| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
79.36 |
1.1018 |
0.1144 |
220 |
1 |
79.36 |
2010-09-22 |
| 2. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
78.87 |
1.0399 |
0.1805 |
294 |
1 |
78.87 |
2010-10-21 |
| 3. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
76.70 |
1.0016 |
0.1750 |
218 |
1 |
76.70 |
2010-10-07 |
| 4. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
76.28 |
1.0426 |
0.1315 |
323 |
1 |
76.28 |
2010-09-21 |
| 5. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
74.24 |
1.0031 |
0.1733 |
304 |
1 |
74.24 |
2010-10-26 |
| 6. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
73.64 |
1.0863 |
0.0820 |
210 |
1 |
73.64 |
2010-10-07 |
| 7. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
73.60 |
1.0201 |
0.1065 |
172 |
1 |
73.60 |
2010-10-21 |
| 8. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
72.84 |
0.9886 |
0.1351 |
220 |
1 |
72.84 |
2010-10-21 |
| 9. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
72.52 |
1.0365 |
0.1094 |
162 |
1 |
72.52 |
2010-10-21 |
| 10. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
72.36 |
1.1215 |
0.0161 |
200 |
1 |
72.36 |
2010-09-28 |
| 11. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
72.16 |
1.0799 |
0.0268 |
243 |
2 |
71.99 |
2010-10-21 |
| 12. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
72.05 |
1.0883 |
0.0528 |
303 |
1 |
72.05 |
2010-09-22 |
| 13. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
71.94 |
1.0740 |
0.0714 |
264 |
2 |
70.70 |
2010-09-22 |
| 14. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
71.63 |
0.9653 |
0.1456 |
394 |
1 |
71.63 |
2010-09-22 |
| 15. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
71.51 |
0.9785 |
0.1251 |
335 |
1 |
71.51 |
2010-10-21 |
| 16. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
71.23 |
0.9936 |
0.1024 |
311 |
1 |
71.23 |
2010-09-28 |
| 17. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
70.77 |
1.1014 |
0.0253 |
273 |
1 |
70.77 |
2010-10-26 |
| 18. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
70.00 |
0.9786 |
0.0979 |
235 |
1 |
70.00 |
2010-09-22 |
| 19. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
69.82 |
0.9576 |
0.1208 |
212 |
1 |
69.82 |
2010-10-21 |
| 20. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
69.58 |
1.0496 |
0.0201 |
314 |
1 |
69.58 |
2010-09-22 |
| 21. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
69.41 |
1.0917 |
-0.0004 |
243 |
1 |
69.41 |
2010-09-21 |
| 22. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
69.40 |
1.1296 |
-0.0329 |
252 |
1 |
69.40 |
2010-09-30 |
| 23. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
69.03 |
0.9684 |
0.0960 |
388 |
2 |
68.36 |
2010-10-07 |
| 24. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
68.99 |
1.0529 |
0.0083 |
351 |
1 |
68.99 |
2010-10-21 |
| 25. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
68.99 |
0.9697 |
0.0917 |
249 |
1 |
68.99 |
2010-10-21 |
| 26. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
68.66 |
1.0941 |
-0.0068 |
256 |
1 |
68.66 |
2010-09-23 |
| 27. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
68.59 |
0.9622 |
0.0994 |
392 |
1 |
68.59 |
2010-09-22 |
| 28. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
68.41 |
1.0523 |
-0.0043 |
256 |
1 |
68.41 |
2010-09-29 |
| 29. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
68.24 |
1.0567 |
-0.0062 |
303 |
1 |
68.24 |
2010-10-07 |
| 30. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
68.03 |
0.9841 |
0.0662 |
334 |
1 |
68.03 |
2010-10-21 |
| 31. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
67.97 |
1.0719 |
0.0012 |
360 |
1 |
67.97 |
2010-09-21 |
| 32. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
67.75 |
1.0088 |
0.0720 |
396 |
2 |
67.64 |
2010-10-21 |
| 33. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
67.15 |
1.0124 |
0.0177 |
204 |
1 |
67.15 |
2010-10-21 |
| 34. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
66.98 |
0.9202 |
0.1096 |
254 |
2 |
61.36 |
2010-10-26 |
| 35. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
66.83 |
0.9866 |
0.0376 |
218 |
1 |
66.83 |
2010-10-07 |
| 36. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
66.81 |
0.9965 |
0.0262 |
168 |
1 |
66.81 |
2010-10-21 |
| 37. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
66.79 |
0.9941 |
0.0307 |
217 |
2 |
65.01 |
2010-10-26 |
| 38. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
66.70 |
1.0125 |
0.0107 |
224 |
1 |
66.70 |
2010-10-21 |
| 39. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
66.51 |
0.9289 |
0.0914 |
204 |
1 |
66.51 |
2010-09-23 |
| 40. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
66.35 |
0.9513 |
0.0726 |
354 |
1 |
66.35 |
2010-10-07 |
| 41. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
66.33 |
1.0885 |
-0.0337 |
341 |
1 |
66.33 |
2010-10-07 |
| 42. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
65.36 |
1.0337 |
-0.0298 |
214 |
2 |
57.75 |
2010-10-21 |
| 43. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
65.27 |
1.0203 |
-0.0137 |
261 |
1 |
65.27 |
2010-10-26 |
| 44. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
64.92 |
1.0477 |
-0.0474 |
360 |
1 |
64.92 |
2010-09-28 |
| 45. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
64.60 |
0.9461 |
0.0427 |
193 |
2 |
63.92 |
2010-10-07 |
| 46. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
64.38 |
0.8951 |
0.0970 |
193 |
1 |
64.38 |
2010-10-21 |
| 47. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
64.09 |
0.9907 |
