| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
52.39 |
1.0485 |
0.3780 |
153 |
1 |
52.39 |
2014-06-12 |
| 2. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
49.71 |
1.0767 |
0.2411 |
212 |
2 |
44.35 |
2011-11-23 |
| 3. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
48.14 |
0.9016 |
0.3840 |
192 |
1 |
48.14 |
2010-11-26 |
| 4. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
46.60 |
1.0941 |
0.1737 |
256 |
2 |
45.25 |
2014-06-12 |
| 5. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
46.57 |
0.9776 |
0.2584 |
308 |
1 |
46.57 |
2010-11-26 |
| 6. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
46.21 |
1.0608 |
0.1986 |
258 |
1 |
46.21 |
2010-11-26 |
| 7. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
45.73 |
0.9303 |
0.2767 |
176 |
1 |
45.73 |
2010-11-22 |
| 8. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
45.42 |
1.0095 |
0.1943 |
316 |
1 |
45.42 |
2010-11-22 |
| 9. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
44.47 |
1.0795 |
0.1305 |
226 |
1 |
44.47 |
2014-06-12 |
| 10. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
44.31 |
1.0577 |
0.1140 |
247 |
1 |
44.31 |
2011-11-23 |
| 11. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
43.96 |
1.0240 |
0.1392 |
256 |
1 |
43.96 |
2010-11-22 |
| 12. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
43.93 |
1.0943 |
0.1033 |
206 |
1 |
43.93 |
2010-11-26 |
| 13. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
43.80 |
1.0390 |
0.1187 |
205 |
2 |
41.13 |
2011-11-23 |
| 14. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
43.75 |
1.0109 |
0.1501 |
276 |
1 |
43.75 |
2014-06-12 |
| 15. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
43.59 |
0.9266 |
0.2311 |
278 |
2 |
42.76 |
2014-06-12 |
| 16. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
43.57 |
1.0337 |
0.1210 |
214 |
3 |
34.68 |
2011-11-23 |
| 17. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
43.41 |
1.0320 |
0.1563 |
293 |
1 |
43.41 |
2010-10-04 |
| 18. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
43.34 |
1.0288 |
0.1525 |
300 |
1 |
43.34 |
2011-11-23 |
| 19. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
43.32 |
0.8614 |
0.2849 |
172 |
2 |
33.37 |
2014-06-10 |
| 20. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
43.32 |
0.9710 |
0.1711 |
173 |
1 |
43.32 |
2014-06-12 |
| 21. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
42.92 |
0.9846 |
0.1522 |
281 |
2 |
36.43 |
2010-12-19 |
| 22. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
42.89 |
0.9559 |
0.1839 |
195 |
1 |
42.89 |
2010-11-22 |
| 23. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
42.45 |
1.0263 |
0.0982 |
267 |
2 |
39.06 |
2010-11-22 |
| 24. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
42.45 |
0.9257 |
0.2051 |
317 |
1 |
42.45 |
2011-11-23 |
| 25. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
42.27 |
0.9684 |
0.1548 |
388 |
1 |
42.27 |
2010-11-26 |
| 26. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
42.16 |
0.9221 |
0.1939 |
244 |
1 |
42.16 |
2011-11-23 |
| 27. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
42.05 |
0.9884 |
0.1305 |
262 |
1 |
42.05 |
2010-02-25 |
| 28. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
41.87 |
1.0463 |
0.0589 |
182 |
1 |
41.87 |
2014-06-12 |
| 29. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
41.86 |
1.0183 |
0.0856 |
191 |
3 |
35.63 |
2011-11-23 |
| 30. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
41.67 |
0.9820 |
0.1252 |
267 |
1 |
41.67 |
2010-02-25 |
| 31. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
41.60 |
0.8867 |
0.2217 |
163 |
1 |
41.60 |
2008-10-16 |
| 32. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
41.53 |
0.9226 |
0.1818 |
177 |
1 |
41.53 |
2010-11-26 |
| 33. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
41.51 |
0.9964 |
0.1038 |
203 |
1 |
41.51 |
2010-10-04 |
| 34. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
41.48 |
0.8541 |
0.2534 |
260 |
2 |
39.34 |
2011-11-23 |
| 35. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
41.46 |
0.9576 |
0.1458 |
212 |
1 |
41.46 |
2011-11-23 |
| 36. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
41.37 |
0.9461 |
0.1464 |
193 |
1 |
41.37 |
2010-11-22 |
| 37. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
41.16 |
1.0567 |
0.0346 |
303 |
1 |
41.16 |
2010-02-25 |
| 38. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
40.85 |
1.0214 |
0.0556 |
166 |
1 |
40.85 |
2008-10-16 |
| 39. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
40.76 |
0.8821 |
0.1974 |
176 |
2 |
39.47 |
2011-11-23 |
| 40. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
40.64 |
1.0343 |
0.0799 |
242 |
1 |
40.64 |
2014-06-12 |
| 41. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
