| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
131.38 |
1.0529 |
0.2470 |
351 |
2 |
121.25 |
2010-01-26 |
| 2. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
122.32 |
0.9866 |
0.2193 |
218 |
1 |
122.32 |
2013-03-02 |
| 3. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
122.26 |
0.9202 |
0.2883 |
254 |
2 |
96.76 |
2013-02-13 |
| 4. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
122.02 |
1.0213 |
0.1820 |
240 |
1 |
122.02 |
2012-01-11 |
| 5. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
121.21 |
1.0361 |
0.1630 |
269 |
1 |
121.21 |
2012-01-11 |
| 6. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
120.14 |
1.0795 |
0.1383 |
226 |
1 |
120.14 |
2013-02-26 |
| 7. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
119.90 |
1.1114 |
0.0709 |
247 |
2 |
105.50 |
2010-11-16 |
| 8. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
119.89 |
1.0567 |
0.1293 |
303 |
2 |
116.15 |
2009-05-01 |
| 9. |
And I thought about then to myself that there were many thin... |
118.04 |
1.0715 |
0.1090 |
525 |
1 |
118.04 |
2020-11-20 |
| 10. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
117.91 |
1.0487 |
0.1115 |
231 |
1 |
117.91 |
2009-05-02 |
| 11. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
117.11 |
1.0444 |
0.1063 |
197 |
1 |
117.11 |
2009-05-02 |
| 12. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
116.61 |
1.1016 |
0.0504 |
233 |
2 |
107.89 |
2009-05-01 |
| 13. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
115.69 |
1.0498 |
0.0884 |
180 |
2 |
109.20 |
2010-11-01 |
| 14. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
115.54 |
0.9820 |
0.1626 |
267 |
1 |
115.54 |
2009-05-01 |
| 15. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
115.53 |
1.1162 |
0.0665 |
189 |
1 |
115.53 |
2010-02-01 |
| 16. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
115.19 |
1.0534 |
0.0872 |
357 |
2 |
112.38 |
2009-05-02 |
| 17. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
115.10 |
1.0944 |
0.0873 |
308 |
1 |
115.10 |
2011-05-04 |
| 18. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
113.75 |
1.0385 |
0.0834 |
230 |
1 |
113.75 |
2013-03-31 |
| 19. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
111.47 |
1.0993 |
-0.0005 |
265 |
1 |
111.47 |
2009-05-06 |
| 20. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
111.23 |
0.9540 |
0.1424 |
285 |
1 |
111.23 |
2013-03-02 |
| 21. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
110.99 |
0.9330 |
0.1698 |
360 |
1 |
110.99 |
2013-03-31 |
| 22. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
109.74 |
1.0595 |
0.0266 |
379 |
1 |
109.74 |
2013-02-17 |
| 23. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
109.54 |
1.0029 |
0.0721 |
209 |
1 |
109.54 |
2009-05-01 |
| 24. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
109.34 |
1.0619 |
0.0216 |
354 |
1 |
109.34 |
2010-01-25 |
| 25. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
108.87 |
1.0719 |
0.0309 |
360 |
1 |
108.87 |
2012-01-11 |
| 26. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
108.84 |
1.0403 |
0.0742 |
275 |
1 |
108.84 |
2010-11-01 |
| 27. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
108.55 |
1.0218 |
0.0470 |
268 |
2 |
102.82 |
2010-01-25 |
| 28. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
108.43 |
1.0340 |
0.0419 |
406 |
1 |
108.43 |
2010-02-05 |
| 29. |
Situational awareness is key, and agents should not only be ... |
108.38 |
0.9115 |
0.1351 |
236 |
1 |
108.38 |
2020-11-20 |
| 30. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
108.14 |
1.0463 |
0.0167 |
182 |
1 |
108.14 |
2010-02-01 |
| 31. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
107.91 |
1.0251 |
0.0383 |
261 |
1 |
107.91 |
2010-02-05 |
| 32. |
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the ju... |
107.76 |
1.0459 |
0.0488 |
200 |
1 |
107.76 |
2012-01-11 |
| 33. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
107.62 |
0.9916 |
0.1135 |
282 |
1 |
107.62 |
2012-01-11 |
| 34. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
107.01 |
1.0796 |
-0.0287 |
129 |
1 |
107.01 |
2009-05-01 |
| 35. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
106.88 |
1.0062 |
0.0486 |
288 |
1 |
106.88 |
2013-02-17 |
| 36. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
106.76 |
1.0389 |
0.0168 |
318 |
1 |
106.76 |
2009-05-06 |
| 37. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
106.61 |
1.0347 |
0.0437 |
550 |
1 |
