| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
73.79 |
1.0799 |
0.2097 |
243 |
1 |
73.79 |
2008-08-30 |
| 2. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
72.91 |
1.0025 |
0.2751 |
256 |
2 |
58.36 |
2008-09-29 |
| 3. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
72.46 |
0.9365 |
0.3346 |
248 |
1 |
72.46 |
2008-10-07 |
| 4. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
71.52 |
1.0555 |
0.1990 |
363 |
1 |
71.52 |
2008-09-29 |
| 5. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
69.68 |
1.0679 |
0.1729 |
177 |
3 |
65.20 |
2010-01-24 |
| 6. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
69.32 |
0.9866 |
0.2238 |
218 |
2 |
58.35 |
2010-08-24 |
| 7. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
68.71 |
0.9893 |
0.2141 |
323 |
2 |
64.52 |
2008-10-08 |
| 8. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
67.81 |
1.0711 |
0.1112 |
213 |
1 |
67.81 |
2010-01-14 |
| 9. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
67.41 |
0.9372 |
0.2471 |
320 |
1 |
67.41 |
2010-01-24 |
| 10. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
66.94 |
1.1018 |
0.0638 |
220 |
1 |
66.94 |
2010-08-24 |
| 11. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
66.05 |
1.0203 |
0.1394 |
261 |
1 |
66.05 |
2008-09-29 |
| 12. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
65.20 |
1.0391 |
0.1082 |
358 |
1 |
65.20 |
2010-01-14 |
| 13. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
65.08 |
0.9886 |
0.1530 |
220 |
1 |
65.08 |
2010-01-14 |
| 14. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
64.81 |
0.9597 |
0.1787 |
347 |
2 |
58.20 |
2008-09-29 |
| 15. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
64.75 |
0.9905 |
0.1741 |
337 |
1 |
64.75 |
2010-08-24 |
| 16. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
64.71 |
0.9852 |
0.1476 |
264 |
1 |
64.71 |
2010-02-10 |
| 17. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
64.52 |
1.0316 |
0.1014 |
333 |
1 |
64.52 |
2010-02-10 |
| 18. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
64.19 |
1.0429 |
0.0790 |
259 |
2 |
63.21 |
2010-08-24 |
| 19. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
64.18 |
0.9286 |
0.1936 |
194 |
1 |
64.18 |
2010-08-24 |
| 20. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
64.16 |
1.0197 |
0.1002 |
226 |
2 |
61.71 |
2008-08-30 |
| 21. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
62.79 |
0.8919 |
0.2050 |
205 |
2 |
55.79 |
2008-10-07 |
| 22. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
62.73 |
1.0034 |
0.0926 |
302 |
1 |
62.73 |
2008-09-29 |
| 23. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
62.68 |
1.0261 |
0.0686 |
273 |
2 |
61.15 |
2008-09-29 |
| 24. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
62.17 |
1.0907 |
-0.0004 |
303 |
1 |
62.17 |
2009-08-24 |
| 25. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
62.14 |
1.0528 |
0.0292 |
201 |
3 |
54.42 |
2010-08-24 |
| 26. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
61.91 |
1.0523 |
0.0264 |
256 |
2 |
61.43 |
2009-11-15 |
| 27. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
61.79 |
1.0095 |
0.0703 |
316 |
3 |
59.83 |
2010-01-24 |
| 28. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
61.77 |
1.0368 |
0.0446 |
276 |
2 |
60.52 |
2009-11-15 |
| 29. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
61.58 |
1.0063 |
0.0712 |
371 |
1 |
61.58 |
2010-01-24 |
| 30. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
61.58 |
1.0529 |
0.0241 |
351 |
1 |
61.58 |
2008-09-29 |
| 31. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
61.43 |
0.9772 |
0.0938 |
217 |
2 |
56.45 |
2009-08-24 |
| 32. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
61.41 |
0.9776 |
0.0967 |
308 |
1 |
61.41 |
2008-10-07 |
| 33. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
61.12 |
0.9226 |
0.1527 |
348 |
1 |
61.12 |
2008-09-29 |
| 34. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
60.96 |
1.0334 |
0.0263 |
131 |
1 |
60.96 |
2008-10-08 |
| 35. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
60.94 |
1.0201 |
0.0389 |
172 |
2 |
54.02 |
2010-01-24 |
| 36. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
60.83 |
0.9699 |
0.0934 |
269 |
2 |
57.57 |
2009-11-15 |
| 37. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
60.78 |
0.9763 |
0.0862 |
289 |
2 |
52.77 |
2009-11-15 |
| 38. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
60.77 |
1.0109 |
0.0527 |
276 |
2 |
51.69 |
2008-09-29 |
| 39. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
60.58 |
0.9884 |
0.0702 |
233 |
4 |
57.23 |
2008-09-29 |
| 40. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
