| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
58.08 |
1.0008 |
0.3125 |
473 |
1 |
58.08 |
2011-04-25 |
| 2. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
55.92 |
0.9820 |
0.2402 |
274 |
1 |
55.92 |
2011-04-26 |
| 3. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
54.84 |
1.0095 |
0.1875 |
316 |
1 |
54.84 |
2011-04-22 |
| 4. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
54.84 |
1.0477 |
0.1531 |
360 |
1 |
54.84 |
2011-04-25 |
| 5. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
54.46 |
0.9699 |
0.2193 |
269 |
1 |
54.46 |
2010-11-02 |
| 6. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
54.32 |
1.0232 |
0.2096 |
350 |
1 |
54.32 |
2011-05-12 |
| 7. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
53.93 |
1.0596 |
0.1165 |
239 |
1 |
53.93 |
2011-05-12 |
| 8. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
53.73 |
1.0799 |
0.0901 |
243 |
1 |
53.73 |
2011-05-05 |
| 9. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
53.63 |
0.9691 |
0.2020 |
223 |
1 |
53.63 |
2011-04-26 |
| 10. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
53.46 |
0.9820 |
0.1890 |
267 |
1 |
53.46 |
2010-11-02 |
| 11. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
53.30 |
1.0213 |
0.1400 |
240 |
1 |
53.30 |
2011-05-12 |
| 12. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
53.15 |
0.9161 |
0.2426 |
200 |
1 |
53.15 |
2011-04-25 |
| 13. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
53.05 |
0.9986 |
0.1608 |
283 |
1 |
53.05 |
2011-05-07 |
| 14. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
53.03 |
0.9649 |
0.1927 |
193 |
1 |
53.03 |
2010-11-08 |
| 15. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
52.85 |
1.0768 |
0.1174 |
295 |
1 |
52.85 |
2011-05-12 |
| 16. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
52.79 |
0.9665 |
0.2360 |
326 |
1 |
52.79 |
2011-04-23 |
| 17. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
52.70 |
0.9910 |
0.1623 |
295 |
1 |
52.70 |
2011-04-24 |
| 18. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
52.54 |
1.1016 |
0.0458 |
233 |
1 |
52.54 |
2010-10-30 |
| 19. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
51.90 |
1.0125 |
0.1185 |
224 |
2 |
42.57 |
2011-05-09 |
| 20. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
51.55 |
1.0320 |
0.1310 |
293 |
1 |
51.55 |
2011-04-23 |
| 21. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
51.34 |
0.9278 |
0.1959 |
295 |
1 |
51.34 |
2011-05-07 |
| 22. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
51.16 |
0.9350 |
0.1828 |
195 |
1 |
51.16 |
2011-05-12 |
| 23. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
51.03 |
1.0795 |
0.0651 |
226 |
1 |
51.03 |
2011-05-01 |
| 24. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
50.76 |
1.0487 |
0.0546 |
231 |
1 |
50.76 |
2011-05-07 |
| 25. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
50.74 |
0.9461 |
0.1613 |
276 |
1 |
50.74 |
2010-11-02 |
| 26. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
50.65 |
0.9653 |
0.1490 |
394 |
2 |
50.12 |
2011-10-16 |
| 27. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
50.56 |
1.0883 |
0.0477 |
303 |
2 |
48.02 |
2011-03-31 |
| 28. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
49.86 |
1.1114 |
-0.0259 |
247 |
1 |
49.86 |
2010-10-30 |
| 29. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
49.81 |
1.1014 |
0.0235 |
273 |
1 |
49.81 |
2010-10-30 |
| 30. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
49.76 |
1.0340 |
0.0574 |
406 |
1 |
49.76 |
2010-11-07 |
| 31. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
49.54 |
1.0523 |
0.0248 |
256 |
1 |
49.54 |
2010-11-01 |
| 32. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
49.51 |
0.8900 |
0.1921 |
164 |
1 |
49.51 |
2011-05-07 |
| 33. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
49.48 |
0.9795 |
0.1009 |
308 |
2 |
45.06 |
2011-10-31 |
| 34. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
49.41 |
0.9844 |
0.0991 |
293 |
1 |
49.41 |
2010-11-01 |
| 35. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
49.41 |
1.0529 |
0.0254 |
351 |
1 |
49.41 |
2011-05-12 |
| 36. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
49.38 |
1.0943 |
0.0161 |
206 |
1 |
49.38 |
2010-11-08 |
| 37. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
49.30 |
1.0496 |
0.0257 |
314 |
2 |
49.14 |
2011-05-12 |
| 38. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
49.29 |
0.8935 |
0.1922 |
328 |
1 |
49.29 |
2011-05-12 |
