| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
97.81 |
1.0479 |
0.2498 |
205 |
1 |
97.81 |
2008-11-11 |
| 2. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
92.08 |
1.0857 |
0.1492 |
393 |
1 |
92.08 |
2010-03-28 |
| 3. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
92.03 |
0.9779 |
0.2428 |
255 |
1 |
92.03 |
2008-11-12 |
| 4. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
91.83 |
1.0777 |
0.1395 |
226 |
1 |
91.83 |
2008-11-11 |
| 5. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
91.70 |
1.1086 |
0.1093 |
233 |
2 |
81.17 |
2008-11-12 |
| 6. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
90.60 |
1.0333 |
0.1646 |
176 |
2 |
56.36 |
2008-11-21 |
| 7. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
90.09 |
1.0419 |
0.1573 |
341 |
1 |
90.09 |
2009-02-27 |
| 8. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
88.74 |
1.0227 |
0.1613 |
378 |
2 |
77.77 |
2010-03-24 |
| 9. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
88.21 |
1.0291 |
0.1398 |
240 |
1 |
88.21 |
2010-03-24 |
| 10. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
87.37 |
1.0506 |
0.1088 |
259 |
1 |
87.37 |
2008-11-11 |
| 11. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
87.26 |
1.1070 |
0.0503 |
265 |
1 |
87.26 |
2008-11-11 |
| 12. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
87.14 |
1.0867 |
0.0657 |
171 |
1 |
87.14 |
2008-11-06 |
| 13. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
86.73 |
1.0582 |
0.0899 |
180 |
1 |
86.73 |
2008-11-07 |
| 14. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
86.17 |
0.9673 |
0.1787 |
292 |
1 |
86.17 |
2008-11-12 |
| 15. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
85.75 |
1.0495 |
0.0882 |
323 |
1 |
85.75 |
2008-11-11 |
| 16. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
85.10 |
1.0638 |
0.0636 |
247 |
1 |
85.10 |
2008-11-07 |
| 17. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
84.82 |
1.0341 |
0.0911 |
273 |
1 |
84.82 |
2008-11-11 |
| 18. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
84.56 |
1.0414 |
0.0801 |
234 |
1 |
84.56 |
2009-02-27 |
| 19. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
84.16 |
0.9713 |
0.1443 |
193 |
1 |
84.16 |
2009-02-27 |
| 20. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
84.10 |
1.0035 |
0.1133 |
310 |
1 |
84.10 |
2008-11-12 |
| 21. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
83.64 |
1.0901 |
0.0219 |
288 |
2 |
76.20 |
2008-11-12 |
| 22. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
83.31 |
1.0669 |
0.0416 |
379 |
1 |
83.31 |
2008-11-12 |
| 23. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
80.71 |
0.9917 |
0.0812 |
317 |
1 |
80.71 |
2009-02-27 |
| 24. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
80.31 |
1.0128 |
0.0593 |
369 |
1 |
80.31 |
2010-03-24 |
| 25. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
79.63 |
0.9810 |
0.0803 |
362 |
1 |
79.63 |
2008-11-07 |
| 26. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
79.51 |
1.0450 |
0.0152 |
358 |
1 |
79.51 |
2008-11-11 |
| 27. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
79.30 |
1.0130 |
0.0393 |
288 |
1 |
79.30 |
2008-11-11 |
| 28. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
79.05 |
0.9839 |
0.0646 |
308 |
1 |
79.05 |
2008-11-11 |
| 29. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
78.85 |
0.9931 |
0.0574 |
339 |
2 |
71.43 |
2010-03-24 |
| 30. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
78.30 |
1.0561 |
-0.0191 |
227 |
1 |
78.30 |
2008-11-18 |
| 31. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
77.50 |
1.0320 |
0.0021 |
401 |
1 |
77.50 |
2008-11-11 |
| 32. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
77.10 |
0.9704 |
0.0522 |
254 |
1 |
77.10 |
2008-11-12 |
| 33. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
74.66 |
0.9243 |
0.0681 |
240 |
1 |
74.66 |
2008-11-11 |
