| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
60.31 |
1.0796 |
0.2035 |
129 |
4 |
47.51 |
2012-09-01 |
| 2. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
55.90 |
1.1014 |
0.1297 |
273 |
1 |
55.90 |
2012-09-01 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
55.78 |
1.0799 |
0.1071 |
243 |
1 |
55.78 |
2012-09-01 |
| 4. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
55.51 |
1.0905 |
0.1262 |
210 |
1 |
55.51 |
2012-08-30 |
| 5. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
55.40 |
0.8867 |
0.3008 |
241 |
1 |
55.40 |
2012-09-01 |
| 6. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
54.89 |
0.9307 |
0.2483 |
246 |
1 |
54.89 |
2012-09-02 |
| 7. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
54.83 |
0.8935 |
0.2865 |
328 |
1 |
54.83 |
2012-09-01 |
| 8. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
54.29 |
1.0340 |
0.1299 |
406 |
2 |
50.02 |
2012-09-01 |
| 9. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
54.07 |
0.9706 |
0.1871 |
216 |
1 |
54.07 |
2012-09-01 |
| 10. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
53.76 |
1.0673 |
0.1216 |
230 |
1 |
53.76 |
2012-09-01 |
| 11. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
53.65 |
1.0774 |
0.0967 |
304 |
1 |
53.65 |
2012-09-01 |
| 12. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
53.25 |
1.0077 |
0.1693 |
250 |
1 |
53.25 |
2012-09-01 |
| 13. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
52.90 |
0.9699 |
0.1579 |
269 |
1 |
52.90 |
2012-09-01 |
| 14. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
52.27 |
0.9098 |
0.2011 |
167 |
1 |
52.27 |
2012-09-01 |
| 15. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
52.23 |
1.0602 |
0.0578 |
389 |
2 |
52.14 |
2012-09-01 |
| 16. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
52.18 |
1.0173 |
0.1397 |
268 |
1 |
52.18 |
2012-09-01 |
| 17. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
52.16 |
1.0346 |
0.1198 |
244 |
1 |
52.16 |
2012-09-02 |
| 18. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
52.07 |
1.0885 |
0.0254 |
315 |
2 |
48.64 |
2012-09-01 |
| 19. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
51.67 |
1.0529 |
0.0491 |
351 |
2 |
48.12 |
2012-09-01 |
| 20. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
51.65 |
0.9697 |
0.1321 |
249 |
1 |
51.65 |
2012-09-01 |
| 21. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
51.60 |
1.0763 |
0.0660 |
367 |
1 |
51.60 |
2012-09-02 |
| 22. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
51.40 |
0.9851 |
0.1138 |
317 |
1 |
51.40 |
2012-09-01 |
| 23. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
51.28 |
1.0013 |
0.0914 |
273 |
1 |
51.28 |
2012-09-01 |
| 24. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
51.27 |
1.0711 |
0.0171 |
213 |
2 |
47.62 |
2012-08-30 |
| 25. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
51.22 |
1.0944 |
0.0425 |
308 |
1 |
51.22 |
2012-08-30 |
| 26. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
50.99 |
0.9844 |
0.1080 |
293 |
1 |
50.99 |
2012-09-01 |
| 27. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
50.94 |
0.9724 |
0.1168 |
237 |
2 |
49.88 |
2010-04-07 |
| 28. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
50.69 |
0.9368 |
0.1438 |
173 |
1 |
50.69 |
2012-08-30 |
| 29. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
50.57 |
0.9756 |
0.1015 |
229 |
2 |
44.91 |
2012-09-01 |
| 30. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
50.29 |
0.9897 |
0.0802 |
274 |
1 |
50.29 |
2012-09-01 |
| 31. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
50.28 |
1.0863 |
0.0205 |
210 |
1 |
50.28 |
2012-09-01 |
| 32. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
49.95 |
0.9886 |
0.0788 |
220 |
1 |
49.95 |
2012-09-01 |
| 33. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
49.86 |
0.9763 |
0.0862 |
289 |
2 |
45.91 |
2012-09-01 |
| 34. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
49.78 |
1.0343 |
0.0641 |
242 |
1 |
49.78 |
2012-09-01 |
| 35. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
49.74 |
1.0907 |
-0.0282 |
303 |
1 |
49.74 |
2012-08-30 |
| 36. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
49.74 |
0.9910 |
0.0714 |
295 |
1 |
49.74 |
2012-09-01 |
| 37. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
49.73 |
0.9792 |
0.1195 |
265 |
1 |
49.73 |
2012-10-12 |
| 38. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
49.69 |
1.0073 |
0.0603 |
369 |
1 |
49.69 |
2012-09-02 |
| 39. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
49.63 |
1.0023 |
0.0537 |
211 |
1 |
49.63 |
2008-12-16 |
| 40. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
49.39 |
1.0254 |
0.0678 |
217 |
1 |
49.39 |
2012-08-30 |
| 41. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
49.35 |
0.9247 |
0.1319 |
253 |
1 |
49.35 |
2012-08-30 |
| 42. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
