| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
161.83 |
1.0885 |
0.2304 |
341 |
1 |
161.83 |
2010-06-23 |
| 2. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
150.39 |
1.0099 |
0.1791 |
207 |
2 |
132.88 |
2011-09-06 |
| 3. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
148.87 |
1.0711 |
0.1038 |
213 |
2 |
141.25 |
2011-09-06 |
| 4. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
146.09 |
1.0444 |
0.1069 |
197 |
1 |
146.09 |
2010-03-20 |
| 5. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
145.73 |
1.0441 |
0.1523 |
316 |
2 |
135.76 |
2011-11-03 |
| 6. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
144.89 |
0.9632 |
0.1915 |
392 |
1 |
144.89 |
2011-01-13 |
| 7. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
141.52 |
1.0073 |
0.1221 |
369 |
1 |
141.52 |
2011-11-03 |
| 8. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
140.96 |
1.0883 |
0.0606 |
303 |
1 |
140.96 |
2011-09-06 |
| 9. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
140.77 |
0.9734 |
0.1418 |
289 |
1 |
140.77 |
2010-06-23 |
| 10. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
140.33 |
0.9684 |
0.1457 |
388 |
1 |
140.33 |
2011-09-06 |
| 11. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
139.04 |
1.0483 |
0.0498 |
227 |
1 |
139.04 |
2011-09-06 |
| 12. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
138.73 |
1.0391 |
0.0658 |
358 |
1 |
138.73 |
2011-09-06 |
| 13. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
138.40 |
0.9687 |
0.1323 |
371 |
1 |
138.40 |
2010-03-20 |
| 14. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
137.21 |
0.9863 |
0.1047 |
339 |
1 |
137.21 |
2010-04-30 |
| 15. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
136.13 |
1.0169 |
0.0998 |
346 |
1 |
136.13 |
2011-09-06 |
| 16. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
134.15 |
1.0445 |
0.0188 |
373 |
1 |
134.15 |
2010-08-23 |
| 17. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
134.11 |
1.0016 |
0.0555 |
218 |
1 |
134.11 |
2010-08-23 |
| 18. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
133.61 |
1.0487 |
0.0040 |
231 |
1 |
133.61 |
2010-08-23 |
| 19. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
133.49 |
1.0168 |
0.0418 |
271 |
1 |
133.49 |
2010-08-23 |
| 20. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
133.30 |
1.0388 |
0.0482 |
243 |
1 |
133.30 |
2010-09-17 |
| 21. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
133.18 |
1.0907 |
-0.0341 |
303 |
1 |
133.18 |
2010-03-20 |
| 22. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
132.71 |
1.0515 |
-0.0030 |
250 |
1 |
132.71 |
2011-11-03 |
| 23. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
131.49 |
0.8956 |
0.1499 |
322 |
1 |
131.49 |
2010-03-20 |
| 24. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
131.16 |
1.0555 |
-0.0158 |
363 |
1 |
131.16 |
2011-11-03 |
| 25. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
131.10 |
0.9904 |
0.0877 |
203 |
1 |
131.10 |
2010-08-23 |
| 26. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
130.96 |
0.9855 |
0.0847 |
258 |
1 |
130.96 |
2011-11-04 |
| 27. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
130.65 |
1.0320 |
0.0392 |
293 |
1 |
130.65 |
2011-11-03 |
| 28. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
130.59 |
0.9893 |
0.0442 |
323 |
1 |
130.59 |
2010-04-30 |
| 29. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
130.38 |
0.9513 |
0.0844 |
354 |
1 |
130.38 |
2010-09-29 |
| 30. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
130.32 |
1.0167 |
0.0218 |
378 |
1 |
130.32 |
2010-03-24 |
| 31. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
129.27 |
1.0596 |
-0.0389 |
239 |
1 |
129.27 |
2010-03-20 |
| 32. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
129.27 |
0.9976 |
0.0458 |
174 |
1 |
129.27 |
2010-03-20 |
| 33. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
128.02 |
0.9074 |
0.1120 |
396 |
1 |
128.02 |
2011-11-03 |
| 34. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
127.75 |
1.0297 |
-0.0201 |
249 |
1 |
127.75 |
2011-11-04 |
| 35. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
127.67 |
0.9758 |
0.0351 |
314 |
1 |
127.67 |
2011-11-03 |
| 36. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
127.55 |
0.9508 |
0.0921 |
384 |
1 |
127.55 |
2011-09-06 |
| 37. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
127.41 |
1.0125 |
-0.0070 |
224 |
1 |
127.41 |
2010-04-30 |
