| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
111.11 |
1.0426 |
0.1798 |
131 |
2 |
109.18 |
2010-05-20 |
| 2. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
109.60 |
1.0601 |
0.1464 |
256 |
1 |
109.60 |
2010-05-03 |
| 3. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
109.02 |
1.0524 |
0.1486 |
177 |
2 |
98.56 |
2010-04-27 |
| 4. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
108.07 |
1.1093 |
0.0775 |
220 |
1 |
108.07 |
2010-04-27 |
| 5. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
107.80 |
1.0736 |
0.1186 |
350 |
1 |
107.80 |
2010-05-11 |
| 6. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
107.25 |
1.0557 |
0.1292 |
289 |
2 |
95.93 |
2010-04-28 |
| 7. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
107.07 |
1.0960 |
0.0897 |
315 |
2 |
99.27 |
2010-05-20 |
| 8. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
104.80 |
1.0042 |
0.1486 |
168 |
2 |
102.01 |
2010-05-18 |
| 9. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
104.10 |
1.0759 |
0.0782 |
273 |
2 |
98.16 |
2010-05-20 |
| 10. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
104.06 |
1.0511 |
0.0987 |
252 |
1 |
104.06 |
2010-05-21 |
| 11. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
103.63 |
1.0432 |
0.1006 |
276 |
1 |
103.63 |
2010-05-03 |
| 12. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
103.32 |
1.0867 |
0.0488 |
171 |
2 |
98.92 |
2010-04-16 |
| 13. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
103.28 |
1.0509 |
0.0957 |
295 |
1 |
103.28 |
2010-05-03 |
| 14. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
103.03 |
0.9756 |
0.1604 |
223 |
1 |
103.03 |
2010-05-04 |
| 15. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
102.34 |
0.9841 |
0.1564 |
325 |
3 |
91.94 |
2010-05-18 |
| 16. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
101.61 |
1.0638 |
0.0549 |
247 |
2 |
100.76 |
2010-04-26 |
| 17. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
100.03 |
1.0461 |
0.0622 |
286 |
1 |
100.03 |
2010-05-18 |
| 18. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
99.97 |
0.9885 |
0.1145 |
355 |
2 |
96.25 |
2010-05-17 |
| 19. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
99.43 |
0.9678 |
0.1334 |
392 |
1 |
99.43 |
2010-04-29 |
| 20. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
98.95 |
0.9713 |
0.1191 |
193 |
1 |
98.95 |
2010-04-26 |
| 21. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
98.79 |
0.9985 |
0.1036 |
392 |
1 |
98.79 |
2010-05-03 |
| 22. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
98.28 |
1.1198 |
-0.0369 |
247 |
1 |
98.28 |
2010-05-11 |
| 23. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
98.19 |
1.0582 |
0.0216 |
180 |
1 |
98.19 |
2010-05-11 |
| 24. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
98.00 |
0.9787 |
0.1061 |
364 |
1 |
98.00 |
2010-05-10 |
| 25. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
97.58 |
1.0567 |
0.0194 |
314 |
4 |
96.38 |
2010-05-21 |
| 26. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
97.41 |
0.9930 |
0.0904 |
350 |
1 |
97.41 |
2010-05-06 |
| 27. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
96.98 |
1.0617 |
0.0057 |
171 |
1 |
96.98 |
2010-05-21 |
| 28. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
96.85 |
1.0743 |
-0.0048 |
297 |
1 |
96.85 |
2010-05-18 |
| 29. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
96.40 |
1.0094 |
0.0536 |
256 |
1 |
96.40 |
2010-04-14 |
| 30. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
96.34 |
0.9709 |
0.0904 |
264 |
1 |
96.34 |
2010-04-26 |
| 31. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
95.94 |
1.0125 |
0.0442 |
232 |
1 |
95.94 |
2010-04-26 |
| 32. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
95.88 |
1.0291 |
0.0264 |
240 |
1 |
95.88 |
2010-05-10 |
| 33. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
95.77 |
1.0462 |
0.0131 |
340 |
1 |
95.77 |
2010-04-22 |
| 34. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
95.69 |
1.0411 |
0.0160 |
341 |
2 |
95.00 |
2010-05-20 |
| 35. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
95.14 |
1.0873 |
-0.0413 |
243 |
1 |
95.14 |
2010-04-16 |
| 36. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
95.01 |
1.0243 |
0.0270 |
153 |
1 |
95.01 |
2010-04-27 |
| 37. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
94.83 |
1.0267 |
0.0222 |
261 |
1 |
94.83 |
2010-04-02 |
| 38. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
93.68 |
0.9574 |
0.0788 |
354 |
2 |
91.87 |
2010-05-18 |
| 39. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
93.07 |
0.9917 |
0.0370 |
317 |
1 |
93.07 |
2010-04-27 |
| 40. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
93.01 |
0.8615 |
0.1649 |
171 |
1 |
93.01 |
2010-04-26 |
| 41. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
92.84 |
1.0253 |
0.0012 |
337 |
1 |
92.84 |
2010-04-16 |
| 42. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
92.66 |
1.0057 |
0.0192 |
382 |
1 |
92.66 |
2010-04-14 |
| 43. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
92.49 |
1.0845 |
-0.0658 |
212 |
1 |
92.49 |
2010-04-22 |
| 44. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
92.45 |
1.0427 |
-0.0226 |
269 |
1 |
92.45 |
2010-05-11 |
| 45. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
92.11 |
