| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
54.20 |
1.0677 |
0.1873 |
284 |
1 |
54.20 |
2011-04-25 |
| 2. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
52.83 |
0.9697 |
0.2282 |
266 |
1 |
52.83 |
2011-04-23 |
| 3. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
51.93 |
0.9684 |
0.2070 |
388 |
1 |
51.93 |
2011-04-30 |
| 4. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
51.86 |
1.0183 |
0.1472 |
191 |
1 |
51.86 |
2011-04-25 |
| 5. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
51.69 |
1.0165 |
0.1547 |
392 |
1 |
51.69 |
2011-04-23 |
| 6. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
51.63 |
1.0154 |
0.2003 |
351 |
1 |
51.63 |
2011-04-23 |
| 7. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
51.39 |
1.0095 |
0.1498 |
316 |
1 |
51.39 |
2011-04-23 |
| 8. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
51.03 |
0.9353 |
0.2128 |
177 |
1 |
51.03 |
2011-04-23 |
| 9. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
50.59 |
1.0316 |
0.1143 |
333 |
2 |
46.87 |
2011-04-23 |
| 10. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
50.54 |
1.0602 |
0.0848 |
389 |
1 |
50.54 |
2011-04-23 |
| 11. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
50.34 |
1.0799 |
0.0528 |
243 |
1 |
50.34 |
2011-04-20 |
| 12. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
50.06 |
0.9614 |
0.1716 |
292 |
1 |
50.06 |
2011-04-25 |
| 13. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
50.02 |
0.9688 |
0.1601 |
217 |
1 |
50.02 |
2011-04-23 |
| 14. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
49.71 |
1.0669 |
0.0875 |
286 |
2 |
47.39 |
2011-04-23 |
| 15. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
49.67 |
0.9239 |
0.2038 |
193 |
1 |
49.67 |
2011-04-23 |
| 16. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
49.67 |
1.0352 |
0.0885 |
341 |
1 |
49.67 |
2011-04-25 |
| 17. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
49.23 |
0.9884 |
0.1219 |
233 |
1 |
49.23 |
2011-04-23 |
| 18. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
49.21 |
0.9986 |
0.1071 |
162 |
1 |
49.21 |
2011-04-25 |
| 19. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
48.84 |
1.0012 |
0.1043 |
260 |
1 |
48.84 |
2011-04-23 |
| 20. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
48.52 |
0.9461 |
0.1486 |
276 |
1 |
48.52 |
2011-04-23 |
| 21. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
48.34 |
1.0384 |
0.0428 |
183 |
1 |
48.34 |
2011-04-25 |
| 22. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
48.30 |
1.0320 |
0.0952 |
293 |
1 |
48.30 |
2011-04-25 |
| 23. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
48.06 |
1.0218 |
0.0597 |
268 |
1 |
48.06 |
2011-04-23 |
| 24. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
47.79 |
1.0608 |
0.0507 |
258 |
1 |
47.79 |
2011-04-30 |
| 25. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
47.65 |
1.0029 |
0.0657 |
209 |
1 |
47.65 |
2011-04-09 |
| 26. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
47.59 |
1.0201 |
0.0468 |
172 |
2 |
47.32 |
2011-04-30 |
| 27. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
47.46 |
1.0296 |
0.0475 |
437 |
1 |
47.46 |
2011-04-10 |
| 28. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
47.44 |
0.9724 |
0.1014 |
237 |
1 |
47.44 |
2011-04-17 |
| 29. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
47.32 |
1.0483 |
0.0162 |
227 |
1 |
47.32 |
2011-04-17 |
| 30. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
46.68 |
1.0462 |
0.0006 |
184 |
1 |
46.68 |
2011-04-11 |
| 31. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
46.57 |
1.0132 |
0.0285 |
143 |
1 |
46.57 |
2011-04-23 |
| 32. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
46.50 |
0.9851 |
0.0659 |
317 |
1 |
46.50 |
2011-04-23 |
| 33. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
46.26 |
0.9871 |
0.0924 |
209 |
1 |
46.26 |
2011-04-25 |
| 34. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
46.23 |
1.0740 |
0.0069 |
264 |
1 |
46.23 |
2011-04-23 |
| 35. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
46.14 |
1.0172 |
0.0584 |
341 |
1 |
46.14 |
2011-04-25 |
