| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
44.67 |
1.0012 |
0.2293 |
260 |
1 |
44.67 |
2012-01-22 |
| 2. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
44.05 |
0.9430 |
0.2642 |
227 |
1 |
44.05 |
2012-01-23 |
| 3. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
42.11 |
1.0725 |
0.1099 |
233 |
1 |
42.11 |
2012-01-23 |
| 4. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
41.96 |
0.9964 |
0.1561 |
203 |
1 |
41.96 |
2012-01-23 |
| 5. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
41.65 |
1.1018 |
0.0355 |
220 |
1 |
41.65 |
2012-01-24 |
| 6. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
41.15 |
0.9866 |
0.1400 |
218 |
1 |
41.15 |
2012-01-23 |
| 7. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
41.14 |
1.0788 |
0.0453 |
171 |
2 |
40.75 |
2012-01-22 |
| 8. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
41.11 |
1.0403 |
0.1285 |
275 |
1 |
41.11 |
2012-01-22 |
| 9. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
40.86 |
0.9226 |
0.2056 |
348 |
2 |
38.58 |
2012-01-22 |
| 10. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
40.78 |
0.9785 |
0.1416 |
154 |
1 |
40.78 |
2012-01-23 |
| 11. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
40.78 |
1.0125 |
0.1047 |
224 |
1 |
40.78 |
2012-01-22 |
| 12. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
40.70 |
1.0252 |
0.0858 |
176 |
1 |
40.70 |
2012-01-23 |
| 13. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
40.40 |
0.8994 |
0.2117 |
188 |
1 |
40.40 |
2012-01-22 |
| 14. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
40.14 |
0.9966 |
0.1049 |
259 |
1 |
40.14 |
2012-01-22 |
| 15. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
40.10 |
1.0095 |
0.0899 |
316 |
1 |
40.10 |
2012-01-23 |
| 16. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
40.06 |
1.0917 |
0.0315 |
243 |
1 |
40.06 |
2012-01-23 |
| 17. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
39.91 |
0.9774 |
0.1170 |
196 |
1 |
39.91 |
2012-01-23 |
| 18. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
39.90 |
0.9567 |
0.1810 |
184 |
1 |
39.90 |
2012-01-23 |
| 19. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
39.40 |
0.9852 |
0.0965 |
264 |
1 |
39.40 |
2012-01-22 |
| 20. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
39.19 |
1.0214 |
0.0965 |
281 |
1 |
39.19 |
2012-01-23 |
| 21. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
39.05 |
0.9221 |
0.1483 |
244 |
1 |
39.05 |
2012-01-22 |
| 22. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
38.98 |
0.9576 |
0.1162 |
212 |
1 |
38.98 |
2012-01-23 |
| 23. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
38.92 |
1.0462 |
0.0159 |
184 |
1 |
38.92 |
2012-01-22 |
| 24. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
38.73 |
1.0251 |
0.0358 |
261 |
1 |
38.73 |
2012-01-23 |
| 25. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
38.73 |
1.0905 |
0.0038 |
210 |
1 |
38.73 |
2012-01-23 |
| 26. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
38.72 |
0.9904 |
0.1126 |
203 |
1 |
38.72 |
2012-01-22 |
| 27. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
38.71 |
0.9865 |
0.0769 |
276 |
1 |
38.71 |
2012-01-23 |
| 28. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
38.69 |
1.1296 |
-0.0388 |
252 |
1 |
38.69 |
2012-01-22 |
| 29. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
38.49 |
1.0515 |
0.0026 |
250 |
1 |
38.49 |
2012-01-23 |
| 30. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
38.30 |
1.0337 |
0.0164 |
214 |
1 |
38.30 |
2012-01-23 |
| 31. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
38.25 |
0.9257 |
0.1291 |
317 |
2 |
37.84 |
2012-01-23 |
| 32. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
