Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
He glanced downward and had to force himself to suppress a s... |
28.36 |
0.9923 |
0.3262 |
66 |
1 |
28.36 |
2013-02-14 |
2. |
Power is the rate at which work is done. |
28.03 |
1.1483 |
0.1548 |
40 |
1 |
28.03 |
2013-02-07 |
3. |
Think and wonder, wonder and think. |
27.20 |
1.1654 |
0.0991 |
35 |
1 |
27.20 |
2013-02-07 |
4. |
He was drifting, drifting like a fat white lazy cloud back a... |
26.50 |
1.1573 |
0.0747 |
85 |
1 |
26.50 |
2012-12-07 |
5. |
When the pie was opened, they all began to sing. |
26.36 |
1.0939 |
0.1316 |
48 |
1 |
26.36 |
2013-01-18 |
6. |
The face of a penny can hold thirty drops of water. |
26.09 |
1.1766 |
0.0363 |
51 |
2 |
25.97 |
2012-12-07 |
7. |
The tide was coming in fast and the castle was in big trouble. |
25.85 |
1.0221 |
0.1797 |
62 |
1 |
25.85 |
2013-02-07 |
8. |
There are five trillion atoms in one pound of iron. |
25.65 |
1.0987 |
0.0938 |
51 |
1 |
25.65 |
2012-12-17 |
9. |
Let me just say for the record that I think middle school is... |
25.16 |
1.0979 |
0.0718 |
98 |
1 |
25.16 |
2012-12-07 |
10. |
It takes one twenty year old tree to produce seven hundred p... |
24.57 |
1.1308 |
0.0115 |
78 |
1 |
24.57 |
2013-02-08 |
11. |
The Weddell seal can travel underwater for seven miles witho... |
24.25 |
1.2891 |
-0.1617 |
81 |
1 |
24.25 |
2013-02-14 |
12. |
A grape will explode if you put it in a microwave oven. |
24.09 |
1.0762 |
0.0437 |
55 |
1 |
24.09 |
2012-12-07 |
13. |
Sea otters inhabit water but never get wet because they have... |
24.04 |
1.1445 |
-0.0269 |
78 |
1 |
24.04 |
2012-12-07 |
14. |
He had just walked out from under a freeway overpass when th... |
23.82 |
1.0703 |
0.0371 |
87 |
1 |
23.82 |
2012-12-07 |
15. |
Soccer is played in more countries in the world than any oth... |
23.58 |
1.2654 |
-0.1692 |
69 |
1 |
23.58 |
2012-12-03 |
16. |
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and some other... |
23.49 |
1.1892 |
-0.0971 |
126 |
1 |
23.49 |
2012-12-06 |
17. |
Bamboo is the world's tallest grass and can grow up to ninet... |
23.33 |
0.9880 |
0.0966 |
83 |
1 |
23.33 |
2012-12-07 |
18. |
To be called a mammal, the female must feed her young on mil... |
23.19 |
1.1705 |
-0.0924 |
79 |
1 |
23.19 |
2012-12-17 |
19. |
The first computer ever made was called ENIAC. |
23.10 |
1.0371 |
0.0368 |
46 |
1 |
23.10 |
2012-12-07 |
20. |
To keep from being separated while sleeping, sea otters tie ... |
23.03 |
1.0351 |
0.0356 |
90 |
1 |
23.03 |
2012-12-07 |
21. |
A group of toads is called a knot. |
22.99 |
1.0207 |
0.0481 |
34 |
1 |
22.99 |
2012-12-03 |
22. |
The sun blows a constant stream of invisible particles out i... |
22.54 |
0.9424 |
0.1055 |
120 |
1 |
22.54 |
2012-12-06 |
23. |
A can of Diet Coke will float in water, while a can of regul... |
22.24 |
1.0035 |
0.0304 |
74 |
1 |
22.24 |
2013-02-08 |
24. |
You have to be a fairly determined ecological detective to f... |
21.49 |
0.9245 |
0.0746 |
188 |
1 |
21.49 |
2013-02-14 |
25. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
21.25 |
0.9473 |
0.0406 |
176 |
1 |
21.25 |
