| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
41.27 |
1.0941 |
0.1795 |
256 |
2 |
34.70 |
2012-02-15 |
| 2. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
39.73 |
0.9221 |
0.2723 |
244 |
1 |
39.73 |
2012-02-14 |
| 3. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
39.58 |
1.0343 |
0.1939 |
242 |
1 |
39.58 |
2012-02-13 |
| 4. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
39.20 |
1.0523 |
0.1229 |
256 |
1 |
39.20 |
2012-02-15 |
| 5. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
39.07 |
0.9786 |
0.1964 |
235 |
1 |
39.07 |
2012-02-15 |
| 6. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
38.40 |
1.0314 |
0.1203 |
172 |
3 |
34.19 |
2012-02-15 |
| 7. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
38.20 |
0.8544 |
0.2965 |
170 |
2 |
35.24 |
2012-02-13 |
| 8. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
38.17 |
1.0396 |
0.1014 |
149 |
1 |
38.17 |
2012-02-13 |
| 9. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
38.01 |
0.9307 |
0.2204 |
246 |
1 |
38.01 |
2012-02-13 |
| 10. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
37.90 |
1.0885 |
0.0546 |
315 |
1 |
37.90 |
2012-02-13 |
| 11. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
37.77 |
1.0767 |
0.0570 |
212 |
1 |
37.77 |
2012-02-14 |
| 12. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
37.56 |
1.0034 |
0.1248 |
302 |
1 |
37.56 |
2012-02-13 |
| 13. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
37.35 |
1.0053 |
0.1158 |
232 |
1 |
37.35 |
2012-02-15 |
| 14. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
36.99 |
0.9904 |
0.1623 |
203 |
2 |
33.69 |
2012-02-16 |
| 15. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
36.93 |
1.0679 |
0.0625 |
177 |
1 |
36.93 |
2012-02-15 |
| 16. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
36.79 |
1.0598 |
0.0402 |
196 |
1 |
36.79 |
2012-02-12 |
| 17. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
36.60 |
0.9846 |
0.1142 |
281 |
1 |
36.60 |
2012-02-13 |
| 18. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
36.55 |
1.0917 |
0.0306 |
243 |
3 |
35.17 |
2012-02-14 |
| 19. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
36.46 |
0.9466 |
0.1452 |
107 |
1 |
36.46 |
2012-02-12 |
| 20. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
36.36 |
0.9769 |
0.1142 |
263 |
3 |
35.66 |
2012-02-15 |
| 21. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
36.36 |
1.0463 |
0.0420 |
182 |
1 |
36.36 |
2012-02-12 |
| 22. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
36.35 |
1.0444 |
0.0418 |
197 |
1 |
36.35 |
2012-02-12 |
| 23. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
36.29 |
0.9941 |
0.0946 |
217 |
2 |
34.86 |
2012-02-18 |
| 24. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
36.22 |
1.0004 |
0.0823 |
212 |
1 |
36.22 |
2012-02-13 |
| 25. |
Pulp: 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter. 2. A magaz... |
36.15 |
0.9155 |
0.2203 |
168 |
1 |
36.15 |
2012-02-14 |
| 26. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
35.95 |
1.0365 |
0.0738 |
162 |
1 |
35.95 |
2012-02-12 |
| 27. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
35.79 |
1.0331 |
0.0403 |
234 |
1 |
35.79 |
2012-02-12 |
| 28. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
35.77 |
1.0529 |
0.0221 |
351 |
1 |
35.77 |
2012-02-15 |
| 29. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
35.69 |
0.9910 |
0.0838 |
295 |
1 |
35.69 |
2012-02-12 |
| 30. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
35.63 |
1.0521 |
0.0136 |
171 |
1 |
35.63 |
2012-02-14 |
| 31. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
35.62 |
1.0547 |
0.0506 |
257 |
1 |
35.62 |
2012-02-13 |
| 32. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
35.60 |
1.0385 |
0.0296 |
230 |
1 |
35.60 |
2012-02-14 |
| 33. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
35.58 |
0.8162 |
0.2586 |
149 |
1 |
35.58 |
2012-02-13 |
| 34. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
35.48 |
0.9865 |
0.0810 |
276 |
2 |
33.85 |
2012-02-12 |
| 35. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
35.47 |
1.1018 |
-0.0424 |
220 |
1 |
35.47 |
2012-02-12 |
| 36. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
35.37 |
0.9820 |
0.0840 |
267 |
1 |
35.37 |
2012-02-13 |
| 37. |
The alternative to binge travel entails relocating to one pl... |
35.33 |
0.8747 |
0.1832 |
201 |
1 |
35.33 |
2012-02-09 |
| 38. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
35.25 |
0.9131 |
0.1415 |
144 |
1 |
35.25 |
2012-02-12 |
| 39. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
35.19 |
1.1296 |
-0.0431 |
252 |
1 |
35.19 |
2012-02-13 |
| 40. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
35.16 |
1.0795 |
0.0074 |
226 |
1 |
35.16 |
2012-02-12 |
| 41. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
35.14 |
0.8725 |
