| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
76.80 |
1.0711 |
0.2874 |
213 |
2 |
71.01 |
2008-09-10 |
| 2. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
70.50 |
1.0486 |
0.2029 |
289 |
2 |
63.64 |
2008-08-18 |
| 3. |
I don't want to go in there. He's a dangerous bastard. Taken... |
69.92 |
0.9368 |
0.3187 |
174 |
1 |
69.92 |
2008-08-25 |
| 4. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
69.37 |
0.9820 |
0.2512 |
267 |
1 |
69.37 |
2008-08-14 |
| 5. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
69.09 |
1.0289 |
0.2009 |
276 |
1 |
69.09 |
2008-11-14 |
| 6. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
68.93 |
1.0666 |
0.1560 |
297 |
2 |
66.08 |
2008-09-24 |
| 7. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
68.51 |
1.0261 |
0.1870 |
273 |
2 |
64.00 |
2008-08-20 |
| 8. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
67.55 |
1.0462 |
0.1455 |
184 |
1 |
67.55 |
2008-09-24 |
| 9. |
In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and mov... |
66.75 |
1.0167 |
0.1736 |
378 |
2 |
65.35 |
2008-11-14 |
| 10. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
66.46 |
1.0797 |
0.0930 |
210 |
2 |
61.83 |
2008-08-14 |
| 11. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
65.78 |
0.9593 |
0.2115 |
398 |
1 |
65.78 |
2008-10-25 |
| 12. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
65.60 |
1.0331 |
0.1276 |
234 |
2 |
58.91 |
2010-06-01 |
| 13. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
65.58 |
1.0477 |
0.1172 |
360 |
1 |
65.58 |
2008-10-26 |
| 14. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
64.83 |
1.0487 |
0.0954 |
231 |
1 |
64.83 |
2008-09-18 |
| 15. |
I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to a... |
64.78 |
0.9991 |
0.1496 |
225 |
2 |
58.89 |
2014-11-28 |
| 16. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
64.54 |
1.0197 |
0.1213 |
226 |
1 |
64.54 |
2008-08-10 |
| 17. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
64.43 |
1.1018 |
0.0337 |
220 |
1 |
64.43 |
2008-11-14 |
| 18. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
64.42 |
1.0565 |
0.0826 |
247 |
2 |
58.97 |
2011-08-19 |
| 19. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
64.33 |
1.0454 |
0.0910 |
255 |
1 |
64.33 |
2008-09-10 |
| 20. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
63.88 |
1.0053 |
0.1247 |
232 |
2 |
58.92 |
2008-11-14 |
| 21. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
63.82 |
0.9072 |
0.2221 |
237 |
3 |
58.61 |
2008-08-15 |
| 22. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
63.81 |
0.9884 |
0.1416 |
233 |
3 |
55.59 |
2008-11-14 |
| 23. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
63.76 |
1.0165 |
0.1173 |
392 |
1 |
63.76 |
2008-08-14 |
| 24. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
63.62 |
0.9687 |
0.1634 |
371 |
3 |
60.14 |
2008-08-15 |
| 25. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
63.29 |
0.9942 |
0.1361 |
483 |
1 |
63.29 |
2008-08-16 |
| 26. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
62.98 |
1.0696 |
0.0428 |
226 |
1 |
62.98 |
2008-08-14 |
| 27. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
62.80 |
1.0829 |
0.0313 |
288 |
1 |
62.80 |
2008-10-23 |
| 28. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
62.79 |
0.9500 |
0.1647 |
362 |
1 |
62.79 |
2008-10-26 |
| 29. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
62.26 |
0.9514 |
0.1519 |
237 |
1 |
62.26 |
2008-09-24 |
| 30. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
62.25 |
1.0120 |
0.0900 |
290 |
2 |
62.03 |
2008-11-20 |
| 31. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
62.14 |
0.9844 |
0.1212 |
293 |
3 |
57.64 |
2008-08-14 |
| 32. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
61.58 |
0.9612 |
0.1296 |
256 |
1 |
61.58 |
2008-08-14 |
| 33. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
61.27 |
0.9910 |
0.0961 |
295 |
3 |
54.42 |
2008-11-14 |
| 34. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
61.26 |
1.0034 |
0.0802 |
302 |
2 |
58.64 |
