| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
55.23 |
1.1093 |
0.4012 |
220 |
1 |
55.23 |
2008-11-06 |
| 2. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
48.41 |
0.9915 |
0.3358 |
281 |
1 |
48.41 |
2008-11-06 |
| 3. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
47.60 |
1.0582 |
0.2445 |
180 |
1 |
47.60 |
2008-11-06 |
| 4. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
44.81 |
1.0506 |
0.1779 |
259 |
1 |
44.81 |
2008-11-04 |
| 5. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
44.03 |
1.0639 |
0.1446 |
303 |
4 |
36.84 |
2008-11-03 |
| 6. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
43.58 |
0.8381 |
0.3605 |
283 |
1 |
43.58 |
2008-11-06 |
| 7. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
43.37 |
0.9299 |
0.2509 |
168 |
2 |
40.88 |
2008-11-03 |
| 8. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
42.41 |
1.0106 |
0.1512 |
302 |
1 |
42.41 |
2008-11-04 |
| 9. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
41.74 |
1.0411 |
0.1050 |
341 |
1 |
41.74 |
2008-11-03 |
| 10. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
41.68 |
1.0540 |
0.0837 |
184 |
1 |
41.68 |
2008-11-03 |
| 11. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
41.23 |
0.8915 |
0.2388 |
158 |
1 |
41.23 |
2008-10-28 |
| 12. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
41.04 |
1.1198 |
0.0042 |
247 |
1 |
41.04 |
2008-11-06 |
| 13. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
40.73 |
1.0333 |
0.0781 |
176 |
1 |
40.73 |
2008-10-30 |
| 14. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
40.36 |
1.0199 |
0.0826 |
225 |
2 |
39.70 |
2008-11-03 |
| 15. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
40.36 |
1.0197 |
0.0848 |
204 |
1 |
40.36 |
2008-11-03 |
| 16. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
40.11 |
0.9252 |
0.1748 |
148 |
1 |
40.11 |
2008-11-04 |
| 17. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
39.82 |
1.0498 |
0.0428 |
261 |
1 |
39.82 |
2008-11-03 |
| 18. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
39.75 |
1.0960 |
-0.0024 |
315 |
1 |
39.75 |
2008-10-30 |
| 19. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
39.73 |
0.8572 |
0.2300 |
232 |
1 |
39.73 |
2008-11-03 |
| 20. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
39.30 |
0.9352 |
0.1408 |
194 |
1 |
39.30 |
2008-11-03 |
| 21. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
39.26 |
1.0511 |
0.0267 |
252 |
2 |
37.41 |
2008-11-06 |
| 22. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
38.92 |
0.9807 |
0.0743 |
129 |
1 |
38.92 |
2008-11-06 |
| 23. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
38.83 |
0.9745 |
0.0917 |
388 |
1 |
38.83 |
2008-11-03 |
| 24. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
38.80 |
0.9768 |
0.0878 |
237 |
1 |
38.80 |
2008-11-03 |
| 25. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
38.69 |
0.9621 |
0.1005 |
212 |
3 |
35.45 |
2008-11-06 |
| 26. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
38.50 |
1.0672 |
-0.0134 |
239 |
1 |
38.50 |
2008-11-03 |
| 27. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
38.38 |
0.9952 |
0.0589 |
220 |
1 |
38.38 |
2008-10-30 |
| 28. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
37.99 |
0.9310 |
0.1094 |
278 |
1 |
37.99 |
2008-11-04 |
| 29. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
37.97 |
1.0288 |
0.0069 |
166 |
1 |
37.97 |
2008-10-30 |
| 30. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
37.78 |
0.9503 |
0.0782 |
211 |
2 |
34.93 |
2008-11-03 |
| 31. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
37.70 |
0.9713 |
0.0603 |
193 |
1 |
37.70 |
2008-11-03 |
| 32. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
