| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
42.29 |
1.1198 |
0.2741 |
247 |
1 |
42.29 |
2008-10-16 |
| 2. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
41.54 |
1.0561 |
0.3120 |
227 |
2 |
35.56 |
2008-10-30 |
| 3. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
41.45 |
1.0511 |
0.3177 |
252 |
1 |
41.45 |
2008-10-16 |
| 4. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
39.98 |
0.9285 |
0.3880 |
244 |
1 |
39.98 |
2008-10-16 |
| 5. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
39.95 |
0.9128 |
0.4018 |
237 |
3 |
37.62 |
2008-10-17 |
| 6. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
39.69 |
1.0403 |
0.2667 |
234 |
2 |
36.43 |
2008-10-17 |
| 7. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
39.63 |
0.8869 |
0.4174 |
176 |
1 |
39.63 |
2008-10-29 |
| 8. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
39.33 |
0.9271 |
0.3693 |
295 |
1 |
39.33 |
2008-10-16 |
| 9. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
39.30 |
0.9927 |
0.3050 |
262 |
1 |
39.30 |
2008-10-17 |
| 10. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
39.01 |
0.9636 |
0.3212 |
281 |
2 |
35.76 |
2008-10-17 |
| 11. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
38.60 |
1.0529 |
0.2223 |
373 |
1 |
38.60 |
2008-10-17 |
| 12. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
37.75 |
0.9084 |
0.3376 |
271 |
1 |
37.75 |
2008-10-16 |
| 13. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
37.56 |
1.0800 |
0.1553 |
213 |
1 |
37.56 |
2008-10-17 |
| 14. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
37.43 |
0.9252 |
0.3093 |
148 |
1 |
37.43 |
2008-10-17 |
| 15. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
37.08 |
1.0600 |
0.1626 |
351 |
1 |
37.08 |
2008-10-17 |
| 16. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
36.91 |
0.9974 |
0.2153 |
163 |
2 |
36.00 |
2008-10-30 |
| 17. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
36.68 |
0.9839 |
0.2249 |
308 |
1 |
36.68 |
2008-10-17 |
| 18. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
35.76 |
1.0372 |
0.1409 |
249 |
1 |
35.76 |
2008-10-30 |
| 19. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
35.65 |
0.9827 |
0.1931 |
314 |
1 |
35.65 |
2010-08-08 |
| 20. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
35.37 |
0.9604 |
0.2031 |
285 |
2 |
32.26 |
2008-10-16 |
| 21. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
35.27 |
1.0291 |
0.1311 |
240 |
1 |
35.27 |
2008-10-16 |
| 22. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
35.04 |
1.0033 |
0.1517 |
203 |
2 |
32.39 |
2008-10-17 |
| 23. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
35.04 |
0.9866 |
0.1685 |
308 |
1 |
35.04 |
2008-10-16 |
| 24. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
35.01 |
1.0106 |
0.1421 |
302 |
1 |
35.01 |
2008-10-17 |
| 25. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
34.64 |
1.0332 |
0.1076 |
267 |
1 |
34.64 |
2008-10-17 |
| 26. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
34.34 |
0.9928 |
0.1381 |
293 |
2 |
31.20 |
2008-11-03 |
| 27. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
34.19 |
1.0595 |
0.0605 |
166 |
1 |
34.19 |
2010-08-24 |
| 28. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
34.18 |
0.9402 |
0.1841 |
310 |
1 |
34.18 |
2008-10-17 |
| 29. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
33.94 |
0.9108 |
0.2073 |
235 |
1 |
33.94 |
2008-10-16 |
| 30. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
33.90 |
1.0540 |
0.0579 |
184 |
1 |
33.90 |
2008-10-16 |
| 31. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
33.88 |
0.9869 |
0.1258 |
193 |
1 |
33.88 |
2008-10-29 |
| 32. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
33.83 |
0.8815 |
0.2380 |
296 |
3 |
32.30 |
2008-10-30 |
| 33. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
33.57 |
0.9213 |
0.1825 |
165 |
2 |
19.76 |
2010-09-28 |
| 34. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
33.50 |
1.0672 |
0.0353 |
239 |
1 |
33.50 |
2008-10-29 |
| 35. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
33.35 |
0.7966 |
0.3081 |
184 |
1 |
33.35 |
2010-08-24 |
