| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
133.29 |
1.1323 |
0.1391 |
341 |
1 |
133.29 |
2014-10-11 |
| 2. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
133.17 |
1.1022 |
0.1718 |
259 |
1 |
133.17 |
2014-10-22 |
| 3. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
131.69 |
1.0201 |
0.2032 |
172 |
1 |
131.69 |
2015-01-19 |
| 4. |
This planet has, or rather had, a problem, which was this: m... |
130.70 |
1.0477 |
0.1696 |
360 |
1 |
130.70 |
2014-09-25 |
| 5. |
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation h... |
129.51 |
1.0662 |
0.1301 |
211 |
1 |
129.51 |
2023-10-23 |
| 6. |
The brain can be a tool. It can recall phone numbers, solve ... |
128.50 |
1.0340 |
0.1630 |
406 |
1 |
128.50 |
2014-10-30 |
| 7. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
127.91 |
0.9899 |
0.1987 |
163 |
2 |
123.20 |
2014-10-11 |
| 8. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
124.47 |
1.0016 |
0.1549 |
218 |
3 |
119.16 |
2014-10-22 |
| 9. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
123.27 |
0.9426 |
0.2058 |
317 |
1 |
123.27 |
2015-01-19 |
| 10. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
123.00 |
1.1018 |
0.0397 |
220 |
2 |
114.77 |
2015-01-19 |
| 11. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
121.91 |
1.0485 |
0.1231 |
153 |
1 |
121.91 |
2014-10-11 |
| 12. |
People get ready, there's a train coming. You don't need no ... |
120.93 |
1.0033 |
0.1180 |
189 |
1 |
120.93 |
2014-10-11 |
| 13. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
120.91 |
0.9941 |
0.1284 |
217 |
2 |
119.01 |
2014-10-11 |
| 14. |
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sle... |
120.63 |
1.0644 |
0.0946 |
257 |
2 |
116.02 |
2014-10-30 |
| 15. |
One thing I've learned in the last seven years: in every gam... |
120.15 |
1.0528 |
0.0618 |
201 |
1 |
120.15 |
2014-10-30 |
| 16. |
I don't believe in painted roses or bleeding hearts while bu... |
120.14 |
1.0444 |
0.0701 |
197 |
1 |
120.14 |
2014-10-22 |
| 17. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
119.46 |
1.0141 |
0.1288 |
304 |
1 |
119.46 |
2014-10-11 |
| 18. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
118.57 |
1.0399 |
0.0627 |
294 |
1 |
118.57 |
2014-09-25 |
| 19. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
118.54 |
1.1014 |
0.0385 |
273 |
1 |
118.54 |
2014-10-06 |
| 20. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
118.25 |
1.0487 |
0.0473 |
231 |
1 |
118.25 |
2014-10-11 |
| 21. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
117.74 |
0.9792 |
0.1536 |
265 |
1 |
117.74 |
2014-09-29 |
| 22. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
116.94 |
1.0331 |
0.0527 |
234 |
2 |
111.57 |
2015-01-19 |
| 23. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
116.79 |
1.0053 |
0.0795 |
232 |
1 |
116.79 |
2014-10-11 |
| 24. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
116.62 |
1.1068 |
0.0108 |
393 |
1 |
116.62 |
2014-09-25 |
| 25. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
116.30 |
1.0662 |
0.0453 |
407 |
2 |
111.77 |
2014-10-30 |
| 26. |
My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able t... |
116.30 |
0.9884 |
0.0925 |
233 |
1 |
116.30 |
2014-09-29 |
| 27. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
116.21 |
0.9907 |
0.1185 |
397 |
2 |
110.41 |
2014-10-22 |
| 28. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
115.90 |
1.0943 |
0.0145 |
206 |
1 |
115.90 |
2014-10-06 |
| 29. |
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again. Breakin... |
115.30 |
1.0885 |
0.0147 |
341 |
1 |
115.30 |
2014-10-27 |
| 30. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
115.04 |
1.0203 |
0.0507 |
261 |
1 |
115.04 |
2014-10-11 |
| 31. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
114.79 |
1.1296 |
-0.0310 |
252 |
1 |
114.79 |
2014-09-26 |
| 32. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
114.23 |
1.0060 |
0.0543 |
171 |
1 |
