| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
115.42 |
1.0725 |
0.1505 |
233 |
1 |
115.42 |
2012-04-10 |
| 2. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
113.91 |
1.0885 |
0.0964 |
315 |
1 |
113.91 |
2012-04-10 |
| 3. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
113.25 |
1.0567 |
0.1189 |
303 |
1 |
113.25 |
2011-10-04 |
| 4. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
112.53 |
1.0257 |
0.1478 |
401 |
1 |
112.53 |
2011-10-12 |
| 5. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
111.00 |
1.0829 |
0.0694 |
288 |
1 |
111.00 |
2011-10-12 |
| 6. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
110.95 |
1.1018 |
0.0419 |
220 |
2 |
109.82 |
2012-04-10 |
| 7. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
106.99 |
1.0917 |
0.0407 |
243 |
1 |
106.99 |
2011-11-04 |
| 8. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
106.43 |
1.0358 |
0.1092 |
349 |
1 |
106.43 |
2011-11-04 |
| 9. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
106.19 |
1.0379 |
0.0973 |
245 |
1 |
106.19 |
2011-11-04 |
| 10. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
106.02 |
1.0218 |
0.0741 |
268 |
1 |
106.02 |
2011-10-12 |
| 11. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
105.49 |
0.9881 |
0.1460 |
424 |
1 |
105.49 |
2011-11-04 |
| 12. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
105.14 |
0.9148 |
0.1763 |
317 |
1 |
105.14 |
2012-04-10 |
| 13. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
104.18 |
1.0034 |
0.0749 |
302 |
1 |
104.18 |
2011-10-12 |
| 14. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
104.08 |
0.9769 |
0.0997 |
263 |
1 |
104.08 |
2011-10-04 |
| 15. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
104.01 |
1.0795 |
0.0284 |
226 |
1 |
104.01 |
2011-10-04 |
| 16. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
103.23 |
0.9509 |
0.1568 |
225 |
1 |
103.23 |
2011-10-12 |
| 17. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
102.77 |
1.1081 |
-0.0092 |
206 |
1 |
102.77 |
2012-04-10 |
| 18. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
102.70 |
1.0138 |
0.0497 |
231 |
1 |
102.70 |
2012-07-22 |
| 19. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
101.87 |
1.0417 |
0.0107 |
253 |
1 |
101.87 |
2011-10-12 |
| 20. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
101.37 |
1.0529 |
-0.0030 |
351 |
1 |
101.37 |
2012-04-10 |
| 21. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
101.34 |
0.9635 |
0.0921 |
389 |
1 |
101.34 |
2012-04-10 |
| 22. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
101.13 |
1.0531 |
0.0326 |
272 |
1 |
101.13 |
2011-11-04 |
| 23. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
100.84 |
1.0555 |
0.0191 |
323 |
2 |
97.76 |
2012-07-22 |
| 24. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
100.65 |
1.0885 |
-0.0110 |
341 |
1 |
100.65 |
2011-10-04 |
| 25. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
100.40 |
0.9846 |
0.0536 |
281 |
1 |
100.40 |
2011-10-04 |
| 26. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
99.78 |
1.0368 |
-0.0027 |
276 |
1 |
99.78 |
2012-04-10 |
| 27. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
99.75 |
0.9925 |
0.0774 |
247 |
1 |
99.75 |
2011-10-04 |
| 28. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
99.25 |
0.9649 |
0.0621 |
193 |
1 |
99.25 |
2011-10-04 |
| 29. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
99.18 |
1.0292 |
-0.0036 |
262 |
1 |
99.18 |
2011-10-04 |
| 30. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
98.96 |
0.9578 |
0.0668 |
281 |
1 |
98.96 |
2012-04-10 |
| 31. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
98.83 |
1.0352 |
-0.0084 |
341 |
1 |
98.83 |
2011-10-04 |
| 32. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
98.48 |
1.0141 |
0.0461 |
381 |
1 |
98.48 |
2012-04-10 |
| 33. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
98.45 |
0.9612 |
0.0585 |
256 |
1 |
98.45 |
2011-10-12 |
| 34. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
97.98 |
0.9852 |
0.0296 |
264 |
1 |
97.98 |
2011-11-04 |
| 35. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
97.80 |
0.9871 |
0.0618 |
209 |
2 |
97.54 |
2012-04-10 |
| 36. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
97.52 |
0.9907 |
0.0176 |
211 |
1 |
97.52 |
2011-10-04 |
| 37. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
