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... |
71.93 |
1.1018 |
0.1222 |
220 |
1 |
71.93 |
2011-10-16 |
2. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
69.65 |
0.9127 |
0.2757 |
252 |
1 |
69.65 |
2011-10-16 |
3. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
68.92 |
1.0555 |
0.1534 |
323 |
1 |
68.92 |
2011-10-17 |
4. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
68.56 |
1.0296 |
0.1495 |
437 |
1 |
68.56 |
2011-10-16 |
5. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
68.22 |
1.0124 |
0.1517 |
204 |
1 |
68.22 |
2011-10-16 |
6. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
67.64 |
0.9710 |
0.1792 |
173 |
1 |
67.64 |
2011-10-13 |
7. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
67.47 |
1.0389 |
0.1166 |
318 |
2 |
66.10 |
2011-10-16 |
8. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
66.61 |
1.0774 |
0.0908 |
304 |
1 |
66.61 |
2011-10-13 |
9. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
66.42 |
1.0917 |
0.0672 |
243 |
2 |
61.61 |
2011-10-17 |
10. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
66.41 |
0.9430 |
0.1946 |
297 |
2 |
61.35 |
2011-10-17 |
11. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
66.18 |
1.0565 |
0.0719 |
247 |
2 |
61.35 |
2011-10-16 |
12. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
65.61 |
0.9899 |
0.1267 |
163 |
1 |
65.61 |
2011-10-16 |
13. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
65.07 |
1.0498 |
0.0574 |
180 |
1 |
65.07 |
2011-10-16 |
14. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
64.99 |
0.9675 |
0.1527 |
383 |
1 |
64.99 |
2011-10-17 |
15. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
64.81 |
1.0412 |
0.0661 |
225 |
1 |
64.81 |
2011-10-16 |
16. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
64.55 |
1.0201 |
0.0872 |
375 |
2 |
57.52 |
2011-11-04 |
17. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
64.53 |
1.0389 |
0.0663 |
340 |
1 |
64.53 |
2011-10-13 |
18. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
64.15 |
0.9212 |
0.1782 |
231 |
1 |
64.15 |
2011-10-16 |
19. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
63.93 |
0.9504 |
0.1363 |
263 |
1 |
63.93 |
2011-10-16 |
20. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
63.63 |
1.0095 |
0.0764 |
316 |
1 |
63.63 |
2011-10-13 |
21. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
63.32 |
0.9912 |
0.1175 |
237 |
1 |
63.32 |
2011-10-16 |
22. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
63.31 |
1.0602 |
0.0253 |
389 |
1 |
63.31 |
2011-10-16 |
23. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
63.28 |
0.9910 |
0.0923 |
295 |
1 |
63.28 |
2011-10-16 |
24. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
62.71 |
0.9649 |
0.1057 |
193 |
1 |
62.71 |
2011-10-16 |
25. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
62.63 |
1.0201 |
0.0434 |
172 |
1 |
62.63 |
2011-10-16 |
26. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
62.36 |
1.0012 |
0.0667 |
260 |
1 |
62.36 |
2011-10-16 |
27. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
62.20 |
1.0621 |
0.0196 |
263 |
1 |
62.20 |
2011-10-13 |
28. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
62.01 |
0.9965 |
0.0631 |
310 |
1 |
62.01 |
2011-10-16 |
29. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
61.98 |
0.9941 |
0.0622 |
217 |
1 |
61.98 |
2011-10-16 |
30. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
61.51 |
1.0109 |
0.0726 |
400 |
1 |
61.51 |
2011-10-16 |
31. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
61.21 |
1.0515 |
-0.0142 |
166 |
1 |
61.21 |
2011-10-12 |
32. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
61.12 |
1.0183 |
0.0202 |
191 |
1 |
61.12 |
2011-10-16 |
33. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
61.09 |
1.0417 |
-0.0013 |
253 |
1 |
61.09 |
2011-10-13 |
34. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
60.35 |
1.0201 |
0.0110 |
303 |
2 |
56.63 |
2011-11-04 |
35. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
60.28 |
0.9986 |
0.0313 |
283 |
1 |
60.28 |
2011-10-13 |
36. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
60.02 |
0.8442 |
0.1845 |
265 |
1 |
60.02 |
2011-10-14 |
37. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
59.99 |
0.9572 |
0.0655 |
201 |
1 |
59.99 |
2011-10-14 |
38. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
59.83 |
1.0596 |
-0.0405 |
239 |
2 |
59.14 |
