| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
76.74 |
0.8660 |
1.0283 |
193 |
1 |
76.74 |
2013-04-13 |
| 2. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
69.77 |
0.9171 |
0.8044 |
165 |
1 |
69.77 |
2013-04-13 |
| 3. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
69.08 |
0.8715 |
0.8292 |
130 |
2 |
67.02 |
2013-04-14 |
| 4. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
69.01 |
0.8145 |
0.8901 |
115 |
1 |
69.01 |
2013-04-13 |
| 5. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
68.45 |
0.9028 |
0.7860 |
155 |
1 |
68.45 |
2013-04-13 |
| 6. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
68.36 |
1.0943 |
0.6241 |
206 |
2 |
50.60 |
2013-04-13 |
| 7. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
65.39 |
0.9710 |
0.6348 |
173 |
1 |
65.39 |
2013-04-13 |
| 8. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
64.85 |
0.9019 |
0.7023 |
204 |
1 |
64.85 |
2013-04-14 |
| 9. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
61.70 |
0.8884 |
0.6321 |
135 |
1 |
61.70 |
2013-04-14 |
| 10. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
61.66 |
0.9221 |
0.5959 |
244 |
1 |
61.66 |
2013-04-13 |
| 11. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
61.53 |
0.9047 |
0.6041 |
118 |
1 |
61.53 |
2013-04-13 |
| 12. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
61.18 |
0.8747 |
0.6285 |
201 |
1 |
61.18 |
2013-04-13 |
| 13. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
59.59 |
0.9598 |
0.5154 |
220 |
1 |
59.59 |
2013-04-13 |
| 14. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
58.88 |
1.0033 |
0.4401 |
189 |
2 |
56.63 |
2013-04-13 |
| 15. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
57.14 |
1.0270 |
0.4159 |
255 |
1 |
57.14 |
2013-04-13 |
| 16. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
56.30 |
0.8541 |
0.5403 |
260 |
2 |
55.76 |
2013-04-13 |
| 17. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
56.11 |
1.0485 |
0.3674 |
153 |
1 |
56.11 |
2013-04-14 |
| 18. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
55.94 |
0.8422 |
0.5376 |
164 |
1 |
55.94 |
2013-04-13 |
| 19. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
55.84 |
0.8691 |
0.4934 |
119 |
1 |
55.84 |
2013-04-13 |
| 20. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
55.44 |
0.9350 |
0.4303 |
195 |
1 |
55.44 |
2013-04-14 |
| 21. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
55.00 |
0.8745 |
0.4776 |
169 |
1 |
55.00 |
2013-04-13 |
| 22. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
54.86 |
0.9128 |
0.4429 |
133 |
1 |
54.86 |
2013-04-13 |
| 23. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
54.76 |
0.9820 |
0.3658 |
274 |
1 |
54.76 |
2013-04-13 |
| 24. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
54.30 |
0.9098 |
0.4225 |
167 |
1 |
54.30 |
2013-04-13 |
| 25. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
53.47 |
0.8763 |
0.4403 |
105 |
1 |
53.47 |
2013-04-14 |
| 26. |
You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna... |
53.22 |
0.9126 |
0.3879 |
96 |
1 |
53.22 |
2013-04-13 |
| 27. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
52.82 |
0.9353 |
0.3599 |
177 |
1 |
52.82 |
2013-04-14 |
| 28. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
51.74 |
0.9303 |
0.3354 |
176 |
1 |
51.74 |
2013-04-13 |
| 29. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
51.31 |
0.7996 |
0.4642 |
177 |
1 |
51.31 |
2013-04-13 |
| 30. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
51.07 |
0.9168 |
0.3409 |
240 |
1 |
51.07 |
2013-04-13 |
| 31. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
50.33 |
0.8956 |
0.3448 |
217 |
1 |
50.33 |
2013-04-14 |
| 32. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
50.04 |
1.0183 |
0.2068 |
191 |
1 |
50.04 |
2013-04-14 |
| 33. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
49.91 |
0.8821 |
0.3449 |
176 |
1 |
49.91 |
2013-04-14 |
| 34. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
49.21 |
0.7916 |
0.4264 |
184 |
1 |
49.21 |
2013-04-13 |
| 35. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
48.61 |
0.9612 |
0.2342 |
256 |
1 |
48.61 |
2013-04-13 |
| 36. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
