| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
34.24 |
1.0881 |
0.3845 |
210 |
1 |
34.24 |
2011-12-14 |
| 2. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
33.88 |
0.9779 |
0.4808 |
255 |
1 |
33.88 |
2011-10-08 |
| 3. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
33.78 |
0.8161 |
0.6426 |
109 |
3 |
23.30 |
2011-11-21 |
| 4. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
33.16 |
0.9264 |
0.5042 |
177 |
3 |
28.48 |
2011-12-14 |
| 5. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
31.78 |
0.8732 |
0.4881 |
94 |
1 |
31.78 |
2011-12-14 |
| 6. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
30.80 |
0.8283 |
0.4989 |
180 |
1 |
30.80 |
2011-11-24 |
| 7. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
29.82 |
0.9211 |
0.3611 |
165 |
1 |
29.82 |
2011-11-25 |
| 8. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
29.66 |
0.9836 |
0.2851 |
123 |
1 |
29.66 |
2011-11-24 |
| 9. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
29.23 |
0.8830 |
0.3705 |
134 |
1 |
29.23 |
2011-11-01 |
| 10. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
29.13 |
0.9869 |
0.2646 |
193 |
2 |
26.19 |
2011-11-25 |
| 11. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
28.92 |
0.9422 |
0.2988 |
190 |
1 |
28.92 |
2011-12-14 |
| 12. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
28.91 |
0.8827 |
0.3585 |
190 |
4 |
23.10 |
2011-11-24 |
| 13. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
28.88 |
0.8971 |
0.3437 |
100 |
3 |
17.67 |
2011-11-01 |
| 14. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
28.88 |
1.0204 |
0.2154 |
143 |
1 |
28.88 |
2011-11-24 |
| 15. |
Be careful you don't get too caught up in what the competiti... |
28.80 |
0.8533 |
0.3813 |
134 |
2 |
27.71 |
2011-11-01 |
| 16. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
28.74 |
0.8203 |
0.4106 |
94 |
2 |
26.23 |
2011-12-14 |
| 17. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
28.57 |
0.8480 |
0.3840 |
147 |
2 |
24.78 |
2011-11-24 |
| 18. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
28.50 |
0.7875 |
0.4420 |
257 |
1 |
28.50 |
2011-12-14 |
| 19. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
28.37 |
0.8615 |
0.3599 |
171 |
1 |
28.37 |
2011-11-24 |
| 20. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
27.37 |
0.9417 |
0.2336 |
84 |
1 |
27.37 |
2011-11-15 |
| 21. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
27.19 |
0.9352 |
0.2346 |
194 |
1 |
27.19 |
2011-11-22 |
| 22. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
26.94 |
0.9271 |
0.2354 |
323 |
1 |
26.94 |
2011-12-14 |
| 23. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
26.86 |
1.0540 |
0.0979 |
184 |
1 |
26.86 |
2011-10-24 |
| 24. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
26.70 |
0.9368 |
0.2053 |
176 |
1 |
26.70 |
2011-10-26 |
| 25. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
26.61 |
0.9286 |
0.2187 |
177 |
4 |
23.68 |
2011-11-15 |
| 26. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
26.46 |
0.9660 |
0.1809 |
258 |
1 |
26.46 |
2011-11-21 |
| 27. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
26.36 |
0.7271 |
0.4097 |
186 |
1 |
26.36 |
2011-10-08 |
| 28. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
26.23 |
0.9807 |
0.1370 |
129 |
1 |
26.23 |
2011-11-15 |
| 29. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
26.15 |
0.8371 |
0.2817 |
124 |
3 |
20.80 |
2011-11-24 |
| 30. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
26.02 |
0.8628 |
0.2512 |
136 |
2 |
24.06 |
2011-10-24 |
| 31. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
25.37 |
1.0103 |
0.0761 |
209 |
2 |
20.66 |
2011-10-24 |
| 32. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
25.24 |
0.8925 |
0.2003 |
293 |
1 |
25.24 |
2011-11-24 |
| 33. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
25.12 |
0.8339 |
0.2468 |
209 |
2 |
23.55 |
2011-11-01 |
| 34. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
25.09 |
0.8572 |
0.2207 |
232 |
1 |
25.09 |
2011-11-15 |
