| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
41.39 |
1.0074 |
0.1929 |
242 |
1 |
41.39 |
2010-01-08 |
| 2. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
40.09 |
1.0993 |
0.0590 |
265 |
1 |
40.09 |
2010-01-08 |
| 3. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
39.53 |
1.0711 |
0.0678 |
213 |
1 |
39.53 |
2010-01-08 |
| 4. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
39.44 |
1.0679 |
0.0937 |
177 |
1 |
39.44 |
2010-01-08 |
| 5. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
38.28 |
1.0506 |
0.0856 |
277 |
2 |
36.73 |
2009-12-25 |
| 6. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
38.03 |
1.0714 |
0.0198 |
129 |
1 |
38.03 |
2010-01-08 |
| 7. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
37.93 |
1.0417 |
0.0530 |
253 |
1 |
37.93 |
2009-12-25 |
| 8. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
37.66 |
1.0004 |
0.0827 |
212 |
1 |
37.66 |
2009-12-25 |
| 9. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
37.58 |
1.0197 |
0.0643 |
226 |
1 |
37.58 |
2010-01-08 |
| 10. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
37.22 |
1.0331 |
0.0411 |
234 |
1 |
37.22 |
2009-12-27 |
| 11. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
37.22 |
0.9731 |
0.0908 |
129 |
1 |
37.22 |
2010-01-08 |
| 12. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
37.21 |
1.0788 |
-0.0083 |
171 |
1 |
37.21 |
2010-01-08 |
| 13. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
37.15 |
0.8821 |
0.1917 |
176 |
2 |
36.85 |
2010-01-08 |
| 14. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
36.79 |
1.0666 |
-0.0027 |
297 |
1 |
36.79 |
2010-01-08 |
| 15. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
36.75 |
0.9307 |
0.1399 |
246 |
1 |
36.75 |
2010-01-08 |
| 16. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
36.70 |
1.0320 |
0.0665 |
293 |
1 |
36.70 |
2010-01-08 |
| 17. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
36.57 |
0.9724 |
0.0885 |
237 |
1 |
36.57 |
2010-01-09 |
| 18. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
36.54 |
0.8910 |
0.1672 |
150 |
1 |
36.54 |
2010-01-08 |
| 19. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
36.53 |
0.9128 |
0.1489 |
133 |
2 |
36.10 |
2010-01-08 |
| 20. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
36.51 |
1.0498 |
0.0010 |
180 |
1 |
36.51 |
2009-12-30 |
| 21. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
36.04 |
1.0496 |
-0.0085 |
314 |
2 |
35.69 |
2009-12-27 |
| 22. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
35.99 |
1.0696 |
-0.0327 |
226 |
1 |
35.99 |
2009-12-25 |
| 23. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
35.86 |
1.0389 |
0.0001 |
340 |
1 |
35.86 |
2010-01-27 |
| 24. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
35.66 |
1.0263 |
0.0036 |
267 |
1 |
35.66 |
2009-12-25 |
| 25. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
35.57 |
0.8551 |
0.1719 |
171 |
1 |
35.57 |
2009-12-29 |
| 26. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
35.51 |
0.9772 |
0.0456 |
217 |
1 |
35.51 |
2009-12-25 |
| 27. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
35.06 |
0.8559 |
0.1581 |
191 |
2 |
33.89 |
2009-12-29 |
| 28. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
34.99 |
0.9865 |
0.0257 |
276 |
2 |
34.50 |
2010-01-11 |
| 29. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
34.76 |
0.9164 |
0.0928 |
305 |
1 |
34.76 |
2010-01-08 |
| 30. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
34.73 |
0.8826 |
0.1223 |
296 |
1 |
34.73 |
2009-12-25 |
| 31. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
34.63 |
1.0567 |
-0.0555 |
303 |
1 |
34.63 |
2009-12-27 |
| 32. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
34.61 |
0.9907 |
0.0077 |
211 |
1 |
34.61 |
2010-01-27 |
| 33. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
34.56 |
0.9941 |
0.0020 |
217 |
1 |
34.56 |
2009-12-25 |
| 34. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
34.45 |
0.8811 |
0.1188 |
239 |
1 |
34.45 |
2010-01-08 |
| 35. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
34.41 |
0.9527 |
0.0413 |
251 |
1 |
34.41 |
2010-01-08 |
| 36. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
34.41 |
0.9540 |
0.0383 |
285 |
1 |
34.41 |
2009-12-25 |
| 37. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
34.29 |