2011-10-16 |
39. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
59.58 |
0.9593 |
0.0627 |
398 |
2 |
59.46 |
2011-10-17 |
40. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
59.54 |
0.9468 |
0.0698 |
276 |
1 |
59.54 |
2011-10-13 |
41. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
59.12 |
1.0399 |
-0.0251 |
294 |
1 |
59.12 |
2011-10-12 |
42. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
59.11 |
1.0993 |
-0.0922 |
265 |
1 |
59.11 |
2011-10-16 |
43. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
58.98 |
1.0379 |
0.0036 |
245 |
2 |
58.52 |
2011-12-07 |
44. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
58.96 |
0.9500 |
0.0586 |
362 |
1 |
58.96 |
2011-10-16 |
45. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
58.90 |
0.9633 |
0.0441 |
304 |
1 |
58.90 |
2011-10-16 |
46. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
58.75 |
0.9234 |
0.0846 |
346 |
1 |
58.75 |
2011-10-13 |
47. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
58.67 |
1.0714 |
-0.0792 |
129 |
1 |
58.67 |
2011-10-12 |
48. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
58.59 |
0.9430 |
0.0499 |
211 |
1 |
58.59 |
2011-10-16 |
49. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
58.42 |
0.9426 |
0.0578 |
317 |
1 |
58.42 |
2011-10-13 |
50. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
58.41 |
1.0252 |
-0.0348 |
176 |
1 |
58.41 |
2011-10-12 |
51. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
58.38 |
1.1016 |
-0.1055 |
233 |
1 |
58.38 |
2011-10-16 |
52. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
58.31 |
1.0667 |
-0.0324 |
406 |
1 |
58.31 |
2011-10-16 |
53. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
58.10 |
0.9699 |
0.0209 |
269 |
1 |
58.10 |
2011-10-16 |
54. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
57.88 |
0.9418 |
0.0519 |
188 |
1 |
57.88 |
2011-10-12 |
55. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
57.76 |
0.9786 |
0.0021 |
193 |
1 |
57.76 |
2011-11-04 |
56. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
57.69 |
0.9792 |
0.0438 |
265 |
1 |
57.69 |
2011-10-16 |
57. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
57.65 |
1.0172 |
0.0018 |
341 |
1 |
57.65 |
2011-10-17 |
58. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
57.56 |
0.8958 |
0.0914 |
322 |
1 |
57.56 |
2011-10-13 |
59. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
57.56 |
0.9673 |
0.0542 |
232 |
1 |
57.56 |
2011-10-13 |
60. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
57.41 |
0.8951 |
0.0869 |
193 |
1 |
57.41 |
2011-10-16 |
61. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
57.33 |
0.9266 |
0.0515 |
267 |
1 |
57.33 |
2011-10-16 |
62. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
57.17 |
1.0203 |
-0.0413 |
261 |
1 |
57.17 |
2011-10-12 |
63. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
57.04 |
1.0441 |
-0.0695 |
252 |
1 |
57.04 |
2011-10-16 |
64. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
57.00 |
0.9266 |
0.0475 |
278 |
1 |
57.00 |
2011-10-12 |
65. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
56.97 |
0.9514 |
0.0210 |
237 |
2 |
56.53 |
2011-10-16 |
66. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
56.73 |
0.9938 |
-0.0257 |
339 |
1 |
56.73 |
2011-10-14 |
67. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
56.47 |
0.9936 |
-0.0099 |
227 |
1 |
56.47 |
2011-10-13 |
68. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
56.44 |
0.8933 |
0.0760 |
363 |
1 |
56.44 |
2011-10-16 |
69. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
56.44 |
0.9682 |
-0.0068 |
143 |
1 |
56.44 |
2011-10-16 |
70. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
56.37 |
0.9212 |
0.0436 |
323 |
1 |
56.37 |
2011-10-12 |
71. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
56.34 |
0.9798 |
-0.0242 |
199 |
1 |
56.34 |
2011-10-12 |
72. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
56.21 |
1.0240 |
-0.0681 |
256 |
1 |
56.21 |
2011-10-13 |
73. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
55.92 |
1.0577 |
-0.1075 |
247 |
1 |
55.92 |
2011-10-13 |
74. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
55.53 |
1.0177 |
-0.0321 |
392 |
1 |
55.53 |
2011-10-13 |
75. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
55.41 |
1.0506 |
-0.0769 |
277 |
1 |
55.41 |
2011-10-16 |
76. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
55.40 |
0.9907 |
