| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
55.12 |
0.9938 |
0.5211 |
339 |
1 |
55.12 |
2011-08-03 |
| 2. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
52.89 |
1.0768 |
0.4078 |
295 |
1 |
52.89 |
2011-08-03 |
| 3. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
50.40 |
1.0254 |
0.3966 |
217 |
1 |
50.40 |
2011-08-03 |
| 4. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
50.33 |
0.9884 |
0.3954 |
262 |
1 |
50.33 |
2009-11-30 |
| 5. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
50.14 |
0.9844 |
0.3920 |
293 |
1 |
50.14 |
2011-08-03 |
| 6. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
48.15 |
0.9740 |
0.3471 |
209 |
1 |
48.15 |
2011-08-03 |
| 7. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.86 |
1.0334 |
0.2498 |
131 |
1 |
46.86 |
2010-02-04 |
| 8. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
46.42 |
0.7988 |
0.4800 |
219 |
1 |
46.42 |
2011-08-03 |
| 9. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
45.86 |
1.0252 |
0.2315 |
176 |
1 |
45.86 |
2010-02-04 |
| 10. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
45.04 |
1.0486 |
0.1865 |
289 |
1 |
45.04 |
2010-02-04 |
| 11. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
43.71 |
1.0445 |
0.1527 |
373 |
1 |
43.71 |
2011-08-03 |
| 12. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
43.70 |
1.0521 |
0.1436 |
171 |
1 |
43.70 |
2010-02-04 |
| 13. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
43.27 |
0.9991 |
0.1874 |
225 |
1 |
43.27 |
2010-02-04 |
| 14. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
43.20 |
0.9852 |
0.1993 |
264 |
1 |
43.20 |
2010-02-04 |
| 15. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
43.13 |
1.0214 |
0.1608 |
166 |
3 |
39.15 |
2010-02-04 |
| 16. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
42.98 |
1.0941 |
0.1118 |
256 |
1 |
42.98 |
2010-02-04 |
| 17. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
42.80 |
0.9257 |
0.2522 |
317 |
1 |
42.80 |
2010-02-04 |
| 18. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
42.65 |
0.9966 |
0.1735 |
259 |
2 |
34.62 |
2010-02-04 |
| 19. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
42.28 |
0.9213 |
0.2390 |
295 |
1 |
42.28 |
2010-02-04 |
| 20. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
42.14 |
1.0213 |
0.1331 |
240 |
1 |
42.14 |
2010-02-04 |
| 21. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
41.65 |
1.0441 |
0.1299 |
316 |
1 |
41.65 |
2009-10-21 |
| 22. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
41.33 |
1.0074 |
0.1287 |
242 |
1 |
41.33 |
2009-09-30 |
| 23. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
41.24 |
0.8070 |
0.3250 |
167 |
1 |
41.24 |
2009-10-11 |
| 24. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
41.22 |
0.9910 |
0.1389 |
295 |
1 |
41.22 |
2010-02-04 |
| 25. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
41.02 |
0.8615 |
0.2668 |
110 |
3 |
37.59 |
2009-10-22 |
| 26. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
41.01 |
0.8289 |
0.2995 |
304 |
1 |
41.01 |
2010-02-04 |
| 27. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
40.98 |
0.9325 |
0.1932 |
156 |
1 |
40.98 |
2009-09-30 |
| 28. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
40.96 |
1.0711 |
0.0497 |
213 |
2 |
36.54 |
2009-09-30 |
| 29. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
40.79 |
1.0099 |
0.1072 |
207 |
1 |
40.79 |
2010-02-04 |
| 30. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
40.74 |
1.0487 |
0.0660 |
231 |
1 |
40.74 |
2009-10-06 |
| 31. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
40.64 |
0.9350 |
0.1815 |
195 |
1 |
40.64 |
2010-02-04 |
| 32. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
40.32 |
1.0297 |
0.0749 |
249 |
1 |
40.32 |
2009-10-01 |
| 33. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
40.02 |
0.9212 |
0.1795 |
231 |
1 |
40.02 |
2009-10-06 |
| 34. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
39.78 |
0.8773 |
0.2167 |
205 |
1 |
39.78 |
2010-02-04 |
| 35. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
39.65 |
1.0263 |
0.0604 |
267 |
3 |
34.61 |
2009-10-21 |
| 36. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
39.45 |
1.0787 |
0.0016 |
237 |
1 |
39.45 |
2009-10-21 |
| 37. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
39.25 |
0.8073 |
0.2690 |
173 |
1 |
39.25 |
2009-10-22 |
| 38. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
39.20 |
0.9907 |
0.0831 |
211 |
2 |
35.08 |
2010-02-04 |
