| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the tree... |
156.46 |
1.1248 |
0.2659 |
132 |
1 |
156.46 |
2024-01-15 |
| 2. |
Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank, but give a man a ban... |
146.18 |
1.1690 |
0.1303 |
211 |
1 |
146.18 |
2026-03-06 |
| 3. |
Sitting back and doing nothing, or worse, criticizing others... |
145.67 |
1.0399 |
0.2549 |
205 |
1 |
145.67 |
2023-06-30 |
| 4. |
This is the first day of my life. I swear I was born right i... |
140.81 |
1.0334 |
0.2182 |
332 |
1 |
140.81 |
2018-03-02 |
| 5. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
140.38 |
1.0016 |
0.2462 |
218 |
2 |
136.14 |
2012-06-22 |
| 6. |
Though I never knew you at all, you had the grace to hold yo... |
138.37 |
1.0632 |
0.1667 |
233 |
1 |
138.37 |
2019-11-08 |
| 7. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
137.44 |
1.0487 |
0.1729 |
231 |
1 |
137.44 |
2018-06-22 |
| 8. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
136.57 |
1.0885 |
0.1254 |
341 |
1 |
136.57 |
2015-04-04 |
| 9. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
135.71 |
1.0088 |
0.1974 |
396 |
1 |
135.71 |
2017-04-19 |
| 10. |
When I was a young man, I had liberty, but I did not see it.... |
135.66 |
1.0442 |
0.1616 |
286 |
1 |
135.66 |
2021-01-31 |
| 11. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
134.76 |
1.0261 |
0.1717 |
273 |
1 |
134.76 |
2013-04-02 |
| 12. |
That's right, and the one who wins gets a prize, only there ... |
133.28 |
1.0608 |
0.1238 |
214 |
1 |
133.28 |
2025-10-13 |
| 13. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
132.71 |
0.9772 |
0.2024 |
217 |
1 |
132.71 |
2012-06-22 |
| 14. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
131.31 |
1.0426 |
0.1245 |
323 |
1 |
131.31 |
2018-06-22 |
| 15. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
131.14 |
1.0013 |
0.1643 |
273 |
1 |
131.14 |
2015-04-04 |
| 16. |
It's moments like these where I feel like I am tied to the t... |
130.13 |
1.0333 |
0.1233 |
384 |
1 |
130.13 |
2023-06-30 |
| 17. |
I see a line of cars and they're all painted black with flow... |
128.58 |
1.0581 |
0.0848 |
203 |
1 |
128.58 |
2021-01-31 |
| 18. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
128.22 |
1.0666 |
0.0731 |
297 |
2 |
127.66 |
2014-02-10 |
| 19. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
127.88 |
1.0496 |
0.0870 |
314 |
1 |
127.88 |
2012-06-22 |
| 20. |
You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I ... |
127.80 |
1.0213 |
0.1146 |
155 |
1 |
127.80 |
2023-07-11 |
| 21. |
It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that la... |
127.73 |
1.0884 |
0.0469 |
360 |
1 |
127.73 |
2018-08-31 |
| 22. |
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man imme... |
125.39 |
1.0713 |
0.0432 |
107 |
1 |
125.39 |
2018-05-05 |
| 23. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
125.19 |
1.0296 |
0.0831 |
437 |
1 |
125.19 |
2012-06-22 |
| 24. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
125.03 |
1.0944 |
0.0169 |
308 |
1 |
125.03 |
2013-04-02 |
| 25. |
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little... |
124.87 |
1.0975 |
0.0124 |
163 |
1 |
124.87 |
2023-06-30 |
| 26. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
124.65 |
1.0053 |
0.1026 |
232 |
1 |
124.65 |
2014-02-10 |
| 27. |
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call... |
123.39 |
1.0393 |
0.0574 |
473 |
1 |
123.39 |
2021-03-11 |
| 28. |
We are being watched. The government has a secret system, a ... |
123.35 |
0.8895 |
0.2069 |
420 |
1 |
123.35 |
2018-06-22 |
| 29. |
I'm trying to explain that I'm a person who wishes to live a... |
123.20 |
1.0228 |
0.0723 |
332 |
1 |
123.20 |
2021-01-31 |
| 30. |
