| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
52.51 |
1.0696 |
0.1941 |
226 |
1 |
52.51 |
2010-08-18 |
| 2. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
49.55 |
1.0567 |
0.1362 |
303 |
1 |
49.55 |
2010-08-15 |
| 3. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
49.43 |
0.9461 |
0.2442 |
193 |
1 |
49.43 |
2010-08-18 |
| 4. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
49.07 |
1.0768 |
0.1376 |
295 |
1 |
49.07 |
2010-08-15 |
| 5. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
48.69 |
0.9688 |
0.2048 |
217 |
1 |
48.69 |
2010-08-18 |
| 6. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
48.34 |
1.0787 |
0.0843 |
237 |
1 |
48.34 |
2010-08-15 |
| 7. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
47.65 |
0.9866 |
0.1610 |
218 |
1 |
47.65 |
2010-08-18 |
| 8. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
46.81 |
1.0292 |
0.0967 |
262 |
2 |
43.50 |
2010-08-17 |
| 9. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
46.15 |
1.0197 |
0.0906 |
226 |
1 |
46.15 |
2010-08-15 |
| 10. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
45.84 |
0.9863 |
0.1171 |
339 |
1 |
45.84 |
2010-08-15 |
| 11. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
45.80 |
1.0211 |
0.1083 |
213 |
1 |
45.80 |
2010-08-17 |
| 12. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
45.72 |
0.8791 |
0.2246 |
190 |
2 |
40.95 |
2010-08-18 |
| 13. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
45.51 |
1.0352 |
0.0604 |
341 |
1 |
45.51 |
2010-08-15 |
| 14. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
45.36 |
0.9633 |
0.1301 |
304 |
1 |
45.36 |
2010-08-15 |
| 15. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
45.13 |
1.0124 |
0.0734 |
204 |
1 |
45.13 |
2010-08-15 |
| 16. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
44.87 |
1.0419 |
0.0370 |
261 |
1 |
44.87 |
2010-08-18 |
| 17. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
44.59 |
1.0577 |
0.0146 |
247 |
1 |
44.59 |
2010-08-15 |
| 18. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
44.49 |
0.9309 |
0.1396 |
284 |
2 |
43.54 |
2010-08-15 |
| 19. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
44.46 |
0.9893 |
0.0811 |
323 |
1 |
44.46 |
2010-08-15 |
| 20. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
44.44 |
0.8202 |
0.2527 |
178 |
1 |
44.44 |
2010-08-17 |
| 21. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
43.87 |
0.9597 |
0.0975 |
347 |
1 |
43.87 |
2010-08-17 |
| 22. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
43.87 |
0.9965 |
0.0589 |
277 |
1 |
43.87 |
2010-08-17 |
| 23. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
43.44 |
1.0389 |
0.0060 |
318 |
2 |
42.25 |
2010-08-17 |
| 24. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
42.52 |
0.9226 |
0.1038 |
348 |
1 |
42.52 |
2010-08-17 |
| 25. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
42.52 |
0.9865 |
0.0371 |
276 |
1 |
42.52 |
2010-08-15 |
| 26. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
42.48 |
1.0441 |
-0.0222 |
252 |
1 |
42.48 |
2010-08-15 |
| 27. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
41.78 |
1.0053 |
-0.0006 |
232 |
1 |
41.78 |
2010-08-15 |
| 28. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
41.48 |
0.9670 |
0.0644 |
307 |
1 |
41.48 |
2010-08-15 |
| 29. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
41.42 |
1.0613 |
-0.0650 |
266 |
1 |
41.42 |
2010-08-15 |
| 30. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
40.85 |
1.0109 |
-0.0287 |
276 |
1 |
40.85 |
2010-08-15 |
| 31. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
40.72 |
1.0596 |
-0.0810 |
239 |
1 |
40.72 |
2010-08-15 |
| 32. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
40.60 |
0.8884 |
0.0897 |
135 |
1 |
40.60 |
2010-08-15 |
| 33. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
40.37 |
0.9852 |
-0.0144 |
264 |
1 |
40.37 |
2010-08-17 |
| 34. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
40.31 |
0.9786 |
-0.0106 |
193 |
1 |
40.31 |
2010-08-15 |
| 35. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
40.26 |
1.0288 |
-0.0339 |
300 |
1 |
40.26 |
2010-08-15 |
| 36. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
40.20 |
0.9792 |
0.0193 |
265 |
1 |
40.20 |
2010-08-15 |
| 37. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
39.99 |
1.0201 |
-0.0584 |
303 |
1 |
39.99 |
2010-08-15 |
| 38. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
39.89 |
0.9016 |
0.0607 |
192 |
1 |
39.89 |
2010-08-15 |
| 39. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
39.82 |
0.9756 |
-0.0185 |
229 |
1 |
39.82 |
2010-08-15 |
| 40. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
39.43 |
1.0385 |
-0.0916 |
230 |
1 |
39.43 |
2010-08-15 |
| 41. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
38.58 |
0.9897 |
-0.0619 |
274 |
1 |
38.58 |
2010-08-18 |
| 42. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
37.78 |
0.8157 |
0.0946 |
121 |
1 |
37.78 |
2010-08-15 |
| 43. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
37.47 |
0.9084 |
-0.0070 |
404 |
1 |
37.47 |
2010-08-18 |
| 44. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
36.40 |
1.0117 |
-0.1004 |
297 |
1 |
36.40 |
2010-08-15 |
| 45. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
36.18 |
1.0417 |
-0.1724 |
253 |
1 |
36.18 |
2010-08-18 |
| 46. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
35.89 |
0.9665 |
-0.0645 |
326 |
1 |
35.89 |
2010-08-15 |
| 47. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
35.84 |
0.8628 |
0.0000 |
196 |
1 |
35.84 |
2010-08-15 |
| 48. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
35.23 |
0.9649 |
-0.1180 |
193 |
1 |
35.23 |
2010-08-15 |
| 49. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
35.11 |
0.9682 |
-0.1259 |
143 |
1 |
35.11 |
2010-08-15 |
| 50. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
34.21 |
1.0261 |
-0.2055 |
273 |
1 |
34.21 |
2010-08-18 |
| 51. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
33.82 |
0.8845 |
-0.0710 |
273 |
1 |
33.82 |
2010-08-15 |
| 52. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
33.78 |
0.8722 |
-0.0596 |
285 |
1 |
33.78 |
2010-08-15 |
| 53. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
33.63 |
1.0725 |
-0.2398 |
233 |
1 |
33.63 |
2010-08-17 |
| 54. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
33.26 |
0.7876 |
0.0133 |
316 |
1 |
33.26 |
2010-08-15 |
| 55. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
33.09 |
1.0090 |
-0.1787 |
282 |
1 |
33.09 |
2010-08-15 |
| 56. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
26.78 |
0.9097 |
-0.2663 |
153 |
1 |
26.78 |
2010-08-18 |