| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
62.39 |
0.9187 |
0.4362 |
118 |
1 |
62.39 |
2011-07-13 |
| 2. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
61.27 |
0.9873 |
0.3501 |
155 |
1 |
61.27 |
2011-07-13 |
| 3. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
60.72 |
1.0263 |
0.3009 |
267 |
1 |
60.72 |
2010-05-23 |
| 4. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
60.57 |
0.9899 |
0.3300 |
163 |
1 |
60.57 |
2010-06-07 |
| 5. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
59.67 |
0.9866 |
0.3145 |
218 |
2 |
52.18 |
2010-05-24 |
| 6. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
58.45 |
1.0060 |
0.2671 |
171 |
4 |
52.79 |
2010-06-07 |
| 7. |
He implies there is a correlation between his daily work and... |
57.52 |
0.9706 |
0.2910 |
216 |
2 |
48.96 |
2010-06-08 |
| 8. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
56.87 |
1.0441 |
0.2003 |
252 |
1 |
56.87 |
2010-06-07 |
| 9. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
56.86 |
1.1215 |
0.1452 |
200 |
1 |
56.86 |
2010-06-07 |
| 10. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
54.45 |
1.0352 |
0.1569 |
341 |
1 |
54.45 |
2011-07-23 |
| 11. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
54.21 |
0.8910 |
0.2949 |
150 |
1 |
54.21 |
2011-07-13 |
| 12. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
53.99 |
1.0668 |
0.1150 |
350 |
3 |
51.07 |
2010-05-24 |
| 13. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
53.36 |
0.9239 |
0.2481 |
193 |
1 |
53.36 |
2010-08-11 |
| 14. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
52.91 |
0.9798 |
0.1700 |
199 |
1 |
52.91 |
2010-05-22 |
| 15. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
52.68 |
0.9946 |
0.1556 |
246 |
2 |
48.29 |
2010-05-23 |
| 16. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
52.21 |
1.1018 |
0.0318 |
220 |
2 |
48.72 |
2010-05-20 |
| 17. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
52.19 |
1.0403 |
0.1392 |
275 |
1 |
52.19 |
2010-06-07 |
| 18. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
52.08 |
1.0417 |
0.0930 |
253 |
2 |
50.39 |
2010-05-24 |
| 19. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
51.48 |
1.0013 |
0.1217 |
273 |
2 |
40.79 |
2011-07-13 |
| 20. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
51.10 |
0.9820 |
0.1337 |
274 |
3 |
49.29 |
2011-07-13 |
| 21. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
50.96 |
1.0349 |
0.0768 |
234 |
1 |
50.96 |
2011-07-23 |
| 22. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
50.45 |
0.8899 |
0.2224 |
293 |
1 |
50.45 |
2010-05-23 |
| 23. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
50.44 |
0.9614 |
0.1425 |
292 |
3 |
45.62 |
2010-05-23 |
| 24. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
50.36 |
1.0167 |
0.0893 |
378 |
2 |
49.80 |
2010-05-24 |
| 25. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
50.02 |
0.9820 |
0.1125 |
267 |
2 |
48.47 |
2010-06-08 |
| 26. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
50.00 |
0.9233 |
0.1596 |
168 |
1 |
50.00 |
2010-05-24 |
| 27. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
49.22 |
0.8289 |
0.2525 |
304 |
3 |
40.14 |
2010-05-21 |
| 28. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
49.09 |
0.9904 |
0.1213 |
203 |
1 |
49.09 |
2010-05-24 |
| 29. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
48.87 |
1.0463 |
0.0154 |
182 |
1 |
48.87 |
2010-05-23 |
| 30. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
48.82 |
1.0023 |
0.0610 |
211 |
1 |
48.82 |
2010-05-24 |
| 31. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
48.67 |
1.0498 |
0.0073 |
180 |
1 |
48.67 |
2010-06-07 |
| 32. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
48.62 |
1.0090 |
0.0956 |
282 |
1 |
48.62 |
2010-06-08 |
| 33. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
48.48 |
0.9468 |
0.1104 |
276 |
2 |
43.64 |
2010-05-23 |
| 34. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
48.36 |
1.0132 |
0.0331 |
143 |
1 |
48.36 |
2010-05-23 |
| 35. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
48.31 |
1.0365 |
0.0473 |
162 |
2 |
44.39 |
2011-07-13 |
| 36. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
48.23 |
1.0486 |
0.0043 |
289 |
2 |
41.42 |
2010-05-23 |
| 37. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
48.06 |
0.9964 |
0.0521 |
203 |
1 |
48.06 |
2010-05-07 |
| 38. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
47.96 |
1.0528 |
-0.0116 |
201 |
2 |
