| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
126.28 |
1.0042 |
0.2895 |
168 |
1 |
126.28 |
2014-07-28 |
| 2. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
124.18 |
1.0881 |
0.1838 |
210 |
1 |
124.18 |
2014-11-29 |
| 3. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
124.03 |
1.0279 |
0.2407 |
172 |
1 |
124.03 |
2014-08-19 |
| 4. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
121.63 |
1.0873 |
0.1592 |
243 |
1 |
121.63 |
2014-08-21 |
| 5. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
121.30 |
1.0227 |
0.2295 |
378 |
1 |
121.30 |
2014-08-28 |
| 6. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
120.64 |
1.0291 |
0.2081 |
240 |
1 |
120.64 |
2014-08-22 |
| 7. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
120.34 |
1.0287 |
0.2064 |
269 |
1 |
120.34 |
2014-08-20 |
| 8. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
119.70 |
1.1070 |
0.1215 |
265 |
2 |
112.55 |
2014-07-30 |
| 9. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
119.43 |
1.0265 |
0.2040 |
375 |
1 |
119.43 |
2014-08-22 |
| 10. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
119.11 |
1.0557 |
0.1690 |
289 |
1 |
119.11 |
2014-08-22 |
| 11. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
117.11 |
1.0208 |
0.1820 |
231 |
1 |
117.11 |
2015-01-08 |
| 12. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
116.73 |
1.0800 |
0.1160 |
213 |
1 |
116.73 |
2014-08-19 |
| 13. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
115.14 |
0.9927 |
0.1904 |
276 |
2 |
111.15 |
2014-08-20 |
| 14. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
113.35 |
1.0387 |
0.1295 |
333 |
1 |
113.35 |
2014-08-22 |
| 15. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
113.13 |
1.0461 |
0.1179 |
318 |
1 |
113.13 |
2013-12-12 |
| 16. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
111.68 |
1.0302 |
0.1308 |
550 |
1 |
111.68 |
2014-08-20 |
| 17. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
111.35 |
1.0667 |
0.0871 |
308 |
1 |
111.35 |
2015-01-08 |
| 18. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
111.03 |
1.0481 |
0.0843 |
255 |
1 |
111.03 |
2014-08-22 |
| 19. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
110.96 |
1.0792 |
0.0651 |
251 |
2 |
105.63 |
2013-02-07 |
| 20. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
110.78 |
1.0450 |
0.0978 |
358 |
1 |
110.78 |
2014-08-19 |
| 21. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
110.00 |
0.9949 |
0.1449 |
304 |
2 |
104.65 |
2014-08-20 |
| 22. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
109.67 |
0.9869 |
0.1355 |
193 |
1 |
109.67 |
2014-07-30 |
| 23. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
109.54 |
1.0464 |
0.0833 |
294 |
2 |
100.60 |
2013-12-06 |
| 24. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
109.50 |
1.0698 |
0.0614 |
303 |
1 |
109.50 |
2014-08-20 |
| 25. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
109.17 |
0.9918 |
0.1362 |
400 |
2 |
108.48 |
2015-01-14 |
| 26. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
108.96 |
1.0601 |
0.0554 |
256 |
1 |
108.96 |
2013-09-25 |
| 27. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
108.57 |
0.9824 |
0.1453 |
352 |
2 |
98.88 |
2013-02-23 |
| 28. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
107.68 |
1.1086 |
-0.0027 |
233 |
1 |
107.68 |
2013-12-12 |
| 29. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
107.21 |
1.0403 |
0.0586 |
234 |
1 |
107.21 |
2013-02-10 |
| 30. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
106.64 |
1.0836 |
0.0146 |
206 |
1 |
106.64 |
2013-01-21 |
| 31. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
105.80 |
1.0529 |
0.0358 |
373 |
2 |
95.35 |
2014-08-20 |
| 32. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
105.44 |
1.0538 |
0.0409 |
367 |
2 |
93.03 |
2013-12-07 |
| 33. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
104.06 |
1.0498 |
0.0195 |
261 |
1 |
104.06 |
2013-02-23 |
| 34. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
104.05 |
1.0427 |
0.0262 |
269 |
1 |
104.05 |
2014-04-10 |
| 35. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
103.75 |
1.0094 |
0.0556 |
256 |
1 |
103.75 |
2013-01-12 |
| 36. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
103.66 |
1.0320 |
0.0380 |
401 |
3 |
97.71 |
2013-02-09 |
| 37. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
103.34 |
0.9926 |
0.0793 |
413 |
1 |
103.34 |
2014-08-22 |
| 38. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
102.90 |
1.0492 |
0.0121 |
284 |
1 |
102.90 |
2014-07-30 |
| 39. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
