| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
90.04 |
1.0289 |
0.5575 |
276 |
2 |
75.80 |
2009-02-04 |
| 2. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
72.08 |
0.9907 |
0.2792 |
211 |
2 |
66.27 |
2009-01-27 |
| 3. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
70.85 |
1.0334 |
0.2149 |
131 |
1 |
70.85 |
2009-01-27 |
| 4. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
67.97 |
0.9646 |
0.2329 |
264 |
3 |
59.41 |
2009-01-31 |
| 5. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
66.30 |
1.0496 |
0.1185 |
314 |
1 |
66.30 |
2009-01-25 |
| 6. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
65.89 |
0.9527 |
0.2082 |
251 |
1 |
65.89 |
2009-01-31 |
| 7. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
64.97 |
1.0013 |
0.1434 |
273 |
2 |
61.75 |
2009-01-31 |
| 8. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
64.42 |
1.0767 |
0.0583 |
212 |
1 |
64.42 |
2009-01-27 |
| 9. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
64.35 |
0.9649 |
0.1689 |
193 |
1 |
64.35 |
2009-01-27 |
| 10. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
64.17 |
1.0613 |
0.0693 |
456 |
1 |
64.17 |
2009-02-01 |
| 11. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
63.99 |
1.0711 |
0.0563 |
213 |
1 |
63.99 |
2009-01-31 |
| 12. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
63.93 |
1.0429 |
0.0835 |
259 |
1 |
63.93 |
2009-01-27 |
| 13. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
63.88 |
1.0462 |
0.0793 |
184 |
1 |
63.88 |
2009-01-25 |
| 14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
63.88 |
1.0252 |
0.1003 |
176 |
1 |
63.88 |
2009-01-31 |
| 15. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
63.45 |
0.9514 |
0.1665 |
237 |
2 |
54.38 |
2009-02-16 |
| 16. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
63.29 |
0.9202 |
0.1949 |
254 |
1 |
63.29 |
2009-02-01 |
| 17. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
62.97 |
0.9795 |
0.1299 |
308 |
2 |
56.58 |
2009-01-26 |
| 18. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
62.88 |
0.9780 |
0.1299 |
337 |
2 |
61.11 |
2009-01-25 |
| 19. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
62.49 |
0.9723 |
0.1287 |
364 |
2 |
62.29 |
2009-01-31 |
| 20. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
62.44 |
1.0714 |
0.0287 |
129 |
1 |
62.44 |
2009-01-26 |
| 21. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
61.75 |
1.0218 |
0.0661 |
268 |
1 |
61.75 |
2009-01-31 |
| 22. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
61.30 |
0.9841 |
0.0959 |
334 |
1 |
61.30 |
2009-02-01 |
| 23. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
61.23 |
0.9164 |
0.1624 |
305 |
1 |
61.23 |
2009-01-25 |
| 24. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
61.06 |
1.0390 |
0.0368 |
205 |
1 |
61.06 |
2009-01-25 |
| 25. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
60.82 |
0.9857 |
0.0859 |
293 |
1 |
60.82 |
2009-01-31 |
| 26. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
60.37 |
1.0486 |
0.0150 |
289 |
1 |
60.37 |
2009-01-25 |
| 27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
59.57 |
1.0613 |
-0.0118 |
266 |
1 |
59.57 |
2008-12-18 |
| 28. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
59.49 |
0.9632 |
0.0849 |
392 |
2 |
58.02 |
2009-01-31 |
| 29. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
59.31 |
0.9865 |
0.0585 |
276 |
1 |
59.31 |
2009-01-25 |
| 30. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
59.02 |
0.9049 |
0.1349 |
351 |
3 |
50.67 |
2009-02-01 |
| 31. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
58.78 |
1.0385 |
-0.0029 |
230 |
1 |
58.78 |
2009-01-31 |
| 32. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
58.66 |
1.0487 |
-0.0152 |
231 |
2 |
55.80 |
2009-02-01 |
| 33. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
