| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
75.16 |
1.0865 |
0.1525 |
237 |
1 |
75.16 |
2009-12-24 |
| 2. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
72.88 |
0.9933 |
0.2155 |
450 |
1 |
72.88 |
2008-10-25 |
| 3. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
71.30 |
1.0495 |
0.1253 |
323 |
1 |
71.30 |
2008-10-25 |
| 4. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
70.19 |
1.0128 |
0.1509 |
369 |
2 |
61.97 |
2009-12-24 |
| 5. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
68.60 |
1.0332 |
0.0967 |
267 |
1 |
68.60 |
2008-10-24 |
| 6. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
68.51 |
1.0111 |
0.1301 |
452 |
1 |
68.51 |
2009-12-24 |
| 7. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
68.41 |
1.0462 |
0.0842 |
340 |
1 |
68.41 |
2008-10-31 |
| 8. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
68.28 |
1.0082 |
0.1120 |
212 |
1 |
68.28 |
2009-12-24 |
| 9. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
68.17 |
1.0600 |
0.0637 |
351 |
1 |
68.17 |
2010-02-21 |
| 10. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
67.94 |
1.0509 |
0.0762 |
295 |
1 |
67.94 |
2009-12-24 |
| 11. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
67.47 |
0.9880 |
0.1196 |
199 |
1 |
67.47 |
2009-12-24 |
| 12. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
67.40 |
1.0877 |
0.0195 |
129 |
1 |
67.40 |
2008-10-25 |
| 13. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
67.12 |
1.0060 |
0.1014 |
260 |
1 |
67.12 |
2009-12-24 |
| 14. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
67.03 |
1.0607 |
0.0466 |
357 |
2 |
65.71 |
2010-02-21 |
| 15. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
66.84 |
0.9763 |
0.1246 |
143 |
1 |
66.84 |
2008-10-25 |
| 16. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
66.66 |
1.0036 |
0.0958 |
277 |
1 |
66.66 |
2009-12-24 |
| 17. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
65.93 |
1.0165 |
0.0690 |
316 |
1 |
65.93 |
2009-12-24 |
| 18. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
65.70 |
1.0181 |
0.0657 |
276 |
1 |
65.70 |
2008-10-31 |
| 19. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
65.15 |
1.0743 |
0.0002 |
297 |
1 |
65.15 |
2009-12-24 |
| 20. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
64.38 |
1.0867 |
-0.0305 |
171 |
1 |
64.38 |
2010-02-21 |
| 21. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
64.28 |
1.0800 |
-0.0240 |
213 |
1 |
64.28 |
2009-12-24 |
| 22. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
64.27 |
1.0338 |
0.0303 |
277 |
1 |
64.27 |
2009-12-24 |
| 23. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
63.78 |
1.0901 |
-0.0375 |
288 |
2 |
62.17 |
2009-12-24 |
| 24. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
63.51 |
1.0403 |
0.0042 |
234 |
1 |
63.51 |
2009-12-24 |
| 25. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
62.79 |
0.9810 |
0.0582 |
362 |
1 |
62.79 |
2009-12-24 |
| 26. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
62.65 |
0.9644 |
0.0706 |
398 |
1 |
62.65 |
2008-10-24 |
| 27. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
62.33 |
1.0250 |
0.0045 |
271 |
1 |
62.33 |
2008-10-24 |
| 28. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
62.16 |
0.9787 |
0.0485 |
364 |
1 |
62.16 |
2009-12-24 |
| 29. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
61.90 |
1.0004 |
0.0217 |
373 |
1 |
61.90 |
2009-12-24 |
| 30. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
61.84 |
0.9931 |
0.0299 |
339 |
1 |
61.84 |
2008-10-25 |
| 31. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
61.81 |
0.9402 |
0.0759 |
310 |
1 |
61.81 |
2008-10-25 |
| 32. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
61.53 |
1.0101 |
0.0051 |
336 |
1 |
61.53 |
2008-10-31 |
| 33. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
61.33 |
0.9359 |
0.0749 |
355 |
1 |
61.33 |
2008-10-25 |
| 34. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
61.00 |
0.9703 |
0.0409 |
394 |
1 |
61.00 |
2008-10-24 |
| 35. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
60.81 |
1.0479 |
-0.0481 |
205 |
1 |
60.81 |
2008-10-31 |
| 36. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
60.76 |
1.0125 |
-0.0168 |
171 |
1 |
60.76 |
2008-10-24 |
| 37. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
60.63 |
0.9271 |
0.0739 |
323 |
2 |
60.28 |
2008-10-26 |
