| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
49.37 |
1.0252 |
0.2163 |
176 |
2 |
44.55 |
2010-03-23 |
| 2. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
49.27 |
0.8615 |
0.3841 |
110 |
3 |
44.18 |
2010-03-23 |
| 3. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
48.26 |
1.0023 |
0.2155 |
211 |
3 |
45.25 |
2010-04-08 |
| 4. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
47.89 |
1.0263 |
0.1831 |
267 |
1 |
47.89 |
2010-03-17 |
| 5. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
47.66 |
1.0796 |
0.1200 |
129 |
1 |
47.66 |
2010-03-17 |
| 6. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
47.58 |
1.0029 |
0.1930 |
209 |
1 |
47.58 |
2010-03-18 |
| 7. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
47.15 |
0.9263 |
0.2685 |
188 |
1 |
47.15 |
2010-03-23 |
| 8. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
46.71 |
1.0095 |
0.1695 |
316 |
1 |
46.71 |
2010-03-18 |
| 9. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
46.68 |
1.0788 |
0.0949 |
171 |
3 |
46.16 |
2010-03-23 |
| 10. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
46.24 |
1.0567 |
0.1120 |
303 |
4 |
37.33 |
2010-04-08 |
| 11. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
45.79 |
0.9965 |
0.1553 |
168 |
1 |
45.79 |
2010-04-08 |
| 12. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
45.48 |
1.0346 |
0.1561 |
244 |
1 |
45.48 |
2010-04-08 |
| 13. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
45.48 |
1.0063 |
0.1428 |
371 |
1 |
45.48 |
2010-03-23 |
| 14. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
45.45 |
0.8821 |
0.2653 |
176 |
1 |
45.45 |
2010-04-08 |
| 15. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
45.00 |
0.9266 |
0.2099 |
267 |
1 |
45.00 |
2010-03-23 |
| 16. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
44.95 |
0.9795 |
0.1556 |
308 |
1 |
44.95 |
2010-04-08 |
| 17. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
44.95 |
1.0214 |
0.1083 |
166 |
1 |
44.95 |
2010-03-17 |
| 18. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
44.77 |
1.0389 |
0.0941 |
340 |
1 |
44.77 |
2010-03-17 |
| 19. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
44.65 |
0.9722 |
0.1574 |
283 |
1 |
44.65 |
2010-03-23 |
| 20. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
44.35 |
1.0388 |
0.1126 |
243 |
1 |
44.35 |
2010-03-21 |
| 21. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
44.35 |
1.0412 |
0.0780 |
225 |
1 |
44.35 |
2010-03-17 |
| 22. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
44.15 |
1.0349 |
0.0791 |
234 |
1 |
44.15 |
2010-03-22 |
| 23. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
44.04 |
1.0074 |
0.1064 |
242 |
1 |
44.04 |
2010-03-16 |
| 24. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
43.88 |
1.0251 |
0.0805 |
261 |
1 |
43.88 |
2010-03-21 |
| 25. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
43.85 |
1.0577 |
0.0459 |
247 |
1 |
43.85 |
2010-03-16 |
| 26. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
43.54 |
0.9632 |
0.1782 |
345 |
1 |
43.54 |
2010-04-08 |
| 27. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
43.54 |
1.0201 |
0.0794 |
303 |
1 |
43.54 |
2010-03-16 |
| 28. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
42.86 |
0.9532 |
0.1273 |
258 |
2 |
37.19 |
2010-04-28 |
| 29. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
42.78 |
1.0013 |
0.0775 |
273 |
1 |
42.78 |
2010-03-19 |
| 30. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.70 |
0.9843 |
0.0884 |
234 |
1 |
42.70 |
2010-03-16 |
| 31. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
42.61 |
0.9691 |
0.1058 |
223 |
1 |
42.61 |
2010-04-28 |
| 32. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
42.44 |
0.9125 |
0.1603 |
308 |
1 |
42.44 |
2010-04-08 |
| 33. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
42.27 |
0.8295 |
0.2390 |
209 |
1 |
42.27 |
2010-03-17 |
| 34. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
42.25 |
0.9559 |
0.1130 |
195 |
2 |
41.73 |
2010-03-17 |
| 35. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
42.02 |
1.0154 |
0.0947 |
351 |
1 |
42.02 |
2010-03-21 |
| 36. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
41.83 |
0.9866 |
0.0652 |
218 |
1 |
41.83 |
2010-03-17 |
| 37. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
41.78 |
0.9430 |
0.1141 |
297 |
1 |
41.78 |
2010-03-26 |
| 38. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
41.41 |
0.9128 |
0.1734 |
369 |
1 |
41.41 |
2010-03-17 |
| 39. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
41.40 |
1.0150 |
0.0785 |
325 |
1 |
41.40 |
2010-03-23 |
| 40. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
41.32 |