47.72 |
2010-06-08 |
| 39. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
47.90 |
0.8792 |
0.1750 |
296 |
1 |
47.90 |
2010-05-22 |
| 40. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
47.69 |
0.9668 |
0.1160 |
383 |
1 |
47.69 |
2010-05-24 |
| 41. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
47.43 |
0.8553 |
0.1741 |
174 |
2 |
44.29 |
2010-05-24 |
| 42. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
47.22 |
0.9509 |
0.1173 |
225 |
2 |
43.43 |
2010-05-22 |
| 43. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
46.97 |
0.9785 |
0.0490 |
335 |
1 |
46.97 |
2010-06-07 |
| 44. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
46.95 |
0.9281 |
0.1009 |
273 |
1 |
46.95 |
2010-08-11 |
| 45. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
46.89 |
1.0151 |
-0.0010 |
152 |
1 |
46.89 |
2011-07-13 |
| 46. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
46.89 |
1.0768 |
-0.0141 |
295 |
1 |
46.89 |
2010-05-22 |
| 47. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
46.51 |
0.9936 |
0.0407 |
227 |
1 |
46.51 |
2011-07-23 |
| 48. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
46.13 |
1.0034 |
0.0009 |
302 |
1 |
46.13 |
2010-05-22 |
| 49. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
46.09 |
1.0711 |
-0.0713 |
213 |
1 |
46.09 |
2010-05-20 |
| 50. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
45.96 |
1.0214 |
0.0231 |
281 |
1 |
45.96 |
2010-05-22 |
| 51. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
45.95 |
1.0053 |
-0.0055 |
232 |
1 |
45.95 |
2010-06-08 |
| 52. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
45.94 |
1.0487 |
-0.0521 |
231 |
1 |
45.94 |
2011-07-23 |
| 53. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
45.86 |
1.0523 |
-0.0568 |
256 |
1 |
45.86 |
2010-05-20 |
| 54. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
45.76 |
0.9340 |
0.0634 |
296 |
1 |
45.76 |
2010-05-21 |
| 55. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
45.59 |
0.9965 |
-0.0024 |
310 |
1 |
45.59 |
2010-05-22 |
| 56. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
45.39 |
0.9726 |
0.0104 |
154 |
2 |
43.81 |
2010-06-08 |
| 57. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
45.27 |
0.9068 |
0.0830 |
269 |
1 |
45.27 |
2010-05-23 |
| 58. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
45.03 |
0.9772 |
0.0008 |
217 |
1 |
45.03 |
2010-05-22 |
| 59. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
45.01 |
0.9513 |
0.0335 |
354 |
2 |
39.68 |
2010-05-22 |
| 60. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
44.95 |
1.0714 |
-0.1006 |
129 |
1 |
44.95 |
2010-05-07 |
| 61. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
44.90 |
0.9699 |
0.0081 |
269 |
1 |
44.90 |
2010-05-22 |
| 62. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
44.80 |
0.8442 |
0.1362 |
265 |
1 |
44.80 |
2011-07-13 |
| 63. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
44.62 |
0.9266 |
0.0459 |
267 |
1 |
44.62 |
2010-06-07 |
| 64. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
44.30 |
1.0218 |
-0.0593 |
268 |
1 |
44.30 |
2011-07-13 |
| 65. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
44.18 |
0.9907 |
-0.0296 |
211 |
1 |
44.18 |
2010-05-07 |
| 66. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
44.14 |
0.9260 |
0.0462 |
243 |
1 |
44.14 |
2010-05-20 |
| 67. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
43.98 |
0.9161 |
0.0402 |
200 |
1 |
43.98 |
2010-05-20 |
| 68. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
43.87 |
1.0398 |
-0.0944 |
110 |
2 |
40.93 |
2010-05-20 |
| 69. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
43.84 |
1.0441 |
-0.0476 |
316 |
1 |
43.84 |
2010-05-24 |
| 70. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
43.78 |
0.8533 |
0.1017 |
232 |
1 |
43.78 |
2010-05-24 |
| 71. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
43.56 |
0.8811 |
0.0725 |
239 |
1 |
43.56 |
2010-05-07 |
| 72. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
43.26 |
0.9514 |
-0.0087 |
237 |
2 |
42.36 |
2010-05-22 |
| 73. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
43.20 |
0.9567 |
-0.0158 |
273 |
1 |
43.20 |
2010-05-21 |
| 74. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
43.14 |
0.9724 |
-0.0291 |
237 |
1 |
43.14 |
2010-08-11 |
| 75. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
42.95 |
0.9805 |
-0.0404 |
292 |
1 |
42.95 |
2010-05-22 |
| 76. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