| 39. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
48.99 |
0.9852 |
0.0842 |
264 |
1 |
48.99 |
2011-05-02 |
| 40. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
48.78 |
0.9430 |
0.1238 |
297 |
1 |
48.78 |
2010-10-31 |
| 41. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
48.54 |
0.9310 |
0.1237 |
188 |
1 |
48.54 |
2011-05-12 |
| 42. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
48.36 |
0.9756 |
0.0783 |
229 |
1 |
48.36 |
2010-11-06 |
| 43. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
48.17 |
0.9247 |
0.1311 |
253 |
1 |
48.17 |
2011-04-25 |
| 44. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
47.94 |
1.0314 |
0.0537 |
452 |
1 |
47.94 |
2010-11-01 |
| 45. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
47.57 |
0.9857 |
0.0510 |
293 |
1 |
47.57 |
2010-11-01 |
| 46. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
47.35 |
0.9946 |
0.0383 |
246 |
1 |
47.35 |
2011-03-22 |
| 47. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
47.26 |
0.9411 |
0.0907 |
318 |
1 |
47.26 |
2011-05-07 |
| 48. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
47.05 |
1.0346 |
0.0336 |
244 |
1 |
47.05 |
2011-05-07 |
| 49. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
46.97 |
0.9365 |
0.0896 |
248 |
1 |
46.97 |
2011-05-03 |
| 50. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
46.92 |
0.9774 |
0.0449 |
196 |
1 |
46.92 |
2011-08-21 |
| 51. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
46.85 |
1.0270 |
0.0308 |
255 |
1 |
46.85 |
2010-11-01 |
| 52. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
46.72 |
0.8562 |
0.1630 |
170 |
1 |
46.72 |
2010-10-31 |
| 53. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
46.71 |
0.9514 |
0.0677 |
237 |
1 |
46.71 |
2010-11-01 |
| 54. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
46.65 |
0.9068 |
0.1135 |
269 |
1 |
46.65 |
2010-10-30 |
| 55. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
46.29 |
0.9851 |
0.0270 |
317 |
1 |
46.29 |
2010-10-30 |
| 56. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
46.19 |
1.1323 |
-0.0911 |
341 |
1 |
46.19 |
2010-10-30 |
| 57. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
45.75 |
0.8670 |
0.1357 |
318 |
2 |
43.14 |
2011-04-26 |
| 58. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
45.41 |
0.9905 |
0.0313 |
337 |
1 |
45.41 |
2011-05-12 |
| 59. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
45.29 |
1.0109 |
-0.0229 |
276 |
1 |
45.29 |
2011-05-11 |
| 60. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
45.15 |
0.9631 |
0.0725 |
345 |
1 |
45.15 |
2011-05-08 |
| 61. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
45.07 |
1.0169 |
0.0043 |
346 |
1 |
45.07 |
2010-11-01 |
| 62. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
45.07 |
0.9763 |
0.0056 |
289 |
1 |
45.07 |
2010-10-31 |
| 63. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
44.72 |
1.0337 |
-0.0597 |
214 |
2 |
38.67 |
2011-05-09 |
| 64. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
44.21 |
0.9207 |
0.0453 |
174 |
1 |
44.21 |
2010-11-01 |
| 65. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
44.03 |
1.0214 |
-0.0671 |
166 |
1 |
44.03 |
2011-05-13 |
| 66. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
43.88 |
1.0167 |
-0.0535 |
378 |
1 |
43.88 |
2010-11-08 |
| 67. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
43.87 |
1.0668 |
-0.1084 |
350 |
1 |
43.87 |
2010-11-02 |
| 68. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
43.68 |
1.0711 |
-0.1246 |
213 |
1 |
43.68 |
2011-05-09 |
| 69. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
42.98 |
0.9894 |
-0.0485 |
323 |
1 |
42.98 |
2010-11-01 |
| 70. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
42.98 |
0.7877 |
0.1534 |
142 |
1 |
42.98 |
2010-11-13 |
| 71. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
42.85 |
1.0168 |
-0.0816 |
271 |
1 |
42.85 |
2011-05-12 |
| 72. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
42.69 |
0.9772 |
-0.0506 |
217 |
1 |
42.69 |
2010-11-01 |
| 73. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
42.45 |
0.9846 |
-0.0615 |
281 |
1 |
42.45 |
2011-04-26 |
| 74. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
42.41 |
0.8919 |
0.0306 |
205 |
1 |
42.41 |
2010-11-02 |
| 75. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
42.26 |
1.0669 |
-0.1135 |
213 |
1 |
42.26 |
2011-05-09 |
| 76. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
42.25 |
0.9398 |
-0.0100 |
419 |
1 |
42.25 |
2011-04-23 |
| 77. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
