| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
155.49 |
1.0829 |
0.1219 |
288 |
1 |
155.49 |
2008-08-28 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
154.39 |
1.0613 |
0.1384 |
456 |
1 |
154.39 |
2008-08-27 |
| 3. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
149.57 |
1.0486 |
0.1092 |
289 |
1 |
149.57 |
2009-02-08 |
| 4. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
149.19 |
1.0368 |
0.1181 |
276 |
1 |
149.19 |
2008-08-28 |
| 5. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
146.86 |
0.9893 |
0.1466 |
323 |
2 |
139.75 |
2008-08-28 |
| 6. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
145.86 |
1.0120 |
0.1152 |
290 |
1 |
145.86 |
2009-05-27 |
| 7. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
144.53 |
1.0331 |
0.0823 |
234 |
1 |
144.53 |
2009-05-27 |
| 8. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
144.36 |
1.0261 |
0.0883 |
273 |
2 |
133.40 |
2009-02-08 |
| 9. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
142.80 |
0.9578 |
0.1458 |
281 |
1 |
142.80 |
2008-08-28 |
| 10. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
142.46 |
0.9597 |
0.1458 |
347 |
1 |
142.46 |
2009-02-08 |
| 11. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
141.22 |
0.9986 |
0.0937 |
283 |
1 |
141.22 |
2009-05-27 |
| 12. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
139.80 |
1.0534 |
0.0294 |
357 |
1 |
139.80 |
2009-02-08 |
| 13. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
139.60 |
1.0263 |
0.0519 |
267 |
1 |
139.60 |
2009-05-27 |
| 14. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
138.77 |
1.0529 |
0.0195 |
351 |
1 |
138.77 |
2009-02-08 |
| 15. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
137.35 |
1.0445 |
0.0178 |
373 |
2 |
133.13 |
2008-08-28 |
| 16. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
136.12 |
1.0515 |
-0.0016 |
250 |
2 |
132.02 |
2009-09-08 |
| 17. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
135.28 |
0.9866 |
0.0549 |
218 |
1 |
135.28 |
2008-08-28 |
| 18. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
133.11 |
1.0567 |
-0.0278 |
303 |
1 |
133.11 |
2008-08-27 |
| 19. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
132.36 |
0.9768 |
0.0482 |
387 |
1 |
132.36 |
2008-09-10 |
| 20. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
131.83 |
0.9772 |
0.0376 |
217 |
1 |
131.83 |
2008-08-28 |
| 21. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
130.02 |
0.9514 |
0.0530 |
237 |
1 |
130.02 |
2008-08-29 |
| 22. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
128.69 |
1.0711 |
-0.0825 |
213 |
1 |
128.69 |
2008-08-28 |
| 23. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
128.65 |
1.0214 |
-0.0297 |
269 |
1 |
128.65 |
2009-02-08 |
| 24. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
128.45 |
1.0034 |
-0.0131 |
302 |
2 |
128.10 |
2008-09-10 |
| 25. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
127.11 |
1.0025 |
-0.0213 |
256 |
1 |
127.11 |
2009-05-26 |
| 26. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
126.30 |
1.0389 |
-0.0615 |
340 |
1 |
126.30 |
2009-02-08 |
| 27. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
126.02 |
0.9649 |
0.0068 |
193 |
1 |
126.02 |
2008-08-28 |
| 28. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
125.52 |
0.9786 |
-0.0102 |
235 |
1 |
125.52 |
2009-02-08 |
| 29. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
125.48 |
0.9532 |
0.0141 |
258 |
3 |
120.35 |
2008-08-28 |
| 30. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
124.52 |
0.8878 |
0.0731 |
346 |
2 |
118.28 |
2009-05-26 |
| 31. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
124.35 |
1.0555 |
-0.0944 |
363 |
1 |
124.35 |
2009-02-08 |
| 32. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
122.91 |
0.8382 |
0.1108 |
268 |
1 |
122.91 |
2009-02-08 |
| 33. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
122.65 |
0.9672 |
-0.0143 |
396 |
1 |
122.65 |
2009-02-08 |
| 34. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
121.71 |
0.9342 |
0.0084 |
434 |
1 |
121.71 |
2009-02-08 |
| 35. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
119.90 |
1.0062 |
-0.0813 |
288 |
1 |
119.90 |
2009-02-08 |
| 36. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
119.28 |
1.0023 |
-0.0841 |
211 |
1 |
119.28 |
2009-05-26 |
| 37. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
118.78 |
0.8295 |
0.0885 |
209 |
1 |
118.78 |
2008-08-27 |
| 38. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
118.38 |
0.9072 |
0.0041 |
237 |
2 |
109.63 |
2009-02-08 |
| 39. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
117.60 |
0.9682 |
-0.0632 |
143 |
1 |
117.60 |
2009-02-08 |
| 40. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
116.23 |
0.8810 |
0.0160 |
282 |
1 |
116.23 |
2009-02-08 |
| 41. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
115.54 |
0.9074 |
-0.0101 |
396 |
1 |
115.54 |
2009-09-08 |
| 42. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
115.52 |
0.9684 |
-0.0750 |
388 |
1 |
115.52 |
2009-02-08 |
| 43. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
114.74 |
0.9635 |
-0.0735 |
389 |
1 |
114.74 |
2009-02-08 |
| 44. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
113.64 |
1.0197 |
-0.1466 |
226 |
1 |
113.64 |
2008-08-28 |
| 45. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
110.68 |
0.9045 |
-0.0514 |
235 |
1 |
110.68 |
2008-08-29 |
| 46. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
109.14 |
1.0577 |
-0.2204 |
247 |
1 |
109.14 |
2009-02-08 |
| 47. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
107.09 |
0.9795 |
-0.1548 |
308 |
1 |
107.09 |
2009-02-08 |
| 48. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
103.23 |
0.9213 |
-0.1263 |
295 |
1 |
103.23 |
2009-02-08 |
| 49. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
97.45 |
1.0025 |
-0.2523 |
336 |
1 |
97.45 |
2009-02-08 |
| 50. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
91.84 |
0.9513 |
-0.2420 |
354 |
1 |
91.84 |
2009-02-08 |