Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now. |
40.25 |
1.2555 |
0.2442 |
57 |
1 |
40.25 |
2011-09-27 |
2. |
Methane gas can often be seen bubbling up from the bottom of... |
39.75 |
1.1582 |
0.3229 |
67 |
1 |
39.75 |
2011-10-28 |
3. |
There are fewer than one thousand giant pandas left alive in... |
39.53 |
1.1892 |
0.2837 |
71 |
1 |
39.53 |
2011-09-16 |
4. |
Ambrosia is the food of the gods. |
39.27 |
1.2241 |
0.2391 |
33 |
1 |
39.27 |
2011-09-16 |
5. |
The word energy refers to the ability to do work. |
38.99 |
1.1192 |
0.3336 |
49 |
1 |
38.99 |
2011-09-16 |
6. |
If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in t... |
36.95 |
1.2376 |
0.1392 |
105 |
1 |
36.95 |
2011-09-09 |
7. |
I had a good mind to go back in and find out what what had m... |
36.39 |
1.1838 |
0.1721 |
83 |
1 |
36.39 |
2011-10-28 |
8. |
Inside me is a skinny person screaming to get out, but he sh... |
35.60 |
1.0942 |
0.2323 |
83 |
1 |
35.60 |
2011-09-16 |
9. |
The word conservation refers to saving or preserving so that... |
35.44 |
1.0509 |
0.2696 |
110 |
2 |
31.92 |
2011-09-28 |
10. |
Parallel refers to straight lines or planes that remain a co... |
35.28 |
1.0755 |
0.2391 |
112 |
1 |
35.28 |
2011-09-28 |
11. |
The word matter in science refers to something that has mass... |
35.07 |
1.1845 |
0.1222 |
72 |
1 |
35.07 |
2011-09-10 |
12. |
Surface area is the sum of the area of all faces of a geomet... |
34.69 |
1.0327 |
0.2599 |
95 |
1 |
34.69 |
2011-09-27 |
13. |
Iron nails cannot be used in oak because the acid in the woo... |
34.40 |
1.2233 |
0.0585 |
76 |
1 |
34.40 |
2011-09-10 |
14. |
Erosion is the movement of sediment by wind, water, ice or g... |
34.23 |
1.1159 |
0.1595 |
67 |
1 |
34.23 |
2011-09-16 |
15. |
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? |
33.87 |
0.8345 |
0.4275 |
62 |
1 |
33.87 |
2011-09-28 |
16. |
Caterpillars have about four thousand muscles. Humans, by co... |
33.23 |
0.8953 |
0.3429 |
98 |
1 |
33.23 |
2011-10-28 |
17. |
There's a part of me that wants to let him in but then I fee... |
32.87 |
1.1379 |
0.0869 |
113 |
1 |
32.87 |
2011-09-28 |
18. |
Relative Location describes where a place is located in rela... |
32.11 |
1.0492 |
0.1472 |
103 |
1 |
32.11 |
2011-09-16 |
19. |
Cells are the basic unit of structure and function in living... |
32.07 |
1.1512 |
0.0438 |
68 |
1 |
32.07 |
2011-09-28 |
20. |
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity ha... |
31.30 |
0.9338 |
0.2325 |
114 |
1 |
31.30 |
2011-09-28 |
21. |
We found snake skins, real Indian arrowheads, box turtles, b... |
31.13 |
0.9070 |
0.2529 |
102 |
1 |
31.13 |
2011-09-16 |
22. |
The soil on Mars contains large amounts of iron, which gives... |
31.13 |
1.0099 |
0.1500 |
121 |
1 |
31.13 |
2011-09-28 |
23. |
I had learned that at times like these it was better to just... |
31.09 |
1.1300 |
0.0284 |
133 |
1 |
31.09 |
2011-10-28 |
24. |
Look at this tree, Shifu. I cannot make it blossom when it s... |
31.08 |
1.0565 |
0.1016 |
107 |
1 |
31.08 |
2011-09-28 |
25. |
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the presc... |
31.03 |
1.0889 |
0.0673 |
76 |
1 |
31.03 |
2011-09-28 |
26. |
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. |
31.01 |
1.0854 |
0.0701 |
61 |
1 |
31.01 |
2011-09-28 |
27. |
He explained to me with great insistence that every question... |
31.01 |
1.1218 |
0.0337 |
110 |
1 |
31.01 |
2011-09-28 |
28. |
