| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
41.86 |
1.0213 |
0.2160 |
240 |
2 |
36.82 |
2009-04-09 |
| 2. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
41.11 |
0.9048 |
0.3179 |
271 |
1 |
41.11 |
2008-10-22 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
41.10 |
1.0799 |
0.1342 |
243 |
1 |
41.10 |
2008-10-22 |
| 4. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.27 |
1.0331 |
0.1576 |
234 |
1 |
40.27 |
2008-11-21 |
| 5. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
39.99 |
1.0788 |
0.1001 |
171 |
1 |
39.99 |
2008-12-12 |
| 6. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
39.38 |
0.9251 |
0.2462 |
177 |
1 |
39.38 |
2008-10-31 |
| 7. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
39.29 |
1.0131 |
0.1466 |
225 |
2 |
37.88 |
2008-10-21 |
| 8. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
39.04 |
1.0711 |
0.0799 |
213 |
1 |
39.04 |
2008-10-09 |
| 9. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
39.03 |
0.9756 |
0.1789 |
229 |
1 |
39.03 |
2009-03-07 |
| 10. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
38.98 |
0.9884 |
0.1702 |
262 |
1 |
38.98 |
2008-10-30 |
| 11. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
38.85 |
1.0477 |
0.1051 |
360 |
2 |
33.16 |
2008-10-22 |
| 12. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
38.60 |
0.9213 |
0.2221 |
295 |
2 |
35.89 |
2008-12-12 |
| 13. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
38.06 |
0.9411 |
0.1864 |
318 |
1 |
38.06 |
2008-12-12 |
| 14. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
37.98 |
0.9325 |
0.1851 |
156 |
1 |
37.98 |
2008-10-30 |
| 15. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
37.98 |
1.0567 |
0.0682 |
303 |
1 |
37.98 |
2008-11-12 |
| 16. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
37.70 |
0.9740 |
0.1379 |
209 |
1 |
37.70 |
2009-04-09 |
| 17. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
37.41 |
1.0714 |
0.0270 |
129 |
1 |
37.41 |
2008-10-17 |
| 18. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
37.02 |
1.0201 |
0.0687 |
172 |
1 |
37.02 |
2008-10-17 |
| 19. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
36.97 |
1.0025 |
0.0925 |
336 |
1 |
36.97 |
2009-04-09 |
| 20. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
36.75 |
1.0787 |
0.0075 |
237 |
1 |
36.75 |
2008-10-11 |
| 21. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
36.49 |
1.0696 |
0.0066 |
226 |
2 |
33.47 |
2008-10-21 |
| 22. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
36.33 |
1.0389 |
0.0384 |
340 |
1 |
36.33 |
2008-10-31 |
| 23. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
36.16 |
1.0419 |
0.0279 |
261 |
1 |
36.16 |
2008-10-21 |
| 24. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
36.02 |
0.9084 |
0.1591 |
300 |
2 |
35.02 |
2008-10-31 |
| 25. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
35.65 |
1.0417 |
0.0104 |
253 |
1 |
35.65 |
2008-10-21 |
| 26. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
35.60 |
0.9316 |
0.1275 |
287 |
2 |
35.56 |
2008-11-05 |
| 27. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
35.54 |
0.8533 |
0.1991 |
232 |
1 |
35.54 |
2009-02-06 |
| 28. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
35.48 |
0.9852 |
0.0646 |
264 |
1 |
35.48 |
2008-10-21 |
| 29. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
35.37 |
0.9263 |
0.1234 |
188 |
1 |
35.37 |
2009-03-07 |
| 30. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
35.36 |
0.8628 |
0.1797 |
196 |
1 |
35.36 |
2008-10-30 |
| 31. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
35.14 |
1.0529 |
-0.0137 |
351 |
1 |
35.14 |
2008-11-12 |
| 32. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
34.99 |
0.9286 |
0.1052 |
194 |
1 |
34.99 |
2008-12-12 |
| 33. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
34.65 |
0.8887 |
0.1499 |
128 |
2 |
34.26 |
2008-10-09 |
| 34. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
34.62 |
0.9966 |
0.0265 |
259 |
1 |
34.62 |
2008-10-08 |
| 35. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
34.52 |
0.9769 |
0.0417 |
263 |
1 |
34.52 |
2008-10-08 |
| 36. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
34.47 |
0.8770 |
0.1454 |
300 |
1 |
34.47 |
2008-11-21 |
| 37. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
34.43 |
1.0516 |
-0.0340 |
281 |
1 |
34.43 |
2008-10-22 |
| 38. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
33.89 |
0.9899 |
0.0073 |
163 |
2 |
31.95 |
2008-10-09 |
| 39. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
33.88 |
0.9570 |
0.0463 |
287 |
1 |
33.88 |
2008-10-08 |