-0.0472 |
211 |
1 |
55.40 |
2011-10-16 |
77. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
55.40 |
0.9665 |
0.0278 |
326 |
1 |
55.40 |
2011-10-16 |
78. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
55.22 |
0.9905 |
-0.0170 |
337 |
1 |
55.22 |
2011-10-13 |
79. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
55.04 |
1.0141 |
-0.0349 |
381 |
1 |
55.04 |
2011-10-16 |
80. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
54.97 |
0.9532 |
-0.0171 |
258 |
1 |
54.97 |
2011-10-12 |
81. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
54.79 |
0.8919 |
0.0412 |
205 |
1 |
54.79 |
2011-10-17 |
82. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
54.66 |
1.0004 |
-0.0744 |
212 |
1 |
54.66 |
2011-10-14 |
83. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
54.36 |
1.0767 |
-0.1520 |
212 |
1 |
54.36 |
2011-10-12 |
84. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
54.24 |
0.9303 |
-0.0125 |
176 |
1 |
54.24 |
2011-10-12 |
85. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
54.07 |
1.0795 |
-0.1274 |
226 |
1 |
54.07 |
2011-10-16 |
86. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
53.98 |
0.9353 |
-0.0196 |
177 |
1 |
53.98 |
2011-10-16 |
87. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
53.97 |
0.9365 |
-0.0147 |
248 |
1 |
53.97 |
2011-11-04 |
88. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
53.93 |
0.9509 |
0.0069 |
225 |
1 |
53.93 |
2011-10-12 |
89. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
53.87 |
0.9439 |
-0.0176 |
476 |
1 |
53.87 |
2011-10-16 |
90. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
53.38 |
0.9776 |
-0.0673 |
308 |
1 |
53.38 |
2011-10-16 |
91. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
53.29 |
0.9348 |
-0.0188 |
229 |
1 |
53.29 |
2011-10-16 |
92. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
53.04 |
1.0340 |
-0.1245 |
406 |
1 |
53.04 |
2011-11-04 |
93. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
52.76 |
0.9640 |
-0.0349 |
334 |
1 |
52.76 |
2011-10-16 |
94. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
52.63 |
0.7805 |
0.1119 |
154 |
3 |
48.04 |
2011-12-07 |
95. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
52.60 |
1.0496 |
-0.1539 |
314 |
1 |
52.60 |
2011-10-12 |
96. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
52.17 |
0.9636 |
-0.0749 |
254 |
1 |
52.17 |
2011-10-13 |
97. |
The label doesn't mention that that rib-eye steak came from ... |
52.14 |
0.7731 |
0.1172 |
145 |
1 |
52.14 |
2011-10-14 |
98. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
52.02 |
0.8996 |
-0.0186 |
192 |
1 |
52.02 |
2011-10-12 |
99. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
51.96 |
0.9157 |
-0.0256 |
350 |
1 |
51.96 |
2011-10-13 |
100. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
51.50 |
0.9646 |
-0.0880 |
264 |
2 |
49.72 |
2011-10-16 |
101. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
51.33 |
0.8770 |
0.0008 |
300 |
2 |
50.59 |
2011-10-13 |
102. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
51.15 |
0.9670 |
-0.0533 |
307 |
1 |
51.15 |
2011-10-16 |
103. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
51.08 |
0.9330 |
-0.0560 |
360 |
1 |
51.08 |
2011-10-16 |
104. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
50.69 |
0.9612 |
-0.0974 |
256 |
1 |
50.69 |
2011-10-13 |
105. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
50.40 |
0.9632 |
-0.0624 |
345 |
1 |
50.40 |
2011-11-04 |
106. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
49.77 |
0.9697 |
-0.1220 |
249 |
1 |
49.77 |
2011-10-12 |
107. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
47.98 |
0.8614 |
-0.0475 |
172 |
1 |
47.98 |
2011-10-14 |
108. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
47.26 |
1.0132 |
-0.2178 |
143 |
1 |
47.26 |
2011-10-12 |
109. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
46.06 |
0.9398 |
-0.1467 |
419 |
1 |
46.06 |
2011-10-12 |
110. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
45.26 |
0.9774 |
-0.2090 |
196 |
1 |
45.26 |
2011-10-12 |
111. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
44.81 |
1.0073 |
-0.2373 |
369 |
2 |
39.40 |
2011-11-04 |
112. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
44.15 |
0.9805 |
-0.2253 |
292 |
1 |
44.15 |
2011-12-07 |
113. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
41.82 |
1.0083 |
-0.2539 |
273 |
2 |
33.78 |
2011-11-04 |