| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
68.45 |
0.9938 |
0.4390 |
339 |
2 |
57.30 |
2010-11-04 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
66.85 |
1.0565 |
0.3391 |
247 |
3 |
56.37 |
2010-11-06 |
| 3. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
64.57 |
0.9239 |
0.4328 |
193 |
1 |
64.57 |
2010-11-04 |
| 4. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
63.31 |
0.9790 |
0.3851 |
311 |
2 |
56.07 |
2010-11-04 |
| 5. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
59.91 |
1.0412 |
0.2099 |
225 |
1 |
59.91 |
2010-10-31 |
| 6. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
57.82 |
0.9941 |
0.2111 |
217 |
1 |
57.82 |
2010-10-31 |
| 7. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
57.16 |
0.9897 |
0.2017 |
274 |
1 |
57.16 |
2010-11-03 |
| 8. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
56.88 |
1.0201 |
0.1681 |
303 |
1 |
56.88 |
2010-11-04 |
| 9. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
56.66 |
0.9754 |
0.2138 |
362 |
1 |
56.66 |
2010-10-31 |
| 10. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
56.11 |
1.1018 |
0.0633 |
220 |
1 |
56.11 |
2010-10-31 |
| 11. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
55.67 |
1.0666 |
0.0957 |
297 |
2 |
54.29 |
2010-11-03 |
| 12. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
55.48 |
1.1162 |
0.0830 |
189 |
1 |
55.48 |
2010-10-31 |
| 13. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
55.25 |
0.9722 |
0.1833 |
283 |
1 |
55.25 |
2010-10-31 |
| 14. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
54.86 |
1.0197 |
0.1225 |
226 |
1 |
54.86 |
2010-11-03 |
| 15. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
54.85 |
0.9670 |
0.2200 |
307 |
1 |
54.85 |
2010-10-31 |
| 16. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
54.76 |
0.9857 |
0.1563 |
293 |
1 |
54.76 |
2010-10-31 |
| 17. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
54.72 |
1.0787 |
0.0622 |
237 |
1 |
54.72 |
2010-10-31 |
| 18. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
54.67 |
1.0486 |
0.0933 |
289 |
1 |
54.67 |
2010-10-31 |
| 19. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
54.26 |
1.0289 |
0.1080 |
276 |
1 |
54.26 |
2010-10-29 |
| 20. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
54.12 |
0.9593 |
0.1749 |
398 |
2 |
49.40 |
2010-10-29 |
| 21. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
54.09 |
1.0602 |
0.0727 |
389 |
1 |
54.09 |
2010-11-03 |
| 22. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
53.98 |
1.0088 |
0.1565 |
396 |
1 |
53.98 |
2010-10-31 |
| 23. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
53.42 |
1.0214 |
0.1358 |
281 |
1 |
53.42 |
2010-10-29 |
| 24. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
53.22 |
1.1081 |
0.0370 |
206 |
2 |
48.61 |
2010-10-31 |
| 25. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
52.85 |
1.0117 |
0.1358 |
297 |
1 |
52.85 |
2010-10-31 |
| 26. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
52.84 |
1.0863 |
0.0510 |
210 |
2 |
47.34 |
2010-11-04 |
| 27. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
52.73 |
0.9005 |
0.1982 |
212 |
1 |
52.73 |
2010-10-31 |
| 28. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
52.70 |
1.0403 |
0.0743 |
193 |
1 |
52.70 |
2010-10-29 |
| 29. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
52.66 |
1.0487 |
0.0450 |
231 |
1 |
52.66 |
2010-10-31 |
| 30. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
52.39 |
0.9213 |
0.1722 |
295 |
1 |
52.39 |
2010-10-31 |
| 31. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
52.13 |
1.0331 |
0.0522 |
234 |
1 |
52.13 |
2010-10-29 |
| 32. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
52.06 |
0.9786 |
0.1022 |
193 |
1 |
52.06 |
2010-10-29 |
| 33. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
51.94 |
0.9675 |
0.1255 |
383 |
1 |
51.94 |
2010-10-31 |
| 34. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
51.78 |
0.9756 |
0.1032 |
229 |
2 |
46.91 |
2010-11-04 |
| 35. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
51.37 |
1.0389 |
0.0343 |
318 |
2 |
50.30 |
2010-10-31 |
| 36. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
51.23 |
1.0296 |
0.0453 |
437 |
1 |
51.23 |
2010-10-31 |
| 37. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
51.08 |
1.0077 |
0.0990 |
250 |
1 |
51.08 |
2010-10-29 |
| 38. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
50.65 |
1.0124 |
0.0415 |
204 |
1 |
50.65 |
2010-11-03 |
| 39. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
50.62 |
1.0613 |
-0.0048 |
266 |
1 |
50.62 |
2010-10-31 |
| 40. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
50.61 |
1.0390 |
0.0126 |
205 |
1 |
50.61 |
2010-11-03 |
