| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
50.43 |
1.0463 |
0.1113 |
182 |
1 |
50.43 |
2010-12-25 |
| 2. |
Specialized uniforms, such as nun and priest garb, can be mo... |
49.49 |
0.9161 |
0.2218 |
200 |
1 |
49.49 |
2010-12-25 |
| 3. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
48.95 |
0.9976 |
0.1505 |
174 |
1 |
48.95 |
2010-06-15 |
| 4. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
48.76 |
0.9846 |
0.1370 |
281 |
1 |
48.76 |
2010-06-22 |
| 5. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
48.49 |
0.9938 |
0.1236 |
339 |
1 |
48.49 |
2010-12-28 |
| 6. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
48.16 |
0.9350 |
0.1748 |
195 |
1 |
48.16 |
2011-04-22 |
| 7. |
Make sure to secure the door when I am gone. There are many ... |
47.92 |
0.9196 |
0.1856 |
148 |
1 |
47.92 |
2011-04-20 |
| 8. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
47.41 |
1.0320 |
0.0970 |
293 |
1 |
47.41 |
2010-06-22 |
| 9. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
47.32 |
1.0033 |
0.0796 |
189 |
1 |
47.32 |
2010-12-25 |
| 10. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
47.16 |
1.0252 |
0.0543 |
176 |
1 |
47.16 |
2011-01-31 |
| 11. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
47.13 |
1.1296 |
-0.0152 |
252 |
1 |
47.13 |
2010-12-26 |
| 12. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
47.06 |
0.9904 |
0.1337 |
203 |
1 |
47.06 |
2010-12-25 |
| 13. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
46.98 |
0.8941 |
0.1893 |
216 |
1 |
46.98 |
2011-04-20 |
| 14. |
Not too many days from this day, not too many hours from thi... |
46.92 |
0.9773 |
0.0948 |
123 |
1 |
46.92 |
2010-12-26 |
| 15. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
46.83 |
0.9899 |
0.0836 |
163 |
2 |
45.33 |
2011-04-20 |
| 16. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
46.44 |
0.9286 |
0.1396 |
194 |
1 |
46.44 |
2010-12-25 |
| 17. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
45.66 |
0.9513 |
0.1035 |
354 |
1 |
45.66 |
2011-04-20 |
| 18. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
45.51 |
1.0314 |
0.0553 |
452 |
2 |
44.88 |
2010-06-22 |
| 19. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
45.21 |
0.9500 |
0.0926 |
362 |
1 |
45.21 |
2010-12-26 |
| 20. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
45.16 |
0.9697 |
0.0696 |
249 |
1 |
45.16 |
2011-08-12 |
| 21. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
45.14 |
0.9682 |
0.0693 |
143 |
1 |
45.14 |
2010-12-19 |
| 22. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
45.08 |
1.1014 |
-0.0262 |
273 |
1 |
45.08 |
2011-08-12 |
| 23. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
44.54 |
1.0197 |
0.0024 |
226 |
1 |
44.54 |
2011-07-14 |
| 24. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
44.46 |
1.0725 |
-0.0238 |
233 |
1 |
44.46 |
2010-06-27 |
| 25. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
44.21 |
1.0711 |
-0.0591 |
213 |
1 |
44.21 |
2010-06-27 |
| 26. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
44.14 |
1.0167 |
0.0060 |
378 |
1 |
44.14 |
2010-12-28 |
| 27. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
44.07 |
1.0292 |
-0.0167 |
262 |
1 |
44.07 |
2010-06-27 |
| 28. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
43.98 |
1.0012 |
0.0133 |
260 |
1 |
43.98 |
2010-12-27 |
| 29. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
43.98 |
0.9429 |
0.0704 |
287 |
1 |
43.98 |
2010-06-27 |
| 30. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
43.97 |
1.0203 |
-0.0053 |
261 |
1 |
43.97 |
2010-06-22 |
| 31. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
43.96 |
0.9649 |
0.0457 |
193 |
1 |
43.96 |
2010-06-22 |
| 32. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
43.91 |
0.9710 |
0.0329 |
173 |
1 |
43.91 |
2011-08-12 |
| 33. |
Grits and fried chicken won't disappear, but perhaps future ... |
43.83 |
0.8884 |
0.1200 |
135 |
1 |
43.83 |
2011-04-22 |
| 34. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
43.80 |
0.9461 |
0.0610 |
276 |
1 |
43.80 |
2011-04-20 |
| 35. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
43.34 |
0.9884 |
0.0126 |
262 |
1 |
43.34 |
2010-12-27 |
| 36. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
43.11 |
0.9212 |
0.0738 |
231 |
1 |
43.11 |
2011-04-20 |
| 37. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
43.09 |
1.0668 |
-0.0734 |
350 |
1 |
43.09 |
2010-06-22 |
| 38. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
43.03 |
0.9207 |
0.0713 |
174 |
1 |
43.03 |
2011-04-22 |
| 39. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
