| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
76.20 |
1.0669 |
0.2818 |
286 |
1 |
76.20 |
2011-02-05 |
| 2. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
74.62 |
1.0389 |
0.2524 |
340 |
1 |
74.62 |
2009-05-12 |
| 3. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
72.15 |
0.9722 |
0.2752 |
283 |
1 |
72.15 |
2009-09-17 |
| 4. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
72.04 |
1.0577 |
0.1826 |
247 |
2 |
71.96 |
2011-02-05 |
| 5. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
71.69 |
1.0417 |
0.1933 |
253 |
1 |
71.69 |
2009-05-12 |
| 6. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
71.30 |
0.9125 |
0.3203 |
308 |
1 |
71.30 |
2009-05-14 |
| 7. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
70.15 |
1.0396 |
0.1641 |
149 |
1 |
70.15 |
2009-09-17 |
| 8. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
69.43 |
1.0795 |
0.1491 |
226 |
1 |
69.43 |
2009-10-02 |
| 9. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
69.15 |
1.0441 |
0.1506 |
252 |
1 |
69.15 |
2009-05-14 |
| 10. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
69.11 |
0.9350 |
0.2580 |
195 |
1 |
69.11 |
2010-03-10 |
| 11. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
67.74 |
1.0013 |
0.1666 |
273 |
1 |
67.74 |
2009-05-15 |
| 12. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
67.42 |
1.0399 |
0.1289 |
294 |
1 |
67.42 |
2009-05-15 |
| 13. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
67.01 |
1.0462 |
0.1039 |
184 |
1 |
67.01 |
2011-02-05 |
| 14. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
66.82 |
1.0666 |
0.0866 |
297 |
1 |
66.82 |
2009-05-02 |
| 15. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
66.78 |
1.0487 |
0.0984 |
231 |
1 |
66.78 |
2009-10-02 |
| 16. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
65.75 |
0.9758 |
0.1590 |
314 |
2 |
61.79 |
2009-10-02 |
| 17. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
65.31 |
1.0138 |
0.1121 |
231 |
1 |
65.31 |
2009-05-12 |
| 18. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
64.95 |
1.0029 |
0.1108 |
209 |
2 |
62.85 |
2009-09-17 |
| 19. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
64.86 |
1.0201 |
0.0920 |
172 |
2 |
57.51 |
2009-11-11 |
| 20. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
64.43 |
1.0334 |
0.0712 |
131 |
1 |
64.43 |
2009-09-30 |
| 21. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
64.31 |
1.0797 |
0.0239 |
210 |
1 |
64.31 |
2009-05-14 |
| 22. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
64.31 |
1.0555 |
0.0551 |
363 |
2 |
62.46 |
2009-10-02 |
| 23. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
64.18 |
0.9946 |
0.1122 |
246 |
2 |
61.83 |
2009-05-14 |
| 24. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
64.11 |
1.0214 |
0.0788 |
166 |
1 |
64.11 |
2009-08-08 |
| 25. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
61.87 |
0.9691 |
0.0968 |
223 |
1 |
61.87 |
2010-03-11 |
| 26. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
61.08 |
1.0445 |
0.0094 |
373 |
1 |
61.08 |
2009-05-02 |
| 27. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
61.04 |
0.9844 |
0.0726 |
293 |
1 |
61.04 |
2009-09-30 |
| 28. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
60.86 |
1.0023 |
0.0445 |
211 |
1 |
60.86 |
2009-05-15 |
| 29. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
60.58 |
0.9275 |
0.1133 |
211 |
1 |
60.58 |
2011-05-18 |
| 30. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
60.22 |
1.0292 |
0.0069 |
262 |
2 |
55.09 |
2009-09-30 |
| 31. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
60.09 |
0.8935 |
0.1517 |
328 |
1 |
60.09 |
2009-09-30 |
| 32. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
60.00 |
0.9965 |
0.0379 |
277 |
1 |
60.00 |
2009-05-12 |
| 33. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
