| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
55.17 |
0.9807 |
0.3948 |
129 |
1 |
55.17 |
2009-01-30 |
| 2. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
50.45 |
1.0639 |
0.2051 |
303 |
2 |
46.75 |
2009-02-26 |
| 3. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
50.18 |
1.1093 |
0.1462 |
220 |
2 |
42.47 |
2009-03-16 |
| 4. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
49.02 |
1.0638 |
0.1660 |
247 |
3 |
42.51 |
2009-03-04 |
| 5. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
45.80 |
0.9931 |
0.1535 |
218 |
1 |
45.80 |
2009-02-28 |
| 6. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
45.34 |
1.0881 |
0.0469 |
210 |
2 |
42.67 |
2009-03-04 |
| 7. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
44.77 |
1.0901 |
0.0364 |
288 |
2 |
43.03 |
2009-02-26 |
| 8. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
44.70 |
0.9842 |
0.1407 |
335 |
1 |
44.70 |
2009-03-12 |
| 9. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
44.26 |
1.0495 |
0.0616 |
323 |
1 |
44.26 |
2009-02-12 |
| 10. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
44.07 |
0.9213 |
0.1833 |
165 |
2 |
40.02 |
2009-02-26 |
| 11. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
43.90 |
1.0498 |
0.0539 |
261 |
1 |
43.90 |
2009-02-12 |
| 12. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
43.87 |
1.0461 |
0.0578 |
318 |
3 |
39.21 |
2009-02-28 |
| 13. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
43.81 |
1.0035 |
0.0973 |
310 |
1 |
43.81 |
2009-03-05 |
| 14. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
43.78 |
1.1070 |
-0.0086 |
265 |
1 |
43.78 |
2009-02-12 |
| 15. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
43.59 |
0.9468 |
0.1477 |
318 |
1 |
43.59 |
2009-02-25 |
| 16. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
43.54 |
1.0588 |
0.0347 |
281 |
1 |
43.54 |
2009-03-11 |
| 17. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
43.42 |
0.9632 |
0.1284 |
287 |
1 |
43.42 |
2009-03-05 |
| 18. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
43.35 |
1.0094 |
0.0793 |
256 |
1 |
43.35 |
2009-03-11 |
| 19. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
42.78 |
0.9801 |
0.0938 |
289 |
1 |
42.78 |
2009-03-11 |
| 20. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
42.48 |
1.0669 |
0.0029 |
379 |
1 |
42.48 |
2009-02-25 |
| 21. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
42.48 |
1.0506 |
0.0156 |
259 |
2 |
41.01 |
2009-03-04 |
| 22. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
42.23 |
1.1198 |
-0.0605 |
247 |
1 |
42.23 |
2009-02-12 |
| 23. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
41.07 |
0.9922 |
0.0394 |
264 |
2 |
39.28 |
2009-03-04 |
| 24. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
40.83 |
0.9780 |
0.0408 |
173 |
1 |
40.83 |
2009-03-12 |
| 25. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
40.82 |
1.0250 |
0.0026 |
271 |
2 |
38.90 |
2009-02-12 |
| 26. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
40.81 |
0.9890 |
0.0393 |
272 |
1 |
40.81 |
2009-03-05 |
| 27. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
40.76 |
0.9917 |
0.0336 |
317 |
2 |
40.02 |
2009-02-13 |
| 28. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
40.72 |
1.0540 |
-0.0368 |
184 |
1 |
40.72 |
2009-03-04 |
| 29. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
40.60 |
0.9011 |
0.1212 |
322 |
1 |
40.60 |
2009-03-04 |
| 30. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
40.59 |
1.0462 |
-0.0243 |
340 |
1 |
40.59 |
2009-02-26 |
| 31. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
40.58 |
1.0028 |
0.0147 |
259 |
1 |
40.58 |
2009-02-25 |
| 32. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
40.45 |
1.0387 |
-0.0191 |
333 |
1 |
40.45 |
2009-02-26 |
| 33. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
40.34 |
1.0567 |
-0.0444 |
314 |
1 |
40.34 |
2009-02-26 |
| 34. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
40.06 |
0.9768 |
0.0300 |
237 |
1 |
40.06 |
2009-02-26 |
| 35. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
40.06 |
0.9980 |
0.0097 |
295 |
1 |
40.06 |
2009-02-11 |
| 36. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
39.90 |
0.9001 |
0.1018 |
217 |
1 |
39.90 |
2009-02-12 |
| 37. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
39.71 |
0.8815 |
