| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
64.12 |
1.0263 |
0.1954 |
267 |
2 |
62.37 |
2009-07-28 |
| 2. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
60.93 |
0.9368 |
0.2246 |
173 |
1 |
60.93 |
2011-08-24 |
| 3. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
60.89 |
0.9572 |
0.2019 |
201 |
2 |
58.30 |
2009-07-28 |
| 4. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
60.46 |
1.0796 |
0.0672 |
129 |
1 |
60.46 |
2009-06-09 |
| 5. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
60.18 |
0.9884 |
0.1625 |
262 |
1 |
60.18 |
2009-06-16 |
| 6. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
59.72 |
1.0090 |
0.1726 |
282 |
1 |
59.72 |
2009-10-02 |
| 7. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
59.43 |
1.0023 |
0.1281 |
211 |
1 |
59.43 |
2009-06-16 |
| 8. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
59.24 |
0.9649 |
0.1630 |
193 |
3 |
53.93 |
2010-03-02 |
| 9. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
59.18 |
0.9084 |
0.2209 |
300 |
2 |
54.40 |
2016-03-05 |
| 10. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
59.03 |
1.0013 |
0.1224 |
273 |
2 |
57.85 |
2016-03-05 |
| 11. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
58.72 |
1.0012 |
0.1202 |
260 |
1 |
58.72 |
2010-03-24 |
| 12. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
58.20 |
1.0483 |
0.0571 |
227 |
1 |
58.20 |
2009-06-16 |
| 13. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
57.29 |
0.9266 |
0.1662 |
278 |
1 |
57.29 |
2009-07-28 |
| 14. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
57.25 |
1.0943 |
0.0287 |
206 |
1 |
57.25 |
2011-08-24 |
| 15. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
57.01 |
0.9376 |
0.1536 |
367 |
1 |
57.01 |
2016-03-11 |
| 16. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
56.53 |
0.9740 |
0.0982 |
209 |
1 |
56.53 |
2009-06-16 |
| 17. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
56.46 |
1.0257 |
0.0559 |
401 |
1 |
56.46 |
2016-03-05 |
| 18. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
56.34 |
0.9072 |
0.1636 |
237 |
1 |
56.34 |
2009-06-16 |
| 19. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
55.99 |
1.0419 |
0.0239 |
261 |
1 |
55.99 |
2009-06-16 |
| 20. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
55.92 |
0.9691 |
0.0951 |
223 |
1 |
55.92 |
2009-06-09 |
| 21. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
55.63 |
1.0138 |
0.0449 |
231 |
1 |
55.63 |
2009-06-09 |
| 22. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
54.99 |
1.0993 |
-0.0545 |
265 |
1 |
54.99 |
2010-03-24 |
| 23. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
54.30 |
1.0150 |
0.0676 |
325 |
1 |
54.30 |
2009-10-02 |
| 24. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
54.22 |
0.9635 |
0.0743 |
389 |
1 |
54.22 |
2009-06-09 |
| 25. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
54.15 |
0.9754 |
0.0613 |
362 |
1 |
54.15 |
2009-06-09 |
| 26. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
54.07 |
1.0053 |
0.0219 |
232 |
2 |
50.58 |
2010-03-02 |
| 27. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
53.97 |
0.9910 |
0.0383 |
295 |
1 |
53.97 |
2009-10-02 |
| 28. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
53.91 |
1.0863 |
-0.0257 |
210 |
1 |
53.91 |
2016-03-05 |
| 29. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
53.75 |
0.9233 |
0.0914 |
168 |
2 |
53.68 |
2011-08-24 |
| 30. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
53.71 |
0.9851 |
0.0396 |
317 |
1 |
53.71 |
2009-06-16 |
| 31. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
53.50 |
0.8753 |
0.1522 |
427 |
1 |
53.50 |
2009-06-09 |
| 32. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
53.45 |
1.0201 |
-0.0023 |
303 |
1 |
53.45 |
2009-06-16 |
| 33. |
How many times have you seen the leader of a race have a mec... |
53.31 |
1.0155 |
-0.0001 |
232 |
1 |
53.31 |
2014-09-02 |
| 34. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
53.31 |
0.9339 |
0.0790 |
310 |
1 |
53.31 |
2010-03-24 |
| 35. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
53.29 |
0.9866 |
0.0240 |
218 |
1 |
53.29 |
2011-08-24 |
| 36. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
53.15 |
0.9567 |
0.0548 |
273 |
1 |
53.15 |
2016-03-05 |
| 37. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
53.07 |
1.0390 |
-0.0330 |
205 |
1 |
53.07 |
2010-03-24 |
| 38. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
52.93 |
0.9991 |
0.0087 |
225 |
1 |
52.93 |
2009-10-02 |
| 39. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
52.78 |
0.9938 |
0.0108 |
339 |
1 |
52.78 |
2010-03-24 |
| 40. |
A vector is a quantity that has both magnitude and direction... |
52.51 |
0.9281 |
0.0501 |