114.23 |
2014-10-22 |
| 33. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
114.14 |
1.0668 |
-0.0062 |
350 |
1 |
114.14 |
2014-09-21 |
| 34. |
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has take... |
113.61 |
1.0296 |
0.0273 |
437 |
1 |
113.61 |
2014-10-27 |
| 35. |
You ask Raymond what he does for a living and he says, "I br... |
113.52 |
1.0264 |
0.0615 |
422 |
1 |
113.52 |
2014-10-22 |
| 36. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
113.46 |
1.0506 |
0.0331 |
277 |
2 |
105.68 |
2015-01-19 |
| 37. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
112.72 |
0.9871 |
0.0999 |
209 |
2 |
107.84 |
2014-09-29 |
| 38. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
112.25 |
1.0213 |
0.0207 |
240 |
1 |
112.25 |
2014-10-06 |
| 39. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
112.21 |
1.0172 |
0.0578 |
341 |
1 |
112.21 |
2014-10-30 |
| 40. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
112.09 |
1.0545 |
0.0205 |
416 |
1 |
112.09 |
2014-10-06 |
| 41. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
111.54 |
0.9805 |
0.0581 |
292 |
1 |
111.54 |
2014-10-30 |
| 42. |
Let's sort the buyers from the spiers, the needy from the gr... |
111.51 |
0.9843 |
0.0494 |
234 |
1 |
111.51 |
2014-10-06 |
| 43. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
111.40 |
1.0445 |
-0.0112 |
373 |
1 |
111.40 |
2014-10-30 |
| 44. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
111.22 |
0.9851 |
0.0488 |
317 |
1 |
111.22 |
2014-10-11 |
| 45. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
110.90 |
0.9986 |
0.0314 |
283 |
1 |
110.90 |
2014-10-11 |
| 46. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
110.88 |
1.0788 |
-0.0517 |
171 |
1 |
110.88 |
2014-10-30 |
| 47. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
110.32 |
0.9731 |
0.0485 |
129 |
1 |
110.32 |
2014-10-22 |
| 48. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
110.22 |
0.9976 |
0.0491 |
174 |
2 |
97.02 |
2014-10-11 |
| 49. |
Contrary to the feminist cant, there are many things we can ... |
110.19 |
1.0412 |
-0.0170 |
225 |
1 |
110.19 |
2014-10-22 |
| 50. |
My old man gave me this diary when I was first learning how ... |
109.82 |
1.0571 |
-0.0468 |
557 |
1 |
109.82 |
2023-10-23 |
| 51. |
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for so... |
109.59 |
1.0565 |
-0.0395 |
247 |
1 |
109.59 |
2014-10-11 |
| 52. |
You have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Whea... |
109.39 |
0.9687 |
0.0496 |
371 |
1 |
109.39 |
2014-09-25 |
| 53. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
109.36 |
0.9646 |
0.0522 |
264 |
2 |
104.15 |
2014-10-30 |
| 54. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
109.13 |
0.9681 |
0.0482 |
378 |
1 |
109.13 |
2014-10-22 |
| 55. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
108.75 |
1.0150 |
0.0414 |
325 |
1 |
108.75 |
2014-10-22 |
| 56. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
108.48 |
0.9925 |
0.0528 |
247 |
1 |
108.48 |
2014-10-11 |
| 57. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
108.47 |
1.0124 |
-0.0057 |
204 |
1 |
108.47 |
2014-10-22 |
| 58. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
107.96 |
1.0031 |
0.0340 |
304 |
1 |
107.96 |
2014-10-30 |
| 59. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
107.93 |
0.9128 |
0.1315 |
369 |
1 |
107.93 |
2015-01-19 |
| 60. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
107.35 |
0.9756 |
0.0210 |
229 |
1 |
107.35 |
2014-10-22 |
| 61. |
They knew they were privileged to have these choices, but th... |
107.23 |
1.0042 |
0.0278 |
352 |
2 |
101.68 |
2014-10-11 |
| 62. |
Although his voice was also broken by uncertainty and his ha... |
107.11 |
1.1162 |
-0.0803 |
189 |
1 |
107.11 |
2014-10-22 |
| 63. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
106.51 |
1.0531 |
-0.0262 |
272 |
1 |
106.51 |
2014-10-11 |
| 64. |
I know that the idea of raising well-rounded, smarter kids c... |
