| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Don't take anything personally - nothing others do is becaus... |
66.33 |
1.0684 |
0.2232 |
253 |
2 |
61.41 |
2012-09-13 |
| 2. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
63.48 |
1.0555 |
0.1815 |
323 |
1 |
63.48 |
2012-08-19 |
| 3. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
62.32 |
1.0403 |
0.1589 |
193 |
1 |
62.32 |
2012-08-19 |
| 4. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
60.83 |
1.0972 |
0.0883 |
251 |
1 |
60.83 |
2012-08-19 |
| 5. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
60.65 |
1.0138 |
0.1382 |
231 |
1 |
60.65 |
2012-07-02 |
| 6. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
59.88 |
1.0417 |
0.0932 |
253 |
1 |
59.88 |
2012-08-19 |
| 7. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
59.82 |
1.0711 |
0.0602 |
213 |
2 |
56.10 |
2012-09-13 |
| 8. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
59.71 |
0.9873 |
0.1439 |
155 |
1 |
59.71 |
2012-09-13 |
| 9. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
59.60 |
1.0201 |
0.1057 |
172 |
1 |
59.60 |
2010-12-30 |
| 10. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
59.57 |
1.1162 |
0.0568 |
189 |
3 |
55.23 |
2012-08-19 |
| 11. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
59.34 |
1.0496 |
0.0770 |
314 |
1 |
59.34 |
2012-09-13 |
| 12. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
58.62 |
1.0099 |
0.1003 |
207 |
2 |
58.58 |
2012-06-25 |
| 13. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
58.40 |
0.9726 |
0.1299 |
154 |
1 |
58.40 |
2012-09-27 |
| 14. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
58.28 |
0.9697 |
0.1373 |
249 |
2 |
56.14 |
2012-06-25 |
| 15. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
58.12 |
0.9936 |
0.1101 |
311 |
2 |
55.04 |
2012-08-19 |
| 16. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
57.08 |
1.1068 |
0.0175 |
393 |
1 |
57.08 |
2012-08-19 |
| 17. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
56.89 |
0.8811 |
0.2035 |
239 |
1 |
56.89 |
2012-08-19 |
| 18. |
Other keyboard layouts have been created since, and some are... |
56.38 |
0.9576 |
0.1169 |
212 |
2 |
56.27 |
2011-03-07 |
| 19. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
55.80 |
0.9897 |
0.0671 |
274 |
1 |
55.80 |
2012-09-13 |
| 20. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
55.21 |
0.9672 |
0.0873 |
396 |
1 |
55.21 |
2012-09-13 |
| 21. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
55.17 |
0.9798 |
0.0618 |
199 |
1 |
55.17 |
2012-06-25 |
| 22. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
55.16 |
1.0795 |
-0.0022 |
226 |
1 |
55.16 |
2011-03-07 |
| 23. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
54.85 |
1.0531 |
0.0260 |
272 |
1 |
54.85 |
2010-12-30 |
| 24. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
54.74 |
1.0068 |
0.0353 |
358 |
1 |
54.74 |
2012-08-19 |
| 25. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
54.71 |
0.9212 |
0.1206 |
231 |
1 |
54.71 |
2010-12-30 |
| 26. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
54.70 |
1.0483 |
-0.0134 |
227 |
1 |
54.70 |
2010-12-30 |
| 27. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
54.60 |
1.0029 |
0.0267 |
209 |
1 |
54.60 |
2012-09-13 |
| 28. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
54.49 |
1.0314 |
-0.0009 |
172 |
1 |
54.49 |
2012-06-25 |
| 29. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
54.23 |
1.0025 |
0.0276 |
336 |
2 |
54.05 |
2012-06-25 |
| 30. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
53.98 |
0.8793 |
0.1459 |
157 |
1 |
53.98 |
2010-12-30 |
| 31. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
53.96 |
1.0314 |
0.0316 |
452 |
1 |
53.96 |
2012-06-25 |
| 32. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
53.93 |
1.0125 |
0.0083 |
224 |
