| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
53.66 |
1.1018 |
0.1705 |
220 |
2 |
48.14 |
2009-02-23 |
| 2. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
51.28 |
0.9729 |
0.2487 |
255 |
3 |
45.47 |
2009-02-22 |
| 3. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
50.44 |
0.9196 |
0.2833 |
148 |
2 |
47.37 |
2009-02-22 |
| 4. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
49.47 |
1.1114 |
0.0637 |
247 |
1 |
49.47 |
2009-02-22 |
| 5. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
49.05 |
0.9464 |
0.2264 |
323 |
1 |
49.05 |
2009-02-25 |
| 6. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
48.95 |
1.0033 |
0.1553 |
189 |
1 |
48.95 |
2009-02-23 |
| 7. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
48.80 |
0.8788 |
0.2794 |
134 |
2 |
45.59 |
2009-02-22 |
| 8. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
47.64 |
1.0788 |
0.0494 |
171 |
1 |
47.64 |
2009-02-22 |
| 9. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
47.56 |
1.0029 |
0.1226 |
209 |
1 |
47.56 |
2009-02-23 |
| 10. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
47.35 |
1.0767 |
0.0479 |
212 |
1 |
47.35 |
2009-02-24 |
| 11. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
47.21 |
1.0399 |
0.0887 |
294 |
1 |
47.21 |
2009-02-24 |
| 12. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
46.85 |
0.8935 |
0.2310 |
328 |
1 |
46.85 |
2009-02-22 |
| 13. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
46.17 |
1.0516 |
0.0464 |
281 |
2 |
42.98 |
2009-02-22 |
| 14. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
46.03 |
0.9221 |
0.1714 |
244 |
1 |
46.03 |
2009-02-22 |
| 15. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
45.89 |
1.0711 |
0.0155 |
213 |
2 |
42.73 |
2009-02-22 |
| 16. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
45.88 |
0.9279 |
0.1700 |
317 |
1 |
45.88 |
2009-02-23 |
| 17. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
45.72 |
1.0483 |
0.0363 |
227 |
1 |
45.72 |
2009-02-25 |
| 18. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
45.70 |
0.9646 |
0.1216 |
264 |
1 |
45.70 |
2009-02-24 |
| 19. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
45.65 |
0.9697 |
0.1164 |
249 |
2 |
44.47 |
2009-02-23 |
| 20. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
45.62 |
1.0390 |
0.0424 |
205 |
1 |
45.62 |
2009-02-22 |
| 21. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
45.31 |
0.9263 |
0.1549 |
188 |
1 |
45.31 |
2009-02-22 |
| 22. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
45.18 |
1.0463 |
0.0237 |
182 |
2 |
41.98 |
2009-02-22 |
| 23. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
45.14 |
1.0361 |
0.0385 |
269 |
1 |
45.14 |
2009-02-24 |
| 24. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
44.84 |
0.8573 |
0.2127 |
270 |
1 |
44.84 |
2009-02-22 |
| 25. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
44.74 |
0.9756 |
0.0871 |
229 |
3 |
43.56 |
2009-02-22 |
| 26. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
44.55 |
1.0426 |
0.0161 |
323 |
1 |
44.55 |
2009-02-22 |
| 27. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
44.55 |
0.9941 |
0.0629 |
217 |
1 |
44.55 |
2009-02-22 |
| 28. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
44.44 |
0.9710 |
0.0793 |
173 |
1 |
44.44 |
2009-02-22 |
| 29. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
44.40 |
0.9426 |
0.1163 |
317 |
3 |
42.04 |
2009-02-24 |
| 30. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
44.36 |
0.9899 |
0.0602 |
163 |
1 |
44.36 |
2009-02-24 |
| 31. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
44.36 |
1.0714 |
-0.0255 |
129 |
1 |
44.36 |
2009-02-22 |
| 32. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.24 |
0.9293 |
0.1235 |
355 |
1 |
44.24 |
2009-02-24 |