47.16 |
0.8162 |
0.3479 |
149 |
1 |
47.16 |
2013-04-13 |
| 37. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
46.71 |
0.9649 |
0.1819 |
193 |
1 |
46.71 |
2013-04-13 |
| 38. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
46.36 |
0.7104 |
0.4319 |
131 |
1 |
46.36 |
2013-04-14 |
| 39. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
46.21 |
0.8890 |
0.2429 |
199 |
1 |
46.21 |
2013-04-14 |
| 40. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
44.46 |
0.8022 |
0.2925 |
215 |
1 |
44.46 |
2013-04-14 |
| 41. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
44.32 |
1.0099 |
0.0753 |
207 |
1 |
44.32 |
2013-04-13 |
| 42. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
44.17 |
0.8500 |
0.2399 |
145 |
1 |
44.17 |
2013-04-13 |
| 43. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
43.87 |
0.7890 |
0.2893 |
230 |
1 |
43.87 |
2013-04-13 |
| 44. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
38.84 |
0.9781 |
-0.0233 |
193 |
1 |
38.84 |
2013-04-13 |
| 45. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
37.06 |
1.0515 |
-0.1516 |
166 |
2 |
34.75 |
2013-04-13 |
| 46. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
36.56 |
1.0521 |
-0.1616 |
171 |
1 |
36.56 |
2013-04-13 |
| 47. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
36.37 |
0.8725 |
0.0202 |
163 |
1 |
36.37 |
2013-04-13 |
| 48. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
35.86 |
1.0883 |
-0.1780 |
303 |
1 |
35.86 |
2013-04-12 |
| 49. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
35.30 |
1.0368 |
-0.1719 |
276 |
1 |
35.30 |
2013-04-12 |
| 50. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
34.98 |
0.9865 |
-0.1292 |
276 |
1 |
34.98 |
2013-05-01 |
| 51. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
34.53 |
0.8936 |
-0.0498 |
127 |
1 |
34.53 |
2013-04-13 |
| 52. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
34.38 |
0.9844 |
-0.1324 |
229 |
1 |
34.38 |
2013-04-13 |
| 53. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
34.19 |
1.0213 |
-0.1878 |
240 |
1 |
34.19 |
2013-04-13 |
| 54. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
34.14 |
1.0941 |
-0.2275 |
256 |
1 |
34.14 |
2013-05-01 |
| 55. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
33.25 |
0.9466 |
-0.1381 |
107 |
1 |
33.25 |
2013-04-13 |
| 56. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
32.85 |
0.8573 |
-0.0506 |
270 |
1 |
32.85 |
2013-04-13 |
| 57. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
32.71 |
1.0767 |
-0.2793 |
212 |
1 |
32.71 |
2013-04-13 |
| 58. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
32.48 |
0.8723 |
-0.0823 |
185 |
1 |
32.48 |
2013-04-13 |
| 59. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
32.45 |
0.9072 |
-0.1159 |
237 |
1 |
32.45 |
2013-04-13 |
| 60. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
32.34 |
0.9893 |
-0.1987 |
323 |
2 |
32.17 |
2013-04-13 |
| 61. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
32.19 |
0.9504 |
-0.1691 |
263 |
1 |
32.19 |
2013-04-13 |
| 62. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
31.80 |
1.0201 |
-0.2424 |
303 |
1 |
31.80 |
2013-04-13 |
| 63. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
31.77 |
1.0025 |
-0.2251 |
336 |
1 |
31.77 |
2013-04-13 |
| 64. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
31.50 |
0.8958 |
-0.1212 |
322 |
1 |
31.50 |
2013-04-13 |
| 65. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
31.44 |
0.9722 |
-0.2020 |
283 |
1 |
31.44 |
2013-04-12 |
| 66. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
31.27 |
1.0031 |
-0.2058 |
304 |
1 |
31.27 |
2013-04-12 |
| 67. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
31.26 |
0.7389 |
0.0267 |
145 |
1 |
31.26 |
2013-04-13 |
| 68. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
31.15 |
0.9986 |
-0.2427 |
162 |
1 |
31.15 |
2013-04-12 |
| 69. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
30.97 |
0.9994 |
-0.2122 |
269 |
1 |
30.97 |
2013-04-13 |
| 70. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
30.52 |
0.9572 |
-0.2132 |
201 |
1 |
30.52 |
2013-04-13 |
| 71. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
30.44 |
0.9964 |
-0.2530 |
203 |
1 |
