| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
44.73 |
0.9128 |
0.4093 |
369 |
2 |
39.03 |
2011-05-20 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
44.12 |
1.0797 |
0.1777 |
210 |
1 |
44.12 |
2011-08-07 |
| 3. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
42.28 |
1.0155 |
0.1955 |
232 |
1 |
42.28 |
2011-11-11 |
| 4. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
41.53 |
1.1016 |
0.0866 |
233 |
1 |
41.53 |
2011-05-22 |
| 5. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
41.15 |
1.0799 |
0.0935 |
243 |
1 |
41.15 |
2011-05-20 |
| 6. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
41.05 |
0.8841 |
0.2967 |
194 |
1 |
41.05 |
2011-11-11 |
| 7. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
40.27 |
1.0863 |
0.1001 |
210 |
1 |
40.27 |
2012-07-25 |
| 8. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
40.20 |
1.0375 |
0.1581 |
200 |
1 |
40.20 |
2011-08-07 |
| 9. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.15 |
0.8792 |
0.2783 |
296 |
1 |
40.15 |
2011-08-07 |
| 10. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
39.84 |
1.0214 |
0.1124 |
166 |
1 |
39.84 |
2011-05-25 |
| 11. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
39.83 |
0.9233 |
0.2073 |
168 |
1 |
39.83 |
2011-05-29 |
| 12. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
39.77 |
0.9303 |
0.2006 |
176 |
1 |
39.77 |
2011-08-07 |
| 13. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
39.62 |
0.9724 |
0.1640 |
237 |
1 |
39.62 |
2011-05-25 |
| 14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
39.46 |
1.0252 |
0.0965 |
176 |
1 |
39.46 |
2011-05-22 |
| 15. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
39.42 |
1.0023 |
0.1228 |
211 |
1 |
39.42 |
2011-05-25 |
| 16. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
38.91 |
0.9339 |
0.1769 |
310 |
1 |
38.91 |
2011-05-20 |
| 17. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
38.39 |
1.0203 |
0.0804 |
261 |
1 |
38.39 |
2011-08-07 |
| 18. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
37.69 |
0.9068 |
0.1685 |
225 |
1 |
37.69 |
2011-11-11 |
| 19. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
37.44 |
0.9068 |
0.1660 |
269 |
1 |
37.44 |
2011-05-29 |
| 20. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
37.42 |
0.9226 |
0.1529 |
348 |
3 |
34.70 |
2012-07-25 |
| 21. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
37.15 |
1.0768 |
0.0247 |
295 |
1 |
37.15 |
2011-11-11 |
| 22. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
37.03 |
1.0029 |
0.0486 |
209 |
1 |
37.03 |
2011-05-15 |
| 23. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
36.92 |
0.9221 |
0.1312 |
244 |
1 |
36.92 |
2011-05-15 |
| 24. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
36.76 |
0.9266 |
0.1236 |
267 |
2 |
33.35 |
2011-05-25 |
| 25. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
36.67 |
0.9773 |
0.0623 |
123 |
1 |
36.67 |
2011-05-25 |
| 26. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
36.64 |
1.0201 |
0.0198 |
172 |
1 |
36.64 |
2011-05-22 |
| 27. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
36.51 |
0.8629 |
0.1848 |
299 |
1 |
36.51 |
2011-05-15 |
| 28. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
36.32 |
0.9786 |
0.0583 |
235 |
1 |
36.32 |
2011-05-22 |
| 29. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
36.30 |
0.9578 |
0.0785 |
281 |
1 |
36.30 |
2011-08-07 |
| 30. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
35.97 |
1.0907 |
-0.0607 |
303 |
1 |
35.97 |
2011-05-25 |
| 31. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
35.83 |
1.0412 |
-0.0186 |
225 |
1 |
35.83 |
2011-05-22 |
| 32. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
35.72 |
0.9504 |
0.0642 |
263 |
1 |
35.72 |
2011-05-29 |
| 33. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
35.53 |
0.9691 |
0.0450 |
223 |
1 |
35.53 |
2011-05-22 |
| 34. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
35.30 |
0.8919 |
0.1143 |
205 |
1 |
35.30 |
2011-05-25 |
| 35. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
35.29 |
1.0254 |
0.0230 |
217 |
1 |
35.29 |
2011-05-29 |
| 36. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
35.10 |
0.8022 |
0.2030 |
215 |
1 |
35.10 |
2011-05-25 |
| 37. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
35.04 |
0.8773 |
0.1266 |
205 |
1 |
35.04 |
2011-05-15 |
| 38. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
34.76 |
0.9597 |
0.0367 |
347 |
1 |
34.76 |
2011-08-07 |
| 39. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
34.70 |
1.0669 |
-0.0434 |
213 |
2 |
34.03 |
2011-05-29 |
| 40. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
34.56 |
0.9776 |
0.0091 |
308 |
1 |
34.56 |
2011-05-15 |
| 41. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
34.49 |
0.8809 |
0.1014 |
127 |
1 |
34.49 |
2012-07-25 |
| 42. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
34.46 |
1.0498 |
-0.0710 |
180 |
1 |
34.46 |
2011-05-20 |