| 35. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
24.78 |
0.7724 |
0.2932 |
142 |
1 |
24.78 |
2011-11-15 |
| 36. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
24.76 |
0.7904 |
0.2800 |
149 |
1 |
24.76 |
2011-10-19 |
| 37. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
24.62 |
0.9384 |
0.1180 |
296 |
1 |
24.62 |
2011-10-26 |
| 38. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
24.59 |
0.8985 |
0.1568 |
127 |
1 |
24.59 |
2011-10-24 |
| 39. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
24.20 |
0.8789 |
0.1590 |
136 |
1 |
24.20 |
2011-10-24 |
| 40. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
24.17 |
1.0414 |
-0.0024 |
234 |
1 |
24.17 |
2011-11-15 |
| 41. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
24.14 |
1.0288 |
0.0056 |
166 |
1 |
24.14 |
2011-11-24 |
| 42. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
24.13 |
0.8718 |
0.1655 |
193 |
1 |
24.13 |
2012-01-05 |
| 43. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
23.94 |
0.8192 |
0.2128 |
200 |
1 |
23.94 |
2011-11-25 |
| 44. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
23.88 |
0.8201 |
0.2016 |
187 |
1 |
23.88 |
2011-10-26 |
| 45. |
Take a break. Shake your hands loosely at the wrists. Stretc... |
23.64 |
0.8246 |
0.1936 |
183 |
2 |
21.29 |
2011-11-24 |
| 46. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
23.47 |
1.0615 |
-0.0543 |
201 |
1 |
23.47 |
2011-10-23 |
| 47. |
Those who proceed only very slowly can make much greater pro... |
23.30 |
0.8726 |
0.1327 |
150 |
1 |
23.30 |
2011-10-24 |
| 48. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
23.18 |
0.8863 |
0.1073 |
127 |
1 |
23.18 |
2011-10-09 |
| 49. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
23.07 |
0.8663 |
0.1212 |
172 |
1 |
23.07 |
2011-11-15 |
| 50. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
23.06 |
1.0426 |
-0.0545 |
131 |
2 |
19.21 |
2011-11-24 |
| 51. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
22.93 |
0.9357 |
0.0486 |
204 |
1 |
22.93 |
2011-10-19 |
| 52. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
22.92 |
0.8957 |
0.0878 |
168 |
1 |
22.92 |
2011-10-24 |
| 53. |
Right now there are three people in chat, but there's no way... |
22.85 |
0.9841 |
-0.0028 |
154 |
1 |
22.85 |
2011-10-19 |
| 54. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
22.71 |
0.8551 |
0.1217 |
150 |
1 |
22.71 |
2011-10-26 |
| 55. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
22.64 |
0.8175 |
0.1580 |
181 |
1 |
22.64 |
2011-11-24 |
| 56. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
22.60 |
0.7915 |
0.1818 |
142 |
1 |
22.60 |
2011-10-23 |
| 57. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
22.55 |
0.9149 |
0.0535 |
153 |
1 |
22.55 |
2011-10-24 |
| 58. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
22.38 |
0.8074 |
0.1591 |
182 |
2 |
21.43 |
2011-11-24 |
| 59. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
22.31 |
0.9210 |
0.0341 |
200 |
2 |
22.25 |
2011-11-24 |
| 60. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
22.06 |
0.8775 |
0.0650 |
185 |
1 |
22.06 |
2011-11-24 |
| 61. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
21.94 |
1.0638 |
-0.1224 |
247 |
1 |
21.94 |
2011-11-24 |
| 62. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
21.89 |
0.8857 |
0.0521 |
172 |
1 |
21.89 |
2011-10-19 |
| 63. |
When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, y... |
21.88 |
0.8825 |
0.0579 |
105 |
1 |
21.88 |
2011-11-24 |
| 64. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
21.76 |
1.0026 |
-0.0625 |
200 |
1 |
21.76 |
2011-10-26 |
| 65. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
21.74 |
1.0865 |
-0.1518 |
237 |
1 |
21.74 |
2011-10-09 |
| 66. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
21.42 |
0.7512 |
0.1693 |
169 |
1 |
21.42 |
2011-10-19 |
| 67. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
21.37 |
1.0051 |
-0.0917 |
162 |
1 |
21.37 |
2011-10-19 |
| 68. |
Many years ago, a famous Arabian alchemist had visited Europ... |
21.25 |
0.7423 |
0.1702 |
