| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If you think that you are going to love something, give it a... |
174.64 |
1.1227 |
0.2535 |
147 |
1 |
174.64 |
2015-12-21 |
| 2. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
163.97 |
1.0412 |
0.2515 |
225 |
1 |
163.97 |
2015-12-21 |
| 3. |
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no un... |
161.98 |
0.9626 |
0.3242 |
364 |
1 |
161.98 |
2015-12-21 |
| 4. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
158.86 |
1.0615 |
0.2162 |
305 |
2 |
150.93 |
2015-12-21 |
| 5. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
158.72 |
1.0797 |
0.1661 |
210 |
1 |
158.72 |
2010-01-16 |
| 6. |
Your ring finger is the most difficult of all fingers to con... |
154.68 |
0.9884 |
0.2352 |
262 |
1 |
154.68 |
2008-10-09 |
| 7. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
152.21 |
1.0547 |
0.1796 |
257 |
1 |
152.21 |
2015-12-21 |
| 8. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
150.80 |
0.9907 |
0.1960 |
211 |
1 |
150.80 |
2008-11-28 |
| 9. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
149.71 |
1.0203 |
0.1628 |
261 |
2 |
133.95 |
2008-10-10 |
| 10. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
149.05 |
0.9991 |
0.1758 |
225 |
2 |
146.19 |
2015-12-21 |
| 11. |
I'm a hopeless dancer, but this looks like you just screw in... |
148.54 |
0.8951 |
0.2774 |
193 |
1 |
148.54 |
2008-10-09 |
| 12. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
147.91 |
1.0711 |
0.0891 |
213 |
1 |
147.91 |
2008-11-29 |
| 13. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
147.18 |
1.0696 |
0.0864 |
226 |
3 |
139.58 |
2011-07-24 |
| 14. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
145.98 |
1.0168 |
0.1345 |
271 |
1 |
145.98 |
2008-10-09 |
| 15. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
145.34 |
1.0482 |
0.1204 |
487 |
1 |
145.34 |
2010-01-16 |
| 16. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
145.22 |
0.9572 |
0.1856 |
201 |
2 |
142.68 |
2008-10-09 |
| 17. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
145.20 |
1.0016 |
0.1375 |
218 |
2 |
128.99 |
2008-11-28 |
| 18. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
144.62 |
1.0567 |
0.0830 |
303 |
1 |
144.62 |
2011-07-24 |
| 19. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
144.27 |
1.0391 |
0.1033 |
358 |
1 |
144.27 |
2008-11-28 |
| 20. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
143.99 |
1.0528 |
0.0763 |
201 |
2 |
136.47 |
2008-11-28 |
| 21. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
143.92 |
0.9820 |
0.1543 |
267 |
2 |
126.38 |
2008-10-09 |
| 22. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
143.88 |
1.0131 |
0.1162 |
225 |
1 |
143.88 |
2008-10-09 |
| 23. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
143.60 |
1.0429 |
0.0867 |
259 |
2 |
136.50 |
2008-11-28 |
| 24. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
140.78 |
1.0529 |
0.0555 |
351 |
1 |
140.78 |
2008-11-29 |
| 25. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
140.51 |
1.0340 |
0.0776 |
406 |
1 |
140.51 |
2008-11-28 |
| 26. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
140.10 |
0.9468 |
0.1558 |
276 |
2 |
128.46 |
2008-11-28 |
| 27. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
138.45 |
1.0596 |
0.0283 |
239 |
1 |
138.45 |
2008-10-10 |
| 28. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
138.40 |
1.0441 |
0.0470 |
252 |
2 |
132.30 |
2008-10-10 |
| 29. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
137.30 |
0.9485 |
0.1340 |
236 |
3 |
130.00 |
2008-11-28 |
| 30. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
136.24 |
0.9997 |
0.0763 |
382 |
1 |
136.24 |
2008-10-09 |
| 31. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
136.22 |
1.0523 |
0.0156 |
256 |
2 |
134.04 |
2011-07-24 |
| 32. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
135.68 |
1.0289 |
0.0434 |
276 |
1 |
135.68 |
2008-10-10 |
| 33. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
134.16 |
0.9084 |
0.1515 |
