| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
36.61 |
0.8994 |
0.3828 |
188 |
1 |
36.61 |
2011-02-01 |
| 2. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
36.11 |
0.8581 |
0.4012 |
136 |
2 |
30.17 |
2011-01-30 |
| 3. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
35.96 |
1.0596 |
0.1954 |
239 |
1 |
35.96 |
2011-01-05 |
| 4. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
35.92 |
0.8876 |
0.3664 |
118 |
2 |
29.95 |
2011-01-06 |
| 5. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
34.62 |
0.8919 |
0.3201 |
152 |
1 |
34.62 |
2011-01-08 |
| 6. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
34.31 |
1.0515 |
0.1396 |
166 |
1 |
34.31 |
2011-01-08 |
| 7. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
34.28 |
0.8715 |
0.3224 |
130 |
1 |
34.28 |
2011-01-08 |
| 8. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
34.01 |
1.0132 |
0.1664 |
143 |
1 |
34.01 |
2011-01-04 |
| 9. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
33.82 |
0.9873 |
0.1916 |
155 |
1 |
33.82 |
2011-01-02 |
| 10. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
33.79 |
1.0346 |
0.1879 |
244 |
1 |
33.79 |
2011-01-06 |
| 11. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
33.71 |
1.0767 |
0.0988 |
212 |
2 |
32.90 |
2011-01-08 |
| 12. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
33.69 |
0.9316 |
0.2514 |
287 |
1 |
33.69 |
2011-01-06 |
| 13. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
33.65 |
1.0608 |
0.1481 |
258 |
1 |
33.65 |
2011-01-30 |
| 14. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
33.61 |
0.9171 |
0.2574 |
165 |
1 |
33.61 |
2011-07-20 |
| 15. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
33.38 |
1.0725 |
0.1193 |
233 |
1 |
33.38 |
2011-01-08 |
| 16. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
32.79 |
0.9266 |
0.2187 |
267 |
1 |
32.79 |
2011-02-01 |
| 17. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
32.56 |
0.8915 |
0.2445 |
188 |
1 |
32.56 |
2011-01-08 |
| 18. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
32.52 |
0.9320 |
0.1964 |
84 |
1 |
32.52 |
2011-01-05 |
| 19. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
32.45 |
0.9851 |
0.1503 |
317 |
1 |
32.45 |
2011-01-06 |
| 20. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
32.26 |
0.9966 |
0.1293 |
259 |
1 |
32.26 |
2011-01-06 |
| 21. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
32.04 |
0.8153 |
0.3082 |
200 |
1 |
32.04 |
2011-01-08 |
| 22. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
32.00 |
0.8323 |
0.2854 |
203 |
1 |
32.00 |
2011-01-02 |
| 23. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
31.77 |
1.0787 |
0.0292 |
237 |
1 |
31.77 |
2011-01-05 |
| 24. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
31.73 |
0.8422 |
0.2673 |
164 |
1 |
31.73 |
2011-01-30 |
| 25. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
31.62 |
0.8793 |
0.2262 |
157 |
2 |
29.15 |
2012-01-25 |
| 26. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
31.52 |
0.8788 |
0.2180 |
134 |
2 |
31.05 |
2011-01-06 |
| 27. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
31.41 |
0.9572 |
0.1382 |
201 |
1 |
31.41 |
2011-01-02 |
| 28. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
31.40 |
1.0029 |
0.0868 |
209 |
1 |
31.40 |
2011-01-14 |
| 29. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
31.23 |
0.8628 |
0.2239 |
196 |
1 |
31.23 |
2011-02-01 |
| 30. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
31.19 |
1.1114 |
-0.0254 |
247 |
1 |
31.19 |
2011-01-06 |
| 31. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
31.15 |
1.0498 |
0.0327 |
180 |
1 |
31.15 |
2011-01-05 |
| 32. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
31.14 |
1.0797 |
0.0016 |
210 |
3 |
30.44 |
2011-01-06 |
| 33. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
31.12 |
0.9844 |
0.1128 |
229 |
1 |
31.12 |
2011-01-06 |
| 34. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
31.09 |
0.8900 |
0.1963 |
164 |
1 |
31.09 |
2011-01-08 |
| 35. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
30.84 |
1.0463 |
0.0254 |
182 |
2 |
18.43 |
2011-01-04 |
| 36. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
30.79 |
1.0565 |
0.0155 |
247 |
2 |
29.39 |
2011-02-01 |
| 37. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
30.71 |
0.9418 |
0.1355 |
188 |
2 |
29.49 |
2011-01-08 |
| 38. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
30.31 |
1.0033 |
0.0476 |
189 |
1 |
30.31 |
2011-01-06 |
| 39. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
30.30 |
0.9820 |
0.0780 |
267 |
1 |
30.30 |
2011-07-20 |
| 40. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
29.98 |
0.8073 |
0.2401 |
173 |
2 |
29.98 |
2011-02-01 |
| 41. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
29.97 |
0.9986 |
0.0421 |
162 |
1 |
29.97 |
2011-01-05 |
