Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
Yeah, she said that we were right all along and that the pan... |
41.10 |
1.2121 |
0.2418 |
73 |
1 |
41.10 |
2011-10-28 |
2. |
A baby baleen whale depends on its mother's milk for at leas... |
40.20 |
0.9727 |
0.4494 |
73 |
1 |
40.20 |
2011-10-28 |
3. |
People have been finding dinosaur bones for thousands of yea... |
35.91 |
1.0402 |
0.2301 |
132 |
2 |
33.59 |
2011-11-07 |
4. |
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the presc... |
35.63 |
1.0889 |
0.1715 |
76 |
1 |
35.63 |
2011-11-07 |
5. |
My only wish was to take a bath as quickly as possible and l... |
35.36 |
1.1822 |
0.0687 |
77 |
1 |
35.36 |
2011-11-07 |
6. |
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you... |
35.27 |
1.1593 |
0.0884 |
79 |
1 |
35.27 |
2011-11-07 |
7. |
I knew how to pick up the baby and tell if its diaper was di... |
35.26 |
1.1625 |
0.0848 |
94 |
1 |
35.26 |
2011-11-04 |
8. |
When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expec... |
35.13 |
1.0259 |
0.2168 |
123 |
1 |
35.13 |
2011-11-07 |
9. |
Without fossils, we would never know about all the amazing a... |
35.13 |
1.1646 |
0.0781 |
79 |
1 |
35.13 |
2011-11-04 |
10. |
But the most horrifying thing was when the headless chicken ... |
34.29 |
1.1855 |
0.0275 |
121 |
1 |
34.29 |
2011-10-28 |
11. |
He explained to me with great insistence that every question... |
34.08 |
1.1218 |
0.0838 |
110 |
1 |
34.08 |
2011-11-07 |
12. |
Whenever he got in trouble, Mom made him sit under the kitch... |
33.96 |
1.2786 |
-0.0773 |
101 |
1 |
33.96 |
2011-10-28 |
13. |
We saw gravestones so old we could no longer read the names ... |
33.71 |
1.1359 |
0.0566 |
68 |
1 |
33.71 |
2011-11-04 |
14. |
A folk tale is a story that has been passed from generation ... |
33.62 |
1.0233 |
0.1660 |
91 |
1 |
33.62 |
2011-09-09 |
15. |
A positive mind is the first step to reaching our personal b... |
33.32 |
1.1904 |
-0.0117 |
64 |
1 |
33.32 |
2011-10-28 |
16. |
First of all, let me get something straight: this is a JOURN... |
32.69 |
0.9678 |
0.1886 |
76 |
1 |
32.69 |
2011-10-28 |
17. |
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. |
32.50 |
1.0487 |
0.1010 |
43 |
1 |
32.50 |
2011-11-07 |
18. |
Would you like them with a mouse? |
32.36 |
1.0588 |
0.0859 |
33 |
1 |
32.36 |
2011-09-09 |
19. |
It is amazing what a single owl can do to a local population... |
31.72 |
1.0481 |
0.0740 |
110 |
1 |
31.72 |
2011-11-07 |
20. |
But the most horrifying thing was when the headless chicken ... |
31.19 |
1.0192 |
0.0842 |
198 |
1 |
31.19 |
2011-11-07 |
21. |
She gritted her teeth. She knew by now that it would be usel... |
31.13 |
1.1849 |
-0.0837 |
76 |
1 |
31.13 |
2011-10-28 |
22. |
His lips were cracked and felt as if they were bleeding and ... |
31.12 |
1.1709 |
-0.0700 |
136 |
1 |
31.12 |
2011-10-28 |
23. |
Look at this tree, Shifu: I cannot make it blossom when it s... |
31.07 |
0.9764 |
0.1227 |
107 |
1 |
31.07 |
2011-11-07 |
24. |
He pointed to three little kids trying to dig a wall to prot... |
30.95 |
1.1232 |
-0.0283 |
141 |
1 |
30.95 |
2011-09-09 |
25. |
Methane gas is produced by the decomposition of dead plants ... |
30.90 |
1.0369 |
