| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
54.40 |
1.1016 |
0.1774 |
233 |
1 |
54.40 |
2012-02-08 |
| 2. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
52.42 |
0.9731 |
0.2539 |
129 |
1 |
52.42 |
2012-02-15 |
| 3. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
51.77 |
0.9785 |
0.2372 |
154 |
1 |
51.77 |
2012-02-10 |
| 4. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
51.25 |
0.9711 |
0.2336 |
176 |
1 |
51.25 |
2012-02-08 |
| 5. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
51.24 |
1.0074 |
0.1974 |
242 |
1 |
51.24 |
2012-02-08 |
| 6. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
50.90 |
0.9572 |
0.2385 |
201 |
1 |
50.90 |
2012-02-10 |
| 7. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
50.81 |
1.0567 |
0.1389 |
303 |
1 |
50.81 |
2012-02-08 |
| 8. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
50.64 |
0.9722 |
0.2182 |
283 |
1 |
50.64 |
2012-02-08 |
| 9. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
50.00 |
1.0155 |
0.1590 |
232 |
1 |
50.00 |
2012-02-10 |
| 10. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
49.65 |
1.0314 |
0.1315 |
172 |
1 |
49.65 |
2012-02-08 |
| 11. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
49.22 |
0.8884 |
0.2686 |
135 |
1 |
49.22 |
2012-02-10 |
| 12. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
48.97 |
1.0917 |
0.0864 |
243 |
2 |
46.93 |
2012-02-08 |
| 13. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
48.86 |
1.1114 |
0.0353 |
247 |
1 |
48.86 |
2012-02-10 |
| 14. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
48.54 |
0.8809 |
0.2571 |
127 |
1 |
48.54 |
2012-02-08 |
| 15. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
47.91 |
0.9633 |
0.1626 |
304 |
1 |
47.91 |
2012-02-15 |
| 16. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
47.78 |
1.0289 |
0.0954 |
276 |
1 |
47.78 |
2012-02-10 |
| 17. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
47.60 |
0.9965 |
0.1222 |
277 |
1 |
47.60 |
2012-02-08 |
| 18. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
47.39 |
0.9576 |
0.1565 |
212 |
1 |
47.39 |
2012-02-10 |
| 19. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
47.16 |
1.0013 |
0.1065 |
273 |
1 |
47.16 |
2012-02-10 |
| 20. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
47.09 |
1.0261 |
0.0791 |
273 |
1 |
47.09 |
2012-02-08 |
| 21. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
47.02 |
1.0669 |
0.0714 |
286 |
1 |
47.02 |
2012-02-10 |
| 22. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
46.84 |
1.0426 |
0.0584 |
323 |
1 |
46.84 |
2012-02-16 |
| 23. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
46.84 |
1.0012 |
0.1001 |
260 |
1 |
46.84 |
2012-02-08 |
| 24. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
46.83 |
0.8941 |
0.2074 |
216 |
2 |
44.45 |
2012-02-15 |
| 25. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
46.67 |
0.8653 |
0.2372 |
255 |
1 |
46.67 |
2012-02-08 |
| 26. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
46.57 |
0.9461 |
0.1448 |
193 |
1 |
46.57 |
2012-02-10 |
| 27. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
46.52 |
1.0725 |
0.0487 |
233 |
1 |
46.52 |
2012-02-08 |
| 28. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
46.51 |
0.9532 |
0.1389 |
258 |
1 |
46.51 |
2012-02-08 |
| 29. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
46.31 |
0.9239 |
0.1663 |
193 |
1 |
46.31 |
2012-02-10 |
| 30. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
46.15 |
0.8153 |
0.2711 |
200 |
1 |
46.15 |
2012-02-08 |
| 31. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.88 |
1.0799 |
-0.0050 |
243 |
1 |
45.88 |
2012-02-08 |
| 32. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
45.38 |
0.9582 |
0.1077 |
259 |
1 |
45.38 |
2012-02-08 |
