| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
52.93 |
1.0679 |
0.5343 |
177 |
2 |
29.82 |
2011-05-12 |
| 2. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
52.67 |
1.0074 |
0.5681 |
242 |
1 |
52.67 |
2011-03-18 |
| 3. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
52.11 |
1.0515 |
0.5038 |
250 |
2 |
48.88 |
2011-05-04 |
| 4. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
51.99 |
0.9221 |
0.6302 |
244 |
2 |
51.17 |
2011-04-26 |
| 5. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
51.58 |
0.8614 |
0.6769 |
172 |
1 |
51.58 |
2011-05-06 |
| 6. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
51.23 |
0.9729 |
0.5579 |
255 |
2 |
47.03 |
2011-05-02 |
| 7. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
50.50 |
0.8660 |
0.6427 |
193 |
1 |
50.50 |
2011-05-12 |
| 8. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
49.86 |
0.8900 |
0.6008 |
164 |
3 |
39.02 |
2011-04-26 |
| 9. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
49.32 |
0.8953 |
0.5791 |
193 |
2 |
47.68 |
2011-04-20 |
| 10. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
48.04 |
0.8876 |
0.5452 |
118 |
2 |
39.68 |
2011-04-16 |
| 11. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
47.47 |
0.9633 |
0.4562 |
304 |
2 |
42.35 |
2011-05-12 |
| 12. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.50 |
1.0444 |
0.3373 |
197 |
3 |
22.54 |
2011-04-26 |
| 13. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
46.50 |
1.1018 |
0.2796 |
220 |
2 |
40.41 |
2011-04-26 |
| 14. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
46.47 |
0.9844 |
0.4135 |
229 |
1 |
46.47 |
2011-04-20 |
| 15. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
46.47 |
0.9964 |
0.3909 |
203 |
1 |
46.47 |
2011-05-12 |
| 16. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
45.00 |
1.0445 |
0.2998 |
373 |
1 |
45.00 |
2011-05-06 |
| 17. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
44.93 |
1.0711 |
0.2646 |
213 |
1 |
44.93 |
2011-03-18 |
| 18. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
44.33 |
1.0288 |
0.3266 |
300 |
1 |
44.33 |
2011-05-12 |
| 19. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
44.31 |
1.0403 |
0.3219 |
275 |
1 |
44.31 |
2011-05-04 |
| 20. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
44.02 |
0.9722 |
0.3428 |
283 |
1 |
44.02 |
2011-05-04 |
| 21. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
43.84 |
0.9325 |
0.3687 |
156 |
1 |
43.84 |
2011-03-18 |
| 22. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
43.63 |
0.9233 |
0.3701 |
168 |
1 |
43.63 |
2011-05-12 |
| 23. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
43.41 |
0.8899 |
0.4158 |
293 |
1 |
43.41 |
2011-05-02 |
| 24. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
43.34 |
0.9966 |
0.2960 |
259 |
1 |
43.34 |
2011-05-02 |
| 25. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
43.33 |
1.0516 |
0.2405 |
281 |
1 |
43.33 |
2011-05-04 |
| 26. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
42.87 |
1.0462 |
0.2267 |
184 |
1 |
42.87 |
2011-04-18 |
| 27. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
42.80 |
0.8788 |
0.3949 |
134 |
2 |
27.27 |
2011-05-02 |
| 28. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
42.60 |
1.0389 |
0.2337 |
318 |
1 |
42.60 |
2011-05-04 |
| 29. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
42.58 |
1.0062 |
0.2638 |
288 |
1 |
42.58 |
2011-04-26 |
| 30. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
42.26 |
1.0993 |
0.1592 |
265 |
1 |
42.26 |
2011-03-17 |
| 31. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
42.15 |
1.0120 |
0.2444 |
290 |
1 |
42.15 |
2011-05-12 |
| 32. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
41.97 |
1.0013 |
0.2495 |
273 |
1 |
41.97 |
2011-05-04 |
| 33. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
41.85 |
1.0388 |
0.2411 |
243 |
1 |
41.85 |
2011-05-02 |
| 34. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.81 |
0.9171 |
0.3302 |
165 |
2 |
37.77 |
2011-05-12 |
| 35. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
41.81 |
0.9247 |
0.3268 |
253 |