37.36 |
0.9762 |
0.0474 |
249 |
2 |
33.43 |
2008-10-30 |
| 33. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
37.34 |
1.0576 |
-0.0374 |
231 |
2 |
32.84 |
2008-11-01 |
| 34. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
37.29 |
0.9604 |
0.0592 |
285 |
1 |
37.29 |
2008-11-03 |
| 35. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
37.26 |
0.9561 |
0.0663 |
362 |
1 |
37.26 |
2008-11-03 |
| 36. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
37.25 |
1.0181 |
0.0038 |
276 |
1 |
37.25 |
2008-11-03 |
| 37. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
37.25 |
0.9810 |
0.0446 |
362 |
1 |
37.25 |
2008-10-28 |
| 38. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
37.00 |
0.9538 |
0.0597 |
276 |
2 |
34.93 |
2008-11-13 |
| 39. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
36.86 |
1.0865 |
-0.0769 |
237 |
1 |
36.86 |
2008-11-03 |
| 40. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
36.50 |
0.8646 |
0.1318 |
110 |
2 |
30.57 |
2008-11-03 |
| 41. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
36.41 |
1.0777 |
-0.0824 |
226 |
1 |
36.41 |
2008-10-30 |
| 42. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
36.38 |
0.9980 |
0.0008 |
295 |
1 |
36.38 |
2008-10-30 |
| 43. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
36.34 |
0.9359 |
0.0603 |
355 |
1 |
36.34 |
2008-11-03 |
| 44. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
36.30 |
0.9402 |
0.0523 |
310 |
1 |
36.30 |
2008-11-03 |
| 45. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
35.95 |
1.0095 |
-0.0262 |
211 |
1 |
35.95 |
2008-11-06 |
| 46. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
35.82 |
0.8925 |
0.0956 |
293 |
1 |
35.82 |
2008-11-04 |
| 47. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
35.72 |
0.9756 |
0.0021 |
223 |
1 |
35.72 |
2008-11-03 |
| 48. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
35.64 |
1.0588 |
-0.0825 |
281 |
1 |
35.64 |
2008-10-29 |
| 49. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
35.56 |
0.9260 |
0.0510 |
348 |
1 |
35.56 |
2008-11-02 |
| 50. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
35.51 |
0.9928 |
-0.0208 |
293 |
1 |
35.51 |
2008-11-03 |
| 51. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
35.37 |
0.9917 |
-0.0209 |
317 |
2 |
34.53 |
2008-11-04 |
| 52. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
35.34 |
1.0178 |
-0.0516 |
207 |
1 |
35.34 |
2008-10-30 |
| 53. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
35.30 |
1.0250 |
-0.0553 |
271 |
2 |
32.36 |
2008-11-06 |
| 54. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
35.16 |
0.9597 |
0.0034 |
251 |
1 |
35.16 |
2008-10-30 |
| 55. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
35.16 |
1.0561 |
-0.0951 |
227 |
1 |
35.16 |
2008-10-30 |
| 56. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
35.08 |
0.9632 |
-0.0013 |
287 |
1 |
35.08 |
2008-10-30 |
| 57. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
34.98 |
0.9841 |
-0.0277 |
263 |
2 |
34.35 |
2008-11-04 |
| 58. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
34.93 |
0.9070 |
0.0448 |
192 |
2 |
33.92 |
2008-11-04 |
| 59. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
34.88 |
1.0125 |
-0.0622 |
171 |
1 |
34.88 |
2008-10-30 |
| 60. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
34.79 |
0.9829 |
-0.0309 |
229 |
1 |
34.79 |
2008-11-04 |
| 61. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
34.73 |
1.0800 |
-0.1359 |
129 |
1 |
34.73 |
2008-10-30 |
| 62. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
34.72 |
0.9011 |
0.0529 |
322 |
2 |
33.81 |
2008-11-03 |
| 63. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
34.12 |
0.8869 |
0.0450 |
176 |
