| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
82.05 |
0.9176 |
0.9585 |
267 |
1 |
82.05 |
2011-11-07 |
| 2. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
66.43 |
0.9884 |
0.5046 |
262 |
1 |
66.43 |
2011-10-27 |
| 3. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
65.92 |
0.9857 |
0.4908 |
293 |
2 |
51.88 |
2011-10-28 |
| 4. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
61.06 |
1.0060 |
0.3568 |
171 |
1 |
61.06 |
2011-10-27 |
| 5. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
58.92 |
1.0388 |
0.3121 |
243 |
1 |
58.92 |
2011-10-28 |
| 6. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
54.41 |
1.0799 |
0.1336 |
243 |
1 |
54.41 |
2011-10-27 |
| 7. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
54.00 |
0.8951 |
0.3153 |
193 |
1 |
54.00 |
2011-10-27 |
| 8. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
53.96 |
1.0385 |
0.1668 |
230 |
1 |
53.96 |
2011-10-27 |
| 9. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
53.68 |
1.0714 |
0.1201 |
129 |
2 |
45.98 |
2011-10-27 |
| 10. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
53.66 |
1.0596 |
0.1383 |
239 |
1 |
53.66 |
2011-10-27 |
| 11. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
53.42 |
1.0788 |
0.1105 |
171 |
1 |
53.42 |
2011-10-26 |
| 12. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
53.34 |
1.0644 |
0.1652 |
257 |
1 |
53.34 |
2011-10-27 |
| 13. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
52.36 |
0.9239 |
0.2532 |
193 |
1 |
52.36 |
2011-11-01 |
| 14. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
52.00 |
0.9576 |
0.2092 |
212 |
1 |
52.00 |
2011-10-28 |
| 15. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
51.94 |
1.0257 |
0.1422 |
401 |
1 |
51.94 |
2011-10-27 |
| 16. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
51.64 |
0.9485 |
0.2080 |
236 |
2 |
49.05 |
2011-10-27 |
| 17. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
50.43 |
1.0240 |
0.1001 |
256 |
1 |
50.43 |
2011-11-07 |
| 18. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
50.37 |
0.9097 |
0.2160 |
153 |
1 |
50.37 |
2011-10-26 |
| 19. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
50.19 |
0.9684 |
0.1559 |
388 |
1 |
50.19 |
2011-10-27 |
| 20. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
49.89 |
0.9464 |
0.1740 |
323 |
1 |
49.89 |
2011-10-27 |
| 21. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
49.88 |
0.9908 |
0.1703 |
342 |
1 |
49.88 |
2011-10-27 |
| 22. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
49.58 |
1.0340 |
0.0794 |
406 |
2 |
43.13 |
2011-11-07 |
| 23. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
49.06 |
1.0296 |
0.0733 |
437 |
1 |
49.06 |
2011-10-27 |
| 24. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
48.85 |
1.0477 |
0.0459 |
360 |
1 |
48.85 |
2011-10-27 |
| 25. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
48.75 |
1.0608 |
0.0617 |
258 |
1 |
48.75 |
2011-10-28 |
| 26. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
48.59 |
0.9540 |
0.1296 |
285 |
1 |
48.59 |
2011-10-27 |
| 27. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
48.37 |
1.0496 |
0.0304 |
314 |
1 |
48.37 |
2011-10-26 |
| 28. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
48.08 |
1.0598 |
0.0083 |
196 |
1 |
48.08 |
2011-10-27 |
| 29. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
47.93 |
0.9910 |
0.0818 |
295 |
1 |
47.93 |
2011-11-07 |
| 30. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
47.24 |
1.0013 |
0.0529 |
273 |
1 |
47.24 |
2011-10-27 |
| 31. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
46.39 |
1.0444 |
-0.0150 |
197 |
1 |
46.39 |
2011-10-27 |
| 32. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
46.24 |
1.0214 |
0.0058 |
166 |
1 |
46.24 |
2011-10-27 |
