| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
58.40 |
1.0567 |
0.2875 |
303 |
3 |
51.77 |
2012-07-29 |
| 2. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
54.05 |
0.9844 |
0.2591 |
293 |
1 |
54.05 |
2012-08-06 |
| 3. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
53.25 |
1.0074 |
0.2178 |
242 |
1 |
53.25 |
2012-01-30 |
| 4. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
52.73 |
1.0183 |
0.1906 |
191 |
1 |
52.73 |
2012-08-06 |
| 5. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
52.55 |
1.0905 |
0.1524 |
210 |
1 |
52.55 |
2011-10-12 |
| 6. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
52.47 |
1.0515 |
0.1532 |
250 |
1 |
52.47 |
2011-10-12 |
| 7. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
51.92 |
0.9964 |
0.1961 |
203 |
1 |
51.92 |
2012-07-29 |
| 8. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.77 |
1.0714 |
0.1142 |
129 |
2 |
45.77 |
2012-07-29 |
| 9. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
51.45 |
1.1323 |
0.0814 |
341 |
1 |
51.45 |
2011-10-14 |
| 10. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
51.29 |
1.0565 |
0.1203 |
247 |
2 |
48.46 |
2012-02-03 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
50.73 |
0.9899 |
0.1730 |
163 |
1 |
50.73 |
2011-10-16 |
| 12. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
50.69 |
0.9884 |
0.1790 |
262 |
1 |
50.69 |
2012-02-03 |
| 13. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
50.37 |
0.9866 |
0.1688 |
218 |
2 |
47.22 |
2012-02-03 |
| 14. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
50.32 |
0.9504 |
0.2033 |
263 |
2 |
46.50 |
2012-07-29 |
| 15. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
50.17 |
0.9863 |
0.1682 |
339 |
1 |
50.17 |
2011-10-16 |
| 16. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
50.17 |
1.1162 |
0.0768 |
189 |
1 |
50.17 |
2011-09-19 |
| 17. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
49.77 |
0.9865 |
0.1573 |
276 |
2 |
45.84 |
2012-01-18 |
| 18. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
49.74 |
1.0365 |
0.1403 |
162 |
1 |
49.74 |
2011-10-16 |
| 19. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
49.72 |
1.0684 |
0.1035 |
253 |
1 |
49.72 |
2012-01-18 |
| 20. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
49.63 |
1.0797 |
0.0570 |
210 |
1 |
49.63 |
2012-02-03 |
| 21. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
49.33 |
1.0795 |
0.0866 |
226 |
1 |
49.33 |
2012-02-03 |
| 22. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
49.30 |
0.9047 |
0.2270 |
118 |
1 |
49.30 |
2011-09-21 |
| 23. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
48.91 |
1.0767 |
0.0450 |
212 |
2 |
44.53 |
2012-02-06 |
| 24. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
48.67 |
0.9820 |
0.1348 |
274 |
1 |
48.67 |
2011-10-16 |
| 25. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
48.66 |
1.0396 |
0.0741 |
149 |
1 |
48.66 |
2012-02-06 |
| 26. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
48.47 |
1.1114 |
-0.0001 |
247 |
1 |
48.47 |
2012-01-30 |
| 27. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
48.47 |
1.0334 |
0.0760 |
131 |
1 |
48.47 |
2011-10-12 |
| 28. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
48.09 |
1.0284 |
0.1186 |
282 |
1 |
48.09 |
2012-07-29 |
| 29. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
47.70 |
0.8541 |
0.2456 |
260 |
1 |
47.70 |
2011-10-06 |
| 30. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
47.60 |
0.9632 |
0.1296 |
240 |
1 |
47.60 |
2012-01-23 |
| 31. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
47.54 |
0.9310 |
0.1594 |
188 |
2 |
46.15 |
2012-02-21 |
| 32. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
47.41 |
1.0547 |
0.0719 |
257 |
2 |
46.54 |
2012-01-18 |
| 33. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
47.22 |
0.9905 |
0.1227 |
337 |
1 |
47.22 |
2011-10-12 |
| 34. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
47.15 |
0.8867 |
0.1976 |
241 |
2 |
45.89 |
2012-07-29 |
| 35. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
47.12 |
1.0254 |
0.1007 |
217 |
1 |
47.12 |
2011-10-11 |
| 36. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
47.11 |
0.9697 |
0.1131 |
249 |
1 |
47.11 |
2012-01-20 |
| 37. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
47.06 |
0.9365 |
0.1448 |
248 |
2 |
43.89 |
2011-10-12 |
| 38. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
46.74 |
1.0403 |
0.0739 |
275 |
1 |
46.74 |
2012-01-30 |
| 39. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
46.48 |
0.9672 |
0.1026 |
396 |
1 |
46.48 |
2012-01-20 |
