| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
53.74 |
1.0074 |
0.2629 |
242 |
1 |
53.74 |
2009-09-26 |
| 2. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
52.30 |
0.8500 |
0.3887 |
145 |
1 |
52.30 |
2009-09-25 |
| 3. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
52.25 |
1.0523 |
0.1763 |
256 |
1 |
52.25 |
2009-09-28 |
| 4. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
51.70 |
0.9633 |
0.2586 |
304 |
3 |
49.42 |
2009-09-28 |
| 5. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
50.34 |
0.9865 |
0.2019 |
276 |
2 |
43.36 |
2009-09-23 |
| 6. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
50.11 |
1.1016 |
0.0803 |
233 |
2 |
46.68 |
2009-09-25 |
| 7. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
48.36 |
1.0441 |
0.0975 |
252 |
1 |
48.36 |
2009-09-23 |
| 8. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
48.30 |
0.9893 |
0.1495 |
323 |
1 |
48.30 |
2009-09-21 |
| 9. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
47.96 |
1.0444 |
0.0796 |
197 |
2 |
41.97 |
2009-09-26 |
| 10. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
47.45 |
1.0399 |
0.0837 |
294 |
1 |
47.45 |
2009-09-24 |
| 11. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
47.43 |
1.0368 |
0.0820 |
276 |
1 |
47.43 |
2009-09-25 |
| 12. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
47.08 |
0.9943 |
0.1185 |
373 |
1 |
47.08 |
2009-09-24 |
| 13. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
46.96 |
1.0426 |
0.0634 |
323 |
1 |
46.96 |
2009-09-23 |
| 14. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
46.94 |
0.9711 |
0.1340 |
176 |
1 |
46.94 |
2009-09-25 |
| 15. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
46.89 |
1.0714 |
0.0248 |
129 |
1 |
46.89 |
2009-09-24 |
| 16. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
46.64 |
1.0013 |
0.0969 |
273 |
2 |
45.77 |
2009-09-23 |
| 17. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
46.10 |
1.1114 |
-0.0279 |
247 |
1 |
46.10 |
2009-09-26 |
| 18. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
46.08 |
0.9263 |
0.1630 |
188 |
1 |
46.08 |
2009-09-25 |
| 19. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
45.90 |
0.9649 |
0.1155 |
193 |
1 |
45.90 |
2009-09-23 |
| 20. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
45.57 |
1.0389 |
0.0371 |
340 |
1 |
45.57 |
2009-09-28 |
| 21. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
45.34 |
0.7259 |
0.3481 |
186 |
1 |
45.34 |
2009-09-22 |
| 22. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
45.33 |
1.0154 |
0.1023 |
351 |
1 |
45.33 |
2009-09-25 |
| 23. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
45.32 |
0.8899 |
0.1888 |
293 |
2 |
40.89 |
2009-09-22 |
| 24. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
45.22 |
0.8821 |
0.1826 |
176 |
2 |
41.17 |
2009-09-26 |
| 25. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
45.21 |
1.0799 |
-0.0186 |
243 |
1 |
45.21 |
2009-09-23 |
| 26. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
45.10 |
0.9699 |
0.0919 |
269 |
1 |
45.10 |
2009-09-24 |
| 27. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
44.92 |
1.0463 |
0.0072 |
182 |
2 |
41.01 |
2009-09-24 |
| 28. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
44.80 |
1.0462 |
0.0029 |
184 |
1 |
44.80 |
2009-09-21 |
| 29. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
44.59 |
1.0063 |
0.0443 |
371 |
1 |
44.59 |
2009-09-25 |
| 30. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
44.40 |
1.0521 |
-0.0112 |
171 |
1 |
44.40 |
2009-09-23 |
| 31. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
44.15 |
1.0340 |
0.0109 |
406 |
1 |
44.15 |
2009-09-23 |
| 32. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
44.09 |
0.9786 |
0.0592 |
235 |
1 |
44.09 |
2009-09-24 |
| 33. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
44.04 |
1.0565 |
-0.0220 |
247 |
1 |
44.04 |
2009-09-28 |
| 34. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
43.56 |
0.9540 |
0.0699 |
285 |
1 |
43.56 |
2009-09-26 |
| 35. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
43.39 |
1.0060 |
0.0109 |
171 |
1 |
43.39 |
2009-09-23 |
| 36. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
43.37 |
1.0201 |
-0.0058 |
172 |
1 |
43.37 |
2009-09-23 |
| 37. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
43.34 |
1.0429 |
-0.0239 |
259 |
1 |
43.34 |
2009-09-25 |
| 38. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
43.08 |
0.9946 |
0.0194 |
246 |
2 |
42.78 |
2009-09-26 |
| 39. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
42.96 |
0.9729 |
0.0387 |
255 |
1 |
42.96 |
2009-09-24 |
| 40. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
42.86 |
0.9811 |
0.0306 |
272 |
1 |
42.86 |
2009-09-28 |
| 41. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
42.70 |
1.0201 |
-0.0109 |
375 |
1 |
42.70 |
2009-09-23 |
| 42. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
42.37 |
0.9991 |
-0.0013 |
225 |
1 |
42.37 |
2009-09-24 |
| 43. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
42.36 |
0.9843 |
0.0078 |
234 |
2 |
40.11 |
2009-09-25 |
| 44. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
42.33 |
0.9851 |
0.0134 |
317 |
1 |
42.33 |
2009-09-24 |
| 45. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
42.19 |
1.0173 |