The condensed water vapor left by jets in the sky is called ... |
30.90 |
1.0423 |
0.1091 |
71 |
1 |
30.90 |
2011-09-28 |
29. |
I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep i... |
30.58 |
1.0579 |
0.0815 |
119 |
1 |
30.58 |
2011-09-28 |
30. |
Cormorants lack the ability to waterproof their feathers, so... |
30.47 |
1.0606 |
0.0747 |
106 |
1 |
30.47 |
2011-09-27 |
31. |
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people w... |
30.22 |
0.9974 |
0.1286 |
91 |
1 |
30.22 |
2011-09-28 |
32. |
Then she lifted her hand and reached out to touch her mother... |
30.13 |
1.2557 |
-0.1330 |
106 |
1 |
30.13 |
2011-09-16 |
33. |
Compression is a force which tends to reduce or shorten some... |
29.91 |
1.0982 |
0.0163 |
78 |
1 |
29.91 |
2011-09-27 |
34. |
Linear relationships refer to a relationship whose graph is ... |
29.91 |
0.9807 |
0.1338 |
107 |
1 |
29.91 |
2011-09-28 |
35. |
When the women put the hot bricks between their feet to keep... |
29.88 |
1.1389 |
-0.0255 |
83 |
1 |
29.88 |
2011-10-28 |
36. |
Wagons rattled back and forth from the fields to the big bar... |
29.78 |
1.1837 |
-0.0741 |
126 |
1 |
29.78 |
2011-09-28 |
37. |
Closing the gate on her oldest fears as she had closed the g... |
29.76 |
1.1109 |
-0.0020 |
141 |
1 |
29.76 |
2011-09-09 |
38. |
It's the fact that you've found yourself this new family and... |
29.73 |
1.0338 |
0.0740 |
127 |
1 |
29.73 |
2011-10-28 |
39. |
The average person speaks about 31,500 words per day. |
29.70 |
0.9645 |
0.1421 |
53 |
1 |
29.70 |
2011-09-09 |
40. |
When the Titanic sunk there were seventy-five hundred pounds... |
29.66 |
1.0967 |
0.0085 |
74 |
1 |
29.66 |
2011-09-27 |
41. |
Each of us generates five pounds of garbage a day; most of i... |
29.66 |
0.8875 |
0.2177 |
71 |
2 |
29.23 |
2011-09-16 |
42. |
If I crawled out too far on a tree limb and fell, the soft p... |
29.63 |
1.0236 |
0.0804 |
94 |
1 |
29.63 |
2011-09-28 |
43. |
It was a tired little mouse that crawled into bed a few minu... |
29.58 |
1.0133 |
0.0889 |
106 |
1 |
29.58 |
2011-10-28 |
44. |
Miyax becomes lost in the vast Alaskan tundra, with no food,... |
29.53 |
0.9932 |
0.1071 |
112 |
1 |
29.53 |
2011-09-16 |
45. |
I have a dream today. Dr. Martin Luther King |
29.18 |
0.8923 |
0.1950 |
44 |
1 |
29.18 |
2011-09-09 |
46. |
A scallop swims by quickly clapping its shell open and shut.... |
29.02 |
1.0258 |
0.0555 |
116 |
1 |
29.02 |
2011-09-09 |
47. |
Charlotte lives right above Wilbur in his tiny alcove, where... |
28.94 |
0.9516 |
0.1267 |
115 |
1 |
28.94 |
2011-09-28 |
48. |
How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulou... |
28.73 |
0.9199 |
0.1506 |
103 |
1 |
28.73 |
2011-09-16 |
49. |
Dinner guests during medieval times in England were expected... |
28.54 |
0.9539 |
0.1095 |
94 |
1 |
28.54 |
2011-09-10 |
50. |
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many ... |
28.54 |
0.9842 |
0.0792 |
97 |
1 |
28.54 |
2011-09-09 |
51. |
Most scientists believe that the universe began with a huge ... |
28.42 |
0.9068 |
0.1522 |
111 |
1 |
28.42 |
2011-09-10 |
52. |
You say hi to your friends you ain't seen in a while Try and... |
28.14 |
1.0306 |
0.0179 |
88 |
1 |
28.14 |
2011-09-28 |
53. |
Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on a pony. He stuck a fea... |
27.93 |
1.0857 |
-0.0450 |
99 |
1 |
27.93 |
2011-09-10 |
54. |
And when you're fifteen, don't forget to look before you fal... |
27.74 |
1.0210 |
0.0126 |
205 |
1 |
27.74 |
