| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
85.36 |
1.0487 |
0.2336 |
253 |
2 |
72.62 |
2010-04-21 |
| 2. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
81.53 |
1.0877 |
0.1355 |
129 |
1 |
81.53 |
2010-04-21 |
| 3. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
80.31 |
0.9849 |
0.2244 |
337 |
2 |
78.29 |
2010-03-18 |
| 4. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
80.31 |
1.0669 |
0.1444 |
379 |
1 |
80.31 |
2009-09-16 |
| 5. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
80.03 |
1.0291 |
0.1727 |
240 |
2 |
74.52 |
2010-04-21 |
| 6. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
79.22 |
1.0865 |
0.1049 |
237 |
1 |
79.22 |
2010-03-12 |
| 7. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
78.82 |
1.1198 |
0.0648 |
247 |
1 |
78.82 |
2009-10-02 |
| 8. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
78.77 |
1.0617 |
0.1212 |
171 |
2 |
72.13 |
2009-10-02 |
| 9. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
78.62 |
1.0464 |
0.1412 |
294 |
1 |
78.62 |
2009-09-10 |
| 10. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
77.25 |
1.0426 |
0.1152 |
131 |
2 |
74.58 |
2009-10-02 |
| 11. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
76.81 |
0.9933 |
0.1693 |
450 |
1 |
76.81 |
2010-04-27 |
| 12. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
76.66 |
1.0969 |
0.0582 |
303 |
2 |
76.58 |
2010-04-21 |
| 13. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
75.83 |
1.0479 |
0.0909 |
205 |
2 |
59.68 |
2010-04-21 |
| 14. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
75.77 |
1.1086 |
0.0313 |
233 |
1 |
75.77 |
2009-09-16 |
| 15. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
75.12 |
1.0131 |
0.1199 |
245 |
1 |
75.12 |
2009-09-10 |
| 16. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
74.96 |
1.0901 |
0.0391 |
288 |
3 |
73.25 |
2010-04-21 |
| 17. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
74.72 |
0.9966 |
0.1342 |
377 |
1 |
74.72 |
2010-03-12 |
| 18. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
74.48 |
1.0777 |
0.0402 |
226 |
1 |
74.48 |
2010-04-21 |
| 19. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
74.46 |
1.0511 |
0.0704 |
252 |
1 |
74.46 |
2009-09-16 |
| 20. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
74.01 |
1.0101 |
0.1045 |
336 |
2 |
72.91 |
2010-04-21 |
| 21. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
73.68 |
1.0472 |
0.0544 |
149 |
1 |
73.68 |
2009-09-16 |
| 22. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
73.59 |
0.9949 |
0.1220 |
304 |
1 |
73.59 |
2009-09-10 |
| 23. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
73.51 |
0.9807 |
0.1130 |
129 |
1 |
73.51 |
2010-04-27 |
| 24. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
73.38 |
1.0069 |
0.0997 |
242 |
1 |
73.38 |
2009-10-02 |
| 25. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
72.89 |
0.9915 |
0.1035 |
281 |
1 |
72.89 |
2010-03-12 |
| 26. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
72.84 |
1.0125 |
0.0778 |
171 |
3 |
66.05 |
2009-10-02 |
| 27. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
72.21 |
1.0800 |
0.0027 |
213 |
1 |
72.21 |
2009-09-16 |
| 28. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
72.11 |
1.0404 |
0.0486 |
406 |
1 |
72.11 |
2010-03-12 |
| 29. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
71.68 |
0.9931 |
0.0806 |
218 |
3 |
65.45 |
2010-03-12 |
| 30. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
71.25 |
1.0418 |
0.0301 |
214 |
2 |
58.08 |
2009-09-13 |
| 31. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
70.77 |
1.0033 |
0.0609 |
203 |
1 |
70.77 |
2010-04-21 |
| 32. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
70.76 |
0.9541 |
0.1102 |
236 |
2 |
67.07 |
2009-09-23 |
| 33. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
70.42 |
0.9841 |
0.0712 |
217 |
1 |
70.42 |
2009-09-16 |
| 34. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
70.29 |
0.9636 |
0.0916 |
281 |
1 |
70.29 |
2010-04-21 |
| 35. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
70.16 |
0.9673 |
0.0912 |
393 |
1 |
70.16 |
2009-09-23 |
| 36. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
70.08 |
0.9820 |
0.0798 |
297 |
1 |
70.08 |
2010-04-21 |
| 37. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
70.03 |
0.9841 |
0.0670 |
263 |
1 |
70.03 |
2010-04-21 |
