| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
57.06 |
0.9873 |
0.4456 |
155 |
1 |
57.06 |
2011-09-29 |
| 2. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
53.04 |
1.0907 |
0.2455 |
303 |
1 |
53.04 |
2011-10-04 |
| 3. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
52.94 |
1.0485 |
0.3172 |
153 |
2 |
47.86 |
2011-10-02 |
| 4. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
52.38 |
1.0053 |
0.3098 |
232 |
1 |
52.38 |
2011-09-29 |
| 5. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
52.31 |
1.0972 |
0.2477 |
251 |
1 |
52.31 |
2011-09-29 |
| 6. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
50.81 |
0.9706 |
0.3108 |
216 |
1 |
50.81 |
2011-10-05 |
| 7. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
50.80 |
1.0201 |
0.2575 |
303 |
3 |
41.54 |
2011-10-01 |
| 8. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
49.83 |
1.0074 |
0.2465 |
242 |
1 |
49.83 |
2011-10-05 |
| 9. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
49.61 |
0.8773 |
0.3731 |
205 |
1 |
49.61 |
2011-09-28 |
| 10. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
49.51 |
1.0774 |
0.1962 |
304 |
2 |
48.35 |
2011-10-04 |
| 11. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
49.41 |
1.0211 |
0.2511 |
213 |
1 |
49.41 |
2011-10-04 |
| 12. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
48.28 |
1.0090 |
0.2477 |
282 |
1 |
48.28 |
2011-09-28 |
| 13. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
48.07 |
1.0340 |
0.1789 |
406 |
1 |
48.07 |
2011-09-29 |
| 14. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
47.95 |
0.9582 |
0.2479 |
259 |
1 |
47.95 |
2011-09-29 |
| 15. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
47.60 |
0.9567 |
0.2392 |
273 |
1 |
47.60 |
2011-09-29 |
| 16. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
47.52 |
0.9946 |
0.1991 |
246 |
2 |
41.42 |
2011-10-05 |
| 17. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
47.22 |
0.9072 |
0.2770 |
237 |
1 |
47.22 |
2011-09-29 |
| 18. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
46.97 |
0.9991 |
0.1812 |
225 |
1 |
46.97 |
2011-09-28 |
| 19. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
46.89 |
1.0060 |
0.1669 |
171 |
1 |
46.89 |
2011-09-29 |
| 20. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
46.85 |
1.0993 |
0.0753 |
265 |
2 |
45.98 |
2011-09-29 |
| 21. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
46.27 |
0.9310 |
0.2264 |
188 |
1 |
46.27 |
2011-10-05 |
| 22. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
46.03 |
0.9911 |
0.1611 |
212 |
1 |
46.03 |
2011-09-28 |
| 23. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
45.85 |
1.0131 |
0.1344 |
225 |
1 |
45.85 |
2011-10-04 |
| 24. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
45.31 |
0.9365 |
0.2026 |
248 |
1 |
45.31 |
2011-09-29 |
| 25. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
45.28 |
1.0797 |
0.0516 |
210 |
1 |
45.28 |
2011-10-03 |
| 26. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
45.22 |
1.0944 |
0.0855 |
308 |
1 |
45.22 |
2011-09-28 |
| 27. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
45.08 |
0.9570 |
0.1765 |
287 |
1 |
45.08 |
2011-10-05 |
| 28. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
45.04 |
1.0201 |
0.1146 |
375 |
1 |
45.04 |
2011-10-05 |
| 29. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
44.90 |
0.9063 |
0.2290 |
239 |
1 |
44.90 |
2011-09-29 |
| 30. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.72 |
0.9843 |
0.1333 |
234 |
1 |
44.72 |
2011-09-29 |
| 31. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
44.67 |
0.9068 |
0.2174 |
269 |
1 |
44.67 |
2011-10-05 |
| 32. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
44.62 |
0.9724 |
0.1510 |
237 |