1 |
53.93 |
2012-09-13 |
| 33. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
53.90 |
1.0555 |
-0.0312 |
363 |
1 |
53.90 |
2012-08-19 |
| 34. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
53.77 |
1.0917 |
-0.0481 |
243 |
1 |
53.77 |
2012-08-19 |
| 35. |
To wash down your chicken nuggets with virtually any soft dr... |
53.73 |
0.9504 |
0.0634 |
263 |
1 |
53.73 |
2012-09-13 |
| 36. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
53.72 |
0.9886 |
0.0331 |
220 |
3 |
47.84 |
2012-09-13 |
| 37. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
53.65 |
0.9485 |
0.0712 |
236 |
2 |
53.46 |
2012-09-13 |
| 38. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
53.56 |
0.9527 |
0.0638 |
251 |
1 |
53.56 |
2012-06-25 |
| 39. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
53.47 |
0.9731 |
0.0287 |
129 |
1 |
53.47 |
2010-12-30 |
| 40. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
53.16 |
1.0154 |
0.0429 |
351 |
1 |
53.16 |
2012-09-13 |
| 41. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
53.06 |
0.9786 |
0.0228 |
193 |
1 |
53.06 |
2012-06-25 |
| 42. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
52.94 |
1.0533 |
-0.0223 |
257 |
1 |
52.94 |
2012-08-19 |
| 43. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
52.85 |
1.0719 |
-0.0416 |
360 |
1 |
52.85 |
2010-12-30 |
| 44. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
52.84 |
0.9649 |
0.0366 |
193 |
1 |
52.84 |
2012-08-19 |
| 45. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
52.66 |
0.9673 |
0.0708 |
232 |
1 |
52.66 |
2012-09-14 |
| 46. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
52.42 |
1.0172 |
0.0121 |
341 |
1 |
52.42 |
2012-09-13 |
| 47. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
52.42 |
1.0088 |
0.0242 |
396 |
1 |
52.42 |
2012-09-27 |
| 48. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
52.27 |
1.0352 |
-0.0412 |
341 |
1 |
52.27 |
2011-03-07 |
| 49. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
51.84 |
0.9216 |
0.1009 |
255 |
1 |
51.84 |
2012-06-25 |
| 50. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
51.80 |
1.0124 |
-0.0326 |
204 |
1 |
51.80 |
2012-06-25 |
| 51. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
51.69 |
0.8951 |
0.0876 |
193 |
1 |
51.69 |
2012-09-27 |
| 52. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
51.63 |
1.0768 |
-0.0580 |
295 |
1 |
51.63 |
2010-12-30 |
| 53. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
51.61 |
0.9500 |
0.0308 |
362 |
1 |
51.61 |
2012-06-25 |
| 54. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
51.47 |
0.9429 |
0.0347 |
287 |
1 |
51.47 |
2012-08-19 |
| 55. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
51.09 |
1.0763 |
-0.0658 |
367 |
1 |
51.09 |
2010-12-29 |
| 56. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
50.98 |
0.8941 |
0.0742 |
216 |
1 |
50.98 |
2012-08-19 |
| 57. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
50.92 |
0.9567 |
0.0511 |
184 |
1 |
50.92 |
2010-12-30 |
| 58. |
I laugh at the whole notion of "Mr. Right" and you should to... |
50.75 |
0.8845 |
0.0777 |
273 |
1 |
50.75 |
2012-08-19 |
| 59. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
50.72 |
0.9439 |
0.0259 |
476 |
1 |
50.72 |
2012-06-25 |
| 60. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
50.62 |
0.9916 |
0.0108 |
282 |
1 |
50.62 |
2012-06-25 |
| 61. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
50.53 |
0.9164 |
0.0467 |
305 |
1 |
50.53 |
2012-08-19 |
| 62. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
50.28 |
0.9578 |
-0.0047 |
281 |
1 |
50.28 |
2010-12-30 |
| 63. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
50.01 |
1.0445 |
-0.0954 |
373 |
1 |
50.01 |
2010-12-30 |
| 64. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
49.50 |
0.9734 |
-0.0351 |
289 |
1 |