| 40. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
46.38 |
1.0352 |
0.0303 |
341 |
1 |
46.38 |
2011-10-14 |
| 41. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
46.37 |
0.9309 |
0.1324 |
284 |
1 |
46.37 |
2011-10-12 |
| 42. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
46.32 |
1.0389 |
0.0246 |
318 |
2 |
44.30 |
2011-10-14 |
| 43. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
46.00 |
0.9583 |
0.1382 |
341 |
1 |
46.00 |
2012-07-29 |
| 44. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
46.00 |
0.9925 |
0.1008 |
247 |
2 |
43.46 |
2011-10-12 |
| 45. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
45.95 |
1.0172 |
0.0704 |
341 |
1 |
45.95 |
2011-10-14 |
| 46. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
45.81 |
1.0068 |
0.0463 |
358 |
1 |
45.81 |
2012-07-29 |
| 47. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
45.80 |
1.0375 |
0.0620 |
200 |
1 |
45.80 |
2011-10-11 |
| 48. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
45.58 |
1.0483 |
-0.0040 |
227 |
1 |
45.58 |
2011-09-21 |
| 49. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
45.57 |
1.0496 |
-0.0044 |
314 |
1 |
45.57 |
2011-10-06 |
| 50. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
45.57 |
1.0389 |
0.0079 |
340 |
1 |
45.57 |
2012-01-20 |
| 51. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
45.56 |
0.9965 |
0.0475 |
168 |
2 |
42.18 |
2011-10-14 |
| 52. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
45.36 |
0.9559 |
0.0860 |
195 |
1 |
45.36 |
2011-10-11 |
| 53. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
44.97 |
0.9871 |
0.0681 |
227 |
1 |
44.97 |
2012-08-06 |
| 54. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
44.94 |
0.8915 |
0.1406 |
188 |
1 |
44.94 |
2011-10-11 |
| 55. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
44.74 |
1.0060 |
0.0184 |
171 |
1 |
44.74 |
2012-01-20 |
| 56. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
44.56 |
1.0485 |
0.0116 |
153 |
1 |
44.56 |
2012-02-03 |
| 57. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.40 |
0.9843 |
0.0322 |
234 |
1 |
44.40 |
2011-10-11 |
| 58. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
44.22 |
0.9257 |
0.0940 |
317 |
2 |
43.63 |
2011-09-19 |
| 59. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
44.10 |
1.0213 |
-0.0108 |
240 |
1 |
44.10 |
2011-09-16 |
| 60. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
43.98 |
0.9307 |
0.0850 |
246 |
1 |
43.98 |
2012-01-12 |
| 61. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
43.98 |
0.8787 |
0.1329 |
202 |
1 |
43.98 |
2012-07-29 |
| 62. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
43.84 |
0.9684 |
0.0387 |
388 |
1 |
43.84 |
2012-07-29 |
| 63. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
43.84 |
1.0165 |
-0.0100 |
392 |
1 |
43.84 |
2012-01-30 |
| 64. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
43.78 |
0.9763 |
0.0281 |
289 |
2 |
43.15 |
2012-01-18 |
| 65. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
43.75 |
1.0944 |
-0.0477 |
308 |
1 |
43.75 |
2011-10-11 |
| 66. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
43.55 |
1.0719 |
-0.0448 |
360 |
2 |
41.78 |
2011-10-12 |
| 67. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
43.45 |
0.9411 |
0.0574 |
318 |
2 |
38.90 |
2012-07-29 |
| 68. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
43.33 |
0.9994 |
0.0258 |
269 |
1 |
43.33 |
2011-10-11 |
| 69. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
42.99 |
0.9063 |
0.0848 |
239 |
1 |
42.99 |
2011-05-31 |
| 70. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
42.95 |
0.9734 |
0.0113 |
289 |
1 |
42.95 |
2011-10-12 |
| 71. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
42.73 |
1.1215 |
-0.1145 |
200 |
1 |
42.73 |
2011-09-21 |
| 72. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
42.71 |
0.9946 |
-0.0158 |
246 |
1 |
42.71 |
2011-10-16 |
| 73. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
42.65 |
1.0263 |
-0.0483 |
267 |
1 |
42.65 |
2011-10-11 |
| 74. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
42.27 |
0.9161 |
0.0529 |
200 |
3 |
40.50 |
2011-10-11 |
| 75. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.73 |
0.9171 |
0.0395 |
165 |
1 |
41.73 |
2011-10-11 |
| 76. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
41.62 |
1.0173 |
-0.0181 |
268 |
1 |
41.62 |
2011-05-31 |
| 77. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
41.38 |
1.0240 |
-0.0778 |
256 |
1 |
41.38 |
2011-10-14 |
| 78. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
41.05 |
0.9351 |
0.0036 |
190 |
2 |
40.17 |
2012-02-06 |
| 79. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
