| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
52.98 |
0.9873 |
0.2812 |
155 |
1 |
52.98 |
2009-10-02 |
| 2. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
51.77 |
1.0074 |
0.2363 |
242 |
1 |
51.77 |
2010-03-11 |
| 3. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
50.84 |
0.9798 |
0.2347 |
199 |
1 |
50.84 |
2009-12-18 |
| 4. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
50.08 |
1.0441 |
0.1590 |
252 |
1 |
50.08 |
2009-09-19 |
| 5. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
49.33 |
0.9986 |
0.1858 |
283 |
1 |
49.33 |
2009-12-18 |
| 6. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
49.05 |
0.9128 |
0.2691 |
133 |
1 |
49.05 |
2010-02-12 |
| 7. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
48.87 |
1.0197 |
0.1499 |
226 |
1 |
48.87 |
2010-02-12 |
| 8. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
48.41 |
0.9938 |
0.1674 |
339 |
1 |
48.41 |
2010-03-11 |
| 9. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
48.32 |
1.0426 |
0.1158 |
323 |
2 |
47.58 |
2010-02-16 |
| 10. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
48.19 |
1.0214 |
0.1293 |
166 |
2 |
47.97 |
2010-02-12 |
| 11. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
47.79 |
1.0529 |
0.0933 |
351 |
1 |
47.79 |
2010-02-12 |
| 12. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
47.49 |
0.9365 |
0.2042 |
248 |
1 |
47.49 |
2010-03-11 |
| 13. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
47.44 |
0.9221 |
0.2139 |
244 |
1 |
47.44 |
2009-10-02 |
| 14. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
47.35 |
0.9897 |
0.1434 |
274 |
1 |
47.35 |
2010-02-24 |
| 15. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
47.29 |
1.0390 |
0.0918 |
205 |
1 |
47.29 |
2010-03-11 |
| 16. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
47.10 |
1.0349 |
0.0936 |
234 |
1 |
47.10 |
2009-09-19 |
| 17. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
46.78 |
0.8773 |
0.2473 |
205 |
1 |
46.78 |
2010-03-11 |
| 18. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
46.36 |
1.0331 |
0.0761 |
234 |
1 |
46.36 |
2009-11-06 |
| 19. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
45.93 |
1.0669 |
0.0666 |
286 |
1 |
45.93 |
2010-02-12 |
| 20. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
45.87 |
1.0261 |
0.0714 |
273 |
1 |
45.87 |
2009-09-30 |
| 21. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
45.61 |
1.0787 |
0.0131 |
237 |
1 |
45.61 |
2010-02-12 |
| 22. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
45.61 |
0.9088 |
0.1898 |
348 |
2 |
43.76 |
2009-09-30 |
| 23. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
45.54 |
1.0767 |
0.0125 |
212 |
1 |
45.54 |
2010-03-11 |
| 24. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
45.47 |
0.8353 |
0.2618 |
283 |
3 |
39.04 |
2010-03-23 |
| 25. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
45.31 |
1.0257 |
0.0670 |
401 |
1 |
45.31 |
2009-10-02 |
| 26. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
45.21 |
1.0375 |
0.0919 |
200 |
2 |
44.07 |
2010-03-23 |
| 27. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
45.09 |
1.0419 |
0.0387 |
261 |
2 |
44.30 |
2010-02-12 |
| 28. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
44.96 |
0.8792 |
0.2074 |
296 |
1 |
44.96 |
2010-02-05 |
| 29. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
44.92 |
0.9910 |
0.0876 |
295 |
1 |
44.92 |
2010-02-16 |
| 30. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
44.89 |
0.8788 |
0.1938 |
134 |
2 |
43.41 |
2009-09-24 |
| 31. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
44.85 |
0.9884 |
0.0901 |
262 |
1 |
44.85 |
2010-02-05 |
| 32. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
44.70 |
1.0565 |
0.0118 |
247 |
1 |
44.70 |
2009-10-02 |
| 33. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
44.66 |
1.0714 |
-0.0102 |
129 |
1 |
44.66 |
2009-11-01 |
| 34. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
44.63 |
1.0788 |
-0.0149 |
171 |
1 |
44.63 |
2009-09-13 |
| 35. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
44.52 |
0.9699 |
0.0963 |
269 |
1 |
44.52 |
2009-09-30 |
| 36. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
44.37 |
0.8811 |
0.1863 |
239 |
1 |
44.37 |
2009-09-19 |
| 37. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
44.35 |
0.9731 |
0.0770 |
129 |
1 |
44.35 |
2010-02-04 |
| 38. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
44.32 |
0.9309 |
0.1293 |
284 |
1 |
44.32 |
2010-02-12 |
| 39. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
44.16 |
0.8573 |
0.2041 |
270 |
1 |
44.16 |
2010-03-11 |
| 40. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
43.93 |
