| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
148.65 |
1.0243 |
0.2005 |
153 |
1 |
148.65 |
2013-01-31 |
| 2. |
There was never any more inception than there is now, nor an... |
145.66 |
1.1622 |
0.0274 |
202 |
1 |
145.66 |
2017-10-20 |
| 3. |
Don't practice too much at first, or you're likely to develo... |
145.37 |
0.9931 |
0.2084 |
381 |
1 |
145.37 |
2013-02-22 |
| 4. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
145.24 |
1.0561 |
0.1336 |
227 |
1 |
145.24 |
2013-02-22 |
| 5. |
I am doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about t... |
144.91 |
1.0893 |
0.0979 |
196 |
1 |
144.91 |
2017-05-30 |
| 6. |
Now that I look back, I don't know why I was so stressed abo... |
144.41 |
1.1144 |
0.0641 |
164 |
1 |
144.41 |
2019-09-27 |
| 7. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
142.99 |
1.0845 |
0.0871 |
212 |
1 |
142.99 |
2013-02-04 |
| 8. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
142.07 |
1.0135 |
0.1534 |
358 |
1 |
142.07 |
2012-12-03 |
| 9. |
I've been thinking lots about my life and how quick I'd wash... |
141.40 |
1.0408 |
0.1244 |
257 |
2 |
130.96 |
2013-03-22 |
| 10. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
141.14 |
1.0836 |
0.0767 |
206 |
1 |
141.14 |
2013-01-22 |
| 11. |
I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and... |
140.32 |
1.0349 |
0.1123 |
236 |
1 |
140.32 |
2019-08-26 |
| 12. |
Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vagu... |
139.94 |
1.0311 |
0.1092 |
190 |
1 |
139.94 |
2017-05-19 |
| 13. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
138.45 |
1.1198 |
0.0145 |
247 |
1 |
138.45 |
2014-11-26 |
| 14. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
137.98 |
1.0759 |
0.0606 |
273 |
1 |
137.98 |
2013-01-29 |
| 15. |
Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad.... |
137.54 |
1.0519 |
0.0698 |
336 |
1 |
137.54 |
2021-05-24 |
| 16. |
A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean... |
137.51 |
1.0908 |
0.0235 |
150 |
1 |
137.51 |
2019-08-22 |
| 17. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
137.20 |
1.0287 |
0.0956 |
269 |
1 |
137.20 |
2013-01-21 |
| 18. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
134.47 |
1.0616 |
0.0459 |
304 |
3 |
133.69 |
2013-03-18 |
| 19. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
133.96 |
1.0585 |
0.0433 |
226 |
2 |
128.60 |
2013-03-01 |
| 20. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
133.93 |
1.0682 |
0.0295 |
266 |
1 |
133.93 |
2013-03-05 |
| 21. |
You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I... |
133.26 |
0.9989 |
0.0903 |
267 |
1 |
133.26 |
2019-09-27 |
| 22. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
132.98 |
0.9636 |
0.1246 |
281 |
1 |
132.98 |
2013-01-09 |
| 23. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
132.81 |
1.0883 |
0.0056 |
189 |
1 |
132.81 |
2013-03-15 |
| 24. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
132.80 |
1.0524 |
0.0375 |
177 |
1 |
132.80 |
2013-02-22 |
| 25. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
132.50 |
0.9809 |
0.1030 |
209 |
1 |
132.50 |
2012-04-12 |
| 26. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
132.32 |
1.0115 |
0.0704 |
189 |
1 |
132.32 |
2013-01-09 |
| 27. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
132.08 |
1.0466 |
0.0359 |
230 |
1 |
132.08 |
2021-04-06 |
| 28. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
131.52 |
1.0464 |
0.0369 |
213 |
1 |
131.52 |
2013-01-22 |
| 29. |
The naked cannot clothe the poor in spirit with oxygen, and ... |
131.26 |
1.0360 |
0.0290 |
203 |
1 |
131.26 |
2019-08-16 |
| 30. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
130.88 |
1.0106 |
0.0611 |
302 |
2 |
122.39 |
2013-01-22 |
| 31. |
How can you tell me that you're lonely and say for you that ... |
129.93 |
1.1356 |
-0.0800 |
206 |
1 |
129.93 |
2019-01-11 |
| 32. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
129.87 |
0.9864 |
0.0791 |
292 |
1 |
129.87 |
2012-12-03 |
| 33. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
129.79 |
0.9027 |
0.1604 |
189 |
1 |
129.79 |
2013-03-15 |
| 34. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
129.79 |
1.0059 |
0.0586 |
283 |
1 |
129.79 |
2013-02-05 |
