| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
85.83 |
1.0461 |
0.1326 |
286 |
1 |
85.83 |
2010-03-30 |
| 2. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
83.69 |
1.0010 |
0.1473 |
213 |
1 |
83.69 |
2010-02-25 |
| 3. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
82.86 |
1.0243 |
0.1125 |
153 |
3 |
73.52 |
2010-05-22 |
| 4. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
82.60 |
1.0450 |
0.0897 |
358 |
1 |
82.60 |
2010-04-04 |
| 5. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
82.29 |
1.0208 |
0.1044 |
231 |
1 |
82.29 |
2010-03-30 |
| 6. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
82.22 |
1.0427 |
0.0823 |
269 |
2 |
79.66 |
2010-03-30 |
| 7. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
81.14 |
1.0106 |
0.0979 |
302 |
1 |
81.14 |
2010-03-08 |
| 8. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
80.95 |
1.0139 |
0.1057 |
349 |
1 |
80.95 |
2010-02-27 |
| 9. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
78.92 |
1.0595 |
0.0129 |
166 |
1 |
78.92 |
2010-05-22 |
| 10. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
78.87 |
1.0676 |
0.0153 |
456 |
1 |
78.87 |
2010-02-28 |
| 11. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
78.20 |
1.0370 |
0.0317 |
262 |
1 |
78.20 |
2010-05-22 |
| 12. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
78.16 |
0.9809 |
0.0838 |
209 |
1 |
78.16 |
2010-02-28 |
| 13. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
77.22 |
1.0060 |
0.0509 |
260 |
1 |
77.22 |
2010-04-04 |
| 14. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
77.20 |
0.9873 |
0.0669 |
274 |
2 |
73.19 |
2010-03-30 |
| 15. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
76.73 |
1.0969 |
-0.0459 |
303 |
1 |
76.73 |
2010-04-05 |
| 16. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
76.71 |
1.0743 |
-0.0250 |
297 |
1 |
76.71 |
2010-05-22 |
| 17. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
76.56 |
0.8794 |
0.1735 |
427 |
2 |
70.06 |
2010-04-06 |
| 18. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
76.29 |
0.9541 |
0.0893 |
236 |
1 |
76.29 |
2010-05-22 |
| 19. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
75.99 |
1.0628 |
-0.0219 |
363 |
1 |
75.99 |
2010-05-22 |
| 20. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
75.84 |
0.9704 |
0.0660 |
254 |
1 |
75.84 |
2010-03-09 |
| 21. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
75.67 |
1.0194 |
0.0128 |
224 |
1 |
75.67 |
2010-03-09 |
| 22. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
75.44 |
0.9873 |
0.0542 |
396 |
1 |
75.44 |
2010-04-04 |
| 23. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
75.08 |
0.9543 |
0.0786 |
265 |
1 |
75.08 |
2010-02-27 |
| 24. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
74.26 |
0.9603 |
0.0598 |
430 |
1 |
74.26 |
2010-03-08 |
| 25. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
73.94 |
0.9068 |
0.1017 |
212 |
1 |
73.94 |
2010-02-27 |
| 26. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
73.89 |
0.9162 |
0.0947 |
401 |
1 |
73.89 |
2010-04-04 |
| 27. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
73.86 |
1.0498 |
-0.0392 |
261 |
1 |
73.86 |
2010-02-25 |
| 28. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
73.48 |
0.9884 |
0.0180 |
267 |
1 |
73.48 |
2010-03-24 |
| 29. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
73.38 |
0.9368 |
0.0596 |
176 |
1 |
73.38 |
2010-05-22 |
| 30. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
73.37 |
0.9869 |
0.0118 |
193 |
1 |
73.37 |
2010-04-05 |
| 31. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
73.18 |
0.9709 |
0.0278 |
264 |
1 |
73.18 |
2010-02-27 |
| 32. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
73.16 |
0.9271 |
0.0720 |
295 |
1 |
73.16 |
2010-04-04 |
| 33. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
72.64 |
1.0867 |
-0.0985 |
171 |
1 |
72.64 |
2010-02-26 |
| 34. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
72.32 |
1.0333 |
-0.0502 |
176 |
1 |
72.32 |
2010-05-22 |