59.67 |
1.0340 |
-0.0006 |
406 |
1 |
59.67 |
2010-03-10 |
| 34. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
59.52 |
1.0154 |
0.0600 |
351 |
1 |
59.52 |
2011-05-18 |
| 35. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
59.48 |
0.9916 |
0.0760 |
282 |
1 |
59.48 |
2010-03-07 |
| 36. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
59.47 |
0.9786 |
0.0455 |
235 |
1 |
59.47 |
2009-09-17 |
| 37. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
59.37 |
1.0257 |
0.0036 |
401 |
1 |
59.37 |
2011-08-14 |
| 38. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
59.33 |
0.9769 |
0.0434 |
263 |
1 |
59.33 |
2009-05-02 |
| 39. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
59.08 |
0.9772 |
0.0372 |
217 |
1 |
59.08 |
2009-10-02 |
| 40. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
59.01 |
1.0444 |
-0.0344 |
197 |
1 |
59.01 |
2009-05-14 |
| 41. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
58.91 |
0.9910 |
0.0259 |
295 |
1 |
58.91 |
2009-05-15 |
| 42. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
58.84 |
1.0331 |
-0.0218 |
234 |
1 |
58.84 |
2009-05-12 |
| 43. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
58.66 |
0.9907 |
0.0184 |
211 |
1 |
58.66 |
2009-10-02 |
| 44. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
58.60 |
1.0131 |
-0.0075 |
225 |
1 |
58.60 |
2009-09-30 |
| 45. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
58.53 |
0.9635 |
0.0506 |
389 |
1 |
58.53 |
2009-05-15 |
| 46. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
57.85 |
0.9553 |
0.0482 |
430 |
1 |
57.85 |
2009-05-15 |
| 47. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
57.84 |
1.0595 |
-0.0608 |
379 |
1 |
57.84 |
2009-05-15 |
| 48. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
57.76 |
0.9851 |
0.0123 |
317 |
1 |
57.76 |
2011-02-05 |
| 49. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
57.58 |
0.9109 |
0.0839 |
401 |
1 |
57.58 |
2009-05-14 |
| 50. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
57.56 |
0.9886 |
0.0051 |
220 |
2 |
55.55 |
2011-05-18 |
| 51. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
57.09 |
1.0496 |
-0.0673 |
314 |
1 |
57.09 |
2009-09-18 |
| 52. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
57.07 |
0.9578 |
0.0249 |
281 |
1 |
57.07 |
2009-09-18 |
| 53. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
57.03 |
0.9991 |
-0.0164 |
225 |
1 |
57.03 |
2010-03-11 |
| 54. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
56.17 |
0.9653 |
0.0102 |
394 |
1 |
56.17 |
2009-05-18 |
| 55. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
56.09 |
1.0361 |
-0.0696 |
269 |
1 |
56.09 |
2009-08-08 |
| 56. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
56.05 |
0.9612 |
0.0041 |
256 |
1 |
56.05 |
2009-09-17 |
| 57. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
56.04 |
1.0099 |
-0.0484 |
207 |
2 |
53.89 |
2009-09-18 |
| 58. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
55.73 |
0.9894 |
-0.0256 |
323 |
1 |
55.73 |
2009-05-14 |
| 59. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
55.44 |
0.8961 |
0.0549 |
189 |
2 |
50.00 |
2010-03-07 |
| 60. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
55.40 |
0.9675 |
-0.0045 |
383 |
1 |
55.40 |
2009-09-30 |
| 61. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
55.15 |
0.9905 |
-0.0331 |
377 |
1 |
55.15 |
2009-05-12 |
| 62. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
54.81 |
0.9965 |
-0.0579 |
168 |
1 |
54.81 |
2009-05-18 |
| 63. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
54.11 |
0.9342 |
0.0006 |
434 |
1 |
54.11 |
2009-05-12 |
| 64. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
53.87 |
1.0214 |
-0.0960 |
269 |
1 |
53.87 |
2009-05-12 |
| 65. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