1 |
34.12 |
2008-10-28 |
| 64. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
34.10 |
0.9500 |
-0.0146 |
287 |
1 |
34.10 |
2008-10-30 |
| 65. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
34.05 |
0.9780 |
-0.0519 |
173 |
1 |
34.05 |
2008-10-28 |
| 66. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
34.02 |
0.9909 |
-0.0548 |
293 |
1 |
34.02 |
2008-11-03 |
| 67. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
33.93 |
1.0638 |
-0.1368 |
247 |
1 |
33.93 |
2008-11-04 |
| 68. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
33.92 |
0.9332 |
-0.0030 |
295 |
1 |
33.92 |
2008-10-30 |
| 69. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
33.77 |
0.9833 |
-0.0563 |
387 |
1 |
33.77 |
2008-10-30 |
| 70. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
33.67 |
1.0101 |
-0.0864 |
336 |
1 |
33.67 |
2008-11-02 |
| 71. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
33.64 |
0.9012 |
0.0233 |
322 |
1 |
33.64 |
2008-11-03 |
| 72. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
33.64 |
0.9400 |
-0.0164 |
434 |
1 |
33.64 |
2008-10-30 |
| 73. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
33.61 |
0.9084 |
0.0133 |
271 |
1 |
33.61 |
2008-11-03 |
| 74. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
33.57 |
0.9927 |
-0.0769 |
234 |
1 |
33.57 |
2008-11-03 |
| 75. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
33.02 |
1.0529 |
-0.1463 |
373 |
1 |
33.02 |
2008-10-28 |
| 76. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
32.89 |
1.0189 |
-0.1191 |
290 |
1 |
32.89 |
2008-10-30 |
| 77. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
32.71 |
1.0264 |
-0.1352 |
191 |
1 |
32.71 |
2008-10-28 |
| 78. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
32.71 |
1.0654 |
-0.1725 |
247 |
1 |
32.71 |
2008-10-30 |
| 79. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
32.39 |
0.9839 |
-0.0975 |
308 |
1 |
32.39 |
2008-10-30 |
| 80. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
32.36 |
1.0543 |
-0.1662 |
360 |
1 |
32.36 |
2008-10-28 |
| 81. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
31.83 |
0.9890 |
-0.1139 |
272 |
2 |
30.35 |
2008-10-30 |
| 82. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
31.77 |
0.9228 |
-0.0488 |
305 |
1 |
31.77 |
2008-11-03 |
| 83. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
31.70 |
0.9103 |
-0.0429 |
269 |
1 |
31.70 |
2008-10-30 |
| 84. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
31.54 |
0.9339 |
-0.0649 |
317 |
1 |
31.54 |
2008-11-03 |
| 85. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
30.68 |
0.8172 |
0.0180 |
204 |
2 |
29.86 |
2008-11-03 |
| 86. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
29.95 |
0.9346 |
-0.1182 |
211 |
1 |
29.95 |
2008-11-04 |
| 87. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
29.93 |
0.8192 |
0.0016 |
200 |
1 |
29.93 |
2008-10-28 |
| 88. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
29.66 |
0.9183 |
-0.1061 |
308 |
1 |
29.66 |
2008-11-04 |
| 89. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
29.38 |
1.0033 |
-0.1994 |
203 |
1 |
29.38 |
2008-10-28 |
| 90. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
28.81 |
0.9068 |
-0.1208 |
212 |
1 |
28.81 |
2008-10-30 |
| 91. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
28.75 |
0.8986 |
-0.1073 |
363 |
1 |
28.75 |
2008-10-30 |
| 92. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
28.25 |
1.0419 |
-0.2663 |
341 |
1 |
28.25 |
2008-10-28 |
| 93. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
27.23 |
0.8986 |
-0.1559 |
205 |
2 |
24.92 |
2008-10-30 |
| 94. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
26.38 |
1.0267 |
-0.3027 |
261 |
1 |
26.38 |
2008-10-30 |