| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
127.39 |
1.1138 |
0.2172 |
341 |
1 |
127.39 |
2016-01-27 |
| 2. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
125.32 |
1.0567 |
0.2441 |
314 |
1 |
125.32 |
2010-07-04 |
| 3. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
122.74 |
1.0873 |
0.1839 |
243 |
2 |
121.96 |
2009-06-09 |
| 4. |
After others have talked about themselves, a point will be r... |
121.08 |
1.0996 |
0.1593 |
153 |
1 |
121.08 |
2016-01-27 |
| 5. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
119.63 |
0.9974 |
0.2404 |
163 |
2 |
118.99 |
2010-04-10 |
| 6. |
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppress... |
118.65 |
1.0664 |
0.1713 |
247 |
1 |
118.65 |
2016-01-27 |
| 7. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
118.52 |
0.9963 |
0.2313 |
274 |
1 |
118.52 |
2013-03-31 |
| 8. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
117.92 |
1.0042 |
0.2160 |
168 |
1 |
117.92 |
2010-04-08 |
| 9. |
This country is hard on people. Hard and crazy. Got the devi... |
117.04 |
0.9080 |
0.3033 |
111 |
1 |
117.04 |
2010-07-04 |
| 10. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
116.86 |
0.8988 |
0.3133 |
193 |
1 |
116.86 |
2009-06-09 |
| 11. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
115.46 |
0.9632 |
0.2362 |
287 |
3 |
101.07 |
2016-01-27 |
| 12. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
115.23 |
1.0479 |
0.1464 |
205 |
1 |
115.23 |
2013-03-31 |
| 13. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
114.41 |
1.0125 |
0.1733 |
232 |
3 |
100.48 |
2010-03-02 |
| 14. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
113.91 |
1.0845 |
0.0963 |
212 |
1 |
113.91 |
2011-10-07 |
| 15. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
113.91 |
1.0332 |
0.1481 |
267 |
1 |
113.91 |
2010-03-05 |
| 16. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
113.17 |
1.0697 |
0.1140 |
341 |
1 |
113.17 |
2013-03-31 |
| 17. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
112.28 |
0.9709 |
0.1928 |
264 |
2 |
100.21 |
2010-03-05 |
| 18. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
111.14 |
1.0867 |
0.0620 |
171 |
1 |
111.14 |
2010-03-02 |
| 19. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
110.28 |
1.0639 |
0.0814 |
303 |
1 |
110.28 |
2010-03-02 |
| 20. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
110.19 |
0.9762 |
0.1669 |
249 |
1 |
110.19 |
2016-01-27 |
| 21. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
109.75 |
1.0387 |
0.1042 |
333 |
2 |
105.06 |
2013-03-31 |
| 22. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
109.53 |
1.0060 |
0.1315 |
260 |
1 |
109.53 |
2010-03-04 |
| 23. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
108.42 |
1.0600 |
0.0651 |
351 |
1 |
108.42 |
2010-03-04 |
| 24. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
108.17 |
1.0341 |
0.0875 |
273 |
1 |
108.17 |
2010-03-05 |
| 25. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
107.44 |
1.1070 |
0.0064 |
265 |
1 |
107.44 |
2010-03-04 |
| 26. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
107.17 |
0.9631 |
0.1481 |
273 |
1 |
107.17 |
2010-04-12 |
| 27. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
107.13 |
0.9402 |
0.1692 |
310 |
2 |
95.39 |
2011-04-01 |
| 28. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
106.68 |
0.9740 |
0.1359 |
371 |
2 |
106.50 |
2010-05-30 |
| 29. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
106.64 |
1.0487 |
0.0553 |
253 |
1 |
106.64 |
2016-01-27 |
| 30. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
106.25 |
1.0462 |
0.0590 |
340 |
1 |
106.25 |
2010-04-08 |
| 31. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
105.83 |
0.9598 |
0.1401 |
209 |
1 |
105.83 |
2010-05-30 |
| 32. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
105.76 |
0.9538 |
0.1430 |
276 |
1 |
105.76 |
2010-04-12 |
| 33. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
105.37 |
1.0144 |
0.0794 |
162 |
2 |
102.08 |
2010-05-30 |
| 34. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
105.09 |
1.0472 |
0.0365 |
149 |
1 |
105.09 |
2009-06-09 |
| 35. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
104.59 |
1.0060 |
0.0795 |
225 |
2 |
99.13 |
2016-01-27 |
| 36. |
Well, I heard my friends really got in a mess so I'm gonna h... |
104.55 |
0.9717 |
0.0790 |
279 |
1 |
104.55 |
2020-05-06 |
| 37. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
104.34 |
1.0493 |
0.0397 |
264 |
1 |
104.34 |
2010-03-02 |
| 38. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
104.15 |
1.0901 |
-0.0079 |
288 |
1 |
104.15 |
2010-04-12 |
| 39. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
104.13 |
1.0450 |
0.0404 |
358 |
1 |
104.13 |
2010-03-02 |
| 40. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