1 |
44.62 |
2011-10-01 |
| 33. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
44.38 |
0.8842 |
0.2259 |
135 |
1 |
44.38 |
2011-10-01 |
| 34. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
44.32 |
1.0016 |
0.1061 |
218 |
2 |
36.47 |
2011-10-04 |
| 35. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
44.32 |
0.9786 |
0.1333 |
235 |
1 |
44.32 |
2011-10-01 |
| 36. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
44.24 |
0.8947 |
0.2210 |
366 |
1 |
44.24 |
2011-09-28 |
| 37. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
43.30 |
0.9938 |
0.0932 |
339 |
1 |
43.30 |
2011-09-29 |
| 38. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
43.06 |
1.0365 |
0.0736 |
162 |
1 |
43.06 |
2011-09-28 |
| 39. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
42.58 |
0.9279 |
0.1470 |
317 |
1 |
42.58 |
2011-10-05 |
| 40. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
42.48 |
1.0714 |
-0.0148 |
129 |
1 |
42.48 |
2011-10-02 |
| 41. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
42.11 |
1.0506 |
0.0343 |
277 |
1 |
42.11 |
2011-09-28 |
| 42. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
41.75 |
0.8809 |
0.1642 |
127 |
1 |
41.75 |
2011-10-03 |
| 43. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
41.50 |
0.9871 |
0.0900 |
209 |
1 |
41.50 |
2011-10-04 |
| 44. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
41.28 |
0.9578 |
0.0774 |
281 |
1 |
41.28 |
2011-10-01 |
| 45. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
41.27 |
0.9418 |
0.0992 |
188 |
1 |
41.27 |
2011-10-02 |
| 46. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
41.12 |
0.9774 |
0.0526 |
196 |
1 |
41.12 |
2011-09-28 |
| 47. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
40.89 |
1.0768 |
-0.0117 |
295 |
1 |
40.89 |
2011-10-01 |
| 48. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
40.65 |
0.8541 |
0.1736 |
260 |
1 |
40.65 |
2011-10-01 |
| 49. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
40.65 |
0.9612 |
0.0584 |
256 |
1 |
40.65 |
2011-10-04 |
| 50. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
40.48 |
0.9275 |
0.0844 |
211 |
1 |
40.48 |
2011-09-29 |
| 51. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
40.42 |
0.9632 |
0.0484 |
240 |
1 |
40.42 |
2011-10-01 |
| 52. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
40.26 |
0.9769 |
0.0305 |
263 |
1 |
40.26 |
2011-10-02 |
| 53. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
40.22 |
0.8878 |
0.1203 |
346 |
1 |
40.22 |
2011-10-03 |
| 54. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
40.04 |
0.8723 |
0.1273 |
185 |
1 |
40.04 |
2011-10-02 |
| 55. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
39.73 |
1.0151 |
-0.0284 |
152 |
1 |
39.73 |
2011-10-01 |
| 56. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
39.58 |
0.9633 |
0.0310 |
304 |
3 |
36.16 |
2011-10-01 |
| 57. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
39.50 |
1.0154 |
0.0244 |
351 |
1 |
39.50 |
2011-10-01 |
| 58. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
39.41 |
1.0496 |
-0.0626 |
314 |
1 |
39.41 |
2011-10-01 |
| 59. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
39.35 |
0.8559 |
0.1314 |
191 |
1 |
39.35 |
2011-10-01 |
| 60. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
39.30 |
1.0252 |
-0.0468 |
176 |
1 |
39.30 |
2011-10-01 |
| 61. |
The forum has become one of the most consistent places in he... |
39.28 |
0.8481 |
0.1360 |
152 |
1 |
39.28 |
2011-09-30 |
| 62. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
39.28 |
1.0034 |
-0.0203 |
302 |
1 |
39.28 |
2011-10-02 |
| 63. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
39.25 |
0.9697 |
0.0140 |
249 |
1 |
39.25 |
2011-10-01 |
| 64. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