| 41. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
50.20 |
1.0577 |
-0.0144 |
247 |
1 |
50.20 |
2010-10-24 |
| 42. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
50.19 |
0.9946 |
0.0518 |
246 |
1 |
50.19 |
2010-10-31 |
| 43. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
50.01 |
1.0218 |
0.0181 |
268 |
1 |
50.01 |
2010-10-31 |
| 44. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
49.98 |
0.9578 |
0.0838 |
281 |
2 |
49.85 |
2010-10-31 |
| 45. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
49.93 |
1.0534 |
-0.0101 |
357 |
1 |
49.93 |
2010-10-31 |
| 46. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
48.82 |
0.9619 |
0.0609 |
393 |
1 |
48.82 |
2010-10-29 |
| 47. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
48.76 |
1.0829 |
-0.0650 |
288 |
1 |
48.76 |
2010-10-31 |
| 48. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
48.72 |
0.9994 |
0.0467 |
269 |
1 |
48.72 |
2010-10-31 |
| 49. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
48.71 |
0.8559 |
0.1602 |
191 |
1 |
48.71 |
2010-10-29 |
| 50. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
48.64 |
0.9925 |
0.0580 |
247 |
1 |
48.64 |
2010-10-29 |
| 51. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
48.53 |
0.9865 |
0.0261 |
276 |
1 |
48.53 |
2010-10-28 |
| 52. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
48.09 |
1.0004 |
-0.0043 |
212 |
1 |
48.09 |
2010-10-29 |
| 53. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
47.98 |
1.0201 |
-0.0162 |
375 |
1 |
47.98 |
2010-11-03 |
| 54. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
47.96 |
1.0885 |
-0.0857 |
315 |
1 |
47.96 |
2010-10-31 |
| 55. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
47.74 |
0.9513 |
0.0474 |
354 |
1 |
47.74 |
2010-10-31 |
| 56. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
47.61 |
1.0719 |
-0.0522 |
360 |
1 |
47.61 |
2010-10-31 |
| 57. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
47.53 |
0.9074 |
0.0895 |
396 |
1 |
47.53 |
2010-10-29 |
| 58. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
47.38 |
0.9916 |
0.0383 |
282 |
1 |
47.38 |
2010-10-24 |
| 59. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
47.24 |
0.9795 |
0.0048 |
308 |
2 |
37.66 |
2010-10-29 |
| 60. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
47.09 |
1.0240 |
-0.0455 |
256 |
1 |
47.09 |
2010-10-29 |
| 61. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
46.91 |
0.9275 |
0.0465 |
211 |
1 |
46.91 |
2010-10-31 |
| 62. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
46.78 |
0.9212 |
0.0567 |
323 |
1 |
46.78 |
2010-10-29 |
| 63. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
46.70 |
0.8941 |
0.0808 |
216 |
1 |
46.70 |
2010-11-04 |
| 64. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
46.58 |
1.1215 |
-0.1271 |
200 |
1 |
46.58 |
2010-10-31 |
| 65. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
46.51 |
1.0644 |
-0.0594 |
257 |
1 |
46.51 |
2010-10-31 |
| 66. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
46.34 |
1.0214 |
-0.0578 |
269 |
1 |
46.34 |
2010-10-24 |
| 67. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
46.30 |
0.9697 |
-0.0006 |
266 |
1 |
46.30 |
2010-10-31 |
| 68. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
46.03 |
0.9942 |
-0.0266 |
483 |
1 |
46.03 |
2010-11-04 |
| 69. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
45.70 |
0.9772 |
-0.0289 |
217 |
1 |
45.70 |
2010-10-31 |
| 70. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
45.46 |
0.9196 |
0.0288 |
148 |
1 |
45.46 |
2010-10-31 |
| 71. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
45.14 |
1.0384 |
-0.1080 |
183 |
1 |
45.14 |
2010-10-24 |
| 72. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
44.95 |
0.9614 |
-0.0224 |
292 |
1 |
44.95 |
2010-10-31 |
| 73. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
44.90 |
1.0297 |
-0.0960 |
249 |
2 |
43.59 |
2010-11-03 |
| 74. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
44.43 |
1.0441 |
-0.1176 |
252 |
1 |
44.43 |
2010-10-24 |
| 75. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
44.23 |
0.9286 |
-0.0088 |
194 |
1 |
44.23 |
2010-10-31 |
| 76. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
43.95 |
1.0795 |
-0.1342 |
226 |
1 |
43.95 |
2010-10-24 |
| 77. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
43.92 |
0.9359 |
0.0178 |
353 |
1 |
43.92 |
2010-10-24 |
| 78. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
43.90 |
0.8961 |
0.0143 |
189 |
2 |
38.18 |
2010-10-29 |
| 79. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
43.47 |
0.9687 |
-0.0593 |
371 |
1 |
43.47 |
2010-10-29 |
| 80. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
43.17 |
