| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
60.06 |
1.0167 |
0.2319 |
378 |
2 |
54.35 |
2008-11-28 |
| 2. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
59.47 |
1.0385 |
0.1892 |
230 |
1 |
59.47 |
2008-11-27 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
58.61 |
1.0799 |
0.1279 |
243 |
1 |
58.61 |
2008-11-27 |
| 4. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
58.04 |
1.0619 |
0.1413 |
354 |
1 |
58.04 |
2008-11-27 |
| 5. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
57.36 |
0.9798 |
0.1999 |
199 |
1 |
57.36 |
2008-11-27 |
| 6. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
56.62 |
1.0016 |
0.1637 |
218 |
2 |
49.15 |
2008-11-28 |
| 7. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
56.60 |
0.9724 |
0.2007 |
237 |
2 |
55.44 |
2008-11-27 |
| 8. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
55.64 |
1.0389 |
0.1130 |
340 |
1 |
55.64 |
2008-11-28 |
| 9. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
55.24 |
1.0711 |
0.0649 |
213 |
2 |
55.13 |
2008-11-27 |
| 10. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
54.76 |
1.0390 |
0.0883 |
205 |
1 |
54.76 |
2008-11-28 |
| 11. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
54.09 |
1.0441 |
0.0745 |
252 |
1 |
54.09 |
2008-11-27 |
| 12. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
53.97 |
1.0025 |
0.1130 |
336 |
1 |
53.97 |
2008-11-28 |
| 13. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
53.81 |
0.9884 |
0.1220 |
233 |
1 |
53.81 |
2008-11-27 |
| 14. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
53.67 |
1.0496 |
0.0580 |
314 |
1 |
53.67 |
2008-11-27 |
| 15. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
53.64 |
0.9758 |
0.1326 |
314 |
1 |
53.64 |
2008-11-28 |
| 16. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
53.43 |
0.9514 |
0.1522 |
237 |
1 |
53.43 |
2008-11-28 |
| 17. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
53.23 |
1.0060 |
0.0884 |
171 |
1 |
53.23 |
2008-11-27 |
| 18. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
52.89 |
1.0251 |
0.0647 |
261 |
1 |
52.89 |
2008-11-28 |
| 19. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
52.55 |
0.9964 |
0.0886 |
203 |
1 |
52.55 |
2008-11-27 |
| 20. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
52.54 |
0.9266 |
0.1582 |
267 |
2 |
48.37 |
2008-11-28 |
| 21. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
51.27 |
1.0419 |
0.0163 |
261 |
1 |
51.27 |
2008-11-28 |
| 22. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.90 |
0.9293 |
0.1219 |
355 |
2 |
46.16 |
2008-11-28 |
| 23. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
50.83 |
1.0120 |
0.0362 |
290 |
2 |
50.15 |
2008-11-28 |
| 24. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
50.46 |
0.9513 |
0.0938 |
354 |
1 |
50.46 |
2008-11-27 |
| 25. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
50.44 |
1.0214 |
0.0177 |
269 |
1 |
50.44 |
2008-11-27 |
| 26. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
50.36 |
0.9351 |
0.0986 |
190 |
1 |
50.36 |
2008-11-27 |
| 27. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
50.21 |
1.0787 |
-0.0440 |
237 |
1 |
50.21 |
2008-11-27 |
| 28. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
49.88 |
0.9365 |
0.0940 |
248 |
3 |
46.75 |
2008-11-28 |
| 29. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
49.36 |
0.9672 |
0.0576 |
396 |
1 |
49.36 |
2008-11-27 |
| 30. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
48.98 |
0.9612 |
0.0491 |
256 |
1 |
48.98 |
2008-11-27 |
| 31. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
48.73 |
1.0523 |
-0.0515 |
256 |
2 |
46.48 |
2008-11-28 |
| 32. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
48.72 |
1.0399 |
-0.0298 |
294 |
1 |
48.72 |
2008-11-27 |
| 33. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
48.68 |
0.9275 |
0.0733 |
211 |
1 |
48.68 |
2008-11-28 |
| 34. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
48.45 |
0.9234 |
0.0813 |
346 |
1 |
48.45 |
2008-11-27 |
| 35. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
48.22 |
0.9281 |
0.0715 |
273 |
1 |
48.22 |
2008-11-28 |