40.64 |
0.9946 |
0.0820 |
246 |
1 |
40.64 |
2010-10-04 |
| 42. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
40.60 |
0.9865 |
0.0903 |
276 |
1 |
40.60 |
2014-06-12 |
| 43. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
40.44 |
0.8892 |
0.1882 |
207 |
3 |
34.99 |
2010-12-19 |
| 44. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
40.39 |
0.9633 |
0.1090 |
304 |
2 |
34.75 |
2014-06-12 |
| 45. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
40.36 |
1.0083 |
0.1051 |
273 |
1 |
40.36 |
2010-11-22 |
| 46. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
40.21 |
1.0445 |
0.0216 |
373 |
1 |
40.21 |
2011-11-23 |
| 47. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
40.19 |
1.0528 |
0.0069 |
201 |
1 |
40.19 |
2010-11-22 |
| 48. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
40.16 |
1.0486 |
0.0161 |
289 |
1 |
40.16 |
2010-11-22 |
| 49. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
39.80 |
1.0429 |
0.0100 |
259 |
1 |
39.80 |
2011-11-23 |
| 50. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
39.77 |
0.9307 |
0.1307 |
246 |
1 |
39.77 |
2010-10-04 |
| 51. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
39.75 |
0.8906 |
0.1666 |
238 |
1 |
39.75 |
2014-06-12 |
| 52. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
39.75 |
0.9986 |
0.0549 |
283 |
1 |
39.75 |
2010-02-25 |
| 53. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
39.67 |
1.0189 |
0.0352 |
337 |
1 |
39.67 |
2014-06-12 |
| 54. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
39.09 |
1.0251 |
0.0079 |
261 |
2 |
36.97 |
2010-10-04 |
| 55. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
39.08 |
1.0379 |
0.0319 |
245 |
1 |
39.08 |
2011-11-23 |
| 56. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
39.03 |
0.8899 |
0.1548 |
293 |
1 |
39.03 |
2010-11-22 |
| 57. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
38.96 |
0.9866 |
0.0414 |
218 |
1 |
38.96 |
2010-02-25 |
| 58. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
38.71 |
0.9726 |
0.0460 |
154 |
1 |
38.71 |
2014-06-12 |
| 59. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
38.54 |
0.8884 |
0.1327 |
135 |
1 |
38.54 |
2010-11-22 |
| 60. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
38.51 |
1.0385 |
-0.0206 |
230 |
1 |
38.51 |
2010-02-25 |
| 61. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
38.25 |
0.9310 |
0.0778 |
188 |
2 |
33.09 |
2011-11-23 |
| 62. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
38.21 |
1.0521 |
-0.0453 |
171 |
1 |
38.21 |
2010-11-22 |
| 63. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
38.20 |
0.8533 |
0.1591 |
232 |
2 |
36.87 |
2008-10-17 |
| 64. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
37.73 |
0.8941 |
0.1066 |
216 |
1 |
37.73 |
2010-12-19 |
| 65. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
37.27 |
1.0053 |
-0.0209 |
232 |
1 |
37.27 |
2010-02-25 |
| 66. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
37.22 |
0.9792 |
0.0443 |
265 |
1 |
37.22 |
2010-02-25 |
| 67. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
36.55 |
1.0711 |
-0.1091 |
213 |
1 |
36.55 |
2008-10-21 |
| 68. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
36.47 |
0.9884 |
-0.0242 |
233 |
2 |
34.07 |
2010-02-25 |
| 69. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
36.41 |
0.9005 |
0.0614 |
212 |
1 |
36.41 |
2010-11-22 |
| 70. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
36.20 |
1.0426 |
-0.0856 |
323 |
1 |
36.20 |
2008-10-21 |
| 71. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
36.18 |
0.9922 |
0.0061 |
341 |
1 |
36.18 |
2014-06-12 |
| 72. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
36.01 |
0.9682 |
-0.0175 |
143 |
1 |
36.01 |
2010-02-25 |
| 73. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
35.86 |
0.9098 |
0.0351 |
167 |
1 |
35.86 |
2010-10-04 |
| 74. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
35.81 |
0.9072 |
0.0384 |
237 |
1 |
35.81 |
2011-11-23 |
| 75. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
35.66 |
1.1162 |
-0.1320 |
189 |
1 |
35.66 |
2011-11-23 |
| 76. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
35.57 |
0.8956 |
0.0478 |
217 |
2 |
30.83 |
2010-02-25 |
| 77. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
35.16 |
0.9089 |
0.0248 |
342 |
1 |
35.16 |
2010-10-04 |
| 78. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
35.06 |
1.0797 |
-0.1581 |
210 |
1 |
35.06 |
2010-02-25 |
| 79. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
35.01 |
0.9578 |
-0.0325 |
281 |
1 |
35.01 |
2008-10-17 |
| 80. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
34.98 |
0.9084 |
0.0207 |
404 |
1 |
34.98 |
2010-10-04 |
| 81. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
