| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I liked having the same name as my father, but it did cause ... |
63.79 |
1.1895 |
0.2835 |
83 |
1 |
63.79 |
2011-09-16 |
| 2. |
The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts all on a summer's d... |
61.53 |
1.0662 |
0.3546 |
129 |
1 |
61.53 |
2011-11-04 |
| 3. |
The root or base is the core part of the word that contains ... |
58.68 |
1.0787 |
0.2763 |
129 |
2 |
56.38 |
2011-11-28 |
| 4. |
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is ... |
57.31 |
1.0567 |
0.2666 |
90 |
1 |
57.31 |
2011-10-28 |
| 5. |
Leslie continued to run against the boys at recess and she c... |
56.74 |
1.2816 |
0.0286 |
76 |
1 |
56.74 |
2011-09-09 |
| 6. |
The Green Heron prefers to hunt for frogs and small fish in ... |
56.67 |
1.1061 |
0.2025 |
84 |
1 |
56.67 |
2011-11-28 |
| 7. |
The word species refers to a group of similar organisms that... |
56.35 |
1.0726 |
0.2286 |
116 |
1 |
56.35 |
2011-11-28 |
| 8. |
But the sky was bright, and somehow he felt he was headed in... |
56.17 |
1.2261 |
0.0709 |
81 |
1 |
56.17 |
2011-11-28 |
| 9. |
Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep his head... |
55.46 |
1.1209 |
0.1597 |
99 |
1 |
55.46 |
2011-11-22 |
| 10. |
If we had the same mortality rate as in the 1900's, more tha... |
53.97 |
1.1291 |
0.1171 |
116 |
2 |
52.25 |
2011-10-28 |
| 11. |
Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and starte... |
53.70 |
1.0357 |
0.2043 |
100 |
1 |
53.70 |
2011-09-16 |
| 12. |
The full name of Barbie the doll is Barbara Millicent Robert... |
53.67 |
0.9861 |
0.2532 |
162 |
1 |
53.67 |
2011-11-04 |
| 13. |
I hope this turns out better than your plan to cook rice in ... |
53.63 |
1.1834 |
0.0550 |
123 |
1 |
53.63 |
2011-11-04 |
| 14. |
Then Hermione walked forward and took her place between the ... |
53.51 |
1.0948 |
0.1408 |
186 |
1 |
53.51 |
2011-09-16 |
| 15. |
Properties refers to the description of an object that tells... |
53.13 |
1.0867 |
0.1401 |
113 |
1 |
53.13 |
2011-09-16 |
| 16. |
When it got dark we ran through the neighborhood playing unt... |
52.97 |
1.0286 |
0.1945 |
95 |
1 |
52.97 |
2011-11-22 |
| 17. |
I mean, you have a strength in you that your mom never had. ... |
52.17 |
1.0494 |
0.1553 |
107 |
1 |
52.17 |
2011-09-16 |
| 18. |
He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed hi... |
51.87 |
1.0658 |
0.1319 |
161 |
1 |
51.87 |
2011-11-23 |
| 19. |
I would not like them here or there. I would not like them a... |
51.40 |
1.0205 |
0.1664 |
68 |
1 |
51.40 |
2011-09-09 |
| 20. |
Bits of light danced in the deep forest shadows around me. I... |
51.38 |
0.9709 |
0.2155 |
164 |
1 |
51.38 |
2011-11-28 |
| 21. |
The berries were full and ripe, and he tasted one to find it... |
50.82 |
1.1089 |
0.0646 |
118 |
1 |
50.82 |
2011-11-23 |
| 22. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
50.64 |
0.9514 |
0.2179 |
143 |
1 |
50.64 |
2011-11-28 |
| 23. |
He said model boats were his hobby and that he'd be delighte... |
50.32 |
1.0431 |
0.1188 |
116 |
1 |
50.32 |
2011-11-04 |
| 24. |
Gannets will soar over 100 feet above the ocean surface, the... |
50.18 |
1.1267 |
0.0320 |
136 |
2 |
43.89 |
2011-11-04 |
| 25. |
In fact, the county provided very little and much of the mon... |
50.04 |
1.1190 |
0.0365 |
126 |
1 |
50.04 |
2011-11-23 |
