| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
165.08 |
1.0561 |
0.2300 |
227 |
3 |
152.13 |
2009-05-26 |
| 2. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
164.22 |
1.0498 |
0.2327 |
261 |
2 |
154.19 |
2010-07-06 |
| 3. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
152.37 |
1.0845 |
0.1028 |
212 |
3 |
144.02 |
2009-05-14 |
| 4. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
148.73 |
1.1070 |
0.0517 |
265 |
1 |
148.73 |
2012-01-08 |
| 5. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
148.36 |
1.0341 |
0.1222 |
273 |
1 |
148.36 |
2009-05-26 |
| 6. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
148.15 |
0.9604 |
0.1928 |
285 |
2 |
136.26 |
2009-05-14 |
| 7. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
148.05 |
0.9927 |
0.1585 |
234 |
1 |
148.05 |
2009-08-17 |
| 8. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
147.42 |
1.0867 |
0.0585 |
171 |
1 |
147.42 |
2009-05-14 |
| 9. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
147.13 |
1.0462 |
0.1041 |
340 |
1 |
147.13 |
2009-05-14 |
| 10. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
146.78 |
1.0557 |
0.0901 |
289 |
1 |
146.78 |
2014-07-28 |
| 11. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
146.34 |
1.0511 |
0.0918 |
252 |
1 |
146.34 |
2009-05-14 |
| 12. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
145.46 |
1.0189 |
0.1147 |
290 |
3 |
136.46 |
2010-07-06 |
| 13. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
143.86 |
0.9841 |
0.1360 |
263 |
1 |
143.86 |
2014-07-28 |
| 14. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
142.89 |
0.9931 |
0.1255 |
339 |
2 |
130.98 |
2009-05-15 |
| 15. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
142.58 |
1.0543 |
0.0596 |
360 |
1 |
142.58 |
2009-05-15 |
| 16. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
142.38 |
1.0461 |
0.0662 |
318 |
2 |
139.11 |
2010-07-06 |
| 17. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
141.49 |
1.0372 |
0.0655 |
249 |
3 |
138.30 |
2015-10-15 |
| 18. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
141.00 |
0.9917 |
0.1096 |
317 |
1 |
141.00 |
2010-03-31 |
| 19. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
140.35 |
0.9119 |
0.1865 |
396 |
1 |
140.35 |
2014-07-28 |
| 20. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
140.05 |
1.0272 |
0.0625 |
226 |
1 |
140.05 |
2015-10-15 |
| 21. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
139.69 |
1.0036 |
0.0864 |
277 |
1 |
139.69 |
2009-05-14 |
| 22. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
139.35 |
1.0628 |
0.0255 |
363 |
1 |
139.35 |
2009-05-14 |
| 23. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
139.06 |
0.9756 |
0.1077 |
223 |
2 |
136.55 |
2009-05-15 |
| 24. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
138.73 |
1.0125 |
0.0640 |
171 |
2 |
135.65 |
2010-07-06 |
| 25. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
138.40 |
1.0270 |
0.0525 |
303 |
4 |
133.78 |
2014-07-28 |
| 26. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
138.22 |
1.0115 |
0.0607 |
189 |
1 |
138.22 |
2009-05-14 |
| 27. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
137.18 |
1.0472 |
0.0158 |
149 |
2 |
122.15 |
2010-07-06 |
| 28. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
136.50 |
1.0873 |
-0.0263 |
243 |
1 |
136.50 |
2009-05-29 |
| 29. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
136.50 |
0.9981 |
0.0650 |
211 |
2 |
127.38 |
2009-05-15 |
| 30. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
135.72 |
1.0881 |
-0.0342 |
210 |
1 |
135.72 |
2009-05-14 |
| 31. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
135.59 |
1.0291 |
0.0256 |
240 |
1 |
135.59 |
2009-05-14 |
| 32. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
135.41 |
1.0135 |
0.0452 |
358 |
1 |
135.41 |
2009-05-14 |
| 33. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
