| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
163.83 |
1.0365 |
0.2928 |
162 |
2 |
142.97 |
2014-07-21 |
| 2. |
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live i... |
159.82 |
1.1180 |
0.1545 |
144 |
1 |
159.82 |
2015-09-12 |
| 3. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
159.43 |
1.0666 |
0.1979 |
297 |
1 |
159.43 |
2017-06-21 |
| 4. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
158.77 |
1.0201 |
0.2322 |
172 |
2 |
138.94 |
2014-07-22 |
| 5. |
San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time ... |
156.29 |
1.0799 |
0.1556 |
243 |
1 |
156.29 |
2014-07-21 |
| 6. |
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are ma... |
154.88 |
1.0063 |
0.2219 |
371 |
2 |
145.37 |
2014-07-20 |
| 7. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
147.90 |
1.0251 |
0.1446 |
261 |
1 |
147.90 |
2014-07-22 |
| 8. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
146.82 |
1.0073 |
0.1642 |
369 |
1 |
146.82 |
2014-07-23 |
| 9. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
146.25 |
1.0516 |
0.1067 |
281 |
1 |
146.25 |
2014-03-19 |
| 10. |
The alternative to binge travel - the mini retirement - enta... |
143.94 |
1.0417 |
0.0960 |
253 |
1 |
143.94 |
2014-07-22 |
| 11. |
Her eyes, like windows, trickle in rain upon the pain gettin... |
143.92 |
1.0446 |
0.0967 |
217 |
1 |
143.92 |
2017-11-18 |
| 12. |
No matter how bad things are, you can always make things wor... |
143.59 |
1.0462 |
0.0851 |
184 |
1 |
143.59 |
2015-09-13 |
| 13. |
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain't houses a... |
143.20 |
1.0554 |
0.0919 |
460 |
1 |
143.20 |
2017-11-21 |
| 14. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
142.63 |
0.9790 |
0.1913 |
311 |
1 |
142.63 |
2012-12-20 |
| 15. |
Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you... |
142.08 |
1.1022 |
0.0581 |
259 |
1 |
142.08 |
2014-07-20 |
| 16. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
141.18 |
0.8996 |
0.2129 |
192 |
1 |
141.18 |
2012-12-20 |
| 17. |
She's got eyes of the bluest skies as if they thought of rai... |
140.47 |
1.0577 |
0.0511 |
247 |
1 |
140.47 |
2015-09-10 |
| 18. |
The child is brought up in a culture where he or she simply ... |
139.52 |
1.0175 |
0.0990 |
356 |
1 |
139.52 |
2015-07-20 |
| 19. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
139.06 |
1.0523 |
0.0445 |
256 |
1 |
139.06 |
2015-09-12 |
| 20. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
138.63 |
1.0669 |
0.0631 |
286 |
1 |
138.63 |
2012-12-20 |
| 21. |
The terminator wouldn't stop, it would never leave him. It w... |
137.13 |
1.0555 |
0.0315 |
363 |
1 |
137.13 |
2012-12-20 |
| 22. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
136.88 |
0.9897 |
0.0915 |
274 |
1 |
136.88 |
2014-07-22 |
| 23. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
136.81 |
1.0270 |
0.0922 |
255 |
1 |
136.81 |
2014-07-22 |
| 24. |
I drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Chris... |
136.76 |
0.9865 |
0.0973 |
276 |
1 |
136.76 |
2015-07-17 |
| 25. |
The time I waited seemed endless, and I felt doubts and fear... |
135.69 |
1.0124 |
0.0594 |
204 |
1 |
135.69 |
2015-09-12 |
| 26. |
The theory of music emphasizes the elements from which music... |
135.46 |
1.0117 |
0.1055 |
297 |
2 |
118.59 |
2014-07-22 |
| 27. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
135.33 |
1.0595 |
0.0145 |
379 |
1 |
135.33 |
2012-12-20 |
| 28. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
135.09 |
0.9670 |
0.1445 |
307 |
1 |
135.09 |
2012-12-20 |
| 29. |
I was shaking like a leaf, so without thinking I lit up a ci... |
134.35 |
0.9681 |
0.1036 |
378 |
1 |
134.35 |
2015-09-10 |
| 30. |
We go waiting for the stars to come showering down. From Mos... |