-0.0072 |
211 |
2 |
64.04 |
2010-10-26 |
| 48. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
64.03 |
0.9398 |
0.0538 |
419 |
1 |
64.03 |
2010-10-07 |
| 49. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
64.01 |
1.0352 |
-0.0482 |
341 |
1 |
64.01 |
2010-10-07 |
| 50. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
63.95 |
1.0388 |
-0.0242 |
243 |
1 |
63.95 |
2010-09-21 |
| 51. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
63.88 |
1.0384 |
-0.0668 |
183 |
1 |
63.88 |
2010-10-21 |
| 52. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
63.61 |
1.0528 |
-0.0800 |
201 |
1 |
63.61 |
2010-09-22 |
| 53. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
63.42 |
1.0141 |
-0.0032 |
304 |
1 |
63.42 |
2010-10-26 |
| 54. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
63.35 |
0.9991 |
-0.0251 |
225 |
1 |
63.35 |
2010-10-07 |
| 55. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
63.14 |
0.9353 |
0.0304 |
177 |
1 |
63.14 |
2010-09-30 |
| 56. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
63.00 |
1.0417 |
-0.0764 |
253 |
1 |
63.00 |
2010-09-22 |
| 57. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
62.70 |
0.9769 |
-0.0155 |
263 |
2 |
58.56 |
2010-10-26 |
| 58. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
62.54 |
0.9005 |
0.0589 |
212 |
1 |
62.54 |
2010-10-21 |
| 59. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
62.48 |
0.9632 |
0.0389 |
345 |
1 |
62.48 |
2010-09-28 |
| 60. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
62.46 |
1.0334 |
-0.0803 |
131 |
1 |
62.46 |
2010-09-22 |
| 61. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
62.38 |
0.9578 |
0.0005 |
281 |
1 |
62.38 |
2010-09-22 |
| 62. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
62.37 |
0.9763 |
-0.0187 |
289 |
1 |
62.37 |
2010-10-07 |
| 63. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
61.95 |
0.9084 |
0.0470 |
404 |
1 |
61.95 |
2010-10-07 |
| 64. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
61.73 |
0.8914 |
0.0573 |
366 |
1 |
61.73 |
2010-10-26 |
| 65. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
61.31 |
1.0211 |
-0.0490 |
213 |
1 |
61.31 |
2010-09-21 |
| 66. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
61.19 |
1.0261 |
-0.0883 |
273 |
1 |
61.19 |
2010-10-26 |
| 67. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
60.81 |
0.9646 |
-0.0316 |
264 |
1 |
60.81 |
2010-10-26 |
| 68. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
60.66 |
1.0168 |
-0.0836 |
271 |
1 |
60.66 |
2010-09-22 |
| 69. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
60.12 |
1.0284 |
-0.0621 |
282 |
1 |
60.12 |
2010-09-29 |
| 70. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
60.04 |
0.9351 |
-0.0187 |
190 |
1 |
60.04 |
2010-09-29 |
| 71. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
60.00 |
0.9286 |
-0.0084 |
194 |
1 |
60.00 |
2010-09-21 |
| 72. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
59.62 |
0.9897 |
-0.0768 |
274 |
1 |
59.62 |
2010-09-21 |
| 73. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
59.35 |
0.9881 |
-0.0362 |
424 |
1 |
59.35 |
2010-10-07 |
| 74. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
59.19 |
1.0083 |
-0.0552 |
273 |
1 |
59.19 |
2010-09-21 |
| 75. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
59.16 |
0.9776 |
-0.0690 |
308 |
1 |
59.16 |
2010-10-26 |
| 76. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
59.13 |
0.7805 |
0.1229 |
154 |
2 |
53.02 |
2010-09-29 |
| 77. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
58.98 |
0.8947 |
0.0160 |
366 |
1 |
58.98 |
2010-09-28 |
| 78. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
57.78 |
1.0263 |
-0.1406 |
267 |
1 |
57.78 |
2010-10-26 |
| 79. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
56.25 |
0.9216 |
-0.0195 |
255 |
1 |
56.25 |
2010-10-07 |
| 80. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
56.23 |
0.8022 |
0.0632 |
215 |
1 |
56.23 |
2010-09-28 |
| 81. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
56.23 |
0.9485 |
-0.0834 |
291 |
1 |
56.23 |
2010-10-26 |
| 82. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
55.71 |
0.9640 |
-0.0798 |
334 |
1 |
55.71 |
2010-09-22 |
| 83. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
55.62 |
0.8442 |
0.0129 |
265 |
1 |
55.62 |
2010-09-21 |
| 84. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
55.26 |
0.9668 |
-0.0768 |
383 |
1 |
55.26 |
2010-09-21 |
| 85. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
54.62 |
0.9330 |
-0.0887 |
360 |
1 |
54.62 |
2010-09-21 |
| 86. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
53.80 |
0.9120 |
-0.0539 |
436 |
1 |
53.80 |
2010-10-21 |
| 87. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
52.74 |
0.9572 |
-0.1503 |
201 |
1 |
52.74 |
2010-09-23 |
| 88. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
50.56 |
0.8919 |
-0.1190 |
205 |
1 |
50.56 |
2010-10-01 |
| 89. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
49.91 |
1.0521 |
-0.2931 |
171 |
1 |
49.91 |
2010-10-07 |
| 90. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
49.73 |
0.9965 |
-0.2349 |
310 |
1 |
49.73 |
2010-09-22 |
| 91. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
49.08 |
1.0498 |
-0.3035 |
180 |
1 |
49.08 |
2010-09-22 |
| 92. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
46.99 |
0.8467 |
-0.1034 |
343 |
1 |
46.99 |
2010-09-29 |
| 93. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
46.78 |
1.0063 |
-0.2906 |
371 |
1 |
46.78 |
2010-09-22 |