Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
36.81 |
1.0403 |
0.1114 |
234 |
1 |
36.81 |
2012-09-29 |
2. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
35.64 |
1.0540 |
0.0580 |
184 |
1 |
35.64 |
2012-10-01 |
3. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
35.50 |
1.1095 |
0.0050 |
252 |
1 |
35.50 |
2012-09-27 |
4. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
35.49 |
1.0576 |
0.0516 |
231 |
3 |
34.06 |
2012-10-02 |
5. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
35.25 |
1.0507 |
0.0593 |
253 |
1 |
35.25 |
2012-09-30 |
6. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
35.12 |
1.0204 |
0.0716 |
143 |
1 |
35.12 |
2012-10-11 |
7. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
34.82 |
0.9738 |
0.1188 |
266 |
1 |
34.82 |
2012-10-01 |
8. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
34.81 |
1.0969 |
-0.0046 |
303 |
1 |
34.81 |
2012-10-09 |
9. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
34.59 |
0.8646 |
0.2155 |
110 |
1 |
34.59 |
2012-10-11 |
10. |
Be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competiti... |
34.52 |
0.8533 |
0.2234 |
134 |
1 |
34.52 |
2012-10-02 |
11. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
34.33 |
0.9283 |
0.1484 |
317 |
1 |
34.33 |
2012-09-29 |
12. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
34.07 |
0.8911 |
0.1781 |
207 |
1 |
34.07 |
2012-10-02 |
13. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
33.87 |
1.0243 |
0.0400 |
153 |
1 |
33.87 |
2012-09-30 |
14. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
33.84 |
0.9807 |
0.0676 |
129 |
1 |
33.84 |
2012-09-27 |
15. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
33.78 |
1.0698 |
-0.0048 |
303 |
1 |
33.78 |
2012-09-29 |
16. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
33.69 |
0.8805 |
0.1748 |
205 |
2 |
31.60 |
2012-10-09 |
17. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
33.60 |
0.9745 |
0.0760 |
217 |
1 |
33.60 |
2012-09-29 |
18. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
33.51 |
0.8758 |
0.1731 |
127 |
1 |
33.51 |
2012-09-30 |
19. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
33.51 |
1.0639 |
-0.0130 |
303 |
1 |
33.51 |
2012-09-27 |
20. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
33.47 |
0.8768 |
0.1755 |
199 |
1 |
33.47 |
2012-10-01 |
21. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
33.38 |
1.0042 |
0.0376 |
168 |
1 |
33.38 |
2012-09-27 |
22. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
33.21 |
0.9459 |
0.0976 |
188 |
1 |
33.21 |
2012-10-11 |
23. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
33.08 |
0.9704 |
0.0653 |
254 |
1 |
33.08 |
2012-10-11 |
24. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
33.08 |
1.0845 |
-0.0497 |
212 |
2 |
32.00 |
2012-09-30 |
25. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
33.07 |
1.0654 |
-0.0326 |
247 |
1 |
33.07 |
2012-09-29 |
26. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
32.97 |
0.9561 |
0.0779 |
362 |
1 |
32.97 |
2012-09-29 |
27. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
32.87 |
1.0426 |
-0.0173 |
131 |
1 |
32.87 |
2012-09-27 |
28. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
32.87 |
1.0529 |
-0.0207 |
373 |
1 |
32.87 |
2012-09-28 |
29. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
32.73 |
0.8815 |
0.1487 |
296 |
1 |
32.73 |
2012-10-11 |
30. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
32.67 |
0.9779 |
0.0437 |
255 |
1 |
32.67 |
2012-10-09 |
31. |
And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that ... |
32.66 |
0.9635 |
0.0635 |
220 |
1 |
32.66 |
2012-09-29 |
32. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
32.43 |
0.9020 |
0.1087 |
186 |
1 |
32.43 |
2012-10-11 |
33. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
32.26 |
1.1062 |
-0.0942 |
200 |
1 |
32.26 |
2012-09-28 |
34. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
32.22 |
0.9841 |
0.0240 |
154 |
1 |
32.22 |
2012-09-29 |
35. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
32.20 |
0.9371 |
0.0622 |
156 |
2 |
29.64 |
2012-10-09 |
36. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
32.20 |
1.0004 |
0.0103 |
373 |
1 |
32.20 |
2012-10-03 |
37. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
32.20 |
0.8847 |
0.1211 |
282 |
1 |
32.20 |
2012-10-02 |
38. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
32.12 |
1.0332 |
-0.0283 |
267 |
1 |
32.12 |
2012-10-11 |
39. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
32.12 |
0.9857 |
0.0258 |
268 |
2 |
31.76 |
2012-10-08 |
40. |
Whether you use a PC, laptop, or typewriter - typing is an i... |
32.12 |
0.7425 |
0.2661 |
148 |
1 |
32.12 |
2012-09-29 |
41. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
32.06 |
0.9980 |
0.0083 |
295 |
1 |
32.06 |
2012-09-27 |
42. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
32.02 |