38.22 |
0.9897 |
0.0565 |
274 |
1 |
38.22 |
2012-01-23 |
| 33. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
38.17 |
0.8791 |
0.1674 |
190 |
1 |
38.17 |
2012-01-23 |
| 34. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
37.88 |
0.8890 |
0.1465 |
199 |
1 |
37.88 |
2012-01-22 |
| 35. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
37.75 |
0.9893 |
0.0462 |
323 |
1 |
37.75 |
2012-01-22 |
| 36. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
37.40 |
0.7801 |
0.2420 |
116 |
1 |
37.40 |
2012-01-23 |
| 37. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
37.39 |
1.0232 |
0.0482 |
350 |
1 |
37.39 |
2012-01-22 |
| 38. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
37.28 |
0.9084 |
0.1159 |
300 |
1 |
37.28 |
2012-01-23 |
| 39. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
37.22 |
0.9532 |
0.0663 |
258 |
1 |
37.22 |
2012-01-23 |
| 40. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
36.85 |
0.8295 |
0.1829 |
209 |
2 |
35.42 |
2012-01-23 |
| 41. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
36.63 |
1.0444 |
-0.0465 |
197 |
1 |
36.63 |
2012-01-22 |
| 42. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
36.36 |
0.9131 |
0.0791 |
144 |
1 |
36.36 |
2012-01-22 |
| 43. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
36.24 |
1.0907 |
-0.0948 |
303 |
1 |
36.24 |
2012-01-23 |
| 44. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
36.21 |
0.9884 |
0.0040 |
233 |
1 |
36.21 |
2012-01-22 |
| 45. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
36.04 |
1.0270 |
-0.0031 |
255 |
1 |
36.04 |
2012-01-22 |
| 46. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
35.91 |
1.0799 |
-0.0993 |
243 |
1 |
35.91 |
2012-01-22 |
| 47. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
35.71 |
0.9911 |
-0.0158 |
212 |
1 |
35.71 |
2012-01-23 |
| 48. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
35.67 |
1.0254 |
-0.0070 |
217 |
1 |
35.67 |
2012-01-23 |
| 49. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
35.64 |
1.1162 |
-0.0980 |
189 |
1 |
35.64 |
2012-01-22 |
| 50. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
35.62 |
0.9485 |
0.0305 |
291 |
1 |
35.62 |
2012-01-23 |
| 51. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
35.56 |
0.9567 |
0.0182 |
273 |
1 |
35.56 |
2012-01-22 |
| 52. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
35.43 |
1.0211 |
-0.0194 |
213 |
2 |
34.36 |
2012-01-24 |
| 53. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
35.30 |
1.0292 |
-0.0631 |
262 |
2 |
34.87 |
2012-01-22 |
| 54. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
34.95 |
0.9309 |
0.0250 |
284 |
2 |
33.98 |
2012-01-23 |
| 55. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
34.84 |
0.8614 |
0.0909 |
172 |
2 |
32.92 |
2012-01-23 |
| 56. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
34.82 |
1.0944 |
-0.0957 |
308 |
1 |
34.82 |
2012-01-22 |
| 57. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
34.74 |
0.8739 |
0.0766 |
136 |
1 |
34.74 |
2012-01-22 |
| 58. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
34.70 |
0.9936 |
-0.0226 |
227 |
1 |
34.70 |
2012-01-23 |
| 59. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
34.65 |
0.9912 |
-0.0149 |
237 |
1 |
34.65 |
2012-01-23 |
| 60. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
34.61 |
0.9772 |
-0.0322 |
217 |
1 |
34.61 |
2012-01-23 |
| 61. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
34.58 |
0.8096 |
0.1459 |
209 |
2 |
33.62 |
2012-01-23 |
| 62. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
34.50 |
0.8811 |
0.0685 |
239 |
1 |
34.50 |
2012-01-23 |
| 63. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
34.31 |
0.8810 |
0.0596 |
282 |
