| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
123.52 |
0.9941 |
0.3708 |
217 |
1 |
123.52 |
2013-11-25 |
| 2. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
119.32 |
1.0232 |
0.3328 |
236 |
2 |
101.84 |
2013-11-02 |
| 3. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
113.68 |
1.0389 |
0.2191 |
340 |
1 |
113.68 |
2013-09-03 |
| 4. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
112.77 |
1.0496 |
0.1964 |
314 |
1 |
112.77 |
2013-09-03 |
| 5. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
110.33 |
1.0379 |
0.2184 |
245 |
1 |
110.33 |
2013-09-04 |
| 6. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
109.92 |
1.0138 |
0.2001 |
231 |
1 |
109.92 |
2013-10-07 |
| 7. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
109.91 |
0.9897 |
0.2241 |
274 |
2 |
95.27 |
2013-09-08 |
| 8. |
If you want to drive a race car well, whether to win an Indy... |
109.61 |
1.0272 |
0.2017 |
405 |
1 |
109.61 |
2013-11-02 |
| 9. |
That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a li... |
108.58 |
0.9841 |
0.2172 |
334 |
3 |
99.16 |
2013-11-26 |
| 10. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
107.92 |
0.9646 |
0.2276 |
264 |
1 |
107.92 |
2013-10-07 |
| 11. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
107.06 |
1.0334 |
0.1456 |
131 |
1 |
107.06 |
2013-09-22 |
| 12. |
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit. And the ... |
106.86 |
1.0679 |
0.1376 |
177 |
1 |
106.86 |
2013-09-04 |
| 13. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
106.22 |
1.0347 |
0.1578 |
550 |
1 |
106.22 |
2013-10-10 |
| 14. |
Since the 1980s virtually all the sodas and most of the frui... |
105.63 |
0.9881 |
0.2155 |
424 |
1 |
105.63 |
2013-09-03 |
| 15. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
105.44 |
1.0444 |
0.1167 |
197 |
1 |
105.44 |
2015-08-26 |
| 16. |
By studying the cooling of pizza in the gravity free environ... |
105.29 |
0.9726 |
0.1870 |
154 |
1 |
105.29 |
2013-09-08 |
| 17. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
104.95 |
1.0387 |
0.1527 |
239 |
1 |
104.95 |
2013-09-19 |
| 18. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
104.75 |
0.9966 |
0.1605 |
259 |
2 |
99.48 |
2013-09-10 |
| 19. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
104.47 |
1.0218 |
0.1306 |
268 |
1 |
104.47 |
2013-09-04 |
| 20. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
104.28 |
1.0486 |
0.1036 |
289 |
1 |
104.28 |
2013-09-08 |
| 21. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
104.17 |
1.0662 |
0.1164 |
407 |
1 |
104.17 |
2013-09-03 |
| 22. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
104.01 |
1.0441 |
0.1052 |
252 |
1 |
104.01 |
2013-09-10 |
| 23. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
103.39 |
0.9342 |
0.2104 |
434 |
2 |
98.19 |
2014-04-22 |
| 24. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
103.39 |
1.0796 |
0.0587 |
129 |
1 |
103.39 |
2013-10-07 |
| 25. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
102.79 |
1.0429 |
0.0914 |
259 |
1 |
102.79 |
2013-09-19 |
| 26. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
102.34 |
1.0774 |
0.0818 |
304 |
1 |
102.34 |
2013-09-04 |
| 27. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
101.84 |
1.0644 |
0.0968 |
257 |
2 |
100.02 |
2013-09-08 |
| 28. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
101.72 |
1.0711 |
0.0482 |
213 |
1 |
101.72 |
2013-10-07 |
| 29. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
101.43 |
0.9697 |
0.1512 |
249 |
1 |
101.43 |
2015-09-09 |
| 30. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
100.07 |
0.9681 |
0.1409 |
378 |
2 |
99.84 |
2013-09-08 |
| 31. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
99.92 |
1.0314 |
0.0677 |
172 |
1 |
99.92 |
2013-10-07 |
| 32. |
There are two places on Earth that serve as canaries in the ... |
99.58 |
0.9597 |
0.1422 |
347 |
2 |
92.86 |
2013-10-07 |
| 33. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
99.47 |
1.0172 |
0.1142 |
341 |
1 |
99.47 |
2013-11-25 |
| 34. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
99.20 |
1.0555 |
0.0410 |
363 |
2 |
93.61 |
2015-11-21 |
| 35. |
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little... |
98.67 |
1.0972 |
