| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your... |
164.32 |
1.0486 |
0.2403 |
289 |
2 |
142.58 |
2012-11-28 |
| 2. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
161.76 |
1.0284 |
0.2826 |
282 |
2 |
148.22 |
2012-11-19 |
| 3. |
I think you're gonna find - when all this stuff is over and ... |
160.45 |
1.0615 |
0.2215 |
305 |
2 |
159.71 |
2012-11-19 |
| 4. |
Whether they use the title or not, many lyrics have evocativ... |
157.72 |
1.0463 |
0.1848 |
182 |
1 |
157.72 |
2014-11-25 |
| 5. |
Let's face it: there are tons of things in your home and lif... |
157.27 |
1.0419 |
0.1902 |
261 |
1 |
157.27 |
2012-11-19 |
| 6. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
156.24 |
1.0429 |
0.1797 |
259 |
2 |
138.06 |
2014-11-25 |
| 7. |
Now I want you to think and stop being a smart aleck. A man'... |
155.80 |
1.0696 |
0.1476 |
226 |
1 |
155.80 |
2012-12-01 |
| 8. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
150.65 |
0.9500 |
0.2319 |
362 |
2 |
136.91 |
2012-12-01 |
| 9. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
150.14 |
0.9851 |
0.1933 |
317 |
1 |
150.14 |
2012-12-05 |
| 10. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
149.76 |
0.9330 |
0.2466 |
360 |
3 |
133.81 |
2012-12-05 |
| 11. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
149.74 |
0.9168 |
0.2574 |
240 |
1 |
149.74 |
2012-12-03 |
| 12. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
149.70 |
1.0596 |
0.1105 |
239 |
2 |
139.94 |
2012-12-05 |
| 13. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
149.01 |
0.9653 |
0.2101 |
394 |
2 |
136.91 |
2012-12-01 |
| 14. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
148.82 |
1.0389 |
0.1282 |
318 |
1 |
148.82 |
2014-11-25 |
| 15. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
148.64 |
1.0320 |
0.1692 |
293 |
1 |
148.64 |
2012-12-02 |
| 16. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
147.82 |
1.0454 |
0.1088 |
255 |
2 |
137.90 |
2013-05-05 |
| 17. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
147.77 |
1.0252 |
0.1253 |
176 |
1 |
147.77 |
2012-11-16 |
| 18. |
Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness... |
147.10 |
1.0025 |
0.1489 |
256 |
2 |
140.34 |
2012-11-17 |
| 19. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
147.03 |
1.0403 |
0.1508 |
275 |
1 |
147.03 |
2012-11-16 |
| 20. |
Keying text quickly is important, but it is more important t... |
146.56 |
0.9899 |
0.1528 |
163 |
1 |
146.56 |
2012-11-19 |
| 21. |
Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to bei... |
146.07 |
1.0213 |
0.1192 |
240 |
2 |
145.37 |
2012-11-23 |
| 22. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
145.98 |
1.0725 |
0.0961 |
233 |
1 |
145.98 |
2012-12-02 |
| 23. |
He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' ... |
144.99 |
1.0502 |
0.1116 |
535 |
1 |
144.99 |
2012-12-17 |
| 24. |
Common knowledge has bicyclists always riding into the wind,... |
144.45 |
0.9684 |
0.1648 |
388 |
3 |
140.87 |
2012-11-19 |
| 25. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
144.12 |
1.0534 |
0.0773 |
357 |
1 |
144.12 |
2012-11-19 |
| 26. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
144.11 |
1.0714 |
0.0475 |
129 |
1 |
144.11 |
2012-12-08 |
| 27. |
We've known each other for many years but this is the first ... |
143.63 |
1.0352 |
0.0923 |
341 |
1 |
143.63 |
2012-11-17 |
| 28. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
143.59 |
0.9855 |
0.1719 |
258 |
1 |
143.59 |
2013-05-05 |
| 29. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
143.32 |
1.0555 |
0.0964 |
323 |
2 |
138.43 |
2015-03-31 |
| 30. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
143.10 |
1.0516 |
0.0679 |
281 |
1 |
143.10 |
2012-12-08 |
| 31. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
142.99 |
1.0297 |
0.0883 |
249 |
1 |
142.99 |
2012-12-01 |
| 32. |
Do you smell that? Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world sm... |
142.79 |
0.9756 |
0.1407 |
229 |
1 |
142.79 |
2012-11-28 |
| 33. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
