| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
85.86 |
1.0711 |
0.1318 |
213 |
1 |
85.86 |
2010-12-03 |
| 2. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
85.76 |
1.1215 |
0.1091 |
200 |
1 |
85.76 |
2010-12-13 |
| 3. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
85.23 |
1.0487 |
0.1454 |
231 |
1 |
85.23 |
2010-12-10 |
| 4. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
81.97 |
1.0167 |
0.1434 |
378 |
1 |
81.97 |
2010-12-10 |
| 5. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
81.55 |
1.0725 |
0.0999 |
233 |
1 |
81.55 |
2010-12-08 |
| 6. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
81.00 |
1.0385 |
0.0987 |
230 |
1 |
81.00 |
2010-12-10 |
| 7. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
79.54 |
1.0361 |
0.0830 |
269 |
1 |
79.54 |
2010-12-20 |
| 8. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
79.40 |
0.9851 |
0.1338 |
317 |
1 |
79.40 |
2010-12-03 |
| 9. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
78.75 |
1.0515 |
0.0473 |
166 |
1 |
78.75 |
2010-12-08 |
| 10. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
78.65 |
0.9754 |
0.1361 |
362 |
1 |
78.65 |
2010-12-13 |
| 11. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
78.34 |
1.0669 |
0.0675 |
213 |
1 |
78.34 |
2010-12-09 |
| 12. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
77.36 |
1.0567 |
0.0316 |
303 |
1 |
77.36 |
2010-12-08 |
| 13. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
76.67 |
1.0486 |
0.0296 |
289 |
1 |
76.67 |
2011-01-19 |
| 14. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
76.67 |
0.9303 |
0.1400 |
176 |
2 |
72.85 |
2010-12-10 |
| 15. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
75.22 |
0.9578 |
0.0989 |
281 |
1 |
75.22 |
2010-12-09 |
| 16. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
74.78 |
0.9986 |
0.0467 |
162 |
1 |
74.78 |
2010-12-03 |
| 17. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
74.48 |
0.9798 |
0.0608 |
199 |
1 |
74.48 |
2010-12-20 |
| 18. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
74.42 |
1.0340 |
0.0168 |
406 |
1 |
74.42 |
2011-01-28 |
| 19. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
74.41 |
1.0529 |
-0.0077 |
351 |
1 |
74.41 |
2010-12-13 |
| 20. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
72.95 |
1.0165 |
0.0120 |
392 |
1 |
72.95 |
2011-01-28 |
| 21. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
71.98 |
1.0669 |
-0.0240 |
286 |
1 |
71.98 |
2010-12-20 |
| 22. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
71.51 |
1.0788 |
-0.0804 |
171 |
2 |
69.86 |
2010-12-20 |
| 23. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
71.37 |
1.0684 |
-0.0363 |
253 |
1 |
71.37 |
2010-12-08 |
| 24. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
71.32 |
0.9758 |
0.0262 |
314 |
1 |
71.32 |
2010-12-09 |
| 25. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
70.74 |
1.0172 |
0.0110 |
341 |
1 |
70.74 |
2010-12-08 |
| 26. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
70.49 |
0.9846 |
0.0033 |
281 |
1 |
70.49 |
2010-12-09 |
| 27. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
70.23 |
1.0768 |
-0.0512 |
295 |
1 |
70.23 |
2010-12-20 |
| 28. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
70.22 |
1.0907 |
-0.1029 |
303 |
1 |
70.22 |
2010-12-08 |
| 29. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
70.01 |
0.9351 |
0.0421 |
190 |
1 |
70.01 |
2011-01-19 |
| 30. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
69.92 |
1.0389 |
-0.0551 |
340 |
1 |
69.92 |
2010-12-03 |
| 31. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
69.60 |
1.0390 |
-0.0658 |
205 |
1 |
69.60 |
2010-12-09 |
| 32. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
69.54 |
0.9763 |
-0.0008 |
289 |
1 |
69.54 |
2010-12-06 |
| 33. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
69.43 |
1.0284 |
-0.0108 |
282 |
1 |
69.43 |
2010-12-08 |
| 34. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
69.01 |
0.8919 |
0.0753 |
205 |
1 |
69.01 |
2010-12-06 |
| 35. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
68.57 |
0.9831 |
-0.0128 |
469 |
1 |
68.57 |
2010-12-20 |
| 36. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
68.40 |
1.0099 |
-0.0534 |
207 |
1 |
68.40 |
2010-12-20 |
| 37. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
68.30 |
0.9084 |
0.0537 |
404 |
1 |
68.30 |
2010-12-09 |
| 38. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
68.25 |
0.9601 |
0.0024 |
308 |
1 |
68.25 |
2010-12-09 |
| 39. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
68.24 |
1.0264 |
-0.0287 |
422 |
1 |
68.24 |
2010-12-08 |
| 40. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
67.80 |
0.9768 |
-0.0226 |
387 |
1 |
67.80 |
2010-12-06 |
| 41. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
67.65 |
1.0038 |
-0.0243 |
237 |
1 |
67.65 |
2010-12-09 |
| 42. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
67.60 |
0.9904 |
-0.0017 |
203 |
1 |
67.60 |
2010-12-20 |
| 43. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
67.56 |
0.9593 |
-0.0067 |
398 |
1 |
67.56 |
2010-12-08 |
| 44. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
67.37 |
0.9942 |
-0.0403 |
483 |
1 |
67.37 |
2011-01-19 |
| 45. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
66.69 |
1.0797 |
-0.1497 |
210 |
1 |
66.69 |
2010-12-09 |
| 46. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
66.34 |
1.0419 |
-0.1117 |
261 |
1 |
66.34 |
2010-12-13 |
| 47. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
66.32 |
0.9364 |
0.0339 |
351 |
2 |
64.66 |
2010-12-09 |
| 48. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
64.73 |
0.9668 |
-0.0167 |
383 |
1 |
64.73 |
2010-12-09 |
| 49. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
64.62 |
0.9635 |
-0.0515 |
389 |
1 |
64.62 |
2010-12-09 |
| 50. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
64.07 |
0.9557 |
-0.0511 |
331 |
1 |
64.07 |
2011-01-28 |
| 51. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
63.67 |
0.9485 |
-0.0534 |
291 |
1 |
63.67 |
2010-12-18 |
| 52. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
63.14 |
0.9234 |
-0.0334 |
346 |
1 |
63.14 |
2011-01-19 |
| 53. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
60.85 |
0.9772 |
-0.1282 |
217 |
1 |
60.85 |
2010-12-09 |
| 54. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
60.82 |
0.9371 |
-0.0462 |
318 |
1 |
60.82 |
2010-12-20 |
| 55. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
59.28 |
0.8722 |
-0.0390 |
285 |
1 |
59.28 |
2010-12-09 |
| 56. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
59.07 |
0.9279 |
-0.0941 |
317 |
1 |
59.07 |
2010-12-20 |
| 57. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
58.87 |
0.8341 |
-0.0016 |
224 |
1 |
58.87 |
2010-12-08 |
| 58. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
58.55 |
0.9514 |
-0.1315 |
237 |
2 |
53.80 |
2010-12-08 |
| 59. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
58.31 |
0.9120 |
-0.0620 |
436 |
1 |
58.31 |
2010-12-09 |
| 60. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
57.91 |
0.9064 |
-0.0864 |
399 |
1 |
57.91 |
2010-12-06 |
| 61. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
57.13 |
0.9372 |
-0.1331 |
320 |
1 |
57.13 |
2010-12-08 |