| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
46.29 |
1.0883 |
0.1731 |
303 |
2 |
40.80 |
2012-11-25 |
| 2. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
46.21 |
0.9430 |
0.2813 |
227 |
2 |
38.25 |
2012-11-25 |
| 3. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
44.51 |
0.9781 |
0.2063 |
193 |
1 |
44.51 |
2012-11-24 |
| 4. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
43.98 |
0.9572 |
0.2090 |
201 |
1 |
43.98 |
2012-11-25 |
| 5. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
43.73 |
0.9016 |
0.2667 |
192 |
1 |
43.73 |
2012-11-25 |
| 6. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
43.63 |
0.9946 |
0.1632 |
246 |
1 |
43.63 |
2012-11-25 |
| 7. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
43.32 |
0.8725 |
0.2792 |
163 |
1 |
43.32 |
2012-11-24 |
| 8. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
43.19 |
0.9532 |
0.1916 |
258 |
2 |
39.92 |
2012-11-25 |
| 9. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
42.87 |
1.0521 |
0.0807 |
171 |
1 |
42.87 |
2012-11-24 |
| 10. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
42.37 |
0.9785 |
0.1452 |
154 |
2 |
40.71 |
2012-11-25 |
| 11. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
42.31 |
1.0314 |
0.0881 |
172 |
1 |
42.31 |
2012-11-24 |
| 12. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
42.21 |
0.8275 |
0.2925 |
142 |
1 |
42.21 |
2012-11-24 |
| 13. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
42.19 |
1.0799 |
0.0357 |
243 |
1 |
42.19 |
2012-11-24 |
| 14. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
41.97 |
0.9368 |
0.1771 |
173 |
1 |
41.97 |
2012-11-25 |
| 15. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
41.90 |
1.0270 |
0.1205 |
255 |
3 |
37.42 |
2012-11-24 |
| 16. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
41.81 |
0.9866 |
0.1188 |
218 |
1 |
41.81 |
2012-11-24 |
| 17. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
41.79 |
1.0379 |
0.1056 |
245 |
1 |
41.79 |
2012-11-28 |
| 18. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
41.76 |
0.9938 |
0.1148 |
339 |
1 |
41.76 |
2012-11-25 |
| 19. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
41.70 |
1.0034 |
0.1013 |
302 |
1 |
41.70 |
2012-11-25 |
| 20. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
41.33 |
0.9857 |
0.1095 |
293 |
1 |
41.33 |
2012-11-24 |
| 21. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
40.79 |
0.8785 |
0.1991 |
172 |
1 |
40.79 |
2012-11-25 |
| 22. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
40.70 |
0.9911 |
0.0849 |
212 |
1 |
40.70 |
2012-11-25 |
| 23. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
40.68 |
1.0797 |
-0.0065 |
210 |
2 |
38.66 |
2012-11-24 |
| 24. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
40.68 |
0.9068 |
0.1703 |
225 |
2 |
39.15 |
2012-11-25 |
| 25. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
40.51 |
1.1215 |
-0.0233 |
200 |
1 |
40.51 |
2012-11-25 |
| 26. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
40.47 |
1.0459 |
0.0585 |
200 |
1 |
40.47 |
2012-11-24 |
| 27. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
40.31 |
1.0943 |
0.0072 |
206 |
1 |
40.31 |
2012-11-24 |
| 28. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
40.30 |
1.1296 |
-0.0319 |
252 |
1 |
40.30 |
2012-11-25 |
| 29. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
40.28 |
0.8841 |
0.1906 |
194 |
3 |
38.64 |
2012-12-12 |
| 30. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
40.25 |
0.9684 |
0.1015 |
388 |
2 |
38.22 |
2012-11-25 |
| 31. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.18 |
1.0138 |
0.0512 |
231 |
1 |
40.18 |
2012-11-24 |
| 32. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
