| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
50.06 |
1.0487 |
0.1545 |
253 |
1 |
50.06 |
2011-02-18 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
49.42 |
1.1086 |
0.0816 |
233 |
1 |
49.42 |
2011-02-17 |
| 3. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
48.66 |
1.0601 |
0.1085 |
256 |
1 |
48.66 |
2011-02-18 |
| 4. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
48.63 |
0.8830 |
0.2828 |
134 |
1 |
48.63 |
2011-02-18 |
| 5. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
48.20 |
1.0654 |
0.0924 |
247 |
1 |
48.20 |
2011-04-05 |
| 6. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
47.13 |
1.0540 |
0.0759 |
184 |
1 |
47.13 |
2011-02-17 |
| 7. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
46.66 |
1.0082 |
0.1101 |
212 |
1 |
46.66 |
2011-02-17 |
| 8. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
46.55 |
0.9252 |
0.1959 |
148 |
1 |
46.55 |
2011-04-05 |
| 9. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
46.39 |
1.0960 |
0.0249 |
315 |
1 |
46.39 |
2011-02-17 |
| 10. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
45.82 |
0.9768 |
0.1271 |
237 |
2 |
39.24 |
2011-04-05 |
| 11. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
45.78 |
0.9791 |
0.1160 |
154 |
1 |
45.78 |
2011-02-17 |
| 12. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
45.65 |
1.0270 |
0.0726 |
303 |
2 |
44.58 |
2011-03-05 |
| 13. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
45.35 |
1.0585 |
0.0358 |
226 |
1 |
45.35 |
2011-02-17 |
| 14. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
45.05 |
0.8965 |
0.1885 |
150 |
1 |
45.05 |
2011-04-05 |
| 15. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
44.72 |
1.0334 |
0.0425 |
261 |
2 |
39.11 |
2011-02-18 |
| 16. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
44.49 |
1.0399 |
0.0362 |
257 |
2 |
44.18 |
2011-04-05 |
| 17. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
44.40 |
1.0204 |
0.0399 |
143 |
2 |
40.88 |
2011-02-17 |
| 18. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
44.09 |
0.9001 |
0.1617 |
217 |
1 |
44.09 |
2011-02-17 |
| 19. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
43.84 |
0.8984 |
0.1645 |
267 |
1 |
43.84 |
2011-02-17 |
| 20. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
43.57 |
1.0101 |
0.0404 |
336 |
1 |
43.57 |
2011-04-06 |
| 21. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
43.20 |
1.0521 |
-0.0181 |
197 |
1 |
43.20 |
2011-04-05 |
| 22. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
42.70 |
0.9310 |
0.0958 |
278 |
1 |
42.70 |
2011-02-18 |
| 23. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
42.69 |
0.8936 |
0.1326 |
346 |
1 |
42.69 |
2011-02-18 |
| 24. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
42.54 |
1.0881 |
-0.0683 |
210 |
1 |
42.54 |
2011-02-18 |
| 25. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
42.37 |
1.0800 |
-0.0678 |
129 |
1 |
42.37 |
2011-04-05 |
| 26. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
42.36 |
1.0033 |
0.0161 |
203 |
1 |
42.36 |
2011-04-05 |
| 27. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
42.04 |
1.0461 |
-0.0323 |
318 |
1 |
42.04 |
2011-02-17 |
| 28. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
41.98 |
1.0128 |
0.0042 |
369 |
1 |
41.98 |
2011-02-18 |
| 29. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
41.52 |
0.9713 |
0.0264 |
193 |
2 |
39.15 |
2011-04-06 |
| 30. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
41.46 |
0.8993 |
0.1013 |
366 |
1 |
41.46 |
2011-03-05 |
| 31. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
41.42 |
0.9957 |
0.0048 |
323 |
1 |
41.42 |
2011-02-18 |
| 32. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
41.41 |
0.9762 |
0.0199 |
249 |
1 |
41.41 |
2011-04-05 |
| 33. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
41.37 |
1.0194 |
-0.0265 |
224 |
1 |
41.37 |
2011-02-18 |
| 34. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
41.10 |
0.9194 |
0.0801 |
360 |
1 |
41.10 |
2011-03-05 |
| 35. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
41.00 |
1.0466 |
-0.0606 |
230 |
1 |
41.00 |
2011-02-18 |
| 36. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
40.98 |
0.9404 |
0.0549 |
383 |
1 |
40.98 |
2011-04-06 |
| 37. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
40.96 |
1.0189 |
