| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
55.44 |
0.9128 |
0.3353 |
133 |
1 |
55.44 |
2008-09-10 |
| 2. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
54.98 |
1.1018 |
0.1240 |
220 |
1 |
54.98 |
2008-11-08 |
| 3. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
53.68 |
1.0389 |
0.1655 |
318 |
2 |
51.00 |
2008-11-14 |
| 4. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
53.48 |
1.0331 |
0.1629 |
234 |
1 |
53.48 |
2008-09-17 |
| 5. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
52.76 |
1.0025 |
0.1793 |
256 |
2 |
51.52 |
2009-05-09 |
| 6. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
52.40 |
1.0567 |
0.1176 |
303 |
1 |
52.40 |
2008-11-15 |
| 7. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
52.20 |
1.0496 |
0.1189 |
314 |
1 |
52.20 |
2008-11-14 |
| 8. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
51.61 |
1.0596 |
0.0941 |
239 |
1 |
51.61 |
2009-05-09 |
| 9. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
51.35 |
1.0534 |
0.0988 |
357 |
1 |
51.35 |
2009-05-09 |
| 10. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
51.19 |
1.0523 |
0.0897 |
256 |
4 |
47.70 |
2008-11-15 |
| 11. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
50.72 |
1.0168 |
0.1203 |
271 |
2 |
44.63 |
2009-05-13 |
| 12. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
50.29 |
0.9266 |
0.2012 |
278 |
1 |
50.29 |
2009-05-09 |
| 13. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
49.94 |
0.9785 |
0.1427 |
335 |
2 |
47.90 |
2008-11-08 |
| 14. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
49.73 |
1.0109 |
0.1032 |
276 |
1 |
49.73 |
2008-11-12 |
| 15. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
49.68 |
1.0340 |
0.0833 |
406 |
1 |
49.68 |
2008-11-15 |
| 16. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
49.58 |
0.9048 |
0.2097 |
271 |
1 |
49.58 |
2008-11-11 |
| 17. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
49.34 |
1.0263 |
0.0773 |
267 |
1 |
49.34 |
2008-10-11 |
| 18. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
49.27 |
0.9514 |
0.1518 |
237 |
1 |
49.27 |
2008-11-11 |
| 19. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
49.03 |
0.9570 |
0.1421 |
287 |
2 |
46.70 |
2008-10-22 |
| 20. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
48.74 |
1.0099 |
0.0781 |
207 |
1 |
48.74 |
2008-11-14 |
| 21. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
48.42 |
1.0696 |
0.0105 |
226 |
1 |
48.42 |
2008-11-14 |
| 22. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
48.32 |
1.0131 |
0.0643 |
225 |
1 |
48.32 |
2008-09-23 |
| 23. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
48.03 |
0.9430 |
0.1245 |
211 |
1 |
48.03 |
2008-11-09 |
| 24. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
47.95 |
1.0165 |
0.0604 |
392 |
2 |
47.06 |
2008-11-15 |
| 25. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
47.87 |
0.8935 |
0.1874 |
328 |
1 |
47.87 |
2009-05-13 |
| 26. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
47.68 |
0.9653 |
0.1098 |
394 |
2 |
47.30 |
2008-11-14 |
| 27. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
47.20 |
1.0352 |
0.0239 |
341 |
1 |
47.20 |
2009-05-09 |
| 28. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
47.08 |
0.9068 |
0.1495 |
269 |
1 |
47.08 |
2008-11-15 |
| 29. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
46.93 |
0.8951 |
0.1570 |
193 |
2 |
45.14 |
2008-09-18 |
| 30. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
46.92 |
0.9851 |
0.0667 |
317 |
1 |
46.92 |
2008-09-11 |
| 31. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
46.90 |
0.9841 |
0.0689 |
334 |
2 |
46.22 |
2008-11-15 |
| 32. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
46.90 |
0.9758 |
0.0741 |
314 |
1 |
46.90 |
2008-11-12 |
| 33. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
46.74 |
0.9846 |
0.0599 |
281 |
1 |
