| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
45.96 |
0.8669 |
0.3670 |
255 |
1 |
45.96 |
2009-03-01 |
| 2. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
45.12 |
1.0540 |
0.1465 |
184 |
1 |
45.12 |
2009-02-28 |
| 3. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
44.39 |
1.0617 |
0.1217 |
171 |
3 |
36.44 |
2009-03-01 |
| 4. |
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans... |
44.37 |
0.8603 |
0.3244 |
270 |
1 |
44.37 |
2009-03-01 |
| 5. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
44.33 |
1.0495 |
0.1339 |
323 |
1 |
44.33 |
2009-02-28 |
| 6. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
42.75 |
0.8572 |
0.2825 |
232 |
1 |
42.75 |
2009-03-01 |
| 7. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
42.32 |
0.9604 |
0.1673 |
285 |
2 |
42.22 |
2009-03-01 |
| 8. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
40.61 |
0.9852 |
0.0981 |
235 |
1 |
40.61 |
2009-03-01 |
| 9. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
40.08 |
0.8869 |
0.1806 |
176 |
1 |
40.08 |
2009-03-01 |
| 10. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
40.07 |
1.1070 |
-0.0387 |
265 |
1 |
40.07 |
2009-03-01 |
| 11. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
39.85 |
0.9836 |
0.0800 |
289 |
1 |
39.85 |
2009-02-28 |
| 12. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
38.91 |
0.9402 |
0.0964 |
310 |
2 |
34.49 |
2009-02-28 |
| 13. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
38.88 |
0.9963 |
0.0388 |
274 |
1 |
38.88 |
2009-02-28 |
| 14. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
38.78 |
1.0086 |
0.0220 |
218 |
1 |
38.78 |
2009-02-28 |
| 15. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
38.31 |
1.1086 |
-0.0862 |
233 |
1 |
38.31 |
2009-02-28 |
| 16. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
38.27 |
1.0800 |
-0.0618 |
213 |
1 |
38.27 |
2009-03-01 |
| 17. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
38.05 |
0.9357 |
0.0773 |
204 |
2 |
36.05 |
2009-03-01 |
| 18. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
37.19 |
0.8847 |
0.1050 |
282 |
1 |
37.19 |
2009-03-01 |
| 19. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
36.73 |
1.0132 |
-0.0329 |
371 |
1 |
36.73 |
2009-02-28 |
| 20. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
36.69 |
0.9213 |
0.0556 |
165 |
1 |
36.69 |
2009-02-23 |
| 21. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
36.55 |
1.0094 |
-0.0345 |
256 |
1 |
36.55 |
2009-03-21 |
| 22. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
36.21 |
0.9183 |
0.0486 |
308 |
2 |
33.25 |
2009-03-01 |
| 23. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
36.19 |
0.9400 |
0.0282 |
434 |
1 |
36.19 |
2009-03-01 |
| 24. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
35.38 |
1.0466 |
-0.1034 |
230 |
1 |
35.38 |
2009-02-28 |
| 25. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
35.29 |
1.0208 |
-0.0798 |
231 |
1 |
35.29 |
2009-02-28 |
| 26. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
35.11 |
0.9841 |
-0.0491 |
263 |
1 |
35.11 |
2009-02-28 |
| 27. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
35.07 |
0.9884 |
-0.0504 |
267 |
1 |
35.07 |
2009-02-28 |
| 28. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
35.00 |
0.9927 |
-0.0587 |
276 |
1 |
35.00 |
2009-02-28 |
| 29. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
34.79 |
0.9880 |
-0.0645 |
199 |
1 |
34.79 |
2009-02-28 |
| 30. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
34.63 |
0.9145 |
0.0123 |
404 |
3 |
33.34 |
2009-03-01 |
| 31. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
34.37 |
0.8830 |
0.0279 |
134 |
1 |
34.37 |
2009-02-28 |
| 32. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
33.49 |
0.9500 |
-0.0553 |
287 |
1 |
33.49 |
2009-02-28 |
| 33. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
33.48 |
0.9631 |
-0.0706 |
273 |
1 |
33.48 |
2009-02-23 |
| 34. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
32.27 |
0.8666 |
-0.0087 |
206 |
1 |
32.27 |
2009-03-01 |
| 35. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
32.16 |
1.0125 |
-0.1569 |
232 |
1 |
32.16 |
2009-02-28 |
| 36. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
31.30 |
1.0181 |
-0.1829 |
276 |
1 |
31.30 |
2009-02-23 |
| 37. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
30.88 |
1.0250 |
-0.1989 |
271 |
1 |
30.88 |
2009-02-28 |
| 38. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
30.72 |
0.9541 |
-0.1350 |
236 |
1 |
30.72 |
2009-02-28 |
| 39. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
27.75 |
0.9271 |
-0.1860 |
323 |
1 |
27.75 |
2009-02-23 |