106.61 |
2010-11-01 |
| 38. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
106.59 |
1.0485 |
0.0381 |
153 |
1 |
106.59 |
2010-02-02 |
| 39. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
106.39 |
0.9398 |
0.1199 |
419 |
1 |
106.39 |
2009-05-02 |
| 40. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
106.20 |
0.9910 |
0.0594 |
295 |
1 |
106.20 |
2011-02-16 |
| 41. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
106.12 |
1.0426 |
0.0042 |
323 |
2 |
104.95 |
2010-02-02 |
| 42. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
105.50 |
1.0767 |
-0.0377 |
212 |
1 |
105.50 |
2009-05-01 |
| 43. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
104.62 |
1.0419 |
-0.0097 |
261 |
3 |
98.32 |
2010-11-16 |
| 44. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
104.03 |
1.0296 |
0.0035 |
437 |
1 |
104.03 |
2010-11-01 |
| 45. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
103.83 |
0.9820 |
0.0424 |
274 |
1 |
103.83 |
2010-01-25 |
| 46. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
103.69 |
1.0352 |
-0.0095 |
341 |
1 |
103.69 |
2009-04-30 |
| 47. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
103.51 |
0.9359 |
0.1251 |
353 |
1 |
103.51 |
2013-02-26 |
| 48. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
103.37 |
1.0141 |
0.0422 |
304 |
1 |
103.37 |
2012-01-11 |
| 49. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
102.57 |
0.9780 |
0.0349 |
337 |
2 |
97.71 |
2009-05-06 |
| 50. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
102.55 |
0.9532 |
0.0572 |
258 |
1 |
102.55 |
2010-01-25 |
| 51. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
102.43 |
1.0577 |
-0.0509 |
247 |
1 |
102.43 |
2009-05-01 |
| 52. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
102.43 |
0.9342 |
0.0801 |
434 |
1 |
102.43 |
2009-05-06 |
| 53. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
102.40 |
0.8770 |
0.1365 |
300 |
1 |
102.40 |
2013-02-13 |
| 54. |
Neal was a felon. He was convicted on bond forgery. And as y... |
101.55 |
0.9350 |
0.0394 |
311 |
1 |
101.55 |
2020-11-20 |
| 55. |
It was an effect of light: quick sunlight dappling, yellow l... |
100.67 |
0.9376 |
0.0910 |
360 |
1 |
100.67 |
2013-02-13 |
| 56. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
100.21 |
0.9614 |
0.0302 |
292 |
1 |
100.21 |
2013-02-17 |
| 57. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
99.87 |
1.0288 |
-0.0114 |
300 |
1 |
99.87 |
2010-11-01 |
| 58. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
99.38 |
1.0368 |
-0.0561 |
276 |
2 |
95.98 |
2010-01-25 |
| 59. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
98.92 |
1.0095 |
-0.0355 |
316 |
2 |
97.03 |
2010-01-25 |
| 60. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
98.78 |
0.9084 |
0.0694 |
404 |
1 |
98.78 |
2010-01-25 |
| 61. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
98.66 |
0.9964 |
-0.0236 |
203 |
1 |
98.66 |
2010-02-02 |
| 62. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
98.37 |
0.9966 |
-0.0271 |
259 |
1 |
98.37 |
2010-01-25 |
| 63. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
97.59 |
0.9049 |
0.0628 |
351 |
1 |
97.59 |
2013-02-13 |
| 64. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
97.50 |
0.9833 |
-0.0203 |
355 |
1 |
97.50 |
2009-05-01 |
| 65. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
97.26 |
1.0668 |
-0.1057 |
350 |
1 |
97.26 |
2013-02-26 |
| 66. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
96.79 |
1.0088 |
-0.0159 |
396 |
1 |
96.79 |
2011-02-16 |
| 67. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
96.47 |
1.0016 |
-0.0554 |
218 |
1 |
96.47 |
2013-02-17 |
| 68. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
96.29 |
0.9786 |
-0.0300 |
235 |
2 |
90.79 |
2010-01-25 |
| 69. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
96.20 |
0.9776 |
-0.0290 |
308 |
1 |
96.20 |
2009-05-01 |
| 70. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
95.92 |
0.9905 |
-0.0370 |
377 |
1 |
95.92 |
2009-05-01 |
| 71. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
95.42 |
1.0257 |
-0.0788 |
401 |
2 |
92.49 |
2009-05-06 |
| 72. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
94.77 |
0.9529 |
0.0215 |
269 |
2 |
92.79 |
2013-03-02 |
| 73. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
94.40 |
1.0109 |
-0.0801 |
276 |
1 |
94.40 |
2009-05-01 |
| 74. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
94.07 |
1.0025 |
-0.0744 |
336 |