| 26. |
Things could change, Gabe. Things could be different. I don'... |
49.86 |
0.9841 |
0.1672 |
227 |
1 |
49.86 |
2011-09-16 |
| 27. |
People are people, and sometimes we change our minds. But it... |
49.72 |
1.0722 |
0.0759 |
108 |
1 |
49.72 |
2011-09-16 |
| 28. |
Methane gas is produced by the decomposition of dead plants ... |
49.60 |
1.0369 |
0.1084 |
107 |
1 |
49.60 |
2011-11-28 |
| 29. |
Lost in speculation Harry turned the corner; but he had take... |
49.58 |
1.0185 |
0.1264 |
175 |
1 |
49.58 |
2011-11-28 |
| 30. |
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expec... |
49.46 |
1.0259 |
0.1162 |
123 |
1 |
49.46 |
2011-09-16 |
| 31. |
In chemistry, the word "solution" refers to when two materia... |
49.26 |
0.9874 |
0.1501 |
170 |
1 |
49.26 |
2011-09-09 |
| 32. |
The least common denominator is the least common multiple of... |
49.04 |
1.1090 |
0.0234 |
103 |
1 |
49.04 |
2011-09-09 |
| 33. |
All the mice took a solemn vow never to harm another living ... |
48.90 |
1.0602 |
0.0690 |
135 |
1 |
48.90 |
2011-09-16 |
| 34. |
He could visualize more easily his mother doing things than ... |
48.55 |
1.1279 |
-0.0068 |
127 |
1 |
48.55 |
2011-11-28 |
| 35. |
He deserves to have his father see what an amazing musician ... |
48.54 |
1.1336 |
-0.0128 |
120 |
1 |
48.54 |
2011-10-28 |
| 36. |
The keystone in an arch bridge is the wedge-shaped center pi... |
48.03 |
1.0461 |
0.0630 |
176 |
1 |
48.03 |
2011-09-16 |
| 37. |
Several years of labor, debate, and negotiations were requir... |
48.00 |
0.9556 |
0.1528 |
224 |
1 |
48.00 |
2011-11-04 |
| 38. |
Moshe wandered in the synagogue or in the streets, with his ... |
47.86 |
0.9934 |
0.1117 |
109 |
2 |
45.40 |
2011-11-28 |
| 39. |
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, di... |
47.50 |
0.8998 |
0.1970 |
127 |
1 |
47.50 |
2011-11-28 |
| 40. |
Non violence is the first article of my faith. It is the las... |
47.50 |
0.9853 |
0.1115 |
271 |
1 |
47.50 |
2011-09-16 |
| 41. |
"Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and start... |
47.11 |
1.0170 |
0.0708 |
271 |
1 |
47.11 |
2011-11-28 |
| 42. |
They paused in their preparations to watch it climb higher a... |
46.92 |
0.9773 |
0.1061 |
157 |
1 |
46.92 |
2011-09-16 |
| 43. |
The Constitution of the United States consists of the origin... |
46.82 |
0.8242 |
0.2569 |
122 |
1 |
46.82 |
2011-10-28 |
| 44. |
If you haven't been dragged out of a middle school dance by ... |
46.56 |
1.0112 |
0.0639 |
229 |
1 |
46.56 |
2011-09-16 |
| 45. |
You got to let go of the stuff from past, because it just do... |
45.93 |
1.3945 |
-0.3339 |
131 |
1 |
45.93 |
2011-11-22 |
| 46. |
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason he had had... |
45.69 |
1.0611 |
-0.0061 |
165 |
1 |
45.69 |
2011-10-28 |
| 47. |
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller i... |
45.64 |
1.0583 |
-0.0044 |
181 |
1 |
45.64 |
2011-11-28 |
| 48. |
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many ... |
45.58 |
0.9842 |
0.0683 |
97 |
1 |
45.58 |
2011-10-28 |
| 49. |
"I was a whole lot frightened," said honest Walter. "But I'm... |
44.95 |
0.9999 |
0.0380 |
167 |
1 |
44.95 |
2011-11-23 |
| 50. |
You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies lit... |
44.86 |
0.9749 |
0.0610 |
210 |
1 |
44.86 |
2011-11-28 |
| 51. |