| 38. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
59.87 |
1.0472 |
-0.0676 |
149 |
1 |
59.87 |
2008-10-24 |
| 39. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
59.75 |
1.0881 |
-0.1081 |
210 |
1 |
59.75 |
2008-10-25 |
| 40. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
59.73 |
0.9658 |
0.0214 |
308 |
1 |
59.73 |
2008-10-24 |
| 41. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
59.27 |
0.9726 |
0.0085 |
396 |
1 |
59.27 |
2008-10-24 |
| 42. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
59.04 |
0.9963 |
-0.0266 |
274 |
1 |
59.04 |
2008-10-24 |
| 43. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
58.95 |
1.0057 |
-0.0322 |
382 |
1 |
58.95 |
2008-10-24 |
| 44. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
58.94 |
1.0291 |
-0.0608 |
240 |
1 |
58.94 |
2008-10-24 |
| 45. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
58.91 |
0.9346 |
0.0325 |
211 |
1 |
58.91 |
2008-10-24 |
| 46. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
58.72 |
0.8988 |
0.0680 |
216 |
1 |
58.72 |
2008-10-24 |
| 47. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
58.40 |
1.0540 |
-0.0975 |
184 |
1 |
58.40 |
2008-10-24 |
| 48. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
58.30 |
1.0341 |
-0.0749 |
273 |
1 |
58.30 |
2009-12-24 |
| 49. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
57.91 |
0.9681 |
-0.0091 |
392 |
1 |
57.91 |
2008-10-25 |
| 50. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
57.77 |
1.0883 |
-0.1308 |
189 |
1 |
57.77 |
2009-12-24 |
| 51. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
57.29 |
0.9604 |
-0.0194 |
285 |
1 |
57.29 |
2008-10-24 |
| 52. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
57.08 |
0.8880 |
0.0517 |
296 |
1 |
57.08 |
2008-10-25 |
| 53. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
57.01 |
1.0432 |
-0.1041 |
276 |
1 |
57.01 |
2008-10-24 |
| 54. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
56.75 |
1.0511 |
-0.1151 |
252 |
1 |
56.75 |
2008-10-24 |
| 55. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
56.57 |
0.9070 |
0.0194 |
192 |
1 |
56.57 |
2009-12-24 |
| 56. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
56.44 |
0.9957 |
-0.0669 |
323 |
1 |
56.44 |
2009-12-24 |
| 57. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
56.40 |
0.8437 |
0.0840 |
268 |
1 |
56.40 |
2008-10-31 |
| 58. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
56.21 |
1.0464 |
-0.1162 |
294 |
1 |
56.21 |
2009-12-24 |
| 59. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
55.89 |
0.9974 |
-0.0814 |
163 |
1 |
55.89 |
2009-12-24 |
| 60. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
55.03 |
0.9183 |
-0.0117 |
308 |
1 |
55.03 |
2008-10-31 |
| 61. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
54.32 |
0.9145 |
-0.0171 |
404 |
1 |
54.32 |
2008-10-24 |
| 62. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
54.23 |
0.9503 |
-0.0646 |
211 |
1 |
54.23 |
2009-12-24 |
| 63. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
53.95 |
1.0197 |
-0.1337 |
204 |
1 |
53.95 |
2008-10-24 |
| 64. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
53.75 |
1.0506 |
-0.1666 |
259 |
1 |
53.75 |
2008-10-24 |
| 65. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
53.10 |
0.9357 |
-0.0642 |
204 |
1 |
53.10 |
2008-10-24 |
| 66. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
52.83 |
0.9885 |
-0.1126 |
469 |
1 |
52.83 |
2008-10-24 |
| 67. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
52.33 |
0.8656 |
-0.0035 |
242 |
1 |
52.33 |
2008-10-24 |
| 68. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
50.18 |
0.9027 |
-0.0809 |
189 |
1 |
50.18 |
2008-10-24 |
| 69. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
50.03 |
0.9108 |
-0.0881 |
235 |
1 |
50.03 |
2008-10-24 |
| 70. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
49.76 |
0.9685 |
-0.1495 |
304 |
1 |
49.76 |
2008-10-24 |
| 71. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
48.55 |
0.9011 |
-0.0996 |
322 |
1 |
48.55 |
2008-10-31 |
| 72. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
48.14 |
1.0426 |
-0.2551 |
131 |
1 |
48.14 |
2008-10-24 |
| 73. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
48.04 |
0.8624 |
-0.0773 |
174 |
1 |
48.04 |
2008-10-24 |
| 74. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
45.90 |
0.8666 |
-0.1147 |
206 |
1 |
45.90 |
2008-10-25 |