40.12 |
0.8614 |
0.2001 |
172 |
1 |
40.12 |
2012-11-25 |
| 33. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
40.04 |
0.9325 |
0.1224 |
156 |
1 |
40.04 |
2012-11-25 |
| 34. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
39.81 |
1.0214 |
0.0765 |
281 |
1 |
39.81 |
2012-11-24 |
| 35. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
39.66 |
0.9697 |
0.0863 |
266 |
1 |
39.66 |
2012-11-25 |
| 36. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
39.63 |
1.0090 |
0.0854 |
282 |
2 |
39.31 |
2012-11-25 |
| 37. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
39.34 |
0.9396 |
0.1005 |
119 |
1 |
39.34 |
2012-11-25 |
| 38. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
39.22 |
0.8142 |
0.2198 |
187 |
1 |
39.22 |
2012-11-24 |
| 39. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
38.94 |
0.9668 |
0.1079 |
383 |
1 |
38.94 |
2012-11-25 |
| 40. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
38.79 |
0.8890 |
0.1355 |
199 |
1 |
38.79 |
2012-11-24 |
| 41. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
38.65 |
0.9578 |
0.0660 |
281 |
1 |
38.65 |
2012-11-28 |
| 42. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
38.58 |
0.8653 |
0.1684 |
255 |
1 |
38.58 |
2012-11-25 |
| 43. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
38.54 |
0.9688 |
0.0524 |
217 |
1 |
38.54 |
2012-11-25 |
| 44. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
38.53 |
0.9353 |
0.0817 |
177 |
1 |
38.53 |
2012-11-25 |
| 45. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
38.51 |
1.0197 |
-0.0020 |
226 |
1 |
38.51 |
2012-11-25 |
| 46. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
38.49 |
0.9286 |
0.0904 |
194 |
1 |
38.49 |
2012-11-25 |
| 47. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
38.48 |
0.9844 |
0.0463 |
229 |
1 |
38.48 |
2012-11-25 |
| 48. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
38.46 |
1.0375 |
0.0277 |
200 |
2 |
37.32 |
2012-11-24 |
| 49. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
38.40 |
0.9411 |
0.0773 |
318 |
1 |
38.40 |
2012-11-25 |
| 50. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
38.35 |
0.8956 |
0.1233 |
217 |
2 |
36.16 |
2012-11-25 |
| 51. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
38.25 |
0.9786 |
0.0345 |
235 |
1 |
38.25 |
2012-11-24 |
| 52. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
38.25 |
0.9904 |
0.0638 |
203 |
1 |
38.25 |
2012-11-24 |
| 53. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
38.21 |
0.9131 |
0.0948 |
144 |
1 |
38.21 |
2012-11-24 |
| 54. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
38.18 |
1.0352 |
-0.0204 |
341 |
1 |
38.18 |
2012-11-25 |
| 55. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
38.04 |
1.0023 |
0.0037 |
211 |
1 |
38.04 |
2012-11-24 |
| 56. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
38.01 |
0.9916 |
0.0581 |
282 |
2 |
37.74 |
2012-11-25 |
| 57. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
37.96 |
0.8773 |
0.1320 |
205 |
1 |
37.96 |
2012-11-25 |
| 58. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
37.93 |
0.8788 |
0.1227 |
134 |
1 |
37.93 |
2012-11-25 |
| 59. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
37.74 |
1.1114 |
-0.1142 |
247 |
1 |
37.74 |
2012-11-24 |
| 60. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
37.63 |
0.9461 |
0.0506 |
276 |
1 |
37.63 |
2012-11-24 |
| 61. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
37.62 |
0.9986 |
-0.0068 |
162 |
1 |
37.62 |
2012-11-24 |
| 62. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
37.53 |
0.9430 |
0.0440 |
211 |
1 |
37.53 |
2012-11-25 |
| 63. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
37.51 |
0.9758 |
0.0186 |
314 |
2 |