| 33. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
45.98 |
0.9855 |
0.0747 |
258 |
1 |
45.98 |
2011-10-27 |
| 34. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
45.88 |
0.9088 |
0.1208 |
348 |
2 |
45.70 |
2011-11-07 |
| 35. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
45.54 |
1.0016 |
0.0104 |
218 |
1 |
45.54 |
2011-10-26 |
| 36. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
45.39 |
0.9614 |
0.0553 |
292 |
1 |
45.39 |
2011-10-26 |
| 37. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
45.09 |
0.8971 |
0.1144 |
266 |
1 |
45.09 |
2011-10-27 |
| 38. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
44.94 |
0.9247 |
0.0831 |
253 |
1 |
44.94 |
2011-10-27 |
| 39. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
44.81 |
1.0487 |
-0.0536 |
231 |
1 |
44.81 |
2011-10-27 |
| 40. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
44.79 |
0.9351 |
0.0592 |
190 |
1 |
44.79 |
2011-10-27 |
| 41. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
44.43 |
1.0201 |
-0.0244 |
375 |
1 |
44.43 |
2011-10-27 |
| 42. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
44.11 |
1.0396 |
-0.0625 |
149 |
1 |
44.11 |
2011-10-28 |
| 43. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
43.94 |
0.9514 |
0.0294 |
237 |
1 |
43.94 |
2011-11-07 |
| 44. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
43.90 |
1.0349 |
-0.0563 |
234 |
1 |
43.90 |
2011-10-27 |
| 45. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
43.75 |
0.9330 |
0.0501 |
360 |
1 |
43.75 |
2011-10-27 |
| 46. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
43.72 |
0.9846 |
-0.0107 |
281 |
1 |
43.72 |
2011-10-27 |
| 47. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
43.51 |
0.8878 |
0.0827 |
346 |
2 |
42.39 |
2011-11-07 |
| 48. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
43.50 |
1.0151 |
-0.0540 |
152 |
1 |
43.50 |
2011-10-26 |
| 49. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
43.46 |
0.9023 |
0.1104 |
231 |
1 |
43.46 |
2011-10-27 |
| 50. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
42.84 |
1.0211 |
-0.0349 |
213 |
1 |
42.84 |
2011-10-27 |
| 51. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
42.64 |
1.0125 |
-0.0640 |
224 |
1 |
42.64 |
2011-10-26 |
| 52. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
42.53 |
1.0740 |
-0.0870 |
264 |
1 |
42.53 |
2011-10-26 |
| 53. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
42.50 |
0.9792 |
0.0073 |
265 |
1 |
42.50 |
2011-10-26 |
| 54. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
42.49 |
1.0375 |
-0.0439 |
200 |
1 |
42.49 |
2011-10-26 |
| 55. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
42.49 |
1.0666 |
-0.1185 |
297 |
1 |
42.49 |
2011-10-27 |
| 56. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
42.32 |
0.9430 |
0.0031 |
297 |
1 |
42.32 |
2011-10-27 |
| 57. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
42.30 |
0.9636 |
-0.0206 |
254 |
1 |
42.30 |
2011-10-26 |
| 58. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
42.20 |
1.0083 |
-0.0228 |
273 |
1 |
42.20 |
2011-10-26 |
| 59. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
42.14 |
0.8852 |
0.0571 |
201 |
1 |
42.14 |
2011-10-27 |
| 60. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
42.11 |
0.8723 |
0.0624 |
185 |
1 |
42.11 |
2011-10-26 |
| 61. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
41.80 |
1.1215 |
-0.1655 |
200 |
1 |
41.80 |
2011-10-27 |
| 62. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
41.09 |
1.0459 |
-0.0989 |
200 |
1 |
41.09 |
2011-11-07 |
| 63. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
41.05 |
0.9049 |
0.0159 |
351 |
1 |
41.05 |
2011-10-27 |
| 64. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
41.04 |
1.0669 |
-0.1187 |
213 |
1 |
41.04 |
2011-10-27 |
