| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I ask him if quiz bowl has helped him in other areas of... |
70.98 |
1.0493 |
0.4384 |
150 |
1 |
70.98 |
2017-10-10 |
| 2. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
65.75 |
1.0197 |
0.3677 |
226 |
2 |
52.72 |
2015-04-04 |
| 3. |
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a... |
65.27 |
0.9848 |
0.3947 |
305 |
1 |
65.27 |
2020-08-23 |
| 4. |
I love bagels even though they are one of mankind's most dan... |
65.23 |
1.0379 |
0.3386 |
321 |
1 |
65.23 |
2022-01-18 |
| 5. |
If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to ... |
64.84 |
0.9814 |
0.3885 |
275 |
1 |
64.84 |
2017-11-20 |
| 6. |
I thought I had the whole world in my mouth. I thought I cou... |
63.28 |
1.0370 |
0.3004 |
432 |
1 |
63.28 |
2020-08-23 |
| 7. |
I believe virtually everything I read and I think that is wh... |
62.44 |
1.0127 |
0.2939 |
140 |
1 |
62.44 |
2017-10-10 |
| 8. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
61.94 |
0.9922 |
0.3539 |
341 |
1 |
61.94 |
2017-10-10 |
| 9. |
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most ... |
61.67 |
1.0439 |
0.2623 |
369 |
1 |
61.67 |
2017-10-10 |
| 10. |
How often do you think about why your friends came into your... |
61.62 |
1.0162 |
0.2827 |
389 |
1 |
61.62 |
2017-11-20 |
| 11. |
Dear Slim, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have ... |
61.51 |
0.9555 |
0.3413 |
391 |
1 |
61.51 |
2017-11-20 |
| 12. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
61.50 |
1.0725 |
0.2547 |
233 |
1 |
61.50 |
2013-03-11 |
| 13. |
We can now get these kids to buy just about anything. We can... |
61.21 |
1.0627 |
0.2288 |
193 |
1 |
61.21 |
2020-08-23 |
| 14. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
60.47 |
1.0031 |
0.3079 |
304 |
1 |
60.47 |
2015-04-04 |
| 15. |
It is impossible to kill an enemy. You may end a man's life,... |
60.29 |
0.9693 |
0.3005 |
382 |
1 |
60.29 |
2020-08-23 |
| 16. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
58.81 |
1.0441 |
0.1974 |
252 |
1 |
58.81 |
2013-03-11 |
| 17. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
57.65 |
0.9758 |
0.2412 |
314 |
1 |
57.65 |
2013-03-11 |
| 18. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
57.50 |
0.9266 |
0.2871 |
267 |
2 |
48.06 |
2013-03-20 |
| 19. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
56.61 |
0.9785 |
0.2179 |
335 |
1 |
56.61 |
2013-03-11 |
| 20. |
The hectic speed, and the brevity of the lines in the thread... |
55.23 |
0.9131 |
0.2466 |
144 |
1 |
55.23 |
2013-03-11 |
| 21. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
54.67 |
1.0062 |
0.1477 |
288 |
1 |
54.67 |
2013-03-11 |
| 22. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
53.97 |
0.9234 |
0.2175 |
346 |
1 |
53.97 |
2013-03-20 |
| 23. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
53.37 |
1.0034 |
0.1215 |
302 |
2 |
48.07 |
2013-03-11 |
| 24. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
53.03 |
0.9986 |
0.1201 |
283 |
2 |
49.48 |
2010-04-15 |
| 25. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
52.90 |
0.9216 |
0.2306 |
255 |
1 |
52.90 |
2013-03-11 |
| 26. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
52.83 |
0.9907 |
0.1225 |
211 |
1 |
52.83 |
2013-03-11 |
| 27. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
52.51 |
1.0120 |
0.0955 |
290 |
1 |
52.51 |
2013-03-11 |
| 28. |
Protozoa are a large group of unicellular animals (nonphotos... |
52.50 |
0.7726 |
0.3332 |
233 |
1 |
52.50 |
2020-08-23 |
| 29. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
51.34 |
0.9894 |
0.0951 |
323 |
1 |
51.34 |
2013-09-04 |
| 30. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
50.89 |
0.9670 |
0.1464 |
307 |
1 |
50.89 |
2010-02-22 |
| 31. |
Where's that money, you silly stupid old fool? Where's that ... |
50.88 |
0.8876 |
0.1837 |
220 |
1 |
50.88 |
2017-10-10 |
| 32. |
For centuries, human society has taken the gifts of nature f... |
50.81 |
1.0012 |
0.0707 |
260 |
1 |
50.81 |
2012-08-01 |
| 33. |
Humans need to practice what they are learning a good deal b... |
50.61 |
1.1016 |
-0.0356 |
233 |
1 |
50.61 |
2010-03-22 |
| 34. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
50.36 |
0.9790 |
0.1213 |
311 |
1 |
50.36 |
2013-03-11 |
| 35. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
49.67 |
1.0016 |
0.0433 |
218 |
1 |
49.67 |
2010-04-23 |
| 36. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
49.23 |
0.9756 |
0.0613 |
229 |
1 |
49.23 |
2010-04-15 |
| 37. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
49.17 |
1.0090 |
0.0705 |