0.0199 |
268 |
1 |
42.19 |
2009-09-22 |
| 46. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
42.05 |
0.8382 |
0.1520 |
268 |
1 |
42.05 |
2009-09-23 |
| 47. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
42.03 |
1.0528 |
-0.0686 |
201 |
2 |
40.61 |
2009-09-22 |
| 48. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
41.95 |
1.0214 |
-0.0395 |
166 |
2 |
40.00 |
2009-09-24 |
| 49. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
41.75 |
0.9844 |
0.0029 |
293 |
1 |
41.75 |
2009-09-22 |
| 50. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
41.64 |
1.0577 |
-0.0813 |
247 |
1 |
41.64 |
2009-09-24 |
| 51. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
41.51 |
1.0619 |
-0.0815 |
354 |
1 |
41.51 |
2009-09-28 |
| 52. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
40.76 |
0.8559 |
0.1038 |
191 |
1 |
40.76 |
2009-09-24 |
| 53. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
40.65 |
1.0124 |
-0.0585 |
204 |
1 |
40.65 |
2009-09-23 |
| 54. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
40.62 |
0.9485 |
0.0095 |
291 |
1 |
40.62 |
2009-09-25 |
| 55. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
40.52 |
0.9710 |
-0.0243 |
173 |
1 |
40.52 |
2009-09-24 |
| 56. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
40.47 |
1.0331 |
-0.0833 |
234 |
1 |
40.47 |
2009-09-24 |
| 57. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
40.38 |
1.0534 |
-0.1014 |
357 |
1 |
40.38 |
2009-09-25 |
| 58. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
40.23 |
0.9597 |
-0.0093 |
347 |
1 |
40.23 |
2009-09-25 |
| 59. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
40.14 |
0.8956 |
0.0531 |
322 |
1 |
40.14 |
2009-09-25 |
| 60. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
40.13 |
0.9726 |
-0.0351 |
154 |
1 |
40.13 |
2009-09-24 |
| 61. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
40.03 |
1.0138 |
-0.0727 |
231 |
1 |
40.03 |
2009-09-22 |
| 62. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
39.69 |
0.9266 |
0.0086 |
278 |
1 |
39.69 |
2009-09-25 |
| 63. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
39.30 |
0.8810 |
0.0439 |
282 |
1 |
39.30 |
2009-09-23 |
| 64. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
39.25 |
0.8348 |
0.0944 |
219 |
1 |
39.25 |
2009-09-23 |
| 65. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
39.15 |
0.9342 |
-0.0102 |
434 |
1 |
39.15 |
2009-09-24 |
| 66. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
38.98 |
0.9805 |
-0.0594 |
292 |
1 |
38.98 |
2009-09-26 |
| 67. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
38.60 |
0.8971 |
0.0156 |
266 |
1 |
38.60 |
2009-09-23 |
| 68. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
38.57 |
0.9202 |
-0.0142 |
254 |
1 |
38.57 |
2009-09-23 |
| 69. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
38.43 |
0.9684 |
-0.0623 |
388 |
1 |
38.43 |
2009-09-22 |
| 70. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
38.37 |
1.0349 |
-0.1337 |
234 |
1 |
38.37 |
2009-09-23 |
| 71. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
38.26 |
0.8975 |
0.0023 |
268 |
1 |
38.26 |
2009-09-21 |
| 72. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
37.96 |
1.0768 |
-0.1445 |
295 |
1 |
37.96 |
2009-09-26 |
| 73. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
37.89 |
0.9986 |
-0.1075 |
283 |
1 |
37.89 |
2009-09-24 |
| 74. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
37.52 |
0.9907 |
-0.1106 |
211 |
2 |
37.40 |
2009-09-28 |
| 75. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
37.34 |
0.9612 |
-0.0838 |
256 |
3 |
36.40 |
2009-09-28 |
| 76. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
36.62 |
0.9266 |
-0.0663 |
267 |
1 |
36.62 |
2009-09-25 |
| 77. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
36.27 |
0.9871 |
-0.0990 |
209 |
1 |
36.27 |
2009-09-25 |
| 78. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
36.21 |
0.9776 |
-0.1270 |
308 |
1 |
36.21 |
2009-09-24 |
| 79. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
35.68 |
0.9922 |
-0.1133 |
341 |
1 |
35.68 |
2009-09-22 |
| 80. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
35.08 |
0.9820 |
-0.1557 |
267 |
1 |
35.08 |
2009-09-21 |
| 81. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
34.72 |
0.8892 |
-0.0683 |
207 |
1 |
34.72 |
2009-09-25 |
| 82. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
34.43 |
0.9048 |
-0.0922 |
271 |
1 |
34.43 |
2009-09-28 |
| 83. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
34.19 |
0.9168 |
-0.1132 |
240 |
1 |
34.19 |
2009-09-24 |
| 84. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
33.49 |
0.9275 |
-0.1452 |
211 |
1 |
33.49 |
2009-09-24 |
| 85. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
33.02 |
1.0211 |
-0.2160 |
213 |
1 |
33.02 |
2009-09-22 |
| 86. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
32.88 |
0.8958 |
-0.1202 |
322 |
1 |
32.88 |
2009-09-21 |
| 87. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
31.92 |
0.8295 |
-0.0796 |
209 |
1 |
31.92 |
2009-09-22 |
| 88. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
30.47 |
0.8941 |
-0.1785 |
216 |
1 |
30.47 |
2009-09-23 |
| 89. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
28.60 |
0.9965 |
-0.3323 |
168 |
1 |
28.60 |
2009-09-22 |