| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
50.74 |
0.9252 |
0.6007 |
148 |
1 |
50.74 |
2008-09-24 |
| 2. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
49.11 |
1.0638 |
0.4100 |
247 |
2 |
37.06 |
2011-03-01 |
| 3. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
47.27 |
0.9143 |
0.5071 |
300 |
1 |
47.27 |
2008-09-25 |
| 4. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
46.49 |
1.0287 |
0.3672 |
269 |
1 |
46.49 |
2008-09-24 |
| 5. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
46.28 |
0.9183 |
0.4730 |
308 |
2 |
38.82 |
2011-05-09 |
| 6. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
43.15 |
0.9271 |
0.3685 |
295 |
1 |
43.15 |
2008-09-24 |
| 7. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
42.79 |
0.9204 |
0.3657 |
121 |
1 |
42.79 |
2011-03-01 |
| 8. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
42.42 |
0.9503 |
0.3172 |
211 |
2 |
36.32 |
2011-05-10 |
| 9. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
42.40 |
1.0601 |
0.2104 |
256 |
2 |
36.78 |
2011-03-02 |
| 10. |
Through intensive training and psychological manipulation, a... |
42.06 |
0.8135 |
0.4512 |
173 |
1 |
42.06 |
2011-04-27 |
| 11. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
41.39 |
0.9745 |
0.2706 |
388 |
1 |
41.39 |
2008-09-25 |
| 12. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
41.11 |
1.0615 |
0.1701 |
201 |
2 |
36.48 |
2011-04-28 |
| 13. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
40.45 |
0.9650 |
0.2523 |
347 |
1 |
40.45 |
2008-09-24 |
| 14. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
40.30 |
0.9392 |
0.2769 |
360 |
1 |
40.30 |
2008-09-25 |
| 15. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
39.29 |
0.9324 |
0.2505 |
246 |
3 |
35.42 |
2011-05-05 |
| 16. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
38.83 |
0.8857 |
0.2767 |
172 |
1 |
38.83 |
2011-03-04 |
| 17. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
38.10 |
0.8281 |
0.3150 |
134 |
1 |
38.10 |
2011-05-10 |
| 18. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
37.87 |
0.9737 |
0.1656 |
237 |
1 |
37.87 |
2011-02-28 |
| 19. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
37.86 |
1.0639 |
0.0737 |
303 |
1 |
37.86 |
2011-03-23 |
| 20. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
37.66 |
0.9827 |
0.1486 |
314 |
1 |
37.66 |
2011-04-28 |
| 21. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
37.25 |
0.9932 |
0.1327 |
281 |
1 |
37.25 |
2011-05-09 |
| 22. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
37.09 |
1.0341 |
0.0786 |
273 |
1 |
37.09 |
2011-03-01 |
| 23. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
37.03 |
0.8663 |
0.2414 |
172 |
2 |
31.78 |
2011-04-15 |
| 24. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
36.95 |
0.9852 |
0.1232 |
235 |
1 |
36.95 |
2011-05-02 |
| 25. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
36.94 |
1.0267 |
0.0851 |
261 |
3 |
33.92 |
2011-05-13 |
| 26. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
36.85 |
0.8669 |
0.2453 |
255 |
1 |
36.85 |
2011-05-12 |
| 27. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
36.84 |
0.9299 |
0.1676 |
168 |
1 |
36.84 |
2008-09-12 |
| 28. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
36.79 |
0.8988 |
0.2056 |
216 |
1 |
36.79 |
2011-05-05 |
| 29. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
36.48 |
1.0115 |
0.0782 |
189 |
2 |
31.92 |
2011-04-05 |
| 30. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
36.34 |
0.8283 |
0.2634 |
180 |
1 |
36.34 |
2011-03-04 |
| 31. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
35.87 |
0.9145 |
0.1654 |
404 |
2 |
32.83 |
2008-09-24 |
| 32. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
35.71 |
0.9909 |
0.0850 |
293 |
1 |
35.71 |
2008-09-16 |
| 33. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
35.70 |
1.0845 |
-0.0142 |
212 |
1 |
35.70 |
2011-05-06 |
| 34. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
35.39 |
0.9332 |
0.1288 |
267 |
1 |
35.39 |
2008-09-12 |
| 35. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
35.30 |
0.8845 |
0.1764 |
239 |
1 |
35.30 |
2011-05-10 |
| 36. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
35.27 |
0.9935 |
0.0672 |
217 |
1 |
35.27 |
2011-03-22 |
| 37. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
35.09 |
1.0332 |
0.0194 |
267 |
1 |
35.09 |
2011-03-02 |
| 38. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
35.01 |
0.8615 |
0.1882 |
171 |
1 |
35.01 |
2011-04-27 |
| 39. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
34.79 |
0.9137 |
0.1322 |
342 |
1 |
34.79 |
2011-04-04 |
| 40. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
34.69 |
1.0509 |
-0.0026 |
295 |
1 |
34.69 |
2011-03-02 |
| 41. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