All this running around. I can't fight it much longer. Somet... |
123.16 |
1.0486 |
0.0461 |
211 |
1 |
123.16 |
2025-10-13 |
| 31. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
123.11 |
1.0477 |
0.0466 |
360 |
1 |
123.11 |
2014-01-11 |
| 32. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
121.21 |
1.0375 |
0.0399 |
200 |
1 |
121.21 |
2014-01-13 |
| 33. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
120.99 |
0.9653 |
0.1101 |
394 |
1 |
120.99 |
2023-07-11 |
| 34. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
120.47 |
0.9612 |
0.1096 |
256 |
1 |
120.47 |
2019-10-03 |
| 35. |
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have pow... |
120.28 |
1.0520 |
0.0171 |
359 |
1 |
120.28 |
2021-01-31 |
| 36. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
119.74 |
1.0696 |
-0.0053 |
226 |
1 |
119.74 |
2012-07-18 |
| 37. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
119.39 |
0.9583 |
0.1029 |
341 |
3 |
100.90 |
2012-07-18 |
| 38. |
Don't you ever talk that way to me. Never! Never! What we've... |
118.91 |
0.9721 |
0.0848 |
254 |
1 |
118.91 |
2018-03-02 |
| 39. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
118.54 |
1.0454 |
0.0082 |
255 |
1 |
118.54 |
2012-06-22 |
| 40. |
If a prediction is right, then it's like you only have one f... |
118.53 |
1.0393 |
0.0142 |
376 |
1 |
118.53 |
2023-07-11 |
| 41. |
You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue... |
117.72 |
1.0043 |
0.0420 |
203 |
1 |
117.72 |
2018-08-31 |
| 42. |
Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I hones... |
117.06 |
1.0227 |
0.0178 |
272 |
1 |
117.06 |
2017-04-19 |
| 43. |
Your inner child will be happy to know that when it comes to... |
116.79 |
1.0288 |
0.0093 |
300 |
1 |
116.79 |
2012-06-22 |
| 44. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
116.75 |
1.0389 |
-0.0012 |
340 |
2 |
115.23 |
2015-04-04 |
| 45. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
116.25 |
0.9698 |
0.0635 |
397 |
1 |
116.25 |
2013-04-02 |
| 46. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
116.08 |
0.9908 |
0.0410 |
342 |
2 |
115.61 |
2014-02-10 |
| 47. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
116.06 |
0.9213 |
0.1103 |
295 |
1 |
116.06 |
2012-07-18 |
| 48. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
115.23 |
0.9372 |
0.0870 |
320 |
1 |
115.23 |
2012-07-18 |
| 49. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
115.21 |
0.9966 |
0.0274 |
259 |
1 |
115.21 |
2012-06-22 |
| 50. |
I often see racers, particularly at the back of the pack in ... |
114.84 |
1.0004 |
0.0203 |
469 |
1 |
114.84 |
2012-06-22 |
| 51. |
"Without pain, how could we know joy?" This is an old argume... |
114.59 |
0.9309 |
0.0876 |
285 |
1 |
114.59 |
2018-05-05 |
| 52. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
114.54 |
0.9508 |
0.0673 |
384 |
2 |
112.04 |
2017-04-19 |
| 53. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
114.47 |
0.9746 |
0.0429 |
405 |
1 |
114.47 |
2012-06-22 |
| 54. |
By that point, entire sectors of my cerebral cortex seemed t... |
114.45 |
0.9685 |
0.0488 |
203 |
1 |
114.45 |
2023-07-11 |
| 55. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
114.26 |
1.0368 |
-0.0212 |
276 |
1 |
114.26 |
2015-04-04 |
| 56. |
Thomas is a tank engine who lives at the big station on the ... |
114.22 |
1.0120 |
0.0032 |
409 |
1 |
114.22 |
2025-07-08 |
| 57. |
One way to combat the horizon effect is to continue search w... |
113.78 |
0.9775 |
0.0338 |
191 |
1 |
113.78 |
2023-07-11 |
| 58. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
113.49 |
1.0257 |
-0.0170 |
401 |
1 |
113.49 |
2013-04-02 |
| 59. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
113.48 |
1.0083 |
0.0004 |
273 |
1 |
113.48 |
2012-06-22 |
