| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
54.37 |
0.9418 |
0.2941 |
188 |
1 |
54.37 |
2010-06-09 |
| 2. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
53.44 |
0.7877 |
0.4259 |
142 |
1 |
53.44 |
2010-06-09 |
| 3. |
The milk and cheese and yogurt, which once came from dairy c... |
53.21 |
0.9310 |
0.2688 |
188 |
2 |
46.39 |
2010-06-10 |
| 4. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
51.93 |
1.0444 |
0.1235 |
197 |
1 |
51.93 |
2010-07-28 |
| 5. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
51.48 |
1.0109 |
0.1541 |
276 |
1 |
51.48 |
2010-06-08 |
| 6. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
50.38 |
0.9866 |
0.1487 |
218 |
1 |
50.38 |
2010-06-10 |
| 7. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
49.85 |
0.9275 |
0.1961 |
211 |
1 |
49.85 |
2010-06-04 |
| 8. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
49.68 |
0.9583 |
0.2084 |
341 |
1 |
49.68 |
2010-06-08 |
| 9. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
49.44 |
0.8615 |
0.2561 |
110 |
1 |
49.44 |
2010-06-10 |
| 10. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
49.28 |
0.9740 |
0.1358 |
209 |
1 |
49.28 |
2010-06-04 |
| 11. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
49.19 |
0.9514 |
0.1607 |
237 |
1 |
49.19 |
2010-06-08 |
| 12. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
48.93 |
0.9649 |
0.1399 |
193 |
2 |
41.47 |
2010-06-10 |
| 13. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
48.90 |
0.9339 |
0.1698 |
310 |
2 |
46.09 |
2010-06-10 |
| 14. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
48.42 |
0.9532 |
0.1397 |
258 |
1 |
48.42 |
2010-06-04 |
| 15. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
48.05 |
1.0417 |
0.0416 |
253 |
1 |
48.05 |
2010-06-06 |
| 16. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
48.04 |
0.9925 |
0.1297 |
247 |
1 |
48.04 |
2010-06-06 |
| 17. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
47.97 |
1.0462 |
0.0316 |
184 |
1 |
47.97 |
2010-06-07 |
| 18. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
47.93 |
1.0232 |
0.1057 |
350 |
1 |
47.93 |
2010-06-08 |
| 19. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
47.82 |
0.9773 |
0.0953 |
123 |
1 |
47.82 |
2010-06-08 |
| 20. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
47.76 |
0.9691 |
0.1095 |
223 |
1 |
47.76 |
2010-06-08 |
| 21. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
47.36 |
0.9763 |
0.0932 |
289 |
1 |
47.36 |
2010-06-08 |
| 22. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
47.24 |
1.0029 |
0.0579 |
209 |
1 |
47.24 |
2010-06-09 |
| 23. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
47.19 |
0.8884 |
0.1783 |
135 |
1 |
47.19 |
2010-06-08 |
| 24. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
47.07 |
0.9578 |
0.1050 |
281 |
1 |
47.07 |
2010-06-10 |
| 25. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
46.97 |
1.0577 |
-0.0001 |
247 |
1 |
46.97 |
2010-06-06 |
| 26. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
46.88 |
0.9063 |
0.1607 |
239 |
1 |
46.88 |
2010-06-04 |
| 27. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
46.86 |
0.7805 |
0.2739 |
154 |
1 |
46.86 |
2010-06-08 |
| 28. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
46.79 |
1.0252 |
0.0252 |
176 |
2 |
46.16 |
2010-06-08 |
| 29. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
46.52 |
1.0090 |
0.0856 |
282 |
1 |
46.52 |
2010-06-10 |
| 30. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
46.49 |
1.0169 |
0.0718 |
346 |
1 |
46.49 |
2010-06-10 |
| 31. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
46.00 |
0.9966 |
0.0417 |
259 |
1 |
46.00 |
2010-06-08 |
| 32. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
45.75 |
1.0696 |
-0.0399 |
226 |
1 |
45.75 |
2010-06-06 |
| 33. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
45.44 |
0.8951 |
0.1332 |
193 |
1 |
45.44 |
2010-06-08 |
| 34. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
45.39 |
0.9072 |
0.1160 |
237 |
1 |
45.39 |
2010-06-10 |
| 35. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
45.36 |
1.0063 |
0.0183 |
371 |
1 |
45.36 |
2010-06-06 |
| 36. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
45.34 |
0.9798 |
0.0383 |
199 |
2 |
44.05 |
2010-06-08 |
| 37. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
45.22 |
1.0515 |
-0.0324 |
250 |
1 |
45.22 |
2010-06-06 |
| 38. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
45.02 |
0.8821 |
0.1339 |
176 |
1 |
45.02 |
2010-06-04 |
| 39. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
44.93 |
0.8956 |
0.1234 |
322 |
1 |
44.93 |
2010-06-09 |
| 40. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
44.54 |
0.9785 |
0.0302 |
335 |
1 |
44.54 |
2010-06-06 |
