| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
50.64 |
0.9722 |
-0.9854 |
283 |
1 |
50.64 |
2011-03-11 |
| 2. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
50.26 |
1.1014 |
-1.0754 |
273 |
1 |
50.26 |
2011-03-01 |
| 3. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
48.13 |
1.0385 |
-1.0511 |
230 |
1 |
48.13 |
2011-03-01 |
| 4. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
48.04 |
1.0679 |
-1.0571 |
177 |
2 |
45.49 |
2011-03-10 |
| 5. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
47.76 |
0.9844 |
-0.9888 |
229 |
1 |
47.76 |
2011-03-21 |
| 6. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
47.68 |
0.9866 |
-1.0019 |
218 |
1 |
47.68 |
2011-03-11 |
| 7. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
47.67 |
0.9682 |
-0.9826 |
143 |
1 |
47.67 |
2011-03-22 |
| 8. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
47.42 |
1.0349 |
-1.0481 |
234 |
1 |
47.42 |
2011-03-21 |
| 9. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
47.41 |
1.0201 |
-1.0366 |
172 |
2 |
44.69 |
2011-03-21 |
| 10. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
46.46 |
0.9688 |
-0.9844 |
217 |
2 |
43.29 |
2011-03-01 |
| 11. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
46.15 |
1.0343 |
-1.0074 |
242 |
3 |
44.17 |
2011-03-11 |
| 12. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
45.77 |
0.9697 |
-0.9822 |
266 |
1 |
45.77 |
2011-03-11 |
| 13. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
45.57 |
0.9731 |
-0.9934 |
129 |
1 |
45.57 |
2011-03-11 |
| 14. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
45.46 |
0.9213 |
-0.9325 |
295 |
1 |
45.46 |
2011-03-10 |
| 15. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
45.41 |
0.8867 |
-0.8983 |
241 |
1 |
45.41 |
2011-03-03 |
| 16. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
45.37 |
1.0214 |
-1.0345 |
269 |
2 |
43.84 |
2011-03-21 |
| 17. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
44.99 |
1.0523 |
-1.0669 |
256 |
2 |
44.80 |
2011-03-01 |
| 18. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
44.83 |
0.9418 |
-0.9509 |
188 |
2 |
41.94 |
2011-03-08 |
| 19. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
44.73 |
0.8190 |
-0.8250 |
135 |
1 |
44.73 |
2011-03-22 |
| 20. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
44.69 |
1.0168 |
-1.0281 |
271 |
2 |
38.88 |
2011-03-15 |
| 21. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
44.48 |
0.9127 |
-0.9271 |
252 |
2 |
41.64 |
2011-03-01 |
| 22. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
44.37 |
1.0384 |
-1.0574 |
183 |
2 |
41.30 |
2011-03-22 |
| 23. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
44.34 |
1.0361 |
-1.0477 |
269 |
1 |
44.34 |
2011-03-11 |
| 24. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
44.17 |
0.9798 |
-0.9962 |
199 |
1 |
44.17 |
2011-03-10 |
| 25. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
44.09 |
0.9171 |
-0.9314 |
165 |
1 |
44.09 |
2011-03-21 |
| 26. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
44.01 |
1.1016 |
-1.1140 |
233 |
1 |
44.01 |
2011-03-03 |
| 27. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
43.91 |
1.0608 |
-1.0383 |
258 |
2 |
41.11 |
2011-03-08 |
| 28. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
43.86 |
0.9843 |
-0.9995 |
234 |
1 |
43.86 |
2011-03-01 |
| 29. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
43.78 |
1.0095 |
-1.0222 |
316 |
1 |
43.78 |
2011-03-21 |
| 30. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
43.76 |
0.9795 |
-0.9914 |
308 |
1 |
43.76 |
2011-03-10 |
| 31. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
43.59 |
0.9500 |
-0.9603 |
362 |
1 |
43.59 |
2011-03-10 |
| 32. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
43.23 |
1.0829 |
-1.0941 |
288 |
1 |
43.23 |
2011-03-08 |
| 33. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
43.01 |
0.8994 |
-0.9128 |
188 |
1 |
43.01 |
2011-03-08 |
| 34. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
42.95 |
0.9673 |
-0.9392 |
232 |
2 |
39.09 |
2011-03-11 |
| 35. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
42.67 |
0.9540 |
-0.9664 |
285 |
1 |
42.67 |
2011-03-01 |
| 36. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
42.64 |
1.0462 |
-1.0623 |
184 |
1 |
42.64 |
2011-03-01 |
| 37. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
