| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
51.08 |
1.0203 |
0.1498 |
261 |
1 |
51.08 |
2008-12-15 |
| 2. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
49.87 |
1.0567 |
0.0827 |
303 |
1 |
49.87 |
2008-12-15 |
| 3. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
49.82 |
0.9776 |
0.1602 |
308 |
1 |
49.82 |
2008-12-18 |
| 4. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
49.76 |
1.1018 |
0.0281 |
220 |
2 |
49.76 |
2008-12-14 |
| 5. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
49.11 |
0.9986 |
0.1232 |
283 |
1 |
49.11 |
2008-12-19 |
| 6. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
49.00 |
0.9785 |
0.1434 |
335 |
1 |
49.00 |
2008-12-19 |
| 7. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
48.90 |
1.0486 |
0.0686 |
289 |
1 |
48.90 |
2008-12-13 |
| 8. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
48.73 |
1.0120 |
0.0997 |
290 |
1 |
48.73 |
2008-12-19 |
| 9. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
48.62 |
1.0331 |
0.0746 |
234 |
1 |
48.62 |
2008-12-14 |
| 10. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
48.40 |
1.0340 |
0.0760 |
406 |
1 |
48.40 |
2008-12-15 |
| 11. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
48.37 |
0.9763 |
0.1274 |
289 |
1 |
48.37 |
2008-12-15 |
| 12. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
48.31 |
0.9430 |
0.1525 |
211 |
1 |
48.31 |
2008-12-15 |
| 13. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
48.07 |
1.0565 |
0.0381 |
247 |
1 |
48.07 |
2008-12-15 |
| 14. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
48.00 |
0.9729 |
0.1229 |
255 |
1 |
48.00 |
2008-12-16 |
| 15. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
47.86 |
1.0389 |
0.0552 |
318 |
2 |
44.23 |
2008-12-15 |
| 16. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
47.48 |
1.0352 |
0.0510 |
341 |
1 |
47.48 |
2008-12-18 |
| 17. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
47.34 |
0.9857 |
0.0937 |
293 |
1 |
47.34 |
2008-12-13 |
| 18. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
47.32 |
0.9612 |
0.1187 |
256 |
3 |
43.84 |
2008-12-15 |
| 19. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
47.08 |
1.0596 |
0.0127 |
239 |
1 |
47.08 |
2008-12-14 |
| 20. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
46.90 |
0.9048 |
0.1700 |
271 |
2 |
45.53 |
2008-12-15 |
| 21. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
46.88 |
0.8573 |
0.2160 |
270 |
2 |
44.45 |
2008-12-15 |
| 22. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
46.46 |
1.0993 |
-0.0414 |
265 |
1 |
46.46 |
2008-12-14 |
| 23. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
46.40 |
1.0389 |
0.0222 |
340 |
1 |
46.40 |
2008-12-15 |
| 24. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
46.39 |
0.9226 |
0.1421 |
348 |
2 |
43.30 |
2008-12-14 |
| 25. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
45.98 |
0.9281 |
0.1260 |
273 |
1 |
45.98 |
2008-12-14 |
| 26. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
45.60 |
1.0577 |
-0.0210 |
247 |
1 |
45.60 |
2008-12-14 |
| 27. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
45.45 |
0.9684 |
0.0710 |
388 |
1 |
45.45 |
2008-12-15 |
| 28. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.43 |
1.0799 |
-0.0473 |
243 |
1 |
45.43 |
2008-12-15 |
| 29. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
45.39 |
1.0296 |
0.0121 |
437 |
1 |
45.39 |
2008-12-18 |
| 30. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
45.32 |
1.0201 |
0.0176 |
375 |
1 |
45.32 |
2008-12-18 |
| 31. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
45.18 |
1.0099 |
0.0177 |
207 |
1 |
45.18 |
2008-12-19 |
| 32. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
45.05 |
1.0368 |
-0.0084 |
276 |
1 |
45.05 |
2008-12-14 |
| 33. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
44.86 |
1.0390 |
-0.0197 |
205 |
1 |
44.86 |
2008-12-15 |
| 34. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
44.71 |
1.0016 |
0.0134 |
218 |
2 |
43.33 |
2008-12-15 |
| 35. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
44.57 |
0.9286 |
0.0868 |
194 |
2 |
40.64 |
2008-12-14 |
| 36. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
44.48 |
0.9897 |
0.0223 |
274 |
1 |
44.48 |
2008-12-14 |
| 37. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
44.24 |
1.0063 |
0.0029 |
371 |
1 |
44.24 |
2008-12-14 |
| 38. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
43.90 |
0.9756 |
0.0240 |
229 |
2 |
41.55 |
2008-12-19 |
| 39. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
43.71 |
0.9936 |
0.0026 |
311 |
1 |
43.71 |
2008-12-14 |
| 40. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
43.69 |
0.9865 |
0.0107 |
276 |
2 |
43.38 |
2008-12-19 |
| 41. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
43.48 |
1.0528 |
-0.0666 |
201 |
2 |
40.95 |
2008-12-16 |
| 42. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
43.43 |
0.9893 |