2013-02-08 |
26. |
This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of be... |
21.16 |
1.0288 |
-0.0451 |
72 |
1 |
21.16 |
2012-12-17 |
27. |
Revolution refers to the Earth moving around the sun. |
21.11 |
1.0702 |
-0.0888 |
53 |
1 |
21.11 |
2012-12-03 |
28. |
And don't forget - a person who is looking for something doe... |
20.89 |
0.9950 |
-0.0238 |
82 |
1 |
20.89 |
2012-12-07 |
29. |
It ran for fifteen or twenty seconds before it finally keele... |
20.75 |
1.1032 |
-0.1385 |
76 |
1 |
20.75 |
2012-12-03 |
30. |
It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many... |
20.42 |
1.0237 |
-0.0744 |
111 |
1 |
20.42 |
2012-12-03 |
31. |
Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled ... |
20.41 |
1.1040 |
-0.1551 |
92 |
1 |
20.41 |
2013-02-14 |
32. |
Sharks' fossil records date back more than twice as far as t... |
20.25 |
1.0049 |
-0.0635 |
82 |
1 |
20.25 |
2012-12-17 |
33. |
Energy is the ability to do work. |
19.99 |
1.0416 |
-0.1123 |
33 |
1 |
19.99 |
2012-12-03 |
34. |
Did you know that camels have three eyelids to protect their... |
19.81 |
0.9415 |
-0.0205 |
82 |
1 |
19.81 |
2012-12-03 |
35. |
Dinner guests during medieval times in England were expected... |
19.78 |
1.0155 |
-0.0959 |
94 |
1 |
19.78 |
2012-12-03 |
36. |
The youngest college graduate was ten years, five months old... |
19.35 |
0.9522 |
-0.0526 |
103 |
1 |
19.35 |
2013-02-14 |
37. |
Earth's gravity makes the Moon spin. |
19.28 |
0.9716 |
-0.0753 |
36 |
1 |
19.28 |
2012-12-06 |
38. |
Ring around the roses, a pocket full of posies. Ashes, ashes... |
18.56 |
0.8766 |
-0.0137 |
78 |
1 |
18.56 |
2012-12-07 |
39. |
Snips and snails and puppy dog tails, that's what little boy... |
18.55 |
1.0444 |
-0.1820 |
74 |
1 |
18.55 |
2012-12-03 |
40. |
Caterpillars have about four thousand muscles. |
18.30 |
0.9644 |
-0.1136 |
46 |
1 |
18.30 |
2013-02-08 |
41. |
Harvard is the oldest university in the United States. |
18.28 |
0.8870 |
-0.0372 |
54 |
1 |
18.28 |
2012-12-07 |
42. |
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: one-hundreth of a second. |
17.98 |
0.7185 |
0.1174 |
60 |
1 |
17.98 |
2013-01-18 |
43. |
Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in ... |
17.93 |
0.9634 |
-0.1298 |
76 |
1 |
17.93 |
2012-12-03 |
44. |
Minnows have teeth in their throats. |
17.83 |
0.7791 |
0.0498 |
36 |
1 |
17.83 |
2013-02-08 |
45. |
Small pieces of debris floating around in the Solar System a... |
17.02 |
0.8741 |
-0.0828 |
81 |
1 |
17.02 |
2012-12-17 |
46. |
He kept changing his grip on the shovel to try to avoid the ... |
16.24 |
1.0315 |
-0.2765 |
65 |
1 |
16.24 |
2012-12-03 |
47. |
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's f... |
16.22 |
0.8606 |
-0.1065 |
88 |
1 |
16.22 |
2012-12-06 |
48. |
If it was up to me, grade levels would be based on height, n... |
16.21 |
1.1142 |
-0.3606 |
67 |
1 |
16.21 |
2012-12-03 |
49. |
We have got to make noises in greater amounts! |
15.19 |
0.7155 |
-0.0093 |
46 |
1 |
15.19 |
2013-02-08 |
50. |
He had never been to camp before. |
13.79 |
0.8427 |
-0.2016 |
33 |
1 |
13.79 |
2012-12-07 |