| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
112.84 |
1.0960 |
0.2071 |
315 |
1 |
112.84 |
2011-09-29 |
| 2. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
112.08 |
1.0753 |
0.2220 |
206 |
1 |
112.08 |
2011-11-29 |
| 3. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
111.61 |
1.0225 |
0.2549 |
152 |
1 |
111.61 |
2010-10-26 |
| 4. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
105.50 |
1.0881 |
0.1223 |
210 |
1 |
105.50 |
2010-10-25 |
| 5. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
104.74 |
1.0086 |
0.1925 |
218 |
1 |
104.74 |
2011-09-29 |
| 6. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
103.03 |
1.1070 |
0.0776 |
265 |
1 |
103.03 |
2011-09-29 |
| 7. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
102.04 |
1.0227 |
0.1575 |
378 |
1 |
102.04 |
2011-12-17 |
| 8. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
100.60 |
1.0845 |
0.0721 |
212 |
1 |
100.60 |
2011-11-26 |
| 9. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
99.99 |
1.0682 |
0.0834 |
266 |
3 |
96.95 |
2010-10-26 |
| 10. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
99.78 |
1.0736 |
0.0786 |
256 |
1 |
99.78 |
2010-10-27 |
| 11. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
99.23 |
1.0010 |
0.1445 |
213 |
2 |
93.52 |
2011-12-09 |
| 12. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
98.94 |
1.0188 |
0.1289 |
316 |
1 |
98.94 |
2010-10-26 |
| 13. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
98.80 |
1.0639 |
0.0740 |
303 |
2 |
97.38 |
2010-10-26 |
| 14. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
97.74 |
1.0617 |
0.0608 |
171 |
2 |
95.28 |
2011-09-29 |
| 15. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
97.43 |
1.0777 |
0.0410 |
226 |
1 |
97.43 |
2011-09-29 |
| 16. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
96.83 |
1.0669 |
0.0499 |
379 |
1 |
96.83 |
2010-10-26 |
| 17. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
96.22 |
1.0444 |
0.0754 |
487 |
1 |
96.22 |
2010-10-27 |
| 18. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
96.16 |
1.0351 |
0.0749 |
276 |
1 |
96.16 |
2010-10-26 |
| 19. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
95.34 |
1.0392 |
0.0626 |
258 |
1 |
95.34 |
2011-09-29 |
| 20. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
94.18 |
1.0472 |
0.0464 |
397 |
2 |
90.13 |
2011-11-29 |
| 21. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
94.01 |
0.9996 |
0.0892 |
483 |
1 |
94.01 |
2011-09-29 |
| 22. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
93.95 |
0.9636 |
0.1157 |
281 |
1 |
93.95 |
2010-10-25 |
| 23. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
93.89 |
1.0561 |
0.0221 |
227 |
1 |
93.89 |
2010-10-26 |
| 24. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
93.20 |
1.0250 |
0.0497 |
271 |
1 |
93.20 |
2010-10-25 |
| 25. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
92.91 |
1.0529 |
0.0181 |
373 |
1 |
92.91 |
2011-12-09 |
| 26. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
92.79 |
1.0901 |
-0.0209 |
288 |
1 |
92.79 |
2010-10-26 |
| 27. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
92.57 |
1.0506 |
0.0136 |
259 |
2 |
91.79 |
2011-12-09 |
| 28. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
92.55 |
1.0419 |
0.0256 |
341 |
1 |
92.55 |
2011-11-26 |
| 29. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
91.63 |
1.0543 |
0.0004 |
233 |
1 |
91.63 |
2010-10-28 |
| 30. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
91.56 |
1.0672 |
-0.0155 |
239 |
2 |
84.20 |
2010-10-26 |
| 31. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
91.38 |
0.9927 |
0.0549 |
234 |
1 |
91.38 |
2010-10-26 |
| 32. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
91.37 |
0.9801 |
0.0788 |
282 |
1 |
91.37 |
2010-10-27 |
| 33. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
90.78 |
1.0060 |
0.0388 |
225 |
1 |
90.78 |
2010-10-28 |
| 34. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
90.43 |
1.0181 |
0.0232 |
276 |
1 |
90.43 |
2010-10-25 |
| 35. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
89.87 |
1.0507 |
-0.0118 |
253 |
1 |
89.87 |
2011-11-26 |
| 36. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
89.73 |
0.9980 |
0.0360 |
295 |
1 |
89.73 |
2011-11-26 |
| 37. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
89.44 |
1.0333 |
-0.0099 |
176 |
1 |
89.44 |
2011-09-29 |
| 38. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
89.21 |
1.0106 |
0.0144 |
302 |
1 |
89.21 |
2010-10-27 |
| 39. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
89.20 |
1.0197 |
0.0042 |
204 |
1 |
89.20 |
2010-10-26 |
| 40. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
89.19 |
0.9841 |
0.0382 |
217 |
1 |
89.19 |
2010-10-28 |
| 41. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
89.08 |
1.0427 |
-0.0177 |
269 |
1 |
89.08 |
2010-10-25 |
| 42. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
88.10 |
0.9135 |
0.1080 |
393 |
1 |
88.10 |
2011-09-29 |
| 43. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
88.06 |
0.9926 |
0.0311 |
413 |
1 |
88.06 |
2010-10-28 |
| 44. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
87.81 |
1.0208 |
-0.0112 |
231 |
1 |
87.81 |
2011-11-30 |
| 45. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
87.59 |
0.9885 |
0.0252 |
469 |
1 |
87.59 |
2010-10-28 |
| 46. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
87.41 |
0.9660 |
0.0460 |
258 |
2 |
86.49 |
2010-10-27 |