34.08 |
2012-11-25 |
| 64. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
37.49 |
1.0165 |
-0.0194 |
392 |
1 |
37.49 |
2012-11-25 |
| 65. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
37.48 |
0.9161 |
0.0748 |
200 |
2 |
36.65 |
2012-11-25 |
| 66. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
37.36 |
0.9567 |
0.0752 |
184 |
1 |
37.36 |
2012-11-24 |
| 67. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
37.30 |
0.9430 |
0.0480 |
297 |
1 |
37.30 |
2012-11-25 |
| 68. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
37.28 |
1.0095 |
-0.0231 |
316 |
2 |
37.28 |
2012-11-24 |
| 69. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
37.26 |
1.0025 |
-0.0146 |
336 |
1 |
37.26 |
2012-11-25 |
| 70. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
37.17 |
0.8951 |
0.0917 |
193 |
1 |
37.17 |
2012-11-28 |
| 71. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
36.87 |
0.9795 |
-0.0030 |
308 |
1 |
36.87 |
2012-11-24 |
| 72. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
36.86 |
0.8910 |
0.0870 |
150 |
1 |
36.86 |
2012-11-25 |
| 73. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
36.82 |
0.9281 |
0.0522 |
273 |
1 |
36.82 |
2012-11-25 |
| 74. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
36.79 |
0.9168 |
0.0589 |
240 |
2 |
34.74 |
2012-11-25 |
| 75. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
36.61 |
0.9485 |
0.0235 |
291 |
1 |
36.61 |
2012-11-25 |
| 76. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
36.48 |
1.0863 |
-0.0854 |
210 |
1 |
36.48 |
2012-11-25 |
| 77. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
36.25 |
1.0203 |
-0.0570 |
261 |
1 |
36.25 |
2012-11-25 |
| 78. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
36.23 |
0.9871 |
-0.0055 |
227 |
1 |
36.23 |
2012-11-25 |
| 79. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
36.23 |
1.0151 |
-0.0642 |
152 |
1 |
36.23 |
2012-11-28 |
| 80. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
36.22 |
0.9216 |
0.0764 |
255 |
1 |
36.22 |
2012-11-25 |
| 81. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
36.16 |
0.9251 |
0.0374 |
177 |
1 |
36.16 |
2012-11-24 |
| 82. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
36.03 |
0.8956 |
0.0630 |
322 |
1 |
36.03 |
2012-11-25 |
| 83. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
35.95 |
0.9631 |
0.0401 |
345 |
2 |
34.54 |
2012-11-24 |
| 84. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
35.73 |
0.9504 |
-0.0099 |
263 |
1 |
35.73 |
2012-11-24 |
| 85. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
35.68 |
0.8792 |
0.0747 |
296 |
1 |
35.68 |
2012-11-25 |
| 86. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
35.63 |
1.0403 |
-0.0820 |
193 |
1 |
35.63 |
2012-11-24 |
| 87. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
35.28 |
0.8202 |
0.1110 |
178 |
1 |
35.28 |
2012-11-24 |
| 88. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
35.14 |
1.0213 |
-0.0944 |
240 |
1 |
35.14 |
2012-11-24 |
| 89. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
35.09 |
0.8915 |
0.0362 |
188 |
1 |
35.09 |
2012-11-25 |
| 90. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
35.06 |
1.0117 |
-0.0389 |
297 |
2 |
34.72 |
2012-11-25 |
| 91. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
34.94 |
0.8971 |
0.0329 |
266 |
2 |
33.58 |
2012-11-25 |
| 92. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
34.84 |
1.0679 |
-0.1255 |
177 |
1 |
34.84 |
2012-11-24 |
| 93. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
34.82 |
1.0444 |
-0.1295 |
197 |
2 |
33.81 |
2012-11-24 |
| 94. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
34.71 |
0.9207 |
0.0005 |
174 |
1 |
34.71 |
2012-11-24 |
