| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
69.31 |
1.0796 |
0.5645 |
129 |
1 |
69.31 |
2009-04-27 |
| 2. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
50.34 |
1.0941 |
0.1311 |
256 |
1 |
50.34 |
2009-09-26 |
| 3. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
50.20 |
1.0788 |
0.1063 |
171 |
1 |
50.20 |
2009-09-26 |
| 4. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
48.59 |
1.0515 |
0.0987 |
250 |
1 |
48.59 |
2009-04-28 |
| 5. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
48.42 |
1.0417 |
0.1038 |
253 |
1 |
48.42 |
2009-04-27 |
| 6. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
48.11 |
1.0124 |
0.1258 |
204 |
1 |
48.11 |
2009-05-04 |
| 7. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
47.76 |
1.0252 |
0.1005 |
176 |
1 |
47.76 |
2009-04-28 |
| 8. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
46.87 |
0.9724 |
0.1421 |
237 |
2 |
45.24 |
2009-05-05 |
| 9. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
46.67 |
0.9221 |
0.1825 |
244 |
1 |
46.67 |
2009-05-05 |
| 10. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
46.54 |
1.0711 |
0.0267 |
213 |
2 |
42.17 |
2009-05-05 |
| 11. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
46.34 |
1.0797 |
0.0128 |
210 |
1 |
46.34 |
2009-05-04 |
| 12. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
46.25 |
0.9325 |
0.1568 |
156 |
1 |
46.25 |
2009-05-06 |
| 13. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
46.20 |
1.0214 |
0.0680 |
166 |
3 |
44.37 |
2009-05-04 |
| 14. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
45.32 |
1.0567 |
0.0176 |
303 |
1 |
45.32 |
2009-05-05 |
| 15. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
45.32 |
1.0534 |
0.0225 |
357 |
1 |
45.32 |
2009-04-29 |
| 16. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
44.94 |
1.0029 |
0.0553 |
209 |
1 |
44.94 |
2009-05-05 |
| 17. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
44.83 |
1.0292 |
0.0314 |
262 |
1 |
44.83 |
2009-05-05 |
| 18. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
44.76 |
1.0099 |
0.0475 |
207 |
1 |
44.76 |
2009-04-27 |
| 19. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
44.07 |
1.0296 |
0.0205 |
437 |
2 |
42.39 |
2009-05-05 |
| 20. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
43.69 |
0.9309 |
0.1018 |
284 |
1 |
43.69 |
2009-04-29 |
| 21. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
43.61 |
0.9226 |
0.1164 |
348 |
1 |
43.61 |
2009-04-28 |
| 22. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
43.52 |
1.0426 |
-0.0128 |
323 |
1 |
43.52 |
2009-04-29 |
| 23. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
43.52 |
1.0441 |
-0.0121 |
252 |
1 |
43.52 |
2009-05-04 |
| 24. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
43.21 |
0.9811 |
0.0447 |
272 |
1 |
43.21 |
2009-04-29 |
| 25. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
43.10 |
1.0125 |
0.0057 |
224 |
1 |
43.10 |
2009-05-06 |
| 26. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
42.67 |
0.9653 |
0.0532 |
394 |
2 |
39.78 |
2009-05-04 |
| 27. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
42.65 |
0.9841 |
0.0294 |
334 |
1 |
42.65 |
2009-05-05 |
| 28. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
42.50 |
1.1114 |
-0.1080 |
247 |
1 |
42.50 |
2009-04-29 |
| 29. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
42.44 |
0.9941 |
0.0081 |
217 |
1 |
42.44 |
2009-05-06 |
| 30. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
42.39 |
1.0619 |
-0.0549 |
354 |
1 |
42.39 |
2009-04-28 |
| 31. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
42.36 |
1.0138 |
-0.0115 |
231 |
1 |
42.36 |
2009-04-28 |
| 32. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
42.30 |
1.0023 |
-0.0029 |
211 |
1 |
42.30 |
2009-05-06 |
| 33. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
42.28 |
0.9863 |
0.0189 |
339 |
1 |
42.28 |
2009-04-27 |
| 34. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
42.19 |
0.9731 |
0.0130 |
129 |
1 |
42.19 |
2009-04-28 |
| 35. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
41.74 |
0.9527 |
0.0351 |
251 |
1 |
41.74 |
2009-05-04 |
| 36. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
41.73 |
0.9593 |
0.0330 |
398 |
1 |
41.73 |
2009-04-27 |
| 37. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
41.66 |
1.0419 |
-0.0560 |
261 |
1 |
41.66 |
2009-05-07 |
