| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
51.00 |
1.0907 |
0.0669 |
303 |
1 |
51.00 |
2010-06-25 |
| 2. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
50.12 |
1.0201 |
0.1078 |
172 |
1 |
50.12 |
2010-06-25 |
| 3. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
49.71 |
0.9756 |
0.1484 |
229 |
1 |
49.71 |
2010-07-03 |
| 4. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
48.57 |
0.9263 |
0.1764 |
188 |
1 |
48.57 |
2010-07-16 |
| 5. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
48.50 |
0.9097 |
0.1882 |
153 |
2 |
45.52 |
2010-06-25 |
| 6. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
48.35 |
1.0016 |
0.0880 |
218 |
1 |
48.35 |
2010-06-23 |
| 7. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
48.30 |
0.9509 |
0.1805 |
225 |
1 |
48.30 |
2010-06-16 |
| 8. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
48.27 |
1.0788 |
0.0079 |
171 |
1 |
48.27 |
2010-07-06 |
| 9. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
47.75 |
0.9986 |
0.0769 |
162 |
1 |
47.75 |
2010-06-24 |
| 10. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
47.58 |
0.9532 |
0.1220 |
258 |
1 |
47.58 |
2010-07-15 |
| 11. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
47.52 |
0.9798 |
0.0897 |
199 |
1 |
47.52 |
2010-07-16 |
| 12. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
47.51 |
0.9340 |
0.1407 |
296 |
1 |
47.51 |
2010-07-16 |
| 13. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
47.43 |
0.9910 |
0.0840 |
295 |
1 |
47.43 |
2010-06-16 |
| 14. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
47.39 |
1.0486 |
0.0244 |
289 |
1 |
47.39 |
2010-07-04 |
| 15. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
47.23 |
1.0608 |
0.0410 |
258 |
1 |
47.23 |
2010-06-24 |
| 16. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
47.18 |
1.0429 |
0.0231 |
259 |
1 |
47.18 |
2010-06-17 |
| 17. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
47.09 |
0.9504 |
0.1095 |
263 |
1 |
47.09 |
2010-07-16 |
| 18. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
47.04 |
1.0331 |
0.0289 |
234 |
1 |
47.04 |
2010-06-24 |
| 19. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
46.76 |
1.0799 |
-0.0258 |
243 |
3 |
45.46 |
2010-07-04 |
| 20. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
46.56 |
0.9855 |
0.1010 |
258 |
1 |
46.56 |
2010-07-03 |
| 21. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
46.53 |
0.9884 |
0.0633 |
233 |
2 |
45.33 |
2010-06-25 |
| 22. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
46.41 |
1.0396 |
0.0030 |
149 |
1 |
46.41 |
2010-06-17 |
| 23. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
46.38 |
0.9612 |
0.0879 |
256 |
2 |
44.36 |
2010-06-24 |
| 24. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
46.22 |
0.8884 |
0.1576 |
135 |
1 |
46.22 |
2010-06-24 |
| 25. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
46.19 |
1.0555 |
-0.0094 |
363 |
2 |
45.57 |
2010-07-16 |
| 26. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
45.79 |
0.9303 |
0.0990 |
176 |
1 |
45.79 |
2010-06-17 |
| 27. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
45.63 |
0.9247 |
0.1119 |
253 |
1 |
45.63 |
2010-06-24 |
| 28. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
45.59 |
0.9811 |
0.0526 |
272 |
1 |
45.59 |
2010-06-25 |
| 29. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
45.53 |
0.9907 |
0.0373 |
211 |
1 |
45.53 |
2010-06-24 |
| 30. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
45.13 |
0.9726 |
0.0415 |
154 |
1 |
45.13 |
2010-07-03 |
| 31. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
45.06 |
0.9411 |
0.0785 |
318 |
1 |
45.06 |
2010-07-04 |
| 32. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
45.05 |
0.9688 |
0.0496 |
217 |
1 |