0.9897 |
0.0504 |
274 |
1 |
41.32 |
2010-03-17 |
| 41. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
41.18 |
1.0797 |
-0.0464 |
210 |
1 |
41.18 |
2010-04-28 |
| 42. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
41.10 |
1.0053 |
0.0295 |
232 |
1 |
41.10 |
2010-03-21 |
| 43. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
40.90 |
0.9339 |
0.0963 |
310 |
1 |
40.90 |
2010-03-21 |
| 44. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
40.83 |
0.9758 |
0.0548 |
314 |
2 |
40.03 |
2010-04-08 |
| 45. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
40.72 |
1.0389 |
-0.0101 |
318 |
1 |
40.72 |
2010-03-16 |
| 46. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
40.52 |
0.9342 |
0.0913 |
434 |
1 |
40.52 |
2010-04-08 |
| 47. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
40.49 |
1.0261 |
-0.0068 |
273 |
1 |
40.49 |
2010-03-16 |
| 48. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
40.47 |
1.0232 |
0.0434 |
350 |
1 |
40.47 |
2010-04-08 |
| 49. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
40.43 |
0.9514 |
0.0686 |
237 |
1 |
40.43 |
2010-03-18 |
| 50. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
40.42 |
1.0034 |
0.0145 |
302 |
1 |
40.42 |
2010-03-16 |
| 51. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
40.41 |
0.9275 |
0.0884 |
211 |
2 |
39.34 |
2010-03-16 |
| 52. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.39 |
0.9899 |
0.0241 |
163 |
1 |
40.39 |
2010-03-16 |
| 53. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
40.34 |
0.9844 |
0.0378 |
293 |
1 |
40.34 |
2010-03-17 |
| 54. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
40.19 |
0.9986 |
0.0156 |
283 |
1 |
40.19 |
2010-04-08 |
| 55. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
40.18 |
0.9500 |
0.0655 |
362 |
2 |
39.73 |
2010-04-19 |
| 56. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
40.17 |
0.9871 |
0.0622 |
209 |
1 |
40.17 |
2010-03-18 |
| 57. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
40.15 |
0.9684 |
0.0469 |
388 |
1 |
40.15 |
2010-03-16 |
| 58. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.12 |
0.8792 |
0.1419 |
296 |
2 |
39.26 |
2010-04-28 |
| 59. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
40.09 |
0.8915 |
0.1184 |
188 |
2 |
39.11 |
2010-04-28 |
| 60. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
39.94 |
1.0669 |
-0.0274 |
286 |
1 |
39.94 |
2010-03-18 |
| 61. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
39.83 |
0.8573 |
0.1507 |
270 |
1 |
39.83 |
2010-03-21 |
| 62. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
39.71 |
0.9710 |
0.0238 |
173 |
1 |
39.71 |
2010-03-21 |
| 63. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
39.63 |
0.8919 |
0.1057 |
205 |
1 |
39.63 |
2010-03-23 |
| 64. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
39.60 |
0.9168 |
0.0830 |
240 |
1 |
39.60 |
2010-03-18 |
| 65. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
39.50 |
1.0270 |
0.0050 |
255 |
1 |
39.50 |
2010-03-16 |
| 66. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
39.23 |
0.9851 |
0.0062 |
317 |
2 |
36.27 |
2010-04-28 |
| 67. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
39.20 |
0.8670 |
0.1267 |
318 |
1 |
39.20 |
2010-04-08 |
| 68. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
39.19 |
1.0025 |
-0.0136 |
336 |
1 |
39.19 |
2010-03-16 |
| 69. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
39.19 |
1.0555 |
-0.0661 |
363 |
1 |
39.19 |
2010-04-28 |
| 70. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
39.15 |
0.9740 |
0.0089 |
209 |
1 |
39.15 |
2010-03-23 |
| 71. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
39.14 |
0.9509 |
0.0743 |
225 |
2 |
36.29 |
2010-04-08 |
| 72. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
39.10 |
0.8971 |
0.0939 |
266 |
1 |
39.10 |
2010-03-26 |
| 73. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
39.04 |
1.0486 |
-0.0636 |
289 |
1 |
39.04 |
2010-03-21 |
| 74. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
38.94 |
1.0521 |
-0.0753 |
171 |
1 |
38.94 |
2010-04-08 |
| 75. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
38.93 |
0.9886 |
-0.0047 |
220 |
1 |
38.93 |
2010-03-21 |
| 76. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
38.58 |
0.9943 |
-0.0186 |
373 |
1 |
38.58 |
2010-03-22 |
| 77. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
38.52 |
0.9798 |
-0.0146 |
199 |
1 |
38.52 |
2010-03-31 |
| 78. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
38.51 |
0.7890 |
0.1826 |
230 |
2 |
38.38 |
2010-03-21 |
| 79. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
38.50 |
0.9670 |
0.0455 |
307 |
1 |
38.50 |
2010-03-22 |
