| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
82.76 |
1.0829 |
0.2114 |
288 |
1 |
82.76 |
2011-03-04 |
| 2. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
80.59 |
1.1018 |
0.1503 |
220 |
1 |
80.59 |
2010-12-14 |
| 3. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
79.06 |
1.0619 |
0.1766 |
354 |
2 |
73.82 |
2011-03-04 |
| 4. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
78.06 |
1.1323 |
0.1205 |
341 |
2 |
74.76 |
2011-03-04 |
| 5. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
74.86 |
1.0398 |
0.1177 |
110 |
1 |
74.86 |
2011-03-04 |
| 6. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
74.51 |
1.0515 |
0.1032 |
166 |
2 |
74.02 |
2013-02-01 |
| 7. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
73.41 |
1.0545 |
0.1318 |
416 |
2 |
69.56 |
2013-02-01 |
| 8. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
73.21 |
1.0454 |
0.0937 |
255 |
1 |
73.21 |
2011-03-04 |
| 9. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
73.19 |
1.0796 |
0.0569 |
129 |
1 |
73.19 |
2010-12-14 |
| 10. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
73.08 |
1.1014 |
0.0765 |
273 |
1 |
73.08 |
2010-12-14 |
| 11. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
72.85 |
1.0125 |
0.1215 |
224 |
1 |
72.85 |
2010-12-14 |
| 12. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
72.09 |
0.9894 |
0.1396 |
323 |
1 |
72.09 |
2011-03-04 |
| 13. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
71.45 |
1.0012 |
0.1159 |
260 |
1 |
71.45 |
2010-12-13 |
| 14. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
71.44 |
1.0496 |
0.0641 |
314 |
1 |
71.44 |
2013-02-01 |
| 15. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
71.16 |
1.0711 |
0.0336 |
213 |
2 |
61.55 |
2011-05-12 |
| 16. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
70.77 |
1.0352 |
0.0720 |
341 |
1 |
70.77 |
2011-03-04 |
| 17. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
70.29 |
0.9776 |
0.1189 |
308 |
1 |
70.29 |
2011-03-04 |
| 18. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
69.97 |
1.0150 |
0.1252 |
325 |
1 |
69.97 |
2011-03-04 |
| 19. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
69.67 |
1.0565 |
0.0270 |
247 |
1 |
69.67 |
2010-12-13 |
| 20. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
69.59 |
1.0567 |
0.0294 |
303 |
1 |
69.59 |
2010-12-14 |
| 21. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
69.28 |
1.0613 |
0.0245 |
456 |
2 |
66.04 |
2013-02-01 |
| 22. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
69.08 |
1.0917 |
0.0088 |
243 |
1 |
69.08 |
2010-12-14 |
| 23. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
68.83 |
1.0788 |
-0.0113 |
171 |
1 |
68.83 |
2010-12-14 |
| 24. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
68.79 |
0.9893 |
0.0832 |
323 |
1 |
68.79 |
2011-03-04 |
| 25. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
68.43 |
0.9908 |
0.1222 |
342 |
2 |
64.20 |
2011-03-04 |
| 26. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
68.33 |
0.9843 |
0.0759 |
234 |
1 |
68.33 |
2013-02-01 |
| 27. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
68.33 |
0.9844 |
0.0860 |
293 |
1 |
68.33 |
2010-12-14 |
| 28. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
68.16 |
1.0073 |
0.0635 |
369 |
2 |
63.37 |
2010-12-14 |
| 29. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
67.72 |
1.0863 |
0.0040 |
210 |
1 |
67.72 |
2010-12-14 |
| 30. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
67.66 |
1.0767 |
-0.0243 |
212 |
1 |
67.66 |
2010-12-14 |
| 31. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
67.30 |
1.0426 |
0.0057 |
323 |
1 |
67.30 |
2010-12-13 |
| 32. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
66.77 |
0.9286 |
0.1110 |
194 |
1 |
66.77 |
2011-03-04 |
| 33. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
66.59 |
0.9597 |
0.0821 |
347 |
3 |
64.68 |
2010-12-14 |
| 34. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
66.11 |
1.0124 |
0.0153 |
204 |
1 |
66.11 |
2011-03-04 |
| 35. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
65.30 |
1.0679 |
-0.0305 |
177 |
1 |
65.30 |
2010-12-13 |
| 36. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
65.21 |
0.9801 |
0.0788 |
428 |
1 |
65.21 |
2013-02-01 |
| 37. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
65.07 |
0.9353 |
0.0739 |
177 |
1 |
65.07 |
2010-12-14 |
| 38. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
64.37 |
0.9795 |
0.0236 |
308 |
1 |
64.37 |
2010-12-14 |
| 39. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
64.21 |
0.9833 |
0.0187 |
355 |
1 |
64.21 |
2010-12-14 |
| 40. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
64.12 |
1.0483 |
-0.0527 |
227 |
1 |
64.12 |
2013-02-01 |
| 41. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
63.90 |
1.0172 |
0.0131 |
341 |
2 |
62.04 |
2010-12-14 |
| 42. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
63.47 |
1.0595 |
-0.0684 |
379 |
1 |
63.47 |
2010-12-14 |
| 43. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
63.36 |
0.9922 |
0.0357 |
341 |
1 |
63.36 |
2010-12-14 |
| 44. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
63.32 |
0.9710 |