45.05 |
2010-07-16 |
| 33. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
44.88 |
1.0521 |
-0.0422 |
171 |
1 |
44.88 |
2010-06-24 |
| 34. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
44.76 |
1.0349 |
-0.0236 |
234 |
1 |
44.76 |
2010-07-04 |
| 35. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
44.59 |
1.0004 |
0.0016 |
212 |
1 |
44.59 |
2010-07-03 |
| 36. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
44.35 |
1.0251 |
-0.0247 |
261 |
1 |
44.35 |
2010-06-23 |
| 37. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
44.33 |
0.9068 |
0.0936 |
225 |
1 |
44.33 |
2010-06-23 |
| 38. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
44.16 |
0.9168 |
0.0827 |
240 |
1 |
44.16 |
2010-06-17 |
| 39. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
44.06 |
0.9567 |
0.0815 |
184 |
1 |
44.06 |
2010-07-03 |
| 40. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
44.04 |
0.9964 |
-0.0008 |
203 |
1 |
44.04 |
2010-07-15 |
| 41. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
43.93 |
0.9991 |
-0.0056 |
225 |
1 |
43.93 |
2010-06-21 |
| 42. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
43.91 |
1.0151 |
-0.0311 |
152 |
2 |
41.82 |
2010-06-15 |
| 43. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
43.83 |
1.0169 |
0.0124 |
346 |
1 |
43.83 |
2010-06-23 |
| 44. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
43.77 |
0.9005 |
0.0873 |
212 |
2 |
43.47 |
2010-06-25 |
| 45. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
43.70 |
0.9851 |
0.0048 |
317 |
1 |
43.70 |
2010-07-06 |
| 46. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
43.68 |
1.0337 |
-0.0471 |
214 |
1 |
43.68 |
2010-06-15 |
| 47. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
43.56 |
0.9576 |
0.0315 |
212 |
1 |
43.56 |
2010-06-24 |
| 48. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
43.45 |
0.9339 |
0.0466 |
310 |
1 |
43.45 |
2010-06-17 |
| 49. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
43.41 |
1.0485 |
-0.0327 |
153 |
1 |
43.41 |
2010-07-04 |
| 50. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
43.32 |
0.9922 |
0.0279 |
341 |
1 |
43.32 |
2010-06-26 |
| 51. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
43.26 |
1.0029 |
-0.0317 |
209 |
1 |
43.26 |
2010-06-15 |
| 52. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
43.17 |
0.9865 |
-0.0098 |
276 |
1 |
43.17 |
2010-07-04 |
| 53. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.15 |
1.0125 |
-0.0397 |
224 |
1 |
43.15 |
2010-06-24 |
| 54. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
42.96 |
1.0531 |
-0.0442 |
272 |
1 |
42.96 |
2010-07-15 |
| 55. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
42.89 |
0.8105 |
0.1544 |
204 |
1 |
42.89 |
2010-07-16 |
| 56. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
42.88 |
1.0515 |
-0.0845 |
250 |
1 |
42.88 |
2010-06-25 |
| 57. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
42.80 |
1.0483 |
-0.0842 |
227 |
1 |
42.80 |
2010-06-23 |
| 58. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
42.79 |
0.9646 |
0.0014 |
264 |
1 |
42.79 |
2010-06-15 |
| 59. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
42.72 |
0.9792 |
0.0245 |
265 |
1 |
42.72 |
2010-06-23 |
| 60. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
42.55 |
0.8573 |
0.1077 |
270 |
2 |
39.43 |
2010-07-06 |
| 61. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
42.52 |
1.0768 |
-0.0760 |
295 |
1 |
42.52 |
2010-06-25 |
| 62. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
42.37 |
1.0577 |
-0.1039 |
247 |
1 |
42.37 |
2010-07-04 |
| 63. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
42.22 |
0.9754 |
-0.0155 |
362 |
1 |
42.22 |
2010-06-16 |
| 64. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
