Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
135.08 |
1.0800 |
0.1456 |
213 |
1 |
135.08 |
2012-03-28 |
2. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
132.67 |
0.9844 |
0.2343 |
351 |
1 |
132.67 |
2012-03-29 |
3. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
129.81 |
1.0301 |
0.1491 |
268 |
1 |
129.81 |
2012-03-28 |
4. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
128.80 |
1.0039 |
0.1736 |
255 |
1 |
128.80 |
2012-03-29 |
5. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
127.87 |
0.9918 |
0.1780 |
400 |
1 |
127.87 |
2012-03-29 |
6. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
127.33 |
0.9810 |
0.1816 |
362 |
1 |
127.33 |
2012-03-30 |
7. |
Be impeccable with your word - speak with integrity. Say onl... |
127.10 |
1.0464 |
0.1152 |
213 |
1 |
127.10 |
2012-03-28 |
8. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
125.73 |
0.9884 |
0.1572 |
267 |
2 |
121.20 |
2012-03-28 |
9. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
124.98 |
1.0672 |
0.0679 |
239 |
2 |
114.65 |
2012-04-07 |
10. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
124.92 |
1.0128 |
0.1296 |
369 |
2 |
107.08 |
2012-03-29 |
11. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
124.86 |
1.0562 |
0.0842 |
360 |
1 |
124.86 |
2012-03-28 |
12. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
123.97 |
1.0334 |
0.0931 |
261 |
1 |
123.97 |
2012-03-29 |
13. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
123.66 |
0.9809 |
0.1396 |
209 |
1 |
123.66 |
2012-03-29 |
14. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
123.23 |
1.0243 |
0.0998 |
153 |
1 |
123.23 |
2012-03-28 |
15. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
123.21 |
0.9530 |
0.1638 |
193 |
1 |
123.21 |
2012-03-28 |
16. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
123.05 |
0.9636 |
0.1538 |
281 |
1 |
123.05 |
2012-03-28 |
17. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
123.03 |
1.0521 |
0.0609 |
197 |
2 |
117.52 |
2012-03-29 |
18. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
122.23 |
1.0135 |
0.1009 |
358 |
1 |
122.23 |
2012-03-28 |
19. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
122.18 |
1.0291 |
0.0795 |
240 |
1 |
122.18 |
2012-03-28 |
20. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
121.30 |
1.0736 |
0.0333 |
256 |
1 |
121.30 |
2012-03-30 |
21. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
120.59 |
1.0845 |
0.0108 |
212 |
2 |
112.77 |
2012-03-30 |
22. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
120.59 |
1.0487 |
0.0453 |
253 |
1 |
120.59 |
2012-03-29 |
23. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
120.33 |
1.0144 |
0.0922 |
356 |
3 |
112.79 |
2012-03-30 |
24. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
119.70 |
1.0640 |
0.0301 |
210 |
1 |
119.70 |
2012-03-29 |
25. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
118.94 |
1.0493 |
0.0388 |
264 |
1 |
118.94 |
2012-03-29 |
26. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
118.43 |
0.9468 |
0.1296 |
318 |
1 |
118.43 |
2012-03-28 |
27. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
118.24 |
1.0279 |
0.0413 |
172 |
2 |
101.09 |
2012-03-28 |
28. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
117.77 |
0.9354 |
0.1459 |
384 |
1 |
117.77 |
2012-03-28 |
29. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
117.63 |
0.9765 |
0.0920 |
269 |
1 |
117.63 |
2012-03-28 |
30. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
117.20 |
1.0287 |
0.0356 |
269 |
1 |
117.20 |
2012-03-28 |
31. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
117.10 |
0.9424 |
0.1244 |
320 |
1 |
117.10 |
2012-03-28 |
32. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
116.98 |
0.9736 |
0.0964 |
378 |
3 |
100.73 |
2012-03-30 |
33. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
116.52 |
1.0332 |
0.0256 |
267 |
1 |
116.52 |
2012-03-28 |
34. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
116.46 |
0.9842 |
0.0764 |
335 |
1 |
116.46 |
2012-03-28 |
35. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
115.89 |
1.0501 |
0.0038 |
263 |
1 |
115.89 |
2012-03-28 |
36. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
115.76 |
1.0094 |
0.0427 |
256 |
1 |
115.76 |
2012-03-28 |
37. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
115.07 |
0.9517 |
0.1020 |
397 |
1 |
115.07 |
2012-03-29 |
38. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
114.97 |
0.8721 |
0.1787 |
231 |
1 |
114.97 |
2012-03-29 |
39. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
114.57 |
1.0901 |
-0.0469 |
288 |
1 |
114.57 |
2012-03-28 |
40. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
114.15 |
0.9922 |
0.0456 |
264 |
1 |
114.15 |
2012-03-29 |
41. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
113.29 |
0.9880 |
0.0371 |
199 |
1 |
113.29 |
2012-03-30 |
42. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
113.16 |
0.9885 |
0.0400 |
355 |
1 |
113.16 |
2012-03-28 |
43. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
113.08 |
0.9740 |
0.0569 |
371 |
1 |
113.08 |
2012-03-28 |
44. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
111.72 |
0.9271 |
0.0903 |
323 |
1 |
111.72 |
2012-03-29 |
45. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
111.65 |
1.0479 |
-0.0348 |
205 |
1 |
111.65 |
2012-03-29 |
46. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
111.15 |
0.9598 |
0.0523 |
209 |
1 |
111.15 |
2012-03-28 |
47. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
109.91 |
1.0372 |
-0.0390 |
249 |
1 |
109.91 |
2012-03-29 |
48. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
109.67 |
0.9402 |
0.0543 |
310 |
1 |
109.67 |
2012-03-28 |
49. |
The idea of "Mr. Right" has been passed down over the genera... |
109.16 |
0.9630 |
0.0419 |
379 |
2 |
99.90 |
2012-03-30 |
50. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
108.38 |
0.9271 |
0.0570 |
295 |
1 |
108.38 |
2012-03-29 |
51. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
107.69 |
1.0509 |
-0.0651 |
295 |
1 |
107.69 |
2012-03-30 |
52. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
107.16 |
1.0506 |
-0.0776 |
259 |
1 |
107.16 |
2012-03-30 |
53. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
106.99 |
1.0639 |
-0.0908 |
303 |
1 |
106.99 |
2012-04-03 |
54. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
106.47 |
0.9541 |
0.0137 |
236 |
1 |
106.47 |
2012-03-28 |
55. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
105.79 |
0.9713 |
-0.0117 |
193 |
1 |
105.79 |
2012-03-28 |
56. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
105.54 |
1.0444 |
-0.0728 |
487 |
2 |
104.53 |
2012-03-28 |
57. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
105.06 |
0.9404 |
0.0233 |
383 |
1 |
105.06 |
2012-03-29 |
58. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
104.26 |
1.0561 |
-0.1109 |
227 |
1 |
104.26 |
2012-03-28 |
59. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
103.97 |
1.0590 |
-0.1157 |
250 |
1 |
103.97 |
2012-03-28 |
60. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
103.90 |
0.9357 |
0.0059 |
204 |
1 |
103.90 |
2012-03-28 |
61. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
103.20 |
1.0482 |
-0.0981 |
407 |
1 |
103.20 |
2012-03-28 |
62. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
103.02 |
1.0057 |
-0.0673 |
382 |
1 |
103.02 |
2012-03-30 |
63. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
102.39 |
0.9857 |
-0.0499 |
268 |
1 |
102.39 |
2012-03-29 |
64. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
101.86 |
0.9709 |
-0.0471 |
264 |
1 |
101.86 |
2012-03-29 |
65. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
101.76 |
1.0461 |
-0.1069 |
535 |
1 |
101.76 |
2012-03-28 |
66. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
101.59 |
0.9851 |
-0.0576 |
237 |
2 |
95.67 |
2012-03-30 |
67. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
101.33 |
0.9392 |
-0.0131 |
360 |
1 |
101.33 |
2012-03-28 |
68. |
I remember when we used to sit in the government yard in Tre... |
101.32 |
1.0036 |
-0.0827 |
277 |
1 |
101.32 |
2012-03-29 |
69. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
101.12 |
0.9524 |
-0.0190 |
410 |
1 |
101.12 |
2012-03-28 |
70. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
99.81 |
0.9519 |
-0.0417 |
323 |
1 |
99.81 |
2012-03-30 |
71. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
99.69 |
0.9692 |
-0.0479 |
405 |
1 |
99.69 |
2012-03-30 |
72. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
99.35 |
0.9952 |
-0.0907 |
220 |
1 |
99.35 |
2012-03-29 |
73. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
98.84 |
0.9726 |
-0.0701 |
396 |
2 |
93.09 |
2012-03-30 |
74. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
96.70 |
0.9727 |
-0.0885 |
442 |
1 |
96.70 |
2012-04-07 |
75. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
96.44 |
0.9909 |
-0.1117 |
334 |
1 |
96.44 |
2012-03-31 |
76. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
95.64 |
1.0669 |
-0.1959 |
379 |
1 |
95.64 |
2012-03-28 |
77. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
94.74 |
0.8986 |
-0.0382 |
216 |
1 |
94.74 |
2012-03-28 |
78. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
94.30 |
0.9820 |
-0.1176 |
297 |
1 |
94.30 |
2012-03-28 |
79. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
93.29 |
0.8666 |
-0.0227 |
206 |
1 |
93.29 |
2012-04-03 |
80. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
91.83 |
1.0130 |
-0.1795 |
288 |
1 |
91.83 |
2012-03-29 |
81. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
91.70 |
0.8787 |
-0.0483 |
443 |
1 |
91.70 |
2012-03-30 |
82. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
91.14 |
1.0264 |
-0.2034 |
191 |
1 |
91.14 |
2012-03-28 |
83. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
90.03 |
0.9408 |
-0.1290 |
177 |
1 |
90.03 |
2012-03-28 |
84. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
86.92 |
1.0412 |
-0.2477 |
205 |
1 |
86.92 |
2012-03-28 |
85. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
86.56 |
0.8974 |
-0.1005 |
365 |
1 |
86.56 |
2012-03-30 |
86. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
86.43 |
0.9963 |
-0.2147 |
274 |
1 |
86.43 |
2012-03-28 |
87. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
83.36 |
0.8984 |
-0.1348 |
267 |
1 |
83.36 |
2012-03-28 |
88. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
77.79 |
0.9931 |
-0.2918 |
218 |
1 |
77.79 |
2012-03-28 |
89. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
77.16 |
0.9143 |
-0.2141 |
300 |
1 |
77.16 |
2012-03-28 |
90. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
66.85 |
1.0426 |
-0.4414 |
131 |
1 |
66.85 |
2012-03-28 |