| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
56.24 |
1.0060 |
0.1738 |
171 |
1 |
56.24 |
2011-11-30 |
| 2. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
55.59 |
1.0799 |
0.0871 |
243 |
1 |
55.59 |
2011-11-30 |
| 3. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
55.37 |
1.0384 |
0.1178 |
183 |
3 |
52.62 |
2011-11-30 |
| 4. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
54.78 |
1.0151 |
0.1296 |
152 |
1 |
54.78 |
2011-11-30 |
| 5. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
53.52 |
1.0390 |
0.0838 |
205 |
2 |
51.46 |
2011-11-30 |
| 6. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
53.31 |
1.0138 |
0.1079 |
231 |
1 |
53.31 |
2011-12-02 |
| 7. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
53.29 |
0.9899 |
0.1270 |
163 |
1 |
53.29 |
2011-11-30 |
| 8. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
53.29 |
0.9964 |
0.1253 |
203 |
1 |
53.29 |
2011-11-30 |
| 9. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
53.20 |
1.0917 |
0.0514 |
243 |
1 |
53.20 |
2011-11-30 |
| 10. |
Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside ou... |
53.17 |
1.0614 |
0.0660 |
150 |
1 |
53.17 |
2017-03-04 |
| 11. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
52.58 |
1.0796 |
0.0219 |
129 |
1 |
52.58 |
2011-12-01 |
| 12. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
51.99 |
1.0679 |
0.0463 |
177 |
1 |
51.99 |
2011-12-01 |
| 13. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
51.76 |
1.0263 |
0.0619 |
267 |
1 |
51.76 |
2011-11-30 |
| 14. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
51.45 |
0.9871 |
0.1315 |
209 |
1 |
51.45 |
2011-11-30 |
| 15. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
51.44 |
0.9805 |
0.1064 |
292 |
1 |
51.44 |
2011-12-01 |
| 16. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
51.38 |
0.9781 |
0.1060 |
193 |
2 |
51.05 |
2017-03-04 |
| 17. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
51.35 |
1.0125 |
0.0655 |
224 |
1 |
51.35 |
2011-11-30 |
| 18. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
51.25 |
1.0252 |
0.0466 |
176 |
1 |
51.25 |
2011-11-30 |
| 19. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
51.13 |
0.9504 |
0.1198 |
263 |
1 |
51.13 |
2011-11-30 |
| 20. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
51.04 |
0.9631 |
0.1620 |
345 |
1 |
51.04 |
2011-12-01 |
| 21. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
50.62 |
1.0120 |
0.0518 |
290 |
1 |
50.62 |
2011-11-30 |
| 22. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
50.56 |
0.9884 |
0.0743 |
233 |
1 |
50.56 |
2011-12-01 |
| 23. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
50.28 |
1.0201 |
0.0378 |
303 |
1 |
50.28 |
2011-11-30 |
| 24. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
50.27 |
1.0419 |
0.0154 |
261 |
1 |
50.27 |
2011-11-30 |
| 25. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
49.66 |
1.0016 |
0.0380 |
218 |
1 |
49.66 |
2011-11-30 |
| 26. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
49.54 |
0.9936 |
0.0478 |
311 |
1 |
49.54 |
2011-11-30 |
| 27. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
49.35 |
0.8906 |
0.1516 |
238 |
1 |
49.35 |
2011-11-30 |
| 28. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
49.26 |
1.0197 |
0.0131 |
226 |
1 |
49.26 |
2011-12-01 |
| 29. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
48.91 |
1.0725 |
-0.0185 |
233 |
1 |
48.91 |
2011-11-30 |
| 30. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
48.85 |
1.0343 |
0.0301 |
242 |
1 |
48.85 |
2011-12-01 |
| 31. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
48.74 |
1.0038 |
0.0512 |
237 |
1 |
48.74 |
2011-11-30 |
| 32. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
48.59 |
0.8935 |
0.1378 |
328 |
1 |
48.59 |
2011-11-30 |
| 33. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
48.58 |
1.1014 |
-0.0423 |
273 |
1 |
48.58 |
2011-11-30 |
| 34. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
48.34 |
0.9540 |
0.0604 |
285 |
1 |
48.34 |
2011-11-30 |
| 35. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
47.88 |
0.9925 |
0.0506 |
247 |
1 |
47.88 |
2011-11-30 |
| 36. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
47.87 |
0.8971 |
0.1145 |
266 |
1 |
47.87 |
2011-11-30 |
| 37. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
47.81 |
0.9786 |
0.0257 |
235 |
1 |
47.81 |
2011-12-01 |
| 38. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
47.70 |
1.0232 |
0.0253 |
350 |
1 |
47.70 |
2011-11-30 |
| 39. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
47.68 |
1.0696 |
-0.0710 |
226 |
2 |
47.02 |
2011-11-30 |
| 40. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
47.68 |
1.0254 |
0.0175 |
217 |
1 |
47.68 |
2011-11-30 |
| 41. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
47.40 |
0.9128 |
0.1249 |
369 |
1 |
47.40 |
2011-11-30 |
| 42. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
47.28 |
1.0403 |
-0.0318 |
193 |
2 |
44.15 |
2011-11-30 |
| 43. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
47.17 |
0.9798 |
0.0058 |
199 |
1 |
47.17 |
2011-11-30 |
| 44. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
47.15 |
0.8353 |
0.1631 |
283 |
1 |
47.15 |
2011-11-30 |
| 45. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
47.01 |
0.9226 |
0.0716 |
348 |
1 |
47.01 |
2011-11-30 |
| 46. |
Our minds are born festering with sin. Some are so blighted,... |
46.96 |
1.0482 |
-0.0573 |
268 |