46.74 |
2008-09-17 |
| 34. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
46.67 |
1.0565 |
-0.0151 |
247 |
2 |
44.29 |
2009-05-09 |
| 35. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
46.61 |
1.0441 |
0.0000 |
252 |
1 |
46.61 |
2008-11-12 |
| 36. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
46.53 |
0.9527 |
0.0880 |
251 |
2 |
44.67 |
2008-09-24 |
| 37. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
46.36 |
0.9234 |
0.1190 |
346 |
1 |
46.36 |
2008-11-12 |
| 38. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
46.35 |
1.0711 |
-0.0395 |
213 |
1 |
46.35 |
2008-11-08 |
| 39. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
46.26 |
0.8947 |
0.1449 |
366 |
2 |
45.29 |
2008-11-11 |
| 40. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
46.13 |
1.0025 |
0.0301 |
336 |
1 |
46.13 |
2009-05-09 |
| 41. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
46.06 |
0.9226 |
0.1139 |
348 |
1 |
46.06 |
2008-11-19 |
| 42. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
45.96 |
1.0368 |
-0.0080 |
276 |
1 |
45.96 |
2008-09-11 |
| 43. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
45.58 |
0.9593 |
0.0647 |
398 |
1 |
45.58 |
2008-11-15 |
| 44. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
45.52 |
0.8852 |
0.1348 |
201 |
1 |
45.52 |
2009-03-10 |
| 45. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
45.22 |
0.9532 |
0.0566 |
258 |
3 |
41.49 |
2008-11-15 |
| 46. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
45.11 |
0.9342 |
0.0779 |
434 |
1 |
45.11 |
2008-09-17 |
| 47. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
44.99 |
0.9636 |
0.0422 |
254 |
1 |
44.99 |
2008-11-15 |
| 48. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
44.67 |
1.0577 |
-0.0625 |
247 |
1 |
44.67 |
2008-11-08 |
| 49. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
44.53 |
0.9500 |
0.0477 |
362 |
1 |
44.53 |
2008-09-18 |
| 50. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
44.29 |
0.9672 |
0.0294 |
396 |
1 |
44.29 |
2008-11-14 |
| 51. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
44.26 |
1.0214 |
-0.0374 |
166 |
1 |
44.26 |
2009-05-13 |
| 52. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
44.15 |
0.9763 |
0.0101 |
289 |
1 |
44.15 |
2008-11-15 |
| 53. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
44.13 |
1.0389 |
-0.0500 |
340 |
2 |
43.83 |
2008-11-12 |
| 54. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
44.00 |
1.0201 |
-0.0434 |
172 |
1 |
44.00 |
2008-11-14 |
| 55. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
43.98 |
0.8975 |
0.0861 |
268 |
1 |
43.98 |
2009-05-09 |
| 56. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
43.76 |
1.0214 |
-0.0450 |
269 |
1 |
43.76 |
2008-11-14 |
| 57. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
43.59 |
0.9776 |
-0.0032 |
308 |
1 |
43.59 |
2008-09-09 |
| 58. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
43.47 |
0.9863 |
-0.0104 |
339 |
1 |
43.47 |
2008-09-15 |
| 59. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
43.43 |
1.0251 |
-0.0567 |
261 |
1 |
43.43 |
2008-11-19 |
| 60. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
43.34 |
0.9233 |
0.0370 |
168 |
2 |
43.18 |
2008-09-12 |
| 61. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
43.31 |
0.9691 |
-0.0017 |
223 |
1 |
43.31 |
2008-09-29 |
| 62. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
43.25 |
0.9997 |
-0.0296 |
382 |
1 |
43.25 |
2008-11-08 |
| 63. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
43.12 |
0.9798 |
-0.0219 |
199 |
1 |
43.12 |
2008-11-14 |
| 64. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
42.75 |
1.0197 |
-0.0674 |
226 |
1 |
42.75 |
2008-09-09 |
| 65. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
42.59 |
0.8353 |
0.1238 |
283 |
1 |
42.59 |
2008-09-20 |
| 66. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
