| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
48.11 |
1.1016 |
0.2345 |
233 |
1 |
48.11 |
2009-01-05 |
| 2. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.73 |
1.0799 |
0.1861 |
243 |
2 |
42.69 |
2008-11-18 |
| 3. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
44.44 |
1.0483 |
0.1820 |
227 |
2 |
43.49 |
2008-12-04 |
| 4. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
43.27 |
0.9893 |
0.2115 |
323 |
1 |
43.27 |
2008-12-04 |
| 5. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
43.25 |
1.0577 |
0.1387 |
247 |
1 |
43.25 |
2008-11-18 |
| 6. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
42.70 |
1.0714 |
0.1042 |
129 |
1 |
42.70 |
2008-10-30 |
| 7. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
42.57 |
1.0201 |
0.1544 |
172 |
1 |
42.57 |
2008-11-20 |
| 8. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
41.51 |
0.8791 |
0.2714 |
190 |
2 |
37.82 |
2008-11-18 |
| 9. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
41.10 |
1.0498 |
0.0852 |
180 |
2 |
39.10 |
2008-11-24 |
| 10. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
40.73 |
0.8899 |
0.2503 |
293 |
1 |
40.73 |
2008-10-30 |
| 11. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
39.96 |
0.9281 |
0.1845 |
273 |
1 |
39.96 |
2008-11-19 |
| 12. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
39.80 |
1.0385 |
0.0631 |
230 |
1 |
39.80 |
2009-01-05 |
| 13. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.41 |
1.0138 |
0.0782 |
231 |
1 |
39.41 |
2008-11-17 |
| 14. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
39.37 |
1.0534 |
0.0405 |
357 |
1 |
39.37 |
2008-10-29 |
| 15. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
39.30 |
1.0334 |
0.0494 |
131 |
1 |
39.30 |
2008-10-30 |
| 16. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
38.65 |
1.1114 |
-0.0431 |
247 |
1 |
38.65 |
2008-10-29 |
| 17. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
38.40 |
1.0183 |
0.0403 |
191 |
1 |
38.40 |
2008-11-13 |
| 18. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
38.35 |
1.0797 |
-0.0225 |
210 |
1 |
38.35 |
2008-11-17 |
| 19. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
38.33 |
1.0565 |
0.0027 |
247 |
1 |
38.33 |
2008-10-29 |
| 20. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
38.27 |
0.9729 |
0.0876 |
255 |
1 |
38.27 |
2008-10-30 |
| 21. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
38.01 |
1.0390 |
0.0104 |
205 |
2 |
37.48 |
2008-11-17 |
| 22. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
37.63 |
1.0214 |
0.0196 |
269 |
1 |
37.63 |
2008-11-17 |
| 23. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
37.27 |
1.0419 |
-0.0099 |
261 |
1 |
37.27 |
2008-12-04 |
| 24. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
37.25 |
0.9233 |
0.1003 |
168 |
1 |
37.25 |
2008-11-18 |
| 25. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
37.10 |
0.9325 |
0.0882 |
156 |
1 |
37.10 |
2008-11-19 |
| 26. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
37.10 |
1.0109 |
0.0173 |
276 |
2 |
35.47 |
2008-12-01 |
| 27. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
36.74 |
0.9316 |
0.0921 |
287 |
1 |
36.74 |
2009-01-05 |
| 28. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
35.95 |
0.8653 |
0.1413 |
255 |
1 |
35.95 |
2008-11-19 |
| 29. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
35.72 |
0.9578 |
0.0310 |
281 |
1 |
35.72 |
2008-11-19 |
| 30. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
35.71 |
0.9865 |
0.0033 |
276 |
1 |
35.71 |
2008-11-18 |
| 31. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
35.53 |
0.9724 |
0.0141 |
237 |
1 |
35.53 |
2008-11-10 |
| 32. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
35.22 |
1.0201 |
-0.0412 |
375 |
1 |
35.22 |
2008-10-29 |
| 33. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
35.08 |
0.9731 |
-0.0148 |
129 |
1 |
35.08 |
2008-10-29 |