| 41. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
44.45 |
0.9251 |
0.0833 |
177 |
1 |
44.45 |
2010-06-04 |
| 42. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
43.94 |
1.0352 |
-0.0408 |
341 |
1 |
43.94 |
2010-06-06 |
| 43. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
43.90 |
1.0398 |
-0.0594 |
110 |
1 |
43.90 |
2010-06-04 |
| 44. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
43.60 |
0.9171 |
0.0672 |
165 |
1 |
43.60 |
2010-06-09 |
| 45. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
43.47 |
0.8162 |
0.1699 |
149 |
1 |
43.47 |
2010-06-06 |
| 46. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
43.43 |
0.9293 |
0.0516 |
355 |
1 |
43.43 |
2010-06-04 |
| 47. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
43.41 |
1.0165 |
-0.0329 |
392 |
1 |
43.41 |
2010-06-06 |
| 48. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
43.19 |
1.0788 |
-0.1098 |
171 |
1 |
43.19 |
2010-06-10 |
| 49. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
43.14 |
0.8958 |
0.0823 |
322 |
1 |
43.14 |
2010-06-04 |
| 50. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
43.13 |
0.9045 |
0.0691 |
235 |
2 |
40.60 |
2010-06-10 |
| 51. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
42.91 |
1.1016 |
-0.1333 |
233 |
1 |
42.91 |
2010-06-11 |
| 52. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
42.82 |
1.0799 |
-0.1174 |
243 |
1 |
42.82 |
2010-06-10 |
| 53. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
42.54 |
0.9916 |
0.0108 |
282 |
1 |
42.54 |
2010-06-08 |
| 54. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
42.53 |
0.9468 |
0.0122 |
276 |
1 |
42.53 |
2010-06-06 |
| 55. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
42.07 |
0.9597 |
-0.0066 |
347 |
1 |
42.07 |
2010-06-08 |
| 56. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
42.03 |
0.9907 |
-0.0442 |
211 |
2 |
37.09 |
2010-06-10 |
| 57. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
41.53 |
0.9726 |
-0.0423 |
154 |
1 |
41.53 |
2010-06-11 |
| 58. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
41.39 |
0.9965 |
-0.0678 |
168 |
1 |
41.39 |
2010-06-08 |
| 59. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
41.28 |
1.0621 |
-0.1117 |
263 |
1 |
41.28 |
2010-06-04 |
| 60. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
41.23 |
1.0125 |
-0.0850 |
224 |
1 |
41.23 |
2010-06-08 |
| 61. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
40.87 |
0.8878 |
0.0336 |
346 |
1 |
40.87 |
2010-06-10 |
| 62. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
40.79 |
0.9286 |
-0.0098 |
194 |
2 |
40.38 |
2010-06-09 |
| 63. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
40.49 |
1.0151 |
-0.1107 |
152 |
1 |
40.49 |
2010-06-06 |
| 64. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
39.66 |
0.9089 |
-0.0111 |
342 |
1 |
39.66 |
2010-06-04 |
| 65. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
39.27 |
0.9688 |
-0.0840 |
217 |
1 |
39.27 |
2010-06-08 |
| 66. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
39.23 |
0.9843 |
-0.1052 |
234 |
1 |
39.23 |
2010-06-04 |
| 67. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
37.69 |
0.9820 |
-0.1303 |
267 |
1 |
37.69 |
2010-06-10 |
| 68. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
37.04 |
1.0334 |
-0.2059 |
131 |
1 |
37.04 |
2010-06-07 |
| 69. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
37.00 |
1.0205 |
-0.1939 |
179 |
1 |
37.00 |
2010-06-08 |
| 70. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
36.55 |
0.9886 |
-0.1633 |
220 |
1 |
36.55 |
2010-06-08 |
| 71. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
36.48 |
0.8933 |
-0.0657 |
363 |
1 |
36.48 |
2010-06-04 |
| 72. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
36.05 |
0.9128 |
-0.0599 |
369 |
1 |
36.05 |
2010-06-08 |
| 73. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
35.35 |
1.0150 |
-0.1706 |
325 |
1 |
35.35 |
2010-06-08 |
| 74. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
35.01 |
1.0767 |
-0.2913 |
212 |
1 |
35.01 |
2010-06-08 |
| 75. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
34.88 |
0.9997 |
-0.2115 |
382 |
1 |
34.88 |
2010-06-04 |
| 76. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
33.26 |
1.0117 |
-0.2193 |
297 |
1 |
33.26 |
2010-06-10 |
| 77. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
32.81 |
1.0669 |
-0.2973 |
286 |
1 |
32.81 |
2010-08-03 |
| 78. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
31.67 |
1.0677 |
-0.3261 |
284 |
1 |
31.67 |
2010-06-08 |
| 79. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
31.59 |
0.9636 |
-0.2543 |
254 |
1 |
31.59 |
2010-06-08 |
| 80. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
28.71 |
0.9936 |
-0.3504 |
311 |
1 |
28.71 |
2010-06-10 |