285 |
1 |
52.51 |
2018-02-20 |
| 41. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
52.34 |
0.9811 |
0.0174 |
272 |
2 |
48.61 |
2011-08-24 |
| 42. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
52.10 |
0.9684 |
0.0252 |
388 |
1 |
52.10 |
2009-07-28 |
| 43. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
51.59 |
1.0025 |
-0.0201 |
336 |
1 |
51.59 |
2009-06-16 |
| 44. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
51.53 |
1.0334 |
-0.0598 |
131 |
1 |
51.53 |
2009-06-09 |
| 45. |
So if this was a touching romantic story this is probably wh... |
51.50 |
1.0689 |
-0.0903 |
218 |
1 |
51.50 |
2018-02-20 |
| 46. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
51.45 |
0.8975 |
0.0816 |
268 |
1 |
51.45 |
2010-03-24 |
| 47. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
51.19 |
1.0389 |
-0.0629 |
340 |
1 |
51.19 |
2009-06-09 |
| 48. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
50.95 |
0.9157 |
0.0579 |
350 |
1 |
50.95 |
2010-03-24 |
| 49. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
50.86 |
0.9986 |
-0.0307 |
283 |
1 |
50.86 |
2009-06-16 |
| 50. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
50.81 |
0.9636 |
0.0023 |
254 |
1 |
50.81 |
2009-07-28 |
| 51. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
50.49 |
0.9084 |
0.0554 |
404 |
1 |
50.49 |
2009-06-09 |
| 52. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
50.36 |
1.0033 |
-0.0526 |
189 |
1 |
50.36 |
2011-08-24 |
| 53. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
50.28 |
0.9795 |
-0.0231 |
308 |
1 |
50.28 |
2009-06-16 |
| 54. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
50.27 |
0.9293 |
0.0278 |
355 |
2 |
47.32 |
2009-06-16 |
| 55. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
50.23 |
1.0029 |
-0.0544 |
209 |
1 |
50.23 |
2016-03-05 |
| 56. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
50.14 |
0.9841 |
-0.0267 |
334 |
1 |
50.14 |
2009-10-02 |
| 57. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
50.11 |
0.9769 |
-0.0260 |
263 |
1 |
50.11 |
2009-06-09 |
| 58. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
49.28 |
0.9646 |
-0.0287 |
264 |
1 |
49.28 |
2009-06-09 |
| 59. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
48.85 |
0.9125 |
0.0178 |
308 |
1 |
48.85 |
2010-03-02 |
| 60. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
48.77 |
0.9461 |
-0.0197 |
276 |
1 |
48.77 |
2018-02-20 |
| 61. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
48.54 |
1.0261 |
-0.1058 |
273 |
1 |
48.54 |
2010-03-24 |
| 62. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
48.21 |
0.9260 |
0.0010 |
243 |
1 |
48.21 |
2009-06-09 |
| 63. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
47.98 |
0.9699 |
-0.0591 |
269 |
1 |
47.98 |
2010-03-24 |
| 64. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
47.94 |
1.0201 |
-0.1051 |
375 |
1 |
47.94 |
2009-06-10 |
| 65. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
47.26 |
1.0596 |
-0.1641 |
239 |
1 |
47.26 |
2009-06-09 |
| 66. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
47.14 |
0.9734 |
-0.0778 |
289 |
1 |
47.14 |
2009-06-09 |
| 67. |
Well, gentlemen, the way I see it, if this hot weather conti... |
46.72 |
1.0530 |
-0.1683 |
192 |
1 |
46.72 |
2018-02-20 |
| 68. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
46.22 |
0.8105 |
0.0627 |
204 |
1 |
46.22 |
2009-06-16 |
| 69. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
45.92 |
0.8996 |
-0.0332 |
192 |
1 |
45.92 |
2009-10-02 |
| 70. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
45.92 |
0.9612 |
-0.0890 |
256 |
1 |
45.92 |
2009-10-02 |
| 71. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
45.76 |
0.8810 |
-0.0115 |
282 |
1 |
45.76 |
2010-03-24 |
| 72. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
45.26 |
1.0486 |
-0.1886 |
289 |
1 |
45.26 |
2016-03-26 |
| 73. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
44.55 |
0.9863 |
-0.1364 |
339 |
1 |
44.55 |
2009-06-09 |
| 74. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
43.51 |
1.0948 |
-0.2649 |
153 |
1 |
43.51 |
2018-02-20 |
| 75. |
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a... |
43.17 |
1.0282 |
-0.2130 |
459 |
1 |
43.17 |
2016-03-05 |
| 76. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
38.12 |
1.0615 |
-0.3144 |
305 |
1 |
38.12 |
2016-03-05 |
| 77. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
37.34 |
0.9468 |
-0.2401 |
276 |
1 |
37.34 |
2016-03-11 |
| 78. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
35.30 |
0.8845 |
-0.2172 |
273 |
1 |
35.30 |
2016-03-05 |
| 79. |
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the... |
33.60 |
0.8653 |
-0.2559 |
297 |
1 |
33.60 |
2018-02-20 |