| 60. |
I know more about the private lives of celebrities than I do... |
112.99 |
1.0408 |
-0.0365 |
227 |
1 |
112.99 |
2018-06-22 |
| 61. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
112.56 |
1.0547 |
-0.0542 |
257 |
1 |
112.56 |
2012-06-22 |
| 62. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
112.55 |
0.9786 |
0.0218 |
235 |
1 |
112.55 |
2014-02-10 |
| 63. |
I dreamed a dream in time gone by, when hope was high and li... |
112.51 |
1.0407 |
-0.0407 |
291 |
1 |
112.51 |
2022-06-20 |
| 64. |
It's been rainy and windy for seven days straight. I've been... |
112.49 |
1.0600 |
-0.0601 |
233 |
1 |
112.49 |
2021-03-11 |
| 65. |
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or wh... |
112.47 |
1.0203 |
-0.0206 |
164 |
1 |
112.47 |
2018-06-22 |
| 66. |
Oh, he'll buy me a thorn before he'll buy me a rose. Be cove... |
112.08 |
0.9698 |
0.0264 |
223 |
1 |
112.08 |
2022-06-20 |
| 67. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
111.76 |
1.0063 |
-0.0129 |
371 |
1 |
111.76 |
2023-07-11 |
| 68. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
111.47 |
0.9646 |
0.0262 |
264 |
1 |
111.47 |
2012-06-22 |
| 69. |
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsib... |
110.90 |
0.9766 |
0.0091 |
206 |
1 |
110.90 |
2023-06-30 |
| 70. |
Here then was the paradox of the President's speech. We norm... |
110.39 |
0.8139 |
0.1673 |
313 |
1 |
110.39 |
2018-06-22 |
| 71. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
109.90 |
1.0073 |
-0.0305 |
369 |
1 |
109.90 |
2013-04-02 |
| 72. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
109.51 |
1.0419 |
-0.0685 |
261 |
1 |
109.51 |
2012-07-18 |
| 73. |
I won't say another word - not one. I know I talk too much, ... |
108.99 |
1.0415 |
-0.0728 |
227 |
1 |
108.99 |
2018-05-05 |
| 74. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
108.37 |
0.9120 |
0.0512 |
436 |
1 |
108.37 |
2013-04-02 |
| 75. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
108.21 |
0.9792 |
-0.0174 |
265 |
1 |
108.21 |
2024-04-08 |
| 76. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
107.53 |
0.9776 |
-0.0218 |
308 |
1 |
107.53 |
2021-01-31 |
| 77. |
I had a painting teacher once tell me that, the difference b... |
107.42 |
1.0362 |
-0.0814 |
241 |
1 |
107.42 |
2023-06-30 |
| 78. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
107.06 |
0.9635 |
-0.0119 |
389 |
1 |
107.06 |
2012-06-22 |
| 79. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
106.99 |
1.1068 |
-0.1558 |
393 |
1 |
106.99 |
2012-06-22 |
| 80. |
Poverty is a peculiar, insidious thing: a cause whose effect... |
106.33 |
0.9820 |
-0.0369 |
198 |
1 |
106.33 |
2025-10-13 |
| 81. |
An important distinction is that rich people buy luxuries la... |
106.02 |
1.0184 |
-0.0761 |
330 |
1 |
106.02 |
2025-10-13 |
| 82. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
105.48 |
1.0320 |
-0.0945 |
293 |
1 |
105.48 |
2014-01-13 |
| 83. |
Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express ... |
104.70 |
0.9933 |
-0.0627 |
246 |
1 |
104.70 |
2017-04-19 |
| 84. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
103.71 |
0.9619 |
-0.0401 |
393 |
1 |
103.71 |
2012-06-22 |
| 85. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
103.61 |
1.0252 |
-0.1043 |
176 |
1 |
103.61 |
2015-04-04 |
| 86. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
103.50 |
0.9216 |
-0.0017 |
255 |
1 |
103.50 |
2013-04-02 |
| 87. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
103.00 |
0.7876 |
0.1279 |
316 |
1 |
103.00 |
2021-01-31 |
| 88. |
There are but two types of men who desire war: those who hav... |
102.80 |
1.0679 |
-0.1542 |
256 |
1 |
102.80 |
2015-04-04 |
| 89. |
Everything will continue eternally by performing repetition.... |