| 80. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.46 |
0.9614 |
0.0110 |
292 |
1 |
38.46 |
2010-03-16 |
| 81. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
38.43 |
0.9128 |
0.0613 |
133 |
1 |
38.43 |
2010-03-16 |
| 82. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
38.23 |
0.9946 |
-0.0313 |
246 |
1 |
38.23 |
2010-03-23 |
| 83. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
37.92 |
1.0365 |
-0.0510 |
162 |
2 |
30.15 |
2010-04-19 |
| 84. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
37.91 |
1.0218 |
-0.0694 |
268 |
1 |
37.91 |
2010-04-08 |
| 85. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
37.80 |
0.8958 |
0.0613 |
322 |
1 |
37.80 |
2010-04-28 |
| 86. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
37.47 |
0.9309 |
0.0113 |
284 |
1 |
37.47 |
2010-03-21 |
| 87. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
37.19 |
0.8914 |
0.0464 |
366 |
1 |
37.19 |
2010-03-16 |
| 88. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
36.89 |
0.9468 |
-0.0180 |
276 |
1 |
36.89 |
2010-03-16 |
| 89. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
36.73 |
0.8628 |
0.0590 |
196 |
1 |
36.73 |
2010-04-28 |
| 90. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
36.45 |
0.8722 |
0.0488 |
285 |
3 |
35.15 |
2010-04-28 |
| 91. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
35.83 |
1.0090 |
-0.0630 |
282 |
1 |
35.83 |
2010-03-21 |
| 92. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
35.72 |
1.0498 |
-0.1552 |
180 |
1 |
35.72 |
2010-04-08 |
| 93. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
35.67 |
0.7259 |
0.1781 |
186 |
1 |
35.67 |
2010-04-28 |
| 94. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
35.56 |
0.8845 |
0.0112 |
273 |
2 |
34.47 |
2010-03-19 |
| 95. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
35.47 |
0.9278 |
-0.0321 |
295 |
1 |
35.47 |
2010-03-16 |
| 96. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
35.27 |
0.9411 |
-0.0524 |
318 |
1 |
35.27 |
2010-03-16 |
| 97. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
34.91 |
0.9286 |
-0.0509 |
194 |
1 |
34.91 |
2010-04-28 |
| 98. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
34.82 |
0.9916 |
-0.0726 |
282 |
1 |
34.82 |
2010-03-26 |
| 99. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
34.41 |
0.9089 |
-0.0390 |
342 |
2 |
33.06 |
2010-03-27 |
| 100. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
34.17 |
0.8852 |
-0.0233 |
201 |
1 |
34.17 |
2010-03-19 |
| 101. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
33.89 |
0.9976 |
-0.1247 |
174 |
1 |
33.89 |
2010-03-16 |
| 102. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
33.44 |
0.9461 |
-0.1051 |
276 |
1 |
33.44 |
2010-03-16 |
| 103. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
33.14 |
0.9084 |
-0.0731 |
300 |
1 |
33.14 |
2010-04-19 |
| 104. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
33.05 |
0.8145 |
0.0190 |
115 |
1 |
33.05 |
2010-04-28 |
| 105. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
33.05 |
0.9164 |
-0.0804 |
305 |
1 |
33.05 |
2010-04-28 |
| 106. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
32.27 |
1.0201 |
-0.2156 |
172 |
1 |
32.27 |
2010-03-27 |
| 107. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
32.05 |
0.8559 |
-0.0494 |
191 |
1 |
32.05 |
2010-03-27 |
| 108. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
30.17 |
0.9811 |
-0.2207 |
272 |
1 |
30.17 |
2010-03-17 |
| 109. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
28.21 |
0.8941 |
-0.1845 |
216 |
1 |
28.21 |
2010-03-31 |
| 110. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
28.06 |
0.8614 |
-0.1599 |
172 |
1 |
28.06 |
2010-03-21 |
| 111. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
27.96 |
0.8562 |
-0.1549 |
170 |
1 |
27.96 |
2010-03-23 |
| 112. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
26.76 |
0.8773 |
-0.2032 |
205 |
1 |
26.76 |
2010-03-31 |
| 113. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
26.60 |
0.8852 |
-0.2183 |
158 |
1 |
26.60 |
2010-03-31 |
| 114. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
26.07 |
1.1014 |
-0.4107 |
273 |
1 |
26.07 |
2010-03-16 |
| 115. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
23.89 |
1.0417 |
-0.4469 |
253 |
1 |
23.89 |
2010-03-31 |
| 116. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
23.69 |
0.9597 |
-0.3634 |
347 |
1 |
23.69 |
2010-04-19 |
| 117. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
23.63 |
0.7988 |
-0.1995 |
219 |
1 |
23.63 |
2010-03-27 |
| 118. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
23.63 |
0.8153 |
-0.2199 |
200 |
1 |
23.63 |
2010-03-31 |