39.01 |
0.9529 |
0.0651 |
269 |
1 |
39.01 |
2011-10-03 |
| 65. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
39.00 |
0.9908 |
0.0326 |
342 |
1 |
39.00 |
2011-09-28 |
| 66. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
38.52 |
0.8105 |
0.1501 |
204 |
1 |
38.52 |
2011-09-29 |
| 67. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
38.45 |
0.9871 |
-0.0012 |
227 |
1 |
38.45 |
2011-10-03 |
| 68. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
38.45 |
1.0042 |
0.0009 |
352 |
1 |
38.45 |
2011-10-02 |
| 69. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
38.03 |
0.9910 |
-0.0361 |
295 |
1 |
38.03 |
2011-10-02 |
| 70. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
37.94 |
0.9286 |
0.0208 |
194 |
1 |
37.94 |
2011-10-01 |
| 71. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
37.93 |
0.9912 |
-0.0142 |
237 |
2 |
36.02 |
2011-10-01 |
| 72. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
37.87 |
1.0788 |
-0.1359 |
171 |
1 |
37.87 |
2011-10-01 |
| 73. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
37.82 |
0.9471 |
0.0105 |
312 |
1 |
37.82 |
2011-10-01 |
| 74. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
37.56 |
0.9309 |
0.0080 |
284 |
1 |
37.56 |
2011-09-29 |
| 75. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
37.44 |
0.9468 |
-0.0091 |
276 |
1 |
37.44 |
2011-09-28 |
| 76. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
37.31 |
1.0417 |
-0.1100 |
253 |
1 |
37.31 |
2011-10-01 |
| 77. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
37.28 |
0.9614 |
-0.0246 |
292 |
2 |
35.62 |
2011-10-01 |
| 78. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
36.89 |
0.9795 |
-0.0554 |
308 |
1 |
36.89 |
2011-10-01 |
| 79. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
36.86 |
0.9049 |
0.0235 |
351 |
1 |
36.86 |
2011-09-29 |
| 80. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
36.82 |
0.8077 |
0.1120 |
167 |
2 |
35.30 |
2011-10-01 |
| 81. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
36.79 |
0.9649 |
-0.0445 |
193 |
2 |
35.95 |
2011-10-04 |
| 82. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
36.67 |
0.8422 |
0.0788 |
164 |
1 |
36.67 |
2011-09-30 |
| 83. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
36.62 |
0.9966 |
-0.0802 |
259 |
1 |
36.62 |
2011-10-01 |
| 84. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
36.54 |
0.9461 |
-0.0317 |
276 |
1 |
36.54 |
2011-10-01 |
| 85. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
36.39 |
1.0487 |
-0.1426 |
231 |
1 |
36.39 |
2011-10-01 |
| 86. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
36.31 |
0.9340 |
-0.0256 |
296 |
1 |
36.31 |
2011-10-01 |
| 87. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
36.27 |
0.9316 |
-0.0173 |
287 |
1 |
36.27 |
2011-10-01 |
| 88. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
36.14 |
0.8961 |
0.0052 |
189 |
1 |
36.14 |
2011-10-01 |
| 89. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
36.08 |
0.8022 |
0.1038 |
215 |
1 |
36.08 |
2011-10-02 |
| 90. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
35.62 |
0.9098 |
-0.0223 |
167 |
1 |
35.62 |
2011-10-01 |
| 91. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
35.48 |
0.9097 |
-0.0219 |
153 |
2 |
32.51 |
2011-10-01 |
| 92. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
35.45 |
0.8788 |
0.0056 |
134 |
1 |
35.45 |
2011-10-01 |
| 93. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
35.10 |
1.0213 |
-0.1462 |
240 |
1 |
35.10 |
2011-09-29 |
| 94. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
35.06 |
0.9084 |
-0.0274 |
404 |
1 |
35.06 |
2011-10-01 |
| 95. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
34.71 |
0.9740 |
-0.1099 |
209 |
