| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
56.17 |
1.0845 |
0.1382 |
212 |
1 |
56.17 |
2011-11-01 |
| 2. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
54.35 |
1.0225 |
0.1539 |
152 |
1 |
54.35 |
2011-11-26 |
| 3. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
53.00 |
0.9857 |
0.1745 |
268 |
1 |
53.00 |
2011-11-26 |
| 4. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
52.55 |
0.9394 |
0.2037 |
195 |
1 |
52.55 |
2011-11-24 |
| 5. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
52.18 |
0.9928 |
0.1430 |
293 |
1 |
52.18 |
2011-11-03 |
| 6. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
50.85 |
1.0736 |
0.0360 |
350 |
1 |
50.85 |
2011-11-24 |
| 7. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
50.10 |
0.9927 |
0.0987 |
276 |
1 |
50.10 |
2011-11-17 |
| 8. |
Thing is Butch, right now you got ability. But painful as it... |
49.94 |
0.8957 |
0.1915 |
186 |
2 |
48.38 |
2011-11-17 |
| 9. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
49.79 |
0.7920 |
0.2895 |
230 |
1 |
49.79 |
2011-11-03 |
| 10. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
49.54 |
1.0461 |
0.0373 |
286 |
2 |
49.35 |
2011-11-17 |
| 11. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
49.52 |
0.8911 |
0.1903 |
241 |
1 |
49.52 |
2011-11-24 |
| 12. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
49.20 |
1.0654 |
0.0031 |
247 |
1 |
49.20 |
2011-11-01 |
| 13. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
49.12 |
0.9285 |
0.1393 |
244 |
1 |
49.12 |
2011-11-03 |
| 14. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
48.95 |
1.0332 |
0.0321 |
267 |
1 |
48.95 |
2011-11-24 |
| 15. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
48.84 |
1.0472 |
0.0099 |
149 |
1 |
48.84 |
2011-11-02 |
| 16. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
48.62 |
1.0753 |
-0.0100 |
206 |
1 |
48.62 |
2011-11-26 |
| 17. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
48.26 |
1.0106 |
0.0390 |
302 |
1 |
48.26 |
2011-11-03 |
| 18. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
47.93 |
0.9922 |
0.0515 |
264 |
1 |
47.93 |
2011-11-03 |
| 19. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
47.68 |
1.0243 |
0.0172 |
153 |
1 |
47.68 |
2011-11-26 |
| 20. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
47.65 |
0.9543 |
0.0897 |
265 |
1 |
47.65 |
2011-11-03 |
| 21. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
47.22 |
0.9824 |
0.0585 |
352 |
1 |
47.22 |
2011-11-03 |
| 22. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
47.21 |
0.9931 |
0.0387 |
339 |
1 |
47.21 |
2011-11-24 |
| 23. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
47.08 |
0.9621 |
0.0652 |
212 |
1 |
47.08 |
2011-11-26 |
| 24. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
46.83 |
0.9541 |
0.0657 |
236 |
1 |
46.83 |
2011-11-01 |
| 25. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
46.79 |
1.0524 |
-0.0359 |
177 |
1 |
46.79 |
2011-11-03 |
| 26. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
46.38 |
1.0600 |
-0.0503 |
351 |
1 |
46.38 |
2011-11-24 |
| 27. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
46.25 |
1.0392 |
-0.0277 |
258 |
1 |
46.25 |
2011-11-24 |
| 28. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
46.11 |
1.0669 |
-0.0606 |
379 |
1 |
46.11 |
2011-11-03 |
| 29. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
45.83 |
0.9948 |
0.0013 |
233 |
1 |
45.83 |
2011-11-01 |
| 30. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
45.47 |
1.0039 |
-0.0082 |
255 |
2 |
45.03 |
2011-11-03 |
| 31. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
45.34 |
0.9068 |
0.0778 |
212 |
1 |
45.34 |
2011-11-26 |
| 32. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
45.17 |
1.0483 |
-0.0604 |
305 |
1 |
45.17 |
2011-11-03 |
| 33. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
44.93 |
1.0016 |
-0.0256 |
217 |
1 |
44.93 |
2011-11-17 |
| 34. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
44.82 |
0.9809 |
-0.0095 |
209 |
1 |
44.82 |
2011-11-24 |
| 35. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
44.75 |
0.8873 |
0.0873 |
241 |
1 |
44.75 |
2011-11-24 |
| 36. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
44.57 |
0.9804 |
-0.0106 |
227 |
1 |
44.57 |
2011-11-01 |
| 37. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
44.41 |
0.9530 |
0.0098 |
193 |
1 |
44.41 |
2011-11-03 |
| 38. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
43.74 |
0.9128 |
0.0359 |
237 |
1 |
43.74 |
2011-11-26 |
| 39. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
43.72 |
1.0101 |
-0.0575 |
336 |
2 |
43.04 |
2011-11-24 |
| 40. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
43.49 |
0.9869 |
-0.0447 |
193 |
1 |
43.49 |
2011-11-03 |
| 41. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
42.79 |
0.9930 |
-0.0533 |
350 |
1 |
42.79 |
2011-11-02 |
| 42. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
42.68 |
1.0540 |
-0.1305 |
184 |
1 |
42.68 |
2011-11-17 |
| 43. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
42.66 |
0.9564 |
-0.0343 |
263 |
1 |
42.66 |
2011-11-24 |
| 44. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
42.41 |
1.0414 |
-0.1198 |
234 |
1 |
42.41 |
2011-11-02 |
| 45. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
42.11 |
0.9604 |
-0.0467 |
285 |
1 |
42.11 |
2011-11-26 |
| 46. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
41.76 |
0.9500 |
-0.0403 |
287 |
1 |
41.76 |
2011-11-01 |
| 47. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
41.38 |
1.0178 |
-0.1195 |
207 |
1 |
41.38 |
2011-11-26 |
| 48. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
40.86 |
0.8721 |
0.0223 |
231 |
1 |
40.86 |
2011-11-03 |
| 49. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
40.85 |
0.9400 |
-0.0492 |
434 |
1 |
40.85 |
2011-11-17 |
| 50. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
40.74 |
0.9243 |
-0.0363 |
240 |
1 |
40.74 |
2011-11-17 |
| 51. |
There are perhaps twenty regular posters on the forum, and s... |
37.54 |
0.9339 |
-0.1253 |
108 |
1 |
37.54 |
2011-11-03 |
| 52. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
36.66 |
0.8172 |
-0.0250 |
204 |
1 |
36.66 |
2011-11-26 |
| 53. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
36.49 |
0.9425 |
-0.1490 |
248 |
1 |
36.49 |
2011-11-03 |
| 54. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
34.78 |
0.7852 |
-0.0358 |
154 |
1 |
34.78 |
2011-11-24 |
| 55. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
34.21 |
0.7923 |
-0.0489 |
316 |
1 |
34.21 |
2011-11-01 |