| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
41.79 |
0.9187 |
0.3694 |
118 |
2 |
39.91 |
2013-03-14 |
| 2. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
40.50 |
1.1016 |
0.1525 |
233 |
2 |
40.16 |
2013-03-05 |
| 3. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
40.00 |
0.9316 |
0.3097 |
287 |
3 |
37.33 |
2013-03-05 |
| 4. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
39.94 |
0.8777 |
0.3606 |
177 |
1 |
39.94 |
2013-03-14 |
| 5. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
39.68 |
0.9325 |
0.2948 |
156 |
1 |
39.68 |
2013-02-28 |
| 6. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
39.57 |
0.9287 |
0.2935 |
108 |
1 |
39.57 |
2013-03-05 |
| 7. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
39.31 |
0.9598 |
0.2610 |
220 |
1 |
39.31 |
2013-03-14 |
| 8. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
39.29 |
0.9257 |
0.2959 |
317 |
1 |
39.29 |
2013-03-05 |
| 9. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
39.23 |
0.9986 |
0.2170 |
283 |
1 |
39.23 |
2013-03-05 |
| 10. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
38.98 |
1.0270 |
0.2162 |
255 |
2 |
38.15 |
2013-03-14 |
| 11. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
38.82 |
0.9019 |
0.3039 |
204 |
2 |
33.53 |
2013-03-05 |
| 12. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
38.68 |
0.9251 |
0.2742 |
177 |
1 |
38.68 |
2013-02-28 |
| 13. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
38.46 |
1.0483 |
0.1411 |
227 |
1 |
38.46 |
2013-03-14 |
| 14. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
38.24 |
0.9722 |
0.2114 |
283 |
1 |
38.24 |
2013-03-05 |
| 15. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
38.17 |
0.9711 |
0.2103 |
176 |
1 |
38.17 |
2013-03-05 |
| 16. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
38.05 |
0.9260 |
0.2579 |
243 |
1 |
38.05 |
2013-03-05 |
| 17. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
37.90 |
0.8788 |
0.2925 |
134 |
2 |
35.11 |
2013-03-14 |
| 18. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
37.64 |
0.9164 |
0.2522 |
121 |
1 |
37.64 |
2013-02-26 |
| 19. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
37.47 |
0.9673 |
0.2342 |
232 |
2 |
33.78 |
2013-03-05 |
| 20. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
37.17 |
1.0252 |
0.1228 |
176 |
1 |
37.17 |
2013-03-05 |
| 21. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
37.13 |
0.8792 |
0.2754 |
296 |
1 |
37.13 |
2013-02-28 |
| 22. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
37.01 |
1.0349 |
0.1103 |
234 |
1 |
37.01 |
2013-03-05 |
| 23. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
36.97 |
1.1014 |
0.0813 |
273 |
1 |
36.97 |
2013-03-05 |
| 24. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
36.68 |
0.9171 |
0.2173 |
165 |
1 |
36.68 |
2013-02-28 |
| 25. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
36.56 |
1.0621 |
0.0925 |
263 |
1 |
36.56 |
2013-03-14 |
| 26. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
36.39 |
0.9904 |
0.1781 |
203 |
1 |
36.39 |
2013-03-05 |
| 27. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
36.30 |
0.9155 |
0.2541 |
168 |
1 |
36.30 |
2013-03-14 |
| 28. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
35.98 |
0.9365 |
0.1780 |
248 |
1 |
35.98 |
2013-03-14 |
| 29. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
35.86 |
0.9865 |
0.1240 |
276 |
1 |
35.86 |
2013-03-05 |
| 30. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
35.81 |
1.0034 |
0.1043 |
302 |
1 |
35.81 |
2013-02-28 |
| 31. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
35.52 |
1.0125 |
0.0849 |
224 |
1 |
35.52 |
2013-02-28 |
| 32. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
35.47 |
0.9572 |
0.1392 |
201 |
1 |
35.47 |
2013-03-05 |
| 33. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
35.42 |
0.8653 |
0.2361 |
255 |
1 |
35.42 |
2013-02-28 |
| 34. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
35.29 |
0.8956 |
0.1981 |
217 |
1 |
35.29 |
2013-03-12 |
| 35. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
35.28 |
0.9350 |
0.1553 |
195 |