| 33. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
44.11 |
0.9286 |
0.1192 |
194 |
1 |
44.11 |
2009-02-22 |
| 34. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
43.96 |
0.9966 |
0.0480 |
259 |
1 |
43.96 |
2009-02-22 |
| 35. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
43.64 |
1.0993 |
-0.0639 |
265 |
1 |
43.64 |
2009-02-22 |
| 36. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
43.61 |
0.9316 |
0.1112 |
287 |
1 |
43.61 |
2009-02-22 |
| 37. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
43.52 |
0.9897 |
0.0426 |
274 |
1 |
43.52 |
2009-02-22 |
| 38. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
43.41 |
0.9805 |
0.0561 |
292 |
1 |
43.41 |
2009-02-24 |
| 39. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
43.30 |
0.9260 |
0.1137 |
243 |
1 |
43.30 |
2009-02-22 |
| 40. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
42.79 |
0.9672 |
0.0564 |
396 |
1 |
42.79 |
2009-02-25 |
| 41. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
42.67 |
0.9758 |
0.0391 |
314 |
2 |
39.76 |
2009-02-22 |
| 42. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
42.53 |
0.8887 |
0.1361 |
128 |
1 |
42.53 |
2009-02-22 |
| 43. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
42.45 |
0.9811 |
0.0305 |
272 |
1 |
42.45 |
2009-02-22 |
| 44. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
42.39 |
1.0214 |
-0.0194 |
166 |
1 |
42.39 |
2009-02-22 |
| 45. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
42.23 |
1.0349 |
-0.0320 |
234 |
1 |
42.23 |
2009-02-22 |
| 46. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
42.04 |
0.9567 |
0.0421 |
273 |
1 |
42.04 |
2009-02-22 |
| 47. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
42.03 |
0.9540 |
0.0430 |
285 |
1 |
42.03 |
2009-02-24 |
| 48. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
41.70 |
1.0829 |
-0.0906 |
288 |
1 |
41.70 |
2009-02-22 |
| 49. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
41.59 |
0.9125 |
0.0775 |
308 |
1 |
41.59 |
2009-02-24 |
| 50. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
41.44 |
1.0385 |
-0.0557 |
230 |
1 |
41.44 |
2009-02-22 |
| 51. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
41.22 |
1.0515 |
-0.0741 |
250 |
1 |
41.22 |
2009-02-22 |
| 52. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
41.17 |
1.0292 |
-0.0524 |
262 |
1 |
41.17 |
2009-02-22 |
| 53. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
41.10 |
0.9084 |
0.0698 |
300 |
3 |
39.75 |
2009-02-22 |
| 54. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
40.99 |
1.0203 |
-0.0432 |
261 |
1 |
40.99 |
2009-02-22 |
| 55. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
40.96 |
0.9965 |
-0.0283 |
168 |
1 |
40.96 |
2009-02-22 |
| 56. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
40.37 |
1.0696 |
-0.1143 |
226 |
1 |
40.37 |
2009-02-22 |
| 57. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
40.31 |
0.9266 |
0.0326 |
278 |
2 |
37.70 |
2009-02-22 |
| 58. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
40.29 |
0.8153 |
0.1464 |
200 |
1 |
40.29 |
2009-02-22 |
| 59. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
40.13 |
1.0534 |
-0.0982 |
357 |
1 |
40.13 |
2009-02-25 |
| 60. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
39.94 |
0.8382 |
0.1108 |
268 |
1 |
39.94 |
2009-02-22 |
| 61. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
39.87 |
1.0523 |
-0.1098 |
256 |
1 |
39.87 |
2009-02-22 |
| 62. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
39.50 |
0.9763 |
-0.0389 |
289 |
1 |
39.50 |
2009-02-22 |
| 63. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
38.96 |
0.9342 |
-0.0058 |
434 |
1 |
38.96 |
2009-02-22 |
| 64. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
38.96 |
0.9893 |
-0.0643 |
323 |
1 |
38.96 |
2009-02-22 |