0.0562 |
107 |
1 |
30.90 |
2011-11-04 |
26. |
Anise is the scent on the artificial rabbit that is used in ... |
30.79 |
1.0525 |
0.0367 |
76 |
1 |
30.79 |
2011-10-28 |
27. |
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes m... |
30.77 |
1.0489 |
0.0396 |
92 |
1 |
30.77 |
2011-09-09 |
28. |
Ecology is the study of how living things interact with each... |
30.30 |
1.0717 |
0.0002 |
90 |
1 |
30.30 |
2011-10-28 |
29. |
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many ... |
29.67 |
0.9842 |
0.0654 |
97 |
1 |
29.67 |
2011-11-07 |
30. |
Jess did not know people for whom money was not a problem. |
29.50 |
1.1258 |
-0.0822 |
58 |
1 |
29.50 |
2011-09-09 |
31. |
Temperature refers to the average kinetic energy (energy due... |
29.04 |
0.9104 |
0.1169 |
98 |
1 |
29.04 |
2011-09-09 |
32. |
Bald Eagles are raptors that are quite good at catching fish... |
28.94 |
1.0562 |
-0.0324 |
120 |
1 |
28.94 |
2011-09-09 |
33. |
It was not good to show him she was afraid. Animals attacked... |
28.93 |
0.9887 |
0.0347 |
73 |
1 |
28.93 |
2011-11-04 |
34. |
Maybe that's what strikes me most about Kostas: that despite... |
28.90 |
0.9844 |
0.0379 |
142 |
1 |
28.90 |
2011-11-04 |
35. |
An ant can lift ten times its own weight. |
28.39 |
1.0702 |
-0.0659 |
41 |
1 |
28.39 |
2011-09-09 |
36. |
That my four children will live in a nation where they will ... |
28.35 |
1.0464 |
-0.0435 |
161 |
1 |
28.35 |
2011-11-03 |
37. |
It was a perfect Marshfield morning, sunny and warm. The air... |
28.35 |
0.9397 |
0.0632 |
164 |
1 |
28.35 |
2011-11-04 |
38. |
The second planet from the Sun is Venus, which is similar in... |
28.15 |
0.9761 |
0.0197 |
75 |
1 |
28.15 |
2011-10-28 |
39. |
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other nam... |
27.98 |
0.8241 |
0.1657 |
95 |
1 |
27.98 |
2011-11-04 |
40. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
27.89 |
0.9389 |
0.0477 |
163 |
1 |
27.89 |
2011-10-28 |
41. |
They should have a different kind of school - for kids who l... |
27.85 |
1.0936 |
-0.1084 |
78 |
1 |
27.85 |
2011-10-28 |
42. |
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller i... |
27.72 |
1.0790 |
-0.0984 |
181 |
1 |
27.72 |
2011-09-09 |
43. |
They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had... |
27.56 |
1.0483 |
-0.0734 |
83 |
1 |
27.56 |
2011-10-28 |
44. |
In the town itself, actually within sight of the house in wh... |
27.45 |
0.9088 |
0.0623 |
119 |
1 |
27.45 |
2011-10-28 |
45. |
The engineering design process is used to help problem solve... |
27.43 |
1.0347 |
-0.0644 |
82 |
1 |
27.43 |
2011-10-28 |
46. |
Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I be... |
27.37 |
1.0173 |
-0.0491 |
235 |
1 |
27.37 |
2011-11-04 |
47. |
We'll find another game to play. |
26.93 |
0.8883 |
0.0644 |
32 |
1 |
26.93 |
2011-09-09 |
48. |
When Andy laughed, the whole world lit up, like the sun comi... |
26.72 |
1.0170 |
-0.0718 |
83 |
1 |
26.72 |
2011-09-09 |
49. |
Here's a good rule to remember about rattlesnakes and scropi... |
26.48 |
0.8903 |
0.0464 |
122 |
1 |
26.48 |
2011-11-04 |
50. |
Sea floor spreading is the process that adds new rock to the... |
26.46 |
1.0908 |
-0.1548 |
110 |
1 |
26.46 |
