| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
113.37 |
0.9644 |
0.1327 |
398 |
1 |
113.37 |
2008-11-10 |
| 2. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
89.38 |
0.9703 |
-0.1025 |
394 |
1 |
89.38 |
2008-11-09 |
| 3. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
115.79 |
0.9681 |
0.1550 |
392 |
1 |
115.79 |
2008-11-10 |
| 4. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
80.48 |
0.8993 |
-0.1217 |
366 |
1 |
80.48 |
2008-11-09 |
| 5. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
116.76 |
1.0628 |
0.0661 |
363 |
1 |
116.76 |
2008-11-10 |
| 6. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
121.23 |
0.9810 |
0.1942 |
362 |
1 |
121.23 |
2008-11-10 |
| 7. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
121.90 |
1.0135 |
0.1665 |
358 |
1 |
121.90 |
2008-11-10 |
| 8. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
114.27 |
0.9885 |
0.1143 |
355 |
1 |
114.27 |
2008-11-10 |
| 9. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
120.20 |
1.0411 |
0.1210 |
341 |
1 |
120.20 |
2008-11-10 |
| 10. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
114.89 |
1.0462 |
0.0655 |
340 |
1 |
114.89 |
2008-11-10 |
| 11. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
117.51 |
1.0101 |
0.1258 |
336 |
2 |
116.27 |
2008-11-10 |
| 12. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
79.04 |
0.9609 |
-0.1953 |
331 |
1 |
79.04 |
2008-11-09 |
| 13. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
103.59 |
0.9012 |
0.1014 |
322 |
1 |
103.59 |
2008-11-10 |
| 14. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
107.08 |
0.9479 |
0.0867 |
317 |
1 |
107.08 |
2008-11-20 |
| 15. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
101.04 |
0.9917 |
-0.0153 |
317 |
1 |
101.04 |
2008-11-20 |
| 16. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
87.25 |
0.7923 |
0.0488 |
316 |
1 |
87.25 |
2008-11-10 |
| 17. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
107.72 |
1.0165 |
0.0218 |
316 |
1 |
107.72 |
2008-11-10 |
| 18. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
53.63 |
1.0960 |
-0.5777 |
315 |
1 |
53.63 |
2008-11-09 |
| 19. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
89.17 |
0.9827 |
-0.1227 |
314 |
1 |
89.17 |
2008-11-09 |
| 20. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
95.65 |
1.0743 |
-0.1512 |
297 |
1 |
95.65 |
2008-11-09 |
| 21. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
93.87 |
0.9271 |
-0.0228 |
295 |
1 |
93.87 |
2008-11-10 |
| 22. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
126.27 |
1.0464 |
0.1778 |
294 |
1 |
126.27 |
2008-11-10 |
| 23. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
95.72 |
0.9673 |
-0.0424 |
292 |
1 |
95.72 |
2008-11-09 |
| 24. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
105.26 |
0.9864 |
0.0327 |
292 |
1 |
105.26 |
2008-11-20 |
| 25. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
96.45 |
0.9801 |
-0.0506 |
289 |
1 |
96.45 |
2008-11-09 |
| 26. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
127.57 |
1.0901 |
0.1437 |
288 |
1 |
127.57 |
2008-11-10 |
| 27. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
120.64 |
1.0130 |
0.1516 |
288 |
1 |
120.64 |
2008-11-09 |
| 28. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
69.46 |
0.9927 |
-0.3242 |
276 |
1 |
69.46 |
2008-11-09 |
| 29. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
114.49 |
0.9538 |
0.1508 |
276 |
1 |
114.49 |
2008-11-09 |
| 30. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
114.46 |
0.9631 |
0.1409 |
273 |
1 |
114.46 |
2008-11-10 |
| 31. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
111.00 |
0.9890 |
0.0859 |
272 |
1 |
111.00 |
2008-11-10 |
| 32. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
86.91 |
1.0287 |
-0.1926 |
269 |
1 |
86.91 |
2008-11-10 |
| 33. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
121.70 |
1.0332 |
0.1410 |
267 |
1 |
121.70 |
2008-11-10 |
| 34. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
58.51 |
0.9332 |
-0.3716 |
267 |
1 |
58.51 |
2008-11-09 |
| 35. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
104.38 |
0.9884 |
0.0208 |
267 |
3 |
101.90 |
2008-11-20 |
| 36. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
142.63 |
1.1070 |
0.2698 |
265 |
2 |
105.24 |
2008-11-10 |
| 37. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
113.86 |
0.9922 |
0.1071 |
264 |
1 |
113.86 |
2008-11-10 |
| 38. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
110.86 |
1.0498 |
0.0210 |
261 |
1 |
110.86 |
2008-11-10 |
| 39. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
93.45 |
1.0334 |
-0.1333 |
261 |
1 |
93.45 |
2008-11-10 |
| 40. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
79.94 |
1.0267 |
-0.2540 |
261 |
1 |
79.94 |
2008-11-09 |
| 41. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
124.05 |
1.0601 |
0.1343 |
256 |
1 |
124.05 |
2008-11-10 |
| 42. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
106.47 |
0.9265 |
0.0994 |
254 |
2 |
100.22 |
2008-11-10 |
| 43. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
123.66 |
0.9704 |
0.2234 |
254 |
1 |
123.66 |
2008-11-10 |
| 44. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
111.56 |
1.1198 |
-0.0444 |
247 |
1 |
111.56 |
2008-11-09 |
| 45. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
116.57 |
1.0865 |
0.0383 |
237 |
1 |
116.57 |
2008-11-20 |
| 46. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
133.95 |
1.1086 |
0.1855 |
233 |
1 |
133.95 |
2008-11-10 |
| 47. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
110.85 |
1.0125 |
0.0555 |
232 |
1 |
110.85 |
2008-11-10 |
| 48. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
115.51 |
1.0272 |
0.0854 |
226 |
1 |
115.51 |
2008-11-10 |
| 49. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
55.69 |
1.0016 |
-0.4690 |
217 |
1 |
55.69 |
2008-11-09 |
| 50. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
105.21 |
0.8986 |
0.1168 |
216 |
1 |
105.21 |
2008-11-09 |
| 51. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
113.41 |
0.9068 |
0.1857 |
212 |
2 |
106.01 |
2008-11-20 |
| 52. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
64.90 |
1.0881 |
-0.4684 |
210 |
1 |
64.90 |
2008-11-09 |
| 53. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
64.42 |
0.8117 |
-0.1895 |
209 |
1 |
64.42 |
2008-11-09 |
| 54. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
65.97 |
0.8172 |
-0.1875 |
204 |
1 |
65.97 |
2008-11-09 |
| 55. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
82.92 |
0.9357 |
-0.1394 |
204 |
1 |
82.92 |
2008-11-10 |
| 56. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
104.94 |
1.0615 |
-0.0523 |
201 |
2 |
93.81 |
2008-11-10 |
| 57. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
120.67 |
0.9352 |
0.2285 |
194 |
1 |
120.67 |
2008-11-10 |
| 58. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
114.64 |
1.0582 |
0.0450 |
180 |
2 |
113.91 |
2008-11-10 |
| 59. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
111.15 |
1.0867 |
-0.0187 |
171 |
1 |
111.15 |
2008-11-10 |
| 60. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
98.94 |
1.0476 |
-0.1031 |
110 |
1 |
98.94 |
2008-11-10 |