Mag-Lev trains run using electromagnetic energy. They actual... |
44.47 |
0.9091 |
0.1178 |
98 |
1 |
44.47 |
2011-10-28 |
| 52. |
This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of be... |
44.15 |
1.0905 |
-0.0710 |
72 |
1 |
44.15 |
2011-09-09 |
| 53. |
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to u... |
44.08 |
1.0301 |
-0.0122 |
158 |
1 |
44.08 |
2011-09-16 |
| 54. |
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was ... |
44.02 |
0.9268 |
0.0897 |
146 |
2 |
41.37 |
2011-11-22 |
| 55. |
Economy refers to the system of production, distribution, an... |
43.92 |
0.9754 |
0.0388 |
119 |
1 |
43.92 |
2011-09-16 |
| 56. |
A sudden silence hit the Earth. If anything it was worse tha... |
43.89 |
1.0283 |
-0.0148 |
102 |
1 |
43.89 |
2011-09-09 |
| 57. |
The largest telescope to be placed in space so far is the Hu... |
43.74 |
1.1156 |
-0.1056 |
108 |
1 |
43.74 |
2011-11-04 |
| 58. |
There are more than seven thousand commercial jets in the ai... |
43.69 |
1.1018 |
-0.0930 |
80 |
1 |
43.69 |
2011-09-16 |
| 59. |
It must be embarassing to sit in front when you find yoursel... |
43.67 |
1.0110 |
-0.0026 |
131 |
1 |
43.67 |
2011-09-09 |
| 60. |
If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that ... |
43.56 |
0.9447 |
0.0611 |
113 |
1 |
43.56 |
2011-11-22 |
| 61. |
Hickory, dickory, dock, the mouse ran up the clock. The cloc... |
43.22 |
0.8752 |
0.1228 |
114 |
1 |
43.22 |
2011-11-28 |
| 62. |
The longest non-talking movie ever made was Andy Warhol's "S... |
42.73 |
0.8750 |
0.1117 |
120 |
1 |
42.73 |
2011-09-16 |
| 63. |
Esperanza, on the other hand, wore a light silk dress that s... |
42.69 |
1.0495 |
-0.0637 |
107 |
1 |
42.69 |
2011-09-09 |
| 64. |
Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, mer... |
42.68 |
0.9187 |
0.0668 |
104 |
1 |
42.68 |
2011-09-16 |
| 65. |
And when you're fifteen, don't forget to look before you fal... |
42.48 |
1.0210 |
-0.0401 |
205 |
1 |
42.48 |
2011-09-16 |
| 66. |
Her hands trembled and her heart quickened, for she was frig... |
42.45 |
0.9568 |
0.0234 |
194 |
1 |
42.45 |
2011-11-22 |
| 67. |
When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. Peo... |
42.33 |
0.8809 |
0.0965 |
128 |
1 |
42.33 |
2011-09-09 |
| 68. |
The apartment smelled the way it did because Stanley's fathe... |
42.30 |
1.1015 |
-0.1248 |
113 |
1 |
42.30 |
2011-11-28 |
| 69. |
She tried to find the place in her heart where her life was ... |
42.24 |
1.0690 |
-0.0936 |
191 |
1 |
42.24 |
2011-11-22 |
| 70. |
A hippo sandwich is easy to make. All you do is simply take ... |
42.21 |
0.8734 |
0.1013 |
255 |
1 |
42.21 |
2011-09-16 |
| 71. |
Something whirled around inside Jess's head. He opened his m... |
42.19 |
1.0452 |
-0.0710 |
173 |
1 |
42.19 |
2011-11-04 |
| 72. |
The need for food creates a relationship of fundamental impo... |
42.18 |
0.9035 |
0.0705 |
245 |
1 |
42.18 |
2011-09-16 |
| 73. |
Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much li... |
42.11 |
0.9383 |
0.0341 |
169 |
1 |
42.11 |
2011-10-28 |
| 74. |
In 1908, Henry Ford introduced manufacturing cars with mass ... |
42.08 |
0.9692 |
0.0025 |
196 |
2 |
40.29 |
2011-11-04 |
| 75. |
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway,... |
42.07 |
0.9884 |
-0.0170 |
191 |
1 |
42.07 |
2011-10-28 |
| 76. |
Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in f... |