2011-09-16 |
55. |
Most campers weren't given a choice. Camp Green Lake is a ca... |
27.71 |
0.9683 |
0.0642 |
76 |
1 |
27.71 |
2011-09-28 |
56. |
Some seemed healthier than Jeffrey, and others were in such ... |
27.61 |
0.9592 |
0.0696 |
119 |
1 |
27.61 |
2011-09-28 |
57. |
Unmanned space probes are sent to investigate deep space and... |
27.45 |
1.0669 |
-0.0441 |
99 |
1 |
27.45 |
2011-09-10 |
58. |
Train engines were once powered by steam. These days they us... |
27.40 |
0.9607 |
0.0602 |
90 |
1 |
27.40 |
2011-09-16 |
59. |
It is amazing what a single owl can do to a local population... |
27.37 |
1.0481 |
-0.0283 |
110 |
1 |
27.37 |
2011-09-10 |
60. |
Transition includes the words or phrases that provide organi... |
27.29 |
1.0058 |
0.0110 |
129 |
1 |
27.29 |
2011-09-16 |
61. |
When you're fifteen and your first kiss Makes your head spin... |
27.22 |
0.9639 |
0.0503 |
70 |
1 |
27.22 |
2011-09-10 |
62. |
He said model boats were his hobby and that he'd be delighte... |
27.21 |
1.0431 |
-0.0292 |
116 |
1 |
27.21 |
2011-09-28 |
63. |
Jellyfish are made up of more than 95 percent water and have... |
27.19 |
0.9710 |
0.0421 |
106 |
1 |
27.19 |
2011-09-16 |
64. |
Stuart jumped for the halyards, and the jib and the forestay... |
27.18 |
0.8513 |
0.1614 |
84 |
1 |
27.18 |
2011-09-09 |
65. |
An octopus has three hearts. |
27.07 |
1.0494 |
-0.0407 |
28 |
1 |
27.07 |
2011-09-09 |
66. |
If it was up to me, grade levels would be based on height, n... |
27.03 |
1.1078 |
-0.1006 |
67 |
1 |
27.03 |
2011-09-28 |
67. |
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.... |
26.93 |
0.9037 |
0.0997 |
67 |
1 |
26.93 |
2011-09-08 |
68. |
Happiness filled Matthias from tail to whiskers as he bobbed... |
26.90 |
0.9333 |
0.0690 |
106 |
1 |
26.90 |
2011-09-28 |
69. |
In 1775 the British Army was one of the best in the world. |
26.83 |
0.9927 |
0.0070 |
58 |
1 |
26.83 |
2011-09-28 |
70. |
They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had... |
26.78 |
1.0483 |
-0.0505 |
83 |
1 |
26.78 |
2011-09-09 |
71. |
McDonald's in New Zealand serves apricot pies instead of che... |
26.52 |
0.7649 |
0.2233 |
69 |
1 |
26.52 |
2011-09-28 |
72. |
Now it's about the kind of clothes you wear or how rich you ... |
26.32 |
1.1827 |
-0.2020 |
103 |
1 |
26.32 |
2011-09-16 |
73. |
I never thought that it'd be easy, 'cause we're both so dist... |
26.24 |
0.9374 |
0.0403 |
128 |
2 |
25.16 |
2011-09-16 |
74. |
To keep from being separated while sleeping, sea otters tie ... |
26.06 |
0.9603 |
0.0107 |
140 |
1 |
26.06 |
2011-09-09 |
75. |
Things usually have a way of working out. |
26.04 |
0.9795 |
-0.0092 |
41 |
1 |
26.04 |
2011-09-09 |
76. |
It ran for fifteen or twenty seconds before it finally keele... |
25.95 |
0.8195 |
0.1474 |
76 |
1 |
25.95 |
2011-09-16 |
77. |
Astronomers know of at least 28 moons that orbit around Jupi... |
25.91 |
0.8886 |
0.0768 |
64 |
1 |
25.91 |
2011-09-28 |
78. |
Fires that occur in a redwood forest take place inside the t... |
25.82 |
0.9038 |
0.0583 |
65 |
1 |
25.82 |
2011-09-09 |
79. |
Moshe wandered in the synagogue or in the streets, with his ... |
25.79 |
0.9934 |
-0.0324 |
109 |
1 |
25.79 |
2011-09-27 |
80. |
There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far ... |
25.78 |
0.8694 |
0.0912 |
80 |
1 |
25.78 |
2011-09-10 |
81. |
Once you learn how to identify a Cardinal, you'll recognize ... |
25.75 |
0.9090 |
0.0505 |
97 |
1 |
25.75 |
2011-10-28 |
