| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
54.06 |
0.8202 |
0.4893 |
178 |
1 |
54.06 |
2013-11-26 |
| 2. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
51.46 |
1.0487 |
0.1950 |
231 |
1 |
51.46 |
2013-10-29 |
| 3. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
49.99 |
1.0314 |
0.1775 |
172 |
1 |
49.99 |
2013-10-30 |
| 4. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
48.35 |
0.9772 |
0.1919 |
217 |
2 |
43.38 |
2013-11-07 |
| 5. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
48.26 |
1.0483 |
0.1187 |
227 |
1 |
48.26 |
2013-10-29 |
| 6. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
48.18 |
1.0396 |
0.1215 |
149 |
1 |
48.18 |
2013-10-29 |
| 7. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
47.68 |
1.0288 |
0.1595 |
300 |
1 |
47.68 |
2013-11-26 |
| 8. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
47.63 |
1.0214 |
0.1320 |
269 |
1 |
47.63 |
2013-11-29 |
| 9. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
46.11 |
0.9207 |
0.1993 |
174 |
2 |
44.36 |
2013-11-07 |
| 10. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
45.68 |
1.0331 |
0.0715 |
234 |
1 |
45.68 |
2013-11-02 |
| 11. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
45.26 |
1.0352 |
0.0647 |
341 |
1 |
45.26 |
2013-10-30 |
| 12. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
45.24 |
0.8971 |
0.2041 |
266 |
1 |
45.24 |
2013-11-07 |
| 13. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
45.07 |
1.0109 |
0.0818 |
276 |
1 |
45.07 |
2013-11-29 |
| 14. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
45.05 |
1.0379 |
0.0883 |
245 |
1 |
45.05 |
2013-11-07 |
| 15. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
45.03 |
1.0399 |
0.0564 |
294 |
1 |
45.03 |
2013-10-29 |
| 16. |
One scientist I met recently told me he reckoned that the av... |
44.67 |
0.9247 |
0.1622 |
253 |
1 |
44.67 |
2013-10-29 |
| 17. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
44.50 |
1.0506 |
0.0560 |
277 |
1 |
44.50 |
2013-10-29 |
| 18. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
44.06 |
0.9684 |
0.1013 |
388 |
1 |
44.06 |
2013-10-29 |
| 19. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
43.84 |
1.0183 |
0.0381 |
191 |
1 |
43.84 |
2013-10-29 |
| 20. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
43.62 |
0.8670 |
0.1945 |
318 |
1 |
43.62 |
2013-10-29 |
| 21. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
43.51 |
0.9429 |
0.1123 |
287 |
1 |
43.51 |
2013-10-30 |
| 22. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
43.26 |
1.0669 |
0.0137 |
213 |
1 |
43.26 |
2013-10-29 |
| 23. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
43.23 |
0.9907 |
0.0547 |
211 |
1 |
43.23 |
2013-10-30 |
| 24. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
43.07 |
1.0684 |
0.0045 |
253 |
2 |
38.92 |
2013-11-26 |
| 25. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
42.91 |
0.9045 |
0.1352 |
235 |
2 |
38.79 |
2013-11-26 |
| 26. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
42.72 |
0.9798 |
0.0489 |
199 |
2 |
41.67 |
2013-11-02 |
| 27. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
42.48 |
0.9893 |
0.0392 |
323 |
1 |
42.48 |
2013-11-07 |
| 28. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
42.32 |
0.9023 |
0.1651 |
231 |
1 |
42.32 |
2013-11-02 |
| 29. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
42.04 |
1.0679 |
-0.0302 |
177 |
1 |
42.04 |
2013-10-30 |
| 30. |
First of all, you must be comfortable, otherwise it will be ... |
42.00 |
0.9831 |
0.0304 |
222 |
1 |
42.00 |
2013-11-06 |
| 31. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
41.98 |
0.9780 |
0.0392 |
337 |
1 |
41.98 |
2013-11-02 |
| 32. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
41.92 |
0.8162 |
0.2037 |
149 |
1 |
41.92 |
2013-10-30 |
| 33. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
41.76 |
0.8723 |
0.1344 |
185 |
1 |
41.76 |
2013-10-30 |
| 34. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
41.56 |
0.9866 |
0.0158 |
218 |
1 |
41.56 |
2013-10-29 |
| 35. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
41.47 |
0.9097 |
0.0940 |
153 |
1 |
41.47 |
2013-10-29 |
| 36. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
41.45 |
1.0375 |
0.0115 |
200 |
1 |
41.45 |
2013-11-06 |
| 37. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
41.32 |
1.0944 |
-0.0498 |
308 |
1 |
41.32 |
2013-11-29 |
| 38. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
