| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
39.62 |
1.1018 |
0.3770 |
220 |
1 |
39.62 |
2010-12-09 |
| 2. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
38.19 |
1.0390 |
0.3883 |
205 |
2 |
32.47 |
2010-12-09 |
| 3. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
35.71 |
0.8787 |
0.4633 |
202 |
2 |
28.78 |
2010-12-09 |
| 4. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
35.56 |
0.9986 |
0.3282 |
162 |
3 |
32.59 |
2010-12-08 |
| 5. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
35.50 |
0.8520 |
0.4783 |
202 |
2 |
27.71 |
2010-12-09 |
| 6. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
34.83 |
0.8854 |
0.4179 |
116 |
2 |
32.49 |
2010-11-24 |
| 7. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
34.62 |
1.0151 |
0.2725 |
152 |
2 |
29.89 |
2010-12-08 |
| 8. |
Jay earned himself a promotion to lieutenant on the strength... |
34.54 |
0.8122 |
0.4833 |
181 |
2 |
29.75 |
2010-12-09 |
| 9. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
34.21 |
0.8628 |
0.4144 |
196 |
2 |
30.27 |
2010-12-01 |
| 10. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
33.89 |
0.8559 |
0.4134 |
191 |
2 |
29.37 |
2010-12-09 |
| 11. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
33.77 |
1.0528 |
0.2062 |
201 |
1 |
33.77 |
2010-12-09 |
| 12. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
33.05 |
1.0485 |
0.2229 |
153 |
1 |
33.05 |
2010-12-10 |
| 13. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
33.00 |
1.1215 |
0.1374 |
200 |
1 |
33.00 |
2010-12-08 |
| 14. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
32.90 |
0.9164 |
0.3182 |
121 |
1 |
32.90 |
2010-12-08 |
| 15. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
32.48 |
0.8152 |
0.4002 |
163 |
3 |
27.55 |
2010-12-08 |
| 16. |
The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest h... |
31.91 |
0.8953 |
0.2988 |
193 |
2 |
31.16 |
2010-12-08 |
| 17. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
31.86 |
0.8996 |
0.2867 |
192 |
2 |
26.47 |
2010-12-09 |
| 18. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
31.75 |
0.8867 |
0.3068 |
163 |
2 |
27.45 |
2010-12-07 |
| 19. |
This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immo... |
31.50 |
0.8244 |
0.3553 |
73 |
1 |
31.50 |
2011-01-04 |
| 20. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
31.39 |
0.9711 |
0.2017 |
176 |
1 |
31.39 |
2010-12-08 |
| 21. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
31.36 |
0.9729 |
0.2001 |
255 |
2 |
28.37 |
2011-01-10 |
| 22. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
30.88 |
0.9213 |
0.2339 |
295 |
1 |
30.88 |
2010-12-09 |
| 23. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
30.65 |
0.8125 |
0.3360 |
197 |
1 |
30.65 |
2010-12-08 |
| 24. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
30.59 |
1.0483 |
0.0924 |
227 |
1 |
30.59 |
2010-12-01 |
| 25. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
30.01 |
0.9772 |
0.1411 |
217 |
3 |
27.92 |
2010-12-07 |
| 26. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
29.87 |
1.0797 |
0.0312 |
210 |
1 |
29.87 |
2010-11-24 |
| 27. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
29.79 |
0.9786 |
0.1344 |
235 |
1 |
29.79 |
2010-12-08 |
| 28. |
The brain can be a tool. But when you can't stop thinking of... |
29.77 |
0.9221 |
0.1891 |
244 |
2 |
29.23 |
2010-12-13 |
| 29. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
29.70 |
0.9325 |
0.1709 |
156 |
1 |
29.70 |
2010-12-02 |
| 30. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
29.67 |
0.8918 |
0.2155 |
100 |
1 |
29.67 |
2010-12-08 |
| 31. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
29.64 |
0.9726 |
0.1288 |
154 |
1 |
29.64 |
2010-11-26 |
| 32. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
29.56 |
1.0767 |
0.0259 |
212 |
1 |
29.56 |
2010-11-24 |
| 33. |
