| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
52.38 |
1.1016 |
0.3399 |
233 |
1 |
52.38 |
2013-11-19 |
| 2. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
50.40 |
1.0201 |
0.3668 |
303 |
1 |
50.40 |
2014-12-18 |
| 3. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
50.08 |
1.0767 |
0.2987 |
212 |
2 |
47.21 |
2014-04-15 |
| 4. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
48.01 |
0.8709 |
0.4571 |
202 |
1 |
48.01 |
2014-05-06 |
| 5. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
47.09 |
1.1022 |
0.2275 |
259 |
1 |
47.09 |
2014-05-12 |
| 6. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
46.85 |
0.9287 |
0.3532 |
108 |
1 |
46.85 |
2014-02-19 |
| 7. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
46.65 |
1.0565 |
0.2232 |
247 |
1 |
46.65 |
2014-05-06 |
| 8. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
43.94 |
1.0463 |
0.1562 |
182 |
1 |
43.94 |
2013-12-13 |
| 9. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
42.88 |
1.0203 |
0.1608 |
261 |
1 |
42.88 |
2014-12-18 |
| 10. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
42.45 |
0.9187 |
0.2371 |
118 |
2 |
36.41 |
2014-02-06 |
| 11. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
42.31 |
1.0205 |
0.1348 |
179 |
2 |
38.74 |
2013-11-05 |
| 12. |
You came close, but you never made it, and if you were gonna... |
41.92 |
0.9126 |
0.2302 |
96 |
1 |
41.92 |
2013-11-07 |
| 13. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
41.81 |
0.9598 |
0.1956 |
220 |
1 |
41.81 |
2013-11-08 |
| 14. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
41.65 |
1.0972 |
0.0759 |
251 |
1 |
41.65 |
2014-05-16 |
| 15. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
40.95 |
0.9251 |
0.2040 |
177 |
2 |
39.39 |
2013-12-10 |
| 16. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
40.76 |
0.9724 |
0.1500 |
237 |
1 |
40.76 |
2014-02-14 |
| 17. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
40.53 |
0.9097 |
0.2030 |
153 |
3 |
35.02 |
2014-02-14 |
| 18. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
40.07 |
0.9247 |
0.1796 |
253 |
1 |
40.07 |
2014-02-04 |
| 19. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
39.78 |
0.8745 |
0.2149 |
169 |
1 |
39.78 |
2014-02-19 |
| 20. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
39.69 |
0.8442 |
0.2489 |
265 |
1 |
39.69 |
2014-05-13 |
| 21. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
39.55 |
1.0441 |
0.0426 |
252 |
1 |
39.55 |
2014-02-06 |
| 22. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
39.20 |
0.9820 |
0.0937 |
274 |
1 |
39.20 |
2014-02-25 |
| 23. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
39.20 |
0.9911 |
0.0811 |
212 |
1 |
39.20 |
2013-12-13 |
| 24. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
38.99 |
0.8725 |
0.1993 |
163 |
1 |
38.99 |
2014-05-06 |
| 25. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
38.75 |
1.0528 |
0.0052 |
201 |
2 |
35.23 |
2014-04-25 |
| 26. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
38.50 |
1.1114 |
-0.0580 |
247 |
1 |
38.50 |
2013-11-20 |
| 27. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
38.44 |
0.7988 |
0.2643 |
219 |
1 |
38.44 |
2014-04-25 |
| 28. |
I leave you with photographs, pictures of trickery, and stai... |
38.42 |
0.9016 |
0.1599 |
192 |
1 |
38.42 |
2013-11-05 |
| 29. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
38.41 |
0.8941 |
0.1615 |
216 |
1 |
38.41 |
2014-04-15 |
| 30. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
38.09 |
0.9171 |
0.1279 |
165 |
2 |
35.63 |
2014-02-19 |
| 31. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
38.01 |
1.0787 |
-0.0375 |
237 |
1 |
38.01 |
2014-04-15 |
| 32. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
37.92 |
1.0799 |
-0.0436 |
243 |
1 |
37.92 |
2014-02-04 |
| 33. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
37.91 |
0.9986 |
0.0417 |
283 |
1 |
37.91 |
2014-04-15 |
| 34. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
37.80 |
0.8700 |
0.1659 |
127 |
1 |
37.80 |
2014-02-19 |
| 35. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
37.80 |
0.9131 |
0.1189 |
144 |
1 |
37.80 |
2013-11-07 |
| 36. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
37.70 |
1.1018 |
-0.0744 |
