| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
157.54 |
1.0390 |
0.2028 |
205 |
2 |
132.67 |
2009-01-18 |
| 2. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
152.07 |
1.0429 |
0.1576 |
259 |
1 |
152.07 |
2009-01-24 |
| 3. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
147.17 |
1.0666 |
0.0962 |
297 |
2 |
138.31 |
2010-01-27 |
| 4. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
146.57 |
1.0885 |
0.0727 |
315 |
1 |
146.57 |
2009-01-22 |
| 5. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
145.45 |
1.0334 |
0.1091 |
131 |
2 |
128.76 |
2009-01-22 |
| 6. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
145.30 |
1.0529 |
0.0948 |
351 |
2 |
139.98 |
2009-01-20 |
| 7. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
142.62 |
1.0799 |
0.0428 |
243 |
1 |
142.62 |
2009-01-18 |
| 8. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
142.10 |
1.0183 |
0.0983 |
191 |
2 |
133.68 |
2009-01-19 |
| 9. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
142.01 |
1.0168 |
0.1061 |
271 |
1 |
142.01 |
2009-01-18 |
| 10. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
140.89 |
1.0109 |
0.1025 |
276 |
2 |
128.70 |
2009-01-22 |
| 11. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
140.72 |
1.0099 |
0.0984 |
207 |
3 |
137.10 |
2009-01-24 |
| 12. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
139.61 |
1.0788 |
0.0179 |
171 |
3 |
126.75 |
2009-01-22 |
| 13. |
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart a... |
139.34 |
1.0829 |
0.0188 |
288 |
1 |
139.34 |
2009-01-18 |
| 14. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
139.32 |
1.0516 |
0.0480 |
281 |
2 |
137.11 |
2009-01-22 |
| 15. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
138.84 |
1.0296 |
0.0730 |
437 |
2 |
134.22 |
2009-01-22 |
| 16. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
138.79 |
1.0496 |
0.0455 |
314 |
3 |
137.22 |
2009-01-18 |
| 17. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
138.71 |
1.0711 |
0.0189 |
213 |
2 |
126.11 |
2009-01-18 |
| 18. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
138.54 |
1.0125 |
0.0790 |
224 |
1 |
138.54 |
2009-01-18 |
| 19. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
138.29 |
1.1018 |
-0.0164 |
220 |
1 |
138.29 |
2009-01-18 |
| 20. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
138.23 |
1.0297 |
0.0604 |
249 |
1 |
138.23 |
2010-02-13 |
| 21. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
137.89 |
1.0595 |
0.0316 |
379 |
2 |
127.32 |
2009-01-18 |
| 22. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
137.52 |
1.0787 |
0.0056 |
237 |
1 |
137.52 |
2009-01-22 |
| 23. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
137.50 |
1.0487 |
0.0318 |
231 |
2 |
136.55 |
2009-01-18 |
| 24. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
137.46 |
0.9786 |
0.1014 |
193 |
2 |
135.41 |
2009-01-22 |
| 25. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
137.38 |
0.9843 |
0.0952 |
234 |
2 |
126.47 |
2009-01-22 |
| 26. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
137.13 |
0.9622 |
0.1267 |
392 |
2 |
129.00 |
2009-01-18 |
| 27. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
136.24 |
0.9965 |
0.0741 |
168 |
1 |
136.24 |
2009-01-18 |
| 28. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
135.86 |
1.0796 |
-0.0120 |
129 |
2 |
124.47 |
2009-01-18 |
| 29. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
135.30 |
1.0023 |
0.0637 |
211 |
1 |
135.30 |
2009-01-22 |
| 30. |
I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean Shatner, was the ultima... |
135.21 |
0.9907 |
0.0749 |
211 |
3 |
120.84 |
2009-01-22 |
| 31. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
135.08 |
0.9635 |
0.1081 |
389 |
1 |
135.08 |
2010-01-27 |
| 32. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
134.70 |
0.9936 |
0.0692 |
311 |
1 |
134.70 |
2009-01-18 |
| 33. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
134.57 |
1.0063 |
0.0562 |
371 |
2 |
126.03 |
2009-01-18 |
| 34. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
134.12 |
1.0477 |
0.0132 |
360 |
4 |
125.20 |
2009-02-06 |
| 35. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
133.71 |
1.0714 |
-0.0251 |
129 |
1 |
133.71 |
2009-01-17 |
| 36. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
133.57 |
1.0463 |
0.0032 |
182 |
1 |
133.57 |