| 38. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
70.01 |
0.9380 |
0.1129 |
284 |
1 |
70.01 |
2010-03-12 |
| 39. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
69.64 |
0.9890 |
0.0617 |
272 |
1 |
69.64 |
2009-09-16 |
| 40. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
69.29 |
1.0181 |
0.0247 |
276 |
1 |
69.29 |
2010-03-12 |
| 41. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
69.22 |
1.0682 |
-0.0267 |
266 |
1 |
69.22 |
2010-04-21 |
| 42. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
69.08 |
1.0372 |
0.0007 |
249 |
2 |
68.26 |
2010-03-12 |
| 43. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
69.08 |
0.9424 |
0.0984 |
320 |
1 |
69.08 |
2010-04-27 |
| 44. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
69.07 |
0.9346 |
0.1007 |
211 |
3 |
65.08 |
2010-03-18 |
| 45. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
68.91 |
0.9503 |
0.0787 |
211 |
1 |
68.91 |
2010-04-27 |
| 46. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
68.58 |
1.0199 |
0.0070 |
225 |
2 |
63.44 |
2010-03-18 |
| 47. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
68.29 |
0.9884 |
0.0405 |
267 |
1 |
68.29 |
2010-03-12 |
| 48. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
68.16 |
1.0686 |
-0.0406 |
354 |
1 |
68.16 |
2010-04-21 |
| 49. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
67.61 |
1.0060 |
0.0168 |
244 |
2 |
61.55 |
2010-04-27 |
| 50. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
67.46 |
0.9935 |
0.0225 |
217 |
1 |
67.46 |
2009-10-01 |
| 51. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
67.00 |
0.9698 |
0.0421 |
389 |
1 |
67.00 |
2009-09-16 |
| 52. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
66.67 |
1.0362 |
-0.0280 |
437 |
1 |
66.67 |
2009-09-23 |
| 53. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
66.42 |
0.9519 |
0.0501 |
323 |
1 |
66.42 |
2009-09-10 |
| 54. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
66.21 |
1.0333 |
-0.0435 |
176 |
1 |
66.21 |
2009-09-10 |
| 55. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
66.14 |
0.9680 |
0.0260 |
256 |
2 |
62.23 |
2010-04-21 |
| 56. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
65.78 |
0.8856 |
0.1104 |
369 |
2 |
63.17 |
2010-04-21 |
| 57. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
65.69 |
0.9928 |
-0.0064 |
293 |
1 |
65.69 |
2009-10-02 |
| 58. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
65.66 |
0.9922 |
-0.0050 |
264 |
1 |
65.66 |
2009-10-02 |
| 59. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
65.16 |
0.9561 |
0.0303 |
364 |
1 |
65.16 |
2009-09-23 |
| 60. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
64.61 |
1.0845 |
-0.1149 |
212 |
1 |
64.61 |
2009-09-23 |
| 61. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
64.60 |
0.9339 |
0.0425 |
317 |
3 |
60.09 |
2009-09-23 |
| 62. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
64.54 |
0.9603 |
0.0149 |
430 |
1 |
64.54 |
2009-10-02 |
| 63. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
64.53 |
0.9864 |
-0.0131 |
292 |
1 |
64.53 |
2009-10-02 |
| 64. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
64.43 |
1.0060 |
-0.0373 |
225 |
2 |
63.10 |
2010-03-17 |
| 65. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
64.38 |
1.0461 |
-0.0767 |
318 |
1 |
64.38 |
2009-09-23 |
| 66. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
64.13 |
0.9681 |
0.0010 |
392 |
1 |
64.13 |
2010-04-21 |
| 67. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
63.94 |
1.0250 |
-0.0615 |
271 |
1 |
63.94 |
2009-09-23 |
| 68. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
63.94 |
0.8887 |
0.0858 |
464 |
2 |
63.08 |
2009-10-02 |
| 69. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
63.69 |
0.9658 |
-0.0053 |
308 |
1 |
63.69 |
2009-10-02 |
| 70. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
63.58 |
0.9869 |
-0.0354 |
193 |
1 |
63.58 |
2010-04-21 |
| 71. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
63.51 |
1.0351 |
-0.0771 |
276 |
1 |
63.51 |
2010-04-21 |
| 72. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
63.45 |
0.9479 |
0.0070 |
317 |
1 |
63.45 |
2010-04-21 |
| 73. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
63.25 |
0.8901 |
0.0594 |
273 |
1 |
63.25 |
2009-09-10 |
| 74. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
62.69 |
1.0086 |
-0.0712 |
218 |
1 |
62.69 |
2009-09-23 |
