| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
57.44 |
0.9884 |
0.4531 |
262 |
1 |
57.44 |
2008-12-10 |
| 2. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
51.78 |
1.0257 |
0.2750 |
401 |
1 |
51.78 |
2008-12-10 |
| 3. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
51.70 |
0.8442 |
0.4521 |
265 |
1 |
51.70 |
2008-12-10 |
| 4. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
51.19 |
1.0714 |
0.1991 |
129 |
1 |
51.19 |
2008-12-10 |
| 5. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
47.53 |
1.0788 |
0.1026 |
171 |
2 |
40.62 |
2008-12-18 |
| 6. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
46.64 |
0.9966 |
0.1674 |
259 |
1 |
46.64 |
2008-12-08 |
| 7. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
46.35 |
0.9128 |
0.2500 |
133 |
1 |
46.35 |
2008-12-08 |
| 8. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
46.22 |
0.9597 |
0.1984 |
347 |
1 |
46.22 |
2008-12-08 |
| 9. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
45.36 |
1.0389 |
0.0951 |
318 |
1 |
45.36 |
2008-12-08 |
| 10. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
44.78 |
0.9325 |
0.1784 |
156 |
2 |
40.78 |
2008-12-08 |
| 11. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
44.53 |
0.8956 |
0.2183 |
217 |
1 |
44.53 |
2008-12-08 |
| 12. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
44.43 |
0.9649 |
0.1428 |
193 |
1 |
44.43 |
2008-12-10 |
| 13. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
44.32 |
0.9646 |
0.1405 |
264 |
1 |
44.32 |
2008-12-10 |
| 14. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
44.06 |
1.0261 |
0.0714 |
273 |
1 |
44.06 |
2008-12-10 |
| 15. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
43.82 |
1.0799 |
0.0098 |
243 |
1 |
43.82 |
2008-12-08 |
| 16. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
43.81 |
0.9411 |
0.1528 |
318 |
2 |
43.29 |
2008-12-18 |
| 17. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
43.66 |
0.9756 |
0.1124 |
229 |
1 |
43.66 |
2008-12-08 |
| 18. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
43.51 |
0.9614 |
0.1272 |
292 |
1 |
43.51 |
2008-12-08 |
| 19. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
43.28 |
1.0696 |
0.0066 |
226 |
1 |
43.28 |
2008-12-08 |
| 20. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
42.58 |
0.9886 |
0.0760 |
220 |
1 |
42.58 |
2008-12-18 |
| 21. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
42.29 |
0.9820 |
0.0756 |
267 |
1 |
42.29 |
2008-12-08 |
| 22. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
42.04 |
0.9684 |
0.0827 |
388 |
2 |
41.27 |
2008-12-08 |
| 23. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
41.94 |
0.9724 |
0.0771 |
237 |
1 |
41.94 |
2009-05-26 |
| 24. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
41.81 |
0.8096 |
0.2409 |
209 |
2 |
35.76 |
2008-12-08 |
| 25. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
41.52 |
0.9578 |
0.0770 |
281 |
1 |
41.52 |
2008-12-08 |
| 26. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
41.36 |
1.0201 |
0.0044 |
172 |
1 |
41.36 |
2008-12-08 |
| 27. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
41.29 |
1.0099 |
0.0167 |
207 |
1 |
41.29 |
2008-12-08 |
| 28. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
41.25 |
0.9048 |
0.1283 |
271 |
1 |
41.25 |
2009-05-26 |
| 29. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
41.20 |
0.9865 |
0.0418 |
276 |
1 |
41.20 |
2008-12-08 |
| 30. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
41.19 |
0.9710 |
0.0495 |
173 |
1 |
41.19 |
2008-12-08 |
| 31. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
40.93 |
1.0201 |
0.0007 |
303 |
1 |
40.93 |
2008-12-08 |
| 32. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
40.84 |
1.0120 |
0.0053 |
290 |
2 |
38.06 |
2008-12-18 |
| 33. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
40.70 |
0.8573 |
0.1609 |
270 |
1 |
40.70 |
2008-12-10 |
| 34. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
40.27 |
1.0498 |
-0.0508 |
180 |
1 |
40.27 |
2008-12-08 |
| 35. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
39.99 |
1.0523 |
-0.0599 |
256 |
2 |
38.35 |
2009-05-26 |
| 36. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
39.96 |
0.9786 |
0.0121 |
193 |
3 |
39.02 |
2008-12-08 |
| 37. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
39.86 |
0.8810 |
0.1132 |
282 |
1 |
39.86 |
2009-05-26 |
| 38. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
39.70 |
0.9772 |
0.0087 |
217 |
3 |
36.25 |
2008-12-08 |
| 39. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
39.61 |
0.8615 |
0.1257 |
110 |
1 |
39.61 |
2008-12-08 |
| 40. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
39.51 |
1.0025 |
-0.0180 |
256 |
1 |
39.51 |
2008-12-08 |
| 41. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
39.13 |
0.9798 |
-0.0105 |
199 |
1 |
39.13 |
2008-12-10 |
| 42. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
38.93 |
0.9857 |
-0.0168 |
293 |
2 |
38.04 |
2008-12-10 |