142.67 |
1.0387 |
0.1101 |
239 |
1 |
142.67 |
2012-11-19 |
| 34. |
Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you kno... |
142.44 |
1.0445 |
0.0715 |
373 |
2 |
131.88 |
2012-12-01 |
| 35. |
Danger is a topic you're often asked about as a sprinter. Th... |
142.37 |
0.9801 |
0.1771 |
428 |
2 |
125.45 |
2012-12-08 |
| 36. |
I was long into my second decade of living single before I c... |
142.09 |
1.0151 |
0.0879 |
152 |
1 |
142.09 |
2014-11-25 |
| 37. |
Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on the left, you'll find... |
140.69 |
0.9342 |
0.1706 |
434 |
2 |
132.35 |
2014-12-02 |
| 38. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
140.67 |
1.0031 |
0.1311 |
304 |
1 |
140.67 |
2012-11-28 |
| 39. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
140.67 |
1.0214 |
0.0781 |
269 |
1 |
140.67 |
2012-12-05 |
| 40. |
When I really worry about something, I don't just fool aroun... |
140.50 |
1.0337 |
0.0650 |
214 |
1 |
140.50 |
2012-12-02 |
| 41. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
140.48 |
1.0487 |
0.0457 |
231 |
1 |
140.48 |
2012-11-17 |
| 42. |
Even the best-designed chair won't make up for bad posture. ... |
138.99 |
1.0004 |
0.0810 |
212 |
1 |
138.99 |
2012-11-23 |
| 43. |
One day you're in a funk about things, telling a friend that... |
138.86 |
1.1323 |
-0.0119 |
341 |
1 |
138.86 |
2012-11-19 |
| 44. |
Now that I know that I'm breaking to pieces, I'll pull out m... |
138.85 |
1.0261 |
0.1000 |
410 |
1 |
138.85 |
2013-05-05 |
| 45. |
I said that I would see you because I had heard that you wer... |
138.33 |
1.0201 |
0.0662 |
375 |
1 |
138.33 |
2013-04-17 |
| 46. |
There was a stage and a PA up in western Massachusetts and t... |
137.89 |
1.0141 |
0.1011 |
304 |
1 |
137.89 |
2012-11-16 |
| 47. |
But suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy one... |
137.33 |
0.9966 |
0.0774 |
259 |
1 |
137.33 |
2014-11-25 |
| 48. |
What? A swallow carrying a coconut? It's not a question of w... |
136.13 |
0.8826 |
0.1840 |
296 |
1 |
136.13 |
2012-12-01 |
| 49. |
Your faith was strong but you needed proof. You saw her bath... |
135.41 |
1.0232 |
0.0717 |
236 |
1 |
135.41 |
2012-11-19 |
| 50. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
135.40 |
0.9871 |
0.0946 |
227 |
1 |
135.40 |
2012-11-17 |
| 51. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
135.15 |
1.0388 |
0.0501 |
243 |
1 |
135.15 |
2012-12-05 |
| 52. |
It is greatly to America's advantage that it is a congenial ... |
135.09 |
0.9266 |
0.1299 |
267 |
1 |
135.09 |
2012-11-17 |
| 53. |
Rhymes trap you into saying things you don't want to say. A ... |
135.02 |
1.0292 |
0.0255 |
262 |
2 |
122.27 |
2014-11-25 |
| 54. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
134.93 |
0.9857 |
0.0686 |
293 |
1 |
134.93 |
2012-12-05 |
| 55. |
We often believe the more we practice a skill or technique -... |
134.57 |
0.9907 |
0.0962 |
397 |
1 |
134.57 |
2012-12-01 |
| 56. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
134.55 |
1.0125 |
0.0374 |
224 |
3 |
124.09 |
2012-12-05 |
| 57. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
134.34 |
1.0547 |
0.0308 |
257 |
1 |
134.34 |
2014-11-25 |
| 58. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
133.01 |
0.9698 |
0.1032 |
397 |
1 |
133.01 |
2012-12-01 |
| 59. |
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no o... |
132.79 |
1.0567 |
-0.0174 |
303 |
1 |
132.79 |
2013-05-08 |
| 60. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
131.70 |
1.0389 |
-0.0068 |
340 |
1 |
131.70 |
2012-12-02 |
| 61. |
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pet... |
131.31 |
0.9351 |
0.0861 |
190 |
1 |
131.31 |
2012-11-17 |
| 62. |
To drive out of the Central Valley of California on a hot da... |
131.20 |
0.9566 |
0.0922 |
576 |
1 |
131.20 |
2012-12-01 |
| 63. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
130.17 |
1.0399 |
-0.0169 |
294 |
1 |
130.17 |
2012-12-01 |
| 64. |
Who has a safety deposit box full of money and six passports... |
129.87 |
0.9772 |
0.0348 |
217 |
1 |