42.15 |
1.0684 |
-0.1203 |
253 |
1 |
42.15 |
2011-05-09 |
| 78. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
42.12 |
0.9734 |
-0.0558 |
289 |
1 |
42.12 |
2010-11-01 |
| 79. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
42.01 |
1.0297 |
-0.1160 |
249 |
1 |
42.01 |
2011-05-12 |
| 80. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
41.62 |
0.8826 |
0.0254 |
296 |
2 |
38.96 |
2011-05-07 |
| 81. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
41.62 |
0.9769 |
-0.0725 |
263 |
2 |
39.08 |
2012-01-28 |
| 82. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
41.53 |
0.8810 |
0.0239 |
282 |
1 |
41.53 |
2011-05-11 |
| 83. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
41.51 |
1.0029 |
-0.1055 |
209 |
1 |
41.51 |
2011-06-29 |
| 84. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
41.47 |
0.9527 |
-0.0494 |
251 |
1 |
41.47 |
2010-11-02 |
| 85. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
41.37 |
0.9731 |
-0.0848 |
129 |
1 |
41.37 |
2010-11-09 |
| 86. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
41.28 |
0.8953 |
0.0050 |
193 |
1 |
41.28 |
2011-05-09 |
| 87. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
41.10 |
1.0120 |
-0.1180 |
290 |
1 |
41.10 |
2011-05-07 |
| 88. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
40.95 |
0.9672 |
-0.0690 |
396 |
1 |
40.95 |
2011-04-25 |
| 89. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.75 |
1.0138 |
-0.1272 |
231 |
1 |
40.75 |
2011-04-26 |
| 90. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
40.21 |
0.9578 |
-0.0826 |
281 |
1 |
40.21 |
2010-10-30 |
| 91. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
40.13 |
0.8975 |
-0.0235 |
268 |
1 |
40.13 |
2011-05-09 |
| 92. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
40.06 |
1.0062 |
-0.1345 |
288 |
1 |
40.06 |
2011-05-13 |
| 93. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
39.97 |
0.8809 |
-0.0130 |
127 |
1 |
39.97 |
2010-10-30 |
| 94. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
39.51 |
1.0567 |
-0.1961 |
303 |
1 |
39.51 |
2010-11-01 |
| 95. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
39.43 |
0.9871 |
-0.1066 |
227 |
1 |
39.43 |
2010-10-31 |
| 96. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
39.28 |
0.9128 |
-0.0166 |
369 |
1 |
39.28 |
2011-05-05 |
| 97. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
39.25 |
1.0201 |
-0.1622 |
375 |
1 |
39.25 |
2011-05-07 |
| 98. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
39.08 |
0.9831 |
-0.1361 |
222 |
1 |
39.08 |
2012-11-25 |
| 99. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
38.94 |
1.0288 |
-0.1494 |
300 |
1 |
38.94 |
2011-05-08 |
| 100. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
38.36 |
1.0555 |
-0.2197 |
363 |
1 |
38.36 |
2010-10-30 |
| 101. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
38.08 |
1.0033 |
-0.1820 |
189 |
1 |
38.08 |
2011-04-25 |
| 102. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
37.88 |
0.8541 |
-0.0219 |
260 |
1 |
37.88 |
2011-05-09 |
| 103. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
37.28 |
0.8916 |
-0.0807 |
216 |
1 |
37.28 |
2011-04-25 |
| 104. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
36.90 |
1.0375 |
-0.1896 |
200 |
1 |
36.90 |
2011-05-09 |
| 105. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
36.21 |
0.9212 |
-0.1312 |
323 |
1 |
36.21 |
2011-05-10 |
| 106. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
35.83 |
0.9430 |
-0.1718 |
211 |
1 |
35.83 |
2011-04-28 |
| 107. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
33.86 |
1.0441 |
-0.3079 |
252 |
1 |
33.86 |
2011-05-09 |
| 108. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
33.85 |
0.8956 |
-0.1581 |
217 |
1 |
33.85 |
2010-11-01 |
| 109. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
33.82 |
0.9509 |
-0.1786 |
225 |
1 |
33.82 |
2010-10-30 |
| 110. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
33.71 |
0.9251 |
-0.1882 |
177 |
1 |
33.71 |
2010-10-30 |
| 111. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
33.46 |
0.9612 |
-0.2348 |
256 |
1 |
33.46 |
2011-05-08 |
| 112. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
32.96 |
0.9513 |
-0.2325 |
354 |
1 |
32.96 |
2011-05-09 |
| 113. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
30.37 |
1.0445 |
-0.3855 |
373 |
1 |
30.37 |
2010-10-30 |
| 114. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
26.75 |
1.0343 |
-0.4193 |
242 |
1 |
26.75 |
2011-04-28 |