-0.0342 |
290 |
2 |
38.24 |
2011-04-05 |
| 38. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
40.95 |
0.9113 |
0.0697 |
225 |
1 |
40.95 |
2011-04-05 |
| 39. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
40.93 |
1.0341 |
-0.0502 |
273 |
1 |
40.93 |
2011-02-18 |
| 40. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
40.83 |
1.0590 |
-0.0781 |
250 |
1 |
40.83 |
2011-02-17 |
| 41. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
40.78 |
1.0234 |
-0.0384 |
392 |
1 |
40.78 |
2011-02-17 |
| 42. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
40.37 |
1.0060 |
-0.0284 |
244 |
1 |
40.37 |
2011-02-18 |
| 43. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
40.26 |
0.7915 |
0.1786 |
142 |
1 |
40.26 |
2011-02-18 |
| 44. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
40.17 |
0.9315 |
0.0362 |
273 |
2 |
40.08 |
2011-04-05 |
| 45. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
40.10 |
1.0069 |
-0.0393 |
242 |
1 |
40.10 |
2011-02-18 |
| 46. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
39.96 |
0.8721 |
0.0952 |
231 |
1 |
39.96 |
2011-03-05 |
| 47. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
39.80 |
0.9737 |
-0.0138 |
237 |
1 |
39.80 |
2011-03-05 |
| 48. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
39.73 |
0.9338 |
0.0317 |
326 |
2 |
38.81 |
2011-02-18 |
| 49. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
39.71 |
0.8208 |
0.1375 |
149 |
1 |
39.71 |
2011-04-05 |
| 50. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
39.69 |
0.9909 |
-0.0314 |
293 |
1 |
39.69 |
2011-04-05 |
| 51. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
39.69 |
1.0464 |
-0.0867 |
294 |
1 |
39.69 |
2011-02-17 |
| 52. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
39.38 |
0.9123 |
0.0440 |
351 |
1 |
39.38 |
2011-02-18 |
| 53. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
39.15 |
0.9166 |
0.0275 |
133 |
1 |
39.15 |
2011-04-05 |
| 54. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
38.82 |
1.0883 |
-0.1481 |
189 |
1 |
38.82 |
2011-04-05 |
| 55. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
38.79 |
0.9829 |
-0.0509 |
229 |
1 |
38.79 |
2011-02-17 |
| 56. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
38.77 |
0.9400 |
-0.0048 |
434 |
1 |
38.77 |
2011-04-05 |
| 57. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
38.75 |
0.9392 |
-0.0011 |
360 |
1 |
38.75 |
2011-04-05 |
| 58. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
38.54 |
0.9258 |
0.0057 |
184 |
1 |
38.54 |
2011-02-17 |
| 59. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
38.34 |
0.9987 |
-0.0724 |
236 |
1 |
38.34 |
2011-04-05 |
| 60. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
38.31 |
0.9561 |
-0.0335 |
362 |
1 |
38.31 |
2011-04-05 |
| 61. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
38.27 |
0.9804 |
-0.0600 |
227 |
2 |
37.64 |
2011-02-18 |
| 62. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
37.67 |
0.9402 |
-0.0365 |
310 |
1 |
37.67 |
2011-02-17 |
| 63. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
37.65 |
0.8646 |
0.0370 |
110 |
1 |
37.65 |
2011-02-17 |
| 64. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
37.56 |
0.9917 |
-0.0862 |
317 |
1 |
37.56 |
2011-04-05 |
| 65. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
37.48 |
0.9377 |
-0.0291 |
198 |
1 |
37.48 |
2011-02-17 |
| 66. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
37.05 |
0.9632 |
-0.0713 |
287 |
1 |
37.05 |
2011-02-17 |
| 67. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
37.02 |
0.9243 |
-0.0345 |
231 |
1 |
37.02 |
2011-02-17 |
| 68. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
36.64 |
1.0016 |
-0.1224 |
217 |
1 |
36.64 |
2011-02-17 |
| 69. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
35.51 |
0.9380 |
-0.0862 |
284 |
1 |
35.51 |
2011-02-18 |
| 70. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
34.94 |
0.9422 |
-0.1078 |
190 |
1 |
34.94 |
2011-05-10 |
| 71. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
34.60 |
0.9650 |
-0.1310 |
347 |
1 |
34.60 |
2011-02-17 |
| 72. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
33.99 |
0.9780 |
-0.1675 |
173 |
1 |
33.99 |
2011-02-17 |
| 73. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
29.09 |
0.8192 |
-0.1194 |
200 |
1 |
29.09 |
2011-04-05 |