| 39. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
38.95 |
0.9710 |
0.0963 |
173 |
1 |
38.95 |
2009-09-30 |
| 40. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
38.87 |
0.9722 |
0.0958 |
283 |
1 |
38.87 |
2009-09-30 |
| 41. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
38.75 |
0.9711 |
0.0931 |
176 |
3 |
32.93 |
2009-11-30 |
| 42. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
38.56 |
1.0388 |
0.0443 |
243 |
1 |
38.56 |
2009-11-30 |
| 43. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
38.40 |
0.9309 |
0.1211 |
284 |
1 |
38.40 |
2009-10-11 |
| 44. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
38.34 |
0.8788 |
0.1744 |
134 |
1 |
38.34 |
2009-09-30 |
| 45. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
38.31 |
0.9212 |
0.1295 |
323 |
1 |
38.31 |
2010-02-04 |
| 46. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
38.29 |
1.0515 |
-0.0029 |
250 |
1 |
38.29 |
2009-09-30 |
| 47. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
38.15 |
0.9281 |
0.1207 |
273 |
1 |
38.15 |
2009-11-09 |
| 48. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
38.15 |
1.0944 |
-0.0145 |
308 |
1 |
38.15 |
2009-10-06 |
| 49. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
38.10 |
0.9485 |
0.0947 |
291 |
1 |
38.10 |
2010-02-04 |
| 50. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
38.09 |
0.9048 |
0.1421 |
271 |
2 |
31.09 |
2010-02-04 |
| 51. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
37.91 |
1.0696 |
-0.0321 |
226 |
1 |
37.91 |
2009-10-21 |
| 52. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
37.80 |
1.0426 |
-0.0070 |
323 |
1 |
37.80 |
2009-10-01 |
| 53. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
37.71 |
0.9084 |
0.1258 |
300 |
1 |
37.71 |
2010-02-04 |
| 54. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
37.68 |
0.9202 |
0.1127 |
254 |
1 |
37.68 |
2009-10-22 |
| 55. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
37.58 |
1.0117 |
0.0545 |
297 |
1 |
37.58 |
2010-02-04 |
| 56. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
37.43 |
1.0203 |
0.0056 |
261 |
1 |
37.43 |
2010-02-04 |
| 57. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
37.41 |
0.9964 |
0.0285 |
203 |
2 |
36.88 |
2009-10-01 |
| 58. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
37.34 |
0.8353 |
0.1918 |
283 |
2 |
33.74 |
2009-10-31 |
| 59. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
37.23 |
0.9756 |
0.0439 |
229 |
1 |
37.23 |
2010-02-04 |
| 60. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
37.00 |
0.9161 |
0.0995 |
200 |
1 |
37.00 |
2009-11-09 |
| 61. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
36.83 |
1.0261 |
-0.0183 |
273 |
1 |
36.83 |
2009-10-01 |
| 62. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
36.82 |
0.8811 |
0.1310 |
239 |
1 |
36.82 |
2009-10-22 |
| 63. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
36.67 |
1.0385 |
-0.0352 |
230 |
1 |
36.67 |
2009-09-30 |
| 64. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
36.62 |
0.9769 |
0.0259 |
263 |
1 |
36.62 |
2009-11-09 |
| 65. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
36.61 |
0.9339 |
0.0695 |
310 |
1 |
36.61 |
2009-10-31 |
| 66. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
36.60 |
1.0767 |
-0.0750 |
212 |
1 |
36.60 |
2009-09-29 |
| 67. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
36.50 |
1.0419 |
-0.0431 |
261 |
1 |
36.50 |
2009-10-01 |
| 68. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
36.14 |
0.8916 |
0.0982 |
216 |
1 |
36.14 |
2009-10-11 |
| 69. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
36.09 |
0.8919 |
0.0968 |
205 |
1 |
36.09 |
2009-11-30 |
| 70. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
35.95 |
0.8500 |
0.1362 |
145 |
2 |
33.91 |
2009-10-01 |
| 71. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
35.88 |
1.0389 |
-0.0565 |
318 |
1 |
35.88 |
2009-10-01 |
| 72. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
35.64 |
0.9965 |
-0.0205 |
310 |
1 |
35.64 |
2009-11-09 |
| 73. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
35.56 |
1.0429 |
-0.0698 |
259 |
1 |
35.56 |
2009-09-29 |
| 74. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
35.19 |
0.9684 |
-0.0039 |
388 |
1 |
35.19 |
2009-09-30 |
| 75. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
34.99 |
0.9820 |
-0.0234 |
267 |
1 |
34.99 |
2010-02-04 |
| 76. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
34.98 |
0.7850 |
0.1747 |
154 |
1 |
34.98 |
2009-09-29 |