| 40. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
33.83 |
1.0462 |
-0.0522 |
184 |
1 |
33.83 |
2008-10-09 |
| 41. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
33.80 |
0.9811 |
0.0208 |
272 |
1 |
33.80 |
2009-04-09 |
| 42. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
33.21 |
1.0396 |
-0.0653 |
149 |
1 |
33.21 |
2008-10-21 |
| 43. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
33.17 |
0.9907 |
-0.0120 |
211 |
1 |
33.17 |
2008-10-30 |
| 44. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
32.91 |
0.8653 |
0.1185 |
255 |
1 |
32.91 |
2008-10-21 |
| 45. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
32.42 |
0.9576 |
0.0049 |
212 |
1 |
32.42 |
2008-10-08 |
| 46. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
32.13 |
0.9754 |
-0.0201 |
362 |
1 |
32.13 |
2008-10-08 |
| 47. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
31.60 |
0.9500 |
-0.0145 |
362 |
1 |
31.60 |
2008-11-21 |
| 48. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
31.60 |
1.0109 |
-0.0768 |
276 |
1 |
31.60 |
2008-10-08 |
| 49. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
31.59 |
0.9763 |
-0.0438 |
289 |
2 |
30.87 |
2008-10-08 |
| 50. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
31.58 |
0.9279 |
0.0113 |
317 |
2 |
30.58 |
2008-10-08 |
| 51. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
31.36 |
0.9084 |
0.0218 |
404 |
1 |
31.36 |
2008-11-05 |
| 52. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
30.77 |
0.8941 |
0.0164 |
216 |
1 |
30.77 |
2008-10-21 |
| 53. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
30.70 |
0.9691 |
-0.0632 |
223 |
1 |
30.70 |
2008-10-08 |
| 54. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
30.51 |
1.0004 |
-0.1058 |
212 |
2 |
27.89 |
2008-10-08 |
| 55. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
29.98 |
0.8878 |
-0.0032 |
346 |
1 |
29.98 |
2008-10-20 |
| 56. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
29.96 |
0.9212 |
-0.0337 |
323 |
1 |
29.96 |
2008-10-11 |
| 57. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
29.88 |
0.9758 |
-0.0933 |
314 |
1 |
29.88 |
2008-10-17 |
| 58. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
29.86 |
0.7916 |
0.0973 |
184 |
1 |
29.86 |
2008-10-08 |
| 59. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
29.66 |
0.9593 |
-0.0794 |
398 |
1 |
29.66 |
2008-10-08 |
| 60. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
29.24 |
0.9844 |
-0.1170 |
293 |
1 |
29.24 |
2008-10-08 |
| 61. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
29.09 |
0.8573 |
0.0044 |
270 |
1 |
29.09 |
2008-10-09 |
| 62. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
29.01 |
0.9045 |
-0.0484 |
235 |
1 |
29.01 |
2008-10-08 |
| 63. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
28.96 |
0.9820 |
-0.1249 |
267 |
1 |
28.96 |
2008-10-09 |
| 64. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
28.73 |
0.9168 |
-0.0681 |
240 |
1 |
28.73 |
2008-10-21 |
| 65. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
28.71 |
0.9805 |
-0.1291 |
292 |
1 |
28.71 |
2008-10-22 |
| 66. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
28.60 |
0.8595 |
-0.0142 |
242 |
1 |
28.60 |
2008-10-30 |
| 67. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
28.30 |
1.0399 |
-0.2002 |
294 |
1 |
28.30 |
2008-10-22 |
| 68. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
28.30 |
0.8826 |
-0.0467 |
296 |
1 |
28.30 |
2008-10-08 |
| 69. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
28.28 |
0.9164 |
-0.0777 |
305 |
1 |
28.28 |
2008-10-22 |
| 70. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
28.15 |
1.0023 |
-0.1742 |
211 |
2 |
27.70 |
2008-10-22 |
| 71. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
28.07 |
0.9514 |
-0.1235 |
237 |
1 |
28.07 |
2008-10-30 |
| 72. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
27.59 |
1.0429 |
-0.2311 |
259 |
1 |
27.59 |
2008-10-08 |
| 73. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
27.29 |
0.9710 |
-0.1732 |
173 |
1 |
27.29 |
2008-10-08 |
| 74. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
26.93 |
0.9275 |
-0.1373 |
211 |
1 |
26.93 |
2008-10-09 |
| 75. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
26.63 |
0.8916 |
-0.1068 |
216 |
1 |
26.63 |
2008-10-08 |
| 76. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
26.39 |
1.0297 |
-0.2536 |
249 |
1 |
26.39 |
2008-10-08 |
| 77. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
26.02 |
0.8996 |
-0.1389 |
192 |
1 |
26.02 |
2008-10-09 |
| 78. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
24.16 |
0.9843 |
-0.2788 |
234 |
1 |
24.16 |
2008-10-08 |