40.97 |
0.8821 |
0.0571 |
176 |
1 |
40.97 |
2011-05-31 |
| 80. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
40.62 |
0.9509 |
0.0189 |
225 |
2 |
37.59 |
2011-10-11 |
| 81. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
40.43 |
0.9097 |
0.0166 |
153 |
1 |
40.43 |
2011-09-16 |
| 82. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
40.43 |
0.8919 |
0.0345 |
205 |
2 |
40.05 |
2011-10-12 |
| 83. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
40.00 |
0.8892 |
0.0320 |
207 |
1 |
40.00 |
2012-01-12 |
| 84. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
39.86 |
0.9986 |
-0.0883 |
162 |
1 |
39.86 |
2011-09-26 |
| 85. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
39.65 |
0.9527 |
-0.0442 |
251 |
1 |
39.65 |
2011-10-11 |
| 86. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
39.62 |
0.9430 |
-0.0330 |
297 |
1 |
39.62 |
2011-09-19 |
| 87. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
39.49 |
0.9670 |
-0.0212 |
307 |
1 |
39.49 |
2011-10-11 |
| 88. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
39.37 |
0.9464 |
-0.0420 |
323 |
1 |
39.37 |
2012-01-20 |
| 89. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
39.21 |
1.0292 |
-0.1317 |
262 |
1 |
39.21 |
2011-06-01 |
| 90. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
39.07 |
0.9772 |
-0.0825 |
217 |
1 |
39.07 |
2011-05-31 |
| 91. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
38.99 |
0.8341 |
0.0647 |
224 |
1 |
38.99 |
2011-09-19 |
| 92. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
38.89 |
0.9330 |
-0.0387 |
360 |
1 |
38.89 |
2011-09-21 |
| 93. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
38.54 |
0.9348 |
-0.0503 |
229 |
1 |
38.54 |
2011-10-11 |
| 94. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
38.48 |
0.8670 |
0.0167 |
318 |
1 |
38.48 |
2011-10-11 |
| 95. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
38.40 |
0.8810 |
0.0007 |
282 |
1 |
38.40 |
2012-01-12 |
| 96. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
38.33 |
1.0516 |
-0.1732 |
281 |
1 |
38.33 |
2011-05-31 |
| 97. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
38.25 |
1.0288 |
-0.1196 |
300 |
1 |
38.25 |
2011-10-11 |
| 98. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
37.66 |
0.9109 |
-0.0463 |
401 |
1 |
37.66 |
2011-09-21 |
| 99. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
37.39 |
0.7805 |
0.0750 |
154 |
2 |
34.84 |
2011-10-14 |
| 100. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
37.33 |
0.9068 |
-0.0510 |
225 |
1 |
37.33 |
2011-10-11 |
| 101. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
36.66 |
1.0168 |
-0.1777 |
271 |
1 |
36.66 |
2011-05-31 |
| 102. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
36.39 |
0.9688 |
-0.1367 |
217 |
1 |
36.39 |
2011-05-31 |
| 103. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
36.35 |
0.9028 |
-0.0718 |
111 |
1 |
36.35 |
2011-10-06 |
| 104. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
35.94 |
0.9196 |
-0.0971 |
148 |
1 |
35.94 |
2011-05-31 |
| 105. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
35.89 |
1.0711 |
-0.2532 |
213 |
1 |
35.89 |
2011-05-31 |
| 106. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
35.04 |
1.0679 |
-0.2404 |
177 |
1 |
35.04 |
2011-09-16 |
| 107. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
34.92 |
0.9045 |
-0.1052 |
235 |
1 |
34.92 |
2011-10-11 |
| 108. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.82 |
0.8070 |
-0.0095 |
167 |
1 |
34.82 |
2011-05-31 |
| 109. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
33.39 |
0.9216 |
-0.1215 |
255 |
1 |
33.39 |
2011-09-16 |
| 110. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
33.30 |
0.8956 |
-0.1315 |
217 |
1 |
33.30 |
2011-05-31 |
| 111. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.61 |
0.9286 |
-0.1839 |
194 |
1 |
32.61 |
2011-10-06 |
| 112. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
32.57 |
0.8916 |
-0.1468 |
216 |
1 |
32.57 |
2011-05-31 |
| 113. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
32.21 |
0.8533 |
-0.1155 |
232 |
1 |
32.21 |
2011-10-06 |
| 114. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
31.31 |
0.9128 |
-0.1570 |
369 |
1 |
31.31 |
2011-05-31 |
| 115. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
30.38 |
0.8770 |
-0.1814 |
300 |
1 |
30.38 |
2011-09-16 |
| 116. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
30.05 |
0.8353 |
-0.1440 |
283 |
1 |
30.05 |
2011-05-31 |
| 117. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
27.83 |
0.9811 |
-0.3455 |
272 |
1 |
27.83 |
2011-10-11 |