| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
61.53 |
1.0487 |
0.1779 |
253 |
1 |
61.53 |
2011-05-26 |
| 2. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
60.50 |
1.0640 |
0.1502 |
210 |
1 |
60.50 |
2011-05-24 |
| 3. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
59.70 |
0.9264 |
0.2670 |
177 |
1 |
59.70 |
2011-05-16 |
| 4. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
59.52 |
1.1086 |
0.0801 |
233 |
1 |
59.52 |
2011-05-17 |
| 5. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
59.42 |
1.0845 |
0.1010 |
212 |
1 |
59.42 |
2011-05-17 |
| 6. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
58.57 |
0.9927 |
0.1785 |
262 |
1 |
58.57 |
2010-12-30 |
| 7. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
57.95 |
1.1095 |
0.0500 |
252 |
3 |
57.27 |
2011-05-23 |
| 8. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
56.73 |
1.0498 |
0.0839 |
261 |
1 |
56.73 |
2011-05-17 |
| 9. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
56.22 |
1.0865 |
0.0356 |
237 |
2 |
54.13 |
2011-03-23 |
| 10. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
55.94 |
1.0370 |
0.0795 |
262 |
1 |
55.94 |
2011-05-23 |
| 11. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.74 |
0.9698 |
0.1486 |
389 |
1 |
55.74 |
2011-05-24 |
| 12. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
55.65 |
1.0639 |
0.0487 |
303 |
1 |
55.65 |
2011-05-24 |
| 13. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
55.39 |
1.0094 |
0.0962 |
256 |
2 |
50.99 |
2011-01-06 |
| 14. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
55.23 |
0.9885 |
0.1143 |
355 |
1 |
55.23 |
2011-05-16 |
| 15. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
55.06 |
1.0753 |
0.0308 |
206 |
1 |
55.06 |
2011-05-24 |
| 16. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
55.01 |
0.9519 |
0.1505 |
323 |
2 |
53.00 |
2011-05-24 |
| 17. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
54.91 |
1.0315 |
0.0639 |
193 |
2 |
50.22 |
2011-05-24 |
| 18. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
54.54 |
1.0414 |
0.0461 |
234 |
1 |
54.54 |
2010-12-30 |
| 19. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
54.51 |
0.9807 |
0.0957 |
129 |
1 |
54.51 |
2010-12-30 |
| 20. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
54.35 |
1.0881 |
-0.0069 |
210 |
2 |
50.52 |
2011-03-15 |
| 21. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
54.16 |
0.9704 |
0.1104 |
254 |
1 |
54.16 |
2011-05-23 |
| 22. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
54.04 |
1.0654 |
0.0107 |
247 |
1 |
54.04 |
2010-12-30 |
| 23. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
53.81 |
1.0301 |
0.0429 |
268 |
2 |
52.76 |
2011-05-26 |
| 24. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
53.75 |
0.9564 |
0.1100 |
263 |
1 |
53.75 |
2011-05-23 |
| 25. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
53.73 |
1.0333 |
0.0341 |
176 |
2 |
50.35 |
2011-05-24 |
| 26. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
53.69 |
1.0543 |
0.0194 |
360 |
1 |
53.69 |
2011-04-07 |
| 27. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
53.65 |
0.9873 |
0.0941 |
396 |
1 |
53.65 |
2011-05-26 |
| 28. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
53.42 |
1.0225 |
0.0351 |
152 |
1 |
53.42 |
2010-12-30 |
| 29. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
53.20 |
0.9255 |
0.1365 |
174 |
1 |
53.20 |
2011-01-06 |
| 30. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
53.12 |
1.0063 |
0.0587 |
293 |
1 |
53.12 |
2011-01-17 |
| 31. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
53.06 |
0.9128 |
0.1430 |
237 |
1 |
53.06 |
2010-12-30 |
| 32. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
53.04 |
0.9980 |
0.0630 |
295 |
2 |
51.77 |
2011-05-16 |
| 33. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
52.90 |
1.1070 |
-0.0521 |
265 |
1 |
52.90 |
2011-05-16 |
| 34. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
52.90 |
1.0567 |
-0.0012 |
314 |
1 |
52.90 |
2011-05-17 |
| 35. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
52.78 |
0.9316 |
0.1237 |
188 |
1 |
52.78 |
2011-05-23 |
| 36. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
52.73 |
1.0004 |
0.0545 |
373 |
1 |
52.73 |
2011-03-15 |
| 37. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
52.63 |
0.9810 |
0.0743 |
362 |
1 |
52.63 |
2011-05-23 |
| 38. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
52.59 |
0.9278 |
0.1229 |
253 |
1 |
52.59 |
2011-05-17 |
| 39. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
52.57 |
0.9981 |
0.0505 |
211 |
2 |
48.75 |
2011-01-17 |
| 40. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
52.45 |
1.0427 |
0.0049 |
269 |
1 |
52.45 |
2011-01-14 |