34.91 |
0.9339 |
-0.0123 |
310 |
1 |
34.91 |
2010-02-25 |
| 82. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
34.88 |
1.0213 |
-0.1022 |
240 |
1 |
34.88 |
2008-10-16 |
| 83. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
34.82 |
0.8878 |
0.0327 |
346 |
1 |
34.82 |
2010-02-25 |
| 84. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
34.81 |
0.9411 |
-0.0198 |
318 |
1 |
34.81 |
2010-02-25 |
| 85. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
34.14 |
1.0487 |
-0.1512 |
231 |
1 |
34.14 |
2009-05-17 |
| 86. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
34.03 |
0.9513 |
-0.0480 |
354 |
1 |
34.03 |
2009-05-12 |
| 87. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
34.00 |
0.9429 |
-0.0429 |
287 |
2 |
33.81 |
2014-06-10 |
| 88. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
33.73 |
0.9724 |
-0.0773 |
237 |
1 |
33.73 |
2008-10-16 |
| 89. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
33.49 |
1.0150 |
-0.0809 |
325 |
1 |
33.49 |
2010-02-25 |
| 90. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
33.35 |
0.9769 |
-0.0977 |
263 |
1 |
33.35 |
2008-10-21 |
| 91. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
33.15 |
0.9251 |
-0.0442 |
177 |
1 |
33.15 |
2008-10-16 |
| 92. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
33.09 |
1.0349 |
-0.1613 |
234 |
1 |
33.09 |
2008-10-17 |
| 93. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
32.90 |
1.0444 |
-0.1818 |
197 |
1 |
32.90 |
2009-05-17 |
| 94. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.80 |
0.8595 |
0.0089 |
242 |
1 |
32.80 |
2010-12-19 |
| 95. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
32.55 |
1.0483 |
-0.1914 |
227 |
2 |
31.64 |
2008-10-21 |
| 96. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
32.01 |
0.8914 |
-0.0452 |
366 |
1 |
32.01 |
2010-12-19 |
| 97. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
31.77 |
1.1014 |
-0.2247 |
273 |
1 |
31.77 |
2014-06-10 |
| 98. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
31.71 |
0.9907 |
-0.1550 |
211 |
1 |
31.71 |
2010-02-25 |
| 99. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
31.42 |
0.9851 |
-0.1533 |
317 |
1 |
31.42 |
2008-10-16 |
| 100. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
31.10 |
0.9740 |
-0.1571 |
209 |
1 |
31.10 |
2008-10-16 |
| 101. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
30.43 |
0.9612 |
-0.1582 |
256 |
2 |
29.97 |
2009-05-12 |
| 102. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
30.39 |
0.9758 |
-0.1732 |
314 |
1 |
30.39 |
2008-10-28 |
| 103. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
30.10 |
0.9239 |
-0.1231 |
193 |
1 |
30.10 |
2010-02-25 |
| 104. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
30.03 |
0.9886 |
-0.1938 |
220 |
1 |
30.03 |
2010-02-25 |
| 105. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
29.62 |
0.8263 |
-0.0471 |
162 |
1 |
29.62 |
2008-10-16 |
| 106. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
29.27 |
0.9019 |
-0.1248 |
204 |
1 |
29.27 |
2009-05-17 |
| 107. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
28.92 |
1.0004 |
-0.2440 |
212 |
1 |
28.92 |
2008-10-17 |
| 108. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
28.60 |
1.0714 |
-0.3264 |
129 |
1 |
28.60 |
2008-10-16 |
| 109. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
28.18 |
0.9316 |
-0.1829 |
287 |
1 |
28.18 |
2009-05-12 |
| 110. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
27.67 |
0.8810 |
-0.1512 |
282 |
1 |
27.67 |
2008-12-12 |
| 111. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
27.38 |
0.9614 |
-0.2372 |
292 |
1 |
27.38 |
2008-10-16 |
| 112. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
27.25 |
0.8739 |
-0.1602 |
136 |
1 |
27.25 |
2008-10-16 |
| 113. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
26.23 |
0.9325 |
-0.2488 |
156 |
1 |
26.23 |
2008-10-16 |
| 114. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
26.11 |
1.0666 |
-0.3793 |
297 |
1 |
26.11 |
2008-10-16 |
| 115. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
25.98 |
0.8951 |
-0.2092 |
193 |
1 |
25.98 |
2008-10-17 |
| 116. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
25.62 |
0.8602 |
-0.1884 |
206 |
1 |
25.62 |
2009-05-12 |
| 117. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
25.51 |
0.8792 |
-0.1988 |
296 |
1 |
25.51 |
2008-10-16 |
| 118. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
24.86 |
0.8559 |
-0.2014 |
191 |
1 |
24.86 |
2010-10-04 |
| 119. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
24.71 |
0.8709 |
-0.2134 |
202 |
1 |
24.71 |
2008-10-16 |
| 120. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
22.00 |
0.8791 |
-0.3030 |
190 |
1 |
22.00 |
2008-10-16 |