0.1501 |
176 |
1 |
19.28 |
2010-08-15 |
| 26. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
18.92 |
0.8323 |
0.2343 |
203 |
1 |
18.92 |
2010-01-02 |
| 27. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
18.53 |
1.0498 |
-0.0107 |
180 |
1 |
18.53 |
2010-01-02 |
| 28. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
18.32 |
0.8666 |
0.1683 |
150 |
1 |
18.32 |
2010-01-02 |
| 29. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
18.16 |
0.8745 |
0.1461 |
169 |
1 |
18.16 |
2010-01-06 |
| 30. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
17.81 |
0.9161 |
0.0848 |
200 |
1 |
17.81 |
2009-12-31 |
| 31. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
17.46 |
1.0679 |
-0.0647 |
177 |
1 |
17.46 |
2010-01-02 |
| 32. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
17.17 |
1.0788 |
-0.1180 |
171 |
1 |
17.17 |
2009-12-31 |
| 33. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
17.13 |
0.9682 |
-0.0060 |
143 |
1 |
17.13 |
2010-01-02 |
| 34. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
17.05 |
0.8660 |
0.0939 |
193 |
2 |
15.95 |
2010-01-06 |
| 35. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
16.94 |
0.7916 |
0.1693 |
184 |
1 |
16.94 |
2010-02-09 |
| 36. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
16.86 |
1.0004 |
-0.0578 |
212 |
1 |
16.86 |
2010-01-02 |
| 37. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
16.71 |
0.7908 |
0.1540 |
127 |
2 |
14.50 |
2010-01-06 |
| 38. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
16.60 |
0.8544 |
0.0799 |
170 |
2 |
13.38 |
2010-01-06 |
| 39. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
16.54 |
0.8628 |
0.0642 |
196 |
2 |
13.15 |
2010-01-05 |
| 40. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
16.52 |
0.8715 |
0.0539 |
130 |
1 |
16.52 |
2010-01-02 |
| 41. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
16.37 |
0.9798 |
-0.0648 |
199 |
1 |
16.37 |
2010-01-06 |
| 42. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
16.21 |
1.0711 |
-0.1646 |
213 |
1 |
16.21 |
2010-01-05 |
| 43. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
16.07 |
0.7997 |
0.1002 |
138 |
1 |
16.07 |
2010-08-15 |
| 44. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
16.05 |
1.0485 |
-0.1113 |
153 |
1 |
16.05 |
2010-01-02 |
| 45. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
16.02 |
0.7938 |
0.1080 |
176 |
1 |
16.02 |
2010-01-02 |
| 46. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
15.52 |
0.7839 |
0.0940 |
257 |
1 |
15.52 |
2010-01-02 |
| 47. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
15.13 |
0.8852 |
-0.0348 |
158 |
1 |
15.13 |
2010-01-05 |
| 48. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
14.62 |
0.8190 |
0.0089 |
135 |
2 |
12.85 |
2010-01-06 |
| 49. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
14.42 |
1.0390 |
-0.2333 |
205 |
1 |
14.42 |
2010-01-06 |
| 50. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
14.42 |
0.7934 |
0.0153 |
134 |
1 |
14.42 |
2009-12-31 |
| 51. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
14.24 |
0.8275 |
-0.0280 |
142 |
2 |
12.46 |
2010-01-06 |
| 52. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
13.70 |
0.8142 |
-0.0513 |
187 |
2 |
9.97 |
2010-01-06 |
| 53. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
13.63 |
0.7826 |
-0.0143 |
97 |
1 |
13.63 |
2010-01-06 |
| 54. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
13.39 |
0.8323 |
-0.0829 |
145 |
1 |
13.39 |
2010-01-05 |
| 55. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
13.33 |
0.8910 |
-0.1419 |
150 |
1 |
13.33 |
2010-01-05 |
| 56. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
13.26 |
0.8154 |
-0.0702 |
193 |
1 |
13.26 |
2010-01-06 |
| 57. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
13.12 |
0.8661 |
-0.1396 |
94 |
1 |
13.12 |
2010-01-06 |
| 58. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
12.99 |
0.8145 |
-0.0842 |
115 |
1 |
12.99 |
2010-01-05 |
| 59. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
12.99 |
0.8553 |
-0.1324 |
174 |
1 |
12.99 |
2009-12-31 |
| 60. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
12.90 |
0.8739 |
-0.1551 |
136 |
1 |
12.90 |
2010-01-05 |
| 61. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
12.82 |
0.9772 |
-0.2624 |
217 |
1 |
12.82 |
2010-01-06 |
| 62. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
12.79 |
1.0033 |
-0.2934 |
189 |
2 |
12.32 |
2010-01-06 |
| 63. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
12.61 |
0.8422 |
-0.1342 |
164 |
1 |
12.61 |
2010-01-05 |
| 64. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
12.53 |
0.7389 |
-0.0358 |
145 |
1 |
12.53 |
2010-01-06 |
| 65. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
11.95 |
1.0444 |
-0.3824 |
197 |
1 |
11.95 |
2010-01-06 |
| 66. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
11.85 |
0.9325 |
-0.2763 |
156 |
1 |
11.85 |
2010-01-06 |
| 67. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
11.10 |
0.8177 |
-0.2018 |
124 |
1 |
11.10 |
2010-01-06 |
| 68. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
10.94 |
0.7104 |
-0.0966 |
131 |
1 |
10.94 |
2010-01-06 |
| 69. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
10.31 |
1.0796 |
-0.5093 |
129 |
1 |
10.31 |
2010-01-06 |
| 70. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
10.25 |
0.8793 |
-0.3060 |
157 |
1 |
10.25 |
2010-01-06 |
| 71. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
9.51 |
1.0365 |
-0.4771 |
162 |
1 |
9.51 |
2010-01-05 |