| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
66.98 |
1.1162 |
0.1570 |
189 |
1 |
66.98 |
2010-07-08 |
| 2. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
64.88 |
0.9572 |
0.2349 |
201 |
1 |
64.88 |
2010-07-08 |
| 3. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
63.12 |
1.0263 |
0.1334 |
267 |
2 |
61.25 |
2010-07-08 |
| 4. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
62.14 |
1.0138 |
0.1281 |
231 |
1 |
62.14 |
2010-07-08 |
| 5. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
61.48 |
1.0213 |
0.1055 |
240 |
1 |
61.48 |
2010-07-08 |
| 6. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
61.11 |
1.0567 |
0.0670 |
303 |
1 |
61.11 |
2010-07-09 |
| 7. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
61.06 |
1.0132 |
0.1003 |
143 |
3 |
58.15 |
2010-07-01 |
| 8. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
60.93 |
0.8961 |
0.2203 |
189 |
3 |
55.38 |
2010-07-16 |
| 9. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
60.74 |
1.0337 |
0.0819 |
214 |
1 |
60.74 |
2010-07-08 |
| 10. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
60.71 |
1.0885 |
0.0305 |
315 |
1 |
60.71 |
2010-06-25 |
| 11. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
60.21 |
1.1016 |
0.0049 |
233 |
2 |
55.40 |
2010-06-25 |
| 12. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
60.17 |
1.0441 |
0.1028 |
316 |
1 |
60.17 |
2010-07-07 |
| 13. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
60.06 |
1.0095 |
0.0930 |
316 |
1 |
60.06 |
2010-07-06 |
| 14. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
60.05 |
1.0214 |
0.0803 |
269 |
2 |
59.29 |
2010-07-08 |
| 15. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
60.00 |
1.0023 |
0.0983 |
211 |
1 |
60.00 |
2010-06-28 |
| 16. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
59.94 |
0.9048 |
0.2012 |
271 |
1 |
59.94 |
2010-06-28 |
| 17. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
59.77 |
1.0796 |
0.0138 |
129 |
1 |
59.77 |
2010-07-07 |
| 18. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
59.75 |
1.0154 |
0.1322 |
351 |
1 |
59.75 |
2010-07-06 |
| 19. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
59.66 |
1.0063 |
0.0903 |
371 |
2 |
53.96 |
2010-07-08 |
| 20. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
59.18 |
1.0613 |
0.0268 |
266 |
2 |
58.20 |
2010-07-08 |
| 21. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
58.92 |
0.9485 |
0.1356 |
236 |
1 |
58.92 |
2010-07-08 |
| 22. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
58.46 |
0.8788 |
0.1916 |
134 |
1 |
58.46 |
2010-07-06 |
| 23. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
58.40 |
1.1018 |
-0.0355 |
220 |
1 |
58.40 |
2010-07-06 |
| 24. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
58.29 |
1.0320 |
0.0760 |
293 |
1 |
58.29 |
2010-06-28 |
| 25. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
58.22 |
0.9722 |
0.0993 |
283 |
1 |
58.22 |
2010-07-06 |
| 26. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
57.96 |
1.0025 |
0.0620 |
256 |
1 |
57.96 |
2010-06-25 |
| 27. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
57.92 |
1.0515 |
0.0045 |
166 |
1 |
57.92 |
2010-07-06 |
| 28. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
57.74 |
0.9820 |
0.0787 |
274 |
1 |
57.74 |
2010-07-08 |
| 29. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
57.68 |
0.9943 |
0.0683 |
373 |
1 |
57.68 |
2010-07-08 |
| 30. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
57.63 |
0.9772 |
0.0777 |
217 |
2 |
56.30 |
2010-07-16 |
| 31. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
57.23 |
1.0029 |
0.0417 |
209 |
1 |
57.23 |
2010-07-08 |
| 32. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