| 36. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
33.18 |
1.0006 |
0.0925 |
311 |
1 |
33.18 |
2008-10-17 |
| 37. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
33.05 |
0.9809 |
0.1157 |
250 |
1 |
33.05 |
2010-08-24 |
| 38. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
32.85 |
0.9952 |
0.0893 |
220 |
1 |
32.85 |
2008-10-16 |
| 39. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
32.83 |
0.9275 |
0.1592 |
243 |
1 |
32.83 |
2008-10-29 |
| 40. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
32.78 |
1.1086 |
-0.0284 |
233 |
1 |
32.78 |
2008-10-16 |
| 41. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
32.73 |
1.0877 |
-0.0129 |
129 |
2 |
29.54 |
2010-09-21 |
| 42. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
32.61 |
0.9981 |
0.0752 |
211 |
1 |
32.61 |
2008-10-30 |
| 43. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
32.56 |
0.9841 |
0.0868 |
263 |
1 |
32.56 |
2008-10-16 |
| 44. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
32.32 |
0.9265 |
0.1370 |
254 |
1 |
32.32 |
2008-10-17 |
| 45. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
32.31 |
1.0178 |
0.0447 |
207 |
1 |
32.31 |
2008-10-16 |
| 46. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
32.04 |
0.8117 |
0.2469 |
209 |
1 |
32.04 |
2008-10-16 |
| 47. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
32.02 |
0.9768 |
0.0791 |
237 |
2 |
27.05 |
2008-11-04 |
| 48. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
32.00 |
0.8656 |
0.1896 |
242 |
1 |
32.00 |
2008-10-30 |
| 49. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
31.98 |
1.0042 |
0.0453 |
168 |
1 |
31.98 |
2010-08-24 |
| 50. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
31.94 |
1.0543 |
-0.0056 |
182 |
1 |
31.94 |
2010-08-08 |
| 51. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
31.74 |
1.0264 |
0.0148 |
191 |
1 |
31.74 |
2010-08-24 |
| 52. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
31.61 |
1.0250 |
0.0189 |
271 |
1 |
31.61 |
2008-10-16 |
| 53. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
31.59 |
0.8127 |
0.2241 |
167 |
1 |
31.59 |
2008-10-16 |
| 54. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
31.53 |
0.9352 |
0.1021 |
194 |
1 |
31.53 |
2008-10-16 |
| 55. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
31.53 |
0.9422 |
0.0911 |
190 |
3 |
30.78 |
2008-10-17 |
| 56. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
31.28 |
0.9909 |
0.0438 |
293 |
1 |
31.28 |
2010-08-24 |
| 57. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
31.26 |
0.9927 |
0.0335 |
234 |
1 |
31.26 |
2008-10-16 |
| 58. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
30.95 |
1.0125 |
0.0052 |
232 |
2 |
30.74 |
2008-10-29 |
| 59. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
30.75 |
0.7423 |
0.2684 |
145 |
1 |
30.75 |
2010-09-24 |
| 60. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
30.60 |
0.8474 |
0.1607 |
265 |
1 |
30.60 |
2008-10-17 |
| 61. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
30.60 |
0.9597 |
0.0481 |
251 |
3 |
27.00 |
2008-10-17 |
| 62. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
30.33 |
0.9500 |
0.0503 |
287 |
1 |
30.33 |
2008-10-17 |
| 63. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
30.10 |
0.9143 |
0.0777 |
300 |
1 |
30.10 |
2008-10-16 |
| 64. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
29.98 |
0.9068 |
0.0783 |
212 |
1 |
29.98 |
2008-10-16 |
| 65. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
29.60 |
0.8624 |
0.1074 |
174 |
1 |
29.60 |
2008-10-16 |
| 66. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
29.33 |
0.9315 |
0.0358 |
273 |
1 |
29.33 |
2008-10-30 |
| 67. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
28.85 |
1.0426 |
-0.0970 |
131 |
1 |
28.85 |
2008-10-16 |
| 68. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
28.62 |
0.9841 |
-0.0307 |
325 |
1 |
28.62 |
2010-08-08 |
| 69. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
28.37 |
0.9927 |
-0.0584 |
276 |
2 |
27.09 |
2008-11-03 |
| 70. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
28.30 |
1.0279 |
-0.1022 |
172 |
