| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
71.07 |
1.0797 |
0.2501 |
210 |
1 |
71.07 |
2008-10-26 |
| 2. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
68.58 |
0.9597 |
0.3326 |
347 |
1 |
68.58 |
2008-10-25 |
| 3. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
64.66 |
1.0515 |
0.1604 |
250 |
1 |
64.66 |
2008-10-24 |
| 4. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
60.74 |
0.9754 |
0.1701 |
362 |
2 |
59.28 |
2008-10-24 |
| 5. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
60.34 |
1.0214 |
0.1087 |
269 |
1 |
60.34 |
2008-10-24 |
| 6. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
60.10 |
0.9997 |
0.1312 |
382 |
1 |
60.10 |
2008-10-26 |
| 7. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
59.48 |
0.9763 |
0.1387 |
289 |
1 |
59.48 |
2008-10-25 |
| 8. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
59.22 |
1.0165 |
0.0980 |
392 |
1 |
59.22 |
2008-10-24 |
| 9. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
58.98 |
1.0296 |
0.0828 |
437 |
2 |
54.58 |
2008-10-24 |
| 10. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
58.96 |
1.0385 |
0.0654 |
230 |
1 |
58.96 |
2008-10-26 |
| 11. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
58.71 |
0.9843 |
0.1116 |
234 |
1 |
58.71 |
2008-10-24 |
| 12. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
58.14 |
1.0034 |
0.0852 |
302 |
1 |
58.14 |
2008-10-24 |
| 13. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
58.10 |
0.9768 |
0.1151 |
387 |
1 |
58.10 |
2008-10-26 |
| 14. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
57.76 |
0.9758 |
0.1078 |
314 |
1 |
57.76 |
2008-10-26 |
| 15. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
57.64 |
1.0796 |
-0.0038 |
129 |
1 |
57.64 |
2008-10-24 |
| 16. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
57.53 |
1.0331 |
0.0432 |
234 |
1 |
57.53 |
2008-10-24 |
| 17. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
57.44 |
0.8770 |
0.2030 |
300 |
1 |
57.44 |
2008-10-26 |
| 18. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
57.09 |
0.9851 |
0.0873 |
317 |
1 |
57.09 |
2008-10-24 |
| 19. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
57.09 |
0.9910 |
0.0811 |
295 |
1 |
57.09 |
2008-10-24 |
| 20. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
56.89 |
0.9857 |
0.0797 |
293 |
1 |
56.89 |
2008-10-26 |
| 21. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
56.63 |
1.0619 |
0.0032 |
354 |
1 |
56.63 |
2008-10-24 |
| 22. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
56.16 |
1.0565 |
-0.0066 |
247 |
1 |
56.16 |
2008-10-24 |
| 23. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
55.88 |
0.9894 |
0.0622 |
323 |
1 |
55.88 |
2008-10-24 |
| 24. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
55.22 |
1.0498 |
-0.0199 |
180 |
2 |
53.59 |
2008-10-26 |
| 25. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
55.03 |
0.9532 |
0.0766 |
258 |
2 |
52.82 |
2008-10-24 |
| 26. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
54.94 |
1.0201 |
0.0097 |
303 |
1 |
54.94 |
2008-10-24 |
| 27. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
54.83 |
0.9653 |
0.0703 |
394 |
2 |
53.98 |
2008-10-28 |
| 28. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
54.83 |
1.0251 |
0.0000 |
261 |
1 |
54.83 |
2008-10-24 |
| 29. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
54.82 |
1.0595 |
-0.0299 |
379 |
1 |
54.82 |
2008-10-26 |
| 30. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
54.80 |
0.9884 |
0.0375 |
233 |
1 |
54.80 |
2008-10-24 |
| 31. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
54.60 |
0.9005 |
0.1209 |
212 |
1 |
54.60 |
2008-10-24 |
| 32. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
54.30 |
0.9684 |
0.0515 |
388 |
2 |
52.76 |
2008-10-26 |
| 33. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
53.77 |
0.9865 |
0.0218 |
276 |
1 |
53.77 |
2008-10-24 |
| 34. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
53.64 |
0.9286 |
0.0751 |
194 |
1 |
53.64 |
2008-10-26 |
| 35. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
53.59 |
1.0168 |
-0.0116 |
271 |
1 |
53.59 |
2008-10-25 |
| 36. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
53.35 |
1.0109 |
-0.0109 |
276 |
2 |
51.52 |
2008-10-24 |
| 37. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
52.78 |
0.9636 |
0.0247 |
254 |
1 |
52.78 |
2008-10-26 |
| 38. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
52.75 |
0.9785 |
0.0125 |
335 |
1 |
52.75 |
2008-10-24 |