| 43. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
34.38 |
1.0684 |
-0.0573 |
253 |
2 |
33.02 |
2011-05-29 |
| 44. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
34.31 |
0.9365 |
0.0442 |
248 |
1 |
34.31 |
2011-05-29 |
| 45. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
34.22 |
0.8994 |
0.0794 |
188 |
1 |
34.22 |
2011-05-15 |
| 46. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
34.19 |
1.0251 |
-0.0515 |
261 |
1 |
34.19 |
2011-05-22 |
| 47. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
34.09 |
0.9786 |
-0.0109 |
193 |
1 |
34.09 |
2011-05-25 |
| 48. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
33.90 |
0.9514 |
0.0163 |
237 |
1 |
33.90 |
2011-08-07 |
| 49. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
33.79 |
0.9855 |
0.0120 |
258 |
1 |
33.79 |
2011-05-29 |
| 50. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
33.38 |
0.8899 |
0.0736 |
293 |
1 |
33.38 |
2011-05-22 |
| 51. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
33.33 |
1.0197 |
-0.0717 |
226 |
1 |
33.33 |
2011-05-29 |
| 52. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
33.24 |
0.8826 |
0.0671 |
296 |
1 |
33.24 |
2011-05-25 |
| 53. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
32.97 |
0.7708 |
0.1751 |
207 |
1 |
32.97 |
2011-05-29 |
| 54. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
32.83 |
0.8520 |
0.0854 |
202 |
1 |
32.83 |
2012-07-25 |
| 55. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
32.71 |
0.9207 |
0.0149 |
174 |
1 |
32.71 |
2011-05-15 |
| 56. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
32.70 |
0.8845 |
0.0486 |
273 |
2 |
30.23 |
2011-08-07 |
| 57. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
32.67 |
0.9125 |
0.0211 |
308 |
1 |
32.67 |
2011-05-22 |
| 58. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
32.63 |
0.9072 |
0.0218 |
237 |
1 |
32.63 |
2011-05-15 |
| 59. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
32.51 |
0.9325 |
-0.0120 |
156 |
1 |
32.51 |
2011-05-29 |
| 60. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
32.22 |
0.9795 |
-0.0607 |
308 |
1 |
32.22 |
2011-05-22 |
| 61. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
32.20 |
0.9873 |
-0.0717 |
155 |
1 |
32.20 |
2011-05-22 |
| 62. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
31.88 |
0.9811 |
-0.0694 |
272 |
2 |
31.81 |
2011-05-29 |
| 63. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
31.86 |
0.8382 |
0.0707 |
268 |
1 |
31.86 |
2011-05-22 |
| 64. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
31.61 |
0.9916 |
-0.0478 |
282 |
1 |
31.61 |
2011-05-20 |
| 65. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
31.54 |
0.9084 |
-0.0074 |
300 |
1 |
31.54 |
2011-05-20 |
| 66. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
31.51 |
1.0125 |
-0.1165 |
224 |
1 |
31.51 |
2011-05-20 |
| 67. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
31.32 |
0.9281 |
-0.0302 |
273 |
1 |
31.32 |
2011-05-22 |
| 68. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
31.27 |
1.0462 |
-0.1609 |
184 |
1 |
31.27 |
2011-05-29 |
| 69. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
30.95 |
0.8918 |
-0.0113 |
100 |
1 |
30.95 |
2011-05-29 |
| 70. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
30.81 |
0.7988 |
0.0880 |
219 |
1 |
30.81 |
2011-05-22 |
| 71. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
30.71 |
1.0013 |
-0.1270 |
273 |
1 |
30.71 |
2011-05-15 |
| 72. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
30.56 |
1.0714 |
-0.2095 |
129 |
1 |
30.56 |
2011-05-15 |
| 73. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
30.45 |
0.9045 |
-0.0365 |
235 |
2 |
30.04 |
2011-05-22 |
| 74. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
30.45 |
0.7731 |
0.0966 |
145 |
1 |
30.45 |
2011-05-22 |
| 75. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
30.38 |
0.9023 |
0.0061 |
231 |
1 |
30.38 |
2011-05-15 |
| 76. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
29.60 |
0.8787 |
-0.0309 |
202 |
1 |
29.60 |
2011-05-20 |
| 77. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
29.30 |
1.0487 |
-0.2193 |
231 |
1 |
29.30 |
2011-05-29 |
| 78. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
27.48 |
0.9711 |
-0.1905 |
176 |
1 |
27.48 |
2011-05-25 |
| 79. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
27.27 |
1.0214 |
-0.2032 |
281 |
1 |
27.27 |
2011-05-15 |
| 80. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
27.03 |
1.0403 |
-0.2565 |
193 |
1 |
27.03 |
2011-05-15 |
| 81. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
26.99 |
0.8914 |
-0.1230 |
366 |
1 |
26.99 |
2011-05-22 |
| 82. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
26.88 |
0.8562 |
-0.0917 |
170 |
1 |
26.88 |
2011-05-22 |
| 83. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
26.65 |
0.9763 |
-0.2190 |
289 |
1 |
26.65 |
2011-05-15 |
| 84. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
25.68 |
0.9863 |
-0.2522 |
339 |
1 |
25.68 |
2011-05-15 |