102.67 |
0.9508 |
-0.0382 |
831 |
1 |
102.67 |
2018-06-22 |
| 90. |
Scanning... Just dust and echoes. We're all that's left. We ... |
102.27 |
0.8743 |
0.0347 |
187 |
1 |
102.27 |
2018-05-05 |
| 91. |
No. Why should your Majesty expect it? My own plans are made... |
101.86 |
0.9328 |
-0.0274 |
435 |
1 |
101.86 |
2018-05-05 |
| 92. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
101.85 |
0.9665 |
-0.0612 |
326 |
2 |
99.07 |
2015-04-04 |
| 93. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
101.47 |
0.9871 |
-0.0852 |
227 |
1 |
101.47 |
2012-06-22 |
| 94. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
101.11 |
0.9514 |
-0.0527 |
237 |
1 |
101.11 |
2012-07-18 |
| 95. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
100.44 |
0.9286 |
-0.0358 |
194 |
1 |
100.44 |
2015-04-04 |
| 96. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
99.82 |
1.0008 |
-0.1136 |
473 |
1 |
99.82 |
2018-05-05 |
| 97. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
99.82 |
0.9005 |
-0.0133 |
212 |
1 |
99.82 |
2013-04-02 |
| 98. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
99.51 |
0.9844 |
-0.0999 |
293 |
1 |
99.51 |
2012-06-22 |
| 99. |
My mind is open so wide since you came inside, I feel so ali... |
99.25 |
1.0213 |
-0.1391 |
174 |
1 |
99.25 |
2021-01-31 |
| 100. |
Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Mari... |
99.08 |
0.9965 |
-0.1158 |
310 |
1 |
99.08 |
2012-06-22 |
| 101. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
99.03 |
1.0177 |
-0.1375 |
392 |
1 |
99.03 |
2022-06-20 |
| 102. |
Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though ... |
98.93 |
0.9309 |
-0.0516 |
284 |
1 |
98.93 |
2013-04-02 |
| 103. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
98.13 |
1.0099 |
-0.1377 |
207 |
1 |
98.13 |
2012-06-22 |
| 104. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
95.92 |
1.0396 |
-0.1870 |
149 |
1 |
95.92 |
2021-01-31 |
| 105. |
Suppose you suggest to your husband that subsidized llama fa... |
94.77 |
0.9336 |
-0.0912 |
255 |
1 |
94.77 |
2015-04-04 |
| 106. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
94.28 |
0.9485 |
-0.1105 |
236 |
1 |
94.28 |
2012-06-22 |
| 107. |
So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, he feigned ho... |
93.11 |
0.9527 |
-0.1251 |
165 |
1 |
93.11 |
2019-11-08 |
| 108. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
91.87 |
0.9593 |
-0.1427 |
398 |
1 |
91.87 |
2012-06-22 |
| 109. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
89.99 |
0.9904 |
-0.1905 |
203 |
1 |
89.99 |
2015-04-04 |
| 110. |
Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside ou... |
89.49 |
1.0614 |
-0.2660 |
150 |
1 |
89.49 |
2018-03-02 |
| 111. |
Mr. Brady, why do you deny the one faculty of man that raise... |
88.19 |
0.9484 |
-0.1645 |
357 |
1 |
88.19 |
2019-10-03 |
| 112. |
I cannot define what I mean by 'intuition'. It is simply wha... |
85.34 |
0.9047 |
-0.1462 |
305 |
1 |
85.34 |
2019-12-20 |
| 113. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
85.21 |
0.9293 |
-0.1719 |
355 |
1 |
85.21 |
2013-04-02 |
| 114. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
85.17 |
0.8105 |
-0.0535 |
204 |
1 |
85.17 |
2013-04-02 |
| 115. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
84.52 |
0.9084 |
-0.1572 |
404 |
1 |
84.52 |
2012-06-22 |
| 116. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
83.82 |
0.9640 |
-0.2190 |
334 |
1 |
83.82 |
2015-04-04 |
| 117. |
Close your eyes in the night and I'll be right in front of y... |
82.73 |
1.0128 |
-0.2775 |
347 |
1 |
82.73 |
2023-07-17 |
| 118. |
They say, "Find a purpose in your life and live it." But, so... |
58.99 |
1.0153 |
-0.4910 |
182 |
1 |
58.99 |
2015-04-04 |