| 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... |
53.89 |
1.0907 |
0.3122 |
303 |
1 |
53.89 |
2010-12-04 |
| 2. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
52.12 |
1.0205 |
0.3268 |
179 |
2 |
49.05 |
2010-12-08 |
| 3. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
52.01 |
0.9187 |
0.4223 |
118 |
2 |
46.09 |
2010-12-13 |
| 4. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
49.18 |
1.0795 |
0.2277 |
226 |
1 |
49.18 |
2010-12-09 |
| 5. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
49.13 |
1.0201 |
0.2485 |
172 |
1 |
49.13 |
2010-12-08 |
| 6. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
47.63 |
0.9430 |
0.2960 |
297 |
1 |
47.63 |
2010-12-04 |
| 7. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
46.44 |
1.0577 |
0.1437 |
247 |
1 |
46.44 |
2010-12-13 |
| 8. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
45.97 |
0.9162 |
0.2767 |
165 |
1 |
45.97 |
2010-12-13 |
| 9. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
45.96 |
0.9986 |
0.1943 |
283 |
1 |
45.96 |
2010-12-08 |
| 10. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
45.78 |
1.0412 |
0.1458 |
225 |
1 |
45.78 |
2010-12-04 |
| 11. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
45.63 |
0.9786 |
0.1998 |
193 |
1 |
45.63 |
2010-12-09 |
| 12. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
45.45 |
1.0384 |
0.1309 |
183 |
1 |
45.45 |
2010-12-08 |
| 13. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
45.38 |
0.8562 |
0.3210 |
170 |
1 |
45.38 |
2010-12-13 |
| 14. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
45.05 |
1.0595 |
0.1114 |
379 |
1 |
45.05 |
2010-12-13 |
| 15. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
44.70 |
1.0365 |
0.1526 |
162 |
1 |
44.70 |
2010-12-07 |
| 16. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
44.59 |
1.0863 |
0.1049 |
210 |
2 |
40.68 |
2010-12-07 |
| 17. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
43.86 |
0.9729 |
0.1645 |
255 |
1 |
43.86 |
2010-12-13 |
| 18. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
43.65 |
0.8951 |
0.2388 |
193 |
1 |
43.65 |
2010-12-04 |
| 19. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
43.57 |
1.0379 |
0.1266 |
245 |
1 |
43.57 |
2010-12-04 |
| 20. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
43.47 |
1.0417 |
0.0828 |
253 |
1 |
43.47 |
2010-12-10 |
| 21. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
43.30 |
0.9811 |
0.1441 |
272 |
2 |
39.50 |
2010-12-09 |
| 22. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
43.22 |
0.9798 |
0.1349 |
199 |
1 |
43.22 |
2010-12-04 |
| 23. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
42.94 |
0.8791 |
0.2331 |
190 |
1 |
42.94 |
2010-12-08 |
| 24. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
42.83 |
0.8348 |
0.2817 |
219 |
1 |
42.83 |
2010-12-10 |
| 25. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
42.73 |
1.0077 |
0.1412 |
250 |
2 |
42.00 |
2010-12-13 |
| 26. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
42.64 |
0.8810 |
0.2250 |
282 |
2 |
39.58 |
2010-12-09 |
| 27. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
42.16 |
0.9706 |
0.1263 |
216 |
2 |
38.65 |
2010-12-03 |
| 28. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
42.10 |
0.8614 |
0.2274 |
172 |
1 |
42.10 |
2010-12-03 |
| 29. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
41.72 |
1.0389 |
0.0439 |
318 |
1 |
41.72 |
2010-12-03 |
| 30. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
41.66 |
1.0429 |
0.0352 |
259 |
2 |
39.79 |
2010-12-13 |
| 31. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
41.66 |
1.0232 |
0.1022 |
350 |
1 |
41.66 |
2010-12-04 |
| 32. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
41.45 |
0.9286 |
0.1444 |
194 |
1 |
41.45 |
2010-12-03 |
| 33. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
41.17 |
1.0053 |
0.0594 |
232 |
1 |
41.17 |
2010-12-10 |
| 34. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
41.06 |
0.9161 |
0.1457 |
200 |
1 |
41.06 |
2010-12-13 |
| 35. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
41.00 |
1.0214 |
0.0833 |
281 |
1 |
41.00 |
2010-12-10 |
| 36. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
40.84 |
0.9207 |
0.1399 |
174 |
1 |
40.84 |
2010-12-01 |
| 37. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
40.52 |
1.0218 |
0.0249 |
268 |
2 |
38.94 |
2010-12-08 |
| 38. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
40.47 |
1.0463 |
-0.0026 |
182 |
1 |
40.47 |
2010-12-08 |