404 |
1 |
134.16 |
2015-12-21 |
| 34. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
134.15 |
0.9865 |
0.0703 |
276 |
1 |
134.15 |
2008-10-10 |
| 35. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
133.30 |
1.0486 |
0.0011 |
289 |
1 |
133.30 |
2008-10-09 |
| 36. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
132.99 |
0.9216 |
0.1638 |
255 |
1 |
132.99 |
2015-12-21 |
| 37. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
132.97 |
1.0662 |
0.0178 |
407 |
1 |
132.97 |
2015-12-21 |
| 38. |
I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in yo... |
132.58 |
0.9877 |
0.0594 |
286 |
1 |
132.58 |
2016-03-16 |
| 39. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
132.56 |
1.0264 |
0.0567 |
422 |
1 |
132.56 |
2009-12-19 |
| 40. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
132.49 |
1.0565 |
-0.0166 |
247 |
1 |
132.49 |
2008-10-10 |
| 41. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
132.28 |
0.9365 |
0.1057 |
248 |
1 |
132.28 |
2008-10-10 |
| 42. |
Your primary objective should be to touch-type; that is, to ... |
131.77 |
0.9281 |
0.1138 |
273 |
1 |
131.77 |
2008-10-09 |
| 43. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
131.63 |
1.0389 |
-0.0016 |
318 |
1 |
131.63 |
2008-11-28 |
| 44. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
131.44 |
0.8553 |
0.1737 |
174 |
1 |
131.44 |
2008-10-09 |
| 45. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
131.36 |
1.0595 |
-0.0235 |
379 |
1 |
131.36 |
2008-10-10 |
| 46. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
131.26 |
1.0042 |
0.0700 |
352 |
1 |
131.26 |
2011-07-24 |
| 47. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
131.05 |
0.9786 |
0.0472 |
193 |
2 |
120.42 |
2008-11-28 |
| 48. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
130.75 |
1.0095 |
0.0180 |
316 |
1 |
130.75 |
2008-10-09 |
| 49. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
129.28 |
0.9289 |
0.0857 |
204 |
2 |
125.83 |
2015-12-21 |
| 50. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
129.10 |
0.9527 |
0.0627 |
251 |
1 |
129.10 |
2008-11-28 |
| 51. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
128.70 |
1.0063 |
0.0064 |
371 |
1 |
128.70 |
2008-10-10 |
| 52. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
128.63 |
1.0073 |
0.0124 |
369 |
3 |
119.19 |
2008-11-28 |
| 53. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
128.46 |
0.8971 |
0.1186 |
266 |
1 |
128.46 |
2008-10-09 |
| 54. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
128.17 |
1.0053 |
0.0008 |
232 |
1 |
128.17 |
2008-10-09 |
| 55. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
128.07 |
1.0025 |
0.0047 |
256 |
1 |
128.07 |
2008-10-10 |
| 56. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
127.53 |
0.9843 |
0.0137 |
234 |
1 |
127.53 |
2008-10-10 |
| 57. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
126.95 |
0.9339 |
0.0630 |
310 |
1 |
126.95 |
2008-10-10 |
| 58. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
126.79 |
0.9734 |
0.0234 |
289 |
1 |
126.79 |
2008-10-10 |
| 59. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
126.57 |
0.9064 |
0.0981 |
399 |
1 |
126.57 |
2008-10-09 |
| 60. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
126.53 |
1.0349 |
-0.0406 |
234 |
2 |
123.33 |
2008-11-28 |
| 61. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
126.23 |
1.0352 |
-0.0395 |
341 |
1 |
126.23 |
2008-11-28 |
| 62. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
126.20 |
1.0358 |
-0.0018 |
349 |
1 |
126.20 |
2010-01-16 |
| 63. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
125.46 |
1.0167 |
-0.0234 |
378 |
2 |
115.70 |
2011-07-24 |
| 64. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
124.99 |
1.0141 |
0.0049 |
304 |
2 |
109.80 |
2010-01-16 |
| 65. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
124.93 |
0.9684 |
0.0166 |
388 |
1 |
124.93 |
2008-10-10 |
| 66. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
124.63 |
0.9309 |
0.0471 |
284 |
1 |
124.63 |