| 77. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
34.57 |
0.9468 |
-0.0003 |
276 |
1 |
34.57 |
2009-09-30 |
| 78. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
34.49 |
1.0109 |
-0.0668 |
276 |
1 |
34.49 |
2009-09-30 |
| 79. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
34.41 |
0.8890 |
0.0527 |
199 |
2 |
33.58 |
2009-10-22 |
| 80. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
33.88 |
0.8900 |
0.0396 |
164 |
2 |
31.34 |
2009-09-30 |
| 81. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
33.78 |
0.8553 |
0.0693 |
174 |
1 |
33.78 |
2009-11-09 |
| 82. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
33.43 |
0.7375 |
0.1795 |
148 |
1 |
33.43 |
2009-10-22 |
| 83. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
33.21 |
0.8670 |
0.0442 |
318 |
1 |
33.21 |
2009-10-06 |
| 84. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
33.13 |
0.8559 |
0.0545 |
191 |
1 |
33.13 |
2009-09-30 |
| 85. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.85 |
0.8595 |
0.0404 |
242 |
1 |
32.85 |
2010-02-04 |
| 86. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
32.85 |
0.8793 |
0.0223 |
157 |
3 |
32.31 |
2009-10-11 |
| 87. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
32.81 |
1.0714 |
-0.1751 |
129 |
2 |
30.30 |
2009-09-30 |
| 88. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
32.72 |
0.8533 |
0.0452 |
232 |
1 |
32.72 |
2009-10-11 |
| 89. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
32.70 |
1.0004 |
-0.1063 |
212 |
1 |
32.70 |
2009-10-06 |
| 90. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
32.67 |
0.8323 |
0.0636 |
203 |
1 |
32.67 |
2009-09-30 |
| 91. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
32.44 |
0.8852 |
0.0032 |
158 |
1 |
32.44 |
2009-09-19 |
| 92. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
32.27 |
1.0523 |
-0.1701 |
256 |
1 |
32.27 |
2009-10-06 |
| 93. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
32.27 |
0.8551 |
0.0285 |
171 |
1 |
32.27 |
2009-09-29 |
| 94. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
32.10 |
0.7352 |
0.1469 |
106 |
1 |
32.10 |
2009-09-30 |
| 95. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
31.99 |
0.8971 |
-0.0187 |
266 |
1 |
31.99 |
2009-10-01 |
| 96. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
31.80 |
0.9857 |
-0.1157 |
293 |
1 |
31.80 |
2009-09-29 |
| 97. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
31.73 |
0.9884 |
-0.1197 |
233 |
1 |
31.73 |
2009-09-29 |
| 98. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
31.67 |
0.7259 |
0.1464 |
186 |
1 |
31.67 |
2009-09-30 |
| 99. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
31.41 |
0.9005 |
-0.0405 |
212 |
1 |
31.41 |
2009-09-30 |
| 100. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
31.13 |
0.8996 |
-0.0484 |
192 |
1 |
31.13 |
2009-09-30 |
| 101. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
30.89 |
1.1016 |
-0.2566 |
233 |
1 |
30.89 |
2009-09-29 |
| 102. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
30.06 |
0.8791 |
-0.0536 |
190 |
1 |
30.06 |
2009-09-29 |
| 103. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
29.94 |
0.8323 |
-0.0107 |
145 |
1 |
29.94 |
2009-09-30 |
| 104. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
29.38 |
0.9514 |
-0.1480 |
237 |
1 |
29.38 |
2009-10-01 |
| 105. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
29.28 |
1.0168 |
-0.2174 |
271 |
2 |
29.09 |
2009-09-30 |
| 106. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
28.62 |
0.8122 |
-0.0281 |
181 |
1 |
28.62 |
2009-09-30 |
| 107. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
27.31 |
0.8910 |
-0.1433 |
150 |
1 |
27.31 |
2009-09-29 |
| 108. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
26.70 |
0.9045 |
-0.1744 |
235 |
1 |
26.70 |
2009-09-29 |
| 109. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
26.17 |
0.8709 |
-0.1524 |
202 |
1 |
26.17 |
2009-09-30 |
| 110. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
25.85 |
0.8506 |
-0.1432 |
132 |
1 |
25.85 |
2009-09-26 |
| 111. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
25.67 |
1.0797 |
-0.3801 |
210 |
1 |
25.67 |
2009-09-29 |
| 112. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
24.18 |
0.8154 |
-0.1525 |
193 |
1 |
24.18 |
2009-09-29 |
| 113. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
23.84 |
0.8519 |
-0.1976 |
150 |
1 |
23.84 |
2009-09-30 |
| 114. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
22.37 |
0.9758 |
-0.3657 |
314 |
1 |
22.37 |
2009-09-19 |