0.1856 |
163 |
1 |
35.14 |
2012-02-15 |
| 42. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
35.07 |
0.9786 |
0.0701 |
193 |
1 |
35.07 |
2012-02-13 |
| 43. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
35.02 |
0.9758 |
0.0772 |
314 |
1 |
35.02 |
2012-02-13 |
| 44. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
34.90 |
0.9316 |
0.1233 |
287 |
1 |
34.90 |
2012-02-12 |
| 45. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
34.35 |
0.9239 |
0.1145 |
193 |
1 |
34.35 |
2012-02-12 |
| 46. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
34.33 |
0.9187 |
0.1026 |
118 |
1 |
34.33 |
2012-02-14 |
| 47. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
34.32 |
1.0788 |
-0.0535 |
171 |
1 |
34.32 |
2012-02-12 |
| 48. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
34.32 |
0.8906 |
0.1445 |
238 |
1 |
34.32 |
2012-02-13 |
| 49. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
34.09 |
0.7981 |
0.2245 |
126 |
1 |
34.09 |
2012-02-15 |
| 50. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
34.02 |
0.9429 |
0.0805 |
287 |
1 |
34.02 |
2012-02-13 |
| 51. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
33.92 |
1.0232 |
0.0415 |
350 |
1 |
33.92 |
2012-02-13 |
| 52. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
33.45 |
1.0797 |
-0.0807 |
210 |
1 |
33.45 |
2012-02-12 |
| 53. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
33.39 |
0.8263 |
0.1745 |
162 |
1 |
33.39 |
2012-02-12 |
| 54. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
33.38 |
0.8821 |
0.1203 |
176 |
1 |
33.38 |
2012-02-12 |
| 55. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
33.36 |
0.9893 |
0.0125 |
323 |
1 |
33.36 |
2012-02-09 |
| 56. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
33.16 |
1.0506 |
-0.0263 |
277 |
1 |
33.16 |
2012-02-12 |
| 57. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
33.16 |
1.0863 |
-0.0560 |
210 |
2 |
31.48 |
2012-02-09 |
| 58. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
33.14 |
0.7708 |
0.2298 |
207 |
1 |
33.14 |
2012-02-15 |
| 59. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
33.13 |
1.0263 |
-0.0325 |
267 |
1 |
33.13 |
2012-02-12 |
| 60. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
33.10 |
1.1162 |
-0.0812 |
189 |
1 |
33.10 |
2012-02-09 |
| 61. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
33.02 |
1.0711 |
-0.0850 |
213 |
1 |
33.02 |
2012-02-09 |
| 62. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
32.99 |
0.8628 |
0.1247 |
196 |
1 |
32.99 |
2012-02-14 |
| 63. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
32.63 |
0.9226 |
0.0632 |
348 |
1 |
32.63 |
2012-02-18 |
| 64. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
32.58 |
0.8739 |
0.1025 |
136 |
1 |
32.58 |
2012-02-09 |
| 65. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
32.55 |
1.0214 |
-0.0496 |
166 |
1 |
32.55 |
2012-02-12 |
| 66. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
32.33 |
0.9665 |
0.0533 |
326 |
1 |
32.33 |
2012-02-13 |
| 67. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
32.30 |
0.9936 |
-0.0039 |
227 |
1 |
32.30 |
2012-02-13 |
| 68. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
32.30 |
0.9682 |
-0.0002 |
143 |
1 |
32.30 |
2012-02-12 |
| 69. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
32.07 |
0.8899 |
0.0834 |
293 |
1 |
32.07 |
2012-02-16 |
| 70. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
32.01 |
0.7852 |
0.1818 |
149 |
1 |
32.01 |
2012-02-12 |
| 71. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
31.90 |
1.0124 |
-0.0576 |
204 |
1 |
31.90 |
2012-02-14 |
| 72. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
31.87 |
0.8295 |
0.1288 |
209 |
2 |
31.50 |
2012-02-13 |
| 73. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
31.84 |
1.0565 |
-0.1039 |
247 |
1 |
31.84 |
2012-02-12 |
| 74. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
31.76 |
0.7791 |
0.1724 |
172 |
1 |
31.76 |
2012-02-13 |
| 75. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
31.63 |
0.8533 |
0.0970 |
232 |
1 |
31.63 |
2012-02-09 |
| 76. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
31.61 |
0.9342 |
0.0181 |
434 |
1 |
31.61 |
2012-02-12 |
| 77. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
31.60 |
0.9798 |
-0.0372 |
199 |
1 |
31.60 |
2012-02-18 |
| 78. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
31.44 |
0.8884 |
0.0551 |
135 |
1 |
31.44 |
2012-02-13 |
| 79. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
31.43 |
0.9673 |
0.0149 |
232 |
2 |
29.74 |
2012-02-13 |
| 80. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
31.24 |
1.0375 |
-0.0543 |
200 |
1 |
31.24 |
2012-02-13 |
| 81. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
31.13 |
1.0799 |
-0.1499 |
243 |
1 |
31.13 |
2012-02-13 |
| 82. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