| 34. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
74.52 |
1.0094 |
-0.0210 |
256 |
1 |
74.52 |
2010-03-24 |
| 35. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
74.42 |
0.8986 |
0.0889 |
216 |
1 |
74.42 |
2010-03-24 |
| 36. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
74.25 |
0.9836 |
0.0014 |
289 |
1 |
74.25 |
2008-11-12 |
| 37. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
74.07 |
0.9909 |
-0.0048 |
334 |
1 |
74.07 |
2008-11-12 |
| 38. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
73.74 |
0.9644 |
0.0167 |
398 |
1 |
73.74 |
2008-11-11 |
| 39. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
72.70 |
0.9143 |
0.0507 |
300 |
1 |
72.70 |
2008-11-11 |
| 40. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
71.99 |
0.9996 |
-0.0376 |
483 |
1 |
71.99 |
2009-02-12 |
| 41. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
71.22 |
1.0197 |
-0.0771 |
204 |
1 |
71.22 |
2008-11-11 |
| 42. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
70.86 |
0.9927 |
-0.0526 |
276 |
1 |
70.86 |
2008-11-11 |
| 43. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
70.53 |
0.9271 |
0.0074 |
295 |
1 |
70.53 |
2008-11-07 |
| 44. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
70.39 |
0.9027 |
0.0271 |
189 |
1 |
70.39 |
2009-02-12 |
| 45. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
70.39 |
1.0881 |
-0.1587 |
210 |
1 |
70.39 |
2008-11-07 |
| 46. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
69.38 |
0.9583 |
-0.0381 |
237 |
1 |
69.38 |
2008-11-06 |
| 47. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
69.27 |
0.9145 |
0.0072 |
404 |
1 |
69.27 |
2008-11-12 |
| 48. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
69.20 |
0.7923 |
0.1256 |
316 |
1 |
69.20 |
2008-11-12 |
| 49. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
67.92 |
0.8381 |
0.0658 |
283 |
2 |
66.10 |
2009-02-27 |
| 50. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
67.79 |
0.9359 |
-0.0367 |
355 |
1 |
67.79 |
2008-11-11 |
| 51. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
67.09 |
0.9346 |
-0.0482 |
211 |
1 |
67.09 |
2008-11-11 |
| 52. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
66.58 |
0.9864 |
-0.1004 |
292 |
1 |
66.58 |
2009-02-12 |
| 53. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
65.71 |
0.9673 |
-0.0928 |
393 |
1 |
65.71 |
2008-11-11 |
| 54. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
65.58 |
0.9963 |
-0.1296 |
274 |
2 |
64.57 |
2009-02-27 |
| 55. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
63.58 |
0.8624 |
-0.0247 |
174 |
1 |
63.58 |
2008-11-11 |
| 56. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
63.39 |
0.9010 |
-0.0585 |
266 |
1 |
63.39 |
2008-11-12 |
| 57. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
62.96 |
1.0418 |
-0.2071 |
214 |
1 |
62.96 |
2008-11-12 |
| 58. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
61.69 |
0.8986 |
-0.0766 |
363 |
1 |
61.69 |
2008-11-12 |
| 59. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
60.22 |
0.9809 |
-0.1871 |
209 |
1 |
60.22 |
2008-11-12 |
| 60. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
60.16 |
0.9084 |
-0.1099 |
271 |
1 |
60.16 |
2008-11-12 |
| 61. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
59.26 |
0.9260 |
-0.1378 |
348 |
2 |
57.15 |
2008-11-11 |
| 62. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
55.88 |
1.0461 |
-0.3042 |
318 |
1 |
55.88 |
2008-11-12 |
| 63. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
54.93 |
0.9352 |
-0.2095 |
194 |
1 |
54.93 |
2008-11-12 |
| 64. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
51.14 |
0.9827 |
-0.3055 |
314 |
1 |
51.14 |
2008-11-11 |
| 65. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
50.64 |
1.0372 |
-0.3680 |
249 |
2 |
40.63 |
2009-02-27 |
| 66. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
26.51 |
1.0411 |
-0.6919 |
341 |
1 |
26.51 |
2008-11-06 |