| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
85.06 |
1.0033 |
0.1808 |
189 |
2 |
79.92 |
2008-12-31 |
| 2. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
82.59 |
1.0218 |
0.1311 |
268 |
1 |
82.59 |
2008-12-30 |
| 3. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
82.21 |
1.0454 |
0.1014 |
255 |
1 |
82.21 |
2008-12-31 |
| 4. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
81.77 |
0.9831 |
0.1691 |
469 |
1 |
81.77 |
2008-12-30 |
| 5. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
81.56 |
1.0214 |
0.1183 |
269 |
1 |
81.56 |
2008-12-30 |
| 6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
80.81 |
1.0516 |
0.0787 |
281 |
2 |
75.74 |
2009-01-01 |
| 7. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
80.78 |
1.0165 |
0.1175 |
392 |
2 |
76.79 |
2009-01-01 |
| 8. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
80.32 |
1.0203 |
0.1068 |
261 |
2 |
72.74 |
2008-12-30 |
| 9. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
78.86 |
0.9785 |
0.1277 |
335 |
1 |
78.86 |
2009-01-01 |
| 10. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
78.24 |
0.9897 |
0.1023 |
274 |
2 |
77.99 |
2008-12-30 |
| 11. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
75.71 |
1.0595 |
0.0011 |
379 |
1 |
75.71 |
2009-01-01 |
| 12. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
75.25 |
1.0483 |
0.0008 |
227 |
1 |
75.25 |
2008-12-30 |
| 13. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
74.89 |
1.0214 |
0.0200 |
166 |
1 |
74.89 |
2008-12-31 |
| 14. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
74.85 |
0.8958 |
0.1551 |
322 |
1 |
74.85 |
2009-01-01 |
| 15. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
73.76 |
0.9681 |
0.0708 |
378 |
1 |
73.76 |
2009-01-01 |
| 16. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
73.02 |
0.9798 |
0.0347 |
199 |
1 |
73.02 |
2008-12-31 |
| 17. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
71.97 |
0.9084 |
0.0989 |
300 |
3 |
69.55 |
2008-12-30 |
| 18. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
71.73 |
1.0352 |
-0.0300 |
341 |
1 |
71.73 |
2009-01-01 |
| 19. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
71.68 |
0.9768 |
0.0273 |
387 |
1 |
71.68 |
2008-12-30 |
| 20. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
71.63 |
0.9942 |
0.0153 |
483 |
1 |
71.63 |
2008-12-30 |
| 21. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
71.31 |
0.9376 |
0.0638 |
367 |
1 |
71.31 |
2009-01-01 |
| 22. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
71.00 |
1.0714 |
-0.0884 |
129 |
1 |
71.00 |
2009-01-01 |
| 23. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
70.01 |
0.9614 |
0.0195 |
292 |
1 |
70.01 |
2008-12-30 |
| 24. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
69.47 |
0.9879 |
-0.0090 |
450 |
1 |
69.47 |
2008-12-30 |
| 25. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
69.30 |
0.9045 |
0.0634 |
235 |
1 |
69.30 |
2009-01-01 |
| 26. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
69.28 |
0.9005 |
0.0655 |
212 |
1 |
69.28 |
2008-12-30 |
| 27. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
69.12 |
0.8981 |
0.0717 |
393 |
1 |
69.12 |
2009-01-01 |
| 28. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
68.98 |
0.9763 |
-0.0134 |
289 |
1 |
68.98 |
2008-12-30 |
| 29. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
68.98 |
1.0368 |
-0.0728 |
276 |
1 |
68.98 |
2009-01-01 |
| 30. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
66.92 |
0.9293 |
0.0056 |
355 |
1 |
66.92 |
2008-12-30 |
| 31. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
66.45 |
1.0417 |
-0.1168 |
253 |
1 |
66.45 |
2009-01-01 |
| 32. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
66.34 |
0.9894 |
-0.0591 |
323 |
1 |
66.34 |
2008-12-31 |
| 33. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
65.27 |
1.0361 |
-0.1245 |
269 |
1 |
65.27 |
2008-12-30 |
| 34. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
64.60 |
0.9109 |
-0.0071 |
401 |
1 |
64.60 |
2008-12-31 |
| 35. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
63.63 |
0.9597 |
-0.0681 |
347 |
1 |
63.63 |
2008-12-30 |
| 36. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
62.54 |
0.9593 |
-0.0824 |
398 |
1 |
62.54 |
2009-01-01 |
| 37. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
62.52 |
1.0696 |
-0.2013 |
226 |
1 |
62.52 |
2008-12-30 |
| 38. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
61.35 |
1.0477 |
-0.1899 |
360 |
1 |
61.35 |
2008-12-30 |
| 39. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
59.84 |
0.9289 |
-0.0971 |
204 |
1 |
59.84 |
2008-12-31 |
| 40. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
59.14 |
0.8996 |
-0.0811 |
192 |
1 |
59.14 |
2009-01-01 |
| 41. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
56.78 |
0.8105 |
-0.0242 |
204 |
2 |
56.32 |
2008-12-31 |
| 42. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
54.90 |
0.7876 |
-0.0210 |
316 |
2 |
51.49 |
2008-12-31 |
| 43. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
54.60 |
0.9653 |
-0.1974 |
394 |
1 |
54.60 |
2008-12-30 |