0.0009 |
323 |
1 |
43.43 |
2008-12-15 |
| 43. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
43.33 |
1.0034 |
-0.0171 |
302 |
1 |
43.33 |
2008-12-14 |
| 44. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
43.19 |
0.9965 |
-0.0117 |
310 |
1 |
43.19 |
2008-12-14 |
| 45. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
43.16 |
0.8353 |
0.1560 |
283 |
1 |
43.16 |
2008-12-19 |
| 46. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
43.07 |
1.0095 |
-0.0288 |
316 |
1 |
43.07 |
2008-12-14 |
| 47. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
42.87 |
0.9128 |
0.0698 |
133 |
1 |
42.87 |
2008-12-13 |
| 48. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
42.87 |
0.9109 |
0.0688 |
401 |
1 |
42.87 |
2008-12-15 |
| 49. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
42.81 |
0.9202 |
0.0549 |
254 |
1 |
42.81 |
2008-12-14 |
| 50. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
42.80 |
0.9646 |
0.0100 |
264 |
1 |
42.80 |
2008-12-14 |
| 51. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
42.68 |
0.9084 |
0.0662 |
300 |
2 |
40.55 |
2008-12-19 |
| 52. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
42.54 |
0.9846 |
-0.0162 |
281 |
1 |
42.54 |
2008-12-15 |
| 53. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
42.19 |
0.9212 |
0.0435 |
323 |
1 |
42.19 |
2008-12-16 |
| 54. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
41.92 |
0.9540 |
-0.0006 |
285 |
1 |
41.92 |
2008-12-15 |
| 55. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
41.89 |
1.0788 |
-0.1299 |
171 |
1 |
41.89 |
2008-12-15 |
| 56. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
41.81 |
1.0711 |
-0.1235 |
213 |
1 |
41.81 |
2008-12-15 |
| 57. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
41.73 |
1.0398 |
-0.0995 |
110 |
1 |
41.73 |
2008-12-15 |
| 58. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
41.69 |
1.0523 |
-0.1067 |
256 |
1 |
41.69 |
2008-12-19 |
| 59. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
41.52 |
0.8958 |
0.0548 |
322 |
1 |
41.52 |
2008-12-14 |
| 60. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
41.45 |
0.9795 |
-0.0352 |
308 |
2 |
38.12 |
2008-12-19 |
| 61. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
41.27 |
0.8996 |
0.0351 |
192 |
3 |
39.70 |
2008-12-15 |
| 62. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
41.10 |
1.0251 |
-0.0910 |
261 |
1 |
41.10 |
2008-12-14 |
| 63. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
40.86 |
0.8810 |
0.0505 |
282 |
1 |
40.86 |
2008-12-15 |
| 64. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
40.59 |
0.9234 |
0.0065 |
346 |
1 |
40.59 |
2008-12-19 |
| 65. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
40.56 |
0.8975 |
0.0268 |
268 |
1 |
40.56 |
2008-12-14 |
| 66. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
39.79 |
0.9266 |
-0.0205 |
267 |
3 |
37.97 |
2008-12-15 |
| 67. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
39.50 |
1.0696 |
-0.1738 |
226 |
1 |
39.50 |
2008-12-14 |
| 68. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
39.24 |
1.0787 |
-0.1867 |
237 |
1 |
39.24 |
2008-12-13 |
| 69. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
39.22 |
0.8878 |
0.0048 |
346 |
1 |
39.22 |
2008-12-15 |
| 70. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
39.13 |
0.9426 |
-0.0487 |
317 |
1 |
39.13 |
2008-12-14 |
| 71. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
39.08 |
0.9966 |
-0.1076 |
259 |
1 |
39.08 |
2008-12-14 |
| 72. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
38.83 |
0.8935 |
0.0000 |
328 |
1 |
38.83 |
2008-12-15 |
| 73. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
38.43 |
1.0462 |
-0.1777 |
184 |
1 |
38.43 |
2008-12-13 |
| 74. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
38.41 |
0.9946 |
-0.1207 |
246 |
1 |
38.41 |
2008-12-15 |
| 75. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
38.30 |
0.9576 |
-0.0814 |
212 |
1 |
38.30 |
2008-12-13 |
| 76. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
38.14 |
0.9275 |
-0.0629 |
211 |
1 |
38.14 |
2008-12-15 |
| 77. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
37.19 |
0.9697 |
-0.1235 |
249 |
1 |
37.19 |
2008-12-14 |
| 78. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
36.16 |
0.9045 |
-0.0820 |
235 |
1 |
36.16 |
2008-12-14 |
| 79. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
35.02 |
0.8602 |
-0.0665 |
206 |
1 |
35.02 |
2008-12-15 |
| 80. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
33.56 |
0.9365 |
-0.1730 |
248 |
1 |
33.56 |
2008-12-14 |
| 81. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
31.93 |
0.8890 |
-0.1681 |
199 |
1 |
31.93 |
2008-12-14 |
| 82. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
31.91 |
0.8941 |
-0.1681 |
216 |
1 |
31.91 |
2008-12-13 |
| 83. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
31.65 |
0.9907 |
-0.2743 |
211 |
1 |
31.65 |
2008-12-14 |