| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
53.97 |
0.9773 |
0.3017 |
123 |
1 |
53.97 |
2011-03-10 |
| 2. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
52.87 |
1.0213 |
0.2336 |
240 |
1 |
52.87 |
2011-03-11 |
| 3. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
52.48 |
0.8910 |
0.3560 |
150 |
2 |
48.38 |
2011-03-10 |
| 4. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
52.04 |
1.0211 |
0.2475 |
213 |
2 |
49.21 |
2011-03-11 |
| 5. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
51.05 |
1.0797 |
0.1297 |
210 |
1 |
51.05 |
2011-03-09 |
| 6. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
50.73 |
1.0252 |
0.1769 |
176 |
2 |
47.62 |
2011-03-03 |
| 7. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
50.15 |
1.0788 |
0.1090 |
171 |
1 |
50.15 |
2011-03-09 |
| 8. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
49.81 |
1.0297 |
0.1524 |
249 |
1 |
49.81 |
2011-03-10 |
| 9. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
48.66 |
1.0883 |
0.0996 |
303 |
1 |
48.66 |
2011-03-09 |
| 10. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
48.50 |
0.9684 |
0.1845 |
388 |
2 |
45.34 |
2011-03-10 |
| 11. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
47.97 |
1.0034 |
0.1348 |
302 |
1 |
47.97 |
2011-03-10 |
| 12. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
47.80 |
0.8918 |
0.2408 |
100 |
1 |
47.80 |
2011-03-09 |
| 13. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
47.60 |
1.0240 |
0.1028 |
256 |
2 |
47.23 |
2011-03-10 |
| 14. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
47.26 |
0.8628 |
0.2583 |
196 |
1 |
47.26 |
2011-03-02 |
| 15. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
47.24 |
0.9938 |
0.1276 |
339 |
1 |
47.24 |
2011-03-11 |
| 16. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
47.22 |
1.1016 |
0.0184 |
233 |
1 |
47.22 |
2011-03-10 |
| 17. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
46.82 |
1.0337 |
0.0764 |
214 |
1 |
46.82 |
2011-03-03 |
| 18. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
46.79 |
0.9221 |
0.1875 |
244 |
1 |
46.79 |
2011-03-09 |
| 19. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
46.54 |
0.9886 |
0.1167 |
220 |
1 |
46.54 |
2011-03-09 |
| 20. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
46.30 |
1.0417 |
0.0561 |
253 |
1 |
46.30 |
2011-03-02 |
| 21. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
45.90 |
0.8971 |
0.1941 |
266 |
1 |
45.90 |
2011-03-09 |
| 22. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
45.75 |
0.9772 |
0.1077 |
217 |
1 |
45.75 |
2011-03-09 |
| 23. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
45.69 |
0.9646 |
0.1193 |
264 |
1 |
45.69 |
2011-03-10 |
| 24. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
45.66 |
0.9540 |
0.1294 |
285 |
2 |
43.76 |
2011-03-09 |
| 25. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
45.58 |
1.0063 |
0.0754 |
371 |
1 |
45.58 |
2011-03-09 |
| 26. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
45.57 |
1.0595 |
0.0227 |
379 |
1 |
45.57 |
2011-03-03 |
| 27. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
45.35 |
0.9763 |
0.1000 |
289 |
1 |
45.35 |
2011-03-10 |
| 28. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
45.27 |
1.0120 |
0.0625 |
290 |
1 |
45.27 |
2011-03-02 |
| 29. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
44.66 |
1.0270 |
0.0683 |
255 |
1 |
44.66 |
2011-03-10 |
| 30. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
44.45 |
1.0399 |
0.0159 |
294 |
1 |
44.45 |
2011-03-03 |
| 31. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
44.43 |
1.0284 |
0.0684 |
282 |
1 |
44.43 |
2011-03-11 |
| 32. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
44.42 |
0.9865 |
0.0678 |
276 |
1 |
44.42 |
2011-03-10 |
| 33. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
44.38 |
0.9994 |
0.0845 |
269 |
1 |
44.38 |
2011-03-10 |
| 34. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
44.36 |
1.0462 |
0.0031 |
184 |
1 |
44.36 |
2011-03-03 |
| 35. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
44.24 |
0.9207 |
0.1292 |
174 |
1 |
44.24 |
2011-03-03 |
| 36. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
44.10 |
1.0796 |
-0.0370 |
129 |
1 |
44.10 |
2011-03-11 |
| 37. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
44.05 |
1.0151 |
0.0249 |
152 |
1 |
44.05 |
2011-03-03 |
| 38. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
43.93 |
0.9966 |
0.0455 |
259 |
1 |
43.93 |
2011-03-02 |
| 39. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
43.91 |