0.0222 |
251 |
1 |
98.67 |
2013-11-26 |
| 36. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
98.37 |
1.0787 |
0.0067 |
237 |
2 |
98.06 |
2014-04-22 |
| 37. |
Being comfortable in the car is critical. If you're not comf... |
98.30 |
0.9911 |
0.0910 |
212 |
2 |
86.32 |
2013-09-09 |
| 38. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
98.16 |
1.0169 |
0.1035 |
346 |
1 |
98.16 |
2013-11-02 |
| 39. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
98.14 |
0.9709 |
0.1485 |
397 |
1 |
98.14 |
2013-11-02 |
| 40. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
98.05 |
1.0150 |
0.1132 |
325 |
1 |
98.05 |
2013-09-09 |
| 41. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
97.99 |
1.0498 |
0.0291 |
180 |
1 |
97.99 |
2013-11-26 |
| 42. |
Don't bother trying to explain your emotions. Live everythin... |
97.59 |
1.0086 |
0.0700 |
240 |
1 |
97.59 |
2015-11-21 |
| 43. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
97.46 |
1.1018 |
-0.0295 |
220 |
1 |
97.46 |
2013-09-22 |
| 44. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
97.34 |
1.1162 |
-0.0013 |
189 |
1 |
97.34 |
2013-09-22 |
| 45. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
97.04 |
0.9569 |
0.1337 |
410 |
2 |
88.09 |
2013-11-25 |
| 46. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
96.84 |
1.0531 |
0.0528 |
272 |
2 |
92.67 |
2013-11-02 |
| 47. |
You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens... |
95.41 |
0.9640 |
0.1140 |
334 |
1 |
95.41 |
2013-09-03 |
| 48. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
95.32 |
0.9879 |
0.0686 |
450 |
2 |
92.24 |
2013-09-05 |
| 49. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
95.28 |
1.0944 |
0.0000 |
308 |
1 |
95.28 |
2013-09-09 |
| 50. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
95.08 |
1.0795 |
0.0027 |
226 |
1 |
95.08 |
2013-11-25 |
| 51. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
95.08 |
1.0767 |
-0.0289 |
212 |
1 |
95.08 |
2013-10-07 |
| 52. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
95.08 |
0.9234 |
0.1287 |
346 |
1 |
95.08 |
2013-09-04 |
| 53. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
94.91 |
1.0109 |
0.0368 |
276 |
2 |
86.28 |
2015-09-04 |
| 54. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
94.76 |
1.0004 |
0.0429 |
212 |
1 |
94.76 |
2013-11-02 |
| 55. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
94.68 |
1.0799 |
-0.0376 |
243 |
1 |
94.68 |
2013-09-09 |
| 56. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
94.53 |
0.9904 |
0.0947 |
203 |
1 |
94.53 |
2013-11-02 |
| 57. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
94.43 |
1.0719 |
-0.0016 |
360 |
1 |
94.43 |
2013-11-02 |
| 58. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
94.39 |
0.9723 |
0.0716 |
364 |
2 |
91.63 |
2013-09-08 |
| 59. |
Consider this: Is the pious being loved by the gods because ... |
94.29 |
1.0561 |
0.0030 |
430 |
1 |
94.29 |
2013-09-08 |
| 60. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
94.19 |
0.9772 |
0.0614 |
217 |
1 |
94.19 |
2013-10-10 |
| 61. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
94.18 |
1.0502 |
0.0077 |
535 |
1 |
94.18 |
2013-09-22 |
| 62. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
93.99 |
1.0254 |
0.0560 |
217 |
1 |
93.99 |
2014-04-22 |
| 63. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
93.90 |
0.9632 |
0.0763 |
392 |
1 |
93.90 |
2013-09-09 |
| 64. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
93.82 |
1.0598 |
-0.0290 |
196 |
2 |
88.65 |
2014-02-11 |
| 65. |
In the English language, swearing is essential to effective ... |
93.81 |
0.9546 |
0.1095 |
198 |
1 |
93.81 |
2013-11-02 |
| 66. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
93.68 |
1.0829 |
-0.0488 |
288 |
1 |
93.68 |
2013-09-20 |
| 67. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
92.53 |
0.9925 |
0.0660 |
247 |
1 |
92.53 |
2013-09-08 |
| 68. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
92.48 |
1.0252 |
-0.0077 |
176 |
1 |
92.48 |
2013-09-03 |
| 69. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
92.23 |
0.9279 |
0.0928 |
317 |
1 |
92.23 |
2015-09-09 |
| 70. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
91.88 |
0.9682 |
0.0441 |
143 |
1 |
91.88 |
2013-09-05 |