| 39. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
40.32 |
1.0944 |
-0.0052 |
308 |
1 |
40.32 |
2010-12-05 |
| 40. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
40.27 |
1.0063 |
0.0372 |
371 |
1 |
40.27 |
2010-12-04 |
| 41. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
40.25 |
0.8958 |
0.1513 |
322 |
1 |
40.25 |
2010-12-09 |
| 42. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
40.14 |
0.9884 |
0.0505 |
233 |
1 |
40.14 |
2010-12-03 |
| 43. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
40.11 |
1.0768 |
0.0022 |
295 |
1 |
40.11 |
2010-12-03 |
| 44. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
40.08 |
0.9316 |
0.1125 |
287 |
1 |
40.08 |
2010-12-01 |
| 45. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
40.07 |
0.8910 |
0.1485 |
150 |
1 |
40.07 |
2010-12-05 |
| 46. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
39.94 |
1.0150 |
0.0684 |
325 |
1 |
39.94 |
2010-12-07 |
| 47. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
39.78 |
0.8956 |
0.1372 |
217 |
1 |
39.78 |
2010-12-09 |
| 48. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.78 |
1.0138 |
0.0160 |
231 |
2 |
37.70 |
2010-12-08 |
| 49. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
39.49 |
0.9866 |
0.0323 |
218 |
1 |
39.49 |
2010-12-09 |
| 50. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
39.48 |
0.9907 |
0.0301 |
211 |
1 |
39.48 |
2010-12-13 |
| 51. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
39.44 |
1.0389 |
-0.0152 |
340 |
1 |
39.44 |
2010-12-03 |
| 52. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
39.39 |
1.0023 |
0.0158 |
211 |
1 |
39.39 |
2010-12-07 |
| 53. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
39.35 |
0.8153 |
0.2084 |
200 |
1 |
39.35 |
2010-12-03 |
| 54. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
39.32 |
1.0444 |
-0.0328 |
197 |
1 |
39.32 |
2010-12-03 |
| 55. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
39.05 |
0.8541 |
0.1652 |
260 |
1 |
39.05 |
2010-12-04 |
| 56. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
38.86 |
0.9925 |
0.0503 |
247 |
1 |
38.86 |
2010-12-04 |
| 57. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
38.37 |
1.0125 |
-0.0215 |
224 |
1 |
38.37 |
2010-12-13 |
| 58. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
38.28 |
0.8559 |
0.1358 |
191 |
2 |
35.84 |
2010-12-05 |
| 59. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
38.11 |
0.8289 |
0.1649 |
304 |
1 |
38.11 |
2010-12-06 |
| 60. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
37.96 |
1.0331 |
-0.0528 |
234 |
1 |
37.96 |
2010-12-09 |
| 61. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
37.86 |
0.8341 |
0.1543 |
224 |
1 |
37.86 |
2010-12-08 |
| 62. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
37.85 |
0.9916 |
0.0306 |
282 |
3 |
36.25 |
2010-12-08 |
| 63. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
37.82 |
0.8892 |
0.0956 |
207 |
1 |
37.82 |
2010-12-03 |
| 64. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
37.82 |
0.9871 |
0.0279 |
209 |
1 |
37.82 |
2010-12-03 |
| 65. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
37.41 |
0.9340 |
0.0339 |
296 |
1 |
37.41 |
2010-12-08 |
| 66. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
37.12 |
0.8723 |
0.0843 |
185 |
1 |
37.12 |
2010-12-03 |
| 67. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
36.95 |
0.9756 |
-0.0209 |
229 |
1 |
36.95 |
2010-12-13 |
| 68. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
36.78 |
1.0521 |
-0.1053 |
171 |
1 |
36.78 |
2010-12-07 |
| 69. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
36.54 |
0.9461 |
-0.0046 |
193 |
1 |
36.54 |
2010-12-03 |
| 70. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
36.53 |
0.9673 |
0.0170 |
232 |
2 |
35.62 |
2010-12-07 |
| 71. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
36.33 |
1.0095 |
-0.0708 |
316 |
1 |
36.33 |
2010-12-08 |
| 72. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
36.31 |
1.0213 |
-0.0853 |
240 |
1 |
36.31 |
2010-12-03 |
| 73. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
36.15 |
0.8787 |
0.0610 |
202 |
2 |
32.07 |
2010-12-03 |
| 74. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
36.08 |
0.9125 |
0.0225 |
308 |
1 |
36.08 |
2010-12-06 |
| 75. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
35.97 |
1.0168 |
-0.0851 |
271 |
1 |
35.97 |
2010-12-01 |
| 76. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
35.93 |
0.8792 |
0.0594 |
296 |
1 |
35.93 |
2010-12-04 |
| 77. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
