| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
81.55 |
0.9938 |
0.3087 |
339 |
1 |
81.55 |
2011-11-12 |
| 2. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
81.11 |
1.0679 |
0.2471 |
177 |
1 |
81.11 |
2011-11-12 |
| 3. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
78.99 |
1.0621 |
0.2181 |
263 |
1 |
78.99 |
2013-08-13 |
| 4. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
78.73 |
1.0714 |
0.1761 |
129 |
2 |
77.03 |
2011-09-19 |
| 5. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
77.95 |
1.0297 |
0.2132 |
249 |
1 |
77.95 |
2013-08-13 |
| 6. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
77.80 |
1.1162 |
0.1667 |
189 |
1 |
77.80 |
2011-11-12 |
| 7. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
77.75 |
1.0767 |
0.1619 |
212 |
1 |
77.75 |
2011-11-10 |
| 8. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
77.17 |
1.0598 |
0.1657 |
196 |
1 |
77.17 |
2011-09-11 |
| 9. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
77.14 |
1.0788 |
0.1466 |
171 |
1 |
77.14 |
2011-11-12 |
| 10. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
76.07 |
1.0390 |
0.1709 |
205 |
2 |
65.70 |
2011-11-12 |
| 11. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
75.46 |
1.0696 |
0.1309 |
226 |
1 |
75.46 |
2011-09-14 |
| 12. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
74.07 |
1.0038 |
0.2080 |
237 |
1 |
74.07 |
2011-11-12 |
| 13. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
74.01 |
1.0613 |
0.1248 |
456 |
1 |
74.01 |
2013-08-13 |
| 14. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
72.49 |
0.9942 |
0.1706 |
483 |
1 |
72.49 |
2013-08-13 |
| 15. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
72.39 |
1.0240 |
0.1275 |
256 |
1 |
72.39 |
2013-01-23 |
| 16. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
71.70 |
1.0796 |
0.0583 |
129 |
1 |
71.70 |
2011-11-12 |
| 17. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
71.60 |
1.0155 |
0.1271 |
232 |
1 |
71.60 |
2011-09-19 |
| 18. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
70.77 |
0.9532 |
0.1738 |
258 |
1 |
70.77 |
2011-09-11 |
| 19. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
70.57 |
1.0417 |
0.0806 |
253 |
2 |
54.09 |
2009-11-05 |
| 20. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
70.46 |
1.0117 |
0.1563 |
297 |
2 |
68.94 |
2013-08-13 |
| 21. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
70.43 |
0.9084 |
0.2182 |
404 |
1 |
70.43 |
2011-11-12 |
| 22. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
70.14 |
1.0740 |
0.0824 |
264 |
1 |
70.14 |
2011-09-11 |
| 23. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
70.06 |
1.0361 |
0.0816 |
269 |
1 |
70.06 |
2012-04-05 |
| 24. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
69.85 |
0.9879 |
0.1345 |
450 |
1 |
69.85 |
2013-01-23 |
| 25. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
69.71 |
1.0025 |
0.1084 |
256 |
1 |
69.71 |
2011-11-12 |
| 26. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
68.92 |
1.0083 |
0.1345 |
273 |
2 |
64.52 |
2011-11-10 |
| 27. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
68.79 |
0.9278 |
0.1712 |
295 |
1 |
68.79 |
2013-08-15 |
| 28. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
68.79 |
1.0391 |
0.0633 |
358 |
1 |
68.79 |
2011-11-09 |
| 29. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
68.75 |
1.0328 |
0.1017 |
356 |
1 |
68.75 |
2011-11-12 |
| 30. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
68.28 |
1.0288 |
0.0918 |
300 |
1 |
68.28 |
2013-08-15 |
| 31. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
68.18 |
0.9814 |
0.1447 |
364 |
1 |
68.18 |
2011-11-10 |
| 32. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
67.94 |
0.9866 |
0.0926 |
218 |
1 |
67.94 |
2012-04-05 |
| 33. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