| 71. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
91.79 |
0.9865 |
0.0268 |
276 |
1 |
91.79 |
2013-09-05 |
| 72. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
91.57 |
0.9632 |
0.0852 |
345 |
2 |
87.50 |
2013-10-07 |
| 73. |
Is it sweeter to exist only in the mind or to exist both in ... |
91.32 |
1.0768 |
-0.0302 |
295 |
1 |
91.32 |
2013-09-10 |
| 74. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
91.10 |
0.9855 |
0.0531 |
258 |
1 |
91.10 |
2013-09-05 |
| 75. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
91.06 |
1.0666 |
-0.0630 |
297 |
1 |
91.06 |
2013-09-20 |
| 76. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
90.47 |
1.0197 |
-0.0233 |
226 |
1 |
90.47 |
2013-10-07 |
| 77. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
90.43 |
1.0289 |
-0.0299 |
276 |
1 |
90.43 |
2013-10-07 |
| 78. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
90.36 |
0.9866 |
0.0081 |
218 |
1 |
90.36 |
2013-09-08 |
| 79. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
89.83 |
1.0328 |
-0.0084 |
356 |
1 |
89.83 |
2013-09-22 |
| 80. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
89.72 |
0.9792 |
0.0482 |
265 |
1 |
89.72 |
2013-09-05 |
| 81. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
89.35 |
1.0124 |
-0.0283 |
204 |
1 |
89.35 |
2015-08-26 |
| 82. |
Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You know what I am?... |
89.23 |
0.9905 |
-0.0023 |
377 |
1 |
89.23 |
2013-11-02 |
| 83. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
89.03 |
0.9801 |
0.0388 |
428 |
1 |
89.03 |
2014-04-22 |
| 84. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
89.00 |
0.9601 |
0.0239 |
308 |
1 |
89.00 |
2013-09-09 |
| 85. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
87.24 |
1.0261 |
-0.0287 |
410 |
1 |
87.24 |
2013-09-04 |
| 86. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
87.15 |
1.0714 |
-0.1146 |
129 |
1 |
87.15 |
2015-08-26 |
| 87. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
86.80 |
0.8826 |
0.0764 |
296 |
1 |
86.80 |
2013-09-05 |
| 88. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
86.46 |
0.9884 |
-0.0361 |
233 |
1 |
86.46 |
2013-11-02 |
| 89. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
85.99 |
0.9991 |
-0.0514 |
225 |
1 |
85.99 |
2013-09-20 |
| 90. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
85.85 |
1.0023 |
-0.0578 |
211 |
1 |
85.85 |
2013-09-08 |
| 91. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
85.67 |
0.9653 |
-0.0168 |
394 |
1 |
85.67 |
2013-09-09 |
| 92. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
85.47 |
0.9411 |
0.0024 |
318 |
1 |
85.47 |
2013-10-07 |
| 93. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
85.38 |
0.8916 |
0.0501 |
216 |
1 |
85.38 |
2013-11-02 |
| 94. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
84.87 |
0.9994 |
-0.0331 |
269 |
1 |
84.87 |
2013-09-03 |
| 95. |
Races are not won in the first corner; however, they are oft... |
84.33 |
1.0535 |
-0.0916 |
326 |
1 |
84.33 |
2014-01-23 |
| 96. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
84.32 |
1.0068 |
-0.0755 |
358 |
1 |
84.32 |
2013-09-20 |
| 97. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
84.07 |
1.0396 |
-0.1169 |
149 |
1 |
84.07 |
2013-09-09 |
| 98. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
83.95 |
1.0604 |
-0.1016 |
260 |
2 |
69.76 |
2014-01-23 |
| 99. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
83.76 |
1.0883 |
-0.1327 |
303 |
1 |
83.76 |
2013-10-07 |
| 100. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
83.76 |
0.9570 |
-0.0332 |
287 |
2 |
81.63 |
2015-08-26 |
| 101. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
83.59 |
0.9461 |
-0.0281 |
193 |
1 |
83.59 |
2015-09-04 |
| 102. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
82.91 |
0.9148 |
0.0006 |
317 |
1 |
82.91 |
2013-09-03 |
| 103. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
82.69 |
0.8947 |
0.0206 |
366 |
1 |
82.69 |
2013-09-05 |
| 104. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
82.10 |
1.0403 |
-0.0947 |
275 |
1 |
82.10 |
2014-04-22 |
| 105. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
81.83 |
1.0154 |
-0.0666 |
351 |
1 |
81.83 |
2013-09-20 |
