| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
48.74 |
1.0799 |
0.2333 |
243 |
1 |
48.74 |
2009-11-28 |
| 2. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
47.25 |
1.0189 |
0.2607 |
337 |
1 |
47.25 |
2009-11-28 |
| 3. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
45.63 |
1.0389 |
0.1956 |
340 |
2 |
36.27 |
2009-12-06 |
| 4. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
45.60 |
1.0528 |
0.1735 |
201 |
1 |
45.60 |
2009-11-28 |
| 5. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
45.47 |
1.0254 |
0.2431 |
217 |
1 |
45.47 |
2009-12-06 |
| 6. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
44.84 |
1.0829 |
0.1291 |
288 |
1 |
44.84 |
2009-12-09 |
| 7. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
44.41 |
0.9897 |
0.2068 |
274 |
1 |
44.41 |
2009-11-27 |
| 8. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
43.87 |
1.0331 |
0.1488 |
234 |
1 |
43.87 |
2009-12-06 |
| 9. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
43.47 |
0.9684 |
0.2075 |
388 |
1 |
43.47 |
2009-12-10 |
| 10. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
43.45 |
1.0053 |
0.1653 |
232 |
1 |
43.45 |
2009-12-05 |
| 11. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.33 |
1.0125 |
0.1545 |
224 |
1 |
43.33 |
2009-12-04 |
| 12. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
43.29 |
0.9196 |
0.2503 |
148 |
1 |
43.29 |
2009-12-05 |
| 13. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
43.08 |
0.9943 |
0.1714 |
373 |
1 |
43.08 |
2009-11-27 |
| 14. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
42.92 |
0.9461 |
0.2118 |
276 |
2 |
37.46 |
2009-12-04 |
| 15. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
42.91 |
1.0214 |
0.1311 |
166 |
1 |
42.91 |
2009-11-28 |
| 16. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
42.42 |
0.9500 |
0.1967 |
362 |
1 |
42.42 |
2009-12-09 |
| 17. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
41.76 |
0.9350 |
0.1923 |
195 |
1 |
41.76 |
2009-12-04 |
| 18. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
41.61 |
1.0004 |
0.1159 |
212 |
1 |
41.61 |
2009-12-10 |
| 19. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
41.60 |
0.9207 |
0.2040 |
174 |
1 |
41.60 |
2009-12-05 |
| 20. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
41.36 |
0.9233 |
0.1840 |
168 |
2 |
39.71 |
2009-12-05 |
| 21. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
40.81 |
1.0669 |
0.0660 |
286 |
1 |
40.81 |
2009-12-06 |
| 22. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
40.63 |
0.9820 |
0.1165 |
267 |
1 |
40.63 |
2009-12-05 |
| 23. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
40.33 |
1.0150 |
0.1215 |
325 |
1 |
40.33 |
2009-12-05 |
| 24. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
40.26 |
0.9938 |
0.0926 |
339 |
1 |
40.26 |
2009-12-09 |
| 25. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
39.85 |
0.9866 |
0.0841 |
218 |
2 |
37.39 |
2009-12-06 |
| 26. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
39.77 |
0.9769 |
0.0932 |
263 |
1 |
39.77 |
2010-01-01 |
| 27. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
39.74 |
1.0340 |
0.0426 |
406 |
1 |
39.74 |
2009-12-06 |
| 28. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
39.36 |
0.9899 |
0.0664 |
163 |
2 |
37.73 |
2009-12-09 |
| 29. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
38.98 |
0.9798 |
0.0651 |
199 |
1 |
38.98 |
2009-12-05 |
| 30. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
38.82 |
0.8951 |
0.1534 |
193 |
1 |
38.82 |
2009-12-06 |
| 31. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
38.30 |
0.8553 |
0.1717 |
174 |
1 |
38.30 |
2009-11-28 |
| 32. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
37.56 |
0.9614 |
0.0535 |
292 |
2 |
35.23 |
2009-12-05 |
| 33. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
37.02 |
1.0029 |
-0.0121 |
209 |
1 |
37.02 |
2009-12-04 |
| 34. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
36.84 |
0.8914 |
0.1017 |
366 |
1 |
36.84 |
2009-12-05 |
| 35. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
36.79 |
1.0252 |
-0.0408 |
176 |
1 |
36.79 |
2009-12-12 |
| 36. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
36.65 |
0.9843 |
-0.0022 |
234 |
1 |
36.65 |
2009-12-06 |
| 37. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
36.46 |
0.9886 |
-0.0042 |
220 |
1 |
36.46 |
2009-12-09 |
| 38. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
36.43 |
1.0131 |
-0.0359 |
225 |
1 |
36.43 |
2009-12-05 |
| 39. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
36.31 |
1.0412 |
-0.0640 |
225 |
1 |
36.31 |
2009-12-05 |
| 40. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
36.27 |
0.9221 |
0.0531 |
244 |
1 |
36.27 |
2009-12-04 |
| 41. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
36.02 |
0.9820 |
-0.0119 |
274 |
2 |
33.55 |
2009-12-04 |
| 42. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
35.76 |
0.9168 |
0.0473 |
240 |
1 |
35.76 |
2010-01-03 |