0.9909 |
0.0165 |
293 |
1 |
32.02 |
2012-09-29 |
43. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
31.94 |
1.0086 |
-0.0130 |
218 |
2 |
30.95 |
2012-10-08 |
44. |
It's about realizing that there are no problems. Only situat... |
31.91 |
0.9182 |
0.0830 |
207 |
1 |
31.91 |
2012-09-29 |
45. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
31.85 |
0.9517 |
0.0440 |
276 |
2 |
30.98 |
2012-10-01 |
46. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
31.81 |
0.8770 |
0.1189 |
163 |
2 |
31.25 |
2012-10-11 |
47. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
31.43 |
1.0288 |
-0.0494 |
166 |
1 |
31.43 |
2012-09-28 |
48. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
31.37 |
1.0492 |
-0.0621 |
284 |
1 |
31.37 |
2012-10-01 |
49. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
31.26 |
0.9930 |
-0.0054 |
350 |
1 |
31.26 |
2012-10-11 |
50. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
31.19 |
1.0479 |
-0.0732 |
205 |
1 |
31.19 |
2012-09-29 |
51. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
31.19 |
0.9745 |
0.0038 |
388 |
1 |
31.19 |
2012-10-01 |
52. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
31.10 |
1.0582 |
-0.0878 |
180 |
1 |
31.10 |
2012-10-09 |
53. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
31.08 |
0.9374 |
0.0381 |
232 |
1 |
31.08 |
2012-09-29 |
54. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
31.05 |
1.0006 |
-0.0284 |
311 |
1 |
31.05 |
2012-10-01 |
55. |
Wood and other fibrous material is mixed with liquid and mas... |
31.03 |
0.8938 |
0.0781 |
238 |
1 |
31.03 |
2012-10-09 |
56. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
30.79 |
1.0264 |
-0.0667 |
191 |
1 |
30.79 |
2012-09-29 |
57. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
30.67 |
1.0341 |
-0.0748 |
273 |
1 |
30.67 |
2012-10-11 |
58. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
30.67 |
0.9166 |
0.0459 |
133 |
1 |
30.67 |
2012-09-30 |
59. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
30.52 |
1.0304 |
-0.0785 |
256 |
1 |
30.52 |
2012-10-09 |
60. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
30.44 |
0.8164 |
0.1370 |
197 |
1 |
30.44 |
2012-09-27 |
61. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
30.39 |
1.0230 |
-0.0704 |
200 |
1 |
30.39 |
2012-09-29 |
62. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
30.30 |
1.0125 |
-0.0657 |
232 |
1 |
30.30 |
2012-10-09 |
63. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
30.23 |
0.9530 |
-0.0108 |
193 |
1 |
30.23 |
2012-09-28 |
64. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
30.18 |
0.8785 |
0.0566 |
119 |
1 |
30.18 |
2012-10-02 |
65. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
29.79 |
0.8721 |
0.0664 |
231 |
1 |
29.79 |
2012-10-11 |
66. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
29.74 |
1.0060 |
-0.0687 |
244 |
1 |
29.74 |
2012-10-11 |
67. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
29.52 |
0.9011 |
0.0263 |
322 |
1 |
29.52 |
2012-09-27 |
68. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
29.49 |
0.9890 |
-0.0622 |
272 |
1 |
29.49 |
2012-09-27 |
69. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
29.47 |
0.8988 |
0.0231 |
216 |
1 |
29.47 |
2012-09-27 |
70. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
29.46 |
0.8067 |
0.1159 |
215 |
1 |
29.46 |
2012-10-11 |
71. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
29.45 |
0.9869 |
-0.0688 |
193 |
1 |
29.45 |
2012-10-11 |
72. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
29.11 |
0.8837 |
0.0260 |
157 |
1 |
29.11 |
2012-09-29 |
73. |
The forum has become one of the most consistent places in he... |
28.95 |
0.8532 |
0.0507 |
152 |
1 |
28.95 |
2012-09-28 |
74. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
28.88 |
0.7920 |
0.1092 |
230 |
1 |
28.88 |
2012-09-30 |
75. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
28.71 |
0.9981 |
-0.1006 |
211 |
1 |
28.71 |
2012-10-11 |
76. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
28.70 |
0.8827 |
0.0113 |
190 |
1 |
28.70 |
2012-10-02 |
77. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
28.45 |
0.9244 |
-0.0293 |
225 |
1 |
28.45 |
2012-09-29 |
78. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
28.41 |
0.8208 |
0.0714 |
149 |
1 |
28.41 |
2012-10-02 |
79. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
28.23 |
0.9841 |
-0.0896 |
325 |
1 |
28.23 |
2012-09-30 |
80. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
28.08 |
1.0301 |
-0.1530 |
268 |
1 |
28.08 |
2012-09-29 |
81. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
27.53 |
0.9023 |
-0.0425 |
268 |
1 |
27.53 |
2012-10-02 |
82. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
27.41 |
0.9408 |
-0.0891 |
177 |
1 |
27.41 |
2012-10-01 |
83. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
25.30 |
0.7915 |
0.0011 |
142 |
1 |
25.30 |
2012-10-11 |