82. |
A top freestyle swimmer achieves a speed of only four miles ... |
25.69 |
1.0517 |
-0.0945 |
137 |
1 |
25.69 |
2011-09-09 |
83. |
Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achiev... |
25.68 |
1.0267 |
-0.0698 |
128 |
1 |
25.68 |
2011-09-16 |
84. |
This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed h... |
25.67 |
1.0418 |
-0.0853 |
64 |
1 |
25.67 |
2011-09-09 |
85. |
Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway,... |
25.65 |
0.9884 |
-0.0327 |
191 |
1 |
25.65 |
2011-09-10 |
86. |
The killer whale, or orca, is the fastest sea mammal. |
25.53 |
1.1155 |
-0.1642 |
53 |
1 |
25.53 |
2011-09-16 |
87. |
Mr. and Mrs. Little, we try to discourage couples from adopt... |
25.49 |
0.9776 |
-0.0278 |
117 |
1 |
25.49 |
2011-09-16 |
88. |
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and ... |
25.45 |
1.0387 |
-0.0904 |
67 |
1 |
25.45 |
2011-09-28 |
89. |
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. |
25.42 |
0.9489 |
-0.0017 |
48 |
1 |
25.42 |
2011-09-16 |
90. |
Even predators will not harm a mouse who wears the habit of ... |
25.41 |
0.8518 |
0.0950 |
70 |
1 |
25.41 |
2011-09-28 |
91. |
The woolly mammoth, extinct since the Ice Age, had tusks alm... |
25.23 |
0.9308 |
0.0093 |
82 |
1 |
25.23 |
2011-09-09 |
92. |
If swimming is so good for your figure then how do you expla... |
25.12 |
0.9984 |
-0.0624 |
70 |
1 |
25.12 |
2011-09-09 |
93. |
When you're fifteen and your first kiss Makes your head spin... |
25.12 |
1.0234 |
-0.0874 |
174 |
1 |
25.12 |
2011-09-10 |
94. |
Engineers design, manufacture, test and sell products and se... |
25.10 |
0.9251 |
0.0101 |
105 |
1 |
25.10 |
2011-09-10 |
95. |
In 1908, Henry Ford introduced manufacturing cars with mass ... |
24.80 |
0.9692 |
-0.0451 |
196 |
1 |
24.80 |
2011-09-10 |
96. |
Gravity is a force that tries to pull two objects toward eac... |
24.79 |
1.0415 |
-0.1178 |
68 |
1 |
24.79 |
2011-09-16 |
97. |
A group of toads is called a knot. |
24.65 |
1.1050 |
-0.1865 |
34 |
1 |
24.65 |
2011-09-09 |
98. |
And you know I wanna ask you to dance right there in the mid... |
24.65 |
1.2982 |
-0.3797 |
83 |
1 |
24.65 |
2011-09-10 |
99. |
First of all, let me get something straight: this is a JOURN... |
24.43 |
0.9678 |
-0.0575 |
76 |
1 |
24.43 |
2011-09-10 |
100. |
The stairs beneath their feet flattened into a chute and she... |
24.41 |
1.0194 |
-0.1099 |
201 |
1 |
24.41 |
2011-10-28 |
101. |
When her life in the village becomes dangerous, Miyax runs a... |
24.39 |
0.9852 |
-0.0764 |
117 |
1 |
24.39 |
2011-09-16 |
102. |
Blue Jays wake up neighborhoods and forests with their noisy... |
24.37 |
0.8674 |
0.0406 |
67 |
1 |
24.37 |
2011-09-10 |
103. |
Weather reports in most countries give temperatures in degre... |
24.09 |
0.8767 |
0.0209 |
172 |
1 |
24.09 |
2011-09-16 |
104. |
The longest non-talking movie ever made was Andy Warhol's "S... |
24.08 |
0.8750 |
0.0222 |
120 |
1 |
24.08 |
2011-09-16 |
105. |
We had all the way until next summer, when we would take out... |
24.06 |
0.9965 |
-0.1000 |
117 |
1 |
24.06 |
2011-09-09 |
106. |
Before three days had passed, German army cars had appeared ... |
24.02 |
0.9497 |
-0.0547 |
75 |
1 |
24.02 |
2011-09-27 |
107. |
She pushed open the gate and walked down the drive into the ... |
23.96 |
1.1645 |
-0.2717 |
67 |
1 |
23.96 |
2011-09-27 |
108. |
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets l... |
23.82 |
0.9484 |
-0.0608 |
98 |