1 |
28.30 |
2008-10-16 |
| 71. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
27.79 |
0.8925 |
0.0290 |
293 |
2 |
24.58 |
2010-08-08 |
| 72. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
27.75 |
0.9709 |
-0.0590 |
264 |
2 |
27.48 |
2008-10-17 |
| 73. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
27.36 |
0.8365 |
0.0598 |
145 |
1 |
27.36 |
2010-09-20 |
| 74. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
27.29 |
1.0617 |
-0.1657 |
171 |
1 |
27.29 |
2010-09-24 |
| 75. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
27.11 |
0.8172 |
0.0705 |
204 |
1 |
27.11 |
2008-10-16 |
| 76. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
26.51 |
0.9606 |
-0.0844 |
203 |
1 |
26.51 |
2010-08-08 |
| 77. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
26.17 |
1.0845 |
-0.2248 |
212 |
1 |
26.17 |
2010-09-20 |
| 78. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
26.14 |
1.0199 |
-0.1639 |
225 |
1 |
26.14 |
2008-11-03 |
| 79. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
26.07 |
0.8161 |
0.0439 |
109 |
1 |
26.07 |
2008-10-17 |
| 80. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
25.68 |
0.9890 |
-0.1405 |
272 |
1 |
25.68 |
2008-10-16 |
| 81. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
23.72 |
1.0144 |
-0.2337 |
162 |
1 |
23.72 |
2010-09-21 |
| 82. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
23.67 |
0.9394 |
-0.1629 |
195 |
1 |
23.67 |
2010-09-28 |
| 83. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
23.36 |
0.8830 |
-0.1213 |
134 |
2 |
21.90 |
2010-09-28 |
| 84. |
Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. |
23.26 |
0.9620 |
-0.2081 |
62 |
1 |
23.26 |
2010-09-28 |
| 85. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
23.18 |
0.8201 |
-0.0647 |
187 |
1 |
23.18 |
2010-09-20 |
| 86. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
22.88 |
1.0287 |
-0.2780 |
269 |
1 |
22.88 |
2010-09-20 |
| 87. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
22.60 |
0.8863 |
-0.1473 |
127 |
2 |
21.46 |
2010-09-21 |
| 88. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
22.35 |
1.0582 |
-0.3270 |
180 |
1 |
22.35 |
2008-10-31 |
| 89. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
21.62 |
0.8971 |
-0.1900 |
100 |
1 |
21.62 |
2010-09-21 |
| 90. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
21.49 |
0.8718 |
-0.1665 |
193 |
1 |
21.49 |
2010-09-20 |
| 91. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
21.48 |
1.0464 |
-0.3353 |
213 |
1 |
21.48 |
2010-09-13 |
| 92. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
21.27 |
1.0094 |
-0.3108 |
256 |
1 |
21.27 |
2010-08-08 |
| 93. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
21.03 |
0.8053 |
-0.1167 |
126 |
1 |
21.03 |
2010-08-08 |
| 94. |
And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make ene... |
20.75 |
0.8777 |
-0.2008 |
130 |
1 |
20.75 |
2010-09-28 |
| 95. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
20.62 |
0.8770 |
-0.2002 |
163 |
1 |
20.62 |
2010-09-20 |
| 96. |
Don't make assumptions. Communicate with others as clearly a... |
19.80 |
0.8130 |
-0.1562 |
186 |
1 |
19.80 |
2010-09-28 |
| 97. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
18.79 |
1.0026 |
-0.3819 |
200 |
1 |
18.79 |
2010-08-08 |
| 98. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
18.49 |
0.9583 |
-0.3514 |
237 |
1 |
18.49 |
2010-09-20 |
| 99. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
18.31 |
0.8305 |
-0.2347 |
162 |
1 |
18.31 |
2010-09-21 |
| 100. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
17.91 |
1.0095 |
-0.4237 |
211 |
1 |
17.91 |
2010-09-21 |
| 101. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
17.65 |
1.0225 |
-0.4518 |
152 |
1 |
17.65 |
2010-09-21 |
| 102. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
16.82 |
1.0524 |
-0.5033 |
177 |
1 |
16.82 |
2010-09-28 |
| 103. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
16.21 |
0.7988 |
-0.2701 |
134 |
1 |
16.21 |
2010-09-21 |
| 104. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
15.24 |
0.8149 |
-0.3198 |
158 |
1 |
15.24 |
2010-09-21 |