35.83 |
0.9899 |
-0.0680 |
163 |
1 |
35.83 |
2010-12-01 |
| 78. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
35.78 |
0.8722 |
0.0560 |
285 |
1 |
35.78 |
2010-12-07 |
| 79. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
35.64 |
0.9758 |
-0.0534 |
314 |
1 |
35.64 |
2010-12-03 |
| 80. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
35.22 |
0.9726 |
-0.0683 |
154 |
1 |
35.22 |
2010-12-09 |
| 81. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
35.13 |
0.9731 |
-0.0773 |
129 |
1 |
35.13 |
2010-12-08 |
| 82. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
34.96 |
0.9247 |
-0.0162 |
253 |
1 |
34.96 |
2010-12-10 |
| 83. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
34.72 |
1.0487 |
-0.1562 |
231 |
2 |
33.43 |
2010-12-05 |
| 84. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
34.63 |
0.9665 |
-0.0220 |
326 |
1 |
34.63 |
2010-12-08 |
| 85. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
34.63 |
0.9485 |
-0.0516 |
236 |
1 |
34.63 |
2010-12-08 |
| 86. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
34.06 |
0.9504 |
-0.0756 |
263 |
1 |
34.06 |
2010-12-07 |
| 87. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
33.82 |
0.9936 |
-0.1200 |
311 |
2 |
32.52 |
2010-12-07 |
| 88. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
33.26 |
0.8520 |
0.0082 |
202 |
1 |
33.26 |
2010-12-01 |
| 89. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
32.79 |
1.0668 |
-0.2174 |
350 |
1 |
32.79 |
2010-12-05 |
| 90. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
32.70 |
0.9461 |
-0.1017 |
276 |
1 |
32.70 |
2010-12-03 |
| 91. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
32.64 |
0.9513 |
-0.1045 |
354 |
1 |
32.64 |
2010-12-01 |
| 92. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
32.54 |
0.8878 |
-0.0476 |
346 |
1 |
32.54 |
2010-12-07 |
| 93. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
32.51 |
0.8077 |
0.0300 |
167 |
1 |
32.51 |
2010-12-08 |
| 94. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
32.45 |
0.8941 |
-0.0541 |
216 |
2 |
32.10 |
2010-12-01 |
| 95. |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immo... |
32.31 |
0.8244 |
0.0115 |
73 |
1 |
32.31 |
2010-12-01 |
| 96. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
31.81 |
0.9572 |
-0.1371 |
201 |
1 |
31.81 |
2010-12-01 |
| 97. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
31.79 |
0.8867 |
-0.0608 |
241 |
1 |
31.79 |
2010-12-03 |
| 98. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
31.55 |
0.9289 |
-0.1168 |
204 |
1 |
31.55 |
2010-12-04 |
| 99. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
31.43 |
0.9532 |
-0.1432 |
258 |
1 |
31.43 |
2010-12-09 |
| 100. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
31.25 |
0.8852 |
-0.0766 |
201 |
1 |
31.25 |
2010-12-03 |
| 101. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
30.97 |
0.8916 |
-0.0921 |
216 |
1 |
30.97 |
2010-12-01 |
| 102. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
30.85 |
0.9851 |
-0.1868 |
317 |
1 |
30.85 |
2010-12-05 |
| 103. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
30.77 |
0.8900 |
-0.0948 |
164 |
1 |
30.77 |
2010-12-01 |
| 104. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
30.46 |
0.9098 |
-0.1277 |
167 |
1 |
30.46 |
2010-12-08 |
| 105. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
30.39 |
0.9500 |
-0.1638 |
362 |
1 |
30.39 |
2010-12-01 |
| 106. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
30.17 |
0.9649 |
-0.1878 |
193 |
1 |
30.17 |
2010-12-01 |
| 107. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
30.09 |
0.9805 |
-0.1998 |
292 |
1 |
30.09 |
2010-12-03 |
| 108. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
29.25 |
0.7890 |
-0.0340 |
230 |
1 |
29.25 |
2010-12-05 |
| 109. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
27.70 |
0.8809 |
-0.1696 |
127 |
1 |
27.70 |
2010-12-08 |
| 110. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
27.32 |
0.8884 |
-0.1843 |
135 |
1 |
27.32 |
2010-12-06 |
| 111. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
26.92 |
0.8442 |
-0.1472 |
265 |
1 |
26.92 |
2010-12-02 |
| 112. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
26.54 |
0.7708 |
-0.0824 |
207 |
1 |
26.54 |
2010-12-13 |
| 113. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
24.38 |
0.8353 |
-0.2014 |
283 |
1 |
24.38 |
2010-12-01 |
| 114. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
23.96 |
1.0033 |
-0.3946 |
189 |
1 |
23.96 |
2010-12-13 |