The intelligent person is able to identify a problem and fin... |
29.18 |
0.8157 |
0.2744 |
121 |
1 |
29.18 |
2010-12-01 |
| 34. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
29.15 |
0.9572 |
0.1310 |
201 |
2 |
26.23 |
2010-11-26 |
| 35. |
Dean is the perfect guy for the road because he actually was... |
29.07 |
0.8506 |
0.2315 |
132 |
1 |
29.07 |
2010-12-03 |
| 36. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
29.07 |
0.9965 |
0.0904 |
277 |
1 |
29.07 |
2010-12-10 |
| 37. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
28.99 |
0.9798 |
0.0977 |
199 |
2 |
27.61 |
2010-12-02 |
| 38. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
28.83 |
1.0412 |
0.0354 |
225 |
1 |
28.83 |
2010-12-08 |
| 39. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
28.64 |
1.0993 |
-0.0314 |
265 |
1 |
28.64 |
2010-11-24 |
| 40. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
28.55 |
0.9171 |
0.1498 |
165 |
1 |
28.55 |
2010-12-06 |
| 41. |
At the very end of these food chains (which is to say, at th... |
28.41 |
0.8202 |
0.2384 |
178 |
1 |
28.41 |
2010-12-08 |
| 42. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
28.31 |
0.9965 |
0.0562 |
168 |
1 |
28.31 |
2010-12-10 |
| 43. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
28.12 |
0.8691 |
0.1676 |
119 |
2 |
28.10 |
2010-12-07 |
| 44. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
28.09 |
0.8792 |
0.1793 |
296 |
2 |
27.94 |
2010-12-17 |
| 45. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
27.94 |
0.9162 |
0.1277 |
165 |
3 |
25.11 |
2010-12-07 |
| 46. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
27.68 |
0.8615 |
0.1723 |
110 |
1 |
27.68 |
2010-12-08 |
| 47. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
27.51 |
0.9260 |
0.1117 |
243 |
1 |
27.51 |
2010-12-07 |
| 48. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
27.47 |
1.0124 |
0.0110 |
204 |
1 |
27.47 |
2010-12-17 |
| 49. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
27.47 |
0.9418 |
0.0896 |
188 |
2 |
26.68 |
2010-11-23 |
| 50. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
27.45 |
0.9127 |
0.1100 |
252 |
1 |
27.45 |
2010-11-24 |
| 51. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
27.42 |
0.9275 |
0.0931 |
211 |
1 |
27.42 |
2010-12-07 |
| 52. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
27.40 |
1.0384 |
-0.0249 |
183 |
2 |
26.68 |
2010-12-06 |
| 53. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
27.27 |
0.9340 |
0.0840 |
296 |
2 |
27.06 |
2010-12-01 |
| 54. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
27.11 |
1.0365 |
0.0055 |
162 |
1 |
27.11 |
2010-12-13 |
| 55. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
26.91 |
1.0666 |
-0.0619 |
297 |
1 |
26.91 |
2010-12-08 |
| 56. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
26.90 |
0.8745 |
0.1275 |
169 |
2 |
26.63 |
2010-12-06 |
| 57. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
26.88 |
1.0117 |
0.0366 |
297 |
1 |
26.88 |
2010-12-08 |
| 58. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
26.80 |
0.8821 |
0.1178 |
176 |
1 |
26.80 |
2010-11-24 |
| 59. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
26.70 |
0.8700 |
0.1259 |
127 |
1 |
26.70 |
2010-11-24 |
| 60. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
26.61 |
0.9251 |
0.0731 |
177 |
2 |
25.25 |
2010-12-07 |
| 61. |
A chorus is the high-point of a lyric's energy as well as th... |
26.50 |
0.8788 |
0.1068 |
134 |
1 |
26.50 |
2010-12-08 |
| 62. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
26.43 |
0.8562 |
0.1303 |
170 |
1 |
26.43 |
2010-11-22 |
| 63. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
26.24 |
0.9226 |
0.0605 |
177 |
1 |
26.24 |
2010-11-24 |
| 64. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
26.21 |
1.1296 |
-0.1224 |
252 |
1 |
26.21 |
2010-11-24 |
| 65. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