1 |
41.81 |
2011-05-12 |
| 36. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
41.74 |
0.9795 |
0.2659 |
308 |
1 |
41.74 |
2011-05-02 |
| 37. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
41.54 |
0.8323 |
0.4055 |
145 |
2 |
26.39 |
2011-03-18 |
| 38. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
41.54 |
1.0740 |
0.2031 |
264 |
2 |
34.36 |
2011-05-06 |
| 39. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
40.95 |
1.0292 |
0.1904 |
262 |
3 |
34.28 |
2011-05-12 |
| 40. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
40.88 |
1.0385 |
0.1786 |
230 |
1 |
40.88 |
2011-04-25 |
| 41. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
40.83 |
1.0168 |
0.2025 |
271 |
1 |
40.83 |
2011-03-18 |
| 42. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
40.78 |
0.9260 |
0.3008 |
243 |
1 |
40.78 |
2011-04-25 |
| 43. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
40.77 |
1.0943 |
0.1537 |
206 |
2 |
38.57 |
2011-04-26 |
| 44. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
40.63 |
0.9468 |
0.2648 |
276 |
1 |
40.63 |
2011-05-12 |
| 45. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
40.60 |
0.9811 |
0.2322 |
272 |
1 |
40.60 |
2011-04-25 |
| 46. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
40.29 |
0.8919 |
0.3113 |
152 |
2 |
36.77 |
2011-04-16 |
| 47. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
40.19 |
0.9936 |
0.2247 |
227 |
1 |
40.19 |
2011-05-06 |
| 48. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
40.09 |
0.9941 |
0.1986 |
217 |
1 |
40.09 |
2011-03-18 |
| 49. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
40.04 |
0.9559 |
0.2396 |
195 |
2 |
37.84 |
2011-04-25 |
| 50. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
39.65 |
0.9196 |
0.2637 |
148 |
2 |
37.22 |
2011-04-25 |
| 51. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
39.37 |
0.9340 |
0.2386 |
296 |
1 |
39.37 |
2011-04-18 |
| 52. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
39.24 |
0.9697 |
0.2036 |
266 |
1 |
39.24 |
2011-04-25 |
| 53. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
39.07 |
0.9164 |
0.2533 |
305 |
1 |
39.07 |
2011-05-04 |
| 54. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
38.92 |
1.0796 |
0.0748 |
129 |
1 |
38.92 |
2011-03-18 |
| 55. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
38.74 |
0.8975 |
0.2572 |
268 |
1 |
38.74 |
2011-03-19 |
| 56. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
38.56 |
0.9128 |
0.2414 |
133 |
1 |
38.56 |
2011-03-18 |
| 57. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
38.36 |
1.0797 |
0.0578 |
210 |
1 |
38.36 |
2011-04-25 |
| 58. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
38.30 |
0.9786 |
0.1575 |
193 |
2 |
35.65 |
2011-04-18 |
| 59. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
38.09 |
0.9855 |
0.1830 |
258 |
1 |
38.09 |
2011-05-12 |
| 60. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
37.79 |
0.9866 |
0.1356 |
218 |
1 |
37.79 |
2011-04-26 |
| 61. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
37.71 |
1.0252 |
0.0915 |
176 |
1 |
37.71 |
2011-05-02 |
| 62. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
37.44 |
1.0240 |
0.0881 |
256 |
1 |
37.44 |
2011-04-26 |
| 63. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
37.16 |
1.0150 |
0.1409 |
325 |
1 |
37.16 |
2011-04-25 |
| 64. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
36.96 |
0.9965 |
0.1049 |
277 |
1 |
36.96 |
2011-04-26 |
| 65. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
36.96 |
0.8725 |
0.2302 |
163 |
2 |
32.45 |
2011-05-06 |
| 66. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
36.85 |
0.9513 |
0.1501 |
354 |
1 |
36.85 |
2011-04-25 |
| 67. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
36.72 |
0.9986 |
0.0957 |
283 |
1 |
36.72 |
2011-04-19 |
| 68. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
36.64 |
0.9216 |
0.2087 |
255 |
1 |
36.64 |
2011-04-25 |
| 69. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
36.54 |
0.9016 |
0.1940 |
192 |
1 |
36.54 |
2011-04-25 |
| 70. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