106.44 |
1.0328 |
-0.0124 |
356 |
1 |
106.44 |
2014-10-22 |
| 65. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
106.28 |
0.9785 |
0.0104 |
335 |
1 |
106.28 |
2014-10-22 |
| 66. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
106.18 |
1.0567 |
-0.0701 |
303 |
1 |
106.18 |
2014-09-21 |
| 67. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
106.01 |
1.1215 |
-0.1106 |
200 |
1 |
106.01 |
2014-10-27 |
| 68. |
A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were worki... |
105.67 |
0.9831 |
0.0010 |
469 |
1 |
105.67 |
2014-10-06 |
| 69. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
105.27 |
1.0029 |
-0.0262 |
209 |
1 |
105.27 |
2014-10-22 |
| 70. |
Well I woke in mid-afternoon 'cause that's when it all hurts... |
105.09 |
1.0621 |
-0.0636 |
263 |
1 |
105.09 |
2014-10-30 |
| 71. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
105.00 |
1.0352 |
-0.0594 |
341 |
1 |
105.00 |
2014-10-22 |
| 72. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
104.20 |
0.9997 |
-0.0310 |
382 |
1 |
104.20 |
2014-09-21 |
| 73. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
104.09 |
1.0252 |
-0.0614 |
176 |
1 |
104.09 |
2014-09-25 |
| 74. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
103.50 |
1.0346 |
-0.0309 |
244 |
1 |
103.50 |
2014-10-11 |
| 75. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
103.41 |
0.8956 |
0.0662 |
322 |
1 |
103.41 |
2014-10-11 |
| 76. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
103.41 |
1.0211 |
-0.0285 |
213 |
1 |
103.41 |
2014-10-11 |
| 77. |
Whenever you watch the mind, you withdraw consciousness from... |
103.29 |
0.9844 |
-0.0249 |
293 |
1 |
103.29 |
2014-10-11 |
| 78. |
The less you do with the controls, the less chance of error.... |
103.25 |
1.0905 |
-0.0965 |
210 |
1 |
103.25 |
2014-10-11 |
| 79. |
An essential characteristic of the superhero mythology is, t... |
103.20 |
0.9109 |
0.0492 |
401 |
1 |
103.20 |
2014-10-06 |
| 80. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
103.14 |
1.0013 |
-0.0439 |
273 |
1 |
103.14 |
2014-10-11 |
| 81. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
102.55 |
0.9088 |
0.0466 |
348 |
1 |
102.55 |
2014-10-11 |
| 82. |
This was the most delicious meal he'd had in recent years, a... |
102.39 |
1.0214 |
-0.0290 |
281 |
1 |
102.39 |
2014-10-11 |
| 83. |
Alfred Hitchcock once said, "Drama is life with the dull bit... |
102.26 |
0.9632 |
0.0226 |
345 |
1 |
102.26 |
2014-10-22 |
| 84. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
102.26 |
0.8961 |
0.0534 |
189 |
2 |
98.82 |
2014-10-11 |
| 85. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
101.79 |
1.0109 |
-0.0347 |
400 |
1 |
101.79 |
2014-09-26 |
| 86. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
101.70 |
0.9769 |
-0.0337 |
263 |
2 |
96.94 |
2014-10-27 |
| 87. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
101.47 |
0.9786 |
-0.0368 |
235 |
1 |
101.47 |
2014-10-06 |
| 88. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
101.27 |
1.0403 |
-0.0821 |
193 |
1 |
101.27 |
2014-09-26 |
| 89. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
101.24 |
0.9691 |
-0.0289 |
223 |
1 |
101.24 |
2014-09-29 |
| 90. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
100.80 |
0.9383 |
0.0109 |
471 |
1 |
100.80 |
2014-10-06 |
| 91. |
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All th... |
100.33 |
0.9084 |
0.0240 |
300 |
1 |
100.33 |
2014-10-11 |
| 92. |
At the time when Britain faced a plunge into chaos and darkn... |
99.68 |
0.9754 |
-0.0479 |
362 |
1 |
99.68 |
2014-10-11 |
| 93. |
Milt, with the excellent timing of a master comedy writer, w... |
99.62 |
0.9570 |
-0.0315 |
287 |
1 |
99.62 |
2014-10-11 |
| 94. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
99.40 |
1.0595 |
-0.1377 |
379 |
1 |
99.40 |
2014-10-11 |
| 95. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
99.25 |
1.0352 |
-0.1144 |
341 |
1 |