102.69 |
0.9583 |
0.0962 |
237 |
2 |
97.43 |
2014-08-18 |
| 40. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
102.46 |
0.9692 |
0.0987 |
405 |
2 |
95.79 |
2014-07-28 |
| 41. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
102.43 |
0.9749 |
0.0855 |
337 |
1 |
102.43 |
2014-08-18 |
| 42. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
101.52 |
0.9817 |
0.0656 |
304 |
2 |
99.26 |
2014-08-17 |
| 43. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
100.77 |
1.0350 |
0.0137 |
416 |
1 |
100.77 |
2015-01-14 |
| 44. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
100.24 |
0.9963 |
0.0300 |
274 |
1 |
100.24 |
2013-01-12 |
| 45. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
100.22 |
1.0482 |
-0.0067 |
407 |
1 |
100.22 |
2013-12-12 |
| 46. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
99.54 |
0.9810 |
0.0455 |
362 |
1 |
99.54 |
2013-09-25 |
| 47. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
99.22 |
1.1138 |
-0.0871 |
341 |
1 |
99.22 |
2013-02-07 |
| 48. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
99.16 |
1.0028 |
0.0136 |
259 |
3 |
90.69 |
2013-12-07 |
| 49. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
99.09 |
1.0562 |
-0.0342 |
360 |
2 |
99.02 |
2013-02-09 |
| 50. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
98.85 |
1.0362 |
-0.0156 |
437 |
1 |
98.85 |
2013-12-12 |
| 51. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
98.37 |
1.0228 |
-0.0003 |
405 |
1 |
98.37 |
2013-09-24 |
| 52. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
98.30 |
0.9880 |
0.0165 |
199 |
1 |
98.30 |
2013-02-10 |
| 53. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
98.29 |
1.0509 |
-0.0348 |
295 |
1 |
98.29 |
2013-12-12 |
| 54. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
97.98 |
0.9543 |
0.0579 |
265 |
1 |
97.98 |
2014-03-15 |
| 55. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
97.84 |
1.0476 |
-0.0531 |
110 |
1 |
97.84 |
2015-01-16 |
| 56. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
97.83 |
1.0111 |
0.0049 |
452 |
1 |
97.83 |
2013-12-12 |
| 57. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
97.18 |
0.9922 |
0.0055 |
264 |
1 |
97.18 |
2013-09-29 |
| 58. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
96.85 |
1.0411 |
-0.0456 |
341 |
2 |
82.02 |
2013-09-25 |
| 59. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
96.77 |
0.9206 |
0.0728 |
317 |
1 |
96.77 |
2013-02-10 |
| 60. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
96.72 |
1.0060 |
-0.0130 |
225 |
1 |
96.72 |
2013-12-12 |
| 61. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
96.48 |
1.0270 |
-0.0365 |
303 |
1 |
96.48 |
2013-02-07 |
| 62. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
96.12 |
1.0253 |
-0.0362 |
337 |
1 |
96.12 |
2013-12-01 |
| 63. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
95.88 |
1.0288 |
-0.0498 |
166 |
1 |
95.88 |
2014-03-15 |
| 64. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
95.38 |
1.0419 |
-0.0603 |
341 |
1 |
95.38 |
2013-01-16 |
| 65. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
94.90 |
1.0543 |
-0.0798 |
233 |
2 |
90.22 |
2013-12-06 |
| 66. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
94.82 |
0.9852 |
-0.0131 |
235 |
2 |
90.27 |
2013-12-12 |
| 67. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
94.46 |
0.9650 |
0.0067 |
347 |
2 |
91.31 |
2015-01-16 |
| 68. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
94.21 |
1.0472 |
-0.0701 |
397 |
1 |
94.21 |
2013-01-16 |
| 69. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
93.16 |
1.0487 |
-0.0953 |
253 |
1 |
93.16 |
2013-01-19 |
| 70. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
92.25 |
1.0250 |
-0.0759 |
271 |
1 |
92.25 |
2013-02-07 |
| 71. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
91.87 |
1.0483 |
-0.1007 |
305 |
1 |
91.87 |
2013-02-11 |
| 72. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
91.51 |
0.9574 |
-0.0156 |
354 |
1 |
91.51 |
2014-03-15 |
| 73. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
90.84 |
0.9594 |
-0.0296 |
258 |
1 |
90.84 |
2013-02-08 |
| 74. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
90.71 |
1.0682 |
-0.1368 |
266 |
1 |
90.71 |
2013-12-12 |
| 75. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
90.54 |
1.0033 |
-0.0745 |
203 |
1 |
90.54 |
2013-02-06 |
| 76. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
90.45 |
0.9404 |
-0.0033 |
383 |
1 |
90.45 |
2013-02-07 |
| 77. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
90.32 |
0.9957 |
-0.0654 |
323 |
1 |
90.32 |
2013-09-28 |