0.8628 |
0.1244 |
196 |
2 |
29.72 |
2009-12-29 |
| 38. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
34.18 |
1.0284 |
0.0023 |
282 |
1 |
34.18 |
2009-12-25 |
| 39. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
34.10 |
1.0577 |
-0.0761 |
247 |
1 |
34.10 |
2009-12-25 |
| 40. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
34.01 |
0.9897 |
-0.0096 |
274 |
1 |
34.01 |
2010-01-08 |
| 41. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
33.99 |
0.7988 |
0.1917 |
219 |
2 |
31.40 |
2010-01-27 |
| 42. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
33.99 |
0.8615 |
0.1204 |
110 |
1 |
33.99 |
2009-12-25 |
| 43. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
33.99 |
1.0099 |
-0.0310 |
207 |
1 |
33.99 |
2009-12-25 |
| 44. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
33.92 |
1.0213 |
-0.0447 |
240 |
1 |
33.92 |
2009-12-25 |
| 45. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
33.85 |
1.0168 |
-0.0377 |
271 |
2 |
33.38 |
2009-12-29 |
| 46. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
33.65 |
0.9986 |
-0.0261 |
283 |
2 |
33.28 |
2009-12-30 |
| 47. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
33.56 |
0.9161 |
0.0512 |
200 |
1 |
33.56 |
2009-12-25 |
| 48. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
33.46 |
0.9207 |
0.0482 |
174 |
2 |
32.35 |
2009-12-29 |
| 49. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
33.36 |
0.9430 |
0.0233 |
297 |
1 |
33.36 |
2009-12-27 |
| 50. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
33.27 |
0.9871 |
0.0099 |
209 |
1 |
33.27 |
2009-12-28 |
| 51. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
33.06 |
1.0095 |
-0.0560 |
316 |
1 |
33.06 |
2009-12-27 |
| 52. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
33.00 |
1.0232 |
-0.0244 |
350 |
1 |
33.00 |
2010-01-03 |
| 53. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
32.97 |
0.8154 |
0.1384 |
193 |
1 |
32.97 |
2009-12-27 |
| 54. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
32.67 |
0.9350 |
0.0090 |
195 |
1 |
32.67 |
2009-12-25 |
| 55. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
31.88 |
0.9786 |
-0.0590 |
235 |
1 |
31.88 |
2010-01-04 |
| 56. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
31.79 |
1.0485 |
-0.0963 |
153 |
1 |
31.79 |
2009-12-28 |
| 57. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
31.69 |
0.9965 |
-0.0814 |
277 |
1 |
31.69 |
2009-12-29 |
| 58. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
31.52 |
0.9286 |
-0.0200 |
194 |
1 |
31.52 |
2009-12-30 |
| 59. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
31.39 |
0.8793 |
0.0281 |
157 |
1 |
31.39 |
2010-01-08 |
| 60. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
31.34 |
1.0025 |
-0.0983 |
256 |
1 |
31.34 |
2009-12-25 |
| 61. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
31.27 |
0.8070 |
0.0921 |
167 |
1 |
31.27 |
2009-12-25 |
| 62. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
31.06 |
0.8533 |
0.0439 |
232 |
1 |
31.06 |
2009-12-27 |
| 63. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
30.98 |
1.0023 |
-0.1104 |
211 |
1 |
30.98 |
2009-12-21 |
| 64. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
30.94 |
0.8544 |
0.0386 |
170 |
1 |
30.94 |
2009-12-25 |
| 65. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
30.77 |
0.8845 |
0.0035 |
273 |
1 |
30.77 |
2009-12-25 |
| 66. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
30.72 |
0.8553 |
0.0257 |
174 |
1 |
30.72 |
2010-01-08 |
| 67. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
29.99 |
0.9758 |
-0.1103 |
314 |
1 |
29.99 |
2009-12-23 |
| 68. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
28.80 |
0.9168 |
-0.0855 |
240 |
1 |
28.80 |
2009-12-25 |
| 69. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
28.78 |
0.9576 |
-0.1236 |
212 |
1 |
28.78 |
2009-12-30 |
| 70. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
28.74 |
0.8096 |
0.0265 |
209 |
1 |
28.74 |
2009-12-25 |
| 71. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
28.40 |
0.7876 |
0.0332 |
316 |
2 |
28.26 |
2010-01-08 |
| 72. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
26.81 |
0.7839 |
-0.0066 |
257 |
1 |
26.81 |
2009-12-21 |
| 73. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
25.83 |
0.9226 |
-0.1758 |
177 |
1 |
25.83 |
2009-12-25 |