26.15 |
0.9673 |
0.0479 |
232 |
2 |
25.30 |
2011-01-04 |
| 66. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
26.09 |
1.0099 |
-0.0392 |
207 |
1 |
26.09 |
2010-12-07 |
| 67. |
The typewriter had a problem, though. Try to type quickly on... |
25.89 |
0.8791 |
0.0860 |
190 |
1 |
25.89 |
2010-11-22 |
| 68. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
25.74 |
0.8810 |
0.0801 |
282 |
1 |
25.74 |
2010-12-08 |
| 69. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
25.68 |
1.0132 |
-0.0638 |
143 |
1 |
25.68 |
2010-11-22 |
| 70. |
Imagine words like "if" as a two-finger movement instead of ... |
25.63 |
0.7443 |
0.2105 |
169 |
1 |
25.63 |
2011-01-04 |
| 71. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
25.55 |
0.9855 |
0.0010 |
258 |
1 |
25.55 |
2010-12-01 |
| 72. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
25.55 |
1.1014 |
-0.1104 |
273 |
1 |
25.55 |
2010-12-03 |
| 73. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
25.52 |
0.8876 |
0.0627 |
118 |
2 |
25.12 |
2010-12-08 |
| 74. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
25.52 |
0.8793 |
0.0743 |
157 |
1 |
25.52 |
2010-12-01 |
| 75. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
25.48 |
0.8118 |
0.1436 |
109 |
1 |
25.48 |
2010-12-06 |
| 76. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
25.45 |
1.0023 |
-0.0548 |
211 |
1 |
25.45 |
2010-12-10 |
| 77. |
That Qwerty survived significant challenges early in the his... |
25.40 |
0.7916 |
0.1636 |
184 |
1 |
25.40 |
2010-11-22 |
| 78. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
25.31 |
0.9263 |
0.0213 |
188 |
1 |
25.31 |
2011-01-05 |
| 79. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
25.15 |
0.9740 |
-0.0401 |
209 |
1 |
25.15 |
2010-11-26 |
| 80. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
25.11 |
0.8243 |
0.1143 |
134 |
1 |
25.11 |
2010-12-06 |
| 81. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
25.08 |
1.0463 |
-0.1155 |
182 |
1 |
25.08 |
2010-11-22 |
| 82. |
It was evident that he came from the world where men could s... |
25.06 |
0.9320 |
-0.0047 |
84 |
1 |
25.06 |
2010-11-24 |
| 83. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
25.03 |
0.8500 |
0.0882 |
145 |
1 |
25.03 |
2010-11-26 |
| 84. |
When considering the cultural significance of this intriguin... |
24.95 |
0.9239 |
0.0132 |
193 |
1 |
24.95 |
2010-12-07 |
| 85. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
24.92 |
0.7731 |
0.1582 |
145 |
1 |
24.92 |
2010-12-08 |
| 86. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
24.85 |
0.8899 |
0.0479 |
293 |
1 |
24.85 |
2010-12-07 |
| 87. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
24.59 |
0.8872 |
0.0237 |
168 |
1 |
24.59 |
2010-11-26 |
| 88. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
24.57 |
1.0150 |
-0.0499 |
325 |
1 |
24.57 |
2010-11-22 |
| 89. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
24.45 |
0.9936 |
-0.0619 |
227 |
1 |
24.45 |
2010-12-01 |
| 90. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, but the orig... |
24.38 |
0.8544 |
0.0549 |
170 |
2 |
23.27 |
2010-12-08 |
| 91. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
24.19 |
1.0577 |
-0.1595 |
247 |
1 |
24.19 |
2011-01-04 |
| 92. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
24.17 |
1.0506 |
-0.1208 |
277 |
1 |
24.17 |
2010-11-24 |
| 93. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
24.14 |
1.0799 |
-0.1837 |
243 |
1 |
24.14 |
2010-12-10 |
| 94. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
23.95 |
1.0053 |
-0.1146 |
232 |
1 |
23.95 |
2010-12-06 |
| 95. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
23.86 |
1.0214 |
-0.1375 |
166 |
1 |
23.86 |
2010-11-23 |
| 96. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
23.81 |
1.0714 |
-0.1929 |
129 |
1 |
23.81 |
2010-12-07 |
| 97. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