145 |
1 |
21.25 |
2011-11-24 |
| 69. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. Witho... |
20.74 |
0.8336 |
0.0584 |
117 |
1 |
20.74 |
2011-11-24 |
| 70. |
By the early 1990s the first Internet language (HTTP) was wr... |
20.69 |
0.7130 |
0.1751 |
131 |
2 |
20.22 |
2011-11-24 |
| 71. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
20.57 |
0.8281 |
0.0574 |
134 |
1 |
20.57 |
2011-10-09 |
| 72. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
20.53 |
0.9931 |
-0.1143 |
218 |
1 |
20.53 |
2011-11-24 |
| 73. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
20.39 |
0.9503 |
-0.0805 |
211 |
1 |
20.39 |
2011-10-24 |
| 74. |
Since the ninja is that being than which nothing sweeter can... |
20.14 |
0.8970 |
-0.0316 |
152 |
2 |
19.52 |
2011-11-01 |
| 75. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
19.97 |
0.9841 |
-0.1288 |
217 |
1 |
19.97 |
2011-10-09 |
| 76. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
19.91 |
0.9080 |
-0.0571 |
111 |
1 |
19.91 |
2011-10-23 |
| 77. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
19.84 |
0.9144 |
-0.0682 |
167 |
1 |
19.84 |
2011-10-09 |
| 78. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
19.59 |
1.0225 |
-0.1895 |
152 |
2 |
17.31 |
2011-10-09 |
| 79. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
19.39 |
1.0521 |
-0.2246 |
197 |
1 |
19.39 |
2011-10-10 |
| 80. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
19.33 |
1.0264 |
-0.1999 |
191 |
1 |
19.33 |
2011-10-24 |
| 81. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
19.29 |
1.0479 |
-0.2201 |
205 |
1 |
19.29 |
2011-10-09 |
| 82. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
19.27 |
0.8948 |
-0.0679 |
164 |
1 |
19.27 |
2011-10-09 |
| 83. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
19.04 |
0.8053 |
0.0117 |
126 |
1 |
19.04 |
2011-10-09 |
| 84. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
18.94 |
1.0095 |
-0.1974 |
211 |
1 |
18.94 |
2011-10-10 |
| 85. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
18.81 |
1.0178 |
-0.2115 |
207 |
2 |
18.21 |
2011-10-09 |
| 86. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
18.50 |
0.8964 |
-0.1046 |
199 |
1 |
18.50 |
2011-10-09 |
| 87. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
18.33 |
0.9598 |
-0.1704 |
209 |
1 |
18.33 |
2011-10-09 |
| 88. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
18.13 |
0.7764 |
0.0003 |
145 |
1 |
18.13 |
2011-10-19 |
| 89. |
Question marks and exclamation points go inside quotation ma... |
17.21 |
0.8469 |
-0.1075 |
164 |
1 |
17.21 |
2011-10-09 |
| 90. |
When the green lights came on, pedestrians skirted or jumped... |
17.21 |
0.8387 |
-0.1069 |
103 |
1 |
17.21 |
2011-10-09 |
| 91. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
17.11 |
0.8127 |
-0.0829 |
167 |
1 |
17.11 |
2011-10-09 |
| 92. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
17.11 |
0.8443 |
-0.1107 |
179 |
1 |
17.11 |
2011-10-26 |
| 93. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
17.10 |
0.9166 |
-0.1803 |
133 |
1 |
17.10 |
2011-10-09 |
| 94. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
16.76 |
0.8124 |
-0.0971 |
167 |
1 |
16.76 |
2011-11-24 |
| 95. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
16.56 |
0.7973 |
-0.0817 |
127 |
1 |
16.56 |
2011-10-26 |
| 96. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
15.59 |
1.0472 |
-0.3849 |
149 |
1 |
15.59 |
2011-10-27 |
| 97. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
15.54 |
1.0144 |
-0.3471 |
162 |
1 |
15.54 |
2011-10-09 |
| 98. |
Never give up. Most races are decided in the last 10 percent... |
15.10 |
0.8777 |
-0.2349 |
73 |
1 |
15.10 |
2011-11-24 |
| 99. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
12.34 |
0.9394 |
-0.4135 |
195 |
1 |
12.34 |
2011-10-09 |
| 100. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
7.20 |
1.0617 |
-0.7588 |
171 |
1 |
7.20 |
2011-10-09 |
| 101. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
6.08 |
0.9763 |
-0.7195 |
143 |
1 |
6.08 |
2011-11-24 |