58.55 |
1.0183 |
0.0133 |
191 |
1 |
58.55 |
2008-12-18 |
| 34. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
58.51 |
0.9965 |
0.0344 |
310 |
1 |
58.51 |
2008-12-18 |
| 35. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
58.42 |
1.0567 |
-0.0274 |
303 |
1 |
58.42 |
2009-01-27 |
| 36. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
57.85 |
1.0445 |
-0.0253 |
373 |
1 |
57.85 |
2009-01-25 |
| 37. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
57.82 |
1.0596 |
-0.0409 |
239 |
1 |
57.82 |
2009-01-27 |
| 38. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
57.52 |
0.9699 |
0.0435 |
269 |
1 |
57.52 |
2009-01-26 |
| 39. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
57.48 |
1.1016 |
-0.0889 |
233 |
1 |
57.48 |
2009-01-25 |
| 40. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
57.48 |
0.9734 |
0.0393 |
289 |
1 |
57.48 |
2009-01-27 |
| 41. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
57.47 |
0.9068 |
0.1057 |
269 |
1 |
57.47 |
2009-01-25 |
| 42. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
57.26 |
0.9897 |
0.0191 |
274 |
1 |
57.26 |
2008-12-18 |
| 43. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
56.98 |
0.9786 |
0.0253 |
235 |
1 |
56.98 |
2009-02-16 |
| 44. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
56.95 |
1.0666 |
-0.0632 |
297 |
1 |
56.95 |
2009-01-25 |
| 45. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
56.79 |
0.9768 |
0.0238 |
387 |
1 |
56.79 |
2009-01-25 |
| 46. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
56.76 |
0.9910 |
0.0090 |
295 |
1 |
56.76 |
2009-01-31 |
| 47. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
56.58 |
0.8961 |
0.1008 |
189 |
1 |
56.58 |
2009-01-25 |
| 48. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
56.52 |
0.9894 |
0.0064 |
323 |
1 |
56.52 |
2008-12-18 |
| 49. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
56.18 |
1.0062 |
-0.0164 |
288 |
1 |
56.18 |
2009-01-25 |
| 50. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
56.09 |
0.9843 |
0.0039 |
234 |
1 |
56.09 |
2009-01-26 |
| 51. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
55.69 |
0.9532 |
0.0280 |
258 |
1 |
55.69 |
2009-01-31 |
| 52. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
55.67 |
0.9088 |
0.0720 |
348 |
1 |
55.67 |
2009-02-01 |
| 53. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
54.80 |
0.9597 |
0.0058 |
347 |
1 |
54.80 |
2009-01-25 |
| 54. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
54.75 |
0.9846 |
-0.0200 |
281 |
1 |
54.75 |
2009-01-31 |
| 55. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
54.53 |
0.9084 |
0.0523 |
404 |
1 |
54.53 |
2008-12-18 |
| 56. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
54.44 |
1.0419 |
-0.0827 |
261 |
1 |
54.44 |
2008-12-18 |
| 57. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
54.36 |
1.0528 |
-0.0951 |
201 |
1 |
54.36 |
2008-12-18 |
| 58. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
54.06 |
0.9866 |
-0.0341 |
218 |
1 |
54.06 |
2008-12-18 |
| 59. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
54.02 |
0.9772 |
-0.0254 |
217 |
1 |
54.02 |
2009-01-27 |
| 60. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
53.85 |
1.0167 |
-0.0679 |
378 |
1 |
53.85 |
2008-12-18 |
| 61. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
53.84 |
0.9997 |
-0.0511 |
382 |
1 |
53.84 |
2009-01-27 |
| 62. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
53.79 |
0.9398 |
0.0079 |
419 |
1 |
53.79 |
2009-01-31 |
| 63. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
53.72 |
0.8353 |
0.1112 |
283 |
1 |
53.72 |
2008-12-18 |
| 64. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
53.62 |
0.9365 |
0.0082 |
248 |
1 |
53.62 |
2009-01-27 |
| 65. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
