| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
75.79 |
1.0214 |
0.2180 |
269 |
1 |
75.79 |
2009-11-20 |
| 2. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
75.74 |
0.9844 |
0.2556 |
293 |
1 |
75.74 |
2009-11-18 |
| 3. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
74.95 |
1.0768 |
0.1879 |
295 |
2 |
73.70 |
2010-01-17 |
| 4. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
73.85 |
1.0829 |
0.1251 |
288 |
1 |
73.85 |
2009-11-19 |
| 5. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
73.16 |
0.9820 |
0.2126 |
274 |
1 |
73.16 |
2009-11-19 |
| 6. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
71.53 |
1.0340 |
0.1376 |
406 |
1 |
71.53 |
2010-01-29 |
| 7. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
70.29 |
1.0528 |
0.0938 |
201 |
1 |
70.29 |
2010-01-17 |
| 8. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
69.97 |
1.0289 |
0.1161 |
276 |
1 |
69.97 |
2009-11-19 |
| 9. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
69.61 |
1.0498 |
0.0848 |
180 |
1 |
69.61 |
2009-11-18 |
| 10. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
69.04 |
0.9724 |
0.1560 |
237 |
1 |
69.04 |
2009-11-19 |
| 11. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
68.75 |
1.0506 |
0.1025 |
277 |
1 |
68.75 |
2009-12-03 |
| 12. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
68.12 |
1.0944 |
0.0614 |
308 |
1 |
68.12 |
2010-01-17 |
| 13. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
67.98 |
0.9649 |
0.1454 |
193 |
1 |
67.98 |
2010-01-29 |
| 14. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
67.89 |
1.0696 |
0.0378 |
226 |
2 |
64.57 |
2009-12-03 |
| 15. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
67.84 |
1.0013 |
0.1069 |
273 |
1 |
67.84 |
2009-11-19 |
| 16. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
67.77 |
0.9986 |
0.1089 |
283 |
1 |
67.77 |
2009-12-03 |
| 17. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
67.32 |
1.0529 |
0.0470 |
351 |
2 |
62.29 |
2009-12-03 |
| 18. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
67.01 |
0.9798 |
0.1115 |
199 |
1 |
67.01 |
2009-11-20 |
| 19. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
66.46 |
1.0292 |
0.0556 |
262 |
1 |
66.46 |
2009-12-03 |
| 20. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
66.46 |
0.9965 |
0.0872 |
168 |
1 |
66.46 |
2009-11-18 |
| 21. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
66.19 |
0.9411 |
0.1414 |
318 |
1 |
66.19 |
2009-12-03 |
| 22. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
65.76 |
1.0941 |
0.0128 |
256 |
1 |
65.76 |
2009-12-03 |
| 23. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
65.09 |
1.0201 |
0.0439 |
303 |
3 |
60.55 |
2009-12-03 |
| 24. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
65.09 |
1.0595 |
0.0043 |
379 |
1 |
65.09 |
2010-01-17 |
| 25. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
64.71 |
0.9527 |
0.1042 |
251 |
1 |
64.71 |
2009-11-19 |
| 26. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
64.60 |
1.0352 |
0.0211 |
341 |
1 |
64.60 |
2009-12-03 |
| 27. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
64.51 |
1.0417 |
0.0107 |
253 |
1 |
64.51 |
2010-01-29 |
| 28. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
64.49 |
1.0117 |
0.0856 |
297 |
1 |
64.49 |
2010-01-29 |
| 29. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
63.83 |
0.9540 |
0.0880 |
285 |
2 |
61.04 |
2009-12-03 |
| 30. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
63.30 |
1.0390 |
-0.0081 |
205 |
1 |
63.30 |
2009-12-03 |
| 31. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
63.13 |
0.9681 |
0.0663 |
378 |
1 |
63.13 |
2009-11-19 |
| 32. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
62.99 |
1.0907 |
-0.0621 |
303 |
1 |
62.99 |
2009-12-03 |
| 33. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