42.49 |
0.9216 |
0.0427 |
255 |
1 |
42.49 |
2011-07-13 |
| 77. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
41.96 |
0.9411 |
-0.0266 |
318 |
1 |
41.96 |
2010-05-20 |
| 78. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
41.72 |
1.0521 |
-0.1485 |
171 |
1 |
41.72 |
2010-05-21 |
| 79. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
41.66 |
1.0016 |
-0.0991 |
218 |
1 |
41.66 |
2010-05-20 |
| 80. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
41.50 |
1.0725 |
-0.1432 |
233 |
1 |
41.50 |
2010-05-22 |
| 81. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
41.46 |
0.8958 |
0.0114 |
322 |
1 |
41.46 |
2010-05-21 |
| 82. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
41.33 |
0.9527 |
-0.0530 |
251 |
1 |
41.33 |
2010-05-20 |
| 83. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
41.24 |
0.9863 |
-0.0841 |
339 |
1 |
41.24 |
2010-05-21 |
| 84. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
41.00 |
0.9916 |
-0.0565 |
282 |
1 |
41.00 |
2010-05-20 |
| 85. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
40.76 |
0.8614 |
0.0235 |
172 |
1 |
40.76 |
2010-06-07 |
| 86. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
40.39 |
0.7890 |
0.0909 |
230 |
1 |
40.39 |
2010-05-21 |
| 87. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
40.23 |
0.9710 |
-0.1020 |
173 |
1 |
40.23 |
2010-05-22 |
| 88. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
39.59 |
0.9196 |
-0.0566 |
148 |
1 |
39.59 |
2010-05-22 |
| 89. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
39.37 |
0.9578 |
-0.1018 |
281 |
2 |
37.67 |
2010-05-22 |
| 90. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
39.27 |
0.9769 |
-0.1247 |
263 |
1 |
39.27 |
2010-05-22 |
| 91. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
38.81 |
0.9871 |
-0.1068 |
209 |
1 |
38.81 |
2010-05-07 |
| 92. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
38.58 |
1.0254 |
-0.1456 |
217 |
1 |
38.58 |
2010-05-22 |
| 93. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
38.27 |
0.8096 |
0.0305 |
209 |
1 |
38.27 |
2010-05-07 |
| 94. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
38.13 |
1.0419 |
-0.2128 |
261 |
1 |
38.13 |
2010-05-22 |
| 95. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
37.90 |
0.9127 |
-0.0910 |
252 |
1 |
37.90 |
2010-05-30 |
| 96. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
37.70 |
0.9871 |
-0.1453 |
227 |
2 |
34.03 |
2010-08-11 |
| 97. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
37.70 |
0.8845 |
-0.0645 |
273 |
1 |
37.70 |
2010-05-20 |
| 98. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
37.31 |
0.8914 |
-0.0796 |
366 |
1 |
37.31 |
2010-05-24 |
| 99. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
37.30 |
1.0063 |
-0.1951 |
371 |
1 |
37.30 |
2010-05-20 |
| 100. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
37.09 |
0.9763 |
-0.1707 |
289 |
1 |
37.09 |
2010-05-20 |
| 101. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
37.00 |
0.9202 |
-0.1167 |
254 |
1 |
37.00 |
2010-05-20 |
| 102. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
36.76 |
1.0077 |
-0.1675 |
250 |
1 |
36.76 |
2010-05-20 |
| 103. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
36.69 |
0.9353 |
-0.1421 |
177 |
1 |
36.69 |
2010-05-24 |
| 104. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
36.24 |
0.8787 |
-0.0866 |
202 |
1 |
36.24 |
2010-05-20 |
| 105. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
36.12 |
1.0577 |
-0.2765 |
247 |
1 |
36.12 |
2010-05-22 |
| 106. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
35.95 |
0.9251 |
-0.1391 |
177 |
1 |
35.95 |
2010-05-20 |
| 107. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
35.23 |
0.8022 |
-0.0340 |
215 |
1 |
35.23 |
2011-07-13 |
| 108. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
34.91 |
0.9865 |
-0.2274 |
276 |
1 |
34.91 |
2010-05-22 |
| 109. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
34.00 |
0.8353 |
-0.0899 |
283 |
1 |
34.00 |
2010-05-20 |
| 110. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
33.79 |
0.8975 |
-0.1637 |
268 |
1 |
33.79 |
2010-05-20 |
| 111. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
32.91 |
1.0337 |
-0.3205 |
214 |
1 |
32.91 |
2010-05-22 |
| 112. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
31.36 |
0.9532 |
-0.2749 |
258 |
1 |
31.36 |
2010-05-20 |
| 113. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
27.64 |
0.9966 |
-0.3997 |
259 |
1 |
27.64 |
2010-05-20 |