1 |
46.96 |
2017-03-04 |
| 47. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
46.80 |
0.9578 |
0.0252 |
281 |
1 |
46.80 |
2011-11-30 |
| 48. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
46.70 |
0.9084 |
0.0769 |
404 |
1 |
46.70 |
2011-12-01 |
| 49. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
46.51 |
1.1022 |
-0.0899 |
259 |
1 |
46.51 |
2011-11-30 |
| 50. |
We spent as much money as we could, and got as little for it... |
46.49 |
1.0486 |
-0.0619 |
400 |
1 |
46.49 |
2017-03-04 |
| 51. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
46.21 |
1.0099 |
-0.0420 |
207 |
1 |
46.21 |
2011-11-30 |
| 52. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
46.14 |
0.9670 |
0.0445 |
307 |
1 |
46.14 |
2011-11-30 |
| 53. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
46.08 |
0.9247 |
0.0482 |
253 |
1 |
46.08 |
2011-11-30 |
| 54. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
45.92 |
1.0062 |
-0.0416 |
288 |
1 |
45.92 |
2011-11-30 |
| 55. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
45.85 |
1.0031 |
-0.0064 |
304 |
1 |
45.85 |
2012-08-15 |
| 56. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
45.81 |
0.9908 |
0.0175 |
342 |
1 |
45.81 |
2011-11-30 |
| 57. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
45.50 |
0.9468 |
0.0084 |
276 |
1 |
45.50 |
2011-11-30 |
| 58. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
45.48 |
0.8341 |
0.1297 |
224 |
1 |
45.48 |
2011-12-01 |
| 59. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
45.46 |
1.0417 |
-0.0893 |
253 |
1 |
45.46 |
2011-11-30 |
| 60. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
45.43 |
0.9754 |
-0.0151 |
362 |
1 |
45.43 |
2011-11-30 |
| 61. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
45.32 |
0.8367 |
0.1255 |
294 |
1 |
45.32 |
2011-12-01 |
| 62. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
45.31 |
0.9946 |
-0.0430 |
246 |
1 |
45.31 |
2011-11-30 |
| 63. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
44.90 |
1.0218 |
-0.0818 |
268 |
1 |
44.90 |
2011-11-30 |
| 64. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
44.79 |
0.8629 |
0.0824 |
299 |
1 |
44.79 |
2011-11-30 |
| 65. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
44.74 |
1.0025 |
-0.0631 |
256 |
1 |
44.74 |
2012-08-15 |
| 66. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
44.61 |
0.9212 |
0.0194 |
231 |
1 |
44.61 |
2011-12-01 |
| 67. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
44.55 |
0.8958 |
0.0443 |
322 |
1 |
44.55 |
2011-11-30 |
| 68. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
44.25 |
1.1162 |
-0.1462 |
189 |
1 |
44.25 |
2011-11-30 |
| 69. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
43.87 |
1.0883 |
-0.1352 |
303 |
1 |
43.87 |
2011-11-30 |
| 70. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
43.76 |
1.0261 |
-0.1092 |
273 |
2 |
41.66 |
2011-12-01 |
| 71. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
43.74 |
1.0403 |
-0.0822 |
275 |
1 |
43.74 |
2011-11-30 |
| 72. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
43.59 |
1.0025 |
-0.0866 |
336 |
1 |
43.59 |
2011-11-30 |
| 73. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
43.57 |
1.0214 |
-0.0643 |
281 |
1 |
43.57 |
2011-12-01 |
| 74. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
43.38 |
0.8602 |
0.0483 |
206 |
1 |
43.38 |
2011-11-30 |
| 75. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
43.20 |
0.9814 |
-0.0351 |
364 |
1 |
43.20 |
2011-11-30 |
| 76. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
42.92 |
0.8442 |
0.0608 |
265 |
1 |
42.92 |
2011-11-30 |
| 77. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
42.88 |
0.9672 |
-0.0606 |
396 |
1 |
42.88 |
2011-11-30 |
| 78. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
42.83 |
1.0109 |
-0.1111 |
276 |
1 |
42.83 |
2011-11-30 |
| 79. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
42.34 |
1.0379 |
-0.1145 |
245 |
1 |
42.34 |
2011-11-30 |
| 80. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
42.06 |
0.9916 |
-0.0664 |
282 |
1 |
42.06 |
2011-11-30 |
| 81. |
If someone gives you an opinion and says, "Hey, you look so ... |
41.55 |
1.0068 |
-0.1268 |
312 |
1 |
41.55 |
2017-03-04 |
| 82. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
41.51 |
0.9330 |
-0.0556 |
360 |
1 |
41.51 |
2011-12-01 |
| 83. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
41.12 |
0.9266 |
-0.0641 |
267 |
1 |
41.12 |
2011-11-30 |
| 84. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
41.07 |
0.9019 |
-0.0352 |
204 |
1 |
41.07 |
2011-11-30 |
| 85. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
40.59 |
0.9348 |
-0.0756 |
229 |
1 |
40.59 |
2011-12-01 |
| 86. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
40.58 |
0.9567 |
-0.1058 |
273 |
1 |
40.58 |
2011-11-30 |
| 87. |
The chat room she finds not so comforting. It's strange even... |
40.24 |
0.9471 |
-0.0930 |
312 |
1 |
40.24 |
2011-11-30 |
| 88. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
40.01 |
0.9289 |
-0.0923 |
204 |
1 |
40.01 |
2011-11-30 |
| 89. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
38.90 |
0.9792 |
-0.1254 |
265 |
1 |
38.90 |
2011-11-30 |
| 90. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
37.62 |
0.9633 |
-0.1731 |
304 |
1 |
37.62 |
2011-11-30 |
| 91. |
You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about... |
32.16 |
1.0125 |
-0.3432 |
138 |
1 |
32.16 |
2017-03-04 |