135.26 |
0.9583 |
0.0964 |
237 |
1 |
135.26 |
2009-05-14 |
| 34. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
135.02 |
1.0074 |
0.0590 |
410 |
1 |
135.02 |
2010-07-06 |
| 35. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
134.67 |
0.9996 |
0.0575 |
483 |
1 |
134.67 |
2012-01-08 |
| 36. |
Even though there may be a deceiver of some sort, very power... |
134.57 |
1.0215 |
0.0374 |
321 |
1 |
134.57 |
2015-10-15 |
| 37. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
134.50 |
1.0672 |
-0.0201 |
239 |
1 |
134.50 |
2009-08-13 |
| 38. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
134.49 |
1.0487 |
-0.0027 |
253 |
1 |
134.49 |
2011-04-26 |
| 39. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
133.69 |
1.0338 |
0.0134 |
277 |
1 |
133.69 |
2014-07-28 |
| 40. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
133.54 |
1.0411 |
0.0015 |
341 |
1 |
133.54 |
2009-05-14 |
| 41. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
132.53 |
1.0253 |
0.0105 |
337 |
1 |
132.53 |
2009-05-15 |
| 42. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
132.36 |
0.9726 |
0.0641 |
396 |
1 |
132.36 |
2009-05-14 |
| 43. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
132.34 |
1.0208 |
0.0104 |
231 |
1 |
132.34 |
2009-05-14 |
| 44. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
131.84 |
1.0450 |
-0.0123 |
358 |
2 |
122.27 |
2012-01-08 |
| 45. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
131.81 |
1.0035 |
0.0243 |
310 |
1 |
131.81 |
2010-07-06 |
| 46. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
131.77 |
0.9809 |
0.0421 |
209 |
1 |
131.77 |
2009-05-15 |
| 47. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
131.65 |
1.0432 |
-0.0167 |
276 |
2 |
131.62 |
2009-06-12 |
| 48. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
131.54 |
0.9400 |
0.0877 |
434 |
1 |
131.54 |
2009-05-15 |
| 49. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
131.54 |
0.9145 |
0.1141 |
404 |
1 |
131.54 |
2009-05-14 |
| 50. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
131.21 |
0.9809 |
0.0494 |
250 |
1 |
131.21 |
2014-07-28 |
| 51. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
131.19 |
0.8830 |
0.1418 |
300 |
2 |
122.29 |
2009-05-29 |
| 52. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
131.05 |
1.0194 |
-0.0003 |
224 |
1 |
131.05 |
2009-05-29 |
| 53. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
131.04 |
1.0419 |
-0.0176 |
341 |
2 |
130.92 |
2009-05-15 |
| 54. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
130.76 |
1.0582 |
-0.0423 |
180 |
1 |
130.76 |
2009-05-14 |
| 55. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
130.62 |
1.0125 |
0.0039 |
232 |
2 |
123.39 |
2011-04-26 |
| 56. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
130.49 |
1.0682 |
-0.0503 |
266 |
1 |
130.49 |
2010-12-13 |
| 57. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
129.65 |
0.9519 |
0.0623 |
323 |
1 |
129.65 |
2009-05-29 |
| 58. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
129.63 |
0.9765 |
0.0329 |
269 |
2 |
126.52 |
2009-05-15 |
| 59. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
129.48 |
1.0351 |
-0.0223 |
276 |
1 |
129.48 |
2009-05-14 |
| 60. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
129.05 |
1.0020 |
0.0157 |
411 |
1 |
129.05 |
2014-07-28 |
| 61. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
128.80 |
0.9530 |
0.0638 |
445 |
1 |
128.80 |
2010-07-06 |
| 62. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
128.68 |
0.9359 |
0.0675 |
355 |
1 |
128.68 |
2009-05-14 |
| 63. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
128.61 |
0.9709 |
0.0299 |
264 |
1 |
128.61 |
2009-05-14 |
| 64. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
128.61 |
1.0427 |
-0.0397 |
269 |
2 |
124.91 |
2014-07-28 |
| 65. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