67.76 |
0.9411 |
0.1395 |
318 |
1 |
67.76 |
2013-08-15 |
| 34. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
67.65 |
1.0398 |
0.0273 |
110 |
1 |
67.65 |
2009-11-04 |
| 35. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
67.20 |
0.9910 |
0.0819 |
295 |
1 |
67.20 |
2011-11-12 |
| 36. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
67.12 |
1.1323 |
-0.0289 |
341 |
1 |
67.12 |
2011-09-14 |
| 37. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
67.12 |
0.8670 |
0.2076 |
318 |
1 |
67.12 |
2013-08-13 |
| 38. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
66.46 |
0.9514 |
0.1076 |
237 |
1 |
66.46 |
2011-11-12 |
| 39. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
66.09 |
0.9398 |
0.1226 |
419 |
1 |
66.09 |
2013-08-13 |
| 40. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
65.90 |
0.9916 |
0.1008 |
282 |
1 |
65.90 |
2011-09-19 |
| 41. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
65.54 |
0.9886 |
0.0578 |
220 |
1 |
65.54 |
2011-09-11 |
| 42. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
65.44 |
0.9202 |
0.1219 |
254 |
1 |
65.44 |
2011-11-12 |
| 43. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
65.40 |
0.9351 |
0.1010 |
190 |
1 |
65.40 |
2012-04-05 |
| 44. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
65.23 |
0.8787 |
0.1649 |
202 |
1 |
65.23 |
2011-09-11 |
| 45. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
65.03 |
0.9553 |
0.0876 |
430 |
1 |
65.03 |
2012-04-05 |
| 46. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
64.90 |
1.0595 |
-0.0233 |
379 |
1 |
64.90 |
2011-09-14 |
| 47. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
64.75 |
0.9593 |
0.0767 |
398 |
2 |
59.89 |
2011-11-10 |
| 48. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
64.66 |
0.9790 |
0.0915 |
311 |
1 |
64.66 |
2011-09-14 |
| 49. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
63.82 |
1.0365 |
0.0093 |
162 |
1 |
63.82 |
2013-08-13 |
| 50. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
63.72 |
0.9275 |
0.0839 |
211 |
1 |
63.72 |
2011-09-11 |
| 51. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
63.66 |
1.0602 |
-0.0426 |
389 |
1 |
63.66 |
2011-09-11 |
| 52. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
63.59 |
0.9852 |
0.0276 |
264 |
1 |
63.59 |
2011-11-10 |
| 53. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
62.72 |
1.0529 |
-0.0544 |
351 |
1 |
62.72 |
2011-11-10 |
| 54. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
62.66 |
1.0201 |
-0.0219 |
303 |
1 |
62.66 |
2009-11-05 |
| 55. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
62.17 |
1.0531 |
-0.0254 |
272 |
1 |
62.17 |
2011-11-09 |
| 56. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
61.04 |
1.0189 |
-0.0445 |
337 |
1 |
61.04 |
2009-11-05 |
| 57. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
61.01 |
0.9636 |
0.0069 |
254 |
1 |
61.01 |
2011-11-10 |
| 58. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
60.70 |
1.0577 |
-0.0956 |
247 |
1 |
60.70 |
2009-11-05 |
| 59. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
60.39 |
0.9904 |
0.0109 |
203 |
1 |
60.39 |
2011-11-10 |
| 60. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
59.67 |
1.0379 |
-0.0539 |
245 |
1 |
59.67 |
2009-11-05 |
| 61. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
58.29 |
0.9739 |
-0.0109 |
412 |
1 |
58.29 |
2011-09-14 |
| 62. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
58.18 |
1.0368 |
-0.1109 |
276 |
1 |
58.18 |
2009-11-04 |
| 63. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
57.85 |
1.0352 |
-0.1118 |
341 |
1 |
57.85 |
2009-11-05 |
| 64. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
57.64 |
0.8573 |
0.0626 |
270 |
1 |
57.64 |
2011-11-10 |
| 65. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
57.35 |
0.9884 |
-0.0770 |
233 |
1 |