| 33. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
45.14 |
0.9614 |
0.0996 |
292 |
1 |
45.14 |
2012-02-15 |
| 34. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
45.14 |
0.8731 |
0.1915 |
199 |
2 |
44.36 |
2012-02-10 |
| 35. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
45.13 |
1.0389 |
0.0214 |
318 |
1 |
45.13 |
2012-02-10 |
| 36. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
45.12 |
1.0403 |
0.0377 |
193 |
1 |
45.12 |
2012-02-10 |
| 37. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
45.07 |
0.9724 |
0.0865 |
237 |
1 |
45.07 |
2012-02-08 |
| 38. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
44.99 |
0.9894 |
0.0696 |
323 |
1 |
44.99 |
2012-02-10 |
| 39. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
44.81 |
1.0031 |
0.0837 |
304 |
2 |
44.44 |
2012-02-10 |
| 40. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
44.50 |
0.9780 |
0.0670 |
337 |
1 |
44.50 |
2012-02-08 |
| 41. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
44.43 |
1.0521 |
-0.0111 |
171 |
1 |
44.43 |
2012-02-08 |
| 42. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
44.40 |
0.9786 |
0.0639 |
235 |
1 |
44.40 |
2012-02-15 |
| 43. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
44.33 |
0.9684 |
0.0740 |
388 |
1 |
44.33 |
2012-02-10 |
| 44. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
43.86 |
1.0172 |
0.0457 |
341 |
2 |
43.60 |
2012-02-08 |
| 45. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
43.85 |
1.0284 |
0.0438 |
282 |
1 |
43.85 |
2012-02-08 |
| 46. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
43.84 |
0.9997 |
0.0318 |
382 |
1 |
43.84 |
2012-02-08 |
| 47. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
43.79 |
0.9279 |
0.1033 |
317 |
1 |
43.79 |
2012-02-08 |
| 48. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
43.77 |
1.0004 |
0.0249 |
212 |
1 |
43.77 |
2012-02-08 |
| 49. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
43.73 |
0.9063 |
0.1250 |
239 |
1 |
43.73 |
2012-02-08 |
| 50. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
43.71 |
1.0863 |
-0.0240 |
210 |
1 |
43.71 |
2012-02-15 |
| 51. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
43.70 |
0.8910 |
0.1351 |
150 |
1 |
43.70 |
2012-02-08 |
| 52. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
43.67 |
0.9559 |
0.0696 |
195 |
1 |
43.67 |
2012-02-15 |
| 53. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
43.59 |
0.9873 |
0.0329 |
155 |
1 |
43.59 |
2012-02-06 |
| 54. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
43.56 |
0.8898 |
0.1276 |
158 |
1 |
43.56 |
2012-02-08 |
| 55. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
43.46 |
0.9316 |
0.0914 |
287 |
1 |
43.46 |
2012-02-08 |
| 56. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
43.40 |
0.8935 |
0.1299 |
328 |
1 |
43.40 |
2012-02-10 |
| 57. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
43.17 |
0.9912 |
0.0517 |
237 |
1 |
43.17 |
2012-02-08 |
| 58. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
43.12 |
1.0885 |
-0.0432 |
341 |
1 |
43.12 |
2012-02-08 |
| 59. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
43.06 |
0.8810 |
0.1313 |
282 |
2 |
42.51 |
2012-02-10 |
| 60. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
42.90 |
0.9128 |
0.1345 |
369 |
2 |
40.49 |
2012-02-10 |
| 61. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
42.85 |
0.9597 |
0.0486 |
347 |
1 |
42.85 |
2012-02-10 |
| 62. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
42.77 |
1.0528 |
-0.0511 |
201 |
1 |
42.77 |
2012-02-06 |
| 63. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
42.70 |
1.0445 |
-0.0416 |
373 |
1 |
42.70 |
2012-02-08 |
| 64. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
42.67 |
0.9045 |
0.0972 |
235 |
1 |
42.67 |
2012-02-08 |
| 65. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