| 36. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
45.95 |
0.9048 |
0.1360 |
271 |
1 |
45.95 |
2011-04-30 |
| 37. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
45.88 |
1.0917 |
-0.0336 |
243 |
1 |
45.88 |
2011-04-09 |
| 38. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
45.82 |
0.9226 |
0.1169 |
348 |
2 |
44.68 |
2011-04-23 |
| 39. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
45.79 |
0.8341 |
0.2070 |
224 |
1 |
45.79 |
2011-04-25 |
| 40. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
45.57 |
1.0063 |
0.0216 |
371 |
1 |
45.57 |
2011-04-09 |
| 41. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
45.44 |
0.9670 |
0.0997 |
307 |
1 |
45.44 |
2011-04-16 |
| 42. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
45.42 |
0.8971 |
0.1323 |
266 |
2 |
44.34 |
2011-04-16 |
| 43. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
45.36 |
0.8961 |
0.1232 |
189 |
1 |
45.36 |
2011-04-25 |
| 44. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
45.29 |
0.9084 |
0.1168 |
404 |
1 |
45.29 |
2011-04-23 |
| 45. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
45.26 |
0.9089 |
0.1155 |
342 |
1 |
45.26 |
2011-04-25 |
| 46. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
45.18 |
1.0944 |
-0.0310 |
308 |
1 |
45.18 |
2011-04-09 |
| 47. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
44.79 |
0.9769 |
0.0307 |
263 |
2 |
43.23 |
2011-04-25 |
| 48. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
44.74 |
0.9023 |
0.1491 |
231 |
1 |
44.74 |
2011-04-25 |
| 49. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
44.37 |
0.9514 |
0.0490 |
237 |
1 |
44.37 |
2011-04-09 |
| 50. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
44.29 |
0.9461 |
0.0484 |
193 |
1 |
44.29 |
2011-04-23 |
| 51. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
44.09 |
1.0534 |
-0.0575 |
357 |
2 |
42.50 |
2011-04-23 |
| 52. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
44.00 |
0.8958 |
0.1005 |
322 |
1 |
44.00 |
2011-04-30 |
| 53. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
43.88 |
0.9722 |
0.0188 |
283 |
1 |
43.88 |
2011-04-09 |
| 54. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
43.85 |
0.9418 |
0.0521 |
188 |
1 |
43.85 |
2011-04-09 |
| 55. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
43.84 |
0.9247 |
0.0680 |
253 |
1 |
43.84 |
2011-04-10 |
| 56. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
43.80 |
1.0349 |
-0.0485 |
234 |
1 |
43.80 |
2011-04-09 |
| 57. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
43.49 |
0.8787 |
0.1060 |
202 |
1 |
43.49 |
2011-04-26 |
| 58. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
43.45 |
1.0477 |
-0.0662 |
360 |
1 |
43.45 |
2011-04-23 |
| 59. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
43.45 |
0.9098 |
0.0656 |
167 |
1 |
43.45 |
2011-04-20 |
| 60. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
43.45 |
0.9846 |
-0.0066 |
281 |
1 |
43.45 |
2011-04-09 |
| 61. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
43.41 |
0.8933 |
0.0913 |
363 |
1 |
43.41 |
2011-04-25 |
| 62. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
43.33 |
1.0417 |
-0.0678 |
253 |
1 |
43.33 |
2011-04-23 |
| 63. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
43.30 |
0.7988 |
0.1856 |
219 |
1 |
43.30 |
2011-04-11 |
| 64. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
43.30 |
0.9202 |
0.0548 |
254 |
1 |
43.30 |
2011-04-09 |
| 65. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
43.27 |
0.9976 |
-0.0024 |
174 |
1 |
43.27 |
2011-04-23 |
| 66. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
43.19 |
0.9758 |
-0.0019 |
314 |
1 |
43.19 |
2011-04-16 |
| 67. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
43.17 |
0.9786 |
-0.0111 |
193 |
1 |
43.17 |
2011-04-30 |
| 68. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
42.99 |
0.9266 |
0.0438 |
278 |
1 |
42.99 |
2011-04-09 |
| 69. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
42.96 |
0.9251 |
0.0478 |
177 |
1 |
42.96 |
2011-04-09 |
| 70. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
42.89 |
1.0515 |
-0.0871 |
250 |
1 |
42.89 |
2011-04-09 |