| 65. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
38.95 |
1.0120 |
-0.0882 |
290 |
1 |
38.95 |
2009-02-22 |
| 66. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
38.92 |
0.9500 |
-0.0239 |
362 |
1 |
38.92 |
2009-02-22 |
| 67. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
38.71 |
1.0396 |
-0.1280 |
149 |
1 |
38.71 |
2009-02-22 |
| 68. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
38.70 |
0.9740 |
-0.0595 |
209 |
1 |
38.70 |
2009-02-22 |
| 69. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
38.58 |
0.9339 |
-0.0197 |
310 |
1 |
38.58 |
2009-02-22 |
| 70. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
38.49 |
0.9863 |
-0.0683 |
339 |
1 |
38.49 |
2009-02-22 |
| 71. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
38.16 |
1.0596 |
-0.1561 |
239 |
1 |
38.16 |
2009-02-22 |
| 72. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
38.11 |
1.0337 |
-0.1299 |
214 |
1 |
38.11 |
2009-02-22 |
| 73. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
37.84 |
1.0567 |
-0.1582 |
303 |
1 |
37.84 |
2009-02-22 |
| 74. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
37.64 |
0.9910 |
-0.0960 |
295 |
1 |
37.64 |
2009-02-22 |
| 75. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
37.32 |
0.9148 |
-0.0280 |
317 |
1 |
37.32 |
2009-02-22 |
| 76. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
37.30 |
0.9986 |
-0.1131 |
283 |
1 |
37.30 |
2009-02-22 |
| 77. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
36.98 |
1.0099 |
-0.1356 |
207 |
1 |
36.98 |
2009-02-22 |
| 78. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.86 |
0.9365 |
-0.0608 |
248 |
1 |
36.86 |
2009-02-22 |
| 79. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
36.74 |
0.8951 |
-0.0215 |
193 |
1 |
36.74 |
2009-02-22 |
| 80. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
36.73 |
0.9724 |
-0.0976 |
237 |
1 |
36.73 |
2009-02-22 |
| 81. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.56 |
1.0213 |
-0.1574 |
240 |
1 |
36.56 |
2009-02-22 |
| 82. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
36.17 |
0.9844 |
-0.1219 |
293 |
2 |
35.40 |
2009-02-23 |
| 83. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
36.03 |
1.0444 |
-0.1967 |
197 |
1 |
36.03 |
2009-02-22 |
| 84. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
35.92 |
0.8899 |
-0.0271 |
293 |
1 |
35.92 |
2009-02-22 |
| 85. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
35.92 |
0.9682 |
-0.1184 |
143 |
1 |
35.92 |
2009-02-22 |
| 86. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
35.78 |
0.8353 |
0.0205 |
283 |
1 |
35.78 |
2009-02-22 |
| 87. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
35.58 |
0.9084 |
-0.0608 |
404 |
2 |
35.00 |
2009-02-22 |
| 88. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
35.43 |
0.9852 |
-0.1450 |
264 |
1 |
35.43 |
2009-02-22 |
| 89. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
35.16 |
0.8595 |
-0.0243 |
242 |
1 |
35.16 |
2009-02-22 |
| 90. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
35.00 |
0.9514 |
-0.1216 |
237 |
1 |
35.00 |
2009-02-22 |
| 91. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
34.79 |
1.0462 |
-0.2278 |
184 |
1 |
34.79 |
2009-02-22 |
| 92. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
34.70 |
0.9884 |
-0.1669 |
233 |
1 |
34.70 |
2009-02-22 |
| 93. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
34.36 |
0.9614 |
-0.1443 |
292 |
1 |
34.36 |
2009-02-22 |
| 94. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
33.51 |
1.0487 |
-0.2600 |
231 |
1 |
33.51 |
2009-02-22 |
| 95. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
31.83 |
0.9786 |
-0.2259 |
235 |
1 |
31.83 |
2009-02-22 |
| 96. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
31.40 |
0.8077 |
-0.0667 |
167 |
1 |
31.40 |
2009-02-22 |