| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
123.38 |
1.0696 |
0.1928 |
226 |
4 |
112.15 |
2010-07-14 |
| 2. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
116.98 |
1.0444 |
0.1486 |
197 |
1 |
116.98 |
2010-07-14 |
| 3. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
114.18 |
0.9768 |
0.1964 |
387 |
1 |
114.18 |
2010-07-27 |
| 4. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
113.75 |
1.0261 |
0.1381 |
273 |
1 |
113.75 |
2010-07-28 |
| 5. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
113.58 |
1.0346 |
0.1717 |
244 |
1 |
113.58 |
2010-06-23 |
| 6. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
113.34 |
1.1114 |
0.0478 |
247 |
2 |
111.48 |
2010-07-14 |
| 7. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
113.27 |
1.0574 |
0.1316 |
205 |
2 |
110.16 |
2010-07-27 |
| 8. |
I know a bloke who knows a bloke who knows a bloke. Now, I k... |
112.68 |
1.0398 |
0.1047 |
110 |
1 |
112.68 |
2010-06-23 |
| 9. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
112.03 |
1.0389 |
0.1111 |
318 |
1 |
112.03 |
2010-07-28 |
| 10. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
111.96 |
0.9986 |
0.1496 |
283 |
1 |
111.96 |
2010-07-14 |
| 11. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
111.77 |
1.0445 |
0.1020 |
373 |
1 |
111.77 |
2010-07-27 |
| 12. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
111.32 |
1.0595 |
0.0839 |
379 |
1 |
111.32 |
2010-07-14 |
| 13. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
111.12 |
1.0763 |
0.1040 |
367 |
1 |
111.12 |
2010-07-14 |
| 14. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
110.61 |
1.0109 |
0.1235 |
276 |
1 |
110.61 |
2010-07-09 |
| 15. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
110.59 |
1.0263 |
0.1063 |
267 |
2 |
103.52 |
2010-07-14 |
| 16. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
110.58 |
1.0788 |
0.0489 |
171 |
2 |
105.67 |
2010-07-27 |
| 17. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
110.31 |
1.0257 |
0.1112 |
401 |
2 |
107.44 |
2010-07-09 |
| 18. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
110.06 |
1.0396 |
0.0811 |
149 |
1 |
110.06 |
2010-07-14 |
| 19. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
109.13 |
1.0320 |
0.1235 |
293 |
1 |
109.13 |
2010-07-27 |
| 20. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
108.55 |
0.9997 |
0.1161 |
382 |
1 |
108.55 |
2010-07-28 |
| 21. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
108.39 |
0.9805 |
0.1347 |
292 |
2 |
103.67 |
2010-07-27 |
| 22. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
108.33 |
1.0417 |
0.0657 |
253 |
1 |
108.33 |
2010-07-27 |
| 23. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
107.75 |
1.0596 |
0.0422 |
239 |
1 |
107.75 |
2010-07-28 |
| 24. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
107.30 |
1.0390 |
0.0565 |
205 |
2 |
103.39 |
2010-07-14 |
| 25. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
106.29 |
1.0073 |
0.0895 |
369 |
2 |
101.77 |
2010-07-27 |
| 26. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
106.14 |
1.0621 |
0.0445 |
263 |
2 |
105.08 |
2010-07-28 |
| 27. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
105.87 |
1.0774 |
0.0364 |
304 |
2 |
96.93 |
2010-07-14 |
| 28. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
105.64 |
0.9756 |
0.1051 |
229 |
1 |
105.64 |
2010-07-14 |
| 29. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
105.58 |
0.9675 |
0.1234 |
383 |
1 |
105.58 |
2010-07-14 |
| 30. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
105.26 |
1.0483 |
0.0268 |
227 |
1 |
105.26 |
2010-07-14 |
| 31. |
Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with a b... |
104.85 |
1.0316 |
0.0461 |
333 |
1 |
104.85 |
2009-03-31 |
| 32. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
104.78 |
1.0485 |
0.0593 |
153 |
1 |
104.78 |
2010-07-27 |
| 33. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
104.12 |
1.0214 |
0.0432 |
269 |
1 |
104.12 |
2009-02-12 |
| 34. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
104.09 |
0.9710 |
0.0885 |
173 |
3 |
97.54 |
2010-07-14 |
| 35. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
104.02 |
1.0252 |
0.0336 |
176 |
2 |
98.68 |
2010-07-14 |
| 36. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
103.98 |
1.0531 |
0.0498 |
272 |
1 |
103.98 |
2010-07-27 |
| 37. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
103.78 |
1.0352 |
0.0307 |
341 |
1 |
103.78 |
2010-07-26 |
| 38. |
There are very few things I wish I could change about those ... |
103.77 |
1.0883 |
0.0065 |
303 |
1 |
103.77 |
2010-07-14 |
| 39. |
Good games offer players a set of challenging problems and t... |
103.67 |
1.0796 |
-0.0228 |
129 |
2 |
103.40 |
2010-07-14 |
| 40. |
Combat for a naval aviator is fought in short, violent burst... |
103.30 |
1.0201 |
0.0381 |
303 |
2 |
101.03 |
2010-07-27 |
| 41. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
103.24 |
1.0343 |
0.0603 |
242 |
1 |
103.24 |
2010-07-09 |
| 42. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
103.13 |
1.0197 |
0.0334 |
226 |
2 |
96.46 |
2010-07-28 |
| 43. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
102.64 |
0.8826 |
0.1698 |
296 |
1 |
102.64 |
2010-07-26 |
| 44. |
The streets were cleared by a Critical Mass bike ride and we... |
102.57 |
0.9578 |
0.0919 |
281 |
2 |
99.46 |
2009-10-02 |
| 45. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
102.55 |
0.9795 |
0.0705 |
308 |
1 |
102.55 |
2010-07-09 |
| 46. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
101.68 |
1.1081 |
-0.0325 |
206 |
1 |
101.68 |
2010-06-23 |
| 47. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
101.62 |
1.0385 |
0.0001 |
230 |
1 |
101.62 |
2010-07-09 |
| 48. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
101.61 |
1.0795 |
-0.0087 |
226 |
1 |
101.61 |
2009-10-02 |
| 49. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
101.17 |
0.9857 |
0.0490 |
293 |
1 |
101.17 |
2010-06-23 |
| 50. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
101.04 |
1.0218 |
0.0097 |
268 |
1 |
101.04 |
2010-07-09 |
| 51. |
How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a ma... |
100.99 |
1.0034 |
0.0290 |
302 |
2 |
97.89 |
2010-06-23 |
| 52. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
100.91 |
0.9734 |
0.0593 |
289 |
2 |
100.13 |
2010-07-27 |
| 53. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
100.28 |
1.0201 |
-0.0004 |
172 |
1 |
100.28 |
2010-07-14 |
| 54. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
99.85 |
1.0334 |
-0.0179 |
131 |
2 |
94.33 |
2010-07-28 |
| 55. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
99.46 |
1.0060 |
0.0073 |
171 |
2 |
89.28 |
2010-07-27 |
| 56. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
99.14 |
1.0361 |
-0.0204 |
269 |
1 |
99.14 |
2010-06-23 |
| 57. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
98.68 |
0.9769 |
0.0309 |
263 |
2 |
95.77 |
2010-07-27 |
| 58. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
98.20 |
1.0099 |
-0.0079 |
207 |
1 |
98.20 |
2009-10-02 |
| 59. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
97.62 |
0.9886 |
0.0128 |
220 |
2 |
90.86 |
2010-07-27 |
| 60. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
