| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
147.88 |
1.1070 |
0.2393 |
265 |
1 |
147.88 |
2008-10-07 |
| 2. |
Anything which has ended is finished. That which is perfect ... |
142.61 |
1.0512 |
0.2463 |
323 |
1 |
142.61 |
2020-12-31 |
| 3. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
141.99 |
1.0461 |
0.2519 |
286 |
1 |
141.99 |
2010-03-19 |
| 4. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
135.44 |
1.0600 |
0.1730 |
351 |
1 |
135.44 |
2011-05-28 |
| 5. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
135.23 |
1.0492 |
0.1870 |
284 |
1 |
135.23 |
2011-05-28 |
| 6. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
134.31 |
0.9068 |
0.3154 |
212 |
3 |
109.96 |
2009-12-28 |
| 7. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
133.95 |
1.0543 |
0.1630 |
182 |
1 |
133.95 |
2010-03-19 |
| 8. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
132.15 |
1.0082 |
0.1931 |
212 |
1 |
132.15 |
2010-03-19 |
| 9. |
He doesn't know anything. After all, he doesn't know that li... |
131.27 |
0.8622 |
0.3292 |
125 |
1 |
131.27 |
2016-11-24 |
| 10. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
129.94 |
1.0615 |
0.1203 |
201 |
1 |
129.94 |
2010-03-19 |
| 11. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
126.28 |
1.0960 |
0.0542 |
315 |
1 |
126.28 |
2008-11-12 |
| 12. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
125.62 |
1.0743 |
0.0686 |
297 |
1 |
125.62 |
2009-12-28 |
| 13. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
124.80 |
1.0462 |
0.0907 |
340 |
1 |
124.80 |
2012-12-03 |
| 14. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
124.03 |
0.9963 |
0.1313 |
274 |
1 |
124.03 |
2011-06-13 |
| 15. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
123.07 |
0.9354 |
0.1910 |
384 |
1 |
123.07 |
2015-04-10 |
| 16. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
122.59 |
0.9915 |
0.1236 |
281 |
1 |
122.59 |
2008-11-30 |
| 17. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
122.05 |
0.9680 |
0.1433 |
256 |
1 |
122.05 |
2011-05-29 |
| 18. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
121.49 |
1.0654 |
0.0389 |
247 |
1 |
121.49 |
2010-03-19 |
| 19. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
120.98 |
1.0736 |
0.0323 |
256 |
1 |
120.98 |
2011-05-28 |
| 20. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
120.32 |
1.0506 |
0.0441 |
259 |
1 |
120.32 |
2010-04-22 |
| 21. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
119.35 |
1.0036 |
0.0824 |
277 |
3 |
113.28 |
2014-03-09 |
| 22. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
119.15 |
1.0060 |
0.0779 |
225 |
1 |
119.15 |
2008-11-30 |
| 23. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
119.11 |
0.9873 |
0.1039 |
396 |
1 |
119.11 |
2010-01-31 |
| 24. |
For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follo... |
118.94 |
0.9408 |
0.1375 |
131 |
1 |
118.94 |
2016-11-24 |
| 25. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
118.65 |
0.8624 |
0.2154 |
174 |
1 |
118.65 |
2009-12-28 |
| 26. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
118.50 |
1.0607 |
0.0182 |
357 |
1 |
118.50 |
2010-03-19 |
| 27. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
118.31 |
1.0576 |
0.0181 |
231 |
1 |
118.31 |
2008-08-24 |
| 28. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
117.99 |
1.0529 |
0.0222 |
373 |
1 |
117.99 |
2009-12-28 |
| 29. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
117.69 |
1.0135 |
0.0586 |
358 |
1 |
117.69 |
2010-03-19 |
| 30. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
117.50 |
1.0669 |
0.0032 |
379 |
1 |
117.50 |
2014-03-09 |
| 31. |
Source routing is a way of moving a packet through a network... |
116.89 |
1.0527 |
0.0111 |
408 |
1 |
116.89 |
2020-12-31 |
| 32. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
116.28 |
0.8936 |
0.1636 |
346 |
2 |
111.55 |
2012-01-22 |
| 33. |
Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings.... |
116.22 |
1.0474 |
0.0096 |
366 |
1 |
116.22 |
2020-12-31 |
| 34. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
115.42 |
1.0387 |
0.0124 |
333 |
1 |
115.42 |
2009-12-28 |
| 35. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
115.30 |
1.0540 |
-0.0068 |
184 |
1 |
115.30 |
2010-03-19 |
