| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
88.10 |
0.8913 |
0.9831 |
201 |
1 |
88.10 |
2008-12-04 |
| 2. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
58.57 |
1.0877 |
0.1520 |
129 |
1 |
58.57 |
2008-12-11 |
| 3. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
56.72 |
0.9931 |
0.2066 |
218 |
1 |
56.72 |
2008-12-04 |
| 4. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
56.69 |
1.0333 |
0.1646 |
176 |
1 |
56.69 |
2008-12-11 |
| 5. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
56.08 |
1.0736 |
0.1190 |
350 |
1 |
56.08 |
2008-12-04 |
| 6. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
54.94 |
0.9931 |
0.1770 |
339 |
1 |
54.94 |
2008-12-04 |
| 7. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
54.69 |
1.0270 |
0.1339 |
303 |
1 |
54.69 |
2008-12-04 |
| 8. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
54.05 |
0.8869 |
0.2574 |
176 |
1 |
54.05 |
2008-12-04 |
| 9. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
53.34 |
1.0426 |
0.0849 |
131 |
1 |
53.34 |
2008-12-04 |
| 10. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
52.85 |
1.0588 |
0.0624 |
281 |
1 |
52.85 |
2008-12-11 |
| 11. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
52.75 |
0.9324 |
0.1895 |
246 |
1 |
52.75 |
2008-12-04 |
| 12. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
52.70 |
0.8572 |
0.2590 |
232 |
1 |
52.70 |
2008-12-04 |
| 13. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
52.58 |
0.9310 |
0.1838 |
278 |
1 |
52.58 |
2008-12-04 |
| 14. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
52.29 |
1.0865 |
0.0224 |
237 |
1 |
52.29 |
2008-12-04 |
| 15. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
50.39 |
0.9829 |
0.0850 |
229 |
2 |
44.30 |
2008-12-11 |
| 16. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
50.36 |
0.9673 |
0.1029 |
292 |
1 |
50.36 |
2008-12-04 |
| 17. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
50.06 |
1.0561 |
0.0036 |
227 |
1 |
50.06 |
2008-12-04 |
| 18. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
49.24 |
0.9842 |
0.0621 |
335 |
4 |
41.62 |
2008-12-04 |
| 19. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
48.89 |
1.1198 |
-0.0842 |
247 |
1 |
48.89 |
2008-12-04 |
| 20. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
48.62 |
0.9070 |
0.1190 |
192 |
2 |
47.48 |
2008-12-04 |
| 21. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
48.44 |
0.9763 |
0.0502 |
143 |
2 |
47.05 |
2008-12-04 |
| 22. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
48.34 |
1.0332 |
-0.0089 |
267 |
1 |
48.34 |
2008-12-04 |
| 23. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
48.30 |
0.9948 |
0.0281 |
233 |
1 |
48.30 |
2008-12-04 |
| 24. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
48.23 |
1.0672 |
-0.0459 |
239 |
1 |
48.23 |
2008-12-04 |
| 25. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
48.02 |
1.0800 |
-0.0649 |
213 |
1 |
48.02 |
2008-12-04 |
| 26. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
47.81 |
1.0082 |
0.0004 |
212 |
1 |
47.81 |
2008-12-04 |
| 27. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
47.40 |
1.0419 |
-0.0340 |
341 |
1 |
47.40 |
2008-12-04 |
| 28. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
47.33 |
0.9145 |
0.0923 |
404 |
1 |
47.33 |
2008-12-11 |
| 29. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
47.29 |
0.9574 |
0.0483 |
354 |
1 |
47.29 |
2008-12-11 |
| 30. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
45.77 |
0.9917 |
-0.0195 |
317 |
1 |
45.77 |
2008-12-04 |
| 31. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
45.59 |
0.8778 |
0.0902 |
285 |
1 |
45.59 |
2008-12-11 |
| 32. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
45.41 |
0.9909 |
-0.0239 |
293 |
2 |
43.82 |
2008-12-04 |
| 33. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
45.29 |
0.8988 |
0.0610 |
216 |
1 |
45.29 |
2008-12-04 |
| 34. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
44.98 |
1.0341 |
-0.0815 |
273 |
1 |
44.98 |
2008-12-11 |
| 35. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
44.94 |
0.8880 |
0.0644 |
296 |
1 |
44.94 |
2008-12-04 |
| 36. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
44.78 |
0.9963 |
-0.0498 |
274 |
1 |
44.78 |
2008-12-04 |
| 37. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
44.69 |
0.9673 |
-0.0164 |
393 |
2 |
44.68 |
2008-12-04 |
| 38. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
44.11 |
0.9538 |
-0.0194 |
276 |
1 |
44.11 |
2008-12-04 |
| 39. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
43.85 |
0.8474 |
0.0822 |
265 |
1 |
43.85 |
2008-12-04 |
| 40. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
42.38 |
0.9780 |
-0.0865 |
173 |
1 |
42.38 |
2008-12-04 |
| 41. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
41.77 |
0.9027 |
-0.0215 |
189 |
1 |
41.77 |
2008-12-04 |
| 42. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
41.51 |
0.9011 |
-0.0187 |
322 |
1 |
41.51 |
2008-12-04 |
| 43. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
41.13 |
0.8742 |
0.0014 |
202 |
1 |
41.13 |
2008-12-04 |
| 44. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
40.83 |
0.9084 |
-0.0422 |
271 |
1 |
40.83 |
2008-12-11 |
| 45. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
40.76 |
1.0461 |
-0.1807 |
318 |
1 |
40.76 |
2008-12-04 |
| 46. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
40.58 |
0.9332 |
-0.0738 |
267 |
1 |
40.58 |
2008-12-04 |
| 47. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
40.38 |
0.9260 |
-0.0679 |
348 |
1 |
40.38 |
2008-12-04 |
| 48. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
39.37 |
1.0130 |
-0.1794 |
288 |
1 |
39.37 |
2008-12-04 |
| 49. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
39.28 |
1.0462 |
-0.2116 |
340 |
1 |
39.28 |
2008-12-04 |
| 50. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
38.68 |
0.9352 |
-0.1175 |
194 |
1 |
38.68 |
2008-12-04 |
| 51. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
38.37 |
0.9228 |
-0.1061 |
305 |
1 |
38.37 |
2008-12-11 |
| 52. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
38.33 |
1.0601 |
-0.2519 |
256 |
2 |
35.76 |
2008-12-04 |
| 53. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
38.27 |
0.9915 |
-0.1823 |
281 |
1 |
38.27 |
2008-12-04 |
| 54. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
37.98 |
0.9636 |
-0.1611 |
281 |
1 |
37.98 |
2008-12-04 |
| 55. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
36.25 |
1.0079 |
-0.2419 |
273 |
1 |
36.25 |
2008-12-04 |
| 56. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
34.97 |
0.8936 |
-0.1550 |
346 |
1 |
34.97 |
2008-12-04 |
| 57. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
27.03 |
0.9841 |
-0.4171 |
217 |
1 |
27.03 |
2008-12-04 |