| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
43.92 |
0.9915 |
0.4134 |
281 |
1 |
43.92 |
2011-12-05 |
| 2. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
43.42 |
0.9077 |
0.4818 |
155 |
1 |
43.42 |
2010-11-19 |
| 3. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
42.05 |
1.0461 |
0.3049 |
286 |
1 |
42.05 |
2010-11-28 |
| 4. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
39.85 |
1.0543 |
0.2178 |
182 |
2 |
38.42 |
2010-11-19 |
| 5. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
39.09 |
0.9394 |
0.3099 |
195 |
1 |
39.09 |
2010-10-21 |
| 6. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
39.09 |
1.0638 |
0.1849 |
247 |
1 |
39.09 |
2010-03-19 |
| 7. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
38.85 |
0.9084 |
0.3362 |
271 |
1 |
38.85 |
2010-11-19 |
| 8. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
38.53 |
0.9010 |
0.3343 |
266 |
1 |
38.53 |
2010-11-19 |
| 9. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
38.41 |
0.8628 |
0.3609 |
136 |
1 |
38.41 |
2010-10-21 |
| 10. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
37.80 |
1.0472 |
0.1561 |
149 |
1 |
37.80 |
2010-11-29 |
| 11. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
37.75 |
0.8869 |
0.3190 |
176 |
1 |
37.75 |
2010-11-18 |
| 12. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
37.19 |
0.8948 |
0.2945 |
164 |
1 |
37.19 |
2010-03-22 |
| 13. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
37.18 |
1.0529 |
0.1395 |
373 |
1 |
37.18 |
2010-03-19 |
| 14. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
37.03 |
1.0521 |
0.1271 |
197 |
1 |
37.03 |
2010-03-22 |
| 15. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
36.83 |
0.8925 |
0.2924 |
293 |
2 |
33.12 |
2010-10-21 |
| 16. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
36.73 |
0.9316 |
0.2454 |
188 |
1 |
36.73 |
2010-03-12 |
| 17. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
36.58 |
1.0877 |
0.0785 |
129 |
2 |
32.40 |
2010-05-25 |
| 18. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
36.00 |
1.0464 |
0.1111 |
213 |
1 |
36.00 |
2010-11-19 |
| 19. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
35.89 |
0.9113 |
0.2327 |
225 |
1 |
35.89 |
2010-11-29 |
| 20. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
35.77 |
1.0800 |
0.0612 |
213 |
1 |
35.77 |
2010-03-19 |
| 21. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
35.69 |
0.8777 |
0.2607 |
130 |
1 |
35.69 |
2010-03-19 |
| 22. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
35.45 |
0.8305 |
0.2989 |
162 |
2 |
33.70 |
2010-03-12 |
| 23. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
35.15 |
0.9285 |
0.1941 |
244 |
1 |
35.15 |
2009-10-26 |
| 24. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
34.87 |
0.9243 |
0.1933 |
240 |
1 |
34.87 |
2010-11-19 |
| 25. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
34.62 |
0.8375 |
0.2692 |
203 |
1 |
34.62 |
2010-03-12 |
| 26. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
34.41 |
0.8985 |
0.1992 |
127 |
1 |
34.41 |
2009-07-19 |
| 27. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
34.10 |
0.9204 |
0.1717 |
121 |
1 |
34.10 |
2009-10-25 |
| 28. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
33.80 |
0.8726 |
0.2113 |
150 |
1 |
33.80 |
2010-09-23 |
| 29. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
33.65 |
0.8592 |
0.2147 |
191 |
2 |
27.90 |
2010-03-22 |
| 30. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
33.60 |
0.9408 |
0.1279 |
177 |
1 |
33.60 |
2010-10-21 |
| 31. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
33.31 |
0.9145 |
0.1537 |
404 |
1 |
33.31 |
2010-10-21 |
| 32. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
33.14 |
0.9275 |
0.1378 |
243 |
1 |
33.14 |
2010-03-19 |
| 33. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
32.58 |
1.0103 |
0.0254 |
209 |
2 |
29.59 |
2010-03-12 |
| 34. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
32.35 |
0.9757 |
0.0549 |
176 |
1 |
32.35 |
2010-03-12 |
| 35. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
32.21 |
1.0051 |
0.0190 |
162 |
1 |
32.21 |
2010-11-28 |
| 36. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
31.70 |
0.8194 |
0.1929 |
193 |
1 |
31.70 |
2010-03-18 |
| 37. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
31.59 |
0.8474 |
0.1629 |
265 |
1 |
31.59 |
2010-10-21 |
| 38. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
31.55 |
0.7874 |
0.2202 |
195 |
1 |
31.55 |
2010-03-12 |
| 39. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
31.48 |
0.9650 |
0.0439 |
347 |
1 |
31.48 |
2010-11-28 |
| 40. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
31.44 |
1.0590 |
-0.0553 |
250 |
1 |
31.44 |
2010-03-22 |
| 41. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
31.34 |
1.0125 |
-0.0122 |
232 |
1 |
31.34 |
2010-03-12 |
| 42. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
31.31 |
1.0197 |
-0.0209 |
204 |
1 |
31.31 |
2009-11-06 |
| 43. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
31.14 |
0.9680 |
0.0276 |
256 |
1 |
31.14 |
2010-10-21 |
| 44. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
31.13 |
0.9374 |
0.0601 |
232 |
1 |
31.13 |
2010-05-25 |
| 45. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
31.10 |
0.8988 |
0.0946 |
193 |
1 |
31.10 |
2009-10-27 |
| 46. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
31.10 |
0.9756 |
0.0207 |
216 |
1 |
31.10 |
2010-03-19 |
