| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
92.59 |
0.9187 |
0.5007 |
118 |
1 |
92.59 |
2012-09-29 |
| 2. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
90.63 |
1.0337 |
0.3590 |
214 |
2 |
86.73 |
2012-10-02 |
| 3. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
84.06 |
1.0941 |
0.2310 |
256 |
1 |
84.06 |
2012-09-30 |
| 4. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
81.78 |
1.1162 |
0.1816 |
189 |
1 |
81.78 |
2012-09-30 |
| 5. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
81.02 |
1.1081 |
0.1734 |
206 |
1 |
81.02 |
2012-09-30 |
| 6. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
80.94 |
0.8956 |
0.3515 |
217 |
1 |
80.94 |
2012-09-30 |
| 7. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
79.18 |
1.0343 |
0.2234 |
242 |
1 |
79.18 |
2014-02-26 |
| 8. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
78.88 |
1.0533 |
0.1840 |
257 |
1 |
78.88 |
2012-10-02 |
| 9. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
76.72 |
1.0677 |
0.1420 |
284 |
1 |
76.72 |
2012-09-30 |
| 10. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
76.72 |
1.0608 |
0.1530 |
258 |
1 |
76.72 |
2012-09-30 |
| 11. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
75.82 |
1.0289 |
0.1377 |
276 |
1 |
75.82 |
2012-10-02 |
| 12. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
75.19 |
1.0523 |
0.1012 |
256 |
1 |
75.19 |
2013-10-14 |
| 13. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
75.11 |
1.0567 |
0.0982 |
303 |
2 |
71.12 |
2013-10-14 |
| 14. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
74.34 |
1.0774 |
0.0931 |
304 |
1 |
74.34 |
2012-10-02 |
| 15. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
74.03 |
1.0063 |
0.1308 |
371 |
2 |
72.78 |
2012-09-29 |
| 16. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
73.10 |
0.9098 |
0.2119 |
167 |
2 |
63.21 |
2012-09-30 |
| 17. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
72.61 |
1.0444 |
0.0673 |
197 |
1 |
72.61 |
2012-09-29 |
| 18. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
72.27 |
0.8788 |
0.2299 |
134 |
1 |
72.27 |
2012-09-30 |
| 19. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
72.12 |
1.0907 |
0.0175 |
303 |
1 |
72.12 |
2012-09-30 |
| 20. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
72.12 |
1.0669 |
0.0742 |
213 |
1 |
72.12 |
2012-10-02 |
| 21. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
71.87 |
1.0403 |
0.0815 |
193 |
1 |
71.87 |
2012-09-30 |
| 22. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
71.75 |
0.9873 |
0.1126 |
155 |
1 |
71.75 |
2012-09-29 |
| 23. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
71.41 |
1.0696 |
0.0254 |
226 |
1 |
71.41 |
2012-10-02 |
| 24. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
70.82 |
1.0944 |
0.0360 |
308 |
2 |
67.99 |
2013-10-14 |
| 25. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
70.81 |
0.9430 |
0.1464 |
297 |
1 |
70.81 |
2012-09-30 |
| 26. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
70.72 |
1.0574 |
0.0576 |
205 |
1 |
70.72 |
2013-10-14 |
| 27. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
70.67 |
1.0483 |
0.0351 |
227 |
2 |
64.86 |
2013-10-14 |
| 28. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
70.52 |
0.9710 |
0.1091 |
173 |
2 |
65.81 |
2013-10-14 |
| 29. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
70.39 |
0.9893 |
0.0920 |
323 |
1 |
70.39 |
2012-09-29 |
| 30. |
It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situat... |
70.28 |
0.9145 |
0.1677 |
207 |
1 |
70.28 |
2012-09-29 |
| 31. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
70.11 |
0.8777 |
0.2006 |
177 |
1 |
70.11 |
2012-09-30 |
| 32. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
69.94 |
0.9171 |
0.1565 |
165 |
1 |
69.94 |
2012-09-30 |
| 33. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
69.90 |
1.0725 |
0.0294 |
233 |
1 |
69.90 |
2012-10-02 |
| 34. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
69.78 |
1.0352 |
0.0369 |
341 |
1 |
69.78 |
2012-10-02 |
| 35. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
69.57 |
0.9897 |
0.0776 |
274 |
1 |
69.57 |
2012-10-02 |
| 36. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
69.37 |
1.0073 |
0.0610 |
369 |
1 |
69.37 |
2013-10-14 |
| 37. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
69.34 |
1.0787 |
-0.0149 |
237 |
1 |
69.34 |
2012-09-30 |
| 38. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
68.95 |
1.0384 |
0.0157 |
183 |
1 |
68.95 |
2012-09-29 |
| 39. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
68.84 |
1.0498 |
0.0039 |
180 |
1 |