0.9936 |
0.0717 |
227 |
1 |
43.91 |
2011-03-02 |
| 40. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
43.90 |
0.9072 |
0.1334 |
237 |
1 |
43.90 |
2011-03-09 |
| 41. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
43.61 |
0.9307 |
0.1099 |
246 |
1 |
43.61 |
2011-03-02 |
| 42. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
43.59 |
1.0684 |
-0.0045 |
253 |
1 |
43.59 |
2011-03-09 |
| 43. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
43.53 |
0.9758 |
0.0570 |
314 |
1 |
43.53 |
2011-03-11 |
| 44. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
43.53 |
0.8914 |
0.1410 |
366 |
1 |
43.53 |
2011-03-10 |
| 45. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
43.52 |
1.0515 |
-0.0204 |
250 |
2 |
43.50 |
2011-03-11 |
| 46. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
43.51 |
1.0608 |
0.0061 |
258 |
2 |
42.12 |
2011-03-09 |
| 47. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
43.43 |
0.8442 |
0.1882 |
265 |
1 |
43.43 |
2011-03-03 |
| 48. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
43.20 |
1.0232 |
0.0464 |
350 |
2 |
40.23 |
2011-03-09 |
| 49. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
42.99 |
0.9572 |
0.0610 |
201 |
1 |
42.99 |
2011-03-03 |
| 50. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
42.92 |
0.8821 |
0.1343 |
176 |
1 |
42.92 |
2011-03-02 |
| 51. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
42.89 |
0.9266 |
0.0908 |
267 |
2 |
41.24 |
2011-03-11 |
| 52. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
42.83 |
1.0023 |
0.0114 |
211 |
1 |
42.83 |
2011-03-10 |
| 53. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
42.82 |
0.8520 |
0.1637 |
202 |
1 |
42.82 |
2011-03-09 |
| 54. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
42.66 |
0.8826 |
0.1311 |
296 |
1 |
42.66 |
2011-03-09 |
| 55. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
42.51 |
0.9651 |
0.0762 |
389 |
1 |
42.51 |
2011-03-02 |
| 56. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
42.21 |
0.9769 |
0.0228 |
263 |
1 |
42.21 |
2011-03-09 |
| 57. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
42.21 |
0.8884 |
0.1121 |
135 |
1 |
42.21 |
2011-03-03 |
| 58. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
41.90 |
0.9841 |
0.0108 |
334 |
1 |
41.90 |
2011-03-10 |
| 59. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
41.66 |
1.0013 |
-0.0138 |
273 |
1 |
41.66 |
2011-03-09 |
| 60. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
41.62 |
0.9461 |
0.0396 |
276 |
1 |
41.62 |
2011-03-03 |
| 61. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
41.37 |
0.9430 |
0.0392 |
297 |
1 |
41.37 |
2011-03-03 |
| 62. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
41.33 |
0.9756 |
0.0036 |
229 |
1 |
41.33 |
2011-03-11 |
| 63. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
41.17 |
1.0099 |
-0.0346 |
207 |
1 |
41.17 |
2011-03-09 |
| 64. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
41.11 |
0.9023 |
0.1167 |
231 |
1 |
41.11 |
2011-03-02 |
| 65. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
41.06 |
0.9711 |
0.0014 |
176 |
1 |
41.06 |
2011-03-02 |
| 66. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
41.05 |
0.9612 |
0.0126 |
256 |
1 |
41.05 |
2011-03-03 |
| 67. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
41.02 |
1.0719 |
-0.0714 |
360 |
1 |
41.02 |
2011-03-10 |
| 68. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
40.66 |
1.0029 |
-0.0416 |
209 |
1 |
40.66 |
2011-03-10 |
| 69. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
40.54 |
0.8573 |
0.1058 |
270 |
1 |
40.54 |
2011-03-10 |
| 70. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
40.48 |
0.8809 |
0.0752 |
127 |
1 |
40.48 |
2011-03-09 |
| 71. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
40.43 |
0.8916 |
0.0671 |
216 |
2 |
37.13 |
2011-03-10 |
| 72. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
40.38 |
0.9068 |
0.0494 |
225 |
1 |
40.38 |
2011-03-03 |
| 73. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
40.21 |
0.9619 |
-0.0059 |
393 |
2 |
39.51 |
2011-03-02 |
| 74. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
40.19 |
0.8890 |
0.0621 |
199 |
1 |
40.19 |
2011-03-09 |
| 75. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
40.19 |
1.1162 |
-0.1232 |
189 |
1 |
40.19 |
2011-03-03 |
| 76. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
40.11 |
1.0083 |
-0.0139 |
273 |
1 |
40.11 |
2011-03-11 |
| 77. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
39.77 |
1.0943 |
-0.1188 |
206 |
1 |
39.77 |