1 |
34.71 |
2011-10-01 |
| 96. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
34.59 |
0.9325 |
-0.0740 |
156 |
1 |
34.59 |
2011-10-01 |
| 97. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
34.59 |
1.0696 |
-0.2077 |
226 |
1 |
34.59 |
2011-10-01 |
| 98. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
34.54 |
0.8691 |
-0.0173 |
119 |
1 |
34.54 |
2011-10-01 |
| 99. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
34.24 |
0.8615 |
-0.0049 |
110 |
1 |
34.24 |
2011-10-01 |
| 100. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
34.24 |
1.0023 |
-0.1480 |
211 |
1 |
34.24 |
2011-10-01 |
| 101. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
34.19 |
1.0384 |
-0.1934 |
183 |
1 |
34.19 |
2011-10-01 |
| 102. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
34.16 |
1.0412 |
-0.1874 |
225 |
1 |
34.16 |
2011-09-30 |
| 103. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
34.08 |
1.0529 |
-0.2007 |
351 |
1 |
34.08 |
2011-10-01 |
| 104. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
33.89 |
0.9688 |
-0.1221 |
217 |
1 |
33.89 |
2011-10-01 |
| 105. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
33.86 |
0.9089 |
-0.0586 |
342 |
1 |
33.86 |
2011-10-01 |
| 106. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
32.97 |
0.8037 |
0.0238 |
148 |
1 |
32.97 |
2011-10-01 |
| 107. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
32.76 |
1.0619 |
-0.2393 |
354 |
1 |
32.76 |
2011-09-30 |
| 108. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
32.76 |
0.9866 |
-0.1712 |
218 |
1 |
32.76 |
2011-10-01 |
| 109. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
32.49 |
1.0083 |
-0.1518 |
273 |
1 |
32.49 |
2011-10-01 |
| 110. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
32.39 |
1.0033 |
-0.2007 |
189 |
1 |
32.39 |
2011-10-01 |
| 111. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
31.96 |
0.9965 |
-0.1975 |
277 |
1 |
31.96 |
2011-10-01 |
| 112. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
30.96 |
0.9048 |
-0.1273 |
271 |
1 |
30.96 |
2011-10-01 |
| 113. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
30.48 |
0.9583 |
-0.1538 |
341 |
1 |
30.48 |
2011-09-30 |
| 114. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
30.46 |
0.8919 |
-0.1328 |
205 |
1 |
30.46 |
2011-09-29 |
| 115. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
30.26 |
1.1296 |
-0.3452 |
252 |
1 |
30.26 |
2011-09-30 |
| 116. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
29.94 |
1.0740 |
-0.2886 |
264 |
1 |
29.94 |
2011-09-30 |
| 117. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
29.77 |
0.7104 |
0.0356 |
131 |
1 |
29.77 |
2011-10-01 |
| 118. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
29.49 |
0.8951 |
-0.1567 |
193 |
1 |
29.49 |
2011-10-01 |
| 119. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
29.01 |
0.8787 |
-0.1503 |
202 |
1 |
29.01 |
2011-09-30 |
| 120. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
29.00 |
0.9307 |
-0.1995 |
246 |
1 |
29.00 |
2011-10-01 |
| 121. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
28.82 |
1.0943 |
-0.3429 |
206 |
1 |
28.82 |
2011-09-30 |
| 122. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
27.30 |
0.9863 |
-0.3019 |
339 |
1 |
27.30 |
2011-09-30 |
| 123. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
27.30 |
0.9884 |
-0.3087 |
233 |
1 |
27.30 |
2011-10-01 |
| 124. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
26.23 |
0.8231 |
-0.1666 |
180 |
1 |
26.23 |
2011-09-30 |
| 125. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
25.19 |
0.8763 |
-0.2487 |
105 |
1 |
25.19 |
2011-10-01 |
| 126. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
22.81 |
1.0337 |
-0.4684 |
214 |
1 |
22.81 |
2011-09-30 |