| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
39.34 |
1.0314 |
0.1714 |
172 |
1 |
39.34 |
2012-12-15 |
| 2. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
39.07 |
1.0941 |
0.1351 |
256 |
2 |
38.29 |
2012-12-15 |
| 3. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
38.96 |
0.9263 |
0.2716 |
188 |
1 |
38.96 |
2012-12-15 |
| 4. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
38.90 |
1.0788 |
0.1083 |
171 |
1 |
38.90 |
2012-12-15 |
| 5. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
38.62 |
1.0240 |
0.1570 |
256 |
1 |
38.62 |
2012-12-15 |
| 6. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
38.44 |
0.8660 |
0.3125 |
193 |
1 |
38.44 |
2012-12-14 |
| 7. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
38.39 |
1.0201 |
0.1574 |
303 |
2 |
37.59 |
2012-12-15 |
| 8. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
38.33 |
1.0029 |
0.1656 |
209 |
1 |
38.33 |
2012-12-14 |
| 9. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
38.18 |
1.1016 |
0.0684 |
233 |
2 |
34.58 |
2012-12-14 |
| 10. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
37.57 |
1.0016 |
0.1451 |
218 |
2 |
37.15 |
2012-12-15 |
| 11. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
37.09 |
1.0331 |
0.1012 |
234 |
2 |
32.15 |
2012-12-14 |
| 12. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
36.72 |
1.0150 |
0.1592 |
325 |
1 |
36.72 |
2012-12-13 |
| 13. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
36.69 |
1.0060 |
0.1134 |
171 |
1 |
36.69 |
2012-12-15 |
| 14. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
36.68 |
1.0621 |
0.0811 |
263 |
1 |
36.68 |
2012-12-15 |
| 15. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
36.68 |
0.9251 |
0.2038 |
177 |
1 |
36.68 |
2012-12-12 |
| 16. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
36.68 |
1.0696 |
0.0508 |
226 |
1 |
36.68 |
2012-12-13 |
| 17. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
36.64 |
1.0023 |
0.1184 |
211 |
1 |
36.64 |
2012-12-08 |
| 18. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
36.64 |
0.8691 |
0.2411 |
119 |
1 |
36.64 |
2012-12-15 |
| 19. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
36.27 |
1.0349 |
0.0752 |
234 |
2 |
33.68 |
2012-12-08 |
| 20. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
35.85 |
1.0796 |
0.0131 |
129 |
1 |
35.85 |
2012-12-16 |
| 21. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
35.76 |
1.0485 |
0.0812 |
153 |
2 |
31.63 |
2012-12-11 |
| 22. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
35.62 |
0.8700 |
0.2212 |
127 |
1 |
35.62 |
2012-12-16 |
| 23. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
35.48 |
1.0917 |
0.0184 |
243 |
2 |
33.39 |
2012-12-15 |
| 24. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
35.44 |
1.0292 |
0.0548 |
262 |
1 |
35.44 |
2012-12-14 |
| 25. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
35.40 |
1.0381 |
0.0352 |
170 |
2 |
31.97 |
2012-12-15 |
| 26. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
35.34 |
1.0284 |
0.0973 |
282 |
1 |
35.34 |
2012-12-15 |
| 27. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
35.18 |
1.0361 |
0.0421 |
269 |
1 |
35.18 |
2012-12-15 |
| 28. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
35.15 |
1.0063 |
0.0703 |
371 |
1 |
35.15 |
2012-12-14 |
| 29. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
35.05 |
0.9711 |
0.1007 |
176 |
2 |
31.03 |
2012-12-16 |
| 30. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
35.04 |
0.8892 |
0.1904 |
207 |
2 |
34.11 |
2012-12-14 |
| 31. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
35.00 |
0.9706 |
0.1052 |
216 |
1 |
35.00 |
2012-12-08 |
| 32. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
34.64 |
1.0232 |
0.0731 |
236 |
2 |
34.12 |
2012-12-16 |
| 33. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
34.38 |
0.8884 |
0.1641 |
135 |
1 |
34.38 |
2012-12-15 |
| 34. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
34.38 |
0.8745 |
0.1767 |
169 |
1 |
34.38 |
2012-12-08 |
| 35. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
34.35 |