41.95 |
1.0347 |
-0.0660 |
129 |
1 |
41.95 |
2011-09-09 |
| 77. |
Bamboo is the world's tallest grass and can grow up to ninet... |
41.86 |
1.0034 |
-0.0368 |
83 |
1 |
41.86 |
2011-11-28 |
| 78. |
Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPIT... |
41.84 |
0.9501 |
0.0160 |
112 |
1 |
41.84 |
2011-09-09 |
| 79. |
But the most horrifying thing was when the headless chicken ... |
41.52 |
1.0192 |
-0.0605 |
198 |
1 |
41.52 |
2011-11-04 |
| 80. |
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.... |
41.26 |
0.8932 |
0.0595 |
141 |
1 |
41.26 |
2011-10-28 |
| 81. |
Bones are made mostly of the minerals calcium and phosophoru... |
40.92 |
0.8512 |
0.0937 |
111 |
1 |
40.92 |
2011-11-28 |
| 82. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
40.91 |
0.9873 |
-0.0426 |
188 |
1 |
40.91 |
2011-09-16 |
| 83. |
You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you will... |
40.72 |
1.0218 |
-0.0815 |
127 |
1 |
40.72 |
2011-11-28 |
| 84. |
Stanley was not a bad kid. He was innocent of the crime for ... |
40.50 |
1.0728 |
-0.1376 |
136 |
1 |
40.50 |
2011-11-22 |
| 85. |
Look at this tree, Shifu: I cannot make it blossom when it s... |
40.48 |
0.9764 |
-0.0417 |
107 |
1 |
40.48 |
2011-11-28 |
| 86. |
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and... |
40.35 |
1.0184 |
-0.0867 |
162 |
1 |
40.35 |
2011-09-09 |
| 87. |
Everybody knows Tyrannosaurus rex, and it's the most popular... |
40.24 |
0.8418 |
0.0874 |
142 |
1 |
40.24 |
2011-09-16 |
| 88. |
Perhaps most importantly, studying myths can teach us about ... |
40.21 |
0.9648 |
-0.0363 |
140 |
1 |
40.21 |
2011-11-04 |
| 89. |
There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause ... |
39.73 |
0.9119 |
0.0055 |
403 |
1 |
39.73 |
2011-10-28 |
| 90. |
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to thi... |
39.60 |
0.8763 |
0.0381 |
103 |
1 |
39.60 |
2011-11-22 |
| 91. |
Scale factor refers to the number that all parts of one figu... |
39.48 |
1.0100 |
-0.0984 |
139 |
1 |
39.48 |
2011-09-16 |
| 92. |
You don't have to use this in your movie or anything, althou... |
39.46 |
1.0234 |
-0.1122 |
144 |
1 |
39.46 |
2011-11-23 |
| 93. |
Abraham Lincoln's mother died when the family cow ate poison... |
39.33 |
0.9068 |
0.0014 |
106 |
1 |
39.33 |
2011-10-28 |
| 94. |
With their long wings, Turkey Vultures soar high up in the s... |
39.15 |
0.9984 |
-0.0944 |
112 |
1 |
39.15 |
2011-09-09 |
| 95. |
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free -- as ... |
39.11 |
0.9793 |
-0.0762 |
104 |
1 |
39.11 |
2011-11-04 |
| 96. |
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquir... |
39.04 |
0.9218 |
-0.0203 |
134 |
1 |
39.04 |
2011-09-09 |
| 97. |
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity ha... |
38.47 |
0.9338 |
-0.0455 |
114 |
1 |
38.47 |
2011-11-23 |
| 98. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
38.00 |
1.0180 |
-0.1405 |
189 |
1 |
38.00 |
2011-10-28 |
| 99. |
Whenever the Committee of Elders are faced with a new situat... |
37.83 |
0.8691 |
0.0044 |
126 |
1 |
37.83 |
2011-11-22 |
| 100. |
When you're fifteen and your first kiss Makes your head spin... |
37.55 |
1.0234 |
-0.1563 |
174 |
1 |
37.55 |
2011-09-09 |
| 101. |
And when you're fifteen, don't forget to look before you fal... |
37.38 |
1.0484 |
-0.1853 |
105 |
1 |