34.58 |
1.0194 |
0.0160 |
224 |
1 |
34.58 |
2011-03-01 |
| 42. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
34.57 |
0.8966 |
0.1399 |
366 |
1 |
34.57 |
2011-04-28 |
| 43. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
34.30 |
0.8628 |
0.1615 |
136 |
1 |
34.30 |
2011-04-14 |
| 44. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
34.19 |
0.9873 |
0.0374 |
274 |
1 |
34.19 |
2011-03-02 |
| 45. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
34.17 |
0.9745 |
0.0501 |
217 |
1 |
34.17 |
2011-04-14 |
| 46. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
34.13 |
0.9278 |
0.0975 |
253 |
1 |
34.13 |
2011-05-09 |
| 47. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.04 |
0.9880 |
0.0287 |
199 |
1 |
34.04 |
2011-05-02 |
| 48. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
33.99 |
1.1095 |
-0.0873 |
252 |
1 |
33.99 |
2011-04-07 |
| 49. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
33.89 |
0.8130 |
0.2108 |
186 |
1 |
33.89 |
2011-03-23 |
| 50. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
33.36 |
1.0426 |
-0.0458 |
131 |
2 |
31.90 |
2011-04-07 |
| 51. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
33.25 |
0.9931 |
0.0005 |
218 |
1 |
33.25 |
2011-03-02 |
| 52. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
33.19 |
1.0585 |
-0.0600 |
226 |
1 |
33.19 |
2011-03-21 |
| 53. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
33.18 |
0.8603 |
0.1350 |
270 |
1 |
33.18 |
2011-03-08 |
| 54. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
33.15 |
0.9756 |
0.0214 |
216 |
2 |
32.26 |
2011-05-03 |
| 55. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
33.10 |
0.8592 |
0.1311 |
191 |
1 |
33.10 |
2011-04-04 |
| 56. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
32.91 |
0.9915 |
-0.0053 |
281 |
1 |
32.91 |
2011-04-04 |
| 57. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
32.90 |
0.9408 |
0.0409 |
177 |
1 |
32.90 |
2011-04-08 |
| 58. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
32.85 |
1.0279 |
-0.0482 |
172 |
1 |
32.85 |
2011-04-14 |
| 59. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
32.82 |
1.0403 |
-0.0576 |
234 |
1 |
32.82 |
2011-03-02 |
| 60. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
32.53 |
0.9989 |
-0.0160 |
282 |
1 |
32.53 |
2011-04-08 |
| 61. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
32.52 |
1.0132 |
-0.0371 |
371 |
2 |
30.94 |
2011-03-02 |
| 62. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
32.47 |
1.0272 |
-0.0554 |
226 |
1 |
32.47 |
2011-03-22 |
| 63. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
32.39 |
1.0901 |
-0.1168 |
288 |
1 |
32.39 |
2011-03-08 |
| 64. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
32.32 |
1.0561 |
-0.0886 |
227 |
1 |
32.32 |
2011-03-22 |
| 65. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
32.31 |
1.0178 |
-0.0504 |
207 |
1 |
32.31 |
2011-05-05 |
| 66. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
32.31 |
0.7875 |
0.1841 |
257 |
1 |
32.31 |
2011-04-07 |
| 67. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
32.09 |
0.9102 |
0.0577 |
239 |
1 |
32.09 |
2011-04-01 |
| 68. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
32.02 |
0.9857 |
-0.0195 |
268 |
1 |
32.02 |
2011-02-28 |
| 69. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
31.71 |
1.0192 |
-0.0631 |
243 |
1 |
31.71 |
2011-03-22 |
| 70. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
31.67 |
0.9606 |
-0.0069 |
203 |
1 |
31.67 |
2011-03-21 |
| 71. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
31.65 |
0.9854 |
-0.0353 |
174 |
1 |
31.65 |
2011-04-27 |
| 72. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
31.63 |
0.9981 |
-0.0505 |
211 |
2 |
29.63 |
2011-04-14 |
| 73. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
31.62 |
0.9621 |
-0.0166 |
201 |
1 |
31.62 |
2011-03-04 |
| 74. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
31.53 |
0.9866 |
-0.0409 |
308 |
1 |
31.53 |
2011-03-08 |
| 75. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
31.40 |
1.0026 |
-0.0565 |
200 |
1 |
31.40 |
2011-04-08 |
| 76. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
31.40 |
0.8117 |
0.1332 |
209 |
1 |
31.40 |
2011-04-04 |
| 77. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
31.32 |
0.9931 |
-0.0496 |
339 |
1 |
31.32 |
2011-04-04 |
| 78. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
30.96 |
0.8175 |
0.1121 |
181 |
1 |
30.96 |
2011-03-08 |
| 79. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
30.62 |
0.9762 |
-0.0583 |
249 |
1 |
30.62 |
2011-02-28 |
| 80. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
30.60 |
0.9713 |
-0.0553 |
193 |
1 |
30.60 |
2008-09-16 |
| 81. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
30.48 |
0.9271 |
-0.0111 |
323 |
1 |
30.48 |