2008-10-09 |
| 67. |
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice ... |
124.62 |
1.0375 |
-0.0460 |
224 |
1 |
124.62 |
2015-12-21 |
| 68. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
124.47 |
0.8595 |
0.1209 |
242 |
2 |
122.53 |
2010-01-16 |
| 69. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
124.43 |
0.9723 |
0.0097 |
364 |
1 |
124.43 |
2008-11-28 |
| 70. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
124.36 |
0.9485 |
0.0316 |
291 |
1 |
124.36 |
2015-12-21 |
| 71. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
124.11 |
1.0385 |
-0.0646 |
230 |
1 |
124.11 |
2008-11-28 |
| 72. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
123.78 |
0.9125 |
0.0624 |
308 |
1 |
123.78 |
2008-10-09 |
| 73. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
122.98 |
0.9513 |
0.0192 |
354 |
1 |
122.98 |
2008-11-28 |
| 74. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
122.79 |
0.9965 |
-0.0310 |
310 |
1 |
122.79 |
2008-10-10 |
| 75. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
122.63 |
0.9233 |
0.0323 |
168 |
1 |
122.63 |
2010-01-16 |
| 76. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
122.62 |
0.9756 |
-0.0130 |
229 |
1 |
122.62 |
2008-10-10 |
| 77. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
122.13 |
0.9905 |
0.0009 |
337 |
1 |
122.13 |
2011-07-24 |
| 78. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
121.93 |
0.9905 |
-0.0243 |
377 |
1 |
121.93 |
2008-10-10 |
| 79. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
121.46 |
1.0666 |
-0.1119 |
297 |
1 |
121.46 |
2010-01-16 |
| 80. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
121.16 |
0.9597 |
-0.0034 |
347 |
1 |
121.16 |
2008-10-09 |
| 81. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
120.69 |
0.9514 |
-0.0026 |
237 |
1 |
120.69 |
2008-10-09 |
| 82. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
120.56 |
0.9899 |
-0.0471 |
163 |
1 |
120.56 |
2008-10-09 |
| 83. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
120.52 |
1.0296 |
-0.0761 |
437 |
1 |
120.52 |
2008-10-10 |
| 84. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
119.63 |
0.9005 |
0.0380 |
212 |
1 |
119.63 |
2008-10-10 |
| 85. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
119.34 |
0.9731 |
-0.0479 |
129 |
1 |
119.34 |
2008-10-10 |
| 86. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
118.34 |
1.0477 |
-0.1155 |
360 |
1 |
118.34 |
2008-11-28 |
| 87. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
118.28 |
1.0534 |
-0.1219 |
357 |
1 |
118.28 |
2008-10-09 |
| 88. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
117.92 |
0.9668 |
0.0022 |
383 |
1 |
117.92 |
2010-01-16 |
| 89. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
117.47 |
0.9754 |
-0.0465 |
362 |
1 |
117.47 |
2008-11-28 |
| 90. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
117.27 |
1.0165 |
-0.0913 |
392 |
1 |
117.27 |
2008-10-09 |
| 91. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
117.16 |
1.0263 |
-0.1067 |
267 |
1 |
117.16 |
2008-10-10 |
| 92. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
116.55 |
0.9578 |
-0.0428 |
281 |
2 |
116.22 |
2008-10-09 |
| 93. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
116.23 |
0.8826 |
0.0318 |
296 |
1 |
116.23 |
2008-10-09 |
| 94. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
116.18 |
1.0099 |
-0.1002 |
207 |
2 |
110.80 |
2008-10-10 |
| 95. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
116.05 |
0.9922 |
-0.0396 |
341 |
1 |
116.05 |
2011-07-24 |
| 96. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
115.92 |
0.9278 |
-0.0146 |
295 |
1 |
115.92 |
2010-01-16 |
| 97. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
115.80 |
0.8919 |
0.0159 |
205 |
2 |
110.58 |
2011-07-24 |
| 98. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
115.78 |
1.0483 |
-0.1419 |
227 |
1 |
115.78 |
2009-12-19 |
| 99. |
I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from natu... |
115.41 |
0.9966 |
-0.0803 |
349 |
1 |
115.41 |
2015-12-21 |
