| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
80.19 |
1.0252 |
0.1509 |
176 |
1 |
80.19 |
2011-03-14 |
| 2. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
79.88 |
1.0711 |
0.1018 |
213 |
2 |
71.02 |
2011-03-15 |
| 3. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
79.80 |
0.9740 |
0.1987 |
209 |
2 |
78.46 |
2011-03-15 |
| 4. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
79.06 |
1.0767 |
0.0868 |
212 |
1 |
79.06 |
2011-03-15 |
| 5. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
78.19 |
1.0669 |
0.1188 |
213 |
1 |
78.19 |
2011-03-15 |
| 6. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
77.49 |
1.0943 |
0.0806 |
206 |
1 |
77.49 |
2011-03-15 |
| 7. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
77.38 |
1.0033 |
0.1307 |
189 |
1 |
77.38 |
2011-03-15 |
| 8. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
76.93 |
1.0941 |
0.0711 |
256 |
1 |
76.93 |
2011-03-15 |
| 9. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
76.74 |
1.0788 |
0.0468 |
171 |
1 |
76.74 |
2011-03-14 |
| 10. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
76.66 |
1.0218 |
0.1053 |
268 |
2 |
73.19 |
2011-03-15 |
| 11. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
76.28 |
0.9805 |
0.1484 |
292 |
1 |
76.28 |
2011-03-15 |
| 12. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
76.28 |
1.0487 |
0.0706 |
231 |
1 |
76.28 |
2011-03-15 |
| 13. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
76.07 |
1.0349 |
0.0856 |
234 |
1 |
76.07 |
2011-03-14 |
| 14. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
75.94 |
1.1215 |
0.0217 |
200 |
1 |
75.94 |
2011-03-15 |
| 15. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
75.84 |
1.0863 |
0.0662 |
210 |
1 |
75.84 |
2011-03-15 |
| 16. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
75.70 |
0.9653 |
0.1587 |
394 |
1 |
75.70 |
2011-03-15 |
| 17. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
75.64 |
0.9991 |
0.1162 |
225 |
1 |
75.64 |
2011-03-15 |
| 18. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
74.94 |
0.9578 |
0.1460 |
281 |
1 |
74.94 |
2011-03-15 |
| 19. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
74.67 |
1.1162 |
0.0251 |
189 |
1 |
74.67 |
2011-03-15 |
| 20. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
74.49 |
1.1018 |
-0.0106 |
220 |
1 |
74.49 |
2011-03-15 |
| 21. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
74.14 |
1.0389 |
0.0552 |
318 |
1 |
74.14 |
2011-03-15 |
| 22. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
73.61 |
0.9846 |
0.0988 |
281 |
1 |
73.61 |
2011-03-15 |
| 23. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
72.85 |
1.0668 |
0.0089 |
350 |
1 |
72.85 |
2011-03-15 |
| 24. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
72.47 |
1.0343 |
0.0706 |
242 |
2 |
72.21 |
2011-03-15 |
| 25. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
71.94 |
0.9795 |
0.0801 |
308 |
1 |
71.94 |
2011-03-15 |
| 26. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
71.86 |
0.9851 |
0.0755 |
317 |
1 |
71.86 |
2011-03-15 |
| 27. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
71.84 |
0.9904 |
0.1083 |
203 |
1 |
71.84 |
2011-03-14 |
| 28. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
71.71 |
0.8852 |
0.1731 |
201 |
1 |
71.71 |
2011-03-15 |
| 29. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
71.55 |
1.0008 |
0.0960 |
473 |
1 |
71.55 |
2011-03-15 |
| 30. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
71.49 |
1.0004 |
0.0464 |
212 |
1 |
71.49 |
2011-03-15 |
| 31. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
71.26 |
1.0521 |
-0.0074 |
171 |
1 |
71.26 |
2011-03-15 |
| 32. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
71.15 |
0.9852 |
0.0629 |
264 |
1 |
71.15 |
2011-03-15 |
| 33. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
70.99 |
0.9527 |
0.0926 |
251 |
1 |
70.99 |
2011-03-15 |
| 34. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