97.42 |
1.0797 |
-0.0885 |
210 |
1 |
97.42 |
2009-02-12 |
| 61. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
97.40 |
1.0515 |
-0.0568 |
250 |
1 |
97.40 |
2010-07-27 |
| 62. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
97.32 |
0.9844 |
0.0162 |
293 |
2 |
95.92 |
2010-07-09 |
| 63. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
97.10 |
0.9798 |
0.0080 |
199 |
1 |
97.10 |
2010-07-27 |
| 64. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
97.02 |
1.0608 |
-0.0348 |
258 |
2 |
83.20 |
2010-07-28 |
| 65. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
96.67 |
1.0068 |
-0.0144 |
358 |
1 |
96.67 |
2010-07-28 |
| 66. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
96.43 |
1.1323 |
-0.1120 |
341 |
1 |
96.43 |
2010-07-27 |
| 67. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
96.42 |
1.0613 |
-0.0739 |
266 |
1 |
96.42 |
2010-07-14 |
| 68. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
96.14 |
0.9785 |
0.0083 |
335 |
2 |
95.44 |
2010-07-27 |
| 69. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
95.66 |
0.9851 |
-0.0043 |
317 |
1 |
95.66 |
2009-03-02 |
| 70. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
94.56 |
1.0251 |
-0.0601 |
261 |
1 |
94.56 |
2010-07-14 |
| 71. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
94.38 |
0.9514 |
0.0142 |
237 |
1 |
94.38 |
2010-07-28 |
| 72. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
93.88 |
1.0328 |
-0.0345 |
356 |
1 |
93.88 |
2010-06-23 |
| 73. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
92.74 |
0.9790 |
0.0099 |
311 |
1 |
92.74 |
2010-06-23 |
| 74. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
92.38 |
0.9279 |
0.0232 |
317 |
1 |
92.38 |
2010-07-09 |
| 75. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
91.96 |
0.8919 |
0.0467 |
205 |
1 |
91.96 |
2009-02-12 |
| 76. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
91.64 |
0.9553 |
-0.0112 |
430 |
1 |
91.64 |
2010-07-27 |
| 77. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
91.41 |
1.0284 |
-0.0505 |
282 |
1 |
91.41 |
2010-07-27 |
| 78. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
91.27 |
0.9632 |
-0.0237 |
392 |
1 |
91.27 |
2010-07-14 |
| 79. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
91.19 |
0.8981 |
0.0388 |
393 |
1 |
91.19 |
2009-03-31 |
| 80. |
Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good ta... |
90.76 |
0.9649 |
-0.0382 |
193 |
1 |
90.76 |
2010-06-23 |
| 81. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
90.56 |
0.9636 |
-0.0380 |
254 |
1 |
90.56 |
2010-07-27 |
| 82. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
90.48 |
1.0042 |
-0.0378 |
352 |
1 |
90.48 |
2010-07-26 |
| 83. |
Do you know what they call a Quarter-pounder with cheese in ... |
90.00 |
0.9233 |
-0.0117 |
168 |
1 |
90.00 |
2010-07-26 |
| 84. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
89.99 |
0.9966 |
-0.0774 |
259 |
1 |
89.99 |
2010-07-27 |
| 85. |
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly ... |
89.38 |
0.9786 |
-0.0703 |
193 |
1 |
89.38 |
2010-07-28 |
| 86. |
As customers of all races, nationalities, and cultures visit... |
88.55 |
0.9898 |
-0.0473 |
353 |
1 |
88.55 |
2010-07-09 |
| 87. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
88.46 |
0.9965 |
-0.0973 |
168 |
1 |
88.46 |
2010-07-14 |
| 88. |
The day dawned bleak and chill, a moving wall of gray light ... |
88.05 |
0.9593 |
-0.0549 |
398 |
1 |
88.05 |
2010-07-27 |
| 89. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
88.05 |
0.9925 |
-0.0561 |
247 |
1 |
88.05 |
2010-07-09 |
| 90. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
