| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
73.82 |
1.0444 |
0.1985 |
197 |
1 |
73.82 |
2008-12-06 |
| 2. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
69.55 |
1.0602 |
0.1200 |
389 |
1 |
69.55 |
2010-09-08 |
| 3. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
67.89 |
1.0334 |
0.1080 |
131 |
1 |
67.89 |
2008-12-04 |
| 4. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
67.44 |
1.0252 |
0.1085 |
176 |
1 |
67.44 |
2008-12-06 |
| 5. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
66.07 |
0.9098 |
0.2030 |
167 |
1 |
66.07 |
2010-09-08 |
| 6. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
64.89 |
1.0417 |
0.0521 |
253 |
1 |
64.89 |
2008-12-04 |
| 7. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
63.99 |
1.0203 |
0.0644 |
261 |
1 |
63.99 |
2009-05-22 |
| 8. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
63.26 |
0.9965 |
0.0676 |
168 |
1 |
63.26 |
2008-12-04 |
| 9. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
62.53 |
0.9567 |
0.0999 |
273 |
1 |
62.53 |
2008-12-06 |
| 10. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
62.14 |
1.0095 |
0.0388 |
316 |
1 |
62.14 |
2008-12-04 |
| 11. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
62.01 |
0.9266 |
0.1207 |
267 |
2 |
57.94 |
2008-12-04 |
| 12. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.89 |
0.9886 |
0.0592 |
220 |
1 |
61.89 |
2010-10-29 |
| 13. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
61.88 |
1.0165 |
0.0328 |
392 |
1 |
61.88 |
2008-12-06 |
| 14. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
61.79 |
1.0352 |
0.0110 |
341 |
1 |
61.79 |
2009-05-22 |
| 15. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
61.66 |
1.0711 |
-0.0349 |
213 |
1 |
61.66 |
2009-05-22 |
| 16. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
61.66 |
0.9653 |
0.0847 |
394 |
1 |
61.66 |
2008-12-04 |
| 17. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
61.29 |
1.0167 |
0.0256 |
378 |
1 |
61.29 |
2008-12-04 |
| 18. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
61.16 |
1.0521 |
-0.0245 |
171 |
1 |
61.16 |
2009-05-22 |
| 19. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
61.14 |
0.9768 |
0.0587 |
387 |
1 |
61.14 |
2008-12-04 |
| 20. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
60.76 |
1.0399 |
-0.0083 |
294 |
1 |
60.76 |
2008-12-04 |
| 21. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
60.56 |
0.9376 |
0.0905 |
367 |
2 |
60.04 |
2008-12-06 |
| 22. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
60.37 |
0.9072 |
0.1101 |
237 |
1 |
60.37 |
2008-12-04 |
| 23. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
59.86 |
0.9309 |
0.0779 |
284 |
1 |
59.86 |
2008-12-04 |
| 24. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
59.83 |
0.9045 |
0.1063 |
235 |
1 |
59.83 |
2008-12-06 |
| 25. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
58.89 |
0.9814 |
0.0522 |
364 |
1 |
58.89 |
2010-09-09 |
| 26. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
58.87 |
0.9084 |
0.0872 |
300 |
1 |
58.87 |
2008-12-05 |
| 27. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
58.76 |
1.0013 |
-0.0104 |
273 |
1 |
58.76 |
2008-12-04 |
| 28. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
58.42 |
1.0168 |
-0.0288 |
271 |
1 |
58.42 |
2008-12-04 |
| 29. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
58.42 |
1.0261 |
-0.0422 |
273 |
1 |
58.42 |
2008-12-04 |
| 30. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
58.37 |
1.0251 |
-0.0419 |
261 |
1 |
58.37 |
2010-09-08 |
| 31. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
58.23 |
1.0441 |
-0.0600 |
252 |
1 |
58.23 |
2010-10-29 |
| 32. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
57.96 |
0.9372 |
0.0456 |
320 |
1 |
57.96 |
2010-09-08 |
| 33. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
57.78 |
0.9597 |
0.0195 |
347 |
2 |
54.58 |
2010-09-18 |
| 34. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
57.41 |
0.9884 |
-0.0158 |
262 |
1 |
57.41 |
2008-12-04 |
| 35. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
56.99 |
0.9991 |
-0.0369 |
225 |
1 |
56.99 |
2008-12-04 |
| 36. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
56.97 |
1.0025 |
-0.0400 |
336 |
1 |
56.97 |
2008-12-04 |
| 37. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
56.80 |
0.9088 |
0.0548 |
348 |
1 |
56.80 |
2008-12-05 |
| 38. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
56.79 |
0.9164 |
0.0470 |
305 |
2 |
48.51 |
2008-12-04 |
| 39. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
56.08 |
1.0666 |
-0.1202 |
297 |
1 |
56.08 |
2008-12-04 |
| 40. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
54.96 |
0.9672 |
-0.0337 |
396 |
1 |
54.96 |
2009-05-22 |
| 41. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
54.77 |
1.0619 |
-0.1344 |
354 |
1 |
54.77 |
2008-12-04 |
| 42. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
54.70 |
1.0577 |
-0.1390 |
247 |
1 |
54.70 |
2009-05-22 |
| 43. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
54.47 |
0.9710 |
-0.0589 |
173 |
1 |
54.47 |
2008-12-05 |
| 44. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
54.35 |
0.9724 |
-0.0531 |
237 |
1 |
54.35 |
2008-12-04 |
| 45. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
52.12 |
0.8826 |
-0.0027 |
296 |
1 |
52.12 |
2010-09-08 |
| 46. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
52.06 |
1.0368 |
-0.1588 |
276 |
1 |
52.06 |
2008-12-04 |
| 47. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
50.99 |
0.9278 |
-0.0662 |
295 |
1 |
50.99 |
2009-05-22 |
| 48. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
48.80 |
0.9557 |
-0.1278 |
331 |
1 |
48.80 |
2008-12-04 |
| 49. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
47.61 |
0.9763 |
-0.1756 |
289 |
1 |
47.61 |
2009-05-22 |
| 50. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
47.47 |
0.9168 |
-0.1164 |
240 |
1 |
47.47 |
2010-09-10 |
| 51. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
42.21 |
0.9570 |
-0.2464 |
287 |
1 |
42.21 |
2008-12-04 |
| 52. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
41.72 |
0.9811 |
-0.2780 |
272 |
1 |
41.72 |
2008-12-04 |