| 100. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
115.37 |
0.9087 |
0.0081 |
393 |
2 |
111.76 |
2008-11-28 |
| 101. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
115.23 |
0.9863 |
-0.0769 |
339 |
2 |
110.78 |
2008-11-28 |
| 102. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
114.64 |
1.0314 |
-0.0919 |
452 |
1 |
114.64 |
2011-07-24 |
| 103. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
114.49 |
1.0331 |
-0.1362 |
234 |
1 |
114.49 |
2008-11-28 |
| 104. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
113.88 |
0.9632 |
-0.0626 |
392 |
2 |
106.06 |
2008-11-30 |
| 105. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
113.70 |
0.9500 |
-0.0550 |
362 |
1 |
113.70 |
2011-07-24 |
| 106. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
113.51 |
0.9852 |
-0.0936 |
264 |
1 |
113.51 |
2008-10-10 |
| 107. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
113.44 |
0.9681 |
-0.0691 |
378 |
1 |
113.44 |
2008-10-10 |
| 108. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
112.80 |
1.0214 |
-0.1412 |
166 |
1 |
112.80 |
2008-10-10 |
| 109. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
112.44 |
0.9646 |
-0.0827 |
264 |
1 |
112.44 |
2008-10-10 |
| 110. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
112.30 |
0.8890 |
-0.0109 |
199 |
1 |
112.30 |
2008-11-28 |
| 111. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
112.28 |
0.9532 |
-0.0730 |
258 |
1 |
112.28 |
2008-10-09 |
| 112. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
110.62 |
0.9612 |
-0.0929 |
256 |
1 |
110.62 |
2009-12-19 |
| 113. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
109.01 |
1.0863 |
-0.1960 |
210 |
1 |
109.01 |
2015-12-21 |
| 114. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
108.31 |
0.9084 |
-0.0567 |
300 |
2 |
106.85 |
2008-10-10 |
| 115. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
108.15 |
1.0885 |
-0.2366 |
315 |
1 |
108.15 |
2008-10-10 |
| 116. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
107.69 |
0.9382 |
-0.0682 |
440 |
1 |
107.69 |
2010-01-16 |
| 117. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
105.14 |
0.9266 |
-0.1019 |
267 |
1 |
105.14 |
2008-10-09 |
| 118. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
104.84 |
0.9942 |
-0.1632 |
483 |
1 |
104.84 |
2008-11-28 |
| 119. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
104.22 |
0.9894 |
-0.1677 |
323 |
1 |
104.22 |
2008-11-28 |
| 120. |
Prior to the 1970's, because the United States had long been... |
104.14 |
0.8753 |
-0.0494 |
427 |
1 |
104.14 |
2008-11-30 |
| 121. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
103.92 |
0.9351 |
-0.1257 |
190 |
1 |
103.92 |
2008-10-09 |
| 122. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
103.15 |
1.0120 |
-0.2040 |
290 |
1 |
103.15 |
2009-12-19 |
| 123. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
102.84 |
1.0740 |
-0.2294 |
264 |
1 |
102.84 |
2010-01-16 |
| 124. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
101.83 |
0.8852 |
-0.0848 |
201 |
2 |
100.41 |
2008-10-10 |
| 125. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
100.69 |
0.9540 |
-0.1666 |
285 |
1 |
100.69 |
2010-01-16 |
| 126. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
100.47 |
0.7876 |
0.0024 |
316 |
2 |
94.14 |
2011-07-24 |
| 127. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
100.43 |
0.8996 |
-0.1180 |
192 |
1 |
100.43 |
2009-12-19 |
| 128. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
97.03 |
0.9072 |
-0.1489 |
237 |
1 |
97.03 |
2011-07-24 |
| 129. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
93.54 |
0.9886 |
-0.2539 |
220 |
1 |
93.54 |
2010-01-16 |
| 130. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
91.43 |
0.9570 |
-0.2399 |
287 |
1 |
91.43 |
2008-10-09 |
| 131. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
90.54 |
0.9202 |
-0.2126 |
254 |
2 |
86.90 |
2010-01-16 |
| 132. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
88.27 |
1.0023 |
-0.3140 |
211 |
1 |
88.27 |
2008-10-09 |