| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
69.62 |
1.0598 |
0.3183 |
196 |
1 |
69.62 |
2013-05-17 |
| 2. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
60.58 |
0.9310 |
0.2672 |
188 |
1 |
60.58 |
2013-04-25 |
| 3. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
60.37 |
1.0535 |
0.1800 |
326 |
1 |
60.37 |
2013-04-26 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
60.32 |
1.0799 |
0.1138 |
243 |
1 |
60.32 |
2012-07-11 |
| 5. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
57.33 |
1.0944 |
0.0877 |
308 |
1 |
57.33 |
2013-04-05 |
| 6. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
57.29 |
0.9851 |
0.1541 |
317 |
2 |
55.05 |
2013-03-13 |
| 7. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
56.92 |
0.9722 |
0.1592 |
283 |
1 |
56.92 |
2012-05-31 |
| 8. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
56.46 |
0.9991 |
0.1216 |
225 |
1 |
56.46 |
2013-04-26 |
| 9. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
56.31 |
0.9726 |
0.1377 |
154 |
2 |
50.84 |
2013-04-17 |
| 10. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
56.12 |
0.8852 |
0.2304 |
201 |
1 |
56.12 |
2013-04-05 |
| 11. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
56.04 |
0.8809 |
0.2287 |
127 |
1 |
56.04 |
2011-08-19 |
| 12. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
55.57 |
1.1022 |
0.0350 |
259 |
1 |
55.57 |
2012-06-28 |
| 13. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
55.57 |
1.0025 |
0.0994 |
256 |
1 |
55.57 |
2012-06-15 |
| 14. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
55.43 |
1.0284 |
0.1141 |
282 |
1 |
55.43 |
2013-04-17 |
| 15. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
55.32 |
0.9365 |
0.1622 |
248 |
1 |
55.32 |
2013-04-05 |
| 16. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
55.27 |
0.9072 |
0.1870 |
237 |
1 |
55.27 |
2012-07-03 |
| 17. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
55.07 |
1.0379 |
0.0889 |
245 |
1 |
55.07 |
2012-06-20 |
| 18. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
55.05 |
0.9653 |
0.1349 |
394 |
1 |
55.05 |
2012-06-22 |
| 19. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
54.97 |
1.0619 |
0.0320 |
354 |
2 |
53.52 |
2012-06-14 |
| 20. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
54.85 |
1.0232 |
0.1001 |
236 |
2 |
50.35 |
2013-03-13 |
| 21. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
54.84 |
1.0419 |
0.0454 |
261 |
1 |
54.84 |
2013-04-11 |
| 22. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
54.47 |
0.9790 |
0.1418 |
311 |
1 |
54.47 |
2012-05-10 |
| 23. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
54.28 |
1.0053 |
0.0690 |
232 |
1 |
54.28 |
2012-07-26 |
| 24. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
54.01 |
1.0154 |
0.1052 |
351 |
1 |
54.01 |
2013-04-05 |
| 25. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
53.74 |
1.0907 |
-0.0230 |
303 |
1 |
53.74 |
2012-06-26 |
| 26. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
53.62 |
0.9257 |
0.1428 |
317 |
1 |
53.62 |
2012-05-10 |
| 27. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
53.55 |
0.9509 |
0.1490 |
225 |
1 |
53.55 |
2013-04-22 |
| 28. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
53.55 |
1.1114 |
-0.0528 |
247 |
1 |
53.55 |
2012-06-06 |
| 29. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
53.30 |
0.9866 |
0.0665 |
218 |
1 |
53.30 |
2012-06-01 |
| 30. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
53.25 |
1.0613 |
-0.0048 |
266 |
1 |
53.25 |
2013-04-11 |
| 31. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
53.12 |
0.9635 |
0.0953 |
389 |
1 |
53.12 |
2013-03-14 |
| 32. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
53.09 |
1.0516 |
0.0001 |
281 |
2 |
50.50 |
2012-06-15 |
| 33. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
