| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
50.45 |
1.0711 |
0.3130 |
213 |
1 |
50.45 |
2012-05-11 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
50.24 |
1.0565 |
0.3239 |
247 |
2 |
47.71 |
2012-05-11 |
| 3. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
45.11 |
0.9598 |
0.2878 |
220 |
1 |
45.11 |
2012-05-10 |
| 4. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
44.07 |
0.9513 |
0.2645 |
354 |
1 |
44.07 |
2012-06-16 |
| 5. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
42.66 |
1.0485 |
0.1584 |
153 |
1 |
42.66 |
2011-08-05 |
| 6. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
41.98 |
0.9633 |
0.1924 |
304 |
1 |
41.98 |
2012-05-11 |
| 7. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
41.83 |
0.8810 |
0.2691 |
282 |
1 |
41.83 |
2012-05-11 |
| 8. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
41.59 |
1.0270 |
0.1520 |
255 |
2 |
36.95 |
2012-05-10 |
| 9. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
41.46 |
1.0240 |
0.1123 |
256 |
1 |
41.46 |
2011-08-05 |
| 10. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
40.65 |
1.0529 |
0.0639 |
351 |
1 |
40.65 |
2011-08-05 |
| 11. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
40.09 |
0.8619 |
0.2381 |
119 |
1 |
40.09 |
2011-08-05 |
| 12. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
39.43 |
0.9863 |
0.1010 |
339 |
1 |
39.43 |
2012-05-11 |
| 13. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
39.23 |
1.0172 |
0.0954 |
341 |
1 |
39.23 |
2012-06-16 |
| 14. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
39.06 |
1.0033 |
0.0625 |
189 |
1 |
39.06 |
2011-08-05 |
| 15. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
38.75 |
0.8845 |
0.1795 |
273 |
1 |
38.75 |
2012-05-10 |
| 16. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
38.59 |
1.0261 |
0.0313 |
273 |
1 |
38.59 |
2011-08-05 |
| 17. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
38.55 |
0.8915 |
0.1653 |
188 |
1 |
38.55 |
2011-08-05 |
| 18. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
38.35 |
1.0034 |
0.0484 |
302 |
1 |
38.35 |
2011-08-05 |
| 19. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
37.84 |
0.9429 |
0.0974 |
287 |
1 |
37.84 |
2012-05-10 |
| 20. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
37.50 |
0.9068 |
0.1204 |
225 |
1 |
37.50 |
2011-08-05 |
| 21. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
36.68 |
0.9257 |
0.0860 |
317 |
1 |
36.68 |
2011-08-05 |
| 22. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
36.66 |
1.0487 |
-0.0478 |
231 |
1 |
36.66 |
2011-08-05 |
| 23. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
36.57 |
0.9461 |
0.0568 |
276 |
1 |
36.57 |
2012-05-10 |
| 24. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
36.24 |
0.9786 |
0.0106 |
193 |
1 |
36.24 |
2011-08-05 |
| 25. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
35.80 |
0.9500 |
0.0341 |
362 |
1 |
35.80 |
2011-08-05 |
| 26. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
35.51 |
1.0483 |
-0.0776 |
227 |
1 |
35.51 |
2011-08-05 |
| 27. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
35.11 |
1.0004 |
-0.0438 |
212 |
1 |
35.11 |
2011-08-05 |
| 28. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
34.87 |
0.8295 |
0.1285 |
209 |
1 |
34.87 |
2011-08-05 |
| 29. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
33.77 |
0.9162 |
0.0092 |
165 |
1 |
33.77 |
2010-09-27 |
| 30. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
33.68 |
0.9884 |
-0.0614 |
262 |
1 |
33.68 |
2012-05-11 |
| 31. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
33.11 |
0.7805 |
0.1221 |
154 |
1 |
33.11 |
2012-05-10 |
| 32. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
33.10 |
0.8971 |
0.0149 |
266 |
1 |
33.10 |
2010-10-01 |
| 33. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
33.01 |
1.0292 |
-0.1262 |
262 |
1 |
33.01 |
2012-05-11 |
| 34. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
32.91 |
0.9711 |
-0.0709 |
176 |
1 |
32.91 |
2011-08-05 |
| 35. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
32.48 |
0.9266 |
-0.0370 |
267 |
1 |
32.48 |
2011-08-05 |
| 36. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
32.16 |
0.8791 |
0.0008 |
190 |
1 |
32.16 |
2011-08-05 |
| 37. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
31.51 |
0.9485 |
-0.0838 |
236 |
1 |
31.51 |
2011-08-05 |
| 38. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
31.40 |
0.8553 |
-0.0003 |
174 |
1 |
31.40 |
2012-05-10 |
| 39. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
30.64 |
1.0574 |
-0.1906 |
205 |
1 |
30.64 |
2010-09-27 |
| 40. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
30.25 |
0.9567 |
-0.0865 |
184 |
1 |
30.25 |
2011-08-05 |
| 41. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
29.86 |
0.7708 |
0.0514 |
207 |
1 |
29.86 |
2010-10-01 |
| 42. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
27.30 |
0.9986 |
-0.2581 |
162 |
1 |
27.30 |
2010-09-27 |
| 43. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
27.27 |
0.8178 |
-0.0730 |
159 |
1 |
27.27 |
2010-11-05 |
| 44. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
27.21 |
0.8725 |
-0.1271 |
163 |
1 |
27.21 |
2011-08-05 |
| 45. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
26.87 |
0.9063 |
-0.1646 |
239 |
1 |
26.87 |
2010-10-01 |
| 46. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
25.83 |
0.9514 |
-0.2462 |
237 |
1 |
25.83 |
2010-10-01 |
| 47. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
23.46 |
0.8105 |
-0.1761 |
204 |
1 |
23.46 |
2010-10-01 |