57.20 |
0.9045 |
0.1462 |
235 |
2 |
52.32 |
2010-07-08 |
| 33. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
56.89 |
0.9773 |
0.0595 |
123 |
1 |
56.89 |
2010-06-29 |
| 34. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
56.67 |
0.9792 |
0.0998 |
265 |
2 |
56.14 |
2010-07-16 |
| 35. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
56.66 |
1.0328 |
0.0457 |
356 |
1 |
56.66 |
2010-06-25 |
| 36. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
56.41 |
1.0257 |
0.0164 |
401 |
1 |
56.41 |
2010-06-25 |
| 37. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
56.15 |
1.0053 |
0.0236 |
232 |
1 |
56.15 |
2010-06-28 |
| 38. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
56.15 |
1.0201 |
0.0112 |
303 |
2 |
52.89 |
2010-07-06 |
| 39. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
56.06 |
1.0483 |
-0.0221 |
227 |
1 |
56.06 |
2010-06-28 |
| 40. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
55.66 |
0.8793 |
0.1441 |
157 |
2 |
52.17 |
2010-06-28 |
| 41. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
55.47 |
1.1114 |
-0.0958 |
247 |
1 |
55.47 |
2010-06-28 |
| 42. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
55.42 |
0.9691 |
0.0477 |
223 |
1 |
55.42 |
2010-06-25 |
| 43. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
55.41 |
1.0068 |
0.0137 |
358 |
1 |
55.41 |
2010-07-07 |
| 44. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
55.25 |
0.9814 |
0.0722 |
364 |
1 |
55.25 |
2010-06-28 |
| 45. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
55.20 |
1.0534 |
-0.0379 |
357 |
1 |
55.20 |
2010-07-06 |
| 46. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
55.20 |
1.0252 |
-0.0184 |
176 |
1 |
55.20 |
2010-07-06 |
| 47. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
55.15 |
1.0375 |
0.0208 |
200 |
2 |
48.98 |
2010-07-06 |
| 48. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
55.15 |
1.0515 |
-0.0411 |
250 |
1 |
55.15 |
2010-07-01 |
| 49. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
55.06 |
0.8996 |
0.1055 |
192 |
2 |
52.96 |
2010-07-08 |
| 50. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
54.98 |
0.9912 |
0.0449 |
237 |
1 |
54.98 |
2010-06-25 |
| 51. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
54.97 |
1.0060 |
-0.0017 |
171 |
1 |
54.97 |
2010-07-08 |
| 52. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
54.93 |
0.9279 |
0.0868 |
317 |
1 |
54.93 |
2010-07-08 |
| 53. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
54.90 |
1.0334 |
-0.0322 |
131 |
1 |
54.90 |
2010-06-25 |
| 54. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
54.74 |
1.0621 |
-0.0380 |
263 |
1 |
54.74 |
2010-07-08 |
| 55. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
54.72 |
0.9430 |
0.0540 |
211 |
1 |
54.72 |
2010-07-07 |
| 56. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
54.69 |
1.0201 |
-0.0231 |
172 |
1 |
54.69 |
2010-06-25 |
| 57. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
54.43 |
1.0124 |
-0.0159 |
204 |
1 |
54.43 |
2010-07-08 |
| 58. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
54.21 |
0.9672 |
0.0341 |
396 |
2 |
53.70 |
2010-07-08 |
| 59. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
54.12 |
1.0677 |
-0.0441 |
284 |
1 |
54.12 |
2010-06-28 |
| 60. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
54.08 |
1.0516 |
-0.0596 |
281 |
1 |
54.08 |
2010-06-28 |
| 61. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
54.00 |
0.9207 |
0.0728 |
174 |
1 |
54.00 |
2010-07-06 |
| 62. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
53.89 |
0.9293 |
0.0604 |
355 |
1 |
53.89 |
2010-06-28 |
| 63. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
53.88 |
0.9678 |
0.0556 |
445 |
