| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
150.34 |
1.0213 |
0.3345 |
240 |
1 |
150.34 |
2014-11-04 |
| 2. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
136.96 |
1.0132 |
0.2220 |
143 |
1 |
136.96 |
2014-11-04 |
| 3. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
136.72 |
1.0218 |
0.2112 |
268 |
1 |
136.72 |
2014-11-04 |
| 4. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
135.48 |
1.1014 |
0.1204 |
273 |
3 |
127.28 |
2014-12-01 |
| 5. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
134.40 |
1.0515 |
0.1606 |
250 |
1 |
134.40 |
2014-11-04 |
| 6. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
133.76 |
1.0025 |
0.2038 |
336 |
1 |
133.76 |
2011-01-21 |
| 7. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
132.95 |
1.0486 |
0.1504 |
289 |
1 |
132.95 |
2012-01-13 |
| 8. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
132.49 |
1.0211 |
0.1737 |
213 |
2 |
117.15 |
2012-03-30 |
| 9. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
131.89 |
0.9729 |
0.2165 |
255 |
1 |
131.89 |
2014-11-04 |
| 10. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
130.87 |
1.0506 |
0.1296 |
277 |
1 |
130.87 |
2012-01-25 |
| 11. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
130.47 |
1.0521 |
0.1245 |
171 |
1 |
130.47 |
2012-02-22 |
| 12. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
130.39 |
1.0165 |
0.1594 |
392 |
2 |
115.48 |
2014-02-05 |
| 13. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
129.46 |
1.0941 |
0.0734 |
256 |
1 |
129.46 |
2011-12-16 |
| 14. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
129.05 |
1.0615 |
0.1023 |
305 |
1 |
129.05 |
2011-10-18 |
| 15. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
129.01 |
1.0261 |
0.1374 |
273 |
2 |
122.39 |
2014-09-25 |
| 16. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
128.69 |
0.9601 |
0.2005 |
308 |
1 |
128.69 |
2015-01-12 |
| 17. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
127.80 |
1.0668 |
0.0858 |
350 |
2 |
116.53 |
2012-01-25 |
| 18. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
127.25 |
1.0498 |
0.0978 |
180 |
2 |
121.26 |
2011-09-22 |
| 19. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
127.09 |
0.8961 |
0.2500 |
189 |
3 |
103.82 |
2012-03-21 |
| 20. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
126.99 |
1.0183 |
0.1269 |
191 |
2 |
121.82 |
2012-03-21 |
| 21. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
124.17 |
1.0799 |
0.0399 |
243 |
1 |
124.17 |
2012-01-10 |
| 22. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
124.01 |
1.0189 |
0.0995 |
337 |
1 |
124.01 |
2012-02-22 |
| 23. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
123.25 |
0.9187 |
0.1928 |
118 |
1 |
123.25 |
2014-11-04 |
| 24. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
122.65 |
1.0169 |
0.0892 |
346 |
1 |
122.65 |
2012-02-16 |
| 25. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
121.57 |
1.0767 |
0.0197 |
212 |
1 |
121.57 |
2011-09-22 |
| 26. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
121.40 |
1.0528 |
0.0420 |
201 |
1 |
121.40 |
2011-01-24 |
| 27. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
120.76 |
0.9820 |
0.1071 |
267 |
1 |
120.76 |
2012-03-30 |
| 28. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
120.46 |
1.1114 |
-0.0250 |
247 |
1 |
120.46 |
2011-12-16 |
| 29. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
119.17 |
1.0016 |
0.0731 |
218 |
1 |
119.17 |
2014-01-15 |
| 30. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
118.98 |
1.0917 |
-0.0187 |
243 |
2 |
114.03 |
2012-01-13 |
| 31. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
118.24 |
0.9925 |
0.0738 |
247 |
2 |
111.36 |
2014-01-15 |
| 32. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
117.40 |
1.0943 |
-0.0355 |
206 |
2 |
117.26 |
2012-01-24 |
| 33. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
117.34 |
1.0621 |
-0.0039 |
263 |
1 |
117.34 |
2011-09-11 |
| 34. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
116.65 |
1.0905 |
-0.0385 |
210 |
1 |
116.65 |
2012-02-16 |
| 35. |
Never give up, no matter how far behind you are, no matter h... |
116.22 |
1.0667 |
-0.0186 |
406 |
1 |
116.22 |
2012-01-24 |
| 36. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
115.88 |
0.9710 |
0.0741 |
173 |
1 |
115.88 |
2012-01-24 |
| 37. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
115.50 |
0.9965 |
0.0451 |
310 |
1 |
115.50 |
2012-01-10 |
| 38. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
115.30 |
1.0391 |
0.0007 |
358 |
1 |
115.30 |
2013-10-05 |
| 39. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
115.25 |
0.9619 |
0.0775 |
393 |
1 |
115.25 |
2014-02-05 |