| 65. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
40.84 |
0.9786 |
-0.0686 |
235 |
1 |
40.84 |
2011-10-26 |
| 66. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
40.81 |
0.9529 |
-0.0026 |
269 |
1 |
40.81 |
2011-10-27 |
| 67. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
40.70 |
0.9884 |
-0.0815 |
233 |
1 |
40.70 |
2011-10-27 |
| 68. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
39.78 |
0.9089 |
-0.0190 |
342 |
1 |
39.78 |
2011-10-27 |
| 69. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
39.65 |
0.9936 |
-0.1102 |
311 |
1 |
39.65 |
2011-10-26 |
| 70. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
39.59 |
0.9278 |
-0.0431 |
295 |
1 |
39.59 |
2011-10-27 |
| 71. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
39.28 |
1.0289 |
-0.1492 |
276 |
1 |
39.28 |
2011-10-27 |
| 72. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
39.17 |
0.9697 |
-0.0969 |
249 |
1 |
39.17 |
2011-10-26 |
| 73. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
39.14 |
0.9795 |
-0.1070 |
308 |
1 |
39.14 |
2011-10-27 |
| 74. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
39.07 |
1.0189 |
-0.1456 |
337 |
1 |
39.07 |
2011-10-27 |
| 75. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
38.95 |
0.9899 |
-0.1272 |
163 |
1 |
38.95 |
2011-10-27 |
| 76. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
38.94 |
1.0205 |
-0.1601 |
179 |
1 |
38.94 |
2011-10-26 |
| 77. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
38.92 |
0.9125 |
-0.0437 |
308 |
1 |
38.92 |
2011-11-07 |
| 78. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
37.89 |
0.9348 |
-0.0835 |
229 |
1 |
37.89 |
2011-10-27 |
| 79. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
37.68 |
0.9776 |
-0.1383 |
308 |
1 |
37.68 |
2011-10-27 |
| 80. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
37.66 |
0.9731 |
-0.1472 |
129 |
1 |
37.66 |
2011-10-27 |
| 81. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
37.45 |
0.9509 |
-0.0788 |
225 |
1 |
37.45 |
2011-10-27 |
| 82. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
36.88 |
0.8553 |
-0.0392 |
174 |
1 |
36.88 |
2011-10-27 |
| 83. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
36.52 |
0.9844 |
-0.1666 |
293 |
1 |
36.52 |
2011-10-27 |
| 84. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
36.48 |
0.9946 |
-0.1827 |
246 |
1 |
36.48 |
2011-10-27 |
| 85. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
36.40 |
0.8162 |
-0.0009 |
149 |
1 |
36.40 |
2011-10-27 |
| 86. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
36.30 |
0.9168 |
-0.1075 |
240 |
1 |
36.30 |
2011-10-27 |
| 87. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
35.43 |
1.0132 |
-0.2339 |
143 |
1 |
35.43 |
2011-10-28 |
| 88. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
35.36 |
1.0337 |
-0.2480 |
214 |
1 |
35.36 |
2011-10-27 |
| 89. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
35.36 |
0.8595 |
-0.0708 |
242 |
2 |
32.44 |
2011-10-27 |
| 90. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
35.21 |
0.9161 |
-0.1355 |
200 |
1 |
35.21 |
2011-10-26 |
| 91. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
34.64 |
0.9768 |
-0.2036 |
387 |
1 |
34.64 |
2011-10-26 |
| 92. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
30.71 |
0.9916 |
-0.2674 |
282 |
1 |
30.71 |
2011-10-26 |
| 93. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
30.46 |
0.7805 |
-0.1095 |
154 |
1 |
30.46 |
2011-10-28 |
| 94. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
26.66 |
1.0270 |
-0.4013 |
255 |
1 |
26.66 |
2011-10-26 |
| 95. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
23.52 |
0.8884 |
-0.3699 |
135 |
1 |
23.52 |
2011-10-27 |
| 96. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
22.73 |
1.0506 |
-0.5210 |
277 |
1 |
22.73 |
2011-10-27 |