1.0375 |
0.0600 |
200 |
2 |
34.18 |
2012-12-13 |
| 36. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
34.34 |
0.9532 |
0.0968 |
258 |
1 |
34.34 |
2012-12-15 |
| 37. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
34.14 |
1.0711 |
-0.0312 |
213 |
1 |
34.14 |
2012-12-08 |
| 38. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
33.94 |
0.9976 |
0.0617 |
174 |
2 |
33.08 |
2012-12-15 |
| 39. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
33.93 |
1.0565 |
-0.0208 |
247 |
1 |
33.93 |
2012-12-15 |
| 40. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
33.67 |
0.8785 |
0.1479 |
172 |
1 |
33.67 |
2012-12-08 |
| 41. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
33.64 |
0.9019 |
0.1331 |
204 |
1 |
33.64 |
2012-12-16 |
| 42. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
33.50 |
0.7996 |
0.2276 |
177 |
2 |
31.65 |
2012-12-13 |
| 43. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
33.45 |
0.9572 |
0.0651 |
201 |
2 |
30.86 |
2012-12-13 |
| 44. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
33.41 |
0.9131 |
0.1047 |
144 |
1 |
33.41 |
2012-12-08 |
| 45. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
33.30 |
1.0384 |
-0.0294 |
183 |
2 |
30.87 |
2012-12-11 |
| 46. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
33.25 |
0.9772 |
0.0370 |
217 |
1 |
33.25 |
2012-12-08 |
| 47. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
33.13 |
1.0596 |
-0.0481 |
239 |
1 |
33.13 |
2012-12-08 |
| 48. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
32.42 |
0.8739 |
0.1165 |
136 |
1 |
32.42 |
2012-12-08 |
| 49. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
32.29 |
0.9936 |
0.0144 |
227 |
1 |
32.29 |
2012-12-14 |
| 50. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
32.11 |
0.9855 |
0.0304 |
258 |
1 |
32.11 |
2012-12-14 |
| 51. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
32.08 |
0.9697 |
0.0115 |
249 |
1 |
32.08 |
2012-12-11 |
| 52. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
31.95 |
1.0523 |
-0.0793 |
256 |
1 |
31.95 |
2012-12-13 |
| 53. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
31.75 |
0.9865 |
-0.0143 |
276 |
1 |
31.75 |
2012-12-12 |
| 54. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
31.62 |
0.9567 |
0.0105 |
273 |
1 |
31.62 |
2012-12-08 |
| 55. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
31.57 |
0.8162 |
0.1546 |
149 |
1 |
31.57 |
2012-12-08 |
| 56. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
31.54 |
1.0666 |
-0.1017 |
297 |
1 |
31.54 |
2012-12-08 |
| 57. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
31.53 |
0.8360 |
0.1282 |
170 |
1 |
31.53 |
2012-12-13 |
| 58. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
31.47 |
1.0412 |
-0.0793 |
225 |
1 |
31.47 |
2012-12-08 |
| 59. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
31.28 |
0.8629 |
0.0979 |
299 |
1 |
31.28 |
2012-12-08 |
| 60. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
31.19 |
0.9430 |
0.0130 |
297 |
1 |
31.19 |
2012-12-08 |
| 61. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
31.14 |
0.9514 |
0.0010 |
237 |
2 |
30.56 |
2012-12-08 |
| 62. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
30.90 |
0.9266 |
0.0197 |
278 |
1 |
30.90 |
2012-12-11 |
| 63. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
30.79 |
0.8157 |
0.1256 |
121 |
1 |
30.79 |
2012-12-08 |
| 64. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
30.73 |
0.9028 |
0.0344 |
111 |
2 |
29.99 |
2012-12-08 |
| 65. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
30.40 |
1.0403 |
-0.0965 |
193 |
1 |
30.40 |
2012-12-08 |
| 66. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
30.09 |
0.9820 |
-0.0626 |
274 |
1 |
30.09 |
2012-12-06 |
| 67. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
30.07 |
0.8791 |
0.0390 |
190 |
2 |
29.89 |
2012-12-12 |
| 68. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
30.00 |
0.9740 |
-0.0614 |
209 |
1 |
30.00 |
2012-12-13 |
| 69. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
29.90 |
0.9171 |
-0.0028 |
165 |
1 |
29.90 |