1 |
35.28 |
2013-03-14 |
| 36. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
34.93 |
0.8152 |
0.2672 |
163 |
1 |
34.93 |
2013-03-14 |
| 37. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
34.90 |
0.9631 |
0.1636 |
345 |
1 |
34.90 |
2013-03-05 |
| 38. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
34.87 |
0.9097 |
0.1680 |
153 |
1 |
34.87 |
2013-03-05 |
| 39. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
34.73 |
1.0486 |
0.0263 |
289 |
1 |
34.73 |
2013-03-05 |
| 40. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
34.63 |
0.9723 |
0.1012 |
364 |
1 |
34.63 |
2013-03-14 |
| 41. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
34.61 |
0.8852 |
0.1864 |
201 |
1 |
34.61 |
2013-03-14 |
| 42. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
34.57 |
0.8202 |
0.2490 |
178 |
1 |
34.57 |
2013-03-05 |
| 43. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
34.36 |
0.8971 |
0.1679 |
266 |
1 |
34.36 |
2013-02-28 |
| 44. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
34.35 |
0.9418 |
0.1226 |
188 |
1 |
34.35 |
2013-03-05 |
| 45. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
34.35 |
0.8996 |
0.1605 |
192 |
2 |
31.87 |
2013-03-14 |
| 46. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
33.87 |
1.0795 |
0.0012 |
226 |
1 |
33.87 |
2013-03-05 |
| 47. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
33.71 |
0.8810 |
0.1630 |
282 |
1 |
33.71 |
2013-02-26 |
| 48. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
33.63 |
0.8323 |
0.2099 |
203 |
1 |
33.63 |
2013-03-14 |
| 49. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
33.41 |
1.0211 |
0.0446 |
213 |
2 |
31.17 |
2013-03-14 |
| 50. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
33.39 |
1.0214 |
0.0529 |
281 |
1 |
33.39 |
2013-03-05 |
| 51. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
33.32 |
0.9773 |
0.0496 |
123 |
2 |
32.76 |
2013-03-14 |
| 52. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
33.17 |
0.9697 |
0.0573 |
249 |
1 |
33.17 |
2013-03-05 |
| 53. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
33.12 |
1.0131 |
0.0090 |
225 |
1 |
33.12 |
2013-02-28 |
| 54. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
33.11 |
0.9873 |
0.0336 |
155 |
1 |
33.11 |
2013-03-14 |
| 55. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
32.91 |
0.9559 |
0.0618 |
195 |
1 |
32.91 |
2013-03-14 |
| 56. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
32.90 |
1.0485 |
0.0064 |
153 |
1 |
32.90 |
2013-03-14 |
| 57. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
32.79 |
0.8867 |
0.1280 |
241 |
1 |
32.79 |
2013-03-05 |
| 58. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
32.76 |
0.9729 |
0.0394 |
255 |
2 |
32.37 |
2013-03-14 |
| 59. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
32.72 |
0.9763 |
0.0358 |
289 |
1 |
32.72 |
2013-02-28 |
| 60. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
32.70 |
0.9529 |
0.0984 |
269 |
1 |
32.70 |
2013-03-14 |
| 61. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
32.67 |
0.8841 |
0.1277 |
194 |
2 |
32.64 |
2013-03-14 |
| 62. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
32.56 |
0.8289 |
0.1817 |
304 |
2 |
30.48 |
2013-03-05 |
| 63. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
32.44 |
1.0711 |
-0.0719 |
213 |
1 |
32.44 |
2013-02-28 |
| 64. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
32.38 |
0.9540 |
0.0471 |
285 |
1 |
32.38 |
2013-03-05 |
| 65. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
32.33 |
0.9941 |
0.0040 |
217 |
1 |
32.33 |
2013-03-12 |
| 66. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
32.30 |
0.9572 |
0.0823 |
376 |
1 |
32.30 |
2013-03-14 |
| 67. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
32.25 |
0.9212 |
0.0772 |
323 |
1 |
32.25 |
2013-03-05 |
| 68. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
31.96 |
0.9340 |
0.0530 |
296 |
1 |
31.96 |
2013-02-28 |
| 69. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
31.94 |
0.8157 |
0.1700 |
121 |
1 |
31.94 |
2013-02-28 |
| 70. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
