| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
54.43 |
1.0795 |
0.3128 |
226 |
1 |
54.43 |
2010-07-19 |
| 2. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
53.95 |
1.0696 |
0.2768 |
226 |
1 |
53.95 |
2010-04-29 |
| 3. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
53.84 |
0.9128 |
0.4397 |
133 |
1 |
53.84 |
2009-12-31 |
| 4. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
51.53 |
1.0385 |
0.2484 |
230 |
1 |
51.53 |
2010-07-19 |
| 5. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
51.31 |
0.9430 |
0.3424 |
297 |
1 |
51.31 |
2010-01-01 |
| 6. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
51.23 |
1.0331 |
0.2457 |
234 |
2 |
42.32 |
2010-04-29 |
| 7. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
50.32 |
1.0034 |
0.2534 |
302 |
1 |
50.32 |
2010-07-19 |
| 8. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
49.96 |
0.9257 |
0.3287 |
317 |
1 |
49.96 |
2010-01-01 |
| 9. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
49.61 |
0.9866 |
0.2501 |
218 |
1 |
49.61 |
2010-04-29 |
| 10. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
48.94 |
0.9559 |
0.2697 |
195 |
1 |
48.94 |
2010-04-29 |
| 11. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
48.78 |
1.0167 |
0.2095 |
378 |
1 |
48.78 |
2010-07-19 |
| 12. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
48.38 |
1.0496 |
0.1588 |
314 |
1 |
48.38 |
2010-04-29 |
| 13. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
48.23 |
1.0205 |
0.1779 |
179 |
1 |
48.23 |
2009-08-31 |
| 14. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
47.87 |
1.1018 |
0.0877 |
220 |
2 |
39.70 |
2010-06-18 |
| 15. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
47.47 |
0.9351 |
0.2454 |
190 |
1 |
47.47 |
2010-04-29 |
| 16. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
47.39 |
0.8958 |
0.2932 |
322 |
1 |
47.39 |
2010-07-19 |
| 17. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
46.35 |
0.9342 |
0.2274 |
434 |
2 |
40.78 |
2010-01-01 |
| 18. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
45.83 |
0.9780 |
0.1676 |
337 |
1 |
45.83 |
2010-06-15 |
| 19. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
45.51 |
1.0031 |
0.1668 |
304 |
1 |
45.51 |
2010-01-04 |
| 20. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
45.21 |
1.0907 |
0.0406 |
303 |
1 |
45.21 |
2009-12-08 |
| 21. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
44.97 |
1.0515 |
0.0694 |
250 |
1 |
44.97 |
2010-05-13 |
| 22. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
44.92 |
1.0264 |
0.1355 |
422 |
1 |
44.92 |
2010-04-29 |
| 23. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
44.85 |
0.9710 |
0.1426 |
173 |
2 |
38.70 |
2009-12-08 |
| 24. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
44.84 |
1.0016 |
0.1133 |
218 |
2 |
38.33 |
2010-01-01 |
| 25. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
44.80 |
1.0565 |
0.0592 |
247 |
1 |
44.80 |
2010-06-18 |
| 26. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
44.77 |
1.0297 |
0.0868 |
249 |
1 |
44.77 |
2009-09-05 |
| 27. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
44.39 |
0.9936 |
0.1145 |
311 |
2 |
38.33 |
2010-04-29 |
| 28. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
44.36 |
1.0214 |
0.0847 |
269 |
2 |
37.77 |
2009-09-05 |
| 29. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
43.41 |
0.9612 |
0.1226 |
256 |
1 |
43.41 |
2009-09-05 |
| 30. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
42.66 |
0.8628 |
0.1987 |
196 |
1 |
42.66 |
2009-09-05 |
| 31. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
42.58 |
0.9572 |
0.1039 |
201 |
1 |
42.58 |
2009-09-05 |
| 32. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
42.37 |
1.1114 |
-0.0570 |
247 |
1 |
42.37 |
2009-08-31 |
| 33. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
42.03 |
1.0523 |
-0.0079 |
256 |
2 |
38.72 |
2009-12-08 |
| 34. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
41.75 |
1.0714 |
-0.0390 |
129 |
1 |
41.75 |
2010-07-19 |
| 35. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
41.38 |
0.9527 |
0.0798 |
251 |
1 |
41.38 |
2010-04-29 |
| 36. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
41.13 |
1.0375 |
0.0343 |
200 |
1 |
41.13 |
2009-09-05 |
| 37. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
41.11 |
0.9897 |
0.0333 |
274 |
1 |
41.11 |
2009-08-31 |
| 38. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
40.84 |
1.0498 |
-0.0361 |
180 |
1 |
40.84 |
2010-04-29 |
| 39. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
40.51 |
0.9964 |
0.0138 |
203 |
1 |
40.51 |
2009-09-05 |
| 40. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
40.51 |
0.9711 |
0.0377 |
176 |
1 |
40.51 |
2009-09-05 |
| 41. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
40.46 |
0.9072 |
0.0998 |
237 |
1 |
40.46 |
2009-09-05 |
| 42. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
40.15 |
1.0183 |
-0.0226 |
191 |
1 |
40.15 |
2009-09-05 |
| 43. |
Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the E... |
40.13 |
0.8653 |
0.1467 |
255 |
1 |
40.13 |
2009-08-31 |