49.50 |
2010-12-30 |
| 65. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
49.35 |
1.1323 |
-0.1632 |
341 |
1 |
49.35 |
2010-12-30 |
| 66. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
49.16 |
0.9559 |
-0.0219 |
195 |
1 |
49.16 |
2010-12-30 |
| 67. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
49.13 |
1.0288 |
-0.0654 |
300 |
1 |
49.13 |
2012-09-13 |
| 68. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
49.12 |
0.8958 |
0.0400 |
322 |
1 |
49.12 |
2012-08-19 |
| 69. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
48.92 |
1.0109 |
-0.0833 |
276 |
1 |
48.92 |
2010-12-30 |
| 70. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
48.72 |
0.8914 |
0.0323 |
366 |
2 |
46.13 |
2012-09-13 |
| 71. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
48.59 |
1.0316 |
-0.1069 |
333 |
1 |
48.59 |
2011-03-07 |
| 72. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
48.39 |
0.9863 |
-0.0651 |
339 |
1 |
48.39 |
2010-12-30 |
| 73. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
48.30 |
0.9943 |
-0.0761 |
373 |
1 |
48.30 |
2010-12-30 |
| 74. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
48.28 |
0.9820 |
-0.0674 |
274 |
1 |
48.28 |
2010-12-30 |
| 75. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
48.17 |
1.0379 |
-0.0905 |
245 |
1 |
48.17 |
2011-03-07 |
| 76. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
48.16 |
0.8981 |
0.0190 |
393 |
1 |
48.16 |
2012-08-19 |
| 77. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
48.15 |
0.9631 |
0.0004 |
345 |
1 |
48.15 |
2012-08-19 |
| 78. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
47.88 |
0.9857 |
-0.0797 |
293 |
1 |
47.88 |
2012-09-13 |
| 79. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
47.60 |
0.9461 |
-0.0486 |
193 |
1 |
47.60 |
2012-06-25 |
| 80. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
47.29 |
0.9653 |
-0.0611 |
394 |
1 |
47.29 |
2010-12-30 |
| 81. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
46.95 |
1.0331 |
-0.1462 |
234 |
1 |
46.95 |
2011-03-07 |
| 82. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
46.83 |
0.9084 |
-0.0198 |
300 |
1 |
46.83 |
2012-09-13 |
| 83. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
46.60 |
0.9991 |
-0.1160 |
225 |
1 |
46.60 |
2010-12-29 |
| 84. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
46.55 |
0.9049 |
-0.0178 |
351 |
1 |
46.55 |
2011-03-07 |
| 85. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
45.79 |
0.9792 |
-0.0739 |
265 |
1 |
45.79 |
2010-12-30 |
| 86. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
45.77 |
1.0462 |
-0.1857 |
184 |
1 |
45.77 |
2010-12-30 |
| 87. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
45.76 |
1.0077 |
-0.1005 |
250 |
1 |
45.76 |
2012-06-25 |
| 88. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
45.67 |
0.9665 |
-0.0526 |
326 |
1 |
45.67 |
2010-12-30 |
| 89. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
45.65 |
1.0389 |
-0.1723 |
340 |
1 |
45.65 |
2011-10-01 |
| 90. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
45.22 |
0.9089 |
-0.0494 |
342 |
1 |
45.22 |
2012-06-25 |
| 91. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
45.10 |
1.0074 |
-0.1522 |
242 |
1 |
45.10 |
2010-12-30 |
| 92. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
43.31 |
0.9309 |
-0.1136 |
284 |
1 |
43.31 |
2011-03-07 |
| 93. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
43.12 |
0.9202 |
-0.1048 |
254 |
1 |
43.12 |
2012-09-13 |
| 94. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
42.93 |
1.0232 |
-0.1756 |
236 |
1 |
42.93 |
2011-03-01 |
| 95. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
39.83 |
0.8884 |
-0.1360 |
135 |
1 |
39.83 |
2010-12-30 |
| 96. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
38.15 |
0.8961 |
-0.1794 |
189 |
1 |
38.15 |
2011-03-01 |