2008-08-18 |
| 35. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
60.74 |
0.9846 |
0.0901 |
281 |
1 |
60.74 |
2008-08-18 |
| 36. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
60.70 |
0.9266 |
0.1485 |
267 |
2 |
57.96 |
2008-09-12 |
| 37. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
60.56 |
0.9578 |
0.1142 |
281 |
2 |
58.88 |
2010-06-01 |
| 38. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
60.46 |
0.8947 |
0.1809 |
366 |
3 |
54.02 |
2008-11-14 |
| 39. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
60.34 |
1.0787 |
-0.0114 |
237 |
1 |
60.34 |
2008-10-25 |
| 40. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
60.12 |
0.9376 |
0.1324 |
367 |
2 |
54.46 |
2008-08-25 |
| 41. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
59.98 |
0.9619 |
0.1054 |
393 |
1 |
59.98 |
2008-08-14 |
| 42. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
59.84 |
0.9907 |
0.0673 |
211 |
3 |
50.97 |
2008-09-18 |
| 43. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
59.20 |
0.9936 |
0.0542 |
311 |
1 |
59.20 |
2008-09-18 |
| 44. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
58.61 |
0.9768 |
0.0634 |
387 |
2 |
58.60 |
2008-09-24 |
| 45. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
58.35 |
1.0555 |
-0.0212 |
363 |
1 |
58.35 |
2008-08-16 |
| 46. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
58.21 |
0.9772 |
0.0497 |
217 |
1 |
58.21 |
2008-08-14 |
| 47. |
Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Trian... |
58.20 |
0.9672 |
0.0695 |
396 |
1 |
58.20 |
2008-08-25 |
| 48. |
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air and dee... |
57.91 |
0.9866 |
0.0347 |
218 |
3 |
53.76 |
2008-08-14 |
| 49. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
57.89 |
0.9754 |
0.0554 |
362 |
1 |
57.89 |
2008-09-18 |
| 50. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
57.85 |
1.0613 |
-0.0323 |
456 |
1 |
57.85 |
2008-08-16 |
| 51. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
57.16 |
0.8533 |
0.1594 |
232 |
1 |
57.16 |
2008-10-25 |
| 52. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
57.07 |
0.9863 |
0.0281 |
339 |
3 |
54.09 |
2008-09-10 |
| 53. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
56.99 |
0.9857 |
0.0218 |
293 |
2 |
56.83 |
2008-08-18 |
| 54. |
Do you know why they call him Franky "Four Fingers" Doug? Be... |
56.68 |
0.8786 |
0.1415 |
214 |
2 |
49.38 |
2008-08-15 |
| 55. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
56.34 |
0.9527 |
0.0441 |
251 |
1 |
56.34 |
2008-10-25 |
| 56. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
55.94 |
0.9339 |
0.0543 |
310 |
1 |
55.94 |
2008-08-15 |
| 57. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
55.46 |
0.9532 |
0.0266 |
258 |
2 |
54.77 |
2008-08-14 |
| 58. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
55.25 |
0.9064 |
0.0802 |
399 |
2 |
54.51 |
2008-11-14 |
| 59. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
55.03 |
1.0774 |
-0.0746 |
304 |
1 |
55.03 |
2014-11-28 |
| 60. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
54.15 |
0.8105 |
0.1428 |
204 |
1 |
54.15 |
2008-08-14 |
| 61. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
54.14 |
1.0799 |
-0.1261 |
243 |
1 |
54.14 |
2008-08-10 |
| 62. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
54.12 |
0.9372 |
0.0239 |
320 |
1 |
54.12 |
2008-09-24 |
| 63. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
54.04 |
0.9769 |
-0.0233 |
263 |
1 |
54.04 |
2008-08-20 |
| 64. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
53.90 |
0.9851 |
-0.0297 |
317 |
1 |
53.90 |
2008-08-10 |
| 65. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
53.86 |
0.8996 |
0.0473 |
192 |
2 |
51.88 |
2008-10-25 |
| 66. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
53.70 |
0.9045 |
0.0454 |
235 |
1 |
53.70 |
2008-08-14 |
| 67. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
53.54 |
1.0172 |
-0.0354 |
341 |
1 |
53.54 |
2010-12-14 |
| 68. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
52.83 |
1.0385 |
