Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
63.09 |
0.9285 |
0.3253 |
244 |
1 |
63.09 |
2012-10-02 |
2. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
61.95 |
1.0267 |
0.2090 |
261 |
2 |
59.80 |
2012-10-04 |
3. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
61.31 |
1.0601 |
0.1566 |
256 |
2 |
55.55 |
2012-10-03 |
4. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
60.34 |
1.0115 |
0.1837 |
189 |
1 |
60.34 |
2012-10-03 |
5. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
59.89 |
1.0063 |
0.1900 |
293 |
2 |
57.93 |
2012-10-04 |
6. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
58.75 |
0.9935 |
0.1771 |
217 |
1 |
58.75 |
2012-10-04 |
7. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
58.24 |
1.0230 |
0.1367 |
200 |
1 |
58.24 |
2012-10-03 |
8. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
56.63 |
0.9851 |
0.1459 |
237 |
1 |
56.63 |
2012-10-04 |
9. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
56.60 |
0.9561 |
0.1710 |
362 |
1 |
56.60 |
2012-10-04 |
10. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
56.58 |
0.9040 |
0.2211 |
188 |
1 |
56.58 |
2012-10-02 |
11. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
56.42 |
0.9713 |
0.1496 |
193 |
2 |
53.31 |
2012-10-03 |
12. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
56.03 |
0.9932 |
0.1286 |
281 |
1 |
56.03 |
2012-10-04 |
13. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
55.89 |
1.0736 |
0.0403 |
350 |
1 |
55.89 |
2012-10-02 |
14. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
55.88 |
0.9709 |
0.1391 |
264 |
1 |
55.88 |
2012-10-03 |
15. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
54.76 |
1.0628 |
0.0282 |
363 |
1 |
54.76 |
2012-10-04 |
16. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
54.49 |
1.0010 |
0.0862 |
213 |
1 |
54.49 |
2012-10-03 |
17. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
54.34 |
1.0112 |
0.0679 |
242 |
1 |
54.34 |
2012-10-03 |
18. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
54.31 |
1.0495 |
0.0299 |
323 |
1 |
54.31 |
2012-10-02 |
19. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
53.71 |
0.9357 |
0.1299 |
204 |
1 |
53.71 |
2012-10-03 |
20. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
52.91 |
1.0135 |
0.0416 |
358 |
1 |
52.91 |
2012-10-02 |
21. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
52.58 |
1.0686 |
-0.0195 |
354 |
1 |
52.58 |
2012-10-02 |
22. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
52.40 |
1.0125 |
0.0277 |
232 |
1 |
52.40 |
2012-10-04 |
23. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
52.36 |
0.9330 |
0.1194 |
341 |
3 |
49.14 |
2012-10-03 |
24. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
52.25 |
1.0042 |
0.0308 |
168 |
1 |
52.25 |
2012-10-03 |
25. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
52.09 |
0.9884 |
0.0498 |
267 |
1 |
52.09 |
2012-10-02 |
26. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
52.08 |
0.9931 |
0.0385 |
218 |
1 |
52.08 |
2012-10-04 |
27. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
51.93 |
1.0188 |
0.0229 |
316 |
1 |
51.93 |
2012-10-03 |
28. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
51.49 |
0.9377 |
0.0933 |
198 |
1 |
51.49 |
2012-10-04 |
29. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
51.11 |
0.9114 |
0.1122 |
399 |
1 |
51.11 |
2012-10-04 |
30. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
51.08 |
0.9338 |
0.0914 |
326 |
1 |
51.08 |
2012-10-03 |
31. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
51.05 |
1.0483 |
-0.0281 |
305 |
1 |
51.05 |
2012-10-03 |
32. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
51.05 |
0.9644 |
0.0534 |
398 |
1 |
51.05 |
2012-10-02 |
33. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
49.84 |
0.9278 |
0.0639 |
253 |
1 |
49.84 |
2012-10-03 |
34. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
49.77 |
0.9594 |
0.0278 |
258 |
1 |
49.77 |
2012-10-03 |
35. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
49.75 |
1.0800 |
-0.0944 |
213 |
1 |
49.75 |
2012-10-02 |
36. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
49.51 |
0.8721 |
0.1179 |
231 |
1 |
49.51 |
2012-10-03 |
37. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
49.46 |
1.0557 |