1 |
53.88 |
2010-07-01 |
| 64. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
53.82 |
0.9632 |
0.0308 |
392 |
1 |
53.82 |
2010-07-07 |
| 65. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
53.78 |
1.0254 |
0.0023 |
217 |
1 |
53.78 |
2010-07-08 |
| 66. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
53.75 |
0.9649 |
0.0203 |
193 |
2 |
50.14 |
2010-07-08 |
| 67. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
53.72 |
1.0619 |
-0.0726 |
354 |
1 |
53.72 |
2010-07-08 |
| 68. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
53.63 |
0.9651 |
0.0548 |
389 |
1 |
53.63 |
2010-07-08 |
| 69. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
53.57 |
0.8723 |
0.1067 |
185 |
1 |
53.57 |
2010-06-28 |
| 70. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
53.55 |
0.9925 |
0.0268 |
247 |
1 |
53.55 |
2010-06-25 |
| 71. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
53.39 |
1.0463 |
-0.0713 |
182 |
2 |
53.00 |
2010-07-08 |
| 72. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
53.34 |
0.9576 |
0.0257 |
212 |
1 |
53.34 |
2010-06-25 |
| 73. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
53.32 |
1.0528 |
-0.0795 |
201 |
1 |
53.32 |
2010-07-16 |
| 74. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
53.26 |
0.9109 |
0.0689 |
401 |
1 |
53.26 |
2010-07-08 |
| 75. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
53.23 |
0.9965 |
-0.0247 |
168 |
2 |
48.33 |
2010-06-28 |
| 76. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
53.19 |
1.0462 |
-0.0764 |
184 |
1 |
53.19 |
2010-06-28 |
| 77. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
52.98 |
1.0487 |
-0.0817 |
231 |
1 |
52.98 |
2010-07-01 |
| 78. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
52.86 |
0.9504 |
0.0140 |
263 |
1 |
52.86 |
2010-07-06 |
| 79. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
52.85 |
0.7805 |
0.1850 |
154 |
1 |
52.85 |
2010-07-08 |
| 80. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
52.75 |
0.9780 |
-0.0093 |
337 |
1 |
52.75 |
2010-07-07 |
| 81. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
52.72 |
1.0725 |
-0.0796 |
233 |
1 |
52.72 |
2010-06-25 |
| 82. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
52.70 |
0.9632 |
0.0459 |
345 |
1 |
52.70 |
2010-06-28 |
| 83. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
52.30 |
0.9578 |
0.0010 |
281 |
1 |
52.30 |
2010-07-08 |
| 84. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
52.00 |
1.0885 |
-0.0998 |
341 |
1 |
52.00 |
2010-06-25 |
| 85. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
51.83 |
1.0042 |
-0.0121 |
352 |
1 |
51.83 |
2010-07-08 |
| 86. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
51.71 |
0.9275 |
0.0176 |
211 |
1 |
51.71 |
2010-07-01 |
| 87. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
51.60 |
0.9886 |
-0.0398 |
220 |
1 |
51.60 |
2010-07-08 |
| 88. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
51.53 |
0.9583 |
0.0304 |
341 |
1 |
51.53 |
2010-06-25 |
| 89. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
51.50 |
1.0117 |
-0.0224 |
297 |
1 |
51.50 |
2010-07-08 |
| 90. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
51.03 |
0.9852 |
-0.0492 |
264 |
2 |
48.93 |
2010-06-28 |
| 91. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
50.93 |
0.9468 |
-0.0134 |
276 |
1 |
50.93 |
2010-06-24 |
| 92. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
50.91 |
0.9710 |
-0.0440 |
173 |
1 |
50.91 |
2010-06-24 |
| 93. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.89 |
0.9843 |
-0.0562 |
234 |
1 |
50.89 |
2010-06-25 |
| 94. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
50.84 |
1.0521 |
-0.1247 |
171 |
1 |
50.84 |
2010-06-29 |