60.49 |
0.9754 |
0.0885 |
362 |
1 |
60.49 |
2008-09-29 |
| 41. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
60.34 |
0.9411 |
0.1149 |
318 |
1 |
60.34 |
2008-10-07 |
| 42. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
60.20 |
0.9430 |
0.1024 |
211 |
1 |
60.20 |
2010-01-14 |
| 43. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
60.06 |
0.9212 |
0.1323 |
323 |
4 |
53.74 |
2009-08-24 |
| 44. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
60.02 |
0.9942 |
0.0641 |
483 |
2 |
59.50 |
2008-10-07 |
| 45. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
59.90 |
0.9997 |
0.0513 |
382 |
1 |
59.90 |
2008-09-29 |
| 46. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
59.63 |
1.0025 |
0.0410 |
336 |
2 |
52.97 |
2008-08-30 |
| 47. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
59.54 |
1.0486 |
-0.0068 |
289 |
1 |
59.54 |
2009-11-15 |
| 48. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
59.16 |
1.0388 |
0.0271 |
243 |
1 |
59.16 |
2009-11-24 |
| 49. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
58.51 |
0.9894 |
0.0378 |
323 |
1 |
58.51 |
2010-01-14 |
| 50. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
57.67 |
0.8852 |
0.1248 |
201 |
2 |
52.29 |
2010-01-14 |
| 51. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
57.59 |
0.9567 |
0.0496 |
273 |
1 |
57.59 |
2008-09-29 |
| 52. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
57.50 |
1.0666 |
-0.0616 |
297 |
1 |
57.50 |
2008-09-29 |
| 53. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
57.42 |
1.0389 |
-0.0330 |
340 |
1 |
57.42 |
2008-09-29 |
| 54. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
57.39 |
0.9529 |
0.0907 |
269 |
1 |
57.39 |
2010-02-10 |
| 55. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
57.35 |
0.9636 |
0.0386 |
254 |
1 |
57.35 |
2010-02-10 |
| 56. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
57.15 |
0.9279 |
0.0773 |
317 |
1 |
57.15 |
2009-11-15 |
| 57. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
57.10 |
0.9964 |
0.0015 |
203 |
1 |
57.10 |
2010-02-10 |
| 58. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
56.95 |
0.9687 |
0.0312 |
371 |
1 |
56.95 |
2008-09-29 |
| 59. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
56.83 |
0.9976 |
0.0157 |
174 |
1 |
56.83 |
2010-08-24 |
| 60. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
56.83 |
1.0390 |
-0.0497 |
205 |
1 |
56.83 |
2009-11-15 |
| 61. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
56.83 |
0.9649 |
0.0271 |
193 |
1 |
56.83 |
2010-08-24 |
| 62. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
56.70 |
1.0595 |
-0.0662 |
379 |
1 |
56.70 |
2008-09-29 |
| 63. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
56.53 |
1.0232 |
0.0104 |
350 |
1 |
56.53 |
2010-02-10 |
| 64. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
56.06 |
1.0099 |
-0.0334 |
207 |
1 |
56.06 |
2010-02-10 |
| 65. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
56.00 |
1.0498 |
-0.0762 |
180 |
1 |
56.00 |
2009-11-15 |
| 66. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
55.85 |
1.0462 |
-0.0766 |
184 |
1 |
55.85 |
2010-01-24 |
| 67. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
55.70 |
0.9734 |
-0.0006 |
289 |
1 |
55.70 |
2008-08-30 |
| 68. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
55.39 |
1.0696 |
-0.1055 |
226 |
1 |
55.39 |
2008-08-30 |
| 69. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
55.23 |
0.9691 |
-0.0049 |
223 |
1 |
55.23 |
2008-08-30 |
| 70. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
54.99 |
0.9941 |
-0.0360 |
217 |
1 |
54.99 |
2010-01-24 |
| 71. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
54.81 |
0.9072 |
0.0484 |
237 |
3 |
54.56 |
2008-09-29 |
| 72. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
54.69 |
0.9398 |
0.0247 |
419 |
1 |
54.69 |
2008-09-29 |
| 73. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
54.67 |
0.9785 |
-0.0205 |
335 |
1 |
54.67 |
2010-01-24 |
| 74. |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Be... |
54.32 |
0.8786 |
0.0871 |
214 |
1 |
54.32 |
2008-09-29 |
| 75. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
54.02 |
0.9965 |
-0.0529 |
310 |
1 |
54.02 |
2008-09-29 |
| 76. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
53.87 |
0.9233 |
0.0091 |
168 |
1 |
53.87 |
2010-02-10 |
| 77. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
53.85 |
1.0033 |
-0.0697 |
189 |
1 |
53.85 |
2010-08-24 |
| 78. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
53.71 |
1.0150 |
-0.0282 |
325 |
1 |
53.71 |
2009-11-24 |
