| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
43.85 |
1.0743 |
0.3458 |
297 |
1 |
43.85 |
2010-12-20 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
43.32 |
1.0881 |
0.3096 |
210 |
1 |
43.32 |
2011-03-03 |
| 3. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
42.60 |
1.0511 |
0.3285 |
252 |
1 |
42.60 |
2011-03-03 |
| 4. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
40.35 |
0.9779 |
0.3254 |
255 |
1 |
40.35 |
2011-05-15 |
| 5. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
39.85 |
0.9614 |
0.3284 |
195 |
1 |
39.85 |
2011-05-08 |
| 6. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
39.08 |
0.9873 |
0.2748 |
274 |
1 |
39.08 |
2011-04-25 |
| 7. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
38.87 |
1.0800 |
0.1738 |
213 |
2 |
34.48 |
2011-01-01 |
| 8. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
38.34 |
0.9260 |
0.3166 |
348 |
2 |
32.09 |
2011-05-28 |
| 9. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
36.97 |
1.0595 |
0.1289 |
166 |
1 |
36.97 |
2010-12-20 |
| 10. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
36.65 |
0.9349 |
0.2527 |
287 |
1 |
36.65 |
2011-03-28 |
| 11. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
36.23 |
0.8911 |
0.2817 |
207 |
1 |
36.23 |
2011-05-27 |
| 12. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
35.76 |
1.0617 |
0.0917 |
171 |
2 |
31.58 |
2010-12-29 |
| 13. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
35.74 |
0.8551 |
0.3006 |
150 |
1 |
35.74 |
2010-12-20 |
| 14. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
35.63 |
0.9869 |
0.1611 |
193 |
3 |
30.01 |
2010-12-27 |
| 15. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
35.54 |
0.9952 |
0.1558 |
220 |
1 |
35.54 |
2011-04-19 |
| 16. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
35.30 |
0.9102 |
0.2359 |
239 |
1 |
35.30 |
2011-05-27 |
| 17. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
35.23 |
0.8149 |
0.3212 |
158 |
2 |
29.64 |
2011-01-06 |
| 18. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
34.99 |
1.0465 |
0.0756 |
183 |
1 |
34.99 |
2011-02-13 |
| 19. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
34.43 |
0.9253 |
0.1769 |
118 |
1 |
34.43 |
2010-12-23 |
| 20. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
34.25 |
0.8918 |
0.2204 |
163 |
1 |
34.25 |
2011-01-22 |
| 21. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
33.85 |
1.0873 |
0.0033 |
243 |
1 |
33.85 |
2010-12-22 |
| 22. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
33.62 |
0.8606 |
0.2272 |
170 |
1 |
33.62 |
2010-12-23 |
| 23. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
33.45 |
0.9408 |
0.1342 |
177 |
2 |
32.07 |
2011-01-10 |
| 24. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
33.38 |
0.8168 |
0.2598 |
115 |
2 |
28.23 |
2011-01-03 |
| 25. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
33.32 |
0.7384 |
0.3351 |
106 |
1 |
33.32 |
2010-12-20 |
| 26. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
33.24 |
0.9275 |
0.1520 |
243 |
2 |
32.60 |
2011-01-13 |
| 27. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
33.04 |
1.0753 |
-0.0010 |
206 |
1 |
33.04 |
2011-04-25 |
| 28. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
32.85 |
0.9841 |
0.0758 |
263 |
1 |
32.85 |
2011-04-25 |
| 29. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
32.57 |
1.0585 |
-0.0038 |
226 |
1 |
32.57 |
2011-01-03 |
| 30. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
32.50 |
0.9394 |
0.1086 |
195 |
1 |
32.50 |
2011-04-19 |
| 31. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
32.23 |
0.8919 |
0.1483 |
116 |
2 |
30.44 |
2010-12-28 |
| 32. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
32.19 |
0.8915 |
0.1491 |
158 |
1 |
32.19 |
2010-12-21 |
| 33. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
32.19 |
0.8830 |
0.1514 |
134 |
2 |
29.04 |
2010-12-23 |
| 34. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
32.13 |
1.0507 |
-0.0072 |
253 |
1 |
32.13 |
2011-03-28 |
| 35. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
31.74 |
1.0225 |
-0.0059 |
152 |
1 |
31.74 |
2011-01-18 |
| 36. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
31.65 |
0.7868 |
0.2317 |
116 |
1 |
31.65 |
2010-12-27 |
| 37. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
31.44 |
0.9243 |
0.0908 |
231 |
1 |
31.44 |
2010-12-20 |
| 38. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
31.02 |
0.9927 |
0.0057 |
234 |
1 |
31.02 |
2011-01-10 |
| 39. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
30.90 |
1.0288 |
-0.0355 |
166 |
1 |
30.90 |
2011-02-02 |
| 40. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
30.78 |
0.9264 |
0.0686 |
177 |
1 |
30.78 |
2011-01-10 |
| 41. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
30.62 |
0.9841 |
0.0015 |
217 |
1 |
30.62 |
2011-05-31 |
| 42. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
30.42 |
1.0461 |
-0.0615 |
318 |
1 |
30.42 |
2010-12-20 |
| 43. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
30.22 |
0.9113 |
0.0604 |
225 |
2 |
28.27 |
2011-01-10 |