1 |
23.82 |
2011-09-10 |
109. |
The first formal rules for playing baseball required the win... |
23.67 |
1.1005 |
-0.2185 |
95 |
1 |
23.67 |
2011-09-09 |
110. |
Along came a spider and sat down beside her and frightened M... |
23.13 |
0.9700 |
-0.1082 |
76 |
1 |
23.13 |
2011-09-08 |
111. |
The full name of Barbie the doll is Barbara Millicent Robert... |
22.81 |
0.9861 |
-0.1362 |
162 |
1 |
22.81 |
2011-09-10 |
112. |
He glanced downward and had to force himself to suppress a s... |
22.48 |
0.9605 |
-0.1229 |
137 |
1 |
22.48 |
2011-09-09 |
113. |
Iguanodon was the first dinosaur identified by a scientist m... |
22.46 |
1.0743 |
-0.2374 |
83 |
1 |
22.46 |
2011-09-10 |
114. |
I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-... |
21.88 |
0.8516 |
-0.0363 |
63 |
1 |
21.88 |
2011-09-27 |
115. |
Ankylosaurs were as large as tanks and nearly as hard to att... |
21.66 |
0.9874 |
-0.1803 |
99 |
1 |
21.66 |
2011-09-16 |
116. |
Three theories about how dinosaurs disappeared from Earth in... |
21.32 |
1.0428 |
-0.2484 |
128 |
1 |
21.32 |
2011-09-10 |
117. |
I know some good games we could play, said the cat. I know s... |
21.23 |
1.0284 |
-0.2374 |
100 |
1 |
21.23 |
2011-09-09 |
118. |
And as the train stopped, we saw this time that flames were ... |
21.08 |
1.0606 |
-0.2751 |
109 |
1 |
21.08 |
2011-09-09 |
119. |
The young mouse Matthias (formerly Redwall's most awkward no... |
20.74 |
0.7478 |
0.0250 |
103 |
1 |
20.74 |
2011-09-16 |
120. |
You're the only thing I know like the back of my hand, And I... |
20.40 |
0.9323 |
-0.1722 |
86 |
1 |
20.40 |
2011-09-09 |
121. |
This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the... |
19.76 |
0.9892 |
-0.2529 |
131 |
1 |
19.76 |
2011-09-10 |
122. |
The tongue of a chameleon is twice the length of its body. |
19.65 |
0.9587 |
-0.2265 |
58 |
1 |
19.65 |
2011-09-28 |
123. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
19.41 |
0.9514 |
-0.2282 |
143 |
1 |
19.41 |
2011-09-16 |
124. |
So far, about 1,000 different kinds of dinosaurs have been d... |
19.07 |
0.8819 |
-0.1713 |
70 |
1 |
19.07 |
2011-09-16 |
125. |
People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want t... |
18.89 |
0.9394 |
-0.2355 |
71 |
1 |
18.89 |
2011-09-09 |
126. |
Leslie could not die any more than he himself could die. |
18.52 |
1.2160 |
-0.5259 |
56 |
1 |
18.52 |
2011-09-08 |
127. |
I cried for those things which had happened that night which... |
18.51 |
1.1352 |
-0.4455 |
98 |
1 |
18.51 |
2011-09-08 |
128. |
Not in a box. Not with a fox. Not in a house. Not with a mou... |
18.49 |
0.9885 |
-0.2995 |
130 |
1 |
18.49 |
2011-09-09 |
129. |
Of course he had gotten up early to run. He had gotten up ea... |
18.24 |
0.9679 |
-0.2883 |
91 |
1 |
18.24 |
2011-09-09 |
130. |
Ah, my old enemy...stairs! |
16.22 |
0.7058 |
-0.1014 |
26 |
1 |
16.22 |
2011-09-28 |
131. |
A spasm of despair shook the robot's body as he turned. |
15.53 |
0.7460 |
-0.1673 |
55 |
1 |
15.53 |
2011-09-09 |
132. |
In an automated highway system, all of the vehicles on the r... |
14.41 |
1.0272 |
-0.4903 |
111 |
1 |
14.41 |
2011-09-09 |
133. |
Sleeping Beauty slept one hundred years. |
12.91 |
0.9358 |
-0.4548 |
40 |
1 |
12.91 |
2011-09-09 |
134. |
Say, what a lot of fish there are! |
9.49 |
0.9397 |
-0.5861 |
34 |
1 |
9.49 |
2011-09-09 |
135. |
His workbook is wedged in the window, His sweater's been thr... |
5.74 |
0.7949 |
-0.5810 |
172 |
1 |
5.74 |
2011-09-09 |