134.25 |
1.0379 |
0.0596 |
245 |
1 |
134.25 |
2015-07-20 |
| 31. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
134.06 |
1.0719 |
0.0167 |
360 |
1 |
134.06 |
2015-09-12 |
| 32. |
Imagine for a moment if we once again knew these few unremar... |
133.02 |
1.0662 |
0.0241 |
407 |
1 |
133.02 |
2014-07-20 |
| 33. |
With no map to navigate one's life, some of us have stood st... |
132.92 |
1.0169 |
0.0735 |
346 |
2 |
131.14 |
2014-07-22 |
| 34. |
Involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguished nothing ... |
132.85 |
0.9365 |
0.1164 |
248 |
1 |
132.85 |
2015-09-12 |
| 35. |
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between tho... |
132.12 |
1.1114 |
-0.0686 |
247 |
3 |
123.29 |
2014-07-22 |
| 36. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
130.99 |
0.9709 |
0.1066 |
397 |
1 |
130.99 |
2012-12-20 |
| 37. |
Every craft and every investigation, and likewise every acti... |
130.70 |
1.0545 |
0.0203 |
416 |
1 |
130.70 |
2015-09-10 |
| 38. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
129.83 |
0.9893 |
0.0380 |
323 |
1 |
129.83 |
2014-07-22 |
| 39. |
Unlike the other four senses located in the logical regions ... |
128.83 |
1.0346 |
0.0265 |
244 |
1 |
128.83 |
2014-07-22 |
| 40. |
It was hard to toss things I had once thought were valuable ... |
128.58 |
1.0257 |
-0.0021 |
401 |
1 |
128.58 |
2014-03-19 |
| 41. |
When I close my eyes, I am at the center of the sun. And I c... |
128.54 |
1.0543 |
-0.0376 |
113 |
1 |
128.54 |
2015-09-12 |
| 42. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
128.52 |
1.0403 |
0.0162 |
275 |
1 |
128.52 |
2015-09-12 |
| 43. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
128.40 |
1.0211 |
0.0253 |
213 |
1 |
128.40 |
2014-07-21 |
| 44. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
128.29 |
0.8947 |
0.1252 |
366 |
1 |
128.29 |
2012-12-23 |
| 45. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
128.08 |
1.0141 |
0.0354 |
304 |
1 |
128.08 |
2014-07-21 |
| 46. |
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, you fritte... |
128.04 |
1.0613 |
-0.0435 |
456 |
1 |
128.04 |
2014-02-15 |
| 47. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
127.79 |
0.9514 |
0.0596 |
237 |
1 |
127.79 |
2014-07-22 |
| 48. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
127.75 |
1.0441 |
0.0078 |
316 |
1 |
127.75 |
2015-07-17 |
| 49. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
127.29 |
1.0004 |
0.0003 |
212 |
2 |
123.55 |
2014-07-21 |
| 50. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
126.91 |
0.9907 |
0.0469 |
397 |
1 |
126.91 |
2015-07-17 |
| 51. |
This business is filled to the brim with unrealistic people ... |
126.67 |
1.0203 |
0.0145 |
400 |
2 |
120.38 |
2017-06-21 |
| 52. |
A zealot might be, for instance, an individual with a person... |
126.12 |
1.0150 |
0.0315 |
325 |
1 |
126.12 |
2012-12-20 |
| 53. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
125.96 |
1.0053 |
-0.0110 |
232 |
1 |
125.96 |
2015-07-20 |
| 54. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
125.53 |
0.9529 |
0.0803 |
269 |
2 |
115.33 |
2015-09-13 |
| 55. |
Wilkinson County was a recipient of one of the new "separate... |
125.19 |
0.8382 |
0.1524 |
268 |
1 |
125.19 |
2014-07-22 |
| 56. |
Hello, hello, hello, is there anybody in there? Just nod if ... |
125.10 |
0.9795 |
0.0099 |
308 |
1 |
125.10 |
2012-12-23 |
| 57. |
It doesn't mean much to be able to filter out most present-d... |
124.99 |
0.9691 |
0.0188 |
223 |
1 |
124.99 |
2012-12-20 |
| 58. |
Right, I am going to tell you how this works. You're going i... |
124.41 |
1.0482 |
-0.0404 |
487 |
1 |
124.41 |
2015-07-20 |
| 59. |
The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articula... |
123.99 |
