| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
46.67 |
1.0016 |
0.2293 |
218 |
1 |
46.67 |
2012-09-20 |
| 2. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
44.71 |
0.8792 |
0.3135 |
296 |
1 |
44.71 |
2011-02-18 |
| 3. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
44.55 |
1.0788 |
0.0944 |
171 |
1 |
44.55 |
2010-12-14 |
| 4. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
44.09 |
0.8951 |
0.2738 |
193 |
1 |
44.09 |
2012-09-19 |
| 5. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
43.81 |
1.0120 |
0.1463 |
290 |
1 |
43.81 |
2011-01-03 |
| 6. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
43.63 |
1.0799 |
0.0706 |
243 |
1 |
43.63 |
2012-09-20 |
| 7. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
43.42 |
1.0714 |
0.0681 |
129 |
1 |
43.42 |
2011-01-06 |
| 8. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
43.28 |
0.8788 |
0.2631 |
134 |
1 |
43.28 |
2012-09-20 |
| 9. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
42.92 |
0.8723 |
0.2586 |
185 |
1 |
42.92 |
2012-09-19 |
| 10. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
42.41 |
1.0349 |
0.0857 |
234 |
2 |
38.28 |
2011-09-05 |
| 11. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
42.29 |
1.0515 |
0.0649 |
250 |
1 |
42.29 |
2011-01-06 |
| 12. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
42.15 |
1.0150 |
0.1487 |
325 |
1 |
42.15 |
2012-09-18 |
| 13. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
42.10 |
1.1081 |
0.0395 |
206 |
2 |
39.11 |
2011-09-03 |
| 14. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
41.71 |
1.0516 |
0.0506 |
281 |
1 |
41.71 |
2011-09-05 |
| 15. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
41.20 |
0.7996 |
0.2915 |
177 |
1 |
41.20 |
2010-12-24 |
| 16. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
40.85 |
0.8884 |
0.1914 |
135 |
1 |
40.85 |
2012-09-19 |
| 17. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
40.55 |
0.9063 |
0.1734 |
239 |
2 |
39.43 |
2012-09-20 |
| 18. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
40.33 |
0.8614 |
0.2020 |
172 |
1 |
40.33 |
2012-09-19 |
| 19. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
40.00 |
1.0429 |
0.0127 |
259 |
1 |
40.00 |
2010-12-24 |
| 20. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
39.96 |
0.9260 |
0.1408 |
243 |
1 |
39.96 |
2011-09-05 |
| 21. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
39.85 |
0.8153 |
0.2424 |
200 |
1 |
39.85 |
2011-01-06 |
| 22. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
39.75 |
0.9697 |
0.0807 |
249 |
1 |
39.75 |
2011-01-06 |
| 23. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
39.71 |
0.9411 |
0.1091 |
318 |
1 |
39.71 |
2015-08-17 |
| 24. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
39.68 |
0.8876 |
0.1595 |
118 |
1 |
39.68 |
2010-12-24 |
| 25. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
39.47 |
1.0515 |
-0.0166 |
166 |
1 |
39.47 |
2010-12-14 |
| 26. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
39.30 |
1.0214 |
0.0156 |
269 |
1 |
39.30 |
2011-01-06 |
| 27. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
39.03 |
0.9805 |
0.0554 |
292 |
1 |
39.03 |
2012-09-18 |
| 28. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
38.93 |
0.9307 |
0.1056 |
246 |
2 |
34.63 |
2012-09-20 |
| 29. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
38.87 |
0.9128 |
0.1194 |
133 |
1 |
38.87 |
2011-01-06 |
| 30. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
38.67 |
0.9907 |
0.0296 |
211 |
2 |
36.48 |
2012-09-18 |
| 31. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
38.66 |
0.8096 |
0.2196 |
209 |
1 |
38.66 |
2011-01-06 |
| 32. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
38.13 |
1.0201 |
-0.0196 |
172 |
1 |
38.13 |
2012-09-18 |
| 33. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
38.00 |
1.0679 |
-0.0443 |
177 |
1 |
38.00 |
2010-12-24 |
| 34. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
37.99 |
0.9740 |
0.0251 |
209 |
1 |
37.99 |
2010-12-24 |
| 35. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
37.93 |
1.0740 |
-0.0339 |
264 |
1 |
37.93 |
2011-01-03 |
| 36. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
37.76 |
0.9665 |
0.0800 |
326 |
1 |
37.76 |
2011-01-06 |