42.50 |
0.9598 |
-0.9701 |
220 |
1 |
42.50 |
2011-03-08 |
| 38. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
42.49 |
0.8971 |
-0.9071 |
266 |
1 |
42.49 |
2011-03-11 |
| 39. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
42.44 |
1.0124 |
-1.0259 |
204 |
1 |
42.44 |
2011-03-01 |
| 40. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
42.27 |
1.0885 |
-1.0671 |
341 |
1 |
42.27 |
2011-03-01 |
| 41. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
42.24 |
1.0284 |
-0.9977 |
282 |
1 |
42.24 |
2011-03-01 |
| 42. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
42.17 |
1.0483 |
-1.0620 |
227 |
1 |
42.17 |
2011-03-21 |
| 43. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
42.07 |
0.9865 |
-0.9981 |
276 |
1 |
42.07 |
2011-03-21 |
| 44. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
41.85 |
1.0288 |
-1.0083 |
300 |
3 |
39.99 |
2011-03-22 |
| 45. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
41.71 |
0.9128 |
-0.8846 |
369 |
1 |
41.71 |
2011-03-10 |
| 46. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
41.62 |
1.0252 |
-1.0413 |
176 |
1 |
41.62 |
2011-03-01 |
| 47. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
41.55 |
0.9904 |
-0.9615 |
203 |
3 |
38.80 |
2011-03-03 |
| 48. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
41.53 |
0.8628 |
-0.8774 |
196 |
2 |
37.75 |
2011-03-21 |
| 49. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
41.31 |
1.0714 |
-1.0883 |
129 |
1 |
41.31 |
2011-03-01 |
| 50. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
41.29 |
0.9710 |
-0.9879 |
173 |
1 |
41.29 |
2011-03-21 |
| 51. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
41.26 |
1.0077 |
-0.9789 |
250 |
1 |
41.26 |
2011-03-08 |
| 52. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
41.25 |
1.0203 |
-1.0293 |
261 |
1 |
41.25 |
2011-03-01 |
| 53. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
41.16 |
0.9873 |
-1.0029 |
155 |
1 |
41.16 |
2011-03-01 |
| 54. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
40.92 |
1.0677 |
-1.0493 |
284 |
1 |
40.92 |
2011-03-14 |
| 55. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
40.87 |
0.8975 |
-0.9102 |
268 |
2 |
38.73 |
2011-03-08 |
| 56. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
40.87 |
0.9724 |
-0.9850 |
237 |
1 |
40.87 |
2011-03-01 |
| 57. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
40.58 |
0.9966 |
-1.0091 |
259 |
2 |
40.56 |
2011-03-03 |
| 58. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
40.54 |
1.0261 |
-1.0395 |
273 |
1 |
40.54 |
2011-03-21 |
| 59. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
40.50 |
0.9247 |
-0.9364 |
253 |
1 |
40.50 |
2011-03-01 |
| 60. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
40.49 |
0.9986 |
-1.0157 |
162 |
1 |
40.49 |
2011-03-03 |
| 61. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
40.48 |
0.9786 |
-0.9934 |
193 |
1 |
40.48 |
2011-03-01 |
| 62. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
40.44 |
0.8841 |
-0.8933 |
194 |
1 |
40.44 |
2011-03-01 |
| 63. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
40.37 |
1.0767 |
-1.0899 |
212 |
1 |
40.37 |
2011-03-11 |
| 64. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
40.24 |
0.9207 |
-0.9335 |
174 |
1 |
40.24 |
2011-03-01 |
| 65. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
40.05 |
1.0796 |
-1.0953 |
129 |
1 |
40.05 |
2011-03-03 |
| 66. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
40.02 |
0.9068 |
-0.9178 |
269 |
1 |
40.02 |
2011-03-08 |
| 67. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
39.97 |
1.0515 |
-1.0648 |
250 |
1 |
39.97 |
2011-03-01 |
| 68. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
39.62 |
1.0595 |
-1.0702 |
379 |
1 |
39.62 |
2011-03-22 |
| 69. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
39.56 |
1.0768 |
-1.0498 |
295 |
1 |
39.56 |
2011-03-01 |
| 70. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
39.45 |
0.8809 |
-0.8962 |
127 |
2 |
35.49 |
2011-03-21 |
| 71. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
39.44 |
0.8773 |
-0.8886 |
205 |
1 |
39.44 |
2011-03-21 |
| 72. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
39.44 |
0.9635 |
-0.9732 |
389 |
1 |
39.44 |
2011-03-01 |
| 73. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
39.43 |
0.9886 |
-0.9994 |