31.84 |
0.7259 |
0.2639 |
186 |
1 |
31.84 |
2013-03-14 |
| 71. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
31.84 |
0.9353 |
0.0464 |
177 |
1 |
31.84 |
2013-03-14 |
| 72. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
31.55 |
0.8878 |
0.0878 |
346 |
1 |
31.55 |
2013-03-05 |
| 73. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
31.41 |
0.8715 |
0.0989 |
130 |
1 |
31.41 |
2013-03-14 |
| 74. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
31.38 |
0.8910 |
0.0790 |
150 |
2 |
30.36 |
2013-03-14 |
| 75. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
31.36 |
1.0099 |
-0.0412 |
207 |
1 |
31.36 |
2013-02-28 |
| 76. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
31.24 |
0.9682 |
-0.0036 |
143 |
1 |
31.24 |
2013-03-05 |
| 77. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
31.21 |
0.9127 |
0.0502 |
252 |
2 |
30.87 |
2013-03-14 |
| 78. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
31.19 |
0.9852 |
-0.0211 |
264 |
1 |
31.19 |
2013-02-28 |
| 79. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
31.15 |
0.9485 |
0.0166 |
291 |
1 |
31.15 |
2013-02-28 |
| 80. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
31.13 |
1.0767 |
-0.1160 |
212 |
2 |
30.09 |
2013-03-14 |
| 81. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
31.12 |
0.9649 |
-0.0034 |
193 |
1 |
31.12 |
2013-02-28 |
| 82. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
30.95 |
0.9233 |
0.0301 |
168 |
1 |
30.95 |
2013-02-28 |
| 83. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
30.88 |
0.9916 |
0.0046 |
282 |
1 |
30.88 |
2013-02-28 |
| 84. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
30.88 |
0.8595 |
0.0959 |
242 |
2 |
27.84 |
2013-03-14 |
| 85. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
30.85 |
1.0154 |
-0.0148 |
351 |
1 |
30.85 |
2013-02-26 |
| 86. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
30.76 |
0.9430 |
0.0053 |
227 |
1 |
30.76 |
2013-02-26 |
| 87. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
30.74 |
0.8809 |
0.0657 |
127 |
1 |
30.74 |
2013-03-12 |
| 88. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
30.56 |
0.8821 |
0.0608 |
176 |
1 |
30.56 |
2013-02-26 |
| 89. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
30.49 |
0.8953 |
0.0471 |
193 |
1 |
30.49 |
2013-03-14 |
| 90. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
30.47 |
1.0288 |
-0.0549 |
300 |
1 |
30.47 |
2013-03-05 |
| 91. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
30.07 |
1.0547 |
-0.0879 |
257 |
1 |
30.07 |
2013-02-26 |
| 92. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
30.03 |
0.9164 |
0.0136 |
305 |
1 |
30.03 |
2013-02-28 |
| 93. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
30.01 |
0.9805 |
-0.0512 |
292 |
2 |
28.82 |
2013-03-14 |
| 94. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
29.99 |
0.8975 |
0.0291 |
268 |
1 |
29.99 |
2013-03-14 |
| 95. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
29.79 |
1.0768 |
-0.1173 |
295 |
1 |
29.79 |
2013-02-28 |
| 96. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
29.78 |
0.9266 |
-0.0064 |
267 |
2 |
29.16 |
2013-03-05 |
| 97. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
29.69 |
0.9964 |
-0.0794 |
203 |
1 |
29.69 |
2013-03-14 |
| 98. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
29.66 |
0.9697 |
-0.0529 |
266 |
1 |
29.66 |
2013-03-14 |
| 99. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
29.39 |
0.8231 |
0.0873 |
180 |
1 |
29.39 |
2013-03-14 |
| 100. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
29.32 |
1.0013 |
-0.0958 |
273 |
1 |
29.32 |
2013-03-14 |
| 101. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
29.23 |
1.0714 |
-0.1724 |
129 |
2 |
28.79 |
2013-03-14 |
| 102. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
29.05 |
0.9068 |
-0.0105 |
225 |
1 |
29.05 |
2013-02-28 |
| 103. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
28.95 |
0.9636 |
-0.0689 |
254 |
1 |
28.95 |
2013-03-14 |
| 104. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
28.88 |
1.0506 |
-0.1290 |
277 |
1 |
28.88 |