36.29 |
1.0529 |
0.0277 |
351 |
1 |
36.29 |
2011-04-25 |
| 71. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.15 |
1.0213 |
0.0520 |
240 |
1 |
36.15 |
2011-04-20 |
| 72. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
36.07 |
1.0331 |
0.0386 |
234 |
1 |
36.07 |
2011-04-25 |
| 73. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
35.56 |
0.8793 |
0.1801 |
157 |
2 |
29.13 |
2011-05-04 |
| 74. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
35.52 |
0.8562 |
0.2011 |
170 |
1 |
35.52 |
2011-04-20 |
| 75. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
35.24 |
1.0004 |
0.0424 |
212 |
2 |
28.52 |
2011-03-18 |
| 76. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
35.19 |
0.8867 |
0.1676 |
163 |
2 |
22.77 |
2011-04-16 |
| 77. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
35.19 |
1.0412 |
0.0056 |
225 |
1 |
35.19 |
2011-05-02 |
| 78. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
35.16 |
0.8263 |
0.2176 |
162 |
1 |
35.16 |
2011-04-18 |
| 79. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
35.03 |
1.1296 |
-0.0580 |
252 |
1 |
35.03 |
2011-03-18 |
| 80. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
34.79 |
1.0125 |
0.0201 |
224 |
1 |
34.79 |
2011-04-19 |
| 81. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
34.30 |
0.9769 |
0.0419 |
263 |
1 |
34.30 |
2011-04-25 |
| 82. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
34.16 |
0.9068 |
0.1073 |
225 |
1 |
34.16 |
2011-04-25 |
| 83. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
33.80 |
0.9857 |
0.0188 |
293 |
1 |
33.80 |
2011-04-19 |
| 84. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
33.35 |
0.8821 |
0.1097 |
176 |
2 |
19.19 |
2011-05-02 |
| 85. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
32.93 |
1.0574 |
-0.0500 |
205 |
1 |
32.93 |
2011-05-06 |
| 86. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
32.81 |
0.9673 |
0.0478 |
232 |
1 |
32.81 |
2011-04-20 |
| 87. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
32.71 |
0.8500 |
0.1287 |
145 |
1 |
32.71 |
2011-04-20 |
| 88. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
32.56 |
0.8951 |
0.0754 |
193 |
1 |
32.56 |
2011-04-20 |
| 89. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
31.95 |
1.0487 |
-0.1039 |
231 |
1 |
31.95 |
2011-04-19 |
| 90. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
31.69 |
0.9411 |
0.0019 |
318 |
2 |
27.87 |
2011-05-06 |
| 91. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
31.54 |
0.9843 |
-0.0518 |
234 |
1 |
31.54 |
2011-04-19 |
| 92. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
31.10 |
0.7443 |
0.1790 |
169 |
1 |
31.10 |
2011-04-16 |
| 93. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
30.12 |
0.8595 |
0.0374 |
242 |
1 |
30.12 |
2011-04-19 |
| 94. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
30.05 |
1.0390 |
-0.1500 |
205 |
1 |
30.05 |
2011-03-18 |
| 95. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
29.55 |
0.9532 |
-0.0771 |
258 |
1 |
29.55 |
2011-05-02 |
| 96. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
29.47 |
1.0417 |
-0.1696 |
253 |
1 |
29.47 |
2011-03-18 |
| 97. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
29.19 |
0.8544 |
0.0140 |
170 |
1 |
29.19 |
2011-03-18 |
| 98. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
28.44 |
1.0486 |
-0.2039 |
289 |
1 |
28.44 |
2011-04-27 |
| 99. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
27.21 |
0.8188 |
-0.0098 |
183 |
2 |
18.64 |
2011-03-18 |
| 100. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
26.80 |
0.8190 |
-0.0170 |
135 |
1 |
26.80 |
2011-03-18 |
| 101. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
26.01 |
0.9023 |
-0.0885 |
231 |
1 |
26.01 |
2011-05-02 |
| 102. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
22.86 |
1.0389 |
-0.3607 |
340 |
1 |
22.86 |
2011-03-18 |
| 103. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
22.56 |
0.9266 |
-0.2584 |
278 |
1 |
22.56 |
2011-03-18 |
| 104. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
22.53 |
0.9527 |
-0.2865 |
251 |
1 |
22.53 |