31.03 |
0.9578 |
-0.0269 |
281 |
1 |
31.03 |
2012-02-13 |
| 83. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
30.96 |
1.0485 |
-0.0854 |
153 |
2 |
30.60 |
2012-02-12 |
| 84. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
30.84 |
0.9729 |
-0.0475 |
255 |
1 |
30.84 |
2012-02-12 |
| 85. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
30.78 |
1.0252 |
-0.1084 |
176 |
1 |
30.78 |
2012-02-09 |
| 86. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
30.77 |
0.9485 |
-0.0229 |
291 |
1 |
30.77 |
2012-02-12 |
| 87. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
30.76 |
1.0270 |
-0.0684 |
255 |
1 |
30.76 |
2012-02-13 |
| 88. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
30.64 |
0.8178 |
0.1020 |
159 |
1 |
30.64 |
2012-02-13 |
| 89. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
30.45 |
0.9763 |
-0.0637 |
289 |
1 |
30.45 |
2012-02-12 |
| 90. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
30.26 |
1.0131 |
-0.1095 |
225 |
1 |
30.26 |
2012-02-13 |
| 91. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
30.12 |
1.0211 |
-0.0874 |
213 |
1 |
30.12 |
2012-02-09 |
| 92. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
30.02 |
0.9089 |
-0.0052 |
342 |
1 |
30.02 |
2012-02-12 |
| 93. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
29.78 |
0.9886 |
-0.0933 |
220 |
1 |
29.78 |
2012-02-13 |
| 94. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
29.74 |
1.0117 |
-0.0754 |
297 |
1 |
29.74 |
2012-02-13 |
| 95. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
29.64 |
0.8520 |
0.0372 |
202 |
2 |
29.22 |
2012-02-12 |
| 96. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
29.51 |
0.7890 |
0.0969 |
230 |
1 |
29.51 |
2012-02-12 |
| 97. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
29.49 |
1.0403 |
-0.1164 |
275 |
1 |
29.49 |
2012-02-12 |
| 98. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
29.48 |
0.7805 |
0.0989 |
154 |
2 |
27.79 |
2012-02-13 |
| 99. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
29.48 |
0.8731 |
0.0177 |
199 |
1 |
29.48 |
2012-02-18 |
| 100. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
29.42 |
0.9514 |
-0.0692 |
237 |
1 |
29.42 |
2012-02-13 |
| 101. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
29.16 |
0.8852 |
-0.0087 |
201 |
1 |
29.16 |
2012-02-12 |
| 102. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
29.11 |
0.9019 |
-0.0237 |
204 |
1 |
29.11 |
2012-02-11 |
| 103. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
29.07 |
1.0168 |
-0.1439 |
271 |
1 |
29.07 |
2012-02-09 |
| 104. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
29.05 |
0.8916 |
-0.0205 |
216 |
2 |
28.38 |
2012-02-09 |
| 105. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
28.98 |
0.9207 |
-0.0497 |
174 |
1 |
28.98 |
2012-02-12 |
| 106. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
28.60 |
0.8125 |
0.0478 |
197 |
1 |
28.60 |
2012-02-09 |
| 107. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
28.54 |
0.9711 |
-0.1174 |
176 |
1 |
28.54 |
2012-02-13 |
| 108. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
28.38 |
0.8777 |
-0.0253 |
177 |
1 |
28.38 |
2012-02-09 |
| 109. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
28.37 |
1.0183 |
-0.1739 |
191 |
1 |
28.37 |
2012-02-11 |
| 110. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
28.36 |
1.0462 |
-0.2023 |
184 |
2 |
26.20 |
2012-02-11 |
| 111. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
28.30 |
0.9697 |
-0.1175 |
266 |
1 |
28.30 |
2012-02-16 |
| 112. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
28.25 |
0.8619 |
-0.0169 |
119 |
1 |
28.25 |
2012-02-12 |
| 113. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
28.13 |
1.0487 |
-0.2110 |
231 |
1 |
28.13 |
2012-02-09 |
| 114. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
27.97 |
0.8037 |
0.0375 |
148 |
1 |
27.97 |
2012-02-07 |
| 115. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
27.70 |
1.0796 |
-0.2553 |
129 |
1 |
27.70 |
2012-02-13 |
| 116. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
27.69 |
0.8077 |
0.0193 |
167 |
1 |
27.69 |
2012-02-09 |
| 117. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
27.53 |
0.8961 |
-0.0751 |
189 |
1 |
27.53 |
2012-02-09 |
| 118. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
27.27 |
0.9005 |
-0.0854 |
212 |
1 |
27.27 |
2012-02-09 |
| 119. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
26.90 |
0.8553 |
-0.0550 |
174 |
1 |
26.90 |
2012-02-13 |
| 120. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
26.89 |
0.8595 |
-0.0524 |
242 |
1 |
26.89 |
2012-02-09 |
| 121. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
25.06 |
0.8826 |
-0.1317 |
296 |
1 |
25.06 |
2012-02-11 |
| 122. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
23.35 |
0.7839 |
-0.0815 |
257 |
1 |
23.35 |
2012-02-11 |