68.84 |
2012-09-29 |
| 40. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
68.78 |
1.0257 |
0.0326 |
401 |
1 |
68.78 |
2012-10-02 |
| 41. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
68.62 |
0.9161 |
0.1371 |
200 |
1 |
68.62 |
2012-09-30 |
| 42. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
68.18 |
0.9936 |
0.0532 |
311 |
2 |
60.09 |
2014-02-26 |
| 43. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
67.92 |
1.0053 |
0.0366 |
232 |
2 |
66.69 |
2012-10-02 |
| 44. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
67.88 |
0.9684 |
0.0748 |
388 |
2 |
66.05 |
2014-02-26 |
| 45. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
67.80 |
1.0506 |
0.0195 |
277 |
1 |
67.80 |
2012-09-29 |
| 46. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
67.79 |
0.8916 |
0.1490 |
216 |
1 |
67.79 |
2013-10-14 |
| 47. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
67.37 |
0.9125 |
0.1226 |
308 |
1 |
67.37 |
2012-09-30 |
| 48. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
67.29 |
1.0417 |
-0.0100 |
253 |
1 |
67.29 |
2012-09-30 |
| 49. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
66.91 |
1.0270 |
0.0359 |
255 |
1 |
66.91 |
2012-09-30 |
| 50. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
66.66 |
0.9513 |
0.0737 |
354 |
2 |
65.65 |
2014-02-26 |
| 51. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
66.31 |
0.9986 |
0.0157 |
162 |
1 |
66.31 |
2012-09-29 |
| 52. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
66.22 |
1.0125 |
0.0016 |
224 |
1 |
66.22 |
2012-10-02 |
| 53. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
66.07 |
1.0426 |
-0.0286 |
323 |
1 |
66.07 |
2012-09-30 |
| 54. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
65.98 |
0.9831 |
0.0277 |
222 |
1 |
65.98 |
2012-09-30 |
| 55. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
65.93 |
1.0565 |
-0.0465 |
247 |
1 |
65.93 |
2012-09-30 |
| 56. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
65.78 |
0.9260 |
0.0896 |
243 |
1 |
65.78 |
2012-09-30 |
| 57. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
65.68 |
0.9673 |
0.0823 |
232 |
1 |
65.68 |
2012-09-29 |
| 58. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
65.57 |
0.9763 |
0.0298 |
289 |
1 |
65.57 |
2013-10-14 |
| 59. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
65.37 |
0.9910 |
0.0131 |
295 |
1 |
65.37 |
2013-10-14 |
| 60. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
65.33 |
0.9740 |
0.0269 |
209 |
1 |
65.33 |
2013-10-14 |
| 61. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
65.27 |
0.9646 |
0.0369 |
264 |
1 |
65.27 |
2013-10-14 |
| 62. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
65.08 |
0.9287 |
0.0674 |
108 |
1 |
65.08 |
2012-09-30 |
| 63. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
64.91 |
0.9844 |
0.0127 |
293 |
1 |
64.91 |
2012-09-30 |
| 64. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
64.50 |
1.0284 |
0.0038 |
282 |
1 |
64.50 |
2012-10-02 |
| 65. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
64.42 |
0.9614 |
0.0278 |
292 |
1 |
64.42 |
2012-09-29 |
| 66. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
64.17 |
0.8154 |
0.1703 |
193 |
1 |
64.17 |
2012-09-29 |
| 67. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
63.56 |
0.8562 |
0.1196 |
170 |
1 |
63.56 |
2012-09-29 |
| 68. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
63.52 |
0.7731 |
0.2049 |
145 |
1 |
63.52 |
2012-09-29 |
| 69. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
63.50 |
0.9726 |
-0.0015 |
154 |
1 |
63.50 |
2012-09-30 |
| 70. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
63.34 |
1.0038 |
-0.0013 |
237 |
1 |
63.34 |
2013-10-14 |
| 71. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
63.31 |
0.8826 |
0.0902 |
241 |
1 |
63.31 |
2012-09-29 |
| 72. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
62.99 |
0.9286 |
0.0366 |
194 |
1 |
62.99 |
2012-10-02 |
| 73. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
62.86 |
0.9879 |
-0.0199 |
450 |
1 |
62.86 |
2013-10-14 |
| 74. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
62.72 |
1.0025 |
-0.0407 |
256 |
1 |
62.72 |
2013-10-14 |
| 75. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
62.28 |
0.9653 |
-0.0108 |
349 |
1 |
62.28 |
2013-10-14 |
| 76. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
62.05 |
0.9128 |
0.0791 |
369 |
2 |
54.69 |
2014-02-26 |
| 77. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
61.99 |
1.0385 |
-0.0889 |
230 |
1 |
61.99 |
2012-09-29 |
| 78. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
61.75 |