| 47. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
30.97 |
1.0272 |
-0.0395 |
226 |
1 |
30.97 |
2009-10-26 |
| 48. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
30.74 |
0.8718 |
0.1099 |
193 |
1 |
30.74 |
2009-10-27 |
| 49. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
30.65 |
0.9844 |
0.0072 |
351 |
1 |
30.65 |
2010-03-22 |
| 50. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
30.62 |
0.9357 |
0.0406 |
204 |
2 |
28.03 |
2010-05-25 |
| 51. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
30.58 |
0.8204 |
0.1550 |
121 |
1 |
30.58 |
2010-03-18 |
| 52. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
30.42 |
0.9001 |
0.0727 |
217 |
2 |
28.92 |
2010-05-25 |
| 53. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
30.06 |
0.9841 |
-0.0267 |
217 |
1 |
30.06 |
2009-10-26 |
| 54. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
30.03 |
1.0291 |
-0.0715 |
240 |
2 |
26.11 |
2010-03-18 |
| 55. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
29.88 |
0.9210 |
0.0296 |
200 |
1 |
29.88 |
2009-10-27 |
| 56. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
29.72 |
1.0865 |
-0.1374 |
237 |
2 |
29.64 |
2010-05-25 |
| 57. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
29.69 |
0.9352 |
0.0123 |
194 |
1 |
29.69 |
2010-09-23 |
| 58. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
29.49 |
0.9371 |
-0.0040 |
156 |
1 |
29.49 |
2009-02-01 |
| 59. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
29.36 |
1.0845 |
-0.1476 |
212 |
1 |
29.36 |
2010-03-22 |
| 60. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
29.09 |
1.0639 |
-0.1332 |
303 |
1 |
29.09 |
2010-05-25 |
| 61. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
29.06 |
0.9931 |
-0.0684 |
218 |
1 |
29.06 |
2009-10-25 |
| 62. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
28.76 |
0.9597 |
-0.0404 |
251 |
1 |
28.76 |
2010-03-12 |
| 63. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
28.70 |
0.8003 |
0.1196 |
219 |
1 |
28.70 |
2010-03-18 |
| 64. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
28.32 |
1.0341 |
-0.1303 |
273 |
1 |
28.32 |
2009-10-27 |
| 65. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
28.22 |
0.7764 |
0.1236 |
145 |
1 |
28.22 |
2010-09-23 |
| 66. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
28.03 |
0.8215 |
0.0672 |
124 |
1 |
28.03 |
2009-02-05 |
| 67. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
27.75 |
0.8562 |
0.0256 |
132 |
1 |
27.75 |
2009-02-04 |
| 68. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
27.25 |
1.0060 |
-0.1293 |
244 |
1 |
27.25 |
2009-10-27 |
| 69. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
27.17 |
1.0414 |
-0.1750 |
234 |
1 |
27.17 |
2009-10-25 |
| 70. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
27.17 |
0.9763 |
-0.1088 |
143 |
1 |
27.17 |
2010-03-19 |
| 71. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
26.99 |
0.8814 |
-0.0206 |
169 |
1 |
26.99 |
2009-10-25 |
| 72. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
26.59 |
0.9286 |
-0.0777 |
177 |
1 |
26.59 |
2009-07-19 |
| 73. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
25.96 |
0.9258 |
-0.0924 |
184 |
2 |
24.39 |
2010-03-22 |
| 74. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
25.77 |
0.9827 |
-0.1592 |
314 |
1 |
25.77 |
2009-07-19 |
| 75. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
25.50 |
0.9780 |
-0.1702 |
173 |
1 |
25.50 |
2009-10-25 |
| 76. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
25.41 |
0.8205 |
-0.0071 |
135 |
1 |
25.41 |
2009-10-25 |
| 77. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
25.29 |
0.9346 |
-0.1302 |
211 |
1 |
25.29 |
2010-11-18 |
| 78. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
25.26 |
0.9909 |
-0.1798 |
293 |
1 |
25.26 |
2010-03-12 |
| 79. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
25.18 |
1.0615 |
-0.2607 |
201 |
1 |
25.18 |
2009-10-25 |
| 80. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
25.01 |
1.0582 |
-0.2634 |
180 |
1 |
25.01 |
2009-02-01 |
| 81. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
24.78 |
0.8965 |
-0.1052 |
150 |
1 |
24.78 |
2009-07-19 |
| 82. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
24.06 |
1.0042 |
-0.2403 |
168 |
1 |
24.06 |
2009-10-25 |
| 83. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
24.00 |
0.8117 |
-0.0427 |
209 |
1 |
24.00 |
2009-02-01 |
| 84. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
23.66 |
0.9621 |
-0.2107 |
201 |
1 |
23.66 |
2010-11-29 |
| 85. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
23.60 |
0.9422 |
-0.1946 |
190 |
1 |
23.60 |
2009-10-26 |
| 86. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
23.20 |
0.8964 |
-0.1595 |
199 |
1 |
23.20 |
2009-10-27 |
| 87. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
23.15 |
0.7904 |
-0.0473 |
149 |
1 |
23.15 |
2009-10-27 |
| 88. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
23.12 |
0.7423 |
-0.0066 |
145 |
1 |
23.12 |
2009-02-05 |
| 89. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
22.81 |
0.8246 |
-0.0964 |
183 |
1 |
22.81 |
2009-02-04 |
| 90. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
22.57 |
0.8192 |
-0.0978 |
200 |
1 |
22.57 |
2009-02-05 |
| 91. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
22.54 |
1.0334 |
-0.3152 |
261 |
1 |
22.54 |
2009-02-04 |
| 92. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
22.02 |
0.9023 |
-0.2018 |
268 |
1 |
22.02 |
2009-02-05 |