| 36. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
48.19 |
0.9619 |
0.0371 |
393 |
1 |
48.19 |
2008-11-27 |
| 37. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
47.70 |
1.0337 |
-0.0507 |
214 |
1 |
47.70 |
2008-11-27 |
| 38. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
47.45 |
0.9572 |
0.0201 |
201 |
1 |
47.45 |
2008-11-27 |
| 39. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
47.38 |
0.9851 |
-0.0060 |
317 |
1 |
47.38 |
2008-11-27 |
| 40. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
47.25 |
0.9426 |
0.0347 |
317 |
1 |
47.25 |
2008-11-27 |
| 41. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
47.01 |
1.0023 |
-0.0350 |
211 |
1 |
47.01 |
2008-11-27 |
| 42. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
46.67 |
1.0565 |
-0.0970 |
247 |
1 |
46.67 |
2008-11-27 |
| 43. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
46.59 |
0.9763 |
-0.0164 |
289 |
1 |
46.59 |
2008-11-27 |
| 44. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
46.03 |
1.0296 |
-0.0745 |
437 |
1 |
46.03 |
2008-11-27 |
| 45. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
45.82 |
0.9088 |
0.0407 |
348 |
2 |
44.38 |
2008-11-27 |
| 46. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
45.35 |
0.8810 |
0.0543 |
282 |
2 |
45.17 |
2008-11-27 |
| 47. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
44.92 |
0.8382 |
0.0878 |
268 |
1 |
44.92 |
2008-11-27 |
| 48. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
44.69 |
0.9844 |
-0.0589 |
293 |
1 |
44.69 |
2008-11-27 |
| 49. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
44.69 |
0.9429 |
-0.0209 |
287 |
1 |
44.69 |
2008-11-27 |
| 50. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
44.48 |
0.9278 |
-0.0088 |
295 |
1 |
44.48 |
2008-11-27 |
| 51. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
44.28 |
0.9540 |
-0.0437 |
285 |
1 |
44.28 |
2008-11-27 |
| 52. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
43.83 |
0.9279 |
-0.0187 |
317 |
1 |
43.83 |
2008-11-27 |
| 53. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
43.79 |
0.8878 |
0.0139 |
346 |
1 |
43.79 |
2008-11-27 |
| 54. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
43.63 |
0.9109 |
-0.0097 |
401 |
1 |
43.63 |
2008-11-28 |
| 55. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
43.31 |
1.0201 |
-0.1278 |
303 |
1 |
43.31 |
2008-11-27 |
| 56. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
43.29 |
0.9257 |
-0.0287 |
317 |
1 |
43.29 |
2008-11-27 |
| 57. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
42.33 |
0.9897 |
-0.1206 |
274 |
1 |
42.33 |
2008-11-27 |
| 58. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
41.51 |
0.9376 |
-0.0779 |
367 |
1 |
41.51 |
2008-11-27 |
| 59. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
40.77 |
0.9084 |
-0.0678 |
300 |
1 |
40.77 |
2008-11-27 |
| 60. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
40.67 |
0.9785 |
-0.1386 |
335 |
1 |
40.67 |
2008-11-27 |
| 61. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
40.43 |
0.8595 |
-0.0260 |
242 |
1 |
40.43 |
2008-11-28 |
| 62. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
40.01 |
0.9986 |
-0.1751 |
283 |
1 |
40.01 |
2008-11-28 |
| 63. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
39.85 |
0.8826 |
-0.0616 |
296 |
1 |
39.85 |
2008-11-27 |
| 64. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
39.66 |
0.9811 |
-0.1628 |
272 |
1 |
39.66 |
2008-11-27 |
| 65. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
39.57 |
0.8770 |
-0.0600 |
300 |
1 |
39.57 |
2008-11-27 |
| 66. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
37.81 |
1.0138 |
-0.2372 |
231 |
1 |
37.81 |
2008-11-27 |
| 67. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
35.97 |
0.9649 |
-0.2275 |
193 |
1 |
35.97 |
2008-11-27 |
| 68. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
35.93 |
0.9251 |
-0.1824 |
177 |
1 |
35.93 |
2008-11-27 |
| 69. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
34.64 |
0.9045 |
-0.1934 |
235 |
1 |
34.64 |
2008-11-27 |
| 70. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
33.53 |
0.9164 |
-0.2240 |
305 |
1 |
33.53 |
2008-11-28 |