| 35. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
129.53 |
1.0777 |
-0.0171 |
226 |
1 |
129.53 |
2013-01-21 |
| 36. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
129.09 |
1.0125 |
0.0421 |
171 |
1 |
129.09 |
2013-02-22 |
| 37. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
128.76 |
1.0079 |
0.0467 |
273 |
1 |
128.76 |
2012-12-03 |
| 38. |
Don't your feet get cold in the winter time? The sky won't s... |
128.49 |
1.0547 |
-0.0087 |
216 |
1 |
128.49 |
2017-05-19 |
| 39. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
128.20 |
1.0461 |
0.0052 |
318 |
1 |
128.20 |
2013-02-26 |
| 40. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
128.13 |
1.0461 |
0.0094 |
286 |
1 |
128.13 |
2013-02-05 |
| 41. |
Look, I understand too little too late. I realize there are ... |
127.62 |
1.0408 |
0.0017 |
274 |
1 |
127.62 |
2021-05-27 |
| 42. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
127.60 |
0.9676 |
0.0832 |
247 |
1 |
127.60 |
2013-03-01 |
| 43. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
127.21 |
0.9917 |
0.0508 |
317 |
1 |
127.21 |
2013-03-15 |
| 44. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
126.97 |
0.9451 |
0.0994 |
419 |
1 |
126.97 |
2013-02-22 |
| 45. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
126.68 |
0.9947 |
0.0504 |
346 |
2 |
116.44 |
2013-01-16 |
| 46. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
126.04 |
0.9762 |
0.0570 |
249 |
1 |
126.04 |
2013-03-04 |
| 47. |
In 12th-century Pisa, Italy, the construction firm of Morrel... |
125.76 |
0.9017 |
0.1186 |
219 |
1 |
125.76 |
2019-08-22 |
| 48. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
125.74 |
1.0101 |
0.0214 |
336 |
1 |
125.74 |
2012-04-12 |
| 49. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
125.47 |
1.0351 |
-0.0064 |
276 |
1 |
125.47 |
2013-03-18 |
| 50. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
125.38 |
0.9515 |
0.0833 |
334 |
1 |
125.38 |
2013-03-01 |
| 51. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
125.33 |
1.0197 |
0.0064 |
204 |
1 |
125.33 |
2013-03-21 |
| 52. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
125.05 |
0.9392 |
0.0891 |
360 |
1 |
125.05 |
2012-08-14 |
| 53. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
124.82 |
0.9885 |
0.0380 |
469 |
1 |
124.82 |
2012-04-12 |
| 54. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
124.70 |
0.9524 |
0.0802 |
410 |
1 |
124.70 |
2012-03-28 |
| 55. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
124.50 |
0.9836 |
0.0372 |
289 |
1 |
124.50 |
2013-02-26 |
| 56. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
124.42 |
0.9801 |
0.0387 |
289 |
1 |
124.42 |
2012-11-27 |
| 57. |
It's your standard felony complaint 155-34. It ought to get ... |
124.22 |
0.8615 |
0.1455 |
247 |
1 |
124.22 |
2019-08-26 |
| 58. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
123.67 |
0.9713 |
0.0410 |
193 |
1 |
123.67 |
2013-01-21 |
| 59. |
My pop was real big. He did like he pleased. That's why ever... |
123.62 |
1.0211 |
-0.0179 |
317 |
1 |
123.62 |
2019-08-22 |
| 60. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
122.98 |
1.0960 |
-0.0871 |
315 |
1 |
122.98 |
2012-08-14 |
| 61. |
Take my hand for a minute. We're in it. Imagine all the pain... |
122.91 |
0.9869 |
0.0154 |
329 |
1 |
122.91 |
2019-01-11 |
| 62. |
People say I'm lazy, dreaming my life away. Well they give m... |
122.58 |
1.0058 |
-0.0098 |
174 |
1 |
122.58 |
2019-09-27 |
| 63. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
121.98 |
0.9727 |
0.0303 |
442 |
1 |
121.98 |
2013-02-26 |
| 64. |
I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody el... |
121.64 |
1.0489 |
-0.0557 |
165 |
1 |
121.64 |
2017-01-25 |
| 65. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
121.59 |
0.9949 |
0.0082 |
304 |
1 |
121.59 |
2012-08-14 |
| 66. |
Llonio said life was a net for luck; to Hevydd the Smith lif... |
121.58 |
0.8832 |
0.1041 |
308 |
1 |
121.58 |
2019-08-09 |
| 67. |
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the tree... |
121.44 |
1.1310 |
-0.1443 |
132 |
1 |
121.44 |
2019-08-22 |
| 68. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
121.16 |
1.0461 |
-0.0436 |
535 |
1 |
121.16 |
2012-11-28 |
| 69. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
