| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
47.53 |
1.0151 |
0.2892 |
152 |
1 |
47.53 |
2013-12-11 |
| 2. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
47.02 |
1.0487 |
0.2462 |
231 |
1 |
47.02 |
2013-12-11 |
| 3. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
46.55 |
1.0486 |
0.2386 |
289 |
1 |
46.55 |
2013-12-11 |
| 4. |
The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do ... |
45.50 |
1.0205 |
0.2294 |
179 |
1 |
45.50 |
2013-12-12 |
| 5. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
43.52 |
1.0577 |
0.1405 |
247 |
1 |
43.52 |
2013-12-18 |
| 6. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
42.79 |
0.9325 |
0.2419 |
156 |
1 |
42.79 |
2011-05-05 |
| 7. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
42.11 |
1.0523 |
0.1061 |
256 |
2 |
40.07 |
2013-12-12 |
| 8. |
We speak of something carried and something carrying, of som... |
41.97 |
1.0907 |
0.0701 |
303 |
1 |
41.97 |
2011-05-20 |
| 9. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
41.65 |
0.9461 |
0.1994 |
193 |
1 |
41.65 |
2013-12-18 |
| 10. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
41.29 |
1.0138 |
0.1256 |
231 |
1 |
41.29 |
2013-12-11 |
| 11. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
41.16 |
0.9572 |
0.2221 |
376 |
1 |
41.16 |
2013-12-12 |
| 12. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
41.01 |
0.9769 |
0.1532 |
263 |
1 |
41.01 |
2013-12-18 |
| 13. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
40.99 |
1.0077 |
0.1646 |
250 |
1 |
40.99 |
2013-12-18 |
| 14. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
40.71 |
0.9740 |
0.1453 |
209 |
2 |
36.88 |
2013-12-12 |
| 15. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
40.50 |
1.0023 |
0.1133 |
211 |
1 |
40.50 |
2011-05-20 |
| 16. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
40.12 |
1.0795 |
0.0581 |
226 |
1 |
40.12 |
2013-12-11 |
| 17. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
40.06 |
1.0788 |
0.0210 |
171 |
1 |
40.06 |
2011-03-28 |
| 18. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
39.96 |
1.0211 |
0.1122 |
213 |
1 |
39.96 |
2013-12-12 |
| 19. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
39.60 |
1.0668 |
0.0282 |
350 |
1 |
39.60 |
2011-05-20 |
| 20. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
39.01 |
1.0740 |
0.0403 |
264 |
2 |
36.45 |
2011-05-05 |
| 21. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
38.89 |
0.9786 |
0.0890 |
193 |
2 |
37.00 |
2013-12-11 |
| 22. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
38.84 |
0.9047 |
0.1593 |
118 |
1 |
38.84 |
2013-12-12 |
| 23. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
38.69 |
0.9376 |
0.1350 |
367 |
1 |
38.69 |
2013-12-23 |
| 24. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
38.40 |
0.9907 |
0.0671 |
211 |
2 |
32.28 |
2013-12-12 |
| 25. |
Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they d... |
38.34 |
0.8745 |
0.1808 |
169 |
1 |
38.34 |
2011-05-05 |
| 26. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
37.99 |
0.9529 |
0.1352 |
269 |
1 |
37.99 |
2013-12-18 |
| 27. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
37.90 |
0.9340 |
0.1102 |
296 |
3 |
35.31 |
2013-12-11 |
| 28. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
37.85 |
1.0516 |
-0.0086 |
281 |
1 |
37.85 |
2011-05-20 |
| 29. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
37.30 |
0.9212 |
0.1101 |
231 |
2 |
33.96 |
2013-12-18 |
| 30. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
37.30 |
1.0389 |
-0.0086 |
318 |
1 |
37.30 |
2011-03-26 |
| 31. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
36.26 |
1.0534 |
-0.0514 |
357 |
1 |
36.26 |
2013-12-18 |
| 32. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
36.15 |
0.8559 |
0.1409 |
191 |
1 |
36.15 |
2011-03-26 |
| 33. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
36.13 |
0.9863 |
0.0138 |
339 |
1 |
36.13 |
2011-04-16 |
| 34. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
36.07 |
1.0768 |
-0.0431 |
295 |
1 |
36.07 |
2013-12-18 |
| 35. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
36.03 |
0.8892 |
0.1099 |
207 |
1 |
36.03 |
2013-12-13 |
| 36. |
You could substitute raspberries or any other fruit, but 99.... |
36.00 |
0.9097 |
0.0820 |
153 |
1 |
36.00 |
2011-05-05 |
| 37. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
35.71 |
1.0666 |
-0.0822 |
297 |
1 |
35.71 |
2011-03-26 |
| 38. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
35.69 |
0.9365 |
0.0487 |
248 |
1 |
35.69 |
2011-05-20 |
| 39. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
35.69 |
0.9281 |
0.0599 |
273 |
1 |
35.69 |
2013-12-18 |
| 40. |
All typewriters are adjusted to type 6 lines to the inch fro... |
35.60 |
0.7690 |
0.2143 |
142 |
2 |
34.17 |
2011-05-05 |
| 41. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