2011-04-08 |
| 82. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
30.05 |
1.0414 |
-0.1415 |
234 |
1 |
30.05 |
2011-03-02 |
| 83. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
30.02 |
0.9948 |
-0.0961 |
233 |
1 |
30.02 |
2011-04-14 |
| 84. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
30.01 |
0.9917 |
-0.0902 |
317 |
1 |
30.01 |
2011-03-01 |
| 85. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
29.90 |
0.9738 |
-0.0754 |
266 |
1 |
29.90 |
2011-03-01 |
| 86. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
29.65 |
1.0479 |
-0.1606 |
205 |
1 |
29.65 |
2011-04-08 |
| 87. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
29.54 |
1.0106 |
-0.1261 |
302 |
1 |
29.54 |
2011-04-04 |
| 88. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
29.11 |
1.0334 |
-0.1616 |
261 |
1 |
29.11 |
2011-02-28 |
| 89. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
29.10 |
0.9316 |
-0.0573 |
188 |
1 |
29.10 |
2011-04-04 |
| 90. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
29.02 |
1.0069 |
-0.1341 |
242 |
1 |
29.02 |
2011-03-01 |
| 91. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
28.99 |
0.9166 |
-0.0451 |
133 |
1 |
28.99 |
2011-03-01 |
| 92. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
28.91 |
0.8958 |
-0.0324 |
188 |
1 |
28.91 |
2011-03-21 |
| 93. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
28.83 |
0.9980 |
-0.1319 |
295 |
1 |
28.83 |
2011-03-08 |
| 94. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
28.82 |
0.8721 |
-0.0025 |
231 |
1 |
28.82 |
2011-03-01 |
| 95. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
28.80 |
0.8971 |
-0.0367 |
100 |
1 |
28.80 |
2011-05-05 |
| 96. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
28.74 |
0.9836 |
-0.1221 |
289 |
1 |
28.74 |
2011-04-07 |
| 97. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
28.67 |
0.8003 |
0.0626 |
219 |
1 |
28.67 |
2011-03-08 |
| 98. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
28.57 |
0.9149 |
-0.0598 |
153 |
1 |
28.57 |
2011-03-22 |
| 99. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
28.56 |
0.8981 |
-0.0334 |
255 |
1 |
28.56 |
2011-03-21 |
| 100. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
28.45 |
0.8824 |
-0.0281 |
202 |
1 |
28.45 |
2011-04-08 |
| 101. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
28.43 |
0.9258 |
-0.0692 |
184 |
1 |
28.43 |
2011-04-14 |
| 102. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
28.38 |
0.8576 |
-0.0023 |
260 |
1 |
28.38 |
2011-05-05 |
| 103. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
28.33 |
0.7915 |
0.0591 |
142 |
1 |
28.33 |
2011-03-22 |
| 104. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
27.99 |
0.8948 |
-0.0566 |
164 |
1 |
27.99 |
2011-03-01 |
| 105. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
27.97 |
0.8656 |
-0.0264 |
242 |
1 |
27.97 |
2011-03-23 |
| 106. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
27.94 |
0.8172 |
0.0156 |
204 |
2 |
27.43 |
2011-03-28 |
| 107. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
27.78 |
0.8208 |
0.0147 |
149 |
1 |
27.78 |
2011-02-28 |
| 108. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
27.68 |
0.8887 |
-0.0545 |
194 |
1 |
27.68 |
2011-03-08 |
| 109. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
27.57 |
0.8837 |
-0.0583 |
157 |
1 |
27.57 |
2011-05-13 |
| 110. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
27.57 |
0.9265 |
-0.1015 |
254 |
1 |
27.57 |
2011-05-19 |
| 111. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
27.00 |
0.7874 |
0.0197 |
195 |
1 |
27.00 |
2011-03-02 |
| 112. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
26.67 |
1.0315 |
-0.2332 |
193 |
1 |
26.67 |
2011-04-08 |
| 113. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
26.65 |
0.9070 |
-0.1137 |
192 |
1 |
26.65 |
2008-09-12 |
| 114. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
26.01 |
0.8830 |
-0.1098 |
134 |
1 |
26.01 |
2011-02-28 |
| 115. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
25.68 |
0.8680 |
-0.1037 |
196 |
1 |
25.68 |
2011-05-02 |
| 116. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
25.67 |
1.0197 |
-0.2528 |
204 |
1 |
25.67 |
2011-03-21 |
| 117. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
24.45 |
0.9780 |
-0.2523 |
173 |
1 |
24.45 |
2011-03-02 |
| 118. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
24.18 |
0.8624 |
-0.1434 |
174 |
1 |
24.18 |
2011-03-01 |
| 119. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
23.17 |
0.8913 |
-0.1966 |
201 |
1 |
23.17 |
2011-04-14 |
| 120. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
22.02 |
0.8965 |
-0.2376 |
150 |
1 |
22.02 |
2011-03-02 |
| 121. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
21.67 |
0.9371 |
-0.2980 |
156 |
1 |
21.67 |
2011-03-31 |