282 |
1 |
49.17 |
2012-08-01 |
| 38. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
48.87 |
1.0799 |
-0.0527 |
243 |
1 |
48.87 |
2010-01-04 |
| 39. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
48.86 |
0.9649 |
0.0645 |
193 |
1 |
48.86 |
2010-02-22 |
| 40. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
48.85 |
1.0083 |
0.0648 |
273 |
1 |
48.85 |
2012-08-01 |
| 41. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
48.26 |
0.9578 |
0.0584 |
281 |
1 |
48.26 |
2012-08-01 |
| 42. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
48.18 |
1.0388 |
0.0089 |
243 |
1 |
48.18 |
2010-02-21 |
| 43. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
48.11 |
0.9464 |
0.0695 |
323 |
1 |
48.11 |
2010-03-29 |
| 44. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
48.09 |
1.0417 |
-0.0295 |
253 |
2 |
46.74 |
2010-04-23 |
| 45. |
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, she... |
48.09 |
0.9226 |
0.0927 |
177 |
1 |
48.09 |
2010-03-22 |
| 46. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
47.83 |
1.0788 |
-0.0744 |
171 |
1 |
47.83 |
2010-01-11 |
| 47. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
47.64 |
1.0013 |
0.0021 |
273 |
1 |
47.64 |
2010-02-21 |
| 48. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
47.51 |
0.9711 |
0.0292 |
176 |
1 |
47.51 |
2010-01-11 |
| 49. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
47.46 |
1.0334 |
-0.0373 |
131 |
1 |
47.46 |
2012-08-01 |
| 50. |
Caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a... |
47.36 |
0.9266 |
0.0710 |
278 |
1 |
47.36 |
2010-02-22 |
| 51. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
47.24 |
1.0263 |
-0.0314 |
267 |
1 |
47.24 |
2010-02-02 |
| 52. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
46.51 |
0.9365 |
0.0439 |
248 |
1 |
46.51 |
2010-03-29 |
| 53. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
46.30 |
0.9724 |
0.0032 |
237 |
2 |
44.33 |
2010-01-12 |
| 54. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
46.03 |
1.0389 |
-0.0692 |
318 |
1 |
46.03 |
2010-01-11 |
| 55. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
45.67 |
1.0099 |
-0.0489 |
207 |
1 |
45.67 |
2010-02-22 |
| 56. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
45.41 |
0.9899 |
-0.0363 |
163 |
1 |
45.41 |
2010-04-15 |
| 57. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
45.31 |
0.9072 |
0.0462 |
237 |
1 |
45.31 |
2010-02-21 |
| 58. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
45.21 |
0.9672 |
-0.0124 |
396 |
2 |
42.88 |
2010-02-22 |
| 59. |
It is possible that I already had some presentiment of my fu... |
45.13 |
1.0349 |
-0.0855 |
234 |
1 |
45.13 |
2010-01-04 |
| 60. |
Instead of hiring workers during the peak hog kill in the wi... |
44.94 |
0.8915 |
0.0542 |
188 |
1 |
44.94 |
2010-02-21 |
| 61. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
44.91 |
0.9682 |
-0.0236 |
143 |
1 |
44.91 |
2010-10-15 |
| 62. |
The basic concept is simple: a satellite in geosynchronous o... |
44.75 |
0.9665 |
0.0240 |
326 |
1 |
44.75 |
2010-01-11 |
| 63. |
The only preventive thing I do is wash clothes after buying ... |
44.66 |
1.0368 |
-0.0970 |
276 |
1 |
44.66 |
2010-03-22 |
| 64. |
Now did you answer 'cause you thought that's what I wanted t... |
44.56 |
0.9325 |
0.0040 |
156 |
1 |
44.56 |
2010-02-21 |
| 65. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
44.39 |
1.0487 |
-0.1168 |
231 |
1 |
44.39 |
2010-02-02 |
| 66. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
44.28 |
1.0023 |
-0.0722 |
211 |
1 |
44.28 |
2010-01-04 |
| 67. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
43.87 |
0.9371 |
0.0246 |
318 |
1 |
43.87 |
2010-10-15 |
| 68. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
43.83 |
0.9805 |
-0.0558 |
292 |
1 |
43.83 |
2010-01-12 |
| 69. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
43.75 |
1.0797 |
-0.1622 |
210 |
1 |
43.75 |
2010-04-23 |
| 70. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
43.51 |
0.9212 |
-0.0041 |
323 |
1 |
43.51 |
2010-01-12 |
| 71. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
43.06 |
0.7890 |
0.1182 |
230 |
1 |
43.06 |
2010-01-11 |
| 72. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
43.01 |
0.9307 |
-0.0194 |
246 |
1 |
43.01 |
2010-01-12 |
| 73. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
42.99 |
1.0463 |
-0.1446 |
182 |
1 |
42.99 |
2010-01-04 |
| 74. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
42.98 |
0.8153 |
0.0908 |
200 |
1 |
42.98 |
2010-01-04 |
| 75. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
42.55 |
1.0053 |
-0.1107 |
