| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
56.60 |
1.0767 |
0.1384 |
212 |
1 |
56.60 |
2012-06-26 |
| 2. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
55.20 |
1.0016 |
0.1805 |
218 |
1 |
55.20 |
2012-06-26 |
| 3. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
53.73 |
1.0487 |
0.1012 |
231 |
1 |
53.73 |
2012-06-26 |
| 4. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
53.45 |
1.0714 |
0.0683 |
129 |
1 |
53.45 |
2012-06-26 |
| 5. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
52.85 |
0.9884 |
0.1514 |
262 |
1 |
52.85 |
2012-06-26 |
| 6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
52.25 |
1.0516 |
0.0705 |
281 |
1 |
52.25 |
2012-06-26 |
| 7. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
52.00 |
0.9966 |
0.1203 |
259 |
1 |
52.00 |
2012-06-26 |
| 8. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
50.65 |
1.1162 |
0.0130 |
189 |
2 |
48.93 |
2012-06-26 |
| 9. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
50.35 |
1.1018 |
-0.0270 |
220 |
1 |
50.35 |
2012-06-26 |
| 10. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
50.23 |
0.9946 |
0.0843 |
246 |
1 |
50.23 |
2012-06-26 |
| 11. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
50.22 |
1.0214 |
0.0520 |
166 |
1 |
50.22 |
2012-06-26 |
| 12. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
50.19 |
1.0033 |
0.0678 |
189 |
1 |
50.19 |
2012-06-26 |
| 13. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
50.09 |
1.0528 |
0.0184 |
201 |
1 |
50.09 |
2012-06-26 |
| 14. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
49.45 |
0.9567 |
0.1053 |
273 |
1 |
49.45 |
2012-06-26 |
| 15. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
49.43 |
1.0496 |
0.0111 |
314 |
1 |
49.43 |
2012-06-26 |
| 16. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
48.95 |
1.0154 |
0.0855 |
351 |
1 |
48.95 |
2012-06-26 |
| 17. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
48.75 |
1.0941 |
-0.0162 |
256 |
1 |
48.75 |
2012-06-26 |
| 18. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
48.66 |
1.0034 |
0.0401 |
302 |
2 |
41.51 |
2012-06-26 |
| 19. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
47.74 |
1.0038 |
0.0512 |
237 |
1 |
47.74 |
2012-06-26 |
| 20. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
47.74 |
1.1016 |
-0.0772 |
233 |
1 |
47.74 |
2012-06-26 |
| 21. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
47.68 |
0.9857 |
0.0367 |
293 |
1 |
47.68 |
2012-06-26 |
| 22. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
47.67 |
1.0595 |
-0.0338 |
379 |
1 |
47.67 |
2012-06-26 |
| 23. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
47.16 |
0.9734 |
0.0388 |
289 |
1 |
47.16 |
2012-06-26 |
| 24. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
47.08 |
0.8810 |
0.1298 |
282 |
1 |
47.08 |
2012-06-26 |
| 25. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
46.94 |
1.0577 |
-0.0541 |
247 |
1 |
46.94 |
2012-06-26 |
| 26. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
46.56 |
0.9342 |
0.0686 |
434 |
2 |
46.25 |
2012-06-26 |
| 27. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
46.55 |
1.0288 |
0.0025 |
300 |
1 |
46.55 |
2012-06-26 |
| 28. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
46.49 |
1.0004 |
-0.0090 |
212 |
1 |
46.49 |
2012-06-26 |
| 29. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
46.22 |
1.0183 |
-0.0321 |
191 |
1 |
46.22 |
2012-06-26 |
| 30. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
46.21 |
0.9578 |
0.0335 |
281 |
1 |
46.21 |
2012-06-26 |
| 31. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
46.07 |
1.0711 |
-0.0879 |
213 |
1 |
46.07 |
2012-06-26 |
| 32. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
46.06 |
1.1081 |
-0.0857 |
206 |
1 |
46.06 |
2012-06-26 |
| 33. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
45.99 |
1.0232 |
0.0093 |
350 |
1 |
45.99 |
2012-06-27 |