70.48 |
1.0516 |
-0.0142 |
281 |
3 |
66.47 |
2011-03-15 |
| 35. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
70.47 |
1.0679 |
-0.0099 |
177 |
1 |
70.47 |
2011-03-15 |
| 36. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
70.44 |
1.0292 |
0.0067 |
262 |
1 |
70.44 |
2011-03-15 |
| 37. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
70.40 |
1.0289 |
0.0121 |
276 |
1 |
70.40 |
2011-03-15 |
| 38. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
70.39 |
1.0797 |
-0.0488 |
210 |
1 |
70.39 |
2011-03-14 |
| 39. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
70.08 |
1.0211 |
0.0415 |
213 |
1 |
70.08 |
2011-03-15 |
| 40. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
69.69 |
1.0740 |
-0.0096 |
264 |
1 |
69.69 |
2011-03-14 |
| 41. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
69.56 |
0.9557 |
0.0747 |
331 |
1 |
69.56 |
2011-03-15 |
| 42. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
68.90 |
0.8890 |
0.1217 |
199 |
1 |
68.90 |
2011-03-14 |
| 43. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
68.56 |
1.0613 |
-0.0471 |
456 |
1 |
68.56 |
2011-03-15 |
| 44. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
67.93 |
1.0630 |
-0.0300 |
397 |
2 |
67.18 |
2011-03-15 |
| 45. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
67.62 |
0.9922 |
0.0441 |
341 |
2 |
66.81 |
2011-03-15 |
| 46. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
67.60 |
0.9567 |
0.0804 |
184 |
1 |
67.60 |
2011-03-15 |
| 47. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
67.39 |
0.8933 |
0.1049 |
363 |
1 |
67.39 |
2011-03-14 |
| 48. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
67.38 |
1.0388 |
-0.0156 |
243 |
1 |
67.38 |
2011-03-14 |
| 49. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
66.97 |
0.9790 |
0.0471 |
311 |
2 |
61.61 |
2011-03-16 |
| 50. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
66.94 |
1.0768 |
-0.0516 |
295 |
1 |
66.94 |
2011-03-15 |
| 51. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
66.91 |
0.9734 |
0.0109 |
289 |
1 |
66.91 |
2011-03-15 |
| 52. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
66.87 |
1.0515 |
-0.0694 |
250 |
1 |
66.87 |
2011-03-15 |
| 53. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
66.54 |
1.0125 |
-0.0357 |
224 |
1 |
66.54 |
2011-03-15 |
| 54. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
66.47 |
1.0013 |
-0.0242 |
273 |
1 |
66.47 |
2011-03-14 |
| 55. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
66.39 |
1.0099 |
-0.0359 |
207 |
1 |
66.39 |
2011-03-15 |
| 56. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
66.39 |
1.0042 |
0.0142 |
352 |
1 |
66.39 |
2011-03-14 |
| 57. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
66.36 |
0.9697 |
0.0069 |
249 |
1 |
66.36 |
2011-03-15 |
| 58. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
66.24 |
1.0117 |
0.0077 |
297 |
1 |
66.24 |
2011-03-15 |
| 59. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
66.09 |
1.0477 |
-0.0729 |
360 |
1 |
66.09 |
2011-03-15 |
| 60. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
65.75 |
0.9754 |
-0.0020 |
362 |
1 |
65.75 |
2011-03-15 |
| 61. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
65.21 |
0.9675 |
0.0013 |
383 |
1 |
65.21 |
2011-03-15 |
| 62. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
64.79 |
0.9936 |
-0.0205 |
227 |
1 |
64.79 |
2011-03-15 |
| 63. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
64.25 |
1.0314 |
-0.0472 |
452 |
1 |
64.25 |
2011-03-15 |
| 64. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
64.19 |
0.8723 |
0.0679 |
185 |
1 |
64.19 |
2011-03-15 |
| 65. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
64.14 |
0.8533 |
0.0911 |
232 |
1 |
64.14 |
2011-03-15 |
| 66. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
63.57 |
0.9899 |
-0.0598 |
163 |
1 |
63.57 |
2011-03-15 |
| 67. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
63.53 |
0.9157 |
0.0234 |
350 |
1 |