62.91 |
1.0141 |
0.0454 |
304 |
1 |
62.91 |
2009-12-03 |
| 34. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
62.42 |
0.9682 |
0.0497 |
143 |
1 |
62.42 |
2009-12-03 |
| 35. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
62.25 |
0.9089 |
0.1088 |
342 |
1 |
62.25 |
2009-12-03 |
| 36. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
62.13 |
1.0577 |
-0.0459 |
247 |
1 |
62.13 |
2009-11-20 |
| 37. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
62.12 |
1.1068 |
-0.0574 |
393 |
1 |
62.12 |
2009-12-03 |
| 38. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
61.71 |
1.0496 |
-0.0430 |
314 |
2 |
60.11 |
2009-11-19 |
| 39. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
61.58 |
0.9567 |
0.0920 |
184 |
1 |
61.58 |
2010-01-29 |
| 40. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
61.49 |
1.0023 |
-0.0007 |
211 |
1 |
61.49 |
2009-12-03 |
| 41. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
61.47 |
0.9675 |
0.0403 |
383 |
1 |
61.47 |
2010-01-29 |
| 42. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
61.40 |
1.0485 |
-0.0089 |
153 |
1 |
61.40 |
2010-02-12 |
| 43. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
61.31 |
0.9899 |
0.0081 |
163 |
1 |
61.31 |
2009-12-03 |
| 44. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
61.29 |
1.1018 |
-0.1049 |
220 |
1 |
61.29 |
2009-11-20 |
| 45. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
61.09 |
1.0385 |
-0.0423 |
230 |
1 |
61.09 |
2009-12-03 |
| 46. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
60.69 |
1.0331 |
-0.0449 |
234 |
1 |
60.69 |
2009-11-18 |
| 47. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
60.60 |
0.9879 |
0.0053 |
450 |
1 |
60.60 |
2009-12-03 |
| 48. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
60.42 |
0.9289 |
0.0562 |
204 |
1 |
60.42 |
2009-11-20 |
| 49. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
60.24 |
0.9279 |
0.0581 |
317 |
1 |
60.24 |
2010-01-29 |
| 50. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
59.66 |
0.9722 |
0.0005 |
283 |
1 |
59.66 |
2009-11-18 |
| 51. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
59.24 |
0.9938 |
-0.0273 |
339 |
1 |
59.24 |
2009-11-19 |
| 52. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
59.17 |
1.0154 |
-0.0029 |
351 |
1 |
59.17 |
2009-12-03 |
| 53. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
59.02 |
0.9687 |
-0.0033 |
371 |
1 |
59.02 |
2009-11-19 |
| 54. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
58.93 |
0.9372 |
0.0273 |
320 |
1 |
58.93 |
2009-12-03 |
| 55. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
58.84 |
1.0669 |
-0.0734 |
286 |
1 |
58.84 |
2009-11-18 |
| 56. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
58.64 |
1.0165 |
-0.0586 |
392 |
1 |
58.64 |
2009-12-03 |
| 57. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
58.58 |
1.0077 |
-0.0106 |
250 |
1 |
58.58 |
2009-12-03 |
| 58. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
58.58 |
0.9635 |
-0.0059 |
389 |
1 |
58.58 |
2010-01-17 |
| 59. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
58.38 |
0.9763 |
-0.0237 |
289 |
1 |
58.38 |
2010-01-29 |
| 60. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
58.27 |
1.0545 |
-0.0680 |
416 |
2 |
56.13 |
2009-11-19 |
| 61. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
58.21 |
0.9811 |
-0.0305 |
272 |
2 |
57.62 |
2010-01-17 |
| 62. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
57.71 |
1.0201 |
-0.0767 |
375 |
1 |
57.71 |
2009-11-18 |
| 63. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
57.59 |
1.0328 |
-0.0599 |
356 |
1 |
57.59 |
2010-01-29 |
| 64. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
57.59 |
0.9213 |
0.0189 |
295 |
2 |
56.31 |
2009-12-03 |
| 65. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
57.29 |
0.9612 |
-0.0261 |
256 |