| 34. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
34.85 |
0.8971 |
0.0725 |
266 |
1 |
34.85 |
2009-01-08 |
| 35. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
34.81 |
0.9646 |
-0.0021 |
264 |
1 |
34.81 |
2008-10-29 |
| 36. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
34.62 |
0.9309 |
0.0252 |
284 |
1 |
34.62 |
2008-11-19 |
| 37. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
34.61 |
0.9266 |
0.0310 |
267 |
1 |
34.61 |
2008-11-17 |
| 38. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
34.26 |
1.0297 |
-0.0830 |
249 |
1 |
34.26 |
2008-12-04 |
| 39. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
34.19 |
0.9196 |
0.0277 |
148 |
1 |
34.19 |
2008-11-19 |
| 40. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
34.14 |
0.9221 |
0.0211 |
244 |
1 |
34.14 |
2008-10-30 |
| 41. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
33.76 |
0.9936 |
-0.0598 |
311 |
1 |
33.76 |
2008-11-12 |
| 42. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
33.59 |
0.9884 |
-0.0597 |
233 |
1 |
33.59 |
2008-11-07 |
| 43. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
33.58 |
1.0263 |
-0.0986 |
267 |
1 |
33.58 |
2008-10-29 |
| 44. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
33.41 |
0.8382 |
0.0869 |
268 |
1 |
33.41 |
2008-12-10 |
| 45. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
33.35 |
1.0829 |
-0.1591 |
288 |
1 |
33.35 |
2008-10-28 |
| 46. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
33.33 |
1.0337 |
-0.1126 |
214 |
1 |
33.33 |
2008-10-29 |
| 47. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
33.12 |
0.9866 |
-0.0741 |
218 |
1 |
33.12 |
2008-10-30 |
| 48. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
32.92 |
0.9212 |
-0.0077 |
323 |
1 |
32.92 |
2008-10-29 |
| 49. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
32.69 |
0.9758 |
-0.0711 |
314 |
1 |
32.69 |
2008-12-02 |
| 50. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
32.35 |
0.9756 |
-0.0826 |
229 |
1 |
32.35 |
2008-12-04 |
| 51. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
31.95 |
0.8077 |
0.0730 |
167 |
1 |
31.95 |
2008-11-18 |
| 52. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
31.93 |
0.8353 |
0.0546 |
283 |
1 |
31.93 |
2008-10-29 |
| 53. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
31.83 |
0.9597 |
-0.0760 |
347 |
1 |
31.83 |
2008-10-30 |
| 54. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
31.75 |
1.0696 |
-0.1955 |
226 |
1 |
31.75 |
2008-10-29 |
| 55. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
31.68 |
1.0441 |
-0.1673 |
252 |
2 |
28.06 |
2008-11-11 |
| 56. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
31.18 |
0.9330 |
-0.0647 |
360 |
2 |
29.53 |
2008-10-29 |
| 57. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
30.86 |
0.8910 |
-0.0368 |
150 |
1 |
30.86 |
2008-11-18 |
| 58. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
30.82 |
1.0331 |
-0.1839 |
234 |
1 |
30.82 |
2008-10-29 |
| 59. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
29.90 |
1.0025 |
-0.1757 |
336 |
1 |
29.90 |
2008-11-13 |
| 60. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
29.46 |
0.9365 |
-0.1217 |
248 |
1 |
29.46 |
2008-11-11 |
| 61. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
29.34 |
0.9468 |
-0.1368 |
276 |
1 |
29.34 |
2008-10-30 |
| 62. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
29.07 |
0.8878 |
-0.0857 |
346 |
1 |
29.07 |
2009-01-05 |
| 63. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
28.40 |
0.9411 |
-0.1567 |
318 |
1 |
28.40 |
2008-10-29 |
| 64. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
28.18 |
0.9351 |
-0.1632 |
190 |
1 |
28.18 |
2008-10-29 |
| 65. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
28.10 |
0.8852 |
-0.1076 |
201 |
1 |
28.10 |
2008-11-17 |
| 66. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
27.09 |
0.9514 |
-0.2043 |
237 |
1 |
27.09 |
2008-10-28 |