| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
Many people limit themselves to leading boring, dull lives b... |
90.68 |
1.0944 |
0.3979 |
308 |
1 |
90.68 |
2015-08-28 |
| 2. |
I never said I would stay to the end - I knew I would leave ... |
86.30 |
1.0763 |
0.3421 |
367 |
1 |
86.30 |
2014-10-31 |
| 3. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
85.23 |
1.0073 |
0.3605 |
369 |
1 |
85.23 |
2015-08-28 |
| 4. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
83.24 |
0.9851 |
0.3449 |
317 |
1 |
83.24 |
2014-10-31 |
| 5. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
82.42 |
1.0251 |
0.2871 |
261 |
1 |
82.42 |
2014-10-29 |
| 6. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
80.44 |
1.0905 |
0.2235 |
210 |
1 |
80.44 |
2013-02-08 |
| 7. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
79.76 |
1.0375 |
0.2798 |
200 |
2 |
70.36 |
2014-10-29 |
| 8. |
Some pilots like the excitement of our missions, knowing tha... |
79.50 |
1.0109 |
0.2573 |
276 |
1 |
79.50 |
2014-10-29 |
| 9. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
79.02 |
0.9234 |
0.3415 |
346 |
1 |
79.02 |
2014-10-29 |
| 10. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
79.02 |
0.9514 |
0.3084 |
237 |
1 |
79.02 |
2014-10-31 |
| 11. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
77.73 |
1.0384 |
0.1907 |
183 |
1 |
77.73 |
2013-01-31 |
| 12. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
77.10 |
1.0515 |
0.1693 |
166 |
1 |
77.10 |
2013-01-31 |
| 13. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
75.90 |
1.0168 |
0.1940 |
271 |
1 |
75.90 |
2014-10-31 |
| 14. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
75.73 |
0.8595 |
0.3488 |
242 |
2 |
72.25 |
2014-10-29 |
| 15. |
While you were sleeping, you tossed, you turned. You rolled ... |
75.62 |
0.8614 |
0.3414 |
172 |
1 |
75.62 |
2011-10-22 |
| 16. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
75.57 |
0.8628 |
0.3382 |
196 |
1 |
75.57 |
2013-02-08 |
| 17. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
73.69 |
1.0025 |
0.1711 |
256 |
2 |
68.72 |
2012-04-16 |
| 18. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
72.79 |
0.9398 |
0.2290 |
419 |
1 |
72.79 |
2014-10-31 |
| 19. |
That fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived w... |
72.63 |
1.0740 |
0.1209 |
264 |
1 |
72.63 |
2010-11-29 |
| 20. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
72.33 |
0.9739 |
0.2139 |
412 |
1 |
72.33 |
2013-01-31 |
| 21. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
71.58 |
0.9938 |
0.1467 |
339 |
1 |
71.58 |
2013-01-31 |
| 22. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
71.40 |
1.0795 |
0.0880 |
226 |
1 |
71.40 |
2012-04-16 |
| 23. |
In order to become an elf I filled out ten pages' worth of f... |
71.31 |
0.9614 |
0.1771 |
292 |
1 |
71.31 |
2011-10-17 |
| 24. |
I had the impression of being abandoned by everyone when the... |
71.03 |
0.9942 |
0.1455 |
483 |
1 |
71.03 |
2013-01-31 |
| 25. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
70.79 |
1.0941 |
0.0643 |
256 |
1 |
70.79 |
2012-04-16 |
| 26. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
70.65 |
0.8918 |
0.2314 |
100 |
1 |
70.65 |
2013-02-08 |
| 27. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
70.35 |
0.9084 |
0.2135 |
300 |
1 |
70.35 |
2015-08-28 |
| 28. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
70.21 |
1.0385 |
0.0775 |
230 |
1 |
70.21 |
2013-01-31 |
| 29. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
70.15 |
1.0352 |
0.0843 |
341 |
1 |
70.15 |
2012-04-16 |
| 30. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
69.57 |
1.0486 |
0.0597 |
289 |
2 |
58.68 |
2011-10-21 |
| 31. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
69.49 |
0.9430 |
0.1558 |
211 |
2 |
61.48 |
2010-11-29 |
| 32. |
Historian James C. Cobb has described southern identity as "... |
68.98 |
0.9176 |
0.2139 |
267 |
2 |
63.36 |
2011-11-16 |
| 33. |
I had a job, I had a girl. I had something going, mister, in... |
68.32 |
1.0218 |
0.0626 |
268 |
1 |
68.32 |
2012-04-16 |
| 34. |
Remembering you running soft through the night. You were big... |
68.03 |
1.0863 |
0.0311 |
210 |
2 |
66.03 |
2011-11-16 |
| 35. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
67.00 |
0.9964 |
0.0697 |
203 |
1 |
67.00 |
2012-04-16 |
| 36. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
66.95 |
1.0485 |
0.0512 |
153 |
1 |
66.95 |
2011-11-16 |
| 37. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
66.44 |
0.9128 |
0.1857 |
369 |
2 |
62.37 |
2012-04-16 |
| 38. |
