| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
114.25 |
1.0714 |
0.1566 |
129 |
1 |
114.25 |
2012-12-25 |
| 2. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
112.63 |
1.0352 |
0.1869 |
341 |
1 |
112.63 |
2012-12-25 |
| 3. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
112.54 |
1.1081 |
0.1446 |
206 |
2 |
106.19 |
2013-03-14 |
| 4. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
112.25 |
1.0521 |
0.1579 |
171 |
1 |
112.25 |
2012-12-25 |
| 5. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
111.31 |
1.0545 |
0.1913 |
416 |
1 |
111.31 |
2012-12-25 |
| 6. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
109.39 |
1.0529 |
0.1310 |
351 |
1 |
109.39 |
2012-12-25 |
| 7. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
109.10 |
1.0361 |
0.1456 |
269 |
1 |
109.10 |
2012-12-25 |
| 8. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
108.99 |
1.0389 |
0.1426 |
318 |
1 |
108.99 |
2012-12-25 |
| 9. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
108.94 |
1.0662 |
0.1509 |
407 |
3 |
98.47 |
2013-02-28 |
| 10. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
108.60 |
1.1016 |
0.0734 |
233 |
1 |
108.60 |
2013-03-14 |
| 11. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
108.15 |
1.0774 |
0.1224 |
304 |
2 |
95.90 |
2013-03-14 |
| 12. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
108.13 |
1.0252 |
0.1384 |
176 |
1 |
108.13 |
2012-12-25 |
| 13. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
108.09 |
1.0270 |
0.1787 |
255 |
1 |
108.09 |
2012-12-25 |
| 14. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
107.81 |
1.0390 |
0.1239 |
205 |
3 |
97.07 |
2012-12-25 |
| 15. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
106.40 |
1.0668 |
0.0867 |
350 |
2 |
100.84 |
2012-12-25 |
| 16. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
105.70 |
0.9857 |
0.1568 |
293 |
2 |
96.23 |
2013-03-14 |
| 17. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
104.71 |
1.0201 |
0.1133 |
303 |
1 |
104.71 |
2012-12-25 |
| 18. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
102.61 |
0.9966 |
0.1127 |
259 |
1 |
102.61 |
2013-03-14 |
| 19. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
102.58 |
1.1323 |
0.0112 |
341 |
1 |
102.58 |
2013-03-14 |
| 20. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
102.01 |
1.0498 |
0.0486 |
180 |
1 |
102.01 |
2013-03-14 |
| 21. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
100.72 |
1.0555 |
0.0351 |
363 |
2 |
99.29 |
2013-03-14 |
| 22. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
100.54 |
1.0034 |
0.0825 |
302 |
1 |
100.54 |
2012-12-24 |
| 23. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
100.44 |
1.0025 |
0.0847 |
336 |
1 |
100.44 |
2012-12-25 |
| 24. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
100.31 |
0.9553 |
0.1366 |
430 |
1 |
100.31 |
2012-12-25 |
| 25. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
100.01 |
1.0972 |
0.0136 |
251 |
1 |
100.01 |
2012-12-25 |
| 26. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
99.93 |
1.0608 |
0.0529 |
258 |
2 |
95.70 |
2012-12-25 |
| 27. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
99.30 |
0.9905 |
0.1147 |
337 |
1 |
99.30 |
2012-12-25 |
| 28. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
97.32 |
1.0029 |
0.0424 |
209 |
1 |
97.32 |
2012-12-25 |
| 29. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
97.27 |
0.9941 |
0.0549 |
217 |
1 |
97.27 |
2013-03-14 |
| 30. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
97.06 |
1.0141 |
0.0753 |
381 |
2 |
96.91 |
2012-12-25 |
| 31. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
96.80 |
0.9649 |
0.0804 |
193 |
1 |
96.80 |
2012-12-24 |
| 32. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
96.69 |
0.9275 |
0.1143 |
211 |
1 |
96.69 |
2013-03-14 |
| 33. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
96.46 |
1.0740 |
0.0068 |
264 |
3 |
94.34 |
2013-03-14 |