| 34. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
45.48 |
1.0099 |
-0.0375 |
207 |
1 |
45.48 |
2012-06-26 |
| 35. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
45.40 |
0.9247 |
0.0538 |
253 |
1 |
45.40 |
2012-06-26 |
| 36. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
45.40 |
0.8533 |
0.1215 |
232 |
1 |
45.40 |
2012-06-26 |
| 37. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
45.29 |
0.9841 |
-0.0086 |
334 |
1 |
45.29 |
2012-06-26 |
| 38. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
45.16 |
0.9897 |
-0.0234 |
274 |
1 |
45.16 |
2012-06-26 |
| 39. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
45.13 |
0.9084 |
0.0633 |
404 |
1 |
45.13 |
2012-06-26 |
| 40. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
44.93 |
1.0138 |
-0.0506 |
231 |
1 |
44.93 |
2012-06-26 |
| 41. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
44.93 |
1.0063 |
-0.0425 |
371 |
1 |
44.93 |
2012-06-26 |
| 42. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
44.16 |
0.9109 |
0.0390 |
401 |
2 |
43.26 |
2012-06-26 |
| 43. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
44.09 |
0.9353 |
0.0055 |
177 |
1 |
44.09 |
2012-06-26 |
| 44. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
43.88 |
0.9866 |
-0.0492 |
218 |
1 |
43.88 |
2012-06-26 |
| 45. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
43.80 |
1.0441 |
-0.1038 |
252 |
1 |
43.80 |
2012-06-26 |
| 46. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
43.62 |
1.1215 |
-0.1625 |
200 |
1 |
43.62 |
2012-06-26 |
| 47. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
43.58 |
0.9994 |
-0.0343 |
269 |
1 |
43.58 |
2012-06-26 |
| 48. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
42.69 |
0.9706 |
-0.0517 |
216 |
1 |
42.69 |
2012-06-26 |
| 49. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
42.66 |
0.9740 |
-0.0640 |
209 |
1 |
42.66 |
2012-06-26 |
| 50. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
42.63 |
0.8826 |
0.0327 |
241 |
1 |
42.63 |
2012-06-26 |
| 51. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
42.53 |
0.9593 |
-0.0431 |
398 |
1 |
42.53 |
2012-06-26 |
| 52. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
42.24 |
0.8884 |
0.0167 |
135 |
1 |
42.24 |
2012-06-26 |
| 53. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
42.14 |
0.8914 |
0.0120 |
366 |
1 |
42.14 |
2012-06-26 |
| 54. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
42.13 |
0.9633 |
-0.0586 |
304 |
2 |
41.53 |
2012-06-26 |
| 55. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
42.05 |
1.0117 |
-0.0660 |
297 |
1 |
42.05 |
2012-06-26 |
| 56. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
41.89 |
0.8442 |
0.0573 |
265 |
1 |
41.89 |
2012-06-26 |
| 57. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
41.64 |
1.0352 |
-0.1404 |
341 |
1 |
41.64 |
2012-06-26 |
| 58. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
41.22 |
1.0883 |
-0.1732 |
303 |
1 |
41.22 |
2012-06-26 |
| 59. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
41.12 |
1.0385 |
-0.1595 |
230 |
1 |
41.12 |
2012-06-26 |
| 60. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
40.87 |
0.8723 |
-0.0013 |
185 |
1 |
40.87 |
2012-06-26 |
| 61. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
40.55 |
0.8022 |
0.0689 |
215 |
1 |
40.55 |
2012-06-26 |
| 62. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
40.22 |
0.8852 |
-0.0215 |
201 |
1 |
40.22 |
2012-06-26 |
| 63. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
40.03 |
0.9871 |
-0.1072 |
227 |
1 |
40.03 |
2012-06-26 |
| 64. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
39.94 |
0.9348 |
-0.0720 |
229 |
1 |
39.94 |
2012-06-26 |
| 65. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
39.65 |
1.0284 |
-0.1362 |
282 |
1 |
39.65 |
2012-06-26 |
| 66. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
39.62 |
1.0673 |
-0.1774 |
230 |
1 |
39.62 |
2012-06-26 |