120.65 |
1.0562 |
-0.0631 |
360 |
2 |
120.51 |
2013-03-05 |
| 70. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
120.45 |
1.0188 |
-0.0258 |
316 |
1 |
120.45 |
2013-01-16 |
| 71. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
120.35 |
0.9985 |
-0.0039 |
392 |
1 |
120.35 |
2013-03-06 |
| 72. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
119.91 |
0.9948 |
-0.0147 |
233 |
2 |
111.65 |
2013-03-15 |
| 73. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
119.86 |
1.0511 |
-0.0689 |
252 |
1 |
119.86 |
2012-08-14 |
| 74. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
119.84 |
1.0039 |
-0.0168 |
255 |
1 |
119.84 |
2013-03-15 |
| 75. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
119.78 |
1.0018 |
-0.0214 |
246 |
1 |
119.78 |
2013-03-15 |
| 76. |
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's sou... |
119.53 |
1.0695 |
-0.0993 |
245 |
1 |
119.53 |
2019-08-08 |
| 77. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
119.48 |
1.0590 |
-0.0812 |
250 |
1 |
119.48 |
2013-02-26 |
| 78. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
119.22 |
0.9885 |
-0.0120 |
355 |
1 |
119.22 |
2013-03-06 |
| 79. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
119.13 |
0.9422 |
0.0298 |
190 |
1 |
119.13 |
2013-01-16 |
| 80. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
118.88 |
0.9561 |
0.0201 |
291 |
1 |
118.88 |
2012-08-14 |
| 81. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
118.57 |
1.0370 |
-0.0662 |
262 |
2 |
117.79 |
2013-01-09 |
| 82. |
Experience informs intuition. But it does more than that: Ex... |
118.39 |
0.9289 |
0.0339 |
514 |
1 |
118.39 |
2017-01-17 |
| 83. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
118.25 |
0.9740 |
-0.0037 |
371 |
1 |
118.25 |
2014-04-03 |
| 84. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
118.17 |
1.0125 |
-0.0454 |
232 |
1 |
118.17 |
2014-11-26 |
| 85. |
Anyway, I call this thing a "Gate." It's a kind of portal, t... |
118.14 |
0.9097 |
0.0474 |
191 |
1 |
118.14 |
2019-09-27 |
| 86. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
117.86 |
0.9354 |
0.0373 |
384 |
1 |
117.86 |
2013-03-01 |
| 87. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
117.86 |
0.9404 |
0.0318 |
383 |
1 |
117.86 |
2013-01-09 |
| 88. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
117.63 |
0.9922 |
-0.0291 |
264 |
1 |
117.63 |
2012-03-28 |
| 89. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
117.34 |
1.0332 |
-0.0725 |
267 |
1 |
117.34 |
2016-03-02 |
| 90. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
116.74 |
1.0208 |
-0.0649 |
231 |
1 |
116.74 |
2013-01-21 |
| 91. |
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Gi... |
116.15 |
0.9601 |
-0.0188 |
504 |
1 |
116.15 |
2019-09-06 |
| 92. |
To be, or not to be: that is the question: whether 'tis nobl... |
115.80 |
0.9932 |
-0.0533 |
198 |
1 |
115.80 |
2021-05-26 |
| 93. |
If you're committed enough, you can make any story work. I o... |
115.51 |
0.9914 |
-0.0550 |
144 |
1 |
115.51 |
2017-01-17 |
| 94. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
115.45 |
0.9143 |
0.0319 |
300 |
1 |
115.45 |
2012-03-28 |
| 95. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
115.26 |
0.9854 |
-0.0392 |
174 |
1 |
115.26 |
2017-01-18 |
| 96. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
115.11 |
0.9658 |
-0.0204 |
308 |
1 |
115.11 |
2012-12-03 |
| 97. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
114.83 |
0.9649 |
-0.0174 |
360 |
1 |
114.83 |
2013-01-22 |
| 98. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
114.78 |
1.0333 |
-0.0957 |
176 |
1 |
114.78 |
2013-03-01 |
| 99. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
114.55 |
1.0412 |
-0.0976 |
205 |
1 |
114.55 |
2013-02-22 |
| 100. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
114.30 |
1.0069 |
-0.0662 |
242 |
1 |
114.30 |
2013-01-18 |
| 101. |
Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an ur... |
114.01 |
0.9925 |
-0.0594 |
365 |
1 |
114.01 |
2016-09-15 |
| 102. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
113.92 |
0.9678 |
-0.0329 |
392 |
1 |
113.92 |
2012-04-12 |
| 103. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
113.81 |
1.0036 |