49.21 |
1.0109 |
0.0387 |
276 |
1 |
49.21 |
2012-09-01 |
| 43. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
48.95 |
0.9371 |
0.1452 |
318 |
1 |
48.95 |
2012-09-01 |
| 44. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
48.86 |
0.9426 |
0.1020 |
317 |
1 |
48.86 |
2012-09-01 |
| 45. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
48.80 |
0.9798 |
0.0547 |
199 |
1 |
48.80 |
2008-12-16 |
| 46. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
48.48 |
0.9922 |
0.0822 |
341 |
1 |
48.48 |
2012-09-01 |
| 47. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
48.48 |
1.0917 |
-0.0350 |
243 |
1 |
48.48 |
2012-09-01 |
| 48. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
48.37 |
0.8562 |
0.1745 |
170 |
1 |
48.37 |
2012-09-01 |
| 49. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
48.36 |
0.9089 |
0.1252 |
342 |
1 |
48.36 |
2012-09-02 |
| 50. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
48.15 |
1.1114 |
-0.0881 |
247 |
1 |
48.15 |
2012-08-30 |
| 51. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
48.00 |
0.9653 |
0.0564 |
349 |
1 |
48.00 |
2012-09-01 |
| 52. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
47.73 |
1.0608 |
-0.0106 |
258 |
1 |
47.73 |
2012-09-01 |
| 53. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
47.64 |
1.0679 |
-0.0329 |
177 |
1 |
47.64 |
2012-09-02 |
| 54. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
47.52 |
0.9997 |
0.0167 |
382 |
1 |
47.52 |
2012-09-01 |
| 55. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
47.52 |
1.0993 |
-0.0888 |
265 |
1 |
47.52 |
2012-09-01 |
| 56. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
47.44 |
0.8907 |
0.1323 |
351 |
1 |
47.44 |
2012-09-01 |
| 57. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
47.44 |
0.9774 |
0.0321 |
196 |
1 |
47.44 |
2012-09-01 |
| 58. |
How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the ... |
47.18 |
1.0381 |
-0.0439 |
170 |
1 |
47.18 |
2012-09-01 |
| 59. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
47.03 |
0.9072 |
0.0926 |
237 |
1 |
47.03 |
2008-12-16 |
| 60. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
46.85 |
1.0441 |
-0.0448 |
252 |
1 |
46.85 |
2010-04-07 |
| 61. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
46.71 |
1.0031 |
0.0251 |
304 |
1 |
46.71 |
2012-09-02 |
| 62. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
46.50 |
0.9572 |
0.0317 |
201 |
1 |
46.50 |
2008-12-15 |
| 63. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
46.41 |
1.0131 |
-0.0284 |
225 |
1 |
46.41 |
2008-12-15 |
| 64. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
46.32 |
0.9430 |
0.0458 |
297 |
1 |
46.32 |
2012-08-30 |
| 65. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
46.15 |
0.9936 |
0.0096 |
227 |
2 |
44.89 |
2012-09-02 |
| 66. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
46.05 |
1.0292 |
-0.0500 |
262 |
1 |
46.05 |
2012-08-30 |
| 67. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
45.71 |
1.0042 |
0.0110 |
352 |
1 |
45.71 |
2012-09-02 |
| 68. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
45.62 |
0.9866 |
-0.0187 |
218 |
1 |
45.62 |
2008-12-16 |
| 69. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
45.49 |
1.0203 |
-0.0482 |
261 |
1 |
45.49 |
2012-09-01 |
| 70. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
45.02 |
1.0063 |
-0.0476 |
371 |
2 |
42.69 |
2012-08-30 |
| 71. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
44.71 |
0.9576 |
-0.0017 |
212 |
1 |
44.71 |
2012-08-30 |
| 72. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
44.67 |
0.9088 |
0.0474 |
348 |
1 |
44.67 |
2010-03-24 |
| 73. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
44.64 |
0.8910 |
0.0607 |
150 |
1 |
44.64 |
2012-08-30 |
| 74. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
44.63 |
1.0167 |
-0.0593 |
378 |
1 |
44.63 |
2008-12-16 |
| 75. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
44.59 |
0.8971 |
0.0571 |
266 |
2 |
43.50 |
2012-08-30 |
| 76. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
44.52 |
0.9342 |
0.0173 |
434 |
1 |
44.52 |
2008-12-16 |
| 77. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
44.52 |
0.9871 |
-0.0167 |
227 |
1 |
44.52 |
2012-09-01 |
| 78. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
44.49 |
0.9023 |
0.0878 |
231 |
1 |
44.49 |
2012-09-01 |
| 79. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
44.23 |
0.9852 |
-0.0434 |
264 |
1 |
44.23 |
2010-04-07 |
| 80. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
44.19 |
1.0565 |
-0.1189 |
247 |
1 |
44.19 |
2008-12-16 |
| 81. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
44.12 |
1.0189 |
-0.0769 |
337 |
1 |
44.12 |
2012-08-30 |
| 82. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
43.96 |
0.9168 |
0.0204 |
240 |
1 |
43.96 |
2012-09-01 |
| 83. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