| 36. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
114.91 |
1.0039 |
0.0475 |
255 |
2 |
110.40 |
2010-03-19 |
| 37. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
114.65 |
0.9787 |
0.0657 |
364 |
1 |
114.65 |
2014-03-09 |
| 38. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
114.35 |
0.8887 |
0.1523 |
194 |
1 |
114.35 |
2012-12-03 |
| 39. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
114.24 |
0.9574 |
0.0831 |
354 |
1 |
114.24 |
2010-08-22 |
| 40. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
113.98 |
0.9166 |
0.1204 |
133 |
1 |
113.98 |
2011-06-13 |
| 41. |
We all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each... |
113.91 |
1.0538 |
-0.0183 |
194 |
1 |
113.91 |
2023-02-25 |
| 42. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
113.57 |
0.9757 |
0.0559 |
176 |
1 |
113.57 |
2010-04-22 |
| 43. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
112.86 |
0.9084 |
0.1181 |
271 |
1 |
112.86 |
2008-10-07 |
| 44. |
I've taken my bows and my curtain calls. You brought me fame... |
112.24 |
1.0322 |
-0.0116 |
254 |
1 |
112.24 |
2023-02-25 |
| 45. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
111.76 |
0.9561 |
0.0676 |
364 |
1 |
111.76 |
2014-03-09 |
| 46. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
111.29 |
1.0250 |
-0.0117 |
271 |
1 |
111.29 |
2009-02-09 |
| 47. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
111.11 |
1.0426 |
-0.0333 |
131 |
1 |
111.11 |
2010-03-19 |
| 48. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
109.79 |
1.0341 |
-0.0355 |
273 |
1 |
109.79 |
2009-04-02 |
| 49. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
109.60 |
0.9010 |
0.0958 |
266 |
1 |
109.60 |
2012-12-03 |
| 50. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
109.42 |
1.0557 |
-0.0600 |
289 |
1 |
109.42 |
2010-02-04 |
| 51. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
109.09 |
0.9468 |
0.0460 |
318 |
1 |
109.09 |
2010-03-19 |
| 52. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
108.96 |
0.9183 |
0.0729 |
308 |
1 |
108.96 |
2010-02-04 |
| 53. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
108.89 |
0.9673 |
0.0245 |
393 |
1 |
108.89 |
2011-07-31 |
| 54. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
108.67 |
0.9143 |
0.0745 |
300 |
1 |
108.67 |
2010-04-22 |
| 55. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
107.49 |
1.0181 |
-0.0401 |
276 |
2 |
106.54 |
2014-01-23 |
| 56. |
Everyone laughed and looked around, surprised to discover th... |
106.89 |
0.9773 |
-0.0042 |
384 |
1 |
106.89 |
2020-12-31 |
| 57. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
106.66 |
1.0131 |
-0.0372 |
245 |
1 |
106.66 |
2016-11-24 |
| 58. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
106.55 |
0.9524 |
0.0234 |
410 |
1 |
106.55 |
2010-01-31 |
| 59. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
106.44 |
0.9952 |
-0.0267 |
220 |
1 |
106.44 |
2008-11-12 |
| 60. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
106.43 |
0.9966 |
-0.0262 |
377 |
1 |
106.43 |
2009-04-05 |
| 61. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
105.74 |
1.0086 |
-0.0486 |
218 |
1 |
105.74 |
2010-04-22 |
| 62. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
105.46 |
0.9709 |
-0.0124 |
264 |
1 |
105.46 |
2009-02-09 |
| 63. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
105.39 |
0.9727 |
-0.0119 |
442 |
1 |
105.39 |
2009-04-08 |
| 64. |
Now you make sure you tell old Marlo I burned the money. 'Ca... |
105.10 |
1.0125 |
-0.0590 |
242 |
1 |
105.10 |
2020-12-31 |
| 65. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
105.03 |
0.9869 |
-0.0322 |
193 |
1 |
105.03 |
2008-11-30 |
| 66. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
104.84 |
0.9338 |
0.0285 |
326 |
1 |
104.84 |
2012-01-22 |
| 67. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
104.66 |
1.0270 |
-0.0741 |
303 |
1 |
104.66 |
2009-02-09 |
| 68. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
104.52 |
0.9494 |
0.0083 |
397 |
1 |
104.52 |
2011-05-29 |
| 69. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
104.40 |
0.9269 |
0.0300 |
269 |
1 |
104.40 |
2012-04-06 |
| 70. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
104.39 |
1.0106 |
-0.0617 |
302 |