| 40. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
114.52 |
1.0053 |
0.0275 |
232 |
2 |
111.25 |
2012-02-16 |
| 41. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
114.46 |
1.0264 |
0.0058 |
422 |
1 |
114.46 |
2012-01-24 |
| 42. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
114.43 |
1.0201 |
0.0119 |
375 |
1 |
114.43 |
2011-09-09 |
| 43. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
114.28 |
1.0555 |
-0.0249 |
323 |
1 |
114.28 |
2012-01-24 |
| 44. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
114.27 |
0.9614 |
0.0691 |
292 |
2 |
112.70 |
2014-09-26 |
| 45. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
113.97 |
1.1068 |
-0.0790 |
393 |
1 |
113.97 |
2012-01-13 |
| 46. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
113.86 |
1.0545 |
-0.0277 |
416 |
1 |
113.86 |
2014-01-31 |
| 47. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
113.75 |
1.0774 |
-0.0516 |
304 |
1 |
113.75 |
2011-09-11 |
| 48. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
113.53 |
0.8919 |
0.1320 |
205 |
2 |
107.27 |
2014-09-25 |
| 49. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
113.41 |
0.9986 |
0.0242 |
283 |
1 |
113.41 |
2014-01-15 |
| 50. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
113.14 |
1.0334 |
-0.0131 |
131 |
1 |
113.14 |
2012-01-24 |
| 51. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
113.01 |
0.9109 |
0.1083 |
401 |
1 |
113.01 |
2014-02-05 |
| 52. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
113.00 |
1.0361 |
-0.0170 |
269 |
1 |
113.00 |
2011-09-14 |
| 53. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
112.70 |
0.9572 |
0.0592 |
376 |
1 |
112.70 |
2012-02-16 |
| 54. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
112.16 |
1.0296 |
-0.0181 |
437 |
1 |
112.16 |
2011-09-14 |
| 55. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
111.85 |
1.0272 |
-0.0185 |
405 |
2 |
107.55 |
2012-01-13 |
| 56. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
111.50 |
1.0477 |
-0.0421 |
360 |
1 |
111.50 |
2012-03-21 |
| 57. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
111.41 |
1.0109 |
-0.0062 |
400 |
1 |
111.41 |
2012-01-25 |
| 58. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
110.84 |
1.0375 |
-0.0379 |
200 |
1 |
110.84 |
2012-01-10 |
| 59. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
110.77 |
0.9430 |
0.0560 |
211 |
1 |
110.77 |
2012-03-21 |
| 60. |
The result has been the emergence of what some call the "win... |
110.76 |
0.9049 |
0.0940 |
351 |
1 |
110.76 |
2012-02-16 |
| 61. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
110.65 |
0.9798 |
0.0181 |
199 |
2 |
106.97 |
2011-01-21 |
| 62. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
110.57 |
0.9570 |
0.0402 |
287 |
1 |
110.57 |
2012-01-24 |
| 63. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
110.20 |
0.9899 |
0.0039 |
163 |
1 |
110.20 |
2011-09-11 |
| 64. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
110.12 |
1.0768 |
-0.0837 |
295 |
2 |
100.79 |
2011-09-06 |
| 65. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
110.08 |
0.9833 |
0.0094 |
355 |
1 |
110.08 |
2012-01-13 |
| 66. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
109.84 |
1.0177 |
-0.0271 |
392 |
1 |
109.84 |
2012-01-24 |
| 67. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
109.20 |
1.0388 |
-0.0540 |
243 |
1 |
109.20 |
2011-01-21 |
| 68. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
108.78 |
0.9289 |
0.0521 |
204 |
1 |
108.78 |
2014-12-01 |
| 69. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
108.73 |
1.0454 |
-0.0648 |
255 |
1 |
108.73 |
2011-01-21 |
| 70. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
108.31 |
0.9342 |
0.0426 |
434 |
1 |
108.31 |
2014-02-05 |
| 71. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
107.55 |
0.9865 |
-0.0166 |
276 |
1 |
107.55 |
2012-01-10 |
| 72. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
106.51 |
0.9233 |
0.0373 |
168 |
1 |
106.51 |
2011-12-16 |
| 73. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
106.29 |
0.9693 |
-0.0107 |
360 |
1 |
106.29 |
2012-03-30 |
| 74. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
105.85 |
1.0441 |
-0.0895 |
252 |
1 |
105.85 |
2011-01-24 |
| 75. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
105.09 |
1.0031 |
-0.0554 |
304 |
1 |
105.09 |
2012-02-22 |
| 76. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
104.85 |
1.0297 |
-0.0841 |
249 |
1 |
104.85 |
2012-01-13 |
| 77. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
103.91 |
0.9986 |
-0.0615 |
162 |
1 |
103.91 |
2014-11-04 |
| 78. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
103.90 |
1.0365 |
-0.0995 |
162 |
1 |
103.90 |
2011-09-28 |