| 35. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
72.17 |
0.9108 |
0.0750 |
235 |
1 |
72.17 |
2010-04-04 |
| 36. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
71.89 |
1.0192 |
-0.0317 |
243 |
2 |
70.80 |
2010-05-22 |
| 37. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
71.83 |
0.9980 |
-0.0144 |
295 |
1 |
71.83 |
2010-04-05 |
| 38. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
71.31 |
0.9927 |
-0.0178 |
276 |
1 |
71.31 |
2010-04-04 |
| 39. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
71.29 |
0.8966 |
0.0767 |
366 |
1 |
71.29 |
2010-03-24 |
| 40. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
71.17 |
0.9866 |
-0.0140 |
308 |
1 |
71.17 |
2010-04-18 |
| 41. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
71.17 |
1.0320 |
-0.0537 |
401 |
1 |
71.17 |
2010-03-09 |
| 42. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
70.91 |
1.0414 |
-0.0735 |
234 |
1 |
70.91 |
2010-02-28 |
| 43. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
70.72 |
1.0338 |
-0.0623 |
277 |
1 |
70.72 |
2010-03-30 |
| 44. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
70.63 |
0.9650 |
0.0026 |
347 |
1 |
70.63 |
2010-04-06 |
| 45. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
70.29 |
0.9817 |
-0.0161 |
304 |
1 |
70.29 |
2010-03-24 |
| 46. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
70.22 |
0.9380 |
0.0198 |
284 |
1 |
70.22 |
2010-04-05 |
| 47. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
70.13 |
1.0287 |
-0.0716 |
269 |
1 |
70.13 |
2010-03-09 |
| 48. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
70.01 |
0.9403 |
0.0285 |
345 |
2 |
67.86 |
2010-05-22 |
| 49. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
69.87 |
1.0197 |
-0.0670 |
204 |
1 |
69.87 |
2010-04-04 |
| 50. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
69.66 |
1.0059 |
-0.0534 |
283 |
1 |
69.66 |
2010-02-26 |
| 51. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
69.54 |
1.0267 |
-0.0737 |
261 |
1 |
69.54 |
2010-04-18 |
| 52. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
69.02 |
1.0067 |
-0.0505 |
422 |
2 |
68.36 |
2010-04-06 |
| 53. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
68.82 |
1.0639 |
-0.1227 |
303 |
1 |
68.82 |
2010-04-18 |
| 54. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
68.64 |
0.9400 |
0.0001 |
434 |
1 |
68.64 |
2010-02-28 |
| 55. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
68.18 |
0.9841 |
-0.0415 |
325 |
1 |
68.18 |
2010-02-25 |
| 56. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
67.77 |
0.9137 |
0.0139 |
342 |
1 |
67.77 |
2010-05-22 |
| 57. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
67.36 |
0.9963 |
-0.0787 |
274 |
1 |
67.36 |
2010-03-30 |
| 58. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
67.34 |
0.9434 |
-0.0195 |
367 |
1 |
67.34 |
2010-02-25 |
| 59. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
67.08 |
0.9309 |
-0.0048 |
376 |
1 |
67.08 |
2010-03-08 |
| 60. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
67.06 |
0.9010 |
0.0175 |
266 |
1 |
67.06 |
2010-02-25 |
| 61. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
66.63 |
1.0101 |
-0.0986 |
336 |
1 |
66.63 |
2010-03-24 |
| 62. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
66.45 |
0.9801 |
-0.0730 |
289 |
1 |
66.45 |
2010-04-18 |
| 63. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
65.72 |
1.0086 |
-0.1155 |
218 |
1 |
65.72 |
2010-02-26 |
| 64. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
64.65 |
0.9183 |
-0.0388 |
252 |
1 |
64.65 |
2010-04-06 |
| 65. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
62.62 |
0.9681 |
-0.1081 |
392 |
1 |
62.62 |
2010-04-05 |
| 66. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
62.30 |
0.9519 |
-0.0975 |
323 |
1 |
62.30 |
2010-04-18 |
| 67. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
61.22 |
0.9425 |
-0.1063 |
248 |
1 |
61.22 |
2010-04-04 |
| 68. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
60.85 |
0.9854 |
-0.1539 |
174 |
1 |
60.85 |
2010-02-26 |