Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
44.89 |
0.9464 |
0.2681 |
119 |
2 |
44.08 |
2013-11-13 |
2. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
43.32 |
0.9621 |
0.2093 |
201 |
1 |
43.32 |
2013-11-12 |
3. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
43.29 |
0.9459 |
0.2306 |
188 |
2 |
38.07 |
2013-11-12 |
4. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
43.08 |
1.0557 |
0.1133 |
289 |
1 |
43.08 |
2013-11-13 |
5. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
42.71 |
1.0144 |
0.1444 |
162 |
1 |
42.71 |
2013-11-12 |
6. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
42.16 |
1.0753 |
0.0743 |
206 |
1 |
42.16 |
2013-11-12 |
7. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
42.00 |
0.8687 |
0.2681 |
119 |
1 |
42.00 |
2013-11-12 |
8. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
41.46 |
0.9368 |
0.1803 |
176 |
1 |
41.46 |
2013-11-11 |
9. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
41.05 |
0.9763 |
0.1356 |
283 |
1 |
41.05 |
2013-11-11 |
10. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
40.96 |
0.8680 |
0.2371 |
196 |
1 |
40.96 |
2013-11-11 |
11. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
40.93 |
0.9836 |
0.1173 |
123 |
1 |
40.93 |
2013-11-11 |
12. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
40.88 |
1.0585 |
0.0521 |
226 |
1 |
40.88 |
2013-11-12 |
13. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
40.81 |
0.9925 |
0.1092 |
155 |
1 |
40.81 |
2013-11-11 |
14. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
40.48 |
1.0736 |
0.0273 |
256 |
2 |
37.65 |
2013-11-12 |
15. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
40.45 |
1.0304 |
0.0628 |
256 |
2 |
36.78 |
2013-11-11 |
16. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
40.39 |
1.0506 |
0.0434 |
259 |
1 |
40.39 |
2013-11-11 |
17. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
40.27 |
0.9286 |
0.1644 |
177 |
1 |
40.27 |
2013-11-11 |
18. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
40.24 |
0.9893 |
0.0980 |
222 |
1 |
40.24 |
2013-11-11 |
19. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
40.20 |
1.0665 |
0.0170 |
196 |
1 |
40.20 |
2013-11-11 |
20. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
40.04 |
0.9801 |
0.1130 |
282 |
1 |
40.04 |
2013-11-12 |
21. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
40.01 |
0.9927 |
0.0881 |
234 |
1 |
40.01 |
2013-11-12 |
22. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
39.82 |
1.0026 |
0.0807 |
200 |
1 |
39.82 |
2013-11-12 |
23. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
39.79 |
1.0079 |
0.0692 |
273 |
1 |
39.79 |
2013-11-12 |
24. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
39.71 |
1.0873 |
-0.0144 |
243 |
2 |
39.26 |
2013-11-11 |
25. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
39.64 |
1.0595 |
0.0080 |
166 |
1 |
39.64 |
2013-11-11 |
26. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
39.63 |
0.9935 |
0.0824 |
217 |
1 |
39.63 |
2013-11-11 |
27. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
39.37 |
1.0881 |
-0.0253 |
210 |
2 |
38.48 |
2013-11-12 |
28. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
39.30 |
1.0755 |
-0.0102 |
243 |
2 |
37.39 |
2013-11-08 |
29. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
39.27 |
1.0192 |
0.0500 |
243 |
2 |
37.14 |
2013-11-11 |
30. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
39.23 |
1.0403 |
0.0208 |
234 |
1 |
39.23 |
2013-11-12 |
31. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
39.02 |
1.0465 |
0.0024 |
183 |
1 |
39.02 |
2013-11-08 |
32. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
38.70 |
1.0132 |
0.0358 |
371 |
2 |
37.00 |
2013-11-12 |
33. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
38.70 |
0.9403 |
0.1168 |
307 |
1 |
38.70 |
2013-11-13 |
34. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
38.66 |
0.9394 |
0.1064 |
195 |
1 |
38.66 |
2013-11-11 |
35. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
38.52 |
0.9213 |
0.1200 |
165 |
1 |
38.52 |
2013-11-11 |
36. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
38.50 |
0.9851 |
0.0627 |
237 |
2 |
36.42 |
2013-11-11 |
37. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
38.42 |
0.8988 |
0.1420 |
216 |
1 |
38.42 |
2013-11-11 |
38. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
38.41 |
0.9606 |
0.0840 |
203 |
1 |
38.41 |
2013-11-08 |
39. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
38.36 |
0.8837 |
0.1547 |
157 |
1 |
38.36 |
2013-11-08 |
40. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
38.35 |
0.9621 |
0.0792 |
212 |
1 |
38.35 |
2013-11-11 |
41. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
38.26 |
0.8378 |
0.2012 |
219 |
1 |
38.26 |
2013-11-11 |
42. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
38.11 |
1.0427 |
-0.0095 |
269 |
1 |
38.11 |
2013-11-12 |
43. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
38.02 |
1.0800 |
-0.0571 |
129 |
1 |
38.02 |
2013-11-08 |
44. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
37.85 |
0.8948 |
0.1297 |
164 |
1 |
37.85 |
2013-11-11 |
45. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
37.79 |
0.9745 |
0.0512 |
388 |
1 |
37.79 |
2013-11-11 |
46. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
37.76 |
1.0414 |
-0.0195 |
234 |
2 |
37.58 |
2013-11-11 |
47. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
37.65 |
1.0509 |
-0.0236 |
295 |
1 |
37.65 |
2013-11-11 |
48. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
37.61 |
1.0800 |
-0.0642 |
213 |
2 |
36.14 |
2013-11-12 |
49. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
37.60 |
0.9709 |
0.0462 |
264 |
1 |
37.60 |
2013-11-11 |
50. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
37.52 |
1.0540 |
-0.0428 |
184 |
1 |
37.52 |
2013-11-11 |
51. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
37.38 |
1.0341 |
-0.0223 |
273 |
1 |
37.38 |
2013-11-11 |
52. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
37.32 |
1.0063 |
0.0094 |
293 |
1 |
37.32 |
2013-11-08 |
53. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
37.31 |
0.9864 |
0.0279 |
292 |
1 |
37.31 |
2013-11-11 |
54. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
37.25 |
0.9265 |
0.0813 |
254 |
2 |
35.48 |
2013-11-11 |
55. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
37.25 |
0.8805 |
0.1284 |
205 |
1 |
37.25 |
2013-11-11 |
56. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
37.24 |
0.8911 |
0.1204 |
241 |
1 |
37.24 |
2013-11-11 |
57. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
37.18 |
0.9991 |
0.0073 |
339 |
1 |
37.18 |
2013-11-08 |
58. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
36.99 |
0.9807 |
0.0095 |
129 |
1 |
36.99 |
2013-11-11 |
59. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
36.88 |
0.9210 |
0.0740 |
200 |
1 |
36.88 |
2013-11-08 |
60. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
36.76 |
1.0364 |
-0.0368 |
230 |
1 |
36.76 |
2013-11-11 |
61. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
36.65 |
0.9636 |
0.0275 |
281 |
2 |
36.24 |
2013-11-12 |
62. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
36.51 |
1.0268 |
-0.0450 |
179 |
1 |
36.51 |
2013-11-08 |
63. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
36.34 |
0.9549 |
0.0268 |
204 |
1 |
36.34 |
2013-11-11 |
64. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
36.24 |
0.9339 |
0.0400 |
108 |
1 |
36.24 |
2013-11-08 |
65. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
36.12 |
0.9010 |
0.0796 |
266 |
2 |
34.96 |
2013-11-11 |
66. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
36.05 |
1.0181 |
-0.0406 |
276 |
1 |
36.05 |
2013-11-11 |
67. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
36.04 |
0.9713 |
0.0032 |
193 |
1 |
36.04 |
2013-11-11 |
68. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
35.67 |
0.9408 |
0.0197 |
177 |
1 |
35.67 |
2013-11-08 |
69. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
35.50 |
0.8770 |
0.0841 |
163 |
1 |
35.50 |
2013-11-08 |
70. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
35.45 |
1.0461 |
-0.0815 |
286 |
1 |
35.45 |
2013-11-11 |
71. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
35.18 |
0.9836 |
-0.0310 |
289 |
1 |
35.18 |
2013-11-08 |
72. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
35.14 |
1.0250 |
-0.0707 |
271 |
1 |
35.14 |
2013-11-11 |
73. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
35.07 |
0.9561 |
-0.0050 |
362 |
1 |
35.07 |
2013-11-11 |
74. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
35.05 |
1.0267 |
-0.0747 |
