| 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... |
61.37 |
1.0767 |
1.1494 |
212 |
1 |
61.37 |
2014-03-14 |
| 2. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
56.34 |
0.9128 |
1.1373 |
133 |
1 |
56.34 |
2012-11-08 |
| 3. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
53.75 |
0.9649 |
0.9839 |
193 |
1 |
53.75 |
2014-03-14 |
| 4. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
53.04 |
0.9251 |
1.0039 |
177 |
1 |
53.04 |
2012-11-07 |
| 5. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
48.63 |
1.0120 |
0.7502 |
290 |
1 |
48.63 |
2012-11-08 |
| 6. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
48.10 |
0.9863 |
0.7615 |
339 |
1 |
48.10 |
2012-11-08 |
| 7. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
46.93 |
1.0389 |
0.6637 |
318 |
1 |
46.93 |
2014-03-14 |
| 8. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
45.17 |
1.0528 |
0.5788 |
201 |
2 |
38.52 |
2013-04-17 |
| 9. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
44.28 |
1.0515 |
0.5507 |
250 |
1 |
44.28 |
2012-11-08 |
| 10. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
42.88 |
0.8722 |
0.6834 |
285 |
1 |
42.88 |
2012-11-08 |
| 11. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
42.81 |
0.9084 |
0.6461 |
404 |
1 |
42.81 |
2012-11-08 |
| 12. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
40.10 |
0.7908 |
0.6658 |
127 |
2 |
30.62 |
2012-11-07 |
| 13. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
39.79 |
0.9774 |
0.4623 |
196 |
1 |
39.79 |
2012-11-08 |
| 14. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
36.58 |
0.7801 |
0.5395 |
116 |
2 |
30.33 |
2012-12-14 |
| 15. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
35.53 |
0.7389 |
0.5474 |
145 |
1 |
35.53 |
2012-11-07 |
| 16. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
31.15 |
0.9028 |
0.2205 |
111 |
1 |
31.15 |
2012-11-08 |
| 17. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
30.09 |
1.0151 |
0.0627 |
152 |
1 |
30.09 |
2013-02-12 |
| 18. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
29.11 |
0.7996 |
0.2514 |
177 |
3 |
26.22 |
2013-04-17 |
| 19. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
28.65 |
0.9287 |
0.0990 |
108 |
2 |
25.08 |
2013-02-12 |
| 20. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
28.42 |
0.8619 |
0.1615 |
119 |
1 |
28.42 |
2013-03-08 |
| 21. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
28.37 |
0.9706 |
0.0569 |
216 |
1 |
28.37 |
2013-04-17 |
| 22. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
28.20 |
0.9320 |
0.0782 |
84 |
1 |
28.20 |
2013-02-05 |
| 23. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
27.60 |
0.8763 |
0.1185 |
105 |
2 |
27.09 |
2013-03-06 |
| 24. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
27.44 |
0.9187 |
0.0610 |
118 |
1 |
27.44 |
2013-01-29 |
| 25. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
27.43 |
1.0023 |
-0.0153 |
211 |
2 |
23.78 |
2013-04-17 |
| 26. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
27.39 |
0.8082 |
0.1882 |
186 |
3 |
23.16 |
2013-04-17 |
| 27. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
27.16 |
0.8142 |
0.1597 |
187 |
2 |
24.81 |
2013-04-17 |
| 28. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
27.15 |
1.0252 |
-0.0530 |
176 |
2 |
25.98 |
2013-04-17 |
| 29. |
Never give up. Most races are decided in the last 10 percent... |
27.09 |
0.8713 |
0.0999 |
73 |
1 |
27.09 |
2013-03-08 |
| 30. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
27.00 |
1.0214 |
-0.0537 |
166 |
1 |
27.00 |
2013-01-28 |
| 31. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
26.87 |
1.0346 |
-0.0242 |
244 |
1 |
26.87 |
2013-04-17 |
| 32. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
26.54 |
0.9429 |
0.0146 |
287 |
1 |
26.54 |
2013-04-17 |
| 33. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
26.38 |
0.9325 |
0.0113 |
156 |
3 |
24.10 |
2013-03-08 |
| 34. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
26.22 |
0.8821 |
0.0624 |
176 |
2 |
21.66 |
2013-03-06 |
| 35. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
26.11 |
1.0596 |
-0.1211 |
239 |
1 |
26.11 |
2013-03-06 |
| 36. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
25.81 |
0.9164 |
0.0168 |
121 |
1 |
25.81 |
2013-01-22 |
| 37. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
25.78 |
0.8614 |
0.0652 |
172 |
2 |
22.05 |
2012-12-14 |
| 38. |
The forum has become one of the most consistent places in he... |
25.64 |
0.8481 |
0.0752 |
152 |
1 |
25.64 |
2013-02-16 |
| 39. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
25.46 |
1.0463 |
-0.1339 |
182 |
1 |
25.46 |
2014-03-14 |
| 40. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
25.46 |
0.8876 |
0.0282 |
118 |
2 |
23.48 |
2012-12-14 |
| 41. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
25.34 |
0.9710 |
-0.0648 |
173 |
2 |
22.30 |
2012-12-14 |
| 42. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
24.91 |
0.8122 |
0.0874 |
181 |
1 |
24.91 |
2013-02-12 |
| 43. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
24.81 |
0.8562 |
0.0375 |
170 |
2 |
23.68 |
2013-03-06 |
| 44. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
24.49 |
0.8506 |
0.0270 |
132 |
2 |
23.36 |
2013-03-06 |
| 45. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
24.45 |
1.1215 |
-0.2175 |
200 |
2 |
24.37 |
2013-09-12 |