| 43. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
35.73 |
0.9072 |
0.0531 |
237 |
1 |
35.73 |
2009-12-06 |
| 44. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
35.68 |
1.0486 |
-0.0872 |
289 |
1 |
35.68 |
2009-12-04 |
| 45. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
35.60 |
1.0337 |
-0.0759 |
214 |
1 |
35.60 |
2009-12-04 |
| 46. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
35.40 |
0.8573 |
0.0993 |
270 |
1 |
35.40 |
2009-12-06 |
| 47. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
35.23 |
1.0034 |
-0.0566 |
302 |
1 |
35.23 |
2009-12-04 |
| 48. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
35.16 |
0.9682 |
-0.0237 |
143 |
1 |
35.16 |
2009-12-06 |
| 49. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
34.91 |
0.8653 |
0.0856 |
255 |
1 |
34.91 |
2009-12-04 |
| 50. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
34.88 |
0.9275 |
0.0080 |
211 |
1 |
34.88 |
2009-11-28 |
| 51. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
34.82 |
0.9418 |
0.0009 |
188 |
1 |
34.82 |
2009-12-04 |
| 52. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
34.56 |
1.0033 |
-0.0800 |
189 |
1 |
34.56 |
2009-12-06 |
| 53. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
34.51 |
1.1014 |
-0.1349 |
273 |
1 |
34.51 |
2009-12-04 |
| 54. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
34.44 |
0.9726 |
-0.0522 |
154 |
1 |
34.44 |
2009-12-06 |
| 55. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
34.38 |
1.0218 |
-0.0996 |
268 |
1 |
34.38 |
2009-12-04 |
| 56. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
34.17 |
0.9884 |
-0.0647 |
262 |
1 |
34.17 |
2009-12-04 |
| 57. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
34.06 |
0.9851 |
-0.0665 |
317 |
1 |
34.06 |
2009-12-04 |
| 58. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
34.04 |
0.9965 |
-0.0854 |
168 |
1 |
34.04 |
2009-12-04 |
| 59. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
33.94 |
0.8996 |
0.0080 |
192 |
1 |
33.94 |
2010-01-31 |
| 60. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
33.55 |
1.0203 |
-0.1144 |
261 |
1 |
33.55 |
2009-12-04 |
| 61. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
33.28 |
1.0154 |
-0.0705 |
351 |
1 |
33.28 |
2009-12-04 |
| 62. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
33.26 |
0.9711 |
-0.0777 |
176 |
1 |
33.26 |
2009-12-04 |
| 63. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
33.12 |
0.9776 |
-0.0866 |
308 |
1 |
33.12 |
2009-12-04 |
| 64. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
33.07 |
1.0679 |
-0.1582 |
177 |
1 |
33.07 |
2009-12-04 |
| 65. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
33.06 |
1.0521 |
-0.1678 |
171 |
1 |
33.06 |
2009-12-04 |
| 66. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
32.76 |
0.8709 |
0.0179 |
202 |
1 |
32.76 |
2009-12-04 |
| 67. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
32.76 |
0.9430 |
-0.0694 |
211 |
1 |
32.76 |
2009-12-04 |
| 68. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
32.63 |
0.9289 |
-0.0538 |
204 |
1 |
32.63 |
2009-12-04 |
| 69. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
32.45 |
1.0205 |
-0.1545 |
179 |
1 |
32.45 |
2009-12-04 |
| 70. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
32.26 |
1.0025 |
-0.1353 |
256 |
1 |
32.26 |
2009-12-04 |
| 71. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
32.20 |
1.0516 |
-0.1863 |
281 |
1 |
32.20 |
2010-01-13 |
| 72. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
31.93 |
0.9941 |
-0.1382 |
217 |
1 |
31.93 |
2009-12-04 |
| 73. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
31.64 |
0.8077 |
0.0408 |
167 |
1 |
31.64 |
2009-12-04 |
| 74. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
31.19 |
0.7876 |
0.0531 |
316 |
1 |
31.19 |
2009-12-05 |
| 75. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
29.70 |
0.9792 |
-0.1434 |
265 |
1 |
29.70 |
2009-12-04 |
| 76. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
29.47 |
0.9045 |
-0.1130 |
235 |
1 |
29.47 |
2009-12-04 |
| 77. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
29.39 |
0.9772 |
-0.1917 |
217 |
1 |
29.39 |
2009-12-04 |
| 78. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
29.03 |
0.8595 |
-0.0785 |
242 |
1 |
29.03 |
2009-12-04 |
| 79. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
28.74 |
1.0320 |
-0.2234 |
293 |
1 |
28.74 |
2009-12-04 |
| 80. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
28.67 |
0.9758 |
-0.2058 |
314 |
1 |
28.67 |
2009-12-04 |
| 81. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
28.63 |
0.9567 |
-0.1886 |
273 |
1 |
28.63 |
2009-12-04 |
| 82. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
27.69 |
1.0396 |
-0.3042 |
149 |
1 |
27.69 |
2009-12-04 |
| 83. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
25.60 |
0.8602 |
-0.1768 |
206 |
1 |
25.60 |
2009-12-04 |
| 84. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
25.12 |
0.9631 |
-0.2393 |
345 |
1 |
25.12 |
2009-12-04 |