1.0829 |
-0.0289 |
288 |
1 |
43.93 |
2009-09-30 |
| 41. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
43.88 |
0.9212 |
0.1332 |
231 |
1 |
43.88 |
2010-01-30 |
| 42. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
43.72 |
0.9572 |
0.0885 |
201 |
1 |
43.72 |
2010-02-12 |
| 43. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
43.52 |
0.8793 |
0.1640 |
157 |
1 |
43.52 |
2010-02-04 |
| 44. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
43.47 |
1.0619 |
-0.0164 |
354 |
1 |
43.47 |
2010-02-12 |
| 45. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
43.23 |
1.0944 |
-0.0142 |
308 |
1 |
43.23 |
2009-09-19 |
| 46. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
42.98 |
0.9578 |
0.0716 |
281 |
1 |
42.98 |
2009-10-06 |
| 47. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
42.84 |
1.0289 |
0.0019 |
276 |
1 |
42.84 |
2009-09-30 |
| 48. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
42.51 |
0.8105 |
0.2030 |
204 |
1 |
42.51 |
2009-10-06 |
| 49. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
42.39 |
1.0337 |
-0.0193 |
214 |
2 |
40.93 |
2009-12-06 |
| 50. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
42.27 |
1.0483 |
-0.0393 |
227 |
1 |
42.27 |
2009-09-19 |
| 51. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
42.25 |
1.0232 |
0.0345 |
350 |
1 |
42.25 |
2010-02-12 |
| 52. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
42.24 |
0.9257 |
0.0906 |
317 |
1 |
42.24 |
2010-02-12 |
| 53. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
42.21 |
1.0417 |
-0.0337 |
253 |
1 |
42.21 |
2010-03-11 |
| 54. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
42.12 |
0.9936 |
0.0149 |
311 |
1 |
42.12 |
2009-10-28 |
| 55. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
41.88 |
1.0218 |
-0.0218 |
268 |
1 |
41.88 |
2010-02-12 |
| 56. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
41.76 |
0.9350 |
0.0651 |
195 |
2 |
38.21 |
2010-03-11 |
| 57. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
41.66 |
1.0117 |
0.0306 |
297 |
1 |
41.66 |
2010-02-12 |
| 58. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
41.55 |
0.9776 |
0.0175 |
308 |
2 |
41.04 |
2009-09-19 |
| 59. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
41.55 |
0.9281 |
0.0714 |
273 |
2 |
40.45 |
2009-11-01 |
| 60. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
41.54 |
0.8670 |
0.1327 |
318 |
1 |
41.54 |
2009-10-02 |
| 61. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
41.49 |
0.9161 |
0.0745 |
200 |
2 |
39.26 |
2010-02-12 |
| 62. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
41.44 |
0.9710 |
0.0146 |
173 |
1 |
41.44 |
2010-02-12 |
| 63. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
41.30 |
0.9293 |
0.0611 |
355 |
1 |
41.30 |
2010-03-23 |
| 64. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
41.16 |
0.8810 |
0.1048 |
282 |
3 |
38.84 |
2010-02-19 |
| 65. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
41.15 |
0.9697 |
0.0154 |
249 |
1 |
41.15 |
2009-10-02 |
| 66. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
41.01 |
1.0095 |
-0.0292 |
316 |
1 |
41.01 |
2009-09-13 |
| 67. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.98 |
1.0138 |
-0.0333 |
231 |
1 |
40.98 |
2009-12-13 |
| 68. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
40.91 |
0.8996 |
0.0743 |
192 |
1 |
40.91 |
2009-09-24 |
| 69. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
40.91 |
1.0361 |
-0.0557 |
269 |
2 |
39.47 |
2010-02-12 |
| 70. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
40.82 |
1.0025 |
-0.0258 |
256 |
1 |
40.82 |
2009-12-13 |
| 71. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
40.60 |
0.9593 |
0.0172 |
398 |
1 |
40.60 |
2009-10-02 |
| 72. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
40.24 |
1.0379 |
-0.0404 |
245 |
1 |
40.24 |
2010-02-16 |
| 73. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
40.18 |
0.9339 |
0.0262 |
310 |
1 |
40.18 |
2010-03-11 |
| 74. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
40.18 |
0.9851 |
-0.0208 |
317 |
1 |
40.18 |
2010-03-23 |
| 75. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
40.15 |
0.9430 |
0.0201 |
297 |
1 |
40.15 |
2010-02-24 |
| 76. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
39.95 |
1.0389 |
-0.0809 |
318 |
1 |
39.95 |
2010-02-19 |
| 77. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
39.92 |
0.9127 |
0.0394 |
252 |
2 |
39.58 |
2010-02-12 |
| 78. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
39.90 |
1.0025 |
-0.0465 |
336 |
2 |
38.74 |
2010-02-12 |
| 79. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
39.85 |
0.9633 |
-0.0078 |
304 |
1 |
39.85 |
