| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
58.67 |
1.1081 |
0.3017 |
206 |
1 |
58.67 |
2010-06-16 |
| 2. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
58.11 |
1.0214 |
0.3388 |
269 |
1 |
58.11 |
2010-01-22 |
| 3. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
57.37 |
0.9726 |
0.3654 |
154 |
1 |
57.37 |
2010-06-18 |
| 4. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
55.46 |
1.0521 |
0.2423 |
171 |
2 |
48.43 |
2010-01-21 |
| 5. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
54.57 |
1.0346 |
0.2856 |
244 |
1 |
54.57 |
2010-06-18 |
| 6. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
53.64 |
1.0389 |
0.2190 |
318 |
1 |
53.64 |
2010-01-21 |
| 7. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
53.11 |
1.0172 |
0.2615 |
341 |
1 |
53.11 |
2010-06-16 |
| 8. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
52.25 |
1.1018 |
0.1151 |
220 |
4 |
43.38 |
2010-01-22 |
| 9. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
51.96 |
1.0515 |
0.1630 |
250 |
1 |
51.96 |
2010-01-21 |
| 10. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
50.59 |
1.0429 |
0.1397 |
259 |
2 |
45.14 |
2010-06-18 |
| 11. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
50.32 |
0.9485 |
0.2308 |
236 |
1 |
50.32 |
2010-06-18 |
| 12. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
50.00 |
1.0060 |
0.1594 |
171 |
2 |
46.35 |
2010-01-21 |
| 13. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
49.79 |
0.9754 |
0.1958 |
362 |
1 |
49.79 |
2010-06-18 |
| 14. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
49.79 |
0.9567 |
0.2082 |
273 |
1 |
49.79 |
2010-01-22 |
| 15. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
49.03 |
1.0719 |
0.1028 |
360 |
1 |
49.03 |
2010-06-16 |
| 16. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
48.88 |
1.0767 |
0.0647 |
212 |
1 |
48.88 |
2010-06-18 |
| 17. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
48.83 |
0.9884 |
0.1532 |
233 |
1 |
48.83 |
2009-01-25 |
| 18. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
48.64 |
0.9619 |
0.1812 |
393 |
1 |
48.64 |
2010-06-18 |
| 19. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
48.58 |
1.0725 |
0.0898 |
233 |
1 |
48.58 |
2010-06-18 |
| 20. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
48.40 |
0.8562 |
0.2761 |
170 |
1 |
48.40 |
2010-01-21 |
| 21. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
47.94 |
1.0099 |
0.1085 |
207 |
2 |
46.70 |
2009-02-14 |
| 22. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
47.66 |
1.0252 |
0.0830 |
176 |
1 |
47.66 |
2009-02-13 |
| 23. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
47.55 |
0.9513 |
0.1646 |
354 |
1 |
47.55 |
2010-06-18 |
| 24. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
47.55 |
1.0885 |
0.0269 |
315 |
1 |
47.55 |
2009-03-06 |
| 25. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
47.52 |
1.0441 |
0.0688 |
252 |
1 |
47.52 |
2009-02-09 |
| 26. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
47.24 |
1.0063 |
0.0989 |
371 |
1 |
47.24 |
2009-02-14 |
| 27. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
47.17 |
0.9266 |
0.1783 |
278 |
3 |
41.32 |
2010-01-21 |
| 28. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
46.87 |
1.0334 |
0.0561 |
131 |
2 |
39.06 |
2010-01-21 |
| 29. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
46.44 |
1.0025 |
0.0842 |
336 |
2 |
39.69 |
2010-01-21 |
| 30. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
46.32 |
1.0167 |
0.0731 |
378 |
1 |
46.32 |
2009-02-14 |
| 31. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
46.19 |
0.8845 |
0.1958 |
273 |
1 |
46.19 |
2010-06-18 |
| 32. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
46.00 |
1.0218 |
0.0507 |
268 |
1 |
46.00 |
2009-01-25 |
| 33. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
45.68 |
1.0349 |
0.0322 |
234 |
2 |
44.05 |
2009-01-21 |
| 34. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.55 |
0.9899 |
0.0702 |
163 |
1 |
45.55 |
2009-01-25 |
| 35. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
45.36 |
0.9965 |
0.0644 |
277 |
1 |
45.36 |
2009-01-23 |
| 36. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
45.25 |
1.0261 |
0.0297 |
273 |
1 |
45.25 |
2010-01-21 |
| 37. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
45.01 |