| 95. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
50.68 |
1.0595 |
-0.1278 |
379 |
1 |
50.68 |
2010-07-08 |
| 96. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
50.48 |
0.8520 |
0.0744 |
202 |
1 |
50.48 |
2010-06-25 |
| 97. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
50.32 |
0.9769 |
-0.0565 |
263 |
1 |
50.32 |
2010-06-28 |
| 98. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
50.20 |
1.0077 |
-0.0461 |
250 |
1 |
50.20 |
2010-06-28 |
| 99. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
50.07 |
1.0261 |
-0.0688 |
410 |
1 |
50.07 |
2010-07-06 |
| 100. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
50.05 |
0.9529 |
0.0052 |
269 |
1 |
50.05 |
2010-07-06 |
| 101. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
50.03 |
1.0218 |
-0.1076 |
268 |
1 |
50.03 |
2010-07-01 |
| 102. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
49.87 |
0.8975 |
0.0172 |
268 |
1 |
49.87 |
2010-07-06 |
| 103. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
49.76 |
0.9897 |
-0.0799 |
274 |
1 |
49.76 |
2010-06-25 |
| 104. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
49.72 |
0.9212 |
-0.0065 |
323 |
1 |
49.72 |
2010-06-25 |
| 105. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
49.50 |
1.0767 |
-0.1716 |
212 |
1 |
49.50 |
2010-07-06 |
| 106. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
49.50 |
0.9461 |
-0.0426 |
193 |
1 |
49.50 |
2010-06-29 |
| 107. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
49.25 |
0.9665 |
-0.0146 |
326 |
1 |
49.25 |
2010-06-24 |
| 108. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
48.90 |
0.9286 |
-0.0335 |
194 |
1 |
48.90 |
2010-07-08 |
| 109. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
48.67 |
0.9364 |
-0.0044 |
351 |
1 |
48.67 |
2010-06-28 |
| 110. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
48.39 |
0.8670 |
0.0251 |
318 |
1 |
48.39 |
2010-06-28 |
| 111. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
48.24 |
0.9670 |
-0.0410 |
307 |
2 |
48.00 |
2010-07-08 |
| 112. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
47.26 |
0.9593 |
-0.0890 |
398 |
1 |
47.26 |
2010-06-28 |
| 113. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
46.80 |
0.9786 |
-0.1220 |
235 |
1 |
46.80 |
2010-06-28 |
| 114. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
46.76 |
1.0083 |
-0.1078 |
273 |
1 |
46.76 |
2010-06-29 |
| 115. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
46.43 |
0.9376 |
-0.0820 |
367 |
1 |
46.43 |
2010-07-08 |
| 116. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
46.24 |
1.0398 |
-0.2036 |
110 |
1 |
46.24 |
2010-06-28 |
| 117. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
46.00 |
0.9202 |
-0.0787 |
254 |
1 |
46.00 |
2010-06-24 |
| 118. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
45.50 |
1.0025 |
-0.1687 |
336 |
1 |
45.50 |
2010-06-25 |
| 119. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
45.19 |
0.8553 |
-0.0332 |
174 |
2 |
44.83 |
2010-06-30 |
| 120. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
44.09 |
0.9572 |
-0.1074 |
376 |
1 |
44.09 |
2010-06-25 |
| 121. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
43.98 |
1.0038 |
-0.1688 |
237 |
1 |
43.98 |
2010-07-06 |
| 122. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
43.78 |
0.8916 |
-0.0903 |
216 |
2 |
41.37 |
2010-06-25 |
| 123. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
43.61 |
0.8907 |
-0.0801 |
351 |
1 |
43.61 |
2010-06-28 |
| 124. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
42.31 |
0.8105 |
-0.0412 |
204 |
1 |
42.31 |
2010-06-28 |
| 125. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
35.01 |
1.0062 |
-0.3683 |
288 |
1 |
35.01 |
2010-06-28 |