| 37. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
37.69 |
1.0669 |
-0.0385 |
213 |
1 |
37.69 |
2011-01-03 |
| 38. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
37.65 |
1.0214 |
0.0153 |
281 |
2 |
36.66 |
2012-09-19 |
| 39. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
37.63 |
0.9795 |
0.0147 |
308 |
1 |
37.63 |
2011-01-03 |
| 40. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
37.57 |
0.9773 |
0.0065 |
123 |
1 |
37.57 |
2010-12-14 |
| 41. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
37.47 |
0.9798 |
0.0041 |
199 |
1 |
37.47 |
2011-01-03 |
| 42. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
37.45 |
0.9365 |
0.0540 |
248 |
1 |
37.45 |
2011-01-06 |
| 43. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
37.37 |
0.9863 |
0.0047 |
339 |
1 |
37.37 |
2011-09-05 |
| 44. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
37.33 |
1.0463 |
-0.0653 |
182 |
1 |
37.33 |
2010-12-24 |
| 45. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
37.01 |
0.9559 |
0.0235 |
195 |
2 |
36.96 |
2012-09-19 |
| 46. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
36.87 |
1.0077 |
0.0066 |
250 |
1 |
36.87 |
2011-01-03 |
| 47. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
36.72 |
1.0023 |
-0.0349 |
211 |
1 |
36.72 |
2011-01-03 |
| 48. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
36.62 |
0.9597 |
0.0109 |
347 |
1 |
36.62 |
2012-09-19 |
| 49. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
36.25 |
0.9612 |
-0.0043 |
256 |
1 |
36.25 |
2011-01-03 |
| 50. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
35.78 |
0.9893 |
-0.0450 |
323 |
1 |
35.78 |
2011-01-03 |
| 51. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
35.71 |
1.0445 |
-0.1010 |
373 |
1 |
35.71 |
2011-01-03 |
| 52. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
35.58 |
0.9532 |
-0.0157 |
258 |
1 |
35.58 |
2011-09-03 |
| 53. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
35.47 |
0.9786 |
-0.0432 |
235 |
1 |
35.47 |
2012-09-19 |
| 54. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
35.45 |
0.9986 |
-0.0626 |
283 |
1 |
35.45 |
2010-12-24 |
| 55. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
35.29 |
1.0829 |
-0.1504 |
288 |
1 |
35.29 |
2011-09-05 |
| 56. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
34.58 |
0.8295 |
0.0845 |
209 |
1 |
34.58 |
2011-09-05 |
| 57. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
33.90 |
1.0053 |
-0.1133 |
232 |
1 |
33.90 |
2010-12-24 |
| 58. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
33.80 |
1.0154 |
-0.0743 |
351 |
1 |
33.80 |
2011-01-03 |
| 59. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
32.42 |
0.8898 |
-0.0401 |
158 |
1 |
32.42 |
2011-09-05 |
| 60. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.33 |
0.9286 |
-0.0778 |
194 |
2 |
31.57 |
2011-01-03 |
| 61. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
32.07 |
0.8961 |
-0.0545 |
189 |
1 |
32.07 |
2011-01-03 |
| 62. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
31.81 |
0.8906 |
-0.0488 |
238 |
1 |
31.81 |
2011-09-05 |
| 63. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
31.80 |
0.8892 |
-0.0449 |
207 |
1 |
31.80 |
2011-09-05 |
| 64. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
31.40 |
0.9572 |
-0.1316 |
201 |
1 |
31.40 |
2010-12-14 |
| 65. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
30.65 |
0.9309 |
-0.1259 |
284 |
1 |
30.65 |
2011-01-03 |
| 66. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
29.99 |
0.9289 |
-0.1420 |
204 |
1 |
29.99 |
2010-12-24 |
| 67. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
29.52 |
0.9171 |
-0.1398 |
165 |
1 |
29.52 |
2012-09-18 |
| 68. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
29.37 |
1.0211 |
-0.2178 |
213 |
1 |
29.37 |
2011-09-05 |
| 69. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
27.99 |
0.7890 |
-0.0521 |
230 |
1 |
27.99 |
2010-12-14 |
| 70. |
If the driver would only slow down, the car would actually g... |
27.64 |
0.8842 |
-0.1617 |
135 |
1 |
27.64 |
2011-09-05 |
| 71. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
26.27 |
0.9098 |
-0.2241 |
167 |
1 |
26.27 |
2010-12-24 |
| 72. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
26.06 |
0.7877 |
-0.0990 |
142 |
1 |
26.06 |
2012-09-18 |