52.95 |
1.0151 |
0.0255 |
152 |
1 |
52.95 |
2012-07-17 |
| 34. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
52.93 |
0.9651 |
0.1201 |
389 |
1 |
52.93 |
2013-04-11 |
| 35. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
52.91 |
0.9758 |
0.0736 |
314 |
2 |
52.81 |
2013-04-18 |
| 36. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
52.86 |
1.0684 |
0.0094 |
253 |
1 |
52.86 |
2013-04-11 |
| 37. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
52.77 |
1.0545 |
0.0323 |
416 |
1 |
52.77 |
2012-06-27 |
| 38. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
52.74 |
0.9865 |
0.0600 |
276 |
1 |
52.74 |
2013-04-26 |
| 39. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
52.69 |
0.9471 |
0.1075 |
312 |
1 |
52.69 |
2013-04-17 |
| 40. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
52.57 |
1.0340 |
0.0132 |
406 |
2 |
48.80 |
2012-07-16 |
| 41. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
52.56 |
1.0141 |
0.0641 |
304 |
1 |
52.56 |
2013-04-05 |
| 42. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
52.25 |
1.0555 |
-0.0185 |
363 |
1 |
52.25 |
2013-04-05 |
| 43. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
52.18 |
0.9773 |
0.0486 |
123 |
1 |
52.18 |
2012-07-03 |
| 44. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
52.12 |
0.8971 |
0.1410 |
266 |
1 |
52.12 |
2012-07-04 |
| 45. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
52.10 |
0.9125 |
0.1219 |
308 |
1 |
52.10 |
2013-08-15 |
| 46. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
52.04 |
0.9820 |
0.0523 |
267 |
1 |
52.04 |
2012-06-27 |
| 47. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
51.98 |
1.0331 |
-0.0053 |
234 |
1 |
51.98 |
2012-07-17 |
| 48. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
51.72 |
0.8935 |
0.1413 |
328 |
1 |
51.72 |
2013-04-24 |
| 49. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
51.65 |
1.0201 |
0.0039 |
303 |
1 |
51.65 |
2012-07-11 |
| 50. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
51.59 |
0.8867 |
0.1422 |
163 |
1 |
51.59 |
2011-08-12 |
| 51. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
51.36 |
0.9938 |
0.0244 |
339 |
1 |
51.36 |
2011-10-26 |
| 52. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
51.25 |
1.0251 |
-0.0117 |
261 |
1 |
51.25 |
2012-06-20 |
| 53. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
51.17 |
0.9098 |
0.1000 |
167 |
1 |
51.17 |
2011-08-26 |
| 54. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
51.16 |
0.9212 |
0.0959 |
231 |
1 |
51.16 |
2012-07-04 |
| 55. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
51.14 |
0.9811 |
0.0349 |
272 |
1 |
51.14 |
2012-06-21 |
| 56. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
51.13 |
1.0031 |
0.0432 |
304 |
1 |
51.13 |
2013-03-13 |
| 57. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
50.94 |
0.9754 |
0.0399 |
362 |
1 |
50.94 |
2012-06-14 |
| 58. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
50.89 |
1.0795 |
-0.0410 |
226 |
1 |
50.89 |
2013-08-14 |
| 59. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
50.87 |
1.0270 |
0.0167 |
255 |
1 |
50.87 |
2012-06-22 |
| 60. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
50.87 |
0.8793 |
0.1295 |
157 |
1 |
50.87 |
2012-06-14 |
| 61. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
50.63 |
1.0381 |
-0.0457 |
170 |
1 |
50.63 |
2012-06-21 |
| 62. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
50.58 |
1.0883 |
-0.0542 |
303 |
1 |
50.58 |
2012-06-22 |
| 63. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
50.53 |
0.9729 |
0.0283 |
255 |
1 |
50.53 |
2012-06-14 |
| 64. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
50.32 |
1.0288 |
0.0002 |
300 |
1 |
50.32 |
2012-06-11 |
| 65. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
