| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
44.54 |
0.9260 |
0.2785 |
243 |
2 |
39.76 |
2008-11-27 |
| 2. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
43.52 |
1.0099 |
0.1536 |
207 |
1 |
43.52 |
2008-11-27 |
| 3. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
42.44 |
1.0444 |
0.0861 |
197 |
1 |
42.44 |
2008-11-27 |
| 4. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
42.11 |
0.9128 |
0.2209 |
133 |
2 |
39.80 |
2008-11-28 |
| 5. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
42.05 |
0.8887 |
0.2519 |
128 |
2 |
35.60 |
2008-11-27 |
| 6. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
41.82 |
1.0486 |
0.0725 |
289 |
1 |
41.82 |
2010-09-23 |
| 7. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
41.33 |
1.0441 |
0.0645 |
252 |
3 |
39.39 |
2010-10-11 |
| 8. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
41.29 |
0.9226 |
0.1897 |
348 |
2 |
39.38 |
2010-09-23 |
| 9. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
41.27 |
1.0483 |
0.0541 |
227 |
1 |
41.27 |
2010-09-23 |
| 10. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
41.14 |
0.9805 |
0.1260 |
292 |
1 |
41.14 |
2008-11-27 |
| 11. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
41.11 |
1.0053 |
0.0938 |
232 |
1 |
41.11 |
2008-11-28 |
| 12. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
40.95 |
1.0029 |
0.0875 |
209 |
2 |
38.42 |
2008-11-28 |
| 13. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
40.82 |
0.9485 |
0.1464 |
236 |
1 |
40.82 |
2008-11-27 |
| 14. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
40.81 |
0.9567 |
0.1361 |
273 |
1 |
40.81 |
2008-11-28 |
| 15. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
40.73 |
0.9886 |
0.1047 |
220 |
1 |
40.73 |
2008-11-28 |
| 16. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
40.70 |
0.9798 |
0.1045 |
199 |
1 |
40.70 |
2008-11-27 |
| 17. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
40.50 |
0.9316 |
0.1590 |
287 |
2 |
40.40 |
2008-11-28 |
| 18. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
40.24 |
0.9682 |
0.1074 |
143 |
1 |
40.24 |
2008-11-27 |
| 19. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.02 |
1.0331 |
0.0363 |
234 |
1 |
40.02 |
2008-11-27 |
| 20. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
39.77 |
0.9196 |
0.1469 |
148 |
1 |
39.77 |
2008-11-27 |
| 21. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
39.72 |
0.8709 |
0.2004 |
202 |
1 |
39.72 |
2008-11-27 |
| 22. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
39.47 |
0.8951 |
0.1638 |
193 |
2 |
34.85 |
2008-11-27 |
| 23. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
39.29 |
0.9365 |
0.1167 |
248 |
2 |
39.21 |
2008-11-27 |
| 24. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
39.22 |
1.0004 |
0.0434 |
212 |
2 |
34.99 |
2008-11-28 |
| 25. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
39.07 |
0.8653 |
0.1918 |
255 |
1 |
39.07 |
2008-11-28 |
| 26. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
39.01 |
1.0261 |
0.0162 |
273 |
2 |
37.78 |
2008-11-28 |
| 27. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
38.81 |
0.8731 |
0.1727 |
199 |
1 |
38.81 |
2010-09-23 |
| 28. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
38.77 |
1.1016 |
-0.0638 |
233 |
1 |
38.77 |
2008-11-28 |
| 29. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
38.60 |
0.9724 |
0.0643 |
237 |
1 |
38.60 |
2008-11-27 |
| 30. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
38.60 |
0.9233 |
0.1015 |
168 |
1 |
38.60 |
2008-11-28 |
| 31. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
38.60 |
1.0025 |
0.0305 |
256 |
2 |
34.20 |
2010-09-23 |
| 32. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
38.52 |
0.9893 |
0.0417 |
323 |
1 |
38.52 |
2008-11-27 |
| 33. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
38.46 |
1.0131 |
0.0123 |
225 |
1 |
38.46 |
2008-11-27 |
| 34. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
38.26 |
1.0337 |
-0.0104 |
214 |
1 |
38.26 |
2008-11-28 |
| 35. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
38.06 |
1.0487 |
-0.0352 |
231 |
1 |
38.06 |
2010-09-23 |
| 36. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
38.05 |
0.8899 |
0.1394 |
293 |
1 |
38.05 |
2008-11-28 |
| 37. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
38.02 |
0.9342 |
0.0867 |
434 |
1 |
38.02 |
2008-11-27 |
| 38. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
37.79 |
0.9649 |
0.0451 |
193 |
1 |
37.79 |
2008-11-27 |
| 39. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
37.72 |
0.9966 |
0.0120 |
259 |
2 |
31.48 |
2010-10-11 |
| 40. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
37.52 |
0.9226 |
0.0850 |
177 |
1 |
37.52 |
2010-09-23 |