1 |
57.29 |
2009-11-19 |
| 66. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
57.28 |
0.9756 |
-0.0420 |
229 |
1 |
57.28 |
2009-11-18 |
| 67. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
57.25 |
1.0060 |
-0.0748 |
171 |
1 |
57.25 |
2010-01-17 |
| 68. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
57.13 |
1.0714 |
-0.1435 |
129 |
1 |
57.13 |
2009-11-18 |
| 69. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
57.08 |
0.9072 |
0.0229 |
237 |
2 |
53.75 |
2010-01-29 |
| 70. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
57.07 |
1.0150 |
-0.0385 |
325 |
1 |
57.07 |
2009-12-03 |
| 71. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
56.57 |
0.9309 |
-0.0096 |
284 |
1 |
56.57 |
2009-12-03 |
| 72. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
56.48 |
1.0389 |
-0.1169 |
340 |
1 |
56.48 |
2010-01-29 |
| 73. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
56.41 |
1.0029 |
-0.0855 |
209 |
1 |
56.41 |
2009-11-18 |
| 74. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
55.97 |
1.0177 |
-0.0713 |
392 |
2 |
54.89 |
2009-11-20 |
| 75. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
55.65 |
1.0214 |
-0.1165 |
166 |
1 |
55.65 |
2009-12-03 |
| 76. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
55.21 |
0.9342 |
-0.0317 |
434 |
1 |
55.21 |
2010-01-29 |
| 77. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
55.20 |
0.8947 |
0.0092 |
366 |
1 |
55.20 |
2009-11-18 |
| 78. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
55.00 |
1.0016 |
-0.1069 |
218 |
1 |
55.00 |
2009-11-18 |
| 79. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
54.77 |
1.0211 |
-0.0961 |
213 |
1 |
54.77 |
2009-11-19 |
| 80. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
54.73 |
0.9857 |
-0.0934 |
293 |
1 |
54.73 |
2009-11-20 |
| 81. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
54.39 |
0.9546 |
-0.0392 |
198 |
1 |
54.39 |
2009-11-19 |
| 82. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
54.07 |
0.9351 |
-0.0567 |
190 |
1 |
54.07 |
2009-11-18 |
| 83. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
54.04 |
0.9045 |
-0.0236 |
235 |
1 |
54.04 |
2009-11-19 |
| 84. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
53.86 |
1.0213 |
-0.1449 |
240 |
1 |
53.86 |
2009-11-18 |
| 85. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
53.85 |
0.9965 |
-0.1189 |
310 |
1 |
53.85 |
2009-11-19 |
| 86. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
53.61 |
0.8810 |
-0.0061 |
282 |
1 |
53.61 |
2009-12-03 |
| 87. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
53.51 |
0.9485 |
-0.0759 |
236 |
1 |
53.51 |
2010-01-17 |
| 88. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
53.32 |
0.9212 |
-0.0511 |
323 |
1 |
53.32 |
2009-11-18 |
| 89. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
53.01 |
0.8553 |
0.0066 |
174 |
1 |
53.01 |
2010-01-29 |
| 90. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
52.49 |
1.0173 |
-0.1171 |
268 |
1 |
52.49 |
2009-11-19 |
| 91. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
52.03 |
0.9109 |
-0.0615 |
401 |
1 |
52.03 |
2009-12-03 |
| 92. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
51.64 |
0.9964 |
-0.1554 |
203 |
1 |
51.64 |
2009-11-18 |
| 93. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
50.87 |
0.9697 |
-0.1402 |
249 |
1 |
50.87 |
2009-11-19 |
| 94. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
49.29 |
1.0346 |
-0.1896 |
244 |
1 |
49.29 |
2009-11-19 |
| 95. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
49.06 |
0.8382 |
-0.0389 |
268 |
1 |
49.06 |
2009-11-19 |
| 96. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
49.05 |
0.8747 |
-0.0805 |
201 |
1 |
49.05 |
2009-11-18 |
| 97. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
47.94 |
0.9710 |
-0.1939 |
173 |
1 |
47.94 |
2009-11-18 |