| 42. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
29.97 |
0.9773 |
0.0604 |
123 |
1 |
29.97 |
2011-02-01 |
| 43. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
29.94 |
0.9207 |
0.1264 |
174 |
2 |
25.23 |
2011-01-05 |
| 44. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
29.93 |
0.8747 |
0.1650 |
201 |
1 |
29.93 |
2011-01-02 |
| 45. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
29.93 |
0.8890 |
0.1516 |
199 |
2 |
26.61 |
2011-01-08 |
| 46. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
29.89 |
1.0390 |
0.0000 |
205 |
2 |
27.22 |
2012-01-25 |
| 47. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
29.85 |
0.8884 |
0.1536 |
135 |
1 |
29.85 |
2011-01-06 |
| 48. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
29.71 |
0.9275 |
0.1056 |
211 |
2 |
27.24 |
2011-01-06 |
| 49. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
29.56 |
1.0487 |
-0.0226 |
231 |
2 |
24.71 |
2011-01-10 |
| 50. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
29.49 |
0.8614 |
0.1649 |
172 |
1 |
29.49 |
2011-01-04 |
| 51. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
29.39 |
0.9168 |
0.1096 |
240 |
3 |
28.52 |
2011-01-14 |
| 52. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
29.33 |
1.0993 |
-0.0784 |
265 |
1 |
29.33 |
2011-01-14 |
| 53. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
29.24 |
0.7708 |
0.2544 |
207 |
1 |
29.24 |
2011-01-08 |
| 54. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
29.19 |
0.8360 |
0.1812 |
170 |
1 |
29.19 |
2011-01-14 |
| 55. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
29.18 |
0.8773 |
0.1439 |
205 |
2 |
26.31 |
2011-02-01 |
| 56. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
29.17 |
0.8763 |
0.1404 |
105 |
1 |
29.17 |
2010-12-26 |
| 57. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
29.07 |
0.8892 |
0.1306 |
207 |
1 |
29.07 |
2011-01-05 |
| 58. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
28.96 |
0.8520 |
0.1588 |
202 |
1 |
28.96 |
2011-01-05 |
| 59. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
28.94 |
0.8660 |
0.1436 |
193 |
2 |
28.69 |
2011-01-06 |
| 60. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
28.87 |
0.9260 |
0.0911 |
243 |
1 |
28.87 |
2011-01-14 |
| 61. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
28.87 |
0.9612 |
0.0455 |
256 |
2 |
27.89 |
2011-01-08 |
| 62. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
28.83 |
1.1018 |
-0.1029 |
220 |
1 |
28.83 |
2011-01-06 |
| 63. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
28.64 |
0.9758 |
0.0235 |
314 |
1 |
28.64 |
2011-01-06 |
| 64. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
28.58 |
0.9567 |
0.0820 |
184 |
1 |
28.58 |
2011-01-06 |
| 65. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
28.55 |
0.8122 |
0.1856 |
181 |
2 |
24.67 |
2011-01-14 |
| 66. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
28.55 |
0.9068 |
0.0869 |
225 |
1 |
28.55 |
2011-01-06 |
| 67. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
28.42 |
0.9164 |
0.0779 |
121 |
1 |
28.42 |
2011-01-02 |
| 68. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
28.36 |
0.9019 |
0.0920 |
204 |
1 |
28.36 |
2011-01-08 |
| 69. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
28.35 |
1.0696 |
-0.0847 |
226 |
1 |
28.35 |
2012-01-25 |
| 70. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
28.32 |
0.8145 |
0.1751 |
115 |
1 |
28.32 |
2011-01-14 |
| 71. |
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents, Princess Leia races... |
28.29 |
0.7938 |
0.1935 |
176 |
2 |
23.81 |
2011-01-04 |
| 72. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
28.23 |
0.9763 |
0.0073 |
289 |
1 |
28.23 |
2011-02-01 |
| 73. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
28.10 |
0.9740 |
0.0014 |
209 |
1 |
28.10 |
2011-01-06 |
| 74. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
27.95 |
0.9213 |
0.0534 |
295 |
3 |
27.64 |
2011-02-01 |
| 75. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
27.91 |
0.8559 |
0.1177 |
191 |
2 |
24.33 |
2011-01-06 |
| 76. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
27.72 |
0.9257 |
0.0459 |
317 |
1 |
27.72 |
2011-01-08 |
| 77. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
27.70 |
1.0365 |
-0.0412 |
162 |
1 |
27.70 |
2011-01-05 |
| 78. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
27.40 |
0.7259 |
0.2348 |
186 |
1 |
27.40 |
2011-02-01 |
| 79. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
27.32 |
0.8629 |
0.0939 |
299 |
1 |
27.32 |
2011-01-04 |
| 80. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
27.19 |
0.8323 |
0.1137 |
145 |
1 |
27.19 |
2011-01-05 |
| 81. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
27.16 |
0.9633 |
-0.0148 |
304 |
1 |
27.16 |
2011-01-04 |
| 82. |
You can't get away with saying "I don't like green food!" mu... |