42.03 |
0.8919 |
0.0559 |
205 |
1 |
42.03 |
2010-06-17 |
| 65. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
42.00 |
1.0444 |
-0.1022 |
197 |
1 |
42.00 |
2010-06-24 |
| 66. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
41.99 |
1.0619 |
-0.1097 |
354 |
1 |
41.99 |
2010-07-16 |
| 67. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
41.81 |
1.0109 |
-0.0657 |
276 |
1 |
41.81 |
2010-06-23 |
| 68. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
41.76 |
0.9426 |
0.0038 |
317 |
1 |
41.76 |
2010-06-16 |
| 69. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.68 |
0.9699 |
-0.0290 |
269 |
1 |
41.68 |
2010-06-15 |
| 70. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
41.34 |
1.0403 |
-0.0916 |
193 |
1 |
41.34 |
2010-07-04 |
| 71. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
41.24 |
0.9567 |
-0.0255 |
273 |
1 |
41.24 |
2010-07-16 |
| 72. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
41.23 |
1.0941 |
-0.1317 |
256 |
1 |
41.23 |
2010-06-17 |
| 73. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
41.20 |
0.9485 |
-0.0163 |
236 |
1 |
41.20 |
2010-06-25 |
| 74. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
41.12 |
0.9578 |
-0.0297 |
281 |
1 |
41.12 |
2010-06-24 |
| 75. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
40.94 |
1.0567 |
-0.1316 |
303 |
1 |
40.94 |
2010-06-23 |
| 76. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
40.91 |
0.9636 |
-0.0399 |
254 |
1 |
40.91 |
2010-06-24 |
| 77. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
40.87 |
0.9673 |
-0.0051 |
232 |
1 |
40.87 |
2010-07-04 |
| 78. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
40.65 |
1.0496 |
-0.1324 |
314 |
1 |
40.65 |
2010-06-16 |
| 79. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
40.60 |
0.9216 |
0.0340 |
255 |
1 |
40.60 |
2010-06-15 |
| 80. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
40.59 |
1.0441 |
-0.1261 |
252 |
1 |
40.59 |
2010-06-23 |
| 81. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
40.26 |
0.9904 |
-0.0409 |
203 |
1 |
40.26 |
2010-06-16 |
| 82. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
40.17 |
0.9279 |
-0.0145 |
317 |
1 |
40.17 |
2010-06-17 |
| 83. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
40.13 |
0.8975 |
0.0090 |
268 |
1 |
40.13 |
2010-06-23 |
| 84. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
39.98 |
1.0025 |
-0.1001 |
256 |
1 |
39.98 |
2010-06-15 |
| 85. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
39.82 |
0.9164 |
-0.0127 |
305 |
1 |
39.82 |
2010-06-25 |
| 86. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
39.78 |
0.9430 |
-0.0523 |
211 |
1 |
39.78 |
2010-06-24 |
| 87. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
39.74 |
0.8852 |
0.0139 |
201 |
1 |
39.74 |
2010-07-04 |
| 88. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
39.39 |
1.0077 |
-0.0774 |
250 |
1 |
39.39 |
2010-06-25 |
| 89. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
39.10 |
0.8956 |
-0.0086 |
322 |
1 |
39.10 |
2010-06-24 |
| 90. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
39.09 |
1.0201 |
-0.1339 |
375 |
1 |
39.09 |
2010-06-21 |
| 91. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
38.89 |
1.0621 |
-0.1651 |
263 |
1 |
38.89 |
2010-07-16 |
| 92. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
38.87 |
0.9161 |
-0.0410 |
200 |
1 |
38.87 |
2010-06-23 |
| 93. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
38.37 |
1.0214 |
-0.1132 |
281 |
1 |
38.37 |
2010-07-03 |
| 94. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
38.33 |
0.9376 |
-0.0675 |
367 |
1 |
38.33 |
2010-06-24 |
| 95. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
37.72 |
1.0252 |
-0.1809 |
176 |
1 |
37.72 |
2010-06-16 |