103.83 |
1.0509 |
0.0334 |
295 |
1 |
103.83 |
2010-03-02 |
| 41. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
103.53 |
1.0411 |
0.0345 |
341 |
1 |
103.53 |
2010-03-04 |
| 42. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
103.13 |
0.9885 |
0.0879 |
469 |
1 |
103.13 |
2010-03-05 |
| 43. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
103.00 |
1.0334 |
0.0342 |
261 |
1 |
103.00 |
2010-03-02 |
| 44. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
102.92 |
1.0086 |
0.0545 |
218 |
1 |
102.92 |
2010-03-04 |
| 45. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
102.91 |
1.0192 |
0.0536 |
243 |
1 |
102.91 |
2010-03-04 |
| 46. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
101.94 |
0.9928 |
0.0637 |
293 |
1 |
101.94 |
2016-02-19 |
| 47. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
101.39 |
0.9680 |
0.0836 |
256 |
1 |
101.39 |
2016-01-27 |
| 48. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
101.38 |
1.0320 |
0.0254 |
401 |
1 |
101.38 |
2013-03-31 |
| 49. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
101.35 |
1.0669 |
-0.0124 |
379 |
2 |
95.84 |
2010-03-02 |
| 50. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
101.18 |
1.0234 |
0.0299 |
392 |
1 |
101.18 |
2010-03-04 |
| 51. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
100.94 |
0.9844 |
0.0744 |
351 |
2 |
99.56 |
2010-05-30 |
| 52. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
100.89 |
0.9873 |
0.0576 |
274 |
1 |
100.89 |
2010-03-04 |
| 53. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
100.25 |
1.0227 |
0.0231 |
378 |
1 |
100.25 |
2010-03-02 |
| 54. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
100.22 |
0.9915 |
0.0468 |
281 |
2 |
98.47 |
2009-06-09 |
| 55. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
99.98 |
1.0165 |
0.0193 |
316 |
2 |
95.51 |
2010-04-12 |
| 56. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
99.91 |
0.9644 |
0.0747 |
398 |
1 |
99.91 |
2010-03-02 |
| 57. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
99.20 |
1.0777 |
-0.0512 |
226 |
1 |
99.20 |
2009-06-09 |
| 58. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
99.05 |
1.0265 |
0.0043 |
375 |
1 |
99.05 |
2009-06-09 |
| 59. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
99.04 |
0.9966 |
0.0375 |
377 |
1 |
99.04 |
2010-04-12 |
| 60. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
98.85 |
1.0504 |
-0.0235 |
225 |
1 |
98.85 |
2010-03-02 |
| 61. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
98.32 |
1.1093 |
-0.0956 |
220 |
1 |
98.32 |
2008-09-23 |
| 62. |
Oxygen will run out tomorrow morning, and that'll be it. And... |
97.98 |
0.9546 |
0.0111 |
513 |
1 |
97.98 |
2020-03-19 |
| 63. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
97.62 |
1.0540 |
-0.0469 |
184 |
1 |
97.62 |
2008-09-23 |
| 64. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
97.17 |
0.9841 |
0.0348 |
325 |
1 |
97.17 |
2010-03-02 |
| 65. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
96.26 |
0.9745 |
0.0254 |
388 |
2 |
92.80 |
2011-04-01 |
| 66. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
96.22 |
0.9931 |
0.0089 |
339 |
2 |
93.56 |
2010-03-02 |
| 67. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
95.39 |
1.0189 |
-0.0308 |
290 |
1 |
95.39 |
2010-03-02 |
| 68. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
94.68 |
1.0418 |
-0.0596 |
214 |
1 |
94.68 |
2009-06-09 |
| 69. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
94.22 |
1.0033 |
-0.0264 |
203 |
1 |
94.22 |
2009-06-09 |
| 70. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
93.47 |
1.0877 |
-0.1225 |
129 |
1 |
93.47 |
2009-06-09 |
| 71. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
92.98 |
0.9228 |
0.0456 |
305 |
1 |
92.98 |
2010-03-02 |
| 72. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
92.95 |
0.9070 |
0.0515 |
192 |
2 |
85.95 |
2010-03-02 |
| 73. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
92.41 |
0.9980 |
-0.0379 |
295 |
1 |
92.41 |
2010-03-02 |
| 74. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
92.21 |
0.9842 |
-0.0264 |
335 |
1 |
92.21 |
2009-06-09 |
| 75. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
92.20 |
1.0103 |
-0.0604 |
209 |
1 |
92.20 |
2010-03-02 |
| 76. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
91.85 |
0.9810 |
-0.0240 |
362 |
1 |
91.85 |
2009-06-09 |
| 77. |
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not ... |
91.82 |
1.1244 |
-0.1706 |
164 |
1 |
91.82 |
2016-02-19 |
| 78. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
91.69 |
1.0800 |
-0.1326 |
213 |
1 |
91.69 |
2010-03-02 |
| 79. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
91.63 |
0.9703 |
-0.0140 |
394 |
1 |
91.63 |
2013-03-31 |