63.53 |
2011-03-15 |
| 68. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
63.51 |
1.0038 |
-0.0396 |
237 |
1 |
63.51 |
2011-03-15 |
| 69. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
63.38 |
1.0296 |
-0.0912 |
437 |
1 |
63.38 |
2011-03-15 |
| 70. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
63.35 |
0.9330 |
0.0051 |
360 |
1 |
63.35 |
2011-03-15 |
| 71. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
62.82 |
0.9857 |
-0.0631 |
293 |
1 |
62.82 |
2011-03-15 |
| 72. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
62.77 |
0.9359 |
0.0265 |
353 |
1 |
62.77 |
2011-03-15 |
| 73. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
62.50 |
0.9814 |
-0.0231 |
364 |
1 |
62.50 |
2011-03-14 |
| 74. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
62.49 |
0.9676 |
-0.0406 |
442 |
1 |
62.49 |
2011-03-15 |
| 75. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
62.45 |
0.9912 |
-0.0462 |
237 |
2 |
58.99 |
2011-03-15 |
| 76. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
62.11 |
0.9723 |
-0.0556 |
364 |
1 |
62.11 |
2011-03-15 |
| 77. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
61.58 |
0.9792 |
-0.0357 |
265 |
1 |
61.58 |
2011-03-15 |
| 78. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
61.22 |
1.0352 |
-0.1328 |
341 |
1 |
61.22 |
2011-03-15 |
| 79. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
60.75 |
0.9364 |
-0.0035 |
351 |
1 |
60.75 |
2011-03-14 |
| 80. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
60.63 |
1.1016 |
-0.2105 |
233 |
1 |
60.63 |
2011-03-14 |
| 81. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
59.93 |
1.0684 |
-0.1581 |
253 |
1 |
59.93 |
2011-03-14 |
| 82. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
59.64 |
0.9965 |
-0.1251 |
168 |
1 |
59.64 |
2011-03-14 |
| 83. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
59.48 |
0.8845 |
-0.0103 |
273 |
1 |
59.48 |
2011-03-15 |
| 84. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
59.20 |
0.9612 |
-0.0915 |
256 |
1 |
59.20 |
2011-03-15 |
| 85. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
59.12 |
1.1081 |
-0.2050 |
206 |
1 |
59.12 |
2011-03-15 |
| 86. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
58.99 |
0.9646 |
-0.0990 |
264 |
1 |
58.99 |
2011-03-15 |
| 87. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
58.82 |
0.9430 |
-0.0863 |
211 |
1 |
58.82 |
2011-03-15 |
| 88. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
58.71 |
0.9074 |
-0.0385 |
396 |
1 |
58.71 |
2011-03-15 |
| 89. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
58.36 |
0.9843 |
-0.1322 |
234 |
1 |
58.36 |
2011-03-14 |
| 90. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
58.04 |
0.9884 |
-0.1368 |
233 |
1 |
58.04 |
2011-03-15 |
| 91. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
58.00 |
0.8467 |
0.0293 |
343 |
1 |
58.00 |
2011-03-14 |
| 92. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
57.80 |
0.8793 |
-0.0289 |
157 |
1 |
57.80 |
2011-03-15 |
| 93. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
57.39 |
0.9546 |
-0.0806 |
198 |
1 |
57.39 |
2011-03-15 |
| 94. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
56.45 |
1.0346 |
-0.1639 |
244 |
1 |
56.45 |
2011-03-14 |
| 95. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
56.17 |
0.8916 |
-0.0668 |
216 |
1 |
56.17 |
2011-03-15 |
| 96. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
55.02 |
1.0025 |
-0.1953 |
256 |
1 |
55.02 |
2011-03-14 |
| 97. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
54.65 |
1.0232 |
-0.1858 |
236 |
1 |
54.65 |
2011-03-15 |
| 98. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
53.21 |
0.9351 |
-0.1602 |
190 |
1 |
53.21 |
2011-03-15 |
| 99. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
51.54 |
0.9665 |
-0.1617 |
326 |
1 |
51.54 |
2011-03-15 |
| 100. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
48.12 |
0.7876 |
-0.0805 |
316 |
1 |
48.12 |
2011-03-14 |