| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
89.26 |
0.9899 |
0.2025 |
163 |
1 |
89.26 |
2010-01-31 |
| 2. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
87.44 |
1.0284 |
0.1873 |
282 |
1 |
87.44 |
2010-02-01 |
| 3. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
87.33 |
1.0023 |
0.1665 |
211 |
1 |
87.33 |
2010-01-27 |
| 4. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
84.05 |
1.0595 |
0.0698 |
379 |
1 |
84.05 |
2010-02-01 |
| 5. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
82.71 |
1.0487 |
0.0545 |
231 |
4 |
77.80 |
2010-02-02 |
| 6. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
82.45 |
1.0150 |
0.1389 |
325 |
1 |
82.45 |
2010-01-25 |
| 7. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
82.35 |
1.0261 |
0.0755 |
273 |
1 |
82.35 |
2010-01-27 |
| 8. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
81.51 |
1.1114 |
-0.0221 |
247 |
1 |
81.51 |
2010-02-01 |
| 9. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
81.08 |
1.0941 |
0.0234 |
256 |
2 |
72.01 |
2010-02-26 |
| 10. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
80.72 |
1.0799 |
-0.0022 |
243 |
1 |
80.72 |
2010-02-01 |
| 11. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
80.35 |
1.0767 |
-0.0027 |
212 |
1 |
80.35 |
2010-02-02 |
| 12. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
80.09 |
0.9886 |
0.0867 |
220 |
1 |
80.09 |
2010-01-31 |
| 13. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
78.92 |
1.0399 |
0.0223 |
294 |
1 |
78.92 |
2010-02-02 |
| 14. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
78.87 |
1.0619 |
-0.0021 |
354 |
1 |
78.87 |
2010-02-02 |
| 15. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
78.52 |
0.9763 |
0.0748 |
289 |
1 |
78.52 |
2010-02-02 |
| 16. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
78.47 |
0.9672 |
0.0902 |
396 |
1 |
78.47 |
2010-02-01 |
| 17. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
78.35 |
0.9798 |
0.0638 |
199 |
2 |
76.82 |
2010-02-02 |
| 18. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
77.25 |
1.0485 |
0.0203 |
153 |
1 |
77.25 |
2010-02-01 |
| 19. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
76.41 |
0.9485 |
0.0761 |
236 |
1 |
76.41 |
2010-02-01 |
| 20. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
76.30 |
1.0787 |
-0.0586 |
237 |
1 |
76.30 |
2010-01-25 |
| 21. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
75.45 |
1.0251 |
-0.0174 |
261 |
1 |
75.45 |
2010-02-02 |
| 22. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
75.41 |
1.0252 |
-0.0222 |
176 |
1 |
75.41 |
2010-01-29 |
| 23. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
74.97 |
0.9359 |
0.1071 |
353 |
1 |
74.97 |
2010-01-31 |
| 24. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
74.87 |
1.0368 |
-0.0338 |
276 |
1 |
74.87 |
2010-02-01 |
| 25. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
74.64 |
0.9785 |
0.0236 |
335 |
1 |
74.64 |
2010-02-02 |
| 26. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
74.40 |
1.0796 |
-0.0890 |
129 |
1 |
74.40 |
2010-02-01 |
| 27. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
73.82 |
1.0213 |
-0.0365 |
240 |
1 |
73.82 |
2010-01-28 |
| 28. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
73.69 |
0.9820 |
0.0068 |
267 |
1 |
73.69 |
2010-01-25 |
| 29. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
73.60 |
0.9278 |
0.0597 |
295 |
1 |
73.60 |
2010-01-28 |
| 30. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
73.59 |
0.9176 |
0.1060 |
365 |
1 |
73.59 |
2010-02-02 |
| 31. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
73.44 |
1.0795 |
-0.0663 |
226 |
1 |
73.44 |
2010-02-02 |
| 32. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
73.40 |
1.0613 |
-0.0742 |
456 |
1 |
73.40 |
2010-01-25 |
| 33. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
73.07 |
0.9681 |
0.0178 |
378 |
1 |
73.07 |
2010-02-02 |
| 34. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
72.87 |
1.0417 |
-0.0693 |
253 |
1 |
72.87 |
2010-01-25 |
| 35. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
72.54 |
0.9709 |
0.0406 |
397 |
1 |
72.54 |
2010-02-02 |
| 36. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
72.33 |
0.9997 |
-0.0286 |
382 |
1 |
72.33 |
2010-01-31 |
| 37. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
71.08 |
0.8947 |
0.0610 |
366 |
1 |
71.08 |
2010-01-28 |
| 38. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
70.61 |
1.0183 |
-0.0798 |
191 |
1 |
70.61 |
2010-02-02 |
| 39. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
70.34 |
0.9430 |
0.0004 |
297 |
1 |
70.34 |
2010-01-29 |
| 40. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
70.21 |
1.0297 |
-0.0920 |
249 |
1 |
70.21 |
2010-01-31 |
| 41. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
69.79 |
1.0390 |
-0.1096 |
205 |
1 |
69.79 |
2010-02-05 |
| 42. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
69.32 |
1.0529 |
-0.1261 |
351 |
1 |
69.32 |
2010-01-28 |
| 43. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
68.71 |
1.0666 |
-0.1479 |
297 |
1 |
68.71 |
2010-01-25 |
| 44. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
68.54 |
0.9567 |
0.0018 |
184 |
1 |
68.54 |
2010-01-28 |
| 45. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
66.98 |
0.9279 |
-0.0263 |
317 |
1 |
66.98 |
2010-01-27 |
| 46. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
65.89 |
0.8670 |
0.0187 |
318 |
2 |
63.03 |
2010-02-02 |
| 47. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
65.42 |
0.9833 |
-0.1077 |
355 |
1 |
65.42 |
2010-01-31 |
| 48. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
64.80 |
0.9233 |
-0.0660 |
168 |
1 |
64.80 |
2010-01-27 |
| 49. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
64.70 |
1.0483 |
-0.1873 |
227 |
1 |
64.70 |
2010-01-25 |
| 50. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
64.46 |
0.9164 |
-0.0505 |
305 |
2 |
64.34 |
2010-01-31 |
| 51. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
62.22 |
0.9726 |
-0.1485 |
154 |
1 |
62.22 |
2010-02-02 |
| 52. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
61.77 |
0.9212 |
-0.0935 |
323 |
1 |
61.77 |
2010-01-22 |
| 53. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
61.72 |
1.0523 |
-0.2329 |
256 |
1 |
61.72 |
2010-01-22 |
| 54. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
61.49 |
0.9723 |
-0.1480 |
364 |
1 |
61.49 |
2010-01-22 |
| 55. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
54.38 |
0.7876 |
-0.0607 |
316 |
1 |
54.38 |
2010-01-24 |