| 80. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
91.33 |
0.9010 |
0.0481 |
266 |
1 |
91.33 |
2010-03-02 |
| 81. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
91.18 |
1.0607 |
-0.1128 |
357 |
1 |
91.18 |
2010-03-02 |
| 82. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
90.99 |
0.8955 |
0.0572 |
436 |
1 |
90.99 |
2010-05-30 |
| 83. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
90.81 |
0.9543 |
-0.0064 |
265 |
1 |
90.81 |
2010-03-02 |
| 84. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
90.52 |
0.9561 |
-0.0166 |
362 |
1 |
90.52 |
2008-09-23 |
| 85. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
90.21 |
0.9989 |
-0.0570 |
282 |
1 |
90.21 |
2010-03-02 |
| 86. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
90.10 |
0.9804 |
-0.0466 |
227 |
1 |
90.10 |
2010-05-30 |
| 87. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
89.72 |
1.0404 |
-0.1055 |
406 |
1 |
89.72 |
2008-09-23 |
| 88. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
89.64 |
1.0511 |
-0.1205 |
252 |
1 |
89.64 |
2009-06-09 |
| 89. |
A total of twenty-five friends were headed from San Francisc... |
88.42 |
0.9046 |
0.0246 |
448 |
1 |
88.42 |
2010-05-30 |
| 90. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
88.26 |
0.9422 |
-0.0329 |
190 |
1 |
88.26 |
2009-06-09 |
| 91. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
88.07 |
0.8624 |
0.0454 |
174 |
1 |
88.07 |
2010-04-10 |
| 92. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
87.95 |
1.0272 |
-0.1183 |
226 |
1 |
87.95 |
2009-06-09 |
| 93. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
87.34 |
0.8986 |
0.0045 |
205 |
1 |
87.34 |
2013-03-31 |
| 94. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
86.05 |
0.9726 |
-0.0759 |
396 |
2 |
82.20 |
2010-03-02 |
| 95. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
85.11 |
0.9609 |
-0.0746 |
331 |
1 |
85.11 |
2009-06-09 |
| 96. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
84.54 |
0.9857 |
-0.1042 |
268 |
1 |
84.54 |
2016-01-27 |
| 97. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
84.42 |
0.9820 |
-0.0991 |
297 |
1 |
84.42 |
2010-03-02 |
| 98. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
82.08 |
0.9713 |
-0.1227 |
193 |
1 |
82.08 |
2008-08-23 |
| 99. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
80.97 |
0.9494 |
-0.0981 |
397 |
1 |
80.97 |
2013-03-31 |
| 100. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
80.83 |
0.9143 |
-0.0763 |
300 |
2 |
76.47 |
2010-03-02 |
| 101. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
80.43 |
0.9206 |
-0.0873 |
317 |
1 |
80.43 |
2013-03-31 |
| 102. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
80.28 |
1.0800 |
-0.2559 |
129 |
1 |
80.28 |
2009-06-09 |
| 103. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
79.62 |
0.9468 |
-0.1226 |
318 |
1 |
79.62 |
2009-06-09 |
| 104. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
78.99 |
0.9284 |
-0.1071 |
346 |
1 |
78.99 |
2009-06-09 |
| 105. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
78.69 |
0.9500 |
-0.1335 |
287 |
1 |
78.69 |
2009-06-09 |
| 106. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
77.76 |
0.8437 |
-0.0394 |
268 |
1 |
77.76 |
2010-03-02 |
| 107. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
75.63 |
0.8887 |
-0.0921 |
464 |
1 |
75.63 |
2009-06-09 |
| 108. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
73.76 |
0.9137 |
-0.1486 |
342 |
1 |
73.76 |
2010-03-04 |
| 109. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
73.04 |
0.9271 |
-0.1718 |
295 |
1 |
73.04 |
2008-08-23 |
| 110. |
Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, lik... |
72.55 |
0.8988 |
-0.1483 |
216 |
1 |
72.55 |
2009-06-09 |
| 111. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
71.43 |
0.8913 |
-0.1507 |
201 |
1 |
71.43 |
2010-05-30 |
| 112. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
70.00 |
0.9594 |
-0.2372 |
258 |
1 |
70.00 |
2008-08-23 |
| 113. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
68.76 |
0.9917 |
-0.2784 |
317 |
1 |
68.76 |
2010-03-02 |
| 114. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
67.61 |
0.8172 |
-0.1224 |
204 |
1 |
67.61 |
2008-09-23 |
| 115. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
66.52 |
0.7923 |
-0.1040 |
316 |
1 |
66.52 |
2010-05-30 |
| 116. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
55.57 |
0.9400 |
-0.3640 |
434 |
1 |
55.57 |
2011-04-01 |
| 117. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
46.44 |
1.0132 |
-0.5344 |
371 |
1 |
46.44 |
2008-08-23 |
| 118. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
45.04 |
0.9927 |
-0.5323 |
234 |
1 |
45.04 |
2010-07-04 |
| 119. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
34.35 |
0.9255 |
-0.5728 |
174 |
1 |
34.35 |
2010-03-02 |