| 34. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
96.45 |
1.0391 |
0.0092 |
358 |
1 |
96.45 |
2012-12-24 |
| 35. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
95.95 |
0.9852 |
0.0520 |
264 |
1 |
95.95 |
2012-12-25 |
| 36. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
95.79 |
0.9884 |
0.0463 |
233 |
1 |
95.79 |
2012-12-25 |
| 37. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
95.50 |
0.9786 |
0.0528 |
235 |
1 |
95.50 |
2012-12-25 |
| 38. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
95.28 |
1.0368 |
-0.0066 |
276 |
1 |
95.28 |
2012-12-25 |
| 39. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
95.27 |
1.0403 |
0.0037 |
193 |
2 |
90.35 |
2013-03-14 |
| 40. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
95.17 |
1.0412 |
-0.0133 |
225 |
1 |
95.17 |
2013-03-14 |
| 41. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
95.16 |
0.9045 |
0.1244 |
235 |
1 |
95.16 |
2012-12-25 |
| 42. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
94.84 |
1.0763 |
-0.0097 |
367 |
1 |
94.84 |
2012-12-25 |
| 43. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
94.66 |
1.0023 |
0.0185 |
211 |
1 |
94.66 |
2012-12-25 |
| 44. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
94.52 |
0.9665 |
0.1041 |
326 |
1 |
94.52 |
2012-12-25 |
| 45. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
94.09 |
1.0385 |
-0.0237 |
230 |
1 |
94.09 |
2012-12-25 |
| 46. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
93.50 |
1.1068 |
-0.0564 |
393 |
1 |
93.50 |
2012-12-25 |
| 47. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
93.11 |
1.0288 |
0.0095 |
300 |
1 |
93.11 |
2012-12-25 |
| 48. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
93.09 |
1.0320 |
0.0108 |
293 |
1 |
93.09 |
2012-12-25 |
| 49. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
92.84 |
1.0201 |
-0.0132 |
375 |
1 |
92.84 |
2012-12-25 |
| 50. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
91.75 |
1.0167 |
-0.0187 |
378 |
1 |
91.75 |
2012-12-25 |
| 51. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
91.62 |
0.8947 |
0.1000 |
366 |
1 |
91.62 |
2013-03-14 |
| 52. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
91.43 |
1.0214 |
-0.0354 |
269 |
1 |
91.43 |
2012-12-25 |
| 53. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
91.30 |
1.0787 |
-0.0943 |
237 |
1 |
91.30 |
2012-12-26 |
| 54. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
91.03 |
0.9636 |
0.0191 |
254 |
1 |
91.03 |
2012-12-25 |
| 55. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
90.31 |
1.0214 |
-0.0038 |
281 |
1 |
90.31 |
2012-12-25 |
| 56. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
90.30 |
1.0595 |
-0.0819 |
379 |
1 |
90.30 |
2013-03-14 |
| 57. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
90.27 |
0.9907 |
0.0185 |
397 |
1 |
90.27 |
2012-12-25 |
| 58. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
90.04 |
1.0673 |
-0.0533 |
230 |
1 |
90.04 |
2013-02-28 |
| 59. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
89.62 |
0.9912 |
0.0033 |
237 |
1 |
89.62 |
2012-12-25 |
| 60. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
89.51 |
0.9176 |
0.0877 |
365 |
1 |
89.51 |
2013-02-28 |
| 61. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
89.36 |
1.0445 |
-0.0786 |
373 |
1 |
89.36 |
2013-02-28 |
| 62. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
88.22 |
1.0297 |
-0.0786 |
249 |
1 |
88.22 |
2012-12-25 |
| 63. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
87.81 |
1.0264 |
-0.0384 |
422 |
1 |
87.81 |
2012-12-25 |
| 64. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
87.73 |
0.9508 |
0.0297 |
384 |
1 |
87.73 |
2013-03-14 |
| 65. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
87.65 |
1.0263 |
-0.0814 |
267 |
1 |
87.65 |
2012-12-24 |
| 66. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
87.52 |
0.9668 |
0.0203 |
383 |
1 |
87.52 |
2012-12-25 |