1 |
104.39 |
2012-12-03 |
| 71. |
It's the wanting you, never getting you. Keeps me wanting yo... |
104.22 |
1.0083 |
-0.0599 |
308 |
1 |
104.22 |
2020-12-31 |
| 72. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
103.96 |
0.9698 |
-0.0231 |
389 |
1 |
103.96 |
2008-08-24 |
| 73. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
103.64 |
1.0590 |
-0.1170 |
250 |
1 |
103.64 |
2009-04-05 |
| 74. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
103.40 |
0.9632 |
-0.0225 |
287 |
1 |
103.40 |
2011-05-28 |
| 75. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
103.09 |
0.9637 |
-0.0179 |
342 |
1 |
103.09 |
2012-04-06 |
| 76. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
102.96 |
1.0628 |
-0.1252 |
363 |
1 |
102.96 |
2009-01-25 |
| 77. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
102.74 |
0.9299 |
0.0012 |
168 |
1 |
102.74 |
2010-03-19 |
| 78. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
102.15 |
0.9144 |
0.0109 |
167 |
1 |
102.15 |
2012-12-03 |
| 79. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
101.41 |
0.8721 |
0.0575 |
231 |
1 |
101.41 |
2011-07-31 |
| 80. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
101.35 |
0.9271 |
-0.0057 |
295 |
1 |
101.35 |
2012-12-03 |
| 81. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
100.38 |
0.9678 |
-0.0543 |
392 |
2 |
98.15 |
2009-04-08 |
| 82. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
100.33 |
0.9745 |
-0.0617 |
388 |
1 |
100.33 |
2009-06-07 |
| 83. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
100.32 |
0.9609 |
-0.0467 |
331 |
1 |
100.32 |
2009-04-05 |
| 84. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
99.11 |
0.7923 |
0.1097 |
316 |
1 |
99.11 |
2009-02-09 |
| 85. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
99.03 |
0.8656 |
0.0352 |
242 |
1 |
99.03 |
2010-04-22 |
| 86. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
98.73 |
0.9797 |
-0.0774 |
269 |
1 |
98.73 |
2010-08-28 |
| 87. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
98.53 |
0.9352 |
-0.0405 |
194 |
1 |
98.53 |
2009-04-05 |
| 88. |
Studies suggest that the influence of parents is due to two ... |
98.14 |
0.9832 |
-0.0890 |
289 |
1 |
98.14 |
2022-08-16 |
| 89. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
98.04 |
0.9157 |
-0.0179 |
353 |
1 |
98.04 |
2011-07-31 |
| 90. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
97.77 |
0.9114 |
-0.0195 |
399 |
1 |
97.77 |
2009-04-05 |
| 91. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
96.55 |
1.0476 |
-0.1744 |
110 |
1 |
96.55 |
2009-04-08 |
| 92. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
96.08 |
0.9931 |
-0.1216 |
218 |
1 |
96.08 |
2008-08-24 |
| 93. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
95.74 |
0.9206 |
-0.0498 |
317 |
1 |
95.74 |
2009-02-09 |
| 94. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
94.98 |
1.0264 |
-0.1646 |
191 |
1 |
94.98 |
2009-02-09 |
| 95. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
94.17 |
0.9027 |
-0.0471 |
189 |
1 |
94.17 |
2009-02-09 |
| 96. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
93.49 |
0.9101 |
-0.0592 |
351 |
1 |
93.49 |
2009-02-09 |
| 97. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
91.17 |
0.9931 |
-0.1624 |
339 |
1 |
91.17 |
2010-03-19 |
| 98. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
89.83 |
1.0487 |
-0.2330 |
253 |
1 |
89.83 |
2016-11-24 |
| 99. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
88.43 |
1.0272 |
-0.2244 |
226 |
1 |
88.43 |
2009-04-05 |
| 100. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
87.44 |
0.8986 |
-0.1037 |
216 |
1 |
87.44 |
2009-02-09 |
| 101. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
86.98 |
0.9839 |
-0.1936 |
308 |
1 |
86.98 |
2011-07-31 |
| 102. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
86.24 |
0.9258 |
-0.1358 |
184 |
1 |
86.24 |
2012-04-06 |
| 103. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
79.05 |
0.8172 |
-0.1005 |
204 |
1 |
79.05 |
2008-11-30 |
| 104. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
78.74 |
0.9380 |
-0.2236 |
284 |
1 |
78.74 |
2010-05-23 |
| 105. |
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear t... |
61.97 |
1.0245 |
-0.4616 |
265 |
1 |
61.97 |
2016-11-24 |