1.1114 |
-0.0621 |
247 |
1 |
45.01 |
2009-01-20 |
| 38. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
44.91 |
0.9904 |
0.0998 |
203 |
1 |
44.91 |
2010-06-18 |
| 39. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
44.90 |
1.0025 |
0.0468 |
256 |
3 |
42.56 |
2009-01-20 |
| 40. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
44.64 |
0.8821 |
0.1606 |
176 |
1 |
44.64 |
2009-01-25 |
| 41. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
44.54 |
0.9811 |
0.0625 |
272 |
2 |
37.84 |
2010-01-21 |
| 42. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
44.52 |
1.0799 |
-0.0432 |
243 |
1 |
44.52 |
2009-01-19 |
| 43. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
44.32 |
1.0201 |
0.0196 |
375 |
1 |
44.32 |
2010-06-16 |
| 44. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
44.25 |
0.9776 |
0.0566 |
308 |
2 |
39.02 |
2009-01-25 |
| 45. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
44.10 |
0.9865 |
0.0451 |
276 |
3 |
42.03 |
2009-02-09 |
| 46. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
44.02 |
1.0288 |
0.0319 |
300 |
1 |
44.02 |
2010-06-16 |
| 47. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
43.84 |
0.9649 |
0.0583 |
193 |
1 |
43.84 |
2009-01-25 |
| 48. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
43.67 |
0.9907 |
0.0280 |
211 |
2 |
36.86 |
2009-02-09 |
| 49. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
43.62 |
0.8595 |
0.1614 |
242 |
2 |
37.70 |
2009-02-09 |
| 50. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
43.52 |
0.9884 |
0.0326 |
262 |
2 |
39.31 |
2009-06-26 |
| 51. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
43.39 |
0.8887 |
0.1390 |
128 |
2 |
43.34 |
2009-01-20 |
| 52. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
43.17 |
0.9976 |
0.0311 |
174 |
1 |
43.17 |
2010-06-18 |
| 53. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
43.16 |
0.9857 |
0.0215 |
293 |
2 |
38.98 |
2009-01-20 |
| 54. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
43.09 |
0.9731 |
0.0210 |
129 |
1 |
43.09 |
2009-02-09 |
| 55. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
42.84 |
1.1016 |
-0.1008 |
233 |
2 |
42.74 |
2009-01-20 |
| 56. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
42.74 |
0.8788 |
0.1160 |
134 |
1 |
42.74 |
2009-01-25 |
| 57. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
42.19 |
0.9365 |
0.0502 |
248 |
1 |
42.19 |
2009-01-25 |
| 58. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
42.12 |
0.8899 |
0.1048 |
293 |
1 |
42.12 |
2009-06-26 |
| 59. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
42.12 |
0.9729 |
0.0109 |
255 |
1 |
42.12 |
2009-03-06 |
| 60. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
41.92 |
1.0462 |
-0.0734 |
184 |
3 |
35.73 |
2009-01-20 |
| 61. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
41.39 |
0.8958 |
0.0751 |
322 |
1 |
41.39 |
2009-02-09 |
| 62. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
41.09 |
0.9792 |
0.0184 |
265 |
1 |
41.09 |
2010-01-21 |
| 63. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
41.06 |
0.9699 |
-0.0120 |
269 |
1 |
41.06 |
2009-02-09 |
| 64. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
41.00 |
0.9212 |
0.0392 |
323 |
1 |
41.00 |
2010-01-21 |
| 65. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
40.92 |
0.8573 |
0.1015 |
270 |
1 |
40.92 |
2010-01-21 |
| 66. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
40.79 |
0.9763 |
-0.0246 |
289 |
1 |
40.79 |
2009-01-23 |
| 67. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
40.79 |
1.0534 |
-0.0990 |
357 |
2 |
39.09 |
2009-02-09 |
| 68. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
40.73 |
0.9281 |
0.0277 |
273 |
1 |
40.73 |
2009-01-23 |
| 69. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
40.26 |
1.0109 |
-0.0705 |
276 |
2 |
37.35 |
2009-01-20 |
| 70. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
40.05 |
0.9897 |
-0.0574 |
274 |
1 |
40.05 |
2009-01-25 |
| 71. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
39.68 |
0.9286 |
-0.0037 |
194 |
1 |
39.68 |
2009-01-19 |
| 72. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
39.46 |
0.9109 |
0.0124 |
401 |
1 |
39.46 |
2009-02-14 |
| 73. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
39.38 |
1.0417 |
-0.1254 |
253 |
1 |
39.38 |