| 44. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
39.77 |
1.0029 |
-0.0179 |
209 |
1 |
39.77 |
2009-12-31 |
| 45. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
39.23 |
1.0666 |
-0.0884 |
297 |
1 |
39.23 |
2010-01-01 |
| 46. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
39.17 |
0.9089 |
0.0711 |
342 |
1 |
39.17 |
2009-08-31 |
| 47. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
39.00 |
0.9164 |
0.0609 |
305 |
1 |
39.00 |
2010-07-19 |
| 48. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
38.64 |
0.9758 |
-0.0120 |
314 |
1 |
38.64 |
2009-12-08 |
| 49. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
38.30 |
0.9019 |
0.0580 |
204 |
1 |
38.30 |
2009-09-05 |
| 50. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
38.25 |
0.8722 |
0.0841 |
285 |
1 |
38.25 |
2010-01-01 |
| 51. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
38.23 |
0.9212 |
0.0347 |
323 |
1 |
38.23 |
2009-12-08 |
| 52. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
37.97 |
1.0463 |
-0.1049 |
182 |
2 |
34.24 |
2009-12-08 |
| 53. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
37.90 |
0.9916 |
-0.0046 |
282 |
1 |
37.90 |
2009-12-31 |
| 54. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
37.85 |
0.9005 |
0.0411 |
212 |
1 |
37.85 |
2010-01-04 |
| 55. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
37.69 |
0.8890 |
0.0464 |
199 |
1 |
37.69 |
2010-04-29 |
| 56. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
36.65 |
1.0063 |
-0.0934 |
371 |
1 |
36.65 |
2009-05-24 |
| 57. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
35.92 |
1.0334 |
-0.1456 |
131 |
1 |
35.92 |
2009-12-08 |
| 58. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
35.83 |
0.9871 |
-0.0589 |
209 |
1 |
35.83 |
2009-08-31 |
| 59. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
35.57 |
0.8348 |
0.0570 |
219 |
1 |
35.57 |
2009-09-05 |
| 60. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
35.47 |
0.9684 |
-0.0830 |
388 |
1 |
35.47 |
2009-08-31 |
| 61. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
35.45 |
1.0252 |
-0.1493 |
176 |
2 |
33.18 |
2009-08-31 |
| 62. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
35.33 |
0.9843 |
-0.1099 |
234 |
1 |
35.33 |
2009-08-31 |
| 63. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
35.07 |
1.0796 |
-0.2122 |
129 |
1 |
35.07 |
2009-09-12 |
| 64. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
35.03 |
0.9852 |
-0.1131 |
264 |
1 |
35.03 |
2009-09-05 |
| 65. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
34.74 |
1.0768 |
-0.1727 |
295 |
1 |
34.74 |
2009-09-05 |
| 66. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
34.31 |
0.9805 |
-0.1222 |
292 |
1 |
34.31 |
2009-05-07 |
| 67. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
33.86 |
0.8792 |
-0.0274 |
296 |
1 |
33.86 |
2009-05-24 |
| 68. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
33.57 |
1.0261 |
-0.1932 |
273 |
1 |
33.57 |
2009-05-07 |
| 69. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
33.27 |
0.9649 |
-0.1384 |
193 |
1 |
33.27 |
2009-05-07 |
| 70. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
31.77 |
0.8821 |
-0.0927 |
176 |
1 |
31.77 |
2009-05-03 |
| 71. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
31.41 |
0.8145 |
-0.0315 |
115 |
1 |
31.41 |
2009-05-03 |
| 72. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
30.95 |
0.8878 |
-0.1192 |
346 |
1 |
30.95 |
2009-05-07 |
| 73. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
30.87 |
0.9786 |
-0.2170 |
193 |
1 |
30.87 |
2009-05-07 |
| 74. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
30.71 |
1.0168 |
-0.2524 |
271 |
1 |
30.71 |
2009-05-03 |
| 75. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
30.68 |
0.8788 |
-0.1196 |
134 |
1 |
30.68 |
2009-05-03 |
| 76. |
The Peacocks are not dancing so it will not rain. The Peacoc... |
30.39 |
0.8887 |
-0.1197 |
128 |
1 |
30.39 |
2009-05-03 |
| 77. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
29.83 |
0.9307 |
-0.1824 |
246 |
1 |
29.83 |
2009-05-03 |
| 78. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
29.62 |
0.8142 |
-0.0843 |
187 |
1 |
29.62 |
2009-05-03 |
| 79. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
29.54 |
0.9263 |
-0.1898 |
188 |
1 |
29.54 |
2009-05-24 |
| 80. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
29.07 |
0.9275 |
-0.2093 |
211 |
1 |
29.07 |
2009-05-03 |
| 81. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
27.60 |
0.9682 |
-0.2855 |
143 |
2 |
23.99 |
2009-05-03 |
| 82. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
27.38 |
0.8709 |
-0.1843 |
202 |
1 |
27.38 |
2009-05-03 |
| 83. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
27.38 |
0.8910 |
-0.2106 |
150 |
1 |
27.38 |
2009-05-03 |
| 84. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
25.12 |
0.8916 |
-0.2696 |
216 |
1 |
25.12 |
2009-05-03 |
| 85. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
22.74 |
0.8118 |
-0.2449 |
109 |
1 |
22.74 |
2009-05-03 |
| 86. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
21.96 |
0.9316 |
-0.3837 |
287 |
1 |
21.96 |
2009-05-03 |