2009-01-22 |
| 37. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
133.44 |
0.9682 |
0.0830 |
143 |
2 |
120.25 |
2009-01-18 |
| 38. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
132.67 |
1.0201 |
0.0272 |
303 |
1 |
132.67 |
2009-01-22 |
| 39. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
132.03 |
1.0060 |
0.0311 |
171 |
1 |
132.03 |
2009-01-22 |
| 40. |
I've always wondered about this coat business. When I'm in a... |
131.31 |
0.9852 |
0.0511 |
264 |
2 |
130.65 |
2009-01-19 |
| 41. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
130.30 |
1.0213 |
0.0035 |
240 |
2 |
125.67 |
2009-02-06 |
| 42. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
129.47 |
0.9557 |
0.0719 |
331 |
1 |
129.47 |
2009-01-18 |
| 43. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
129.28 |
0.9768 |
0.0456 |
387 |
1 |
129.28 |
2009-01-22 |
| 44. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
129.19 |
1.0257 |
-0.0002 |
401 |
1 |
129.19 |
2009-01-22 |
| 45. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
128.75 |
0.9612 |
0.0544 |
256 |
2 |
125.50 |
2011-07-20 |
| 46. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
128.73 |
0.9527 |
0.0626 |
251 |
1 |
128.73 |
2009-01-18 |
| 47. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
128.47 |
0.9168 |
0.0978 |
240 |
2 |
124.48 |
2009-01-24 |
| 48. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
128.28 |
1.0033 |
0.0018 |
189 |
1 |
128.28 |
2009-01-18 |
| 49. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
127.44 |
1.0389 |
-0.0314 |
340 |
1 |
127.44 |
2009-02-06 |
| 50. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
127.05 |
0.9734 |
0.0283 |
289 |
1 |
127.05 |
2009-01-18 |
| 51. |
Has it been five years? Six? It seems like a lifetime, the k... |
126.84 |
1.0391 |
-0.0327 |
358 |
1 |
126.84 |
2009-01-18 |
| 52. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
126.62 |
1.0445 |
-0.0450 |
373 |
1 |
126.62 |
2009-01-18 |
| 53. |
Because they're at the bottom of the scale, nerds are a safe... |
126.16 |
0.9846 |
0.0092 |
281 |
2 |
117.01 |
2009-01-22 |
| 54. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
125.87 |
0.9897 |
0.0006 |
274 |
1 |
125.87 |
2009-01-18 |
| 55. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
125.30 |
1.0025 |
-0.0146 |
256 |
1 |
125.30 |
2009-01-18 |
| 56. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
125.15 |
1.0668 |
-0.0775 |
350 |
1 |
125.15 |
2009-01-18 |
| 57. |
I will need my spectacles and a clear head. Today I broke my... |
124.95 |
1.0214 |
-0.0416 |
166 |
1 |
124.95 |
2009-01-18 |
| 58. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
124.94 |
1.0498 |
-0.0694 |
180 |
1 |
124.94 |
2009-01-22 |
| 59. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
123.81 |
0.9513 |
0.0286 |
354 |
1 |
123.81 |
2009-01-18 |
| 60. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
123.80 |
1.0340 |
-0.0528 |
406 |
2 |
121.63 |
2009-01-22 |
| 61. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
123.62 |
1.0767 |
-0.1043 |
212 |
1 |
123.62 |
2009-01-18 |
| 62. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
123.25 |
1.0565 |
-0.0874 |
247 |
1 |
123.25 |
2009-01-22 |
| 63. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
122.66 |
1.0218 |
-0.0578 |
268 |
1 |
122.66 |
2009-01-22 |
| 64. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
122.64 |
1.0031 |
-0.0028 |
304 |
1 |
122.64 |
2010-02-15 |
| 65. |
I had a dream. There was our world, and the world was dark b... |
121.41 |
1.0619 |
-0.1013 |
354 |
1 |
121.41 |
2009-01-19 |
| 66. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
120.82 |
0.9966 |
-0.0450 |
259 |
1 |
120.82 |
2009-01-18 |
| 67. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
120.80 |
0.8615 |
0.0907 |
110 |
1 |
120.80 |
2009-01-17 |
| 68. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
120.49 |
1.0131 |
-0.0674 |
225 |
1 |
120.49 |
2009-01-22 |
| 69. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
119.87 |
1.0053 |
-0.0626 |
232 |
1 |
119.87 |
2009-01-18 |
| 70. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
119.46 |
1.0004 |
-0.0651 |
212 |
1 |
119.46 |
2009-01-18 |
| 71. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
119.32 |
0.9570 |
-0.0150 |
287 |
1 |
119.32 |
2009-01-22 |
| 72. |
You've got a way to keep me on your side. You give me cause ... |