| 79. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
53.70 |
1.0211 |
-0.0527 |
213 |
1 |
53.70 |
2009-11-15 |
| 80. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
53.61 |
1.0521 |
-0.1208 |
171 |
1 |
53.61 |
2010-02-10 |
| 81. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
53.47 |
0.9359 |
0.0372 |
353 |
1 |
53.47 |
2010-01-24 |
| 82. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
53.44 |
0.9905 |
-0.0497 |
377 |
1 |
53.44 |
2010-08-24 |
| 83. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
53.43 |
0.9514 |
-0.0182 |
237 |
1 |
53.43 |
2011-04-21 |
| 84. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
53.29 |
1.0053 |
-0.0769 |
232 |
1 |
53.29 |
2008-09-29 |
| 85. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
52.63 |
0.9084 |
0.0144 |
404 |
1 |
52.63 |
2008-08-30 |
| 86. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
52.54 |
0.9986 |
-0.0809 |
283 |
1 |
52.54 |
2008-10-07 |
| 87. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
52.32 |
1.0763 |
-0.1216 |
367 |
1 |
52.32 |
2010-08-24 |
| 88. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
52.28 |
0.9202 |
-0.0084 |
254 |
1 |
52.28 |
2010-01-14 |
| 89. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
52.08 |
1.0714 |
-0.1713 |
129 |
1 |
52.08 |
2010-01-24 |
| 90. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
51.45 |
0.9614 |
-0.0606 |
292 |
1 |
51.45 |
2010-01-14 |
| 91. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
51.27 |
0.9045 |
-0.0096 |
235 |
2 |
44.26 |
2009-08-24 |
| 92. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
51.25 |
0.8722 |
0.0250 |
285 |
1 |
51.25 |
2008-08-30 |
| 93. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
51.19 |
0.8442 |
0.0530 |
265 |
1 |
51.19 |
2009-11-15 |
| 94. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
51.12 |
1.0251 |
-0.1353 |
261 |
1 |
51.12 |
2008-09-29 |
| 95. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
51.09 |
0.7876 |
0.1065 |
316 |
1 |
51.09 |
2008-10-08 |
| 96. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
50.23 |
0.9088 |
-0.0274 |
348 |
1 |
50.23 |
2010-01-14 |
| 97. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
48.99 |
1.0361 |
-0.1808 |
269 |
1 |
48.99 |
2009-11-15 |
| 98. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
48.90 |
0.9148 |
-0.0607 |
317 |
1 |
48.90 |
2008-09-29 |
| 99. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
47.86 |
0.9851 |
-0.1486 |
317 |
1 |
47.86 |
2008-08-30 |
| 100. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
47.82 |
0.9653 |
-0.1234 |
394 |
1 |
47.82 |
2008-08-30 |
| 101. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
47.38 |
0.9768 |
-0.1484 |
387 |
1 |
47.38 |
2008-08-30 |
| 102. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
47.28 |
0.9266 |
-0.1025 |
267 |
1 |
47.28 |
2008-08-30 |
| 103. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
47.12 |
0.8553 |
-0.0392 |
174 |
1 |
47.12 |
2008-08-30 |
| 104. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
46.91 |
1.0396 |
-0.2293 |
149 |
1 |
46.91 |
2008-08-30 |
| 105. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
46.73 |
0.9049 |
-0.0852 |
351 |
1 |
46.73 |
2008-10-08 |
| 106. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
46.47 |
0.9965 |
-0.1916 |
168 |
1 |
46.47 |
2010-02-10 |
| 107. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
46.13 |
0.9376 |
-0.1285 |
367 |
1 |
46.13 |
2008-08-30 |
| 108. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
45.94 |
0.9500 |
-0.1475 |
362 |
1 |
45.94 |
2008-08-30 |
| 109. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
45.45 |
0.8890 |
-0.1010 |
199 |
1 |
45.45 |
2009-08-24 |
| 110. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
44.96 |
0.9857 |
-0.2038 |
293 |
1 |
44.96 |
2008-09-29 |
| 111. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
44.60 |
1.0214 |
-0.2465 |
269 |
1 |
44.60 |
2008-08-30 |
| 112. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
42.73 |
0.9612 |
-0.2177 |
256 |
1 |
42.73 |
2008-08-30 |
| 113. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
40.99 |
0.9293 |
-0.2158 |
355 |
1 |
40.99 |
2008-10-07 |
| 114. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
40.39 |
0.8382 |
-0.1357 |
268 |
1 |
40.39 |
2008-08-30 |
| 115. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
40.22 |
0.9239 |
-0.2183 |
193 |
1 |
40.22 |
2009-08-24 |
| 116. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
36.57 |
0.8096 |
-0.1673 |
209 |
1 |
36.57 |
2008-08-30 |
| 117. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
26.90 |
0.9871 |
-0.4876 |
209 |
1 |
26.90 |
2009-11-24 |