| 38. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
126.89 |
1.0263 |
-0.0235 |
267 |
1 |
126.89 |
2010-03-22 |
| 39. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
126.80 |
0.8826 |
0.1223 |
296 |
1 |
126.80 |
2010-03-20 |
| 40. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
126.29 |
0.9023 |
0.1399 |
231 |
1 |
126.29 |
2011-09-06 |
| 41. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
126.01 |
0.9697 |
0.0271 |
249 |
1 |
126.01 |
2010-08-23 |
| 42. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
125.88 |
0.9293 |
0.0678 |
355 |
2 |
124.43 |
2011-11-09 |
| 43. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
125.84 |
1.0314 |
0.0033 |
452 |
1 |
125.84 |
2011-11-03 |
| 44. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
125.47 |
1.0429 |
-0.0519 |
259 |
1 |
125.47 |
2010-04-30 |
| 45. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
124.99 |
1.0031 |
0.0190 |
304 |
1 |
124.99 |
2011-11-03 |
| 46. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
123.85 |
0.9632 |
0.0586 |
345 |
1 |
123.85 |
2010-03-24 |
| 47. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
123.73 |
0.9894 |
-0.0063 |
323 |
1 |
123.73 |
2010-08-23 |
| 48. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
123.11 |
0.9570 |
0.0184 |
287 |
1 |
123.11 |
2010-03-22 |
| 49. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
123.01 |
0.9846 |
-0.0134 |
281 |
1 |
123.01 |
2010-06-23 |
| 50. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
122.10 |
1.0368 |
-0.0706 |
276 |
1 |
122.10 |
2011-11-09 |
| 51. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
120.42 |
0.9814 |
0.0102 |
364 |
1 |
120.42 |
2010-08-23 |
| 52. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
120.24 |
0.8595 |
0.0934 |
242 |
1 |
120.24 |
2010-09-29 |
| 53. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
120.13 |
1.0662 |
-0.0783 |
407 |
1 |
120.13 |
2011-11-09 |
| 54. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
120.02 |
0.9084 |
0.0442 |
404 |
1 |
120.02 |
2011-09-06 |
| 55. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
119.50 |
0.9109 |
0.0368 |
401 |
1 |
119.50 |
2010-04-30 |
| 56. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
118.68 |
0.9884 |
-0.0507 |
233 |
1 |
118.68 |
2010-04-30 |
| 57. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
118.24 |
0.9426 |
-0.0049 |
317 |
1 |
118.24 |
2010-06-23 |
| 58. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
117.00 |
0.9601 |
-0.0306 |
308 |
1 |
117.00 |
2010-06-23 |
| 59. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
116.41 |
0.9631 |
0.0081 |
345 |
1 |
116.41 |
2010-03-20 |
| 60. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
115.32 |
0.9675 |
-0.0470 |
383 |
1 |
115.32 |
2010-08-23 |
| 61. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
114.23 |
1.0763 |
-0.1321 |
367 |
1 |
114.23 |
2011-09-06 |
| 62. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
113.62 |
1.0120 |
-0.1153 |
290 |
1 |
113.62 |
2010-09-17 |
| 63. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
111.90 |
0.9583 |
-0.0310 |
341 |
1 |
111.90 |
2011-11-09 |
| 64. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
111.60 |
1.0214 |
-0.1415 |
269 |
1 |
111.60 |
2010-08-23 |
| 65. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
111.44 |
0.9682 |
-0.0896 |
143 |
1 |
111.44 |
2010-04-30 |
| 66. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
110.37 |
0.9088 |
-0.0321 |
348 |
1 |
110.37 |
2011-11-09 |
| 67. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
109.19 |
0.9709 |
-0.0675 |
397 |
1 |
109.19 |
2010-04-30 |
| 68. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
106.85 |
0.8981 |
-0.0503 |
393 |
1 |
106.85 |
2010-09-17 |
| 69. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
106.63 |
0.9726 |
-0.1380 |
154 |
1 |
106.63 |
2010-03-20 |
| 70. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
104.67 |
0.8958 |
-0.0650 |
322 |
1 |
104.67 |
2010-04-30 |
| 71. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
97.80 |
1.0254 |
-0.2141 |
217 |
1 |
97.80 |
2010-03-20 |
| 72. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
95.32 |
0.8105 |
-0.0642 |
204 |
1 |
95.32 |
2011-11-09 |
| 73. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
54.08 |
0.9635 |
-0.5373 |
389 |
1 |
54.08 |
2010-09-29 |
| 74. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
45.52 |
0.9566 |
-0.5819 |
576 |
1 |
45.52 |
2011-11-09 |