53.50 |
0.9785 |
-0.0359 |
335 |
1 |
53.50 |
2008-12-18 |
| 66. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
53.47 |
1.0337 |
-0.0916 |
214 |
1 |
53.47 |
2009-01-25 |
| 67. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
53.46 |
0.9266 |
0.0153 |
278 |
1 |
53.46 |
2008-12-18 |
| 68. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
53.06 |
0.9852 |
-0.0504 |
264 |
1 |
53.06 |
2008-12-18 |
| 69. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
52.83 |
0.8958 |
0.0350 |
322 |
2 |
49.54 |
2009-01-27 |
| 70. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
52.70 |
1.0120 |
-0.0835 |
290 |
1 |
52.70 |
2009-01-25 |
| 71. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
52.32 |
0.9681 |
-0.0463 |
378 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-01-25 |
| 72. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
52.27 |
0.9636 |
-0.0427 |
254 |
1 |
52.27 |
2009-01-25 |
| 73. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
51.79 |
0.9266 |
-0.0141 |
267 |
1 |
51.79 |
2009-01-26 |
| 74. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
51.68 |
1.0261 |
-0.1156 |
273 |
1 |
51.68 |
2008-12-18 |
| 75. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.58 |
0.9212 |
-0.0124 |
323 |
2 |
48.42 |
2009-01-31 |
| 76. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
51.16 |
0.9676 |
-0.0662 |
442 |
1 |
51.16 |
2009-01-27 |
| 77. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
51.07 |
1.0099 |
-0.1101 |
207 |
1 |
51.07 |
2008-12-18 |
| 78. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
50.98 |
0.8956 |
0.0026 |
322 |
1 |
50.98 |
2009-01-27 |
| 79. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
50.88 |
0.9758 |
-0.0794 |
314 |
1 |
50.88 |
2009-01-25 |
| 80. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
50.73 |
0.9899 |
-0.0961 |
163 |
1 |
50.73 |
2009-01-27 |
| 81. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
50.63 |
0.9653 |
-0.0733 |
394 |
1 |
50.63 |
2009-01-31 |
| 82. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
50.62 |
0.9289 |
-0.0370 |
204 |
1 |
50.62 |
2009-01-27 |
| 83. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
50.45 |
1.0799 |
-0.1910 |
243 |
1 |
50.45 |
2009-01-27 |
| 84. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
50.20 |
0.8935 |
-0.0090 |
328 |
1 |
50.20 |
2008-12-18 |
| 85. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
50.12 |
0.8602 |
0.0228 |
206 |
1 |
50.12 |
2009-01-27 |
| 86. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
50.04 |
0.8105 |
0.0711 |
204 |
1 |
50.04 |
2008-12-18 |
| 87. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
50.01 |
0.9168 |
-0.0357 |
240 |
1 |
50.01 |
2009-02-01 |
| 88. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
49.59 |
0.9567 |
-0.0830 |
273 |
1 |
49.59 |
2009-01-31 |
| 89. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
48.39 |
0.9710 |
-0.1184 |
173 |
1 |
48.39 |
2008-12-18 |
| 90. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
47.89 |
0.9213 |
-0.0775 |
295 |
1 |
47.89 |
2008-12-18 |
| 91. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
47.70 |
1.0516 |
-0.2112 |
281 |
1 |
47.70 |
2008-12-18 |
| 92. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
47.14 |
0.8852 |
-0.0547 |
201 |
1 |
47.14 |
2009-01-31 |
| 93. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
47.06 |
0.8753 |
-0.0462 |
427 |
1 |
47.06 |
2009-01-27 |
| 94. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.62 |
0.9798 |
-0.1584 |
199 |
1 |
46.62 |
2009-01-27 |
| 95. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
46.10 |
0.8382 |
-0.0260 |
268 |
1 |
46.10 |
2009-01-27 |
| 96. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
44.80 |
0.9430 |
-0.1537 |
211 |
1 |
44.80 |
2008-12-18 |