| 41. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
37.34 |
1.0462 |
-0.0534 |
184 |
1 |
37.34 |
2008-11-28 |
| 42. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
37.22 |
0.9697 |
0.0262 |
249 |
1 |
37.22 |
2008-11-28 |
| 43. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
36.98 |
0.9851 |
0.0063 |
317 |
1 |
36.98 |
2008-11-27 |
| 44. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
36.96 |
0.9068 |
0.0848 |
269 |
1 |
36.96 |
2008-11-28 |
| 45. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
36.84 |
0.9286 |
0.0558 |
194 |
1 |
36.84 |
2008-12-02 |
| 46. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
36.75 |
1.0515 |
-0.0704 |
250 |
1 |
36.75 |
2008-11-27 |
| 47. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
36.67 |
0.8811 |
0.1043 |
239 |
1 |
36.67 |
2008-11-28 |
| 48. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
36.14 |
0.9072 |
0.0575 |
237 |
1 |
36.14 |
2008-11-28 |
| 49. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
36.10 |
0.9776 |
-0.0121 |
308 |
1 |
36.10 |
2008-11-28 |
| 50. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
36.09 |
0.8916 |
0.0738 |
216 |
2 |
34.22 |
2008-11-27 |
| 51. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
36.02 |
0.8878 |
0.0752 |
346 |
1 |
36.02 |
2008-11-27 |
| 52. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
35.96 |
0.9429 |
0.0199 |
287 |
2 |
35.44 |
2008-11-28 |
| 53. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
35.88 |
0.8153 |
0.1489 |
200 |
2 |
32.04 |
2010-09-23 |
| 54. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
35.55 |
0.9251 |
0.0303 |
177 |
1 |
35.55 |
2010-09-23 |
| 55. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
35.51 |
0.9266 |
0.0246 |
278 |
1 |
35.51 |
2008-11-27 |
| 56. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
35.46 |
1.0565 |
-0.1111 |
247 |
1 |
35.46 |
2008-11-28 |
| 57. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
35.33 |
0.9514 |
-0.0066 |
237 |
1 |
35.33 |
2008-11-27 |
| 58. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
35.17 |
0.8096 |
0.1384 |
209 |
1 |
35.17 |
2008-11-27 |
| 59. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
34.72 |
0.9991 |
-0.0707 |
225 |
1 |
34.72 |
2008-12-02 |
| 60. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
34.47 |
0.8770 |
0.0474 |
300 |
1 |
34.47 |
2008-11-28 |
| 61. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
34.17 |
1.0711 |
-0.1632 |
213 |
1 |
34.17 |
2008-11-27 |
| 62. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
34.15 |
0.9350 |
-0.0217 |
195 |
1 |
34.15 |
2010-10-11 |
| 63. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
34.05 |
0.9907 |
-0.0825 |
211 |
1 |
34.05 |
2008-11-27 |
| 64. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
33.75 |
0.9769 |
-0.0773 |
263 |
1 |
33.75 |
2008-11-27 |
| 65. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
33.55 |
0.9684 |
-0.0695 |
388 |
1 |
33.55 |
2008-11-27 |
| 66. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
33.49 |
0.9941 |
-0.1019 |
217 |
1 |
33.49 |
2008-11-28 |
| 67. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
33.22 |
0.9795 |
-0.0922 |
308 |
1 |
33.22 |
2008-11-28 |
| 68. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
33.00 |
0.9307 |
-0.0414 |
246 |
1 |
33.00 |
2008-11-28 |
| 69. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
32.97 |
0.8919 |
-0.0131 |
205 |
1 |
32.97 |
2008-11-27 |
| 70. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
32.42 |
0.8602 |
0.0032 |
206 |
1 |
32.42 |
2008-11-27 |
| 71. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
32.38 |
0.9740 |
-0.1136 |
209 |
1 |
32.38 |
2008-11-27 |
| 72. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
31.94 |
1.0419 |
-0.1893 |
261 |
1 |
31.94 |
2008-11-28 |
| 73. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
31.00 |
0.8867 |
-0.0544 |
241 |
1 |
31.00 |
2010-09-23 |
| 74. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
30.76 |
1.0168 |
-0.1948 |
271 |
1 |
30.76 |
2008-11-27 |
| 75. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
30.62 |
0.9852 |
-0.1681 |
264 |
1 |
30.62 |
2008-11-28 |
| 76. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
29.92 |
0.9772 |
-0.1828 |
217 |
1 |
29.92 |
2008-11-27 |
| 77. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.45 |
0.9212 |
-0.1328 |
323 |
1 |
29.45 |
2008-11-27 |
| 78. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
29.19 |
0.9351 |
-0.1625 |
190 |
1 |
29.19 |
2008-11-28 |
| 79. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
27.23 |
0.8791 |
-0.1550 |
190 |
1 |
27.23 |
2010-09-23 |
| 80. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
25.09 |
0.8961 |
-0.2325 |
189 |
1 |
25.09 |
2010-09-23 |