128.37 |
0.9915 |
0.0078 |
281 |
2 |
122.03 |
2011-04-26 |
| 66. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
128.37 |
0.9864 |
0.0176 |
292 |
1 |
128.37 |
2010-07-06 |
| 67. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
128.02 |
0.9284 |
0.0728 |
346 |
1 |
128.02 |
2009-08-29 |
| 68. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
127.63 |
0.9658 |
0.0323 |
308 |
1 |
127.63 |
2009-05-15 |
| 69. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
127.13 |
0.9603 |
0.0357 |
430 |
2 |
124.12 |
2009-05-15 |
| 70. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
126.86 |
0.9108 |
0.0775 |
235 |
1 |
126.86 |
2009-05-14 |
| 71. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
126.62 |
1.0387 |
-0.0480 |
333 |
1 |
126.62 |
2009-05-14 |
| 72. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
126.31 |
0.9468 |
0.0371 |
318 |
1 |
126.31 |
2010-07-06 |
| 73. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
126.29 |
0.9885 |
0.0021 |
469 |
1 |
126.29 |
2009-05-28 |
| 74. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
126.16 |
1.0529 |
-0.0674 |
373 |
1 |
126.16 |
2009-05-15 |
| 75. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
126.15 |
1.0800 |
-0.1001 |
213 |
1 |
126.15 |
2009-05-14 |
| 76. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
126.03 |
0.9673 |
0.0185 |
393 |
1 |
126.03 |
2009-05-14 |
| 77. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
125.84 |
0.9727 |
0.0144 |
442 |
1 |
125.84 |
2009-05-15 |
| 78. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
125.80 |
1.0082 |
-0.0331 |
212 |
1 |
125.80 |
2010-07-06 |
| 79. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
125.75 |
0.9957 |
-0.0162 |
323 |
1 |
125.75 |
2009-05-26 |
| 80. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
125.24 |
1.0686 |
-0.0893 |
354 |
1 |
125.24 |
2009-05-15 |
| 81. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
124.94 |
0.9162 |
0.0583 |
401 |
2 |
123.47 |
2009-05-15 |
| 82. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
124.88 |
0.9678 |
0.0094 |
392 |
1 |
124.88 |
2009-05-14 |
| 83. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
124.78 |
0.9392 |
0.0390 |
360 |
2 |
122.14 |
2009-05-14 |
| 84. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
124.04 |
0.9339 |
0.0382 |
317 |
1 |
124.04 |
2009-05-14 |
| 85. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
123.87 |
0.9768 |
-0.0106 |
237 |
1 |
123.87 |
2009-05-14 |
| 86. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
123.71 |
0.9966 |
-0.0257 |
377 |
2 |
122.43 |
2009-05-26 |
| 87. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
123.69 |
0.8974 |
0.0780 |
365 |
1 |
123.69 |
2014-07-28 |
| 88. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
123.41 |
0.9704 |
-0.0091 |
254 |
1 |
123.41 |
2009-05-29 |
| 89. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
123.35 |
1.0178 |
-0.0586 |
207 |
1 |
123.35 |
2009-08-17 |
| 90. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
122.94 |
0.9933 |
-0.0283 |
450 |
2 |
118.40 |
2009-05-15 |
| 91. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
122.66 |
0.9561 |
0.0010 |
362 |
2 |
121.99 |
2009-05-14 |
| 92. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
121.84 |
0.8913 |
0.0592 |
201 |
1 |
121.84 |
2009-05-14 |
| 93. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
121.37 |
0.9719 |
-0.0194 |
383 |
1 |
121.37 |
2009-05-14 |
| 94. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
121.31 |
0.8778 |
0.0689 |
285 |
1 |
121.31 |
2009-08-13 |
| 95. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
121.29 |
0.9012 |
0.0470 |
322 |
1 |
121.29 |
2009-05-15 |
| 96. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
121.26 |
0.8847 |
0.0576 |
282 |
1 |
121.26 |
2009-05-14 |
| 97. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