2009-01-21 |
| 74. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
39.26 |
0.9342 |
-0.0147 |
434 |
1 |
39.26 |
2009-01-21 |
| 75. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
38.76 |
1.0292 |
-0.1264 |
262 |
1 |
38.76 |
2009-02-09 |
| 76. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
38.56 |
0.9740 |
-0.0787 |
209 |
2 |
33.33 |
2009-01-23 |
| 77. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
38.50 |
1.0389 |
-0.1385 |
340 |
1 |
38.50 |
2009-01-19 |
| 78. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
38.38 |
0.9614 |
-0.0633 |
292 |
1 |
38.38 |
2009-02-09 |
| 79. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
38.37 |
0.9682 |
-0.0752 |
143 |
1 |
38.37 |
2009-01-21 |
| 80. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
38.29 |
1.0516 |
-0.1590 |
281 |
1 |
38.29 |
2009-01-19 |
| 81. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
38.07 |
1.0297 |
-0.1431 |
249 |
1 |
38.07 |
2009-01-20 |
| 82. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
37.67 |
1.0352 |
-0.1538 |
341 |
1 |
37.67 |
2009-06-26 |
| 83. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
37.45 |
0.9633 |
-0.0880 |
304 |
1 |
37.45 |
2009-02-09 |
| 84. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
37.03 |
0.9351 |
-0.0774 |
190 |
1 |
37.03 |
2009-06-26 |
| 85. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
36.48 |
1.0596 |
-0.2115 |
239 |
1 |
36.48 |
2009-01-19 |
| 86. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
36.46 |
1.0993 |
-0.2517 |
265 |
1 |
36.46 |
2009-01-19 |
| 87. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
36.46 |
0.9844 |
-0.1299 |
293 |
1 |
36.46 |
2009-01-21 |
| 88. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
36.34 |
0.9805 |
-0.1290 |
292 |
1 |
36.34 |
2009-01-19 |
| 89. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
35.38 |
0.9500 |
-0.1236 |
362 |
1 |
35.38 |
2009-01-19 |
| 90. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
35.15 |
0.8811 |
-0.0578 |
239 |
1 |
35.15 |
2009-01-20 |
| 91. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
35.02 |
0.9468 |
-0.1317 |
276 |
1 |
35.02 |
2009-01-21 |
| 92. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
34.99 |
0.9221 |
-0.1087 |
244 |
1 |
34.99 |
2009-01-19 |
| 93. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
34.69 |
0.9048 |
-0.0924 |
271 |
1 |
34.69 |
2009-01-20 |
| 94. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
34.55 |
0.9196 |
-0.1134 |
148 |
1 |
34.55 |
2009-01-19 |
| 95. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
34.39 |
0.9612 |
-0.1605 |
256 |
1 |
34.39 |
2009-01-21 |
| 96. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
34.19 |
0.8533 |
-0.0562 |
232 |
1 |
34.19 |
2009-01-19 |
| 97. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
33.64 |
0.8890 |
-0.1096 |
199 |
1 |
33.64 |
2009-01-19 |
| 98. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
33.27 |
0.9646 |
-0.1913 |
264 |
1 |
33.27 |
2009-01-19 |
| 99. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
32.72 |
0.9843 |
-0.2281 |
234 |
1 |
32.72 |
2009-01-19 |
| 100. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
32.19 |
0.8105 |
-0.0661 |
204 |
1 |
32.19 |
2009-01-20 |
| 101. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
32.19 |
0.8852 |
-0.1344 |
201 |
1 |
32.19 |
2009-01-19 |
| 102. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
31.93 |
0.9936 |
-0.2514 |
311 |
1 |
31.93 |
2009-01-19 |
| 103. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
31.23 |
0.9164 |
-0.1856 |
305 |
1 |
31.23 |
2009-01-19 |
| 104. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
31.18 |
0.8791 |
-0.1552 |
190 |
1 |
31.18 |
2009-01-24 |
| 105. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
31.09 |
0.9226 |
-0.1936 |
348 |
1 |
31.09 |
2009-01-19 |
| 106. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
30.85 |
0.9852 |
-0.2679 |
264 |
1 |
30.85 |
2009-01-19 |
| 107. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
29.73 |
0.9430 |
-0.2598 |
211 |
1 |
29.73 |
2009-01-19 |
| 108. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
28.47 |
0.9168 |
-0.2548 |
240 |
1 |
28.47 |
2009-01-19 |
| 109. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
26.71 |
0.9266 |
-0.3075 |
267 |
1 |
26.71 |
2009-01-21 |