| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
41.06 |
0.9196 |
0.3113 |
148 |
1 |
41.06 |
2010-10-08 |
| 2. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
40.98 |
1.0444 |
0.1758 |
197 |
2 |
39.74 |
2010-10-19 |
| 3. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
40.04 |
1.0943 |
0.1367 |
206 |
1 |
40.04 |
2010-10-19 |
| 4. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
39.71 |
1.0004 |
0.1819 |
212 |
2 |
31.60 |
2010-10-08 |
| 5. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
39.63 |
0.9614 |
0.2276 |
292 |
1 |
39.63 |
2010-10-08 |
| 6. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
39.21 |
0.9239 |
0.2560 |
193 |
1 |
39.21 |
2010-10-08 |
| 7. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
38.93 |
0.8899 |
0.2860 |
293 |
1 |
38.93 |
2010-10-08 |
| 8. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
38.82 |
1.0023 |
0.1573 |
211 |
1 |
38.82 |
2010-10-08 |
| 9. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
38.73 |
0.8953 |
0.2639 |
193 |
1 |
38.73 |
2010-10-07 |
| 10. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
38.07 |
0.9866 |
0.1485 |
218 |
2 |
36.88 |
2010-10-19 |
| 11. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
37.45 |
1.0788 |
0.0356 |
171 |
1 |
37.45 |
2010-10-07 |
| 12. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
37.27 |
1.0292 |
0.0841 |
262 |
1 |
37.27 |
2010-10-08 |
| 13. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
37.10 |
1.0463 |
0.0585 |
182 |
1 |
37.10 |
2010-10-19 |
| 14. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
36.80 |
0.8785 |
0.2178 |
172 |
1 |
36.80 |
2010-09-29 |
| 15. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
36.57 |
0.9820 |
0.1142 |
267 |
1 |
36.57 |
2010-10-19 |
| 16. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
36.54 |
1.0429 |
0.0482 |
259 |
1 |
36.54 |
2010-10-19 |
| 17. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
36.28 |
0.8788 |
0.2023 |
134 |
1 |
36.28 |
2010-10-07 |
| 18. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.23 |
1.0213 |
0.0586 |
240 |
2 |
35.07 |
2010-10-19 |
| 19. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
36.22 |
0.8936 |
0.1876 |
127 |
1 |
36.22 |
2010-10-07 |
| 20. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
35.96 |
1.0099 |
0.0621 |
207 |
1 |
35.96 |
2010-10-08 |
| 21. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
35.79 |
1.0232 |
0.0822 |
236 |
1 |
35.79 |
2010-10-07 |
| 22. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
35.70 |
1.0390 |
0.0243 |
205 |
1 |
35.70 |
2010-10-08 |
| 23. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
35.34 |
0.9795 |
0.0767 |
308 |
1 |
35.34 |
2010-10-08 |
| 24. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
35.29 |
0.9485 |
0.1086 |
291 |
1 |
35.29 |
2010-10-19 |
| 25. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
35.21 |
0.8809 |
0.1692 |
127 |
2 |
32.90 |
2010-10-19 |
| 26. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
35.07 |
1.0574 |
0.0185 |
205 |
1 |
35.07 |
2010-10-08 |
| 27. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
34.87 |
0.8070 |
0.2375 |
137 |
1 |
34.87 |
2010-10-05 |
| 28. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
34.85 |
0.9633 |
0.0803 |
304 |
1 |
34.85 |
2010-10-08 |
| 29. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
34.58 |
0.9576 |
0.0802 |
212 |
1 |
34.58 |
2010-10-08 |
| 30. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
34.50 |
1.0714 |
-0.0495 |
129 |
1 |
34.50 |
2010-10-19 |
| 31. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
34.48 |
1.0941 |
-0.0327 |
256 |
2 |
30.28 |
2010-10-19 |
| 32. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
34.37 |
1.0232 |
0.0495 |
350 |
1 |
34.37 |
2010-10-07 |
| 33. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
34.33 |
0.9941 |
0.0291 |
217 |
2 |
33.45 |
2010-10-07 |
| 34. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
34.20 |
0.8615 |
0.1603 |
110 |
2 |
32.29 |
2010-10-08 |
| 35. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
34.08 |
1.0284 |
0.0330 |
282 |
1 |
34.08 |
2010-10-07 |
| 36. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
33.83 |
1.0053 |
0.0032 |
232 |
1 |
33.83 |
2010-10-07 |
| 37. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
33.79 |
0.9904 |
0.0595 |
203 |
1 |
33.79 |
2010-10-08 |
| 38. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
33.75 |
0.8867 |
0.1273 |
163 |
1 |
33.75 |
2010-10-05 |
| 39. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
33.70 |
0.9340 |
0.0724 |
296 |
1 |
33.70 |
2010-10-19 |
| 40. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
33.67 |
0.8956 |
0.1127 |
217 |
1 |
33.67 |
2010-10-08 |
| 41. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
33.52 |
1.0183 |
-0.0228 |
191 |
1 |
33.52 |
2010-10-19 |
| 42. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
33.49 |
0.8787 |
0.1262 |
202 |
1 |
33.49 |
2010-10-08 |
| 43. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
33.48 |
0.8202 |
0.1770 |
178 |
2 |
31.66 |
2010-10-19 |
| 44. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
33.42 |
0.9820 |