37.38 |
2011-09-09 |
| 102. |
This one has a little star. This one has a little car. Say, ... |
37.24 |
1.0759 |
-0.2160 |
89 |
1 |
37.24 |
2011-09-16 |
| 103. |
A scallop swims by quickly clapping its shell open and shut.... |
37.00 |
1.0258 |
-0.1714 |
116 |
1 |
37.00 |
2011-11-28 |
| 104. |
There were many questions on his mind about what he had seen... |
36.93 |
1.0457 |
-0.1929 |
189 |
1 |
36.93 |
2011-11-22 |
| 105. |
Leslie named their secret land "Terabithia," and she loaned ... |
36.82 |
0.8809 |
-0.0307 |
226 |
1 |
36.82 |
2011-11-22 |
| 106. |
The girl's eyes were soft and tender and the heart within he... |
36.77 |
0.9189 |
-0.0698 |
244 |
1 |
36.77 |
2011-09-16 |
| 107. |
Accepted by their leader and befriended by a feisty pup name... |
36.31 |
1.0092 |
-0.1708 |
111 |
1 |
36.31 |
2011-10-28 |
| 108. |
The flapping of enormous wings echoed across the black water... |
36.20 |
1.0225 |
-0.1866 |
115 |
1 |
36.20 |
2011-11-04 |
| 109. |
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: "Two vast a... |
36.09 |
0.7724 |
0.0610 |
118 |
1 |
36.09 |
2011-09-16 |
| 110. |
The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dea... |
35.98 |
1.0644 |
-0.2336 |
68 |
1 |
35.98 |
2011-09-09 |
| 111. |
According to author Dougals Adams, a salween is the faint ta... |
35.83 |
0.9036 |
-0.0762 |
108 |
1 |
35.83 |
2011-11-22 |
| 112. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
35.69 |
0.8876 |
-0.0635 |
256 |
1 |
35.69 |
2011-09-09 |
| 113. |
The name for Oz in The Wizard of Oz was thought up when the ... |
35.56 |
0.8511 |
-0.0300 |
126 |
1 |
35.56 |
2011-10-28 |
| 114. |
The Porpoise language has 237 words that mean "happy," and M... |
35.45 |
0.9696 |
-0.1510 |
286 |
1 |
35.45 |
2011-09-09 |
| 115. |
You think a pair of pants that fits all three of you is goin... |
35.44 |
1.0849 |
-0.2666 |
84 |
1 |
35.44 |
2011-09-09 |
| 116. |
But events - events were burned into his memory and so he us... |
34.46 |
0.9286 |
-0.1329 |
154 |
1 |
34.46 |
2011-09-09 |
| 117. |
Whosoever's room this is should be ashamed! Donald or Robert... |
33.87 |
0.7830 |
-0.0009 |
136 |
2 |
29.66 |
2011-11-28 |
| 118. |
The giraffe's heart is huge; it weighs twenty five pounds, i... |
32.09 |
1.0016 |
-0.2606 |
116 |
1 |
32.09 |
2011-11-28 |
| 119. |
And suppose that you lived in that forest in France, where t... |
31.64 |
0.9093 |
-0.1787 |
250 |
1 |
31.64 |
2011-09-10 |
| 120. |
The average lead pencil can draw a line thirty-five miles lo... |
31.26 |
0.8922 |
-0.1704 |
115 |
1 |
31.26 |
2011-09-09 |
| 121. |
Our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take ... |
30.26 |
0.9873 |
-0.2886 |
103 |
1 |
30.26 |
2011-09-09 |
| 122. |
Currency refers to the bills and coins used as money in a pa... |
30.20 |
1.1018 |
-0.4045 |
77 |
1 |
30.20 |
2011-09-09 |
| 123. |
Reproduction is the process by which plants and animals give... |
24.00 |
1.0336 |
-0.4794 |
79 |
1 |
24.00 |
2011-09-09 |
| 124. |
To keep from being separated while sleeping, sea otters tie ... |
15.24 |
0.9603 |
-0.6084 |
140 |
1 |
15.24 |
2011-09-09 |
| 125. |
A willing helper does not wait until he is asked. |
13.96 |
1.0892 |
-0.7668 |
49 |
1 |
13.96 |
2011-09-09 |
| 126. |
Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else. |
12.78 |
0.5685 |
-0.2734 |
55 |
1 |
12.78 |
2011-09-09 |