0.8852 |
0.0153 |
201 |
1 |
43.17 |
2010-10-24 |
| 81. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
43.13 |
1.0574 |
-0.1320 |
205 |
1 |
43.13 |
2010-10-31 |
| 82. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
43.06 |
1.0941 |
-0.1668 |
256 |
1 |
43.06 |
2010-10-31 |
| 83. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
42.91 |
0.8900 |
0.0041 |
164 |
1 |
42.91 |
2010-10-29 |
| 84. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
42.90 |
1.0529 |
-0.1603 |
351 |
1 |
42.90 |
2010-10-31 |
| 85. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
42.89 |
0.9905 |
-0.0902 |
377 |
1 |
42.89 |
2010-11-03 |
| 86. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
42.71 |
1.0523 |
-0.1679 |
256 |
1 |
42.71 |
2010-10-28 |
| 87. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
42.36 |
0.9049 |
-0.0182 |
351 |
1 |
42.36 |
2010-10-31 |
| 88. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
42.30 |
0.9087 |
-0.0180 |
393 |
1 |
42.30 |
2010-10-31 |
| 89. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.25 |
0.9293 |
-0.0495 |
355 |
2 |
42.21 |
2010-10-31 |
| 90. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
42.25 |
1.0595 |
-0.1780 |
379 |
1 |
42.25 |
2010-10-24 |
| 91. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
42.16 |
0.9846 |
-0.1086 |
281 |
1 |
42.16 |
2010-10-24 |
| 92. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
42.11 |
1.0444 |
-0.1750 |
197 |
2 |
41.28 |
2010-10-24 |
| 93. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
42.01 |
0.9068 |
-0.0299 |
269 |
1 |
42.01 |
2010-10-24 |
| 94. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
41.84 |
0.9843 |
-0.1190 |
234 |
1 |
41.84 |
2010-10-31 |
| 95. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
41.73 |
1.0555 |
-0.1861 |
363 |
1 |
41.73 |
2010-10-24 |
| 96. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
41.58 |
0.9084 |
-0.0418 |
300 |
1 |
41.58 |
2010-10-31 |
| 97. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
41.37 |
0.8981 |
-0.0331 |
393 |
1 |
41.37 |
2010-10-29 |
| 98. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
41.36 |
1.0154 |
-0.1054 |
351 |
1 |
41.36 |
2010-10-24 |
| 99. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
41.03 |
0.7988 |
0.0631 |
219 |
1 |
41.03 |
2010-10-28 |
| 100. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
40.90 |
0.9216 |
-0.0322 |
255 |
1 |
40.90 |
2010-10-24 |
| 101. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.85 |
0.9072 |
-0.0595 |
237 |
1 |
40.85 |
2010-10-24 |
| 102. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
40.83 |
0.8022 |
0.0499 |
215 |
1 |
40.83 |
2010-10-31 |
| 103. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
40.46 |
0.9682 |
-0.1289 |
143 |
1 |
40.46 |
2010-10-31 |
| 104. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
40.36 |
1.0498 |
-0.2155 |
180 |
1 |
40.36 |
2010-10-31 |
| 105. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
40.15 |
0.9342 |
-0.0961 |
434 |
1 |
40.15 |
2010-10-31 |
| 106. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
40.14 |
0.8890 |
-0.0582 |
199 |
2 |
38.84 |
2010-11-04 |
| 107. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
39.25 |
0.9278 |
-0.1095 |
295 |
1 |
39.25 |
2010-10-24 |
| 108. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
38.91 |
0.8722 |
-0.0608 |
285 |
1 |
38.91 |
2010-10-31 |
| 109. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
38.67 |
0.9672 |
-0.1573 |
396 |
1 |
38.67 |
2010-10-24 |
| 110. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
37.72 |
1.0788 |
-0.3011 |
171 |
1 |
37.72 |
2010-10-24 |
| 111. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
37.68 |
0.8105 |
-0.0323 |
204 |
2 |
37.42 |
2010-10-31 |
| 112. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
37.48 |
0.9109 |
-0.1300 |
401 |
1 |
37.48 |
2010-10-31 |
| 113. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
37.39 |
1.0883 |
-0.2798 |
303 |
1 |
37.39 |
2010-10-24 |
| 114. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
37.25 |
0.8947 |
-0.1164 |
366 |
1 |
37.25 |
2010-10-24 |
| 115. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
35.53 |
0.8602 |
-0.1253 |
206 |
1 |
35.53 |
2010-10-24 |
| 116. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
34.80 |
0.9430 |
-0.2286 |
211 |
1 |
34.80 |
2010-10-31 |
| 117. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
34.50 |
0.8996 |
-0.1897 |
192 |
1 |
34.50 |
2010-10-31 |
| 118. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
33.55 |
0.9678 |
-0.2378 |
445 |
1 |
33.55 |
2010-10-24 |
| 119. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
31.81 |
0.7877 |
-0.1245 |
142 |
1 |
31.81 |
2010-10-28 |