2013-03-14 |
| 105. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
28.68 |
1.0183 |
-0.1353 |
191 |
1 |
28.68 |
2013-03-14 |
| 106. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
28.59 |
0.9202 |
-0.0367 |
254 |
1 |
28.59 |
2013-02-26 |
| 107. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
28.56 |
0.8723 |
0.0062 |
185 |
3 |
27.99 |
2013-03-14 |
| 108. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
28.22 |
1.0232 |
-0.1157 |
236 |
1 |
28.22 |
2013-03-14 |
| 109. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
28.10 |
0.8430 |
0.0225 |
147 |
1 |
28.10 |
2013-03-14 |
| 110. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
27.99 |
0.9857 |
-0.1215 |
293 |
1 |
27.99 |
2013-02-26 |
| 111. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
27.99 |
0.8912 |
-0.0279 |
186 |
1 |
27.99 |
2013-03-14 |
| 112. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
27.96 |
0.8275 |
0.0337 |
142 |
1 |
27.96 |
2013-03-14 |
| 113. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
27.93 |
0.8614 |
-0.0013 |
172 |
1 |
27.93 |
2013-03-05 |
| 114. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
27.57 |
1.0201 |
-0.1681 |
303 |
1 |
27.57 |
2013-03-14 |
| 115. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
27.50 |
0.8968 |
-0.0510 |
186 |
2 |
26.27 |
2013-03-14 |
| 116. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
27.47 |
1.0516 |
-0.2039 |
281 |
1 |
27.47 |
2013-03-14 |
| 117. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
27.43 |
1.0429 |
-0.1972 |
259 |
1 |
27.43 |
2013-02-28 |
| 118. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
27.34 |
1.0487 |
-0.2075 |
231 |
1 |
27.34 |
2013-02-28 |
| 119. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
27.27 |
0.9820 |
-0.1386 |
267 |
1 |
27.27 |
2013-03-14 |
| 120. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
27.26 |
0.8773 |
-0.0353 |
205 |
1 |
27.26 |
2013-03-14 |
| 121. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
27.10 |
0.8961 |
-0.0599 |
189 |
1 |
27.10 |
2013-03-14 |
| 122. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
26.93 |
1.0025 |
-0.1717 |
256 |
1 |
26.93 |
2013-03-05 |
| 123. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
26.78 |
0.9275 |
-0.1025 |
211 |
1 |
26.78 |
2013-03-14 |
| 124. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
26.73 |
0.7988 |
0.0319 |
219 |
1 |
26.73 |
2013-03-14 |
| 125. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
26.47 |
0.9500 |
-0.1317 |
362 |
1 |
26.47 |
2013-03-14 |
| 126. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
26.11 |
0.9769 |
-0.1727 |
263 |
1 |
26.11 |
2013-03-14 |
| 127. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
26.09 |
0.8672 |
-0.0617 |
128 |
1 |
26.09 |
2013-02-28 |
| 128. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
25.97 |
0.9731 |
-0.1779 |
129 |
1 |
25.97 |
2013-03-14 |
| 129. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
25.15 |
0.8082 |
-0.0300 |
186 |
1 |
25.15 |
2013-03-14 |
| 130. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
24.83 |
0.7805 |
-0.0168 |
154 |
1 |
24.83 |
2013-02-28 |
| 131. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
24.54 |
0.8162 |
-0.0576 |
149 |
1 |
24.54 |
2013-03-14 |
| 132. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
24.47 |
0.9289 |
-0.1757 |
204 |
1 |
24.47 |
2013-03-14 |
| 133. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
24.21 |
0.8826 |
-0.1346 |
296 |
1 |
24.21 |
2013-03-14 |
| 134. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
23.97 |
0.8077 |
-0.0704 |
167 |
1 |
23.97 |
2013-03-14 |
| 135. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
23.61 |
0.7850 |
-0.0586 |
154 |
1 |
23.61 |
2013-03-14 |
| 136. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
22.33 |
0.9207 |
-0.2330 |
174 |
1 |
22.33 |
2013-03-14 |
| 137. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
22.20 |
1.1296 |
-0.4145 |
252 |
1 |
22.20 |
2013-03-14 |
| 138. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
21.49 |
0.9048 |
-0.2414 |
271 |
1 |
21.49 |
2013-02-28 |