-0.0716 |
289 |
1 |
49.46 |
2012-10-03 |
38. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
49.41 |
1.0051 |
-0.0288 |
162 |
1 |
49.41 |
2012-10-02 |
39. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
49.32 |
0.8966 |
0.0825 |
366 |
2 |
48.28 |
2012-10-03 |
40. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
49.26 |
1.0845 |
-0.1068 |
212 |
1 |
49.26 |
2012-10-02 |
41. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
49.16 |
0.9844 |
0.0045 |
351 |
1 |
49.16 |
2012-10-02 |
42. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
48.93 |
0.8794 |
0.0997 |
427 |
1 |
48.93 |
2012-10-02 |
43. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
48.80 |
0.9203 |
0.0519 |
350 |
1 |
48.80 |
2012-10-02 |
44. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
48.67 |
0.8847 |
0.0799 |
282 |
1 |
48.67 |
2012-10-04 |
45. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
48.43 |
0.8936 |
0.0672 |
135 |
1 |
48.43 |
2012-10-03 |
46. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
48.37 |
0.9660 |
0.0024 |
258 |
1 |
48.37 |
2012-10-03 |
47. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
48.00 |
0.8845 |
0.0702 |
239 |
1 |
48.00 |
2012-10-02 |
48. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
47.92 |
1.0130 |
-0.0610 |
288 |
1 |
47.92 |
2012-10-02 |
49. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
47.35 |
0.8873 |
0.0531 |
241 |
1 |
47.35 |
2012-10-04 |
50. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
47.07 |
0.9854 |
-0.0489 |
174 |
1 |
47.07 |
2012-10-02 |
51. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
46.96 |
0.9827 |
-0.0489 |
314 |
1 |
46.96 |
2012-10-02 |
52. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
46.55 |
0.9925 |
-0.0725 |
155 |
1 |
46.55 |
2012-10-02 |
53. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
46.48 |
0.9194 |
0.0146 |
360 |
1 |
46.48 |
2012-10-02 |
54. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
46.27 |
1.1062 |
-0.1853 |
200 |
1 |
46.27 |
2012-10-03 |
55. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
46.19 |
1.0836 |
-0.1630 |
206 |
1 |
46.19 |
2012-10-06 |
56. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
46.14 |
0.9869 |
-0.0740 |
193 |
1 |
46.14 |
2012-10-02 |
57. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
46.03 |
0.9284 |
-0.0107 |
346 |
1 |
46.03 |
2012-10-12 |
58. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
45.97 |
1.0640 |
-0.1454 |
210 |
1 |
45.97 |
2012-10-03 |
59. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
45.53 |
0.9468 |
-0.0428 |
318 |
2 |
42.67 |
2012-10-06 |
60. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
44.98 |
0.9023 |
-0.0104 |
268 |
1 |
44.98 |
2012-10-02 |
61. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
44.88 |
1.0315 |
-0.1411 |
193 |
1 |
44.88 |
2012-10-02 |
62. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
44.82 |
0.8981 |
0.0011 |
255 |
1 |
44.82 |
2012-10-02 |
63. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
44.80 |
0.8666 |
0.0208 |
206 |
1 |
44.80 |
2012-10-04 |
64. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
44.57 |
0.9603 |
-0.0698 |
430 |
1 |
44.57 |
2012-10-12 |
65. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
42.96 |
0.8328 |
0.0241 |
343 |
1 |
42.96 |
2012-10-04 |
66. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
42.59 |
0.8992 |
-0.0418 |
320 |
1 |
42.59 |
2012-10-03 |
67. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
42.33 |
0.9839 |
-0.1450 |
196 |
1 |
42.33 |
2012-10-03 |
68. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
41.80 |
0.9011 |
-0.0679 |
322 |
1 |
41.80 |
2012-10-02 |
69. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
41.70 |
0.9425 |
-0.1140 |
248 |
1 |
41.70 |
2012-10-03 |
70. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
40.36 |
1.0178 |
-0.2190 |
207 |
1 |
40.36 |
2012-10-12 |
71. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
40.16 |
1.0600 |
-0.2628 |
351 |
1 |
40.16 |
2012-10-12 |
72. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
37.85 |
0.9927 |
-0.2414 |
276 |
1 |
37.85 |
2012-10-12 |
73. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
37.20 |
0.9113 |
-0.1671 |
318 |
1 |
37.20 |
2012-10-02 |