220 |
1 |
37.70 |
2013-12-10 |
| 37. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
37.66 |
0.8892 |
0.1495 |
207 |
1 |
37.66 |
2013-11-08 |
| 38. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
37.49 |
0.9697 |
0.0585 |
249 |
1 |
37.49 |
2013-11-20 |
| 39. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
37.42 |
1.0390 |
-0.0167 |
205 |
2 |
33.96 |
2014-02-07 |
| 40. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
37.41 |
0.9846 |
0.0401 |
281 |
1 |
37.41 |
2014-02-14 |
| 41. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
37.39 |
0.9418 |
0.0890 |
188 |
1 |
37.39 |
2013-12-12 |
| 42. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
37.27 |
1.0993 |
-0.0795 |
265 |
1 |
37.27 |
2014-02-25 |
| 43. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
37.17 |
1.0218 |
-0.0056 |
268 |
1 |
37.17 |
2014-02-27 |
| 44. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
36.90 |
0.8912 |
0.1226 |
186 |
1 |
36.90 |
2014-01-22 |
| 45. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
36.64 |
0.9614 |
0.0460 |
292 |
1 |
36.64 |
2013-12-12 |
| 46. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.16 |
0.9899 |
-0.0035 |
163 |
2 |
36.15 |
2014-02-25 |
| 47. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
36.00 |
0.9844 |
0.0070 |
293 |
1 |
36.00 |
2014-02-27 |
| 48. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
35.90 |
0.9340 |
0.0497 |
296 |
2 |
35.27 |
2013-11-07 |
| 49. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
35.83 |
0.9310 |
0.0470 |
188 |
1 |
35.83 |
2014-04-09 |
| 50. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
35.81 |
1.0644 |
-0.0469 |
257 |
2 |
35.33 |
2013-12-13 |
| 51. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
35.76 |
1.0917 |
-0.0882 |
243 |
1 |
35.76 |
2013-10-31 |
| 52. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
35.58 |
1.0261 |
-0.0117 |
410 |
1 |
35.58 |
2013-12-10 |
| 53. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
35.49 |
0.9148 |
0.0591 |
317 |
1 |
35.49 |
2014-05-16 |
| 54. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
35.40 |
0.8660 |
0.1044 |
193 |
1 |
35.40 |
2013-10-28 |
| 55. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
35.30 |
0.8994 |
0.0699 |
188 |
1 |
35.30 |
2014-02-06 |
| 56. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
35.26 |
0.9976 |
-0.0113 |
174 |
1 |
35.26 |
2014-02-04 |
| 57. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
35.16 |
1.0151 |
-0.0603 |
152 |
1 |
35.16 |
2013-11-20 |
| 58. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
35.06 |
0.9711 |
-0.0118 |
176 |
1 |
35.06 |
2013-12-02 |
| 59. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
34.70 |
0.8089 |
0.1387 |
158 |
1 |
34.70 |
2013-11-05 |
| 60. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
34.64 |
1.0883 |
-0.1073 |
303 |
1 |
34.64 |
2013-10-16 |
| 61. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
34.59 |
0.9532 |
-0.0070 |
258 |
1 |
34.59 |
2013-10-24 |
| 62. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
34.47 |
1.0132 |
-0.0777 |
143 |
1 |
34.47 |
2013-11-06 |
| 63. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
34.44 |
1.0033 |
-0.0667 |
189 |
1 |
34.44 |
2014-02-04 |
| 64. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
34.18 |
0.8188 |
0.1184 |
183 |
1 |
34.18 |
2014-02-06 |
| 65. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
34.17 |
1.0412 |
-0.1060 |
225 |
1 |
34.17 |
2014-02-19 |
| 66. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
34.11 |
0.8323 |
0.1023 |
203 |
1 |
34.11 |
2013-11-05 |
| 67. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
34.09 |
0.8821 |
0.0510 |
176 |
1 |
34.09 |
2014-02-04 |
| 68. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
33.98 |
1.0711 |
-0.1456 |
213 |
1 |
33.98 |
2014-02-04 |
| 69. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
33.88 |
0.9045 |
0.0236 |
235 |
1 |
33.88 |
2013-12-10 |
| 70. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
33.65 |
0.8615 |
0.0600 |
110 |
1 |
33.65 |
2013-12-02 |
| 71. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
33.54 |
0.8430 |
0.0771 |
147 |
1 |
33.54 |
2014-02-06 |
| 72. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
33.51 |