| 41. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
52.08 |
1.0060 |
0.0398 |
244 |
1 |
52.08 |
2011-01-17 |
| 42. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
52.02 |
0.9756 |
0.0618 |
223 |
2 |
49.99 |
2011-01-24 |
| 43. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
51.91 |
1.0736 |
-0.0352 |
350 |
1 |
51.91 |
2011-01-17 |
| 44. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
51.69 |
0.9833 |
0.0510 |
387 |
1 |
51.69 |
2011-05-17 |
| 45. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
51.64 |
0.9842 |
0.0484 |
335 |
1 |
51.64 |
2011-01-06 |
| 46. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
51.50 |
0.9598 |
0.0702 |
209 |
1 |
51.50 |
2011-05-23 |
| 47. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
51.41 |
1.0194 |
0.0041 |
224 |
2 |
47.54 |
2011-01-17 |
| 48. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
51.41 |
1.0197 |
0.0044 |
204 |
1 |
51.41 |
2011-01-06 |
| 49. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
51.39 |
1.0521 |
-0.0321 |
197 |
1 |
51.39 |
2011-01-09 |
| 50. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
51.28 |
0.9841 |
0.0361 |
217 |
1 |
51.28 |
2011-01-24 |
| 51. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
51.16 |
0.9621 |
0.0555 |
201 |
1 |
51.16 |
2011-05-23 |
| 52. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
51.03 |
0.9480 |
0.0709 |
297 |
1 |
51.03 |
2011-01-17 |
| 53. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
50.95 |
1.0461 |
-0.0247 |
286 |
1 |
50.95 |
2010-12-30 |
| 54. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
50.89 |
1.0561 |
-0.0429 |
227 |
1 |
50.89 |
2011-01-17 |
| 55. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
50.83 |
0.9144 |
0.0936 |
167 |
1 |
50.83 |
2011-01-14 |
| 56. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.80 |
0.9228 |
0.0958 |
305 |
1 |
50.80 |
2011-05-24 |
| 57. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
50.74 |
0.9561 |
0.0578 |
362 |
2 |
50.13 |
2011-05-23 |
| 58. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
50.64 |
1.0132 |
-0.0024 |
371 |
1 |
50.64 |
2011-01-17 |
| 59. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
50.40 |
0.9517 |
0.0523 |
276 |
1 |
50.40 |
2011-03-15 |
| 60. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
50.21 |
0.9023 |
0.0980 |
268 |
1 |
50.21 |
2011-01-17 |
| 61. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
50.08 |
0.9183 |
0.0818 |
308 |
2 |
47.77 |
2011-05-24 |
| 62. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
49.99 |
0.9606 |
0.0406 |
203 |
1 |
49.99 |
2011-03-15 |
| 63. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
49.59 |
0.9709 |
0.0172 |
264 |
1 |
49.59 |
2011-03-23 |
| 64. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
49.38 |
0.9917 |
-0.0040 |
317 |
1 |
49.38 |
2011-01-17 |
| 65. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
49.35 |
1.0006 |
-0.0159 |
311 |
1 |
49.35 |
2011-01-06 |
| 66. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
49.16 |
1.0736 |
-0.0888 |
256 |
1 |
49.16 |
2010-12-30 |
| 67. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
48.78 |
0.9804 |
-0.0069 |
227 |
1 |
48.78 |
2010-12-30 |
| 68. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
48.36 |
0.9952 |
-0.0282 |
220 |
1 |
48.36 |
2011-01-17 |
| 69. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
48.21 |
0.9434 |
0.0227 |
367 |
1 |
48.21 |
2011-01-24 |
| 70. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
47.96 |
0.9394 |
0.0152 |
195 |
1 |
47.96 |
2010-12-30 |
| 71. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
47.95 |
0.8981 |
0.0674 |
255 |
1 |
47.95 |
2011-05-23 |
| 72. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
47.95 |
0.8911 |
0.0680 |
241 |
1 |
47.95 |
2011-01-17 |
| 73. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
47.95 |
0.9332 |
0.0230 |
267 |
2 |
46.32 |
2011-03-15 |
| 74. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
47.88 |
0.9890 |
-0.0300 |
272 |
1 |
47.88 |
2011-01-17 |
| 75. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
47.76 |
0.8993 |
0.0565 |
366 |
1 |
47.76 |
2011-01-17 |
| 76. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
47.72 |
0.9650 |
-0.0105 |
347 |
1 |
47.72 |
2011-01-14 |
| 77. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
47.64 |
0.9757 |
-0.0291 |
176 |
1 |
47.64 |
2010-12-30 |
| 78. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
47.48 |
0.9931 |
-0.0416 |
339 |
1 |
47.48 |
2011-01-24 |
| 79. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
47.36 |
0.9137 |
0.0325 |
342 |
1 |
47.36 |
2011-03-15 |
| 80. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
47.27 |
0.9820 |
-0.0309 |
297 |