| 71. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
42.69 |
1.0169 |
-0.0165 |
346 |
1 |
42.69 |
2011-04-25 |
| 72. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
42.40 |
0.9430 |
0.0151 |
297 |
1 |
42.40 |
2011-04-09 |
| 73. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
41.98 |
0.8022 |
0.1465 |
215 |
1 |
41.98 |
2011-04-30 |
| 74. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
41.75 |
0.8810 |
0.0601 |
282 |
1 |
41.75 |
2011-04-10 |
| 75. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
41.69 |
1.0506 |
-0.0829 |
277 |
1 |
41.69 |
2011-04-23 |
| 76. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
41.52 |
0.9068 |
0.0313 |
269 |
1 |
41.52 |
2011-04-20 |
| 77. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
41.15 |
0.9289 |
-0.0046 |
204 |
1 |
41.15 |
2011-04-17 |
| 78. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
41.02 |
0.9084 |
0.0170 |
300 |
1 |
41.02 |
2011-04-26 |
| 79. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
40.82 |
0.9946 |
-0.0757 |
246 |
1 |
40.82 |
2011-04-09 |
| 80. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
40.58 |
0.9773 |
-0.0716 |
123 |
1 |
40.58 |
2011-04-23 |
| 81. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
40.52 |
0.8770 |
0.0384 |
300 |
1 |
40.52 |
2011-04-10 |
| 82. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
40.24 |
0.8353 |
0.0780 |
283 |
1 |
40.24 |
2011-04-09 |
| 83. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
39.88 |
0.9500 |
-0.0502 |
362 |
1 |
39.88 |
2011-04-10 |
| 84. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
39.84 |
0.8956 |
0.0037 |
217 |
1 |
39.84 |
2011-04-13 |
| 85. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
39.78 |
1.0168 |
-0.1201 |
271 |
1 |
39.78 |
2011-04-30 |
| 86. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
39.33 |
1.0038 |
-0.0884 |
237 |
1 |
39.33 |
2011-04-09 |
| 87. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
39.04 |
1.0528 |
-0.1794 |
201 |
1 |
39.04 |
2011-04-09 |
| 88. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
38.74 |
0.8884 |
-0.0162 |
135 |
1 |
38.74 |
2011-04-16 |
| 89. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
38.50 |
0.9576 |
-0.0869 |
212 |
1 |
38.50 |
2011-04-25 |
| 90. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
38.21 |
0.9795 |
-0.1200 |
308 |
1 |
38.21 |
2011-04-09 |
| 91. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
37.51 |
1.0516 |
-0.2085 |
281 |
1 |
37.51 |
2011-04-09 |
| 92. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
37.42 |
0.8595 |
-0.0162 |
242 |
1 |
37.42 |
2011-04-09 |
| 93. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
36.57 |
0.9513 |
-0.1255 |
354 |
1 |
36.57 |
2011-04-10 |
| 94. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
36.46 |
0.8821 |
-0.0631 |
176 |
1 |
36.46 |
2011-04-16 |
| 95. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
36.44 |
1.0485 |
-0.1947 |
153 |
1 |
36.44 |
2011-04-09 |
| 96. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
36.10 |
0.9897 |
-0.1807 |
274 |
1 |
36.10 |
2011-04-09 |
| 97. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
35.99 |
0.9430 |
-0.1415 |
211 |
1 |
35.99 |
2011-04-09 |
| 98. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
35.75 |
0.9682 |
-0.1668 |
143 |
1 |
35.75 |
2011-04-16 |
| 99. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
35.46 |
0.7876 |
0.0117 |
316 |
1 |
35.46 |
2011-04-23 |
| 100. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
34.56 |
0.9820 |
-0.2056 |
274 |
1 |
34.56 |
2010-04-19 |
| 101. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
34.48 |
0.9509 |
-0.1382 |
225 |
1 |
34.48 |
2011-04-20 |
| 102. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
33.09 |
0.9632 |
-0.1783 |
345 |
1 |
33.09 |
2011-04-10 |
| 103. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
32.87 |
1.0042 |
-0.2251 |
352 |
1 |
32.87 |
2011-04-23 |
| 104. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
30.28 |
0.9426 |
-0.2611 |
317 |
1 |
30.28 |
2011-04-16 |
| 105. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
26.70 |
0.9665 |
-0.3205 |
326 |
1 |
26.70 |
2010-04-19 |