1.0608 |
-0.1100 |
258 |
1 |
33.51 |
2013-11-08 |
| 73. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
33.42 |
0.9904 |
-0.0348 |
203 |
1 |
33.42 |
2014-02-06 |
| 74. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
33.32 |
0.8898 |
0.0179 |
158 |
1 |
33.32 |
2014-02-03 |
| 75. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
33.30 |
0.9430 |
-0.0386 |
211 |
1 |
33.30 |
2013-10-28 |
| 76. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
33.29 |
0.8884 |
0.0236 |
135 |
1 |
33.29 |
2013-11-20 |
| 77. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
33.28 |
1.0621 |
-0.1316 |
263 |
1 |
33.28 |
2014-01-22 |
| 78. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
33.18 |
0.8559 |
0.0532 |
191 |
1 |
33.18 |
2013-11-06 |
| 79. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
33.13 |
0.9636 |
-0.0567 |
254 |
1 |
33.13 |
2013-11-05 |
| 80. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
33.07 |
0.9098 |
-0.0082 |
167 |
1 |
33.07 |
2013-12-10 |
| 81. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
32.98 |
0.9461 |
-0.0471 |
193 |
3 |
29.88 |
2014-12-18 |
| 82. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
32.96 |
0.9772 |
-0.0785 |
217 |
1 |
32.96 |
2014-02-03 |
| 83. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
32.57 |
1.0109 |
-0.1187 |
276 |
1 |
32.57 |
2013-12-10 |
| 84. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
32.26 |
0.9161 |
-0.0353 |
200 |
1 |
32.26 |
2013-11-05 |
| 85. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
32.17 |
0.7801 |
0.0966 |
116 |
1 |
32.17 |
2013-11-06 |
| 86. |
If you begin to repeat an error, or if your concentration or... |
31.89 |
0.9505 |
-0.0781 |
204 |
1 |
31.89 |
2013-12-13 |
| 87. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
31.89 |
0.9632 |
-0.0484 |
345 |
1 |
31.89 |
2013-12-10 |
| 88. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
31.84 |
0.9221 |
-0.0525 |
244 |
1 |
31.84 |
2013-10-18 |
| 89. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
31.58 |
1.0314 |
-0.1705 |
172 |
1 |
31.58 |
2014-02-19 |
| 90. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
31.46 |
0.8723 |
-0.0156 |
185 |
1 |
31.46 |
2013-10-18 |
| 91. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
31.43 |
0.9866 |
-0.1305 |
218 |
1 |
31.43 |
2014-02-06 |
| 92. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
30.79 |
0.9966 |
-0.1552 |
259 |
1 |
30.79 |
2013-10-15 |
| 93. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
30.67 |
0.9068 |
-0.0698 |
225 |
1 |
30.67 |
2013-11-05 |
| 94. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
30.15 |
0.8506 |
-0.0306 |
132 |
1 |
30.15 |
2014-02-07 |
| 95. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
30.09 |
0.9843 |
-0.1667 |
234 |
1 |
30.09 |
2013-11-06 |
| 96. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
29.95 |
0.9084 |
-0.0856 |
404 |
1 |
29.95 |
2014-02-07 |
| 97. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
29.67 |
0.9202 |
-0.1100 |
254 |
1 |
29.67 |
2013-11-07 |
| 98. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
29.62 |
1.0788 |
-0.2749 |
171 |
1 |
29.62 |
2013-12-02 |
| 99. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
29.61 |
0.9275 |
-0.1216 |
211 |
1 |
29.61 |
2013-10-24 |
| 100. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
29.30 |
0.8382 |
-0.0371 |
268 |
1 |
29.30 |
2014-02-06 |
| 101. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
28.89 |
0.9307 |
-0.1335 |
246 |
1 |
28.89 |
2013-10-28 |
| 102. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
28.88 |
0.9582 |
-0.1677 |
259 |
1 |
28.88 |
2013-10-15 |
| 103. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
28.09 |
0.8961 |
-0.1325 |
189 |
1 |
28.09 |
2014-02-14 |
| 104. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
28.03 |
0.9176 |
-0.1184 |
267 |
1 |
28.03 |
2013-12-13 |
| 105. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
26.88 |
0.8553 |
-0.1270 |
174 |
1 |
26.88 |
2013-12-13 |
| 106. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
26.85 |
0.8162 |
-0.0785 |
149 |
1 |
26.85 |
2014-02-06 |
| 107. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
26.37 |
0.9682 |
-0.2508 |
143 |
1 |
26.37 |
2013-10-23 |