Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
90.04 |
1.0351 |
0.5490 |
276 |
2 |
75.80 |
2009-02-04 |
2. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
72.08 |
0.9981 |
0.2647 |
211 |
2 |
66.27 |
2009-01-27 |
3. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
70.85 |
1.0426 |
0.1955 |
131 |
1 |
70.85 |
2009-01-27 |
4. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
67.97 |
0.9709 |
0.2191 |
264 |
3 |
59.41 |
2009-01-31 |
5. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
66.30 |
1.0567 |
0.1049 |
314 |
1 |
66.30 |
2009-01-25 |
6. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
65.89 |
0.9597 |
0.1952 |
251 |
1 |
65.89 |
2009-01-31 |
7. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
64.97 |
1.0079 |
0.1296 |
273 |
2 |
61.75 |
2009-01-31 |
8. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
64.42 |
1.0845 |
0.0432 |
212 |
1 |
64.42 |
2009-01-27 |
9. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
64.35 |
0.9713 |
0.1549 |
193 |
1 |
64.35 |
2009-01-27 |
10. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
64.17 |
1.0676 |
0.0614 |
456 |
1 |
64.17 |
2009-02-01 |
11. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
63.99 |
1.0800 |
0.0383 |
213 |
1 |
63.99 |
2009-01-31 |
12. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
63.93 |
1.0506 |
0.0692 |
259 |
1 |
63.93 |
2009-01-27 |
13. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
63.88 |
1.0540 |
0.0603 |
184 |
1 |
63.88 |
2009-01-25 |
14. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
63.88 |
1.0333 |
0.0809 |
176 |
1 |
63.88 |
2009-01-31 |
15. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
63.45 |
0.9583 |
0.1539 |
237 |
2 |
54.38 |
2009-02-16 |
16. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
63.29 |
0.9265 |
0.1813 |
254 |
1 |
63.29 |
2009-02-01 |
17. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
62.97 |
0.9866 |
0.1170 |
308 |
2 |
56.58 |
2009-01-26 |
18. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
62.88 |
0.9849 |
0.1180 |
337 |
2 |
61.11 |
2009-01-25 |
19. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
62.49 |
0.9787 |
0.1195 |
364 |
2 |
62.29 |
2009-01-31 |
20. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
62.44 |
1.0800 |
0.0069 |
129 |
1 |
62.44 |
2009-01-26 |
21. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
61.75 |
1.0301 |
0.0503 |
268 |
1 |
61.75 |
2009-01-31 |
22. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
61.30 |
0.9909 |
0.0868 |
334 |
1 |
61.30 |
2009-02-01 |
23. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
61.23 |
0.9228 |
0.1543 |
305 |
1 |
61.23 |
2009-01-25 |
24. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
61.06 |
1.0479 |
0.0201 |
205 |
1 |
61.06 |
2009-01-25 |
25. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
60.82 |
0.9928 |
0.0720 |
293 |
1 |
60.82 |
2009-01-31 |
26. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
60.37 |
1.0557 |
0.0029 |
289 |
1 |
60.37 |
2009-01-25 |
27. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
59.57 |
1.0682 |
-0.0238 |
266 |
1 |
59.57 |
2008-12-18 |
28. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
59.49 |
0.9678 |
0.0784 |
392 |
2 |
58.02 |
2009-01-31 |
29. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
59.31 |
0.9927 |
0.0467 |
276 |
1 |
59.31 |
2009-01-25 |
30. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
59.02 |
0.9101 |
0.1274 |
351 |
3 |
50.67 |
2009-02-01 |
31. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
58.78 |
1.0466 |
-0.0176 |
230 |
1 |
58.78 |
2009-01-31 |
32. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
58.66 |
1.0576 |
-0.0331 |
231 |
2 |
55.80 |
2009-02-01 |
33. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
58.55 |
1.0264 |
-0.0052 |
191 |
1 |
58.55 |
2008-12-18 |
34. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
58.51 |
1.0035 |
0.0218 |
310 |
1 |
58.51 |
2008-12-18 |
35. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
58.42 |
1.0639 |
-0.0397 |
303 |
1 |
58.42 |
2009-01-27 |
36. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
57.85 |
1.0529 |
-0.0373 |
373 |
1 |
57.85 |
2009-01-25 |
37. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
57.82 |
1.0672 |
-0.0559 |
239 |
1 |
57.82 |
2009-01-27 |
38. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
57.52 |
0.9765 |
0.0300 |
269 |
1 |
57.52 |
2009-01-26 |
39. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
57.48 |
1.1086 |
-0.1017 |
233 |
1 |
57.48 |
2009-01-25 |
40. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
57.48 |
0.9801 |
0.0261 |
289 |
1 |
57.48 |
2009-01-27 |
41. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
57.47 |
0.9103 |
0.0958 |
269 |
1 |
57.47 |
2009-01-25 |
42. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
57.26 |
0.9963 |
0.0039 |
274 |
1 |
57.26 |
2008-12-18 |
43. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
56.98 |
0.9852 |
0.0119 |
235 |
1 |
56.98 |
2009-02-16 |
44. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
56.95 |
1.0743 |
-0.0760 |
297 |
1 |
56.95 |
2009-01-25 |
45. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
56.79 |
0.9833 |
0.0135 |
387 |
1 |
56.79 |
2009-01-25 |
46. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
56.76 |
0.9980 |
-0.0020 |
295 |
1 |
56.76 |
2009-01-31 |
47. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
56.58 |
0.9027 |
0.0845 |
189 |
1 |
56.58 |
2009-01-25 |
48. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
56.52 |
0.9957 |
-0.0021 |
323 |
1 |
56.52 |
2008-12-18 |
49. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
56.18 |
1.0130 |
-0.0293 |
288 |
1 |
56.18 |
2009-01-25 |
50. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
56.09 |
0.9927 |
-0.0140 |
234 |
1 |
56.09 |
2009-01-26 |
51. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
55.69 |
0.9594 |
0.0138 |
258 |
1 |
55.69 |
2009-01-31 |
52. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
55.67 |
0.9136 |
0.0643 |
348 |
1 |
55.67 |
2009-02-01 |
53. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
54.80 |
0.9650 |
-0.0030 |
347 |
1 |
54.80 |
2009-01-25 |
54. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
54.75 |
0.9915 |
-0.0340 |
281 |
1 |
54.75 |
2009-01-31 |
55. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
54.53 |
0.9145 |
0.0435 |
404 |
1 |
54.53 |
2008-12-18 |
56. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
54.44 |
1.0498 |
-0.0956 |
261 |
1 |
54.44 |
2008-12-18 |
57. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
54.36 |
1.0615 |
-0.1130 |
201 |
1 |
54.36 |
2008-12-18 |
58. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
54.06 |
0.9931 |
-0.0507 |
218 |
1 |
54.06 |
2008-12-18 |
59. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
54.02 |
0.9841 |
-0.0418 |
217 |
1 |
54.02 |
2009-01-27 |
60. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
53.85 |
1.0227 |
-0.0740 |
378 |
1 |
53.85 |
2008-12-18 |
61. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
53.84 |
1.0057 |
-0.0604 |
382 |
1 |
53.84 |
2009-01-27 |
62. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
53.79 |
0.9451 |
0.0043 |
419 |
1 |
53.79 |
2009-01-31 |
63. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
53.72 |
0.8381 |
0.1058 |
283 |
1 |
53.72 |
2008-12-18 |
64. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
53.62 |
0.9425 |
-0.0033 |
248 |
1 |
53.62 |
2009-01-27 |
65. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
53.50 |
0.9842 |
-0.0456 |
335 |
1 |
53.50 |
2008-12-18 |
66. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
53.47 |
1.0418 |
-0.1051 |
214 |
1 |
53.47 |
2009-01-25 |
67. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
53.46 |
0.9310 |
0.0042 |
278 |
1 |
53.46 |
2008-12-18 |
68. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
53.06 |
0.9922 |
-0.0630 |
264 |
1 |
53.06 |
2008-12-18 |
69. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
52.83 |
0.9011 |
0.0267 |
322 |
2 |
49.54 |
2009-01-27 |
70. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
52.70 |
1.0189 |
-0.0972 |
290 |
1 |
52.70 |
2009-01-25 |
71. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
52.32 |
0.9736 |
-0.0509 |
378 |
1 |
52.32 |
2009-01-25 |
72. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
52.27 |
0.9704 |
-0.0557 |
254 |
1 |
52.27 |
2009-01-25 |
73. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
51.79 |
0.9332 |
-0.0269 |
267 |
1 |
51.79 |
2009-01-26 |
74. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
51.68 |
1.0341 |
-0.1304 |
273 |
1 |
51.68 |
2008-12-18 |
75. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
51.58 |
0.9271 |
-0.0220 |
323 |
2 |
48.42 |
2009-01-31 |
76. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
51.16 |
0.9727 |
-0.0708 |
442 |
1 |
51.16 |
2009-01-27 |
77. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
51.07 |
1.0178 |
-0.1259 |
207 |
1 |
51.07 |
2008-12-18 |
78. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
50.98 |
0.9012 |
-0.0057 |
322 |
1 |
50.98 |
2009-01-27 |
79. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
50.88 |
0.9827 |
-0.0916 |
314 |
1 |
50.88 |
2009-01-25 |
80. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
50.73 |
0.9974 |
-0.1137 |
163 |
1 |
50.73 |
2009-01-27 |
81. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
50.63 |
0.9703 |
-0.0779 |
394 |
1 |
50.63 |
2009-01-31 |
82. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
50.62 |
0.9357 |
-0.0522 |
204 |
1 |
50.62 |
2009-01-27 |
83. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
50.45 |
1.0873 |
-0.2076 |
243 |
1 |
50.45 |
2009-01-27 |
84. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
50.20 |
0.8959 |
-0.0122 |
328 |
1 |
50.20 |
2008-12-18 |
85. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
50.12 |
0.8666 |
0.0077 |
206 |
1 |
50.12 |
2009-01-27 |
86. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
50.04 |
0.8172 |
0.0539 |
204 |
1 |
50.04 |
2008-12-18 |
87. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
50.01 |
0.9243 |
-0.0473 |
240 |
1 |
50.01 |
2009-02-01 |
88. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
49.59 |
0.9631 |
-0.0961 |
273 |
1 |
49.59 |
2009-01-31 |
89. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
48.39 |
0.9780 |
-0.1378 |
173 |
1 |
48.39 |
2008-12-18 |
90. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
47.89 |
0.9271 |
-0.0899 |
295 |
1 |
47.89 |
2008-12-18 |
91. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
47.70 |
1.0588 |
-0.2245 |
281 |
1 |
47.70 |
2008-12-18 |
92. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
47.14 |
0.8913 |
-0.0655 |
201 |
1 |
47.14 |
2009-01-31 |
93. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
47.06 |
0.8794 |
-0.0499 |
427 |
1 |
47.06 |
2009-01-27 |
94. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
46.62 |
0.9880 |
-0.1770 |
199 |
1 |
46.62 |
2009-01-27 |
95. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
46.10 |
0.8437 |
-0.0384 |
268 |
1 |
46.10 |
2009-01-27 |
96. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
44.80 |
0.9503 |
-0.1739 |
211 |
1 |
44.80 |
2008-12-18 |