43.45 |
0.9125 |
0.0139 |
308 |
1 |
43.45 |
2012-09-02 |
| 84. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
43.40 |
1.0029 |
-0.0859 |
209 |
1 |
43.40 |
2008-12-15 |
| 85. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
43.36 |
0.9468 |
-0.0240 |
276 |
1 |
43.36 |
2012-08-30 |
| 86. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
43.31 |
0.8961 |
0.0223 |
189 |
1 |
43.31 |
2008-12-16 |
| 87. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
43.25 |
1.0487 |
-0.1334 |
231 |
2 |
41.55 |
2008-12-16 |
| 88. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
42.93 |
0.8595 |
0.0562 |
242 |
1 |
42.93 |
2012-09-01 |
| 89. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
42.89 |
0.8811 |
0.0356 |
239 |
1 |
42.89 |
2012-08-30 |
| 90. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
42.84 |
0.9768 |
-0.0624 |
387 |
1 |
42.84 |
2012-09-01 |
| 91. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
42.82 |
0.9234 |
-0.0073 |
346 |
1 |
42.82 |
2008-12-16 |
| 92. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
42.54 |
0.9376 |
-0.0273 |
367 |
1 |
42.54 |
2008-12-16 |
| 93. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
42.54 |
0.9649 |
-0.0608 |
193 |
1 |
42.54 |
2008-12-15 |
| 94. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
42.36 |
0.9976 |
-0.0760 |
174 |
1 |
42.36 |
2012-08-30 |
| 95. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
42.24 |
0.8947 |
0.0091 |
366 |
1 |
42.24 |
2012-09-02 |
| 96. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
41.67 |
0.9049 |
-0.0130 |
351 |
1 |
41.67 |
2012-08-30 |
| 97. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
41.55 |
0.9109 |
-0.0241 |
401 |
1 |
41.55 |
2012-08-30 |
| 98. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
41.44 |
0.9084 |
-0.0234 |
404 |
1 |
41.44 |
2010-04-07 |
| 99. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
41.33 |
0.8996 |
-0.0263 |
192 |
1 |
41.33 |
2012-09-02 |
| 100. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
41.27 |
0.9572 |
-0.0365 |
376 |
1 |
41.27 |
2010-04-07 |
| 101. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
41.26 |
0.9614 |
-0.0807 |
292 |
2 |
41.05 |
2012-08-30 |
| 102. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
41.05 |
1.0251 |
-0.1542 |
261 |
1 |
41.05 |
2012-08-30 |
| 103. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
40.97 |
1.0201 |
-0.1484 |
303 |
1 |
40.97 |
2012-08-30 |
| 104. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
40.91 |
1.0567 |
-0.1858 |
303 |
2 |
38.52 |
2008-12-16 |
| 105. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
40.78 |
0.9653 |
-0.0897 |
394 |
1 |
40.78 |
2008-12-16 |
| 106. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
40.70 |
0.9500 |
-0.0827 |
362 |
1 |
40.70 |
2008-12-15 |
| 107. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
40.46 |
1.0486 |
-0.1877 |
289 |
1 |
40.46 |
2008-12-15 |
| 108. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
40.34 |
1.0025 |
-0.1438 |
336 |
1 |
40.34 |
2008-12-16 |
| 109. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
40.33 |
0.8573 |
0.0032 |
270 |
1 |
40.33 |
2008-12-15 |
| 110. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
40.29 |
0.9513 |
-0.0910 |
354 |
1 |
40.29 |
2012-09-01 |
| 111. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
39.65 |
1.0099 |
-0.1705 |
207 |
1 |
39.65 |
2008-12-16 |
| 112. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
39.52 |
0.9646 |
-0.1256 |
264 |
1 |
39.52 |
2010-04-07 |
| 113. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
39.33 |
1.0060 |
-0.1751 |
171 |
1 |
39.33 |
2010-04-07 |
| 114. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
39.30 |
0.9636 |
-0.1290 |
254 |
1 |
39.30 |
2012-08-30 |
| 115. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
38.77 |
0.8533 |
-0.0288 |
232 |
1 |
38.77 |
2008-12-15 |
| 116. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
38.11 |
0.8975 |
-0.0878 |
268 |
1 |
38.11 |
2008-12-15 |
| 117. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
37.19 |
0.8787 |
-0.0847 |
202 |
1 |
37.19 |
2012-08-30 |
| 118. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
37.03 |
0.9164 |
-0.1251 |
305 |
1 |
37.03 |
2008-12-16 |
| 119. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
36.98 |
0.9005 |
-0.1169 |
212 |
1 |
36.98 |
2012-08-30 |
| 120. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
35.97 |
0.9820 |
-0.2157 |
267 |
1 |
35.97 |
2008-12-16 |
| 121. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
35.71 |
0.9740 |
-0.2208 |
209 |
1 |
35.71 |
2008-12-15 |
| 122. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
34.46 |
0.9202 |
-0.1898 |
254 |
1 |
34.46 |
2008-12-15 |
| 123. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
33.17 |
0.7876 |
-0.0823 |
316 |
1 |
33.17 |
2008-12-15 |