0.0088 |
173 |
1 |
63.32 |
2010-12-14 |
| 45. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
63.31 |
0.9991 |
-0.0124 |
225 |
1 |
63.31 |
2010-12-13 |
| 46. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
62.59 |
0.9965 |
-0.0265 |
168 |
2 |
61.94 |
2010-12-14 |
| 47. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
62.59 |
1.0662 |
-0.0534 |
407 |
1 |
62.59 |
2010-12-13 |
| 48. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
62.52 |
1.0485 |
-0.0405 |
153 |
1 |
62.52 |
2010-12-14 |
| 49. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
62.45 |
1.0173 |
-0.0009 |
268 |
1 |
62.45 |
2010-12-14 |
| 50. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
62.44 |
0.9005 |
0.0704 |
212 |
1 |
62.44 |
2011-03-04 |
| 51. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
62.38 |
1.0941 |
-0.0915 |
256 |
1 |
62.38 |
2010-12-14 |
| 52. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
62.36 |
0.9468 |
0.0243 |
276 |
1 |
62.36 |
2010-12-14 |
| 53. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
62.15 |
0.9128 |
0.0965 |
369 |
1 |
62.15 |
2011-03-04 |
| 54. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
61.78 |
0.9233 |
0.0303 |
168 |
2 |
58.28 |
2010-12-14 |
| 55. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
61.55 |
0.9359 |
0.0620 |
353 |
1 |
61.55 |
2010-12-14 |
| 56. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
61.03 |
1.0384 |
-0.0984 |
183 |
1 |
61.03 |
2010-12-13 |
| 57. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
60.63 |
1.0292 |
-0.0869 |
262 |
1 |
60.63 |
2010-12-14 |
| 58. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
59.82 |
0.9426 |
-0.0085 |
317 |
1 |
59.82 |
2010-12-14 |
| 59. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
59.72 |
1.0023 |
-0.0749 |
211 |
1 |
59.72 |
2010-12-14 |
| 60. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
59.57 |
1.0487 |
-0.1268 |
231 |
1 |
59.57 |
2011-03-04 |
| 61. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
59.21 |
1.0165 |
-0.0912 |
392 |
2 |
59.02 |
2010-12-16 |
| 62. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
59.04 |
0.9074 |
0.0177 |
396 |
2 |
58.93 |
2010-12-14 |
| 63. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
58.94 |
0.9350 |
-0.0175 |
195 |
1 |
58.94 |
2011-03-04 |
| 64. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
58.91 |
0.9097 |
0.0488 |
464 |
1 |
58.91 |
2010-12-14 |
| 65. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
58.75 |
0.9087 |
0.0163 |
393 |
1 |
58.75 |
2010-12-14 |
| 66. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
58.40 |
0.8916 |
0.0174 |
216 |
1 |
58.40 |
2013-02-01 |
| 67. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
58.39 |
1.0441 |
-0.1345 |
252 |
1 |
58.39 |
2010-12-13 |
| 68. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
56.29 |
0.9164 |
-0.0360 |
305 |
1 |
56.29 |
2010-12-14 |
| 69. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
56.02 |
0.9668 |
-0.0533 |
383 |
1 |
56.02 |
2010-12-13 |
| 70. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
56.01 |
1.0013 |
-0.1314 |
273 |
2 |
54.88 |
2010-12-14 |
| 71. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
55.97 |
0.9202 |
-0.0503 |
254 |
1 |
55.97 |
2010-12-21 |
| 72. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
54.75 |
0.9529 |
-0.0615 |
269 |
2 |
51.38 |
2010-12-14 |
| 73. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
54.37 |
0.9243 |
-0.0397 |
448 |
2 |
52.46 |
2011-03-04 |
| 74. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
54.07 |
1.0211 |
-0.1504 |
213 |
1 |
54.07 |
2010-12-14 |
| 75. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
53.69 |
1.0486 |
-0.2137 |
289 |
1 |
53.69 |
2010-12-14 |
| 76. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
53.60 |
0.9279 |
-0.0884 |
317 |
1 |
53.60 |
2010-12-21 |
| 77. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
53.52 |
0.9897 |
-0.1606 |
274 |
1 |
53.52 |
2010-12-14 |
| 78. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
53.44 |
0.9109 |
-0.0776 |
401 |
1 |
53.44 |
2010-12-14 |
| 79. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
53.09 |
0.8775 |
-0.0499 |
443 |
1 |
53.09 |
2010-12-14 |
| 80. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
52.93 |
1.0334 |
-0.2178 |
131 |
1 |
52.93 |
2011-03-04 |
| 81. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
52.71 |
0.9632 |
-0.1022 |
345 |
2 |
52.05 |
2010-12-14 |
| 82. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
52.64 |
0.8553 |
-0.0426 |
174 |
1 |
52.64 |
2010-12-14 |
| 83. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
52.59 |
0.9509 |
-0.0958 |
225 |
1 |
52.59 |
2010-12-21 |
| 84. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
50.12 |
0.9088 |
-0.1258 |
348 |
1 |
50.12 |
2010-12-14 |
| 85. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
49.04 |
0.8105 |
-0.0542 |
204 |
1 |
49.04 |
2010-12-21 |
| 86. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
43.46 |
0.8919 |
-0.2205 |
205 |
1 |
43.46 |
2010-12-14 |
| 87. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
40.00 |
0.8770 |
-0.2556 |
300 |
1 |
40.00 |
2010-12-14 |