| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
71.72 |
0.8956 |
0.3212 |
217 |
1 |
71.72 |
2009-11-28 |
| 2. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
71.58 |
1.0390 |
0.1690 |
205 |
1 |
71.58 |
2009-11-16 |
| 3. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
71.41 |
1.0389 |
0.1724 |
340 |
1 |
71.41 |
2009-11-12 |
| 4. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
70.80 |
1.0993 |
0.0971 |
265 |
1 |
70.80 |
2009-11-28 |
| 5. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
70.54 |
1.0444 |
0.1430 |
197 |
3 |
64.59 |
2009-12-05 |
| 6. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
70.28 |
1.0331 |
0.1543 |
234 |
2 |
65.31 |
2009-11-11 |
| 7. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
69.95 |
1.0498 |
0.1293 |
180 |
2 |
62.76 |
2009-11-15 |
| 8. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
69.43 |
1.0506 |
0.1532 |
277 |
1 |
69.43 |
2009-11-28 |
| 9. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
68.96 |
1.0138 |
0.1528 |
231 |
1 |
68.96 |
2009-11-18 |
| 10. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
68.88 |
1.0619 |
0.1073 |
354 |
1 |
68.88 |
2009-11-16 |
| 11. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
68.33 |
1.0907 |
0.0682 |
303 |
1 |
68.33 |
2009-11-21 |
| 12. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
67.36 |
1.0023 |
0.1354 |
211 |
1 |
67.36 |
2009-11-20 |
| 13. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
66.97 |
0.9635 |
0.1748 |
389 |
1 |
66.97 |
2009-11-12 |
| 14. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
66.38 |
1.0463 |
0.0719 |
182 |
1 |
66.38 |
2009-11-16 |
| 15. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
65.62 |
1.0796 |
0.0254 |
129 |
1 |
65.62 |
2009-12-05 |
| 16. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
65.35 |
1.0515 |
0.0518 |
250 |
1 |
65.35 |
2009-11-10 |
| 17. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
65.11 |
0.9266 |
0.1746 |
267 |
1 |
65.11 |
2009-11-28 |
| 18. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
64.94 |
1.0203 |
0.0813 |
261 |
1 |
64.94 |
2009-11-12 |
| 19. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
64.70 |
0.9758 |
0.1190 |
314 |
1 |
64.70 |
2009-11-11 |
| 20. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
64.49 |
0.9865 |
0.1051 |
276 |
2 |
60.69 |
2009-11-20 |
| 21. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
64.44 |
0.9286 |
0.1601 |
194 |
1 |
64.44 |
2009-11-15 |
| 22. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
64.37 |
0.9965 |
0.0923 |
310 |
1 |
64.37 |
2009-12-05 |
| 23. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
64.07 |
0.9852 |
0.0984 |
264 |
1 |
64.07 |
2009-12-05 |
| 24. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
63.97 |
0.9754 |
0.1123 |
362 |
3 |
55.41 |
2009-11-28 |
| 25. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
62.09 |
1.0033 |
0.0394 |
189 |
1 |
62.09 |
2009-11-28 |
| 26. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
61.58 |
1.0120 |
0.0279 |
290 |
2 |
60.05 |
2009-12-05 |
| 27. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
61.57 |
0.9578 |
0.0822 |
281 |
1 |
61.57 |
2009-11-10 |
| 28. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
61.28 |
0.9866 |
0.0453 |
218 |
1 |
61.28 |
2009-11-28 |
| 29. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
60.99 |
0.9430 |
0.0803 |
211 |
1 |
60.99 |
2009-11-28 |
| 30. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
60.96 |
1.0445 |
-0.0135 |
373 |
1 |
60.96 |
2009-11-28 |
| 31. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
60.86 |
0.9633 |
0.0673 |
304 |
1 |
60.86 |
2009-11-10 |
| 32. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