2011-03-18 |
| 105. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
22.53 |
1.0883 |
-0.3900 |
303 |
1 |
22.53 |
2011-04-16 |
| 106. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
22.18 |
1.0077 |
-0.3114 |
250 |
1 |
22.18 |
2011-04-20 |
| 107. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
21.92 |
0.8022 |
-0.1522 |
215 |
1 |
21.92 |
2011-03-18 |
| 108. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
21.71 |
0.8919 |
-0.2519 |
205 |
1 |
21.71 |
2011-03-18 |
| 109. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
21.59 |
1.1162 |
-0.4376 |
189 |
1 |
21.59 |
2011-04-20 |
| 110. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
21.58 |
0.9303 |
-0.3005 |
176 |
2 |
15.64 |
2011-03-19 |
| 111. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
21.58 |
0.9251 |
-0.2832 |
177 |
1 |
21.58 |
2011-03-18 |
| 112. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
21.11 |
1.0214 |
-0.4037 |
166 |
1 |
21.11 |
2011-03-18 |
| 113. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
20.97 |
0.7890 |
-0.1693 |
230 |
1 |
20.97 |
2011-03-19 |
| 114. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
18.49 |
0.8792 |
-0.3259 |
296 |
1 |
18.49 |
2011-03-18 |
| 115. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
18.47 |
0.7839 |
-0.2351 |
257 |
1 |
18.47 |
2011-03-18 |
| 116. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
18.08 |
0.9904 |
-0.4186 |
203 |
1 |
18.08 |
2011-03-18 |
| 117. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
18.04 |
0.8520 |
-0.3210 |
202 |
1 |
18.04 |
2011-04-16 |
| 118. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
18.01 |
0.8360 |
-0.3069 |
170 |
1 |
18.01 |
2011-04-16 |
| 119. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
17.85 |
0.8118 |
-0.2817 |
109 |
1 |
17.85 |
2011-03-18 |
| 120. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
17.49 |
0.8910 |
-0.3758 |
150 |
1 |
17.49 |
2011-03-18 |
| 121. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
17.47 |
1.0396 |
-0.5335 |
149 |
1 |
17.47 |
2011-04-16 |
| 122. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
17.21 |
0.8763 |
-0.3708 |
105 |
1 |
17.21 |
2011-03-18 |
| 123. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
16.99 |
0.8070 |
-0.3050 |
137 |
1 |
16.99 |
2011-03-18 |
| 124. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
15.01 |
0.8082 |
-0.3606 |
186 |
1 |
15.01 |
2011-03-18 |
| 125. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
14.66 |
0.8956 |
-0.4646 |
217 |
1 |
14.66 |
2011-03-18 |
| 126. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
14.57 |
0.9773 |
-0.5599 |
123 |
1 |
14.57 |
2011-03-18 |
| 127. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
13.39 |
0.8723 |
-0.4865 |
185 |
1 |
13.39 |
2011-03-18 |
| 128. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
13.34 |
0.7801 |
-0.3959 |
116 |
1 |
13.34 |
2011-03-18 |
| 129. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
10.93 |
0.9731 |
-0.6695 |
129 |
1 |
10.93 |
2011-03-18 |
| 130. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
10.46 |
0.7877 |
-0.4815 |
142 |
1 |
10.46 |
2011-04-16 |
| 131. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
10.29 |
0.9353 |
-0.6432 |
177 |
1 |
10.29 |
2011-04-16 |
| 132. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
10.13 |
0.7389 |
-0.4451 |
145 |
1 |
10.13 |
2011-04-16 |
| 133. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
9.94 |
0.8872 |
-0.6058 |
168 |
1 |
9.94 |
2011-04-16 |
| 134. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
9.70 |
1.0788 |
-0.8054 |
171 |
1 |
9.70 |
2011-04-16 |
| 135. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
9.42 |
0.8295 |
-0.5572 |
209 |
1 |
9.42 |
2011-03-18 |
| 136. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
6.97 |
0.9028 |
-0.7052 |
155 |
1 |
6.97 |
2011-03-18 |
| 137. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
6.09 |
1.0099 |
-0.8427 |
207 |
1 |
6.09 |
2011-03-18 |
| 138. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
6.08 |
0.9871 |
-0.7808 |
209 |
1 |
6.08 |
2011-04-16 |