232 |
1 |
42.55 |
2010-01-11 |
| 76. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
42.45 |
0.9726 |
-0.0831 |
154 |
1 |
42.45 |
2010-01-12 |
| 77. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
42.42 |
1.0740 |
-0.1421 |
264 |
1 |
42.42 |
2010-01-04 |
| 78. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
42.08 |
1.0029 |
-0.1200 |
209 |
1 |
42.08 |
2010-01-04 |
| 79. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
41.69 |
1.0767 |
-0.2013 |
212 |
1 |
41.69 |
2010-01-04 |
| 80. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
41.61 |
0.9910 |
-0.1148 |
295 |
1 |
41.61 |
2010-01-04 |
| 81. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
41.58 |
0.9916 |
-0.0751 |
282 |
1 |
41.58 |
2010-02-21 |
| 82. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
41.41 |
0.9811 |
-0.1090 |
272 |
1 |
41.41 |
2010-01-04 |
| 83. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
41.26 |
1.0077 |
-0.0984 |
250 |
1 |
41.26 |
2010-01-11 |
| 84. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
41.13 |
1.0398 |
-0.1806 |
110 |
1 |
41.13 |
2010-01-11 |
| 85. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
40.91 |
1.0419 |
-0.1832 |
261 |
1 |
40.91 |
2010-04-15 |
| 86. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
40.83 |
1.0337 |
-0.1763 |
214 |
1 |
40.83 |
2010-01-04 |
| 87. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
40.73 |
0.9786 |
-0.1239 |
193 |
1 |
40.73 |
2010-01-04 |
| 88. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
40.59 |
0.8154 |
0.0387 |
193 |
1 |
40.59 |
2010-01-11 |
| 89. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
40.57 |
0.8533 |
0.0004 |
232 |
1 |
40.57 |
2010-01-12 |
| 90. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
40.55 |
0.8958 |
-0.0405 |
322 |
1 |
40.55 |
2010-02-21 |
| 91. |
You're here because you know something. What you know you ca... |
40.25 |
0.9633 |
-0.1165 |
304 |
1 |
40.25 |
2010-01-11 |
| 92. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
40.00 |
1.0218 |
-0.1825 |
268 |
2 |
39.01 |
2010-04-23 |
| 93. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
39.92 |
0.9527 |
-0.1133 |
251 |
1 |
39.92 |
2010-02-21 |
| 94. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
39.83 |
0.9852 |
-0.1478 |
264 |
1 |
39.83 |
2010-04-23 |
| 95. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
39.61 |
0.9976 |
-0.1423 |
174 |
1 |
39.61 |
2010-04-23 |
| 96. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
39.50 |
1.0063 |
-0.1759 |
371 |
1 |
39.50 |
2010-01-04 |
| 97. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
38.69 |
1.0528 |
-0.2416 |
201 |
1 |
38.69 |
2010-01-04 |
| 98. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
38.47 |
0.9128 |
-0.0641 |
369 |
1 |
38.47 |
2010-01-11 |
| 99. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
38.37 |
0.8614 |
-0.0567 |
172 |
1 |
38.37 |
2010-03-22 |
| 100. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
38.04 |
1.0124 |
-0.2144 |
204 |
1 |
38.04 |
2010-01-04 |
| 101. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
37.57 |
0.9279 |
-0.1356 |
317 |
1 |
37.57 |
2010-01-11 |
| 102. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
37.18 |
0.9128 |
-0.1292 |
133 |
1 |
37.18 |
2010-01-12 |
| 103. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
36.93 |
1.0521 |
-0.2789 |
171 |
1 |
36.93 |
2010-01-04 |
| 104. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
36.75 |
0.9614 |
-0.1886 |
292 |
1 |
36.75 |
2010-01-11 |
| 105. |
I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got t... |
36.55 |
0.8295 |
-0.0597 |
209 |
1 |
36.55 |
2010-01-04 |
| 106. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
36.12 |
0.9684 |
-0.2086 |
388 |
1 |
36.12 |
2010-01-04 |
| 107. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
36.05 |
0.8852 |
-0.1276 |
201 |
1 |
36.05 |
2010-01-04 |
| 108. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
35.56 |
0.8890 |
-0.1439 |
199 |
2 |
34.13 |
2010-02-02 |
| 109. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
34.73 |
0.9429 |
-0.2139 |
287 |
1 |
34.73 |
2010-01-04 |
| 110. |
Now you come to me and you say, "Don Corleone, give me justi... |
34.46 |
0.8077 |
-0.0858 |
167 |
1 |
34.46 |
2010-01-04 |
| 111. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
34.02 |
0.8353 |
-0.1175 |
283 |
1 |
34.02 |
2010-01-04 |
| 112. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
33.97 |
1.0714 |
-0.3626 |
129 |
1 |
33.97 |
2010-01-04 |
| 113. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
32.53 |
0.8810 |
-0.1976 |
282 |
1 |
32.53 |
2010-01-04 |