| 38. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
41.32 |
0.9635 |
0.0197 |
389 |
1 |
41.32 |
2009-05-04 |
| 39. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
41.17 |
0.8442 |
0.1340 |
265 |
1 |
41.17 |
2009-05-05 |
| 40. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
40.97 |
1.0696 |
-0.1037 |
226 |
1 |
40.97 |
2009-05-05 |
| 41. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
40.66 |
0.9234 |
0.0440 |
346 |
1 |
40.66 |
2009-05-04 |
| 42. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
40.20 |
1.0496 |
-0.0994 |
314 |
1 |
40.20 |
2009-05-07 |
| 43. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
40.18 |
0.9897 |
-0.0415 |
274 |
1 |
40.18 |
2009-05-04 |
| 44. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.14 |
0.9072 |
0.0406 |
237 |
2 |
38.44 |
2009-05-05 |
| 45. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
40.08 |
1.0993 |
-0.1533 |
265 |
1 |
40.08 |
2009-05-04 |
| 46. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
40.04 |
0.9699 |
-0.0234 |
269 |
1 |
40.04 |
2009-04-27 |
| 47. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
39.96 |
0.9514 |
-0.0059 |
237 |
1 |
39.96 |
2009-05-07 |
| 48. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
39.94 |
0.9260 |
0.0291 |
243 |
1 |
39.94 |
2009-05-06 |
| 49. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
39.90 |
0.8653 |
0.0897 |
255 |
1 |
39.90 |
2009-05-05 |
| 50. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
39.53 |
1.0109 |
-0.0752 |
276 |
1 |
39.53 |
2009-05-04 |
| 51. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
39.19 |
1.0528 |
-0.1311 |
201 |
1 |
39.19 |
2009-05-07 |
| 52. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
39.05 |
0.9646 |
-0.0421 |
264 |
2 |
38.30 |
2009-05-05 |
| 53. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
38.79 |
0.9756 |
-0.0598 |
229 |
1 |
38.79 |
2009-05-05 |
| 54. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
38.79 |
1.0201 |
-0.1026 |
303 |
1 |
38.79 |
2009-04-28 |
| 55. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
38.69 |
0.9266 |
-0.0101 |
278 |
1 |
38.69 |
2009-05-07 |
| 56. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
38.54 |
1.0168 |
-0.1043 |
271 |
1 |
38.54 |
2009-04-29 |
| 57. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
38.51 |
1.0385 |
-0.1299 |
230 |
1 |
38.51 |
2009-05-04 |
| 58. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
38.43 |
0.9734 |
-0.0652 |
289 |
1 |
38.43 |
2009-05-04 |
| 59. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
37.74 |
0.9672 |
-0.0687 |
396 |
1 |
37.74 |
2009-05-05 |
| 60. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
37.44 |
0.8899 |
0.0060 |
293 |
1 |
37.44 |
2009-05-06 |
| 61. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
37.38 |
0.9049 |
-0.0162 |
351 |
1 |
37.38 |
2009-04-27 |
| 62. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
37.17 |
0.9212 |
-0.0396 |
323 |
1 |
37.17 |
2009-04-28 |
| 63. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
36.61 |
0.9202 |
-0.0560 |
254 |
1 |
36.61 |
2009-04-28 |
| 64. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
36.60 |
0.8996 |
-0.0405 |
192 |
1 |
36.60 |
2009-05-04 |
| 65. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
36.60 |
0.8916 |
-0.0267 |
216 |
1 |
36.60 |
2009-05-05 |
| 66. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
36.59 |
0.9786 |
-0.1194 |
193 |
1 |
36.59 |
2009-05-05 |
| 67. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
36.15 |
0.9893 |
-0.1354 |
323 |
1 |
36.15 |
2009-05-04 |
| 68. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
36.12 |
0.9088 |
-0.0505 |
348 |
1 |
36.12 |
2009-05-04 |
| 69. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
35.69 |
0.8602 |
-0.0196 |
206 |
2 |
31.49 |
2009-05-07 |
| 70. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
35.49 |
0.9164 |
-0.0736 |
305 |
1 |
35.49 |
2009-05-05 |
| 71. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
34.15 |
0.8553 |
-0.0545 |
174 |
1 |
34.15 |
2009-04-28 |
| 72. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
33.93 |
1.0483 |
-0.2507 |
227 |
1 |
33.93 |
2009-05-06 |
| 73. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
33.34 |
0.9376 |
-0.1457 |
367 |
1 |
33.34 |
2009-04-27 |
| 74. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
32.95 |
0.8628 |
-0.0891 |
196 |
1 |
32.95 |
2009-05-05 |