There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship smoke on ... |
66.38 |
1.0025 |
0.0544 |
336 |
2 |
60.33 |
2013-01-31 |
| 39. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
66.15 |
0.9365 |
0.1173 |
248 |
2 |
59.92 |
2010-10-28 |
| 40. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
66.15 |
1.0477 |
0.0070 |
360 |
1 |
66.15 |
2012-04-16 |
| 41. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
65.97 |
0.9691 |
0.0798 |
223 |
1 |
65.97 |
2010-10-28 |
| 42. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
65.91 |
0.9710 |
0.0711 |
173 |
1 |
65.91 |
2011-10-23 |
| 43. |
Parisian French is different from Provincial French and Germ... |
65.77 |
0.9286 |
0.1166 |
194 |
1 |
65.77 |
2009-12-18 |
| 44. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
65.36 |
1.0340 |
0.0111 |
406 |
2 |
60.82 |
2010-11-29 |
| 45. |
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend i... |
64.85 |
1.0390 |
-0.0113 |
205 |
2 |
59.01 |
2011-10-07 |
| 46. |
At first they had tried to keep the finding quiet. After all... |
64.25 |
0.8709 |
0.1589 |
202 |
1 |
64.25 |
2011-10-23 |
| 47. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
63.79 |
1.0621 |
-0.0284 |
263 |
1 |
63.79 |
2011-10-07 |
| 48. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
63.75 |
0.9768 |
0.0395 |
387 |
1 |
63.75 |
2010-11-29 |
| 49. |
I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making t... |
63.72 |
0.9567 |
0.0563 |
273 |
1 |
63.72 |
2011-10-06 |
| 50. |
It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from... |
63.70 |
0.9372 |
0.0798 |
320 |
1 |
63.70 |
2012-04-16 |
| 51. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
63.48 |
1.0063 |
0.0034 |
371 |
1 |
63.48 |
2011-10-17 |
| 52. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
63.29 |
1.0403 |
0.0058 |
275 |
1 |
63.29 |
2014-10-31 |
| 53. |
I am learning about twenty new Italian words a day. Where am... |
63.25 |
1.0441 |
-0.0370 |
252 |
1 |
63.25 |
2010-10-28 |
| 54. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
62.33 |
1.0696 |
-0.0823 |
226 |
1 |
62.33 |
2011-10-28 |
| 55. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
62.24 |
0.9202 |
0.0687 |
254 |
3 |
55.71 |
2011-10-21 |
| 56. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
61.92 |
1.0337 |
-0.0501 |
214 |
1 |
61.92 |
2010-11-29 |
| 57. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
61.58 |
0.9426 |
0.0392 |
317 |
1 |
61.58 |
2011-10-17 |
| 58. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
61.27 |
1.0498 |
-0.0809 |
180 |
1 |
61.27 |
2009-12-02 |
| 59. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
61.18 |
0.9897 |
-0.0198 |
274 |
1 |
61.18 |
2011-10-07 |
| 60. |
Don't make assumptions - find the courage to ask questions a... |
60.84 |
1.0608 |
-0.0607 |
258 |
1 |
60.84 |
2010-10-28 |
| 61. |
Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ir... |
60.83 |
0.9532 |
0.0123 |
258 |
2 |
53.17 |
2011-10-23 |
| 62. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
60.24 |
0.9754 |
-0.0120 |
362 |
2 |
53.93 |
2012-04-16 |
| 63. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
60.13 |
0.9632 |
-0.0014 |
392 |
1 |
60.13 |
2011-08-04 |
| 64. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
59.66 |
0.9871 |
-0.0171 |
227 |
1 |
59.66 |
2011-10-22 |
| 65. |
We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control... |
59.46 |
0.9734 |
-0.0291 |
289 |
2 |
57.65 |
2011-04-12 |
| 66. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
59.26 |
0.9910 |
-0.0475 |
295 |
1 |
59.26 |
2010-04-08 |
| 67. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
59.22 |
1.0346 |
-0.0519 |
244 |
2 |
57.83 |
2012-04-16 |
| 68. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
59.22 |
1.0125 |
-0.0741 |
224 |
1 |
59.22 |
2009-12-02 |
| 69. |
Hi, and welcome to the future. San Dimas, California, 2688. ... |
59.20 |
0.9213 |
0.0196 |
295 |
1 |
59.20 |
2011-08-04 |
| 70. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
58.86 |
0.9805 |
-0.0409 |
292 |
1 |
58.86 |
2010-10-15 |
| 71. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
58.61 |
0.9429 |
-0.0105 |
287 |
1 |
58.61 |
2009-12-04 |
| 72. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
57.90 |
1.0031 |
-0.0501 |
304 |
1 |
57.90 |
2009-12-02 |
| 73. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
57.76 |
0.9529 |
0.0048 |
269 |
1 |
57.76 |
2011-11-16 |
| 74. |
Let me get this straight. You think that your client, one of... |
57.07 |
0.9946 |
-0.0885 |
246 |
1 |
57.07 |
2009-12-02 |
| 75. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
56.75 |
1.0719 |