57.35 |
2011-09-14 |
| 66. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
56.69 |
0.9897 |
-0.0909 |
274 |
1 |
56.69 |
2009-11-05 |
| 67. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
56.34 |
0.9289 |
-0.0357 |
204 |
1 |
56.34 |
2011-09-11 |
| 68. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
55.35 |
0.8933 |
-0.0073 |
363 |
1 |
55.35 |
2011-11-12 |
| 69. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
55.02 |
1.0574 |
-0.1551 |
205 |
1 |
55.02 |
2011-11-10 |
| 70. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
54.96 |
0.9540 |
-0.0827 |
285 |
1 |
54.96 |
2009-11-05 |
| 71. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
54.86 |
1.0419 |
-0.1705 |
261 |
1 |
54.86 |
2009-11-05 |
| 72. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
53.29 |
0.9965 |
-0.1495 |
277 |
1 |
53.29 |
2009-11-05 |
| 73. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
53.21 |
1.0124 |
-0.1699 |
204 |
1 |
53.21 |
2009-11-05 |
| 74. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
53.05 |
0.8845 |
-0.0419 |
273 |
1 |
53.05 |
2009-11-04 |
| 75. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
52.99 |
1.0034 |
-0.1631 |
302 |
1 |
52.99 |
2009-11-04 |
| 76. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
52.53 |
0.9843 |
-0.1552 |
234 |
1 |
52.53 |
2013-08-15 |
| 77. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
51.69 |
0.9148 |
-0.0927 |
317 |
1 |
51.69 |
2009-11-05 |
| 78. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
50.51 |
0.9614 |
-0.1566 |
292 |
1 |
50.51 |
2009-11-04 |
| 79. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
50.37 |
0.9342 |
-0.1312 |
434 |
1 |
50.37 |
2009-11-04 |
| 80. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
49.89 |
0.9936 |
-0.1819 |
227 |
1 |
49.89 |
2011-11-10 |
| 81. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
49.81 |
0.8533 |
-0.0621 |
232 |
1 |
49.81 |
2009-11-04 |
| 82. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
49.07 |
0.9899 |
-0.2164 |
163 |
1 |
49.07 |
2009-11-04 |
| 83. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
48.80 |
1.0523 |
-0.2826 |
256 |
1 |
48.80 |
2009-11-04 |
| 84. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
47.95 |
0.8602 |
-0.1020 |
206 |
1 |
47.95 |
2009-11-07 |
| 85. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
47.51 |
0.9213 |
-0.1674 |
295 |
1 |
47.51 |
2009-11-05 |
| 86. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
47.05 |
1.0131 |
-0.2712 |
225 |
1 |
47.05 |
2009-11-05 |
| 87. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.92 |
0.9798 |
-0.2417 |
199 |
1 |
46.92 |
2009-11-05 |
| 88. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
46.39 |
1.0138 |
-0.2792 |
231 |
1 |
46.39 |
2009-11-04 |
| 89. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
46.33 |
1.0099 |
-0.2790 |
207 |
1 |
46.33 |
2009-11-05 |
| 90. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
45.52 |
0.9527 |
-0.2314 |
251 |
1 |
45.52 |
2011-09-11 |
| 91. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
45.33 |
1.0429 |
-0.3265 |
259 |
1 |
45.33 |
2009-11-05 |
| 92. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
45.10 |
0.7876 |
-0.0707 |
316 |
1 |
45.10 |
2009-11-05 |
| 93. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
44.02 |
0.9293 |
-0.2312 |
355 |
1 |
44.02 |
2009-11-05 |
| 94. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
43.98 |
0.8996 |
-0.2089 |
192 |
1 |
43.98 |
2013-08-13 |
| 95. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
43.88 |
0.8935 |
-0.1891 |
328 |
1 |
43.88 |
2009-11-05 |
| 96. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
43.73 |
0.8793 |
-0.1862 |
157 |
1 |
43.73 |
2009-11-04 |
| 97. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
43.49 |
0.9711 |
-0.2842 |
176 |
1 |
43.49 |
2009-11-04 |