97.19 |
0.9670 |
0.0814 |
307 |
1 |
97.19 |
2011-10-04 |
| 38. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
97.18 |
1.0574 |
-0.0232 |
205 |
1 |
97.18 |
2011-10-04 |
| 39. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
97.14 |
0.9632 |
0.0489 |
392 |
1 |
97.14 |
2011-10-12 |
| 40. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
96.98 |
0.9529 |
0.0917 |
269 |
2 |
87.60 |
2011-10-12 |
| 41. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
96.81 |
1.0025 |
0.0008 |
336 |
1 |
96.81 |
2011-10-24 |
| 42. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
96.12 |
0.9376 |
0.0931 |
360 |
2 |
91.82 |
2011-10-12 |
| 43. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
96.03 |
0.9709 |
0.0644 |
397 |
1 |
96.03 |
2011-10-04 |
| 44. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
94.84 |
0.8961 |
0.0822 |
189 |
1 |
94.84 |
2011-10-12 |
| 45. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
94.19 |
0.9619 |
0.0184 |
393 |
1 |
94.19 |
2011-10-12 |
| 46. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
93.55 |
1.0740 |
-0.0677 |
264 |
1 |
93.55 |
2011-10-05 |
| 47. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
92.61 |
1.0679 |
-0.0898 |
177 |
1 |
92.61 |
2011-10-04 |
| 48. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
91.48 |
0.9851 |
-0.0363 |
317 |
1 |
91.48 |
2012-04-10 |
| 49. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
91.32 |
0.9776 |
-0.0327 |
308 |
1 |
91.32 |
2011-10-04 |
| 50. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
91.05 |
1.0042 |
-0.0207 |
352 |
2 |
90.46 |
2011-10-12 |
| 51. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
90.60 |
0.9278 |
0.0119 |
295 |
1 |
90.60 |
2011-10-12 |
| 52. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
88.74 |
0.9622 |
-0.0380 |
392 |
1 |
88.74 |
2011-10-04 |
| 53. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
88.68 |
0.9339 |
-0.0186 |
310 |
1 |
88.68 |
2012-04-10 |
| 54. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
88.57 |
0.9074 |
0.0148 |
396 |
1 |
88.57 |
2011-10-04 |
| 55. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
88.39 |
1.0025 |
-0.0891 |
256 |
1 |
88.39 |
2012-04-10 |
| 56. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
88.33 |
0.9411 |
-0.0269 |
318 |
1 |
88.33 |
2012-04-10 |
| 57. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
87.44 |
0.9678 |
-0.0287 |
445 |
2 |
86.20 |
2012-04-10 |
| 58. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
87.30 |
0.9202 |
-0.0179 |
254 |
1 |
87.30 |
2011-10-04 |
| 59. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
86.83 |
0.9546 |
-0.0260 |
198 |
1 |
86.83 |
2011-10-05 |
| 60. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
86.52 |
0.8890 |
0.0016 |
199 |
1 |
86.52 |
2011-10-04 |
| 61. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
86.49 |
1.0516 |
-0.1583 |
281 |
1 |
86.49 |
2011-10-04 |
| 62. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
85.43 |
0.9583 |
-0.0318 |
341 |
1 |
85.43 |
2011-10-12 |
| 63. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
85.31 |
0.9786 |
-0.0976 |
235 |
1 |
85.31 |
2011-10-04 |
| 64. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
83.92 |
1.0083 |
-0.0970 |
273 |
1 |
83.92 |
2011-10-04 |
| 65. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
82.39 |
0.9286 |
-0.0788 |
194 |
1 |
82.39 |
2011-10-04 |
| 66. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
81.77 |
0.9426 |
-0.0949 |
317 |
1 |
81.77 |
2011-10-04 |
| 67. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
80.47 |
0.9855 |
-0.1212 |
258 |
1 |
80.47 |
2011-10-04 |
| 68. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
80.03 |
0.9557 |
-0.1231 |
331 |
1 |
80.03 |
2011-10-12 |
| 69. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
78.79 |
0.8919 |
-0.0800 |
205 |
1 |
78.79 |
2012-07-22 |
| 70. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
75.09 |
0.9567 |
-0.1821 |
273 |
1 |
75.09 |
2011-10-12 |
| 71. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
72.80 |
0.9213 |
-0.1701 |
295 |
1 |
72.80 |
2011-10-04 |
| 72. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
68.32 |
0.9514 |
-0.2477 |
237 |
1 |
68.32 |
2011-10-04 |
| 73. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
63.98 |
0.8996 |
-0.2472 |
192 |
1 |
63.98 |
2011-10-04 |