1 |
34.31 |
2012-01-23 |
| 64. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
34.24 |
0.9351 |
-0.0026 |
190 |
1 |
34.24 |
2012-01-22 |
| 65. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
33.99 |
1.0038 |
-0.0424 |
237 |
1 |
33.99 |
2012-01-23 |
| 66. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
33.96 |
1.0083 |
-0.0337 |
273 |
1 |
33.96 |
2012-01-23 |
| 67. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
33.90 |
0.8821 |
0.0464 |
176 |
1 |
33.90 |
2012-01-23 |
| 68. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
33.87 |
0.9168 |
0.0126 |
240 |
1 |
33.87 |
2012-01-23 |
| 69. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
33.83 |
1.0201 |
-0.0928 |
303 |
1 |
33.83 |
2012-01-23 |
| 70. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
33.55 |
0.9281 |
-0.0043 |
273 |
1 |
33.55 |
2012-01-23 |
| 71. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
33.49 |
0.8867 |
0.0356 |
241 |
1 |
33.49 |
2012-01-23 |
| 72. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
33.40 |
1.0389 |
-0.1217 |
340 |
1 |
33.40 |
2012-01-22 |
| 73. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
33.31 |
1.0516 |
-0.1401 |
281 |
1 |
33.31 |
2012-01-22 |
| 74. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
32.76 |
0.9339 |
-0.0385 |
310 |
1 |
32.76 |
2012-01-22 |
| 75. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
32.74 |
0.9570 |
-0.0588 |
287 |
1 |
32.74 |
2012-01-23 |
| 76. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
32.56 |
1.0331 |
-0.1440 |
234 |
1 |
32.56 |
2012-01-22 |
| 77. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
32.52 |
1.0829 |
-0.1913 |
288 |
1 |
32.52 |
2012-01-22 |
| 78. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
32.46 |
0.9844 |
-0.0851 |
229 |
1 |
32.46 |
2012-01-23 |
| 79. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
32.44 |
0.8077 |
0.0780 |
167 |
1 |
32.44 |
2012-01-24 |
| 80. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
32.43 |
1.0787 |
-0.1925 |
237 |
1 |
32.43 |
2012-01-23 |
| 81. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
32.34 |
1.1016 |
-0.2166 |
233 |
1 |
32.34 |
2012-01-23 |
| 82. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
32.18 |
0.8353 |
0.0528 |
283 |
1 |
32.18 |
2012-01-23 |
| 83. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
31.93 |
0.8382 |
0.0367 |
268 |
1 |
31.93 |
2012-01-23 |
| 84. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
31.13 |
0.9871 |
-0.1128 |
227 |
1 |
31.13 |
2012-01-23 |
| 85. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
31.07 |
0.9162 |
-0.0661 |
165 |
1 |
31.07 |
2012-01-22 |
| 86. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
31.06 |
0.8919 |
-0.0435 |
205 |
1 |
31.06 |
2012-01-22 |
| 87. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
30.69 |
0.7805 |
0.0544 |
154 |
1 |
30.69 |
2012-01-23 |
| 88. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
30.60 |
0.7731 |
0.0658 |
145 |
1 |
30.60 |
2012-01-22 |
| 89. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
30.55 |
0.8573 |
-0.0184 |
270 |
1 |
30.55 |
2012-01-23 |
| 90. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
29.51 |
0.9239 |
-0.1108 |
193 |
1 |
29.51 |
2012-01-22 |
| 91. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
29.42 |
0.9468 |
-0.1426 |
276 |
1 |
29.42 |
2012-01-22 |
| 92. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
28.72 |
0.9843 |
-0.2046 |
234 |
1 |
28.72 |
2012-01-22 |
| 93. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
28.68 |
0.9514 |
-0.1675 |
237 |
1 |
28.68 |
2012-01-23 |
| 94. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
23.45 |
0.9684 |
-0.3276 |
388 |
1 |
23.45 |
2012-01-23 |