87.89 |
0.9500 |
-0.0497 |
362 |
1 |
87.89 |
2009-02-12 |
| 91. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
87.51 |
0.9865 |
-0.0913 |
276 |
1 |
87.51 |
2010-07-27 |
| 92. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
86.84 |
0.9084 |
-0.0194 |
300 |
1 |
86.84 |
2010-06-23 |
| 93. |
Always do your best - your best is going to change from mome... |
86.40 |
1.0038 |
-0.0909 |
237 |
1 |
86.40 |
2010-07-26 |
| 94. |
I know what "exacerbate" means. There is not a word or a sen... |
85.75 |
0.8615 |
0.0145 |
110 |
1 |
85.75 |
2009-02-12 |
| 95. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
85.37 |
0.9359 |
-0.0244 |
353 |
1 |
85.37 |
2010-06-23 |
| 96. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
85.29 |
0.9612 |
-0.0901 |
256 |
1 |
85.29 |
2009-02-12 |
| 97. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
85.06 |
0.9430 |
-0.0816 |
211 |
1 |
85.06 |
2010-06-23 |
| 98. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
84.97 |
1.0388 |
-0.1394 |
243 |
1 |
84.97 |
2010-07-27 |
| 99. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
84.48 |
1.0125 |
-0.1521 |
224 |
1 |
84.48 |
2009-02-12 |
| 100. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
83.84 |
0.9567 |
-0.0584 |
184 |
1 |
83.84 |
2010-07-14 |
| 101. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
82.77 |
0.8595 |
-0.0127 |
242 |
1 |
82.77 |
2010-07-28 |
| 102. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
82.54 |
0.9088 |
-0.0610 |
348 |
1 |
82.54 |
2010-07-27 |
| 103. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
82.50 |
0.8602 |
-0.0202 |
206 |
2 |
67.12 |
2010-07-28 |
| 104. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
82.38 |
0.9792 |
-0.0998 |
265 |
1 |
82.38 |
2010-07-27 |
| 105. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
81.91 |
1.0177 |
-0.1434 |
392 |
1 |
81.91 |
2010-06-23 |
| 106. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
80.83 |
0.9698 |
-0.1120 |
397 |
1 |
80.83 |
2010-07-14 |
| 107. |
Few smart kids can spare the attention that popularity requi... |
80.36 |
0.9513 |
-0.1275 |
354 |
1 |
80.36 |
2010-06-23 |
| 108. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
79.80 |
0.9072 |
-0.0947 |
237 |
1 |
79.80 |
2010-07-14 |
| 109. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
79.47 |
0.9278 |
-0.1143 |
295 |
1 |
79.47 |
2009-03-02 |
| 110. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
78.78 |
0.9005 |
-0.0984 |
212 |
1 |
78.78 |
2010-06-23 |
| 111. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
78.24 |
0.9148 |
-0.1153 |
317 |
1 |
78.24 |
2009-02-12 |
| 112. |
I sincerely believe that if women study male lessons on conc... |
77.52 |
0.9485 |
-0.1555 |
291 |
1 |
77.52 |
2010-07-14 |
| 113. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
77.11 |
0.9128 |
-0.0850 |
369 |
1 |
77.11 |
2010-07-27 |
| 114. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
77.07 |
0.8947 |
-0.1039 |
366 |
1 |
77.07 |
2009-02-12 |
| 115. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
74.03 |
0.8382 |
-0.0833 |
268 |
1 |
74.03 |
2010-07-27 |
| 116. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
73.77 |
0.9529 |
-0.1606 |
269 |
1 |
73.77 |
2010-07-27 |
| 117. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
72.87 |
0.9202 |
-0.1785 |
254 |
1 |
72.87 |
2010-07-27 |
| 118. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
69.87 |
0.7876 |
-0.0737 |
316 |
1 |
69.87 |
2010-07-28 |
| 119. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
66.08 |
0.9234 |
-0.2460 |
346 |
1 |
66.08 |
2010-07-27 |