1 |
47.27 |
2011-03-15 |
| 81. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
47.06 |
0.8986 |
0.0450 |
363 |
1 |
47.06 |
2011-05-23 |
| 82. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
47.01 |
1.0018 |
-0.0637 |
246 |
1 |
47.01 |
2010-12-30 |
| 83. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
46.86 |
1.0291 |
-0.0964 |
240 |
1 |
46.86 |
2010-12-30 |
| 84. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
46.70 |
0.9010 |
0.0325 |
266 |
1 |
46.70 |
2011-03-15 |
| 85. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
46.65 |
0.9957 |
-0.0613 |
323 |
1 |
46.65 |
2011-05-23 |
| 86. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
46.60 |
0.8666 |
0.0604 |
206 |
1 |
46.60 |
2011-01-24 |
| 87. |
Dropping through sky, through the glass of the roof, through... |
46.58 |
0.9745 |
-0.0476 |
217 |
1 |
46.58 |
2011-01-17 |
| 88. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
46.33 |
0.9763 |
-0.0524 |
143 |
1 |
46.33 |
2011-05-17 |
| 89. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
46.21 |
0.9779 |
-0.0582 |
255 |
1 |
46.21 |
2010-12-30 |
| 90. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
46.19 |
1.0601 |
-0.1421 |
256 |
1 |
46.19 |
2011-03-23 |
| 91. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
46.11 |
1.0524 |
-0.1351 |
177 |
1 |
46.11 |
2010-12-30 |
| 92. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
45.91 |
0.8935 |
0.0303 |
351 |
1 |
45.91 |
2011-01-17 |
| 93. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
45.90 |
0.9991 |
-0.0851 |
339 |
1 |
45.90 |
2011-05-23 |
| 94. |
The girls I like best are ones I never feel much like kiddin... |
45.85 |
0.9102 |
0.0091 |
239 |
1 |
45.85 |
2010-12-30 |
| 95. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
45.64 |
0.9260 |
-0.0130 |
348 |
1 |
45.64 |
2011-03-15 |
| 96. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
45.53 |
0.9749 |
-0.0577 |
337 |
1 |
45.53 |
2011-01-17 |
| 97. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
45.42 |
0.9310 |
-0.0261 |
278 |
1 |
45.42 |
2011-01-14 |
| 98. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
45.39 |
0.8718 |
0.0364 |
318 |
1 |
45.39 |
2011-01-24 |
| 99. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
45.22 |
0.9801 |
-0.0783 |
289 |
1 |
45.22 |
2011-05-16 |
| 100. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
45.17 |
1.0607 |
-0.1569 |
357 |
1 |
45.17 |
2010-12-30 |
| 101. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
45.02 |
0.9203 |
-0.0202 |
350 |
1 |
45.02 |
2011-01-14 |
| 102. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
45.01 |
1.0538 |
-0.1438 |
367 |
1 |
45.01 |
2011-05-23 |
| 103. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
44.80 |
0.9631 |
-0.0699 |
273 |
1 |
44.80 |
2011-03-23 |
| 104. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
44.12 |
1.0125 |
-0.1380 |
171 |
1 |
44.12 |
2010-12-30 |
| 105. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
44.05 |
0.9791 |
-0.1082 |
154 |
1 |
44.05 |
2010-12-30 |
| 106. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
43.82 |
0.8845 |
-0.0101 |
239 |
1 |
43.82 |
2010-12-30 |
| 107. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
43.65 |
1.0462 |
-0.1731 |
340 |
1 |
43.65 |
2010-12-30 |
| 108. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
43.64 |
0.7852 |
0.0781 |
154 |
1 |
43.64 |
2011-05-23 |
| 109. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
43.62 |
1.0178 |
-0.1503 |
207 |
2 |
40.48 |
2010-12-30 |
| 110. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
43.52 |
0.9543 |
-0.0799 |
265 |
1 |
43.52 |
2011-01-14 |
| 111. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
43.47 |
0.9136 |
-0.0438 |
348 |
1 |
43.47 |
2010-12-30 |
| 112. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
43.43 |
0.9603 |
-0.0892 |
430 |
1 |
43.43 |
2011-03-15 |
| 113. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
43.23 |
0.8986 |
-0.0361 |
216 |
1 |
43.23 |
2011-01-06 |
| 114. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
43.19 |
1.0051 |
-0.1497 |
162 |
1 |
43.19 |
2010-12-30 |
| 115. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
41.07 |
0.8986 |
-0.0816 |
205 |
1 |
41.07 |
2011-01-17 |
| 116. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
40.93 |
0.9854 |
-0.1684 |
174 |
1 |
40.93 |
2011-01-14 |
| 117. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
40.46 |
1.0131 |
-0.2039 |
245 |
1 |
40.46 |
2010-12-30 |
| 118. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
38.90 |
0.9243 |
-0.1472 |
240 |
1 |
38.90 |
2010-12-30 |
| 119. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
35.09 |
0.8830 |
-0.1822 |
300 |
1 |
35.09 |
2010-12-30 |