99.25 |
2014-10-06 |
| 96. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
98.39 |
0.9886 |
-0.0749 |
220 |
1 |
98.39 |
2014-10-27 |
| 97. |
Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyb... |
98.13 |
0.9557 |
-0.0424 |
331 |
1 |
98.13 |
2014-10-11 |
| 98. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
97.95 |
1.0117 |
-0.0590 |
297 |
1 |
97.95 |
2014-09-26 |
| 99. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
97.48 |
0.9619 |
-0.0548 |
393 |
1 |
97.48 |
2014-09-26 |
| 100. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
97.17 |
0.9279 |
-0.0243 |
317 |
1 |
97.17 |
2014-10-30 |
| 101. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
97.13 |
0.9583 |
-0.0169 |
341 |
1 |
97.13 |
2014-10-27 |
| 102. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
96.95 |
0.9670 |
-0.0271 |
307 |
1 |
96.95 |
2014-09-26 |
| 103. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
96.94 |
0.9855 |
-0.0537 |
258 |
1 |
96.94 |
2014-09-26 |
| 104. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
96.92 |
0.9651 |
-0.0324 |
389 |
1 |
96.92 |
2014-09-26 |
| 105. |
Many rivers to cross but I can't seem to find my way over. W... |
96.69 |
1.0361 |
-0.1388 |
269 |
1 |
96.69 |
2014-10-11 |
| 106. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
96.45 |
1.0463 |
-0.1540 |
182 |
1 |
96.45 |
2014-10-22 |
| 107. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
96.39 |
0.9398 |
-0.0425 |
419 |
1 |
96.39 |
2014-09-26 |
| 108. |
The pickpockets' profession demands extraordinary nimbleness... |
96.34 |
0.9567 |
-0.0182 |
184 |
1 |
96.34 |
2014-10-22 |
| 109. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
95.73 |
0.9636 |
-0.0757 |
254 |
1 |
95.73 |
2014-10-11 |
| 110. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
95.69 |
0.9635 |
-0.0746 |
389 |
1 |
95.69 |
2014-09-21 |
| 111. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
95.65 |
0.8996 |
-0.0141 |
192 |
1 |
95.65 |
2014-10-06 |
| 112. |
Disillusion is the greatest gift I can give you. But, becaus... |
95.44 |
0.8933 |
-0.0051 |
363 |
1 |
95.44 |
2023-10-23 |
| 113. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
94.90 |
0.9216 |
-0.0044 |
255 |
1 |
94.90 |
2014-10-22 |
| 114. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
94.68 |
0.9485 |
-0.0690 |
236 |
2 |
89.67 |
2014-10-27 |
| 115. |
If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us... |
93.93 |
1.0099 |
-0.1400 |
207 |
1 |
93.93 |
2014-10-22 |
| 116. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
93.93 |
0.8382 |
0.0347 |
268 |
1 |
93.93 |
2014-10-06 |
| 117. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
93.42 |
0.8602 |
0.0063 |
206 |
1 |
93.42 |
2015-01-19 |
| 118. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
93.40 |
0.9371 |
-0.0322 |
318 |
1 |
93.40 |
2016-02-13 |
| 119. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
91.81 |
0.9697 |
-0.1175 |
249 |
1 |
91.81 |
2014-09-25 |
| 120. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
91.01 |
0.8878 |
-0.0430 |
346 |
1 |
91.01 |
2014-10-30 |
| 121. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
90.73 |
0.8947 |
-0.0499 |
366 |
1 |
90.73 |
2014-10-27 |
| 122. |
What about Tony? You know, Bullet Tooth Tony. He'll find you... |
90.48 |
0.9430 |
-0.1059 |
211 |
1 |
90.48 |
2014-09-26 |
| 123. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
90.04 |
0.9965 |
-0.1638 |
168 |
1 |
90.04 |
2014-10-22 |
| 124. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
87.07 |
1.0365 |
-0.1957 |
162 |
1 |
87.07 |
2014-09-25 |
| 125. |
And today, Lady Liberty is under attack from the cable chann... |
84.09 |
0.9125 |
-0.1322 |
308 |
1 |
84.09 |
2014-09-25 |
| 126. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
75.32 |
0.7876 |
-0.0877 |
316 |
1 |
75.32 |
2014-10-30 |
| 127. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
72.53 |
0.8553 |
-0.1864 |
174 |
1 |
72.53 |
2014-09-21 |