0.9785 |
0.0051 |
335 |
1 |
123.99 |
2015-09-12 |
| 60. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
123.44 |
1.0498 |
-0.0787 |
180 |
1 |
123.44 |
2014-07-22 |
| 61. |
When Betty and Billy fell asleep, he walked down to the kitc... |
123.07 |
0.9693 |
0.0251 |
360 |
1 |
123.07 |
2012-12-20 |
| 62. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
122.93 |
1.0168 |
-0.0435 |
271 |
1 |
122.93 |
2014-07-22 |
| 63. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
122.75 |
0.8878 |
0.0824 |
346 |
1 |
122.75 |
2015-07-17 |
| 64. |
We might begin by asking why the pregnant man image has been... |
122.61 |
0.9359 |
0.0730 |
353 |
1 |
122.61 |
2012-12-27 |
| 65. |
Most popular song lyrics have two sections - a verse and a b... |
122.32 |
0.9699 |
-0.0036 |
269 |
1 |
122.32 |
2015-09-13 |
| 66. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
122.31 |
0.9986 |
-0.0312 |
283 |
1 |
122.31 |
2012-12-20 |
| 67. |
I do not see it. It is interesting that people try to find m... |
121.87 |
1.0508 |
-0.0911 |
275 |
1 |
121.87 |
2020-06-12 |
| 68. |
We were playing checkers. I used to kid her once in a while ... |
121.61 |
1.0347 |
-0.0478 |
550 |
1 |
121.61 |
2012-12-20 |
| 69. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
121.03 |
0.9279 |
0.0354 |
317 |
2 |
110.38 |
2012-12-27 |
| 70. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
121.00 |
1.0284 |
-0.0287 |
282 |
1 |
121.00 |
2012-12-21 |
| 71. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
120.99 |
1.0201 |
-0.0597 |
375 |
1 |
120.99 |
2012-12-20 |
| 72. |
Indonesia is a nation of islands - more than seventeen thous... |
120.56 |
0.9212 |
0.0350 |
323 |
1 |
120.56 |
2014-07-21 |
| 73. |
These contests provided ample opportunity to demonstrate the... |
120.07 |
0.9278 |
0.0239 |
295 |
1 |
120.07 |
2012-12-20 |
| 74. |
The feeling of having no power over people and events is gen... |
119.94 |
0.9850 |
-0.0236 |
384 |
1 |
119.94 |
2020-03-16 |
| 75. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
119.59 |
0.9886 |
-0.0410 |
220 |
1 |
119.59 |
2015-09-12 |
| 76. |
From compositional considerations the tomato layer would be ... |
119.46 |
1.0375 |
-0.0476 |
200 |
1 |
119.46 |
2014-03-19 |
| 77. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
119.10 |
1.0673 |
-0.0844 |
230 |
1 |
119.10 |
2014-07-22 |
| 78. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
118.96 |
0.9682 |
-0.0299 |
143 |
1 |
118.96 |
2014-07-22 |
| 79. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
118.39 |
0.8919 |
0.0419 |
205 |
1 |
118.39 |
2014-07-22 |
| 80. |
The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time ha... |
118.30 |
1.1068 |
-0.1316 |
393 |
1 |
118.30 |
2014-08-02 |
| 81. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
117.97 |
1.0574 |
-0.0976 |
205 |
1 |
117.97 |
2014-07-21 |
| 82. |
Today, computers have taken this ancient art out of the craf... |
117.63 |
1.0232 |
-0.0479 |
350 |
1 |
117.63 |
2015-07-16 |
| 83. |
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separa... |
117.29 |
0.9176 |
0.0480 |
365 |
1 |
117.29 |
2012-12-20 |
| 84. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
117.10 |
0.9676 |
-0.0340 |
442 |
2 |
114.51 |
2014-07-21 |
| 85. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
117.09 |
0.9820 |
-0.0541 |
267 |
1 |
117.09 |
2014-03-19 |
| 86. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
117.05 |
0.9485 |
-0.0220 |
236 |
1 |
117.05 |
2012-12-21 |
| 87. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
116.84 |
0.9342 |
-0.0076 |
434 |
1 |
116.84 |
2015-09-12 |
| 88. |
That's Tommy. He tells people he was named after a gun, but ... |
116.45 |
0.9731 |
-0.0656 |
129 |
1 |
116.45 |
2012-12-20 |