41.04 |
0.9649 |
0.0273 |
193 |
1 |
41.04 |
2013-10-30 |
| 39. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
41.02 |
0.9846 |
0.0066 |
281 |
1 |
41.02 |
2013-11-02 |
| 40. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
41.00 |
0.9540 |
0.0361 |
285 |
1 |
41.00 |
2013-11-06 |
| 41. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
40.95 |
1.0154 |
0.0253 |
351 |
1 |
40.95 |
2013-10-29 |
| 42. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
40.90 |
0.8553 |
0.1294 |
174 |
1 |
40.90 |
2013-10-30 |
| 43. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
40.74 |
1.0621 |
-0.0568 |
263 |
1 |
40.74 |
2013-11-29 |
| 44. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
40.73 |
1.0515 |
-0.0680 |
250 |
1 |
40.73 |
2013-10-29 |
| 45. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
40.72 |
0.9851 |
0.0028 |
317 |
1 |
40.72 |
2013-10-30 |
| 46. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
40.42 |
1.0314 |
-0.0145 |
452 |
1 |
40.42 |
2013-10-29 |
| 47. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
40.36 |
0.9820 |
-0.0025 |
267 |
1 |
40.36 |
2013-10-29 |
| 48. |
Every time you practice a technique incorrectly, you're incr... |
39.81 |
0.8826 |
0.0819 |
241 |
1 |
39.81 |
2013-11-02 |
| 49. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
39.34 |
1.0090 |
-0.0138 |
282 |
1 |
39.34 |
2013-11-06 |
| 50. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
39.29 |
0.9567 |
-0.0063 |
273 |
1 |
39.29 |
2013-11-07 |
| 51. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
39.23 |
1.0334 |
-0.0910 |
131 |
1 |
39.23 |
2013-11-29 |
| 52. |
Some drivers actually perform best when there is a little ex... |
37.97 |
0.9632 |
-0.0472 |
240 |
1 |
37.97 |
2013-11-26 |
| 53. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
37.90 |
0.9871 |
-0.0347 |
209 |
1 |
37.90 |
2013-10-30 |
| 54. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
37.73 |
0.8382 |
0.0747 |
268 |
1 |
37.73 |
2013-10-29 |
| 55. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
37.37 |
0.8653 |
0.0492 |
255 |
1 |
37.37 |
2013-11-06 |
| 56. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
37.22 |
0.9128 |
0.0282 |
369 |
1 |
37.22 |
2013-10-29 |
| 57. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
36.88 |
0.9213 |
-0.0295 |
295 |
1 |
36.88 |
2013-11-02 |
| 58. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
36.87 |
0.8153 |
0.0805 |
200 |
1 |
36.87 |
2013-10-29 |
| 59. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
36.84 |
1.0403 |
-0.1354 |
193 |
1 |
36.84 |
2013-10-30 |
| 60. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
36.70 |
1.1014 |
-0.1770 |
273 |
1 |
36.70 |
2013-10-30 |
| 61. |
For all its apparent strength, the Aztec Empire had vulnerab... |
36.22 |
0.7988 |
0.0847 |
219 |
1 |
36.22 |
2013-10-29 |
| 62. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
35.75 |
0.9857 |
-0.1234 |
293 |
1 |
35.75 |
2013-11-29 |
| 63. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
35.60 |
1.0763 |
-0.1747 |
367 |
1 |
35.60 |
2013-10-30 |
| 64. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
35.37 |
0.9653 |
-0.1028 |
394 |
1 |
35.37 |
2013-10-29 |
| 65. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
35.16 |
0.8941 |
-0.0434 |
216 |
1 |
35.16 |
2013-11-26 |
| 66. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
34.77 |
0.8919 |
-0.0539 |
205 |
1 |
34.77 |
2013-11-26 |
| 67. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
34.43 |
0.7877 |
0.0479 |
142 |
1 |
34.43 |
2013-11-02 |
| 68. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
33.58 |
0.8890 |
-0.0822 |
199 |
1 |
33.58 |
2013-11-02 |
| 69. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
33.58 |
0.9109 |
-0.0978 |
401 |
1 |
33.58 |
2013-10-30 |
| 70. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
33.48 |
0.8916 |
-0.0833 |
216 |
1 |
33.48 |
2013-10-30 |
| 71. |
We were all in our late twenties or early-to-middle thirties... |
31.89 |
0.8867 |
-0.1129 |
241 |
1 |
31.89 |
2013-10-30 |
| 72. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
31.44 |
0.9168 |
-0.1575 |
240 |
1 |
31.44 |
2013-11-06 |
| 73. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
29.05 |
0.8077 |
-0.1108 |
167 |
1 |
29.05 |
2013-10-29 |
| 74. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
23.72 |
0.8595 |
-0.2890 |
242 |
1 |
23.72 |
2013-10-30 |