| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
180.68 |
1.0291 |
0.1127 |
240 |
2 |
167.48 |
2009-05-07 |
| 2. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
177.02 |
1.0333 |
0.0822 |
176 |
3 |
163.32 |
2009-05-11 |
| 3. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
174.67 |
1.0672 |
0.0372 |
239 |
2 |
167.97 |
2009-05-07 |
| 4. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
172.24 |
0.9884 |
0.1043 |
267 |
4 |
160.18 |
2009-05-09 |
| 5. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
170.91 |
1.0561 |
0.0237 |
227 |
2 |
160.10 |
2009-05-08 |
| 6. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
167.25 |
1.0588 |
-0.0003 |
281 |
1 |
167.25 |
2009-05-07 |
| 7. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
167.08 |
1.0462 |
0.0141 |
340 |
1 |
167.08 |
2009-05-09 |
| 8. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
166.66 |
0.9765 |
0.0774 |
269 |
1 |
166.66 |
2009-05-09 |
| 9. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
166.33 |
0.9880 |
0.0603 |
199 |
1 |
166.33 |
2009-01-27 |
| 10. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
164.78 |
0.9763 |
0.0659 |
143 |
2 |
160.67 |
2009-01-27 |
| 11. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
164.32 |
0.9228 |
0.1214 |
305 |
2 |
158.00 |
2009-05-04 |
| 12. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
164.10 |
1.0267 |
0.0147 |
261 |
1 |
164.10 |
2009-01-27 |
| 13. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
163.94 |
0.9827 |
0.0555 |
314 |
1 |
163.94 |
2009-01-27 |
| 14. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
163.07 |
1.0418 |
-0.0092 |
214 |
2 |
160.73 |
2009-01-27 |
| 15. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
162.92 |
1.0521 |
-0.0269 |
197 |
2 |
158.00 |
2009-05-11 |
| 16. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
162.64 |
1.0582 |
-0.0323 |
180 |
2 |
153.49 |
2009-05-09 |
| 17. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
161.94 |
1.0960 |
-0.0673 |
315 |
1 |
161.94 |
2009-05-01 |
| 18. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
161.80 |
1.0461 |
-0.0202 |
318 |
2 |
155.62 |
2009-05-07 |
| 19. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
161.67 |
1.0590 |
-0.0372 |
250 |
2 |
160.51 |
2009-05-09 |
| 20. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
161.19 |
0.9933 |
0.0339 |
450 |
1 |
161.19 |
2009-05-01 |
| 21. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
161.06 |
0.9963 |
0.0203 |
274 |
1 |
161.06 |
2009-05-09 |
| 22. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
160.89 |
1.0617 |
-0.0457 |
171 |
1 |
160.89 |
2009-05-07 |
| 23. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
160.43 |
0.9948 |
0.0191 |
233 |
1 |
160.43 |
2009-05-07 |
| 24. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
160.39 |
1.0036 |
0.0121 |
277 |
2 |
157.96 |
2009-05-11 |
| 25. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
159.72 |
0.9917 |
0.0209 |
317 |
2 |
150.17 |
2009-05-04 |
| 26. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
159.53 |
0.9839 |
0.0251 |
308 |
1 |
159.53 |
2009-05-11 |
| 27. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
158.85 |
1.0362 |
-0.0250 |
437 |
1 |
158.85 |
2009-01-27 |
| 28. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
158.51 |
0.9957 |
0.0111 |
323 |
2 |
155.82 |
2009-05-01 |
| 29. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
158.32 |
0.9680 |
0.0336 |
256 |
1 |
158.32 |
2009-01-27 |
| 30. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
157.34 |
1.0511 |
-0.0540 |
252 |
1 |
157.34 |
2009-05-09 |
| 31. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
157.31 |
0.9801 |
0.0147 |
289 |
1 |
157.31 |
2009-05-01 |
| 32. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
156.75 |
0.9833 |
0.0107 |
387 |
1 |
156.75 |
2009-05-07 |
| 33. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
155.76 |
0.9636 |
0.0203 |
281 |
1 |
155.76 |
2009-05-07 |
| 34. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
155.75 |
1.0638 |
-0.0806 |
247 |
1 |
155.75 |
2009-01-27 |
| 35. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
155.70 |
0.9681 |
0.0224 |
392 |
1 |
155.70 |
2009-05-09 |
| 36. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
155.30 |
0.9726 |
0.0149 |
396 |
1 |
155.30 |
2009-05-09 |
| 37. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
155.02 |
0.9736 |
0.0140 |
378 |
1 |
155.02 |
2009-02-01 |
| 38. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
155.01 |
0.9206 |
0.0604 |
317 |
1 |
155.01 |
2009-05-01 |
| 39. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
154.73 |
0.9809 |
-0.0061 |
209 |
1 |
154.73 |
2009-05-11 |
| 40. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
154.60 |
0.9108 |
0.0670 |
235 |
1 |
154.60 |
2009-01-27 |
| 41. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
153.91 |
0.9931 |
-0.0235 |
218 |
1 |
153.91 |
2009-01-20 |
| 42. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
153.85 |
0.9890 |
-0.0120 |
272 |
1 |
153.85 |
2009-01-27 |
| 43. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
153.41 |
0.9745 |
-0.0021 |
388 |
1 |
153.41 |
2009-01-20 |
| 44. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
153.31 |
0.9029 |
0.0695 |
393 |
1 |
153.31 |
2009-01-27 |
| 45. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
152.71 |
1.0877 |
-0.1253 |
129 |
1 |
152.71 |
2009-05-09 |
| 46. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
152.10 |
0.9183 |
0.0446 |
308 |
3 |
146.62 |
2009-05-09 |
| 47. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
151.60 |
0.9922 |
-0.0328 |
264 |
1 |
151.60 |
2009-05-09 |
| 48. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
151.08 |
0.9479 |
0.0093 |
317 |
1 |
151.08 |
2009-05-01 |
| 49. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
150.37 |
0.9658 |
-0.0112 |
308 |
1 |
150.37 |
2009-05-01 |
| 50. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
149.70 |
0.9603 |
-0.0081 |
430 |
1 |
149.70 |
2009-05-09 |
| 51. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
148.28 |
0.9673 |
-0.0258 |
393 |
1 |
148.28 |
2009-05-09 |
| 52. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
148.03 |
0.8936 |
0.0413 |
346 |
1 |
148.03 |
2009-01-27 |
| 53. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
145.69 |
0.9402 |
-0.0209 |
310 |
1 |
145.69 |
2009-01-20 |
| 54. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
144.91 |
0.9909 |
-0.0701 |
293 |
1 |
144.91 |
2009-05-09 |
| 55. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
144.83 |
0.8830 |
0.0352 |
300 |
1 |
144.83 |
2009-05-11 |
| 56. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
144.22 |
0.9650 |
-0.0505 |
347 |
1 |
144.22 |
2009-05-09 |
| 57. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
143.39 |
0.9070 |
-0.0053 |
192 |
1 |
143.39 |
2009-05-11 |
| 58. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
137.40 |
0.9841 |
-0.1173 |
263 |
1 |
137.40 |
2009-01-20 |
| 59. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
134.82 |
0.9451 |
-0.0852 |
419 |
1 |
134.82 |
2009-01-27 |
| 60. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
126.39 |
0.8986 |
-0.1020 |
205 |
1 |
126.39 |
2009-05-11 |