| 46. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
24.31 |
0.8915 |
-0.0171 |
188 |
2 |
22.23 |
2012-11-08 |
| 47. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
24.18 |
0.8323 |
0.0384 |
203 |
2 |
22.98 |
2013-04-17 |
| 48. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
24.01 |
0.7104 |
0.1567 |
131 |
2 |
22.82 |
2013-04-17 |
| 49. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
23.94 |
0.9196 |
-0.0564 |
148 |
1 |
23.94 |
2012-12-15 |
| 50. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
23.71 |
0.8519 |
0.0047 |
150 |
1 |
23.71 |
2012-12-15 |
| 51. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
23.68 |
0.8162 |
0.0410 |
149 |
2 |
20.95 |
2013-01-28 |
| 52. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
23.67 |
0.8890 |
-0.0410 |
199 |
1 |
23.67 |
2012-12-15 |
| 53. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
23.58 |
1.0025 |
-0.1544 |
256 |
1 |
23.58 |
2012-11-08 |
| 54. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
23.51 |
0.8188 |
0.0282 |
183 |
1 |
23.51 |
2012-12-15 |
| 55. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
23.42 |
0.8520 |
-0.0081 |
202 |
1 |
23.42 |
2013-02-16 |
| 56. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
23.19 |
0.8118 |
0.0273 |
109 |
1 |
23.19 |
2012-11-08 |
| 57. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
23.18 |
0.9632 |
-0.1308 |
240 |
1 |
23.18 |
2012-11-08 |
| 58. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
23.12 |
0.8854 |
-0.0545 |
116 |
1 |
23.12 |
2012-11-07 |
| 59. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
23.08 |
0.9773 |
-0.1549 |
123 |
1 |
23.08 |
2012-11-08 |
| 60. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
23.07 |
0.9786 |
-0.1544 |
193 |
1 |
23.07 |
2013-01-28 |
| 61. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
22.94 |
0.8971 |
-0.0668 |
266 |
1 |
22.94 |
2013-02-16 |
| 62. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
22.86 |
0.9965 |
-0.1794 |
168 |
1 |
22.86 |
2012-12-08 |
| 63. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
22.84 |
1.0183 |
-0.2025 |
191 |
1 |
22.84 |
2013-02-12 |
| 64. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
22.83 |
0.9941 |
-0.1756 |
217 |
1 |
22.83 |
2012-12-14 |
| 65. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
22.57 |
0.8628 |
-0.0546 |
196 |
1 |
22.57 |
2013-01-28 |
| 66. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
22.15 |
1.0125 |
-0.2187 |
224 |
1 |
22.15 |
2012-11-08 |
| 67. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
22.11 |
0.8739 |
-0.0827 |
136 |
1 |
22.11 |
2012-11-07 |
| 68. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
21.97 |
0.9131 |
-0.1277 |
144 |
1 |
21.97 |
2012-10-24 |
| 69. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
21.87 |
0.7818 |
0.0035 |
195 |
2 |
21.73 |
2012-12-08 |
| 70. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
21.82 |
0.7850 |
-0.0045 |
154 |
3 |
20.19 |
2013-03-08 |
| 71. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
21.78 |
0.8661 |
-0.0920 |
94 |
1 |
21.78 |
2012-12-08 |
| 72. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
21.71 |
0.9239 |
-0.1374 |
193 |
1 |
21.71 |
2013-01-11 |
| 73. |
The garbage chute was a wonderful idea! What an incredible s... |
21.64 |
0.7352 |
0.0424 |
106 |
1 |
21.64 |
2012-12-08 |
| 74. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
21.46 |
0.8791 |
-0.1087 |
190 |
2 |
21.13 |
2012-11-07 |
| 75. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
21.09 |
0.9820 |
-0.2243 |
274 |
1 |
21.09 |
2012-11-06 |
| 76. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
21.06 |
0.9724 |
-0.2124 |
237 |
1 |
21.06 |
2012-11-08 |
| 77. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
20.92 |
1.0521 |
-0.3058 |
171 |
1 |
20.92 |
2012-10-24 |
| 78. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
20.86 |
1.0679 |
-0.2986 |
177 |
1 |
20.86 |
2012-12-14 |
| 79. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
20.73 |
1.0334 |
-0.2956 |
131 |
1 |
20.73 |
2012-10-24 |
| 80. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
20.33 |
0.8154 |
-0.0838 |
193 |
1 |
20.33 |
2013-09-05 |
| 81. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
19.77 |
1.0053 |
-0.2982 |
232 |
1 |
19.77 |
2012-11-13 |
| 82. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
19.73 |
0.8023 |
-0.0892 |
182 |
1 |
19.73 |
2012-11-20 |
| 83. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
19.20 |
0.8747 |
-0.1906 |
201 |
1 |
19.20 |
2012-11-07 |
| 84. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
18.95 |
0.8551 |
-0.1764 |
171 |
1 |
18.95 |
2012-10-26 |
| 85. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
18.34 |
0.9047 |
-0.2541 |
118 |
1 |
18.34 |
2012-10-24 |
| 86. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
18.05 |
0.8125 |
-0.1635 |
197 |
1 |
18.05 |
2012-11-07 |
| 87. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
17.24 |
0.8994 |
-0.2802 |
188 |
1 |
17.24 |
2012-10-26 |
| 88. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
15.35 |
0.8660 |
-0.3180 |
193 |
1 |
15.35 |
2012-10-24 |
| 89. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
13.91 |
0.7805 |
-0.2893 |
154 |
1 |
13.91 |
2012-11-07 |
| 90. |
Pulp: a soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. |
13.27 |
0.7559 |
-0.2841 |
46 |
1 |
13.27 |
2013-03-06 |