| 39. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
52.66 |
1.0349 |
-0.0495 |
234 |
2 |
51.55 |
2008-10-24 |
| 40. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
52.45 |
0.9907 |
-0.0102 |
211 |
2 |
50.85 |
2008-10-25 |
| 41. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
52.42 |
0.8442 |
0.1414 |
265 |
1 |
52.42 |
2008-10-24 |
| 42. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
52.38 |
0.9500 |
0.0330 |
362 |
1 |
52.38 |
2008-10-26 |
| 43. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
52.28 |
1.0534 |
-0.0723 |
357 |
1 |
52.28 |
2008-10-24 |
| 44. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
51.93 |
0.9965 |
-0.0290 |
168 |
1 |
51.93 |
2008-10-24 |
| 45. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
51.70 |
0.9278 |
0.0428 |
295 |
2 |
48.65 |
2008-10-24 |
| 46. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
51.63 |
0.9514 |
0.0155 |
237 |
1 |
51.63 |
2008-10-24 |
| 47. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
51.59 |
1.0666 |
-0.1007 |
297 |
1 |
51.59 |
2008-10-24 |
| 48. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.46 |
0.9212 |
0.0455 |
323 |
1 |
51.46 |
2008-10-26 |
| 49. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
51.31 |
1.0711 |
-0.1157 |
213 |
1 |
51.31 |
2008-10-24 |
| 50. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
51.29 |
0.9619 |
0.0034 |
393 |
1 |
51.29 |
2008-10-24 |
| 51. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
51.22 |
1.0263 |
-0.0683 |
267 |
1 |
51.22 |
2008-10-24 |
| 52. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
51.07 |
0.9649 |
-0.0100 |
193 |
1 |
51.07 |
2008-10-24 |
| 53. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
50.85 |
1.0013 |
-0.0504 |
273 |
1 |
50.85 |
2008-10-24 |
| 54. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
50.59 |
0.8996 |
0.0418 |
192 |
1 |
50.59 |
2008-10-24 |
| 55. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
49.34 |
0.9740 |
-0.0550 |
209 |
1 |
49.34 |
2008-10-24 |
| 56. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
49.12 |
1.0261 |
-0.1090 |
273 |
1 |
49.12 |
2008-10-24 |
| 57. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
49.11 |
0.9769 |
-0.0602 |
263 |
1 |
49.11 |
2008-10-24 |
| 58. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
49.05 |
1.0197 |
-0.1050 |
226 |
1 |
49.05 |
2008-10-24 |
| 59. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
48.52 |
0.7876 |
0.1226 |
316 |
2 |
43.93 |
2008-10-24 |
| 60. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
48.49 |
1.0334 |
-0.1329 |
131 |
1 |
48.49 |
2008-10-24 |
| 61. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
48.02 |
0.8595 |
0.0404 |
242 |
1 |
48.02 |
2008-10-24 |
| 62. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
47.58 |
0.9852 |
-0.0951 |
264 |
1 |
47.58 |
2008-10-24 |
| 63. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
47.55 |
0.9339 |
-0.0462 |
310 |
1 |
47.55 |
2008-10-24 |
| 64. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
46.52 |
0.9811 |
-0.1088 |
272 |
1 |
46.52 |
2008-10-24 |
| 65. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
46.49 |
0.9567 |
-0.0878 |
273 |
1 |
46.49 |
2008-10-24 |
| 66. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
46.26 |
0.8958 |
-0.0265 |
322 |
1 |
46.26 |
2008-10-24 |
| 67. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
45.84 |
0.9084 |
-0.0499 |
300 |
1 |
45.84 |
2008-10-24 |
| 68. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
45.48 |
0.9691 |
-0.1197 |
223 |
1 |
45.48 |
2008-10-24 |
| 69. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
45.47 |
0.9084 |
-0.0546 |
404 |
1 |
45.47 |
2008-10-24 |
| 70. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
44.16 |
0.9202 |
-0.0960 |
254 |
1 |
44.16 |
2008-10-24 |
| 71. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
44.07 |
0.8722 |
-0.0461 |
285 |
1 |
44.07 |
2008-10-24 |
| 72. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
41.37 |
0.9293 |
-0.1566 |
355 |
1 |
41.37 |
2008-10-24 |
| 73. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
39.80 |
0.9429 |
-0.1994 |
287 |
1 |
39.80 |
2008-10-24 |
| 74. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
39.33 |
0.8105 |
-0.0816 |
204 |
1 |
39.33 |
2008-10-24 |
| 75. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
38.93 |
0.8916 |
-0.1656 |
216 |
1 |
38.93 |
2008-10-24 |
| 76. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
38.26 |
1.0214 |
-0.3139 |
166 |
1 |
38.26 |
2008-10-24 |