1.0254 |
-0.0342 |
217 |
1 |
61.75 |
2012-09-30 |
| 79. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
61.68 |
1.0389 |
-0.0928 |
318 |
1 |
61.68 |
2012-09-30 |
| 80. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
61.55 |
1.0214 |
-0.0779 |
269 |
1 |
61.55 |
2012-09-30 |
| 81. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
61.42 |
0.9994 |
-0.0264 |
269 |
1 |
61.42 |
2013-10-14 |
| 82. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
61.40 |
0.9820 |
-0.0385 |
267 |
1 |
61.40 |
2014-02-26 |
| 83. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
61.26 |
0.9505 |
-0.0105 |
204 |
1 |
61.26 |
2012-09-29 |
| 84. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
60.86 |
0.9881 |
-0.0187 |
424 |
1 |
60.86 |
2013-10-14 |
| 85. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
60.78 |
0.9676 |
-0.0317 |
442 |
1 |
60.78 |
2013-10-14 |
| 86. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
60.71 |
0.8792 |
0.0576 |
296 |
1 |
60.71 |
2012-09-29 |
| 87. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
60.10 |
0.8867 |
0.0365 |
241 |
1 |
60.10 |
2012-09-29 |
| 88. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
60.02 |
0.9461 |
-0.0262 |
276 |
2 |
56.33 |
2012-09-30 |
| 89. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
59.76 |
0.9904 |
-0.0321 |
203 |
1 |
59.76 |
2012-09-30 |
| 90. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
59.76 |
0.9857 |
-0.0698 |
293 |
1 |
59.76 |
2013-10-14 |
| 91. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
59.41 |
0.8845 |
0.0268 |
273 |
1 |
59.41 |
2012-09-29 |
| 92. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
59.41 |
0.9814 |
-0.0315 |
364 |
1 |
59.41 |
2012-10-02 |
| 93. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
58.22 |
0.9247 |
-0.0293 |
253 |
1 |
58.22 |
2012-09-29 |
| 94. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
57.97 |
1.0740 |
-0.1463 |
264 |
1 |
57.97 |
2013-10-14 |
| 95. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
57.95 |
0.9365 |
-0.0477 |
248 |
2 |
46.34 |
2012-09-29 |
| 96. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
57.53 |
0.9411 |
-0.0579 |
318 |
1 |
57.53 |
2012-09-29 |
| 97. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
57.29 |
0.9754 |
-0.0948 |
362 |
1 |
57.29 |
2013-10-14 |
| 98. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
56.68 |
1.0183 |
-0.1529 |
191 |
1 |
56.68 |
2012-10-02 |
| 99. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
56.30 |
0.9936 |
-0.1071 |
227 |
1 |
56.30 |
2014-02-26 |
| 100. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
55.78 |
1.0034 |
-0.1498 |
302 |
1 |
55.78 |
2012-09-30 |
| 101. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
55.45 |
0.8878 |
-0.0381 |
346 |
1 |
55.45 |
2012-09-30 |
| 102. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
55.17 |
1.0669 |
-0.1888 |
286 |
1 |
55.17 |
2013-10-14 |
| 103. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
55.11 |
0.9569 |
-0.0947 |
410 |
1 |
55.11 |
2012-10-02 |
| 104. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
55.08 |
0.9619 |
-0.1156 |
393 |
1 |
55.08 |
2013-10-14 |
| 105. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
54.99 |
0.8787 |
-0.0339 |
202 |
1 |
54.99 |
2012-09-29 |
| 106. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
54.48 |
0.9687 |
-0.1321 |
371 |
1 |
54.48 |
2013-10-14 |
| 107. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
53.98 |
0.8022 |
0.0258 |
215 |
1 |
53.98 |
2012-09-30 |
| 108. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
53.30 |
0.9072 |
-0.0920 |
237 |
1 |
53.30 |
2014-02-26 |
| 109. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
52.18 |
0.9500 |
-0.1495 |
362 |
1 |
52.18 |
2012-10-02 |
| 110. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
51.77 |
1.0346 |
-0.1998 |
244 |
1 |
51.77 |
2012-09-29 |
| 111. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
50.88 |
0.8775 |
-0.0927 |
443 |
1 |
50.88 |
2013-10-14 |
| 112. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
46.63 |
1.0083 |
-0.2518 |
273 |
1 |
46.63 |
2012-09-30 |
| 113. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
44.44 |
0.8956 |
-0.2146 |
322 |
1 |
44.44 |
2013-10-14 |
| 114. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
44.21 |
0.8602 |
-0.1855 |
206 |
1 |
44.21 |
2014-02-26 |
| 115. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
38.31 |
1.0211 |
-0.4050 |
213 |
1 |
38.31 |
2012-09-29 |
| 116. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
36.30 |
1.0232 |
-0.4257 |
350 |
1 |
36.30 |
2014-02-26 |