| 95. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
34.65 |
0.8077 |
0.1074 |
167 |
1 |
34.65 |
2012-11-24 |
| 96. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
34.57 |
0.9786 |
-0.0690 |
193 |
1 |
34.57 |
2012-11-24 |
| 97. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
34.41 |
0.9670 |
-0.0144 |
307 |
1 |
34.41 |
2012-11-24 |
| 98. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
34.31 |
0.8231 |
0.0872 |
180 |
1 |
34.31 |
2012-11-24 |
| 99. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
34.04 |
0.9309 |
-0.0322 |
284 |
1 |
34.04 |
2012-11-24 |
| 100. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
33.96 |
1.0487 |
-0.1553 |
231 |
1 |
33.96 |
2012-11-24 |
| 101. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
33.88 |
0.9899 |
-0.0983 |
163 |
1 |
33.88 |
2012-11-25 |
| 102. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
33.83 |
0.8793 |
0.0173 |
157 |
1 |
33.83 |
2012-11-25 |
| 103. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
33.80 |
0.9897 |
-0.0978 |
274 |
1 |
33.80 |
2012-11-24 |
| 104. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
33.68 |
0.9351 |
-0.0497 |
190 |
2 |
31.80 |
2012-11-25 |
| 105. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
33.42 |
0.9965 |
-0.1173 |
168 |
1 |
33.42 |
2012-11-24 |
| 106. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
33.21 |
1.0038 |
-0.0952 |
237 |
1 |
33.21 |
2012-11-24 |
| 107. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
33.16 |
1.0417 |
-0.1672 |
253 |
1 |
33.16 |
2012-11-24 |
| 108. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
33.09 |
0.9084 |
-0.0292 |
404 |
1 |
33.09 |
2012-11-25 |
| 109. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
32.99 |
0.8022 |
0.0733 |
215 |
1 |
32.99 |
2012-11-24 |
| 110. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
32.90 |
0.7916 |
0.0861 |
184 |
1 |
32.90 |
2012-11-24 |
| 111. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
32.68 |
0.9068 |
-0.0397 |
269 |
1 |
32.68 |
2012-11-24 |
| 112. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
32.58 |
1.0485 |
-0.1524 |
153 |
1 |
32.58 |
2012-11-24 |
| 113. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
32.46 |
0.9127 |
-0.0568 |
252 |
1 |
32.46 |
2012-11-24 |
| 114. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
32.46 |
0.9072 |
-0.0507 |
237 |
1 |
32.46 |
2012-11-24 |
| 115. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
32.43 |
0.9851 |
-0.1255 |
317 |
1 |
32.43 |
2012-11-24 |
| 116. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
31.66 |
0.9863 |
-0.1452 |
339 |
1 |
31.66 |
2012-11-24 |
| 117. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
31.36 |
0.8826 |
-0.0525 |
296 |
1 |
31.36 |
2012-11-24 |
| 118. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
30.82 |
0.8670 |
-0.0474 |
318 |
1 |
30.82 |
2012-11-24 |
| 119. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
30.02 |
1.0053 |
-0.2146 |
232 |
1 |
30.02 |
2012-11-24 |
| 120. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
30.00 |
0.8912 |
-0.0968 |
186 |
2 |
29.95 |
2012-11-25 |
| 121. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
29.85 |
0.9567 |
-0.1687 |
273 |
1 |
29.85 |
2012-11-24 |
| 122. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
29.25 |
0.8520 |
-0.0790 |
202 |
1 |
29.25 |
2012-11-24 |
| 123. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
28.57 |
0.9514 |
-0.1973 |
237 |
1 |
28.57 |
2012-11-24 |
| 124. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
27.84 |
0.9740 |
-0.2439 |
209 |
1 |
27.84 |
2012-11-24 |
| 125. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
26.67 |
0.8105 |
-0.1120 |
204 |
1 |
26.67 |
2012-11-24 |