| 67. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
87.21 |
0.9763 |
-0.0356 |
289 |
1 |
87.21 |
2012-12-25 |
| 68. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
86.56 |
0.9672 |
-0.0264 |
396 |
1 |
86.56 |
2012-12-25 |
| 69. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
85.77 |
1.0334 |
-0.1145 |
131 |
1 |
85.77 |
2012-12-25 |
| 70. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
85.71 |
1.0669 |
-0.1090 |
213 |
1 |
85.71 |
2012-12-25 |
| 71. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
85.07 |
1.0485 |
-0.0963 |
153 |
1 |
85.07 |
2012-12-25 |
| 72. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
84.99 |
0.8775 |
0.0423 |
443 |
1 |
84.99 |
2012-12-25 |
| 73. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
84.18 |
0.9805 |
-0.0677 |
292 |
1 |
84.18 |
2013-03-14 |
| 74. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
83.26 |
0.9631 |
-0.0138 |
345 |
1 |
83.26 |
2013-03-14 |
| 75. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
82.88 |
0.9234 |
-0.0244 |
346 |
1 |
82.88 |
2012-12-25 |
| 76. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
82.60 |
1.0062 |
-0.1157 |
288 |
1 |
82.60 |
2013-03-14 |
| 77. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
82.34 |
1.0211 |
-0.1026 |
213 |
1 |
82.34 |
2012-12-24 |
| 78. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
82.02 |
0.8981 |
-0.0090 |
393 |
1 |
82.02 |
2012-12-25 |
| 79. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
81.93 |
0.9986 |
-0.1145 |
283 |
1 |
81.93 |
2013-03-14 |
| 80. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
80.77 |
1.1162 |
-0.2042 |
189 |
1 |
80.77 |
2013-03-14 |
| 81. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
80.14 |
0.9855 |
-0.0880 |
258 |
1 |
80.14 |
2013-03-14 |
| 82. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
80.08 |
0.9723 |
-0.1049 |
364 |
1 |
80.08 |
2013-03-14 |
| 83. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
79.77 |
0.9578 |
-0.0981 |
281 |
1 |
79.77 |
2012-12-25 |
| 84. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
79.18 |
0.9614 |
-0.1047 |
292 |
1 |
79.18 |
2013-02-28 |
| 85. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
78.08 |
0.8602 |
-0.0209 |
206 |
1 |
78.08 |
2012-12-25 |
| 86. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
77.61 |
0.9991 |
-0.1623 |
225 |
1 |
77.61 |
2013-03-14 |
| 87. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
76.68 |
0.9684 |
-0.1398 |
388 |
1 |
76.68 |
2013-03-14 |
| 88. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
75.29 |
0.9936 |
-0.1829 |
311 |
1 |
75.29 |
2013-03-14 |
| 89. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
75.11 |
0.9739 |
-0.1291 |
412 |
1 |
75.11 |
2012-12-24 |
| 90. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
73.90 |
0.8852 |
-0.0872 |
201 |
1 |
73.90 |
2013-03-14 |
| 91. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
73.53 |
0.9023 |
-0.0677 |
231 |
1 |
73.53 |
2012-12-25 |
| 92. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
72.61 |
0.9798 |
-0.2039 |
199 |
1 |
72.61 |
2012-12-26 |
| 93. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
71.78 |
0.9709 |
-0.1572 |
397 |
1 |
71.78 |
2013-03-14 |
| 94. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
68.45 |
0.9593 |
-0.2186 |
398 |
1 |
68.45 |
2013-03-14 |
| 95. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
67.27 |
1.0261 |
-0.2635 |
410 |
1 |
67.27 |
2012-12-26 |
| 96. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
67.23 |
0.8105 |
-0.0925 |
204 |
1 |
67.23 |
2013-03-14 |
| 97. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
65.31 |
1.0799 |
-0.3821 |
243 |
1 |
65.31 |
2013-03-14 |
| 98. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
64.98 |
0.9976 |
-0.2793 |
174 |
1 |
64.98 |
2013-03-14 |
| 99. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
56.29 |
0.9049 |
-0.2965 |
351 |
1 |
56.29 |
2013-03-14 |