| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
95.77 |
1.0444 |
0.3306 |
197 |
1 |
95.77 |
2012-11-12 |
| 2. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
93.62 |
0.9128 |
0.4379 |
133 |
2 |
81.78 |
2012-11-14 |
| 3. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
90.10 |
1.1162 |
0.2207 |
189 |
1 |
90.10 |
2012-11-14 |
| 4. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
89.11 |
0.9068 |
0.3761 |
225 |
1 |
89.11 |
2012-11-09 |
| 5. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
88.89 |
1.0334 |
0.2418 |
131 |
1 |
88.89 |
2012-10-23 |
| 6. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
88.47 |
0.9722 |
0.3019 |
283 |
2 |
74.21 |
2012-11-14 |
| 7. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
86.79 |
1.0883 |
0.1924 |
303 |
1 |
86.79 |
2012-10-23 |
| 8. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
86.72 |
0.9514 |
0.2963 |
237 |
1 |
86.72 |
2012-11-08 |
| 9. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
86.48 |
0.9221 |
0.3216 |
244 |
1 |
86.48 |
2012-11-09 |
| 10. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
84.30 |
1.0797 |
0.1293 |
210 |
1 |
84.30 |
2012-11-09 |
| 11. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
83.89 |
0.9710 |
0.2327 |
173 |
2 |
81.65 |
2012-11-12 |
| 12. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
83.79 |
0.9897 |
0.2145 |
274 |
1 |
83.79 |
2012-11-14 |
| 13. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
83.53 |
0.9485 |
0.2533 |
236 |
1 |
83.53 |
2012-11-14 |
| 14. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
83.06 |
0.9852 |
0.2093 |
264 |
1 |
83.06 |
2012-11-08 |
| 15. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
82.30 |
1.0125 |
0.1687 |
224 |
1 |
82.30 |
2012-11-09 |
| 16. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
81.44 |
0.9726 |
0.1954 |
154 |
1 |
81.44 |
2012-11-14 |
| 17. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
81.06 |
0.9912 |
0.2039 |
237 |
1 |
81.06 |
2012-11-12 |
| 18. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
80.72 |
1.0441 |
0.1163 |
252 |
1 |
80.72 |
2012-11-12 |
| 19. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
80.71 |
1.0090 |
0.1947 |
282 |
1 |
80.71 |
2012-11-14 |
| 20. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
79.98 |
1.0696 |
0.0784 |
226 |
1 |
79.98 |
2012-11-14 |
| 21. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
79.80 |
0.9731 |
0.1690 |
129 |
1 |
79.80 |
2012-11-09 |
| 22. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
79.30 |
0.9631 |
0.2234 |
345 |
1 |
79.30 |
2012-11-14 |
| 23. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
77.08 |
1.0385 |
0.0681 |
230 |
1 |
77.08 |
2012-11-08 |
| 24. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
75.88 |
0.9682 |
0.1210 |
143 |
1 |
75.88 |
2012-11-12 |
| 25. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
75.79 |
1.0254 |
0.1078 |
217 |
1 |
75.79 |
2012-10-26 |
| 26. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
75.35 |
0.8629 |
0.2228 |
299 |
1 |
75.35 |
2012-11-09 |
| 27. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
74.78 |
1.0941 |
0.0127 |
256 |
1 |
74.78 |
2012-10-23 |
| 28. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
73.73 |
0.9281 |
0.1348 |
273 |
1 |
73.73 |
2012-11-08 |
| 29. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
72.93 |
0.8615 |
0.1879 |
110 |
1 |
72.93 |
2012-11-14 |
| 30. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
72.82 |
0.8731 |
0.1773 |
199 |
1 |
72.82 |
2012-10-23 |
| 31. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
70.30 |
0.8541 |
0.1596 |
260 |
1 |
70.30 |
2012-11-09 |
| 32. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
69.47 |
0.9649 |
0.0324 |
193 |
1 |
69.47 |
2012-11-12 |
| 33. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
68.84 |
0.9461 |
0.0418 |
276 |
1 |
68.84 |
2012-10-23 |
| 34. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
68.45 |
1.0138 |
-0.0321 |
231 |
1 |
68.45 |
2012-10-24 |
| 35. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
67.80 |
0.8295 |
0.1465 |
209 |
1 |
67.80 |
2012-10-23 |
| 36. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
67.42 |
1.0261 |
-0.0597 |
273 |
1 |
67.42 |
2012-10-23 |
| 37. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
67.29 |
1.0173 |
-0.0068 |
268 |
1 |
67.29 |
2012-11-14 |
| 38. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
66.82 |
0.8096 |
0.1553 |
209 |
1 |
66.82 |
2012-10-23 |
| 39. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
66.52 |
1.0496 |
-0.0958 |
314 |
1 |
66.52 |
2012-11-08 |
| 40. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
65.55 |
0.9756 |
-0.0356 |
229 |
1 |
65.55 |
2012-11-08 |
| 41. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
62.73 |
0.9938 |
-0.0937 |
339 |
1 |
62.73 |
2012-11-09 |
| 42. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
62.49 |
0.8845 |
0.0123 |
273 |
1 |
62.49 |
2012-10-23 |
| 43. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
62.33 |
0.9684 |
-0.0733 |
388 |
1 |
62.33 |
2012-10-24 |
| 44. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
54.74 |
1.0183 |
-0.2375 |
191 |
1 |
54.74 |
2012-10-23 |
| 45. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
54.73 |
0.9429 |
-0.1589 |
287 |
1 |
54.73 |
2012-10-26 |
| 46. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
49.37 |
1.0240 |
-0.3208 |
256 |
1 |
49.37 |
2012-11-08 |
| 47. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
49.17 |
0.9688 |
-0.2670 |
217 |
1 |
49.17 |
2012-11-14 |
| 48. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
48.93 |
0.9844 |
-0.2777 |
229 |
1 |
48.93 |
2012-11-12 |
| 49. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
48.01 |
1.0263 |
-0.3404 |
267 |
1 |
48.01 |
2012-11-09 |
| 50. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
47.05 |
0.9350 |
-0.2632 |
195 |
1 |
47.05 |
2012-11-14 |
| 51. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
46.84 |
1.0124 |
-0.3444 |
204 |
1 |
46.84 |
2012-10-24 |
| 52. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
46.58 |
0.9202 |
-0.2543 |
254 |
1 |
46.58 |
2012-11-09 |
| 53. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
44.52 |
0.9098 |
-0.2756 |
167 |
1 |
44.52 |
2012-10-23 |
| 54. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
43.51 |
0.9187 |
-0.3034 |
118 |
1 |
43.51 |
2012-11-13 |
| 55. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
42.46 |
0.9089 |
-0.2977 |
187 |
1 |
42.46 |
2012-11-14 |
| 56. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
41.28 |
1.0725 |
-0.4554 |
233 |
1 |
41.28 |
2012-11-14 |
| 57. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
39.70 |
0.8777 |
-0.3103 |
177 |
1 |
39.70 |
2012-11-14 |
| 58. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
39.26 |
0.9758 |
-0.4162 |
314 |
1 |
39.26 |
2012-11-14 |
| 59. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
36.31 |
0.8884 |
-0.3713 |
135 |
1 |
36.31 |
2012-11-14 |