220 |
1 |
39.43 |
2011-03-08 |
| 74. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
39.25 |
1.0197 |
-1.0339 |
226 |
2 |
36.51 |
2011-03-03 |
| 75. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
39.22 |
0.9084 |
-0.9166 |
404 |
1 |
39.22 |
2011-03-11 |
| 76. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
39.17 |
0.9342 |
-0.9438 |
434 |
1 |
39.17 |
2011-03-22 |
| 77. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
39.15 |
0.9855 |
-0.9639 |
258 |
1 |
39.15 |
2011-03-10 |
| 78. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
39.14 |
0.8810 |
-0.8932 |
282 |
1 |
39.14 |
2011-03-21 |
| 79. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
38.62 |
1.0485 |
-1.0238 |
153 |
1 |
38.62 |
2011-03-10 |
| 80. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
38.57 |
0.9084 |
-0.9192 |
300 |
1 |
38.57 |
2011-03-01 |
| 81. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
38.51 |
0.9910 |
-1.0028 |
295 |
1 |
38.51 |
2011-03-10 |
| 82. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
38.45 |
0.9905 |
-0.9731 |
337 |
1 |
38.45 |
2011-03-03 |
| 83. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
38.24 |
1.0684 |
-1.0503 |
253 |
1 |
38.24 |
2011-03-11 |
| 84. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
38.16 |
1.0270 |
-1.0028 |
255 |
1 |
38.16 |
2011-03-03 |
| 85. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
38.05 |
0.9938 |
-1.0065 |
339 |
1 |
38.05 |
2011-03-03 |
| 86. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
37.83 |
1.0033 |
-1.0196 |
189 |
1 |
37.83 |
2011-03-01 |
| 87. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
37.83 |
1.0883 |
-1.0678 |
303 |
1 |
37.83 |
2011-03-01 |
| 88. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
37.80 |
0.9212 |
-0.9333 |
231 |
1 |
37.80 |
2011-03-01 |
| 89. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
37.63 |
0.8956 |
-0.9062 |
217 |
2 |
36.72 |
2011-03-22 |
| 90. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
37.41 |
0.9430 |
-0.9589 |
211 |
1 |
37.41 |
2011-03-21 |
| 91. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
37.34 |
0.9916 |
-0.9620 |
282 |
1 |
37.34 |
2011-03-03 |
| 92. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
37.23 |
1.0251 |
-1.0386 |
261 |
1 |
37.23 |
2011-03-08 |
| 93. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
37.07 |
1.0740 |
-1.0472 |
264 |
1 |
37.07 |
2011-03-03 |
| 94. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
36.78 |
0.8145 |
-0.8231 |
115 |
1 |
36.78 |
2011-03-08 |
| 95. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
36.70 |
0.8202 |
-0.8341 |
178 |
1 |
36.70 |
2011-03-21 |
| 96. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
36.35 |
0.9863 |
-0.9955 |
339 |
1 |
36.35 |
2011-03-21 |
| 97. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
36.24 |
0.9965 |
-1.0105 |
168 |
1 |
36.24 |
2011-03-08 |
| 98. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
36.18 |
0.9226 |
-0.9325 |
348 |
1 |
36.18 |
2011-03-21 |
| 99. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
36.11 |
0.8845 |
-0.8973 |
273 |
1 |
36.11 |
2011-03-08 |
| 100. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
36.02 |
0.8725 |
-0.8841 |
163 |
1 |
36.02 |
2011-03-10 |
| 101. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
35.82 |
1.0521 |
-1.0667 |
171 |
1 |
35.82 |
2011-03-01 |
| 102. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
35.72 |
0.8956 |
-0.9042 |
322 |
1 |
35.72 |
2011-03-15 |
| 103. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
34.82 |
0.7259 |
-0.7318 |
186 |
1 |
34.82 |
2011-03-21 |
| 104. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
34.67 |
0.8826 |
-0.8936 |
296 |
1 |
34.67 |
2011-03-21 |
| 105. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
34.43 |
1.0013 |
-1.0139 |
273 |
1 |
34.43 |
2011-03-01 |
| 106. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
34.33 |
0.9023 |
-0.8709 |
231 |
1 |
34.33 |
2011-03-22 |
| 107. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
32.94 |
0.9226 |
-0.9330 |
177 |
1 |
32.94 |
2011-03-21 |
| 108. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
32.75 |
1.0173 |
-0.9851 |
268 |
1 |
32.75 |
2011-03-11 |
| 109. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
31.24 |
0.9485 |
-0.9595 |
236 |
1 |
31.24 |
2011-03-01 |