| 44. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
29.64 |
0.8887 |
0.0729 |
194 |
1 |
29.64 |
2010-12-20 |
| 45. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
29.52 |
0.8371 |
0.1088 |
124 |
1 |
29.52 |
2010-12-20 |
| 46. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
29.40 |
0.9286 |
0.0224 |
177 |
2 |
27.47 |
2011-01-08 |
| 47. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
29.13 |
0.9183 |
0.0181 |
252 |
1 |
29.13 |
2011-03-11 |
| 48. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
29.05 |
0.9685 |
-0.0301 |
304 |
1 |
29.05 |
2010-12-28 |
| 49. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
29.00 |
1.0082 |
-0.0772 |
212 |
1 |
29.00 |
2011-01-03 |
| 50. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
28.97 |
0.8469 |
0.0892 |
164 |
1 |
28.97 |
2011-01-10 |
| 51. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
28.85 |
0.8863 |
0.0414 |
127 |
1 |
28.85 |
2010-12-21 |
| 52. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
28.82 |
0.9244 |
0.0109 |
225 |
1 |
28.82 |
2010-12-20 |
| 53. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
28.45 |
0.8553 |
0.0677 |
145 |
1 |
28.45 |
2010-12-20 |
| 54. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
28.26 |
0.9930 |
-0.0720 |
350 |
1 |
28.26 |
2011-04-09 |
| 55. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
28.23 |
0.9054 |
0.0079 |
204 |
1 |
28.23 |
2010-12-20 |
| 56. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
28.21 |
0.9040 |
0.0062 |
188 |
1 |
28.21 |
2011-01-01 |
| 57. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
28.15 |
1.0543 |
-0.1451 |
233 |
1 |
28.15 |
2010-12-21 |
| 58. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
28.13 |
0.8857 |
0.0185 |
172 |
1 |
28.13 |
2010-12-20 |
| 59. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
28.08 |
0.8789 |
0.0241 |
136 |
1 |
28.08 |
2010-12-27 |
| 60. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
27.90 |
1.0590 |
-0.1599 |
250 |
1 |
27.90 |
2011-01-06 |
| 61. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
27.88 |
0.8948 |
0.0042 |
164 |
1 |
27.88 |
2010-12-23 |
| 62. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
27.85 |
1.0125 |
-0.1151 |
232 |
1 |
27.85 |
2010-12-27 |
| 63. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
27.64 |
0.8936 |
-0.0032 |
135 |
1 |
27.64 |
2011-04-23 |
| 64. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
27.63 |
0.8135 |
0.0794 |
173 |
1 |
27.63 |
2010-12-22 |
| 65. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
27.46 |
1.0600 |
-0.1735 |
351 |
1 |
27.46 |
2011-03-03 |
| 66. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
27.13 |
1.0059 |
-0.1294 |
283 |
1 |
27.13 |
2010-12-20 |
| 67. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
26.86 |
0.8964 |
-0.0328 |
199 |
1 |
26.86 |
2010-12-20 |
| 68. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
26.63 |
0.8194 |
0.0388 |
193 |
2 |
24.97 |
2011-01-11 |
| 69. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
26.51 |
0.8986 |
-0.0427 |
216 |
2 |
25.22 |
2011-01-08 |
| 70. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
26.31 |
0.8938 |
-0.0447 |
238 |
1 |
26.31 |
2010-12-25 |
| 71. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
26.31 |
1.0103 |
-0.1675 |
209 |
1 |
26.31 |
2011-01-16 |
| 72. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
25.99 |
0.8958 |
-0.0614 |
188 |
1 |
25.99 |
2010-12-28 |
| 73. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
25.99 |
0.9925 |
-0.1590 |
155 |
1 |
25.99 |
2010-12-21 |
| 74. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
25.86 |
0.8236 |
0.0040 |
178 |
1 |
25.86 |
2011-04-25 |
| 75. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
25.67 |
0.9541 |
-0.1256 |
236 |
1 |
25.67 |
2010-12-25 |
| 76. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
25.58 |
0.9890 |
-0.1601 |
272 |
1 |
25.58 |
2011-01-16 |
| 77. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
25.36 |
0.8880 |
-0.0699 |
296 |
1 |
25.36 |
2011-03-03 |
| 78. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
25.17 |
0.9756 |
-0.1648 |
223 |
1 |
25.17 |
2010-12-20 |
| 79. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
25.13 |
0.9352 |
-0.1261 |
194 |
1 |
25.13 |
2010-12-23 |
| 80. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
24.91 |
0.9149 |
-0.1133 |
153 |
1 |
24.91 |
2011-03-24 |
| 81. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
24.83 |
0.8805 |
-0.0799 |
205 |
1 |
24.83 |
2011-01-17 |
| 82. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
24.37 |
0.9023 |
-0.1181 |
268 |
1 |
24.37 |
2010-12-19 |
| 83. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
23.88 |
0.9271 |
-0.1576 |
295 |
1 |
23.88 |
2010-12-20 |
| 84. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
23.80 |
0.8666 |
-0.1019 |
206 |
2 |
22.50 |
2011-04-27 |
| 85. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
21.94 |
0.7915 |
-0.0831 |
142 |
1 |
21.94 |
2010-12-20 |
| 86. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
19.27 |
0.8067 |
-0.1863 |
215 |
1 |
19.27 |
2010-12-20 |