| 89. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
115.98 |
0.9088 |
0.0126 |
348 |
1 |
115.98 |
2014-07-22 |
| 90. |
Facts can be thought of as objective or subjective. Things a... |
114.47 |
0.9805 |
-0.0717 |
292 |
1 |
114.47 |
2015-09-10 |
| 91. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
113.96 |
0.8770 |
0.0262 |
300 |
1 |
113.96 |
2014-07-22 |
| 92. |
I wish we'll end up this crazy way before we burn our steam.... |
113.82 |
1.0418 |
-0.1430 |
185 |
1 |
113.82 |
2020-06-12 |
| 93. |
Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say h... |
113.67 |
0.9376 |
-0.0346 |
367 |
1 |
113.67 |
2014-07-22 |
| 94. |
Images of broken light which dance before me like a million ... |
112.78 |
1.0331 |
-0.1447 |
234 |
1 |
112.78 |
2012-12-20 |
| 95. |
In the witch trials, it was nearly impossible to provide com... |
112.24 |
0.9675 |
-0.0718 |
383 |
1 |
112.24 |
2014-03-19 |
| 96. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
112.21 |
0.9426 |
-0.0535 |
317 |
1 |
112.21 |
2012-12-20 |
| 97. |
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything tha... |
111.76 |
1.0013 |
-0.1197 |
273 |
1 |
111.76 |
2015-09-12 |
| 98. |
They say that right after God created man, he took a rib fro... |
111.64 |
1.0795 |
-0.1675 |
226 |
1 |
111.64 |
2015-07-16 |
| 99. |
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I ... |
111.13 |
0.9764 |
-0.1054 |
137 |
1 |
111.13 |
2015-09-12 |
| 100. |
So, I'm tending bar there at Ecklund & Swedlin's last Tuesda... |
110.62 |
0.8467 |
0.0509 |
343 |
1 |
110.62 |
2014-07-20 |
| 101. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
110.23 |
1.0090 |
-0.0952 |
282 |
1 |
110.23 |
2015-07-17 |
| 102. |
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand h... |
110.21 |
1.0261 |
-0.1406 |
335 |
1 |
110.21 |
2015-07-20 |
| 103. |
Whether you're a student, secretary, office administrator, m... |
110.07 |
0.9064 |
-0.0283 |
399 |
1 |
110.07 |
2012-12-20 |
| 104. |
When we conceive of the sweetest being ever, we are conceivi... |
109.54 |
1.1014 |
-0.1990 |
273 |
1 |
109.54 |
2015-09-10 |
| 105. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
109.51 |
1.0125 |
-0.1104 |
413 |
1 |
109.51 |
2015-09-12 |
| 106. |
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? For I... |
109.49 |
0.9811 |
-0.1141 |
272 |
1 |
109.49 |
2012-12-23 |
| 107. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
109.42 |
1.0396 |
-0.1832 |
149 |
1 |
109.42 |
2012-12-30 |
| 108. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
105.10 |
1.0419 |
-0.2130 |
261 |
1 |
105.10 |
2012-12-25 |
| 109. |
He canceled all his commitments and pulled together the most... |
104.62 |
0.9646 |
-0.1403 |
264 |
1 |
104.62 |
2014-07-21 |
| 110. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
104.12 |
1.0254 |
-0.1634 |
217 |
1 |
104.12 |
2015-07-16 |
| 111. |
By the end of the nineteenth century, nearly all of the majo... |
103.70 |
0.8523 |
-0.0536 |
336 |
1 |
103.70 |
2017-11-18 |
| 112. |
Because most of the 150,000 tons of gold ever mined is still... |
103.07 |
0.9303 |
-0.1241 |
176 |
1 |
103.07 |
2012-12-20 |
| 113. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
102.72 |
0.9566 |
-0.1240 |
576 |
1 |
102.72 |
2014-07-22 |
| 114. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
101.64 |
0.7876 |
0.0164 |
316 |
1 |
101.64 |
2014-07-21 |
| 115. |
Excellent. He's enterprising, aggressive, outgoing, young, b... |
91.49 |
0.8890 |
-0.1726 |
199 |
1 |
91.49 |
2015-07-19 |
| 116. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
77.87 |
0.9965 |
-0.3903 |
168 |
1 |
77.87 |
2014-07-22 |
| 117. |
Scissors cuts paper. Paper covers rock. Rock crushes lizard.... |
77.45 |
0.7918 |
-0.1769 |
244 |
1 |
77.45 |
2015-09-12 |