53.70 |
0.9339 |
-0.0116 |
310 |
1 |
53.70 |
2011-05-17 |
| 66. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
53.48 |
1.0429 |
-0.1245 |
259 |
1 |
53.48 |
2009-09-17 |
| 67. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
53.29 |
0.9567 |
-0.0397 |
273 |
2 |
50.14 |
2009-10-02 |
| 68. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
53.25 |
0.9289 |
-0.0152 |
204 |
1 |
53.25 |
2009-09-17 |
| 69. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
53.25 |
1.0529 |
-0.1369 |
351 |
1 |
53.25 |
2009-09-30 |
| 70. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
52.85 |
1.0124 |
-0.1058 |
204 |
1 |
52.85 |
2011-08-27 |
| 71. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
52.57 |
0.9084 |
-0.0005 |
404 |
1 |
52.57 |
2011-06-13 |
| 72. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
52.55 |
0.9213 |
-0.0166 |
295 |
1 |
52.55 |
2010-03-07 |
| 73. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
52.37 |
1.0141 |
-0.0772 |
304 |
1 |
52.37 |
2010-03-11 |
| 74. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
52.36 |
0.9243 |
0.0161 |
448 |
1 |
52.36 |
2011-08-14 |
| 75. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
52.32 |
0.9309 |
-0.0330 |
284 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-05-02 |
| 76. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
52.07 |
1.0169 |
-0.0827 |
346 |
1 |
52.07 |
2011-02-05 |
| 77. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
51.19 |
1.0365 |
-0.1269 |
162 |
1 |
51.19 |
2011-08-14 |
| 78. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
50.80 |
0.8666 |
0.0100 |
150 |
1 |
50.80 |
2009-05-02 |
| 79. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
50.45 |
0.9710 |
-0.1102 |
173 |
1 |
50.45 |
2009-08-08 |
| 80. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.39 |
0.9164 |
-0.0450 |
305 |
1 |
50.39 |
2011-08-17 |
| 81. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
50.03 |
0.9429 |
-0.0815 |
287 |
1 |
50.03 |
2010-03-11 |
| 82. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
49.56 |
0.9805 |
-0.1241 |
292 |
1 |
49.56 |
2009-05-12 |
| 83. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
49.22 |
0.9127 |
-0.0699 |
252 |
1 |
49.22 |
2009-09-17 |
| 84. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
49.08 |
1.0025 |
-0.1597 |
256 |
1 |
49.08 |
2011-05-22 |
| 85. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
48.98 |
0.9540 |
-0.1145 |
285 |
1 |
48.98 |
2009-05-02 |
| 86. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
48.56 |
0.8341 |
0.0084 |
224 |
1 |
48.56 |
2011-08-17 |
| 87. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
45.98 |
0.9780 |
-0.1880 |
337 |
1 |
45.98 |
2009-09-18 |
| 88. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
45.44 |
0.9884 |
-0.2090 |
233 |
1 |
45.44 |
2009-11-11 |
| 89. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
45.40 |
0.8382 |
-0.0581 |
268 |
1 |
45.40 |
2011-02-05 |
| 90. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
45.08 |
0.8770 |
-0.1003 |
300 |
1 |
45.08 |
2010-03-07 |
| 91. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
44.20 |
0.9353 |
-0.1818 |
177 |
1 |
44.20 |
2011-08-17 |
| 92. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
44.11 |
0.8722 |
-0.1125 |
285 |
1 |
44.11 |
2009-05-14 |
| 93. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
43.88 |
1.0033 |
-0.2576 |
189 |
1 |
43.88 |
2009-05-02 |
| 94. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
40.79 |
0.9843 |
-0.2906 |
234 |
1 |
40.79 |
2009-09-17 |
| 95. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
34.40 |
0.8533 |
-0.2653 |
232 |
1 |
34.40 |
2009-05-02 |
| 96. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
23.26 |
0.9233 |
-0.5389 |
168 |
1 |
23.26 |
2009-05-02 |