41.89 |
0.9365 |
0.0006 |
248 |
1 |
41.89 |
2009-05-09 |
| 67. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
41.61 |
1.0337 |
-0.1049 |
214 |
1 |
41.61 |
2008-10-04 |
| 68. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
41.27 |
0.9212 |
0.0038 |
323 |
1 |
41.27 |
2008-09-24 |
| 69. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
41.27 |
1.0445 |
-0.1219 |
373 |
1 |
41.27 |
2008-09-17 |
| 70. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
41.08 |
0.8933 |
0.0305 |
363 |
1 |
41.08 |
2008-09-11 |
| 71. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
40.99 |
0.9857 |
-0.0714 |
293 |
1 |
40.99 |
2008-09-09 |
| 72. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
40.82 |
0.8810 |
0.0313 |
282 |
1 |
40.82 |
2008-09-18 |
| 73. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
40.51 |
1.0417 |
-0.1397 |
253 |
1 |
40.51 |
2009-03-10 |
| 74. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
40.50 |
0.9635 |
-0.0538 |
389 |
1 |
40.50 |
2008-11-12 |
| 75. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
40.15 |
0.9293 |
-0.0322 |
355 |
1 |
40.15 |
2008-09-11 |
| 76. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
40.09 |
1.0261 |
-0.1330 |
273 |
1 |
40.09 |
2008-09-29 |
| 77. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
40.06 |
0.9866 |
-0.0960 |
218 |
1 |
40.06 |
2008-09-09 |
| 78. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
39.92 |
0.9865 |
-0.0943 |
276 |
1 |
39.92 |
2008-11-09 |
| 79. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
39.90 |
1.0218 |
-0.1340 |
268 |
1 |
39.90 |
2009-03-10 |
| 80. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
39.75 |
0.9843 |
-0.1020 |
234 |
1 |
39.75 |
2008-09-09 |
| 81. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
39.29 |
0.9309 |
-0.0559 |
284 |
1 |
39.29 |
2008-11-12 |
| 82. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
39.18 |
0.9325 |
-0.0648 |
156 |
1 |
39.18 |
2008-09-09 |
| 83. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
38.91 |
0.8553 |
0.0078 |
174 |
1 |
38.91 |
2008-09-15 |
| 84. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
38.91 |
0.9649 |
-0.0978 |
193 |
1 |
38.91 |
2008-09-09 |
| 85. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
38.85 |
0.9109 |
-0.0414 |
401 |
1 |
38.85 |
2008-09-23 |
| 86. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
38.33 |
0.9897 |
-0.1369 |
274 |
1 |
38.33 |
2008-11-08 |
| 87. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
37.87 |
0.9279 |
-0.0767 |
317 |
1 |
37.87 |
2008-11-08 |
| 88. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
37.14 |
0.9368 |
-0.0934 |
174 |
1 |
37.14 |
2008-09-09 |
| 89. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
36.58 |
0.8878 |
-0.0725 |
346 |
1 |
36.58 |
2008-09-15 |
| 90. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
36.23 |
0.9286 |
-0.1220 |
194 |
1 |
36.23 |
2008-11-09 |
| 91. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
35.49 |
0.8916 |
-0.1005 |
216 |
1 |
35.49 |
2008-11-09 |
| 92. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
35.27 |
0.9125 |
-0.1249 |
308 |
1 |
35.27 |
2008-09-09 |
| 93. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
35.26 |
0.9991 |
-0.2130 |
225 |
1 |
35.26 |
2008-09-15 |
| 94. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
33.52 |
0.9005 |
-0.1558 |
212 |
1 |
33.52 |
2008-11-08 |
| 95. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
33.30 |
1.0252 |
-0.2905 |
176 |
1 |
33.30 |
2008-11-08 |
| 96. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
32.94 |
0.7259 |
0.0130 |
186 |
1 |
32.94 |
2008-09-09 |
| 97. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
32.91 |
0.8602 |
-0.1300 |
206 |
1 |
32.91 |
2008-09-09 |
| 98. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
25.42 |
0.9966 |
-0.4344 |
259 |
1 |
25.42 |
2008-09-08 |