50.17 |
0.9468 |
0.0469 |
276 |
2 |
50.06 |
2013-08-14 |
| 66. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
50.14 |
1.0668 |
-0.0711 |
350 |
1 |
50.14 |
2012-06-01 |
| 67. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
50.12 |
0.9673 |
0.0647 |
232 |
1 |
50.12 |
2012-06-20 |
| 68. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
50.05 |
0.9908 |
0.0467 |
342 |
2 |
47.85 |
2011-08-26 |
| 69. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
50.04 |
0.9612 |
0.0304 |
256 |
1 |
50.04 |
2011-08-30 |
| 70. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
49.90 |
1.0320 |
-0.0063 |
293 |
1 |
49.90 |
2011-08-18 |
| 71. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
49.50 |
0.9769 |
0.0016 |
263 |
1 |
49.50 |
2012-07-11 |
| 72. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
49.43 |
1.0213 |
-0.0455 |
240 |
1 |
49.43 |
2011-10-26 |
| 73. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
49.13 |
0.9994 |
0.0042 |
269 |
1 |
49.13 |
2012-07-03 |
| 74. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
49.06 |
1.0183 |
-0.0523 |
191 |
1 |
49.06 |
2012-05-26 |
| 75. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
49.06 |
0.8845 |
0.0871 |
273 |
1 |
49.06 |
2013-03-13 |
| 76. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
48.94 |
1.0252 |
-0.0625 |
176 |
1 |
48.94 |
2011-08-31 |
| 77. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
48.84 |
0.9216 |
0.0846 |
255 |
1 |
48.84 |
2012-06-01 |
| 78. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
48.63 |
0.9925 |
0.0073 |
247 |
1 |
48.63 |
2012-06-21 |
| 79. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
48.61 |
1.0384 |
-0.0859 |
183 |
1 |
48.61 |
2011-08-19 |
| 80. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
48.34 |
1.0385 |
-0.0833 |
230 |
1 |
48.34 |
2012-05-18 |
| 81. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
48.31 |
0.9148 |
0.0431 |
317 |
1 |
48.31 |
2012-06-06 |
| 82. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
48.23 |
1.0068 |
-0.0487 |
358 |
1 |
48.23 |
2011-08-31 |
| 83. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
47.87 |
0.8533 |
0.0953 |
232 |
1 |
47.87 |
2012-05-29 |
| 84. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
47.75 |
1.0740 |
-0.0906 |
264 |
1 |
47.75 |
2011-08-19 |
| 85. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
47.73 |
0.9243 |
0.0601 |
448 |
1 |
47.73 |
2012-05-29 |
| 86. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
47.65 |
0.9350 |
0.0088 |
195 |
1 |
47.65 |
2012-05-29 |
| 87. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
47.63 |
1.0941 |
-0.1199 |
256 |
1 |
47.63 |
2011-08-19 |
| 88. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
47.35 |
0.9668 |
0.0129 |
383 |
1 |
47.35 |
2011-08-31 |
| 89. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
47.31 |
0.9706 |
-0.0301 |
216 |
1 |
47.31 |
2011-08-26 |
| 90. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
47.30 |
1.0033 |
-0.0739 |
189 |
1 |
47.30 |
2012-05-29 |
| 91. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
47.21 |
0.8595 |
0.0770 |
242 |
1 |
47.21 |
2012-06-26 |
| 92. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
47.20 |
0.8915 |
0.0414 |
188 |
1 |
47.20 |
2012-06-11 |
| 93. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
46.95 |
1.0016 |
-0.0771 |
218 |
2 |
46.31 |
2012-05-10 |
| 94. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
46.94 |
0.9814 |
-0.0130 |
364 |
1 |
46.94 |
2012-06-28 |
| 95. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
46.84 |
1.0797 |
-0.1582 |
210 |
1 |
46.84 |
2012-06-21 |
| 96. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
46.68 |
0.9289 |
-0.0076 |
204 |
1 |
46.68 |
2011-08-31 |
| 97. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