27.15 |
0.7484 |
0.1940 |
185 |
3 |
25.75 |
2011-01-06 |
| 83. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
27.14 |
0.7443 |
0.1999 |
169 |
1 |
27.14 |
2011-01-06 |
| 84. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
26.98 |
0.8311 |
0.1030 |
124 |
1 |
26.98 |
2011-01-08 |
| 85. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
26.94 |
0.9798 |
-0.0469 |
199 |
2 |
23.23 |
2011-01-02 |
| 86. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
26.93 |
0.9430 |
-0.0121 |
211 |
1 |
26.93 |
2011-01-08 |
| 87. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
26.92 |
0.8975 |
0.0409 |
268 |
1 |
26.92 |
2011-01-05 |
| 88. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
26.92 |
1.0151 |
-0.0857 |
152 |
1 |
26.92 |
2011-01-05 |
| 89. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
26.86 |
0.9266 |
0.0110 |
278 |
1 |
26.86 |
2011-01-05 |
| 90. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
26.84 |
0.9899 |
-0.0596 |
163 |
1 |
26.84 |
2011-02-01 |
| 91. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
26.80 |
0.8562 |
0.0775 |
170 |
1 |
26.80 |
2011-01-06 |
| 92. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
26.46 |
0.8142 |
0.1018 |
187 |
1 |
26.46 |
2011-01-05 |
| 93. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
26.42 |
0.8936 |
0.0250 |
127 |
2 |
24.33 |
2011-01-14 |
| 94. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
26.35 |
0.8152 |
0.1027 |
163 |
1 |
26.35 |
2011-01-05 |
| 95. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
26.28 |
0.9697 |
-0.0498 |
266 |
1 |
26.28 |
2011-01-08 |
| 96. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
26.26 |
0.7996 |
0.1161 |
177 |
1 |
26.26 |
2011-01-06 |
| 97. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
26.06 |
1.0711 |
-0.1687 |
213 |
2 |
24.79 |
2011-01-04 |
| 98. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
25.88 |
0.8154 |
0.0875 |
193 |
2 |
24.18 |
2011-01-06 |
| 99. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
25.56 |
0.8231 |
0.0692 |
180 |
1 |
25.56 |
2011-01-06 |
| 100. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
25.39 |
0.7805 |
0.0992 |
154 |
1 |
25.39 |
2011-01-06 |
| 101. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
25.34 |
0.9239 |
-0.0352 |
193 |
1 |
25.34 |
2011-01-06 |
| 102. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
25.13 |
1.0016 |
-0.1315 |
218 |
1 |
25.13 |
2011-01-05 |
| 103. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
24.90 |
0.8731 |
0.0004 |
199 |
1 |
24.90 |
2011-01-04 |
| 104. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
24.68 |
0.9509 |
-0.0537 |
225 |
1 |
24.68 |
2011-01-04 |
| 105. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
24.49 |
0.9673 |
-0.0760 |
232 |
1 |
24.49 |
2011-01-06 |
| 106. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
24.12 |
0.9303 |
-0.0976 |
176 |
1 |
24.12 |
2011-01-04 |
| 107. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
24.02 |
1.0150 |
-0.1306 |
325 |
1 |
24.02 |
2012-01-22 |
| 108. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
23.81 |
0.9251 |
-0.0921 |
177 |
1 |
23.81 |
2010-12-26 |
| 109. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
23.79 |
0.7104 |
0.1197 |
131 |
1 |
23.79 |
2011-01-02 |
| 110. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
23.64 |
0.9196 |
-0.0959 |
148 |
1 |
23.64 |
2010-12-26 |
| 111. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
23.39 |
0.9811 |
-0.1652 |
272 |
1 |
23.39 |
2011-01-02 |
| 112. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
23.22 |
0.8202 |
-0.0157 |
178 |
1 |
23.22 |
2011-01-05 |
| 113. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
23.01 |
0.9559 |
-0.1534 |
195 |
1 |
23.01 |
2011-01-02 |
| 114. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
22.91 |
0.9965 |
-0.2051 |
168 |
1 |
22.91 |
2010-12-26 |
| 115. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
22.28 |
0.7801 |
-0.0097 |
116 |
1 |
22.28 |
2011-01-02 |
| 116. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
21.28 |
0.8918 |
-0.1547 |
100 |
1 |
21.28 |
2010-12-26 |
| 117. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
19.56 |
0.9202 |
-0.2430 |
254 |
1 |
19.56 |
2011-01-08 |
| 118. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
19.31 |
0.7731 |
-0.1020 |
145 |
1 |
19.31 |
2010-12-26 |
| 119. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
17.52 |
0.8070 |
-0.1986 |
137 |
1 |
17.52 |
2011-01-04 |
| 120. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
17.02 |
0.9871 |
-0.3627 |
209 |
1 |
17.02 |
2010-12-29 |
| 121. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
6.97 |
1.0334 |
-0.8066 |
131 |
1 |
6.97 |
2010-12-26 |
| 122. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
6.35 |
0.8125 |
-0.5986 |
197 |
1 |
6.35 |
2010-12-26 |