60.79 |
0.9922 |
0.0761 |
341 |
1 |
60.79 |
2009-11-10 |
| 33. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
60.60 |
0.9527 |
0.0712 |
251 |
2 |
60.27 |
2009-11-21 |
| 34. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
60.38 |
0.9798 |
0.0347 |
199 |
2 |
58.67 |
2009-11-21 |
| 35. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
60.36 |
1.0462 |
-0.0325 |
184 |
1 |
60.36 |
2009-11-10 |
| 36. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
60.23 |
0.9398 |
0.0871 |
419 |
1 |
60.23 |
2009-11-18 |
| 37. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
59.90 |
1.0125 |
-0.0028 |
224 |
1 |
59.90 |
2009-11-11 |
| 38. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
59.88 |
0.9894 |
0.0266 |
323 |
1 |
59.88 |
2009-11-27 |
| 39. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
59.70 |
0.9681 |
0.0488 |
378 |
1 |
59.70 |
2009-11-20 |
| 40. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
59.38 |
0.9088 |
0.0995 |
348 |
1 |
59.38 |
2009-11-28 |
| 41. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
59.18 |
1.0389 |
-0.0375 |
318 |
1 |
59.18 |
2009-11-18 |
| 42. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
59.16 |
0.8996 |
0.0942 |
192 |
2 |
51.79 |
2009-11-28 |
| 43. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
59.09 |
0.9814 |
0.0561 |
364 |
1 |
59.09 |
2009-11-21 |
| 44. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
58.89 |
0.8890 |
0.1021 |
199 |
1 |
58.89 |
2009-11-28 |
| 45. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
58.60 |
0.9841 |
0.0094 |
334 |
3 |
52.62 |
2009-11-28 |
| 46. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
58.42 |
1.0214 |
-0.0401 |
166 |
1 |
58.42 |
2009-11-20 |
| 47. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
58.23 |
0.9426 |
0.0439 |
317 |
1 |
58.23 |
2009-11-15 |
| 48. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
58.00 |
0.9899 |
-0.0151 |
163 |
1 |
58.00 |
2009-11-15 |
| 49. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
57.91 |
0.8852 |
0.0948 |
201 |
1 |
57.91 |
2009-11-28 |
| 50. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
57.82 |
0.9780 |
-0.0006 |
337 |
1 |
57.82 |
2009-11-17 |
| 51. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
57.79 |
0.9884 |
-0.0133 |
233 |
1 |
57.79 |
2009-11-11 |
| 52. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
57.33 |
1.0595 |
-0.0890 |
379 |
1 |
57.33 |
2009-11-27 |
| 53. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
57.27 |
0.9709 |
0.0371 |
397 |
1 |
57.27 |
2009-11-28 |
| 54. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
56.71 |
0.9831 |
-0.0177 |
469 |
1 |
56.71 |
2009-12-05 |
| 55. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
56.62 |
1.0201 |
-0.0638 |
303 |
2 |
56.36 |
2009-11-11 |
| 56. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
56.58 |
0.9833 |
-0.0265 |
355 |
1 |
56.58 |
2009-11-15 |
| 57. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
56.47 |
0.9676 |
-0.0060 |
442 |
1 |
56.47 |
2009-11-15 |
| 58. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
56.41 |
0.9976 |
-0.0251 |
174 |
1 |
56.41 |
2009-11-28 |
| 59. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
56.20 |
0.9636 |
-0.0150 |
254 |
3 |
53.19 |
2009-11-21 |
| 60. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
56.17 |
0.9278 |
0.0231 |
295 |
1 |
56.17 |
2009-11-28 |
| 61. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
56.02 |
1.0352 |
-0.0865 |
341 |
1 |
56.02 |
2009-11-20 |
| 62. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
55.84 |
0.8573 |
0.0888 |
270 |
1 |
55.84 |
2009-11-27 |
| 63. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
55.68 |
0.8670 |
0.0782 |
318 |
1 |