0.0163 |
274 |
1 |
33.42 |
2010-10-07 |
| 45. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
33.32 |
0.8723 |
0.1189 |
185 |
1 |
33.32 |
2010-10-07 |
| 46. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
33.25 |
1.0403 |
-0.0074 |
275 |
1 |
33.25 |
2010-10-19 |
| 47. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
33.24 |
0.9310 |
0.0578 |
188 |
1 |
33.24 |
2010-09-29 |
| 48. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
33.02 |
1.0214 |
-0.0408 |
166 |
1 |
33.02 |
2010-10-05 |
| 49. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
32.93 |
0.8118 |
0.1764 |
109 |
1 |
32.93 |
2010-09-29 |
| 50. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
32.88 |
0.8323 |
0.1499 |
203 |
1 |
32.88 |
2010-09-29 |
| 51. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
32.87 |
0.9572 |
0.0232 |
201 |
1 |
32.87 |
2010-10-07 |
| 52. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
32.82 |
0.9168 |
0.0645 |
240 |
1 |
32.82 |
2010-10-08 |
| 53. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
32.57 |
0.8660 |
0.1068 |
193 |
1 |
32.57 |
2010-09-29 |
| 54. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.45 |
0.8595 |
0.1111 |
242 |
1 |
32.45 |
2010-10-07 |
| 55. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
32.39 |
0.9097 |
0.0575 |
153 |
1 |
32.39 |
2010-10-07 |
| 56. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
32.26 |
0.8520 |
0.1119 |
202 |
1 |
32.26 |
2010-10-19 |
| 57. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
32.07 |
0.9559 |
0.0041 |
195 |
1 |
32.07 |
2010-09-29 |
| 58. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
31.73 |
0.8709 |
0.0840 |
202 |
1 |
31.73 |
2010-09-29 |
| 59. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
31.60 |
0.8900 |
0.0543 |
164 |
1 |
31.60 |
2010-10-05 |
| 60. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
31.59 |
0.9500 |
-0.0051 |
362 |
1 |
31.59 |
2010-10-08 |
| 61. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
31.57 |
1.0124 |
-0.0727 |
204 |
1 |
31.57 |
2010-09-29 |
| 62. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
31.20 |
0.9127 |
0.0160 |
252 |
1 |
31.20 |
2010-10-05 |
| 63. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
31.05 |
0.8442 |
0.0862 |
265 |
1 |
31.05 |
2010-10-08 |
| 64. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
30.99 |
0.9286 |
-0.0050 |
194 |
1 |
30.99 |
2010-09-29 |
| 65. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
30.84 |
0.8961 |
0.0206 |
189 |
1 |
30.84 |
2010-10-08 |
| 66. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
30.68 |
0.9665 |
-0.0020 |
326 |
1 |
30.68 |
2010-10-08 |
| 67. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
30.65 |
0.9871 |
-0.0366 |
209 |
1 |
30.65 |
2010-09-29 |
| 68. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
30.63 |
0.8951 |
0.0208 |
193 |
1 |
30.63 |
2010-10-07 |
| 69. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
30.37 |
0.9540 |
-0.0500 |
285 |
1 |
30.37 |
2010-10-19 |
| 70. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
30.09 |
0.9710 |
-0.0801 |
173 |
1 |
30.09 |
2010-10-05 |
| 71. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
29.84 |
0.7818 |
0.1073 |
195 |
2 |
28.36 |
2010-10-07 |
| 72. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
29.83 |
1.0090 |
-0.0757 |
282 |
1 |
29.83 |
2010-10-07 |
| 73. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
29.53 |
0.9509 |
-0.0321 |
225 |
1 |
29.53 |
2010-10-07 |
| 74. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
29.52 |
0.9289 |
-0.0511 |
204 |
2 |
29.36 |
2010-10-08 |
| 75. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
29.51 |
0.9772 |
-0.1009 |
217 |
1 |
29.51 |
2010-10-07 |
| 76. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
29.41 |
0.8096 |
0.0751 |
209 |
2 |
28.54 |
2010-10-19 |
| 77. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
29.37 |
0.7731 |
0.1045 |
145 |
1 |
29.37 |
2010-10-07 |
| 78. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
29.19 |
1.0795 |
-0.1789 |
226 |
1 |
29.19 |
2010-09-29 |
| 79. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
28.40 |
0.8919 |
-0.0474 |
205 |
1 |
28.40 |
2010-10-07 |
| 80. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
27.62 |
0.8037 |
0.0216 |
148 |
1 |
27.62 |
2010-09-29 |
| 81. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
26.32 |
0.9673 |
-0.1447 |
232 |
1 |
26.32 |
2010-09-29 |
| 82. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
26.28 |
0.9351 |
-0.1585 |
190 |
1 |
26.28 |
2010-10-05 |
| 83. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
25.11 |
0.8105 |
-0.0681 |
204 |
1 |
25.11 |
2010-10-07 |
| 84. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
24.86 |
0.7876 |
-0.0458 |
316 |
1 |
24.86 |
2010-10-07 |
| 85. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
23.45 |
0.8996 |
-0.2086 |
192 |
1 |
23.45 |
2010-09-29 |
| 86. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
21.94 |
0.7708 |
-0.1146 |
207 |
1 |
21.94 |
2010-09-29 |
| 87. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
19.73 |
0.7805 |
-0.2006 |
154 |
1 |
19.73 |
2010-10-05 |