| 78. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
89.66 |
0.9503 |
-0.0375 |
211 |
1 |
89.66 |
2013-02-06 |
| 79. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
89.59 |
0.9299 |
-0.0196 |
168 |
1 |
89.59 |
2013-02-09 |
| 80. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
89.20 |
0.9841 |
-0.0727 |
217 |
1 |
89.20 |
2014-08-18 |
| 81. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
88.83 |
1.0189 |
-0.1086 |
290 |
1 |
88.83 |
2013-02-07 |
| 82. |
Sometimes you concentrate more on racing the cars around you... |
88.61 |
1.0791 |
-0.1575 |
365 |
1 |
88.61 |
2013-02-08 |
| 83. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
88.03 |
1.0543 |
-0.1494 |
360 |
1 |
88.03 |
2013-02-10 |
| 84. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
87.94 |
1.0419 |
-0.1308 |
323 |
1 |
87.94 |
2013-02-09 |
| 85. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
87.72 |
0.8880 |
0.0115 |
296 |
1 |
87.72 |
2013-01-16 |
| 86. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
87.48 |
0.9884 |
-0.0890 |
267 |
1 |
87.48 |
2013-02-07 |
| 87. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
86.84 |
0.9885 |
-0.0981 |
355 |
1 |
86.84 |
2013-02-09 |
| 88. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
86.80 |
0.9928 |
-0.1035 |
293 |
1 |
86.80 |
2013-12-01 |
| 89. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
85.19 |
0.8936 |
-0.0214 |
346 |
1 |
85.19 |
2013-01-16 |
| 90. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
85.15 |
0.9841 |
-0.0998 |
325 |
3 |
71.79 |
2013-02-08 |
| 91. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
85.13 |
0.9368 |
-0.0706 |
176 |
1 |
85.13 |
2013-02-06 |
| 92. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
85.08 |
1.0026 |
-0.1260 |
200 |
1 |
85.08 |
2013-12-12 |
| 93. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
85.00 |
0.9258 |
-0.0499 |
184 |
1 |
85.00 |
2013-02-12 |
| 94. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
84.87 |
1.0332 |
-0.1638 |
267 |
1 |
84.87 |
2013-02-09 |
| 95. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
84.55 |
0.9561 |
-0.0861 |
291 |
1 |
84.55 |
2013-02-07 |
| 96. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
84.52 |
1.0777 |
-0.2134 |
226 |
1 |
84.52 |
2013-01-16 |
| 97. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. Certain artisans were... |
84.26 |
0.9480 |
-0.0831 |
297 |
1 |
84.26 |
2013-01-12 |
| 98. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
82.83 |
1.0125 |
-0.1685 |
171 |
1 |
82.83 |
2013-02-08 |
| 99. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
82.08 |
1.0004 |
-0.1566 |
373 |
1 |
82.08 |
2013-01-16 |
| 100. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
80.90 |
1.0095 |
-0.1819 |
211 |
1 |
80.90 |
2013-02-08 |
| 101. |
The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every busines... |
80.76 |
0.9604 |
-0.1349 |
285 |
1 |
80.76 |
2013-01-20 |
| 102. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
80.38 |
0.9561 |
-0.1251 |
364 |
1 |
80.38 |
2013-02-06 |
| 103. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
79.85 |
0.9829 |
-0.1654 |
229 |
1 |
79.85 |
2013-02-08 |
| 104. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
78.34 |
0.9660 |
-0.1563 |
258 |
1 |
78.34 |
2013-01-19 |
| 105. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
77.69 |
1.0128 |
-0.2101 |
369 |
1 |
77.69 |
2013-09-28 |
| 106. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
75.75 |
0.9833 |
-0.2051 |
387 |
1 |
75.75 |
2013-09-28 |
| 107. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
75.51 |
0.9403 |
-0.1542 |
345 |
1 |
75.51 |
2013-01-19 |
| 108. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
75.24 |
0.8172 |
-0.0509 |
204 |
1 |
75.24 |
2013-01-21 |
| 109. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
73.77 |
0.9632 |
-0.2066 |
287 |
1 |
73.77 |
2013-02-10 |
| 110. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
73.45 |
0.9338 |
-0.1718 |
326 |
1 |
73.45 |
2013-01-19 |
| 111. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
72.42 |
0.9357 |
-0.1964 |
204 |
2 |
69.05 |
2014-03-15 |
| 112. |
Buddhism addresses two major types of meditation. Vipassana ... |
71.56 |
0.8992 |
-0.1546 |
320 |
1 |
71.56 |
2013-02-08 |
| 113. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
71.04 |
1.0628 |
-0.3336 |
363 |
1 |
71.04 |
2013-02-07 |
| 114. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
70.57 |
1.0125 |
-0.2916 |
232 |
1 |
70.57 |
2013-01-16 |
| 115. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
68.38 |
0.8192 |
-0.1174 |
200 |
1 |
68.38 |
2013-01-12 |