42.98 |
0.9684 |
0.0226 |
388 |
1 |
42.98 |
2010-08-19 |
| 40. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
42.97 |
0.9089 |
0.0830 |
342 |
1 |
42.97 |
2011-01-31 |
| 41. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
42.83 |
0.9593 |
0.0305 |
398 |
1 |
42.83 |
2010-12-25 |
| 42. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
42.53 |
0.8914 |
0.0871 |
366 |
1 |
42.53 |
2010-12-19 |
| 43. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
42.47 |
0.9164 |
0.0654 |
305 |
2 |
41.39 |
2011-07-14 |
| 44. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
42.38 |
0.9342 |
0.0442 |
434 |
1 |
42.38 |
2010-12-25 |
| 45. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
42.27 |
1.0419 |
-0.0701 |
261 |
1 |
42.27 |
2011-04-20 |
| 46. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
42.24 |
0.9943 |
-0.0199 |
373 |
1 |
42.24 |
2010-06-15 |
| 47. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
42.06 |
0.9922 |
0.0160 |
341 |
1 |
42.06 |
2011-08-12 |
| 48. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
42.01 |
0.8951 |
0.0733 |
193 |
1 |
42.01 |
2010-12-28 |
| 49. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
41.86 |
0.9212 |
0.0445 |
323 |
1 |
41.86 |
2010-12-25 |
| 50. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
41.80 |
0.9857 |
-0.0257 |
293 |
1 |
41.80 |
2010-06-22 |
| 51. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
41.79 |
1.0555 |
-0.0931 |
363 |
1 |
41.79 |
2010-12-27 |
| 52. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
41.57 |
0.9632 |
0.0348 |
345 |
1 |
41.57 |
2010-12-25 |
| 53. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
41.40 |
1.0025 |
-0.0496 |
336 |
1 |
41.40 |
2010-12-26 |
| 54. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
41.24 |
0.9464 |
0.0070 |
323 |
1 |
41.24 |
2010-06-27 |
| 55. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
41.22 |
0.9049 |
0.0482 |
351 |
1 |
41.22 |
2011-01-31 |
| 56. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
41.09 |
0.9772 |
-0.0360 |
217 |
1 |
41.09 |
2010-06-22 |
| 57. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
40.98 |
0.9905 |
-0.0168 |
337 |
1 |
40.98 |
2011-04-22 |
| 58. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
40.68 |
1.0213 |
-0.0894 |
240 |
1 |
40.68 |
2010-12-25 |
| 59. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
40.55 |
1.0483 |
-0.1196 |
227 |
1 |
40.55 |
2010-06-22 |
| 60. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
40.46 |
1.0883 |
-0.1263 |
303 |
1 |
40.46 |
2010-06-22 |
| 61. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
40.26 |
1.0596 |
-0.1368 |
239 |
1 |
40.26 |
2011-04-17 |
| 62. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
40.13 |
0.9128 |
0.0147 |
133 |
1 |
40.13 |
2011-04-20 |
| 63. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
39.83 |
0.9763 |
-0.0617 |
289 |
1 |
39.83 |
2010-06-22 |
| 64. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
39.72 |
0.8723 |
0.0361 |
185 |
1 |
39.72 |
2010-06-22 |
| 65. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
39.50 |
1.0337 |
-0.1270 |
214 |
1 |
39.50 |
2010-12-27 |
| 66. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
38.95 |
0.9045 |
-0.0092 |
235 |
1 |
38.95 |
2011-08-12 |
| 67. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
38.82 |
0.9485 |
-0.0543 |
291 |
1 |
38.82 |
2010-12-27 |
| 68. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
38.77 |
0.8382 |
0.0532 |
268 |
1 |
38.77 |
2010-12-27 |
| 69. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
38.58 |
0.8826 |
0.0051 |
296 |
1 |
38.58 |
2010-06-15 |
| 70. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
38.39 |
0.9567 |
-0.0749 |
273 |
1 |
38.39 |
2011-04-20 |
| 71. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
38.14 |
0.9303 |
-0.0616 |
176 |
1 |
38.14 |
2010-06-22 |
| 72. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
37.92 |
0.9699 |
-0.1001 |
269 |
1 |
37.92 |
2011-02-04 |
| 73. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
36.91 |
0.9430 |
-0.1030 |
211 |
1 |
36.91 |
2010-06-27 |
| 74. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
36.45 |
0.8520 |
-0.0151 |
202 |
1 |
36.45 |
2010-06-22 |
| 75. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
35.79 |
0.8467 |
-0.0010 |
343 |
1 |
35.79 |
2011-08-12 |
| 76. |
While it may hold true that the final few seconds of a bike ... |
35.71 |
0.8341 |
-0.0068 |
224 |
1 |
35.71 |
2010-12-25 |
| 77. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
31.85 |
0.8793 |
-0.1492 |
157 |
1 |
31.85 |
2011-04-20 |