-0.1433 |
360 |
1 |
56.75 |
2011-10-21 |
| 76. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
56.54 |
1.0252 |
-0.1339 |
176 |
1 |
56.54 |
2010-04-08 |
| 77. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
56.05 |
0.9941 |
-0.1068 |
217 |
1 |
56.05 |
2011-10-21 |
| 78. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
55.77 |
1.0154 |
-0.0804 |
351 |
1 |
55.77 |
2009-12-04 |
| 79. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
55.71 |
1.0023 |
-0.1202 |
211 |
2 |
51.81 |
2012-04-16 |
| 80. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
54.88 |
1.0529 |
-0.1821 |
351 |
1 |
54.88 |
2009-11-30 |
| 81. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
54.47 |
1.0523 |
-0.1924 |
256 |
1 |
54.47 |
2010-10-28 |
| 82. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
54.04 |
1.0189 |
-0.1583 |
337 |
1 |
54.04 |
2009-12-02 |
| 83. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
53.68 |
1.0257 |
-0.1677 |
401 |
1 |
53.68 |
2009-12-18 |
| 84. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
53.32 |
0.9865 |
-0.1397 |
276 |
1 |
53.32 |
2010-10-28 |
| 85. |
The Inca believed that if one did not give thanks and obedie... |
53.28 |
1.0077 |
-0.1214 |
250 |
1 |
53.28 |
2012-04-16 |
| 86. |
To some, the rules of etiquette may seem outdated, stuffy an... |
52.93 |
0.9922 |
-0.1116 |
341 |
1 |
52.93 |
2011-10-21 |
| 87. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
52.48 |
1.0352 |
-0.1998 |
341 |
1 |
52.48 |
2009-11-30 |
| 88. |
You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righte... |
52.09 |
0.9207 |
-0.0922 |
174 |
1 |
52.09 |
2009-12-02 |
| 89. |
In 1873 the Sholes & Glidden Type Writer became the first to... |
52.05 |
0.9074 |
-0.0756 |
396 |
1 |
52.05 |
2011-10-07 |
| 90. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
51.93 |
1.0099 |
-0.1895 |
207 |
1 |
51.93 |
2009-12-18 |
| 91. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
51.70 |
0.9266 |
-0.1070 |
267 |
1 |
51.70 |
2010-10-28 |
| 92. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
51.10 |
1.0033 |
-0.2000 |
189 |
1 |
51.10 |
2009-12-02 |
| 93. |
Look, you should admit to yourself that Microsoft will miss ... |
51.06 |
0.9612 |
-0.1518 |
256 |
1 |
51.06 |
2009-12-18 |
| 94. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
51.03 |
1.0567 |
-0.2473 |
303 |
1 |
51.03 |
2009-12-02 |
| 95. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
50.85 |
0.9330 |
-0.1204 |
360 |
1 |
50.85 |
2009-12-02 |
| 96. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
50.84 |
0.9411 |
-0.1344 |
318 |
1 |
50.84 |
2009-12-02 |
| 97. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
50.54 |
0.9795 |
-0.1785 |
308 |
1 |
50.54 |
2011-10-07 |
| 98. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
50.54 |
0.9127 |
-0.1141 |
252 |
1 |
50.54 |
2009-12-04 |
| 99. |
Good games stay within, but at the outer edge, of the player... |
49.90 |
0.9798 |
-0.1948 |
199 |
1 |
49.90 |
2011-10-07 |
| 100. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
49.58 |
1.0547 |
-0.2346 |
257 |
1 |
49.58 |
2011-10-23 |
| 101. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
49.20 |
0.9376 |
-0.1529 |
367 |
1 |
49.20 |
2009-12-02 |
| 102. |
You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a ... |
48.85 |
0.9780 |
-0.2032 |
337 |
1 |
48.85 |
2010-05-21 |
| 103. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
48.33 |
0.9005 |
-0.1365 |
212 |
1 |
48.33 |
2011-04-12 |
| 104. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
48.04 |
0.8770 |
-0.1131 |
300 |
1 |
48.04 |
2009-11-30 |
| 105. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
45.93 |
0.9527 |
-0.2260 |
251 |
1 |
45.93 |
2009-12-04 |
| 106. |
I know that you weren't bored that day because there was a l... |
45.57 |
0.9468 |
-0.2264 |
276 |
1 |
45.57 |
2010-04-08 |
| 107. |
Here, the oregano and other trace materials sitting on the s... |
45.31 |
0.9873 |
-0.2734 |
155 |
1 |
45.31 |
2009-12-02 |
| 108. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
42.30 |
0.9500 |
-0.2797 |
362 |
1 |
42.30 |
2009-12-04 |
| 109. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
39.75 |
0.9293 |
-0.3013 |
355 |
1 |
39.75 |
2011-10-21 |
| 110. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
39.34 |
0.9622 |
-0.3352 |
392 |
1 |
39.34 |
2009-12-04 |
| 111. |
According to the popular story, the keyboard invented by Aug... |
38.76 |
0.8981 |
-0.2822 |
393 |
1 |
38.76 |
2011-11-16 |
| 112. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
38.37 |
0.9925 |
-0.3509 |
247 |
1 |
38.37 |
2011-10-28 |