2009-10-06 |
| 80. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
39.80 |
1.0090 |
-0.0130 |
282 |
1 |
39.80 |
2009-10-28 |
| 81. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
39.59 |
0.9084 |
0.0409 |
300 |
1 |
39.59 |
2010-02-12 |
| 82. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
39.45 |
0.9266 |
0.0186 |
278 |
1 |
39.45 |
2010-02-04 |
| 83. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
39.20 |
1.0506 |
-0.0840 |
277 |
1 |
39.20 |
2010-02-12 |
| 84. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
38.95 |
1.0033 |
-0.0783 |
189 |
1 |
38.95 |
2009-12-13 |
| 85. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
38.91 |
0.8821 |
0.0482 |
176 |
2 |
35.22 |
2010-03-11 |
| 86. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
38.88 |
0.9726 |
-0.0498 |
154 |
1 |
38.88 |
2009-09-19 |
| 87. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
38.83 |
0.9266 |
0.0019 |
267 |
1 |
38.83 |
2009-12-13 |
| 88. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
38.81 |
0.9045 |
0.0244 |
235 |
1 |
38.81 |
2009-09-19 |
| 89. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
38.64 |
0.8809 |
0.0408 |
127 |
1 |
38.64 |
2009-11-01 |
| 90. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
38.59 |
0.9514 |
-0.0279 |
237 |
1 |
38.59 |
2009-09-13 |
| 91. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
38.57 |
0.8787 |
0.0480 |
202 |
1 |
38.57 |
2010-02-12 |
| 92. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
38.45 |
0.9740 |
-0.0587 |
209 |
1 |
38.45 |
2010-03-11 |
| 93. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
38.06 |
1.0398 |
-0.1407 |
110 |
1 |
38.06 |
2010-02-05 |
| 94. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
37.88 |
0.8826 |
0.0250 |
296 |
1 |
37.88 |
2010-02-12 |
| 95. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
37.35 |
0.8442 |
0.0525 |
265 |
1 |
37.35 |
2010-02-12 |
| 96. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
37.19 |
0.9567 |
-0.0250 |
184 |
1 |
37.19 |
2010-02-12 |
| 97. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
37.14 |
0.9411 |
-0.0523 |
318 |
1 |
37.14 |
2010-02-05 |
| 98. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
36.42 |
1.0131 |
-0.1467 |
225 |
1 |
36.42 |
2009-09-19 |
| 99. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
36.34 |
1.0034 |
-0.1360 |
302 |
1 |
36.34 |
2009-09-30 |
| 100. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.27 |
0.9899 |
-0.1280 |
163 |
1 |
36.27 |
2009-09-13 |
| 101. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
36.11 |
0.8770 |
-0.0106 |
300 |
2 |
34.79 |
2009-09-13 |
| 102. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
35.49 |
0.9351 |
-0.0926 |
190 |
1 |
35.49 |
2009-09-13 |
| 103. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
35.22 |
0.9212 |
-0.0768 |
323 |
1 |
35.22 |
2010-03-11 |
| 104. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
34.40 |
1.0252 |
-0.2104 |
176 |
1 |
34.40 |
2010-03-11 |
| 105. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
34.36 |
0.8722 |
-0.0486 |
285 |
1 |
34.36 |
2009-09-13 |
| 106. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
33.68 |
0.9871 |
-0.1471 |
209 |
1 |
33.68 |
2009-09-19 |
| 107. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
33.00 |
0.9429 |
-0.1539 |
287 |
1 |
33.00 |
2009-09-13 |
| 108. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
32.80 |
0.9795 |
-0.1964 |
308 |
1 |
32.80 |
2009-11-01 |
| 109. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
32.79 |
0.9612 |
-0.1785 |
256 |
1 |
32.79 |
2010-02-24 |
| 110. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
32.75 |
0.9430 |
-0.1690 |
211 |
1 |
32.75 |
2010-02-12 |
| 111. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
32.37 |
0.9805 |
-0.2037 |
292 |
1 |
32.37 |
2009-12-13 |
| 112. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
31.10 |
1.0429 |
-0.3031 |
259 |
1 |
31.10 |
2009-09-13 |
| 113. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
30.75 |
0.9965 |
-0.2629 |
277 |
1 |
30.75 |
2009-10-02 |
| 114. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
28.76 |
0.8709 |
-0.1787 |
202 |
1 |
28.76 |
2009-09-13 |
| 115. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
28.68 |
0.8348 |
-0.1465 |
219 |
1 |
28.68 |
2010-02-05 |
| 116. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
28.60 |
0.9418 |
-0.2556 |
188 |
1 |
28.60 |
2009-12-01 |
| 117. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
27.48 |
0.9168 |
-0.2614 |
240 |
1 |
27.48 |
2009-09-19 |
| 118. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
26.14 |
0.9164 |
-0.2900 |
305 |
1 |
26.14 |
2010-02-12 |