2011-10-28 |
51. |
As the Earth and Moon move in space, they sometimes block ea... |
26.33 |
0.9777 |
-0.0463 |
117 |
1 |
26.33 |
2011-11-04 |
52. |
Might people freely choose to give up their humanity in orde... |
26.33 |
1.0129 |
-0.0815 |
220 |
1 |
26.33 |
2011-09-09 |
53. |
He said model boats were his hobby and that he'd be delighte... |
26.32 |
1.0431 |
-0.1120 |
116 |
1 |
26.32 |
2011-10-28 |
54. |
Natural gas has no smell. The smell is added for safety reas... |
25.81 |
0.9640 |
-0.0510 |
64 |
1 |
25.81 |
2011-10-28 |
55. |
In 1969, the US Apollo 11 space mission landed people of the... |
25.75 |
0.9425 |
-0.0316 |
96 |
1 |
25.75 |
2011-10-28 |
56. |
Mag-Lev trains run using electromagnetic energy. They actual... |
25.13 |
0.9091 |
-0.0201 |
98 |
1 |
25.13 |
2011-11-04 |
57. |
If you haven't been dragged out of a middle school dance by ... |
24.94 |
1.0112 |
-0.1289 |
229 |
1 |
24.94 |
2011-09-09 |
58. |
When Bella Swan moves from sunny Phoenix to Forks, Washingto... |
24.89 |
0.9078 |
-0.0273 |
168 |
1 |
24.89 |
2011-10-28 |
59. |
The square root for all real numbers a & b, b is the square ... |
24.76 |
0.7655 |
0.1104 |
92 |
1 |
24.76 |
2011-11-07 |
60. |
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the be... |
24.63 |
0.8692 |
0.0021 |
77 |
1 |
24.63 |
2011-10-28 |
61. |
In Boston, MA in the nineteenth century, it was illegal to b... |
24.58 |
0.8354 |
0.0341 |
97 |
1 |
24.58 |
2011-11-07 |
62. |
Balance equations refers to a statement that two expressions... |
24.40 |
0.8807 |
-0.0175 |
76 |
1 |
24.40 |
2011-11-04 |
63. |
Measuring about eight feet at birth, killer whale bulls can ... |
24.30 |
0.9582 |
-0.0986 |
115 |
1 |
24.30 |
2011-09-09 |
64. |
I had lived in that house in Marshfield practically my whole... |
24.10 |
1.0256 |
-0.1731 |
137 |
1 |
24.10 |
2011-10-28 |
65. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
24.08 |
0.9134 |
-0.0616 |
174 |
1 |
24.08 |
2011-10-28 |
66. |
The longest non-talking movie ever made was Andy Warhol's "S... |
23.32 |
0.8750 |
-0.0500 |
120 |
1 |
23.32 |
2011-10-28 |
67. |
A full moon always rises at sunset. |
21.82 |
1.1266 |
-0.3547 |
35 |
1 |
21.82 |
2011-10-28 |
68. |
The current Receiver, who has held the position for decades,... |
21.34 |
0.8992 |
-0.1443 |
84 |
1 |
21.34 |
2011-09-09 |
69. |
Boreas is often pictured as an old man with a white beard an... |
20.15 |
1.0298 |
-0.3170 |
75 |
1 |
20.15 |
2011-09-09 |
70. |
BC/BCE refers to the time period before the year 1. By compa... |
19.11 |
0.7568 |
-0.0808 |
156 |
1 |
19.11 |
2011-09-09 |
71. |
I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-... |
18.26 |
0.8516 |
-0.2056 |
63 |
1 |
18.26 |
2011-10-28 |
72. |
Well count to ten, take it in This is life before who you're... |
18.15 |
0.8761 |
-0.2340 |
77 |
1 |
18.15 |
2011-09-09 |
73. |
In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United... |
18.09 |
1.0568 |
-0.4169 |
166 |
1 |
18.09 |
2011-09-09 |
74. |
An iceberg contains more heat than a match. |
17.33 |
0.8612 |
-0.2481 |
43 |
1 |
17.33 |
2011-09-09 |
75. |
Philosophy - philosophy is the study of human conduct and th... |
10.68 |
0.9681 |
-0.5903 |
135 |
1 |
10.68 |
2011-09-09 |