42.65 |
1.0788 |
-0.0810 |
171 |
1 |
42.65 |
2012-02-08 |
| 66. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
42.59 |
1.0167 |
-0.0139 |
378 |
1 |
42.59 |
2012-02-10 |
| 67. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
42.56 |
0.9792 |
0.0574 |
265 |
1 |
42.56 |
2012-02-08 |
| 68. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
42.54 |
1.0151 |
-0.0215 |
152 |
1 |
42.54 |
2012-02-08 |
| 69. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
42.38 |
1.0621 |
-0.0448 |
263 |
1 |
42.38 |
2012-02-08 |
| 70. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
42.16 |
0.9844 |
0.0117 |
229 |
1 |
42.16 |
2012-02-08 |
| 71. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
42.14 |
1.0602 |
-0.0709 |
389 |
1 |
42.14 |
2012-02-08 |
| 72. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
42.04 |
1.0334 |
-0.0505 |
131 |
1 |
42.04 |
2012-02-08 |
| 73. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
42.04 |
0.9670 |
0.0603 |
307 |
1 |
42.04 |
2012-02-08 |
| 74. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
41.91 |
1.0251 |
-0.0428 |
261 |
1 |
41.91 |
2012-02-08 |
| 75. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
41.84 |
0.9653 |
0.0204 |
394 |
1 |
41.84 |
2012-02-08 |
| 76. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
41.82 |
1.0389 |
-0.0563 |
340 |
1 |
41.82 |
2012-02-10 |
| 77. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
41.73 |
0.9857 |
-0.0064 |
293 |
1 |
41.73 |
2012-02-10 |
| 78. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
41.71 |
0.8442 |
0.1370 |
265 |
3 |
37.85 |
2012-02-15 |
| 79. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
41.45 |
1.0943 |
-0.0886 |
206 |
1 |
41.45 |
2012-02-10 |
| 80. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
41.32 |
0.9023 |
0.1118 |
231 |
1 |
41.32 |
2012-02-08 |
| 81. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
41.00 |
0.8958 |
0.0687 |
322 |
1 |
41.00 |
2012-02-10 |
| 82. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
40.96 |
1.0595 |
-0.0975 |
379 |
1 |
40.96 |
2012-02-10 |
| 83. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
40.89 |
0.8811 |
0.0802 |
239 |
1 |
40.89 |
2012-02-10 |
| 84. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
40.87 |
0.9986 |
-0.0443 |
162 |
1 |
40.87 |
2012-02-08 |
| 85. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
40.83 |
1.0768 |
-0.0797 |
295 |
1 |
40.83 |
2012-02-08 |
| 86. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
40.79 |
0.9157 |
0.0429 |
350 |
1 |
40.79 |
2012-02-06 |
| 87. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
40.75 |
0.8777 |
0.0795 |
177 |
1 |
40.75 |
2012-02-08 |
| 88. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
40.52 |
0.9266 |
0.0240 |
267 |
1 |
40.52 |
2012-02-10 |
| 89. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
40.32 |
0.9396 |
0.0026 |
119 |
1 |
40.32 |
2012-02-08 |
| 90. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
40.30 |
0.9212 |
0.0254 |
323 |
1 |
40.30 |
2012-02-10 |
| 91. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.08 |
1.0331 |
-0.0952 |
234 |
1 |
40.08 |
2012-02-10 |
| 92. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
40.08 |
1.0487 |
-0.1113 |
231 |
1 |
40.08 |
2012-02-08 |
| 93. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
40.08 |
1.0288 |
-0.0562 |
300 |
1 |
40.08 |
2012-02-08 |
| 94. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
40.05 |
0.8907 |
0.0545 |
351 |
1 |
40.05 |
2012-02-08 |
| 95. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
39.99 |
0.8520 |
0.0863 |
202 |
2 |
38.81 |
2012-02-08 |
| 96. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
39.85 |
1.0232 |
-0.0520 |
236 |
1 |
39.85 |
2012-02-10 |
| 97. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