| 106. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
81.79 |
0.8933 |
0.0120 |
363 |
1 |
81.79 |
2013-11-25 |
| 107. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
80.84 |
0.9372 |
-0.0435 |
320 |
1 |
80.84 |
2013-10-07 |
| 108. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
80.74 |
0.9566 |
-0.0501 |
576 |
1 |
80.74 |
2013-09-09 |
| 109. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
80.38 |
0.9120 |
0.0037 |
436 |
1 |
80.38 |
2013-09-22 |
| 110. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
80.27 |
0.8956 |
-0.0089 |
322 |
1 |
80.27 |
2013-09-22 |
| 111. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
79.40 |
1.1323 |
-0.2260 |
341 |
1 |
79.40 |
2013-09-03 |
| 112. |
And then he calls me a jerk and says the last guy who though... |
79.34 |
0.9936 |
-0.0964 |
227 |
1 |
79.34 |
2013-10-07 |
| 113. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
79.10 |
1.0060 |
-0.1374 |
171 |
1 |
79.10 |
2013-09-22 |
| 114. |
Had dreams. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I... |
78.95 |
0.9678 |
-0.0688 |
445 |
1 |
78.95 |
2013-09-22 |
| 115. |
Corn is what feeds the steer that becomes the steak. Corn fe... |
78.64 |
1.0008 |
-0.0961 |
473 |
1 |
78.64 |
2013-11-26 |
| 116. |
Three changes occur while the stacked disk structure equilib... |
78.38 |
0.9382 |
-0.0548 |
440 |
2 |
73.82 |
2013-11-25 |
| 117. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
77.90 |
0.9820 |
-0.1224 |
267 |
1 |
77.90 |
2013-10-07 |
| 118. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
77.37 |
0.9698 |
-0.0870 |
397 |
1 |
77.37 |
2013-09-20 |
| 119. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
77.05 |
1.0390 |
-0.1933 |
205 |
1 |
77.05 |
2014-02-09 |
| 120. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
76.71 |
0.7876 |
0.0599 |
316 |
1 |
76.71 |
2013-09-10 |
| 121. |
Ideology: the process of making ideas. The work was generall... |
76.06 |
0.9746 |
-0.1168 |
405 |
1 |
76.06 |
2014-01-23 |
| 122. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
75.99 |
0.9553 |
-0.1145 |
430 |
1 |
75.99 |
2013-10-07 |
| 123. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
75.89 |
0.9005 |
-0.0647 |
212 |
1 |
75.89 |
2015-08-26 |
| 124. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
75.53 |
0.9365 |
-0.1045 |
248 |
1 |
75.53 |
2014-02-09 |
| 125. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
75.08 |
0.9109 |
-0.0827 |
401 |
1 |
75.08 |
2013-09-05 |
| 126. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
74.75 |
1.0419 |
-0.2209 |
261 |
1 |
74.75 |
2014-01-23 |
| 127. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
74.62 |
1.0053 |
-0.1848 |
232 |
1 |
74.62 |
2013-11-26 |
| 128. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
72.25 |
1.0352 |
-0.2393 |
341 |
1 |
72.25 |
2013-09-20 |
| 129. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
71.72 |
0.8919 |
-0.1030 |
205 |
1 |
71.72 |
2013-11-02 |
| 130. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
70.39 |
0.9863 |
-0.2101 |
339 |
1 |
70.39 |
2014-04-22 |
| 131. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
70.22 |
0.9786 |
-0.2066 |
235 |
1 |
70.22 |
2013-09-03 |
| 132. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
70.11 |
0.9202 |
-0.1487 |
254 |
1 |
70.11 |
2013-09-22 |
| 133. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
69.58 |
1.0454 |
-0.2821 |
255 |
1 |
69.58 |
2013-10-07 |
| 134. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
66.25 |
0.9857 |
-0.2577 |
293 |
1 |
66.25 |
2015-11-21 |
| 135. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
66.02 |
0.9886 |
-0.2626 |
220 |
1 |
66.02 |
2013-09-08 |
| 136. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
65.80 |
0.9509 |
-0.1895 |
225 |
1 |
65.80 |
2013-10-07 |
| 137. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
64.55 |
0.9398 |
-0.2257 |
419 |
1 |
64.55 |
2013-09-09 |
| 138. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
60.44 |
0.9710 |
-0.3111 |
173 |
1 |
60.44 |
2013-09-09 |
| 139. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
55.67 |
0.9087 |
-0.2927 |
393 |
1 |
55.67 |
2014-02-11 |
| 140. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
55.62 |
0.9216 |
-0.2753 |
255 |
1 |
55.62 |
2014-02-11 |