129.87 |
2012-12-08 |
| 65. |
But speculations on the structure of the universe also move ... |
129.68 |
0.9910 |
0.0250 |
295 |
1 |
129.68 |
2012-11-23 |
| 66. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
129.31 |
0.9709 |
0.0811 |
397 |
1 |
129.31 |
2014-11-25 |
| 67. |
A giant inverted steel pyramid is perfectly balanced on its ... |
128.67 |
0.9893 |
0.0165 |
323 |
1 |
128.67 |
2012-12-02 |
| 68. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
128.61 |
0.9485 |
0.0585 |
236 |
1 |
128.61 |
2013-05-08 |
| 69. |
If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what ... |
128.00 |
1.0595 |
-0.0563 |
379 |
1 |
128.00 |
2012-12-02 |
| 70. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
127.87 |
1.0083 |
0.0356 |
273 |
2 |
120.19 |
2013-05-09 |
| 71. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
127.52 |
0.9897 |
0.0046 |
274 |
1 |
127.52 |
2012-12-01 |
| 72. |
I don't believe in an interventionist God, but I know, darli... |
126.95 |
1.0677 |
-0.0453 |
284 |
1 |
126.95 |
2012-12-01 |
| 73. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
126.62 |
1.0604 |
-0.0376 |
260 |
1 |
126.62 |
2012-11-19 |
| 74. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
126.10 |
1.0352 |
-0.0472 |
341 |
1 |
126.10 |
2012-11-17 |
| 75. |
Once you get into the processed foods you have to be a fairl... |
125.96 |
1.0531 |
-0.0306 |
272 |
2 |
125.01 |
2012-11-19 |
| 76. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
125.91 |
1.0343 |
-0.0132 |
242 |
2 |
119.95 |
2012-12-01 |
| 77. |
He started running, up and up, until he hurled himself into ... |
124.12 |
1.0172 |
-0.0124 |
341 |
1 |
124.12 |
2012-12-01 |
| 78. |
The boy has not a real choice, has he? Self-interest, the fe... |
123.97 |
0.9202 |
0.0483 |
254 |
2 |
111.44 |
2012-12-01 |
| 79. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
123.82 |
0.9583 |
0.0527 |
341 |
1 |
123.82 |
2013-04-17 |
| 80. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
123.31 |
0.9045 |
0.0595 |
235 |
1 |
123.31 |
2012-11-19 |
| 81. |
Quality humor doesn't just deliver one gag and then tax the ... |
123.16 |
0.9697 |
-0.0075 |
249 |
1 |
123.16 |
2012-11-28 |
| 82. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
122.55 |
0.9871 |
0.0065 |
209 |
1 |
122.55 |
2012-11-16 |
| 83. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
122.31 |
0.9833 |
-0.0261 |
355 |
1 |
122.31 |
2012-11-19 |
| 84. |
Air-conditioned, odorless, illuminated by buzzing fluorescen... |
122.31 |
0.9216 |
0.0731 |
255 |
1 |
122.31 |
2012-12-18 |
| 85. |
To evaluate an option from the other side's point of view, c... |
121.93 |
1.0203 |
-0.0646 |
261 |
1 |
121.93 |
2012-11-16 |
| 86. |
In the late 1960s, a growing number of people became concern... |
121.55 |
0.9668 |
0.0252 |
383 |
1 |
121.55 |
2012-11-19 |
| 87. |
I can practically see your face and another revolutionary fa... |
121.31 |
1.0132 |
-0.0744 |
143 |
1 |
121.31 |
2014-11-25 |
| 88. |
Padre, these are subtleties! We are not concerned with motiv... |
119.96 |
0.9398 |
0.0066 |
419 |
1 |
119.96 |
2012-12-01 |
| 89. |
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships o... |
119.08 |
0.9941 |
-0.0665 |
217 |
1 |
119.08 |
2013-05-08 |
| 90. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
118.94 |
0.8770 |
0.0549 |
300 |
1 |
118.94 |
2012-11-17 |
| 91. |
However, let us leave aside the philosophical, social, and e... |
118.64 |
0.9569 |
-0.0033 |
410 |
1 |
118.64 |
2012-11-19 |
| 92. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
118.10 |
0.9997 |
-0.0738 |
382 |
1 |
118.10 |
2012-11-23 |
| 93. |
And though my journeys did take me to a great many states, a... |
117.76 |
0.9994 |
-0.0492 |
269 |
1 |
117.76 |
2012-12-05 |
| 94. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
117.50 |
1.0673 |
-0.1083 |
230 |
1 |
117.50 |
2012-11-19 |
| 95. |
He had spent enormous amounts of time at the great libraries... |
117.32 |
0.9426 |
-0.0236 |
317 |
1 |
117.32 |
2012-12-18 |
| 96. |
He's got a two day head start on you, which is more than he ... |