30.44 |
2013-05-01 |
| 72. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
30.29 |
0.8792 |
-0.1302 |
296 |
1 |
30.29 |
2013-04-13 |
| 73. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
30.26 |
1.0297 |
-0.2920 |
249 |
1 |
30.26 |
2013-04-13 |
| 74. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
29.94 |
1.0389 |
-0.3063 |
318 |
1 |
29.94 |
2013-04-12 |
| 75. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
29.76 |
0.8289 |
-0.0954 |
304 |
1 |
29.76 |
2013-04-13 |
| 76. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
29.43 |
1.0257 |
-0.3011 |
401 |
1 |
29.43 |
2013-04-12 |
| 77. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
29.30 |
1.0154 |
-0.2506 |
351 |
1 |
29.30 |
2013-04-13 |
| 78. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
29.08 |
0.9365 |
-0.2253 |
248 |
2 |
25.58 |
2013-04-13 |
| 79. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
28.92 |
0.8070 |
-0.0984 |
137 |
1 |
28.92 |
2013-04-13 |
| 80. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
28.41 |
0.8777 |
-0.1826 |
177 |
1 |
28.41 |
2013-04-13 |
| 81. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
28.32 |
0.9857 |
-0.2961 |
293 |
1 |
28.32 |
2013-04-13 |
| 82. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
28.32 |
0.8878 |
-0.1974 |
346 |
1 |
28.32 |
2013-04-12 |
| 83. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
28.31 |
0.9846 |
-0.2957 |
281 |
1 |
28.31 |
2013-04-12 |
| 84. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
28.28 |
0.9275 |
-0.2408 |
211 |
1 |
28.28 |
2013-04-13 |
| 85. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
28.20 |
0.8793 |
-0.1906 |
157 |
1 |
28.20 |
2013-05-01 |
| 86. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
27.84 |
0.9691 |
-0.2910 |
223 |
1 |
27.84 |
2013-04-12 |
| 87. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
27.81 |
0.8996 |
-0.2271 |
192 |
2 |
24.81 |
2013-04-13 |
| 88. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
27.76 |
0.9461 |
-0.2697 |
276 |
1 |
27.76 |
2013-04-12 |
| 89. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
27.46 |
0.9514 |
-0.2819 |
237 |
1 |
27.46 |
2013-04-12 |
| 90. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
27.16 |
1.0292 |
-0.3688 |
262 |
1 |
27.16 |
2013-04-13 |
| 91. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
27.08 |
1.0150 |
-0.3060 |
325 |
1 |
27.08 |
2013-04-12 |
| 92. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
27.05 |
1.0797 |
-0.4261 |
210 |
1 |
27.05 |
2013-04-12 |
| 93. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
26.80 |
0.7443 |
-0.0920 |
169 |
1 |
26.80 |
2013-04-12 |
| 94. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
26.78 |
1.0023 |
-0.3520 |
211 |
1 |
26.78 |
2013-04-12 |
| 95. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
26.58 |
1.0608 |
-0.3801 |
258 |
1 |
26.58 |
2013-04-12 |
| 96. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
25.95 |
0.9567 |
-0.2826 |
184 |
1 |
25.95 |
2013-04-13 |
| 97. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
25.42 |
0.9088 |
-0.2850 |
348 |
1 |
25.42 |
2013-04-12 |
| 98. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
24.95 |
0.8559 |
-0.2480 |
191 |
1 |
24.95 |
2013-04-13 |
| 99. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
24.79 |
0.9351 |
-0.3376 |
190 |
1 |
24.79 |
2013-04-12 |
| 100. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
24.70 |
0.9084 |
-0.3060 |
300 |
1 |
24.70 |
2013-04-12 |
| 101. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
24.44 |
0.9772 |
-0.3863 |
217 |
1 |
24.44 |
2013-04-12 |
| 102. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
22.09 |
0.9325 |
-0.4037 |
156 |
1 |
22.09 |
2013-04-12 |
| 103. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
21.94 |
0.9023 |
-0.3273 |
231 |
1 |
21.94 |
2013-04-12 |
| 104. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
21.81 |
0.8153 |
-0.2815 |
200 |
1 |
21.81 |
2013-04-13 |
| 105. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
21.59 |
0.7826 |
-0.2547 |
97 |
1 |
21.59 |
2013-04-12 |
| 106. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
18.58 |
0.8077 |
-0.3613 |
167 |
1 |
18.58 |
2013-04-13 |