39.81 |
0.9776 |
-0.0433 |
308 |
1 |
39.81 |
2012-02-08 |
| 98. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
39.77 |
0.8533 |
0.0800 |
232 |
2 |
35.33 |
2012-02-10 |
| 99. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
39.66 |
1.0316 |
-0.1000 |
333 |
1 |
39.66 |
2012-02-16 |
| 100. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
39.64 |
0.8956 |
0.0364 |
322 |
1 |
39.64 |
2012-02-08 |
| 101. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
39.51 |
0.8951 |
0.0317 |
193 |
1 |
39.51 |
2012-02-08 |
| 102. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
39.38 |
0.9216 |
0.0388 |
255 |
2 |
34.93 |
2012-02-10 |
| 103. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
39.26 |
1.0169 |
-0.0595 |
346 |
1 |
39.26 |
2012-02-08 |
| 104. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
39.18 |
0.9202 |
-0.0009 |
254 |
1 |
39.18 |
2012-02-08 |
| 105. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
39.07 |
0.9936 |
-0.0539 |
227 |
1 |
39.07 |
2012-02-16 |
| 106. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
39.06 |
0.9805 |
-0.0624 |
292 |
1 |
39.06 |
2012-02-10 |
| 107. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
38.91 |
0.9769 |
-0.0657 |
263 |
1 |
38.91 |
2012-02-08 |
| 108. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
38.70 |
0.9212 |
-0.0129 |
231 |
1 |
38.70 |
2012-02-10 |
| 109. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
38.59 |
0.9865 |
-0.0811 |
276 |
1 |
38.59 |
2012-02-08 |
| 110. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
38.03 |
0.8162 |
0.0782 |
149 |
2 |
35.18 |
2012-02-08 |
| 111. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
37.61 |
0.9632 |
-0.0436 |
345 |
1 |
37.61 |
2012-02-08 |
| 112. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
37.59 |
0.9899 |
-0.1116 |
163 |
1 |
37.59 |
2012-02-06 |
| 113. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
37.24 |
1.0596 |
-0.1879 |
239 |
1 |
37.24 |
2012-02-06 |
| 114. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
37.08 |
0.9351 |
-0.0690 |
190 |
1 |
37.08 |
2012-02-08 |
| 115. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
36.73 |
0.9226 |
-0.0592 |
177 |
1 |
36.73 |
2012-02-06 |
| 116. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
36.51 |
0.7876 |
0.0708 |
316 |
1 |
36.51 |
2012-02-08 |
| 117. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
36.23 |
0.9426 |
-0.0928 |
317 |
1 |
36.23 |
2012-02-08 |
| 118. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
36.12 |
1.0218 |
-0.1771 |
268 |
1 |
36.12 |
2012-02-08 |
| 119. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
35.94 |
0.9884 |
-0.1473 |
233 |
1 |
35.94 |
2012-02-10 |
| 120. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
34.95 |
0.9084 |
-0.0873 |
404 |
1 |
34.95 |
2012-02-06 |
| 121. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
33.79 |
1.0719 |
-0.2528 |
360 |
1 |
33.79 |
2012-02-08 |
| 122. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
33.70 |
0.9991 |
-0.2104 |
225 |
1 |
33.70 |
2012-02-15 |
| 123. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
33.54 |
1.0375 |
-0.2047 |
200 |
1 |
33.54 |
2012-02-06 |
| 124. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
32.47 |
0.9786 |
-0.2209 |
193 |
1 |
32.47 |
2012-02-08 |
| 125. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
31.45 |
1.0132 |
-0.2835 |
143 |
1 |
31.45 |
2012-02-08 |
| 126. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
31.26 |
0.9016 |
-0.1655 |
192 |
1 |
31.26 |
2012-02-17 |
| 127. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
31.05 |
0.9125 |
-0.1856 |
308 |
1 |
31.05 |
2012-02-16 |
| 128. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
26.62 |
0.8348 |
-0.2100 |
219 |
1 |
26.62 |
2012-02-06 |