1 |
94.07 |
2009-04-30 |
| 75. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
93.77 |
1.0261 |
-0.1043 |
273 |
1 |
93.77 |
2010-11-01 |
| 76. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
93.60 |
0.9168 |
0.0071 |
240 |
1 |
93.60 |
2013-02-13 |
| 77. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
93.51 |
1.0349 |
-0.1146 |
234 |
1 |
93.51 |
2010-02-05 |
| 78. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
93.26 |
0.9792 |
-0.0218 |
265 |
1 |
93.26 |
2012-01-11 |
| 79. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
93.04 |
0.9763 |
-0.0602 |
289 |
1 |
93.04 |
2009-05-01 |
| 80. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
92.90 |
1.0788 |
-0.1692 |
171 |
1 |
92.90 |
2010-11-01 |
| 81. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
92.59 |
1.0073 |
-0.0869 |
369 |
1 |
92.59 |
2010-11-01 |
| 82. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
91.99 |
0.9754 |
-0.0631 |
362 |
1 |
91.99 |
2010-01-25 |
| 83. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
91.94 |
0.9710 |
-0.0716 |
173 |
1 |
91.94 |
2009-05-06 |
| 84. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
91.74 |
0.9672 |
-0.0568 |
396 |
1 |
91.74 |
2010-01-25 |
| 85. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
91.51 |
1.0403 |
-0.1242 |
193 |
1 |
91.51 |
2013-02-26 |
| 86. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
91.36 |
1.0168 |
-0.1151 |
271 |
1 |
91.36 |
2009-05-06 |
| 87. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
90.72 |
0.9673 |
-0.0346 |
232 |
1 |
90.72 |
2010-11-01 |
| 88. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
90.08 |
0.9863 |
-0.0948 |
339 |
1 |
90.08 |
2009-04-30 |
| 89. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
89.77 |
0.9546 |
-0.0394 |
198 |
1 |
89.77 |
2010-11-01 |
| 90. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
88.63 |
0.9351 |
-0.0680 |
190 |
1 |
88.63 |
2010-02-02 |
| 91. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
88.24 |
0.8753 |
0.0029 |
427 |
1 |
88.24 |
2009-04-30 |
| 92. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
88.08 |
0.9884 |
-0.1217 |
233 |
1 |
88.08 |
2010-11-16 |
| 93. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
88.06 |
0.9681 |
-0.0929 |
378 |
1 |
88.06 |
2009-05-06 |
| 94. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
87.91 |
0.9946 |
-0.1291 |
246 |
1 |
87.91 |
2010-11-01 |
| 95. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
87.89 |
0.9309 |
-0.0676 |
284 |
1 |
87.89 |
2010-11-01 |
| 96. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
87.25 |
1.0004 |
-0.1477 |
212 |
1 |
87.25 |
2010-01-25 |
| 97. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
87.16 |
0.8595 |
0.0007 |
242 |
1 |
87.16 |
2009-04-30 |
| 98. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
86.34 |
1.0320 |
-0.1451 |
293 |
1 |
86.34 |
2010-01-25 |
| 99. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
86.12 |
1.0034 |
-0.1571 |
302 |
1 |
86.12 |
2009-04-30 |
| 100. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
85.53 |
0.9886 |
-0.1445 |
220 |
1 |
85.53 |
2010-02-02 |
| 101. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
85.08 |
1.0390 |
-0.2057 |
205 |
1 |
85.08 |
2009-04-30 |
| 102. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
84.28 |
0.9857 |
-0.1576 |
293 |
1 |
84.28 |
2009-04-30 |
| 103. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
83.58 |
0.9286 |
-0.1075 |
194 |
1 |
83.58 |
2010-11-01 |
| 104. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
82.22 |
0.9128 |
-0.0627 |
369 |
1 |
82.22 |
2010-02-02 |
| 105. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
81.46 |
1.0829 |
-0.2806 |
288 |
1 |
81.46 |
2009-04-30 |
| 106. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
80.74 |
0.9636 |
-0.1702 |
254 |
1 |
80.74 |
2011-05-04 |
| 107. |
Now you might ask yourself, if by yourself you mean me, "Ste... |
79.64 |
0.9164 |
-0.1285 |
305 |
1 |
79.64 |
2010-01-25 |
| 108. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
77.25 |
0.8382 |
-0.0784 |
268 |
1 |
77.25 |
2009-05-01 |
| 109. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
75.53 |
0.9289 |
-0.1896 |
204 |
1 |
75.53 |
2009-05-01 |
| 110. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
71.91 |
0.8981 |
-0.1880 |
393 |
1 |
71.91 |
2009-05-01 |
| 111. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
70.76 |
0.8947 |
-0.1954 |
366 |
1 |
70.76 |
2009-04-30 |