35.49 |
0.8971 |
0.0855 |
266 |
1 |
35.49 |
2011-05-20 |
| 42. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
35.49 |
1.0388 |
-0.0293 |
243 |
1 |
35.49 |
2013-12-11 |
| 43. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
35.45 |
1.0038 |
0.0035 |
237 |
1 |
35.45 |
2013-12-13 |
| 44. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
35.23 |
0.8941 |
0.0779 |
216 |
2 |
34.73 |
2011-06-13 |
| 45. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
35.21 |
0.8295 |
0.1420 |
209 |
1 |
35.21 |
2013-12-18 |
| 46. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
35.03 |
0.9773 |
-0.0210 |
123 |
2 |
34.88 |
2011-05-20 |
| 47. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
34.88 |
1.0767 |
-0.1182 |
212 |
1 |
34.88 |
2011-03-30 |
| 48. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
34.87 |
0.9303 |
0.0227 |
176 |
1 |
34.87 |
2013-12-11 |
| 49. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
34.53 |
0.9964 |
-0.0455 |
203 |
1 |
34.53 |
2011-05-05 |
| 50. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
34.49 |
1.0396 |
-0.0970 |
149 |
1 |
34.49 |
2011-03-26 |
| 51. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
34.46 |
0.9350 |
0.0142 |
195 |
1 |
34.46 |
2013-12-11 |
| 52. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
34.40 |
0.9266 |
0.0205 |
267 |
1 |
34.40 |
2011-05-20 |
| 53. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
34.18 |
0.8615 |
0.0795 |
110 |
1 |
34.18 |
2011-03-30 |
| 54. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
34.05 |
0.9216 |
0.0552 |
255 |
1 |
34.05 |
2013-12-13 |
| 55. |
Because of their scouting skills and peripheral kinesthetic ... |
33.90 |
0.8162 |
0.1224 |
149 |
1 |
33.90 |
2011-05-20 |
| 56. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
33.65 |
1.0131 |
-0.0907 |
225 |
1 |
33.65 |
2011-04-25 |
| 57. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
33.47 |
0.9798 |
-0.0641 |
199 |
2 |
32.83 |
2013-12-12 |
| 58. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
33.07 |
0.9910 |
-0.0789 |
295 |
1 |
33.07 |
2011-03-30 |
| 59. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
32.92 |
0.9286 |
-0.0237 |
194 |
1 |
32.92 |
2011-03-26 |
| 60. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
32.60 |
1.0673 |
-0.1285 |
230 |
1 |
32.60 |
2013-12-12 |
| 61. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
32.56 |
1.0863 |
-0.1557 |
210 |
1 |
32.56 |
2011-05-20 |
| 62. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
32.34 |
1.0365 |
-0.1172 |
162 |
1 |
32.34 |
2011-05-05 |
| 63. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
32.23 |
0.8096 |
0.0850 |
209 |
1 |
32.23 |
2013-12-18 |
| 64. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
32.17 |
0.8353 |
0.0569 |
283 |
1 |
32.17 |
2011-05-05 |
| 65. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
32.11 |
0.9636 |
-0.0805 |
254 |
1 |
32.11 |
2011-03-28 |
| 66. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
32.05 |
0.9309 |
-0.0511 |
284 |
1 |
32.05 |
2011-05-05 |
| 67. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
31.80 |
0.9614 |
-0.0830 |
292 |
1 |
31.80 |
2011-03-26 |
| 68. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
31.77 |
0.8070 |
0.0644 |
167 |
1 |
31.77 |
2011-03-28 |
| 69. |
As civilizations grew, humans spread out across the face of ... |
31.54 |
0.9418 |
-0.0688 |
188 |
1 |
31.54 |
2013-12-18 |
| 70. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
31.26 |
0.9916 |
-0.0890 |
282 |
1 |
31.26 |
2011-03-30 |
| 71. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
30.96 |
1.0696 |
-0.2216 |
226 |
1 |
30.96 |
2011-03-26 |
| 72. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
30.64 |
1.0334 |
-0.1976 |
131 |
1 |
30.64 |
2011-04-15 |
| 73. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
30.29 |
0.9023 |
-0.0266 |
231 |
1 |
30.29 |
2011-04-25 |
| 74. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
29.75 |
1.0099 |
-0.1955 |
207 |
1 |
29.75 |
2011-03-26 |
| 75. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
29.13 |
0.9897 |
-0.1919 |
274 |
1 |
29.13 |
2011-03-26 |
| 76. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
28.97 |
0.9048 |
-0.1046 |
271 |
1 |
28.97 |
2011-05-05 |
| 77. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
27.95 |
1.0025 |
-0.2340 |
336 |
1 |
27.95 |
2013-12-12 |
| 78. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
27.13 |
0.8022 |
-0.0553 |
215 |
2 |
25.66 |
2011-03-28 |
| 79. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
26.45 |
0.8910 |
-0.1647 |
150 |
1 |
26.45 |
2011-03-26 |
| 80. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
25.32 |
0.8442 |
-0.1467 |
265 |
1 |
25.32 |
2011-03-26 |
| 81. |
With forty-six Chinese, fourteen Japanese, eighteen Mexican,... |
23.13 |
0.7805 |
-0.1524 |
154 |
1 |
23.13 |
2011-03-26 |