2012-12-08 |
| 70. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
29.89 |
0.9221 |
-0.0100 |
244 |
1 |
29.89 |
2012-12-08 |
| 71. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
29.87 |
0.9084 |
0.0061 |
300 |
1 |
29.87 |
2012-12-08 |
| 72. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
29.85 |
0.9691 |
-0.0575 |
223 |
1 |
29.85 |
2012-12-11 |
| 73. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
29.84 |
0.9351 |
-0.0287 |
190 |
1 |
29.84 |
2012-12-11 |
| 74. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
29.41 |
0.9670 |
-0.0263 |
307 |
1 |
29.41 |
2012-12-13 |
| 75. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
29.36 |
0.8723 |
0.0203 |
185 |
1 |
29.36 |
2012-12-11 |
| 76. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
29.27 |
1.0787 |
-0.1862 |
237 |
1 |
29.27 |
2012-12-08 |
| 77. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
29.21 |
0.8821 |
0.0100 |
176 |
1 |
29.21 |
2012-12-08 |
| 78. |
When the mind is brought to rest and not allowed to wander, ... |
29.20 |
0.8650 |
0.0235 |
162 |
1 |
29.20 |
2012-12-08 |
| 79. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
28.90 |
0.9202 |
-0.0376 |
254 |
1 |
28.90 |
2012-12-08 |
| 80. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
28.86 |
0.9851 |
-0.1011 |
317 |
2 |
28.22 |
2012-12-08 |
| 81. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
28.85 |
0.8500 |
0.0374 |
145 |
1 |
28.85 |
2012-12-08 |
| 82. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
28.81 |
1.0444 |
-0.1710 |
197 |
1 |
28.81 |
2012-12-08 |
| 83. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
28.70 |
0.8551 |
0.0224 |
171 |
1 |
28.70 |
2012-12-11 |
| 84. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
28.69 |
1.0795 |
-0.1731 |
226 |
1 |
28.69 |
2012-12-08 |
| 85. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
28.66 |
0.8520 |
0.0237 |
202 |
1 |
28.66 |
2012-12-10 |
| 86. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
28.63 |
0.8941 |
-0.0183 |
216 |
1 |
28.63 |
2012-12-08 |
| 87. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
28.60 |
0.9429 |
-0.0679 |
287 |
1 |
28.60 |
2012-12-08 |
| 88. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
28.60 |
0.8190 |
0.0619 |
135 |
1 |
28.60 |
2012-12-08 |
| 89. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
28.47 |
0.8912 |
-0.0200 |
186 |
1 |
28.47 |
2012-12-08 |
| 90. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
28.32 |
0.9857 |
-0.1220 |
293 |
1 |
28.32 |
2012-12-08 |
| 91. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
28.15 |
0.9316 |
-0.0660 |
287 |
1 |
28.15 |
2012-12-08 |
| 92. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
28.03 |
0.8153 |
0.0450 |
200 |
1 |
28.03 |
2012-12-10 |
| 93. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
27.79 |
0.8661 |
-0.0261 |
94 |
1 |
27.79 |
2012-12-08 |
| 94. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
27.46 |
1.0883 |
-0.2181 |
303 |
1 |
27.46 |
2012-12-08 |
| 95. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
27.34 |
0.8918 |
-0.0590 |
100 |
1 |
27.34 |
2012-12-08 |
| 96. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
27.14 |
0.9023 |
-0.0311 |
231 |
1 |
27.14 |
2012-12-08 |
| 97. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
26.76 |
0.9965 |
-0.1848 |
168 |
1 |
26.76 |
2012-12-08 |
| 98. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
26.58 |
0.9811 |
-0.1676 |
272 |
1 |
26.58 |
2012-12-11 |
| 99. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
26.11 |
0.8968 |
-0.1038 |
186 |
1 |
26.11 |
2012-12-08 |
| 100. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
25.88 |
0.9168 |
-0.1260 |
240 |
1 |
25.88 |
2012-12-08 |
| 101. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
25.23 |
1.0459 |
-0.2461 |
200 |
1 |
25.23 |
2012-12-06 |
| 102. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
24.78 |
0.9633 |
-0.2063 |
304 |
1 |
24.78 |
2012-12-08 |
| 103. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
22.99 |
0.9045 |
-0.2043 |
235 |
1 |
22.99 |
2012-12-08 |