55.68 |
2009-11-28 |
| 64. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
55.66 |
0.9128 |
0.0681 |
369 |
1 |
55.66 |
2009-11-27 |
| 65. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
55.17 |
0.9212 |
0.0131 |
323 |
1 |
55.17 |
2009-11-20 |
| 66. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
54.88 |
1.0213 |
-0.0984 |
240 |
1 |
54.88 |
2009-11-15 |
| 67. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
54.74 |
0.9597 |
-0.0319 |
347 |
2 |
51.60 |
2009-11-28 |
| 68. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
54.73 |
0.9672 |
-0.0372 |
396 |
1 |
54.73 |
2009-11-11 |
| 69. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
54.66 |
1.0167 |
-0.0876 |
378 |
1 |
54.66 |
2009-11-16 |
| 70. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
54.62 |
0.9851 |
-0.0613 |
317 |
1 |
54.62 |
2009-11-10 |
| 71. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
54.36 |
0.9316 |
-0.0084 |
287 |
1 |
54.36 |
2009-11-10 |
| 72. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
54.08 |
0.8722 |
0.0431 |
285 |
1 |
54.08 |
2009-11-21 |
| 73. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
53.43 |
1.0340 |
-0.1275 |
406 |
1 |
53.43 |
2009-11-10 |
| 74. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
53.41 |
0.8595 |
0.0432 |
242 |
1 |
53.41 |
2009-11-10 |
| 75. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
53.29 |
0.9513 |
-0.0486 |
354 |
1 |
53.29 |
2009-11-18 |
| 76. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
53.10 |
0.9464 |
-0.0457 |
323 |
1 |
53.10 |
2009-11-28 |
| 77. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
52.94 |
0.9049 |
-0.0066 |
351 |
1 |
52.94 |
2009-11-28 |
| 78. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
52.79 |
0.9897 |
-0.1017 |
274 |
1 |
52.79 |
2009-11-10 |
| 79. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
52.78 |
0.9805 |
-0.0857 |
292 |
1 |
52.78 |
2009-11-10 |
| 80. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
52.11 |
0.9699 |
-0.0918 |
269 |
1 |
52.11 |
2009-11-17 |
| 81. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
51.62 |
1.0251 |
-0.1570 |
261 |
1 |
51.62 |
2009-11-21 |
| 82. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
51.45 |
1.0154 |
-0.0982 |
351 |
1 |
51.45 |
2009-11-10 |
| 83. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
51.35 |
1.0768 |
-0.1710 |
295 |
1 |
51.35 |
2009-11-21 |
| 84. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
51.34 |
0.8981 |
-0.0280 |
393 |
1 |
51.34 |
2009-12-05 |
| 85. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
50.69 |
0.9879 |
-0.1248 |
450 |
1 |
50.69 |
2009-11-18 |
| 86. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
50.42 |
0.9965 |
-0.1515 |
168 |
1 |
50.42 |
2009-11-20 |
| 87. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
48.10 |
0.8919 |
-0.0835 |
205 |
1 |
48.10 |
2009-11-20 |
| 88. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
47.69 |
0.9786 |
-0.1760 |
235 |
1 |
47.69 |
2009-11-15 |
| 89. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
47.07 |
1.0483 |
-0.2588 |
227 |
1 |
47.07 |
2009-11-20 |
| 90. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
46.97 |
0.9769 |
-0.1883 |
263 |
1 |
46.97 |
2009-11-10 |
| 91. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
44.71 |
0.9756 |
-0.2248 |
229 |
1 |
44.71 |
2009-11-10 |
| 92. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
44.26 |
0.9540 |
-0.2114 |
285 |
1 |
44.26 |
2009-11-11 |
| 93. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
42.44 |
0.9691 |
-0.2564 |
223 |
1 |
42.44 |
2009-11-28 |
| 94. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
38.48 |
1.0496 |
-0.4048 |
314 |
1 |
38.48 |
2009-11-28 |