2011-03-02 |
| 78. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
39.70 |
0.9871 |
-0.0076 |
209 |
1 |
39.70 |
2011-03-03 |
| 79. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
39.64 |
1.0117 |
-0.0282 |
297 |
2 |
39.26 |
2011-03-02 |
| 80. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
39.54 |
0.9213 |
0.0165 |
295 |
1 |
39.54 |
2011-03-09 |
| 81. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
39.48 |
0.8791 |
0.0556 |
190 |
1 |
39.48 |
2011-03-11 |
| 82. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
39.47 |
0.9266 |
0.0083 |
278 |
1 |
39.47 |
2011-03-09 |
| 83. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
39.45 |
0.9216 |
0.0501 |
255 |
1 |
39.45 |
2011-03-02 |
| 84. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
39.38 |
0.9670 |
0.0068 |
307 |
1 |
39.38 |
2011-03-10 |
| 85. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
39.26 |
0.9212 |
0.0097 |
231 |
1 |
39.26 |
2011-03-09 |
| 86. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
38.95 |
0.9786 |
-0.0558 |
235 |
1 |
38.95 |
2011-03-11 |
| 87. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
38.40 |
0.9792 |
-0.0319 |
265 |
1 |
38.40 |
2011-03-10 |
| 88. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
38.16 |
0.9633 |
-0.0596 |
304 |
1 |
38.16 |
2011-03-02 |
| 89. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
37.95 |
0.9005 |
-0.0012 |
212 |
1 |
37.95 |
2011-03-03 |
| 90. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
37.94 |
1.0042 |
-0.0678 |
352 |
1 |
37.94 |
2011-03-09 |
| 91. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
37.89 |
0.9710 |
-0.0767 |
173 |
1 |
37.89 |
2011-03-03 |
| 92. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
37.86 |
0.8941 |
0.0037 |
216 |
1 |
37.86 |
2011-03-03 |
| 93. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
37.68 |
1.0203 |
-0.1255 |
261 |
1 |
37.68 |
2011-03-03 |
| 94. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
37.56 |
0.9851 |
-0.0948 |
317 |
1 |
37.56 |
2011-03-11 |
| 95. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
37.18 |
0.8852 |
-0.0041 |
201 |
1 |
37.18 |
2011-03-03 |
| 96. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
37.07 |
0.9632 |
-0.0476 |
345 |
1 |
37.07 |
2011-03-03 |
| 97. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
36.66 |
1.0090 |
-0.0978 |
282 |
2 |
35.74 |
2011-03-11 |
| 98. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
36.65 |
0.9776 |
-0.1094 |
308 |
1 |
36.65 |
2011-03-03 |
| 99. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
36.36 |
0.8878 |
-0.0268 |
346 |
1 |
36.36 |
2011-03-09 |
| 100. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
36.11 |
0.9045 |
-0.0496 |
235 |
1 |
36.11 |
2011-03-02 |
| 101. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
35.98 |
0.9567 |
-0.0615 |
184 |
1 |
35.98 |
2011-03-02 |
| 102. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
35.87 |
0.9310 |
-0.0842 |
188 |
1 |
35.87 |
2011-03-10 |
| 103. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
35.72 |
0.8153 |
0.0318 |
200 |
1 |
35.72 |
2011-03-02 |
| 104. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
35.31 |
0.8961 |
-0.0606 |
189 |
1 |
35.31 |
2011-03-10 |
| 105. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
35.03 |
0.8382 |
-0.0087 |
268 |
1 |
35.03 |
2011-03-09 |
| 106. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
34.94 |
0.9500 |
-0.1216 |
362 |
1 |
34.94 |
2011-03-03 |
| 107. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
34.07 |
0.8919 |
-0.0862 |
205 |
1 |
34.07 |
2011-03-04 |
| 108. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
33.73 |
0.9912 |
-0.1642 |
237 |
1 |
33.73 |
2011-03-10 |
| 109. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
32.95 |
0.8773 |
-0.0976 |
205 |
1 |
32.95 |
2011-03-02 |
| 110. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.62 |
0.8595 |
-0.0874 |
242 |
1 |
32.62 |
2011-03-02 |
| 111. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
31.95 |
1.0077 |
-0.2112 |
250 |
1 |
31.95 |
2011-03-02 |
| 112. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
31.82 |
0.8770 |
-0.1231 |
300 |
1 |
31.82 |
2011-03-03 |
| 113. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
30.64 |
0.8615 |
-0.1371 |
110 |
1 |
30.64 |
2011-03-11 |
| 114. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
30.08 |
0.9048 |
-0.1921 |
271 |
1 |
30.08 |
2011-03-11 |
| 115. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
25.25 |
1.0767 |
-0.4836 |
212 |
1 |
25.25 |
2011-03-11 |