121.05 |
0.9909 |
-0.0435 |
293 |
1 |
121.05 |
2009-05-14 |
| 98. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
120.34 |
1.0588 |
-0.1214 |
281 |
1 |
120.34 |
2009-05-15 |
| 99. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
119.70 |
0.9084 |
0.0253 |
271 |
1 |
119.70 |
2009-05-20 |
| 100. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
119.38 |
1.0333 |
-0.1087 |
176 |
1 |
119.38 |
2009-05-29 |
| 101. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
117.98 |
0.9594 |
-0.0424 |
258 |
1 |
117.98 |
2009-05-26 |
| 102. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
117.88 |
1.0287 |
-0.1118 |
269 |
1 |
117.88 |
2015-10-15 |
| 103. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
116.73 |
0.9136 |
-0.0013 |
348 |
2 |
111.05 |
2014-07-28 |
| 104. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
116.58 |
0.8172 |
0.0863 |
204 |
3 |
111.23 |
2009-08-17 |
| 105. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
116.29 |
1.0069 |
-0.0981 |
242 |
1 |
116.29 |
2010-07-06 |
| 106. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
116.17 |
0.9948 |
-0.0913 |
233 |
1 |
116.17 |
2009-05-14 |
| 107. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
116.15 |
1.0418 |
-0.1366 |
214 |
1 |
116.15 |
2009-05-14 |
| 108. |
One respondent said "For women - a lot of games are crap - t... |
116.15 |
0.9346 |
-0.0331 |
211 |
1 |
116.15 |
2009-05-29 |
| 109. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
116.11 |
0.8986 |
0.0038 |
205 |
1 |
116.11 |
2009-08-17 |
| 110. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
116.11 |
1.0476 |
-0.1529 |
110 |
1 |
116.11 |
2009-05-14 |
| 111. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
115.57 |
0.9206 |
-0.0202 |
317 |
1 |
115.57 |
2009-05-14 |
| 112. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
115.20 |
1.0403 |
-0.1450 |
234 |
1 |
115.20 |
2009-05-14 |
| 113. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
114.90 |
0.8964 |
-0.0047 |
199 |
2 |
111.60 |
2010-07-06 |
| 114. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
114.55 |
0.9128 |
-0.0237 |
237 |
1 |
114.55 |
2009-05-14 |
| 115. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
114.00 |
0.9114 |
-0.0163 |
399 |
1 |
114.00 |
2009-05-14 |
| 116. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
113.95 |
1.0585 |
-0.1685 |
226 |
1 |
113.95 |
2011-04-26 |
| 117. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
113.67 |
0.9884 |
-0.1009 |
267 |
1 |
113.67 |
2009-05-14 |
| 118. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
112.78 |
0.9952 |
-0.1148 |
220 |
1 |
112.78 |
2011-04-26 |
| 119. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
112.49 |
0.9849 |
-0.1080 |
337 |
1 |
112.49 |
2009-05-15 |
| 120. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
111.48 |
0.9479 |
-0.0784 |
317 |
1 |
111.48 |
2015-10-15 |
| 121. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
111.47 |
0.9332 |
-0.0655 |
267 |
1 |
111.47 |
2009-05-15 |
| 122. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
107.27 |
1.0095 |
-0.1761 |
211 |
1 |
107.27 |
2009-05-14 |
| 123. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
104.66 |
0.9403 |
-0.1133 |
345 |
1 |
104.66 |
2010-07-06 |
| 124. |
Geometry sets out from certain conceptions such as "plane," ... |
100.04 |
0.8887 |
-0.0967 |
464 |
1 |
100.04 |
2009-05-15 |
| 125. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
99.07 |
0.9500 |
-0.1778 |
287 |
1 |
99.07 |
2009-08-29 |
| 126. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
96.41 |
0.8328 |
-0.0795 |
343 |
1 |
96.41 |
2014-07-28 |
| 127. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
82.00 |
0.9836 |
-0.3468 |
289 |
1 |
82.00 |
2010-03-31 |
| 128. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
39.47 |
0.8880 |
-0.5847 |
296 |
1 |
39.47 |
2009-05-14 |