| 75. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
62.53 |
0.9980 |
-0.0565 |
295 |
1 |
62.53 |
2009-09-23 |
| 76. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
62.27 |
0.9243 |
0.0131 |
240 |
2 |
59.68 |
2009-10-01 |
| 77. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
62.21 |
0.8656 |
0.0700 |
242 |
1 |
62.21 |
2009-10-02 |
| 78. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
61.94 |
0.9873 |
-0.0582 |
274 |
1 |
61.94 |
2009-10-01 |
| 79. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
61.67 |
0.9952 |
-0.0665 |
220 |
1 |
61.67 |
2009-09-23 |
| 80. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
60.96 |
1.0414 |
-0.1268 |
234 |
1 |
60.96 |
2009-09-16 |
| 81. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
60.82 |
1.0432 |
-0.1292 |
276 |
1 |
60.82 |
2009-09-23 |
| 82. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
60.56 |
0.9538 |
-0.0445 |
276 |
1 |
60.56 |
2009-09-23 |
| 83. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
60.50 |
0.9791 |
-0.0771 |
154 |
1 |
60.50 |
2009-09-20 |
| 84. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
60.48 |
0.9583 |
-0.0495 |
237 |
1 |
60.48 |
2010-03-12 |
| 85. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
60.17 |
0.8778 |
0.0276 |
285 |
1 |
60.17 |
2010-03-12 |
| 86. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
60.00 |
1.0543 |
-0.1566 |
182 |
1 |
60.00 |
2009-09-23 |
| 87. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
59.86 |
1.0094 |
-0.1104 |
256 |
1 |
59.86 |
2009-09-23 |
| 88. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
59.76 |
1.0601 |
-0.1659 |
256 |
1 |
59.76 |
2009-09-23 |
| 89. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
59.72 |
0.9468 |
-0.0502 |
318 |
1 |
59.72 |
2009-09-16 |
| 90. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
59.00 |
1.0188 |
-0.1236 |
316 |
1 |
59.00 |
2009-09-23 |
| 91. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
58.97 |
0.9927 |
-0.1067 |
276 |
1 |
58.97 |
2009-09-16 |
| 92. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
58.70 |
0.9228 |
-0.0369 |
305 |
1 |
58.70 |
2009-10-02 |
| 93. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
58.69 |
0.9857 |
-0.0986 |
268 |
1 |
58.69 |
2009-09-10 |
| 94. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
58.09 |
0.9123 |
-0.0309 |
351 |
1 |
58.09 |
2010-03-12 |
| 95. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
57.50 |
1.0132 |
-0.1494 |
371 |
1 |
57.50 |
2009-09-23 |
| 96. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
57.12 |
1.0063 |
-0.1439 |
293 |
1 |
57.12 |
2009-09-16 |
| 97. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
56.04 |
0.9425 |
-0.1007 |
248 |
1 |
56.04 |
2009-10-03 |
| 98. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
55.84 |
0.9762 |
-0.1381 |
249 |
1 |
55.84 |
2009-09-23 |
| 99. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
55.62 |
0.9991 |
-0.1649 |
339 |
1 |
55.62 |
2009-09-23 |
| 100. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
55.50 |
0.9909 |
-0.1533 |
293 |
1 |
55.50 |
2009-09-10 |
| 101. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
55.02 |
0.7923 |
0.0340 |
316 |
1 |
55.02 |
2009-09-23 |
| 102. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
54.76 |
0.9128 |
-0.0938 |
237 |
2 |
54.34 |
2009-09-23 |
| 103. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
54.62 |
0.9763 |
-0.1571 |
143 |
1 |
54.62 |
2009-09-16 |
| 104. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
54.16 |
1.0615 |
-0.2518 |
201 |
2 |
51.95 |
2010-03-12 |
| 105. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
53.41 |
1.0654 |
-0.2665 |
247 |
1 |
53.41 |
2009-09-23 |
| 106. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
52.84 |
0.9604 |
-0.1697 |
285 |
1 |
52.84 |
2009-09-23 |
| 107. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
52.68 |
0.9963 |
-0.2084 |
274 |
1 |
52.68 |
2009-09-16 |
| 108. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
52.45 |
0.9183 |
-0.1348 |
252 |
1 |
52.45 |
2009-09-23 |
| 109. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
50.74 |
0.9206 |
-0.1591 |
317 |
1 |
50.74 |
2009-09-23 |
| 110. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
48.59 |
1.0079 |
-0.2804 |
273 |
1 |
48.59 |
2009-09-23 |
| 111. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
46.27 |
1.0042 |
-0.3146 |
168 |
1 |
46.27 |
2009-09-23 |