118.65 |
1.0521 |
-0.1220 |
171 |
1 |
118.65 |
2009-01-22 |
| 73. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
118.33 |
0.9776 |
-0.0451 |
308 |
1 |
118.33 |
2009-01-20 |
| 74. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
118.31 |
0.9649 |
-0.0338 |
193 |
1 |
118.31 |
2009-01-22 |
| 75. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
117.97 |
1.0201 |
-0.0974 |
172 |
1 |
117.97 |
2011-07-20 |
| 76. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
117.92 |
1.0201 |
-0.0870 |
375 |
1 |
117.92 |
2009-01-18 |
| 77. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
117.68 |
0.9681 |
-0.0326 |
378 |
2 |
116.70 |
2009-01-22 |
| 78. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
117.38 |
0.9636 |
-0.0389 |
254 |
4 |
111.03 |
2009-02-06 |
| 79. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
117.29 |
1.0596 |
-0.1377 |
239 |
1 |
117.29 |
2009-01-24 |
| 80. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
116.86 |
1.0515 |
-0.1328 |
250 |
2 |
111.14 |
2009-01-18 |
| 81. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
116.42 |
1.0214 |
-0.1060 |
269 |
1 |
116.42 |
2009-01-18 |
| 82. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
116.23 |
0.9330 |
-0.0108 |
360 |
1 |
116.23 |
2009-01-18 |
| 83. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
115.66 |
0.9756 |
-0.0659 |
229 |
1 |
115.66 |
2009-01-22 |
| 84. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
115.55 |
1.0289 |
-0.1144 |
276 |
1 |
115.55 |
2013-05-02 |
| 85. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
115.47 |
1.0251 |
-0.1178 |
261 |
1 |
115.47 |
2013-05-02 |
| 86. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
114.92 |
1.0109 |
-0.0729 |
400 |
1 |
114.92 |
2010-02-13 |
| 87. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
114.64 |
1.0669 |
-0.1317 |
286 |
1 |
114.64 |
2010-02-15 |
| 88. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
113.59 |
1.0567 |
-0.1616 |
303 |
1 |
113.59 |
2009-01-22 |
| 89. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
113.24 |
0.9266 |
-0.0348 |
267 |
1 |
113.24 |
2009-01-18 |
| 90. |
The beginner writes just twenty pieces. The professional wri... |
112.82 |
0.9740 |
-0.0898 |
209 |
1 |
112.82 |
2009-01-18 |
| 91. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
112.76 |
0.9857 |
-0.0988 |
293 |
1 |
112.76 |
2009-01-18 |
| 92. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
111.30 |
0.8890 |
-0.0164 |
199 |
1 |
111.30 |
2009-01-18 |
| 93. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
111.28 |
0.9279 |
-0.0454 |
317 |
1 |
111.28 |
2009-01-22 |
| 94. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
111.16 |
0.9833 |
-0.1066 |
355 |
1 |
111.16 |
2009-01-22 |
| 95. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
110.50 |
1.0621 |
-0.1729 |
263 |
1 |
110.50 |
2013-05-02 |
| 96. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
109.88 |
0.8852 |
-0.0183 |
201 |
1 |
109.88 |
2009-01-18 |
| 97. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
109.13 |
1.0361 |
-0.1762 |
269 |
1 |
109.13 |
2009-01-22 |
| 98. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
108.03 |
0.8958 |
-0.0411 |
322 |
1 |
108.03 |
2009-01-18 |
| 99. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
106.10 |
0.9805 |
-0.1412 |
292 |
1 |
106.10 |
2009-01-18 |
| 100. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
106.07 |
1.0385 |
-0.2059 |
230 |
1 |
106.07 |
2009-01-18 |
| 101. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
104.53 |
0.9894 |
-0.1629 |
323 |
1 |
104.53 |
2009-02-06 |
| 102. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
103.11 |
1.0062 |
-0.1954 |
288 |
1 |
103.11 |
2009-01-22 |
| 103. |
I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked hi... |
101.60 |
0.8916 |
-0.0926 |
216 |
1 |
101.60 |
2009-01-17 |
| 104. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
99.65 |
1.0331 |
-0.2522 |
234 |
1 |
99.65 |
2009-01-17 |
| 105. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
99.01 |
0.9614 |
-0.1804 |
292 |
1 |
99.01 |
2009-01-18 |
| 106. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
93.42 |
0.9351 |
-0.2072 |
190 |
1 |
93.42 |
2009-01-18 |
| 107. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
58.68 |
1.0797 |
-0.6294 |
210 |
1 |
58.68 |
2009-01-18 |