| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
55.31 |
0.9303 |
0.3063 |
176 |
1 |
55.31 |
2011-06-28 |
| 2. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
53.17 |
0.8994 |
0.2970 |
188 |
1 |
53.17 |
2011-07-08 |
| 3. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
52.69 |
0.9798 |
0.1979 |
199 |
2 |
46.80 |
2011-06-29 |
| 4. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
51.64 |
1.0109 |
0.1494 |
276 |
1 |
51.64 |
2008-10-13 |
| 5. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
50.37 |
0.9722 |
0.1606 |
283 |
1 |
50.37 |
2011-06-29 |
| 6. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
50.36 |
1.0644 |
0.1022 |
257 |
1 |
50.36 |
2014-09-26 |
| 7. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
50.03 |
1.0462 |
0.0707 |
184 |
2 |
46.80 |
2008-10-13 |
| 8. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
49.69 |
0.9756 |
0.1384 |
229 |
1 |
49.69 |
2009-04-10 |
| 9. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
49.42 |
0.9247 |
0.1891 |
253 |
1 |
49.42 |
2014-07-03 |
| 10. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
49.39 |
0.9089 |
0.2034 |
342 |
1 |
49.39 |
2014-09-26 |
| 11. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
49.13 |
1.0604 |
0.0754 |
260 |
1 |
49.13 |
2014-09-26 |
| 12. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
48.93 |
0.9072 |
0.1891 |
237 |
1 |
48.93 |
2008-10-13 |
| 13. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
48.86 |
0.9350 |
0.1622 |
195 |
1 |
48.86 |
2011-07-08 |
| 14. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
48.57 |
0.9866 |
0.0995 |
218 |
1 |
48.57 |
2011-06-29 |
| 15. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
48.55 |
1.0090 |
0.1242 |
282 |
1 |
48.55 |
2011-06-28 |
| 16. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
48.53 |
0.9776 |
0.1115 |
308 |
1 |
48.53 |
2014-07-03 |
| 17. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
47.96 |
1.0711 |
-0.0002 |
213 |
1 |
47.96 |
2009-04-10 |
| 18. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
47.32 |
1.0829 |
-0.0199 |
288 |
1 |
47.32 |
2012-02-02 |
| 19. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
46.55 |
1.0331 |
0.0087 |
234 |
1 |
46.55 |
2011-07-08 |
| 20. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
45.88 |
0.9697 |
0.0593 |
249 |
1 |
45.88 |
2008-10-13 |
| 21. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
45.62 |
0.9540 |
0.0671 |
285 |
2 |
42.51 |
2014-07-03 |
| 22. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
45.44 |
0.9202 |
0.0979 |
254 |
1 |
45.44 |
2008-10-13 |
| 23. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
44.75 |
0.9846 |
0.0174 |
281 |
1 |
44.75 |
2008-10-13 |
| 24. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
44.68 |
0.9162 |
0.0857 |
165 |
1 |
44.68 |
2012-02-02 |
| 25. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
44.60 |
0.9325 |
0.0605 |
156 |
1 |
44.60 |
2009-04-10 |
| 26. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
44.50 |
0.9684 |
0.0317 |
388 |
1 |
44.50 |
2008-10-13 |
| 27. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
44.15 |
0.9772 |
0.0088 |
217 |
1 |
44.15 |
2011-07-08 |
| 28. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
43.93 |
0.9161 |
0.0664 |
200 |
1 |
43.93 |
2011-06-28 |
| 29. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
43.82 |
1.0417 |
-0.0622 |
253 |
2 |
42.10 |
2008-10-13 |
| 30. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
43.70 |
0.8793 |
0.1016 |
157 |
1 |
43.70 |
2011-06-29 |
| 31. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
43.70 |
1.0666 |
-0.0872 |
297 |
1 |
43.70 |
2008-10-13 |
| 32. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
43.70 |
0.9997 |
-0.0168 |
382 |
1 |
43.70 |
2008-10-13 |
| 33. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
43.36 |
1.0419 |
-0.0704 |
261 |
1 |
43.36 |
2008-10-13 |
| 34. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
43.03 |
0.9567 |
0.0072 |
273 |
1 |
43.03 |
2011-07-01 |
| 35. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
42.71 |
1.0352 |
-0.0753 |
341 |
1 |
42.71 |
2009-05-06 |
| 36. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
42.49 |
0.8951 |
0.0589 |
193 |
1 |
42.49 |
2008-10-13 |
| 37. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
42.21 |
0.9785 |
-0.0299 |
335 |
1 |
42.21 |
2008-10-13 |
| 38. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
42.09 |
0.9226 |
0.0264 |
348 |
1 |
42.09 |
2008-10-13 |
| 39. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
41.95 |
0.9740 |
-0.0386 |
209 |
2 |
38.48 |
2008-10-19 |
| 40. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
41.91 |
0.9734 |
-0.0351 |
289 |
1 |
41.91 |
2008-10-14 |
| 41. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
41.70 |
0.9212 |
0.0160 |
323 |
1 |
41.70 |
2008-10-15 |
| 42. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
41.14 |
0.9795 |
-0.0584 |
308 |
1 |
41.14 |
2008-10-14 |
| 43. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
41.10 |
0.8653 |
0.0662 |
255 |
1 |
41.10 |
2008-10-19 |
| 44. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
41.08 |
0.9468 |
-0.0275 |
276 |
1 |
41.08 |
2008-10-20 |
| 45. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
40.76 |
1.0596 |
-0.1492 |
239 |
1 |
40.76 |
2008-10-19 |
| 46. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
40.49 |
0.9309 |
-0.0264 |
284 |
1 |
40.49 |
2008-10-15 |
| 47. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
40.18 |
0.9811 |
-0.0791 |
272 |
1 |
40.18 |
2008-10-13 |
| 48. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
40.15 |
0.9946 |
-0.0961 |
246 |
1 |
40.15 |
2008-10-13 |
| 49. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
39.87 |
1.0261 |
-0.1357 |
273 |
1 |
39.87 |
2008-10-20 |
| 50. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
39.60 |
1.0486 |
-0.1616 |
289 |
2 |
38.19 |
2008-10-13 |
| 51. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
39.55 |
0.8852 |
0.0019 |
201 |
1 |
39.55 |
2008-10-13 |
| 52. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
39.41 |
0.9266 |
-0.0429 |
278 |
1 |
39.41 |
2008-10-13 |
| 53. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
39.41 |
0.8961 |
-0.0176 |
189 |
1 |
39.41 |
2008-10-13 |
| 54. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
38.99 |
0.9843 |
-0.1170 |
234 |
1 |
38.99 |
2008-10-13 |
| 55. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
38.42 |
0.9084 |
-0.0449 |
404 |
1 |
38.42 |
2011-07-08 |
| 56. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
38.00 |
0.8722 |
-0.0194 |
285 |
1 |
38.00 |
2008-10-14 |
| 57. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
36.74 |
0.9649 |
-0.1448 |
193 |
1 |
36.74 |
2008-10-13 |
| 58. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
36.08 |
0.9266 |
-0.1202 |
267 |
1 |
36.08 |
2008-10-19 |
| 59. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
33.28 |
0.8553 |
-0.1177 |
174 |
1 |
33.28 |
2008-10-13 |
| 60. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
32.07 |
0.8105 |
-0.0996 |
204 |
1 |
32.07 |
2008-10-13 |