117.14 |
0.9763 |
-0.0624 |
289 |
1 |
117.14 |
2012-12-08 |
| 97. |
What good's a reward if you ain't around to use it? Besides,... |
117.01 |
0.9682 |
-0.0563 |
143 |
1 |
117.01 |
2012-12-05 |
| 98. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
116.06 |
0.8022 |
0.1066 |
215 |
1 |
116.06 |
2013-05-08 |
| 99. |
Supermarket aisles are the perfect place to practice your gl... |
116.03 |
0.9411 |
-0.0345 |
318 |
1 |
116.03 |
2014-11-25 |
| 100. |
Finally, gentlemen, there are people with an hereditary anim... |
115.60 |
0.9383 |
-0.0145 |
471 |
1 |
115.60 |
2012-11-19 |
| 101. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
115.48 |
0.8956 |
0.0104 |
322 |
1 |
115.48 |
2012-12-02 |
| 102. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
115.38 |
0.9912 |
-0.0638 |
237 |
1 |
115.38 |
2012-11-28 |
| 103. |
Gardeners know how to grow top-notch crops. They determine w... |
114.97 |
1.0090 |
-0.0680 |
282 |
1 |
114.97 |
2012-11-19 |
| 104. |
I suddenly had the impression that I had been left all alone... |
114.97 |
1.0261 |
-0.1308 |
273 |
1 |
114.97 |
2013-05-09 |
| 105. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
114.86 |
1.0788 |
-0.1881 |
171 |
1 |
114.86 |
2012-11-17 |
| 106. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
113.37 |
1.0666 |
-0.1816 |
297 |
1 |
113.37 |
2015-03-31 |
| 107. |
He was rough around the edges. He'd been to school, but neve... |
113.26 |
1.0314 |
-0.1085 |
452 |
1 |
113.26 |
2012-11-23 |
| 108. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
112.25 |
0.9088 |
-0.0278 |
348 |
1 |
112.25 |
2012-11-16 |
| 109. |
Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorg... |
110.59 |
0.8595 |
0.0053 |
242 |
2 |
106.33 |
2012-11-19 |
| 110. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
109.17 |
0.9758 |
-0.1238 |
314 |
1 |
109.17 |
2012-11-19 |
| 111. |
Around midafternoon, the snow thinned into sleet, and some u... |
108.76 |
0.9904 |
-0.1018 |
203 |
1 |
108.76 |
2012-11-23 |
| 112. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
107.10 |
1.0498 |
-0.2197 |
180 |
1 |
107.10 |
2012-11-23 |
| 113. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
105.78 |
0.9072 |
-0.0846 |
237 |
1 |
105.78 |
2012-12-01 |
| 114. |
Thirdly, however, these wars could now be waged with the new... |
105.74 |
0.9820 |
-0.1547 |
267 |
1 |
105.74 |
2012-12-05 |
| 115. |
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is ... |
104.54 |
0.8852 |
-0.0680 |
201 |
1 |
104.54 |
2013-05-08 |
| 116. |
Your face has fallen sad now, for you know the time is nigh.... |
101.05 |
1.0917 |
-0.2812 |
243 |
1 |
101.05 |
2012-12-26 |
| 117. |
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and fu... |
100.23 |
0.9964 |
-0.2158 |
203 |
1 |
100.23 |
2012-12-05 |
| 118. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
99.24 |
0.9710 |
-0.2046 |
173 |
1 |
99.24 |
2012-12-02 |
| 119. |
Music finds a comfortable parallel with that of human langua... |
97.89 |
1.0485 |
-0.2521 |
153 |
1 |
97.89 |
2012-12-08 |
| 120. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
87.11 |
0.9790 |
-0.2617 |
311 |
1 |
87.11 |
2012-11-19 |
| 121. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
72.54 |
0.9676 |
-0.3979 |
442 |
1 |
72.54 |
2012-12-05 |
| 122. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
61.53 |
0.8553 |
-0.3861 |
174 |
1 |
61.53 |
2014-11-25 |
| 123. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
44.15 |
1.0426 |
-0.7069 |
323 |
1 |
44.15 |
2013-05-08 |
| 124. |
Having endured the racial turmoil of the Civil Rights Moveme... |
40.70 |
0.8629 |
-0.5495 |
299 |
1 |
40.70 |
2013-05-09 |
| 125. |
In general, many of these targets are easier marks if you ar... |
39.60 |
0.9350 |
-0.6339 |
195 |
1 |
39.60 |
2013-05-09 |
| 126. |
Over the past decade, we've seen strong economic growth but ... |
35.55 |
0.8096 |
-0.5331 |
209 |
1 |
35.55 |
2013-05-09 |
| 127. |
He managed to open the cupboard door with his nose and found... |
31.38 |
0.9127 |
-0.6801 |
252 |
1 |
31.38 |
2013-05-08 |