| 43. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
38.90 |
0.9893 |
-0.0200 |
323 |
1 |
38.90 |
2008-12-18 |
| 44. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
38.82 |
0.9125 |
0.0564 |
308 |
1 |
38.82 |
2008-12-08 |
| 45. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
38.80 |
0.9884 |
-0.0226 |
233 |
2 |
34.22 |
2008-12-10 |
| 46. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
38.78 |
0.9851 |
-0.0168 |
317 |
1 |
38.78 |
2008-12-08 |
| 47. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
38.69 |
0.9844 |
-0.0157 |
293 |
1 |
38.69 |
2008-12-08 |
| 48. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
38.61 |
0.9986 |
-0.0362 |
283 |
1 |
38.61 |
2008-12-18 |
| 49. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
38.50 |
0.9068 |
0.0553 |
269 |
1 |
38.50 |
2008-12-08 |
| 50. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
38.12 |
0.9202 |
0.0286 |
254 |
1 |
38.12 |
2009-05-26 |
| 51. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
38.11 |
0.8916 |
0.0579 |
216 |
1 |
38.11 |
2008-12-08 |
| 52. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
38.06 |
0.9339 |
0.0126 |
310 |
1 |
38.06 |
2008-12-08 |
| 53. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
37.69 |
1.0183 |
-0.0853 |
191 |
2 |
33.13 |
2009-06-20 |
| 54. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
37.63 |
0.9212 |
0.0192 |
323 |
1 |
37.63 |
2008-12-08 |
| 55. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
37.62 |
0.9309 |
0.0041 |
284 |
1 |
37.62 |
2008-12-18 |
| 56. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
37.46 |
1.0462 |
-0.1195 |
184 |
1 |
37.46 |
2008-12-08 |
| 57. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
37.23 |
0.9084 |
0.0204 |
300 |
1 |
37.23 |
2008-12-08 |
| 58. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
37.05 |
0.9221 |
-0.0011 |
244 |
1 |
37.05 |
2008-12-08 |
| 59. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
36.87 |
0.9682 |
-0.0522 |
143 |
1 |
36.87 |
2009-05-26 |
| 60. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
36.87 |
0.9196 |
0.0000 |
148 |
1 |
36.87 |
2008-12-08 |
| 61. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
36.83 |
0.9811 |
-0.0615 |
272 |
1 |
36.83 |
2008-12-08 |
| 62. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
36.61 |
1.0445 |
-0.1322 |
373 |
1 |
36.61 |
2008-12-08 |
| 63. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
36.47 |
0.8910 |
0.0185 |
150 |
1 |
36.47 |
2008-12-10 |
| 64. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
36.41 |
1.0796 |
-0.1781 |
129 |
1 |
36.41 |
2008-12-08 |
| 65. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
36.36 |
1.0516 |
-0.1470 |
281 |
1 |
36.36 |
2008-12-08 |
| 66. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
35.79 |
0.9636 |
-0.0730 |
254 |
1 |
35.79 |
2008-12-08 |
| 67. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
35.47 |
1.0252 |
-0.1491 |
176 |
1 |
35.47 |
2008-12-18 |
| 68. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
35.39 |
1.0034 |
-0.1243 |
302 |
1 |
35.39 |
2008-12-08 |
| 69. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
35.36 |
0.9863 |
-0.1021 |
339 |
1 |
35.36 |
2008-12-08 |
| 70. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
35.36 |
0.8971 |
-0.0120 |
266 |
1 |
35.36 |
2008-12-08 |
| 71. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
35.36 |
0.9843 |
-0.1095 |
234 |
1 |
35.36 |
2008-12-10 |
| 72. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
35.07 |
0.9500 |
-0.0753 |
362 |
2 |
34.50 |
2008-12-10 |
| 73. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
34.77 |
1.0528 |
-0.1929 |
201 |
1 |
34.77 |
2008-12-08 |
| 74. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
34.65 |
0.9731 |
-0.1237 |
129 |
1 |
34.65 |
2009-05-26 |
| 75. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
34.36 |
0.9965 |
-0.1467 |
168 |
1 |
34.36 |
2008-12-10 |
| 76. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
34.20 |
0.9005 |
-0.0515 |
212 |
1 |
34.20 |
2008-12-08 |
| 77. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
33.70 |
0.8892 |
-0.0453 |
207 |
1 |
33.70 |
2009-05-26 |
| 78. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
33.50 |
0.7876 |
0.0478 |
316 |
1 |
33.50 |
2008-12-08 |
| 79. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
33.28 |
1.0297 |
-0.2036 |
249 |
1 |
33.28 |
2008-12-08 |
| 80. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
32.83 |
0.9275 |
-0.1149 |
211 |
1 |
32.83 |
2008-12-08 |
| 81. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
30.74 |
0.8890 |
-0.1294 |
199 |
1 |
30.74 |
2008-12-08 |
| 82. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
30.16 |
0.8852 |
-0.1363 |
158 |
1 |
30.16 |
2008-12-08 |
| 83. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
29.88 |
0.9572 |
-0.2168 |
201 |
1 |
29.88 |
2008-12-10 |
| 84. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
28.59 |
0.8770 |
-0.1649 |
300 |
1 |
28.59 |
2008-12-08 |