| 79. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
103.81 |
1.0346 |
-0.0984 |
244 |
1 |
103.81 |
2011-01-21 |
| 80. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
103.75 |
0.9557 |
-0.0200 |
331 |
1 |
103.75 |
2011-09-11 |
| 81. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
103.58 |
0.9376 |
-0.0035 |
367 |
1 |
103.58 |
2012-01-24 |
| 82. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
103.54 |
0.9763 |
-0.0425 |
289 |
1 |
103.54 |
2012-01-13 |
| 83. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
103.48 |
0.9411 |
-0.0079 |
318 |
2 |
96.45 |
2012-03-30 |
| 84. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
103.44 |
1.0669 |
-0.1340 |
286 |
1 |
103.44 |
2011-03-28 |
| 85. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
103.31 |
1.0090 |
-0.0773 |
282 |
1 |
103.31 |
2012-01-24 |
| 86. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
103.23 |
0.9785 |
-0.0475 |
335 |
1 |
103.23 |
2011-02-09 |
| 87. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
103.16 |
0.9756 |
-0.0453 |
229 |
1 |
103.16 |
2011-01-21 |
| 88. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
103.07 |
0.9234 |
0.0061 |
346 |
1 |
103.07 |
2012-01-13 |
| 89. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
102.81 |
1.0403 |
-0.1131 |
275 |
1 |
102.81 |
2011-01-24 |
| 90. |
Glancing through the 1977 Atlanta Yellow Pages reveals a cit... |
102.33 |
0.9023 |
0.0206 |
231 |
1 |
102.33 |
2012-01-13 |
| 91. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
101.42 |
0.9916 |
-0.0770 |
282 |
3 |
91.61 |
2012-01-24 |
| 92. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
101.41 |
0.9583 |
-0.0437 |
341 |
2 |
99.01 |
2011-09-11 |
| 93. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
100.86 |
1.0033 |
-0.0937 |
189 |
1 |
100.86 |
2011-10-18 |
| 94. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
100.61 |
0.9946 |
-0.0873 |
246 |
1 |
100.61 |
2012-01-24 |
| 95. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
100.58 |
0.9566 |
-0.0495 |
576 |
1 |
100.58 |
2011-09-11 |
| 96. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
99.69 |
1.0023 |
-0.1033 |
211 |
2 |
90.89 |
2012-01-10 |
| 97. |
First, the layer of dough bakes into bread, a low-water-cont... |
99.65 |
0.9089 |
-0.0102 |
342 |
1 |
99.65 |
2011-01-21 |
| 98. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
99.27 |
0.8770 |
0.0183 |
300 |
3 |
97.43 |
2012-01-24 |
| 99. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
98.95 |
1.0284 |
-0.1360 |
282 |
1 |
98.95 |
2012-02-16 |
| 100. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
98.91 |
0.9569 |
-0.0649 |
410 |
1 |
98.91 |
2011-09-06 |
| 101. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
97.65 |
0.9709 |
-0.0903 |
397 |
1 |
97.65 |
2011-09-22 |
| 102. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
96.74 |
0.8105 |
0.0619 |
204 |
1 |
96.74 |
2012-02-22 |
| 103. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
96.59 |
0.8981 |
-0.0270 |
393 |
1 |
96.59 |
2011-10-18 |
| 104. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
96.52 |
0.9087 |
-0.0382 |
393 |
1 |
96.52 |
2012-02-16 |
| 105. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
96.40 |
0.7876 |
0.0818 |
316 |
1 |
96.40 |
2012-01-24 |
| 106. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
93.32 |
1.0141 |
-0.1725 |
304 |
1 |
93.32 |
2012-01-13 |
| 107. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
92.75 |
0.9994 |
-0.1629 |
269 |
1 |
92.75 |
2012-01-24 |
| 108. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
92.58 |
0.9176 |
-0.0827 |
267 |
1 |
92.58 |
2011-09-28 |
| 109. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
91.95 |
0.9910 |
-0.1618 |
295 |
1 |
91.95 |
2011-12-16 |
| 110. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
91.40 |
1.0063 |
-0.1820 |
371 |
1 |
91.40 |
2012-01-24 |
| 111. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
90.16 |
0.9632 |
-0.1501 |
392 |
1 |
90.16 |
2012-03-21 |
| 112. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
88.49 |
0.9976 |
-0.1996 |
174 |
1 |
88.49 |
2011-01-21 |
| 113. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
86.27 |
1.1081 |
-0.3301 |
206 |
1 |
86.27 |
2012-02-22 |
| 114. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
85.49 |
0.9593 |
-0.1883 |
398 |
1 |
85.49 |
2011-01-24 |
| 115. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
75.10 |
0.9640 |
-0.2867 |
334 |
1 |
75.10 |
2012-03-21 |
| 116. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
73.42 |
1.0343 |
-0.3722 |
242 |
1 |
73.42 |
2012-03-21 |
| 117. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
69.46 |
0.9863 |
-0.3599 |
339 |
1 |
69.46 |
2012-03-21 |