| 47. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
86.75 |
0.9957 |
0.0056 |
323 |
1 |
86.75 |
2010-10-25 |
| 48. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
86.70 |
0.9574 |
0.0425 |
354 |
1 |
86.70 |
2010-10-27 |
| 49. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
86.11 |
0.9713 |
0.0173 |
193 |
1 |
86.11 |
2010-10-26 |
| 50. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
85.59 |
0.9632 |
0.0217 |
287 |
1 |
85.59 |
2010-10-27 |
| 51. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
85.12 |
0.9857 |
-0.0013 |
268 |
1 |
85.12 |
2011-11-30 |
| 52. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
84.54 |
0.9354 |
0.0472 |
384 |
1 |
84.54 |
2010-10-27 |
| 53. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
84.05 |
0.9869 |
-0.0246 |
193 |
1 |
84.05 |
2010-10-26 |
| 54. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
83.68 |
0.9631 |
-0.0017 |
273 |
1 |
83.68 |
2010-10-29 |
| 55. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
83.56 |
0.9583 |
0.0026 |
237 |
2 |
80.54 |
2011-11-30 |
| 56. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
83.40 |
0.9866 |
-0.0277 |
308 |
1 |
83.40 |
2010-10-27 |
| 57. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
82.06 |
0.9451 |
0.0058 |
419 |
1 |
82.06 |
2010-10-26 |
| 58. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
82.05 |
0.9745 |
-0.0294 |
388 |
1 |
82.05 |
2011-09-29 |
| 59. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
81.98 |
0.9194 |
0.0332 |
360 |
1 |
81.98 |
2011-09-29 |
| 60. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
81.62 |
0.8913 |
0.0483 |
201 |
1 |
81.62 |
2010-10-25 |
| 61. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
81.45 |
0.9839 |
-0.0481 |
308 |
1 |
81.45 |
2010-10-25 |
| 62. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
80.98 |
0.9422 |
-0.0167 |
190 |
1 |
80.98 |
2011-09-29 |
| 63. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
80.95 |
1.0482 |
-0.1051 |
407 |
1 |
80.95 |
2010-10-28 |
| 64. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
80.40 |
1.0472 |
-0.1293 |
149 |
1 |
80.40 |
2010-10-26 |
| 65. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
80.31 |
1.0291 |
-0.1084 |
240 |
1 |
80.31 |
2010-10-29 |
| 66. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
79.96 |
0.9933 |
-0.0671 |
450 |
1 |
79.96 |
2010-10-26 |
| 67. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
79.27 |
1.0320 |
-0.1152 |
401 |
1 |
79.27 |
2010-10-26 |
| 68. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
79.17 |
0.8880 |
0.0217 |
296 |
1 |
79.17 |
2010-10-26 |
| 69. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
78.92 |
1.0082 |
-0.1063 |
212 |
1 |
78.92 |
2010-10-28 |
| 70. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
78.71 |
1.0759 |
-0.1660 |
273 |
1 |
78.71 |
2010-10-26 |
| 71. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
78.69 |
0.9541 |
-0.0493 |
236 |
1 |
78.69 |
2010-10-26 |
| 72. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
78.47 |
0.9603 |
-0.0535 |
430 |
1 |
78.47 |
2010-10-28 |
| 73. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
77.59 |
1.0686 |
-0.1738 |
354 |
1 |
77.59 |
2010-10-28 |
| 74. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
77.31 |
0.9966 |
-0.1015 |
377 |
1 |
77.31 |
2010-10-28 |
| 75. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
76.10 |
0.9123 |
-0.0287 |
351 |
1 |
76.10 |
2011-09-29 |
| 76. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
75.69 |
0.9012 |
-0.0283 |
322 |
1 |
75.69 |
2010-10-27 |
| 77. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
75.53 |
0.9519 |
-0.0804 |
323 |
1 |
75.53 |
2010-10-27 |
| 78. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
74.87 |
0.9709 |
-0.1122 |
264 |
1 |
74.87 |
2010-10-27 |
| 79. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
74.69 |
0.9791 |
-0.1275 |
154 |
1 |
74.69 |
2010-10-26 |
| 80. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
74.59 |
0.9137 |
-0.0550 |
342 |
1 |
74.59 |
2010-10-27 |
| 81. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
74.52 |
1.0035 |
-0.1470 |
310 |
1 |
74.52 |
2010-10-26 |
| 82. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
74.26 |
0.9630 |
-0.0970 |
379 |
1 |
74.26 |
2010-10-26 |
| 83. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
73.64 |
0.9500 |
-0.1027 |
287 |
1 |
73.64 |
2010-10-28 |
| 84. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
73.36 |
1.0462 |
-0.2009 |
340 |
1 |
73.36 |
2010-10-26 |
| 85. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
73.11 |
0.9070 |
-0.0723 |
192 |
1 |
73.11 |
2010-10-26 |
| 86. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
70.99 |
0.8656 |
-0.0494 |
242 |
1 |
70.99 |
2010-10-25 |
| 87. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
70.90 |
0.9889 |
-0.1620 |
429 |
1 |
70.90 |
2010-10-29 |
| 88. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
70.78 |
0.8981 |
-0.0766 |
255 |
1 |
70.78 |
2010-10-27 |
| 89. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
70.63 |
0.9703 |
-0.1531 |
394 |
1 |
70.63 |
2010-10-27 |
| 90. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
66.03 |
0.9377 |
-0.1725 |
198 |
1 |
66.03 |
2010-10-26 |
| 91. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
65.84 |
0.9101 |
-0.1510 |
351 |
1 |
65.84 |
2010-10-27 |
| 92. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
48.26 |
1.0800 |
-0.5309 |
213 |
1 |
48.26 |
2010-10-26 |