-0.1063 |
230 |
1 |
52.83 |
2008-10-23 |
| 69. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
52.51 |
0.9084 |
0.0239 |
404 |
1 |
52.51 |
2008-08-14 |
| 70. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
52.47 |
1.0788 |
-0.1569 |
171 |
1 |
52.47 |
2011-08-19 |
| 71. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
51.77 |
0.9649 |
-0.0510 |
193 |
1 |
51.77 |
2008-08-27 |
| 72. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
51.41 |
1.0334 |
-0.1314 |
131 |
1 |
51.41 |
2008-10-23 |
| 73. |
"This man right here," McGuinness said, pointing at Kenna, "... |
50.59 |
0.9087 |
-0.0042 |
393 |
1 |
50.59 |
2008-10-22 |
| 74. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
50.32 |
0.9168 |
-0.0265 |
240 |
2 |
49.88 |
2008-09-24 |
| 75. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
50.28 |
1.0173 |
-0.0848 |
268 |
1 |
50.28 |
2014-11-28 |
| 76. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
50.07 |
0.9894 |
-0.1005 |
323 |
1 |
50.07 |
2008-10-23 |
| 77. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
49.52 |
1.0608 |
-0.1528 |
258 |
1 |
49.52 |
2010-06-01 |
| 78. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
49.04 |
0.8770 |
-0.0078 |
300 |
1 |
49.04 |
2008-10-26 |
| 79. |
The recipe for turning fruit into wine goes something like t... |
48.78 |
0.8775 |
-0.0125 |
443 |
1 |
48.78 |
2014-11-27 |
| 80. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
48.58 |
0.9084 |
-0.0488 |
300 |
1 |
48.58 |
2008-08-20 |
| 81. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
48.57 |
0.9734 |
-0.1161 |
289 |
1 |
48.57 |
2008-08-14 |
| 82. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
48.27 |
0.9125 |
-0.0585 |
308 |
1 |
48.27 |
2008-10-23 |
| 83. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
47.89 |
1.0337 |
-0.1889 |
214 |
1 |
47.89 |
2010-06-02 |
| 84. |
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I... |
46.84 |
0.8810 |
-0.0536 |
282 |
1 |
46.84 |
2008-08-10 |
| 85. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
46.64 |
0.8382 |
-0.0147 |
268 |
1 |
46.64 |
2008-10-22 |
| 86. |
I'll miss the sea, but a person needs new experiences. They ... |
45.52 |
0.9774 |
-0.1753 |
196 |
1 |
45.52 |
2014-11-28 |
| 87. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
44.81 |
0.9873 |
-0.1998 |
155 |
1 |
44.81 |
2014-11-27 |
| 88. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
44.50 |
0.9631 |
-0.1271 |
345 |
1 |
44.50 |
2011-08-19 |
| 89. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
42.98 |
0.8722 |
-0.1119 |
285 |
1 |
42.98 |
2008-08-15 |
| 90. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
42.39 |
0.9226 |
-0.1694 |
348 |
1 |
42.39 |
2008-08-10 |
| 91. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
41.74 |
0.9635 |
-0.2229 |
389 |
1 |
41.74 |
2008-08-10 |
| 92. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
41.57 |
1.0214 |
-0.2946 |
166 |
1 |
41.57 |
2008-08-10 |
| 93. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
41.10 |
0.9120 |
-0.1551 |
436 |
1 |
41.10 |
2014-11-27 |
| 94. |
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted l... |
40.97 |
0.9048 |
-0.1788 |
271 |
1 |
40.97 |
2008-08-10 |
| 95. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
40.13 |
0.8890 |
-0.1862 |
199 |
1 |
40.13 |
2008-08-27 |
| 96. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
37.07 |
0.8595 |
-0.2062 |
242 |
1 |
37.07 |
2008-08-10 |
| 97. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
35.54 |
0.9342 |
-0.3066 |
434 |
1 |
35.54 |
2008-08-10 |
| 98. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
35.28 |
0.8919 |
-0.2742 |
205 |
1 |
35.28 |
2008-08-10 |
| 99. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
34.64 |
0.8022 |
-0.1911 |
215 |
1 |
34.64 |
2014-11-27 |
| 100. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
33.76 |
0.9233 |
-0.3394 |
168 |
1 |
33.76 |
2008-08-10 |
| 101. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
30.79 |
0.8553 |
-0.3214 |
174 |
1 |
30.79 |
2008-08-14 |