-0.0714 |
277 |
1 |
113.81 |
2013-01-09 |
| 104. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
113.48 |
0.9787 |
-0.0472 |
364 |
1 |
113.48 |
2013-03-04 |
| 105. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
112.83 |
0.9926 |
-0.0616 |
413 |
1 |
112.83 |
2012-04-12 |
| 106. |
But the house gets so quiet sitting here wishing for just an... |
112.72 |
1.0613 |
-0.1562 |
258 |
1 |
112.72 |
2021-05-27 |
| 107. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
112.38 |
0.9927 |
-0.0740 |
234 |
1 |
112.38 |
2013-02-27 |
| 108. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
111.70 |
0.9545 |
-0.0330 |
412 |
1 |
111.70 |
2013-01-25 |
| 109. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
111.51 |
0.9332 |
-0.0203 |
295 |
1 |
111.51 |
2013-03-01 |
| 110. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
111.10 |
0.9523 |
-0.0347 |
576 |
1 |
111.10 |
2013-02-04 |
| 111. |
And he told us of his life in the land of submarines. |
111.05 |
1.1685 |
-0.2688 |
53 |
1 |
111.05 |
2019-08-22 |
| 112. |
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Ma... |
110.79 |
1.0646 |
-0.1619 |
178 |
1 |
110.79 |
2021-05-27 |
| 113. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
110.69 |
0.9726 |
-0.0647 |
396 |
1 |
110.69 |
2012-08-14 |
| 114. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
110.18 |
0.9719 |
-0.0661 |
383 |
1 |
110.18 |
2012-03-31 |
| 115. |
That woman has to show you're a fraud, but as far as the wor... |
110.06 |
1.0166 |
-0.1267 |
213 |
1 |
110.06 |
2019-08-08 |
| 116. |
A brother who lives at home, and is still considered more su... |
109.94 |
1.0565 |
-0.1670 |
197 |
1 |
109.94 |
2018-06-07 |
| 117. |
Our story begins, as these stories often do, with a young up... |
108.86 |
0.9092 |
-0.0291 |
506 |
1 |
108.86 |
2019-01-11 |
| 118. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
108.81 |
1.0026 |
-0.1069 |
200 |
1 |
108.81 |
2012-11-29 |
| 119. |
I just want to tell you how I'm feeling. Gotta make you unde... |
107.97 |
1.0348 |
-0.1523 |
245 |
1 |
107.97 |
2017-01-24 |
| 120. |
Only when he finally lowered his gaze did it occur to him th... |
107.77 |
0.9275 |
-0.0564 |
573 |
1 |
107.77 |
2019-08-08 |
| 121. |
The development of a living body of literature became indica... |
106.65 |
0.9123 |
-0.0327 |
351 |
1 |
106.65 |
2012-11-27 |
| 122. |
What is going to happen to Kazi, Mama? He's the only one who... |
106.64 |
1.0131 |
-0.1583 |
267 |
1 |
106.64 |
2019-09-27 |
| 123. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
106.41 |
0.9543 |
-0.0781 |
265 |
1 |
106.41 |
2013-01-18 |
| 124. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
105.88 |
0.7923 |
0.0753 |
316 |
1 |
105.88 |
2013-02-26 |
| 125. |
A pulse of energy wipes the galaxy clean of all its life. Vi... |
103.68 |
0.9411 |
-0.0969 |
399 |
1 |
103.68 |
2019-08-08 |
| 126. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
102.85 |
1.0672 |
-0.2271 |
239 |
1 |
102.85 |
2017-01-18 |
| 127. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
102.64 |
0.8887 |
-0.0372 |
464 |
1 |
102.64 |
2013-01-18 |
| 128. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
101.77 |
0.9183 |
-0.0859 |
308 |
1 |
101.77 |
2013-02-22 |
| 129. |
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell whe... |
100.07 |
0.9897 |
-0.1772 |
324 |
1 |
100.07 |
2017-01-24 |
| 130. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
99.73 |
0.9359 |
-0.1192 |
355 |
1 |
99.73 |
2013-01-21 |
| 131. |
The throne rumbled. A wave of gale-force anger slammed into ... |
99.64 |
0.8303 |
-0.0198 |
517 |
1 |
99.64 |
2017-01-17 |
| 132. |
People remember their high school days as the high point of ... |
98.73 |
1.0339 |
-0.2322 |
482 |
1 |
98.73 |
2021-05-27 |
| 133. |
You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue... |
89.48 |
1.0116 |
-0.2904 |
203 |
1 |
89.48 |
2019-08-16 |
| 134. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
88.34 |
0.9660 |
-0.2372 |
258 |
1 |
88.34 |
2013-01-21 |
| 135. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
87.79 |
1.0033 |
-0.2868 |
203 |
1 |
87.79 |
2013-01-21 |
| 136. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
68.90 |
1.0521 |
-0.4947 |
197 |
1 |
68.90 |
2018-06-07 |