0.1201 |
296 |
1 |
39.71 |
2009-02-14 |
| 38. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
39.59 |
0.9538 |
0.0396 |
276 |
1 |
39.59 |
2009-03-11 |
| 39. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
39.53 |
1.0615 |
-0.0724 |
201 |
1 |
39.53 |
2009-03-04 |
| 40. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
38.81 |
0.8964 |
0.0746 |
199 |
1 |
38.81 |
2009-02-26 |
| 41. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
38.65 |
1.0287 |
-0.0599 |
269 |
1 |
38.65 |
2009-01-30 |
| 42. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
38.64 |
0.9884 |
-0.0163 |
267 |
1 |
38.64 |
2009-02-11 |
| 43. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
38.58 |
0.9841 |
-0.0176 |
263 |
2 |
35.47 |
2009-02-11 |
| 44. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
38.49 |
0.9070 |
0.0541 |
192 |
1 |
38.49 |
2009-02-26 |
| 45. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
38.42 |
0.9103 |
0.0536 |
269 |
1 |
38.42 |
2009-03-04 |
| 46. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
38.32 |
1.0543 |
-0.0960 |
182 |
1 |
38.32 |
2009-02-11 |
| 47. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
38.10 |
0.8572 |
0.0971 |
232 |
1 |
38.10 |
2009-03-04 |
| 48. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
38.08 |
0.9931 |
-0.0331 |
339 |
1 |
38.08 |
2009-03-04 |
| 49. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
37.97 |
0.9286 |
0.0259 |
177 |
1 |
37.97 |
2009-02-11 |
| 50. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
37.76 |
0.9561 |
-0.0071 |
362 |
1 |
37.76 |
2009-02-12 |
| 51. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
37.13 |
0.9604 |
-0.0310 |
285 |
1 |
37.13 |
2009-02-11 |
| 52. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
37.09 |
1.0132 |
-0.0821 |
371 |
1 |
37.09 |
2009-02-11 |
| 53. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
36.83 |
0.9380 |
-0.0156 |
284 |
1 |
36.83 |
2009-02-26 |
| 54. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
36.67 |
1.0472 |
-0.1336 |
149 |
1 |
36.67 |
2009-02-12 |
| 55. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
36.64 |
0.9841 |
-0.0683 |
217 |
2 |
35.19 |
2009-02-14 |
| 56. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
36.39 |
1.0743 |
-0.1604 |
297 |
1 |
36.39 |
2009-02-11 |
| 57. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
36.34 |
1.0521 |
-0.1461 |
197 |
1 |
36.34 |
2009-02-04 |
| 58. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
36.16 |
0.9809 |
-0.0778 |
209 |
1 |
36.16 |
2009-02-12 |
| 59. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
35.95 |
0.8925 |
0.0162 |
293 |
1 |
35.95 |
2009-02-04 |
| 60. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
35.84 |
1.0086 |
-0.1140 |
218 |
1 |
35.84 |
2009-02-26 |
| 61. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
35.66 |
1.0466 |
-0.1526 |
230 |
1 |
35.66 |
2009-02-12 |
| 62. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
35.45 |
1.0208 |
-0.1318 |
231 |
1 |
35.45 |
2009-02-11 |
| 63. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
35.19 |
0.8339 |
0.0481 |
209 |
1 |
35.19 |
2009-02-12 |
| 64. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
34.18 |
0.9594 |
-0.1042 |
258 |
1 |
34.18 |
2009-01-30 |
| 65. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
34.08 |
0.9243 |
-0.0677 |
240 |
1 |
34.08 |
2009-02-12 |
| 66. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
34.05 |
1.0234 |
-0.1656 |
392 |
1 |
34.05 |
2009-02-04 |
| 67. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
33.74 |
0.9597 |
-0.1136 |
251 |
1 |
33.74 |
2009-02-11 |
| 68. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
32.93 |
1.0867 |
-0.2657 |
171 |
1 |
32.93 |
2009-01-30 |
| 69. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
32.32 |
0.9636 |
-0.1550 |
281 |
1 |
32.32 |
2009-01-30 |
| 70. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
32.26 |
0.8986 |
-0.0918 |
205 |
1 |
32.26 |
2009-02-05 |
| 71. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
29.49 |
0.7923 |
-0.0531 |
316 |
1 |
29.49 |
2009-02-05 |
| 72. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
28.44 |
0.9756 |
-0.2643 |
223 |
1 |
28.44 |
2009-01-21 |
| 73. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
26.48 |
0.8965 |
-0.2335 |
150 |
1 |
26.48 |
2009-01-30 |