23.67 |
1.0254 |
-0.1025 |
217 |
1 |
23.67 |
2010-11-23 |
| 98. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
23.49 |
0.8826 |
-0.0059 |
296 |
1 |
23.49 |
2010-12-01 |
| 99. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
23.33 |
1.0261 |
-0.1588 |
273 |
1 |
23.33 |
2010-12-10 |
| 100. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
23.29 |
0.9097 |
-0.0417 |
153 |
1 |
23.29 |
2010-11-24 |
| 101. |
Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place where as a child I'... |
23.27 |
0.8936 |
-0.0282 |
127 |
1 |
23.27 |
2010-12-01 |
| 102. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
22.96 |
0.9309 |
-0.0776 |
284 |
1 |
22.96 |
2010-11-26 |
| 103. |
Desktop publishing revolutionized the creation of printed do... |
22.91 |
0.8023 |
0.0564 |
182 |
2 |
20.00 |
2010-12-08 |
| 104. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
22.75 |
0.8089 |
0.0355 |
158 |
2 |
21.78 |
2010-11-26 |
| 105. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
22.64 |
1.0252 |
-0.1886 |
176 |
1 |
22.64 |
2010-12-02 |
| 106. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
22.52 |
0.7826 |
0.0598 |
97 |
1 |
22.52 |
2010-11-26 |
| 107. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
22.25 |
0.8323 |
-0.0053 |
145 |
1 |
22.25 |
2010-11-24 |
| 108. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
22.10 |
1.0379 |
-0.1803 |
245 |
1 |
22.10 |
2010-11-26 |
| 109. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
21.96 |
0.7708 |
0.0520 |
207 |
1 |
21.96 |
2010-12-07 |
| 110. |
There is a trick for learning to type faster. That trick is ... |
21.93 |
0.8661 |
-0.0587 |
94 |
1 |
21.93 |
2010-11-22 |
| 111. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
21.69 |
0.8295 |
-0.0205 |
209 |
2 |
21.62 |
2010-12-09 |
| 112. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
21.42 |
0.9763 |
-0.1798 |
289 |
1 |
21.42 |
2010-11-24 |
| 113. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
21.35 |
0.9098 |
-0.1191 |
167 |
2 |
21.22 |
2010-12-03 |
| 114. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
20.97 |
0.7997 |
-0.0234 |
138 |
1 |
20.97 |
2010-12-07 |
| 115. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
20.89 |
0.7839 |
-0.0013 |
257 |
1 |
20.89 |
2010-11-24 |
| 116. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
20.61 |
0.7934 |
-0.0278 |
134 |
1 |
20.61 |
2010-12-08 |
| 117. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
20.25 |
0.7818 |
-0.0297 |
195 |
1 |
20.25 |
2010-12-10 |
| 118. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
20.10 |
0.8961 |
-0.1524 |
189 |
1 |
20.10 |
2010-11-22 |
| 119. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
19.67 |
0.8809 |
-0.1523 |
127 |
1 |
19.67 |
2010-12-08 |
| 120. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
19.32 |
0.9514 |
-0.2335 |
237 |
1 |
19.32 |
2010-12-07 |
| 121. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
19.20 |
0.8263 |
-0.1153 |
162 |
1 |
19.20 |
2011-01-04 |
| 122. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
19.09 |
1.0679 |
-0.3387 |
177 |
1 |
19.09 |
2010-12-06 |
| 123. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
18.66 |
0.9731 |
-0.2930 |
129 |
1 |
18.66 |
2010-12-09 |
| 124. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
18.33 |
0.8190 |
-0.1318 |
135 |
1 |
18.33 |
2010-12-03 |
| 125. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
17.95 |
1.0201 |
-0.3611 |
172 |
1 |
17.95 |
2011-01-05 |
| 126. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
17.82 |
0.7890 |
-0.1272 |
230 |
1 |
17.82 |
2011-01-13 |
| 127. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
14.95 |
0.9682 |
-0.4177 |
143 |
1 |
14.95 |
2011-01-31 |
| 128. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
5.64 |
0.8178 |
-0.6181 |
159 |
1 |
5.64 |
2010-12-08 |