261 |
2 |
35.03 |
2013-11-11 |
75. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
34.90 |
0.8480 |
0.0969 |
147 |
1 |
34.90 |
2013-11-08 |
76. |
It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situat... |
34.86 |
0.9182 |
0.0286 |
207 |
1 |
34.86 |
2013-11-08 |
77. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
34.86 |
1.0208 |
-0.0771 |
231 |
1 |
34.86 |
2013-11-11 |
78. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
34.71 |
1.0567 |
-0.1173 |
314 |
1 |
34.71 |
2013-11-11 |
79. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
34.69 |
0.9564 |
-0.0234 |
263 |
1 |
34.69 |
2013-11-08 |
80. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
34.62 |
0.9068 |
0.0285 |
212 |
1 |
34.62 |
2013-11-08 |
81. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
34.62 |
0.8986 |
0.0392 |
216 |
1 |
34.62 |
2013-11-12 |
82. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
34.57 |
1.0225 |
-0.0944 |
152 |
1 |
34.57 |
2013-11-08 |
83. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
34.43 |
0.9310 |
0.0005 |
278 |
1 |
34.43 |
2013-11-08 |
84. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
34.18 |
0.9922 |
-0.0664 |
264 |
1 |
34.18 |
2013-11-11 |
85. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
34.07 |
1.0194 |
-0.0993 |
224 |
1 |
34.07 |
2013-11-11 |
86. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
34.01 |
0.9145 |
0.0096 |
404 |
1 |
34.01 |
2013-11-11 |
87. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
33.97 |
0.8572 |
0.0606 |
232 |
1 |
33.97 |
2013-11-11 |
88. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
33.73 |
1.0010 |
-0.0841 |
213 |
1 |
33.73 |
2013-11-08 |
89. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
33.60 |
0.9597 |
-0.0501 |
251 |
1 |
33.60 |
2013-11-08 |
90. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
33.57 |
0.7764 |
0.1308 |
145 |
1 |
33.57 |
2013-11-08 |
91. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
33.40 |
0.9374 |
-0.0307 |
232 |
1 |
33.40 |
2013-11-11 |
92. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
33.19 |
1.0288 |
-0.1353 |
166 |
1 |
33.19 |
2013-11-08 |
93. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
32.91 |
0.9660 |
-0.0683 |
258 |
1 |
32.91 |
2013-11-08 |
94. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
32.62 |
0.9841 |
-0.0900 |
325 |
2 |
32.60 |
2013-11-08 |
95. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
32.60 |
0.9258 |
-0.0390 |
184 |
1 |
32.60 |
2013-11-11 |
96. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
32.43 |
1.0042 |
-0.1305 |
168 |
1 |
32.43 |
2013-11-11 |
97. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
32.32 |
0.9183 |
-0.0429 |
308 |
1 |
32.32 |
2013-11-08 |
98. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
32.11 |
1.0004 |
-0.1290 |
373 |
1 |
32.11 |
2013-11-08 |
99. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
32.03 |
0.8986 |
-0.0337 |
205 |
2 |
31.73 |
2013-11-11 |
100. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
31.68 |
0.9027 |
-0.0491 |
189 |
1 |
31.68 |
2013-11-08 |
101. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
31.52 |
0.9315 |
-0.0770 |
273 |
1 |
31.52 |
2013-11-08 |
102. |
Be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competiti... |
31.20 |
0.8533 |
-0.0144 |
134 |
1 |
31.20 |
2013-11-08 |
103. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
31.02 |
0.8966 |
-0.0582 |
366 |
1 |
31.02 |
2013-11-08 |
104. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
31.00 |
1.0370 |
-0.1986 |
262 |
1 |
31.00 |
2013-11-11 |
105. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
30.94 |
0.8981 |
-0.0525 |
255 |
1 |
30.94 |
2013-11-11 |
106. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
30.77 |
0.7915 |
0.0425 |
142 |
1 |
30.77 |
2013-11-11 |
107. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
30.50 |
1.0086 |
-0.1880 |
218 |
1 |
30.50 |
2013-11-08 |
108. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
29.10 |
0.9255 |
-0.1380 |
174 |
1 |
29.10 |
2013-11-08 |
109. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
27.60 |
0.7852 |
-0.0454 |
154 |
1 |
27.60 |
2013-11-11 |
110. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
26.53 |
0.8624 |
-0.1503 |
174 |
1 |
26.53 |
2013-11-11 |