46.57 |
0.9670 |
-0.0034 |
307 |
1 |
46.57 |
2011-10-26 |
| 98. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.46 |
0.9798 |
-0.0662 |
199 |
1 |
46.46 |
2012-06-01 |
| 99. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
46.43 |
1.0768 |
-0.1183 |
295 |
1 |
46.43 |
2011-08-18 |
| 100. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
46.24 |
0.8968 |
0.0148 |
186 |
1 |
46.24 |
2011-10-26 |
| 101. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
45.84 |
0.9739 |
-0.0311 |
412 |
1 |
45.84 |
2011-08-31 |
| 102. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
45.80 |
1.0719 |
-0.1382 |
360 |
1 |
45.80 |
2011-09-02 |
| 103. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
45.71 |
0.9593 |
-0.0503 |
398 |
1 |
45.71 |
2011-08-18 |
| 104. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
45.20 |
1.0099 |
-0.1190 |
207 |
1 |
45.20 |
2011-09-04 |
| 105. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
45.07 |
1.0396 |
-0.1553 |
149 |
1 |
45.07 |
2011-08-30 |
| 106. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
44.82 |
0.9786 |
-0.0972 |
193 |
1 |
44.82 |
2012-06-06 |
| 107. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
44.53 |
0.9464 |
-0.0604 |
323 |
1 |
44.53 |
2011-08-30 |
| 108. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
44.34 |
1.0567 |
-0.1791 |
303 |
1 |
44.34 |
2011-08-19 |
| 109. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
44.09 |
1.0829 |
-0.2098 |
288 |
1 |
44.09 |
2011-08-18 |
| 110. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
44.07 |
1.0515 |
-0.1822 |
250 |
1 |
44.07 |
2011-09-02 |
| 111. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
44.04 |
0.9559 |
-0.0829 |
195 |
1 |
44.04 |
2011-08-12 |
| 112. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
43.97 |
1.1162 |
-0.2057 |
189 |
1 |
43.97 |
2012-06-11 |
| 113. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
43.78 |
0.8653 |
0.0115 |
255 |
1 |
43.78 |
2011-08-19 |
| 114. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
43.75 |
1.0796 |
-0.2199 |
129 |
1 |
43.75 |
2011-08-31 |
| 115. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
43.50 |
1.0201 |
-0.1562 |
375 |
1 |
43.50 |
2012-06-15 |
| 116. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
43.43 |
0.9907 |
-0.1335 |
211 |
1 |
43.43 |
2012-06-01 |
| 117. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
43.18 |
0.9665 |
-0.0637 |
326 |
1 |
43.18 |
2011-08-18 |
| 118. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
43.01 |
1.0214 |
-0.1766 |
166 |
1 |
43.01 |
2012-01-05 |
| 119. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
42.50 |
0.9710 |
-0.1374 |
173 |
1 |
42.50 |
2011-08-18 |
| 120. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
42.14 |
0.7791 |
0.0516 |
172 |
1 |
42.14 |
2011-08-18 |
| 121. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
41.39 |
0.9965 |
-0.1787 |
310 |
1 |
41.39 |
2011-08-31 |
| 122. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
41.18 |
1.0993 |
-0.2882 |
265 |
1 |
41.18 |
2011-08-31 |
| 123. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
40.52 |
0.9833 |
-0.1814 |
355 |
1 |
40.52 |
2011-08-30 |
| 124. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
40.35 |
0.8467 |
-0.0254 |
343 |
1 |
40.35 |
2012-05-03 |
| 125. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
39.70 |
1.0388 |
-0.2235 |
243 |
1 |
39.70 |
2011-08-12 |
| 126. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
37.93 |
0.8105 |
-0.0667 |
204 |
1 |
37.93 |
2011-10-26 |
| 127. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
37.85 |
0.9631 |
-0.1653 |
345 |
1 |
37.85 |
2011-08-12 |
| 128. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
36.27 |
0.8996 |
-0.1903 |
192 |
1 |
36.27 |
2011-08-19 |