0.9949 |
0.0312 |
304 |
1 |
92.11 |
2010-04-26 |
| 46. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
90.80 |
1.0881 |
-0.0908 |
210 |
1 |
90.80 |
2010-03-31 |
| 47. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
90.26 |
1.0901 |
-0.0931 |
288 |
1 |
90.26 |
2010-04-26 |
| 48. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
90.00 |
0.9597 |
0.0331 |
251 |
1 |
90.00 |
2010-05-11 |
| 49. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
89.99 |
1.0736 |
-0.0776 |
256 |
1 |
89.99 |
2010-04-14 |
| 50. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
89.49 |
0.9869 |
-0.0039 |
193 |
1 |
89.49 |
2010-05-20 |
| 51. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
89.36 |
0.9844 |
0.0128 |
351 |
1 |
89.36 |
2010-05-21 |
| 52. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
89.27 |
0.9852 |
-0.0017 |
235 |
1 |
89.27 |
2010-05-20 |
| 53. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
89.04 |
0.9763 |
0.0052 |
143 |
1 |
89.04 |
2010-05-10 |
| 54. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
88.73 |
0.9538 |
0.0247 |
276 |
1 |
88.73 |
2010-05-10 |
| 55. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
88.36 |
0.9791 |
-0.0120 |
154 |
1 |
88.36 |
2010-05-20 |
| 56. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
88.20 |
0.9673 |
0.0074 |
292 |
1 |
88.20 |
2010-04-26 |
| 57. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
87.75 |
1.0387 |
-0.0670 |
333 |
2 |
87.27 |
2010-04-20 |
| 58. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
87.62 |
1.0033 |
-0.0374 |
203 |
1 |
87.62 |
2010-04-20 |
| 59. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
87.24 |
1.0026 |
-0.0368 |
200 |
1 |
87.24 |
2010-04-14 |
| 60. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
87.14 |
1.0341 |
-0.0744 |
273 |
1 |
87.14 |
2010-05-18 |
| 61. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
86.75 |
0.9583 |
-0.0017 |
237 |
1 |
86.75 |
2010-04-22 |
| 62. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
85.41 |
0.9636 |
-0.0233 |
281 |
1 |
85.41 |
2010-03-31 |
| 63. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
84.57 |
0.9637 |
-0.0195 |
342 |
2 |
84.33 |
2010-04-16 |
| 64. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
83.89 |
0.9957 |
-0.0716 |
323 |
1 |
83.89 |
2010-04-16 |
| 65. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
82.75 |
0.9931 |
-0.0769 |
339 |
1 |
82.75 |
2010-05-20 |
| 66. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
82.45 |
0.8959 |
0.0181 |
328 |
1 |
82.45 |
2010-04-02 |
| 67. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
81.94 |
0.8381 |
0.0681 |
283 |
1 |
81.94 |
2010-04-02 |
| 68. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
81.47 |
1.0115 |
-0.1192 |
189 |
1 |
81.47 |
2010-04-20 |
| 69. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
81.42 |
0.9213 |
-0.0262 |
165 |
1 |
81.42 |
2010-03-31 |
| 70. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
80.97 |
0.9974 |
-0.1095 |
163 |
1 |
80.97 |
2010-05-20 |
| 71. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
80.92 |
0.9765 |
-0.0860 |
269 |
1 |
80.92 |
2010-04-20 |
| 72. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
79.56 |
1.0272 |
-0.1529 |
226 |
1 |
79.56 |
2010-04-16 |
| 73. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
77.73 |
1.0338 |
-0.1726 |
277 |
2 |
77.30 |
2010-04-26 |
| 74. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
76.15 |
0.9403 |
-0.0892 |
345 |
1 |
76.15 |
2010-04-16 |
| 75. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
76.15 |
0.9479 |
-0.1077 |
317 |
1 |
76.15 |
2010-04-14 |
| 76. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
76.04 |
0.9841 |
-0.1481 |
263 |
1 |
76.04 |
2010-04-16 |
| 77. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
75.18 |
0.9162 |
-0.0868 |
401 |
1 |
75.18 |
2010-04-26 |
| 78. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
74.72 |
0.9931 |
-0.1741 |
218 |
1 |
74.72 |
2010-04-02 |
| 79. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
74.45 |
1.0125 |
-0.1978 |
171 |
1 |
74.45 |
2010-04-16 |
| 80. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
74.25 |
0.9780 |
-0.1666 |
173 |
1 |
74.25 |
2010-04-26 |
| 81. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
73.46 |
0.9299 |
-0.1295 |
168 |
1 |
73.46 |
2010-04-02 |
| 82. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
72.34 |
0.9519 |
-0.1515 |
323 |
1 |
72.34 |
2010-05-20 |
| 83. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
71.85 |
0.8437 |
-0.0531 |
268 |
1 |
71.85 |
2010-04-16 |
| 84. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
70.73 |
1.0018 |
-0.2230 |
246 |
1 |
70.73 |
2010-03-31 |
| 85. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
69.10 |
0.9377 |
-0.1699 |
198 |
1 |
69.10 |
2010-04-16 |
| 86. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
68.34 |
0.9762 |
-0.2245 |
249 |
1 |
68.34 |
2010-04-26 |
| 87. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
67.33 |
0.9500 |
-0.2074 |
287 |
1 |
67.33 |
2010-04-26 |
| 88. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
66.81 |
0.9740 |
-0.2357 |
371 |
1 |
66.81 |
2010-03-31 |
| 89. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
56.92 |
0.9243 |
-0.2968 |
240 |
1 |
56.92 |
2010-03-31 |